skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Using your analogy, some people do drugs because they can't help themselves.

It's not my analogy; that's just drug addiction. If you don't believe in the addiction part of drug addiction, then that's where we would differ, I suppose. I think that drug and alcohol addictions are true addictions for some people (as opposed to just bad habits).

I have to confess that I don't understand how the rest of your comments relate to my post.
Exactly. What is even more annoying is that so many of them have ideas that require millions of users to make any money.

What's wrong with creating a SaaS for $80/month and finding 500 users? $40k/month is more than so many of these clowns will ever make.

they need to keep their heads down and mouths shut. rant over = )
An uneducated guess? Maybe there is some type of spare storage pool just for staging the glaciar restore requests, and they've done the math to figure out how much space they need on average over time for this. The 24 hour storage expiration probably helps with this and they've calculated how much space they need to have on-hand and for spikes for restore requests and the restore delay helps factor in these demand spikes so they can move storage pools around on the backend if they need additional online storage capacity within the next X hours. Plus there could be limited bandwidth to these back-end archival arrays <-> restore pool hosts to save on cost etc which is also part of the pricing equation/delay time.
Yes, every day. I often come very close to submitting an ask link, as well, but decide not to.
I think that's a fair thing to assume. Full disclosure: I'm Dan, one of the other co-founders of Keen. I actually did the negotiation with Michelle - Kyle delivered our original offer. But she's one of my best friends as well. As is Kyle. As is our other co-founder and the two other people on our team.

The negotiation was awkward, but I'm personally convinced that we're a stronger team because of our close personal bonds. It's not for everybody or every team, of course, but I believe it works for us.
Yeah, they're fronting the other $1400 of the premium. We're a very small company and getting completely dicked by Blue Cross / Blue Shield. Doesn't help that most of the principals are senior people with families. I also chose the PPO over the HMO and FSA plans. I've btdt with those two and will never go back.

Which brings me back to your first point. Yes, the healthcare aspect (especially in the US) is contextual. Which means startups can favor younger/inexperienced/childless early employees over older experienced/family people.

And remember, anyone's situation can change on a dime. Doesn't matter where or when you work.
Surely it messes with things that a favorable offer to her is also a favorable offer to her husband.
KNX and other open standards of home automation are supported. So, yes.
* Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site*

How, pray tell?
Eh, don't bank with them yet if that's what you think. This industry needs pioneers and anything with the scale and complexity of a bank is going to have some bugs no matter how much testing is done in a private beta.

Yeah, it's scary to think that your money is being managed by beta software, but it was also scary for Chuck Yeager to break the sound barrier.
Startup is about starting a new business isn't it? If your first project was making money, but wasn't a business, with at least a rudimentar business plan, goals, and all the formality involved in doing real business... then maybe it was really just a web site that was making money as a side effect.

It looks like people enjoy romanticizing this darker side of starting up a new business. It's not your fault if you don't fail the first time you try :)
They'll fire 50 people and still have about the same headcount as the start of the year -- so they overhired and won't have the revenue to pay for their excess employees?
Shut up, release PVZ2 and take my money already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1_0SUGlDQ
I believe most of what you're saying is correct. The point of contention is the OEM license restriction. I understand your issue there, that you should be able to reuse the license you paid for. The opposing viewpoint is that you did not pay for a license, at least not a full one. Traditionally, the OEM license has been priced lower specifically because it is more restricted. You paid a fraction of the cost of a full license specifically because you were not paying for the ability to transfer the software to a new machine.

Maybe Microsoft will eventually do away with this restriction and just have one license. I think that would be a nice move.
My ex-girlfriend did a stint that included work like this at Google. She was originally hired (as a contractor) for something completely different. At the time, they had a counselor on site to deal with anyone getting traumatized by the work. And not surprisingly, she was not converted to full-time employment after 10 months of this...
I just left 200 fake parking tickets at YC Demo Day...
It must be very strange negotiating salary with your fiance.

