skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to think of it (failure) is not in monetary compensation but rather whether the technology, or even at the very least the concepts, are utilized in the go forward scenario. So HR acquisitions where everything is shuttered may just be opportunistic hiring opportunities with nice signing bonuses. However, if the technology or applied knowledge live on then those can't be failures. If they were the logical extension of the author's current definition is that the only way a company can avoid being termed a "failure" is to go public. Any acquisition prior to that is a failure.
Will getting paid to work out help people get fit?
I wish you were right. It would be the best of all worlds.
There was at least some thought put into this: time contraints. Unfortunately, these have all but disappeared from most copyrighted items indefinitely by means of extensions.
>Uh, Neil Armstrong had a Hasselblad camera strapped to his chest. I'd say excuse the lack of sky composition.

No, that's not what he's talking about at all. He's talking to photo journalists and he's saying if you have the doctored photo (the one with the skyline) delete it from your archives. Because you can't use it for many publications.

>And who cares if it isn't a picture of Neil? It is the best representation of the feat and overall project. Besides, he took the picture.

So every other paper can't print an article about how stupid you are that you put a picture of some other guy to represent Neil Armstrong?
He lost my interest halfway through when talking about TPM and failing to examine Remote Attestation. Yes, owners having control of the platform verification keys is quite important. But even in that world, if the TPM has a user-inaccessible signing key, the battle is set to be lost. If the sheer majority of the consumer market trusts a handful of OSs, banks et al will start requiring use of those "trusted" OSs to access online services. We're then right back in the same situation with no control over the computer in front of you.

I think in the sheer majority of situations (excepting eg ATMs), fail-dead tamper resistance is a terrible goal. Ultimately, you either have to trust the physical security of the hardware in front of you or a third party service - there is no middle ground. Evil maid attacks are local, targeted, and user-mitigable through physical security and tamper-evidence. The requirements of trusted third parties are centrally developed, systematic, and mandatory.
Speaking for direct personal experience: the Python community is amazingly generous. In some ways, more generous and giving and understandable than any other community I've been part of.

Of course, I'm grossly biased[1], and have been very lucky[2]

[1] http://jessenoller.com/2011/07/28/thank-you-the-impossibilit...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...
It's no secret the original iPhone was just a feature Phone with a touchscreen .
Maybe in the tech community on Hacker News, but ask your mom if she knows who Elon Musk is. Then ask her about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. My guess is that you get a no idea for the first.
I'm always up for an Ignaz Semmelweis [1] reference. I read his story for the first time when my woman was taking a Microbiology course. Incredible stuff.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
The acquiring company is paying for the team. In the Bay Area at least its really hard to get those 10x employees that Paul talks about to voluntarily come to work for BigCorp sometimes.

In an acquihire situation it is common that the incentive given to the team members to come to work for BigCorp are time locked such that the team members have to put in anywhere from 2 to 4 years at BigCorp to collect that reward. Amongst people who have done this it is sometimes referred to as 'doing time' since leaving to do another startup isn't an option unless you want to get none of the incentive.

As Jacques hints at there are lots and lots of different deals, from the guy who is up to his eyeballs in credit card debt to a company that has gone through a couple of rounds of VC funding.
>The other big issue is the time to refill

I think that will end up requiring both a social tweak and an infrastructure one. Once people are comfortable with the concept of an electric car, it will be only natural to start requesting (and the necessary civil authorities adding) charging ports in standard parking areas.

Imagine in NYC, a parking meter that also has a charging plug for the car. Raise the meter's rate just a bit and you can cover both the electricity and install costs.
Unfortunately, as much as I hate the middle ground fallacy, it is correct here. It's far too broad to say that locally owned ones are more likely to defraud you or less likely. The real truth about locally-owned establishments is that with big corporations you know exactly what you are getting because it is the same everywhere whereas individual local establishments will depend on who the owner is. If the owner is desperate and willing to do everything to defraud you, so will be the establishment. If the owner is the nicest person in the world they'll be perfectly happy running a business in the red for as long as they can avoid total financial ruin so that they can better serve their customers. And, of course, you'll get everything in between.

The advice to go local is less about it being a guaranteed win and more about it being how you find those who will go above and beyond everything.
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Can someone else patent my ideas under first-to-file?
Does anyone know if the coming first-to-file change to US patent law means that my neighbor can patent my ideas? That is, if I invent something and describe the invention to my neighbor, then he files a patent on it, does he get the patent? If so, do I have any recourse under the new law? In case you're interested, the New York Times has a brief article here about someone who is challenging the law: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/technology/mark-stadnyk-challenges-sweeping-revision-in-patent-law.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hpw&pagewanted=all
Me too. I haven't heard about anything about Ask.com recently.
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The problem is largely solved for music, since no one sells DRM'd music files any more. If you buy AAC music files from Apple, your kids will have no problem listening to them.

