skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point that's worth exploring more. Not sure if I'll get around to it myself, but I'd love to see a post on this subject.
Venture capital works that way, and many venture capital funds have early-stage investment branches. In a way, Y Combinator might even fall within this definition, as they actually re-invest money raised from VC funds.

I don't know how long you have to leave your money in a hedge fund, but I suspect VC is longer term at around 10 years.

This isn't a direct scaling of angel funding though, as I get the impression that the relationship between startup and angel is much less formal than to VCs.

Take all of the above with a grain of salt, as I've never received any sort of 3rd party investment, so I don't speak from experience.
Trying to let them implement it in any language they want doesn't seem bright. Wonder if someone would try implementing one of these in LOLCODE or Brainf$%?*

My advice: don't buy that one!

I say let people code however they want, and the market will decide!
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Thanks for the examples. I agree that mine could have been better chosen. I might add some of the ones from this thread to the original post.
What interpretation? Your disagreement seems to be with the Geneva Convention itself.
Has Rapportive said whether they raised this money as convertible debt or set a valuation?

With a close that stretches "2 to 3 months", is there any practical difference in treatment between the first-dollars-in and last-dollars-in? (For example, does convertible debt interest begin at different dates?)
I just bought the MEAP ebook and the print book, using the InfoQ 35% discount, for just $7 more. Highly recommended.

fogus, I'm not sure how these things work. If the discount affects your royalties, say so and I'll delete this comment.
Retention bonuses are never distributed equally. Often, you only give them to a fraction of your employees - your best.

It's certainly possible that a few of the senior people walked away with a few million apiece (as a way of compensating them for the fact that they earned nothing in the sale).
Yes I understand that. I do not think that the names of informers or any personal data really should have been published. There was hardly any need for that. The value is in the actual things done or said and I doubt it really matters by who as we know they are from soldiers down there documenting these events uncensored.

So obviously the names should have not been leaked, but I doubt that was in any way intentional. I would personally wonder how is wikileaks to know who are the informers - but perhaps they should have been more careful and not leaked any names at all.

That such a mistake, possibly due to negligence and ignorance was made - lets remember it is a really new organisation and quite inexperience and no one has done this before so they are kind of pioneers - does not justify the imprisonment of the person, or the shutting down of the website.

The rest of the leak was useful and has focused the attention of the public and also perhaps has highlighted that things are a bit of a mess. So, if the results is that the war ends no later than it absolutely needs to and your friends get to come back home perhaps sooner than otherwise and that the government is put under pressure to get things right there, then I think that's a good thing.

I do however think the fault is ultimately of the government even if something bad does happen. This information did not need to be kept secret, except of course for the names of the informants, and they should have been put in the public domain by the government itself.
*havent finished article yet

But does the supreme courts' ruling on the nfl not being a single entity have no impact on madden being the only nfl-licensed football game around?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1270959...

American Needle was fighting against the NFL awarding sole merchandising rights to Reebok and they won. EA has sole rights over NFL video gaming, why hasnt this changed?
I do not know if it is exactly what you want, but Chapter Zero ( http://www.amazon.com/Chapter-Zero-Fundamental-Abstract-Math... )comes close. It talks about a lot of the foundational mathematics that and symbolism that is often never taught to non-math majors, but it does so in an easily understood way.

Proofs and Refutations by Lakatos also touches on this topic, though it is not the primary or sole discussion there.
Congrats guys! Nice line up too.
HIPAA is not Apple's responsibility as such. Rather they need to make sure the iPad allows the medical facility to achieve HIPAA requirements.
I used my US/T-mobile enabled Nexus One in the UK just a few weeks ago when traveling to EuroPython in Birmingham, UK. When I arrived in London's Paddington Station, I bought a pre-paid £20 Vodafone SIM chip (don't forget to ask for data access, too!) I was quite happy with the results. No problems whatsover. Android 2.2's wifi tethering worked very well -- I loved having 'net access when the rest of the conference wifi network was a tad flaky. The £20 lasted for a full week of several calls back to the states and tons of data usage. If you're local to the UK, I'm sure you can get a better deal on a SIM chip.
"I think [Steve Jobs'] choice of a minimalist aesthetic comes from his fear of making the wrong aesthetic choice."

If Alan Deutschman is correct, you are in good company.

That said, I think many people forget that, while it's harder to screw up a "minimalist" design, it's also harder to create truly outstanding minimal design. The recent minimalism trend only perpetuates the conflation of simplicity and easiness.

