skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a great one I had never heard of previously:

"Epods makes 2.2-lb portable internet searching devices. They just laid off 50 more, the second layoff, bringing them to 24 people down from 100."
Measuring fuel economy in miles per gallon is like setting up a budget in months per thousand dollars.

Big improvements to inconsequential expenses would result in huge mpkd improvements, but they wouldn't save you a lot of money.
The Zowieso reference in the screenshots is a nice hint to that, it was (is?) the Sofa company cat.
Some drug researchers might disagree.

Open Source Drug Discovery - http://www.osdd.net/

Research article on PLoS; "A Kernel for Open Source Drug Discovery in Tropical Diseases" - http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourn...
(Shrug) Any research worth paying for is going to cost a million times more than hosting the resulting documents. I don't follow you.
Request Policy is really annoying for daily use. Lots of sites use multiple domains to load images or CSS or other static content faster. Using the Readability plugin helps. Just tap ` and the missing CSS doesn't matter anymore.
None of them knew until a few hours ago, and their email server got completely shut off a few minutes after the initial email went out. The former employees are posting about it all over facebook.
Unless I have misunderstood you, you distinguish it by the fact that it uses rubberhose to decrypt.
> It's not bait-and-switch, it's helping customers use a product

It's only helping customers choose their product and "3 years free!" makes the MS Stack look like a better choice than it really is against the "really is free for life" stacks. This all happens at the most critical time for a business - when stakeholders decide what platform they're going to adopt.

Meanwhile whilst your busy building your business on their stack MS is free to raise their prices - and SQL Server is amongst the most expensive licences and hosting there is, which has recently seen liberal price increases - whilst at the same time offering a sweet migration path to their expensive subscription-in-the-sky services (aka Azure).
Yeah, I thought AOL folded years ago. Good to see they're still around and that at least one kid is actually being productive there! zing!
I've actually had a similar experience with this. I was working on our company website and came up with something remarkably similar to Amazon's One-Click Ordering System. Having ordered a max of 3 things off Amazon in the past 10 years; I had absolutely no idea they had any such feature. Continuing my work lead out to the architecture and rough code-outline of this (I was unusually excited so I did a bit of pre-coding). Then deciding to 'do my homework' I went off to find prior implementations; low and behold I came across Amazon's One-Click Ordering Process. (And also the information covering the two-click ordering process lawsuit that still went in Amazon's favor).

So my question is if I had implemented such a system would I have been liable? The sad thing is, looking at the way the patent system is now, I WANT to say yes. Even with it being my own code just the process being patented would have prevented me from using it; despite the fact that I came up with a similar process completely on my own.

It just seems to me that in a way the patent system stifles...innovation. I am now very concerned about putting my efforts towards something without checking for a patent first. I'd like to see someone with more experience and legal knowledge could expand on Patents and Patent Law in general.
Where on earth do you see JS jumping to the kernel? If C++ wasn't cut for it what makes you think JS is?
Keystrokes are sent to your default "search provider", so if you configure chrome to point elsewhere it will send your keystrokes to someone else. You can add custom URLs as "search engines" so just put in a non-existant domain, or DuckDuckGo, and it won't tell on you.
can we use it for trade analysis?
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Which is not undergrad and has a significantly smaller emphasis on grades.
My time on Wall Street has actually made me quite averse to the whole broad shareholding/democratised finance movement. The fact that 90% of finance related posts' comments on HackerNews, a top quartile intelligence population, make me cringe tells me we should restrict market access to institutions and accredited (read: very liquid) investors.
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I don't understand the hate for this post.

It's because it's much writing and reasoning about comparing two ways to describe exactly the same thing, and comes to the conclusion that there is somehow a meaningful difference between them.

No matter how you slice it, you have to do some third grade math to figure out the economic impact of fuel economy. This is not a big deal.

It's the same faulty logic behind the supposed superiority of the metric system. Big whoop. You can multiply by 10. It's literally two sides of the same ruler.
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I'm going to start a tiny country called "Jesss," and then get rich! It's a perfect plan!!!
I would actually posit that they make much less money per user from Opera than IE.
Ie the type of individual who would click FB ads (or spend money on virtual gardens) is more likely to use the Windows default browser.
in the last couple of month reading this site, I see more negative MongoDB reviews than most other 'cool tech' stuff.
On one hand MongoDB by carrot-or-stick was pushed into environments with high-write needs (OLTP kind of systems). On another hand having true secondary indexes and semistructured data makes Mongo a 'closest to RDBMS' choice.
So things like global write lock, indexes must fit into memory, auto-sharding questions, single-thread map-reduce -- all are pretty significant limitations for an OLTP data store.
I wish MongoDB does not get discouraged and instead steps back, reviews academic foundations of the system and pick a couple of use cases and optimise their builds for them (similar to datawarehouse vs oltp kind of offerings)
> no need to take it personal

This sort of passive-aggression has no place in polite discourse.
Yes. Nothing great was ever done by people who slavishly followed the rules.
Without a doubt (how I got my start in Python)
What are the grid-size and fruit-count limits like on the server -- the same as in the standalone client?
> They both want control over the net. Complete control. Client, servers, data.

