skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, fund cycle considerations are realistic concern as a public market downcycle does shift asset allocation considerations of LPs (a shrinking public pie leaves them over allocated in VC), but that still doesn't explain the behavior.

A.) Funds already earmark follow-on round funds for their investments - so that doesn't change. To the degree that funds DON'T do this entrepreneurs should be VERY wary (essentially VCs are exposing your business to their business risks).... Think about how volatile the stock market can be when it corrects - if a VC is stopping investment based on a market correction that makes them concerned about raising the next iteration of their fund - then what they are essentially saying is that right up to the crash they were more than willing (to use a aviation term) invest past V1 (the point where there is no abort of takeoff)... which is just reckless.

B.) This would only affect a portion of the VC universe at a time given the length of an specific fund's lifecycle, overlaps between funds within a specific firm, etc. And certain funds (e.g,. top decile performers) shouldn't be impacted at all.

3. Sorta validates my point about over reliance on the "splash" or home run, and or pushing risk off to later stage investors to generate return.
The Pros and Cons of Stickers
Everyone loves stickers; it just depends on how they are used.
Apple Threatened to Abandon Intel Chips over Power Consumption
Downvotes, you say? Well, if you took a minute to learn how G+ works and how easy it is to avoid annoyances, then you wouldn't be posting hypothetical and very misguided complaints about your "friends'" accounts in regards to interaction on G+.
Generally speaking yes[1], but not everyone serves as a programmer. This is (at least in theory) the basis for the group the article talks about.

[1] Exempt status is given for the ultra orthodox, arabs[1.1] and people with major physical or mental health issues. There are probably some fringe ways I forgot/don't know about, but these are the major ones.

[1.1] historically the IDF only fought Arab nations/groups, so it does make sense not to make it mandatory to fight your own people (if you view it that way). The fact that they can't volunteer however... It is possible to volunteer to an alternative civil service though (or just not to volunteer, up to the individual)
There was a post about this months ago and I was surprised at the lack of uproar then.

The problem I have isn't with the numbers being there, after all I'm the moron who thought facebook would just get my friend's pictures and update my iphone contacts with them, NOT steal my phone numbers and upload them to their database and use them to recommend friends to me (heavy sarcasm intended) ... no, my problem is with the fact that the link to delete these phone numbers (this page http://www.facebook.com/contact_importer/remove_uploads.php?...) DOESN'T work ... it didn't work months ago and it still doesn't work and they don't give a damn about it, despite numerous complaints.

I had to go in this morning to delete the numbers I didn't want on there by hand (because I was reminded by that chain status message going around)... 150 of them ... one. by. one.
It wasn't annoying at all.

I'm kidding.
I'm PISSED OFF, but that doesn't matter, I'm just one more insignificant customer who will jump ship as soon as something better comes along, but that will never happen right?

Go facebook!
This is not a good book if you want to learn assembly. Instead the author will teach you his own language HLA (High Level Assembly), which is actually more like Pascal with some assembly mixed in. The writing style is also incredibly verbose.

I don't know a good comprehensive book about modern x86 assembly. Can you recommend one?
I blogged on the same issue almost 2 months back:
http://goo.gl/4Sxf6
Of course, it'd create that risk.

You can expect to live for a decade or two at more or less your current lifestyle until near the very end, while with aggressive forms of cancer we're talking more about months of extreme pain and suffering.

If you (a) use protection and (b) are taking medicine as prescribed, however, even the risk of infecting someone else isn't that high. Your viral load remains very low; I remember a study in Switzerland that suggested that two HIV-discordant monogamous partners engaging in anal sex aren't at significant risk of seroconversion even without a condom, if the HIV-positive partner uses his drugs at prescribed and there aren't compounding factors like STDs. Which isn't to say it's a good idea.

It's definitely a trade I'd make in a second, though. Then again, I've seen people waste away from leukemia and not from AIDS, so my perspective is admittedly skewed.

Edited to add: that study is most definitely not a license to have unprotected sex with someone who has HIV. Just to be clear.
Thanks. Just for kicks I guessed at the URL /games and was rewarded with a page beginning, "We're glad you want to play games on Google+. Don't worry, your turn is coming up!" and then saying basically what you said.
Read the details. It has to do with the way GAAP applies to virtual goods. GAAP makes you book the revenue over the "estimated average life" of the good whereas Zynga's non-GAAP measurements book the revenue all up front when the good is sold.
Package design as the #1 aspect of marketing
I am not. Please read, please be a bit more civil. Also, I clarified further on other replies. Thank you.
Programmers, Anthropology, and Making Software More Usable
Are you talking about SFRuby (about the meeting with Rails people)?
Cash on hand has a negative interest rate. That's what inflation is.

