skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Private companies should not have to disclose their runway or profitability as this gives competitors insight into the market. Imagine if Pandora plastered a big notice on their signup that says they're not profitable so beware of creating new channels because who knows what will happen. Same is true for Facebook in the early days. It's just unnecessary and business should not be conducted by trying to optimize users away from your product. Of course, I like when companies are fair about how they go about their shut down (e.g. Posterous with ample time to backup your content and go elsewhere).
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Add 5-10 even for the Red line
http://bit.ly/reddweb (my web dev multi-reddit).
Instead of going through the trouble of downgrading his machine take 30 minutes to walk through his problems and educate the poor guy.
I turned down MIT because it was too expensive. (Admittedly, I was also looking for something other than CS.) Instead, I went to a school that was much clearer about giving me a full-ride scholarship.

And, despite following this line of argument, I've been unable to convince my younger sister to apply to Ivy League schools thus far. She's got time left in high school, so it's not final, but she's been balking at the idea of even applying, in part because of the perceived cost, even after I explained the "no loans" stuff to her.
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You're correct, I spent two summers interning the San Francisco. The salary most companies pay (at least for engineering interns) is enough to live comfortably in the city... It's just a bit harder to find a place that will sign a 3 month lease, but it certainly isn't out of the question.
Ask HN: How to cold call
How do you cold call effectively? I am thinking about starting a service where people can get a mobile version of their website, and so far (2 calls), people have been declining me. Any tips?
I think you'll like this idea: http://sefsar.com/the-alarm-clock-as-an-mmo-game/ =)
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I could see something like this being very useful for watching out of town sports teams. For the NFL, I might want to tune to the local Fox/CBS station to watch some game that I wouldn't normally get in my market. That is, assuming it's legal...
I see Tesla's future as a race between saturating the market for an $X car versus reducing the value of X (i.e. producing less expensive cars), thus enlarging their potential market. It'll be interesting to see which way that goes. Speaking for myself, they're still over the price I'm willing to pay for a car by about a factor of 2.
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Two ignorant questions:

1) Does "production in June" probably mean that the factories become operational in June?

2) If so, is 1-2 months a normal amount of time for producing a car? How does it compare to the amount of time needed for other types of cars?
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Why do event sites suck? (2009)
I think that in many cases, we would find that yes, mass shooters do plan their attacks (Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora) and actually have long fantasies about them.

Calling mass shooters stupid is, I think, a naive assertion. They're obviously flawed, but not necessarily in a way that makes them less effective at planning or committing violence.

And while 'c' is potentially valid, I think that what you'd find is that, as most citizens tend to fall into the 'law abiding' category, where there are signs posted disallowing guns, you'd find that most citizens won't carry them. So even if the 'gun free zone' is not found to be 100% devoid of guns, you are almost certain to find it less armed than if signs weren't posted.
Java frameworks use a similar pattern with a "Widget" interface and an "AbstractWidget" partial implementation.
Then what are we really measuring? Is it how many connections we get can get on as small a machine as possible? If so then I am sure I can get 600K connections with Erlang in a smaller system. At least running a benchmark.

There is one very significant difference and that is that the Clojure benchmark was just a benchmark while for WhatsApp it was their actual system doing something real. They have mentioned to me that they have managed to push their system to 3M connections but not in production.
Very nicely done. Feature suggestion: importing playlists from other services, e.g. Spotify.
Adding to your advice to look in Berkeley, that's especially wise as housing prices drop a lot during the summer since most UC Berkeley students (who rent a huge percentage of the apartments) are away on internships or breaks of their own. In addition to shared houses as you mention, there tend to be lots of summer sublets at cut rates. Assuming you're reasonably close to BART it's very convenient to SF, not at all convenient to South Bay/core Silicon Valley.

I'd be curious if Palo Alto similarly gets cheaper during the summer.
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Ah wait a minute. That address is worth $4.3m, but the number of coins transfered from Instawallet cold storage is $1.5m. There are three transactions. One is old. Two are new, and only one of the new ones is labeled as "Instawallet Cold Storage".
I think his point is that changing a sign bit doesn't affect the absolute value, just its sign. A sign bit has no value itself - it's just a flag. If the representation has a sign bit, you'd have a negative zero.

But the top bit in 2s complement has a value - it's just a negative one (that's large enough to make any value with it set negative). That's not a sign bit! If you change it, the absolute value most definitely changes, and quite substantially.
Trying to clarify what I mean, I'll probably give up after this as I'm
on my 3rd day of very little sleep so perhaps I'm just incoherent.

My reading of his linked essay is as a discussion of the power dynamic
between users and companies they rely on. This is compared with a
romanticized version of feudalism. While the users are not compelled
to actually use these services, once they enter into them they are at
the mercy of the companies (feudal lords) to not take advantage of
their much greater position of power (like his version of the early
feudal era serfs).
Doesn't work if you type something with a space in it. For example, typing "Municipal Waste" gives you an error page, and the URL looks like this:

http://www.youfm.org/#/search/municipal waste
Edit..

