skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To elucidate drusenko's point:

As to commonality, who knows?

As to preferability: it is very, very rarely preferable for an investor to be in this situation.
If the woman was not attracted to him, then he wouldn't have made it past the first (or second date). He obviously has qualities that she desires.
To be honest, for the past few years, every time I have read about something like that, I have thought about that question.
hiding controls results in less people seeing them.

it's not rocket science.
Took me far too long to find the "view stories" link:

http://www.ipaidabribe.com/sforms/view_reports_paid

It'd be great to have these on a map. I want to see where bribes are most common(ly reported)

Though, I suppose this site is so focused on Bangalore, it may not be much use.
No matter how much YC kool-aid you may be quaffing, there are probably legitimate reasons for existing investors in an angel round to think twice about giving up some percentage of the company (e.g. 6%) for chump change and access to a "network" that they probably think they can provide just as well.
Ask HN: A StackOverFlow or HN for relationships/PUA material. Would you use it?
Simple idea. Value proposition attacks the core of human nature, our wants and needs. Unsure atm of whether a StackOverflow-type site or the functionalities of HN would best address this community. Would you use such a service?
Mine did not go off this morning (1/3/2011) at 7am. I woke up at 730a and confirmed that it was indeed set for 7am.
Interesting. One way you just made me think of this is considering what a 'great' investment return is. Let's say it's 20%.

If you're getting 20% already, you might as well expand your base looking for more 1000x returns, and not cry too much about bad placements; this investing business has a significant opportunity cost risk which means you probably want to err on the side of putting some money in. If you're over 'great' returns, you can afford to do that, and should.

On the flip side, if you're under 'great' you probably want to figure out how to prune your choices away a bit first.
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It's a pretty common stereotype - I don't know if I've ever seen it happen IRL but I've seen it happen a lot in movies/TV. I think ck can be forgiven the generalization.
As jack... commented, you could invest as 'friends and family' round. I am not accredited investor. But I have made a few small investments up to 10k (I call them my pay it forward) to friends and close acquaintances with 'no pedigree' who are trying to start a business.
Hi, you should add email sending time to chose. Because I'm in Europe and now in the morning (6am) I've got mail saying "What'd you get done today?". I'v just barely woke up ;)
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I'd be interested in reading an explanation of that bug from Apple once it's fixed.

Y2K had some valid reasons behind it, but this is kind of strange. Especially since it happened once not too long ago.
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lol, couldn't happen to me but maybe I said that badly. I've seen guys complain about that type of behavior and I am just saying no-one should be playing these kinds of games if you want honesty from a relationship.

Now that I think about it, maybe relationships aren't the goal of this kind of behavior in the first place, so maybe this whole thread is a really bad idea for HN.
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Darn, this seems like a site meant to uncover and curb corruption.

I was hoping it was a site where everyday folks share their stories about when it helps to give a nice tip or innocently grease a few palms.

Well known cases would be the "$20 trick" you give to the hotel clerk to get a free room upgrade. Once during an airport emergency, I gave two $10 bills to the bellhop to cut the long line at my hotel taxi stand (the bellhop keeps one $10 bill and gives the other to the taxi stand valet guy, who waved us into the next cab).

I remember seeing on Friends that you can shorten your restaurant wait times by giving money to the hostess, and the book Doormen claims you can get lots of perks by over-tipping your doormen. What I need is a menu of all such extra services that can be achieved and the average cost / success rate, so I minimize the chances of looking like an idiot.
I still really like the idea of the zero-Rupee notes circulating in India, created specifically to present to government officials asking for bribes. Apparently, in many cases the official is so shamed on being handed the nil bill that the bribe is effectively paid.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1353796
I've wondered: Just how large is this latest tech bubble? I've seen some pretty high valuations of companies, but none of the madness I recall from the dot-com era. I'm not fully convinced the high valuations of a handful of companies it putting the entire tech industry at risk. The dot-com fallout was also exacerbated by the Y2K craze, which isn't a factor this time around.
Why on earth not?!
What you are referring to is known as the "glide path." An investor in the early accumulation years starts off with a high allocation to equities and reduces it over time as they gets closer to retirement (thus reducing risk, in theory). However, I'm not sure I understand your comment as this concept that you are referring to is part of the point that I was trying to make.

What happens specifically to the S&P 500 would not be the primary concern for an investor whose portfolio consists of a wide variety of asset classes and who follows a glide path approach by reducing their allocation to stocks (and increasing their allocation to bonds) over time. Thus an investor using this approach would not be 100% invested in the S&P 500 at the beginning or the end horizon (or at any point in between) of their investment.

