skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this only the beginning of the bad news due to this algo change. There are many legitimate businesses that have been seriously impacted by traffic drops and we'll probably see many more layoffs and budget cuts.
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Considering the impending lawyer-takedown, it would be great if this was made open source, so people can implement their own local versions on their own servers.
Maybe you are just hearing about more of those that fail instead of them going quietly. If the majority of "hip new web 2.0" startups weren't failing in one way or anything the VC/Angel financing business would be pretty much printing money.
I can't remember where, but I believe I heard a Linus Torvald quote to the effect that open source developers should not research potential patent infringement for applications they're developing.

I would boldly extend this to the claim that no should 'learn about ip' while they are developing. IP is essentially protection racket. Sure you can learn a little bit of the dance but it won't unless you're on of the 'big boys'. In the end, there's no great difference between between a patent troll and a corporation seen as having 'legitimate ip'. IP rackets resemble states in the sense that they are gangs trying to suck the fattest tt they can find.

The best strategy isn't to "know what's legal" but to avoid attention `till you're big enough to kick the snot out of these bandits.

IP mavens are [INSERT SOCIALLY DIMINISHING ADJECTIVE HERE].
You know they make a full-feed version available of all their sites, right? It's just of the form http://lifehacker.com/vip.xml
Ah, I see I'm not the first to point this out :)
Hey guys, good news... we're having another RTP Hackers & Founders Meetup, and this time we are in the beautiful city of Durham, NC, thanks to the folks at SplatSpace - Durham's hackerspace.

This is a change from past events, which have always been held at a bar or restaurant, but I think it's a net win. Why? Well, we don't have to compete with a bar full of people for places to sit / stand, and we don't have the noise and buzz of a full bar to deal with. BUT... conveniently, SplatSpace is within walking distance of both a bar and a coffee shop! So if people get tired of mingling at SplatSpace and want food/coffee/beer etc., we can migrate - individually or en masse - to one of the other establishments.

The other positive is that we have access to a projector at SplatSpace, so if you want to bring a laptop to demo a project, or practice pitching your project or something along those lines, we can do that sort of thing.

It'll still be pretty unstructured and free-form, but this does give us some more options.
I am going to guess you have not heard of dunk contest winning NBA players Spud Webb (5'7) or Nate Robinson (5 '9) then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1pykLK_CUs
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Much like the Zen of Python.
The messed up thing about this is, that 10% of the staff have 'slaved' for however long they have been there.

All for naught.

Maybe they can still get a referral from Jason, but given that I don't think that pays the bills...hopefully it can help them land on their feet.
" (Going further, many charge cards offer cash back on each purchase — they can do this because the cash-back percentage refunded to the customer is less than the transaction processing fee paid by the retailer.)

So the same-price rule is good for the user, and good for Apple."

This type of arrangement is not good for users and is very anti-competitive.

Banks often offer reward points worth 1% of a purchase in exchange for the use of their credit cards which incurs something like a 3% fee on merchants. The merchants have to increase their prices to maintain their margins but since they are contractually obligated not to charge credit card users more, price is increased for everyone. Even those who avoid credit cards end up paying the banks for other's use of them. If fact those who use the cards pay a little less for than those who don't because they get the 1% kickback. Next time you spend $500 of airmiles or reward points, know that you imposed $1500 worth of fees on customers likely not even using the service. The bank gave you a $500 kickback and pocketed $1000.

This scheme basically amounts to imposing a tax on everyone and it's enabled by the one percent reward points along with the price matching rule.

It's the same situation when selling on iOS. In order to pay for Apple's fees and maintain competitive margins, merchants will have to increase the prices of their products across the board, even when they are sold completely outside the Apple ecosystem. This means that if Amazon keeps their Kindle app in iOS, Amazon will have to increase prices _on every devices_ and when someone purchases a book on an Amazon device, through Amazon only, they will be indirectly paying a portion of the sale to Apple. That, IMO, is screwed up. This type of rule is illegal in many countries (at least with regards to credit cards) because it is clearly anti-competitive.
Well,

Happy you're failing...

Seriously, the more people who defy IP, the weaker it gets...

"The Facts": 'IP Owners' aim to get whatever they can, like beavers damning a stream to get all the fish, the IP industry is currently proceeding with unbounded ambitions.

Yes, tell me I'm conflating copyright, trademark, patent and other legal device. Just like that little troll called ... Oracle...
The point of these API-based companies is usually to gain a foothold and some user traction and then reduce their dependency on the mothership once they've got some leverage.

