skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a few ideas

1) search on social networks, if they (domain) have an account look at who they are following

2) search to see if it's a dedicated host, what other domains are on the server.. look at that whois and contact info

3) search google or way back time machine for old versions of the site (scroll to bottom to see if contact info)

4)pray the generic email works

5) register a diff tld (.ly .it .me .co etc)
Given how much money IBM still makes off of Rational, clearly somebody's writing UML. I imagine that all that UML's being written at places like banks, defense contractors, three letter agencies...

If there really are people at an internet company like Yahoo doing that, well, wow. I don't see how a company where such a thing even was allowed to develop could have a future in this industry.
I'd imagine doing something like this nowadays would result in litigation. There are stories of older apps doing all kinds of unsavory shenanigans:
(http://www.geocities.ws/johnboy_tutorials/bt.html) (yes, that IS a geocities link)

Some as benign as popping a "gotcha" message like the author here, some as evil as nuking the registry or boot sector. The armchair lawyer in me wonders what would happen if someone who had their drive trashed by gotcha code like this initiated legal action.
I was going to say the same thing. I had a girlfriend from Taiwan studying in Australia who used Yahoo for most of the things she did online (email, search, shopping) and said most of her friends did too. This was in 2007 so things might have changed since then but even in 2007 most westerners thought Yahoo was dead and no one used it.
Why didn't they build on HBase / Cassandra?
Parse is awesome and saves tons of time writing server code. Plus if you use their REST API if in the future you decide to build your own backend it's easy to switch just change your URLs and you're up and running.
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Read this: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/03/for-the-single-founder-who-...

A year ago, I posted similar things on HN about collaborating with technical folks to bring my ideas to fruition and received a variety of responses. Some wanted to learn more and help, others not so much. So far, the ones below are cordial, but you'll get a slew of hackers telling you that you're "not trying hard enough if you don't learn to hack and do it yourself."

That article does the best job, I believe, in summing up what actionable steps you can be taking. You're not going to be a software engineer, and frankly, it's a bad use of the talents you have to try. But, there is an incredible amount of value in learning a little bit about code, being able to prototype - or at least mock-up - something, and most importantly, understanding what makes engineers tick. People are inspired by the idea of building great things - what you need to do is learn how to communicate your vision.

So, that's my advice; I'd recommend the article as a guide to get started. Now (warning) here's my editorial:

We "non-technical" folks have been overwhelmed by the rhetoric about how "if you can't hack, you can't add value." Give me a break. If it were all about coding, the 99% of failed start-ups would have succeeded. I see so many "projects" and "businesses" run by hackers who, typically out of pride, ignore the most basic "non-technical" principles that could have brought them success.

Yet, where WE fail as non-technical folks, is by behaving in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY, failing to appreciate the other half. Hackers are not code monkeys here to do our bidding and "turn our billion dollar idea into an app." The mutual lack of respect is the problem! Embrace that, and you'll find engineering PARTNERS you can create magic with.

Turns out, my ideas were solid too, since in the time since, one of them was launched by Google (where I work - I was uninvolved) and several others have been piling up on TechCrunch recently with funding. Why didn't I do them? I realized I was guilty of that lack of understanding of the other half. Since then, I've learned/am learning functional amounts of Python/JS/HTML/iOS and have developed an exponentially better understanding of how to collaborate with engineers. As a result, I believe I am infinitely more prepared to start a successful business.
Can't agree more... I care about prime numbers and also about visualizations. But this title is misleading. The article is not about patterns in prime numbers, but a way of visually/geometrically representing prime numbers, which is interesting on it's own.
P.S: I don't what was the original title, but the current is definitely misleading.
Yeah, and Romney can't answer the question "When were you the CEO of Bain and when did you know it?"
Deetroit! Very much like the design of your website with the wooden background... glad to hear of your success.
This may have been a joke and people are responding coldly, but that is something we're going to have to see. As biomods become more frequent and start helping more people, there are going to be biases and hatred to those that look different because of them; and I imagine there will be different kinds of austricizing based on early tech (bulkier systems) and later tech (normal looking eye, except for a couple weird parts that look like tattoos, but are circuitry, for example).

