skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one will buy your IPO if its going to be at market price. You'll need to add a discount. Why buy from an IPO and do more paperwork when you can buy from the market instantly?

Also each time you sell shares in an IPO you need to have people make lots of calls to institutional and other investors to determine the demand and thus proper pricing and supply of new shares. Having to do this everyday will be expensive. You (as a bank managing the IPO) also probably don't want to pester fund managers too much (They have to take care of other stocks in their portfolio, too), otherwise you'll have trouble doing IPOs for other companies.

EDIT: I take that last sentence back, it seems like they really want those IPOs regardless if the bank is a vampire squid, or not.
FWIW, it's the EU's opinion.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/03/digital-softw...
It would depend on app.net's data policies - how much (and how fast) we could get information out of them.

Of course, they own the field, so they could change the rules at any time, thus (once again) killing the project.

From a technical basis, 90% of the effort was building a robust system atop Twitter's. The actual core behavioural categorisation engine was relatively trivial.

Ie, it would require a major rebuild, without lessening the risks at all.
If you're low profile you might want to hire a bank to help you market your shares and shop them amongst their clients.
One thing I found as an educator of technology in higher education was that many girls/women didn't know they would like it. During the first week of the academic year I had the unusual opportunity to teach an introduction class to a mixed group of arts and technology majors. After a couple of hours I actually converted a few young ladies to the technology course. It seemed to be about re-enforcing that the technology was there, it was cool and it would give you a secure future.
A history of Zero
I wonder what Grace Hopper would say about this gender issue? Oh wait, she was too busy BEING an example of female computer science excellence rather than talking about it over and over. She apparently didn't need a "women's" group or having the barrier of entry lowered for her to succeed. As a result, she has the respect of pretty much any man in computer science, including me. I'll never respect anyone who carves out gender clubs and makes special rules for themselves. It's disgusting when men do it, but just as bad when women do it.
I suspect it is the same reason that people hire brokers to sell their houses.

* Hand holding through a new, high-risk process

* A scapegoat in case something goes wrong
This is a genuine concern. "I don't have anything to hide" doesn't mean everyone's communication (and location) should be tracked at all times.
Ok, I just want to speak the hell up right now.

I have seen misogyny in the workplace. It really does exist, and there really is an Old Boys Club culture in some workplaces.

So step one to lowering the barriers of entry to women is to stop speaking of or treating women like negligible trivialities.
I dunno man. He set the cruise control for like an hour. And he adjusted it a few times. Sorry niggler, but if you are a car journalist for the ny times and reviewing a car and cant even be bothered to check how fast you are going (forgetting for a moment the safety issues, and potential speeding tickets) then you are a poor car reviewer.
Ha!

No. Off hand, it'd require batching the users into groups of 100 and using an API call (/users/lookup) for each group. That gives you a user object each (which you don't care about), but also the latest tweet.

The limit is 180/15 mins, ie a max of 18k in any 15 minute window.
The jump from the harpsichord to piano was a huge one but the key profile didn't change as much as this. Integrating new technologies with instruments is all good and dandy but we're now fabricating the sounds with computers. We're changing the way these instruments function and we're changing the way we interact with them.

My concerns may be similar to those of 18th century people but the changes that we're experiencing now are not similar to the changes they experienced. We don't have the technology to replicate the acoustic sound of a piano. And I quite honestly don't see this being used to perform classical music. I'm not talking about all the stuff (mind you, I'm very partial to calling these music) that's being "composed" these days, I'm talking about the music up to the 1950s.

I'd like to touch on another aspect of your post, you say that you want modulation and polyphonic aftertouch when you play the piano. And you say that it's the music that lives on. For classical music, the music is the composer's, s/he composed the music with the limitations of his/her era and re-interpreting their music with new technologies in ways they didn't even imagine. This is not making their music live on as far as I'm concerned.

Basically my point is that, considering that I only play classical music, I don't see a use for this. It's good to read about it but I don't think that this will ever be used for classical music performance. And no, I don't mean the odd youtube videos here and there, I mean used for performance by concert pianists.

I believe I'm entitled to my opinion about this. It's a cool piece of tech but it's just that. The fact that Jordan Rudess from DT endorses this doesn't mean anything to me. He's not a classical music performer (although he has been educated as one) and this may be good for his uses. I'll be amazed if Martha Argerich or Maurizio Pollini say that they will use this product.

