skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard the excuse that they have to buy LCDs from companies whose primary customers are TV manufacturers. The end result is the same of course, but the laptop manufacturers would have to cut their LCDs in shapes that would result in waste to produce machines with reasonable aspect ratios. (Of course what this means practically is that I'm just not going to buy a new computer, so whatever.)
So you've started a business, and against all odds you actually have users. Millions of them. Hundreds of millions of them. Now some ancient industry whose toes you've tread upon comes along and says, "Nein! Your users are doing things we don't like! It's your responsibility to stop them!"

You're telling me that your reaction would be, "you're right. We got greedy. Good for you for forcing us to police what millions of people are doing on our open forum."

No, you damned-well wouldn't. If you ran a taxi company, you wouldn't jump at the responsibility to ensure your fares aren't visiting prostitutes or high on drugs. If you built houses, you would not leap at the duty to ensure they weren't bought with drug money. Because that's not your problem. You aren't doing anything wrong; your customers are.

It's an ancient principle of common law that an individual (or corporation, now that we're playing that game) cannot be punished for the actions of another. This ruling, and your argument, violates that principle. You want to force a company to spend its shareholders' money on stopping other people from doing bad things, and there is quite simply no moral justification for such an edict.
I've written a web crawler for a fortune 20 company, while I was in a research group at said company. I know exactly what would be involved. Storing prices with some small meta data is much much cheaper than storing full pages in the form of a search index. Scraping a discrete list of sites is far far easier and cheaper than writing a crawler robust enough to attempt to crawl arbitrary pages on the internet. Not only that, many retailers have APIs these days so a scraper wouldn't be needed for many of them, and reading from an API is something a novice programmer could do in less than an hour per retailer.

One of my close friends worked at pricegrabber for years, and the statement "all they do is create an index of online prices" is completely false.

Your continual use of ad hominem speaks volumes, and is your attempt to hide a lack of hard numbers.
The problem with building node is not node itself, but V8. For that purpose, Arch Linux | ARM separated the V8 from the nodejs package. See https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/commun... for how/why to build it correct per platform.
I could even say that writing vhdl code for it would be very straightforward, maybe even more so than some of the stuff already made.
My HTML/CSS coding style
Astronaut Food for Startup People
"Build A Real App" tutorial for non-programmers : Tic Tac Toe
this is perfect. reminds me of my first website
Why the Euro Isn't Worth Saving*
It wouldn't be enough to just shut down youtube. They would have to shut down all of their business in Germany.

Otherwise the local offices would be made liable for the main youtube.com.
"At that market capitalization, Andreessen Horowitz’s stake would be worth $100 million — not bad for a $250,000 investment, but $200 million short of the return it could have earned had it stayed the course."

Amazing that you can turn $250k into (possibly) $100,000,000 and in the eyes of a NYT writer you have fallen short.

The writer will make a great parent.
How does a startup out-recruit Google?
They are funded by member organizations.
I'd like to apologize for the echo from my side. I have a quality mic, but had to change rooms at the last second and didn't realize the acoustics were that bad or I would have tweaked the sensitivity or grabbed a more forgiving mic.
I'm personally sad to see what happened to picplz; they were the main option around for Android at the time and I always preferred their low-key feel to the more showy feel of Instagram. Competition is a good thing.
Experience doesn't have to be on someone else's dime. In fact, if you want to really learn your lesson, there's no better way than to make your mistakes on your own dime.
Most Wealthy Individuals Earned, Not Inherited, Their Wealth
Are you really claiming Apple invented the idea of putting the same amount of technology in a smaller package as the underlying tech moves on?

I think you may have to hand in your 'Apple-hater' card.
It is a little brother of GOAL/GOOL. Both are LISPs used in making real PS2 games. More on GOAL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp and GOOL: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...
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“My startup is too cool for your business school”
Good judgment comes from experience. And experience comes from bad judgement.
Thanks! It's been extremely fun this time around partly because we decided not to take any VC funding. (We were all part of a previous startup that took VC funding and it causes some complications we wanted to avoid this time.)
"The absence of an invisible hand is caused only when it is wiped away by the punching fist of the government"

I assume you have some evidence of this and it's not just based on ideology since that would make you a pseudo intellectual. You should pass that evidence on to economists, they've been looking for it everywhere.
What a tragedy! Andreeson Horowitz only earned $100 million on a $250 thousand investment. What amateurs! They might as well go work at McDonalds.
I suppose this class ostensibly belongs in the business school if one's foremost concern is preserving the correctness of the university academic department ontology, but as a matter of practice CS students are the best fit for this course, and Thiel probably worked with professors in the CS department, not the business school, in creating it. Does it really bother you that much? I guarantee you that this course does not take the place of any real CS class in terms of filling the requirements for a Stanford CS degree.
That is at the top of my list. I'm not sure what off duty hours actually means, since I don't have formally defined duty hours.

