skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't become the person I am today as a result of anyone else's effort but my own. No one took my exams for me, nor did they read my textbooks and do the mental work of integrating facts and diagrams and the like. No one made me love my wife, or decide to get married. No one else decided that I would learn or do anything that did me any good.

Why do you assume I was a well-off kid, or that I had great a social support network? There were a couple of times (early on) when my parents were flat-out broke. I didn't wear new clothes to school until I was thirteen.

Even the poor inner city kid has free choice. It is simply not true that all people will deterministically fail given the same adverse circumstances. Why did Michael Faraday rise to become a prominent physicist and chemist, despite his poor background and total lack of social support? At adulthood, despite whatever adverse conditions endured previously, all people are responsible for their own lives (excepting people who truly cannot help it, i.e., those with grave mental illnesses).
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Seconding Thomas' advice. You could even write against the API of one of the existing prediction markets (thus inheriting their user base) and try to add, e.g., options to it. That will give you plenty of holes to shoot in your foot without ever causing more damage than wiping out the geek cred of someone who tried to prop trade using the knowledge that there are unlikely to be two next US presidents.

P.S. I used to participate on a prediction market. Was winning the Internet after going all in on three presidential elections. Got wiped out by JPY breaking a hundred two years too late for my contracts to pay. Did not jump out window.
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My question is why is Opentable stock down so much on this news? How serious is Google about getting into reservations? If this is anything like what they did in NFC payments space with MasterCard, they'll likely just try and ride Opentable's rails instead of trying to build out their own. Maybe do some sort of data share agreement to better their idea of how successfully they are able to close the search/discovery to successful reservation loop.

I just cant imagine Google wanting to go out to each of these restaurants themselves...a very difficult proposition, even with Zagat's team.
I am going to dissent on this one.

This buy is something Yahoo or AOL would do. Google didn't buy a technology or a business model. It bought content, an address book, and a logo. Very un-Google.

If Google's technology isn't good to compete with Yelp and Groupon, what makes it think it will be any better after buying up someone else's operation that can't compete either.

To quote Vic Gundotra, 'Two turkeys do not make an Eagle'
An investor/observer doesn't have to solve a company's problems, or even know all the details of its operations. A company is an abstraction. You can evaluate it based on its team, and its market power/sustainable-advantage. Indeed, we should expect the company management understands many things we outsiders do not – or else they're in the wrong jobs.

With Facebook's attentional domination and network-effects, even idiots would be able to build a $20-30B business. Facebook's management are not idiots. They understand the giant success drivers of Google and others in the network era, as well as the risks from upstarts and changing tastes.
I never had security in mind when developing this. I just did it for fun and to prove it was possible after I had the idea. It was never intended to go that popular.

I will incorporate all fixes and address all issues raised in the next few days.
"Some of the most free-thinking people in the United States are in the US Army."

This statement brought to you by the 20+ billion dollars the military spends each year on propaganda and PR.
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Could you elaborate on the weirdness issue? I'm not a designer but but would like to learn about the flaws these may have. The active state doesn't look so good though, agreed.
Yes, I've had something stolen. But this isn't Theft News, it's Hacker News. What started as posts about using cool new technology have become "I installed it too!"

As for your code "suddenly vanishing", the theft of a laptop should at most cost you the cost of the machine and a couple hours of work. Encryption should prevent a thief from accessing your data and backups should prevent you from actually losing anything. It sucks to have something stolen, but best practices take it from "I just lost everything" to "I guess I need to find a new box."

Edit: Those same best practices will prevent you from losing your code when your hard drive dies, or you spill coffee on your laptop.
Or possibly it's just how he found out about this person/company. (That's not an "or possibly" as in "or you're an idiot, here's the solution", it's a genuine "or possibly".)
One of the cardinal rules of software development I've decided over the years is to seek to reduce complexity and reduce risk. With respect to entrepreneurship I go in with a similar philosophy. Therefore as a general rule I think it's wise to avoid outside investment. Because it exposes you to unnecessary additional complexity, risk and sleaze. If you can start and grow a business without it, strongly prefer to do so.

* Note that I speak in general terms. I love YC and trust PG so they would be an exceptional case where it can be a clear net win.
Just to clarify - I was talking about a pretty standard VC investment, not PE. Serves me right for not reading the article :-)
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You are consistently drawing questionable conclusions from N=1 samples here, and in your follow up comments.
Global variables are bad... mostly
> Any (ex) CEO that doesn't know why they got fired by someone reading a lawyer's script obviously doesn't have a clue how things work.

