skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I've already seen it.

2) You might look into making comments that have better relevance to the posts and comments you're replying to. Doubly so if you don't find them interesting.
what's your asking price for your first born?
Great idea, not sure why more people dont just have a link to a vcard on their server and put the link on their card. Signed up, will give it a go, but after linkedin and about.me do I have room for another url I dont own on my business card?
A lot of views on this deal have Nokia selling the farm. I don't think so. I'll bet Nokia is paying $0 per license for this with unlimited access to source code etc etc. This is because MS has been flogging their new phone OS for almost a year with very little traction. The lynch pin of it all though is...how do the search proceeds get split?
Indeed. At the French Grand Prix (Magny-Cours) in 2002... I was 10th row off of the front straight. I was trying to shove napkins in my ears.

Any F1 fans should download the UK Top Gear season 15 episode 5 and watch the last 15 minutes - a short tribute to Ayrton Senna. It's tremendous.
Teleconferencing and airlines solve a common problem, but what common problem do Azure and Silverlight share? They've got basically nothing to do with each other, except for as you say, that they're marketed at developers (?)
Smartest Machine on Earth | NOVA [video]
UK Opinion:

I started writing an application 10 years before the formation of a UK Ltd company, and when I joined them I let them use it.

I ended up having to negotiate and buy said software from the liquidator when it failed because it was cheaper than fighting the claim in court to prove ownership.

As many have said, get everything in writing.
Maybe, but if you don't actually create IP yourself -- you hire a contractor to do what you do at your day job -- you will stay in the clear and gain valuable experience.

Managing a contracted worker in your field of expertise, within the creative restriction that you cannot perform their work for them, is itself a highly educational exercise for someone with entrepreneurial interests.

Be sure to document well, though.
How about the result concerning finding the roots of polynomials; that there are increasingly complex exact and explicit formulae as you go from linear to quartic, but it's impossible to find such formulae for quintics or higher.

I don't know if that fits your needs: it's elementary to state, but not exactly elementary to prove.
Pandora Files Registration Statement for Proposed IPO
What's a co-founder?
Windows Phone Marketplace marches to 8,000 apps
I think you mean dissociation. I've seen studies indicating that brain activity in this state is equivalent to sleeping. Regardless, being behind the wheel in this state is dangerous.
YC accepts single founders, the bar is just higher.

Applying with co-founders and having them disappear is probably worse than applying as a single founder, because co-founders jumping ship is one of the things that often happens shortly before a startup dies. I'm sure YC was acutely aware of this pattern, and that makes the Storenvy story all the more impressive.
"Does this seem off-topic to anyone else? – Russell Steen Jan 26 at 14:49"

Is the reason I just get sick of S.O. sometimse.
That's what I'm wondering, I bet there's good money in child-flipping. You know buy a 3 month old, get them to the walking+talking phase and boot them off to someone willing to drop top dollar.

(FYI for the downmodders: that's what's called a sick joke)
Speaking of advertising on your face - it exists - saw this the other day - http://billythehumanbillboard.blogspot.com/
That's meaningless pedantry. Call it whatever you want, it's dangerous.
Nokia's 15-year tango to avoid Microsoft
It allows their investors to sell stock and get their money out.
Not really.

Go find a company from '97 that had $70 million in revenue and was breaking even.*

If there is a company, it might have had absurdly inflated ad-based revenue when CPMs were like $30.
Increase Text Leading for Easy Reading
Resume restrictions removed
"Such a cavalier attitude to risk actually might be a very good reason that this guy should not be running anything"

I read this story very differently. Jon was fearless, took a calculated risk, and, when the initial outcome didn't role in his favor, just kept plugging in the face of obstacles - to his success.

If you think that "Flying out to Silicon Valley on a reasonable chance that Y Combinator was going to fund his startup that already had a community, but with several months of cash regardless of that funding" is a cavalier attitude to risk, I would love to think what your thoughts about what some of the _really_ hair brained things that startups do to become successful.

