skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a bunch of BS. They did not show any evidence of the supposed benefits of TV. Obviously as poor people get slightly less poor they will get a TV and will also do less of the other things associated with very poor people, like have too much children, etc. But there is no reason to think one thing causes the other.

TV is merely a mass broadcasting machine. It can be good if the people doing the broadcasting use it for positive purposes (e.g., education, etc.) Or it can be evil. You can just as easily use TV to start racial hatred or a war as you can to educate people about different cultures. Or it can be just a mind-numbing waste of time, which is the usual case.

But either way it is almost always used by a small group of elites (either government or business elites) to cram information into a large group of people, without the recipients being able to say anything or contribute anything. So regardless how it is used it usually ends up creating rather boring and homogeneous culture.

As such the Internet is endlessly preferable to TV. It is nice that all those poor people are getting TV but they will be so much better off when they finally get the Internet.
I second this. I know it's more work, but in my experience startups are more likely to create an internship (lazily, you might say) if they find a good person rather than create the internship and then find someone to fill it. In other words, you might have more luck creating an internship for yourself than finding one.
You can argue that anybody not watching TV is far more likely to get ANYTHING done than someone watching TV.
I think it's important to always have that bar one notch above where you are. Complacent isn't something I'd ever want to be described as.
My God listen to these people. Apparently screwing a hooker will begin a downward spiral into Dante's seventh level all the while your dick is burning and boils and legions burst from your forehead.

Listen, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Sex is overrated. Now, of course it's a lot of fun. Of course it's infinitely better when you have an emotional connection to the person you're with, but that line about it being like oxygen - only mattering when you aren't getting any - is bang on.

So, if you are curious about how it feels and would like to have the experience, go for it. Hire a good looking high end escort and enjoy your night. It's not a life changing experience, so don't treat it like it is. Getting married and having a kid are life changing (more the latter). Having sex is not.

Now, having sex is not going to be a cure all for your depression because it simply isn't that big a deal. That can work two ways: You figure it out and get on with life, or you realize there is something larger there - I'm going to assume the lack of a person to share your life with.

The latter is simple to solve really. Stop trying, and seize the opportunities as they arise.
The lesson I take from that is to work hard to keep your buglist low.

As an example look at OpenBSD. By my count from http://www.openbsd.org/query-pr.html they have 208 open bugs, of which they are actively working on over a third of them. That's for a whole operating system!
I definitely understand that there's a huge difference in size. But I wouldn't mind people closing bugs with "I don't think it's worth my time" in firefox. It would be bad, but still better than letting the report rot at the bottom of the list when the user is not even sure if the report was ever read by anyone.
The logo reminds me of Drupal:

http://images.google.com/images?q=drupal+logo
But you would never define it like this in Haskell...

You'd probably do something like:
let n - m = ( n + (-m) ) `mod` 6

'let 3 - 4 = 5' is just a non-sense example.
Palm had to tread carefully around them in order to make the Pre

Only in the sense that an author has to "tread carefully" around ripping off another author's work. Clearly Apple's patents did not prevent the Pre or Android or any number of other devices from making it to market without apparent functional omissions. What exactly is the problem?

The threat of a lawsuit is often enough.

Enough for what? To prevent someone from violating your rights under law? Well, yeah. That's the way a lot of things work. Holding a patent does not strike me as inherently reprehensible.
Ask HN (Students): Got any questions about technology and entrepreneurship?
Hey all,

My name is Jeff, and I'm a university student in the beautiful province of British Columbia up in Canada.

I am organizing a Q&A webcast with two great Canadian entrepreneurs(http://www.cippic.ca/Harley-Finkelstein/; http://www.beunreasonable.org/) this Saturday, and would love to hear what kinds of questions fellow students have about technology, web trends, and starting up a business.

