skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" ... others are hard at work ever so humbly providing real value through their—at times—loveless toil."

... and those people are suckers. Honestly. If you are working long hours, jeopardizing your personal relationships, and devoting most of your mental attention to achieving someone else's success over your own -- and you are doing this because your are told it is noble to work hard, and there might even be a slightly bigger piece of cheese waiting for you at the far end of the maze -- then you are a sucker. There is no end to the maze, and the cheese is a mirage.

If you enjoy your job out of passion for the art, you are paid fair, respected, and you enjoy the company of your coworkers then great, enjoy it, stick with it. Otherwise you've been hoodwinked.
Uses https://github.com/tlack/snaphax, I assume?
In addition to the guess of someone else (one founder could have cashed out more or less during different funding rounds), it's also possible that one founder was an investor in subsequent rounds.
Nope, https://github.com/nykac/node-snapchat/
Nearly everyone I've ever spoke with thinks:

- they are a hard worker

- they deserve more money than they are making

- they are stronger and/or smarter than the majority of their peers

- they are a good driver

It takes quite a bit to convince someone of the opposite. Once you have someone's back against the wall with a pile of evidence that they are dumb or lazy, they will start at you with every excuse in the book, mostly I think they are trying to convince themselves.

Of course I believe I am a hard worker, deserve more money, am smarter/stronger than my peers and am a good driver too. Someboday has to be.
All of this is just the symptom of not providing a goddamn good service. If these media companies would provide a good service DRM wouldn't make sense even in their minds. But no, they're stuck in the dark ages, with their heads up their asses.

I mean, look at what Steam has done to the video game industry; or iOS/Android app stores. When it's easier to buy the copy pretty much nobody is going to bother stealing it.
I guess the Scifi question is can you build a nuclear ship with some apparatus that pulls the CO2 out of the ocean and breaks it into C (stored on ship) and O (released into atmosphere)?
no, in this case the first will match on all numbers and the second will match on all objects.

You should learn a little more about JS before you call this simple.
Do not read that story, by the way, unless you want nightmares.
"Boy Hackers of America" I hope (joke not my own).
Is there anything in the spec that ensures compatibility with more than one OS?
> imperilling marine life, on which billions of people depend for their nutrition and livelihood

Nature always win in the end! Hopefully the plunge in human population can be handled mostly by attrition.
I love this.

So I guess the one thing I would ask is if you guys would be interested in doing a % of sales deal, for startups that can't afford those high fees.

I would think that you could make even more than what you charge on a % basis - if you are confident in the leads you produce.

Just a thought.

I would take you up on that offer if you had that - for sure.
> W3C realized that's what people were actually interested in

So, with XHTML, the main thing is that people just wanted their web pages to work like they always had; they didn't want to deal with adding slashes to make their web pages XML and strict parsers and whatnot.

But with P3P, what people want is Netflix and Rdio on all their devices (such as ARM-based Samsung Chromebooks).

Frankly, I prefer the sound of standardized DRM to everyone rolling their own ala the 90s; with any luck it'll mean fewer formats/keys that need to be reverse engineered and whatnot.
No its comparable to saying Apple has a monopoly because Android et. al are hardly putting a dent in Apple's bottom line.

Is your argument for Adobe monopoly really that "they make really good products and no one comes close to them in quality?" Because if so, then good on Adobe for making good products.
You can value an equity based on it's discounted future cash flow discounting by a risk-free rate (typically US 10 yr notes). QE is the Fed making large purchases of t notes on the open market to keep the rate low, in order to keep capital cheap (and ostensibly encourage investment). If they stop these purchases there is a widely held belief that the t note rates will increase, which will hurt the equity premium across all companies. You can play around with any number of free online DCF calculators to see how varying the risk free rate of return effects current valuations.

edit: I am addressing the general question, not ipo valuations.
Wasn't it 300 thousand?
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They seem very in favor reducing over-fishing, switching to clean energy sources, etc. They're only in favor of geoengineering if politicians can't get their shit together and we end up on the brink of a disaster.

"We do not promote the use of the [geoengineering] method highlighted in this section. We merely present it here as an interesting solution proposed by the field of geoengineering, a popularly growing discipline which seeks to provide technical solutions which manipulate the earth’s climate in order to counteract the effects of global climate change."

"Any solution proposed by the field of geoengineering is akin to addressing the symptoms and not the source of the problem."

-- https://web.duke.edu/nicholas/bio217/spring2010/chang/Soluti...
that, and GitHub's offering isn't going to be spring-cleaned anytime soon.
Lead Gen is a tough industry, good luck
If marketing tips were movies.
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When you leave the house you check that your keys are present in your pocket/purse/backpack/etc.

