skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.breakoutlabs.org/about-us.html looks like an interesting entrant into funding early stage research outside academia. Any thoughts on them?
I'm very fond of an article called "Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: Problems with long words used needlessly", won an Ig Nobel prize in 2006 (http://personal.stevens.edu/~ysakamot/730/paper/simple%20wri...).

I agree that my being a non-native English speaker clearly makes the difference in this case, but "more of an educated style of writing" generally means "bad writing" to me. If there's a difficult ("educated") word and an easy word to choose from, there's absolutely no reason to choose the difficult one.
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Obviously, restricting press freedom with laws and with beatings are both bad. However, I don't think 25 beatings in a country as large as the U.S. constitutes a systematic or widespread attack on press freedom.
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True! This is why people invented type checking.
We have that here for a long time now and my idea of this is basically a Ponzi scheme. When you start having old people live longer, retire earlier and not enough young people to support the system, it all collapses. Our own system is already in really bad shape and the government had to increase the minimum age at which you can retire in order to adjust things.
Clients can't predict specs for the same reason developers can't predict budgets. Both parties are part of the invention process. They don't know what they want until they use it, you don't know how to build it until you try.

And when these things are predictable, it's because they aren't novel. And since software is (ideally) non-repetitive, value fundamentally comes from novelty.

In other words, the better you code, the less predictable you will be.
OK, I've watched the first 5 minutes and want to come back to it. How can I reload the page and pick up where I left off?
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How is superannuation (I'm assuming you mean the Australian version) a Ponzi scheme? People have to put their own money into Super plus employers make a mandatory contribution. Super is different to retirement benefits (which are tax payer funded) and really the only thing saving the system from collapse.
Ha, isnt coinpurse a slang term for a scrotum?
And many who escaped TV have been scooped up by the net.
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As a contrary opinion, I nearly didn't read this exactly because it's by Altucher. I almost always get to the end of something he's written and think - well, there's 5 minutes of my life I'll never see again, and which gave me absolutely nothing.

This, however, actually has useful, actionable information. It's the first thing I've (knowingly) read by him that was worth the time it took.
Wonga for USA: a lot ( and there are v many clones ) of these lending companies are already US companies.

They have presences in USA, but have exploded in the UK because the Usury laws are less restrictive.

http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-are-payday-loa...
And that evenings Channel 4 news piece where the industry spokesman talks about it.
Did you see the update?

"To the users of FunnyJunk: I never had plans to sue FunnyJunk and get it shut down; I just wanted my stolen comics removed -- your admin is a moron who chooses his words about as carefully as a mule chooses where to take a shit."

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk2
I sense a parody site coming on ;-)
If you have to pay the same to see Avatar & The Blair Witch Project, then sure, the big budget movies seem like better value. But only a vast price fixing monopoly, supported by ever more draconian legislation, enables that equivalence.

The price of movie distribution is fast approaching zero. If big budget movies had to compete on a level playing field, I suspect they would rapidly become unprofitable.
http://ddg.gg is a common short alias for it.
An alternate system is to pre-book the time. There are a number of ways to work out the mechanics, but the simplest is a piece of paper with time slots for the month. You write your name in the time slot, and can wash during that time. (Better is if the dryer reservation is one hour delayed from the washer reservation.)

It can be that someone frequently over-reserves wash periods. Here's a picture of a more complicated solution involving physical locks http://askersundsflickan.blogg.se/images/2011/dsc05064_13323... . You can only reserve a time with a lock, and you only have one lock.

I have a friend who moved to Switzerland. He says that in his building your laundry times are pre-booked for the entire year. Don't miss your wash day!
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Yeah, but it's all machine code...
I love this article for its irony, intentional or no.

The author cites perfect examples of why the software industry is exactly like Hollywood with its products. Word? Need a license key. Can't open or save ODT files without annoying popups. Apple? Don't even try to partition the system or it will break, and don't use the software on non-Apple hardware. Certainly don't try jailbreaking it. Google? Can we talk about privacy policies?

Of course, the biggest problem is that none of those instances of software are even accessible (fully) by their users. The user can't change the software, they can't even use the software in every capacity.

