skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Incubator offers $150,000 for 40% equity
There is a new incubator launching in Moscow, Russia. It is called Farminers (farminers.ru). It offers $150,000 for 40% equity, office space for 6 months, Macbook and iPad. After 6 months there is a Demoday. During 6-month you can get help from several mentors(11 guys), who are only known locally in Russia.

What do you think about this type of Incubator model? They are stating that $150,000 are for building the prototype. What kind of prototype you could built for $150,000???
I can't say anything of what kind of mentorship you could get there, but the mentor list is not looking very impressive at the moment. Biggest names are the guys from Mail.ru Group(IPOed in London in early 2011).

$150,000 sounds really sweet for the startups. The question is will this type of Incubator help to develop startup eco-system in Russia? ... It should, right?
> (As in, consider their whole existence. What might the world have been like without investment banking?)

It's a seen-and-unseen problem. Wages rising for the same activity is actually rare and historically really weird. The chief way people improve in the world is to automate/creative destruction old professions in favor of more modern ones, and through lower costs due to efficiency. Investment banking enables and accelerates both of those processes.

It's a stretch, but not insane to think that, say, streaming video or iPads might not exist without investment banking.

Someone replies, who cares about iPads or streaming video? But how much have, say, TED talks enabled thinkers to make progress on hard important problems?

The causal chains here are long and complex, it's hard to say for sure. But creative destruction and replacement of old industries with new means better professions, and reducing costs is the other chief way to prosperity. You know about the huge blowups because they're noteworthy, you don't consider what industries wouldn't exist without a gradual re-allocating and efficiency, freeing up more people to do higher level work and driving costs down.

It's hard to do mentally, inevitably someone will reply, "LOL, this guy thinks without investment banking there'd be no iPad!! That's all Jobs and Woz dude!!" I don't know. Maybe. But why is South Korea so much nicer to live in than South Vietnam? Why did South Vietnam start to improve rapidly when they liberalized the banking system and started taking foreign investment? Capital allocation really pulls the world forwards, but many of the gains are subtle and hidden while the failures are prominently on display.
I'm afraid we're talking at cross-purposes about the first issue. What I'm talking about is entirely Firefox-specific (IE9 renders the same sites just fine) and it applies on Windows XP as well as Windows 7.

As for the remainder of our discussion, my point is simply that you can't do a lot of basic stuff like font selection in a standardised way today, and the constantly moving goalposts are not helping. Falling back to the next font in a list if a font isn't installed is a potentially useful behaviour. Falling back to the next font in a list in some browsers when the font is installed and other browser do find it means we haven't defined the standard for identifying fonts clearly enough.
I think the "emoticon" is unprofessional.
Movie Trailers, Movie Reviews, Celebrities and News
Bodyguard Movie Review By Satyen K. Bordoloi, Film: "Bodyguard"; Cast: Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Raj Babbar; Director: Siddiqu; Rating: For three years now, every Eid, a Salman Khan movie has become one of the rewards of the festival. Whereas last year we had "Dabangg", which despite its simplicity had layers into it, this year we are treated to "The Bodyguard" which isn't a patch on "Dabangg". Despite this, it has enough to hold the attention of festive audiences.
It would be cool if Wolfram could write about this kid without trying to subvert his accomplishments into an advertorial for mathematica.

It's bad enough that he passes his employees results off as his own (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cook), to try to take indirect credit for this kids' achievements is disgusting.
Project approval will likely just be a matter of human scale. It takes < 1 min to figure out if it's going to be approved or not. I do have a bunch of automation around stuff like "this isn't quite ready to go out because of X/Y/Z, click here to edit it" and so forth.

