skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty straightforward to make the good/bad judgement about child pornography. (I like Tor; unlike WL, my Tor reservations are entirely technical).
Ask HN: What are the benefits of a small business using Groupon?
Besides the foot traffic.
I'm sure he has insurance. What's the fun of a nice car if you are too paranoid to use it?
Rob is quite a character, but there's no question he has a huge heart for this kind of stuff.

He was an organizer of Spaceset at JPL when I went there in the 90's. It was basically a space-colonization-themed mock Startup Weekend for high schoolers. And that's when he was plenty busy as the president of BSDI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Design

I'm pretty impressed to see him coaching this. The guy is indefatigable.
I kill myself in order to see our projects succeed, and so it is only fair in my mind that the folks who join my team do the same.

It's not 80 hours a week every week, but certainly there are those weeks. The truth is it's probably not as hard as I make it seem in this video, but this video is my HR marketing.

The weak people who see a video like this go "oh that guys a jerk I would never work for him," and that's EXACTLY what I want.

Now, the folks who are looking to double or triple their salaries, grow their technical skills 5-10x in a year and learn how to run their own companies, those people see a video like that and say "sign me up! I want to be a Jedi! I want to be a Samurai!"

I then give those folks a lightsaber and teach them how to run a company from raising money, to hiring and to developing a strategy.

If you look at the folks who have joined my teams you will find a long line of folks who have becoming millionaires working for me, and then gone on to raise millions in venture capital for their companies--and in some cases make millions (again)!

The folks who don't know me, and are so weak that they waste their time throwing rocks at me, take the time to attack on a thread like this.... but they've never spent a day with me! They don't know me, but they waste time commenting on what they don't know.

I find that funny and sad, and I appreciate the attention because all it does is send more potential Jedi my way.

Keep hating haters... I love it.
Most people would agree that Stanford is better than many of the Ivy schools.

As a graduate of Dartmouth, I see your point. (Of course, opinions are...)
I don't know if Groupon made a mistake, only time will tell, but this statement irked me a bit:

VC: “Founders make different decisions when money doesnt matter. He doesnt HAVE to sell, so he can wait. He can do what he thinks is right for the business. He can focus on his legacy.”

This can easily be the other way around: the founder chooses to focus on his legacy instead of what is right for the business.
Encryption and decryption for https could benefit quite a bit, I would think.
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I don't think upvoting functions well when it is merely used to express agreement.
Why would you downvote a bit of background information?
If it makes $30k of revenue a year and you don't think that revenue stream is about to stop, this is a good investment. Do it.
GPUs do support branching, though it causes a performance hit if nearby threads do not take the same branch.

They also have a form of cache now. You can switch it from a hardware-managed cache to a user-managed cache at will. Its not as large and has some limitations.
A small business offers a deep discount in hopes of future repeat business at the regular price.
It was a blast to watch you grow from an outsider in the industry with some raw skills, into an in-demand Jedi Randall! Continued success and I can't wait until you start your own company and pitch at the Open Angel Forum!
Very simple answer: there is a shortage of good engineers, but a glut of crappy ones.
ding! ding! ding! why waste the time hating on me
Long Curly Hair styles
Long curly hairstyles put the curls on display for the world to see, whether the curly hairstyle is worn up or worn down in a variety of styles....
Ask HN: Moving from the UK to Silicon Valley
Can anyone help explain to me how someone from the UK can move out to Silicon Valley
(or share their experiences)? I'm currently working managing J2EE "turn-the-handle" projects for enterprise software but it's not where my heart is. I want to be solving web-scale problems for millions of users and making my mark.

Silicon Valley seems like the place to be to achieve that.

What are my options for going out there? So far, I'm considering applying to the big companies such as Google/Facebook - are there other options I'm missing?

My risk level has to be fairly low as I have a supportive wife and children to bring with me! (note this obviously isn't my real account, but I will be eagerly looking for responses).
That's certainly the main idea of Mike Cassidy:

http://venturehacks.com/articles/speed
Actually, I would re-read the post.

I say clearly that you can start with a good domain that might cost only $10 to $2,000 and THEN use your VC/angel money to upgrade the domain later (like delicious did, for example).

$133k on domain names is insignificant. Don't be impressed by it... CNET owns $20M in domains, AOL owns $50m in domain names and there are many individuals who own millions.

My point in listing the domains I've gotten and how much I've spent for them is that it is a) not that expensive compared to the value they provide and b) that I've got some experience in this space and you might want to listen and read what I'm saying.

