skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was talking to the first couple of people, I hadn't really fleshed out the details clearly enough. And they really are happy in their corp jobs.

Yes, they get the 100k, but I would probably keep more equity that way. I was surprised at how genuinely excited they became as they realized their own need for the web level features. And, of course, they immediately took it mobile.
Throughput is directly related to bandwidth. Modern radios have a spectral efficiency of 5-15 bps/Hz (depending on range, noise, and multipath), meaning that a 6 MHz white space channel is worth 30-90 Mbps, a 20 MHz 802.11 channel can give 100-300 Mbps, and the entire 2.4 GHz band theoretically has 410-1230 Mbps of capacity.
Taleb's new book is out at the end of the year, but here's a preview on his site. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf
Here is my list:
* The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
* The Four Steps to the Epiphany
* The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-and The Rest Of Us-can Harness The Power Of True Partnership
* Inventors Dilemma
* Inventors Solution
* Radical Leap
* Война и мир
I can't remember the exact references that made me form that opinion but I do remember discussing it in one of the online forums - so thanks for clarifying directly, and sorry, my opinion has changed.

btw did you work out if anybody from CBS or your own company actually placed this story with TC or was it somebody from the outside?
The UI on the phone appears to be Android, while the UI projected on the screen looks an awful lot like Windows 7. Running Win7 in a VM on a phone seems like it would be pushing the hardware a bit.

A bit more seriously, how production-ready are IR-based input devices and pico projectors? I get the impression that this is more sci-fi than a design study for a practical product based on current technology.
Barnes & Noble and Borders aren't "local" bookstores. They already put most of the local bookstores out of business. Now it's their turn to get run out of business. Right now I can't imagine someone running Amazon out of business, but I'm sure the day will come.
After working for hours on end it's nice to unwind by reading a little before going to sleep. If I re-read a book it guarantees that I won't get sucked in wondering what will happen next. Fewer side effects than Ambien anyway.
I don't agree that Arrington should have kept quiet. When you shine a light in a dark room you are able to see what people do when they think nobody is looking.

In Arrington's case, he gave the world a front-row seat in a meeting where the participants thought they were in private -- this is a very good thing in my opinion. With few exceptions, transparency is a win for society and business because it keeps people honest.

Arrington's report puts the "secret-meeting participants" on notice that they can't get away with this kind of thing, and it also alerts entrepreneurs to watch out for it. Both very good things.
Hackers real-time thoughts about the Arrington, Conway and Angels debate
I'm inclined to think not, because you have to be an accredited investor

You "only" need $1 million in net assets (minus the house due to recent law I believe) to be an accredited investor. I would really be surprised if Joel didn't have at least that much.
The text of the article is:

"You are using an incompatible web browser.

Sorry, we're not cool enough to support your browser. Please keep it real with one of the following browsers:"

This is why I don't use Facebook. It's not 1990 anymore. You don't need User-Agent sniffing.
Lifted from one of my old blog posts:

- Pros and Cons: when I have too many answers, I try to make it objective by drawing up the pros and cons and seeing where that takes me.

- Simplify: like a lot of developers, I can be prone to over-analyse when I am stuck on an issue for a while. So I remind myself to try simplifying the problem. Often by dropping a layer of flexibility the problem is a lot easier to solve. If I really need the flexibility, I can add it later when I have greater understanding.

- Take a Break: sometimes I’m just trying too hard, and need to step back. I work from home, so a short walk outside is a welcome break. Actually getting away from the computer relaxes the grey matter. The vitamin D doesn’t hurt either.

- Explain the Problem: very often I find that while I’m explaining the problem, I see it in a different way. If not, the input of another person usually throws a different perspective on the issue. If there’s nobody to bother immediately, just writing down an explanation can help.

- Switch Gears: this works when I’m getting frustrated by a lack of progress. By switching to a small, unrelated task, I can Get Something Done and develop some new momentum. This also serves as a break from the original problem.

- Write Some Tests: I don’t practice TDD all the time, but when I’m stuck trying to understand how things work, writing some tests first can be very illuminating. Having tests in place also gives gratifying feedback as I finally start to crack the underlying problem. I find this works best for really tough technical issues, where good test coverage is even more important than normal.

- Write Some Code: if I have a partial solution, even if I know it is ugly or inadequate, sometimes I’ll just plow ahead anyway. Actually working through a throwaway implementation is better than standing still, as it turns up all the little details. I’m happy to throw that code away since I know the alternative was not getting anywhere.
It almost reminds me of what happened with derivatives, securitization and HFT on wall street. The game became all about bamboozling the regulators and investors with complicated financial games instead of creating real wealth.

