skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. They are running scared of the growing threat of the Ylluminati. But since they have 100% of all the deals, they also seem to co-invest(?!?).

These anxious (yet all-powerful) group of angels and this unstoppable new seed-stage prominence. They form a closed loop. A loop closed off to venture capitalists and angels not at that meeting ... which is basically everybody.

Except Michael. He got away with his life intact and lived to warn us all.

Actually, I don't know what's scarier - the supposed collusion or the subtle dread that Y Combinator is supposed to evoke in my mind as I ponder the possibility of this event being true.

If it is true - maybe we should be side with these poor angels and help them before it's too late.

To paraphrase Woodrow Wilson, "Since I entered (angel investing), I have chiefly had (angel investor's) views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the (Valley), in the Field of (IT) and (Venture Capital), are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

That something ... is Y Combinator.

Um ... no. The dark side doesn't suit you, Y Combinator.

Please stop.

I'm sorry. Maybe I've had too many beers tonight. But this is the kind of scenario that only comes out of the mind of a silicon valley PR firm.

(please don't downvote me too much ... I'd like to get above 100 karma points just once for a change! Noooo!)
Poker with Bitcoins - is it a new way to avoid gambling taxes?
Praise be to FSM, think of all the productive workers this has freed up! (I kid... Sorta)
you're being either difficult or dense ... nice gardens are nice, people generally agree that clean homes are too, this is a fact and it won't change cause it'd be neat if professionals did that and kept working even tough they would rather have a clean house than a bit more money (that isn't enough to have the house cleaned)
you can have default "reply to all", but I kind of agree
Microsoft's Chris Wilson moves to Google
The difference is that YC get in before these guys do.

Edit: I think there's another difference too: YC is significantly more founder-friendly. Just like angels have traditionally been more founder-friendly than VCs.
Take a night course where lectures are mandatory. You'll realize you somehow make the time to attend class and do homework. Now just lead by example and keep making the time, but with your business instead.
Got it. Good on ya mate.
At the risk of repeating what fookyong said, have a very clear goal of what you want to do. Then start executing one or two or three items daily.

For me I just finished my mvp for http://democratic.ly in 3 weeks. I worked on it after 4pm on weekdays and during the weekend. If I was organized or had more programming skills it could have been much less time to MVP. But from the start I had a very clear goal.
Why not just "Profile?"

Or just "starpilot?"

For people who spend lots of time at a site that will work.

For my Mom trying to deal with her ISP, not so great.
Hmmm, someone needs to build an "AirBnB for Lunch" so Ronnie can take orders online
There's an interesting conundrum there too. He can't name names without either omitting (and hence identifying) his source/s, or including (and inditing) them.

Either way he loses that/those source/s for future stories. He did the only thing he could do, besides staying silent. If it happened to be the right thing as well, so much the better.
Netcraft concurs:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/09/21/twitter-users-f...
Can someone explain, then, how the transient scale period happens where an artist goes from not being able to eat to being worth 400 million dollars, like 50 Cent? Is that when they suddenly become successful enough to create demand -- that it creates some kind of wealth atom bomb? Or is it not that simple?
You might think you're the best player on a team. Your teammates might think you're the best. Your manager might think you're the best too.

But to HR you are infinitely interchangeable with anyone else with the same job title, don't kid yourself otherwise.
Ripped Off by ODESK Too
Folks,

Just wait until you read the dialogue i've had with oDesk regarding a dispute. The readers digest version of this is:

1 - Contracted a firm to do web work.
2 - Firm agreed not to bill further hours due to issues.
3 - oDesks notification system advised four separate transactions would be billed over a 1 month period. These were legitimate transactions for a different provider.

4 - oDesk charged my Credit Card three times the amount they said they were going to!

5 - oDesk claims that I did not dispute the charges; hence I was liable.

6 - See point 3 - I had no dispute with the legitimate transactions

7 - THIS is the best part - Told oDesk I was going to close my account and deal with the legitimate developer personally

8 - oDesk informs me that if I proceed as described in point 7, I was liable for:
15% X 12 months billing for that developer ($5,500) !!!

9 - Customer support -- NON existent. It appears that oDesks sole Modus Operandi is to collect their 10% at any and all cost. End of story.

BE WARE -- These guys are crooks.
Sounds interesting but so many are still waiting for the new version. talk about a long rollout process.
Thanks, from reading alot of the comments it sounds like Incubators like YC take startups from nothing to working product/proof of concept, then Angels step in and get them to the VC phase.
There's no reason you couldn't code this up in JavaScript:

load jquery from google
- onload, set flag jquery_loaded
settimeout load_locally_if_not_flag 5sec
This is exactly what I do. I used to try to do it all at night, but with a wife and 2 kids you are just too drained to think and you end up making really bad decisions. I also tend to be able to plan when I am tired so I think about what I am going to do in the morning before I go to bed so that the second I wake up I am up and running and chomping at the bit to get at it. I also find that this carries over to the weekend too in that I can get in a couple hours before the kids are awake and then still have the rest of the day to play with them.

