skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Red Queen Syndrome says that as problems are solved, further problems reveal themselves.
This reminds me of the game mechanic in Puerto Rico ( http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3076/puerto-rico ) where money accumulates on roles not chosen to incentivize people to pick that role.
I found that they were extremely responsive on Twitter and even told me when to expect the invite. Might want to reach out to them there.
They are attack surfaces. Everything in the car is networked. Look at the paper: you can attack the engine through the gps. Maybe that was a different paper but I think it's in there.
> "If you're already well-off enough to not need income, or have a rich doctor as a spouse, it's quite reasonable to trade salary for equity."

It is never reasonable to trade your skills at substantially below-market compensation - regardless of if you can afford to do so. I have a lot of savings, but that doesn't make it reasonable for me to start lighting cigars with $20 bills.

Equity is a form of compensation, in this case dchichkov worked it out to be a expected value of $5K (or thereabouts) - how does one justify taking a haircut substantially more than this? (in this case, the haircut is on the order of $50-100K depending on the person).
Both the author and his critique have different labels for the same thing. Its a non-issue.

A startup is company which doesnt have a stable cashflow and is searching for one. Thats about the only difference that really needs to be applied from a taxonomy point of view.

Impact is also completely unrelated to the label "startup". Private citizens, companies, NGOs, social communities and even projects-on-the-internet (eg: Linux) have had a huge impact on the world and its hard to say who has had more. Again another inane and useless conversation - who has more impact.

First make enough money to attempt to make an impact. Then you can try your hand at actually making an impact.
It's not about small tweaks, it can be substantial additions to a model that improve its actual, out-of-sample performance. A popular method in these contests is ensembling, which involves building many sub-models and combining their scores into a single ensemble model. The netflix winner used ~100 sub-models in their ensemble, but the vast majority of the predictive power came from just three of those sub-models (can't find the source now).
Probably because she's a woman and people here can be very sexist?
EA takes another victim.
No really, this article was total nutso. "Another thing that made this situation complicated was that Kyle and I are recently engaged" was almost at the half way point. After reading about how she had received an email from "Kyle", one of the Keen founders, to meet for coffee or beer to discuss an offer, I had to assume they were both recently engaged to other people.

I finally realized that, no, in fact they are engaged to each other, but that was after she'd started referring to herself in the third person:

Michelle: “What should I do? ..."

I hope that someone else wrote this article on her behalf.
The supplementary information from the original journal article has some cool videos. Check out video #2 - a beautiful video of a bouncing microdroplet on a superhydrophobic surface

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat33...
Not to be nit-picky, but $200/12 is closer to 17 than 13.
In A Tornado-Ravaged Town, An Innovative High School Inside A Big-Box Store
When you say 1000 schools, do you mean 1000 schools using your product everyday or that one person from 1000 schools has filled out the form on your website?
Httpd.apache.org is down?
Cardiio: An iPhone App that Will Tell Your Heart Rate by Looking at Your Face
I agree. I personally was about to pull the trigger on a T but the price point was juuuust beyond what I'm willing to pay. I doubt I'm alone in this thought.
Personally, a lot of folks would love to hear more about those early days of getting by on $99 of revenue. You should post more about that for founders of SaaS startups getting off the ground today as it is an inspiring message.
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love referly (disclosure: also love Danielle the founder and my former co-worker).

Awesome that they are just demoing today, yet I've already made $30 bucks from my referly profile.
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It's not dead. Far from it. You still need to have meetings and conferences. The amount will just depend on your industry.

I really like the idea of growth culture, but thinking that it will apply to all industries is short sighted IMO.

I run a marketing analytics groups and I'm an ex-hacker/ex-database analyst (C/perl/php/mysql/postgresql/SAS/Oracle).

Most of the good marketers making their way to the leadership positions with digital marketing in my n=1 perception have a mix of marketing and hacking on their resume.

I find the two skills very complimentary.
I use Linux daily at home and at work, but Windows 7 is probably my favorite:

Win7 is an extremely polished, and fast OS. everything just works out of the box and the UI (atleast on MS apps) is intuitive, except for maybe Windows Media.

I have a lot of gripes with OS X, especially the workflow. I find that it's slower to navigate around than Windows, especially if you don't have a trackpad -- OSX heavily relies on its touchpad to be efficient.
The keybindings/macros aren't that great either, and are cumbersome and annoying to use. I also have many gripes with Finder.
It looks pretty but it's not as efficient as other OS' window managers
What, only one bingo card? Amateurs.

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/yc-buzzword-bingo
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The relevance of health care in this negotiation is contextual. For young, healthy, child-less people, their usage of health care is going to be minimal at best - and really amounts of catastrophic insurance against accidents or major illnesses.