1) Supposing they low-balled you, and you found out. Awkward..

2) Presumably at some stage, your finances will be joint, or at least interlinked. Does that not mean it is in your fiance's best interest to make sure you get as much as possible? Is that not a conflict with what's best for the company?

//edit// Not being mean, btw, I hope they do really well and make millions. It just seems a bit.. strange.
Yes, if the founders of a company, who have the best visibility into the company, don't value their equity, it's a waving red flag on fire. Either they are idiots (inexperienced at best, incompetent more likely), or company = doomed.

Obviously offering tptacek 5% in a company isn't bad, but offering an office admin 5% is.
I think he's just trying to explain why he doesn't think he has another Yammer in him. Cognitive Dissonance explains all.
PopCap shuts down two studios, lays off 50 in Seattle
Submarine. Sunken submarine.

Everybody will discuss about the author and the CEO being engaged and nobody will remember the startup's name.
I know you... Sort of, you keep showing up as an RSVP for the EntrepreneursDen Meetup, but you don't come.
We'll host any version of any library. It's just that no one typically adds versions of libraries older than we currently host.
Why find partners and competitors to your product
Food onsite is a special case. It's tax-advantaged for the employer (if offering meals onsite is "for the convenience of the employer, and for a business purpose"), and food has a high search/storage/etc. cost. Similarly, I'd value a 30" monitor at about $1k/yr salary.
SQL Azure - Disaster Recovery
Both OO-XML and ODF are XML based. They both put the main XML document in a ZIP archive along with metadata and other resources.
It's pretty simple, medium and higher end tech users are becoming more and more used to the convention and to start building something, I'd rather spend $10-200 rather than 10K-200K on a domain name.

Along your point, I'm much more a fan of getmyapp.com rather than mya.pp. As for not understanding it, it's not hard to wrap your head around. Douchbags like the Domain King (just Google him) squat on thousands of domains, feeling like the Donald Trumps of the Internet and making it hard for everyone to find a decent name.
Don't listen to them OzzyB. Your to-do list app is really going to be revolutionary. ;)
We have the trademark for Vively, a dictionary word meaning represented in a lively manner, especially on stage, which is great for a video hosting site. But the domain is being squatted. So, http://vive.ly it is.

You can see more about our startup at http://www.getvively.com/ ... And I bet you just love those get____.com domains too!
I see to work in the hostel biz in eastern Europe, we had tons of "lifestyle" biz and hacker guys stay with us
That's a valid point. We've owned refer.ly for 3 years and began pursuing the .com domain as soon as we decided to turn it into a business.

Also, our product is (currently implemented as) a link shortener so the .ly domain choice has served us well.

Thanks for the feedback!
But the returns of utility and money on satisfying those wants diminish.
I was thinking the same thing. I'd love it if they grew like Dropbox, charging users who extract more value from their service so that they can stay independent. The pro offering for $25 is a good sign in that direction. Still a tiny bit worried about them getting acqui-hired though.
I find this extraordinarily encouraging. If doing great work does not require some innate Einsteinness, then I am not automatically precluded from doing so due to my genetics. It means having the natural technical skills of John von Neumann is not necessary to do great things. This is an extremely comforting thought.
You should definitely play again. As always, you can still open-world play with no end, but now there is a rather complex but possible way to beat the game. There is also a limited set of achievements, potions, enchanting, new mobs, and new blocks. There are also NPC villages you can trade with.

Overall, the game has progressed nicely.
Is the sample data the only data about the student that Clever handles? Or does Clever allow for more more data for schools to be added. Specifically, I'm curious about phone numbers for students and teachers.
Go read about investor qualification and why taking on an unqualified investor at an early stage can hurt your company.
You're right, I forgot about the "proprietary" document formats that got transformed into "open" (heh) XML formats. Good point. Thanks!
On being a polyglot
>I'd usually just strip bare and jump off a mountain to respawn.

