skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea might backfire as the non-technical issues can easily mind-boggle an engineer working on a deep and complex problems.

Leave the meetings and reporting to managers. Some of the best teams I have worked in have managers who buffer/cushion every trivial externalities from the rest of the team. This is crucial for the sanity of many developers.
Solve Quality Problems With Great Developers
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Your complaint seems to have two main components: (1) that the startups exist at all, and (2) that they were posted to HN. While you may be right about the quality of the ideas, I definitely want people to continue to post any and all startups for review on HN. Both great and horrible ideas tend to lead to intelligent, informative back-and-forth in the comments from which I feel like a learn quite a bit even as just a lurker.
Summary: Our server was too small to handle our app's unexpected load; we then sprinkled on magic Cloudflare sauce and it got better.
You can't avoid the issue that patents aren't property.

You are free to believe that patents encourage invention, but it's still government-granted monopoly, not property.

If patents are now more valuable to hold and sue, rather than use in product, than that's failed, and the solution is to make patents valid only when they're being used.

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."

-Thomas Jefferson
Paper: Tuple MapReduce: beyond classic MapReduce
How Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad, Learned to Program
Do we live in a computer simulation run by our descendants?
I am also interested as well
How important was blogging to OkCupid's success?
More interesting-looking stuff here:

http://spacewar.oversigma.com/sources/
+1 on star ratings since I just forgot to select one for a site and feel bad since I rather liked it.

Failing that, how about defaulting the rating to 3 star so at least if you do forget you don't end up giving the lowest rating possible?

Enjoying the whole process so far though, nice job.
... so has anyone actually made any money on Windows Phone 8?
Protecting Intellectual Property rights: India ranked last in new index
That's employment discrimination, not discrimination of who your customers are. The case of Hooters vs. the EEOC is discussed here: http://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enterprise/2009/04/can-men-be-...

Perhaps a better comparison would be to women only gyms. If you google "are women only gyms legal" you'll come up with a slew of articles suggesting women only gyms are probably not legal, up until the various state legislatures pass specific laws making them legal.

I am not a lawyer, I have no good idea if hackbright is operating legally or not, but I wouldn't be surprised to find what they are doing is not legal.
Modernizing Web Design Isn't Always a Good Thing
A good part of the value (for Yahoo) is the branding. It's more important to them right now to remind consumers that Yahoo still exists than cater to a handful of geeks with vanity domains.
Admirable goal, but so sad to see this being done and Lester getting screwed over yet again. Who gets a big chunk of every transaction? The payment processor. For providing what? Transferring several numbers from one place to another over the Internet - a service worthless for its ease. And they charge a percentage, regardless of the fact that transferring larger numbers does not increase their costs.

Without payment processors that charge a very low FLAT RATE for processing, we're not improving anything by transitioning to an economy wherein they get to skim off a percentage of every single transaction that ever takes place.
If they're willing to invest a little in training, I'd say OpenERP is a fine solution. There's no recurrent licensing to pay and it runs just fine on any decent computer. As long as they don't need custom development or third-party modules, they shouldn't even need much technical support.
I thought the percentage charge is used to cover the cost of fraudulent transactions?
The thing that irks me about the cost of college isn't that it costs a lot, it isn't ideal that the cost can be so prohibitive but if someone can really get great value from college it can be worth it. The thing that irks me is that from a very young age we're told that if you want to achieve something in life, if you want to be someone then you NEED to go to college and if you don't you're a failure and you're destined to work in McDonalds until the day that you die. This means that people who won't get any real value from college end up spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (that they don't have and don't understand the repercussions of spending because they're a teenager when they commit to it) and become at a very big disadvantage in life because that's what they were told they had to do.
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If an "article" that is clearly flamebait has as its subject an academic study or paper and does not include a link or reference to that paper or one can not be provided,

then

Please do not submit the link. My opinion only.
This is the comment thread of an article about how non-practicing entities now make up the majority of patent infringement cases in court. You're asserting that every single one of them is represented by a law firm which is making up a nonexistent class of damages, and every judge who has awarded damages to a non-praticing entity in the past made a mistake in doing so.

That's not right, obviously. Title 35 of the United States Code states that "the court shall award the claimant damages adequate to compensate for the infringement, but in no event less than a reasonable royalty for the use made of the invention by the infringer". Thus the basis of the damages is unpaid royalties for licensing the patent, not lost sales. The court may award damages for lost sales or anything else it considers "adequate to compensate for the infringement", but the ONE statutory-defined harm is the one you're saying doesn't exist.
1) You can't do that in C/C++. At best you can catch only a subset of failures that way.