People also seem to conflate functional and aesthetic minimalism a lot.
I'm not sure what you mean by a "civilian van." As if there are or were at the time insurgent vehicles that were clearly marked as "non-civilian." And if you actually watched the video you'll see that the US personnel believed the occupants of the van were removing weapons from the site. After action footage redeemed this view, and showed the presence of RPG's.

Also, ask yourself, why was that van tooling around in the middle of a warzone with kids inside? If the driver was a "civilian" then he demonstrated very poor judgement at the least, and a willingness to use children as human shields at the worst. I'm inclined to believe it was the worst.
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Haven't people done studies on this and found that the cost to implement QoS is greater than the cost to just increase network bandwidth? That may not hold forever, but it holds now in the U.S.

Current residential broadband lines in the U.S. could go much faster with zero technical effort. They're capped because Verizon and Comcast only give you enough bandwidth to make sure that you get more than you would with a competitor. They hold the rest in reserve so that they can raise speeds and please customers easily when a competitor raises speeds.

We've got the slowest Internet speeds in the developed world, and you can bet it isn't because of technological reasons:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/1004/
How does someone best protect themself, given this state-of-affairs? (Is there some subset of CAs doing the right things?)

Is the situation with 'EV' certificates any better, excluding some of the worst-practices you've highlighted?
Yes, medical school is ridiculously expensive, but what you're saying doesn't necessarily follow. It's not like all their money comes from tuition and once they spend all that money that's it. The medical school might be taking a loss on the program, using grant money, etc. Maybe they did raise tuition $500. There isn't enough data to tell.
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My guess is a court would find "suspicion" unwarranted without reason for it. As the military hasn't cited any reason for the killing of the civilians in the van (no daily intel briefing warning of white vans was revealed in defense of the military), it would seem that there isn't one. Obviously civilians can be killed if there is a rational reason for it (i.e. aggression), but it's fairly certain that killing civilians without reason is not legal under international law otherwise death squads would be considerably more popular.
And yet, still, we lose our humanity when we sink to his level. Besides I think the jury is out: on the plus side he wrote a beautiful damning book[1] of Kissinger who is by far one of the worst people to have escaped unscathed from their own wrong-doing and is the man I would dearly love to see locked away for the rest of his natural days - on the minus side he bought into the "they'll greet us as liberators" lark and would not back down in the face of growing evidence to the contrary, view i might add Hitchens shares with millions upon millions of people from the US.

Everybody is a complex mix of good and bad intentions. I thank the stars that you're not the final arbiter.

[1] http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/CaseAgainst1_Hit...
I apologize for my hyperbole in the choice of words "mass slaughter" to describe the war. The intent was to describe the war only in terms of its casualties rather than in terms of its stated or unstated political goals (since this is the nerve that Wikileaks touches).

I don't disagree with your points, and I think you articulate some aspects quite well. True Assange is a political figure. He is also the founder of an institution. To date we have not seen the rise of a virtual institution with this sort of political significance, nor have we seen one that exists independently of a state or party.

We seem to disagree on the issue of supporting Wikileaks as an act of civil disobedience. In my opinion, we are not morally obligated to obey unjust laws. Of course, we may be made to suffer the consequences of disobedience, but I do not (as you seem to) imbue the law with any special moral significance just because it's the law.

Let me remind you that it is illegal for the US to propagandize Americans. I'd argue that some of the information that is being declared "secret" is simply information that the government wants withheld for propaganda purposes.

So without Wikileaks, what check or balance exists to prevent this misuse of secrecy for propaganda? I'm curious if you think this is a reasonable question to ask and what you think the answer is.

To address your broader critique of Wikileaks, I'd argue that Assange is building a very ambitious institution, and it's currently imperfect. Some of your critiques apply only to the young incarnation of Wikileaks and (I'd expect) will go away once/if the institution manages to gain additional credibility, experience, and stability.

One quote of yours really intrigues me: Getting folks thinking about the particulars of the information distracts them from the larger picture by making them emotionally, well, irrational. This suggests that you think that a member of the public judging the appropriateness/worth of the war would be more rational if he/she ignored all the messy noise offered by the leaks and focused only on the government's official story of how/why the war should continue. If not, then I'm curious how you'd advise the rational citizen to assess the status/progress/worth of a war effort such as the current US involvement in Afghanistan.
Hey, it looks like you've found a solution, but if you need something else (or want to try out something else), I'd be happy to have you as a beta user of my own web app, AppRabbit.com. Let me know if you want to give it a try and I'll send you a link to sign up for a beta account.
You need the right, one book to learn CSS -> CSS Mastery.

For design, start developing some design sense by visiting site like http://styleboost.com/ every one in a while.

Then you are good to go (that's how I started, until now).
> After taxes, you can afford the downpayment of a Condo in SOMA + a bit more, or buy a small one bedroom in Mountain View.

