skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
imo Japanese subculture citizens (especially those who really live and breathe it) are much farther away from the "mainstream" culture and society than their counterparts in the West.

It is more 'normal' to be 'not normal' over here.
Mapping an IP address to an ASN
I assume he is talking about passport photos and whatnot.

Of course they could have gone to Canada and simply driven across the boarder at any number of places without anyone around for miles. Or they could have come in from Mexico without papers, like thousands of others do all the time.
It's good design to provide a worse experience to your customers?

This is why I've always enjoyed Apple products. They don't perform these kind of ridiculous mental gymnastics to justify doing a worse job for their customers.
I'm an advocate of even splits. IMO the logic behind having a dominant founder derives from classic corporate management where you have a boss and a team. I don't see that as a good baseline for a team of founders.
What's your thinking on this opinion that Clash of Clans is actually not a game

"Yet I look at these products and I don't see games. I see payment machines, made to look like entertainment."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-04-13-saturday-soapbo...
The Doctape API: Not Just Another Cloud Storage Bin–It’s Neat
Glad to see the HN community getting excited about this issue. In my professional capacity as the resident technologist at an activist-y non-profit, I have a few things to note:

1) Single issue organizations are quick to grow but hard to sustain. Once the first fight is over, how do you take your list and pivot to a new issue? People lose interest quickly unless there's a hook to keep them involved.

2) Petitions may seem silly, and many of them are, but some have actually had big successes. These are due more to the strategy behind them than the actual numbers; you have to find the right leverage point in the political process to make the numbers matter. They are also useful as signals to organizers that people are interested in an issue, even if they won't be successfully delivered.

3) Gamification in this space is hard. You're one step away from the "slacktivism" critique, and sliding ever closer with each point or badge you give out. For some examples of this being done well, see http://repurpose.workersvoice.org/

For the "3 actions you must take", the handwritten letter is probably the most impactful. Staffers tend to weight online signatures, phone calls, letters, and in person visits by increasing orders of magnitude of importance. Getting 100,000 signatures is now "worth" less than 1,000 letters, particularly as petition numbers continually increase.
I plan to release a version of this book for free online. I've learned too many tips and tactics through publishing my last two books that I can't keep them to myself. Stay tuned...
Or ~1 year of money at the current rate of money being printed by the fed ($85 Billion / month)
lets see some identifying credentials from you. prove to us now that you are not employed by Dwolla, and have no other business interest in Dwolla.
Do you really want coffee or is this some kind of trap?
Why are anarcho-capitalists not capitalists?
Scalia, Thomas, and Alito have voiced such opinions at some point in their careers. Scalia and Thomas made these comments at various Federalist Society gatherings. It's genuinely scary how they interpret the second amendment.

I should have been clearer: the first phrase, as currently construed, is just a preamble, and as such has no legal weight. It lets us know what the Founders wanted the 2nd Amendment to accomplish, but it places no limitation on the actual grant of rights in the Amendment. That could change in the future with a different balance of justices, but that is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
If one founder is putting money in that's different, I'll include that in the post.
Oh yes, she is. She is telling women that if you want it all, you just have to demand it. She is pushing for another affirmative action program which will deliver 50% of everything to women. The world doesn't work that way for men. You can't just throw a hissy fit and then expect to be appointed to the board of Chevron.
>>>>>>"What I will not gladly do is let a bunch of folks who I have no idea who they are other than a web site ever again reach into my bank account."

Maybe you should have thought about that before you decided to let them handle so much of your money. To me, this is putting a LOT of faith in web site to handle that much money right away on a brand new account.
Deprecating old-IE is the solution for cross-browser issues.
Why is it that people think that they can open a payment account, transfer thousands of dollars into it as their first transaction and no one will ask any questions or be the least bit suspicious?
I tried to use Dwolla and it it was absurd. I set my account up fine. My friend sent me $1200 for a ski lease. I withdrew it and it appeared to work. Days later when the money did not appear in my bank account, I checked back and it said, "processing withdrawl" (or something like that.) It said that for many days before I contacted them. They said I needed to scan my drivers license and send it to them. The only account that has a copy of my DL is the DMV. No other company in capitalism asks for a scanned DL except for (maybe?) my employer. They had my social for crying out loud! And their UI was so broken that it wasn't clear that anything was wrong. At that point I refused to deal with them and kicked the money back to my friend and had him go through paypal. To top it off, they won't delete my personal details from their servers.
Goes all the way back to Levi's selling supplies to gold rushed.
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Your example is someone who doesn't sell something you in particular want unless you ask for it, at which point she will, and that makes her a "jerk"?
I think I agree. I don't believe a startup can work if the focus is on equity grabbing or if any agreement leaves one founder feeling less committed to the project than the other. A sense of ownership is one of the big motivators that helps you to fall in love and commit to an idea. So if there's something on paper that makes it like the idea is less yours than the other co-founder, I think it will cause less commitment as a result.

