skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VCs are not too big, they are (apparently) investing in the
wrong companies.

If humanity overall wins out, the next 20-30 years will see
industries we can barely imagine grow to maturity. From
electric driver-less cars, to new forms of power generation
(even fusion), new building methods, new education, and
vast mega-cities will spring out of nowhere.

In the West, in the rest of the world, we will see vast
demand for things that are barely off the drawing board.
And they will need support industries, innovating widgets
and helpful doo-hickies.

All of which will take specialised knowledge, innovation
and investment. Just what VCs are supposed to do.

(PS I strongly suspect Fred Wilson already knows this, is
intelligent enough to be hiring clever VCs in India, China
Sudan, and doing presumably cleverer things than I suggest.

But it annoys me that the article seems mostly - oh no!
cloud is cheap, so there are no companies anymore anywhere
in the world that need high risk investment. Gaaahh!)

Here is one that is a perfect example: http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_sadoway_the_missing_link_to_...

Edit: added link, minor fixes
As much as I like coin-flipping examples, I think the Brownian ratchet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet) is a much clearer explanation of this phenomenon.
And I wish I could offer you one. UCF will hire -- and help on getting further - any "current" H1B holder, but nothing else.
Rethinking Online Learning: Meeting Our Human Needs First
Looks exactly like a common recruitment event.
RE 2. I agree since some servers that you are trying to push your new address may already have changed theirs. What happens then? Do my friends inform me? What if that unreachable server is not connected to my friends in any way?
Hi HN community! I'm the author of the post and co-founder of Cojourneo. I'd love to hear your thoughts about this subject.

Our main thesis:
A truly great workshop/class is about MUCH MORE than learning. In matter of fact, the most life-changing aspect of a great workshop/class is NOT THE LEARNING but the HUMAN CONNECTION: connecting with your peers/teacher, discovering new things about yourself, experiencing community, and forming new relationships.
Wouldn't accept an = on a German Apple keyboard.

Is it only typing an existing piece of source code? Wouldn't simply coding stuff then be better practice?
The bible is something of interest to a lot of people, and they all must have acquired it at some point.
How many users have you got?
Anyone have a similar analysis for previous year intakes?

Would be interesting to see which business models are most likely to survive.
Why “do what you love” is not idealist or a luxury for startup
I'm not sure why AngelList/Venture Hacks doesn't have this feature. Still very cool stuff.
Show HN: Sawt, Arabic Indie Music Discovery
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Watch The Apparition
In the horror thriller Watch The Apparition Online, horrifying events start to happen within the dwelling shared by younger couple, Kelly and Ben. They discover that they are being haunted by a presence that was by chance conjured during a college parapsychology experiment when the horrifying apparition feeds on their worry and torments them regardless of where they attempt to run.
None is the most popular with B2C and Subscription with B2B.

That's exactly what you would expect. Maybe I misinterpreted your comment, what do you mean by "inversed".
You just reminded me of something a friend collaborated on: http://www.myspace.com/clippingdeath
Sure, but did you win the Putnam?
Near-field monitors are expensive and entirely inappropriate for most applications.
they were taken by a regular visitor who got a free VIP ticket and had to provide all his personal data including macbook serial number and biometrical photograph
Swedish prosecutor: ”Assange must come to Sweden but we won’t say why”
I'm interested in what type of articles the 18-24 year olds submit/read versus other age groups. For instance, I'm in the 25-34 age range, and I almost never care about the JavaScript, CoffeeScript, or other client-side language articles. I tend to read the software methodology, software tool tips/tricks, and gee-wiz-look-how-fast-tech-is-moving articles.
Scan & Extract Text from Images in Web, Desktop & Mobile Applications
Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.OCR. This new release allows users to extract text from images. There are two approaches used to extract text from images. Firstly, you can upload the desired file to Saaspose Storage using Saaspose.OCR REST API. Then you can extract text from the uploaded image using Saaspose.OCR REST examples. You can also use Saaspose.OCR SDK Examples to extract image text from file uploaded on Saaspose Storage for different languages like .NET, Java and PHP. Another way is to directly extract image text from files on your local system using Saaspose.OCR REST API and SDKs without saving the file to Saaspose Storage. You can use the file path or stream to extract text from images using Saaspose.OCR REST API.
Agreed. This is why a lot of audiophiles will swear by vinyl. It's not that they reproduce the sound more accurately, it's that they introduce an artifact that they lovingly refer to as "warmth".
Managing risk in your project
yeah! think about it!
Say what you want about Microsoft and IE (I'm expecting Microsoft to be bashed as usual in this thread), but for those of us who were developing for the web in the early 2000s IE was way richer in features that any other browser. The event model and the styling capabilities were better and best of all MSDN actually had documentation. There's a reason why IE6 was adopted so much. It "was" good.

