skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google I/O 2011: How to Get Your Startup Idea Funded by VCs (Video)
How does everyone here gather and analyze their metrics? What do you have always deployed and what do you use when shit hits the fan?

[Edit for typo]
hint MPAA if people do not have money to pay for it is not lost job in the millions...it just millions you will never see..ever
I've often thought that there is no need for collusion if you can exchange minimal information over public, legal channels and know how to work a strategy that assumes a modified prisoners dilemma. You can often see oil prices or airline tickets operating that way. E.g when one airline raises prices, then sees that no-one is following the rise, after which the price comes back down. Or everyone else is ready to raise prices and ticket prices go up.
You just hit the tip of the iceberg, see http://igdaboard.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/important-advisory...

HT: commenter Patrick Maupin on esr's blog
I'm going to have to disagree with you when you say "the Yankees don't count". Sport teams (at least in the USA) elicit a huge religion-esque response. I don't watch sports because it seems, to me, that most of the fans at games are caught in fanatical religious worship of their chosen team. It's depressing to see all their passion directed at something non-contributive like sports.
We intend to build out functionality to let us offer programs around specific goals. The quest system is a precursor to this, but the idea is to have a fun way of offering structured guidance to the user and move them to specific outcomes.

And believe me, I'm in agreement with you about cardio. It's pretty worthless in many cases :)
That particular Windows behavior is arguably from some of NT's ancestral roots in the VMS designs.

VMS can also use its pagefile as temporary storage for a system crashdump.
Thanks for the thoughts!

1. We're focusing on exercise for now as we want to make sure it's executed well. Long term we definitely envision including nutrition as well.

2. Some form of this is planned.

3. See: #2 :)

-Brian
And while we're at it, who took our cylinders, heads and sectors (and tables of bad blocks) and gave us stupid LBA addresses?
If you mean disk space its around 5gb and currently i'm using only 150mb.
> But if you focus on the behaviour, you can try to negotiate: "You are a genius, your work on ___ is brilliant. However, this behaviour ____ is unacceptable, please stop doing it. Here is why..., Here is something more constructive you could consider..."

Incredibly well said - that's the point I was reaching towards and couldn't quite articulate perfectly, apparently. Ideally, we'd call out shitty behavior and change that behavior. I didn't mean to suggest a "my way or the highway" attitude; rather, my point is that we shouldn't keep quiet when someone's being a jerk.
An option is to reject their behaviour instead of rejecting them. Call them on it, objectively and matter-of-factly, instead of calling them names.

Hard to do.
A Bright Idea: Android Open Accessories
I may mark this up in LaTeX, then, simply because I've never tried it on something this large. I'll share it here if that's alright with you, edw519.

Question for the peanut gallery - embedding images in LaTeX seems to suck. Any recommendations? (I'm using MacTeX 2010-basic)
To be clear... there were pre-99 startups that DID streaming. I was invested in one. But B-movies from the 50s apparently have a smaller market than one might think -- and you probably already think it has a really small market.
Similarities between Musicians and Entrepreneurs
"A good sign that you might be a jerk is that you see jerks all around you."

The same goes for various other personality traits. If someone refuses to trust anybody else they likely can't be trusted themselves; I've seen it myself several times.
I agree but at the same time you would have hot spots. Shopping centres etc etc. This car is also not automated so how would you avoid mid air collisions? You would obviously need to land near your street, so there would need to be designated landing strips, you couldn't just plonk down in a field somewhere.

It would be like frequencies too, you would only be able to fly in a limited amount of "space". The rest would be reserved for airplanes and helicopters.

It's only the same as airplanes having to follow flight paths, there would be directions that car-o-planes could go in.

I know what you are saying but imagine London or New York with flying cars everywhere. The end result would really be no different. Concentrated areas with millions of cars flying in it.

Although... http://www.firebox.com/product/415/Moller-Skycar-M400
The MacroSolve patent[1][2] was requested in 2003 and granted in 2010: forms on devices that transmit data to web servers.

The USPTO is broken.

[1]http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/05/worse-than-lodsys-ma...

[2]http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
In a nutshell, get Tim Ferriss's book: The 4-Hour Body [1]

I got it last December and have slowly, but steadily implementing some of the strategies he prescribes. You don't necessarily have to follow everything he suggests (and probably couldn't) but it's full of good advice.

[1] http://goo.gl/38rZ6 (amazon affiliate link)
First off, I know absolutely nothing about the stock market. Actually, if it was possible - I know less than nothing about the stock market.

Anyway, I wouldn't pay over $45 a share if I wanted to buy. Why? 'Cause that's what you could have gotten it for at its best value. You can't possibly buy right now. Why? 'Cause it was at $45 a share! You missed your opportunity. You can't possibly settle for $65 a share when it was $45 a share just a few hours ago. YOU CAN'T.

