skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a hierarchy in pitch priorities:

1. Clarity.

2. Brevity.

3. Uniqueness of product.

4. Uniqueness of pitch.

...and so on. If you can make your pitch more unique with humor in a way that doesn't cross any boundaries of taste (and if what you intend to be funny is ACTUALLY funny), then go for it!

For example, I saw a pitch to a room of startups, VC, and press that involved singing, dancing, weird accents, and a ukelele. I loved it and remembered the company's name, the product, the founder, the works. Because of that pitch (and their general attitude toward the tech ecosystem), that company's getting a video interview and a shot at a guest post on RWW.com.
Or, you might as well use something more sophisticated like KeePass:

http://keepass.info/

You will never actually type any passwords anymore (except perhaps your master password, which can be a signature file too), so no keys to log.

You can find the Firefox plugin here:

http://keefox.org/
Being able to fire people at-will would encourage companies to save costs with a shorter hiring process. Employees being able to quit at-will would encourage companies to be judicious not to get someone who will flake, or get a free ride on training/certification and scoot.
Or just keep all your passwords in an encrypted file and cut-and-paste them instead of typing them. If you generate a new, random one for every site (and you should) this is actually the simplest usage.

Of course, that doesn't prevent the key logger from lifting your master passpharse for that file, but at least it will defeat an automated attack from seeing your bank password based on network traffic and key presses. If your hardware is actually compromised like that, there's only so much security you can get from "best practices".
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In nearly all fields, referees of scientific papers are not paid. Referees of scientific books may be paid a small honorarium, but, compared with consulting, it's a pittance.

Background experience: I refereed somewhat over 100 papers and perhaps a dozen or so books during my career as a physicist. My work now overlaps with the scientific publishing industry more broadly.
This article refers to holes in previous versions. Do you have reference to holes in the current one? If there are, wouldn't Wordpress.com be just as vulnerable?
Where are you? http://www.bytemark.co.uk are good in Europe.
My goodness, what a sad discussion.

First of all, you can source diamonds ethically. I made a point of doing so when I had my fiancée's engagement ring made, working with a local jeweller who have been implementing strong ethical policies since long before Hollywood thought it mattered. They were happy to explain the precautions they took to avoid, for example, using conflict or other abusively mined diamonds. I do have written confirmation to support these claims.

Of course, you may have to pay more for a diamond that is guaranteed to come from ethical sources. If you're worried, you could choose to go synthetic, which I have nothing against if the product is identical. But if you find diamonds attractive, there is no reason you can't get one at all because parts of the industry operate unethically. And if you don't find diamonds attractive, why are you reading this anyway? No-one is forcing you to buy one, after all.

Secondly, can't I get my partner a present of some nice jewellery simply because I think it makes an attractive decoration that she will enjoy wearing, just as I might buy her a nice dress or she might buy me some smart clothes for a big night out? Not everything is about showing off how much money you have or trying to prove a certain status in society. In fact, my partner doesn't know how much money I spent on most of the nicest jewellery I have bought for her over the years. Sometimes it's just a matter of taking pride in your appearance.

Finally, regarding whether it is worth spending the money on some nice jewellery rather than, say, a foreign holiday: I proposed while on a (rare, for us) holiday abroad, with a ring that I had spent several months designing with the help of ther jewellers. Yes, that ring was quite expensive, and it does have a couple of diamonds on it. But do you think that is what really matters to my other half, or do you think she appreciates that it is a unique gift, made with considerable personal effort, that will remind her forever of both that holiday and how important she is to me?
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It wouldn't really surprise me if a lot of the people freelancing in PHP wouldn't know enough about the interpreter so see any advantage in compiled code.
Empathy is an important trait no doubt.

If you find yourself, however, to be one of those people who seem to lack this trait, I urge you to look at the positive.

Someone who is in inclined to empathize, I find, is always more prone to try to guess what another person is thinking. "Oh will he/she like this?" "So and so said this, I bet they were thinking that". Over empathizing some times leads to this behavior and clouds your judgment. While you should take other people's feelings into account, you should try to act on what you know as fact and not on what you think a person is feeling or thinking.
"It requires balancing tags"

Only for tags that need an ending delimiter, unless you use XHTML. Check out the Google markup sometime. All the <li>, <td>, <tr>, and <img> tags are intentionally unbalanced - because they don't have to be, and balancing them just makes your website take longer to download.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#syntax-tag-omissi...

"It consistently runs right off the 80 column right margin"

I've never had that problem. I also have no qualms about breaking lines between tag attributes.

