skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've watched it. Al Jazeera (English) is as anti US and anti-semitic as the BBC. I recommend you stay away.
Serious question. Is John Dvorak a humor writer or just befuddled? I've read his column occasionally for many years, but I've never been able to decide.
I have no idea, and if I looked it up, I wouldn't be at liberty to say.

Most project cancellations are things that haven't launched, or if they have launched they might get a TechCrunch article and then are forgotten. There's a lot that goes on in just general infrastructure or search quality that has no UI at all, it just feeds into better ranking algorithms or higher capacity. A lot of this work is experimental, done under the charter of "Let's see if this makes things better, and if it doesn't, we'll have you work on other things."
I wrote my first 'proper' module for Immunity CANVAS this week. There's no real decent documentation so I had to pretty much reverse engineer it from scratch, and learnt heaps of python tricks (and faux pas) in the process.

Also I found out that what felt like I was having a heart attack was actually pericarditis. That doesn't sound awesome, but it's treatable and way better than the alternative.
Sounds like git for personal storage in the cloud.
Everyone starting startups, joining startups, or wanting to do one of those. The majority of people working for peanuts, in hopes of future riches, spurred on by stories of a few people making it big, obscenely big. Businesses with vague business plans, and sales pitches full of jargon intermixed with good ideas but for the most boiling down to "we're on the internet!". Investors getting excited about an industry they don't understand. All of this fueled by long nights pulled by young kids who's bodies can take the caffeine abuse for a while.

Now, I sure as hell hope this time it turns out differently, and even it working out the same it would be pretty slick (I wasn't quite in industry yet the first time around, so it almost seems like harmless fun to me), but I definitely can see some parallels. Also, I'm talking about the industry in general right now, not just YC.
> All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.

Well, Peter, HN can't stay a kid forever.
That doesn't seem odd at all, "who think they're building the next Google" looks like a typical internet putdown. (The implication being that they

Which should be cleared up by reading http://lesswrong.com/lw/qs/einsteins_superpowers/
And on a pedantic note: 39/43 rounds to 91% rather than 90%

Maybe they were going for one sigfig. This comment doesn't really add anything, so next time you find yourself typing "And on a pedantic note" press delete 22 times.
The points would have cost much more in future insurance policy premiums.

The total cost of the fix is about $250 and you get to keep your "safe driver" rate or whatever the insurance company does for point-free/accident-free drivers.
Can anyone explain the terms "no cap" and "no discount" in "$150,000 in convertible debt. With no cap and no discount."?

I understand what a debt is, so how is "no cap and no discount debt" different from a regular debt?

Also why would you as a startup would want to take a debt?

Another question - what's the point of Yuri giving the debt, it seems he's not even asking for equity in return?
Supposedly the same thing happens with coffee too. Starbucks does the expensive market research, and then other chains build near Starbucks.
Nobody ever wants to see a bubble fail, that's part of what makes them so dangerous. People go to extraordinary lengths to ignore warning signs of events they don't want to happen. That's what happened the first time around, and I fear that's what will happen this time.
Ask HN: your favorite websites, design-wise?
What are some of your favorite website designs? I'm talking more about web services, social networks, and the like (former and current startups), as opposed to Joe Schmo's consulting service website.

A few personal favorites:

Vimeo - Unquestionably the best-designed video site. It really helps to nurture the strong artsy/film community that makes Vimeo so special.
http://www.vimeo.com

Hype Machine - not a web startup, per say, but I really like the format they use. Simple, clean, and easy to quickly listen to the hottest new stuff.
http://hypem.com/

Grooveshark - much stronger than most music radio sites; I'm looking at you, Pandora!
http://www.grooveshark.com

Twitter - great, compared to Facebook (and in its own right). I really like the clean and upbeat design flavor Twitter has. Twitter has to distill much more information in a newsfeed than Facebook and yet still manages to be more effective.
http://www.twitter.com

Tumblr - obviously design is a strong part of Tumblr's culture and success. No question on it being one of the best-designed tech sites around.
http://www.tumblr.com

Heroku - no experience using the service, but their home/about pages have that unique dark theme that works quite well.
http://www.heroku.com
You have the copy that the server has transmitted to you, but the server still made the copy.
I heard the rumor about Burger King (combined with the idea that McDonalds would do the extensive market research and study traffic counts and so forth.)
hey it's a pretty good movie what can i say
And on a pedantic note, presumably your cursor would be at the end of the text you find yourself typing, and thus require backspace not delete.
I believe there is actually a definite cultural fault line between the older, core HN community and many of the more recent arrivals. The old HN I believe was pretty tightly clustered around ycombinator's social graph. I think if you played "six degrees of PG" with commentators, the average score has probably risen from 2 to 4, at least. I believe that PG's essays articulate much of the ethos at the core of the HN community.

