skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about parents just not be idiots and cut the hot dog up into small pieces for their children? The fact this is even an issue just shows how much common sense we've lost as a species. It's much better for parents to have the burden of responsibility than relying on the entire food industry to cater to their needs. Personally I don't think the food industry should be obligated to help parents be dumber and less engaged in their children's safety. If someone makes a "kid safe hotdog" will people buy it? Absolutely. My concern is it makes parents less aware of other risks of choking if they have an expectation that any food item for children has no choking risks. That is impossible. If your child scarfs down food without chewing they can choke on almost anything. As a parent it's your obligation and responsibility to prevent it.
Did you miss the reports about the estimated value of the Linux kernel being about $1.4 billion?

What makes you think that completely overhauling GUIs on Linux to create a new desktop environment and adding binary compatibility with a completely different (closed-source!) OS would cost less than 2% of what it would take to write just the kernel?

Developing a UI framework with comparable technical capabilities to what OS X provides might be doable starting from the best of what's available at the moment given your budget of $20-30m, but building a cohesive desktop environment on top of that would be an extremely huge undertaking.
I love SUD. ...only downside is there's no SUD for the Philly yet.
Indeed. It always struck me as odd they didn't C & D Microsoft for the aqua start menu in Vista and XP.
2010.. the year of blogquiting? :)
As horrible and blatant TechCrunch might have been, it's not even 1/100 as bad as Silicon Alley Insider, which ran the following headline following the story:

"Twitter Rolling Out New Website To Kill TweetDeck and Other Third Party Clients"

http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-twitter-rolling...
My son (3 years old at the time) choked on a hot dog while at an amusement park. My wife was unsuccessful at dislodging it, but luckily, somebody near by helped her out. The whole episode lasted around 30 seconds. Scary stuff for my wife (I wasn't there).

Son ended up going to the hospital. Now (age 5), we cut his hot dogs lengthwise before serving, but he had a couple of choking episodes while eating other things (grapes).
Because everyone should make a product with every feature imaginable! Why would you need anything else? Feature bloat doesn't hurt any product!
Publicity stunts shape opinion -- and China specifically seems to get really upset about being forced to defend certain practices in public.
Building a better teacher [not about robots]
Of course, I’ll be tweeting away. Over time, I’m coming to realize what sort of messages I can communicate effectively via Twitter, and what sort I can’t. Twitter works least well for me when I try to cram big arguments down to 140 characters.

But isn't twitter the medium which caused him the most grief (the techcrunch manufactured-drama of last week) specifically when he tried to convey a big idea in too short a space?
This might be a good start. Though you will also want to keep links to the deleted articles alive.
Does this also mean that applications that do not get accepted under the initial deadline can re-apply with a new idea? If so, will the submission process be able to recognize this as "new" so it is given a fresh review by YC rather than viewing it as an "update" to an existing application?
A Beginner's Guide to Nmap
126 million blogs are online...

I really feel that that number will only continue to increase as more and more people get online and stop worrying about privacy too much.

Mishaps like this are tragic. Misinterpretation and misunderstanding are bad things...but for the most part, these things are rare.
Does this mean that by pushing the deadline earlier they:
- Didn't get enough applications?
- Didn't get enough quality applications?

Or am I reading too much into this?
I'd call it anything but "blatant misreading." Everyone knows the massive hype surrounding Twitter's api. There are companies who've raised millions banking on twitter api. While I think that's bad strategy for those companies, I don't blame a bunch of folks with millions on the line to panic at a tweet from a twitter employee that threatens their existence. If I'm one of the companies that depends on twitter, I'd want to know everything behind that tweet.

It's forgivable if Alex overlooked that perspective but this is by no means techcrunch's fault. They reported what he tweeted.

