skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, agreed. The next version of the app will have registration possible in the app. Having the unpredictability of the app approval process meant I had to basically submit a minimum viable client as soon as I could to make sure it was in the app store at launch. This is super high priority.
Most company's grow from either:

A) Borrowed money.

B) Rolling those profits back into the company.

Assuming lead time is less than a year and the profits are already significant both of these options can grow extremely fast. However, just because you can pay someone a reasonable wage to do what you do does not mean it's profitable. It's easy to throw a lot of time and money after a bad idea that only seems to be working.
Invisibility Cloak Created in 3-D
Lost a little faith in humanity reading this comment.
Ah crap.

I wish this was titled "another inane rant by RMS" - I could have saved myself clicking on it and reading more of Stallman's quibbling little can't-see-the-forest-for-trees micropscopic-focus my-way-or-the-highway intractability.

There's a reason that Linux seized the forefront of the free software / open source movement - it's that Linus, for all his flaws, is still 1,000 x better with people than RMS.

RMS epitomized many of the worst parts of nerd-personality-damage.

A big breakthrough in my life was realizing that getting people to 95% agree with me ... and then making a ton of progress - is infinitely preferable to endlessly arguing over that last 5% and getting stuck without any progress.

What have RMS or the FSF accomplished in the last 10 years?

Precious little.

The movement has left them behind, and they're still at the starting line arguing about how many periods there are in an ellipses.
Dreadful article...but I admit to sharing the author's bewilderment at Bernanke's statement (http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/bernanke2...). I am not at all sure what mechanism he envisions for limiting banking leverage absent frequent random auditing or some other blunt regulatory instrument.
Alternatively, not quite the same thing at all, but a local startup here in Ottawa has a service and Restful API for Sending Push Notifications. Its called AppNotify ( http://appnotify.com/ ).
Attempt at a facetious / humorous semantic quibble:

Is it still "fractional reserve" banking [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking ] when there's a zero in the denominator?
I would love to become a bank so I can borrow with no money down.

or be a greedy credit card company/investment company and 'become' a bank like chase/goldman sachs
Because time and again, things that the entire mathematical community believe to be obviously true turn out to be completely false, and vice versa. One's intuitions about what is hard and what is easy don't count for much until you've spent some time actually trying to prove it.
I'm just about finished with a dissertation in Finance (teaching job starts in August). Obviously I'm very excited about this launch, I have a couple painfully acquired datasets I wouldn't mind seeing a dollar return from and it'd be great to save some effort going forward, especially after I have a salary to spend on that text box.
A standard designer will not do that. No designer could look at the color of a button, and say, I can increase your business by 0.1% if you let me change the color. Well, plenty of people will say that, but they are talking shit.

You need a lot of testing to discover that.
I mean human languages, not programming. They are

-German

-English

-Turkish

-Russian

-Azerbaijani

-Arabish (lower intermediate)

-Ottomanish (not so good at speaking)
This is pretty much how consulting firms get their contracts. The ex-employees aren't actually your customers directly. That would imply that they are giving up their own money of your services (something any reasonable ex-consultant would never do). What they do instead is convince the companies they work for now to hire your firm. They are tricking the new company into becoming a customer and shelling out cash for a service that probably offers very little value to them.
And since when is this news? Congress lowered the minimum reserve requirements to 0 during the Bush bailout bill. The current minimum, as set by the fed, last time I checked, was around 8-10%, depending upon the type of reserve, but there is nothing stopping the Fed from dropping the rate to 0.

Of course, that would mean hyper inflation, but since when does Bernanke care one whit about the buying power of the dollar? The Fed is the biggest tax and spender of them all. Inflation is their tax, and it is not progressive. It steals the money of poor and rich alike, and in return the Fed provides the US Government nearly a blank check to spend that stolen wealth.

I honestly don't understand how anybody can be surprised at this.
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Could you please give any details about how the iPhone app is actually receiving these notifications ?
The irony is that while YC is extremely useful for founders, those who get in probably need that help the least.
Best quote I saw on the site "To be honest, when starting those businesses I wouldn't don't pay what I charge as a designer."
Alright, that's reasonable. Yet another reason I might get a Nexus One soon (especially if I no longer have to worry about being push-less!).

How will the other mobile apps work? Will they just always be running and frequently checking for notifications? Can you do some sort of long-polling over cell networks that sometimes lose service? How will you make sure you don't kill people's battery life?
The weekend project is a good way to find out what it takes
to work a project from start to finish. Then when you get a
group together you have already been-there-done-that once before, just on a smaller scale.
I think what he is trying to say is that the experiment conducted for the documentary was not a robust peer reviewed phenomenon, but rather a for-pop-consumption "backyard demonstration". Real science takes a lot of effort (avoiding the before mentioned sample bias being one), effort which was most likely skipped in the creation of this "pop sociology" for-mass-consumption show.

