skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't want a dialog box with an "I agree" checkbox every time I make a minor action in a web interface.
Even if you assume that HR talent differences don't matter, you can't make the same assumption about marketing, PR, and other personnel with much needed soft-skills.

So what you're left with in a single-minded company of brogrammers and soft-bros is effectively a brain drain that leads to the kinds of flubs the author describes that drive customers and sponsors away.
I had no clue that wifi weight gadgets existed - I must own one now! I do notice that both FitBit and Withings have their own wifi-enabled scales. The Withings is $168 and the FitBit is $129. Anyone have a suggestion for a specific model?
Imagination: Teraflops For Smartphones in 2013
And I have absolutely no problem with that. I'm worried more about usability than convenience. My 3gs takes 6-7 seconds to load HN on 3g; how long would it take using the Tor browser? For someone on a GSM network? If I'm looking to coordinate protests in some oppressive sandy country, is it going to take me 90 seconds to open Twitter, write a tweet, and post it?

Again, I recognize that this is a fundamental consequence of onion routing and Tor is not intended to be used for everyday browsing. I simply wonder how it will handle a low-bandwidth, high-latency network.

Also, as a minor aside, are the mobile handsets themselves used as routing nodes? If not, what would be the consequence of adding a bunch of users to the system who don't participate in routing?
Hasbro Tricks Fan Into Disclosing Address to Uncover Leaked Nerf Gun
I think dropbox is great and non intrusive but this presents 2 challenges
1. Since dropbox is almost in the background, it's much easier to forget about it, than my gmail and google docs (google drive's integration with it). I think this means that I will adopt google drive sooner than i would like to admint and slowly start forgetting dropbox because it's too non-intrusive
2. What will this do to new user adoption for dropbox? google drive is clearly visible ...

i think dropbox should quickly scale up enterprise level activations and the non google dependent users ...
also might help them to develop new strategies to start holding on to people, becoming a bit more visible ...
As an Automattician: yes to all of the above.

Also, I get to work with really smart people that are driven to improve themselves, their co-workers, and the company's products. That's the #1 reason for the low turnover.
Solving the "Move the Box" game (Programatically)
Well, first off, Google has a privacy policy [1] where they commit to not publishing my entire works without my consent.

Even without that, though -- what do you think would happen if they did what you're suggesting? I think the public punishment would be worse than any legal repercussions.

And that's what it comes down to, IMO. I regret that we have to have these far reaching policies and agreements filled with legalese, but there is also the social contract.

Of course, what you say about data mining for ads is true. If you don't want to expose yourself to that, don't expose your data to Google.

[1] http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Netscape's core was reborn as Firefox. Netscape invented the image tag, along with much of what we consider essential to what the internet is today. Most here would probably attest that it was also the superior product in its day, only losing out to IE thanks to questionably legal monopoly muscling from MS.

Opsware was purchased for $1.6bn by HP, hardly a failure...

Andreesen has a strong history of execution and value generation and Netscape was a pioneer, not a cheap shareholder exploitation vehicle. This article is grasping at straws.

Edit: Clearly HP the thought Opsware was extremely valuable at the time of purchase and the author provides no evidence to support his claim that it was not a good purchase for HP. According to comments on the article, Opsware's product still exists and has simply been rebranded.
Info graph: Manage all your cloud storage.
Wouldn't this be possible with NaCl ?
Visual Studio Brings Gamification to Windows Azure Development
Thank God.

Sketchup development has been neglible since Google acquired the company years ago. Aside from adding a kludged presentation capability to the "Pro" version there hasn't been a significant improvement to the core product in years (and I suspect that the presentation capabilities were in process at acquisition).
Robotify - If a tamagotchi got on Facebook then took steroids.
A big year for Nintendo: Time for a transition
Dropbox writing their TOS in a way that non-lawyers can read it was a good move here. Neither TOS really effects anything being done with your data in a practical way but the PR Dropbox is getting from theirs is worth 100x the time they put into it. Nice investment.
are you testing features?
if so, you can easily build out screens inside of your mobile app (alternate screens) and before loading the screen check with your server on which one (path) you should load ...
Well the question is what's the point of the stock market and financial sector if the only time investment is really happening is when shares are offered. The answer the parent suggested is that the stock market provides liquidity that is necessary for people to be willing to invest.

I believe that most stocks have far far more liquidity than is necessary for people to feel comfortable investing in them. More liquidity has very little value at this point.

It's a problem because thousands of bright minds are piped into the financial industry when they could be contributing much more to society.
> These are matters of law and when it comes to a court, what is clearly written down matters more than what your assumptions are.

