skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be better off replying to a post of the actual Kauffman report than the summary on "Geekwire.com". From the beginning of the report:

Recommendation 1: Abolish VC Mandates: The allocations to VC that investment committees set and approve are a primary reason LPs keep investing in VC despite its persistent underperformance since the late 1990s. Returns data is very clear: it doesn’t make sense to invest in anything but a tiny group of ten or twenty top-performing VC funds. Fund of funds, which layer fees on top of underperformance, are rarely an effective solution. In the absence of access to top VC funds, institutional investors may need to accept that investing in small cap public equities is better for long-term investment returns than investing in second- or third-tier VC funds.

Kauffman isn't disagreeing with you, but is observing that LPs are often required to allocate capital into VC as an asset class, and can thus be required to plow money into huge and underperforming funds because it's too difficult to get enough money into the smaller funds that do outperform the market.

You can read just a couple pages into this report and see that they're on the same page you are in this regard, right?
Juries were concocted to make judgments on fundamental moral issues. That's why "12 random strangers" works -- the law is supposed to reflect the common moral standpoint of the society, so selecting any twelve adults of sound mind from the community generally gives you that.

Where deep technical knowledge is required to understand the implications of a verdict, I think that the "community" should be defined as the community whose domain is primarily effected (in this case, computer scientists/software engineers). This doesn't sound too horrible to me.

Perhaps the fact that we need specialized juries should be a signal that our law is too specialized. Most things that should be illegal can be described rather succinctly when it gets down to it, and I think "no way twelve random people could comprehend" could be useful bright barrier line for "Maybe we're losing a little bit of control here..."
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It's hard to regulate clear, timely and unambiguous communication.
I think I must be the only person out there that can't stand chiclet keyboards. One of the many reasons I'm interested in the upcoming Vizio thin+light notebooks is because they're not using chiclets.
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Yes, but we're not surprised when those other queries have to read the table. For some reason it's surprising with COUNT. I maintain this is not a technical problem so much as an intuition problem.

Explain how you're going to maintain this metadata in more depth. If it can be done in an MVCC manner (i.e. without introducing locks) then it should be explored. How's it going to work?
I'd recommended giving the article another read.
Two comments:

1. When things don't line up like the plans in an analog project, you can just "line them up" and the original intent isn't seriously disturbed. That doesn't work in a hard-logic digital world.

2. That said, "real" projects still can come together more quickly because they are better about using interfaces and being loosely coupled than we (software developers) are. You can slightly move joists, light switches, etc, because the interfaces of how they interact with other components are better defined, and the glue code (ie wires, nails, cuts) can be trivially adjusted to make things fit and still get the desired end outputs.

#2 is partly why software "integration" projects can be hacky as hell and still work, they're just glue code for clearly defined interfaces. If we designed our internal applications with such simplicity and clearly-defined interfaces and wired them together rather than coupling them, it'd be more predictable.

Unfortunately that's really tough to do for software inventions, as there are so many new things where the interfaces might not even be able to be clearly defined.

Construction would look a lot more like software if you ordered wood but when the stack of wood showed up it was metal rods instead, or if it came pre-molded to the shape of another house.

There are just too many variables in de novo software. I used to have this debate with my old boss all the time. You either live with the reality and create new, valuable stuff, or if you want to build bridges, go write glue code for legacy systems.
In order for a product to be considered successful, it must be used extensively by all your friends from release day. Otherwise: epic failure.
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FWIW, Moore is the 9th[1] most common name in the United States.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_(surname)
> But if it happens once

Thank god, we're finally getting past the "Good VCs never lose money" mantra around here.
what is "SSO" in this context?
Most signals you get by sampling real world objects will be fairly sparse. You can expect anywhere between 50% and 95% of the coefficients in a wavelet or fourier domain to be near zero depending on the class of signal.

However, be wary of algorithms that expect K as input, as they are asking you to classify your signal before analysis.
Ok, I don't understand this part then: "With RED the router will instead have some probability of dropping the packet based on the size of the queue, going up to 100% if the queue is full." - that seems to be universally true for any queue with limited capacity. If it's full, it's going to start dropping packets - whether it's those on the queue, or the new ones doesn't matter. Any queue which is full will require dropping as many packets as the number coming in.