2) Any proposed design choice must be implemented with code, and that code can have bugs and crash. That is what happened here.
How node.js app Cloud Monitoring uses the Mailgun API to automate email workflow
I agree with you. I'm not sure if I could justify spending 180k to work for a company that views credentials with higher weight than experience. If I worked for such a company, I would always be worried about the new hire coming in with even higher credentials.
WordPress 3.5 brings new photo flow, mobile theme, and Retina support
Hacker News is our gym. We're just working out. - Possibly the best analogy for HN I've heard.
The only appropriate charge is the one that was agreed upon for the services rendered.
Although this is an important topic, I have some structural concerns with this particular article.

"...Fretting about how American schools compare with those in other countries has become a regular pastime in education circles..."

Gee, patronize much? Talk about disqualifying your own story. Ouch.

"...What’s remarkable is that in all the countries, this concept of an early start is there over and over again..."

I feel as both the problem, how I should feel about the problem, and the answer are all presented to me in this one article. I remember back in the day, reporters used to just report on things. I liked it back then.

I also note that according to some statistics, some native English speakers in inner cities don't read, write, and understand English at the same level as the same-aged kids in foreign cities growing up speaking a different language. We could easily end up in a spot where non-native speakers are used to teach English to kids growing up in the language. Amazing.
CMS are mainly document-centric, whereas Hull is interaction-centric.

The social mechanics are available for those CMS as plugins, yes, but you need to work out how to integrate them, when they're made by different developers, and write glue code.

A big strengh of hull is also it's client-side widgets library, that just work and allow you to combine and extend them easily.

Lastly, hanging off OpenGraph does not make you the owner of the data.
It seems a simple script to tally all `:checked` elements using jQuery is too much for this blog to handle.
How long does this stuff usually take to get into a more comercial release? When will we see it in Ubuntu? Android?
Yes, that would be the guy, although in the context of the PDP-1, he was only talking about Spacewar.

Samson was demonstrating four part audio synthesis of Bach organ pieces. It turns out that during the restoration project, they came across some of his original data tapes encoding the music, but the software was long lost, so he recreated his hack 50 years later, with the additional constraint that he had to reconstruct his data format and remain compatible with it!
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For ref, the signup email landed in my gmail spam folder. For spam-like content according to the notice.
Yep, I signed up for lastpass+xmarks for these reasons. I pay them the $20 for mobile access as well, that and I want to support a cross browser solution instead of having everything tied to one vendor.
It's not exactly massive differences. It's been a while since I used Silverlight but as long as you target Siverlight first you'll be alright, the biggest restriction is the reduced .Net library.
it is repeated many times in the "technical preview"
Well colleges had good marketing. With the near guarantee that anyone could get a loan they were pretty much set to make money. All they needed was a way to make you feel obligated to get that loan and give them the money.
they've apparently deliberately designated a large number of shipment delivery locations as residential delivery

More likely: they have a database or some other kind of service that maps addresses onto “residential” or “not residential”, and either they put off upgrading the database or have some flakiness in their code, so that a lot of addresses get incorrectly marked “residential”, and, well, when you’re prioritizing which bugs you need to fix, the bugs that make your company more money than it deserves usually don’t end up at the top of the list.
Better yet, 86 the landing page entirely. Build web technology that doesn't need an artifice on top of it to dramatize itself. The product is the thing.
I'm not sure how many people attending Stanford GSB are interested in creating minimal viable products.

At a $185,000 price tag, you're buying yourself into a job in big three managerial consulting (McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group), or finance, which generally comes with a very nice starting salary, signing bonus, and a built-in career trajectory.

Most consultants are either deep in consulting in 10 years and making very nice money (mid to high 6 figures, low 7) as a partner or manager or have moved on to vice president or higher level positions at client organizations you've consulted for.

Totally different worlds.
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The network stack is written in C++. It's entirely possible for the sync service to return an HTTP response that tickles a bug there.
Just wait he rans out of money. Then it will become a copytroll :)
"Quality Score is an estimate of how relevant your ads, keywords and landing page are to a person seeing your ad." http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&...
It only matters if you promote a page via Google Adwords.
$20/month is acceptable as long as I can get somewhat more storage and bandwidth. I care less about CPUs for instance, because I expect them to be idle most of the time.
> we often forget here is that capitalism is a deal of state-based enforcement of your property rights so that you create value for society.