Worth pointing out that this is almost exactly false. Courts can and routinely do modify or reject clauses or whole contracts in accordance with what the parties believed they agreed to, or simply what the court believes is fair. The idea that anything written down and signed is legally binding is pure Hollywood.

Were Google to take your intellectual property without compensation, that clause (even assuming it applied) would not offer them protection.
I started using Boomerang last summer as I had so many emails that were getting lost in the mix. It was like having a personal assistant always reminding me to follow up.

Excited that you have moved on to a calendar assistant as well. It's definitely where I struggle the most. Looking forward to using the product.

Thanks.
1 hour of intense exercise (minimal breaks) >>> 3 hours of exercise with a ton of breaks and loitering around.

There's a lot of literature that workouts beyond an hour-hour and a half don't add much benefits and the shorter and more intense they are, the better. (of course this does not apply to athletes)
Netscape != Andreesen
Opsware was purchased for $1.6bn by HP, hardly a failure...

The thesis of the article is that Marc has been very successful at selling things, but that these things have not been so successful for the people who bought them from him. I don't think you are at odds with the author if you're saying that Marc has been successful at making money.
Crowdfunding doesn't necessarily mean large numbers of investors.
What about using encfs?
It sounds like IEEE was in charge of naming drive letters in DOS/Windows :)
I don't think that SomeCallMeTim understands that 0.10/share is a lot of money ($100,000) when a mutual fund is trading 1 million shares over 10 days.

Now mulitply that by 60 holdings which are turned over 100% per year and you can see why pensions would want those mutual funds to save $6,000,000/year in liquidity costs.

(Obviously mutual funds don't just do program trades, they also negotiate directly with each other etc. but the example still stands).
The Math Behind Ticket Bargains
...what difference does it make if there is a trojan or not?

Absent the Trojan, Bender has no idea if Farnsworth will show up or not. If Farnsworth doesn't show up, this might happen:

BUY(bender, $10.10, 100, 12:00:00.000)

SELL(bender, $10.15, 100, 12.00:00.100)

...crickets chirping...

SELL(hermes, $10.05, 100, 12.00.10.000)

SELL(zapp, $10.00, 100, 12.00.15.000)

BUY(amy, $10.00, 100, 12.00.16.000) (Amy trades with Zapp)

...MomCorp continues it's downward slide.

I.e., without the trojan Bender is just a guy who thinks MomCorp is going up.
I spent a day in Grand Rapids last year, very impressed with the tech scene there. A lot of bright folks, good companies, beautiful mid sized city, and a surprising lean focus.

Go StartGarden! I hope we can cop some of GR's vibe here in St. Louis.

Also the micro-funding concept is brilliant, great way to draw out the hidden midwest talent
I'm confused. You say Google "states in its privacy policy that it won't use it for anything other than to provide the service", but that's not good enough, because they can amend it later to remove that protection.

How is that different from the other providers, who (as you said, again) "clearly state that they are only taking rights to your work for the purpose of providing the service"? What is different about them which stops them from amending their policies?
I'm happy to see that some of us understand the reality of death.

I just smile when so called techie-minded folks declare a technology dead. It sort of puts their judgement on death in perspective ...

RSS is a great solution for many problems I've run into. I'm sure that there are many who won't let RSS die before it's time.

Wasn't email declared dead too? <smile>
Keep As Much Stuff As Possible In The Application Itself
they’re primarily interested in buying into any company,
no matter how flash-in-the-pan, where Andreessen Horowitz
can exit its investment for a large multiple of whatever
it bought in at.

It's worth mentioning that this behavior isn't unique to Andreessen Horowitz.

This also makes me wonder if this type of attitude might be hurting the long term prospects of our economy.
The only potential reason I can see is that crowdfunding also builds an audience with a stake in seeing your company turn out successfully, but it's hard to imagine how that would be useful in the case of a YC backed company.
Regarding Opsware, I think the author of the article is pointing out that a company's acquisition price does not necessarily equal its true value. In other words, the seller of a tulip at the peak of a market bubble hasn't created as much value as you'd think.
Perfect presentation is relatively useless if the relevant results aren't returned. Google wins, hands down because they have built an enormous index. Those 3 examples are relatively easy queries, but in my experience I find more and much better results for 90% of my queries in Google.
Google is claiming that they didn't copyright each of the 37 API separately, and as such that they don't claim ownership of them, thusly, Google can copy them.

FTA:
"The determination of this issue in favor of Google will either (a) result in the dismissal of the copyright claims or (b) provide the support for Google's de minimis and fair use copying defenses."
High Performance Webapps - Data URIs
The brogrammer meme is JUST A JOKE!

