skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, very interesting. It's getting confused due to the proximity of the Boulevard3 nightclub at the Hollywood Athletic Club. Let me see if I can tweak it for the update I'm pushing this afternoon.

Thanks very much for the bug report!
Both are purely entertainment versus encouraging entrepreneurship especially Dragon's Den which is pretty much ritual humiliation. I find that mentality is what hampers the U.K from developing an entrepreneurial culture.
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How one guy turned his C&C skills into millions with online poker
What are the benefits for the users of your app?

May I suggest these:

1. bragging rights
2. finding hot spots
3. posting a picture from the outing to keep a record of social activity

I welcome other possibilities as well.

Why a new "specialized" social network?

I am interested in the fact that

1. it is only for females (the market segment that spend the most: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/why-women-rule-the-internet... )

2. the network will grow from one initial person and would be possible to reach anyone from anyone (I am not expert in the science of graphs so this sounds interesting to me)
This (wikipedia) article on distinguishing blue from green may be of interest to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishing_blue_from_green_...
Someone is bashing the facebook numbers and just discovered Linkedin?! Lol.

BUT I think the numbers tend to be correct. A lot of my non tech friends here in germany are now on facebook. I only know 3 guys that are not on it. And they are not on it because of privacy concerns. And I even saw parents organizing their school board meetings through it.

Very scary thought to see that Facebook got so huge, but you can't say the numbers are wrong. At least not as wrong as the poster tries to make them.
Why do Russians smile so little (and Americans so much?)
Interesting idea, but the slider may not be a great interface. It stops the experiment being purely about numbers - I found I picked '5' because it was close to being nice and symmetrical.
The World According to Tim Ferriss
Thanks for your advice, somebody before you just suggested http://www.macminicolo.net but deleted the comment a couple minutes later, do you think it's against Apple's developer terms to use a virtual machine ?
I'm pretty aware that in my country it is highly probable (but not for sure) for the police to get 'physical' (as the guy in the second video said), but I don't expect to get tortured in the way you see in movies. I still think the best course of action is to endure some mild abuse and display non-defiant, respectful behaviour and still refuse to answer any questions.
Not sure how you can draw that conclusion from what I said. The USSR flag, while it is a flag of an oppressive totalitarian regime, does not carry the symbol of hate meaning as much as the Nazi flag does (and probably not even as much as the confederate flag is). My argument was to say that even though a lot of people died during the Stalinist era, I do not consider the USSR flag to be at the save level as the Nazi flag, and I would not treat the two in the same way.
Yes? If you pay any attention at all to anecdotal reports, it very obviously makes a big difference for a lot of people. Anecdotal reports are what the OP is railing against though, I guess.
Raid what? There is no central authority with bitcoins that can be shut down. They could go after exchanges I suppose, but exchanges aren't really necessary for there to be a functional economy built around bitcoins.
I was going to pick 7.1 until I found out that he was prepared for pedantry and restricted the set to natural numbers.
There is a checkbox in the f.lux/Mac preferences labelled "Start Flux at login". Is that checked for you? If it is, and still doesn't work, try unchecking it, restart flux, and check it again.
Turkish Lentil Soup with Spinach Or: A day in the live of a dev dad
Co-Founder, also interested to find a buyer offer.
http://goo.gl/5ndf4
Pls add : 42
I'm guessing you could make the same argument with a lot of technology, fashion, etc. I think the only edge Minneapolis is known to be on is that of food-on-a-stick.
Apple Didn't Invent the App Store
Exactly - thank you for clarifying my original post - I agree it was poorly presented, but I do think we were both elaborating the same point. HFT IS an arms race as you point out, and the details I find interesting have to do with infrastructure changes - i.e. relocating server farms to Siberia to gain a few fractions of a second in transmission time, etc.
Nvidia seems to be betting a bit of its future on the superiority of CUDA over OpenCL for general purpose computing. They share the same model of parallelism model, but Nvidia keeps baking more support for unrestrained C++ into both the hardware and compiler (see recent addition of function tables, unified address space, general purpose cache). I think if AMD continues to focus primarily on gaming then it's just a matter of time before their cards/drivers have some slight edge in the gaming domain.
Your eyes adapt to the new color temperature very quickly. If you have a good-enough screen and/or you're not working on something with a lot of dynamic in the red spectrum, you should be fine. Even if not, you might still be just fine. I do photo post-processing with flux on and haven't seen a difference in the finished product, same for print and web design work. You get used to flux really quickly.
An interesting extension of this could be to add a poll here on HN asking, "Which number did you pick?" and then comparing the poll results to the actual results.
What on earth makes you think there is significant overlap between "party girls" and entrepreneurial-minded women?