Shoot away! :)
Well, in Italy the iphone costs 600 € (but you can put any kind of SIM inside, so it's not carrier blocked).
Google pays for internet connection to their servers. Google's users pay for their own internet connections, in order to have access to websites (such as Google). Calling Google a free-loader when not only is it already paying for what it uses, but when its existence itself contributes substantially to the value of connecting to the internet is beyond wildly inaccurate and wandering into either delusion or dishonesty.

It'd be like getting three paragraphs into a scientific paper and finding a reference to creationism as "a scientific theory with strong support"; it undermines the credibility of the article so badly that it's not unreasonable to question the value of reading further.
Why is "3 - 4 = 5" in Haskell cool, but "x + y" in C++ is "OMG, it doesn't make any sense. + could do anything!"?
Post-Startup School hike in the Marin Headlands on Sunday?
Any HN/Startup Schoolers interested in hiking to the top of Hill 88 in the Marin Headlands on Sunday? It is about a 5 mile hike mostly on fire-roads. It will take between 2 and 3 hours presumably.

I am thinking we meet up at the Rodeo Beach/Fort Cronkhite parking lot around 11:30AM on Sunday.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&lci=transit&hq=&hnear=San+Francisco,+California&ll=37.832158,-122.537642&spn=0.011016,0.022638&z=16&iwloc=lyrftr:m,0x80858f6037e34ee1:0x296088093fe4b59c,37.83238,-122.538671

There is usually plenty of parking. Also, the Muni-76 line runs from Caltrain, through SF, to the Fort Cronkhite parking lot. It is pretty convenient for getting to the trailhead. Details are here:

http://transit.511.org/schedules/index.aspx?#m1=S&m2=bus&routeid=25331&dir=OB&type=6100&cid=SF

Given that these are California hills, there will be some relatively long ascents, so don't expect a leisurely stroll for the entire time. Though, if the weather is clear, the views are worth it.

Make sure to wear comfortable shoes. Also, wear layers no matter what you see outside of your hotel windows. The weather can be drastically different depending on location, altitude, etc. It could be 40 degrees in the fog and then 80 degrees when we emerge from it, not exaggerating. Also, there really is not any place to buy things over at the trailhead, so bring food and water with you.

Hope to see you there!
I have been an active member of YayHooray for the last six years, and although it bears mentioning here it's not necessarily a design orientated community anymore. Most discussions tend to be random and meaningless and the signal to noise ratio has gone off the charts over the last few years. That said, there are the occasional good design related discussions and there are certainly some talented people still there.
Sounds like a much more realistic approach than Wave.
Thank you. I'm not sure what you mean by fair use. Are you referring to our republishing of tweets? Twitter's TOS gives them the right to redistribute content through third parties (like twitthegame.com).
Generally when I see article with really, really stupid analogies, I assume the article is not well thought out and probably of poor quality. As a rule of thumb, it gives pretty good results.
Well, thanks. I will try that then.
ICurrent: A news aggregator that works
1) Try landing an internship with your college's technology transfer office. These guys are always connected and pitching various technologies to outside investors.

2) Get involved with your town's Small Business Administration organization.

3) Find a mentor from within one of the opportunities above in options 1) or 2).

4) Take charge. If you can get their email, email them. Most won't respond, but the smaller and more aggressive they are to get their name out there, the more likely they will talk to you or at least email you back. If that works, try asking to treat them to lunch to find out if you have a rapport with them. Trust your gut on this one, don't be blinded by your ambition to get in a startup. Maybe you won't get a job right away, but you could earn a good mentor and an additional connection.

(Worked for me, I landed an internship with Alex St. John from Wild Tangent)
"It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, to the Middle Ages. One of its characteristics was that "reasoning by analogy" was rampant; another characteristic was almost total intellectual stagnation, and we now see why the two go together. A reason for mentioning this is to point out that, by developing a keen ear for unwarranted analogies, one can detect a lot of medieval thinking today."

Edsger W. Dijkstra
Sure parrotsecrets makes money. But is it because of that letter or in spite of it?
I think the opposite. Data is just raw, information is one level abstracted, and knowledge is the next step (information + expertise).

