skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect their ability to get away with it has an inverse correlation to their customer's ability to understand what's going on. There's probably a little bit of the execs having no idea what's going on as well. (They don't strike me as the types who would easily understand the difference you pointed out.)

As customers become more knowledgable about what's going on, and why it makes no sense - AT&T et al will either be required to change their business model or someone will eat their lunch.

I keep hoping the same thing will happen with the major cable companies as well. Die, Comcast, die.
Well, she's making a big deal about 'secrecy' and 'transparency' as if Sequoia were somehow obliged to announce every startup it has contact with. The link suggests she's overcompensating for the fact that this program has been going on for 3 years and she doesn't know about it, which rather undermines her branding as someone with their finger on the business pulse of Silicon Valley. Discovering that she's not as clued in as she thought she was, she adopts the tone of a Very Serious Person demanding transparency and accountability from a private entity that has no particular obligations in these areas, at least as regards business development.

This is the downside of 'celebrity journalism'; when almost every professional writer insists on having a headshot and bio on every article published, then their output becomes as much about self-promotion as about reportage. If their reportage falls short it damages their brand, and so the story must be spun in such a way as to reflect well upon the writer. Hence the phenomenon of writers breathlessly reporting every snub or obstacle as if it were a personal affront to them, frequently mentioning themselves in the story, burying the lede beneath many paragraphs of overdramatic narrative, and baiting their writing with more and more clicheed hooks and attention-grabbing headlines. A good many writers are no longer practicing journalism, but rather marketing their own brand of punditry. I partly blame Hunter S. Thompson for this - he popularized a narcissistic style of writing that suggests the events under discussion are nowhere near as interesting as the way in which the author experienced them - except that Thompson was both more interesting and more acutely observant than most of his imitators.

Of course, the increasing popularity of blogging is another major factor; unlike print journalism for most of its history, the marginal cost of adding extra information about the author or publishing every new bit of ephemera on a blog is virtually zero, and so there is every incentive to do so. Personalization is thought to make readership more sticky, and so everyone does it; the same way every blog and news page is now festooned with invitations to like things on Facebook, join the conversation on Twitter, tell them what you think in the comments, and so forth. Very little of this adds information to any given story - in the main, it's just an attempt to buy traction by giving free advertising to networking products.
Show HN: Feedback for my nifty app search tool?
This was my last weekend project, but due to school, wasn't able to finish it till today.

Disregard the design and tell me as much of the following as possible:
Would you ever use this to search for more current app reviews, or is completely unnecessary? If you like the idea, how would you suggest I improve it? Any and all feedback is welcome.

http://www.labs.alexgreene.me/
"laughed" out of the venue? what? that doesn't even make sense. have you ever been to a hackathon? I've definitely had non-techie friends have a great time attending events with me.
Working link = http://www.labs.alexgreene.me/
The 8 Most Meta Startups
"We can only hope that it'll work out in our favor"

This is America. We'll have to catch up to South Korea first.
It would be a gem, were it true.

Generally criminals have had the same kinds of communication as the rest of us. Before the internet, the telephone. Before the telephone the telegraph. Throughout both and before, regular mail.

The FBI and preceding law enforcement forces have demanded and found ways to tap these communication mechanisms. Some private networks escaped their surveillance - such as the Rothschild carrier pigeon network - but government surveillance of private individuals is not a new problem.

What is relatively new is that the mechanisms that would be used to provide it are easily exploitable by a clever person sitting in a room in China. You can't easily give the FBI tools to catch local criminals without creating exploitable security threats in our own infrastructure.
This is like regreting modern agriculture because you could charge more from starving people if food was lacking. When given the option, the monopolies will always go after the "easy" model, which is of scarcity, instead of making money by just offering plain good service in the first place.
I mourn the loss of the old awesome tree-munching git monster logo.
Highly recommend "Silence on the wire" : http://nostarch.com/silence.htm

It's the opposite of a practical security book, more philosophical I guess. A good read, full of more or less crazy ideas ..
it's a turntable clone, don't see much difference besides design
Another real question is this: Do people think the first of the major telcos to buckle down and actually do this will pull quite far ahead of the others?
Why does it think I have a Mac?
PayPal of course. It's easy to implement, it's flexible, your customers know its name, it allows you to accept payments from the widest range of payment methods and countries, and you're unlikely to beat its fees.
We'll be adding username/password login next week!
The federal government is snatching up young lawyers and even paying off all their college bills in addition to their salary.

Law student here: I'd like to see a citation for this.[1] More likely, the lack of employment opportunities for legal grads burdened with high levels of debt means that the government can afford to be unusually choosy about the quality of legal graduates it hires.

