skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YC has helped shape many ways in which modern startups do business and I could see this protocol adding to this by setting minimum expectations for defining who is truly "in" on a funding round before the binding documentation is done.

I see it as a remote risk that any such exchange would be treated as a legally binding contract. Too many essential terms would be missing, as for example in the case of a bridge note such things as time to maturity, interest rate, size of equity raise triggering mandatory conversion, etc. While the otherwise missing essential terms might be supplied by a term sheet used by the startup as a basis of discussion, such term sheets invariably make clear that they do not become legally binding until definitive documents are signed. To say, then, that one is "in" on such a term sheet would signify no more than what one signifies by actually signing it: that is, the investor becomes morally bound to negotiate in good faith until the documentation is prepared and signed and also morally bound to participate when such documentation is prepared in good faith and along customary lines. Of course, beyond the legal hurdles, there is the not insignificant issue of how either an investor or a startup would be treated in a tight-knit community such as YC if the person becomes known as being "sue happy." Could such lawsuits ever come about? Yes, and there may be unusual cases where the parties had had a true meeting of the minds, or where one party relied to his detriment on the other's statements and conduct such that a court might find an enforceable contract, but the practical risk of this happening would be near zero for almost all such cases - enough so, I think, that it may be effectively disregarded.

What the protocol does do is help prevent misunderstandings, inadvertent outcomes, and the occasional deliberately weasly overreaching that can occur with informal verbal exchanges. It says to the investor: do I really have a commitment from you such that, should you back out, your reputation will take a hit? It says to the startup: pin your investors down to the point where you can't be double-dealt but also make sure the commitment you think you have is real and not a product of your own wishful thinking.

I can see this working beautifully as a first step within YC. Beyond that, it will work as people come to terms with its existence and see it as useful. For its purpose, it is really an elegant solution to a knotty problem and therefore worthwhile.
...Or don't have any kids at all, since kids turn into adults and adults are the cause of pretty much all the social problems we have, such as pollution and depletion of natural resources.
Paul Graham was right about privacy
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Dishonest men live at all levels.

This doesn't solve the original problem:
What you suggest won't solve the issue of investors taking advantage of startups or the other way around. They will simply play another looser version of the handshake as you want it to exist. Anyone that is eager enough will get into this space before they are ready and be subject to the same sharks.

But not every investors is bad, for if they were they would earn an untrustworthy reputation.

The handshake deal first started as a way to avoid legal or financial promises. By giving the handshake such rules, you are diminishing it's intrinsic value as a "safety zone" for both parties to freely communicate. But of course, this shared information can be used to one of the parties advantage over the other.

Now, as another step towards building confidence in the investor/startup relationship, this is a great idea. It refines, offers some support, and starts communication between the parties on a smaller scale.
The important part is where it specifically says Ads, and then a link to why these ads? though. Contrast should be high enough you can see why ads end, but other than where it's been cropped in the picture you posted, it's still very clear that at least the top result is an advert. You are right that contrast should clearly distinguish ads from not, but you shouldn't crop out the label clearly identifying it as an advert to prove your point.

In addition to that, I'd argue looking at your picture that it really doesn't matter if it's an ad or not - if it were an organic result and you didn't want to file a lawsuit, you wouldn't click it anyway.
It's nice to see a good balance between useful App and useful API. I used this feature previously but now I can easily point friends and the rest of the team to it. Data portability alone is worth paying for and the API flexibility lets the available features grow faster than Fullcontact's efforts on their own. Kudos on good work for the front end of identity.
To make things worse, Google's support for their own APIs is pretty weak - I had some bad experiences with them.

Calendar API wasn't the worst - okay, I didn't get any response from Google guys on a bug I ran into, but they eventually fixed it (and lack of user support is pretty much a norm for them now).

The situation with Spreadsheets is way worse - the API is pretty much abandoned, no changes or any reaction to bugs/complaints for a few months now. They'd roll out a new API version, remove the old documentation (instead of marking it as deprecated but accessible), but the new documentation is really lacking - only has examples in C#, and even these are incomplete.

So, yeah, moving from open standards to their own API is very bad - not just because it's locking up people or something, but also because they are not supporting _their own APIs_ properly.
Been expecting this ever since hearing the 'rumor'.
Just wanna say you guys made a nice product as well.

I helped some friends start a store that has been growing nicely since 2009 I think and I can think of one major hiccup that affected us/them. The API part mostly gold as well.

