skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a successful startup. The previous startup I worked at was much the same.
With some notable mitigations, particularly in the case of Norway, as noted in the Wikipedia article.
And if everyone uses it, there will be lines. Of hungry people.
Then un-tick it.

Or rate it poorly and factor ratings into your smart playlist.
My point is that apprentice technicians and tradesmen offset the cost of their training by working for the company that trains them. Maybe not entirely, but if not, they make it up by being more productive after training than someone who was trained elsewhere. Ultimately, these companies wouldn't invest in training if there wasn't a return on that investment.
"This is a single claim; you'd have to be doing all of these things to infringe that patent."

The NPE's are really just a more updated version of what personal injury lawyers have been doing for years. There is a leg to stand on, and it results in a shake down (in many but not all cases of course I'm not claiming there isn't infringement). So there are valid claims and there are bogus claims. Trying to divine between the two is going to be like filtering spam. Redesigning the system from the ground up is as likely as the same type thing happening with email and how that's currently handled.

Perhaps the next thing, while not as profitable, will be shakedowns with respect to trademarks. I actually had that happen maybe 5 years ago when a large bank (UBS) objected to a trademark filing and extorted a minor concession in order to let us have a trademark on a non-bank related business. Cost a few thousand in legal fees and delayed the trademark from being issued.
You can't buy panels from "Apple's supply" any more than you can buy bread from the shipment slotted to go to you local Walmart. Apple, Dell, HP and other large companies sign contracts for sizable deliveries of these components. In some cases the panels are made exclusively for a specific manufacturer (and corresponding product). And, in these cases, it is very common to have a contractual restriction on the availability of the panel in question for general use. In other words, I could not buy a single panel for a year (or more). Once the panels are release for sale to non-contract parties (generally industrial users or other OEMs) the manufacturer will make it available to distribution, book orders and schedule manufacturing accordingly. Lead times run anywhere from 12 to 20+ weeks depending on the panel and other factors. Some B-grade (and below) panels are immediately available (manufacturers love to unload these rather than take the loss). A-grade panels go through the standard manufacturing process and, well, you get yours when they are ready. They don't cut into Apple's supply to sell some to Joe-Blow-Monitor manufacturer.

It sounds like people are somewhat confused and concluding that because the panel had the same part number as the one used by Apple they "came directly from Apple's supply". The only way that can happen is if Apple discontinues the product in question and there's an overstock of panels that the manufacturer needs to unload or; Apple rejects a pile of panels and, again, the manufacturer is very happy to unload them on the unsuspecting masses. Other than that, the fact that the panels have the same part number does not mean that they "came directly from Apple's supply".
There are as many kinds of VCs as there are entrepreneurs. Some VCs are untrustworthy and some are even dumb (as stated here). Just like some entrepreneurs are ignorant and some are event dumb (as illustrated here). But there are fantastic VCs out there as well. I'm on my fifth startup and I've been lucky enough to have worked with a number of truly fantastic VCs. FWIW... the clear give away that someone is talking shit when they talk about how VCs suck is when they say things like "maybe VC Fund X is an exception." A knowledgable entrepreneur knows that what matters is NOT the fund - but rather the partner. And there are some smart partners out there.
I've noticed that as well; it's frequently easier and more enjoyable to dig into code (or, for that matter, read things here) than to do some of the actual important work necessary for business.
Never Act Like the Smartest Guy in the Room
We need to treat our data like we treat our email. Define the common attributes comprising data within a particular application and define how to access that data (through an API). Come up with a common vocabulary for all data (crowd-sourced based on the current stewards of that type of application) and tie those calls into user identity providers (again, built around the common attributes of a user identity). Every interaction between apps and users goes through the user to collect permissions. Permissions are based on signals gained from all other interactions that have passed through the user identity provider. Signals like how often you interact with the app or user requesting the data, which topics you've interacted on previously, etc.. Data is still stored on separate app providers, but we now have simple access. The app provider uses the signals to build permissions specific to their application. Users can transfer their data from one provider to the next easily since all of the data definitions have been translated (assuming the apps are similar in nature).

More here: http://GoPalmetto.com/
It's a little disingenuous to suggest that the ingredients of a food are 'something that can be added to it.'

If processed foods tend to be bad (which they do) you can quite correctly crusade against them if you're interested in helping people not to eat bad food.

Edit: Edited for clarity.
OneSec - The Instagram Of 1 Second Videos
> I think it's a horrible way to hire because the best founders often don't make the best employees, and vis-a-vis.

I wouldn't underestimate the value of someone who knows how to ship product. The half-effort from a solid entrepreneur could still be far more effective than an equally smart but subservient employee who wants to simply be assigned a discrete job and work 9 to 5.
I take issue with your first point about Reddit. I'm not defending Reddit, I'm defending the idea that there is any notion of quality related to the specified forum.

