skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you're a founder. You know that it only takes $X to develop and market a given app. So you go out shopping, asking for $(1.3X)MM( the estimate plus a small buffer )at a Y% dilution.

You pitch your idea to Trust Fund Baby Ventures, LLC, and they shit their pants and offer you $(5X)MM, but at the exact same dilution, Y%.

You've just been offered far more money than you think your business is worth. What do you say? No?
These are moral questions. There are equally perplexing related practical questions, such as: Why did we go into Iraq? Wars are typically fought for vengeance or gain. There was really nothing to avenge and clearly nothing has been gained. I'm chocking the war up to pure foolishness.
Well, you never got sued just threatened.
assuming, of course, that the people you interact with all have smartphones with the color app running. as far as I know "passive" social networking or "let's interact with strangers" apps never gain traction, because most people don't find that idea compelling. outside of the handful of places with some density of early adopters and technohipsters (SF/NY basically), I just don't see anyone using this over the much more familiar model facebook provides.
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If they are truly only closing it temporarily for usability and user experience reasons (e.g. 3.0 won't work well on most phones right now), then I have no problem with it.
don't get me wrong, i like lisp a lot. but i think lisp has a bad image because many lispers (not all) are nitpickers. lisper think they are cool, but they are not. they don't let anything new in their language. they stick to s-expressions like they are the holy grail. they stick to the funny function names as if they were given by god. they are the most conservative language community (maybe apart from COBOL). look at all the disregard they had for arc. this could have been a beginning to dust off the fossil language and remove all the warts. but they did not like it. instead lisp is still the language that it was 50 years ago. <\rant>
It is indeed granted: Patent #7,912,915. The reference you cite is just a reference cited by an examiner, but nonetheless, the patent was granted.
I know I'll burn in programmer's hell for this, but I like it!
I think you're taking the situation too lightly. Is the threat of death worse than wanting to be dead, for instance?

If something makes you intensely unhappy, you would resent somebody else saying "bah, that's not a problem."
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It depends on whether I'm typing a stream of consciousness or transcribing some information. Typing from stream of consciousness, I can top 100 wpm without much trouble. When transcribing some information, I dip to around 70 wpm.
Early in his academic career, Schervish was a committed Democratic Socialist. But around 1990, he began interviewing wealthy people and decided that his Marxist instinct to criticize the rich was misguided.

If Schervish had felt this way, it’s because he didn’t read Marx carefully enough. The whole point of Marxism is not “rich people are bad”—the Communist Manifesto is brutally critical of those who think that capitalism could be reformed by making rich people nicer. The point is that capitalism as a social structure is bad, because even well-meaning members of the bourgeoisie have incentives to oppress the working class, and those who do not follow those incentives will eventually find themselves at the bottom of the heap.

(I am not a Marxist myself, but this misreading is one of my pet peeves.)
We got our domain names by approaching the registrant and making an offer.

There are plenty of domain names that are not listed on the ripoff domain name sales sites.

Find something you like and make an offer.
It's downvoted because it's false.

Try omitting parenthesis around your Lisp expression. Or try forgetting to balance your parenthesis.

Common Lisp has #: and : and :: and ` vs ' and #+ and #. and a whole slew of others.
That was one of the original design goals of Android. Apparently the device manufacturers & carriers wouldn't have played ball if this was not the case.
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If the game has been around on the web (under various names), why did he have to get a license from iPhone developer? It's not like iPhone developer "invented" the game.
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Gaming is a cruel mistress for developers. It's so hit-driven that it can be hard to really predict what will do well and what won't. Something that is a smashing success on one platform might just be completely overlooked on another.
The article is based on an entirely false assumption about the nature of lisp culture:

“So, I can’t find any self-poking jokes about lisp. Self-deprecating Unix jokes, no problem. Jokes about frigging text editors, hilarious. But lisp has nothing but theological proselytizing.”

Richard Gabriel’s “The Rise of ‘Worse is Better,’”[1] while written from the perspective of a lisp lover, informs the “Why is lisp a failure?” question. Mark Tarver’s “The Bipolar Lisp Programmer”[2] is another essay the ruminates on the failures of lisp. And of course there’s the recently-posted-on-HN “How I lost my faith”[3].

I’m struck by how personally lispers take the weaknesses of lisp. In part because I feel the same way, which isn’t surprising given that I'm a lisper—bicycles saved my body, Scheme saved my soul—and have a problem with taking failure very personally.

In conclusion, I don’t think the author knows what he’s talking about.

[1]: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

[2]: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm

[3]: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6f75cfb5a2...
Sorry, NoScript stays on by default.

