skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like it's just blacklisted (or maybe even just rate-limited?) from something called "CanvasPrefetcherConfig". I haven't the patience right now to read through the whole minified file to figure out what's actually going on, but that sounds more like a workaround for some obscure technical issue than The Sims Social being somehow blacklisted by Facebook, doesn't it?
A programmer, by practicing his trade diligently, will in high likelihood grow in his typing proficiency and become faster, especially if he is spending much of his time developing. Also, writing specs and comments take a lot of text as well.
"Is there any way to run multiple vim windows from one vim process, with them sharing the same internal clipboard?"

Yes, though you will need a Vim with support for it built. See `:h client-server` for details. (I never really got into using it regularly)
> The $500 model is the 32GB version.

That's more than enough. The tablet itself has a microSD card slot, and if you get the keyboard add-on, you'll have an SD card slot as well.
Investors often asked YC companies themselves, "What company is hot?" instead of judging things on their own.

If you have booths with demos, having more investors gathered near one booth might end up as signaling to other investors that this is the "hot" one of the batch, which results in more gathering. And where the investors cluster could have been a random event, or the location of the booth was better, etc. I can imagine founders spending all their time being big and splashy with swag and posters.
Twitter seems not respecting API neutrality (same paradigm as Internet neutrality), the fact that all API 3rd-party users may have the same rights, access and limits to your API, if they satisfy same primary conditions (free or paying users)

Instagram, Linkedin, Tumblr...who's next?

They have gone crazy since they want to have their "consistent user experience"...
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It is going to be painful when any free service starts wanting to make money.
is that a "Ready Player One" reference?
I imagine this is going to occur a lot more with twitter competing in complementary spaces with both branch and medium.
That's no doubt true in general, but culture can also have a very strong influence, either suppressing or encouraging such feelings.

Japan's "ganbatte" culture, for instance, actually glorifies precisely the opposite: people are praised and admired for working hard and sticking with something despite hardships. Other east-asian cultures also have roughly similar tendencies, although the details vary a lot.

All cultures have elements of both, but I think America is relatively far towards one end of the spectrum, and while that probably has good effects in encouraging risk-taking and invention, it also has bad effects in making people intolerant of the sort of hard work that's usually also necessary to really accomplish something.
This is a pretty well known strategy. Good to see people using this still and getting great results from it. You can get some surprisingly useful feedback for just $X00, especially if you note down your target user group in the HIT.
Disservice is a strong word for this, but yes I agree it's a little tough. Everyone can go use the products later though right?
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Not completely unexpected. Twitter needs cash, and they need a sustainable business model. I would not be surprised if Tumblr and Twitter talked and there was a value disagreement about who brought what to the party. Another one of those things my grandfather would say that this reminds me of is this, "The thing about a Mexican standoff is that sometimes they shoot."

I used to do Battlebots, Comedy Central had the television rights, at contract renewal time Battlebots and CC disagreed over who brought the most value to the table, they agreed to disagree and both walked away.

Clearly this will kill neither Twitter nor Tumblr but what it does do is put an obvious to fill gap in Tumblr's toolchest. Presumably they could add Identi.ca there where Twitter was, sure you wouldn't find any friends their yet but if Tumblr can convince their users to get an Identi.ca id when they create their Tumblr and then offer a chance to find people with it, it helps more than it hurts.
http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/29/twitter-financials/

2010: $45 million
2011: $140 million
2012: ??

Sounds like they're doing ok to me.
Cooler, yes; sooner, no.
Reflection has recording built in. It was pretty laggy for me, but my MacBook was on wifi and maybe bogged down with other stuff running and the app I was running pushed a lot of pixels. (That's a whole lot of 'but' there. I need to try it again.)
I wonder if Twitter will become like MySpace -- a mass market/middle school/music/urban ghetto, with everyone smart enough to move to another service doing so (which was Facebook at the time).

If the tech/vc/science community moved to app.net, the only thing left for me on twitter would be businesses abusing it as a form of RSS, which is by far the easiest content for them to publish to both Twitter and App.net in parallel. So really there are about 5k and maybe up to 50k people who need to move to app.net for me to no longer care about Twitter, and presumably at least 2500 of them have already signed up.
Absolutely agree. So much good stuff there. I can't even begin to name home many times I've referenced articles there.
I wish the book itself was available as HTML or PDF. Amazing forward.
It looks like it affects a single function, FB.Canvas.Prefetcher._maybeSample, which is:

if (!j.isEnvironment(j.ENVIRONMENTS.CANVAS) || !j.getClientID() || !l) return; if (Math.random() > 1 / l || m == '*' || ~ES5(m, 'indexOf', true, j.getClientID())) return; setTimeout(p, 30000);

where m is the blacklist.

