skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the grip of the foam combined with the greater distance from the spine's axis will provide for greatly increased torque from off center collisions.

I like the sensor approach, but using three referees as intermediaries to nanny 22 grown men is silly. Attach the accelerometers to taser like devices attached to the player and we are getting somewhere. Instant feedback pain in response to previously unsensed damage. Evolution would probably get around to it sooner or later anyway.
A talent acquisition is often a polite way of saying that a small startup team was recruited to work at a larger company.

In many cases the company/product they are currently working on has minimal value, yet the team itself appears competent and strong, and likely possess some talent or skills that have value to the acquirer.

The purchase price of the deal is usually a fairly low number, and nets the founder and employees something closer to a signing bonus vs. a big sum of cash.

Like any acquisition, pricing and terms are all completely reliant on the specific situation, so it's hard to give much in the way of details.
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3! Paradise! We never had 3 Yorkshiremen, we had to make do with a pair of pythons, a goodie and Doctor Frankensteins' henchman. And we didn't even have an abacus to program on, we had to make do with fingers and toes and pretend they were turing compliant. And some of us didn't even have toes or fingers!
Unfortunately, I can't find it on his blog, but I believe it was a post that had general startup tips, including how he did his hosting etc It's been a few years, so I may be mixing up blog posts
How about having to notch the other side of a single sided floppy to make it double sided. Or even having to put tape over a notch to make it read-only. I remember those little black pieces of tape that came with a box of floppies to make the read-only.
So I'm on Toredo, which means IPv6 works, but it says I can't visit IPv6 websites, which I understand to be a DNS issue. Any hints on how to get that working?
This is why I love HN. Thanks for being here Rasmus, you just made it that much cooler. :)
The real kick in the teeth is that paying AT&T to enable tethering doesn't actually get you any extra data, it just allows you to use the data you're already paying for in a different way.

At least with Verizon's current tethering charges (on Droid), you get an additional unlimited-but-really-5GB of data for your $30 charge. I imagine that iPhone will be the same.
it seems my isp won't provide native ipv6 addresses until they are somehow forced to... -_-
It's amazing the opportunities that spawn from one big success. He could lose 100% of the fund and he'd still be the guy who did Paypal.
Wireless bandwidth is absolutely limited - there is only one "over-the-air" channel. Well, one per tower, kind of.

Then, to buy from somebody else you have to presuppose some open, free market with excess bandwidth. That doesn't exist today.
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This seems very cool, neat that these companies are taking this upon themselves.

That said, does anyone know the potential risks to these companies for this? I personally tried the facebook IPv6 site and it doesn't work. Are there going to be users who are unable to use these sites on this day?
Now, if only my router supported IPv6. Sadly, it doesn't seem to come out of the box on any home-oriented routers.
Why the oscilliscope? No SAVE command? Why did you need to overwrite the stack?
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when in reality the major, basically only, reason it's used on the web is because of Adobe Flash

Could you elaborate on this or provide a citation? I thought Flash video was almost exclusively a proprietary variant of the H.263 (yes, that's not a typo) standard until the most recent release of Flash.
Are you guys only delivering VOD content? Any live streaming?
Agreed. Awesome interview! Here's the link: http://mixergy.com/tom-rossi-molehill-interview/
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The full text of Simon Conway Morris' article in "Philosophical Transactions in The Royal Society A" is free:
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1936/555....
I think I know what you're talking about, and it was before my current blog. It was a part of a longer thing called A hitchhikers guide to startups, but I ditched that in favor of the blog.
I have the iPad Wifi only version, I did purchase an HTC Desire to tether but the battery life was just abysmal so sent it back for an iPhone4. If tethering on my iPhone has any similar type of effect on battery life as it did on my HTC I just won't bother paying the extra tariffs.
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That's why BackBlaze builds their own servers: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h...
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If you want an even quicker read, as 4 Steps can be quite redundant (or not relating to your business), check out The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development:

http://www.custdev.com/
Slow news day :-) But, here:

Think about technological humans coming upon and conquering, say, rain forests. We see resources like land, some top soil, lots of sunlight. So, sometmes we denude the land, chase away all native life, and install cattle (or whatever).

Then later (or simultaneously, elsewhere) we realize what a tragically, stupidly wasteful thing we've just done. The native complexity of the life ... left relatively unmolested ... was of vastly greater value than what we put up instead. A more advanced civilization would have kept a cooler head and pretty much just explored the garden unless it was absolutely necessary destroy it and change the use of the land.