When you leave the car you need to check that your kid is not present.

A simple solution would be to put whatever it is you require at work, such as your wallet/backpack/briefcase, right next to your kid in the backseat. You should check for your wallet/backpack/briefcase before you leave the car, which in turn will have you check the presence of your kid.
That comment was written yesterday. The embargo ended THIS morning at 6am BST.
A better Flash? Yes, please, and thank you.
Ygg2's description seemed extreme to me, so I googled and found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_(psychology)
The Seattle Times did an interactive article about this very subject last month:

http://apps.seattletimes.com/reports/sea-change/2013/sep/11/...
I was confused by this, as well. Given the scale of geologic time, I'd assume they meant 300 million. But a single "M" often means thousand, especially if it's lowercase. So it's confusingly worded.
But there's nothing compelling plugin developers to support all OS/browser combinations, so no, in practice it likely won't be OS-agnostic.

This scheme basically just creates a special class of plugins; these plugins clearly won't be OS-agnostic, because they can't -- that's the whole point of the exercise: to restrict playback to devices that are fully authorised/controlled from top to bottom, with the browser piping streams from the web to trusted plugins running on trusted OSes using trusted hardware (TPM etc).
not necessarily. its fine if the other car absorbed all of the implact during its displacement, for example. also, if the other car crupmled to mush, doing the same. it is not fine for the safety of others on the road, however.
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Oh please, change the record. Your generation has a money money money aesthetic (no, I don't actually think this, but if we're caricaturing each other...) a boundless greed. But I don't really care that much if I earn more than £30k a year for the rest of my life. I've got enough. Heck, I'm considering taking a couple of years off to read books and build a house.

There's a limit to how greedy I can be.

It's fine to work hard if it's a work of passion, something that you really want to accomplish. And there's certainly something to be said for working through downspots, we all have bad days and quitting just because of some minor irritant that may well pass will scupper your chances of greater happiness in the long run. But working hard just to get money to buy stuff you don't need, or even draw a commensurate pleasure from? Spend less and save more, don't fritter your life away suffering to make someone else's dream.

I'm happy living a life that entertains me, I've sufficient money to provide security - beyond that what benefit am I going to get by doing things that bore me?

You think that it's a race? That we won't get as far? I honestly have to wonder: So what?

You don't get points for finishing life before the other person.
based on his 2004 graduation, this is a kid - let him write it again in 15 years.
>Whos afraid of peer review?

Anyone whos ever tried to publish. I used to love science before I actually became an academic and realised how dark and corrupt it could be behind the scenes, I suppose the same stands for every field though.
So why exactly am I not allowed to down-vote this link bait garbage?
The not sleeping thing is a bitch. Mine is almost a year and still needs to be topped off a couple of times overnight.
Got pissed enough to log in..,

I'll only discuss chemistry as that's where I live:

1) "science" != academia. There's a large albeit shrinking PhD employment in Pharma and biotech. Probably larger than academia if teaching colleges are omitted.

2) there's NO shortages. We've got more candidates than positions and the layoffs over the last 5 years don't help. 20% out of Merck is the latest - might be 10's probably 100's of PhDs.

2b) PhDs enter the biz 27-32 and start having difficulties over 40. Narrow window, eh?

3) cultural and media depictions just suck. Employers are viewed as ogres, staff as tools or even participants in ogre-ness. Who the #!?%? wants to sign up for that? And there's no gates or zuck to counterbalance - who knows the players in the field outside the field?

4) investment takes a long time and ideas tend to not pan out. And it takes a whole lot of $$ to get to that failure. Look at the Alzheimer's or cancer fields.

5) biological systems are far messier than computational ones. Yeah, computers are basically free and the software environment is far better than it was but data is still a problem for model building and physics is a bear for complex simulations.

I could go on (and on) but I wanted to end with a plea. If you've made it to the end please keep in mind that while the next social startup might be fun, there are a fair number of problems needing both algorithmic and implementation work. We'd greatly profit from young blood coming in and redoing computational modeling, harnessing cluster and cloud topologies (like the DoE challenges) for large-scale calculations, ...

We have far too much left over from Vaxen. It holds us back and must be replaced.
Conspiracy to murder is punishable with life in prison.
There's a good diagram on the w3 page.
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...

It looks like the idea is to implement a system where encrypted content is passed to the browser. The key is then sent through the browser to the CDM, the CDM can take the content and hand back decrypted frames.

It's entirely possible for content vendors to support multiple CDMs for different browser or OS combinations. The advantage of this is that the CDM is a smaller dependency than something like silverlight, so you can have a standard HTML5 video player interface across platforms and just swap out CDMs.
+1 I really do wish they'd had something like this when I was growing up.
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At least Flash was used widely enough that the vulnerabilities were found. EME means there are several competing vendors of proprietary DRM plugins that talk directly to video card drivers, all with unknowable security characteristics.
I feel like the author is conflating the desire to not be bored with burn-out. It's bizarre that anyone could be that confused about what is going on.

