skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I humbly disagree. I actually kind of like this strategy. I do see your point but you could avoid that issue by thrn having a page "were sorry- we haven't finished development we plan to be launching XXXX date." You could even take it as far as to give them a free coupon code to guarantee a user base when you start. Additionally you get to gauge what/ how much people would pay. Maybe having a changing price, you could gain one of the most important pieces of information before launching! Lastly, this wouldn't be a huge issue because it is a landing page. You are not promoting it to your user base- the people happening on it are doing so naturally and therefore arguably the truest clients. If your product is both unique and something people need (vs something people want) and if its getting hits without any work- then you have a monopoly of sorts and people will definately be retuning either way. This is no joke one of the most brilliant suggestions I've heard. Please hit me up at avi@trustable.com id love to talk to you!
They should be. The problem is that there are very little barriers to entry to these start ups and as such, pretty much anyone can start one and have a visa.

The problem with setting benchmarks are where do you set them? There is already a program know as the EB-5 program that requires you to invest $1MM ($500k in economic development zones) and create 10 jobs and after 3-4 years you can get a green card.
That is why the leader's job is to critically assess conflicts of interests in subordinates.
iMessage is DOWN.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/18/apples-imessage-and-facetime-suffer-another-significant-outage
Ask HN: Is iMessage down for you? 
iMessage has been down for me nearly all day, anyone else experiencing the same?
Actually, that's more of a statement of worldview, of what I find beautiful. It is axiomatic, and you are free to disagree with it if you like, but if you do, you and I can't (and shouldn't) be friends.
I was referring to the apparent tendency to outsource work to donors and other people connected to the campaign, and to the apparent effort to run their IT on a shoestring. I don't really understand how the campaign finance laws you refer to are supposed to be related.
Facebook Moving All Users to HTTPS Settings, Slower Connections
Yes. since 3pm EST.
I don't see the problem really, if it's a major hit but still unlisted, can't the fund simply shift the shares to its investors when it is wound up? There's the small matter of valuing them. But a piece of a successful company will be valuable even if it's private with no IPO on the horizon.
I'd never seen this. That's just... wow.
Yep. That's really my question anyway - is there a path to victory as a non-bootstrapped startup that doesn't include IPO or acquisition. How would you structure things to where investors and employees are confident they would share in the ongoing rewards of a non-public company.

If you look at the headaches Zuckerberg is running into now, even with, ostensibly, "total control" over a public company, it just seems like an extraordinary distraction from keeping your users and employees happy.

Speaking of Facebook, there is also the issue they ran into with having over 500 shareholders and staying private. I'm assuming that there is some way to guarantee revenue sharing to employees without making them actual shareholders, so that you wouldn't step over the 500 employee threshold and trigger the SEC's required IPO - assuming you were lucky enough to get that big.
Companies that milk the government all four years try to avoid the partisan fray during elections. There is a parallel industry dedicated to campaigns.

Any defense contractor that accepts employment by a campaign should be guilty for mutiny and treason.
Snap apparently don't charge for local traffic. I know a couple guys that work there
I don't have a say in this matter but wouldn't this be a possible solution to the illegal immigrant issue? If they are in the process of creating jobs for U.S. citizens or allege that they can, give them a visa or "legalize them". If at any time they become a public charge or it turns out that they have not achieved their objectives within the reasonable time frame given, revoke the visa? Presumably this can be a one time thing only.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/18/apples-imessage-an...
Wow, that is the first ever known (to the general public case) of a 37s customer. Not a great press hit. And for a Chicago company! That is Obama territory.
Anyone can say they have an idea that will create 1,000 jobs in 3-4 years. How do you pick the ones that actually will?
As far as I understand it, that's not the premise that VCs invest in.

Private Equity firms, on the other hand, do this. They buy into companies, so they can share in the cash spoils. That's why they tend to buy companies that have strong cash flows - like GoDaddy, or Utility Companies, etc.

But VCs - especially tech VCs - usually only invest with on the premise that there will be a liquidity event. In fact, it is built into most term sheets - the liquidity terms.

Paying a VC out of the cash generated by a company goes against the notion of a high-tech, high growth company. Companies take outside cash so they can invest in the company and keep growing - because that's how you get the best bang for your buck. It usually doesn't happen the other way around.
I suspect the author will be unhappy to hear that the key message I took away from his nice little story (with David Foster Wallace quotes, no less) - was that he was identifying himself as the jerk who loudly whacks away at his keyboard, annoying the crap out of people around him. When I'm near those people in a public space, I always wonder if they are having some kind of mental-breakdown, or whether they are passive-aggressively trying to get people to move away from them. Or perhaps some combination of both.

