skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my understanding, the person I was replying to was saying that the actual value of equity isn't relevant, because capital cycles through the economy. I was saying that was absolutely not true, because the only reasons anyone would buy equity is to either 1) because they expect the equity to appreciate in value, or 2) to receive dividends or profit-sharing of some kind.

The situation you described is a reasonable diversification strategy, but you had the expectation of appreciation with each purchase. You hedged your bet, and lost less, but you still believed that each position would appreciate in value.
You aren't on my Twitter timeline then.
Zynga has almost 3000 employees? Jeez. That's more than Twitter.
I agree in a way - while it's unfortunate to those involved, there is an efficiency at work when capital is moved from those with no idea to those with some idea. Obviously the less idea someone has, the faster the capital departs them (a fool and his money are one big party).

However, I think the problem here is one of time horizons - many people invest in companies expecting them to be longer-term sustainable entities rather than harvest-the-craze entities. But as long as that's a function of lack of investor chops rather than market disinformation, ultimately it's a good thing.
Even phrasing it as "Apple vs Google" is counterproductive. In this example, we have two products. One is more expensive, but better built and with a larger software library. The other is cheaper, a little more plastic-y but with a better screen.

Neither is "better" than the other, it entirely depends on your circumstances- what you want your tablet to do, how much money you have, etc. etc.
The German name for the service is "Videotext", although this might just be colloquial.
These guys obviously aren't the sort of people that are happy to lie by the beach reading a book, quietly enjoying their millions.

They're alpha dogs in the absolute worst sense of the word. They thrive off ego, winning, power, greed, narcissism and all those other lovely traits most people pulling similar moves seem to have.

Think Gordon Geko. Remove the pin stripe suit, fast forward 30 years and change the modus operandi from cynical asset stripping to cynical stock hyping and you get...

Edit: a more charitable view, in Pincus' case, is he isn't THAT evil and instead simply made a hugely expensive mistake buying OMGPOP. That wrecked the balance sheet and he's holding in there trying to recover.
So, who is right? Ars Technica claims WinRT runs on top of Win32 (http://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt-...), this text claims it runs just above the kernel.

Also, completely unrelated: I hope that 'single keypress' for resetting your PC to a blank slate is somewhat exaggerated. If it isn't, leaving your PC alone for seconds becomes truly dangerous (yes, technically there is no difference; giving anybody local access to your PC puts your files at risk, but having a system make vandalism easier? I sure hope it asks for your password first)
There are a good number of solid, simple books and 30/60 minute videos on it. I have no doubt that more are being written as I type this. I can't pull a list of them out at the moment (I stopped actively working on startups a while ago, for various reasons, so I no longer keep tabs), but they really can't be that hard to find.

I remember Art of the Start positively, and I believe Kawasaki says that the (free and online) talk of the same title has all the same information. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSlwuafyUUo
Deducing details about Apple's A6X processor
Why AMD must embrace ARM to stay alive
New fun music web app I built - Billboard.fm: Listen to all the hits since 1946
Billboard.fm is ultimate radio web app to listen to the top hits from all the decades including the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s all in one easy page.<p>Ever wonder what was popular the year you were born? Check it out!
Captivating title...
Why is beanstalk often looked over? Has anyone ha problems with it before? Or is it just marketing problems..
I hate that you can't use the iPad mini as a cell phone. It's small enough now that in a lot of situations you can carry it around with you. And in those cases, it would be nice to only have to carry your iPad mini and leave your phone at home.

Sure, with the 3g model you can still use iMessage, Whats App, Skype, etc- but you're missing out on regular voice calls and SMS.

