skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you meet a number of founders of really big companies, in many cases they are sort of awkward, introverted people. The salesy, flashy people may be really good at convincing, but sometimes they can get away with less execution. This can be a good or bad thing depending on the type of startup and the market it is in.

There are also obvious examples of highly charismatic people who build big companies (e.g. Steve Jobs).

As an aside, I think Mike Moritz (investor in Google, Yahoo!, PayPal, etc.) also mentions something along the lines of "awkward/shy founders are often the ones who do big things" in a recent video interview (maybe the TechCrunch one?)

I am not sure what the cause is. Maybe inward focus helps build a great product and ignore feedback from people trying to influence your vision in the wrong direction? While charisma suggests being strongly attuned to others, whose feelings you may hurt by forging your own path? I dont know...
It's good that Microsoft is viewing integration into it's OS stack as a way to squeeze out performance but if that also doesn't translate into an accelerated ship schedule then who cares.

One year is an eternity.
Well... His harassment is obviously systematic.
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I satisfy the following three conditions:

* I dropped out of college.

* I got kicked out of college.

* I graduated college.

Why stop at dropping out when you can have it all?
"People find it easier to grasp an instance of a pattern or abstraction they already know, than to grasp a new abstraction altogether."

But the idea is to build the program up until you are working in a set of target abstractions that fit well with the problem domain. If I don't know the problem domain (or have materials to help me understand it), I have no business writing a program for it.

You are always looking for a high level of cohesion and a low level of coupling. If you already have a natural language that experts talk about the problem in, it is likely that the set of terminology derived from it has these properties. (It is well specified, it is precise, work has been done in it). A trivial example might be the difference between doing statistical work in C vs. statistical work in R. R is pretty clearly better for it.

Modifying something that has a lot of dependencies is only hazardous if what that particular something does is underspecified. If it is a bug in one use of that operator, it should be a bug in every use of that operator. If it isn't, perhaps the operator has special cases, or perhaps you really want two different operators (in either case, it needs greater specification).

YMMV, but in my opinion, one should not be modifying a program that one does not understand (at least mostly). It is easier to modify the 'non bottom up' program without understanding the whole, because generally, you do not have a chance at understanding the whole (not really 'whole', more like 'significant chunk'). You have no other option but to try something and see if it works. It also seems that you would frequently 'miss' changes that need to be propagated throughout the code-base (things that are actually bugs in other places, but perhaps are not manifesting).
There is a similar service on Android, but I think much of the value of a postcard is in the postmark, and the postmark is going to be 99 percent wrong on these.
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YouTube: competing media

SSH: can't deep packet inspect because it's encrypted, shape it just incase.
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The stack is open source: http://cloudfoundry.org/
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Maybe we'll get text-shadow with IE10
IE10? Yep, Microsoft gives early preview of next browser
Does anybody else don't believe the adwords prices they list?

I've searched for 'programming', and all the result combinations are supposed to to more expensive than 1 USD. When I experimented with adsense ads on programming pages (ok, that's at least a year ago, maybe 2) I got only a few cents... Somehow that doesn't fit together.
With support for MySql, MongoDB, and Redis on the DB side :)
And the article's footer is pretty good too. "This is the second installment of Fortune's new column on startups and the tech bubble that may or may not exist."
It also supports multiple frameworks/languages.
It doesn't seem like its different people from Heroku. If you've seen Mark Benioff's cloudforce pitch (link below), he mentions that they're partnering with VMWare to launch a PaaS similar to Heroku (which they acquired in December).

That said, I think its a bit surprising that VMWare is launching this under their branding - the machinations of large corporations continuously confound me.

http://www.salesforce.com/video/cloud2011-nyc.jsp
Very interesting stuff, but I'm always very skeptical of claims along the lines of "Every x dollars spent on [good/service] generates y additional [jobs/dollars/other good stuff]." First, I'm highly dubious of the ability of economists to isolate such complex relationships down to single-single input, single-output relationships. More importantly, there's never any analysis of opportunity costs to provide context: what if that same money, spent on something else, provided an even bigger economic benefit?
I have to wonder why one would continue to return to the U.S under these conditions. Then again I wonder the same thing about TSA screenings, health care and gun control.
Given it's a hacker audience, I'd say there's an implicite meta aspect to all such submissions. So yes, I appreciate knowing this was a weekend project... and a very cool one at that!
It seems that he purposefully waited near the end of the statute of limitations (6 years) in order to file the lawsuit. I don't see this as a reason to question the validity of the lawsuit but, perhaps, strategy on his part to 1) see how the Winklevii did and 2) wait until FB's valuation was as high as possible before filing.