There's this ugly thing in American business where money is made on making things overly complicated. Where instead of trying to solve economic problems people are just trying to win at chess.
Seems to me like you are jumping to a pretty big conclusion about nkohari's comment. Or am I misunderstanding what you were trying to say?

I didn't see any "feeling superior" at all in what nkohari said. You don't have to feel superior to someone who is behaving childishly just because you don't want to be around them. And I don't think he was targeting "everyone there" either. He just said Silicon Valley was "full of drama and ego wars". Now, perhaps "full of" is overly strong. I'm sure there are plenty of level-headed people in the mix too. But I don't doubt from what I've read and seen that there is plenty of "drama and ego wars" to go around.
few times when the days were very long and I kept banging my head without a solution, getting a bit of rest helped - was surprised how easy I got the solutions the next day ( I think fatigue was a factor there).

Another thing I have learnt to do and found to be very helpful - surround myself with a lot of good and relevant books.

Around 70% of my programming solutions, I get from the net, the other 30% from books. Quite often (at least for me), the books also help me to figure out what to ask on the net.

These, just in addition to the other very good suggestions in the comments.
I actually don't use vim much any more, but I'm still used to caps lock as an additional escape (er actually, I think I have caps lock and escaped swapped). It's not a big deal.
I am the opposite. I believe blogs more than either of those sites - especially with important issues such as the war (they have each royally screwed up at least once with covering something as important as the war) .
I missed this reply, but in case you come back to see it: the common approach to this issue is denormalization. That is, instead of needing to join comments to todo items to todo lists to get the project_id, you duplicate the project_id on comments and you can just get all the relevant comments with very few joins. Obviously, this makes moves need to hit the comments table.

That's a small piece of the picture. With partitioning, a move could entail removing data from one table and inserting it into another. With sharding, a move could mean removing the data from one database and inserting it into another, which probably means manually ensuring consistency because your typical transaction won't span databases.
Would monitoring the rate of invalidation and triggering an event handler help ?
Also, the Pirate Party failed to reach the parliament. By far.
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Any suggestions how to make money with showzey.com?
I'm working on business model and have honest question: what are possible ways to make money with site like this?

(Showzey is a web service that enables you to take control of your online photos. Showzey will collect all your photos along shared photos from Gmail mailboxes, Flickr, Picasa, Facebeook, etc. With Showzey you can see all your online photos on one page, you can search photos, share photos, transfer photos between sites, create albums
spanning multiple services, create RSS feeds, etc.)
Some of what you want is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/lists
Outliers was quite interesting.

I recently read Fermat's Enigma which I would recommend if you have any interest in mathematics and number theory.
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Fully agree there. FreeBSD has had ZFS for 3+ years, and I still see some serious issues once in a while. Beware all new filesystems.
With the reply to that saying he never attended either of the meetings.
Damn, I would love to find some people to go with this. Problem is, in one sense, it's a fairly obvious service but there's only room for one of them (database, ground level), so whoever executes first owns the world (really :)
If you travel extremely frequently, like every week or every other week, the benefits save you quite a bit of time and make the general air travel experience suck a little bit less. For example, the priority security screening line for passengers with status meant I could sleep an extra half hour on Monday mornings.

On the other hand if you don't travel that often at all, you probably won't see much benefit. By reducing capacity and increasing the number of required miles to claim reward tickets, the airlines keep moving the goalposts.

I'd imagine there are plenty of people out there who choose a given airline because of the prospect of getting something for nothing through the loyalty program, but travel so rarely that they'll never accrue enough miles to get any reward tickets.
The people waiting in those lines don’t seem deterred by price increases, even in a terrible recession.

This is a poor argument to support his point. The recession is lending to their undeterrement, as for some it looks to be the only hope of an exit from the realities of the recession. The problem is, if education does implode and their efforts are in vein then they now become saddled with debt that is binding even after recourse like a chapter 7 bankruptcy. Educational debt is one of the few that in most cases cannot be discharged in a bankruptcy.

Therefore, these individuals may be making worse decisions out of desperation that could have lasting ramifications on their earning potential.

I made the same rash decision during the .com crash, figuring a degree would set me in front of other candidates even though by that time I had over 8 years in the industry. Jobs where hard to come by and any possibility of gaining control of the situation was magnified by the magnitude of the situation. The rest of America is now going through that same reality and I am sure many are applying the same faulty thinking.

