skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Experienced Investor" often has quite specific meanings - namely that the investor fully understands all the risks involved in an investment.

This generally goes beyond just knowing that there's a risk involved but also understanding the risk profile and where the risk comes from and any liabilities and responsibilities that might come with the investment and being able to afford the downside risk involved as well (for example, if you buy a cross currency interest rate swap you might find that extreme FX moves blow the position out of the water and leave you on the hook for far larger payments than anticipated).

Experienced in this sense doesn't really mean that you've done it before, it means something far closer to "can read and understand the whole prospectus and afford to lose the money".
Converting Your Product To Cloud Service: Lessons Learned
Actually it uses the built in Django auth system, it has a registration page and everything already. You can have multiple people with accounts posting stuff on here if you wanted to expand it to multiple people in a company.

I'll create an issue to expand in this direction a bit though, great idea!

EDIT: Issue created here https://github.com/overshard/pinry/issues/6
FYI:

tooth·some/ˈto͞oTHsəm/
Adjective:
(of food) Temptingly tasty: "a toothsome morsel".
(of a person) Good-looking; attractive.

Good post, though. You seem credible on this issue. I'm one of the uninformed.
Refreshing read – the part about how employers need to actively court employees, how those top of their game are less likely to send out resumes, etc.

But I feel some points are on the way to being old and cliched (like the terms 'rockstars' and 'ninjas'.) Not just from 42Floors but other recruitment post descriptions.

I'm referring specifically to the perks and 'freedom' the companies promise. ie:

Unlimited Holiday/Vacations days!

Work on anything you want! Make your own projects!

Don't sign anything. Total freedom!

I never worked at any place that offered these perks (I'm not that awesome yet) but do people really take advantage of them? Isn't it kind of weird to offer those perks – what exactly are is the company hiring for then? Doesn't it come off as lack of focus if employees can do whatever they want? (Unless they're in the R&D department, or they can do whatever they want 20% of the time)

It's also like the perk of having access to a game room filled with XBox's. I interviewed at a place where there was an XBox in the center of the work area – how will anyone feel comfortable playing in there, surrounded by others working away. It just feels like a gimmicky perk. Personally, a better perk would be access to a nice bathroom with a shower for those late nights when I need to refresh.
While this will not end the case, the fact that Oracle tried to base many of its arguments on something that was not, in fact, true according to their own copyright registrations will utterly destroy the arguments that rely upon that misrepresentation.

So they're going to be in a difficult position trying to salvage their copyright claims. They might manage to do something, but they've got a pretty weak hand here. They wanted to rush this trial and all they did was to trip themselves up.
Truckee Real Estate - Homes for Sale - Truckee Realtor - Tahoe Real Estate
Realty For Truckee Tahoe (Truckee realtor) Your Truckee California dedicated real estate agent with knowledge of all Lake Tahoe real estate. Search Homes for Sale in Truckee CA area with me, Call Today (530) 412-1671.
> The lines between manufacturing and services are blurring.

If there was on thing I learned with this crises is that services are the first to go down. Why? Because they're expensive and not a must have.

On the other hand real products like food, houses, vehicles, medicine... are the ones that will never go down (must have). But they have low margins and are not so attractive during growth periods.

So while the trends exposed here are probably true, the fundamentals will surely change with such large disruptions as the ones predicted here. And then the service providers will not have who to sell to anymore. Auto-balance

Note: I'm not an economist. I read however "Economy in one lesson"
Hiring very talented young people out of college is an easy way for companies to get lots of value for cheap.

If you haven't read pg's "Hiring is Obsolete", I suggest you do because it more or less explains why someone like Dan shouldn't take this offer: http://paulgraham.com/hiring.html

For someone in college this type of stunt could be quite intimidating, and mentorship is appealing, but (in general) people will be more willing to help you out when you are doing your own thing than if you are working for someone else.

Also note that it does not mention that he can continue to work on his own company, which (to me) is what appears to make him happy.

Why put your life on hold for someone else when you've already got so much going for you and an entrepreneurial attitude in the first place?
If I remember correctly there were many laws specifying that men were to be paid less than women and were to be subject to other degrading treatment. It's hard to find a good example of an actual law though because until recently virtually all states regulated education at the local level.
I think there is a point in the original article that is perhaps overstated but nonetheless mainly true - Andreessen is being hailed as one of the great entrepreneurs of our time by Wired. But really, his main skill is building companies that don't make much money and selling them to other companies. He has never really created anything of long-term value. He's no Warren Buffet or Bill Gates.
They may be against software patents in general (isn't everyone here?), but Florian Mueller from FOSS Patents is actually being paid by both Microsoft and Oracle. You can 100% expect him to be slanted against Google in this case and in general as well.
> What I said that women have more of a choice not to have a career and still succeed in raising a family.

