skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another user on YouTube who does excellent educational chess videos, including reviews of the games from this year's Sinquefield Cup, is Chessexplained, at https://www.youtube.com/user/Chessexplained/videos
Why don't convertible notes in the friends in family scenario just set a multiple that will be suitable in the case equity is diluted? In this case it seems the main interest in supporting an entrepreneur they believe in and getting their money back - ideally at a better return than they'd get elsewhere. For example, would a 2x return on a convertible note pose any real problem to investors in subsequent rounds?

Glad to see so much discussion about it. After taking Venture Deals with Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson through Kauffman Fellows Academy / Novoed, I'm quite curious about trends on this topic.
I see your DNS XSS
And raise you:

https://cheapsslsecurity.com/ssltools/ssl-checker.php?hostname=https://sslxss.pizzey.me

(Please don't use for bad)
yes, but not fixed here yet - http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=txt:jamiehankins....
Minecraft also makes more on merchandising sales than software sales.
Timw should be measured in base-12
Very useful for generating fake data when writing test cases.
Fair point. Food for thought. :)
Ok, I know it might be hard to fathom, but funnily enough, every single one of the technologies you mention --without exception-- harken back in (arguably) significant and non-trivial ways to technology or fully functional prototypes already in place by the 1970s, if not earlier. I'm not making this up. Look them up and see for yourself! (Yes, even autonomous cars [1]. And ABS [2]. And X-ray computed tomography [3])

On the other hand, try make that same comparison between the 1930s with the 1970s and you would fall off your chair... Or between the 1890s and the 1930s... That's what progress used to look like, sadly [4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_computed_tomography

[4] http://www.cepr.org/sites/default/files/policy_insights/Poli...
The problem is the copyright:
"Design (c) 2011, 2012 Raspberry Pi Foundation
All Rights Reserved"
As far as I know the schematics are not open-source, i.e. there's no right to use them other than as documentation for the (proprietary) Raspberry Pi-manufactured board. The BeagleBone, on the other hand, has an open-source license for their schematic under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Yet it was America's biggest IPO to date, right before Visa Inc. with $19.7B. The other three went public in China (Hong Kong Stock Exchange).
Very good. I'm pointing http://hurdcatz.com and http://hurdingcatz.com to MariaDB's web site...until I get a legal letter from Oracle.

(Actually every fourth load it goes to Bluehost instead, I have to look at my BIND and Apache later...)
> skeuomorphic

No, skeuomorphism involves ornamental details, which are at best hints about how something is to be used.

How you break-down the responsibilities of your system and name them is much much more important than that.
As someone who was working at a fusion startup when Musk was doing PayPal, your post hit a bit close to home for this particular idiot. Had I known back then that I would have been better off doing an internet startup and then later do a fusion startup with the petty cash fund, I would obviously have chosen that route. But like most founders, I thought I could actually succeed, or why else try?

The real issue with incentivizing long-term investment is one of distributing risk and reward over both participants and time. The great advantage of the web startup space is the quick time to expand the market - even if working fusion were here today, it would not have the growth curve typical of successful web companies. Add this to the long and risky development time for things like fusion (or AI, or space launchers, etc.), and what you say seems obvious.

So, why did I choose to follow the risky route rather than the more assured Big R&D route? Well, competition is the main answer. Big R&D projects often start with the idea that developing something is expensive, and since you can't afford to build more than one, this idea morphs into the One True Design (e.g. ITER/Tokomak in fusion). Then big R&D turns its back on other, possibly cheaper development paths. Taking the VC route may put the risk on to the participants, but at least it is open to new, cheap ideas which may be able to bypass the big R&D route.
I've found about 80 TXT records with <script tags in them - most of them look like the person not understanding where to paste a JavaScript snippet over XSS attempts, here's all of them -

http://builtwith.com/script-tags-in-TXT-records.txt

There's a few that are "13h.be/x.js" that look like someone trying this out before.
It depends on what the customers think and if what they think is why they subscribed. If they think that the business is larger and more stable, and value that, they won't be happy.

Personally, I prefer to be visible as an opinionated single founder from the start because it attracts customers who want me to 'win' along with them. I like the model of Brennan Dunn's Planscope in this respect.
Fishy? Their post generated a lot of attention and certainly attracted acquisition offers. This could have been intentional or not, but unless they have some hard-and-fast reason not to sell this doesn't seem like the most unlikely outcome.
Nice. I wish I could add and arrange my own lens elements though!
Probably. I'd imagine that male teachers have policies that jive better with male students, especially the more energetic/unruly ones.

For example, my homeroom 6th grade drill sergeant-esque teacher would order us to do push-ups when we acted up, rather than docking our grades. That kind of pseudo-military style punishment fits boys better, I think. Gets the point across without feeling emasculating or overly punitive.
This article brings up an important point about our education system. How much is it about teaching a subject versus teaching you how to work.