Why would Earth be different to intelligent, space-faring life? Might they not be frugal and greedy and experienced enough to, if they were "here", keep out of site and interfere as little as possible?
Not only that, but he graduated. I fear it may already be too late for him:

http://www.satirewire.com/news/0006/satire-ellison.shtml
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Correct link: http://tream.dreamhosters.com/tream/musings/49-lisp/76-analy...
Talk in Palo Alto: Psychology of Testing by Misko Hevery (Google Agile Coach)
And this was perfected in Windows 95 which always had drive A:\ visible in My Computer even on computers without actual floppy drive (in that case it was named "Removable drive", had generic removable drive icon and did nothing useful).
Eight year old kids in full pads is ridiculous - the helmets are so big that every hit is helmet to helmet. Their arms barely extend past the helmet, so how are they supposed to wrap up? I used to see drills like this all the time, and wonder why, considering that the kids couldn't execute basic run, pass and catch drills:
http://guyism.com/sports/nasty-pee-wee-football-helmet-to-he...
Cool online JSON viewer
Where Android leads, iOS follows. Welcome to the future.
Not to mention that it´s free on Verizon´s webOS phones. Virtually all of the smartphones that had a wifi card in the Verizon store when I last went had Wifi-tethering, although it usually cost extra. Not to mention that bluetooth and USB tethering has been available for ages, although not as fast (in case of Bluetooth) or convenient.
You can't use tethering with iPad.
This seems like a different kind of deception, the kind that one could stumble upon by random chance. Evolution could be responsible for a specific trait leading male cuttlefish to be inclined to pretend to be female. The way to test that would be to determine if the cuttlefish is deceptive in other, completely unrelated ways.

Primates, on the other hand, can use manipulation in a broad range of circumstances, in a way that is indicative of a higher level of thinking.
This is exactly the what I was looking for. Thanks.

I disagree with their decision, but at least it's documented and regulated I suppose.
Oh god, large, localized ERP. This horrible though never entered my mind before.
I am no market genius, I do alright, but how do you lose 23% in 2010? or how did he not make a killing in 2009? Those were two of the best stock years in this decade and going back to the Great Depression aftermath the last century (barring the tech bubble).

Also, if they warned of the housing bubble, did they do nothing to protect assets? The losses should have stemmed around 20-40% if they knew that.
What's wrong with Lisp's build system?
Is there anyway to do this with the HTC incredible on Verizon?
Agreed, there is only so much that can be fixed with hardware (hardware would help spotty coverage in the US, for example).

As has been stated earlier, if they can't provide it, they shouldn't be selling it (and if the laws of physics don't permit what they are selling, they shouldn't be selling it).
Ahh yes... did you have it to close to the TV, or were you too loud? I remember yelling at friends, "Man, you were talking too loud! That's why it didn't load. We gotta reload... 30 more minutes!!! Sheesh!"
This further complicates building video into web sites with a significant IE user base. I've already seen mushrooming complexity with fellow devs trying to get Ogg into the mix using <video> tags, wanting to "do the right thing", and still ending up with a Flash fallback for Windows users.

HTML5 as we currently find it isn't making this simpler at all.
Nice review of the issue! Personally, I'm not that excited over one browser, or even two, adding or dropping video support. I develop for a spectrum of users/browsers and if the technique doesn't work across browsers, I avoid it. Managing a collection of online video means you want the easiest encoding with the longest possible shelf life, combined with simple deployment across platforms.
Varying broadband speeds are why UK ISPs have to state 'up to X Mbps', since they can't guarantee the customer they will get the advertised maximum.

Unfortunately, this makes it easier for them get away with the 'unlimited' designation, since they're no longer promising you any particular speed.
The risk is that ~0.001% of computers won't be able to access Facebook or Google for one day because they think they have working IPv6 but they actually don't.
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"it just allows you to use the data you're already paying for in a different way"

This is what really irritates me. I have no problem with phone-carriers charging for services and making a profit. But this is so arbitrary! A packet is a packet is a packet!
Ha! I took a Hungarian class with my daughter a couple of years ago; I think she was 8, which is why she needed me to sit in with her, given it was a college class at IU. (I should explain that her mother is Hungarian, and so this was more in the way of language practice and grammar instruction, not that my daughter is a super-genius. Although, of course, she is.)

Anyway, one of the dialog exercises was to talk about hobbies, and one of the hobbies was record collections, with a picture. She had absolutely no idea what the picture was supposed to be, until I explained to her that they were like CDs. The other students in the class exploded with laughter.
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H.264 is already a part of every content producers workflow. It has very mature encoder support and it supported by every encoder that matters.

WebM's encoders that are available are very slow, and not supported or has very flaky support of most apps people are using out there.

What's going to happen, is chrome users are going to be served H.264 in a flash wrapper.

This move is not going to help kill flash, it's going to help extend it's life. If you think about it, it is not in googles best interest as an advertising company to kill flash. They'll have more trouble with content protection and are unable to overlay ads in fullscreen mode.
Taking Go for a spin (simple echo server)
Good stuff, the most fair coverage I've read on this.

