skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you say that? The complaint is being made in Europe, not the USA. Europe has a great many laws about what sort of commercial services need to be offered to all, or, once having been offered, under what circumstances those services could be withdrawn. It doesn't make sense to assume that the businesses has a right to transact freely, or to hire freely, or to fire freely.

The English speaking countries (I mean those whose legal codes descend from English Common Law) tend give more freedom-of-maneuver to businesses. The differences are stark regarding the issue of hiring and firing. In a country like the USA or Canada it might make sense to ask something like "Surely Visa and Mastercard have the right to hire whomever they like?" but in a country like Germany the answer would be "Of course not." (Specifically, Germany has a law for any business with more than 50 employees that gives the union a say in who gets hired.)

Regarding the right to transact freely, even the USA has several limits. For instance, you cannot refuse to do business with someone on the basis of race. But the EU has far more regulations of this sort than the USA does.
Indiegogo is a ridiculous rip off of Kickstarter. Good grief... even the design is ripped off.
downloadmultipleappsatonce.com is available. I think the larger issue here is search engine visibility. Although I'm not sure what the big fuss is- he described the site to someone and got a quick answer. Isn't how you usually find lost stuff?
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Next up, a startup reality show!

(I've been watching a lot of MasterChef)
Why in the world should a single branch be expected to hold that kind of cash for withdrawn without notice? There is a* huge* difference between "having the money" and "having the money in cash form on location".
Very interesting. Good to see new things happening in NYC. IF anyone is in NYC area and interested in joining http://Min.us , please drop me a line at john@min.us ^^
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We geeks seem to have a fixation on clever names. I loved the name "Froogle", but Google made a wise move in changing it to "Google Product Search" (much friendlier to its target users).

Speaking of which, Google's own name was a particularly geeky choice. I wonder if their users had a hard time remembering what it was or typing it in back in Google's early days.
I solve this problem by bookmarking the website and putting some keywords, like "automated software install", in the description.
I'd also like to add that F. Scott Fitzgerald is required reading AFTER your teenage years along with Hemingway. He and Hemingway were close friends for a while.
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Huh. This was my idea two years ago (but not in NYC, in Indiana, where costs are way, way lower). Maybe it wasn't such a stupid idea after all.
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If not for loaded terms like 'Bank' and 'Exchange' people would think about this rationally and demand that all services buy comprehensive insurance to cover situations like this. Unfortunately they've been lulled to sleep by things like blanket FDIC coverage that, while it pays out after a crash, pays out in weakened money.

Bitcoins provide a chance for trust to be based on economics (escrow, insurance, audits, etc) not by government fiat. But you can't fall asleep at the wheel and just expect everything to work.
Wow. Makes so much sense I simply have to comment on it to "bump it up" so others can see it.

Reminds me of what Apple did to the smartphone market. While everyone was busy chasing the enterprise market, Apple built a smartphone for the consumer market. Enterprise customers are consumers too and they brought their "consumer" phone to work. Yada yada... Apple disrupts the enterprise smartphone market.
Just in case anyone only skimmed the article and missed it, check out Erik Moller's blog here: http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/

He lightly touches on experiences with porting his game to HTML5.
Hmm perhaps, but were google+ invites completely random? If so, then I probably am wrong and it truly was a technical field test with no marketing gimmicks.

Either way, having a closed invitation has genuinely made me more interested in the product.
I'm not immune to geeky name choices myself. I chose "Debonware" as a website name a few years back. (It was a lame play on words on "debonair" and "software".) I later abandoned it and switched to "Domador Software". That's still a bit iffy, and not as memorable to English speakers as it would be to Spanish speakers. However, I called my main product "Two-Click Reminder", which is mostly descriptive, not very clever, yet should be much easier for users to remember and be able to search for later on.
Most businesses can't "die" suddenly. It's very hard to turn a $850,000,000 business into a $35,000,000 in just a couple of years, unless something truly catastrophic or industry-changing occurs.

The exception to this rule is social internet companies. Social companies are built in a day and can die in a day - we've seen it happen again and again, and Facebook's scale is no protection.

To beat Verizon, you need a network. To beat Google, you need search technology, data, and great engineers. To beat a car company, you need some factories.

But to beat Zuckerburg, all you need it timing and a good strategy, and equivalent engineers. And in this case, Google seems credible on all fronts.

