skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They can't take money from non-accredited investors (those who make below $200k per year or have less than $1 million in assets).

That should be an "and" not an "or" (meeting either the income test or the asset test qualifies for "accredited investor" status.)

And there are several conditions under which firms can make accept limited numbers of non-accredited investors along with unlimited numbers of accredited investors.

> The JOBS act loosened the regulations to open it up to anybody

That's not entirely accurate. The JOBS Act requires the SEC to do two main things in this area:
1. Remove the requirement prohibiting general solicitation and advertising for investment opportunities, if those opportunities are restricted exclusively to accredited investors and the firm seeking the investments takes steps to verify that the investors qualify as accredited investors.
2. Allow "Crowdfunding" with specified per-investor limits of up to $1 million in a 12 month period, via an SEC-registered intermediary.

Neither of these really opens things up to people who couldn't invest before: the first option allows public advertising but is expressly restricted to accredited investors; the "Crowdfunding" option is basically similar to the Rule 504 "seed capital" option, both of which have a $1 million in a 12-month period limit, and neither of which is restricted to any particular class of investors ("seed capital" restricts general solicitation but allows the firm to sell securities directly, "crowdfunding" allows general solicitation but requires the firm to act through an SEC-registered intermediary.)
Why can't I walk up to the stock market and buy a single share of Facebook?

If you have a membership on an exchange, the marginal cost of buying one share of FB would be the liquidity removal fee of $0.0030 (three tenths of a penny)†. But you don't have membership on any exchanges, so you have to buy your share through a third party, a stock broker.

Your broker is providing a service that has costs. Exchange connectivity is not free. Brokerage staff do not work for free. The website and backend technology are not free. Clearing is not free. Those costs have to be passed on.

There is a lot of healthy competition in the retail brokerage space. It's relatively easy to move your holdings from one brokerage to another, which suggests that competition has driven transaction fees to a level that allows brokers to cover their costs and provide a small profit.

† See:

http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=pricelisttrading2

http://cdn.batstrading.com/resources/regulation/rule_book/BA...
Going a step further and assuming this API was not readonly, I would love to have an interface to control the filtering of the brain.
We propably don't even know about much of the information available to our brain that just gets filtered out and we never notice it was there.

When doing interesting and fun things you could increase your attention for details by lowering the filter level for visual input, so you can remember it better later on.

Searching for your dog? Crank up your hearing.

Coworkers have to talk about private stuff again? Filter it away.
There is an easier way to do this, you talk to other owners who had their business's acquired and see what they have to say. You can do this when any major contractual relationship occurs. Either they will be very happy to tell you how amazing the deal was, or they will speak endlessly on what a pile of shit those involved were. Its easy to ask.

Companies develop reputations, and so do people. Liars should be called liars, and everyone should be reminded of it, most assuredly when those individuals are doing big PR pushes and want the media to give it front page headline space (as some have alleged another recent Yahoo acquisition was.)

Human psychology makes it difficult to speak negatively about things. People want to be around other positive people, not negative ones. In this case the author is being referred to as "bitter." I have another suggestion, we speak positively about people in business who do keep their promises, on and off contract.
Are you aware of the solution the author or Sublime Text came up with? It uses a PNG plus JSON metadata plus javascript plus canvas to create a tiny animation:

http://www.sublimetext.com/~jps/animated_gifs_the_hard_way.h...
Kickstarter Campaign Funded - Skywrite 'How Do I Land' over LA
LA comedian Kurt Braunohler raised nearly two times what he asked (he needed $4,000 and got $6,820 from 257 backers) in order to hire a skywriting airplane to print the phrase "HOW DO I LAND" in the sky over downtown.
I think step 1.5 is create some new accounts to vote it up
It is not the responsibility of the purchaser to know information which is purposefully withheld from them. From the article

> Scott Sweet's multi-billion dollar hedge fund client flipped the stock at $42. His subsequent short made his firm its "largest profit of the year," Sweet said. There's "no way" a retail investor could have known about the lowered projections, unless he or she "had a friend at a multi-billion dollar institution," he added.

Please explain to me, when information is withheld from the purchasers and only specific clients notified as to circumstantial and meaningful changes to the state of the offering, how anyone could ever "know what you're doing?' In fact, Morgan Stanley was actively misleading investors by continuing to adjust the specifications of the offering to make it look better.

Analogy: If an automaker produced a new car which was secretly designed to become worthless (engine would fuse together) after 3 months and only told one rich people not to buy it, would that be fine? What if there come back was 'you could always open the hood and see our computer components which execute after 3 months, its not our fault you don't know what you're doing'
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Digital Ocean has disappointed me. They are a tick below average. Their support has been mediocre. The system is broken (tried creating a droplet with different images, only one worked). And the security is not really that good either. Been poking around my own droplet and am not happy with how they set things up. Overall, I'm going to to stick to getting my VPSs from lowendbox.
Database constraints usually catch these problems in event of re-submission, especially if the client can assign primary keys (e.g., a UUIDv4) a-priori, but this also tends to be true in simpler cases, too.