Because there has been no actual withdrawal timetable announced, I wonder if the Chrome Team is waiting for the moment when it will least hurt their users: full WebM support in YouTube or something like that.

I think the Chrome team can claim ideological consistency because they only support closed technologies through plugins. Flash, Quicktime, Java, and PDF are all supported through plugins. The Chrome team is making the statement that H.264 doesn't belong on the open web, and that's why they're removing first class support for it.
"I have not seen a better time to raise money for web startups since the late 90s."

oh boy...
T-Mobile backtracks on data allowance cut (UK)
This reminds me about the scare tactics adopted about Congress's earmarks, where a large number was thrown around without context to obfuscate the issue. You need to put the 6.5 million in perspective.

The 6.5 million is for developers of encoders/decoders, not websites (it's capped at 100k for video sites). If you sell a million copies of an encoder, your royalty will be $0.20 times 900k = $180k (first 100k is free). Is it really too much to ask $0.20 for developing most of the technology on which you are basing your business?

For 250K subscribers to a SUBSCRIPTION video site, big bad MPEG-LA wants $25k, CAPPED at 100k for users >1M.

I'm pretty sure this is a negligible amount for a subscription site. And remember, free sites don't pay.
I think there's merit to a middle ground between not hiring and hiring recklessly. I've always found that the right person will always move a company forward, where the wrong hire may screw you up irremediably. The problem with most hires is that this effect is hard to predict, and sometimes it is disproportionate/unexpected (a random hire may have a billion dollar idea, and he could also bring your company down).

Which is why hiring is an art, why companies have hiring managers on which a great deal of responsibility is put on, and why I ultimately have to partially agree with Gabriel. Sometimes not hiring is a good decision.
theory: background radiation is actually alien messages. The sky is completely filled with it.

The reason we can't read it as a signal is not because it has diffused, but because it's compressed so effectively that, for us, it is indistinguishable from noise.
Just Ruby, or RoR considered also?
Except that even with thousands of years of development, this same basic pattern remains unchanged in the human species.

We never employ walking to the garden until after we've destroyed something. This isn't going to change anytime soon, or ever.

Why would a alien culture be any different?
On a recent vacation I was photographing my nieces and nephew making funny faces. After the first shots they ran up behind me, looked at the back of the camera, and said, "Can I see?" They gave me bewildered looks when I told them it was a film camera and they'd have to wait a few weeks.
Since I can't access the v6 version of facebook, does that mean that I'm in the 0.001%?
Good balanced article.

If I had Google's ear I would tell them that they may think they're at an inflection point on HTML5 video, but they're too late. There are likley just two results: (1) They get steamrolled and everyone moves to H264. Or (2) <video> effectively dies and Flash stays strong (Flash should play both sides to push this agenda).

Google should instead be working on a great free 3D codec.
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Quick question: Does anyone actually use Hotpot?

Off the top of my head I can't think of anyone who does or anyone who mentioned it to me since the day it launched...

If you do, how do you like it?
I'm wondering if one day, the real necessity to switch to ipv6 fast (after years of experiments) and the fear for possible connectivity issues will create a y2k effect among the population...
Funny (though predictable) that they didn't explicitly state the number 1 downside of large scale NAT: the inability to have a server at home.
Nice mention of unit testing, lack of bugs, and units of measure. Can't put down the exploratory nature, either.

The only nit I have is the way MS keeps wanting to pitch F#. I know the spin is to use F# for math-y type things, but I really don't know why you just wouldn't use it for everything. I mean, underlying it is the CLR and the OS. It's not like somehow if you know F# somehow you need to also switch to C# to make a window. In fact, if you keep it functional, many times your functions can work their way into what you previously thought of as framework code, simplifying the entire kit and caboodle. I find that every time I switch languages, start declaring mutable values, or framing up reusable classes -- I end up severely limiting my options for refactoring later on. And functional code is nothing if not hugely refactorable.

Simply because you can switch languages doesn't mean you have to, or even that it's a good idea to do so.
I made this a few weeks ago, it was very easy, and tasted fantastic.
I doubt it. While logic might support this, the user experience won't.

The beauty of 3G iPad is the instant on, instant access nature of the connection. Currently getting a connection on my Mac via iPhone tethering takes about 20-30 seconds. I'd rather pay $14.99 and have it all the time, like I do on the iPad. The experience is far superior.
The bucket is in the village of Arden, Delaware, which incidentally a single-tax Georgist community (I grew up there).
The Turbo-Entabulator
Is anyone else having the same issue with these services as I am - namely that Rackspace Cloud (and Amazon Cloudfront) do not support gzip compression? That means that any advantage in latency that you gain from serving a file locally is offset by the fact that it must be served uncompressed. It seems like it should be an absolute requirement for any CDN provider (and the smaller ones like SimpleCDN and MaxCDN do support gzip). I've repeatedly asked Rackspace if they plan to support gzip and they haven't given any indication that it's coming; this e-mail confirms it's not even on their roadmap.
I didn't have a punch. Scissors worked just as well.
We've got 500K objects on Amazon and any one of them needed to be accessible via SSL. That and the price made Amazon an easy choice from a myriad of competitors.
Not necessarily; if your computer doesn't have IPv6 and knows that it doesn't have IPv6 then you're going to be fine.
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Duly noted for future use.

