skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty much a perfect example of when to leverage import hooks.
Longtime HN member here. We created this project at Founders Fund over the last month and a half to give startup founders and employees an idea of the economic ramifications that follow from a term sheet. We have thoroughly vetted the underying model from some of the top attorneys in the valley and hope this can become a go-to for those raising money.

All comments and questions are welcome, I'll be here all day.
But did they grow up in the Bazaar? or in the Mad House?

ESRs original prototype for the "Bazaar" was Linux. Do you feel that Linux is lacking in coherency of design? You refer to the dot-com bubble, but the problem with the bubble wasn't, I think, that it was the "Bazaar". Indeed, I don't think the dot-com bubble of the late 90s was characterized by much open source development at all!

It was, rather, consumed with "flashiness" and "wow factor". I definitely see the continued obsession with these things as a problem. I would say that, for example, much of the obsession with Node.js today is a consequence of this obsession. But that isn't a Bazaar.

It's a disco.
I wonder, is that that spike at 39 thinking "Shit, I'm about to turn 40. It's now or never!"
What stops them checking their logs to find your IP?
Two projects that are enormous successes, both with more contributors than any code that you've ever touched, I would wager. "Messes". Indeed.

To your questions, while you're rhetorically asking, trying to wink to the crowd in the implication that the answers are telling, yes, actually I have. To very good effect. I'm speaking from actual experience here, not just the hilarious patter of the bottomfeeder that is far too typical on HN.
while, until and begin .. end while/until.

And loop, of course.
In some countries it may not be _called_ rape (which is sometimes subject to rather strange and archaic definitions) but it will generally be an equivalent form of sexual assault. In any case, it's rape in the UK.
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Hey Steve, great projects dude. You've got my upvote. Keep it up! I especially loved Squareleaf and PicStrips. Even NotForest has a pretty sweet hypothesis and design.
That's a false dichotomy -- a straw-man -- that's you're using to discredit the idea of planning ahead.

Compare FreeBSD kernel design versus Linux.

kqueue vs. dnotify/inotify/???

Mach-descended VM vs. a string of linux-vms

BSD scheduler, ULE scheduler vs. how many different schedulers?

Linux churns through ill-conceived solutions to problems until they find one acceptable enough. FreeBSD grinds on one until it definitively works.

FreeBSD almost invariably winds up with the better solution, in less time. See kqueue, for example -- the foundation upon which Apple's GCD is built.
Rails claims its CookieStore will "greatly increase the speed of the application" relative to other stores (the guide mentions a file store and a database store) [1]. The cookie is a base64 encoded hash serialization (i.e. completely reversible by the client), but "to prevent session hash tampering, a digest is calculated from the session with a server-side secret and inserted into the end of the cookie."

I've not seen or performed myself any measurements of these claims. I have seen it suggested that CookieStore is the default because it is simpler in not requiring a database table, and not for any performance benefit. Without measuring, I can only guess the difference is dwarfed by the typical page load time.

[1] http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#session-storage
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> Two projects that are enormous successes, both with more contributors than any code that you've ever touched, I would wager.

No.

> "Messes". Indeed.

Yes, messes. Why do you think Chrome is eating Firefox's lunch ? Google has both a better-implemented product and sufficient marketing clout to push it.

Have you worked on Linux kernel code?

> I'm speaking from actual experience here, not just the hilarious patter of the bottomfeeder that is far too typical on HN.

What have you worked on?

I've worked on FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and an assortment of smaller widely used software projects, including user-facing applications.
It looks like those aren't limited to what hacker news users have mentioned but the web in general.

If you just do a normal search for programming books the same exact list in the same order appears.

Still a cool feature if you want the most mentioned books on the web for a given subject.
Good question.

- You never know when you'll have a fraud alert and a disabled card. When you're travelling overseas, even if you call ahead to notify the card company, you're a lot more likely to get a fraud alert. You know how you can get stuck on hold with your card company, lost in touch-tone hell? Well imagine that on cell phone roaming charges with a dying battery on a noisy street corner.

- You never know what will be accepted. Some machines only take chip and PIN (which is the norm in Europe and Asia, they think signing a receipt is weird), sometimes a clerk doesn't know how to do chip and sign or swipe and sign (which is universal here in the US).

- Most of all, you're in a country where you dont speak the language, the ATMs look different, you might not be able to read the signs or even have a conversation with a cab driver.

