skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope to get a sheevaplug* at some point to be a small multi-purpose home server. If we can get setup of that (or something similar) to be as painless as setting up a facebook account and friending, we might be on to something.

I also want to use it for things like storing scanned images and possibly home automation/monitoring.

In short there might be a market niche for a low-power headless server to solve this kind of situation

*http://www.openplug.org/
that was something i didn't really understand, to be honest. it seemed that the airbus computer goes into a "minimal" (ie "dumb") mode when it detects inconsistent inputs. the implication being (i think) that it does no more than support basic fly-by-wire. so it's not clear to me how that is so different from turning off the computer in a boeing. in either case you're effectively flying "unaided".

if the airbus computer had crashed, or had some kind of fault, then sure, better to not have a computer. but that didn't seem to be the case here.

and yet, at the same time, it seems that the plane simply stalled and fell out of the sky. when i was fascinated by planes as a kid i learnt that a stall was easily recoverable in airliners, unless they were the old "T tail" design (the rear controls end up in the turbulent wake from the stalled wing and you need to side-slip into a kind of flat spin to recover control). so if they had control, why didn't they recover? and why bother rebooting the computer? there's a suggestion that the pilots were simply incompetent and lost without the computer enhanced controls.
It would be interesting to get some numbers on YC's returns/investment ratios.
The panda seems quite serious.
I am in the same position, working full-time in a semi-demanding job, with a wife, son, big lawn to mow, etc.

Keep the job, keep the wife, keep the son, outsource the lawn.
It's always great to hear of others attempting the same thing. Although, I must admit that I'm not applying myself to the day job - at all.

Bizarrely though, I've just had my annual review and got an above average rating, which is the same as the year I worked my ass off! Perhaps it just says more about the average than about me ;-)

Another limiting factor which I think you alluded to: just because you have a full-time job doesn't mean your savings (runway) is growing. Personally, my job doesn't even pay the bills so I need the side-business to generate income even if I keep the day job.
Interesting that pg is second only to Ron Conway, in number of investments (I'm guessing this is YCombinator vs. Ron Conway Inc.) 190 vs 129 given that YC has only been doing it for 5 years.

EDIT: link to table: http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/future_of_t...
It was easily measurable if you ran the instructions in a loop and looked at the power draw. I can't remember the numbers now but it was definitely significant (maybe 30% on a wide vector instruction?).

I don't know where you got the idea about the flip-flops from.

Adders for example are implemented so that they grow exponentially in the number of bits in size, so that they use a time proportional to the log2 of the number of bits. Note that this means the number of bit transitions in a simple add can be much larger than the number of bits going in, meaning more power draw.

Of course we didn't worry about the instructions inputs in practice.

I think it was cheaper to store 1bits than 0bits ironically.

edit: explain more clearly that larger circuit size means more power drawn
Scientists listen to the sun in new sonification project
no YouTube - just MeTube =)
You might try Acme SAC: http://caerwyn.com/acme/
I understand your anger, but this is a good, well-written apology, albeit done in a formal style. Fabulis may or may not accept it, but it's hardly like Citi's blowing them off.

Bill Brown (the Citibank manager) made pretty strong statements like "I assure you that Citi is committed to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities". There's not a lot of wiggle room there.

As a piece of corporate communications, it's nicely done. He openly addressed all of the customer's concerns, without immediately throwing one of his employees under the bus or being defensive. That's a delicate dance.
I always found the posts about minor details of running a company to be the most interesting. Like the one on leasing NYC office space. There are plenty of programming blogs, but not a lot on those "starting a company" subjects.
That would be pretty crazy if out of 150436 names, J came somewhere in the two thousands. 26 goes into 150436 almost 6,000 times. The file is definitely descending order of occurrence. Look for yourself. It's kind of cool to skim through it.

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/2000surnames/names....

Be sure to open the csv file. The excel file only has the top 1000 names.
The real reason to avoid doing business with CitiBank is that they are probably insolvent.
How can Ron Conway not be at #1?
Vagueness could result from the writer of the apology not knowing the exact details of who did what or not being able to discuss the details. (Example: internal investigation and company rules don't allow discussion)

Alternately, weasel words could simply be the language this guy speaks all day and didn't think to be more clear. (Not to excuse the weaseliness.)
There's a detailed table of the rankings: http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/future_of_t...
The OP implies that this is an unsurprising development. Has there been particularly strange activity on the scientology account over the past little while?
Your information is wrong. You clearly don't know statistics on the average and median time it takes to get a Ph.D. in mathematics in the United States. Furthermore you clearly do not understand the American university system and the economic forces that bely it. I suppose you aren't even aware that community colleges do around 1/3[1] of the higher education teaching in the United States.

