skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two hypotheses about this:

1. They're never going to roll this out and aren't actually putting any resources into it, but are simply hoping that they can stir up some news every few months as a cheap deterrent.

2. They are going to roll this out, and the primary target of it is kids downloading on their parents' connections, which would explain why they only seem to even be attempting to work with the largest ISPs. Obviously that would be ineffective at deterring anyone who pays their own ISP bill; those users could just move to a smaller provider. But if they're hoping to use parents as enforcers, it makes perfect sense.
I don't see skateboards ever becoming a mainstream way to commute, no matter what kind of educational campaign. I used to ride a skateboard for years but I'd most likely just hurt myself if I tried to get on a skateboard today. My 5 block commute is filled with some many cracks and curbs that it would be a total aerobic workout to get there on skateboard and I'd be sweating like a pig. Most likely I'd bail a couple of times along the way and show up to work with scuffed up elbows and knees!

I applaud anybody who ride their board to work, but it's definitely not for most people. I think these boards are cool & will surely appeal to the skater & recreational crowd. The motors look like really promising tech as well so I think overall this is just a cool idea.
I guess what you're arguing is that if YC funded too many startups, the bottom could fall out of the startup market the way it did in the mortgage market. Is that it? But the leverage thing is a huge difference. Another is the markets themselves. If the money in startups all comes from rare cases that pay off a million percent in a few years, well, mortgages surely don't work that way no matter how many layers of indirection the derivatives people concoct.

(Looking upthread, I wonder if your objection really is to the idea that more risk automatically means more reward, so therefore YC should fund 10x more. But clearly the argument is more subtle than that – otherwise, they should just fund everyone who asks them.)

Edit: I have another argument, or perhaps just article of faith: I think there's a major pool of unexploited talent out there, basically wasting away (mostly in corporate jobs) at far below its potential. If many more startups get funded, many more creative endeavors will get going. Most won't be black swans but that doesn't mean they won't be side effects of great good.

If I'm wrong about that, then maybe there is an analogy with subprime, where lenders' (investors') zeal caused them to lend to (fund) ever-crappier borrowers (founders). On the other hand, if I'm right, then this is more about correcting an inefficient allocation of talent in our economy.
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Of course, but then you'd be subject to restrictions on where you can use a moped. Depending on where you are, this would likely rule out bike lanes, sidewalks, etc. and thus make the bike less useful. Enforcement is highly variable, though, so this may or may not matter.
I'm going to reply to my own comment because I just came up with an awesome feature for this app: Priority inbox based on how much the sender donated.
A recent Internet experiment
design patterns have completely failed. Sometimes, they appear in my code, but knowing them has never helped me to code better.
What helps me is to know language idioms and code patterns.

It is a pity that so many teachers give such a devotion to design patterns.
Views are not email addresses. Worse, views are not real people expressing real interesting (e.g. would pay or be willing to change their habits) in your product. Views are a pretty meaningless indicator, overall.
thanks- it was back online when I saw this.
The problem there is that mopeds / scooters are often regulated. For example, in Toronto you need a license and insurance for scooters which drastically increases your costs compared to a bicycle or skateboard (motor or not).

I expect some cities are mulling over the regulations on e-bikes since many of them (but not all) are basically scooters but with an electric motor and useless pedals.
it encapsulates the ideal of making technology seamlessly integrate with our lives.
That's fair, but on irc you filter out people who don't get it much quicker and not necessarily looking for work.
Thank you for that. I had not seen!
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Neat. I'd like to see some real tires on it, though, as Chicago's roads/sidewalks would never permit my commuting on that thing.
I completely agree. I think people are following the path of least resistance to getting money, and this is the crux of what annoys me about the startup community. The goal is not transform an industry, at whatever cost, regardless of what anyone says, but get $40m as quickly as possible. Very few people have genuine convictions that they are hell bent on achieving, or at least it doesn't show.
Perhaps fittingly, Anonymous has a similar policy of not going after journalists. Don't bite the hand that feeds you...
Hackathon in the afternoon
Maybe I'm missing something, but what about a flat price + per seat? For example, what if I want to offer a three user plan for $30 and each additional user is $5?
"At that point, all of the tools that the content owners and the ISPs have at their disposal are there,"

Seems like ISPs will be scanning as well not just P2P monitors, that's why I wonder about something like dropbox or ftp setting it off.
"500 Megabytes: A CD-ROM OR The hard disk of a PC"

Made me think of a computer way long ago I had with 500 and sure enough the blog post is actually referencing an article from that time period.
Two Startups, The Breakfast Club, and Pure Magic
I just got done attending a Mocavo & FullContact ”Breakfast Club” at TechStars Boulder.