Both myself and my other technical partner switched to mornings and would never go back, this after having been a night person for 15 years.

Not quite to the MVP phase yet though unfortunately...but getting there!

Another huge benefit that the morning has over working in the evening is that you can drink coffee to get you going...if you're into that sort of thing.
Not sure what you mean by ‘got the fix’ — wouldn’t the fix be completely disabling browser history?
> You can always leave. They're called feet: use them.

Context is important. This was posted about a week after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
Courtney Love is ridiculously smart. She definitely has done a shit ton of drugs, though - and this fact alone rips apart a bit of her argument. But the ridiculous smart part then reconstructs it - leaving us at some stanza where we need a substantiated second opinion for this to really have any credence.
I find it fascinating how the very qualities that lead people to call Michael Arrington an asshole are dramatically in evidence here. It takes a staggering immunity to social mores to walk in on a meeting of rich and powerful friends, friends who are connected to his own business in many ways (read: friends with leverage) and behave the way MA says he did, let alone go home and write that article. Very few people could do it. I'm not sure I could, to put it mildly. I particularly doubt if many (any) of Arrington's competitors ever would. It may take a character disorder to be able to act this way.

In an age when journalists grade themselves by which power-brokers deign to have lunch with them (anybody see David Brooks prattling about this on Charlie Rose the other night? lunch and dinner, he said) it's impressive to see anyone act like this. Especially if what he's saying is true and this really is a matter of right and wrong.
DNS is long overdue for a replacement anyway.
There's also the game theory going on within the 10. The one uncomfortable person could have gathered data and evidence on the scam while dragging their feet in participating, then informed to the FBI, gotten their main competitors shipped off to prison, and been the only Superangel left in the game with the pick of the litter and their choice of valuations.
On the commute back home, I set the night's agenda by listing out the 3 things that I plan to accomplish. This way, I'm constantly moving forward each night and am not left wondering "what should I do now?" when I reach my desk.

My other tip is to listen to your body's signals. If you're sputtering out, grab a snack and walk around a bit. Speaking of which, it's about time for me to do that right now!
But if they had set up this specific metric integer (float?) type for measuring force in, that implies to me that they had already anticipated that the mix-up of units was likely to be a problem. From what I've heard about it, that wasn't the case - neither side thought about it until after they knew it had failed.

It seems like it'd be great if the type system had caught that, but if they expected all software to be using SI units they may not have seen the necessity for it even if they were working in a language which permitted that kind of thing.
run your dev environment in a VM
I don't know the details, but integrated software and hardware can give performance benefits not possible with modular architecture. eg. iPhone, consoles vs. PC with comparable CPU/GPU. Of course, a more appropriate comparison is with what IBM does.

Perhaps we can expect some proprietary extensions to java that will scream on that particular Sparc? Of course, that ruins Sun's dream... but the dreamer is no more. Or, closer to home for Oracle, that its database screams on it... Where they use this integration trick really depends on where they feel a little extra performance would beat the competition.
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Diplomatic business savvy response:

"I believe there is something more to life than what we perceive in our day-day experience."

*Then get quiet,

and leave the rest to questioners imagination.

End.
Sources? Every interview and video I've seen of her has her talk in the vocabulary of a fifteen-year-old high school dropout.
Ur - Adam Chlipala - Video from Emerging Languages Camp 2010
What do you want to do exactly? Do you want to build an app to help people do A/B testing?

It might be worth trying to get in touch with someone like Patrick McKenzie. His username here is patio11 and his blog is http://www.kalzumeus.com. He's done a lot of writing about A/B testing and has even released a testing framework: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo. I'm sure he has a lot of thoughts that would be very beneficial (I'm sure there are other people around here that could impart their knowledge too).

The nature of A/B testing often requires things to be pretty tightly coupled with the app itself. If you're providing a service for this it'd be interesting to see how you overcome that.
I'll disagree. Here's why you should send a thank-you note: Though it may not matter to some hiring managers, it can make a difference for others. I put myself in that latter category.

Whenever I'm in a hiring position, I take a close look at the candidate's courtesy and interpersonal skills. Candidates who are polite, even to the receptionist, and who follow up with a thank-you email always get a little bump in "points" in my book.

The person who is thoughtful enough to thank me for my time not only understands social protocol, but is more likely to be respectful of others around the office.

It's not enough to get you hired if you don't have the skills for the job. But if there's a tie, the person who sent me a thank-you note will always get the job over the person who didn't.

And ties like this have happened in my experience.

