skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that was a given for me.

I would pay that for a tablet that did more than surf the web and play video and games. So, yes, if it was only going to match the capabilities of an iPad but have a different (Metro) interface, then yes, it would have to be priced on par with the iPad. But if it does more and integrates with the enterprise, I think 1,000 is not uncompetitive, given the possible advantages.
The site says a paperback edition is coming... is there a way we can sign up to be notified when it's available?
Thanks for the tip. One thing we plan on doing with the round is getting all our legal in order, this is obviously something I'm not trying to abuse.
"But even then, our lack of traction is what set the scene for that dumb decision."

But that's exactly what may be the problem with VCs. Sometimes you'd have to go through a dozen of ideas before you find one works. If you're frugal enough and can keep the company afloat for a few years, you're likely to succeed in the end.

But VCs may push the company to burn all cash in the next 4 months pursuing the idea #2. And if it doesn't work - you're down and out.

Very few businesses have the very first idea paying off handsomely. This may make VC's capital a very high-risk proposition: you either hit the jackpot with your first idea or you end up with nothing.
Apple Enables 'Power Nap' for Retina MacBook Pro With SMC Update
The problem is that once the child is in the hands of the state, whatever happens to the child is the responsibility of the state. If the child suffers any problem which normally occurs, the state is now magically responsible.

For example, if the child was adopted by an abusive alcoholic then this is a case of the terrible neglect and perfidy of the state... even though gobs of people are naturally born to abusive alcoholics and taking them away would usually be regarded as an instance of the terrible neglect and perfidy of the evil, bureaucratic state.

The state must have a perfect track record in order to be merely tolerated. Otherwise, it will be overthrown. So by our own stupid irrationality, we ensure that the state is irrationally defensive. If the state could solve a problem 90%, but 10% are still left over, that 10% becomes the awful perfidy of the state, so we create an environment where the other 90% are completely ignored because at least it's "nobody's fault."
> (And ideally, stop allowing users to put documents on their desktop -- it just confuses things and nobody has ever come up with an intuitive way to integrate that with the concept of user folders (my desktop is inside my user folder, what?). Documents on a desktop is an outgrown metaphor that just nobody seems to have the courage to jettison.)

Why not make the desktop the home folder, so my files are quick to access? Maybe one could even create a second Desktop for shortcuts and user actions.
It's better, but the problem now is that there is a massive gap on one side, and text floating around on the other. Try to put the sign up text above the email address form and decrease the vertical gap.
I don't know. At this point, I kind of expect an orc with a wand of death on level 1.

DYWYPI?
Here's a link to his linkblog.

http://static.scripting.com/myReallySimple/linkblog.html

It's great, except it's completely unusable due to it being a huge download of a page full of disparate links with no organization other than by date.

The trick is not in writing something like this, it's in making the information aggregated and easily organized.
True. We're not dying for the large cash, we just need a bit more to get to market. Thanks!
I believe the claimed damages generally do come from lost licensing fees.
A Working Assault Rifle Made With a 3-D Printer
> some shitty social startup instead.

Relevant: http://www.quora.com/Peter-Thiel/What-were-the-results-of-th... More seem to be in the solar energy space than the social space, I remind myself frequently that quite a lot of startups don't rely on a software product. Of course, without judging worth to humanity, there's a direct opportunity cost to consider. Spend 4 years at a school with a big chunk of your time spent directly on school (depends on school and degree), add on any student loans, vs. spending 4 years making a business or four in whatever has the highest payoff expected value, optional VC/grant funding. (Is that still social apps? Enterprise software continues to be a mainstay if your eyes are open...) Once you have years of job experience (and especially business-building experience), having a degree matters even less than a priori except at BigCos (unless you get acquired by one), and if you actually went with a startup path you probably don't want to work at BigCo anyway.

> requires computer access, which itself is a socioeconomic divider

The limiting factors here, even amongst the poorest of the poor (at least in the US), is almost always time* and desire* * , not computer access or the dollar-cost of it.

* Who can learn while working 16-hour days? As Remy de Gourmont put it, "Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time."

* * If you work 8 or less hours and sleep 8 or less hours, why spend your remaining 8 or more hours bettering yourself and learning when you can just play games, browse tumblr/stumble upon/facebook/reddit/hacker news for all that time? Also who wants to learn that icky math stuff?
Law firms investigating Zynga for insider stock sell-off
Thanks for the insight and thinking about future rounds.
I'm in Chicago and I see this trend here as well.

What's worse is that VCs and Angels in Chicago are perhaps, to an extent, more clueless about building technology businesses. Sure, money here is not as plentiful but I still see frivolous 'apps' being touted as businesses and getting accepted into incubators.

