skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sucks. I spent a very unpleasant 9 months in the early '00s at a startup I founded bouncing from big valley tech co to big valley tech co chasing acquisition deals, each of which consumed 3-4 months of effort and attention, each of which involved us eventually getting into the mindset of being acquired by that company, each of which failed.

Deals fall through; that's just what they do. Yours fell through because a director at the acquirer objected. Others fall through because the market shifts suddenly, or because a competitor to your acquirer spooks them by picking up one of your competitors, or because you lose a key person, or because their business development person leaves, or they get a new CEO, or because a bluebird deal happens for them and they pick up some totally unrelated company that ices you out of their plans for a year.

You're lucky the acquirer told you the deal was dead. That doesn't always happen; dead deals can limp along for months and months, especially if you don't know how to qualify them. This is a reason people hire "business development" people for their startups, but frankly having a BD person might just mean you'll be exposed to more of these horrible prospective deals; if people aren't banging down your door, it's not in a BD person's interests to qualify deals strongly.

My advice is, go into every potential acquisition as if it could not possibly happen. Maximum jaundice! Assume it's going to fall through. Shield your team from the talks. Decline to introduce the acquirer to most people on your team until things have materialized. Talk to people who have sold companies before about the steps their deals went through so you can judge what "real" is (it's probably not just "signed MOU"). Certainly don't expose yourself before the CEO has signed off.

A possible added benefit to this posture is that it also plays hard to get, which while it won't actually increase the valuation you get might keep you from blundering into unnecessary concessions.

My guess is you weren't really all that far into the deal, because no part of your posting talks about vast and intractable legal fees. So, cheer up: you could have been a couple more steps down the road, and a couple hundred thousand dollars in hock to the lawyers too.
You are absolutely right: It's been a while since I last used Titanium. At the time you had to use a crappy/buggy UI to compile your app, with random bugs ocuring all the time, not being able to build once you've upgraded to a newer version due to backwards incompatible changes and more weird incompatibility bugs with other versions of XCode, and so on. I hated the experience since I couldn't rely on being able to building my app and Objective C library support wasn't available at the time or didn't work very well. I quitted using Titanium once they switched from their own buggy UI to Eclipse for building, my code was backwards incompatible, the UI couldn't compile to older versions of Titanium, I had enough. It's true, it has better performance as say a Phonegap, but it did have some weird layout issues from time to time which were hard to fix. Overall I think it's a nice product for creating an app without learning Objective C but I won't use it for a clients app any more, too unreliable.

Oh, and yes, it is 'cross-platform', except for the fact that there are so many things not working on Android (either bugs or non supported in the API for Android) that you need a seperate build for android to make it reasonably useful.

This is al based on my experience with Titanium Mobile from around 2 years ago, so it might be better now.
Trade is only conducted in the hopes of making a profit, which requires exploitation. They are coupled.
Yes, it is undefined behavior by the standard, but most compilers will give you some random value and you will get the answer that GhotiFish states.
He was referring to your typo where you wrote "cremated".
Popper does not have a monopoly on the definition of 'science.' For example, quantum mechanics is not exactly falsifiable... And the general idea of falsifiability has been criticized by many, including non-Marxists.

When Marxists talk about it being 'scientific socialism,' they are contrasting with 'utopian socialism.' Scientific socialism takes the approach of examining the world, making changes, seeing how those work out, and then re-examining the theory. You can see how that relates to the scientific method.
Wired: Putting a Writer and Readers to a Test
Ask HN: Clever uses of cryptocurrency
I've seen several clever uses of cryptocurrency, that is, uses outside buying stuff.

For example, using the bitcoin blockchain as a proof of existence mechanism[1] and using namecoin as a replacement for SSL[2].

What clever uses of cryptocurrency have you seen?

[1] http://www.proofofexistence.com/

[2] http://blog.mediocregopher.com/namecoind-ssl.html
Fiddle Factor
OTR is missing, could you add it for PMs ?
Sure I assume that they get paid. If not in currency, perhaps in food or the stuff they manufacture? I remember taking a train through Russia in the early 90s: almost on every stop, there were people selling stuffed toys or lead glass tableware – that's what they've manufactured, and it was their payment.
When I can either work or starve to death, I would definitely prefer the former under any conditions. Exploitation of child labor is a consequence of poorly functioning government, not an isolated issue by itself. So if we want to do something with it, we should deal with the source of these problems.
Hans Rosling did some great talks on related issues here: http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html
Whoops! Thanks iOS! And thanks for letting me know.
There was a movie where a man explained exactly what you're saying. Do you know its title by any means?
Nope. Trade is not a foundation of Marxist economy.
> But to claim that only a government can build those things and therefore you are forever indebted to the society as a whole is just plain wrong.