But now, if it dips below $45, then I'd say it's time to start pondering buying.

(the above is based on sports betting and I believe the same principles hold true)
But they do shut the doors on patrons who might.
Ah - so it'll be ready after the rapture.
"Imagine the stress of working for the Post Office for fifty years."

Maybe it's a matter of how pain is perceived. I think I'd rather do 10 5-year stints at startups than endure that sort of pain. Nothing against post office personnel, but I've been in government-like operations before and much prefer startups or earlier stage companies I've worked for.
Love it! Bought a copy too! IMHO you're the best commenter on HN edw519! :)
In the case I'm talking about, the gentleman in question threw a chair out a window halfway through a meeting. This after months of threatening violence against co-workers after showing up to work drunk.

You bet your ass I asked for him to be fired. He wasn't, so I quit.

I'm very sorry that my post rubbed you the wrong way. My intention is simply to suggest that we shouldn't tolerate antisocial behavior in our communities, and that we should ask those behaving badly to stop. Do you disagree?
Surprisingly almost no one cares about performance. When was the last time you have seen a webframework or a database that routinely does performance benchmarks at each iteration? In fact, I don't know any. I was very impressed with the continuous measurements that PyPy does.
I'm pretty sure working with an asshole just means that the person you are working with simply doesn't like you. It doesn't mean that they are an asshole to everyone, which in some cases they might be, but most of the time, I'm sure they just don't like you, for whatever reason. So what does that make you? A pushover? At the very least, it makes you someone who identifies other people's behavior, which pretty much makes you judgmental and fearful, and also, if you understand "the secret", it makes you someone who attracts assholes. Instead of "refusing to tolerate assholes", be an asshole right back and maybe they might respect you. Never push someone away just because you don't know how to interact with them, and that's the thing, you don't know how to interact with them, cause if you did, they would like you & respect you.
Where Can Social Media Marketing Take Your Career?
Microsoft offering free xBox 360s to students buying new laptops
For every Steve Jobs there are a million assholes who can be replaced by warmer, equally talented characters.
Consider the mini, though it is overdue for a hardware update. A mini with a Sandy Bridge processor, Thunderbolt connector, and SSD would actually be a pretty sweet little workstation.

The bang-for-the-buck factor on the SSD is in your compile times.
You have been able to turn off the nav bar in FF and I think IE for ages.
Selling to Google for $70 mil - Nat Turner, Invite Media Co-Founder
That's what it is initially, but they're not done yet.
PE ratios are for yield businesses that have been around for decades and with nowhere much to go

With LNKD you should be looking at revenue, competition and market penetration (rev is doubling yoy, three sources, 4500 business customers paying avg. $23k a year, 75% of fortune 100, 60% USA - which means they have a lot of growing to do). they are spending everything that comes in on product development, sales and marketing and R&D - it is all growth phase. $400M revenue this year.

To add - LinkedIn isn't really a 'social' company either since its revenue is not based on ads. They are in the recruitment market, where companies are known to pay tens of thousands of dollars for recruitment leads. And in that regard, they still aren't even exploiting their position as much as they could be (which means they have a lot of room to grow both out and up)

If they wanted to impress skeptics they could cut back all sales and marketing and development and just bank the 450M and pay out a dividend, in which case it would be a market cap of ~$4B, and a lot more love in comment threads on the internet :)
Seth Godin in Seattle, 6/24, click for ticket info
It is very frustrating when a group gathers statistics and measures everything it can. And the others do not.

I administer servers. Our group tires to measure what it can, keeps historical data. Then we get a call from the application owners:

'Users are complaining about slow performance.'

Who?

'A few. I didn't keep the email. It's just slow, look into it, will you?'

So what can I say but 'Server x did this and such a time and measure y is normal but I don't think that's your problem because of reason z'.

In other words, yes, I finger point because I _know_ it's not my problem.

And as often or not 'a few' users are one or two people whose problem went away when they restarted their PC.
ChessBase is 25
Try these 2 articles, first is about how to exercise properly and the second is how we destroy our feet using modern footwear and what to do about it:

http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness...

http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/
Hardformat - Reaching for the sublime in music design
Our words are in violent agreement. I wish more people would call my bad behaviour out.
"Join the Dual N-Back, Brain Training & Intelligence forum & mailing list at Google Groups for some interesting discussions on dual n-back, memory, intelligence and the brain"

http://groups.google.com/group/brain-training
I think perhaps I haven't been clear enough, because most here seem to be missing what I intended to be my central argument; to quote:

I will call out antisocial behavior, enforce professionalism in the communities where I have the power to do, and leave the communities that cannot at least offer civility.

In other words, if someone's being a jerk, we should call them on it. I didn't mean to suggest dividing the world into "assholes" and "good people" — clearly there's a spectrum, and clearly even saints have bad days. And I certainly didn't mean we should ostracize people at the first sign of shitty behavior.