It's pretty obvious that a business that's completely dependent upon FaceBook isn't in a very good position. It's equally obvious that a business that's completely dependent upon FaceBook but has users is in a better position than a business that nobody cares about. You start with the latter, not the former.

If Greplin or some other startup is still dependent upon FaceBook after years gone by and $5M spent, they're doing something wrong. But in the near-term, they're doing a helluva lot better than the average startup.
The difference here was that the guy liked to try to be specifically obtuse and difficult.

It wasn't a matter of thinking through a problem before hand - it was an exercise in proving/looking smart.

Spending 5+ minutes consternating over the type of screws that came with the shelf is not "thinking ahead" :)
RentMineOnline (San Francisco, based in the Presidio), would consider interns, remote, and part-time or full-time.

Rails dev: you would be our #2 full-time developer, coding, refining our tech stack as we grow, and helping to coordinate our remote developers. Our current stack is {slicehost,nginx,passenger,rails,delayed_job,MySQL}. We recently upgraded to Rails3, and are adding fun stuff like varnish/redis/memcached next. We also use some amazon services {s3,rds,sdb} and have a fairly deep integration with facebook platform.

UX: prototype or jquery with a dash of design sensibility & a knack for user flows. This could be remote or part-time, but we prefer SF-based and are ultimately looking to fill a lead design role.

contact me - kevin@, and include #job somewhere in the subject so I don't miss it.
vs. using it to plate the hull of a ship?
For those of you who don't know anything about J, it's a modern dialect of APL; an extremely concise functional programming language based on function concatenation and vector operation. The APL languages are very interesting, but have historically been proprietary and somewhat insular.

* http://jsoftware.com/

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_%28programming_language%29

* A good intro - _J for C Programmers_ (http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm)

* A more casual intro - "Mind if I do a J?" (http://jeffzellner.com/miidaj/)
I don't think it's quite as good as what he's doing though. He has the title and date specifically pulled out and he doesn't have any extra text included. I think he manually handles CNN. If I try a HuffPost feed it doesn't work at all.
Whether or not Google has a responsibility isn't really the question. The fact is that developers care about two things when they decide which platforms to make apps on. 1) Where is the money, and 2) How easy is it to create apps on that platform.

Just recently there was a blog post about a developer complaining about how hard it was to make apps on the new Blackberry tablet.

So, in my mind, no Google doesn't really have a responsibility to make developers happy. But, yes they have good business reasons to: more and more people flock to the OS's with the best apps. As for whether or not these exact demands are fair or not I can't comment because I don't develop for Android, but I can definitively say Google should take heed and make sure they can continue to be seen as a developer-friendly OS.

Edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2263882 <- the HN link to the aforementioned blog post.
Talk to some people at Rose-Hulman in Terre Haute I'm sure you can find a skilled undergrad there that would love to work with you also IU Bloomington has a pretty good PhD program in CS. Otherwise it's really hard to find skilled people in Indy most leave. Went to Rose-Hulman and then IU for grad school so I'm familiar with the difficulty. You might have to look towards Chicago, but most of the available good programmers got taken by Groupon.

Let me think about it, I might know some people (lived in B-town for quite a few years)
The average markup for a department store is 50% to 80%. Meaning that they take 33% to 44% of sales.
I was just thinking about something like this a few weeks ago, mostly the Git integration being a killer feature. Good luck!
I feel for the cut staff and Mahalo has plenty of dough in the bank but reminds me of Jason's article "What to do if your startup is about fail (or "Don't Stop Believing")"

http://calacanis.com/2009/02/27/what-to-do-if-your-startup-i...

Applicable lesson I learned the hard way - better to make cuts early in the face of a serious shift vs. burn cash, see morale dip, etc.
DNA is a data structure, isn't it? (I'm not a biologist so perhaps it's more accurate to say that genomes, or the double-helix structure of DNA, or whatever, is a data structure, but I'm sure you get my point: there are data structures which were created without any human involvement whatsoever, so it doesn't seem to be a stretch to assume that alien species would understand them or perhaps even use them.)
Out of curiosity, can you name some of the legitimate businesses that were affected? I thought the algo only targeted content farms and sites that regurgitated other peoples content.
"Free advice for entitled Gen Y trophy kids: if you spend 12 months at a company over and over you look like a flake."

http://twitter.com/#!/Jason/status/12621363849

Or maybe it makes you look like someone who thinks they have better opportunities elsewhere.
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Mine is one. Google traffic is down 30%, and that significantly affects my revenue.

http://www.onedayonejob.com/
Well you can't fault them for dithering, can you?
I think this is only the beginning of good news due to this algo change. There are many legitimate businesses that have been positively impacted by traffic gains and we'll probably see more hiring and raises.
This would make for some good mental preparation and visualization. Sit back and stare at PG asking you questions over and over again and perhaps it'll help reduce your nervousness come time to interview.
She'd have probably got somewhere average. Similarly if she had all the right genes and none of the hard work she'd have got somewhere average again. However, there's people who work way too hard to succeed and totally burn out.

