skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple of quick points, though this is a very subjective topic so these might or might not apply.

1. Know that 99% of deals fall through. This one will also, except when it won't. More importantly, the deal is only done when the cash hits the bank. Deals are known to fall through even at very late stage. Falling through is the norm, going through is the exception.

2. Be open about numbers, growth etc. Be closed(vague) about strategy, execution plan etc. You need to be open about the numbers to give them confidence. You need to be closed about strategy, execution plan because a huge number of deals fall through because the acquirer decides to build the same stuff inhouse (typically prodded on by internal engineering teams)

3. Build confidence. Talk about how this marriage will be best for both the teams. Reserve the negotiations around cash towards the end of the deal. When you start negotiating about cash, the deal is already done.(Except when it isn't - see point 1). Negotiating the deal is though topic for another post.

4. Decision making in big companies is slow and hard. The decision to acquire your startup will need to be driven by someone internally in that company. Find out who your 'champion' is in that company. Maintain regular contact with him, though dont push him too much. If some time elapses without any communication, ping him and check with him.

5. Most deals that go through will go through quickly. The decision in most of the deals which go through is already made. You just need to nod your way along in such cases. In other cases there will be just one big issue that you need to build confidence upon. If the talks get extended, it is likely that the deal will not go through.

6. The Zen Rule for Deals: Assume that the deal will NOT go through and plan your startup accordingly. The person who is willing to walk away is the stronger person in any deal. Detachment will allow you to negotiate from a position of strength.
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The NYTimes and Guardian were founded in the 1800s. They have a long history behind them. Everybody knows who they are. If the government tried to shut them down, people will be seriously alarmed.

Try to silence WikiLeaks and I beat that 95% (or more) of the average Joe on the street will have no idea who they are. Why do they care? They don't know and probably wouldn't care.

Sometimes people need to stand up and protest. Their actions are as harmful as holding hands in the street and blocking traffic. People did that before and it was considered peaceful protest. Almost the same, but they blocked internet traffic.
The parallels aren't that far-fetched. During the early days of the French Revolution, everybody was pissed but no one could agree at what. Everyone wanted change, but no one could agree what that change should look like.

More pointedly, it was a time of great cultural upheaval. A slough of philosophers emerged, each advocating a worldview distinct from, but related to, the other. New ideas began to take hold, and a populace that was previously insulated against the spread of information began to be exposed to new ideas. Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot and Montesquieu brought new ideas to the national dialogue, while dissatisfaction with the Three Estate system (monarchy, church, everyone else - government, corporations, everyone else) led to widespread unrest. All of this happened during an economic crisis where the irresponsible spending of the French Crown had all but bankrupted the nation.

Have a read for yourself. The parallels are there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Pre-revolutio...
Have you started responding to job applications yet?

I've had friends apply for positions (with amazing, enticing and fun cover letters), and then, after a week or so of hearing nothing following up to ensure that you've received their application only to to continue to hear complete silence.

Sending even a form rejection email takes no time at all, especially if you create a task reminding you to do so. Not responding when someone has put in a large amount of effort to create a tailored resume and unique & fun cover letter is extremely rude.

I switched task manager over this treatment and makes me embarrassed to call myself an Aussie.
Does anybody have any details on the the technical side of these attacks and what happens when anon decides to fire all phasers at a target? My impression is of a loose group of individuals herding a diverse range of botnets and attacks which they bring to force on command from an agreed upon leadership (or a target consensus is reached)?

Are they using the latest bunch of 'best-practices' to take down a site? (e.g. slowloris, UDP flooding, DNS or TCP amplification, TCP SYN attacks, whatever is flavour of the month)

With all the fluff and the bluster being written about them I haven't seen a good technical analysis so I'd love to hear any info you might have.
I don't assume it has to be, but that's the way it's been through all of human history, and I'm guessing we're several thousands of years away from that changing.
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Sure. I couldn't find your email in your profile either! Or in your blog. Tsk tsk, HN. (and I mean the site, not you.)

Anyway, feel free to contact me.
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Totally independent of any issues regarding Wikileaks and DDoS attacks, I was reacting to Alex3917's statement:

A mob is just a group of people. If we are ever going to have a free, just, and rational society then by definition the mob is going to have to support freedom, justice, and rationality.

That's not true. 'Mobs', specifically, are unruly assemblages and more often irrational, unjust, and freedom-destroying. A mob doesn't have to be brought around to righteous thinking for society to function; it has to be dissolved, and stop acting like a mob. Ideally this is when its smartest members wake from an angry emotional trance and choose to become other kinds of 'groups of people' that work better for rational and just aims. But sometimes it's when adults say, enough is enough, and apply hard force against the mob.