It is wrong because it doesn't make sense, but I don't think tks2103 equated government and society (am I wrong?). Are you equating them? Government does not represent society in any meaningful way. Almost always it's a foreign body on society.
Just signed up. I've only made a couple of very minor contributions to OSS projects before and want to contribute more. This seems like a good place to start and the fact that it's actually suggested projects based on my known languages is helpful.
In the copy on your front-page, I would say "Extendable" or "Extensible" instead of "Expandable" here:

Expandable using scripts written in AppleScript, Ruby,
Python, Perl, PHP, and Objective-C.

It took me a second to figure out what you meant when I first read it. I initially read it in more of a Minimize/Expand sense.

[Though maybe I'm just being pedantic.]
Lower costs are a noble objective. Lower costs through any means, however, are an abomination.

Agreed.

People have the causation backwards. Lower prices stem from lower costs which come from use of less resources (natural or productive) which means that there is more produced stuff out there. Increasing costs is the best way to increase prices and induce smaller supplies of produced goods.
It doesn't seem that meaningful to compare a totally naive C implementation to an optimised Haskell one either. (Well, other than to show how fast C is even without any effort to optimise the code). Saying you have to keep the algorithm the same seems like a rather arbitrary limitation on the comparisons, especially since some algorithms are much less of a natural fit in some languages (see: quicksort in Haskell vs C [1]).

I would suggest it's best to show (at least) 4 versions of the code to compare two language: the naive implementation in both languages, and the really optimised version in both languages (plus intermediate levels of optimisation if you feel dedicated). That gives a picture of how fast the typical code one would write will be, as well as the potential for optimisation if you are experiencing bottlenecks, and how much effort it takes to optimise the code.

[1] http://augustss.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/quicksort-in-haskell-...
National security /is/ about standing up for the people. And yes, that should be closely monitored by journalists, but that does not mean that everything should be public.
You know you're arguing with Dale Gribble, right?
Now you have to deal with multiple ports, startup scripts etc etc

That's just what happens when you live with production systems. Not every service in the world gives you a dev/staging/production server with "curl github.com/my-bespoke-database/install-and-run.sh"

The last place I worked had 60 physical mysql servers. We had to deal with ports and servers and startup scripts quite a bit.
If you think Addidas, Nike, Puma etc. don't already know exactly what is happening in this factories, and even further - outsorce their production to EXACTLY those unethical factories, you my friend, are just deceiving yourself.
The article heading now says 'internet forums'.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6404563
Job titles & wages on oDesk
> whilst also being basic to implement

Maybe it's changed, but I remember trying to communicate w/ IRC servers via telnet (prior to netcat) a while ago (maybe 8 years) and I do recall that most of them have deviated from the 'official' spec (specifically the initial connection handshake). I actually had a chat about this with the epic4 devs at the time.

At least XMPP has an official spec. My impression of the IRC world is that it's a de-facto standard. Though there are many implementations that one can clean the details from, cracking open irssi-core to figure out what the protocol is seems a little more difficult than reading an RFC and dealing w/ XML (it's not like we don't have tools built around XML; I would lean heavily on XPath).
There different ways to implement escrow with bitcoin.

1) You could ignore all technicalities and simply send the coins to a third party which releases it back to you or forward to the merchant. That's probably the least recommendable way, but is the easiest to explain.

2) A smarter way to do it is to use bitcoins transaction script that can process multi signature transactions, which can work in a way that if A wants to send B money, he can setup an address that can only withdraw coins from if C also signs the transaction. This method is supported by Electrum and by the Blockchain.info wallet.
Oh yeah?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-index
I think this may be of help:

http://heatmap.forrestertools.com/
Of course halving the range checked would also be an improvement. My own improvement was meant only to reduce the memory usage of antimora's code.
No, I am not equating government and society. I am questioning the simplistic view that a person can exist today and succeed independent of the society they grew up in.

What do you mean government is a foreign body on society? Society is made of people, and people usually make up governments.
Systems Vs. Goals
They're not claiming that mixing is required to let people withdraw securely or anything; it was never implemented before, the original SR never had it implemented the way that people assumed they did, etc. They seem to be claiming that attempts to implement the mixing led to technical problems which has buggered up withdrawals rather fundamentally.

With weeks having passed, it should have been easy to implement some sort of emergency measure that would let them transfer money back to people who wanted it. Instead they continued doing business as usual - money in, but not out - while implementing things like this withdrawal countdown system, which arguably seems calculated to try and maintain some confidence and keep the BTC rolling in.

