skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's more deceptive than putting favorable reviews on the back of a book, or those any ads where they get actual customers to review a product. The app store is both a promotional channel and a marketplace.
Why are people bothered when founders of hot companies take money off the table during a financing? They own a load of personal stock and then they sell it. Why does this so often cause pushback and discomfort?

I could understand if it were a down round or if the available capital was limited but these stories almost always centre around companies (AirBnB, Rovio) doing very well and raising an unconstrained financing round.

The only remaining reason I can think of is the concern that once cashed out, founders will cease to work as hard but there's little evidence of that and plenty of founders who were rich to begin with.

Is there something I'm missing or is this just frugal guilt?
Direct link to petition:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/require-fre...

It only takes a minute to sign :)

Most political petitions have no impact. They are just email-gathering campaigns. This one is different: it's on the Whitehouse site and it's not for gathering emails, it's to give Open Access advocates some political cover as they craft their proposal.

So if you sign only one online petition this year, make it this one.
Feel free to contact me (email in profile) if you have any questions.
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Thank you so much for sharing something so personal. I've had deaf friends in my life from time to time over the last 40 years and I thought I understood (as much as any hearing person can). I was wrong. There is so much more that I hadn't even considered.
Similarly, an acquaintance of mine used a lot of his post-grad Computer Science year conquering sokoban. Awesome and sad at the same time.
As far as I know the EU has decided that all research resulting from its 80 billion research funding program must be published open access. The US doesn't have this yet but there is a law in preparation to do just this for US government funded research. A petition might speed things up
Looking at the examples, I don't understand how this is "a better approach" to editing, because the HTML it outputs does not follow best practices. The HTML it outputs should look like a competent human had authored it, but currently it uses line-break hacks for paragraphs instead of semantic paragraph elements (two &lt;br> elements aren't really a paragraph, it just looks like it), adds underline elements with Ctrl+U (underlines should be reserved for links and defined in stylesheets anyway) etc.
Will do. Thanks again!
Correct, these are time offsets, not time zones. Although, absolute times are exactly what they are for and the reason why e-mail headers use this format. Whenever referring to offsets ("+1 day") or reoccurring events such as in a calendar app ("every 4/1 at midnight"), a real timezone is needed. I've seen plenty of code introduce DST related bugs by taking the current timezone offset and using it to do date/time calculation throughout the life of the application.
Looking at the examples, I don't understand how this is "a better approach" to editing, because the HTML it outputs does not follow best practices. The HTML it outputs should look like a competent human had authored it, but currently it uses line-break hacks for paragraphs instead of semantic paragraph elements (two &lt;br> elements aren't really a paragraph, it just looks like it), adds underline elements with Ctrl+U (these should be reserved for links and defined in stylesheets anyway) etc.
Microsofts new social site - so.cl
detail - http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45724/what-is-socl

"So.cl began as, and, indeed, still is, an experiment in how social search can help with learning, as dreamed up by Microsoft Fuse Labs. Set up as a social network, at its core is a social search tool with Bing behind it. The user types in a search term in So.cl and, like with a normal search engine, you can choose to get results as videos, images, web or news. The results that are relevant to your needs can then be pulled into your feed, shared and used to create a rich post made up of a montage of all the different media types. You than have yourself a perfect, scrapbook-like answer to your question or subject area."
The forthcoming EU mandate is not yet nailed down. The best information I've seen so far is in this article in Times Higher Education: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=...
I hate these type of articles. Out of all the sites I run and help with I have yet to see Chrome be the number 1 browser used.

IE still accounts for the majority of all traffic. It has always been in my experience IE, Firefox then Chrome. With IE holding roughly 40-50% of the share.
The open-source visual IDE written in Perl, called Padre, has an excellent integrated debugger. http://padre.perlide.org/.

With the latest version of Padre, I find debugging Perl scripts to be as easy as C#.

Or you can use the commercial Komodo editor which has another high quality Perl debugger.
As someone who goes to a state school, sometimes I feel like being in college is detrimental to my learning. I'm surrounded by students who don't care, and it can be tough to overcome "the crowd." Looking back, I'm not sure if it was a good idea to save money and go to state school, as opposed to going to an expensive school with motivated students. I guess time will tell...
Yes.

Stability, maturity, great backwards compatibility, whipuptitude, a sea of well-cared mature modules on CPAN, the ease and convience of CPAN itself, already installed/available everywhere, Unicode support, creativity and competence of the community, exceptionally good documentation, "the spirit", MOP via Moose if I want to, rarely gets in my way, scales very well in terms of "thinking" and "project" (everything from tiny admin-script up to full-blown financial district application possible), speed, amazing interesting features in perl 6....

