skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it just says the plan was scrapped because he was fired. All that means is he was the one in charge of the plan and nobody took it over after he left. That could have been the intent behind his firing, but it seems about as likely to be collateral damage.
> Generalizations and stereotypes are a reality that founders must shape to their advantage.

I think this is ultimately true. Whether the bias is justified or not, the best founders will be aware of it and work to make up for it. The same could be said for bias against women in technology, for example.

That being said, I still believe this bias is wrong, and am concerned that this VC so publicly shared it, because to me, his publicly sharing it indicates that he's not even aware there's anything wrong with it. I do not believe a 50 year-old should have to work any harder than a 24 year-old in proving that they have what it takes to run a social startup.
Except that the article doesn't even imply that was why he was fired -- it merely says that his plans to put more police on buses have been squished since he was fired.

All I can find on the actual reasons he was fired is a nebulous "management style" bit http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=93d27fc9-b760-4cae...

I'm still trying to figure out the details of this guy's life and how the above story can possibly be correct. It seems like he was the chief only of the Vancouver transit police, right? So precisely which crime stats are we looking at, when we look at the recidivism rates?
They're probably talking during the movie though. Frankly I think I'd rather have 'em out stealing cars.
> There is simply no other reason the VC would consider such behavior important.

Unless maybe the VC is in irrational human being who has biases just like everyone else.

Unless they've actually done studies on whether fidgeting is a good indication of company performance, this statement is ludicrous.
Are you talking about the VAIO P series? I had a VGN-P788K; I purchased it for $300 off ebay, but I recently resold it. It worked pretty well with the Linux 3.2 kernel in Ubuntu 12.04. There are definitely annoyances, but if you want the smallest laptop possible it may be worth it. The specs were pretty nice - 1.4 pounds, 8" 1600x768 display, 1.6 GHz Atom processor, 2GB of RAM, 64GB solid state drive, 802.11n wifi, built-in webcam, and integrated bluetooth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_VAIO_P_series
True. I should have qualified what I said. By "some sales people" what I meant to say is salespeople that have to cold call.
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"... is there more information on the exercises themselves? ..."

@arkitaip ~ http://www.arrowsmithschool.org/
In 1999 the Wheel Of Time game with it's Citadel mode was an early example of this. The original design was much more open-ended -- production realities meant that the end result was CTF with a 2 minute period at the start to setup traps in your home base.

See: http://www.worch.com/portfolio/wot/ for a description of the planned vs implemented Citadel mode.
Facebook Plans Exchange to Draw Big Advertisers
Mixing insecure content makes it stupid, but as someone who uses https on my blog, it comes down to why not to use it. For the time being there's no reason, especially when Gandi give free certificates with a domain.

The one quirk is that I'll always have to have something to redirect to unsecured should traffic ever get so high it becomes an issue. Although I certainly don't expect that any time soon.
> the projectionist can’t test to see if the KDM works or that the quality of the film is right before show time

This seems like a simple and critical feature. If the distributor wishes to impose these extreme constraints on the projectionist, then the projectionist needs to know its going to work well in advance. The projectionist shouldn't even need to be in the room when the movie starts.

I've run into this pattern a lot in web development. If you want a feature to go live at 6:00pm, you don't release it at 5:59pm and just hope it works. You program it to go automatically flip at 6:00pm and release the code early. The pre-programmed time can be overridden in the production environment, so you can easily test and know for sure (or as close as possible to sure) whether it will flip at 6:00pm or not.

(I'm not saying my solution is perfect, just better than the naive solution.)
Any interest in sharing the code?
My answers were based on planned future use, as it is still experimental in my projects.

Hopeful some form of VM will return in the future, more for handling bursts than for long term storage.
1. Privacy and secrets are necessary because our society demands it. My identity is crucial for me to be able to borrow money, obtain a bank account, sign papers. I am therefore entitled to privacy to my own date of birth, mother's maiden name and a host of other so called "secrets".

2. Privacy also reduces the chance I will be discriminated against. If you've lived in a country where the law decides whether you are allowed to purchase land based on your religious beliefs, then you'd appreciate that the less people know about you, the less they can prejudge you.

3. Private conversations allow ideas to be discussed and discarded if they turn out to be wrong or worse still turn out to have ethical issues attached. If every thought are treated as a matter of public discourse that can be held against you in the future, then people will be keeping their mouth shut.

4. One only have to look at how "suspected symphatizers" were killed when South Vietnam fell, to understand that privacy allows people to keep their heads low, and should the environment turn nasty, to stay out of trouble.
It is reported to be noticeably slow.

http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/fedora-17-gma500-poulsbo/
Sorry, but this is just a plain lie.

