skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly makes sense that there would be some growing pains, which is the case with any company.

How do you measure how well the startups "do"? Is it just a gut feeling of how far along they've come at this time in the summer?
What I find interesting about Euclid is that he makes no additional effort to communicate what is interesting an important about mathematics. His proofs have an inherent beauty that is self-evident. Indeed, this self-evident quality is a big part of what makes them so beautiful. Each one is like a perfectly constructed plot.

I was introduced to this my Freshman year in college. I remember thinking "this is absolutely amazing - why didn't anybody tell me about this before?" That sense was shared by every one my classmates, who - universally - felt robbed by their 9-12 education.

To this day I remain angry about the utter mediocrity of math education that strips the work of any sense of historical context, the sequence by which one branch emerged from another, the causes of these developments, and the sense of aesthetic delight that comes from discovering what amounts to new and increasingly powerful uses of human reasoning.

At the same time, I felt deeply fortunate that I got the education I did, realizing how far from the norm it is. I also realize that if you DO have to explain why something is important, it's probably because your audience has lost the story's thread. They've stopped seeing the subject from the inside out, and are just going through the motions to pass the test, get the grade, and move on a.s.a.p. The highly fragmented nature of contemporary curriculum design not only increases the chances of this happening, it virtually guarantees disengagement.

The OP is right to observe that people who truly learn do so in spite of the system, not because of it.
Every week or two, I teach myself one - ONE - new Vim technique/keybind/trick. Right now, I'm teaching myself { and } for jumping paragraphs.

In a couple of weeks, that will become muscle memory. Then I pick something new.

I know probably less than 0.1% of Vim, and I still find it better than any other editor I've used. One day I hope to reach 1%.
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Not only that, Facebook serves it's JavaScript from a static content server that is not secured using SSL, or when it is, it's a bad certificate. Combined with Chrome's aggressive insecure script blocking, Facebook is a nightmare to use.

tl;dr: If you think you're secure because Facebook says HTTPS, you're completely wrong. If I'm on your network, I can inject javascript just as happily as if facebook were loading over http.

This has been reported and ignored, as one might guess.
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I know who are serious Etsy users complain that the site changes too frequently... and is confusing

Well, I used the example in the context of velocity, not necessarily in whether the users are happy ;)

The glitches are more of a concern, but that might be a hardware issue for all we know.
Not sure that I understand you. Do you mean that you find it odd to use =>, and thus resort to self=@ for your callbacks?

Also, sometimes I do

$.each lst, (i, item) ->
whatever x

because I always use jQuery in my projects.
The New Big Data
1. On your advertising don't make the mistake of just putting up AdSense -- instead pick the most upscale routes (which may be commuter trains rather than lower class bus) and go after local real estate agents or anybody with an expensive service to sell to an upscale audience.

2. You may want to do a paid app - I paid money for the iTrans NYC app which gives me the times of each subway train in NYC.
Perl will not install if any of its tests fail after it's built. I'm surprised that PHP's test suite isn't run on the user's box after building it, allowing end users to "double check" the release process.
Sounds like plain old incompetence. PHP is slowly becoming even more of a joke due to things like this.
That's what they are selling them as... now.

Have you seen this? http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sa_menu_aiv_piv_t10?ie=UTF8&... Or anything else on the left sidebar under "Instant Video". Or their music plays. Or http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?ie=UTF8&node=2350149... .

There's a lot of things they've been doing over the past year or two that makes a lot of sense in the context of planning to create a blessed Amazon media player. It does not exist yet, but it's hard to imagine it won't.
I once heard a high school science teacher from the Bay Area tell a group of new teachers that teaching English isn't the English teacher's job. Teaching literature is the English teacher's job. Teaching English, such as proper spelling and grammar, is every teacher's job.

As an example, he talked about how he would deduct points from his students if they misspelled a science term or forgot a period. Over time, this reinforced the idea that they need to be concerned with spelling and grammar not just in their English class, but all the time.

Disclaimer: He teaches in a district with a high population of ESL students, so communication is a constant topic for them.
S3 is sloooooow. You'll really need to have cloudfront if you want to do this and still have a good user experience.
Using vidyard on my site and Tumblr blog. Best part is seeing the viewing analytics.
Two big problems that come to mind:

There's no new tablet hardware available, which limits growth on how many new developers can pick up a device and start developing against it.

The current influx of new users are sub-optimal customers compared to other platforms. They're either bargain hunters or gadget geeks that picked it up as a tertiary device.
I've been wondering why open source projects seem to avoid the co-op business structure... imagine if Mozilla regularly distributed some of those google dollars to the entire pool of code contributors. Maybe there are not many serious external source contributions now (though there may well be), but that equation could change in a hurry if there was a meaningful disbursement involved.
OP said this is for personal finance...very rarely would you need more precision than that. Also, 1 cent is the minimum that anything can cost. Do you happen to have any 1/10 cent pieces lying around? That's a financial fiction.
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Flask to teach you about web services in general, and then move on to Django once you have a decent grasp of things.

