skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure the SEC is nowhere near these deals as all are private, probably under some type of 'sophisticated investor' rule anyway.

IRS couldn't care who ripped off whom as long as they get their pound of flesh.
oh it's a chick. nvm.
She graduated with a liberal arts background and was an engineer at Google? I graduated with a degree in computer science and I can't even get them to call me and setup an interview. I'm a smart guy with some good work experience under my belt already and my resume looks great.
I agree it's hard to be negative about someone striking out on their own but I think he does have a point that unless you know Jean personally why would you care when the sum total of the content was "google is great but I want to do my own thing"?
Clickable: http://tymr.com

It's not obvious from the "Events" or "Places" pages how to get home again.

After clicking the ">" arrow on the panels on the front page I got to the last one, then had to move the mouse to be able to go back again. Consider making them cycle, with some indication that I've seen a panel before (this is a design issue)

It would be nice to be able to add an event of place (possibly with moderation) without having to register so I can see things actually working.

Consider incorporating the "creeping registration" technique whereby I give you my information in bits and pieces in return for increasing functionality.

Related: Consider finding a way to make it minimally usefulwithout registration.

You description here is phenomenally high on the Ginger Factor. Consider using fewer buzzwords, and more calls to action.

In fact, I can't see how to get home from any page.

(a minute or two later) OK, clicking the logo does it. I didn't find that obvious. The logo has nothing to suggest it's clickable.

I like the design, I'm mildly interested by the idea, I might use this, but I'm unwilling to register without seeing it in action.
You could also look like it this way : $6mm is about how much each set of ads in the superbowl probably costs. (just guessing)

If you compare to that, it doesn't look reckless at all.
Have to recommend A State of Mind http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456012/

British documentary from 2004 following two young gymnasts (sisters, if I recall correctly) and their family as they prepare for the Mass Games
Techstars is going to be unhappy about this. After one of their premier companies, SendGrid gets hit by the amazon announcement, YC closes this deal.
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Hey that sort of diet got me through university and freed up funds for that other important calorie source : beer.

You can actually live on that type of diet for a little while when you're young and eager. There are far worse things for you to do.
thanks!

I liked your honest comment about the description! I need to work on that.

I'm no designer, so I need to work harder on those usability and user experience issues
I use all if not most of the sites folks mentioned. But I took your question of learning to mean interacting with others (forgive me if I am wrong). I came across P2PU 'School of Webcraft' that might be worth a look-classes pick up again in April.

Here is the link to the school: http://www.drumbeat.org/p2pu-webcraft

and to courses: http://p2pu.org/webcraft -- good luck!
"any type of events" should be "any type of event".
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Out of interest, why did you not add the "clickable" comment yourself?
Engineering Dissertation Is Very Stern and Extensive Project
There are many fields related to engineering. Therefore, students assigned the writing of engineering dissertations will be benefited by selecting topics which are in their particular area of engineering. This will make the writing of the dissertation easier.
good point! for now i support english and portuguese.. so there could be a few errors/typos.
Thank you for letting me now about that one ;)
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At least they give you tea.
I'm seeing the word 'loan' in there along with 'investment' - the two aren't really compatible terms. Who's on the hook for the loan? From the TC page:

"If you’re not an investor, here’s what it means. Yuri and SV Angel just offered to loan each company $150,000. That loan will convert if/when the company raises a proper angel or venture capital round at the same valuation that’s set in that round. Most convertible debt has a valuation ceiling and also gets a discount on conversion. This debt doesn’t.

It’s the most entrepreneur friendly investment that I can think of, short of just handing people money as a gift."

So, they're not just handing money over ('investing') - it's a loan, which would seem to require payback. If the company flops (some do) who is on the hook? YC itself? The original founders?
This is about one year old.
Jean has a picture in her album that is metaphorically Life in a Big Company:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_jwxdZ0d5COI/TD-SgCdOmYI/AAAAAAAAHb4/pk...

* Walled garden.

* Various plants (projects) pushed into the corner. Tidy, but the organization of them is somewhat arbitrary. Some are taller and bushier, but some are looking kind of scraggly. Many are on the shelf.

* Watering can and broom: maintenance is always there waiting.

* Manager in the foreground asking "What are you doing? Why aren't you sweeping? When am I going to get fed?"
How does it work out for all YC companies that have run and either exited or died to date?
didn't want to abuse, or be seen as a spammer.

I'm new at the HN community
Read the original post. They gave some reasons.
I don't see any such strings attached to this deal.
Knowledgesale, I couldn't comment on your question about why there is no "kickstarter for investing" or find your twitter to say this ...