The sheer _act_ of deciding to create a startup is easily one of the most risk prone acts one can take - so, ironically, per your logic, anyone who does so should not be running anything. :-)

I loved the story, loved how he rolled with the punches, and loved his positive attitude at the end towards everyone. I have almost no doubt that he's going to deliver great things.
This is everyone-and-their-pet-dog's theory, and it makes no sense. Why would the amount of time passed have any effect on the brain's time keeping mechanism?

It's probably because the brain gets worse at encoding memories as it ages, so fewer memories/unit time = faster time perception. Also, older people have slower cognitive tempo than younger people.
StartupBus: Is your application applicable?
I'd submit Euler's theorem, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_theorem. This result is the heart of the Rabin-Miller primality test, which is what makes finding large (probable) primes easy, making RSA encryption practical.
Xerox Star demo
It was more an issue of timing. The conversations started with my cofounders about 72 hours before the first YC dinner. I was already scheduled to move out of my apartment and had airfare booked. It wasn't until I was literally heading to the airport the night before the first dinner that I found out that things might be in trouble. I'd already spent the last couple days moving all of my stuff into a storage unit.

I talked to Paul on the phone as I was boarding the plane and he told me, "I don't know if I'd come out here just yet." But I didn't want to miss the first dinner (still naïvely thinking things will work out). He definitely gave me fair warning and I knew the risks, but it seemed silly to turn around at that point. I knew I could always fly back home in a few days, if I needed to. It was worth the risk. And in hindsight, I'm insanely thankful I got on that plane.
After what Consumer Reports pulled with Suzuki and the media reporting on that, I am pretty sure Toyota shouldn't hold their breath.
Sorry, my wording was confusing. I meant they were hiding the fact that people were getting into accidents from "sticky gas pedals" not that they were hiding actual EDR crash data.

"Toyota Motor Corporation agreed to pay a $16.375 million fine - the largest fine permitted by law - for failing to notify the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a dangerous pedal defect for almost four months" http://www.nhtsa.gov/PR/DOT-71-10
Diversity doesn't narrowly equate to the number of black people you encounter during visits.

According to Wikipedia, San Fransisco is 7.3% black, 31.3% asian, 14.0% hispanic and a total of 35.6% of the residents are from outside the US. It also has the highest ratio of gay/lesbian individuals of anywhere in the US at 15.4%.

That is a LOT of minorities and a lot of diversity no matter how you slice it and downmodding me won't change the fact.
Ask HN: Is Nokia a victim of ephemeralization?
Just wondering about Nokia, the great success story of Finland. They are great at hardware, but when software became dominant with touch screens, they clearly lost it. Our user experience is a software experience, not a hardware experience anymore. (Remember the 6150 etc, it was ALL hardware and it was great!) Those who can do better software will win in mobile. What do you think?
SDO Sundog Mystery
Congrats to them. 12 page servers and only 2 dbs is super lean for ~100m pageviews. They seem a bit bloated on eng staff though.

Off topic, but more proof how inaccurate Alexa is. I have a service that gets 1/10th of their p/v and is almost 3k points higher.
Why are you using the venue of comments on a parody of just that "command-line aesthetic" (well, as much as old-school text editor UIs are "command lines") to ramble on about this topic?

That is what blog posts are for.
>And if you ever want a lesson in supercilious condescension look me up. I take payment in advance.

You weren't kidding, thats for sure. Though I do agree with gist of your response.
I am pretty sure a citizen militia today could get pretty far with popular support (thankfully it has never gotten that bad in the US). I think anything that weakens any single amendment of the bill of rights weakens them all.
Grubwithus- Y Combinator Startup Helps People Connect Over Food
Kishore Mahbubani: Can Asians think? The gulf between the East and the West.
How I handled the traffic from a single Smashing Magazine tweet (with numbers)
It better not be very expensive. Jon is not a good looking man.
Teaching scripting postpones students discovering CS is not for them = Good
well, thanks for posting that publicly: there goes the idea for my YC '12 entry.
I hope that the author contacted Convore directly about these issues before publicizing them.
I wish I'd heard about this before making plans for tomorrow. Is there an aggregator for NYC hackathons etc.?
Pretty amazing when you think of how many ideas that the industry spent the next 15 years developing were already present here.