And just a little note, and I know this can sound like I'm attacking you but I'm not, I'm just trying to share a bit of information. The pieces in The Well-Tempered Clavier are not "songs" per se, they are individual pieces. Song is another form in classical music and employs the use of human voice.
Only thing I don't agree is the timeframe. This hasn't been happening for the last few years alone. It's been the case for over a decade at least.
The scary bit is that each collision generates a new debris field, which can in turn generate more new collisions, so the safety of orbit starts decreasing geometrically.
I'm a first generation Indian American (born and raised in the US), but this still felt like a call to arms to me personally, right in the gut. As I'm now entering a stage in life where I've really started to ponder the significance of family and lineage, I can't deny that there's a reason behind why I was blessed to have been born in the US: my parents left a life of few means for a foreign country in order to provide for their family members back home. I wouldn't be typing these words if it weren't for their struggles. It's a little odd that, while proudly bearing the "Indian American" label and caring very deeply about the US, I don't give much thought to the very serious issues India is facing right now.

Generationally speaking, I'm not even that far removed from India. Maybe I have an existential debt to pay? Regardless, this open letter reaffirmed a notion that has been lingering in the back of my mind for some time: the big problems, the ones truly worth fighting for, can only really be found in places less fortunate. The $64,000 question is whether or not I can cultivate the necessary courage.

On another note: the letter also casts an interesting light on the role of elite institutions, or on anyone in a position of power really.
>Isn't that ok?

No, why in the hell would that be okay? What makes one act of discrimination better than the other?

>Every single time I think about this issue I feel guilty as hell just for being male. Every time I see a cultural norm that discriminates women I feel a bit responsible for it - and these bits accumulate quickly. I'm ready to be discriminated against to some extent if it's going to help; it's not because I want someone to make effort in my place but because I know that my effort alone is not sufficient.

Congratulations, your internalization of guilt and willingness to be discriminated against does not extend to me, and you have no right to tell me that it should.

I'm not responsible for the crap that happened in the past, and I'm not okay with being told that I should bear the consequences of poor decisions made before my time.

>Also, multiple generations is not that long a time. Twenty, maybe thirty years and it would be over - society evolves quite fast nowadays, we don't need to wait for centuries - like women had to.

Twenty or thirty years is the prime working window of my life. It's difficult enough, thanks.
Ask HN:Any biohacker here? I want to get help.
Hi you guys, recently I've read the book (DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life).
And then I have a deep interest in biohacking. I'm a coding amateur.

So here are my questions:

1, Is it hard to become a biohacker? Need a lot of knowledge of biology?

2, Do I need buy something really matters? Like something to do PCR and cell culture. If so, how much it will take?

Very eager to get your reply.
2013 Manchester City vs Barnsley highlights 5:0
Show HN: Always 'paste and match style' on Mac OS X
I'm very disturbed. The only reason you've got job and work for a company is that the company expects you can help it to make (more) money.

The things you've mentioned do help boosting income, for some companies only in short-term, for other companies even in long-term.

If your personal ethics are not OK with it, there are only two ethical things you can do about it. Either you design a UX that is equally efficient in terms of KPI, but conforms to your ethics, or you quit the job.

Remaining employed, receiving your paycheck, but working against the company and waving ethics codes around or quietly sabotaging boss' decisions is NOT ethical.
I never heard of the judgmental stereotype. Anyway, I notice that you seem to also tend to believe that CS is somehow hostile to women because the people in it are not social enough or whatever.

I just want to put forward another idea: what if CS isn't attractive to women because it is not really an attractive job and women have better options? Think about it, really! Is CS attractive? It is cool to create cool things with computers, but the job reality is usually vastly different. Watch "Office Space" (everybody in IT should). Think about cubicles, or offices in the basement. Think about being glued to a computer screen all day, with little physical exercise. Think about inane specifications, hundreds and hundreds of pages long. Think about Dilbert.

Perhaps being a nanny or a nurse is more fun after all, at least if you care a lot about social interactions (and I don't men because men in CS are not sociable, but because being glued to a screen isn't sociable). Where do the "better options" come in? Nurses and nannies don't earn as much money as IT specialists, but women don't need so much money. They tend to be the supplemental earners in a family, not the main breadwinners. Simple as that.
What sort of music do you listen to, enjoy, or play? If just classical, this isn't for you, and you can probably just move along.
I humbly suggest leaving it with a friend but only if the friend understands security sufficiently well, e.g., a competent professional sysadmin.
The entrepreneur in question is trying to build a relationship with a techcrunch writer. That seems pretty reasonable.
Flat UI released
minor nitpick: it's thrash metal, from thrashing. not trash as in garbage.
Although the comments seem against it, I'm for it - I've played piano (and organ) for some 45 years now. You have to remember that the piano is mainly a percussion instrument, and there are few options to temper the sound, outside of sustain and such.

Synthesizers have had the same capability as shown in the video, but you had to reach to the side and twirl a wheel to get the same effect, which detracts from the playability.

Initially, this is not suited for traditional classical (probably better for jazz) but who's to say someone couldn't write a new classical based on this instrument (although goodness knows what the musical notation would be).
It's not a "best practice", it's only something you should to if you want to remain as anonymous as possible.

