skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, at least, it's a matter of volume-within-the-public-sphere. Oil and business lobby groups are undoubtedly better organized and better funded than most everyone else.

I think the purpose of the quotes is not to demonstrate that the organizations are FUD-dispersers, but that they're all pushing the same message: be skeptical about what you hear about global warming. I'm sure PR people have tons of nice ways of framing what it is that Exxon is doing (I mean, why shouldn't ExxonMobil have the right to advocate for its own interests, right?) FUD is less effective if it's obvious, and it's in every anti-CO2-regulation think-tank's interest to appear as objective as possible, and make it look they're reasonable people who just might have come down on the other side, but, goshdarnit, they just came to a different conclusion because that was the best one any objective rational observer could come to. Also, the Cato institute seems to have more integrity among the libertarian-leaning groups, at least in my eyes, so it's not surprising that at least they would be more measured.

But while were here, let's look at some other recipients, though:
"Cooler heads coalition" deeds: Held a congressional and media briefing entitled "Impacts of Global Warming: Why the Alarmist View is Wrong". Speakers presented arguments against claims that global warming will cause increases in extreme weather events, sea level rise, vector-borne diseases, and species extinction.
Source: Cooler Heads Coalition website 5/04

CEI: 'Published article named "Liberal 'Scientists' Lead Jihad Against Global-Warming Skeptics" No mention of 'jihad' anywhere within the article itself, and no explanation for the reference to a connection between the scientists and jihad in the title of the article. It seems to be a cheap attempt at sensationalism and hate mongering by trying to connect global warming scientists to terrorism.' Source: CEI website, 5/07"
... and 'Warning that the $125 million film fails to employ sound science to back up its depictions, the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute has sent reporters a listing of global-warming skeptics who can be counted on to dispute the film's premise. Source: "Disaster Flick Unleashes a Blizzard of Spin," Scripps Howard News, May 14 2004'

Heritage Foundation: "[C]alls to drastically reduce emissions in sulfur dioxide (SOx), nitrogen oxide (NOx), mercury, and carbon dioxide would jeopardize U.S. energy and national security. ...The Bush administration and Congress need to steadfastly resist alarmist calls to drastically reduce carbon dioxide, a clear, odorless gas and a fundamental nutrient of the planetary food chain. Curbing carbon dioxide would cause a major change in the electricity-generation fuel mix and would adversely affect the nation's energy supply and economic strength."

... I'd say much of this counts as FUD, wouldn't you? And there looks to be about 150 of such organizations, with employees working all day, every day, to make sure that their organization continues to receive funding from businesses to whom a carbon tax is a major threat.
I think that services/messaging will be the "next cool thing" for people doing Rails development.

There's only so much Ruby you can fit into a single process.

If you're afraid that not having ActiveRecord back your forms in the same Ruby process (and are using Rails 3), check out https://github.com/joevandyk/monkey_forms. It'll let you provide a simple layer between your forms and the backend storage mechanism (be it ActiveRecord, a RabbitMQ service, or whatever).
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know... like, um, aaaghh... well... uhhrrmmmm... college kids. And
hipsters. And hipster college kids.
Man, this takes me back. I still have a bunch of IPXs and SS5s in my garage someplace, and if they have an OS at all, they have OpenBSD. I finally turned them off because of the power draw relative to their functionality.
I'm a huge fan of real time analytics so gave Mixpanel a shot just now and after playing around with it for a few minutes removed it from the site right away. I really didn't like the color scheme to start with but it just didn't feel very useful. It just showed a bunch of users with colors as their names rather then giving totals or anything like that.

I use http://woopra.com quite often but give them too much money (keep running over in pageviews and its getting expensive) and was looking for an alternative but this just doesn't feel right for me. Currently trying the other one they mentioned in the article chartbeat and though I'm not sure I like it better then woorpa yet it does seem more useful.

Update: I'm going to still keep using chartbeat until my free trial runs out I think but it seems like Woorpa = chartbeat + mixpanel + more just based on a quick 5 minute use of both chartbeat & mixpanel.

Update2: http://reinvigorate.net looks cool too, also mentioned in article. Will have to try it out as well.
I doubt Minecraft is too upset by this. The free publicity probably gained them many more customers.
I see the value prop though. At parties, weddings, events etc, where you'd likely be in a picture, you'd wanna see what everyone else shot.