Many graduate programs do not provide any benefits for their students. Purdue provided no benefits for it's teaching assistants in mathematics as of December of 1999.

It is poor thinking to take your experience and assume it is normative.

[1]Edited for accuracy. My original statement said 1/2 which is too much.
To me that just means that there's a market rate for equity grants for chumps and a different (higher) market rate for "the really good ones".
You can still buy SPARC servers, and they've benchmarked behind Intel for some time now.
It sure would. But we've been operating such a short time that all the acquisitions so far have been early acquisitions, which are always for small amounts.

I'm pretty sure we're ahead on paper, but I've never tried to calculate how far ahead.
I pity the woman who owns an iPhone. Srsly.

Call me a tomboy, but "a bare-knuckled bucket of does" is EXACTLY what I'd want in a device. I liked what one woman said about it in the comments on this post, that she didn't want a pink, sparkly piece of crap; she wanted a functional computer she could fit in her pocket.
Flash 10.1 isn't a battery Hog rather its Amazing.
They could be more certain with a multivariate test. I count 2^7 = 64 possible variations (counting the madlib/form as just one point of difference), which would take an awful lot of traffic to discriminate between. So I sort of kind of understand the desire to wrap it up in one simple A/B test.

But you're right, of course, there is no reason to assume that the change was from the obvious of the 7 changes instead of from all (or one!) of the other six changes. Did anybody notice that the button call to action changed? I've seen A/B tests where that did 20% by itself. Did anybody notice that the header call to action changed? I've seen A/B tests where that did 20% by itself. Did anybody notice that they added the words "Thank you."? I've seen A/B tests where... actually, I haven't for "Thank you." (if you've got one, please share) But you get the general idea.
Not enough public info to really judge, but anecdotally they're doing very well.
Not exactly a great move on apple's part but I can understand why. I'd imagine quite a few parents would be upset to see adult content in the app store.
Well, rendering complex PDF files through html/javascript is considerably more difficult than using, what I presume to be, native adobe library in flash to read and edit PDF documents.

At least with PDF files. That's what I tried, and the rendering is flawless. I haven't seen a PDF -> HTML/JS conversion that actually produces usable results, yet.
You're right. But why don't more girls like jets and robots? They're just... so cool.

As a sociological group, do women just not like cool stuff? Maybe this would explain romantic comedies and costumes for dogs.
nice idea. imh(and completely uneducated)o the front page is perhaps a little more cluttered than it need be. there's two links to feedback (one via a menu), two to the faq, etc. you could probably get rid of either the grey bottom bar or the drop-down menu (perhaps even both if you tried really hard :o)
I went with a similar strategy with a site I put together, JimAsks.me ( http://www.jimasks.me ). I went as far as to create the account for the user with pseudo data, and then giving them the chance to go back and update the account data if they wish. If anyone answered a question, regardless of whether they had created an account or not, I wanted to be able to display that response and by tying it to a persona, I was able to do that. This signup process was presented in a paragraph form similar to the site discussed here (just answer a question you'll get a chance to "change your account" where you'll see my form).

I didn't see any uptick in those who signed up. But the generation of anonymous accounts on behalf of the user certainly did increase the interaction with my site.
It's on blogspot. You can comment with your google account or an openid.
Sorry, it wasn't intended as a troll.

My own experience probably bumps up my interest with other's experiences with the app store and it's approval process.
I saw the item but didn't follow the link, because the description didn't sound interesting. If the description were more clear, I probably would have followed it.

For example: "A script to estimate the time at which a process will complete".

I skim through several thousand RSS/ATOM feed entries each day; unless the meaning is clear and interesting to me, I usually don't waste time trying to decode it.
I do suffer from literalism, and I'm having a hard time parsing the phrase "Joel's creativity has reached it is maxima - as if".

Normally I just gloss over the many poorly written comments on the Internet without being a grammar nazi, but since you specifically wrote this for us literalism sufferers, I thought I'd point out that it was not in fact helpful.
"how it affects their odds of an acquisition"

My guess is it'll affect it as much as their decision to use a gif for their logo instead of a png.
Just got approved - 35 hours.

Guess I'll give it a go again!
Except ex-PayPal people have been quite successful, by and large. What's the biggest Xoogler success?
While it is clear what the value of this is, I needs such estimates so rarely that I just do them mentally or just go off and do something else.

My long-running things are either known in length or short enough to flip to hacker news to read a couple of items.
How does it make sense that the investors get their money back AND get a % of the remaining money equal to their equity?