Your move.
Greetings

There has been significant advancement since the last 64kbps test. The Nero HE-AAC and Aoyumi Vorbis encoders improved, Apple added HE-AAC capability, and we have a new low delay codec with high quality: CELT.h

ttp://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/Public%20Multiformat%20Listening%20Test%20@%2064kbps.htm<p>The following codecs are presented in this test:

Nero 1.5.4 HE-AAC
Apple QuickTime 7.6.9 HE-AAC
Ogg Vorbis AoTuV 6.02 Beta
CELT 0.11.2

Even the single result is helpful.

Have fun!!!
And since most of those tablets used pre-Honeycomb Android, it's actually counterproductive to hold back Honeycomb if the goal is to raise the quality of the worst tablets.
TLDR: Correlation != causation; if you have high dimensional data, you can always find a correlation, but it's probably meaningless; polynomial wiggle is a bitch, so don't fit high dimensional polynomials to your data.
To compare, in F# you'd have:

> let add3 x = x + 3
val add3 : int -> int

Plain numeric literals are int (32-bit integer). To make it generic:

> let inline add3 x =
- let one = LanguagePrimitives.GenericOne in x + one + one + one;;
val inline add3 :
^a -> ^e
when ( ^a or ^b) : (static member ( + ) : ^a * ^b -> ^c) and
^b : (static member get_One : -> ^b) and
( ^c or ^b) : (static member ( + ) : ^c * ^b -> ^d) and
( ^d or ^b) : (static member ( + ) : ^d * ^b -> ^e)

Perhaps not pretty, but inlining provides a quick way around some limitations on generics.

While strings are not arrays, they are sequences (IEnumerable in .NET). Sequences can be infinite, so there's no Seq.reverse. But:

> "hello" |> Seq.toArray |> Array.rev ;;
val it : char [] = [|'o'; 'l'; 'l'; 'e'; 'h'|]
If that's still available, I'd gladly take it off your hands.
He got a license from the guy who invented the game originally, not the guy who wrote the iPhone app. I'm not sure if he really needed that as such, but it sure seems like a nice gesture.
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Please, no :( Apple has a long history of building their own product based on what's already in the market, ad they rarely bother to acquire the developer who originally thought of the idea. I wouldn't want Marco to suffer that fate.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

If the U.S. military requires its generals (as a condition of their employment and their access to top-secret info) to not give away top-secret info, and it prosecutes those who break this agreement, this is clearly not Congress making any kind of law and therefore is not prohibited by the above, so in fact a perfectly strict and literal interpretation of the First Amendment would conclude that this is totally legitimate.
awesome idea, nice execution so far - keep us updated on your progress!
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One of the things I love about HN is its total simplicity. Adding tags would complicate that.
Very strange that he describes the MIT approach as "good" and the New Jersey approach as "not good enough" -- I have always understood them as "good" and "good enough". As in: why didn't we succeed? Because good enough was good enough.

Based on this misconception he draws the conclusion that the Lisp folks think the C/Unix approach is "evil", which is just silly. Maybe this is why he thinks it's a cult.
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The appstore was launched a few days ago...
someone never tried to use javascript on a blackberry.... ;)
I would add that most commentators on this passage don't draw the conclusion "having money is evil," but rather, that Jesus saw that this man's attachment to his wealth was a problem. In hearing this command, the man realized that his wealth was his god, and though he wanted to follow Jesus, he could bring himself to give up this rival god.

This may sound like a "soft" interpretation because it allows for being rich and also spiritual, but then again, it also means that Jesus' implied indictment may apply to non-millionaires like me. If my focus is money or prestige or whatever, I'm in the same boat. You can't follow Jesus half-heartedly.

To your point of advice: it does seem that if you've got $50 million and it's causing you anguish, you could certainly get rid of it and do a lot of good in the process. And I imagine the stigma from regular people would largely turn to respect.
Thanks. I will post updates once per few weeks.
Viewing this together with recent American moves to seize DNS listings for sites that our government doesn't like, how quickly will alternatives to the standard DNS system be sprouting up?
I'm upvoting this submission just so I can grab my soapbox. They will pry my Noscript extension from my cold, dead fingers. Some websites and domains, such as HN, I am happy to enable js. However, I also would like to freely visit any links I am curious about without running arbitrary code. There are also many websites which contain information I would like to read, but I am not interested in running code from two dozen different domains. It should also be noted that a large amount (the majority?) of scripts are not providing me with any functionality, but are instead trying to collect information from and about me which can be profitably sold. I don't see why I am obligated to make a charitable donation of my cpu cycles to every marketing department that is interested.
With foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.
Ah, ok: the argument is that HN members will be mentioning "spring" with increasing frequency during the matching season of time?

To answer then, no. The data is not cleansed for those purposes, so discount the Spring data as you will.