I guess my point is that even just adjusting this data to include a 60%/40% equity/bond portfolio, rebalanced annually would be a heck of a lot more useful for retirement planning.
Angel investing is not altruism, it's business. I don't do angel investing because I'm not comfortable with the risk profile, and to hear that a popular angel is only making 10% reaffirms my analysis.
1. The video.

2. We now have YC alumni read the applications too.

We'd be happy to try funding energy sources or medical devices, but we just don't get many applications for that sort of thing.
Not sure, but it could be device specific. My one off alarm that I just set the other day did not work. The one that my wife set worked. Same OS versions but she has a 3GS and I have the iPhone 4.
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You have to compare the numbers annualized (which is hard to do, since the data isn't in) and then compare that to contemporaneous treasury returns (and maybe the stock market i guess) to get a real sense if it's good or not.
My alarms worked fine today. iPhone 4, recently updated; I have a recurring 7:05AM and then a bunch of 1-offs for 7:10, 7:20, and 7:50, and they all worked fine.
I think the author nails it. Without GPU acceleration Android really is a notch below iOS in terms of UX. In my opinion, even WebOS and Windows 7 have much smoother scrolling and touch response than Android. But if Google wakes up and adds GPU acceleration and better eye-candy, watch out Apple.
alarm clock doesn't work. how ironic.
Have you tried to estimate the value of the still active but illiquid startups?

Heroku was winter 08 not summer, btw
It's Joshu because Joshua is usually taken -- and because Joshu was a 7th century Zen Buddhist master, the comparison of which to my anxiety-ridden self makes me giggle.

Broker-dealer is also defined. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broker-dealer
Is the bubble very widespread though? Facebook is the darling right now and news like these remind of bubbles, but are there many other startups that receive such a treatment right now?

Granted I wasn't there and wasn't following when it happened, but from what I gather, the first Internet bubble was crazy investments and spendings everywhere in the Silicon Valley, not just one or a few startups.

To put it simply, is it an industry bubble or a Facebook bubble? And can you point to what shows it's widespread?

The question might be moot if you think that, in any case, the fall of Facebook would take the rest with it…
We did some workplace usability testing with non-technical staff (admin, sales etc) and this was a fair hurdle in our prototypes.

We struck a better balance in different projects by either leaving them at a soft 30% opacity, or a desaturated and washed out look until hovered. Giving a subtle visual indication that the option is still there allowed us to remove the weight from the design while achieving a satisfactory level of discoverability.

It was important to choose our visual cue carefully as, on text, the desaturation makes it look disabled. Icons with a desaturation (not complete) and a contrast tweak lend themselves beautifully to this.

Disclaimer: no data kept, this is all anecdotal with a relatively small sample (5-10 people).
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It's possible that you don't fit into any other segments and that Chrome is the fallback advertisement for blip.tv. Do you happen to have 3rd party cookies disabled?
The two non-recurring iPhone alarms that I enabled last night after midnight (by adjusting the times) both sounded as expected this morning, Monday the 3rd. Latest iOS, iPhone4.

So, it's not a certain failure, or the factors required to reproduce are more particular.

I recall in an earlier iPhone/iOS, once being disappointed that an alarm didn't audibly sound when some other notification had (and held) the foreground... I presume that was fixed long ago, but maybe something with the growth of notifications and background services is creating a similar problem.
While investing is business, the blog post is definitely altruism, which is why I encouraged you to be more polite.

I re-read the article to make sure my second point also holds: the 10% (over three years, so really more like 3% if you are looking at IRR) is only calculated on actual current exits.

About half his portfolio is still indeterminate. Barring seriously weird circumstances, he will do very well overall on this crop of investments, especially considering that he started in 2006.

That said, keep on with your current strategy. Everyone has a place.
joshu said he invested usually $10-25k per investment. I think $10k would be a better lower bound approximation.
It's interesting how you railed on people earlier for mentioning that responsiveness and animations weren't great, and yet you have animations turned off.
Thanks for the feedback, really. The video was created by http://www.epipheostudios.com/

For the lack of content part we will be launching city by city and will be showing wants and haves from people living around your area. We are also working on our taste engine to show you things that we think you are interested in.

We've built a database of things, we've got about 50,000 things so far. Those were manually reviewed and curated by our team. So there will be some content on there that we will suggest you check out upon joining.
This is far from a definitive answer, but I haven't heard of YCombinator investing in any Series A rounds. Dilution is part of the game, and is generally a good thing. Further investment generally boosts the value of a company making YC and any previous investors' investments already a win... on paper at least.

