skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There aren't too many reasons for one private company to do due diligence on another private company besides acquiring it"

That is an often repeated but mistaken myth.

There aren't many reasons for a company to agree going through a due-diligence except for the chance to being bought, unfortunately some companies use due-diligence as a research tool into markets they think they might be interested in with no real intention of actually purchasing the inspected company, sometimes even developing a competing product at the SAME time.
Feed CO2 and water + electricity, get back fuel + O2.
Australian Sen. Conroy Filters Mandatory Internet Topic On Own Site
Hope you're not scanning IP ranges: I believe it's illegal in most countries.
hah :)
Needs much more detail and some type of corroboration.

Existing laws, threat of lawsuit and just plain bad PR means this is something a bank would be very unlikely to do.
They may be dissimilar, but they both desperately need to s/it's/its/.
I always wanted to do something like that with my scope's XY display. The TA in my intro to EE class a couple of years ago was unimpressed when I set up my function generator to generate horizontal and vertical scan sweeps instead of the Lissajous she was expecting..
What bank is it?
Putty works reasonably well in Linux, though from the sound of things you prefer a CLI. For those times when a GUI just won't cut it, I use the cu program for lightweight, easy access to a serial device.
For every scientist who innovated while young, there is another whose major contribution came later in life.

Looking at it a different way, one could argue that scientists who are known primarily for work done at a young age just rested on their laurels after this early success.
Powerpoint is simply a tool. If you have poor presentation skills, any software will create crappy slides.

Yes using different tools may help make it easier, but similar to an artists work, the ultimate quality of the piece will lie with the artist. Yes using different tools may produce slightly better results, but the designer is the biggest contributing factor.

Powerpoint is powerful enough to do anything you need, so I don't see why you shouldn't consider it. Thinking differently for the sake of doing so doesn't make sense!
True, that's why I worded it as "aren't too many reasons". Perhaps I'm naive, but I'd like to think that this isn't more than (made up percentage ahead) 10% of private company due diligence investigations.

Although where you are more likely correct, and what I didn't think through well enough before my initial comment, is that in the case of Facebook/Loopt, it is possible that Facebook is building a Loopt competitor, rather than buying Loopt.

ALTHOUGH, you would think Loopt would know this and wouldn't open itself to Facebook's scrutiny. Perhaps Facebook is making the case to Loopt that they're interested in purchasing them, but actually have much more sinister ideas?

Ah, the politics of M&A. I love it.
Chase, formerly WAMU; I rather suspect it may have something to do with the fact that some of the accounts were opened after Chase took over and the destination accounts were with WAMU long before. But of course they aren't going to tell me they can't mesh the two computer systems smoothly.
There should be a support group for over 30 startup founders that have families, bills, and full-time jobs.

My advice to any one trying to do this is to be patient and find a time management system that works for you. Also, get used to the hours between 8pm and 2am. Those hours can be your best friend and worse enemy.
This is totally doable, although I don't envy him for trying to do it while also having a wife and kids. If your life situation allows you to play WoW, your life situation allows you to run a business. Heck, my business is considerably less complicated than the guild I used to run. I managed to cut my headcount by 39 and my hours by 75%. (You may have to stop playing WoW. Apologies in advance, but trust me, the loot gets better.)

It occurs to me that I've never done a blog post explicitly about doing a business while also employed. I think I might over the weekend. Is there anything specific y'all would be interested in hearing about?
This is not about double-taxation - but rather that taxes in Canada are higher than just about any place in Asia (for good reason: Canada has considerably more social assistance programs than most Asian countries).
It's not that many js frameworks imply the need for a standard library. It's that many js frameworks, all providing the same functionality that many people want imply the need for a standard library. You mention cross-browser compatibility, he mentions web widgets. I don't see how anyone could oppose standardizing OS stuff like threads and IO on the server.

If there were a large standard library built into javascript, I fear it would just be more things for different browser makers (especially Microsoft) to implement with different quirks...

It's a lot easier to release your own incompatible (possibly "extended") version of a standard than it is to break existing software. MS can't even phase out IE6, even though they and the companies stuck using it acknowledge that IE6 needs to die. If MS released a browser version that broke many previously-working pages, it would probably trigger antitrust action by the government.
+1

Even college grads can follow some of this advice. Come out of school ladened with debt is no picnic and sure going straight to a startup sure seems like a sexy idea but even Paul Graham admits most startups fail. Sure valuable experience, and new contacts help ease that but there are alternatives. I would prefer to go into business for myself once I am debt free and on solid footing (not waiting because I am scared....well I am a little)

Not to mention that above average coders can make some good salaries.
Great start to the rabbit hole of realizing what 4chan exactly is and what makes it different from other online communities. Moot also voices some interesting concerns regarding online identity in the video.