FWIW, a regular expression match for season returns 1940 results across the entire HN dataset, which spans 49 months, meaning that the number of context independent mentions of that word are ~40 month.
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http://www.ghostery.com/

edit: hate helpful comments that point to blocking marketing scripts without the global js block?
Tell HN: Listened to HN's and User's Feedback, Here's What We Did (Styckyd.com)
The original launch thread is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285320

The feedback from HN and the users we've been talking to lead us to realize that the problem that we had was a little worse than we thought. We were doing a very bad job of quickly communicating what we do and how we can help - basically we weren't telling you WIIFM. There were also a few other suggestions for fixes, including some usability things that we're still working on.

We have redesigned the landing pages for users and potential forum partners to be much more concise and increased the call to action.

Homepage for buyers/sellers: http://www.styckyd.com

Homepage for forum admins: http://partners.styckyd.com

What do you think? Is this better? Any other feedback/suggestions? We're starting to get much more interest from forums and other communities but we can always make it better.
Clickable:

Homepage for buyers/sellers: http://www.styckyd.com

Homepage for forum admins: http://partners.styckyd.com
It's been clear from the first article about Color that the investment was not about a photo sharing application, but about the underlying technology. The recent information that they are applying for six patents supports this.
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RHEL, fedora (RH again) and openSUSE all have paid programmers working on their distro at various companies. Arch does not. I will agree that not having signing is an argument against using pacman the Arch package manager. There are, however, plenty of positive arguments for using pacman. Its a great, reliable, package manager and I'm more comfortable with it than apt-get and yum for sure. If you're interested there are plenty more details in the Arch Wiki.
The reasons for India's population growth are manifold. Your comments adds nothing of value, trivializes a complex problem, and contributed to continued misinformation about this topic.

According to my readings, two underappreciated reasons are:

1) unavailability of doctors/medical centers to do female sterilizations. Women literally riot in mobile sterilization camps if the camp closes before all of them are looked after. Men refuse to use condoms or get sterilized, but women do want to limit the number of children.

2) HUGE infant and child mortality among the poorer classes. If the probability of your child surviving to adulthood was low, you'd have three to five children too.

Neither of these are covered in your glib remark about porn. You should educate yourself more about your country.
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That's a pretty good summary of the whole .xxx fiasco.
Something about that dancing robot crossed over in to the uncanny valley for me. The strange part is, I can't tell why. It's not like it looks human in any way. Maybe it's because it appears to move in such an unnatural way. The physics of a short-legged, walking trashcan means it shouldn't move the way it does. Interesting how our brains can make these types of evaluations on such a low level.
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I really wanted the third movie to say that Neo could stop machines in the real world because the real world is actually another matrix, and the machines didn't know it. By transcending the first matrix, Neo learned to transcend the next.
A good design. Like everyone else said name on both side would have complete it. I really like the Moleskine likeness of it.
I recently bought kidzys.com
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Couple of things from someone who has been in a similar situation:

1) You don't have to be a good marketer to set up a twitter account and tweet when you add new levels and new features. Retweet them from your personal twitter account and it will at least hit your followers. Don't feel ashamed of asking a few friends to also retweet to their followers. The effect might be small, but it's a minimal effort.

2) Focusing on one app is a bad idea. It's like having a stock portfolio of 1 company. Make several games, even if they're smaller and less polished. You might see that one is more successful and can then concentrate on making it more polished.

3) Most important: do what you love. Don't make your platform, language, or design decisions based on what your google analytics says will make you a few bucks more. If you do that you might as well go back to working secure corporate jobs.
I think none of this will happen, but if it does, another problem I'd forsee is personality decay.

We all accumulate quirks. If you're mauled by a dog, you will understandably be afraid of dogs afterwards. Probably excessively, irrationally so. If you live through a depression, you may become obsessive about saving. If you have a great time polka dancing, you may scoff at electric guitars.

Eventually these things build up to the point where you're a curmudgeon. We say old people are "stuck in their ways." But young people, for all their foolishness, see their parents viewpoints and habits and virtues and prejudices, not with objective eyes - they have their own faults too - but with fresher ones.

If humanity ever consists mostly of people with thousands of years of life experience, accumulated habits, etc - well, that sounds like a pretty miserable existence to me. And maybe a fragile one if larger threats arise. How will you "think outside the box" to respond if you've been building your box for centuries?
Apple doesn't claim to be open.. Google does
Only if I can use them to filter posts with tags I am not interested in.
I once wrote a script to crawl the entire US dictionary for words that hadn't already been registered.

Anybody dying to own limbate.com or vesuviate.com?
It has indeed been granted. According to the USPTO Public PAIR system, the status is "Patented Case", and has a Patent # of 7,912,915 and an issue date of 03-22-2011.

