skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absorbing only 25 percent of the oxygen, which suggests to me that having air still in you lungs can be very helpful in keeping you conscious. Is that right?
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Seems simple: Because that is what the market will pay.
It would make sense to invest 4x more if the startup was significantly more likely to succeed. I think that could be true in many cases.
Oh no, I had better give magicbeef.com a makeover and get on the stick here. I came up with the idea over a few coronas. Execution makes all the difference though, does it not?
Free resources to help you price your software
Uh, battey tech? Trackpad? Everywhere you look on Apple products (if you are discerning) you'll see them utilizing the crap out of their hardware control. If I'm not mistaken we're about to see Apple turn up the heat on further hardware differentiation on notebooks to take advantage of their multi-touch gesture patent portfolio, perhaps by elongating the glass trackpad. On the iPhone front I'm guessing that Apple's custom silicon will allow them to get raw graphics performance while simultaneously preserving battery life. Logically this is kind of technology that Google, without control over hardware, is powerless to compete against.
I'm glad enough people agree with you that you don't feel the need to play the fanboy card.
IBM Distributes Malware-Infected USB Sticks At Security Conference
Google's PacMan Javascript
Oops, I just realized I misspelled 'Buffett'. I don't know how that happened. I guess pobody's nerfect.
I hate that diaspora got so much money. I don't think these guys are proven enough, nor will their solution be the one that eventually be the best. I also fear that they will screw it up and the pro-facebook crowd will declare it dead.
And 100% of people that don't read tech blogs have no idea there is a Facebook privacy issue and will continue on using FB just as they are.
Someone needs to publish a revised PacMan strategy guide for getting around all those extra obstacles. Should you get pellot inside the G at the start or end?
Interesting. I'll have to take a look. I got the schedule data from retrosheet.org, so it's possible that is inaccurate.

The other bug is related to the fact that today's game data isn't in the feed yet. I have to be smarter about what I show in that sort of situation, which I'll be addressing this weekend.
Obvious the poll is silly. However, bad publicity can still sour people on the company and reduce overall Facebook usage.

Quantcast isn't perfect by any means, but it's directional, and according to it, United States users and visits to Facebook have been flat since the start of February:

http://www.quantcast.com/facebook.com

When did the current wave of Facebook privacy hoopla start?
Clearly you've not spent any time in the world of defense contracting. The default is to put absolutely every last thing in the contract.

If your contract doesn't say, "You can't put sawdust in the brownies," there will be a contractor who says, "What? You didn't say I couldn't."

You might laugh. You might suppose there's some common understanding of quality that everyone can deal with. Especially when it comes to brownies. To some degree, I'd agree: it's a defensive attempt to avoid problems encountered in the past, and maybe an overreaction.

The thing is, though, with weapons systems, the equivalent of putting sawdust in brownies happens all the time. The contractor doesn't live in Alaska, or on a carrier deck, where the thing will be deployed, and if the contract doesn't specifically mention cold or fungus or salt corrosion, it'll get overlooked. Worse, the contractor really has no experience in a combat zone, and has no idea what sort of abuse their equipment will undergo. The contract has to say.

The defensiveness comes partly from the fact that these systems get a single iteration. There's some back and forth during testing and verification, and there are always contracts for upgrades and improvements. But by and large, you really need things to work right the first time. Hence the heavy reliance on contracts and standards.

They're like an API telling the civilian contractor what's required in a battlefield environment. He really doesn't know things that soldiers consider obvious.
To be honest, windows has a lot of advocates too.
3D OSX Applications With Ruby-Processing (Screencast)
Another difference that is not to be ignored is that Windows was the backbone of one of the best businesses of the decade, maybe the best.

Android is like a side project. They aren't going to fight for it like Apple will.
Great feedback thanks.
"Multiple inheritance and operator overloading aren't bad, but at the time Java was designed, nobody had any idea how to use them properly."