It was called Prosper.com. Actually there were many attempts at exactly what you're talking about. So far they've all failed.
I'm not crazy about backupify. It kind of assumes you know what a backup is.
I think people often look for contrarian takes. That's not a bad predisposition really, because they often tell me something new--- something like "Why I Love Being A Janitor" might have something interesting in it, while "Being A Janitor Isn't For Me" is basically what I'd expect, so probably wouldn't read it unless it had some particularly unique take on why being a janitor isn't the best job in the world.

That said, this article didn't tell me a whole lot about why Google might not be as great a place as you think, except the stuff I expected (it's a big company, you're not really in control, etc.).
I can't speak to when I was a five year old, but I think certainly I would have been ready to grasp those concepts when I was a few years younger than twelve.

No examples from her (other than "I'd prefer to expose them to Lewis Carroll or Phantom Tolbooth").

Proofreading - wasn't meant as a general piece of fairly obvious and patronising advice, like "if you write a book, remember to proofread!" She meant that the article you published wasn't proofread.

Corin
And there's the deeper trouble with method:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Feyerabend#Nature_of_scien...
Avoid getting buried in technical debt
How to Win In a Hot Housing Market? - Health and Financial Freedom
This makes me really sad. Food is one of the most important things you buy for your health. You should not go for cheap prices but for quality instead. How good can 0.99$ meat be? It will be full of hormons, antibiotics and other harmful things. It will be made in a way that harms environment.
However, the lawsuit by the states (for example Virginia) is to have the statue about individuals being required to purchase healthcare declared unconstitutional. They will then use this to argue that the whole law unconstitutional if they win (no severance clause in the law). I heard this on NPR last night in an interview with the attorney general of virginia about their strategy....
Would definitely love to see this as well.
If Amazon is letting someone attempt 1000 failed login attempts, even over several hours or a day, they're doing something wrong.
Only for the people looking for a story to write about. Poor people don't like being poor.
I had trouble with this some months ago. It took me a while to realise the issue at hand and ultimately I had to call Amazon customer support. They reset passwords to "amazon" if you do so...

I do not remember the full details but judging from log files I was trying to set a long password (20 alphanumeric varied case characters) and it never let me login again. This happened multiple times.
I really like DropBox's name... Matches very well what they do.
Unfortunately, despite popular myth, not every consequence applied to a person is a result of their choices and actions. The American Dream might be equality of people, but the harsh reality is that there's actually quite a lot of variance.

So we get to answer the really interesting question of exactly how much do we, as a country, want to spend to support a dream against reality?
I'm sorry, but this is FUD. I have at least two objections to what you say (for the record, I'm not american).

1. Do you really want to live in a society where a visit from the police means a busted door just in case? If things degenerated so badly, the police has already failed, and failed hard. I mean Rwanda/Congo hard.

2. Since we both know this is not the case, and most visits from the police are done in the old-fashioned knock-on-the door manner, we have to wander if a pimpled faced computer hacker has _any_ quality making him more dangerous then average. I suppose a bureaucrat might go and say hacking was an act of terrorism and terrorists use bombs, but for any sane person it's pretty clear he is not above average. He's scraping the bottom of the barrel, statistically speaking.

I therefore tend to conclude that the busting of the doors is uses as a deterrent. A message for the Anonymous that if you play with fire, you'll have FBI agents with guns in your room.
I suppose a Darwin award is in order..
Why is orielly selling pragprog books?
Living way of  Software Tester
How-to-motivate-software-tester
It's working, thanks!
like, totally, man. flagged.
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Hmm, it's more like investing in/always betting on a solid racing stable.

You know the jockeys they use are great (investor community), you know their horses are from great stock (top applicants), you know that the breeders, handlers and trainers (advisors and partners) are THE most experienced in the area. You know the stable only enter horses into races (markets) where they think the odds of placing are good, or the opportunity cost is so low for a potential outsider.

Sure there are other stables, and sure, some of the horses in this figurative stable are co-owned by people with very different aims from you (boot strapping cofounders?), and some are backed some of your competitors.
We're all hyper-connected.  Now what?
I think Ooyala is beautiful. It's a bunch of ex-googlers, I like to think the "oo" carries that. And it's an abstract name, which is ok given their business (not end-user). According to their materials, "Ooyala means cradle in Telugu, a Southern Indian language."

[i don't know anyone at Ooyala, I just found them on the web]
Possibly, I'll have a look. Seems a very long way around for a tiny benefit. Maybe I'll try asking pg and see if it's gets anywhere.
There were some problems I noted:

first example, the package statement is redundant. That would make the java example much shorter, and apparently shorter code is inversely proportional to e-peen length or something like that.

