skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super news for you guys, that's less than 18 months from launch to acquisition, really cool.

What I really love about this deal is this line:

"Before we go any further, let us address our users. FlightCaster.com will stay right where it is and continue to provide flight delay prediction for free. We're also making our mobile app free -- you can download it now. We'll continue to use our powerful algorithms to predict flight delays. We'll continue to push the envelope on getting the best travel intelligence to people when they need it."

How much better is that than: "hey our team just got acquired by Facebook/Some other 500 # gorilla and we'll be shutting down our service next week".

That really sets a good example on how it is done.
And until they "defer" anyone who say uses twitter to promote their business is in violation of the ToS?
I sold a reasonably popular (1MM searches a month at peak time) for a very small amount of money. It was a Bebo search engine, and as its popularity followed the trajectory of Bebo (except AOL didn't come knocking with 850,000,000 sheets).

I wrote about the story here and extracted a few lessons
http://destraynor.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/179-Le...
It's a good read (though I would say), I'm not pimping for traffic here, just letting you all know.

My main takeaway is that if you're building a business that depends entirely on another service (whether it's Bebo, twitter, Facebook, iPhones whatever), you're at the mercy of someone elses business decisions. If you're planning on building something valuable to last a long time, then that's the wrong place to start.

HTH
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RubyMine costs money. The reason my team uses it is for the refactoring tools and autocompletion capabilities. Though they do fight with it more often than not. According to them the refactoring tools makes it worth it.

I like Aptana 3. The problem is that the current version is not that incredible (a few quite annoying bugs), however I am waiting for good refactoring support.
Spot-on. Google used to talk a good game about combatting search spam, but once Demand Media and the ilk called their bluff Google chose to fold and opened the doors to an industrial-scale search spam industry. They may have stumbled into it, but now they're in a bind because taking on the spammers would have an immediate and noticeable hit on their revenue - but in the long term, surrendering to spam is going to undermine their reputation.
On the other hand, nothing says that the China censorship mechanism has to be consistent, in fact I'd almost expect them to be arbitrary and capricious.

It might be that whatever individual decided to ban this book would also have wanted to ban other the things you mention if they had been aware of them.
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"In 2003 he published a paper arguing that when people study success stories exclusively--as many avid devourers of business self-help books do--they come away with a vastly oversimplified idea of what it takes to succeed. This is because success is what economists refer to as a "noisy signal." It's chancy, fickle, and composed of so many moving parts that any one is basically meaningless in the context of the real world. By studying what successful ventures have in common (persistence, for instance), people miss the invaluable lessons contained in the far more common experience of failure. They ignore the high likelihood that a company will flop--the base rate--and wind up wildly overestimating the chances of success."
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LOL a bit off topic but his new profile picture is cool, the old one was a bit too stuffy.
Why do people keep trotting out this stupid pointless number.

Metcalfe's Law. The value of the CPAN increases dramatically with every addition, especially because of the maturity of the entire CPAN infrastructure: CPAN testers, CPANTS, annotations, reviews, dependency tracking, BackPAN tracking, gitpan, linked documentation, et cetera.
...and good news for those of us who are generally skeptical of "gurus".
I read TGP, and then I started using Google's Closure compiler. What I found was that Crokford recommends a lot of his own special ways of writing JS, and that they really aren't that great. To me Crokford's book is living in a pre-Closure-Compiler world, one where JSLint was the best tool to help you write good JS code, but in a CC world, Crokford's functional inheritance and use of JSLint are bad in the former, and unnecessary in the latter.

EDIT: Inheritance Patterns in JavaScript by Michael Bolin:

http://www.bolinfest.com/javascript/inheritance.php
You're being obtuse on purpose. But I'll bite:

> I am expecting to make money.

Merely expecting to make money doesn't make money. You have to have a plan to make money. You can expect things all you want, but they won't happen.

> And I am calling what I do a startup.

You can call what you do a startup. Calling it a startup doesn't make it so. A rose by any other name and all that jazz.

> And the my goal of the startup is to build new and interesting things.

See, that's your problem. You don't even know what you are building. "New and interesting things"? What is that? You have to be specific.

