skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do the majority of my legal work for Fortune 100 companies, and do some work with tech startups, which I approach very differently than any other work: a lot of the time and effort I spend on them, probably the majority, I don't bill for. I just consider that part of the deal, knowing they need a lot more time and basic advice and have very little budget. I consider it part of the trade-off for establishing a relationship with a new client that might really grow and turn into a steady new source of business, though that's not usually the case; but aside from that, it's made up for by the unique excitement of working with a startup
now you're talking.
I wonder what the legality of profiting off something like that would be.
If exports are within `extern "C"`, it shouldn't be any more difficult.
I guess sending cake to Google on Chrome release wouldn't be as funny. And it would be too often as well.
Agreed. If the typical executive really is as self-centered as the ones cited in this article, the depressing regularity of financial malfeasance is no surprise. After all, from their perspective, its just them "taking what they're owed."
it seems to me that the issue now becomes talent. a lot of talent has left, and the money you save in starting a company will probably need to be spent in getting talent to detroit.
Well, it affects generic views, yes. They also have several mixins that you can use in other views.
The famouse Statemant: "A Language needs to be designed to grow" is great. Gilad Braha (maker of the Newspeak) top this statmend by saying: "Languages need to be designed to take stuff away". Witch is pretty cool but much, much harder to do.
Does anyone else hate coding on laptop?
I feel 50% less productive when coding on a laptop. Part of it is the trackpad, part of it is the smaller screen, more cramped keyboard.

My preferred set up is a desktop with dual-monitors, the bigger the better.
The detective work reminds me of an old great (p-p-p-powerbook):

http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/
However, you shouldn't fall into the fallacy that if you have 100% "code coverage" that you code is really fully tested.
i'm still hoping i'll get used to it. i can't believe steve doesnt make the xcode team take on an interface designer.
I disagree. Maybe flamebait, but I think 100% is usually either a silly goal, or a good start. 100% for a complex project is basically impossible to achieve (and assumes every area of the code is as important as the next), and for a lot of code 100% is nothing. Consider a function that divides to arguments and returns the result. I can pass in div(2,2). There, done. 100% coverage.

[edit] I forgot to mention what value I do think it has. On teams that I'm on I always say I frankly don't care what the number is, as long as it's going up and not down.
Sadly if it became popular enough he may profit from it.
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Yes, that's essentially correct. And that's why stocks can plunge and lose practically all (or all) their value relatively quickly, as happened to General Motors and many banking stocks in 2008, for example.

Edit: To clarify, even when a company pays dividends which holding the stock entitles you to you are speculating the company will continue to pay, or be able to pay, which is why you continue to hold the stock. This is why stocks are risky -- they have no guaranteed value (or backing) and can crash theoretically at anytime.
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External mouse + keyboard helps a lot. Though, I hardly ever use a mouse, so I only have to carry an extra keyboard. Thankfully, my keyboard is small, and isn't that much of a problem to carry it around.
Fixing WebGL in Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 10
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Rising wealth inequality is not in itself a bad thing, but the many hundred-fold increases in executive compensation over the past 20 years have nothing to do with results, performance, profits, etc. They are the result of a broken system of corporate governance that puts the interests of executives and the interests of shareholders at odds.
Good news everyone!
So I assume that your third attempt based on "becoming their competitor or improving upon" strategy.

If so, how difficult was it (or how long did it take) to get organic traffic/customers through google, etc. Since I would think your competitors were more "established" in the pagerank, seo etc.

Basically, I'm just wondering how hard is it to get traction against entrenched players. Even if your product were superior, you still need to draw traffic to sell and prove it.
Isn't it true that most/all new technology looks messy and is barely usable when it is brand new? This person's efforts should be applauded.

As an aide, most people like the idea of innovation, but when they see it up close, their reaction is often ugh.
Same here... I'm using Safari 5.0.4
I don't care what someone else has, aka envy. I care what I have, aka greed.

Well said. As far as sins go, greed is much better than envy. Greed encourages you to earn more for yourself, which generally has positive externalities. Envy is satisfied just as well by destroying the wealth of others.
Meh.

The best web developers I know are also the fastest I know; they write unit tests like crazy. They write good code.

I guess you're assuming that writing good code takes longer, which is the basic fallacy in software engineering. Writing good code is way faster, almost from the get-go. You reap the benefits on _day two_, literally.

I am not sure what they taught you in SE - I found most of what I learned to be true in the field, however, I also found it shocking how little this seemingly common knowledge is used out there.

