skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is nonsense

then why did you say

> Fortunately when I interviewed at Google they let me use pencil and paper
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Great advice here from Brendan Baker - love the breakdown on buckets. A very practical way to assess your milestones and craft your story.

http://brendanbaker.tumblr.com/post/16830178199/derisking-buckets-how-to-identify-and-deal-with
There's more information on this parasite on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis

Other links on the 'net that I've found are reporting (without any citations) that the parasite can be detected with a blood test (according to wikipedia, not true) and that it cannot be treated (again, according to wikipedia, also not true).

I've seen articles about this parasite pop up over at least the last 5 years. If it was a truly serious problem I'm sure there'd be more information about it. It smells a bit like FUD though.

Can anyone else elaborate on this further?
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This is an important event in the democratization of venture funding. Y Combinator and other incubators are making startup funding as efficient as a traditional bank loan. Kickstarter funding products is another step forward.
Intrinsically, if you believe in what you are doing, there is little of higher value.
I've heard (but you should verify - IANAL) that jurors often err on the side of not sentencing in civil matters.

Judges tend to think that everything should be resolved by the court, after all - they are paid to be there. Jurors tend to think that people should just sort things out without dragging innocent bystanders into a jury box.

Also, people with legal training are taught to think everything deserves compensation, and the only question is who to bill.
because football coaches look at things besides your 40m dash. but that doesn't mean looking at your 40m dash isn't a useful thing to look at.
I think HN is a little self selective in that regard. Majority of the startups here are web startups, hence the concentration of "web developers".

Infact i would imaging there are an order of magnitude more people doing the same thing in the skillset you mention, except they prefer 'consultant'. Infact when i open the career section of the local newspaper here(India), that's pretty much all i see. i.e. pages after pages of acronyms that i've never heard, but are somehow related to ERP, SAP etc. Ofcourse they're more Java/.Net when it comes to enterprisey software.
This is a repost of an earlier submission at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573447

(It was probably posted previously before that)
Here's a screenshot of the entire 'free tier' page as I saw it:

http://i.imgur.com/20nOf.png
(mobile users beware, 1297x2592 and ~400k)
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If we are talking about whether or not sexism occurred, then it does not in fact matter what someone said before or after they said something sexist.

It does not matter with regard to the assessment of his remarks as sexist, but it does matter with regard to his perceived attitude towards women and how that perception will impact his reputation. The author was right to call this guy out for his sexist comments, but it was not right for him to omit 50% of the transcript that shows this guy is actually a human being and not the paragon of male sexism and misogyny.
Fwiw, the Edmund Mcmillen example isn't really accurate; he made a considerable amount of money from his previous game, the IGF-award-winner Gish, that he co-developed with Alex Austin and Josiah Pisciotta. Super Meat Boy was his follow-up.
1) Predict that a new piece of technology will be used to solve a common problem (i.e. using a Facebook page as a resume).

2) Patent it.

3) ...

4) Sue EVERYONE.

5) Now any juror on a case will have an opinion on IP law.
Great advice, and this is something I have been looking into. Honestly, it boils down to risk threshold. I'm in the frame of mind, but not enough to leave my job and put my family at risk. Fine for me to live in a box, not fine for them.
Wouldn't naming conventions solve the problem?
f.ex. -{vendor}-{object}-{property}-{positions vertical-horizontal}-{additional}: {some-value-syntax-also}

In the end, everyone would just drop the prefix. Generating parsing it would be also way easier.
It amazes me what people get capital for in the US. I ran a travel startup in China for a few years that was a lot more solid in business terms, got way past MVP and was essentially proven but needed capital for marketing: I couldn't find it. Bitter? Yes. Amused at some of the utterly repeatable ideas getting stupid money in the valley? Absolutely.
So, what is it?

Lesser ability [1], risk aversion and intolerance (on the part of women) are distinct possibilities. There is quite a bit of evidence supporting each of them. See both my comment and keithflower's reply, which presents additional evidence in favor.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3452963

[1] I'm pushing the Larry Summers' hypothesis of higher variance here, not an unequal mean theory.
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Is she the author of all the power point emails my mom forwards me?
He only mentions doing marketing work for them after his copy discusses several of people's pain points and waxes poetic for a number of paragraphs about their CEO's technical prowess when it comes to WordPress hosting.