Perhaps it is the whole VC model that is to blame. By definition, VCs require companies to 'exit' through either acquisitions or IPOs. Their incentives are not aligned with building strong businesses that can thrive for years on end, but rather businesses that might 'seem' attractive in the next 3-5 years so as to attract potential acquirers. Only if a business shows unprecedented levels of growth do they let it do it's thing and thrive (Facebook, Google etc.).

Since 'social', 'mobile' and 'big data' are the buzz words these days, VCs are pouring money into these ridiculous and frivolous ideas in hopes of an acquisition. It's only fun while it lasts and I see a world of hurt coming their way.
And a quote from Peter De Vries - "I love being a writer, but I hate the paperwork."
Will miss Fogus talking and writing about Clojure and the Clojure philosophy.
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Lectures aren't great, which is why he wants kids to do that at home on their own time (and at their own pace), and use the school day to work on problems and get more individualized help.
We are working on it right now, but we have quoted some explanation video studios, and the minimium price that we found is U$3000 that is quite expensive for us, since we are a bootstraping company.
CS general knowledge tests of people going through the same program are not at all a good proxy for a GMA test - there is a lot of variance in how people actually go through the same program, even with the same grades. You can't abstract that down to a test and assume the difference is the result in a difference in intelligence.
The Skill of Managing Adults in a Child's World
No. No company "has" to go public
Steam-powered 3D printer anyone?
I'm surprised. Not everyone here is blindly worshiping the big startup god. I see so many posts here about new websites that do mildly useful things, but where's the revenue stream?

I'm the maker of an art community (ArtGrounds) and a multi-user painting program (Sketcher), and I know how hard it is to make money on ads. Even when I had thousands of daily visitors (the site is seeing a slow decline), I was still making pocket change. And even then, it was nigh impossible to get people interested in renting their own private Sketcher rooms.

Part of it is probably that I don't understand marketing, but the thing is that, in most cases, you must have a very compelling product that's available nowhere else (at least at that quality level) in order to sell it. And there must be demand.

Contrary to popular belief, you can't really create demand artificially. All you can do is tap into people's itches, and scratch them. "I wish I could stay in touch with all my friends" becomes Facebook. "It's so impractical to have to tell everyone where I'm going in case they need to call me" becomes the cellphone.

There's more to it than that of course, but looking at all these trendy startups, it seems that they don't even care about the basics much of the time. The products just seem awfully superficial and simple.
1) Are you from Australia?

I'm not, so those numbers looked high to me, until I remembered that Aussie dollars are worth about half of American dollars.

2) People, in general, don't spend their money wisely.

3) Unlike a college grad, tradesmen work during their training, so they are productive for the company from day one. It is a win-win situation that should be a model for jobs everywhere, not just technician jobs.
Australian cops tout arrest of man for Bitcoin drug deal
This is what all money managers do, and it isn't that every position ratchets up that month, or does so as much as you would like. Depending on the size of your portfolio you might have hundreds or thousands of different positions which are each their own little bet that this stock at this time is going to make this move. When you combine all of those various moves over time you can plot your rate of return on a global scale. Money markets or other mutual funds to the same thing only its not as visible, it rounds out to a number that appears once a month on your balance statement.
As a start, read and understand http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Linux-Kernel-Third-Editi... (that's a very technical and in-depth book) and http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-3rd-Edition/d... (that's a more gentle overview book) then dive in with http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Filesystems-Evolution-Design-Impl... and write a very simple file system.

Learn C as necessary.

The FreeBSD kernel book is worth a look too: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operatin...
I think there was some really awesome benefits of nodejs that are worth mentioning. I recently finished migrating our old .NET API to NodeJS and found:

1) persistant connections, we deal with massive concurrency and remote connections to just about anything external (even on same network) could be saturated and overwhelmed so quickly

2) pseudo-caching data in the background, things like game configuration etc we just keep loading over and over on an interval so wherever possible we just have whole mongo collections and db tables sitting there in ram always fairly fresh

3) mirroring our application-wide redis cache locally on each server in the background so whenever we do get a cache hit it's insanely fast

These are probably the coolest things I found moving our analytics api to nodejs.
Regarding numbers, I believe he's talking about maximum potential revenue as determined by the market size.

VCs won't invest in companies they think can only grow so big because it's not enough returns for them. In that sense, he's correct - VCs won't blink at a business that has a theoretical maximum revenue in 8 figures.
Please define "argument expansion".
I'm not withholding anything from anybody.

If I have any objection here, it's to the notion of "socially correct." What is the epistemology of social correctness?

From the response it seems there is none, there are just people who are applying force. I don't agree with that.
Apparently, im in the wrong business!

How about a graphic like this instead: http://goo.gl/Zu7Hq ?

I'd make a bet you could make one yourself in a few short hours.
Good tip.
I checked it but "close friends" is empty.