Partner relationships are very sensitive. I have a product that is being sold by a reseller who has two sales people pushing it. One of the sales people heard a rumor from somewhere(a classmate) that we might be selling directly in the market so he would have to compete with our in-house sales staff for the same business. He contacted us in panic. We had to assure him that while we do plan to do in-house sales, that is for other markets. Point is, when you have good partnerships that are not just fluff, you also need solid communication.

If developers didn't care about the twitter api, they wouldn't give a shit about this tweet. Because they care about it, twitter should be very sensitive to how they communicate with developers.
One instance I know of is when Gibson Guitars sued Paul Reed Smith Guitars over the single-cut design Gibson uses for its Les Paul guitars (and won).
It's also curious that the iPad application RFS was released 3 days ago and presented an extremely tight deadline on applying with that in mind. Now there is plenty of time to apply if you've got the iPad in mind for YComb.
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Is copycatting good for the fashion industry?
Very interesting, Paul. Hope the experiment works.

Staging all the funding opps is a great idea, but as you point out, it sucks to have to wait six months. I hope this makes for a good compromise for everybody concerned.
Don't see you can't do this completely until you go to a completely touch interface and put up an App Store.
The biggest aggravation is the fact that we have a container that is:

1. Reasonably well-designed.

2. Patent-free with a dozen free implementations.

3. Widely-used, far more so than Ogg.

4. General, with the ability to contain nearly any video, audio, or subtitle format.

5. Fully-featured, with the ability to compete effectively with MP4 and other popular container formats.

6. Supported by DivX as the replacement for AVI.

It's called Matroska. And practically everyone promoting Ogg pretends that it doesn't exist.

My theory is that the difference is one of control. Having talked to many Ogg evangelists, this seems to be the problem: Matroska allows you to use video and audio formats that Xiph doesn't like. Ogg does not. Therefore, Ogg is "more free" because it doesn't let you do what you want. It's much the same argument as GPL vs BSD: the GPL is "more free" because it places more restrictions upon users/distributors of the software.
I am all for cleaning up bad content. But I think we have to make a distinction between a Wikipedia entry with poor structure or citations, and this notion of an "unworthy topic"

As for this entry, specifically, I have read it. And I'd go back to what I mentioned about cleaning up bad content. The article can be fixed. It does not need to be eliminated.
P'sha, the cool kids shut down their social network accounts in '08.
and facebook quitting: http://www.seppukoo.com/

I wonder if the twitter guys are concerned about the logical next step in this reversal of over-exposure.
i hate kanye west.
I can't believe this is on the front page and at number 2. Hacker News has officially jumped the shark for me. Yes, down vote me all you want.
This is a pretty interesting development. I'm wondering how YC will handle rejections now - when you know you want to interview someone, that's pretty straightforward. There are probably plenty of definite "no"s, too. Not having the hard deadline will surely tempt you into watching the progress of startups that you're undecided on for a while before making a decision, a bit like the "big" VC courting ritual. (though considering PG's past comments on the VC funding process, I'm assuming it won't be as frustrating for the applicants)
Way to miss the point.

There is a world of difference between slaughtering an individual animal and a modern factory farm slaughterhouse.
Evolution by the Grassroots
Online Mapping (with Ushahidi) in Chile and Haiti
I've never seen being an introvert as a problem, and still don't see it as such. Well I'm an introvert, and from the very extreme case, I mean my own wife says I'm introvert, but I actually don't have problems connecting with peoples, I don't just like it, you just get boring questions from peoples talking about things you don't care about, so the site is a good Idea, but I'm not sure if that's a solution to introverts problems but, it's definetely a very good Idea for meeting employer and professionals, you can get that much noise in 5 minutes, great.
PIMCO’s Bill Gross: Can you get out of a debt crisis by adding more debt?
No, the number of applications doesn't seem to have decreased. We decided to do this back in Jan when we moved the application deadline earlier, because there's now a 3 month gap between the application deadline and when the cycle starts, and we know from experience that when people start startups, they don't always know they're going to 3 months beforehand.
The unstoppable Credit Card blackmarket
HTC was founded in 1997, and was strictly an ODM for the first few years. They're extremely new in comparison to a company like Motorola.

