skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God I'm rooting for someone to sink the Oracle behemoth.

I thought it was MySql... guess not.

Good luck to you guys.
The EXIF/XMP data is highly insightful, I didn't even think about how much space those would take up. I updated the original blog post with the information you provided here, and cited you for it. Hope you don't mind.
Unfortunately, there are a fair share of companies that refuse to disclose total outstanding shares.
> We should limit this to people looking for cofounders and who aren't doing something boring/trite/repetitive/guaranteed never to make money in the "social media" space?

Completely agree.

I remember these couple of guys from Stanford working on this project called Backrub. I think it was for search or something.

I can't think of anything more boring or repetitive than search, and making money is definitely not in the cards there.

Wonder how many investors they had to pitch before they gave up and went back to school.

Suckers.
Unfortunately the enemy are rarely cooperative in allowing your aircrash investigators to visit the site and examine crashed aircraft.

You could examine enemy bombers that you had shot down but apart from the design and vunerabilites being different you would miss those that had exploded leaving little wreakage or had been crippled and crashed over the sea on the way back. You would still select for a set of damage that allowed an enemy place to crash reasonably intact
I don't get this at all. The videos are unclear to what the advantage is here...

Still, nice to know you can have an ugly website and still get acquired.
Awesome is great partly because it's small, nimble and fast. It's one of those rare pieces of software that manages to feel infinitely useful while combating bloat at the same time.
Nowadays, Apple could buy Sprint (market cap: $14B) with their cash-on-hand (over $25B).

If they wind up making CDMA iPhones anyway...
Sure, if they could manage to dredge enough wrecks out of the channel to provide a sufficient sample.

Barring that, and depending on the budget for armor, looking at the areas without bullet holes on the surviving planes is a reasonable approximation.
My immediate thought upon seeing the headline was "that seems counterintuitive," but that's because I assumed they were analyzing planes that were shot down or nearly so.
Here is a usable API that's live for accessing government data: http://wiki.sunlightlabs.com/Sunlight_Labs_API

Doesn't support write quite like that yet ;)
I think there's some very experienced, very talented people working on this. Security is one area where I believe that the older you are and the more hours you've clocked and exploits you've thoroughly understood, the better you are.
See also: http://buzzworks.de/blog/announcing-developer-framework-hock...
I use this as well. I have a bunch of self-written mods that I really should push out somewhere.

I started using it when it was the default WM for gnome, and had so many customizations that I couldn't switch away when metacity came out.

Things like windows7-ish tiling (I had it before windows 7, when someone using another WM could do it).
Wonder why.
Same. As an aside, does anyone know any banks that do offer this? It seems like a no-brainer to me to allow users a set of read-only credentials for online account access.
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Ask HN: Why is duckduckgo logo linking to reddit.com?
Oct 10, 2010 4:55 PM UTC/GMT -7 hours

Does anyone know why is duckduckgo linking to reddit?
A look at the source code reveals this confirmed it.
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What, exactly, is it that the author doesn't understand?

It seems pretty clear to me that he's pointing out the ridiculous abuse of trademark law for something that should only be covered by Copyright.
Yeah, everyone knows that search is only good for driving traffic at other pages where you sell banner ads. Building a portal is the only viable long-term strategy, and Yahoo! has that locked up.
I'll second that recommendation. It's such a quick read and yet so incredibly insightful. The same author also wrote a sequel to the book intended specifically for the web. I haven't read her web design book, but if it's anything like the original I'm sure it's a valuable addition to any web designer's library.

In addition, I'd recommend:
"The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems" by Raskin

and

"User and Task Analysis for Interface Design" by Hackos and Redish
A look at the source code reveals it does indeed!
It wasn't. It seems that the image compression algorithm that GIMP uses for JPG just has a higher tendency to band at lower levels of quality. I just retried it to make sure that there weren't any mistakes, then attempted to make it look better using the advanced options to no avail. You're welcome to try it out though, the lossless images are here: http://jjcm.org:8081/webp

I'm in the process of updating the images on the original blog post (I'm the author) using photoshop's jpg compression algorithm, and it should change the results a bit.
it's pretty neat, I'm windows developer. this kind of makes me switch to linux.
You can't just say (Bullet hole here) + (returned plane) = (don't need to as much armor there). You also need to understand the circumstances of how the plane returned. Was it crippled and just barely made it back with critical systems straining? Or was it mostly functional?

