skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im very happy my comment its the last one on this particular post.. :)

this news to be on the front page of HN like if it was a good thing, its just ludicrous..

if you have a pocket relation with apple thats understandable and forgivable.. but the ones that accept this kind of policies by only one company, because they are attached to the "brand" in somehow? its beyond sanity

There are bad implications to us all, if this model make its way into others companies and take over our culture, you could even say bye-bye to your beloved startup culture or the ability to launch the technologies that eventually will make a good thing to us all, and have people using it..

oh, they put money on your pocket? but whats is the real price that everybody else will have to pay for it?

you consume it? then its like that thing you like and make you happy, lets say a chocolate.. but or do employ slave labours, or have bad environment implications..
if you have conscious, you will always fell bad to feel good about it..
Once you've sent the consummate bottle of scotch, round of golf, cigars, etc to long time clients / vendors it's remarkably hard to figure anything else out.

Never heard of these guys, will spend at least $500 this holiday season on corporate gifts once I try them out myself ;)

Very cool idea, can't wait to try it.
I would say the common factor in all nations w exceptional academic achievement is the reverence for educators. The excellence of the students will always follow in such cultures.
sorry to hear your country doesn't have solid support for those streaming providers. that sucks.

my country, however, does. as do all (well, most) of my friends' countries. that would be why i used "i know no one" as the qualifier for my comment. shrug

basically, i answered his anecdote with my own. (oh, the delicious irony!) sorry again if you missed the connotation there.

> Who cares about a market chart?

only people who value data over anecdote it appears.
If you start an antibiotic course, it's important to finish it. Otherwise you will have exerted some selective pressure on bacteria in your body without making sure you killed them all, leaving only the resistant bacteria to flourish.
I've been running all the comments and posts on one of my sites through Akismet (http://akismet.com/) instead of requiring captchas. It works great at filtering out spam but couldn't replace captchas in every situation. For example, I don't think it'd be very effective against fake account signups.
> Some people will argue that software developers should be able to require that their customers always have the latest versions of their product. I personally believe that decision should be in the hands of the user.

Did somebody say Internet Explorer 6?

Now, being serious, I agree that the customers should be the ones to decide, BUT they must be conscious of the implications (lack of support, security issues, bugs that got fixed in a recent version, etc.).
My mother just died of ocular melanoma, but was in a trial for all melanomas. The trial drug had an effective rate of 40% and that was considered a huge increase over the previous of about 15-20%. 50% for a melanoma _vaccine_ is great.
For that the only solution is what already happens in android. You see lots of apps that have 20 versions for each device/OS version.

Just to highlight the problem... i can't download a game on an iphone from [Adult Swim] because it requires a front facing camera!

I've been playing the same game on the new ipad with the front facing camera for 2 months. Never found anything that use the camera. go figure.
This article, like many others just like it should be renamed to "How I learned to do anything".
I was asking a question, not saying you're wrong. I'm genuinely curious what forms of transparency exists in the EU, and how it curbs abuses.
In these discussions it is mandatory to quote this paper: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/163083/hotcbp12%20final.p...:

"We completely agree that Hadoop on a cluster is the
right solution for jobs where the input data is multi-terabyte
or larger. However, in this position paper we ask if this is
the right path for general purpose data analytics? Evidence
suggests that many MapReduce-like jobs process relatively
small input data sets (less than 14 GB). Memory has reached
a GB/$ ratio such that it is now technically and ﬁnancially
feasible to have servers with 100s GB of DRAM. We therefore ask, should we be scaling by using single machines with
very large memories rather than clusters? We conjecture that,
in terms of hardware and programmer time, this may be a
better option for the majority of data processing jobs."

Their data is based on Hadoop jobs running at Yahoo, Facebook, and Microsoft -- companies most would agree do have real Big Data -- and they find the median job size is <14GB.
This looks absolutely fantastic and the fact it's on my own desktop means I can use my own tools etc. It seems really well crafted and i'm really looking forward to learning some Node.
"I don't know of a single VC investment that began with an associate cold-emailing a startup."

I can vouch from personal knowledge that this has happened a number of times at a number of different European VCs, and at least once with a major US VC in the last year.

I'm guessing it's far less common for YC startups because YC startups have demo day which essentially initiates the process. They also have a strong network because of YC so it's much easier for a VC to get a warm intro to any YC startup.

It may just be a Europe vs US thing but I'd be surprised if it didn't happen frequently in the US as well especially at less well connected startups.