No one who has completed a multi-year project actually thinks that there will never be days when you're bored, or that it's good to jump around from project to project. This is like startup 101 stuff, you can't do a company that does everything, you have to define a project goal and stick to it. Which makes everything else in the post pretty nonsensical.

I think the best you can do is try to understand first your priorities, and then understand what makes you function well so that you can push through those boring, emotionally draining, and frustrating times.

I recently wrote about this for myself, although I'm far from figuring it all out. Still working on how to phrase it all, but maybe someone will find it useful despite my lack of writing skill.

http://blog.saikoled.com/post/62737468595/entrepreneurship-f...
Dude, having your computer pwned is the smallest thing people will give up for entertainment. Romans were happy to hand their Republic to an Emperor, as long as he kept the circensem coming.
Haven't they already raised over a billion dollars have have over 1000 employees?
I'm writing this comment from a Samsung Chromebook. When I use Chrome OS; I'm already giving up my freedom. Chromium itself is open-source, but there are tons of binary blobs on this device: the accelerated graphics driver for the Mali GPU, the ARM build of Adobe Flash, and the EME implementation that makes Netflix work on my device.

EME is not new. There are already devices shipping with implementations, like mine. If EME is standardized, what it means for me is that there's a chance that my device will work with all DRMed content I want to access, and not on a per-service basis.

We're not talking about giving "big bad media companies" full control of the Ring 0 Hypervisor; I am still perfectly capable of flipping the virtual developer switch on my device and booting a pure version of Linux at any time. If I buy a device ships like that, I hope that future me will have the good sense to return it to the store.
There's nothing to this. It's customary for news outlets to wait until they get the go ahead from an organization/company/govt releasing a report (usually done simultaneously). So as to not play favorites, I guess.
This is definitely the largest problem for social media companies in my mind. No matter what they do to generate revenue they will be vilified by the average user. Nobody wants to pay for anything so the natural course of action is to use ads, then everyone complains about ads and leaves or uses the service less. The other course of action is to sell data about users, but that will piss off users even worse.

One alternative I can think of that would not drive away users would be to charge the largest companies that use the services to promote their products. Perhaps charge Oreo for the right to make posts to their social media account on Facebook or Instagram.
I was told repeatedly that I was a sucker for buying Adobe products (I own CS3 and never found it necessary to upgrade) instead of pirating. Well, I'm conflictingly feeling like a sucker.

Conflictingly because my CC info has since expired, but other personal data would still be in their records. I wonder how far back they keep those, but I guess I'll find out soon enough if I'm in the lot.

Edit: If anyone is worried about the source getting leaked giving rise to 0-day exploits and the like, you can at least move away from Reader into something like Sumatra PDF (open source). If all you need is a reader, it's a very handy alternative and far more nimble with resources (no I'm not part of their project. I'm just a very happy user)
> There is absolutely no separation of content from ads, and they do exactly as much as law will permit.

That's one perspective, that it's manipulative to mix the ads in with the content.

But from another perspective, they're trying to raise the quality of the ad "experience." One of the main reasons internet ads are so annoying is because most of them are irritating eyesores that are irrelevant to my life. On Facebook, though, I sometimes gain useful information from ads about local events and things I'm interested in. And the ads bother me less because they stick out less, while still being clearly identifiable.
We have a shortage of scientists in this country.

Not according to the labor markets we don't.
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CDMs will most likely communicate with closed-source hardware that implements the decryption (e.g. Blu-ray's AACS requires video card support for AES and HDCP).
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At least Sliverlight works in Linux with netflix-desktop.
Increasingly, it's like discussing a shortage of nuns versus an abundance of monks. The fundamental recruiting problem is that monastic lifestyles are not fulfilling or desirable for the overwhelming majority of the population.

Hell, I really like CS research, I'm a grad-student, but I'm always looking over my shoulder asking if I really want to be on an academic career path, or what the hell else to do with myself.
I read that just after reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Capitol trilogy. (40 days of rain, 50 degrees below, 60 days...) Yeah, it's science fiction, but it's plausible hard sf, not space opera. And the Time article sounded way too close to some of what was happening in the books.

