skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You touched on another opened wound - "falling in love with the idea over time"

For me I experienced the opposite. A while back we were working on and idea which we believed to have a lot of potential and opportunities to do something of actual positive impact in society.

Long story short, as time went on, I personally started feeling like it was not that great of an idea, like if it would be awesome someone would have done it by now, etc. For other circumstances the team drifted apart geographically and the startup slowly reached development stagnation.

Not that long after, 2-3 very similar ideas emerged in the market - one of them from a startup's partnership with PayPal.

Needless to say, I both felt sad and happy. The first is pretty self explanatory, while the second felt like a nice validation pat on the back.

But I digress...

Thanks for the comment, really insightful.
I personally would love a gondola ride the top of Everest...
You are absolutely right that the first version of my algo is using tons of leverage. I didn't realize what leverage was when I did this the first time.

The second version of the algorithm factors in leverage and there it hovers around 1.
The best startup ideas are noncentral members of a reference class of generally bad ideas. Everyone (including everyone else who could be executing on the idea) notices the reference class and thinks "bad idea", not stopping to notice what makes this particular idea not-so-bad.
Per OEM appeasement, if there is a 3rd party AV software installed, Windows Defender auto-disables. So many Lenovo
users will have an issue.

ArsTechnica covered this issue in their reporting today
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/windows-defender-now...
I feel like this post boils down the hundreds of posts that I've seen on YC into one small digestible reference. It's pretty nice.
Yep. It's good to have both - the car is the first of a list, and the cdr is the rest, but a cons isn't always a list. Having first and rest exclusively would be short-changing us conceptually.
I think there's probably something here related to timing. You want to be early enough that most people think what you're tackling isn't feasible (and therefore low competition) but not so early that it's impossible to capitalize a business that can go after the problem. In these cases, the idea being "bad" is more about people thinking you'r overly optimistic rather than people thinking it's not something that's useful.
There is room for users in a hostile jurisdiction to avoid uploading, while users in a permissive jurisdiction provide the uploading to keep the torrents functional.
I'd love a list of tried-and-tested-to-the-point-of-being-cloying bootstrapping advice.
>That's not how life always works, though.

Why? What makes life that? Nature? A social construct?

I'm willing to bet is the second thing, and I don't believe questioning such things is bad.
Acids and etching solutions have been used to do this for many years. It takes longer, hence the relevance of this discovery, but it does often work long after the numbers are obliterated visually. My understanding is, similar to this method, it relies on the structural changes made in the underlying metal when the upper layers are stamped. It goes to show you just how tricky materials engineering must be, seeing how the structure of a material can be so easily changed in an invisible way.
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Maybe I'm biased by my love of minimalism (making a good movie without tech appeals to me) but also by the fact that movies are overblown these days. They're higher resolution but on the wrong dimensions, more backstory details, more detailed background decorum, more background characters. CGI lowered the threshold too much, and now movies are out of low-hanging fruits. I agree with you about the 'how' and that's what I tried to show before, back in the days the cost forced people to weight carefully how shots were to be made; not anymore.
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I was actually in agreement with blkhp19 and not the author.
If most children are able to follow the rules and still function well, then the system does not need adjustment. If a small subset of kids are having problem following the rules, then the kids need to be taught about how life is not always about the, and what they want OR create a system where they don't have to follow the rules.
Making a blanket statement that the system is failing boys only based on the fact that her son does not like conforming to the system is over simplification and generalization.
Unless there's something special about today's date, I imagine they'll be doing the same thing they do every night.
Wait, but what if the lions get autism?
In some places in the world, including where the author is from, it was dangerously cold this week. Here in Chicago the temperature was around -5F (-20C) all week, which is dangerously cold for anyone outside in prolonged periods without proper attire.
Interestingly this is about Gemalto, a company with a remarkable history.

Remember times when the USofA wasn't adopting the smart card technology ? Well it had something to do with this chip technology (crypto) being a foreign technology which coincidently was the propriety of the French company Gemplus.

At the turn of the millenium an US investment funds (Texas Pacific Group) managed to find its way in Gemplus capital after a couple denials, which is the start what is known in France as l'affaire Gemplus. To summarize instead of helping to conquer the US market, TPG used its power to change the board of director (and choose Alex Mandl as the head), initiated rounds of layoff and moved the R&D to the US to take control of the sought after technology.

The whole thing is shown to be an operation of the C.I.A. through In-Q-Tel to take control of the chip card technology and possibly insert backdoors before exporting. Slow to react, it takes several years for the french government to create its own version of In-Q-Tel called "Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement" and try to reclaim Gemplus, now Gemalto, by becoming the majority stakeholder with 8% of shares in 2009, a move that happens too late and TPG having gotten what they wanted sells its share a year later.
Its subsidizing the risks that are bad for the economy.