Ironically, the fake violence of reality shows they decry is precisely what they are demonstrating - an unreviewed, unpublished study which concludes "4/5 of everyone around you is a potential murderer".
It was on a logarithmic scale.
While dwm probably does deserve to have a wiki page.. most pages do not..

If every OSS project, anime character, street gets its own page, the whole thing will grow too large for any group of people to effectively maintain..

The deletionists are also probably the people who end up deleting spam, prank edits, etc .. which is a pretty thankless job with no end in sight, and I can understand their sentiment, when they advocate for a smaller but higher quality wikipedia.
Thank you.

I knew you meant human languages. I know a little conversational German, took French in high school and college, and took two classes of Classical Greek in college. I know a few words of Russian. As a teenager, I wanted to be a simultaneous translator, but I never got the opportunity to seriously pursue it. I feel better about only dabbling in human languages now that I also dabble in computer languages and it has allowed me to communicate with more people than learning French ever did. :-D
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So you downvoted me because you did not like my opinion.

No I didn't, I replied.
This is absolutely ridiculous. If he wanted a saw with Sawstop, he should have paid the money to buy one with it!

For a comparison, a Sawstop cabinet saw intended for home woodworkers was (as of July 09) $2900. Ryobi's MOST expensive table saw that I've seen was listed at $299.

So, the guy sued a budget tool maker for not including patented technology that's included in models 10 times more expensive than the one he (probably) purchased.

And he won.

If Ryobi loses on appeal, it's going to be a crying shame.

For a (possibly terrible) analogy, it's like someone buying a small cheap car, getting in a wreck, and then suing the car manufacturer because their car isn't as safe as the highest-end luxury cars. I wish I could say it was unbelievable, but it's clearly occured.
No, they were not better than the closed source alternatives for most businesses. They were cheaper. Cheaper trumps better often. Cheaper drove adoption.
You need to careful you don't become labelled as the inhouse SEO/SEM expert. Once labelled like that it might be hard to get the chance to develop other business skills that are needed to broaden out your skill set.
Dupe ;)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197224
On some level it's good to know source does matter (npr vs. yahoo)
Well, what do you think is the purpose of the "free software" or "open source" movement?

Is it to hack open source software, or is it more "idealogical"?

Perhaps what FSF want to accomplish is actually different than what you want to accomplish?
The classic work on the 'authoritarian personality' is Erich Fromm's Escape From Freedom.
If you want to able to design and develop good products you need to be vigilant with your money.

This is true, but the point is that money isn't the primary goal. Money will follow if you achieve your first goal, which is to make and develop good products. When you are focused on money, you tend to cut corners. When you are focused on the product, you don't. This is why Apple products can have a slightly higher price, because they tend to not cut corners. Also, they are focused on products... which means that they have to be able to produce something that is sellable. So they don't spend money irrationally and make jewel encrusted computers... they just make well designed ones.
I'm speechless.

This shows a complete failure to recognise that the current problems are from too much leverage.

It's like treating a hangover from drinking too much beer with a good shot of some grain alcohol.

The problems are excessive leverage and risk taking in the financial sector, and insufficient capital by the companies doing the lending.

Until someone realises this and changes course, the problems will continue. It will be possible to fan the flames and get the economy going again, but it will only crash harder next time. Same as hair of the dog - it will get you up and going again, but sooner or later you have to stop drinking, and that's when it is going to hurt, big time.
No, the real question is why did he get money for being careless. If I put on my skates wrong as a kid, fell down and bumped by head, know what happened? My mother yelled at me for not being careful. Now, we sue the skate manufacturer.
From what I've found checking online, saws with SawStop are multiple thousands of dollars. ($2900 for their home-carpenter, table saw version.)

Ryobi is a budget toolmaker. I'd bet that the reason he didn't buy one was Sawstop is because he decided that his chances of getting hurt were low enough to justify saving the $1-2k extra that a Sawstop saw would cost him.
After Perelman rejected the Fields medal for this proof, he said about the Clay Millennium prize: "I'm not going to decide whether to accept the prize until it is offered". This was a few years ago.

Now that it is offered I would like to know now if he decided to accept it.
Let's walk through the criticisms you make.

unfocused interview loops leading to poor feedback

Yes, and it sounds like that is an issue they are trying to address that.

much too long process between phone screen and receiving approval from MTV

Absolutely. I am an outlier there. I took over a year from initial interview to hire thanks to the hiring freeze. I'd like to see us A/B test different interview formats to figure out how much of the process we can remove without hurting the performance of the people we hire.

a focus on hiring those good at interviewing and not those good at engineering (hiring scores do not correlate with performance scores)

This is not so simple. There is a skill to impressing people, and everyone has trouble limiting its impact on interviews. My impression is that Google does much better than most. For instance how many times have you heard someone say that their impression was really good, but when they went through the notes the person wasn't as good as they seemed. That is a case where someone's interview skills didn't have its usual impact.

