skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly, during a lifetime in academia, I have observed that the most successful professors are not the ones who work on what they like (with very few outstanding exceptions) but instead are those who learn to like what they must work on. Where 'must work on' is defined pretty much by what is described in this well informed article. The funding trends and the ability to anticipate them so as to be amongst the first in the line being the most important. Knowing the right people certainly not to be neglected. Ability to do any kind of useful or worthwhile science a long way down the list.

This undesirable trend has been lately exacerbated by the race for the funding and the attendant unhealthy over competitiveness. Academia is now a very different world to what it used to be, where a fellow would get enough ad-hominem funding, on the strength of his proven ability and membership of an elite college. Indeed, without that, the phrase 'academic freedom' has lost most of its meaning.

I believe that 'academic whoredom' would much more fittingly describe the current state of affairs.
Space is space is space.

Think about it this way: if more high-rise apartments were built, then some rowhouses (or other inefficient [in terms of people per square foot of land] housing) could be torn down. Restaurants could be built in their places.

Thus the supply of restaurant space would increase, and the average price would accordingly decrease.
Just make sure the contract is very clear on exactly which exchange rate you'll be using and at what time. Imagine you agree on a deadline of Friday at midnight for some project. The contractor delivers the finished job and final invoice to you on Friday 4 pm, but you don't get around to handling his invoice until next Wednesday at 11 am. Which exchange rate will you use? The answer to that question could be worth several thousand dollars to one of you, so it's not a question to take lightly or assume that it won't cause massive potential headaches for you.
No company money would ever be sitting in bitcoin for more than the few seconds it would take to transfer.

I know why you think this, but it is based on incorrect premises, namely that your expectations for quality of service from professional financial services firms apply equally to the Bitcoin "economy."

Consider, for example, the case where you ask your freelancer "What is the invoice in BTC?" and he quotes you "100 BTC". You go attempt to buy Bitcoins at the spot price of ~$100 each. You see a message saying "Your order has been placed, but to protect our customers, we are going to take the liberty of manually reviewing it." The following day, the order is canceled and the spot price of Bitcoins is now $140. You are now effectively short BTC, which is unfortunate, because you're losing.

There are other failure modes. They can be catastrophically expensive. As both a buyer and seller of consulting services, the notion that you're worried about a ~3% charge to transfer money to settle up a freelancing engagement is valuable signal with regards to the general level of business acumen being brought to bear on this decision. So, as somebody who wants both you and your freelancers to have happy, successful lives: bringing BTC into the picture brings in large extrinsic risks of project failure, when doing business with freelancers is already fraught with many risks. I would suggest avoiding it.

Regarding accounting issues: I wouldn't expect any but if your accountant is like my accountant I'd expect you to run up a few hundred dollars in fees prior to him being comfortable signing off on there being no accounting issues here.
I wish that I'd heard that speech when I graduated. He nails a lot of things I've discovered to be true as I've come along the way.

But even if I had of heard it, I probably would've shrugged it off and made the same mistakes that I made anyway :-)
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I'd thought you were kidding as well, but I realize you're pretty new here.

Ruby on Rails is the most popular web framework for startups in Silicon Valley, followed by Django, and then PHP.

High-profile companies that primarily use Rails: Airbnb, Square, Github, and Twitter (for Twitter some of their codebase is in Scala; for Airbnb, they're also doing a lot with node.js. Both companies started out as Rails apps).

I also ran the numbers a while ago on the web framework breakdown for YC startups. The breakdown is something like (give or take 10%): 60% Rails, 20% Django, 5% non-Django Python, 3% Sinatra (also Ruby), 3% Node.js, 3% PHP, 6% don't know,

If you want to learn a web framework/technology, Ruby on Rails or Django is definitely the place to start.
Yes, because government agencies are well known for
- cost efficiency
- openness to exploring new avenues of research
- obeying their own regulatory regimes

It'll certainly reduce some gaming of the current system, but I can't see how this will materially improve the situation as a whole.
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I am in Malaysia and it may be some local issue. thanks!
I agree , sans serif is just not readable. A mix between serif for text and sans ( for headers , titles ,etc ... ) is the way to go. I just cant read any long text that is sans. It's very painfull.
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Maybe. If you have digital packet radio equipment then you can indeed receive packets from these phonesats.

http://www.phonesat.org/packets.php
What a bored hacker did on a plane?
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More like giant margins...

http://blog.carlmercier.com/2012/01/05/ec2-is-basically-one-...
You could read through his list of invented/co-invented patents:

http://www.google.com/?tbm=pts#safe=off&output=search...

