skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for rob walling. I read his book start small stay small a few years ago and it totally changed my strategy on how to build a business. I've gone the multiple apps route and on track to gross over 500k this year. And all the while I've travelled the world for 7 months and rarely spend more than 30 hrs a week on work. I have a few friends that went through YC and I wouldn't trade places with them for a second. Maybe I'm just lazy but working 80 hour weeks just for a shot at a large exit just isn't for me. Without rob's book I would never have known there was an alternative path.
At the standard 2 and 20 it's a really great deal. Assuming this was a one time sort of fund from the LPs as other posters have suggested. The VCs are looking at putting $12 million in their bank accounts in 2 months.
A few years ago I did an analysis on common chromosomal deletions in ovarian cancers. I was hoping to find some sort of "required" genetic or metabolic structure retained by the various cell lines. Nada. It was just a big unrelated mess and deemed not interesting enough to write up by my advisor. I wish there was a Journal of Dishearteningly Negative Results.
I disagree. I think what you're seeing with professional sports is just an artifact of the concentration of revenue in a very few organizations.
Here is why did Facebook bought Instagram
My app has 7 users. Can I haz $200?
Not a surprise cancer hasn't been cured. Most diseases have not been cured, yet. Even bacterial infections. People can still die from staph infections.
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Do you have a reference for survival rates? Note that there are many confounding factors - lung cancer incidence has dropped a lot although lung cancer itself remains intractable to average cancer survival rates may have improved.
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I think a cursory description of the concept of specific heat might be relevant to that article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_heat But I think it's misleading to say that oil and water have similar heat capacity. Water has an extremely high heat capacity that light oils can't rival.
Zuckerberg's statement that Facebook will keep Instagram alive and kicking seems likely to prove honest but disingenuous.

Instagram, in providing a photo sharing experience (at least) on par with Facebook's, spanning multiple "social platforms", facilitates user migration across these platforms. In the current context, any user migration between social platforms would (almost) inevitably dilute Facebook's share of user-time.

Thus, it seems reasonable for Facebook to acquire this possible avenue of departure and generally maintain its current state (i.e. Zuckerberg's statement is honest) while guiding future evolution of Instagram's product to subtly guide the flow of users along "Instagram Avenue" towards Facebook, rather than in its current unbiased direction (i.e. Zuckerberg's statement is disingenuous).

Though useful from a business perspective, this sort of defensive acquisition is discouraging to me. I would prefer to see the evolution of "social" in general towards an open protocol for maintaining the actual user<->user graph structure and piping of information along it, with a loose confederation of services such as Instagram providing the content hosting/delivery. This would decentralize control of people's social graphs, with control being restricted to subsets of the shared content and its flow over the graph, rather than the actual graph structure itself. I.e. market-driven services such as Instagram would compete to control portions of the infrastructure implementing this new construction, which one might call the "world wide (social) web".

TLDR: Facebook's purchase of Instagram permits them to simultaneously reduce the instantaneous rate of user migration across social platforms while preventing the emergence of a competitive open social platform/protocol, the evolution of which would be greatly facilitated by the prior existence of third-party social content infrastructure such as Instagram, which reduce the size of the "chicken and egg" problem confronting any attempt at an open platform.
Why Instagram Would Take Sequoia Funding During Facebook Acquisition
I usually use `trace` like so:

f _ _ _ | trace "print something profound" False = undefined
f normal arguments here = ...

That way the trace output will be printed whenever the function is evaluated, which typically mimics a lexical call stack unless you use laziness in some particularly interesting way.
Works great until you have to pull the server and swap out a PCI card....
You are just seeing the good cases here. A 10X return on any one investment pays for all the bad investments. If I remember correctly, the return that Sequoia got on their YouTube investment paid for the entire portfolio many times over.

But more importantly than that, I think it was one of a very few that were good in that fund. I believe that particular fund was particularly bad because it contained remnants of the dot com bust - so only 1 - 3 of their investments in that fund were profitable, and only 1 was enough to pay for the entire fund.

I am not remembering EXACTLY so my numbers may be a bit off...but you can just imagine how annoying it must have been to be a partner in a fund and be telling your LPs that you have essentially lost all their money - and thinking about this for the entire 10 year life of that fund.

Just for at the last minute, almost literally, all of that changes.