I want to be clear, here: you're telling me that it is your position that someone who was CEO of Autodesk – not exactly a shareware developer or anything – served in that role for 14 years and oversaw its rise to dominance over its space... doesn't "have a clue" how things work?

Is it possible that she simply expected a little better than a phone call, given that she's the CEO of the company?

> The personal insult during the phone call really shows her character.

It does. It shows me she's a straight talker and the sort of person who expects the same from others. I like those kinds of people – with them, I always know where I stand. Fuck the phonies.
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The teacher-student-parent relationship isn't adversarial. How is it not on some level? You get called to come down to the school. Little Billy has been fighting again. You get there the teacher claims your son was bullying Joe. Billy says Joe was bullying him and he was just defending himself and that the teacher was writing on the chalk board with this back turned so he didn't see anything.
It sounds like Ulukaya is the technical founder:

"I came from a family of farmers who made cheese and yogurt..."

His dad was urging him to make cheese as early as 1998, and he did in fact start doing that a few years later.
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I've recreated a simple proof of concept here: http://taskthere.com/viewsource/

It works in Firefox 6, not sure about any other browsers. If you want to see the actual source, disable JavaScript (or use Chrome or curl).
Duncan Riley went out on a bad note from Techcrunch. While he may be accurate with this post, I'd be careful b/c he has always had a bad taste about leaving Techcrunch. Regardless, there's no doubt that there are "Techcrunch friends" and "non-Techcrunch friends".
My experience with Lisp is minimal, and I'm a Vim guy, so I may be totally wrong about this, but...

Doen't nearly all serious Lisp developers use Emacs? And doesn't Emacs have piles of shortcuts for wrapping/unwrapping/manipulating s-expressions? I'd imagine that the resulting number of parens is wildly different than the number originally typed.

Can any experienced Lispers comment on this? Where can I find a cheat sheet of such shortcuts?
High-protein, low carb and delicious (creamy texture and flavor) at the same time. I alternate between Chobani, Fage and a couple other brands, but the nutritional profile is about the same for all of them.

I prefer to take my yogurt plain and mix in my own jams, rather than the fruit on the bottom variants. That gives me more variety than the default flavors provided and lets me control the amount that goes in.
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This will be interesting. Given Google's love for Python, I'm excited to see how they feel they could improve on that.

Although, I wonder if the language may be more suited to Google's needs (which are pretty specific) than the general web programming world.
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Well, if you can't afford private doctors or lawyers, you get what the government provides when you are in dire need of doctor or lawyer services. You're stuck with what the state or other overseeing entity is willing to provide. If you want someone better, you pay for it personally.

Get arrested, can't afford your own lawyer, you get one for free provided by the state. You don't get to choose.
Get really sick and rushed to the hospital, you get a doctor for free provided by the state or hospital. You don't get to choose.
Car breaks, tough shit. State's not going to pay to fix it. Ride the government subsided bus.
Lose your job, get welfare and food stamps. Go find another one yourself.

Same goes for education. Don't like your kid's teacher or school, go pay for a private school or tutor or home school. That's how everything in life is. If you don't like what's provided by your government for "free," go pay for your own.

"Free" as in you are required to pay taxes, it's compulsory. Same way you pay for public defenders for those who can't afford (or don't want) to hire their own lawyers, you will pay for public schools for those who can't afford (or don't want) private ones.

Deal with it.
> a Smalltalk-ish interpreted lang for Web programming

In what practical sense would that differ from JS?
My aunt is a teacher and these examples are bang on. However the one thing the article doesn't touch on are how terrified teachers are to make any physical contact with students, regardless of the situation.

All it takes is one parent to accuse them of sexual harassment and their careers are forever tainted. Not saying all contact is fair game, but a teacher putting their arm around a child who has been hurt should not be damaging to their career. The power balance is entirely out of whack.
(I'm an Ocado-loving, London native transplanted to SF for the last 6 years)

"What does this give me over Ocado (or their many many many competitors - I mean, Asda deliver?!)"

We have NOTHING like Ocado (or Waitrose, frankly) here in the US. I so wish we did. Grocery delivery is rare in general here too.

The UK is already a very mature, maybe even saturated, market for online shopping so something like Ernies would probably never appeal. It's one of the few examples where UK and rest of Europe is way way ahead of the US.

I could write a book on grocery retail in the US vs UK but a lot of it comes down to the fact that grocery stores don't make the same margins that they do in the UK.