I don’t believe that the co-founder needs to be a “party girl”. If she goes out once in a while with her friends and uses the application, that should be enough.

I think this is a slow process. At this stage, just testing if registration works, avatars upload, proper emails are sent and so on.
.. and it ends up being something that OOP wasn't actually designed for :)
In other words, Facebook alone is now worth more than the entire 1999 bubble(or at least the top 24 public companies).
MySQL.com compromised via (guess what?) SQL injection
Now, you may be saying "DUDE! That's awesome!" and yes, it is, compared to platters

???

I'm saying "which co-worker swiped your SSDs while you weren't looking?". Quick test here, I rebooted Vista and opened Office apps, with a stopwatch timer in the other hand, rounded to closest half a second the results are:

Word: 3s, Excel: 2s, Outlook: 3.5s (no mail in it), OneNote: not present, PowerPoint: 2.5s

That's from a 5400rpm WD Blue laptop drive, on a Core 2 Duo laptop.
The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.4 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
What does this have to do with startups and programming?
I feel similarly. I was having a lazy Sunday morning and decided to slog through the first video while managing breakfast for my toddler. Each time I paused the presentation, the audio turned into screechy garbage upon resume, and I had to re-authenticate in order to get the presentation back. Had I been able to load MP4s onto my tablet, I might have invested in the whole series.
I'd assume one could use a DNS like resolver for named addresses considering bitcoin allows IP addresses...
Expanding Financial Sector Depleting Pool of High-Growth Founders
Kauffman Foundation paper evaluates how growing wage and skill premiums in finance suppress innovation and entrepreneurship
I also wanted to add this quote by PG that founders do not need to identify with their users: http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

One of the things that will surprise you if you build
something popular is that you won't know your users.
Reddit now has almost half a million unique visitors a
month. Who are all those people? They have no idea.
No web startup does. And since you don't know your
users, it's dangerous to guess what they'll like.
Better to release something and let them tell you.
Yeah, it is getting out and I think current press stems for some recent court cases. It's also not a new strategy - with at least 6-7 years in practice by most competitive hedge funds. If you studied non-linear mathematics, or genetic algorithms in the early 2000s, you would have seen a ton of journal articles on the subject, particularly involving currency trading.
your site looks really great, but I miss the feeling of (social) activity on the front page.

Sorting pictures by the last disovery or most liked photos with a small "time ago" field could give it a feeling of a more active community.
Most API-related problems are business related, not technical. Twitter could decide to use a protocol but that does little to prevent it from pulling or limiting access via the protocol when it wants and as it wants.
Don't use the data for timing purposes, that's more than, say 40 seconds?
I had never heard of bitcoin before, thanks for introducing me to something new!
Well, if you want to talk about that sort of thing, I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to trust anything an applicant for this sort of job might say about his criminal record.

Or anything else.
It's "Traveller". I've always been a sucker for Space Opera.

Firefly was so much like my Traveller campaign that I suspect that Joss Whedon used to play it.
Brilliant idea, but haven't you built in bias by unblinding the experiment? I followed the link, got one implementation and keyed in '5'. Then I read your write-up and realised that there are more implementations, reloaded the page and thought deeply about the number I would/should choose on the slider.
The title says it all. I've been working on a project for quite some time when it suddenly dawned on me (as target release date after release date kept slipping) that what I am actually building is an assembly of many functions and that I should (1) break each of those functions down into individual components (2) because they are something I already use and so do others, (3) release each of those components with the first part and then add-on as the next is complete... finally ending up with what I had in mind in the first place.

Another good quote I saw recently was how we mix up the Minimally Viable Product and the Desired Viable Product.
Funny... we can read and study all we want but it takes a while to sink in and be applied, doesn't it?
That's what I was thinking too. My choice was influenced at least slightly by where my mouse was at picking time. Would have been better to have a text entry field I think.
They might have been fishing for a different answer.
I would imagine that if you did this survey in a crowd of sports fans, you would get a different distribution based on town or player followed. Plus, if I remember right 7 and 4 and not terribly lucky numbers in China.
Discussed yesterday here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373262
Nah, I had the same reaction while reading the article. Then I realized that it was from 2004.

The slow push for standardization is indeed curious. Standardizing threading would only be the beginning, as threading is (for most things) a much too low-level abstraction. It is very hard to scale threading, with the locking and other synchronization it usually entails, to large number of cores (soon, >16 won't be that strange). And it's very bug-prone.

I think it's disappointing that more high-level primitives such as co-routines, work queues, task-based parallelism, map/reduce and such are finding such slow adaption in mainstream languages. You'd say that making the writing of parallelized code faster and more robust is an important goal.
I played Traveller, so it was a bit of everything: character generation, planet and system generation, space craft generation, hell, they even had a half-dozen "alien languages" that you could create programmatically.