So, literally, you are expecting to make money from a startup where you build new and interesting things. You don't know what those new and interesting things are, or how you can make money from it, or even if you can make money from it. You don't have a business plan. You don't even know what market you'll be in (the building new and interesting things market?).
Visually, I think the old-style of exposé makes window discovery much easier. I find myself using exposé with hot corners almost every time I switch windows. I'm going to be using the mouse later to test something in a browser window, so I might as well use it for the hot corners, too.
Neither of these are examples of capitalism.
Firebug for something quick, Rhino for something that is repeated often enough to be scripted. Occasionally Chrome's built-in console, but I just don't like it it as much as firebug.

I've played with node.js a bit, but when I toyed with it it wasn't anywhere near production ready. (This was over a year ago, I might come back to it again sometime soon.)
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Who cares if it was acquired if the price isn't disclosed. Congrats anyway
Would have been interesting to learn if the "decent" websites converted better into buying than the "spam" sites.
TARP money wasn't "given away", it was loaned.

The banks have paid back all that money and the US treasury made a profit. The auto industry has also paid back their portion, but the government still holds some stock in the companies, so people can debate whether that portion of it is really "paid back".

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

and http://www.financialstability.gov/latest/tg_10082010.html
Wouldn't people that click on the ad links of the spam sites also click on the ad links of the non-spam sites?

So what's Google's benefit to annoy everybody with non-quality search results? I'd guess, the SEO is currently just too good.
Seriously wondering here: What's disrespectful about this announcement?
Google may be experimenting to find the right balance between spam and search quality. "Right" meaning the most profitable.
I'm guessing these terms are to protect against piracy. I don't think distributing apps via ad-hoc distribution (with the developer license) or through their enterprise program would have these restrictions.
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Pretty sure he was joking there?
why would it impact revenue if spam was removed, even temporarily?

Wouldn't the people who went to spamy sites go to the "good" sites and still click on these sites thus still make google money?

Unless you are suggesting that the spamy sites are the only ones available and if they disappeared searchers would not be shown results, I do not quite see why removing spam would hit the bottom line.
I'm talking about the days, weeks, and months that precede these eureka moments. The customer who hugs you tearfully, thanking your for changing their life may show up tomorrow, but today all you can see is an app that nobody seems to be using.

Those can be rough times. If it's an app that you use (ie. eat your own dog food), that can help you through this stage. Otherwise, motivation can deplete quickly and you walk away before meeting the person whose life you would have changed.
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I actually leave my house at 6pm. Arrive by 7 or so. So its not like you need to be there right at 6pm. Its very flexible and very easy to get in and conversate.
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>Consumption isn't useful to society.

That seems absurd on it's face. If there is no one to consumer what exactly are the producers selling?

>A developer (potentially earning $200k/year) who builds an application can be hundreds or thousands of times more productive than a secretary (potentially earning $20k/year).

Exactly. Surely you're not under the impression that programmers are in the top 1%? Maybe one or two of them but the post I commented on contended that the most productive people are the most wealthy. Nothing could be further from the truth.

>The same applies to a manager who streamlines a production process

If you find a CEO who actually does this (has to be CEO to break the top 1% who are apparently so much more productive than anyone else). I've seen many CEOs ruin things in my career and I've seen many be nearly irrelevant but I can only think of a couple of CEOs who actually made a huge and obvious difference to their company (e.g. Steve Jobs).
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Can you elaborate on the trust issue?
I've learnt a lot from this, but still digesting some parts of it. Thanks a lot, I missed it the other time
The Little Schemer would be great in this format.
I'm pretty sure it has to do with the material of examples used in the book rather than with the actual theory.
Here is the source: https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSLint
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I apparently double-posted my comment, and deleted the duplicate, your parent, before your post was committed. Sorry about that. I also modified the other version, which, in some sort of karmic reaction, is now dead. Let me

1. Repost the modified dead parent:

> Probably because they're using Bayesian filters on various security fronts: internal threat analysis, the great firewall, whatever side projects some bureaucrat is using to pad his income.

>edit: This is a problem with classification/censorship schemes: the censors/classifiers are all stove-piped, so their decisions come with a high degree of variability. The censor may well have been unaware that this is a whole field of work, or, is aware, but isn't responsible for the censoring decisions about all other related titles.

2. point to Feynman's accounts of censorship at Los Alamos as just how dense censors are: http://goo.gl/nfxqp

Ultimately, I think you're right, this doesn't make sense, except in some colloquial circumstance that is already water under the bridge for the actors.
"Bayesian Statistics are just a theory. Teachers should be required to state this to students and also to give equal time to alternate theories, such as the theory of Intelligent Predetermination."