You can view the status at http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair
FTA, quoting Andy Rubin:
“To make our schedule to ship the tablet, we made some design tradeoffs. We didn’t want to think about what it would take for the same software to run on phones. It would have required a lot of additional resources and extended our schedule beyond what we thought was reasonable. So we took a shortcut. We have no idea if it will even work on phones.”

I'm no Apple Fanboi (I'm a Linux fanboi, if anything), but this shows what a phenomenal job Apple has done with iOS.
Didn't you study history (or at least the Indian version)?

The Indians welcomed the muslims because although they were happy playing sittars and doing yoga they missed contact with the wider world and so welcomed the rich ethnic diversity of the mughul empire and then lived happily together in peace and love until the British deliberately caused religous strife in 1946 by forcing the muslims to move to Pakistan.

See also - how native american tribes lived in peace and harmony together and at one with nature until the British arrived.
You are just using words which non-native english speakers tend to think about when wanting to search for sex on the internet (which are sex and porn).

Try sex, blowjob
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2Cblowjob&ctab=0&...

I am not saying that I have proved that the US/Canadians are waay more horny than people in other parts of the world. I am just pointing to why this kind of goog charts don't work while arguing.
Totally not accurate, but if you assume a 40/7 ratio of iPad to iPad2 installed base and about 18 million original iPad's out there, you get over 3 million iPad 2 sales over the past two weeks.

The entire US PC industry (including Apple) is only about 6 million units/month, it took the original iPad 80 days to reach 3 Million in sales.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/14/idc-and-gartner-us-pc-sal...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/22/apple_announce...
You can't do whatever you want with a device that is connected to a cellular network of any sort.
Best startup landing page service?
What's a good site that provides a simple landing page (that you don't have to host yourself) to gather pre-launch email signups for a site?

Something I could point the name servers of my domain to relatively easy. LaunchRock is invite only it seems. Is there anything public out there?

EDIT: To clarify, I'm thinking more of a "beta, pre-launch" landing page. Something that briefly teases what's coming and says "sign up to be notified first."
Like most articles about bubblenomics, this one misses the real point.

When the financial system becomes dominated by bubbles, it is unable to allocate capital effectively. You get a "lost generation" of businesses which could have used capital more profitably than the ones who did get funded.

Like anyone else who shirks their job, capitalists who participate in bubbles ultimately won't get paid for the labor that they're not doing.

Worse than that, it's quite possible that more financial capital exists than there is actual demand for investment. In that case, capital should be rerouted towards taxes or higher wages for workers: perhaps we'd be better off with a lower national debt and if Joe Sixpack is better paid, businesses can compete to offer him new and better products and services, creating new opportunities for businesses to succeed and wealth to "trickle up".
India was under British influence and control for 250 years. It seems a little strange that the Victorian Era which lasted for 70 years and the more conservation period only 50 years or so had such a strong influence on such a large and diverse country. Moreso because the Victorian era was preceded and succeeded by rather liberal periods in British society which were by Victorian standards, positively scandalous. Why did Indian society also undergo similar periods of liberalisation if British rule was so influential. Perhaps Indian society was already conservative and the Victorians simply re-inforced this.

The wikipedia articule seems to use revisionist language and lacks sufficient references so I would be interested if there any historians present with better information.
Testing a case in court is not that easy. The vast majority of litigated cases never result in precedent. Most cases are filed and disposed of with no written decision or only with a routine order or judgment that is of interest to the parties in the case only.

It usually takes in-depth briefing by sophisticated lawyers to generate a precedent of any meaning. This takes a lot of money and effort. Unless parties invest a lot into a case to give a court detailed guidance, the court will usually take the path of least resistance and dispose of the case on minimalist terms that have no precedential value for future cases.

In addition, courts do not permit collusive cases and are pretty good at sniffing them out.

In theory, one could file a low-level case and wind up with a helpful precedent. But this is highly unlikely. Of every 1,000 such cases filed, maybe 1 would have a slight chance of ever resulting in anything meaningful. That is just the reality of the litigation process. It takes a lot to generate meaningful precedents and that is why organizations that take on this burden (e.g., EFF) are needed to pour the vast resources into the process that it typically takes to get such results.
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Maybe it is, but you really can't go around claiming openness when you don't provide it.
Or make tag creation a karma threshold.
Perhaps its because for one we could hire anyone with Python skills or secondly anyone that is proficient in computer science can usually pick up Python quickly.
No, they don't. They want Ice Cream (the 3.1 version that combines the tablet and phone "forks" of Android) on it. They don't want people trying to hack Honeycomb onto a phone when they know it's going to turn out horribly.