For a list of most, if not all, the companies YC has invested in take a look here: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator and see if you can find any that aren't listed as "Angel" investments.
I have no knowledge on circuit design, but you should play carefully with randomness. For most algorithms, 1% imprecision with normal/uniform distribution may not be a big deal. But if the distribution is irregular, you may have some trouble since the errors add up.
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MySpace signed an ad deal with AOL post Murdoc acquisition that was worth about the same as Murdoc paid for MySpace. The investment still may end up a loss, but not huge one unless they really screwed things up by hiring thousands of people or something.
I agree, we've been pulling our hairs out with this one. We plan on split testing a few and see how it impacts the bounce rate and invitation requests. Thanks for the feedback!
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Wordpress has been doing that for a while on their posts admin page. Hover the title of each post, and you get a link to edit / delete, etc...

I find it horrible. It's confusing, and you never remember the position of the links, so you tend to do two steps: 1. move the mouse over the post title, 2. Go to the desired link, instead of just going directly to the appropriate link.
Completely agreed. Also, this 'bubble' seems to coincide with serious efficiency gains in startups and the sudden ability of startups to a) scale and b) make money. I don't see any boo.com's right now.

There may well be a bubble right now. There's certainly a tidal shift toward founders as has been thoroughly discussed on this site and elsewhere. That tide will probably shift back around at some point, who knows? Small dollar placements resulting in mid-size private purchases does not a bubble make; neither does medium-size (500mm) placements in high revenue, profitable, massive growth tech companies.
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this is a GREAT article. Very inspirational. I won't spoil it.
I live in Mexiko. The corruption here is enourmous, from top to bottom. Wikileaks has showed this corruption.

The problem IMHO with corruption is that nobody can/want to do something about it. It doesn't matter (at least here) if you collect all the proofs necessary, because the people that can do something about it are corrupt as well.

And I don't think it's that easy to denounce bribes and send to jail the guilty ones.

There was a case against ABB (http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-175.htm), ABB was charged of paying bribes to Mexican government. There are two ways to make bussiness here, pay a bribe or to leave. ¿Who is more guilty, who pays the bribe (and get no income at all) or the one who receives it? I don't think companies have any moral. So the option is to follow a corruption scheme.

And I'm not saying I agree with that or that I'm happy with it. I'm only saying that it doesn't serve a purpose to denounce bribes, if there's no one to punish them.
The mortgage crises all but crushed any confidence I had left in the major players in the American (and probably the global) financial system. Any BS that Goldman is trying to pull is just more of the same. Anything to make a quick buck.

I can always dream how cool it would be if we lived in a world the shareholders of Facebook voted to tell GS to take their money somewhere else....that's just a pipe dream, though.
It's funny how we thought of it. We felt the footer was a bit empty and decided to "reserve" that space to show blogs/publications who would talk about us.

Then when we're about to put the site live and had to remove the placeholders... it felt strange looking. So we came up with this idea!
Reminded me of Goldberg's classic: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic [http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html].

If one wants a Goldberg lite and relevant information organized by programming languages: http://floating-point-gui.de/
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Exactly, this is why M2 & M3 are an order of magnitude greater than the monetary base.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Components_of_US_Money_sup...
I lived through it, and it was crazy. I lived in Boston, and at the time in Boston Zefer closed a $100mm series A, the largest series A in history. They had lovely offices!

There was definitely a 'you have to be spending on tech, you have to be spending on marketing' vibe at any funded tech company at the time.

Aeron chairs, yadda-yadda. Content Management systems cost $500k plus. Servers for the CMS'es could run $30k a month(!!!) each.

It was really, REALLY different than the vibe today, a vibe in part built by YC -- go cheap, keep overhead low, prove it out, etc. etc. I don't think the current Zeitgeist is comparable at all.
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No, the only thing that wasn't known was how he dumped metldr. This is a relatively insignificant part of the whole thing and wasn't what fail0verflow was focusing on in their research (as seen in the video).

The only reason that he was able to do anything with his dump was because of all of fail0verflow's work. See the twitter feed of marcan42 for clarification.

Actually, since the beginning, geohot's ps3 trick was just him copying what fail0verflow had done on the wii (glitching the address bus). He didn't give them credit for that either.
Science journalism is so frustrating! Here's the version for smart people:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~bates/Summary_files/BatesTalk.pdf

In summary: Low-precision high-dynamic range arithmetic (floating point with small mantissa, ~1% error) uses ~100x less power and die area than IEEE floating point. The errors are acceptable for a huge class of applications (basically anything you'd consider running on a GPU today).
If you didn't know who these people were, which would you guess was the programmer and which would you guess was the investor?
Sans the cocaine habit, and the staggering productivity levels, the second example is an otherwise uncanny match for how I eventually left my last job.