1. This is the sort of joke only a law student could love. Sorry.
Yup. I updated my comment with working code. Just figure out the small case, and extrapolate once you find a match.
I don't know--this one's polished and all, but looks like another startup's landing page more than anything else. The old one was distinctive and had character. I also miss the old logo, even if it didn't make much sense.
> Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

This clearly states that the powers must be explicitly vested by the Constitution. They can't be made up out of thin air. The state governments != the Government of the United States nor are they Departments or Officers thereof. This passage clearly requires that all federal powers be explicitly granted in the Constitution, though they need not only come from Article 1. Either I'm ignorant of some amendment that grants the powers you're talking about (like the power to have an FDA) or you inadequately understand the meaning of the phrase "vested by". At the end of the day, all of this stuff is stuffed under "regulate interstate commerce" and it's clearly a bastardization of both the word and spirit of the law. If you want broader federal powers, you must amend the constitution, period, and congress has deceitfully snaked its way out of that over and over thanks to the "legislation from the bench" at the Supreme Court that has backed them up at the expense of our constitution's integrity.

Additionally, if you want to learn about all of the ways the FBI has broken the law throughout its existence, I'm talking about stuff outside of any conceivable constitutional allowance, I highly recommend reading this recent book on its history (http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-History-FBI-Tim-Weiner/dp/1400...)
With the new financing, could/would you build medical pricing into your practice areas?

It's about-time for more transparency in the medical world.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1100041
Manka Bros. Would Like To Offer Scott Thompson [from Yahoo] A Job
Great, except for the tag line. I know they're trying to be trendy, but its not really helping.
Quick question: if I want to start a company, why do I necessarily need an idea first? There are tons of real-world problems that can be solved through startups, and I'm very sure that just because the founder of a company doesn't come up with the idea by his or her self, the company can still be very successful if they execute well.

Why does the idea for my company have to be my own idea? We could potentially have really talented founders who simply haven't had enough exposure in the right ecosystem (let's face it: not every place in the world is like the Bay Area) to have an idea for a startup yet.
As you said, this is true for any creative community. The most hard core and painful critiques I have ever seen came at a university architecture design show.
Ask any theatre performer what they think about the critics.

Do you think the experts at the time thought the Apple computer was very good, or that personal computers in general would be anything more than a toy?

Grow a thick skin, or don't listen to "experts". You won't be around long otherwise.
In the clinical trial literature Anscombe's approach is considered Bayesian, and Armitage is frequentist. From Armitage's 1963 response to Anscombe's paper:

'Anscombe takes the Bayesian view that inferences should be made in terms of the likelihood function... An immediate consequence is that stopping-rules are irrelevant to the inference problem.'

Page 6 of the Anscombe paper that I cited may be helpful in your understanding of the approach.
As someone who has spent a lot of time convincing people to use git and helping them learn, it's great to see resources like this made available for free to the community.
While good looking I am not sure if the new deign is an improvement. For one the download button is less obvious. The new one is likely to be mistaken for noise, there are too many details around it.
Sexy. I like.
I probably gained back sleep when iMessage was announced. Finally something that is built in to the operating system that will disrupt the carrier from making 30 dollars of pure profit off of me a month. Text messaging should have never been priced the way it was and I hope that the carriers start to rethink their business model because change is coming.
I think it's neat. When you refresh the page you get a new one.
I was really hoping this would say Big Data people are moving towards Python -- or, i prayed Ruby. But nah, this article had nothing to do with R or the others.
Python Library to draw Gantt Charts
In other news, 95 percent of the apps in the app store suck.
I have two iPad music apps in the store that both had long stints in the "what's hot" section and one was as high as #13 in the US music category and #7 in the UK.

When I consider how much time they took to write I would have been much, much better off spending that time on oDesk contracts at $20/hr, and don't even talk about what I could have made on a real developers salary in that time.

Selling your own apps now is a fool's game. Apple trumpets the successes because it helps them sell hardware.
So the runtime of the solution is bounded by a constant for arbitrarily large input? There must be some great cleverness at play to produce an output with size linear in the input size without taking time proportional to the size of the output.
I'm not sure which one you mean, but the new logo looks great and it visualizes the concept of branches quite effectively.
Tag line(s). There's multiple and they're displayed randomly.
Great stuff as always, Nir. Love the personal touch :)
Facebook Messenger Apps Get More Life-Like, Now Show Someone’s Read Your Message
Of course we don't have enough entrepreneurs.

People talk about the "tech bubble" all the time, and that's a debate you can have, but that's always related to social web sites.

