skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, but I'm curious as to why you would mention this?
stay on the top of the tech. Your employee's next job might require experience on MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, etc.. And there is a lot difference using in production vs playing at home. Would you like to have a dev who only had experience with JS, ASP.NET or MSSQL on his projects ? No. And believe me as developers we learn best when we are working on things for a long time on production systems ( you're probably a dev as well, so you know these things )

> We have a lot of cash in the bank at the moment..
Great, explain this in adv. as well. You mentioned an angel investor might invest more, which means he already invested in. Make this clear, mention this, all of it. Be very open.

> don't need to offer equity
Why not ? If you are making money, share some more with conditions. Offer some kind of compensation of somebody's hard work. Would you like somebody to work for you 6m vs 2y ?
Offering equity of course is more complicated. You can "vest" his equity. Talk to your lawyer/advisor about this if you don't know what vesting is.

Let me clear what I mean, you need to look for more long term employees with offering more salary, giving more responsibility, placing some nice options, and this new "tech" stuff makes you imho more attractive. Much better developers, less dev time, more happy employees, successful business, more money in your pocket. This is a very crucial cycle.

Good luck Tom, if you have any more questions, don't hesitate.
Cheers
"In less than nine months, 9GAG has more than quadrupled the number of monthly unique visitors to its site, going from 16 million to more than 70 million," said Tony Conrad, founding member and venture partner at True Ventures. "With its ability to easily and quickly spread entertaining visual content via Facebook and Twitter, the potential of 9GAG as a viral distribution platform is huge, and we look forward to working together with them to maximize this opportunity."

This seems like a large, risky bet to make on a humor site with fast growth but not much track record. I don't know a lot about 9GAG, but it seems like a case where since Funnyordie and Reddit were successful, any site with growth deserves investment.
Samsung Chief Product Officer fires back at Apple lawsuit
Slidewall a Unity wallpaper changer
I really respect the hard work going in to the evolution of Rails, but it does feel like some new features should be considered as Gems.

The hardest part of managing mature software is keeping it lean.
It is not my responsibility to educate you on modern internet history. This has been argued here on HN prior; Do you recall the backdoors that AT&T put at 600 Folsom, in SF?

And the backdoors in Cisco's equipment that are a requirement by the federal government?

Maybe you thin this shit is "conspiracy theory" and if you do, you're simply a naive fool.

Look around you at what governments are doing. The NSA has records on everything you do online. They had a system in 2005 which could trace communications between users to 6 degrees, automatically.
You only need a G+ account to invite more than one person to the video chats, invited people don't need a G+ account.
As others have noted, they probably are interested in how you approach the problem, not whether or not you can actually solve it. Just fire off a few ideas and outlines of how they would work. Here's what comes to mind (I had not seen this problem before) (I'm assuming the target number we are trying to divide by 3 is a non-negative integer of N bits, where N is fixed...e.g., a C unsigned int or something like that):

1. Implement addition at the bit level. Here's an example for 16-bit numbers:

def badd(A, C):
while C != 0:
t = A & C
A = A ^ C
C = (t << 1) & 0xFFFF
return A

That's actually all I need, because I could no do something like make two counters in a loop, both starting at 0. The first counter goes up by 1 each iteration, the second by 3. Stop when the second counter exceeds the target number, and return the first counter.

2. The solution in #1 can be greatly speed up, while keeping the same basic idea. Hard code in a table that contains decreasing powers of two in the first column, and the second column is 3 times the first column.

Now the loop starts at 0, and has two counters, but also has an index into the table. The first counter goes up by the first column at the current table index, the second counter by the second column. When a step would take the second counter past the target number instead of terminating, increment the index into the table.

3. Do division similar to how we would do it by hand. Here is an example for 16-bit numbers:

def div3(A):
m = 0x8000
r = 0
d = 0
while m != 0:
r <<= 1
if A & m:
r |= 1
if r == 0:
q, r = 0, 0
elif r == 1:
q, r = 0, 1
elif r == 2:
q, r = 0, 2
elif r == 3:
q, r = 1, 0
elif r == 4:
q, r = 1, 1
elif r == 5:
q, r = 1, 2
d = (d<<1) | q
m >>= 1
return d

4. Similar to the above, but first replace the if/elif chain with something based on table lookup, and work on more than one bit at a time.

5. Dividing by 3 is the same as multiplying by 1/3. Multiplication can be done by shifting and adding, and I've got adding from #1.

