skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he burned his bridges because he believes that GS is on a path that will lead to its collapse if it continues unchanged. I don't think he published the letter to be vindictive. It's supposed to be a wakeup call and it's not like they were going to distribute that company-wide internally for him.

Wall Street can't really grow that much more. It's already something like 11% of US GDP and that's way too much for an industry that really doesn't produce anything much. Fin services shouldn't be more than 3-4% of an economy, barring export of services to other countries.

I'd argue this is part of why it's starting to eat its own young; it's an industry full of extremely driven, competitive people but it has started to run into the natural limits of its potential size. If the industry starts to shrink a bit, things will get even uglier. It's not like there's a natural other industry for all these people to work in that's growing and will take the oversupply - if things get worse it will look like a piranha pool in the dry seasons where a million fish have been concentrated into one puddle.
It is already fixed.
Make money at home attacking Windows
You could sell a game guide for D3, however Blizzard legal hates those. They've done stuff like file takedown notices with ebay, over and over. Then when the guy filed a counter notice, they refused to go to court, waited for the time period to expire, then started filing more takedowns for his new game guide auctions. This disgusting behavior got his ebay account suspended! And they refused to ever explain specifically how the game guide violates their copyright or trademark (hint: it doesn't.).

I personally wanted to make a game guide for Infinity Blade 2 but epic legal threatened me out of it (and we had a friendly pre-existing relationship, which counted for exactly nothing. they'd interviewed me for their website and sent me free stuff, and i had a free guide on their forum with 200k views that they had made sticky). Dealing with their legal crap wasn't worth the hassle. I was even willing to give them undeserved money to be left alone, but they wanted a large cash payment upfront and were unwilling to discuss any other payment approach.

Anyway the point is game guides should be a pretty good small business opportunity -- there is a very real market for help playing games better and being more successful in them -- but there are (baseless but real) legal problems so be wary.

You might expect game companies to be thrilled to have services sold around their games, which their customers find provides game-related value to them. Just like Apple is happy to see other people selling iPhone cases. But a lot of game companies are not happy and will harass you.
The webpage wouldn't load on Firefox or Chrome, it needs Internet Explorer.

The screenshots of the product look quite nice, it's obvious that they have put a lot of effort in to making it. However as harsh it might sound, i can't consider a service seriously when they fail at the very basic concept of having a landing page that works with the two major browsers. Yea i understand they are in 'beta' but still, we are talking about basic stuff here, they didn't bother to see if there landing page can be viewed by the 75% of the potential users?

Oh and regarding the actual product, sorry but me and localhost are BFFs
It's always amusing asking for "Extra hot" and a slight look of panic as the milk is about to jump out the jug
Tabs are not used for aligning! They are used for indenting! If you want to align two variables up, use tabs to get to the right indentation level and then use spaces.

File size? Who cares.

The main benefit of tabs over spaces in my view is when you're in an editor that doesn't group spaces into a "tab" (i.e. if you press delete to reduce indentation, it deletes 4 spaces not just the one), then it can be a bit awkward in some cases to reduce indentation. You may find yourself putting one space too many or one too few.
If we ever come to that, I want a brain update.
Mars is a very harsh environment - and it's very far from Earth (6 months best case with current propulsion technology). I'd suggest a permanent base on the Moon as a useful first step - it has some water, abundant energy, plenty of Aluminum, Magnesium, Titanium and a lack of atmosphere that makes metallurgy easy. Radiation is worse than Mars, but, in both cases, buried housing structures make sense and the Moon's low gravity would make construction easier and cheaper. With some infrastructure development, it would even be a nice launching point for Mars-bound spacecraft - think of a maglev train that reaches escape speed.

It's also close, so, even if someone screws up very badly, a rescue mission would be less than a week away. If someone on Mars manages to, say, contaminate the colony's water supply, all we can do is record farewell messages for loved ones and deal with the bad publicity for decades. I wouldn't like that.

A second step could be an Aldrin cycler space station - this way you could ride a small spacecraft to the cycler, live there for a couple months and depart to Mars when it passes by. Plus, you'd get some prime moving real-estate - one that goes between Earth and Mars without spending fuel.
Looks like 3 according to this picture:
http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/MIEhlvVuGWrPGUQw.large
This looks really neat but I'm struggling with tooltips showing up outside of my viewing area. I'm using a desktop version of Safari and when I look at the map and scroll over a pin, the info box pops open but is cut off at the top of the screen.

That said, the visualization is great and it was nice being able to look at the world map then quickly drill down to local attractions.
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Very interesting. Assumes that there is some significant interaction between the old YC members and the new. Not sure that this assumption is valid. Also, it seems like broadway productions would require huge teams where this sort of thing would be important, which may not apply to startups.

