skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yaw, I did say "smallish" series A. If you're raising 4-6m, then founder salary really ceases to be a big needle mover in terms of runway. Certainly angel investors will often push hard on founder.

If you have less than a million in the bank, I think the question needs to be framed as "How much do I need to survive" and NOT "What did I make at my last job". If the founders aren't trying to dig deep here, then I'd wonder about their motivations (unless revenue was taking off). Lack of runway kills startups.
Lots of cool papers over at VPRI: http://vpri.org/html/writings.php

I'm particularly excited about STEPS: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2009016_steps09.pdf
Setting aside literacy is costly, and I have seen a lot of learners of Chinese who go over to Chinese-speaking places do that. But I agree with the statement that Chinese people will probably be well able to intercommunicate with a dedicated Westerner who immerses himself in the standard language of China for a year--but largely because the speakers of the standard language in China are well used to nonstandard speech from the lips of their own compatriots who grew up in other regions. I can pass for a native of China over the telephone--not because my Chinese is so wonderful, but because China is so full of citizens who speak Mandarin poorly as a second language.
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> We can't talk to each other, because the phonemes of our respective dialects are still so different

Then... they aren't dialects, but are instead different languages?

I've always been discomfited by the fact the Chinese government (apparently) wants to insist that there is an entity called the 'Chinese language' which is spoken from Canton to Shanghai to Beijing, allowing for dialectical differences. In reality, that's always seemed like a lie, similar to how I'd be lying if I claimed the 'European language' is spoken from Moscow to London to Rome, allowing for dialectical differences.
Do you get free updates across editions? Seems unlikely to me.
Ask HN: Where can I find a full list of Android phones that I can use with AT&T
So I'm dropping my iPhone (well hoping too) given all the crap thats emerged over the last few months. I've been an Apple fanboy for decades (started programming on a Commodore 64 and Apple IIe) and I hold them to a higher standard.

Anyway, thats not the point so I'll skip that rant...

I'm stuck with AT&T due to Family Plan, contract, and my wife who loves her iPhone.

So I'm aware of the two Android phones that AT&T has and not that impressed (Aero, Backflip - no thanks). I received the Verizon Droid and the Sprint HTC EVO at Google IO and very very impressed with the hardware and polish of both.

Anyone know where I can find a definitive list of available Android phones that are compatible with AT&T's network?

I figure I can sell the two phones to make up the cost of a unsubsidized phone and enjoy sweet Android love.

(And yes, I did google but to no avail)

Thanks...
Start-ups still don't know the way to San Jose
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/29/report-iphone-margins...
Damn, left it in the dryer!
nice name !
we can still read the same newspaper

Only if your schooling has exposed you consciously to the vocabulary and grammatical structures of written Chinese that differ from your regional dialect, as it surely has. Lessons in literacy in vernacular Chinese literature ( 白話文 ) are in part lessons in the spoken grammar and vocabulary of the language reflected in that literature, which these days is usually Modern Standard Chinese.

If we had a phonetic alphabet, it would be nearly impossible to communicate in any kind of written medium.

The experience of Western cognate languages suggests that people can always more readily communicate in writing in sound-indicating scripts than they can speak over the telephone. After edit: for example, I have read several Spanish-language letters that came randomly to business offices I worked in, without any formal course in Spanish, but I would certainly have great difficulty carrying on a conversation in Spanish.
> ts also Apple's for making sure that the iPhone only allowed signed carrier profiles with iPhone OS 3.1 so that you could no longer download an alternate carrier profile with tethering enabled.

This sounds like it was added at the request of the carriers. Free tethering for everyone costs Apple nothing, and improves the user experience.
Think about this for a moment: The area you are talking about is very deep under water, a column of 1600 meters, then there is a very large layer of rock. All that stuff weighs down on the saturated rock/oil underneath, and then you poke a hole in that hard top layer of rock.

