skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real investors understand these things. Financial journalists understand these things as well, but it's not in their interests to make the financial news less interesting. You may have a solution in search of a problem.

I'm not convinced you have a solution, though. Share price quotes are only of publicly traded shares, so there's no per-share history available. Indeed, I don't think there's a way to distinguish individual shares, in the same way there's no way to distinguish individual dollars in your bank account. And I don't think historic price is more meaningful than last share. Consider Facebook: Zuckerberg bought his shares for $0. Does he really think that's what they're worth? Does anybody?

What we do know is that he won't sell them at current market prices. When investors hold shares like that, it's because they believe they are worth as much or more than the current price. And that's the theory that a market cap valuation is based on: if nobody is selling at the current price in a liquid market, then all the holders apparently think their shares are worth more than what they can sell them for. Ergo, the company price is shares * last price.
You lucky Brits get all the best consumer protection laws. I don't think such a thing exists in the states, and if it did, I imagine that there would be some sort of shipping loophole. ("Sorry, your device took 4 days to ship, and 3 days to ship back, you don't get a refund. Oh, and if you want your device back, please pay for shipping again.")
This doesn't prevent you from analyzing which sections of your shop or store are frequently visited or how often users buy goods - that can be analyzed using the server logs.

Now, should e.g. Wal-Mart be able to put an RFID tag on you so that they know who you ware the next time you come in? And more importantly, should they be able to contract a third-party, which can then know when you enter any store with which they have a contract?
This may work for hiring interns but IMO there is a lot more that goes into a quality Sr. Engineer than can be identified through analyzing a candidates code commits.

A few examples of engineering qualities which seem to be either looked over or not respected on this board include...

- Estimation Skills (can the candidate estimate their own abilities and identify pitfalls in the upcoming tasks?)

- Documentation Skills (including diagramming, white boarding, etc)

- Communication Skills (can the candidate communicate to the recipient on the level which is required?)

- Systems Integrations concepts/experience

- Systems Performance concepts/experience

- Personality (e.g. can the candidate accept that their proposed solution is not the best in the room and go on to implement another proposal)

- Politics (can the candidate navigate the politics inherent in an IT organization or are they always burdened by conflict)

In my experience anyone can learn to code, and most people can put together an application, but to become a great performer in any IT organization, the soft-skills are even more important than the coding skills.
That was fast! Kickstarter, the Raspberry Pi and Instagram - good topics. Listening to it now.

One thing though: when you click the "Applaud" button, the page reloads and of course the web player does too. That's unexpected and annoying. An AJAX button is in order here.
Is this a joke? It doesn't seem very serious.

As for companies that would consider such a thing, what happens if someone does not, will not, or can not commit their work to Github?

Should I just commit stuff to Github just so I can say I did?
Kids Send 3D GoPro Cameras Into Space, Get Back Stunning Footage
sorry, have edited it now
Music Developers Listen to When Coding Their Mobile Apps
I feel like I've read like 20 variations on this same article in the last couple months.
I've been happy with Heroku, Dotcloud, and Webfaction. Of the three, Webfaction's the only one that's Python-specific (although not really), but both Heroku and Dotcloud have Pythonistas on staff and take Python support really seriously.
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I am looking for alternatives to "Go Daddy". What choices do I have other than "NameCheap" ?

Thanks!
Cultivation Captial Makes First Investments In Missouri Tech Startups
I don't understand why Whatsapp don't have an online offering for the computer. I prefer to "text" off my computer if I am working there all day. With a decent input device, I think people who spend any length of time on a computer during the day. I think whatsapp would really benefit from a web offering.

Also as an aside to this, I presume whatsapp does not allow just anyone to connect via XMPP, what would be much better again, would be if my IM account could connect to whatsapp.
Our entry hasn't been added to the site yet, but here is the Fogbeam Labs position:

Fogbeam Labs believes that it is inappropriate for the State of North
Carolina to institutionalize discrimination and bigotry against citizens
of North Carolina, on grounds of sexual orientation. We also believe that
it is not an appropriate role for the State to sanction, restrict, endorse,
or otherwise regulate marriage, which is a private, personal commitment
made between consenting adults. For these reasons, Fogbeam Labs
opposes Amendment One and encourages all citizens of NC to
vote "NO" on the Amendment.
Psd.js layer visualization demo
Thanks for posting! Appreciate the detail!
I almost never have WiFi on with my current phone, it causes my battery to run dry at about 5pm. With my previous phone, the wifi was almost always on though, as the impact to battery life was minimal.
Programming and Social Interaction
Great start. I would be a bit more inclined to listen if it was in iTunes. It's pretty easy to set up: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html
In a practical sense, I'd say the definition is simply our inability to recognize a pattern at this point; it's completely subjective.
Ask HN: Profitable company, may seek funding, but zero connections.  Ideas?
I am posting with a throwaway for a number of reasons.