Ocado works because Waitrose has some of the highest margins on their food because they sell premium high-quality brands and don't compete on price. Then there is a delivery fee on top of that. There are enough people in the UK, despite economic issues, that pay for premium groceries at Waitrose and want it delivered by Ocado (perhaps because they don't have a car).

Groceries in the US are way way cheaper, perhaps as much as 50% and the margins are lower. To give you a comparison, the premium grocery chain Whole Foods (which I think we now have a few in London) compares to Sainsburys on price yet the quality is better. A grocery store with price point of Waitrose or Marks & Spencer wouldn't survive in the US because Americans won't spend that kind of money on groceries.

Safeway here in San Francisco will offer home-delivery, but I think it's not something they do in their stores outside of cities, and the quality of the food is awful.

But delivery has never been popular in American because car ownership is more common then in the UK - which is probably why Ernies are choosing not to tackle it.

Anyone reading this and not familiar with Ocado should check it out - you'll be amazed at the prices but the quality and service is exceptional.
As someone who is also from a part of the world which has "real" yogurt, I've also always thought American yogurt is horrible. But it never occurred to me there was a market for more expensive but good yogurt in the US! Ironically, I myself would be one of the buyers!

I guess the lesson here is trust hard data, not your assumptions.
If I'm understanding you correctly (and my apologies if I'm not), this isn't really quite the same thing - it sounds like a remote, encrypted filesystem.

Dropbox and lipsync are file-syncing mechanisms, not filesystems. So, if you're offline, you can continue to work - your changes will be pushed to the server next time you're online.
I think it depends what you're measuring and how different your key metrics are. I do a number of bespoke projects with clients looking to better understand they was different aspects- like the help desk, sales, and training sections- impact on each other. That's tough to find "off the shelf".
It's a little hilarious to want to make sure an article about TC and Arrington isn't biased. If what he says here is true--and I'm certainly inclined to believe it given the flagrantly enjoyed conflicts of interest, lawsuits borne from shady dealing, opportunism (moving residence to Seattle), and egomania--that alone would be just cause to depart, and probably on less-than-friendly terms.

Thinking about Arrington reminds me of the story arc on House where the cop goes hard after him for illegal narcotics. At one point he shows up with a warrant at House's residence and finds bags full of Vicodin. He tells House something along the lines of, "Egotistical people think they're smarter than everyone else. I've already seen you willing to skirt the rules. It's reasonable to conclude you skirt other rules too, like writing your own prescriptions."

Given the public, documented things we know about TC and Arrington, it would beggar belief that he did not use his power to trade favors and influence.
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Hmm, I can't reproduce what he claims by only looking at the cached version without images and source code.

I especially don't understand this part:

When you use document.write outside of a script tag embedded inline in
the page [...]

What is "outside of a script tag embedded inline in the page" supposed to mean?
Dannon Plain Yogurt only has two ingredients: Milk and Yogurt Cultures
Friends voting each other up.
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What would a programming language look like if it was optimized so its reserved keywords used mostly home row letters (and, in Unix tradition, preferably alternated left/right hands) and operators without shifting? This would be tough, since the home row only has one vowel: a.
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The point I am trying to make is that all "productivity aids" have a learning curve and will require time spent "messing around" before they confer any benefit.

In my experience, once you understand how git works it gets out of your way entirely.
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I like Fage, but its packaging is probably a bit cryptic/dull if you don't already know about Greek yogurt and want it. Chobani looks more inviting and stylish, with more flavored versions and livelier images.
Google's 3rd (of 104) acquisitions was Blogger, 8 years ago. This is hardly a new trend.
No more web languages, I can't keep up!
And why should it? The CPU and the GPU are entirely different beasts.
I didn't think much of the article at all. Looks like the HN consensus agrees with me: mine's the top-rated response, and hopeless' comment agreeing with me ranks above yours.

> Is it really the case that TechCrunch is so obviously a good thing for startups that the only reason Fortune could be criticizing it is out of professional rivalry?

Is it really the case that you infer this from my comment? I'm compelled to ask you to list ten other reasons I might not be impressed with the article.
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If you haven't met anyone with an experience somewhat like mine, ask around. My story isn't the common case, but I'm not the only one.

At any rate, what does that matter? Why should the interests of one child (or adult) necessarily conflict with that of any other, or group of them? Is the goal that everyone should flourish the most from wherever they start, or is it that they should end up with the most identical result possible, regardless of the individuals?

