skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a degree? If not, good luck.
Reminds me of @shitmydadsays
Very interesting, and I admit I had not considered it. But I still feel that once their communities grow that large, they will become less "Amish" in nature. But, we shall see.
It means that... something happened.

Did they get fired? Did they get a pile of money and go roll around on a beach somewhere? Did they have to take care of family? There can be insanely great reasons... just as easily... insanely bad reasons.

It's an unknown, which adds pure risk. For someone to be out of work for years indicates some sort of ... something. I can't tell with just a gap if that is a problem or just someone living life in a non-career fashion for a while.

I don't personally really view time under a year as significant, as that can simply be time spent in finding a new job. This might particularly be true for someone who doesn't have a faddish skillset.

So in my view, if you took off for a few years, allude to why you did so, along with an explanation of how you kept your skill current.

Example: "I was an early google employee and cashed out after a while, then travelled the world for a few years. I've kept myself current by working on a compiler for my own language with the latest theoretical contributions... you can find it at github/blah/blah. I'd like to resume work at your fine institution". Or that could be restructured into a a line in the resume: "worked on cutting edge compiler as personal project: Last Few Years. See Github Address".
To a large extent the investment in all that silicon is why developers can play the commodity game today. Many smart people are working on the next substrate for the next revolution and everything will change again. The differences are the breadth of the commodity wave and our consciousness of the time between breakthroughs.
I got the following:

benempted benes
generosity
wrangles wrangling

There's more than three words :P
They put in a floor at 38.00 because they cannot stand the idea of the stock going down on the first day of trading.
More pictures of the streamlined high-speed recumbent bicycles at http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamince/page2/
Just stay focused and keep shipping!
If you're tweaking your lesson plans to make concepts more clear, that benefits all your students as well.

For the most part, you're getting additional income for little extra work, and what work you do to improve your side job comes back to improve your day job as well.

If you're spending hours struggling with a system that is difficult to set up / get it to pay out / otherwise distract from teaching, then sure. But I haven't used the system so I couldn't say whether or not issues like this are occurring (and it certainly sounds like it's working for the teacher in question).
Rather certain. Several folks have looked into SpaceX's cost structure and come to that conclusion, including NASA. They haven't paid off the development cost yet but they do run an incremental profit on each launch.
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My favorite book about incompleteness is Raymond Smullyan's Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.
That video seems weird: since apparently they launched the ornithopter with some machine, how is it even clear that it stayed afloat by using human power after launch? Where is the difference to a glider?
Goodbye tech IPO window.
Seems like there was a talent crunch for MBAs back in the day. In fact, substituting "developer" for "MBA" and the MBA history lesson still rings mostly true...
> we have a 50/50 male/female split. Merit based - sex wasn't a factor in picking speakers

In a field overpopulated by males at a rate of about 9:1, half of the most qualified speakers you picked were female? Statistically, that doesn't reflect well on the skill of men. I would have expected a merit-based selection process to produce candidates in the same sex ratio as the sampled population.

I had no idea a woman was four times as valuable as a man...
Bingo. When we hear or read about a success, most people don't admire that person - we get jealous and rationalize how they got lucky. It's no different than if/when you become a success. People won't magically admire you or think you're da man.
Creating the Windows 8 user experience
Makes me think of exokernels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel
well if it really is then i hope it turns around somewhere soon. As of now, it's looking like 0% for the first day, and even that is an artificial level supported by the underwriters of the IPO. I'd cut your losses, get out soon, and wait until the stock corrects somewhere lower, mid-20s or even below.
The Little Guide to Contentedness
I'm assuming this is a joke. That picture in the background is a bit much. I opened the site at worked and closed it right after the picture loaded from fear of embarrassment.
> Second order logic does not have a complete proof theory

Is this different from saying that second order logic contains unprovable true statements / that the incompleteness theorem applies?

Also thanks for the really well informed response!
I try walking outside too after sitting in front of a screen for hours in a row. When I do, I just marvel at all the colors around me. Wow.. treees.. ooh flowers! cool!
Okay, so I read the entire report. I'd love to see the standard deviation for the "minutes worked per day" figure. I'd bet that it is high.

I've worked in public education for fifteen years, and I know almost no teachers who work as little as the "average" quoted in the BLS results.

But then I work for a "good" school (top 100 in my State, nearly top 1000 in the US). I suspect the difference between the data (which I'm sure is accurate) and my experience boils down to "Good teachers work a lot of hours. Many (most?) of the teachers in America are not good."
I'm with you on the major props to the team (of which MZ is a big part). Execution is king, and Facebook's execution of their strategy thus far has been exquisite. What that should translate to in dollar terms I don't know but, for me, it feels like it should be quite a bit less than a hundred billion.
Facebook hit with $15 billion class action user tracking lawsuit
You can't read without a subscription or something?

