skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crunchbase is pretty incomplete before 2004 it seems.

Several of the comm companies I checked were missing.

Edit: Upon further testing, it seems that many of the communications wipeouts ($40+M) from that era are missing. It's almost as if the people who funded them don't want the magnitude of the mistakes in the record.

Here's an example: Photonex, raised $170M [1] over the course of their lifetime and not a trace on crunchbase of who the culprits were.

Another quick example: Solinet [2] raised a pile of dough (they later renamed themselves Ceyba).

[1] http://www.lightreading.com/ip-convergence/photonex-scores-h...

[2] http://www.lightreading.com/ip-convergence/solinet-systems-s...
That works too. :P

Thanks!
This really sucks for me because it means I'll have to see experts-exchange results again.

Why is Google shutting every secondary project/feature down right now? Reader, labs, blocked sites, code search... Any engineers able to weigh in on how this is affecting innovation or the 80/20 policy?
I agree that Krugman over states the importance. My point was that Reader generates a lot of legitimate advertising revenue for Google, which they kill off, and in the process may kill off some of their smaller "partner sites." That refutes the equally over broad characterization that "nobody" uses Reader to put food on the table.
A phone is necessary to get a job, and at least where I live, cellphones are cheaper than landlines.
(I run SeedTable which also does analytics on Crunchbase data)

The problem with ranking by funding/acquisition amounts is the data is pretty dirty, and outliers are disproportionately likely to be incorrect data (because someone fat fingered a number to be an order of magnitude larger, or put a foreign currency amount in as USD). Although the acq data is better than the funding data.

You might also want to extract stuff like biotech from the data because it's fundamentally a completely separate market from software tech.
Browsing of tree structures using Miller columns has a fairly long tradition.

Think Smalltalk's code browser: http://www.pharo-project.org/about/screenshots

Or NeXSTEP where you see the Cocoa ancestry for this columnar display: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GNUstep-liveCD.png

Beyond Finder, you'll notice that on your iPhone / iPad this paradigm is everywhere. When you see a list, you can select an item and dive into the next level. The only difference is that a single column consumes the entire screen width. See UINavigationController: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/...

In Cocoa, there is a general NSBrowser class, which implements this paradigm: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa...

Another application that uses faceted browsing is of course iTunes: http://screenshots.oahermes.com/6/large_4_itunes_store.png

One project which I tracked long ago, called mSpace, has some good stuff: http://research.mspace.fm
Yes, the subject was title changes. That's why your comment, "The real question is why it took an HN post that reached the frontpage to see any sort of response from coinbase" was a change of subject. My point is that such an ammunition-refill reveals underlying intent.
> It's easy to think that consumer oriented web startups are what's hot, but this data proves otherwise.

I think what it proves: Crunchbase serves the PR segment of consumer oriented web companies, and fails to serve other segments well. Let's face it, it's not so much a database as it is part of the techcrunch PR machine.
Anatomy of the Apple ID password reset exploit
If you're unbanked you don't have a bank account, hence no debit/credit card. Between 18-24% of the US population fall into that category.
Hell even for Windows development I still use Linux with a Windows VM for Visual Studio. Windows 8 runs really smooth in VMware Workstation even on my 4 year old Core 2 Duo
I don't have the answer, but thank you for asking it! It never occurred to me to do an Ask HN.
Not the same thing but "apt-get moo" on a Debian based box is fun...
Where is tech going?
"Did I go on dates with a number of those people?"
Is that number 0?
I think they were just crowdsourcing the pruning effort. I don't have experts exchange blocked and I haven't seen it appear in my results for months.
Ok, so "hard to convert" is a good enough reason to just ignore 40 million very active users.
Sounds like you want apprenticeships and mentors, not professors.

I do think apprenticing needs to come back, big time, to complement a digital learning curriculum for the grunt work. In my undergrad, I'd say 2% of my time was actually professor-engaged, and the rest was assembly line rote work read-the-book-repeat-the-answer.
RSS was a business threat to Google, it allowed people to glance through aricle headers and often read them whole without ads. Google Reader allowed Google to contain this trend, then slowly phase it out as much as they could.

People easily forget ads are Google's main product that provides them he bulk of their revenue.
>"i need a job" is a terrible answer, and won't even get you past the phone screen.

Which is why it should be part of the phone screen. In the article, they didn't even ask this until after the 5 hours of interviews. Ouch.
feel like its overhead for webApps..
Basically in Bellas Hess, the appellant claimed that the tax was unconstitutional on Commerce Clause and Due Process grounds. Specifically, that states imposing a tax on mail orders infringed on Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce and alternative that it violated appellant's rights under the 14th amendment to equal protection under the laws. In Bellas Hess, the Court agreed with appellant without justifying the decision explicitly on due process grounds. In Quill, the Supreme Court clarified that it was deciding on Commerce Clause grounds.