I'm still assuming that YC's decision to admit idea-less startups indicates that success is more a function of the people and their willingness to do battle, than the particular idea they're promoting. The relevant quote being:

Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did.[1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
My guess is that a "Gentleman's agreement" to only share your best things will only work if you also limit your circle of friends who are bound by the agreement.
Sounds a lot like Irony, a LALR parser generator where you define grammars in C#.

http://irony.codeplex.com

Irony also includes a quite useful "Grammar Explorer" app that's helpful for testing & debugging grammars.
The new iPad Takes More Time to Charge than iPad 2.
Like Silverlight?
Looks like that's a bug that they're fixing in the next release. https://twitter.com/sparrow/status/180334664890855424
Fantastic idea! Though you missed the section heading "Poopin'".
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I always test my code. It saves time and money.
http://hustletips.tumblr.com/post/19348536703/vet-your-work-...
I've seen plenty of attempts to transplant the HN 'spirit' to other verticals (HN Europe comes to mind) but until now the kind of self-discipline that makes HN tick doesn't seem to translate well to more mainstream niches.
I used that one too, even before writing the comment! Can I get back on the lawn now?
You are a braver man than I. Good luck!
Researchers mimic relativity and the Higgs field in graphene-like material
MIT's annual sports stat geek conference - Who's the best shooter int the NBA?
FWIW the beta had a crash bug on mac where if you go to a certain place (the circle of summoner people that start the quest to get your templar sidekick), it crashes. 100% guaranteed crash. I had to play in bootcamp to get past it.

They fixed it in a later patch. But it wasn't exactly great support if a 100% mac crash bug, in a short beta playthrough, didn't get found/fixed before they pushed the version.

Also, FYI, there are a number of mac-only bugs in Warcraft 3, today. I have to play on bootcamp or wine for various custom maps. And Starcraft 2 has had mac-only mouse bugs (like your cursor disappears in the middle of the game. leave and re-enter fullscreen to fix). Based on patch notes they might have fixed that recently, i haven't checked. It happened pretty often and is obviously very frustrating.
Well it has 3 antenna SM connectors on the side. But I didn't see the actual antenna.
Igor, thank you, excellent guide/walk-through.
How to Square any 2-digit numbers mentally, easily and quickly
Absolutely insane. Good luck :)
Did you (do you) have family?
What are you talking about? You say you're in Pakistan. That's a Muslim country. Why would I, a Muslim, be hated in Pakistan?

It has to be better than being in a place where Islam itself is seen as the enemy and you're not allowed to practice your religion openly without harassment or the threat of violence.
Browserling on building federated architecture with Node.js
Interestingly enough, Duke Nukem Forever was announced just four months after Diablo 1 was released - April, 1997.

So D3 has been in the making longer than your average PC title, but it's not quite as bad!
Fair point about "pragmatism" but the contrary "elegance" often comes across as dogmatic or even elitist. Most languages strive for both pragmatism and elegance, but tend to favor one a little over the other.

And yes, this is relevant since Python and Clojure embody exactly this kind of tension.
So you're basically saying that the solution to our content quality problem is turning it into a popularity contest?
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No, probably never. Why?

* Work in transit (plane/train/ outside of reach of a network, yes this exists)

* AWS or whatever cloud provider goes down

* Problem with justice or hackers that go into my server and just delete the hell of it

* Responsiveness is always better in local (I am not speaking about performance, responsiveness)

* Not everybody goes in the cloud, even to deploy... I have for dev and prod for my own project a dedicated server which is way faster than anything you can order on Amazon.

On the brightside the best way to do it is to be able to coordinates these two approaches and being able to switch from "In the cloud" to local easily would be a big plus.

But just please stop with these fake "silver bullet" solutions all the time. It does not make your product look cool or attractive to experts, it makes you look like a clown.
I completely appreciate the research in your post. I should have phrased my question: "what is the successful holistic treatment for HIV?"

And I see from your comment that you agree that there appear to be none, so I'm not trying to make it look otherwise.
I understand how the author feels. I prefer to bank using an ATM. I prefer the self scanning checkout at the grocery store.

Call for price isn't aimed at the author (or me). It's aimed at people who have a certain set of expectations about B2B relationships. It's aimed at people who see receptionists as a necessary business expense in all circumstances. It's aimed at people who don't trust the internet when it comes to transactions.

It's a bigger market segment than people like myself or the author.
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it's hard to make money on obscure music.

one of the seo masterminds of our time tried to build a site that featured new bands. the backlinks were a work of art.

i guess it ranked well for a bunch of bands nobody had ever heard of but that doesn't help you when people are searching for "hootie and the blowfish"
MPAA Exec: Only We Can Make Content That People Want
> If someone on Mars manages to, say, contaminate the colony's water supply, all we can do is record farewell messages for loved ones and deal with the bad publicity for decades. I wouldn't like that.