I am relieved to note there's no language in there assigning them intellectual property rights over anything I dream about at night.
where do you put this backup? Another cloud provider? Servers you manage? Etc.

I think you're understating the cost of keeping such a backup, and the complexity that may come with it.
Nice points.

One thing that I'd be sure to think about is that more experience isn't just in years, it's in hours spent, and how well/quickly one learns to find and connect the dots to get that picture of experience.
Google Dropping Sync Support for Blackberry
So this is a Lisp subset compiler to DCPU-16 written in a lisp that compiles to javascript. Is javascript really becoming the IL now?
I'd prefer a video podcast, even if there's just talking involved. I can't just listen to something anymore, because I'd have to do something else in the same time, and then I won't be able to focus on listening. With video I can just watch it.
I did a talk on the random level generator in Path of Exile if anyone is interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcM9Ynfzll0

I'm not a great public speaker, so I apologise for the "Um"s and "Ah"s all the time.

We have two different generators and this video talks about both of them.
I can tell the site really need the UI help, because the marquees only go in one direction. With my years of Geocities development experience, I can help you create marquees that go right-to-left and left-to-right.
Honestly I think TechZingLive is way better. They talk startups, tech, and every week talk about some of the biggest HN stories.
I was just happy to see that there was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO rule 6.
Let the teachers set their own prices! Students can decide whether a teachers reputation, past students, style, etc. are worth the cost being asked for.
It's not really a bubble. It's more of a gold rush. A new way to get rich has opened up, and it's not clear who will succeed and who will fail. So people rush in and stake claims.

The other factor is that there has been a huge loss of faith in Wall Street. The SEC and ratings agencies don't seem to be able to do their job in the face of increasingly complex financial products being brought to market.

I think that a lot of investors prefer losing their money on a crazy idea that failed to losing money to fraud.
Nokia posts $1.2 billion net loss as sales plummet
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It is a very attractive intermediate layer because we can run everything in the browser.

I read "IL" as intermediate language, and I wouldn't say it's the IL here, the compiler just happened to be running as javascript.
Tech firms' offshore havens keep tax rates low
Would it be possible to provide a free version? Perhaps one that prevents you from saving your notes, or only lets you make one page, or some other limitation that lets me try it out before committing $9?

I say this because $9 is, IMO, a pretty steep price for something that for a lot of people is replacing the free/included TextEdit.app or Stickies.app.

However, it may totally be worth it (and $9 is definitely an acceptable price for quality software), but I feel like you might be losing out on a lot of sales because people can't experience the "wow-factor" first hand. I've spent a lot of money on todo/notes/GTD style apps and have yet to find the right "fit" so for customers like me it'd important to be able to see if it's right for me before buying.

Good luck!
My sister had her children trained. If they whined, she would ask, "What do whiners get?" They had to yell back, "Nothing!" (Or the siblings would do it, if the whiner was too pouty.)
re 2: exactly right. when I came out of college after 4 years of C classes, I thought I was the greatest. Then I went to work for Cisco with battle hardened C masters and found out I knew nothing. Learning from my co-workers was the best education I got.
Very interesting data, and I know that the point of the graphic was to show spread, but honestly the prices looked a little low to me... not that I could afford it anyway, but the average home in Pac Heights at "only" 850k? Average price in the sunset was the same as the mission?
A liability limit of $100 billion dollars might as well be an unlimited one in all but a few cases.
"And lastly, something I’ve been wondering: is it possible to fake experience by getting advice?"

It must be hard, because so few people seem to do it. The history of humanity would look different if we didn't all seem to have to repeat the same mistakes.

I suppose at a hypothetical extreme you could be a Chinese Room-like puppet of the advisor. But in real life you have to generalize at some point. Behind the words of the advice is the understanding, which is the hard part. Understanding doesn't even necessarily follow from one's own experience. It takes the hard but irreplaceable work of reflection. One can try to reverse engineer understanding from advice, but regardless we can say that while experience may not be necessary, advice is not sufficient.

(In some vague sense of work-dimensionality: advice < understanding <= experience.)
Um, the developers over at XDA seem to have gotten a solid WP7.5 build working on the HTC HD2. That says to me that there weren't any technical barriers to upgrading at least one WM 6.5 device...
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Well the point was to call out that offensive fallacy, not to berate your own views. To be honest though, I feel like you are the guy referred to in the top post, in every thread on (what I and many others, including the EFF consider) real privacy and civil liberties issues.

I also don't understand why you keep using "they can already do this" as an argument against those who are opposed to these issues. The fact that many people are unknowingly already equipped with EDRs is completely irrelevant. Or that companies already share breach data. Your logic is such that if X is already doing Y, being opposed to X is an invalid position. What?

