skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a story about G H Hardy coming across a geneticist's work and proving that recessive genes persist at an equal concentration, against the original author's claims. This article reminds me a lot of that, where an expert in another field says "let me just check that for myself, errrr!".

I believe the Hardy story is told in C P Snow's foreword to A Mathematician's Apology, and the result is now well known: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy–Weinberg_principle
Very cool! Great job with it. One idea: What about adding a line in red for deficit spending... the amount the person owes against the deficit based on his/her current income level...
You're confusing the OS and the firmware. The mac OS can't boot from a USB the firmware can. All modern PC firmware/BIOS can and does boot from USB.
Distilr, the event-specific Twitter client, launches for AFL Grand Final replay
I just saw a talk by someone from SEOmoz at the Seattle Hadoop meetup and it sounds like you have some really interesting work.
Authorize.net also has a vault product.

Chargify still stores the CC at the gateway level, so you have gateway lockin

I don't understand this. Gateways that provide a vault for storing credit card information give you a way to get it out in order to process the transaction. So if you can get the information out, couldn't you just transition to a new gateway if necessary. Only sites like Paypal and Amazon really have lockin.
Despite accepting basically everything that is valid science (typically a much lower bar than is required to publish in most journals), PLOS One has had a consistently increasing impact factor. In other words, the open access approach is getting some respect from scientists who produce the original material.
Marc I remember hearing you speak at a conference in '07 and being very impressed at how exaustively you interviewed potential users before building.

Do you feel in retrospect that there was anything obvious you could have done and monitored post-launch that would have let you out-manoeuvre Mint?
Nice. Sell WinMo7 or get sued :-/
Outsourcing discussion to social news sites
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This is not a "review" so much as it is Lessig explaining why the internet is different, and why it is important, and why it matters to you. Especially to you, reader of Hacker News.

Reading this review has further improved my opinion of Lawrence Lessig.
eh, personally, my action would be to take a step back and think about it. If I was in that situation and I needed a salesperson to move my product I'd make the keep/fire decision purely on his sales numbers.

The question is this: Do you need a sales guy to sell your product? If you need a salesguy to move product, really you should be evaluating your salesguy on his performance as a salesguy. If he's moving enough product to justify his salary, keep him on, and figure out a way for you and him to acknowledge that you live in different universes. I've been in many situations where it was obvious sales didn't respect me 'cause I was a nerd, and I didn't respect them because they were sales. But, I did my job and they did theirs, me recognising that I didn't understand the difference between sales and fraud, and they understanding that they didn't understand the difference between engineering and magic.

Of course, if you can move product without sales, by all means, get rid of him. But, my experience has been that sales people, when they are being honest, are not pleasant people, so firing a salesperson for being unpleasant doesn't make a lot of sense.
That would have made more sense if the last sentence had still included the words 'in China'...
I just started writing my own Weblog-oriented CMS this week, called Lump, and started using it at blogstrapping.com -- and not only can I post to it without opening a browser, but there is actually no way to post to it with the browser at all. I write up an entry using Markdown syntax in a text file, then use scp to stick the file in a content directory. Lump picks it up automatically.

I don't imagine many people would want to use Lump in its present state of simplicity, but it certainly shows that it's possible to post to a Weblog without having to open a browser.
This looks like a great implementation. Google has been doing some great stuff with Chrome. It's doing for web browsers what the iPhone has done for phones.
Same thing with bicycle helmets and seatbelts in cars.
You seem to have missed the half of the review where he talks about the importance of the internet and concepts like net neutrality. You might want to read that half too.
>I would assume they feel the same way anyone who has ever had phone, cable, or internet service feels.

If I treated my customers as poorly as comcast does, I'd be out of business, and I say up front that you should only be my customer if you can tolerate poor service.
Having followed such a detailed long term plan from almost 14 years ago to realize my dream of starting a business, when I thought I didn't have the resources, the personality, the network, the background, the support or the backup, having worked in a a government R&D lab , a small company, a fortune 500 company, having completed 2 degrees, 1 Advanced Diploma, a Six Sigma Black belt certification...., with all dew respect to mhewett for the good intentions behind his advise..... please don't follow this advise.

(edit: Actually all that mhewett says, is right, observe as much as you can (surprisingly not many really do), try to learn whatever you think can be useful in the future, except for one very deadly thing(the fatal flaw) - the 'plan to start in 10 years'.)
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I have a problem to understand how the non-dilute share works as described in the movie. Personally, I was told that the construction is very hard since the valuation changes each round.
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I've got an offer to extend my 3 month contract with a pretty nice startup about to land in my inbox within a week, so I don't really need a job, (I have plenty of savings anyway), but I like to shop around and keep my eyes open.

