skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find interesting is that biotech and semiconductor have barriers high enough that you need to be high quality to even think of attempting. But lower barrier areas like web and software have a lot more people trying but similar numbers as biotech getting funded. This to me means that the hard stuff needs lower barriers because a larger sample size should be correlated with a wider variety of ideas. More stupid ideas sure, but also more of ideas so stupid they just might work.

The numbers funded is strange. Take other for example. Are the ideas in Other really that bad? Why are the numbers funded all within 2 magnitudes of each other regardless of number of people trying? My guess is that active VCs form a bottleneck on ideas and the numbers funded is more strongly coupled to the number of active VCs in the area than the average merit of the ideas. And that the number of VC per area does not vary too much, with areas like software and web having the most participants.
because i don't give a crap about 'maintenance mode". it's like an announcement "we will continue to provide the service blah blah blah .." and the service got shutdown 1 or 2 months later.
I wish there was more documentarians around, following anyone doing something interesting. Not sure how to help make that happen, but there are so many projects that I would love to see how they were developed, even if years later.

For example: I'd love if documentarians followed Elon Musk around..
If these guys wanted their reputations intact, maybe they shouldn't have sexually assaulted an incapacitated minor.
I'd probably start with "their entire business model is spammy" - they're a reskin of Engadget, the blog that pioneered The AOL Way whereby "journalists" and "writers" earn their pennies by taking someone else's story and doing their best to make sure they take all the value and traffic for it.

Their source for this story was most likely an intern they pay to stare at HN, Reddit, etc looking for bandwagons to jump on - that's why they offer no unique news that wasn't lifted from the blog post they summarize except for their mystery person who adds some panache by suggesting it was never official when right or wrong it doesn't really matter but if they're lucky the parties involved will take the bait and write more blog posts The Verge can summarize too.
Device Jams Drivers’ Phone Signals, Alerts Police, Public and Passengers
I don't like the way this is written. You could have gotten your point across without being arrogant. It's like those people that provide lmgtfy links. A simple redirection to Google would have sufficed.
The Last Critic Turns 100
I'd think it's safe to say the accused are guilty. If you're not going to allow the public the opportunity to see that justice is served...

This gets me fuming mad! I say let the girl speak and if the judge insists she serve 180 days and pay a $500 fine, I'll send the money myself and offer her a job when she gets out. Hide the sentence from the public and protect their identities my ass. They were the attackers.
Is it available to download from a torrent?
Basketball is not engineering. Style counts for a lot, including the size of contracts and endorsement deals. Convincing players to purposely shoot ugly free throws that will bounce around a lot, but go in slightly more often, is going to be very difficult.
As I stated before, one of the primary tenets of Wikipedia is that it is "free content that anyone can access, use, modify or distribute."

If you can't modify something that is part of the project, then this is defying the essential raison de être of the project. Fair use allows it, but it's so problematic that many would just like to get rid of it. I'm not one of those people, but it should only be used judiciously.
This fits with the thunderbolt theory of the brain: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265665
HTC sells out 25% of its share back to Beats Audio, to help 'global expansion'
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/unlock-inner-savan...
This is not new. In gym class 20 years ago the teacher put in an old "how to shoot with Rick Barry" VHS. Proper shooting included a moderate number of revolutions and focus on the back iron.

Every basketball camp in the country explains how the bank shot rules described work.

Also knowing appropriate arc, rotations and place to aim are not bottlenecks on free throw shooting percentages. The issue is consistency which is bound by mental factors and shooting form.
Just a few points:

1. The cost is NOT $10, it was $10, a couple of hours of setup, including filtering my backups, working around two bugs and filing them with Sparrow, following up with more details.

2. I was more annoyed with the whole "Woo hoo, we got ours! Oh, and we're killing that product that's become an integral part of your life. But aren't you happy for us!" announcement, than the actual sale. Well that and the last minute sales push. That was just shitty.

3. According to RescueTime, I spend about 6 hours a week using Sparrow. I don't think it makes me a "jealous, confused teenager" to be a little pissed that it just dumped me :-)
You're implying that they're not minors themselves.
That's interesting! So not ALL the apps would have trails! :(
That doesn't make any sense for a webpage. You either state the problem cleanly, or you explicitly discuss the point of clarification interview questions. But just putting up an ambiguous question with no recourse for the reader (other than carefully reading the answer and inferring what the author meant to ask) is sloppy.
I respect your opinion. But that sounds a lot like conjecture. Ellis Hamburger is an employee of Verge with decent credentials. The article we're discussing also looks like an original with their own source.

