skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean with "preferences correct an incentive imbalance that is extremely concerning to venture capitalists"? and why don't other investors in other asset classes experience this "incentive imbalance"?
No, because accepting VC forecloses on a class of exits: the single-digit or low-double-digit-millions ones, which are the most common kind of exit, and which would be highly lucrative if you hadn't accepted an investment. You could accept such an exit after taking VCs, but your share of the profits won't be so much "decreased" as "destroyed".

Getting to a mid-double-digits or better exit requires a different kind of execution and a different kind of luck than the lower kind, so, in fact, your risk does go up, because the bar gets set higher.
nano supports syntax highlighting, so that's not necessarily an issue.
What will Google replace 3rd party cookies with?
Google plans to abandon 3rd party cookies (old story) but what technologies will replace it? How can startups compete?
This is the crux of the argument:

"If you raise funding, however, it cuts out a number of the middle options. VCs will definitely want an exit, and if the exit is too low, this can turn a fairly decent success into a relative failure for the entrepreneur."

However, in my experience (which is now fairly extensive), this scenario is a vanishingly rare one.

Raising a lot of money can certainly be dangerous, but not for the reason Daniel thinks. The big danger in raising lots of money is that you'll spend it-- that you'll let this pseudo-success (with investors rather than customers) go to your head, ramp up your spending before the company is ready, and then put yourself into an impossible position later where you've burned through the money and need to raise more but haven't achieved the results you'd need to do so.

In other words, venture funding is dangerous in the same way any power tool is.
1. Draft in Scrivener.
2. Export to rtf.
3. Open the file in Open Office.
4. Export to LaTex.
5. Typeset pdf.

You can also export directly from Scrivener to LaTex, but a thesis is going to require a good deal of back and forth and revisions before it is ready for typesetting.

If you don't want to have a typeset final product, you can write in Scrivener and export to many different formats. If you want to write using Markdown syntax, you can do so in Scrivener as well. It's a terrific program.
i am considering learning latex, but it looks like it has a steep learning curve compared with markup language like rst or markdown
and also it seems very verbose i.e, presentation and content are written whole/completely
Datasciencemasters/go
This is something I worry, but I am still convinced it is not time yet to quit or pivot. I have 5 clients: 3 are on a 3 months free-trial, 2 are paying about $80/month, starting in January.

For some context, my product is a loyalty program for bars and restaurants based on Facebook's check-in. I talked with 50+ restaurant owners, and social proof is very important. But i also learned that no restaurant is totally satisfied with my competitors' products. I learned where I need to perform (final customer's adoption, as it is a B2B2C product). And I am testing my premises on these 5 clients. These next two months will be crucials to validate my business. I actually put a hold on sales to take good care of these clients. If in two months there are willing to pay for it and let me put their logo and cases on my marketing material, then I have a business. If not, then it is time to quit (or pivot). Either way, I still need a month or two, at least, to know if it is a good idea (or if I am good enough executing it). So I am taking this angel money to validate a promising idea. Sound exactly what angel investment is designed for.
Could the lack of innovation on porn movies be due to it being a volume business? No pun intended :)
What? The NSA wants poorly written papers by school children?
This is an interesting conversation to read through, so I made a poll asking whether people on HN are looking for an exit or building a lifestyle business. If you'd like to respond to the poll, it's at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6970735
If you want to see the future, look to the past...right? With all of the advances in JS/CSS features and performance I would expect that a lot of the garish 90's Flash "enhancements" will make a return beyond some of the simple scrolling and animation touches we see now.

Full 3D spinning cube navigation, automatic audio playback, loading screens, constant page/background animations, etc. It's all going to come back in some way, and that's not some sort of wishful thinking on my part.