Imagine going to a technical conference on petroleum and a politician is talking about the problems of safely distributing oil to industrial consumers and how the CEO of a company that installs long-distance pipelines is wicked smart and has figured out all the challenges... before disclosing that he does marketing on the side for that very company and says that everyone should use them for their oil distribution. Maybe that company is truly awesome and deserved the praise but it'd seem fishy, no?
Perhaps, but Tyler, Texas is not a large metropolitan area, so the chances that your neighbor served on the jury of a patent trial are higher given the propensity of lawyers to sue there.
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3) Wait till the patent has almost expired.
EARRINGS
and for something like a browser, a silly bug will make my personal data ... heck even my mic vulnerable.

android permission is only good if you make specialized apps and make them talk togheter. like it was the original intent with actions and intents. but i guess it didn't worked out ok.
Sounds to me like what guys that have trouble getting laid say around women.
That doesn't make any sense. You've taken an image with arbitrary bytes, and turned it into one where the bytes are tightly centered around a small range of values.That's perfect for Golomb coding (for instance.)
PayPal really is the only solution unless you can get the one bank in Australia to let you open a USD account, you'll also need a modem to check your balance with them online.

This is a good thread http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/brows... about the complexities in setting it up in Australia and unfortunately I suspect Stripe will consider the risks outweigh the benefits of providing this sort of functionality in oz.
I do wish we had a Fry's in Michigan. From my infrequent visits to Silicon Valley they appear to be thriving.

Locally it's Radio Shack and a few tiny independents. However I was really happy to see Radio Shack start carrying Arduino parts.
That's indeed a good example. Now we just need 4-5 more examples to prove it's repeatable rather than a fluke. :)
I would find it unpleasant to be called "C-class talent," but I'd also find it unpleasant to get a C. In both cases, that would prompt me to either step up my game or reconsider my priorities.

People are unequal, and in a business context, that means some people are worth less than others. You can grade them on a curve, but that just means we'll all learn that a "B" means you're a failure, and that really good companies are only recruiting among As and A+s. Differences in ability can't be fixed through semantics.
In short: Context. You might want to pretend it doesn't matter, but it does.

Sheesh. You'd think coders (of which we have many here) would understand the importance of context! ;)
Cinema is a nice way to exclude people from your property. You can mandate no-camera and tighten the security for releases.

I have no entitlement complex, as I've said already I don't mind paying for cinema tickets and I don't even use other commercial media. If you're referring to focusing only on consumers and ignoring what's "fair" for the producer, they you are right, but also fail to understand the point of a market system - consumers are entitled, the whole system is designed to satisfy their needs, producers are meant to fight each other to do so and get the best results for the least amount of money. So yes starving artists - you don't have rights that trump the rights of the consumer.
Well I'm glad to see the end of that. Its quite possible some courts (judges/juries) would not have grasped the true ramifications of this claim and may have opened a can of worms.
"Putting down hipmunk before launching when you are going to compete with them..."

I argue that this is the main problem with the entire blog post. I would rather than Mozio actually showed why they are better than all of the social travel startups they mention, as opposed to disparaging them while their own homepage links to a Launchrock signup page.
For me the main appeal of Hipmunk's interface is that it makes it easy to use 'soft' search parameters.

Every travel agency will let you search for flights based on price range, departure time, arrival time, and layover time. However, I usually don't care if a flight leaves at 5 or 4:45, or I'm willing to pay an extra $20 if it means my layover is reduced by an hour. With a normal search interface I'd either have to do multiple searches, or relax the limits of all the parameters and have to sort though a large breadth of results. On top of this, the results are presented in such a way that I need to consider a single variable at a time ("hmm okay this flight leaves a bit earlier, but it costs __ and arrives at ___. This flight has a minimal layover, but it leaves at ___ and costs ___").

In contrast, the interface Hipmunk has developed makes it exceedingly easy to view all the variables at once, and to quickly narrow down flights I'd potentially be interested in. Not only is the timeline interface much easier to understand than say expedia's "sort results by one variable at a time", but it's an intuitive way to compare the overall utility of multiple flights at once. And since at the end of the day that's exactly what I'm looking for in a travel website - an intuitive way to quickly compare numerous options and choose the 'best' one according to my personal heuristics - I use Hipmunk when I need to book a flight.
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The raw data is available here: http://s.tk/wpwraw
The sexy comments were obnoxious and almost certainly wouldn't have been made about a man

Hmm. Perhaps not directly, but is it inconceivable that an announcer might say something about how sharply a man is dressed?
Actually, it seems to be both age and having a daughter, compounded. Older men seem generally more agreeable/less-fratboy, but men with daughters seem to be actively conscious of the environment and actively try to be respectful, even if it's counter to the culture.

