skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that he may refer at the first time entrepreneurs, unproven entrepreneurs.
Because after your first success (hopefully) bet you will know more and they won't try to mess you too much anymore.
My guess...
Andrew got it right, it is a problem of survival bias.

I have been lucky two times.

I have been an entrepreneur, I was succesfull enough but not enough to cover the risks (i am italian, doing business here is risky).

Then I set up myself to find a job, in a time where there aren't many and in a country in full recession. And found a good one!

I can say it was hard. But even if I had been told that i could try and fail, I would have tried anyway.

Sometimes, you really have nothing to lose.
Jews had lived in the region for thousands of years, but there was a Zionist mass migration to Palestine (the Jewish population in Palestine doubled from 1922-1931) that likely increased tensions.

There has been violence from both sides of the conflict. On the Zionist side, there's another incident I've never heard mentioned in the media: the 1946 David Hotel bombing in which a Zionist terorist organization bombed a hotel in a strike at the British, killing 91 in one of the first historic examples of terrorism targeting civilians. This bombing was commemorated in 2006 by Benjamin Netanyahu and former members of the terrorist organization and a plaque was put up that effectively blamed the British, rather than the terrorist operation, for the deaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing#60th_a...
It means "Nobody understands REST and it has been so misused that it has lost its usefulness as a term, let's create a new term for the original concept, a term that better reflects what REST really means". That term is Hypermedia APIs.
I particularly enjoyed the little comment on modern society: "Money doesn’t buy happiness but it certainly solves your money problems".
As you have little trouble hotlinking your images off of Flickr servers to your own site (without Flickr's required attribution), can't you just pin the direct JPG URL?
Google-Branded Tablet to Land in April
Essential Sublime Text 2 Plugins and Extensions
Dang, well, let me know if you come up here :P
Word of Mouth - Github marketing [slides]
Ask HN: Single page web app framework
Director, Sammyjs, Backbone.js, Spine.js,JavaScriptMVC, SproutCore, or Ember.js.... anyone?
Nimble Bit takes another bite at Zynga
I'm not in any way a safety expert, as well. But this argument caught my eye. So I asked my brother who is a fire fighter. Fire exits are, in general, supposed to open outwards. Regarding blocking, according to him, there is a reason why when you look at any properly made fire exit, there is nothing heavy hovering above it.

Now as for the door knobs, most fire exits don't have the normal door handles. Like in cinemas and theaters, there's this small slot where you can place your hand. For larger buildings though, there are bigger handles shaped like a hook.
Ahem, does that presentation say anything else? It’s explicitly about people who are introverts. It doesn’t mention or target extroverts at all. It doesn’t say anything whatsoever negative about extroverts or imply that there is anything wrong with them.
There are some good UI ideas. Wish the Linux desktop designers would implement some of them.
Agreed. It is interesting, though, to consider just how many bits of identifying information you must sacrifice in order to make your existence known while securing your anonymity. Also, considering Light’s ultimate goal was world domination, he would’ve had to make strategic anonymity sacrifices all along regardless. I say his first mistake was just jumping the gun with insufficient research.
Why the startup route
It’s the end of the line for telco
No, I think you're right. I'm pretty sure strictfp is misunderstanding REST.

TO answer your question (though it may have been rhetorical), the way the client consumes the service has no bearing on whether or not it is RESTful.
I don't think this is true at all. I'm not saying that they will never hire an extra person in case they find two truly exceptional people (exceptional as in they feel like they really are missing out sending one home, not just that they are good programmers), but I'm sure that most of the times the hiring mechanism is quite compartmented.

If you interview with a specific group/organization, they need some people to do something in that group/organization. Now, it's possible that they leave a good comment about the "second" candidate, and it's possible that other groups eventually will contact them I guess, but I find unlikely that they will just hire two people in a group if they need one.

It's not like the people who interview you are interviewing you for the entire Google.