So I guess the real question is, why are we still acting like Hollywood?
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True, but if your spec only contains the verification, then it's not helping you estimate the time to a solution.
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I think the exact point is that the journals don't pay for peer review.
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Now you know you see a franction of the problem most Europeans face.

All our american (TV) content comes in 3-6 month delays. The fact HBO has decided to scrap their online distribution is just beyond me.
Nice idea, but not very revolutionary. I mean, we already have Processing, which is the same but with time included, and which has significantly more interesting efforts in its gallery, if you ask me. I'm not sure what these people are trying to achieve - if it's to get more people into procedural graphics, an (even) more accessible set of tools would be warranted. If it's to create splendid graphics, better tools would probably be warranted (though admittedly I've only checked 10 pictures or so).

On the programming-a-picture front: I always thought that this one [1] is particularly impressive (4 kilobyte Windows executable; zip includes a jpg for if you don't run Windows)

[1][http://loonies.dk/demos/bin/lns-burjbabil.zip]
Silicon Valley doesn't have to take on Hollywood head-on. That's almost always the wrong strategy to try to beat an incumbent.

The way you beat an incumbent leader is by changing the rules of the games so it's very hard for that company to play that new game, whether it's because they lack the competency or because the have internal conflicts of interest for doing that (think of the TV networks not really wanting to go full-web because it would eat into their much larger profits from traditional advertising).

Of course you don't just change the rules for the sake of changing the. This new game must also feel like the "future" of that market, and you need to be able to attract not only Hollywood "non-consumption", but also be able to transition Hollywood's "consumers" over time to your company (or companies - I still think that what would kill Hollywood is an entire different ecosystem for creating, distributing and watching movie, and not just a movie juggernaut like Hollywood).
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Oh come on. Bing is not a serious alternative to Google. Nobody likes sloppy seconds. If anything people would start switching to duckduckgo or something, which does things much more differently.
If software development is inventing, why aren't software patents OK?

I'm in part playing devil's advocate because I don't agree with software patents. But the problem with us (technical people) not communicating consistently is that if we can't get our story straight how do we expect others to understand what we say?

In the software patent arguments we stay firmly away from the word invention, wary of how it will be used against us. Yet here, for the sake of arguing about estimatation, we seek to embrace the word invention?

I'm not sure we can have it both ways. We've got to collectively get our story straight.
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Am I the only one who has realized, that all you startup people are scared of science? Are the ideas on the list really that hard to fund?

We have some very real problems in this world, but all you seem to care are iPhone/Android apps and stupid websites (copied from one another I guess).
This is a typical 'Wat?' code.
If you're only using CoffeeScript on the server, then you should check out node-fibers to achieve the same effect.

Here's an example of using my Common Node library (that implements a number of sync APIs using fibers - http://olegp.github.com/common-node/) with CoffeeScript: https://gist.github.com/1447709
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I really hate this cliche when applied to startups. Here's how I see it:

The night is darkest just before the dawn...or before it somehow gets even darker.

We read a lot of "I stuck it out 1 more day and then we got rich" stories but it's the same survivor bias that we see in all the startup stories. I would wager that for every 5 companies that "just don't give up", 4 of them eventually give up. But, the 4 that give up don't write self-congratulatory blog posts and give interviews about their failure. So, we only hear about the 1, never about the 4.
Bankruptcy in the US is easier too, so there is probably less demand for stupid loans.
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I got a message about blogger not working on mobile (wtf) and giving me an option that worked. People are really doing stupid stuff with mobile now.
Whoa, whoa. Those aren't startups. Those are organisations tackling big problems that are all funded by the wealth generated by startups.

Did you ignore the words "aristocracy", "delayed", and "roundabout" in my comment?
And then implemented dynamic typing, promoting it as a breaking feature of the language.
One factor about this stock that may inflate its value is its popularity. Everyone knows what fb is, and has heard its success story through books and movie. This may make it overhyped and oversubscribed.
In all honesty, that "neighbourly" action would be even less helpful since you can't even find DDG from a basic landing page which might cause the same confused users to think DDG was one of the assets that Google acquired.