It seems very likely that this is in fact a big scam, particularly given the shady behaviour of prominent and admin-affiliated vendors also happening, but the blockchain info linked isn't in and of itself definitive proof of anything much right now.
Also known as the "Big Data" approach. Hopefully, they at least understand that there should be differential costs to false positives and negatives.
Estimating the damage done by copyright to Wikipedia using baseball articles
Relevant illustration of bank theft: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
Cash = unlimited demand and unlimited supply

Bitcoin = unlimited demand and limited supply (21 million)
This is where the value of Stem educations come in. 50 years ago you could pick up enough mechanics to fix your car, enough electronics as a hobbyist. today you need to start at 14 building / making at school like we did in woodcraft and metalwork lessons - otherwise when you are a dad and need those making skills, they just aren't there

but like everyone else on the thread - massive kudos - that's what dads are for.
My advice is this: You and your co-founders should each take a couple of days (separately, not together) off, away from the office, in some quiet contemplative place (most hotels in America fit the bill) where you can each do some thinking about what is important to you. Don't plan to do any work during this period, turn off your email and phone and just think about what's most important to you for the business. If you can come back from the short retreat with a clear destination for the business, you've achieved the initial goal. Then, take a day or two to discuss with your co-founders, with brutal honesty and candour, about the overlap and differences in your respective view of the business. If there's still a lot of overlap, then take whatever time you need to come up with a plan.

The game plan here is simple: get clear, define some goals, build some consensus and come up with a plan.

I get the sense that you've got a lot of pain, confusion and doubt clouding your thinking right now, so taking a few steps away from all the noise of operations should help you find what you need to find.

Good luck with it all.
Why do geeks like anime so much?
> All dating sites do this.

That's not true at all. I know this for a fact. I

> badoo is another scam site with 80% fake model photos - it's obvious

I don't know the badoo guys personally, but I'm pretty sure they are working just as hard combatting fake model photos. It's not an easy solution, as you can't just say "Oh, look, let's ban everyone with this photo" because they will change photos constantly.
http://www.youtube.com/show/game-of-thrones

Don't know since when, or if it is just an ad for a redirect to HBO Go that is cleverly mocked up as a video before you try to pay for it.
GiveWell revises its Against Malaria Foundation recommendation
Is the limit anything more than an email exchange to confirm that you aren't using a stolen credit card?
I spent the $5 to jailbreak the full Castleman complaint from PACER: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/182368464/2008-gov.uscou...
my 2 cents to defend NodeJs

329 837799
naive 3.06 sec
329 837799
decompozed 3.03 sec
329 837799
memoized decompozed 0.52 sec

The program
https://gist.github.com/xdenser/7722083
I would guess most full time producers would have swag shops where you can spend money on them.
Yes. That's exactly what would be just, among other things.
A tiny fraction of hundreds of millions still works out in the millions. The number of people that modify Android devices is really quite astonishing.
Show HN: Node.app - Node.js for iOS (supports timers, events, fs, utils, ...)
>> "submit a meaningful pull request"

Might be a chance to get some of the less meaningful bugs fixed in projects (the kind of things people ignore because they aren't interesting enough).

>> "It's going to be hard to learn multiple code bases"

Why not contribute to projects you use regularly and therefore already know the codebase quite well?
You mean of time tracking?

I know Thomas and Amy well, and trust me when I say they're doing quite well with Freckle. And there are much, much bigger fish in the pond. The great thing about building business tools is that the markets they typically serve are SO BIG that you only need a few hundred / thousand accounts to have a healthy and profitable company.
The Problem With Europe’s Strict Privacy Laws (2012)
The scam has been going on for at least a week. There's no hurry.
One of tchrist's Unicode talks from OSCON '11:

http://dheeb.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gbu.pdf

(The official URL is: http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html but it's currently timing out for me)
You're going to use escrow for all of your transactions? There is no way the general public is going to do that. I think even those who are more paranoid would give up the attempt after using escrow to do transactions after a few months and just use regular money. Or more likely, just stop using escrow and use bitcoins anyway, and then complain when they get stolen.
The only thing that will save Jolla is a time machine.

Its important to note that most of us don't like Google for moral rather then practical reasons. The best strategy might be to upstream Android to the Linux kernel and and develop a userland clone.
Oh man the Samsung version is the epitome of a train wreck. At some point, without my knowledge, NFL Mobile got installed on my phone and now every time I try to open a link, it completely ignores my preferences and asks me what program to open it with, one of which is NFL Mobile. It's just so nonsensical it's laughable. Nonstock Android is worse than Windows vendor bloatware.
Engineer with hardware and software experience here.

Software is held to much lower engineering standards because it can be made much more complicated, by most measures of complexity; and complexity in hardware drives up development and per-unit costs, whereas complexity in software drives up upfront costs only, so most people push complexity into software.