This is the first serious threat to Facebook's existence.
I suggest that there are fewer people in this world that 1) know how to use a search engine, and 2) are incapable of examining their nice silkscreen printed keyboards, than you suspect. There is a world of difference between "uses it" and "capable of figuring out how to use it".
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Yeah, I noticed the same thing. But this is a good starting point.

From here, he could VirtualProtect() some memory and write the equivalent x86 instructions.
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Because it escaped input too early (and did not fully escape), not because auto escaping sql is a bad idea.
That is surprisingly bad. It reminds me of when I first heard that you could get fast sine/cosine approximations with table lookups -- not fully understanding this idea I wrote a program that generated the following (I was in high school, young and naive):

double sin(double x) {
if (x >= 0.00 && x < 0.01) return 0;
if (x >= 0.01 && x < 0.02) return 0.01;
// ...
}
Assange claims to be being blackmailed over the bank docs he has. I wonder if the lawsuit he just filed is related to that in any way.
I always remember it as "night night".. "ni' night"
I has kinda been done: http://www.techstars.org/thefounders/
That's part of the big win of having job abstraction systems, like MapReduce: having the jobs wrapped in higher-level abstractions that make automated profiling and fancy scheduling feasible.

It doesn't even have to be anything that fancy. It could be along the lines of "run the job a hundred times on each type of machine, and measure throughput, latency, and energy usage; then try to allocate jobs to the best kind of processor for it." That shouldn't break anything.
The code actually doesn't need documentation. It's written in a very clear, straight-forward manner that's easy to mentally parse. Very nice!
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Brilliant. Love this - thanks for posting it.
How do you tell what kind of job you have without running it a hundred times?

Or do you mean run small portions of a large job before deciding where to commit the rest?
I've suffered the exact same inability to remember the name Ninite.

After a while, the name finally stuck, but I've had multiple "scramble around on Google trying to find it again" incidents, as the author described.

Though recently, I got myself a Pinboard account, and now I ruthlessly tag and bag any site/tool I might want to find again.
For the benefit of those who don't understand this, have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code where it explains the different ways one can process byte codes.

The key issue here is that the efficiency of dispatch loop determines the performance of a VM.
Already discussed multiple times here, except with links to reputable sites and without the ridiculous hysteria:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2665672

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2553927
I think google is well aware of their roots. They entered a market where there was already market saturation and everyone thought they were going to be crushed "who needs another search engine". Everyone got complacent and as a result google managed to grow and make a better product. Eventually they move into other areas which then allowed them to dominate the web.

Coming from those roots you know full well that its better to crush/compete or acquire companies that can do to you what you did to others many years ago, its safer then thinking your to big for anyone to catchup and become complacent (and far cheaper if you nip it in the bud).

If i was the CEO at google i could name a few companies that would make it hard for me to sleep at night and facebook is high on that list. Look at the trend, buzz - (because they couldn't acquire twitter), originally orkut ( friendster fell through and to atleast have some form of social networking product), google offers (either cause groupon's model wasnt to their liking or groupon reject the offer. Irrespective of this groupon still perceived as a threat) along with countless other startups that made cool things that could have potentially competed with googles flagship products.

I think its simply cause google knows the web game well, they know that any of these startups (and other hot web properties) can bring them down if they are not careful and its better to acquire or if not keep building competing products so they still stay the dominate power.

Now trying to compete with a product such as google+ that could in time be comparable to the currently dominating player is I guess just good for future business :)
That doesn't make GoDaddy a better product... Insane valuations indeed.
Like in every article I evalute like this: Open the website, look for title/text/diagrams proportions (here nearly only text and a lot of stuff around the article that doesn't matter for the article at all). Then I try to get the content of the article with reading headlines, bold/italic text and looking at the diagrams (result: only blabla, no errors). Then I downvalue an article that has 2 pages which only serves the website owner, not the reader at all (and I am the reader). Also I evaluate the article on what I find on page one, no content on page one = never click on page two.

To put all together it was really not an article I want to read. Sorry. If you posted the link because you think the content is readable, maybe rework it in an own blog post next time, if the quality of the original is so low. It helps you twice. First readers will appreciate your delivery much more and second, you will get the traffic/fame and not the source page here.

I hope my detailed analysis of why I can't suggest reading this article or giving you the +1 helped.
A question that I would pose to you is 'Do you already have an internal PR campaign started'?

In other words, how are you keeping your 'targets' up to date with company progress and milestones? By targets I mean prospective investors, board members, and advisors.

Getting into the groove of keeping these people up to date is good practice for understanding what might be relevant from the perspective of an investor. It also puts you on their radar so that when you do get that big TC coverage, that could be the thing that compels them to say 'I'm in'.

