skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why on earth would you give him such veto power

Even the YC 'Series AA' model document terms include protective provisions where a majority of the preferred shareholders have veto power over any merger/acquisition.

It's a customary provision, and this previously-supportive investor may have had the majority of an early round. So even if his shares, if converted, would only be a small percentage of the company, he may have effective veto power.

In the end you're counting on the decency and reputation of your investor(s) that they don't turn out to be the kind of people who think, "can I squeeze a few more bucks out of this deal if I'm willing to blow it up, and don't care what people think of me?" (Or even if, in the investor's real peer group, he can tell it as an impressive war story of his negotiating prowess.)

It'll be dressed up as something else – "I'm not receiving a proper premium for my preferred privileges!" – but is really just a bet that their toughness/ambivalence can force other shareholders to cave.

I suspect it's a more likely tactic with investors whose background is in other older, and more zero-sum industries. (The similar experience I mentioned in my other comment was with someone from the government-granted telecom franchise field.)
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Yes but assuming perfectly elastic demand, being able to sell the book for $1-$3 instead of $10-$20 à la "the old way" means that she'll sell a great many more, collecting the $1 on each one. More books, more dollars. Win.
quick question: Can I be sure that the service will not index my confidential site visits (banking, creditcards, etc.) and/or capture information sent to those sites (usernames, passwords, etc.)?

On the download page it says that I grant your plugin "Your data on all websites." That couldn't sound less appealing.

If there is a way to bypass the collection and indexing of certain sites (I'm assuming, too, that it is stored and indexed on your servers), then you might want to explain how that happens from a link on your front page.
You can't resize them easily with JavaScript, you can't move them, you can't hide them and then show them again. You can maybe change the contents and add or remove a class, but because there's so little you can do to tablecells, good luck doing something other than changing background color. Since you're using a table cell for your overall design, heh. Not good.
Motivation and monetary incentives
People who were affected had their entire Google accounts disabled, and upon trying to log in, they got exactly the same messages they would have gotten if Google had decided to delete the account for ToS abuse. Additionally, since the entire account (not just GMail) had to be disabled in order to repair things, stuff like shared google calendars went offline, so users whose accounts were not directly affected were getting misleading error messages, too.

And the bounces didn't stop until the end of the working day on Monday on the east coast.
DotCloud guys, if you are reading this, I am not sure if this is a typo on your main page. It looks like it is, but not sure.

>“Wow. DotCloud have been completely amazing. Their support is second to none. They've taken this chore that we hated doing—systems administration—and turned into a magical, fully automated system.”

That's from the testimonial of whereoscope.

The 'have' been. Shouldn't that be 'has been' ?
Great work!

Even a quick look at the site is enough to tell that you've put in a good bit of effort on this. Excellent content, presentation, design/UI.

Thanks for developing, publishing and sharing this.
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yeah, what do you mean? :)
Who said Big Brother had to be the government, or that it had to be involuntary?
Well not directly, but the only reason to develop for a platform is if there are users and the best way to get users is if there are lots of programs available.
very good i like this video
All this time I assumed they were public, as on reddit!
*this article should not be considered content
'Have' is standard in most places other than the US.
I can't remember having this sort of problem with yahoo mail. Then again they don't build their own filesystem.
The Seikos are supposed to be accurate to within +/- 5-10 seconds per day. You can't beat quartz, though.
Also, If you use css 3d transform in Safari or Chrome under Mac OS, then absolute or relative positioned text will be badly antialiased. To fix that you need to explicitly set background color for these elements.
But they don't care about ethics for ethical reasons, they care about them for PR reasons...but maybe thats what you said.

My point was, many customers,the government included, would love to have some of this information, and access to social botnets. The background of the seller is irrelevant.

Of course your ethical training at work is top notch. I've done work at similar companies, and I have to pass ethical tests on a regular basis, yet, we have incidents that set records, in a bad way. If you think taking tests at work means your company is taking something seriously, you haven't been working long enough. :)
The site is great, like the way the companies are broken down by batch, love the profile pages. Would be great to be able to filter companies by status, like acquired, active, etc (unless I missed that?)
There's a list of qualifications here: http://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=ohuuVfwU

Sorry, I can't say why you specifically didn't get an interview. There are a lot of factors to consider and a lot of candidates. No recruiting process is perfect. If you're really passionate about working at Twitter, please re-apply and include a cover letter. cc me if you feel like it (dloft) and I'll make sure you at least get a response.

