skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New 13-Inch MacBook Pro Specs Leak… And It’s Nothing But A Spec Bump
It's not just Brisbane.

There is an active startup scene in Sydney/Melbourne which for lack of a better word is one giant circlejerk. They love to regurgitate the latest trends in startup e.g. lean startup, parading around the mini-celebrities they've produced and endlessly talking about who we've sent over to Silicon Valley. It's ridiculous.

Why isn't anybody interested in exploiting our unique connections with UK, India, Asia ?
Depends. It's easy to make a comfortable amount of money even without intent, but the problem comes when you have massive outgoings (office, staff, etc), and tons of investment, where making a good amount of revenue isn't good enough.
The Selling Game: Entrepreneurial Spirit Takes Hold in China
LOL I think we both want the same thing. I'm just being realistic. I highly doubt you'll get all the data you really want, this year or next. Federal agencies have a hard time releasing data quickly. Too many checks and balances, too many people blocking, too many lawyers and unions, too many politicians.
Mars One: Dutch Startup Aims To Colonize Red Planet In 2023 (VIDEO)
No we don't do recurring billing so I can't help regarding that.
There's been the same sort of growth in seed incubators in Melbourne as well. The problem is that they are all following the same playbook:

Get an Idea (Startup Weekend) -> Build Prototype (Seed) -> Head Over To Silicon Valley -> Sell/Fail.

I fail to see how that is in any way good for anybody other than the investors.
How do you know how many upvotes a comment has?
That's neat and all I guess, and as an avid WP7 user I'm glad to see the market continuing to grow, but I have some serious issues with the number of published apps including... unpublished apps. Of those 100k "published" apps, 10.32% are unpublished. So the number of actual published apps is closer to 90k than 100k, and that's not even considering the 1.51% of apps that are otherwise not available on the store. That's pretty deceptive to me, not that the absolute numbers really matter here.
I'm in the same situation at the moment, having just begun a Bachelor of Information Technology through RMIT and Open Universities Australia, which for international readers, is a distance education organization involving several large Australian universities. I am also working full time, although not in IT, unfortunately.

I'm not in a financial position to fund my studies myself, so I'm making use of the federal government 'FEE-HELP' system, which basically means I don't begin repaying my loan(s) until I reach a certain income threshold. I also live in a 'regional' area on the NSW Mid North Coast, and despite living within an hour of a local university, the courses and degrees I've enrolled in aren't offered in this area.

I can understand that there are most likely different factors that determine whether or not a particular degree is covered by FEE-HELP, but it's a shame that it seems like a proper CS degree is still only viable for somebody living in a large capital city, with the finances available to self-fund their studies.

As you've mentioned, a Bachelor of IT does offer certain fundamental units that you'd encounter in a CS degree, but none of the advanced maths units seem to be offered.

If the National Broadband Network actually gets finished one day, hopefully more long distance education providers might be able to offer degrees such as CS, with the aid of fast, reliable internet connectivity to help solve the locale problem.
typing of the dead
What if the stock now bounces back? Nobody can deny that the company is generating some solid revenues with lots of potential. Investors might think this is really low valuation and we might see surge in buying.

(Disclaimer: I do not own FB stock and this is just my speculation)
"In its last quarter Facebook had $1bn of revenue and 40% pre-tax operating margins"

The key execs and advisors involved in IPO were not conservative with the valuation. Do not be surprised if those same biases influenced some of the pre-float numbers.

A cautious CFO may not always tell people what they want to hear short-term - but they will deliver a much stronger performance over the long.
Israel Airport Email Searches Inspect Suspected Pro-Palestinian Activity
I don't think it's totally unrelated, only having one or two third party life lines for charging customers in a currency other than AUD is fairly dire for the success of any "Silicon Valley" if the startups are planning on making any money from global online sales.
You have to work backwards. The penultimate round of investors depend on future investors to buy in at a higher valuation. The third to last group depend on the second to last group. And you can walk this all the way back to the seed stage. If there are few people left at the end to buy up the IPO then the late stage investors dry up and the ripple works its way back to the seed and angel rounds.
Several hundred million people are willing to invest a portion of their finite time every day visiting and interacting with content only available via Facebook. Winning people's attention is a zero sum game (if you gain it your competitors lose it) and attention is a scarce resource. The strong network effects of having all your friends in one place makes facebook's position very defensible. All that adds up to high intrinsic value.
You're created a bogus thought experiment and tried to pretend it reflects what happens in the real world. A extrapolation fault common to many academics and startup owners.
Everyone deals with / runs into assholes in their lives, this guy was just another one. If you politely told him to fuck off several times and he did not, why not call the cops rather than crying about it on the internet? Oh yeah, free publicity for your blog and business.
Many years ago - before public Internet even - I wrote a markov 'fog' maker. It produced complete unintelligible sentences.

