skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>while ignoring that Apple has become the largest company in the history of the known universe

Sorry that's Microsoft, not Apple (even if during the dot com boom).

From Wiki:

Record Market Capitalization

On December 30, 1999 Microsoft reached an intraday high share price of $119.94[3]. With 5,160,024,593 outstanding shares (as of November 30, 1999),[4] it had a market capitalization of $618.9 billion. This was the highest market capitalization ever reached by a publicly traded company[5]. Adjusting for inflation to 2012, Microsoft's market capitalization would be $846 billion[

Apple only reached $600B.
Well as long as nobody invents 'brovesting' I'm ok with it. :-)

I understand that many people have a connection between 'angel' and 'charity' but I've always equated the angel in angel investing with 'guardian angel' which is someone who can see more of the hazards facing the team and give them a heads up or a nudge when one of those comes close to being a 'problem.' This isn't charity, it is providing a heads up sort of service.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8917836/Faceb...

Targeting ads, selling to advertisers, giving it to advertisers so they can better target their ads. It's probably a matter of degree rather than an absolute. Fact is, if you give your information to facebook you have no idea where it's going to end up and you have relatively little control over it. Yes, you can control what other web users see about you (to some extent, some data is always public). But what happens behind the scenes, which apps have access to your data and to what extent and what advertisers are able to get out of facebook is very murky.

Since the $ is king here I'll assume the worst and hope for the best.
Thank you for the step-by-step guide from an engineer's perspective.

I guess the Joe Sugarman book you mention is one of these two:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Adweek-Copywriting-Handbook-Advert...

http://www.amazon.com/Advertising-Secrets-Written-Word-Entre...
Why didn't you guys resume after your account was reinstated? It sounds like an automatic suspension kicked in until someone on staff had a chance to manually check things out and make the determination that it was okay.
Spam should be defined from the point of view of the user, not the company! I understand you, but I disagree... ;-)
Individual humans aren't subordinate by misfortune. Evolution "designed" them to accept cultural assumptions so as to avoid threatening cultural cohesion. I love Ayn Rand (as a writer, not a philosopher. I have never identified with a character so much as with Howard Roark) but an isolated human is weak and vulnerable. We're a social creature and leaving society amounts to suicide. Absorb those stupid cultural assumptions and question them at your own risk.
To Curt's credit he does/did own/run a board game company called Multi-Man Publishing which was responsible for reviving Advanced Squad Leader, considered by many to be a classic wargame. It's original owner was Avalon Hill which ultimately got bought by Hasborg where it languished before MMP licensed it. One of the really smart things MMP has done with ASL is create a series of very simple introductory subsets of ASL called Starter Kits. Many people love ASL but one of it's biggest flaws is that the total rules set is so large and complex, accumulated over many years, that historically it was very intimidating for potential new players. I don't think Curt directly designed the Starter Kits, but the fact that he was an owner and allowed and encouraged an environment and management team to do that, is a big positive mark in my book.

But yeah, from the sound of the article, the way they went about trying to start that video game company was completely misguided. Backwards. Cart before the horse. They should have started small and scrappy, with a polished game prototype, with a real game designer behind it, that real users love on a small scale with modest placeholder graphics. Then incrementally flesh it out. Game industry is very much a hits-based market, with lots of fickle consumers. And very few of the people "designing" games are true game designers.
The flipside of that of course is that they can pass whatever draconian regulations they want in regards to the internet, so long as Facebook gets a free pass and is allowed to keep chugging along. Surprised they didn't do that already for things like SOPA.
You can say what you want about rails, but i really admire the pace they make progress.
The $3B is only what's been reported. Tip of the iceberg.

FB is being propped up to lure in "retail" investors. Retail investors == "muppets" == dumb money. If FB stock is so great then Goldman would be holding onto it themselves. Are they doing that? No. They are selling. $38 is their exit point. Anyone who's buying in will be left holding the bag. That is the whole point.
Agreed... I tried listening to the new format and it is basically background noise. Dan added a lot to the show.
re "That's very possible," anything which has happened is as possible as possible gets.