Cliff Shaw, Founder of Mocavo and fellow Foundry Group CEO, approached me a few months back. He thought it made sense to get our tech teams together for a long 4 hour breakfast and swap knowledge.

I thought it was a terrific idea. After a few scheduling snafus, we were finally able to get together. TechStars Boulder let us use their conference room, and Cliff graciously ordered in a catered breakfast.

Over the course of several hours, we discussed databases (MySQL, NoSQL), infrastructure (Amazon or Self-Hosted), search algorithms, performance tuning, product ideas and development methodologies.

We discussed the merits of different vendors and the pros and cons of different approaches.
The conversation was frank, open and honest – basically what you’d expect from a bunch of pragmatic engineers.

Both companies pulled their teams away from their normal lives for a few hours. But I think it was super valuable for each engineering team to see things through a different lens, talk about what they’re building, and ideate about what their future holds.

As a startup, sometimes you think you are all alone when faced with daunting scale challenges.
But that’s 100% wrong – you’re not alone. In fact, you’re not unique. Realizing this and leveraging your network for help, support or advice is the one of the most important things you can do for yourself and your startup.

That’s the true power of a robust startup community (and if you don’t know what this means, you can buy the book). I encourage other companies to do the same. Find a peer startup company and have a breakfast, or brunch, or lunch. It’s an amazingly simple yet powerful thing you can do.

And Cliff – thanks again for breakfast – next time, FullContact will buy the beer
I'm getting an error on page load in application.js in the latest release version of Chrome.

Uncaught SyntaxError: Variable 'a' has already been declared
That's quite a late move for Microsoft. They have been quite late doing that. Apple did open its App Store worldwide in 1 year or so.
I think it's worth distinguishing jargon from corporate speak. "Swimming in the social-stream," for example, isn't jargon. It's cringeworthy business talk.
Great idea.
Hmm the font doesn't render well, I'm using latest stable chrome windows 7 64bit. With Firefox I get "this connection is untrusted"
No. It is built on V8 directly, adding C++ hooks for extra functionality.
hopefully v2 will be $600
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For a while there, I almost came up with a joke about how you cannot "code over" a lack of programming skills. Fortunately, the joke escaped me.

Now, back to programming.
Getting over it also doesn't mean forgoing security measures.
I travel fairly frequently. Instead of speaking theoretically, ask yourself how many times has the TSA really pulled you aside, and how has the patriot act actually changed your day to day living?
For the vast majority of people, it's probably not much. I will admit that security lines can be long, so you have to get to the airport a little earlier, but that's a minor inconvenience.
I find the x-ray machines to be better than the prior machines that were used, but I cannot comment on whether or not they have been "tested".
Torque did build and run (In-game editor an all) on Linux back in the day, although support was always iffy (not sure if that's pre-Torque3D or not) - maybe open-sourcing will bring out some Linux hackers to shore that back up.
The donation isn't so much about piggy backing (although I see why it seems like that since I made that marketing comment). The money ensures that the sender is serious while not simply providing a platform for celebrity entrepreneurs to further enrich themselves (not what I had in mind while reading this guy's idea but an equally valid business model I suppose). As far as the sender and receiver are concerned the only thing the fee does is ensure that sender is serious about this email. You could just as easily collect the fee as the middle man and not distribute it to either. The charity thing just helps senders feel a little better about where their money is going (while helping the world suck a little less). Remember, people don't like feeling manipulated and paying a company to "prove" that you are serious about an email isn't something that would sit well with me.

The comparison I had in my mind is something along the lines of paying a fee to complete a bitcoin transaction. The fee is distributed to a "charity" of sorts (the bit coin miners) and goes toward making the world suck less (making sure the block chain is secure). Also it legitimizes the transaction so the sender knows these bit coins are the real deal. If that doesn't make sense feel free to ignore that last paragraph :P
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Agreed. The variance in work conditions as a developer is higher than most jobs. And these differences are often quite opaque from the outside.
Probably because these companies are also selling content right now, and these are the same type of companies that were throttling torrents not too long ago. This is an excuse for them to start banning such customers from their service.
I believe we also count infant mortality in life expectancy. Not sure.
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Based on the OP's statements about the company culture, is there an incentive for employees to be honest about their role in the outage? Do you think that enough Very Good Engineers stuck around post-acquisition to perform an independent root-cause analysis?

I've never known Go Daddy to make any public statements without testing them first. Whatever story gets released will likely be the one with the highest conversion rate.
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Hi there, I'm the author of the post (my username matches the domain of the post =D )

The purpose is just to show an example of how to drop to C.