When your card gets rejected, you want to have a backup. So, two credit cards (from two different providers) and two debit cards (from two different providers).
And I have a tail-bone, but no tail ...
"The simple answer is: Ecuador simply isn't a party to this controversy, and so the way they see things isn't material"

On the contrary, Ecuador's independence from the controversy makes them seem more impartial and credible.
My guess would be the ever-declining value of FB stock.
<Sarcasm>

Yeah, just what start ups need to succeed; Best Buy.
I've always wanted to see start ups offering "Performance Service Plans" on their product.

</Sarcasm>
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I thought you would say this. First, I have read the article. Second, spouse rape is different: a) If reported, it will always be reported, that the victim was the spouse. Therefore people adjust their mental picture and have a correct grasp of what happened. This is very important. b) In spouse rape, again, the sex will happen against the will of the victim (usually using force and in broken relationships). This is very different from failure to use a condom.

So why is it so important for you to call it rape? Just describe what happened, and don't lead your readers astray!
That is true. But the article decries autoconf's implementation, not just the need for it. It implies that cathedral designers would never implement it, or if they did implement it, do a better job.
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I think you underestimate the number of kids who are _smart_, because we put them through the same curriculum and then disregard what they say and desire when they are teenagers. It makes it very difficult to see the huge variation.
Seems like a clever growth feature and could be huge for spreading the Quora brand in a similar way to YouTube, the answers on Quora are invariable excellent too.
Because in both Sweden and the UK, the offense we are discussing has a name, and the name is "rape".
Trivia: these icons were designed by Susan Kare (http://www.kare.com/portfolio/01_facebook1.html) who also designed some of the most famous Macintosh icons (http://www.kare.com/portfolio/03_apple_macicons.html).
Well I think most of it is time, the whole 10,000 hours thing.

Since we are talking about drawing take a look at MindCandyMan on conceptart.org (His journey sketchbook http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870)

Post of an example of how far he has come: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1789531#po...

His website showcasing his work: http://www.jonathanhardesty.com/paintings.htm
Why not poll all the countries before allowing extradition?
Who did you become?
Totally understood, by the way - what is it that makes it depend on Bootstrap, could it be easily decoupled?
I wish that the learn-to-code movement had a greater emphasis on code as a utility belt, rather than "here's how to make a social website!"

Web dev is exceedingly complex and involves a lot more memorization of arcane things than does general purpose programming. Whereas for a non-technical founder, the important thing to learn is how aspects of business and content can be handled in modular, abstract ways (something that is apparent after learning loops and methods).

Learn enough code to understand implications of such things as granularity of data, taxonomy, and automation...if a novice can generate a static webpage chart from mashing up multiple data sources, that is hugely useful
One thing I have noticed is that there is a weird transitional period we are in with a number of major sites who have optimized for the iPhone and iPad already.

For example, photos in the News Feed on Facebook are HiDPI, as are some images on Google. My guess is these were already being used for places to be served for iOS and Android. However, it's hit and miss: the Google logo is never HiDPI.

Last time this came up was when Marco wrote a post saying "design for Retina" and a bunch of comments complained asking why people should design for just the Retina Macbook Pro. That's not just short-sighted, it's wrong now: the number of high density mobile platforms means designers should be very worried how their site looks.

And, for the most part, sites look terrible.
I was looking for such thing for last few hours :D Thanks for great job, I really appreciate.
And one more thing - have you thought about pledgie? Because this is one of those plugins, that I would really love to donate + it saved me hours of work.
exactly. Thinking that you're a decent programmer after 6 months is nothing but hubris, and shows you're still in the stage of not realising there is much, much, much more to learn. Or his definition of 'decent' does not match mine.
I assume they sold it right away, though I guess there's no way to know.
Seems dependent on the JOBS Act:

"FundersClub doesn’t rely on the JOBS Act that would let non-accredited investors crowdfund startups. But if the bill is finalized without being sterilized, the JOBS Act could make FundersClub even more of a game-changer by letting literally anyone invest."
The RSF full press freedom index isn't color coded. There are 57 countries --- 1/3rd of the entire survey --- in between the US and Ecuador, including several liberal European countries. This is a flimsy argument.
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The majority of SEOs believe Google's Penguin update is about links and it is a link based algorithm.
Google has never fully confirmed it is a primarily link based algorithm but maybe that has changed?
Well non-consensual doesn't necessarily imply unconscious. There are levels of force that could be considered rape, although some countries has laws on the books saying only women can be raped. I don't want look that up for proof at the moment, as I'm sitting at work.
Equating the due diligence Ecuador _supposedly_ did before making the decision to grant asylum with "a poll" is unfair.

Honestly many of your responses to comments on this thread seem very unfair. And I'm not talking about the content of them but the manner in which you respond. You have a very good way of cheapening legitimate points that have been made.
It's very interesting that you bring up kqueue. I was about to bring up kqueue, but for a different reason.