Sorry to be that guy. This is a very cool hack.
"I can't really take anyone seriously who says a "Web developer" is today's equivalent of "Visual Basic programmer". The problem with visual basic came when people start drag dropping things together, which isn't even what rails is about."

That isn't what Visual Basic was "about", either. But in practice, most professional VB developers made UIs that interacted with enterprise database systems. Otherwise known as: CRUD apps.

Actually, to the extent that the vast majority of today's "web developers" are building web interfaces to a database (which they are), the tools were probably more advanced in 1990 than they are today. Hypercard and VB were far easier platforms for "programmers" with shallow CS knowledge to build enterprise systems.
But the reason they had so many billions cash on hand was the huge round they rased last year via Goldman Sachs.

Investors certainly participated in that with the expectation that they could exit with profit in the near future.

In other words, they took a payday advance (with very generous terms to the borrower). You still need the payday.
just heard the new talk show. it's just not the same. i liked the original dynamic more.
I wonder how much is cause and how much is effect. One of the reasons that we have the suburbs is everyone owning cheap cars and getting cheap petrol. Not to discount good urban design and public infrastructure, but if there are autonomous cars, I suspect there will be corresponding influence on urban planning. Likely for the better.
Haha I like the Atlas Shrugged guy holding up the pillar--nice touch from a bunch of moochers.
Many people actually have to do things in certain physical places. I do most of my driving getting to and from bike races. Better access to information will not help with that.
"I mean, if you're making these decisions collectively how could you justify the division of effort?" For the sake of argument, it could be arrived at by deciding that Python was good for some things and Ruby was good for others. Or rationally understanding that tastes differ and so it would be good to have both options to maximize individual productivity. Or by collectively deciding to have a competition. Or any number of other ways.
Rant.

We can't know. Mule prices their sponsorships at 200$ (without TTS, lets see when this show is priced in). TTS at 5by5 was charging a lot much higher.

So I suspect Gruber was making less and less % of the 5by5 total income as other shows became more popular (hypercritical hit a million downloads when the Lion review, also Marco Arment's show was pretty popular judging by my twitter timeline) and also more and more shows.

When TTS came back more than two years ago it was a handful of podcasts on 5by5 making less money, but I suspect Gruber took the biggest chunk then. Now he didn't anymore and the overall quantity didn't increase enough, so he moved to new pastures where he will get more money and maybe more control of the show.

/Rant
Featured Tweets are just a form of advertising. By using Twitter you accept that advertising is a part of their service. Google has ads in search results that are relevant to your search. Those aren't spam either, they're ads that are part of using their service.
tell us how you really feel.
Shameless self-promotion: I gave a talk outlining the proof. http://youtu.be/j0NcE3Tnklw

It was aimed at math students, but I don't think I assumed prior knowledge of anything esoteric. Parts of it might be hard to follow without math or CS, I'm not sure.
Btw also our account was reinstated...
Still waiting for a high end Android phone that isn't enormous.
They do. In an episode of the After Dark (called Pamphlet) Dan talks a lot about 5by5, the equipment he uses and various other things, including addressing questions about whether hosts get paid. He says, in short, that if you hear a sponsor on the show then the host is getting paid.

http://5by5.tv/afterdark/75
The site mentions that in the settings/help page you get by clicking the top-right button or pressing 0. “Controls: play using home row and above …”. But it is kind of confusing that it has settings and help on the same screen, written in the same style of text, with no separation between them.
The > $5M is for entities, there's also "a natural person who has individual net worth... that exceeds $1 million"

and

"a natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years"

http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm
Interestingly, the new show (Big Week) has a color scheme based on the Talk Show's.
When someone writes about the end of the Von Neumann architecture, I take it as dreaming that the poster's favorite language will someday be faster than C.
How could Dan Benjamin be on it? The poor guy created a new set of 'talk show/5by5' t-shirts literally days ago (in time for WWDC) and was so happy about it...
5by5 seems like a lot more consistent network since it is run as a full time endeavor.
Nine Things You Should Know About Facebook's IPO
4chan's /soc/: Test Your Traction.
Linux. Chrome 17.0.963.56. Changing waveforms seems to crash it pretty consistently after at most a handful of changes.