You'll be pleasantly surprised to know this is more of a viable option than it used to be. It's quite hard to fill up your food bar once empty, but quite easy to jump off a cliff to reset it.

>I never really had any good idea as to what I should actually do in the game, besides build a random house on some random hilltop and admire the view.

I think everyone has this question. I tried to solve it by setting personal goals for myself:

1. build a complex redstone circuit; here's one of mine: http://youtu.be/qnd9l2_qrF0

2. craft a map (which can only be filled in by exploring the surrounding area) and fill it in completely

If you decide to try to "beat" the game, be warned that it's rather boring and anticlimactic. Probably the coolest part is it forces you to explore the "Nether".
We have a page that details the differences between the licenses type - http://www.binpress.com/content/licenses

We worked with a copyright lawyer to build those licenses, we didn't just made arbitrary decisions. I assure they are all useful in the context that they claim to be.
produce desirable hardware that people buy for non-technical reasons instead of raw figures

Of late I've been contending that specs are excuses admitting inadequacy.

Until recently, every new computer (broadly defined) was listed with a proliferation of specifications (_.__MHz CPU _GB RAM ___GB HD ...). Now, in particular with the iPad and trending with other machines, no specifications (beyond what amounts to "small, medium, or large") are given. Why? specifications are needed to convince buyers the product is good enough when it isn't.

Most users just want something that's capable enough that they don't have to think about the technical limitations. Most users glaze over at random-looking numbers associated with meaningless abbreviations denoting implementation details they don't understand; their question isn't "how many gigahertz is the processor?" it's "if I click something will I be annoyed by the delay?" The real answer to the latter question is "yes, you will". To obscure that dissatisfying answer, sellers toss out the profusion of specifications in an attempt to convince buyers that the product is good enough to buy anyway. Users, able to at least evaluate whether X > Y, compare the numbers and convince themselves that those numbers are as large as they can be and still have an affordable package.

Apple's goal is to sell hardware. With the onset of "retina" displays, flash memory, multi-core processors, iCloud, etc. all those specifications transition from confusion to "good enough". Doesn't matter what the number of pixels are, you can't discern them so it's good enough. Doesn't matter what the storage capacity is, between terabytes local and near-bottomless cloud behind it you won't run out. Flash is so fast you mostly won't care. Processor speeds equal supercomputers of recent past. It's all "good enough" - making the comparison between Apple products and "lots of incomprehensible random numbers & abbreviations" easy.

PC makers still flaunting specifications are saying "no, really, it's good enough - see?" making customers hesitate their purchase. Apple is going for "details are irrelevant, it's good enough - period."
Ask HN: Why don't you use PKS to sign your email?
What is it that stops most people from using GPG or a similar system to sign their email?

I know why your common or garden user might not, but I often wonder why, with sites like gpgtools or gpg4win that make install & keygen simpler, more technical people haven't adopted PKS.

So, what stops you signing your emails?
Do you think the negotiating framework she wrote about here is unlikely to yield good results for normal startup people?
Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 2: Meet Instacart, Coco Controller, Referly
Unless lighting cigars with $20 bills could give you more money, I don't see that as an applicable analogy. If anything, it's a version of gambling.

Taking a significant paycut can be worth it if the options offered proportionately compensated the salary disparity IF the startup exits AND at a number that you estimate it could potentially hit.

If one isn't willing to take that risk then they should opt for less equity/no equity but a fairer market value.
My very own 3D printed action hero figure
Seems like a workflowy.com clone with monospaced font and a much more confusing interface?
(Couldn't reply directly to you, rdl, sorry.)

I agree that offering an office manager 5% is silly and offering a founder-level person 5% could make sense. I guess I was more curious to see what you think the right ranges are.
RailsBridge: a Difference That Makes A Difference
Maybe better pronounced "insure-ish"
Django Requirements 2012-08-15 - Recommended Packages
No, it means people don't usually create completely useless data-holder classes in Python. Instead they use standard collections, depending on their hierarchy of needs: tuples, dicts or namedtuples.

