skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professional management is often necessary, and I think most founders recognize this. However, bringing on a CEO is an enormously risky proposition for founders. No matter how thoroughly you vet him, this guy's going to be your boss and he could potentially run your just-starting-to-pop startup into the ground, leaving you with nothing for your efforts.

There would be a lot less anxiety and acrimony over this critical transition time if investors recognized the risks involved for the startup founders and offered them the opportunity to limit their downside by taking a modest amount of cash out. After all, getting to the point where the startup is starting to scale nicely is still a relatively rare achievement.
Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out. (might take a few minutes to update due to caching)
Ironically I know a handful of Europeans & Australians who are working on tanking their 2nd & 3rd US-based VC-backed startups. I wonder if that's because they're un-fundable back home now.
A Taipei-Torrent postmortem: Writing a BitTorrent client in Go
I'm generally frustrated by articles on this site - and this one is no exception. It seems like there's some juicy rumor-mill news there, but the writing is so poor that it takes a great deal of effort to extract it. A conversational style can be fun when it employs good grammar and appropriate idioms. These articles always leave me wondering whether I just read something interesting or simply incorrect.
In case you haven't seen Part 1

http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/innovation/article/...
"iSay"?
Actually, since modern NCQ is pretty good, as long as the software issuing the read commands is smart and fills the queue, seeks are not going to slow you down that much. Naive implementation that only does serial IO and waits for last request to complete before issuing a new one will suffer brutally, though.
Seems that you are currently hotlinking the cheatsheets from other sites. imho it would be nicer to host the files yourself, to prevent link rot and to not "steal" other peoples bandwidth.
Nice, it's bookmarked now. Good organization, looks pretty complete.

(Why are so many cheat sheets needed for SQL injection?)
Perhaps you should tell them to mail you anonymously
Sometimes the most difficult thing is to know when to stop adding features.

It's even more difficult when the designer has complete creative control. that can lead to disaster!
A point he merely skimmed was that Ford did seek out the best talent (and presumably fired people if they turned out not to be the best).

Paying people very high wages (he says) retains the best talent, which turns out to be a really good investment.

The businesses he mentions that overpay mediocre engineers presumably aren't good at finding the best talent, nor at firing talent that turns out not to be good.

At least, that's how I read it.
Sure. Any particular XNA cheatsheets you can suggest?
The prepress paper is amazing: http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/aliasing/alias.pdf
And one great way to learn a second language is to get a bilingual book, or two copies of your favorite book in two languages :)
Perhaps an additional requirement is good marketing from the App Store company. Apple aggressively markets the iPhone App Store. I don't see Google doing the same. iPhone Apps are a big success because they are "top of mind" for the general population. Android apps, not so much. I am sure most people have no idea what Android is or that there is an app market for it.
Please insert the missing T in "quitting" before my OCD brain gnaws its way out of my skull.
Seattle startup Cloudvox sold, three months after launch
U.S. Supreme Court decision overturns campaign limits
I think change can be great if it's coupled with effective user management. On a site that people use daily, this means giving your users some advance notice, explaining major feature changes, and having a "how-to" page to show users how to use the new site. Lacking the above, there is bound to be some backlash as daily users find themselves stumbling around a site that they used to know like the back of their hand and, worse, with the very fabric of community interaction changed.
Skype Sign in server problems
I agree that can be a problem with the outdated cheatsheets. The wiki could be an interesting idea. Thanks.
Huge congratulations to troyd on this one! I've watched the development of cloudvox for a bit over a year now, and it's been a pleasure to watch it's progress!
The best (possibly only) way to learn a language on a functional level, is to use it. In my second-year Spanish class in high school, our teacher let us chat during class, so long as we chatted in Spanish and not English. In practice, we talked Spanglish, but nonetheless, that experience made me far better at Spanish than all my other studying before and after. She also taught all of her lessons entirely in Spanish, and required questions be asked in Spanish. While traditional lecturing is not an efficient medium for learning languages, schools can teach language skills very effectively by using alternative methods.

There are also Hawaiian Language Immersion schools available in Hawaii, which I hear very good things about.
Why do you think that is the case?
Our service https://ConnectionVPN.com uses OpenVPN (SSL 2048 bits, much more secure than ipredator's PPTP).
We are a Greek company with gateways in Luxembourg and the US (with more countries on the way).
Recommanded by CNET and the NY Times : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/technology/internet/16vpn....
The fragmented nature of the mobile device industry is what makes it difficult for any competitor to come in and "dethrone" the big, bad Apple. It's almost like when it comes to smart and progressive mobile apps it's "Apple" vs "everybody else".

