skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. See also the epic shitstorm on HN over subscription revenue. From elsewhere in the comments:

"This probably isn't that controversial"

No no, trying to take 75% of someone else's revenue isn't bad at all. Now if it was say... less than a third that would be purest evil. /s

This illustrates one of my two main points about the Apple bashers either

(a) that whenever people discuss Apple there's a vocal minority for whom all logic seems to fly out the window and it becomes opposites day or

(b) Apple is held to a different standard than others, e.g. it's okay for Canonical to throw their weight around and take a massive slice of someone else's pie, but if Apple tries to take a small slice of a pie everyone screams blue murder.

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@Linux fans: sorry to post in your thread yo, but some of your guys were trolling in the Apple bashing threads recently (and getting mighty fine karma for doing so) so turn about is fair play.
I am much more impressed by the contents than the presentational aspect. It buries the lede that you're a social marketer who empirically, repeatably gets measurable results.
Sorry but I don't trust any no-name news site that references National Enquirer as a source at all. As plausible as Jobs not making it much longer is, this is garbage.
You should really run funnel analysis to see how many people loose interest at each successive screen.
"But these are all just window dressing. Here's the thing that I would fear as a Google investor: Ask Jeeves' (Nasdaq: ASKJ) algorithmic search engine Teoma already receives rave reviews for its results, and Yahoo! recently unbundled Google's search so it could feature its Inktomi technology. And wouldn't you know it, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), not one to leave nickels in billion-dollar stacks lying on the ground, will include an algorithmic search engine bundled in its next generation of Windows products, due out next year."

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It's amazing to think that this was only a handful of years ago.
I noticed the author is still using a web server on their own for commenting.... but with something like Disqus for commenting (applied to posts client side using js) and linking out to google for searching, you can completely eliminate the need for having a web server for hosting simple blog sites.
Thanks for sharing a link only Facebook users can access. In the pure hacker spirit: open, transparent access for anyone.
I can hardly wait until the CAPTCHA is replaced by the Voight-Kampff test.
That solution doesn’t work for AMAs which will (like this one) inevitably attract much attention.
Not sure about the resume, but you should probably put a shirt on in your profile pic if you want to be taken seriously.
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/161257_6809274_...
This might be useful if Google Bookmarks wasn't more neglected than Delicious.
Startup employers unwilling to mention % equity offered.
Scott Hanselman's Senior Engineer Recruiting Questions (.Net Bias (Duh))
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Wow. This was seriously a bad move on Canonical's part. I really wonder if Canonical knew that the revenue was going to GNOME. I simply have trouble believing that Canonical would do something so boneheaded.
This seems a perfect title for an article about educating people!
Easy to make fun of it now, but the domain "fool.com" fitted well for that article :)
I can't speak for Scala, but Java most definitely has a formal grammar: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/synta...
Best Science Pictures of 2010 Announced
HN discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2139690
Nice, creative. But, Imagineer as an intern for writing a document? I don't think so.
This seems well suited for https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
This is perfect for auto-scaled hosting a Cappuccino app, so the server cluster can be focused only on the backend.
Not proofreading also comes across as self-centered and arrogant. If other people's time is worth as much as your own, and 3600 people will read a message, then it's worth spending an hour making sure that people can understand it on average one second more quickly.

Of course, most people value their own time more highly than others'. But even if that's the case, it's surely worth spending 5 minutes to get it right.
Fair point, but using it as a USB drive? To what end?
Seriously. This article was published a year before Maps existed. Less than a month after the Gmail beta started. Facebook was less than six months old.

This was all seven years ago! How times have changed.
Thanks. Unfortunately we entered the market with some value, then sold a few shares to friends & family with a set price. Now we appear to be constrained by the value we set on the few shares we sold.
thanks, a process of my stress around the tax hit I'm evidently going to take :-) Ack, reboot.
As entrepreneurs at what point do you decide that Amazon is "too big" and do you decide to stick with smaller service providers? Is your use of Amazon strictly a commodity provider?
PyPy had head start of almost 4 years. I remember when Rubinius was started, people talked about how self-hosting dynamic language environments have been a failure and they sited PyPy as an example after Millions in funding from European Union.
I can't see your resume because it's on facebook.
Using Fancy Hands to name your product/company
How about a service with js commenting that alerts a trusted server of the comment? Server grabs the static html, appends the comment, pushes the new html to s3, bada-bing-bada-boom.
FTA: "People who are currently employed … are the kind of people you want as opposed to people who get cut," one recruiter told the Atlanta Journal Constitution in October.