And no, you don't write the same Perl as in 1996 anymore.
"...making slow start suboptimal" caught my eye, but I didn't understand the rest. Is this for a specific circumstance or general? Did they find something better than slow start or did they break it, causing it to be suboptimal?
I've had similar experiences with job interviews as he described. I'm not deaf but am hard of hearing (severe enough that cocheular implants have been recommended) and interviewers consistently require over the phone interviews with no alternatives. Requests to Skype or use gtalk get ignored or shunned upon (I even had one recruiter state they couldn't do this because then there would be no way to verify I am the one answering the questions). HR really needs to get withthe program.
The law in question is the FRPAA (Federal Research Public Access Act), and it's a very fine thing: see http://svpow.com/2012/02/10/d-day-going-on-the-offensive-ove... on its importance and http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/FRPAA2012.shtml for more details.

The current petition is a different strategy towards the same goal, approaching the Whitehouse directly in the hope of catalysing a presidential-level directive that would jump-start the process. (Not a speculative hope, either -- relevant people have the ear of Obama's scientific advisor.)
I don't understand why you would ever use anything other than seconds/micros/millis since epoch. Basically no parsing; Efficiently storable; Simpler; Easier; Better.

Only argument I've ever heard is human readability... If you're reading these by hand so often then just write a script/tool/whatever to convert them to human readable. This is still easier since you don't have to find an acceptable ISO8601 implementation. And frankly, how often are you reading the dates manually but not as part of some log output of your program where it could convert it to human readable before logging?

This is sending dates the wrong way.
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Thank you for the wonderful post, David. Perfect for us hackers. In our world, but not completely. With a human touch we often gloss over. And with plenty of fresh data.

Now here's what to do: Have business cards printed up with 2 links (and nothing else) on them, one to your blog post and one to this discussion thread. Then hand them out as you see fit. The people you meet in real life deserve to know this just as much as we have. I hope that helps.

Best wishes and no matter what else life throws at you, keep building!
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Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture: http://free-culture.cc/freecontent/ gives an excellent exposition regarding this behavior of the RIAA and potential solutions to this problem. I highly recommend giving that a read.
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Node-Hosting
Don't give a empty flamebait post any hits, go directory to the two actual sources dando and sp332 posted. There is NOTHING worth reading at the submitted URL.
Relevant (copyright math):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0
Since the primary purpose of the original project was to maintain watchlists between friends, it makes a lot of sense.

However, in future versions, there will be completely anonymous login-less search. Working on that.
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You are correct: I am even less of an Elsevier fan that you, I'll warrant, but even their absurd prices "only" constitute on the order of 2% of the total cost of research.

But of course this makes it all the more ridiculous that we allow them to lock up the results of research. The issue here isn't just that Open Access is more economically efficient (although it is, by a factor of 3-5). The real issue is that there's so much can't do at any price with the current system or paywalls. If the Web as a whole were paywalled as academic papers are, we'd have no Google for example, because it wouldn't be possible to spider. We can't even SAY what the advantages to ubiquitous open access will be yet -- they haven't been invented, any more than spidering web-search engines were invented before the Web.
The question is relevant to a lot of fields where the outcome of the research is not a technical research report, but is an actual book. This occurs a lot when studying history.
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I just re listened to the last 5 minutes, and between the t-shirts that Dan says John approved (which he denies) and the jokes at John's expense, he was insulted. I'm sure there was more going on behind the scenes, but those two things are clearly the last straw.
Better start working on my arm muscles...
Yes, I use it for new projects because it is:

* extremely stable

* CPAN, a huge collection of community provided modules

* great modern OOP based web frameworks (Mojolicious, Dancer, Catalyst)

* very strong Windows scripting support (WMI, Win32, etc) and BSD and Linux support

* there are lots of Perl programmers out "there" to hire if I need them

* The language is actively improved and updated with new features, see the free PDF "Modern Perl": http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/
Google hasn't released or announced anything yet but the presentation seems legit and the uploader identifies himself as Vladimir Dolgov - head of Google Russia[1].

I'm not a big fan of the Google+ UI, but it's simple and I've always wanted Google to better integrate (or merge) all their products into a single Web application - à la Facebook. In the end, they might have to manage only one design and provide one search box for all public[2], social[3] and personal searches (à la Greplin[4]).

