skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could rephrase that sentence:

Bill's intelligence, hard work, cunning, and competitiveness played a huge role in Microsoft's early success, and this success was multiplied manifold later on by extraordinary luck.

Once again I never said it wasn't necessary - the intelligence or the hard work. I merely indicated that it isn't sufficient for success above a certain level.

Your first statement is unverified, and probabilistically wrong. I heard a similar story that he dropped out because he couldn't take the advanced math classes, and that he was no longer the smartest person in the class. See everyone can do this!

Smartest at Harvard or Lakeview does not equal smartest at starting a company (also unverified - I'm sure there were people that were smarter/more hard working).

It's a sad realisation that in many areas in life (outside of pure competition such as sports), it's not about what people did, it's more about who they were, who they knew, and where they lived.

Liberating for some, but depressing nonetheless.
This looks awesome! Are there any other javascript libraries that support drag, drop, and swipe events?
Have you used Sage? It's not as tight as Mathmatica, but it's pretty solid and easy to jump in if you know python.
Michael Lewis is feeling what we call "Socialist Guilt" here in Berkeley. Feel free to ignore him, cookies are delicious, and if you get to eat a bunch just make sure you have some stock reply like "If God didn't want me to eat these cookies, he wouldn't have made them so delicious".

Also, cookies aren't very nutritious. Just something to keep in mind as you chomp on your 17th consecutive cookie.

Also, they are fairly cheap if you have the right equipment. Here is a good recipe: http://www.google.com/search?q=tool%20house%20cookies

You're probably thinking, "What the hell is he talking about, the cookies are a metaphor for greed" but that's completely ridiculous. Cookies are delicious and greed is a psychological imbalance. They have absolutely nothing in common.
What kind of monitor? I'm curious to know to avoid them when I want one that doesn't need that kind of thing. The only times recently I've had to do that is for two specific cases, an arcade monitor that was built before EDID was a pipe dream, and a TV that likes to report that it has a native resolution of 320x240. Both of which would have to be worked around on any platform so I don't find it a problem.
Researchers Find Methods for Bypassing Google's Bouncer Android Security
I agree that a legally binding commitment would be better than what we have, but what we have is better than no pledge at all.

I personally love and trust
Valve, but I understand that others may have a different risk tolerance.
This is exactly the kind of talent and infrastructure you want for building WebRTC clients for Adsense. Think enhanced, in-browser, click-to-call ads. With video chat. Talk to other shoppers and customers, then talk directly with the restaurant or plumber.

Or they could join the Google+ team as G brings videoconferencing in-house.
Getting someones phone number seems pretty insignificant compared to using a previously undisclosed google security flaw.

And it's probably safe to assume that once you control the admin email account for a site, it's game over. You could request resets from other providers
The book `Programming iOS5` by Neuburg is probably amazing. I read a good amount of his last book `Programming iOS4` and it was, by far, the most comprehensive book I found on the subject. I hope it is fair that I am recommending a book I have not read yet, based on his last book with the same subject :).
As others have mentioned, this specific concern may not be much of a problem. It might be that it's easier to deliver a nuclear bomb the old-fashioned way than putting it in a fake person.

However, I agree that development of AI should be done with caution. The work of the Singularity Institute is worth looking into; see http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Mue... for a more academic summary and http://facingthesingularity.com/ for a longer popular summary of their positions.
Emphatically, no. I'm just highlighting, as others have pointed out, that the mere possibility of future humans using a "nuctroid" to smuggle a weapon is not philosophically interesting in the face of the inevitability that _humans_ will conspire to do harm (possibly by using robots to smuggle weapons, or jet planes, or other humans).

The connection between his research and the hypothetical scenario is not demonstrated and in fact reeks of sloppy thinking more characteristic of conspiracy enthusiasts.
Of course luck plays a role, but we are not talking lottery style luck here. If success was mostly luck then it would be a pure numbers game. China and India would hold most of the world's successful people due to their massive populations.
heres a great reference for swipe/touch - http://jswiki.org/touch.html
iOS Expert - Loves coding more than managing (but can do both) - YC 09
iOS Expert - Loves coding more than managing (but can do both)

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You like:

- all things iOS, and solving challenging technical problems

- being part of a team that values high quality, clean, maintainable code

- building a product that is fundamentally changing the way people share and interact

- sharing your ideas in a collaborative start-up environment

- working on a product that delights tens of millions of users every day

If this describes you, e-mail us at hn@bu.mp

Include links to your work or any other relevant examples.