6. Oracle can afford big machines. Just do the whole thing with a big table lookup.
Economic history of the United States
It's possible to criticize ads that make a poor point but are still genuinely "Apple-like". All those ads had that Apple quality to them. You could tell they were Apple ads. These new Genius ads feel like Best Buy advertising Geek Squad. They definitely don't feel like Apple.
Where is your market btw?
BTW I don't disagree with what you just said - was just trying to explain this middle bucket because I don't think it's a clear no. Sometimes (very rarely) those middle bucket interactions turn into funding. But I agree w/ you that it's usually a waste of time.
Probably a hoax but new iPhone 5 pics leaked
Just because I think it needs to be said - I, for one, was thrilled with Snow Leopard. I think it is the best OSX version by far and away.
Cool. That's not far off from what I'm doing, plus I'm already using WebSockets. :)
I wasn't even aware that browsers could use request methods other than GET and POST.
Without it's users, Facebook is worth very close to $0. With it's users? who knows?

Well, one way to look at that question is to ask how much revenue they make per user (ARPU) and how much profit right now, and how much they could scale that. Obviously these numbers can be manipulated, and are likely to be optimistic if anything, but it's a better starting point than trying to work out numbers based on what someone paid for 10% of shares, or what someone paid for Instagram, or what they would make if they managed to charge their users a subscription (unlikely in the extreme).

Given their business model (ad supported), the fickle nature of their users, and their strong free competitors (Google, Twitter etc), I personally don't think they are worth $44 per user (assuming 1B users). I think the ARPU is around $1, that's not great, and not likely to grow hugely.
10 steps to finding your CTO, guaranteed
could be ad spy tools...they crawl around clicking ads and following them to the landing pages and then follow the landing pages to the offer being promoted. Allows affiliates and other advertisers to reverse engineer the competition
Define "technically renewable" and "theoretically sustainable".
I think Hanlon's Razor is appropriate here:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Startup Claims 80% Of Its Facebook Ad Clicks Are Coming From Bots
Yeah, I think we are in agreement! :)
Urdu Poems
Large collection of Roman English and Urdu poems.
True, I didn't phrase that well. It's easy to get mad at it but you are mad at capitalism and human nature.

Since I have decided not to take these things on, I find it better to not get mad at them but to remain detached.

I can constantly be angry about the hucksters and not do anything about it or accept it as an inevitable outcome of the systems I live in and not do anything about it. This doesn't mean I don't admire/support those who have decided to attack these problems.
>"it isn't newsworthy"

While you are correct on the clarification of market value, I don't see how anyone can claim that these companies having their share prices slashed in half within a year of their IPOs isn't newsworthy.
The RMBP is fine as long as your focus is text, so it's great for programmers & business people.

But Mac has been the mainstay of graphic designers who predominantly use Creative Suite, and the RMBP is quite useless without a 2nd, non-retina monitor.
Just that when he starts off his post by saying "I do lie..." then the question becomes "so what is he not lying about?"
Thank you for that. This is the real story here, IMO.
"You're placing too much emphasis on completing things."

Probably, I try not to hire folks who can't complete things. I think you're off on your startup timing through. I know lots of startups that took a year to get to their MVP and then another to get to something they were willing to call 1.0. But by the same token I don't think of things you could do in a weekend and ship as being 'startups'.
I've always had my garbage picked up by at least a two-person team.
I would be extremely wary of mechanical arms activated by a sole operator at 4 am, but that might be just my privileged socialism bubbling up again.

Going from one human to zero humans has a large impact on who's responsible for any screw-ups. I'm not sure the insurance will make it worth it to either the manufacturers or the operators anytime soon.
Exactly the one that make me stop and pause. It does not have all the "refinements" of the lumia (e.g. the curved glass) but the case shape is identical.
I nominate your last paragraph to the "Best of HN" (which does not exist).
So true and yet so difficult to understand for many as comments show.
Also sad to see that many think that throwing technology at something will fix problems which have nothing to do with technology. Yes, we are hackers but we should know better than "if the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem like a nail".
How is hydro renewable?
Yes, this was my reaction as well. I think the author missed the point of the commercial altogether. You DO see the product, its front and center - the Genius.

I think it's a particularly poor choice for marketing computers (like Best Buy advertising Geek Squad), however thats a different topic.
As far as I can ascertain, it's an aggregator for funny pictures found on reddit.
The Most Important IP Agreement That We Know Nothing About
Congrats to Seth and team!
Some kind of Reddit with funny images only ?
>In the second example we have an ambitious entrepreneur who wants to get the word out on their new thing. They create over time a few hundred thousand 'fake' twitter accounts, they construct a community of fake accounts following each other. Then they write a simple program to have their 'influential' tweeters push out the word and their 'followers' pick it up and retweet it. If they have let the accounts lay there for a bit they pick up their own share of robot followers (from other people doing this) and our ambitious entrepreneur creates what looks like a real groundswell of interest in what ever thing they are trying to push.