Most likely for 100 positions they are interviewing several hundred candidates. If their reasoning was like you were suggesting they would end up hiring about 200 people each time. 100 of which would have to find a group to work for.

Not a good idea.
The problem with taking money from big VC's.
Whilst it was a mistake in leading to his capture I must agree, he wanted it to be known he existed. It was the entire point, scare people into not being evil.
The Damned  The Metro Sydney
"Syntactic sugar on the lambda calculus" is just silly, really. I wish people would stop saying this. It's like saying imperative languages are syntactic sugar on Turing Machines.

This is a bit of a pet peeve for me, really. It seems like an unnecessary pithy dismissal of computation theory.
(I'm yet another Google engineer.)

Personally, in my interviewing I don't care at all about schools or GPAs. (I think the only time I've even considered the school is when candidates are from a big name school like MIT, where I will modify my interview to ask more culture questions to try to see whether they are too full of themselves.)

Instead, consider this: hiring someone who isn't good is much more costly than not hiring someone who is good. It's not only that you need to pay a person who doesn't do good work, but they're also a drag on everyone else who is already really busy. That is to say, it's much better to err on the side of "no hire" when you have any doubt; Google has plenty of employees already, and while they surely want more (and the bar is continually lowering), there's also no shortage of people who are willing to go through the legendarily Kafkaesque interview process repeatedly.

So it is possible that your one bad interview sunk you, even when it wasn't indicative of your skill. Everyone has bad days or bad luck sometimes, so don't feel too bad about it. You're in a good position in the world where there are many other tech companies eager to hire you as well and even compete on what they offer you.
Manga adapted into an anime and movie(s) to be pedantic.
Sorry, but Andy Inahtko is a moron. He completely bungled the whole iPhone mute switch thing. And now he suggests that torrenters claim they are "forced" to steal? Puh-lease. Saying "no one's entitled to anything" is just a stupid argument. And anyone with half a brain has moved beyond comparing the theft of atoms and bits. Sheesh.
It is genetic. If you can tell, you can tell easily, but most people can't tell.
The crypto cards in modern satellite TV systems haven't remained unbroken. I know of several people personally that are pirating satellite TV right now. It just required a lot more work and physical access to hardware and not just a simple software hack.

The other thing about satellite TV is that once broken for one person the knowledge has to be given to many other people for them to gain anything from it. With breaking Blu-Ray one person has to rip it to 1080p video and the rest can download it...
Right. The thing that blew our minds (my friends and I) was that I clenched my fist around the pieces and watched my hand like a hawk. The only rational possibility I see for misdirection would have happened before I knew I was supposed to close my hand; but hard to say. Greatest trick I've ever witnessed!
The Grand Theatre of Havana
cf Kung Fu Panda!
New 'Buried At Birth' album Force / Quit
What's funny is that the second comment down here is about office restroom design :-)
Depends on the assumptions you make, I think. If we make the assumption that #2 and #3 obtained Death Notes at a known time, then any observations before then still pin down #1 - if there are kills at morning Japan-time, that serves to pin him down to Japan, etc.

But once #2 and #3 become equally active, now any evidence like that serves to narrow down the propositions 'any of #1, #2, #3 are in Japan', so if someone asked you what's the odds that #2 lives in Japan, you would only have 1/3 the evidence you did before - because any kill linked to Japan would only have 1/3 chance of having been #2. If a kill is made using information from a rural Iowan newspaper with circulation of 100, well, all you know is that any of 1/2/3 had access to it (and maybe all 3!). And so on.