[Apr-1 10:30 CET] Bitcoin-Central and Paytunia update: Our customer's bitcoins and euros are safe and will not be affected by the security breach. We have taken the websites off-line for proper investigation.

The address 1LrPYjto3hsLzWJNstghuwdrQXB96KbrCy is under our exclusive control.

from
https://bitcoin-central.net/

All is fine then I guess
But how do physicians know it works if trials aren't run? You can't go by anecdotal evidence.

Hell, look at the huge niacin trial that Merck ran. Doctors have been prescribing it for 30 years and you know what? It doesn't help. Unless a massive clinical trial was run, you'd never know whether it was worth prescribing.
Good stuff. I'm giving it a try. I like to listen to a wide variety of music and like to give things a good number of listens before I part with my money. I like the idea of sourcing from YouTube as it takes all the guess work out of what is legal and what isn't (as least from a listener point of view) so I can focus on listening. So thanks for building this.

The Playlist seems a bit dodgy. There is no indicator that the item was added. After I added something (and didn't get confirmation) I went to the playlist to see if it added... but it said it was empty. So I went back and added it again. Again, no indicator and still showed as empty. So I went back and added a different song. And now the playlist has 2 items (the first one I tried to add twice and the second one). So I removed one item... and now the playlist says it is empty again. I added another song and now it says two again. So it seems there is something wrong with the count to determine if a playlist is empty or not. And without the indicator that something was added, I was quite confused.

I think it would be cool if you could incorporate some way to link to somewhere to buy songs/albums. Not sure how others feel about that. But if I was going to buy something, I'd gladly click through an affiliate link to support the site.
The difference and what a lot of people seem to miss is the scarcity of bitcoin and the fact that its makers and followers are bootstrapping a new global economy. Having only $1B in liquidity is not enough to participate in all global markets. If bitcoin successfully acquires fractions of all global markets, there is but only one direction the exchange rate can go, and that is up until there are hundreds of billions of dollar value in bitcoin. Divide that by the 11 million bitcoins in current circulation, and each one will be worth thousands and thousands of dollars.
I feel like the title might be a bit misleading. Nowhere does the article say how this is going to stretch out and impact the workforce over the next 10+ years, but instead sticks to the same discussion of serial internships that has been tread with numerous other articles.

I do think it hits the nail on the head with: "So here's another chasm in the 20-something cohort: the one between the liberal-arts kids and the engineering and science majors." There's plenty of anecdotal (as well as hard) evidence out there that supports that claim.
Housing prices also depend heavily on a neighborhood's crime rate, school rankings and other quality of life issues which vary significantly even among physically adjacent neighborhoods (at least there are lots of examples of that in NYC). So I doubt you'd find a simple relationship between time from the city center and real estate prices.
Heck if I know, I submit April Fool's articles like Linus joins Microsoft to develop Windows 9. The submission gets flagged and my account temporarily not allowed to submit any more.

I was submitting blog posts on technologies and startups and used a bit of a sense of humor as well, but the whole blog is blocked now and appears the entries are in "the phantom zone" or whatever.

I don't really think that Hacker News has a sense of humor, and if it does, a majority of the people hate me for some odd reason to flag my submissions, while upvoting on other submissions that repost what I submitted but made the front page?
I actually had this idea while back and was testing the water to see if there was movement. Most people think poorly of affiliate/performance marketing but if you think of it in terms of customers (e.g. paying customers to spread the word) win/win - why not. I ended up not pursing it as my votes were tied (3 to 3) - Take a look

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A decision-making trick
The dissent on this bothers me as a lawyer.
It basically says the whole thing is a sham to use a perceived "loophole in the law".

IE By complying with the exact requirements of the law, they are committing a sham.

It's a policy argument, not a legal one.

A sham is doing something like "i'll sell my brother my house for $1". That's a sham. You are doing something to try to trivially comply with contracts law (which requires adequate consideration), but the $1 you are giving is really trying to cover up the fact that it's really a gift.

But that's not the argument the dissent makes, the argument it makes is "i don't like this behavior, so i will villify it" and act like it's a sham. The law imposes plenty of technical barriers to doing things.
I could make an amazing wireless system if i could use whatever transmitter power i liked, but the law prevents me.
The fact that they could use one large antenna is exactly right, but it changes nothing, because the law appears to prevents them from doing so.
Following the technical requirements of FCC law is not a sham, it's "what the law requires you do".
Following the technical requirements of copyright law is not a sham, it's "what the law requires you do".
I put this one together. I tried to be pretty blatantly obvious but some people still bought it.

http://www.cnn.com.2013.04.01.supreme.court.settles.marriage...
Thank you for mentioning light-bot! I am the creator of the game and know of many teachers who use it to introduce the concepts of basic functional programming, particularly calling procedures. There is a light-bot 2.0 as well (a little more complicated and includes recursion and a form of conditionals), and there is also a new light-bot in the works (see light-bot.com). Hope your daughter enjoys it!
This is not false but the majority of people and properties are freehold, not leasehold. Around 3 million properties are leasehold, the majority are flats, with 1 million being houses. There are about 25 million residential properties overall, so leasehold is only about 12% of the market.