The best anyone has managed do with any hiring process is to filter out the vast majority of bad people. Successfully ranking the best is pretty much impossible. The toy model I offer at http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-is-intelligence.ht... is a pretty good explanation of why. Just replace TST with "interview skills", INT with "actual performance" and IQ with "hiring scores". Since both actual performance and ability to interview affect your interview results, being really selective winds up with people who are good at both, and not those whose performance is truly exceptional.

ignoring experience by offering salaries or positions significantly below candidate's current levels in the industry.

This I'll actively disagree with. Google is in a strong negotiating position. They would be amiss to their shareholders to not negotiate well. Particularly since the ability difference between "got in solidly" and "just missed the cut" is rather small. But even so, if you're good at negotiating, the salary drop is much less. And there are various kinds of incentives that make your overall compensation significantly more than just your salary.

Besides, whenever you put people into a different kind of job than they have had before, you run a real risk that they will prove not to be a good fit. A drop in compensation is only appropriate in that situation. And Google's environment is different enough that lots of people wind up in that situation. (For instance I'm an SRE. That's a Google role that you don't find elsewhere.)
A) I would be concerned that the one with all the money will turn out to be a lot better at raising money than at creating something. In the long run, you cannot borrow your way out of debt. So if they can't produce something, they would eventually go bankrupt.

B) If at all possible, in the same situation, I would try to spend a little time on each one and see if I could learn enough from each of them to figure out what is 'wrong' with each and try to make a more viable go of whichever one seems best for me. They sound like each one has done one piece of it well and not the other. It sounds like a unique opportunity to experience the two things first-hand and grow a unique knowledge-base, out of which something really viable is much more likely to be born in the future.
Why is a keyboard problematic?
>If a place could provide me with a new challenge, puzzle whatever, I'd stick around

It's this kind of thinking that I fear is far more prevalent among new hires, and in my opinion is far more damaging. The company shouldn't need to "provide" you with a new challenge -- you should be seeking them out and creating your own challenges.
Intel and Sony Work With Google on TV Box, Will Run Chrome
So you'd say that any object without mass does not exist? Perhaps you'd like to brush up on photons and gauge bosons. The author was no more saying that an object with negative mass is non-existent than a debt is a hole in your wallet. Negative numbers have more meaning than subtraction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massless_particle
You mean Colorado, not Utah, right? Colorado appears to stand along in the west side of the country starting in 2005. In 2004 and 2005, Utah and Colorado are both the dark blue indicating 15%-19%. In general, Colorado seems to lag behind the indicated measurements of the states around it.
Heck, putting it on your blog? What's to prevent you from buying the list of Wal-Marts, and selling it on right back on Data Marketplace?
You can't trust the last person who used it to wash their hands. Besides, it's probably a different layout/size than yours, and keystroke loggers would be a problem.

I think it's a non-issue; people will just use their laptops.
The good news is that once you start to understand where our biases are we can compensate to a degree, or at least include them in our mental models.

Isn't it backwards to realize the logical models of our actions are only justifications for unconscious drives, and then try to categorize those drives through the very same logical models we just agreed are only good at hindsight justification? What is the point? To justify your self-image of being part of some "rational elite"?
This is good advice. I should had have it earlier: I always believed that becoming an intern at a startup would be a good idea since (so my opinion) it would give/leave you the freedom to live your creativity at work and influence a little how the startup evolves.
That's so well put and relevant to more than just Apple I wrote it down.
It's always good to have some spare, in case you run out and have 0.
> Real startups (companies) are in business to make money!

What about twitter and youtube?
Actually he did answer it. You just didn't like his answer.
There's a huge difference between 10% and 0%. A 10% reserve requirement means the credit supply can expand to 10x the amount of the original deposits (100% + 90% + 81% + 72.9% + 65.61% + ... = 10). A 0% reserve requirement means it can expand infinitely (100% + 100% + 100% + 100% + ...).

Edit: here are the current minimums: http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
They're indeed 10% for all but the tiniest banks.
I there's a zero in the denominator we're all done for. http://j.mp/duDfHO
strlen is a match for [1]: http://searchyc.com/sentiment+that+inspires

He's my prime suspect: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200739

It's gotta be him.
I think it supports their claim for safe harbour under DMCA. To invoke "safe harbour" I think you need to show that it would be unreasonably difficult to police the content yourself. Google already has a good argument for that, but it strengthens it if they can show that Viacom is also uploading to YouTube in a legal yet indistinguishable (to YouTube) way to the people it claims are infringing.
Yep, that's why I am buying an Exo PC Slate!
http://www.exopc.com/en/exopc-slate.php

It works on Windows 7 with 3 USB ports. It's the same price as the ipad, but it's more geared as an netbook killer than a bigger iPod touch. They waited untile the iPad launch to commercialize the device. I think they already are using the device in some coffee shops in Rimouski, Québec.
I'm not that excited about it. Intelligent Transportation (the Google vans with wifi) is a great way to make the commute more productive for people--but to the extent that this technology encourages urban sprawl, I'm against it. Commuting still carries a high energy cost; much higher than the (amortized) cost of designing livable neighborhoods near jobs in the first place.