All three of the classes in the example are basically worthless. Including SongList, which is the one with the most logic (a single line) and which you didn't even use at the end. Here's the three classes, at their most future-proof:

from collections import namedtuple

Song = namedtuple('Song', 'name duration artist')
Artist = namedtuple('Artist', 'name')
class SongList(list): pass

and as a side-note, this:

for song in (song for song in songList if song.duration < 10):
print "%s by %s (%d)" % (song.name, song.artist, song.duration)

is needlessly complex, why the comprehension? Just write a loop and a conditional:

for song in songList:
if song.duration < 10:
print "{0.name} by {0.artist.name} ({0.duration})".format(song)
The pentalobe screws are stupid, and I'll be the first in line to call Apple a bunch of jerks for it. However, they're unrelated to using non-modularity as a weapon against customers. The screws certainly qualify as such a weapon, but they're unrelated to component modularity.

As for the rest, can you give me a specific example of a non-modular system that Apple has made that didn't result in savings in cost, space, or weight? Because every example I can think of saves at least one of those, so either you're thinking of something I'm not, or we disagree on what the savings are. Either way, I can't address it until I know exactly what you're referring to.
I somehow can't take people serious who still think it's a good idea to use 'here' as a link text.
I'm not totally sure that the diversification of video games is to blame. For every Duke Nukem, DOOM, and Quake, there where equally popular and less taxing games like SimCity and RollerCoaster Tycoon that have been players in the gaming world that did not push hardware forward.

Additionally, I very much take issue with your statement that Crysis, a game released in 2007 is still the "standard" for graphics intensive games.

The games that are pushing the bounds of PC hardware are games like [1]The Witcher 2, games which are huge improvements on [2]Crysis.

[1]http://cdn.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/witcher2-20...

[2]http://oyster.ignimgs.com/ve3d/ve3d/image/article/745/745255...
More likely, they over hired in certain skillsets (Flash, maybe?) and plan to hire in others where there's money being made (I would imagine mobile) or other markets (they mention China and Japan).
tips: Be genuine. only refer stuff that is really great and you would put your reputation behind (because you are).

Also, one cool and easy hack, is to make a collection of office things that you know your office manager orders regularly (coffee filters, pens, post-its etc). He or she can refer back to the collection easily (good for them) and you get the rewards (good for you).
Thanks for the feedback. I realized the article was confusing so I added an intro.

However, I feel no need to mention my gender or sexuality when introducing myself. If I didn't have a clearly female name, should I have said "Hi, I'm Pat, and I'm a female in the tech industry"?
Why submit or upvote the Slashdot discussion instead of the original Buzzfeed article (http://www.buzzfeed.com/reyhan/tech-confessional-the-googler...)?!

Maybe a better question would be how a Slashdot link makes it to the front page...
Hmmm, for me the cap wouldn't be enough, I'd just have to create an account, fake for twenty referals, then do this multiple times. But maybe I'm over-paranoid on this. Just that money/discount reward just for pushing people to signup seems to really start by hurting your business plan. Let's wait for other opinions on this.

You might consider posting your site with a different title, like a "Show HN : launching a new brand of t-shirts targetting programmers" or an equivalent? Because the current title seems to ask advice on how to go viral and a lot of people might not even know your project exists even if they would like it!
You might enjoy reading this. http://www.dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter....
And it didn't work ("something went wrong"). Other than that, awesomeness.
Oh hey another TODO list. Great.
You'd think the FBI would rent an API to make comparisons against their database of illegal stuff.
Out-sourcing companies move call-centers back to the States
Just curious: What is the actual job description for this kind of interwebs janitor'ing?
Shouldn't that be "I mixed selling t-shirts with a little bit of gamification"? I don't really get the game theory angle (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory). Very clever idea in any case!
The sign up page is indeed just for Beta. You should sign up and give us your feedback when we start testing. :)

Are you connected to the Dallas startup community at all? We have won some local events in the past
Just to clarify: 1000+ schools are using Clever for ALL of their student data and not just some test accounts?
You also have to factor in that life expectancy of these machines. Usually processors last about 5 years and by the time that happens you're probably going to want to get the latest which will most likely be a different socket and require a new motherboard.