All in all, I am not sure if anyone should find this surprising: if anyone has ever had a network stall when clicking the 'confirm' button at a web-based store, they are familiar with the uncertainty as to whether the order has been submitted or not (resolved typically by browsing the history or waiting for an email, or no).

I would guess modern e-commerce vendors would send you a UUID or moral equivalent to de-dup cart resubmissions these days...but if not, it'd be interesting to know why not.
This industry to look for. Going in right direction
Ask HN: Do you have any stories of your happy acquisition from a Big Company?
There seems to be a lot of conversations going around about how bad big companies are at keeping the founders original vision. I just wanted to hear of some stories (if there are any) of Big Companies that acquired your small tech company and truly believed in your vision?<p>Maybe explaining what they did that cemented the fact that they believed in your vision or how they helped.
I swear my cat gets frustrated sometimes when she's repeatedly trying to tell me something and I keep guessing the wrong thing (or worse, ignoring her) - so much so that she sometimes hits me... However, I believe that any human will probably effortlessly outperform a mobile app at cat translation for the foreseeable future.
In 2011, that was a different Yahoo.. Without Marissa as CEO
Yahoo Really Only Paid $262 Million For Tumblr
"you get very little control over the environment" also seems spurious. You get parameter groups to control just about everything you can from a standalone mysql instance. logs or things that load from disk (LOAD DATA ...) are the only things you can't touch, but a small price to pay for automated backups, failover and scaling (both up AND down...)
Nimrod 0.9.2 released
well, that escalated quickly
The issue is that new devices don't have filesystems that can be exported over USB mass storage. Instead of having a small data partition and big FAT32 external storage partition, they have a single bigger data partition with a media storage directory.

The data partition is ext4, so can't be mounted by most operating systems. It is also shared between apps, app data, and media storage so it can't be exported while in use.
Do you have a source for that? My understanding is that otherwise inadmissible evidence can be used in a grand jury hearing, but you are still free to "plead the Fifth" in front of a grand jury without being held in contempt. Meaning, if you were previously compelled to self-incriminate, that might not be admissible in your trial, but it would be admissible in a grand jury hearing (same for the Fourth and Sixth).

Now, the Fifth only guarantees protection against self incrimination, so I assume you could still be held in contempt for refusing to incriminate others.
I've been using Ansible for a couple weeks now and it is awesome how simple it is compared to Chef/Puppet (IMO)
In the unlikely event you didn't already know this, YC's investment is not meant to be the only funding a company ever raises. It's just meant to get the company to the point where it can raise more from the next round of investors. Which in the case of a company building the sort of thing you can't launch version 1 of in 3 months usually means building some initial proof of concept.
It's timing out for me. This has certainly never happened to me with Heroku.
> What we really care about is satiation and satiety. These are words that no one talks about, and but get to the core of the issue.

No one talks about it?

It seems you have missed the keto bandwagon.
A Quick mysql tutorial in 7394 hours!
Looking for feedback and market validation on new service
Wow.... VI and Sublime are close.
I agree, the best way to determine if an acquiring company treats its acquirees well is to ask others who have been acquired by them. But that's kind of a separate question from how you protect yourself when you're at the negotiating table. If you talk to a bunch of others who've sold to that company and they all say it was horrible, you should wave off the deal before you ever get to a negotiating table.
Reshape a building with your thoughts
Yet another post about scalability/architecture that goes down under load. There should be some rule for that.

http://i.imgur.com/UEHzaOL.png

EDIT: Back online, the site migrated to AWS is not the blog.
When I'm at home, I'm also pretty happy with both voice and data package.

However, I'm not at home right now and the roaming charges are outrageous. Forget about data (25 MB for 2 EUR?) and the voice also isn't something to write home about.

Btw, UK HNers: could someone of you recommend data SIM of about half a gig, but one that is valid for one week and then I can forget about it? The operators I tried to ask were not happy to offer something non-recurring.
GMail "add account" feature signing out again?
This "bug" seems to happen every few months. I'll login to GMail, add account, and it will sign me out of all other gmail tabs.

Rinse, wash, repeat.

Today it has begun again.

Just me?

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Depends on how fast you want new instances to be online. Sometimes you want to respond to demand very fast, it can take a few minutes for an instance to register with ELB, if you have to download/build/configure packages prior you are just adding minutes on time. The faster you can spin up instances the higher you can run your servers as you need to tell amazon at what threshold should I spawn more instances

There are 3 general levels you can take with AMIs:

1) Vanilla instance AMI, have puppet/chef install everything for you, then fetch your app code and configure that

2) Use another tool to have your instance built with puppet/chef and then capture that into an AMI. Once it spins up it just needs to get your app code. Idea here is your services arent likely to need updated as fast as your app code.