Haven't you been to a party where everybody took pics and you couldn't wait till they uploaded the pics on FB or something to see what they shot?
Im much more comfortable if the company Im paying makes money on the hardware I buy and doesn't make money on my data.
I came across this product a few months ago by accident. It's one of those rare things that I want to own simply because it's so futuristic, despite not having the slightest practical utility for me - although since then I've thought of several potential business applications. I have a feeling that this company is about to experience a Nokia-like transformation (Nokia used to be in the dull business of manufacturing paper products before diversifying and deciding to invest in communications technology).
I thought it would be more technical. Instead it was mostly:

The scale was a new challenge to most people back then, we did the best we could - which most of the time was more than good enough - learnt a lot of good lessons and had a great team. In the end, we lost because we focused on advertisers and increasing the companies headcount for the sake of it.
Reducing the log of the keyspace by 4.16%, which is not a particularly interesting measurement.

Reducing a key by 8 bits reduces the key space by 255/256, regardless of key size.
Honestly, I'm not a very photo oriented person, and I despise having my picture taken (I'm always blinking, or have one eye half open or am making a stupid face, or something right when the shutter clicks)... so it's not something that I personally would get much out of.

That said, I think you're right... for some people it does have value. Whether or not it has enough value, and an accompanying business model, to build a successful business, is TBD.
If you give people really big jobs to the point that they’re scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster.

- Mark Pincus (@markpinc)

http://startupquote.com/post/6541649082
I think people are mistakenly equating "poor exection" with "bad idea".

And come on, your pictures don't come out THAT bad: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071126170543/uncyclo...
That doesn't explain why in the UK and France you were able to buy an unlocked phone pretty much from the get-go.
Can I just point out that Airbnb has a far superior name and domain name? I mean Wimdu sounds like a character from Star Wars, while Airbnb has the "bed and breakfast" abbreviation built right into the name.
If the intention was to link to that post, it's way the hell down the page.

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=82#82
It's true that most of them are not in Tel Aviv, but they are far from being spread out - they are almost entirely within the a small section that includes Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Herzeliya, Natanya and the south end of Haifa - I guess that would cover 90% of Israeli startups (as well as established high tech companies), and about 15% of the Israeli population.
This was expected. I like the idea of a proximity-based social network but the problem is that they didn't do a good job presenting it that way and they were overshadowed by a very negative launch to the tune of 40+ million dollars. Set up to fail from the very beginning.
When you focus on needs that don't change, you can change what products you create to meet it, and you will always be in demand.

When you focus on a need that can never be perfectly met, you will always be able to improve, and you will always be in demand.
Sorry, my math was initially off -- the keyspace is reduced to ~99.6%, or a drop of ~0.4%.
There's a fine line between open-mindedness and having a hole in your head.

Seriously though, it's very certain that global climate change of unpredictable magnitude right now is not desirable. The key problem is that we're not prepared to preserve biological diversity.

We're placing our ecosystems under extreme pressure, severely compromising them, sometimes depleting their resources so they will take hundreds or even thousands of years to recover. This results in mass extinctions and near-extinctions (which can be very damaging through genetic bottlenecks, aka inbreeding). For most species, we currently have no adequate technology to preserve single individuals, let alone entire populations, outside their original habitat.

Why does this matter? Because biological diversity is critical to our long-term success in bioengieering, and mind-bogglingly hard to replenish in an accelerated way. We will be able to preserve and resurrect species much sooner than we will be able to mutate them in a natural way to preserve their intraspecies diversity. But so far we can't even do that, so we're losing entire genotypes forever - genotypes that we have no idea how to reconstruct, or what hidden treasures lay in their genomes.

And this is just the biggest problem, not taking into account the philosophical preservationist argument, or the smaller problems like increased risk of global conflicts due to mass displacements, ocean acidification, etc.
Agreed. In fact, he's seemed a bit negatively opinionated lately in general.
Distributed software will work perfectly, provided it works under perfect conditions :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...
> Greylock Partners, that do not have branches in Israel

I'm not sure when that was last updated, but Greylock has had an active Israeli office for more than two years now.
Anyone have Al Gore's email address?
Good point, and the answer is right now we don't really have any users - so updating front-end stuff isn't that big of a deal. However, I may have worded it wrong regarding why the updates were made. I am a brand nazi, so we weren't changing the brand as much as we were fine tuning it and further implementing it into the front pages.
Apple wants you to use their hardware. What you use it for doesn't matter so much as you using it

This is unfortunately less true than it used to be. It matters to Apple if you want to run unapproved software on an iPad, or heaven forbid install Linux on it. I expect these restrictions will be coming to Macs over the next few years.

Google, on the other hand, wants you to use the web

Google wants you to use Google services and see ads that make Google money. They don't especially care whether that means web apps with AdSense ads or native apps with AdMob.
satire != strawman.
My guess is that AWS/Azure is only used for short term storage.
I'm with you. $41MM or no, Pham is still an entrepreneur trying to build something he believes in. In that sense, he's no different than many here. It sucks to leave something you tried so hard at, something you believed in. Some ideas work out, most don't.
We'll have to agree to disagree. URL discovery is still a major problem, it's what made Yahoo as a human-curated index popular back in the 90s. In my admittedly anecdotal experience with seniors, many of them still have difficulty understanding the browser since they are task-oriented, rather than URL-oriented. And apps are task-oriented. URL bookmarks saved to the home screen help but are still prone to problems e.g. website alters the landing page and now the browser returns a 404. No problem for us but a very jarring experience for seniors who don't know URI.

