skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem a bit insane, but the solution is not always so simple. Many of these neighborhoods are built on hilly terrain, and there are many laws and regulations about building roads, particularly building at a particular incline and building on stable and erosion-resistant areas. Most of these cul-de-sac layouts are aimed to maximize views and minimize construction costs, hence you have a sort of minimum-spanning tree configuration. Also, many of the streets are forced to follow isolines in the terrain.
The way I read it, Chamath doesn't think the company will be as successful if this is the way employees are treated. That's a perfectly valid reason to pass -- it doesn't seem like a right vs. wrong stance.
Your workflow is a little overcomplicated.. I think the following will produce identical results:

git pull --rebase branch-name
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The density in cul-de-sac neighborhoods is still too low to make it possible for residents to get to any of the basic services they need (school, grocery, etc) without driving. Adding a few roads to shave a mile or two off a commute or trip the store isn't going to make much of a difference.

Our (american) cities desperately need urban growth boundaries to force density.
He fails to understand the main reason that home developers want to build neighborhoods with lots of cul-de-sacs:

Homes on cul-de-sacs sell for more money.

The more of these you can squeeze into a given neighborhood, the more money you'll make off the development.
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What are you talking about?

Total off topic.
Is there any other energy-extraction process so mind-numbingly primitive and destructive? After doing a little research on fracking recently I honestly can't think of any.

Pumping millions of gallons of chemical-laced water under high pressure to fracture geological formations and extract gas is akin to fishing with dynamite, but the long-term environmental implications are far, far worse.

Because once the underground aquifers which form part of the groundwater table are disrupted / damaged they can't be fixed. The water table becomes contaminated with fracking chemicals and the gas the process is meant to extract. What does contamination of a region's water table look like over generations?

Apart from the risk to fresh water, there's also (unsurprisingly) concern over geological instability from the process. A few months ago a fracking company operating in the UK (Cuadrilla Resources) was forced to stop after two mini-earthquakes were linked to their activities: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/01/blackpool-earthquak...

In France the practice is banned, and in Australia a national coalition of farmers, scientists, environmental and community groups ( http://lockthegate.org.au/ ) has formed to oppose the spread of gas wells through prime agricultural land.

The big story with fracking is the long-term economic downside. So it's disappointing that the NPR article almost solely focuses on the short-term economic upside.
In the comments a user mentioned the documentary that covers this impact called Gasland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland

I recommend it higly to my fellow HNers.
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I've never lived in a cul-de-sac (which btw is french for a dead-end street), but spent my childhood playing outside all the same. Narrow, one-way streets, with plenty of speed bumps. I walked to school.

Currently I reside downtown, overlooking rails (the trains go quite slowly and make a noise far more agreeable than that of cars). There's a market under the rails, fruit vegtables and other foodstuffs at daytime, small quantities of drugs at night. I can buy on credit at both markets if I forget my wallet.

I will never understand the attraction of suburbs. The distances. The architecture. The boredom.
But don't you think the mere fact they are out there and calling attention to something that is, quite frankly, pissing most Americans off, is in itself asking for something? The NY unions just added their full support and while that may be reactionary and not based on idealism, it prompted action and garnered more media attention. I agree with all your points but want to add one little nugget...the Credit Unions are pretty good and even though I'm no longer an educator, I still get an awesome rate for my savings account.
For a nice summary of the issues in the US, watch Gasland; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland My wife and I enjoyed it immensely, or as much as you can enjoy a documentary about how we're destroying our own water.
You are of course correct to point this out but maybe, just maybe, it is still a good proxy for gauging reaction to a positively-portrayed campaign along similar lines.
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You can simplify this (unless you have a master who merges your features by simply doing):

code/hack
git commit -am 'did stuff'
repeat
git fetch origin master
git rebase -i -p origin/master
git push
I applied for an internship and got two interviews, but they seemed pretty disorganized. They often called at different times from what they said they would (usually when I was in class). They also had to reschedule the interviews several times. The initial informational phone call I also got twice which was strange (about half way through the second one I mentioned she had called the day before with the same information). Seems like a fun place to work though and the interviewers were great.
Absolutely 100% agree.

Founders cashing out is a big red flag. I said it about Groupon. I've said it before. This really is taking it to the next level: cashing out with a dividend to retain control and ownership.

I absolutely agree that for any cash out it should be open way beyond the founders. In fact, this is a good way for larger startups to kick the 500-shareholder limit can just a bit further down the street.

I see Airbnb as a fundamentally risky business. At some point Airbnb will be large enough to warrant the attention of local and state authorities because many people offering places to stay are doing so illegally or in violation of their own lease agreements.

