skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I really appreciate about your approach is that you are willing to identify and stick to specific dollar amounts. Hell, the name of your course is two numbers multiplied! Nice work, really. In SV entrepreneurship circles, I rarely hear people talk about what specific numbers they have in mind as an outcome, I think because the numbers are so big, so rare and so far away that it sounds silly to discuss them with any sort of specificity.
Certainly genius
You incorrectly assume that Apple did "break-even the VCs". What basis do you have for this? The rumors are that they paid a low 7 figure sum for the team and assets. Your sarcastic commentary seems to be based on a misunderstanding of the facts.
The allegation is apparently that Nguyen invited someone into the office environment, with a visible weapon, and called attention to that. That would certainly seem to constitute a "threat" to most people. I don't really see why you wouldn't think so.

I'm going to guess that you feel this is an infringement on "Dunphy's" right to carry that gun. It's not. The right to bear arms doesn't extend to the unrestricted ability to use them as a means of intimidation.
What are you're thoughts on using wordpress for my landing page
I would like to promote the "shareholder value myth" as a meme. I would love it if one day people will reply with "shareholder value myth" as reflexively as they reply with "broken window economics!" or "correlation != causation!".

Minority shareholders do have rights, but the board of SpaceX can, within reason, damn well do what they please.

Please see e.g: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the-sharehol...
Why I Left "Off The Hook"
Due diligence.

If you buy ANYTHING poisoned with DRM, expect dragons like this. There is nothing than can come from DRM other than eventually losing what you paid for through device death, key loss, service shutdown. It's not about will but when.
I do not remember this. People were shocked at how useless it was and how much money was sunk into it.
I don't think the average internet user, or even the average early adopter/techie type, knows what TechCrunch is and is even less likely to know about random VC firms. It's all inside-baseball stuff to users.
Well, that's quite a wall of text. If you want to make it more
persuasive, you might want to break it up into linked pieces:

professions and professionalism
corporations
ethics
competence exams

Re the fishing boat operator example, you might want to use a "factory
worker" who does piecework, and does not lease a boat, pay for fuel,
and insurance, hold a fishing or boat operator's license, etc.

Where you use terms, and then defend them, try to find
terms that do not need defending:

> commodity labor, and I use that term non-pejoratively.

perhaps "piecework" or "fungible product labor"

> liberal service ... Professional service...

I would delete that whole sentence, and replace it with
"Professional work is a service..."

> Some have to fucking use vacation days to attend conferences!

uh, "professional" language?

> In typical industrial work, the "Bozo Bit" starts out in the "On"
> position, meaning that a typical worker is assumed to be stupid,
> treacherous, and useless. Since barriers to entry are low, the only thing
> that defines a worker is wanting money, and being willing to do unpleasant
> tasks in order to get it. There's no respect for the average, individual
> member in such an industry; the default assumption is incompetence,
> ethical depravity, and childlike stupidity.

Wow. Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!

Instead of "stupid," how about: "a typical newly-hired worker is
assumed to be ignorant of the workplace and the work at hand,
and thus potentially dangerous to themselves and others."

Incompetence and uselessness in an entry-level worker
suggest a need for training rather than intrinsic bozoness.
I think that suggesting treachery and ethical depravity is
a bit of a reach, even in this context.

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stop reading if you're not a smoker...

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"mind racing before sleep"? If you smoke, try not to smoke at least 1 hr before you go to bed.
This is a common misconception. Android isn't "patent encumbered". Certain OEMs have simply given in to Microsoft's legal threats and agreed to pay them to license certain Microsoft patents (regardless of their validity and/or relevance to Android, neither of which have been confirmed in a court of law) rather than burn money on expensive legal proceedings.
> Great for simple demo apps, but very painful when you have slightly more complex needs.

Unlike Storyboards, the effort you put into writing against a REST API isn't wasted if you decide to roll a new, more complex REST API (which Heroku is fantastic for).

The whole point is to get the developer up-and-running as quickly as possible. Code for the API you'll eventually have, but get by with a rough scaffolding so you can experiment and iterate rapidly.
From PandoDaily (http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/19/chris-dixon-is-not-only-joi...): “We are a single office firm,” Marc Andreessen says. “We take teamwork really seriously, and it’s a big deal to have everyone in the same place.”
"eBay Now is live in San Francisco and parts of New York City. Other markets coming soon"

And bizarrely enough it's iPhone only - not even desktop access! Talk about cutting out almost all of your market!

I mean if you are getting a delivery you are probably home, not out somewhere.
Charging more and being proud about it does add to your aura, in their eyes. They'll appreciate you more (given that you deliver).