Talent side is more interesting. I'm leveraging Forrst's reputation engine to do some behind the scenes ranking of users, at least for the users who have Forrst accounts. Have sketched out some other ideas, but first want to see how the first email fares.
RIM co-CEO: BlackBerry PlayBook price cuts coming
Microsoft Lync is Not "Enterprise Ready"
Eradicate dust mites
Use this dust mite repeller to control and eradicate dust mites. Proven to eradicate dust mite allergy reactions.
I'm still very interested in these fraud cases. The main reason being that one person has effectively social engineered/hacked their way past bank internal controls. Imagine if UBS had inadvertently hired a crew of Anonymous, they would be totally sunk.
I doubt it's a "rip off", and it's a bit disingenuous to immediately jump to that conclusion. These things happen.

The real test is wether Verisign revise/replace it.
It's not too far off. On Hubski, the content you see is based on who you follow (people and/or tags). Importantly, you don't just get the posts of the people you follow, but the posts they share with you. (you might be interested in following someone that doesn't post at all, if they find and share quality posts). Likewise, posts you share go to your followers. -You can share and unshare.

My thinking on Hubski has been guided by the idea that groups should form and dissolve as people wish, and that Hubski become a multitude of overlapping and ever-changing groups. As user following-relationships are color-coded (http://hubski.com/about), you tend to build a familiarity with a number of people that are connected with you this way.

IMO it's not just content that should be the result of choice, but also how familiar you want to get with members of the community. I'm currently doing more work to this end.

In a nutshell, I feel effort is best spent enabling users to build and break boundaries and groups as they are wont to. -It's not as important that you behave as I would like you to, if I can easily avoid you.
Just a thought but for your first project, why not outsource it? You've done it before! Especially as you see yourself as a product manager type role.

It would certainly be more enjoyable than tearing your hair out learning to improve your code with one eye on the calendar.

Get a job asap, maybe two. Earn whatever you can and invest it in getting your idea built by someone who can code efficiently and quickly. Now THAT would be good time management.

Your $'s will push the project forward more than fraught hours spent perfecting your coding skills.

Also by investing your money like this it will make you look at your potential ideas in a far more critical way. It makes you put money where your mouth is.

At the end of the 3.5 months you could have your first app launched (very short timeline for you to do the same yourself) You could even have your $2000 saved ready for rent,bills as backup etc.

If your app/software takes off and you have some income from it and more ideas, that's the time you can move away from your normal jobs and learn to code.

If the app doesn't take off in the short timescale, you already have a job to carry you through.

It makes more sense to move away from employment if it is a success instead of scrabbling to find work once you run out of time.

Aim for the best case scenario, prepare for the worst. :)
Trivia, if you are interested: "ø" is a Danish and Norwegian character. The corresponding one in Swedish is "ö". So I suppose you are scared of IKEA "shööting" you.

(Also, the Swedish "ö" sounds completely different from the English "o", so it's a bit silly if you know how to read it ;)
Say "No" To Tech City
I don't think the above comment is positing a false dichotomy. Then again, the highest-rated comment here literally advocates violence against children — because supposedly other mammals do it, so we should be violent animals too and inflict premeditated pain on the weakest — and everything else pales in comparison. "Disgusting" is quite an understatement. (And it's not so much the fellow advocating child abuse who's disturbing, but those supporting this advocacy here with upvotes and agreement.)
Nice that you noticed that, and thanks for the hint. but i guess i'll leave it that way, it just looks so swedish to me.. hm... :-)
All technology must strike some balance between catering to the power user and catering to the novice. For the last thirty years tech has skewed pretty heavily towards the power user. iOS pushes the balance radically toward the novice and has been richly rewarded in the marketplace for doing so.

I think iOS is a little more locked down than it has to be to accomplish this, but there's no question it represents a decisive break with the past. The money made in the future in technology will depend on humanizing technology. Over time I expect the market will find a paradigm that serves both ends of the spectrum well.
Fumadores nuevos segregados sociales
I think Red Hat has an advantage here since they're a vendor that is now trusted by major corporations. These corporations have difficulty embracing the cloud because it's managed by someone else and use tools in ways that's far removed from their standards and expectations. It's good to have more competition in this space.
What's wrong with this code, really?
high enough so that it's virtually impossible not to fix ... by the time

I'll add that to my "famous last words" fortune cookies.
I can find at least 4 paragraphs directly related to the title, explaining why the author considers this is not a case of a "rogue trader" but of a "rogue industry". That's about 25% of the article devoted exactly to what the title says (the rest of the article giving useful background for the author point in this 4 paragraphs).

