skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The choice of model is sketchy but the conclusion is right. Open up excel or python and do the expected value calculation numerically for any distribution you like (that's plausible for a very early stage startup) and you will get pretty much the same price (~1).

For later stage companies, options are poison. If you pay your CEO in options, his best strategy is to go to Las Vegas and put all of your company's assets on "black".
On my netbook it just says "increase your window size please". The screen resolution on the MSI Wind is 1024x600.
Someone should have a little ActiveX fun with these people
But then its ashes would spread the carbon of its amusement into the soul of everyone through their breathing and eating . . . you know, in hippy theory at least.
I'll start this off with my favorite one that got me for hours the first time many years ago when I was learning SQL, and still bites me occasionally when I don't have my guard up:

Working with MySQL columns that have the same name as a keyword. My favorites: order, table, and the less-known but equally painful, interval.

mysql> SELECT first_name, last_name, interval FROM users;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'FROM users' at line 1
Ruling could let model find, sue online heckler
This should not be done in the United States.

The Manhattan court is a skank.
Very interesting...

"In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer's uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant."

The poor performance is part of it. That's pretty interesting. I wonder if they intentionally degraded it, and if a more sophisticated implementation would avoid some of the problems they hint at.
I once had a bug with Apache Rivet, where Tcl was linked to one version of the 'stat' struct, and Apache to another, meaning that, on occasion, the wrong size thing would get written to the wrong place and overwrite some memory that would, at some later point, cause an error. It was a bitch to debug.
"Creationists (usually of the Abrahamic faiths) are pretty much the only ones who have a hard time reconciling God and science."

I would agree that they have the hardest time, but I disagree that anything in science points to the existence of the supernatural (including one or many deities).
PS3 Slimline Announced : But why?
Model Controlled View, more like.

A serious breach in privacy, imho. Online or offline, does not matter.
> Maybe people who spend all day in nice air-conditioned offices who complain about how "unfair" things like Social Security are should try ditching their suits for a construction belt in the Las Vegas sun for 3 or so years. That's what my dad did (construction), and he passed away before he ever saw a penny of his Social Security benefits. Of course. That's how the people in the air-conditioned offices like it, don't they?

A SS advocate would point out that your mother probably got something.

I'll point out that the fact that your dad got more screwed than someone else by SS does not imply that said someone else didn't get screwed as well.

I think that your dad sould have been able to keep the 15% that SS took, or at least give it to your mom and you. SS advocates think otherwise.
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Not as exciting as my initial reading of the headline promised... "Apple Tries to Kill Steve Jobs, Story in Sunday Times"
>This was submitted 561 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654) but I think it deserves a repost.

I agree with this same sentiment, even if some would argue reposts are redundant or even a bug from some communities who aggregate news similarly, but when it comes down to it, I think reposts highlights a key attribute of 'what a we're all about' or 'what kind of products/stories describe us best', reposts serve as an interesting indicator of any community's (at least those communities who measure their users according to karma) core principles and values.

If anything, Top Reposts is certainly worth iterating as an additional list for top.searchyc, although scraping it could be tricky
If something violates the guidelines, flag it don't bitch and moan and violate the guidelines yourself, twice.

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

"user: Sandman
created: 161 days ago"

Please, read the guidelines before you double-violate.
Way more often than you think. When I did my Scrum certification, there were people from lots of the financial corporations in NYC. I know Verizon is slowly starting to have its people get certified.

My biggest problem with that is that I think a lot of these companies are having their people learn Scrum because they think it'll be their silver bullet, as if taking a bunch of people and having them start doing Scrum will suddenly turn all of their failed or ultradelayed projects into victories.
Was about to post the exact same thing!
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Probably because a bunch of noobs are complaining and not flagging the article they want rid of.
> if you have a incoherent project owner whose priorities drift from sprint to sprint, you will end up with a beautifully executed, disciplined execution of an incoherent product.

Could not agree more with that. And I think that's one of the pitfalls of Scrum: that it works well if you have a relatively well defined project that's not really going to change. If you have to change around your whole system every sprint, nothing is ever going to get done.
For a big presentation, it makes sense: nobody expects to be talked to directly, so it doesn't matter that Steve Jobs is giving them 0% of his attention instead of .1%. But in a more intimate setting, using a Powerpoint presentation is like staring at your shoes.
Awful article. It’s incoherent, badly written and top it off only seems to make one point: the author would rather have a bigger console than a smaller one. While that’s fine for him, I’d guess that he’s in a minority there.
Awesome. Bugs that lay dormant and cause problems at a later time can take a looooong time to figure out
Another good overview:
http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/linkedins-communication-a...