Plus, in the UK there are certainly liabilities for holding land that has a residential property on it. As the landowner, you'll be paying the council tax on it if you have no tenants, and with many councils now, that'll be a more expensive rate too (currently 150% of the standard rate for unoccupied property in my area). Of course, council tax isn't really a property tax, though it can act like one in some situations and basically covers similar things that US property taxes do.
Only if you don't trust the encryption on your cold wallet backup where you generated the keys. Personally I'd keep both, encrypted drive and printed keys then if say the bank is robbed or burns to the ground you can still transfer the coins.

You'd want to also make sure the printer isn't storing memory of those keys that were printed.

Some weird startup out of Europe is splitting up $2mil worth of coins on 3 USB encrypted sticks, using Shamir's secret sharing as the master key to decrypt (this according to Bitcoin magazine). Sounds like a bad idea I don't trust wear leveling drives that could fail taking all your coins with them
How to Block 100,000+ Individual IP addresses
What if you're being paid as a designer to be flashy/sexy or for the product to be a display of conspicuous consumption?

Trying to define good design is like trying to define good literature. Are you trying to convince the user, force the user, agitate the user, guilt trip the user, motivate the user, educate/train the user, de-educate/un-train the user, empower the user, de-empower the user, force the user to conform, force the user to rebel... its all going to be different both for lit and for design work.
I don't think I am. I'm in shape (was D1 runner) and 22. Who knows though.
A good reason to take a few minutes and make sure your backups are up-to-date and working, and that your application won't blow up in unexpected ways when the DB is unreachable.
Wow, that's both scary (more than _50%_ of guys reported that rape was okay in some cases), and depressing (double digit % of women have been conditioned into thinking it's acceptable).

Seriously wtf is wrong with people :-/
I use one as I use multiple browsers, on multiple computers, at multiple locations, with varying permissions. The social discovery is quite neat in some of them as well.

But yeah pay for one... you'd have to have a special need to pay for one. For reference the one I have been using and enjoy is Kippt (https://kippt.com)

HOWEVER their latest update has broken login on Safari if someone from kippt reads this please please fix it so I can use it on my ipad :)
It does work actually. Although when you share the link the space messes up the hyperlink, I should probably turn spaces into "+"s.

If you're getting an error that says "Oops something went wrong", thats something that pops up now and again (Can't figure out why). Refresh the page and it should work.
I'm yet to see an update/fix on Heroku's recent PR nightmare on the random routing issue. Anyone?
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http://restcookbook.com/Basics/hateoas/ - What is HATEOAS and why is it important for my REST API?

This page doesn't even try to explain why HATEOAS is important. And I'm not sure that it is.

This example uses some arbitrary xml to describe the API, but if no client can consistently read and understand it, what purpose does it serve?
I like it, nice and simple too, not even a configure script.

Created a tap for it on homebrew if anyone wants to use it.

brew tap mitchty/entr if you want to test it out.
It would have not cost anyone more ink or paper to make this 1$ bill into a 100$ bill, and I would have been happier if that were the case, oh why is everyone in the world so against me?
In other words, the process that leads to the production of a good or service is not what you pay for, what you pay for is the end product: if you pay for a battery with a capacity of 40kWh, that's what you get, and if you have the option of increasing its capacity later on, well even better! Or, you can get the extra capacity from the beginning, perhaps with a small discount on top of it. Proof of this is that, if they didn't tell you (or you hacked the system), you wouldn't even know about the possibility of the increased capacity. Then if you find out, you feel entitled to that extra capacity, just because "it's there" and part of the thing you bought.
> A browser's Javascript VM typically doesn't run in ring 0, unless you've got it badly wrong.

MSIE is an integral part of Windows. Microsoft has always said so.
How come most firewall do not have api to pragmatically add/remove IP address ??
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can you explain what the legal mechanism is that makes a $1 house sale illegal? I don't understand how it's different.
A common complaint among technologists will be that it's a waste of resources to keep multiple copies of the same 'recording'. I don't dispute that. However, thankfully there seems to be an upper bound to the size of a recording, and as storage gets cheaper and cheaper, this will be less of an issue. [Note: Even though video resolutions will get better, like audio did, eventually I imagine will hit a similar upper bound. ]
The argument is more about how to define "good".
A better comparison would be to ask if American Airlines can have root on the umpteen million dollar Boeing airplane the paid for.

(The FAA says no.)
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You have a competitor, in case you hadn't already noticed: http://www.tubalr.com.
It is a Rube Goldberg scheme, to avoid even sillier copyright law(s). Good for them, and us, I think.
One of the other addresses in that list has a history of moving around thousands of BTC. Perhaps it's all some sort of behind-the-scenes Instawallet address.

http://blockchain.info/address/1BcCo1dNztEjMtzxFTbtQuZEuK1Nk...
on a related note, does anyone know whatever happened to foodieview.com? I lost a lot of recipe links when it unceremoniously disappeared.