skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must have missed the post where a VC said "Guys, sorry, love your company but I couldn't in good conscience participate in a round where the rich people get paid and the poor people are told to wait for an exit." I must have missed that post quite frequently, because that describes every VC round ever.

A $120 million investment round means that about $2.4 million in cash money just moved from the limited partners (universities, pension funds, wealthy families) into the pockets of the VC firm's partners. Not stock, not options: cash money. This is the way the system has always worked, since time immemorial. VCs get paid a management fee (about 2%) win or lose, and a percentage of the profits when they win.

Just something to keep in mind when someone mentions their strong principles in the course of a discussion over how dang expensive butter is these days.

[Edit to add: My description of management fees is slightly simplified and ignores salient things like the fact that they recur annually.]
Interesting. This script modifies the commit timestamp until the commit object hashes to a SHA-1 that starts with a prefix specified on the command-line. It seems like it was used on the repo itself with prefixes of 0001, 0002, 0003.

$ ./beautify_git_hash.py 0001

I wonder if this somehow increases the probability of a hash collision, if only ever so slightly? In any case, it's a neat hack!

The script prints a suggested "git commit --amend" command so don't run the suggestion if you've already pushed the head of your branch.
Hence the mention of capital gains taxes.
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iTunes has a new iPhone 4S entry, but it shows a picture of the existing iPhone 4. What does it mean?

"Unless Apple still has the CDMA iPhone 4 as a placeholder image ... we’re fairly confident that the iPhone 4S will pack the CDMA iPhone design."

That's a big "unless".
He is amazing indeed :)
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Great, will send you the screenshots on monday as they are in my office computer.
My point is that 'most people' I refer to didn't create different google accounts, they created a singular gmail account. You seem to be focused on 'active user' accounts, the google account with gmail is now 'contagious' and is automatically signing you up for stuff that you never signed up for before: e.g. youtube.
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A privately-funded bureaucracy which simply self-propagates while producing no value goes bankrupt automatically...

It's a beautiful theory.

The most obvious counter-example would be patent/copyright/trademark trolls.

Another might be financial services companies who sell worthless derivatives as AA grade. Or the analysts who provide those grades. Or the brokers who make the worthless loans the derivatives are based on.
"A founder who believes in his business, will never cash out early. period."

That is just not true.

You have zero clue of any one founders back story. How many years have they been building their business and not taking a pay check? Not taking health insurance? Struggling... Taking a payout, in some cases, can motivate someone who has been putting in 24/7 for year(s) to keep going. It can also allow the people in your life (family) to support you in pushing forward with your passions.
How do they come up with the estimated number of asteroids larger than 1 km? Is it based simply on sampling a volume of observed space and extrapolating? Or do they have some way of inferring based on gravitational effects and anomalies?
While the beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, for X11 based systems this is actually a step back.

I used to be able to highlight and paste the hashes, now the hash string is "hidden" inside a button where text link would do. Sure, as an ugly, kludgy workaround there is the flash-based "copy to clipboard" button, but that only works with ctrl-v pasting, not the middle mouse button. Good luck pasting that into an xterm. So it's either copy-type or click on the link and find the sha in text form on the resulting page.

I found myself using git log a lot more frequently during the past few days.
One problem I have with tail calls in OO languages is that they're fragile. Simple things, like adding a print statement for debugging, can break your code. I think these things are more apparent in functional languages.

With that said, I'd love to see it implemented in OO languages, but I'd tell those to be wary where correctness relies upon it (and as blasphemous as this may sound -- use iteration in places where it doesn't destroy the code).
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>"and the things that I give a +1 to are affecting my search as well."

What did the author think that button was for?
Yes, I also spent a minute on the site looking for the donate button. Very happy to give them the same amount as I'd pay in iTunes but directly. I'm going to watch the film this weekend and if I enjoy I'll contact them directly, maybe they don't realise how many of us are happy to 'donate'. I find this a lot with indie movies where it's impossible to find a paid copy but a torrent exists.

On the other side of things (and where I hope more producers look to) I've been enjoying this (sci-fi) TV series and paying as I go: http://vodo.net/pioneerone
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I signed up at http://diasp.org for a Diaspora account a couple of weeks ago. It's noticeably not quite finished but it seems to work well enough. It now has enough of my friends on it that it's worth going there now and again. Diaspora often seems to attract bad vibes on HN but I'm hoping it'll take off.
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The new case designs have already been leaked, so we already know that it's going to have a different form factor. It won't be the same as iPhone 4.
That assumes there's only one new phone. Isn't there still talk of an iPhone 5 too or is that a dead rumor now?
From a privacy point of view, Google was already perfectly able to connect the dots of what all its users did on its services long before Plus: single sign-on was perfectly sufficient to do that. Having plus doesn't make it any easier or more difficult. So, technically, Google could already have collected all those data and sold them to the advertisers before plus.

