skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As it was discussed to death in a previous thread, Dodd's bill does not include any direct increases to the accredited investor standards.

So, when AVC says: "Dodd's bill would increase that to $2.3mm and $450k respectively", he is pulling the numbers out of thin air. Dodd's bill says that the SEC shall increase the amount "as the Commission determines is appropriate and in the public interest, in light of price inflation ..." quoted directly from the bill.

So the SEC has wide discretion as to how to increase these standards and has to consider the public interest. It is extremely unlikely that the SEC would make the drastic increases this article mentions. It should also be noted that the SEC has had the power to change these numbers at any time since 1982, and has chosen not to do it. So, again it is unlikely that they will now decide to double the numbers.

Of course you may think that the bill is still undesirable, because one should not prod the SEC to raise these numbers. But the way the original article worded things was simply not correct.
They're not.
Bioinformatics is another application area where document-oriented databases have been used long before it was fashionable. For example, much of the data at the NCBI is stored in blobs as ASN.1 (which predated JSON by about two decades...)

One thing I don't yet understand is the big revolutionary deal about the NoSQL systems vs. storing one's hierarchical documents in blobs in an SQL database or BDB. At the end of the the day, I'm not sure that there is any magic - B-trees are B-trees, joins are joins, and disk seeks are slow.
queue up?
It's an excellent idea, I can give it that, but I do not see how this fleshes out into a full game. We're talking about Person A tries to find Person B in a crowd. Person B has stuff to do, Persona A just has to find him.

If you're playing on the same screen (as the article indicated) Person B can't have an interesting interface because it's shared with Person A, and vice versa. Likewise Person B can't be doing anything interesting, because (as indicated in the article) his possible actions are easily investigated by Person A.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for new concepts in gaming. I play far too many games right now... I just don't see how this extends beyond a Mario Party / Wario Ware style mini-game.
Eh? Disagree? The author of that article +is+ associated with the Ayn Rand Center.
I think the key as you said that some team at wikileaks ultimately controls the the editorial review of the information (intell) flow...

Wikileaks makes editorial decisions, a lot of governments are going to be interested in the information that wikileaks receives but decides not to publish.

Sorry, but that's what intel agencies world wide are going to do...accumulate information. In many ways wikileaks is simply a similar intel agency unless they begin to publish all the information they receive and become completely transparent.

Of course, due to the nature of what wikileaks does, it seems that they can not afford to be transparent in their operations... somewhat ironic huh..

Wikileaks _needs_ secrecy in order to function.
"Does Steve ever get tired of wearing the same clothes every day?"

Don't you ever get tired of having to pick something different every day? I have to imagine that's the rationale. Steve isn't the one who has to look at Steve, though. I don't imagine he cares.
Well, in the worst case, you just re-apply the filter on the part you're not satisfied with (for example, those white areas at the bottom).
The reasons for the Reg D restrictions are not to shield people from risk, but rather to shield them from scams.

When buying / selling publicly traded shares, there is enough regulation to reasonably protect people from outright scams.

However, it is not uncommon for someone to "pitch" investment ideas to the public that are simply scams -- anything from straight-up ponzi schemes to simply running off with money never to be found again, etc etc.
ESR doesn't have a clue.

Linus has at least two to rub together.

Why do you quote ESR as though he's some demi-god? He's a freak who takes credit for other people's work without so much as a citation.
There are some considerable weaknesses in concluding causation here. Their theory is a sound proposal, but countries with higher levels of health, also are wealthier, more socialist, and other factors. All of which might be relevant.
From this page - http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month - your total sales to date are around $76,700. At $30 a piece, that's ~2500 copies sold. That's not so bad I think, considering you arrived at your estimate of 1500 by pulling quite a few percentages "out of your hindquarters".
The whole concept of highly selective schools is distasteful. I can't imagine myself in the position of choosing between prospective students for one. The selection process is highly arbitrary just like hiring. I wouldn't accept the responsibility of turning away prospective students who actually want to come to a school to learn.
Alternatively, there are useful books like ThinkerToys:

http://www.amazon.com/Thinkertoys-Handbook-Creative-Thinking...
I've noticed pro-China astroturf everywhere, from Fortune to the now defunct newmogul.com.
Does anyone have a link to the original research / paper?
It'd help if the other opinion wasn't on the side of the worst atrocities of this century. It's like the "two" sides in the holocaust debate.
Per the article, his mother offered to chaperon him at her own expense...makes your point kind of moot.
As I said in the CS story, this is cool but nothing new. I don't see how it's different from Alien Skin's Image Doctor (http://www.alienskin.com/imagedoctor/index.aspx ), which has been available as a plugin for years. I've been using it from PaintShopPro for quite some time.
Never mind, found it: http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/texture/
Another technique is to normal-crop out the sky and the distant grass that is so blurry, "content-aware" crop out the duck, then paste back in the stuff you originally cropped out. The white bits at the bottom are sky. The blurry bits are where grass far in the background was stitched in.
Ha I see. In other applications, this is the "hook", the elevator pitch. Or the quick bio when networking that gets people coming back to hear the story. I'm not quite sure how this applies to the "startup story".
I had some similar lightbulb moments when I started investigating the psychology of reading code. When you have some idea of how people with different needs and different experience read and understand code, you start to think about those factors when you write code yourself.

