skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is no underwriter would take an IPO for a million shares at say $10/share. It's just not something that they can make money on.

If you're offering a small fraction of the outstanding float, you don't need an underwriter because you've elected to reduce your risk. If markets are unfavourable, you raise less. Oh well. You've kept plenty of shares to try again next time.

We need to get over this "go big or go home" mentality.
I did a search on "World Wide Web, Inc." and this came up: http://websales.us/
I don't know any women in CS. But analogizing from my experience in the legal profession, I think it's a huge practical concern for women. When my female friends were looking at what firms to take jobs at, they very heavily weighed statistics like the percentage of female partners. My wife accepted at her firm partly because one of the departments she was interested in was female-dominated--had a large number of female associates and a "critical mass" of female partners that brought in their own business and had pull within the firm.

Being a minority sucks, and ambitious people realize that in any organization getting to the top is as much about social ability and politick-ing as it is about ability. Working as a woman in a male-dominated culture may have zero impact on your work, but it's sure as hell going to have an impact on how easy it is for someone to form work relationships and leverage them to get ahead in the organization.
Yeah the old buttons looked like buttons, it was obvious they could be clicked. These ones look more like an outlined header or something. The disabled ones don't really look disabled if they are not next to a non disabled button either. Aesthetically I think the current version is much better. Personally not a huge fan of everything going to this 'flat' / metro look but it seems to have really caught on.
Who's the ISP gonna throttle? It's next to impossible to tell the difference between a legitimate request and a zombie. Also not all zombies are knowing contributing to a ddos. Are you gonna kick grandpa off the net cause he doesn't think before he clicks? Make no mistake this is a very technically hard problem to solve. DDoS attacks aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
That's not really true -- in practice, most companies have a volume license for production machines, and a single MSDN subscription includes as many licenses for development and test as you want.

I'm not advocating that anyone use Windows, just saying that in practice licensure isn't as hard of an operational problem as it might seem. The price still hurts, though.
That's exactly what it is. An exchange of services for money, hedged. If that's a bad deal, feel free to sell on an alternative app store (Android) or convince your users to jailvrrak (iOS)
Heh, I guess since I already know how that works out, I'm glad it was glossed over.
Absolutely. This is most probably wanted in the second graphic example, where the lo-fi aspect and the collage of pictures from different sources would make any form of rigor look uncanny.
I think it only solves the problem if people are no longer racist (which is a big issue with it).

In the current system white people in poverty are arguably the most disadvantaged, but even other minorities in poverty lose out to those of the same race that are more affluent and have more opportunities anyway.
Human response times are almost never normally distributed. They can't be, as a matter of fact as negative response time is an impossibility.

In any case, they are typically long tailed and weird looking. Not normal, at least in my experience of working with them
> Given the assumption that it's a meritocracy, then qualified women won't be turned away.

I'm saying that the assumption that it's a meritocracy is incorrect.

> If there are less women applying in the first place, then the problem exists in the educational\ preparatory stages of one's career.

Education doesn't change the fact that ambitious women don't want to be in the 10-20% minority in an engineering company. Hell, it doesn't change the fact that they don't want to be the 10-20% minority in computer science programs. Careers are up-hill battles as it is, and who wants to add the additional challenge of being a minority? People who want to maximize their potential success are going to go into professions where they don't have to deal with these headwinds.

And that phenomenon undermines your meritocracy.
> This is the future of gaming.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternit...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/70755535/dead-state-the-...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chap...

The future of gaming has a few alternatives that look very promising and they're all DRM free.
Point. I think the general thought still stands: Perhaps MPEG-LA believes they have now established h.26[45] strongly enough that VP9 will never be a threat.

Of course, if we knew how much Google had actually paid for these patent licenses we'd have a much better idea of who, if anyone, had actually "won"! I doubt we'll get that information though.
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I don't think so. Based on what they wrote in their application for the 'app' tdl, Google, in the name of Charleston Road Registry, plans to totally close the TDLs they get :

Charleston Road Registry intends to operate the proposed gTLD as a closed registry with Google as the sole registrar and registrant. The goal of the proposed gTLD is to allow Google and its Network to manage the domain name space for their application offerings. The proposed gTLD will provide Google and its Network with the ability to customize domain and website name application offerings to signal to the general population of Internet users that .app websites are indeed managed by Google. The specialization goal of the proposed gTLD is to extend the Google brand and reputation to each .app second-level domain. This specialization provides a mechanism by which Google and its Network can easily link and manage their applications and related services. This specialization makes it clear to Internet users that this is the authoritative and designated space where they can find Google’s and its Network’s applications offered in association with the Google brand and accessible via differentiated and streamlined web addresses.
"The point is not to have ONE company own and control an extension (like .com) and all the domains in it."

