skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Run that in reverse: if the headline were less sensational, you'd automatically trust the article more?

Just read the article. The headline is one sentence. You have to evaluate the whole thing anyway.
Ford just made a Great Password Manager For Mac.
They took on immense risk in order to squeeze all the profit they could out of the system.... but faced no consequences as a result of losing on their bets. $45 billion in two installments kept them afloat.

Wouldn't a anarcho-capitalist demand that a market loser like Citi pay the price?
This is awesome. Google Play is a very frustrating marketplace from a review standpoint. Itunes is a little bit less frustrating, but frustrating nonetheless.
:-(

"I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'"

http://xkcd.com/1049/
What's your address? I'm calling social services.
Groups tend to have fewer free speech rights than individuals. A person can usually shout whatever he wants from a street corner; 100 people will probably need a permit and relatively few people see this as problematic.
You'd hope not, because that would be a silly point to make. No reasonable observer expects the majority of any portfolio of startups to succeed.
Did Ford Just Figure Out the Password Problem?
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Made Simple
The setting applies to all maps. :help timeoutlen
That's why the corporation is a "legal person" that can itself be legally responsible for stuff and get sued: corporate personhood arose partially as a solution to this problem.

Yes, which should lead one to question whether or not a State created legal fiction like a "corporation" should exist to protect individuals from responsibility for their actions.

Anyway, I also find your profanity-laden vitrol unbecoming of discussion on this site.

That's too bad, but I'm not changing the way I go about things. If pg were to post and say "profanity is no longer allowed here," then I'd have a decision to make, but otherwise, I choose my words to suit the situation at hand and to suit my personality.
In my experience, if you are counting characters or lines in regular vim editing, you are doing it wrong. The smarter jump commands, text objects, and a high key repeat rate are all far superior to counting 20 characters. I do use counts a bit with w/W for words. The main advantage is making your edit in a single command so you can reuse it with dot.
What about comparing the 85-95 percentile companies? Is there any point to comparing the companies that have modest success?
You could probably try setting timeoutlen to something like 500 milliseconds (or whatever feels comfortable). Bear in mind though that this is a global setting.
They definitely lose money - their ad model is based on engagement, so if tweets aren't seen/can't be acted on, money is lost.
Most drug researchers I have talked to have been in support of drug patents and only have issue with DNA related patents. I think the real issue is patents work best for well developed fields, and tend to have issues when things start moving quickly.
Consent decree over, Microsoft goes back to monopoly forced bundling
My device can take full advantage of this already
I know of a chap, called Terry, who became known as Total Network Terry. TNT. Because he accidently plugged the wrong cable into the wrong jack in the wrong cable cupboard on the wrong floor.

Just finding it took days to sort out, apparently.
Ryan, what is it with the very precise timings? Waking at 4:54am and todos for 19 minutes.

My hypothesis is that if you aim to get up at 5am then it's easier to be lazy and say that 5:15am is almost 5am, but if you specify 4:54am then you can't cheat! Am I right?
Doesn't work - once you login via oauth it doesn't go past that screen... thanks
Five data types often ignored by customer anlaytics teams
Stella Fayman?

https://twitter.com/#!/startupstella

http://startupstella.com/

http://entrepreneursunpluggd.com/

She's the only woman on their About page:

https://samurai.feefighters.com/about

But maybe that's getting too personal.
You make an interesting point; LaTeX is certainly less relevant if you no longer target paper. At the very least, though, I have yet to see any text renderer or layout engine that can make a wall of text quite as aesthetically pleasing. Perhaps I'm merely biased.
Can someone explain in simple words what is xmonad?

Is it used together with X? Instead of gnome or xfce?

