skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we subtract the questions of innocence and guilt the fact remains that KPCB failed to address these concerns in a responsible manner and chose to make attempts at silencing her in various ways.

Her written review included the words;

The number of issues and clashes with your peers and
other partners that were discussed last year has
decreased quite a bit, but acceptance by this group
is still not evident.

It is important to assume innocence, but allowing the presumption of innocence to cloud the clear merits of this case is a mistake.
I think we should just explain that it's not totally random. The surveyors very carefully choose specific numbers of people from particular demographics and weight the responses, to make a representative picture of the population.
Is the site only partially cached in CloudFlare or something? Seems like with your "Always Online" feature, a dead server should trigger CloudFlare's "Always Online" feature and show a cached version for all the pages.
http://apc.io is the original source.

It has a nice photo of Allen and Gates.

Now, what I'm wondering is how easy it is to replace Android with your own OS. I want to know about the bootloader.
Portland is one of very few exceptions. Easily more than 95% of the US population needs a car to get around.
Two things:

1. I wasn't trying to estimate Facebook's growth. I was merely trying to refute the notion that Facebook is running out of people to use their service. My method is arguably quick and dirty, but it makes for a good heuristic, doesn't it? It's enough to tell me that it's probably not worth my time to try and dig up better data.

2. Fine. The number I gave of 6910 probably was too high, but 70 is still less than half of the languages mentioned in your link. If they have 900 million users, that's less than half of the people in the world who have internet access[1]. Thus, it would seem that although there are certainly a number of problems with my approach, the evidence we have so far would seem to indicate that it did the job I intended it to do, doesn't it?

[1] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
The blog: http://neverseconds.blogspot.com
Radio interview: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17908017/VEG%20You%20and%20Yours.mp3
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Yep. GOAL was built from the ground up to support hot relinking, as well as a number of other nice features. Very cool for the time.
I opened it up thinking, "wow, I might finally get a good idea of how to configure my old Awesome install."

From the first bits I read (up to the arithmetic bit), I think it falls into the pitfall of rambling about boring stuff and not getting straight into it.

Yeah, aspiring programmers need to know the difference between a comment and a string. Do they need to see a several page explanation of a comment and a string put in different places? Hell no.

Do they need to see how their script can do the same things a basic calculator does? If they're learning programming, then credit them with some intelligence.

How about a basic app that does something useful? We have so many APIs available to use now, and while it might be difficult to put them in a printed book (the API might not be around forever), I can think of few things more engaging than, say, replacing the 'Hello world' with a simple Twitter timeline fetching script.

Through that one example you can explain functions, types, variables, control structures, and documentation, and establish a solid base for delving deeper into the language and what you can do.

This will of course test the skill of the author more than it will test the patience of the eager learner. No bad thing.
Posting my t-shirt design here? Is that what you mean? Or the design itself?

If you mean posting the shirt, I'm sorry you don't like it. Just thought some other hackers may enjoy it. I had over 100 people who loved it enough to back it as a Kickstarter project.

If you mean the shirt design itself, then I'm not sure I even understand your perspective.

Peace.
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>"It is not possible to trust Wall Street, the whole thing is built on insider trading."

And guess where that insider trading starts? With the actual insiders. That is, the people inside the business.

People at Facebook shouldn't be absolved of blame.
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That's not a very helpful comment; if you're going to discuss the text, you'd better read it, and carefully. If you did, you'd know the answer to your questions. It's extremely straightforward.
My condolence on your losses :)
I disagree that it's bullshit. In practice, servers (except when serving European tourists) tend to profit from the tipping arrangement. The mere fact that some of the responsibility for paying has been shifted to the customer isn't intrinsically unjust. And, it has benefits to small-business restaurant owners.

I (1) totally agree that reasonable people can disagree about whether restaurant tipping is an economically optimal scheme for compensating front of the house labor. I (2) have a little more trouble conceding that there's "bullshit" involved. I (3) have a lot of problems with the idea that it's reasonable to opt out of the tipping system by simply not tipping (not that you've suggested that, but others here have).
If you watched Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution show to this point, it was quite depressing how little was done about it on the American show. We unfortunately live in a world where we value money over people's health.
If we build a space elevator for 10-20 billion USD, it would bring down the cost of building the USS Enterprise (and really, all space construction) vastly. I think a space elevator is a better thing to build!
This is why I think the internet is cool.
Libsaas, a library to take the pain out of using SaaS APIs
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Good one! Nasa is dreaming about Mars and still cannot go to moon yet :D
> Also, not everyone works on projects hosted on a vps. ftp/sftp is very much still relevant in the real world.

Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
NYPD officer threatens man with rape in cellphone video
As a vegetarian growing up in England, I remember having non-packed lunch at primary school only once: I was given a hamburger, and told to take the burger out. At the time I just took it in my stride, but on reflection...
>> As a non-founder you don't get the 'oh shit, pay day, um, have I got the money' or the 'right, I've promised X, Y to A and B yesterday. Damn'. Or the 101 other little things and worries and anxieties you experience.

To an extent, but I would be almost as exposed to the risks as the initial founding team in terms of it crashing and burning.

And you know what? In a way, thats fine. Part of the appeal of joining the startup is that you get to live on the edge a little. You celebrate the wins and mourn the losses, you fake it till you make it, you buy into the mission and give everything you've got to try and make it a success.

But despite my best efforts, I just don't think I could do that to my fullest for 1% and a market salary. I'd of course give it my best shot, but part of the appeal of doing the startup is that I would want to give more and go all in on the project.

This might just be the fact that I believe I have it in me to do it myself, and I'm at a time in life where I will have a real go in the not too distant future.

But the problem nowadays is that most good entrepreneurial developers will be thinking along similar lines :)

To be clear, I think early stage startups such as the ones straight out of YC should really open the purse strings with regards to giving away vesting equity to early engineering hires. 1% just isn't going to cut it for the top few % of talented, entrepreneurial developers with requisite level of experience - who will likely have very high opportunity to costs at the moment.
the fact remains that KPCB failed to address these concerns in a responsible manner and chose to make attempts at silencing her in various ways

Without knowing more details, how can you state the above so confidently?

You cite a few sentences from a review which are pretty hard to interpret without context. You are hinting that the word "acceptance" points at a conspiracy by The Group against women or this woman. I have no idea how you can be convinced of that merely by reading the contents of the initial filing.
Every employee who is locked into their shares for 6 months is losing money every day.
> _Feeling_ x does not automatically entitle you to winning a case for sexual harassment nor does it make for much evidence.

The parent was merely responding to the suggestion that if the two had slept together, that excuses behavior that would otherwise have been harassment. Having slept with someone definitely doesn't entitle you to sexually harass them. The merits of the claims have yet to be seen, but you can't just dismiss them out of hand by saying, "Oh, but she slept with him."
First you're taking her word as gospel. Second, insistence can be just "come on, let's go upstairs." Inappropriate maybe, illegal not really.
I love the idea that someone is dreaming this big; as others have said this is clearly a terrible way to go about space exploration, though.

Building X 'because we can' is never as good as building X 'because then we can do Y'. Planetary Resources have it exactly right - find an economic imperative to go into space, and ingenuity will follow.
wonder if some kind of permissions would be necessary(and whom to ask) to put something in orbit. Can I put my arduino based spy satellite in orbit?
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I think the FB price will settle before too long at a more realistic <$10. People who paid $38+ are fools who were taken for a ride.

However, they ought to be thanked because it is them that keep the markets functioning. Every time someone makes a profit by buying cheap and selling dear, there is someone else who pays for that profit by buying dear and selling cheap.
No. And that's why I think a lot of the criticism of the project is valid. The solution is to build something that captures the imagination. Something that LOOKS like a ship from the future. It doesn't have to be the Enterprise.
I just want an ARM box that I can run headless in my closet and keep on all the time to use as a build bot.

First I bought a SheevaPlug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug) but that fried itself before long.

Next I bought an Efika MX Smarttop (https://www.genesi-usa.com/store/details/11), which works ok, but doesn't always boot reliably (I boot it headless most of the time, so can never get to the bottom of why).

I wish I could jailbreak my Apple TV 3, because it's cheap and the form factor is perfect for this. But it's looking like it will be more difficult to jailbreak than previous generations.

I just want something I can run Debian or Ubuntu on and know that when I restart it it's going to come back up. Any suggestions?
It's no use debating with someone that absolutely refuses to admit the possibility that their tools are sub-par.

If your feelings get hurt: good. Maybe if it happens enough times you'll move on to better tools and technologies, you'll have an easier time building better products, and your customers will be more happy.
Sure similar specced phones cost similar amounts, but with Android I can choose slightly lesser specs a lot less money in a way I can't the iPhone. Even the cheapest iPhone they still sell (3gs 8GB) is $100 more than some pretty good Android phones like the HTC One V, Samsung S plus or Sony Xperia Arc S and 3 times the price (unlocked) of a cheap Android phone (for example a Samsung Galaxy Mini or Galaxy Y or ZTE Blade). And when I buy an unlocked phone I don't get screwed on the contract, saving me even more money in the long run. Sure those cheap phones are technically not as good as the iPhone, but they're still fully functional smart phones that do everything many people need and want.
Of course it's a flawed approach. I was responding to a comment on HN, not writing a paper in an academic journal. Yes, if I really wanted get proper data, I would do the things you mention.