I think this is an example of the kind of reasoning Feathers was talking about. Perhaps it did make sense at the time, but that's largely irrelevant. What is relevant is that the idea that programmers aren't capable of making decisions on their own isn't a good idea these days.
NoScript blocked the googleusercontent.com by default, so I didn't even realize there was sound until reading this discussion.
Lost Decade Looming?
Basically, we just ask our friends, who mostly turn out to be hackers.
Politics Drives Facebook Membership In Thailand Past 3 Million Mark
The point of the language it to make it grounds for cancelling the contract. With the language there, the cancellation is a sure thing if they find those issues. If the language is not there, there can be a dispute.
Does not seem to be the case. I have Russian Win XP at work and English OS X at home. Both are running Opera in which 1) preferred language is set to English and 2) navigator.language = "en". Yet at work reddit's interface defaults to Russian and at home - to English, following OS preference. Just cleared all cookies and checked all this again.

But that's not the point. The point is that there's no sense in localizing interface when content is not localized. I'm going mad seeing pages in mixed languages for no reason.

// Sorry for starting this off-topic discussion, today's not my best day by any measure.
Lean is a topic that seems of interest to the community. I thought tangible outcomes might also be of interest. I do take the point though. Thanks for the feedback :-)
Russia building a "Silicon Valley"
The strategic value of writing detailed logo design process posts
Maybe it was originally written for the 20th anniversary.
Amazon and Zappos, six months later: how they're fitting together
I agree as well on the too much writing. People don't like to read that much. I think you should reduce your copy on this page to a few (in my experience people tend to like groups of 3) of the highest priority issues and then link off to another page for each section should the prospect want more information.
One more data point, ComScore shows Facebook growing from about 117m to 122m in the US since February.
What higher price? IPhones cost $100 to $300 new with contracts. The Android phones I've seen cost $100 to $300 with contracts. Most of the cost is in the service plans, which are very similarly priced.

I suppose there may be a bunch of crappy Android phones, floating around under my personal radar, available for even less than $100. That sounds like false economy to me. If you're gonna get soaked for $2400 in cellular bills over two years you might as well spend the extra 1-4% and do so in style.

Of course, this is a USA perspective. Things are probably very different outside the USA.
A good point although I don't use outlook so we built it for those not using outlook.
No, he's there at the very end in the lower right hand corner. See this side by side version of the "premake" and real versions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQowUPIrVs
Incorrect. The endeavor itself (making long shelf life brownies/cookies) has a set of requirements which is pretty exacting. The complexity of the instructions will likely be turned into long checklists and procedures for the actual producing plant. And if the plant screws up said brownies, they'll likely be on the hook to replace the whole lot of MREs

You're confusing quality/policy issues in corporations with inter-entity contracts between an easy to cheat organization (the military) with a group of people who have a history of cheating (the military contractors).
So, why aren’t more people crashing and burning?

because:

a) You're awesome, as long as you're using Ruby no matter how ridiculous you look when seen without rainbow colored glasses - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ford-large-rails

b) The "you're doing it wrong crowd" will shout you down the moment you admit having troubles - http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2007/04/15/on-twitter-rails-and...

c) Most failed Ruby (which in all fairness usually means Rails) projects never gain any publicity.

d) Ruby projects coming close to the gargantuan scope of some of the bigger Java projects are (thankfully) exceedingly rare (if not non existent).

Lastly I had no clue that Saeed al-Sahaf is now working for Object Mentor, awesome!

Disclaimer: I worked for 3 years as a Ruby developer, including on one of the bigger (> 50.000 loc) Rails projects out there and I encountered some crashing and burning myself (I know I did it wrong).
Same here. I bought by Macbook just as a nicer alternative to a Dell and six months later I erased my Win partition.
Ya my dad is a die hard advocate of Windows but he gets frustrated when it doesn't work and asks me for help and I'm like "that's why I don't use windows. figure it out, I can't help you."
My first Ruby programming experience was with a company sunk by Rubyists, their asinine architecture, and constant monkey-patching.