Better to own less of successful company than all of nothing.
I wonder if some sort of image processing could be done to further clear the images of the face given the belief of how the hat ought to look?
That's good news -- now if the U.S. will just catch up with the EU.
I like those "you have unsubscribed" emails for another reason beyond what you layed out.

I collect them so that I can keep a record of what I've unsubscribed from, so if I ever get spam from them again I don't have any doubt as to whether or not the sender broke their promise to unsubscribe me. It might just be me, but it is doubly aggravating to get spam and feel like I had previously unsubscribed but not be able to prove it. With proof I can be righteous in my anger and blacklist all future email from them. Without proof I am left to doubt my self and wonder if unsubscribing (again?) would be futile.
Exactly. What does "several" mean? Are we talking two years? Five? A decade? Until jQuery changes their minds?
Yeah, I was also scratching my head as to the 'performance' gains. Even if jQuery 2.0 has computational benchmark gains they also are likely insignificant in proper context.
My last comment tried to justify why he wouldn't veto this. I am happy to be wrong. Still though, I see it as drawing attention to the bill to put pressure on the Senate. I just don't see how passing this bill as a Senator could be that bad. Pros: $$$, Cons: Young people don't like you. I tend to think that young people are less of a concern in congressional elections.
> "No one arrested him, fired him, threatened him, or tried to hurt him."

Citation needed... Far tamer acts have elicited all of the above when put in front of the Internet Hate Machine (which now includes Reddit).

Remember Adria Richards? Yeah, she didn't kill anyone and she still got direct threats of being raped and killed.

The individual here hasn't been arrested or fired, but you can bet your ass he has been threatened and intimidated in ways neither of us can even imagine. The level of cruelty internet strangers have repeatedly demonstrated to others can best be described as "unquantifiably high".

> "Again, I don't approve of this kind of speculation, but they always labeled their work as speculation and discouraged people from acting on it."

This is a cop-out, and has about as much legitimacy as those "no copyright infringement intended" descriptions under pirated YouTube videos.
Exactly. Wool for a textilephiles, gold cables for the audiophiles.. selling to snobs is good business.
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-obama-th...

Happy to be wrong.
To the point of wool vs. acrylic with respect to knitting:

http://www.knittinghelp.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86186
I did alright in a small-ish college town for two years; nearly all of the 20-somethings were fluent in English.
That all changes if your client uses browsers that are more then 2-3 years old, and you are financially dependent on your client being served properly.
I wonder if Obama will do a better job vetoing CISPA than he did the NDAA. Probably not.
It all depends on your end goals and your audience. I don't have #'s off the top of my head, but let's say IE8 accounted for 40% of browser usage across your visitors. But IE8 is old. Are you willing to say to 40% of your potentially paying customers "Sorry, but your browser sucks. We're not supporting you."?

If you are, great. No coddling necessary. But for other people, they may not be comfortable with the percentages yet, and I think that's perfectly understandable.
On the contrary, people accustomed to fine things often forget how "roughing it" works.
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I've started some things and the 'obvious' way is always to go 50/50, but if you're doing most of the work, thinking etc it's not very motivating to continue. Not all start ups start with everybody quitting their job at the same time.

So yeah I think it's a case to case situation, if you both quit your job, have the same programming and business input then you have an awesome situation and 50/50 is great.
Sounds like they pulled a credit check. I got the same kind of questions when I applied for regular merchant (credit card processing) account.
Very cool. Some good clues to use: road markings and signs, languages used on signs and road names, types of cars, architecture. Going by terrain alone can be misleading (apparently parts of Australia look remarkably similar to the western USA)
We have clients who still use IE 6. BIG clients - banks too big for me to name publicly. Millions of dollars in revenue and dozens of jobs' worth.

Dropping them isn't an option.
This is intentional and common in deliberately shoddy journalism. They're violating every fiber of journalistic ethics without technically running afoul of it.
A must read article ... I've seen instances of each, but didn't really recognize them at the time (I'm also sure I haven't seen as many as Harj). I think I'll be more aware now.