Movies and Kindle books are a real issue though, and if you think CDs are heavy.... :-)
Is Apple (or Amazon or Google) really interested in enforcing this? While the rules might say that kids can't inherit ebooks or songs, I have trouble believing that they'd actually try to enforce it.

It does raise the broader issue of households, though. When I have a family, shouldn't I be able to give them access to ebooks I've read and songs I've enjoyed? That's trivially easy with the physical versions (if sometimes annoying that someone else is reading a book you want to read) but how will companies handle the digital equivalent of sharing within a family?
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Ask HN: How do you learn Hadoop and NoSQL Databases?
Hi HN,
I am a student at Georgia Tech and my senior design project is related to studying performances of NoSQL databases using Hadoop.

Any good tutorials you can suggest for NoSQL/Hadoop?
There is too much material over the internet and suggestions would be really nice.

Thanks.
So... A search engine with obnoxious and intrusive ads is going to buy a mostly mediocre content site with obnoxious and intrusive ads and we're supposed to be happy and use this stuff?

This will become the Viacom of the internet... Content without content?
The challenge is preserving "no-strings-attached." One idea would be to allow gifts up to 5% of the total or something like that. Ticketed:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/266
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The side effect of this is that, overall, your "organic" traffic might seem to perform worse vs your Adwords campaigns, since people looking for images are usually lower quality visitors.

I wonder if this is just a coincidence.
Business Insider has more details here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-much-money-the-new-...

Revenues for About.com have been steadily declining. It's not surprising that the NYT dumped it. I'm just surprised that there was a bidding war over it.
> Apple put functionality in their phones that blocks an EXISTING Wi-Fi hotspot feature for their customers at the will of the carriers.

Where was it pre-existing? Tethering != WiFi Hotspot.

Furthermore, carriers can change their minds. They did because the iPhone is taking up too much of their bandwidth due to its popularity.

If your phone is capable of creating a WiFi hotspot without requiring the carrier's permission AND they require you to have specific plans for activating such a feature, then you're basically violating their Terms of Service.

If your carrier allows you to run a WiFi hotspot on any plan, then you're on a great carrier and should continue to do business with them.

AT&T has the majority of iPhones in the USA, and they're not a great carrier. Thus Apple is going to bend an a few matters, because angry customers getting cut off is not in their interests (and AT&T is quite notorious for doing this - I was suspended once for using a Jailbreak WiFi hotspot in 2008, for example.)
> Further, if you want native apps of arbitrary origin, you can join the developer program and run whatever native apps you want.

If you want to run these native apps outside of the simulator, you need to pay $99/year, though..
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More evidence that coding is presently overvalued. Is MC Hammer investing?
I'm guessing this is the deleted thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2154106

(*the process is over, so there's no point in hiding it anymore).

Also, this is the previous discussion (210 points) of this blog post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2254069
I was only aware of the last one. This has the capability to be used as a replacement to html, not just a limited subset. It can also do syntax transformations like the table, which also accepts other syntax transforms and tags. Markdown can't take html attributes either.
There isn't much that they can sue Google over. Most of the stuff that Samsung got sued over was due to hardware and Touchwiz customization. Samsung main problem is that it can't roll out updates quickly enough. Samsung updates are really painfully slow - I know because I have a Galaxy nexus, and have owned a Nexus S and my wife had a Galaxy S. Updates are non-existent.

Android has had work around for everything since a couple of versions ago but touchwiz hasn't been updated at all. The bounce-back effect was replaced with the 3d tilt. Android is safe from Apple litigation. Samsung would have been too, if they had better programmers. Kies is an abomination.
Semmelweis is a favorite "management science" topic; there's even a pop-psych phenomenon called the "Semmelweis Reflex"; the Wikipedia article on it recapitulates much of what Aaron wrote here. The Gladwell formula of using Semmelweis' personal narrative to articulate a frailty of human reasoning was employed to great effect in Ayres _Super Crunchers_; the Semmelweis section is, for instance, noted prominently in the NYT book review.

Aaron has oversimplified the Semmelweis story in some material ways:

* Semmelweis didn't institute "handwashing" in Vienna hospitals. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, which suggests that doctors in the 1840s were sticking horse-manure-covered hands into the exposed wounds of patients, handwashing was apparently already a norm. What Semmelweis did differently was to use lime to wash hands.