This woman who had her apartment wrecked is just the tip of the iceberg. It is only a matter of time before a headline about a serious physical assault or worse. Airbnb can count their lucky stars it was "only" a ransacking and vandalism.
I have been bitten by that a couple times now. I develop on a mac, but deploy on Linux and had a couple cases of trying to import or open a file that couldn't be found due to a case issue. And it is next to impossible to rename the file on a Mac from SomeFile.txt to somefile.txt. I think I had to do SomeFile.txt -> someotherfile.txt, commit -> somefile.txt, commit.
If the founders retain a majority, this is less than 4% of their stake — that percentage is more relevant in analyzing the confidence signalling and motivations than a superficially large "$21 million" figure.
Try using that as your sales pitch for hiring the "little guy" in this market and let us know how far you get.
Aside from having to import data from case-sensitive environments, could you give an example of a case where you would actually /want/ you filesystem to be case-sensitive? When would it ever, be a good idea to have two distinct files called readme.txt and README.txt?
I would love for someone to put together a weekend project where people can anonymously list where they apply and if they ever got a response.
Waiting until iOS 5 (including the cloud features announced earlier this year) is ready?
Yes, for Python you can use Dumbo for this (http://yz.mit.edu/wp/no-nonsense-standalone-hadoop-and-dumbo...).
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I live without a car. The "put in connector sidewalks" solution is one that has occurred to me. My thought is that it would let people keep the same situation they seem to prefer in terms of car traffic but would connect neighbors like he is talking about, where teenagers could go see each other without needing a driver's license and car to have a social life.
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Not sure how normal it is, but I've never worked for a startup where I made more than the founder.
I've applied for this multiple times, and as I see here you haven't replied to a lot of people. I've met one of your developers at a DeviantArt meeting, and he seemed like one of the nicest blokes I've ever met.

Extreme shame about the management.
I very much doubt it is the main reason.
Enlightening, thanks. A shame that none of the big names have a data center in South America. I've a project I'd like to bring to Brazil at some point and 300-500ms is not very good. What will it take to open up a node in Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires? Is it lack of traffic or taxes holding up progress?
people can't walk on grass these days?
Git's going to have built-in "generation numbers" soon. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/17...

edit: jacknagel points out that they actually didn't go with this after all. Insted: https://github.com/git/git/commit/ffc4b8012d9a4f92ef238ff72c...
I'm giving a example of someone who exemplifies the Silicon Valley mentality that I refer to above.
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Not all psychedelics are illegal. There is salvia and dxm; which are perfectly legal in many states but are more powerful than mushrooms (psilocybin). DXM is closer to ketamine, but it appears that all of them are capable of having psychedelic (revealing) properties.

Legality doesn't always define harm. I think THC (active psychedelic ingredient in cannabis sativa) is much, much safer to do than DXM.

Another interesting one is kratom. It's an opioid drug which is highly illegal in Thailand but perfectly legal in US (can be ordered online, which is awesome). It is also much more addictive than marijuana (being a pseudo-opiate and all) but obviously not close to being as addictive as diamorphine/oxycodone.

Seriously, why is marijuana illegal again?
Good security practices and ease-of-use are often at direct odds with each other.
Hmm, not sure what I was thinking. I guess I agree. It'd almost double the number of homes that are in walking distance to your home if done.
Unix's case sensitivity has long been a source of minor but obvious annoyance to non-technical users, to whom a name is a name -- the case of the letters is irrelevant.

On top of which, it would have been an added complication for developers porting from Classic, and an unexpected change for users, in exchange for no substantive benefit.

In truth, the only time HFS+'s case-insensitivity has bitten me was extracting an SDK from Broadcom, and even then, the SDK wasn't about to run on OS X anyway (it's entirely Linux-based), I was just pulling out some documentation.
I think the number of people that use private browsing/incognito mode for this purpose makes it obvious that something is needed. Mozilla and google talked a lot about various proposals around "identity" being managed in the browser rather than via websites starting about a year ago.

Mozilla's BrowserID focused more on a really good way of managing a single identity (per Firefox profile), whereas Chrome's MultiProfiles were focused on easily switching between multiple profiles with separate cookies, history, passwords, etc (whether that's for multiple people or a single person with multiple but separate needs online).

Multi-profiles seem good for your need...you can stay signed in with a persistent google cookie in one window (maybe just keeping gmail open), while doing all your regular surfing without the cookie in another window, under a different profile.