If you're taking a lot of risk and it blows up in your face, you SHOULD lose your shirt.

The people who are NOT involved in your decision should NOT be made to pay.

People can only learn from mistakes if behavior and outcomes are tightly coupled, not if all the outcomes happen to other people and you start getting all your bonuses next year like nothing ever happened.
Not sure that you have to be especially self-righteous to think that there is some level of betraying user trust that ought to actually have some kind of negative consequences for people.
Anyone else spot that the kid likes fire?

Every male I know went through a 'firebug' phase as a kid. A young boy playing with fire is imho as natural as a dog wanting to chase squirrels. There was a time when those of us who understood fire survived while other froze. Those who could start and maintain a fire in adverse conditions were once respected individuals, even professionals. Today they are misbehaving young boys, a small percentage of which are even declared dangerous.

Not allowing young boys to play with fire is akin to not allowing them to exercise. A boy waking up early to tend the communal fire is expressing an evolved behaviour that probably predates language itself.
"Schools aren't evil"

They often are. For a great deal of students, it's a place of unhappiness. I'm on the geeky side, and when I ask my friends (girls more often than not) whether they liked school, they universally tell me it wasn't good for them.

So you can't say that. You want that to be true; that is supposed to be true; but it is not.
Layout and performance of the mobile web is a red herring in the argument of why mobile web is losing. It's not just this. There are so many other factors that I rarely see mentioned. Encrypted / protected caches, local databases, far more persistent logins and UUIDS, sensor integration without the annoying Browser requests x feature modals, launching from the home screen, consistency of experiences because of standard human-interface guidelines, background sync and notifications, integrated payment systems, and on and on.

Apps integrate with the entire rich ecosystem of the device and web apps barely / inconsistently do. There is work happening on all of the above things (kind of), but the experiences arent competitive, the work is piecemeal and the pace is far too slow for people who have the webs best interests at heart. The web is losing because the consensus model for standardising and making available the tools for building the web is antiquated and terribly ineffective. Unless there is a massive change in incentives for standards committees and mobile browser providers this wont change.
> It's a desperate bid, and I don't think it's in their DNA to succeed

I'm not so sure. I think their DNA is changing pretty rapidly these days. Office for iOS is better than Office for Windows RT. Windows Azure services are actually really good, with tons of documentation on how to use them across all platforms (iOS, Android, Javascript, Node.js, etc).

It feels as though the last few decades, every team has been beholden to the Windows/Office hegemony, whereas now teams have the direction to make a good product on their own terms. Without having to answer the question "how will this keep Windows/Office dominant", the massive amount of talent at Microsoft can finally start to shine, and I really think we're starting to see the genesis of that environment lately. It's too early to tell, but I'm pretty hopeful.
The point of the article was how compulsory education is failing boys specifically. What is your assessment of that as an educator?
I don't think the secret is usually the idea. The secret is usually a method of execution that lets you get to the finish line, where everyone else was too slow and ran out of runway.

Which is to say, if you're the right person at the right time, you don't know the secret; you are the secret. Your skillset (or your team's skillset) is the secret.

The tech that just became possible to leverage that nobody else has noticed yet but you're familiar with from its prototype days is the secret. Being able to bring your experience solving problems with 40-year-old systems to analogous problems in modern spaces is the secret. The pitch is not the secret.
Many popular syntax highlighting libraries do include this functionality. For example, the popular Python syntax highlighter "Pygments" supports line numbers[0].

[0] - http://pygments.org/docs/formatters/#HtmlFormatter
I think that your [1] Smithsonian mag is painting a bit too rosy picture. I live close to the place, Kirkkojärvi, where the interviewed teachers work, and not everyone is quite as happy as that. I know someone who moved away from the area to another school district just because he said he wanted his kids to learn Finnish at school, instead of teaching schoolmates to speak and write.

The Smithsonian piece was published after Finland scored high in the 2009 PISA rankings. In 2012 rankings, Finland had dropped quite a lot: 12th place in maths, 5th in science, 6th in reading. That's not very bad either, but it's far from the top, now occupied by Shanghai, China.

Did the quality of Finnish teachers drop in three years so much that the academic achievement of pupils fell sharply? Of course not. It's the same teachers, largely similar population, achieving similar results, but the PISA ranking was weighted slightly differently, and the results changed immediately.