Given that this function does nothing for 30 seconds anyway, it seems almost certain that it's a workaround for a technical issue.
What would the possible use for such a feature be? When in the world are non-programmers ever typing squiggly braces?
Without consensus about (1) which metrics are important to Twitter, and (2) how to maximise them, these comments about them being dicks are just emotional responses.

Nothing wrong with that: getting burned by Twitter as a developer or user is worth other people's attention, as we all try to understand what to make of it.
Revenue, sure. Profitability?
As i mentionned in an other post about it, Twitter seems not respecting API neutrality (same paradigm as Internet neutrality), the fact that all API 3rd-party users may have the same rights, access and limits to your API, if they satisfy same primary conditions (free or paying users)
Instagram, Linkedin, Tumblr...who's next?
They have gone crazy since they want to have their "consistent user experience"...
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from the guy who got into TechStars with Nick - he is one of best hustlers I know
It does sound slightly less when you consider they've taken nigh on a billion in funding.
Part of the power of YC is that it's in some way collective bargaining.

There's a similar phenomenon at top law schools (I was a lawyer in a previous life). When law firms come to campus to interview students, the school's goal is to obscure which students are top students and which aren't. Why? To protect the middle and bottom of the class and facilitate everyone getting jobs based on the school's brand.

The YC Demo Day format and the removal of the fundraising slide can in part be explained by the desire to obscure which companies will be hot (unlike say, if there are booths), so that everyone can raise based the YC brand versus just the hottest companies.
The authors main point: "But it really seems like a better format for this would have been to have people demo-ing in booths, keeping the focus on what they’ve been working so hard on: the product."

Sounds like a perfect solution. Why not?
Interesting to see the startup industry running into some of the controversies of academia. :) This 1- or 2-minute pitch, where you essentially advertise your real pitch (poster or demo or longer talk) by using a "graph going up and to the right", along with 1-3 slides and a quick blurb, is a mainstay of academic conferences, and not liked by all. Sometimes called "1-minute madness".
It would be an added bonus if there were an illustration of a hand highlighting which fingers should be used with which keys at the bottom. Similar to http://www.typingweb.com/. I get allot of practice typing my own source, but what I am currently working on is making sure I am using the right fingers for numbers, symbols, and punctuation.
That's known as "subvocalization" [1]. Look at a basic speed reading book for tips on avoiding it.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Speed_Reading#Subvocalization
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I'm teying to buy apps on iOS but Apple present a confirm payment dialog first. Fine, but when I attmept to enter the card number (which is deinitely valid and ive entered the number correctly), im getting a 'Security id invalid' error message. A quick search reveals lots of other people with the same issue. Thoughts?
I was excited for a minute, but the ttymouse change did nothing for me on Mac OS Terminal with vim 7.3.
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Kinda OT, but I noticed you're using Google Fonts, and they load instantaneously. When I use Google Fonts, they take a little bit, usually loading after the whole site is already displayed. Did you optimized anything regarding this?
Any particular reason for Socko instead of Spray? (http://spray.cc)
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Two questions or thoughts: i) It's sort of outrageous but not really. Dave is playing to his constituents. His target market are early startups full of developers. "Wearing a suit is like the “stupidest thing” if you are trying to create trust with geeky developers who are trying to start a company. “They are scared shitless of people in sales in suits,” he said." What better way to endear yourself to the scared shitless developer than to launch a blistering attack on the dreaded foe.

II) Does this risk any fallout for companies Dave invests in? With later rounds, that might include these VC's, could Dave's ongoing participation impact who might want to invest? Probably not but seems worth considering?
Can you help us test our new website? Pleeeeease
Hello,

Together with a couple of friends we spent the last few weeks developing a new concept of social network/blogging platform and we are very excited about it.

We are looking for someone to test our website and help us understand if the idea makes sense.

Would you be so kind to create a free account (using the BETAFRIENDS code) and tell us what you think?

The URL is http://www.everythinker.com

The idea is to give points to users anytime they read some other users' messages and then use the points to post your own messages. Think about it as a mix between chatroulette.com/omegle.com and twitter.com.

Thanks in advance!
Seems like watermarking with something like a QR would be better, maybe less aesthetically weird as well. Although, no watermark I guess would be better, just an idea. :)
Twitter API thinks it is a too big to fail social API; and begins to think short term profitability. Like the banking system with subprimes, they believe the mass will always save them from fail. look one blogpost talking about it here http://api500.tumblr.com/post/27360838922/apis-too-big-to-fa... with other ones like GoogleMaps or Facebook.
Yes. There's shairport and many XBMC builds include servers to receive AirPlay audio and even video, but not AirPlay mirroring. (There are really three levels of AirPlay - audio, streaming video, and mirroring - essentially the whole device's display.)