The relevant distinction is that Congress cannot pass legislation to allow the states to violate the 14th amendment. It can, however, pass legislation that allows the states to burden interstate commerce since if Congress has sanctioned it than any such state legislation doesn't infringe on Congress's power.
Then you want someone else to pull and deliver feeds, which means it costs someone else. Plus hosting, and site development. You can't do that in FOSS for long.
Gnome 3 has virtual desktops; they're created and destroyed on demand. You can also configure static desktops using Gnome Tweak tool.
It's worth noting that cinnamon is an incompatible fork of gnome shell: they don't upstream their changes, it requires mint to run, patch sets at least for fedora are not fully functional, they don't appear to be interested in a multi-distro source base.

Better than unity/cannonical by far, but not nearly as good as gnome/redhat for the community. Consider that cinnamon wouldn't be possible without the efforts of the gnome 3 team in targeting the whole community.
Makes sense to me.

I'd rather have my browser know what results I don't want, than Google.

However it is Google that provides me a browser (for free) bundled with a sync feature.

Anyway, goodbye W3Schools! :)
This feature has been discontinued for a few months now. I'm surprised nobody posted this until now.

I actually have found the plugin to be mostly adequate. There aren't a ton of sites that I feel deserve to be blocked from my search results, so syncing isn't a gigantic problem. I do find it annoying that there is a link added to each and every search result to block the site, but it might be useful if I decided to be really picky about my results.
MS eventually promised to support VB6 runtime and ActiveX controls for the lifecycle of the OS, which is basically forever. Fortunately, there hasn't been that many security updates and hotfixes later on (the latest mscomctl.ocx is 6.1.9834).
nice..actually am doing a ember project where i am not even many use of models..Property Binding itself is so awesome in emberJS..
Actually, the packages in Debian Testing and Unstable branches are usually the same versions or more recent than Ubuntu.

The names sound scary, but I think Ubuntu actually takes the Testing packages anyway. In 8 or 9 years I don't recall having any problems using Testing as my day to day desktop.

Unstable is also pretty solid, but every in a great while there will be some dependency problem or other breakage that can be a real PITA. It's fun to play with new features, and I use it for one of my home laptops, but I wouldn't use it to get work done, just in case.
Twitter sued £32m for refusing to reveal anti-semites
Nice, but it should be possible to progress the slideshow with the mouse/keyboard if the phone connection dies.
This sucks because the Chrome extension has a noticeable lag before the results are removed. I often accidentally click on a W3Schools link before the extension kicks in, and then wonder why it even came up in results at all.
This feature didn't work at the best of times, and became so unreliable...

I also don't believe that the blocked sites was linked to my Google account, because I had blocked sooo many different pages on W3Schools that I just abandoned using the blocked sites feature altogether.
also made a game..https://github.com/thecodejack/emberjs-zatacka-game
CARTOON Brackets Brainstorm
Experts exchange stopped showing up in the results back when Google released the new indexing engine over a year ago. You should be fine.
I never understood the strictness surrounding version numbering. We've had long discussions at work whether a release should be called 4.2 or 4.1.4. Who cares and why does it matter?
Problem I have is even though akregator does the client side job well, I have multiple devices I read feeds on, and want them synced. But I don't want to leave my main desktop on 24/7 as a feed host, and I have abysmal bandwidth anyway (50 KBps up) so accessing it over dyndns from anywhere is unreasonable.

I really do need a service, online, that maintains my feeds updating and viewing, so I can sync them across devices. Problem is everyone I've looked at either doesn't provide a mobile client (and I've become way too used to google reader's flick right to next article for webcomic reading) or has some stupid browser plugin like feedly that breaks webpages for me. They also provide way too much of the social nonsense - I just want a web sync of feeds and views, plus some favorites feature.
Well, the Flipboard UI allows you to insert ads between pages, they could build a new entire way of ads placement, why not.
I've got 50 spot requests running and another 50 pending evaluation. I'm really curious to see how much I can contribute with that in 24 hours.
oh my god! haven't played games in some time but i was just reminded to boot up transporter tycoon when time permits...
There's nothing absurd about deflation.

If you took 50% of all the money out of the world, the money that was left would be worth twice as much.
Right. "Management" people who adhere to that philosophy are glorified by the media, press, etc because they lack vision beyond quarterly results. The worship of short-sighted idiots like Jack Welch, Mark Hurd, Carly Fiorina and MBA-style methodology is destroying American competitiveness. Even Harvard Business School, of all places, says so: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/03/10/the-surp...
I think you have it backwards. According to [1] at least:

"Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer or navigator, reviews each line of code as it is typed in"

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming
Unclutter Wikipedia articles
> To block particular sites from your search results, we recommend the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension from Google.