Actual mobs sweep tyrants into power, either populist tyrants, or reactionary tyrants. The framers of the US Constitution understood this, at least.

Let's not fetishize the idea of mobs as any mass action in the name of some murky form of 'social justice'.
Not that there is any correlation (Heroku's awesome and those guys are simply great talent) but, RoR start-ups seem to be doing amazing nowadays with Hulu in high eval, Groupon rumored to reject a $5B deal, Twitter with its momentum, and now Heroku.
http://mangoblog.org/

I know the developer - she is awesome!
Freedom of the press is about protecting the press from the government. It is not about forcing private companies to run their businesses according to the diktats of small group of anonymous geeks.
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That's incorrect. They really do use eight 1.5v button cells to make those 12v batteries. Here's some verification:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue-vFjDxmB4

You're probably thinking of this 6 volt battery hack video, which is actually a joke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzgDffMcsUU
Get the audience first. Tailor your work to what the audience wants to buy. Then get the books written. Don't write a book and then look for an audience unless you're doing it for fun or sheer passion in the topic you're writing about. Approach it like a startup.
You said : Why else would they do it ?
And someone above posted this link : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-us-rus...

Visa and Mastercard are different from Apple because they did what they did when the government stepped in.
"Beautiful women should take up chess. Anna Dreber, Christer Gerdes and Patrik Gransmark wrote a Stockholm University working paper in which they found that male chess players pursue riskier strategies when they’re facing attractive female opponents, even though the risk-taking didn’t improve their performance."This one
#4 is the most important on the list. There is someone championing this. You must figure out how they are, and what their motivations are. Not only to help the deal through, but understanding their motivations will help you understand if it's right for your team.

Are they buying you just to get you out of the way? Is that ok with you?
Haha are you even reading what you are typing?
I viewed http://github.com/languages a couple of hours ago, and ruby was still at #1. Very cool that js is now on top of the hill!

(for the disbelievers: it's really not that hard to fathom, especially considering the recent growth of legitimate JavaScript runtime environments)

Keep rocking the boat JS! We need it
I wasn't talking about orgs - but the ethos at the intersection of transparency, internet culture, etc. - which I think must be admitted to have quite an overlap.

I'm using widely to mean between 5% to even 20% of people - perhaps if you briefly talked with them about it. It's not a subject like religion where people are hard fast - I've already talked to many in their 60's who think WikiLeaks is overall doing good things and likes to see "the man" take a hit. Unless you're right-winger who already overuses "treason" in your political discourse - I think there's room for debate on this issue with WikiLeaks gaining some legitimacy.
Actual conflicts from working with the same fields in the same tables are so rare, I haven't even experienced it once.

However, the second scenario would happen every single day in a team.
Good examples indeed! Especially the one about Rosie Parks. Of all the possible examples in the history of the world of disrupting business operations in a way that inconveniences people, I can see why that one came first to mind. Perfect analogue for a DoS attack: Denial of Seat!. Brilliant!
och din söta vän är nästa.

Which is "and your cute friend is next" in Swedish, in case you were wondering. :)

As least according to: http://translate.google.com/#en|sv|and%20your%20cute%20frien....
Why don't they collide at the source level? I'm assuming the db updates get checked into your central source code repo. Wouldn't the collision happen at that time?

What happens when developers create branches and use time stamps? Developer A working on trunk might check in db updates at 4pm and 5pm. Developer B working on a branch checks db updates into his branch at 4:30pm and 5:30pm. When working on the branch his db updates don't affect the "trunk" db. As soon as he merges does his 4:30pm update get run on the "trunk" db, or is it skipped over because the 5pm db update already ran, and only the 5:30pm change gets run?

Where I come from we use int values for our db update script names. When I merge from a branch I renumber my db update script file names starting at the tip int value +1 of the trunk db update.

fyi - I'm not coming from a Ruby/Rails perspective, if that matters.
He means the grandparent made him laugh so hard, he spit out the food he was eating. It's a compliment, not a criticism.
Cloaking (the name for faking out the google-bot) is NOT cool by Google. There are ways to accomplish the same thing without cloaking, for example making sure content loads first, keeping markup and presentation away from the main HTML, etc.
TripAdvisor is hiring Linux sysadmins for both corporate IT and livesite operations based in Newton, MA.

