skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a "con game" to these folks because all of the strategies for getting VC investment is described as such. And when someone succeeds in winning the "game", these people take it personally. I would call it "resentment" instead.

For me, the dream of entrepreneurship isn't about selling my company to a BigCo (TM), or even getting VC funding. It's about building a business that will sustain my family for years to come. Exactly like businesses in my Chicago neighborhood who start restaurants, or retail shops, etc. I want to build something that I can call my own and not be dependent on an employer's paycheck. And the fear of being pink-slipped because I'm not a "young rock star ninja." I just happen to know software and GIS, etc rather than widgets. And I know it really well.

DHH has talked at length about this trend, and although it's not quite as strong in Chicago as S.V., it's still present. Many people in GenX/Y/etc aren't willing to work their asses off to build a business. Popular media and SV successes only build on this fantasy. This adds to peoples' resentment. It's like the American Dream has morphed from bootstrapping your own small business into something larger, to building something that someone else will pay you F.U. money to take off your hands. Then you can sip Mai-Tais on the beach with half-naked women wandering around. If that's your vision, then Godspeed. But don't assume everyone has that same vision.

I don't mean to sound trite, but that's not the America I grew up with. This entire forum has the undercurrent of the very idea/goal you're complaining about. Building start-ups, but let's glamorize the VC-funded ones that got lucky in the lottery. If this forum was about "bootstrapping companies" into successful small businesses, I think the tone would be very different.

Regardless, I'll keep reading HN, and taking pleasure in those diamonds in the rough that inspire my vision of America.
There has been numerous articles like that posted over the years, even recently, that talk about adding extensions and working with PHP internals. This is an excellent article, but you have much more than just the source code and a few undocumented examples.
if you read the article, the quote in the title ("There was massive left-wing bias at the BBC") is referring to 1979.

immediately following that quote: "Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC. It is like the New Statesman, which used to be various shades of soft and hard left and is now more technocratic. We're like that, too. We have an honourable tradition of journalists from the right [working for us]. It is a broader church."
Still a pretty long winded explanation, though a good one.

I like to think of Bayes' Theorem as akin to scaling "universes". For example, consider trying to determine the probability of someone over 6 feet tall being a woman. First you take the probability of a woman being over 6 feet tall (say 1%) and then you multiply that by the probability of being a woman (say, 50%). Now you have the probability of being a woman AND being over six feet tall scaled to the overall size of the total "universe" (being a human being). Then, if you divide this by the probability of being over 6 feet tall (say, 4%) you'll get the probability of being a woman AND being over six feet tall scaled to the universe where everyone is over six feet tall (12.5%).
I use SopCast for that, it works well. There is an android client that works very well for me.
I agree with this. Everyone knows it isn't live, but they want to watch a recording of the livestream as it happened because that's what's the most exciting. It's the same reason why so many people watch Steve Jobs' live keynotes after the fact even though they could just watch the video advertisements or look at the Apple store for the products at that point.
> The stupid thing is that Americans are forced to watch the Olympics with 20 minutes of commercials per hour, while the rest of the world gets to watch it nearly commercial free.

We complain about commercials here on HN, but you would be surprised to learn there are many people that actually enjoy watching commercials. For example, when I was at my parents' house a few months back, I watched something on TV with my mom. I instinctively muted the TV when commercials came on, but she told me to actually turn them back on. I asked why, and she said enjoyed watching the ads.
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Why is this suddenly a topic of discussion? ALL the internet speed companies measure this way, why are we just now clarifying it? This was on Reddit as well, and it's written as if Google was trying to deceive people.
I'm angry about all of these stories making it to the HN front page whether it favors Apple or not. There are other stories that are more newsworthy. This has been going on for two years and has affected the lives of no one. It is only meant to push whatever cause you believe.

I thought my reply to whom I originally commented to stated this. I don't come to this site looking for stories that is only to incite a rooting interest. I come here for things that matter to everyone even though the bias is towards technology.
There is a difference between writing software and engineering software. There really isn't anything wrong with being called a software engineer because it follows basic engineering skills rather well.
Stipple went with Rails for the sole reason that we were able to iterate and release very quickly in the beginning when I was the only one coding on it, and my expertise is in Ruby and Rails.

We're now heavily Backbone-based on the frontend, however. You should use what you're most comfortable with, as being able to iterate quickly is most important at the start of a project.

As mhd says, the backend is really more important. We're using MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, and a custom Erlang/mnesia based store in ours.

(full disclosure - I'm Stipple's co-founder and CTO)
I'd like to see exactly how complex they can get. Like, maybe all the major cities in the world or something.
> I get to watch what I want vs. egocentric American coverage.