Others with better ideas came along and made the web development experience better, but I agree that IE started it all. I have no idea if the web would be better or worst without IE. I would expect that someone else (Netscape??) would have played the role of IE if it didn't exist and we would be stuck in a similar situation. Remember that in the early 2000s developers that called themselves web developers had ZERO experience.

There weren't any standards back then and since many of us had to start writing intranets and websites, and since you could do more with IE6 we used it.
Also read the transcript of a discussion with the prosecutor: http://www.friatider.se/swedish-prosecutor-assange-must-come...
Very evasive.
Komodo 7.1.2 Release
Citigroup slams Nasdaq's Facebook compensation plan
Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Sells 450,000 Shares
Fear of a Black President
India Seeks Ruling on Algorithmic Trading
Win free pass to Business of Software Conference
Don't forget positive liberty. The gilded age had copious negative liberty but very very low positive liberty. Democracy is definitely not the answer, but libertarianism is probably the greatest political threat to civilization as a whole at the moment. Meritocracy is the right course, the government needs to be stronger and needs to enshrine positive liberty as a human right.
Does Tequila Make Us Crazy? Researchers say no, but drinkers say yes.
Basically it would involve going through the previous batches and manually labelling them. I might pick a couple of other classes to do it for, but it's probably too much work to do it for all of them.
Foxy Ladies - Why one network applies so much makeup
If I understand it correctly, DHL has done something similar in Germany for at least ten years now.

It is OK - especially useful to be able to send away parcels in the middle of the night (the stations are used for both sending and collecting). Other than that, I ended up not using them much. Neighbors work better for accepting parcels. But I suppose for other people they are quite popular.

Ultimately I think DHL's play is to reduce the number of human powered post offices, so in the end Packstations will be a step backwards for user friendliness.

Edit: link to German DHL site about "Packstation" http://www.dhl.de/content/de/de/paket/privatkunden/packstati...

Edit 2: English Wikipedia says they started in 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation
What is the difference between VIPs and regular guests?
To be fair, that was kind of an accident. Xmlhttprequest just kind of sat there until somebody else came up with a use for it.
Last year Rovio said that they earned the same by ads on Android as iOS. Nearly 1 millon a month.

And I know a China team called Droinhen has good revenue from Play market
The Cheapest Generation
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Some info about the game.

Weapon data:

Weapon type, Base Damage, Base Rate, Base Clip, Rarity

Pistol, 7, 700, 5, 0.5
Machine Gun, 5, 100, 25, 0.7
Shotgun, 9, 1000, 5, 1
Flamegun, 11, 80, 30, 1.1
Acidgun, 7, 600, 17, 1.2
Railgun, 25, 1500, 5, 1.3
Rockets, 22, 1300, 3, 1.4
Eridian, 15, 600, 12, 2.2

Cheat code:

On menu screen type 'cl4p-tp' to get to level 20 and some Claptrap graphics.
"[..] as long as your python isn't java I'd say it should remain significantly shorter."