Or instead of X?
Espionage virus sent blueprints to China
I don't think you'd find a military helicopter cockpit very "user friendly" either:

http://www.helis.com/h/h53ecab.jpg

We're talking about a general-purpose text editing tool used by experts for hours, days, and years on end. I understand that you like to click through your menus, but you'll have to excuse those of us who know what we're doing in vim and don't have the time or patience for that.
Augmented Reality Glasses Could Be an Awkward Person’s New Best Friend
Show HN:Display messages from your Twitter stream as notifications on your site
yes you can set the timeout delay to be something very small see :help timeoutlen. It defaults to 1000ms but you are free to change it. If you are typing in insert mode and you press j it will delay but if you press another key that is not bound to anything after j it will just insert the j and the other key.
Ah, that makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions :)
If you're measuring them as investors, you want the average, because if (as all these incubators do) they invest roughly the same amount in every startup, then average is money out divided by money in.
Would work?

Getting someone to type in foo.com off the back of a shirt is probably hard. Getting someone to go to foo.com/blah is harder.
While Elon Musk's work is great, I don't see how that's changing the incentive structure for young, unmoneyed entrepreneurs.
One more for Python
That's why I liked dan shipper's (rather timely) blog post the other day about choosing to build a sustainable business instead of swinging for a homerun, and striking out.
It took me awhile to figure out what this is. Jeff Wofford has cloned IGN's article and made small but important changes as way of giving IGN some of the medicine they are recommending for others.
Raising Capital Online - The new thundering herd
I believe he meant go to bat during the acquisition deal making. Regardless of how awesome their CS was pre-acquisition if there were no terms regarding current customers/continuity during the acquisition talks then they didn't "go to bat for their customers".
Ask HN: See past Hacker News' homepages?
Just thought it would be cool if there was some place I could see all snapshots of all the various HN homepages through the years.

Does this exist?
I appreciate the Author's attempt to empathize with the founders/team on the acquisition results. It's not an obligation for customers to consider anything beyond what they were promised and pay for - so kudos there.

That said, the difference between the startup and big co. is so vast that there will never be a single person to be blamed for botched acquisitions. In fact, both parties are at fault - not for initiating the buy - but rather for the failure to commit so fully that an alternative outcome could have been had.

In some circumstances it does make sense to shutter a project, but that doesn't mean a good plan to make that happen appropriately can't be had (I understate the complexity of making that happen). Additionally I'd like to note that within larger companies, both the appetite and passion for making acquisitions work is highly variable. And frankly, it requires a lot of broad effort to make it work which is why acquisitions are so hard to do well.

Anyways I'm glad that gittip was able to find a replacement solution; these setbacks are only part of the process in building your own entrepreneurial endeavor.
This doesn't take into account UK customs. I recently send a nicely packaged 1Tb drive to my place in tb uk by express mail from San Francisco. The drive arrived in customs two days later, sat there for a week, then they mailed a postcard saying the import duty was 550 GBP. Now we are up to about the third week... Obviously I didn't pay that so the drive went back, taking over two months. Using scp would have been far quicker...

So next time you're considering physical transport include the time spent in the destination country's customs, with their highly incompetent and inefficient crews.
No.... not at all. I just opened this in ie 10 fine. What's the point here?
yep I'm the only woman who was at FeeFighters and I respect Ayn Rand but I've never said anything about objectivism publicly...in fact, I would never recommend any philosophy for entrepreneurs as it is in fact, against my philosophy. So maybe you're getting me confused with someone else?
> Once you really start getting used to the language, it makes it frustrating to use anything else.

Indeed... That is why I have been contributing to Xvim[1] for Xcode it's so nice to have vim bindings in Xcode.

[1] https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim
when the company is profitable and has valuation, the investors can sell their shares. If the investor makes a profit by selling their shares, will it count still count as failure? It is possible that the investor can lose money, even if the company goes public, right?
SuperX 1.1 Operating System - Features and Download
Richard Branson wages war on CO2 amid government sluggishness
I am considering configuring all DNS resolvers I am responsible for (i.e., those at my house) to block these new ICANN gTLDs.