Not all of the complaints are cellphone specific. Some of the patents in the filings are from the NeXT days, long before HTC was around.
It'd be nice if the tech industry got innovative and solved real human problems - you know, like getting computers to do the work of humans.

Reinventions of the telegraph (twitter/facebook) and operating system (apple/android/chromeos) is all i'm seeing these days.
I've always liked reading Dilbert; I've found it to be an interesting and amusing perspective. More serious than most comics yet still humorous. But Scott Adam's writings apart from Dilbert are pretty awesome. The Dilbert Principle especially was a more interesting perspective on management than any management class I've taken.
Voluntary forced socialization is usually fun and exciting, but currently it's only used in a few industries (like dating). There is a lot of possibility in hacking social forces.
meta interesting: looking at the languages there are only two C++ projects that are 'interesting'. Would this be that C++ is not interesting or C++ developers don't put their projects on GitHub? On the flip side in the ruby world it seems pretty defacto that you will put your project up on GitHub, but does that mean Ruby is more interesting? There are probably plenty of communities that are not like Ruby where it be be beneficial for GitHub to get some eye balls looking and learning about GitHub moving that community to a tipping point of switching to Git and using GitHub is the default.
Looks like Josh James and Omniture does not forget its roots.

"World’s Largest Rock, Paper, Scissors Contest Promotes Entrepreneurship"

"In an effort to promote entrepreneurship and raise money for charity, the BYU Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization hosted its 2nd annual Omniture Throwdown - the world’s largest rock, paper, scissors tournament...

So when the club's director of membership services, Derek Pando, came up with the idea for a giant Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament, as crazy as it sounded, they decided to go for it...

As an additional way of promoting entrepreneurship, the competition was sponsored by Omniture, a leading provider of online business optimization software, which was co-founded by a former BYU CEO president, Josh James."

http://marriottschool.byu.edu/news/release.cfm?article=383

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,660209736,00.html
Maybe a little, but I doubt it. Sounds like they've known this is a problem for awhile: someone decides to start a startup right after the deadline, hears about YC, wants to do it, but has to wait a long time (beginning of April- beginning of January is 9 months) to hit a cycle.

But by moving the deadline earlier, they made the problem that much worse, which got them thinking about the problem, which lead them to decide on this approach.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Way too much cynicism in this thread! I thought that was a great way to put on hold a blog I've always enjoyed reading over the last few years.

Congrats and best of luck, Alex.
We're not organized enough to watch the progress of so many applicants. If we're slow to respond it will probably just be old fashioned slackness.
Wikipedia tries to have "no personal point of view" and neutral articles. Advertising would still not be ok. That is a different issue.

I myself would be fine with articles about This-andthat Inc's latest gadget if there are facts and information inside.
PG has said in the past that YC don't have an upper limit on the number of groups to fund. This isn't a zero-sum game: if having no deadline means they get more applicantions of which a steady percentage is fundable, then it's worth doing as long as they don't overstretch their resources.
Are you kidding me? Every time I hear someone complain about how Apple was wronged by Microsoft in the 1980s, I can't help but roll my eyes. Three words: Xerox-Fucking-PARC.
Looks like an interesting paper. Its sort of weird though when you know someone that is mentioned in the paper (Louis Kauffman). Although I'm assuming its the same person. Professor Kauffman likes diagram based arguments so it seems like it would be the same person.
does matroska work for streaming?
Don't forget archive.org, they are probably the biggest Vorbis and Theora user out there.
Scientific American: Does the US Produce Too Many Scientists?
Cassette tape culture
Someone needs to whip up a quick mad-libs style "I'm quitting blogging" script that can write these posts for us all.