3) Same as two, but when your production code is in release/maintenance mode, bake everything into an AMI. When you need to deploy new code, you need to create a new AMI, but you are creating an AMI with scripts so its no big deal :) All you have to do now is update your cloudformation
Actually many states have changed their position to allow voting once sentence/probation is completed.

http://www.aclu.org/maps/map-state-felony-disfranchisement-l...
So the main launch present is over now. They didn't tell anything new about anything. I hope the press can get something out of the Jolla guys, I felt bit disappointed. Not about the device (pretty much impossible to be disappointed about something I know nothing about), but about the event.
Tumblr Updates iOS App With New Path-Like Interface
An Interview With The Most Powerful Woman In Health Care
Come on, folks, time to relax with the name-calling: he was using his experience to convey a wider point: when you sell something, it belongs to the buyer. They can do what they want with it. Expecting some part is foolish - we can, at best, offer our services to help them make their newly acquired purchase even better.
It also looks like the Heroku app error page to me
Never heard that one before about my last name. Genius. ;-)
Some tips on getting started with Vagrant and Chef
This merger would be great for the rising food tech industry. It opens the door to disruptive solutions to revolutionize the model that was created by these two companies. The continued lack of innovation in the space is precisely the reason we decided to build a curated lunch subscription company that works with the toprestaurants in cities to introduce foodies to an amazing variety of options and for companies to have an inexpensive way to compete with Google when it comes to providing lunch for their employees. We're looking forward to seeing the space evolve as a whole!
There is nowhere near enough information to make a judgement here. I doubt Marissa Mayer will be answering any awkward questions about this today, or anytime in the near future.
Hot dog! I am also interested. I hope your recipe is free of fillers and artificial ingredients. Looking forward to casing your blog site. Address?
I'm currently around 10k AGA, despite having played for seven or so years now. So you were (or are) a stronger player than I. :-)

A lot of what you're describing is "philosophical" Go, which for me is the most interesting aspect of the game. The game is so expansive, with so many different winnable strategies (and, it seems, every strategy being vulnerable to at least one other strategy), and that makes it the most intriguing game I've ever played. That's why, despite being so offensively bad at it, I'm still playing it -- it feels like the game teaches life lessons.

For instance, a dan player during a recent analysis said I was too aggressive (for my rank). I was taken aback, I thought I was playing defensively. But, I was playing defensively everywhere on the board, not leaving enough room for my opponent to live comfortably anywhere, and this was causing life-or-death skirmishes. I got to be a slightly stronger player by giving my opponent a little bit of breathing room.

If anybody on HN is interested in trying it out, drop me an email. I'll get you started on KGS, one of the major international Go networks.
It goes to the stock holders. For a company at Tumblr's stage, probably about 55% of stock will be owned by VCs/angels/other investors, 20% by employees, and maybe 25% by founders.

It will also include signing bonuses and golden handcuffs for employees, though that will be tiny relative to 1.1B, so it probably doesn't change the numbers much.
Heroku App Error page. Clever way to show why he left Heroku? I'm sure my constant refreshing isn't helping.
People resent being forced to do things. If you force them to meet with you, all you accomplish is making them resent you before they get to hear your pitch. Now you have a hill to climb, getting over that resentment, before you can get them to consider your arguments objectively. So you've made your life harder rather than easier.
Isn't this guy one of the two best Django people around? Maybe heroku shut him down?
I feel as though some of these acquisitions represent not the purchase of something worth $x to Yahoo but rather the imperialism of traffic that costs $x to them, which are really the same thing but are rather different when viewed through the lens of shutdowns and stagnation. Yahoo is a content company, and content elsewhere means traffic elsewhere which is a loss for them. Facebook's purchase of Instagram, even if Instagram is shut down and loses all of its users is still worth the money if viewed through the lens of owning the traffic regardless.
Is Twilio profitable?
"When I click “photos” I can see ALL the photos that I’ve stored in dropbox -all, as in ALL, no matter where they are stored, and there’s also a time line on the right, making it easy to jump to specific dates!"

I wonder if this is something new that Dropbox is rolling out in stages. I still only see Photos added via Camera Upload.

And yes, I'm a paying Dropbox customer, so that's not the distinction.
I may have been a bit strong with my wording, as I am not a lawyer. But:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Halliday

> He was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2009 on charges related to resisting a federal grand jury investigating local illegal animal rights activities, mainly concerning fur farm raids in Utah. He was jailed for nearly four months under a contempt of court order to compel him to testify.

