skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most angel investors need to decide whether to put up the money based on a few one-hour pitches and what they read in the press. Those are pretty bad sources of information if the biggest challenge of early-stage investing is judging the founders, because the founder is in "pitch mode."

YC alums in a position to invest can interact with the founders for months in very social and relaxed settings as peers. That's orders of magnitude more data than what you get in normal angel investing.
so what do you need: PuSH, Salmon, anything else?
update learned to read :D
OStatus consists of the following protocols:
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The case for queues - easier to write, read and manage code
Yep! Started a new job on Monday with a fresh install of IE 6. I couldn't believe it, I'm now working at one of the companies where ie6 is forced upon all staff, even the web dev team. I complained that the majority of users are using a newer browser, and I was told that IE7 is currently being beta tested. I'm not holding my breath.
It might be Sequoia's money? I know Drew from Dropbox has a similar relationship with Sequoia.

That would be interesting given that Sequoia is an investor in Kayak as well.
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I host several semi-popular blogs, plus a few other sites on a server in the cloud (with The Planet). I get a few million hits a year, and pay $135 a month to keep it up.
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With BSD ports you compile the packages. The advantage is that you can select the compilation flags and choose dependencies and options. For instance, want to build emacs without X support? Just run WITHOUT_X11=yes make install clean. With apt you typically have packages like emacs-nox for special cases.
If you do this in an e-mail, I hate you
No no, it's not the attitude it conveys, it's the attitude it encourages in the way developers act.
So she turned him into a hipster. Honestly, most of those outfits I find pretty bad. The only one I would consider wearing myself would be the eighth outfit.

poet's comment about dressing properly is way better than what was done here.
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Another great book, introductory and small but still really great info is http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/.
Speaking of counting LOC there is also sloccount[1].

[1] http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount
Hey, c'mon now... they also paste.
Java presents a lot of problems for make (multiple classes from a single java file, JNI produced files, circular class references, package to package dependencies).
Do you support the practice of standing female urination?
I run a business blog that is in the Alexa top 10K for US users. It probably leans slightly more techie than average. Most people read it at work. Here are its stats for the past 30 days:

Firefox 37.78%
IE 26.63%
Chrome 18.11%
Safari 12.24%

OS:
Windows 74.55%
Mac 16.01%
iPhone 2.63% (does not include iPad/iPod)
Linux 2.5%
He seems to use dedicated server from The Planet: http://geotool.flagfox.net/?ip=174.122.8.18&host=program...

Their prices are not cheap: https://www.theplanet.com/servers/Default.aspx?dedicated-hos...

I'm happy for the guy, that he is able to support such lifestyle being well-paid for promoting expensive enterprise product, I'm afraid he's out of touch with much of the world. In this world many people run blogs and start startups with hosting costing <$100 a year.

There is a whole site Low End Box, http://www.lowendbox.com/about/ dedicated to listing hosting deals for less than USD$7 per month, itself currently running on $35.88/Year 80MB hosting (previous 512MB was not low end enough) http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/moved-again-to-quickwebmicrovp... http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/quickweb-35-88year-80mb-xen-vp.... There are instructions for configuring sites to run on 64MB hosting. http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-site... So I don't consider $100/year hosting a squeeze.
Can we not make this about the iPad? There will be a plethora of similar devices out soon with all the features you can imagine (maybe not all in one package).

Apple created a new successful category. That’s what’s important. It covers most if not all common use cases (Installing user programs is not a common use case. At all.) and seems to have just the right form factor, battery life and UI.
Do local retailers really need customer info?

They do if they want to get them away from Groupon.

I have e-commerce customers who love Amazon Merchant because it's cheaper to acquire customers than SEO or buying mailing lists. But nothing pisses them off more than a customer who comes through Amazon a second time, costing them all their profit. They need to save the customer info in order to make the second sale a direct sale.

The same dynamic works with Groupon, except in person. If you don't follow up with them directly, there's a good chance they'll just wait for the next Groupon promotion, whether it's from you or your competitor. There's anecdotal evidence that this is already happening. A fresh coupon in your in box every day can get awfully addicting.

But for lots of retailers like salons, specialty shops, services, even restaurants, Groupon can be an effective way of building their customer book. When you call them back yourself, you have a much higher probability of converting them into a permanent customer.
What's mentioned as drawbacks are powerful features Maven provides to handle the project/plugin dependencies better. It takes a bit of understanding and experience to appreciate these features and to use them effectively. I've used Maven the right way in one of the biggest enterprise environments as well as a couple of startups and the results have been nothing short of phenomenal. Am still baffled by how most of the expert Java/JEE programmers have very little knowledge about how Maven works.
I was sad that it raised so much money, when Rails 3 only raised a little over $37K for Charity Water just two months later. Just felt weird to me, since this was a purely speculative project, while Rails 3 is real and delivered, and Charity Water effects change in a very real and direct way.

http://mycharitywater.org/rails3
I've landed a number of good gigs with CL in Atlanta, definitely worth a try.
Why don't more people clean up their appearance? I mean yeah, maybe you're comfortable in cargo shorts and sandals, but you benefit socially and personally when you dress well.