People don't think about it, but it's not easy to be a VC.
Ask HN: What is the best way to test for computer programming aptitude?
Is it possible to design an accurate test to identify the type of mind and personality that is most likely to succeed as a programmer? If so, is it possible to make this a non-verbal test?

Example of non-verbal test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices

There's this computer programming aptitude test from the University of Kent:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/tests/computer-test.htm

I'm curious what HN thinks of its relevance and whether there could be an accurate non-verbal version of it.
So... this allows us to run webservers that call Qt methods? Why would anyone do that?
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I'm voting this one up. I think that curing cancer is like eliminating all errors in a program. Cancer cells are simply cells committing mutiny and forming new organisms behind the defence lines. Like other inner enemies like spies this will remain one of the trickiest risk factors to eliminate, since they are simply parts of your organisation turned against you. If you get better, so do they.

Given the unbounded complexity of 'some part of our organism gone haywire' our best bet against cancer is probably an early detection and general purpose defence system like the immune system that we already have. So finding a one true cure for cancer is probably a utopia. The more complex the immune system, the more complex the threats that do outsmart it will become.
I think this is actually very very smart. Have people describe what they think/believe the Internet is and what they believe it can do.

Once there is enough data, analyze it to see the kind of needs people have and what they're looking for.

Once the needs have been identified, create products to fulfill them.
Obligatory Google+ momentum check:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Google%2B%2CInstagr...

"Mr. Silbermann, Larry Page is on line 1"
I wonder how hard it would be to negotiate a deal where the photos are given for free, but with a caption or footnote pointing to the photographer's website.

That's basically how one of the Creative Commons licenses works. It's a valid choice for photographers, but not the only choice.
From a strictly visual standpoint, I can agree with your assessment. But a good /design/ needs to consider the copywriting and marketing standpoint and the larger picture as a whole. Design in itself is not restricted to the visual. Design as a whole is uniquely goal related. Almost all the time, it involves more than the work of just a visual designer.

With respect to OP, I think it's fairly clear he took the role of a visual designer in his work and should be criticized more on that aspect. But in the larger picture, I think a good designer (of any capacity) should be able to at least consider the marketing and copywriting goals. While these roles should not be merged into one - there's a role for someone who can consider all these to coordinate these unique needs. I personally feel that a designer who has an understanding of business needs is better suited for this goal than the alternative (that's not to say its a necessity for all designers)
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Perhaps some scientist gets a new idea while relaxing to a game of football ... you can't really predict what would happen to our society if you start playing around with priorities. Historically such decisions had awful consequences.

Also sorting out the priorities of our society means getting rid of capitalism, and finding
a new economic system that works better is (arguably) a harder problem than currying cancer.
To be fair, it is only one of many compounds that are effective against specific traits of cancerous tumors. In this case, it is effective against tumors which are poorly vascularized.

In most cases, one of the predominant features of tumor progression is the increase in vascularizing growth factors from cancer cells. Tumors which fail to start pumping out growth factors that encourage blood vessel growth often kill off the entire tumor due to lack of oxygen.

Also, the apoptosis cascade can be hijacked in many locations. Even if you get the mitochondria to start releasing Cytochrome C (the main component that triggers the cascade), cancer cells can turn this pathway off anywhere downstream of CytC, such as turning off production of one of the various caspases.

So, again, it comes down to cancer biology being incredibly complicated.
What exactly is it about Instagram that requires excellent user privacy protection? It's twitter for photos.

It never ceases to amaze me how much lip service people pay to the need for privacy on social networks that are fundamentally based on the premise of broadcasting your private life to a fairly large audience. If you REALLY don't want that photo of the sunset that you took to be seen by the wrong person, why post it online in the first place?
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It isn't yet much of a comparison, but http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Web/Comparison_of_Happsta... has a some info; probably the only thing unique to that page is a list of some sites using each.

I'm using Yesod now simply because it seemed to have the most active community and I don't mind a lot of choices being made for me, since I'm also learning Haskell at the same time. Maybe I'll feel differently later.
Use a CDN? It's not like the list is tailored to anybody.
It's not just about scaring people away from technologies. Microsoft's Android patent licensing is a multi-billion dollar business in its own right.
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Sorry, but your site has serious problems. Just adding Bootstrap without any knowledge of at least some basic designs does you no good.

For example:

* The text is wider than the screen and the scrolling destroys the readability of the text. Even when it would fit the screen, it makes a terrible reading experience

* Apply paddings to the left and right edge of the screen. If the text touches the browser window, it looks ugly and removes focus and call to action on it.