We are also hiring for backend (python/haskell), Android, machine learning, and data analytics. Check out our other job listings at http://bu.mp/company/jobs
I'd highly recommend Caro's The Power Broker -- it manages to be an amazing book on new york city, the 20th century and the automobile which was the high tech dream device of the first part of that century. Too many folks idolize technology in the "name of progress" but never really think how that technology impacts the lives of every day people.
Fair enough. Good to hear that you aren't averse to serious consideration of the far future in general.
I would like to see some data on how much faster. Maybe make some demos that run in a frame where jQuery is compared to this library. It's a tall claim to say this is faster and needs credible verification.
In fact the answer was 5 bits for 32bit and 7 bits for 64bit[1]. x86-64 uses 5 bits for 32bit and for 64bit (shld/shrd can't shift more than 31 bits).

7 bits is problematic because some code may assume that x << -y is an optimization for x << (32-y). I thought there was some architecture where this assumption didn't work on 32bit either, which led to my post above.

[1] http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.aix...
Made better In China
Off topic, but what is underground assassins? Google is not helping.
they are able to function on their own about as much as an autopilot is able to function on its own
> the given diversity statement certainly does not reflect any meaningful definition of the "sort of behavior [Debian] is actively seeking out".

Sure it does. The project seeks behavior that welcomes others. You might even say that Debian is encouraging Ubuntu [0] from its contributors. :-)

[0] which as a philosophy has been summarized as "humanity towards others", and as a linux distribution has a code of conduct that asks members to "Be respectful. The Ubuntu community and its members treat one another with respect. Everyone can make a valuable contribution to Ubuntu. We may not always agree, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behaviour and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It's important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one. We expect members of the Ubuntu community to be respectful when dealing with other contributors as well as with people outside the Ubuntu project and with users of Ubuntu." -
http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/conduct
Some data here:

http://jquerypp.com/#fastfix

Not comprehensive, but it's something.

They also include a link to:

http://jsperf.com/jquery-event-fix

Which lets you benchmark yourself (I'm getting an error in Chrome on OSX).
PG Just Emailed Portfolio Companies Warning Of 'Bad Times' In the Valley
I doubt it has anything to do with schizophrenia. I certainly read it as satire.
The definition of wealth that you are using is not the same as the one recognized by most economists.

As such, some of the things you are saying are absurd in that context, and it really makes it difficult to keep the conversation in scope. I can certainly tell you that if everyone stayed home this Christmas, the economy would come close to collapsing.

I don't take issue with what you're saying, but you have moved beyond this being a discussion regrading economics, I'm afraid.
FYI there's a new book by Scott Patterson coming out next week called "Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System" which looks interesting.
Propster - tip jar system for stuff that matters
Glad I misinterpreted you!

Sounds as though we don't have any significant disagreements. I agree that he is assigning too much credence to this particular, very specific scenario.
> What's the difference with a car that could have a bomb in its trunk? Or a bag?

Or, for that matter, a personal firearm?
These are fair points. To address the parent I was commenting on a bit better, I agree with your last point about the industry not necessarily shifting to mobile. There's not actually a lot of data here; the stuff I've seen (and the stuff parent cites) suggests that the shift started in 2008, at the beginning of a recession we're just now seeing the end of. Will the end of the recession mean that people start buying consoles and console games again? It might. I'm interested to see the 2012 numbers. My general sense, though, is that the 'hardcore gamer' industry is a different beast; it may be that the recession trimmed off a lot of casual gamers who bought a Wii a few years ago because it was the thing to do or something like that, but I have a very hard time imagining my own gamer friends wholly abandoning dedicated gaming hardware and immersive games that last forty and fifty hours at the least for even the most advanced iOS games - which as an iPhone and iPad owner I can say are better than I could have imagined, yet still not really the equal of console and computer games.
Is git push atomic? I'm reaching the point with a PHP application where enough people are using it at any one point, every time i push an update (using lftp --mirror over sftp) someone gets caught in the crossfire.

My next step is deploying to a temporary folder and swapping symlinks around, but if git/hg can do an atomic update that would be much simpler.
feels like they just gave up palms and not replaced with anything then.
That low number just makes Mathematica all the more impressive, especially considering that I wasn't nearly as impressed with my brief experience with Matlab. On the other hand, I use neither regularly, and SAS and MathWorks probably do other stuff too :P
For fast fix:

http://bitovi.com/blog/2012/04/faster-jquery-event-fix.html

There's a JS benchmark.

For styles, there's a demo: http://donejs.com/docs.html#!jQuery.styles

comparing jQuery's height vs one implemented with reading multiple properties. I can get a benchmark for this soon.

As far as animate, that's tricky. There's nothing to measure but framerate I suppose. It does in fact use CSS animations and if you assume they are faster (which what's the point if not) ... then you can assume animate is faster.
Great talk, I really love Dropbox as a company because they just make things easy. I too have forgotten my humble USB on my desk table even though it's normally in my wallet. Now I don't even need a USB.