And this guy overpaid to clean up. J.Crew sells great-fitting button-downs for $50 on sale, and you can get great-fitting, unbranded, dark jeans for a third less than what he paid.

Approach it from the angle of hacking: cleaning up your look is a simple, easy life hack. Just invest a bit of time and money, and you'll reap tons of benefits from it.
Shhhhhh, keep that on the low. IE6 is paying my bills right now
I've had constant issues with 1and1 over the years with their less than reliable uptime. At least one of my sites (which are relatively low-traffic sites) goes down once a week for an undetermined amount of time.

Has anybody had better experiences with other hosts? I've been thinking of trying out Linode lately..
In mathematics you always try to minimize the preconditions, and the "theorem" you are looking for is likely a combination of strong special proofs.

Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoidal_rule comes closest to what you are looking for.
It states that you can approximate the definite integral using "straight lines", which includes your case, however, this rule has preconditions for the curve.
HTH
Case for Smartphone Web Activity Feeds
The problem is that we're not dealing with completely rational, all-knowing merchants here. We're dealing with real life, and people have other things on their minds, like the pressures of running a business.

If Groupon can't explain itself and how it differs from established marketing, the kind the merchants are used to, then it will fail. It has to provide value to real merchants. That certainly includes educating them about what is going on with their service, especially concerning the risks.
According to the article, less than 32% of the customers visited once.

"The 32% that said they didn’t make a profit from the program reported that customers rarely bought more than the coupon deal and few returned to the business at a later date."

If over 68% of the customers returned, then I'd call that a huge success.
I thought that Groupon doesn't cap their sales?
> Nobody’s going to pay Google $25 a year to store their music in a cloud.

I'd pay that to be rid of iTunes.
It takes a bit of understanding and experience to appreciate these features and to use them effectively.

That would be the reason why most expert JEE folks aren't getting Maven. It's not a short or easy learning curve. even on a good day with good folks to help you wade through it.

That said, Maven's dependency management engine alone is worth the price of admission. Bye-bye JAR hell. But the integrated build/release/tag/version features are the real treat once you get that far...
Last I checked the value was on par with the Zimbabwe dollar.
New test plane flies without flaps
Point, some spell it Johnathan. I, myself, spell it Jonathan.
From the email, it's obvious that the recruiter had no idea who DHH was and was just hitting a list of "ruby programmers".
They also need to stop the hard sell tactics reported by some small business owners. It's unacceptable to lie and say they aren't able to limit the number of groupons sold, or not explain up-front that the minimum split groupon will take is $10. It really seems like they prey upon the less savvy business owners, and it will cost them in permanent reputation damage.
Just to amplify his point, if you want your program to take page faults as PHK suggests, it has to be multithreaded. If you choose event-driven concurrency you can't afford to take page faults in mmap() or read(). When you make the threads vs. events decision you're implicitly making a bunch of related decisions about I/O and scheduling as well; a hybrid approach (like using events and mmap) won't work well.
If you have to drop into raw Java to accomplish anything exceptional, it largely defeats the purpose of build scripting.
I agree Sam may be in an especially good position to make guesses about the future of companies, but that doesn't explain where the investment money comes from.
Hidden referrer link, not cool dude
Does Amazon really take 15%? I hate dealing with store sites directly when I can just go to Amazon, search a bunch of stores at once, and buy what I want with one click. I have a vague idea of who I do business with, but I would never think to search for them directly.

So maybe 15% isn't much when you consider how difficult it is to build your own e-store?
Exactly. I'm mostly a C++ programmer and I have yet to find a build system that I'd like enough to actually use even in my small hobby projects.
This is the great issue that the US - over and over again - fails to grasp: You cannot use technology to bring a mind into agreement with your objectives.

The only way to win the hearts and minds of the people in that region is to meet them face to face where they live. Talk to them, argue with them, protect them and if required kill them. They need to see you as real, your objectives as firm statements - even if they disagree - and your resolve complete. They respect the strong and the committed, they deride the weak and conflicted.

This is a human war, and the only thing accomplished by flying drones around is a further separation from the people subject to their actions from the values of the people flying them.

