skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The takeaway from this is that VC-istan has turned into a celebrity economy.

The most relevant trait of a celebrity economy is the importance of visibility (and the vicious politics surrounding who gets to be visible). If everyone (most relevantly, the investor community) knows you're a 5.5, that's better than being a 10 that no one has ever heard of.

This has been my observation. I've met plenty of very successful founders (people that the HN crowd would have heard of) who are just not very impressive.

It also gets under my skin when VCs say, "we don't invest in ideas, we invest in people". To which I say, "then most of you should be fired, because you suck at that." Honestly, VCs are a lot better at picking ideas. Sure, a lot of these "social" apps are lame, but VCs actually do an excellent job of choosing what ideas to fund, given the constraints they face and their objective function (variance-agnostic expectancy maximization, 1-10 year payoffs). That they do well. On the other hand, they seem to be doing a lousy job of picking people (and at that, I would do a better job than 90+ percent of them).
No, you cannot. The traditional desktop is reserved for the included applications, i.e. everything standard Windows and Office. It is not available to 3rd-party developers on Windows RT.
Gough Whitlam was fired in 1975, as the US was pulling out anyway. He was fired because the Senate had blocked supply, and he was trying to secure alternative funding (which just isn't done). Kerr (the Governor General, who was mostly a figurehead but is technically the acting head of state) and Fraser (leader of the opposition) both suggested compromises. Whitlam thought that he didn't need the Senate or GG's cooperation, and that the whole "Westminister system" was a formality he could do without. So they sacked him.

tl;dr - there was a Constitutional crisis, with the House and Senate disagreeing. The Prime Minister didn't want to negotiate, or call for a new election, so he was removed.
As another poster said, there are starting to be alternatives to these expensive and hard to learn software tools for the early prototyping work. I'm the founder of Tinkercad and we offer a web based solid CAD tool that is significantly quicker to get started with than Solidworks. There are similar tools emerging for circuit design.

A lot of our users are working on hardware startups. Once they converge on a working prototype many move forward to more traditional packages to optimize the product for larger production runs. The cloud based offerings are also developing very fast, simulation is a good example of a problem that benefits greatly from being run in a large cluster.
That's silly. Often when giving advice on complex issues your simply providing a heuristic. Start here, there might be some edge cases involved but 95% of the time this is the way to go.
Cameron from Kera here. You're right about you guys being wysiwyg and I think that's awesome. It's super important and I think you're on to something!
Anything in August is a bad idea. Nothing should ever happen in August.
> There have been 1000+ replications / reports of excess energy [...]

I followed the links, but the links I couldn't find an article with enough technical details about the experiments. I think that you know more about what is published in the subject, so can you please give me:

* One link to a paper where the excess of energy is clearly measure experimentally, that is published in a peer reviewed indexed journal with a high impact index.

* One link to an article with the technical details to reproduce the effect in the laboratory and measure the excess of energy. (Something like "Experimental LENR for dummies" would be nice.)
ACME screencast is definitely worth looking. It is the "everything is text [streams]" and GUI concepts together in action.
Allow me to nitpick about physical checks with chemical kits-- I'm sure we can build a sensor for that. The potential problem I see, however, is that by the time you detect a dangerous chemical change, it's too late. Visual inspection is still important (to see that Nemo's gimpy fin is caused by an infection rather than a birth defect) until we figure out AI enough to detect certain kinds of things.
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Ah, the ole "tu quoque" fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
The "you cannot sell for less elsewhere" rule is bullshit though.

My first thought is to have the same price, but give not-so-selective "selective" discounts to people elsewhere, giving them an incentive to not buy it from Amazon.

Would that be possible?
>Finally, let's look at something that may seem more like average people would do

Yes, let's.

>I hate on-screen keyboards, all of them, and type much slower on them than on a full size keyboard.

Same here - but we're both a lot faster than average people on a keyboard.

>And if you compare working with a mouse versus working with a touch screen, again there's no comparison of speed.

Actually I find a touch screen much faster for most things. Has the author tried it enough?

>Finally, my PC has a 19'' display, why go down to a 10'' or 4'' one?

Why not? It's not like you get more pixels on the 19" these days. Given two same-resolution screens, I'll take the more portable one please.

>As for the cloud, I used Google Docs, but personally find it extremely lacking. If you ever try to use a template, you quickly find out how broken their system is. The templates they offer break all over the place.

"Average people" don't even know what a template is.

> ask any accountant or book author who tried to use online spreadsheets or word processors to do heavy duty work what they thought of it.