It's not funny, and it never was. Also, this sounds so much like someone who is truly bigoted trying to save face and cover up for their sociopathic tendencies.

I'm glad that many people (including men!) are calling out and ostracizing "brogrammers". The whole brogramming phenomenon is childish at its core and is not welcome in an industry already beleaguered by sexism. If you are a brogrammer please either grow up or leave the IT field to the adults.
Footer on an Infinite-scroll Pattern
It is a great idea with lots of creative and vision.
Way to go!
Yep, the kind of flubs like Path and PayPal.
Two things:

First of all, this isn't programmer culture, it's executive culture. MVH got to the position he is in because his world view matchs the world view of executives and VCs in the industry.

Second, I'm amazed that people can be critical of 'bro' culture in this article, but when Peter Theil's course material appeared here, people were supportive of it, even though it was essentially an intellectual argument that this is the type of culture you want to promote at a startup.
Security firm claims Mac security is "10 years behind" Microsoft
Seeking Scalablity Part 1: Resources
I wouldn't expect much in the way of improvements (read additional functionality) because of the acquisition. Google is a company for the masses, Trimble is sector and market specific. The only changes I would expect for a while are integrations with Trimble's current software and hardware.
Doesn't work for me on latest mainstream Chrome on 10.7-- when I download, the button says "Keep" instead of "Continue" (i.e. it's treating it as a file instead of an extension). Then when it's downloaded the CRX, attempting to load it causes Chrome to try and re-download the same CRX file, bringing up a save dialog...
A new way to build apps.
Marc.
I don't understand. "Liquidity" is another way of saying "cost of trading". You're saying, "most stocks cost so little to trade that people are already willing to trade them, so why upset the applecart for people who make a profit scalping off those trades"?
> the christian academic community seems to be about the only one in which one can have a serious conversation about innate differences between the genders without getting immediately taken out and shot.

(Sorry, I don't mean to harp on this too much, but after hanging out around a sociologist with a pet peeve, it has sadly rubbed off on me.)

This may be because in the academic community "gender" has an entirely different meaning that "sex." Sex (and the sex differences) relate to biological differences, male and female. Gender (and gender differences) relate to society, culture, and how one acts or the roles of the masculine and feminine _within that society_. So of course "gender differences" are not going to turn up a lot in the academic world since a self-identifying masculine male should have the same biology as a self-identifying feminine male. Googling for "sex brain difference" or something like that may help (in google scholar or a journal database, probably not plain google).

One other data point is that it is worth investigating women in technology in other societies. According to this (old) study: http://www.frauen.inf.ethz.ch/stats/international_stat_fraue... women are in the majority for a few asian countries.

Just some thoughts.
Your described scenario with Accenture doesn't describe a market-making HFT strategy. You're describing something akin to a mean-reversion algorithm that would be MFT or slower, and is not a market-making strategy. It demands that you buy and hold inventory to profit. It doesn't provide liquidity.

Of course you can make a huge profit when a crash occurs, whether that crash is due to a vicious circle of algorithms, or a vicious circle of human psychology. There are algorithms out there that look to do just that, trying to profit from exploitable market anomalies, and it's great that those people have found a way to get paid for fixing some problems. But they're not HFT market-makers, they're a different group of quant/algo traders.

Personally I care little about HFT. The flaws in the technology will get ironed out; the competition for the low-hanging fruit will continue to intensify, and eventually many of the functions will become commoditized as they mature.

In the meantime, I think it makes sense for HFT market participants to be sensitive to the fact that many individual market participants have trouble identifying the value they've received because of HFT participation, but can clearly remember fears that have been induced by HFT driven events.
> The low interest in of women in programming is a global phenomenon.

I'm not sure that's completely true. I've been told that the gender imbalance in CompSci programs is less severe in India than it is in the U.S., for instance, relative to the overall gender imbalance in their workforce.

But in general it wouldn't surprise me if there is higher worldwide correlation among companies in software development than in other industries, because software development is so new, and because so many of the dominant companies are concentrated in the U.S. Other industries, e.g. healthcare, operate in very different environments from country to country, so you would expect them to be less highly correlated.
Yes, and that's why nobody is claiming to be able to predict the weather in the long run. Nevertheless, some things still can be predicted, even in chaotic systems. What is your point?
It's like a conspiracy theory site but without the theories.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a not-too-bloated template engine? I'm going to be building a small-business Web site to display products from a MySQL database and possibly offer shopping-cart functionality.

Thanks!
These are the same types of arguments that a few of the more vocal but ill-informed professional photographers out there use to spread FUD about photo sharing sites like Flickr, etc.