But despite all that, I am sure people will be very. very happy to see again; or in the future, perhaps for the first time.

I wonder when babies will be the subject of these implants, so that babies born blind can still learn how to see properly. This is very exciting!
I made this mistake. Post your ideas - people who steal them are destined to f them up.
Out of curiousity, what is leading people to upvote this? It's a guy I've heard of but don't particularly listen to slagging on a whole bunch of other guys I haven't, and praising a few others I haven't. This is an honest question, not a "this doesn't belong on HN" because I assume there is something here I'm missing? I mean, yes, he's a master of the field and this is certainly an interesting link for somewhere, but what's the HN hook here?
Well you caught something that is clearly lying there and down voted me but missed what I was trying to say.
I gave just one example and hoped you will use your brain to find more.
Most of the apps are crap so developers are reaping what they are sowing but at the same time if they try to do some good work like instagram, card.io, draw something, socialcam and there are lot more of them which got sold for multi million or even billion of dollars.
That article was very demotivating and I still say it is full of crap.
lesson for you - What you see sometimes is not reality.

With down votes people are trying to say that they are saving the world but they don't try to get the message that other person is trying to give
Dan, you are the man, and this is awesome. I met you at an event a few months back (not sure if you remember). I wish you the best of luck with this project for sure.

For anyone else reading, Dan is a super nice, smart, and hardworking dude, and you should definitely check out glossi : )
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> They'll spend at least $5 billion on the project.

That's stretched well over a decade. The US's stockpile stewardship program cost billions per year; only a fraction of it goes to the NIF.

> That is enough money to completely remanufacture the entire arsenal several times using existing designs that are good enough.

That's not an option. The US has been sticking to a policy of not building new nuclear warheads. All of our warheads are at least 20 years old.
Worth saying that Evernote does this too, if you want it to.
>Just because something doesn't scale into the macro doesn't mean it can't be true and relevant in the micro.

Call me extremist but, I don't agree with this. There's no deprivation happening. It's a crappy thing to do, no doubt, but I can't see any analogy to the 'lost sale' meme tossed around by the various *AA groups that doesn't break down immediately upon any kind of scrutiny.

On another note, I pretty much winced every time the author said "steal". Can we all agree to stop doing this? It's wrong, we know it's wrong, we chide the AA's for this every time they do it, and it's just the same when anyone else does either, going back to one simple fact: nothing has been stolen.
Need some inspiration, i'm totally queuing up american beauty..
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Was this in acquihire or is Dropbox intending to get into the tablet ad network game (http://www.tapengage.com/about)?
Does Android act as a gateway drug to the iPhone?
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I left a warehouse job mid-shift. Felt great. Went to college right after. Best decision of my life.
When I was in high school in 1999 I worked for a guy that drove around a motor home "fixing computers" which was basically a mobile virus scan and removal operation.

I guess there was the internet then, but it was still very, very limited. A lot of people didn't have it.

I got the first virus on my computer before it was internet connected. Instead it was from a floppy disk from a friend. It took days, and days to figure out how to remove it.
"Consider the sorts of policies someone who wanted to maximise productivity in society would develop if it was found that genetics was a greater influencing factor..."

You have somehow completely missed and then parroted back my entire point. If it turns out that genetics plays a key role in intelligence, and therefore intelligence is hereditary, all sorts of nazi-like policies could be theoretically be falsely argued for using that as evidence. Seeing this obvious conclusion, some in the scientific community have become crusaders, trying to squash any debate or research into this topic, making it taboo.

Being taboo, or having very negative or even awful potential consequences doesn't make something true or untrue. The universe doesn't care that the consequences of some fact are moral or immoral.

I am not saying the truth is one way or the other. I am pointing out the willingness on the part of some scientists to refuse to allow investigation because of the potential consequences of knowledge of the truth.
Thanks for the kind words! I don't recall based on the HN username but wish I had a face to recall - I remember faces much better. If you want to meet up one of these days definitely reach out and we can set something up (dan@glos.si).
What's the bigger picture?
Unfortunately I'm rather disappointed with regard to the Raspberry Foundation living up to its obligations. They had made a deal with Nokia for a "Qt on Pi" device program that would get 400 units into the hands of Qt developers, and these were supposed to be among the first to go out:

http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/11/24/qt-5-with-rasberry-pi-a-...