All everyone ever really wants is to have a better life for themselves and their family. Maslow's hierarchy of needs suggests that if you can address or improve the base of the pyramid, you can restructure the entire pyramid. You can see easily how perverse religion warps the perception by manipulating these base needs; pretending that they aren't required, or even rejecting them outright as evil.

What we should be doing in Pakistan is essentially ignoring the fundamentalist nature of the region and showering them with things to address the bottom two levels of the pyramid. Yes this is a massive short term investment and yes this will cost lives.

Be sure though that it is the only way for the west to win this war over the long term. Every drone bringing faceless death from the sky only prolongs it.
They're interested. I personally know a national brand manager who is creating a new product for the sole purpose of running it on Groupon. Margin problem solved.
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As a web developer, I support all browsers that the client requested. Why is this non-story #1 on Hacker News?

As time goes on, old browsers are eventually replaced. Who's the impatient bastard(s) that have qualms with IE6?

Personally I love IE6... it guarantees that the project will pay well because of the extra support required.
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One thing about fashion is that more is involved than avoiding certain kinds of clothing.

I know that being extremely thin, I look like scarecrow in an otherwise perfectly good hoodie, whereas the slightly heavy-set developer in the makeover looks fine.

I'd appreciate more information on exactly how to pick clothes specifically according to physique.
You are not reading all 18 tabs at once. Not to mention writing something in Word and coding in VS at the same time.
Some interesting definition of "productive" you must have…
EBooks that cost more than hardcovers
Note that the suit was brought in east Texas which is a favorite haunt for patent trolls. As far as I know the trolls always win and the awards have become increasingly huge, way out of proportion to the actual value of the work.

Gelernter himself is not a troll. If all this is based On Linda (I havent dug deep enough), it would be based on work he did at least as far back as 1983. Google "Gelernter Linda", He published a book "Mirror Worlds". which I read decades ago. He tried to commercialize it, but had only modest, if any, success. OTOH he sold his patents to a patent troll.
It's not the superstition that turns into hatred, it's the civilian casualties.

This is part of a positive feedback loop:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/74916

Even those who "think differently" understand food, medicine, education, etc. It would be quite easy to wage peace instead of war, but Obama made his choice.
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It's been about two years since this was first posted. I figured there's enough new people here who have not seen it.
You should check the flash sales space for designer's stuff on the cheap: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/13/ron-conways-confidential-in... -- there's more to it than Groupon :)

I've got some good stuff from Hautelook, Gilt and Ideeli, for me and my wife (strategically omitting the "el cheapo" part of the story, heh). You'll find a lot of minor brands there, then every once in a while a big-name-brand sale with stuff straight out of vogue or harper's bazaar.

Some of these are invite-only, but getting invites is not difficult, you just have to search around blogs and twitter. Here's a bunch of invitation links in case anyone wants to give them a spin (and just so you know, I'll get a referral bonus if anyone uses them + buys something there):

http://www.hautelook.com/invite/nprincigali762

http://www.ideeli.com/invite/nuba

http://www.gilt.com/invite/nuba
Ok, I like it.

About the spamming bit:
It is a genuine recommendation. You are directly recommending that product. It is not like a product where you have to recommend some other product that you don't care about or don't even care to use.

Every tweet is to be judge by a case by case basis.
>That said, it is worth bearing in mind that computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I like this quote. I think I'm going to use it next time someone says "Oh, so you're a Computer Science major? So you, like, fix computers and stuff?"
Travel is a much more difficult business than it appears on the outset, it requires not just user-friendliness, but the business savvy to get the big players to provide you the information so that you can be user friendly.

It's not that the large travel companies don't know they're user hostile, they're just trying to squeeze every last dime from the consumer they can.
I've had luck with Craig's List as well. Look at big cities like New York, LA, etc and make sure they don't specify being on location. Also, Freelanceswitch.com has a decent job board. But watch out for job posts like this: http://thedon.me/2010/09/29/freelance-job-post/
It's going to flop real hard
When I was using C#, I liked MSBuild just fine - but maybe I wasn't doing anything horrifically complex.
They say here that they do allow caps: http://groublogpon.com/cities/too-much-of-a-good-thing/
PayWord and MicroMint: Two simple micropayment schemes (Cryptography)
Yikes. They are doing it wrong.

This is the classic case of "working hard to fix things when they should be spending a little more time updating clients and being descriptive about the problem."

I've been involved with so many down-time instances with web hosts and web service providers that I can tell you the #1 thing that pisses people off is the lack of communication - MORE THAN THE DOWNTIME ITSELF!