What I hope that Google will guarantee, related to G+, is a complete control over which of those dots can become public; if G+ is an identity service (whatever that might mean) I want to have control over what I show of my identity and to whom. Something where I'm willing to cut some more slack to Google than to Facebook, given their track records, but not so much more.
On the flip side, it's hard to let go when maybe you should.

I love the projects I'm working in SV as a startup designer but sometimes I look at how life would be if I moved back from SF to all the amenities I have back in my hometown (properties, good longtime friends, less stress).
There is another downside to keep in mind. git commands accept the shortest unambiguous SHA-1 prefix instead of requiring you to specify the entire thing. Usually the first 7 characters or so will do, even on fairly large projects.

Using this script too often may force you to specify more characters to get past the prefix being identical on too many commits.
The reason there was competition between VCs, this is a different motivation and the amount is not that high.
>I'd love to see some open source competition for this space, or even low price competition.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Running our own failover system is not just expensive, but time-consuming - just another thing to do when you are trying to scale and time is already short within a small team.
Oh, I didn't realize they were separate. I thought iPhone 4S == iPhone 5.
If you have your own project in mind, you can get started on your own. You will bump into a lot of open source add-ons like gems that you'll want to use. When the gem doesn't do what you want, you can always modify it as needed and submit a pull request.
The only change I'd make is getting rid of the rear glass. It sounded like a bad idea and I have confirmed (twice) that it is a bad idea in practice. It compromises the device for style.
This isn't really surprising. Remember when Steve Jobs said that nobody would ever want to watch a video on a small screen, right before coming out with the iPod Video?

Companies are allowed to position themselves against the competition and then say something different later, nobody's holding them under oath.
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Last time I checked, there was a way to unlink your Youtube account from the Google one, so it may worth a check, but no guarantees here as Google changed a lot on this front lately.
OP didn't mean GitHub changes, but "beautiful" commit ids (0001..., 0002..., 0003..., etc).
A number of factors. Games were much smaller then and a competitive game could be done in 1-2 years by 2-4 people. The budgets were usually in the 5 digits. This made it much easier to do if you knew how. On the flip side, far fewer people had any programming expertise.

Now, it's possible to do something similar on the web, or with a cheap mobile game, but in console gaming (PS3, 360 etc) the games all run in the 8 digits (over $10,000,000!) and involve big teams, often over 100 people.
These are the only ones I've listened to so far, but they were both good...

Larry Lessig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRABcFKOXtU

Kirby Dick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eOm8ggE6_8
I'm talking about dynamic languages. This performance penalty is a reason why CoffeeScript has rejected adding an operator overloading mechanism:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/846

But the question is whether a tracing JIT could largely eliminate this bottleneck by noticing if inner loops are really Numeric types. I was wondering if there were any LLVM examples that show potential performance of a JIT on a JIT.
This is the second story about a "drone" that I've heard in 3 days. I'm surprised that people like this slip by and linger without providing much value . . .
Not Apple's case designs. It wouldn't be the first time manufacturers had produced cases for Apple products that they then had to bin when the product was released as they got the form factor wrong.

If Apple's own cases got leaked that would be noteworthy. But a lot of manufacturers are currently placing a bet, because they want to have product on the shelves for day 1 of launch. That bet may be based of various things coming out of Chinese factories, but it's nowhere certain.
I am surprised there is no mention of environmental impact of fracking and that some countries are planning to ban it.
Being conscious of biases is really important. I guess the most important thing to know that you probably have a bias to be risk-adverse. As long as you aware of your biases, you can work to counter them.

As an example, I know that most people are influenced by selection bias, so it influences me less than the average person, just because I'm aware of it. I think the same thing could apply to the culture bias that is presented in the article.
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It would make a lot more sense if the monthly job post was listed on the 'Jobs' page alongside the handful of YC companies listed.
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Most of the fossil fuel that's burned to produce electricity is natural gas or coal. Natural gas is generally for smaller production more variable production (peak load) and coal for larger base load demands.
It's referring the the hashes themselves (0001..., 0002..., 0003...), not the html/css GitHub uses.
Also http://job4dev.com that already makes a decent job of aggregating a few of these sites.
(+1) Awesome CEO + hugely challenging projects. Sweet LA office.
It might be. From John Gruber:
I don’t know what the new iPhone looks like. I don’t even know whether there’s only one new iPhone.

http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/teardrop_skepticism

And he goes on to talk about the iPhone 4s and the iPhone 5. Apple, as usual, keeps everyone on the edge of their seats.