(In bit terms, if there were 4 Death Note users, then any observation has 1/4 the power it did, or 1/2^2; similarly, if there were 16 users, or 32 users... Once you established someone was a Death Note user you would still need to do that many more bits of work to figure out which Death Note user you want.)
How Whole Foods Became The Luxury Brand Of Millennials
If you want to take an entrepreneurial lesson from this:

1) Get your permits. Dot your Is, cross your Ts if you can. If you can't and you think you are in the right, you should probably do it anyway.
2) If someone infinitely more powerful than you wants you to fail, things will not be easy for you.
3) Politics, business and technology mix whether you want them to or not.
4) If you are a powerful entity bullying your competition, there will be bad PR. There may be consequences in the future. You've been warned and it may be in your long-term interests to behave yourself.

Interestingly enough as I read the above I see a strong pro-Palestinian bent. But the 3 Jews sitting next to me right now would see me as a more middle-of-the-road-why-can't-we-all-get-along sort.
I think with a house a better example is that after buying te house you still have to pay council rates (you do here at least). The person selling your the house transfered you all their rights to it, the house though comes with the stipulation you have to pay the rates.
I actually like the side discussion about restroom design a lot. The difficult part about these types of problems is that the guy who's picking up the paper towels doesn't have the authority to move the trash can.
Well, all I can say is I don't remember writing this! Whomever did so must be one clever fellow though, and I'd be happy to assist anyone in trying to catch him...
Argan Oil
These are the benefits of LaTex - logical rather than physical structure. But LaYeX, strikingly beautiful though its output is, has not taken off outside computer science journal articles.

Two opposing points: (1) on reddit, I'll often check the markup result, going back and forth (esp checking URLs - probably less important for other writing), and that seems inefficient. I did the same with LaTeX; (2) when I read the text in the rendered format, I'll pick up different typos, perhaps because the line-spacing and font are different and so my eyes parse it differently (like that trick with "of" doubled at end and start of a line).

For a year, I used a homegrown markup language for uni notes. It was fun to use, seemed helpful, but I think was primarily self-indulgent.
Maybe I should try it again - I'm currently using either plaintext for documentation (which isn't really clear enough); or open office Word (which takes forever to startup, doesn't feel accessible (can't just cat or head or tail or more or less or grep it), has non-vi keybindings and generally is a pain (though I complement their job of copying MS Word).

Finally - I'm kinda surprised at markdown's success (and it really is successful). I would expect WYSIWYG to be more user-friendly. I think one factor is that markup is optional in the context where it's been successful (like reddit). In other words, it may be "successful" because (1) it's not actually needed or used much (I mean, typos/grammos are endemic online, right?) (2) it has the gentlest possible learning curve if you do want to use it. Does this mean it would be terrible at more serious uses? Or that it is ideal to disrupt incumbent formatting methods? (disrupt defined: "initially worse at key features, but has features appealing to different users such as convenience/price/accessibility").

It would be interesting to measure the percentage of reddit comments that actually use any markdown at all. I think it would be very low, something like 1-2%

BTW: You had my vote at ZX81 is that wrong?
So would it be a fair paraphrase of his view to say that Mark Zuckerberg shouldn't have cared about the percentage of Facebook that he retained?
Rails 4.0: PATCH will replace PUT as the primary HTTP method for updates
Given how things work in the US, I guess that might be true. But on what grounds does someone get sued for saying "we don't think you know enough about template metaprogramming"? (that's less frivolous than getting sued for saying "we don't have a position for you at the moment", that is, since you don't need a reason to sue.)
Where I thought Marco might have been going with this is all the web designers who try to solve their design deficiencies with help text.
Certainly, a HN thread won't end up filled with a side discussion about office restroom design.

I've upvoted your comment to help ensure that won't be the case.

My other comment being close to the top of the thread at the moment, I'm sorry to have addressed the door design aspect rather than Marco's main point, it's indeed not as interesting a topic for discussion. I might learn something about fire safety today, though. And I'm confident HN voters will make sure there's no derailment.
Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
I don't believe I said otherwise?

EDIT: I was referring to the DRM part of it. The fact that people are impatient (and that this drives piracy) is kind of my point.
That description sounds exactly like what Facebook PR is bragging about now. The heads of the company even seem very similar.
Indeed - it is on my todo list.
> of the first historic examples of terrorism targeting civilians.