My perception is that a fair number of "join us now and share the software, you'll be free" type hackers are not really enthusiastic about the whole startup culture of angel investors and "profitable exits". There has often been an anti-establishment character to hacker culture, and sometimes it takes on an anti-capitalist tone. I see a lot of people mention Reddit and Digg as cautionary examples, but isn't Slashdot really the first and foremost case study?

For the first year or so I read HN, I didn't make an account because I didn't think I had anything to contribute that would help startup entrepreneurs make money. As the perspectives expressed on the site began to become more diverse, I started to feel like I might have something to contribute. I suppose that makes me part of the problem, at least in terms of diluting the solution's purity. I certainly try to avoid precipitating conflict, but I also see a certain amount of conflict as inevitable unless HN does something like split into a separate ycombinator related startup focused board and a general programming/technology area.
Many states have groups that want their state to be divided into two or more states; you just hear about California more in the news because they're bigger. One less prominent example is eastern vs. western Washington, where the farmers in the east feel dominated by the liberals in Seattle; I believe they even voted on it in the past. If we divide up states into homogeneous sections, pretty soon every neighborhood will be its own state.

(Edit: Apparently it's so common there's a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_partition_pr...)
Al Jazeera is actually the only source that I generally read when I'm looking for actual news. They come off to me as not only significantly less biased, but also bring up issues that are missing from US newspapers. For example, I discovered on Al Jazeera that the US had begun its first stem cell test on humans.

FYI,http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/10/201010112...
Mubarak was hacking the US in the sense that US needed an Arabian partner who was willing to be an intermediary between Palestinians and Israel. Reality is that Mubarak hasn't been of any use to Egypt. If he is disposed, he is just another old man who have achieved little despite of his power.
Still relevant: The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0 from 2006)
I think everyone can agree that it's booming, in much the same way that the housing market was booming. Tech is sexy again, and that's driving investment and throwing money into the ecosystem that otherwise wouldn't be there. That said, the only real test of bubbledom is whether the valuations are sustainable, and whether startups generate profit commensurate with the money being sunk into them.

Google, Apple, and facebook aren't going to continue making $65MM talent acquisitions indefinitely, so at some point the penny will drop. When it does, the question of whether we'll have a popped bubble or an adjustment will be decided on the individual financial condition of the startups in question.

Could the current ecosystem be sustained if Google, Facebook, Apple, and AOL acquisitions were no longer a reality? No. Too many people are investing in features, not companies. Those startups can't survive on their own if there isn't a real possibility of a big exit through acquisition.

Nevertheless, it isn't 1999. Groupon is IPOing with at least some real revenue and exponential growth, and LinkedIn has a solid, if not expansive, userbase. If there is a bubble, it should only affect the startup world, and even then only the companies that can't survive on their own.
>>The reason is because you have cherry picked incidents, one from a particularly partisan source, from which to base your claim of a lack of credibility.

AGAIN: You made a claim that the sermon was an isolated event. You have a basis for that claim?

Then, the tv program is on the memri web site. There should be at least a million people in your Britain which understands it. Are you really claiming that they completely lied about something so easily checked...?

And since you don't have references and are literally claiming the right to say a news source is good, despite not knowing their agenda or how they spin etc, it is fun when you disqualify sources.

>>You could name your preferred news source and I could probably do exactly the same :)

Disclosure:

I almost trust NY Times, as long as none of their big advertisers etc are involved. They have aired lots of scandals in lots of president administrations. I read my local (Swedish) media carefully too, but mainly for the laughs in comparing content to NYT/BBC.
Actually, a porn star did run. But was beat by Schwarzenegger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carey_(pornographic_actres...
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Though many see internet access as a luxury, it's not just a pornography delivery method. In Nazi Germany, I gather the one of the most difficult issues for underground groups was communications.
9/11 truth is out on the internet
The WTC was destroyed by 3 thermo-nuclear explosions.

Watch this interview with Dimitri Khalezov, a former officer of the Soviet nuclear intelligence unit.

http://www.disclose.tv/forum/dimitri-khalezov-wtc-nuclear-demolition-full-playlist-t21675.html

The 26 part interview lasts over 4 hours. Check out parts 4, 14, 24 and 25 first before watching the whole interview.

Part 4 tells you of the NUCLEAR demolition scheme of the WTC.

Part 14 tells you what happened to WTC-7 which fell 24 mins after the BBC announced its collapse.