The network isn't a signal of quality, and I'd bet that the only reason it's in the title is because OP was trying to give people a more explicit hint at the source location.
> “They are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context,” said Mr. Zenkel.

Because the LCD on my iMac has a different context than the one in my living room? Or is it because you can't sell enough ads against it?

Stupid or liar…
Microsoft files motion in Apple/Samsung to hide patent license agreement terms
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3728933

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477746

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071568

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3757527

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072876 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3970427 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1071533

There are more:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%28...
The RIAA seems content to antagonize their own customers to reduce piracy. Multiple studies have shown that the biggest pirates are also the music industry's best customers. They won't release a complete list of all their covered works, let alone put them all up for sale somewhere convenient.
Hi- So sorry to hear that. When you are ready to give it another shot, please send me an email and I would be happy to talk you through the process on the phone and simultaneously fix any bugs that you encounter.

We very much appreciate you are willing to give us another chance!
I think Microsoft is betting on you having a sudden urge to run Office on your tablet. Or Visual Studio (something I find very unlikely to be a satisfying experience.

If the Surface Pro sells for more than an iPad and a reasonable laptop (which you can have for US$400), I cannot imagine an excuse to have one device that's good at neither role instead of two, each one good on its own thing. It's not like it'll make much of a difference in my backpack.
I agree. Motivation and group energy. I learnt more from interacting with other teams.
You are not taking into account risk premia i.e. discount rate for investing in a highly volatile tech stock such as facebook. So to be net present value neutral it would need to generate over 100 bn in profits. And not only that, the market cap (at ipo valuation) is based on a stock price * number of diluted shares outstanding. Diluted shares increase on avg of about 1% per year for tech companies. Next. Stock price is based on nothing but forward earnings. If in year 10 facebook earned 100 total amount in profits but is declining then stock price will not imply a 100bn company. greater fool? it's the public shareholders who bought facebook at ipo v. some other public company with better risk adjusted prospects. I mean everything should be based on risk adjusted investment. right now fb is worth 50bn so who's the fool for taking a 50% loss in less than a 3 months? answer: everyone who invested at ipo.
Usually termed "rent-seeking". I'll have to think a bit on whether / how this is related to Dutch disease.

Off the top of my head, though, DD is exploiting a resource to create, but concentrate, wealth. RS is exploiting a market anomaly or manipulation to create a self-directed wealth stream, though often or usually decreasing overall societal wealth in the process.

DD is economically beneficial activity with an inequitable distribution of gains.

RS is economically harmful activity with an inequitable distribution of gains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking
Apple, MS and Patent troll team up for Kodak patents
No, you're mixing up a chicken/egg thing here. It's not the problem with VCs that, if you're frugal, you can make an early round last until you find the right idea. You can't have that early round money without promising a certain kind of return to the VCs. It's your fault (or, mine, in this case) that VC money has been put at risk.

You can't moralize about VC's "pushing the company to burn all cash". It's the VC's money you're talking about The VCs invest with the expectation that you're going to go for broke. That's the model. Most startups fail, even the carefully run ones. The 1-2 successes need to pay back the failures and then some.
Sigh, generally I don't click through to Forbes articles, I should know better. This one did not disappoint, I stopped reading right here:

"Look at Facebook. The company didn’t invent anything. Instead, it just picked a better demographic—18 to 35-than LinkedIn or MySpace."

Now look at a comparison of the market performance of FB and LNKD [1].

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...
Sysadmin Day - "Cura" for remote Linux servers-admining on Google Play soon
Sandbox of frustration: Apple’s walled garden closes in on Mac developers
That's how you should treat your Sysadmin
Hey, I'm in Boulder too. Are you working at a startup currently? If so, which one?
A threat of starvation could obviously make a man preform vandalism. Lawyers are not being threatened with starvation, but neither is anyone suggesting that they are actually engaging in vandalism. A threat to a cushy lifestyle can certainly inspire someone to act legally to protect their own lifestyle.
Great question. We have a variety of investors committed to demo day, most of which are in the US. It seems to be based on investor preference / education about how to invest overseas, etc. Our role in this is building the network and then letting investors select what types of companies they are interested in funding.
Besides which, Zynga has been innovative and has come up with new ways of spreading games. They might not have much of a technical edge, but it's not like Zynga has never done anything new.
It's not two sides, though. That makes no sense. The issues MRAs are campaigning for are not issues feminists are campaigning against.
The author is too extreme in his framing of business models and is missing the middle ground that can be argued to be the place where a lot of true and real businesses are.