Who's with me?
Tablet Readers Don't Like "Going Native" When It Comes To News
<grin> There are a whole bunch of excited preschoolers out there running sl now, apparently, judging from the comments here: http://changelog.complete.org/archives/6359-a-proud-dad
And Then There Were Four … NSA Cyber Offense Schools
Can you shed any light on the future of FeeFighters and Samurai? How can users get their data out?
Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun)
Who said anything about menus?

And, yes, funny enough, it just so happens that I would find the cockpit of a military helicopter very user friendly.
Roger that. Thank you.
A massively decentralised protocol would not exactly be the model of reliability, either. I'm not even sure how that could possibly work in a service like Twitter.
Microsoft Surface and the Future of Software
Build Measure Learn Versus Learn Measure Build
Gigapixel camera - 98 tiny cameras into a single device up to 50 gigapixels
Was it about 10 minutes ago? If so it should be alright now. If not do you see any error message?
I've always been a fan of Reginald (http://atastypixel.com/blog/reginald-regex-explorer/) on OS X.
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/554467/loa...
Popular articles only mention technologies that are buzz-word friendly.
nope, right now. says i'm logged in but i just get the buttons to login and auth.
Sounds good. I was over optimistic promising today, though. Look for it next week. I'll post a comment hear when its up.
Show HN: LIVEditor - forget Firebug's html inspector from now
LIVEditor is my new text editor for 'coding html/css/js with live visual feedback' - Sounds familiar? Yes! Some of Bret Victor's ideas as seen in the Inventing On Principle talk are applied.
If you're an entrepreneur, this is indeed the way you want to be thinking. But these are investors discussing outcomes for different startup creation vehicles. If you're an investor, you need to focus on the skinny tail of the outcome distribution, if only because it's where the liquidity is.
One thing I've not seen addressed about these new proposals are how cross-domain cookie wildcards are going to be handled. Right now all the major browsers have large tables they've manually compiled to make sure you can't register a cookie on say, .ac.uk, or .pp.se to track people across domains. Who is going to manage the security of these new TLDs?
Launch Center Pro - “It's like LaunchBar/Alfred[/Quicksilver] on your iPhone”
In terms of reducing the risk that users would mistakenly use a site where a third party was intentionally looking to pass themselves off as the particular variant of Monster, it is a good argument. When a consumer is aware that the only legitimate Monster sites are those with the .monster suffix, this would reduce the risk of them using fraudulent sites.

If on the other hand a user looking to find the jobs variant stumbling upon .monster domains controlled by the energy variant, there is no risk of user confusion in this regard.

In summary, the confusion they allude to is third parties using the mark or a variant thereof in a deliberate attempt to mislead, as opposed to confusion between established brands.
TLDR: The more a company grows, the more inefficient and dysfunctional it becomes.
Andrew Hessel Discusses Apps For Biotech
It's a little weird having this discussion as I am fundamentally agreeing with you in what you are trying to do. :)

Having said that. I just cant help having the feeling that 99% of what you are doing with your kids is lost on them. I.e. they are not there yet where they can actually appreciate and use all the information they are receiving.

I went through the same things with my son and music. As a former musician myself I was of course eager to have him learn to play an instrument. But more or less any music teacher i talked too basically said that before 3 learning an instrument was lost on them.

So instead we sing songs and I have bought a bunch of proper instruments that he can play around with as he wants.

On the iPad have have a very interesting synt app called MorhWiz and where he like to fiddle around with the other instruments he loves using MorphWiz.

This I believe is because the MorphWiz takes away some of the difficulties while still allowing for exploration. And there he actually plays stuff.

My point is. For your kids, the Ipad is like a linux system they can do everything they can think of with. They are not yet ready and cannot yet internalize the way you seem to think they internalize.

