skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I bought the mixer after I couldn't split about 10 signals to the soundcard any more! I had splitters going into splitters and it was a mess.

Then the mixer I bought had FX inputs, so I bought the outboard FX units. Then I read about the S950 and bought 2 . They have 8 outputs which you can run through a mixing desk and EQ, adjust gain and volume, and even put an FX unit on a drum.

The great thing is all this equipment was bought on eBay in just a couple of months.

I put together a spreadsheet of the costs. The Akai's, mixers and effects units came to about £1000. The Xpander wasn't cheap, but I bought that in 2004. The organ was about £200 including postage.

But the point is, you can build a retro studio quite cheaply and experiment.
What is a Cybersecurity Czar and is Dr. Howard Schmidt Qualified to Be It?
I'd like to just put together an idea and see it through to the end. The success of the project isn't all that important to me really. I'd just like the experience of doing it. Maybe someday I'd have a really good idea and would be prepared to make it happen.
I've found the more you do something, the more humble you become and the less you need to prove yourself. I don't know about academics, but I've found this to be true in the military, in business and in sports.
I just tried and it doesn't work :(

I get a page full of garbled text (presumably the sound file) when I hit play. Using Mobile Safari on 3.1, non jailbroken, at http://www.google.com/voice.

How are you getting this to work? I've been frustrated not being able to play voicemails when traveling without a laptop (obviously without having to call in to my account).
Ah, my bad, sorry I thought you meant in the tarsnap client. Then I really don't know why people would make a fuss over you hardcoding the ips in there. All you need to do is keep an eye out in case they change them (which you could even automate).
Merry Etc...
Happy Xmas, Merry New Year, hanukah is over already but happy that, etc, ad infintum.
See also the C FAQ, which patiently devotes 24 questions to the topic. (You can almost tell just how frequently the question came up on the list.)

http://c-faq.com/aryptr/index.html
You could, but for a legit purpose such a logging traffic on a network, doing a tap like this is not the best way to go. Use a switch with a SPAN port, or alternatively there are commercial taps (for example from NetOptics) that does exactly what you want... just in a much nicer/cleaner/proper way.
I'm 5'4" and I hate people who don't tuck their elbows in. But even worse: fatties who want the arm-rest up so that you can subsidize their air travel. (They want to be able to leak over into your seat.) Yes, I fly a lot, and yes, this happens.
I know it's a bit of a dead horse now but one could say that the User Experience has changed because the colors have changed, but the User Interface has not changed.
Do something small.
Are you A/B testing your landing page? Most dating sites have pictures of faces on their landing pages..
Merry Gifting day!
The idea of it being cool or awesome never crossed my mind, to me languages are tools and knowing how to use more tools gives me more opportunities.

Dutch was unavoidable, English at 10 in grade school, working for a US based bank (but in Europe), French and German you get in high school in NL and Polish because I lived there and had a relationship with somone from Poland.

Currently Spanish is very high on the wish list because of spending some time in Panama.
Indeed it can use all the standard library modules, since the normal "require" functions are available.

The other problem with the REPL is that all variable assignments are prefixed with "var", so they're always local to the function where the eval-ing is done, thus it's impossible to get variables to persist between REPL commands (without explicitly assigning to a property of "global").

One solution would be to add a flag that disables the "var" for top level assignments (but not within functions).

Alternatively, I think I could do some engine-specific black magic (__proto__ hacks), at least for Rhino.
Charge more for consulting, by a lot.
I've been hacked :(
I'm ashamed to admit it but one of my machines was hacked. It was a media server running an older linux distro, I more or less forgot that box was still up and running in a house that is up for sale. Last week when I went there to turn up the heat so the pipes wouldn't freeze I noticed I couldn't use the machine to check up on some websites. I figured it had crashed and brought it back down south with me to have a look at what the cause was.

So, the cause was pretty simple, someone managed to get in through my not-so-carefully concealed backdoor, how they managed to crack a 20 digit root pw is something I'll never know.

