skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have no issues answering your questions:

> As someone who doesn't know what you do or who this is

We are very hesitant to associate ourselves or our core business with the Rich Kid$ of Twitter service we have created on the side. This is not because we are intentionally trying to be "shady" or anything. It is because we feel being associated with this service (which we rightfully admit is silly) will hurt us professionally with our core business. Although this service may prove successful in helping us raise funds, we feel it may do us a disservice when it comes to being taken seriously by potential investors/clients.

> The home and about pages both need a lot of work

We wanted to keep those pages rather clean and simple. Clicking the "i" button at the top right explains what the core business is and isn't fairly well.

> From what I can see your service lets me give money to someone in a 'fun' way but you guys get a %?

This is actually not the case. No money is actually transferred to the other user. This is more or less a platform for us to fundraise money for our core business Again, this is explained clearly in the info section exposed by the "i" button.

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I'll conclude with this, if you don't understand the culture around "making it rain" and the attitudes demonstrated by those that take part in that culture, it is hard to understand this service.
They have a video explaining the difference : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2...!
I am blown away by this intuitive explanation of why Julia sets look the way they do.

I was obsessed with the Mandelbrot and Julia sets waaaay back in high school, with writing programs to produce them in real time, back on my 386. But I never had the slightest understanding of why they looked the way they do. So to discover that now, almost 20 years later, is just amazing.
They would because Lisp Machines were not some magical functional machines but pretty much standard CPU designs of their era with additional hardware support for object memory (tagged pointers, GC...) and relatively large word size.
I like the spirit of this opportunity. It is not for everyone, but it feels like a micro incubator that could work for some. It would be great to have a legal structure that is the equivalent the MVP you are asking your developers to build--the simplest agreement that works. Forming a new company for each seed project is too much overhead, but there are other techniques that could be cheap and effective.
Having a REPL is a big productivity boost for Python, not avoiding an explicit compile step. A compile step is utterly trivial to avoid (e.g. "make run" which builds and runs). Likewise, live reloading is possible in C using dlopen().
If hmexx is looking for a cofounder the numbers make sense. If hmexx is creating an incubator they don't because there is no meat on the bone at 50% equity. The founder has no way of getting more runway without becoming a minority shareholder - there aren't any good choices once the $5000 is gone.

Maybe, hmexx has structured his offer without considering the ramifications of 50% stake as an incubator. I'm somewhat inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. No level of ethical intensions makes 50% equity make sense either for entering or accepting a project into an incubator.

50% equity is what investors demand to keep an enterprise from dying. Flowers are appropriate for a first date.
or in ipython just type pdb
"Used to" are the key words. Check Glassdoor. It's gone up in the past few years.
I'm sure Larry Page will be looking at this data after personally paying for free flu shots to bay area kids. In his article he mentions "...flu shots can have a big effect in preventing flu in the whole region...", so I wouldn't be surprised if this page was directly related to him providing free shots.
https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/32xY3Z1zckL
Looks really interesting. Do you have a live demo, possibly with public-domain music? Would love to try it out without yet building it on a server.
A large enough grocer would have the markup of both the distributor and the gracery store, which usually total 30%ish
I can certainly appreciate the precision of Lego pieces, as I too have mixed and matched incredibly old pieces from my parents's era (1970s) with more recent (2000s) stuff. And I think the OP did a decent job collecting precision data for the article.

However I find the post title to be misleading as surely there's a whole lot more that goes into the actual market valuation of a Lego kit. What about the type and quality of plastic used, the rest of the manufacturing process, quality control, the overhead of having to design new kits regularly, etc? Building Lego kits is more than just shipping cheap generic plastic widgets from China straight to store shelves.

For what it's worth, I've found Lego designs to be consistently excellent, with well thought-out part selection, part placement, structural integrity, and so on, in everything from the small $10 kid sets to the $300 Mindstorms NXT kits, so the price has never really bothered me.
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Would be interresting to check if the cheaper Lego clones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_clone) have the same qualities.
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I agree. Ideas are a dime-a-dozen, especially ideas that are the type to languish on a shelf indefinitely.

Startups are all about execution. It's with this in mind that I find the OP's proposition interesting. In my opinion, the more important part of the proposition is not the money or the marketing work, but the kick-in-the-ass that he's providing to someone who would normally fear taking the leap to execute.