Consider an all-mechanical watch. Even a watch that just accurately displays time and day of week is going to be fairly complicated. If you want the day of month to account for the length of different months, that's more complicated again, and if you want to account for leap years, especially the mod-100 years that's more complicated again. To say nothing of products like the Calibre 89 [1].

A product like Pebble will do all that without batting an eyelid, and a hundred other things that would be impossible to do mechanically. Setting the time automatically. Programmable watch faces. Scheduling meetings and synchronizing with other watches, phones and computers. Correcting across time zones and daylight savings transitions. Accessing real time train schedules and weather.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibre_89
From an earlier Hacker News post:
The money is in the Bitcoin protocol
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823394

pasted below:
Alternative chain examples

1. Peer-to-peer, social trading of “normal” (government-backed) currencies without the need of a centralised clearing house. Called a ripple exchange, it is based on a design loosely inspired by the Ripple monetary system.

2. A decentralised, open DNS (Domain Name System) using the .bit Top Level Domain. This is an alternative DNS root based on Namecoin and outside the official DNS root administered by ICANN. Early work in this area included discussion on BitDNS.

3. A service called Proof of Existence which is a sort of notary public service on the Internet. It easily and cheaply (0.005 BTC) allows people to verify ownership, integrity, and that a document existed at a certain point in time.

Building on the Bitcoin protocol examples

1. Bitmessage for encrypted peer-to-peer communications, including hiding metadata like the identity of the sender and receiver, from eavesdroppers. The message transfer mechanism is similar to Bitcoin’s transaction and block transfer system, requiring a ‘proof of work’ for each message.

2. Zerocoin that augments the Bitcoin protocol to allow for fully anonymous currency transactions by placing anonymity technology into the Bitcoin network itself. Zerocoin uses Bitcoin as a “distributed, online, append-only transaction store.”

3. Gliph adds secure mobile communications to the Bitcoin landscape. It edges into controlling digital identity “that shares as many (or as few) facets of yourself as you want to.”
And an acceptance of petty corruption and violence a coworker who's of Indian descent commented that his family had had had "several" properties expropriated by "gangsters"
How I had the most profitable day ever. Kudos to Bitcoin 
It happened quite fast. Honestly, two days ago I haven’t even had Bitcoin wallet.

Within past two days I got a wallet, connected my Shopify shop via Bitpay and yesterday had the BEST ever day on my web shop (http://urbantrait.com/).
I would encourage everyone selling online to take advantage of recent Shopify + Bitpay partnership and start accepting bitcoins. The whole thing took few hours to set up and results are very promising. Good luck, guys!
P.S. And my offer is still there.
Get 30% OFF for all coolest watches at http://urbantrait.com/ . Use ”URBAN2013” on checkout.
KolibriOS: A Complete GUI OS Sizing ~ 6 MB And Boots In Less Than 10 Seconds
>Churchill was distinctly batshit

That's simply balderdash. Churchill was not only a brilliant politician, but an extremely witty and accomplished writer, thinker, and artist. He even received the Nobel prize ... for literature[1].

If you'd like to explain why you think he is "batshit" I'd love to hear it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
You should really consider to put those use-cases in your readme too! :)
I'm sure that most US elite universities (maybe not Stanford) have a goodly number of undistinguished legacy students and humanities-focused undergraduates who "hate math". They're just dealt with through the aforementioned armies of TAs, the drift into easier or less mathematical majors, and of course grade inflation before they'd start to bother someone at Thrun's level. A TA or associate professor at an elite university might have a much clearer view of what undergraduates everywhere are like than Thrun.
I (a man) once met a woman briefly in class at school, and then later that week we hung out for the afternoon.

While we werr hanging out I slowly realized that there were actually two completely different people (with vaguely similar appearance and life experience)-- When I struck uo a chat with the second woman and got invited back to her dormitory, I was actually talking to a stranger with a level of confidence I had when talking to actual strangers.

If I could somehow replicate this tactic intentionally, I would have been much more successful getting dates at school and in the world. But alas, it was UST beginner's luck (and the charged atmosphere of first week of college, when many people are scrambling to make new friends and romantic partners to replace high school social circle)
Show HN: Bit Watcher - watch exchange rates of Bitcoin
Oh so their against ID cards and stop and search for German citizens who have darker skins eh :-)
A society of phone zombies
Quantum mechanics certainly is falsifiable. If the electron two-slit experiment produces a pair of humps, it is falsified to extremely high confidence. (Also, we'd have a hard time dealing with the Pauli exclusion principle, and therefore solid matter, without quantum mechanics.)

Marxism is not scientific, as it does not attempt to falsify one of its core axioms—that the class struggle is over a local optimization game. A central committee can actually do a pretty good job of adjusting the ratio of copper tubing to copper wiring, but the actual challenge turns out to be making people want to invent things like graphene.