Believe it or not, the mainstream American audience wants to see egocentric American coverage - they enjoy it.
I have sites hosting on shared hosting providers that have better uptime then Heroku.

They aren't big sites. Hell, they are little sites, with barely a trickle of traffic. But that traffic results in real, paying customers.
No, the Democracy Index also makes its evaluation on the basis of Civil Liberties. To quote from their report:

> All
democracies are systems in which citizens freely make political decisions by majority rule. But rule
by the majority is not necessarily democratic. In a democracy majority rule must be combined with
guarantees of individual human rights and the rights of minorities.

In 2011 the US scored 8.53 in Civil Liberties (out of 10) compared with 4.71 for Russia and 1.18 for China.
The wording bothers me because I'm nitpicky.

If your talent was truly unlimited, you could do every startup.

If your money was unlimited, then you would probably get assassinated.
Well here's my attempt at doing something marginally useful. The only thing I could really think of. I generally am ambivalent about these media blunders because I don't watch TV... but I was really looking forward to the Opening Ceremonies.

http://www.change.org/petitions/international-olympic-commit...
Ugh, I'm really opposed, as an OSX and iOS user, to Apple having this direct of a tie to any social networking company. It would be awful if they avoided adding more sharing options and OS integration for 3rd-party applications like Facebook because they could be a competitor to Twitter or any other investment. I'd rather they stay as relatively neutral as they can.
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No, I'm talking about the local newscasters. I'm in Chicago, these were newscasters people here in the city.
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a5o1K7r...

(at least I think that's the right page)
Exactly. You don't have to be geographically present to "show skin". It's a 'crime' that works over the internet just as well as it works in meatspace.
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I like the term "in meatspace". Haha! I think I've finally found a good replacement for "IRL".
Is it the syntax? You should look into coffeescript.

...and a spell checker ;)
Well, if you're willing to pay, couldn't you sign up for cable for one month? I agree, it's not our ideal and it's more overhead for you since you'll need to deal with installation, but it's not like it's impossible to pay to see the Olympics.
Don't forget my personal favourite, "It's ok to pervert justice since Dotcom is a bad guy!"
Yeah, I use it because I rather dislike that phrase/acronym. ;)
I live in the UK and conciously chose to watch "Coming To America" (great film) instead of the £9.3 billion that they stole from us taxpayers for a 2 week long militarised running and jumping and clapping shitfest without our permission for which the cash could have gone to education, healthcare etc instead.
It really isn't as simple as that.

I don't know the inner workings, but from what I understand - data gets invalidated by its "key" and new pages with new keys are generated so that the page content remains "fresh" - so no htaccess rule is going to help you with a problem like that.

It sounds like there is some serious changes required to fix this so it behaves like conventional pagination, which I'm guessing is why it has not been fixed.
I think it's fair to assume that a Chicago news caster is speaking primarily to an American audience. Specifically, a Chicago audience. So even in that context they weren't being misleading. Relax a bit.
Mcdonnalds in europe has installed touch screens you can order from.
At least, are there hooks into the YouTube player to know where the stream is at? Can we then keep the progression synced? For myself, at one point, one of the videos needed to buffer and got the two out of sync.

Seems the above can be achieved via YouTube's JS Player API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference
DVRs have already sewn up most of that demand, with fewer licensing/channel conflict issues.
The probability of that happening decreases so quickly that it's not a realistic concern.

Incidentally, today I had some song stuck in my head so I just listened to it on repeat for a while.
Am i looking at a twitter clone running stock version of twitter bootstrap? A bit ironic.
The loss is that people equate people with a college education with no experience. Which is totally false.

Experience relies heavily on ones own bias judgement. It can also lead to doing things without understanding them (i.e. writing shit code that works vs. writing good and efficient code) and can lead to nasty habits. Experience is also a slow teacher.

College is advantageous is that you are taught why things are by an experienced individual. You are able to gain a fundamental knowledge base and terminology that can be applied rather than wasting time being taught on-the-job. Plus you are taught things that won't and can't work in your field and why. All a person with experience can tell you is that they won't work and give some superficial reason why. Thus, the experienced person opens a book and has to acquire fundamental knowledge that they could have learn in uni.
Agreed. I didn't really get Bayes' Theorem intuitively until I saw the pictures in this short blog post which emphasizes the idea you pointed out of 'scaling "universes"':

http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/visualizing-bayes-theorem/
If you read to the end of this interesting article, you see this comment on pg of YC (and HN):

"In an e-mail sent to founders last month, Paul Graham, the co-founder of Y Combinator, an influential start-up incubator, warned of possible headwinds. But Friday he said in effect not to worry — at least not yet.