I wrote a novel in google docs. It was great. I especially liked the part where one of the computers I was using broke halfway through and it made no difference to me at all.
We have a similar experience trying to move a large local newspaper in WP (500k+ posts) from our architecture to WPEngine, after over 1200 U$D spend, sadly we rollback to old setup.
Of all the things I've ever written on the blog (and ok, most of the earlier stuff is as tedious as watching the guy who watches the grass grow), it's sorta sad that only the one with the sensationalist title has ever made the front page at HN.

So, while I'm here, go look at my very nice bloggers. I regularly submit their stuff.

http://ozblogistan.com.au/

Take, for example, this recent extremely intelligent discussion of privacy in the current internet:

http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2012/10/19/manners-cost-nothing/

Or this discussion of the roots of order/chaos good/evil dualities in agricultural society: http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2012/10/16/war-and-peace/

This confronting moral conundrum from the Massacre of Srebrenica: http://clubtroppo.com.au/2012/10/24/srebrenica-should-the-so...

This discussion of the deadening effect of media laws upon Australian free speech: http://catallaxyfiles.com/2012/10/24/the-deadening-of-free-s...

and so on and so forth.

I am enormously proud of all my bloggers.
The examples show how new syntax can be added to JS which is something you won't be able to do in OOP.

For more examples of where macros can be useful see this previous HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3124920
I don't see that implication.
Sometimes I need to summon the warrior just to get out of bed :)
OK, but the probability of data loss is still worse than with a cache, because failure of (HDD or SSD) is likelier than failure of HDD alone.
A buttonless image search engine?
Bit late to this as I've been ill.

If you try that encoding scheme with some random data you'll find it won't always fit.

I took 1,000,000 random numbers between 0 and 99,999,999 and sorted them and calculated the deltas. Here's the distribution of the sizes of the deltas:-

diffbits: 1 nos 5009
diffbits: 2 nos 19937
diffbits: 3 nos 38275
diffbits: 4 nos 72319
diffbits: 5 nos 128146
diffbits: 6 nos 202000
diffbits: 7 nos 252698
diffbits: 8 nos 202681
diffbits: 9 nos 72750
diffbits: 10 nos 6148
diffbits: 11 nos 37
totbits = (1*5009)+(2*19937)+(3*38275)... = 6,408,685

That's the total number of bits required to store just the deltas, but doesn't include the length encoding.

810241024 - 6408685 = 1979923 spare bits.

Each of the 999,999 deltas will take at least one bit to determine the size of the delta, leaving you with 979,924 bits for extra length encoding and wastage (if you pack multiple lengths under one encoding).

There's no way I can see (after trying lots of permutations) to be able to encode all of those bunches of diffs using those few remaining bits.

What's even more difficult is that you don't have the space to 'calculate statistics for different code types' because you can't fit anywhere near all of the deltas into that 1MB of memory without having them encoded perfectly anyway. Calculating them on partial data is all that you can do, and that's not going to be accurate enough because you've no idea what the unseen data has to hold (it could all be duplicates or 11 bit differences...).

I'm keeping going on looking at this (and trying not to look at any of the posted solutions).
As it says, in wired networks packet loss is almost entirely due to congestion, so adding error-correction is unnecessary - better to just throttle down when you see it.

TCP is old and reliable and there are massive costs associated with switching to anything else. I think that's why we weren't doing this yet, and I think that's why this initiative will fail too.
Strongly disagree, iOS is horribly limiting. I like having OSMAnd navigation with frequently updated offline vector maps and I like having access to hardware capabilities for stuff like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1914699

Also (IMO) latest versions of Android wipe the floor with iOS when it comes to user experience and options. And N7 is quad core with Tegra, superb build quality and larger resolution for less money.
They judge on looks. Nexus 7 is a mediocre looking tablet. It wastes far too much space on bezel and has an awkward shape. I love Google and wanted to love this tablet but was let down.
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If you're a prospective buyer, knowing the availability of popular software is valuable knowledge.

I, for one, would not want to buy a $500+ tablet based on its potential for running good software.
I have to say, it is an amazing concept and very tempting, especially the way you create links in unstructured text. The only reason I am not trying it out right now is that it would require an X-server wherever I go in order to do proper editing and my current tmux set-up wouldn't work.
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"break the way phones worked"? oi?

You could only call, not get called unless you left precise descriptions of your whereabouts. Sometimes wait a lot until a phone was free. Having a phone on you all the time completely changed personal communication for the better. The idea that the way phones worked before mobile was better is so inane that I can't believe it's coming from a scientist.
Same thing as on Android phones - you get different characters in some places depending on what type of input you're in. If you're in a URL box, you'll get forward slashes and colons. An e-mail, you'll get @.
Could you elaborate? / Have you already elaborated on a blog post? :)
I'm using the RequestPolicy addon for Firefox (I realize I'm in a tiny minority...). When visitng a website that uses domain sharding for the first time, that means I have to allow cross-site requests to the other domains.