Flask is still excellent for small to medium, toy sized projects. Weekend hacks thrown together as a demo, for example. Beyond that I've found the lack of structure and third-party applications in Flask to be a hinderance for more mature sites. I'd say that for any given feature I need on a site that isn't extremely specific to the purpose of it, 90% of the time I can find it on django-packages and have it dropped-in and integrated within 10-15 minutes.

I'd venture to guess that for every hour I spend getting something to work that doesn't fall nicely into Django's structure, I save a hundred or so from not having to re-write a mature component that the community has solved ten times over.
Thanks for the explanation! My only concern now is the validity of the meaning of the principal eigenvalue: "λ determines how much influence people share with each other through their connections. If λ is small then the CEO has a lot of influence, if it is large then he has little." It seems to depend on λ>1 or λ<1. Also, has this method been applied in practice, if you know?
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I just have to say thank you so much for this comment!

I do a lot of Japanese text editing and I've also been learning Vim recently, but I had no idea that Vim recognizes Japanese words. Many times I've thought, "It's too bad I can't (effectively) use Vim for Japanese also," but I was just assuming it wouldn't be able to parse the words without spaces.

I just tried it and my mind was blown when w moved forward in completely logical increments without plugins or anything. I still can't believe something like Vim would include a native Japanese parser, but now I think it's time to rethink my workflow...

EDIT: I just tested some more and realized there isn't actually a semantic parser, but it's just treating any grouping of one syllabary (kanji, hiragana, katakana) as a word. Except for some debatable weirdness around conjugated verbs, it actually feels fairly natural given the rhythm of the different characters used in Japanese.
He does it a lot, even the other way around:

"However, its not as simple as putting small amounts [...]"

it's
Thanks (I'm a founder). We're super glad you're getting value!
Steam is primarily a channel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_channel#The_distri...
We're using them as well. We like the ability to queue up videos in the player. Has helped conversions. We also found out that the average attention span was just about 20 seconds on a 90 second vid, so we cut it down to 15 seconds. Cool stuff.
Ah cool, didn't notice that
Errors and Omissions Insurance - Is it necessary?
I'm a contract developer and in my 10 years of developing professionally, I've never once heard of a developer getting sued for an error or omission. You hear about other professionals getting sued all the time like realtors, CPAs or attorneys, but never a developer. I've heard of them getting sued for other contractual things (non-competes) but never because a single developer really screwed a system up.

Am I just living in a sheltered world? I'm about to start a contract that does not explicitly require it and all my work will be done pair programming with a FTE developer and all the code is has unit tests. Is it really worth it for me to drop $1000+ for an insurance policy?
You don't need electricity to preserve food. You can preserve without it. I've done it for years. If you need a fridge, you don't need electricity:

http://lionheart.net/fridge/

50 years ago we had larders full of preserves.

They don't need the infrastructure, commerce and cell phones. They need food, sanitation and a life which doesn't rely on working for another person day in day out. Introducing capitalism to such people is like introducing a cocaine habit so they are easily controlled.
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> The capitalist answer [...]

Would be to ditch patents completely. Rent-seeking and government protectionism are specifically anti-capitalist.

> Perhaps all ideas, not just startup business ideas, will become worthless.

If by worthless, you mean impossible to shackle for money, then yes.

But then, we normally call that 'common knowledge' and it's a good thing.

It's this language we share.
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I might also add that I'm pretty damn confident in my developing skills, which makes me further weary of spending so much money on a policy.
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Testing IE6, 7, 8 and 9 on Mac OS X
You may be stuck with your IDE:

JavaScript: fu<tab><shift-)>
function(){
<cursor>
}

Python: la<tab>:

The remaining characters should be filled in by most modern IDE / IDE plugins.
Get ready for some WTF-ery
Crypt takes an optional salt.
If that value is an MD5 hash it is prefixed with the chars $1$ to tell the underlying crypt(3) function to use Modular Crypt Format[1].

MCF is an ad-hoc cruft because the orginal crypt() is weak.

Anyway guess who did it :

"let's use strlcpy/strlcat instead for these static string copies" - Rasmus
I guess that's Lerdorf himself

Whoever it was also didn't check the return values for error. Strlcat returns the length of the new string which might not be the same as strlen(dst) + strlen(src).

"I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on." - Rasmus Lerdorf

Here's where he broke it : Sun Aug 7 16:10:34 2011 UTC
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/standard/php...