Please go back and a) re-read the piece and b) don't be so obsessed with big number.

jcal

http://launch.is/blog/2010/12/3/how-to-name-your-startup-and...
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Very interesting, lots of good insights.

danah boyd and Nicole Ellison's Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship from 2007 covers the first half of them same time period Mark's writing about. what's intereting is that their timeline starts in 1997 with Six Degrees, then LiveJournal, Asian Avenue, Black Planet, LunarStorm, MiGente, Ryze, and Cyworld -- all before Friendster in 2002 and MySpace in 2003.

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
"I have worked hard to get my founders as little as $25,000 to pay off credit cards and student loans. Or, in a small deal that closed this week, I was able to get a founder the money so he can pay for his wedding and not have to worry about taking on debt."

Am I the only one who finds this despicable, and probably bad business too? The one person in the company making the most sacrifices, taking the biggest risks and working the hardest is the one that can't even pay for his own wedding. Even when there are millions floating around in VC money.
1) You get cut a check for a substantial amount of money, potentially weeks or months in advance of having to provide the good/service which justifies the money.

2) Exposure to a new audience, who you could ideally:

a) convert into recurring customers

b) upsell into more lucrative services

c) use as social proof / infection vectors for recruiting more customers

3) Did I mention the cash flow thing? Seriously. I think that is huge. Groupon is in the business of calling people on the phone and promising to give them a lot of money. And they do it.
I am always amazed by the power of netcat.
It's possible they were turning down the terms of the deal. If someone offered me 1M for my site, I'd take it in a heartbeat. If someone offered me 1M and I had to dance nude in the lobby for a year... I'd still take it. But some people wouldn't and observers would say they turned down 1M.
Although I find it somewhat strange that people didn't use all those previous predatory practices of PayPal as an opportunity to look for alternatives, I'm glad they take at least this opportunity.

In my opinion, PalPal should have boycotted for years because of what they did to many other people and organizations, especially to non-profit-making organizations.

EDIT: I don't know why your comment has been voted down, but I didn't vote up because to me it is pretty obvious that the submission of this article is connected to the Wikileaks story.
As Pardo says, "There's no shortage of smart, hardworking engineers. There's a shortage of smart, hardworking engineers willing to work for very little money." - Piaw Na
Actually, in startups everyone is aligned in their interest due to stock options. Anyone who looks at it as employer/employee just doesn't get the startup dynamic. As an investor in 20 startups I'm constantly pushing to give more stock options to employees, and as the founder of three companies with over 100 f/t employees and 250 part-time folks, I'm constantly pushing to increase stock compensation over cash comp. Why
It's not "free" though. It's just a switch port to Comcast. It costs Comcast almost nothing. They still have to deliver the content anyway. At the tier 1 level, the Internet has always worked as a "you pay the cost for transferring packets on your own network" basis. It'd be one thing if Comcast was trying to charge L3 for carrying traffic to other networks, but Comcast is trying to extort fees for carrying packets on it's own network to it's own customers. That's messed up.

Comcast's customers already pay AT LEAST $0.18/GB, but it's more around _NINETY CENTS_ a gigabyte, considering most of their customers pay around $45/mo and use less than 50GB of bandwidth per month.
Great essay -- although parts of it are very 1996 :-)

The whole "past trying to rule the future" dynamic he talks about here remains incredibly relevant. Oh yeah and this too:

"In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media."
Watching you go from drop out to samurai/killer/jedi has been thrilling. Some day you'll start your own company, present at the Open Angel Forum and launch at the LAUNCH conference (www.launch.is), and I'll be lucky enough to invest!!! Keep rocking Mike!
Or, you're reading it like a young, naive child, whose mother won't let you up into the neighbor's tree house. One of those two.
Despite attacks, Wikileaks Swedish host won't budge
Or internet discovery month, for those that did not travel this part of the internet during those times. The age of an article does not necessarily negate its worthiness of being read or spoken about.
I never realized that the small businesses got their checks so early. I always assumed that Groupon would wait a while (30 days or so) before sending any money.
Political power and influence usually begin with an individual writing an idealistic essay...

Thomas Jefferson,
Ron Paul,
Adolf Hitler, (prisoner to Chancellor in under 10 years),
Barack Obama (nobody to President in under 10 years)

...I could go on, but I'll let others add names and stories
I realised I should probably sell myself a little here, just in case someone is reading who can make this happen!

I've got a Comp Sci PhD and have been working in software development for the last eight years or so. I've working on machine vision projects from digital ophthalmoscopes to sateliite imaging. I spent a couple of years at an awesome startup in the UK trying to reinvent integrated development environments; neat ideas that didn't make a commercial success, but did enable me to learn a lot and introduced me to the wonderful world of Lisp.

For the past four years I've been at a large software company, but I've drifted up the management ladder as the technical ladder just doesn't exist. I have, however, managed to get some cool stuff in place (code-generation for writing new components, fuzz-testing security tools and much faster core component). Unfortunately, now I'm mostly an email proxy by day and a Haskell hacker by night...