Of course, this is all just anecdotal, and my sample size is still small right now.
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When I look for flights, I check bing, kayak, orbitz as well as hipmunk. Which one do I prefer? Simple: the one that gives me the best fare. Unfortunately it ends up being a different one each time.
I'd use a VM if you're running things like mysql, nosql stuff, etc. OSX it seems like everyone has a different way of installing things, on a Linux it's just "sudo apt-get", plus if you have issues there's more documentation and forums for Linux users than Mac.
Awesome thanks for the feedback.

-I might move the logos for youtube etc to an about page or something - just got to make sure that fits with youtube guidelines otherwise i'll play around with the placement.

- And yeah it is because I can not get that information from youtube. Wasn't sure how best to show that. Maybe just say "Unavailable - from youtube" or something. I could try parsing it, that may be unreliable - but do able.

- If you register you can save playlists. I should say that I suppose! But ya you can save all your playlists and it will be like itunes. It also has a library of all the songs so you can save songs and all that. Although you can still click share when making a playlist and get a playlist url, saving allows you to see all the playlists you want saved - I guess. I plan to make a video explaining some things later.

- Normal search draws from musicbrainz, last fm and youtube. The songs are from youtube (searching for songs using the musicbrainz DB wasn't very reliable). So all the album names and artists are from musicbrainz.org and if you click "top songs" those are the top songs from last.fm. Musicbrainz provides an open source database so that is what I use to get the names of albums/artists/songs.

- No that is awesome. I am not done it yet but wanted to get some feedback for what I could fix and all.

And skipping seems to be working fine for me. Do you get an error in the console when you click next? The shuffle button doesn't work yet I just have it sitting there with no functionality right now.
I heard that Dave whiner was doing this, but can not find any explicit instructions. Would you please let me know any resources?
Are you saying that Firefox interprets -webkit- styles? If that's the case then there is no way of solving this problem because the browsers are subverting what is essentially a dependency injection process.
I'm not sure if this is deliberately obtuse, but: all else being equal, the smarter and harder-working person will win, right? The existence of some randomness doesn't mean that skill and judgement are immaterial--if you disagree with that, let's play poker some time.
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Gish only made sales of $120k[1]. Edwin worked with a publisher and as you mentioned worked with other people, so I don't think he made a considerable amount of money there. In interviews and podcasts he frequently mentions being 'poor' for a long time while making games.

Even disregarding all that, he was making games before he made Gish, so the example still holds.

My point was, nobody is going to pay you while you practice, unless you get a job with BigCorp as part of a team and work your way up.

[1]http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/09/sales-stats-gish-1210...
Huh. That is really odd. That could very well be what's going on with the Kayak site. I just assumed there was some helpful autoscrolling thing going on.

Thanks for sharing!
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Awesome product, brilliant people, answered all my emails in less than 15 minutes...

I so much want to become a customer that I'm seriously considering incorporating ShiningPanda LLC (or C-Corp) somewhere in the United States for this sole purpose. And probably dissolving ShiningPanda SAS (French equivalent, more or less, of a C-Corp) to reduce the costs, as SAS are pretty expensive to keep around, and it would become largely pointless.

Do someone have experience with such an endeavor? The part that I can't seem to figure out is how to pay foreign people, living abroad, from an American company. All the while avoiding double taxation.

If someone have references toward a good lawyer / accountant / tax lawyer to figure out all that... My email is alexis dot tabary at shiningpanda dot com
For me, it's to keep software versions consistent between development and production. Our servers run Ubuntu LTS, whereas I'd probably be using something more up-to-date if I were running Linux locally.
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Bingo. Git workflow/collaboration needs to be made simple for everyone involved. Shameless plug: http://gitpilot.com is our attempt at solving the problem. But, I think you hit the nail on the head that developers need to make Git easier to use.
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he blatantly admit copying a product and sue competitors instead of offering a better deal to consumers.

the 80s are back or something?

And who sells a company that makes 26mi in profits for 20mi? did the journalist just wrote any crap he listened to without even thinking?

...why am i still reading that?
Pay is not the independent variable here. I'm not arguing that if you double someone's pay, you'll double their performance. I'm saying that if there's zero correlation between pay and performance, and that pay to some extent predicts pre-pay performance, then one is forced to argue that well-paid CEOs are superior to poorly-paid CEOs, on average, but that they capture the benefit they create.