Having watched and been a part of the evolution of the web during the rise of Macromedia, what we're seeing now with CSS and JS is very similar to the simple SWFs people were putting together back then. Once everyone gets comfortable with the way things work, it's going to evolve.
That's not a good enough reason to break my muscle-memory, IMHO, even if it is consistent. I prize consistency across platforms more than within.
Because investors in other asset classes aren't investing in individual entrepreneurs with barely-established businesses whose lives could be substantially improved with low single digit millions of dollars, where the returns implied by such a reward would also imply a total failure for the investors themselves.

It's a principal/agent problem. In taking investor money, operators assume some responsibility for generating returns for them. Nobody would invest without the promise of those potential returns. But operators incentives are, absent preferences, actually not aligned with their investors: they would be better off not trying to generate the returns they promised to try to generate, but rather to hew to a conservative strategy that is almost certain not to generate returns but will ensure a golden parachute for the operators.

Preferences correct for this problem, sometimes elegantly: they say "you can take this money to try to generate the returns you promised, but it would be irrational for you to use it to build the small exit you promised us you wouldn't be aiming for."
One DNS lookup per domain name. And once you know the IP, there's little point looking it up again as it's not going to change in the milliseconds between HTTPS/SPDY requests.
There's a common view that the anonymity of Bitcoin is a design goal, instead of it being a design artifact. Making a non-anonymous currency is extremely difficult, not least because the notion of "identity" is hard to define in a decentralized manner.

Given that addresses exist and can be used to sign messages, Bitcoins are, to a significant extent, less anonymous than cash, which is already widely used.
"that the difference between a Quadro and a Geforce, at one time, was just a jumper change. It was exactly the same hardware"

Are you sure it was the same hardware?

Sure, changing the jumper makes it identify itself as a Quadro. But:

Were the GPUs binned the same? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning

Were the thermal solutions the same?

Were the memories the same? And by 'the same',same speed characteristics?

Did the cards have the same power circuitry (damping capacitors, shielding, load capacity, etc)

But yes, I am in favour of using consumer class cards for 3D Apps, I would leave the 'pros' for the top end or specialist apps (like the Quadros that have multiple monitor outputs)
it looks like a very nice application, but i forgot to mention that i am now mainly using linux and it seems there is no linux version? (and also free (as in free lunch version) :D)
http://webm.streaming.media.ccc.de:8000/saal1_native.webm
http://webm.streaming.media.ccc.de:8000/saal2_native.webm
http://webm.streaming.media.ccc.de:8000/saalg_native.webm
http://webm.streaming.media.ccc.de:8000/saal6_native.webm

#noflash
The JVM most likely hasn't been tuned. If I recall correctly it's also a very old JVM that is being used.
Google tries to protect partners, Nexus devices from Rockstar
Team creates a low cost solar collector with high energy efficiency
"Nothing focuses the mind on finding revenues like being broke and needing to make the rent."

Research shows that the cognitive load associated with being broke amounts to a loss of one standard deviation in IQ. The mind is focused all right: only on making the rent and on nothing else, and under no circumstances on anything like starting a business.
This seriously doesn't belong on HN. I am amazed what kind of keyword search the submitter might have done to dig up this old 2011 article!
I am mostly interested in using my technical skills to solve long-standing problems in education. I want to get paid close to market rate for the work I'm doing, but I am much more interested in leading a long-term project than building something quickly and selling.

Most of my work is open source, but I would also like to use my growing skills to build something closed at some point, in another domain. Even then, I would rather build something small that I can maintain and grow without funding, than jump on the VC train.

That said, I have nothing against people who are using the VC model, and I understand that capital is quite necessary for building many businesses.
Bye bye bile? Websites try to nix nasty comments
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Will aluminum Ford F-150 be a rolling beer can?
So, he likes what is known as
the completeness property of
the reals. Good. Glad he
likes that! One remark is
"Calculus is the elementary
consequences of the completeness
property of the reals.".
And, yes, calculus is nice stuff.
Newton did nice things with calculus
but may not have understood the
completeness property, i.e., just
took it for granted that his
derivatives and integrals did yield
numbers.