We really don't have enough entrepreneurs, because entire industries (healthcare and education are two good examples) are lagging and not taking full advantage of today's technology. So yes, perhaps Instagram could have been overvalued (or any other big acquisition for that matter), but that only emphasizes how much progress we need to make in other industries.
I'm pretty curious by now what your app is. Would you mind telling me (e-mail is in my profile) or us?
80% Of App Developers Don't Make Enough Money To Support A Business
It took me three months at about 1-2 hours per day. I still review occasionally and can get about 75% recall. I think a lot of people completely miss the point with Heisig's books.

The point is to just get you familiar with the kanji so they don't look like a foreign language anymore. After that, you learn how to read them in sentences and words.

Also another point is that you don't have to "practice, practice, practice." Some characters I can remember after only writing it a few times because I have the story associated with the character. It sure beats the Asian method of writing out each character hundreds or thousands of times.

The Heisig method is just meant to be the first step.
This is great in so many ways:

- New logo! Much better "brand" than previous, and look good in small sizes, although I will miss the cute visual pun of GIT letters being refresh, addition and subtraction symbols. Although, both favicon and logo image would look better without half-transparent-pixels in vertical branch.

- New font! Adelle from Typekit, not from Google Fonts. They took it seriously, and it's a fantastic choice.

- The whole branding and theme and everything is way better than what was before, and arguably the best looking site for any DVCS. (maybe took some design inspiration from http://www.joyent.com/products/ ?)

- Built on Rails, and open sourced: https://github.com/github/gitscm-next That's great, and hopefully will allow the community to contribute more to the site itself.
Open Compute builds business model for next era of web
Netty and Hazelcast are amazing pieces of software. I've used them with good success. Hazelcast is another unique enabler that makes the impossible or difficult to do trivial.
I doubt it. The beauty and the reason that iMessage and BBM took off is because it was built right into the phone. Those messages get treated as first class citizens while third-party applications are off somewhere else. When I get a text message and an iMessage I can read them in the same place which is a plus to me. If I'm jumping around in disjointed conversations, sometimes with the same people, through different apps I don't want to really use that service anymore.
What OS and browser are you on?
Things I Learned from the jQuery Source - Paul Irish
Sorry, but did the article get edited to remove the racism? I'm embarrassed to admit that I can't find anything even potentially racist here.
I prefer plug.dj over turntable for one reason: multiple playlists!

I can't tel you how many times me and my friends have asked TT for multiple playlist to better organize my music, and it's been almost a year now! Seriously though... what music app do you know if that only supports a SINGLE playlist!??

Luckily plug.dj answered the call and supports multiple playlists and even allowed me to import my tt playlist into my library. It's so much easier now.
I wonder how much it would cost them to buy git.com.
What Makes the New York Entrepreneurship Scene Awesome
The 600k is probably across all government sectors, not just federal: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES9000000001

Federal employment is slightly above its medium-term average: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES9091000001

The large spike in 2010 is the US census, which by law must be conducted every 10 years. Other than that, though, federal employment isn't exactly ballooning; the trend is (gently) downward, as you can see from both the graphs and the monthly numbers underneath.
"Any sequence of length >=7, fizzbuzz will be present."

Are you sure? I don't think the challenge said the sequence could not be gappy.
Octopart International
I'm genuinely curious... why is AT&T losing so much money over iMessage? When iMessage came out I went to downgrade my SMS plan, and found you can no longer do so. It is unlimited SMS or no messaging. Not everyone I know owns an iPhone and $.20 per SMS adds up, so I am stuck paying for unlimited.
"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." -Mark Twain, 1880
> I'm not sure if you've actually read the book, but it's no snake oil.

I would not be surprised if the parent hasn't read the book or tried it. Most of the complaints with his method seem to come from people who have never tried it.
I wonder how much awesome free/open source tools/services would benefit from a clean, good design like this.
Where did you see this? No, I didn't see that.
Huge improvement!

The title tags could use some love, but I'm sure it's been a mad scramble to get the site up.
Social Media Awards - Toyota Ireland – Yaris “Sweetspot” Facebook Campaign
Continuing the countdown of firms nominated for the Social Media Awards 2012 - I'd like to talk about Toyota Ireland, for their Yaris campaign..
This seems like a fun project. Has any of the data actually been released?
The old one had character.
That should fix itself if you enable JavaScript. I had the same problem.
Out of mere curiosity I tried the old Coral Cache link technique; the service is still going!

http://www.nirandfar.com.nyud.net/2012/05/strange-sex-habits...
Yes it did, the "crappy app" was original attributed to a "17-year-old Pakistani" I believe.
Nice approach!

It's O(1) to find a candidate solution, but of course it will still be O(N) to verify that the solution really works.
This is like saying, I'm an employer and I want you to expose your fb profile to me so I can see the answers to all the questions it is illegal for me to ask you in your interview.
I'd guess Bing reports less accurate numbers than Google
A practical application of your well-practiced FizzBuzz skills
Wow, if you kill the expert-sexchange of forum software, you'll be 2 for 2.