This has already happened. Afilias controls .info. Public Interest Registry controls .org. (Afilias actually runs the backend operations of .org for Public Interest Registry.)

I operate a registrar and I pay money to both of them. When we call support (rare) the same people take the calls for both TLD's.

I was around when this happened and .info was being floated and passed on an opportunity to invest in it.
Crap captcha if it became popular... to easy to brute force. I know its for a chess site but it isn't even very user friendly
I agree that it's unfortunate that there isn't be a Firefox on iOS, but it's a problem with Apple and their App Store rules and not with Mozilla.

We have to remember that Mozilla is a non-profit foundation with a specific manifesto[1] that espouses principles directly in opposition to the closed nature of Apple's App Store. Chrome on the App Store is a different beast than Firefox would be.

Google's primary mission, all the 'Don't be evil' stuff not withstanding, is to make money, so they need to go where users are. Mozilla's goal is to help build a free and open Internet to create choice for users, and a skinned UIWebKitView isn't real choice for users.

[1]http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.html
"It seems like this solution means that if you want to have your own domain, either you must be rich or the website must be profitable"

Not really. Looks like the namespace is big enough for all of us. Your post made me curious how crowded the .com space really is and within 30s of trying, I found this free gem: notrichbuthappy.com Nothing wrong with it for a blog, right?
I would change "a real user" with "a real user who doesn’t use a screen-reader". That’s less funny, but more accurate.
Good plan. When a site is DDoSed, encourage thousands of HN viewers to check it out :P
That's not equivalent code, it doesn't execute itself.

That it simply returns a string with no logic and therefore can be written slightly simpler belays the point I was making. You simply don't see this type of code being used much in C# because it isn't idiomatic, yet it exists to mark off a checkbox.
This is the new scaffolding section:
http://rc.getbootstrap.com/css/#grid-system

I've only been using bootstrap for a week, but I instantly noticed that the grid elements were separated not with a left margin, but with both left and right padding. This is going to be fantastic, and shows their responsive first thinking.
MIDI is an 8-bit protocol, operating at 31.25kbaud.

False. That is but one transport option for MIDI data. USB-MIDI is another, much higher bit-rate protocol.

The standard doesn't include any means of transmitting expression data other than velocity on a per-note basis.

False. MIDI provides polyphonic aftertouch as a standard (i.e. not NRPN or SysEx) message type.

If you try and send too much controller information over a channel, the timing goes to pot as you run out of bandwidth.

Again false, if you're using a more modern transport such as USB-MIDI.

A MIDI message is just a single byte

False; this tells me you haven't read the MIDI spec. This is not true of either the messages themselves (which are generally multi-byte messages) nor of the message types (which are a single nibble for the basic types, 7 bits for the controller types, and 14 bits for each of RPN and NRPN messages).
You don't think the JIT is an important part of a browser?
“What Wall Street did to us in 1999 pales in comparison to what they did to the country in 2008,” he said."

I think he understands just fine.
Comic Sans: Because some of us run lemonade stands.
Not at all. That's precisely what the petition advocates for.

If you are required to use the term "license" when your software contains DRM, then you aren't allowed to use the term "buy" when your software contains DRM. Therefore, this petition disallows the use of DRM when using the term "buy".
...or he can stop using fb, loss for fb

It's not a matter of simply "unliking" the page, sure, I've done that to a couple of annoying pages, but fb is interested in its product as a whole.

Also, I haven't seen content being hidden in most pages (you can always check the page and all the content is there), of course, the abusers have been 'unliked' by me already (but this is not what most people do)
Former TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe
One should never pay money to squatters. It only encourages them to proliferate. If everyone would just let them keep paying yearly fees for thousands of domains nobody ever buys then they would eventually go out of business.
Yeah, you're right, the JS engine as well a the renderer are about equally important. But I was trying to fight off the notion that Chrome for iOS is much more than a skin because it has its own network stack. It's a little more than skin, but the most important bits are off limits.
The important thing everyone can learn from this isn't that a chess captcha might work for every site, but rather that there's a lot of potential for sophisticated captchas that are better than the ones that are currently being used (math, image recognition etc.) - a large variety of completely different ways to prove that you're human makes automatic attacks harder.
It's sort of amazing the people in these conditions care enough about quality of work to build buildings that don't fall down.
The behaviour is worse, but the effects on the consumer is not. This since they are not locked to their platform since they can vote with their feet in a whole different manner than they could back when MS were accused. MS had almost the entire market back then, whereas iphone sits beneath 50% market share.
The last US "test" was in 2008 to destroy a defunct spy satellite. Spy satellites have very low orbits (around 100km) and an overwhelming majority of the debris from that test reentered the atmosphere and burned up within weeks or months. Previous ASAT tests were done in the 80s and were also all at low altitude where debris burns up within a few months. The Chinese ASAT test was at around 1000km and much of that debris will be there for tens or hundreds of years. It basically undid all the work the international community had done on reducing debris over the past decade (http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/multimedia/0212-spac...).