Also a list of public blog-quitters so we can ridicule them when they change their minds:
http://calacanis.com/2008/07/11/official-announcement-regard...
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100301/lets-take-this-offline....
http://al3x.net/2010/03/02/hiatus.html
Interview with the creator of FleetDB, a schema free DB written in clojure
I for one would love to hear it. Isn't there some place you could write it up and publish it?
Fair enough. I should have said that the Law of Universal Gravitation, not "gravity", is effectively proven. We don't know how gravity works.
Yes. Matroska's index is optional, and thus one should be able to stream it simply by omitting the index.

I suspect many existing implementations are suboptimal for streaming though simply because almost nobody uses it that way and so they have not been as tested as they otherwise would be. But this is easy to solve since the format itself already supports streaming.
Barclays and Bank of America see looming oil crunch
You then seemed to say that HTML5 doesn't actually let you create the effects exhibited in those websites. I corrected you and referred you to the modules.

The side-step again. The examples that you gave (a vague reference to ADC) did not support your argument. You might remember: "Show me http://mycanvas.landsend.com or http://www.myspace.com/fanvideo in HTML5." It was apparent to me that we had moved away from the Blizzard sites.

The very simplistic Blizzard sites (which I agree could be done in HTML5 to some extent) are not what I would consider heavy or complex.

I asked: "I wanna see this level of complexity without a hindrance on development time, performance or scope."

You replied with the same double talk I expect in a Flash vs. HTML5 thread: "I'd recommend checking out the CSS animation / transitions modules at the W3C to get familiarized. " You mean the fully implemented CSS transitions?

If you can't give examples, then just say that. Don't come back with a vague blanket statement.
The timing is a strategic move by Apple. If they went after HTC early, there would have been little damage to them (and Google), and given them time to adjust their strategy.

Now, both parties are "all-in", and by attacking now, Apple can hurt both companies badly, and put the competition back 2-3 years.
This is one of the more childish rants. Apple is a company working in a capitalistic government, Its no different to any other company out there. Defending patents isn't unusual...especially if they have a case (which I feel they do).

I don't agree necessarily with it because it stifles creativity and to some respect stops others from trying new things (or makes them too scared to try something else based on some current technology), but its the same with every other industry, HTC just have to payup or innovate. If they cant do either then they were taking a chance and it didn't pay off.
Cool. I wondered where Stefan & Credentica ended up. For those unfamiliar with the work, Brands took the old Chaum credentials (an application of his seminal blind signatures stuff) and made them practical for a lot of purposes using alternative crypto techniques that were light enough to run on smart cards. Credentica was trying to apply the work to information management within the enterprise, but it always seemed like cool tech to use for a lot of the applications that get shoehorned into some collection of OAuth, FBConnect, etc.
I'd be much more interested to know how many parents of children that have died from choking were trained in CPR techniques. I would be willing to bet that almost none of them were. Having a one year old and having had to clear his airway once myself and having watched my wife do it twice, I find it appalling that more people don't bother with this type of training. It doesn't take long, isn't expensive, and can save not only the life of your own child but the life of someone else as well. Even with the appropriate training you won't always be successful and a 911 call may be necessary, but being able to try to clear the airway while you wait several minutes for responders to arrive can mean the difference between life, death, and brain damage from lack of oxygen.
is there a server and client that supports it?
from http://www.matroska.org/technical/guides/faq/index.html
Will Matroska be streamable? Yes, but low bitrate streaming like streaming Vorbis, will always be better in Ogg. This is because their design is for different purposes.
Why Formulas and Trends are Often Dead Ends
Hrm, I should have known you lot would think of unanticipated ways to use this option. That wasn't the original intention, and if everyone did that we'd be so swamped with repeat applications that we probably wouldn't be able to read them all. How about if I add a feature for people to update an application that was submitted by the deadline, and we'll make a pass through those too?
Or Google trying to exert corporate hegemony over the US government in an attempt realign public policy for its own purposes.
They're referring to (at the time it was written) streaming Vorbis using Ogg, which is not at all an unreasonable thing to do. Ogg was originally designed to contain Vorbis, and thus Vorbis-in-Ogg is not particularly evil or difficult to deal with. Ogg only became seriously problematic when they tried to extend it to include things that it wasn't originally designed to be able to do.
I'm interested to see their interesting algorithms to determine interesting repositories.