Started off strong, got ahead of schedule, had a mental breakdown, accomplished exactly nothing for about a month, and then quit (to avoid being fired).
I'd love to see a packet capture substantiating this claim.
The solution I've used requires Javascript.

It detects when on a touch screen, and if so, adds a CSS class to one default item that gives it the same display-characteristics (including showing hidden controls and shading) as if it were being moused-over.

Then, set it so any touch on other eligible elements moves this 'current' class.

In some ways, this could be a clearer model for pointer environments, too: reveal the hidden controls on at least one element at the start, and adjust the one full-revealed item as the pointer moves. This requires Javascript, and is a bit more cluttered, but won't leave anyone in the dark about what's possible.
I remember seeing on Friends that you can shorten your restaurant wait times by giving money to the hostess

This article was very popular on HN a while ago and discussed extensively:
"Bribing maitre d' to skip the line"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1653891
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I think that 'not being straight-up about things' is breaking things down waaay too generally. This guy basically found a way to 'cut in line' so that the woman could evaluate whether or not she liked him. She still got to choose whether she liked him or not based on the qualities that he possesses. He just made sure that he actually got a chance to be evaluated.

Another analogy would be like finding a way to make sure that your resume isn't one of the ones that is immediately thrown out by some HR person before being forwarded to the hiring manager. The hiring manager still gets to evaluate you based on your skills, but you just made sure that he/she even looked at your skills (vs being cut from the list for some arbitrary reason).

On the other hand, a girl having her best friend hit on you to see if you'll cheat demonstrates a fundamental lack of trust in the relationship. Regardless of the outcome, she's already demonstrated that she doesn't feel that she can trust you. This is a far deeper cut than convincing all of the extremely 'hunky' guys at a bar to leave (for some reason or another; maybe spread a rumor that the bar next door is giving away power tools or hair gel or something) so that you even have a chance with some of the attractive women there.

For some reason, it's just the 'pretending to be someone that you are not on the internet' that makes people throw up the 'creepy' flag. If I was to pretend to be someone that I'm not in real life, people would not immediately think that I was creepy. Hell, society seems to celebrate guys that lie about how successful they are in order to impress women.
why do you say startups scaling and making money is a sudden ability? Are they all doing it? Were they never able to before?
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I've been thinking about authentication with third-party services lately. You know how a website uses facebook connect to authenticate a user? Well, what is to prevent you from going into the javascript and searching for your uid and changing it to e.g. #4, mark zuckerberg, or that of Mike Arrington, before posting something to the server?

Is there protection against this on the websites?

Today, I fooled around with DISQUS and used the javascript console to try and fool it into thinking I was someone else. But I think that with DISQUS, they rely on the cookie (not the uid in javascript) when you post the comment, so you can't impersonate other users. However, if we go back to my original question -- how do websites which implement authentication with facebook, google, etc. protect against such impersonations?
It almost kinda makes you wanna stop subsidizing them.
I love DDG, and am a DDG user. Nevertheless there are two things in this guide that bothered me:
i) No Referrers: I consider this to be essential information for the webmaster. It allows him to know what is working, and what isn't. If DDG becomes popular, it will kill the search analytics market. It's a niche product right now, and that's why it can afford to do this and Google can't (SSL isn't the default option).

ii) Adblock et all: By advising users to use Adblock, once again you are encouraging users to do something that can cripple the web as we know it.
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Yeah, I meant, I'm sorry, not "you should pick a better nick".

I don't need to look up that market makers are dealers. :)

I have a weirdly low-level perspective on markets for weird reasons; I'm fascinated by the kind of stuff you worked on at MS, but still picking it up. Ironically, the iceberg stuff is directly relevant to what I actually do get to do with this stuff.
http://www.google.com/search?q=rails
vs
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rails

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python
vs
http://www.google.com/search?q=rails

I rest my case. Don't get me wrong. I like DDG but this campaign seems like spreading FUD. BTW, I use https by default.
In that discussion I made an effort to distinguish between "bribing" an official and "bribing" a waiter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1654295

What the grandparent is talking about I would call extravagant tipping, not bribing.
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The search: sucked => works part is us (IndexTank). Thanks Reddit for the mention!
If you read the Berkshire annual reports from back then, I think Buffet would have strongly preferred to do what FB is doing now, if he could have, or the vehicles existed.

He knew his mom-and-pop investors needed liquidity, and wasn't able to buy them all out himself, so he went for the market option. But, he was clearly ambivalent about it. I believe his first instructions to his floor trader were that he hoped there would be no transactions in the first year of listing.
As a side note: why is the he/she used this way?

He is disempowered - She feels etc.

Wouldn't it be correct to use "she" everywhere?