It's perfectly acceptable to use only one address if you don't care much about anonymity.
also the atrocious guitar playing and constant mumbling helped a lot in that department.
but we digress. on the topic: i like comic sans. it looks friendly. there, i said it.
Aerospikes aren't radically new.

If you think about it, the Russians have gone half way with their trademark multi-chamber rocket engines since the 1960's as well. The difference is that there are more burn chambers and they're arranged around a central plug.

I.E:
http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/coe/mae/views/projects/rocket/...

The central basis of the aerospike has been around for decades. It's not as old as the traditional bell, but it's not only as old as the X-33. And their problem was a radical overall shape including the fuel tanks, plus a lot of other unproven technology. The engine concept was still sound.

How come we don't all fly around in 1960's aircraft designs? Some people do, but not all of us. How about 1960's car designs? Computers? Sure, we use a lot of the same principles, but these are worlds apart for a reason.

The aerospike isn't exactly a silver bullet, so you'll still have multiple stages, drop tanks etc... but capacity without burn efficiency doesn't mean much improvement.

Pragmatism doesn't mean sticking to something cause it ain't broke. If there is a genuinely better way to do things, then it should be explored.
Terribly constructive comment...
Thanks, but I used Python once for a little FUSE module (long story…) and didn’t particularly like it. If anything, I’d rather try Perl - but then, you can do so much with a sensible Shell and the coreutils, the need to even write a proper script rather than a large concatenation of pipes is a rare event for me.

So I guess I’ll stick to Bash and use whatever-is-best if that’s not enough.
Some problems mentioned in this article also exist in China. Many young Chinese complain about the society, but do nothing to change that situation. I think a letter like this should be sent to the graduates of every universities, not just prestigious ones like IIT in India, or Tsinghua in China. Because history is not made by some elites, history is created by people of all ranks.
WOW I thought I was alone all these years!
One of the things that will be harder to justify is the use of raw white text on raw black background.
Ask HN: What made SQL databases so popular?
I propose a persistent storage solution for ANY idea to a traditional technical community. Immediately, a SQL relational database is proposed as the solution. I suggest other solutions. I'm sad now because everyone is telling me that I MUST implement it in SQL otherwise I'm wasting my time. According to them, once SQL stops handling the solution, then can I look at the other "eccentric" solutions.

I'm trying to figure out how did SQL get to be the de facto solution to every single persistent data problem out there? Data can be stored in so many ways but a SQL relational database is pushed by so many people that their voice can be overwhelming at times. Why is this?

Added Note: I feel sad for the SQL language since it is one of the few ways many programmers learn about declarative programming. With that being said, this SQL language is different from the more commonly used form of "SQL" which is the nickname people call the well known SQL "relational" databases
Lockheed Martin on humanity game changer that is Dwave Quantum Computer
Putting backgrounds on my English essays in school, with Creative Writer, got me extra marks.

Back then, different fonts weren't used at all.

Now, we have more fonts than we can shake a stick at, but still no easy way for lay people to access new/different fonts. System fonts rule on for a while longer.
Dunno. But OTOH, I've sure seen unqualified women being hired "to counter gender inequality".
Actually there are better alternatives which can replace Comic Sans entirely but to the newbie wannabe designer who wants to get something out, if you argue this, you get a response as if you've recommended ruby to a php developer (Ok, maybe not that strong). The activism against them look quite similar: http://www.sitepoint.com/friends-dont-let-friends-use-comic-... vs http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... </stereotyping>
Working with the org.json.JSON classes is what made me switch my mind about the use of checked exceptions. Catching these checked exceptions makes no sense at all.
This is a lovely essay, with some heartwarming sentiment, but at its core, it is misguided. He fails to ask, "Why are IIT grads so certain that they'll find better jobs outside of India than they will in India?" And the answer is twofold. First, the corruption and bureaucracy of the Indian government makes it very difficult for entrepreneurs to get new businesses off the ground. Second, India, like many other Asian countries exerts social pressure against non-conformity and risk taking, both of which are required for entrepreneurship.

You want to start a business in India? Good on you. Now you have to fill out hundreds of forms, pay bribes, wait for years for approval to go through, and then get shut down anyway because some local politician decided he just doesn't like you. As if that wasn't enough, there's the culture. Indian culture, like many Asian cultures, looks down upon non-conformity and risk-taking. If you're a newly minted IIT graduate, how exactly are you going to go home and explain to your mother that you turned down that great job in America from a prestigious western firm and instead want to work for a "start-up" (a word that all too many equate with "bum" or "layabout")?

While India is changing, the combination of government regulation and social pressure still makes it very hard for new IIT grads, who are often from modest means, to do things he's advocating.