I chose a contrived example so the reader could expend the minimum possible number of brain cycles (so to speak) trying to understand that part of the code.
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Is there such a thing as the NoMock movement?
I don't know about a database but I use the zoo and xts packages in R quite heavily and they are pretty good.
> More importantly, when you go _down_ a hill, it's pretty difficult to stop quickly (this is why I personally stopped longboarding)

This might help you stop the longboard quickly, but will it help you stop quickly (but not too quickly)?
Idiots. It's not "Metro" that VS 2012 is trying to copy with this look; it's Office 2013. See http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/07/3_word_r... for an example.

VS is still ugly, of course, but it's because the designers copied the ugly Office design -- not because they didn't understand Metro.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but no longer on the VS team. Also, I have a cold and am in a bad mood.
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I agree that it'd be more correct to make the C and python code output the same answer.

The important thing here is how to hook up C code to python.

the benchmarks are still (mostly) valid because it's still the same number of addition operations (regardless of the overflow).

Honestly, I'm not a very good C programmer (as you can see). I was really just documenting how to do this for myself. I never expected to get such a big surge of traffic from HN.

That being said, I'll take a second look at the code and try to make it more correct, suggestions welcome!
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>extremely rare to find an employer that isn't a schyster ready to milk you, "the resource", for all your worth while paying as little as they can

Isn't that the definition of business? Get as much as you can for as little as you can?
Add one thing: RSS Support. That is, allow an RSS feed to be used as a source layer. This would help people easily hookup things like Redmine, Github notifications and what not.
This sounds a lot like the idea former N.O.W. boardmember Warren Farrell wrote in Why Men Earn More:

that bias-based unequal pay for women is largely a myth, and that women are most often paid less than men not because they are discriminated against, but because they have made lifestyle choices that affect their ability to earn.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Men-Earn-More-Startling/dp/0814472...
Really? When you just load the page or when you push some code in?
It seems I omitted the well known problem with HTML-only emails. There
are commonly used spam filtering rules (specifically, spam assassin, but
also Barracuda Networks and probably a lot of others) where sending
HTML-only email adds to the (combined weight) probability of the message
being marked as spam. In less pedantic terms, HTML-only counts against
you. Depending on the weight given to the rule by the mail admin, the
weight can be enough to automatically mark the message as spam
(hypothetical kook config), but I haven't seen it weighted that high in
practice.

As for the generation of multi-part MIME messages, this is usually
done by the creator of the email (the sending system/client), but
there's a caveat...

As a former calligrapher, I understand your love of typography. I know
some of the very simple and basic design aspects of using typography
for for more effective communication, but I haven't ever really studied
it. A lot of the artistic effective design stuff goes over my head.

If you do use fonts (typefaces) in your HTML emails, it would be wise to
include them as attachments (MIME parts) rather than access them from a
remote server. The reason is simple; many HTML email rendering engines
in MUA and web based email systems actively thwart "web bugs" in HTML
emails.

A "web bug" is defined as any means of tracking if an email is opened,
including all network traffic generated by accessing remote resources
(like font files). If you used a font that resides on a server you
controlled, you could track if the email was viewed by the recipient
through your log files.

If an email message contains "web bugs", the receiving system and/or
client might create a defanged version of the message and either replace
the MIME part of the problematic version, or alternatively, add a new
MIME part to the email that is then used for rendering.

Though you might think the defanging of "web bugs" is straight out of
kook land, it's entirely real and very wide spread. All modern web mail
implementations and local email clients at least try to thwart remote
tracking when rendering HTML emails.

Sadly, off the top of my head I'm unable to recall if a font file binary
can be embedded within the html source as textual data (i.e. like base64
encoding of image data, favicons, etc.), but this might work. If not,
you'll need to manually add the fonts as attachments if they aren't
automatically attached by your email client/service.

In both the attachment and embedded data cases, you're now fighting with
the variance of HTML rendering support in browsers or email clients, so
testing to see if your fonts will render properly will be a whole lot of
work across a whole lot of systems/software.

Lastly, as you might imagine, giving away free copies of copyrighted
fonts can result in substantial legal nightmares. When picking your
fonts, you need to be really careful about the license terms of the
fonts you use.

With a bit of effort, you can get what you want working on the majority
of modern systems, and if you include a plain text version and the
required fonts, you can also avoid most of the spam traps and similar
problems. Good luck with it!
Who said anything about replacing external backups?
Many people wanted the US and UK to drop nuclear bombs on Russia shortly after WWII. That was a real threat to the Soviet Union.