Here's it being fixed : Fri Aug 19 22:49:18 2011 UTC
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/standard/php...

[1] http://packages.python.org/passlib/modular_crypt_format.html
I think with formal education no longer being a gatekeeper or exclusive haven of knowledge, ie. with iTunes U and the Khan Academy etc., to be competitive in a global market, future students will need to work hard on things like mathematics and programming in their teens. Not being numerate and having a high aptitude for problem solving and rapid learning will put you at a disadvantage similar to what being illiterate was like 80 years ago.
Yikes - IE 8 really crashes. Here's the console output from IE9 developer tools when changed into IE8 Standards mode:

SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support property or method 'indexOf'
github-badge.js, line 59 character 7

SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support this property or method
badge.js, line 47 character 7

SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support property or method 'getElementsByClassName'
embed.js?pname=wordpress&pver=2.61, line 35 character 78

SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support property or method 'getElementsByClassName'
embed.js?pname=wordpress&pver=2.61, line 35 character 78

So, hopefully that gives you a starting point. The IE9 developer tools are much improved over previous iterations.

Interestingly enough, when I switched it into IE7 mode, only the first two errors appeared.
While I think it -could- work, no 2 people could authenticate at the same time, even to different access points. That would be a nightmare for conventions.
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What they've achieved so far. It's particularly easy to say right now, because I've just met with most of them to figure out their Demo Day pitches. There are only a handful where we had trouble making a convincing case, and in nearly all of those the reason was that they changed their idea too recently to have significant progress to report yet.
Fun fact: Microsoft's Windows Mobile team always had a reference hardware, which was a below-average phone from previous generation. For example, WM 6 for 600MHz/128 MB devices was dogfooded on 200 MHz/64MB devices, and a lot of Microsoft people really used them as their personal phones.

BTW, that's why some old phones/PDAs are legendary (for example, HTC Tornado) - because several next versions of WM run there flawlessly.
If you're willing to go even further with Haskell you can do some really crazy stuff: http://code.google.com/p/dimensional/wiki/GMExample
I disagree with what you said. I think that web designers can't be just artists. Being an artist takes talent and skill, but to be a designer it takes learning and science.

To get someone to go to your web site, and stay there takes more then just a nice looking page that artists make. It takes the science behind the page that designers create.
Just thought I'd share how a UDID itself is generated:

http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Lockdownd
7-year-old iPhone developer is on a roll
SCTP is at a different layer of the network stack -- it's a replacement for TCP, not for HTTP. As such, it's much more difficult to deploy, as it currently requires a kernel extension in most OSes, and can't traverse most firewalls.

Also, it isn't encrypted. So there's that too.
Vimeo recently released Vimeo Pro (http://vimeo.com/pro) which seems to be addressing a similar market.

Is Vidyard competing with Vimeo or are you addressing a different need?
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You are sceptical that what he is doing good because it leads to overpopulation ?
I think you went a little too far in trying to prove your point. I understand that any of the startups in the OP's list are not paradigm changing. And I also admit that I too would have greater appreciation for someone who would 'dig a well' - that is get dirty at the grass root level of any social movement.
But this response to Bill Gate's immunization drive is either racist or social darwinism or both and I think thats wrong.
Every single child born should be immunized - we as a people have solved a very basic problem of human survival and no one should be denied that. And if you are really skeptical about overpopulation how about we selectively immunize children all over the world from a lottery system ?
If I were nothing, I might be afraid of being something.
But compared to an ipad or a Samsung Tab its terrible. I have one. Its VERY slow, it has no hardware buttons (annoying), no camera, no GPS, heavy for the size, underwhelming battery, etc. Using it as a tablet is a hack. I can get an Iconia for $399 right now that blows it away. Is an extra $150 worth it? Absolutely. Another $100 gets me an iPad2 or a Samsung.

I'm not sure what the magic price point is to get Joe Sixpack off his couch, but its probably around $200-$299. He just won't be happy with a Nook Color. I love this stuff, deal with its issues, and have a lot of patience with Android and I still find it annoying. He will just return it.

Of course, as an ebook its very nice, but an ebook is not a tablet. Half-assed tablets really is hurting Android's tablet image. Pre-Honeycomb junk on slow processors with no hardware buttons shouldn't be recommended.
The original post from Amazon CTO Werner Vogels - http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/08/Jekyll-amazon-s3...
I have to recommend Staticloud for hosting static sites.

http://staticloud.com/
China Caught With Evidence of Cyberwarfare Against U.S.
I'm having no trouble reading it. I'm not a subscriber.

LWN subscribers can create sharable links to articles that are not yet generally available to non-subscribers. People coming in via those links are allowed to see the article. That's what is happening here.
Pretty poor journalism, the article is written as if there were no alternatives to youtube for hosting. There are a couple of dozen companies in the video hosting/serving space from Brightcove to Viddler. Wikipedia even has a "List of video hosting services" page.