Yeah, not so sure about that statement either, given economic times.
So, you're saying that people are, in effect, building lottery tickets when they create start-ups? Is no one interested in building businesses anymore?
> Well, I accept them 100%.

I think that says more about you than it does the jokes.
>No, it's not. "Publicly perform"?! Tell me in what reasonable backup scenario would google need the right to publicly perform your content? It's not reasonable at all; it's egregious and honestly insulting.

Youtube.
Ninja is mostly encoding agnostic, as long as the bytes Ninja cares about (like slashes in paths) are ASCII. This means e.g. UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 input files ought to work.

I was going to say that this is brittle because UTF-8 multi-byte sequences might contain bytes such as 0x2F (forward slash) without actually encoding a slash... but it turns out that's wrong. All bytes in multi-byte sequences always have the high bit set, so you can look for ASCII-7 characters in UTF-8 strings without having to worry about getting false positives. That's a very useful property of UTF-8 I wasn't (consciously) aware of before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description
I don't know about that. Some people simply have no idea how crude their own jokes are.
bad photoshop
I think you're right about email as a protocol.

There are a couple reasons I think we'll continue to read most of our messages, though:
* If the automatic parser misfires on one out of 50 messages (a really hard threshold to hit, as we've learned from building BCal), you still have to review the messages it determined you "shouldn't read" - so it's really not adding a ton of value. Just saving you the step of clicking the delete button
* Deleting junk email doesn't take very long - 80% of deletions happen in under 3 seconds.

That said, there's a ton of gray area for products like Boomerang Calendar, which facilitate the interaction you'd want to take, but don't choose it for you. We're working on some of those :)

Thanks for getting my brain's gears turning!
Personalize your website and gain credibility
90% of popular SSL sites vulnerable to exploits, researchers find
Admittedly, you've got me here.
Can you send us an email as well? We tested on Lion before release this morning, and everything seemed OK on our end
Disk encryption is usually block-based.

(disclaimer: I know nothing about TrueCrypt).
> the male/female ratio is nowhere near 50% among technical candidates.

Yeah, the handicap is already baked in.
Drank: frisdrank en cola veroorzaken beroerte | Leef Nu Gezonder
What you describe is a complaint about jobs, corporate culture and how market demands change over time, nothing unique to programming.

If you had to choose again, what would you've done that wasn't 'salt-mine labor' then?
GPS is commodity now, Trimble are looking to add value

It's hard to sell a $500 ruggadised GPS unit when it's built into someones iPhone, and people are beginning to wonder why they are paying quite so much even for RTK systems when the actual HW is so cheap.

But if even small scale housing construction started could be persuaded to use the same 3D mapping/GPS technology that big civil engineering projects do then you could tie up a nice market.

From the prospective concept design of the street of houses, the planning permission filings with 3D height modelling, sight lines, light rights, the cad drawings, then the automated layout of roads and foundations with GPS equipped machines - all with an integrated Trimble system.
How does a company being bought for talent work exactly? If I join a company that gets bought, how long am I usually legally obligated to work for the company that bought my current employer?
EA Spikes; Report South Korea's Nexon Makes Takeover Bid
Because as we all know, women don't like beer.

My company has a fully stocked bar. We don't force people to drink, but we have plenty of employees (including women) who enjoy it especially after a long day or in celebration of something.
How is it an immature attack to point out that an advocate for the opposing side failed to predict the future? Or that he has no real expertise? It goes to his credibility.
You guys are absolutely nailing the aspect of virtually trying on glasses. All I could do was turn, look at my buddy and say "Man, do you see this craziness?". Phenomenal work and best of luck in your endeavors!
The issue is strictly a procedural one. For example, you get the copyright as soon as you author a work and put it in a tangible form of expression (let's say it is source code for a product you have developed). Then, you go about your business for several years using your copyrighted work internally and making sure it is subject to trade secret protections as well. If, after that time, someone lifts the code illegally and uses it to create a competitive product, you have a claim for copyright infringement, among other things. But you cannot file that claim in federal court unless and until you have registered the copyrighted work as a prerequisite to maintaining the suit. Many U.S. jurisdictions say you cannot even sue at all on the copyright claims until the copyright has finally been registered. In California, the Ninth Circuit holds that you can file the federal suit once you have applied for the copyright registration, even though it is not complete.

Therefore, once you create a qualifying work, you have a fully perfected copyright immediately. You just can't sue on that interest for infringement until you have taken the additional step of registering the copyright. You can, however, register at any time prior to filing an infringement action, even if that is many years after the copyright was created. For enforcement purposes, then, it is basically a 2-step process.