But please give me some credit. The comment I responded to offered no data points whatsoever. If I offered one piece of data that showed someone something, isn't that a net positive?
I disagree with both their motives and actions but I still don't "see it easily". OK, it's the right thing to do to lock these people away for the rest of their lives. But if there's some intellectual profit to be gained in corresponding with them, I see no harm in doing so. Your conception of "icky" is reminiscent of that of a five-year-old, and has all the intellectual and moral sophistication of the same.
I hope the school made changes despite the possibility of Jamie Oliver creating a media storm.
Okay, I wouldn't really call his article a "critique". He's just presenting his thoughts on an app that hasn't even been released, and his points seem valid based on the initial feature list of the app.
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Please, sir, may I have no more?
Sencha touch does scalable UI across tablet and phone form factors. They even resize controls so they have the same physical dimensions on different dpi screens, and this is all in the browser. I'm sure when you go native the possibilities only increase.
Show HN: dice as objects using python magic, three.d.six = [3, 6, 1]
$10,000 prize in this app comp:
diet coda will introduce a new class of developers - the touchvoper.
They used to, my first cellphone was a Sony, on Sprint network back in the late 1990's. Similar to this one:

http://i.imgur.com/aulgx.jpg
I specifically chose the description "pretty good" (as opposed to "great" or something more flowery) for PyDev, because I think that best summarizes it. It's got a number of issues with it (and it's sometimes as slow as a dog), but for the hobby developer it's more than enough.

Once I started working in Python and spending 30-something hours/week in the environment, its flaws started to overcome its benefits (namely: it was free, and I knew how to use it), and it was time to move to PyCharm...which is also slow, unless you throw a few gigs of RAM at it and at which point it becomes amazing.
I didn't see it on their forum, so I submitted it there, under the "Historical 'Fact' Myths" section. With hope it will make it into next season.
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I agree with Skrbina there, though. If the questions are being dismissed solely because of their source, that doesn't make the question go away and actually seeds the ground for someone else to ask the same question and conclude the same answer.

Refute it, however, and you make it more likely you can stand your ground against the next person who asks the question to push them aside from the same path. Plus, it increases intellectual rigor as a bonus.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/s-e-c-and-pension-sys...
A few searches reveal that the apt complex may have been right. Something fishy, but in his hedge fund: "The public pension systems were allowed to earn a return in the range of 12 percent to 18 percent, they said in a statement. If the fund earned less than 12 percent, other investors, not the three pension systems, would absorb the losses. As a tradeoff, the pension systems’ agreed to forgo any return above 18 percent."

Then there was the case of having pledged $50 million to charity but not actually given them or something.
40B blown up the nose in just a couple of days, that's how wall street rolls.
Of course, the iPhone 3GS was only available on AT&T, which leaves out all Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile customers. The iPhone 4 is still $100 for an "old" phone, where they can get a new one for the same $100, or less.

Among my less technical friends, Android and iPhone devices are more or less equal.
So no doubt we can look forward to Google Self-Cleaning Toilets soon.
"Certainly it introduces a new complexity to the case, no?"

Was thinking the same thing. Also a psychological component, intermittent reinforcement. She had rebuffed him and then agreed to have sex 2 or 3 times. Who knows over what period that happened and whether there was any rebuff in between the sexual events. After all, he persisted and to away with it at least one time after being rejected.

(Not agreeing his behavior was proper obviously just pointing this out.)
1917 Victrola iPhone Amp
FWIW, SheevaPlug idles at 4 watts as well.
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Hybrid. Appears they'll operate separately but All State will play a big role in improving their pricing and claims process.

Should be interesting to see how Allstate balances Esurance pricing versus pricing through their traditional captive agent base.
Have you actually read "Industrial Society and Its Future" without going out of your way to be dismissive about it? If so, why haven't you asked the man himself to answer those criticisms? OK, I don't expect you to do all the legwork, of course, but it's not completely terrible that one out of the thousands of philosophers in this country actually has done that legwork.
If you want to capture the imagination, you don't need a ship that looks snazzy. You need a ship that can safely and reliably take people to Earth orbit and back at a price normal people can afford. As long as space travel is the province of billionaires and test pilots only, nobody will care about it.

What you need is a space DC-3.
Never sexually harass people at work. Avoid the ambiguity. You're colleagues. Period.
"Certainly it introduces a new complexity to the case, no?"

No.

Which means, no.
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Instead of hiding it, why don't we ditch it altogether? HTTP is simpler, more direct and easier to debug. By sticking to HTTP, we might get closer to a situation where "everyone does it the same". Life might be easier.

Nah, it would never work. Pay no mind. I'm just a fool.
Dakota is a coop. In NYC coops have an absolute right to reject anyone for any reason and often do. Even celebrities and people with tons of money.

http://cooperator.com/articles/1450/1/Top-Dozen-Reasons-for-...