As a final advice: get yourself a copy of Design for Hackers ( http://bitboxer.de/2012/02/05/design-for-hackers-reverse-eng... )
Out of curiosity where did you find that link? I must have missed it when I checked the site.
Depending on how "big" your negative result was, its possible to publish in journals similar to this: http://www.jnrbm.com/
Android emulator updated with GPU acceleration and more hardware support
Pretty long way to rant about how hard it will be to write a C compiler for it :-) I'm guessing that ships with high level language code will under-perform hand coded ships but that is just a guess.

It is interesting to read this guys rant though, he has used PICs (he should also check out the 8051 or 8048 some time) so clearly he knows that an instruction set architecture (ISA) can be successful even if it is hard to make a C compiler for it, not everything is a PDP-11.

The rant about bytes was particularly amusing, dealing with 'odd address' errors on the PDP-11 wasn't fun. But the DEC-10 architecture (36 bits) had a really interesting 'byte pointer' kind of thing where there was a way of iterating over 'strings.' (They also had SIXBIT a 6 bit encoding standard for text, go figure, and SKIPE which was in instruction that never skipped (thus a NOP)).
Hi guys, for a couple of months we have been working on this mobile analytics platform and we wanted to show it to the community to get feedback, opinions etc. It has a demo for now and will be available in less than a month.
One interesting improvement relates to NUMA node allocations.

I think the reasoning is that if you touch all the memory in the buffer pool after you allocate it, you're more likely to get a balanced node allocation than if you let MySQL organically access it.
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Am I just being picky, or should I expect better phrased physics from a hardware blog?

I think you should just expect better edited blogs than extremetech.
It allows you to call Qt methods from JavaScript. You don't need to run Node as a webserver.
Why do you think the FB stock is likely to appreciate significantly in a few months? If you really believe this, I assume you've just invested a significant chunk of your net worth into FB stocks?
Exactly. They could have also demanded that the series B does not take place. And they did neither of these things. Which most likely means the people that made the decision did not have the best interests of the company in mind.

It is not that complicated. Let's say there is X amount of economic benefit from the deal. Initially (i.e. before the series B) that benefit would be shared between Facebook and the initial (i.e., before the series B) shareholders of instagram. Facebook would get the benefit of owning the company minus the purchase price and the investors would get the purchase price.

But after the series B there is another party, the new Instagram shareholders which must also share in that benefit. This means that either Facebook or the initial shareholders or both get less benefit than they would have gotten if the series B had not happened.

So who got less benefit? Well in these cases one just has to ask oneself who is likely to make a decision against their own benefit. And when you look at people making decisions against their own benefit it usually the ones with the longest and remotest chain of fiduciary duties that do it.

So I guessed that it was facebook that might have done it because it has much more and more remote shareholders, so it is more likely someone may have slipped up on their fiduciary duties.

But I do not know for sure. It could have been the instagram owners or old shareholders that got screwed. In any event, it is quite certain that one or both of them did get screwed.
On X11 I actually have a bunch of patches so I wrote for Qt so I could do painting in another thread. It was useful for a project where I was injecting QtWebKit into a game where the main thread was the game and the Qt event loop and all its processing had to exists on a different thread sending a single opengl buffer across when rendered. I got some patches into Qt, but others were rejected for one reason or another (could no reproduce, not supported etc), but nonless it was a very cool project.
Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, dies at age 83
I think you're missing the point of Bootstrap. It's meant to keep your site looking nice while you bootstrap it; to avoid doing a ton of graphic design work before you even have a working prototype. Once you're able to spend money on graphic design, you probably won't be using Bootstrap.
I can't respond on technical, as I haven't used TLC.

As to Apple's TOS (I can't seem to find TLC's), I'm pretty sure you can write a full-blown iOS app in Lua. You can already write a complete iOS game in Lua: http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/ . Around summer 2010 they changed their terms so that embedded, non-JIT languages are allowed, as long as all executed code is bundled in your application (not downloaded). Many apps already embedded lua. I don't think using TLC would affect an app's chances of being approved.
You mean things like testifying before the sentate[1]?

[1]http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20109630-93/eric-schmidts-o...
PhD comics handled this nicely

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1162
Thank you for the advice and the link.

If you don't mind can you tell me what browser you viewed the page and resolution? I don't have the problem of the text being larger than the screen but I also tend to use high resolution screens and my browser width is usually greater than 1000 pixels.