If they could tell us some technical, but not too revealing, details, that would be great. Then those of us with experience can guess what the time frame will ACTUALLY be to fix the problem, while others can at least get the feeling that they getting to the bottom of the problem.
Yes. Thats why companies that can afford have separate build engineers. Maybe one shouldn't be called an expert if they have a poor understanding of how their build system works? My first couple of interview questions for Senior JEE engineers always revolves around their understanding of build and I've found it to be a useful parameter to validate their claims of being an expert.
For http://www.zootoo.com, which is representative of a non-computer savvy audience, our IE traffic is now below 50%.

IE : 45% (IE8 - 65% IE7 - 23% IE6 - 12%)

Firefox : 35% (3.6.x - 85% 3.5.x - 10.5% 3.0.x - 5%)

Chrome: 9%

Safari: 7.5%

Opera: 1.6%

We were also able to reduce the IE 6 traffic on our site by 50% by implementing a friendly 'please switch to a newer browser' campaign.
I think geeks dress poorly because they don't care what other people think and/or don't care to impress with clothing.

I mentioned this in my post. Geeks are rude and arrogant in conversations for the same reasons. I don't think it's a net win for any of the parties involved.
Also, to be an accredited investor, don't you need a net worth of like $1 million? So having 50k lying around doesn't cut it. Although there might be exceptions to that rule... I'm definitely no expert on the subject.
Here's the one thing I don't get: what's the difference between the $25 pair of Levi's and the $169 Joe's Jeans? I've never understood what you're actually getting for that. And I've heard label, label, label and a ticket into the hip crowd, but how can anyone even tell them apart to know how awesome you apparently are?

Maybe it's just the lighting, but I don't see any difference. But then again, it took me years to figure out that just because you think you're a relaxed person, doesn't mean you should wear relaxed fit jeans.
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I don't know. People will be tempted to get whatever free shit they can through such a service, but I think that urge will be attenuated by their desire to not piss off their followers.

I could see myself using this to purchase things that I think my followers would like, or at least not hate.

Plus I've seen plenty of things like this on Twitter already: "RT this to be entered to win!". It doesn't anger me when I see those things from the cool people I follow.
That is a poor choice of words for an article on arstechnica.

Flaps have nothing to do with directing the attitude of the aircraft, and so are not "a requirement" for one. Many aircraft, including the Wright Flyer, don't have flaps.

What they actually mean is control surfaces. And with that, I see little advantage to using jets of air over, for example, a flexible wing or an aircraft controlled exclusively by vectored thrust.

This article seems to be excessive hype about a minor experiment in aeronautics.
it may have been a relatively small amount -- like $20k to $50k -- all the investors listed only invested $1MM in total
Apparently not, because as I said here

http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html

everyone at Demo Day (which included a lot of YC alumni from earlier batches) seemed to agree this was the best batch yet.
Just say "strong as a Bull Moose" and run with it, eh?
As someone else noted the sample is very small, likely to only cover a dozen restaurants, so were talking about 6-7 places that wouldn't use it again. Also if you look at the comments made by the restaurants a lot were complaining about fraud (people photocopying groupons) and low tipping rather than lack of repeat customers (although there are a few along those lines as well).
Exactly: one of the two must be threaded, the swapping subsystem or the side serving clients. Since Redis serves clients in an event driven fashion our VM I/O part is threaded. But it was much simpler to design a threaded VM compared to a fully threaded Redis, and anyway there were other good reasons for implementing VM at application level.
Isn't that exactly what I suggested?
OP's option. If you're like the subject in the story, you'll likely see far more benefit from a new, proper wardrobe than from even more gadgetry.
These are excellent examples of refactoring.

It's strange, however, that the author brings up the absolute necessity of unit tests when refactoring like this, yet says he omitted them for brevity. I've found, however that one of the most difficult and important parts of refactoring is making sure code has proper test coverage, especially when starting with crufty code. It's unlikely that the (not very clean) code he presents came with a thorough set of unit tests.

The first thing I try to do when working with insufficiently tested code is to begin refactoring it into a more testable form. This involves many small steps, and in some cases manual testing to make sure that the automated tests I'm writing are testing the correct thing. I think this article would be better if he moved the parts conducive to that (#6 and #9) to the top and included examples of writing tests (with appropriate mocks).

Further, canvas is a rich and complicated API that is relatively difficult to test against; for this article something simpler might have been more appropriate.
Because, however popular he may be in Europe, he still has to run in the US.
I experienced the same issues with 1and1 last year.

It goes down often and they took sometime few days to reply to tickets (when they reply).

I'm now happy on Linode for my own stuff and on engine yard for work-related hosting.
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You know how that goes, if you're at a poker table for more than 5 mintues and still trying to figure out who the duck is, it's definitely you. So walk away.
That was a very good ad. On top of being well-produced and sweet, it taught people how to use the auto-suggest feature.