There are even Android servers like AirBubble and Android HIFI that can receive audio but not video and clients like HoneyPlayer (audio) and iMediashare (audio and video).
If you want to improve yourself you should look into what evidence based reasoning has to say about what you want to discover the answer for, and in particular what modern science has to say about it. Think of it this way. Think of any question upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one.

Abandoning evidence based reasoning leads to error quickly. Arguing from absolute certainty, which is what faith is (it claims to posses the absolute truth, the words of the creator of the universe no less), is bound to lead to errors. Not testing your ideas does that to you.

Take for example animal rights and if it is right to kill animals. Judeo-Christian faiths are clean on this: god gave humans dominion over the earth, and in particular animals for food. End of story. Why should I give rights to my food?

But what is right follows from what is true. If animals are indeed sentient, if they are self-aware even, if they can suffer, are scientific questions. If scientific answers to these questions are positive, then some of us sufficiently evolved, aware humans can't ignore the fact, and we have no choice but to treat animals differently than what we do now. Some countries like Spain have gone so far as to give protection and right to life to higher primates, our closest cousin apes.
Twitter has 1000 employees, at 100k a pop (with taxes, benefits, it's prob higher) that's 100mm/year in salary expenses alone. Let's talk servers, bandwidth, office space, and they dive into the red really fast.
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From a specifications standpoint, you could imagine the Note 10.1 as being something of a successor of the Tab 10.1. Despite the angry review, it does pack improved (roughly one generation ahead) hardware compared to the Tab 10.
Way to go, Twitter. It's really a shame that they're doing these kind of shitty things. Makes you wonder what are they planning to do...
I think you missed the parent's point here, the deal was 300M cash and 1% of Facebook. It is still that as far as I can tell. It was reported as a $1B deal because if you did the math at the time that was what you got. Now in say 5 years if you do the math again you will get another number, could be a bigger number, could be smaller, but it will still be 1% (caveat new stock issuing). You could say it was a 70 degree deal on the 9th of April because that was the temperature in Palo Alto then but only a 63 degree deal now. Ok, that's a silly way to measure it but it illustrates the point the parent was making.
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Http gets let through firewalls. Other protocols don't.
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Is 'Social' Over?
2140M shares outstanding 23M shares in the deal 23/2140 is 1.0747% (at least according to bc(1))
Seems sensible enough. The editor just assumes that you want your thingies to match.
Twitter is killing itself... http://api500.tumblr.com/image/27419960753
Poor Twitter...
As someone who pitched on stage yesterday I have mixed feelings on this subject. I understand that seeing a graph up and to the right on every single slide, 74 times in a row, might get a little repetitive. That said, you're also getting pitched by 74 companies who actually have graphs that are up and to the right. You're being pitched by companies who have been focusing on nothing but acquiring users, talking to users, learning from users, and building in parallel. Many of us took money from those users. By making sure we realized graphs that go up and to the right would be a standard on which we were judged, we were all essentially "tricked" into doing something that SHOULD be obvious for any entrepreneur, which is doing nothing but talking to users, building a product users like, signing users up, and ultimately charging users (this isn't always something to focus on from day one depending on the product). Everyone else is going to have a graph that goes up and to the right? Shit, I better as well! What I'm trying to say is, being pitched by companies who are already doing this well in such a short amount of time should be a good thing.

While 2:15 is most definitely short, it also gets you thinking about the 2 - 3 things that you want potential investors to remember about you. How can we be most effective in the least amount of time? It's an amazing exercise and it's very helpful for pitching in the future.

After pitching, the investors who really love your vision or idea let you know they are interested, and you have plenty of time to tell them more, show them your product, etc.
Exactly, and I'm a java programmer. For the record Sublime Text also inserts these for me. When I had to type '}' in the training program I actually had to look down at my keyboard!
Quality still horrible, even on paid content. I have a 1080p projector fed from a ps3, xbox, appletv, and for each, I get what looks like SD, and overcompressed at that.

Yellowstone (HD) on a Mac (in Chrome) also appears SD-quality. I'm on 100M comcast business, and everything else works fine, with Amazon reporting it's in HD mode with good performance, so I think it's just crap encoding :(
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I don't understand how the IPO of Facebook impacts the users of Facebook; the users are still going on as they were before. Unless they mean 'Social' as a moneymaker?
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Let me end this conversation before it begins:

"Why should the government tell me I need this many exits, or that I need a wheelchair ramp if no-one needs it?"

"Because you're too short-sighted to see how important those things are. The government is watching out for you and those unfortunate enough to know you."
"I wouldn't really say anyone uses logstash itself to provide search for the logs"

Huh? The front page of http://logstash.net/ suggests that one of the primary uses!

"logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). Speaking of searching, logstash comes with a web interface for searching and drilling into all of your logs.

All your logs from all over your infrastructure in one place - with searching and graphing. Since we can easily parse text-based logs, you can query for more precise things like, all 404 http errors, nagios critical alerts in hard state, or mail server faults - all without accidentally finding logs with the word ‘404’ or ‘critical’ in the wrong place."
In my case, I was writing documentation for our product :P

Since it's being written on purpose as a 'product spec' like doc, company standards dictate that it be written in Word (unfortunately).
LinkedIn and Facebook can both be pretty good when you need narrow targeting.

There are three big issues with using MTurk for business research. You can't do much to refine who you get as respondents, the respondents are incentivized to complete the task without regard for the effect on your data, and you have restrictions on what you can do due to the anonymity rules.

If you're following the way of the niche, MTurk may be too problematic compared to just slogging through some cold calls. The benefit for more broadly targeted projects is that it lets you grab a large sample size with fairly low effort.
Sigh, its not an 'illegal' haven it just isn't up to code. Which, unfortunately, you cannot sign a waiver that says I won't hold anyone responsible for me burning up in a fire here. And the Mtn View is kind of well known for being unhelpful in these regards.
I think a big part of why Demo Day is run like this is because good products do not speak for themselves.

Investors are often not the target demographic of a particular product and given the range of products (wedding registry app, logistics/shipping software, developer tool for checking insurance claims, humor website, etc) most YC companies have chosen to show traction as a proxy for both demand for and quality of, their product as well as the execution ability of the team.

As others have pointed out, this is a great way to get an investor interested in learning more about the company.
Ask HN: What do you dislike about hackathons/startup-weekend type events? 
im currently throwing around an idea for a 'startup weekend' type of event.
i've done several startup weekend events and I do have some gripes about it. while you do learn alot in those 48 hours of hacking/building a business model, it is very very stressful but rewarding. but i dont think it has to be that way all the time.
was wondering if anyone has any complaints about these type of events that have been to in the past.
Oh, that's beautiful. The minute you get any nontrivial amount of data flowing, Google et al will want to crawl/index/search you. If they subscribe like any other client it is a win-win: You get a search service, they get real-time data feeds.
A girl I used to like deleted her Facebook account.
Occam's razor was never meant to prove anything. It is a principle of economy of assumptions or hypothesis. In essence it says don't assume more than you have to explain certain phenomena. This is what I mean. We now have a good idea how universe itself can come from nothing, we don't need the god hypothesis to explain that one last ultimate question (why is there something rather than nothing. There is something because something is more stable than nothing). Our ancestors certainly didn't have that knowledge and for them god seemed necessary to "explain" this. Even though such god did not really explain anything, it just shifted the question further to where did god come from. Did he spontaneously come from nothing? Did he always exist? And why can't we just forgo such hypothesis (this is where Occam's economy principle comes in) and just assume universe itself either always existed or come into being from nothing (which is what current physical theory suggests). Why posit an intelligent being capable of creating universes, which raises more questions about where did this intelligence itself come from, rather than assume the same thing about the dumb matter (i.e. universe) itself.

I hope this clarifies what I meant above.

This whole argument is shortened into "deistic god can neither be proved nor disproved, but we no longer need him to kick off the universe for us. We now know how that too can happen without god".

However, I have nothing against deistic god. People who want to believe in deistic god will not receive any objection from me. I'm primarily gnostic (I know there is no theistic god) anti-theist (I don't think religion is a force for good in the world). Religion is not about deistic god. Religion is about people who not only know there is a god, with certainty, but they know his mind, what he wants us to do. It is this argument from certainty (which all arguments from faith are), that can easily be disproved. Note that I have not actually offered proof in my posts, the time and space and the forum itself are not the right places to do this. But I can recommend a lot of literature on this subject that go into great depth if you care to look at the evidence we do have.
And yet you still felt compelled to share.
It's just a poorly written ad. The add is for the realty company, but they put the info of just one of their houses in the title to show what you can get.
I think the issue is that any startup can produce a metric in which they have a nice graph going up and to the right, no doubt some of the 75 companies are likely far more attractive than others but it probably isn't clear without followup which those are.

At the same time I am not sure you can do it any other way and still have the time for everyone to see all the pitches. You are right that longer presentations with a group this big would probably result in most of the audience forgetting most of what they see.
Jailbreak and install display recorder. Profit.
Wait, why the frik do they have 1k employees?
Indeed, it seems that, cocky and scared, they decided that since they are so big and popular, they don't need 3rd party developers anymore, or at least not as much as they used to. It is a case of digging your own grave by optimizing for short-term gain and then losing in the long run. Pity.