Good times.
I was already aware that most people choose 7 in this situation so I selected my favorite number 8.
Please define "party girl". That appears to mean something completely different to me than what you are describing and by other reactions I get the impression that I am not the only one.
When the kid gets a little older, Arkham Horror (a Cthulhu Mythos board game) might be something to try. It has all the players working against the "game".
Does your university have a significant Asian population?

Three (homonym with "alive") is a lucky number in Chinese culture. Four (homonym with "death") is an unlucky number. Apartment buildings built for Chinese persons often skip all floor numbers with "4" in them as well as all apartment numbers with "4" in them.
Thanks a lot for the motivation indeed!
It's possible, if you're a perfect candidate. Crazy relocation bonuses I've been a part of (on the employer side):

- Horse transport

- Premium wine collections

- Luxury automobile collections

- Months of weekly first class flights to/from their prior residence location during the "dark and cold winter months"

But, in all of these cases, the individuals were at/near the CTO or chief architect level at non-trivial corporations.
I was about to post the same thing. However, the USA is not the only jurisdiction in the world -- are there others that would allow something like this?
Programmers (top programmers) are also drawn to the enormous compensation packages and bonuses that financial firms were offering in the 2000s - top talent in statistics, mathematics, engineering and programming went straight into the financial industry - and a lot of those guys ended up as the VPs of their perspective departments. So I agree with what you're saying if you're thinking about traditional banking (the Big Five) but Hedge Funds are generally made up of highly analytical, highly qualified nerdy types who dominate programming and computer science - we're talking top-of-class people drawn in by the money. They also work 80+ hours a week, so pick your poison!
Very nice. I upvoted you, but I'd be happy to send you a BitCoin, too. ;)
Edgy: GraphViz graphs for Android phones and tablets
Thanks! I definitely work hard at sucking less.
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Below 15: 13
Below 50: 42
That's some really low propaganda. By that logic you would not want to use any domain from a "first world" country since they are actively in conflict (by exploiting) the rest of the world. Also, most of them are at war somewhere.
I think that is a good datapoint, myself. If there is a predisposition for people to choose "5" under those circumstances, we will have learned something.
No hate, no jealousy either. For one, I had my exit, thank you very much :)

I am just looking at the idea and it looks overly complex to be instantly usable. Experimental if you will, solving a problem that does not exists, and more fit for an academic research rather than a business venture. That's not even considering the amount of funding.

Just ignore the 41 mil, and do tell me based on what they have described to the public so far if you see them having a respectable userbase within a year? I very much doubt it, and only then, considering the amount of funding it would constitute a spectacular failure.

So, no, no hate whatsoever. It just doesn't make any sense (with an exception of a theory that this is a setup for VCs to extract their money from Facebook by making it acquire Color later on - that is ingeniously clever).
There's always something to raid. Someone is hosting bitcoin.org, developing the client, etc.

The government hates competition.
If this bubble is confined to a few private equity parties and the amount actually invested is only a few billion total (2.4 in FB's case), then you can blow bigger ones with soapy water.
Instagram and Hipstamatic are fine... for now. Let's face it, they create intriguing images today that very likely we will look stylistically dated in 5-10 years as "Hipstamatic" or "Instagram" shots. On the other hand PS or any of the numerous photo editors I have on my iPhone allow me to take a raw image and process it as I would like and then save a copy. I much prefer this route even though it takes more time. I am left in the end with the "image" and the "art" which can then be reinterpreted at a later date. And I think that is something the author gets at... these new filter programs are "fun"... but will they look like those 1980's strip mall glamour shots in the year 2020?
I was using Photoshop to pick colors from design PSD´s and PNG´s. Then I found two nice color libraries, added my boring app framework and created this - http://teppefall.com/products/colorspace.

The problem is risk.. do you spend a $1000 on good sales copy and some Adsense when you might only get $900 back short term ? Your product is good, but is it good enough?
No, not close. Its only the ones that IPO'd in that year. And in aggregate, a horrible investment.
Burp v1.4 preview - Session handling: putting it all together
Nathan's Blog - On Premature Optimization
Actually, you can construct a language where you cannot amke some kind of actions at all.