The pressures we're talking about are immense, so high that methane in spite of the temperature is a solid.

Containing the pressure is the problem.

The only places where pumps are needed to get oil out of the ground are shallow wells, especially in a newly drilled well the pressure will almost always be 'on'.

The deeper we drill, the higher that initial pressure will be.

Over time, as the well is depleted the pressure can go down, and depending on the substrate the oil is in (usually some kind of porous rock, it's not quite drilling in to a lake of oil down there) this will happen faster or slower.

Once a well is 'depleted' the rule is really that there is still plenty of oil down there but it can't be moved to the surface economically. There is plenty of research in this area (such as controlled burns to use the gas pressure from the burn to push the oil to a collecting well), but simply pumping it out is usually not the way things go.

My personal big fear about this particular 'gusher' is that the longer it lasts the more the oil under pressure has to erode the wellhead, if it gets to the point where it starts widening the well head (like say the tip of a plasma cutter that is used a bit too long) that the cavity will get larger than what can be plugged up.
Proven startup veterans tend to be rich enough not to need seed funding.
Agreed in principle, but I see no question marks in that post.
Crew on flights typically get a better chance due to the higher pressure and the presence of O2, despite the low pressure. However, typically euphoria kicks in anyway and, according to some of what I've read, can potentially be worse than a complete absence of O2.
According to the article, the patent was filed in 1942 and lapsed 17 years later in 1959. However:

In 1998, "Ottawa wireless technology developer Wi-LAN, Inc. 'acquired a 49 percent claim to the patent from Lamarr for an undisclosed amount of stock'"

Why purchase rights to an expired patent?
Rudin was responsible for my most irksome frustrations and my most delightful enlightenment. Never have 200 pages stolen so many months from me, and given me a new life as math-phile. But going through it all, alone and unprepared, is an experience I would happily repeat.

Rest in peace, Sir.
" It's easier to buy an iPhone. There's basically just one model or the hold-over model from last year. With Android phones I feel like there's always something better right around the corner."

Can't believe that lack of choice can ever be a good thing.

It's like saying "It's easier to pick a job if the government is the only company to work for. If there are private companies/startups, I feel like I can work for another company that is better."
I don't agree with this. Most startups I've worked for paid better than that. Especially after series A. The investors know you have to pay for talent.

There are no IPOs these days so at a typical .5-1% the best outcome for a hired engineer is for the company to get acquired in < 2 years, make about $300K and get a job at the acquiring company that pays 2x they would make if they just went to work there in the first place. Kids who go to Stanford and MIT seem to have this figured out and are expecting to be paid market rates. Your market rate may vary.

The worst places I've worked are the ones where the founders conned all the staff into working for $50-$70K by using extremely optimistic outcomes for demonstrating how much their options might be worth in the future. Which is like 70% of all startups in Silicon Valley.
Your challenge does not stand. It gets weaker every day.

There is a reason why Facebook is more appealing than other advertising venues. They offer more personal information. Facebook is smart enough to use a redirect cloaker for other content, why didn't they do it for ads? The reason is quite clear to me.

And yes alleged. Your comments and profile offered no proof of your employment so I was careful to represent that in my statement. Do you find anything wrong with that?
On Apple's iPad, HTML5 and Flash
Relevant ads with a chunk of text is matching two chunks of text based on a bunch of keywords.

Matching relevant news to a person is a completely different class of problem.
I notice the patterns a lot because I frequently check HN, I'm sure the people who check only daily rarely actually see a pattern on a long basis. If it takes 2-3 readings of different subject articles to get your fill, we who check frequently have read all we want or need on Facebook Privacy Settings on Monday, however those who only check daily are only getting their fill on Wednesday.

At least that's my perception of the pattern.
Nick Carr: Facebook's identity lock-in
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The adsense example was made to point out that in order to make search a profitable business a lot of stuff needed to be built that has nothing to do with the 'search' product per se, it is the life support machine that allows 'search' to exist.