This is what recruiters... people who are supposed to be experts at hiring, are saying?

Wow.
Actually there has been a lot of research in this area. It's called automatic theorem proving. There have been some successes but not close to replacing mathematicians.

If you compare it to chess then the computer programs are still at the beginner level. First year math students will be able to prove things that the computer cannot, yet.

It's an intriguing area. Computer programs can perfectly well check whether a proof is correct, so in principle all you have to do is enumerate all "proofs" and pick out the valid ones. In practice the research is focused on doing this search more efficiently and intelligently.
You misunderestimate the ineptitude of unwitting sysadmins such as myself. It takes me days to set up a VPS. It took me a good few weeks to figure out how to get Django working. I screwed up my latest VPS so badly that I had to scrap the thing and start again.

Some people really suck at these things.

> Regarding the costs, I rent one private (not virtual) server for 20 euros/month, and host several (static and dynamic) sites on it, so it's actually cheaper than going the AWS road. Uptime last time I logged: 560 days (aka reliable enough for me).

S3 will cost literally pennies for hosting a simple static website. A VPS is orders of magnitude more expensive.
Kudos to the motley fool for keeping that one on their website.
Would creating fake personas be considered government propaganda?
Honest question: which browsers can't handle gzip'd responses?
I would really think about what sort of position he would be able to get. My guess is that most start-ups are (especially at first) going to avoid hiring anyone that isn't essential to what they do. If you can't pinpoint value-adding skills that your brother brings, he may not have a good shot.
When does he graduate? Really just need to do a cost/benefit analysis, but I might weigh finishing the degree heavier than you would... pays off in the next jobs as well, not just the first one.
Right now we use OAuth as much as possible, so that you don't have to give out your credentials -- we've been thinking about taking some other steps to eleviate these concerns, in the future.
Actually, none of it's automated it all comes from a real person :)
I work at a major developer-publisher and we use Sketchup for mockups of levels. It's not part of the official level design pipeline but in the conception phase it's better than 2D sketches or plans. Also used: Lego and papercraft.
I think you might be right. The high-def version makes it easier to see where shadows fall. It looks like it's the back section that's separate from the rest. If you watch the high-def closely it looks very much like the first 3 segments of the track are behind the last segment (notice how his shadow passes over the last segment THEN the first 3 segments):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2xnl6LwJE#t=33s

http://imgur.com/c1Plc
Here's what I don't understand about Pure Capitalism (and the Pure Capitalists who espouse it): The end goal of it is, in almost all non-theory cases throughout the history of civilization, suffering in either quality or quantity delivered to the customer or suffering of the well-being of the non-owner personnel.

Whether it is by imperfect competition due to myriad reasons (information asymmetry, {mono|duo|oligo}poly, "regulatory capture" or blatant corruption of governments) or industry verticalization or horizontalization, the end result is always one or a cabal of big ass companies runs everything, exploits its workers in one or more industries, and the smaller competition gets squeezed out to the point where the barriers to entry are impossible except through regulation (and, often times, regulation is the reason it makes it hard to compete).

How many more times can we say "Capitalism would be perfect, if it weren't for humans" before we conclude that we need something different? And, why do we continue to pursue it in practice if we know it doesn't work in almost any situation?

In fact the only industry that is known to have "perfect competition", the one taught about ad nauseum in econ classes, is fishermen in Southern US. And, even then, governments and even the Ku Klux Klan were called in when hard-working Vietnamese immigrants came in and fished harder and longer. There's no win when Free Will is involved.

Pure capitalism doesn't work (or else we'd have done that already), communism doesn't work. Something in between, but what?
Thank You. Very nice. I love the idea of a static site.
Google went public with a $25B market cap? That puts the absurd valuations you see thrown around today into perspective.
Just one of the challenges that forces people to get creative. Yes, planning ahead does help, but sometimes you just have to power through and work with what you have...or pull your hair out and finally get that 5 minutes of sleep you haven't had for a while.
Tiny market, isn't it? How many geeky guy Android users are giving out their numbers at bars?
Vim, Python, Git, Mercurial on the CR-48 in ChromeOS
It's not an unreasonable opinion. Google is dependent on a single product, there's almost no barrier for users or advertisers to switch, and most of Google's proprietary technology in software and datacenter design is completely opaque to investors.

