skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully you kept reading since that part was just the nomenclature for those interested in looking up this stuff.
Apparently the name "Madonna" is real enough for Facebook (though they probably have exemptions for famous people).

https://www.facebook.com/madonna
I don't disagree. There is nothing particularly innovative in iOS 6 or the iPhone 5. I just think that if they had NFC, Google maps, less strict app store policies, and so on they would be indistinguishable from Android. Honestly, if you want to go there, I think Android is in fact getting conservative and WP8 is where the innovation is happening in mobile right now.
Ask PG: Founder Control in 2012+
You wrote an essay in 12/2010 on Founder Control after Series A financing and said in the next year you thought it would be the norm for Founders to maintain board control.

Would you say this has become true, or is it still split?

Happy to hear from anyone with knowledge as well.
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Endeavor completes final flight
Hey Daave, I agree completely. We have a stupid technical problem where our inner and outer pages are separate apps, and we need to merge them to show the pricing on the outside. Stupid I know. We're fixing it.
Of my graduating class, a large enough number were going to the United States, most of which got through without a hitch.

The only problems I've heard happened at the very crossing mentioned in this post -- Blaine, WA. I know that I'll make sure to never cross there to get a "Computer Systems Analyst" TN.
I'm not sure you fully appreciate the uproar that it caused during the last war in Lebanon.

It's a relatively straightforward process to get Canadian citizenship. Many Canadian started to question the process that allowed someone raised in another country to come to Canada, gain citizenship in 4 to 5 years, then go back to their home country with no intention of ever returning or contributing to Canadian society again, except under the situation where their current country is residence becomes uninhabitable.
I haven't had a chance to actually use a WP8 device yet but I like what I've seen online. I may pick up a 920 just to try it even though I really don't want to commit to another walled-garden ecosystem. I agree that Microsoft seems to be taking much bigger chances than anybody else right now.

I also think Microsoft has far and away the best UI toolkit with C#/XAML.
How does Appcelerator know who wrote the app? They see an app from a company that offends their licenses, they contact the app owner (not necessarily the developer). Seems legit to me.
There is no continuum. The point is that the startup values growth over all else, really limitless growth if possible. A "barbershop" is some business comfortable plateauing at a certain point, or confining itself in other ways (these being business for which growth is not the foremost goal). A barbershop could be a small chain of barbershops in a metro area, the analogy holds.
Appcelerator is open source for the sake of being considered open source. They certainly are not in business to promote businesses using their open source for free.
AKAIK it is still possible with most popular email servers to send and recive using only IP addresses (e.g. by placing the address in brackets).

DNS is really only optional for email, at least functionally. But I think a lot of people assume there can be no email without domain names.
No pretending necessary; it has been a widespread term for years. Here's a Wikipedia article on it with sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_%28slang%29
You can set up hosted git in a few hours. What is the use case of GitHub?

You can set up a server in a few hours. What is the use case of Heroku?

So the first use case of Circle is that you can set it up in seconds. Literally, 20 seconds. You spent a few hours setting up your CI servers, but what if you didn't have a server available, didn't know how to set up postgres, couldn't put a hole in your firewall for the github notifications, or forget to add "bundle exec" to your rspec calls?

Aha you think - I'll use EC2. So you rent a server (for the same cost as Circle), set up Jenkins, but somehow your tests keep failing. But only sometimes. Why is that? It's because EC2 has such ridiculously bad IO that your integration tests time out while logging into the server.

OK, so solve that problem, then your organization grows to 5 people, and your test suite to 5 minutes. You all push code one day, and now have to wait 25 minutes to get test results.

Then tests grow to 20 minutes, and the team to 12. Now you're in a deep hole, and you're bringing up servers as fast a you can, trying to remember how to configure them the same, and of course you've moved to a different project so it's actually your coworker doing it, and he doesn't know what you did.

We solve every problem here - easy to set up, incredibly fast, auto-scaling, and we can even parallelize your builds so that a 60 minute test suite on your machines runs across 4 machines and takes 13 minutes.

And Circle (again, at https://circleci.com) won't go down if you go on vacation.
>I'm inclined to agree that iOS Maps wouldn't have got past Steve Jobs, because he was fanatical about the smallest details.

I'm inclined to call this out.

If it made business sense, Steve would have done the exact same thing. Especially if Apple had no choice to continue using Google Maps (because of Google demands, etc).