If you can get credit at below the rate of inflation it's actually free money.
Apple Patent Filing Could Put Plan and Carrier Changes In Your Pocket
Do you auto follow every spambot that follows you on twitter?
Previous discussions this morning:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2873003 - 4 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2873313 - deleted

This pcmag article is from yesterday, the plane has already taken off. The Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/#!/DARPA_News) points to several updates after launch, and now to this news release (http://go.usa.gov/KLe) which says:

Separation of the vehicle was confirmed by rocket cam and the aircraft
transitioned to Mach 20 aerodynamic flight. This transition represents
a critical knowledge and control point in maneuvering atmospheric
hypersonic flight. More than nine minutes of data was collected before
an anomaly caused loss of signal. Initial indications are that the aircraft
impacted the Pacific Ocean along the planned flight path.

It's supposed to have automatic landing procedures (basically, to crash into the Pacific), so they may still be hoping for a recovery.

Interestingly, Flight 1, which flew in April of last year, also collected 9 minutes of data. Maybe they just have to speed it up so they get where they want to be in less than 9 minutes....
Regarding vi, most vi users use vim, which dates only to 1988, on the Amiga. The unix port of vim is less than 20 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_%28text_editor%29#Release_h...
As long as they offer a REPL I'd be happy
I love me some Dvorak. (Although I have a similar problem: it's really hard to pair program with 1 QWERTY use and 1 Dvorak user.)
Would real soldiers play Call of Duty?
I believe the "real" interest rate on TIPS is fixed - while the nominal rate fluctuates with CPI.

Your second point is, of course, right on. But if we have to borrow $x, better to borrow it now at ~0% than later at (likely) >0% interest.
-Xmx is hurting the usability of Java
Same here. Nothing to lose I guess but I'd estimate ~0% chance of acceptance!
Knowledge of the pattern has nothing to do with it. That 2048^4 figure is what I mean when I say such a password is strong, and such a figure presumes the attacker knows what system I am using.

Recall that since the passphrase is randomly generated, that 2048^4 is the true probability of guessing it--all the elements of the set are live possibilities. To compete on equal footing, a seven character password must also be randomly generated.

A password is not necessarily strong simply because it spans a large character set. "Sp1d3r!", for example, may as well be a dictionary word. Raw length "spiderspiderspider" is not necessarily helpful either. Randomness is what you need.
I don't think your conclusion about society's values necessarily follows. In a society that valued biomed more, you'd have to pay the same candidate a higher salary to get them to work in advertising.
> Someone says "linked list" when he means "double linked list". How devious!

Someone patented compression. http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4558302

Someone patented search engines. http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6285999

Someone patented public-key cryptography. http://www.google.com/patents?vid=4405829

Obviously none of those statements are misleading in any way.

> World conspiracy!

Just because someone doesn't hold the same viewpoint as you doesn't mean they're wearing a tinfoil hat. Get over yourself.
No one reads them. Nobody reads patents.

I do. I do with some regularity, and each time I come away more convinced that the majority of the press and discussion on the subject is complete garbage precisely because people don't bother to read them.

You give the PageRank example, missing though that there was work from IBM that was very similar.

There was a lot of similar work. There is always similar work. You'll find examples of it in the references section of the patent that nobody reads. Including:

'Jon M. Kleinberg, "Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment," 1998, Proc. Of the 9.sup.th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, pp. 668-677.'
The Accidental Institution
Not yet. But it'll be in Haskell anyhow, so you're probably not actually interested :)

There are other such libraries for other languages, poke around. See for instance http://htmlpurifier.org/ .
I know many hair stylists, and since they only rent seats usually at places, they are pretty familiar with their clients. They already friend on facebook, follow on twitter, or have email addresses and phone numbers.

Agree with the reviews. Also its sort of hard to trust the reviews from people that chose to follow you, meaning they already have a good relationship with the provider. This already puts their review into question.
You are making the same error that led to the popularity of passwords based on a common word and some substitutions.

Your calculation is for 11 characters, each chosen completely at random out of 63 symbols. People don't chose a password that way - we typically can't generate or remember random symbols.

XKCD's calculation is for a common word + common symbol substitutions and additions: log2(#words) + log2(#capitalization options) + log2(#substitution options) + ...
Startup School changed my life.

I went to Startup School 2008 during my second year at Stanford. I had never heard of YCombinator, but a friend involved with the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) had encouraged me to check it out because it was on campus. After hearing inspiring talks from PG, PB, SamA, DHH and the other speakers and meeting lots of founders, I joined BASES, where I met and started working with Ricky. I knew pretty soon that I wanted to start a company with him.

Fast forward a year to Startup school 2009: Ricky and I had been working on a few ideas while in school and met Mark, who had just come back to Stanford after dropping out to work on a startup. I ended up working with Mark on a class project a few months later before the three of us formed a company and were fortunate enough to be part of the amazing Summer 2010 batch of YC.