Of course, Google could provide a disambiguation link to DDG on that page, but I can't honestly see any reason why they would or should provide a competitor with free advertising. They could sell the domain, but I can't see any reason why they would or should set an affordable price for a highly-brandable generic four letter domain name.
In that case they were not FHS compliant.
Here's the decode:

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Yeah, that's a likely thing to expect, though I hope I'm personally not the kind who likes to slow down (unless I was truly going at an unsustainable pace ;). I like to think I'm motivated by excellence, though of course that's for others to decide.

This can conflict with most management styles, those which favor uniformity. Hence my choice of companies I work with.
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I love your idea and I think we can make it work in this climate.
Cool ... this project requires specialized skills for some aspects but it would be great if even those tasks could be crowd-sourced.

Good luck guys!
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There is no general authority for the police to abruptly shut down a business. Once a warrant has been executed, the police leave and the business can reopen at its leisure, even if it might need to replace some equipment and staff.

The authority given to courts and federal authorities to behave as they are for suspected copyright infringement is extremely abnormal and cause for great consternation as to the direction of our legal system.
Wow, that's really neat. I'll have to play around with it later.
For a project where I needed to quickly partition a data tale of millions of rows at multiple levels, I wrote a column database with bitmap index for data storage. It is 100% c# code.
The queries and data manipulation is lighting fast the data loading is a little bit slower than traditional db because all the index that needs to be created on the fly, but once is done, is a sweet ride after.
Things that I learned to consider, the quality of the compression algorithm, there is a trade off between compressing and some specifics type of queries.
Also, the cardinality of the column ( number of different values in the column ) will impact the indices that need to be created and the query time response, if the cardinality is too high, b-tree might be a better alternative.
I was working towards making a product out of it, but then I saw SQL Server new column index and I drop it. I don't think anybody would be interested in a little dll, when the big boy is offering the same functionality.
This post is frustratingly vague. It almost reads as pure HN-bait, promising some honest insights to call attention to your new ventures yet without actually relating something of substance. I don't mind that you get attention as you sound deserving, just dont tease us.

I'd say about 99 percent of us are not in your shoes. Do you really think you can say "Not only were none of the mistakes we made novel, a lot of them were mistakes I'd read about before and was sure I'd avoid." and think that most of us, even on HN, know what you mean?
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The difference is in the operations. With a b tree the software operates on 1 row at a time, but when represented as a series of bit, then in a 32 bit CPU you can process 32 rows in 1 instruction. Which leads to bitmap index over GPU...
Please don't use phrases like "criminal behaviour". If you read the article, he was killed by riot police while blockading the factory. Pretty standard peaceful protest, standard procedure when the law doesn't do the right thing, and should not be beaten down with clubs.
...and now I've been upgraded to Firefox 9(!) and the alerts no longer happen.
http://pllop.it/ (disclaimer: I'm an adviser) does some of what you are describing (with a lot more to come), but is positioned more as a product than as tool to be integrated.
Not accurate, you don't need to get all the columns, actually you don't need to operate over all the values of the column. If the data oes not change frequently, then column oriented is faster. The trade off is how many structures needed to be maintained when rows updates... Then row oriented is faster.
Or Conkeror, for those (like me) more used to Emacs shortucts and lifestyle.

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Yes I did. In any case an ad hominem attack is a logical fallacy, and as such it is never appropriate.
Ahhh yeah - all those streaming services, they seem to think Australia doesn't have the internet, or maybe just that we dont have credit cards to pay for stuff. I'd have to jump through proxied ip addresses and fiddled US billing address credit cards to even find out they're selling DRMed files...
In the US prios art does not count anymore. There are papers since the 60s about bitmap indices, but now is first to file not first to invent... Politics screw us up again
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Stack Overflow is being stupid and not allowing me to post comments there. What I wanted to post is that the JSFiddle code the original asker links at http://jsfiddle.net/fe479/1/ runs into the problem that ({}) (opening braces inside of parentheses) is not the same as {} (opening braces as the start of a line of code).

So when you type out({} + []) you are forcing the {} to be something which it is not when you type {} + []. This is part of the 'wat'-ness.

The basic idea is half-hearted: JavaScript wants to allow both of these forms:

if (u)
v;

if (x) {
y;
z;
}

And to do so, two interpretations were made of the opening brace: 1. it is not required and 2. it can appear anywhere.