I'm genuinely interested to see some examples of 'spammy' write-ups from The Verge. My understanding was Josh Topolsky started The Verge for the very reason that Engadget was becoming what you're describing; ie. No original write-ups and short summaries by freelance writers.
bash

Nothing special in my .bashrc, just whatever came with lubuntu. Here are the only interesting tweaks. The prompt is two lines, first line = $? from the previous command, then some normal stuff; second line is whatever you type for a command, allows triple clicking and just get the command with no prompt cruft.

...
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\$?] ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;34m\]\u\[\033[01;32m\]@\h\[\033[00m\] \[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\] \$\n"
else
PS1="\$?] ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h \w \$\n"
fi
unset color_prompt force_color_prompt
...
export PAGER=~/bin/vimpager

My .inputrc, allows any readline enabled prog like pgsql to have command line editing and completion:

set editing-mode vi
set completion-ignore-case on
Control-j: menu-complete
Control-k: menu-complete-backward
set completion-map-case on

In general, don't use set -o vi on the cmd line or in .bashrc, use .inputrc so that everyone who can play does play.
I just click my username on the upper right of any YouTube page, and there's a "switch account" link. Do you not have one, or does it not work well for you somehow?
Fickle? Where did you get that idea? My lack of faith in humanity is as constant as the terribleness of humanity on which it is based. I merely said that these things reinforce it, not that it changed my mind.
In violation of a court order. This shouldn't come as a surprise. Regardless of whether she's right or wrong, this is a decision where the price was clear. It was her choice to pay it.
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Yes, I always keep it facing inward to protect it should I do something like walk into table corner.

It's a bit of an annoyance, but thankfully is pretty temporary. I've gotten close to missing calls before, but haven't actually missed one.
My favorite part:

"Not all companies succeed, some fail to embrace change. This is the way technology in the free market works. The software industries success has not been driven by government regulation but by freedom and the basic human desire to learn, to innovate, and to excel." ~Bill Gates
This is childish, stupid and hurts nobody but the pizza stores.
I bought TextMate (multiple licenses). Still using it with no issues on all my Macs. If and when TextMate 2 is released, I will happily pay for an upgrade. If and ever, TextMate stops being an effective tool, I will look into purchasing another program (or use emacs).
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As an advertiser, why would I pay potential consumers to read my ads? I would rather spend that money on an agency that is going to make people want to read my ads.
While the rest of us tighten our belts...
Which HTML5? WHATWG and W3C Split
I smiled when you said "SurveyMonkey." There article is about SurveyGizmo. I used to work for SurveyGizmo and this (very common) confusion was just a cost of doing business.

I think it's important to distinguish between consumer and business apps. SurveyGizmo targets businesses.
This is terrible, simplistic advice. The supposed "get rich" acquisition industries both involve so much fundraising that by acquisition time, the founder is likely to be buried under such a large liquidation preference that he won't see a cent.

Total funding should never be an indicator "getting rich" -- it either correlates with failure or a capital intensive project, neither of which have anything to do with improving the founder's net worth.
As my physics prof used to say with a smirk to all such "clever" retorts to questions he posed: "assume a spherical chicken of uniform density".
The solution to this is insisting on guaranteed support periods/contracts for software you use - if this comes free, great! If you have to pay for it, so be it.

Paying more for something just so you can nurse a philosophy you like is textbook irrational. If you are paying more for something vague, pin down what you want and pay for that precisely. Here we have a fear of software we love disappearing - pay, explicitly, for it not to disappear.
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Square Calls PayPal to the Mat; Says the Company has Stagnated
coffee mug bug: a bug you could have found by talking to your coffee mug rather than enlisting someone else's help.
Yes, I think this is the essence of the problem with software patents in particular. The technological landscape is changing so fast that new opportunities -- new problems -- emerge daily. An awful lot of software patents concern solutions to these new problems, but where the solution itself is easily arrived at given the problem.

To me, the key problems with the notion of obviousness written into current patent law are that (a) it is mostly subjective and (b) the burden of proof is on the PTO, if the examiner feels the claimed invention is obvious.