Either way, I read about this somewhere else and I think it's true about the underwriters. I just watched the FB stock go down to 38.00, and then immediately went to 38.01 and a bit more (38.07 right now). It will probably fall under 38 by closing time, unless they can maintain it there by then.
There is a purpose for development agencies, but yes, it is not this. Development agencies are effective when they direct money towards projects that have a definite positive impact on a broad variety of businesses within a specific geographic area, but are not seen as attractive to private investors (often because they tend to recoup costs slowly over the long term). Mostly this is real physical infrastructure (roads, ports, power, etc.).

When development agencies start being seen as a funding source for businesses that should be able to stand on their own (as in this case) and provide little more knock-on-benefit to the local area than any other businesses of comparable size, then you know that you are in trouble.
Great article and admittedly is how I feel sometimes as well. The day I heard of the $1B Instagram acquisition was a cloudy day for me since I also founded a photo social network over 4 years ago that is humming along slowly.

In Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman there is a section on media and how it mostly, and understandably, reports the more interesting edge cases. However a side effect of this causes the majority of people to believe car crashes are more common than heart attacks and often leads to poor judgements by utilization of the availability heuristic (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic). The take home message for me is keep on keeping on.
Cheap Wedding Gowns
"THOMPSON: Is Facebook worth $100 billion?

BLANK: In the last bubble there were no customers. Facebook makes $4 per user. The users are customers. They produce real revenue. Nobody's debating whether Facebook can make money. They're debating how much more valuable Facebook's hundreds of millions of users can be, and how fast can they can grow that value. That's an execution problem."

Facebook makes $4 per user from advertisers who LOSE money when they pay Facebook. In other words, Facebook's users LOVE their product. Facebook's customers (advertisers) get nothing from it. Click through rates suck, and actual ROI is negative. Eventually, the new advertisers who show up and realize it's a waste of money will stop paying for nothing, and then the $4/user goes away.
Users and the media LOVED Groupon. The businesses who were Groupon's actual customers HATED it. This is no different. Don't get me wrong, a billion users is incredibly monetizable. Just not the way Facebook is trying to do it. The social B.S. will eventually fade to the real stuff.
This is genius. So much so I want to keep it all for myself.
Type casting is fine but if you need to use schema.rb you'll have to use the sql alternative. Adding explicit support for the existing datatypes allows, amongst other things, the schema.rb
Facebook was at least that big a jump over its previous alternatives. That's the point.
I always fail to see the market there. Why is it superior to the car, considering the higher costs for fuel, that will be unavoidable?
Managing Up and Managing Down - CornerCase
I'm a code monkey who trades as well. They are two completely different things by the way. Programming motivates you to never give up on your code whereas trading disciplines you to never fight against the market.

Personally, I think that the recent price action on FB, ZNGA and GRPN means that the market has no appetite for over-hyped valuation of web 2.0 companies trading at 100x their earnings (or loss for that matter). So I'll be buying bearish call spreads or outright puts when these POS bounce. I have no ill feeling towards Zuckerberg but want to make a profit trading.

Now on the topic of "creators" creating value, it's my opinion that the guys that have created value in computing are Linus Tovald and rms'es, not the start-up kids who do copy-paste RoRpasta on Stack Overflow and get ridiculous valuation 'cause we are in a bubble. IMO it's the FB engineers that optimized php engine and open-sourced, not Mark Zuckerberg nor Cheryl Sanderberg nor the VCs.
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I'm not saying anyone was being charitable, I'm saying there might be a psychological demand effect that applies to long term "value" investors and not just hype-driven day traders.
Or perhaps it is because individualism is considered such a virtue that it is mocked. Humor is often employed by the minority or those not in power.
What's the real stuff?
Quickest way to become a billionaire is to start off a mega-billionaire and then try your hand at investing...

FWIW, you would make an awesome billionaire playboy. Even a decent millionaire playboy someday. ;)
"Broad categorizations usually tend to be a bad idea when it comes to people and in this case, the trends that led to the negative characterization have reversed."

And yet MBAs from places other than top schools need not apply.
If you're 29, your father would have most likely been born around 1955, reached adulthood in the 70s, and have middle class handed to him on a platter. Other than that, I have no concerns.
In complete agreement. I'm not advocating that such customization is better, clearly it opens up support issues that Apple will not have.

I'm simply saying that it's refreshing for me to have the option to customize and personalize, rather than have the same phone as everyone else, save for the color of the aftermarket case that surrounds the phone.