Some of what is true about the reals
is bizarre, nearly beyond belief,
e.g., as in Oxtoby, Measure and
Category.

The main reason for being careful
with fine details going from the
natural numbers to the integers,
rationals, algebraics, and reals
is a theme that started near 1900
of trying to clean up the logical
basement of mathematics and, there,
build everything on just sets so
that, if believe in sets, then could
believe in everything that could
be based on sets, that is,
hopefully all of mathematics.
This goal seemed okay for
about 10 minutes until B. Russell
thought of the set

A = {x|x is not an element of x}

so that A is an element of A if and only
it is not. Bummer. Seventy years later
the gods of axiomatic set theory
came out with a lot of work that
made set theory look more solid.
Okay, that's curious work, and on
a good day with four quarters
will cover a $1 cup of coffee.
By far the best book I've read on this stuff is Presentation Zen:

http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Delivery-Editi...
Test it for yourself. Sit comortably but with good posture, close your eyes and bring your brain to a neutral place.

Let whatever thoughts pop up pop up, acknowledge them, then let them go and return to neutral.

I find that this practice makes my brain feel cleaner and less burdened, like when you turn to a child that had been saying "mommy, mommy, mommy..." and ask them what they need.

Basically inbox zero for your brain.

There are many other meditative practices and techniques but I use this one fairly often.
No name associated is quite easy to do technically.

-> Start a new dummy email for the anon user

-> Sign-up for a blog on Wordpress etc.

-> Start writing

However in practice it is really tough to stay anonymous, depending on how hard someone tries to find out your identity.

-> If you have a static IP address it can be traced back to you, may even be possible with a dynamic. Also its easy to trace using your hostname.[0]

-> Its really tough to keep personal information disconnected even in the smallest part. eg. people usually use similar nicknames online; you may tell your mom/family/friends about your new blog and they leave a comment;

There are tons of examples of how to blow your anonymity; but it can be done, you'll just have to be really careful if you don't mind the anonymity to go away at a future time.

[0] https://wtfismyip.com/json
I'm at 153, and I do not have downvote privileges. The problem is while I do read a lot of HN and actively upvote when it's appropriate, I do not comment much. I suppose I just have to wait to find an awesomely relevant article and post to get upvotes that way. Though to me, it doesn't matter much to downvote. I would like to occasionally when I see inappropriate comments, but I just usually flag inappropriate submissions.
Wow! I had no idea this could be done. The implications of this technique for forensics work are intriguing.

Is this a new idea, or have people been working on this for a while?
Seliger is a great writer.

Unions perversely hurt themselves. By creating a monopoly for their services, they make it much harder for alternative providers to come along and bid up their services.

The new NYC mayor put the partner of the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) on his transition team. Part of his campaign platform was, "Less measuring, no more charter schools, no more closing failing schools." I fear for the future of NYC schools.

But to the original point, I think the only hope is getting post-career engineers who have already made their money to become CS teachers.
Zotonic - A High Performance Web Framework in Erlang
Clickable- http://Teamite.com
Google Glass: Day 1
Mirror http://archive.is/ESfqw

Here is the link labelled "Including this geek" http://archive.is/UEEoy

Here is the banned sign: http://i.imgur.com/mzhp9V8.jpg
LaTex is not a writing application, it is a typesetting application. LaTex should be your last stop before publication.

You can, of course, write natively in LaTex but the program wasn't designed for that.
"Obvious in retrospect" =/= "obvious".
What's weird is that this didn't move the market at all and the news out of China a few weeks ago tanked prices. Is China just that much more of a player in the bitcoin economy?
Amusingly, I asked that same question on SO, and got a couple very polite suggestions within hours.
Super rich benefit from 'status quo bias'
It's not just money, it's accountability, it's income of the students, it's how progress is measured... Tossing money at a broken school is about as productive as tossing money at an overdue software project. Conceivably it could help, but the data suggests that you should fix the root cause of the problem first.
See: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/spdy-domain-sharding/#co...
My (recent) experience with friends at startups suggests that in accepting venture capital and giving investors board seats, you're going to be pulled hard towards ramping spending: your board will want to see things like a formalized marketing team led by an experienced VP/marketing, and you'll quickly find yourself having to argue against spending more money. It's not just that funding goes to your head.