Edit: (Comment below). Where I said "have an absolute right to reject anyone" I meant as long as it doesn't violate a law. This is similar to how a company can refuse to hire anyone for any reason as long as they don't state a reason which is prohibited by law and as long as no evidence to that surfaces.
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A combination of things. First - I have IEs in a virtual machine. The things I use browserling for are for either testing when im on someone else's computer, or when I am in a rush and want to get a do a quick 'it didn't break' sort of look. Second, this troubleshooting amounts to roughly 10 minutes a month on average. The lowest plan is $20 a month. At $2 a minute, id rather open up the VM. If I could have a prepaid option, I may be more likely.

One thing I actually just discovered is the API access. If they could highlight this feature and give a few tutorials on how you could write tests for websites (specifically IE breakage), I would be much more likely to pay for access to these browsers.
Ideally, tipping shouldn't be expected to compensate for a lower wage and rather should be given based on merit. But in regards to your mention of the market and how it controls the paradigm between wages and tips, I personally agree that people should be compensated in tips for their lower wage.

I completely support the tipping system and don't find any bullshit involved with it. My opinion is that it's bullshit that the market is structured this way to begin with, that eventually nurtured the notion that a tip is entitled. But that's just personal bias based on idealism.
> “This is a program that intrudes on people’s lives, just like the Environmental Protection Agency or the bank regulators,” said Daniel Webster, a first-term Republican congressman from Florida who sponsored the relevant legislation.

I guess I don't have to take this guy seriously anymore. Perhaps tomorrow he'll suggest disbanding police departments?
I think the big stumbling block is that Facebook's growth is getting population limited

I know some people who use Facebook once or twice an hour while others use it once or twice a year. Both of those users are counted the same when people talk about being population-limited.

There's still room for growth, although I'm not about to claim that they are overvalued.
Patenting the butchering process isn't as outrageous as Slate claims; there are already numerous patents related to the machinery of meat production. Why wouldn't there be? Meat production plants are factories akin to hundreds of other industries that we (for better or worse) grant patent protection to.
Will computers overtake humans in intellectual ability?
I can't help but be disturbed that you've lumped Microsoft in with Facebook and Yahoo...twice.

Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world, makes a wide variety of products, both physical and digital, did $17BB in revenue in the first quarter of 2012, and has been a public company for over 25 years, returning massive value to its investors.

So what do they have in common?
Yes, Nagare (http://www.nagare.org) is a continuation-aware Web framework with the same components model than Seaside.

Python Stackless is used to take continuations and also to serialize all the states, which can be stored, by configuration, in memory or to an external Memcached server. With the later setting, all the continuations can freely migrate across the machines of a cluster.
I don't think people are bearish on FB, they are bearish at the current valuation of ~100B.
Say, if the FB IPO was at $1 Billion valuation, then the same people would have been bullish on it.

So, it depends.
"Imagine if lawyers wrote articles about how it took months to convict someone that's obviously guilty?"

If they don't, they should :)

(and no, I'm not kidding. Justice would be better served by better judicial processes)
Hey Peteris!

I know, so perhaps I wasn't clear. I had mostly used browserling for quick checks in IE, rather than in depth debugging. I know that IE Tester wasn't 100% accurate with its rendering of bugs, but it was close enough to what I needed most of the time. I'm sure that getting native IE working was a huge effort and I applaud you for it, I just can't justify $20 a month for a feature I use as infrequently as I do.
How. Incredibly. Disappointing.
The article's thesis seems to be that you can predict the future success of a company by how willing they are to hand out equity.

The big thing, though, to remember when negotiating with professionals? they are professionals. Their only job is to profit from information asymmetry. It's probably a mistake to think that you are better at the information asymmetry game than they are.

just as a real-world data point: I have been very, very stingy when it comes to giving out ownership in prgmr.com. While this /does/ signal a long-term commitment from me, it really has more to do with the fact that I don't have a clear 'exit strategy' than anything else- prgmr.com is not a 'get big fast or die' kind of company. I very well might be running this business until I retire, and, well, you probably will have moved on by then.

I'm talking about partnering with some other people on other ventures with a shorter timeframe, and for that? sure, I'm happy to share.
This.

Anti-technologists by and large seem incapable of actually understanding technology by any reasonable definition (and being magnanimous, I would even permit something as asinine as, "silicon-based Turing machines", if only to make the point that I don't have to agree with the definition for it to be reasonable). One of the reasons I like Nick Carr is that he argues against particular usages of technology more than technology itself.

My definition is "applied science", which in a broad stroke includes constructed shelters like log cabins and loincloths.
you know what i mean.