There has to be some other measuring stick to money than real estate...
And it only costs the students $300K.
If you follow him on twitter, it's not uncommon for he and his coauthor @chrishouser to mention the sales, so I think they're ok with buying it discounted :)
I'm guessing they raised convertible debt with a valuation cap. One of the founders had an interesting post here:

http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2010/05/05/valuation-caps-on-...
I think the key lesson (and this is independent of the above article) is to start emphasizing doing over reading.

Ie your day you should be a constant stream of action after which you force yourself to read for a bit.

My dad was like this when he was working. He hardly ever read during the day. He'd work like crazy through the day and then would catchup on reading in the evening for about 1 hour. He was an officer in the navy and went from plowing the fields as a kid to pay for college to a very high ranking officer.

The only "meta" principle that I observed, about him, is that he is fearless in a very strange way. It always seems to me that he doesnt even think about starting to do something. He just does it ...

Someday I hope I'll figure out what drives him.
The price of unmetered commercial connections has more to do with competition (or lack thereof) among broadband ISPs and willingness to pay than technical reasons. Broadband in Japan costs 15x less and runs about 6-7x faster than in the U.S:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6900697.stm
Not at all -- the more people that read it the better. I'm not getting rich either way. ;-)

I think the InfoQ code is infoq35 if anyone else wants to use it.
You would be amazed at how many people don't know how to use a Linux laptop that has its screen locked and its disk encrypted.
At the moment, the UK Government can barely afford a sandwich and a cup of tea, let alone a major IT upgrade.

When support eventually runs out then the benefits of switching will clearly outweigh the costs, but at a time when we're talking about reducing the number of MPs and selling off whole government departments, I can't blame them. Maybe the last government could have averted this, maybe not, but at the moment we're such deep economic shit that it's just not a priority.

(disclosure: I voted Tory, I hate IE, I enjoy both sandwiches and tea)
>if you actually watched the video you'll see that the US personnel believed the occupants of the van were removing weapons from the site.

They can believe that the occupants are also Martians, but that doesn't qualify as a belief based on reason.

>After action footage redeemed this view, and showed the presence of RPG's.

The van was a civilian vehicle. There were no RPGs found originating from the van.

>Also, ask yourself, why was that van tooling around in the middle of a warzone with kids inside?

My guess is the citizens in the van were Iraqi, hence their proximity to the country.

>If the driver was a "civilian" then he demonstrated very poor judgement at the least, and a willingness to use children as human shields at the worst.

I'm open to evidence that the van was 1) an insurgent van and 2) using the children as human shields, but a belief without evidence isn't reasonable.
Seconded, using Mongoid over MM here too. It rocks.
For me, the killer feature of Android 2.2 (and the Nexus One) is the built-in wifi tethering support. T-mobile is kind enough to not charge for this feature. Find out if you can run Android 2.2 on your phone, and if (or how much) your carrier will charge for it. For N1+Tmobile, the answers are "Yes", and "No extra charge".
SIGPLAN (the guys who wrote this report) is the ACM special interest group on programming languages. For this reason they will focus their attention on the specific programming language used.

It's Phil Wadler's version of "what color is your bikeshed?"
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What seems to get lost in this debate is the difference between priority and type:

top) VoIP

2nd) Video Chat

3rd) IM

4th) Streaming media

5th) Web Browsing

6th) Large file transfers/torrents etc.

The idea would be to make it protocol "agnostic", and base it on the real-time requirements.
Apparently, for many of the hackers present, it was an issue of snitching. That's pretty stupid. I don't think there's any "no snitching" ethic that would obligate a gun enthusiast to keep his mouth shut when he sees somebody killed with a gun. I don't see why hacking should be any different. I question Lamo's motives, and I disagree with what he did (because I think the U.S. government dishonestly sweeps its mistakes under the rug of "classified for reasons of national security,") but he could have done what he did from a pure motive to protect civilians, soldiers, and U.S. interests.
When a law allows certain activity based on "suspicion" it means reality-based suspicion, not suspicion based on an individuals hunches or psychic prowess.
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But there's a sense in which minimalism is highly ornamental - it uses space, proportion and texture as ornament, rather than treating them as containers for ornamentation. Lots of designers shy away from minimalism because it's a very unforgiving style, and you need to be something of a perfectionist to get it right.
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Unless the simulator carries more legal force than the prospectus, the entire exercise seems to be useless.
Actually, I think that's Chuck Norris.
I'm looking forward to seeing how this service will be monetized. I use it on one of my websites and it's great, however I'm not sure it's something I'd pay for just yet.
I don't accept that rationale because it basically absolves everyone reading the story, including other news organizations, of any responsibility for thought in the re-reporting or reacting to stories. Especially in the case of a story like this that goes against all historical evidence and from the outset should have seemed highly unlikely to anyone who gave it even a moment's thought. I maintain that if nytimes owes anyone an apology for this story, so does everyone who accepted the nytimes' article. Both crimes were committed on the same amount of evidence.