If there was a common place where planes were shot that caused the airplane to fly home for an emergency landing, then that spot is a good place for armor.
I currently use awesome wm but I run slim so I can login to any number of window managers. I was using xfce4 for a few months and still think it's a great environment. I also mess around with fluxbox. After seeing so many people rave about xmonad I'm going to give it a try as well.
Some of your interceptor craft would probably crash over friendly territory, but probably not many bombers
> "Really? Are most people this illogical?"

Seeing how frequently punishing people following below average performance and rewarding them for above average performance is used as a managerial/coaching/teaching technique...yes.
How a Trading Algorithm Went Awry
This years line up and the fact I am now close enough to attend have me feverishly checking email all day. Thanks for the update!
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Clock punching still happens some places.
> > I think if the names are flipped - if your company was named mint.com, theirs wesabe.com, then quite possibly you win.

> Whoa there, you're jumping to extreme, unsupported conclusions.

I never used wesabe, but assuming that the products were anything close in quality, the difference in naming/branding could've made the difference between winning and losing.

Yes, everything else matters too, but if you get even a small short term edge in press articles, signup, and customer retention due to naming, then it has a snowball effect on everything. Press begets more press, signup and happy customers begets positive word of mouth, and so on. It might've made the difference - it might not have, but it's not so crazy a thought.
I'm one of the several people here who uses awesome. It's rather nice.
Just changed it back. It was up yesterday because reddit replaced their logo with a DDG version: http://www.reddit.com/r/logo/

Then I left it up today because this thread was still sending lots of traffic to the site: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dl65r/click_the_...

I also replaced the logo with a slightly different version; compare http://duckduckgo.com/nduck.v104.png with http://duckduckgo.com/nduck.v104.reddit.png :)
Survivorship bias:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Larry Ellison Is "Speechless" Over HP's Decision To Make Leo Apotheker CEO
Modern Perl: The Book: The (draft) PDF
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Apple may have dodged a bullet, but I'm not so sure the whole virtual network business was ever in the cards. If anything, it may have been a bargaining chip used to grease the wheels of early conversations with carriers.

Think about it. If you're a carrier, do you want to sell a bunch of high volume, low margin commodity pipe each month to one company? Or would you rather enjoy subscriber growth, reduce your churn, and sell a bunch of high margin data plans? Unless I'm missing a huge piece of the puzzle, I think carriers would rather have direct billing relationships with high value subscribers.

So that's how you chum the water, if you're Apple and you want to get away with murder, relative to normal manufacturer/carrier relations. Make it look like this is going to do down no matter what, so line up now and join the fun or watch from outside. They can do this very credibly at that point – the iPod nano was heating up and people were noticing Apple's consumer mojo.

But would Apple really want to be an MVNO? I say not in a million years. Consider: Apple has spent a lot of time explaining their position on vertical integration. They like to have complete control over everything that exists between themselves and the user experience. Whether it's Thoughts on Flash, their position on licensing their OSes, or internal antenna testing facilities on their campus, this is a resounding theme.

Being an MVNO completely runs counter to that. For all the control they gain cutting the carrier out of the customer experience, Apple doesn't even control the most essential component of the business – the wireless infrastructure. That leaves them entirely at the mercy of the carrier for the wireless phone experience they are directly selling to the user. This isn't like the manufacturing relationships they already have to build their stuff – if a manufacturer doesn't work out, the worst that happens is a batch of iDevice X doesn't reach US shores. Consumers never see the gaffe, except as buzz-worthy "omg they're out of stock" news.

The outcome they chose makes it clear who sells what, letting Apple pass the buck when they're not involved in a shitty portion of the iPhone experience.

Apple made the right move, but culturally, I don't think they'd have played it any other way.
Regulators Finger Dumb Algorithm in 'Flash Crash'
Another vote for fvwm. I've customized it pretty heavily over the years:

I have a single config file that detects which host its running on and modifies fvwm's behavior accordingly. This way I can have the same configuration work well on the desktop and the netbook.

It works well on the netbook, too, as its very resource-friendly.