If you've never heard of the place and are about to go visit it for the first time, depending on what boards you want to explore... You'll need a high level of desensitization and a good amount of apathy for the mature boards.
Just reading that blog post it sounds as if Citi behaved monstrously. Big banks are an easy target; frequently, I suspect, with justification. I personally don't like big banks; I use a small one. But...

There's a lot that post didn't say. Was the block just a temporary hold? What was the source of the funds? Was it a merchant account? If so the bank may have been justified in holding deposits longer if there had been more chargebacks than anticipated or even if the nature of the business indicated a likelihood of greater chargebacks.

If the reason Citi gave, as quoted by the Fabulis founder, was because of objectionable content in a blog might that just indicate the bank had rightly or wrongly reclassified the type of business based on blog contents?
Better design than myspace ever had.
I don't see how the numbers add up: this thing saves a nickel a KWH, max. A 100KW box costs $750K, according to the article. 24365$5.00 = 43800. So how does it pay for itself in 3-5 years? Something is off, there. It's possible that TC fouled up - that the $750K price is for the 400KW unit that Google and Walmart are using, in which case the saving of $170K/yr would about work out.
Al Faisal Hotel website - Aleppo
Been playing with this a lot. Try beginning with one of the presets and changing one number. E.g., look at the "Sun, planet, moon" preset. Then change the y-component of the velocity of body 3 to 45. Then try 207. Fascinating ....
Afternoon naps beneficial to learning and work.
It isn't in the US, see 'Moulton v. VC3'.
As the blog post points out, Facebook has one of the most popular iPhone apps in the world (and Blackberry, and Android) but despite that big mobile user base hasn't made a play in the geo space, so this makes sense on that front.

However, one of Loopt's biggest use-cases is location-based dating. I think trying to get into the dating business would be a terrible mistake for Facebook.
sure, if we're talking about "science" exclusively as that which is funded directly by government. this field has slowly morphed into revolving around the grant approval process rather than interesting research. it's the old patron-artist relationship. you're going to get art that the patron likes.
you forgot one thing: not everyone likes to play games.
Making Free Calls to Pakistan
Are you paying huge bills on making calls to Pakistan? Are you staying out of your country and are your phone bills push you to serious financial struggle? You can cut down your phone bills to close to nothing. You will be able to make free calls to Pakistan and thanks to the latest internet technology. You will be able to make use of VOIP services to make calls to Pakistan. VOIP stands for Voice Over IP and this is internet based telephony system.
I'm sure dedicating yourself to one single project may be better, but doing both is absolutely doable at the beginning. You can even go a little further. At one (recent) point of my career I had more full time employees than the company of which I was an employee at the very same time. Sometimes you don't have the option of risk it all, so you need to adapt, even if that means skipping your beauty sleep. It's all about been driven, just like you are.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148247
Yeah, I really hope google comes out throwing some strong punches at Italy after this. The consequences of this ruling will have enormous chilling effects on any social media company operating in Italy. If google was able, eventually, to pass on China as a market based on standing up for its principles then passing on Italy as a market should be a slam dunk.
I would love to hear about any techniques you have for overcoming mental fatigue at the end of your work day when you still have business work to do.

Did you work on your business before the work day started? Or something different?
And then every moved or broken resource will increase your site's PageRank for the word "pedophile." I'd say that's a bad thing, but I think it's in the spirit of http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI ;)
&lt;script type="text/coffeescript"&gt;
In italy, we use to say: "Made a law, made a deception", which means that for every law there's almost always a way to get around it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=288021
Could have linked to your blog instead, maybe thrown youtube link there.. this is a bit random.
I don't care about the lack of a standard library. I care about the lack of an equivalent to CPAN.

For instance a couple of years ago I ported Statistics::Distributions from Perl to JavaScript. I looked for a place to put it. Nobody could suggest any place for a random piece of code like that. Eventually I stuck it on http://code.google.com/p/statistics-distributions-js/. I doubt that anyone has ever looked for it there or found it. And the need is so specialized that it doesn't make sense to try to get a user base.

I doubt anyone has ever found it there. If they did it is probably because Ohloh picked it up.
P neq NP Proof
Not to mention students still in college. Being a fulltime student is akin to being a fulltime employee, with or without a spouse. Add in undergrad research still more time is taken up.