I don't think you can call anything a tinfoil hat concern without understanding every individual's reasons for being opposed to something.

I don't want someone logging everything I do and everywhere I go, and not being in control of that data (yes I own a cell phone; see previous). Why? The same reason many people want the right to own a gun.[1] "Because fuck you, that's why." The fact that I have nothing to hide, to me, is all the more reason I deserve to be left alone.

[1] I personally don't actually believe society is better off with guns. I think the "protection" argument is equivalent to what tinfoil hats say. But it doesn't matter what I think. That's what it means to be a civil libertarian. I don't care what your voter registration says or who you donate to, if you don't understand this, you are not a civil libertarian.

"Hacker News comment threads: where people apply 'works on my machine' to social problems."

https://twitter.com/#!/jcoglan/status/192408075917983744
Try working on a spatial problem. I can't listen to podcasts while writing code, but I can while laying out a PCB.

Drawing or doing a jigsaw puzzle might work too.
Twitter Lets You Talk to World-Class Experts
Survey finds no hint of dark matter near Solar System
Front-end engineers make things beautiful? I thought that's what designers do.
I had forgotten about those! Thanks for the links. I'll research how they do things.
The iPhone begs for wi-fi regularly (especially if you're looking at, like, maps, or downloading things), makes it easier to connect (popup captive portal dialog technology, Wispr) and makes it more tedious to turn off. Android phones make it easy to turn on and off (custom widgets on the home screen) but do not make it quite as easy to connect. Therefore you see a lot more iPhones hanging around on random free wifi than Android, in terms of installed-base percentage.

AT&T's early iPhone monopoly and the (in)ability of their network to handle the increase of traffic in those early days is probably a factor which contributed to this state of technology.
Wow, it's been ages since I've seen the old "under construction" GIFs. And nobody uses that cruddy grey background any more.

Now if only we could undo the Eternal September.
for linux machines, there's a utility called macchanger that's probably available in your distro's repository. it even comes with a handy database of valid vendor prefixes so you can generate semi-random MACs that seem real.
On the other hand, some things really are just impossible, and attacking those problems with youthful zeal will not change that.

In my experience, when people take something we all agree is impossible and start doing it, it is usually because they've redefined the problem in such a way that forward effort can be made. Termination checking comes to mind. It isn't that the impossible becomes possible (mostly), it's that we find a smaller or different domain in which progress is possible and useful.
Yeah, those WiGLE guys are really not helpful. I drove around several weeks and mapped thousands of new APs for them. They didn't even answer my email regarding offline use.
I think you're underestimating the cost of not keeping such a backup. That's a terminal mistake if there ever was one.
Looks very nice, but definitely room for competition; i.e. some of the ninja categories are pretty sparse, few ninjas seem to have been rated, etc. Not a household name - yet.

Also seems to be geared towards consulting - i.e.: the design implicitly suggests that you'd be hiring someone for a block of hours, as opposed to signing up for a recurring lesson stream.
2010 Volvo V70
I'm pretty sure the strategy HTC and Samsung were thinking about when deciding to keep supporting WP7 wasn't OS, device or competitor strategy... it was legal strategy. On that front, making a token WP7 effort in order to help avoid an expensive and distracting lawsuit seems to have worked well for them.
dude a 7m asteroid would be literally impossible to hit a city with. it's far too small - would burn up in the atmosphere at around 30km. there would be some small meteorites that would survive in all likelihood, especially as the speed would be a little slower than usual, but those are very trivial in danger. asteroids this size enter the atmosphere every couple of years naturally - occasionally over populated areas - and have never caused meaningful amounts of damage.
There's already a pipelined DCPU-16 Verilog implementation:

http://sybreon.github.com/dcpu16/
Why didn't he just invest in both?
i think folks should start seeing on how to secure those lagrangian points...
This won't help that much, because this means you can only visit the website with some authentication string, otherwise the browser will prompt for your credentials.
Epistemology and Fourth Order Consciousness - Interview with Robert Kegan
> And lastly, something I’ve been wondering: is it possible to fake experience by getting advice?

Yes and no. You need to have some experience to understand the advice and interpret it to your situation. Everyone provides advice from their perspective, which is absolutely useless to you, unless you have the experience to convert that to your situation and learn from it.
Key Elements of a Massively Scalable Startup (2010)
http://www.simulation-argument.com/

Professor Nick Bostrom, Oxford University, www.nickbostrom.com, proposed similar ideas about ten years ago.
You're right. I was thinking more about the benefits of hiring experienced people.
Re: 3, how do you calculate confidence bounds for a bandit test? I was under the impression that traditional AB testing methodologies (e.g. z-tests, p-values, etc) broke down here, because the sample size is variable.
Great Story, even better product. I recently signed up for my 3rd year of service with BackBlaze.
Two Sides For Salvation: MySQL master-master notes on how and why
I am in the same decision process right now. What I find interesting is when you compare customers who will pay vs those who won't. The ones who are already willing to pay will often pay even more if they had to. I often find myself wanting to drop prices to try to entice the non-paying user group. But since it’s a mindset it normally just ends with decreased profits.
APIs such as Java's are original, creative works of authorship that no two people would create the same way. But they shouldn't be copyrightable because 'history would be different'... great argument there, genius.
Moving asteroids amounts to a potential weapon of mass destruction.