This is ridiculous. I don't trust Facebook/Google with all of my private data, but this claim is outrageous. Care to back this assertion up?
If someone stayed for months in my department store overnight, I'd let them off with it as long as I got to borrow their tardis at the weekends.
That just means consoles and console makers are also horrible: it does not exonerate Apple in the least.

The main difference is that I (and most of HN) don't have to deal with consoles as developers and probably not even as users. On the other hand, I bet there are a ton of mobile developers and that almost everyone has a smart phone of some sort. So that's why there's more outrage over Apple's detrimental behavior than the console makers'.
Just remember that mom episode from Artificial Intelligence movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/
There's an excellent book Safe As Houses that basically shows that over the long term real estate fails to keep up with even GDP growth [1].

[1] http://www.cityam.com/news-and-analysis/allister-heath/why-b...
But what about mining statistics from logs?
Doesn't count. AOL was not his employer.
they might be more satisfied, but use it less, and provide less revenue. "highly satisfied" users of a system that is optional to use will most likely provide less revenue than a system people are forced to use, but provides less overall satisfaction to the users.
Pud eventually rolled the best of fuckedcompany.com into a book: http://www.amazon.com/Fd-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-Com-Flame...

(Yes, it's on Kindle)
DRM may have been mandated, but Apple's refusal to license FairPlay to other manufacturers, and refusal to allow the iPod to support any other DRM, was not.

Jobs' spinning this into a victory for the little guy rather than an anti-trust dodge is just another example of his PR prowess.
That's awesome, Life 3.0 is comming
Cool khanacademy video on public key cryptography
Yep! Width and height are between 5 and 15, and there are up to five different types of fruits on the grid.
You may need to consider a better way to rank players - percentage of games won is problematic (as was discovered during the Tron Google AI challenge) and something like TrueSkill or bayeselo would be more robust.
It's just most likely a javascript call of window.close, it's not that cool.
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I followed the link from Google to app store. It gives "This request could not be completed" error on the app store. Maybe I'd have to wait.

I would also love an FB contacts app.
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So do you feel the same way about Basecamp or ZenDesk or Salesforce offering 30-day free trials?

They also have the ability to crank up the price whenever they feel like it. They're also offering their product 'for free' at the most critical time for a business - when deciding what product to use.

The only way what you say makes sense is if people buying into the program are dumb enough or ill-informed enough to not know that there are open-source alternatives available for what they want to do.
Reckless maybe, but obviously not dumb, given the outcome.

And perhaps he was just taking tips from RMS, who squatted his MIT office for years after officially quitting to work on GNU.
I don't get it...

Was there some innuendo somewhere that I missed?
In a dozen or so years of administrating many different Unix machines, I've never had cron email be a problem and I get a few (useful) emails from various cron scripts every day.

This interacts badly with many unix commands, which often send status info to standard out. Some commands have a quiet options, but that can turn off all error output too.

Maybe it's that I've mostly been administrating BSD machines, and so most of the tools follow old Unix guidelines like not printing anything unless it's necessary, echoing errors to stderr, using proper exit statuses, etc. (http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/interfaces.html) I think it's a GNUism/Linuxism that commands are overly chatty, writing junk all over stdout (like author/license information - do we need to see this every single time?), and using ANSI colors by default.
I had this same problem. Really makes me wonder about the White House web development office, as they are clearly either nefarious or incompetent.
Apple has gone from the disruptive upstart to the elephant in the room that everyone will be trying to take down in the future.
It's not like they're going to go around encouraging businesses not to migrate, but from the start the thinking was that after just moving to W7 they wouldn't want to migrate anyway, that there was little short-term threat from desktop competitors, and that the long-term (or really medium-term) threat was from "consumerization of IT" and employees forming their expectations of how computing should work via iPhone etc. - so they decided W8 should be a heavily consumer-focused release.
For any risky strategy, you'll find people who used it and succeeded. That doesn't make the strategy non-risky, nor necessarily wise.
Microsoft in the 1990s controlled the only mass-market desktop operating system and there was a very real concern that they were going to take over every operating system, period, something they might've accomplished if Windows NT gained even more traction in the server space.

