skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha. It's difficult to say for sure but those are just the main contrast points. Things could very well turn out badly.
founders probably got liquidity.
Triage generally means the feedback will be routed to the relevant people.

I'm confused why a promise Would be expected here. How do you envision a system for handling large amounts of public feedback working?
I suspect this is the kind of thing that wasn't posted to HN by the original content creator
Very nice. Also very similar to https://transfer.sh/
Really cool of First Round to share this data. Whenever I see interesting data it makes me ask more questions and these are some of the things I'm wondering about after reading the post.

Female founders outperforming male teams: My hunch would be that the bar for women to get funded (at least historically) has been higher than men so the female led start-ups would be a better calibre of company. Related, since this is based on investment performance, could it be that the female founders received smaller initial investments so performing on par with male teams would make the ROI look better?

Halo effect: This to me would indicate that we shouldn't be encouraging fresh college graduates to work at start-ups and instead get experience at a more mature company. I wonder how much tenure they had at their halo company prior to founding the start-up and how it ties with the average age of founding.

Solo founders perform worse: I wonder what happens if you frame this from the point of view of the founder. If the solo founder had a $100 return and the team had a $260 (160% better) return; assuming equal dilution and equal division between founders, solo founder get's $100, a two founder team get $130 each (30% better), a three founder team gets $85 (15% worse).

Next big thing from anywhere: Also interesting, I'd like to see how this varies by referral source. Do companies referred by other investors perform better than non-investor referrals (or can other investors pick companies better than social connections).
White House Report on Occupational Licensing [pdf]
They're all prototypes illustrating better security architectures. Such work often doesn't have all functionality included. Nonetheless, these support JavaScript: OP1 & OP2 web browsers; Microsoft's Gazelle; Tahoma; IBOS; my two kludge solutions I mentioned. So, all of them except the DARPAbrowser which was just a demo for Combex's methods. Papers below on on their architectures, security analysis, and performance evaluation if you're interested.

Far from "use it now," I'm advocating that they illustrate the difference between strong security design and mainstream while providing something to build on. My claim is building on stuff like this would reduce impact of hackers vs popular browsers. Many trusted components can also be built to medium or high assurance because they're simpler.

DARPAbrowser demo
http://www.combex.com/tech/darpaBrowser.html

Designing and Implementing the OP and OP2 Web Browsers
http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~kingst/Research_files/grier11....

Multi-principal OS Construction of Gazelle Web Browser
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79655/gazelle.pdf

Tahoma - A Safety-oriented Platform for Web Applications
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gribble/papers/gribble-Tahom...

Trust and Protection in the Illinois Browser Operating System
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers...
For Iran is your point, "what ultimately changed in the long run?". DPRK is more despotic - I don't think their current government will actually work, or last many years with a connected population. For them being able to communicate with, or even see the outside world would be revolutionary. The internet would begin to unravel the effects of 60 years of Juche.
It should measure the real stats though, like rejection reasons:
1. Ass too big.
2. Couldn't stop talking about herself.
3. So fat, she had her own gravity, and several poor folk got stuck orbiting around her.
I'm confused, it was like this in Win 8 too so what's new?

I just played a game and the only time ads showed up was after the game (and before it when choosing a game). I haven't seen any ads during games.
Sourceforge could very well be a liability.
The methodology matters a lot here: Were a set of preselected questions answered by the data, or was there exploratory analysis of the data which uncovered these results? If the latter, the effects of data fishing[1] would largely invalidate the conclusions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
> How you classify what they do with the money left over after fees isn't all that important because the primary business is fee generation.

Right. But the 'what they do with the money left over after fees' happens to be the subject of this discussion. You're arguing a moot point.
Honestly, the definition you provided is on par with what I usual go for when I use the insult directed at someone.
And I'm okay with that.
This isn't as rare as I would like it. A few gun studies from the west coast in the 90's pulled this kind of quote without justification or attribution.

Two additional things to be aware of are conditions of the study and people pulling a statistic without the full qualification.

"This activity reduced X by 50%" is a popular one. It gets used when writing grants, but often the original study had very specific environmental conditions to go along with that reduction. Those are often ignored in the activities spread.

Quite a lot of people pull quotes from even legitimate studies, but forget to also pull the qualifiers. This happens a lot with medical studies.

There is another, but I can hardly blame people giving its an outright deception. Sometime government agencies or individuals falsify data. We all remember the whole vaccine thing and the damage it did. I can now blame folks for repeating this long after the facts are know.

A popular one I've seen on HN is people quoting AMTRAK's budget showing AMTRAK's ACELA Express is profitable. Sadly, that's only true if you use some really shady accounting[1] and completely forget capital costs. You wouldn't know that from the various articles quoting the actual budget report.