Lesson learned, even old and rarely used systems need to be kept secure and up-to-date, the box was sitting on a 10 Mbit adsl line, most likely it was used for some not so nice purposes.
I actually think that the period to end blocks syntax is one of the most interesting things about it. It's such a small thing, but i find it quite intriguing.
Exactly. I think colors don't define interface, rather, shapes and layouts do. However, I totally concur with that colors are part of the experience.
They will also probably be much richer and able to afford ambitious engineering projects. 100 years from now, Bangladeshis are expected to be as rich as the modern Dutch.
If corporations are 'incorporated' they become citizens, citizens pay tax. You can't have it both ways.
I'm surprised that there aren't more corporate jets built on the sonic cruiser plan. The ability to get there 20% faster, combined with an "unprecedented ability to work in the air" would make a compelling marketing message. The plane could be portrayed as faster, sleeker, and sexier than all other corporate jets.
Python does not have multiline lambdas. But Python only uses significant whitespace when it can't use other demarcations. For example, the following is legal:

a = [
1,
2,
3]
It appears that they have figured out how to get the App interface (e.g. momentum scrolling) via the browser. Wasn't it a big deal that such changes could help developers avoid the App Store:

http://daringfireball.net/2009/12/more_on_pastrykit
Most seat mockups are pretty worthless anyways - if you want to know what the cabin will look like on (for example) AA's new planes, look at the seating in their existing planes and change the backdrop.

Seating is often manufactured by third-party companies and installed "aftermarket", and is designed to either harmonize with a company's existing livery, or be outstanding enough that it becomes a marketing feature for the airline.
if it was an older linux distro, they probably DIDN'T crack your 20-digit root pw, rather exploiting a bug somewhere else?
How to Smack My Bitch Up (the original and better vid)
Or is it that the MSM is supposed to be doing some negative reporting about China after the Western fiasco in Copenhagen?
Why the feeds are unencrypted is irrelevant, as are all the statements about how easy or hard it should have been to "do it right."

The only relevant issue is "what effect does the compromise have on the usefulness of the intelligence gathered by the UAV?" For a variety of reasons I would say this causes only a very small amount of degradation in the usefulness or lifespan of the intelligence. Do I think it should be fixed? Yeah. Do I think it's the most life-saving use of engineering resources? No. Do I think all the arm-waving is going to cost more than the solution? Definitely.
Is Y Combinator not an ambitious, challenging, and impressive enough startup?
10 Cubicles That Are Cooler Than Yours
For this and other reasons, SeatGuru.com should be your best friend when doing online check-in. I've just done an intercontinental trip to visit some family, and spending five minutes on there got me an extra three inches of seat pitch - which is definitely noticeable.

I'm also not sure about the benefits of the new fancy LED lighting system. The (very recently-overhauled) 767 I flew had such a system, and it was kinda...weird. Some of it was nice, like the gradual dimming and raising for the sleep phase of the flight (although it didn't get as dark as the old lighting). In the two hours before the meal, however, it seemed like the crew had it set on disco mode or something - over the course of ten minutes or so, the cabin color rotated through blue-red-yellow-green-white.
1 inch narrower than a 737, or 1 inch narrower than a 737's seats?
Art.

Original Prodigy banned vid: http://www.theprodigy.com/videos?task=videodirectlink&id...
(there are several references)
As far as I know it hasn't - there's an article like this every year or so in the British press, and they all have similar conclusions.

Furthermore, if the linked article is right, it should be pretty difficult to change this structure.
LLVM Blog: Clang Builds LLVM
You seem to be of the mis-conception that the video goes back to base and then is redistributed. AFAIK this is not the case :)

Thanks for starkly admitting your reading comprehension problem. My proposal is for the video to be encrypted all the way back to the base then redistributed.

Now please go back and edit your responses to me to correct this incomprehension of my position.

Arrrgh, don't they cover reading comprehension in schools anymore?
Thank you.

EDIT: Anyone would find this frustrating:

Me: "They are already doing X. That would be the same as Y. I propose they do Y."

cl: "No it doesn't"

Me: "X = Y (paraphrase)"

cl: "No it doesn't"

Me: "X = Y (2nd paraphrase)"

cl1: "Okay it does, but that doesn't solve the problem."

cl2: "Oh, I thought you said they were already doing Y."

sigh
This could really use a visual search, like this: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
Sure you have a README and documentation. I once worked on a system which had a ProjectName-JSON-spec-verion-3.5a.doc of >200 pages being e-mailed back and forth between a "back-end team" in India, and a "front-end team" in New York.
Is there another place that buffer overflows occur than in the char* with no bounds checking? If not, this single fact is the one that leads to so many of the software vulnerabilities in the wild.
Shouldn't it be possible to do an inductive tap? You should be able to pick the signals up without severing any wires or actually connecting anything to the wires themselves. You would have to split the outer jacket of the cat5 cable, but once you isolate the pairs you should be able to get something going. The pairs are differential loops, so you should need only one inductive pickup per pair. Just an idea, not sure how feasible it would be, but I would have thought that this would be a standard way to do a tap. You'd need power for this though, so maybe that limits its usefulness. Could use PoE to power it though.
No. All web apps. But sometime one of them might be a game. Coz I've always wanted to get into game dev. SInce I dont have a Mac or iphone and I'm not a pro, I won't try the PC game market. I'll start off with the Android market. Small Android games seems like my piece of cake :)
All you need to do is keep an eye out in case they change them