"'It’s too early to notice any effect on valuations,' Mr. Graham said. 'Personally though, I have a lot of confidence in Facebook. I expect this is just a random fluctuation.'"

My prediction about Facebook is "Facebook will go the way of AOL, still being a factor in the industry years from now, but also serving as an example of a company that could never monetize up to the level of the hype surrounding it." I could be wrong, but that's my sense of where Facebook is in the market. Of course pg has a much better track record than I have in making investments, and my prediction is not wholly inconsistent with some near-term upside in Facebook's share price.
It isn't a false dichotomy. Inside of vs on-top-of. Or, you can say that framework code is lower in the stack frames. Or, you can say that you must make your code comply with the framework's execution model. Or, you could say that the framework supplies the organization and you provide the customization.

From this perspective, underscore.js presents an Enumeration framework. However, it is usually a couple stack frames deep and still way at the leafs of your code paths. Backbone.js is clearly a framework -- it describes your data model plumbing and interactions and provides the bindings and pipelines -- this structure dominates the organization of your code and program flow. Nothing about underscore's utility functions have this "infectious" or "dominating" characteristic.

I used to maintain: https://twitter.com/FrameworkvsLib
Kudos to Forbes for calling them out in such a humorous way. Techcrunch could learn a thing or two about decorum attempt real journalism. I wish the crowd at AOL could find a voice other than the lowest-common-demoninator from which to write...
just...no.

http://www.neowin.net/news/what-the-hell-is-microsofts-lost-...
What's the benefit from tmux? Why is it better than just using multiple windows?
That was a great explanation! Better than the article I posted, at least.
Most TAs in organic chemistry classes aren't Salman Khan.
Has anything been added to the article? Or is this simply a repost--albeit, a welcomed one--as the URL's query string suggests? [1]

[1] http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes?repost3yearslater
"Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed on the matter."

Every bit of substance that this article has, is stated in this first sentence. Anonymous sources like this, with no real corroborating facts, are usually indicative of PR people testing the waters for things that might happen. We already know that Twitter and Apple have a relationship, what new facts does this article have that indicate that anything worthy of discussion is happening? I doubt anything of substance will come of this.
One scenario has a victim and the other is solely based on beliefs. The whole case with Megaupload is about the MPAA claiming that they are a victim of piracy. I understand that everyone has an different opinion on this case, that's why there is a case to begin with. IMO I don't believe that there should be a case to begin with but when there's half a billion dollars that is claimed as lost it's enough to look into it.
How will 'you' measure your life?
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Apple is currently in a bit of a pickle. Twitter is deeply integrated in the OS (both Mac and iOS). It makes sense that they invest a few days worth of profit to secure a more formal partnership.
Microsoft made a small strategic investment in facebook, I think if it keeps an open ecosystem an Apple investment in Twitter isn't a bad idea.
But whose the victim in this case? There's no monetary or physical damages in women showing skin. One law is based on belief and the other is in settling a somewhat reasonable claim.
In other words, each new song now has to be significantly different from what came before

Mixing opera, country, and black metal in the same playlist would take some getting used to...
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I think Facebook actually has a chance to stick around, but the mistake of investors was to project its success to other social companies. FB may be the last mover to the social market.
Now that's #ironic
What's different about today is that the web and Facebook seem far more integrated into every part of daily life.

I don't know if that means things will better, things will be worse or doesn't mean anything.
AI - a computer you can converse with.

World-scale MMORPG based on real geography.

Virtual worlds - transfer your consciousness to a digital substrate.
Thanks for the idea. Be on the look out for a new social network Meatspace.com coming soon.
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I met with Nate and Brian a while back, both these guys are extremely intelligent hackers with great business sense.

They're currently building a core product that actually has a business model with the derby framework which will help it progress along very well.

While they may not have raised 11.2M these guys aren't going anywhere.

In spending just an hour or two with them their talents really shined through. As a supporter of rails I will certainly be staying on top of changes to both Derby and Meteor and looking forward to what comes next for both.

The reality is the creation of frameworks like these is nothing but a good thing for the hacker community at large.