So... what needs to happen is a marketplace that's been created specifically for everything that's _not_ Apple iPhone; one that actually focuses more on the software, instead of the hardware, and one that can spell out how that new fun game "Kick the Squirrels off their Bicycles" can work on a Nokia and Motorola, because (as they're all web-enabled), the most important aspect would be the phone's web-browsing capability. Fennec [ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec ] , for example, could be a pretty good starting point.

Firefox put a significant dent in IE's share of the PC hardware browser; something similar will happen with the iPhone, once people realize that they're getting charged _way_ too much for those iPhone contracts (kinda like ISPs screw[ed] people over by talking them into their 1+ or 2+ year "DSL modem service" contracts).
My grammar was advanced, my vocabulary intermediate. I could mostly understand Telemundo and could hold a conversation, but was nowhere near fluent.

Now, I'm not much better off than a first year.
I think his point is that it was not significant to the bottom-line conclusions of the report.
I hope this results in a renaissance for interactive fiction (text adventure games).
Simple selection bias. It "seems" that way because there's no story to write about people just doing their work.
AdMob: Android numbers nearly double again | Android Central
Hey, what does Cozy Systems do? Besides "Makers of all things good and sometimes software"
The Nerve ImageShack Tries To Trademark Twitpic
I don't think it follows that polyandry is less advantageous for a woman than polygamy -- more men equals more resources. I think the reason is that most societies are patriarchal rather than matriarchal and this has traditionally led to men being the greater holder of wealth, and the disparity between the rich and poor being what it is, 1/100th of a rich man is worth more than even 100 poor men. That still doesn't mean that a woman wouldn't choose to have 100 men if she cannot have a portion of a rich man, but in a patriarchal society, those women would likely become prostitutes -- the (to men perhaps) more socially acceptable form of polyandry? This might even be preferable to the woman, since I could see multiple men in the same household potentially being much more rife with conflict. I wouldn't be surprised if societies tend to try to suppress polygamy at equal or even greater rates than they do prostition.

Basically I don't think polyandry is rare at all, it's just in the form of uncounted prostitution. I'd lay odds that you'd see more (monogamous) polyandry in societies that are more (very) matriarchal and/or the distribution of wealth is flat, both being rather uncommon.
I can confirm, I've been beta testing the ipredator for a while and it's really slow.
I watch TED videos with sub-titles!
"Naturally, some members of the enterprise are better at leadership and strategic thinking than others. It is natural for these members of the enterprise to spend their time thinking more strategically. Others will be executing more tactically. Some will be involved both strategically and tactically."

And some will be working. </cheap jab>

He does claim that some employees are 10x more productive, but later on says there is anecdotal evidence that some are 10x more productive. Maybe the reason firms aren't paying 10x more is not because they're unable to measure the difference, or because they're mean, but what if the 10x productivity is only possible in certain sets of circumstances which don't manifest in typical large business work?

e.g. when the employee has some kind of cross-department authority to make decisions and affect large chunks of a product which they would have in a startup but which would be proxied via some other people in a larger business?
I wonder if this is why many foreign firms like to hire people who were educated in the US? Perhaps they have noticed that these people are, for reasons neither the employee nor the employer understand, better at dealing with western customers due to time spent with americans?
The term desert refers to precipitation, not temperature. Strictly speaking, Antarctica is a desert; it receives the equivalent of less than 5cm rainfall annually.
Here's an idea.
Take the scaled function:
g(x, y; k) = log( exp(kx) + exp(ky) ) / k

Let k be 1/max(x,y) so that you have:

g(x,y) = log(exp(1)+exp(min(x,y)/max(x,y))*max(x,y)

There are some issues if the maximum value can be negative or zero, though.
That's one reason I prefer outsourcing to eastern europe. There are fewer cultural differences - importantly, there's no cultural taboo about telling you you're wrong or that they don't understand.
Yup, I've had one of those light switch + disposal switch combo myself. Who thought that was a good idea?
I usually open a new tab when I want that page, instead of clicking the home button. Often closing the current page and opening a new one just to get to it. A bit inneficient now that I think about it, but I don't think I'd mind to see it gone.

The home button on the Steam client, otoh, I click fairly often. I guess it's because it doesn't have an URL bar.
man talk about a cliff hanger...took them 2 months to come out with the 2nd part of the story...I forgot all about this.
I wish Posterous would have mixpanel integration like they do with Google Analytics. :)
I lived in that house for 6 years and until the day I moved out was still turning on the damn light instead of the disposal.
Should you hit the big red STOP button?
The Ups and Downs of Web Development
Hulu Has Its Own Paywall Announcement To Make
Hmm, the comments on twitter are much more positive. They are mixed rather than overwhelmingly negative. http://twitter.com/#search?q=thesixtyone

I assume this is because the majority of facebook comments are from "friends" who are more likely to have been regular users already.
Whenever possible I try to link to a download page instead of directly to a PDF or image file. However, in some cases I do hotlink directly to a file download. One advantage of this is that if the author updates the file (to fix an error) the user downloads the newest version.