My intent with the post was to create empiric knowledge, I'm not a follower of the idea anecdotal 'evidence' trumps all that is pervasive in our industry. So thanks for your opinion, but I'm not interested in the least in anecdotes when comparing languages.
For workers yes, but I don't believe you can be a mTurk provider if you're outside the US though.

Skype would work fine here, true.
If anyone could enlighten me as to why this is I would really appreciate it

EDIT: My question was in reference to the latter part of the final conclusion, Chrome sends:

Accept:/
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch

But doesn't actually support it.
Thanks to hobbit_longon for help pointing out the error in the final point.
if server a is behind a nat, it first needs to send out a message to server b this will open a random port for typically 60 seconds automatically. Then another message will need to originate from server a within the 60 second time period in order to keep the port open.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal
Asian slums are one product I'd rather not import. Your attitude will turn back the clock on civilization. You want to revert to slums, workhouses, child labour, the crushing poverty of indentured servitude. Your approach was tried before and found lacking.

Human life and dignity is more important than saving silicon valley a few dollars.
Extending your discussion, love is nothing but chemicals firing in our brain. Maybe human beings are evolved to trigger release chemicals in the brain when certain conditions are met, which could possibly be deterministic? I agree that each person is different, but we're all same in the same way. Think of the attraction to the opposite sex as a seeded random number. Sure, we don't know the seed but if you know a person well enough you're able to make fair judgement and confidently claim that "X isn't Y's type".

I'd love to continue discussion on this philosophical point. "Love" is afterall nothing but an abstract construct which has proven beneficial in furthering the species when we were being chased by lions and bears.
About :time - Taming the standards process
Is this a joke?

You want to know why people don't gzip their images? What benefit do you think you get from gziping a jpeg or png stream? Why were you trying it in the first place?
Egg yolks as bad as smoking for heart
It says on that page why: gzipping un gzippable things either provides no benefit or makes them bigger.
True. I'm a med student who loves nutrition. Here in germany the DGE forces actual dieticians to use extremely outdated information (they HAVE to adhere to their handbook). The official curriculum is 30-50 years behind current state of research
And don't get me started on surprising amount of doctors that have no concept of science at all. They just say: "Wer heilt hat recht!"/"Who Heals is Right!"
Compressing an already-compressed file can make it bigger due to metainfo and the fact the gzip algorithm isn't optimised as well for images as say, jpeg. Furthermore, it's an unnecessary performance overhead on both server and browser (even regular compression is sometimes undesirable for this reason).

I guess the browsers figure it's not worth building in support for a feature that's rarely used and creates a sub-optimal UX.
(I think he asked to boost the comment ranking for his submission.)
That's probably because you don't gain anything from gzipping images, right? From memory you might just increase the file size by gzipping, and you'll definitely increase processing work.
I think you're mischaracterizing what I'm saying.

There are a lot of "entrepreneurs" out there who have mediocre ideas, mediocre skill at the parts of business that actually matter (such as negotiation, marketing, and leadership), and minimal technical knowledge, but who justify disproportionate equity and authority splits based on "connections".

It can be an attractive proposition, when you're just starting out, to work for them. It's hard to tell a mediocre idea from a good one (Twitter seems mediocre on paper, but it worked) but connections obviously matter. If someone's genuinely well-connected, he'll be funded no matter what the idea is.

My advice is: don't work for them. If they were legitimately well-connected, they wouldn't need you to work for them on a low or zero salary.
gzipping web content isn't optimisation 101, that's optimisation 102.

Optimisation 101 is profiling.
I think you may have misunderstood the conclusion of the article and so hence my question: When requesting an image chrome sends:

Accept:/

Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch

But if you abide by this and send it gzip'ed it fails...why?
If you plotted the histograms for both types of businesses, it looks like you'd get roughly a parabolic shape.

B2B falling from Subscription towards None, and B2C rising from Subscription towards None.