* Semmelweis' actual theory of the cause of childbed fever was wrong, and it was wrong in ways that made his recommendations hard to take seriously. Semmelweis' contention was that "cadaveric particles" were making their way into patients, and that those particles could only be removed by lime. But doctors observed cases in which no contact with either cadavers or injected or symptomatic patients lead to the same cluster of illnesses. It was thus difficult for Semmelweis to make a "scientific" case for why the lime worked; it obviously didn't help that he was wrong about why it did (his work predates the germ theory of disease, which would have taught him that rather than lime being effective at removing specific particles, it was instead effective at killing bacteria).

* Aaron's story (and Ayre's) has a heroic Semmelweis pleading for doctors to simply wash their hands in a specific way to save lives. But that's not necessarily what Semmelweis was arguing. Instead, the case he could have been making, loudly, was for an actual, specific, incorrect cause of childbed fever.

* Semmelweis himself was, apparently long before he lost his post, a notorious asshole. It did not help his cause that instead of carefully reasoning about the actual evidence, he instead seized on a single explanatory theory of childbed fever and then demanded (often by barging into hospital wards and berating the staff) that his peers adhere to it.

The point is not that Semmelweis didn't make an important discovery, or that we shouldn't be mindful of warped-sounding new knowledge that contradicts our existing theories. Of course we should be objective when considering facts that threaten our existing theories. But there's a reason John Snow and Joseph Lister [and Pasteur] are better known in the development of the germ theory of disease, and there's more to learn from the Semmelweis story than how the audience to a new theory should behave.
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Not that the parent was suggesting the following, but do note that if you only disable the Java browser plugins, when you next update Java (the SE package/installer, at least), the updated versions of those plugins will be installed and enabled in all or most browsers. You have to go and manually disable them, again.

I keep Java around for some other reasons, so when I update, I have to remember to go and disable the browser plugins once again.
It sounds like the bonding process for (e.g.) fraternity hazing, or the Marines.

I don't have specific cites, but I do recall reading this in various psychology texts.
The author fails to define "hacker", a word with multiple meanings, so what's the point? He should at least clearly define his target audience.
As mentioned it's skewed towards Python because that's the community where I've been most active and have the most connections. I've started getting to know the Ruby community here in Pittsburgh and would love to branch out further. If you know of an event where people should hear about Gittip, please let me know. I've started a ticket for this:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/267
Best advice I got from a friend about programming is: make it work, then make it better, then make it faster.
Who would have thought that a technology aggregation site would include an article about how a particular item of technology works?
Good luck adding Validation at a later date... And the fact many libraries rely on the pattern.

Java rely needs properties...
And to think that yellow light is not a concern from where I come from(India). People associate it as the poor cousin of the 'better' bluish white light.
Hulu = current content on TV.

Netflix = old content not currently on TV.

Two different uses. If you want to watch current television without cable, you need Hulu.
There's a great quote from "Beat the Devil": "Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook."

We just lost Armstrong (Neil, not Lance). And Phyllis Diller. And Sally Ride. And Scott McKenzie. Just to name a few. Even if we were to live far longer, there would be deaths (accidents, suicides, murders, sudden medical conditions). And changes to neighborhoods and buildings and art and music.

With time, you come to realize that there are ghosts, but they're in your head, not out in the world. Doesn't stop you from seeing them.

But it wears on you with time.
Wow, I had no idea that @sgblank himself posted here at HN. How awesome is that?

Tell me you understand your entire business model and that you thought through the rest of the canvas.

We (Fogbeam Labs) are certainly trying to get to this level. I've read (most of) TFSTTE four or five times now, and feel like I understand the process a little bit more each time through. Additionally, the more we talk to customers, the more we understand.

Probably my biggest "epiphany" lately though, involves "traditional" market research. Our first round of "friendly first contacts" interviews were very scattershot and unfocused... it was almost literally "interview anybody who will talk to you." Now, I've learned a lot more about how to research various industry segments, and learn about the statistical and demographic stuff (using Census data, Hoovers, etc.) and now we're starting to actually formulate real elements of our market hypothesis (eg, "manufacturing firms in NC with > 500 employees have problem X and our product solves problem X for them" or whatever) that we can go out and specifically try to disprove.

Developing the product in parallel with doing CustDev, with a very small team, has meant that we probably made our fair share of "typical engineer mistakes" (like building features that we don't actually know there is demand for), but altogether, I think we're on a good path.