Edit: remember that a statistical approach is only valid in a certain context. For example, you only need evidence that a judge has taken bribes from the Mafia once to know that he's corrupt. There are other contexts where statistics are vital (in the special sciences, for example - I think of quantum probability, or statistical thermodynamics), but I don't believe that statistics properly enter into the fundamental science of philosophy and its branches (Plato, so far as I am aware, did not rely on statistical concepts to discover that there's such a thing as metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and then politics). If statistics were a fundamental science (intellectually speaking), on what basis could we justify its correct uses vs. incorrect ones?
Just to drive the point home, Clojure's core.clj is 6,500+ lines of Lisp, funny enough, parens do not dominate - http://twitpic.com/6hwt28/full.
Now see, I did what you did and was down voted into oblivion. I posed an insensitive question prefaced with a disclaimer. Instead of a polite answer, I got what you got, a bunch of trolls.
Somewhere in Google is a list of search categories that is sortable by search volume and adwords revenue. While the anti-trust implications probably are scary to them, they are chipping away at that list.

Weather search? Google gives you weather info right in the SERP. Stock search? Same thing. News search? Hrm.

Restaurant search? Why hand all of the revenue from these search results to advertisers and only take a slice of it for the adwords (or NONE from organic results)?

If a lot of people search for it and companies are making money, Google is at least discussing whether they should own the content/service at the top of the search results.
Wait what was GO suppose to be used for?
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I love straight talkers.

Insults like that are not 'straight talk'. She could easily have said, "I expected better than this." It's just as straight without the personal insult.

Edit: I keep thinking about this and getting more incensed. Being abusive is not straight talking. There's no need to attack him personally. Ever. She can say that the entire company has let her down... But she can't attack him personally. Abuse like this is simply not acceptable.

And a CEO should know better.
What that means (though is not how I would word it) is a document.write that is called asynchronously. The post uses an ajax request to do it but I've recreated it here [1] like this:

setTimeout(function() {
document.write('foo');
document.close();
}, 1);

[1] http://taskthere.com/viewsource/
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Go was initially intended as a systems language, but has been expanded into a more general purpose language.
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Forgive me but one of the main benefits I saw with Ocado when I lived in the UK was that deliveries were fulfilled from a Waitrose distribution center, rather than a store.

That means fresher food then what is available on Waitrose's shelves. For people who are not primarily cost-sensitive (ie Ocado/Waitrose shoppers) that's a significant advantage.

In fact I don't see any advantage with a store-fulfilled solution - the overheads are greater because the good had to be delivered from the distribution center to the store and put on the shelves, and there is a risk that the store picker will give me food with the shortest sell-by date to encourage stock rotation (Sainsburys do that all the time).

I can see in your instance that you are trying to offer fulfillment from independent retailers and so I guess your USP is that they are offering more unique food I can't get elsewhere - but I think that's a tough sell to make it worth my while to buy from you when most of my needs can be met from Waitrose via Ocado.
It would be something other than JS... ;-)

Your point is well taken; I know some who hate JS because, well, it's JS. I doubt Google is trying to cater to THAT crowd as such, but if Gilad Bracha is involved in it I think it will at least be worth looking at.
I'm expecting Zagat blurbs all over GMaps, and the emergence of black-hat 'ZEO'.
I saw his inspiring talk at HOPE, too. What I remember most was his passion. He actually got choked up while talking about Project Gutenberg. It was moving, and it reminded me how much you can accomplish when you love your work.
Profit is what you have after paying for costs, including staff.
A brand new financial trading platform written by a lone teenager in China? Here let me give you lots of my money! Not. :-)

Somewhat tongue in cheek. I wish you luck and admire your effort, but advise you to be humble about your skills and pay massive attention to the security aspects of your creation, and certainly engage outside experts who have much more experience in this area. Otherwise you are likely heading to a big public security/financial mishap.
Love the project, just one question: why $25 and not $95? Seems to me you're leaving $70 on the table for no apparent reason.
Cool. I don't know that I'd call them sensible in general, though, even if they are sensible for you. Disabling disk image verification permanently, for instance, is probably a bad idea.

Expanded save/load panel by default is awesome, though. So thanks!
I would read it as "the economy is crappy and the US Army is one of the few reliable ways for ambitious free-thinking people to escape from low-opportunity small towns, get work experience, and pay for college" instead of a propaganda and PR thing.
If you're serious about this, you need to destroy the platters as much as possible. I'd smash the drives open with a sledgehammer (faster than taking the screws out) then smash the platters into as many tiny pieces as possible.
For good measure, you could then throw the pieces into a bucket with some nice strong magnets.