Certainly referrals have significant value but most major VCs will be able to use their network to get references on pretty much any startup in any case.
This suffers from one fundamental flaw - if it is indeed "guaranteeable" and they sell everyone on the algorithm, it no longer becomes effective. In other words their test cases, as far as I can see, do not take into consideration the behavior of other people using the same algorithm. It reminds me of algorithms in economics.
My entrepreneurial journey from dot-bomb to starting reddit
Not quite the first, but likely to end up one of the most wide spread. The DRM graphics drivers are actually older than ZFS and have been MIT licensed from the beginning (they started from older MIT licensed X11 projects). There's also possibly some other's from the BSD projects (network drivers and such) that are even older than those.
The Challenge of Being an Introverted CEO
Oh, yeah jump right in! Worst case scenario, you learn a few new things.
In investing, it is a big mistake to extrapolate the recent past into universal guidelines.

For example, leading up to the real estate market crash, a lot of people made the mistake of thinking that because home prices had gone up for a decade, they would always go up.

But, it's just as big a mistake today to think that because home values have gone down from 10 years ago, home prices will never go up again.
Tesla plans to build self-driving cars
That's a great point and I did not think of it that way. Thanks.
> Just out of curiosity, have you ever written a book about the process of bootstrapping an Apple II development environment and the little discoveries you made? I would read that in a heartbeat.

Thanks for this suggestion! I write a lot of articles, but I haven't written much about that period, possibly because other people were writing it for me. But I think it might be interesting to write about that time, how we created software before we had access to high-level languages.

In the meantime, here's an old piece I wrote in those days, even though not quite what you have in mind:

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
Yeah, as usual it seems the internet is going off half-cocked about this. Looks like the FAA is grounding all aircraft below 3,000 feet at the request of the (state) national guard to conduct SAR with helicopters. Complaining about FEMA looks like its just shooting the messenger in this case. And the state (i.e. local) National Guard is just executing on their own emergency plans and they don't have the ability right now to coordinate air traffic control with anything other than their own helicopters in the air, so everyone else is grounded with no exceptions. That's actually pretty reasonable triage of resources in an emergency. The UAVs might be useful, but they're outside of the scope of the emergency plans right now. Best thing that Falcon could be doing would not be throwing FEMA under the bus, but lining up sales with the National Guard so that the next time this happens the Guard will have their own UAVs in the air under their own command and control structure (and civilians will again all be grounded, no matter how helpful they might want to be).
There is another very glaring difference between the Finnish and American educational system that the article ignores - there are no private schools in Finland. Everyone in Finland, no matter how wealthy or politically connected, sends their kids to the same schools. It shouldn't be surprising that powerful people in Finland care so deeply about the quality of their public school teachers when those teachers are responsible their own children's education. In America, nearly all of the upper class send their children to private schools, so why would our congresspeople/senators/grovernors/mayors/etc. care about public schools when their own kids don't go there?
The official White House report on the financial crisis
You'll notice a common theme in this (excellent) piece: it's for startups that have some reason to believe they can actually raise a bunch of money. Startups who have either sufficient demonstrable talent behind them, are growing in some interesting way, or some other form of validation.

If you can't find some confidence that you're in that group, find a way to delay fundraising: keep your job, do consulting, work on alternate revenue streams, whatever, because fundraising when you're no in the group the bulk of this article applies to - trying to fundraise is hell. Not just hell like "it's really, really hard and frustrating" but hell like you could actually lose yourself in it, like you could actually get destroyed by it.
Excited!
Antibiotic resistance should be seen as a negative externality of our food system, just like pollution.

In the meantime, I will keep buying antibiotic-free meats whenever I can.
I don't know if things have changed, but we used to add random "requirements" like that to our app when we needed to remove support for hardware that was too old and slow. Our app ran terribly on the original iPhone (largely due to the nature of the app) so we added some requirement that only the iPhone 3G had.
I really hope they expand to Seattle. I know Amazon Fresh exists and that Safeway does delivery here, but they don't do same day delivery and its a lot more expensive than instacart. Some competition will do this area some good. If they can keep quality up and keep prices down, I know they can dominate this whole market.
Star Wars in HTML and SCSS
These "news" of giving Finland's school system praise seem to surface all the time and every time they do, they are also big headlines in Finnish yellow press news, glorified to a massive extent "C'MON, WE CAN DO IT!". I'm a 25 year old finnish man, my only education is grade school, I've been to high school twice, both times resulting in my dropping out, because I just haven't had a clue what to do.
This isn't rare, most of the people I know have no education . Even companies such as Rovio have made a program of recruiting specifically people who've fallen off the education system, teaching them from ground up what to do for the task they are hired for. Not even going to talk about youth employment in general.

Every time I read these news, I become sad, like there's some hidden secret that's never been told to me.