Politics sometimes trumps the doing of basic fact checking.

1) here is one of the internal critiques of even the newer accounting https://www.oig.dot.gov/sites/default/files/Amtrak's%20New%2... and http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/782/517/Amtrak-Report-on-Interna...
Huh? That's not how it works.
> Facebook, led by a (former) dev, has gone all-in on open plan offices

As another comment[1] pointed out it may have been founded by a developer, but it was one who never worked anywhere other than the company he founded and grew. Things that work well for a company of ten or twenty don't necessarily work best when it grows into the hundreds or thousands of employees.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9968367
You mean something like this?

http://i.imgur.com/e9s29Jl.png
It's a technology that allows you to watch movies without an internet connection.
I think this article conveys a real theme when it comes to using, misusing or listening to someone else totally making sh#t up that only serves their purpose data. Here are hard decisions based on dubious data with real implications to people's lives. I just don't see how this connects to HN, tech or start-ups.
Oh yeah: they rock! Especially Mirage. That project combines a number of lessons learned from robust systems in the past while adding Ocaml to the mix. Add a robust middleware, a separation kernel, and certifying compiler with the right security checks/defaults to make MirageOS a bad-to-the-bone hosting solution.
I had to re-read the title a few times for it to make sense.

It's funny that the beer is the first thing many of us think of when hearing 'Pliny the Elder' these days.
In this case, the later investors wanted to buy some early shares: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/14/twilio-offers-early-shareho...

This is not always the case.
Hum 5MB background image of dogfood for an article about an IDE.

Thinking maybe the tech team did not design this post ;)
My understanding of this case is that the mining company signed a contract with the government for development of this mining project, and there is now the possibility that the parliament will at the eleventh hour break the terms of the agreement. I don't see why the government should be exempt from making restitution in cases where it breaks contracts.
Windows 10 Gets Its Own Shiny New Twitter App
Not necessarily. If the culture sucks, then democracy results in something like Iran.
Really? You're posting that in a thread about Google Translate? Come on.
How to calculate the virality effect / spreading rate of your application
Robin Hood Asset Management – Hacking Finance
Fwiw: He's attributed with documenting hops for the first time in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_%28Pliny%29
Got about halfway through the slidedeck and finally couldn't stand the animations. Way too long and unneeded.

Then I realized they had hijacked my back button as well. Probably some good content in there but could do with a much better presentation mechanism.
This brings up a good point. I need to buy from the vendor that's doing some good with my money. Sometimes I hesitate to buy from Newegg because I can always find the parts cheaper (Hey! Rent's a killer on the West coast right now!) I think I'll buy PC parts solely from them for as long as they fight the patent trolls.
Algorithmics [0] (acquired by IBM [1]) is one.

[0] http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/algorithmics/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmics_Inc.
You're right. People should not care about anything and should just never voice an opinion. Back to your video games, sheep.

Just because he thought it was legal doesn't mean he can do it.
> People who manage probably don't need to concentrate as much as the people who create the stuff.

That may be true but it's probably more of a case of the difference between the "Maker's Schedule" and the "Manager's Schedule"[1] - i.e. managers probably don't realize how much distractions or interruptions are bad for "maker's" productivity because a manager's day is mostly distractions or interruptions.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
True; it'd be interesting to see Twilio's cap table.
I was under the impression that frivolous law suits were subject to rulings that would aware attorney fees to the defense. Is that not the case?
Maybe it failed because USE TOR -> PEDO :)
hmm... seems like great promises but will getting back a few $$$ really make me feel better about the cloud services I use if they go down?

Sounds similar to an SLA but across many services
Transactions in Redis
Nevermind my information (that's bad enough), what happens when I'm on a VPN and RDP into my work machine and working with other peoples' sensitive information?

Has anyone captured any traffic from these features to determine what extent they're sending keystrokes?
What happened to "don't be evil", jaredhansen?
Because nobody will suspect you of having both the intention and power to carry out genocide.
> I had to develop a video overlay

Define "had to"
Thanks for that, very handy
I think your site needs a lot more explanation of what it actually is you're doing. I read the "How this works", but that's not written for someone completely out of the loop.
Unless I am missing some hidden biases this seems an interesting discussion with some worthwhile thinking material. It does not seem like a "rape apologist", whatever that is.

For me the main argument is a big one::

When the California Corrections Department recently examined cases of sex offender registrants returned to prison for a new offense, they found that in 88% of the cases, the new offense was a parole violation. Parole violations are generally acts that aren’t crimes for anyone not on parole—things like going to a bar or visiting a friend who’s also an ex-felon. Only 1.8% of those re-incarcerated had committed a new sex offense.