Furthermore, PC enthusiasts and gamers will never be satisfied. These folk live for the next hardware releases to get even the tiniest gain on their overclocks or go from 2x AA to 4x AA. The PC enthusiast community is a force to be reckoned with. Don't believe me? Just check out the plethora of forums out there and see how active they are. I don't see that going away anytime soon.
The joke is pretty good but it's unfortunate that the startup (Tripl - discover the world through your friends beautiful travel stories) has nothing to do with the ticket. Seems like it would work better for AngelList or some other company.
hopefully I cleared up the confusion with the intro I added to the entry.
I must admit -- it's an ingenious way to pitch your company.
superb hack. any leads?

would be great if you could follow up with any interesting stories that came out of this.
There's always a serialization step. The type of the resulting data is a consequence of the serialization technique, not the data format. I demonstrated the part you seemed to most strongly claim didn't exist, JSON <-> strong typing, but I can show you "weakly-typed" XML too. In addition to the DOM, which is a standardized "weak type" XML representation, you also have things like ElementTree http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm .

It is the case that JSON has a simple default weak serialization in many popular languages, and that it is a great deal of the reason for its popularity, but it is worth pointing out this is a local effect in the Javascript/Python/Perl/Ruby space, and that it hasn't got anything to do with strongly or weakly typed but rather what the target languages shipped with. There is no natural mapping for JSON in C++, C#, Erlang, Haskell, Prolog, SQL, or a wide variety of other languages (and Erlang and SQL are both fairly "weakly typed"), and even in JS/Python/Perl/Ruby there are some edge cases that can bite you if you aren't careful about exactly what the "just_decode_some_json_man()" is really doing with Unicode and numbers that may not fit into 32 bits.

(Also, I scarequote all my "weakly typed" because the term is basically ill-defined. I'm coming around to prefer "sloppy type", which is a language where all values are perfectly well strongly typed but the language and/or library is shot through with automatic coercions and/or extensive duck typing. A sloppy type language considers it a feature that a function may have a a value and not really know or care what it is.)
I've tried it and didn't like it at all.

The main problem is how it replaces the letter I'm searching with another unrelated one, making all the matches practically unreadable. To me, at least.

set incsearch

and

/foo
?bar

are more than enough for my needs.
This person isn't an office admin. I don't know where that notion is coming from (elsewhere on the thread, I assume), but it's a little disturbing.
Haha pretty creative. You should scale this up to the entire city of Mountain View!
If you look at some of the bios of the top 50 kaggler's there's some pretty impressive backgrounds there, and they participate heavily. So I don't think that's the reason.

I know for my own beginner mistakes, it's a big error to try something out-of-the-box and immediately try to get better cv scores by creating much more complicated solutions.

The truth is a lot of work has been put into any standard implementation of an SVM, RandomForest etc (and even more work has been put into the theory behind those algorithms). Since I haven't come in 1st in any competition and am not a ML expert I don't think I can give you the correct strategy to win. But I can say as a general trend, all of my attempts to create non-standard complicated models did terribly, and many of the decisions I made based on research into fixing a particular problem in a known solution seemed to be better performing (i.e. "How to deal with imbalanced classification problems with a RF?" type questions)
Can we preemptively shitcan the 'EA sucks' chatter until Pop-Cap's product starts dropping in quality?

Solitaire Blitz on Facebook is strong evidence that this freakishly talented game shop remains freakishly talented and capable of applying unprecedented levels of polish to their titles, even the 'Freemium' ones.
Same experience here. I have set it to 4 since one year: it's perfect.