Not only was the KD hotel a military headquarters, it was supposed to be empty at the time of the bombing.

You're either ignorant or lying for some reason.
Why would we expect patching vitamin C to be hard or come with consequences? As pointed out, it's trivial enough that almost all animals do it.
I don't think you'll find it hard for the Hacker News crowd to be against the MPAA, or for alternative methods of distribution.
That's not my meaning.

Higher level math requires abstract thinking. Abstract thinking is hard. If you can learn to think abstractly then it will allow (or help) you solve a large class of abstract problems. If math is broken down such that it does not require abstract thinking and a person does not learn to think abstractly then they will not be able to solve that large class of abstract problems.

Or so my line of likely incorrect train of thought goes.
Java Heap space - HotSpot VM
they asked for an email as id, and a password.
> why is it different all of the sudden if we put "Palestine" and "Israel" back in the article.

Because it's a traditional flame-bait subject and will never produce useful discussion. Sure, some of the things you mention would be interesting, but this article does not discuss those, and even if it did discuss those the comments would still have very dull repetitive flame-baiting; and they would be the same comments seen for many many years.

> but because their own disguised biases are telling them to act that way.

No, it's just a really un-interesting topic for HN. As other people have mentioned there are much better places for this article. 4chan, or reddit, for example.
Props for taking a probably-off-topic post and bringing it on-topic.
For those interesting in peeling back another layer of the onion on the odd world of the MPAA, definitely watch This Film Is Not Yet Rated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated
The content of this post isn't unique to BIG VCs. Anytime you take money from someone that is capable of following-on, and they don't, it's a major bad signal. However, on the flip side, a professional VC that comes in at A or later is going to know that any investor w/ a strategy that doesn't include following on, is gonna be biased in the other direction.

The bigger miss, from a post like this, is saying the problem is getting in bed with a BIG VC too early. Take money where you can get it from, if you need it. Most people will never be in a position to choose one firm's money over another. And today's climate, most rounds are syndicated (this post is a few years old). However, the risk / rewards of getting involved with any professional investor is they give you capital to accelerate growth, but will kill you if you fail to meet or exceed expectations. Big VCs want to follow on and aren't looking to tank a successful company. However, if you don't do your job, they won't normally throw good money after bad.

Investors only become a problem if the founder(s) don't do their job, which is to grow HUGE FAST! If you do that, you won't have to worry about the aforementioned situation where a BIG VC failing to follow-on kills you in a future round.
Brokers Suck, Lean Startup Trying to Solve This Problem
I'm no biologist or evolutionist but it appears to me that welfare society and mass healthcare greatly reduced the effects of natural selection. As long as Vitamin C food supplements are easily accessible and people are educated to take them, there's simply no evolutionary imperative to "fix this bug." Maybe the author was referring to some sort of future artificial genetic engineering-based solution?
Slightly offtopic: I think a lot of introverts are considered shy unfairly.

I'm an introvert myself, and I've been always described as "shy", but I don't think I am. I have never had any problems with meeting new people, even if they supposedly "outrank" me. (In fact, as an anecdote, on my first job interview the interviewer remarked she was surprised at how relaxed I was).

I tend to be quiet for two reasons. First, do you know that common saying that says that a real friend is someone who can sit with you in silence? Yeah, I can sit with anyone in silence. Never feels awkward to me.

Second, I hate, truly hate small talk. When I watched George Carlin's People are Boring[1] I found myself violently agreeing. And since I instinctively follow the golden rule in those cases, and I know my interests are unusual, I tend to avoid boring others by staying quiet.

What I really need is a way to distinguish true interest from politeness. But unfortunately that seems to be far too common a defect.

Any other introverts who don't consider themselves shy?