Rubyists most certainly DO hang themselves with monkeypatching, quite often. You just don't tend to hear about the ones that to that, because the sites they build that way don't survive long enough for anyone to notice, assuming that they even launch them successfully, which is rare.

I think in fact that because Ruby is a much more forgiving language than, say, C++ (the same goes for Python), the average caliber of Ruby developers is FAR lower than the caliber of, say, C++ and Lisp developers. My experience with Ruby and Python developers hasn't been positive -- in fact, working at a Python shop gave me an intense distaste for the language, and my experience at a Ruby shop lead to similar sentiments among a lot of the senior developers who worked there.
New Cloud / SaaS products?
Any entrepreneurs out there looking to build a new Cloud / SaaS software product?

Matt
www.surgeforward.com
RapidShare didn't infringe on copyrights, says US court
Apple Versus Google: Total Frikkin War
Symantec's $1.28B VeriSign gambit draws mixed reviews
> Multiple inheritance and operator overloading aren't bad, but at the time Java was designed, nobody had any idea how to use them properly.

Really? I was coding C++ using multiple inheritance and operator overloading around then, and AFAICT was using them properly.
I think most of the ones that are the best known seem to be consumer facing, but then things like Clustrix, which has raised more money than Loopt, Scribd or Dropbox are a reminder that there's other stuff happening that's just less visible.
Hedy Lamarr, femme fatale and inventor of spread spectrum communications
I see Diaspora kind of like a third-party candidate in an election (in the US). They won't win, but it's not really about that. It's about forcing the big guys to take a better stance on their one important issue.
So YOU'RE the one! :)
I don't understand that POV.

I have a friend working for Microsoft in Seattle, and he was willing to sacrifice living in his home country for the chance to work with some of the top people in our profession (he worked with Anders Hejlsberg on C# as a SDET).

I doubt that is "giving a shit"...

Also, he was the top talent in my class (graduated on time, which is HUGE here in Uruguay, and rose to the top very fast) - no wonder he should be paid more than your average US developer.

OTOH, I wouldn't expect myself to be paid above the average US programmer, but then again, I haven't had the drive to emigrate.
Feel the same way about the trademark symbols for linkedin - really breaks up the flow for me. While getting rid of (or reducing) the trademark symbols would help, I would also suggest trying to mention Linkedin less. For example, under benefits, your mention of Linkedin in the first line is sufficient - it doesn't need to be repeated in the bullet points.
Many browsers can, but few do. Firefox, chrome and IE don't by default.
However I may feel about iPhoneOS, Mac OS X is a beast that nothing else can compare to. At least for a consumer unix experience where everything just works.
This won't change the types of startup we fund. But the types of startups we fund aren't as constrained as they seem. If it seems like we fund mostly consumer web apps, that's because (a) consumer web apps are more visible; Reddit has a lot more users than Clustrix, and (b) that is the kind of startup that younger, more technically inclined founders tend to start.
World First Synthetic DNA Cell [via RussiaToday ]
We actually haven't seen any conversions yet on http://twoschedule.com. It's only been online for a month or so, but we have a fair amount of users and I expected to see more than that. I imagine it's because people are looking for more of an incentive to upgrade.
Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
I know this has been covered here before, but here's a real-world example of succeeding at this: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2010/01/03/a-look-back-at-2009/

This guy is my hero.
The idea would be to get all the awesome 100k/yr+ hackers with mortgages/families to try their hand at a startup. Their current options are 1) Risk their marriage/mortgage/savings by quitting their day job. 2) Build up traction on the side of their day job.

Most people won't do #1 and #2 makes failure much more likely. If some of these people are significantly more likely to succeed (my theory) it would make sense to invest more on one of these.
Digital audio-visual artists Sosolimited "remix" an entire website.
Considering that facebook privacy issues made the front cover of Time magazine I figure 100% might be a tad high.
Mega Men Sport by GNC. It's the best I've found.
The other day there was a post here on a DAAS startup that offered 'write once' memory in the vein of Amazon's S3, called 'S4'. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360436

It was very humorous, even if it was a variation on a very old theme, and I think it made the top spot on the homepage.