My plea to web-admins: Try to at least make the names of the shards recognizable. I've seen sites where the domain is essentialy "mynewspaper.com" and it needs data from "xac1h139a.com" to display correctly. Now go find the right domain to allow within the dozens of cross site requests that such sites are often using...

Edit: This is a comment on his suggestion to use domain sharding. His site is fine.
hey this sounds pretty cool. i hadn't been paying attention to CRM software before but now i need to. this sounds like it could be worth exploring ..

but i wish they had a tour online, a demo, something to see what i would be getting myself into. all i see is a blog post and then a login screen. tour/workflow/screenshots etc should be font and center.
For all who are thinking about moving to WPEngine:

Your staging server does not use WPE's caching technology, which your production server will use. WPE will not give you details on how their secret-sauce caching works. This means that things that work on staging will break on production. WPE also refuse to turn off their caching on production, but also refuse to turn ON their caching on your staging server. This means there is no real way to test. Things that work with their staging server, and even work with the standard WP caching plugins, will break in WPE production.

Their solution? Buy another production site to test on.

That website is now moving from WPEngine after having its launch botched by the aforementioned issues, and after not being able to make a basic paywall work with their caching. Once they realised the use case, WPE simply suggested moving elsewhere without making any further effort to accommodate.

I had a similar reaction to the post yesterday by asmartbear as Jaques, but he made the extra effort to actually write the blogpost, so bravo to him. WPE enjoys this sterling reputation that misleads a lot of people into using them, but their comfort zone it seems is limited to vanilla WP installs with little deviation.
That's a subtle fallacy. It confused me at first, then I realised that 'pointing out hypocrisy' isn't the fallacy, it's 'claiming the argument is wrong because it's hypocritical' that's the fallacy.

edit: on further examination, the examples given in the wikipedia article are really bad - because they're merely pointing out hypocrisy ("but you're -foo-") rather than claiming the argument is wrong. Person 2 in each example could quite happily be in full agreement with the argument and make the same comment.
Windows Mobile has been out for years. No one has wanted to develop for it because the platform is just plain not good.
Yelp had started to pull away from Qype in the UK in 2011.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=qype%2C%20yelp&ge...
It's the job of the 802.11 L2 to hide correctable packet loss L3 so most radio link loss isn't passed on to TCP. This could just as well read "the wifi L2 error correction doesn't try hard enough".

This problem is very common but it wants fixing on the L2
and not TCP. Turning up the FEC on the L2 would reduce its capacity even further though since more of the bandwidth is taken up by the FEC (and so does this TCP level FEC).

3G gets it wrong on the other extreme, it pretends to always have 0% packet loss, your packets just sometimes show up 30-100 seconds late and in order.
With respect, I'm glad you're not the sole arbiter of who's poor enough to deserve sympathy.
She's providing a very smoothed-over introduction to neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) [1]. The part about talking and listening is a take on Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win Friends and Influence People[2].

I'm no fan of NLP - it was intended as a personal development aid to deal with phobias and disorders, so was intended to be internally-focused. However, in my experience, many use it as a manipulative tool (externally-focused), which I dislike intensely. Makes me feel I'm being played, so recognising that is the value I derive from understanding it.

Dale Carnegie's book, however, is (my opinion) the best and most useful personal development book I've ever read.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

[2] http://www.amazon.co/dp/0749307846
Dangerous move, other companies have would set the police on him for that stunt.
...but it seems some iterations keep the old name, e.g. - http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=226521990
I think the really interesting bit was the suite of sensors with automated alerts that get sent out that he was experimenting with.

In theory it could allow for this to work at very large scales with very little staffing, which seems counter-intuitive given the complexity of the setup.

Extended out a bit, and most of the very common problems could even have automated solutions (increase water, adjust ph, cycle on-off grow lamps, etc.)
Thanks, but I'll keep my objects. The author has clearly never worked in a corporate environment, where the structure that he so fondly rallies against is absolutely necessary to getting anything done.
Is HN the place to post a link to a beginners JavaScript post?

And - oh joy - a blocking pop up with a fiddly exit on the page as well.
but is there anyone who also hosts generated API documentation from javadoc/phpdoc/jsdoc, etc?
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I started writing a full reply above, then turned it into a blog post.