Planning ahead can lead to great things. The Notre Dame, and the dozens of other cathedrals throughout Europe are positively stunning...

I love and I hate kqueue. I mean, I love kqueue. I love the way it can be used from C, I love the way it's integrated in MacRuby...I spent the weekend studying Clojure's reducers and was dying to have some time to work on ClojureC just so I could implement reducers with kqueue...

I hate kqueue because, in all likelihood, I'll never get to use it in a production system, because it's not in Linux.

Cathedrals can be nice to look at. Bazaars are often more functional.
>And now Google translates text statistically, without even trying to understand things.

This comment seems to mostly be, "I'm going to complain about software disciplines and lines of CS research that I don't understand because their practical approaches don't conform to my finicky aesthetics."

If you want to formulate Strong AI to solve NLP as a problem, go for it. The rest of us are happy to use Google as it is.
"it sounds like a perfectly functioning competitive market."

This "anthropic principle" for technology cuts both ways. The current market was made with current patent/trade dress law where people who copy too close are sometimes punished. You can't on the one side extoll it's wonders and on the other side say let's toss this whole side of it out and assume we'd see the same capital investments in the counterfactual.
This is cool!

Feature creep: add some neat keyboard shortcuts for the power users ;)
If your software really takes two weeks for an individual to configure and install, then perhaps you should look into providing a script or even a virtual machine image to automate the process. The strawman argument weakens the overall message that the author is trying to convey.
This article was definitely interesting reading for someone that knows nothing about acquisitions, not so much for the particular fate of Instagram but for the details of how stock/cash deals can work and the stock collar possibilities...
I highly recommend the book "Priciples of Software Engineering Magement by Tom Gilb.

It lays out a superset of the techniques and principles of what eventually came to be called "Agile," in the wee early years of the eighties, and provides the rational for the principles, grounded in experience, and featuring data.

Despite having been through Scrummaster training, I still believe in the power of creating a "destination" and iterating analysis-design-build util the destination is reached. Using short iterations allows for course corrections, and destination shifts. The abilty to correct sooner rater than later is the key aspect I appreciate in "agile."

I've also found that while interations are good for short term planning and for scheduling sprint retrospectives (to borrow from scrum), I find that a kanban/funnel approach works better than strict iteration boundaries.
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I always thought that "less fun to hang out with" people were attracted to programming, as it requires more solitude and attention to detail thinking, and now you are saying that even "normal" people seems to get this kind of mindset after some time.

Maybe i should quit programming some time to see if i can reverse to a more social style of thought.
Wrong. I already explained that the press always reports the context (e.g. spouse rape), but you ignored this. I have particularly observed this in a case that received a lot of publicity last year in Germany.

Please look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_rape

(I've just created this account in an incognito window, because my procrastination filter blocked me. ;-) Got to go now and won't able to answer again.)
The difference between a business person and a programmer: an intrinsic love of learning new things.

Programmers make better entrepreneurs because (shock) loving the act of learning new things as an end in and of itself makes you way, way better at it.
"Higher values for Number of Employees/Contractors (FTEs) are weakly associated with higher values for Average Age of Company's Founders (Rounded)"

I had a suspicion that that might be true, but I wonder why that is? Perhaps older founders tackle problems that need more domain expertise and more people? Or perhaps they can rely on savings and have been able to bootstrap a little better than high-school/college grads?

Anyway, good job on StatWing, I love playing around with numbers and graphs. Perhaps some public datasets will help people get more familiar with the app and serve as demo.
Or maybe there's a market for independent electronics stores to sell independent gadgets.
I really like the year navigation pick in this one:

http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/

Maybe it could just improve on it? they look the same ;)
I wondered the same about the peak at 27 and the spike at 29. But, this is a pretty small dataset, so shouldn't read too much into it.
Your code doesn't actually seem to do anything, so a comment would either be contradictory to the code, which is confusing, or explain why your code does nothing, which is silly.

I would argue that in this case, it is far better to just understand the code and then fix it appropriately. A comment would leave you second guessing.

def auto_increment
self.count += 1
end

(though, for the purposes of self documenting code, count probably is not a great variable name either)
Where do those color codes come from? The Reporters Without Borders map puts the US and Ecuador in different colors. http://en.rsf.org/IMG/jpg/carte2012.jpg
Actually, the proper traditional way to insult Open Source is "Open Sores". Use that and the feeling I got during flame wars between high schoolers on IRC channels in the late nineties will be complete.
Any of that soybased-ink come off?
It would be interesting to put this against the ages of Gen Y distribution. I believe this grouping would actually look relatively old to the peak in population if we assumed only Gen Y would apply.

