skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was once on the other end of this -- witnessing a startup that failed "the wrong way". The unethical way.

I decided to use a startup to raise some money for a non-profit. Their business model was to help fund events / organizations with their platforms, and take a fixed 2-3% commission on the funds raised. I raised $500 using the platform. But I never received the check for the $500.

I knew the founder personally. I e-mailed him and week after week he said, "the check is coming, there has been some sort of accounting error". 2 months passed, and no check. Then 3 months.

So, I e-mailed one of his investors, a mutual friend. He said, "Oh no, I think they are in a very bad place and may not have any money. I have stopped using the service." I e-mailed the founder again. He replied that my money was gone, but that he had committed himself to pay it back.

He was looking for work, though, so he wasn't sure when. Then, the platform's domain name quietly stopped responding to web requests, and the whole platform went offline.

I'm now in this weird position where I'm debating pursuing legal action. I'm still in touch with the founder. He keeps saying that he will pay soon, but doesn't.

The money actually came from over 20 people who had donated to the cause. They are unaware the money never made it to the non-profit. The check I was trying to receive was meant to just be a direct donation to this cause. The founder's mismanagement actually led to $20-$40 being "stolen" from about 20 people. In a way, I acted as a middleman, by encouraging people to donate via this platform. And now, I feel very responsible to get this money back. Do I pursue legal action? I've debated it.

So, here's another piece of advice about how startups should die: "if it's not your money, it's not your money". In other words, if your platform deals with money (e.g. accepts donations, facilitates payments) it is NOT OK to use money you owe your customers to fund operations. That is called theft, plain and simple!
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Actually, expenditures on the social safety net dwarf everything else, including military expenditures.
Please ping us on the ipython-dev mailing list; the core team is all made up of academics and we have a strong interest in educational uses (we're using it for our own courses), so it will be good to coordinate/share ideas on this front.
This is exactly backwards - all of the iOS 7 complaints I've heard so far have been about the UI polish and not the underlying functionality. Polishing a turd would be a beautiful UI in front of a buggy, slow system. Apple didn't ship a polished turd, they shipped a rough, unhewn diamond.
I did that a couple of times back in the day. The plane would take off with just enough fuel to get to Ireland, where you would do US immigration while it refuelled, then on to New York, and straight off the plane without any queuing. I think the airline was EOS or Silverjet or something.
OP, you seem to have localizations enabled probably because of a third-party library (appirater?), because I see that your iTunes descriptions are not localized. You may want to exclude those localizations from your build until you decide to localize the app or at least the iTunes metadata. Sometimes users complain the app is in English when they expected it to be in their language, as advertised.
>These comments are disingenous[sic]. You didn't get confused by these things.

What right do you claim in calling the OP a liar? Do you not think that he is capable of observing his own emotional reaction to UI independent of his intellectual understanding of it? Are you really claiming that he disliked the iOS UI because his theory told him to?

That is utter hogwash. No sane person goes out of their way to assign an explanation of dislike when there wasn't dislike to begin with. It's entirely reasonable to dislike something, and it is also very reasonable to then check with theory as to why that might be the case. Moreover, if someone takes the trouble to a) make screenshots, b) write it up in a blog, and c) share it with the world then I think they deserver far better than to be called a liar.
It's just not practical to fully verify accounts before letting them create a server. It is practical to tell customers why they are being black-holed and give them a chance to fix it when it happens.
I'm pretty sure that it's nothing else and i've never used the Dropbox script after i got the first ticket.
Thanks for sharing.

From a technical standpoint I am wondering about the implementation and scalability of such an approach. Are people sensitive to having to wait to download content for their kid's apps?

This app only has, as far as I can tell, ten items per subject. Download size is about 70 MB, which means all the content for the available subjects is contained in the one download waiting to be enabled. This is OK for a few subjects and a few items per subject. I can see a more substantial offering grow to hundreds of MB if a similar approach is used.

The next approach would be to serve new content off a server when purchased. I really don't have a clue as to whether or not that is seen as a negative when it comes to toddler or young child apps.
You say addition is O(n^2), but I think you can write an O(n) addition with only increment, recursion, and equality testing.

In Python syntax:

def add(a, b):
return add_r(a, b, 0)

def add_r(a, b, c):
if b == c:
return a
else:
return add_r(a, b, c+1) +1
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Should US FDA regulate sugar..Other countries want too
PXC and MariaDB+Galera are mostly the same code.
"Boeing Defense doesn't make a whole lot of surplus cash either"

It does give you economies of scale in the sense that any larger company gains purchasing power and for that matter visibility (and political power) by employing more people.
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Hi All,

I'm a research assistant in the field of innovation management at a university in Sweden.