Off-topic comment though: anyone else annoyed at his sweater's design? The word "Drop" should be completely on the left side of the zipper, with "Box" and the picture of the box on the right side.
Yeah, that article was on our initial work. I'll fix the benchmark soon.
Yes, there are several, but not many can be used with delegate / on in the same way these events can. This makes it extremely useful for frameworks that use declarative event bindings.
Dark Pool: a private stock exchange where investors trade shares privately
I'm not 100% up to speed on this particular topic, but I think that the damage is diffuse, i.e. it distorts the market but doesn't affect any particular involved party. Therefore, it doesn't make a good story, and doesn't show up in the news.

Basically, you're increasing the amount of good for sale, without the corresponding purchases that would normally balance that out. It's the converse situation of buying things even when you don't have the money (not even in the form of credit or loans), and distorts the market in corresponding ways. The market is robust to a certain amount of shenanigans like this, but when a player the size of GS is doing it willy-nilly, the distortions can become measurable.

According to econ 101, naked-shorting is observationally equivalent to a sudden inflation of supply, which should drive the price down. Lowering the price benefits those in a short position, at the cost of people who are taking a long position, like value investors, or the companies themselves. If you have weight to naked-short enough volume that it actually effects the market, you would in theory be pushing the stock market down and pocketing the difference.

Again, I'm not an expert and this is a pretty naive analysis. I am willing to be corrected. Eventually you have to cover your short, which in theory should un-do all the market effects you've done, but my gut says that in practice the sudden drop has lasting damage to intangibles like "investor confidence" and "market volatility."
Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies
Jessica and I had dinner recently with a prominent investor. He seemed sure the bad performance of the Facebook IPO will hurt the funding market for earlier stage startups. But no one knows yet how much. Possibly only a little. Possibly a lot, if it becomes a vicious circle.

What does this mean for you? If it means new startups raise their first money on worse terms than they would have a few months ago, that's not the end of the world, because by historical standards valuations had been high. Airbnb and Dropbox prove you can raise money at a fraction of recent valuations and do just fine. What I do worry about is (a) it may be harder to raise money at all, regardless of price and (b) that companies that previously raised money at high valuations will now face "down rounds," which can be damaging.

What to do?

If you haven't raised money yet, lower your expectations for fundraising. How much should you lower them? We don't know yet how hard it will be to raise money or what will happen to valuations for those who do. Which means it's more important than ever to be flexible about the valuation you expect and the amount you want to raise (which, odd as it may seem, are connected). First talk to investors about whether they want to invest at all, then negotiate price.

If you raised money on a convertible note with a high cap, you may be about to get an illustration of the difference between a valuation cap on a note and an actual valuation. I.e. when you do raise an equity round, the valuation may be below the cap. I don't think this is a problem, except for the possibility that your previous high cap will cause the round to seem to potential investors like a down one. If that's a problem, the solution is not to emphasize that number in conversations with potential investors in an equity round.

If you raised money in an equity round at a high valuation, you may find that if you need money you can only get it at a lower one. Which is bad, because "down rounds" not only dilute you horribly, but make you seem and perhaps even feel like damaged goods.

The best solution is not to need money. The less you need investor money, (a) the more investors like you, in all markets, and (b) the less you're harmed by bad markets.

I often tell startups after raising money that they should act as if it's the last they're ever going to get. In the past that has been a useful heuristic, because doing that is the best way to ensure it's easy to raise more. But if the funding market tanks, it's going to be more than a heuristic.

The startups that really get hosed are going to be the ones that have easy money built into the structure of their company: the ones that raise a lot on easy terms, and are then led thereby to spend a lot, and to pay little attention to profitability. That kind of startup gets destroyed when markets tighten up. So don't be that startup. If you've raised a lot, don't spend it; not merely for the obvious reason that you'll run out faster, but because it will turn you into the wrong sort of company to thrive in bad times.

--pg
You're already wiser than Walter Bright.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061222
The pen that revolutionises your iPad
(WIRE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_Infrared_Explorer)
>>It should be obvious to anyone, that when you have more wealth than 99.5% of the world, you owe the rest of the world.

Unless you are a king, dictator or some force of evil. Building 99.5% of the wealth in the world will mandate you to build empires of business, solve problems, provide employment to millions of people around the globe.

That much doesn't happen merely by chance.
Talent is a fair point. So is the resources/position one starts with, but I had considered that one part of luck.
Working for me on Chrome 20.0.1132.21 beta-m, Win 7, but very jagged aliased edges.
(HETE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Energy_Transient_Explorer)
Ok. I started with the Getting Started guide and just submitted a pull request. I'm sbc on GH.
Robot Ethics - How Do We Make Moral Machines?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Get_Together_%28short_s...
Other way to look at it is, He had to build a company first.