I always did well on tests and in any class I didn't totally hate I felt like I gained the knowledge I needed to. However, I never did all the homework. Hated it. Most of it felt like busy work, or just plain unimportant.

Not that I think self-discipline is worthless. It is a very important life skill. But they don't really teach you how to be self-disciplined so much as attempt to force it on to you by making your grade dependent on a ton of extra work. I like the idea of splitting grades into knowledge and self-discipline like the Minnesota school did.
What does large scale applications look like in Haskell or Cloujour? Why can't both co-exist? Can we have a humanized OO language that compiles to something immutable?
For certain values of 'right'. The machine doesn't have a brain, making the metaphor strained at best.
Was that population that big to begin with? Most of my male teachers in highschool were actually just wanabe-sport coaches. My male history teacher/basketball coach just played movies every day.
The article gives one major reference near the top, to http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades....
I think you and the author have posed a false dichotomy.

I avoid "traditional" OO in my own work for the some of the same reasons the author points out; not least of which that traditional classes are a kitchen sink.

But many of the ideas of OO; notably extensionality (what the author incorrectly calls intensionality), I could never do without. I agree with you, that exposing the innards of my data structures is a crime: not only do I lose control over their construction and use (including defining equality), but I'm restricted from ever modifying the structure.

But nothing in FP prevents hiding structure. You can see it all the time in OCaml: a module signature will declare an opaque, possibly parametric, type, as well as a set of operators over that type. The internal structure of that type is never exposed. All creation and use, and ideally comparisons (though it is unfortunately not enforced in OCaml) must go through the module's API.

(Module signatures, it should be noted, may be shared by multiple implementations, permitting compile-time dispatch.)

Yet while maintaining opacity, I am free to dispense with the excess baggage an OO class entails: run-time dispatch; a single "self" (i.e. the "friend" problem); that abomination known as inheritance; all these things I need no longer worry about, and my code can be cleaner and more efficient.
How to Recognize and Handle Passive-Aggressive Behavior – Psychology Today
Scotland Decides
The technologies you mention are optimization technologies, not innovation technologies.

There's a difference between inventing the internal combustion engine, and making that engine consume 10% less fuel. Even if the latter ends up being a more challenging feat, at the end of the day it is making an improvement to something that already exists. It's a "1+n" technology, as opposed to a "0 to 1" technology.
Preventing it is not a good idea, but we should still try to make it unnecessary if possible. That is another topic though.
You are incorrect. An HTTP GET still requires a 3-way TCP handshake, so your suggestion requires 5 steps not 2:

1. TCP SYN to port 80
2. TCP SYN/ACK
3. TCP ACK
4. HTTP GET
5. HTTP reply with HTML content
This is true only if you use a specific sociological definition of "sexism", which is absolutely not to be equivocated with the one in common vernacular.
I think he'd consider retiring now that he's 73 yrs old..
"Professional chess requires a level of peak mental alertness that most of us achieve only in the throes of searing tooth pain."

Whether this is true or not I cannot say, but it is a great line.
"This is new technology entering the market. Of course neither the startups nor the slow moving legal systems are well prepared to operate in sequence. Why be critical of either?"

I feel pretty comfortable being critical of the startup that's breaking the law, in this case. I mean, shouldn't there be a pretty strong presumption in favor of working within the law, even if it is "slow-moving" (heavens forfend! and perhaps it's good to have things like that move somewhat slowly)? A presumption that "but I want to make money now" doesn't quite overpower?
Why min(NaN,x) is x in IEEE
Here's a link to the Alibaba IPO Roadshow Presentation,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9R2SqZsHM

I highly recommend watching it. To save time, watch it on Chrome at 2x speed.
I don't see how anything has been adapted here. This isn't Uber getting some different deal versus existing taxi companies.

Airbnb always owed hotel tax, and now they are getting around to collecting it. They played the "oh, our users will pay taxes on their own" card, which obviously did not actually happen if this change is expected to increase SF revenue by $11mm a year.

Airbnb was also always subject to the residency laws of the places it operated in, but apparently didn't know that if you let someone book a place for 30 days in California they establish residency and cannot easily be gotten rid of. Despite that being sort of their entire business -- to be the knowledgable middleman that facilitates a housing rental between two parties that don't do this for a living.
I think it would be more interesting if you could dynamically create twitter bots. Then you could create a functional language in which tweets were expressions. Then you build the functional tree for your program and then tweet to its root node to execute it.
And it's hard to see how this is "new technology". For one thing, we already had vrbo and couchsurfing, didn't we? What's the new tech here? And who cares if it's new technology? Is new technology in itself good?
Here's a little blog post from a while back that I wrote about a software bug, time zones, and alternate time systems. It's got a list of HN mention links of decimal time and .beat among other things.

http://cookrn.tumblr.com/post/74190761055/cant-we-all-just-g...
I wouldn't go out of my way to disclose unless in someway it's an advantage (it usually isn't).