They own half the company, shouldn't they simply get half of the total proceeds of the acquisition?
Interval training can cut exercise hours sharply
Will an algorithm pick you for your next coding job?
Facebook Patents The Feed
Probably Friendfeed
But I just bought a John Deere riding mower!
I'm a little confused by this report.

If the airplane lost lift and descended at a free-fall rate into the ocean, and the engines were still running? That would suggest to me a deep stall due to ice. You'd think that under FL150 or so they'd point the nose down and try to get some kind of lift from the wings, even if they had to overspeed. But it looks, from the story, like they tried to fight the descent with power and pitch. Were they unaware of icing conditions in the tops of those storms? I find that hard to believe. Did they understand the ASIs were inop? I think they would, and the article assumes they did. So why keep screwing around with the flight computers? Aviate, navigate, then communicate, right?

I'm tempted to bash the Airbus FBW system, but that would be too easy. I am concerned, however, that it seems like there were more accidents with the Airbus in regards to pitot icing than Boeing.
They should have included astrological information ;)
Peter Thiel: An Angel on a Hot Streak
IMHO too many people trash-talk Git for Windows without even knowing properly what they are talking about. For example, timing clone. WTF? Do you clone all the time? Neither do I. Measure something that you really use very often, if you do not want to be mistaken for an incompetent script kiddie.

Further, I am not exactly thrilled by the claim that it runs okay "as of fairly recently". There haven't been all that many changes over the last year. So you are obviously wrong. It is also a insult on our work, which you should be fairly ashamed of.

Ciao,
Dscho

P.S.: what kind of "Hacker News" are shown on this site when you cannot even comment using w3m? WTF?
How is Drupal working out for you as a platform?
But the fact of the matter is that as our knowledge of different subjects advances, there are more and more
things to learn before a student can get down to doing
actual research. Together with increased automation of
many mundane jobs as a result of computers, this makes a long
education almost mandatory for people wishing to maximise their chances of employment.
This blog post was more worthy of being a tweet.
Anyone ever read what Calacanis says about his employees? He demands way beyond what even most startups require, yet you can tell in clear text that there's not going to be any payout to his people, I'd love to see his term sheet. Nothing against him, I really enjoy his writing. But working at mahala hmmm n0t.
"Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network" — Well, we're doomed. Doooooomed.
shrug. i never quite liked his subtle tone of self-serving, nor was i happy about many of his downright erroneous advices and zealous indoctrination in programming.
Lol. See comment above. Drupal's great at solving 80% of whatever problem you have. Unfortunately, consumers expect and deserve a finished product. So you either need to be a dev and hack your code yourself or hire someone else to do it for you. Very little "just works" out of the box in a way that consumers would recognize and take to.
Study fails to link saturated fat, heart disease
To be fair, this is common business writing. I don't think people realize they are being so indirect because being direct sounds crass and impolite. It takes a good writer to clearly document a situation and properly apologize; most business people are just not good writers.

So I would chalk this up to ignorance, not malice. It's clear that Citi is upset that they treated a customer this way, and that they want to indicate this to their client. That's all I would ask for.

I would be motivated to keep my business with Citi, if only because I now have a higher-level contact in case the underlings mess something up again. I think it's clear that this guy cares... but maybe I am too nice.
Graphic Designer needed for stealth/VC funded YC S09 startup [Bay Area]
We were part of the Summer 09 batch. We have yet to launch and have closed an angel round from some of the best angels in Silicon Valley and we have raised a VC/Seed round, so we are well capitalized.

Since we're still stealth, all we can say right now is that we are tackling a very large problem in a very old industry... this is not your run of the mill Silicon Valley company.

We are looking for a talented Web Designer to join our team. Here are the job requirements.

Requirements:

* Design sense and usability understanding demonstrated through prior work. Please submit your portfolio.

* Proficient with HTML/CSS

* Proficient with Photoshop or equivalent tool for creating design mocks and prototypes

* Bachelors/Masters degree in Graphic Design or Computer Science preferred

Bonus Points:

* Experience with JavaScript and jQuery (or other framework)

* Experience with Ruby on Rails

* Experience with git source control system

* Can handle working with a crazy motivated team :)

Competitive full-time salary, equity compensation plan, and benefits. You will have the freedom to choose the technology and tools you need to be most productive.

Please send a resume to:

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Include in your cover email three interesting things about yourself to give us a little more insight into who you are as a person.

Also please submit examples of your previous design work/portfolio.