Are you saying that the protection of one's property rights is contingent upon the delivery of some arbitrary metric of "value" to "society"? That doesn't sound quite right.
I think you're splitting hairs. In fairness, I didn't explicitly call that out, but as soon as you have more than 4GB of memory, there's going to be an application that wants to use more than 4GB. So yes, 64-bit is necessary in my opinion. Especially when you consider the server market.
Oh for crying out loud. Keep this ridiculous circlejerkery on reddit, please.

The United States has some politicians who are running on this because they are pandering to the people that actually go out and VOTE for them. They'r marketing, and they're tailoring their marketing scheme to the largest fraction of the 50% of people that actually go out and vote.

The United States has MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford. We also have some of the largest arts festivals in the world. We have Silicon Valley, arguably one of the most active centers of innovation in the world.

Google is headed here, with all of the PhDs and "crazy mad scientist" research. So is Microsoft, so is IBM.

Sure, there are lots of dumb people here. Guess what, there are also lots of the smartest people in the entire world here.
Silly article. I agree that regulation of the Internet is futile, but this article gives no evidence. How about some basic discussion of:

* Packet-switched network principles

* Transport-layer encryption (e.g. SSL)

* Onion routing

* Peer-to-peer software, particularly with the advent of IPv6

Blindly asserting that the Internet 'is an organism that thrives on freedom and will always grow toward it' is just preaching to the converted.
Right now in the US, interest rates on savings isn't keeping up with inflation. Not sure what macro-econ says about the sustainability of such a situation, but current fed policy is definitely penalizing savers in the short term.
Your analysis of the situation is a bit off. The vast majority of MBA students have worked some amount of time since graduating from their undergraduate institutions. Not only that, many were working in highly lucrative industries like investment banking/consulting. It's really not far-fetched that they purchased these cars prior to entry into the program.

Also your note that 2% pursue startup opportunities seems to be incorrect, given that the 2012 employment report showed 13% of students not seeking employment to start a new business.
It's a boring political tie-in, even if the implications are interesting:

> Its political aspect is that because it's so simple, it can be reimplemented anywhere at any time, and so it provides a way for users to communicate privately even if government or other controls make distribution of normal cryptographic software completely impossible.

Basically it just means that it's a cheap to run and easy to use algorithm.

The interesting implication is that this may make it pointless for "relatively free" nations to ban cryptography. The vast quantities of good, publicly accessible crypto would make it an impossible rule to enforce (although it would give them a leg up in a courtroom setting).
> 2) It is a design choice on the Chrome team to fail fast and hard. It's better to get crash reports to our automated crash servers with diagnostics and stack traces than to have reports in the field of weird behavior with no way to debug.

It's a design choice that your product... which some people (myself included) pay money for, crash hard so that you can get better diagnostics? Sounds like misplaced priorities.
In the "watch and learn" department here is what the comments below are missing about this story.

The author of the story appearing in CNN is John Byrne who is the owner of poetsandquants.com website (of course it could be a coincidence but I don't think that's the case).

The article on CNN doesn't disclose this fact.

That doesn't make the data inaccurate necessarily but it shows how easy it is to get national media attention for your website at least if you target CNN as the recipient of some good link bating information.

This is the "about" page of the poetsandquants.com website:

http://poetsandquants.com/about/

Not much there, eh?
How can Facebook support suck so badly
My favorite about this is the "testmode" flag which removes the need to mock your tests when sending emails.
Very frustrating for developers who get caught in the middle. Same thing happened with Dropbox a while ago, where developers had to wait for a new SDK which was safe for the App Store, before being able to update their apps.
Firefox Servo rendering engine was purpose-built for multiple cores
Main reason - I am making a typing oriented app, and it so TOUGH to type on the emulator as it doesnt take keyboard input. And I felt the options were limited compared to the Android emulator.
I wonder how long American exceptionalism can keep taking this battering until the nitwits in the state and national assembly agree that education is important. Pre-K and Headstart is important. Afterschool and tutoring is important And school lunch is important.

I have too many friends that are absolutely struggling to get their kids into Pre-K or headstart only to find out it's been cancelled or enrollment reduced due to budget cuts. Then the only option is private care where at one end of the school it's TV for 6-8 hours and the "good" schools cost almost your entire paycheck.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, "it's goddamn expensive to be poor!"
Instagram begins blocking apps abusing the API with like/follow flooding
ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding
Here is the list of publications by Colleen Chien:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3620...

Not sure which paper the article talks about, by dates I assume it could be this one: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2146251
Apple Legend Guy Kawasaki Is Now A Hardcore Android Fan
I had a long chat with an engineer from the Yahoo spam team about why Gmail was better, and this was his take: When Gmail started off in beta, the mail filters were amazing. They were trained with a large corpus of Google's employee mail, skewing everything to a technical subject matter and a tightly knit network of contacts.