It's all about priorities. You have to allocate your time wisely and remove activities that aren't centrally valuable.
Where do weatherbug, foreca get their data from? 
Especially for countries like India? Is this data available for free? Thx!
Isn't that putting the cart before the house. JavaScript has no standard way of importing/using libraries -- that seems like a prerequisite for something like CPAN. Otherwise instead of an organized repository of libraries, you just have a bunch of code.
That's pretty unusual for an indie shop. Typically that would only be the case if the place was heavily reliant on foot traffic. If a coffee shop isn't tapped into a neighborhood and some surrounding social networks that bring in repeat customers, then it has to figure out a way to get a steady stream of new customers.
The Facebook Imperative
No experience with Chase's site, but make sure you are indeed making a transfer and not an "online (bill) payment." The bank is also required to provide you with an availability schedule (and, if I recall correctly, inform you when you make the transfer) so make sure you get a Terms & Conditions booklet where this is explained. Transfers between two personal checking accounts should always complete within a business day; savings- and business accounts may be different.

They might certainly have some loophole, but they must be able to explain it.
Ask HN - JavaScript testing and dependency management
For larger projects involving a large amount of javascript dependencies, what options are there to maintain a healthy code base? I am currently using Maven for accomplishing pretty much the same in Java (dependency management, checking code health, unit testing, generating documentation etc). Not saying that Maven is perfect, but it makes the entire process somewhat stream-lined. Are there similar tools available for javascript projects?
My family has had some personal experience with banks freezing accounts -- it can be done on the whim of a single person. That person probably didn't think of any of those consequences in this instance.
Yelp's doing a lot of us a favor by aggregating the conversation. Those conversations are happening elsewhere regardless. Is it all that different from what HN does?
Chicken Chowmein Recipe
How Ning made me a chump and how you can avoid it
JavaScript has no standard way for one library to include another. But it is very easy to insert a library into a web page.

The code I ported is a standalone library that can be imported into a web page and then its functions can be called. There is a lot of useful code that looks like that. It is a shame that there is no standard bit bucket that you can put it in.
It would also be good to see some announcement of launches by HNers (not just YC funded).

Set a cap of 2-3k karma or something to keep the volume down - a bit of promotion would be a nice reward for those who do a lot to keep the community going. (Plus it'd be interesting.)
Big banks are bad about doing this. They delay your funds so that they can actually earn interest on your money while you don't have access to it.
I definitely would be. Any techniques you've developed for switching contexts would be greatly appreciated..
Hmm, it appears there are quite a few proofs both ways here (this is one of them listed): http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm
Oh, for Pete's sake, can we stop posting these already? See the first comment on this previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=347145

Also, some thoughts on a closely related topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114578
My point was that if, say, a group of unknown entrepreneurs was pushing for it instead of a high profile portion of the investment community, I am skeptical that anything would get done so quickly. It's not a value judgement, it's an observation - that's what influence is!

Don't get me wrong - I definitely appreciate what you guys are doing. I'll probably be first in line to apply if this passes, so thank you, and best of luck!
Seconded. It seems to me that whenever people tell you to keep your day job while trying to start a business, their day jobs are not related to programming.(so IT, analyst...)

I would love to read something about how your code all day for your day job and then code all night for your business. That info, coming from somebody who has done it before would be a very interesting read.

(Another interesting thing would be reading about how to keep your sanity while doing all of this for more than a few weeks)
That is certainly true, it just seems very unlikely. Particularly if it is an account hold, not a blocked card or held deposit or something.

It is definitely not beyond the realm of possibility that some "morally enraged" or otherwise vindictive person might have done so. But they usually have some cover story in those cases, too.
No, I'm actually quite outraged that they did this at all.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014080
>They could simply be using a reversible encryption algorithm.

I'm sorry, but this difference is completely trivial. Putting a password in some reversible encryption is just security by obscurity. In the worst case the people who managed to break into your site and steal all the passwords can just steal your magical decryption routine as well.
These cafe laptop bans remind me of the infamous ban on snowboarding at the Deer Valley ski resort in Utah. (And seem to provoke a similar response, even though 99% of their competitors don't have bans) I suspect they're more about marketing the business to a niche clientele than because the laptops are a problem in themselves.
The issue, it seems to me, is that a rights-holder by that definition is anyone who _claims_ to be a rights holder. I would expect there to be some form of plausibility check by an independent person, otherwise there could be completely frivolous denial of service attacks based on this law.
> However, one of Loopt's biggest use-cases is location-based dating.

How so? They're not doing anything in that direction as far as I know. Is this just your suggestion that it would be a good use case for them to pursue?

> I think trying to get into the dating business would be a terrible mistake for Facebook.