If anyone else is interested, my write-up is here: http://www.clarityincode.com/readability/ (I'm not sure about the etiquette of linking to your own site from HN, so apologies if this is inappropriate.)
What should LittleCo's do?
I suspect that Hacker News has a bit of selection bias, in that most of the people here are driven, success-oriented individuals who'd like to believe that hard work makes a difference. We've already read all the articles about how success comes from diligence and practice, and that feats that seem superhuman are just the result of focused effort over time.

In my personal experience, the majority of people do not think like this. When I was going through grade school, my parents/teachers/etc. often did use words like "awe-inspiring achievements", even for fairly mundane things like getting perfect scores on standardized tests. I got into Amherst through a process very much like the article describes (I had terrible grades but had worked at an all-teenage dot-com startup and aced my standardized tests). In the "brag session" where the director of admissions lists all the awe-inspiring resumes of the incoming freshman class, she said "And one of the students passed 8 AP tests without taking a single AP class", and a murmur of appreciation passed along the crowd. Really, it's not that hard, you read a book and then you pay $75 for a test - but most of them don't know that.

I think it's great that there's more understanding going around of what achievement actually stems from. But that understanding certainly isn't universal, and in the meantime, you can hack people's perceptions of you by playing to the blind spots in their own knowledge. "Everything is impossible until I know how to do it, and then it's trivial."
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> Well what kind of classified material? Yes, if these are nuclear launch codes, or frequency hopping codes of military radios, they would have a valid reason to detect the source of the leak. I think most of us and most US citizens would agree with the government doing that.

I think the point is that they don't know what information is being stolen and how deeply they have been penetrated, and this scares them. What is released to the public is not as relevant as what information wikileaks actually has. Why should they trust wikileaks not to sell that information to other nations? Their reaction is understandable. On the other hand, as always, I'm curious what wikileaks has in store for us.
Startup Sabbatical: New model of innovation for mature corporations
One thing I've noticed about cowards is that they make sure to pick fights with people, and organizations, such as the CIA, the United States, (or some other western, liberal government), who they know will never really do them much harm. You want to make a stand? Send a donation to that Danish cartoonist guy who draws pictures of Allah doing stupid shit. You may be a coward, but I'm sure you're enough of a man to at least send an anonymous check.
They're harder to prove, more subject to dispute, or require greater entanglement in a venture's management (like taking a title). Essentially, the wealth tests are the bright-line rules an investor needs to meet to have the legally-cheapest/safest/standard financing terms.
I've stated in the past the _only_ thing wrong with PLT Scheme was not enough marketing.

PLT Racket is as evolved beyond standard Scheme as modern man from Australopithecus.

So many rich areas of study are available for exploration. Just some of the capabilities, not toy, but full robust capabilities, include:

- Lazy
- Functional
- Reactive
- OO
- Macros (powerful, hygenic)
- Delimited continuations
- Module system (dynamic)

Not too mention the basics, eye opening approaches to XML and Web, an IDE, debugger, contracts, typed/dynamic language, jit, Android development, ... and on and on.

The talent of the core PLT group is outstanding. Matthias Felleisen for example was awarded an ACM Fellowship in 2006 for contributions to programming languages and development environments. His academic publications are right up there with the best out there, yet he spends as much time focused on the foundational aspects of teaching kids, and students as high brow papers, and the real world demands of programming. And the rest the core are not too shabby either.

IMHO, there are currently only 2 top tier active hotspots where the cool theoretical meets with the practical and usable in programming language theory, the Haskell and PLT ecospheres.

Scala, and Closure would be next.

Don't listen to the wingnuts comedy central wannabe's cracking poor puns here about schemes and rackets (well laugh at the good ones).

In all seriousness, if you are at that point where you've stumbled onto the fact that there is a whole world beyond Java, Cobol, C and C++ and are having fun exploring Smalltalk, SML, OCaml, Haskell, Scala, Closure et al, do not skip, repeat, do not skip exploring PLT Racket. It is as rich, and deep and mind altering as any of them.
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Interesting, but does he really check baggage when flying for business? Waiting for the bags takes a lot longer than waiting for people to get their bags off the plane. Checking might speed turnaround for Southwest, but it slows things down for passengers.