Even worse regressions have happened under Steve's watch because they HAD to happen. E.g the move from PowerPC to Intel meant that all existing third party programs made until then had to run in a subpar, emulated, environment (Rosetta). Steve went along, because there was no way they could continue using PowerPC and still have a mobile processor roadmap.
Looks cool. I personally use my inbox as a pseudo-task list or ongoing task list most of the time. That being said you run into the issue of tasks that aren't emails. Do you email yourself? Create a new task that is an email? Do you create a task that only lives in the application and therefore not synced with your devices?
Yes. I think most people miss this. For peer-to-peer to succeed I think there needs to be some amount of "re-education". There needs to be a shift in thinking. Many of these things that others are doing for you (email, etc.) can just as easily run from your machine instead of theirs. You do not need the same capacity and ability to scale as they do.

What makes it all possible is NAT traversal. That is the fundamental problem being solved which takes us back to peer-to-peer and the orginal model of the internet. The rest is all just pre-configuration and UI.
Sounds to me like thoroughly sensible and responsible behaviour. If I lived in a country that was on the brink of war I would also cover all bases. If I had kids, I would almost definitely try and arrange something like this.

And besides, what skin does it take off your back if someone does this? When those people are in the country, they will generally be working and paying taxes. When they are not in the country they are working and paying taxes somewhere else. And what difference does it make if they come back to go snowboarding, or come back because their country has just gone boom? Patriotism is not a required trait to be a good person.
If we're going to have a serious discussion, let's not put quotes around things and have different interpretations. Let's state exactly what we mean and talk about it.
How fast is it growing, week over week?
Square? If it's not something you know it needs to be something you own. Cc's seem like a possible thing a lot of people own. Square-like thing for authing by swiping seems like it could be done. Or maybe mobile as a remote would be enough on it's own for most cases. Visit on web, unlock by pressing separate mobile button.
And not long afterwards, Clifford generalized real numbers, complex numbers, and quaternions into what are now known as "Clifford algebras". Handy stuff. Certain algebras allow you to express geometric shapes such as points and lines using very simple equations. Other algebras show how quaternions (for example) arise naturally as the even subalgebra of Cl0,3(R). The "spacetime algebra" appears as CL1,3(R), which makes it easy to express special relativity.
And that's even assuming that Avengers should have been categorized as scifi.
$200 is not very reasonably priced
I've found "Springtomize" to be a good investment on Cydia. It can hide the Newsstand just like 11) and change the carrier text (no icon AFAIK), but it can also hide everything else- bye bye Stocks, Weather, Compass, Voice Memos, ...
Ask HN: How do you start charging $2X to an old client?
Out of my many clients, my oldest client still prefers that I charge him $X like the old times. But my number of clients have grown and some are willing to pay me even $3X. Assuming that I still want to work with the old client, how do I get the message across that he should be paying me $2X now in a non-confrontational way?
Steve Jobs mentioned this.

For enterprise software, user and buyer are not the same person.
Why I'm Not Upgrading My iPhone
We're setting a really bad precedent for the future here and these sorts of things need to stop now. Unfortunately, people don't seem to want to fight this.

Now we have people getting turned down for jobs because they DON'T have a facebook account[1]. What's next?

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/109ipi/no_faceboo...
It would seem I am alone in saying that for Bucharest, Romania the iOS6 Maps is better than Google Maps was because Google Maps was not able to look up houses by number - which means it was unable to guide me to any address. It was just the satellite imagery with roads overlaid, so, if you wanted to go to say, West St. 23, it could find you West St. and put the pointer right in the middle of it, even if it was miles long.

Apple can look up addresses. That's all.
"I still want to work with you, but I need to keep my business running. My rates have risen since we worked, but I'm willing to compromise and meet in the middle.

If this works for you, we can move forward now. If not, I need to work on other projects now but I can let you know if I get a break in my schedule for discount work."
The best way people, especially kids, have to protect their future selves from things they write or post today, is by assuming a fake identity.

Kids are quickly learning that everything on the Internet is forever. Take the option of hiding their identity away from them, and I think they will move to a service that will allow this.
Good point. Of course, just because he was dickish in the business world doesn't mean that he was that way towards his kids, but he certainly might have been.

After reading his biography I thought the same thing as the author ... all of that money and success is lost if you don't have the personal relationships with your family and friends.
I don't personally agree with the argument, but I've seen it come up numerous times, first on Google Plus and now on Facebook.
It's willingness to deviate from prior mental models and frames of reference that can yield unexpected breakthroughs. Quantum physics also used to seem crazy (actually, it still does).

Equating Kurzweil with Nostradamus is highly exaggerative (I don't recall the latter employing any mathematical models), but I would listen to anything Nostradamus-related based on the arguments and evidence, not the name.

The real issue is that HN strives for a higher standard of discussion, and ad hominems fall below that standard whether or not they are true. Snarky name-calling should stay on reddit.

(PS: Love the username.)
A good growth rate during YC is 5-7% a week. If you can hit 10% a week you're doing exceptionally well. If you can only manage 1%, it's a sign you haven't yet figured out what you're doing.