Again it's not my children, I am not in disagreement with your goals. But I think your kids could get even more out of this if you started from where they are not where you are.
why are there 4 news for "YARDSALE" on front new page?

how did u manage to rig ycombinator news?
Paul Thurrott's in-depth look at Windows Phone 8
Opa never changed name.
Yeah...that was what I was going for but the parent comment has a point, one which I did t really think about until I started collecting photos and noticing that some of the photos didn't match expected EV...I had thought that the EV reflected what the camera registered, no matter what mode I was in...but of course, it only measures compensation, which will be wrong if the photo is taken and the EV doesn't match the EC. And since I've just confused myself trying to explain this I doubt it's clear to the average reader.

It would be pretty easy to generate histiograms with Imagemagick...that is probably more useful
OK, I'll bite. Please educate me. Give me a list of the "highly efficient text-editing capabilities".
If you run a coffee shop, you would be the buyer in the relationship as it relates to this discussion.

A better analogy might that you surveyed Starbucks to find out how much they spend for their coffee beans. You then build the expectation that you should also be able to buy coffee beans for the same price as Starbucks. Of course, you can't, because you are small and don't buy enough beans to get Starbuck's volume price.

So, applying it to the topic at hand: Maybe Facebook can pay an engineer $150K to keep them happy because of the prestige and perks of working there, but your small company is going to have to pay $200K to get the same talent because, like in the coffee bean example, you are nobody special and do not have access to the benefits of being a "big deal".
Alas, I cannot although I wish I could. I was not interested in working for a big company post-acquisition...hence the name "startup stella." I do hope the guys respond as we always respected the HN community and depended on it greatly. Whatever happened, hopefully the situation can be rectified.
I'm always surprised when I'm reminded that people actually take Objectivism seriously. Especially with Peikoff at the reins.

Then I become unceasingly depressed for a few days.
Regarding the Acme text editor - any users of it here, on HN? I'm really interested to hear some arguments from Acme or Sam userbase - what do you find useful in these editors?

I vaguely remember the reply on Acme's mailing list, that it is a text editor, not a rainbow, when someone asked about syntax highlighting feature :)
Tablets, the true story
Microsoft Solved Why Scammers Say They're From Nigeria
Ah, yes, a bit of a secret those. We're currently doing field tests with our keypad locks.
Here is the slideshare on the project.

http://www.slideshare.net/dgiluz/accellerators-in-us-and-eur...

No mention of the 10 VC's that I can find.
The iPhone 5 concept Apple would love to make
http://crashmyie.com
better
Oh, look how counter-intuitive this reasoning is! It must therefore be deeply insightful.

Except it requires throwing out most normal definitions of "concentration" and "wealth", and requires the belief that government is the "other" rather than government (in a democracy) being some reasonable approximation of public will (I'm not suggesting that government can't, or hasn't frequently within history become a horrible other -- but one has to adopt a rather extreme anti-government position to subsequently see the current U.S. government as the enemy, and equate accountable government power with unaccountable private power).

Which federal employee can spend 0.5% of their wealth and completely change the outcome of an election to the Senate? Or 0.1% of their wealth and get subtle legislation written at a 10x ROI? Or spend 0.05 % of their wealth and fund three professorships at a university whose primary role is to intellectually buttress their own self-serving ideology?
Why do you think people are poor?
While this is far from perfect, it's my attempt at doing geo-location: http://mtransit.herokuapp.com/geo

Ideally it'd plot on a Google Map all germane results.
nickb...as in Nicholas Bourbaki, perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki

Edit: someone else who thought about this (much) earlier:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428
Supposedly Ken uses Sam because he doesn't type very quickly.

Stroustrup and Kernie use it too.
You know. We all know kids that are exceptional. But the exception is not the rule.
With no justification of how you think a military helicopter cockpit is user friendly, I suspect you're just trolling now.
Why are TLD's needed at all? Why can't I just name my host any arbitrary set of characters?
Fair enough. In the previous blog post that I quoted, I was thinking in terms of fine-grained things: "A specific human is responsible for the way issues are cross-linked in GitHub. Another specific human is responsible for the slide-out transition on the Tumblr HTML theme editor." You're right that for something as complex as an acquisition, there's unlikely to be a single GroupOn Effer. To open up corporations is a much more nuanced task than simply identifying a scapegoat as part of crisis management.