From an engineering perspective- is it that difficult to add a sim card slot and the extra cell antennas?
It depends on how you integrate bootstrap: there's a SCSS conversion of Bootstrap that avoids the dependency on therubyracer, (it just requires sass):
https://github.com/anjlab/bootstrap-rails
Thanks for the feedback. I work at Bitcasa and we have discussed internally. We decided to remove it. Instead we will show the user's first name only, so the share is still somewhat "personalized". The push will go this afternoon. Thanks, Luke @ Bitcasa
You're paying for a dedicated machine. Then you run virtual servers on your machine. You could run just one (treating it much like a regular dedicated server), or you could run multiple, that's up to you.

There is no scenario in which multiple users share the same hardware. Your hardware is your own.

The web site will improve ;-)

Feel free to email me with any questions: jake@uptano.com
Not so solid OO principles
I don't think there's anything wrong, per se, with engineers wanting to gamble on bigger, riskier projects. Nor do I necessarily see the "productive vs. hypey" dichotomy as a strict dichotomy between startups and the IBMs and Googles of the world.

But I do think that there's a major opportunity cost incurred when dollars and talent get shuttled into hypey, bullshit-driven companies instead of legitimate ones. Including legitimate startups.

Of all the risky startups who could potentially get funded and attract talent, it's better for the good ones to get the money and the talent if possible.

To put it another way: the VC system should be selecting for the next Google, not the next Color. But to whatever extent it's selecting for the next Color, it is sub-optimized. That degree of sub-optimization is the opportunity cost / inefficiency inherent to the system.
To reiterate what I've said in my comment above, I'm not sure this is a downturn. A downturn implies some shift in the market, while this phenomenon is intrinsic to the particular startup economy. There might be a downturn in investment, though, as this inherent behavior gives rise to investment cycles.
Ask HN: How do you make coding a more casual activity?
Is there any way to make coding something more casual and informal instead of being so structured and feeling unchangeable?

I want to tinker with this bit without causing this bit and that bit to blow up. I want to stretch this line without the code in line number 45 explode. I want a way to make coding feel more like I'm playing with putty and less like I'm working with cement.

What options are there (if any) for doing this?
It's a tongue in cheek joke based on a number of BBC ageism scandals that have erupted over the past couple of years.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bbc+ageism+tribunal
There are different operating systems, or at least different use cases built into the same operating system. Sweet jesus, I have to abandon the Internet for the next few years until people realize the world didn't end with Windows 8. It's frustrating to see such uninformed words being written and accepted as fact by such otherwise incredibly intelligent people.

A different OS for a server than you run on a phone? You mean like the difference between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 Server? Because it's a huge difference. Not even comparable. You're saying you can't code on a Windows 8 laptop? How am I running Visual Studio 2012 right now? In another window, I have an SSH session open to my VPS, editing some Golang files.

Here's the problem: Microsoft is basically giving you a free iPad bundled with the update to Windows 7. It doesn't hurt anything to have it there, but for a great number of people it really helps. Those people will likely never see the desktop, never care that it's there, and that's exactly what they want. For people like you and I, the only time we'll see Metro on our laptops is when we boot and when we hit the start button to search for a program via keyboard. The desktop is still there. It hasn't changed except for getting better. And yet people still seem to want to turn it into a negative with hyperbole, FUD, slippery slopes, and sometimes even outright lies. The world has not ended. It hasn't even changed. Window is Windows, your phone is a phone, your server is a server, and you still complain.
Bluespec is trying to do something similar to this, but they focus on synthesizing hardware, software is a secondary thing. However, it's designed to run well in software too.

Originally implemented by one of the major Haskell gurus, Augustusson.
I messed with a couple of highlighters and they all had issues highlighting everything correctly.

I might turn them all into gists, but I am going to talk with the rainbow.js author before I do.

Hopefully this will be fixed soon!
that's a misleading title
It looks like the mobos you want are on the way:

http://www.techpowerup.com/173058/ASRock-Unveils-its-Socket-...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Announces-Affordable-Micr...
> Actually, the green logo was made by Igor Sysoev and it is the oldest and the only official logo.

Perform a simple whois on nginx.org and you will see that Igor Sysoev is the registrant.