However, they never managed to get the expected page up where one would redeem the coupon code. Eventually an email-based way was put in place, but to this day, nobody in the programme has received their Pi.

Yes, this is a "didn't get free stuff" whine, but still, they promised and never delivered.
I would be totally ok with a Yahoo reality tv show where the teams sell the world on their progress and vision we get to vote on what gets kept and what gets killed.
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As a huge Miles Davis fan I was very tempted to upvote this but refrained from doing so. My general rule of thumb is to not upvote/comment on anything unless it is absolutely relevant to HN's outlook (I'm obviously making an exception for this comment). Anything it takes to keep HN the way it is.
I really like and admire #2 Spend $$ in finding great talent all the way down to the front-line product managers and engineers. This will often mean paying some hot-shot 23-year old coder 5x more than what she would make at Google or Facebook and beating ridiculous counter offers. Do it. That one great engineer will be worth more than the five engineers you have on the payroll today.

However I do not know if there is a easy way (a "litmus paper") that could say she is 5x better. In all seriousness, I'd like to ask how to make such a determination. I think this advise looks good on paper, but really really hard to implement.
(I'm pretty sure you are directing all of your "you"s mostly to others in the thread so I will ignore the impatient and condescending tone)

You aren't very specific though. I'm not familiar with transnational tort claim and I doubt it as popular to others here in HN either. Is it as solid as you seem to make it? Google has little (easily accessible material) on it. It doesn't sound like something that is illegal by itself; only that they could be sued by those startups if/when they find out (and decide to saddle up for an international case against a huge company... yeah that probably isn't very likely).
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It may be well ranked in Canada (whose population is smaller than California), but it's oscillating between rank 50-100 in Top Grossing Finance apps in the US (which puts it well out of the top 1000 overall grossing apps).

Paid apps are (generally) a sucker's bet if you want to build a sizable business. The vast majority of the top grossing apps in the store are making money on in-app purchases. It turns out consumers are fairly reticent to buy apps based on a few descriptive paragraphs and some screenshots... But they're happy to spend money in apps that they like.
I disagree.
There is never a shortage of need to improve things (unless this is some perfect world company that has 1 tough problem a year that the architect can busy himself with). So by getting the project done in whatever means possible (github or simple solution that works) he can move on and solve more problems in a year. That's real value to the company and translates into $$$.
Also, the more complex a solution is the more it costs the company to maintain.
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I know exactly what you mean. I created a Twitter account a couple years ago but never really followed anyone; the few times I've logged on I've had a chuckle about how apparently Twitter has zero users and then forgotten about it.
I don't think it's absurd, I only think initially that it was wishful thinking, now I see that it was only a poor example to a good idea that he explained later.

Yes intelligence has to do with heritability, there was initially an animal with had cognition (a word I much prefer instead of intelligence) this animal actually had descendants some of which are humans, we initially inherited this intelligence from him but also from other ancestors that developed this cognition latter as well.

You provided that we do not have a physiological model for intelligence, and I believe we will not have one for some decades at least if I'm to be optimist. That's a real large problem, another one is to relate this to genetics and environmental development, these would be a hard problem as far as I was told by some friends that are biologists.
As you wish http://www.flickr.com/photos/82849540@N05/sets/7215763062822...
But today I learned that #$x is not broken.
Hi all, basically it has a lot to do with keeping the open array expanding at the same rate, as the open array expands the numbers that get pulled by the selectNode function are kept at the same spacing let pattern grow at the same rate on all size of the pattern.
Here's the flipside. Some people are never satisfied with the work of others, and it's exactly this dissatisfaction that can drive them to hone their own endeavors. Obviously, Miles Davis doesn't hate music and it's not as simple as saying his expectations are too high. You can tell by the way he reviews these things that when he listens to these records, he hears them as a jumble of good bits, missed opportunities, and garbage.

He's not satisfied hearing missed opportunities, so he is "forced" to compose and perform on his own terms.