What do other HN'ers think? Should I host the PDF files directly? What is the proper netiquette in this case?
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Thanks for this link, as it helps to explain what their original idea was. Also, When PG said he wanted them to come up with a new idea, it goes to show that the people behind the idea were more important than the idea itself.
I got this, http://www.starcase.com/detail.aspx?ID=964. Works well.
While it's true that you can't do science by consensus, it is legitimate to look at a range of studies and see where they agree. Those parts that most studies agree on can justifiably be called the "consensus among the scientific community".

Your last paragraph simply isn't justified. Do you think any action or conclusion lives up to that standard? In particular, why do you think those that argue that AGW is not happening should be given more of a benefit of the doubt?

AGW is the conclusion of applying simple physics to the problem. In my mind, if you are going to argue that it's not happening, you have much more justification to do.
Supremes: Corporations, Unions have free speech regarding money
Actually, it's missing an "L", not a "T". :-)
And I'm being downmodded why? Maybe selection bias also isn't happening??
I wish they had some data on Bulgaria and other Eastern European countries that are growing quickly in the outsourcing market. I find the conclusion dubious, but it is an interesting consideration anyway.
I noticed a coworker clicking it all the time to get to Google to search for something. It drives me crazy all the time because he should have just typed in the search query in the URL bar.
Social Media is PR on Steroids
A lot of metadata around the BBC's archives are available through /programmes in a variety of machine-readable formats, including RDF.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/developers

For example, Eastenders

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d.rdf

Older programme data is added continuously, but TV catch-up is limited to UK users within a 7-day window.
Are there any sites, you fell in love with which you found on google?
Interesting!

Three of my siblings are bi-lingual Russian/English. At first they mixed things up terribly, but after their Russian grandmother spent a year with them they were suddenly able to completely separate the two. Grandma doesn't speak a word of English, whereas both parents speak both languages, so we speculated that what they were doing was 'the easiest thing that works'.

When I speak in Norwegian I toss in English words all the time (because I can get away with it - all Norwegians seem to speak English). In French I don't leak English into it. In English, I rarely (if ever) slip Norwegian or French into it.

Where I really get into trouble is when I'm in a conversation with Norwegians, French, and English-speakers at the same time, because I end up trying to translate Norwegian to French, French to English, etc, and end up speaking the wrong language to pretty much everyone involved.
I think learning a second language in school has enough ancillary benefits to make it mandatory, but there is no language other than English that is so widespread to make that particular langauage dominant. I think that within the limits of the resources, schools should try to offer a few choices and let the students choose.

Sometimes a language will appeal to a student because something they are interested in is heavily tied to that language. A serious student of judo would likely benefit from speaking Japanesse if only to be able to talk with other practitioners. A serious student of Go may be interested a language from a country where that is common such as Japanese or Korean, etc. On the other hand, someone interested in philosophy is likely to benefit from French more than most other languages.

If we absolutely had to pick one, I would focus on Mandarin Chinese. China is a rapidly rising power that is becoming ever more important in the international scene and houses a huge percentage of the world population.
I don't have an app, but here's a book that I've been liking:

Easy Spanish Reader: http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Spanish-Reader-William-Tardy/dp/0...

same, with CD: http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Spanish-Reader-CD-ROM-Three-Part/...

It's for beginners. You just read, simple stories. Some words are defined in the margins, some in the glossary, and some you just get from context. I like it a lot.
You Are Unlikely To Prosper - the true, poor performance of Prosper.com loans
"I'd be worried I'd like it but would find the price too high."

Same here. I just went to the site, and was going to try it out, curious to see if there was a free version. Absent clear pricing info, though, I don't see why I should spend my time exploring a tool I may find prohibitive.

What's the reason for secret prices? When I see that, I start thinking, "Oh, must be really expensive."
Anyone else hears that in Nimoy's voice?
With proper attribution I don't mind hotlinking of my sheets. If you start hosting them I couldn't track downloads if I wanted.
Ah, I was wondering what Playstation had to do with this.
MySQL AB was a venture backed startup that raised $40m in funding, not some random open source hippies that got tricked into giving away the crown jewels. The company was built to sell or IPO.