I think the burden should be on the applicant to provide objective evidence that the solution is not obvious. While I suppose this could take various forms, it is hard to see how any such evidence could exist when the problem addressed by the claimed invention is itself novel. If the problem is not yet widely recognized as a problem, there has been little opportunity for anyone else to try to solve it and fail. To show nonobviousness under my proposal, the applicant would have to show that the problem has been known or at the very least that it has been a problem, even if not identified as such.
Why everyone needs to stop talking about Marissa Mayer’s pregnancy
newString is initialized inside the loop, so it will get destroyed when you exit the loop.
I checked out the site. Nice! The paid tiers are named "Entry" and "Operational", whereas the free trial tiers are "Entry" and "Enterprise". Shouldn't the names of the free tiers be consistent with those for the paid tiers?
Other than the part where we don't typically release the names of minors, what's your point?
Of course it's conjecture - there's no way to prove they didn't spot a trending topic and start firing up the content factory to capitalize on it by already churning out five articles on Google acquiring Sparrow.

Here's a cute example of how high quality they are - they copied a paragraph from the email sent out to Sparrow users and describe it as:

> We've just heard from Sparrow, and Dom Leca notably mentioned that the current Sparrow apps will receive no new features

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/20/3172222/google-buys-sparro...
In which case I have one thing to say: I wish most of the people clamoring about this particular issue were as reasonable as you.
Wealth doesn't trickle down, it just floods offshore
This is my biggest problem with the legal system; it is centralized around the mechanics of the society, not the mechanics of being human.
I think that Steve Nash, Jeremy Lin, and about three-quarters of the starting fours and fives in the league would disagree with your style claim pretty strenuously. Winning games counts for way more than style does. Not that Lin has done a ton of that yet, but he's the most herky-jerky player I can remember in a decent while and he's going up for an insane contract.

Nash in particular is known for the most utilitarian shooting moves in recent memory. I don't recall him hurting for money when new contracts rolled around. And one Shaquille O'Neal was legendary for both terrible free throw shooting and looking like a moron when trying--I seem to recall he did okay, too...
Ola, Andrew. I think your assumption that weird HR policies imply the company is bad is unfortunately incorrect. I say "unfortunately" because I wish it were true, since I wish could follow your advice and simply avoid companies with doubtful HR practices from the start.

I recently contacted 3 friends/acquaintances that work in 3 companies I'd like to apply at. These are engineer-driven companies that are thriving and have a good reputation as good places to work at. I still had to go thru HR in all of them.

In one case (a certain search/advertising company) the in-house recruiter cut my process short after a phone interview without asking me a single technical question. So I couldn't talk to the hiring manager (it's the job of the recruiter to filter down the number of people the hiring manager has to talk to) or even a technical peer for that matter.

Essentially they're randomly throwing a large % of the resumes in the trashcan, but they can get away with it because they receive a very large number of resumes to start with.
Why is there always a comment from the legal fatalism gallery in every HN thread like this? Can we not strive for victim's rights or for more human policy-making?

Beyond that, it's annoying, obvious, and contributes nothing.
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You feel "ripped off"...over $10? As in three cups of coffee?
The Magic Cauldron: Analyzing the evolving economics of open-source (ESR)
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On the business of e-mail clients / Sparrow
Cert looks valid on my phone. Or am I missing something?
I found it confusing that he is portrayed as a "generous supporter of the innovation, invention and startup ecosystems" in Australia and has been invited to speak at startup conference in sydney.
http://sydstart.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/ric-richardson-inve...
He should instanciate newString outside of the loop, I guess.
Wonder whether it's possible for them to crowdsource this via web instead of the phone lines, which would make it easier for more people to participate.
Did not know that, +1 for google
I know where you're coming from, but I'd like to present a counterpoint based on a potential misunderstanding.

On the one hand, repetition expressed as writing the same code over and over again smells of poor engineering. Abstraction, code reuse, refactoring - all and productive means to avoid repetition.

I don't think that's what's the parent meant though. There IS a lot of secondary repetition in our field in terms of sitting at same desks every day, working long term on the same project, fixing similar types of. Ifs, responding to emails erc. Basically, the auxiliary facets that are required to be a good coder but don't directly involve coding are pretty repetitious.

Don't get me wrong - there are alternatives for some of these, working from home, better productivity tools, better management etc. but my experience in this career after 5 years leads me to believe there is a somewhat intrinsic aspect of repetition. To me, it's lot as assume, because as
You were pointing out that good code doesn't involve repetition and I agree and am ok with it because of that.
Dunno, I thought it was pretty hilarious. :) I mean, this idea has come up ten thousand times in the past twenty years... A LOT of people have thought a LOT about e-mail before.
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Are there any other good documentaries about the dot-com bubble era that people here would recommend? I've only seen Startup.com:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

As a younger person who lives thousands of miles away from Silicon Valley, I'd love to see more video from that time. I read tons about it, but reading and seeing are different things. AS the end of Code Rush, the investment banker who talks about how in a couple years physical banks might not be around and how the GAP shouldn't be renovating its store but rather invest more money in its website said so much about the kind of mania that took place at the time. I'd love to see more.
If it's violating her first amendment rights, then the court order is in violation of the first amendment!
It makes sense in a research context, where there is going to be a lot of repetition with small differences before you hit on a real improvement to current methods.
A Conversation with Mark Shuttleworth and Tim O'Reilly
As a user of the software, I don't much care about the successes of the developers if they come at the cost of the tools I've invested time into switching to.