Why? Facebook could do it a lot better than any of the existing dating-only sites with the info they have on everyone's social graph and their high penetration. They probably wouldn't want to come out and blatantly add a "dating" feature, but instead just add features that "happen" to facilitate dating use-cases. A lot more people would be willing to do internet dating if it wasn't explicitly "internet dating", but instead just happened as an organic process on a site they were already a part of for other reasons.
Let’s draw Feynman diagrams!
Odds are good that the paper that actually proves P != P (a) will be written in TeX, (b) will not include references to introductory algorithms textbooks, Wikipedia pages, and lecture slides, (c) will not conclude by saying "There is no relevant related work on the goal to really solve the P versus NP question," (d) will not be littered with grammatical errors, and (e) will be written by an author who already has many publications on the arxiv.

Which is not to say that there's no good thought in here...
Although I wouldn't be using mercurial myself, I gave this a point simply because of the great site design and layout.
Amazing facts and figures about the evolution of hard disk drives
Bummer ... I'm a nerd that smokes ... guess I'll die soon without being cool.
Limp wrists and tight fists: What your handshake says about you
It sounded like that, because you wrote "you assume". I am not sure your request even makes much sense, to be honest.
I think this should probably point here:

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#scripts

The salient point is that CoffeeScript now automatically compiles any code in a script tag with type text/coffeescript. Pretty cool.
Seems odd to suggest Paul Graham's essays on Paul Graham's site but his essays are worth reading.

http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_conflicts

For people like you who want to believe that Africa is in a war, no citation will do most likely.

The Asian wars are killing a hell of a lot more people than the African wars also.

If you want to believe that nothing is getting better, then let's not continue the conversation. If you are willing to actually look at the facts and compare the 80s to now, then we can talk.
There is a large body of work on this. The short, short version: this is a Very Bad Idea.

For an intro into the subject, check out "Punished By Rewards" by Alfie Kohn.
Try Asimov's nonfiction works. He has a number of decent essay collections, if you can find them.
I'm somewhat ambivalent on this. I can see the motivation, but it does sometimes seem to drift into an overbearing cafe owner trying to socially engineer exactly what kind of culture they want their cafe to have.

The local cafe here that banned laptops after 5pm to encourage more social evenings wasn't happy enough with the results, so subsequently also banned "studying" after 5pm, however you define that. The owner justified it by saying that his cafe wasn't a study hall, and there couldn't be a social scene in his cafe if it was overrun with college kids studying and doing homework.

At some point it becomes kind of ridiculous to feel like you're being socially policed by the owner, and it's more pleasant to just visit other cafes that won't look over my shoulder deciding if I'm being social enough or not.
Considering that developers are the users most in tune with Paypal's "ways", good luck.

Last time I tried to withdraw money from Paypal there was a bug in the Australian Paypal system which prevented me from doing so (the bug existed longer than 2 weeks). Coincidentally, I was told the only way to access my funds was to upgrade my account (which is what I was forced to do eventually).

Another friend of mine (a developer), was paid for code he produced with a stolen credit card, and Paypal decided that they wanted the USD500 stolen money (fair enough), and an extra USD500 (not sure what that was for).

If people think Apple's policies for their application store are bad, they obviously have never dealt with Paypal in any way other than Ebay. I hope that other developers realise that Paypal isn't a bank before they use it for selling their applications.
I really like Douglas Hofstadter.

Metamagical Themas is a good collection of his essays.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagical_Themas
Question for mods - why was bbot's reply here and elsewhere on this thread killed?

Both times he's simply raised the very valid point that fuel cells don't run backwards. There are some woefully uninformed comments on this thread already. A little education would help.
Well first you have the define the constants...

P = NP
iff 0 = P(N - 1)
iff P = 0 OR N = 1

That wasn't so hard, was it?

More seriously, P=NP can be a bit of a mind virus. I probably don't have the training to attempt such a question but I have nonetheless spent some time idly pondering it, usually only to independently rediscover some known NP-complete problem. ("Hey look, SAT reduces to ... oh wait, that's also NP complete. Damn.")
Proud to see my blog post on HN.

It has been a tough slog working full-time while spending every other waking moment on Gridspy. It doesn't help that I spend every waking moment thinking about it, even when I should be applying myself to my full-time job.

Biggest challenges:

1) Starting work again at 7pm after dinner, and sticking with it as long as possible

2) Stopping at 10:30pm so I'm not dead after 2 days

3) Taking time off on Saturday, simultaneously fantastic + frustrating

4) Being an available father, giving love and attention to my kids

5) Knowing that I could do in one normal day what takes me Monday..Friday to do.

The second I can step up and go full-time Gridspy without going bankrupt in 1 month, I will.
No offense, but your observation is probably less true at the better schools. The middle of the bell curve has never been exceptionally motivated.
Good point about reclassification; actual "objectionable content"* could cause law enforcement to order a hold but those are disclosed to the accountholder. Another issue might be an account opened for a non-profit or some other account type problem. Yet another could be a suspected misrepresentation in account documentation but that would be more likely in case of a loan of some type.