We have nature, nurture and random chance that create all of us. I wouldn't have said "life's too short" and moved country if I hadn't read a single book (The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin) that I have no clue how it came to be in my possession.

My entire life is based on seemingly random chances. I met my wife via friends of friends of friends whom I originally met in a chat room. I got my dog (Dachshund x Jack Russell) by going to the SPCA when they were flooded with Labrador crosses and they had no terriers up for adoption, but she was getting taken out for a walk at that very moment.

Our entire lives are quantified by our reaction to random chance. I had less odds of being where I am today than I have of winning the lottery, but why do the events of my life occur so but my lottery ticket is always going to be a dud for the rest of my life.

It's the mixture of our nature and nurture that define who we are, by how we react to random occurrences. What random shit defined your life so far?
Microsoft releases Windows Embedded Compact 7 (aka Microsoft tablet OS?)
Do you have pointers for that? That really surprises me, as the two are essentially equivalent, except that function closures as in Node introduce a new, restartable (usually an unwanted/unexpected featture) scope, and coroutines maintain the same scope.

Thread safety problems are all about data changing in between your statements due to some other threads. Coroutines make that happen only along calls to other routines, which is very disciplined.
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I think part of PG's success in working with entrepreneurs is due to the fact that he comes across as extremely approachable.
thanks.

FYI - My question changed from the similarity of pipes and services to just thinking about how something like services could be implemented on Linux. I did take a look at GnuStep Services, but is it the way someone would have done, if starting from a clean slate ?
Powershell has a "pipeline" as well which works at object level. Again, it may not be the same thing as pipes or services implementation-wise, but it is conceptually relevant.
Mark, if you're reading this, I'd like to suggest the Talent Code (http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/05...), superior cousin to the more famous Talent Myth (http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Myth-Larry-Gluck/dp/1929473001)
This is very true. I've seen it at all levels of BigCo.

Loyalty is the single most important quality in a bigCo and it works (unfortunately).
Jason said in the closing remarks of LAUNCH something to the effect of "I am so happy, let's go to the W and get drunk." After arriving at the W, I checked my phone and saw the article on Google's blog - some timing! I feel for him and all of the people that lost their jobs.
As a web developer I believe the problem and the bottleneck has and always will be the browsers. If there was an easy way to give our users what they want (flashy, ajaxy webapps) without breaking the web I'm sure developers would be all for it. But for now it is viewed as a time intensive, value add to do these properly. Web developers will always be a step ahead of the browsers and therefore have to resort to breaking the web in order to achieve the functionality their users/managers pay them to create.

The only way this problem will be resolved is for more of your "true" computer scientists to start working on browsers. However, at the moment, many of them are making too much money at their consulting firms fixing the websites created by graphic designers.
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Absolutely. SEO really is a zero-sum game.
Could someone tell me more about this Jason Calacanis fellow. He seems to be a very polarizing figure on this site. Really all I know is that he seemed to have a falling out with Michael Arrington and alot of articles seem to mention him in a slightly negative light.

Is there some reason for this, and no I'm not trying to troll.
This kind of guy usually needs to lead or he is probably smarter than everyone else in the room.
So Kochs = Cato, now? I think they have more than two people: http://www.cato.org/people/directors.html

And if you're going to make a wild accusation like Cato is DEFINITELY using Orwellian language, please use a little more brain power than just posting a link to someone else's stretch that not buying into man-made climate catastrophe means you don't care about property rights as a whole.
Any time you go through a round of layoffs the morale is going to dip amongst the survivors for a little while. This is particularly acute when the company is small, and those being let go are perceived to have added value (usually culturally more than direct ROI). It can slowly chip away at the soul of a place.

Crunchbase shows Mahalo at 40 employees pre-cut.
Sleep is also implicated in muscle repair, aceytlcholine turnover (related to memory formation and muscle power output) and ... well ... pretty much everything.