This is true for everything moving in space: vehicles, rocks - all potential weapons .. just from (ahem) potential.

We need to be real careful that we don't regulate this activity right out of existence.
I've been waiting for the day that dancing baby came back in vogue.
Since the media companies refuse to clearly provide a license and terms for their material I have no idea what it is.

To my knowledge, a group of friends watching a TV Show together from a DVR is not Piracy, but HBO isn't making money from me.
Anyone reading this article needs to remember to never be afraid of putting yourself out there because you are afraid of failure.

I saw the market first, I created picplz, and I went for it. I was a huge believe in the mobile photo sharing opportunity, and I went for it with all of my heart. Clearly, picplz didn't win, but I have ZERO shame or regret for doing my best.

When I read articles like these, which are about myself, my company and people that I know well, I can't help but feel vitriol aimed at me for DARING to create, launch and raise funding for picplz. I am not clear on what exactly people want, an apology for trying?

The fact is, I saw the writing on the wall that we wouldn't win early and pivoted out of photo sharing which I had ~90% of my series A cash still in the bank. It certainly seems like that was the right move, but all of this press makes it look like pivoting was the wrong call(?) The press I read is written in such a way that it assumed that the A16Z investment is dead and my entire company should just be written off to zero today. That is bullshit. If I started to take press like this too seriously I might as well just dissolve my company and stop coming into work.

I say this to the hn comminity: never be afraid of failure. No one knows what will happen. All of this arm-chair quarterbacking is a waste of time. Stop reading this kind of crap and instead put your energy into doing your best work. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose, but if you give yourself the opportunity to win enough times, you WILL be successful.
Doing the reverse might be easier. In Android you can see several access points and their strength. You can trilaterate or record fingerprints.

And it works anywhere where there is at least one or two visible wifis.

No special infrastructure needed.
I don't think it is that simple. Yes, there aren't that many people using WP7, but that also means that the user base they do have is mostly a core of diehard fans, evangelists and developers. Pissing them off by not even upgrading your brand-new, heavily-promoted flagship device isn't exactly getting WP8 started off on the right foot now is it?
Plan to speed up transatlantic share trading by 6 ms
Also tells you how difficult it is to figure out who is going to make it big. picplz had Dalton Caldwell, both an Android and an iPhone version and a several month head start. You can't blame a16z for picking them.

Besides, it looks like they did the most ethical/default thing they could - back the company they had already funded for photo sharing and avoid a conflict.
1) The data is grouped by zip codes, not by neighborhood (notice that "pacific heights" spans multiple zip codes.) Better would be to have data derived from neighborhood polygons that delineate clear neighborhood boundaries 2) The prices are from listing prices (homes for sale), which could obviously vary from zip code to zip code and 3) You're relying on the accuracy of Trulia's data, which... well I won't get into that.
A computer program will only do what it's told. It's only as creative as the programmer. It is only as soulfull as him.
Never forget; "big fish, small pond"
Further questions.

1. My experience is that this assumption can be significantly mistaken. I have seen significant daily and weekly variations in conversion rates. (They average out after a bit, but they fluctuate.) Still a small tweak could help.

2. Please do look into this one, the difference is not small. I first encountered the differential timing issue with a test of the benefits of adding a phone touch point on top of an email cycle. That extra contact moved conversions up by weeks. So after the first month it looked fantastic, but then slowly degraded over time. (There was improvement, but not enough to justify the expense.) A careful cohort analysis showed that it was not worthwhile at a point where a naive A/B test was still showing the extra touchpoint winning by a very significant margin.

3. That's reasonable.

4. In practice during A/B testing people don't worry about those things either. They just start the test, and later declare a winner. (People are much more sloppy about it than they theoretically should be...)
Why we moved our codebase to GitHub
yeah the x200 series was a step up in the display. I had gotten the high brightness screen on the x61s which meant that it wasn't as horrible as the other one.

I've dropped my x61s three or four times now from substantial heights, and a little bit of the plastic is cracked and lately it seems like the cables to the screen might be getting sketchy, but after I pulled apart all the keys and cleaned it out really good a couple of weeks ago it still feels (and looks) new. It's the perfect laptop for traveling at this point, enough power and battery life and low enough weight for anything, but it's old enough that if something happened to it, it wouldn't be devastating.
HUMANS - Not FOUND