I did like that the iPhone worked, worked well, and almost never crashed. I didn't like that Apple decided what apps I got to run based on their business whimsy.
The True Value of Social
So you're saying that the target market is students - a teacher does a half-assed teaching job in class and pushes students to pay for improved lesson plan online. I'm fairly certain such a teacher would be fired post haste.

From my reading of the article, the target market is other teachers. My mother (a teacher) could sell lesson plans she's used for 20+ years, and another teacher (perhaps one straight out of college, with limited practice creating her own plans) could purchase it and either make modifications for her own class or teach it directly.
It may be possible that MBAs as a whole are undervalued for their price tag, but there's another set of candidates that are even cheaper and even more undervalued.

You can pick up kids that have 3/4 of the qualities on Horowitz's list for a lower price tag by recruiting candidates out of top tier consulting firms, banks, etc. E.g. the kids that would have gotten into a top MBA program if they actually wanted.

The degree itself just makes MBA candidates more expensive.
You're living in a pipe dream if you think a data analytics company will become the biggest company in the world.
Sandbaggr: Rate your stats against your friends and the pros.
Who cares what this guy thinks? He doesn't count either the iPhone or iPad among the most important innovations of the last 5 years, but two of his 4 choices are about cars, and another is Google Goggles.

He also surmises that Silicon Valley is dead because of a few observations about Facebook, while ignoring that Apple has become the largest company in the history of the known universe.
It gets way out of tune the farther you get from middle C.
Minimalism & simplicity - the right choice for you?
you'd think that at the very least the spiders would have done something about the flies in the parking lot!
Xona Games ports Score Rush to HTML5, free to play in a WebGL powered browser.
Existence of cache comes from trade-off between speed and cost, so it will quite likely never disappear. Notice how there are many layers of cache in current systems: HDD <-> HDD Cache <-> RAM <-> L3 ... <-> Processor registers.
If you get your mass storage as fast as registers then perhaps .
Getting the most out of an incubator...with cheese.
I'm guessing this came out of DuckDuckHack?

This is one that I don;t really like, since the !hn hashbang already exists that will take a user to hnsearch.com
> If the people deciding where the money should go had any ability at all, they would be working in private investment.

Just curious: do you think that economic development agencies would be improved if governments were willing to pay salaries equivalent to private investment firms, thus attracting better talent?
Just before close there was a bid at 38.00 for 9.6 million shares. [source: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1d&s=FB&l=on&z=l...]

Someone is definitely propping up the stock today.
Capitalism doesn't mean that everybody is running around for themselves. If its opponents seriously thought about that accusation for a moment, they'd realize that it is completely inconsistent with also talking about large corporations being abusive... indeed, large corporations existing at all. Capitalism allows you to freely set up your own organizations within its top-level free matrix, so if you find a problem space where near dictatorial "collectism" is the answer, you're free to choose that. (Fast food springs to mind.) That's in contrast to many ideologies which really do insist they are the right answer for every scale. Making that accusation of capitalism is generally a form of projection of the biases of the accuser, since it works exactly the opposite. (And the answer to many of the putative abuses of the system is for people to band together and form things like insurance corporations and credit unions and such.)
Hahahahaha... Am I the only guy who finds this hilarious!? I really want to see PG's reply to this!
Facebook holds the IPO price after war of $38
This is a great idea. It's a shame that there are currently 2 competing technologies, which make them unusable for cross-browser apps.
Aah, the "someday" bit is the rub. If "someday" isn't, like, next week or so, it's almost pointless. I'm getting old, man. What good is a 40+ millionaire (or billionaire) playboy?
Opened at 42 and closed at 38 on the first day... wonder what that means...
Much faster unit testing with rails
Effects of a Hacker News Submission
To be quite honest, those valuations are probably way WAY to high. After all, Facebook just went public so that 100 billion dollar valuation is probably stretching it since companies are starting realize that Facebook adds generate little value.

Its good that you have a sense of perspective about this and you don't let the money aspect go to your head. After all, I find it enormously grotesque that these Internet companies are valued so high since one change of management or one new thing can make you become obsolete (MySpace and Yahoo are good examples).

Don't let it get to you, the whole point is that you have your own business and its still there. You can also just think of it as $100 billion of inflated currency. (21.8% to be exact when Facebook was created in 2004 to now).
Kind of creepy, but the quality of the quotes seems to make up for it. I do like that you linked to the original essays from each quote.

I'd make the photo smaller, and include more information -- community input on how each of those quotes applies to their own or well known startups? It would be easier for someone to believe the more audacious claims (which seem obvious to HN readers) like startups being a bimodal distribution, etc. The weakness of pg's essays is that they're just flat text; if you could somehow make them better by associating data with the quotes (and thus with the essays), the additional awesomeness would cancel out the creepiness.
The deal was pushed through by the former Governor Don Carcieri while he was a lame duck. The incoming governor, Chafee, tried unsuccessfully to block the transaction.