I am the technical cofounder of a profitable web retailer that is seeing solid growth. We have been doing well for ourselves, but we have begun internal discussions about the opportunities that we would be able to pursue if we accepted growth capital. It is an appealing idea, and although we will likely do just fine by continuing on our bootstrapped path, we believe that additional capital would accelerate this process dramatically and would be worth the dilution.

That said, we have a problem. We have literally zero access to either the angel or venture capital world. None of the founding team "knows a guy who knows a guy", as it were, nor do our attorneys or other advising professionals. My understanding is that warm introductions are effectively the only way one can gain access to VC firms, and we lack even an indirect route to get there.

We have an AngelList profile, but that leads us to the same problem, in that one requires followers and trusted referrals to get any visibility whatsoever. We have several million dollars in annual revenue, and a mid-double-digit growth rate, but these do not matter without the requisite social proof.

My question to HN is simply: what do we do now? Are there any funding options for founders without networks?
You can still apply at https://www.divio.ch/en/jobs/ with a regular application if you would prefer that.
There are dozens of choices - just don't follow the Lemmings that think they need to get the "largest" provider.
I also question the utility and reason behind this. I spend a lot of time fixing memory leaks from lousy developers who use closures and anonymous functions incorrectly in JavaScript. I'm just learning Ruby as well, and see a lot of room for similar black-boxing pitfalls in procs and blocks. It seems to me like you're reducing code size at the expense of readability and debugability. That might be the ruby way, but it seems to me like a bad way to program.

Like I said, I'm just learning... so I'd love counterexamples and reasons why I'm wrong.
Notch has said that when he "upgrades" the DCPU spec, the old CPUs will continue to work as they have, but new CPUs will become available. I don't have the reference handy though.
And this is how automated news aggregation can fail...
I think that last sentence deserves emphasis. There's a lot of "NIH syndrome" ("Not Invented Here") around -- and the deeper someone's domain knowledge, the more likely they are to suffer from it.
AFAIK, current machine vision technology can provide at most ~85% tracking accuracy in crowded environments.
And if you drive any recent diesel engine until you run out of gas, you will cause damage.
I predict the SEO circle jerk will out them soon for begging, borrowing and or buying links. Way to blow up their spot.
How do you plan on upgrading this fall, when you're locked into a 2 year contract and you're ineligible for a new device?
Wouldn't they have done that already? Maybe there is some partnership at work.
How does this not trivially exclude everything (the first definition, not the circular restatement)? Considering that, say, a sequence of coin flips either has the property of "beginning with heads" or "beginning with tails," it certainly appears to.
I wonder if there are any studies looking at cancer incidence in people with high cholesterol.
BTW, most technical books do very poorly. (Sell less that a handful a month) This is a successful book!
Randomness has at least one property... It can't be compressed.

That is, it has no pattern.
Which makes you wonder if they restaurateurs are writing just as many articles complaining about all of the cooks running around looking for someone to build and run a restaurant for them.
As an aspiring philosopher i love these thoughts! Thank you!

I have long thought that Chaos Theory is a vastly underestimated scientific field. They should teach it in elementary school!
What about founders that cash out during an investment round, ala Groupon?

Right from the wikipedia:

"A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation"
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I lost a smartphone in Brooklyn and the NYPD bent over backward to get it back and then asked me to fudge the date that I filed the report, which I told them I was uncomfortable doing. It was very weird. They must be able to book it as some great achievement at the station.
The way they present it makes it seem that it is only the github they are interested. The headline states: "Find out if you are made for this position or not!" and then I get a message: "We love your initiative...…»
… but you need to improve." To me, it says, 'hey, I'm not good enough for this position so I'll move on'. Especially considering this is targeted at people with no experience.

I can't count how many times I've seen posts on www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions asking about being ready for a job after graduating or saying they feel like a fraud. If somebody did have imposter syndrome and saw that, it would most likely re-affirm their feelings. Especially after seeing the scores of others on the leader board.
Lehmer (1951), by way of Knuth Vol. 2, "A random sequence is a vague notion embodying the idea of a sequence in which each term is unpredictable to the uninitiated and whose digits pass a certain number of tests, traditional with statisticians and depending somewhat on the uses to which the sequence is to be put."
As bad as the Android OS update situation is at least there's a fairly good chance you can root and install a custom ROM if you really want the latest & greatest OS. This would be difficult or impossible with Windows Phone devices. It's still unbelievable to me Apple is the only major player who supports all their devices with software updates for an extended period of time. (not just bug fixes but adding real value post-sale)
For those who want to become a celebrity chef, the writer says to "do something else: marketing, renting restaurants, anything except the job you're not qualified to do."