The same is true for a major disaster at the South Pole in winter, though. There's a several month period in which vehicles cannot reach the pole due to the temperatures and weather involved. We still go there.
This only seems appealing to people who:

1. Can't set up a development environment on their local machine for some reason (tablet?).

2. Also aren't smart enough to provision their own server.

3. Don't mind having all of their data 'in the cloud.'

4. Don't mind being at the mercy of a startup for mission critical features.

Along that vein, you wont see koding used for:

1. Anything mission critical.

2. Anything 'hacky,' because the hackers will be developing on their own machines (localhost or not).

3. Anything commercial (by smart companies, at least) because of the risk of code theft.

4. Anything that requires actual security.

What does that leave? I'm not really sure. I see two possible outcomes - koding becomes the pastebin (or github) of virtual machines, or koding becomes the basecamp of the 'DevOps' world. Can either of those things exist and provide a profit? What will the 'killer app' be?
How do you account for the success of Instagram, which has been iPhone only for over a year?

Is it their API that has enabled web-based add ons? Or the simplicity of the app and the ease of use?
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Something early-stage companies don't get is that enterprises are complex. Adding a service provider requires hooking up to a dozen systems that manage everything from time tracking to shipping logistics. For many, many problems in this space, there is no ideal, perfect solution. Instead, you make a series of weighted choices to come up with the least-worst solution. And that information, for a broad swath of software, can't be effectively communicated on a web site.

Given those types of sales are the ones that bring in six or seven figures of revenue, it is not surprising companies optimize for that. But that is just one of the places startups, solving focused problems, can find some blue ocean.

(But, yes, when you are in the small company, buying almost anything just sucks. You aren't big enough to even get attention, often times.)
Sure, not a book review for NYT, but it is the top comment on HN, which has the unfortunate consequence of being the first impression a lot of people had of an article that had a lot of hard, thoughtful work put into it.

It also caused some to actually not read the article, and that's what drew me out. Annie's work here deserved a better first impression from the HN community, and I think anyone who has an interest in _why would benefit from reading it. The anonymity thing was a sidebar at best.
I've had a few servers reject our office mail for it when we changed IP and forgot to update the PTR
Haha, yeah well the co-working spaces are 24/7 so I guess that's where I'll be doing my business.
Ha. Bugs finding bugs. Brilliant.
From the article

> clojure-py is an implementation of the Clojure language in Python, compiling Clojure code to bytecode for Python’s virtual machine

Which means both the compiler (mostly an AST walk from the look of clojure/lang/compiler.py) and the Python bytecode it produces should benefit from PyPy's JIT.
Heroku will also host node servers, 1 dyno for free.

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-js

They're a popular host for hubot, github's chat bot, which runs on node.

https://github.com/github/hubot/wiki/Deploying-Hubot-onto-He...
RIGHT DURING FINALS WEEK, GREAT. Now there's going to be a lot more college seniors that won't be graduating.
I agree with your rant, but modern distributions are using Unix sockets for the X server. For example Fedora uses /tmp/.X11-unix/X0.
Hospital services are not provided by the government; airports are.

* It seems reasonable to be able to pay the airline more for better treatment by the airline (first class, lounges, etc...).

* It seems moderately unreasonable to be able to pay extra (either directly or through the airline) for shorter lines at the checkpoint (first class lines).

* It seems entirely unreasonable to be able to pay extra to avoid safety procedures, as I'm sure a terrorist organization with global reach can find an accomplice who can pass a background check. Either the intrusive screening procedures are necessary or they're not.

Things that inconvenience the rich tend to get changed. Consider public transportation in most large European cities compared to most large US cities. The rich do not ride the bus in Miami. This is an attempt to avoid the change by making the system more convenient for the rich without fixing it for anyone else.
Google Hires Kevin Rose
One big problem I see here is a tendency for black & white thinking. People in the real world don't fit into a neat little "cooperator" or "defector" package. A person's tendency to cooperate can be dependent upon a huge number of factors, including what the subject of cooperation is, how they're feeling that day, current events, political, moral, and religious opinions in vogue, illness and injury, the size of the potential benefit, relationships to other people who may be defecting or cooperating, whether they are a leader or a follower, etc.

Running a simulation of simple, unchanging people doesn't produce much useful information for the real world. Real life cooperation relationships are a lot more intricate and complex.
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How to write low garbage real-time Javascript
Nokia’s design head spending a third of his time developing a tablet
Not too be too negative but I don't see anything that would take more than a week to build here (technically). The hard part is going to be to stand out among the other thousands of sites with the exact same model.
World's biggest fake conference in computer science
As coob mentioned it could be rejected by some providers. Overall I think that situation when your emails are rejected by some providers is the worst possible. It is even worse than when all providers reject your email. For me the easiest way to track down such things is reading mta logs.
60-65 hrs a week isn't so many :)
There doesn't have to be anything high pressure about it. When someone calls me for a quote I simply ask them for the details I need and tell them exactly what it will cost.