Twitter is really a great place to work, filled with smart, productive, passionate and unabashedly quirky people. If you're one of those, I sincerely hope that we hire you.
The history and comments of hacker news
Couple that with the other article about Linus going to the Oscars and HN is one drunk celebrity article from becoming TMZ.
There is a dialect of English spoken in a certain European country where that usage is common and correct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_di...
Sounds interesting! Would it be possible to contact you with some questions via email?
Quitting stops the issue, but it then would often create a new set of problems (eg. income). The right thing to do is become a better person, become the solution, not the problem.
When you first log in you should see your long and lat and your location on a map. At that time the info is posted to the database with AJAX. The next time you refresh the page it will query the database and load up your previous locations in the right column. I hope this helps. Thanks for your feedback! :-]
I love it. I kittify every site I visit now.
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http://Gowalla.com/jobs

(though it doesn't list it, we're hiring interns).

Blackberry, iOS, Android, or Ruby experience is a huge plus. If you've got the hacking spirit or some projects on github, let us know!!

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With respect to very precise type systems, and coupling between program structure and types, one of the reason mathematics is so powerful is its flexibility

I actually have trouble with mathematics, because it is so flexible. For example, equality of sets A and B is typically shown by saying that every element of A is in B, and every element in B is in A. Why on earth do they do that? Why not just say they're the same??!

One advantage is it gives you the flexibility to demonstrate the first limb using one technique, and the second limb with a completely unrelated approach. I saw one example of showing equivalence of language defined by a class of grammars, and a language defined by constraints over sequences. You could even use a constructive and a non-constructive proof for each half.

It's a way of subdividing that is decoupled.
Probably not the font-size, but the line-height. Narrow line heights sometimes cause text clipping.
Krishnamurthi's class was one of the best classes I've ever taken. The book didn't exist when I took it, but the the lecture notes from our class would eventually become the basis for the book, so I assume the book's excellent as well.
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>> Looking at the SL8500, I think I'd intentionally lose data just so I could play with it to restore it.

And this is why high-paid sysadmins are serious nasty hardasses when they're clocked in. :)
Okay... but why is this a comment to my comment? I don't see any connection to my post.
"Differentiate or Die"

Sounds like the punchline in a math joke.
You should really have some semblance of a privacy policy before asking people to send you their browsing history on all websites they visit.

Also, there have been other attempts at this (WebMynd, for example, before their most recent pivot). Would be great to know how Newtiny is different / better before installing.
The hard part is backing up that kind of volume of data frequently enough that you always have a recent backup :)
Made me happy to read!
I did a review for RingCentral [1] which offers similar features to TellFi, and honestly so far i have not been impressed by the features offered by these hosted PBX services.

I have found that many have clunky interfaces that were not easy to set up and configure AND once configured it was hard to go back and change something.

It certainly is nice to have a service that allows ringing multiple phones, and has better support for multiple lines unlike Google Voice, but for now I will stick with Google Voice for my business for the one or two calls I get, as it is simple to use and free.

RingCentral was nice in that it provided an iPhone application and made it extremely simple to dial-out using your 1-800 number from that application, but the iPhone app did not provide access to contacts that were already on the phone [2] and required setting them up through their system with no easy way to sync them (all of my business contacts are stored on my business'es Google Mail account, I don't want to duplicate that).

[1]: http://www.osnn.net/submitted-news/99624-ringcentral-virtual... (A site I am an administrator on)
[2]: I reviewed their services in March of 2010.
I'm the test lead at Animoto. I can't speak for the dev team here, but I, personally, would love to hire a test dev intern here in NYC.

Want to create a model-based test for our platform layer (in Ruby)? Want to create an AI to combat our back end Java "director" AI (yeah, in Java, of course or tell us how you'd rather do it)? Want to test render code (as in "game dev" sort of render code - perf-sensitive code that grids out video and sync'd audio to the limits the hardware will allow)? Do you hate "the cloud" (Amazon's in our case) and want to show everyone how fragile that is? Well . . . I would welcome an intern who wants to understand any of those things deeply and break dev code. So pick one and tell me how you want to break it.

The company supports open-sourcing your test code. Share it. Put it on your resume. Put us on your resume!

I only want someone who wants to blow up and/or set fire to and/or just do horrible, horrible things to the dev code.

My name is Drew. I break things for a living.

You? Write code and want to SMASH things? Obliterate them? Pulverize? Have other destructive fantasies but don't want to talk about it? Ask for me at devjobs@animoto.com with the subject "SDET Intern".
HN: How many support requests do you get per day?
On average, please give an estimate based on the total number of users you have.

Also, it would be nice if you could break it down into two categories:
- Pre-sales Inquiries
- Existing customer support requests of all kinds.

Trying to get an idea as to what to plan for.