Data technologies -> information technologies -> knowledge technologies.

In the music example, data is the binary. Information is the song (format agnostic). Knowledge is knowing that the band is awesome, played such-and-such show, is in this genre, etc.
The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today)
No, I'm more concerned about the actual sports leagues finding some way to come down on the service. Even frivolous lawsuits cost money.
Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)
Realistically? Because if you're programming in Haskell, you're probably programming by yourself or with a few other smart people, so either you understand the idioms you encounter or at least you can trust them to be applied in a consistent and effective manner.

C++ is used more often as a common-denominator language for many programmers of varying skill who are collaborating on a project, and as you move toward that domain, transparency and safety start to become more important than power, since a big element of getting anything done is just not screwing each other over with unreadable code.
They do communicate, it's only CA law that sales tax on phones are for the unsubsidized price; it's not like either party is unaware of this.

You also don't ostensibly pay a 'subsidy', they're 'giving' you the $400 in exchange for a 2 year service contract, not explicitly baking the subsidy into the price (e.g. after your contract is up, you do not start paying less just because you've 'paid off' the phone). That's also not the imaginary cost of the phone; as someone who's lost an iPhone, there's nothing imaginary about that $400 :)
The Devastating Toll of Syringe Reuse (TED) - Brilliant Invention
It won't help your social life, but it will get a mental monkey off your back so you can get on with more important things. Do it!
Hulu to Charge by 2010
As a Sequoia company I can tell you that if you have the chance to take their money do it. Quickly.

Being an SC company has given Mahalo a HUGE advantage... let me count the ways:

1. We got a much higher valuation on our Series B.

2. We get constant pings from VC firms that like to follow SC.

3. We get a constant flow of potential team members who want to work for company that is backed by the company that invested in YouTube/Apple/LinkedIn/Google/Yahoo/Zappos/Atari/Cisco/etc.

4. The partners at SC are amazing... Roelof Botha is on our board and he has been tremendous.

5. We get an absurd amount of press due to our Sequoia affiliation.

6. We can get any meeting with any company, organization or advertising agency by saying "we're backed by the VC who backed INSERToneOFtwentyAMAZINGcompanies." You can be absolutely sure I do this all the time.... and it works.

7. We get massive discounts from vendors due to the affiliation (i.e. think a technology provider who would like to build a relationship with Sequoia).

As far as I'm concerned YC + SC = DREAM COME TRUE for entrepreneurs.

If anyone ever wants to talk to me about Sequoia as an investor you know my mobile number: 310-456-4900. I love these guys.

best jason@mahalo.com
http://www.twitter.com/jason
I use procmail & IMAP on my server and raindrop as a IMAP client. Works well.

In addition, Raindrop, being written on top of CouchDB, supports n-master-replication. You could just replicate your locally filtered messages to your other devices with or without going through a central server.
Unfortunately, a lot of these patents are the overly broad variety. I wonder if this is just Nokia's attempt to get a cross licensing deal with Apple. The amount that was quoted ($200mil) is extremely low.
AT&T is also a huge contributor in Dem politics, and a client of David Axelrod's former firm. But besides that, what you're implying is also tripped up by post hoc ergo propter hoc: It would make just as much sense for AT&T to donate to McCain because of his position as it would for McCain to take a strong anti-neutrality position because of the donation.

Given the political ideas behind net neutrality --- ideas I support, by the way --- I lean towards the former interpretation. Net neutrality is an activist regulatory posture.
Inside a North Korean Arcade
LucasArts' "The Dig," inspiration for the iPhone?
Not at all.

I support the concept of a neutral network and a fair playing ground on the internet for all. I also think the government and the FCC isn't an institution that can provide it. How is that inconsistent? What evidence is there that the US Government can magically regulate this very chaotic environment?

They regulate the radio waves. There's money to be made there but it's a total disaster and a near monopoly to boot.