Finishing my education is what I did when MIT OCW put their course material for computer science, electrical engineering, linguistics, philosophy, and culture online.

I use degree requirements as an anti-indicator for companies. If they're requiring the piece of paper, I know that I'd be punishing myself to go work for them anyway.

I'll take a look at SeatGeek's post. :)
Yes, you could do that. Whether that's the better strategy is an exercise left to the implementer.
This looks like a great idea but I have a few concerns/questions about it:

1) As others have mentioned, there needs to be transparency on what each script does to make sure that it is not malicious. Is there a way to inspect the code without running it?

2) How do you protect the communication between stackfu and the user's servers? I saw in the video that you provide some keys, but is the connection thoroughly secured to prevent any potential spoofing? What about a potential attack that would come through the site itself and potentially access all users' activated servers? I would be very cautious to have stackfu installed as a daemon on a production server without knowing it's secure inside out -- even if I only enable it when I need it.

3) Did you consider developing a stackfu shell client? Using the command line client, you could provide some basic features like searching and running scripts. Since the scripts are started from the server itself this might be more secure. Although, you still need to make sure that the scripts are actually coming from stackfu (in case it was somehow spoofed), similar to package distribution systems (yum, apt, etc.). Another utility for the client could be to allow/disallow queued scripts sent from stackfu and maybe even a monitoring tool (see the output, previous logs, etc.).

4) How do you handle different *nix configurations? Do script authors need to make different scripts for each distribution? Do you provide a facility to only search for scripts that are compatible with your server(s)?

5) Aside from the number of deployments, do you have a rating system? Script failure and success rates? The number of deployments is hardly enough for me to choose from say 20 different Wordpress installation scripts.
The astronomer Freeman Dyson was doing similar work for the RAF (I had heard this story attributed to him)
Two of his calculations weren't acted on because of illogical users.

Very few bombers crashed because of airframe failures as opposed to enemy attacks. Logically it would make sense to make the aircraft weaker but lighter/cheaper/faster the loss of a few % crashing due to breakups would balance being able to escape enemies faster.

Gunners on bombers very rarely hit incoming fighters, it would make sense to remove some or all of the gunners and instead train them as pilots and build more aircraft. The RAF's main problem was losing skilled crews and gunners were just extra wasted human resource when a plane was shot down.
>> people with untreated or untreatable STIs should not be having sex

Why "not be having sex" and not "not be having unprotected sex"?
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The related factors of weight, speed, and fuel consumption would be the obvious downsides to adding armor. Especially considering that a heavier, slower plane is an easier target, thicker skinned or not.

There's a fine balancing point between just enough and too much armor.
Every morning at 4:45am in my house.
So You Want To Be The Next Warren Buffett? How's Your Writing? - Mark Sellers
The problem with that movie is that it seems to describe Mark as both evil and a genius hacker. I think he's neither.
Neat. A much nicer way of watching events than twitter itself.

PS. Carn the pies.
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I have the exact same problem. While my friends all have fantastic minds, none are particularly interested in the "risk" of starting a business when they are just getting on their feet. I try to involve myself in local societies and organizations which have the sort of individuals I want to work with.

Alternatively, there are other online forums which add a nice structure to the process of finding a co-founder. Tristan Kromer has put together http://startupsquare.com which he has made promising progress in. I've also put in an application with the (fairly new) http://cofoundersnetwork.com. There's an entire section of questions based around this here: http://www.quora.com/Finding-Co-Founders/

And while the option isn't available for everyone, sometimes going to the mountain instead of waiting for the mountain to come to you feels more productive. I intend to move to Boulder, CO where these crowds are much more abundant than where I am and do some schmoozing there to grow my network. And if schmoozing is hard, I hear Toastmasters is a fantastic experience everyone should try.

Hope this helps.
Ask HN: Python gaining popularity
These days I see a lot of startup using Python. Earlier it used to be PHP, then came era of Ruby (mainly because of Ruby on Rails) and now it is Python.

Any special reason or everybody is just going with the flow or am I missing something?
Funny nobody mentioned geany [1]. This was my first and only IDE (I do embedded C stuff so I reverted back to vim/gedit + shell/plugins). Its lightweight, easy to configure, I think it supports many languages. Over all it was fun working on it, and as I write this post I seriously am considering reverting back to it as it is already installed on the puppy linux distro I use.
When you put it like that, I'd sign up.
Except that's not necessarily true. Counter suits could result in a) fast track import bans through the US International Trade Commission (Motorola started such a suit against RIM in January; the Onion reference is apropos) and b) in theory injunctions to stop making/selling/etc. the phones.

