skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced a company like Facebook is avoiding going public because of SOX. Facebook has >2,000 employees and massive revenue, they can't afford to have a decent accounting department? Facebook is significantly larger and has higher revenue than the majority of publically traded companies.

And considering how many Facebook employees have stock, you would think they would all be clamoring for an IPO.

Facebook has a shockingly high valuation, perhaps they are afraid that if they IPO it will not match expectations during this economy. Better to wait until boom times and get great return on your IPO than do it now with stock prices depressed.
Thank you in advance for any help. Sorry if this is something I should already know the answer to...
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If you were able to analyze the sentence structure of all 180 million questions, how many different sentence structures would there be? This all points to the fact that you can build algorithms to guess the answers eventually.
Obsessive words flow in rss news
Stuff I've learned at Microsoft
Thanks for the clarification.

Could you post a link to the solution? Or post it as a ROT-13 comment? Otherwise I might never find out the answer!
This is why, when I get a web server for a project I pre-pay for a year rather than going month to month. If after 3 months I get bored of the project, or discouraged, I can just leave it alone to go on autopilot for the rest of the year- rather than seeing that charge on my credit card every month.
NatWest require the secondary factor if you either add a new payee or send a payment for the first time to a particular payee. You can still login and do almost anything else without it, though.
I think boxee may just the best solution out there right now - it seems they've hit a sweet spot between the cheap-but-simplistic appleTV and the expensive-and-ambitious-but-half-baked Google TV.
Ironically, control of personal data ends once the data has been shared, by you or any of your friends. Terms of Service often enable a company to collect and share your data as they see fit.
I never heard of him, and I already am willing to second this :)
I am aware of one that is but so far they're in stealth mode. Most other firms I've asked about that have had some derisive commentary about building on Windows.
Creative marketing move. Particularly because that stop is where the store is located.
Any sufficiently entrenched incompetence is indistinguishable from evil.

[Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke]
Hmmm, no. They are a valuable audience, but they are not customers. A customer is someone who pays you for a service. That is the definition.

Why do TV networks continue interrupt their "customers" with ads even though their "customers" don't want ads? That's because their "customers" are not their customers. Their customers are the people paying for those ads and they get to interrupt the "customers" with ads.

It's very important to recognize distinction the between users (aka "customers") and customers if you want your company to survive. "Customers" are the product you sell.
Yeah I gotta work on that code some.
Just wanted to say that's an incredibly slick approach at a sales letter. Rather than directing the letter to the consumer it's directed to Mom & Dad, which creates an audience to whom the concept can be explained in a simple manner. There are all sorts of emotional responses to this approach too, which creates warm and fuzzy feelings toward Boxee.

Well played sir.
To my knowledge, one must be an accredited investor to go to the private exchange. Thus, the rich are the only ones able to take the risks to become richer.
“Wow,” said David Spergel, an astrophysicist at Princeton who was not involved in the work.
No, that's the reason the answers are hashed. You can't get the answer from the hash, since a hash is a one-way function. This is the same reason you never store passwords in your database in plaintext, but rather hash them first.
> I find the Arc version much more readable, even though I have never used Arc.

I find the intellectual dishonesty of fanbois irritating.
> Which is precisely Facebook's reasoning for not providing an API to download your friends' email addresses.

So why does it give it to Yahoo mail and Hotmail? Please answer that question.

Relevant link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1889378
Not even just guess them but accurately determine them.

A few years back I was hired by a third party to build a system to break the CAPTCHA on a popular site for various evil deeds. Morals set aside, the money was good and I had a wedding to pay for. A CAPTCHA system becomes quite breakable when it becomes predictable. The system in question used an image based CAPTCHA that used the same (albeit annoying) font for each image, as well as a static distortion overlay and a second set of random distortion. By extracting a thousand sample images I was able to build a system in Perl that could determine the text with an estimated 98% success rate - and when it failed you would just request a new CAPTCHA.

My solution would be to mix up images with logic. I.E.

In the following list of images, which image number contains the green animal: {pic of zebra}, {pic of frog}, {pic of giraffe}

This would require image recognition as well as logic.
I thought I had "beginner's luck", but it wasn't since it wasn't ;)
"this isn't the type of thing TechCrunch is going to be buzzing about."

You say this like it's a bad thing. He's got a good idea here, and his audience is a much larger superset of TC's audience, so I wouldn't hold the lack of appeal in that regard against it.
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Whether he said it or not, he definitely practiced it. For many years, Feynman taught an informal seminar for freshmen at Caltech, called "Physics X", at which he offered to answer any physics questions the freshmen could come up with.
That's not the issue - as soon as you make a list of questions available for the world, all it takes is one spammer to create a matching list of answers and they can go to town. By providing that list of answers as open source you are making it easier for someone to create the counter part answer database.
A good idea in a good market, probably the most important things in a startup. You have a clear path to revenue, and you are addressing a common problem, which I can attest to as a hiring manager.