One little nag - It might not be a great time to use the analogy of an exploding pressure cooker.
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Yes, those are exactly the questions I've seen on credit checks to verify my identity.
Naturally that depends on your target audience. I haven't checked the version, but we're stuck on an older IE at work. Possibly 9, but I think it's 8. No choice in the matter.
Even cheap stuff looks better if you get it altered, but yeah; the price-point this guy is targeting doesn't really wear 'off-the-rack' clothes. I wonder if he did any research at all, or he just thought "People with lots of money will pay lots of money for clothes". They shop pretty much entirely differently than your average (or even above average) consumer.
Oh my, I didn't notice the word "segment" there. That does change the problem.
This is correct. I've observed dramatic differences in click-through rates when including even a tiny bit of message text in the email notification you send to users. There's not one right answer.

What (some) users want isn't always the same as what's good for your business, so you have to be judicious.
FOSS CPU emulator in JavaScript that runs Linux
Well you don't have to sell them all at once. Just slowly sell them in small chunks. The interesting point is that it seems Satoshi hasn't sold _any_ of them.
Well, stuff like:

"Also, is it too late to be real?"

"she did a feature on individuals who had left society and, in the process, had eliminated every trace of themselves."

"Maybe it's me. I'm a relic which is already out of his time in the present age. Maybe I am what is holding things back, maybe I am already not of any relevance. Good things to consider."

"That's a lot, but I think he could have doone it, even alone, even with tuberculosis. Imagine Kafka's fiendish little face rubbing his hands over that fire! Seems fun. Or he could have hidden it inside an old 32-bit PowerPC. No one's going to look there. Just goes to show that you can't trust people who aren't you. Of course he didn't want them burned. That was just Kafka, writing his own death. The ending has his signature on it. Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper."

etc...
I'll give you an example of this.

We offer a service which we charge $10 for. When we first started offering the service we didn't really commit to a time period for completion but generally did it as fast as possible, perhaps it took maybe 4 to 8 hours but sometimes it might be done in an hour or two.

We then changed the pricing as follows:

12 to 24 hours service ($10)
8 to 12 hours service $12
2 to 8 hour service $15

Many people pay the extra fee happily. Instant revenue.

We have something else which is higher priced, say $120. We offer expedited service on that as well charging $25 for "rush". Same thing. Many people choose to pay the rush fee for the better service.

I guess the only thing that is really different from what we do with this and what Fedex does is the fact that it doesn't cost us anymore to offer the service faster at all. We are just allowing people to self identify and feel better by having some kind of guarantee. (Although we don't really guarantee anything we just guarantee we will attempt to get it done faster if we don't they pay at the rate that they would have paid for the "default" service.

(Disclaimer: Figures approximate but accurate enough for the point I am making).
I'm NOT an advocate of even (50/50 or 33/33/33) equity splits precisely because of point #2 (Commitment) in the original article.

Almost every startup I've ever seen or been involved with, there have been different levels of commitment early on, which is OK. If/when things go wrong (which they inevitably do), having a clear leader/decision instead of deadlock, can be the difference between death vs. survival of the company, which is much bigger than the individual founders. These are inherently emotional moments. Even for the departing founder, the survival of the company is almost always a better outcome both in financial and personal impact terms.

That being said, unequal equity positions have historically been misused by business/MBAs against tech founders, esp true 5-10 years ago. This is probably why YC has a strong bias towards equal equity positions.

Edit: For comments talking about the "CEO vs. employee" mindset, if you make your co-founders feel like employees in 2-3 person company, you're a shitty CEO, period. In fact, a good CEO should make early employees feel like true team members (not just the co-founders).
Of course. I called it a "Bullsh*t! science experiment" because that's what they called it. The word "bullshit" was part of the name, which hopefully gives a clue that it's not actually scientific.
"It's good design to provide a worse experience to your customers?"

Define "worse". People will complain about doing all sorts of things that are better for their long-term interests.

If you're building a product that provides greater value to users with greater user engagement, then it's in everyone's best interest to promote user engagement, even if that means upsetting the people who would rather gain the benefits of your product without actually using it. You can't make all of the people happy all of the time.
What episode was that? I watched every single episode they aired, and I don't remember any of them claiming that it was impossible to lose weight.
A single typo may not be enough to justifiably discredit an author - next time look for clusters of typos. :-)
Viacom lawsuit against YouTube thrown out, again
If you ignore the fact that these aren't actually static objects and require a lot more computation to work out where they are and where they need to go.

1.1M RPS is the amount they actually serve, not how much they can serve. Just because your single server can serve more than 1,000 static objects/second (in fact, that number should be much higher), it doesn't mean you need to.
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How relevant will IE8 be in just two years, though? If it's 3-5 which is what it sounds like, then that's just more of a nail in the coffin for IE8 support.
And before you say, "Get real, men are almost never victimized by sexual harassment in today's world"

I wouldn't say that. At all.

But I would say, and seriously with respect, that your writing on the subject seems curiously ignorant of the feminist demands, support, defenses of Title IX.