It's obviously not based on the numbers of watches and forks.
Ogg works better.
Ask HN: Looking For Good Systems Integration Blogs
I'm looking for some thought leaders, best practices, open source coverage blogs that can help me learn more about Systems Integration, specifically in the area of billing and CRMs. I googed some but couldn't find anything distinguishable.
Makes perfect sense if the first kid is skinny, the second kid is fat, and the third kid is medium-sized.
Apple has a track record of filing lawsuits it knows it almost certainly won't win.

Examples?
If he could easily double the number of customers, it means the current price is below equilibrium.

Why doesn't he charge more?
But that's too much like conversationally asking a question about a detail, instead of leaping on a harmless locution with an intent to prove superiority.

What good is that?
Ok, I'll take a run at it. Two on order from Provantage. But it isn't hacking until I can replace the software.

(And a special thanks to Amazon for that special discount that can only be shown in a shopping cart. Sorry, that $1.18 didn't make you competitive, even with my prepaid Prime shipping. On the other hand, Provantage doesn't really have any of these and is going to go looking for them, so they may fail.)
This appears to be a reasonably complete list (refer to the YC sheet):

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1...

According to that list, 14 are dead.

That might be an underestimate, as BusinessWeek's Top Angels in Tech list puts the number of dead YC startups at about 21.
And then you have the rare individuals who can make everyone feel important, if just for a moment in their lifetime

> I once shook hands with Bill Clinton, and for one tiny moment, he made me feel like the most important person in the world. That's charisma.

It's not far off from love, is it? When someone's in love with you, they see you as the most wonderful person in the world. It's a hell of a feeling. If you can do that for people you're not in love with, you've got charisma.

http://ask.metafilter.com/128697/What-is-charisma
Yes, deletionism is getting ridiculous on WP. And it's only going to get worse, due to evaporative cooling of group beliefs.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...

But what to do about it? Various people have mentioned the idea of a WP fork. This has been tried before, a number of times. These tend not to go anywhere. The problem seems to be getting a critical mass of people to work on it.

Another idea I've been wondering about: start a movement to get inclusionists back into WP. It should have its own website, discussion area (inside or outside WP?), etc. Someone should write up ideas on how WP can be changed (e.g., vote NO on all deletion polls, not as a statement that any particular article should not be deleted, but rather simply to set a higher standard for deletion).

Thoughts? (Or has this also been done already?)
Strictly speaking the "humanities" (philosophy, literature, history) don't make any kind of attempt at science at all, whereas the social sciences (economics, sociology) have the difficulties you point out.
He would also have suggested a comma after "sadly," so that it's obvious that it's the writer's comment, rather than a modifier on the way Safire died.
Awesome plugin. A cursory inspection indicates that they are complimentary tho. For instance, you use sparkup to add reams of html. But if it turns out you need to wrap a few elements in a div, ragtag might be better (e.g. add the <div> then navigate to wherever, and do the close). Unless of course sparkup ha that, and I haven't got there yet in the docs.
GitHub is overwhelmingly populated by projects written in dynamically typed interpreted languages. A quick look over at the 'Top Languages' tab tells us that compiled languages don't even show up until position number 7.
So?

Maybe flippant, but that's the nature of the blogging beast. Blogs come and go, new ones replace old ones and somehow equilibrium is maintained.
In many of the social sciences, people come into the field with agendas and political leanings that at best subtly bias what they are doing and at worst override their search for truth and cause them to find the results they want, whether those results are real or not.

In the hard sciences, there is rarely an agenda. People often care very much about the results, but they rarely bring with them deeply rooted political biases.