This changes dramatically if the individual has children, chronic illnesses, or other persistent conditions that will require regular use of the medical system.

And also, ouch, $780 monthly premiums - is the company any of your premiums?!
Could the iPhone 5 be... ahem, a camera?
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Not to burst anyone's bubble here but this is a science experiment that people have been doing for a long time. I made one of these in middle school 15 years ago out of the same stuff (plywood, leaf blower, tarp material).

Cool project, great to do with kids--but hardly an innovative hack-a-thon project.

http://amasci.com/amateur/hovercft.html
Even better, just learn to use EasyMotion, it's one of the most efficient ways of navigating around a file:

https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion
True or not, the outcome described here is so typical, so ordinary that it even has a name: "Tragedy of the Commons".

You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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When Kickstarting Fails
The best definition of a startup that I've heard so far is from Eric Ries's book, the Lean Startup:

"An organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty."

I think anyone that wants to take a risk and actually create something should be allowed to call themselves at startup. Does it really matter if it's a business, website, startup? At the end of the day, it's pretty easy to tell who is serious and generally talented verses the people who are just hobbiest or not putting their full effort into their businesses.
A startup is simply a business that is in the first stage of building; i.e. has a product (website and software included in this definition) and hasn't started/has just started making money from it.

A 100k company is already a business and not a startup.
I do on one computer, and it does make things noticeably faster, but still feels slow compared to how people are describing their computers. I am constantly waiting a couple seconds in between actions.
Disclaimer, I work at Yammer.

I'm not going to plug our product's features here, but I'll say this: microblogging is not an accurate portrayal of what it is anymore, and hasn't been for at least one and a half years.
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How unfortunate! (Although, it doesn't appear to be dead on this end.)

I've been in a community where the senior members clashed with the moderators, and it was very much a case of the former attempting to preserve the status quo and prevent new, uninformed members from "tainting" the discussions, and the latter disapproving of the rough treatment of new members, to the ultimate detriment of the community as a whole: the old members left and, without the lively discussions that made visiting every day worthwhile, the new members lost interest. Last I checked (around two months ago), the pool has still not been replenished by the maturation of new members, and the site, to be honest, is but a shell of its former self.

Both sides were right and wrong in different ways, and both went about arguing their point in destructive ways. I think the problem, in the above case and here is the same: if your members are negative, the tone will be negative; and so on. The best way to "fix" the perceived problems of HN and other communities is to attempt to foster positive discussions. Not by restricting members and ruling them, but... well, I'm not sure. In my experience, the bigger a community becomes, the more "bad worms" begin to slither in. I don't know how you prevent that without doing some form of damage.
Thanks for the thoughtful response! (I wrote the post)

I tried to take the approach you recommended and arrive at some numbers completely independent of the offer. I don't think I made that clear in the post, though.

Calculating the company's worth based on the offer is a cool idea, wish I would have thought of it at the time.

A big Series A is important because we discussed adjusting salaries to market value in the event of a Series A.
To be fair, it's actually like saying 1% equity converts to roughly $20k per year, since salary is annual.
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.Xdefaults do the same thing, but it looks this file is deprecated. I may recomend the Arch Linux Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources .
Hey! Doesn't matter if it's a another to-do list as long as you ship!
The Expert Problem
LOVE it. Today has been awesome--we're excited to see what post-Demo Day life has in store.

And nice work with your recommendations--any tips for newbies?
The answer is twofold: short .com domains are expensive, and nobody finds your service by typing in your domain.
Minimizing Project Management Friction
Seven Reasons Why I Like Spark
Spark is an open source, in-memory, cluster computing framework
Maybe he calculated assuming a free shirt if you randomly get a least-popular? This means 14.4 instead of 12 per year, and truncates to $13 (rounds to $14).
In all likelihood, IPv6-supporting home routers will ship with a stateful firewall enabled by default.
I never realized I needed a bingo card creator until now
And this is exactly why not having a ".com" domain is a big problem (in my opinion).

We (Hacker news/tech/hacker/etc. folks) understand what a ".ly" domain is. Nobody in the real world does.

Get a ".com" domain. Always.
We are doing the same at GiveBrand.com Did you guys hire PR or thinking about it? Hit me up if you want to chat.
Well, yes. Being engaged to the CEO usually has that effect, especially when the CEO himself is handling the negotiations. It would be different if someone else who she was not friends with (and who was not friends with the CEO) was handling the negotiation, but not much. In the end, being the CEO's future wife plays a substantial role in her situation.
level with me here -- did you and the 9GAG guys talk, I totally feel a karma conspiracy coming on
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CPU obsolescence

OTOH everything else has been playing catch up. Disk, Network, Bus etc... Sure my CPU has hit the ceiling, but it spends 95% of its time idle anyway. Broadband five years ago was probably a 3-5Mbps link, and storage was a 7200rpm platter. Now broadband is 20mbps and storage is an SSD.
So this explains why even though we've had so much technical innovation in past 40 years, work hours have not decreased dramatically? Humans are such assholes
Then again, if you're sleeping with the CEO, you actually get that option. You also get the option to create a place full of nepotism that's doomed to fail. Just my experience.