And though I would not say men are not harassed by sexual harassment, regardless, the statistics, all the evidence is that these sexual harassment star chambers are overwhelmingly targeting men.
Well, it's an open source community project so the answer is obvious.

1.9 will be supported for as long as people care about to support it.

Do those complaining want to somehow tell the developers what they should be working on? Where does the sense of entitlement come?

Even if the whole core team insists on going 2.0 only at some point (high unlikely), it's not like it needs any highly technical skills for interested people to jump in and maintain 1.9.

Most of the stuff has been stable for ages, and small fixes are easy to add if needed.
Platform agnostic API to convert your markup
Having seen what a mess TSA has made of "security improvements", I have no problem believing your claims.
A couple of points:

1) As far as interviews are concerned (or any dialogue) mirroring might get you further than power -- eg: when your interviewer crosses his/her arms, you might gain an advantage doing the same - whatever the "power poses" theory says. I suppose it is like language: Short, conscience sentences might be "powerful" or "commanding" -- but that alone doesn't make for effective prose in all cases. No communication without context.

2) Sitting in a room for two minutes, relaxing, convinced that you're doing a "power poise" -- might elevate your hormone levels. I'm sure screaming a battle cry, or doing a haka would work to. Not sure if it is just the poise in itself that helps with the levels. Would be interesting to do a reverse test: tell people that a "low power" position is actually a "power position" and vice versa -- and redo the experiment. I highly doubt we've got strong evolutionary ties to sitting with our feet up on a swivel chair.

3) The point about blind athletes -- so you imply blind people don't have socialized behaviour? Thankfully you don't have to live in an isolation chamber just because you're blind.

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nobody would say that the benefits of computers are a positive externality that isn't priced into their price

You're the one who said that the increase in price of a resource already accounted for its benefit to the producer. You can't use the fact that I broke your argument to then construct a straw man. Besides, if someone used the same one dimensional environmental argument against the pricing of computers (which they sometimes do), then I would be consistent in the defense of the beneficial externalities of computers.

Bog-standard neo-classical economics

You got me there, you named A theory. Hey, here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

Right there they mention "invention". My claim is that inexpensive electricity has led to many inventions because people have more time to invent and more resources with which to invent. Because of cheap electricity, we have more people alive because they could afford air conditioning and well refrigerated foods. Some of those people have invented things.

If "Invention" is a beneficial externality (or more properly has positive externalities), then the predicate of invention, "cheap electricity" is also a beneficial externality.

If the actual price for the resources is too high, that will retard development

Use of a resources normally has a critical minimum price before it's used commonly or at all. Why do you think the title of this article is "Cost of Gene Sequencing Falls Raising Hopes for Medical Advances"?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/technology/cost-of-gene-se...

Gene sequencing has negative externalities too. There's a loss of privacy. There is a possibility that terrorists could release gene-based biological agents that could wipe out segments of societies. Should we price that into gene sequencing now "just in case"?

it's a matter of not double-counting those benefits

I could just as easily say you're double-counting the costs of electricity since society (to a small and appropriate degree) views its generation as harmful to the environment and so they already have less of a demand for it. That would be a nonsense argument to since consumers don't typically factor in non-sequitor benefits and negativities during price negotiation.
Same bill.

Also, the brouhaha over that bill is over how it might be interpreted in a parallel universe where Hamdi v. Rumsfeld doesn't exist.
Nice post. You give an example of un-even equity split when one founder had the idea, built the first site and got some traction. When do you stop being a co-founder and become a founding employee instead?
The problem with this theory is that a credit check needs an SSN. An SSN wouldn't have confused OP with his father.
I can't help but wonder what the long-term business effects are of intentionally damaging your relationships with your customers by wasting their time and choosing to prioritize arbitrary business priorities (eg, e-mail click-through rates) over actual user satisfaction.
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Didn't think of that, edited.
Until Windows XP is banished from corporate machines worldwide, I don't think we can drop IE8 support. (You can't install 9/10 on Windows XP.)

I'm glad they decided to continue support for 1.x for now.
YouTube prevails in huge copyright suit with Viacom
Most people seem to not understand that that's the same bill. The NDAA is an annual bill specifying the defense budget. The indefinite detention provisions that upset so many people are attached to that bill.

As the President cannot veto part of a bill, vetoing the NDAA over those provisions would literally mean vetoing the entire defense budget.
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Start-ups are hard: Lessons learned in 2012
What about it is a nightmare?

Isn't storing, tracking, and managing billions of entries done directly in a database anyway?
Is there information outside of this video that makes him more suspicious than her?

Most assuredly. I suspect they have video of these two guys dropping their bags. The photos they released are so that people can identify them.
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