I think finding the emails on the second time around is suspect but defense lawyers will have a chance to review the evidence so it makes me think that DLA Piper did their due diligence to prove the veracity of these emails (otherwise they would know that it's likely to be thrown out before even coming to court).
Ceglia v. Zuckerberg returns, with a bang - biglaw representation, lots of email
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JavaScript is a pretty good language to illustrate closures, if you use functions and declare all of your variables at the beginning of each function. :)

In the demo below, the closure we're interested in is the combination of the code inside "munger scope", and the environment it resides in. To do its job, munger must search its lexical environment to find each variable. The lexical environment is illustrated by the boxes. Searching for "foo", it must first check munger scope (local), beta scope, alpha scope, and then finally succeeds with the global scope.

In the code at the bottom, the demo1 and demo2 invocations don't influence each other. That combination of code+environment providing independent values is a closure.

|-- Global Scope ----------------------------------------------------------------|
| |
| var foo = "QUX"; |
| var alpha = function () { |
| |
| |-- alpha scope ----------------------------------------------------| |
| | | |
| | var a = "AA"; | |
| | var beta = function () { | |
| | | |
| | |-- beta scope ---------------------------------------| | |
| | | | | |
| | | var b = "BB"; | | |
| | | var munger = function () { | | |
| | | | | |
| | | |-- munger scope -----------------------| | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | a = a + a; | | | |
| | | | b = b + b; | | | |
| | | | return a + " " + b + " " + foo; | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | |---------------------------------------| | | |
| | | | | |
| | | } | | |
| | | | | |
| | | return munger; | | |
| | | | | |
| | |-----------------------------------------------------| | |
| | | |
| | } | |
| | | |
| | return beta(); | |
| | | |
| |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |
| |
| } |
| |
| js> var demo1 = alpha(); |
| js> var demo2 = alpha(); |
| js> demo1() |
| "AAAA BBBB QUX" |
| js> demo1() |
| "AAAAAAAA BBBBBBBB QUX" |
| js> demo2() |
| "AAAA BBBB QUX" |
| js> demo1() |
| "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB QUX" |
| |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. whats the source of their data?

2. no real "hacker" would do its seo reasearch via a stupid manual form, it does not scale.

3. what a f*cking linkbait
This is only reasonable if lunch is free, which it seems it isn't.
Past performance does not indicate future performance in statistics.
http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?eids=eqt3bK9L1E.equdE5...

"I would really love to know the contents of the CBP file on me. It's too bad that they refuse to disclose it via TRIPS or any other system."
I don't see a problem pointing out issues with Firefox. To me this is helpful compliance testing. I'm sure the Firefox guys will get on it and all browsers will approach "the standard."
This seems like a really good idea, except that for me, it destroys two of the main reasons I send post cards when I travel:

* The physical mail is moving from where I am travelling to where the recipient is back home. It has to travel, just like I am.

* The best post cards are cramped with text.

* postmarks: (for me at least) you see where it was mailed from and when, additional ties to the time and place when it was written. A postmark from wherever the postagram warehouse is located isn't as interesting as the Paris mail exchange or the airmail stamp from Dehli.

seems to me like they've missed what gives value to postcards to me: their timeliness & physical history. No one really looks at the picture anyway, that's incidental, it's the message that's important.

I always put a _lot_ more than 140 characters on the back of a postcard. I put more than 140 charters just into the "DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE" space on the postcard. Postcards aren't about the picture, they're about sending a message from a specific time and place, forward to a person in a different place.

So, this is a good idea, but won't replace actual postcards for me. I could see using it for a number of other things, but I don't think this is in any way "at least 1,000 times better" than a long, thoughtful note crammed onto the back of some cheap cardstock you bought for a quarter at the beach.
EDIT: spelling.
The three released/finished games in the pack - Trine, Shadowgrounds, and Shadowgrounds Survivor - are all excellent local co-op games. Trine needs 0 configuration to work with Xbox 360 controllers, and I'm fairly sure the other two games work fine with them (and other controllers) too.

The pack's worth $10 or more for Trine alone - three-player co-op that involves everyone yelling and panicking at each other trying to solve puzzles and not get killed by enemies. Good times. I don't have as much experience with Shadowgrounds co-op, but they're both cool top-down shooters - not as insane as the Alien Shooter series, but with much more polish.
cool idea.
What did you build it in?
I disagree. If these are proved to be fake, then DLA will have this reputation of being ambulance-chasers. It would definitely hurt their reputation.