That's a really big mis step in defining recidivist rates - and I would think it is worth following up in all cases (not just sex offences)
Intel and Micron Announce “Revolutionary” Mystery Memory
DevOps Is about People, Not Technology
I know that, what I meant was that there is information stored about the past, that a malicious application could not get otherwise (i.e. it can record stuff only from the moment it is installed).

On similar note, I rememember someone arguing that the baloo/nepomuk db was a security threat, I guess since it makes slightly easier to search among the files on the system for a string like "password".

Both claims are technically true, and in neither case I believe they are practically relevant, neither for security nor for privacy. I was nitpicking, I guess.
Hi there, co-founder @guisebule reporting in!

It is absolutely real and I personally believe that the lack of cloud insurance in the cloud computing world is a scandal waiting to happen. Dropbox and Box have tens of millions of customers between them, but they fail to offer a proper SLA to most of them or protect them against worst case scenarios properly by insuring against the obvious risks.

Think about that, millions of small businesses with their files in the cloud, but no protection against worst case scenarios. Its a problem guys, we are going to try and fix it.
I started with Slashdot, then went to reddit and now hacker news.. Wonder if it can have a redux.
Got it, thank you. I'll re-word it.
I find it interesting that you both complain the settings have stayed the same and change too much. What would you have wanted here?
I'm pretty sure LivingSocial has had around 10 rounds of investment.
Agreed. There seems to be lots of "correlation without causation"[1] here.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...]
Misconceptions do not matter here. One may have misconceptions, but this does not justify correcting people for their grammatical errors on a thread that has nothing to do with grammar or whatsoever and thus hijacking it. It should be obvious that a serious lot of people here are not native-speakers.
TLDR version; Here's their success factors ranked by magnitude:

Technical co-founder, enterprise product: +230

Elite school: +220

ex AMZN, AAPL, FB, GOOG, MSFT, TWTR employee: +160

Female founder: +128

Discovered investment via non-traditional VC channel: +58

Technical co-founder, consumer product: +31

Team average age under 25: +30

Solo founder: -163
512 apps should be enough for anyone.
"Kimchi also laid out his thinking on how autonomous drones could safely fly in the same locations as helicopters. Helicopters are much more problematic than planes for drones because of low-altitude flying."

I wonder what size drones they are envisioning. For example with a typical prosumer drone out there now, it would be completely obliterated by a large helicopter when coming in contact with the moving blades or hitting the windshield or other parts. Likewise the downdraft of the heli would force down anything of that size in it's path.

After all if a drone is such a threat to a heli then what kind of threat is it to a person that it comes into contact with by accident?
Forty tees? I'm upvoting you just for that.
Great data overall.

I'm not convinced about the age conclusion: depending on which statistics you focus on, you either conclude that 25 is best or 32 is best:

Founding teams with an average age under 25 (when we invested) perform nearly 30% above average [...] for our top 10 investments the average age was 31.9
I did exactly what you're suggesting at: https://filesender.io

As you pointed out, it is a bit more constraining due to the support for WebRTC and users behind an SNAT, but I think for the majority of users it works well.
Hamburg Regulator == Hamburger Helper?
Thanks for the feedback. All of this is right on and will be solved pretty soon. As for starting with 0, I might be wrong, but building lists is a bit different than other lists. It is possible that I'm adding lists items and I don't care to upvote them. Ultimately you are right though, and I plan to change that.

As for ranking, I'm thinking of a good way to solve that problem. I'm sure I'll come up with something good. Rank deterioration is a good idea, will look into it more and weigh options.
Unless you're white and male, and then you'll be accused by the radical fringe as wanting to rape everything you come across and kill everyone not like you.
I bet some of the people on this site are guilty of these crimes.

If that's the case, would anyone care to put forward a defence of why they do this to their users?
I'm not here to defend the guy but it seems we know nothing (spot the pun) about why Victoria was fired. It may have been completely reasonable, it may not. It may have been a unilateral decision by Alexis but I honestly doubt it, these things still have to be okayed by the CEO.

Pao was in the Reddit community's firing line long before Victoria was fired, they were looking for a reason to pounce.
I have swapped hardware many many times, multiple re-installs of Windows 7 and _never_ had an issue with licensing on a single key. I am very confused and skeptical of your claims.
Do you seriously want to live in such an atmosphere? Do you really think that if that situation ever came to be then it would be the only change occurring in society?