But the thing that sticks in the mind was how, on the first run, one phrase right in the middle somehow stuck out:

herbaceous..

When you pick such a rare word in the corpus, you kind of railroaded into very limited continuations:

herbaceous border...

ok, where will the markov go now?

herbaceous border disputes.

Loved it! :)
Nope. The guy behind Antartic.js has already organized/spoke to a lot of conference and now he is trying to organize something uncommon. I believe he can succeed (he has already visited the venue and convinced some famous JavaScript developers to come).

Concerning the Eiffel Tower, it'll be on July (organized by a friend, a colleague is one of the speaker).

You may be wondering "Why?". Because they can.
If we are looking for fictional analogies, the one that strikes me is "It was evil against evil in the ruins of Shadar Logoth ... foul fighting vile." http://www.dragonmount.com/forums/topic/56250-mordeth/
What is "enterprise value" and how does he come up with 43B?
I think they are underestimating Larry's abilities.

If Oracle was successful it would have set a precedent that could've resulted in them collecting royalties from other companies. A measly 300K is worth that gamble.
I'm wondering about the "even at half those numbers" bit, if Fred actually thinks it will go that low.
gumroad?
Common ground.
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I see a pretty major problem with this. It seems to depend on the order of key value pairs in object literals being defined. The order is not defined by the JSON or the ecmascript standards. So you can't really depend on the order of keys in a json object, unless you explicitly define some order (like alphabetical, for instance). I like the basic concept of compressing json to json but this is not a particularly good way to do it- since the order of those keys may not be preserved in round trips through json encoders and decoders in various languages.
I needed to google what EBITDA is in order to understand the artice. EBITDA means "earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnings_before_interest,_taxes...). Id est, AFAIK, the money they get, without taking into account the money they spend because their "thigs" age.

I hope it helps fellow hackers who don't know finance (like me) to understand the article a little better.

Edit: Better explanation of what I mean by spend.
Actually they have tried to make money. The only thing that is working for them is ad-revenue. For 8 yrs, why would anyone think they haven't tried to make money? They are running out of time before they become a penny stock. In internet years it is a long time in existence and they better have some additional revenue streams.
It seems to me this whole thing is more about sentiment than numbers. How it is perceived and the effects of that perception, rather than "does it add up"...
He's looking at market price (number of shares times share price) and subtracting cash on hand. That would be the implied value of the operating business.
Perhaps its me being cynical (or ignorant), but I always say that the only real winners of every legal battle are the lawyers.
My personal thoughts are that the greatest near term impact we'll see is in angel investment $$ in seed rounds. At least here on the East Coast there has been a boom of relatively unsophisticated Angels driven by hype. It is these individuals that, in my mind, will react more emotionally to a poorly performing Facebook IPO.

Not that one shouldn't be concerned about the broader venture market, but I'm a little less worried about the institutional money than I am about the Angels disappearing.
The Philosophy of Content Strategy
Come to think of it, I'd bet if she pulled out a cellphone and started recording the stuff he was saying, he would have walked away a lot faster.
It looks like this will include support for USB disks, though, which Apple doesn't yet support in TDM.
How would it compress and then decompress the following document?

{"users": [
{"first": "Homer", "last": "Simpson"},
{"first": "Hank", "last": "Hill"},
[2, "Peter", "Griffin"]
}
Take a look at the numbers he mentions:

valuation $57.5bn
cash on the books $14bn
enterprise value $43bn

If you look real closely, you will see that 57-14=43.
>> the money they get, without taking into account the money they spend.

That would be revenue. EBITDA is a way of only accounting for operational expenses a company faces. There's also EBIT, which subtracts the depreciation and amortization.
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It's the valuation of the company based on number of shares and share price less actual assets (cash in this case). What is left is the value investors see in the company simply by executing its business.
I doubt he'll get anything more than a slap on the wrist. Not just because he is famous, but because this is his first offense, he has a clean record, and he's unlikely to be a repeat offender.
Enterprise value "is a sum of claims of all the security-holders: debtholders, preferred shareholders, minority shareholders, common equity holders, and others." (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_value)
Enterprise value is

market cap + debt - cash

It reflects how much it would cost to buy a company out.
Ask HN : J2ME still exists outside India?
I am Mobile App developer from India . Here mostly people use Java enabled devices and J2ME Apps tops at any marketplace. Sites like Getjar.com , ovi store are the target stores for many mobile developers here . So we primarily focus on these devices rather than any smart platform . Could I survive outside India with J2ME skills ?
It's probably a safe bet that any web-based service will disappear by 2020, or at least change so much that it's completely unrecognizable.
It's basically market cap plus the debt, minus the cash. So $57 billion minus $14 billion in cash. Try to think of it as the actual amount somebody would loose from pocket while buying Facebook. While they will pay $57 billion, they will get $14 billion cash from Facebook, effectively spending $43 billion.
Information Overload and Us
OH 90000 INSTEAD OF 100000. HOW PRETTY DECEPTIVE THAT IS
It's not about the money. It's about protecting intellectual property and setting a precedent. One does not always fight a case to gain money. It is also about promoting ideas and values and prevent their degradation. Although in this case Oracle's case is crap.
>The programming language of Mathics is meant to resemble Wolfram's famous Mathematica&reg; as much as possible. //

Sounds,like the sort of thing an opposition lawyer would bring up in IP proceedings in a "so you copied the implementation and interface" sort of way ...
Funniest part from the notes!