I also admittedly haven't been keeping up with internet explorer or opera testing. Actually, I don't even have a windows desktop available to me at the moment.
It's not necessarily that Instagram would become a viable competing alternative to Facebook on its own. Rather, it seems reasonable to imagine that Facebook would be concerned about the widespread adoption of third-party, cross-platform social infrastructure, as provided by Instagram.

Instagram, in providing a photo sharing experience (at least) on par with Facebook's, spanning multiple "social platforms", facilitates user migration across these platforms. In the current context, any user migration between social platforms would (almost) inevitably dilute Facebook's share of user-time.

Thus, it seems reasonable for Facebook to acquire this possible avenue of departure and generally maintain its current state while guiding future evolution of Instagram's product to subtly guide the flow of users along "Instagram Avenue" towards Facebook, rather than in its current unbiased direction.

Though useful from a business perspective, this sort of defensive acquisition is discouraging to me. I would prefer to see the evolution of "social" in general towards an open protocol for maintaining the actual user<->user graph structure and piping of information along it, with a loose confederation of services such as Instagram providing the content hosting/delivery. This would decentralize control of people's social graphs, with control being restricted to subsets of the shared content and its flow over the graph, rather than the actual graph structure itself. I.e. market-driven services such as Instagram would compete to control portions of the infrastructure implementing this new construction, which one might call the "world wide (social) web".

TLDR: Facebook's purchase of Instagram permits them to simultaneously reduce the instantaneous rate of user migration across social platforms while preventing the emergence of a competitive open social platform/protocol, the evolution of which would be greatly facilitated by the prior existence of third-party social content infrastructure such as Instagram, which reduces the size of the "chicken and egg" problem confronting any attempt at an open platform.
From the source[1]:

The Raspberry Pi had to pass radiated and conducted emissions and immunity tests in a variety of configurations (a single run can take hours), and was subjected to electrostatic discharge (ESD) testing to establish its robustness to being rubbed on a cat. It’s a long process, involving a scary padded room full of blue cones, turntables that rise and fall on demand, and a thing that looks a lot like a television aerial crossed with Cthulhu.

As someone who's looked into getting a substantially similar device CE-marked, getting it all done inside a week is pretty heroic.

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/978
27 million iOS users + 50 million projected Android users means that this cost them roughly $13/user.
I consider loss of specificity (which is what is happening in the latter case) to be devolution, and do not find descriptivism a convincing (or even meaningful) argument against that position. Other arguments might prove more successful, of course. As for futility - well, we'll see, won't we?

As you say, though, this is wildly off topic.
This is untrue, but often assumed.

Total iOS devices: 315M (as of 2012-03-07)
Total Andriod devices: 300M (as of 2012-02-29)

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/07/tim-cook-talks-ios-device-s...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/feb/29/an...

Android is selling faster, but it has yet to have a larger installed base. It will likely happen soon, but iOS had a large lead in terms of start time and the iPad is killing in the tablet market.

Obviously there are many factors which will adjust the true installed base (broken devices, devices no longer update-able, etc.).
I'd argue the class of power in an ultra book is diff from net book. Ultra books are a response to MacBook air giving real usable performance in slim package. Net books were sub 9" under powered devices who were just eaten up by tablets
No, I mean like paying for enough lobbyists to get legislation passed that would make SOPA/PIPA/CISPA/PCIPA impossible in the future. To enshrine Internet freedom.

Currently, the discourse is oriented around the Internet having too much freedom and that it naturally needs reining in.
He's 25 and already a two-time YC founder -- I think he's doing OK :)
Sorry if my response was a bit overly strong. I know you're a good guy and we all just want these things to work well. I wasn't offended, just a bit confused by the results that weren't matching what I was seeing.

Of course, poking a bit further showed that converting a 16MB string to a buffer actually is quite expensive. You can avoid this by using buffers directly when you're serving files (or better yet, just pipe a fs.ReadStream directly into the response, so it'll stream it as it reads from disk, and buffer as little as possible.)
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Thank you for all the fun Commodore computers gave to my childhood, Jack.
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call me oldschool, but having a huge peak demand is the perfect application for distributed source, like torrent. I know it is much more complicated to introduce P2P and way more risky if it gets poisoned, but it seems to me this underlying problem of huge peak demand was solved 10 years ago.