I realize it's not quite what you meant.
Yes, as a consumer I would like variety and a dynamic market. But regarding the second point (proactive/reactive), I would also like an ecosystem of businesses that are engaged in some level of technological cooperation towards common goals. This over-reliance on Reader, for example, is an example of a bad ecosystem. It's not entirely Google's fault; it's also our fault as users for not seeing the single-provider trap until too late, and it's the entire ecosystem's fault for marginalizing feed technology in favour of intrusive ad-infested web sites.

As for the second paragraph: My point is that once you have a certain amount of dominance, and a certain amount of traction in the market (of the kind that it's hard to switch from, such as Gmail or Reader or Docs/Drive), it's no longer important prioritize openness or sharing or standards compliance. Those things don't matter in the short run to your user base, many of whom are loyal by necessity (switching is hard) or inertia (don't really care, it's the default choice), or who just don't know or care. It doesn't really matter to your bottom line if you piss of a minor percentage (eg., Reader, or the recent post about Google not providing any kind of support), and the competition is so small that they don't matter much either.
that's not what was said at all. sigh
I think Durga's comment on the NYT site puts it best:

While the above story describes a real problem in SF, it
ignores two much more significant contributors to the
issue that interlock with the effects of tech money.

First, SF residents are extremely anti-development and
NIMBYism runs rampant. It is ridiculously costly, time
consuming, and difficult to renovate or build anything in
SF. Add in a corrupt city planning process that was
deliberately designed to allow just one person to hold up
any project, large or small, and the result is a extremely
restricted supply of both residential and commercial real
estate.

Second, the most influential opinion-leaders and elected
officials are virulently anti-business. This has led to an
oppressive level of mandates, fees, permits, taxes,
licenses, and neighborhood activist oversight to be
imposed on all businesses, from the local mom-and-pop dry
cleaner to the few remaining large companies based in SF.

So, the combination of the influx of highly paid (or
already affluent) residents, an essentially fixed and
unchanging real estate stock, and a deeply ingrained
hatred of private economic activity by both politicians
and active voters result in places like the Grove being
penalized for their success. The problem cannot be reduced
to a simplistic case of rich tech workers throwing down on
starving artists.

Source:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/san-francisco-hango...
Why feed reading is an open web problem, and what browsers could do about it
Unfortunately that's not really feasible without being part of a Mining pool: it simply takes too long until you make a block.

[1](bitcoin mining is granular and not continuous https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_Pool)
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It runs 100% on AWS.

Not all of amazon runs on AWS though, since they use a service oriented architecture, but many of the services also run on AWS.
Why is "interracial" in quotes?
"Space is space is space."

Blah blah blah. This isn't Econ 101. We have zoning laws, so no, all space is not the same.

I haven't checked, but I'm fairly certain that the Grove's location isn't zoned for residential use. In any case, I can guarantee that isn't what the owners are planning to do with the space, given its prime location on a high-foot-traffic, retail strip.
Great answer. Thank you very much. Definitely making me think twice about the whole situation.

edit: Sorry, just want to be clear about this part:

"the notion that you're worried about a ~3% charge to transfer money to settle up a freelancing engagement is valuable signal with regards to the general level of business acumen being brought to bear on this decision."

Is your meaning here more towards:

3% is an insignificant amount to worry about on such an important part of your business

or

it's a good thing to try to stretch your funding as far as you can by saving costs like these
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Thanks, a very rousing pep talk. I am sure what you are saying is true that most people worried about having their idea stolen end up doing nothing. I am trying to figure out how to not be that guy. But I am also trying to figure out the smartest way to do it.

Maybe the answer is, whatever way gets my feet moving? It's interesting that no one has had an opinion on how to go about doing it, just that I should stop worrying and just do it.

Which is exactly what I would expect someone to say who wants to steal my precious idea... ;)
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Good list +1
You cannot even begin to understand the degree of disdain these folks have for techies without reading Rebecca Solnit's diatribe on Silicon Valley's employee shuttles ruining the city.

Source:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary
Dazzle camouflage isn't meant to hide you in your surroundings, but rather make it more difficult to assess the geometry -- how large you are, where you are heading, etc.

It's more for confusing the lion running after the zebra, than an attempt hide from the lion.
Google does iterate their products, but I don't see much innovation. Granted, I haven't tried Now, as I don't have an Android phone, but it does sound like real innovation.

I just don't see much happening with other products. Chrome? Just getting slower and more bloated. App Engine? Does nothing for me that Heroku doesn't. Docs, while impressive, came out years ago, and Drive is basically a Dropbox/iCloud clone.