So the moral is that you just never know if it's going to matter or not -- so you might as well do it.
-1 for XML configuration, +1 for automation. There are some ripe candidates for shared libraries; auth, routing requests, and serialization chief among them.

I'm also curious about integration--what's the binding to the backend?
Anyone have an idea about how they are getting the location data? Tower triangulation?
Don't think it's a good idea. OS X works great for all of my development needs, even if the target environment is linux. Also, I tend to believe linux users are especially picky about which distros they prefer.
This is so disappointing. Firstly, I am glad Mike called them out. Took a lot of cajones to do it, and say what you will about TC and Mike...stumbling across something like this and not shutting up takes major balls.

Secondly, here I was rooting for these 'Super Angels' to finally revolutionize the VC industry and send the 'old guard' packing by better understanding the founders (not just talking a good game). Turns out that they are all the same.

I would not be surprised if this further turns founders off of taking angel money altogether and deciding to just get to profitability as quickly as possible - further shifting the funding tide in the founders direction...which weeds out a good amount of these 'Super Angels'.

Either way, I suspect there is a shake-out coming.

Thanks Mike.
I'm still waiting for an explanation why Lando was wearing Han's clothes at the end of Empire Strikes Back. I love the original movies, not the newer 'enhanced' versions. I thought the fact that they used miniature models gave it a more vivid textural look that the CGI can't match.

I also love burping the Chewbacca call. Chewie is just Han's sub-altern. Although, I thought they did have meaningful cooperation though, the way Han could understand him and you could sense their familiarity with one another.
Grellas, what's your take on this Quora comment? In a nutshell, it's not illegal for collusion on the buy side, only the sell side:

Tarun Nimmagadda, Mutual Mobile Co-Founder, COO

http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-Super-Angels-that-Michael-A...

"The article was a fun read, but it is a false claim that this is illegal. Collusion, price fixing, and dividing markets is only illegal on the selling side. Think about how people and groups are able to band together for purchasing power and special treatment when buying goods/services. Its not illegal.

Worth noting thought that if this price manipulation happened in relation to a company with over a 100 investors, SEC regulations would begin to apply and this behavior would be illegal"
I second this. My team uses whatever they want. We have Windows users, OS X, and Linux. As long as virtualbox or vmware runs on your system, we don't care what the host OS is.
I'm trying to find some citation but I really can't - all I know is that I've heard her speak before and been impressed by her immense vocabulary. Similarly, this speech reinforces that former impression.

Looking at her Twitter stream, though, reinforces the drug use - and also, her very unique personality:

http://twitter.com/courtneyloveuk
[Chris Ashworth] Here's a thing I made this weekend.
It very much sounds like the carriers are selling out their customers location data.

My first thought when I read about this was how the hell do I opt out. I'm guessing you won't be able to until the carriers are inevitably sued.
no.

also, my daily commute is only about 20 mins each way, so I guess I have some fortunate circumstances.
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I do everything in linux already (development, web surfing, documents, etc), so I would have no problem with using linux at work.

I think there are more Linux users on HN than you realize. I found this poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=687267 which seems to indicate that there are roughly the same number of linux users as OSX users.
http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-Super-Angels-that-Michael-A...
What sort of work do you guys do? Also how bad is the speed hit?

From this:
http://superuser.com/questions/146623/performance-impact-of-...
it seems like it'd be noticeable (20% I/O hit).
It totally meets a need I have, too for storing user data on a site that doesn't have accounts. Really, just a couple of numeric IDs that people actually WANT to store.

Nothing evil about it in the slightest. We store it in cookies, people lose them right and left and then are all confused about it. I could use Flash myself, but really, this sounds like a great system.
Both myself and my other technical partner switched to mornings and would never go back, this after having been a night person for 15 years

I hear that.

I used to be a night person too, beavering away until the wee hours. Then I'd sleep until noon and feel awful the whole day. Never going back to that. I realised that the only reason I worked for such long hours is because I had no structure to my work.

Now, I get up early, get stuff done that I planned the night before, and by the time I've finished, most "normal" people are starting their day and I feel super awake. It's a great way to be.

The downside is that I can never stay up past midnight. I just zonk right out. Sucks if you're the type who likes to go partying, but thankfully that's not me :)
NoScript. No seriously.
@Q6T56nT668w613m

That is what you get when you have a shiny new toy you can not get your hands off ;)

As for it being prohibitively expensive, it is competitive (and sometimes a lot cheaper) than the equivalent matlab toolboxes.
Its seems you understand what im trying to say, thank you very much for this advice. I'll change it right now
rm -rf ~/.macromedia
works pretty well.
So is not sending a note a lack of courtesy? And who should send the note? The interviewer? The interviewee? Both?
Mannish that look
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You know, I have a hard time thinking of any company that was saved and rebounded, by having an accountant steer the ship.
How Important Have Apps Become?
Standardizing development on a very specific environment is not unreasonable and is actually fairly common. If you know what sort of environment your software will be running in, then it makes sense to capitalize on that and avoid wasting effort - getting your dev system running in a zillion different environments, with ever-so-infuriatingly-slightly different versions of make/bash/whatever will chew up a ton of dev and testing time for no real benefit.
"Collusion, price fixing, and dividing markets is only illegal on the selling side."