And that's not hard to believe. If someone had just a 10% chance of running Exxon 1% more profitably, their market value would be $40 million per year.
I could be mistaken here but pushing out negative marketing before you release your product seems like an awfully bad idea for a startup. This isn't the kind of attention you want and you run the risk of completely turning off potential customers who are currently fans of the services you're frowning upon.
How do I fork a design? Can I make another layer and merge it into the PS file so that others can tweak my changes?

Just ideas that popped into my head looking at this. It's pretty awesome, great job!
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You're implying that nobody in particular controls WebKit? That is patently false.

"When you assume", well, you know the rest...

I only say that neither Apple nor Google (or Amazon, Samsung, QT, KDE, etc) control Webkit now. If all of them control it, thats not a monopoly of control. Plus, it's open source. If you want to toil at it for free, or throw millions of money to take it to the direction you want, you are able to.

And the distinction between a browser engine monopoly and a browser monopoly is irrelevant to this discussion. We're talking about browser engines here.

We're talking about innovation re: browsers, in this particular THREAD (threads can diverge from the main post point, and such innovation can also happen at the browser level. Plus, I ALSO covered the engine monopoly with respect to browser rendering innovation.

Furthermore, suggesting that people can add "new rendering features and options" on top of WebKit solves nothing! Those would just have to be prefixed in the same way, or would be incompatible, and we're back to square one.

Only I didn't say this AS a solution to the prefixing issue --which I didn't address at all.

What I addressed was that a "single browser engine" != "rendering innovation stops", because innovation can happen ON TOP of a single browser engine as well as on top of different engines.
It would be worth checking out homebrew for installing stuff. It's pretty good.
i am so happy someone finally said this about Hipmunk! i can sign for every word in this.

about me: i travel across the globe 1-4 times a month. see absolutely no reason to prefer it to kayak

i found that some YC-hardcore fans of hipmunk that love-love-love it travel few times/year at most.
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Great interview. Almost zero tech talk, but awesome insights.
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A Rack middleware that expels undesirable browsers out of your website.
It will be interesting to see how the extra money affects the game. They said they are going to inject all of it into development but since they want this to be out by October-ish they are going to have to cut scope eventually.

I honestly hope they bump out the date like six months and go bigger rather than getting it done for October and then using the extra cash to do things like porting the game to other platforms.

Hell reaching 5 million is not out of the question and that could keep a team of 10-15 people employed for two years at the minimum. They could reach a point where they literally can't spent money fast enough if they actually want to make this game with small team.
Correlation does not equal causation. My guess is that people with more pronounceable names are more likely to be white due to culture, white people are more likely to be upper class, and upper class people are more likely to obtain a promotion.
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The idea behind vendor prefixes is that they are implementations of ideas before conventions have been established. When two vendors implement something simultaneously but pre-spec, it's hard to tell which one will end up being canonical.

Your general convention is probably good, but in 5 years time when n parameters have ended up in your {additional} parameter, people will ask why that, too, doesn't follow a convention. The answer is definitionally that the convention doesn't exist yet, and the vendor prefix is a step on the way to establishing one.
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After they took people's contact info without asking, they had to make it up to their customers. They deleted the info immediately, updated the app, and issued a sincere apology. This is the opposite of "condoning" their actions.
Programming is also a solitary endeavor so close to impossible that it seems to require obsession just to reach a minimal level of competence. If anyone is dependent on peer validation and role models (which basically didn't exist for any of us until the first dotcom bubble in the mid-90s), if they care more about what other people think than the Platonic ideals of computation, I don't think they're equipped to thrive and do noteworthy work. Even if we did have some way to make a kid more asocial and hyperfocused while growing up, we'd have to think hard about whether it's ethical to do it to them in this extrovert-oriented society.
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Here's a thought. Helen Fisher's research categorises people into four dominant personality types based on levels of neurochemicals: http://socionist.blogspot.com/2009/04/helen-fishers-types-ex...

For dopamine, which according to the cat article is elevated in Toxo-infected humans, the associated personality type is "risk-taking, curious, creative, impulsive, optimistic and energetic". Plus the associated decrease in fear response in rats: who does that sound like?

i.e. I wonder what percentage of entrepreneurs are Toxo infected?
We were just encouraged to take a different approach. Not rejected. That's why I'm curious to see if others have had a different experience if they've been up front about what they're doing.