I'd like to highlight the use of Spring/Spring MVC within LinkedIn. It is truly an _incredible_ framework to use when developing apps/web apps when using Java.
The problem with flagging is that it doesn't kill the submission once that has hit 10 points. So at this point you're only flagging to attract moderator attention to it.

This article has been around all day now, and if moderators haven't seen it yet, they probably will once they get online. And if they have seen it, well, that would make it an okay article, I suppose... (Wouldn't be too happy with the latter, so I'm hoping that they just haven't seen it yet.)
"It's a problem 99.9% of people don't have now, but could have at any time."

You, sir, have aptly described the difference between vitamins and painkillers. Tylenol (one painkiller) is bigger than the entire vitamin industry. The whole industry.

That aside, in the "vitamin" world, I think success is based on how likely you are to have that problem. Everyone knows someone who's gotten in a car wreck. Everyone knows someone who has had a hard drive crash. How many people have had Flickr accidentally wipe their photos? If you're selling risk mitigation, it's gotta be pretty risky.
Oh, I was guessing (and had post-money valuation in my head FWIW). No clue, really!
I believe it switches over to VOIP if there's an available wifi connection.
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Ask HN: Has PG written any essays about "people who shouldn't do startups"?
I have a sense that I'm one of these people. I'm risk-averse, perhaps anxious by nature, and I like the structure that corporate entities provide, despite being well aware of how challenging it can be to exist and thrive within that structure at times; and, despite what PG writes in "You weren't meant to have a boss":

http://paulgraham.com/boss.html

It's appropriate, given his audience, that most of what PG writes is very encouraging of the idea that people should just get out there and get things going by themselves.

But, not being familiar with all of his essays, I wonder if someone could point to any that are a little bit more ambivalent about the whole endeavor.
sneakiernet? ;)
This has got to piss off the people that eat on a dollar a day because that's all they have
Mel Gorman - Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager.
I'm curious to know what type of machine learning algorithms are being used for the prediction. Anyone have any thoughts?
Libel is libel. Why should someone have free reign to publish untrue statements about another person with no fear of repercussion? Your reputation plays an enormous role in both your professional and personal life, and you should have the ability to protect it.

The court, in this case, required that they show evidence of libel (which they did) before compelling google to hand over the blogger. I think this ruling is an outstanding one. Speech can be damaging, and folks who engage in libelous or slanderous speech deserve what they get.
Naming one's career is suddenly irrelevant on a personal website? I would imagine one of the most common questions you'd get if you set out to eat for $1 a day is "What do you do?". That's a way of asking if they are doing it because they have to without appearing rude.
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The only scarcity is in your cell, right now. In 99% of cells, txt messages are free as the signal time slices are going unused (no other texters, low signalling use). At, say, a rock concert, the wireless tubes might be crammed but that's why SMS doesn't have a latency (or delivery?!) guarantee. Also, a mobile base station could be set up at the concert to get more airwaves or there may not be enough voice channels.

So... txt messages are essentially free.
You stop it by compelling (as they did in this case) proof of a libelous claim. Anonymous speech, as long as it doesn't cross the line into destruction of reputation based on false statements is still protected.
Except when we get our real job we will get the same starting pay you got. That's without adjusting for inflation. Seriously, My best offer out of college was for a programming job paying what my father was offered for an entry level sales job in 1979. However, we are paying 2000's prices on our college education. We'll be lucky if we get to have the inflation adjusted equivelent of 500K in retirement to lose.
Ask HN: Companies that provide a hosted wiki?
I need to organize a bunch of information with some family members. I would like a wiki that:
-is hosted by someone else
-supports accounts (ie, is not publicly accessible)
-makes it relatively easy to export all the content so I can back it up

I'm happy to pay for this, particularly if it means the company will still be around in a few years.

Does any one have any recommendations for a company that provides this? If a YC company has done something like this, I'd be happy to give them a shot.
Sure is one heck of a "horse raced past the barn" headline.
This would look far less odd, if the over 80 group was also split into 5 year groups. It's also looking 40 years into the future.
Actually, statistical arguments explain why we don't observe (in macroscopic systems) entropy running backwards. Yes, the molecules could, through collisions, spontaneously re-order. But that is such an unlikely occurrence that it's probability of being observed (for a large number of molecules) is very near zero.
a future merger with Google, antitrust regulators permitting, would be the logical step

Really? Their respective corporate personalities seem to be highly incompatible.
That would be a rather negative essay and it would not be any productive. Instead of talking about people who should not, we can keep talking about people who should or skills to acquire prior to starting a startup.