EDIT: modified introductory paragraph to better reflect the content of the argument.
Out of interest - did you feel the sale bump after publishing the blog post and sharing it around?
India has a thriving startup culture. See http://yspages.com/browse/company/ for a list of about 5000.
Licensing is still to difficult for Joe Sixpack to comprehend. Renting is a clearer term.
> And for god's sakes, people need to stop citing that research about work motivation. It gets used so far out of context that its lost all meaning.

How so?
Daylight savings exists for an entirely practical reason: so that we can enjoy daylight hours after we get home from work.
There's a very good 2003 sci-fi anime called Planetes[1] that explores the problem of space debris in some detail, and how humanity might deal with it in the future. Highly recommended if you're interested in these issues.

1. http://myanimelist.net/anime/329/Planetes
Twitter likely feel that it's easier to monitise users if they're using official clients. The API and the early developers have served their purpose in attracting enough users, now they're more of a hindrance so time to cut them off.

I'm not saying I agree with this policy (I absolutely don't!).
Ask HN: meteor.js apps you're working on. And why.
Start with the name of the app, when you started and what help you need, please. Keep some consistent structure to the posts.
How Kenya's High-Tech Voting Nearly Lost The Election
Looks like it has been removed, I get a 403 error. :-/
So the idea is to create special events for women in tech so that they are not special any more? Honestly I see that argument as flawed.

Gender issues do come into play when you segregate people like this. Some women like to go to these events, some don't. Have you ever thought about how do men feel? Or just because they are generally in a different position it doesn't matter if they're discriminated against?

This thing sounds to me like trying to justify robbing a thief, one automatically becomes a thief after doing it no matter how much sugar you want to use to coat the action.
Congratulation on this writeup (and video), this is amazing

Care to share how the team was built etc? Who's on contract, who's on the business, how did you get people to wear multiple hats?

I would have gone the way of building it on the PC and later porting it to iOS (or whatever you want) probably using SDL, oh well =)
An open requirement from ICANN won't prevent Amazon requiring something outrageous ($1'000+) per domain that most won't afford.

Any open requirements should come as a maximum price limit for creating new additional entries under the TLD.

Hopefully they'll also include non-discriminatory pricing (so that the owner of a TLD won't be able to raise the rent once a specific domain becomes popular in traffic/sales).
Where are based/where would you be willing to travel?
U.S. man fought to the end, despite Singapore's 'suicide' claims: family
Wigwamm http://old.wigwamm.com - Nov 12 - making the app fast/ take less time to load.

Wigwamm is an auction for rental property every Monday night. In real-time.

The design takes into account that most users will be mobile, but many that browse the 'catalogue' will likely be at work on an XP/IE7 combination.

So we've got a problem with graceful degradation of the app. And the initial load time sucks. Any thoughts?

Comments on the general concept are welcomed too.

More info at http://blog.wigwamm.com
Seattle drinking den bans Google Glass geeks
The russian origin of the attack and the perseverance shown by "them" may be a sign that international organized crime is very much interested in bitcoins now.
Some of the comments are gray. How did other people made that happen because I don't see downvoting for comments neither?
No one has ever been fired for choosing Times ;)

Seriously, people don't care and they don't choose Time as much as it is either the default or the only font they know of.

And honestly, I use the default pretty much all the time (which seldom is Times nowadays). Back in early school I was told Verdana was better and since it was more spacious that made a strong argument for it as well, since it was easier to fill a page... I truly don't feel that I can say that a font is better than another one. It might look better but that might just as well be in a comic-sans way which would just be a disaster. Afraid of that I keep to the default.

Word processors should be much better at communicating this, the only thing they do is give you a default but other than that offer no help. For the typical person that whole font list would be better off removed entirely (and yet it has always had such a high priority among the GUI settings).
Which font would you have used?
Speaking of fonts losing favor because of overuse, look what's happened to Gotham since the Obama campaign used it in their 2008 campaign. I first saw it used in the old Chicago 2016 olympics pitches [1], and then started seeing it more and more, but after the presidential campaign [2], it started showing up everywhere [3] to the point that it's lost much of its original power and mystique.

[1] http://sarabot2000.typepad.com/sara/images/2007/06/05/chicag...

[2] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4tQRaybbR9Q/TVIPdMUeGhI/AAAAAAAAA9...

[3] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4tQRaybbR9Q/TVIUjyKhjsI/AAAAAAAAA_...
A Serif title with Sans body-text for the web

the inverse is true for print. i.e., Sans for header and Serif for body for print documents.

Now, re-read this: Microsoft did partly address that by making Cambria and Calibri its default header and body fonts (for Word)

Did they get it mixed up? I think so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Sorry, I'm not a biohacker, so I really don't know jack about your
field of interest. I do know that I don't see much biohacking stuff
on hn, so your question might be better directed towards a more
specialized forum?

I do know there are hacker spaces specific to biohacking, and they
usually have strong communities around them. One here in the silicon
valley is called BioCurious.

http://biocurious.org/