Firefox works great.
WHY FACEBOOK'S IPO POP FIZZLED
OK, thanks. So how about I use strong carbon fibre shell with air pumped out. There is no lighter than air gas involved and the whole machine can be (just slightly) heavier-than-air. I bet they would outlaw that too, under the 'catch all' rule mentioned below. Nothing but extremely hard work will do ;)
I made a few edits to my original post as upon further reading (before you posted your reply), I did not find it condescending and in fact thought you did kind of answer him.

Also, I feel a little weird replying here since it was indeed the OP's question and not mine, but I'm kind of curious about this too now, so just know that this obviously just represents my own thoughts:

The OP's question was simply phrased in a non-mathematical way (something you will have to get used to if your goal is to teach this to people who are not familiar with this problem ;) ). By "talking about a theoretical shortcut that allows us to not calculate everything", I believe he means "finding an algorithm that allows us to not have to check every possible solution in the solution-space". Kind of how binary search is a "clever theoretical shortcut" to not have to check every index of an array. A lot of problems are exponential time because you end up having to check "basically" every possible permutation. So I think he's getting at "finding a polynomial algorithm" for the problem.

The second part then proceeds to ask whether you are considering the implications of quantum computing to this problem. I guess the answer you provided is "no", but now I would like to push you a little further as you want to write a website regarding this problem, and you seem to know a lot about it, and this is certainly a question I have heard a lot. Perhaps the answer is simply "quantum computing would not affect NP problems in any practical way", or "we just don't know", both of which would be perfectly satisfactory answers.
I think this is fascinating - I only wish they had something more in depth on this than just a few photos and captions
The article is not very clear, and has no technical details, and has not a reference to a peer review journal article. So it is very difficult to know if this theoretical device really works.

I'm not sure, but it even looks like a perpetual motion example. (But it could be a problem with the press report.)

And the article says that is a variation of the "Differential sail", but the most clear reference in Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Propulsion_Physics... ) has many proposed devices that are very controversial and probably violates some physics laws.
I don't think anyone in the startup/tech world believes in Zynga's ability to be a (public) company that can seriously grow revenues and create sustainable products.
Yes, heh, I did not mean literally everyone, but even much of HN is still full of Unity hate. I managed to get down to at least -8 or -9 by my calculations the other day for trying to combat nonspecific Unity hate-rants. I understand skepticism, like I said, I really just roll my eyes at the "it sucks [with no reasons]" that are evident even in this thread.

And it doesn't completely answer your criticism but many Synaptic touchpads for a looong time are multitouch capable, they're just not utilized. It's different, I'll grant that, I didn't think it was painful, but I adapt quickly and I don't mind scrolling with the wheel to move horizontally. (The proverbial) You get used to it.
What did you do it with? I'm curious because of how links work. Looks good!
Divvyshot -> Facebook Photos
Looking at this list, it looks like you are right, it's none really:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Faceboo...
In all fairness, it's episode 1. Takes a while (10-15 episodes, in my limited podcasting experience) to find the groove.
NYU's PRG releases Cryptogram, allows private photo-sharing on social media
I don't have insight into it but this sounds to me like the underwriters making excuses for a "poor performing" IPO.