Having someone to whom you are accountable (i.e. a cofounder) is huge for executing. Being accountable only to yourself makes things incredibly hard to continue to execute through all the difficulties of starting a company.
The new delicious.com is broken
They lost all but one of the links in my account. I can't sign in unless I allow "third party" cookies. And I can't send user feedback unless I create an account on Uservoice. Also, the new look sucks and is totally dysfunctional.

http://delicious.com

Discuss.
Well, I am not as well-versed in optimization, but there is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_timing_attack

If you can exploit the effect that cache has on latency, it is reasonable to assume that you can manipulate it in other ways.
I rarely upvote jokes on HN, but sometimes laughter is just infectious.
the government ability to set prices for another corporation makes it a little bit less like a corporation, and a little bit more like a government run "Ministry of diamonds" agency. Governments dictating prices of textbooks would be a step toward communism. After they set they diamond prices, then next up on the agenda is to set employee salaries at fair prices.
If I can ask a few questions:

1) Are Ebay/alibaba retailers trustworthy? I'd hate to be shipped a lemon (assuming they even ship outside the US).

2) Why must it be DisplayPort? Doesn't it support HDMI/DVI?
The Nokia Xpress Browser is not an HTTP web browser. It is a specialized client that talks to transcoding servers. It is designed for low-end phones in emerging markets. These phones have 128MB of RAM or less, they are not capable of running full web browsers. If a user has a phone capable of running a full browser (like the Lumia phones) and they choose to install the Nokia browser or Opera Mini to save on data usage, they are opting-in for the service. The compressing browser is not the default browser for Nokia phone running Windows Phone 7/8, MeeGo, Symbian^3, or S60. http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/User-Agent_hea...

There is no MITM attack. They are not spoofing DNS or forging SSL certs. They are providing a service that users are opting in to use.

If you don't trust Nokia, don't use their phones. Even with end-to-end encryption, the data (including voice calls) is unencrypted on your phone until the software and hardware encrypts it. The maker of the software and hardware always has the capability to add eavesdropping code if they want.
when i was a kid using my parents AOL connection Homestead was blocked by the default AOL parental controls. so i installed a keylogger so i could sneak onto my dad's screen name and make websites when he went to work. in retrospect i probably could have just asked him to unblock homestead so i can make websites.

i realize this is only tangentially related, but your page compelled me to share. :)
i remember questioning whether it was ok to drop 8x6 support. the golden days.
This article assumes all knowledge is equally valuable, equally hard to gain, and decays at the same rate, but none of that is true.

Frameworks change constantly, computer languages less frequently, and architectural notions much less frequently. Yet the value and difficulty of learning is exactly reversed.

The nature of the media that defines the marketing strategy changes relatively slowly compared to tech. Successful business strategies change still slower than the marketing, and the actual behavior of people much more slowly.

Most of the facts that are changing the fastest are very cheap to "re-discover". So cheap that there is a term for it: the Google Effect.

I can't see any particularly good lessons for startups from the article as a result.
1. I wasn't shipped a lemon, so I can't testify as to what happens if you get one. That having been said, the person I bought from had tons of 99.8% reputation and I swear, I have no idea how it go to my doorstep from China so quickly (custom stickers and all indicating it erally moved that fast).

2. I have no idea why HD4000 won't drive that 2560x1440 resolution over DVI/HDMI. I just know that HD4000 has that prowess to output it and I read somewhere that it only works over DisplayPort. So far, based on my HD4000 MBA and desktop, that seems to be true. I'll see if I can find you a source on that.

edit: This is not the exact same ebay listing, but is from the same person and is the same product that I purchased: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Crossover-27Q-LED-P-27-DVI-D-Dua...

edit2: Sources on the HDMI/DVI/DisplayPort discrepancy: http://communities.intel.com/message/160909#160909
Specific to Canadian universities, I know that many bookstores have been taken over by Gigantic Multinational Bookstore Management Company. Is it possible that departments incentivize profs somehow (even soft incentives like shaming deviants, etc.) to order strictly through the bookstore, which would have the effect of limiting textbook choices to whatever GMBMC Inc. stocks?

The not-so-required texts I speak of were always from the same publisher, which is the 'coincidence' that got me thinking about this in the first place.
What is a 'Solutions Architect'?
I used to make fun of my MBA friends for getting hired into positions like 'Success Manager'. Now it seems the joke is on me. Great tech companies are putting out jobs with titles like 'Solutions Architect'. What, may I ask, is a solutions architect? Am I the only one who finds this worrying?
Have been working remotely for over 6 years and all of our team are remote. I think there is a massive change coming as businesses start to adapt to the idea of working remotely. It's just the beginning of the trend.
Besides the obvious answer that cost is not a first order determent of price?
An industrial operating system. In C, you know what you've got: its exact dimensions, location, and lifetime. Since you're not relying on a GC, you can make latency more predictable and with much lower upper bounds.

On that topic, I'd rather write crypto code in C too.
That's not a Thunderbolt display, it's an LED Cinema. No Thunderbolt port, FireWire, GigE, etc.
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No live demo, unfortunately. I think archive.org has plenty of public-domain music in ogg format. Want to put something together and I'll link to it in the README? This would be quite nice indeed to have.