Are things in China that crazy?
I really want this to work and I've played around with it a few times, but I've always gone back to Mathematica. I don't know if that's because I haven't invested the time needed with Sage or if its not really a replacement. I'd be very interested to hear from someone who completely made the switch.
This is a great example of how to consume the Twitter Firehouse data stream using C# and the .NET Framework. I like how it decouples the problems into data acquisition and data processing solutions. Good example code. Thanks for sharing!
I don't understand why this got down voted. You can't assume that users will have experience with the internet.
I work with a lot of people have little experience with technology and the internet and whose second language is English and they don't understand when they see "submit."
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How much??
If they try to ban Chinese citizens from international conferences and journals in anything related to Bayesian methods, I can tell you firsthand that a lot of math/CS/ML/AI conferences will shrivel up quite a bit. They won't die, but it'll be like the Cold War, where Russian mathematicians made advances that were insulated from the west for many years, and vice versa. A net loss for everyone, especially in a topic as fundamental as Bayesian methods.
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"this is going to massively hurt the non-ECN capable hosts in the network"

Where does the author say that? And why would it? ECN wasn't designed to screw non-ECN hosts; it's supposed to be incrementally deployable. AFAIK, the only reason it hasn't been deployed is because a small percentage of home gateways are buggy WRT ECN.
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Why is all the content flushed to the right? It's making it hard to read the content and actually get a sense for what Mug is all about.
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Well it's a two pronged idea - a) how do you know someone is who they say they are on the internet (i.e. in a social setting anonymity can have its downsides) and b) even "known" people can be untrustworthy and jerks or simply "not your type of person".

So the question we went for was "can we build a trust based social network where peoples interrelations helped show others how trustworthy (aka sound) they are".

The long term idea was to kick of a trusted identity scheme and wrap a social network on top. The build out from that was a social dating site which we would monetize.

It failed for a few reasons. The concept wasn't well defined, and neither was the problem in all honesty. We were excited about the tech and less so about the execution, spent a lot of time working on the caching code and some framework code etc. and not enough time executing the idea. We never launched (though we could have a couple of times).

The other problem was that the idea would have synced with the tech crowd - but probably less so with the mass market, and we didn't put any thought into how to get the idea across to them.

It wasn't a total failure; I sold some of the code to another social network startup for a lot more than it was worth. They were a VC backed outfit that floundered shortly afterward - so I wasn't the worst example out there :P
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Congratulations! Flightcaster seems like an awesome execution. Now I'm excited to see what you have planned... even though Woven is ambitious, you have the track record to pull it off!
It seems like a joke at first, but once you take into account China's previous actions it's actually quite likely.
Irrelevant. Look at any standard of living study. They'll all have most of western Europe above the US for the average person. Most western European countries have more incoming migration than they are comfortable with.

I also think you'll find that migration pressure to the US has started to slow. You may still have a large amount from Mexico but that is about opportunity, not a testament of the US being the place to be.
If you could go back and change anything the last 13 years would you?

35 is still young too, plenty of successful founders at 35, albeit less common then under 30.
Is it? Isnt that what we are told?

Why did it collapse then?
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Most cable modems and wireless routers have similar problems. You can easily test your cable connection. Upload a large file to a fast server while watching ping times.
Congrats! I've always been curious how the conversation goes when one company reaches out to another in hopes of being acquired. Do deals like this usually happen as stock swaps?
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I do. QE1, QE Lite, and QE2 might not be there, yet. But QE3, QE4, and QE5 are all but inevitable.

It's just a matter of time.
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>CPAN increases dramatically with every addition

Demonstrably nonsense. Let me add a new module called ACME::DoNothing. What have I increased besides disk space and a meaningless module count?
Not doing so would a breech of their fiduciary responsibility to their share holders.
1.3 Billion can't be wrong.
Oh man! I am a musician by trade (I like to treat it like a small business, which is why I read HN) and have performed at Four Courts in Arlington several times - great atmosphere, beer selection, and staff. Who doesn't love a thick Irish accent? In fact I'll be one city over later that night performing in Alexandria around 10pm. How long do these meetups last?
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Unless you are forbidden to publish books on Evolution in the US, then yes, things in China are that crazy.
I am American.. I am not an expert, but my my impression is that the United States will inevitably be less wealthy then it is now relative to other countries in the world. I think the primary reason for this will be growth in developing countries and not any kind of immediate economic collapse here.