Patent trolls may suck, but IP is a thing we're not going to get rid of. As long as it's "property" it can be traded. As long as it can be traded, the possibility that the current owner has desires at odds with the original owner can arise.
There are a whole slew of simulated what-ifs that we could list and all agree would be horrible and atrocious and fill our nights with shaking our heads about them. As the song by the Submarines goes, "Somethings wrong when you regret
things that haven't happened yet" or as John Stienbeck's character in Grapes of Wrath put it, "Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”

My personal favorite was from my grandmother who said "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas." Any way you put it, speculating on things good or bad is just speculation and doesn't deserve any feelings from me one way or the other given it's a waste of resources to dwell on things that have yet to come to pass.

Censorship is not OK. Period.
Convert your templates into incremental-dom
Yeah XAML layouts have always seemed so much cleaner than any CSS layout system. Was hoping that css-grid would have gained more traction over flex.

Given the choice, I'd choose XAML over HTML/CSS for app layout/design in a heartbeat.

I think it all goes back to what each language was designed for and people hacking things into HTML/CSS to get it do things it wasn't designed for.
It's definitely not a way to keep TopChart at the top. Since people in our network are already familiar with us, we were getting more upvotes. Any errors in upvotes will be corrected today. We even considered removing ourselves from the list, but that wouldn't be very fun :P
Jamestown excavation unearths four bodies and a mystery in a small box
I think you should expand your view. You are only taking into account the service aspects of the business and not supply chain or other very important details (like location).

All businesses have secrets and they matter. The cheaper/faster portion of the business is a form of information arbitrage. Cheers.
Uber faces lawsuit in the UK over employee issue
You are right, of course, but that's why things shouldn't be black and white. There is a difference between banning everything except "approved" life jackets and banning large inflatable pads which children could get stuck under. If you look at the website, the majority of people in the pool are hanging on the blue inflatable tubes. They would not be in the pool at all if they had to actually swim.
Twitter is Getting Killed
Can you not tell the difference between "The Idiot's Guide ..." and "The R---rd's Guide ..."? "Idiot" is not a derogatory slur.
I think the poster is saying that revolution is a complex sociological phenomenon that is enabled/catalyzed by increased information and communication.
They May Have Found a Piece of MH370
the mathematical advice contained in this comment is incorrect.

For correct information see e.g.
http://www.claymath.org/events/iut-theory-shinichi-mochizuki

"the consensus is generally that Mochizuki's theory is probably incorrect", "I am a professional mathematician"
- these two claims contradict each other: no professional mathematician would make such false claims
I use Chrome. Is that a specific setting?
Appreciate your clarification. I agree that the overall trajectory is not promising in the mass market. What are your thoughts on the pay more for quality or security market for software/systems? Have those analyzing the data made this distinction to see how much the trend affects that market segment? Many that I know of still use the old model's of licensing or expensive appliances although the startups are doing things with new models. I think, if that niche had same effect, it would reinforce your claim even more. If it wasn't as impacted, it would give the best spot to invest in and market apps with profitable, licensing models. What I often called the Toyota Strategy.

"Even the lock-in mechanism, which is correctly cited as a method proven to monetize customers efficiently, is more easily replicated in services businesses (e.g. cloud) than it is in traditional on premise software, where open source has become both an expectation and a means of combatting lock-in."

I'm actually starting to agree with this more and more as I look into how they design it. Facebook is the perfect example: containing people's whole life with no easy way to move it. The cloud vendors usually allow unlimited incoming data and charge for outgoing. Tricks like that combined with low, entry barrier might make for nice lock-in over long term.

"But the degree of difficulty attached to this model has gone up considerably, and looks to only be getting worse. And this isn't just an academic theory, it's something I hear almost daily in conversations with vendors."

Oh, like I said, I buy that. Title just read like another piece on how that type of software was done altogether. The claims about the trend in the book and your comment are right on. I guess you could say that's what I really was griping about. ;)
Reddit: What's happening and what's coming up
For those interested, I post on Medium about this subject about why I think this is the most important conversation in cloud computing right now, it will provide context.

https://medium.com/@guisebule/dropbox-box-887adfa7217b
Okay, but then the receiver has to know how to decrypt. Kind of narrows down who I can realistically send files to.
But even then you propbably will get reimbursed only what an average lawyer would have been costing you. Not what the specialized high profile Lawyer normaly asks for.
Fermented milk products
Creating a typeface (Resources for Beginners)
I don't know if they are using ML or not, but they filled in my "works at" field with laughably wrong information. I didn't bother to correct it. It's not far-fetched to me that advertisers would be interested in this kind of information- ads to your SO when your birthday nears, etc.
So because it's more impersonal, then.