First of all, a disclaimer, cuz everything about Argentinean politics tend to get ugly fast:
I'm not a fan of this government, but I just have to intervene here...
I think there are A LOT of things that could be better (corruption scandals, the whole mining business, poverty in the northern provinces, etc).
But still, I think that it's much much better than the previous ones that had taken us to the worst crisis of our history, while selling half of the country to foreign companies. And of course, the alternatives in the opposition are not better yet (Macri is just like Berlusconi without the sex scandals... unlike his father Franco, lol... and the ones frome the UCR are a joke. Binner may be an option though, but he has to prove it).

Now, Having said that:
YES, the government is not telling the real inflation rate but given that the salaries are raised a 25-30% each year, for most of the population, there's really no difference. - If you have an inflation of 25%, but your salary raises 26%, you can buy the same amount of things, even when the crude numbers are higher -. The main objective of doing this, of course, is to react and counter the vulture funds who bought up a relevant part of the country's external public debt at extremely low prices (20-23%), a minimum portion of their nominal value and later attempted to cash them at nominal prize when the economic crisis devastated the country in 2001.

There has not been a single case of someone sent to jail, for saying that the real inflation rate is 25% per year. Everyone says that in TV and other media (read right-wing newspapers like Perfil, Clarin, La Nacion, or watch almost any news channel, with the exception being Canal 7 -the state owned channel- but, hey... few people watch Canal 7).

Yesterday, there was somebody in a TV program ( in channel 26 ) calling the president literally "crazy" and worse, and nothing happens. Even other woman from the opposition, debating with him, was surprised with the aggressive tone, telling him to respect at least the charge, if not the person. And he can say that in TV, simply because this is not a dictatorship, and there's free of speech.

There's A LOT of exaggeration in the international mass media, because their main sources of information are the local mass media agencies, who happen to be "at war" with the government.

If you still think otherwise, please, quote a case of someone being sent to jail for that.
After the first sprint, I mean, after you have validated your first MMF, it is all maintenance anyway.
I believe the general principle, just not the actual numbers.

Another reason for skepticism: googling "ward clapham recidivism" I found a bunch of pages suggesting the recidivism rate dropped not to 8% but to 5%, an equally unsourced and implausible-sounding number.

Of course recidivism rates depend on what you're measuring, anyway. 70% of burglars are re-arrested for burglary within three years of release, while only 3% of rapists and 1% of murderers get re-arrested for the same crimes.
Zimbardo, who by an almost unimaginable coincidence went to high school with Stanley Milgram

Wow. Like Neil Diamond and Barbara Streisand.
A simple example:

div { var-color: red; }
p { var-color: blue; }
section a { color: var(color); }

It is not possible to generate a non-variable version of the CSS without either knowing the structure of the DOM or generating every permutation of selectors (you can imagine how unwieldy this could get). Even if you manage to do this you're changing the specificity of the rules.
You don't need to worry about such small lengths of values
I saw it on Reddit a few days ago.
"Because I know how to write (almost) everything myself, it seems funny to pay for it"

Shit. If I had your talent I'd make a fortune. This is exactly why good programmers need to team up with biz guys.
Andy Kessler's "Eat People"
Having read the book, I can attest that it is not your garden variety "be bold, network and execute"-kind of a book. Here, Kessler surveys various business categories and provides interesting analysis for why certain businesses succeed while others don't take off as expected.
I suspect it was because he also needed to make a living, in addition to covering expenses for the business. $24,000/year in revenue is tight for any business - even a single employee business.
I totally agree with MD5 strategy, but using it can be a bad idea for range scans if you are want to use them at all in future.
That wouldn't have helped in this case. The Poulsbo chipset launched in 2008, and (unaccelerated) GMA500 support was only merged into Linux in the 3.3 kernel in May 2012.
Some following this thread might find Tarpits interesting if they don't already know about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)

Do you guys know of any other techniques that waste the malicious actor's time making it think everything is a-okay?
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But at what cost? Yes, overall improvement in the software development industry is great, but it's certainly not worth adding to burdens of this particular overworked software engineer. He or she has enough trouble dealing with the situation as it is, without inviting additional conflict with management.
"... Any folks on here know of good resources that might help someone begin to understand what they're looking at here? ..."

with this book I learned about SW/HW interfacing with 6502 ~ "Programming & Interfacing the 6502, with Experiments", Marvin L. Dejong ~ http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Interfacing-6502-Experimen... A review can be found here ~ http://www.atarimagazines.com/computeii/issue2/page21.php