Meanwhile the legislature was bamboozled into increasing the EDC's development pie by exactly the amount given to Schilling. Topping it off, Schilling is anti-government in his political disposition -- arguing for personal responsibility and hard work. Today 38 Studios failed to make payroll.

When the dust settles I wouldn't be shocked to see some indictments come down.
Cars that drive themselves. Distributed power generation. Web connected sensors in everything. You know, things that have a material effect on people's quality of life. As opposed to Facebook.
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Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy by Half
The Poe factor[1] of this post approaches 1. Well done bluekeybox.

[1] A factor normalized as a real number between 0 and 1, which determines how applicable Poe's Law (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law) and its corollaries are to the post - e.g. in this case it is both hilarious and frightening when assumed facetious or serious (respectively).
That is a weird thing to want.

So is wanting a six-foot tall, red-headed super-model with a Scottish accent. But I still want one. And if I ran a billion dollar company, I might A. be able to spend time searching the world for one, and B. actually woo her (even if she does just like me for my money). So, yeah, I want something weird, indirectly, because I want something even weirder. Weird, huh?
yeah, it's kind of weird because he's not really typical "internet sensation" advice (like Steve Jobs was).

PG is all about doing boring things like making sales and shipping product. If you present him a billion dollar idea, he'll chop both legs off so it can't run away, and say: Look, THERE is your market. Restaurant on the moon: Great idea. But instead, why not open a Nevada diner with a lunar theme, and then bootstrap from there? Make the wallpaper Internet-connected and automatically load the tweets of whoever is sitting there. If nothing else, you can become the king of Internet-connected wallpaper! What are you waiting for? You should be shipping!
What is an instantaneous launch window?
Like someone stated, it's a dev tool that will not likely need to be bundled with your end product. I use Emacs, which is also GPL, as do other people, with no hinderance from a license point of view.

If I were doing Light Table, I'd use GPL too - It also does not preclude someone from writing their own plugins and selling them as an add-on. I would assume there will be a way for easy/seamless plugin installation into the main program.
Building a company in 42 days with 40 dollars - Part 1: Micro-agile
John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio
Building Tesla
I posted this in another thread, but just before close there was a bid at 38.00 for 9.6 million shares. [source: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1d&s=FB&l=on&z=l...]

The stock was artificially propped up to disguise a loss.
No. The problem is lack of accountability, not talent-for-hire.
Were you using Friendster in 2004? At that time, Facebook was a real quantum leap over a site that didn't let you log in because it was too slow.

For me, at least, that was the critical step - having a site that just worked.
As a post above me points out, don't confuse envy with cynicism. Groupon and Zynga are both awful companies (in terms of furthering the cause of humanity at least) and both are currently trading at under their initial IPO price. Hate is a strong word but forgive me if I (and others) don't choose to point to Zynga and Groupon as paragons of success.
Compare Shakespeare and Nietzsche to Vanderbilt and Rockefeller.

In what regards? If the metric is "who got laid more?" then I'm guessing Vanderbilt and Rockefeller win. If it's "who left more of a mark on history," then sure, Nietzsche and Shakespeare, hands down. So the question is, what's your priority?
Interesting. The first project they seem to have funded on Kickstarter.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1594333219/make-aviation...
Facebook closes at $38.23 first day NASDAQ trading, above IPO price $38.00
Well, company valuation and stock exchange pricing have no relationship to effort at all. $100B is nothing to do with rewarding effort.

The stock exchange is a game where people bet on what the price will be in the future. Everything is based on perceived value, and there's no requirement to have any relationship to objective reality. I would wager that many of the people betting today do not themselves perceive that Facebook is "worth" $100B, but believe that there are others who perceive it is worth more.
"The top-voted comment on this thread really should be words of praise for what Zuckerberg and his team have accomplished."

Then there is this HN thread today:

http://smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com/post/23291496479/avoiding...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992296

Specifically:

"As the founder of a small company in Chicago who only took $17k from YCombinator 6 years ago (YC-W06) and now runs a classic “lifestyle” business that support myself and a small team from client revenues, I find myself wavering between being fairly satisfied with the state of my business life to mild depression and jealousy that I’m not in a situation to be cashing in myself."

None of the above is a problem for a) the (positive) peanut gallery on HN or b) Angel investors or c) HN or d) VC's. They are either disconnected from the pain or have spread their risk among multiple companies at the psychological expense of the people who think of themselves of failures.

The support system for these failures is reading other people's cynicism and maybe by reading that some will be prevented from thinking this black swan event might actually be possible.

Edit: Above where I say c) "HN" I mean c) "YC"