What makes this company different ?
It's conceivable that Motorola Mobile might have had GPL-licensed linux code. That story might be playing out differently had Microsoft bought them instead of Google.
I think the jury is still out on whether or not the existential operator is too clever for its own good (in particular when used as part of a chained expression).
The key factor everyone's missing from a loss leader strategy is that the consumables must be a requirement to use the device. Consoles, razors and printers can all sell for a loss because they are worthless without games, blades and ink. You can get by on a tablet (and I bet a majority of non-tech savvy users do) by just using the built-in apps and/or free apps.

If HP went with this strategy with the TouchPad, it would require that a user spend $1000 on apps to make up for the $300 loss on each TouchPad. At an extremely generous $5/app, that's still 200 apps per user. And what happens when the TouchPad 2 comes out? Does HP sell it at a loss, necessitating yet another $1000 to be spent on apps, or do they bump the price up and deal with the negative press?

The best thing HP could have tried would have been to negotiate better component pricing from its suppliers. The problem here would have been that they have no leverage, despite being the world's largest PC manufacturer, since their traditional PC components consist of hard drives and Intel chips, neither of which have any place in the mobile market.
I have no objection to static sites, but it is 2011. Computers are beefy beefy beasts.

Even CMSes with a reputation for being slow will eat almost all conceivable loads for breakfast unless you bork something architecturally like, say, leave Apache KeepAlive on. (That would similarly kill you if you got on the front page of Reddit with a 1 kb static text file, but people remember CMSes as dying to KeepAlive because CMSes are often written in PHP and the way everyone tells you to configure Apache/PHP is broken by design.)

You've got billions of operations per second to play with. Read from database, render template, spit to browser is not really that hard. This is even more true if you can cache things, in which case you're the moral equivalent of running a static site from performance perspectives, with the only difference being whose CPU gets used for the single compile step.
What is TAP?
Software doesn't violate licenses, people do.
Anyone who violates the license of a work loses their license to the work. A more pointed question then is about who violates/loses the license: an individual coder? A corporation/foundation?
It's directly competitive. We've bundled in more features (chaptering, real-time analytics, player customization, etc.) that should make it much more compelling. We're also an easy implementation of YouTube Chromeless + analytics.
this is dumb!
This is why I love Hacker News - although there are other options out there, their feature set (and pricing) pretty much perfectly describes what I was looking for.

I don't know whether this will be the eventual solution vs. ZenCoder (or something similar) and S3, but this certainly seems like a potential option.
If anybody out there have any tips on how to test the interest of an idea with min. investment I would be glad to hear from you. I actually put a bounty on this topic on http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/28835/how-to-find-th...

From this story I have to say that it is difficult to get meaningful conclusions from the google adwords research tool when the idea is very niche and original. Also talking with random ppl on starbucks wouldn't get me anywhere. The splash "coming-soon" site with email sign up for site updates is one of the best tips I've heard so far (read it first on the start-small-stay-small book), but that kinds of requires commitment to start developing, leaves a lot to subjectivity on what conclusions could I reach to if after a month I have X email addresses from interested visitors, and who will come to visit an empty splash site and leave their email anyways?

Anyhow I don't think there is any easy solution for this, but if you can provide tips either in here or in the question they will be welcomed.
In my "better safe than sorry" opinion, $1000 seems like an ok price to pay to be safe. However, if it's not required, and you're covered for general liability, workmans comp, etc, I don't think I'd go for it.

Pairing with a FTE, having good tests, etc all make the situation sound safer, but I'm not sure you should take them into consideration when buying insurance. Shit still happens even if someone is there watching with you.
Though the big hit makes the major returns, doesn't the one small hit per session cover the operating expenses? (Reddit, Zenter, 280North, etc. etc.)

I think this is what the original post might be missing. The top incubator(s) can patiently wait for the big hits, as long as they've got 1-in-20(ish) small hits to keep them in the black.
Programming is essentially not taught in U.S. high schools (it's sometimes available as an elective which most people don't take and it's almost never taught by someone who had any background in software development).

When I tell most people that I'm a computer programmer, I get blank stares because they just don't have any concept of what it entails. It's completely magic to them and I usually end up describing it as analyzing business problems and translating those requirements into software, but they still don't have a clue as to the actual mechanics of programming since they've never been exposed to it in real life. That, or they ask me if I could take a look at their router and then I have to explain "that's not what I do".

It's probably a "grass is always greener" situation, but I'd often enjoy being able to relate my career to average people who share a minimal amount of common understanding, even if it's just to tell me they hate it. I don't expect education to make people like a subject.