There are languages that express only polynomial time computations, languages that won't allow you to make deadlocks, etc.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message5863.html

http://edwinb.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/correct-by-constructi...
"Money CAN buy happiness", have a child and suddenly the value of having money goes up a hundred fold. The desire to make lots of money is not always based on greed!
This is the video that convinced me to switch to git. I had git evangelists talk it up for the longest time before this, but they never laid out the benefits as well as he does here.
Fukushima design downplayed tsunami risk: 3K years of geological history ignored
I'm in the author's demographic. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter, and none of my friends are either, for the most part.
I'm very surprised to hear about people bringing laptops to meetings. I've never seen this happen (where I live). It seems to be disrespectful and contraproductive. You're there to talk and think right?

Who does this and why?
This isn't an article about radiation, it's an article about fear. Our sense of fear is not rational. If it were, people in the US would be more afraid of bananas (which count as "highly radioactive" if I apply the scales used by some newspapers evenhandedly) than Fukushima. Which shouldn't count as scary at all. I just ate one, in fact, in spite of knowing that it's choc-full of delicious, radioactive potassium.

We fear things that are easy to imagine over common but hard to see risks. The death of one person is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic. So the death of tens of thousands due to the tsunami will never register the same emotional impact as the picture of one deformed child from Chernobyl.

It's the same in startup marketing, incidentally. That's why they give people testimonials (stories), help them imagine the benefits, etc. This is sort of the opposite: the media is making it easy to imagine all sorts of horrible things happening due to invisible killer radiation. A few bad things probably will happen. Oh yeah, tens of thousands of people were also buried under a 12m wall of water that crushed entire towns, but there's nothing new to say about that.
I can't take this article seriously. How can we compare 'valuations' to actual raised money in IPO's? All of this value of facebook is based of estimates on the small % of assets owned by outside capital that is used to fund it.

Hypothetical vs Real. Is this really comparable?
Anonymity allows for online markets that were previously a lot harder to achieve: https://ianxz6zefk72ulzz.tor2web.org/
Cheaper Than A Tablet: 'Rooting' Your E-Reader
As the user of this app I was thinking socially active fun-lowing females of all ages; probably living in a big city going out at least a few times a week; and for whom enjoying the company of girlfriends is an important part of their lives.
Liberty Dollar was busted for counterfeiting, because their coins looked too much like legal tender.

e-gold was busted for violating Know Your Customer money laundering regulations.

Alternative currencies can be legal-- see, for example, Disney Bucks (paper currency issued by Disney) or Ithaca Hours (oldest local currency in the US, going since 1991).
You're probably right - if they'd just been allowed to collapse we'd be in serious trouble.

However we're still in serious trouble because of the moral hazard created. Banks have been given the greenlight to take similar risks again because they know they'll be bailed out in future.

Frankly, without also taking steps to force banks back into smaller entities that we can afford to let fail, all we've done is compound the problem and delay it until later when it will be worse.
I'm a What? (Scott Adams explanation to "Men’s Rights" post)
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Generating_bitcoins

"All generating nodes of the network are competing to be the first to find a solution to a cryptographic problem about their candidate-block, a problem that requires repetitious trial and error."

i wonder whether this "cryptographic problem" is vulnerable to quantum computing, in the same way asymmetric schemes like rsa are.
I don't think we have ever in the history of the world seen a start-up so mindbogglingly confusing. Wait, let me clarify that statement with the amendment "handed $41m".

Seriously, has anyone figured out how to use color and found anything good of it? The reason we're all "piling on" is because NONE of us "get it".
unless that currency unit is RMB.
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It's great that he posted this.

Most of us may not agree with his philosophy, and have questions about his basic technical and leadership competencies. But right or wrong, he's being very transparent about their hiring and development philosophies.

This is a good thing. It helps his company attract the kind of person that will work well in that environment, and gives clear warning to the rest of us that this is not the place for us, and that we are better of not wasting our time seeking a career there.
I can make a sandwich in ten seconds. Am I a baker or someone who makes a sandwich ?
Has anyone run through the power/hardware costs versus the mined amount in bitcoin and real currency yet?
You might want to work on finding another descriptor. I just checked Urban Dictionary and every definition they have agrees with my general understanding that "party girl" doesn't really refer to a gal who likes to hang out and socialize with her gal friends. It generally suggests sex, drugs, and low personal standards.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=party%20girl

Edit: You might try looking for a word more like "socialite".
A lot of people here are also concerned about starting up businesses of the tech variety, as well as reading about successes and failures with said endeavors. This particular one is so off the wall that it's worthy of mention.
Please use news.ycombinator.com, as documented at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470.

Clickable link to correct domain: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373262.
Best guess: It won't start deflating (or popping, if there ends up being even more money) until well after Facebook et. al have their IPOs next year. Just watch for articles in 2014ish quoting experts on the consensus "we aren't so skeptical anymore, it's different this time!"
I talk to my grandmother via facebook.
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Well, I thought the same thing. But he's totally right, and buddycloud is awesome.