I'm not sure Google is a slam-dunk investment even today. They have their fingers in a lot of pies, but the company is still entirely dependent on an advertising product that hasn't changed substantially in years. If the market changed in a way that disrupts adwords, things could go south quickly. They remind me a bit of Microsoft - very oriented on protecting a lucrative monopoly, but in doing so their other products tend to be designed to support the monopoly, not generate revenue on their own.
Thanks, I'll definitely ping you if I run into an issue. Your guide is very comprehensive - I appreciate the help!
No, that's exactly wrong. Go start your company and get your funding as fast as you can. Then hold onto it. When the inevitable dip (or "pop", for the zealous) comes, that's when you use that money to hire some recently-out-of-work engineers for cheap.
Google Bookmarks seem private by default, unlike Delicious and Pinboard; seems like you have to put bookmarks into "lists" to make them public.

I've just started poking around again, and the first thing that stands out to me is that the URLs are long and complicated. Delicious and Pinboard both put an emphasis on readable, hackable URLs, which makes sense for this type of pretty-much-a-database service.
It's just his opinion advising caution. Not bad advice, really.

On the other hand, Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung was commenting that NVDA runs the risk of having "excess inventory" for tablets. I honestly have no idea how that can happen considering production for Tegra 2 is barely out the gate.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nvidia-shares-jump-on-upbea...
Zynga Nears Deal Valuing It at Close to $10 Billion
Physicists build world's first antilaser
Here is the thing I don't get about Crowdbooster.

Lots of chartsengrafs. Some of them are even interesting. I'll click over every once in awhile, see if my Twitter messages are driving followers away. But the site is not very sticky.

But buried on one of those graph pages --- I can never remember which one --- is a button for "schedule a Tweet", where Crowdbooster has figured out for me when my Tweets should get published.

Why - oh - why - oh - why isn't the primary interface to this whole app just a big Tweet dialog box with "tweet now" or "tweet at best possible time"? I would use that EVERY DAY.
With Update to ‘Social Search,’ Google Embraces The Crowd
Wal-Mart also guarantees scale when they negotiate to put something in their stores. It's what allows them to put downward pressure on their supply chain to lower their prices.

The logistics of getting the product efficiently to the shelves reduces waste by tracking exactly what sells geographically and why. The analogy breaks down on this since Apple is creating the end product, but the principle of getting preferred pricing due to scale is no different.
It would be great if someone could build a routing service (ala .htaccess on the cloud), so that we can make use of S3 without breaking the URLs.
> If you can't have a logical debate it's pointless to bother talking.

Well, there's a huge gap between conversations and debates, and you can have one without the other. Even on the internet.

And, much as it goes against your love of logic, if you ever wish to change someone's mind or beliefs, conversing with them is the way to go -- not debating.
Wow, this is great. Joining from San Jose. Is the first one recorded?
Makes no sense jumping from one dead service to another. You might as well use Firefox beta and Slurp to get your URLs out from delicious (with tags) and keep them to your local machine. Better liberate your data from the clutches of the cloud and these untrusted services.
angellist.com has been getting lots of publicity lately.

Where are you located? There are often local angel groups, and regional business development organizations which can be helpful in finding angels.

If there is a local start-up scene, go to the meet-up events.

You have a bit of a conflict in your question thought. You ask how to find'local investors' and then as what the best websites are.

With the exception of angellist (which I haven't tried) I suspect that he best way to find local investors isn't online .
Not everyone is a Google.
It seems that in the e-ship they capture the heat from the ordinary ship engines (which drive the propeller) and then use that heat to drive the magnus effect cylinders. So it seems they get the savings from capturing waste heat, mostly.

But who knows if you would be able to get the same or more savings if you capture the heat and just use it to drive another propeller.
It's hard to believe in any conspiracy theory that uses as evidence things that would be expected even if the theory were false (e.g. foreign nationals speaking out in favor of their native system when they feel it's unfairly represented).

I do find your account credible. I just don't actually care enough about whether it's true to evaluate the evidence in depth.
Use Firefox with Slurp and keep your bookmarks to yourself. Delicious experiment shows that your bookmarks are not worth anything to anyone but yourself.
Google Opens Developer Preview Of Chrome Web Store In 15 More Countries
I agree... they really should respect you for saying that you made the commitment and are a person who follows through on your commitments. They shouldn't want someone who doesn't, because you could be liable to do the same to them.
I just bought codestocknation.com. What are we doing with it?
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I'm so meta, "I'm so meta".
The knowledge part is confounded because buzzer performance preempts knowledge performance.
Zbrush just came out with shadowbox. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doJo-HCg3_A Same type of thing, very cool.
That's great, it probably requires a stylus and gets less than 5 hours of battery life... go you.
What do you mean by "too big"? I guess what I'm wondering is what about that would motivate switching to smaller providers.
Tough. They have to.
Not to pick on you, but I've worked on plenty of Java projects where there were sections of the code that some of the programmers either didn't understand or didn't want to touch with a bargepole because they were 'too scary'.