This was a wrong move. Real code doesn't have an opening brace appearing in the middle of nowhere, and real code also tends to be more fragile when it uses the first form rather than the second. (About once every other month at my last job, I'd get called to a coworker's desk when their modifications to my code weren't working, and the problem was that they'd added a line to the "if" without adding curly braces. I eventually just adopted the habit that the curly braces are always required, even when you're only writing one line.)

Fortunately in many cases eval() will replicate the full wat-ness of JavaScript. The JSFiddle code should read:

function out(code) {
function format(x) {
return typeof x === "string" ?
JSON.stringify(x) : x;
}
document.writeln('&gt;&gt;&gt; ' + code);
document.writeln(format(eval(code)));
}
document.writeln("<pre>");
out('[] + []');
out('[] + {}');
out('{} + []');
out('{} + {}');
out('Array(16).join("wat" + 1)');
out('Array(16).join("wat - 1")');
out('Array(16).join("wat" - 1) + " Batman!"');
document.writeln("</pre>");

[Also that is the first time I have written document.writeln in many many many years, and I feel a little dirty writing anything involving both document.writeln() and eval().]
Unless you set /bin/dash or /bin/sh as your shell you weren't using dash(interactivly). /bin/sh is just a symlink to /bin/dash so dash is only used for scripts with #!/bin/sh at the top.

Even root has /bin/bash as its log in shell.

/bin/dash is more like the original bourne shell which helps people write more portable shell scripts and it's faster(especially for startup).

Dash is also /bin/sh in Debian.

I'm pretty sure even unix V6 had > 11 binaries,
http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/

maybe some systems using busbyox may have < 11 binaries.
But column orientation is not at all about normalization, it is about data structures and manipulating it.
SongBird works fine - http://getsongbird.com/
I think that's a problem.
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I think as software developers we are collectively ignorant about the estimation accuracy possible in other engineering disciplines. Every time we talk about estimating software we point out it isn't analogous to building a bridge or a car and we try to reason about why that is.

Both of my parents are engineers in several different areas (road, civil, and HVAC engineering). Through talking to them I realized that their projects and estimates are always off and by similar margins as the softare projects I've been involved in.

I'm not sure why that is, but people just seem to generally suck at estimating engineering activities. With software I think the problem is more pronounced because the engineering phase so dominates the cost of construction. If designing a bridge takes longer and costs more than what you expected it really isn't such a big deal because actually building it is much more costly and delay-prone. The people financing the project won't have a hard time absorbing the cost associated with incorrect engineering estimates. Quite clearly the situation when it comes to software is different.
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I'd rather see /lib64 being collapsed into /lib. I never quite got why they have to exist. If you really need to support 32-bit legacy libraries on 64-bit machines (a big if) I'd much rather see a lib32 folder instead. Then it would be much cleaner to just kill it when it no longer makes sense.
Thanks for writing this up, and I know exactly what you mean about making all the mistakes you've read about. I've been there too. If you're smart, you only need to make them once. I'm still making a few of them over and over.

I'm also happy to see that most of the comments here are positive. I'm sure you'll get some "Oh, well you should have just done ..." crap here too, but you probably know to ignore that by now.

Good luck in your future ventures and just keep at it. There's no guarantee you'll ever be successful, but doing nothing guarantees that you won't.
If you'd like to play with a SQL-standard column-store, check out the open source LucidDB. http://www.luciddb.org/html/main.html
I was going to write a serious response to this post, then I looked up Wonga realized how poorly thought out and absurd this list was. In fact, we have several of these loan companies that are publicly traded here in the US. Here are their symbols:

CSH
EZPW
FCFS
AEA
DLLR
WRLD
Thanks for the reply, but I'm still slightly confused - do I really have to download all 500MB to be able to pick up where I left off?
I can't speak for the OP, but 2 that have gotten me are t-shirts and advertising.

http://peachshake.com/2011/06/02/should-i-buy-t-shirts/

http://peachshake.com/2011/08/15/when-work-and-play-collide-...
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Another open source program in the same space: Structure Synth. http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/ (Combined with Sunflow to render can make some great images.)