If sleep wasn't performing useful functions, it would have been selected against ever since higher animals evolved.
Apple and Google may mark their apps up less than the average department store or grocery store, but it marks them up a hell of a lot more than most highly-efficient retail operations. Walmart marks up around 20%, and Costco never marks its products up more than 14%. And actual retail stores need to pay for their property, their employees, transportation, and utilities to keep their stores running. Apple and Google have none of these expenses. Additionally, both Apple and Google only operate app stores as side businesses to help sell their high margin hardware or get people to look at ads.
> You can blame the pirates for DRM. It was created as a direct result.

That is untrue. DVDs had DRM well before movies were able to be downloaded from the internet. DRM was preemptive paranoia from the movie studios. It has never stopped piracy (only slowed it down temporarily) and it only increases the view that pirated goods are of higher value than the DRM laden legit versions.

> Why should the movie studios negotiate with thieves?

Theft is a strong word. Copyright infringement is a better term. And the movie studios have to compete with it because if they don't they will lose everything, thoroughly.

> Piracy will stop when everything is $0 (which is really what most pirates want anyway, but refuse to admit).

You are casting an awfully wide net there. I've seen this attitude from people before and I don't get it. Why do you think that $0 is the magical reason for piracy? Can you not believe that people are more complicated than "OMG Freeeee!"? Trying to find people's true motivations and ethics and then working within those boundaries is the only way to stem piracy.
You forgot "European karate champion". My favorite Dolph story is that he put Stallone in the ICU for 8 days:

> Sylvester Stallone has stated that the original punching scenes filmed between him and Dolph Lundgren in the first portion of the fight are completely authentic. Stallone wanted to capture a realistic scene and Lundgren agreed that they would engage in legitimate sparring. One particularly forceful Lundgren punch to Stallone's chest slammed his heart against his breastbone, causing the heart to swell and his breathing to become labored. Stallone, suffering from labored breathing and a blood pressure over 200, was flown from the set in Canada to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica and was forced into intensive care for eight days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_IV
Heh. A friend of mine contracted at a place where two programmers had a long-running feud. Each would check in code that wouldn't compile against the other's. One would comment out the other guy's incompatible code and check in his changes over top of it; then the other would simply uncomment his own code back in, comment out the first guy's stuff, and check in his latest work that way. They alternated this way for months.
Something I'd be very interested to hear about is how WePay is going to handle fraud. Fraud and abuse prevention is a huge part of what PayPal does and I would guess the major reason behind their atrocious customer service and the issues with groups like the Flux foundation.

It seems like every other week on Reddit there is someone who says they have disease X or is raising money for disease X and would you please PayPal them some money. This is immediately followed by a bunch of people digging internet dirt on that person and declaring them a fraud, which is then immediately followed by another group of people telling the first group that the person is legit and that they made them cry.

I don't even know how you start to deal with that situation as a financial entity. Do you call the person up and ask them if they have cancer? Do they fax you medical records?
The reasons I won't be an exec at a bigCo-

- I don't watch or care to talk sports.
- I don't / won't hunt wildlife.
- I don't discuss female anatomy freely.

I live in Houston, so most big employers are energy related. It is still somewhat of a good ol boy network and even though I'm now at a small company I see all 3 in equal parts quite often.
Interesting. A mate of mine also came up with an online MMO CCG concept. Naturally he wanted me to be his programmer in exchange for equity and well, that's about as far as things got.

Done properly, you can combine the variable-reinforcement ratio addictiveness of gambling, CCG deck purchase or WoW raiding with the massive cashflow potential of downloadable goods. Like CCGs it could be a license to print money, but with even lower costs.
Halvar is pretty much a baller in the security industry. I met him and immediately knew he was brilliant, even putting all the history and his contributions aside. Talking to him about some of the things I was working on was enlightening.

Kudos to him and his team. BinDiff is a great product.
RentMineOnline (San Francisco, based in the Presidio).

We would consider interns, remote, and part-time or full-time.

Rails dev: you would be our #2 full-time developer, coding, refining our tech stack as we grow, and helping to coordinate our remote developers. Our current stack is {slicehost,nginx,passenger,rails,delayed_job,MySQL}. We recently upgraded to Rails3, and are adding fun stuff like varnish/redis/memcached next. We also use some amazon services {s3,rds,sdb} and have a fairly deep integration with facebook platform.

UX: prototype or jquery with a dash of design sensibility & a knack for user flows. This could be remote or part-time, but we prefer SF-based and are ultimately looking to fill a lead design role.

contact me - kevin@, and include #job somewhere in the subject so I don't miss it.
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You should check out some of his shows on http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ - you can get a sense of who he is from watching a few.

The general consensus on HN is that he doesn't treat people well or is somehow not very "honest".

Personally, I'm a big fan. I watch every episode and I generally agree with most of what he says.