I directly benefit from the incompetence of most software engineers out there, but I much prefer to work with good people.
The thief could also very easily find Mark, punch his face out and see who has the last "lulz"
I preferred the story of Zoz. He provides a detailed explanation of how he recovered his lost Mac.
http://hackaday.com/2010/12/25/a-hackers-marginal-security-h...
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In my case, most of the time mocks are used to avoid Database interactions: They are dangerous for writing and slow for reading.

The best thing I've run into lately have been "mocking" the DB creating a copy (temporary tables with only the needed data) of the tables that the code interact with.

This way you create a "mock" of the data you're going to work with and code the test getting a more reliable test in my opinion.
I'm surprised it took this long and cost that much to get the merchant account and recurring billing setup.

We have an Authorize.Net merchant account, use Recurly for subscription billing, and found our merchant bank using FeeFighters (ended up going with Merchant Focus).

It took us less than 2 weeks from start to finish, paid $0 in setup fees, ended up with a transaction discount rate from 1.75% to 3.1% depending on card type (Merchant Focus uses interchange-plus pricing), and we accept all major card types. Not only that, there is no delay or holds placed on our account. We were able to accept paying customers within 2 weeks of setting up our accounts, and we only pay the Recurly monthly fee, a $15 Authorize.Net gateway fee, merchant account transaction fees, and a $7.95 a month Amex fee (their monthly minimum). All in all, I think we ended up doing well and wasting little time.

I'm not sure why it would cost a few hundred dollars and take as many weeks/months as it did in the OP's case. Perhaps because it was a non-US company?
I just want to chime in and say that public opinion on this is completely different in Europe compared to the US.

We don't view this as a US-led incursion on par with Afghanistan or Iraq. It's a humanitarian action undertaken by France, the UK and allies, and the US is lending its support.
Then maybe the contour of the iPhone 4 was designed after the groove on the MacBook.
Exactly, they're fiat currencies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Gemvara lands $15M more for custom online jewelry
Flowdock releases mobile UX implemented with jQuery Mobile
I would love to have those old heavy keyboards with mechanical sounds :)
Apple loses father of Mac OS X Bertrand Serlet
Multiple box-shadow declarations in Sass
Recently started using Sass and the languages logic abilities are either poorly documented or I'm dumb and not looking in the right place.

If I'm right and this ability doesn't exist, I think it's certainly something Sass should look at doing.
Is there really a submission with 47 up votes because 2 Apple products seem to fit together?
Not quite 30, closer to 18. Tom appears to have been in the class of 97.

I played around on an Apple ][ and I was class of '94.

I suspect Tom and I just started in our early teens.
ShopSquad Lands $1.25M In Funding From Heavy Hitters
Given her track record, I doubt Leah Culver's new company is the best example of a team who "really needed ramen money to get out the door."

But that's besides the point. The point is, YC used to be a program that was 'taking a chance,' by its very existence. Now that it's established, I feel like the world expects them to keep taking more chances - both on the types of people it invests in, and in the process of investing. It's definitely doing that in a number of ways (the Yuri thing, scaling, taking on more partners) - but the aspiring applicants here who haven't yet seen traction (or learned what traction is) see themselves as what YC should be taking more chances on. This may just an extension of the scaling question - with 1,000 applicants, how do you pick out the teams that just need time to prove themselves, and how do you make room for them in a crowded program to give them the mentorship they need?
After all the BTC are generated, only market conditions and demand will affect its value. It's not guaranteed to deflate perpetually.
The thing is those "other specialized frameworks" are mostly the exact same ones you get on the Mac. So the accurate description would be: "Apple ported the major parts of Mac OS X to ARM and exchanged UIKit for AppKit".
Regarding #2 — when I first saw that rumor my thought was: where would he go? My take is that Ive is in some kind of lock-in — nowhere else would he get the culture, resources, help, anything he needs to be what he is.
Ask HN: Review our new bug tracker
We're launching our pet project today - bugrocket.

It's a small, lean bug tracker meant for small teams. We trimmed and trimmed the spec down over the course of development and what we've got is the core of what we think will be great.

We're looking for some constructive feedback to fuel our first major iteration after launch.

Some stuff that's high on the list:

- A live demo with real-looking data to play with
- A video, or several very short ones showing off some of the UI
- A full API (for doing imports and so on)

What do you think oh wise HN populace?

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>Honestly speaking, if he played around on an Apple II, this happened almost 30 years ago

The only Thomas Pinckney in the Alumni directory has a graduation year of 1996/1997 (two degrees, so it fits with the linked story).
An ordered reply. I personally do not care note versus not, but am friendly with many angels who do and think they have great points.