Re stating things emotionally, sorry. I get emotional in the presence of foolishness.
So are you suggesting that for their $70k, the recruiters would have actually succeeded in screening out the idiots?

From my 15 years in IT, I highly highly doubt it. There is the occasional decent recruiter, but most of them are like realtors, only interested in commission $$$, not entirely unreasonable in itself, but unlikely to be aligned with anyone else's interests.
I would assume that the idea is that these med school students will carry their iPad habit into their practices. If it's tough to get doctors to wash their hands between patients or before surgery (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/science/09conv.html?_r=1&#...), what're the chances that the iPad gets washed? Smudge magnet and germ vector.
You could probably sell an app with stylus if you really thought it would help. just sell an app that includes a "free" stylus that you ship out.

You could even just sell a presser sensitive Bluetooth accessory with a demo app and get other people to build using your ecosystem.
Question about jumping from NYC to Mountain View
Just got offered a full time gig in Mountain View the mid 90s in terms of yearly salary. I'm pulling a little over 100 in NYC as a contractor. The gig in CA, is something I'd like to do on a personal level so it has a bit more weight to it than just money.

Curious what your guys opinion of that salary is. The cost of living is vastly different in computation from my own. So, an assessment of "that could be tough" to "you will be eating caviar from golden slabs while steve wozniak ferries you goblets of faygo from your walk in sub zero mansion" would be really helpful.

I was considering staying in San Francisco at least in the beginning as I am very much a child of mass transit and getting my road legs up to snuff will take a little time. As will buying a car. Plus I'd like to live there for a bit.

I hear the commute from SF to Mountainview is a little above an hour. Depending on the location in SF. I am allergic to bullets and stabbings, so I would like to avoid any location where these things are considered culturally acceptable forms of communication. I have put ZERO effort into finding a location, but will lean on friends for advice.

Was just curious if I should be asking for more. Is that a competitive rate for a systems engineering role in the area. I don't care about being lifestyles of the rich and famous, but I don't want to be stranded in a difficult situation.

Thanks for any advice.
That is really good advice. I came to that realisation too but it is not easy. There is something about being a "machine" and really hard on yourself, but it is really the best way. Otherwise you're just drifting. But it is hard to begin with as you have all sorts of habits and schemata and conditioning which would need to all be reformulated, so to begin with you would need much attention and focus and operate without the help of at least unconscious automatism, but a habit is just a habit and the great thing about them is that once they are set, they are difficult not to be followed.

So, are you "happier"?
Can Google ever live up to their “Do No Evil” policy?
My biggest complaint with the SSL CA chain of trust is the way that self-signed certificates are (mis)handled. The connection is still an encrypted, "secure" connection to the server; it's the server's identity that is in question, and there's rarely any distinction made to the user about that.

I don't want to have to pay or verify my identity to run my own SSL-secured mail server, IRC bouncer, or similar service. Why should I need to? But if I don't, then just about every SSL client in the world falls down and sucks its thumbs or screams bloody murder at me because my certificate isn't signed by the holy gatekeepers...
I submitted this article after watching his Theory of Computation lecture course on YouTube. It's an introduction to finite state machines, grammars, Turing machines and other related theoretical ideas. I'm writing a program for a problem traditionally tackled by Natural Language Processing and after stumbling through a bunch of academic papers about parse trees and context free grammars, it was obvious I'd need to take the plunge and learn this stuff from the beginning. Anyway it's a good course, tough going but he's a sympathetic teacher. I recommend the videos (search Youtube for Pumping Lemma and that should get you lecture 3, then browse the 'More From' list).
Sigh... thanks. I'm seriously thinking about switching to Wordpress.com or Tumblr, I'm sick and tired of spending my time dealing with cleaning my wordpress installation.
This is silly. Go to your board, and tell them that you're raising your salary to $100k. Have a good list of reasons ready, but don't offer, and for bob's sake, don't ask. If you're the CEO and founder, walk in like you own the place and set your own terms, because you do own the place.
Federal offense. I'd have turned his ass in too. Hackers know they are breaking the law, and shouldn't be squawking too loudly when they get prosecuted for it.
I'm guessing UTC? The original dataset they link to[1] is in UTC.

[1] http://www.mattmazur.com/2010/03/six-months-of-hackernews-fr...