I had a chance to explore and study the innovation processes at several companies in computer and defense industy. I also launched a blog and had a great deal of visitors, and really liked to contribute to the industry. My area, specifically, is risk management for bottom-up innovations. My idea is launching a company and trying to work as an accelerator for startup companies, and I will definitely do it for free.

But I'm still not so sure about how can I contribute to startup companies... I know that many of you guys have some ties with startups... Please, feel free to give your suggestions and ideas... I need them :)

Greetings from Sweden :)
With a default my.cnf + innodb_file_per_table=1, ibdata0/ibdata1 will stay at 512M which isn't a big deal.
While not directly related to h/w, one of my favorite reads has been "Unix Haters Handbook":

http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

Note I am a Unix//Linux fan myself, but it was really eye-opening to read that doc. (it also confirmed some of my early suspicions on what I perceived to be various design flaws).

Also the book was released in the early 90s', and since then, some of the issues discussed in it has been fixed in later releases of *BSDs' and Linux.

It is still an enjoyable read :)
Not exactly, because bankers aren't required to have monetary reserves equal to their loan amount. So a bank can "loan" an entrepreneur $1B of which the bank only physically possesses, say, $100 million. This is what is meant by banks "creating" money -- the bank just created $900 million.
That's surprising to me, as a user. On Android I often search for apps, find the "free" one, read all the reviews and (if it has positive reviews) I seek out the "pro" version and buy that without ever having installed the "free" version. That is, I know the "free" version will have the top placement and the good user-feedback info so that's the one I can quickly get info about, but I skip the middle-step of installing the "free" one and move straight to the pay-up-front thing.

I guess my workflow is unusual.
> ... neither tradition nor any existing social institution is taken for granted.

I have a different view. Mostly unsubstantiated.

Every system becomes calcified. Every system will be exploited (broken) by insiders. That the rich get richer is math, not morality. Ditto power.

There is no perfect system, no ideal.

Periodically, mostly due to social upheaval, mostly due to technological change, the status quo is disrupted. I call this "shaking the ant farm".

Then there is a period of uncertainty. Until a new consensus is reached. New structures erected.

In USA's culture (and political history), the last major renegotiation was The New Deal. It's duration was extended by the Cold War and the US's massive investment in response to Sputnik.

We've been coasting on those investments ever since.

I don't know when the ant farm will be shook up again.

(My world views are heavily influenced by my understanding of Peter Drucker, Kevin Phillips, and Robert Wright.)
Download link for linux version is busted. Here is the correct one (from trial and error):

http://download.jetbrains.com/python/pycharm-community-3.0.t...
Wow, I'm not sure what position to take here.

On the one hand, spying on everyone is definitely not a power the State should have in a non-militarized situation.

On the other hand, the world simply isn't working right if I personally am not on a few watchlists for the stuff I've read and written on the Internet.
> "unusual traffic" coming from the server which wasn't even being used yet..

Does this not sound suspicious to you? Maybe the server was compromised. "Unused" servers usually don't generate 970 Mbps traffic randomly.
Extremely confused by the fact that there's no article navigation on your site. I just wanted to read more...
And if you offer Wi-Fi to your customers? What then? A protracted court case? ;)
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They just released a socat-based solution a couple days ago:

http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtradb-cluster/release-no...
I think the point was, why hasn't the report been released yet, 2 years later?

Could be they're lazy. Could be they're embarrassed. Could be they're legally prohibited from reporting it -- which in turn could be due to a NSL.

Lots of "could be". But not entirely crazy to list all the possibilities... while waiting for the report, which we can probably all agree ought to be released by now.
I will always choose care from my children over professional care. Easy choice. Even a few hours of time with them will be much more enjoyable than days or weeks with a stranger, regardless of how wonderful the stranger happens to be.

Not everything can be reduced to dollars and cents.
We are extremely aware of this fact, and are working very, very hard to ensure that the format is a robust component of long-lived, archival-quality workflows.

We (in the IPython project) are interested in using it for capturing reproducible research workflows all the way up to the publication stage, so we're painfully aware of the importance of format stability, good conversion tools and support for early format migration forward.

We see many others investing their own time in using our tools, and we know we'd get burned at the stake if we make gratuitous changes that harm their workflows.

