skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investors invest in people and not product/services unless that service has some traction. If the product/service has traction then the person generally becomes someone of importance.

Generally speaking, someone with a track record will have an easier time getting funded with a shitty product/service than a first time founder who has a great product/service, will have a more difficult time 9/10 times.

The strange this about this is that a 'track record' seems to be loosely defined. In SV, it seems like if you're associated with a success story as an employee you will also have an easier time raising money than a first timer. So working for a funded startup can be helpful.

I am wondering if anyone has stats that shows it is better to invest in someone with a "track record" vs someone who is going at it for the first time. Seems like hitting it out of the park twice is rare unless you are the the "lucky" exception, which doesn't seem to happen often.

All in all, I think the easiest way to decide whether to invest or not is... traction.
Again. Sell Before Building. Get Started Now.
There is an Android permission that an application can request and a user can grant which allows applications to read SMS.
That model still uses the forefingers to move the mouse.

While I've tried those, I've never found them to be comfortable or functional.

To each his own, I guess.
This. I pay $5 for coffee, apps, but not a single text message.
Would you kindly share your ifttt recipe?
> Gladly the industry seems to be (slowly) standardizing on micro-USB plugs, except for laptops

Largely because the EU pretty much threatened the cell phone manufacturers with heavy regulation unless they came up with some sort of standard. Since they "have" to do micro-USB for the EU, they might as well do it everywhere.
Ok. We have a huge, detail-free set of accusations here, in a high-profile newspaper blogspam whose source link doesn't link to an actual story, only to the home page of the publication it's referencing.

We're going to need a lot more here.
Don't sweat it, I didn't see it the first time and it's a good read, glad it was reposted. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Also, HN search for previous submissions is hit or miss. A more reliable way is to search ddg or google for 'site:news.ycombinator.com [url you want to submit]'.
This is true [1], but part of that is because Android allows you to use whatever text messaging app you want rather than forcing you to use the one provided. And of course, this is a permission that you have to agree to [2].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserE...

[2]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm...
Kind of scummy, I didn't know it would be $5 until AFTER I put my sms/email in. I don't think they'll use it, but they could potentially gather interest lists this way.

Edit: To be clear, it states that it's $5 on the first page, but I hadn't read the whole text. Seems like there should be a payment then you do the service, not the reverse.

Edit2: Here I thought this was run by the official raspberry pi guys, at least that would be ok. Charging for alerts like this? Seriously.
How far is Facebook willing to go to control the social fabric of the internet !?, Scary...
Working Anywhere
what you call "fluff" is the stuff you need to understand if you want to understand clojure because they are not just "ideas", it's what clojure implements and how it works...

having said that you might find something here: http://alexott.net/en/clojure/video.html
> all of which are known to be less effective than proven methods of learning math that have been known for hundreds of years.

[Citation needed]. The methods my kids currently use, seem more effective that the ones I used at school. I am in my late 40s.

edit: I'm based in the UK, however.
Daily routines: What time of the day works best for you?
Atheism to me (Buddhist) appears to just be a confusing mixture of nihilism and materialism. There are deities in Buddhism, but this is the display of your own mind.
Here you go: http://ifttt.com/recipes/22545

Pay attention, you will get an email every time a new blog post appears on the Raspberry Pi blog.
Combining the RSS from the Raspberry Pi with Yahoo pipes to filter on specific words can render an alert functionality easily to alert you only on the launch.

I am interested in all blogposts from the Raspberry Pi, so have this set up as an email alert.
The recipe is easily to adjust into an SMS alert:
http://ifttt.com/recipes/22546
I'm going to note that ZDNet got a reply from Facebook that completely denies the claim. The article in question was making the claim based on the permissions that Facebook requests on Android, and not actual evidence.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-youtube-others-accuse...
"Please don't give any money to 3rd party $ites saying they'll alert you when the Raspi is available - we'll be giving you notice for free." – @Raspberry_Pi
https://twitter.com/#!/raspberry_pi/status/17383805694681088...
If you read the actual opinion (which I recommend, it's very interesting), placing the tracking device on the vehicle's undercarriage is actually trespass:

"It is important to be clear about what occurred in this
case: The Government physically occupied private property for the purpose of obtaining information. We have no
doubt that such a physical intrusion would have been
considered a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth
Amendment when it was adopted." (page 4 of the opinion, 6 of the pdf)

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf
They have said that they will pre-announce the starting time anyway.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/696#comment-12562
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> Android devices are many different sizes and shapes, so this sort of consistency is practically impossible (although I'd be really impressed if someone pulled it off, surely there's a way to get physical device dimensions in the Android SDK?)

