skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I dislike about the presentation is it does not give credit where credit is due. BitMover wrote BitKeeper (I use it atm at work) which was the predecessor of mercurial and git. Naturally there were issues with being proprietary till it pissed off the right people causing them to create a new VCS based on BK. BitKeeper is... pretty damn slow compared to Git. But it was the innovation.

Also if he mentioned clearcase's performance it would be obvious that Clearcase is a hut made out of good intentions (we didnt even use sticks at that point).
Stepanov is a really smart guy, but I find his arguments that OOP methodology is "wrong" or somehow is no good, doesn't hold water. The truth is that a lot of the world is build on at least some OOP principles and that they have worked for countless designs, and been included into languages by lots of other really smart people.

It also seems like this interview was done quite some time ago (see his comments about generics in Java) but I can't find a date.

Nevertheless, a very interesting interview.
10. Auctions: http://gunbroker.com/, which was started immediately after eBay wimped out on auctions having anything to do with firearms. I've bought stuff on both and sold stuff on GunBroker.com and the latter is much better and has several ideas worth using on most any online auction site.

One thing that might be hard to replicate: firearms, ammo, etc. are serious things, e.g. you can't transfer a firearm across state lines without going through a licensed dealer and getting a background check. In the cultural sense reputation on GunBroker.com is treated very seriously; I'm not sure how this could be replicated in other areas, including ones where prices of items are lower.
Yeah, I think you're right about the other operators -- I've just pushed a commit that puts them back to +=, -=, ||=, and so on. Thanks.

Underscore is going to stay unrelated, but there's no reason that you couldn't use it from CoffeeScript, to great effect.
I'm in the US so I've never tried, but couldn't you still get at the content through a US-based HTTP proxy?
Is there a convenient script to get these while I spend time with my family?
Ok, so how is Newsley currently different from, say, /r/worldnews for example? Newsley is using collaborative filtering as well. I see a bunch of links voted by the community, which I'm assuming contribute to their ranks on the frontpage.
Anyone who's genuinely interested in investing in startups, sure. Just send an email to info@yc asking for an invitation.
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Sure, why not. They can be interchangeable. It's in the latest commit, and will go out with the next release.
Totally agree. If you start relying on the subtle behaviour of sizeof, it's just asking for a world of trouble. It's so easy to get mixed up with whether it's going to return the length of the array, the size of the elements in the array, the total number of bytes the array is using or the size of the pointer. Come to think of it, I think that's completely scope dependent and depends on whether the array has lots its array-ness. I have no idea. :)
Oops, yes. "Smack My Bitch" + "banned" == NSFW
Jetty introduces WebSocket support (reluctantly)
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"...few will take you seriously."

What a ridiculous notion. I won't disagree that an angel has to build their "practice". But really? You think the majority of Startups out there wouldn't take cash from someone who brought nothing else to the table?

1 in 100 startups has the luxury of being super choosy with investors. Every YC session, there are YC companies that raise less than they wish they could.

And, to be honest, there isn't consensus about whether investors generally DO bring more to the table.

To the OP, go get 'em. You won't get in on the competitive deals but there are still more promising startups than there are angels to fund them. But yeah, first and foremost, you have to be an accredited investor.
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Give it to me :-)

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> but would be far too slow to compete with airliners as passenger aircraft

It doesn't have to compete just on speed. What about price?
If you don't care about legality, all kinds of restrictions go away...
I hadn't even considered such a thing. Would love to know as well.
Everyone take this time while visiting family to upgrade their browser to something other than IE6. I did my part last night.
Using a proxy is not illegal.
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They are very well positioned and have the funds. Somehow though they will need to connect all these 'Toyota' brands. I don't think they have as yet managed to do this.
Which law would that be breaking? Is it illegal to act like you are located somewhere that you are not?
Have a very Blessed Christmas.
Boy, that's old.

> Java is a very new language

:-)
1. Avatar, or other movies that can't be fully experienced without 3D or other tech that is only available in theaters. For music additional offerings like I Am T-Pain.
Good old copyright law, just like Hulu. If the content producers allowed for distribution in the US only, getting it from somewhere else is a violation of the license agreement. Now, I don't think they'll grab the logs from Amazon and run after you in another country for it...

PS: Somewhat implied but IANAL.
You mean a $5 pair of red and green glasses? 3D movies for home consumption have been available for a while http://www.amazon.com/Coraline-Blu-ray-Combo-Digital-Copy/dp... and 3D HDTV is expected to start in late 2010.
http://joubert.posterous.com/philip-glass-track-from-the-hou...
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Dupe. ;). Already posted 10 hours prior, and for all holidays, too:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014478
religious conundrum

I'm kind of torn on this, because often the religious conundrum is a result of poor understanding of one's own religion. For example, I know a Catholic or two who thinks that the Church prohibits organ donation on the theory "Well, cutting edge medicine is probably forbidden, and I'm a good Catholic, so..." which is not an accurate gloss of what the Church actually says about medicine (+). Now if you structured it as an opt-out, you might be able to have a "teachable moment" there with a little application packet that said blah blah blah "And by the way, most religious leaders are broadly supportive of organ donation."