Taking the example of J2EE, on a sufficiently large J2EE project (where 'sufficiently large' is 3 or more people) it would be trivially easy for a Java programmer who didn't know J2EE to work on it - since there's usually a lot more to it than just the back end persistence bit. (Front end, middle layer services, business illogic etc)

Or say they are using both an obscure database and hibernate and I spend a significant amount of time trying to get them to agree on how date formats will be read and written (don't laugh, nobody else could figure it out). When I do get it working, does everybody else on the project magically absorb this newfound expertise via osmosis or something? Don't be ridiculous! Only I have the understanding of it, and if the others know what is good for them they will not fiddle with it.†

Naturally I'll liberally sprinkle it with comments like:

// if you want to retain your SAN points, don't mess with this

In fact, this thing of someone working on something that is really tricky and then when they do get it working warning off the other programmers from messing with it is extremely common in larger projects. One of the benefits of OO code is that you can segment the 'nasty stuff' off from the rest of the code so that it can be safely ignored. And this doesn't just apply to senior programmers doing stuff too scary for the junior programmers, it can work the other way too - as a senior member of the team I'm quite happy to let someone junior with lots of 'fire in their belly' tackle the ugly ugly task of getting the config files set up, and if they've done it right I never even have to look at them (don't be outraged, it's called delegation).

If you have to twiddle your ant script every time you want to compile your code, you ain't doing it right.

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† the corollary of this is: that there is always a fiddler.

But when they break it you're allowed to laugh at them and then tell them to put it back the way it was when they found it
I wondered what the author does now for a living. I almost sent him the article. It seems like now he is part of the AOL team through the HPost acquisition.
I wonder how much of that is due to a simple misinterpretation of some of the sites you visit. For example, if the fairly recent article on Google's "beatbox" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356) and my subsequent searches led to my purported interest in "Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - Urban & Hip-Hop - Rap & Hip-Hop".
The "wind" caused by the ship's forward movement is not useful (it would be perpetual motion if it were).

The motion of a ship shifts the apparent wind forward (it is a vector addition of the wind's velocity vector and the ship's velocity vector). The faster a ship goes, the less useful the real wind will be since the apparent wind shifts forward, making the "sails" less efficient. The Wikipedia article had an anecdote that the Flettner rotors worked to 20-30 degrees from dead ahead. That is pretty good for a sailing ship of 1924 vintage, but still leaves large angles where the wind is not useful. It also didn't say how efficient the rotor was at 20 degrees apparent wind. :-O

Obviously, a Flettner rotor sailing ship is vulnerable to all the problems of a traditional sailing vessel: wind is unreliable (except in the trades) and often comes from a direction that is not useful (astern, forward). Note that the trade winds are east/west and a ship generally wants to go east or west to cross the ocean. Square rigger ships like to sail downwind. Flettner rotors, not at all.
A word about résumés.
Song of Solomon 8:5 (New International Version, ©2010)

Friends

5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness
leaning on her beloved?

She

Under the apple tree I roused you;
there your mother conceived you,
there she who was in labor gave you birth.
Even more amazing, I think they only raised 75M total from VCs prior to their IPO.
It's "met", not "mat".
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Do you have the hustle to be an entrepreneur?
Fixed thx
A share is a part of the company. You are, essentially, becoming an investor. This is why companies like Google are forced to go public: They have too many employees and investors who own parts of the company, and the SEC's threshold says: "After 500 people own a portion of your company you have to go public; being private is too much of a risk to the shareholders."

So whether you get preferred (which is usually issued shortly after the investment or founding) or common, you're unlikely to see that piece of the company be worth anything until the company sells, goes public or issues dividends. In the case of a preferred shareholder, you can also get some liquidity in the event of bankruptcy or shutting the company down.

To put it simply, when you are given options, you can exercise them by purchasing them at a very low valuation. Until those shares are worth something, you can not sell them.
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What's really crazy for me is that I've been at my current startup for over half of that time span, and that I've been into Rails almost the full span.
S/N is too low.
Should an Indian StartUp apply for Seed Accelerator Program in America?
I know the chances of an Indian Startup are same as anyone on merit basis, but how feasible it is for Accelerator program? Do the chances narrow down based on ethnicity or probably due to work permits or visa issues?
Jdrop provides a place to store JSON data in the cloud
Then consider it to be worth nothing... which is probably what it will be worth. It wouldn't be an encouraging number anyway.