Also, while I defer to your experience, maybe the vanishingly rare "marginal exit" scenario Daniel talks about was once more common; the two companies I was at prior to this one both faced it. Or is it possible that it only appears rare because nobody entertains the idea of a marginal cash exit for a VC-funded startup anymore, knowing what a headache it'll be?
(BTW: the main reason you are getting downvoted in this case is likely to be unnecccessarily talking about voting patterns)
So, criticizing that a company collects and indexes sensitive medical data of individuals without insight in what the are producing and selling is "intellectually dishonest" when we single out the fact that they are selling rape victim data collections?

Just explaining how things might have come to be, as you do in this strawman exercise, doesn't make it acceptable, or does it?
I don't believe the comment was to not charge the guy with anything, it was not to charge him with more than necessary to punish him for the crime he actually did commit.
I think the point is that Microsoft 'broke' your muscle-memory by assigning an already-in-use shortcut.
GibSec say in their disclosure that SnapChat still uses GAE, and argue that this will make attacks easier/faster due to the server being unlikely to bottleneck.
This was my reaction to the article as well. I'm still baffled why they don't take some of those billions and invest in a top notch customer service team. I'm pretty sure it would increase their bottom line about ten fold in less than three years.
I and quite a few other HN users use NoScript. It blocks JavaScript per domain name automatically unless you whitelist it. It's great for privacy and security.
Microsoft - Bill Gates - from day one believed they were in the business of selling a product to a customer, providing support to that customer, and they wanted that customer to stay with them forever. For the first 15+ years of Microsoft's existence, they had no monopoly position, and had to always be hustling for customers.

Google being a search engine, from day one never had to nor intended to provide support to any users. By dominating search usage (they owned search by what, five years in?), it guaranteed they'd own the search ad business by default (and of course they hooked up an excellent approach courtesy of goto.com), with that combination in place there would never be market incentive to provide good customer service to their ad customers and partners (and once that behavior was encoded into the company's DNA, they approached everything a similar way).

Sometimes Google seems more like a hobby farm (that happens to have a golden goose) than a properly run business.
What kind of features are you planning on providing? I can't really tell from the landing page. Having a list of some features or planned features listed on the landing page would be nice.
How Do You Pronounce Your Domain Name?
Man, that's funny. Let the equivalent to this get posted to HN every Friday in 2014.
Could not agree more. You are not thinking of firing your co-founder, you are thinking of divorcing him.

No matter what its going to be messy, and you need to be absolutely sure its worth going down that road before you do it.
I don't understand anything this article is saying. What is RDP? What are "live programming, open extension, and metacircular staged programming. "

What, and why would you want to upgrade during a loop?

>Those concepts are replaced by discovery – potentially in an infinite graph of stateful resources

What?

>To achieve large scale, robust, resilient, maintainable, extensible, eternal systems,

So many buzzwords...

Could someone give an example with before/after-pseudocode. I understand neither what the problem is nor the how the proposed solution is expected to solve it.
ThingMagic – MIT alumni product going to revolutionize supply chain.
Isn't "+." an ocaml thing rather than ML in general?
I think SML had overloaded numeric operators, though I think that's a special case (i.e. type classes are still better)
I suspect your salary will triple theirs within 5 years.

My sense is there are a few reasons for this:

1) It is very hard to measure the benefits of good teaching, and it tends to be on a much longer timeframe. (Do we value nice teachers, or the ones that force us to learn? And is there a good test for it? I still get lessons from my great high school teachers, but it took a long time to appreciate some of them.)