Is there some reason this was described as a specific behaviour here?
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Um, that's not a competitive advantage. Patents, huge barriers to entry, distribution channels. Those are competitive advantages.
I'm wondering why so many of them are looking for $200K or less. $200K is more of a friends and family sized round- it's very rarely enough to get a startup to Series A or profitability.

It seems like saying you're raising a small amount sends a negative signal that you're not interested in building a big company to investors.
The fact that it's open source is very important to us, and that (along with it having a wonderful design) will serve as the kernel that'll move Kandan in an amazing direction. With things like WebRTC and javascript audio/video decoders and the open source design, I think we'll see Kandan turn into a really amazing tool.

I wanted some of these features in Campfire for years, but I couldn't just fork Campfire and give the features back. Now I , and others, can.

Most people don't want to run their own services, but they want to be able to fix bugs and add features when they feel like it. Cloudfuji's model lets everyone do that, and app authors to make sustainable revenue.

And thanks for bringing that up, it's an important question!
That's not the legal measure. If in fact they were both written identically, but independently there is no infringement. If it's totally obvious, but it was copied then there is infringement.

The takeaway is write it yourself - don't copy it without permission, even if it's so obvious. (And if it's so obvious then there really is hardly a reason to even copy it in the first place.)
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Don't you get too much strain on your left pinky if you remap CapsLock to Ctrl?

I shifted to:

CapsLock -> Enter

Keys next to spacebar -> Ctrl

This feels a whole lot better. As Xah Lee [1] points out, the original symbolics keyboard that Stallman developed emacs on, had Ctrl keys next to the space bar.

[1] http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html
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It's a short, easy query to write. I'm not convinced it's a big need.

So, your proposal is basically this: make a metadata table. On every insert or delete from the table, update the metadata table accordingly. MVCC will make sure anybody reading from it will get the right answer. Is that about right?
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Sequence, Structure, and Organization. Oracle is making the case that even if an individual method in the API isn't subject to copyright, collectively the are because of SSO.
I do not see how this would be implemented without introducing extra locking which would harm concurrency, which would remove some of the performance advantage of having MVCC.

Now I see it could be worth taking that penalty on specified tables, jsut like you do for indexes. And some databases do support this in a more general form: materialized views.
I don't know, I think matching hardware to software is a stupid idea. Just focus on building the hardware as a platform, don't lock it down with custom BS solutions and let the software developers handle the software.

What kind of developer doesn't have their own workflow and customize their own workstation to their needs? You just can't mass produce a one-model-fits-all laptop for developers...

Of all Dell laptops, the Precision line is the only one I'd buy - the M6600 looks especially good now that HP abandoned the near-perfect design of the Elitebook 8740/8540w (just for the sake of a new design it seems)...
Well, as the saying goes:

>> Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

But to [maybe not your main] point, sales rank and quantity sold are most definitely HIGHLY correlated (if not only for the simple fact that sales rank is endogenously determined by quantity sold, and other variables, in Amazon's algorithms). In fact, the log(sales_rank - 1) for items in most categories on amazon most likely follows an exponential distribution. In this case, if you're able to put together an estimate for the distribution's shape parameter, then in theory you can use it and the sales rank to back-out an estimate for the actual quantity sold.

FWIW.
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With Linux slowly growing in popularity among developers this is good news to me. Now if IT shops at large companies will start supporting Linux for developers more that would be cooler.
I know Brennan's a wahoo, the first time I saw you two on air together it almost seemed like you guys knew each other from college it was so...comfortable.
I'd like the ability to have 16GB of RAM in a machine that's the size of an Air or Ultrabook. It seems at the moment, that is impossible to find.
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I can't believe you're not downvoted to oblivion. Your oringal response was as close to incorrect as you can be while still being factual (we installed a new regime when the old regime stopped liking us), and you response with "the soviets did it too"?

"We weren't any worse than the soviets" is not a moral defense, and given that we couldn't hold south vietnam against insurgency, you'd need a hell of a case to support the idea that we could have held north vietnam.

I mean, given that we were dropping napalm and agent orange, what kind of "politically imposed restrictions" would you say held us back from winning?
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You're misunderstanding what ad hominem is. parfe clearly attacked your assertion that Mueller has been correct so far, and supported that position with multiple objective facts.