XML comments sounds like an interesting feature, but isn't the real feature that C# treats XML as a native type (or something like that??)

decimal as a type sounds interesting, does that let you do high precision financial math and/or math for large amounts of dollars?

object: C# capitalisation looks really random to me. I worked on a Java project once with a guy who learned on something that was almost, but not quite proper Java (Jada?) and reading his code was an exercise in going wtf? Because he didn't follow (or know, or understand) the first letter capitalisation rules.

For pi, you should of course use Math.PI not 3.14

I think the enum syntax is wrong in Java, don't you need to spray angle brackets all over it in a mad orgy of generically making it much harder to read?

Also, I don't think his println will do what he says it will do as he hasn't defined a toString method??? Or is the enum magical enough to figure that out on its own?

I knew his capitalisations were buggered up, Math.Pow does nothing in Java, should be Math.pow

Converting an int to a string should be: String s = "" + x;

Converting the string back into an int should be longer, you need to catch the possible conversion exception NumberformatException

If you're converting doubles to whole numbers, you should probably put them into either a long or a BigDecimal, rather than an int.

For string concatenation I think he's missed += I know a lot of people don't like it because they think it is slow or bad form, but the smart guys at Sun optimised the buggery out of it, so it goes like a greased rattlesnake. Check the bytecode that is produced if you don't believe me.

From the article:

throw up;

I just about did. Sorry, I had to stop, I couldn't continue.

import pounding.headache;
They never even experiment with business model that doesn't relies on copyright.
Reseller agreement I guess ? I seem to remember it's been that way for a while already.
Thomas Kuhn is another one worth reading although more philosophical (none the less - relevant)

"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Rev...
One media query and one stylesheet for mobile browsing/commenting. I'm happy to do it in an evening for you. Relevant post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152372
Kuhn, Feyrabend and Lakatos all worth reading. Even tough they might be a tad to postmodern for some people.

None the less they are all valuable thinkers.
http://deel.co

Best name ever. Short, easy, to the point, the best $30 spent so far.
Charles Oliver Nutter is one of those guys that helps provide a healthy dose of humility to average programmers like myself. The level of expertise and knowledge required, and the mastery of multiple languages that is necessary, to create something like JRuby is something I find mind-boggling.

Congrats to Headius for the book release and thanks for providing an impeccable example of programming excellence to aspire to.
A nice poem to go with it:

Adaptation of OZYMANDIAS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

MUBARAK

I met a traveller from an antique land \\
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone \\
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, \\
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown \\
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command \\
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read \\
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, \\
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. \\
And on the pedestal these words appear: \\
"My name is Mubarak, king of kings: \\
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" \\
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay \\
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare \\
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
The LSW variant has always been fully auto and is 25 years old, and the L85 is to this day semi-automatic and is the main rifle in use in the British army. I don't see how they've "only just relented". Full auto isn't that useful anyway! The ability to empty your magazine in a second comes in handy less often than you'd think.

In fact the US Army's M16 was changed from automatic to semi-automatic, so it seems there is a movement in the other direction.
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The problem I have with .co is it's so similar to .com. If somebody sent me an IM containing "deel.co", I'd probably assume they meant deel.com and just missed the last character.
Expenditure is different this time round though, most of these startups aren't looking to blow heaps of investment on advertising and expensive offices and server costs are nowhere near where they were.

Most startups now to know that building an audience isn't enough that they need a revenue model. Many startups being built to are good fits for acquisitions by the bigger players, generally less people getting funding for things that are unworkable.

Also the public is far less adverse to sharing and purchasing online and innovations like the app stores and things like the kindle have opened up many more markets to generate revenue.
The generics are on the Java side at least once. See the ArrayList<Object> example.

Personally, if I was going to use a generic list based on <Object>, I'd just use ArrayList or Vector without the generic notation. And then if the compiler issued a warning I would bitch slap it and tell it to go make me some money.

I laugh because part of the argument for generics was that they would make code shorter and easier to read. Yet they make the code harder to read, and I seemed to write much less code when all I had to do was cast the object when I took it out of the collection.

Anyway, there are some instances where generics are useful, things like HashMaps.

The problem is, the people who write crappy HashMap code invariably are abusing it to try to avoid writing a proper object. E.g. they're using it as a list of named properties or attributes, some of which may or may not be there this time round. If they'd just shove it into an object, it would make things a lot easier to read. The only downside is they would have to put checks for null all over the place. Since this would actually make their code more robust, make them a better programmer and also make them a better person in general, I have no problem with that 'drawback'.
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Would be interesting to know how many YC companies failed because they couldn't get even a minimum amount of funding required to sustain themselves and continue. Of course some of these may have just burned through the extra cash then hit the same problem.
I agree that computers could be simpler but I don't really agree with the car metaphor. A car may be complex to build but in the end it has one main function to get you from point A to B. In comparison a computer has almost limitless functionality. It's important for computers to be accessible to all but I don't think limiting their use is the way to go.
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So go and re-create it, we'll see how well you do.