If you do need to disclose, I found some solid responses to "It's just you?" are at https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...
That lab had three turing award winners (Leslie Lamport, Chuck Thacker, and Bob Tarjan as visiting researcher). This is how MSFT treats turing award winners now?
This society rewards restraint and conformity. Then there are the mood-altering drugs. When my boys were in elementary school, the teachers wanted to drug them into compliance because they were 'too competitive'. Nurse Ratchet lives.
The Minecraft Parent
Danceroom Spectroscopy
If they ask, sure.

With over 100,000 accounts across 3 SaaS businesses, maybe a dozen people have ever asked, or clued themselves in after realizing I personally responded to all their support requests for years. I don't know of any paying customers I've lost over it. If the product works and they get good support, they're happy.
What is __all__ the fuss with importing `*` in Python?
So much of school is based on blindly doing what you're told and I think young boys have trouble doing what they're told. I know I personally wanted to know the reasoning behind things. In the army they have to break young men down before they blindly follow orders.

Even as a nearly 30 something I don't like being told what to do. Ask, don't tell.

I know I could see this was pointless charade and would rather do something of actual value, whereas most of what you do in school is pointless busy work with no real educational value at all.
Show HN: We built a site to help you find the best neighborhoods to stay at
Hi HN! we just launched Villy and I wanted to post it here to get your feedback on it. For context - we are a team of two working out of the Harvard Innovation Lab, and bootstrapped the site so far.

The idea behind Villy is to use personalized recommendations and curated data to help you find the best neighborhood and hotel when you travel to a new city.

Tell us what you think!
Hopefully it's tough enough that she doesn't get killed by something dumb like a dictionary falling on her head.
> Apple basically build its own factories (and subsequently entire industry) to manufacture for iphone 1.

Are there any articles or book sections about this? Seems very interesting.
Sorry, how do you watch it at 2x speed on in Chrome?
Hovertank3d, Catacomb3d and more – source code
There's also this: https://twitter.com/paix120/status/512087509799825408
1. Enable HTML5 at http://youtube.com/html5

2. Click the gear icon in the bottom right of the player and change selection in the "Speed" dropdown
That's great - if you can do it. The Unix design philosophy has held up well over the years.

But what you're doing is building small pieces that communicate with each other (via pipes, files, databases, or something similar). That looks almost like an OO design (pieces that communicate with each other over defined interfaces, hiding their internals from each other), except that the inter-object communication channel is both more inefficient and more impoverished in what it can express.
Excellent sheep! BTW, Lets hear their answer to #16, "Someone just showed us an idea like this right before you guys. I don't like it. What else do you have?" (Statements of the obvious not necessary, but this is the Internet, so...)
Not stated explicitly but it looks like the article is referring to average age which is heavily skewed by infant death rates - which have been decreasing drastically over the last few decades (yay for that ;-). the real question when talking about the upper limit is "If you make it to 25, what are the chances you'll make it to 100". Last time i looked at this it wasn't nearly as spectacular as you'd think.
EQ being the first in full 3D as I recall.
Let me take a wild guess here:

You're male.

It seems like according to your premise, if we could just get over our prejudices, we could drastically streamline military training by simply selecting docile, compliant females instead of petulant, inquisitive males.
First couple games in this video explains what some of these are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCHMjJCv-Kc
Such as the local municipality not approving new construction?
request HTML 5 player through Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=BE

P.S. You could easily google this!
Having actually worked to implement a last minute export feature, I can attest that they went out of their way to make it difficult - with weird restrictions, and no responsiveness on API rate limiting - I'm glad they'll live on, but I do feel they definitely have some trust to regain...
The general trend in education is less competition and less physical activity. Meanwhile there is more focus on educational minimums rather than maximums. If education was about the 'highest score' rather than the 'best average' you would see males doing better.
Their Kinky College Romance Ended Badly. So Did the School's Rape Investigation
Read Slowly to Benefit Your Brain and Cut Stress
related: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.890/fall14/
Dude,

Subservience is forced, has been forced, due to biology, until the very recent past. Women could not even control having children until birth control. No one likes "corporate drone" jobs. No one likes being a servant or a slave either. Sometimes you take what you can get at the time just to survive.
Django Software Foundation Calls for Applicants for a Django Fellow
Larry Ellison steps down
ng-if is also useful in these cases.

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngIf
I just know these to be the reasons I and my friends didn't do well in school.
Wolfram Online is only $15 per month now for individuals.
Whether or not it's meant in 'sexist terms' doesn't make a sexist statement not sexist. Assigning such fundamental traits to an entire gender without a factual basis is pretty ridiculous.
It seems mean to give her a transparent skull, if that's the final product! I mean, it's pretty cool but not if you want to feel "normal" :)
Wow. this is misleading. Convertible notes are the best things to happen to startup founders in the history of fundraising.