But you may be right.
Even though i don't interact on Facebook; i only check what videos/pics/news they shared and click the ones that i am interested in. (not even 'like' them)

But as you said, Facebook is probably tracking my 'clicked news/pics' and show those friends' activities.

I will monitor it for some time.

Thank you all for the tips.
Have a great weekend.
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You didn't read the criticism, did you?

I didn't say anything about how I view Khan Academy content.

I don't use Khan Academy, because I have no use for it. That doesn't, however, preclude me from assessing critique made by others about it.
Opera seems to have it too, but I don't use it much. It also has had "labels" (as opposed to folders) and message indexing for quite some time, I believe this was one of its main selling points.
Not mentioned but I think the randomness is also not equally weighted, 5 star songs will show up way more then lower rated songs. A few years back someone gathered a large dataset of shuffles and plays with songs clipped to a second or less.
Calculator that thinks only if you do too
>When I went to high school in Pennsylvania the 90s people were still encouraged to into the trades.

I graduated in 2002, at the time any Georgia high school graduate with a B average got full tuition and fees paid for with the HOPE scholarship (still exists, but it only pays about 80% now).

Possibly as a result, almost everyone who wasn't a terrible student was encouraged to go to college.

The only people pushed into the trade direction were people with less than a B average, and with grade inflation you really had to be pretty lazy not to get by with a B.
>I trust a few million people who enjoy watching sports as to what the proper allocation of that money is than I trust you.

What value do they deliver that requires them to add several more zeros to their income? Do you really trust people that waste their time paying hand over fist, listening to the next person sing when there are real problems in the world worth solving?

Actors aren't rare. Singers aren't rare. I can do tradesmen work with less training that's needed to start someone from square one like this article suggests. If companies are in real need of tradesmen, why not just convert engineers over?

> The pay structure is aligned with value delivered and the rarity of the skills in question.
Your opinion that education is what should get compensated is deeply uninteresting.

I never said people should be compensated based solely on education. Nice strawman. But the fact that you find the value of education "deeply uninteresting" just tells me that you're lazy and really shouldn't even be making claims about tradesmen who require at least some form of education. Its just there education is extremely compartmentalized. Their job isn't meant for design, innovation, and flexibility.

> Baseless assertion.

A plumber making $90k/yr may not have the exact same IQ you have, but he's likely smart enough to buy a house, save for retirement, etc...and a lot less likely to gamble his entire future on one "hot" startup.

I've known a lot more tradesmen with second and third houses (for the rental income) than I've know engineers.

Notice I said probably, as in I'm not really sure, but since you trust a few million people that spend tons of money on sports than myself, it makes your position debatable. So it leads to the question, does a plumber need to make $90k/yr to buy a house, save for retirement, etc? And by the way, just because you know more tradesmen with retirement homes than engineers, doesn't make it true unless you perform a study with appropriate sample size and statistical rigor to suggest a correlation. Something usually done by college grads.

> Have you met many tradesmen?
Any?

Yes I have. In fact I came from Flint, MI. You know that city that use to have a bunch of trades and union workers making cars? You know that city is pretty much dead and infested with crime. You know why? Because such workers walked out of high school, demanded high wages for menial work, and coupled with GM's miss management, caused the plants there to be wiped off the map. And, unfortunately, because the people who worked at those plants decided to forgo the "deeply uninteresting" education and just walk into the plant to get a job, they've screwed themselves.
I like the idea behind this blog post, but the spelling and grammatical errors made it a confusing read. :\
Since when did people going to college not "work"? Have you even been to college?
Your argument is absurd because you are making a lot of incorrect assumptions.

I don't spend all my time looking up stuff on google, I've learned the examples you've given and I don't write crappy code.

In my experience, I write better code than most CS majors I've worked with. It may be that in very few and far between instances, a CS major will have some knowledge that would have helped me, but it is definitely not a daily, weekly or even monthly occurrence.
Probably not very long with unpyclib.
It's pretty disappointing to see this at the top of HN. Some of the comments here do have some merit but I feel there's a disproportionate amount of hating and anger. There was a comment made by pg a couple days ago that I think definitely belongs here so I'm going to paste it:

I think they're not so much dense as bitter. There's a subset of HN readers who regard startups as a whole as a sort of con game, and are angry that the participants get so much attention. There may not be that many of them, but their anger makes them disproportionately active as commenters and voters.[1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4293786
On an unrelated point, this is one of the reasons why it bothers me when someone suggests that everyone should learn how to code.