Most recently: http://www.salon.com/2012/10/19/grand_jury_resistor_leah_rel...

For more: http://grandjuryresistance.org/
Exactly right. Einstein had no disincentive from taking on the hardest problems, since he had no responsibility to show results.

On the other hand, Einstein had no direct incentive to work on physics at all. He had a restless mind, and was in some ways fortunate to be thinking compulsively about the right problems at the right time.
Your comment is based on the assumption that it's impossible for a founder to really care about a silly app that solves some first world problem. I think more to the crux of the issue here is what the founder wants to do. If they want to make a buck, then I doubt they'd ever regret the buyout. But if they have any emotional attachement at all, regardless of how silly or world-changing the actual product is... well, then whether or not you want to take the money is a valid question.

I can't say for sure what I'd do in that situation, but I do know that the devil I know (me) is far better than the devil I don't (the company trying to purchase my company). I'd like to think that if I was still interested in the company I'd roll on along on my own. (If I wasn't, however, that's an entirely different story.)
This is linking to the "Mobile Devices Per Day article".
I think you're right. The simplicity of the rules in Go leads to complex situations -- like ko fights -- that simply don't exist in chess.
It was in my contract.

But they knew that at the time it would become an issue I'd be a large shareholder in the company and would not want to do anything to hurt it, because that would just be hurting myself.

Ultimately those kinds of terms are meaningless. That's what I learned then. I've never heard of a counter-example.
Does the game invite the child or player to think about their motivations when constructing things? Does the game make them think about their emotions and what is going on in the head of other players when they are razing other players creations and how that affects gameplay? Does the game help them abstract the experiences when playing the game, show them how it relates, and ultimately help give them a better understanding to the world they live in?

I would say no to all of these, just like would say about TV. And it isn't that is important or not, it is just that it offers no fundamental difference from the media that has come before when it comes to development of the mind.
Ask HN: Do you run experiments on your kids?  (Psychological, cognitive, etc.)
I'm the author of "Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid," which hits bookshelves Oct. 1 (http://www.experimentingwithbabies.com).

I'm working on an article that will be pitched to national parenting magazines, and I'm looking to interview some parents who have run experiments on their kids.

When I say experiments, I don't mean anything particularly formal. You might not have a background in child development, but you might have a general interest in science and have applied the scientific method to figure out something about your kid.

It can be anything -- maybe you've tested an infant reflex, or tried to figure out what types of visual patterns your baby is most interested in, or tracked your toddler's walking progress over time, or tested your preschooler's ability to make rhyming sounds, or tried some psychological tricks to get your school-aged kid to eat her veggies.

If you'd be willing to be interviewed, shoot me an email. User name is shaun and domain name is ExperimentingWithBabies.com.
Well this is why I suggested pre-running with Puppet and 'install' your code and dependencies into the AMI before saving it. That way you get the best of both worlds.

Obviously if you have a setup with rapidly deployed code changes you'll want to have your puppet manifest grab the latest version before deploying live when spinning up a new instance.
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I have also used their snapshots with success
My preference is to make a base ami that's configured with puppet and a couple core user/keys. I make this instance automatically hit our puppetmaster and use things like security_groups and user data to figure out what type of node it is. One of the things that puppet installs is a script to generate a new ami from the built instance, this script optionally deletes the puppet package.

Now you have an easy way to build your ami from the ground up, you only need to worry about core OS package enhancements on the base ami, and you can use your created AMI with autoscaling behind an ELB.

For VERY rapid changes - direct git access is optional (even on startup for current code pulls), but I tend to side with the Netflix guys and focus on an AMI as the minimum unit of deployment.

Check out asgard to make this easier (senseless self plug: I built an asgard ami this weekend - http://imperialwicket.com/netflix-asgard-ubuntu-1204-lts-ami...).
Even still, there had been numerous CEO changes at that point. Koogle, Semel, Yang, Bartz. And even with the same CEO, there's a difference between a $30m acquisition and a $1b.
It's his job. I was a board member, and at the time the largest shareholder in the company. He couldn't delegate this particular matter. He did the right thing, as he was imho doing the wrong thing.
And the text in the article keeps say 317K births even though the graphic shows 371K
Einstein's Superpowers (2008)
The promise wasn't specific to search.
But it works the other way around too. If the system is gameable, the system will only be successful until the gamers change.

That's Google's problem in the eternal arms race of search. Google identifies a property that good content has (inbound links, keywords in the url, age of domain), which improves the rankings for a while until the spammers figure it out and morph their content to match. And then we're left in the wasteland that everybody has to do SEO just to keep up with the junk peddlers.
The low gravity may not be enough to hold a thick atmosphere, no?
Thanks! We plan on adding support for things like custom fields and meta data soon, so stay tuned!