And Gruber's point is that web apps still require internet access to work, albeit with improvements like cached storage in HTML 5. Whereas apps on the mobile device already work and are already taking advantage of sensors onboard the device, but the internet (cloud) makes them even better. For example, Garageband for iOS would be really hard to do as a webapp. Not impossible, but hard.
It might be slightly useful but I can't see myself ever paying for the opportunity to see the photos a few hours before they'd appear on FB. So it might be slightly useful to some people, but that's hardly a business model.
Why every undergrad should intern for a startup at least once.
Obvious advice first:

Get another job. I don't care what a dream this job is. It is ruining your health and making you miserable.

Or: This is your dream job, so move to Amsterdam. Will they not help you get a visa for Amsterdam? Amsterdam is probably awesome. Oh, the beer they have there. Of course, your girlfriend may not want to go to Amsterdam; they may have a poor market for American nurses. And then there's the dog.

If you can't do Amsterdam at least consider the East Coast. 4am to 1pm is a whole different ballgame than midnight to 9.

Having exhausted the obvious advice, I'm not sure what to tell you. You should read a couple of books on sleep science. They will tell you what you probably already know: Humans are designed to have biological clocks that are reset by light, trying to fight this is hard for just about everyone, even the people who insist it doesn't affect them are almost certainly wrong at some level, you pretty clearly aren't one of those people, and if you are unusually sensitive this schedule will totally mess you up. You're doing the right things, with the caffeine and the exercise, but between your obviously impaired mental state [1], your potential incipient depression, and the social isolation it sounds like a recipe for serious ill health.

So I'm back to square one with the advice: Look for another job. They say there are jobs for programmers on the West Coast. Surely there are one or two. Listen to your dog. Every afternoon he tries to tell you: LISTEN CRAZY HUMAN IT IS CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE OUT THERE WE SHOULD BE AWAKE WHAT ARE YOU THINKING I AM NOT SOME KIND OF BAT-DOG. The dog is smart. Dogs are not crazy enough to torture themselves, gulping the Ambien and going on crazy 28-hour benders and living like a mole, over some job six thousand miles away. Dogs live in the now.

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[1] obvious to you, I mean. You sound quite functional and self-aware to me. Imagine how smart you must sound when you're fully awake!
He's making stuff up and stating it authoritatively as if it were simple fact. I'm not sure what else to call it.
Agreed. I think they're both fighting at both fronts, when you consider how Android embraced the app model and even expanded it (widgets etc), and how Apple was the most vocal of the HTML5 advocates...
With them my friend, with them.
No, the upper byte of key should have 256 possible values. It now has one (all zeroes, essentially). Keyspace is reduced to 1/256 of original, a reduction of 255/256.
10 years? It's already happening in some industries.
I worry that you underestimate the complexity of the problem.

Drastically reducing CO2 in the atmosphere by reducing fossil fuel usage AND increasing sequestration by natural systems is by far the easiest and most predictable approach to strive for.

However, even that is proving beyond the abilities of our struggling political leaders.
Huh? Restaurants typically have razor thin margins. And that's including front of house staff who are mostly paid directly by the customer!
Did you even read the article? He was quite obvious and unbiased (except - DUH - on the part where he said "I’m biased"), by acknowledging that both strategies have pros/cons.

Jesus (to quote you), people like you are worse than fanboys.
Very true, indifference would make them stop.
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You give regulars perks, not cash. If you give them a discount on something, it should be a discount that can convert to additional spending.

If you run Groupons often, you're like one of those restaurants that put a 20% off coupon in those coupon magazines.... you're reducing the customer's spending expectations by 20%!
My favorite thing to say to someone who is sick is anything unrelated to their illness. It's the same when a friend loses their parent or anyone close to them. Once I get past the obligatory "let me know if I can do anything" I want to be the friend they can talk about football, food, TV shows, whatever with. They have plenty of people to talk to about their illness or loss. They don't have many people that will let them leave that behind for an hour or two and think about something different.
But pirates are considered cool by a lot of kids.
Proud to see H&F building so much traction and keeping things innovative. - Asher Bond
Ask HN: Anyone know how to find a video based on it's plot?
So here's the situation - while flitting around the net tonight I was reminded of a web video I watched a couple times several years ago. I believe it was on Atom "Films", and I seem to recall it being sponsored by Absolut Vodka. Had a quirky, upbeat instrumental theme. Storyline was that a guy saw a coin, went to pick it up, and died. He gets to the office where they process people to determine where they are going to go, and is told he is a bit short of points. We then see a calamity happen that upsets things in the office, and our protagonist gets back to Earth where he tries to make up the missing number of points. This includes saying good bye to his girlfriend in her sleep, getting a smoothie, doing some dancing, and just as he is about to be dragged off again, flipping the coin he picked up to land in a beggar's cup. We then see he has earned enough points, and as the doors open to put him in to be processed again, they close, and he is whisked off to his reward.