I ended up 40k in the hole for an education that provided no value with respects to providing me a competitive advantage in the job market. Fortunately for me it has had no ill effect either so it is pretty much a wash but for others it may not be the same. If they are already on the brink and earning a degree does not deliver them, then they now have debt that they cannot free themselves from thereby putting themselves in a worse position than they started from.
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That is a good summary. However, I'm surprised that so many other comments talk about Conway rocking, being a great individual etc.

When I read his email, my thought was that the email was a great image-building propaganda tool and that he wrote it with the knowledge that the email would be made public.

His email talks how great he is, how he loves entrepreneurs and how other investors are in it for self-serving factors like ego and money. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether that is true or not. However, I'm willing to bet that many unscrupulous investors could easily write a similar email.
I can think negotiations as being important for business/entrepreneurship.

If this interests you, this is one book I have read and am glad I read. It was good enough to open my eyes on certain ways of the business world.

Trump-Style Negotiation: Powerful Strategies and Tactics for Mastering Every Deal by Donald H Ross.
My co-founder got one of these emails about 12 months ago. Even the opening email sounds pretty scammy, and quick googling shows they send out loads of these, so I shot it down. It must be worth their time if they're still doing it years later.
I'm not sure I get what the conflict of interest is... They got a quote from an analyst who works at a fund that is heavily invested in Apple stock. They properly cite that this person has a vested interest. Why is that bad journalism?
Above that are Tsar Bomba, small asteroid, large asteroid, and antimatter bomb. If events get much more shocking, then we go up to disastrously-located black holes and self-replicating berserker swarms. After that, I guess all that's left is the ultimate menace of a superintelligent and profoundly alien AI that cares only about maximizing the number of paperclips in the universe.

What I'm saying here is that Michael Arrington has plenty of room left for hyperbole, even now.
I look forward to someone re-captioning All Your Base with this text.
This article comes to an incorrect conclusion on the need for timeouts in Erlang's gen:call implementation. Monitors are necessary but not sufficient for building a robust distributed system with Erlang.

When dealing with remote processes a monitor is very quick to detect a process crash, however it can take a lot longer than 5 seconds to detect a node crash or other form of netsplit. Setting an application specific timeout in this case can be a prudent strategy for setting up a firebreak so that a netsplit does not cause cascading failures through the whole distributed system.

A case can also be made that just using monitors is not sufficient when talking with local processes. Monitors do not detect those situations when a process becomes unresponsive due to overloads like queue overrun. Once again it is a good idea to have a timeout in the call so that one may avoid a single misbehaving process crashing the whole system.

In fact, I find it difficult to imagine a situation where one would not want to have a timeout on a gen:call. That is why timeouts are set by default in the gen call facilities. Building highly concurrent systems is difficult. Erlang makes a lot of the typical pain points in building these systems go away. But the need to tune defaults and stress test a system remains.
g0atbutt created the website http://finishshit.com/ which harasses people into actually finishing what they're procrastinating doing via Twitter.

It's sorta like an alternate Awesomeness Reminder. Except it rudely reminds you what you should be working on.
Keynes said it: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes

The sentiment is quite similar to his other famous quote, "in the long run we're all dead".
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp
I read his style as "wide-eyed guy staring at you and monologuing intensely, with a somewhat unhinged demeanor and odd vocal inflections." The erratic capitalization contributes a lot to that.
I couldn't resist: http://pleaseapologizeforyourstupidity.com
Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt. On the surface this may seem like a regular (though non-dry and very engaging while not being too long) economics book...but the lessons and perspective it gave me have made me more money than any other book I've ever read.

It changed the way I view the world, and this perspective has let me see so many things that are invisible to nearly everyone else.
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These scams are partly enabled by the fact that the domain system has so many suffixes. It was predictable. One solution is to remove the suffixes. Yes there'd be pain migrating/collapsing to that but there is clearly pain now when we don't.
A small suggestion: allow for European date formats, or change the date format so it is not ambiguous (10/1 = 1-Oct or 10-Jan?). Non-US users get their knickers in a knot about things like that. Especially when they later want to sort the data.
cool idea! please somehow add categories. i think categories like digg would be nice. if that's not possible, maybe do it by media type or media source.
Maybe there could be a social network tuned for the lonely. One that helps them become unlonely by fostering real-life relationships and that isn't overtly remedial. I don't know how this would be executed though. How does an online service push people into socializing offline? (Yes, I'm one of those crazy Luddites who thinks there is no substitute for personal, face-to-face interaction.)
Debatable. For gold to drop, world govts either need to destroy currency, raise interest rates, or somehow make other asset classes more attractive.