What you miss out on seems to be that SEO optimization for shop-owners is hard with all kinds of weird liquid constructions going into the template for (just plain white hat) SEO in addition to the ones that are needed for user friendlyness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice
If you don't like the parents, check out Julia. It's basically Common Lisp with an infix syntax + cleanups.
Some theorize that automating people out of jobs, "frees" them to find some more fulfilling job/activity. As our current economy illustrates, "it ain't necessarily so".
This still seems insanely high priced for a suck it and see means to find if there is demand for a food and brand in your area.

I would like to ask if one of the (surprisingly many - gotta love HN) food truck experts could comment on

1. Stick to simple one dish in a huge wok approach as I have seen at many festivals - warm, usually tasty and easy to dole out fast.

2. Start on private Market / land with a marquee or painted shed that came in transit van.

It just seems an enormous start up cost for cooking rice and peas.
I think this news highlights a more general problem. How can we call something an "open standard" if it's controlled by one company in such a way that they can shut it down at whim. Open sourcing should be a requirement to be an "open standard", or am I missing something?
TEDx removes Sheldrake and Hancock talks from YouTube channel
Reddit is also much more mainstream than HN, I think that has to do a lot with it. Perhaps disabling registrations from time to time is a really good move, plus HN is much more focused. Anyone can make a subreddit about his own cool, weird or funny subject.
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The punchline:

>> Is there a way to download the manga I have purchased?
It is not possible to download manga from My Page. All digital manga content will no longer be viewable after May 30th 2013 at 11:59pm (US Pacific Time)
Build with Chrome
Ok, so he responds to HN posts all the time. Everything he says here is a good idea. And I want all the reader developers to consider it. So I'm going to upvote it.

Just because he says what we want to hear doesn't make the content wrong. I want to hear it and I want others to hear it too.

If what he is recommending isn't perfect, the comments here can expand and fix it.
It is purely a matter of opinion whether DBNs are "overhyped" but I hope you would agree that they are currently being "hyped". And I hope you understand how this can actually damage the potential of what is likely some very good technology like say like what happened to neural nets. :)

It is also a matter of opinion how widely they are being used in industry. Certainly they are being studied in many companies but they do not a appear to used much in production because of their complexity and high training cost. This is still cutting edge technology.

In my experience most professionally trained mathematicians and statisticians are still pretty skeptical of these claims. Wouldn't you agree?
> If the food is equivalent between a truck and a restaurant

Is it?
Facebook pushes Android update to enable silent updates in the future
Yes, obviously, but I made the point to show that shunning an OO language from the get-go isn't necessarily the best way to proceed if you want to learn programming from nothing.
This is the first time I see a slideshow (well, it is a slideshow, no matter how the creators of the service want to call it) made with Tapestry, and the first impression was terrible.

I'm on a desktop browser. I can't tap. I shouldn't have to click multiple times to see each slide, and I'd like to be able to go back to the previous slide if I want to.
Companies should have the term "buying" forbidden if DRM is involved.

(This page http://www.jmanga.com/hoshi-no-samidare-the-lucifer-and-bisc... is filled with "buy" this and that)
As a frequent Google+ and infrequent Twitter user, I was surprised to discover a few days ago that Facebook had no such thing as browsing popular posts, trending topics, hashtags, or anything that would connect people without being a friend of a friend yet. I thought it really sucked, so I guess this became about time.

Now they only have to get rid of showing my friends the posts that I liked from others. I'm not sure how the settings work, but it really feels like a big privacy intrusion. That's probably why Facebook thinks it's a feature though.
'Apps' seem like self-contained units, vs. 'software' that might spread its muck all over your operating system. Apps tend to live in environments with a degree of enforced quality control. Or, in the case of web apps, are at least restricted in the damage they can inflict (see muck-spreading above).

Software is a stuff. Who knows where one part ends and another begins? Applications are things. I have and use a discrete number of them. (Is this pertinent? I dunno, maybe.)

Maybe all this is overthinking it. Apps are for phones and tablets, and those are easy. Software is for computers, and those are a pain.
Bingo. This is what's up for grabs - who wants to be the underlying infrastructure for all these great apps like Reeder or RiverOfNews Note: most folks are opting for Twitter/FB + Flipboard-style apps, so most of the market will be the privacy oriented elite.
To a bootstrapped business, money is air.