Attending Startup School last year was surreal - here I was right out of school working on my own company surrounded by an amazing community of entrepreneurs. And the energy at Startup School was STILL overwhelming, even after having gone twice and been through YC. There aren't many other places on the planet where you find several hundred smart, super hard-working, energetic people who firmly believe they can build the next Google packed into a single auditorium.
I'm a college student who doesn't have much money and thus may not have the funds to take the trip. Should I not even apply or should I apply regardless?
The problem I discovered is the iPad is very contextual to the user. It sort of adapts to your style way more than any othe device I've ever used. I use mine completely different to friends and my parents.

I also found I only consume media on media, I don't produce anything even tough I have assorts of apps for that reason. If you buy an Apple TV it also becomes an awesome sharing device.

My favourite consumption apps are:

- Reeder

- Zite

- Flipboard (I personally think this is overrated but everyone else seems to love it)

Some free magazines:

- Entrepreneur magazine

- Hacker news magazine

- Narrative Magazine

Plus I have a bunch of games I cycle through.

If you have a mac try and get apps that sync up to things you already use so you can have random thoughts on the go, and refine them later.

So for work I use:

- evernote

- omnigraffle

- carbon fin outliner

- wacom bamboo is the best hand writing app I've tried. The rest are utter rubbish.

- remote desktop

I'll update if I think of anymore (haven't got my iPad here ATM).
I've been rereading the Dune novels (because I never did read the last one and it's been a while). Since I have read them before, but it's been so long, I've been skipping ahead at times to read the final chapters (something I never do with other books). I've found that refreshing my memory of how it ends improves my enjoyment of the books quite a bit, as I can really appreciate the Herbert's craft in getting there.

Similar to ancient Greek plays and epics, where everyone knows the story, it allows me to focus on the performance and the details of foreshadowing, hinting, and flow.
The Art of Assembly is, itself, an immensely useful and dated piece of work. I remember flipping through this years ago. Certainly worth the read, though it's likely not worth pouring one's self into too far, as it isn't so easily applicable these days.
> What is more likely than Google+ displacing Facebook is that it will prevent Facebook from making Google irrelevant (social search is a relatively uncharted frontier).

Totally true, it also makes Facebook play a defensive game instead of going after search as they were going to.
There will be some form of event in the evening. We just haven't worked out the details yet.
More or less nothing. They rely on the applicant to disclose any prior art. Disagreements about patentability are a matter for the courts, in the USPTO's view.

The only solution is to defund them and shut them down.
This doesn't sound like pair programming to me - it just sounds like a mandatory code review by just one (sometimes two) people.

But what the hell, it's got an acronym - someone pump out some certification documents and let's make some cash selling this methodology to project managers who are eager to paradigm outside the box.
No, because the client is not telling the server the player's name. The server already knows, and sends that info to the client. You can definitely not ask for a name, but that would be a moot point, because it wouldn't be very useful at all.

If you want to know who is there, you have to request the name packet.
not in the US, AFAIK, but Brazil broke an AIDS treatment patent license to generically deliver drugs to it's poor:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18490388/ns/health-aids/t/brazil...

Apparently when the negotiations broke down (Brazil wanted the same rate as Thailand but Merck wanted to charge them more), Brazil declared sovereign property rights in the good of it's citizens.
You have a good deal of time before the deadline, so you can wait to apply till you're more certain you can come.
There is a much newer version of this book that uses HLA.

http://nostarch.com/assembly2.htm
New Clues Related to iPhone 5 Release Date
I smirked at the headline when I saw it and I came here to say the same thing ... Every release they promise that firefox will use less memory ... hasn't happened yet AFAIK.
Thanks for your comments. The pharma industry has a lousy public perception, some of which is quite justified, so it can be hard to separate the reality from the perception.

There is also a practical reason why I can assure you that people are usually swinging for the fences, especially in cancer: most of the time you don't even know if a drug will work, let alone work well. There is no way to predict (with the obvious exception of vaccines which owing to biology are destined to be cures from the beginning) what your drug will really do until it hits the clinic. So there isn't even a mechanism to offer people an incentive to develop a drug someone has to take over and over vs. a cure, especially in cancer. Certainly, there are chronic conditions like diabetes where there is no real "cure" on the horizon because of the biology of the situation. But in the case of cancer, you almost have to try for a total success because you know you're likely to get far, far less than that when you hit the clinic. Because of this problem, one of the bigger issues in pharma is that flawed projects are allowed to linger long after they should have just been scrapped because powerful scientists believed they would work and convinced management to keep funding them despite some of their issues.
The paper addresses (to a small extent) the problem of jamming spread-spectrum digital radio. Ideally, you want to focus your jamming effort on as small a window as possible, in order to ensure you drown out the target source, but if you're channel-hopping[1,2], that's a much wider band you have to saturate.