You have not countered his argument with a similarly well-supported position, which is why you're being down-voted.
What I really miss from the T60-era laptops is the 4:3 (non-widescreen) display. Widescreen is fine for watching movies, but a taller display can be really nice for reading, writing, and coding.
Great list. I really like that idea of shot selection. 1000 options of what you can do...which one will yield the best results? What a tough question.
Ouch:

Longer fund lives are an expensive trend for LPs, who often are asked to pay additional management fees for a fund that extends beyond ten years. Many funds have several companies left in the fund at the ten-year mark, and demand additional fees, frequently based on the value of the portfolio (e.g., 1.5 percent of the cost basis of the remaining portfolio). The alternative available to LPs is to receive a FedEx package of private company share certificates. Which of the two evils is lesser?

Context: VCs market funds to LP with a lifetime of 10 years, but usually can't liquidate all their holdings in that time frame; they apparently then go on to charge management fees during "overtime".
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For more context, I'm the primary author of the OpenStack ZeroMQ-RPC driver (which does distributed RPC).

https://github.com/cloudscaling/nova-mq
"Lookie-loos," "window shoppers," etc.
This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself.

http://consc.net/misc/moser.html

(It's been said before.)
Well, then you're s@@t out of luck :-)... though the 1920x1080 17.3 inch laptops aren't that bad - the resolution is good enough (well, it's the best vertical resolution you can get) and unlike Full HD 15.6 inchers, the text is big enough not to make your eyes hurt like you're welding without a mask...
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> And cookbook recipes are copyrightable

Are you sure about that?

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html

The parts which make it a recipe are not copyrightable. That is analogous to comments in source code, I think...
If Oracle wins what does that mean for java and it's developers. I know it will be pretty hard to find a non dramatic, overly sensational, opinion right now but I'm gonna try...

Would it have an effect on the jobtrend in java over the next 5 years?
And yet, we've had plenty of software patents which have held up in court and caused significant damage to companies which were found to be infringing, and many more which have backed off due to fear of the same.

Mathematical facts aren't patentable. That much has been established. Perhaps a "pure" algorithm isn't patentable; but all software patents start out with something like "a general purpose computer which...", tying it to hardware and making it patentable. Good luck implementing that algorithm without a general purpose computer.

For instance, the i4i patent is a patent purely on an algorithm, and Microsoft lost that case and had to remove the feature from its software: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/I4i_v._Microsoft . I'm not sure how you can square that with algorithms not being patentable.
Thats cool thats in Chile , Amazing whats going on there +1
Google Ventures-Backed Location-Sharing Service EchoEcho Raises $750k
We will be talking about Kandan and other exciting open source projects at our meetup

http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-New-Wave-Open-Source-App...

I'd like to thank our friends at singly.com for generously offering to host. Come join us for a drink and meet some friends.
As a famous American statesman once put it: "Justice Marshall has made his decision - now let him enforce it."

It's commonly supposed that the Supreme Court could void these illegal patents - could dissolve this entire illegal industry - with a swish of their shiny polyester robes. Actually they already tried that, in Flook. Jedi mind tricks, which in the end is all the Court really has, worked about as well on Andrew Jackson.

I think this explains the disappointing result of Bilski. If you are supposed to have a magic power which in reality doesn't exist, make every excuse to avoid using it. You may still be suspected of impotence, but at least the suspicion is not confirmed.

Unfortunately there isn't really a solution to the patent problem that's compatible with the rule of law, mostly because the rule of law was so long ago abandoned for the rule of lawyers. Perhaps Andrew Jackson could round them all up and march them to Oklahoma - or at least, Marshall, Texas.
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Censorship on the Internet is more of a core network issue - if so-and-so access point filters your connection, you're really not being "censored" as long as there's some other way for you to get unfiltered content through reasonable means. When you can't get access to something because all reasonable access methods are being blocked, or content is being blocked systematically across the net, then censorship as a concept comes in to play.