My reason for the wariness is that many religions (and I suppose Catholicism as practiced by many Catholics) do not have a convenient option to look up an authoritative answer on the subject, and that means the slightly confuddled determination of a believer in ignorance of their own religious tradition might actually count as authoritative for them.

+ Catholics think organ donation is a virtuous act, subject to a few restrictions which are not applicable to the mainstream of organ donation policies.
Is Amazon Working Backward?
Is Our Data Too Vulnerable in the Cloud?
You know the Israeli day care center study, where parents who were fined for picking their kids up later were more inclined to be late, because they perceived the fine as a fee-for-service? I think that formalizing the overweight-versus-space-donor relationship would lead to even more antagonism, on the same theory: "What are you looking it? You're getting paid good money to be sat on, shut up, I don't need to cooperate with you."
http://code.google.com/p/clamz/ perhaps?
Ask HN: If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do?
Building something like Skype, Google Talk, or even Twitter is hard to do right at large scale. What real time service would you build if the technology was not a challenge?
People are permanently trying to "fix" C, but C has nothing to fix.

It is a limited language, both by the constraints at the time of its creation, but also by the problem space where it has been used over the years. And that's how it should be.

C is part of an ecosystem of languages, it doesn't have to be changed to acommodate the latest fads or to fix problems that nevertheless never stopped it from being widely used for decades.

If C doesn't fit a purpose, don't use it. You don't even have to stray too far, since there are a few languages that basically are just C with extras.
The point from the article is that the NSA doesn't permit 'password of the day' style encryption - it's all or nothing.

For the operational requirements of the predator, nothing was better than all. They'd prefer an intermediate option, but it isn't available until procedures change.
Apple’s New Tablet To Be Baptized iSlate? Let’s Dig A Little Deeper
there is nothing differentiating a Yahoo news article from a CNN article from an MSNBC article

15 years ago you could say the same thing about different newspapers instead of sites.

The publishing platform you describe is a compelling vision, but it is important to understand the differences from what we have now: e.g. Blogger.com, or the web as a whole as a publishing platform with aggregators like Digg/Reddit/HN trying to single out the high quality articles from that. If writing for your platform is important, it must provide some tangible benefit, like a way to achieve consistent style or quality or dealing with some metadata not available on the web.

Of course everything I say may be nonsense as I am trying to understand the problem space myself.
Given that the majority of them are coming from technical/web startups, you're going to see a huge number of technical founders. Five years ago, when I graduated in CS at a major American research institution, you could throw a dart at a map of Asia and be guaranteed to hit a country that had contributed more female engineers to my CS department than there were female white engineers in the class. Five years later, guess who went on to become technical founders?

If you want to phrase things in the positive sense, you might phrase it not as "What does CS do wrong?" but "What does environmental engineering or biomedical engineering do right?", since they got most of the women in the engineering school. I have the heretical impulse to say "Offer obvious opportunities to have a career primarily revolving around interacting with human beings" but I have learned that "Maybe they just don't want to spent 14 hours a day reading XML files" costs me friends.
Nobody pays you money because you solved a technology challenge. Solve problems for people who pay money for solutions to problems.

Some time later, you may run into scaling issues. You can cross that bridge when you come to it. (Or you can pay other people to cross it for you.)
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I think one way to be commercially successful is to further differentiate the market for news based on news viewers.

People want to be sheltered from news which goes against their beliefs. Currently, the segregation of news sources does an adequate job of this. Right wingers watch fox and never need to learn about evolution, left wingers read the NYT and never need to learn about climategate. See also the reddit downmodsquad.

But this filtering scheme is pretty weak. I think the next stage in news is pure entertainment and ideological reinforcement. Ignoring ethics, this is what most people want.

(The only exception I can see is people who might be punished by the market for incorrect facts and the intellectually honest. But such people are a small minority.)
my implication was more of a...people not trusting that he has the money because of his age or thinking that at 20 he'll be a horrible investor who doesn't know what he is getting into.

And yes most people only want the money, but money comes from different sources. Would you really want a crack dealer as your investor? How about someone with a criminal record?
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I agree with you completely. My question is what would you build if the technological barrier of building a massive, reliable real time service was not there. Everyone is talking about the Real Time Web (even organizing conferences) but Twitter is the only near-real-time service that comes to mind.
I didn't realize that was about Ocarina until he started talking about the Zelda sequel toward the end.