The sender and receiver (eventually) synchronise, and so they know where they're going to hop next, and can filter tightly around that channel.

The biggest problems with this system seems to be:

1) trying to retrofit digital & encrypted comms into currently used bands, requiring all sorts of horrible compromises to make it work.

2) Real-time voice (along with those compromises, and 'intelligibility-driven error correction') requires them to use a less capable encryption method. Accepting degraded voice signals means they can't reliably use MAC
to avoid replay attacks.

3) User training and device usability are terrible. Combined with cargo-cult security ideas (must change keys fast good!) are worse.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Frequency-hop...
[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Direct-sequen...
Berlin wall's 50 years
Bored at work so I thought I'd try this one: "First non-repeated character in a string":

char firstNonRepeatedChar(string s){

HashTable H;

foreach(char c in s) H[c]++;

foreach(char c in s) if(H[c] == 1) return c;
}
The problems he’s discussing arise from the fact that litigation is expensive, and those with lots of legal resources can use their superior position to assert their will against those who can’t afford (or may not be willing) to defend themselves. That’s a valid issue, but a broader one that exists outside the context of patents. It’s not a valid argument against the patent system itself. A powerful chemical company that poisons a town’s water table can do precisely the same thing. Does that mean we should outlaw chemical companies? No, of course not. His argument is only valid in the context of arguing for wider reforms to the legal process in general that make this sort of abuse less feasible. And that’s a different discussion entirely.

This is precisely the point the other article today by Nilay Patel—which was so lambasted here—was trying to make: the arguments being made about patents don’t necessarily point to tearing down the system, but simply fixing the things that are wrong.
So according to this chart, Zynga's revenue growth is linear, but profits are flat. Also, Zynga's revenue is non-GAAP (but not hiding material costs like Groupon's ACSOI).
I'm a little unclear on what this project offers, vis-a-vis 1950s-era ICBMs. Is it considered OK to use in warfare because it doesn't look like a missile and doesn't carry nukes?
For a duplicate post, it's sure been on the FrontPage for a long time.
I will definitely make a note about this, but the main reason for your question:

Data saving. How many locations at different times do you want to save? Do you save every second for the last 30 seconds? What is a comparable distance? On what events does the check trigger?

Even more of a concern: What if your algorithm breaks for a border case and causes a disconnect or ban? How do you deal with the consequences? Even more important than catching cheaters, is to make sure everything flows smoothly.

For RO in particular, there is a random-teleport skill/item, which makes your description impossible. As for attack speed hacks... there's a lot of variations. One simple variation is a memory edit with T-Search, since attack speed restrictions are almost always client-side, due to computation tradeoff.
That page concludes with:

"Had the latest test flight gone to plan, the Falcon HTV-2 would have separated from its rocket high above the atmosphere and entered a steep dive before levelling out and performing a series of subtle manoeuvres to test its aerodynamic performance. At the end of the flight the plane would have rolled upside down and steered a graceful arc into the ocean."

The official press release at http://go.usa.gov/KLe says that they confirmed separation and that they achieved high-speed aerodynamic flight, not that they "would have separated". They lost contact 9 minutes into the aerodynamic tests, and the plane (if you can call it that, the CNN article calls it a "triangular wedge of zoom" which seems more appropriate) went down sometime after that.
...unless maybe you want to write highly-optimized code for special applications, or maybe to write compiler code generators. Assembly language knowledge is still useful otherwise to understand what the machine really does.
My understanding is that the patent office checks if the patent is substantially similar to previous patents. A non-novel idea can easily get through if it is phrased in a different way or never appeared in an earlier patent.

I do not feel this is a problem. A patent just provides a legal presumption that you are allowed to file a lawsuit. Some people argue that this enables patent trolls, but patent trolls exist because con artists will always try to ride on the coattails of success. My view is that low standards for patentability provides protection against patent trolls: a company can patent early and often in the years before they hit it big and start attracting con men. Easy patentability also deepens the pool of well-documented prior art, providing more clubs with which to beat up patent trolls.
I think they misunderstood a great deal about why smoking is "cool".

Today it's considered cool to try and be healthier. To some extend at least. People are well aware that smoking isn't healthy but it still has appeal because it's somewhat "rebellious" and "nonchalant".
I'm very convinced you can "re-invent" smoking with a healthier alternative but I don't see this being it at all.
Mainly because it reeks of desperation which is very much opposite of cool as well as rebellious and nonchalant. That product with it's smoking stick, the pods and the fuel is just way too mechanic. Going through the steps of that product "just" to smoke seems silly. It's not even like those who roll their own cigarettes. They at least have the image of being quality-concerned or someone who prefers handcrafted things.
Twitter teams up with The Weather Channel
Would be nice if they concentrated on iterating faster on Google+, haven't really seen any movement (in terms of features) since they launched.