This is, to me, the most interesting thing here: I've seen lots of people talk about "traction", but this is the first time I've seen someone in the startup world give hard numbers for what a "good growth rate" is.

Another way to look at these numbers: A good growth rate during YC means that you're doubling every 10-14 weeks. An exceptional growth rate is doubling every 7 weeks, and if your doubling time is more than a year, it's a sign you haven't yet figured out what you're doing.

This fits pretty well with the rather imprecise commentary that "a startup measures the time to double in size in months, except for wildly successful ones, which measure it in weeks".
And that's a better point. I'd like to see Google do a better job of it. However, Google's backport APIs are, in truth, pretty good, and I haven't yet found a problem with targeting a decent spread of devices.
I got my "Thanks for signing up!" email via Launchrock on 14 Sept 2011, and haven't got a single email from you since... (email address as per my HN profile, if you want to look it up)
Social Media vs. Email: What’s all the fuss about?
I use `var x;` which transpiles exactly to var x; so there is no overhead. The backtick in CS lets JS pass through.
Why are you deleting accounts of people who cosplay? It's mostly kids having fun playing dress up and taking photos and making plans to appear at conventions, all while calling themselves by anime-inspired names. When these kids lose their accounts, they also lose their connections with each other, connections which they spent a great deal of time and energy cultivating, and what's even worse is that it's difficult for them to reconnect, after creating new accounts with their real names, because they know each other only by their cosplay names. It's a nonsensical policy, which does little-to-nothing to keep these kids safe, and which rather effectively kills existing social circles.

example: http://japanimeclarinetist.deviantart.com/journal/They-delet...

article: http://dailydot.com/news/facebook-purges-cosplay-accounts (Facebook Purges Cosplay Accounts)(08/21/12)
You might mean: a median niche business makes more money than a median startup.

Average is much higher than a median for startups because it includes the most successful startups which are by definition have a high growth rate over an extended period of time so they are very big.

Niche businesses in this context have a low growth so their average is closer to the median. The growth is constrained at the top in absolute terms (otherwise it would be a startup) so the average is lower than the one for startups.
So basically a startup is a company whose goal is not to create a profitable business, but a company whose goal is to grow a large userbase rapidly and lure VCs to pump more money into it, because VCs just dream about finding the next google or apple and funding it in an early stage.

This just emphasizes why I do not want to be a part of this scene.

As DHH says: fuck doing a startup.

http://vimeo.com/3899696#t=1290
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No social media presence? Clearly you are a psychopathic recluse unfit for normal work.

We only want employees who do normal things, like obsessively refreshing a particular website all day long.
Vote for 1-Shopping Cart to allow Stripe
Wow. That's really sleazy selling a product, as a traditionally open hardware company, and not being upfront about it possibly being closed source.
Context: 1-Shopping does a fantastic job of providing one-click upsell functionality and ability to manage affiliates but currently does not offer Stripe integration so we are stuck with sucky merchant account vendors and payment gateways
This article might just be my point of reference whenever I get a bit too much "valley hate". Like, when I start reading a bunch of the ideas coming out of the blog from 37 Signals.

I still think that for every serious genius, there are a lot of copycats. These copycats create this gigantic echo chamber of ideas. It's a ton of noise from a lot of likely failures. That noise can feel dishonest.

After reading this essay, I'm left with a sense that startup land is probably the best, dare I say more honest way, of turning investment money into new technology and jobs.

I'm actually left wondering about the relationship between "normal small businesses" and bankers. It feels adversarial in comparison.
$5 a month would be totally worth it for a lot of people. Even with promoted tweets, etc., I think people would go for it.

Charge, but let people do whatever they want with their own data ... give them access to their full history of their own tweets and maybe some other advanced features. Meanwhile let everyone use twitter.com for free if they want.
Amazon of course not only raise venture capital but also raised an enormous amount of money after that. They didn't get to where they are today by constraining their access to capital to their float.
How Apple Should Continue To Improve Siri
Your counter-example (ms windows+expolorer) is not-quite on point, though. Consider: windows had a legitimate monopoly, and then they "abused" it. But, because you are presuming the existence of a monopoly for CL this does not work. CL is an online classified ads business. The barriers to entry are de-minimus (unlike, OS software + hw compatibility, ect). So the premise of monopoly can be attacked fairly and directly.

CL arguably is not abusing a monoploy because they don't even have one. They just have a cheap service, and nobody wants to pay to do it different. The consideration you raise -- are they anti consumer -- is an interesting one to think through. It does seem they over-reached (re: the exclusivity of data). But without any contractual exclusivity or confidentiality its not clear that CL can "monopolize" publicly published data, given that the most valuable bits are (at least for rentals) nothing but street adresses, apartment #s, and possibly Telco #s. These data are not legal-sense "intellectual property" under most concepts (patent, copyright, or trade secret).