"It's an enormous pain to extend"

HTML5 "data-" attributes make this a bit easier. Still room for improvement here, though.

A lot of the pain points in HTML are self-inflicted by developers who read some "best practices" on the web and then never question what they get out of those best practices.
Probably because the ad you linked is ... a lot more confusing than the other one. It's very fast-paced and shows a lot of various products, which to the average person watching the SuperBowl might be a bit much. The ad they aired showed not only how simple Google is, but also how powerful it is. I think it was a great mix.
Thanks for submitting this post! =)

Lucky me, I get to go to the Googleplex tomorrow to get the deets. They wrote to us that they're releasing "innovations in two of our most popular products."
This system seems to be like early VoIP applications in terms of product evolution.

Similar challenges: Stability/security/availability, perceived value to customers

But similar advantages: Zero chicken and egg problem (VoIP could do outgoing calls, you still perform the same CC txns), very low costs, ability to compete in a previously expensive market
Did you even bother to read that? That's almost all from 2-3 years ago. The only recent stuff is the list from Secunia, which for 2009 is all marked as patched:

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/6745/?task=advisories_...

And that only illustrates the broader point here: WordPress is open source and incredibly widely used, so typically vulnerabilities are found and patched pretty fast. For 99.9% of people, there's not really a better alternative.
To dedup or not to dedup - that results in a lot of questions
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That design has a couple of problems. Most of them involve preventing accidental scrolling while allowing intentional scrolling.

Walking can cause accidental scrolling. Have you ever tried to hold a pan of water while walking? It sloshes forward and backward because humans don't walk at a constant speed. Every step is deceleration followed by acceleration. Any vehicle changing speed can cause accidental scrolling. A car accelerating or braking, a bus making stops, a subway. Fine-tuning the code to detect when to scroll would be a nightmare. If you make it less sensitive, users will complain that they have to tilt the phone too far to scroll at a decent speed. If you make it more sensitive, users will complain that it scrolls when they're just holding it.

It's not as intuitive as touch scrolling. Tilt scrolling requires "zeroing" the phone and being very careful with how you orient it. Touch scrolling is simple: text on the screen moves with your finger. With touch scrolling you can flick your finger across the screen to start scrolling far/fast, then touch the screen to immediately stop scrolling. You could copy this behavior by allowing touch and tilt scrolling, but then it gets even less intuitive.
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This test will only tell you "this is a mobile browser." It will not tell you "this is an iPhone browser and not a BlackBerry browser." That's the kind of detection that he's talking about.

Notice that part where he talks about mobile browser developers spoofing the iPhone user agent string to get to a 'mobile' version of a web page and how this might skew 'MobileSafari' penetration numbers if this is not accounted for.
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one of the best things colleges (and entrepreneurs) need to do is realize when a startup idea is beyond the realm of a classroom. it can cause severe conflict of interest and be inhibitive at best.

we're currently having trouble with our entrepreneurial senior design because a) they don't understand a software startup and b) they are first and foremost concerned with the pedagogical value of being an entrepreneurship advisor/instructor.

examples: we're forced to have 8 underling employees in our already 5 person group (13 person startup) and forced to do a startup pitch to Plexus engineers (they give the program money) as the final task of the year.

our fault not reading between the lines, make sure the mystique of the program doesn't shadow the fact that you have misaligned interests
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"Facebook’s caveman discovery process:

Google good.

Facebook good.

Google a search company.

Google like information.

Facebook have information Google can’t have.

Google make lot of money through search ads.

Facebook try to be like Google to make big-money-pow.

Facebook make search more important in redesign.

Facebook make more money from search.

Facebook happier."

Simplistic, but is this assessment that far off?

And the distractions the author outlines (chat, emails, notifications, pictures) aren't as annoying for users as they are critical to FB's driving time on site.
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I saw the whole presentation. I have absolutely no idea what lmframework is or does. All I see are words and no actual information: http://lmframework.com/page.php?id=lmf

Sure, humor could help with pitching an idea or hurt it if used unwisely. But lack of information about what you specifically do will certainly hurt a lot more. In the slide 50/52 you say you've built the part that monetizes the rest of the (Internet-iPhone) gap but then the slideshow ends abruptly without any explanation. Sounds extremely fishy to me.
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Good catch. Just went through some of the flash issues with our designer and he had named the flash header class "adspace"

Something tells me that's the problem :) Should be fixed
Just out of curiosity, what's the APL angle?
Those are bad reasons on all counts:

1) Code is notoriosly difficult to describe in a natural language, so it's unlikely papers contain enough detail to replicate a complex program.
2) People can still reimplement the model even when it's available. In fact it's going to be more likely that non-scientists join the convesation (which will improve the abysmall public perception of science, especially climate science).
3) Making money is great for an inventor and/or startup founder. You can still sell implementations, but they can't be trusted until they have been run on a large number of independent computers. Until then, it's not science.
From my experience so far, longer it takes lesser are the chances of getting selected.
Nice, but when you're scaling to such a large size, you probably want to go NoSQL, unless you use MySQL as a key-value store (which I've heard of some people do).