Amen Jason.
I purchased JOC 2e two days ago.. The 1st was such an excellent book. Thank you fogus, chouser, and Manning!
Have to agree with this... The moment I heard Google Reader was shutting down my mind went to Google Alerts, which is an even more obscure product that few (if any) alternatives exist for -- or so I thought.
>There is no fundamental limit to the complexity of systems NNs can model (as there is with other AI techniques).

Sure there is. For example, they will never solve the halting problem. They will also (probably) never solve NP-complete problems for very large instances.
Agreed. Don't care much for podcasts either, although I can see the value for people who drive frequently.
I think this new speech recognition improvement by Microsoft depends on deep networks and it's results are very impressive.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/speechreco...
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/mavis/

That might just be a single application but if it extends into other domains it might end up being very valuable indeed.

It will eventually become just another tool of course just like anything else but if it brings 10-20% improvements in even a few other long-stagnant areas I would agree with saying that it is a big deal.
Some thoughts on the impending death of Google Reader
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If the 100 accountants are smart, they'll spend half the day studying for their CFA exams and not let management know that they're overstaffed.

You're right, though. That's the fundamental problem. I can always get on board with automating (and thus "killing") undesirable work. I can't get on board with depriving regular people (below $100,000 per year) of an income if I can help it. I am aware that society needs to cut jobs and that that's a really good thing; I just wish it would train up before trading up.
> but the overhead is more than likely the same as a b&m

You can't be serious. A food truck costs as much to operate as a B&M? One of the main points of the article is pointing out that's not the case:

As a service that strips all the overhead costs of a restaurant down to the minimum requirements for selling food to customers, food trucks are also an irresistible metaphor for lean startups...
This is a great idea, but I think the rush to find an alternative is premature - there's going to be a huge shift in the RSS reader landscape over the next few months, and the best alternative may not even be announced yet.
LISP is S-expressions.

Mathematica is M-expressions, kinda...

Macros are considered harmful as they can lead to unmaintainable code.
i guess facebook will become even more B2B
Google reveals some Glass apps, HTC is delaying One shipments and more
Between Google retiring stuff and Twitter's ongoing war against client developers, I'm seriously considering just packing up and self-hosting everything I care about on my VPS.
Although there's nothing wrong with constantly wondering what you want to be when you grow up. . .even when you're "old" - however you define that. . .as long as it doesn't lead to unhappiness or obsessive navel-gazing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377291
He's far from the only one. Most people with thousands of followers monetize them, one way or another. There's a ton of bloggers out there hungry for pageviews.

So what ? Why accuse him right now, out of the blue ? And what does that have to do with the post ?
Well, the irony is that Mozilla said they're putting Thunderbird on hold: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird... I don't know if they've changed their minds meanwhile.
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Caltech Engineers Create Indestructible Self-Healing Circuit
Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microseconds from problems ranging from less-than-ideal battery power to total transistor failure. It might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), for the first time ever, has developed just such self-healing integrated chips.
Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes
Reuters' Matthew Keys indicted for conspiring with hacker group 'Anonymous'
Are you paying $150 per user per year? What is the most important feature/component for you?
I used 960gs for the first time last night, to build the template for http://daeken.com/ (had to finally switch from Posterous). It was amazingly simple, even for someone completely CSS brain-dead. Really can't say enough good things about it.
Real Problems: If Entrepreneurs Ain't Doing It,VCs It's Your Fault
I already have an overly healthy dose of self-loathing since I'm mainly programming in PHP. I guess that's why I'm mostly staying away from Java ;-)

And thanks for the further insight on Clozure!
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The road design? It's more that the most of the drivers behave like mindless automatons.
Google Fiber: Nobody knows what to do with the world’s fastest Internet service.
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Let's hope they don't make another waiting list for this.
This has been my side project for the last few months. I'm very interested in your feedback!
I like the idea although it definitely needs a bit more work. I used the nudge a few times out of curiosity a got a question that I wasn't interested in answering but there was no way of exiting the dialog. I think a bit more instruction on what is happening and an indication of how far through the process I am would have been helpful.

If you're planning to charge people for the service you might want to have a think about who your target market is and how you will make money. I see MonsterLumen as an educational tool that teaches you skills and techniques to think outside the box, once I've got those skills I don't need your app anymore so just consider that when you're coming up with pricing.
Goodbye Google Reader, hello feedly
Nope.. I got into the LA scene a bit late (closer to your food truck's retirement date).
Interesting list. This got me wondering if there are any zero-knowledge email providers out there, especially ones that let you use your own domain. Only thing I found so far though is an empty Quora question:

http://www.quora.com/Cryptography/Is-there-any-zero-knowledg...
> So when an otherwise upstanding man brutally rapes a vulnerable woman, it's his word against hers?