Apple is still a niche player. They just happen to absolutely own the most profitable end of the market and leave the majority, over 80% of it, to the rest. They're only a monopoly in a subset of the market. Nobody is going to cry because you only have one choice for an expensive product when there's hundreds of choices in the low end of the market.
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Scarcity is a limit in resources. The music labels are using the government to limit their songs by stopping you from creating copies.

Without these restrictions you would be able to make an effective unbounded number of copies because each copy has a resource cost of basically zero--there would be no scarcity. With these restrictions, you can only make as many copies as the labels allow you to, which means the number of copies is bounded.

I should note that this is orthogonal to whether you think they are justified in seeking to be paid for their songs: in either case, they ensure being paid by making the songs more scarce using copyright.
> Drug research is a great example of an industry where patents really are necessary to promote the progress of science.

It's too easy to say it this way. Any data to show us why the case of the pharma is so different from others ? The costs involved in the pharm industry depend heavily on:
- government regulation
- expected returns

It's not evolving in any kind of "free market" at all. It's a very poor example to use to justify patents.
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Its that or its going back in time to before you opened the tab
One of the most important concepts in economics is scarcity[1]. It is what drives the whole supply/demand cycle. When somebody says the labels are trying to create artificial scarcity, the logic is this:

A. High demand, low supply raises prices. If I reduce the supply, I can increase the price (up to a certain limit).

B. Music has high demand. Music labels have controlled supply for years, giving us the "normal" pricing for CDs.

C. With the Internet, the incremental supply costs go to zero. Supply is also infinite (anybody can create a copy), so the price drops to zero.

D. The only way to keep the price above zero is to create a scarcity that doesn't actually exist. The labels have done this by fighting putting anything online, suing people who copy files, getting the government to criminally try a class of people who copy and using DRM to prevent copying. The whole goal of all of this is to introduce a scarcity into the product so people will pay.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity
NeXT wasn't a terrible business and it had many of the same ideas that AAPL uses today, like top-of-the-line industrial design.

Do you even realize there were 5 years between Jobs arrival at AAPL and the iPod right? 3+ years if we count the time it took the iPod to become a true sensation. Add to that 11 years since he had been kicked out from AAPL.

You seem to believe that Jobs was always in the limelight, when the truth is there was a time nobody believed in him, and thus nobody would invest in his new company not so much because of the business model but because he was in charge.

NeXT actually sold for almost $500 million, hardly a complete failure, and yet when he was back at AAPL nobody believed it would make a difference.

He was booed on stage while announcing the deal with Microsoft, how is that being "highly regarded"?

Also consider that when Sculley fired Jobs AAPL stock went up dramatically, not down.
Isn't that what "taking notes" is?
This looks a lot like Instagram to me.

You can upload pictures from here, there's a constant stream of photos, and you can apply effects to your pictures. There are a few differences from Instagram, but the essence seems the same to me.
yes, the relationships are inverted, but it doesn't make the relationship any less linear. also, the graph in the article is useless
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Which tools are you talking about? The standard software suite is basically identical between the systems. And what differences there are lie in the implementations of the core stuff, whose behavior is specified by POSIX for the most part.

I'm sure there are exceptions somewhere. But in something you'd throw into a cron job? Frankly, that seems like a very weird snipe.
So no Android version? Plus there seems to already be an unrelated App named Facebook Camera in the Android Market, it should get a nice little downloads boost.
The article mentions that the Windows 8 SDK will no longer ship with a compiler tool chain. So, it's not just the IDE - the compilers are also gone - you could still use older compilers, just like you could use older versions of Visual Studio.
No definition of entrepreneur that I've been able to find says that the business needs to be sustainable or provide value to customers. So I would answer that the definition has never changed from A to B, because it's never been A.

The definitions I've looked at do tend to say the entrepreneur takes on financial risk. He may not have done that.
As an artist, Bandcamp is fantastic.

When someone buys an album, the money goes to our Paypal account immediately. Not only is the sales stats updated in real time, you can even play Defender on the graphs. Other digital retailers like iTunes take months just to get a sales report, let alone get paid.

I'd say 90% of our digital revenue comes from Bandcamp, which is surprising.
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Google as a brand will never become the go to place for storing private data (that people trust) unless they change, somehow.
Yeah, we're seeing the first problems with that right now- newly uploaded bots progress faster than they should because they play against a more "diluted" pool of opponents than the oldtimers did.
We'll think of something.
Jobs did a good job of grooming his replacement(s). Promoting an insider means strategic continuity and established trust.
I use ex-vi (the original Bill Joy) version for preference, in 80x24 xterms tiled using fvwm2.