Because, you know, everyone using Google also uses Chrome and only uses it on one device.
I have been using Linux as my main OS for all of my daily tasks for a while now. I have been running openSUSE for years, and the last time I did an actual re-install (not upgrade) was with 11.3 (2010) on a Dell Vostro laptop. Everything works, including media keys etc. etc. (they do not without extra software on Windows). I am currently using openSUSE 12.3 Tumbleweed with KDE 4.10

Since I am not a programmer, my program use differs somewhat from others here:

- Emacs + LaTeX (texlive) + Okular/Evince → work
- Shell (zsh) + Krusader + Transmission (torrent) → files
- Shell (zsh) + ssh + openvpn → networking & administration
- Chromium / Firefox / Thunderbird / mailx → browsing & email
- Kaffeine / VLC → videos
- DeaDBeeF → audio
- Emacs → "programming" (needs bigger air-quotes, but: shell scripting etc.)

I couldn't be happier, really, especially now that the future of gaming is looking brighter with Steam. I also practically live in Emacs for everything work-related.
You have to authorize every domain that wants to use the notifications. Besides that, it has to be a user action, the authorization. You can't automate this process without some hacking.

Love the notification API for my webapps. Wish there was a sign of IE adopting this technique so i can implement this mainstream.
This being said, the version of Ultratron released on Steam has had some significant graphical and gameplay updates. It's the third major revision of the game.
Which part would you like data on ? - the unbanked payments issue is pretty well known in the payments/retail industry.

See this press piece by Walmart:

http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2012/04/26/walmart-anno...

There's also several startups in this space like Fuze Network and PayNearMe.
I thought it was discontinued a while ago as well, but it was still in limbo as of late January of this year[1].

[1]: http://searchengineland.com/google-block-sites-feature-14640...
I am not an economist but I don't see why being a monopoly or not has anything to do with it. Would a not-monopoly be able to make a profit if it had high fixed costs and no ability to price discriminate? That's without even delving into the question on if Google is actually a monopoly.
No solutions for people not using Chrome?
I just want to see w3schools stop showing up at the top of results before MDN, which is a much higher quality resource.
I think he misread it as Batman
Playing devil's advocate here. No one pays "use tax" -- the tax you already owe your state for things you purchase online/on the phone etc and do not currently pay sales tax on. This is already an illegal activity that I'd hazard nearly 100% of the US is in on.

If I wanted to come into compliance here, I'd have to save all of my reciepts from every time I shop online, and probably hire an accountant to figure out all the extra tax I owe. This doesn't sound interesting to me, or enforceable by the government. However, online stores collecting this for me could be a value add in some ways.

Let's take a look at the free market though (although I get that issues of tax law cannot be fully free as they start in a non-free place). What if online retailers _offered_ to collect the tax for me, with the note that you owe it either way and they're trusting you to pay it on your own otherwise? I would likely opt-in much more often. Similar to suggested tips increasing tipping in NYC cabs, this might move the needle in the right direction.
According to someone else's comment this thing is at least 20 years old. AFAIK these things go by popularity, after all any sort of game is also non-productive...
Still, on that table we can see that on 2012 there was less funding and less acquisition.

Will be interesting to see what happens during 2013 but it seems that there's not as much money as on 2010/2011
>I also like that your demo is somehow hidden

I don't. I opened the page, stared at the massive QR code, tried to get an idea about the product based on the right-hand side list, and closed the page still unsure how the product works exactly.
It really grinds my gears when I see stuff like this: "While this could bring more licensing revenue for journalism, it may also produce a phenomenon like what is occurring in France and Germany where publishers are treating copyright like a tax to protect outdated industries — and chilling online innovation in the process."

Gee, how outdated can an industry be when you're fighting for the right to use its original content for free?[1] It's not like the AP is trying to protect the underling facts here. Meltwater could have gotten around the licensing requirement simply by paraphrasing and summarizing instead of copying snippets verbatim. But that would've required paying people and it's cheaper to just let AP do the work for free. That's almost the definition of free-riding.

More generally, people throw out the word "innovation" whenever they want to use content for free. The internet allows new distribution mechanisms. There is innovation in that, sure. But distribution mechanisms are useless without content. Creating an innovative new distribution system doesn't entitle you to get content for that system for free. Ultimately, what people value is the content, the distribution system is just a means to an end. If the creators of that content want to be compensated for it, they should be. Nothing stops you from "innovating" a new distribution system using content the creators of which are happy to license for free, other than the simple fact that there is no money in that because very few people want "indie" content.