[1]: http://youtu.be/eyWsFfd9pqE
But some of them dislike it so much that they’ll take their paper towel over to the door, turn the knob with it, and throw it on the floor while exiting.

OK, cool post, cool story, etc. But is it merely for rhetorical effect? I've used a lot of office and public bathrooms over the years and have never seen paper towels scattered around the doorway.

Protip for the slovenly scatterers, though, this is what cuffs are handy for ;-)
Well, even if you don't work from home, it's a good idea to regularly see people besides your co-workers.

This is, of course, presuming something like a non-customer facing office job. If you work in retail, live by yourself to your heart's content.
Am I off in thinking it's horrible for the interviewers to not provide feedback during the interview?

I'd also be curious how much throwawayttt probed for feedback during the interview process.

It always hurts to not get something you work hard for -- sorry mate!
how about he does all dishes both his and roomates, then figure out other types of chores they can do to balance it out, like mowing lawns and/or grocery shopping. better to focus on results and time spent instead of being right and miserable.
Yes, I've seen similar things and almost-identical signs posted in office bathrooms before.
You might buy a physical item (say a DVD) from a shop but the contents of the DVD are separately licensed. Obviously this a somewhat convoluted arrangement.

The economic difference is that when you buy something like say a car the person selling it will price it roughly as cost for them to acquire/make + tax + profit margin.

If you wanted to actually buy a piece of music the price that you paid would have to at least equal the cost to produce it, so you'd be paying say $10,000+ for a CD.

Of course then you would be free to do what you wanted with it, such as put it on the Internet for free download but pretty quickly you'd realise you were getting a bum deal so would want to at least get some of the money you paid for it back from other people who were enjoying it.
Adobe Photoshop Touch hits iPad 2 for $9.99
Usability issues aside, the UI is so flat and, in places, so low-contrast, there's a large segment of the population that wouldn't be able to see it, let alone use it.
Not only this, but these same people seem to have no problem touching other door knobs throughout the office, which presumably all of the dirty-bathroom hands of your officemates have also touched.
We don't know whether any other genes have adapted in the last 10 million years to the lack of the pathway needed to synthesize vitamin C. Reintroducing the proteins for this pathway may cause unintended interactions with existing proteins.

Imagine a large software system that had a small mobile website. New changes to the code must be compatible with this mobile website and can't break it. Now imagine that one day this mobile website was taken out. Development continues but since there's no need to worry about the mobile site numerous incompatible changes creep in over time.

Now suddenly new management comes in and decides that the mobile site should be brought back. Clearly, as soon as they try to put it back in they run into every incompatible change ever made to the code and the whole thing becomes highly unstable.

So that's what (might) have happened in the body. With no worrying about whether a new mutation might negatively interact with the vitamin C pathway that new mutation can proliferate freely, especially if it is beneficial. All reverse-compatibility is lost.
There are exceptions always, especially when an entrepreneur think he will do that thing his whole life (as Mark Zuckerberg is ought to do).

If you are a first time entrepreneur and you have the mindset of "I like to start things, over and over again" then it's easy to give up larger chunks of your first company because you know you will come back to start another startup after a while. Serial entrepreneurs belong here.

If you think "This is something I'll be doing my whole life and I couldn't see myself doing anything else" then yes, it's harder to give up good chunks of your first and last company. Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs and others like them belong here.
Wow - that's a lot of fun!
Yes, you can save/load script files and interpreter sessions to the device. The save path is in sys.path so those saved scripts can be imported into other scripts or the interpreter as well.
Those who failed might have been tried very hard indeed, but this doesn't mean that they were moving in right direction. My opinion is that each one can excel, if they really would want it, put a lot into it, would be willing to constantly learn from their mistakes.

As for the poem… Liked it very much. I think I can get that feeling myself sometimes. But—it's been said a lot that the way itself should be the end goal, not destination. Otherwise such pessimism would be inevitable. Don't look to get to ‘another land, another sea’. Enjoy the journey.