I am not really a GUI person.

I ... loved Visual Studio + VB6 for UI heavy apps. The programming language was kinda lame but it was just about good enough, and the form designer tools were excellent.

I debugged using whatever the (now lost from my memory) appropriate colloqualism for printing to stderr was, because yeah, sorry, I'm like that. But I loved it for everything else even so.

Do not underestimate the awesomeness that is Visual Studio once you've had time to develop enough Stockholm to ignor the crazy quirks.
I'm guessing ls which colors; perhaps keychain (very colorful output).

I see less of the license stuff these days but no doubt there's a few around.
The motives behind Facebook Camera
wrote a small ruby script and got the following as the content of the page (simple javascript to close the window):

<script language=JavaScript>

window.open('','_self');
window.close();
</script>
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I don't use either myself.

But no one is confusing their free-trials as anything other than a marketing strategy to maintain a low barrier to entry to get more people to first try then use their product.

i.e. I've never heard anyone say SalesForce is absurdly generous because of their free trials.
I don't think I'd define the labels requiring you to pay them for their artists creative output as enforcing scarcity...
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I also think your alpha-beta bot is objectively better than the (currently) #1 bot.

Easiest thing to throw together now is a script which just feeds the whole game history into bayeselo as a bunch of fake chess matches, with the white move advantage set to 0. That's what was done for Tron.
Remember, when Apple started, the market basically didn't exist. Not many people had smartphones. The programs available for, say, Windows CE, had costs of $10-$20 at the low end. Feature phones had games, but they were often $5+. On a feature phone, if you replaced it with a new model you may have lost whatever you purchased.

I distinctly remember one of my Sprint feature phones having a version of Tetris (or some similar complexity of game) for $3 a month.

It was the rise of Apple's mobile app store that made apps an important factor in which phone to buy. Before the iPhone app store, what percent of users in the US spent $10 a year to buy phone apps? What percent do now?

Ignoring the fact I love my iPhone, I would be hesitant to go to another plstform because of all the games I'd have to either give up or re-buy.
By that point I would have expected a few dozen web services.

One could guess that insufficient of their customers have codebases like that for them to care over whichever feature requests got priority instead.

But, um, ow. I feel for you.
I disagree.

I think that most people think about gas in the following way (I know that I do). I commute distance x a day to work, how much am I going to pay in gas?

The 100kms/liter figure makes this straightforward. I can figure out how many km I'll drive in a typical year, multiply by that figure, and I have how many liters. Multiply by the cost of gas, and I have how much I have out of pocket.

With mpg I have to do a division step in there instead of multiplication. Division is a more complex operation. Laugh if you will, but people are more likely to screw it up.
when it comes to communication giftings, just as with everything else, all men are NOT created equal.

A startup dynamics relies 83.5% on communication flow, so there are inherent advantages at having people be able to use many of a variety of means: texting, face-to-face, a ticket track system, whiteboard, email, wiki, a chat around some beer.

This is easy to accomplish when you have everybody in the same building, and throw away the key.

Alas, some people have a /life/, and do not feel the Yahoo sleeping-bags-in-the-corridor to be their ideal (see? not everybody same=same).

so, let me ask you, what do YOU prefer as comm models, you people in your core team?

If y'all are the touchy-feely type, that like to look people in the eye, and have a hard time editing even a Wikipedia page, you're better off with some sort a headquarters.

OTOH, if you apologize every time it takes you longer than 2:48 minutes to answer an email , 24/7, and Joomla is your middle name, then remote becomes /possible/, and then you can gain the many advantages of remote, the first one being able to hire beyond normal commuting range- lowering costs and raising quality of available hires to the point you actually can get the very cream in your field.

One other thing to consider: what is your product? As in eating your own dog-food, the medium is the message, and all that, if you're into mobile or software, well, relying in bodies present in one place becomes sort of silly, or the other way around, if y'all are into some new walk-in service franchise.
The first sentence is not an argument nor is it true. The next sentence follows it up with a non sequitur hypothetical.

Let's say his aging mother died and he continued to cash her Social Security checks for a year, to continue to pursue his dream, would you consider it unethical? The federal government certainly has the money, and he is tenaciously pursuing his dream.
With that much capital and staffing it sounds like the "Go big or go home" approach versus a more sustainable slow burn. Maybe the investors wanted either a blockbuster hit or an immediate tax write-off.
I have this problem, I only want to be emailed upon failure. However, the crontab of the account is shared by several different jobs run by different people, and I don't have control over that. Perhaps I could set the email in the crontab line?

* * * * * MAILTO=me@example.com blahscript.sh