I have no idea which way FB will head on Monday but am pretty sceptical that this is at all relevant to their 1st day performance. I wouldn't base optimism specifically on the viewpoint
You're just all over the place aren't you? WinRT APIs are available on ARM, so the devices will eventually reach price parity. Otherwise, WinRT APIs are neither that crippled given their target usage (Metro apps), they're designed to be power friendly from the start and you can choose any language that there are projections for.
Or that Facebook really wanted to have an impressive-looking Slashdot profile.
Jim here, I work at Mule Design, host a show on Mule Radio and had the pleasure of working with the fine folks at Black Pixel on the app.

> I had never heard of Black Pixel before. Now I know that you (or at least one of your developers) is rather of the lazy kind.

You know what? It was a bug. Bugs happen. We actually discovered it a few days ago but, the app store being what it is, we couldn't get it swapped out in time. We have nothing but the highest confidence in Black Pixel and would jump at the opportunity to work with them again.

No one involved in this is being lazy and your insinuation is not only wrong and rude it's completely unnecessary.
Thank you - useful feedback. I'll be looking to make changes to take your comments into account. It also gives me an excuse to get in touch with a friend who's working on quantum computing.

It's kind of a shame that it didn't get more upvotes, and hence the chance to be seen by more people. This feedback is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. Oh well, never mind.
No, I didn't notice the “info” link. My browser window is about 1300 pixels high, so I just saw the piano at the top and a huge expanse of whitespace below it, and didn’t bother examining the whitespace for anything.
Beluga -> FB Messenger
:) I can almost hear Siracusa saying that!

Who's the guy in the middle left?

(I think the discussion on this submission is one of the most intellectually-uninteresting HN discussions ever!)
Jeffery Zeldman gave Dan an interview on the latest episode of his show (#70, http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/70 ), coincidence?
You can also invest in startups as an unaccredited investor, with some restrictions. I know those laws have been revised recently.

http://www.quora.com/Investing/What-are-unaccredited-investo...
He's Steve Blank. He probably has way more accomplishments, credentials, followers and respect than you do. You really should look before you leap before making comments like that. Also, he's clearly speaking at a strategic, coarse-grained level.

Elon Musk: I think we can put a man on Mars within 10 years.

Bud: Who cares what this guy thinks? (...)

see what I mean?
How do you guys find out about new products and companies?

I had never heard of Glancee or Karma (among many others) before I read the news that they had both been acquired by Facebook.
Ask HN, how to find keyword similarity & distance? 
Im building an app, I need to compare lots of data, essentially keyword phrases, but I could work with just single keywords if I had too. I need a good fast reliable and fairly cheap way to compare the distance or similarity between key phrases. I've been looking at various concepts such as wordnet , which looks Orishas thouhgh it's only for single keywords, rather complicated with the various different filters and not extremely accurate, it seems to be somewhat useful though not as good as I was expecting. Is there a better API service which you can recommend in the natural language processing sector? Thanks
Yes, this is a really good mechanic. The way they also volley back and forth with notifications on when the card is read, and prompt the recipient to send a card/gift back, all make for a great experience.
One upside of this is that it looks like they're really pushing the one-click installs. It isn't apt or yum, but it's certainly better than what Windows has now..
Ask Felix Dennis.
I consider a solid discrete math curriculum to provide a reasonable background in first and second order logic
One half of quarterly profits is a pretty big fraction.

Exec resignations & the CEO apologizing doesn't sound like a lot of people are very accepting of the risks taken.
Karma had a few Techcrunch articles
Yes it would be hard to get by with less than $1 million/yr.
Science vs. PR
http://betali.st/
See also "Agoric computing", http://www.cap-lore.com/Agorics/Library/agoricpapers.html ...
3rd day in: my startup marketing plan: Eating my own dog food
This reminds me of what Steve Jobs achieved with the NeXT factory.