Oddly, I was not confused.
Has it been canceled? I'm getting access denied with the key/secret pair provided.
Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, Part 1: Linked Data
It might be a violation of the license agreement between amazon & the content providers, but you're not violating it yourself.

You really only need to be concerned about whether you're violating the law of the country you're in. AFAIK, you'd only be committing secondary infringement in Canada if you sell/rent/redistribute the song.

I don't think using a proxy in this context would be a violation of copyright law and I wouldn't call it a clear-cut question, so you should really cite more than "copyright law" as an answer to sant0sk1's question.
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According to your blog, you are a 20 year old college student...

Wonder how many 20-year-old college students with a million spare bucks to be an accredited investor there are? If you eliminate trust-fund kids (which typically don't have access to all their wealth), what? A dozen or so? Versus how many 20-year-olds willing to ask bogus questions in a room full of people likely to take them seriously and respond?

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I really feel you punked us with this question.
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I've seen a mailing list discussion between female engineers on this topic.

One intriguing idea they put forward is that in developing countries, in the last few decades, kids did not have access to home computers or console devices. You only got significant amounts of time with a computer once you had reached university. So everybody in a CS program, male and female, was starting from zero, as near-adults.

So the Asian universities did not have any toxically geeky culture, and they also had to get really good at teaching complete newbies. In this atmosphere women did as well as men.

It was suggested that Western CS departments are dominated by people from the gamer scene, who are almost all male. They are very familiar with the technology already, and skew the academic culture in such a way that interested newcomers are less welcome, and less able to keep up.
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/aidxk/merry_christmas_r...

$162 before he cancelled it :) not bad
That web address requires www:
http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/
I'm not uninterested in building something like Skype, Google Talk, or Twitter because of the technical issues. I'm uninterested because I have no good ideas (or passion) about solving a significant problem with them.

There are lots of things I'd do if you gave me technology that does not really exist. Stuff like speaker independent speech-to-text that's as accurate as an expert human could transcribe. Or language translation that was as good as an expert human. Or almost anything that let me have the power of a human brain for free (no, not MTurk).
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Every ISP Is Trying to Scare You Into Paying for Internet You Don't Need
Hedging my bets, I'm saving up for my space ticket. http://www.virgingalactic.com/overview/space-tickets/
Custom reality tv. Users pay to see a day/hour in the life of another user - possibly a celebrity, though other fun people would be popular - who wears a tasteful camera strapped to their head or neck.

Witness an afternoon as Michael Schumacher. What's life like as an Oxford student? My name is Joe and tomorrow I will go free running in the city - join me.
Using a computer/gun/lock pick isn't illegal either.
Firstly, the mantra that smaller is better is not valid anymore at this scale, because of a number of reasons; most prominently of which is that the electrodes which supply the charge carriers are now (as in the picture in the article) much bigger than the device itself, making further shrinking of the device itself useless.

That was the first thing that jumped out at me. What's the point, then? The article doesn't say.
"two chicks at the same time, man"
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Where would the savings come from?

You could pack a bunch more people into it, but then it would take more gate time and space to load them all, and the on-board pilots and staff are there for twice as a long, too.

My expectation that it would be less an ultra-budget option, and more of a luxury thing—like, it takes twice as long to get there, but it's a smoother ride, you get a little cabin, and there's a hot tub and restaurant and stuff.
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Here's my takeaway from this piece:

"Why didn't the Influentials wield more power? With 40 times the reach of a normal person, why couldn't they kick-start a trend every time? Watts believes this is because a trend's success depends not on the person who starts it, but on how susceptible the society is overall to the trend--not how persuasive the early adopter is, but whether everyone else is easily persuaded. And in fact, when Watts tweaked his model to increase everyone's odds of being infected, the number of trends skyrocketed."

This sure seems to back up Adreessen's argument that market opportunity is the single most important factor in considering an opportunity.
Ask HN: So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas?
I think I made out like a bandit! Lots to read now over the break.

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Text to speech so that I don't have to consume realtime data like RSS, Facebook, Twitter, etc. while actively using a device. I'm just gonna wait for Google or someone else to solve that one.
I'd take on shipping. It seems to me that UPS could be in-part replaced with intelligent routing of people's ordinary daily routines.
Looking at that song list, it's pretty much the digital equivalent of a lump of coal in your stocking.
(for those who don't know the reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/)
Make money by writing an algorithm for trading. I've tried the startup thing for so long now (over 20 yrs), and haven't succeeded and so I think I just don't have what it takes. Time to move on and try something else for a change instead of beating a dead horse.
Add 1000+ new members, find contributors/partners, make site the best it can be ! oh and make a couple of bucks too !
You sure those sites do collaborative filtering? AFAIK, the 'front page' is the same for all, and real CF would show you a personalised page depending on your tastes. Like movielens does for movies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
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You need to get laid, buddy. Chill. Chill...
> and as a result I just can't take anything he says seriously

Just in case you did not know, Michael Crichton passed away in November.
Meanwhile all the content providers are trying to squeeze as much content per KB into their streams as they can.
This whole article rests on the idea that reach (number of followers) equals influence.