This is exactly what HBGary built. But it wasn't ads they wanted and it wasn't for money. They built sock puppet management apps for the DoD to influence public sentiment about various things the government wanted... except they got caught.
Awesome work guys. The gap between aspirational support and actually pushing forwards a cause is still far too great, and I'm looking forward to see how you narrow it.
That one is a border-line condescending, however, the message is clear: Accept no substitutes. Don't be a sap and pretend you got a Mac, because you didn't. The other two (guy having a baby and guy making a movie on the plane) make the Genius' seem helpful and there to serve. Also, they all underscore the message about the Mac existing for creative activities with a focus on iMovie, GarageBand and iPhoto which has been part of the sell for Macs for a long time. Author of this piece is being a little hyper-critical.

The coming months will see quite a few doom-and-gloom articles as everyone tries to predict the fall of Apple for all the right reasons just so they can say "I told ya so."
I don't think your anger about multiple assignment is valid.

I also use the Dev channel regularly, but I don't think it's fair to expect it to meet a high bar of quality. Typically issues are corrected within a few days.
I work on site reliability.

As for all the rest, I'm unfortunately not in a position to answer any of that. Adrian's probably right though. I suspect our content licenses would preclude that type of account.
New plan:

Make renewable energy by burning regular energy. Mark it up a bit and sell it for 300% of what you paid for the regular energy.

That's basically how biomass energy works anyway. Wind and photovoltaic energy also have a huge amount of regular energy usage hidden in them.

If the electricity really costs so much I'm not really impressed. However any chance that number is taxes?
1. Repost popular content on Reddit, 4chan
2. Spam the shit out of social links
3. ...?
4. Profit
> It's possible to criticize ads that make a poor point but are still genuinely "Apple-like".

Based on what criteria? I feel like all these discussions are exercises in hindsight bias. They are "genuinely Apple-like" because Apple ran them. And now Apple is running the Genius ads.
Hodgman is an pleasantly entertaining comediam. It's hard to appreciate him while loathing his character.
1+ BILLION pageviews per month. With a team that can kick enough ass to produce those metrics in such short time, doesn't seem so risky.
Long for a startup to launch?
One of my friends has a startup idea that he's been working on for over a year and a half now. Since last August, his software has been pretty much ready. I told him in september to launch with a beta to get some feedback. As of today, he hasn't launched yet. My friend's a shrewd guy but I don't know why he would wait so long. What would you say is the advantage of waiting so long to launch?
Over 1 billion monthly pageviews for r/funny in a pretty wrapper. I'm in the wrong business.
Before you condemn Apple again...
I don't know about the old Google Talk videochat, but Hangouts have been from a central server from day one.
> This ad is for Apple's support product.

No, it's an ad for the Mac. The last frame is the Apple Logo with the word "Mac" next to it. The fact that the focus is on support gives the impression that the Mac is difficult to use, probably not what they were going for.
Beware of opinions in the following text.

For the past couple of years now I kept banging on about how Apple was basically a brilliant marketing division selling slightly polished and shiny PCs (not mentioning the brand name intentionally here) and mobile devices. I've never seen them as superior in any way, maybe because I stopped using Microsoft products a long time ago as well.

Now either their entire marketing division had a really bad time or it's actually true that Jobs was doing a lot more to the company than I ever thought. Even when putting all my objections aside this is.. well.. just an ad. It doesn't really sell. It doesn't tell you anything or give you any reason whatsoever to buy an Apple product.

And that is, I think, really bad for Apple. Right now they're still riding on their past success, but if they go on like this the downfall will come. I say this because I still believe that Apple's marketing was the main reason for them to ever become successful again after their struggle all through the 1990s. Sure, they evolved the smartphone in 2007 and did pretty much the same with the tablet, but again it wasn't brilliant innovation but rather polishing existing technology and making it attractive to an average customer through a mixture of design, simplification and.. again.. brilliant marketing.

With that gone, I really wonder about Apple's future.
I really don't think so. Surface isn't a half baked product like the Zune was.
> I talked to a bunch of largely non-technical RSS power users and discovered that the people who really use RSS readers are subscribed to 1500+ feeds and barely scratch the surface of reading everything in them.

That is an interesting finding, in its own right. When Google neutered Google Reader's sharing features, "sharebros" started an "I am the 1000+" campaign (as a play on the "I am the 99%"). To me, that suggests having 1000+ unread feed items is common enough to be a viral joke.

There may be a business opportunity for helping people find the wheat from the chaff in their 1000+ feeds.
Is Crowdsourcing Design a Race to the Bottom?
sorry, we ran out of requests to the brewerydb api. just upgraded -- should be all set now! give it another whirl ;)
Link to abstract of the original research paper in the journal Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6093/457.abstract

...and for accompanying news article in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6089/1629
That's one of the tenets of NewsBlur -- by using NewsBlur's training filters, you can hide stories you don't want to see while highlighting the stories you want to focus on.
And the update to fix this will be pushed in 3... 2... 1...
The texture creep is what set off my alarms, which was happening while Steve was on his way out. Textures can be done right, but these weren't.. and worse, they've spurred an ongoing movement of people using distracting patterns on tiny devices.
Correct horse battery staple: Exploring the usability of passphrases
I think it was in "Built to Last" that I read this, but it talked about different types of CEOs.