2) There is little competition for skills of high school teachers. In large cities, there is one employer, take it or leave it. Teachers get one salary - based on how long they've been there. By the time they're most beaten down and least effective, they're paid the most. Meanwhile, the academic literature suggests that after 5 years, there is little correlation between time in classroom and improved skills.

What can be done? Improve the imperfect measurements, and open up the system for competition. Make it easier for schools to compete for better teachers by paying them more. (In the end, parents know which teachers are better) Make it easier for parents to leave bad schools. Make it easier to close schools whose parents leave.
Tried it and it's awesome , I'm sure this one will get viral in no time
Instead of financial loss, I'm more afraid of losing the IP, company, everything I've made prior to my investors even joining, because the investors or their successors suddenly feel like kicking me out someday.
Something more useful I've found with DeMorgan is to flatten nested ifs:

if (hasBread) {
// do something
}

Can be flattened to:

if (!hasBread) {
return
}

As you start your function, flush out all the edge cases, invalid conditions and errors, then at every step forward in the function, you know you're always in a state were the odd balls have been taken care of and you deal with the general case.

This has two advantages:

- it keeps the code tidy (the important parts are pretty
much never in a nested block).
- it makes you handle the odd balls explicitely.

I really hate seeing functions such as :

func cookBread() {
if (hasBread) {
do()
a()
bunch()
of()
stuff()
}
}
ECB encryption. No MAC. Brand new system. Tell me again how developers should be building their own crypto?
Does world need an erasable internet?
Last Chance for your proposals for Python FOSDEM 2014
i would probably try using pandoc's markdown http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdow... and then generating latex from that. but that's because (imho) markdown is easy to edit / read. getting latex output any different from the default is going to involve "learning latex" i suspect.

pandoc is written in haskell and available on linux. for opensuse you can install it from http://software.opensuse.org/search

[i wrote my own thesis in latex, but that was many years ago. another advantage of starting in markdown is that it's easier to get to other formats, like putting your thesis on the web.]
The Scholarly Lecture: How to Stand and Deliver
The Beauty of Lego Instructions
Fair enough. I'm not that extreme, and I get that schools need to offer students the best in education. But many of these schools in question are failing enormous quantities of students. The school my kids are zoned for (public, not in Chicago) has 85% of the kids failing state exams, with half getting the lowest score possible. They're investing millions of dollars in trips to the museums and other "magnet" activities, while they can't provide even a basic education.
Shading a Bigger, Better Sequel: Techniques in Left 4 Dead 2 [pdf]
Former World Series hero Blair dies at 69
Ask HN: Are all Bitcoins of equal value?
I put in a fair amount of research without finding an answer, though bitcoin.org says price is determined by supply/demand, I am wondering can supply/demand be hacked increasing/decreasing the value of only certain bitcoin. For example,

1. Hack demand: What if a certain Bitcoin (or fraction thereof) were owned by a celebrity, I would think there would be greater demand for that specific bitcoin maybe even greater demand for the transaction should it be purchased direct from the celebrity versus additional degrees of separation from the original transaction.

2. Hack Supply: Lets say I create a new startup, and instead of paper shares/stock I purchase 1 Bitcoin to be representative of the ownership of the company. While that Bitcoin and its units would maintain its market value they would additionally contain the respective value of the company.

3. There are also things that are currently being done that in my opinion decrease the value of certain bitcoins. For example, buying bitcoin from an exchange that is not properly licensed/registered opens the door to the potential liability that a government may freeze accounts or confiscate any and all bitcoins that flowed through that exchange. Or for example, the 144,000 bitcoins that the FBI seized from Ulbricht, what if he sold those bitcoins to various buyers well below the market rate and next thing you know the FBI confiscates those bitcoins from the buyers and now the buyers are out their USD and bitcoin. Are these bitcoins inherently tainted?