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_27/b40910604...

[2] http://googleblog.blogspot.fr/2007/05/universal-search-best-...

[3] http://googleblog.blogspot.fr/2009/10/introducing-google-soc...

[4] https://www.greplin.com/
It signals distrust in the company. People equate it with pump-and-dump schemes, grabbing the money before value creation and running.

In strictly rational terms, it almost always makes sense. Even late funding round startups are risky -- when you have that kind of risk, the sanest thing you can do is to diversify early and often. Losing half of your potential future payout is nothing if you can exchange it for guaranteed middle-class lifestyle (or the funding for your next startup...).
> Why are people bothered when founders of hot companies take money off the table during a financing? They own a load of personal stock and then they sell it. Why does this so often cause pushback and discomfort?

I'm not sure they are, the article seemed more bothered with it being originally termed (by the company) as an investment round when it was a few owners moving shares around.
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There is no problem paying founders - they usually take a significant reduced compensation to start. This may be looked down upon because if they wait until later investment rounds, then their payout is that much more increased, such as Mark Zuckerberg.
However, when founders trade so much, it is a signal that they do not believe in the growth in the company. It also means that they can now walk away.
An true investment is when the money is used to help grow the business - but Rovio looks like it was actually a sale.
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"Getting good performance without having to know much about the ecosystem" is pointless, because choosing a tool is all about learning how to wield it. It's true about any tool, even something like a hammer.

Software is complicated stuff and not something to treat superficially. Like everything in life, optimum results require a deep understanding.

This article is worthless because the results are not useful to anyone for anything. Doing serious benchmarks requires a particular and fairly rare set of skills.
Will also take a look and let you know! I'm not a serious java dev but can usually parse a bit of code here and there so will try and get you some useful feedback.
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So every mail header in the world should represent:

Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:36:04 -0700 (PDT)

as

Date: 1337268964

because no one needs to look at mail headers and it should be the job of the user's mail reader to display it in a human readable form? I do not think it is so black and white. In the case of mail headers, the benefit of keeping the timestamps human readable outweighs the programmer cost for parsing them correctly.
I doubt Markdown, BBCode or anything similar is a good idea here. That's just introducing extra complexity - and what for? The point of markdown is that its simple for humans to read and write directly, which isn't applicable here.

The downside to markdown should be obvious:

* more code, both server and client-side (to implement the to-and-from conversion)

* more bugs (due to more code and the complexity of escaping valid input that happens to be markup in one or the other)

* less features (if the editor supports some html that doesn't map 1-to-1 to markdown, you're in trouble)

* less future-proof/platform independent (html isn't going anywhere, but that markdown variant you're using with the custom extensions you needed might be subtly different in whatever language/platform/toolkit you'd prefer in 5 years).

Html is by far the better choice. If there's an improvement to be had here, it's in using the (compatible) XHTML5 serialization to ease parsing. And it's quite likely already using that, since that's what browsers' rich-text-editing generally produces.
Agree with your point but from this story it seems as though the founders sold some of their shares to the VC firms. I doubt anyone has a problem with this but typically, when we hear about 'investment', there's the expectation that the investors are taking part in a new share offering and the money is going into the bank for future growth. That doesn't appear to be the case here.
Sure, it's undoubtedly true that in certain industrial and technological spheres South Africa produced far more impressive and interesting projects during Apartheid. Even though there was some outside assistance, the developments produced in the country during this period were extraordinarily innovative and advanced in relative terms.

Acknowledging that interesting developments came about in that period does necessarily justify Apartheid or lessen its immoral nature. Just as (not to invoke Godwin, the systems were totally different) we can acknowledge the amazing technology that German engineers and scientists invented during the Second World War without endorsing Nazi ideology.

With regards to the question of whether RSA is a less interesting science and engineering power, it's complex. Certainly, when it comes to state-funded R&D, especially in defence and space, then yes it's true. The defence industry, while still innovative and very advanced in certain niche areas, has shrunk significantly since Apartheid, shedding many skills and leaving many defence industry companies in precarious financial positions. This is a result of the huge cuts in defence spending since 1990, which gutted the industry. That level of funding would never have been sustainable in a democracy with a universal franchise and serious socio-economic problems though.

To some extent the non-defence private sector suffered too as state R&D dried up almost entirely. It's important to understand that with the trade sanctions of the late 1980s it was state funding and the mining industry which drove most R&D and many companies weren't able to transition to a market-based approach when that stopped. Imagine the impact on the US high-technology scene were US government research funding to be yanked almost overnight from universities and private companies.