See, for example, Bertram Russell

> "If the whole world outside of Russia were to insist upon international control of atomic energy to the point of going to war on this issue, it is highly probable that the Soviet government would give way on this issue. If it did not, then if the issue were forced in the next year or two, only one side would have atomic bombs, and the war might be so short as not to involve utter ruin."

The US had plans for sudden nuclear attack against the USSR. (http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/To_Win_a_Nuclear_War.h...)
Lol that would be a bit of a dilemma. Haven't encountered that yet.
Probably because that landing page doesn't tell me much about how it works. It's "limited to 500 characters"... for the sender? What happens if it's more than 500 characters or has an attachment? Or wait, is this a walled garden thing? I can't tell.

So I check the "Why shortmail" page (which 99% of visitors will not do), and I'm still not sure what happens if incoming e-mails are longer than 500 chars.
The "rectangularisation of the life curve", i.e. a cohort facing low mortality (thanks to better social practices and healthcare) until a ripe old age when it starts dramatically dying off, implies a maximum human lifespan that we have not significantly manipulated in the history of human biology.
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I actually had a company that once asked for current pay stubs, they where a staffing firm and we had already negotiate the rate at which I was willing to take the job. Part of their process of on-boarding was that I had to submit three current pay stubs. I protested and they assured me that it would not be used as a lever to drive down the already negotiated salary. I agreed to submit them, but I also included a poison pill stipulation that if they tried to negotiate salary after they where submitted that my salary requirement would go to 120% of what we negotiated. Sure enough they saw that I was making far less than what we negotiated and thought that they had leverage. They tried to reduce the offer by a little more than 25%. What they did not account for was that I had another offer that was only a little less than the original agreed upon rate. I stuck to the 120% poison pill, but accepted the offer from the other company, because even if they would have accepted the rate, the well was already fouled.
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I like the product idea and am in the market for a CS solution, but I am hesitant to even try based on my expectations on pricing. I'd use it on a site with about 20k to 25k registrations per day, maybe 100k or so logins, and probably a million or so actions I'd track. Any ballparks on pricing or would this not be a good solution for a site like mine?
well, that was an awesome interview
If there was a way to limit the speed of the board based on the grade of the hill, that could be an easy, innovative solution. I imagine that might be built in already to some degree.
Indeed. Be the change you want to see, and all that...
which is why the guy above is so very, very wrong that these steps actually take five minutes, as opposed to just looking like they do :)
Argh. It looks interesting, but the dependencies are killing me; we use an unusual system for managing libraries, and i3 doesn't have a very intelligent config engine...
If it happens, take them to a small claims court. Show your contract. They will have no case. They can't switch you to another plan if you don't agree (well, if you keep tethering, they can).
I love how Hacker News has a bunch of pissed of nerds that are mad that a website advertising music plays said music.
Why worry about recruiting spam? You can also avoid it by having no online presence too, but that will not serve your long-term career interests.

It's not like you're under obligation to respond, and every once in a while a recruiter may even have a pitch that merits a response.
This should have been titled as Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 "UI" Reviewed. The post is mostly about VS 2012 as IDE and lacks review of any other new features.

As a developer, the UI only matters to me for first few days or so and then it all just fades away in the background as the focus shifts to the code and the integrated tools. Sad that most of the reviews of VS 2012 that I have seen focus on its UI and color scheme rather than functionality. I doubt the color scheme matters to developers as much. May be to a fashion designer but not developers ...
Really cool, though it might be a little dangerous to use as an actual map in the London Underground.
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My goal is to make millions quickly with a nifty but superficial startup idea and then create a giant research lab focusing on science I find interesting (superconductivity, md simulations, neutrino research, etc...)

Well, that's the plan anyway. Real-life will probably be a lot different.
Even as a young guy I can relate. I want to stay in the DC area, and I'm having trouble finding anything other than government consultant work. Not exactly the most exciting realm. Working to meet some people that might be able to point me in the right direction. As much as I hate to say it, "networking" pays.
Brad Feld has a good article on the subject. I woud recommend it to you.

http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/08/how-to-respond-to-a-...

and I posted it here to HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4507841

Aside from agreeing with his advice, one constructive observation.

We have no interest in raising, or spending any time resources whatsoever on establishing relationships with investors.

The words "no" "any" "relationships" are sort of an odd mix in this sentenece. Consider how you are framing at the situation. As PG said in a recent post, if a company becomes big enough, there will be a market for its shares. So, the idea that you can be "doing well", or so well that you should never consider future investment, or even an exit, is a bit of a red herring.