One suggestion to potentially extend your market: a multi tenant version. I have been pondering to accept third party job listings on a topical website I'm running, which would allow hiring managers within the industry to post their jobs. If you could make this an option within your offering, I'd jump on it. If you could also provide the billing etc, it would be awesome.

It's probably a considerable change to your site architecture, but this would be a nice way to get exposure (e.g. on high traffic blogs), and an additional source of revenue.

EDIT: I just checked how this is done on Techcrunch. They use personforce.com.

Additional thoughts:

- A little bit about the company would increase users trust. If you have a real address, put in a Google map image.

- Demo of the site and widget.

- Consider a name change (as pointed out in another comment)

- Congratulations, the fruits of your hard work look great!
The cost is small compared to the stifling rules imposed on IT...
" sales to Apple went a long way towards funding the fabs that enable Samsung to now sell flash to so many other companies, too."

Of that I'm a bit skeptical. For one thing, this sort of idea was fairly common about the G4 processors, even though Apple was by far the smallest purchaser of G4 processors -- Ericsson, Cisco, and Nortel were shipping routers using G4's in tens of thousands while Apple was still taking pre-orders in some cases.

Another thing to consider is that Samsung is among the world's largest semiconductor manufacturing companies. They fabricate and sell enough semiconductor products to make even Intel's volume look comparatively small. Even with the iVolumes that Apple produces, it's hard to imagine that even they could be a dominant consumer by volume.
Ask HN: Please help - seen the movie "Happy New Year" from 1987?
Dear friends, if I told you why I'm asking this you wouldn't believe me, so I'll skip that:

I need to know how the movie "Happy New Year" from 1987 starts. Does it start with Peter Faulk being released from prison? And then he goes to see his friend and then the movie is a depiction of past events?

Thank your answering - it means a lot to me. This is a great community.
Yeah, I heard that Google tries to colocate teams. I recommend that you ask Google what they do in Chicago and other locations that are acceptable to you. There might be something that interests you.
Well it was mostly a joke, so you can loosen your booty a bit and have a laugh.

But, having worked with the average programmer and written a book for newbs I'd say the Arc code is just harder to use.
Cuil.
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Surely people can have differing opinions without being intellectually dishonest, right?
email me - address is in my profile.

In return, consider this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891084
The 23 deaths part is a huge stretch though. There's been a few noted injuries at such mobs when turned riot but I can't even find an example of a single death from a flash mob type gathering.
Nice, yeah it's really not hard to crank these little frameworks out. In fact I'm starting to think, if doing one is so simple, then maybe just little frameworks from now on.

One thing though: Part of the point of Tir is that you can read the code to one function and know what it's doing. For example, if I showed this to someone and asked, "What happens after faile to login?" They'd have to trace through routing to figure it out.

Not that I'm saying that's bad, since the advantage is you don't have to save any state. I'm just saying that's what's different about Tir (and Arc or Seaside).
Introducing DNode
>Why does an iPhone cost more than an iPod Touch, a standard 2G phone and a 3G USB dongle?

I suspect the real reason is that Apple keeps the iPod Touch cheap to sell to people who can't get an iPhone for some reason (they're too young, they can't afford the data plan, their employer insists on BlackBerries). When they have a chance to buy a smartphone of their own, it'll probably be an iPhone, so they won't have to learn a new UI, or walk away from the apps they've bought.
Your point about amortization is good.

Insertion mid-list is just splice with a singleton; I don't bother mentioning it separately.

Those really are the only two advantages of linked lists over growable arrays.
I've read like 10 entries on that blog, that guy knows how to do some stuff.
This sounds like flattr to me, particularly since they were going to set things up so you could repeatedly flattr the same sites (not sure if that's happened yet). Is there is a philosophical difference?
How appropriate do you think it is to run a split test for a charitable campaign where the bulk of the donations will happen quickly and the opportunity for longer term optimization is low? Did the fund approach you because they were interested in a test or did you suggest it? How quickly did they adopt the winning candidate as their only version?

The article notes "this one’s a bit of a no brainer" and four out of five random people on the Internet predicted the optimized version. Given these facts, it's hard not to interpret the results as having cost a substantial amount of donation money by testing something the designer involved already knew the answer to.

Perhaps you could elaborate on the benefits to Hatians or the non-profit of running this test?
If you pause it at 4:59 he cites (on screen) the partial events which could be combined to the single event

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Short Notice Flash Mob - Mass Moonwalk 2009

Personal Details Leak - Alex Wuori 2007

Flash Mob to Riot - Gallery Mall Mob 2010
Two questions from a parochial, isolated US citizen:

1. The newspaper article uses the phrase "know to be haughty". My intuition tells me that phrase informs the British public about aspects of Baroness Neville-Jones' personality, but it means almost nothing to someone not steeped in British newspaper cultural references. Can someone explain that phrase?