Ironic, in that what he was trying to communicate was some concepts regarding recognizing the moral reality of those around him, when, in fact, he was one of those clueless types who likely hadn't considered the possibility that his whacking-away at his keyboard was really annoying others.

As to why the "riff-raff" tend to be a little more considerate on public transport - One reason is usually because you don't want to piss somebody off and get a punch to the head. They tend to play things a little more roughly on Oakland public transport than they do on Amtrak.
Idea for any startup founders out there: Have quiet breakout rooms where one can't talk in anything but a whisper. Hell, make it so that one can't even use a Das Keyboard in there. I would be curious to run an A/B test on productivity (say number of features produced). :-)
The funny thing is that two months ago when I was taking a train in France with some friends, instead of having a quiet car, they had a noisy car. And it was really quiet in there, by our American standards. There were quite a few elderly couples in the car, it seemed. We were talking and laughing and were probably the loudest on the car. At the end, the person I was traveling with who knew French remarked that the family next to us was talking about how loud and annoying we were. No one told us to be quiet, of course, since this was the loud car.
website always works fine for me in chrome (os x) but i hate that they don't allow the font size to increase when i zoom. i have to put my face 3 inches from the monitor to read their (usually really high quality) articles
I suspect it was a massive workload that came with the benefit of working for something that you believe in and developing contacts at the highest levels. Political campaigns tend to work young people very hard for very little money with the expectation that you're gaining invaluable experience.
Makes you wonder, if the quiet car was full, would the author have come to this civil resolution?

And where does one draw the line.. someone would call for a quieter car.

Interesting read but doesn't suggest anything other than it is hard to find silence in public places.
Optimize.ly - didn't that spin out of work done by/for Obama in '08?
It would be even more ironic if he was working on this article.

On a positive note, it does a good job of showing how our perception of quiet can be different. I love going out into the nearby woods where you can't hear noise from the cars and trucks that make up so much of our town's noise. It's amazing how a plane going overhead seems so loud after being in the quiet for a few hours.

It's also pretty amazing how your ears adapt and if you choose to spend the night in the forest, you hear every small animal that scurries about.
Someone already did the experiment, basically: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/06/study-of-t.... :)
I guess I'm one of the people who ruin it for everyone else. I'm ADD as all get out when it comes to something I'm not really into, but when I'm lasered in on something interesting, it would pretty much take a fire drill to break me out of that. I even prefer a background din in that situation over dead silence—so I've never been bothered by, or spoken out against, any of the trends away from silence. I love open-plan workspaces since I can have an ear open for anything particularly important or interesting (especially if it's relevant to what I'm working on).
Datasift
If a young founder makes it known that he's in it for the long haul with no possibility of IPO/acquisition - we're talking decades - presumably the value of their shares would be depressed significantly. It's a bit like having the deed to some prime real estate on Mars.
The quiet car is great for returning home in the morning with a hangover...
> When I'm near those people in a public space, I always wonder if they are having some kind of mental-breakdown, or whether they are passive-aggressively trying to get people to move away from them.

Whenever I come across someone typing loudly in public, I am reminded of this scene from Up in the Air:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ7EUCBxc9s
Why is this new?
"Their land"... if there is something that the Palestina and Israel conflict has remembered us is that nobody owns anything that they can't defend. The Americans killed the natives and then future generations don't think that it matters because they weren't directly involved in that; the same thing happens in this conflict that haves already many years in the making.

People entitle themselves to land for no logical reason; nobody thinks: "This country haves 40 million people an there is 7.053 billion people in the world; therefore we should only own a 176.325th of the available terrain"; never happens.
Running events and trying to please everyone #britruby
To be fair he is right, it is a complicated way of running what is essentially firefox. The API's will often run in Firefox plain and in future hopefully the whole OS will run in Firefox plain.
Interesting: apparently they paid only $790 for Basecamp, while spending >$1k on Dropbox, >$4k on optimizely/new relic, $20k on salesforce, $1.9k on resumator (?), >$16k on other unknown analytics. Looks like 37signals is severely underpricing it's products (and even then they make tons of money).
I think I read a calculation after the last keynote that indicated that iMessage handles something like 25k messages /a second/.
Let me try to answer the question seriously: I have worked in coffee shops with ambient noise which I have been able to tune out. I believe that the experiment is subtly different that what I had proposed because it is looking at a different dimension of noise. The problem with noise at work is that it gets harder to tune it out especially when some of that noise might be relevant. This means that you get more distracted than when listening to some person with a nasally voice is asking for non fat soy latte. Well, that is my hypothesis anyway. :-)
Food costs: 'When four bars of chocolate are £1, you end up on junk'
Presumably the 'AL' country code test was included so the Albanian "John Smith" could/can examine the live website without being directed straight to Google.
Works fine in Chrome on Windows for me. The site's design is pretty weird, though.
He was running his campaign as if it was a business that he was trying to wring dry, and it seems he would have run the country the same way.