That's one bit of advice. The other advice, if given to someone who can afford the change, is to take a job as a pantry chef in a small cafe and work your way up.
Which is what they seem to be hiring. That's all well and good, but it would have been better to be clear on the criteria so that people understood their score better.

What I would love to see is something that gives you an overall sense of your contributions regardless of language. Pull requests made/accepted, total projects contributed to, number of different languages for code checked in etc.
In that case there is still a TLD. It's probably worse because the differentiating part of the domain is buried halfway into the domain name. Imagine having domains like com.disney and com.donald. They look the same.

The web has no hierarchy so it doesn't make sense for domain names to have one. It would have been nicer to ditch the TLDs, use a sane protocol name and have implicit slashes. Like web:disney/some-path.
This series has been incredibly informative so far. Thanks for sharing.
I guess Alex will set it up at some point, but until then, here's a subscribe link:
itpc://www.hnpod.com/episodes.rss

(Or Advanced|Subscribe to Podcast and enter http://www.hnpod.com/episodes.rss)
Here, let's try it on somebody we should all recognize:

https://www.divio.ch/github/u/dhh/

Welp. Huh. Looks like the creator of Rails isn't getting an internship.
As an example, I typed in 'dhh' and 'matz' ... both of which would not qualify for this position. 'You need more improvement' was the result. Surely the grading algorithm could use some tweaking.
And to think I was prepared to go to class today.
Does a "valid battle.net account" mean you have to be paying for a battle.net service? I've got one, but not paying for WoW.
Look at the startups who've just closed VC rounds
NameCheap overtook Go Daddy for the author. Search results change based on location, your preferences, search patterns, and just about everything else. One search does not a ranking change make.
There's a larger point in this post about using frameworks with the language they were designed for. Using another language to wrap a language you don't like to use a framework is often extremely limiting and awkward.

As a developer trying to get things done, I'm far more productive if I bite the bullet and learn the language the framework was designed for rather than bend the framework to fit my favorite language. I've found this to be true across mobile, web and pure backend server technologies.
AngularJS - Javascript MVC framework from Google
Absolutely. Oversimplified to the point of being false.

I'd have thought this would be fairly easy to do, you just need a sufficient amount of WiFi access points. Someone should add this DD-WRT or Tomato so it can be done with cheap/consumer routers easily.
Mindscore becomes in the favorite ‘Evernote for musicians’ mobile app
I would imagine any account that has ever purchased a game is valid, and maybe even those that haven't.
A ponzi is where you use the money from new investors to pay off earlier investors.

Early investors in startups cash out during later funding rounds or acquisitions.

QED.
> This would be difficult or impossible with Windows Phone devices.

Some WP devices(many Samsung, HTC and Nokia phones) have custom ROMs with the latest updates.

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=...

>It's still unbelievable to me Apple is the only major player who supports all their devices with software updates for an extended period of time. (not just bug fixes but adding real value post-sale)

So far Microsoft has been doing that(with NoDo and Mango), so lets wait before jumping to conclusions.
It does not. They stipulate that even those that do not have a battle.net account can sign up for a brand new one and be eligible to test out Diablo 3.
You can create a valid battle.net account for free.
I think this is because it's the debut release of a video game, not a bundle of already released titles.
Fairly certain that you don't need to be paying, just be able to log into the battle.net site. This was the case for the signup and download for the closed beta.
Completely earnest question, and I hope you have the time to answer --

How do you effectively use SemWeb tech? Obviously you can't build your whole system with a triple store backend; that would be too slow. Especially if you have a data explosion of millions and millions of facts.

I've thought of a neat little distributed p2p research project that exchanges news items like HN/Reddit with your interest graph as determined by the nodes you share upvotes with (or weighed by some scheme you can tweak). Do you simply use RDF/OWL ontologies like FOAF, SIOC, etc. as the data transport format and then actually store information in relational databases internally?

I want to do this so people can curate their own interest graphs, essentially; it's like prismatic, but software under your own control. Such a platform would be extensible since you can add new ontologies to support new needs. The Slashdot crowd, for instance, might moderate with tags such as 'insightful' rather than simply 'upvoting'.

And can you use these graph databases like Prolog systems? And can we make that intuitive for the end user?