Both are still in development though. I don't see multi-profiles in about:flags in chrome, and some poking around shows you might need to run chrome with a command flag, which is a pain. Reviewers seem to like it, though.

edit: it's not a nice integrated browser function, but I guess you could get equivalent functionality by just running different Firefox instances with different profiles. I don't know if there are any problems with that approach, though.
iPhone 4s, with iOS5. Seems fit that they would come out with an iPhone 5. Anyways, we will see on Oct 3rd.
That's really extreme! Most people are not doing that.

On the other hand, take a look at increasing obesity rates and lack of skilled handyman in developed countries.
Is less about that and more about trespassing on a random person's property in order to get around.
I grew up on a cul-de-sac. I knew all of my neighbors and it was a great environment for a kid to grow up in. We had a nearby woods, too. We often walked and rode bikes.
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I think Steve was mostly right the first time. I don't remember ever actually seeing somebody watch a video on an iPod until the iPhone/iPod Touch, and even then, it doesn't seem to happen very often. Personally, I find watching a movie or TV show on a ~3.5" screen pretty uncomfortable.
I can't speak authoritatively since I've never made Haggis, but I was under the impression it's illegal to import Haggis (or specifically, the sheep-part constituents). I thought domestic production and sale are OK.

[edit: Also wanted to add this. One of the coolest food experiences I've had was when visiting a friend in rural Sicily. Apparently the traditional method of making ricotta is largely illegal due to sanitary reasons (pasteurization, not simply doing it in the shed behind your house, etc). However one morning we got up around 4am and met some friends of his Dad. Spent a few hours learning how they made traditional ricotta and got to eat some fresh from the pot before they took the rest to sell to the locals. When it's boiling-hot and fresh from the pot, it's a totally different (and better) cheese than anything I've ever seen in the store.]
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Nice one - the more I use Stylus, the more I love it.
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Some problems with this argument:

For overhead maps 1-4, couldn't you just simply walk over on foot?
dont worry, GO will accrue its own layers of gratuitiously complex crud with time, indeed it already is.
dont worry, GO will accrue its own layers of gratuitiously complex crud with time, indeed it already has.
Can anyone else see the article? I'm getting redirected to http://127.0.0.1/2011/10/the-great-cul-de-sac-problem-and-ho...
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Righty-o, it's purely for fun. @vog: merge my pull request, man. There's a post-commit hook in there. I think we finally solved the SHA-1 vs r#### argument ;-)

https://github.com/davvid/beautify_git_hash/commits/master
no, because people usually fence in their yards, from one, or both sides.
I will never understand the attraction of suburbs

Low taxes. Lower cost of living. Privacy of a detached house. The lack of 'city' noise. Letting my kids play in the yard, on sidewalks. Letting my kids tear around the cul-de-sac.

I've lived in the country, I've lived in the city, I've lived in the 'burbs. I prefer the latter, now.

Maybe it's just me. I live in a smaller town, my commute is a five minute drive. YMMV.
He's probably redirected it so he doesn't crash under the load.
It depends. There may be fences and other obstacles in the way and it may involve trespassing. I sometimes find pedestrian-friendly paths cut through and sometimes not.
I'll bet most developers do it for the money, no?
So imagine your history looks like this:

__C__
/ \
A---B---D

A is commit number one. D is commit number three. If B is two, then what is C? Assuming you can come up with a consistent view when all the information about the branch topology is available, what about when people have disconnected branches? How do you avoid duplicate generation numbers? If you can't avoid duplicate generation numbers, what's the point of having them? "Fixed in commit 2." Great, which commit 2 did you mean?
>Homes on cul-de-sacs sell for more money. //

Presumably if the market is working properly this means that more people want to buy these homes and/or value these homes more highly than others. That is, people want to live on cul-de-sacs.
Feels your assertion didn't ask a question.
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We were talking about people who do the exact opposite and try to get FU-money before they led companies to success.
something of an aside: when you get an image from wikipedia under some creative commons license, aren't you supposed to link to the exact page rather than just wikipedia.org?
At YC startups especially, it is quite common. Founders often take the minimum amount of money necessary to survive. But they will often pay market (especially after Series A) or near-market to their hires, plus equity.
thanks to everyone who continues to make Sinatra better.

I think Sinatra is the optimal web framework for most startups.
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www.chrisnorstrom.com is redirecting to 127.0.0. ... why?
Amazing site. Great effort!!

I had a bug to report: When I move the slider on the 'number of bedrooms' and make it '1', I cannot change it (to '2', say). I am using chrome 14.0.835.186.
Also it uses less road, which means more space for homes.
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No, you don't interpret correctly. It was not 3 days of uncommitted changes, it was committing some changes after hacking for three days.