On the other hand, skipping the internal pr and going straight for big coverage leads investors to say something like 'You're on my radar now... lets talk' and at that point you are going to have to keep them up to date with your progress anyway as part of the 'dance' that leads to funding.

So my opinion is to start an internal PR campaign keeping prospective stakeholders up to date with progress and milestones and keeping them warm and socialized, then when you get the TC/VB press, it serves to pump up the social proof aspect of how cool your company is.

Then your prospective angels can say 'Oh yea, I've been watching those guys since before the TC spread came out, I knew they were something'. People like to be ahead of the curve.

Hopefully this helps, or hopefully this gives you more questions than answers. Either way, I would like to see this thread not get buried.
I think unseating Facebook is much harder than you think. Not impossible, but very hard.

I'll make a friendly $100 wager with you that Google will not have more active users on Google+ than Facebook has -- as reported by each company, a reputable publication, or measured by a public analytics firm -- 5 years from now.
Humans with strange number of chromosomes. Ah... Takes me back to my undergraduate genetics course. This definitely not as unique as the article makes it sounds, and it's not surprising that he appears normal given the nature of the genetic event.
do you mean the complaint about illegal blocking of their funding by Visa and MasterCard?

How would that be related in any way?
Which, of course, works better if the tool in question isn't usually used to install useful things on a new machine that doesn't yet have useful things on it -- browsers and bookmarks, for example. :-)

FWIW, I have also forgotten "Ninite" on more than one occasion, but I think it's the only tool I routinely use where I have repeatedly forgotten the name. Maybe there is something about that particular name that makes it hard to remember, rather than a general problem with any unusual name?
I agree. Even in the United States the right to engage in commerce is protected by the state in the requirement for all businesses and individual to accept "legal tender". It is strange to argue that this function of state is only intended to govern cash transfers.

More to the point, this is a fairly transparent case where service was denied to a free speech organization without even the allegation of illegal activity on the part of the accusers. I wonder if skeptics would consider it acceptable if payment providers stopped processing donations for the Democratic Party?
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Because I hate direct PDF links, the link includes some explanation (beyond a bare-bones title) of why HN readers might find it interesting, and the discussion on LW clears up some plot points that someone reading the story for the first time might miss or not understand.
It is. But because it's not enshrined in law it'll be enforced by the market.

What skills do you really mean to ask for? If you waste time asking for things you think imply those skills other people will be out-recruiting you.
I am thoroughly confused, and I hope there is some more substantive info behind this. The $10,000 goal is barely a drop in the bucket when it comes to a building with ~20 3-bedroom-sized apartments (even in "East Williamsburg"), and if the $50/day price is anywhere close to the final price, you'd be better off actually living in McKibben and joining one of the better-established co-working spaces.

It's a fun idea, but honestly the co-working trend is pretty crowded in NYC (how many spaces can simultaneously attract quality talent and speakers?), and co-living is already a way of life when moving to NYC, without the dorm-like arrangement of this space.
That isn't a clever name. It's a bad name.
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Pretty interesting.

Incidentally, I discovered that I actually have a balanced whole arm translocation of chromosomes 5 and 16. That is I have one normal 5, one normal 16, and two abnormal chromosomes one with a 5p/16q and one with a 5q/16p. I only found it out when I rotated through a cytogenetics lab and we dropped our own chromosomes for grins. It's not a Robertsonian translocation (doesn't involved acrocentric chromosomes) but it's right through the centromeres of 5 and 16. Pretty weird, but as far as I can tell, totally asymptomatic. I'm a physician (and hobby-python guy) and have 4 completely normal kids.
Your bank can probably set you up for doing international wire transfers using online banking. The fees are usually substantial on both sides of the transaction, however. For smaller jobs, I usually pay foreign freelancers using PayPal.
In case any Mercurial people are reading this: It might be helpful to advertise that release schedule information more prominently on the home and/or download pages of your site.

I've been using Hg for a while on various machines, but I hadn't noticed anything so regular. I just set up a whole load of machines for some colleagues yesterday with the then-latest version, wondering why downloading the installers seemed so slow. I assume with hindsight that I missed the update by a few hours at most, and maybe the connection was weighed down with release-related tasks.

(Oh, and thanks to the dev team for the hard work, BTW!)
Surely restaurants have a right to refuse service to ethnic and religious minorities their owner dislikes?