We have a lot of problems with education, deteriorating infrastructure, infective political decision making, etc, but the US is still ahead of most of the world in these areas. I really wouldn't worried about coming here to work if it is a good opportunity in terms of salary/career etc.
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I don't understand why they changed Exposé to proportional windows. It's not as easy to find what you're looking for--relative window size was the easiest way (for me) to quickly understand which window is which.
I don't think it's crazy. As someone already said the objections are probably related to the examples mentioned on the book (election results and other "controversial" subjects).
Crazy is superficial, this is, in my opinion, sad but not crazy or stupid.
Lots of reasons. You could watch the movie "Reds" with Warren Beatty. It's just a movie, but it should be a good jumping off place to see what parts to investigate.

For example, I'm sure sanctions from the rest of the world [1] from the beginning didn't do them any favors. Having a wolf in with the hens (named Stalin) was also unfortunate.

[1] All terrified that revolution would kick off in their countries. Justified fear as well, it did just that in Spain.
Does anybody really believe that Google engineers are stupid enough to think that it is good for them to serve spam to their users? This cockamamie conspiracy theory is getting really old.
No performance problems for me - Chrome, Mac OS X 10.6, MacBook Air.
The effect of loading the first page of that paper was staggering. Just seeing LaTeX (well, Knuth's 'Computer Modern' font) has the same effect on a paper that a suit does on a businessman - the author rises in my estimation without any real effort.

Now, I haven't spent enough time with the paper to get anything more than "Google is built on linear algebra," so it could be totally vacuous... but I still assume it's full of good information.
No, because they could experiment with other things to make profit. Playing with spam is playing with fire. Beyond foreseeable profitability, which is what most shareholders are interested in, this would damage their reputation and their business in the long run.
Apple didn't ban the GPL from the App Store.

The GPL banned the GPL from the App Store.
Uh, if you use gtk2 you can use glade. That really has nothing to do with Perl, though, except that the Perl API supports the same features of gtk2 that the C API does.
As a publicly traded company, there is always a tendency to focus on quarterly results and the bonuses attached to them rather than the long term. Because search and web advertising is only a mature industry relative to the internet and not relative to industry in general, planning ten years out is difficult if not impossible, e.g. Youtube and Facebook didn't exist ten years ago.
The "cacophony of colors" are the devalued bank notes which are the entire point of the presentation. FWIW I rather liked the site, it's a much more pleasant way to view slides than some I've seen (scribd being a prime example).
Seriously? There's only 4 paragraphs total. How hard can it be? It's strange that it would make it hard to read. Typographic manuals usually suggest roughly 60 characters per line, favoring narrow columns over wide columns.
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Ask HN: Resume tips for a freshman applying for a software dev internship?
As the title says, I would like some tips. In particular:

* Is it worth including the SLOC count for the hobby / opensource projects you've worked on, to show experience working with a large codebase? Or might it reflect an obsession with an inaccurate method of measurement?

* In general, is it worth writing about hobby projects that haven't seen any real world use?

These are some pointers that I am aware of:

* LaTeX resumes are good

* Demonstrate a knowledge of version control

Any other tips are welcome!
What tool can I use to visualize this? Heres a sketch.
http://goo.gl/uTIIX

Author mentions he used flash, but I figured I would use Matlab.... Any suggestions?
Great piece that brings home just how important internal communication is for a startup. Bless those founders who know how to do it well and set up a culture from the get-go that encourages openness.
Tor has random hops, but no cover traffic, so black-box traffic analysis is trivial if you cast a wide-enough net.
This is a pretty well developed space but I would think there's opportunity in combining analytics and optimization (like the way optimizely combines building and reading a/b tests, http://optimizely.com).

A pure analytics tool will be a lot of reinventing the wheel, but theres still room for growth in terms of quickly turning results into something that improves business performance.
That pre-launch checklist is a big caveat to this article...
i don't mean that specific kind of crazy, but rather an overall suggestion that humans of all extractions have a habit of arguing with the facts for various reasons.

But yeah, since you ask, I believe that the kind of people who want creationism taught in public schools would ban books on evolution if they thought they could get away with it.
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It's a tried and true model.

Here's a fun example - just a few weeks ago I learned that my current company (flurry.com) has a pretty decent Chinese clone (umeng.com), backed by the incubator that Kai-Fu Lee started.

If the former head of Google China can do this, I figure you can do it too.