Completely different thing. The 3 days was relevant because I was tired and my first assumption is that I had done something wrong. It turns out there was a nasty bug.

Also, I don't think my workflow is that broken:

"Linus often performs patch applications and merges in a dirty work tree with a clean index."

[1] http://gitster.livejournal.com/29060.html

If I am pulling down some unrelated changes, it is not unreasonable to do that. That is one of the features that git provides.

I know perfectly well how to use git, in a number of different work flows, and I use whichever is most appropriate for the given project at the given time.

Also, I don't think my post was complaining. It wasn't 'OMG git is the worst, I'm never using it again', it was an analysis of a particular nasty corner case in git.
You are mustering moral outrage over money that would in any other transaction go to the VC. For decades, VC have been transferring liquidity away from employees and to themselves.

There is something "new" here: the fact that founders have so much leverage in this market that they can claw that value back from investors.

The welfare of the "employees" is a total red herring. Venture capital investors have been fucking over employees directly for almost 20 years.
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Mangosteens may be legally imported to the US from SE Asia if irradiated. They may also be imported from Puerto Rico.

The Chicago fois gras ban ended in 2008.
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This really hits home with me. The university where I go to school is very bureaucratic, and I think it lacks a strong community. After a year of not doing anything about it, I finally found people who feel the same way, and after talking briefly we're actively trying to "hack" our culture into something we want.

Even though we haven't changed anything at our school, we now have this tiny community of people who want to build things. But the only way to start is to figure out that there is a problem. I think that's the best message of this article: Figure out what you want, and you're already most of the way there.
> Okay, maybe I'm going abit overboard with fake qotes.

In other words, a straw man?
I was early at Palantir (employee #10). Trust me, the founders assumed way more risk than I did when I joined. I didn't even quite understand that fact until I myself started a company. If you know the Airbnb story, you'll know these guys worked their asses off on an idea nobody else believed in. As legend would have it, Joe had a binder of credit cards the way kids would have binders of baseball cards. Think about that sacrifice when you criticize their action today.

Incidentally, this is one of the best reasons to found a company -- equity is distributed in such a way that those who take the biggest risk will be properly rewarded.

Secondly, founders taking money off the table has become common. As mentioned in this very comment thread: "Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, and Parker each got $1m from Accel when they raised their $12.7m Series A according to David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect."

This is both at a far earlier stage, and far more money on percentage basis compared to the overall valuation of the company. I wasn't party to the deal, but I highly doubt any other early Facebookers got liquidity then. But those same people are definitely not complaining today.

I personally don't think anyone got screwed here.
I am certain the next step will be when they use Google+ "likes" (or whatever) to determine page rank. I, for one, find it troubling how much Google can dictate the success of a web based business.
I would disagree, why is this not the case with the iPad then?
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Don't really see the big deal.
Also wouldn't be surprised if as the release of the Fire approaches they released a slightly more nuanced version of that page. Something along the lines of, "Which Kindle is for you?".

While there is obviously some overlap, I don't really see E-ink and LCD devices as competing for the same space and/or substitutes for one another.
My script will in many circumstances outperform "yours", because nmap's default settings suck against networks that have firewalls.

That's why I brought it up.

I am not on a mission against nmap. I've met Fyodor a couple times. He's a smart guy. In fact: I even like nmap; I just think it has outgrown its role as a port scanner.

I do think it confirms a commonly held suspicion about "security" people when they recoil in horror over ~40 lines of code "reinventing the wheel" on one of the industry's hairiest tools. "Oh my god! Code!"

What I should have done is come up with a new acronym for it and then charged $30,000 for a pilot deployment to use it.
As stated somewhere else in this thread, I assume he is trying to scale his app due to higher loads and probably forgot to change some config items.
i lived on a variety of cu-de-sacs until i was 30. cutting thru neighbors' yards was never considered "trespassing" in those neighborhoods, especially for kids/teens.
Space. Your own greenspace.

I live in the country now and it's even more remote, but when I lived in the 'burbs it was on a 1/2 acre lot behind a nature preserve. I could look out my living room windows and not see anything but trees -- not a neighbor in sight. My kid could climb trees, look for frogs, go "treasure hunting" all day long. The dogs could go outside without needing to be leashed, or walked. And we could have sex on the grass at night.

Much harder to do those things in the city.
Or a joke.
A good way to make sure you never have to make your own tools on projects is to make fun of the very idea that you might every once in awhile make your own tools. I agree: you should probably just keep using nmap.