I wouldn't say that the title is deceiving.
InnoDB isn't too hot on transactions either.

Google for "InnoDB deadlock".
I accept the article was a bit heavy on Mathematica references, but material like this is really useful in teaching!

Mathematica does represent a considerable investment, and they are maintaining wolframalpha for free use.
Why the extra accessory? I don't understand how what you describe could not be done on the iPad without the extra accessory.
I wonder how many of the people here decrying iOS as a radical loss of freedom would be willing to learn how the engine of their car works in order to drive it, or how all the machinery in a dentist's office works in order to get a checkup.

We live in an age of specialization and iOS just represents a far less leaky abstraction for the average user than the operating systems of the past.
So now it's only for non-prophet organizations?
I hate to be that guy, but don't complain about how something isn't as awesome as Unix pipes and then use cat | grep | awk where you could have just used awk.
Private Medical Colleges in line with government policy
I still haven't seen a persuasive attempt to make graphical interfaces truly composable. Composing streams of characters is child's play conceptually compared to any kind of meaningful visual composibility. Just look at the api for a typical button widget in your framework of choice. How on earth are you going to expose this in a user-friendly way to the non-geek?
Its extremely stupid, showing such absurd speeds it would only be a matter of time before someone discovered them.
Yeah I think you definetely have to get your fingers on it for knowing if it makes sense or not. Visually it is winning!
Ditch the Ranking Report and Get Down With Analytics
Everyone seems to avoid to mention the obvious. This breaks the page layout only, not really a critical issue concerning google's integrity/security.

Still, this obviously doesn't look good. Above anything else google has excelled on being simple and reliable. All this javascript goodness added recently might be a step in the wrong direction. If stuff like this starts to happen every now and then, google's reputation might be at stake.
I bet renting dedicated server is still cheaper.
A recklessness on the part of the author within an otherwise thought-provoking set of ideas: his analogy concerning Calvinism and the "Book of Revelations" limps badly for a strawman. Evidently, not much time was spent reading John Calvin's "Brève Instruction chrétienne" (Brief Outline of the Christian Faith) nor "Revelation" (singular).
> Only a fool buys something then pays to use it.

You mean like buying any of the following:

* A car (fuel, tires, a bunch of other stuff)
* _Any_ cellphone (either a monthly fee or pre paid)
* Clothes (I sure hope you wash them?)
* _Any_ electrical appliance (electric bill you know...)

(and the list goes on...)

Yeah. A fool indeed...
>There are plenty of religious organisations whose purpose is to line the leaders' pockets with money.

These seems to imply that other non-profits don't. Otherwise why point out one specific group?
Your link to Farminers is wrong. Should be http://farminers.com
Jesse Jackson Jr blames iPad for US job losses
Show HN: Online Playable Percussion Tutor Book
immediate boss resigned

The CEO should resign. Either the company lost $2B and is now pinning it on a 'rogue' trader or their security is flat out incompetent. Either way, all of the CxO positions should be tossed out.

The whole things stinks really. $2B is A LOT of money to lose. With that sort of money flying around and the amount of power those involved likely have, it's easy to see them leveraging the criminal system to CYA and stick this to some underling.
CSRF in on by default.
Cookies could be more secure, and it's being worked on.
Django is moving to PBKDF2 (there's no pure python bcrypt lib).
There's not really opportunity to do anything interesting with slugs.

Like any framework, there will always be room to improve security, but it does do very well out of the box. At least it makes you work to expose anything obvious.
Although it's worth pointing out that Google should care very much about the "influence" of the parts of society it openly favors or [ insert antonym here, it's too early in the morning ].