That logo appears on his website over which he has complete control, even now.

I was always taught to assume the best about people.

I will assume that you are correct, that another gentleman who is either ignorant or has a poor sense of humor created and used the logo. I will assume that Mr. Sysoev is far too nice to tell Mr. Wells to take it down.

I retract what I previously said.

EDIT:

I have read the comment which you posted below, in Russian. Mr. Sysoev said that he didn't make it and doesn't like it, for the same reasons I gave earlier. It seems he is too nice to tell the gentleman to take it down.

I apologize for what I said.
But the market is pricing in "some number of those shares will hit the market" already. Since it's equally likely that the market has anticipated too-high as too-low, there's no reason to believe it will cause the stock to sink. It's equally likely it will rise.
Mixed messages In French Innovation Ad in NYTimes angers French entrepreneurs
Android Privacy Guard v1.0.8 - OpenPGP for Android
Some people might be thinking "Well done Amazon for correcting this mistake" or "Amazon just caved due to pressure of bad press" but I am thinking that if Amazon can wipe a kindle remotely, I do not want such a device and will purchase a product which does not have this "feature".

Seriously, fuck them.
Thanks, that puts it into perspective for me.
Yeah, well, every investor would rather invest in a "legitimate" startup, and every engineer would rather work for one. But telling which is which is the tricky part, isn't it? Some things are only obvious in retrospect.
My mother has a dumbphone. My girlfriend has a Blackberry. My friends have Androids. Some of my coworkers have iOS devices, but not nearly the majority. So, for me, iMessage isn't free. And I think this is true for the majority of the population that doesn't live in the Apple-centred SV hype bubble. If Apple opened the iMessage protocol to non-iOS devices[1], I'd use iMessage in a heartbeat--I prefer its UX. But until then, I'll only use it to reply when someone sends me an SMS--because, like email, SMS is universal.

[1] They wouldn't even have to write iMessage apps for those devices--just allow, say, WhatsApp, to use the iMessage protocol.
Stalk-ey favours? Those are the only type I could think I would ever make to Facebook employees. (Yes I know what this says about me.)
Author here. Sounds like fun, drop me an email (in my profile).
I work in information security. I've fought all-out wars with our desktop support team to get security patches forced to client machines, and to enforce a policy of mandatory reboots that can only be deferred for up to 12 hours. I don't have a problem with forcing a reboot. But if I need another 15 minutes, I want to be able to tell my machine to wait another 15 minutes.

Forcing a reboot is great. Forcing a reboot without letting me defer for a few minutes is not. A better middle ground, the one I fought for at work, is to defer the reboot until the user is asleep.
+1, it's really been a godsend for me
That doesn't make it true.
I'm glad that Express does not aim to be the Rails of Node.js. It's the Node.js equivalent of Sinatra, and for me it has been everything I needed to get my one-page app up and running.

It is so important that Node.js is getting support for more HTTP features. As the platform goes more and more mainstream, all these "little" features like conditional GETs and support for reverse proxies will make the difference in whether people take server-side JavaScript seriously. Node.js is one of the better candidates for replacing PHP in the long run, and I could not be more excited about it.
My best use case for multiple desktops is to have my fun stuff on one desktop and my work stuff on another. When the desktop flips, so does my mind. Also, when the boss walks by it's easy to hide HN and move to work stuff.
Interesting story! Are you willing to share what your product is, or what it does?
You can be even more productive by not making any (Anti-)ToDo lists, thereby reducing management overhead and the time spent figuring out how to use, using and reviewing todo list techniques.
Doubt in Klout
Klout lacks the true sense of the analysis.
As a kid I could not wrap my head around SimIsle, wonder if I still have that CD...
While true, that's beside the point at hand. The author is suggesting that the VC system is consciously selecting for the Colors of the world -- or, at the very least, that it has created conditions conducive to the next Color.