That's the way he ran Massachusetts and (for the most part) we didn't like it. There is a reason why he was unpopular when he left office, why his Lt Gov got crushed in the 2006 election following his departure, and why the state voted for Obama over Romney by 20 pts.
(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not in websearch, and this is my personal opinion only)

If this is a serious statement, then let me give you a serious answer: any minor increase in processing power won't inconvenience Google in the slightest. And even if it did, that still wouldn't matter. If it is good for web security and users - which I believe it is - then we're in favour of it.

The consideration here is whether the algorithms are going to do the right thing, forwarding people, pagerank, referers, etc in the same way as before. That's not a question I can answer, but I'd go with whatever Matt Cutts has said.
I sympathize with whoever criticized the guy for loud typing. Seriously, it's distracting/disruptive. I learnt to type on (manual) typewriter too but laptops and keys don't need to be stabbed with the force of a thousand suns to register the press.

It can be just as loud as people talking and (IMHO) can be harder to tune out. After all, we're used to hearing people talk all the time.

Oh and while I'm in the mood for ranting, people who eat with their mouths open--particularly when it's something crunchy--or who slurp in any way are going to be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

I don't catch long distance trains in the US at all. I sometimes take the subway but more often than not you're just standing for 10-15 minutes. In Germany, I don't recall having a lot of problems with noise (although, on one train back from Oberhausen, the smoke was so thick you couldn't see one window from the other in a very Cheech and Chong moment). England varied but was generally fine.

What I'm not looking forward to is when cellphones become usable on planes because you know someone is going to sit there and talk loudly for the entire flight.

One tip though: my Bose noise cancelling headphones are worth their weight in gold.
Off topic, but I think that's the most beautiful illustration I've ever seen accompanying an article. And the animation - just wonderful.

(I've visiting from my laptop. Assuming mobile version probably doesn't look the same.)
This is why docs should not participate in "social media" that require or recommend registration using real names. It is difficult to fully compartmentalize one's life to the degree required (ie, if you ever spoke to a doc on his cellphone your name may be in the contact list). I'm sure some professionals (docs) want to use Twitter or Facebook as advertising, but there are real security risks, as this situation illustrates.

I would suggest you let your therapist know what happened - he (?she) may be unaware of what happened and he/she may want to take action to prevent repetition.
Ask HN: Code for forum with threads and up/downvotes?
Do any of you know an open source forum (or discussion site, or comment site) with: 1) threads (as in old, good usenet times), 2) up/downvotes (to sort things out), and preferably 3) markdown?
I find the idea that some software "sold out" very funny.
> My guess is they're not happy about it either but if the pressure comes from high up enough they have to relent. One part of it may be that they think that even if they're doing the wrong thing legally they're doing it out of some moral obligation to stick together or to protect the old boys network.

Also, community (tribe, caste, same language) in India is super important. So if the higher up is from the same community, there is a higher likelihood that the cop will accede to his request. Another issue is that it is easy for a cop/public official who refuses demands from politicians (or any one important really) to get "transferred". This means that the person gets uprooted from wherever they were leaving and gets moved to a random part of the state or country. As you might imagine, not many people prefer doing this.
An didn't know about this, looks great. Would you be interested in helping me write an add-on for better-require? Anyways, I'll try it out and see how it works out.
Woah is that...? It is!

Author Tim Kreider may be better known by some of us Internet folk as purveyor of the fine web-comic "The Pain": http://thepaincomics.com/
I guess it's not serious, seeing the ":P" behind the reply.
Just FYI, this is not strictly true. Most internet plans are metered, however you can often find a plan that includes unlimited downloads (and that does not shape bandwidth).

For example, see [1].

It is still typical for plans to be graded by the download cap, and for a time there seemed to be no unlimited download plans available, however this situation is being disrupted by ISPs like TPG. They are almost certainly overselling their bandwidth, but my personal experience is quite good with consistent fast downloads even when downloading terrabytes of data in a month (I lived in a student share house).

[1] http://www.tpg.com.au/products_services/adsl2-standalone
The animation is present on mobile devices as well, though perhaps not on their mobile-formatted site. Do they even serve that site to WebKit browsers anymore? If so, they shouldn't.
I think if you compare the SPY (S&P 500) to AAPL over the time period concerned you'll see the SPY losing 5% while AAPL lost 20%. I agree that ekpyrotic's answer is the most verifiable reason, but I do not believe it's the only reason.