Google has gained a lot of enemies for a variety of reasons, size and success in particular. It's going to need the favor and good will of as much of the nation as possible to survive the increasingly vicious attacks on it from competitors or those who simply like to attack the big (envy, or just big pockets).

There's long been a correct (I believe) perception that Google leans strongly to the Left, and in a country where "the Left" is outnumbered 2-1 by "the Right" I can't see that being wise. This action of theirs as of yesterday was gaining a lot of attention on the Right, and even agnostics like myself are not pleased (because I know churches do a lot of good, something very strongly reinforced this summer after a tornado ripped through the middle of my city, Joplin, Missouri).

I'm not saying Google should favor the Right, but at least it should not go out of its way to piss it off. It simply can't afford that sort of thing given its status today.
I agree on smarthphones (but then those are not really computers) but I don't think there is anything that prevents you from using swap on a vps...
This also means that opening the tar.gz does not work. Not knowing about the cheat, I'd want to try. My 7-zip choking on the file would make me download again. After the second time, my trust in Singlehop's transfer abilities would be very low - after all, files they send appear to get corrupted.
C'mon. You've been on Hacker News three years. We're not like the rest of the internet.

Let's try this again. Pretend you're trying to convince Feynman that investment banking is a Good Thing. What specific points would you raise?

(No one would disagree that iPads / streaming video are good. We would, however, disagree on how much "investment banking" has contributed to their existence.)
The other 300+ Windows 8 features
I've googled, but am seeing the same kind of results that I see when I try "oracle deadlock", "postgresql deadlock" and "db2 deadlock."

Still being relatively new to InnoDB, what particular deadlock dangers make it more troublesome than other DBMS engines?
True:
$ python -mtimeit -s'l=range(1000)' 'a=[i for i in reversed(l)]'
10000 loops, best of 3: 37.7 usec per loop
Yes but instead of addressing this specific case, the author spends his time ranting and waving his hands around about the industry in general. Hell, I already knew all of that. I clicked on the article because I expected something about this particular case.

If that's not deceiving, then anybody can write an article about just about anything. Just move to the general case, throw in a lot of invective, and dance a bit. You could write stuff like this on an assembly line.

I'll put this a different way: this is an editorial piece. As such, it's a nice one. I liked it. But it's not a news article, which was what I was expecting. It just takes a news article and sticks it on top of some pre-canned outrage.
Some people like the taktile feedback of real keys. Other than that it's a gimmick.
>>> xrange(13)[::-1]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: sequence index must be integer, not 'slice'
Türkçe WordPress Kitabı ile Kendinizi Geliştirin.
Has Windows 8 killed web games by not supporting plugins?
How dumb is this guy? He's just killed all sales from "now" until "then".
That isn't strange though -- if I were creating a file that I knew would only be used for speed testing, I would make it al nulls too.

It is just much easier to find a file that is some exact distance if you create it first.
Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok talks about open source and the Internet of Things
I disagree, these sort of losses are usually caused by failures in risk management systems or procedures. Nick Leeson was permitted to settle his own trades while being head of a trading desk (which is never a good idea), and Jerome Kerviel had previously worked in the middle office at Societe Generale and used his knowledge of their systems and procedures to hide his trades. Kweku Adoboli had previously been a trade support analyst (a middle office position) and UBS is currently undergoing a major restructuring of its risk management systems, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if he were able to circumvent their systems to escape detection. The universe seems to be telling us that middle office people shouldn't be moved to front office positions on a delta one desk.
I think it will be more likely that this decision will kill any market share that IE has left.
PHP 5.4.0 beta 1 released
Neil is cool and fun. Like bumbledraven I met Neil at a conference early in 2010. He (Neil) is still clearly just pre-teen, but at the same time his knowledge and abilities are awesome.