In other words: it's not simply betting at the track and ending up with the wrong horse. It's actively betting on what it knows to be the wrong horse, because the wrong horse pays off in the short term.
Python Web development is still niche? Are any of these companies looking for remote work, by any chance? :-P
Yes, turns out that ATI acquisition may save them. Nice hedge against struggles on the CPU side.
Hey, I'm Nathan, one of the people working on LateLabs, and I definitely agree that there are infinite project possibilities for developers to work on. Our goal at Late Labs instead is to create a unique type of community that will allow high level developers to work together, and learn from each other.
This is what excellent content marketing looks like.
If anything that supposed counterexample supports my point that the accusations these people casually make in HN comment threads are so much more drastic than they realize that they're their own reductio ad absurdum. Running a public company that's a scam tends to entail criminal behavior. Especially nowadays.
Just released video projection turns pumpkins into live Jack-O-Lanterns
They also have distribution and user data.
as a native-born Las Vegan, my only comment is this:

"Who the fuck thought that Las Vegas in mid-August was a good idea?"
One thing that I hated about Windows pre-7 and Linux until Ubuntu was taskbar objects. Why do they need to take up so darn much space? I worked for hours laboring over Gnome 2 to get it to work like Windows 7, with icon based taskbar objects, trying every program and customization I could find. I finally got it just as Unity was announced. I was ecstatic that I could get rid of Gnome 2 and have a desktop that looked how I wanted right out of the box.

But let's not get into how slow Unity is on hardware that blazes with Gnome 2 or Windows... if I could easily get the same thing but much, much faster and something that lets me put that taskbar anywhere I want on the screen, I'd be happier.
This story reminds me of the story of the recent closure of the venerable Minitel network in France.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2733106
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170531
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4175141
But does it come with sandpaper?
I don't agree with the people in the article comments claiming a change of port number is worthless security-by-obscurity. It has completely eliminated random "drive-by" login attempts on my servers, and I'm sure that can only be a good thing - both for staying out of any database of hosts with versioned SSH servers (or distribution names, even) (in case a 0day exploit comes out, either for SSH or for the distro's equivalent Apache), and for reducing exposure in case an account with an easily guessable password is accidently configured, at the least.

Additional configuration complexity is pretty much a non-issue. One extra "Port" line in ~/.ssh/config or the equivalent UI textfield box in putty.
Starting Even If You Fail
No true, considering how much CEOs are paid regardless of whether the companies they manage ultimately succeed or fail. It would be financially irresponsible to turn down a CEO job offer in a high profile company.
all gnome3/unity just has to do is launch the terminal!
7 minutes of terror - Curiosity
Of course it would still apply. The difference here is that some people have a different (yet still immutable) definition for what a game is.

The fallacy is when you keep changing the definition to fit the data.
And also everything is poisonous when condensed enough. Essence usually means condensed to a high content.
This idea is similar to a pet project I did a looong time ago while learning C#. It's still up at http://getmicromanager.com/ but honestly I'm not sure if it still works with the current version of .NET (it was written on .NET 1.1).
This is Nathan from Late Labs. Our goal as a company is to create a community of high level developers who can work on projects together. We are also playing around with the idea of using successful existing companies to let developers work on project together for them. What type of horror stories have you worked on? I know we all have these, our goal in the long run is to help make sure developers don't wast their time on projects that aren't stable :)
Plus... a lot of these companies are side-stepping CE / FCC certifications by clinging to the "we only sell to 'developers'." When you want to sell to non-DIY consumers, I'm not so sure this is an option anymore -- especially for projects like home automation where there are serious safety concerns (fire and electrocution!).

I've never gone through that process. Anyone know ballpark costs for certifications?
Dropping The Mic On Mediocrity
I was responding to the line "if 3 years from now MPEG LA decides to start charging content providers a licensing fee for their content, even if that content is distributed for free."
I'd suggest that there is a huge opening for a startup that does manufacturing process. This company could earn money by selling its process to others, and dogfooding its own product in a few lucrative niches.