Yet there are some encouraging developments, with private companies continuing to try to innovate using private capital. The satellite design and construction industry has re-established itself and is growing fairly well, as are other space-based industries especially astronomy where South Africa is one of the world leaders. Similarly there is small but rapidly-growing tech scene that's creating some interesting things, with two prominent examples being the development of Amazon's EC2 system and Mark Shuttleworth's Thawte Consulting. Mobile telecoms are another interesting area, while there are some aerospace firms doing well, such as Aerosud which is a single-source supplier for both Airbus and Boeing on safety-critical parts.

R&D spending still remains low compared to other countries at South Africa's level but there are signs that that, too is changing. So we'll have to see what the future brings.
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How is it doing the speech input for Chrome? Is this an offline API provided by Chrome or backed by a Google web api?
I'm afraid I can't be much help but I can say that I have had exactly the same issues. The third problem was a new "feature" introduced in OS X Lion; you may find that Snow Leopard is more to your liking. For the first problem, try ctrl (or cmd) and 'w'.

As for "I hope this isn't too much to ask for", when I first got a Mac I asked on a forum how to maximize a window fully (as many windows resize to the window contents rather than full screen - not necessarily a bad feature but I also wished for a 'proper' maximize). I was perfectly polite but was flamed to death and told to "go back to Windows" (even though I had come from Linux). The community can be a little.. tense.. when you ask for features that don't exist.
And that cash-out-early logic is assuming that each subsequent dollar has the same utility which doesn't. I can't remember the exact figure but I think that economists drop capital utility by a factor of 10 for each zero. The first million has ten times more utility than the tenth which means that it makes terrific sense to cash out.

Compound that with the fact that the utility of cash is, like the value of health an integral over time and you have more reason still to cash out early. Every if the utility were the same, five extra years of your life with the end-cash is five extra years of utility.

I get your point about pump and dump and if it was a no-name hustler ringing up a round for a just-arrived company I'd understand that but none of these companies ever are. I feel there's something deeper driving the reaction - it seems more resentful than rational.
cool insight
This

Money from buying shares in a company usually have two objectives:

1 - Investing in the company (as in hiring more people, etc)

2 - Going to a previous owner of shares

Rovio doesn't seem they need much money in the first option, so naturally it's the second option
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Motions like they use in the fighter jet game or the shooting game (and some others) may not come naturally to everyone. In fact the one for continuous shooting specifically seems to be counter intuitive.

But the idea of bringing such gesture based interaction to just about any device is really great.
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So 2012-142 is not a valid date? Should it be 2012-0142?
Been done many times, and that stuff is gradually purged from indexes by user feedback.
As a concept this is pretty awesome and it removes the need to touch your screen so I guess you can move the sensor closer to a more relaxed place, I can see it getting tiring pretty quickly. Just like a standing desk though I guess you just get used to it over time.

Aside from end use issues, the tech behind this is very nice
How exactly are they to prove that nobody else has those keys? I think you're overthinking it.
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>Let’s not beat about the bush here. As a rule, Node JS’s target audience probably doesn’t know enough to safely and securely run their own Internet-connected servers. It isn’t their skillset. A customer using Node JS really needs someone to look after all of that for them.

This remark kind of surprised me. Perhaps it's out of ignorance but I feel like I can safely setup and maintain my own web servers without much hassle. Don't you still need to be security-wise if you need to build anything other than the most simple of websites?
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Digg is one notable example of a founder taking money of the table and the investment falling apart. Kevin Rose took quite a lot of money off the table and it could be argued that's when the Digg lost it's visionary leader. Kevin seemed to shift his focus away from building a successful company towards investing and advising other companies. I think it's hard to argue he did the wrong thing on a personal level, but for the company it was devastating. I think allowing a founder to take SOME (enough to not worry about personal finances) money off the table is reasonable for an entrepreneur that's reached some level of success. But it's an entirely different story to allow a venture-backed founder to take a sizable amount of cash off the table, enough to greatly reduce any incentive to build a company worthy of a successful exit or an IPO.
I remember using this in MSVC 6 - so at least 14 years ago.
ICE will always work if you use a TURN server to act as a media relay in case none of the other candidates succeed.
you might want to check out this awesome podcast by very serious node contributors/programmers: http://nodeup.com They often talk about upcoming conferences, meetups and other interesting stuff like good modules, good ways to do things, etc.
Node is not Rails though. It's pretty low-level and really ins't targeted to the same people imo.