And he's nice too.
> Instead of SELECT FOR UPDATE followed by UPDATE, just UPDATE with a LIMIT, and then see if any rows were affected

Should be noted, this is not necessarily a good solution: a concurrent consumer, which may be another incarnation of a given script running with a lag, may hijack the queue element locked this way; as a result you may end up having two or more incarnations of the consumer handling the same queue element.

The most universal approach to DB queues is to assign each consumer process a unique ID which it should use for locking queue elements in their UPDATE ... LIMIT 1.
Good discovery. Let's see if they change the practice or if you get more webhosting companies to notice.
The people at Apple just want to make damn good products. They are proud as hell of those products. They work very hard to make them that damn good.

It's very hard to read the rest of your comment and not have you mentally pre-positioned as a fanboy. I'm not saying this to be a troll, but because comments like this really do stand out. Would you give any other company this sort of slack you are now giving Apple? If so, why not?

And while that may not be such an interesting discussion in itself, I am not willing to support and hand over my money to someone acting against freedom of choice, because someone else on the internet says "Don't worry: These people are good guys. Really!"

Freedom isn't free.

Again. I would love to see anyone make this sort of defense for Oracle or Microsoft.

I'm no dumber for owning an iPhone

Maybe not dumber, but you have locked your mind to the most restrictive of the mobile OS platforms out there and the limited workflows it allows.

I would be very surprised if this didn't also limit your ways of thinking about how problems can be solved.

The iPhone is a glorious, crowning achievement of engineering that still, years later, Microsoft and Google are struggle to replicate.

Absolutely revolting fanboy talk. I tend to find the iPhone a glorified piece of needlessly heavy electronics running visually polished but annoyingly limited software, which fails at the most basic of tasks, like sending data from one app to another via something called "files".

You want to talk about freedom? I'm free from thinking about memory management. And processor utilization. And data loss.

So am I. On my Android phone. While my iPhone 3G had constant memory-problems because it wasn't built to multi-task. Oh well.

Why is it iPhone owners seems to default on Android being an immature platform, cite Android 1.6 problems, while any factual representation of the limitations found in current iOS releases is answered with "iOS next" and that is supposed to be a valid answer, free from hypocrisy?

Seriously. You guys need to get out of the Apple store more often. It may actually be starting to dumb you down.
When your logo is 'A large triangle with two triangles 1/3rd the size of the larger one cut out' chances are that you will run in to others that have done the same thing, only slightly different.
You can add ALT+XXX (ex. ALT+13) also, pretty cool. Although you must press 1. ALT+13 2. anything to make it show up
It's one step up from the Osborne strategy.
The Hipmunk Story – An Interview with Adam Goldstein
Do exactly what you want to do
The announcement doesn't appear to be on PHP.net yet but a message was posted to PHP Internals [1] and the changelog is on pastebin [2].

If you want to give it a go, you can get fairly recent builds of PHP 5.4 for Debian / Ubuntu from http://apt.damz.org/

[1] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=131613589305249&...

[2] http://pastebin.com/HKwbkJkz
I'm not anti-iOS, I'm anti-all current mobile OSes. I think you present a false dichotomy. I shouldn't have to know how the engine in my car works, but I should have the option of tinkering with it if I wish.

And I do expect my car to be componentized. I expect it to have a transmission, an alternator, a radiator, etc. While I have no preferences for how those components are designed, I expect them to work, on the whole, as one would expect those types of components to work. That is they have an input and output. I wouldn't buy a car where all of these components were replaced with 1 proprietary, untinkerable, thing.

What I want is Canonical or Mozilla, or whoever, to be able to write an OS that can be installed on just about any phone hardware, the way it can be done on any x86 computer. Whether it's the crazy patent situation or harder engineering challenges that prevent that today, I'm not sure.
I've never had any problems with Jira (about 3 months' worth of experience) but Confluence is so broken when trying to paste content into an article.
more to the point, why would you change a logo where brand recognition is part of the product! (i.e. I know customers on my site will recognise this icon as a trusted mark that it is secure)