How would Mary Gates be of any help to him if he hadn't built the company?

Her influence was a multiplier and not the only reason for his success.
Use sudo rather than making a single purpose setuid program.
Also note well the .git, .gitignore accessibility as DHowett mentions.
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Benjolan tersebut biasanya disebabkan karena beberapa faktor, misalnya terlalu lama duduk, hubungan seks yang tidak lazim dan lain sebagainya. berikut informasi selengkapnya mengenai penyakit wasir.
Show Your Class By Taking Action
> I think your argument can be rephrased in a way, that multilayer games require third party arbiters (server admins, GMs and so on), who should be able to ban violators of game rules, reconcile conflicts and so on. I fully agree, but I don't see why it should be equated with using DRM for the actual software.

GMs do not have the power to that job, unless they have something that's approximately equal to DRM. Catching a subtle cheater is a much, much bigger job than cheating. If someone cheats every day, you'd be lucky to catch him once a month. To actually stop cheating from happening, you need penalties that are high enough to make that once a month count -- so permanent global (so they won't just move on to the next server) bans (and ip bans don't cut it), or failing that, monetary punishment.

Tell me how your third party arbiters achieve that without essentially implementing DRM?

> And to single player games this issue doesn't apply at all.

Except when there is publicly visible scoring/achievements system that you want to keep pure. >90% of new games on the market are either mp or do that.
Sooner or later there aren't going to be any small businesses left to dupe. Weren't they sending salespeople to actual storefronts to get people to do a groupon? I imagine they are going to act more and more desperate as time goes along. This is not sustainable.
I was there. It was a political sales job from day one, with people searching high and low for scientific justification for Gore's folly. I don't mean to disproportionately abuse Gore - he was just the main character in this plot and did a lot to make it easy political pickings. Republicans were obviously very keen on killing it once they caught wind of it.

I do recall they eventually found some instruments to put on the thing, but it was bass-ackwards. You don't launch a satellite into a very specific orbit that allows for a pretty picture, and then go looking for science to justify it. You come up with the science, and try to sell your way into the proper orbit.

The bottom line is that a presidential hopeful said "I want this stupid thing", and NASA said, "How high, sir?" Then, after much handwaving and scrounging of scientific merit, the victorious politicians (Bush, et al) said, "never mind - scrap it."

Insanely wasteful.
Japan 'diet glasses' fool wearers into eating less
Did I hear a bubble just pop?
Some VC firms like to say they bring value beyond their money. In this case it's actually true.
This will probably be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I live in Toronto, CA and have been a freelancer for a number of years and have several US-based clients.

2). Wire transfer is the most sensible option for you.
Another option you do not mention is an old fashioned check :)

Definitely open a U.S. bank account.
I noticed the update does not have a svgz font file, however the css references that file. Last version I had did have the svgz font file.
I do not believe that checking out all files in a repository is supposed to be a single atomic action in either git or hg.
I'm guessing here - but I think GS were running this the other way round. _They_ were selling short, and taking your $10 if the stock price dropped, and saying "Oh sorry, that trade failed" if it didn't.
I am not sure what will cool the investment climate more. The fact that facebook's IPO was a disaster or that PG sent this letter and recommends to be cautious.
Mirror replies: That's a tough question, Nathan, because you just keep creating new ones. No single company can accumulate that much hate and they can't be easily linked to a single source. Disperse the hate. I must admit, you are one clever guy.
Justin Bieber blows my mind every time I read about him and I really respect him (mainly because his life is insane and he somehow hasn't screwed it up yet) but his success is much more his management and Justin Bieber (the brand) is a story of how good management can make a success.

Just looking at how the entertainment industry works is fascinating, they can create such incredible brands in so little time. Take the boy band "One Direction", every single teenager in the first world has heard of them, they haven't even existed for 2 years and the hype surrounding them is huge, they were formed artificially. There's also the boy band "The Wanted" (Bieber's manager Scooter Braun is their manager too) who were also formed artificially, they're growing as a brand too and there is huge hype surrounding them.

The entertainment industry appears to the outside to be very simple, most people think that bands start out and make some music and grow in popularity organically, but that seems to rarely be the case, SOMEONE put every successful musician where they are and often it's a very strategic thing. Entertainment is where the money is.

This is the sort of thing the people that want to "disrupt" the music industry don't understand, they think that artists not getting 100% of their music sales is a terrible thing, what they don't seem to understand is there's a reason the music industry takes a big cut. Justin Bieber would not be making 9 figures a year if he'd sold his music on Bandcamp.
It's enough for Diablo 3 on a MacBook Air with Intel graphics.
Marriage Is For Losers