I have it set up with a 3x3 virtual desktop space and no edge resistance. The "Windows" key pops up the virtual desktop manager.

Also, I have it configured so that when I hit the "Menu" key or CTRL-Windows I get the root menu, so it's reasonably keyboard friendly. (e.g. CTRL-Windows,T gets me a terminal; CTRL-Windows,N,W gives a browser.)

Not that I use those, really, since I have F1 on the root window bound to "launch terminal", and F2 to "launch browser".

FVMW doesn't work as well as others out-of-the-box, but you can pretty much make it do anything if you tweak the config enough. But that's work, so you gotta wannit.

I really wish it was a compositing window manager, but it's not, and it doesn't seem likely to be.
Ah ok. I thought there's some links exchange going on or anything along those lines. It's good to see duckduckgo is not compromised, yet. :)
I was half-hoping he would emphasize his astonishment in pictorial fashion. Oh well.
Heh. It's still sending some traffic, so I put it back for a bit longer.
Feature creep is best served within a week.
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1. Plan to start your company in 10 years.

2. Between now and then, work at a small company, a just-funded startup, a raw startup and a big company (maybe in that order, maybe in any order). Watch the management closely and LEARN.

3. No matter how frustrating it is to work for someone else, stick to your plan.

4. Keep your technical skills current.

5. Learn management skills.

6. Save your money - live frugally now so you can self-fund your startup and keep control of it.

7. Become an expert or become good friends with an expert in some domain - gaming, architecture, finance, whatever.

8. Do your startup in that domain.

9. Develop a healthy lifestyle. You'll need your all your health and stamina to make the startup succeed.

10. Regularly sell things on eBay and/or Craigslist to get used to selling to people.

11. Watch how your non-technical friends use computers. They compose most of your customer base.
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This reminds me of the story of the US army moving from canvas to metal helmets. To their surprise, they found that the number of head injuries went up, and not down.

Why? Because the metal helmets converted fatalities to head injuries.
Yep, for me it looked like what thamer posted. Good deal.
I'm working on it! Also, income varies by state, which this site doesn't correct for. Tonight I should have a solution :)
Mixing up "less" and "fewer" is quite common here as well.
It seems that the way blind type works is to keep track of the spatial difference between key presses and then compare the typed words to dictionaries to determine a valid word.

There are a couple of problems with this:

First it assumes that you are already used to the keyboard. Thus, even if the letters you are typing are not correct, the spatial offsets between the letters you are typing are roughly similar to the offsets of the correct letters. So basically, it will work when you know the keyboard and know roughly where each letter is in comparison to other letters, you just keep missing the letters. I don't think it will help most people because most people are still not very familiar with mobile phone keyboards.

Secondly, I am pretty sure this is based on dictionary matching (it has to be). That is always a problem because a lot of people that use mobile devices just cannot spell, do not spell or insist on using slang or inventing their own words and their own spellings.

There have been many dictionary based schemes to help people text message and most of them have failed.
And Apple has licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft...
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The cube is for filing a patent. You get the plaque when it is awarded.
Shameless Microsoft.
They don't have the ability to compete in the market. They just want to stop other ones' innovation.
Xmonad : a guided tour
Apple has a license to ActiveSync. I bet these patents are covered in that license.
I am very interested in this, but the body copy is way too verbose and unclear.

Headline should be to the point: "Coming soon: no more ad hoc builds" (I've been fighting with them a LOT this week and would pay good money to never have to do one again)

This text is far too long: "Both developers and testers are aware of the headache known as ad hoc distribution. Packaging a build and profile, emailing testers, dragging everything into iTunes and sync until it starts working."

Anyone in your target market knows what a pain in the ass it is to do ad hoc builds. You don't need to describe the steps. Just change it to "Ad hoc builds suck, here's a way to get the benefits without making one ever again."

Furthermore, the always-popular phrase "the x that is y" (and derivations thereof, like "the headache known as ad hoc distribution") irritates me. It sounds like snobby nerd talk.
I could see the line of thought being something like 'well, clearly you licensed our IP just long enough to learn our secrets, then stopped paying for the license and used those secrets in your Android product'.
Microsoft Sues Motorola For Patent Infringement... Over Android
Cpipe - tool to measure throughput of an Unix pipe
If that's the case, maybe he should position it as an Appstore (or marketplace) for scripts?
One thing I often see neglected from requirements is the need to generate invoices for every payment especially if you are selling to other businesses. They will need records for tax purposes particularly if your customers need to itemize sales tax.