Check out part 2 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jttq6F6o_J4&feature=relat...

And also id Software eat your heart out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7chDIySXK2Q&feature=relat...
The provided links

( here's the second one, googlefied: http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itscj.ipsj... )

provide nothing further than what's cited. From that second link:

14.9.2 The Requirements subgroup recommends approval of the following contribution to the
press release:

MPEG has been producing standards that provide industry with the best video compression technologies. In recognition of the growing importance that the Internet
plays in the generation and consumption of video content, MPEG intends to develop a new video compression standard in line with the expected usage models of the Internet. The new standard is intended to achieve substantially better compression performance than that offered by MPEG-2 and possibly comparable to that offered by the AVC Baseline Profile. MPEG will issue a call for proposals on video compression technology at the end of its upcoming meeting in March 2011 that is expected to lead to a standard falling under ISO/IEC "Type-1 licensing", i.e. intended to be "royalty free".

I did a bit of looking, but could not quickly identify the terms of this licensing. For one, I'm immediately questioning whether it's entirely royalty-free or only for "non-commercial use". Isn't that one of the problems with encoding that is used in current generation technologies? For example, you're fine shooting personal video, but using it in any commercial context ostensible requires -- or will require after a grace period -- a license in addition to the one that comes with the equipment. Or am I confusing this situation with a different context?
Great press notice for Hipmunk, but a shame there's no link. Aargh.
> Who is not buying a PS3 because of this?

Yeah, everyone who's disgusted by Sony enough to care will have stopped buying their products a long time ago, probably starting with the rootkit debacle.
It was more like 1,300 HP in qualifying trim and 850 HP in race trim.
April 15th huh? Naw--- no body in Hollywood has got that kind of humor do they?
It's only a problem if you want quality news. CBS wants advertising revenue, so they will produce content that attracts viewers who will buy advertised products. What they are currently doing produces their desired output.

The only real problem is that this bad news becomes "common knowledge", and it is difficult to separate independently derived common knowledge (probably true, or somehow indicative of innate human behavior) from mass media common knowledge (probably false, and ripe for exploitation by a small number of people).
I have a 1st round in person interview with Apple this week following 2 phone screens. Hopefully it's not the first of 30.

All my previous interviewing experience is right out of college. I interviewed at several large tech companies and each followed a similar format: 1-2 phone screens, 1 all day on-site, 4-5 interviews.

I know many companies have a 'hire', 'no hire', 'need more information' policy, so it might just have been that your colleague's spouse just kept falling into that need more information category.
Halting or redirecting the military aid would be the worst thing the US could do, because it would force the military (the guys who are actually in charge now) into a corner, remove any hope of being able to co-operate with it and undermine the most important source of stability the country has.

In any case, Egypt's security requirements are not going anywhere and the country will still have to maintain a sizable military in future, so cutting the funding will just mean that the state will have to obtain replacement funds from the national budget. Right now the $2 billion that the US gives to the Egyptian military is $2 billion that's freed up for the state to spend on other things like schools, universities and hospitals. That they don't do a good enough job of that already is due more to corruption than to any actual lack of funds.
> It could only be exploitation if reddit were somehow planning to benefit from their implementations

The point is that having a ready-made recruiting screen is benefiting from the implementations.
There is really no mathematical advantage that NNs have over other approaches namely statistical, optimization and formal symbolic approaches/algorithms which are (imho) better engineering tools as they are more amenable to analysis. At the same time NNs are not inferior to other approaches, mathematically. The only advantage of NNs are sounding cool and being superficially similar to our brains. Consider this simple and often repeated analogy, sticking a beak and feathers on your toy airplane won't make it go faster. In real AI research, NNs are just a bullet point in the huge field of Machine Learning (http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/call_for_papers).