Congrats on the press guys, Keep up the good work!
I'm opposed too, but for a different reason. I'm opposed to any sort of social network integration into my OS.
Oh no... flash forward a year or 2, and Apple will buy all of Twitter! It's their knight in a white horse coming to bail them out! Now I'll never get to see how Twitter will make serious revenue to sustain itself.
"Khan Academy should be ideally placed..." I would say 'yes' and 'no' to this. Yes if the questions ask, and no if they don't. And that's the point of the piece. Khan won't pick up these misconceptions because he doesn't ask. He doesn't ask about decimals with different numbers of decimal places; he doesn't ask about the meaning of the equal sign. Maybe it's because he doesn't know that he needs to ask these things. That is a kind of knowledge he didn't need in his old profession and that he does in his new one. Maybe as KA grows, he will improve on this point and he will bring in people with this knowledge. But given Khan's dismissive ness of education research in the Harvard EdCast interview, I am skeptical.
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because they have an ego, and want to take credit and praise for creating it. They dun care if the idea becomes a reality without them being involved.
What was the total profit of Microsoft during this "lost decade"?
I think the situation for facebook is worse than that, actually. I think they will get disrupted and lose their userbase before they have a chance to monetize it to the degree that investors are expecting.
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Is music piracy still a thing? I don't even know how to do it anymore...
Does it matter, if you are not forced to use it?
I knew before I even clicked on this article, that something inside was going to cause me nerd rage; it's almost always the case when I read these Baby's first UNIX type articles. I thought this one might be different when I saw Andy's formidable neck beard, and for the most part it was decent but then I saw it.

..plus Ack is 4 or 5 times faster than grep.

Ack is implemented in Perl, which has a full featured regex engine, but is not generally known for being super fast. It's going up against GNU grep, which is a highly tuned regex engine, which is very fast. The ack guys make the argument that ack is faster because it doesn't search stuff you, the developer, don't care about, which in my estimation is horseshit. Try it yourself, I threw a regex at my email spool from the 90s which is about 128M. I made sure it was in disk cache first and then did:

chunky:~$ time egrep -c -i '(d|m|j)ingle' RMAIL
23

real 0m3.129s
user 0m3.075s
sys 0m0.051s

chunky:~$ time ack -c -i '(d|m|j)ingle' RMAIL
RMAIL:23

real 0m26.208s
user 0m26.060s
sys 0m0.121s
Also, Apple has a track record of paving their own path the last 10 years. If this were true, Apple doesn't feel like Apple anymore. It would feel like the future is in someone else rather than theirs.

This would be the end of Apple as a culture, though they would still succeed as a company.

I'm not ready to subscribe to this. I don't think Apple will either. Too soon.
just run echo * in your directory. That's the same argument grep will get(instead of the * ) when you pass it * .

grep will run through all those files, if any, and recurse through all the directories, if any. grep recursing down a directory will process all the files/subdirs in that directory. (which includes . files).

If the shell can't expand the * , grep will receive a literal * and try to open a file/directory named * .
The sense of entitlement in the last few Olympics related posts is really getting obnoxious. Granted the article here makes a good point about it being silly to live tweet an event that is not being broadcast. But, everyone commenting seems to think watching the Olympics for free is a god given right.

I am excited that, unlike the NFL, MLB, and other professional sporting events, the live-streaming capability provided to NBC subscribers is actually quite thorough and high quality.
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That's exactly why I work on http://rstat.us [1] -- we need to be here, ready, for the next decision that Twitter makes that pisses more people off, for the next time that Twitter is down, etc.

[1] - a microblogging site that uses ostatus; we integrate with identi.ca. code here: https://github.com/hotsh/rstat.us
I don't know where this idea of heroku having poor uptime is from. Heroku has excellent uptime - even during the ec2 outage most sites had very little actual downtime.
“Down the road, social engagement may dictate how consumers spend,” Mr. Hilwa said.

I doubt it. Social is pretty overrated. While sharing is still important to many people, it seems that great software and the ability to access quality content is far more important than what my casual aquaintences are up to. Anecdotally, my 'friends' seem to be less social online and less willing to share every little life detail despite the increases ease of doing so.

The analysts are wrong. It's like saying the Mac needs to be more social to be successful in the future. Besides, how much more social Cana smartphone get? It's a phone and a pocket computer already. Besides, Apple is primarily a hardware company and secondarily a content agency. Their revenues don't depend on advertising, which is really the only business model social currently has. The last thing Apple wants to do is be an advertising company.

Still, I am happy with Apple getting friendly with Twitter. I find Twitter to be much less obnoxious than Facebook. API and infrastructure debacles aside, Twitter seems a lot less arrogant and threatening than Zuck and Co. Twitter, for example doesn't suddenly make your direct messages public or change privacy settings in onerous and unexpected ways.
Is the webfinger protocol [1] like email addresses in the way you're thinking of?

[1] - https://code.google.com/p/webfinger/wiki/WebFingerProtocol
Facebook's going to be here a bit longer. Sure, I think we've all noticed we use it less than we used to, but Facebook will only slowly decline until a truly superior replacement comes along. Then you can kiss it goodbye.
That was part of the incorrect opinion parent was saying the user had.
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