I however do intend some derision for what i view as a piece of fairly serious intellectual dishonesty.

Not sure whether it'd be better to leave the comment up intact, given that you've commented at this point, or edit the term out.
The original change was for existing contracts too. They've since backed off from that and now only apply it to new contracts.
From memory, other limitations include 100,000 characters per day, and limits on where the API can be used (e.g. can't use it for paid services).
That article, "Apple bans Flash-to-iPhone conversions in apps", is no longer true. Apple relaxed the ban. See, e.g.,

http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/09/apple-loses-game-of-chicke...
Don't worry, like any academic field philosophy is filled with jargon, but knowing the jargon doesn't make you any smarter and not knowing doesn't make you any dumber.

Both you and Eliezer made good arguments and points, they just happened to already have a name in the philosophical jargon.

If you're interested, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at plato.stanford.edu is the greatest repository of philosophical knowledge on the Internet.

They have an article about rule-consequentialism: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism-rule/
I feel like you can come up with any type of wild speculation, and if you base your reasoning on the theory of evolution (even in the most hand-wavy way) people will treat it almost like its a scientifically verified truth.

"Evolution operates predictably" do we know this because scientists have a track record of reliably predicting evolutionary outcomes, or do we think this because evolution seems like it should've been predictable standing in 2011 looking back? Don't a lot of unpredictable things look predictable in hindsight?

Furthermore, I can't think of any practical benefit of having done this study. If aliens don't exist, the study was a waste of time. If aliens exist and intend to kill us, we are probably fucked anyway and hence the study was a waste of time. If aliens exist and are nice, the study was wrong and thus a waste of time.
Gotta love how the write-lock switch is positioned just perfectly so that inserting it knocks the switch into read-only position.
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> I would ask if there are moral implications of selling what you believe you can do (to employees/customers/investors) as if you actually can/have done it.

My grandfather co-founded a now-giant engineering company. When they were getting started, they would bid for any job. If they didn't know how to do it, they learned how to do it. I think that's a great attitude, and a winning attitude. They knew they could learn new skills promptly, so I don't see the problem.

They succeeded. It worked out. You may say, "They could have failed" but they could have failed no matter what policy they had for taking on projects so I don't really see a difference. Whenever I take on a non-trivial programming project I have to learn some amount of new stuff in order to complete the project. And I know I can do that. My belief I can learn things is true. This is just normal, shrug.
There are two distinct skills. One is building a great product. That can be done with a tiny team. The other is building a great organization. That obviously cannot be done alone. To me an interesting question is whether we need great organizations. There is a great imperative once you have a great product to grow and scale, to go from being a product builder to being an organization builder. It is undeniable that an outstanding organization allows us to leverage our talents in ways we could not do alone, and I suspect success in the massive monetary sense depends more on an ability to build great organizations than on building great products. But I would like to think building great products is enough, and unless you need massive monetary success I expect it is.
I think Jon Skeet attracts them. http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet and (for fun) http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts :-)
Forget hiring.

DDG is run by Gabriel solo for 3 years???

This changes everything I thought about starting up...
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You had zeros and ones? We only had ones, until one day someone discovered a zero when he accidentally subtracted two ones.
Also, not everyone was cool enough to have both A: and B:

And tape drives transfer speeds were 300? baud. Most people can read way faster and some can type faster.

I have many memories of working late in school labs, feeling that awful feeling when the sky outside gets light as it literally dawns on you you've been there all night, making backups on multiple floppy disks as you go...Bathed in the fluorescents
Leave it there. The rest of your point is valuable, and Hn readers ought to be (ha!) open-minded enough to:

a) Read your point and agree with it even if "fanboi" isn't their favourite word, or;
b) Read your point and respectfully dissent even if "fanboi" is their favourite word.

This isn't a "tea party."
Its an interesting idea, but unqualified advice isn't as useful as knowing the background of the person reviewing giving you feed back.

When you ask for feedback on HN you can look at the history of the person offering you advice.

Perhaps adding a background field might help.
The medical establishment has long been known to be corrupt or at least suspect - Elsevier was paid to make an entire fake journal so some company could publish their "article".
I'm not sure what good turning eval into echo does. Won't this write PHP code into the page's HTML?
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