If you are interested in how this for Android, the android design sign on metrics has a good overview, particularly the section on 48dp rhythm: http://developer.android.com/design/style/metrics-grids.html
Yes, they can, but the ability is used for services like DeskSMS and messaging app replacements.
I believe the author of this has refined/updated some of this thoughts since that first post.
Try this alternative: http://www.mashape.com/apis/World+Time+Engine+-+Free

Up to 200 calls/day for free.

This API can be used to search by coordinates, IP Addresses and place names to get the most accurate current local times for a given place.
Tax time: Three basic steps to get you closer to filing your taxes on time
I agree with you it probably isn't economical, at least not yet. But the reason for wanting it is for the power supplies to be arbitrarily interchangeable.

One of the big advantages of the move towards micro-USB charging cables for phones, for example, is that in my house we now have several adapters spread around the house, and both my wife and I can now charge our phones at any one of them, despite having different brands.
Payday lenders have a significantly higher interest rate - on the order of 500-2000% of the principle per year. The purpose of it is to put the screws on people who aren't able to get loans elsewhere.

Micro lending has more of a humanitarian goal - most organizations tend to lend at reasonable rates (3-15%/year).
I know that this is a modern disease, I do it too: not reading properly. In this case I think that if you lose $5 just because you couldn't read to the end of one single sentence, you can only blame yourself.
It's hard to say which is a better strategy, but I would answer that by asking which one provides more value to your users.

Are there specific problems with buying musical instruments that you are going to solve much better than existing stores? Or better, is buying musical instruments the biggest problem musicians have in your market?

Or are you more likely to increase their chances of success by connecting them with other musicians?
I disagree with the notion that api.twitter.com is a bad idea. URLs don't need to be unique ways of locating a resource. An application designed around HATEOAS doesn't even need to include the domain in the URLs it describes, so you could make the same resources available with the same paths on both twitter.com and api.twitter.com without changing the content of the resources.

This isn't necessarily the best design in the world, but you also can't ignore the real world requirements of operating a site as large as twitter. I suspect it would be more expensive (in many ways) for twitter to direct all traffic to twitter.com and then route it internally based on the accept header.

Versioning on the accept header is, in my mind, the most controversial part of "Hypermedia" API design. Custom mime types add a lot of complexity in the real world, from both the client and server side perspectives. And yet, changing the path in order to access a new resource has many downsides of its own. There's also a question of scale -- adding a bit of new information to existi
This violates the Raspberry Pi trademark guidelines: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/conditio...

"You may use Raspberry Pi trademarks and logo
provided: a. The Raspberry Pi word mark is not part of the product name, company name or website URL."
God, I know this is pretty unrelated, but the stock photos used in news articles seem to be getting worse all the time.
Seems like the only evidence they have is application permissions and an unspecified 'admission' from Facebook (who?), while according to zdnet, Facebook denies ever accessing user text messages: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-youtube-others-accuse...
And that's not necessarily true because may be the six children are influenced by the guy who won six dozen of Nobel prizes. There is another kind of evolution that is social evolution and that can hack natural evolution in some way.
What I wonder: do they always align in the same body orientation, or is that just for the benefits of the cameras?
my bad, I checked Wikipedia and got deceived by the phrase “[…] officially launched at the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich release event on 19 October 2011” but then it says only the SDK was released that day. so, one month difference instead of one week.
In a stroke of idiocy, I signed up without reading the full text. Will this be charged through the carrier? Has anyone discovered a way to withdraw their information?
Teasers?
Or you could join the mailing list on http://www.raspberrypi.org/ and get an email for free.
The Disintegration of PaaS
I thought virtual memory came from Burroughs.
The annoying popups on the bottom of the article actually get in the way of reading it, to a point where I just close the page. They are definitely not following their own advice.
It might be possible for him to hear about the broadcast by other means had he not been in the first region where it was broadcast.

But it never really turned out to matter, as you say. L was able to notice that weird case where the evil guy who had taken school children hostage died of a mysteriously timed heart attack and piece a lot of things together.

Actually, though, that broadcast was probably one of the most important puzzle pieces. He was able to prove that Light could kill remotely with nothing but a face & name, having cut a special deal with a criminal and kept the guy under special observation the whole time. Light was very careless there.
Try Singapore math textbooks your students will learn math
That's exactly what I thought.

Especially, too, since you cannot do this on iOS with public API's (and I assume even with private, but I could be wrong). Even if you did find a loophole, Apple wouldn't allow it, and they'd close it.