AI people should stop throwing around cool names and instead build things which are real (Please do not start another AI winter.) Watson is a refreshing step in the right direction.
No samples. Hrmph.
A friend of mine has a similar iPhone app: http://irewardchart.com/
Show HN: Lettur.com
Wow. Your wife was really supportive.
That's kind of my point. During that era, if you knew what you were doing you were really impressive, not just another coder at BigCorp.
Hazard - Journey of Life
Yeah, but my wife's cute. ;)
Borders headed for bankruptcy filing, according to WSJ
ok, maybe more like 95... Netscape had $80mil in revenues and was close to break even (made a profit in '96)
http://www.secinfo.com/dRqWm.8Ae8.htm#49o5
I'll be upfront with my bias: I strongly oppose Ayn Rand's politics, I find them abhorrent and morally vacuous. Furthermore, I thought "Atlas Shrugged" was god awful, and this was after having just read "The Fountainhead" and somewhat enjoying it. I also think Ayn Rand as a person was not just hypocritical, but also generally repugnant.

That said, I'm a sucker for a good movie. I'll gladly watch a film which disagrees with my politics, and even recommend it to friends, because cinema is that important to me.

However, this just doesn't look very good. The cinematography looks adequately epic, but some of the acting and dialogue, and even the shots, look like a decently-produced television series at best (and that may be generous in terms of the dialogue), but nothing on the level of something for the big screen.
Gorillas Are the Gentle Giant of the Jungle
Crysis 2 full game leaked with DRM activation master key
And it is entirely possible. Remember, Nokia has a huge hold of lower/middle-end mobile market. If they can manage to get WP7 on devices in that segment without making them much more expensive, WP7 might just as well become a respectable competitor.
It reads like a joke from somebody too young to remember ed. Vi/m minus the insert mode leaves you with ed/ex, and a lot of serious programming has been done with those.
Gr... I actually wanted something more like an N900 with a capacitive touch screen and some Zeiss optics. I like it, but I wanted a landscape keyboard.
I'm looking forward to when this guy writes in with his horror story about how Paypal froze his account and stole all his money.

That's jolly nice of you.
The smiley face/close parenthesis move is completely valid. (Otherwise you get double lips. :))
Kind of off topic, but today's XKCD is super relevant here: http://xkcd.com/859/
She's amazing.
That's all fine and good for legal reasons, but frankly the whole point of doing stuff in my free time is that I want to be the one doing it. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing it in my free time.

I get what you're saying from a financial and legal perspective, but it definitely does not solve the greater problem.
Perhaps when people can see an Ayn Rand novel at a movie theater they will stop confusing objectivism with libertarianism with corporatism.
Ballmer, Elop Interview on Microsoft-Nokia Partnership [video]
I had asked pretty much the same question here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839301
did you do this before Ze Frank launched star.me?
Wow. While I respect a company that demands the best people and wants to find people who fit with its culture, I think that's a bit much. At a certain point, one begins to wonder how much a company like that values its employees, if they're going to make them jump through that many hoops in order to get a job.

I mean, don't get me wrong - one hears that working at Apple, Google, FB, etc is the sh*t. But at a certain point, the whole process is analogous to the dating world. A person can play hard-to-get and make you jump through a string of hoops, but after a while, the interested party will inevitably reach the point where they realize their own self-worth and quit wasting their time.

A company that puts candidates through a huge number of interview rounds begins to give the message that "the Company doesn't respect you - we're much more important." And at a certain point, the really capable candidates will have too much else on their plate to continue chasing after an opportunity that never seems any closer to bearing fruit.
It's not just about profitability, valuation takes future cash flow into account. So, if the market thinks that Pandora's cash flow would increase without much risk, and they do have healthy revenue, they can have a successful IPO.

Think about Tesla, which is much more in red but had a great IPO.
I'll be upfront with my bias: I strongly agree with Ayn Rand's politics, philosophy, and worldview. Atlas Shrugged is my favorite book. I think Ayn Rand had integrity as a person, and she's one of my heroes.