I am basing this on my memory that 1990 was the peak year for those born in Gen Y. (I cannot find the data set to back it up, but I bet someone else knows where to get it).

+ a few outside of Gen Y.
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Bootstrap provides a bunch of the styles that control the appearance of dropdown menus (for the container around the component) and tables (for the calendars), which this uses. You'd have to copy the relevant styles out of Bootstrap's CSS.
A supremely useful text generation tool ;)

The Fifty Shades Generator is a breakthrough in erotic fiction. At the click of a button, it generates world-class literature based on a pre-defined vocabulary.

Traditionally, print and web designers had to make use of placeholder text known as Lorem Ipsum. It consists of meaningless Latin, though recently there have been great developments in the field such as Bacon Ipsum, Hipster Ipsum and Samuel L Ipsum. Now, creatives can excite clients in more ways than one with Fifty Shades of Grey-inspired filler text.
As a 39 year old who is definitely feeling the "Shit, I'm about to turn 40. It's now or never!" thing, I'd say that sounds pretty likely to me. (note: I'm not in the YC batch, but am a startup founder, so I'm just referring to the general issue here, of feeling the need to go the entrepreneurial route now and not later).

Granted, it's just one anecdote, but that definitely rings true here.
Even if FB goes bust tomorrow, $300M seems like a pretty damn good deal for Instagram on its own.
>The logic here is, Because [THE US MISTREATED BRADLEY MANNING], therefore [SWEDEN WILL NOT FOLLOW EUROPEAN LAW WITH REGARDS TO EXTRADITION]. Non sequitur.

The US punitive pre-trial treatment of Manning indicates that the matter is of sufficient concern that they're willing to endure international criticism for the sake of making an example out of him. If Sweden will do America's bidding over a commercial copyright matter, it seems quite possible they will also do so for what the US characterizes as a national security matter. As we saw with the MegaUpload incident the US doesn't let little things like the law stand in the way of it defending its interests.

The fact that the UK is flirting with violating the Vienna Convention over a "rape" case says a lot about this situation. In the 80's Libyans shot a British policewoman dead from their embassy and the UK didn't raid the embassy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher
The 30/70 split is a nice structure that takes into account the uncertainty of the values involved. Seems like a good deal for Instagram and a sane way for Facebook to do it. Imagine if the stock had shot up to 70, or if it falls to 10. Seems like a great structure to me.

It's hard to imagine that the two sides weren't fully aware of the uncertainties involved during the discussion. These are smart folks. This article seems like it's just an opportunity for the author to show off his knowledge of alternative structures.
Nice one. But in few words - what makes it better than Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Document from which you inherit?
Arranged marriages are equally happy as marriages "for love". http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/J_Myers_Marriage_2005.pdf
I can't speak toward the other icon font resources the article mentioned, but IcoMoon did a great job taking SVG files and turning them into a font. The app supports custom character mapping and comes with a sample icon library.

App:
http://keyamoon.com/icomoon/#toHome

Sample library:
https://github.com/Keyamoon/IcoMoon--limited-
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Not exactly my field, but my understanding is that large retailers sometimes do do outsourced product development roughly similar to this post's suggestion. Typically, that is a result of someone in direct sales building a monstrously successful product (relative to other direct sales items), then using that as leverage to get the chain to stock it on terms which are more favorable than their usual ones. (Consumer electronics manufacturing is a tough market, kiddos, and the folks who control the distribution channels very aggressively remind you that if you don't give them very favorable terms and also pay them for pushing your product then they will find someone who will.)

If you've got something which is profitable in direct sales but is not yet a monstrous brand name, it doesn't make sense for you to sell to Best Buy (why serve in heaven when you can reign in... wait, this doesn't work if heaven is Best Buy) and it doesn't make sense for Best Buy to buy you, because you're probably selling something that a Chinese factory can produce in a functionally equivalent fashion for 1/3rd the price.

The asset is the brand/proven distribution channel. (That's why e.g. Magic Bullet survives when you can get functionally equivalent food processors for less literally adjacent to it in the store. The functional equivalents have higher margins and would have displaced the Bullet but for the Bullet being the customer favorite due to, well, really good infomercials.) Best Buy doesn't really want to buy that from you, because you'll peg the price to the existing distribution channel that you own which they have no desire in.
I'm on the other side, I wonder how could we raise money through there. It's not for seed stage startups, though:

"FundersClub currently features early, mid, and late stage private U.S. tech companies from Silicon Valley and beyond. The typical FundersClub company is a startup with high user growth, increasing revenues, reputable investor backing, and/or other signals of traction and growth."

https://thefundersclub.com/site/howitworks/