We do have some format changes in mind, but we've been "bunching them up" precisely so we can make format revisions only very rarely (we haven't done any in ~2 years), and with rock-solid support for conversions and migration.
Answering my own question, they intentionally stripped the query out of the referrer:

https://nablux.net/tgp/weblog/2012/03/12/google-ssl-not-the-...
I really hope they do well, if only to make people stop talking about how "big data" won't fit in a spreadsheet.
Eeesh. Nothing is more uncomfortable than a friend who owes you money.
"new computer" (on top of the other examples of laptop and tablet that were already posted) also lists a non-wikipedia site first (Dell.com). I think you're really pulling at straws with the computer example, there seems to be a relatively high chance that most people shopping for a new "computer" don't only type "computer", and that the traffic to wikipedia (ie. it being the "correct" first result) is high.
I don't know, after dealing with hundreds of jsps and javascript files adding margins in all variety of ways when they should be a consistent size (that of course, has changed over time and not been changed everywhere) in an enterprise codebase I'll take the Facebook approach for margins any day over just directly modifying style properties..
I was hoping that the author would be complaining about this, but they didn't. That is unfortunate. The date something was written is a very important part of its context. This is one thing newspapers get right, and a lot of "web journalism" gets very very wrong. I've noticed this more and more as the web gets older and older -- I want to know the date something was published, and that information is really hard to come by a lot of the time.
Yeah... just one of the many many things we haven't gotten around to fixing. Since it doesn't really matter for a jet-propelled function.

https://github.com/urbit/urbit/issues/11
IPython is actually almost 12 years old, I started the project while a grad student in 2001.
That graphic wasn't created by Tufte, it was published in 1869 by Charles Joseph Minard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard
Again, this is completely different from certifying or guaranteeing that all the games will run well.
Scriptless attacks: CSSConfEU presentation on cross-site styling.
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Even the full-presence suites don't quite work once you start going over any distance. The lag is just enough that the bit of your brain that processes NVCs gets a little out of sync with your thoughts.
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Nice! Thought so.
He is indeed. If you browse any of the DO support/tutorial articles he's been active all over.

I've been nothing but impressed with DO, right now there seems to be a misunderstanding and OP is not providing full details nor is he allowing DO to discuss what happened.

If he truly cared about others not using DO he'd allow it to be discussed, but it does seem like OP is hiding some fact...

So now I'm left with great service and product vs 1 guy who seems like he did something shady and got caught. Maybe it was an accident and maybe there is a way forward, but only if he brings to light the details of his actions.

Edit: Plus now you delete your post where you hint at your DDoS (by mistake or not) does not add up to your favor: http://i.imgur.com/1pxIxiN.png
Yeah, sorry mate. I just hacked it together. My CSS is horrendous too :)

I've two other articles:
http://www.colmtuite.com/three-reasons-why-wireframing-tools...
http://www.colmtuite.com/a-more-flexible-development-framewo...
Of course, the images came later, thanks to pmarca.
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I think the only difference is MariaDB has done more work on the query optimizer.

Maria uses Percona's InnoDB patchset (XtraDB).

Both use the galera patch from codership.

I don't think Percona merges anything back from Maria.
Feel free to ask for help on our mailing list. We regularly test IPython with python 3.3, and one of our core developers is a python-3 person, so he's using it day in, day out.

You most likely didn't run the installer correctly, and for some reason are trying to execute the python2 sources with python3.
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Just came here to make the same observation; I think this move is two-fold:

1. We are doing this anyway because of Steam OS.
2. Might as well get good community karma for it.

Win-win for us I suppose, another viable entertainment platform to compete with Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Apple.
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Yeah, it's true, the one in our kernel is O(n^2) though. Why? Because we're lame. But it hardly matters, as you'll never get anywhere with either O(n) or O(n^2) addition...
Canonical has been courting GPU manufacturers (Amd, Nvidia, Intel) for quite some time, so they can definitely take some credit for Nvidia's recent forthcoming behavior.

One has to wonder about Canonical and Intel falling out recently.
Would love to try this on Android. You should setup a mailing list to keep people up to date if that's ever released.
Glass - It's paradigm altering and has an endless array of possibilities, most of which are new.
If anyone wants, I'm happy to post a more explicit recipe for how to get multiple versions of Python and IPython running. It's easy enough to post right here.
Oh, I definitely agree Apple should update its external display to include USB 3. The Belkin dock is not ideal. My point was merely that it’s possible to connect USB 3 devices.