For example, Apple did not invent the personal computer or the smartphone, they just made these products actually useful for the masses. Microsoft's OSes were not that good for the first twenty years, and Microsoft Office was in no way a technological breakthrough, but MSDos/MSWindows + MSOffice did bring a PC revolution and a PC on (almost) every desk.
Ask HN: I wish there was a web service that...
What was the last thing that you wished you could do but couldn't find a suitable existing solution?
Can it be said that his organic chemistry lessons have suffered for this?

Honest question. I have not seen them and I am not in a position to evaluate them even if I had.
I was homeschooled in 7th and 8th grade. It was totally because my parents thought I wasn't getting a good enough education. I still had hebrew school on sunday(jewish), but religion never entered my curriculum at home. I had a much greater focus on science & tech. (I had a programming "class" taught by my dad where I programmed micro-controllers)

edit:
(actually... It wasn't a heavier focus on science & tech... it was just more intense in general... I had a hefty literature portion (I read many Dickens books...) and some sweet art history books)
DOJ Argues It Can Hold Megaupload's Assets Regardless of Potential Dismissal
This really doesn't look like one of those "if you squint, virtually any web app written in the last 10 years could infringe it" kind of patents. It looks like a patent on Foursquare.

I agree, the patent situation is a mess. And this is probably a terrible patent encumbered by all sorts of prior art. But on paper, it's a pretty good leg to stand on.
I use this with my atom feed, and updates show up within seconds on Google Reader. Therefore I don't know why he says an open system can't be as fast as Twitter. Unless the technology he's committed too, RSScloud, doesn't work as well.
The AUD is worth more than the USD:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=CURRENCY%3AAUD
I have no problem with this sort of ad-hominem attack. Knowing this about Scott Cleland lets me know that it's not worth my time to respond critically to his posts.
This post completely ignores VC-startup fit, fund size, investment strategy and other factors.

There are many different kinds of (institutional) VCs. A firm with a $100MM active fund invest very differently than A16Z with a > $1 B available for investment. The ideal ownership stake within the portfolio company, comfort level with higher valuations, investment allocated across multiple rounds for a portfolio company all are a function of fund-size and investment strategy.

As the active fund size increases (e.g. $500MM or $1B), the fund is biased towards making big investments and hugs wins are needed for LP returns. When fundraising for your startup, its critical to understand if these dynamics are going to be a cause of conflict between your investors and you. Just because a VC firm invested in Facebook, doesn't mean their dynamics make sense for your startup.
>For example, currently, google can't really see what you're unloading to dropbox or iCloud or emails you receive (outside of Gmail.) But if they're the ISP, they can start to target advertising based on the documents you upload or files you upload.

Note that the privacy policy says they don't (http://fiber.google.com/legal/privacy.html), that you have laws that protect you (like the Cable Communications Policy Act -- though not enough), and that both dropbox and icloud traffic (and hopefully messages from your email server) are sent over encrypted connections anyway.

I agree with you that internet connectivity should be considered a public utility by now, but your post has almost nothing to do with google and everything to do with connecting to the internet through any third party.
We ran into this mindset in early meetings with some VCs once-upon-a-before-we-decided-to-bootstrap. We had some market validation, and didn't forsee needing much money to go from our humble launch to national presence (at the time we would have struggled to spend even $150k).

But by asking for a low figure, it seemed to signal that we didn't see ourselves as the next $100 million business (the horror!). As an experiment, we doubled the number in subsequent discussions and got a far more positive response. In the end we decided that getting early investment wasn't for us.

I completely appreciate where the more skeptical VCs were coming from, though. If you're going to spend the same amount of your time working with a group of people long-term, you might as well put that time into a company that is eventually worth billions instead of millions.
I can at least provide my own guarantees that it will be around (so long as some few others use it)

Isn't this exactly the problem? Keeping a service alive in perpetuity is missing the point because it's the communication that's important, not the service upon which the communication flows... Human communication is inherently temporally limited. If you ignore that, you're not gonna be heard now, which makes you even less likely to be heard in the future.

EDIT: I guess I'm just saying: nobody reads old messages on this sort of service. If you're not targeting "now", you're starting off with an immense disability.
Nor does it take into account the difference between a startup and a mature company. Of course their net margin has taken a dip, they've been tooling a factory so they can sell cars.
There's a lot of really good information in comments section of old Hacker News items.
YWorld debuts updated launch page; moves closer to closed Alpha test
Hey! Your product looks really cool! (Playing around with the demo.)

A bit of unsolicited feedback -- the very first thing I did when I landed on your homepage was groan at the Lobster typeface.