If we ever make it big, we'll definitely owe @sgblank a tremendous debt of gratitude. Reading TFSTTE was such an eye opener for me, I don't even know how to describe it. :-)
It's common for services (e.g., NetFlix, iTunes) to explicitly forbid giving your passwords to anybody else. I suppose they would enforce this by cancelling your account (which they can do at any time) when they learn that you're dead.
Edit: Whoops, meant Chevy Volt.

Why isn't the Leaf doing better? when I heard about it I was super excited, and if I had to replace my Prius, it would be my first choice.

I think they hit the tradeoffs just right: for almost all daily driving, you'll never use gasoline. But if you have to do a long trip, you don't have to care about range.

What am I missing?
Ask HN: Can someone explain this SEC filing?
Our Company just raised another round of funding (5MM). I took a peak at the SEC filing and it was confusing. See below:

Total Offering Amount	$18,500,000	USD
Total Amount Sold	$9,777,138	USD
Total Remaining to be Sold	$8,722,862 USD

Clarification of Response (if Necessary):
Warrants with an aggregate exercise price of approximately $4,933 were issued in connection with the financing; such amount is not included in the above figure.

What does this mean?

Note: I intentionally omitted the link to the actual filing itself.
Also: I'd be far more inclined to pay for a bit of electricity; rather than just paying for the privilege of leaving my box of steel in between two white lines.
Or: "It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster." -- some dude who was a pretty good cyclist.
You could swap `book' and `author' with `code' and `programmer' and you get the open source model.

What about passion? Sense of accomplishment?

Perhaps the author could make money on book signing, interviews, or even donations. Writing a good story could open doors to writing a movie scenario...

To be honest I don't really care how the authors can get some revenues, nor the programmers.

Data must be free, and this is far more important than how someone can make money on it.
But the act of copying, distributing, or modifying said software is restricted. Much more so than, say, the Apache license. Those are behaviours too.

The GPL controls you "in your own interests", or to quote them:

> To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.

The point is that you don't own the software you run, the owner has a claim on your freedom. In GPL's case it's for what they feel is the greater good (more free software, and limited free-loading).
Instagram was paid in cash and stock whose value is now lower that what it was at the time of sale. This deal however is cash. So the comparison is not very simple.
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Here's the strong statement of the idea:

"enable companies to sponsor people"

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/106

At some point the question becomes, why not just take a job at a company with a strong "open-source time" clause in your contract?
While this is impressive, it still doesn't come anywhere close to solving the problem. It can only be used for commuting and local trips. I regularly travel 450+ miles to visit family. Cannot use this. If you can improve the infrastructure with the charging stations it helps, but still doesn't work. I might be willing to stop for 30 minutes once, but not twice. I can eat a meal while it charges the first time, but as that charge still wouldn't be enough, i guess i just have to twiddle my thumbs for the second 30 minute stop. Adding an hour to my 6.5 hour drive is not something I'd enjoy.

Don't get me wrong, this is awesome for filling the commute hole, but many many people use their cars for longer trips as well. Until you can make it viable for both I'm not spending many tens of thousands of dollars on it.
@michokest yes, that happens too. For me the biggest issue was thinking that we were doing great at some keywords with SEO and it turned out it was just Google Images. Certainly, people coming through Google Images doesn't convert at all.

After my "hack" at least we know :)
Given that the Android kernel is based on the Linux kernel then you could say that Android should be on that list of most popular Linux distribution.

A article based on a snapshot of a site that lists Linux distributions is best served in discussion by people listing the top 5 Linux distributions and debating the merits of them. That said I'd say Android is by my definition the most popular Linux distribution out there currently based upon volume of new adopters per any recent period.

Also different distro's are more suitable for certain tasks than others and in that it would be nice to see the uptake of distrobutions used per task utilised. Some distro's may make certain applications as stndard or easily installed and be more stable for those applications as apposed to other distro's that take a bit more effort to setup the same application in a stable way but is more suitable for other tasks/applications. So in that are we realy seeing general distro's or dedicated distro's like DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) of security ones for pentesting like Backtrack. So many factors and to generalise as a top 5 like a music chart when you have so many types of music is not useful at all accept for sheep and people who don't mind overly accurate weather forcasts.

I liked Suse in the early days, Umbuntu though thats gone for me as most try to over simplyfy things and in that I'm down to rolling me own, that said my love of BSD distro's is greater and thats mostly as i'm one of those sad purests that have still not truely forgiven the creation of RPM's, but I accept it as I I have realised everybody is not me and in that everybody has there own taste of distributions and some have even found there perfect fit that has changed how they wanted it to, for those we would like to hear more as anybody can say bad things about this and that but what are the good points - that is what I want to read about from real users. Now is one of many chances you get to tell your storys.