Unless there are witnesses or evidence (e.g. camera, sperm, bruises, ...), then, yes, obviously. What else have you got?

But, my intention was simply to demonstrate gender bias by considering two men in a similar situation, the word of a reputable man against the word of a less reputable man. I guess I've demonstrated it...
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Most heavily optimizing compilers do strange things to the code. You wouldn't want to debug an -O3 program, just as you probably wouldn't want to debug with TCO turned on.

Luckily, in the lisp and scheme families (possibly also other image based PLs), it's easy to mix compiled (and optimized) and interpreted code. Whenever i run into a bug such that i need the debugger to fix it, I always replace the compiled function with an interpreted version first, making it much easier to debug. What you get in the stacktraces is the same as you read on the screen.

In most lisp implementations, this maneuver can be performed completely on line, you don't have to restart the program or recompile anything but the function under inspection itself. When the runtime signals an exception or fault, just tell lisp to interpret the suspect function. Then move up the stack to the function that called the suspect, and restart that stack frame et voilá, bob is your uncle.
It takes some time. You have not experienced Lispy syntactical nirvana yet. I was in your place when I started out. I kept on going. Now, even English seems artificially hard compared with s-expressions :D
One of the best articles on the topic I've read. I really love all the numbers included. I feel like I actually learned something by reading this, vs having some emotion evoked.
I've seen a lot of people bemoaning the loss of Google Reader's ability to see old items which aren't in the RSS feed anymore. Unfortunately, that feature can't be implemented as well without centralization.
How does Google give out Google Voice phone numbers for free? Are they accepting a loss every time someone registers a new number?
Popeify yourself
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Are you crying foul on a writer trying to make money for his writing? Do you cry foul on magazines, newspapers, etc. for selling ads? Ever notice how "the news" in general is about what's going on in the world currently?
yes, they're losing money on each one
This looks great. A few animated fish and/or bubbles down towards the bottom of the list could break up the monotony of that long list. (Or even let the ship sink slowly as the ready scrolls down.)
I'll routinely buy small purchases like a coffee with a debit card. Right now I have cash and my phone on me but I usually don't have cash. When I do use cash it's for certain things. Like when I'm out with friends at a bar or dinner.
When the guy said "millionaires do not..." I think it was pretty clear he was not actually making a universal, unequivocal statement. Yes, some do. Many do, in fact--there are a lot of millionaires on this planet. But the typical millionaire, according to surveys, does not. The typical millionaire is self-made and worth between 1 and 2 million and is at least 50 years old. Those assets will typically be used to sustain a comfortable life in early retirement. Someone who makes 10 million at age 30 is not typical at all, even though there are, numerically, a lot of such people. There are simply far more millionaires who had good careers, spent wisely, lived somewhat frugally (at least relative to their salaries), saved up, invested, and now enjoy their retirement.

And yes, of course, you can spend your money however you want. That includes spending so much of it that you aren't even a millionaire, even if you easily could be.
I wondered this too. How long could an investor wait before sending the "Yes" and have it still considered valid? Could the investor not reply for a few weeks or months and only send the "Yes" once the startup is growing and worth more than the initial deal's valuation?

I think there needs to be an explicit timer between step 3 and 4. Something on the scale of a few hours or at most a few days.
The scientific method applies at all scales.

While it not possible to disprove the existence, of, say, unicorns. It is possible to say "I've searched the length and breadth of Central Park, looking for unicorns with 99.9% detection probability for each square meter of the park. I found no unicorns."

Whether you find this sufficient to reasonably exclude any unicorn hypotheses is up to you and will depend upon whatever unicorn hypothesis you wish to test. If the hypothesis is that the world should be uniformly populated with unicorns once every hundred meters, then the above observation should place strong constraints on the viability of the hypothesis, as about 340 unicorns should have been observed.

In the case of the Higgs, had the signal not popped up, they would have been able to exclude any Higgs-like particle over a huge range, which includes the now-claimed value. At the present mass, with the data up till now, they would have excluded a Standard Higgs to better than 5-sigma (less than a one in a million chance that they missed it).

Want to see the one of the peaks as it forms? (you have to trust that the scientists are doing the analysis right before they make this plot)

https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/AtlasPublic/HiggsPublicResul...