Ocean acidification was mentioned somewhat in passing in the last book as something that's very hard to reverse, partially because of the chemistry and partially because of the sheer amount of chemicals that would be required. That was in contrast to a multi hundred billion dollar salt transport to restart the thermo haline circulation.
This guy demoed the hack at hackNY. Really well done. I think he's also the same guy who hacked vine too.
I was close to signing up, until I went to the about page; isn't this a pivot/spinoff from a VA service you guys launched several months ago. I tried that, and was not too impressed by the research. This seems like taking the VA system and just charging a lot more. I'm assuming that "Lead Geniuses" are non-usa based?
I’m not sure whether those are good examples. Android Inc wasn’t much of a company when they were bought by Google and the initial Google Analytics offering was very different from the service they bought (Urchin). Meanwhile, Google has killed over a hundred services in the last couple of years.

Apple has bought several companies that had shipping products and just like Google, Apple didn’t cancel those. Examples are FileMaker, Logic, and Final Cut Pro. After it bought PowerSchools, Shake and Astarte, it kept their products on for many years. Furthermore, it is often said that Apple’s acquisition of NeXT was a reverse takeover.
With the insecurity of being a closed source binary blob that has to duplicate a lot of the Web standard.
Is the SEC open in the midst of the shutdown?
Not a better Flash. The same crap but this time embedded in what used to be an open web standard.
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> Unless the whole stack from hardware through to the DRM plugin is locked down.

Which is why you have TPM and the various Microsoft/Apple/Google DRM schemes: Hollywood wants to lock down the full stack, and they're getting there one piece at the time.

For TPM, their enabler was Microsoft and their desire to lock down the boot process to enforce licensing. For this spec, it's Google and Netflix because they think it's the only way their media services will survive in the long run.

Insert here smart quote about expert frog-boiling.
I think what needs to happen is transparent itemized reports which are released to the public. Then the public can do their own data analysis on it (like data.gov when it was open before the shutdown).
Awesome dude, very innovative, could become something, maybe an own app, I dont know.
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How do you think Sony and the EFF will respond?
Not if the decryption is handled by hardware that refuses to give an unencrypted video stream back to the CPU.
Exactly right.

"The idea is that a true insider will place a large bet that provides valuable information to the market."

Yes, and in practice, the true insider has every incentive to provide false information to the market, so as to manipulate people's expectations. The insider seeks alpha by trading on the resultant volatility in that prediction's pricing.

Let's imagine I am the perfect insider. I have a crystal ball that somehow gives me 100% flawless predictive ability into the outcome of a particular bet (say, the next Republican primary). I could make a fair amount of money by betting on the winner, or I could make a lot more money by manipulating the information in the marketplace, creating volatility in the prices of the prediction bets, capitalizing on each fluctuation, while still holding some inventory in the correct outcome. If I knew the winner was going to be Joe Blow, I could bottom out Joe Blow's price by seeding false information, buy him low, then do the same for other candidates.

Of course, the real world doesn't have perfectly predictive crystal balls. But because prediction markets are too small to cause real-world changes (i.e., there's no observer effect), manipulating information would not have a demonstrable effect on outcomes (as it would in a larger, more efficient marketplace). Ergo, as the insider with better info than most, my incentive is to mislead. I do not need a crystal ball to make a killing; I just need slightly better information than the rest of the market. The smaller the market, the more likely it is that my inside information is better than the market's.

In a much bigger market, I couldn't get away with this strategy. At least not very easily or reliably. My seeding misinformation about Joe Blow would actually hurt Joe Blow's fundraising ability, thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy, thereby causing the market price to more accurately reflect reality. If I massively short Joe Blow, Joe Blow's chances actually drop. I'd get less alpha. But as you've said, the markets are way too closed and small to exhibit such an effect -- so I can rig the game accordingly.
that was a really good series, including coverage of Puget Sound, which I thought was carefully protected, but you can only do so much

Oyster breeders forced to move:

http://apps.seattletimes.com/reports/sea-change/2013/sep/11/...

rising levels of caffeine, PCBs and antibiotics in the Sound's waters: (I can't google for recent articles, but STimes has written about it last 6 months

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2002918517_pollution0...
I'm guessing you're trolling for comments on the overjustification offect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
Sure, API Blueprint supports JSON Schema. If you're happy to put in the effort, nothing stops you from using JSON Schema in the blueprint and all the tooling built on top of it.
In a bit of cosmic irony, most fossil fuel was created from mass extinctions that accompanied changes in ocean chemistry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event
This is an apochryphal quote. Just FYI.
I actually love (and share) your opinion(s) on startup culture.

However, as someone who really does commit to projects (as in, will work on them 6 months after the checks stop rolling in) this list is pretty great. Free traffic from early adopters is a good way to test a new product.

I do think there's a time and a place for this though. Know your market. Free traffic/press is nice, but only if you want a bunch of tech nerds using your stuff.
> after perusing the S-1 the revenue growth rate is incredible

Well, one could also say that the growth rate of their cost base is incredible too.