Now I'm looking for a technical role where I can work on tough problems, hopefully succeed, and work my way up from there.

If there is opportunity out there, reply on here and I will contact you and give you more information about me. Thanks for reading this comment (and more generally, thanks HN for reminding me there is a world of fun problems that I should be solving).
Might I add: on uninteresting problems under terrible working conditions.
That's funny, there are a lot of engineers! Mechanical engineers, civil engineers, electrical engineers, etc.

Oh wait, I think they meant Computer Scientists or Programmers.
1. I was replying to your statement that eval() required an interpreter. My antagonism was mostly in jest since I vaguely remembered your name, but I also believe in discussions without arguments from authority.

2. Lisp can eval a string that has been constructed at runtime. That's kind of the point of a repl, for example, which can be implemented by compiling each unit of input to native code before executing it.

3. The Python community shuns the use of eval. Are you really claiming that Python's eval is used in fundamentally more dynamic ways than Lisp's? Or is it that Lisp's eval usually operates on input that is constructed differently? Or that Lispers tend not to put eval in an inner loop, but some important Python programs do? I understand that there are attributes of Python that make compilation hard compared to a Lisp, but I'm not aware of something that makes it impossible or guarantees that compilation cannot be performant. Maybe I need to read chapter 6 of your thesis.
Well, I don't know you Marc, so until you come in for an coffee I can't make a decision on your hire-ability.

Pros: you know how to get attention for yourself by using the classic Calacanis-HN link-baiting technique; you're not afraid to mix it up in the comments.

Cons: you seem like a whinny, entitled kid--I'm guessing you complain about a bunch of tiny things and you'll probably be a rice picker and not a samurai due to this; your writing is weak, and doesn't show much logical.

Of course, these are superficial judgements.... come to Mahalo for launch next time you're in Santa Monica, meet the team, see what we're doing and then write another blog post....

or maybe that would take actual effort as opposed to just firing off a blog post slamming someone you don't know
In some ways it's not a sacrifice for those people. If someone got me an investment and paid for my wedding so I wouldn't have to, while getting to work on a project with VC connections, have I 'sacrificed' all that much?

I get where you're going - there's plenty of 'entrepreneurs' (see earlier trending article) who give up stable jobs/raises/etc with no guarantee of a payoff. But the people who are getting VCs to pay off student loans aren't the ones making sacrifices (imo).

One could turn this around from an investor's point of view too. If this kid can't manage her finances well enough so that they need a $20k 'quick fix' to pay off their credit cards, why should I invest my money in her idea, or even her as a person? How are they going to run a business? If I as an investor have to put up the money and put up the 'experience', perhaps I can find someone else with better financial skills.
sir, please don't introduce a fair and logical argument to a bash-Calacanis-on-HN thread or we will vote you down!
Neal Wu's a nice kid in addition to being ridiculously smart. Went to my high school and was friends with my little brother.

He's ranked 4th worldwide in Algorithms on Topcoder (everyone, not just high schoolers): http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=22663.... I think he interned at fb recently too.
Forgive me but, in part, wasn't that what the United States' government was made to be?
or maybe even a software engineer...
Please don't introduce a fair and logical argument in this thread or you will be voted down by the SEOs who have 20 astroturf accounts designed to slam me.
FaceCash (http://www.facecash.com) should be in the list, too. We're not international yet, however.
I think Fred may be right about this adolescent stage of investing being the best. But not because I think there is a bubble on the angel side; rather I think there are just a lot of stupid people throwing their money away. I think the situation is more analogous to playing poker with a bunch of morons who are pushing the good players out by betting at random. However on a whole the good startups are only somewhat overvalued, perhaps to the point where rational people may be hesitant to invest, but not to the point where there is some crazy speculative frenzy.
I couldn't agree more with your statement....
Quit my job and walked away from 50% pay-rise to build my own startup instead.

Spent two months in Berlin.
I've ran into a few people out of work who were "in IT." They are almost always some kind of one-trick pony who has spent the last 20 years writing SQL for Crystal Reports or administering Novell servers or maintaining VB 6.0 applications. They didn't bother to modernize their skills and now they're stuck. I hope I never get like this.
First you make a law but don't enforce it. Nobody fights it off. Then when it is established, it starts getting enforced. If you want to steal away human rights (right to make copies of data that you own), you can't just do it all at once, you have to move slowly.
Here is a link that you might be able to use to avoid the user-login wall.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&v...
I like this idea and will begin seeding their torrents post-haste. However, how do we make sure that the people who need to see the information find the torrents?
(I was mostly teasing.) :-)
Dunno, I wasn't there. To me it seems that the U.S. government is probably the furthest-removed from the people among western nations - and Americans are by far the least trusting of government.
This is a nice addition to the list.