A quick search came up with this article:
http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/10/25/steve-jobs-wanted-com...
Advertising Secrets of the Written Word is a good read. I read a bunch of copywriting books a few years ago, and this is the one that sticks out in my memory, above the others.
And if you use the computer keyboard to play, you can also play chords. Unfortunately, you can only get up to the 2nd G on the computer keyboard before you run out of keys. Also, the tuning on the highest four notes seems to be off (at least when using Chrome on Windows).
agreeing with what others have said. Blank has basically redefined the study of entrepreneurship (in addition to starting and exiting quite a number of companies).
There is another possibility and that is dealers were desperately trying to maintain facebooks price above the Ipo price, especially given the significant lower fees taken on this Ipo and the greenshoe option. Without this dealer intervention it is possible facebooks price would have correlated more with zynga's price short. The greenshoe option http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenshoe could also have something to do with these trading patterns. Given facebooks stock performance this is not positive for future Internet IPOs.
please speak up. you should go to anybody and everybody you can and make your concerns known. it's possible that the people above you don't even know, but in the event they do, you should probably inform local news or someone.

I'm not saying that you should try and lose your job, but you should make your disagreement known.
But it's not the billion dollars that is most appealing about Facebook and Instagram. It's the celebrity status and power of changing culture.

You can make a big bundle forging steel too, but where's the sex in that?
Hellbanned PGenes? No clue what that means.

Are you speculating that I'm a previously banned member?

I am a previously banned (restricted really) member, but not PGenes (or whatever). I got 'hellbanned' for defending myself too aggressively against a sharp shooter that was being an asshole reddit style. Noticed that I could still comment and vote, but my comments no longer showed up to everyone else, waited weeks, and then left HN for a while because it was bullshit. Then I came back and made a new profile.
The Mongol Empire had a similar period:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Mongolica
I had a limit buy order at $45 which I placed at 11am (when it opened) which was never filled (and should have been, as the price never went above $43 or so). There were definite trading glitches, and if they were skewed on the buy side, that could definitely have affected the price.

EDIT: Actually, the order did go through (annoyingly, at $42). The delay was just in the reporting. So never mind.
I wouldn't say it's rubbish - but it's no great authority on communicating the proof itself, certainly.

It is a good biography though, covering the roots in the Vienna circle and the disagreements with Wittgenstein.

Edit: Thanks for posting that pdf though, I enjoyed reading it.
It means the launch has to happen at that exact moment, otherwise the path of the spacecraft in orbit will be too far away from the space station for a rendezvous to be possible.

From what I heard, they have multiple such launch windows, each about an hour and a half apart (each corresponding to an orbit of the earth by the ISS)
Their own public documentation says VxWorks is used in the spacecraft. I have not seen Linux cited, but would not be surprised.
Thanks for your reply ...

I need to re-write the section because really I'm dealing with Hamilton Path rather than Traveling Salesman, but even so ...

Even if you say that all inter-city routes are of unit length, it's hard to find a route that visits each city exactly once. The key point is that we're not allowed to re-visit a city. Such a path, visiting every node exactly once and returning to the starting point, is called a Hamilton Cycle, and there is no known sub-exponential algorithm to guarantee finding whether a given network (or graph) has one.

Is that clearer?
There is another possibility and that is dealers were desperately trying to maintain facebooks price above the Ipo price, especially given the significant lower fees taken on this Ipo and the greenshoe option. Without this dealer intervention it is possible facebooks price would have correlated more with zynga's price short.

um, they said that in the article.
At least one person on here complained about it earlier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3993787 It could well be true, after all there were half a billion trades today on FB alone.
Peak Facebook?
We spend something like 5-10% of our time driving. Automated driving would allow us to save that and use it for something useful. Not many innovations have saved people that much time.
Why would you expect that? By many metrics, Facebook's current valuation cannot be justified by their advertising revenue potential, so why shouldn't we expect Facebook to look to other products for revenue. Amazon, Google, and Apple all have very diverse revenue streams outside of their original core products (online retail, AdSense, and Macs), and in many ways it is the reason that these companies are so successful. If anything I would assume that Facebook is looking long and hard at opportunities to generate revenue from other products.