It is possible, but highly unlikely that the US does ASAT tests in secret. It's unlikely mainly because any unannounced rocket launch looks suspiciously like an ICBM (and is easily detectable), so it is in everyone's best interest to announce launches ahead of time. If the US has done secret ASAT tests, they would continue to do them at lower orbits out of concern for debris.

The US tracks all objects in low Earth orbit that are about 10cm or greater in diameter using a large network of radar stations. The Russians have similar capabilities, though not on the same scale. As a result, they actually can tell where most of the debris came from. However in this article it was not clear if it was just conjecture or actual tracking data from the Chinese ASAT debris that led them to that conclusion.
I agree with you. See also:

http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/06/data-in-garbage-out.h...
NYSE disaster plan to trade without humans
Go's HTML templates implement similar escaping based on context: (http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/)

"This package understands HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and URIs. It adds sanitizing functions to each simple action pipeline, so given the excerpt

<a href="/search?q={{.}}">{{.}}</a>

At parse time each {{.}} is overwritten to add escaping functions as necessary. In this case it becomes

<a href="/search?q={{. | urlquery}}">{{. | html}}</a>"
Most large organs have considerable "latency",

You don't even need to go as far as organs to see latency.

Low-pitched stringed instruments such as fretless/upright bass guitars have latency due to the mechanics of the strings themselves; e.g. jazz bass players have to account for this when playing. Most good jazz bass players do this unconsciously.

Polyphonic reed instruments (e.g. harmonicas, melodicas, accordions) all have this issue as well. Reeds of significant mass (i.e. lower-pitched reeds) can take tenths of a second to sound (more on older instruments).

Also: if you can feel the string in your fretting hand vibrate on a fretted instrument, you're doing it wrong. (The string does not vibrate past the fret -- that's the point of frets! If it does, you're not pressing firmly enough and you get fret buzz. Either that or your finger's on the wrong side of the fret and you're muting the sound.)
Being so zealously anti-Facebook as I am, I kept waiting for a Facebook punchline. Ah, I see you have risen above that and make a bigger point. Bravo.
The paradox is, platforms like Facebook never could arise without the free internet for people to rapidly prototype, evolve, pivot and merge ideas. Hopefully, having a free (as in, non corporate controlled) internet will come to be seen as an important economic differentiator. I would argue that economic success* for a country in the 21st century and beyond is largely going to hinge on it having an open internet ecosystem.

* = unless we trash the natural ecosystem, of course, in which case all bets are off
But effectively half that with the (subsidized?) interest rates.
I remember Google's IPO vividly. Google's stock price didnt pop much. It priced at $85 and hit $100 the first day of trading. It hung around $100 for a few weeks and then started moving steadily higher throughout the fall, in large part because they reported an insane third quarter. The auction had other problems but the pricing was largely fine.

I'm talking about first day pops. These are situations that are clearly mismanaged. A stock that's supposedly worth $20 at 5pm on Tuesday is magically worth $35 at 9:30am on Wednesday despite nothing having changed. No supposedly functional market should be that inefficient. Unfortunately it's by design.
Great, I like this a lot. It is much better than those horrible squiggly characters in invisible colour combinations.
As an added bonus on, say blog comments, this could filter out obvious idiots.

Consider offering a choice of a few different puzzles for those who don't play chess?
yes, this is the most efficient method for getting market value for something (its almost tautologous); however, thats not the problem identified. the problem is determining a fair price for the ipo so that the company being listed brings in as much cash as they should. releasing all the shares at once determines a fair price quickly, but that doesnt help the company bring in more cash
I think I should explain my point a little more. Chef and Puppet are a different category of tools compared to Fabric. It is comparable to the difference between a Makefile and a shell script.

Chef/Puppet are like Makefiles, it would rebuild the targets if they don't exist. If it is already in the desired state, running the script performs nothing. This is not the case with Fabric. Fabric scripts would usually always perform the required action (unless you have written checks explicitly).

Fabric is a low hanging fruit so I would suggest starting there until you really have the need to manage multiple servers and then use Chef/Puppet.
If Google have MPEG-LA $1million just to go away, then yes they probably won. A single patent case defence would cost them at least that much, plus they get to inoculate VP8 and VP9 against MPEG-LA patent pool FUD PR.