And children never leaving their cars or garages? What the hell kind of world is this? Whatever happened to just riding your bike down the street to the library or friend's house?
Too bad uncle Fred didn't have a SawStop.
They will still get lots of help. Correct me if I am wrong. I think the biggest advantage of being a YC company right now is the kind of press, reputation, and trust of investors founders might get. PG's advice is certainly valuable but their connections are the biggest deal.
> if you average one successful A/B test with a 5% lift per month, and you do nothing else, your business will grow at about 80% per year.

Aren't there too many variables? How do you know the increase isn't just a correlation?
For all we know, these are the kinds of people who, when approached on the street, said "sure, I'll go on The Death Show". They're the same kids who stomp on worms after it rains - a small minority of the complete population.
There are two different types of requirements that banks have to maintain: capital requirements and reserve requirements. They are very different things, and reserve requirements aren't the important or binding one.

Capital requirements mandate how many assets banks must have relative to their liabilities. If a bank has $100,000 in deposits(=liabilities), their capital requirements mean they must have around $105,000 in assets (bonds, mortgages, etc.). There are also additional requirements about how much must be held in cash equivalents(T-bills, etc.). If a bank becomes too leveraged, or its assets decline sufficiently in value, then the FDIC takes the bank over.

Reserve requirements relate to how much of one kind of asset banks must have relative to their liabilities -- "bank reserves". "Bank reserves" are a special kind of currency issued by the Fed that only are used for accounting between the Fed and banks. Banks that are short of reserves overnight(say, because they got a bunch of deposits that day), must borrow them from other banks that have too many to maintain their reserve requirements.

Like Bernanke said, this overnight borrowing was a major issue during the crisis. Since any bank that was borrowing was at risk for going bankrupt overnight, there was immense counterparty risk generated by what was supposed to be payment clearing mechanism. The Fed wants to move towards having banks borrow from them overnight, instead of from other banks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_reserves ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_reserves , and
http://www.winterspeak.com/2009/12/banks-are-even-more-super... may be informative.
While the hardware is incredibly important, the software is what's going to shoot this form factor to the top. I'm sure there will be many imitators that get close to the form factor with lackluster software that brings the overall UX down.

On a hardware note, I bet Apple is extremely happy not to have to support x86 legacy cruft.
Would a portable device geared towards the tech-savvy really move the dials for you? I'm, uh, pretty tech savvy, and the prospect of more connector ports and a more powerful text editor doesn't open my wallet. Etude does.
Not necessarily. You could introduce some other mechanism than reserve deposits to limit leverage, I'm just unsure what that might be, and Bernanke's failure to explain that is evidence of a colossal tin ear.

Mind you, people who argue for abolishing the fed never seem to have an answer for this either, other than asserting that gold has mystical properties which can ward off fiscal Armageddon.
Ideological rankings of occupational categories
This I'll actively disagree with. Google is in a strong negotiating position. They would be amiss to their shareholders to not negotiate well.

For someone with a short tenure at Google, I'm worried that you haven't seen the larger picture yet.

The corporate policy is to hire the best and treat them well. But we are not hiring the best with consistency, instead often weighing cost and patience higher than talent and experience.

Ask around about your colleague's referrals. For the very few that get through HC, many of those engineers pass up the opportunity to work at Google precisely because our offers were to drop them a level or two and 10-15% salary. Make no mistake, that this hurts Google. We would be much stronger to have the talent from Cisco, Amazon, and Microsoft that I've seen turn away Google.
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Excellent summation. Thank you for the free macroeconomics lesson.
Seriously, all these libertarian articles are all the same. They start off making sense, but then they come to the most ludicrous conclusions. The solution to the fed wanting to do away with reserve requirements... Do away with the fed? It's a bit like curing the disease by killing the patient.
Any suggestions on landing the internship with a startup?
American rock climber Tommy Caldwell cut off part of his index finger with a table saw in 2001. Since then, he has pulled off such notable ascents as Flex Luthor (5.14d/5.15a), climbing El Capitan all free twice in one day (VI 5.13), and the Dihedral Wall (VI 5.14a).

I guess it would be difficult for him to go back and sue everyone in sight for the lack of SawStop ruining his career as a professional climber.