Oracle's problem is that it is at the tail end of a trial and has no ability at this point to do anything about registration. If Google is right concerning the motion, Oracle will be out of options on its copyright claims.
Every switch uses shared throughput and load balancing. This is no different from a Ethernet gigabit switch unless your switch has a > gigabit Up-link. Think about it - how are 2 clients hard wired to a gigabit Ethernet switch going to exceed 500 megabits of downstream simultaneously.

The Up-link to the switch is the limiting factor.
Clojure Atlas: a visualization of the language and standard library
If APIs were copyrightable there would be no Wintel machines... IBM would have killed Compaq for daring to build a clean room BIOS.

Logically I can't see why an API should get copyright protections. By its definition it is a interface, and the moment you start allowing restrictions on implementing an interface your killing competition. It seems that in almost ever other field fair use has decided that whatever is required for compatibility is not copyrightable.

That said my beliefs and the law can at times be completely different things...
PandoMonthly Fireside Chat With Dustin Moskovitz - Tickets on Sale NOW
As a guy in the tech industry, I myself can't stand working in a "sausage factory".

Homogeneity makes people complacent. The guard comes down, and the 'behaviour filter' that people would otherwise have in a more heterogenous environment disappears.

This type of thing bugs me because I worry that it desensitizes me and makes me careless when I visit clients, or change workplaces.
Kinvey JavaScript Library Now Available for HTML5 Apps and node.js
GDrive sucking 2-4% CPU on Macs while idling
I may be too young to remember correctly, but I think this whole "we need particle physicists to sweep our floors" mentality started with Google. I'm sure it was around before then, but I definitely noticed an increase in that focus after Google became well known for only hiring "the best".
Scientists claim how a person answers a math problem is a predictor of belief
Can you put up a demo?
Frankly, I'd be surprised if Drive didn't get an addendum to the TOS to address the concerns. Lawyers don't often have 24 hour turnarounds on this sort of change.
People seem to use the word Ponzi-scheme quite loosely these days, but this is not one. I don't know if this is news to you, but it is not a secret, that VCs do invest in companies under the premise that they get sold or they do an IPO (sell to the public). This is because they need to get a return on their investment.

However, these companies get bought by bigger companies, who drive some real value from buying them. If the big company screws it up or decides to integrate the product in their own, that does not make it a Ponzi-scheme.
Last Monday, Oracle's lawyers said something that was not true according to their own copyright registration documents. So they're going to be left with either pathetically weak claims of copyright infringement or nothing at all, because most of their arguments were based on a falsehood. This judge in particular hates that sort of thing.

TL;DR Oracle shot themselves in the foot. Their claims of copyright infringement are dead or dying.
Amazon's Kindle Fire now owns over half of the Android tablet market
If you don't like sharing, and don't want to self-host, there is also http://www.clipboard.com
I'd actually love to see an evaluation of predictions made by both sources and how they turned out. Or even just some examples of comparative predictions on particular points.
Groklaw has probably the strongest position on the Internet when it comes to stating anything of legal fashion as it pertains to the tech industry, regardless of what it is.

There are few or no organizations that have better trial room journalism chops when it comes to the IT scene than groklaw.
Might you be more easily impressed than most HNers, coming from StL? Or have you got to know one of the big startup hubs? Also I'm curious what you did in a day to get a feel for it. I've spent a week in SF so far but I don't feel that I have a good grasp of what it's like there. If you have insight into how to quickly check out a city's tech scene, please share.
I'm getting into Pinterest, trying to figure out what the sharing, socializing, and marketing opportunities are over there. Some of those members have millions of followers. Amazing. It's like having your own private newspaper.

But heck if I want to spend my time creating yet more content for some other third-party to make money on. So I can kind of see what they're getting at here.

What I decided to do was create a blog just for new stuff I'd share on Pinterest. I post to my blog and then pin from my blog. ( shameless plug: http://i-heart.us/ Note this is mostly just Amazon affiliate stuff but I already have another blog dedicated to just interesting pictures http://caption-of-the-day.com)

I think if you could automate _that_ process, where instead of pinning you'd post on your own account and then pin, you'd get the best of both worlds. Having your site look and feel like Pinterest would be bonus points.

I like this idea a lot. To me having finer control over your own content is a much more important feature than nailing an exact Pinterest clone.
A nice document sharing website using Google's View
Like the story about digging the pirate ship!
> a lovely bookmark aggregator

For certain definitions of lovely, consider http://pinboard.in/
You're supposed to register within 5 years, but if you put it off it's possible that an infringing party could register before you. I can't think of any cases where this actually happened, though.
I was considering it until I realized how much CPU GDrive was taking on my Mac: http://johnmarshall4.tumblr.com/post/21864353801/gdrive-suck...
>Anyway, why would staring Netscape not be enough value already? After all he himself wrote the Mosic browser that became the basis for all of today's browser. I think very few people have produced more "value" in their lives.