1. Notes are worse for founders in most cases. Manu outlines why quite well. Misalignment, downside protection only for investors w/ a cap, liquidation preference, callable debt that can kill companies.

2. Many of the best seed investors do not do notes anymore, so they're not really allowing it. Founders appear to be using notes because of the opinions of a few people, mostly investors themselves. The same bias should apply there.

3. I agree here, but then someone should come up with standard docs with no strings (kinda like YC's Series AA docs). It will be a bit pricier but not much. See Fred Wilson's post today.

Most founders go with notes because someone they trust has told them to not because they have thought it out. And that's fine, but especially lately I continue to hear more stories where founders have gotten screwed by notes.

In particular I recently heard about an Angel calling in their debt and killing a Series A. That doesn't seem like what's best for the founders.
> They used to tell me they didn't feel right "baiting" drunk drivers, for instance sitting hidden outside of popular bars and waiting for closing time. They felt like if they observed you driving impaired, you got pulled over, and if you were drunk you got a ticket. To them this was just the right way to act.

I can't understand that at all. I would agree if it were a victimless crime, or perhaps if they were actually baiting them. But this sounds like a great and efficient use of police time. Are there any circumstances where they shouldn't stop drunk drivers??

If thieves predictably showed up at a store to steal something, should the police not camp out and take advantage of their predictability?
What possible uses does a blog-post explaining your fifth amendment rights have, outside of helping people who have something to hide, hide it from the police?

It's an invariant property of the rule of law that when something isn't explicitly illegal, it's legal. And yes, many "free" western countries do have problems with this.
These printers really blow my mind with the amount of potential they have.
Good to see that a NeXT guy is taking over from him. I wish Bertrand the best of luck in his new ventures.
sedo.com tends to have more big money domain names for sale and buyers who are willing to spend on premium domains.
I don't know if ephemeral_response solves this, but the first thing that comes into my mind is caching an error (webservice doesn't respond in time or whatever). This happened to me some times.

Caching the error is a big problem when you have a system that determines if your code is stable or not and blocks deployments in production to prevent errors.
The article is a great example of gross innumeracy. The author confuses linear distributions with exponential ones, comparing them as stacked bar graphs without suitable differentiation of axis.

Doesn't take much of a consistent percentage increase in income from one person to the next, spread across a large population, to result in that top 20% indeed dominating most wealth.

ETA (after playing with Excel for a few minutes): If each person in the USA makes just 0.000003% more than the next, the resulting "20%s" wealth distribution graph looks exactly like the "Actual" part of the Percent Wealth Owned graph.

I'd say a wealth inequality of three millionths of one percent between one person and the next is about as fair a wealth distribution as you could ask for. The author needs to educate himself about statistics before self-righteously educating others about the virtues of communism.

ETA2: reduce the differential to 0.000002% and the graph approximates the "Estimated" part of the graph in question. To achieve the alleged "Ideal" distribution, further reduce the differential to 0.000001%. Innumeracy indeed.
I agree. Switch immediately if you're just learning or playing around with Django. Most likely, the biggest change in casual development will be the class-based generic views, which I think are an improvement over the previous function-based generic views.
I bill for hours and I'll definitely go and refactor something - but only if I need to touch the code anyway in order to implement a new feature or fix a bug.

I'll fix _every_ bug the right way, the first time; that may involve refactoring underlying design weaknesses that caused the bug in the first place. I also make sure that this or a similar bug don't happen, which also may cause refactoring.

No one's ever complained... I guess that's because it's actually very time efficient in the medium and long term, and usually also in the short term.
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Just let them lapse. You've already prevented people who could've done something better with these names from doing so for the past years; why should you profit from them, too?

(Yes, I think "domaining" is abusing a common good, and am willing to burn some karma over it.)
I think tests should not go for code coverage, but for "Cyclomatic Complexity" coverage.
Backbone by documentcloud could be the other option to consider because 4k of gzipped code is not so big also.
> even more equitable distribution

I think the author really means equalitarian distribution.
The United States is definitely an outlier compared to it's industrialized peers in terms of inequality: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
I'm really not at all concerned about wealth inequality except to the extent that it causes consumption inequality.

Imagine a perfect world where everybody makes the same wages and invests those wages prudently. They're born, go into debt a little to pay for college, make money and save it, then eventually retire on their savings. In this world where everybody's lives are the same there would still be huge inequalities in wealth between people just starting out and people about to retire.
You can't judge this simply based on the degree name. A lot depends on the school and how they do things. I'm not entirely sure but I think my CS degree is a BA. But I've taken enough high level math classes to have a BS in math (I had to pick either or, they wouldn't give me both), and I also took all the hard CS courses: Algorithms, OS, Compilers, Computer Graphics. If having a BA gives you pause for a candidate, I would strongly suggest you simply ask them what courses they took.
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I don't think this matters, as most of this wealth is on paper and is thus ephemeral.