Basically, there's the visionary/cult leader type of CEO that builds an organization where he is the center and everyone else is essentially one of the tentacles. These orgs can get into trouble after the CEO leaves.

Then there's the behind-the-scenes CEOs you've probably never heard of--they tend to build organizations where they are not the focal point of every decision. These organizations have a better chance of continued success after the departure of their CEO.

Or so the story goes... it is a pop business book, so take it for what it is... and time will tell whether or not this applies to apple
The Job Interview From Hell
Steve wasn't just the inspiration. He was also the guy who was more than willing to say "WTF is this? We can't release THAT! Fix IT!!"

Without that you've got the contentment of the collective.
And for 6.99 nobody is going to buy it. I've been a FF fan since I played the first one on Nintendo decades ago but unless squareenix keeps their pricing in line with everyone else I'm not going to buy their shit.
Much like I haven't bought Assassins Creed (or any other Ubisoft game) beyond the first one once Ubisoft showed their true DRM colors.
Jonah Lehrer Resigns After Making Up Dylan Quotes for His Book
Game of Life 404
Yup, and there are several perhaps as many as a dozen 'sock puppet' systems out there today.

Generally I refer to any program which is using APIs intended for humans in order to achieve a result for the person who ran it, a 'bot'. Comes from folks who build scripted clients for computer games.
Parallel programming is much harder than it looks
Someone could (and should!) take the webrtc c++ libraries and use those to create their own native client app -- which would not be dependent on the Chrome browser.
http://mattnt.com/2012/03/08/somethings-unraveling-alright/
If the point is to show off the support product, wouldn't it be better to show the Apple employee being supportive, rather than condescending and smug?

I thought the ad was terrible. Apple's support is absolutely one of their best selling points, and they could definitely win some business by pushing it, but this ad does an awful job of conveying that, and instead conveys "Apple store employees are arrogant and annoying".
I'm not sure that it's the wrong Haskell-Platform, nandemo's remark entails that it isnt. The naive installation would have been `yum install haskell-platform` or whatever, then `cabal update && cabal install gitit` I think you are getting bad advice because this is a completely inappropriate venue and people are having to make judgments on too little information; almost all such problems can be cleared up in 3-4 min on #haskell

You may be right about Perl &co but I invite you to look at my gem installation...
Agreed. Snow Leopard was a great product, and it was worth every penny. Lion had a lot of new features and groundwork that made it worth the upgrade as well. Now, though, the trend seems to be 'incremental improvements and a few new features', and I'm ok with that.
Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money
Can we call it a bubble yet?
Because the problem goes beyond failing to invalidate the existing cache for the resource (which is a SHOULD), Chrome does not even make the request, which most definitely isn't acceptable under any circumstance, even after careful considerations. The spec even emphatically says that responses to a DELETE are not cacheable, how could you use an existing cached response as valid for a DELETE if you are not allowed to cache a delete in the first place?
the app reviews in iTunes store seem to hilight some deficiencies
I think the IE9 ads are pretty good.
I'm still waiting for the 4chan ipo
Pie Charts Are Bad
Windows 8 is shaping up to be the most secure desktop and mobile OS
How would it work in your ideal world?

Even if you don't want to use Google+, why can't you think of it as just another account you have to make. Imagine Hangouts was a great stand-alone product made by a start-up. You'd still need a whole different account to use that stand-alone Hangouts product.

So I'd suggest just looking at it like that, if you really don't want anything to do with the whole Google+ part of Hangouts. Plus, it looks like Google wants to make Hangouts work in more of their services than just Google+, and I think that's a great idea. They could probably implement Hangouts in a lot of their other products, to get people to "video socialize" around them, and maybe build fun ways to use it with those other products.
A technically renewable resource would be one that renews itself naturally, at a rate exceeding that of consumption.

Solar, wind, and hydro are renewable in the sense that we consume them as they are produced.

Agriculturally-based power sources (wood, ethanol, biomass, algae oil generation) are renewable in the sense that the biological source grows back after it's harvested (assuming sustainable harvesting).

A sustainable consumptive resource is one which, at projected rates of consumption, would be sufficient for forseable demand until the end of time on Earth. In 4-5 billion years, the sun will expand to the point that it encompasses Earth's orbit. Somewhat sooner than that, increased solar radiation will boil off the oceans and atmosphere. We'll have bigger things to worry about than sources of electricity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future