No, he was a part of the team that wrote the Mosaic browser. Eric Bina was the other major contributor. Mosaic was not a solo project like the first version of Linux. It was a team effort.
I personally wouldn't be looking for faux-bro culture in a startup, but you should expect people who have common goals+values and move/talk/dress alike to bond. This has value (sure, you still want diversity in thinking/problem solving - but in culture? not directly helpful).

So, hiring or soliciting hires on the basis of cultural compatibility, where legal, is just a tradeoff. You lose by turning off or dismissing part of the total pool, but if the culture is good, you get more out of those who are compatible with it.

Copying the latest fad culture is counterproductive. The companies piling on without any authenticity are idiotic. They'll end up with dregs pretty soon if they all keep going to the bro well (which I assumed was ironically intended - who knows any sincere bros?)

Of course, ironic culture is real (ironic) culture.
If you despise Unity, switch to Xubuntu. A minimal amount of customization allows it to feel just like Gnome 2.
I wasn't saying a PC is a hobby device, me playing games on it is the hobby. I suppose one day I'll be playing my PC games on a tablet but it has a long ways to go to convince me that's a superior experience.
That will never happen because: 1. if Google eventually loses, they will just pay a chunk of money and that’s it; 2. Google wants Java, not a new language, if they wanted a different one they would have created one from the start, it’s not like they don’t have the ability or resources.
If you look at YC's FAQ page it says $17K for a single founder. For 3%, $5k total seems low to me. For two founders that would be $2.5k each.
1. I have both installed. Wanted to check out Google Drive but not necessarily switch. I rarely use Dropbox as it is.

2. Between the two, currently Dropbox has more value for me both in terms of overall storage space and in terms of users I have shared folders with.

3. Free on both. I haven't had a need to upgrade to the paid version yet due to limited need to use the service. Possibly later if I ever end up needing more space.
Some useful information on usage (including with NB and IntelliJ) here - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-...

GUI Apps look weird with the Oracle VM - looks like the Cocoa integration is not yet done.
I would further say that you'd probably have to distinguish between a person being sexist out of negligence and a 'true' sexist. A lot of "white knighting" falls under the first and can result in people who are absolutely convinced that they are being the exact opposite of sexist, while they can be just as hurtful.
Not entirely correct, its slightly more complicated than that.

Say you write an short story. And you file a copyright for it with the copyright office.

Now, an anthology editor reads your story and wishes to include it in a collection of short stories that he is preparing. It contains, say 20 other short stories as well. This anthology is a "collective work". The anthology editor did not have copyright over the individual stories - he probably only has certain royalty arrangement with each individual author. But the editor can certainly copyright the layout of the anthology. Maybe he put together a brief intro for each story, maybe he ordered them in some artistic fashion based on progression of ideas in the stories etc. This would be a "collective work" copyright. Under a collective work copyright, the editor could sue another editor for producing a substantially duplicate anthology for copyright infringement. But if another magazine published just one of the stories by itself, the editor could not claim copyright infringement.

So in the case of oracle, oracle could have copyright the design of each API individally, and then also copyrighted the entire collection of APIs, thus copyrighting the "collective work" representing the entire language API. But they didn't. They only copyrighted the entire collection as a single work. Thus they (supposedly) cannot claim copyright infrigement when only a small part of it might have been copied by google. (I am not quite certain here).

What oracle is claiming instead - is that they copyrighted Java as a "collective work". which would allow them to claim copyright over the design of the entire API design, rather than just the source code of API implementation. They claim that this design is their creative input. But in this case, then they would also have needed to copyright individual APIs if they wanted to sue for infringement in those individual APIs. Otherwise they could only sue if someone someone copied the entire (or a very substantial part of) the design. They did not copyright those individual pieces.

Back to the analogy:

According to groklaw, Oracle actually copyrighted the entire anthology as an original single work. Oracle claims it copyrighted the anthology as a "collective work" - this is under question. Also, if it DID actually copyright the anthology as a collective work, it seems they did not file copyrights for the individual stories. As a collective work, thus, they can sue for infringement if another anthology is published with substantially the same layout, copying the creativity that went into putting the anthology together. But, if someone copied just one of the stories, they might not be able to sue for infringement as that would not duplicate the creative work of the anthology itself.

On the other hand, if they claim to have copyright the entire anthology as a single work, then if someone copies just the titles of each story and publishes another anthology with different content but same titles for each story, it might not count as infringement.

At least thats my understanding.
What happened to beginrescueend.com?
I just noticed this and thought it was curious. Anyone have any idea what happened?
And why is this a bad thing? I don't see why it makes a difference if the company continues to exist on it's own or as part of another company.
My point is that pollution should be reduced, climate models should still be developed and that at the same time we shouldn't take their predictions as dogma and continue to question them.