On the plus side though, it's super easy to try it out locally using the built-in server:

Give backend/app.cfg the path of the music on your computer. Then run backend/local_server.py. Browse to localhost:5000 in your web browser, and you're set.

Info here: http://git.zx2c4.com/zmusic-ng/about/#standalone
Thanks for your reply. I just bought a new nVidia card (GTX 650 Ti) and it doesn't include a DisplayPort, so it looks like I'm out of luck on this :/

Thanks anyway!
Textbooks and Diamonds are in the same boat. Free Market supply and demand has been subverted in favour of entities controlling the entire market and setting the prices where the consumers are powerless to punish waste and corruption by selecting an alternative book.

A solution would be to make sure that Colleges have to pay for half of the price of student books, and put it into Tuition. That way when students see the inflated tuition prices (due to lots of $300 books), they go with the other college that has book prices that are reasonable.

It's a nifty switcheroo to charge students tuition, then say "you are responsible for buying the books, and by the way you don't have a choice in the books."
"The common definition of a process virtual machine is that it's an interpreter that can be written to that essentially emulates an OS environment, giving abstracted OS concepts and functionality."

Is it? I have seen "virtual machine" used to describe the process abstraction and to describe the IR in compilers (hence "Java Virtual Machine"), and to describe the Forth environment (similar to compilers).
To clarify, I am driving my display over Dual link DVI from my Nvidia GTX-660. The resolution limitation is specific to both the HD4000 + HDMI/DVI.

That ebay listing indicates that GTX 4xx's and 5xx's are supported. I would suspect yours will be fine.
A lot of military systems still use SOAP.
Oh, I thought you meant that it was a limitation of the screen. That's a relief, then. I have currently had a 22" LG for a few years, it might be time to get a new screen!

Thank you for your help.
Looks very cool. Is it stable and ready for wide use or still a bit experimental?

p.s. Definitely agree about not changing migrations after 'git push'. Better to make a new reversing migration to change things back if needed and yet another to get it right.
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TPK sues over touch panel tech in Nokia, Huawei phones
It may be worth working out what gfx driver you're using + posting a bug in the relevant place.
I don't see how everypass.com is relevant.

In this case when I go to https://www.google.com I expect that any traffic can only be seen by Google, the entire reason I typed "https" was specifically so that it was only a conversation between me and the site that I'm connecting to and no other middle men. It is of no consequence what company it is; it would be inappropriate for Google to be seeing my encrypted traffic to hotmail and it would be inappropriate for Microsoft to see my encrypted traffic to gmail.

Google continuing to serve traffic under those conditions is misleading and Google (or any other site that supports https) shouldn't allow it.
"Constrained to local vegetables in season" is a feature :)
It's not even an indication of quality, it's an indication that many people use it.

I guess you can quibble about definitions all day if you like, and you can take "family heirlooms" literally instead of metaphorically as it was intended, but that won't make Wal-Mart a seller of quality items nor will it make PHP a well-designed language under any sort of definition that is relevant to reality.

And, honestly, if the only thing we're going to argue about is whether or not quantity equals/implies quality and the definition of "quality", the argument against PHP has already won.
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The solution is simple:

Make sure Colleges have to pay for half of the price of student books and put that cost into Tuition. That way when students measure the inflated tuition prices (due to lots of $400 books), they go with the other college that has book prices that are reasonable.

Colleges trying to increase enrollment will discover that switching to a non corrupt book seller will be in everyone's best interests. Free market will thus be restored and prices will float according to their value, rather than by authoritative fiat.
The pressure, if any, would likely not come from Academic Departments. I can see how the admin side of the institution might want, for financial reason, to encourage purchases through the bookstore... Also, in order to have books available for first day of classes, it is difficult to do anything other than ordering through the bookstore.

At one of the institutions I've worked as a senior administrator, we did contemplate no longer having a bookstore and instead relying on Amazon/Chapters given their excellent service and general book availability. However, I would never have supported the idea of contracting out to some firm that dealt with a limited number of publishers.
Just because you shouldn't have to lie about it, doesn't make it good advice to never lie about it.

^^ This.

I know many people in flyover country who are atheists, but who go to church every Sunday simply to avoid having them and their children not be ostracized from the majority of social activity.

All decisions should, in part, be made in reference to your own happiness. If "coming out" as an atheist (or homosexual, or...) is going to make your life substantially worth with no real upside for you, "lying" about yourself is a reasonable, and possible necessary, alternative.
I have a Dell IPS display largely because they have a pretty liberal stuck pixel guarantee:

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/sna.aspx?c=us&cs=19&#...

tl;dr: full replacement within even just 1 bright pixel if the display is an UltraSharp (IPS), same dark pixel policy as rest of their monitor line.