This shows how things are perhaps more sensitive to how you measure them, not how they actually change.
The title is wrong because it can be both and much more. When will we stop using titles as hooks?
Through middle-school my sister and I were homeschooled, and my mom overcame this by getting involved with our church and a couple local education co-op groups. Two days out of the week my sister and I would go to a local church and meet with about a dozen or so other families that homeschooled and have classes. All the families used the same curriculum, and there were a few parents that volunteered to teach classes. It really helped with the socialization aspect, and also took some stress off of my mom since if I had any questions she couldn't answer, I'd be going to a "classroom" with someone who might be better able to answer them. I'd say it's worth looking into, search for homeschooling resources for your location. Or looking into Montessori schools in your area might be a good compromise.
Not all of the features, just those marked as stable in v8.
Those are good suggestions, but on reflection (a) is problematic because we don't want to block out good posts by new users—in general on HN, the cost of losing a good post is much higher than receiving a few bad ones (I like to think of it as analogous to startup investing!). And (b) is problematic because most of these are not repeat offenders.

I suspect what we need is community curation. We're not going to do much of that as moderators—we don't have the cycles, and I think it's a good thing we don't have the cycles. But we would be open to changing the software somehow to support community members who want to curate the Show HNs, e.g. by weeding out the ones that break the rules.
I think what Peter Thiel says about secrets[0] is much closer to the "truth" than "build something that seems like a bad idea but isn't".

[0]http://blakemasters.com/post/22866240816/peter-thiels-cs183-...
> I don't understand this parent. "I let my son play minecraft in the morning before school" - so your son is slacking off in school, but you're still giving him everything he wants? He's your son. He needs to be shown that sometimes, you have to suck it up and work, even when you don't want to. That's a tough lesson to teach an 8 year old, but it's something that parents should enforce early. Eventually, their kid will see that hard work and self control will pay off. Here's a novel idea - don't let your kid play minecraft until he starts doing better in school.

That's a pretty narrow view of how and why their son is doing poorly at school. How do you know he's "slacking off"?

As an adult, one of the most valuable lessons I've learned is to take time for myself. I've watched quite a few of my peers go full tilt into the startup industry and burn out, switching careers, and in one case, having a full mental breakdown. Depression, anxiety, and other mental problems, not to mention physical ailments, are well-documented within the working class. Meanwhile, I work 8 hours a day, and if that doesn't get my work done by the deadline, I miss the deadline. I take all my PTO, and some unpaid time off also. Maybe I'm "slacking off", but I'm a senior developer in charge of people making 6 figures at a profitable company, so I think I'm doing okay.

When I was in high school I went to school 7:30AM to 3:00PM, plus a few hours of homework (AP classes are a bitch). On average I'd say I was working 10 or 11 hours/day. I did very well in school, but I also had very little social life and came out of high school overweight and socially maladapted--problems which only fixed themselves when I had a breakdown in college and sought mental help. I'm actually glad I had my breakdown earlier than some of my peers because that's where I learned to set boundaries on my work/life balance. But I wish I had parents more like the OP, who were sympathetic to the fact that schools are really putting a huge amount of pressure on kids, and teach their kids to take some time to themselves.
Personally I go to the Apple Store even if I know I am out of warranty because they will lay out all of the options you have. Sometimes they offer free services because of recalls
Why didn't you hop on a plane to the US early?
But the article is about creating good educators, the problem is't the students coming in, it's the ones coming out of that education program, who will eventually become teachers. The problem is the program.
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It only tends to a Normal distribution if you estimate P(negative|matches in -ve list) & P(positive|matches in +ve list) with an unbiased, consistent estimator.

A simple 1-gram model like in the question does not model many complexities of natural language e.g. negation ("not bad" != "bad") so you would expect your estimator to over-represent the dictionary with more words that are equal to their adverb-adjusted equivalent. e.g. "not bad" can be described as 'terrible' more readily than 'very good' can be described as excellent since people assign a hyperbolic weighting to their own happiness (utility theory 101)

The sentiment would only tend to a normal distribution if we had perfect estimators for document sentiment which requires advanced POS tagging and models more complex than a 1-gram bag of words aggregation :)
First, I do think some of it is not just teacher demographics; I think the learning style promoted in American schools serves girls, in the aggregate, better than it serves boys. But more directly addressing your post, I don't think the point about teacher demographics is that boys can't respect women; I think it's that they're less likely to see women as role models.

I always tried to downplay this stuff -- race-blind-and-gender-blind and all that to treat all people equally -- but I have a son and three daughters now and in spite of us never really making it a Thing, gender is a Thing for them. My kids were curious about video games but my daughter got turned off by a lot of them because "how come so many of the characters are boys." No matter what I said, she couldn't get past that. She felt like video games weren't for her. Is it crazy that boys might subconsciously feel the same about school? "If it's for boys how come all the teachers are women?"
> If you want an education system that caters for all students, regardless of academic ability and socio-economic background then you need to realise that this does not come cheaply.