Twitter pretty much proves that wrong right out of the gate, so why is anyone debating it?

This says absolutely nothing about whether people with real influence (which isn't the same thing at all as number of connections) affect things.
Being online: What you say about yourself, or selves
Will you two please stop it?
Sampling in music is pretty common, even if it doesn’t involve actually using a sampler :)
It's actually much more useful if you sort by popularity. There are about a dozen good Christmas songs in there: http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1261763009/ref=sr_st?rs=33489701...
No, I haven't managed to find anyone to do it yet. I'd only consider groups doing it through YC.
Where's the injustice? I doubt the Kamprad family has cost the Swedish welfare state what the state wants to tax them. He's merely doing what's best for him, instead of subsidizing the education and medical care of other parents' children. Frankly, I don't see any injustice.
Sexism exists so long as people keep tallies -- same with racism. They have new life breathed into them whenever anyone interposes the racial and gender lens between themselves and all they observe. Sigh. Here's to another year of counting (and then of course judging) based on race and gender. Ah, such progress.
I have stopped, and I am sorry that things became un-civil. However, do note that I did not throw the first stone. Cheers.
This actually makes me sad.

Most consumers don't even get to choose anything over 1mbps in India. 512kbps speeds is the norm (which is also like $22 per month in Mumbai - where I'm based. $22 for 512kbps!)

On top of that, bandwidth capping and other such practices is still the norm in India! A lot of ISPs don't allow you anything over 4gb or 6gb of bandwidth per month!

Oh what I would give to see a chart by an Indian ISP that starts with minimum speeds of 1.5mbps!
I think you are misrepresenting him.

He says his paradigm is “start with the algorithm” (to make it generic) and that does not work in the OO model, and as an example he gives a simple max(a, b) function which he wouldn’t know how to write in Java.

The “OOP principles” adopted by others, which you think voids his argument, you can argue are also used by Stepanov himself. He just calls it data abstraction (iirc).
That's got to be the biggest collection of crap songs that I've seen since the last time I dug through the WalMart bargain bin.
Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young
Also, you can check out \ http://www.last.fm/music/+free-music-downloads
And on top of that, good stuff like Bibio is just a "sampler" song comprised of clips of their music: http://www.amazon.com/Ambivalence-Avenue-Sampler/dp/B002BHW1...

Ambivalence Avenue is a truly stellar album, so it's kind of painful to see it chopped to bits like that.
Of course I know the reference. Sorry, but a downvote is no defense against a levity injection attack.
Have you watched the Tax me if you can documentary? You might enjoy it:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tax/
His argument actually seems to point to dynamically-typed functional programming, which is not surprising, considering his work with Scheme.
An observation for what it's worth: since you're only taking apps every six months or so, a startup could launch and fail before there ever was a chance for them to apply to YC. I'm not sure if that is a feature or a bug of the YC process, but it never occurred to me before. (I have an app that I am launching in this problem-space in the next month or two)
Reminds me of the days of streaming video over my 56K modem with Realplayer and downloading a full CD from Napster over the course of an hour. That was the future. Today's kids with their 1080p YouTube videos and 2GB game demos. grumble grumble

And yes, I'm 27 :P
Length-embedded strings are little better than the 0-terminated ones. You cannot take a substring without copying.

The "fat pointer" approach has been used in D for nearly 10 years now, and has proven itself to be very effective.
Christmas came a bit earlier here, so I got a hangover!:), but I used the break to get my next Project to 95%, I am targeting release in January!
Thanks for the link. Been looking for something to learn and try trading algorithms in. We use a CPLEX solver library from IBM at work but it's not used for trading but for optimizing a different set of constraints. Interesting to see MS has a solution as well.
Cheat sheet for Scala syntax
Thanks, Talking to Partners and see how we can sell it.
We never sold sites in past and coded most of this ourselves, so were not sure if it is worth anything.
But yes, Seems like we should at least give it a try.
Need to find out how we can transfer domain names as well.
http://Vertica.com - it's founded by Michael Stonebraker who started Ingres, Postgres and now Vertica.
Why suppose that p(in-house sysadmin gets sticky fingers) < p(Google sysadmin gets sticky fingers)?