Another thing: Many applications, can get away with updating to disk much less often, say every 30 seconds or even longer if appropriate. When a machine fails then, you lose 30 seconds worth of updates stored in that machine's RAM, which may be fine. For some applications, you could probably stand losing even a few minutes of updates on a failure, while gaining huge decreases in loads on disk.
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This looks really cool. ReadWriteWeb has been doing a series focusing on startup communities outside the Valley, too. Here's the first one I wrote, on Boulder: http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2009/07/startup-video-neve...

All the other related posts from different cities are linked to in that post. We interviewed a TON of companies for the series, might be some good ideas for Cringely in there.
Linode have an iphone app now too, I haven't used it but do recommend their VPS services.
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I was pleased to see that the notion of a "Cascadian" cultural region is actually visible in his data.
I think you'll find this algorithm in just about any book on formal languages and automata, won't you? In any case, it doesn't seem terribly useful in practice, as tools like yacc seem to deal well enough with \epsilon productions.
I've seen people claim that there are keyloggers out there that also log things like focus changes (with the title of the window that lost/gained focus). I've never looked much into it (I believe it was only a comment on /. some years ago). In that case, the keylogger would be able to sort out that you were typing garbage characters, though I suspect that this doesn't really scale to massive keylogging dragnets. It is a cause for concern if you think that someone is targeting you though.
The two dimensions are orthogonal - one is emphathy/sociopathy axis and the other one is epistemological hygiene/lack thereof axis.

One could be a sociopath and not aware of it, or one could be empathic and yet aware of limitations of their knowledge. The latter would recognize situations where more emotional participation could be required and probe to find out if that's indeed that case before pouring out emotions. The former would think little before "stepping on someone toes" and be completely unaware of his lack of tact despite the facial expression of the victim.
http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2007/04/04/Quee...

"...in July 2000, when the famously secretive South African company announced it would stop its efforts to control the world’s diamond supply. In a glorious understatement, chairman Nicky Oppenheimer later explained the decision: 'As new sources of supply opened up—particularly in Canada—it became evident that that role could not be sustained.'"

The BHP Billiton group and Rio Tinto were big players in the Australian discovery mentioned near the end of the Atlantic article.
I thought their core competency was to be dramatic bloggers? Journalism is a lofty word that has nothing to do with Techcrunch.
> cept perhaps your master password, which can be a signature file too

What you really want to do is have two factors of authentication. (i.e. a signature file and a password) Otherwise, it only takes a single compromise to lose your passwords (i.e. you are trading the risks of a password being stolen for the risks of a signature file being stolen).
While I understand the Flash hate etc. that some people have below, before you start doing anything about it do prioritize your features.

Who is your real customer, I'm assuming it's small business owners etc. Do they real care about Flash/AdBlock etc. Do they even know about those things?

Focus on the real features they care about, do some market research, if you haven't already. Offline backup is a high priority feature. CC fallback on the traditional system is another (which I believe works via phone and not internet).

What about touchscreen support and UI to go with it.

I had worked on NCR POS UI way back in the '95-'96 and we used to create OCX (remember those?) controls which were huge so that the UI worked well with touch screens.
You could just run it from SVN and periodically go in and upgrade.

I host and keep 6 blogs up to date like this for friends and together with things like mod_security I've never had a problem with spam or being hacked.

I realise this is just anecdotal and isolated, but an upgrade doesn't get much simpler than "svn up".
LLVM's compiler suite compiles C to LLVM bitcode, and the LLVM (low-level virtual machine) runs that code.
Redis does this.
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In the 90s people were made plenty of prototypes of keyloggers that would do a screen capture whenever it detected a copy operation.

There are many little tricks that will lift you above low hanging fruit and likely allow you to avoid an untargetted attack. They are of limited use given generally all of them can be defeated if the attacker bothers to care.

The author notes that this work is unpublishable. The reason for that is this type of work doesn't truly move us forward and simply provides another step in a cat and mouse game. Most of these things have also been known for years.
It's been a while but I could start to explain it and maybe someone can pick it up from my rusty memory.