2. Where does the "Mirror" fall on the British newspaper spectrum: "reliable" or "less reliable" or "out and out tissue of lies"?
Yes, but did it pass the ArcWTF Challenge. You should try it. It's actually pretty funny, but you also learn that maybe a bit more code is better for the brain.
This sounds like the classic 'overnight success' (after toiling for years in obscurity) stories- a great lesson for all of us.
Notice how C# requires 16 type annotations, whereas F# only needed 1.

The verbosity of the F# example is not necesary. For instance, the code does its own map:

let rec fromAtoBs acc pt1 pts =
match pts with
| [] -> acc
| pt2::t ->
let ln = new Line(pt1,pt2)
fromAtoBs (ln :: acc) pt1 t

let linesFromPoint start endpts = fromAtoBs [] start endpts

Instead of just:

let linesFromPoint start endpts =
endpts |> List.map(fun x -> Line(start, x))
|> List.rev
>Please note: They didn’t measure form submissions.

That's a shame - It'd be interesting to know tidbits such as, which form had the highest donation per submission, etc.
Ah, added.
Is it just me or is rypple systematically marketing themselves through such regular, link-baited, data-driven PR submissions to HN ?
First, it's not a rant.

Second, programming languages are about making things. If I have to learn a ton of concepts before I can make things, then your language sucks.
And here's the video of Michael Larson on Press Your Luck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_EjKKGSXus
How to Make All Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly
http://xkcd.com/810/
What happens if the organization the money is going to be donated is not still around then?
More to the point, it's the government engaging in pornography, illegal search, and sexual assault combined with radiation overdoses in the name of FALSE security.

We already know that they don't work, and they don't even pretend to address any of the real security vulnerabilities. They'll only deter idiot terrorists, not real ones.
Show HN: Hip.ly playlists bands near you playing tonight (Includes San Jose)
I wrote Hip.ly last Thursday because it's something I've wanted for a long time and I needed a break from my startup. I wrote a blog post about why I did it here:

http://zachster.com/2010/11/08/hip-ly/

I included San Jose to make it relevant for my distant friends out there. I was surprised how many cool shows are coming up... in the surrounding area...

http://hip.ly/1288
There have definitely been riots however which have lead to deaths. Flash Mob -> Riot has happened, Riot --> Deaths have happened. Flash Mob -> Riot -> Deaths not yet.
I wrote Hip.ly last Thursday because it's something I've wanted for a long time and I needed a break from my startup. I wrote a blog post about why I did it here:

http://zachster.com/2010/11/08/hip-ly/

I included San Jose to make it relevant for my distant friends out there. I was surprised how many cool shows are coming up... in the surrounding area...

http://hip.ly/1288
Dummynet
66% of couples pool their resources and expenses, while the other 34% divide their bills equally each month.

I'm not sure this should make an entire 100%. My wife and I do not pool our resources and expenses, but nor do we divide our bills equally (I pay for 90%+ of them).

The 6 month "emergency fund" advice only comes third in the list but I'd put it at #1 with a bullet. If you can maintain that, even if you screw up your budget or spend frivolously, you've got an important safety device to keep your back.

I'm also surprised that "designate the most financially knowledgeable spouse as the financial decision maker" only comes in as advice from 3% of couples. Every couple I know in real life and have discussed finances with has one of the couple handle 90% of financial decisions due to a lack of knowledge/interest from the other party. I think it's great advice, too. Stick to what you're good at - that's why I don't do the cooking.
A key element to that, more appropriate to the architecture side of things, is the capability of the human resources available to implement things.
Perfect engineering plans for a bridge are of no use if the team's skills were not taken into account and they are unable to execute.
I sort of hope not. It started out good, but morphed from a letter to one's parents into a press release at the "in response to a few problems" phrase. Clever marketing, but if your product/service is aimed at the mass market, the kind of simple and down-to-earth language that this "letter" should have contained ought to be on the home page.
The two variations compared in this experiment were the results of four separate experiments which had eight variations each. This was the final before & after test to see what the total impact was on the donation page. Each individual experiment generated very surprising results that we then incorporated into the final experiment.

Perhaps you could elaborate on the benefits to Hatians or the non-profit of running this test?

An incremental $1 million they wouldn't have had otherwise.
Why ‘Be Passionate’ is Awesome Advice
There's a Hire HN thread that shows up here about once a month.
What sort of project do you have?
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The Price Is Right article mentioned in this article is pretty awesome also:
http://www.esquire.com/features/impossible/price-is-right-pe...
This seems like a silly article to me, in that the author (and his subject, Kevin Kelly) assumes we all have a very similar definition of the concept "technology".