With all that information, WHY can't I find the title of this video? Of course the answer is that the key words for this search are too common. Still, if I can give the synopsis, why can't Google (or someone else), compare that to storylines of videos that were published originally on the web, and give me a short list for me to wade through and/or watch?

If such a thing exists, feel free to point it out to me!
The complainers are getting alot of attention because the company itself is a scam.
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Your reply makes a lot of sense, considering we had a major Amazon outage just a few months ago. Redundancy is the way to go.
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Every startup prides themselves on being the disruptor the industry until "me-too" clones come along and they get pissed because the disruption is short-lived.

Build a good product users want, treat those users well, and you'll be fine.
I don't think this article helps us much at all, although I am sure it was written with good intentions.

I personally don't think of a "computer scientist" as being the kind of person who writes very much code at all. Their main concern is with the mathematical properties of various (potentially theoretical) methods and algorithms of computation. This thinking trickles down over time into language design and (very) occasionally into some new whiz-bang algorithm for doing stuff really fast.

A "programmer" (to me) is someone who writes code for a living. They may not know too much about data structures and the like, but maybe they don't need too if they're using a modern language that makes that kind of thing easy. I don't really know what the difference between a "programmer" and a "developer" is, but my job title has "developer" in it and I spend all day programming so I'm probably allowed to be plenty confused about that :-)
To any small developers being sued by Lodsys: if you set up a defense fund, I promise on my pseudonymous honor to donate at least $20.
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This was my first thought also (although 7 hours later!), it may be interesting to look at skew as well as variance (kurtosis is probably going too far), the difference between diffuse normally distribution and split peaks...

It may even be interesting to do some kind of k-means, would be awesome to see that correlate with demographic...
Wearing a helmet in public would be considered over-the-top whilst LulzSec are generally taking advantage of simply holes (Not considered 'over-the-top') in the websites/servers of multi-million/billion dollar companies.
I wouldn't say that. ARM as splintered as the x86 world, if not more so, with processors implementing some combination of softfp/VFP/NEON/Thumb/Thumb2/ThumbEE/Jazelle, not to mention multiple ABIs.

Yes the x86 camp may have different feature sets but it will be handled like all previous extensions to the architecture: these features will be expected to exist (for single deployment targets), detected via CPUID and code that uses these instructions will be selected appropriately at runtime, or they will be ignored.
You need to understand two things looking at that photo:
- The pizza box design for workstations and servers was really hot in the 90s (btw the ones from NeXT starting the ball moving as I recall)
- I realize that looks like a pile of junk today but back in the day each of those machines was a small fortune (I'm guessing over $10k each)
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The comment by Graham Seiner on the article "Given that the newbie devs all go to Stack Overflow to get questions answered, this makes sense. The real question is what do the older hackers get out of answering all those questions? Seems like that's the secret sauce to a vibrant community." is the real question. Do you have thoughts on what brings older hackers back to teach younger ones?
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They did invest in YC.
But then you only have to get to $110 to break-even.

Regarding margins, it's the gross margins that are high. That's correct that overall profit margins are thin but gross margins are more important when discussing incremental business.
I don't think it's that easy to identify the hackers. Even if you could, which legal jurisdiction applies? What are the legal remedies?

Securing networks is indeed a noble goal, but are we prepared to pay for the infrastructure?

The end result does not justify the means, and we all know how the story goes. More legislation to "prevent" hacking, and everyone suffers under the yoke of over-reaction.
Maybe he has just been around long enough to realise theft when he sees it...

(Yes, I know they didn't get the whole $41m up front.)
Sure, but then I'd actually have to look at the numbers. My solution works without having to download the file! ;)
Hacker challenge: Can you make a keygen?
Only for that byte -- the overall keyspace is 184 bits instead of 192 bits.
It makes sense for Apple to outsource this but I wonder if this is going to limit them down the road. I think Google has a tremendous advantage with their in-house expertise and infrastructure here. My instinct is that it's harder to get that right in the long run than it is to build acceptably user-friendly interfaces. The real connaisseur may continue to prefer Apple UI but Google's good enough for the rest and I won't be surprised if cloud integration becomes the key differentiator down the road.

Sun was right on the money when they claimed that "the network is the computer". They were just a decade too early.