Take a modern convertible note to an angel investor from the pre-bubble 90's and they'd laugh you out of whatever coffee shop you happen to be sitting in.

All of the "examples" shown in the blog post make irrational arguments. Show me one scenario (in numbers) where using a convertible note for a seed round was suboptimal compared to an obtainable equity deal.

If I didn't know better I'd think this was an example of a VC trying to smear an awesome instrument so hopefully they won't have to compete with investors willing to write them.
would make more sense to have it be a local proxy, IMO?

(and probably be easier to boot, given the right scripting language/libraries that should be doable in 10-30 lines of code or so)
I don't understand your "going back to the mid-90s" point.

I cofounded a company that was VC-funded in the late 90s, after having principal roles in two successful bootstrapped companies in the mid-90s.

What I don't understand about the point you're trying to make:

* Modern convertible debt financing of the form we're discussing --- unpriced rounds, rolling closes --- were not available in the 1990s.

* Entrepreneurs who fit the cohort you're implicitly defining --- people who raised VC in the 90s --- are effectively immune to the effect Patrick is describing. Executing a first VC-funded company well gets you your next VC-funded company. Nobody disputes that the priced-round VC system worked well for proven operators. The subtextual argument for convertible debt is that without it, you might not get the next Airbnb or Dropbox --- companies that barely even made it into YC.
> The big advantage of OO is that it acts as a distillation of how humans think.

With how widespread OO is now and in the last decades, how much it is taught and how important it is in a fair share of popular programming languages (or even mandatory, for all practical purposes), this point might just be a self-fulfilling prophecy (if I'm using that expression correctly).
> Aside from the probably-negligible battery use, what use case is it breaking aside from pet-peeve?

I just hate the look of the PW's backlight. The color is a sort of sickly blue, and I actually hate the evenness of it, it loses any sense of being a reflective matte surface which is one of eink's great strengths.

At absolute minimum setting, the PW's light is basically dim enough to be acceptable, but the Voyager's press descriptions, which are emphasizing the brighter light intensity etc, are making me nervous that Amazon is doubling-down on backlighting (er, "frontlighting") and giving up on the idea of a good-contrast reflective display...

[I certainly recognize that in many cases, a light is very useful, but I really want it to be an option that I can turn on when it's handy, and turn off when it's not. I don't want eink to become just yet another light-emitting display tech...]
> I know I personally wanted to know the reasoning behind things. In the army they have to break young men down before they blindly follow orders.

And young women, too.

> I think boys can largely see this is a pointless charade and would rather do something of actual value

I don't think there's a lot of evidence in the behavior of school age boys vs. girls, either in school or in any other context, to support this.

OTOH, I do think your explanation may reflect (though in a distorted way) something that may be a real issue that may explain part of the difference: I suspect that boys have a lower tolerance for activities with a delayed payoff, where conventional school curriculum mostly has a very delayed payoff.
Peter Thiel, Paul Graham and 5 Great Quotes from “Zero to One”
Customer Service: an open letter to ThomsonHolidays
Sometimes worse than a cold lead, but a toxic lead. When companies step over boundaries I've spent at least some effort to erect, not only will I not convert (if only out of spite, even if I think their product might otherwise have some value to me), I'll spend days, maybe weeks ranting about how shitty they are to everyone who will listen.
From what I can tell, the main difference is that the claims in CloudFlare's patent describe more of the SSL handshaking process and the subsequent handling of requests (all of which is exactly the same as in standard HTTPS proxying). They both claim exactly the same technique for a web proxy to handle SSL connections without having the private key, but I guess the USPTO decided the fact that CloudFlare described more of that process in their patent claims constituted a improvement on Akamai's invention for some weird reason.
I always got Bs in highschool. These were 89s and 87s. My homework average, which usually accounted for 20 to 30% of my grade was usually 80 or lower.

Thankfully I left loving learning and am always learning new things from different subjects I am interested in but I feel for those not as privileged/lucky as me.

Education needs a rework, one size fits all doesn't work. Splitting grades I think is just a bandaid on the problem.

I think instead of forcing younger students to memorize multiplication tables and which shoe belongs to which profession (my first F. I remember getting it in kindergarten)
we should try to figure out what style of learning suits them.
Public school and military training are (or were) intimately related, actually. The former, as we know it today, has its origins in 19th century Prussian militarism.

That said, one cannot fairly compare the two. The military has an express purpose of national security, and is well suited to obedience and susceptibility. Public schools, on the other hand, are little more than industrialized daycare at best, and harmful propaganda centers at worst. That and joining the military comes with benefits that extend beyond the artificial void inside a public school... it's supposed to, anyway.