I guess the stock market is becoming more attractive, as mass layoffs have temporarily boosted earnings. That is not sustainable though. Anyway, it hasn't really hurt gold so far.
Here the debate: http://office.mashape.com/question/debate.html
Here the real-time debate: http://office.mashape.com/question/debate.html
There is a difference between "being real" and "being an idiot." I don't want to have an idiot involved in my company, so acting like one on your blog seems dumb.

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http://www.outkast.com/news
Got this too last week, I simply ignored it. However I have to admit I considered answering it for a while.
Great response - it seems like the second and third option work hand in hand. Concentrate on the clients and customers and market that we have, continue to do what we're good at doing, keep slowly improving your product or service by using this as a great opportunity to get free advice on areas we can improve.

It seems that the customer is king in this case, so I'm lucky to have good relationships and can gather opinions from key clients.
"He knew he would want to watch the game later — if his Pirates won — so he hired a company to record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR, filming off a television monitor."

Wait, what?
Thanks for the advice - agree that complacency has to go by improving and iterating the product.
I would have similar doubts about Conway's authenticity here except that doesn't fit with what I've heard pretty much everywhere else about the kind of person he is to do deals with and work with.

Maybe he wouldn't have written that email if this story hadn't been aired. Maybe he would have. But the email fits with his past actions, so to me it doesn't matter.

My guess is that he knew the email would be aired, and he wrote it to entrepreneurs as much as to the super-angels. His brand is all about trust-with-entrepreneurs, and if he loses that his deal-flow gets severely cut down.

To solidify that trust, he publicly threw down the line in the sand and said, "I'm on the entrepreneur's side. Always. I'm even willing to give up friendships / partnerships with these other investors to prove that loyalty."
He also could have been the one to tip Arrington to the meeting in the first place. Then, after alleging that it was one of the others who had tipped Arrington, he inspires mistrust among the colluding angels. This is all speculation, obviously, and a little too ''evil' mastermind' to be based on reality, I think.
There's a parallel conversation happening on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Will-Facebooks-ad-platform-overtake-Goo...

There are two large advertising buckets: direct response (pay for performance) and display. Today, the online advertising market is about 25B of which 16B is direct response and the remainder is display (loosely speaking). Facebook may not win a larger share of direct response dollars, but they may enable branding dollars to move online.

Many are calling for the shift of offline brand dollars to move online. In the offline world, display advertising is much, much larger than direct response. The TV ad market is $70B alone annually, not counting radio, print and so on.

Because of its scale, Facebook can present a one-stop shop to many advertising agencies looking to shift spend from previously mass market TV to new media. Should this happen, a potentially equally large chunk of ad dollars may end up in Facebook's coffers because like Yahoo, Facebook can provide the following

(1) A huge audience: largest photo & gaming, and 2nd largest video site on the web with the most amount of minutes of any website
(2) A gargantuan amount of consistently high quality ad inventory (16% of all display inventory according to eMarketer)
(3) Best in class user targeting and demographic understanding
(4) Multiplatform (gaming, photos, etc) and multi-environment (web, mobile, off-Facebook web) targeting
(5) Consistent reporting across all these media

The other significant revenue driver that no one has discussed is Facebook's enormous local ad opportunity - analyzed here: http://expostfacto.posterous.com/facebooks-local-ad-opportun... The local ad market is 133B according to eMarketer (http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007939)

Facebook quadrupled (http://gigaom.com/2010/06/02/facebook-advertisers-have-quadr...) the number of advertisers on their platform last year, my guess is entirely due to SMBs moving to the platform. With the the rise of GroupOn (the fastest growing business in the world according to Fortune), the addressability of SMBs and their enormous advertising spend moving online, Facebook's 150MM mobile users coupled to great demographic data might very well be another huge pot of gold.

If Facebook can capture even 5-10% of either market, they would be generating between $6-10B annually at a huge CAGR which you could argue the public markets might value at crazy P/E ratios, maybe even the 95+ of the Chinese exchanges, in which case, Facebook's market cap may approach or pass Google's.
I know you think your idea is the best invention since alcohol, but it probably is not. Given the choice between a half-assed execution of your awesome idea and finding the right person who can execute any idea I would choose the latter.
MG has only used it once before:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
I have used PayPal for about 10 years now, and process six figures with them per year. I also have merchant accounts and other 3rd party payment system integrations, but there's no reason to exclude PayPal based on fears of future problems. With over 90 million active accounts, the occasional problem you read about isn't unexpected or more extreme than you'd get processing anywhere else.

Regarding Recurly, my opinion of that company is much lower, but maybe I am one of the few with a bad experience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678143