PS I work at FreshBooks helping people use our API for billing
You're misunderstanding the meaning of "acting as intermediary between capital and labor". "Capital" doesn't mean money; economists use that word to refer to durable goods that can be used to produce other, salable goods. Most goods require some mix of labor and capital to produce, and Say is identifying entrepreneurs as the people who coordinate that mixing.

Even if "capital" were intended in the sense that you're imagining, it's not clear why it would need to be "startup money in a round of funding" or any other kind of loan. Plenty of entrepreneurs, in the 19th-century sense of the word, provide both financial and physical capital out-of-pocket.
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1/ keep it running no matter what.

2/ don't comply to any developer requirements without proper change request.

3/ most problems happens after lunch when everyone is bored, not thinking etc .. and is 'trying' to do something on production env. or when its raying, so everyone is in the building :)
Wouldn't it have been great (in terms of equity, leverage etc.) if you were at Google (search) in 2001-03 or Foursquare (location) in 2008?

What we are trying to solve:

- Given relevant experience, find and apply for a job in a field that's soon (within a few months to a year) going to be "hot."

- Given somewhat relevant experience, find and apply for a job in a field that will act as an intermediary to a future "hot" field.

.

LinkedIn, Indeed/SimplyHired etc. haven't concentrated on this problem space yet.

We (one tech, one design co-founder + advisor) are working on solving many such hard problems that involve everything from trending, forecasting to decision analysis. Email me if you're interested in being a tech co-founder: aha.kalopsia@gmail.com
I had exactly the same problem and never quite solved it despite ending up as a research scientist at a world-class university.

My best advice is to find an engineering-oriented advisor, even if they are from another department.

If that fails, find an interesting engineering problem, say "Execution of a distributed rule set across a distributed knowledge base". What are the fundamental problems? In this case, they are speed and consistency. Researchers don't care about speed, but they do care about consistency. So your topic becomes "Maintaining consistency in a dynamic distributed rule network". You solve this one theoretical problem, engineer a cool system to illustrate it, and get a PhD.

Best wishes and good luck.
If anything, I think this is a sign that geeks are gaining power. I mean, old cars, golf clubs, pens, and other obsolete stuff that business people like can be collectable and worth a lot of money. Old computers being worth a lot of money would indicate that nerds also have a bunch of surplus wealth that can be spent on nostalgia.

(of course, this assumes that it is being bought out of nostalgia. I can imagine situations where it would make sense to spend $1500 for a keyboard for it's utilitarian value, if the keyboard really was that much better for me than other alternatives. If that is the case, it really makes no statement about the rise or fall of the nerds, though it would say something sad about the current state of user interface hardware.)
If you don't mind sharing, how do you manage coordinating necessary schema changes with those continuous code deployments? (Yes, I am assuming an RDBM store and not a pure NoSQL store).
+1. However it's not easy for all of us to make "co-founder potential" relationships organically. In fact, most of my friends are not tech savvy or entrepreneur minded.
The conclusion isn't valid, IMO, because the assumptions are way off, again IMO. I think the "high-activity players" are at least two orders of magnitude more active than he models them, for example (in a conservative society which frowns deeply on premarital sex). Fewer of them, but more connected; and their numbers will go down, drastically, with more liberal attitudes.
It sounds like you have a good idea of what you want to build, which is great!

Now it sounds like the thing you have to do is figure out the data architecture - that could help make the rest of your technology stack decisions for you. For instance, can your data structures be modeled in something NoSQL like MongoDB or CouchDB? To me, it sounds like you'd want to use a relational database, but it would be fun to experiment!
I do occasionally get weirdness with tiling Chrome (though I still do it), when websites try to resize their windows and my window manager won't let it. Some crazy websites depend on multiple sized/moved windows as well, e.g. this thing won't work unless I float the browser: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646430
Very insightful read. But I don't understand why he didn't continue the startup. He even identifies a yet unsolved problem. I would have cut the costs and continue in my own direction and try gaining traction. There is probably room for this. I dont see how mint success has to mean a failure for wesabe.
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