Thanks.

P.S. I know that it will vary according to app and release events (e.g. a major feature release/UI makeover might make support requests spike), but I mean as a general rule on a regular day.
Thats why I think its better to use generic font on the body copy, and custom fonts for comparatively larger headings.
Nothing wrong with the usage.
Of course (the folks at) DotCloud have been .... is how it is supposed to be.
The support being talked of and the attitude of doing the chore of sysadmin is for the people at DotCloud and not the company.
I think that there is a very strong appeal in the high-tech, vanguard crowd of HN and the like for mechanical things of this nature - this is echoed in the fanbase for steampunk, for example.

Personally, if I were to get a new watch (I haven't worn one in years, and am a current college student) I'd want a nice analog watch - digital watches are quite passe, unless you go extremely avant-garde, in which case they're rather much of a statement.
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Random House opens the door to the iBookstore (on stage March 2nd?)
I have to enter into an agreement with W|A if I want to bookmark a page?
what about '=>'

e.g.

(define (test ls)
(cond
((car ls) => (lambda (a) a))
(else '())))
>(test '(1 2 3))
>1
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Not that I'm a huge fan of Linus (though I love his operating system), but I'd rather chat with him than anyone else at the Oscars... unless RMS happens to be there.
Just today I was thinking again about how I wanted to find a watch that would make me happy. I have felt all my life that watches are unfortunate devices which shackle us to schedules, Time, work, etc. But since I'll be graduating and starting a job soon, there may be some semi-legitimate use for one. Checking cell phones for the time isn't ideal, though it generally suffices.

I traditionally gravitate towards nice analog watches and nothing else, the slimmer and less outrageous the better. If I were to buy something else, I might consider something zanier - like a watch that only told me the cycle of the moon - but I'm not sure what kind of statement I want to make. I find myself therefore caught in between two worlds of watch-wearing...
We used this at UT Austin, and it's a great book. It doesn't have a lot of stuff that you would find in a graduate PL course (e.g. type theory), so it doesn't prepare you to read PL papers, but building a lisp in scheme is a lot more fun than learning type theory!

And probably more useful, as the author asserts in his paper.
Don't you just love the daily email about their sales?
Here's a chrome extension that lets you toggle kittenification on or off. (It's not blocking ads yet-- I'll get that done eventually)
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code: https://github.com/gk777/Kittens-Everywhere
It turns out that I was hit by this issue. And guess what - it was a big deal. For starters, it is a MONDAY here in Australia. There was no support information on this, and no help from Google.

Secondly, the login message was "Your account has been disabled". If I could log in, and there was a message that my email was being restored from backup because they had a failure - fine. That wasn't the case. They had disabled my Google Apps Administrator account (same account as my email), email was bouncing, and I couldn't log in to my email OR the administration interface. The "reset your password" and "unlock your account" links failed to unlock it.

Comparing an email outage to people's deaths is poor form. Of course they aren't the same. That doesn't make it an issue when email is a super important communication tool.
> I did, however, put a decent layer of sarcasm on it, because I wanted it to be funny, and I think the comedy was one of the main reasons it got so much attention.

Sarcasm is not, in of itself, funny. Your post was certainly not funny. It was sardonic and overbearing. Your tone was only tolerable because your experience was interesting and not written up previously in a place like HN. If anything your post was modded up in part because of how enraged you sounded.

Charlie Sheen doesn't get attention in his interviews because he's funny. He gets attention because he's unhinged, and everyone wants to watch the train-wreck unfold.

(To be clear, my intent is not to compare you to Charlie Sheen, instead i think we should be very clear on what it was that was that media sources and the blogosphere thought was notable, in general, and in the specific case of your post, for better or worse)
To quote from The Ringworld Engineers: "The Kzinti Patriarchy is not normally terrified by sheer magnitude." I can safely say that the same statement applies to Google.
Facebook is always looking for interns (SW Engineering isn't listed on the intern page but I'd be very surprised if we were already full).

http://www.facebook.com/careers/
http://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=interns
I've said it in a previous DotCloud post and I'll say it again: If they can pull it off then they'll be golden.

But I'm extremely skeptical they can.

Many of the components they list require intimate domain knowledge. E.g. there are entire companies dedicated to designing and babysitting Hadoop clusters, yet DotCloud just lists it casually alongside other bleeding edge mammoths such as Riak or Cassandra.

DotCloud will need to not only stay on top of things for so many components and provide smooth upgrades for an inherently growing diversity of deployments. They'll also have to support old versions effectively forever and deal with all those little customizations that people need.

Of course all that is doable, given enough man-power. However, after a certain point it's not very automatable anymore.