Parts 24 & 25 is about the radiation sickness of the WTC responders.
Shopify - shopify.com - I've always thought their site makes their service seem incredibly intuitive and easy to use, which suits their market well.
Wasn't Arethusa spelt with an "s", not "z"?
Huh? If your satellite ISP was disconnected you would not be cut off? Are my preconceptions of how satellite internet works way off? I thought that you were bouncing off of the satellite to your ISP which then connected you to the internet.
UGh there needs to be a filter that ignores fastcompany stories. That site might be worse than TC.
Brilliant! (I just wish it was easier to tell which ones were in 5.1.)
I'm dead serious if I saw a swat team coming to my house I would start shooting with my ak-47 well that's what I think I would do I wouldn't care shot about there kids I've never committed any crimes yet well it actully depends cause if they were there with out any swat teams and stuff like that I would let them in as you might know AK-47 rounds are armor piercing so reber that but the second they tried taking my computer I would start shooting or I'm might get a dummy greanade out that looks like the real one and hopefully they would start running you are probly wonder what's on that computer I got ill make it into a ? A) porn b) its the computer that I can download songs for ipod c) none of the above d) all of the above and the correct answer was c the reason is I haveworld of warcraft on my pc Ithink me and everyone who plays it is at least a little addicted to it cause me and everyone who plays it plays it pays 15$ a month but hey its a good game so and its worth the money and if you live in California and you are looking for a job they might hire you if you ask and if you get hired you get it free for 25 years but I'm actully not sure if they are hiring cause I live in virgina so don't get your hopes too high and um I apologize for not using paragraghs I'm actully typed this on my phone
This looks nice, but what does it offer that RequireJS and LABjs don't?
Not just new users - I had no idea the page existed and I've been here for a while.
Universal? It's popular on the internet, but I haven't seen it used much by other groups. Has it been?
People can move up or down a social class or two. I know people who came from fairly little wealth who earn decent urban-professional six-figure salaries, and people come out of families in the upper-middle professional class and become multimillionaire entrepreneurs. (Likewise, other people move down.)

Entrenched aristocracies happen when you have old money that looks down on the "nouveau riche". Every country has an old money class that considers itself more elite than the nouveau riche, of course, but they aren't really an entrenched aristocracy unless the rest of society agrees with them.
What Makes a Good Hashtag? It’s Not Science
Foodzie - foodzie.com - I especially like how scalable their design is. Notice how they (or their sellers) are able to adapt their design to each seller's brand?
What would stop them from just giving their money away before they die?
The 25 books that shaped me as an interaction designer
The once and present (or is it once and future?) governor's father made that proposal 40 years ago...
On some systems delete is backspace when you're at the end of a line.
> the talent appears randomly

That's a pretty strong statement, but even if we take it as an axiom, I think that it isn't migration that concentrates it -- people migrate from everywhere to everywhere all the time.

I think it has more to do with having gone through some hardship, and (selection bias) having done so successfully, makes people better at taking risks.

There's a statistic that says that a huge number (ten percent or so) of immigrants immigrate again to a 3rd country.

Someone who never immigrated would think "all that trouble, again?". Someone who [successfully] has thinks "Well, that wasn't so hard, we can try that again".
Don't they know that money is bad for them?
AppFigures now shows rankings for any iOS app, with history
I thought Starbucks had simply reversed the process. They appear to open a coffee shop on every corner (sometimes several on the same corner) and just close the ones that don't do well.
I think this is foolish.

Marijuana is still illegal at a federal level, and it is only by the grace of the DEA that dispensaries and growers are not (often) raided. This is a product which is likely to produce a strong reaction. Much like Four Loko, it will be perceived as a danger to teens and college students, but instead of having to justify stopping distribution as it did with Four Loko, the FDA can send an email to the DEA, who will raid them, and production will stop immediately. Those involved will go to jail.

Furthermore, I suspect that dispensaries will be reluctant to stock it. Firstly they will not wish to be involved in the fallout to the above; secondly, it's not targeted to the generation of people who can easily go to a doctor and pretend to have aches and pains to get a prescription, and so their clients will be poorly matched to it; and thirdly, they for the most part wish to appear respectable and unremarkable, because to do otherwise would be harmful to the political efforts at legalisation.
Here's why: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/

"Israel: The ugly truth",
"A week of racism in Israel",
"An education in inequality"

Notice something out of proportion here?

I know many people are keen to jump on the "Al Jazeera is great" bandwagon, but this level of intolerance is simply not appealing to Americans. Yes, there is anti-Islamic sentiment to a degree among a small portion of Americans, but it doesn't reach the levels on display here. This is a pattern of Al Jazeera's, which makes sense because news organizations do tend to slant their views to fit general trends among the populations of the countries they serve in.