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FTA:
It was a huge confidence booster that I will take with me into my future projects. I hope to interview with YC again with whatever project I happen on next (maybe Fready?)
I would love to learn Lojban. But when I'm feeling pragmatic, I think it
might be easier to to find someone to practice with if I tried to learn
Esperanto.
I am a philosophy major.

Algorithms are fundamental to good arguments, and in fact, knowledge in general.

Doing philosophy (especially logic & analytic philosophy of language and mind) has enabled me to see through the bullshit and know where the really interesting areas are to pay attention. Often a bunch of folks will turn off in class when discussing something that they see as just some sort of industry standard, and doing philosophy enables me to see the logical reasons why a particular strategy was adapted.

I can't imagine how anyone does computer science seriously without a philosophical interest in it.
Apparently caving to DDoS attacks, PayPal releases WikiLeaks’ funds
It's going to hurt anyone who's dependent upon real-time payments for their cash-flow, which, last I checked, is anyone who runs an online business.

Besides, what gives you the right to interfere with their business? They, like any other business, have the right to refuse service to anyone.
According to Wikipedia, the Ship of Theseus problem questions whether an object that has had all of its components replaced is still fundamentally the same object.

<pedantry> If each part is replaced in series, and the identity of the object remains the same after each step, then clearly the object remains the same. For humans identity is thus based on recognizing what you have seen before; it acknowledges mutable state. In this case, if you consider the brand as a mutable property of the object, then yes, the identity of PLT-Scheme and Racket are the same. </pedantry>
I don't know if JavaScript had much to do with its own success. I would say that JavaScript has succeeded, in spite of itself, due to increasing focus on web applications.

Not to imply JavaScript is a "bad" language - I just don't think people are rushing out code in JavaScript because of the language itself, but because the position that it is in.
Without commenting on the morality of LOIC, what makes its current use illegal are laws, passed by legislatures.

Pick a jurisdiction and you'll find some law forbidding DDOS attacks. Here for example:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca190082/s...

That section would cover anyone from NSW participating in this botnet and could be used to prosecute this guy if they find him:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/the-aussie-who-bli...
What's "why is your lawyer present?"
You gotta love competition between competent and confident engineers. Instead of criticizing and denigrating the competition's accomplishments Mandelin congratulates and analyzes the V8 team's successes.
I think he was talking about Django, but that Mango thing I didn't know it (a blog engine, by the way) and it looks great and interesting.
Please do not get distracted by your iphone while driving.

Also, what prevents people from purposely sending fake signals?
This is a really ignorant blog post about the accusations against Assange. Read my comments, I'm a huge supporter of what wikileaks is doing, but more trivializing of this situation is not what we need.

There is a lot of misinformation about the case out there. There is most likely interference from various intelligence agencies working the press in order to continue that misinformation.

But there are also some potentially very serious charges being made. We don't nearly know enough about the facts of what happened to make any assumptions either way about any parties involved. Any serious attempt to research the case results in many widely conflicting stories.

So I would suggest we stick to the work that Wikileaks is doing, and not get caught up in the tabloid scandal the media has made this to be.
What exactly are you looking for in a desktop app which the website doesn't provide?

I think a much better idea would be to incorporate GitHub support into a git client, such as tower.
+1. On more than one occasion I've seen startups flounder around during acquisition negotitions without actually pushing forward. 6 months later they're in trouble. I've even seen big companies use these negotiations as a stalling tactic.

Don't let it happen. Keep your foot on the gas, and make them put-up or shut-up. Get a letter of intent straight away. Due diligence isn't an excuse to stall. Negotiate a schedule and stick to it. If they can't meet their end (without obvious good reasons) forget it and move on.
PDF Unlock should be able to handle these:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/35106/pdf-unlock
Now you're playing technicalities. No one since 0 AD has likely manufactured something solely by themselves, because a carpenter building a house wasn't making his own nails and hammers and saws.

One person can easily manufacture a whole vehicle, no question about it. A chinese man hand-built a (somewhat) replica Lamborghini in his basement; an Italian man built his own supercar sans the Audi V8 engine; and people regularly build small engines, and this guy built most of his own V8 bike engine: http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2010/04/15/bmw-with-694cc-...

So I'm sorry, but it's easily capable. I wouldn't argue automobiles, because by the simplest definition an automobile is very easy to self-manufacture given that a vehicle doesn't require windshields, doors, lights, indicators, anything.