There are plenty more references here ~ http://www.6502.org/books
You don't think there's a place for it in smaller / specialized venues for some time? It makes sense for mainstream Hollywood not to bother with it anymore, but I for one would appreciate to be able to see Bela Tarr on 35mm or Antonioni on 70mm again. I know many of these older prints are passed around too rather than struck per showing.
I took a look at your product. You should concentrate some marketing on forensics (as per one example on your site). You might even want to try some (gasp) direct mail for that giving samples for free to police departments. You can probably produce a better version for them and charge more they have budgets obviously.
I was just in Hong Kong and the Big Mac there is noticeably cheaper than every other meal at McDonald's. I was wondering if it might be to manipulate the index?
1. Essentially, you are correct here, in that being biased against seemingly irrelevant details seems to work just fine for VCs. That being said, a) these biases may be preventing them from making optimal decisions (instead, they're making good enough decisions.) and b), I hold my peers to a certain standard of ethics like not discriminating against people. I suspect that VCs do too.

2. You said we should give credit for the OP giving feedback, and that VCs lie because they don't like getting snarky responses. I am arguing that a) this response is deserving of a response like nirvana's because it reveals that VCs make judgments based on unquestioned biases and irrelevant details, and b) VCs don't give feedback because it would reveal that their processes are biased and based on irrelevant details.

3. Good candidates do not want interviewers who look past all their flaws, and that's not what I was trying to say. Good candidates want relevant feedback. "You're too old to do this job" is not relevant feedback. "You don't understand $x well enough to do this job" is great feedback.

Also, in the real world, there's bias and it sucks, and great candidates/founders will be aware of this, and work to combat it. That doesn't mean I'm going to throw up my hands and give up on trying to eliminate bias.
5 Signposts to the Future of Gaming
The reality, as indicated in a recent Kauffman report is that the majority (actually, a super-majority) of venture capital forms perform poorly to the extent that they are not worth the management fees or continued investment. [1]

This would indicate that VCs, on average, make poor judgement on the quality of their investments. The use of arbitrary indicators and qualitative characteristics as a primary decision factor for who they invest in or not would seem to be contributory to their overall poor performance. Perhaps VCs should learn to resist their early (and probably incorrect) assumptions about entrepreneurs based on age, nervousness, or other factors and instead look to the underlying premise of the business and existing capabilities of the management team. Or at least they should realize that they are not particularly good evaluators of those characteristics, based on their past performance, and factor that in accordingly.

[1] http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/institutional-limited-partn...
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Please - you've got my attention with:"Here we are just a few months in, able to pay ourselves and go full time on it".

Tell us more about it! What are you doing, how did you market it, how did you find customers, please!
Media questions the wife of Dutch midfielder - Rafael winning goal 
Sylvie: 1-0 voor Nederland, Rafael winnende doelpunt - Sylvie van der Vaart is erg populair in Duitsland en zo veel media vragen de vrouw van de Nederlandse middenvelder om haar mening over het spel vanavond.
> I wonder who is eating these Big Macs

Something you may not realize from there.
Surprisingly, in Argentina, Mc Donnalds is not targeted to the lower classes, - a cheap lunch in a fast food. It's targeted to the middle and higher classes (mainly teenagers and young office workers).

I've been in Spain, England, France, and a few other countries, and I noted that their target there was certainly different. My explanation for this (I belive), is that here, teenagers just LOVE Brands (to the point that I think is crass).

Maybe an aftertaste of the nineties and the neoliberal movement.
The OP looks like a legitimate user to me. Thoughtful comments on other stories, and recent submissions from a wide variety of sources, with no publisher clearly favored.

I immediately thought the same as you when I saw an Atlantic link, though.
I really love Olark, it has helped me close quite a few sales since I am always on IM. I've had the best customer interactions through their widget, pumped to try this out.
All ownership is, at base, socially constructed legal artifice.
We'd been running EventVue for 3 years, were exhausted and at the end of our runway when Brad Feld (one of our investors) asked us one question: "Are you still having fun?" When we couldn't honestly answer "yes", his advice was "Then quit! Life's too short." We announced we were shutting down the company the next day and I've never felt more relieved.
More context: http://blog.eventvue.com/post/372936164/post-mortem
Now you've heard of anybody else. I didn't have a horrible, traumatic, life-scarring experience, but I did have a bad one:

* They advertised an item as a SAS/SATA RAID cage; I paid rush overnight shipping, only to discover it was actually SATA-only

* When I tried to return it, I was charged a $90 "restocking" fee for their mistake. Indeed, their invoices state "All refunds require a 15% restocking fee." That's not legal in Massachusetts.

* I was also left responsible for paying my own return shipping (until I complained). Not legal either.

* And the original shipping, for an item that's not as advertised. Probably not legal either.

* When they corrected all this, they gave me the "one time exception" bit - which implies that their policy is to charge me shipping even if they send me the wrong item.