My personal take is that Apple should just do the iPhone 4s. In head to head sales, the iPhone 4 still kills everyone else. I'd let it get a little staler -- and then drop the iPhone 5 say in June of next year.

They can do the tick-tock, like Intel. One year, new design, next year use better components. And they can have the iPad and iPhone tick/tock on opposing years.
That creep Zuckerberg must be laughing his ass off. He could not have bought such a dumb move to help keep users on F_c_book.
I think these numerous regulatory agencies are a way of circumventing popular will (read: write mandates handed out by interest groups). Whatever happened to Obama's promise that he would weed out regulations that harm small businesses (I think they would benefit the most from the increase in foot traffic that would result if public rail service were more prevalent).
I wondered about the same thing, but seeing Buzz incorporated into G+, I jumped to the conclusion it won't be deprecated soon.
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Link to the release notes: https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelN...
Interesting that he brings up Apple as during their IPO, if it wasn't for Wozniak and his "Woz Plan" the majority of Apple employees and the former earlier employees would have been frozen out of the IPO. Jobs was very much against giving up his share of the pie.

To me, being greedy is hardly the worst trait to have as entrepreneur.
What makes this release significant?
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really need this sequencing hash hack when we have date/timestamps for sequence?
I wouldn't agree that it's a big "unless". The 3GS has set precedent for an "S" version meaning nothing more than suped-up internals.
Check out the presentation at JSConf EU about the new release: http://raphaeljs.com/jsconfeu/
People will move on and hopefully the cities will bank the money. Farming will go back to its #1 position. If they conserve their cash, the towns will be fine. If they spend like a drunken sailor, or worse, borrow heavy, then there will be problems.
Does this mean that you wait until the user submits the whole login form to display an error message if the username is already taken? Do you display a new captcha for each attempt?

What about sites that let the user know his username is already taken using AJAX? Should this be avoided too?

I like zobzu's idea of using an email as login, though.
While I agree this is a big deal, imo it's the tags and graph that make it a daily habit.
You're correct. VCs play a game where they win with other people's money. They make good money regardless of performance (for example, 10-year VC returns seem to be trailing 10-year stock market returns). They make a killing if their portfolio companies do well.

Are you suggesting that this VC pattern justifies the actions of founders who take $21M as dividends ? (to be more precise - founders of a young private company that is dependent on external investment for financing itself)
like everyone else said, the link's not about the UI. But on that subject, autocutsel (http://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel/) can keep all of your X11 clipboards synchronized, so that anything copied to the clipboard can be MMB pasted, and anything selected with the LMB can be Ctrl-V pasted.
They sold shares for 20 Million to the investors to pay out this dividend, so the outcome is the same.
It was a bug. It was broken UX. Everyone agrees with that. And it has been fixed.

But the reason it went unnoticed for (horror of horrors) 2 minor releases, was that it only results from an unorthodox (although supported) usage practice.
I read somewhere that arrogance was measured in milliDijstras...

You sure this is by the same guy?
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You are funny... the submitted site is a blog hosted by wordpress.com.
Ask HN: A VC stole my idea. Should I do something about it?
I've sat on this for a few months. I feel like I should get the word out so people stop going to these guys for money. I'm not going to post details of the situation just yet. I was given the "we don't sign NDAs" speech so there was zero protection both ways, but I wouldn't want to go around badmouthing a firm without thinking hard about it.

Their implementation of my business is faring terribly (or the idea was just crap). Also, none of their investments have done well (it's a new firm), and they've turned away a few entrepreneurs that have done great things.

Overall, I'm relieved I didn't take such an unethical person on as a board member. Should I just leave this to karma? I consider it punishment enough that the MP seems to be less than great at choosing investments. What would you do? If you'd publish something, would you be afraid of getting sued or publicly attacked? That's my main hesitation.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Just sent you a new set of screenshots - should be in your inbox shortly.
I think the thing the worst thing Google does right now is its search. I challenged myself to use Duck Duck Go (DDG) for a month and after a month I'm still using it. The only thing I miss about Google's search are the occasional fun Google logos on holidays. But that's it! There is no real difference. I still find the content I'm looking for, etc.

What that tells me is that yes, there is great room for new search engines. I hear whispers about a super elite team at Google that does amazing algorithm work and data analysis work to keep their engine going, but at the same time I'm getting comparable results with Bing, DDG, etc. Several times people have posted a link to blind search where you see the results without the branding and it becomes difficult to discern the difference.