It was probably unhelpful to oversimplify about GroupOn Fucker. Sorry. :-(
This thing is abstract, beyond my definition of geeky, quite hilarious by the way!
So sad :(. Rest in peace man.
Well I know that he made Apple Inc back in 80s, but really, what did Woz do since then?

Steve Jobs made iTunes, iPod, iPad, iPhone.
Woz said some things and was on dancing with the stars.
Start here: http://www.vim.org/docs.php
Hadoop on Azure: Hive and Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Android Developers Guide New Layout
That Louis C. K. bit helps me out in such situations. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

"And then when you ran out of money, you'd just go, 'Well, I can't do any more things now.'"
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
I think that a lot of you guys are confusing "Disaster Recovery" with "Business Continuity".

Disaster Recovery is a reactive approach. It's what you do to get things back up AFTER a system or site has failed.

Business Continuity is a proactive approach. It's what you do to ensure that your critical services will remain viable whenever disaster occurs.

In the cases of Heroku, Amazon, Twitter, and many more, their Disaster Recovery strategies have been successful. The fact that they came back online without major data loss is proof of that. Their business continuity strategies, however, have been found wanting.
But we're not in a system that's unfettered from regulations, transparency and oversight.

But we've cross a line. On this side of the line, we are in grave risk of the type of thing that happened in 2008.

I phrased it in a black and white way, but this type of thing is never black and white. It's a continuum and as I said, we're too far to one side right now, for the corporate side of things.
But success for purposes of a median is a low bar. It's half your companies having any valuation at all.
This is incredibly insightful. I think you've probably identified exactly the main reason this bothers people so much.
I consider myself very lucky to work only ten minutes from our house. Its taken some time to get to that stage, and it has proven the whole work/life balance thing for me - finally. If possible I recommend it.

I had always assumed I would introduce computers when they started reading and writing but you are giving me some food for thought - thank you.

Occasionally I wonder if there should be an alternative syllabus - activities at home to complement the stages of a child's development and if such a thing exists - anyone know?

Good luck with the typewriter :-)
I wrote this while sleepy, you shouldn't expect much from the written equivalent of talking at a party with a bunch of geeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_change
True, there are tons of similar TLD's out there already. But this ins't a "few more TLDs". This is ~2,000 new TLD's.

Indeed, 'shoes' was a bad example. But many of these new TLD's have been applied for by entities who plan on sub-letting the TLD to others.
It's discouraging when women look up in the tech world and see mostly men. It's discouraging when blacks look up in the entreprenuer world and see mostly whites. It's discouraging when gentiles look up in the entertainment industry and see mostly jews (All Major Hollywood studios founded by jews or men of jewish descent).

It's discouraging and painful because everyone wants to know that they can succeed. They want to know that "someone like me can make it in this industry". So it's important for people who are minorities in industries to support each other and encourage themselves.

Get mad if you want, my problem with "Women in Tech" is that many times (not all) women don't add to the tech conversation and instead focus on showing themselves as victims. When men speak about tech it's about TECH, when women speak about tech it's about "The Lack of Women in Tech".

So a site like this is a step in the right direction.
> "The key with finding a role model that inspires you"...

I'm still not sure why anyone feels they need a role model. IMHO we should be teaching our kids to be confident about themselves, and trying what they want to try. If they're confident about exploring the world themselves, then role models probably matter far less.

My personal experience was that I found out about computers, saw they could do cool stuff, and wanted to play with them. "Role models" have never been part of the equation for me. Perhaps it's more necessary for Women to have role models, as they're more 'social' and communicate far more than men?

Just anecdotally, isn't the biochem industry pretty even, if not slightly female dominated?