It makes a lot more sense that Al Jazeera is so well spoken of here just because it is a significant shift from what were used to in the feeble mainstream US media, rather than Al Jazeera actually putting a much deeper level of intellectual effort into their news. In reality it's just an illusion that it's something objectively better. As far as the sometimes thorough reports Al Jazeera puts out, people must realize that PBS and NPR are also American news organizations.
How about getting some help from bloggers? Incentives for them to write about not pirating your software?
150K x 43 = 6,450,000.
I'm guessing that there is a fair chance that at least one of the 43 companies alone will allow them to break even on their investment. They should end up doing extremely well on the deal.
Then why does Warren Buffet famously say that his [effective?] rate is lower than his secretary's?
When offering convertible debt, the investor accepts the valuation at the next round of investments (in this case series A).

The risk for the convertible debt investor is that this valuation will be very high and the series A can take a long time.

To limit this risk convertible debt investors negotiate valuation caps and discounts.

Cap: The convertible debt gets converted at min=[series A valuation, cap].
Discount: The convertible debt gets converted at series A valuation * (1- discount)

(Obviously, when both cap and discount apply, the valuation for conversion becomes min = [series A valuation * (1 - discount), cap].)
I asked my wife - because she's a "typical" internet user - without hesitation, she said white. I would expect this from typical users because of the likeness to Facebook.

Personally, I also found the white the "easiest" on the eyes, but for some reason, the black appealed the most to me.
> I'd miss is the ability to save up your high income for a few years so that you could compensate for a low income the next few years

I was thinking that people could work part-time and earn 50% of standard income. Median household income is around $50k right now, so this is a decent standard of living.

> if you provide some useful service and that service would be made more useful if you could hire a graphic designer to make it pretty, you wouldn't be able to

A two-person household where both members worked full time would be making 3.6x the current median household income, which is way more than they need. This surplus could be used as investment capital, where it would be distributed and decentralized, so it would be much easier to do Kickstarter-style funding. If we accept $75k at the point where money stops having an impact on happiness, individuals would have 20% above that line to play with for those kinds of things. Essentially, the stack ranking converts your surplus productivity into status for you, and distributed evenly to your friends and neighbors, who have the power to return it to you if they think your project is socially or economically valuable.

Some good points though, especially the part about profit as an index of what makes people happy. The problem with our current system is that this is only true if your profits come from people who make less than $75k. 40% of consumer spending is driven by people in the top 10% ($82,500 annual income), so it's fair to say that that spending is misallocated and doesn't contribute to overall happiness.
2d) a workforce that is relatively well off enough that there's little incentive for them to steal your assets or time.

Edit: 2e) comfortable enough not to wage revolution against your ass.
I wonder if anybody at Sony has come up with the conclusion that it's always going to get hacked, and the money they spend trying to secure it(along with the bad press) could be better focused in other areas of the company.
All the PS3 tools are hosted here now:
http://gitorious.org/ps3free

I really wonder how that falls under DMCA at all.
First off, you shouldn't be down-voted for your opinion. If you agree or the comment adds to a discussion, up-vote. If you disagree, do nothing. If the comment is off-topic, asinine, or detracts from the discussion, only then down-vote. Come on HN, you should know better.

There's a lot of reasons to load Javascript from Javascript. One of the main ones that crop up is when you're building large single-page web applications that involve a lot of files that may or may not be dependent on one another. This allows you to start executing some of your page-specific Javascript as soon as the libraries it depends on become available, before the rest of your bulky resources finish loading.
What a simple idea that will go a long way. There are great many algorithms/models out there that are seemingly great and do wonders on toy data, but in the real world fail not only because the data isn't comprehensive (it isn't sampled well), but also because people misuse existing models and tweak them enough to work for that data and those tweaks make it on acclaimed journals/conferences. These kinds of efforts will help tremendously to filter out all the noise because now, you'll have to show results for real-world data to argue that your algorithms can generalize and/or that your tweaks actually matter.

Besides Amazon, Google has taught us that more data is better and sometimes less complex algorithms that scale but give you only a marginal hit on accuracy are preferred; ie, cost functions matter, and that's something you don't get practice with in the academic world.

When you think about data sets to boost performance, think outside the directly dependent ones. There is so much data out there now and it's not being used. This I think will change soon.
Amateurs. Why not wait a week or two, explore options, see who else is going to respond to this?
A good comic, you mean?
PirateBox lets you share files with anyone close by
Quick answer - he does get equity at the next funding round. What he gets is the amount of equity that $150,000 would buy at that valuation.

So if someone else invests $250,000 for 25%, that's a valuation of $1m. Yuri would get 15% at that valuation. He'd get 7.5% at a $2m valuation and so forth.
Why stop there? I live in the Mission in San Francisco. It's a completely different world from The Haight. Why not split the Haight and the Mission into different states? After all, smaller states are easier to manage, right?

Besides that, I'm not convinced that smaller states are the answer. We could very well end up with two states who have a budget deficit that adds up to California's.