That said, I agree that the movie doesn't look great. I'll almost certainly go see it anyway, but I'm bracing myself to be disappointed.

Anyone who hasn't read Atlas Shrugged owes it to themselves to pick it up. Love it or hate it, it's highly influential.
If at any time you think to yourself, "Gee, I wish [vim/emacs] could do [foo]", then you should rejoice, for you now know that you have some more learning to do.
Facebook Fan Pages Are Changin
(OT: I didn't downvote you above; in fact, I can't, since you replied to my comment I think. However, note that many of us frequently accidentally downvote instead of upvote and can't undo it, especially on mobile touch-browsers if we're not zoomed-in enough for a big arrow)
Twitter Restricts Use Of Its API, Could It Charge Next?
User Interaction Design Demystified
Well, exact same thing applies to Motorola, they always got the hardware correct but didn't do too well on software, in fact the saying that "We are not a software company" was (and even now, sometimes is) frequently heard in company discussions. However, Motorola had a deeper problem, which I think Nokia shares, and leads to the above: the culture.

Both of these companies had strong engineering (not software) cultures that served them very well in their domains. Up until very recently, that domain was closed off, and had a well-understood status quo. There were some smartass companies in the Valley, like Google etc. but no one paid attention to them.

But suddenly, WHAM!, everything became one, suddenly Google is both Motorola's ally and enemy (Android and Google TV), Apple, who used to make cure computers only, is a big competitor. You know the rest. These Titanics had no time to change.

This is what killed Motorola and is killing Nokia now. Problem is, this cannot be fixed by firing N managers, M engineers and hiring "better" ones, because the culture is built into their DNA. You should fire all management and rebuild the culture. Jha is trying to do that with Motorola Mobility (evidently, with limited success, as seen from XOOM pricing and tethering to Verizon).
Powerful. I'll put this in the yet-another-reason-why-twitter-is-important-column. Makes beautiful, informative visualizations like this possible.
If you assume 30% growth for 5 years, dropping to 8% after that with a discount rate of 11%, then the $3 EPS implies a price target of $260. DCF derived targets imply some crazy valuations in high growth situations...

That said I wouldn't buy NFLX either. But I wouldn't want to be short when 1/3 of the float is. If AMZN buys them out that would be the mother of all squeezes.
There is a lot that goes into engine performance rather than just raw power. This is why the rules become so intricate and convoluted.
Careful. This applies only to "inventions." Do not generalize this to "work."

Copyrightable works are not included, and so software isn't.

Reason for edit: Fixed typos.
>If you don't consider implementing something like tgrep fun, you're in the wrong line of work.

This is a silly statement to make, and honestly I'm tired of seeing this sentiment repeated.

Different people find different things fun. A big part of the fun in implementing some random project is yourself identifying the problem and coming up with a possible solution. Just trudging through someone else's spec is missing the fun aspect of problem solving.

Furthermore, for me at least, there is a tradeoff to when a project loses it's "fun" and just becomes grunt work. When there's a large creative aspect to it, that makes it fun. When the problem is fairly well-defined with an obvious solution but just needs to be fleshed out, that leans towards tedium.

For someone to assume that anyone that doesn't find their exact types of problems fun is in the "wrong line of work" is being a presumptuous prick.
I want to thank Mike for being extremely professional about reporting these bugs privately and giving us ample chance to fix them before publishing. If he hadn't done that, he probably could have gotten more blog traffic, but it would have been terrible for us and (most importantly) for our users.

At Convore we take security extremely seriously--we want everyone to feel safe discussing anything if they're in a private group.

I can only hope that in the future when other security issues crop up, others are as professional about how they report it to us as Mike was.
Thanks rbreve ... if anyone here checks kidsabacus.com out let me know what you think. Will be presenting it at SuperConf in Miami in a few weeks, your comments can help me out with the pitch.
All Good Devs Make Things Happen (Fitness post)