It would be an interesting argument to see the threshold case: when/where do 3 facts become a creative work? Its not a trivial argument, though, because at some stage N words becomes a lyric a poem or an idea. You cant copyright a word, though. Its highly unlikely you can copyright an adress. They might try to argue its like a "recipe" or some such (list of common ingredients?). Who knows. But somewhere in there, I'm guessing we'll find out.
There really isn't a continuum in most technology markets. Startups that constrain their growth tend to get pounded into the ground by startups that don't. Try being a small search engine competing with Google.
The problem is that it has turned into more than a website now where people get denied jobs for not being a member (see my previous comment in this thread). This is wrong.
I won't argue against you selecting yourself out, but your argument is incorrect. Google and Apple are insanely profitable.
Based on required growth rates and measurement intervals (5-10% per week), there would seem to be a pretty heavy bias towards the consumer space.

B2B or so-called Enterprise Companies, especially industry-specific new companies, would have a hard time qualifying on several fronts (market size, growth rate, growth interval). I am particularly interested in the B2B style of startup because I run an Enterprise Startu-er... Enterprise New Company focused on serving the insurance industry. A B2B Startup, it would seem, would have to link customer charges to something that can grow without a new sales contract. I guess, the trick to achieving high growth rates is to create viral growth inside an existing account. Growth in the B2B space will be large jumps (with a new contract) followed by organic growth or not (within the bounds of the existing sales contract). It seems to follow then that since the purchase agreement is the painful and tough and slow part, a B2B Startup would want to have a Freemium or some other type of contract with low/no startup costs and higher per user/GB/account/server/unit costs.

Gives me some new direction on pricing.

On an unrelated note, I'll disagree with other comments of "favorite pg essays" and say that "Wealth" was the best by an order of magnitude. http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Facebook is possibly the most dangerous social construct created. And no, it's not because privacy or information are too sacred to be utilized, but because personal identity is so easily perverted with market, institutional, societal interests.

It's not hard to imagine a near future, if not a present, in which a person's identity is entirely evaluated, shaped, and determined by a monolith such as facebook.
Which is how the National Film Registry here in the States operates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry

"The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress."

"The National Film Registry names to its list up to 25 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films' each year, showcasing the range and diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness for its preservation.... To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old."
Sounds about right.

I've also raised rates in the future just by letting clients know months ahead of time that it would happen. It seems to take off the sting somewhat.
Haha I love it. This stuff really is disturbing though - society is getting worse as a result.
Everyone has people they don't like and vice versa. People that know your real name. I suspect it wouldn't too hard to crowdsource "identification" to the audience of Facebook so that they can monetize their idiotic platform better.
Occams Razor suggests it's much more likely that back in the dawn of time some programmer thought a varchar(16) was more than big enough for a password column, it's even possible that's a consequence of how Solaris stored email/user passwords back in '96 before Microsoft bought Hotmail...

I _strongly_ suspect this means Hotmail has been storing cleartext passwords forever - people postulating strange workarounds whereby they might be able to detect password lengths in spite of storing hashes instead of passwords seem to me to be spectacularly unlikely compared to the much simpler alternative that they've been storing plaintext passwords truncated to 16 chars.
The reason I suggest CentOS (or Debian) is because it met the needs of a large majority of people I dealt with. Also remember that a lot of these people work in offices and having printers (or java) set-up correctly is integral to their work, which I haven't had any problems setting up thus far (or directing people "How to" on the phone) in CentOS. Every single one of 'em has then installed the same distribution they use at work at home as well.

One of the reasons why this all works really well is that, these distributions are installed on hardware which is relatively old (2-3 years), which is the case for the majority. Distributions need to realise that when an operating system is installed, it is supposed to run without issues for a very very long time.

P.S: I did test openSUSE (12.1), but, it had its own share of issues that I don't recommend it to newbies.
If I read this correctly, then googles 8.8.8.8 dns service is an "open resolver". Are they used for dns reflection attacks?
The Youth Sports Photo Contest
The Youth Sports Photo Contest	http://taumaturg.jimdo.com/the-youth-sports-photo-contest/
The winners will be awarded with prizes: 1-st place- 3000 $; 2nd- 2000$; 3rd- 1000$, and diplomas.
There will be additional prizes for the highly commended entries and highest public vote recipients of the competition
Right. You're absolutely NOT trying to put a name on everyone to make more money. Absolutely not. It's all for the users, as one would expect from such a pro-bono, for-the-greater-good company such as Facebook.