They regulate the wireless spectrum...and the US has, hands down, the worst cellular network of any first world country. (I'll admit that this isn't all the US' fault, but they contribute to the problem)

What makes you think turning over the reigns of network priority will be any different?
Well, Apple hasn't sued Palm for a patent violation and Palm is the one violating the USB IF's rules on device identification.
IPhone Business Intelligence Gets a "Push" Courtesy of Roambi
That's a fascinating video. His organization's website is at http://www.safepointtrust.org/SafePoint_Website/home.html . I think I'm going to see if they can take some of my money for their cause...
And the interface (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43332657@N06/3996189794/sizes/o...) looks similar to fever (http://feedafever.com/#demo)
What are you referring to with CalacanisCast? something about having a family and being a startup CEO?
What evidence do you have that the US Government would be capable of regulating the internet?
You're assuming that the financing partner is taking a salary, which he probably would not do. Thus there's no need to factor in that virtual 100K investment.
yes, a few things have been done to get to that point.

1 - make the kernel tell the user exactly what to report in the case of a kernel panic

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/ddb/db_trap.c....

2 - rewritten sendbug to remove useless fields and automatically add useful information for developers (dmesg output, acpi dumps, etc.) to make it easier to trace problems to specific hardware

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/sendbug/se...

3 - quickly respond to new bugs. if they are valid, poke a developer that will know something about it. assign the bug to someone or at least mark it as verified. if the bug report doesn't have the required info or isn't valid, respond to the user and close it right away. don't let things pile up.
The inside line I'm talking about has nothing to do with his divorce... has to do on a business level that I know he's not crazy about me steeling his former partner to work on Weblogs, Inc. (who became very rich, 18 months after leaving happycog).
First, Google "probably" doesn't buy bandwidth on a level playing field with the rest of the market (people have tried to suss this out of their financial disclosures, but it's also common sense).

Second, Google buys a specific kind of bandwidth. Last mile costs dominate over backbone costs.

Finally, and from a political perspective most simply: they're AT&T's circuits, AT&T's DSLAMs, AT&T's routers, and AT&T's operating expenditures. They should be able to do with them what they want.

On that last point, even though I support net neutrality, I sympathize pretty strongly with the argument. At what point does the government get to say "your business is so important that we're going to start regulating how you price it even though you operate in a competitive market"?

I want to say clearly that I agree with you that Google isn't in fact "freeloading", and I think the argument the op-ed makes for that claim is dubious. But I don't think you can declare, cut-and-dry, that it's a bad-faith argument.
Donations are accepted at www.justgiving.com , if you search for "safepoint". The direct link from their site didn't work. Justgiving accepts paypal, so it's easy if you're lazy like me.
By far the most interesting two paragraphs in the article for me were these:

"There's precious little experimentation in education. Instead there seems to be a desire for greater regimentation, which I think is nonsense. I think we need to try 100 different things. If I were Arne Duncan, I'd think of myself as a venture capitalist, fund as many wacky and inventive ideas as I could, and closely monitor them to see how they worked.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that in inner-city schools, the thing they do best is sports. They do really, really well in sports. It's not correct to say these schools are dysfunctional; they're highly functional in certain areas. So I've always wondered about using the principles of sports in the classroom. Go same sex; do everything in teams; have teams compete with each other. I'd like to try that. I don't know whether it will work, but it's certainly worth a shot, and we could learn something really useful."
Psystar releases the software they use to install MacOS on non-Apple hardware
What's nice is that you don't have to depend on every server implementing the features you want. You just have to impllement the feature once in your client, and suddenly every message from every source "supports" that feature. Mozilla has been doing this with a lot of things, like identity (with Weave) and even web app mashups (with Ubiquity) are being moved into the browser.
You think you got social media? Come work for us.
If you think you _got_ Twitter, you _do_ Facebook and have an iPhone and can't live without it, you might be that Savvy Social Media Intern we're looking for!