For example, the company might start by pulling all the open source EDA, CAD, CNC, and similar, software into a cohesive whole. It would then bring in one of the open source ERP systems and integrate it with the engineering toolchain. Keeping on doing this for every part of the process: ordering, inventory, manufacturing/robotics, testing, sales, distribution, support, financials. The idea is to (as nearly as possible) completely automate the process of scaling hardware based business from a prototype to a product. Achieve this goal and hardware becomes as easy to scale as software.

I've been building hardware for the last 30 years, and invariably most of the work goes into making the process run smoothly (ie. designing the process) rather than designing the product.
Who is the leader exactly?
I'm gonna call bullshit on your friend's claim of all expense paid trip purely as a one year anniversary gift from Zynga.

Here is when you get such perks at Zynga:

- You win some sort of company-wide award at the quarterly meeting. You (or your team) did something awesome and you are getting rewarded.

- You get a big quarter-end cash bonus and you spend it on your trip.

- It's not actually a vacation. You are on a business trip and maybe you convince your manager to delay your return and you take off for vacation time at that time.

- 25% of your stock options vest on your first anniversary and you cash in and spend on your trip. Assuming you got a boatload of options if you take into account the stock price.

That's all I can think of.

But what DO you get as a prize for your one year anniversary? Some studios put your name up on a poster... That's about it. The rest is by merit.

And as to your immature and completely unfit comment: I call bullshit on that as well. People like that do not get the type of funding that Zynga got. They do not get superstars on their board like Zynga does (Reid Hoffman, Bing Gordon, Jeffrey Katzenberg, etc). And people like that definitely do not get a company to go public. So, yeah, I call bullshit.
Yeah, I think they made a mistake here. Of course I have no idea what their margins are, but $299 looks a whole lot better than $329. Would $30 really make or break them?

[edit: math (doh!)]
Please let me know what you think. I kept it very simple to start with. I have two versions. One where play loads object (playlist) in div without changing pages, but then you can't share different years with your friends.

Any tips or ideas? I was thinking about incorporating history of the year into each page.
You should have some citations there: (I'm assuming Kindle Fire HD)

* Lighter - that is correct, it is ~75g lighter than KF & N7

* Better battery life - citing the tech specs, it gets 10h browsing, surfing etc. the same as N7 and 1h less than KF's (these are all advertised)

* Bigger display - Yes it is bigger in inches, but it is lower resolution than both KF and N7 - meaning pictures are going to look worst. And the mini won't be able to do true 720p.

* Faster processor - Comparing apples and oranges here, provide a citation.
Don't forget certifications! If you're building consumer devices, those CE / FCC certifications can really affect the pipeline.
One thing to realize is that the "hype-machine" is a cornerstone of modern, capitalist, economy. So much in the economy is built around expectations, so I wouldn't single out silicon valley. Silicon valley, since it occupies the innovation/novelty niche, is just a exaggerated, caricaturized, even (not necessarily in a bad way), microcosm for the entire capitalist economy.
Do you like the idea of working on a project for equity that's more managed with other developers? And why? And would you use this as a learning experience?
"Honestly, I've grown to like it."

One thing I've learned while designing UIs is that if it takes a techy X amount of time to figure something out, it takes between X * 10 to X * 100 for a regular person, so you really want to aim for a super super intuitive interface; and they won't try forever.
Just wait.

https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps

Edit: And don't forget the remote wipe feature in Find My iPhone. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-hona...
Ugh, remember when academia helped create the internet by releasing free publicly available unlicensed RFCs?

Edit: Not RFPs, duh
Kevin Rose returns to Digg!

* crickets *

Commander Taco returns to Slashdot!

* more crickets *

There are some things that can't be undone.
I think the idea behind pricing at ~$300 instead of $200 (as with N7 or Kindle Fire) was to separate themselves from what they want people to believe are cheap knock-offs.