Plus, the legal costs of pursuing a case like this is likely to be extremely high. If the evidence is so weak to be thrown out even before it comes to court, then I don't think they would pursue it.
Heh - off-topic, but that reminds me of a story involving the same idiom. A friend told me that in the 80s she spent some time as an exchange student in Moscow and they would go see movies on Friday nights. Occasionally there would be an American movie dubbed into Russian (all the parts played by the same Russian male voice who would read everything in a deep monotone) and one time it somehow turned out to be a trashy zombie movie. They get to the obligatory "teenagers in the cemetery in the middle of the night" scene and when the zombies appear, one of the teenagers yells "Holy shit man, let's get the fuck out of here!" This gets translated by the monotone Russian baritone as: "Пошли" (let's go).
I was not aware of Peter Thiel's other opinions when I read this piece, but his arguments that we're in an education bubble seem to me to be very solid.

Indeed, there's a lot of evidence he left "on the table". E.g. grade inflation is analogous to the kinds of things we saw surrounding the housing bubble and the internet bubble -- people want the metrics to meet certain criteria and don't care about the underlying fundamentals, so everyone is above average.
I really hope that Microsoft starts to shorten their release cycles. Releasing once every few years made sense in the 1980s and 1990s. Not so much today.
I've been involved in the restaurant business in almost every aspect, from barback/bartender/waiter to manager to owner/investor in high volume bars, fine-dining, burger joints, food trucks, and pizza parlors.

There's a pretty solid delta between this information and reality when it comes to the "Restaurant Profits" section.

38% is WAY too high for CoGS; reality is closer to 25% to 35%. You won't see 38% food cost unless you're a seafood place that's not selling enough pasta/rice based dishes.

Net profits are typically between 4-8%. I'm not going to say a 13% net margin doesn't exist, but I've never seen anything close to that. Best I've seen was almost 10% in a food truck operation that had 35% food cost and almost no facility overhead.

There's a reason I'm now in the software business. :)
Regarding design, I would add Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday things - entertaining and you wont look at the world the same way again!
I disagree.

The emails from Ceglia are laden with a bunch of grammatical and spelling errors. While the supposed emails from Zuck sound more polished, robotic and have neither grammatical nor spelling errors.

The tone of the two are very different.
The last bundle posed an interesting moral quandary for me. I didn't want to spend much money, but I also didn't want to pay below what I thought it was worth. So I ended up not buying it at all.
I'm surprised he doesn't mention anything about text inputs barely above the tab bar. The Google Voice app does this, and it's painful to consistently accidentally switch to one of the other tabs when trying to respond to a text message.
This seems fine for fun apps or testing, but I would be incredibly concerned to agree with these terms of service if I was running production software or charging for it.

From their terms of service:

b. Your Applications and Code. If You create online applications or program code using the Service, You authorize Cloud Foundry to host, copy, transmit, display and adapt such applications and program code, solely as necessary for Cloud Foundry to provide the Service in accordance with this Agreement. Subject to the above, Cloud Foundry acquires no right, title or interest from You or Your licensors under this Agreement in or to such applications or program code, including any intellectual property rights therein.

...and yet somehow you own exclusive rights to the data.
Actually, I was speaking of present value. I understand the risk that the value might change, I was just speaking of the company misrepresenting the value. Yes, there is a lot of handwaving and guessing. That's an expected part of the game. It's deliberate deception I was concerned with- not disclosing what they know.
It's a "brilliant marketing term" in the same way that any falsehood is. Other IEs have also been "native" in that way, yet they are dog slow, so "native = fast" is clearly wrong. "IE10 = fast" would skip the lie and seems like just as good a differentiator.
Mozilla should just thank Microsoft for finding the issue then fix it. We want one standard. Not a big deal. It'll be fixed before IE10 ships.
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This reads like a political attack ad. So many half-truths in here.

Just an example: they claim that Chrome "dropped support on Windows XP for functionality that [IE Team] think is fundamental to performance." Linking to this blog post: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/02/dev-channel...

The reality is that Chrome disabled it temporarily on the dev channel due to crashing, and in fact brought it back for v11: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72975

Microsoft doesn't even acknowledge the fact that they don't even have a version of IE10, or even 9, for Windows XP!

Is this really what the browser wars are going to come to? Lies and marketing? I thought we were over that.
We probably have two around the house: mine from high school chemistry, one that my wife thinks of as a "proportion wheel" from her days in print production. The proportion wheels were in use with printers and publishers for some years after the nerds had gone to calculators.
I had the Zi8 too. The iPhone 4 shoots better video in my experience, and allows me better ability to review / edit / share on the fly.
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Hmm, just paid and the web site seems frozen... Did receive paypal confirmation but nothing more.

edit: the email arrived a bit late, now downloading...
For real word keywords we actually bid on - it's way off by a factor of 3-5X.
Does it support the History API?
Yes. Like another commenter in the IE10 preview thread pointed out: the issue will be fixed in FF4 long before IE10 is released.
Good to know... information in infographic is from BizMiner, which does a lot of industry benchmarking by industry codes

http://www.bizminer.com/Retail/Eating-and-Drinking-Places-58...