Or as a more practical example, what about a molecule database? I'd need to store representations, properties, etc. There's a potentially limitless amount of factual information that I could store on one particular molecule. How do you make your software flexible enough to "know" what data you have on any given molecule and decide which "context" to portray it? (ie. if it's of medicinal use, synthetic chemistry use, is simply a common reagent, etc.) Is some of this just inherently kept in a relational database for fast querying with the graph database backing an asynchronously updating view?
I completely agree. I predict there will be a "but think about the children" argument made for regulating Kickstarter within one year.
Windows Phone does have some custom ROMs available on XDA. Obviously they're not new versions of the software since there's just the one that's available on every device already. But XDA does have some Windows Phone chefs.
I personally use https://www.inwx.de/en
They have an API, provide nameservers, are comparatively cheap (at least for the TLDs I own) and have a nice minimalistic interface targeted at professional users
Even if you don't have any battle.net account, you can create a new one and play the beta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction
Indeed I was using SpaceX Falcon 9 numbers. Looks like I botched my math though.
A simple lead nurturing example for every web business
Africa sitting on sea of groundwater reserves
...like ads doesn't consume enough cpu power already ^_-
It's not going to matter. Godaddy already has about 100x the external links that NameCheap does (according to SEOmoz[1] and Majestic SEO[2]). If NameCheap moved up, it was for reasons other than external links.

1. http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.godaddy...

2. https://www.majesticseo.com/reports/compare-domain-backlink-...
Of course not :-) We are a Django shop ;)
I really like this analogy (as I've been actively developing my cooking skills a lot over the past few years).

I mostly develop recipes through trial and error, or at the very least the existing knowledge from my cooking skills. The idea that someone who doesn't cook could come up with a good recipe is somewhat absurd.

Recipes which are created by people without any experience may sound good (a good idea), but are actually pretty bad; e.g. the bacon explosion.
Upvoted because the interviewer asked penetrating informed questions.
Practically impossible: The quest to decipher Fez's cryptographic final puzzle
> If this is a bubble, and you know that eventually certain companies behaving this way are gonna tank -- then you can bet right now that way and earn a big payout if that's the case.

"Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." -- John Maynard Keynes

That is: if you short a stock (leaving aside that you cannot short non-public stock) and it continues to go up you will need to continue adding money to your account to cover your accumulating losses. If it goes up high enough and you don't have enough collateral your position is closed and you are broke.

It is not enough just to identify a bubble you also have to call the top with a reasonably degree of accuracy.
YouTube is already unusable from a German IP, the most ridiculous example of which is that the German National Anthem can't be watched from Germany.
You have to put the dot at the end to make it a fully-qualified name otherwise the resolver will think it is a hostname and add the local domain.
It's not apparent he would need Kickstarter - he could attempt a crowdfund straight through his own website, thus not giving anyone else a cut except whoever his payment provider is. He'd certainly drive enough traffic there, to not require any 'help' from Kickstarter.
I am a big supporter of more freedom, and am always in favor of laws which expand the freedoms of individuals, especially those who have historically been persecuted. This campaign does feel a bit contrived though, as a libertarian type who loves guns, hunting and many other things that shock the conscience of many in Silicon Valley this type of self selection out of a group happens everywhere.

I just wish those who support these types of campaigns could also see how they push away just as many people themselves in areas like Silicon Valley through their group think ideas of what's civilized and acceptable.
I'm probably just missing something. But for us the purpose of A/B tests isn't really optimization; it's learning. We have a hypothesis about how to improve something and we try it out. The most valuable tests for us are the ones that don't work, because they force us to go back and think things through again.

A magic multivariable optimizer seems fine for the kinds of things a human won't be thinking about (e.g., most interesting tweets this hour and the best ads to show next to them). But from this article I'm not seeing an advantage in using a similar mechanism for testing product hypotheses.
Why would someone with a 31334 github profile want an internship? They can get a regular job making regular money.
I think that's just semantic misunderstanding. Some people name as "idea" the combination of concept + execution proposal. Other's name "idea" as the concept alone. I don't think there's a right or wrong here, people just have different opinions of how to call what.

Personally, for practical purposes and pushing myself forward, I prefer calling idea something that has a clear execution strategy. If you have a brilliant concept but not sure how to put it in practice. Then in my opinion you got half an idea, and should work on the other half.
Novell and the Unix API...
I think the true filter here is "You are going to get [blablablah] per month, to spend on beer." Non-drinkers need not apply.

Ah well, at least they're up front about some of their priorities.
Agreed, but that's not quite how it works in Enterprise software, I think. Enterprise software is developed to cover a wide spectrum of businesses whose business rules, etc differ greatly. Because of this it's hard to make a product that "just works" for every organization. That's why CIOs buy support and consulting contracts. :)
While not still in college myself, I was enjoying the tide of students crying because Blizz is having open beta weekend the week before a lot of people take finals. Made my morning. =)
This is a repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838880
Look for them on http://angel.co/ and LinkedIn and Facebook and find introductions. Failing that just email them, numbers speak for themselves.
1/3 of all Internet users hit Amazon-based services at least once a day
Ask HN: What kind of contracts a freelancer should/should not sign?