One could make the argument that Apple has a massive off-shore tax liability, and with Obama back in office the odds of them escaping it favorably is reduced.

An additional argument is that, with Steve Jobs dead, there is concern over the long-term viability of the companies growth prospects (where can Apple go from here?). Only reinforcing this is the misstep with iOS 6 and the seeming lack of improvement in the recent iPhone.

Additionally market psychology is one to overreact. Presuming the stock was overvalued at 702 it is potentially undervalued at 520. My roommate just bought 20 shares because he thinks the price is good...
I sit by 3-4 loud typers at work and it regularly makes me lose focus for 10-20 minutes at a time and that is with my headphones on.
> requiring an IPv4 addy for each cert

Why not just offer HTTP and HTTPS on the same IP?
A diverse population absolutely means different skin colors. And different genders; and different income brackets; and different religions (including lack thereof).

The world is an incredibly diverse place. Full of people, all with different experiences. I argue that the more all of those people get exposure to one another, the more we can all learn from one another.

And I don't mean in a "everyone has an interesting life story to tell" way. I mean that our experiences absolutely inform our thoughts and decisions. This is as true for thoughts on technology as it is for any others.

Everything that you (and by you, I mean all of us) have to say, everything that has shaped your outlook on the world (including but not limited to technology) is inexorably linked to the sum total of things which have happened to you.

And if I grew up somewhere else, or am of a different gender, or have a different religion, than that's less total perspective that I have to inform my decisions.

So I don't care what specifically a speaker looks like; but I do care that huge sections of the population are way less likely to be sharing their experiences.

And if you read the tweets which seemed to cause all of this, the overwhelming majority are people complaining about a lack of women, including numerous ones listing groups and people the con organizers could reach out to if they wanted help in trying to make the speakers more diverse (advice the organizers seemingly took to suggest that they should select some woman speakers to "balance out the male-heavy selection"; which isn't what was offered).

I can appreciate that you don't think every situation should be an excuse to rail against inequality, but I think it's important to be conscious of these things.
Thanks :)

Do you think that a free 1 month trial + only premium afterwards would work better in this case than a freemium model?

We figured that there could be a large segment of casual day-trip travelers who like to share a story in a more optimized interface than on facebook. Probably many of these will not pay, but could serve for spreading the word through the freemium model and make the marketing easier.
I got three custom shirts online. I'll never buy off the rack again
Yes, they can but I'm not sure how easily third party stuff is installed and what APIs they are using.
I'd love to see Firefox OS on an iPhone...
Skeuomorphism has little value in 2012, even more less going forward.

Although its just the background in this case but it does get in the way of text and other UI elements.

Beats me as to whether why people continue doing this stuff, most notably Apple and many Mac-specific apps. Annoys me no end!
I can filter out 99% of the noise at a coffee shop, because I can be certain it doesn't apply to me.

I can filter out 50% of the noise at work, because it probably doesn't apply to me.

I can filter out 10% of the noise at home, because if my wife is talking or our cats are meowing, it's almost certainly directed at me.
For C/C++, the reverse execution support in gdb may be good enough (http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Reverse-Exe...)
I think there tends to be a problem with a many who label themselves as "entrepreneurial" to distinguish themselves from every body else. Some go a step further and say that only what they do entails unparalleled stress and pressure. As if they need to announce to the world that they're that bit bolder and harder working than everyone else.
> I'm not saying that nobody does

I did, once, for a year or so. It was around 2004, I think, and what caused me to transition was a slightly too big number of bugs in FreeBSD at the time. And not too good support for USB and sound, IIRC.

OpenBSD was stable like mountain, rock solid, ran xfce (my second favorite WM) without any problems and was even better documented and even tidier in it's design than FreeBSD. It supported all of my hardware at the time, the sound card was enabled by default and the ports were in much better shape than in FBSD - they actually compiled, every single one that I tried, while FBSD had quite a few broken ones. Overall, the experience was very good and I migrated back to FreeBSD much later than I was able to (ie. when all the issues were fixed) just because of this.

So no, I would say that this entire thread is missing the point - OpenBSD has a potential to be a good desktop OS, at least at one point in time it actually was a good desktop OS and it could benefit from being one once again (if it somehow ended not being one now, I don't know about present).

I hate Linux with it's numerous distributions with passion - any BSD is just so much more elegant, consistent, intuitive (probably I just got used to them) and clean - and I won't use Linux anymore (I did, for a few years back when Y2K bug was popular). For people like me FreeBSD is an obvious solution, but if it irritates me again I'll look in OpenBSD direction. I'd be very happy if it was ready to accept me as a desktop user then.
I don't disagree with anything you're saying.
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