Those sorts of things can often be wrong but it's taken from filings of 440,148 companies.
That seems pretty reasonable, and maybe even necessary. If they're copying your code around or distributing it to users, they may need those rights.

"..solely as necessary for Cloud Foundry to provide the Service..." is the key point, there.
Trace of evidence in web email. I just went to Hotmail (an acct I stopped using long ago) and pulled up emails from, yes, 2004. :)
That's a strawman. Nobody is saying that the only way to be an entrepreneur is through Thiel's program. And once you remove that implicit assumption from your snark, there's nothing left.
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They're ballpark accurate for a few searches I have intimate knowledge of, though that comes with the proviso that there is no one price in AdWords.

There are many, many things which could account for you getting very low CPCs. One is that the content network != the search network, and the search network prices are generally much, much higher because they demonstrate commercial intent. Another is that you may have been subject to "smart pricing" -- Google basically has unlimited discretion to lower payouts to you on the theory that your traffic quality is not compelling.
Check out multipliers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplier_(economics)
Spotlight also has keywords -

kind:pdf

date:yesterday

author:short_name

from:contact_name

And the boolean relations AND, OR, NOT work as you might expect.

There's a lot of cool stuff hidden in Spotlight. Try

man mdfind

to play around with command-line Spotlight.
Sometimes "native" is a bad thing in browsers. Like ActiveX.
At this point, I think a lot is being assumed by the post and it is difficult to go further than ones perception of what the author wrote.

My perception is different than yours. There really isn't any supporting facts to either.
How many in total applied? I would expect the 20 Under 20 Fellowship to be much more self-selecting in terms of those who applied or those who even know it exists.
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Just so I understand you correctly, does that imply that their intention is to prevent being sued if they need to change your code in order for it to work on the platform, in the event of say, an upgrade of their core infrastructure? If so, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
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It's not. Twitter has JS management issues. This has been true since the first time they added JS to the web UI.
Technically, so does Heroku. CloudFoundry does offer Java support, which is a bit different.

I am interested to see how it looks once it gets out of beta. I am betting it will be a solid platform, but after seeing the demo a few months ago at RubyConf, it did feel like a model I had seen before.
For me, it was because he now has DLA Piper representing him. This is a prestigious law firm well known here in the Valley. If the evidence were fake, I do not think DLA would touch this with a 10-foot pole as it would sully their reputation and would not go passed the evidence gathering stage and be thrown out (before even a possibility of there being a settlement).
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I was working on integrating a custom iframe tab in a Facebook app, and was having a lot of trouble displaying it to users browsing FB with SSL enabled. I don't have a server with an SSL certificate, and didn't want to pay for a new host or bother with getting a certificate.

You know who does have an SSL certificate? Dropbox. It's certainly a hack, but you can serve the iframe document from your public folder, and it works really well. There are bandwidth caps (10GB/day unpaid, 250GB/day paid - https://www.dropbox.com/help/45), but it could be a great solution for some situations.
Tip: just because you can align text to a path doesn't mean you should.
The beauty of this is that if IE10 is actually faster than Chrome, then Chrome has fulfilled its mission perfectly.
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it would have to display a lot more ads ... like as you're reading ... maybe video ads w/sound ... and flashing lights while we're at it.
how did you get kicked out?
I'm glad I got my flip before they shut it down! It's been a tremendous asset in catching all my daughter's big moments so far. The value for me is in how quickly it boots up and starts recording, the fact that it's on a completely separate battery to my phone, has a good picture, steady cam and plays nice with iPhoto. It also came with a nice little tripod that we set up at christmas/birthday to catch the opening of presents. Whilst one could certainly solve the problem with a smart phone I've enjoyed having a dedicated device for all this.

EDIT: accidentally submitted half finished last sentence then went through a train tunnel hence delay in completion :)
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I doubt Apple would suggest that structure as it easily breaks the back button as the article demonstrates. It's very frustrating, especially in Twitter where you can get rather deep to suddenly not be able to retrace your steps.
Prepaid mobile phone refill cards might be a good addition too. Not sure if there are existing sites to scrape for those like the gift cards. I usually go to ebay and expect to get 10-15% off refill cards.
Yes, and based on this how much do you think the legal costs would be for a firm like DLA Piper? You're easily talking about millions. If Ceglia has that amount of money to throw around, I don't think he'd be spending his time with frivolous lawsuits.