Backseat drivers don't get to vote.
I haven't seen any mention of this: what does the investor get in return? the YComb people get six percent; what do the people behind Yuri's fund get?
http://boog.me is not bad either, but that's more like a side project than a startup.

I like four letter names, there are some good ones left if you know where to look.
Yes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152286

Also, NSFW - the site popped up an "Adult Finder" window.
Ask HN: How many years has your Internet startup survived so far?
I'll start first, 8 years.

Given that 25% of startups fail the 1st year, and then half of those who survived the 1st year die off the 2nd year, and the 3rd to 5th years businesses are limping along and slowly dying off.

When I first started, I already knew these statistics, but I said, what the hell. I'll give it a try anyway.
First package was for a comparison only. C#'s 'namespace Hello' wasn't necessary either.

XML comments are more of a convention. Compiler won't prevent you from makin incorrect xml there.

Yes, that's what decimal is for.

Capitalisation is pretty simpl(e/istic) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229043.aspx

Enums -> yes, they's that magical: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/...
It's a convertible note as far as I understand it.
Your private data pays for 'free' Facebook and Google
Oh no it's not. The Japanese are, and I'm generalizing quite heavily here, not good at getting going, or at going quickly once they get moving.

What they are really, shockingly, amazingly good at, is doing things well once they do get moving.

Over here, quality matters more than anything else, and it shows everywhere -- even the 'dollar-store' (100 yen shop goods) have shockingly good quality.
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I personally like this not so small company in the Cook Islands.

http://i.imgur.com/575Br.jpg
Ask HN: kindly Review my start-up studentscircle.net
http://studentscircle.net is the url

Need Advice, Suggestions, Mild Criticism, Mentorship

Thanks
Customer service is amazing, as long as you stay within the script -- once you leave, you're screwed.

In the US, the Starbucks barista will be slower and waaaaay less formal, but she'll probably not worry if you're a penny short.

In Japan, if you are one yen short, you aren't getting the latte you've ordered, even if it's already made, because Those Are The Rules.
mine has survived 6months and hopefully we will pull through the years.. :)
In 3 months from idea to positive cash flow
After six months of research regarding Deal of the Day sites we launched our model. We are merchant centric in our model and believe that is the sustainable model. In 3 months we are generating positive cash flow and have over 2,000 partners that syndicate our deals. We welcome networking and refinement of model and approach to the industry. Best, David Goldfarb, CEO and Co-Founder www.YourBestDeals.com
(I'm not American either)

Re: 1, maybe I didn't make it clear enough in my original post, but indeed in general police do knock on the door, so I think we agree on this point - raids are the exception rather than the norm, but my point was that if there is any doubt at all whether or not a raid would have any advantages, then the raid option will be chosen over the knock-on-the-door option.

With this clear - re: 2, and in the specific case of computer crime, raids are SOP because suspects have a high probability of destroying evidence; at least here in the Netherlands (and policy here are, to put it mildly, not the Wild West type) this is the reason and practice. There have already been a number of cases where suspects (in child pornography cases) were literally forcefully pulled from behind a computer because they were deleting files as soon as they got wind of the police.

So yes, in case of computer crimes, entering with force does make sense (maybe not always - there have also been cases of 16 year olds where the police showed up when they were in school).

We don't know the real circumstances of these raids. Maybe there was a deterrent/revenge component (which would be illegal and undesirable), we don't know. Point is that the knee-jerk reaction(s) I was replying to are just that, and lacking any nuance. Many interests have to be weighed and safety of police officers and having a reasonable chance to save evidence are some of the factors that have to be weighed against the interests of the suspects. This may sound, in the limited context here, like I'm advocating a police state and anyone who knows me IRL knows that I usually am on the far opposite of that; but some force on entry is not a big a deal as some people make it out to be.

My (admittedly long-windedly made) point: no you're not being oppressed because the police put a hole in your door in the course of investigating your malicious disturbance of someone else's business.
i like mine http://studentscircle.net pretty much says what the startup is about
There is a database maintained for this kind of purpose: http://www.chillingeffects.org/
Was little more subdued than I expected. It could be just a reflection of the nature of tech hacker types but slightly surprised to see no fist pumping or much robust cheering; more polite applause to slightly louder polite applause?