Not that there is inherently anything wrong about learning to think like a programmer and problem-solve; the problem is that people equate learning to code to learning use the RoR/Django or some iOS framework. This is a direct result of all the dumb money being poured into stupid ideas - it leads everyone to believe that their time is best spent learning the tools to give shape to their photo-sharing app.
Thank you a lot for your feedback, if possible have a look again we have changed it! thanks!
Indeed, fair point. But I think PHP's omnipresence is no longer the great advantage it once was. Its so easy to learn Ruby and deploy to heroku.
You can have the greatest product in the world, if you don't make money from it the company is worth zilch! stepping out of SV shows these companies what the real world is. You can take that to the bank.
Plenty of companies that cannot themselves beat 8 figure revenue numbers are worth many multiples of 8 figures to acquiring companies with better sales channels or strategic gaps.

I agree that the mere promise of eventual $10MM/yr revenues is probably not an appealing pitch. But the reality of $10MM/yr revenue is wildly different. If you're bringing in $10MM/yr, you can probably do whatever you want.
> In Grep grep -R 'some term' * , in Ack ack 'some term'. The -R tells grep to search through all directories and subdirectories while the * tells it what types of files.

No, that's not how it works with grep. The shell is expanding the glob * to all the things in the current directory that don't start with a dot and that's what grep sees. It then reads each of them in turn or if they're a directory it descends into them recursively; the * plays no further part in the descent.
That is to say, the kind that build bridges or airplanes or automobiles or dams.
Is this actually an impossible concept?
Thanks Ryan, we will work on this, it is a good way to explain our business better!
Hm! I find that I have to fight to find time to program.

Something like 80% of my time is spent explaining existing systems, reading bug reports, going to meetings, talking through API designs and database modeling, answering email, etc.

I would love to take a day where I did nothing but program.
I really wanted to like nreduce, but the whole experience just came off as buggy for me. They said we'd get info about the meet ups but it never came which resulted in me blowing off a few appointments on tuesday nights twice to be there ready for the details, only to twiddle my thumbs. Sent tweet to prompt even but no reply at all. Finally the system for choosing other startups to group with arrived and I'm thinking there we go now we're in business, except clicked the invite button did nothing at all.

A bit later my account went into some strange mode that I can only guess is being locked out. I figured they were moving back into physical space and left them to it, which is why I was surprised to read about the online focus in the article.

Maybe after it's had some time to iron out the bugs I'll give it another shot, but the lack of communication overall was pretty frustrating
Almost identical to the financialization that's been going on with Wall Street.
What would be the Linux equivalent of FizzBuzz?
Yes companies are "forced to go public" if you are private and have over 500 shareholders than you have to register its stock. you can trade otc markets but no legit company with bn+ valuation is going to do that. it was inevitable outcome.
> Let's agree to disagree on that then.

Absolutely. We obviously have very different backgrounds, and I certainly don't want to seem like I'm telling anyone the right way to have fun :) If you'll indulge me for just one more point on keyboards, though:

> http://shoryuken.com/2012/07/03/rts-x-fighters-check-out-the...

Is this controller as effective as a good mechanical keyboard and mouse? Hell no, but that wasn’t the point!

That's an art project, not a gaming peripheral. A few companies do make more game-focused devices (https://www.google.com/search?q=gaming+keypad&tbm=isch), but they haven't seen wide adoption, partially because they look a bit silly, but mainly because one grid of programmable keyswitches is much like another. They just haven't conferred the kind of reliable advantage that a good mouse, or even a 120hz monitor do.
This is a very helpful guide.

I'd like to add a where not to begin: putting a big Woah, Nerds Only! warning at the top of your API docs (I'm looking at you, Mailchimp[0]).

[0]http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/
Sounds like you work for a BigCorp
The interesting thing about this is that 80% of the restaurants are food trucks. This is perfect for trucks where you inevitably wait on line to order, then stand around in the cold for your order to be ready. Couple with that fact that this can act for a discovery service for trucks, which tend to move and as of now rely on twitter to broadcast their location. But you have to know the food truck exists before you can even follow them. This is a food truck guide and order service in one.
Same here. Hard to take an author seriously with such a boneheaded illiteracy in the title.
Other tablets may not behave the same way.
Anything north of an iPad is suicide. If you had the choice of picking up a proven, popular tablet versus a more expensive, unproven, brand-new, version 1.0 tablet, which one would it be? ARM-based tablets are already unable to run current Windows software - there is no software-base advantage there as we had with Windows versus its competition over time.

If it goes beyond iPad plus Nexus 7, it's certain, HP WebOS-style, doom. Not even funny.
Submitted a number of times, but the discussion is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3851691

Here are a few more:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=qama
100% agreed, the motivation and feedback are fantastic, and free!
I already fixed that but ld couldn't link -lcrypto, I believe it is about libssl which should be present by default.

What's size of your produced .app package? The one I purchased is around ~48mb.
I don't suppose we could persuade you to link one or two of those programatically generated LPs, could we? I'd be really interested to see how you're doing what you're doing.
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