Sure, this may be a great deal for the developers, and that's fine and good. But that doesn't change the fact that it still harms everyone they convinced to switch to their product. They could have done like Sofa and transferred ownership of the existing products to another developer, or open sourced it to allow others to pick up where they left off. If they had done that, I would've still had a bit of respect for them. Killing development entirely on a product used and loved by many is stupid and, while within their moral rights, a bit of a dick move.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557074

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I'm partial to eating blueberries and playing clarinet and piano,

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Founder Jimmy Wales denies admin crisis at Wikipedia
http://www.twitter.com/dwolla/status/226882115516653568

"@dwolla: Working with our partners at @verisign and @symantec to look into a certificate issue some of our users are reporting. Still secure."
Are there no basketball players here? I was always taught to aim for the back of the rim and to make sure my arc reached the top of the backboard and to have backspin, and a million other tips (set your feet, square your shoulders, 90 degree elbow bend, stick out your ass, bend your knees, etc) that's far more useful than this article.
I was just about to mention Rick Barry. He's outspoken for his insistence that his signature underhand free throw technique is more accurate. It very well may be, but NBA players are too macho to try a "granny shot", so no one has really tried it.
Possibly just use something like Twillo or Skype to make this global, simple and cheap/free?
If this is just for famous people...

The problem is, there's no relation between value of the message to famous person, and price someone else is willing to pay to send it.

Just because someone's willing to pay $100 for someone important to read their message, doesn't mean their message is any more valuable to that person than someone not willing to pay money, or willing to pay only $5. Someone important isn't going to care about the money.
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It still shows all green in Chrome (Mac) but when you click to view more details you see that it has been revoked. Here's a screenshot

http://cl.ly/image/0f2p193g1r1Z
1.) newString gets re-created every iteration of the loop, so it always contains a single character, and at the end of the loop it contains the first character of the string. 2.) Strings are immutable (in Java), so "newString = newString + x" creates a new object on every iteration. Better to use a StringBuffer and swap the ith and N - i - 1th characters of the string.
Sorry, I'm a much less famous Russell (Salsbury that is). The only connection between us is that I did play Spacewar on a PDP-1.
I'm not sure the author is a basketball player:

"Aiming for the center of the basket increases the chance of hitting the front of the rim and having the shot drop straight down."

Has anyone ever seen a free throw drop straight down after hitting the front rim? Seems like the only way to make that happen would be to throw the basketball baseball style on a line, and nail the bottom of the front rim. Even Shaq had better mechanics than that.
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I've just recently started freelancing for the first time in my long career and so far it seems to have many more upsides than downsides. I'd maybe be more hesitant to do this if I had a family to look after but since it's just me the uncertainty is more than offset by the flexibility and freedom.
I don't believe that's necessarily the case. Free-throw shooting is a chance to develop your shot rhythm because the mechanics and form are similar to your shot during the game. There's a benefit to shooting free throws the same way you shoot jumpers. If you use the underhand technique you relinquish that advantage. not to mention you must learn a new way of shooting entirely.
You will only know it is taken seriously, when someone goes to jail. No jail for anyone, means, whatever else is going on is irrelevant.
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I'm annoyed that no one is reprinting the names. If she's going to do the time she at least deserves that satisfaction, and the gag order doesn't apply to anyone not a party to the case.
So, if you want to cover up something bad you've done, just make sure you get charged with a crime, and the court will protect you? Strange system.
The Secret Online Weapons Store That'll Sell Anyone Anything
My jaw kept dropping lower and lower as I read this.

I know Tor encryption is good and all, but surely there must be SOME way of taking this site down?
How is it that a victim, who had no involvement in the agreement reached, be bound by said agreement? This seems a significant failing of the justice system.
Shawn Marion has a wonderfully cringe-worthy jumper technique too.
My jaw kept dropping lower and lower as I read this.

I know Tor encryption is good and all, but surely there must be SOME way of taking this site down?