It also seems like Pay-as-you-go and Advertising are the least popular options overall.
HTML5 publish from Flash Sitebuilder in one click
Dr. Jeffrey Lant talks about why the nude photos of the prince
I don't think Fred's investors want to be sinking money in renewable energy. If you look at the returns to that asset class, they've been pretty bad.

It's great to do big things and change the world, but the pension funds backing Fred want to earn a good return.
I'm not misunderstanding anything. Your very last point contains:

"We still don’t quite understand why nobody sends gzip’ed images"
What I'm saying is more along the lines of:

1. Step into a machine you know is VR - even though the experience will be fine, it won't be "quite the same"

2. Step into an aeroplane and fly around the world for ten hours. Then see something cool and go back home. - it will be an awesome experience .... even though everything beyond the airport's front gate was VR.

And even then, as soon as it got out the whole airport and everything beyond was VR, there would be people willing to pay a lot for the real thing.

I think what I'm saying is VR will be the McDonald's of experiences.
it is pretty clear in google's message: jpeg and pngs images are already compressed (the last step of the compression is similar to a gzip compression in many ways). Putting a jpeg in a zip file is similar to put a zip file in a gzip file. It is usually increasing the space, and it's using some cpu time to inflate / deflate. Whether it is google role or mozilla to teach you that you shouldn't do that is debatable. But I can see why they wouldn't want to develop a feature that's useless and costly. It would be like developping an engine for a car that uses more gas for your car to go slower...
High DPI Images for Variable Pixel Densities
Ask for proof. Competent people will be able to provide it. And explain it logically in depth.
Fitness trainers believe amazing amounts of bullshit. And teach that nonsense.
There are less than 1 % of trainers that have a decent knowledge of anatomy or of how to train you for maximum results. Their real job isn't delivering results, but keeping you busy and "motivating" you.

I get what you are saying, but formal education only tends to weed out the absolute nutjobs.
Just look at Dr. Oz or Charles Poliquin. Completely crazy.
TLDR: Ask for proof. From my experience you overestimate the impact of formal education.
Your post completely ignores the point ramanujan was making, and merely makes vague emotional appeals to the reader.

"Won't someone think of the children?"
Hi there,

Love your blog and your engaging writing style. But coding standards? Sorry, in a global and outsourced world of enterprise apps, standard are as important as never before. I have to disagree.

This whole coding creativity thing is a myth when it comes to successful, scalable business applications. Creativity is for artists, who have no boundaries. Coders don't operate in such an artistic vacuum (operating system, SDK, business clients, users etc). There has to be such a thing as a disciplined coder - disciplined as in being restricted by boundaries and rules. Power needs control - in my world.

Keep going with the blog - I will certainly be yet another interested reader.

Kind regards,
Michael
@2: well, they just gave you some good reasons not to compress files that already are. they want to save resources.
so why don't they unzip compressed files that should not be compressed, though they obviously know how to do it?
because nobody would care if they did it!
256 is indistinguishable from CD but must people want 320. 192 is near CD but I can hear phase alignment problems at higher frequencies most noticeably for me on hi-hats and in what is called AIR, or high frequency content that gives definition and space to individual voices.

That said I used to buy 3 records a week. When Napster came along it was basically catnip for music lovers. If they had worked out a deal with Napster then to charge me a monthly subscrptn it would have been a no-brainier for me. But they went the route of isolating the music lovers and creating political wedges between musicians and fans. It is unfortunate.

I can't remember the link but a professor for some distinguished US college does a blind listening test asking new students to rank different formats for subjective preference. As MP3 became more mainstream the preference for that MP3 sound increased. People like what they hear or are familiar with rather tan what is best - which should be clear to understandable to crackly record lovers. Also heavily compressed musical forms like pop, rock and dance can benefit from the digital phased hash that lower quality MP3 exhibit.