Part of being in business is the business owner's responsibility to the society that they are a part of. That applies even more so to businesses that handling people's money.
Tangential: a favorite quote.

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." -Hemingway

Hemingway was a known harsh critic of the state. Sure you have freedom of speech and expression, but they have the freedom to keep an eye on you.
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I have an Apple 27 inch cinema display, and with my browser window more or less full screen the animations seem pretty broken (they were fine after I made my browser window smaller and refreshed) -> http://imgur.com/zdrYk

Also, if it helps: running Safari 5.0.5
That just makes the case for switch expressions even stronger. If you had those this would be a damn simple switch statement and it'd provide lots of hints to the compiler for speedups. (All but the modified jump instructions can go in a straight switch statement).

I'm very tempted to add type tagging into this and write a burroughs b5000 emulator. That'd be a neat side project.
> Doubling the size of the input is generally a big
> performance hit that will be much more significant.

Apart from cache locality issues, it's not, really. And for a linear scan like this prefetching does OK.

And yes, Gecko normalizes JSON input to the JS engine.

I don't have numbers, sorry. But yes, UTF-8 would be the other thing to try normalizing to; it has its own benefits and drawbacks when the system is considered as a whole.
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I admittedly have an iPhone bias, but based on anecdotal evidence, I know way too many non-technical people who have Android phones (instead of iPhones) simply because:

1) The iPhone wasn't available on their carrier
2) They received their Android phone at a very low price (or free) due to a carrier promotion
3) They hate Apple, or just want to be different

With the iPhone being available on Verizon and costing as low as $99 on contract, I don't know if Android will continue to have such amazing growth numbers after this year. Given how much money iPhone users spend on apps compared to Android, I don't see them switching to Android any time soon, especially when they're not available on Android.
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Thank you for posting this for the perspective, and it seems like this kind of random curiosity could be a nice mundane reminder of the random beauty of life, but one never knows and perhaps someone will find a genetic variance someday that is really curious and leads to something great!
I'm curious as to how long would it take some open-source enthusiast to come up with an open-source version of Dropbox-like software that you can install on your VPS and sync files through your own server. I mean, that would be awesome, but not too profitable.
> To do that the dependency module IDs must be extracted from the module text via static analysis, but that's fairly easy since module IDs are specified to be string literals. A simple regex is usually good enough, but using one of the many JavaScript parsers is safer.

I did exactly this for browserify, yet another node-based browser-side require() bundling system. Another benefit of this approach is that you can use modules made for node just by require()ing them in your browser-side javascript, so long as your static analysis bundling is recursive and the modules can be `require.resolve()`'d by node.
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I think Google is the only big company where every major new product is met with great enthusiasm in the tech people (bar a few anti-Google fanboys and journalists). Probably my memory fails me, but that is how I recall every major launch by Google.

Also a minor quibble- did any one else notice that if you make more than a few circles, you get multiple scrollbars and thing becomes less pretty and usable.
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The no free lunch theorem has killed all such hopes for me.
Why can't the compiler optimize this?
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I agree totally. Of interest I put on my facebook status I am in Google+ and can invite people in, out of 300 people 7 asked. Make of that what you will.
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What has Facebook done that can be described as 'innovative' since the wall? Their only 2 decent products since then have been Connect and Like, neither of which were innovative (though they were good enough implementations to reach ubiquity). And they've released many products that are just down-right poor; Places is me-too and no one uses it, Messaging is just a mess, Groups is buried and unuseable... Facebook is riding off the network effect. It makes me wonder what exactly is going on there, as they have some of the best engineers in the world; why are they not putting out stellar product after stellar product? They've taken care of scaling already; what are these geniuses doing?
def add_1(x):
return sum([1,x])

Python.

Too simple? I didn't use any of the signs, and it demonstrates knowledge of the python standard library!

EDIT: Whoops, seems the idea of using the sum() function (or operator) has been dismissed elsewhere. Time to study some more languages, I think.
Which is why you should keep your bookmarks in the cloud :)
I think that Google+ may have a chance.

That said, building a business is not just about a simple CRUD application. There is a LOT more that goes into Facebook and its adaption.

There is even more that went into its timing and filling a void that existed in the market. Zuch didn't have many engineers at first, he just found a void and filled it.

I think that there is an opportunity with Circles for G+ to fill a new void, but will it be enough? All the research in the world can't tell you. Only time will tell.
Ah, whoops, I took his human race number. n/m, seems we're on track for computational performance, or even ahead of schedule.

Sweet, I should start seeing human type sentience any day now!