It doesn't seem fair to insinuate that the author's offer was a result of her sleeping with the CEO, or that their relationship will doom the company. What are you basing that on? Honestly it sounds like sour grapes from some experience you've had.
Despite strangely subtle mention of the fact that the CEO and author are engaged, I think it's worth noting that has a material impact on a common sense analysis. In the likely event that this start-up fizzles out, it's reassuring that your spouse has a stable corporate job. Sure, engineers are in very high demand RIGHT NOW, but in a few years the bubble could burst and your family could be in trouble. Do you really want to put all your eggs in a single, very risky basket?
On the buying sites thing, what is your opinion of flippa and other sites like that? Any tips on separating the dogs from ones that will actually "go"?
You're not looking very well either. The author / pen-name / anything sounding anything like the article isn't in any of the information on the Amazon page, nor is it anywhere in JIR's list of 'selected pseudonyms'. Google searches of www.jir.com find nothing, nor does going through a large portion of the site that I could find.

To be clear, I admit it's possible, maybe even likely. But nobody has shown any evidence that it's true, just a claim and a link to a page that does nothing to support it.
But why there is retrieval delay then?
The way this was played out at arms length and in an open style was very smart considering the relationship between the two negotiating parties and the rest of the team. The primary goal should and seemed to be making sure those relationships could sustain, doing so by being fair and reasonable.

The discussion around hedging the risk and cash returns between the fiancées was a good start. I would suggest that the idea of a contract (a series of emails at least) between the 2 would be good to agree and record expectations.

Good fortune
He sounds like an asshole, for one. But maybe there's a point there - if you want to get investment, you should be talking about your business. That means employees, roles, taxes, stock, lawyers, planned growth, goals, etc. The website may be the medium by which you operate, but if someone is to invest in you, they are going to want to see you thinking bigger.

Consider it the difference between someone with a corner store and someone wanting to build a new franchise. No one "invests" in a corner store.
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In the financial sector/mortgage/insurace, there are several major standards that are based on XML which is not top-down.
Neat. Maybe I should try the game again. Although this doesn't really solve my primary problem which is 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.
If you are already well-off, then 50k/yr wouldn't make any difference for you. And you probably have connections and can bring in a lot of value. So, if you are serious enough about it, ask no salary and a late co-founder status. Would serve you a lot better. And wouldn't allow other founders tell you, that they are paying you "salary".
Task tracking for nerds
The former!

Clever is deployed in > 1,000 schools, moving data on > 350,000 students to applications every day.
Interesting, but I'm not sure I buy the "I'm unique" logic. It reminds me of "big-choosers" from the Toilet Paper Problem: http://gi.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/teaching/2007summer/jclub...

If everyone was a big-chooser, you get into a dangerous situation because rolls are being emptied at roughly the same rate.

Similarly, I am led to wonder what percentage of your users will be making their choice based solely on the coupon (i.e. least popular shirt at the moment). If it's a high percentage, then each shirt should approach 20% of sales. Hardly unique at all.

By the way, "Virgin" is an awesome design. Reminds me of Dali. I can't imagine opting for any of the other shirts in order to try to win a coupon.
It sucks for the author's friend, but it sounds like the friend needs to be immersed in the echo chamber of fail and develop a tougher skin. Maybe we'll read the friend's blog post in 20 years, how this failure was an inspiration for success.
GigaOM mentioned a few of our partners - Mastery Connect, TenMarks, Sokikom
I agree with everything you're saying. It's driving me up a wall.
Ah! The STEM person and their inability to deal with squishiness! Lovely, just lovely!

You have to ask yourself one thing: What actually matters when it comes to resolution? Human perception does, of course! Everything else is pointless. Human perception is inherently squishy, that's just how it is. There really is no way around that.

If you start talking resolutions without a more complete understanding of human perception giving you context your talk is just meaningless.

The retina term here provides an easy summary, nothing more. There are always edge cases, sure, but the retina term is both explicit and unspecific enough to work very well. That's why I like it so much.

Yes, distances are different - but not so different. Yes, visual acuity is different and that sucks - but the simple solution here is to just pick 20/20. Maybe a bit better.

There are no simple yes/no answers here - but I don't think there have to be.
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The two types of marketing are for different products. Growth hacking is when you have data, flow of traffic and can manipulate it with code.