And even on Android, don't you have to enable an app's access to your SMS messages?

This article had no details. It was way too short for the accusations made.
Music and dance talent shows seem very popular on Indian television these days. A more open internet-based version of such contests could be quite powerful.
Hello All from the UK

http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curr...

The alternative is to specify the National Curriculum and then second guess the changes each time the government changes.

School maths is a socially determined thing. It has little to do with mathematics in University departments or the ways in which mathematical reasoning is used in other areas of life. Definitions vary.

PS the new textbooks by pearson, stanley thornes, longman &c are relatively error free.
Real value
Anything that doesn't fit someone's worldview is irrelevant for them.

Eg. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3262181

Nirvana might be prepping a similar comment now about how all of this is a fabrication by perceived anti-Apple folks to deny Apple the credit it deserves for having invented everything.

Sad that such people actually detract from the real innovations that Steve Jobs and Apple made by exaggerating and making outlandish claims that they deserve all the credit and all the other companies are just doing nothing innovative at all.

Edit: Since the GP comment was deleted, here it is for context(username removed in the interest of privacy):

>Irrelevant.

>Apple seems to be the only company that cares enough to spend time, effort and money on something as utilitarian as the power supply and make it fit their aesthetic and ethos.

>Every other company seems happy enough to ship large ugly bricks that block 2-3 outlets in a power board.

>That's the Apple difference.
It is not a non-starter for those reasons, it may just require some modification if they become problems or if it is deemed they are obstacles too big to even try to overcome.

When getting instant, reliable cash is the result, people will jump through an enormous number of hoops - and even pay money themselves the for opportunity.

For instance, you could require users to create an account on mturk and/or w/ the mturk shop so they can be tracked. If it is simple to do and prompted it should be fast an easy. If they can't even figure this out, they probably aren't qualified to be doing the work anyway.
Being one of the writers he, most likely, worked to establish the current system in the first place so there would be constant demand for his work.
Just FYI, if you have a rooted Android phone and install the free application "LBE Privacy Guard", you can block apps from accessing your SMS store, even if they've been granted permissions. I believe that by default it displays an empty SMS store to such apps. It does loads of similar things.
I use the evoluent vertical mouse for this reason: http://www.amazon.com/Evoluent-Vertical-Mouse-Right-Handed/d....

It has been fantastic (though I have the 3rd gen model).
Comparing Facebook and Google Ads is like comparing Cowboys & Ninjas
Actually, the opinion says that this case doesn't have anything to do with "reasonable expectations of privacy" like the government contended originally. The court says that this was actually trespass.

It's an interesting distinction, they made the decision not on Katz's "expectations of privacy" test, but instead on common-law trespass which the Fourth Amendment was based on. So this decision clarifies that the "expectations of privacy" test added to the Fourth Amendment's common-law origin, it didn't replace it.

(page 4 of the opinion, page 6 of the pdf): http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf
What we need to see is proof that somehow the contents of the text message is sent back to facebook.

There are tools like mitmproxy to see the traffic. Couldn't someone with a facebook account using the app explicitly check whether or not the contents of the messages are relayed back?
It was a joke to call it an operator.
> Android devices are many different sizes and shapes, so this sort of consistency is practically impossible

Instead of incorrect speculation, here are some facts:

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/AzwMc3pS...

> surely there's a way to get physical device dimensions in the Android SDK

Since Android 1.0. You get the x and y dpi which can then be multiplied by screen resolution.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayM...

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/Display....
You could implement your own using the shapefiles from http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/. They have derived the shape files from fip10s data which itself is derived from VMAP0 data.

We created a rough implementation similar to this at postmates using this information but didn't find it worthy of open sourcing.
The nl command (part of coreutils) is specifically written for numbering lines. It can do simple line numbering, along with various other styles and formats.

Its man page can be seen here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/nl
1. My personal experience as a teacher.

2. The average state of math knowledge of contemporary american high school graduates, coupled with statistics on needed remedial education for college entrants with high school diplomas.

Teaching math is easy. I can teach any kid math. It's not a problem at all because we know how to do it. Many countries do it successfully. Observing what schools are doing, the textbooks, the approaches, and the level of math competency of elementary school teachers completely explains what is going wrong. It's not a mystery. Also explains why kids homeschooled by parents, even parents who were high school drop outs, end up with considerably better math skills than most public school graduates, and even many private school graduates.

Typical high school graduates don't understand fractions, percentages or decimals. They can't do division. They don't understand algebra at all. We know this is true because of college placement tests.