Without knowing the amounts involved, it's impossible to really say who "won". Google obviously got what they wanted: indemnity for the MPEG-LA patent pool for VP8 and future codecs based on it. Maybe that cost them $1billion, maybe it cost them $1million: we don't know.
The EU Commission's Fine on Microsoft - What's Wrong With It?
The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation
I can't speak for Chef/Puppet but I tried in the past to incorporate Fabric into my workflow but I couldn't find a fabfile that worked out of the box with my setup so I found myself having to learn the specifics of all the deployment steps - initially for the purpose of creating my own Fabric setup. Once I got through to the other side I realized that my process really isn't that complicated to begin with, and now I really appreciate knowing exactly how my website works. Just for the record I run a single blog using Django, nginx, uwsgi and supervisord on Webfaction. I use git and virtualenvwrapper to run development on local computers and staging and production environments on webfaction. Once I get into using the same setup for many sites, I believe I will appreciate solutions like fabric or chef, but for right now I can't stress enough the value of writing your own conf files, syncing and migrating your model changes, learning to use git, and stopping and restarting processes manually.

TL;DR While Fabric is a great tool to help you simplify your process, I wouldn't recommend it to beginners of Django. Instead make a few passes at going through deployment manually and establish a process so you can write your own fabric configurations later on.
> but its the process of solving/building that is more interesting to me.

I'm with you on that one. I got into programming because I saw it as solving problems distilled down to its purest form. Whether the result of what I'm working on is interesting or useful in its own right was a distant concern. Its the process of exercising your creative capacity and coming up with fresh insights that motivates me (coming up with a novel elegant solution is better than any drug).

I often feel out of place on HN because of the huge focus on thing that's being built, rather than the process itself. It's completely foreign to me to think of the programming aspect as a means to an end. But I see that sentiment around here all the time. Just goes to show that there are many reasons to get into CS. Unfortunately those that do it for the sheer enjoyment of solving problems (whether useful or the project euler variety) seem to be a dying breed.
I believe that living a "minimalist" lifestyle today is easier than ever today, and will get progressively easier over time - think about not owning physical media, easy to use car sharing services and urbanization. Living in a nearly empty apartment might not be considered that strange in a few years.
I'm sure that's all just anti-PRC propaganda. </sarcasm> I'm waiting for the PRC state workers to astroturf that on in the comments.
Nobody has lost because the fight has moved on.

VP8 being a safer choice isn't reassuring, since it isn't much of a choice anymore.

Welcome the new fight, VP9 vs. H.265 vs. Daala.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I Funding
Most of the money in online services in the mid-90s was being made by companies like AOL, CompuServe, etc. [citation needed] WWW was essentially one competing protocol/platform among many. When its dominance was all but assured by the late 90s, indeed, many companies started trying to make money directly on the web, and most of them collapsed and took with them all the VC funding that was being poured into the virtual black hole of the "new paradigm" of unbounded e-business growth.

For a time, Microsoft practically did own the inter- and post-bubble WWW with IE 5-6, but their profits were through OS and Office sales, not web revenue, and e-retailers of various sorts were the main players making money directly from WWW.

I think today's web, which perhaps started somewhere in the 2005 period with the rise of social media giants and the dominance of online advertising ala Google, is definitely a change, and brought with it the flip.
I like the way tables are handled, it looks so easy now. However, there are still bugs. Screenshots here:

http://www.backwardcompatible.net/164-twitter-bootstrap-3-bu...
from a quick look it has many differences>64KB max value, no versions, no timestamps, no compressions?, no access groups?
Synthetic Biology Comes Down to Earth
The "Download Bootstrap Source" button in grey looks disabled.
There's no such thing as the democracy of the internet, that's just a new term for 'blogosphere.'
No single DBMS will meet all your needs
Stay thirsty my friend.
You are right, of course, and I knew I was going to regret the use of even the toned-down term "probably normal-ish". The question is whether the one can meaningfully ask which text is faster to parse, despite the "noise" the comes from the time to actually perform the chess move. I suspect the answer will be 'yes'.
I don't see there any need for a change

Black plays; checkmate in one!

This is the most obvious form for chess players; universally used throughout many chess quiz books.
It also sounds like modern-day agriculture share-cropping, which is usually seen as a good way to mitigate risk in poor years and allow the landowner share on the upside in a profitable year. It is kind of strange to see it presented in a negative light when it is generally regarded as a fairly good way to obtain workable acres today.
I developed SimplyTweet.

Wow. I've never knew — but judging from a few emails I've got — I had some users of SimplyTweet from HN. It's sad, but it was fun while it lasted.
Same here. I used the Moneygram service at a CVS, and by the time I got home they had already sent the bitcoins. Great and prompt service. I hope they get back on their feet soon.