I do think Apple will release a new display this year. I’m hoping for the introduction of a model with 4K resolution, geared towards creative professionals and (medical) science.

When the new Mac Pro was announced, Apple made a big deal about the Mac Pro being able to drive three 4K displays, it’d be odd if they didn’t come up with a best-in-class display of their own.

I suspect it’s not going to be cheap, though. 4K displays currently go for $3500, and Apple’s current display costs $1000. So if it happens, the 4K display is likely a high-end option, not a replacement for the current model.
it do works fine, it's the ruby people that don't work fine. actually, you see, I was randomly trolling HN to see how much points I could get (seriously).
Good catch! Just added it to the bug list.
"Why I'm not writing OS X apps", by Hipster Programmer:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107370779337689020644/posts/8SWf...
I think I've lost all precious free time I have... this is great stuff. :)
> This is my first iOS app release.

Wow! Color me very impressed. Not only is the app itself fluid, functional, and well-designed, but I'm sure it's the first of many you'll be releasing on iOS.

If you don't mind my asking: what resources did you use to learn iOS development? How long did creating this app take you?

Furthermore, what did you use for the main webpage? It's very well-designed--I probably wouldn't have clicked-through, otherwise.

I haven't had a chance to use the app yet, but I'll let you know when I do :)
That's just more fuel for my argument. The fact is that the trademark is where the value is, there is no value in the Javascript language. Every other day there's another Javascript vulnerability because that is how it was designed.

http://thehackernews.com/2013/09/internet-explorer-zero-day-...
can someone post a mirror, looks like it has already been taken down.
I will start by saying that the sentiment of this is simple and true. The value added by the "Unlock All" button in it's simplicity is valid.

But they didn't "just add a button" they also added over 3x the content to give that button value.

If they had kept their original 3 books and added the button I'm guessing they would have seen next to no difference in the bottom line.

My point being that in order for an Unlock/Buy All button to work, you need to have enough content/product/etc to make the button worthwhile. Just adding a button may not be enough.
This is art.

"There is never a reason to program in Nock. Except to learn Nock." Classic
I go years between flights, so I haven't looked into this, but I've been wondering recently if it would make sense to ship (UPS, FedEx) your luggage ahead of time. Since the airlines are making big profits on luggage fees and penalties, I'm guessing shipping price wouldn't be that much more. What you'd gain is (I assume) more reliable delivery, and the opportunity to know that your luggage arrived before you get there, as opposed to wondering if it will get there, and operating without it worst case.
If they sorted all that shit out (which i entirely agree with) they might even pull some enterprise customers in from the Microsoft direction as well. The Cocoa framework is pretty nice compared to MFC and comparable to WPF. We played with the idea of knocking out desktop integration on OS X for our product as there is a huge uptake of apple stuff in our sector. We canned it in the end and suggested parallels as there just weren't many good resources out there to get over the learning curve and you just can't get anyone in the UK who can do it.

Despite all their warts otherwise, Microsoft do a pretty good job of this via MSDN.
"is the fundamental difference between SV and the rest of the world. From my knowledge and experience, something like this simply does not happen outside of America."

To state the obvious first SV != America.

And outside of SV there really isn't the sense of "failure is quite ok no biggie".

If you are located in a typical place in america and you lose people's money (I'm not talking about startup shot in the dark funny money) you will be viewed as a failure and less likely to get money again.

If you open up a restaurant or a typical small business (with either your own money or friends and family or a bank loan) and you fail you are thought of as a failure. It's really that simple. Most people won't say "ok he learned something let's take another shot".

Key difference is SV (or with any pooled investment fund) is that they understand that what they are investing in is shot in the dark. And besides it's not their money it's primarily their investors money. OPM. And even if it's their money they are betting on many horses a small amount. Not the ranch.

Had PG been working as an engineer at HP at the time and had put a large sum of his personal money into a venture that failed (money that might be needed for his children's college fund) he might have not been so "unbelievably supportive and so excited for whatever it was I was going to do next."
As someone who wasn't aware of the issue with Optimus nVidia cards before I purchased my laptop, this is fantastic news. I get support thanks to the wonderful work of the bumblebee team but it's never really felt "solid" to me. However, this is most likely because of my inexperience with the subject.

I feel as though I represent a fairly decent number of people when I thank Valve for the steps being taken to make Linux better as I use it as my primary OS.
Just in case this isn't clear, this is OP.

Now, can a lawyer come in and discuss whether or not this can serve as authorization such that DO can't be sued?