The only time I check bags is when flying with my wife and daughter...
Isn't it the exact same algorithm? The differences are probably only to do with how things are selected.
TechCrunch isn't the only way to get the word out
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with all of this. You were still wrong in almost everything you said before, and everything you just linked to is in regards to things done by the previous administration.

This is highly relevant when attempting to characterize a trend, as (for instance) your own link to the article on Executive Order 13292 states: "Both Executive Order 12958 and Executive Order 13292 were revoked and replaced in full by President Barack Obama in the issuance of Executive Order 13526." This is why I linked to Executive Order 13526.

I just don't see what your point is, aside from the uncontroversial point that the Bush administration was awful.
Ask HN: Vesting? Really?
My partner and I have a company that has attracted the interest of some investors and we are going to meet with them next week. We've been bootstrapping this for about 4 years and have reached a point that makes us attractive for a few reasons - some established customers, revenue and the interest in our company by potential acquirers.

So... we are thinking ahead to what kinds of terms to expect should we end up getting financing offers - and I was wondering if vesting is something we would have to agree to or not. I find the idea kind of makes me light-headed, and was wondering under what scenarios vesting, or other shady terms, we could end up losing everything we've worked for.

thx
I was agreeing that saving empty directories is difficult - it's annoying that you have to put an empty file in them.
Whoops, and in the very next paragraph.
"In 1970, women represented only 43.3% of women of the labor force, compared to 55.8% today. "

Uhm...
2 Points and this is on the front page? Edit - Well excuse me for expecting content and not to be sold merchandise.
Its weird that something like this would be suggested by Obama since he taught constitutional law at Chicago; I'm sure he knows the supreme court won't just let him slide by without some kind of appeal.
NoSQL vs RDBMS is really a proxy war for Denormalized vs Normalized storage.

You can take a system like Cassandra and treat data very much in a normalized way which would reduce performance. You can take a system like MySQL and completely denormalize your data which would increase performance.

Any test where one set of data is normalized and one isn't is not a fair test.

Also, denormalization can be a big deal. Unless you have some sophisticated code managing it for you, you're trading performance for data storage management complexity. Now you have to manage many instances of data X. But there is a benefit in that you avoid crazy joins.

I think both have concepts to learn from each other. For example, in order to use a NoSQL option effectively, you end up implementing your own concept of indexes, something very easily done for you in RDBMSes.
I was just coming here to recommend the same book! It's full of awesome creativity techniques. I don't like a lot of the BS you get around "creativity" but the tasks it provides aren't too arm-wavey and they really do get the ideas flowing.
But the meaning would change completely. "Ur" is used here in the German sense, meaning "original" or "source". It also refers to the ancient Sumerian city, Ur. So the headline actually means "FB’s Plan To Automatically Share Original Ancient Sumerian Data With Sites You Never Signed Up For".
They quote Romania as one of the low-masculinity countries while Bulgaria as one of the high, so as somewhat polar opposites. There are very small differences in terms of wealth, health care access, or even physical location between these two countries.
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Yes evacuation on take off and landing is very important.

However the regs don't differentiate about the stage of the flight, even if you were only allowed to use the bed during cruise, at 30,000 over the ocean - the same time applies.
In Ruby, strings evaluate to true, so that would be

Moral != "Moral"
Personally I would only use the cache manifest, when I planned on using it as an app that is launched like normal. Also did you make sure all your files were less then 15k that seems to be the limit at which iphone will cache files.
Yea, this book was really helpful, and I can't belive I forgot to add the link to the article. For some reason though people still didn't know they could write apps like this. That was my biggest reason for writing this article.
I guess its different for different people, I just can't wrap my head around Obj-C, not sure why not.
Are any of these astroturfers operating from outside of China though?

If not, you may be able to validate someone by looking at their IP address. Or just mention a phrase that will get the page blocked by the Great Firewall.
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Yes, I was fascinated when I learned that they have to fly all the planes back at the end of the day to the ORD hub so they can be ready for the next day of flights. Which means when planes are delayed and they can't make it back to the mother hub - it puts strain on their system.
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I think the article meant to say that 43.3% of women were in the labor force in 1970, and 55.8% of women today are in the labor force.
I'm in Kobe too, so Nagoya is definitely not so far...
Does anyone know of any research on the effectiveness of tshirt branding for non-clothing brands? My gut tells me that tshirts with company names market more to their wearers than those who see them worn.
Steve called and e-mailed reporters, eventually scoring a few big hits, including a mention in Time Magazine’s Green Issue

Okay, it was at this point where I switched and picked Steve over David.