My assumption is that news reporters or whatever are taken to few elite schools, so, pretty basic journalism.
Paul Graham on dating:

s/investors/women/ && s/investor/woman/

(works the other way too)

When you talk to women your m.o. should be breadth-first search, weighted by expected value. You should always talk to women in parallel rather than serially. You can't afford the time it takes to talk to women serially, plus if you only talk to one woman at a time, they don't have the pressure of other women to make them act. But you shouldn't pay the same attention to every woman, because some are more promising prospects than others. The optimal solution is to talk to all potential women in parallel, but give higher priority to the more promising ones.
Thanks for this info. Your non-dev founder sounds like myself and an event like 3DS sounds very beneficial.
> 3. "Your margin is my opportunity."

Very scary and very aggressive. Also, smart (if you can pull off that sort of thing).

> 7. "If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve."

Making a note to tell this to my kids.

> 14. "[don't] get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last."

This one, too, sounds like a good general-purpose life advice.
That's probably not as big of a detriment as the high level functionality Windows expects to be in the filesystem layer that unix doesn't (or puts in VFS). From what I read, this is why Microsoft themselves have a hard time replacing NTFS.
The scale difference is the difference between trivial and serious. Cosmic rays aren't nearly as much a hazard of day-to-day programming as other cars are of day-to-day driving.
Mercedes-Benz S-Class drives autonomously with near-production technology
Having spent the better part of my life in various Finnish schools, I would say "no". It's nothing like in many Asian countries where students are either strongly motivated or strongly pushed by their parents to do well in school.

But perhaps it's this relative lack of individual ambition that allows the system as a whole to perform well? I.e. the Finnish school system delivers a high mean with fewer of the excellent outliers. (Personally I think that's a reasonable goal for an educational system because measuring students doesn't work all that well, so it would be dangerous to optimize for exceptional performance on a broken metric.)
GitHub announces 3D File Diffs
Is there a mirror? This article isn't loading :(
You see, all of the "trivial points" that you mention in the link above are all assumptions on your side, but not facts [1].

You keep calling me a liar, when all of my statements are supported by extensive footnotes with verifiable evidence. You keep calling me a Putin and Assad shill, when in fact none of the footnotes that I've provided point to pro-Russian, or pro-Assad sources.

At this point discussion with you becomes pointless, since it is the basic logic itself that you don't follow.

On the point of your note about calling the police: IMO, this is a hilarious, `fahrenheit-451-esque` statement. Or, I should say, it would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.

[1] On Difference between facts and assumptions: http://infotrac.thomsonlearning.com/infowrite/wr_facts.html
Just to add a common misunderstanding - a convertible note is debt and raising capital is equity. Debt means you owe something (in this cause equity at a later time), and equity means you own something. I know this is probably "Fundraising 101" but often its the basics that people get wrong.
My apologies, on reading again, my first sentence comes across far snarkier than I meant it to be! I thought that the announcement was clear, but reading again, I can see some ambiguities.

I do agree that that Linux probably could use something better than ext4. But Linux also needs something like ZFS.

If Linux's license makes it too difficult to run ZFS, then I can run FreeBSD, Illumos, OpenIndiana, or whatever other open source OS I want in order to get ZFS. But I can't replace ZFS with btrfs, and it doesn't look like btrfs wants to be able to replace ZFS.
HTML5 Presentations
At the end you will see so many reasons to like HTML5 presentations, that even inveterate Flash fans will hardly be able to resist them.
You don't see Linus's viewpoint as contrary to the one on gnu.org? It seems like Linus is saying that the GPL allows AFS to be used with Linux (because it is not a "derived work"). How is ZFS different from AFS in this respect?
This is a great starting point. Nicely done! Just hope new lessons pop up regularly.
"I've never heard of anyone even paying asking price, let alone above it..."

For what it's worth, paying above asking is a pretty bizarre concept to me as well, and I lived most of my life in LA (LA LA, not an outlying area) before moving up to SF. Having owned and sold a home in LA, I would have been smoking crack to believe I'd get my asking price, let alone exceed the asking. And there was no shortage of crazy money floating around that town.

But here in SF, asking is basically the floor, not the ceiling. This is probably because of supply & demand. SF has much more constrained inventory and less liquidity in that inventory -- so you get things like bidding wars, and multiple offers on listings are the rule and not the exception.

I have seen people get carried away with their pricing here, and the market usually punishes those people until they lower their asking prices. But for condos or houses priced "appropriately" relative to their comps, asking is almost assured, and above-asking is far from uncommon.
Very impressive work. I saw Brendan Eich speak At jquery uk in April and he said asm.js was meant for compilers and people should not be programming it directly...I couldn't help but smile and think 'oh yeah?'
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> When software was distributed physically, the consumer always had the freedom to use any version of an application they liked. Want to run a lightweight version of Word because you don't need all the latest features, or maybe you just hate the new UI? No problem. Did you like some video game better before they "improved" it? Just get the old disk out and play it.