Color me not very impressed - and in fact I've avoided buying from Newegg for over four years now.

https://gist.github.com/2927900
Rare 1930s Audio: W.B. Yeats Reads Four of His Poems
It’s about time: U.S. almost gets serious about broadband buildout
Microsoft Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Yammer Social Network
A lot of the religious arguments over Apple amount to "it just works so I'm willing to pay more" vs "you just ____ and you'll pay less". The author discovers what Apple knows: make it simple, make it work, and make it save customers time and they'll fall over themselves handing you money.
Their Returns Department charges a 15% restocking fee, return shipping unless you ask for a prepaid label, and original shipping unless you raise a fuss. What do you consider bottom notch?
I'm a bit disappointed with D3 so far. Everything about the game just seems setup to squeeze money out of people.

For example, in D2 the skills you chose were a crucial component of how well you did later in the game. You could create a build with relatively crap equipment who could do well later in the game based on their skills. But in D3 skills don't matter and everything is based on equipment - and you can buy equipment for real money and give Blizzard a cut.

Also, it doesn't seem big enough. I got my first character through normal in something like 3 days. And then I'm repeating the same old thing. It was 11 years between the release of D2's expansion and Diablo 3. I know they have other games, but they could have spent a little more time making the world bigger. My guess is they start selling service packs. They know people will buy them, so why not?

I'm enjoying it, and I'll probably play one character up to 60 and try out the others, but I just can't see myself playing it like I did D2.
True enough. But how many hours of life has ie sucked from developers? I mean ms purposefully held back the development of multiple internet standards, they deserve what they get imho, ideals or not.
Do they have a domain lookup form that we can check without registering?
Certificates don't go with "authors", they go with domains. They are only (!) a promise that some grown up at a cert factory decided that the admin of the host you are connecting to was the proper owner of that domain.

Now sure, there might be value in having per-subdomain certs in wordpress (though that would be rather complicated for wordpress to administer). But there's nothing wrong with that wildcard cert -- it provides proof that you've reached a blog hosted at wordpress, and not a MitM ready to lift your account password when you try to leave a comment.
>So far I've found that making it seem to the bad actors that nothing has changed is most effective at keeping them from getting worse.

Reddit does do this, through shadowbans. Apparently, they felt that they weren't effective enough in discouraging antisocial behaviour.
social media is the new SEO, with all the bad and good that entails
Ask PG: Have there ever been any YC startups that used Lisp/Scheme?
Yes, it is backed up by law. Still, same type of issues, just legal breakage.

http://www.soundexchange.com/2011/09/15/soundexchange-aftra-...
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> If you can answer the question of why the Govt wants to use the drones in the first place, you have my answer to why that's a bad thing.

Some obvious places state and local governments will want to use drones:

• Search and rescue. For the cost of one manned aircraft, a whole fleet of drones could be deployed, allowing for a wider search.

• Fire monitoring. A park ranger who spots a remote fire could check it out much faster with a drone than on foot or horseback or ATV.

• Traffic monitoring and crowd safety monitoring during high turnout events. For instance, major sporting events, or the informal large street celebrations that happen when the home team wins a championship.

• Damage assessment after natural disasters or severe weather. A fleet of small drone helicopters could check power lines after a severe wind storm to find places where trees or branches have fallen into lines, for example.

• After a snow storm, a school could send a drone to fly over the school bus routes to determine if they appear safe to send out the school buses, or if school needs to be cancelled.

So how are these bad things?
Above the free tier you can start Olark hidden, and show it only when a "live chat" link is clicked. Shopify (one of our customers) does just this.
Wow. Did anyone else read this and think:

'I wonder why the 27" iMacs are more expensive in Argentina?"

Nope? No one? I guess if you can't spot the sucker....
Ask HN: feedback on Social RSS Reader
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I think their arguments are wrongheaded also. But please note that this design also excludes a lot of independent repairmen. Which seems fine while you are under warranty, but if you have an old computer do you want one company to dictate the price of repairs? Or even whether they will repair it or not?
You can hide the widget by default and then show it with javascript when the user clicks a link/image/etc.
G-WAN - Web Application Server
Very nice! I been waiting for a steady service like this!!
If you turn on showdead, you'll occasionally see frontpaged posts and comments that have been killed by the mods. Visit the new queue, and you'll see an insane amount of spam that is mostly auto-culled.
29 Days with Android
It's funny because if you look at the HN poster's submissions, @mattobrian, his submit history is all Atlantic, Atlantic, Atlantic, Atlantic, etc., until 7 hours ago for the last 2 months when, boom, he posts a link to Slate. Feeling a change in the wind direction?
Sounds interesting..I have come across " Nudgespot - http://www.nudgespot.com " recently. They are focused on "How to nudge window shoppers of your ecommerce site with targeted promotions to increase conversion rate".