Thanks in advance!
Yea Obama hoodwinked a lot of liberals including me, I agree with you that Obama vs Romney is not much difference except that with a Republican congress Romney could do more damage, and Romney's judges would be more authoritarian. I think their used to be a difference between the parties before Clinton. Clinton's "third way" reformulated the Democratic party to be more corporate friendly and pretty much decided to abandon liberal principles. Previous generation Democrats, Kennedy/LBJ/Carter, were actual liberals who believed in egalitarian principles. The Clinton/Obama school tries to be more "centrist" which basically means conservative-light, and they have been helped in this by the space opened up by Republicans' shift further right. Actual liberals have not been in power for over 30 years.
From domainbrokers.com:
> The owner might not respond to offers under $299520

Yikes.
I am surprised Google Voice hasn't been mentioned as an alternative. It piggy backs on existing networks by allowing you to communicate with Google servers over your data plan, which forward your texts as SMS to their destinations.

I run it on my smartphone and use my Google Voice phone # exclusively. As a result I have been able to get rid of my SMS Verizon plan over a year ago. This is completely transparent to my contacts who have no idea that they are texting/calling a google voice number.
At least on my device, email's usability is not there. Nor is its delivery latency or immediacy on receipt.
Out of interest have you actually read the paper?

Our analysis focuses on data covering investments from 1975 to 2000

Not startups at all. In fact this paper is only about the success rate of VC backed companies pre-incubators.

For the purposes of this analysis, we examine the founders (henceforth referred to as “entrepreneurs”) that joined firms listed in the Venture Source database during the period from 1986 to 2000.

VC backed companies are not the totality of entrepeneurs and any conclusions about them is moot in terms of discussion of small bootstrapped ventures which a lot of iOS developers will be, VC operate by a completely different strategy than normal people do, they want the lottery hit.
Japan to switch off final nuclear reactor on Saturday
My wife and I don't have cable.. but we do have Hulu / netflix... and we often watch while working in the evening. However, our friends are always VERY surprised to find out we don't have a TV in our bedroom (We have 5 50" TVs scattered throughout the house thanks to my previous Job)... I always tell them the same thing, "If we're in bed, and we're awake enough to watch TV we've got better things to do"... Our no electronics in the bedroom (In the bed for mobile devices) has been a staple of our marriage since the very beginning and has allowed us lots of.. erm.. intimate moments.
The basic trance problem:

kick if i%4 == 0
clap if i%8 == 4
hat if i%8 in [0,2,6,7]
bass always, according to some function of i
The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers
"So I work more than I should. Thing is, I'm never looking at my watch because I enjoy what I do"

Google and many other companies take advantage of people like you. While I don't ever expect 30 days of paid vacation, expecting me to work past the 40 hours/week (which is most likely in my contract) is outrageous.

I work so I can enjoy my time off and anything past 40 hours is my time off.

In my 20s, I could make another companies dream my life, but now that I'm in my 30s, I can't do it anymore. Especially when you are not paid any extra and only get a sliver of the overall profits.

I will gladly help out in emergency situations, but from your post, it seems like you work late on a regular basis.

Oh, and free dinners and fooseball tables don't make up for it either.
"… usually through a door, though it may vary by space."

But in all seriousness… awesomesaucenness if you want to start one of your own:

Hackerspace Design Patterns: http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/documents/Hacker-Space-Desig...

or here:

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

and if you're in Vancouver: stop by http://vancouver.hackspace.ca sometime

xoxo!
Congrats.

I'm sure they're aware, but for others here: decide.com does a fantastic job at price predicting products, and is founded by the same person behind the price prediction algorithm purchased by Bing ("Farecast") and he is also a tenured professor at the University of Washington specializing in machine learning. Pretty steep competition both from an engineering and business standpoint.
The old git-scm.com had this as its header:

https://github.com/github/gitscm/raw/master/public/images/he...
Why would you need this? Who store states in-memory in a web app? It will always limit you to one app instance, and it's not like there's a shortage of state saving alternatives..
Static Pages and Heroku Hosting with Flask
Http://bit-player.org/2012/statistical-mechanics-of-magnet-balls
Predictive Coding May Spell the End for NYC’s Bottom-Rung Lawyers
It's not dry humor, they're not joking. The fact that they're not joking, explains the FBI's actions to begin with.

You have to look at the world from their perspective: you exist by special permission, your rights exist so long as they choose not to revoke them. That is all. It's the inversion of the Bill of Rights: the individual is increasingly restrained from doing anything unless given permission, while the government may do anything unless they are very specifically restrained.

Breathing is a privilege. And they are not kidding. The sooner you accept that, the sooner maybe something can be done about the rapidly expanding police state.