In my experience, the fastest way to lose a prospect is by being ambiguous or flighty about the price which is exactly what you'd be doing if you posted ballpark figures on your site (as well as inviting lots of questions and raised eyebrows since our installations literally range from $1000-$25000)
Une journée de formation et bien plus encore
I use this:
https://github.com/allmarkedup/jQuery-URL-Parser

How is this one different/better?
Ha, that's one way to "pivot".
This was probably unintended, but giving his real name in your article also marks a precedent.

Even though it was well known in Ruby circles, it had never been published in the press. Now that it has been, his Wikipedia page has been updated accordingly (now that they have a "reliable source" in Wikipedia parlance), which exposes his identity much more than it used to.

For that reason, I wouldn't mind if you redacted his name, the name of his employer and the way you found him out of the article. The same goes for the mirror of the infamous wordpress page.

He made it clear that he wants to be left alone. This doesn't help.

Edit: the mention of his sister was also completely out of place.
As the parent of an autistic child, I think this story is great. However, I do wish reporters would differentiate Asperger's, high functioning and low functioning. There is so much mis-information out there, as well as parents in tailspin mode--grasping at straws and trying to cope. When an article quotes an autistic child, ranting off sentences of cogent speech and coherent thoughts, it doesn't accurately represent what autism is and how it effects a child. Clearly, this child is very high functioning.

That being said, it's an amazing story. Best of luck and I look forward to seeing Kent's at my local 7-11.
No just another troubling sign for Google.
I will take his grandest adventure line coupled with the part about, there will always be problems on Earth and waiting for a time there isn't will never come.

Far too many people criticize lavish dreams such as what Musk has but that is what separates the watchers from the doers.
Yes, Sparrow's customer support is substandard.

I had used emoji in some of my label names—all valid Unicode code points—and it broke Sparrow hard (to the point where even preferences would self-dismiss on clicking an icon). It took about six weeks to get to the point where the "unusual" Unicode characters were the problem.

It's a nice email client, but I don't find it that much better than the native gmail email interface that I use most of the time.
You honestly think you get a disk per instance? Or that a node needs a disk?
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Huh. It was just yesterday that they shut down Oink to "work on other ideas"- so that was a total lie? Heaven forbid they should just be straightforward about what's going on.

As someone who'd love some VC money, it's a little disheartening to see $1.7 million of it thrown around and wasted based on one person's name.
thanks this is a good reference. i guess my page is on the right track then
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If you click through any of these links:
https://twitter.com/#!/search/instagr.am

You'll be taken to a rich web experience that allows even non-iPhone users to engage and in turn share with friends via Twitter.

So Instagram has done both the web and iPhone really well which has been enough for them.
It's down vote(s) like this on an otherwise benign comment that drives me to remove myself from the community... much like the subject of the article.
One thing I haven't been able to with tcpdump is just dump the data stream (payload) without any protocol bits. I presume it's possible with the right command line option incantation.

Instead, for this purpose, I have used tcpflow. This is useful for listening in on data streams, potentially piping a binary message stream to a decoder for human-readable output.
"Rose has also had an impressive run as an angel investor, putting money into companies like Fab, Zynga, ngmoco, Foursquare and Twitter."

Does anyone know if Rose was one of the first few to actually invest in these companies, or did he just have the connections and put his money in while they were already "hot" companies? If the latter, I wouldn't consider it that impressive...
Feels like a Google-jumped-the-shark moment.
I hadn't heard of an Aldrin cycler. Very very cool! Here is an animation of how one could work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVfUlFZQ4U
Wrong. Diablo 1 had a long wait for Mac.

http://www.diablowiki.net/Diablo_I
And how is that better than localhost?

If I wanted to do development on different machines, I'd use git to sync. With the advantage of being able to work when there is no network. And if the HDD crashes, I know that I made backups, I never know when I host my stuff in some "cloud".
Did not see that coming. This seems like an odd route for to Google add depth to Plus.
I use a website/app called Orchestra for my to-do lists. I've seen a lot of people write that to-do lists don't work, but they do for me. Planning out what exactly I needed to get done when I would sit down to work on OKDJ was important for me. I was also very goal oriented. I tackled building the company is phases: assembling the team, building the site, gathering content etc. And I would list out what needed to get done at each of those phases.
Because unless the major browser makers ship it in their mainline product, it's worthless.