When Gmail hit general availability, the quality of filters was not what average users expected. Things would get flagged simply because Grandma was not in the trusted circle of silicon valley.

Eventually they bought Postini, both to boost corporate email business, but also to source a spam filter that had been battle tested across large consumer mail installs.
Higher ed. == socially acceptable generational wealth transfer that doesn't involve someone knocking off.
I use/love prgmr.com for my personal website plus a few small web apps.

Prices/configs:

http://prgmr.com/xen/

The bloke who runs it is on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc
linode seems popular

http://linode.com
To answer my question about why John Byrne is important enough to get a story on CNN.com here is the reason:

http://observer.com/2010/08/john-byrnes-poets-quants-starts-...

Interesting though that this history (if true I haven't verified it) would be omitted from his "about" page.
Hi,

I just wanted to say thanks. I have been integrating bootstrap into my site for the passed few months and I am happy to know it will look better then otherwise ever would have. I still have some trouble figuring out why the hell some parts don't work (can you recommend a debugging tool?) but all in all I am pretty chuffed and can appreciate why it is popular.

Take it easy = )

PS - wtf was with the radioactive download bootstrap button on the download page of the last release? I don't think you were involved with it, but I was surprised to see it . EDIT> It has been removed and now is a normal download button again.
Remember that memristors are going to reinvent computer memory by 2014? (speed and power near dynamic RAM, but nonvolatile) When the storage hierarchy gets retuned you may find all of your device's nonvolatile storage in your address space. Or maybe not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistive_random-access_memory

Beyond that…

The ARM 64 bit comes with 31 64 bit registers instead of 14 32 bit registers.

There are a number of instruction set differences, such that you run the same object code on previous architectures.

The NEON unit also gets twice the registers, double precision floating point, and IEEE 754 compliance.
First off, thanks for commenting! The (wild guess) idea is that a large sector of the market do most of their phone/tablet browsing at home, at the office, but not when they're away. Then most people may take pictures, videos, etc. (I guess this could hurt geotagging), but I claim that tethering would remain off most of the time.

Come to think about it, with the low-end SIM cards available today a second SIM card would make sense and eliminate the need for tethering altogether.

A good start in my wish list would be greater (and prettier!) competition to VEGA.
This doesn't really answer the question about whether everyone is paying full sticker, but debt loads for MBA graduates is a nice data point to check out. (2009/10 data)

http://poetsandquants.com/2011/04/25/25-b-schools-that-lead-...
No, you go to the candy shop say thirteen times a week, buy some candy (do not remember the exact number although you have the statements but they do not specify numbers but weight) and after a week you receive a true invoice with just the transaction IDs and a grand total.

If you check this and you notice a $0.50 surcharge... Are you going to spend 10min to fix it, if it is fixed ("please call later when our accountant is in")?
I think it said he has previously released over 10 albums. Listen to those to get an idea of what the new album will sound like. If the money is to fund studio time etc. there's obviously not very much he can share at this stage.
Thank you for the advice. However, it appears it's even pricier than Linode ?!
In 1950, 15 workers supported each SS retiree. By 2025, it'll be only 2.
Leap Forward In Brain Controlled Computer Cursors
You seem to be stuck with the idea that this would be like correcting a traditional motorcycle in a bad turn. This is not a human knee-jerk reaction to overcorrect we're talking about, it's a computer that is constantly making minor corrections on a very short interval, before, during and after the corner. The bike never gets that far out of balance, so there is no violent high-side.

It would maintain traction by not laying down and skipping across the pavement, keeping rubber against asphalt (likely to be better in the traction department than plastic/metal against asphalt). If the tech works properly the bike would slide in a fast corner similar to a car in the same situation.

I still think the project is really young, and their reported 2013 release date is super optimistic. This machine needs a lot more testing before it can be unleashed upon the roads.
This article does nothing to convince me that singing or playing math games with my young kids has a causal link to better math, science, or reading performance. Those both seem like signs of parents who are generally involved and likely correlate with lots of other constructive activities throughout the child's life (like caring about how they're doing in school) that could be the real reason for why the kids do better at a later age.
FWIW, I just downloaded the app that's referenced here, and it's quite nice. Well done.
They need to rebrand Yahoo Mail. Like MS did with Hotmail -> Outlook.

Nobody wants to have @yahoo.com. That's embarrassing in 2012. Or 2006 for that matter.