However, their main site takes about 13 seconds to load. This is quite slow for a company that advertises their service to be "quick like a fox".
I did indeed, thanks for catching that.
> * Low latency GPU-CPU interaction via L3 cache

Intel's GPUs kinda suck so I'm not sure how much performance you're going to get out of them even with the so called "low-latency" interconnect. On the AMD side, they have better GPUs, but unfortunately Ontario (and I believe Llano as well) don't even share northbridges, leave alone L3 cache.
Twitter hosted on Google App Engine?
No, the EFF does not have a position in favor of the abolition of any of the random grab-bag of rights known as "IP rights". Some of its board members have such positions, while others have quite contrary positions. As a result, the organization compromises.
Regardless of your favored method of distribution, make sure you consider the consequences of sharing classified documents.

Those consequences are probably negligible for the overwhelming majority here, but for anybody anticipating getting a US security clearance within the next seven years, you're likely shooting yourself in the foot. You'll either have to reveal the fact that you've disclosed classified material, or else lie under oath. Neither of those being ideal if you're trying to get that job.

It also conflicts with your clearance if you're already holding one.

I'm not saying you should or shouldn't support Wikileaks. Just make sure you give it adequate thought before jumping on a torrent.
I guess apophenia's alway ironic when there really is a pattern because then you'd have meta-apophenia?

(It seems it'd be surprising if there weren't seasonal effects, eg, students looking for a place to live. I almost feel like you can see a peak each July -- I probably do really have apophenia here.)
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It made me laugh that so many of them point to 49. 57 is good too.
Wish you luck with appointmentremider and i hope to hear about in the level of detail you give us about bingocardcreator all the time! Very nice, you are probably the most motivating person for me on HN! :)
What does overall US internet usage look like over the same period?
I'm sitting with my iPhone in one hand, reading your post, and before this I checked my Facebook account using the native iPhone client and now I'm wondering ... what the hell are you talking about?

Do you think the hard part of building something like Facebook is that stupid native client (that can sync just fine)?
Good call. I am not usually into the sort of activism that involves boycotts because I find them counter-productive, but I'd rather support my local bookstores anyways so I might as well be vocal about it.
Very nice!Not the Money Bookers, they sell your email addresses!
"My hope is that our employees never, ever feel patronized, belittled or small."

Anyone applying to your company after having read that pile of patronizing crap are probably genetically incapable of feeling patronized or belittled.

(Seriously, I don't think I know a single highly qualified person who wouldn't quit the same day if you showed up and told them that this is how the company will be run from now on, and half of them would punch you in the face on the way out.)
well, it's great then :)
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Just a quick note, this guy did the art for my absolute favorite game of all time, Tyrian. Definitely worth some play on dosbox at the least ;)
I'm so glad the original (and fixed) Z80 code was shown, rather than some pseudocode or a C equivalent version. Now I actually get what the problem is -- all I've ever seen are descriptions of the problem.
oops on the date, i changed it to "written earlier"

okay, fair enough: if people thought my comment was obvious, i can see why they voted it down. thanks!
The photo on that article is surreal.

Looks like a smug teenager in a t-shirt surrounded by old men in suits, grinning (at how much money he's making them?)
On my machine, it took 1.47 seconds according to Firebug. Where are you located?
Direct link to the PDF for Scribd Haters: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2577298/Hiring-for-Happiness.pdf
It's not a "prediction" if they've already started doing it, dude(tte).

Prediction: Apple will do away with optical drives.

Prediction: Apple will bring iOS features into MacOS X.

Prediction: Apple will make their laptops smaller and slimmer.

Prediction: Apple will do away with floppy drives.
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A minor factual correction: identi.ca is a product of StatusNet, Inc., which has at least three employees at the moment. Evan did not build it "in his spare time". However, it's true that you could take the StatusNet code and use it to build a product like Yammer "in your spare time" if you were a "competitor in the intranet space".
The headline should read: "iPhone version of mobile application outsells Windows Phone 7 version 10-1".
Studying Zheng He and the reasons for China's deliberate withdrawal from exploration and the outer world seem particularly relevent at this time, especially in the USA.

The USA is apparently giving up on manned space flight, we haven't put a human outside earth orbit since 1972, and we're trying to lock down the current economic status quo with copyrights, patents, and "intellectual property". The USA, or at least its current economic elite, has given up on the future.
For folks thinking of working at a startup where stock options (and their potential) are part of the decision criteria, it is important to ensure that there is at least high-level alignment of goals and incentives between employees and founders.
Without prejudice (meaning I'm not making any statement on the idea of boycotting Amazon), I find Book Depository (http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/) often to be cheaper than Amazon, and it has free worldwide shipping.