In the end, no one knows.
Something like this?: http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
Ask HN: Just launched our beta, tell us what you think
benz and I just launched our beta to friends and family (http://www.jobpic.com). The idea is anyone can auction off their time and services.

I did freelance programming for a while and hated the experience of the existing sites(like elance, guru, etc.). I think they are good sites for the buyer, but aren't good for the provider. That's what we're trying to do.

I think there are a lot of freelancers on HN so it would be great if people could try it out and let us know what they like and don't like.

We have a todo list 100 items long right now but we're moving pretty fast at improving the product and hope in a few weeks time it will be really helpful to freelancers(and all people that have passions they want to share).

Thanks!
benz and I just launched our beta to friends and family (http://www.jobpic.com). The idea is anyone can auction off their time and services.

I did freelance programming for a while and hated the experience of the existing sites(like elance, guru, etc.). I think they are good sites for the buyer, but aren't good for the provider. That's what we're trying to do.

I think there are a lot of freelancers on HN so it would be great if people could try it out and let us know what they like and don't like.

We have a todo list 100 items long right now but we're moving pretty fast at improving the product and hope in a few weeks time it will be really helpful to freelancers(and all people that have passions they want to share).

Thanks!
I hadn't either, but then I was from the UK. I moved to Canada and they started bringing it in, I was thankful I was on Rogers who didn't introduce it . . . and then the recession hit and they BS-backtracked and implemented it.

Oh well, time to hunt the unlimited smartphone data plans.
First, it isn't clear how you request a specific item or file from the network. You can request the USB stick, but who knows what will be on it.

Second, SMS traffic is already tracked for billing purposes, and is tied to a phone number with a billing address (most of the time). It'd be even easier to identify the users of this network than most online networks. You wouldn't know what was being traded without intercepting the USB stick, but still.
This article suggest speculation can be seen as a constant-sum game, similar to a poker game. People know the only money they make is at the expense of someone else.
People who enter the market as investors (as opposed to speculators) get thus ripped off by speculators, because they don't always know they are taking part to the game.
I could easily earn a good living working 40 hours a week.

I'm trying to get rich so I don't have to answer to some clown barely half my age when I'm 40.
One of my private fantasies is to ship a task to an outsourced (in the worst sense) organization and specify that they must use Haskell. I can't even imagine what monstrosity would come back, but I bet it would be hilarious.

Personally, I rate the perversity of bad coders as being well above Haskell's ability to prevent perversities, but the fight would be truly epic and produce months worth of tdWTF fodder. I don't know which would be worse: Them discovering unsafePerformIO, or them not.
This just blew me away. 50 million registered users (1/5th of Facebook and 50x what Friendfeed had when they sold?). Near breakeven with some profitable-looking features on the horizon. Selling for $20m in the same month where Friendfeed sold for $50m...?
Scripps Networks Interactive uses Scrum with varying degrees of success (as one of the early comments noted - it depends on the skills of the project owner - but even without that, it helps keep dev focused on deliverables that work).
Thanks. It was a fun project.
I hope the retirement age (both legal and socially acceptable) won't remain the same for the next 30 years.
3x because of RGB? please learn about color spaces...
I know something much, much better. It's called a wall safe, hide it somewhere no one will see it and you're golden.
Yes. Something exactly like that. Thanks.

One thing I disagree with in the article is the premise that people get real jobs because "it's the default thing to do". While that may be true, it's also true that a regular job is simply the most likely way that you are going to make a secure living over the long run since most startups fail.

If your job "fails", you can always get another one and make close to what you were making before. And especially if you work in tech, nothing about what has happened in the economy recently has really changed this reality.

But if your startup fails your next startup is also likely to fail - less likely than the first time perhaps, but still more likely than not.
So in other words, all someone has to do is hijack the SMS gateway (or fake an SMS from that number), pose as a "rabbit" and get the information delivered straight to them?
Paul Graham is a little bit late to really shock us all with this headline on such an obvious topic. - a result from the visual map of "Paul Graham"
I get a stupid "increase your window size please" message when I visit the link. Not ready for prime time.
BTW, it's a bit misleading how many comments my essays have, because for a while I used links to HN comment threads as my "blog comments." Most of those comments aren't from regular HN readers.
When trying to learn a really complicated concept in absence of a clear domain model the best solution when I was in school a few years back was neural networks.