"And then there’s the probably apocryphal story about Columbus on the voyage to the New World. Everybody thought that the world was much smaller than it actually was and that they were going to China. When they were sailing for what seemed like too long without hitting China, the crew wanted to turn back. Columbus convinced them to postpone mutiny for 3 more days, and then they finally landed on the new continent.

Eric Jonas: Which pretty much makes North America the biggest pivot ever"
.. but unlike Linux, the Apple Firewire Target mode can't be used while Mac OSX is running on the machine. In Apples' case, its implemented in EFI - whereas with Linux, it will be possible to use the 'target mode' while the machine is still running.
Ask HN - How many people do you follow on Twitter?
I've been trying to keep my list shorter than 100. My concern, missing out on the important tweets and being spammed by the noise.

(Bot are bad but sometimes "social media gurus" are worse!)

How do you garden your twitter feed?
Interesting, thanks Simon. It kind of reminds me http://2011.funconf.com which took place in a castle.
As wise as a Warren Buffett letter to shareholders. Thanks, Paul.
How do VC's calculate valuations in Europe? A French VC Tells All.
Probably not.

Why aren't you transforming yourself to being an Android developer?

Things have never been better for programmers.
I will deny that the company is generating solid revenues with lots of potential.

I don't see a lot of potential in Facebook. They're just another rung on the ladder of social network churn, and luck may have played strongly into that.

Facebook is generating revenue, but nothing I would consider 'solid' for a company with a ~85 billion market cap.

The company is incredibly overvalued, and time will show that to be the case.
How “Computer Geeks” replaced “Computer Girls”
From 5 to 32 people in eight years
Forgive me if I don't feel sympathetic to the plight of the poor programmers in SF. Everybody flocks to SF because that's where all the venture money is at. Which is just fine; you want to hit it big with yet another social startup? That's great for you, but I'm not going to feel sorry for you if you don't win the lottery. There are plenty of other places in this country that are vibrant, fun places to live that are also affordable and offer lots of opportunity. I'll enjoy SF as a tourist, thank you.
Prof. Thrun was part of the team that used laser range-finders to assist the image stitching in StreetView. Since both sensors (rangefinders and cameras) were mounted on a mobile vehicle, wheel odometry and GPS "ground truth" must have been available at each waypoint as well.
The author of the post suggested that Google might have used the GPS data (and possibly rangefinders) to create a simulated world to teach the self-driving car (useful for testing new tweaks?). This is a good idea and probably did not take them a lot of effort given the available log of data from StreetView.
Having had this discussion with a number of my fellow San Franciscans, I'd say that "fuck you money" is the amount that grants you fiscal independence. Because at that point you can say "fuck you" to a boss without worrying.

The numbers I've heard people discuss are in the $3-10m range, on the theory that with that you can buy decent condo or house here, put the rest in the market, and live off your gains.
This is deceptive. The entire reason the late stage guys invested in higher valuations is because the early stage guys convinced them it was worth more.

You can't say before the IPO that the company is worth 75 B or 100B and then after the fact say it's their fault for investing at those valuations. That destroys the integrity of the silicon valley investment environment.
I'm with you. Scribd offers absolutely nothing other than an obstacle in between me and what I want to read.
The bailouts that have largely been paid back? At this point, even if you're a high income taxpayer, these guys lost very little money that you didn't choose to give them.

And really, getting your blood boiling is just about all Taibbi is good for.
Have Incubators and Accelerators Jumped the Shark?
I think #EpicFail fits the description.
I have the same problem. I got the impression the pasted obfuscation was on purpose and a feature to help them sell their product.