The bottom line is that you, as a user, have to grant such a license to Google, Flickr, etc in order for them to be able to provide the services that you want. Its a copyright issue, and I haven't seen any other good way around it in anyone else's TOS yet and I've read quite a few.
Yeah, I also work for the consulting company that developed this app and I couldn't agree more. I do feel compelled to say for our own sake that we do, in fact, advise our clients on things like App Store descriptions and app icons, but we don't always succeed. :-)
I'm seeing something very similar happening in SV as happened in Wallstreet prior to when the big mess began in 2008: the media generated cult of personality for people who make money, not successful lasting companies.
Sounds like you desperately need a new profession. If you don't do it for love, you're wasting your life.
Wow. Nice. LaTeX typesetting for math just can't be beat.

How can one get involved?
Re-typesetting a math book sounds like a good way to learn something...

> The only down side ... steep learning curve since depend previous education
> That however is a fixable problem as well.

@hsmyers I think I have the fix. I am writing a book on basic math.
I have had good progress coming up with a //modern// introduction to high school
math, calculus and linear algebra, but I was worried whether I will be able
to teach the more advanced stuff -- now I can let Gauss take care of that ;)

A very funny / concise calculus book: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
quote from the intro: "Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics—and they are mostly clever fools—seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way."
You're correct, it's rare but it happened before: Google sold its Radio Automation business to WideOrbit Inc. But usually, Google (as any other large tech company) is where acquired tech goes to die - never to be heard from again.
I think anything in excess (lemon water included) is probably going to have unpleasant side effects. I personally don't drink more than 1-2 glasses a day.

I certainly wouldn't encourage that anyone replace water with lemon water - but it's really just lemonade without the added sugar.

Lemonade is of course not particularly great for your teeth in excess - but no worse than gatorade. Sugar is also famously not great for teeth, and therefore lemon water is less damaging - in equal volume - than lemonade.

What's also particularly important with regards to dental health is how long a given substance lingers in the mouth. Drinking a glass of lemon juice isn't the same as swishing it around for 20 seconds.

TLDR; No.
>Why would women find this more of a problem then men do?

I did not say this. What I said that women have more of a choice not to have a career and still succeed in raising a family.
awesome, thanks!

we'd like to have the locations dialog remember your previous entries (and making your phone number one of those options is a great idea) in a future update.
Thank you. The App status is ready for sale, so I think people can use the promo codes.
#2 was not intended to be for real. It was intended as a joke poking fun at the brogrammer thing, but it backfired because too many people thought they were serious. That's what happens when you step over the line while attempting humor.
I haven't used DDG in a while, but every time I go back there I'm left feeling a little bit disappointed in the results. Maybe its just that I've been lulled into complacency by years spent on Google, but something about the DDG user experience just feels a little... off.
I think we can all agree that copyrighteable APIs will be really crappy.
uh oh, that's not what's supposed to happen. Can you install other extensions? If so, please email us at support@baydin.com and we'll see if we can help out.
The way I am reading these comments it would seem that HNers are more curious than idolizing. Personally I do not believe that the length of time in which an entity chooses to own a stock makes that entity inherently bad or good. It is not unreasonable to think a fast execution could make a position unprofitable if delayed by minutes, and I fail to see how that is doing anything wrong.
Your described scenario with Accenture doesn't describe a market-making HFT strategy.

The HFT could have placed a passive buy order at $1.00 and a sell at $30.00 (or at $2.00, which he revised upwards as the price corrected).
The article presents an interesting point of view that I think is probably goes too far. It's not Marc's fault if the giant lumbering behemoths that buy companies don't know what to do with them. That's almost intrinsic in their natures, actually, that they'll screw it up. Even the best tech companies do it time and again, and with very good properties.

But this line in particular stands out-
"...buy its stake in the shadowy secondary market instead."

Come on. Shadowy? Really? Making it sound like he's buying plutonium or something.
They didn't block it. The actual problem was identified and it was that the person throwing a fit was searching for terms that Planned Parenthood didn't list themselves under.

There was no action on Apple's part, deliberate or otherwise, that caused it.
i don't think that distance is the right word there, more like differentiate. michigan is a big diverse state. i think it is more so geographic shorthand
Colorizing the output of tcpdump
Looks like you're absolutely correct - there's FB blog post from a while back talking about how this is something that they will not do: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=110636457130
You're mistaking flubs for flops. A flub is a botched opportunity. A flop is a total failure.

Startups really can't afford to let a series of flubs (results of a badly formed team making bad decisions) turn their whole endeavor into a flop.