Google actually made a huge reverse-innovation with Google+, which is essentially just Facebook rewritten for the Google ecosystem. It's pretty much as invasive as Facebook in how it attempts to smear the contents of your private life across an impersonal surface, and it seems to belong to another era of walled-garden services that don't integrate with anything other than itself (posts doesn't even support formatting other than bold and italic, how's that for retrograde?).
Not supporting IE10 touch is lazy - draw.io is unusable on a Windows 8 tablet.

Telling other people they are lazy is just incompetent ;-/
I'm incapable of reading any reporting on "these damn young square techies snapping up all the desirable places in our hip urban areas" without hearing "... when those areas were clearly designed to be affordable for successful members of society, like brilliant young journalists at this publication."
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I was experiencing the exact same thing! I hope that trend doesn't stick.
> If an adult dog is smarter than a newborn, why the disparity in legal protection?

That's a very interesting question to ask. I think in the end, what we are rightfully protecting with our current laws is potential.

The baby (or the embryo?) has the potential to become a fully developed human being and maybe change (save?) the world in the most significant of ways. A dog will not. There is an infinitude of possible worlds that a baby can make possible and an infinitude of ways in which it could develop (which we are more sensitive to perceiving compared to those of an animal). Killing a baby is basically killing an infinitude of possible worlds.
Is this more appropriate than doing the same thing in CSS/@media?
As far as I can understand:

1. Your first passion was referly v1, which didn't work (as I and many others predicted at launch 188 days ago)
2. referly v2 is pivoting into a "community-contributed magazine of free and paid content"
3. Your new passion is writing about startups, and building metrics to rank them

Life is way too short to work on things which you're not passionate about. Why not junk Referly and build a Crunchbase/Pitchbook/Second Market? You're obviously putting huge amounts of time and mindshare into this, rather than the referly magazine pivot.

Sources:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4655702
2. http://refer.ly/please-read-referly-discontinuing-rewards-paying-existing-links-through-march-31st/c/67f9d3fa890311e2bfbf22000a1db8fa
3. http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/*
Many things that look like carbon fiber are not, in fact, carbon fiber. In the case of computer enclosures, it's even more so since "whoa, it's carbon fiber!" is a desirable response when doing the design.

Note that actual carbon fiber is a very hard and brittle substance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_%28fiber%29), and you're quoting text that says it's "soft" ...
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> sadly...

Did that really make you sad?
You look at the financial statements of the drug company. They have shareholders and are required to file financial documents.
Is it worth building a social analytics service
I have been thinking on couple of ideas on how to improve current social analytics offering, i wish to get some feedbacks if its worth giving a trial, and what will be more worth to focus on.

ET.
Uh no. This is completely wrong.

Ever tried to play really old games like Worms 1 on anything faster than 100MHz? They are "framerate locked" which means that a higher framerate makes everything go faster. So if you used that function on a 120hz display everything would run at twice the speed (assuming it's designed to run on 60hz). This is why things like Dos Box let you run at a lower emulated CPU frequency: so that you can slow things down so that these games are playable.

In terms of UI animation the most sensible thing to use is Euler Integration (pronounced "oiler").

Euler Integration is based off of Distance = Speed / Time. Basically what you need to do is remember the "last time" the function was called (using a high resolution timer) and find the difference between that and the current frame. This gives you the "Time" in Euler Integration, your "Speed" should be a fixed constant (e.g. 1 pixel per second). Then simply add Distance / Speed to your current X value.

Things git a tad bit complicated to ensure that you don't "overshoot" your target position, but it's nothing simple high-school algebra can't solve (that's the nice thing about Euler Integration, it's all high school Mathematics and Physics).

Techniques like ease-in/ease-out are easy to do (using the difference in distance between the current point and starting/ending points use base your speed off of that), all using high school algrebra.

I wouldn't bother with Verlet or Runge-Kutta: it is just UI animation after all - you aren't going for very accurate results like games do. "Real" physics engines also have the problem of not being able to guarantee deterministic results.
Would love to see some market-share breakdowns. Still, that's pretty huge. I expected them to bigger at video, but I guess there is a pretty long tail of smaller providers such as Vimeo and Liveleak and what not?

> And when they attempt to get out of markets so that other new companies can perform better

I really doubt that they canceled Reader for such altruistic reasons.

> And how are you sure that FastMail and Vimeo (Alternatives suggested in the OP) are any better?