You can't do that when your doing marketing for B2B sales clients, which pretty much requires you to show up for meetings, etc.
Why pay attention to beauty and brains
Lisp also had plists, which practically look like Json:

For instance (:name "Bob" :age 50) being a plist called person would give (getf person :age) as 50.

That seems pretty similar to {"name": "Bob", "age": 50} and person.age to retrieve the value 50.
Seven hours after posting, I've racked up 21 points for this comment.

I think this shows a defect in the blind voting we've had here for the last year or so. There's no way this off-hand comment is worth that much karma, but nobody can see that I'm being overcompensated for it.

(Sorry for the OT meta-post)
I see a couple companies here throwing around the term "high performance", and as someone who has worked with actual high performance computing (HPC) technology, the perversion of this term is annoying.

What is HPC? HPC is writing software for supercomputers. HPC is implementing parallel algorithms. HPC is Intel's lab on a chip, a Linux cluster with Infiniband networking, etc.

> SpinPunch makes high performance browser games to rival PC and console titles.

No, SpinPunch, my browser is not a Linux cluster with 1024 nodes, each with 8 CPUs. JavaScript is not HPC. C, C++, and Fortran are high performance. MPI and the Intel Math Kernel Library are high performance. Using MPI-IO to interact with a parallel virtual file system to read a 1 GB file efficiently is high performance.

> SpaceBase is a server-side, in-memory, high-performance, concurrent and distributed spatial data-store...SpaceBase is implemented in Java, and provides a Java and C++ APIs.

That sounds great, SpaceBase, but I didn't see any white papers or mentions of academic journal articles on your site. If your revolutionary system is high performance, you have to prove it. At the very least, you need a white paper to show how fantastic your HPC software is. Here are a few examples of that:

Google MapReduce: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

Message Passing Interface (MPI): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01678191960...

Intel Math Kernel Library: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-math-kernel-l...
ScaLAPACK: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=234898&...

Elemental: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~flame/pubs/FLAWN44_revised.pdf

You're walking a very fine line when you claim that your system is high performance, and I am not impressed by the total lack of any paper describing how you came to this conclusion. I found this snippet from the company's blog:

> It scales gracefully across CPUs and across a computing grid. It scales so well that it allows building large shardless MMO games. In-fact, shardless MMO games and virtual worlds were one of the use-cases SpaceBase was specifically built to handle. (Distributed SpaceBase, or SpaceBase-on-a-grid is currently in the advanced stages of testing, and will be available for evaluation and purchase within a couple of months. The single-node, multi- and many- core deployment is available for evaluation right now!)

Please, just show us the numbers!

tl;dr HPC is all about scaling across computing clusters. Show us an experiment with speedup numbers.
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But one year is about the horizon time most of these startups are looking at. At that point either they'll get real funding and the salaries will get rescaled to market values or they'll fail. Either way they're looking at saving about $20k total in the immediate term.
Maybe we can add a cap to the incentive. So if it was gamed, the max someone could get would be, say $20.

I'm seeing more and more the importance of the real store. I think the question comes down to how easy is it to show that it truly is a pre-order system, and that you may not get your shirts for a little while. With Kickstarter, I think that is pretty clear because you have up to two months to get a group of pre-orders together that would be large enough to mitigate the costs of the shirt printing. On a real store, people may become more impatient if it takes awhile to get a large enough pre-order group. But, the problem that you state, where people may not take us seriously until we have a real site, says that we need to move beyond Launchrock. Maybe getting our Kickstarter project up ASAP and directing our domain to that would both help us get taken more seriously and allow people to be more willing to share us. And meanwhile, get a store set up to launch as soon as that project finished.
From a quick Googling looks like it was a blog covering the club penguin game and riding that popularity wave a few years ago.
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Absolutely; however, the example given was Instagram, though, who uses bearer tokens, which are at once the easiest and least secure option. Since people tend to take the path of least resistance, they also seem to be the most popular option by a wide margin.

I use and enjoy OAuth2, and I'm not trying to bag on it; you're absolutely right in that it's up to the server to do things Right (and few people do; the fact that nearly nobody uses the state parameter is evidence enough of that!). However, I do think it's ridiculously faulty to hold Instagram's bearer token authorization up as the "secure way" to do things in contrast to OAuth1.

I think that both OAuth and OAuth2 are plenty secure in most use cases. TLS provides Good Enough(tm) protection for the vast majority of bearer token transactions, and as you point out, there's always MAC if you don't trust the integrity of the transport. But I do think it's ignorant to claim that OAuth 1 is insecure because you can pull the secrets out of a client app, while somehow claiming that OAuth 2 is secure against such attacks.