Personally I prefer MP3 at this stage. I have hundreds of records but MP3 is far more convienent. I can have a constant stream of music wherever I am, I do not have to have clean the stylus, record or change side, I no longer have to curse at noise and pops, and I can have my music on all my devices.

Also it is difficult to argue against the negative impact of payola on music. The standard for popular music now, during focus group listening tests, is not whether the music is good but whether the listener is more or less likely to change channel before the ads. Music as a form of expression can never live under those circumstances.
Take a moment and compare your response to the other responses here. The other two (at the time of this writing) of them are useful to help someone understand something.

The author wrote up his thoughts as a blog post and took the time to submit it looking for help understanding an issue.

You were unnecessarily rude and condescending in your response. I'm only bringing this up because your account is new. If you're going to take the time to create an account to reply to a post, why would you create an account just to leave this comment?
> Asking which file sounds "better" is meaningless

Indeed the phrasing of the question poses problem. The real question should rather be something like "what is the most faithful"? ANd without the source to compare to, that would be reducing comparisons to what a tester has experienced previously.

Yet I answered both confidently and correctly, without very much special audio equipment (Dell XPS 8300 stock sound card, and a cheap Sennheiser HD212 Pro).

What made me confident is I know what to look for†. If I did not I would have had to make a "what sounds best" judgement.

(spoiler alert if you want to take the test yourself)

† MP3 has a hard time encoding some corner-case specific stuff. Here the rattling at 0:06 produces an artifact that is a dead giveaway. Cymbals at 0:11 are more subtle but noticeable.
Fair point. You can look back at a number of features added to the HTML spec, and note that they were first implemented off-the-cuff in IE6. XHR, contentEditable, to name two I can think of straight away.

We can give them as much shit as we like for letting the ecosystem stagnate while they had control, which Firefox thankfully set out to fix, but would we have had AJAX if there wasn't an existing XHR implementation, or anything else implemented outside of the standard?
It was a glass factory, so why not ask permission to exist as a factory. Maybe there would be lesser requirements. Hackerspace is not really an office.
Quite right, I have corrected that part of the conclusion, my question referred to the latter part, which I paraphrased above.
Siemens 'flaw' claim sparks US power plant security probe
Single page version: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/the-chea...

I don't like The Atlantic's title: it implys what is happening as negative.
pythonic is easily summed up whenever you type 'import this'!

for those without a python interpreter handy:

>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.

Explicit is better than implicit.

Simple is better than complex.

Complex is better than complicated.

Flat is better than nested.

Sparse is better than dense.

Readability counts.

Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.

Although practicality beats purity.

Errors should never pass silently.

Unless explicitly silenced.

In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.

Now is better than never.

Although never is often better than right now.

If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
The OP is demonstrably an idiot. He calls himself "Developer, CEO of The Student Cloud", and yet he apparently has no clue whatsoever about the most basic compression algorithms. Zipping compressed images is something that my mother does.
I think you're forgetting that when you put a compressed file in another compressed file it makes it a surprise.
Dear white knight fuzzy dunlop,

You might be reading too much into these photos. There are some photos of women from the front and some from the back. In those cases you have decided that the photos are of their breasts or butt. I think this says more about you than the photos. From what angle should the photos be taken?
I remember asking the web-devs at the company I used to work for several years ago why do they support IE only, and their reaction was that they will not be able to pull off all the neat tricks they can pull off in IE in any other browser. Their reaction to any suggestion of standards was "I don't care about standards, if that means I can't do whatever IE enables me to do".

Is that innovation? Some would say yes. I think that most of these only became innovative once they began to be available to larger audiences, which coincides with the rise of Firefox and later on Chrome.
Also, most of the conception of IE as non-innovative and stagnant came from the 5 years gap between IE6 and IE7 (and the added 3 years between IE7 and the real "new IE", IE8), during which Opera and Firefox carried the innovation torch. Most of IE's innovations came when it was fighting the browser wars, pre IE5.
In a parallel universe, someone else posted this comment as well.
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