Your actual end-point connection to the Internet isn't really an issue of censorship or not. If a school filters content, you're really not being censored if you could just go home and access what you're trying to get, or even get a wireless connection through a cell carrier. It may not be convenient, and it may cost you money you otherwise wouldn't have to spend, but it's certainly not an issue of censorship.

For some small access providers (not ISPs but small access points like schools, public access, free hotspots at stores, etc) there's a fear of liability in that they're too small to reliably claim Safe Harbor under the DMCA, so anyone using their access points for illicit purposes could be a liability issue for them. Other times personal preference for the access provider comes into play (you probably can't get porn site access from your church's wifi network), and others view Internet access as a necessary evil (you need access to the Internet for specific reason(s) but they filter out what they feel is unnecessary for use of their network - my workplace filters many social media sites because they're not considered "work related").

My more succinct opinion on filtering in educational institutions is "he who has the ball makes the rules"... with the caveat that as long as you can go play ball with someone else's rules you like better, then it's fine by me.
Also, as runamok mentioned above, there's http://www.usertesting.com/be-a-user-tester
They all say that - I'm 99% sure you can install at least 6 GB, if not more...
the negative and aggressive attitude in this thread is depressing.

:-(
> Then shove a great processor, a mouse pad that's not accidentally click able while typing, and a high resolution screen.

Agreed, although I don't consider the processor all that important. I run out of ram way before I can exhaust the CPU capabilities in the current generation of "ultrabooks". I want a 13" macbook air or something of similar build quality with a higher res screen and 8-16GB of ram.
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That's not actually any better speed-wise. And the CPU would still have to microcode the copy because of caches (think of what involvement the memory controller has in doing a cache to cache copy)

The real gain in being able to have the memory controller do a memcpy() independent of the CPU would be to let the CPU operate on data out of its caches in parallel to the memcpy() being executed. But that only helps for a very specific class of memcpy() and is highly system dependent (you have to worry about the expense of keeping caches coherent among other things.) Anyway, an integrated GPU or other additional block of hardware behind the memory controller is a better candidate for this sort of thing than a user-level CPU instruction.

Also, use a better libc.
This was exactly my experience. I've used a tonne of graphics editors and PS / GIMP both took me similar lengths of time to learn. Both have their idiosyncrasies that require some reading / hunting / experimentation to figure out usage beyond the very basic. I like them both but I have a soft spot for the GIMP being free and open source.
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I am trying to reproduce this problem with https://gist.github.com/2628868 on node 0.6.8 and get the same result as with node 0.6.17. I use nvm to switch between node versions. Has anyone been able to reproduce the bug? Thanks.
Curtain effect for one-page websites
This plugin allows you to create a web page with multiple fixed panels that unroll with an amusing effect. Exactly like a curtain rises.
Having owned both of those cat feeders, for all the improvements made, the new model has a fatal flaw not readily apparent from the pictures shown: The edges of the hopper are not at a steep enough slope to move all the cat food downward (depending on size/shape, I imagine). This allows significant amounts of food to pile up on the sides and not be funneled into the dispensing mechanism underneath. Worse than just causing the unit to have a much smaller usable volume that expected, it gives the appearance of still being full when, in fact, the cats are starving.

I'm not sure how any of that figures into his analogy, though.
For startups based outside of North America $200k goes much further than those based within. And correspondingly $200k is harder to raise from friends/family.
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Why haven't you tried to expand further than the two clients?
How about a standard date format for JSON?
Just out of curiosity, how is that different than, say, Rob Weir's (IBM employee) opinion taken pretty much as fact by everyone on the ODF/OOXML conflict, or for that matter why do we accept Pamela Jones' analysis and opinions if she is so clearly biased against Microsoft?
Regalii seems to be using the GovWorks (now defunct) logo.

http://www.businesspundit.com/25-internet-startups-that-bomb...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GovWorks
Sorry to sound like a negative Nancy but how will this prevent fragmentation of JS? I read the weblog, the ecmascript link and the Harmony requirements but nowhere does it say how to tell whether the runtime supports the JS/Next script or which of the big names has commited to following it.
I think I'd be able to get the idea of your questions using Google translate--but the link helps too. Thanks!
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We can just maintain multiple versions of the row count.
It is indeed beautiful. If more people had ever bought a Zune music player they would think the look and feel of this app was hauntingly familiar...