IANAL, but didn't Standard Oil got broken up largely for being a monopsony? In fact the first two complaints from the DoJ were about sell-side issues:

"Rebates, preferences, and other discriminatory practices in favor of the combination by railroad companies; restraint and monopolization by control of pipe lines, and unfair practices against competing pipe lines; contracts with competitors in restraint of trade; unfair methods of competition, such as local price cutting at the points where necessary to suppress competition; [and] espionage of the business of competitors, the operation of bogus independent companies, and payment of rebates on oil, with the like intent."
The modern Webster is not intended to be prescriptive. 'meter' in the sense you are describing is just not part of modern usage. Finding some obscurity or archaism in the OED does not make a lousy sentence 'correct', that's all.
They meant future Android version releases. Meaning that we won't have to wait for new Android release until they update Gmail.
I think this is somewhat similar to that, yes.

"Tumblr’s technical management needs have evolved to require types of experience that I don’t have"

That's is essentially exactly what Marco said. Not that he was incompetent exactly, but that he was not suited for what the CTO job at tumblr had become.

I don't think it's the Peter Principle though - he didn't rise to that position. The position changed as tumblr grew.

I agree that it's wise of him to see this and choose to step down; I've seen other companies suffer when the founding engineers were not wise enough to admit that the technicalities of scaling from a medium size site to a truly large one was beyond their experience.
I think the real argument for testing vs. types is that for most jobs "programmer productivity" has to do with producing code that works in practice rather than code that is perfect under all possible circumstances. Most of us are not developing satellites, nuclear power plants, or pacemakers. Premature optimization for robustness probably wastes more programmer-hours than premature optimization for speed.

That said, if you haven't used something like ML or Haskell you can't possibly imagine how many subtle bugs can be caught by a type checker, particularly edge and corner cases that will eventually dominate your test suite - in the unlikely event that your code lives that long.
In buddhism and ancient oriental religions people believe in what we called soul, which is basically the real esence of a human, a finding of ourselves in a real manner, not what we think, nor what we look. Talking with my uncle he said that 2 children of the same social context(same parents, maybe even twins, with the same time of life) are totally different each other. He said was genetically stuff, and i argued the reason was the soul they have. An alcoholic father is a good experience for their life for the more conscious, and a tragedy for the less conscious.
it's important to test on the same configuration as production. that said, why not allow virtual machines?
Mandriva’s future (2)
The post you linked to says the most noticeable hit is going to be disk I/O. Does your app do heavy disk I/O? If not, you have nothing to worry about. The CPU hit is barely noticeable in regular use, especially if you have Core2 or i3/5/7 machines.

VMs are fast enough these days. So fast, in fact, that I'm regularly blown away by them even though I use them so much.
On the newest Flash, it looks like Adobe's added specific private-browsing support. No idea how solid it is, but from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/privacy_mod...:

"Starting with Flash Player 10.1, Flash Player actively supports the browser's private browsing mode, managing data in local storage so that it is consistent with private browsing. So when a private browsing session ends, Flash Player will automatically clear any corresponding data in local storage."
Honestly I wouldn't work at a startup that required me to use anything but Linux.
Ebooks from the future makes books on the iPad look ancient
The company says the service is opt in this press release: http://www.location-labs.com/press_article.php?newsid=80 and in the comments here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/21/location-labs/ and here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_geofencing_the_next_...

Although, I have to say this is not at all clear (at least to me) from reading through their website or even by reading their privacy policy http://location-labs.com/privacy.php
Isn't it such that we can never know for sure one way or another? Maybe a better question to ask is: how would you conduct your life differently if you did or did not believe in "God."
Personally, I think USSD would be a better way to implement this. However, it seems the mobile carriers want to keep USSD to themselves. The 140 char limit in SMS is a somewhat arbitrary limit in the GSM specs that we are no stuck with. Nevertheless, your solution (using id numbers) does seem quite clever but if this is going over a premium rate service then the SMS's will no longer be free.
I wonder how they'd respond to Linux installed on Macbook Pro hardware rather than thinkpads.

It wouldn't bother me, but I agree with others who suggested that a VM approach would be preferable if available. Or, what about a Macbook Pro in dual boot config with vmware to boot up the other partition from OSX for non performance critical stuff?