About the budget allocation cooking - this behavior is usually observed - perhaps even common - at very large/government organizations. I'm more inclined to work with medium businesses and down to startups, so I've rarely encountered it myself.
> But sorry, I am a white male, so I guess my very existence tells every woman and non-white person on the planet that they can not be a programmer? That just doesn't make sense. It's not my fault that black parents tell their kids not to go into computing, or that parents in general discourage girls to use computers.

You're personalizing this as an attack on you when it's nothing of the sort. Nobody is claiming that anything is your fault. Unclench.

All anybody is saying here is that it'd be nice if, in addition to you and me and every other white male with a similar upbringing, there were a visible number of people of other people with dissimilar backgrounds to serve as inspiration to other groups of people. And that takes some effort on the part of community leaders and conference organizers to actually try contacting some of the brilliant speakers out there who come from diverse backgrounds, instead of just reaching out to a bunch of people like them and then throwing their hands in the air and hijacking the narrative with cries of tokenism when nobody is calling for anything of the sort.

You're a frequent, angry voice in gender-related discussions on HN. You really need to walk away from the computer and start asking yourself some hard questions about why it is that people talking about this issue is making you so angry and defensive when it is in no way, shape, or form an attack on you.

> Also, who exactly tells black kids computing isn't for them? Any citations? The media? Parents? Gang members? Peers? Teachers? They really do that, they actively say "computers are not for you"?

Yes. Yes to all of the above. People really say that. All of those groups actually send that message to kids. If you really don't understand how systemic this is, why do you feel so strongly correct in your opinions? Danilocampos gave his account. Another in mentioned briefly here: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/11/tech/innovation/black-tech-ent... . There was a linked blog post on HN not too long ago of a black woman giving her account of how she came to be in the industry, and the push-back she received from her father, who didn't feel it was a sensible career for someone like her. I cannot for the life of me manipulate the search function into turning it up for me, though.
I love how humble entrepreneurs like Chris are taking on the traditional gentlemen's club (read British upper class men in the 18th century) that the VC industry still is. Hope.
Apple opens its first eBay store for a trial with select refubished products
Readable maintainable code? Use DDD TDD CQRS IoC
Well the allegation that Corey Dunphy, working for the US Department of Justice and a friend of Nguyen, was armed, and made threats against employees who crossed Nguyen to use his resources at the OIG to ruin their lives by destroying their credit and getting them declared as terrorists (this is my interpretation of a threat by a government official to put someone on the no fly list) is pretty amazing. You'll also never be able to get this guy to admit to it because it is an extreme abuse under color of authority that could get him charged with civil rights violations: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/civilrights/color_of...
That's all I interpreted that as meaning anyway. I don't think the author thought he was being blacklisted individually.
>PHP is horribly inconsistent, breaks all the rules about programming language design, and is infuriating.

I stopped reading upon the first bold statement.
Maybe he's biased. Or maybe the Apple products are just good and the Surface is bad ?

I feel like people tend to get enraged just because one person doesnt heap praise on the underdog and criticise the leader.

But the reality could just be he likes the products that work for him.
I looked at indeniro (YC) but I dont have time to wait for an invite. Freshbooks was also recommend to me and that looks pretty good.

thanks
Chris Dixon Joins A16Z
First of all such employee, won't be involved in politics. They will alway try to improve themselves rather than comparing their team-members.And also it adds value to their resumes.

Regardless of extra-curricular activities there will always be politics. You cannot "parent" this out of people except by example from the top down and good hiring practices. It may be a good practice, but it is a personal practice -- it should not be enforced by an employer because it is an invasion into private life. Something like Google's 20% time is a great idea but difficult to get working and keep up.

Employee browsing the internet on company computer.

Best way to protect against false impressions is to not engage in questionable activities while at work on company time. If an employee doesn't play chess, browse facebook, or watch youtube while at work, they won't have any problems.

We never go and see what founder does with his desktop/laptop

If the founder wants to goof up, then fine -- but he is not the employee. Employees are the employees and they are responsible for their actions. Founders are not responsible to the employees. It is not mature to argue that "we never go see what the founder does".

I agree with this, you can remove his email-id from dl so that he can't send/receive mails , but don't block the account.Give him couple of days , so that he download/retrieve any income tax or payslip related documents. How can you suddenly won't trust an employee, just because he resigned ? Or at-least confirm with him before blocking the access.

None of that is necessary to send/receive income tax slips -- it should all be handed to the employee upon termination. Also, you CANNOT trust any employee who is not in your pay because they are free to work for a competitor. I work with co-workers who have horror stories of what ex-employees have done.

Also, keeping an email account open may be forgotten to be closed by the IT department and may also provide access to other parts of the corporate network which may allow for the ex-employee to sell secrets to competitors.

Shutting down email access is just best business and IT security practices common throughout the entire world. It is bad form to not shut it down.
On the contrary, I prefer if an app brings a unique and purpose-built UI. For example, 'Clear' the to-do list app is quite amazing. 'Paper' by 53 is another incredible interface. 'Figure' by PropellerHead is another awesome example.