Exactly, and that's what I do. (With the caveat that I look for AWS endpoints being taken out of service, not for changes in what DNS tells me.)
I hope you had good backups. :-)
It always bothers me when someone attributes things to "luck". I'm not bothered on the basis of whether or not its true, we'll never know anyway, you can't test luck can you? I'm bothered because it's such a cop out. "Great sales people are just the luckiest salespeople." How much credit should we really give that?

Also, attributing things to luck is an excuse to not be proactive. Whether or not things are 100% about luck, should still entail that we be proactive about increasing our opportunities for such magical devices as luck to occur.

Other than that, I like the author's social reasoning behind his post, it is good to think about when managing your own team.
Citizens also vote. I've never understood why people consider 'corporate citizenship' so meaningful; it's a terse description of a legal hack, not some profound statement about what a corporation is.
I'm not going to take the time to try to work out who is right and who is wrong in this case, but I believe from my limited time here on HN that the attitude you're displaying in this comment is not entirely appropriate. You can certainly make your point without the personal attacks, even if others don't.

Please, stick to the facts, and if people mis-understand you then restate your point more clearly and addressing the misunderstanding. If you're right, most times they'll apologise and everything is great. If you're wrong then you don't look like a complete asshole.

As I say, I'm not addressing the technical points - I probably don't have the background, and it's Christmas, so I certainly don't have the time. I'm not down-voting you because I can't judge the technical merits, but I'd ask you to be more considerate in your tone. It's one of the things that makes HN so much more pleasant than most other fora.

Please.
How much do I have to pay someone to rip off my site so that BBC will write an article about mine? ;-)
It's a meta-startup, which is probably different enough that the original question doesn't answer itself.
Video is "Not available in your area". :-(
The Google-Microsoft rivalry now extends to Santa Web sites
Do you still not get it? It doesn't matter if you are "right" on your points. Your points don't address the subject sufficiently. You've created for yourself a tiny bubble of logic disengaged from the main discussion where you are, in the abstract, "right". It doesn't matter if you're "right" because you're not having the same discussion as everyone else.
Bother. And I searched for ages to find that video. Now I have to go looking again - not sure there is any readily accessible video of this. It's on the BBC, isn't it.

Short sighted of them. Sorry I didn't think of that, and thanks for pointing it out.

Apologies to all.
Great point. But the question still stands: if pg wasn't investing all his time and energy into dozens of startups and wanted to put his energies into a new company, what would he go for?
I don't think arrays are "converted" to pointers. Arrays are simply a cleaner way of doing pointer arithmetic and allocating large(r) blocks of the stack. Nothing is lost in this "conversion." The array never knows it's own dimensions beyond the time you declare it. It's up to the developer to keep track of that.
Similar structures using foundations have been used in the USA for many years, at least since the 1950s if not before.

Congress investigated in 1952-53...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reece_Committee

While it was not the thrust of the investigation, it did come to light that many rich people were using foundations as a way to shield themselves from taxes or to retain control of a company via a two-tier voting class for shares.
My first company, http://www.hoodeasy.com, has worked pretty well using this model. We're a middle-man between clothing suppliers and groups of students. Our selling point is the ease of group-ordering. Our margins are a lot higher than around 3% gross but we have a very niche focus. Another startup in the UK, http://www.wigadoo.com, tried to do lead-gen for group-bookings of holidays and really struggled. They folded around August 09. Group ordering is definitely an interesting space. Sites like http://www.groupon.com have the model just perfect because they focus on facilitating the mass-sale of high-margin products where the fixed costs of those business are quite high. I wish WePay all the best.
Thanks for that. You're absolutely right -- the javascript dynamically-scoped "this" keyword strikes again. I've fixed it in the last commit, by using prototype.__proto__, and adding an "extends" keyword for convenience. You can see it in action here:

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#inheritance

It's out with version 0.1.2 now.
I'm not sure a team of say 10 devs would come up with a unanimous stack rank of their co-worker's productivity.