I could have probably picked a better example because, as has already been pointed out there are lots of interesting sub-problems in keyword based advertising.

Maybe I should have used an online advertising agency as the example, with the ad-matcher as the example of an algorithmically interesting item and the reporting, the statistics and the help desk as the infra structure.
Re: VP8 and WebM--Thank you, Google
And keep an eye out for Rob Cockerham trying to make himself a celebrity with Paparazzi Contest II - http://www.cockeyed.com/personal/maker_paparazzi/maker_papar...
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When called in reverse it indicates a SUCCESS!

FTW!
There are few things that bothers me when people talk about Google taking the lead:

1) They are comparing two different things, an open OS vs an OS tied to one company.

2) Google didn't surpassed anybody. FroYo hasn't been released yet and they are comparing them to a phone that is going to be updated in two weeks. FroYo has tethering, but iPhone has tethering since 3.0, if AT&T doesn't allow it, it isn't Apple's fault. And I'm not sure how free that wireless hotspot will be. FroYo is faster, but nobody knows if faster than OS 4.0 on the new iPhone. They presented wireless sync, but nobody knows if Apple will introduce the same in two weeks. After all, they bought Lala for some reason. Maybe it's just me, but I like to compare shipped products, not demos and announcements.
Did more looking, two options emerging:

(1) Get a Nexus One as its AT&T compatible but now I'm worried that hardware is a little dated... thoughts?

(2) This seem to be the best AT&T phone option: http://bit.ly/9ncRTM
And where is the BBQ extension to that function?
Objective-C supports garbage collection (optionally).
60% consider quitting Facebook, privacy poll says
It's not that, it's just that some of us prefer to be anonymous just from things like google searches, etc.
It depends what you consider costly. I switched to Japanese after college and moved to Japan for a year. Rather than learning anything about the writing system, I took a 6 week conversation crash course before leaving. When I got there I just mastered the accent and some of the cultural communication idosyncrasies like "active listening" rather than spending time reading and writing anything. I ended up going on far more dates with women than I ever have in my life prior (or after) and had two really cool girlfriends. In contrast my friend who was obsessed with mastering Japanese had no friends at all for about 3 years. Nobody wanted to talk to him because his accent was so grating. I feel like his approach was far more "costly" if you consider "social cost" a real factor.

In terms of real economic value I have come to the conclusion that a native english speaker mastering another language rarely pays off, in a financial sense. The main benefit is establishing relationships with people you wouldn't be able to meet, otherwise.
hi, it's not that easy, you really have to filter your results between freelanceswitch and craigs.
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Not again, please.
> The Android phones I've seen cost $100 to $300 with contracts. Most of the cost is in the service plans

The unsubsidized N1 costs $1700 over two years compared to ~$2500. If you factor in the cost of the contract, the difference is huge.
People here are probably not going to like this but I will not trust Duck Duck Go until they release their whole source code and allow me to run my own instance. For now, there's still a middle man called Duck Duck Go that I have to blindly trust. I salute his efforts to make his page privacy friendly, but as long as there is a middle man and no one to check his source code to check if he's not sending anything about us, there can't possibly and technically be any guaranteed privacy. Any one who has taken basic cryptography course would agree with that.
Can anybody convert this BP oil spill cam to a viewable format?
Not quite a fair comparison, as the DEM was exchanged to be ~0.5 EUR when the Euro was first introduced. Thus the DEM reaching US parity would have been equivalent to 1EUR being 2USD, which has yet to happen.
I disagree. The problem isn't that you need money to motivate you in the later stage of building your company. No, you're trying to be motivated by the wrong thing. You need to seek ulterior motivation. Passion, purpose, vision. I think that's how Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Richard Branson and countless others built their companies. It wasn't money. It was vision. Vision to change the world.
I am not well versed in online video. Maybe some video service is capable of transcoding on the fly?
Pro audio equipment has pretty high margins. The barrier to entry is fairly high (lots of R&D involved), so there aren't a ton of compmetitors, and the competitors like making good margins so the prices never get too low (improving technology and cheaper materials also helps with that). If a competitor tried to own the market by selling equipment at consumer margins, they'd probably starve on the low volume they'd get.
The tethering issue may not be Apple's fault, but that's fairly irrelevant since you can't get the phone with any other carrier in the U.S.. Point being, no matter whose fault it is, the iPhone just doesn't have tethering in the U.S..