I linked to a completely different blog post in a comment on another story, but someone noticed my blog post and submitted it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692456

Anyhow. It turns out that I'm not alone.
For me, the most noticeable thing is the time it takes to load that enormous .png file. It's only 500KB but it still took 2 or 3 seconds to load for some reason.
> Their solution? Buy another production site to test on.

... wow.
The log-in screen is sparse - that's true. We're getting a (possibly slightly biased) 30% conversion rate from it, so it does push people to give it a spin. Same idea as the Twitter landing page. What you get as soon as you log in is a wizard which takes you through the first steps to maximise the probability of engagement.

37Signals wrote a very interesting post on results from their A/B tests on the landing page for Highrise (result, the shorter the better)
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-tes...
facebook required? I'll pass, thanks.
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All of these sites have fairly standard themes. All could be hosted, worry-free, at WordPress.com.
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I would agree with you except it seems they aren't setting the caching headers correctly either.
No, and if I can't is it worth recording?!
For as shady as Yelp's business practices have been in the US, there is definitely a need here in the UK. Yelp was great in Manhattan and hope it does the job here in London.
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This is an elitist view of the world. In what universe does a rich person deserve to consume media at greater rates than poor people? Or because they're poor, must they spend all 16 waking hours trying to work for food, no time to consume such media? Or because they're poor, they shouldn't be able to afford the arbitrarily-set prices of said media? Or because they're poor, we simply don't care about what they can do or not do?
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iPad 3 owners can confirm that hardware obsolescence is not purely a matter of "1.0" issues.
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That seems extreme. If I have the option to buy shares in 6 months at price X and the stock is worth X + 10 then buying the option to sell at X + 5 in six months is simply managing risk. It's a good hedge regardless of what I think is going to happen to the company.
This is a pretty dumb request. What are you going to do with a chunk of bits for a processor for which you don't even have a toolchain. There is nothing more to open source other than what is already there.

Asking for 'the blob' is akin to asking for the firmware source to a hard disk. Even if you had it you could not do much with it.
The raspberrypi looks better every day. The last major item on the to-do list appears to be the supply side.
I've been hosting a couple WordPress sites on PHPFog (http://phpfog.com) as well as DreamHost. For some reason DreamHost is faster, but the PHPFog UI is much nicer. Both have great support (DreamHosts' is 24/7 if I'm not mistaken) and relatively cheap.

That being said, once you have the sort of requirements that the original poster seems to have, I don't know if any of those companies would be suitable…
What is better now with cellphones than before? Why is personal communication so much better now that we can be reached anywhere? I think it's a legitimate question.

In most cases, people indeed want to be reachable, but is it really a good thing? In the long run, does it make the society a better place, and people better people? How can we measure the impact of the cellphone on society?
Not really. WordPress.com's free hosting has limited space, no custom themes, no plugins except a small preapproved set, no ability to run your own ads, and you have to run WordPress's ads for their benefit.
the reason we have judges and juries (in the US anyway, I don't know how Italy works)

I assure you that Italy has judges and juries and a modern judicial system. This isn't some teeny tribe of Amazonian warriers here, this is a large country.
Dropbox with symlinks is indeed amazing. (It's a pity that symlinks are so hard to create on OS X - darn aliases...)

I love it even more with enc_fs on top of it. I don't even need to mount enc_fs (I don't automount it), and Dropbox will still sync my work like a charm.
Dreamhost is, like every shared hosting provider, hit-and-miss.

I used to host Club Troppo there. When it got slow they basically shrugged and said ... it's shared hosting, what did I expect for $8/month?
I don't agree with your reading of the comment, but I guess it was better suited for a rant, so fuck me.

What if the Zynga employee/s in question had not a moral objection to virtual cow trade, but a mild distaste?

You can work in an industry that you think is kind of stupid, but not morally offensive.

This is totally separate from the issue of working for a company that steals other people's work as a matter of course, which was not addressed here.
My bloggers have several non-standard plugins and non-standard theme tweaks.

Edit: and oh yes, 2.5Gb of media.

The big kicker is that my migrations can only occur by SQL. Using WXR is fine for any blog that can be turned from XML into PHP objects ... inside the execution-time limit.

Otherwise Wordpress thinks it's just hilarious to silently fail to import anything that doesn't make the execution-time cutoff.

And I don't think I am a big enough fish for wordpress.com to bother to help me do an SQL migration.
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>But the government of Iran probably could, or a large group with sufficient computing resources could pull it off.

Yes, I can see it now: Iran endures crushing sanctions in order to pursue spam email program.
Mouse clicks in acme usually accompany precise cursor positioning, so I don't think gestures would work well.
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