The article doesn't make sense for some sets of technology, for example, the pre-European-contact Polynesian's biological and superstition-based technology set. Those Polynesians had a technology based on plants, animals and biological raw materials and skills in manipulating them. They didn't have metals, metalworking or even fired-clay-pottery, but they managed to find and colonize virtually all habitable Pacific islands. Would taking up that set of technologies put us on some kind of irresistable train ride to ruination?
Wrong.

Proof: http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/11/10/why-be-passionate-is...
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By that I meant that it was largely Apple that proved that it was a good idea for Samsung to expand their flash production capabilities, and Apple also had a significant effect to drive their competitors to start buying flash in such large quantities. I don't think there's enough publicly available information to determine whether Samsung's profits off Apple were enough to directly finance a whole fab, but when one company starts buying half your production capacity of a commodity item, that's a good sign that expanding your capacity will soon be worth every penny invested.
Well the ArcWTF challenge was sort of a joke, but I think this code isn't better.

The big problem is you (and Arc and others like it) imply too much historical knowledge in the name of terseness. What happens is when someone has to fix the thing they have to dredge up all the knowledge of where things are rather than finding them right there.

For example: If I have to come and fix the template that has the input form in your code where do I go? Do I edit some code deep inside your framework? Is there a page somewhere? Is it in HTML? Oh it's not? So I have to hire a guy who is a designer and a Lisp or Java or Smalltalk guru? Ok there is a template, so where is it? Is that configured somewhere so I have to one more level of indirection to find the thing that configures the thing that shows the page?

If you back off the tersness a bit, you can then have a piece of code that's still small, but also complete by itself. Anyone coming to my code sample and told, "Fix the damn submit button so it's cornflower blue." Can do it no problem because it says right there what file is being used in what way.

Additionally, I don't buy it with these "yours is 40 lines haha" challenges. Who the hell cares? It's more about the usability and ease of maintenance.
Zachster... did we actually meet last Friday at the Founder Institute event at Microsoft Silicon Valley?

During the "speed dating" exercise, somebody pitched me this same concept. I remember it sounding like a good idea.
Just wait until 1.) unemployment extension running out this month (no way it gets extended again) 2.) the holiday temp hiring fading in December 3.) government spending cuts in next January, and 4.) the economy collapsing further.

Then we'll see if these millennials are still talking about needing 'social network access' at work, when they can't mooch off their parents or keep from getting laid off.
I recommend donating to some of the smaller, longer term investment organizations tackling fundamental problems instead of trying to react to the latest crisis.

I've been impressed with water.org's micro finance based approach. It also helps that I know someone there and can still fully recommend them. :)
Sure, it's definitely a stretch. He was a bit hyperbolic (as with the getting lost due to having no 3G bit). I can't think of any riot with more than a handful of deaths in a western country over the last 20 years (?)
It's like he read the first few chapters of an F# book which showed explicit recursion for didactic purposes and then stopped before the examples explained higher-order functions.
I saw a link to them in the reddit thread, but I was completely confounded by the fact that they don't show image samples of the different business cards. I see that they send out samples (at least to people from the US), but the approach makes no sense to me.

http://www.deeprint.co.uk do this, too.
The card from Moo isn't oversized. It's the only company in the group based in England, where that's the standard size.

Oversizing your business card might make it stand out, but some peoople might find it annoying, like television commercials that are extremely loud compared to the main program.
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Your last point is by far the most important. It looks like one of the goals for Django 1.4 will be more separation between the ORM and relational databases. Alex Gaynor speaks at length about the innards of today's querysets and how he suggests it could be changed to make sense with NoSQL: http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/904840384/django-and-nosql-d...
Reminds me of this quote from Morrowind:

>The results of hard work and dedication always look like luck to saps.

I also think it's interesting that people who don't understand any better confuse the mundane with the divine, but she was convinced that the guy in front of her could solve the puzzle because she could.
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It is unfortunate however that he indicates the problem is that most of the content he watches that isn't on user-generated sites is via Hulu or Netflix. As far as I know, Boxee currently does not support those two platforms. I'm not blaming boxxy as I'm sure there are complex legal/financial constraints at play, but imagine what a compelling product it would be with access to Netflix and Hulu content. Ideas like this should keep cable company CEOs awake at night.
Haha... no... this is the first "missed connections" I've gotten on HN.

It's kind of an obvious idea, I guess. But I haven't seen anything that let's you listen to the bands playing nearby.

I'm not sure how much potential there is here for a business. I go into some of that on my blog.
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I see what you mean. Prisoner 1 could memorize all of the names and just tell the next one if he's in the front or back 50.

The catch is: once the prisoners decide on a strategy, they are not permitted to communicate anymore.