I never verified this; am I wrong?
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that is only enough to make it seem like it works okay. But as I said, there's nothing in the JSON spec that obligates any intervening party to preserve the order of the keys in the object.
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I think most of the folks overlook one key point - which is the fact that this was free publicity for Oracle. Some would say in a bad way, but that is if you think purely from ability to use/improve open source software(which I agree). However I also feel Oracle was in this not just from that angle but also to show to the world that they are the owners of Java(sort of). When they bought Sun, in essence they did become owners of Java (in a way). But this case has probably done more to broadcast this message that than they could have done using ads. Most of the folks know Oracle as the database company - this case helped broadcast Java linkage of Oracle. As they say, sometimes bad publicity is better than no publicity(you reach audience which you would never reach or need to spend lot of money to get similar results).
They do explain it:

In common with other application stores, the total number of published items is not the same as the number of items available to consumers. Of the 100,145 items published to the Marketplace, 10,357 are no longer available (withdrawn by Microsoft or unpublished by the developer), a further 1,492 items are in staging (awaiting an update, in beta or not live for some other reason). That means there are 88,371 apps currently available for download (live) on the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Seems like every other store does that as well. It's no more deceptive than the common "units shipped" metric done by brick and mortar stores.
That is bad publicity for Java not good publicity for Oracle.
I lived in SF on 60K and knew a ton of people that did the same (or made less). We all lived with roommates.
Now you can share your phone’s home screen across the Web with MyColorscreen
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The secondary market valuations were also predicated on the assumption that there was nothing very special to what Google were doing in online advertising and similar models could be applied to other high-visitor brands.

There is now some rethinking of that assumption as more financial information from these brands is made public.
To play Devil's advocate for a moment, Facebook's IPO will also create a bunch of millionaires, some of whom will want to become angel investors. So it might become harder to raise money from VCs but easier to raise it from angels because the rising supply of angels will counteract the tightening market.
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If your goal is to build a web application, I'd suggest railstutorial.org. It basically picks up from your HTML skills and shows you how most of the things are done these days.

A great alternative would be treehouse, which helps you to answer this question at the first screen (what do you want to learn? web design, development or mobile development?).

Go through the tutorials, build some stuff and use stackoverflow when stuck.
{
"users": [
{
"first": "Homer",
"last": "Simpson"
},
[
2,
"Hank",
"Hill"
],
[
0,
2,
"Peter",
"Griffin"
]
]
}

There was a tester linked from the site. Looks like he added the [0, to handle that case.
There's a demo here: http://www.cliws.com/p/rjson/

It comes it to:

{
"users": [
{
"first": "Homer",
"last": "Simpson"
},
[
2,
"Hank",
"Hill"
],
[
0,
2,
"Peter",
"Griffin"
]
]
}
One complication in that scenario is that you can't mount a (normal) filesystem while exposing it over SCSI target (because then it would be mounted twice).
> reduce JSON data size and network traffic when gzip isn't available. For example, in-browser 3D-modeling tools like Mydeco 3D-planner may process and send to server megabytes of JSON-data;

`Content-encoding: gzip` anyone?
I lived in San Francisco for two years, in the Dogpatch, close to the 22nd Street Caltrain.

For one, construction was a regular sight in my neighborhood. (e.g. north of 17th Street) But I think it would be an ideal location for much further construction. There were a bunch of abandoned industrial buildings in my neighborhood. Either rehab them, or tear them down and build six-story apartment buildings. You can leave the existing Victorians intact while still adding a lot of housing stock.
Presumably they're objecting to "hope the gentrification raises property value substantially for the home-owning locals who've been here for years". Which presumably was the opposite of what the poster meant to write.
Look at from all those IT mangers/decision makers point of view at big corporations. And there is lot of Java there in those corporations. They previously may not have known that Oracle is linked with Java(in a big way). Now they know.
I saw the same thing right away. Seems like the first item in the array would have to be used as a hash of key/index pairs to be used for the following items. I guess this would only be useful with large sets of data, the examples makes them look kind of silly =)

So this:

"users": [
{"first": "Homer", "last": "Simpson"},
{"first": "Hank", "last": "Hill"},
{"first": "Peter", "last": "Griffin"}
],

Becomes:

"users": [
["first", "last"],
["Homer", "Simpson"],
["Hank", "Hill"],
["Peter", "Griffin"]
],
Most Source engine games run perfectly well under Wine already. I think a Linux port should be pretty simple at this point. As for "Windows + mac port + linux port", Portal 2 was launched on PS3, so the code is pretty portable.
I'm in favor of the Twitter perks; that neighborhood has needed help for a long time. But I think you dismiss too lightly the displacement of people and the substantial rich/poor divide in this city.

The problem isn't the NYT's reasoning. They just have different values than you do. To some extent I agree with them; San Francisco has definitely gotten less diverse. We don't get smart people from "all over the planet". We get them mainly from whitebread America, Europe, and certain parts of East and South Asia. They're generally well-educated and well off. A lot of people who have been in SF for generations are getting priced out of the city, and that is disproportionately affecting black and Latino residents.

One can legitimately say, "so what?" But it's not irrational to dislike that.
Probably not. Microsoft is 'sharing' their source code with select partners because it's in their best interest to be accommodating to organizations that are building complex systems on top of their product. Wine is closer to a competitor than a partner.
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