Otherwise I tend to agree, there are no devices shipping with Froyo so saying it has surpassed a shipping and soon-to-be-updated product is a bit silly.
The folks that built the well and platform, who made the mistake that caused the explosion, and the folks who failed to quickly seal/stop/contain the leak are clearly at fault. I think the issue is whether if a company thinks it is smart enough to start a deep sea oil drilling operation (BP/Transocean/Halliburton) that it should also be smart enough to have a tested plan in place to quickly seal a leak -- at any depth they operate it. The argument being if they want to build a well that would be too deep to stop a leak like this, and yet, somehow not too deep enough to build the well in the first place, that they should not build the well there, period.

For example, one of my assumptions based on the physics/engineering I do know is that it should be possible to build a simulated leak contraption, at that depth. And then they could run experiments where they try to stop the leak. Since it would be a controlled experiment they could have control valves to turn on/off the flow of oil (or whatever alternate liquid they use), but the key element is that the contraption has a part where it just gushes out thousands of barrels of the oil-like substance, under conditions as close to a real leak as possible. Test, measure, do post-mortems, tweak and fine-tune their plans and gadgets. Then, disseminate a plan, train people, have tools and gadgets cached reasonably nearby all such wells they operate, and be able to move in and take decisive action to seal the leak within the first few days. "Go big" if necessary to seal it. Just do it, quickly, because time is of the essence. Have backup procedures also in place, ready to go, with all necessary gadgets and trained folks nearby and ready to go quickly. I do also assume that a company that makes billions in profit each quarter would have enough money to do all of this.

I'm mad at them and I am willing to point a finger because I find it really hard to believe they could not have done much better. The combination of brainstorming failure scenarios, testing, planning and having billions of dollars to spend on tech and people should have taken them a lot farther, I think. I just don't buy this "we have enough brains and money to build this thing, but not enough brains and money to fix it when it goes bad" argument. The first buys the second, as a general rule. And they've had plenty of time to prepare for the second.
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Would be satisfied by an EFF audit?
My sense as a native speaker of English is that "Give me an example of this" can be a perfectly polite request in English as well. In both languages, adding "please" to the sentence would make it more clearly a polite request.
He's looking more and more like Howard Hughes...

I'm amazed more people aren't drawing that parallel.

Any day now I expect Jobs to announce the construction of an unusually large and magical aircraft, made from the finest Chinese spruce.
"but it's looking like Google is quickly overtaking them in innovation and features"
Such as? The announcements yesterday looked as though they'd finally caught up to iPhone 3.0, including the huge cheer for "Update All".
Thanks for the encouragement. I just updated mine. Feedback appreciated :)
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What. A. Load. Of. Shit

Do statements sound better to you when internally punctuated?

Sounds like you're the one that doesn't like the situation he's in.

Yes! My news feed which used to be full of people doing interesting things is full of people whining about Apple's success.
Unless they have constant access to your servers to make sure you don't make any changes afterward... But even then, the only way to be sure about one's privacy on the net is to run your own server, no web service can beat that kind of privacy. I personally prefer Google to Duck Duck Go by the way (especially using chromium search feature by pressing TAB) but if I really really cared about privacy to the point of giving up on Google, Duck Duck Go wouldn't be enough, sorry. Good luck though.
I read hundreds if not thousands of articles on a daily basis. Most of the time, I skim them. But this essay/article despite being so long, kept me interested the whole way, and made me laugh several times. Amazing writer.
No, I think it does not work at all, unless you are in the US.