Personally, I'd love to see more of my nations GDP devoted to educating my kids rather than devoting that money to getting my kids killed in foreign wars after their 18th birthday.
I'm aware that you disagree with the author. What I'm saying is that it's not just this lady's child that's having trouble, there are many kids who don't like being cooped up in a classroom for hours a day.

There is a lot of sentiment that schools are failing kids.

https://www.google.com/search?q=schools+are+failing+boys

https://www.google.com/search?q=schools+are+failing+girls

https://www.google.com/search?q=schools+are+failing+children
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Let's use an xml-like (but not really xml) syntax instead. And we'll make it so the browser can view this format natively (with no javascript).
Great advice for startups. Except I would say start with a problem rather than just an idea - a problem that no one is solving and that you think is important. That would hopefully lead to building something people want.
We use highlight.js at Resonant Core for our blog posts. After reading the comments here, I'm considering forking it to support line numbers :)
I know car/cdr history, and didn't like it. Only after trying clojure[1], I had a weird sensation that I was missing car/cdr and that writing in scheme felt better.

If I tried to explain deeper, Lisp focus on recursion over cons-lists was so foreign to the mainstream paradigms, that car/cdr, as most used operations, became symbolic axioms in my mind.

[1] which goes all in on the intuitive, human, pragmatic side of things, throwing away some old lisp idioms.
There might be more healthier ways of teaching those values other than by forcing kids into a Pen and treating them as all the same, though. Im not saying I know what they are.

I feel like adults do a great disservice to kids in general by not treating them as intelligent individuals.
Honestly I don't understand how utterly stupid criminals can be. Especially guys who planned the crime.

I'd say that being the son of a cop has its advantages in life ;)
Um... what is the comment referring to?
That's a surprising result.

My previous view was that English vocabulary is based on Germanic as well as Latin roots, and so there there are often two terms with the same meaning, one which is subtly different in usage than the other. In contrast, French vocabulary is mostly Latin in origin.
I'm not saying right or wrong but here are some examples:

WhatsApp (Pre-Facebook) - Softlayer

Youtube (Pre-Google) - ServerBeach

Vevo - Rackspace

Zendesk - Rackspace

GoCardless - Softlayer

Snapchat - Softlayer
Maybe NOT vaccinating any of us real top predators may be the best way to save the rest of the predators.
Everyone has a bank account number for deposit that can be public, just like a telephone number.

To send money, you log in, paste the number and amount, and hit the send button. If both parties use the same bank, the transfer is immediate, otherwise, it happens at 10pm that night.

There are no "~$25 Wire fees" or delays or other nonsense, which makes tiny bank transactions possible, like here's $1.25 for a cookie, as well as paying rent a breeze. Just like it should be.

When I came back to the US and had to write a paper check again (that wouldn't clear for a week) I was quite disgusted.
I hear you.

But I still think kids from an early age need the experience of doing something "useful and important" rather than just practice exercises that bore both them and the instructors.

This is what hooks a lot of kids into actually learning, and is rarely done in US educational system.
> ARE going to have to interact with people who weren't raised by very involved, homeschooling parents.

This is true, but Paul Graham resolved this:

Children pick on each other. Adults do not - not because they're grown up but because they have other things to do.

So yes, of course you DO want to limit your childrens interaction with "kids from tougher backgrounds" until they learn to say "No", "Go away" and "No, I don't want French Fries with that".
If he has had multiple exits worth any considerable cash, why doesn't he just put in the money himself instead of getting investors, especially an investor like you. Seems like he himself is not confident in his idea and doesn't want to risk his own money in the venture.
What are we trying to do tonight? Same thing we try and do every night Pinky… Try to take over the world!
Is this news? I've been using this for quite a while.
Agreed.

AirBnB and similar companies from that cohort are random occurrences but company building isn't as new of a thing as we think so there are millions of other businesses to use in the sample.

The guys enterprising on the silk road (the old one) weren't chasing after some "I woke up one day and had a vision that everyone in the west was wearing silk". They were probably just trying to execute on a market opportunity that was large enough to risk their life for.

"Narrative driven" startups are easier for people to understand, everyone wants Odysseus to come out on top after all, but is it a factor for success?

I dont think so.

As an entrepreneur its my job to see market opportunities that others do not.

How I come to that realization is irrelevant.
The page even starts to break when you reduce the browser window size. Very annoying. Otherwise, NYT is wonderful.
This reminds me of an explanation I read a long time ago for why FM radio is so much clearer than AM. This doesn't really approach your question of informational density, but I thought it was interesting.

If you're driving down the road and someone is shining two lights through the trees. One is white light and merely changes brightness, while the other rotates through three colors. Which light is easier for you to detect changing?
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