I don't know what their market share is, but I bet it's very small compared to Google's. In other words, they have to care about standards because they are nowhere near in control.
No. It is described at http://www.google.com/patents/US20090070122?pg=PA1&dq=mi...
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> Let us count the ways.

I count at most one.
Legal protection is not and should not be related to intelligens. How about mentally retarded people? I have also heard people defend the eating of animals with that we are so much more intelligent. Funny thing is, we would not be accepting of a superintelligent alien consuming humans.

We simply protect things that are sufficiently alike us. The line we draw for this protection is arbitrary and has changed throughout history.
> HN on several occassionas

3 if I count correctly: Reader closedown (which, in my opinion, not a hit to open web at all), XMPP Federation issue (It's fixed now) and CalDAV whitelist (Not closedown, whitelist).
Too bad you are so hard trying to make your point you lose connection with reality.

Android, in its core, is so entirely different then iOS that saying "following in Apple's footsteps" is just wrong. What has changed in recent major (!!) iOS updates? Twitter & Facebook integration.. Seriously?
While Android 4 revamped the entire user interface, streamlined ui & ux and allowed for buttonless phones (apart from power).

Also, Google Maps recently added vector based maps, a great addition to the previous bitmap based maps.
Search has added countless quick results like instant currency conversion, quick answers to questions and instant results.
Gmail has litteraly changed web based mail and still continues to do so.
I do agree on youtube & go. Go isn't a revolution, it is one of the most boring languages ever. Which is one of it major plusses over "exciting" languages like ruby & python. Also, it isn't an offcial Google product, so stomping Go to the ground really shows how you are just bashing away.

Please don't say innovation has stopped when it clearly hasn't.
> there are already many countries in the world with negative population growth and a likely trend that the entire world will reach a peak population

This argument would be equally (in)valid for any tragedy of the commons type situation, like CO2 emissions or fisheries depletion etc.
No he is arguing that because Google closed down Reader, using any other service offered by Google is poor judgement while also stating that they don't innovate in many if not all product areas.
They are doing studies to find drugs that treat a condition. If a drug looks like it can treat something new, then they do another study. They are required to report side effects (that "may cause..." in ever advertisement) found in the study.

"We would be much better served if doctors could pay for subscriptions to research companies that only take money from doctors."

For what purpose? If your thinking a Forrester or Gartner model, then given how bad those companies advice has been in IT, I can only imagine what would happen in medicine.
I don't want to discourage you, because everybody got started somewhere, but mentioning money transfer costs in the context of contracts/payroll (and considering paying in Bitcoin) waves a really big "We have never done this whole 'business' thing before" flag. I will repeat again that I'm on your side, but that is how the market will read it. (n.b. Anyone saying "I accept Bitcoin for my services!" is waving the same flag even harder.)
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It doesn't matter. Any font deliberately set lighter then normal is hard to read on any device.
When I think about it, I can completely agree with your last paragraph. Not a single Googler that I have met disagrees with that.
You can trace your work in excel. What ever tool you use, you need to verify your results in another tool.
Focusing on lifetime value
It's because most firewall rules we deploy are for a combination of layer 3 and layer 4 addresses, not just layer 4(port numbers).

And since layer 3 addresses are different between IP versions, we need different rules. (There may also be additional concerns if you enable V4 mapped addresses for IPv6)
> A layperson has no responsibility nor influence in that matter - that's something for policymakers and implementers to handle

If you start from belief that you and your children won't be able to influence policy and government, and people also can't make a difference by acting locally and practicing what they preach... you paint a pretty bleak picture.
Good start but I'd love to see some more complex examples.
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How is Ruby on Rails going to save you from that? :-)
> Given the difference in our view of killing a mosquito vs. a human, it's intelligence that seems to matter to us.

I'd argue you're making the wrong inference. It is emotions that matters to us most. Intelligence is part of that: Something that can appeal to us would be harder to kill than something that doesn't. But also: Something that is cute and fluffy is harder to kill than something that stings us. And: Something that appears similar to us is harder to kill. Religion, politics and other factors all impact the emotions of the issue.

We mould morality to fit our emotions more than the other way around.
The short answer is: No.

The long answer: With some financial engineering it might be a good idea to pay outside contractors, but only with tight contracts. You need a portfolio of bitcoins and preferably some derivatives to hedge the risk inherent in that. You need to be able to buy bitcoin in forward.

You need to factor in the time it takes for the recipient to convert bitcoin to something usable in his currency (at least 7-14days) and add a premium to the payment covering the risk he is taking on. You can omit the latter but then the recipient is going to detract that premium from the price of the contract...