But if someone's abusive, and they refuse to moderate their behavior, then either they need to leave or I will. I just can't accept that allowing abusive behavior is the price we have to pay for good code.
Which money is made of.
How do Tech startups indicate their value - recent research
Somebody please tell me you'll be shorting it.
FYI, this game crashed on me at launch (W2K8 R2). Setting the exe to run under WinXP compat mode made it work.

It's also devilishly hard. Dual 1-back is easy, but Dual 2-back is surprisingly difficult. I think it'd be fun to get good at this :).
Cool. Thanks, whimsy.

(edw519, alumnus of Theta Chi, Beta Chi Chapter)
Security recommendations must be understood and modified (even ignored) as the environment requires.

If you're in an environment where security is very important, then having to send someone on-site to reboot a server may be reasonable. Or maybe your data center is staffed. Or maybe you have an IP-KVM, so you can access the console remotely.

Alternatively, most BIOSes I've seen have both a supervisor and user password, or similar: one disallows access to the BIOS setup, the other restricts booting. You could set only the one that disallows setup access.
The CEO commented that he was "happy" with the IPO price. Given that CEO's generally are not happy with leaving 100% on the table, I would surmise he knows it's overvalued.
"Google's Chrome browser will give users the ability to kill that final remnant of the fact that they're actually using the Web - the address bar."

Wrong. File system browsers (e.g. Nautilus) typically show the URI, viz. the name of the folder that you are browsing.

This is a savvy move on Google's part because deprecating the URL means that you have no option for finding resources, except search. Search through your browsing history. Search through your filesystem. Search through the web.

Using search more can be pretty sexy, if your search works well.
Ask HN: Best PSD slicing services?
There's a gazillion out there and I'm just wondering if anyone can recommend a consistently good PSD slicing service.

I noticed that some of these services start out pretty good and then grow to the point where they're forced to outsource more allowing for the quality of the work to suffer.

Any recommendations or shops the you swear by?
Let's see your original post and their post.
Be a sports,try to work on ur idea...let them market it first...learn from their mistake and compete...may be they r better coders but biz is more than coding..."steve jobs" was put out from his own company once....its not that bad really...
CoffeeScript in Motion
"This is a nightmarish slippery slope situation for them."

Stronger: This is an existential crisis for them. For as rich as they appear to be and for all the resources they seem to have, the task of curating the web is still an order of magnitude or two larger at least, and for certain strict interpretations of the law, this would simply crush them. And there is no chance that any politician will look at Google and see this, because all the numbers are above the "1, 2, ..., many" threshold for most humans, and the idea that the task is too large for Google will be poo-pooed by politicians if you simply make that engineering argument.
I've shortened the title, to remove the commercial spammy message which takes away from such an interesting article. Two very interesting points that make this suitable for this group:

1.) The first connection between a computer programmer and a chess world champion, which pushed ChessBase towards commercialisation. Today ChessBase is the essential tool for chess preparation
2.) Fredric Friedl, the owner of ChessBase, sent Kasparov a computer disk for his BBC Acorn. That disc included the game Elite (by David Braben and Ian Bell).
"Brain fog - poor memory, difficulty thinking clearly etc"

http://www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Brain_fog_-_poor_memory,_diff...
The official apps get an exemption (some would say unfairly) from the new permissions model.
They should focus on being a customer service company with wings.

United sucks.
The analogy in my mind has always been that of the command line. Most users these days do not use the command line. But many tech people still do, as it is a very effective tool.

Likewise, the address bar - I still hand-type most of the sites I regularly use, because I can type them faster than navigating my various bookmark folders. Which also negates any inspiration to find better bookmarking tools.

I also have the unfortunate job of maintaining SharePoint sites, for which there are many standard URL strings I can throw onto a site that will get me to various admin pages.

I am sure other platforms have similar structures, where hand-typed addresses can manipulate the site in some way to the benefit of those who support it.

And maybe that is where Google will end up - with the address bar being the command-line-equivalent for their web-based OS.
Indelible ink is used worldwide to prevent double voting, while preserving the right to vote and anonymity of voters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_ink
Wow, I would have guessed the exact opposite based upon the places that I've seen this linked from, but there may be some input bias there.
This is a situation where the locally optimal solution is globally suboptimal. You're doomed to a death of a thousand cuts if you play along with patent trolls, even if each cut is comparatively small.

Clearly "let's cooperate and put trolls out of business" isn't happening right now, and other than the possibility that no one has thought of it before now (doubtful) there are two obvious reasons:

- For a given case where a troll sues multiple parties, each party is relying on the other defendants to cooperate, but the lowest risk alternative is to settle early and be done with it. The patent troll knows this, and will try to cut down the number of cooperators until all are forced to settle.