[1] Does the government sometimes use law to prop up outdated industries? Sure. Often the demand for a kind of product dies out but the companies producing that product manage to talk the government into artificially propping up that demand. If the government used regulation to prop up the CRT industry after people had moved to LCD's, that would be an example. But when it comes to copyrighted works, that's not the case. The demand for creative content from the major record labels and movie/television studios has never been higher. People desperately want the products Sony BMG, Warner Brothers, etc, are selling. Forcing people to pay for the privilege is not "propping up" an obsolete industry.
Thanks for the update! I'm less concerned now.
"Google News users clicked through to 56 percent of excerpted stories"

That seems really, really high. I wonder what they're using as the base there?
Interesting theory, and genius if that's what they were doing with it. However, pulling it back off the market makes it look as though they failed at this.
not at all - i'm certainly not capable of developing a new economic policy in the hacker news comment boxes :) i was merely pointing out via an example why the up-front ability of some people to own the means of production inevitably means that wealth will pool in their hands, and that something needs to be done at a government level to redistribute that wealth.

the bugbear of international competition simply means that everyone involved gets caught up in a race to the bottom; the fact is that this would simply be a progressive tax on leveraged ways of making money. there's always an incentive to make more at a lower cost and effort, whether some of that more is taxed or not. i would go as far as to say that it's a basic human drive. the sticking point is, once you have a setup so productive that you do not need other people to contribute to it, what happens to the displaced people?

the current model seems geared towards "deserving" the means to acquire necessities and luxuries, by contributing something to the system, whether the system needs them to or not. however that leads to very strong inequities where the rich get richer and the poor lead lives of ever-increasing desperation, including the need to perform menial jobs at a "loss" (i.e. getting less for them than the human cost of doing them).

i also do not believe my scheme would destroy wealth, for the following reason: $100 would let a poor person eat better, a middle-class person buy a better cellphone, and a rich person tip his blackjack dealer. my contention is that the $100 is therefore worth strictly more in the hands of the poor person, and that "destroying wealth" is an illusion caused by the fallacy that $100 is $100 regardless.
A lot of those seemed like really striking examples of bad experiment design. I wish there were more venues for publishing negative results (as well as experimental setup for failed experimental design) -- I know sometimes it is done for really "interesting" negative results, but there's a strong bias against publishing when you don't see what you want, in the conventional journal system.
Show HN: Aggregation and display of socially approved videos from websites.
There's a lot of contenders for that cosy bottom-right corner of my screen. I hope the location of the panel stream is configurable.
read this: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequalit...

there's a lot of money pooled at the top, where it's pretty much doing nothing.
For state legislatures, charging sales tax to buyers outside the state (like most internet buyers probably are) is much less politically risky than raising income or property taxes on state residents, since people outside the state can't vote them out of office. And raising income or property tax on someone who doesn't buy a lot of goods may end up being a net tax increase for that person, which might also incur their political wrath.
I understand this from a technical perspective, but I always thought this feature had the potential to allow Google to gather better qualitative metrics about websites. For instance, if a huge chunk of people who are searching for web-related questions (end up on SO or MDN or something) and they all have ExpertSexChange and w3schools blocked, then perhaps those should be considered qualitatively worse and would therefore be ranked lower than the alternatives?

I guess not. I'm curious how they're determining quality in that case. Hey Bing, maybe you could pick this up and deliver quality results over faster results?
Bitcoin exchanges provide a very similar role that banks play. They are a place to store money securely* and make sure it's easily available and exchangeable.

Just because you can stick money under a mattress (the equivalent to your memorizing a bar code) has nothing to do with the role of banks or marketplaces.

Bitcoin is supposed to allow you to send money to anyone given the address. The system itself is more like Western Union or PayPal. How are you making the claim that the exchanges are replacing them? That would mean they do nothing on top of the basic idea of Bitcoin.

*Banks and bitcoin marketplaces get robbed, there is an illusion of security to some degree, except banks get things like FDIC insurance.
If by 'we' the authors of this article mean people who only believe things that have been 'proven' by science, then the intelligence of animals will always be underestimated by definition.
A very good thing is the minus sign in google search. It allows you to exclude keywords and sites. They should expand that. My searchbar gets very crowded at times.
Hi. Err... had to create a HN account to reply, whyrusleeping on #go-nuts told me this was here.

Feel free to file issues on github and consider that the "source of truth" for my code, and please ignore my site. I don't have time to throw together a web presence, too busy at work ;-)
Some large retailers already have at least a partial handle on this. My zip code crosses 2 jurisdictions and I'm always asked if I live in jurisdiction A or B. I assume they're doing it for local tax purposes even thought we have only a state sales tax here.
Leaving out functionality because Linux can't support it isn't dragging anything up.
Ask HN: Why do iPhones not yet have transcribed voicemail?
Doesn't Apple have the technology to do this post-Siri? I know there are other apps you can use to make this happen like Yap, but shouldn't a company like Apple at this point have that built in for convenience? I would like to just be able to go to my voicemail and either play it or read it--with the optional setting to have it texted to me automatically.
You may be overestimating how many people 'the entire company' is ;)