Of course, what was big for RIM (612.5 million US$) is Microsoft's cost of doing business in The Microsoft Way, but still, this sort of thing can get very nasty and can also absorb a lot of time of important people in the sued company.
Bazaarvoice is hiring in Austin, TX.

They just rented out a movie theater (alamo drafthouse) for all of us to see the Social Network.

Also it's a cool company. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/10/01/bazaarvoice-ramps-up-...
IDE: Netbeans or Aptana

Editors:
Textmate on Mac
GEdit on Linux
Editplus on Windows
I thought this too, but then realized the humans doing the shooting are also illogical. For instance, I could see how hitting the wings might feel effective and easy, but it's not a great strategy because the bullet holes don't really impact the flight capability.
Coding up www.getsetapp.com and possibly entertaining the idea of bringing on a more technically skilled co-founder. Contact info in profile.
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try google command line tools.
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

example:
$ google blogger post --title "foo" "command line posting"
Because condoms have a measurable failure rate.

Really, there's nothing wrong with them having sex - just so their partners are aware of the risk.
Lessig tells a good story, and makes important points about the power and value of an Internet free from stifling regulation. He mistakes the source of at least half the regulation, though, and casts a scurrilous, unethical bastard of an entitlement-culture entrepreneur as the hero of his tale.

Success is not the sole measure of heroism. Private enterprise is not the sole source of stifling regulation. Let's find a better hero of Internet-based entrepreneurial spirit and wildly successful efforts to get ahead of the curve (such as Paul Graham, oddly enough), and let's not minimize the efforts of government to screw over the openness of the Internet by chalking it all up to caving in to corporate interests.

Last I checked, corporate interests had little benefit to gain from granting the Executive branch of US government the power to "shut down" the Internet, for instance.
There's various desktop blogging clients you could use.

w.bloggar is one I've used in the past: http://wbloggar.com/

and another random one: http://alchemii.net/bleezer/
Pretty sure you didn't read closely enough.
Out of my reductionist tendencies, I would say - can this question be reduced to "Can one post to a blog without opening an application?"

If one would like to not open an application (browser) to be able to blog what would make them like opening another application to be able to blog without opening the browser?

Unless that alternative application can bring more user friendly utility than blogging directly through the browser.

I am a web technology neophyte, so wouldnt' know if such a thing exists, but if there is ONE application (could be desktop a la Ipad or web based) that can simultaneously post on facebook, twitter, techcrunch, posterous, myspace, orkut, etc I think it would save a lot of effort to lots of people who like to post on multiple blogs, etc. If you can save a lot of effort to a lot of people, you got a product with customers.

If it can have a selectability feature if one wants to post just on one of these social/blogging entities, still better.

Good luck.
There's this one in San Francisco on April 10, which might fit in nicely with your schedule: http://www.ushalf.com/2/
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Apple hasn't pushed Safari on Windows very effectively, even with a decent version of Safari 5. I like Safari and Chrome on the Mac equally, but Chrome on Windows feels more natural than Safari to me.

Chrome has been quite successful on Windows, and of course Windows users greatly outnumber Mac users. I think this accounts for those numbers.
I'm guessing you only read the first page of the article. The real meat and gist of what he was trying to convey was in the second page, where Facebook was compared to Nantucket Nectars. The movie "review" was just there to catch user attention, like authors do with the first few pages of a book.

Here's the key quotes:

"Instead, what’s important here is that Zuckerberg’s genius could be embraced by half-a-billion people within six years of its first being launched, without (and here is the critical bit) asking permission of anyone. The real story is not the invention. It is the platform that makes the invention sing. "

...

"As “network neutrality” gets bargained away—to add insult to injury, by an administration that was elected with the promise to defend it—the opportunities for the Zuckerbergs of tomorrow will shrink. And as they do, we will return more to the world where success depends upon permission. And privilege. And insiders. And where fewer turn their souls to inventing the next great idea."
I have zero connection to these people.

But let me say, forget all the web X.0/ruby/nosql rubbish. Working at spaceX seems like the sort of place you'll be telling your grandchildren about. Quora? Groupon? Not so much.

I mean, they build spaceships. Fucking spaceships.
What a small world. My wife was project manager on this keyboard at IBM/Lexmark in Lexington, Ky.