That would be my first instinct if I had to solve this problem.
Communication regarding file requests are on the Wiki, which is on the USB stick itself. As for your privacy questions, see the section "privacy" and "handbook," deadSwap trains people to be clandestine, it is the behaviour of the people, not the technology that makes the network work, or not.
sneakerringdarknet ;)
You would still have to distort it unless you encoded the height to the luminance channel and only used the color channel to define boundaries.
me too, but I also would love to know which data sources they are using
Doesn't sound bad, but you've probably heard of insurance companies trying to avoid paying for anything when you actually need something done.
Yes, but it's pretty clear they're doing it to make some kind of political point.

The point, of course, is pretty iffy, because the people out there who truly are living on "less than a dollar a day" live in places where a dollar has very different buying power to what it does in a US supermarket -- thus their experiences are probably pretty incomparable.
The best ones I've seen really aren't that gifted --- they just make an effort to structure what they want to say in a meaningful way, and use the crap out of the chalkboard.
Doesn't matter; that's like saying there's no point in calling the cops once the bank robbers are running off with the money.

The Mod's aren't going to nail it if they think it has favourable attention. They'll mistakenly believe it has favourable attention when no one is flagging it.

There's no point complaining, it's a violation of the guidelines. The article violates the guidelines, so why not flag instead of expose yourself to moderator attention yourself, it's stupid.
This seems to be one of the cases where 2.0 has regressed. I can't see any advantage of this over a more standard sneakernet, without any SMS involvement.
Ask HN: Postfix sexps?
I'm a beginner, so perhaps my method is an artifact of that; but I tend to write functions inside-out. I start with the simplest case and work my way out. Make sure an item is parsed correctly, then loop it, then call it from something, etc. etc..
My idea is pretty simple; make the language accommodate that.
For ex.:
(defun insert5()
(dotimes 5
(insert "foo")))
becomes
((("foo" insert)
5 dotimes)
() insert5 defun)

Only problem I can think of w/ doing things this way is that finding function declarations could be hard. I really, really think this could work a lot better. Anybody out there done something like this? How did it work? Any big problems with it?
If anybody out there's got a PLT scheme or elisp implementation of this could you post a link?

I think we use prefix notation because of English. Japanese is more like this, almost always w/ the verb at the end of the sentence.

I hope to be using autocompletion, or something to parse the source code in the future to avoid having to read the code for functions, so for me (I hope) this shouldn't be an issue.

Joke: here's the FIRST line of NASA's
scheme shuttle-control script:
(((((((((((((((((((((((((((
http://pbwiki.com

its undergone some changes lately, but try the free version to see if its something you'd like. i forget if privacy features are free or if you have to pay
Google Sites might fit your needs, although I'm not sure about the export feature you require.
Yes, just like real spy rings, if you get infiltrated you are dead. That is rather the point of the game, to teach you how to be clandestine. Better learn now so you're not fumbling the drop when it counts.
I would have assumed it was much higher actually.
same here. i'm on 1280 x 720. widescreen

Anyone else got this working?
Social Justice isn't a farther than left policy, I was taught it by a far-right conservative Catholic, it's actually supported by the Vatican.

The Catholic Church can't really be placed on a "left-right" axis -- they have a lot of "left-wing" views on money combined with a lot of "right-wing" views on what you should be allowed to do with your penis.

I've always thought of "social justice" as a left-wing buzzword rather than an actual policy.
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>> That is unless you happen to also be criticizing the same thing that a group of other people are also criticizing.

Most rants I've read that include the word "lisp" have pretty much the same content as this one.
The advantage is that it you don't know who else is using the network. It is a sneaker-darknet.
I sent it to all my functional programming fancying friends who are working at big anonymous corporations in ten year old codebases of OO code and their response was equal parts despair and envy.
_why is no more
I'm still having difficulty finding many posts of the form "here's what I ate today and here's how much it cost". There seem to be only a few posts per month, which is a pretty poor showing.
I just noticed that _why apparently deleted his twitter account. I then found that that wasn't all he deleted:

http://twitter.com/_why
http://github.com/why
http://whytheluckystiff.net/
http://poignantguide.net/
http://hackety.org/
http://shoooes.net/

All disappeared...

For those who don't know who I'm talking about: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
On a slightly offtopic note, what the heck is a "Social Justice teacher" ?