Why do games get a pass, but everything else is expected to re-use the same library of controls and fonts?

I don't want all apps to look the same, they just have to be intuitive.

The examples that I listed seem to me to be developed more like a game engine... They are graphical environments, not drag & drop layouts.
Probably not a great idea as-is, without some level of user authentication. I'm definitely working on a nice, integrated solution for that.

In the meantime, you can mount Rack::CoreData (https://github.com/mattt/rack-core-data), which powers the Buildpack, alongside other authentication middleware to create a workable production application.
The problem with this is that the surface isn't aimed at consumers. I think (despite the ad's etc...) it's aimed at large business.

I can already hear the IT department drooling over the prospect of a locked down machine that's cheap but still has the Office Suite and IE (the browser or large business) which frankly covers what 95% of office workers actually need.

It's a response to BYOD iPad's in the Office, not iPad's at home. Its also why I think Steven Sinofsky had to go. He wanted Microsoft divisions to fight each other, not work together.

Think of it this way, assuming Microsoft works on close integration between its products (without Sinofsky this might fly) it is in a unique position. They can offer the most complete end to end business solution for large companies. Hardware (Surface RT and x86), Phones (Windows Phone), Desktop OS, Server OS, Programming Languages, BI suites, Email (exchange), Database etc.....

I can't think of any other company that comes close to offering this except possibly Oracle and they are still missing a few things (Maybe they should offer to buy RIM?).
Read the headline, skip the article and look at the last picture, then scroll back up and read the headline again, particularly the first three words. You're done.
Congratulations!

This makes me kind of sad (selfishly) because a16z and Chris Dixon were two of my favorite investors; this increases the awesomeness of the combined entity, but reduces the number of potential great investors out there.
No, it means that the implementation of Camelizable#camelize needs to be polymorphic w.r.t. my_string. Since Ruby is duck-typed, presumably the implementation of "camelize" would first check to see if the receiver responded to "gsub", then do the necessary substitutions. (Actually, a better implementation would be to first check if my_string responds to "camelize" and call that directly if it does.) In the end, this is a classic decorator pattern.
We are living in a Neal Stephenson novel.
Heroku is the platform of choice for thousands of iOS, Android, Windows Phone, (and mobile web, of course) applications.

This screencast was merely a demonstration of what a rapid iOS development workflow with the Core Data Buildpack looks like.
Companies see programmers as a fungible resource. There are far fewer Scheme programmers around than say Java, C# so companies will go with those "popular" languages so that their cost of programmers is reduced. Stupid, false economy by PHB's - but that's life!

Clever entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham :-), have used Lisp / Scheme to launch empires. Savvy technically competent entrepreneurs will trump PHB run rust-belt companies over and over again.
Actigraphy?
It seems they have judged the potential for "free" marketing to be worth the risk of a backlash from the 4chan community.

Given they are in the business of allowing users to post content, the risk/reward looks to be heavily weighted towards having their service (in the best case!) being spammed with shocking content 24/7. They haven't thought this through.
I think he intended to explain it to the parent poster, not to everyone in the world that uses Android.
> I gave you three examples

You're missing the point. The only way a party holding a trademarked word can prevent its use for another purpose is if they can show that the use would hinder the first party's ability to conduct his business. Clearly not true here.

That, by the way, was why Apple Computer and Apple Music coexisted so long without any kerfuffle -- different businesses, no chance for public confusion.

Your argument is that people have defended single words used as trademarks. But that's a different issue. The present discussion is whether someone's successful use of "moot" as a trademark (one apparently not registered) will be interfered with by another party's use of the same word. A trademarked word is only a starting point -- the plaintiff must then show that another use of the trademarked term hurts his business and/or misleads the public. In a case like this, the burden is most definitely on the plaintiff.

> How can you seriously write this response while ignoring three counterexamples already given?

Because you haven't thought your position through and your examples aren't germane. The fact that single words have been defended as trademarks is not the issue. The issue is why, and under what circumstances, and whether those examples are germane to this case -- one in which the "plaintiff" hasn't even bothered to register the word as fair warning to others of his proprietary interest in it.
They have done minor improvements to both speed and memory usage in 2.0.

http://igor-alexandrov.github.com/blog/2012/11/05/yet-anothe...
Very interesting article but the bit about Ruby's GC being a "steaming pile of shit" sounds pretty immature and is really unwarranted. The technical merits of the article alone should be enough for the author to avoid having to resort to such extremities. Just my two cents.
>PHP is horribly inconsistent, breaks all the rules about programming language design, and is infuriating.

Can't read, didn't try.
Totally agree, I think Twitter understands this too, their their recent work in NLP to analyze trends, and grouping tweets to create adhoc discussion board like centralizations of discussions.
Prisoner Offshoring, or Gaolbalization
I wonder whether Moot's lawyer discussed this with him beforehand, or if it's just standard procedure that has attracted a lot of attention this time round.