- Since most cases don't offer much resistance and often settle, patent trolls are able to fund an expansion of their operations, and they simultaneously gain credibility ("you'd better settle, Microsoft already did").

So the historical practice of settling with trolls works against companies who would think not to do so, and any group of companies that tries to band together in defense is in a situation where defection ruins the defense, and the incentive to defect starts high and increases with each additional defection.

As Mr. Crutchfield says, it's a shakedown that exploits a peculiarity of the patent system (namely, the combination of the ability to sell patents with the ability for NPEs to bring infringement suits). This is an emergent property of the legal system. The right approach is to change the system.

I doubt I'll have to convince many here that nothing of value would be lost if NPEs were no longer allowed to bring infringement suits for dormant patents.
To activate teh hidden URL bar, users will also have to right-click a tab and select "Hide the toolbar" [sic]

The sources quoted in this article in no way support the conclusion present in the title. As phlux said, other browsers have enabled you to turn off the address bar. Are they trying to "kill the URL" too? No, and neither are Google.

This article comes off as little more than sensationalist (albeit apparently effective) link bait.
I think there is a bigger concern of phishing attacks... Without an address bar its harder to confirm that you are actually visiting X.com
Ed, could you create a post with the 10 principles of the book?
I just feel getting "take-aways" at a glance will help reader absorb information better. Your content is excellent so presenting in one-page summary is always a good thing. I wish more people will read it. It deserves it.
The thing about changes involving a "more modern learning curve and interaction" is that it's replacing something that already worked and users knew how to use.

I'm quite bad for upgrading for upgrading's sake but I can understand why, of all people, traders at Bloomberg didn't want any kind of learning curve on their terminals.

Yes, it's clearly better but users don't always want to change to something that does what they already do in a more modern way.
In order for this to be effective, defendants need to be able to discover other defendants being sued by the particular troll firm for that particular patent. Then the defense can be funded by multiple companies and the defense becomes more formidable.

This almost screams for a website - a central place to facilitate matchmaking between companies under suit by a particular troll.
Agreed. I still hand type most URLs and weird ones I use bookmarks for...but it's more and more rare that I hand type anything more than the basic domain...anything with an actual URL structure I navigate to...
As long as there's a hotkey to reveal the URL field once hidden, I'm all for it.

> The effect is a 30 pixel gain in vertical space and transforms the standard viewing window in Chrome into a full-screen view.

I'm sure it's not for everyone, but those few additional pixels of screen real estate will make a difference, especially on netbooks.

I greatly admire the Chrome team's continued push for greater browser UX.
> When they surprised us with this, they claimed it was because most users didn't realize that they gave up that level of access to their account.

An interesting contention on their part, considering Twitter clients don't exactly hide the fact that they handle direct messages within the apps.
> 2) Amazon provides 3G delivery to (many of) its customers for free. It's not free for Amazon.

At least via the KDP, you as the author pay for that in part because it comes out of the price of your book.
Thanks. That actually turned out to be enough.
Twitter has actively advocated using xAuth in mobile apps and has never said, until yesterday, that they prefer developers using OAuth. Twitter themselves set the precedent with all of their official apps using xAuth.
Finding success as a web developer
oAuth replaced Basic Authentication, not xAuth. xAuth was specifically built to make the oAuth experience nicer for native apps.

xAuth is now having functionality removed with very little warning.
The URL bar serves as the search bar as well, and for most people that's their primary mode of navigation. Even if they don't really care about URLs, I don't see anyone wanting to add another step every time they do a search.
The Mirra chair is more comfortable. And cheaper.
Through an under the table deal with any hedge fund, or any number of other means, an investment bank that owns LinkedIn shares could quite easily insure their profits. That is exactly what these businesses do.
How the Tokyo gay scene taught me to find my niche
IBM may well have such a patent very soon.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2007/0244837.html
I'd rather have a vital asshole, than be missing the vital component altogether.
I don't see any modes!
Exactly my sentiment over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564086:

I wonder how this might impact the overall security? Right now URL bar provides useful information about the domain where you are at. Hiding the URL box could bring back the most brain-dead attacks like hosting a phishing site on a regular HTTP (no cert = no warnings from the browser) and hidden URL cloacks the fact that the URL in fact is "bankofameri.ca".
Free(ing) web games
In Opera:
Menu -> Toolbars -> Uncheck Address Bar.

Where is the Opera article?
Those 11 days also need to include app store approval for iOS and getting all of your users to upgrade to the latest version.
People who 'love' tech corporations are misguided fools
Thanks. I was watching the NBA playoff coverage as I typed that. Clearly it pervaded my subconscious.
False argument. De-individualisation of self is not anonymity. You are misrepresenting Zimbardo. Zimbardo would note that the tracking and surveillance we are talking about is the sort of thing that leads to atrocities.