This position requires your presence in the Bay Area.
Facebook Friending Made Simple: Just Shake Your iPhone
Actually, a few years ago mozart/oz had better performance of actors than erlang, I don't know what the case is today. Mozart/oz came a decade later than erlang and they incorporated it's lessons into the language - mozart/oz is a multiparadigm language and has a lot of functionality.
Please pardon the editorialized title. I thought the original title was not very descriptive and used the words "NetHack AI" from the first line of the article instead.

I hope those guys will produce the Interhack-like program, soon.
start blah blah apple doesnt like their brand to be sullied by risque material blah blah blah apple's walled-garden approach is dangerous for developers blah blah end

Sorry, getting so bored with repetitive nature of all discussion around app store. Apple is walled garden, will do what they want, allowed to do what they want.
all those hours administering my own email server

Huh? I administer my own email server, and have administered email servers for a few startups. It takes like an hour to set things up, and other than adding an account here and there or creating a mailing list, there is really no administration. I can't remember the last time I really did anything remotely approaching "administration" on my personal server.

I think sometimes it may be fear of the unknown, but when you control your mailserver, a lot of options open up to you that you can't get from a 3rd party provider.
I don't know where they got that number. The current number is 172. Last June it was 144.

The number for Ron also seems wrong. He's made a lot more than 190 investments. He's been doing this since the 1980s.
In particular, the fastest possible machines that any amount of money can buy tend to be, these days, basically just piles of x86 PCs. http://www.top500.org/lists/2009/11
You use CentOS, you donate to CentOS; I don't see the problem.

You have a slow growing startup, you can't be running out of places to spend money already? YAGNI, and all that.
Banking regulations force big banks to do things like this. If the OP ended up doing something illegal with the account, Citi would be stuck with a big fine and would be out whatever money the OP used. If they made a policy that says, "we will not touch your account without a court order", they would be out of business tomorrow because that is the same as, "we are knowingly going to violate the law." Banks are financially liable to the government if they do not police new accounts aggressively. Banking regulations in the US suck, and this is exactly the unintended consequences that these regulations have. (If you care, google "know your customer".)

(I work at an investment bank as a contractor and had to take a course on detecting consumer banking fraud. Absolutely nothing to do with my line of work, but that's how paranoid the banks are of the government.)
That bar analogy is sounding awfully tenuous by this point. Was YouTube paying people to upload the video?
The comments mention a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8nmScWpiJY) of the bot in action.
Not all walled gardens are created equal.
That’s what parental controls are for. Also: did you read the article?
"But the number of iconic companies—and the number of companies that even aspire to greatness—seems to be dropping. I'm a little worried that things are slowing down, operating well below potential. …We need more Intels, Apples, Googles, Genentechs, and Facebooks. I'm not sure we're going to get enough with venture [capital] in its current state. "

I agree and this bothers me a lot. Startups are easier to start and we're making silly twitter apps or trying to sell out for 5 million. Very few companies strive to build a lasting legacy.
Welcome to the world of preferred shares vs common shares and "liquidation preferences"...
Couldn't you make the same arguments against unions as against any other cartel?
I believe Opera is trying this concept in their latest web browser, http://unite.opera.com/, although I don't think it's gaining much traction. I believe they're bundling an easy to use web server where you can self hosts and share your content, media, etc.
How about legal expense insurance?
I remember having to symlink /usr/local/lib/python2.6 to /Library/Python/2.6 so that site-packages are automatically included in $PYTHONPATH. You should also see what echo $PYTHONPATH says, and make sure site-packages is in there.

For reference, mine is:

/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/:/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/:
I had wondered if Apple had removed them simply because the apps were of such low quality. This would explain why Playboy, Sport Illustrated etc are still present.

The cheap 'boobs/babes/bikini' apps constantly filled many slots in the top app lists, yet most seemed to be simply a collection of images and as such, their ratings were very, very low. They seemed to have no real content that wasn't freely available on the web.

Looking at the ones that were high in the top free app lists, they were simply 6-8 images of women in bikinis with ads attached.
Preach it brother!

SEO scales ridiculously out of proportion with time invested, does not typically require dedicated upkeep outside of continuing to execute on the business, can be done without large ongoing payments of money, largely does not depend on pleasing gatekeepers (a task which almost always distracts you from executing on the business), etc, etc.
Xoogler for rent
Still doesn't make sense. Yes, things like Brent-Kung adders are O(2^N) in the bit length of the input, but the adders are pipelined. You only avoid the transition current in the stateless logic if all the addition operations are of the same values every clock cycle. But obviously you can't do that if you want to compute something. I still don't buy it. On anything bigger than a 6502, there is no way this would be measurable. None whatsoever.