And see, I don't expect Montey to like this, but I do wish he'd shut up about it. He's not the right person to be leading this call. My take on this doesn't have anything to do with it being OSS or not; it'd seem like sour grapes if any founder who sold his company and left was trying to incite governments towards legal action against his acquiring company at a time when they're otherwise pretty much hosed.
Their implementations are cost-effective and incredibly cheap, would be a more fair statement.
I'd like to clarify the following quote from the article:
"Ipredator is currently using the same platform as several other VPN franchises including Relakks, which means it’s not really anything we haven’t seen before."

The term "platform" is pretty ambiguous, right? Is it the same PPTP server software? Is it the same management webapp? In this case, it's actually the same software, servers, bandwidth, and owners. I had a chance to poke around during the closed beta last year and this is literally just a re-skin of Relakks. Their logging policies, connection locality, and (unfortunately) speed and reliability numbers are one and the same.

In short, there's some hype because this is tied to TPB, but the article gets it quite right: its nothing we haven't seen before.
There's a German book called "Preußen und die Marktwirtschaft" ("Prussia and Capitalism") by Ehrhardt Bödecker. (http://www.amazon.de/Preußen-die-Marktwirtschaft-Ehrhardt-Bö...)

It cites a lot of statistics showing how the public sector swelled in the federal republic compared to the Kaiserreich. (Prussia made up the vast majority of the Reich.) Alas, it seems to be only available offline and in German.
I've heard great things about language immersion.

There is an American actress - can't remember her name - she speaks fluent French. I saw her in a French movie and spent half the movie trying to place her face. It turns out that she went to a bilingual school French/English.
How much should a new engineer hired on at an investment bank with 10 years of experience expect to receive in salary and bonus?
> I honestly don't want to have to whitelist every single one program I run to be able to do access the network. Do you?

Yes. How many programs do you have accessing the internet? I don't think that I've used, total, more than 10 or 11 programs that need internet access (and it's probably more like 3 or 4 for any given year or so); and I can live with that kind of one-time bother in exchange for knowing that other processes aren't chatting about me without my knowledge.
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Sorry, I accidentally upvoted.

Your assertion that papers with less errors are more scientific, is not at all true.

Plus you are missing the point if you think counting errors has anything to do with this. Someone has successfully convinced the IPCC that it is RIDICULOUS to claim Himalayan glaciers will be gone in 25 years, and this is a victory for the scientific community.
I use a combination of a quick-n-dirty double-entry accounting django app, and web scraping scripts for my bank/credit bards online accounts so I don't have to enter stuff in manually.
This is really convenient, very well done. Is there any way we could network a text editor such as TextMate, to pull context help depending on the file/language you're currently using? So you press F1 and it would send you to the appropriate PDF...?
From someone who wasn't a user before and who has looked at both the old UI and the new one I'll say this: The new UI is awesome and inspired. Very innovative and mood inducing. I'm an instant fan.
Christ! People are such drama queens! It is kinda buggy but its not like their life depends on it. Petitions? Seriously?
I see you're mentioned in that article, but I don't see anything about a recommendation.
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Qué lástima.
A lot of people seem to think using light switches for anything is a good idea. Popular sins off the top of my head:

- Light switch used as apartment doorbell. Mine sits right beside the hall lightswitch.

- Light switch used as door opener. Of course put right beside one of the hall's light switches.

- Light switch used as control for the office-wide motorized blinds. Of course put right inbetween the other proper light switches used for controlling light.
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Employee: money + control = motivation
Getting all the pieces in the abstraction stack to work in the same direction with respect to I/O queuing is key, indeed. For example, does the NCQ work well with the USB mass storage device stack? I haven't looked into the moving parts in detail, but it's easy to see that the maximum speed is limited to the slowest and dumbest link in the chain.
In particular, why do you think those that argue that AGW is not happening should be given more of a benefit of the doubt? ... if you are going to argue that it's not happening, you have much more justification to do.

Because the scientific method dictates that the burden of proof is borne by the one proposing the theory. The opposite is impractical, because for most questions it's not possible to prove the open-ended negative.
Social.com launches
I just completed the launch of a new site at Social.com. This is a collection of the same tools (bookmarklet, WP plugin, widget, Google Reader integration) that was formerly called BigTweet. The bookmarklet in particular is useful for posting to Twitter, Delicious and Ping.fm without leaving the current web page.

I listened to the comments previously about BigTweet in HN (logo & site design was poor, etc) and tried to make some improvements with the change to Social.com.

I would appreciate any feedback on the site and the tools. Thanks!

- Scott
I found this on Google. No idea if it's any good, but it might do what you're looking for:

https://www.shoeboxed.com/a/why-shoeboxed.htm
That recreates the ability to lock people out of the system once you know their user ID.

Edit: However, a useful option is to force people to use a captia after a few bad atempts.
Adding clickable link

http://www.social.com/