The inconvenient truth is that our levels of spending and accumulation is debt is not sustainable, period. That leaves two choices:

1. Dramatically cut entitlement and military spending, which requires that Congress vote for gutting many programs.

2. Continue borrowing and servicing debt by having the Federal Reserve continue printing money. This indirectly cuts entitlement spending by devaluing the benefits and doesn't make elected officials accountable.

So if you're worth hundreds of millions, and that worth isn't in the form of assets with intrinsic value, you may not be worth anything after all. The rest of us, on the other hand are debtors.
Why don't you replace "Who's using it: keyfire" with "Developed by keyfire" until you have a couple of actual users?
So what is the cause of the hundred-fold increases in compensation for athletes and musicians?
Alternatively, he could start his own company.
Blu-ray Production to Hit 2 Billion Discs in 2014
As a research-based consulting firm, Futuresource stakes its reputation on knowing what’s going on in the consumer electronics industry. The firm publishes numerous reports each year covering everything from digital imaging and broadcast entertainment to online, mobile, and media storage markets.

According to the latest figures, global production of Blu-ray discs topped 400 million units in 2010, a 60% increase from 2009. This tremendous growth has been caused by several factors. The report cites an increase in ownership of Blu-ray players and falling prices of movie titles as two major reasons for last year’s jump in demand.
DropAndCompute - DropBox as a UI for high performance computing
This post convinced me not to use PHPFog. They reveal more in their lack of foresight and security prevention measures than their response to what was otherwise a fairly trivial exploit. I am not sure this blog post was helpful in convincing customers like me that want to feel that their infrastructure providers are on top of things.
reaction; the action caused by an action

While I was writing a reaction, I thought I should use only words with one syllable, and words defined in his talk.

information; facts learned.
realize; be aware of

Other than the great information he gave, writing this reaction taught me how hard it is to write in this style, let alone talk for a hour. I also realized how much long words I use.
Actually this is pretty amazing. A vacuum cleaner was one of the big appliances that broke down the barrier of machines doing chores (along with the dishwasher and clothing washing machine). The fact that reprap can already produce even a bad vacuum cleaner is ana amazing sign of the potential that this technology has and how quickly it is moving.

Very interesting.
http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php

There was a pretty big spike in difficulty after BTC reached $1.
Really? All these sales are to upstanding citizens wanting to save a traffic stop?

Then why isn't the app called "traffic stop"? Its called "Tipsy" or something like that. It covers only DUI traffic stops. Who is this marketing to? Who is buying it? We all know the answer.

Yes, its good to protect freedom of speech. Its also good to make the streets safer. And DUI is a real problem, not a strawman.
Well, so aside from the revisionist statistic-slicing, it's pretty clear that income inequality has skyrocketed, income mobility has decreased and we've been reducing taxes disproportionately on the rich for the last 30 years. For exhibit A), we can examine the present job prospects of a computer programmer vs your typical laborer or service employee.

Fairness aside, this is an issue for the rich as well. How you gonna stay rich if the middle class doesn't have disposable income to spend? It seems like a lack of middle class jobs/income would hurt the future value of any investments.

That's the thing I really don't understand about the "I got mine, you can go screw" attitude towards income inequality / income mobility. It hurts you, too, and you have more to lose.
Strangely random, as opposed to ordinarily random?
A stock should be backed by all the assets of a company, shouldn't it?
Ask HN: I very much need a route software for 100+ locations
I will be walking 100+ fashion boutiques in NYC and I have a list ready put together. However, most route software only allows input of up to 25. Does anyone know a way to do this without figuring it all out by hand?
> . I've also got absolutely no time to do anything with them

Nice domains.

Send me an email (address in profile) if you're interested in a sort of JV - we'll do all the development and promotion. If you must sell, let me know an asking price.
We are just starting this process so this is a really useful article for us - thank you for sharing your experience. Payment systems are a minefield and a recommendation from a company that has 'been there and done that' really helps. We are PlayNice.ly customers and love your web app!
...they stated. When they were "asking" to have the app taken down. Not banning, not legislating. Just asking.
I noticed it too recently and reddit it : http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/g6gho/iphone_4_and_mac...
Really weird, but soo apple like ;)
Hacking Exposed: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0072121270

Armadillo book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596003439