I just showed her the article and she said she must have thrown away over 100 prototypes!
This an extremely important point.

What would be useful is if somebody created a mathematical model of the tax system. This model could drive these other sites, and it could also be used in all sorts of "what-if" scenarios.

I don't think this exists, and it seems like such an obviously good thing to have. I guess the problem is that there's not really a mathematical model of the tax system. Everything is subject to some interpretation, and the rules and system has become so complex that it is probably impossible to model.

(Just answered his own question)
Ask HN: So, what did you think of the Social Network?
I was surprisingly entertained. The coding sessions and tech speak were obviously my favorite part.
If it follows the GroupOn model, then 70% of the up-front money collected would be deducted as a fee by the aggregator, another 2-4% by the credit card companies, and at least 10-15% in charge-back and refund related processing costs. For $100K in pre-orders you might have a good $10K to manufacture the product.

I'm not sure how other sites like United Artists operate, but Jim Woodring got some money to make a crazy huge fountain pen. http://projectsite.unitedstatesartists.org/project/giant_ste... Maybe that model works better.
This sounds very neat! I dabble in Lift and Scala, and I think a job working/hacking on that would be awesome - unfortunately I don't think I'm qualified quite yet.
I hear they have software that handles email without needing a browser. You should try that.
mission = williamsburg/bushwick

soma = far west chelsea meets bushwick

haight ashbury = st. marks place

nob hill = upper west side

financial district = financial district

union square = lincoln center

that's all I got.
I'm feeling extremely adventurous, geographically. What is relocating to South Africa like for US citizens?
Xmonad is what finally made me decide to switch to Linux from OS X. I'd tried other window managers but none of them acted quite how I wanted them to. Xmonad with Xmobar and dmenu is an amazing combination.
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I notice that the web site doesn't tell me what StackFu is. I don't want to have to watch a video just to find out if the concept is interesting enough to warrant the time it takes to watch a video.

Anyway, it looks like a cool idea and I wish you the best of luck. And I've signed up for the beta. I still haven't watched the video.
Any internships available that allow for telecommuting? The internship job market has been pretty dismal down here in southern California (specifically the Inland Empire).
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Interesting concept. Has anyone actually tried BlindType?
Start-up idea: Paste you can rub on your hands to keep them warm in the winter.

Non start-up idea: Gloves.
Prompting, rather than running a daemon that does it automatically, is the entire point of what I said. Adding functionality isn't taking away control unless you have to color outside the lines to disable it.
"all the way"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI#t=0m7s

in case you didn't know.
I am not a sales guy. Surely you will he fine with NATs for some time. But this time is not infinite. And when it ends, you will be up for a harsh awakening.

So, plan which of the scenarios is more appealing to you. If you plan a parachute in a year, do not bother. Otherwise discounted cash flow may help.
Maybe it does not make sense to you now, fine.

And let's chat in a year. No. I am not selling ipv6. It is there. Facebook and YouTube and tpb is on ipv6. Probably the only remaining part of internet not migrated yet is Craigslist.
Found this blog post to very revealing, although not entirely the way others do.
Expressing openly and owning these two decisions (to focus on build vs. buy & simplicity vs. user customization) is admirable, but the slippery rhetoric undermines these mightily.
There are many shrewdly baked-in messages and denials that are far afield from above:
- No has solved the problem that we set out to solve in personal finance. In other words, yeah, I know I said Mint won, but we didn’t really lose to Mint – no one has won!
- Circumstances conspired to make me CEO. Er, perhaps another decision was to not have the humility to bring in a more qualified CEO. Since we’re all being so honest.
- Our product was just as good as there’s other than these 2 facts. In other words, I created and know how to execute at the level that Mint did. Of course you do – you’re in the job market!
I’ve heard this 'falling on the sword' rhetoric from CEOs of a failed company as a public way of engendering praise. It’s politically disingenuous because -of course you’re responsible- – everyone knows that claiming otherwise is horrible PR for yourself. The purpose of the post to bake in all the rationalization of how the decisions were right given in the information, you’re of high character, and get that personal brand out there in a controlled way. And that’s the way to ‘keep the focus on making the user happy’
For more similar stories check out the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research wikipedia page.

When google released some OR software recently that hit the HN front page [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724580] I followed various links to this particular wikipedia page and then moved on to other things. When the "armor where there are no bullet holes" stories started popping up I assumed that this was the event that triggered the "hey this is cool" reaction from a few people who started the ball rolling...
I thought javascript/node.js is the new hotness. It's so hard to keep up with the latest trends!