(http://www.mishes.com/articles/lobster-font-abuse)

Don't get me wrong - Lobster's a great font, but because it is so overused I don't think it's a great choice for any real branding.
I think people are confusing the term "true random". It's still truly random, but it won't have a uniform distribution over all possible values. For example, a common trick in FPS games is to pick a random spawn point, but exclude spawn points that are too close to other players. Still truly random.

Another trick in RPGs is to increase or decrease the odds of a successful hit according to recent hits and misses, bringing the short-term average much closer to the expected value. It's still "true random", but uses correlation between attacks to create an underdispersed distribution overall. (Basically, you want to make the variance lower to make people happy.)
Meanwhile RSS is some powerful shit
Say it with me:

FUCK an exit.

Build something cool and worthwhile instead. FUCK getting a lot of money.
To understand why swing-for-the-fences mentality prevails, you have to understand the VC model.

People raise funds and generally shoot for +10x exits. So, for a particular vintage, a VC fund of 10M aims to grow to 100M. They are squeezed for time (many funds are for 10-14 years, some shorter, some longer) and can't necessarily sit there and let companies bubble.

If you are presented with such a large hurdle, the easiest way to do it is swing for the fences and see if one gains traction. Generally, the one that gains traction will multiply your money far enough to cover for the other mistakes you made.
This reminds me of something Paul Budnitz (kidrobot founder and former SF resident) wrote after visiting SF recently:

Internet millionaires driving around on cell phones drain the city’s sparkle. In the old days people who made tools built factory towns on the Ohio. It was honest work but not glamorous. Today the toolmakers work in software and they have been elevated in the culture, especially here. But there is a distinction between making an app and making art. A city of toolmakers imagining themselves as artists is barbaric, heartless, empty. You feel it in the crowd eating dinner at the many expensive restaurants. People speak in sound bites and are both assertive and lost.

http://paulbudnitz.com/post/26436899116/san-francisco-is-odd...
I'm not sure this app would save those establishments
Internet stock collapse dents Silicon Valley
My iPad integrates with the enterprise. Doing it right now as a matter of fact, and I work for a conservative Fortune 200 company with stringent, U.S. Federal Government mandated, security requirements. My iPad has become my main mobile machine at work, and with the exception of reading HN, I do real work with it - not just web surfing.

And Androids need not apply. We stopped supporting them. Too many security issues as a result of their divergent platform.
Article starts with: "How well does Khan Academy teach?
By Valerie Strauss", then "By Christopher Danielson and Michael Paul Goldenberg" on top of their contribution. At the end of the article there is a : "By Valerie Strauss".
So attribution is displayed twice before text blocks and once after text blocks, if you don't see the failure in that, I am so sorry. I don't know how pedantic it is to confuse voices when they are attributed in two different ways when it is clear that the second way is the most common, but I will leave it to you to quantify it, not that I care for it. But do keep up the winding, you will be on to something, sometime soon.

Second: "Comparing decimals. Decimal fractions (decimals for short — the numbers to the right of the decimal point) are a notoriously challenging topic in the elementary math curriculum."

For the last time, decimals are NOT the numbers to the right of the decimal point like stated. "decimals" is being used for a subpar abbreviation of decimal fractions AND the left side numbers to the decimal point are a part of it, unlike what said authors state. Someone with pedagogical concerns should be awake when stating stuff like this and if you don't see the mess that is, that is your own problem. I have stated this already.
That's a fantastic perspective. Thank you kstenerud
The Australian dollar is currently at parity with the US dollar, so it is as high as you think.
There are no benefits, unless you work at yahoo.
There's actually raw mechanical economics feeding into this: it turns out to be hard for VCs to find good places to put money at risk, and also a giant pain to be on lots of boards. Invest/dont-invest can sometimes be more or less binary, and if true, desired-amount=maximum.
Samsung extends lead over Apple in Q2 phone shipments
In many (all?) unix shells, globs are expanded by the shell before being passed to the program.

'ls *.jpg'

is passed expanded to 'ls 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg' BEFORE ls is run. This choice means that if a program wants to use another style of regular expression (ie: pcre), it must be enclosed in quotes on the shell, ie:

"ls | grep -P '.*jpg'"
I just wondered if it would be possible for a company to sign something saying that they will not accept any settlement (larger than $0) with the other company (and that if they do they'll have to give an obscenely large amount of money to someone else). Since patent trolls don't usually want to go to court, precommitment should be enough for them to drop the case most of the time.
As a Chicagoan, I agree with this fully. The people here are very smart and fully capable, but those with the money force their team's hands to make bad decisions. Acquisition is the ultimate goal, not creating value.

VC's make me unnaturally angry because I've seen them ruin some truly wonderful things.
Browserstack seems really cool, we'll check it out; thanks humbledrone
A hungrier person (from waiting in line) might also buy more food (good for the merchant).