Captain of the track team sounds impressive, until you consider that there would be 400 other captains sitting in an academic reviewer's inbox. Now I'm not really sure if this is impressiveness, but it sure stands out if I had to sift through a hundred or a thousand applications, and this one guy writes about his experience in the UN.
Is it just me, or does that seem terribly scummy. I'm not sure I'd consider inserting additional ads to be an ethical problem, as long as it was clear which ads came from the browser plugin, and which ones came from the website. But IMHO replacing the website's ads is scummy.
Same here. David seemed remarkable self-assured; who takes calligraphy all through high school? It's sure not a peer-pressure thing.

Meanwhile Steve may have some lofty motivations for his career path, but it says nothing about how well he actually does these things.

FTA: "He’s not brilliant. super passionate, or ultra-hard working — instead, he accomplished something that’s hard to explain. "

And that impresses people?
Refactoring is almost always good (almost the key word.) Reformatting, unless the code follows no style what-so-ever, is bad.
The article makes the mistake of confusing "surprising" for "impressive".

Good point there. After reading your comment I reread the article, and it does seem more reasonable to replace all mentions of "impressive" with "surprising".

That being said, to an academic reviewer, surprising may very well equal impressive, especially when the transcript is read along with a thousand others ...
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No, it doesn't. Profitable open source businesses are a good thing (imho), but open source projects will continue to happen and continue to grow (although perhaps not as fast) even without them.
> Do you recall when GWB took office and long time members of the press core were kicked out if they asked tough questions?

In what universe does asking the president provide any unique/useful information?

Press conferences are for stroking reporters' egos. Any information is in the press release.
Love this quote. I can deeply identify with it. I don't have to be good at something to enjoy it. And you'll improve over time, even if that's not the purpose you seek.

The Magic of Time - The Last One Standing:

http://www.unlikelysalsero.com/2007/08/magic-of-time-last-on...

> When her best friend tried to get Kara to drop a difficult linear algebra class, Kara, to her friend’s horror, simply shrugged and replied, “I like linear algebra.”
Thanks for explaining that. I misread it at first-- I thought it said FB's Plan To Automatically Share Nur Data..." where Nur is short for Nur Illahi, the divine ray of enlightenment, i.e. they were planning on sharing data on optical drives.

What a terrible misunderstanding that would have been. Cheers to you, good sir.
There are very small differences in terms of wealth, health care access, or even physical location between these two countries.

Or cultural traditions like

Mărţişor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%83r%C5%A3i%C5%9For

and

Martenitsa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martenitsa

Or ancient history, or recent history, or genetics, etc.

This really makes me wonder about the study, and exactly what they measured?
Ask HN: Which of these two designs should we use?
Thanks! We are clueless engineers, not good at design :P

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I guess I should have said she was unprofessional if she acted upon that lover of the day thing. I have great friendships with a lot of my old facebook teachers and I am facebook friends with some of them. They are truly good professional people. I just don't think that person is professional because she can't handle a social network, yet chooses to participate in the fray.
> I think we can be sure that they are wrong, but not that they are lying.

Reckless disregard for the truth only works a couple of times. (Since journalists claim to fact-check things, they get even less of a pass.)

We mistrust known liars for obvious reasons. Those reasons also apply to folks who don't care whether they get it right.

BTW - The author missed another one. Congressional Republicans voted overwhelmingly for Social Security when it was enacted during FDR's term.
This could be really unfair to startups, depending on how hard it is to become a "partner."

Like, it'd suck to have your more well-financed competition (who happens to be buying lots of ads on Facebook) get the ability to automatically link up your friends as soon as you visit their site.
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As someone who actually goes to top school, I cannot even fathom how someone would think that being captain of a track team and learning calligraphy would be more impressive than lobby U.N. delegates.

Track captains are a dime a dozen and there is nothing "impressive" about signing up for calligraphy class. Maybe those were the easy classes at his school - I don't know. But there's nothing inherently impressive about taking calligraphy. I don't even know why you would put that on your resume unless you were going to write an essay about it.

Working with the UN as a high schooler is something that grabs the attention of an admissions officer. I'm sure his essay about the experience sealed the deal.
I did a minor in theatre (well, the closest my college had). I focused a lot on Mamet. It's easy to take his approach overboard.

Mamet is a playwright, and plays are a different medium than film. In fact, his book "On Directing Film," covers it: theatre is about the present moment between characters, film is about the juxtaposition of images.

Mamet has spent most of his life writing rather than directing, and look at his credits to see some of the great storytelling he is capable of. Unfortunately, putting a writer behind a lens is like expecting a great developer to be a great product manager. Very different skills.