This is absurd. 100% of high school graduates should have passed differential and integral calculus. That should be the minimal acceptable standard. That it is not, and that graduates fail at even moderate arithmetic skills, shows the complete failure of the system.

Downvote all you want while shouting "the dedicated teachers are not the problem, the students and their parents are!" That won't change a thing. Meanwhile, those who utilize proven approaches succeed and those who make excuses and follow fads fail.
Chrome and IE want to add DRM to web browsers
That may be very good advice; I haven't seen How To Design Programs.

While the SICP lectures do in fact have a ridiculously huge scope, I was also surprised when rewatching them -- mostly with how basic they were when they started. "Here's adding, here's subtracting, here's what a lambda is." One thing that's nice about SICP is that assignment is very consciously "added on later."

I wouldn't have expected them to be beginner material either, but then I met a nice gal named emma on Freenode's ##club-ubuntu IRC channel, who was using SICP to learn programming. I remember remarking that this must be very hard and she didn't understand why it should be.
Pretty sure every libertarian (I am not one), regardless of age, would disagree with you.

If people are willing to do the work for a given wage, the free market should be able to pay them (or so Libertarians believe).
You could have made some initialisation calls in Java to get the various values from Environment and similar and then passed them on to your native code.
No, it said that for some products, the pricing was elastic. And under those circumstances, it still might not make sense to charge as much as you can. Even though you avoid support costs like that, it means fewer people are using and talking about your product. If people aren't telling their friends, you're missing out on a lot of free advertising.

There's a lot that goes into pricing, and most of it is not obvious at all.
Can you elaborate on Unity not working well with headers? I've just started doing some web-stuff with it and found that so far it's been okay.
We can all agree that Rails has stalled for the past couple of years because of refactoring. Question is, would Rails really have much more to show if new features were crammed onto the 2.0 architecture?

It seems like the post is intended to highlight a high quality commit which somebody worked hard on, as well as prepare the community for a semantic change. It may not be worth touting as much as a competitive feature, but it certainly deserves it's place in the feed.

But really, the only thing that bothers me with this post is the under-developed blog it's been running on for years (ie.: no simple way to get to archives, next or previous post, etc).

Advocating against PATCH is near to advocating against the introduction of RESTful routes and controllers, which was a crucial gain for Rails (even though they probably got the hint from Django?).

P.s.: Socket.io isn't part of Node.js core either. There are implementations in Ruby, but why not just use Node and Socket where appropriate?
awk's sprintf can do all of that. Not saying it's the right tool for the job, but the parent did have a pipeline already using awk.
It is for now. I just finished hastie so it is complete enough for my family web site, which now uses it. http://mndkaz.us/

however, my personal site is a fair bit more complex, I need to finish out some prev-next links and category lists and then it'll be ready to convert too
E-gads, Brain, brilliant! Wait. No. All of the printers I've ever administered would have one of those postscript errors where they print randomly forever and end up killing everyone on earth.
I am interested. I used an approximation algorithm that have a lot of edge cases. A complete and accurate open source solution is very great.
There is a really good talk by Jonathan Zittrain on the dangers of crowd sourcing. I think it speaks to your point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw3h-rae3uo
> Establish 2-way communication

The middle pin on a magsafe power supply is used to send data two ways. It uses the 1-wire protocol and passes along (among other things), the serial number of the charger, the amperage of the charger, the power type (so the computer won't try and charge using an airplane adapter). Negotiation happens between the charger and computer for power and the LED color.
Exactly, This reminds me of the whole Tesla battery bricking saga. The News outlets love nothing more than to find some technology company that is doing something "wrong" (even if they are not) and hang them out to dry without doing ANY fact checking. It seems many news organizations have stooped to the level of celebrity gossip magazines.

I want to see proof of texts being sent back to Facebook or it did not happen.
In my case understanding that the pro lem was in my head. Ade the pain go away by itself.
25+ Examples of Unusual Navigation in Web Design
There are plenty of examples of such websites where you can see very unusual navigation menus that are interesting and attractive as well.
Corruption in the "Text Book" industry is not new. Some of you may have read the article written by Richard Feynman about his experience reviewing math textbooks for California... in 1964.

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
> Stores will just pass on the costs to the consumers.

Which just eats up the increase in minimum wage.
I have an app (Prey) on my android phone that does have SMS access (to check for "trigger" texts to enable tracking). When I first installed the app (and every few months subsequently), I've been prompted to allow the app access to my incoming SMSs.

Facebook has never caused that prompt to come up.

Assuming FB aren't doing anything really weird, I think it's fair to say that the Facebook android app on my phone doesn't have access to my texts.