Mercury thiocyanate, Hg(SCN)2, decomposes at about 165 degrees Farenheit[1] to elemental components. I would guess that the shape of the product in that video is most likely due to the gases that are formed (most likely cyanide and mercury gas). I'm guessing the products are sulphur, cyanide vapor and mercury vapor. I'm also guessing that there are some oxides of sulphur and nitrogen forming since oxygen is readily available.

[1]: http://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/1048
Attachments are part of MIME.
Why are double sided polymorphic relationships lacking in Rails?
Webkit is not much different than IE6 was 9 years ago. It implements SOME parts of SOME of the standards (no browser implements everything, the standards even contradict themselves in places). It also implements a large array of "features" that don't exist in any published standard, or are only part of a draft standard. Just like IE6 did, and which it is so widely criticized for doing now.

MS stopped innovating because they were almost dismantled by the DOJ a year after releasing it, in large part due to that browser.
This Warren Buffett quote on gold could very easily be changed to apply to diamonds:

"Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head."
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I come from a country where resume decides most things and interviews are mere sanity checks, so at the time (2005), I didn't know what to expect of my day-long Google interview. At the end of the day though, I emailed home: "Even if I didn't get the job, that was AWESOME" - if you can accept the potential ego-bruise, interviewing that way can be pretty fun. It's like mountain biking, but with whiteboards.

Not that there aren't better interview systems, but I'm not sure how well many of them scale.
Most of these (at least now) are made of sugar and baking soda. They used to be made of mercury thiocyanate back when we didn't know mercury poisoning was trouble.
There are a few examples of how this can be done. One of them is Mathematical Programming Computation (MPC), a journal where articles submitted must be accompanied by the source code that was used to produce the results. The article is peer-reviewed, and the code submitted is tested by "technical editors" to verify that the results are correct. See http://mpc.zib.de
It's more like WebKit is the new reference implementation for HTML5. Look at the changelog: http://trac.webkit.org/
I see submits from Chromium, Apple, Google, Nokia, RIM and others.
So if you pay $15,000/yr you still only get two-day response time? Seems like only the Platinum/Black with "high priority" support seems to be worth it... assuming you have the traffic that makes 80/150k per year worth the cost.
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That WSJ article was REALLY low on information (at least in my non-payer's view), so I was glad to read your write-up.

Hopefully, this will integrate with other Google products really well and be available on my Google Profile, etc.
You can upgrade WordPress automatically now without using FTP. It means that PHP has to execute with write permissions to the files involved however. Exacerbating this security risk, a lot of people run mod_php which means PHP executes as the apache user, thus giving write permissions to every other website on that server. They'll either chmod 777 or chown www-data (or apache) the wordpress folder/files.

I personally use FastCGI+SUExec to ensure that WordPress' PHP code executes under a specific user account other than Apache's. It does not address the possibility of WordPress code itself somehow being hacked, but it does provide some sort of sandbox protection to the site.

I'm not thrilled with WordPress' past security track record, but I think they have made it so easy to use that a lot of users simply throw the scripts up on a shared server without knowing exactly what they're doing so far as server configuration goes. I wonder how many WordPress blogs are exploited because of a stupid permission setup?
I am still not quite sure what you are complaining about? At least as a woman you have a choice, you can opt out and spend more time with the kids. That's not supposed to be a burden imposed by society, it is supposed to be quality time and a gift. Why else have children, if you don't even like it? If you don't like it, the choice is easy, just spend all the time at your startup.

Unfortunately everything has a price - spending more time at home has a price (earning less money with the startup?), spending more time at the office has a price (no kids). But you have a choice.

In another comment you said that your particular startup requires the long hours. Maybe you could restructure the startup? Maybe you could spend some money on employees? I don't know - but overall I don't see how you being a woman makes it in any way special. If anything, you have more choices than men?
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Isn't that the wrong level of abstraction, though? An actual save button in my application looks like this in HTML:

<button id="Save" name="Save" type="submit" class="positive" tabindex="10">
<img src="/graphics/icons/save.png">Save Changes
</button>

I'm not sure what that would like in Haml, but in a template language it might look something like this:

<ctl:SaveButton />

I would think a DSL designed to express user interface would actually be a much higher abstraction. Haml is just 1-to-1 with HTML.
Comment seen on youtube:

"Yeah...try playing﻿ Khan and Obama audio at the same time. It sounds very similar. I feel like the prez is teaching me stats and math."
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How does it work without FTP? Last time I tried to upgrade it asked for the FTP u/p.