From my own experience, everyone would probably agree on #1, #2, and #10, but most people put themselves at #3 and the person they work with most closely at either #4 or #9.
It wouldn't surprise me if he stayed at YC for a very long time. As far as I can tell, he loves this.
I'd be more excited about something like the Boeing Pelican http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/ground-eff...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican

1) It flies close to the ground, which I think would comfort a lot of people that don't like flying (even if it's not actually safer).

2) It's so damn big and efficient every seat could be like first class.
"10. Independently wealthy

This is my excuse for not starting a startup. Startups are stressful. Why do it if you don't need the money? For every "serial entrepreneur," there are probably twenty sane ones who think "Start another company? Are you crazy?"" -- http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
How do you do object literals with non-indentifier characters in property names? (e.x. { "foo+bar" : "baz" } in JS)
I've experienced the request to raise the arm rest. So far I've been able to say no and make it stick.

In theory people who take up more than one seat are supposed to get charged for more than one seat. However this rule is not that well enforced because of how much outrage people have over being told to pay extra because of their weight. (A condition which most people have little control over. Read The End of Overeating for the biochemistry behind how the modern food industry induces overeating.)

Personally I would be in favour of a surcharge on anyone who significantly inconveniences their seatmate, with a fraction of said surcharge paid directly to the inconvenienced fellow passenger. I think that this would increase politeness, and where it doesn't, the financial bonus would reduce my frustration level.
When reading a story like this it's hard to know whether to smile wryly at the accountants' ingenuity or weep quietly at the injustice of it all.
Also HBase (http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/), which has some nice features like replication, compression, recovery from node failure, and integration with Hadoop.
There are others, but that case covers most of the ones seen in practice.
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I wanted to back up my assertion that the iPhone isn't waning. 2008 Q2 global smartphone market share for the iPhone was 2.8%. 2009 Q2 equivalent was 13.3% - http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/13/iphon...

Another article shows similar growth from Q2 2008 to Q2 2009 and then continuing on to Q3 2009: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/idc_q3_2009_smartphon...
Thank god for this mistake, this mistake makes c what it is good at: at low level programming. It just pass directions between functions. Light and fast,no abstractions.

I love it, a way of making assembler like coding but multiplatform.

If I want high level programming I will program in another language but when you want machine control you have c without all the bloat.
Here's Herbie Hancock demonstrating a Fairlight CMI synth/sampler on Sesame Street in '84-ish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKoisNv1ftw&feature=relat...
Very cool, the syntax is similar to Potion

CoffeeScript:

square: x => x * x.

Potion:

square = (x): x * y.
How does your service compare to dropbox ?
Who cares about posts about what a consumer goods company might market at some indeterminate time in the future?

Those of us who are want to launch products on the new platform and get a step on our competitors. That's why I read HN for the most part - I can keep a good pulse on not only new technologies, but what other entrepreneurs are thinking.

Imagine if.. 4 years ago you had even an inkling of what the iPhone and iPhone App Store model would become in 2009.. you'd probably be richer than you are now, even if you were ignorant of tech entirely and only bought Apple stock ;-) Heck, even knowing six months before app fever hit, you'd have cashed in if you were quick enough as a publisher or developer.

I want to know everything about this Apple tablet - even the pointless speculation - because anything might be the scrap of information I need to connect a ton of dots together and come up with an idea or a product that could make me a ton of money. I did just that when people were ranting under the radar about Ruby and Rails in 2004 and I've made quite a bit of money from being quick off the mark.
He's got a request for startup (http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html).

I'd think that he'd be working on one of these if were willing to spend the time.
- Taken on two extra staff for my first startup and get it to the point where I just check the numbers once a week whilst providing three people a great income and me with an awesome, passive income.

- Create an awesome new SaaS business with a really smart cofounder and see where it takes us.

- Live the dream :)
Apple Tablet is all but confirmed
the services are totally unrelated
find a cofounder for my project
Clearest sign yet of dark matter detected
You couldn't, a minute ago. I've just pushed an update to the grammar that allows you to use quoted strings inside of object literals.

Thanks for catching it. I really appreciate folks taking the time to find the little missing pieces.
But they did build the Viaweb marketing site on it ;)
FCC says Verizon's ETF response is unsatisfying and troubling
I think my top goal is to get at least 1000 customers. I currently have about 25, so scaling up will be an exciting process.
Good data in the post on Google (people are definitely more wary of them now that they announce more and more projects in more and more areas of internet architecture), but small fries compared to the military contractor complex's influence on the federal government, in northern Virginia and Maryland...