LeftRight Studios, http://leftrightstudios.net is a mobile gaming startup and we are currently looking for a Social Media Marketing Intern to take over caring of increasing amount of followers and engagement so we can build out more kickass games for the iPhone. Yes, we're the first and only iPhone Gaming company in the Pittsburgh area and you will get to work with a bunch of dedicated, smart and young driven entrepreneurs in a hot hot industry - iPhone!

There no specific requirements, you just need to have good business acumen and uses Twitter and Facebook a lot! Yeah, like every minute down to the seconds. It would be nice if you are a current business/management student and you think textbook case studies of marketing are outdated and you think you know social media. Oh, the other requirement and not really is , you must not claim to yourself as a social media expert, because that's just BS.

So if you think you got the chops, send us an email (HM profile) and tell us why.
Have you "dabbled" with dabbledb.com?
That would be Hernando de Soto's ideas about developing capitalism in the western world as higher order property rights: i.e. a system where you are guaranteed the right both to use what you own and to perform other operations with it: selling to a complete stranger, renting, using it as collateral etc. I still haven't read any explanation as to why it happened in the western Europe but not elsewhere.
I disagree with this.

How many journalists do you know who would look at a successful blog like iCanHazCheeseburger and say: "I should raise some money from friends and family, buy that blog, and then build a media empire out of similar blogs that I buy up."

If he says he doesn't know why his blogs are successful, it'd because he knows his former colleagues eat that stuff up during interviews and it makes for a funny story.

While luck undoubtedly played a part in his success so far, he was thinking about things entrepreneurially unlike most journalists who are just looking for the next paycheck.

Also, the fact that traffic across his sites has grown since he bought them shows he's a smart manager of his properties.
The Ideal Startup Career Path
In Python 2.6:

def acc(x):
foo = x
def closures_are_broken():
foo += 1
return foo
return closures_are_broken

def acc2(x):
foo = [x]
def closure_with_workaround():
foo[0] += 1
return foo[0]
return closure_with_workaround

The former is an error ("UnboundLocalError: local variable 'foo' referenced before assignment"), the latter is a workaround by manually boxing the variable in a list. I'm not sure why that works, but it's rather ugly.

The same, in Lua:

function acc(x)
local foo = x
return function()
foo = foo + 1
return foo
end
end
so you need two sets of filters? procmail and raindrop? does raindrop actually move messages between folders or just present a filtered/sorted inbox like sup (http://sup.rubyforge.org/)?
I do. Going to UT at the moment. Was about to post this same thing after seeing the SF post, looked down the page and there it was :)
In the above post, the well represents the patented technology. He creates the technology (digs the well) and patents it (seeks to profit from it by monopolizing it's use).

In your analogy, you seem to be skipping the issue of patents entirely. Note that Apple did not go out and "dig it's own well" by developing something completely unrelated to GSM, UTMS, Wi-Fi, etc. Whether Nokia's claim turns out to be valid aside, it's undeniable that Apple is using the technology that Nokia is making the claim on. That is to say, they aren't suing over Apple developing "the better well", they're suing Apple for using their well without compensation.
Everyone emails Excel spreadsheets around. The only problem is getting into email jail.

I think your problem is Sharepoint solves this problem (emailing spreadsheets) and is pretty standard these days.
Having spent three summers as a counselor at a military sports camp, I would imagine this approach would work really, really well.

If you can put them in a structure with incentives, accountability, clear lines of authority, and very tangible goals, most young men will flourish.
The eCryptfs layered file system approach also eliminates the need for a dedicated partition, sparse file, or preallocated disk space for the encrypted data. eCryptfs files are written to the administrator’s chosen underlying file system with the total disk capacity available. Since each encrypted file is written to disk as an atomic unit, users can perform per-file incremental encrypted backups to remote storage – something that is impractical and dangerous with block device encryption solutions.
Hackintoshing isn’t for the weak of heart!

so here are 38 steps to make it easy