So, that said, I remain curious if this will really come out as the holy grail that they seem to be shooting for. Or if it will gradually degrade into "just another managed hosting provider" (which isn't a bad thing either, of course).
"I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get plenty of rest. I see my doctor once a year and my dentist twice a year. I floss every night. I've had chest x-rays, cardio stress tests, EKG's and colonoscopies. I see a psychologist and have a variety of hobbies to reduce stress. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't have crazy, reckless sex with strangers.

If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed."

From Chuck Lorre, producer of Two and Half Men. http://chucklorre.com/index.php?p=329
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And that's bad compared to what exactly?

What alternative is online 24x7, with no downtime for backups, upgrades or power failures?

Does on-premise Exchange do better? Lotus Notes? sendmail?
I really like this DotCloud business model. Although i see a competition directly from Amazon Cloud Formation. What will happen to DotCloud if all the independent vendors make their software Cloud Formation ready?

There is a difference here, DotCloud making the platform ready for to you vs the vendor makes the platform cloud formation ready.(Thats AWS they make others to work for them)

Would love to see how this little, nimble start up being chased by a big, fat, bully AWS, fights back.
Its all lie - Facebook is actually worth $ 10 trillion. The Suadi King will have to sell all the underground oil in Arabia in order to afford it.
> But school choice is somewhat illusory when there are limited and largely fixed numbers of places and it honestly has real, significant problems.

Since we can't have an infinite number of schools, any scheme will have a limited number of schools.

However, I think that you mean something different, that there can't be "enough" school choices. Since a school can be a room with a few people in it, and we have lots of rooms, it's unclear why school choice is necessarily limited in any relevant way.
> But how did you decide that eftpotrm belonged to the group of foreigners who only get their impressions of America from the media?

I used "got their impressions from mass media" as shorthand for "don't know what they're talking about". I waited until eftpotrm demonstrated that property.
Bingo Card Creator has over 200k users (4k paid) and, in a typical week, gets about 2k new trials. (New trial users dominate support requests.)

I average about 2 pre-sales inquiries and below one support request per day (call it 5 a week maybe). This is after several years of optimization to kill things prior to them getting in my inbox: if you extrapolated from my 2007 numbers, I'd be dealing with hundreds of emails a day.

Appointment Reminder is not nearly as mature, and sales is higher touch than BCC. As a result I end up writing orders of magnitude more email per customer than I do with BCC. The total burden in terms of emails is lower, the time burden is higher because most issues are novel (I haven't had a novel BCC issue in, hmm, months?)

I do not use macroed-up responses to CS issues, but I honestly should.
You probably already voted.
I'm interested, but your website doesn't motivate me enough to install a plugin that threatens privacy.

I'd love this if data were encrypted and hosted locally.
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Thanks Daniel.

I have deleted the BackType duplicate entry. Adding the funding details is the next step.
I won't be trying out your service until you have the TOS and Privacy Policy up and visible. As well as a video or walk through explaining what exactly this app does.

I can't stress the importance of this enough.

I am sure I would love your service, I used to index and collect my history for local searching, that project fell off over time. I hope your project could be the rebirth of it as it did prove an invaluable resource.
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What server is the IRC channel on?
TC must just be bitter that Jason's Launch conference last week was so good, whereas their Disrupt events have been lackluster.
Thanks. Its in the works. Will be available soon.
A spreadsheet of almost all the 2011 SXSW attendees
Ask HN: Buyout cofounder for iphone app
Does anyone have any guidance for pricing an iPhone app? I worked on one with a friend for a couple weeks with the agreement of splitting anything 50-50, and it is almost making enough to cover a single person's living expenses. I think I can grow it more and would like to keep working on it, while my friend isn't interested at all, but still wants 50% of whatever growth that occurs. I'm hoping we can come to some agreement for me buying his share in it.

Any advice for how to determine such a valuation? I am thinking we should determine what profits we can expect each month for the next year or so, and then apply some discount rate to it. Of course tweaking those parameters can change the final valuation a lot, but wondering if people know some ballpark figures or if this is the wrong approach entirely.
And yeah, these are paid.

One of the positions we are looking for is a Cloud Operations Engineer Intern. This position comes with loads of responsibilities. So please pass on the word to any students looking for impactful work this summer.
I'm guessing the one on the 37signals blog: How to get good at making money
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What happened is that I voted up a new comment and its vote become 2. But after I refreshed the page, its vote went back to 1. I tries again and the vote was still 1 and the vote button was gone. So I cannot vote it any more.

I think you are right that the button disappears after I vote. But somehow the vote was not counted.