> Either you play a whole chord against it, or else . . . but don’t try to play it like you’d play, ah, Walkin’ the Dog. You know what I mean?

> They move up in triads, but there’s all those chords missing – and I never heard any Spanish thing where they had a figure that went

> and you’ve got to have the rhythm section along; you just can’t keep on playing all eighth notes.

Imagine that every time you listen to music, there's something else you want to hear. You have to get better at making music, or else you'll never get to hear that thing you want to hear.

Personal anecdote: I was reading the other day and started to get disappointed, angry even, at the kinds of stories I was reading. I kept feeling that the stories were laden with missed opportunities for exploration, drawn out tension that couldn't carry the weight it was given, and hackneyed philosophy.

I got a bit frightened that I might "have to" become an author. I'm not that good at writing, to be honest. But in order to read the story I want to read, I might have no other choice.

(And of course, I'm glad Miles Davis was a musician and not a critic.)
Refusal to allow investigation? According to these papers, their has been very extensive investigation with a largely null conclusion. However people continue to push the idea that intelligence is genetic.
Maybe they didn't search on Google then, but another forum or site that isn't indexed by Google.
What's your point? Ownership of an arbitrary appliance doesn't mean you're able to put food on the table...

Most impoverished Americans overeat. The average poor American is borderline obese.

http://webarchives.cdlib.org/sw1vh5dg3r/http://ers.usda.gov/...
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"Recently exited a short stint" - That seems like one step above "Stayed in a Holiday Inn last night" but not really enough to do more than give us a superficial insight into the issues.
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I'm not sure the systems "look good", it's more like they "look too complex". That's the sign of a useless architect. Simple and efficient are so under-appreciated.
Agreed, but I'm heartened to see that some subset of HN shares at least one of my life-long interests. I found this highly entertaining.
My point regarding not having a model was to bring the genetics/environment statistics onto the same footing - the black box statistical evidence does not accept that genetics is a factor in measures of intelligence, but does accept that environmental factors such as income and health are.
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If all you want from an investment, or a buisness partner, is a predictable return, then that's fine. However, yahoo is in an industry experiencing explosive growth and doesnt have a lot to show for it (lately).

Yahoo's history is riddled with failures to predict where things are going or failure to react correctly to when they do see. Consider that Instagram has taken off in an area Flickr has been in since before Instagram existed. The list goes on.

People are frustrated when they see a buisness that has the money and background to do great stuff and consistantly fails to deliver. There are many mature tech buisnesses that deliver profits and new product successes (IBM, Google, Intel, etc). Why invest with yahoo?

Put another way: if yahoo wants to coast on their current base, they should stop trying to expand. Otherwise they need to start seeing some ROI.
I thought Myspace already relaunched? Or are they going to do a re-relaunch?
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Someone else touched on this, but I'll reiterate. If you're trying to restore a tech company to its former glory as cutting-edge, do you really want your employees using technology that's outdated compared to what an average middle-class couple buys for their teenage daughter?

More importantly, if you're a cutting-edge developer, do you really want to work at a company that's going to treat you like that?
And the 99 others who did work for you too, did not.

99designs also minimizes communication and interaction. Yes, this makes things easier for you, but designers are basically left to guess in the dark. It's a spray and pray approach that really goes against the word "design".

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what are the differences/advantages/drawbacks between a buildpack and an automated deploy script that installs OS packages?

What happens in an environment where you have multiple applications with different but overlapping dependencies?
Many times, the word architect is just a word pre-pended to senior technology worker titles. I know several people who have that in their title and they are solid technologists with lot's of real-world experience. While the term may be abused often, many architects are great. Bad apples are easy to spot, no matter their title.
I just use Google...
Yes, for many companies it's a critical part of the career path for programmers who don't want to be managers.

So all the good programmers (or programmers that stick around long enough) become architects. The system actively weeds out people with lots of domain knowledge and an ability to solve problems by promoting them into architects.

Theoretically architects should be helping teams write even better code than they did before, but usually the teams ignore what the architects do, so there's a whole "us versus them" thing going on.
There's a meaningful literature about this sort of thing in transport economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_time