This is better than even Apple's policy. Long story short I think I'll be buying Dell monitors for the next while.
An interesting question, if Nokia informed their customers before the purchase would they have still bought the hardware? It's not really quite as altruistic of Nokia they don't put the cards firmly on the table before hand.
I would imagine they would give the digital good away for free, and add it as a separate line-item in checkout, so vat would be 15% of $0.
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My son's Spanish book this semester is a special edition - Googling the ISBN brings up only the school bookstore. $175, but that does include the web access code for online stuff. What a bargain! Luckily we were able to score all the books for his other 4 classes for about $130 at Amazon, so I guess $300 for the semester really is not that bad.
How many karma points do I need to vote down something?
Java+OCR+Microsoft Translate = Easy date for you and Chinese girl friend?
There always seems to be a compromise with these. The 27" Auria from Microcenter has several different inputs (display port, hdmi, dvi), but the included stand is short and non-adjustable.
I'd love to hear a review from anyone on HN who has first-hand experience with this outfit.
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> Is there a built-in certificate on Nokia phones that accept the proxy server certificate (which must be a wildcard for everything)?

Excatly.
I appreciate this comment more than I have words. Dawg.
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Actually, it seemed to be more like this:
D: Company A is awesome.
B: Why not use our product? It's cheaper! [Spam]
[Certainly, it could have ended here. But they asked the question - why is it wrong to answer them why you don't use it? Perhaps they don't realize their public posts are alienating customers, and the feedback would be helpful. Perhaps she might want to give them another chance if they 'fess up and apologize (Perhaps not, she has no obligation to do so). At this point, she is not being mean at all (not that she is later, either). At this point, there is no argument to end. It's still just a conversation.]
D: I did use your product. You inappropriately and publicly broadcast private information. [Answering the question they asked, honestly and without pulling punches - something advocated constantly by popular and applauded posts on HN, I might add.]
B: Yeah? Well you didn't thank us for the free trial of a service we were trying to sell you. whine whine whine [Completely inappropriate and rude. This is the first sign of actual hostility, as opposed to honesty.]
D: This is why I'm not using you [Again, answering their question. Rhetorical or not, they asked it.] You probably should not say that publicly. [Helpful and useful criticism. Again, something recommended by HN on a public basis.]

Now, I'm not saying she wasn't pissed by the end. She probably was (I would be). But she never said anything rude or explicitly hostile. In addition, she didn't escalate it to public status. Twitter is a public forum, and they started accusing her of... not thanking them for their sales pitch? Her response on Twitter was entirely appropriate.

As to the blog post, this is the exact same thing that something like Amazon reviews does - publicly states the quality (in this case, in regards to courtesy) of a company or product. She is the customer. This has no bearing on her relationship with her customers (which I will not comment on, having never experienced it). This only affects her relationship with someone trying to sell her something - and the onus of making the interaction positive is entirely on the salesman, who completely screwed up.

She was never rude. Since she is not the seller in this situation, common courtesy (as you'd give a stranger you were talking to) is the only obligation she has, and she meets it.
And so would I, you can also chat with us on the site.
The OP got a chance to address the concern I had about the specific offer. He did so. This page kept its upward momentum. Call the fouls which matter.
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Why are you angry? It look like you've decided that if people complain about something, those people must be broken and not the system.

And why do people complain about Lisp? It's because the syntax is amazing. It's an incredible language to write in. It is more expressive than anything anyone has ever used, but then they can't do anything with that because it takes so much more effort with lisp to do things that are taken for granted in other languages. GUI libraries and frameworks are so easy with C based languages, because they contain powerful tools that I don't have to write myself.
you know that the c/c++ plugin for intellij is broken? so what are you using that is smart enough to parse and refactor c? (serious question as i've had to switch to eclipse).
I wonder if 20 years from now, programmers will see working in an office as a luxury, rather than working from home.
Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity ... Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing ...

It's too bad Urban Dictionary doesn't let users vote on how vulgar they think the dictionary entries are. I've got that feature on The Online Slang Dictionary, but since UD is so much more popular, they could collect that much more data.
A lot of my non technical friends use Google Groups. Other than a few extra drop downs during set-up, it seems to me that there's literally no functional difference in the two services.

I don't know how they can blatantly lie and tell buyers that they're better off with their $10/month service over the free Google Groups, but they seem to be getting away with it. Because they're 37 Signals and everything else they make is amazing.
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Presently 500, but you can't downvote stories.
Can I print open source lego-compat pieces from my 3D printer yet? Basically, my dream at age 6.
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