Maybe someone from there can check ?
I have a Nexus One and it's hardware is not dated.

HTC Evo is about to be launched but the only advantage it has is that it has a front-facing camera and larger screen. There's 4G but only for select market. It also has Sense UI which means you won't get the latest Android version easily.

Nexus One will always get the latest version of Android because it has the stock ANdroid UI. It will be the 1st phone to get 2.2/Froyo in a few weeks.
This page was a very pleasant surprise find when they introduced dev.twitter.com at Chirp in April. I don't like that most Twitter clients reinvent the wheel in terms of UI. A little consistency and familiarity doesn't hurt.
I'm learning chinese at the moment and never ever in my life learned anything that was so easy. All you need, is to put in the energy to keep going. In other cases (like learning programming) you also need to understand a lot and work around the topic (like also learning some math, before you can even think about understanding the corresponding programming stuff). In chinese you just learn the words, the pronounciation and so on. And all of it just gets better by doing it a lot.

When I started to learn french or english I made mistakes even by creating pretty simple sentences. When I learned chinese, I could create perfect sentences after a month.

Learning is hard, of course. It always is. But compared to other things you can learn, chinese really is trivial.
Actually, I don't think you can draw such a conclusion. Notice that, generally speaking, the arrows move towards languages of greater age?
My main takeaway is that when their website used to say "compatible with all phones", that was as much a piece of speculative fiction as was the ship date.

I hope the Wakemate can be used without a phone...
Yes, that's useful - thanks!
In praise of Boise
Add age verification to any link
You mean the same simplistic way Apple users look at Adobe?
I'm not. Lots of companies use C#, Visual Studio, or just Windows in general, and the best books for those topics usually come from MS Press. It would have been nice to get the C# 2010 book through this deal.
I actually wonder how Apple will respond. Part of the reason for Steve Jobs' genius is that he single mindedly believes in his own vision of what users want and what the world should be like. And the problem with that is that although he's mostly right he's always at last partly wrong. So he'll try to respond by moving his platform closer to his own preconceived idea of perfection which is actually partly wrong. In other words, I wonder if one of Apple's fatal flaws is that they aren't capable of responding in a competitive firefight the way a company with less idealism would.
Appears to be streaming ASF, which most media players should be able to play if you give them the URL of the stream that the page embeds: http://mms.piersystem.com/deepwater1

(I tested in mplayer and xine on Linux.)
Whoa, that was fast. (C++ is notoriously hard to implement.)
I think it's worth mentioning the other block of people you left out: those who risk corporate jobs or contracts simply by having opinions that an employer doesn't agree with.

Some (many?) of us have kids or other responsibilities and don't have a nest egg, relatives or soft landings.

Until our peonage is less feudal I think it's going to be this way.
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That's why we need those user swappable battery compartments ;-)

But seriously, this is a killer feature, I can't understand how anyone wouldn't want this, even if it's just for very occasional use (quickly get vital email on your laptop, etc.)
He's kidding himself if he thinks Google with Android has better intentions than Apple. The guys who started Android did so with the sole intention of selling the company to Google. They did and cleaned up. As soon as he could, the CEO of Android removed himself from the project and now runs Google's venture arm. The founder of the original android company doesn't really give a shit about the product, and Google only cares about it because they want all the mobile ad money. It is a project with no soul.

Fake Steve is wrong when he implies that Jobs is insincere about creating beautiful products and is just trying to lock people in. Even if the edicts and decrees often go haywire, if nothing else, Jobs and Apple believe their own bullshit.
Works for me in the US--- doesn't redirect anywhere, and when I enter a search term, the results page is served over https also.
"Can't believe that lack of choice can ever be a good thing."

Google Tech Talk on the Paradox of Choice:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200#