One man today can still easily (with time) construct their own home from ground up. I helped lay a 30'x30' cement floor with nothing but a shovel, mixer and barrow. Beyond that the house is easy and I've literally done everything else from brick laying to electrical and plumbing to siding and framing.

Like I said, an average person cannot do these things today.
Your peers are generally correct. I used a DX for technical papers and PDFs after going through the conversion hell you are stuck in (albeit with a Sony Reader) and then jumped to an iPad when it came out. The best advice I can offer is to hop over to mobileread.com and check out the forums to see what the current state of the art is. Back when I was doing two or three conversions a day the tools to use were Rastafarian and PDF2LRF but I am guessing there are better options available now. You may also want check out Calibre, which is an ebook library management app but one with a lot of built-in conversion routines.
You cannot seriously argue that Rosa Parks "shouldn't be propped up on shoulders" because she instigated the first event in a series of coordinated events that stopped the buses in Montgomery County. She was not a bad person. She made a stand against racial segregation, something we now all acknowledge as unjust.
In other news, Sweden no longer a destination country for single guys on holidays.

Denmark still looking good:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/862711/danish-womans-one-ni...

Scott Adams has a way with words.
Maybe I should have said any random combination of gems. Monkey-patching is fine for a small-ish ruby script, but start combining ActiveSupport with some others and you quickly run into weird order-depending loading issues because of the Monkey-patching.

I've found namespacing to be the solution and it doesn't really cause me too much friction when coding either.
> There is a lot of misinformation about the case out there.

Care to share ?
Do what you can to get links to your questions with the question title as anchor text.

1) Is it possible to require the question title as anchor text in the creative commons link that points to the question (and not a nofollow link obviously)?

2) Make a widget for embedding a question and chosen answer on a web page, along with a link back to the question, a la google maps.

3) Make a wordpress plugin that takes a stack overflow link and turns it into the question and chosen answer, with a link back to stack overflow.
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Retaliation over the internet is easier and safer, and the credit card companies were one of the few targets that is vulnerable to attack over the web.

(Here's to hoping somebody develops a virus to brick backscatter x-ray machines.)
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Well wikileaks would not have the problems it does if the government would not have interfered.

The government stepped in and `advised` the private companies that it wouldn't be in their best interest to continue doing business with wikileaks. Even though nothing illegal on the part of wikileaks has been proved.

Taking away the freedom of press doesn't mean shoot the leader in the head and imprison all the rest.

If they manage to isolate you enough , they've succeeded in taking away your freedom.
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A somewhat similar story: around the same time I was working on Numbler, a collaborative spreadsheet that I launched (unluckily) a couple of months before google spreadsheet went live. Numbler had some cool features that would enable you to see real time changes from other collaborators, see dynamic updates when someone else changed cell formulas, integration with internet data sources, etc.

I got the attention of Google and was flown into NYC for an interview / talk with the spreadsheet team. Similarly, I was also a one man shop since my founder had bailed on me and left for Google 3 months prior! Things went pear shaped when I failed to get through the algorithm gristmill. I had one poor interview with a beaver/rat ringed kid who was eager to demonstrate his intellectual superiority (or so it felt at the time).

The frustrating part is that as an entrepreneur your thoughts are ranging from how to make money/business model to UI design to backend engineering. I was expecting that the googlers would at least show some interest in Numbler - but that wasn't how the meetings were structured. The google PM (Fuzzy was his name) was interested, but seemed hamstrung by the google process. Google never asked me about any of the tricks I used work to build the UI, COMET style networking for responsiveness, etc.

In retrospect, Numbler was an acquisition play and needed a much better strategy and larger vision to succeed. I did end up with a google NYC t-shirt...
Well, for one, Assange is not only being charged with the obscure Swedish law of "sex by surprise", which is having sex without a condom, but also with rape.
I'd argue that "all projects with a [relational] database [and an ORM]" should rather move to modern tooling instead of writing migrations by hand.

Rails is surprisingly anachronistic here, which probably stems from that awful conceptual separation between model and schema.

Most other platforms have semi-automatic schema evolution that usually works very well (datamapper automigrate, django south, hibernate SchemaUpdate, etc.).
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In most of the cases, many of the same bits were redacted, mostly names, key details, etc. Some of the over-redaction probably comes from differing levels of "redactor paranoia" and "redactor laziness".

Paranoia: I know the whole text, and I don't see how someone wouldn't be able to deduce this without redacting more text.

laziness: I know there is some key bet in this chunk, ill just redact a few sentences instead of actually analyze.
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