Secondly, did Moot.it's lawyer threaten to sue Moot's lawyer? Can you do that? Can you sue the lawyers of your opponents? I imagine that could get very nasty.
Sometimes the app is not a strict tree of view controllers, but rather a graph containing some cycles. It is here that the whole metaphor of the navigation controller and the visual tools that Xcode gives you to automate it kind of break down and you end up writing lots of hairy custom code to manage your transitions.

Sometimes things are presented modally here but get navigated to normally over there - and once again you're mixing metaphors, implementing some navigation in the storyboard and some of it in code.

I thought the same thing would be true with Auto Layout, but luckily that one seems to have been a bit more "baked" when it shipped, insofar as I've not had any trouble implementing complex views with it WITHOUT ever writing any code.
I meant when the news of Color came out.
Do not register a domain name with your hosting provider
Wow, that's awesome. It's a huge win for Andreesen Horowitz but also the bay area since it looks like he'll be making SF his primary residence (with the secondary being NYC).
Maybe I've just gotten a bit cynical from being around the valley so long, but expecting VCs to have a moral conscience that would stop them from doing wrong is probably a bit deluded based on what we have seen in the past. I actually felt like Nguyen sounded like most VCs I've heard about with his talking down to others, trying to intimidate them, etc. When I think of Silicon Valley VCs I'm a lot more likely to think of stuff like http://betabeat.com/2011/11/charlie-odonnell-women-in-tech-d... than of someone passing on an investment for moral reasons.
If you also examine his track record, he seems to start companies, make big exits, and then those companies tank / die. I imagined that would raise some red flags.

But apparently not, at least with Color's investors.
I don't think we're disagreeing here about pricing at all!

Lots of very good freelancers are undercharging and everybody should price on value delivered. (Especially those freelancers who disappear and only get work done when yelled at. If only!)

That's why a lot of the educational content I've used to promote Freckle is about delivering, understanding & capturing value… for freelancers. (Which includes understanding & identifying your ideal clients because if you use a hammer to break a window and steal $1 million in diamonds, it's worth a lot more to you than if you use it to hang your kindergartener's fingerpaintings.)

Any freelancer can become a consultant, though, by changing the way they work. Read a few books, take personal responsibility, experiment with being more than a tool for executing the client's vision. If you ask your client questions and debate features, that's already a good start.

This kind of consulting — consulting, as in the dictionary definition -- is a huge value and therefore hourly rate multiplier. Anyone who improves their management skills can vastly increase their rates.

If you only provide execution, and not the other stuff I described, you will hit a ceiling a lot sooner… and suffer more price comparisons. Not as many problems as a person who just says "I code in Ruby" rather than "I help your biz make more money," but more problems than somebody who approaches the biz like I did!

BTW - I rarely did just-talk engagements. All the stuff I described above was as part of design-dev projects. The process I came up with is as follows: We would meet the client, give them a fixed price quote ($5-10K) for these meetings and guidance and the report. They would pay 100% up front. The report, then, was a deliverable they could take to use with any other (cheaper) service provider to implement. Which, naturally, never happened, because as soon as the client saw how we ran our projects, they would never dream of hiring anyone else.

That's the power of being a consultant!
The language is a bit offputting, but I think the sentiment is valid; MRI's GC is the source of many woes. Alternate implementations like JRuby get much of their relative oomph from much more mature GC implementations. Fortunately, Ruby 2.0 is primed to really step things up in that regard, and is looking much more promising.
I agree with the OP, not because I am trying to prove to others/convince myself that I am not racist. I agree with them precisely because I recognize that I benefit from privilege as a white male, and that I suffer from biases towards those that are different from me. I believe that I need to think critically and deeply about the privilege I enjoy and the bias that I possess, and I encourage others to do so.
Anonymous declares 'cyberwar' on Israel
no. Surface/Windows RT is aimed at consumers. SurfacePro is aimed at businesses.

Source:
Micrsoft, who has approached our company to build a Surface Pro app to compete in the enterprise space.
"Goatse is a piece of the Internet generation's cultural legacy"
Highlight of the article.
I would like to express my opinion on a more general factor that can be seen also in this occasion. I find really interesting the use of screenshots from Google search and other sources from the internet like blogs, forums, twitter facebook etc... on paper to prove something. I get the feeling that this things, used as "Exhibits" or whatever else, are totally out of place, they are permanent ink to save something that is absolutely not permanent like the internet. The internet is not something static, it can change from one day to another, Moot today can be known as a nickname of a person, tomorrow it can totally be the name of a startup. I really feel this are two worlds colliding, we are trying to apply our old laws to a world that doesn't flow as the old one. I don't know why but I wanted to express this.