In theory, the cloud could do this, too - if done right.
Looks like you hack on your own sensor by buying one of these:

http://www.primesense.com/developers/get-your-sensor/
Your shelf-life so to speak at a potential opportunity is more averaged around 3.5-4 years. I'm not sure if you're open about this to employers but it made me think of a somewhat typical question of "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" "Anywhere but here!" is likely not the response they're looking for even though it would be entirely accurate.

Personally, I don't really care. Our skillset and drive doesn't keep us in long, tenured positions. Having an upward ceiling of 5 years at any company is truly impressive. Most developers I know cap themselves at 1 or possibly 2 years.

I wanted to bring this up primarily to highlight that if an employer of software developers is looking to retain talent for > 5 years they have an extremely hard road ahead of them. The number of Googlers (a random but high metric) that are still there after 5 years is probably much less than most of us think. I'm sure Google has the data to prove or disprove the theory but I'm not sure it's accessible to the public. That's not to say it can't be done but it shouldn't be the same push as other industries seem to require. Those industries tend to have skills that are highly specialized where that much knowledge gathered over time is not only prized but highly required. Our "knowledge cap" seems to reset quite often in comparison and our base understanding of "computer sciency things" tends to transcend the technology we're using those things on.
what evidence is there that teachers are underpaid in the US when you look at total compensation?
Court Strikes Down Mandatory Drug Testing for All Students
prolly because i am not afraid of being hellbanned or whatever hacker news calls it these days. been there before. remind me to tell you about the time i was banned from the quarter-to-three forums sometime.

or maybe i'm more of an austin-game-guy rather than a bay-area-groupthink guy?

or maybe it's because i've only recently bothered to comment? in fact, i think this one may push me over into a double-digit comment count!

shrug

most likely, tho, it's because i've been commenting like that forever and a day (in internet time). a quick google search nets me this example from about 8 years ago: http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/839/something-awful-3...

thanks for pointing it out tho. i'll try to remember going forward that, unlike the rest of the internet, there's a pretentious law here not to sign your posts.

<-- look! no sig!
Will catch up on a MOOC I'm doing and then will definitely jump into this.
Video: SaaS sales success strategies
Death By Tweet - Krugman on why he doesn't tweets
Self destructing data using encryption & non-buble websearch
Self destructing data here will be here considered to be encrypted data for which key available for limited time.
To have sharable self destructing one need to have keys that are available to everybody for limited time.
World wide web is large set of data that is evolving over time.
Web search result of choosen keywords is a hash of W.W.W. existing for limited time.
Number of unique choises of 5 keywords from set of 10^4 is approximately 10^20.
I assume that search results are not stored.
Thus if one chooses 5 keywords, hashes search results (through Tor on Duck Duck Go which does not bubble) with choosen password and uses it to encrypt data then distributes {encrypted data, password, 5 keywords} then he has self destructing data.
I just think Scalia has it backward. He looks at the language of the Bill of Rights and says "where's the right to privacy?" I look at Article 1 Section 8 and say "where's the power to invade my privacy?"
Prop 13 affects the baby boomer point in California. Even with huge amounts of equity tied up in their homes, older people can't afford to sell because their tax bill when they downsize will dwarf the gains they make by cashing out. Also, the fact that their kids can inherit their tax basis (a grossly unfair dynastic tax benefit that should be repealed) makes people do whatever they can to stay in their homes. The result: that much less supply, higher prices, and the young subsidize the old and rich with their property taxes.
> Can we say that it would have been good to predict this event, in that we could have wound down our arms procurement a bit earlier?

Yes, absolutely, very good, very desirable. But not possible. :)

> If "intelligence" can't predict things we'd like to predict, perhaps we need something besides "intelligence"?

Hold on -- intelligence is only meant to give an accurate picture of the present, not the future. For the future, policy analysts digest the intelligence and make a best estimate of what's coming up. But the situation in the Soviet Union was so volatile that they couldn't anticipate their own immediate future.

> Maybe we could hire some historians?

Historians have perfect hindsight, not foresight. Consider that the French responded to World War I, the "war to end all wars", by building the Maginot Line, which represented perfect hindsight. In the opening days of World War II, the Germans went around it.
100% true, but not as powerful as Haskell's. Not sure you can usefully have inheritance and return type overloading.
For some reason, wrapping my mind around this is like trying to fathom the Grand Canyon or the scale of the universe.