This one is also humorous, but not as much.

I woulnd't have flagged it, I would have just ignored it. Flags are for spam, this was clearly some work to put together, there was no offense given as far as I could see.

The cost of ignoring it if you're not interested is near zero, the cost of depriving someone else of what they might like is non-zero, and unless someone posts a page like that everyday there really is no problem.

On another note, I've seen enough DanielBMarkham posts by now to know that he was up to something, my guess is that he was planning to have this discussion and I thought this discussion and some of the responses in it was a nice insight in to what motivates people to visit a certain site.

If it is OK to put a message here that the water mains in Boston has broken (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1311198) then you have to realize I'm in the Netherlands and that it is not of interest to 'the hacker community' even if you're in Boston and a hacker. The majority of us are not in Boston.

But that one sat on the front page for a long long time and nobody said a word. I didn't flag it because it did not concern me. but arguably it had a lot less to do with hacking than Daniels original post (I don't mean that in a literal sense but as a shortcut).

Lighten up.

If you are so serious about startups and making money then you shouldn't be on HN at all except for reading from Patio11 and grellas, between the two of them the rest of HN is light infotainment anyway. Have a critical look at the homepage right now and tell me why 'nerdy girls in t-shirts' is out of place there with a straight face.
Feeling a little touchy? :)
Immutability Fosters Concurrent Programming
Probably they didn't use canvas for the same reason as Google (for their current Pac-Man logo game): DOM based renderer will work on more browsers.

Canvas emulation for Explorer is not very fast. This may not be a problem for chart-like applications, but when you want smooth animations, milliseconds add up.

Now, if you excuse me, I will shamelessly plug my recent canvas game (I don't support Explorer):

http://alteredqualia.com/cubeout/
Will take this into account and adjust thanks. Using the LinkedIn API however requires us to include their TM symbol.
I've been coding in Ruby/Rails for 3 years now, and been active in the community, and I haven't yet done that or encountered anyone who had done that.

Than you seem to have had much more luck than I did.
I always go for the opportunity.
Funds don't generally work that way. They return the investment to the investors. When the money is done they raise a new fund.

(This isn't absolute. There are evergreen funds that have the returns go back into the fund.)
Can anyone make any recommendations?
The article picture, sadly, pushes me towards iPhone (not that I would ever buy one). The iPhone screen seems crisper, the colors are brighter, and the interface looks spiffier. Obviously there are other factors at play, but first impressions count for a lot.
You should use http://yubnub.com, which will let you just type "imdb Forest Gump", among many, many, many other things.
That is a type of question we think about a lot. But we know that our guesses are likely to be pretty bogus. We approach scaling YC the way you would approach scaling software. And the way scaling works is that you can never be sure what the bottlenecks are, or how you're going to get around them, till you hit them.

So it's interesting to speculate about, but not useful except in a mind-opening way.
The World Cup starts next month. You could do something with that.
Such logic rests on the assumption that other people are at least as honest and intelligent as oneself. Regrettably, this often turns out not to be the case.
That is good to hear, especially considering that the path you are choosing ends up costing you a lot more work.
That's a pretty steep management fee.
give it a try in safari. I think you'll be amazed.
Another way (and perhaps the optimal way) to mitigate your risk is to join an existing startup early on, which we're also trying to make easier for hackers to do:

http://workatastartup.org

As I pointed out in another thread, you can titrate the amount of startupness you want by the age of the company you join.
"Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran.
If they lost 50% they would have 200M users. That sets Facebook back to April 2009.
It took me a while to figure out how it played, even with the instructions but once I got it I killed maybe 20 straight minutes. Pretty cool game, reminds me of Bust a Move combined with connect four.
See the nomination of Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil for the EFF award in 1997 (http://www.ncafe.com/chris/pat2/index.html), she later received the award. Their invention was in 1942, way before the electronics that can implement this was invented, so it was mechanical.
Right -- 'Gala' is not 10.1. It's a separate preview release.
I wish political system was such that this sort of announcement was possible. "Today we reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act. Which the Republicans repealed 1999 thus allowing the excesses of Wall Street and the Banking Industry our country has suffered of late. And btw here's a list of politicians opposed to our actions and how much Banking/Investment lobbyists have paid them. And for good measure here's Banking industry profits and CEO salaries from 1999-2010."
Happy 30th Birthday Pac-Man, Google Style
Wait, does it even still exist? This post is from spring 2009, back around when Obie Fernandez first came up with this nonsense, and I haven't even thought or heard about it in at least half a year. I do remember Obie apologizing for it after the backlash.
I had to look at that page for 5 minutes before I could locate your free plan. Why don't you try removing it altogether? May be an A/B test?
BP oil slick from space
Facebook API Response times - Notice something missing?
Great recommendation. I personally enjoyed that book tremendously.
check out the nexus one or droid incredible screens for a good iphone comparison...
Awesome analysis.
I just want to take this opportunity to say that I love my Nexus One. I don't care if Google "failed" as a marketer/distributor of the device. When I put it side by side with an iPhone I can't even fathom wanting an iPhone. In fact, you couldn't pay me to switch.

Kudos, Google. Kudos.
So couldn't they have taken their cue from the PC comment and said:

"To date, support for hardware accelerated H.264 video playback in Flash Player has only been possible on Windows PCs and Windows-based netbooks"
I don't know, like a UNIT? Check out todays response time squiggle versus yesterdays squiggle !
It's due to the low pressure. Like with these guys.
http://www.acenovelty.com/donace/coffeepen06.jpg
Thanks for the feedback. Yes PowerGrabber is intended only to do one thing - allow you to expand your LinkedIn network. I'm thinking that focus and a minimal feature set might be a good thing.
I'd buy an Android phone if they were available in Mexico. In the meantime, I have an iPhone and I like it.
I noticed that when I sent the link to the YC partners. It was interesting how horrifying it seemed.
But would these people requiring 4x more investment be willing to give up 4x more equity?
"Once is up and people actually use it"

Be careful with that one. It looks like you are assuming people are going to use it.

I know first hand that they don't :)

Getting traction is VERY hard. Plan for that.

Hope it helps.
>Froyo also will let you buy songs over the air and download them directly to your phone.

Nice, now if only Android could make a decent music player...
Thanks for pointing out this website! I was looking for similar website to encourage bunch of 30 something friends to exercise. How do they earn money? What is the business model here?
Why Duke Nukem Forever will win game of the year 2011.
I had the same reaction. For a moment, I thought 'Invitation Manager' was some kind of automated RSVP system.
Will the iPad more than double Apple’s computer market share?
yeh, so this post was as bad as the other. In fact it's probably worse for being so speculative :)

Beyond the fact this is unlikely to be the "next Facebook" there isn't a lot we can do now except wait and see.
Perfect timing -- I was just finishing my 93-page business plan and the last line of my nine pages of Excel spreadsheets told me I needed $8.25 million. I'm definitely applying for the next round.
If the goal of funding $80k is to attract more experienced founders, it seems to me that by default, those founders would be better suited for different investors anyway. YC is largely about helping founders learn how to start a business, and connecting them with more experienced people (and with each other).

I'm also having trouble understanding what 2 people would do with that much money in only 6 months. I would argue that the 'stability' factor would make them less likely to work as hard as the other companies who are highly motivated to pay their bills in that time period.
We wondered if people might feel nervous about email addresses being captured on their machine and then sent to a database somewhere on the Internet. But perhaps not?
I got a shout out, woo-hoo!

I think tagging is best when people tag items that aren't theirs. Otherwise they are inclined to abuse it as a distribution mechanism. If tagging well-served photos, then why do they have Groups Sets Collections, etc? Hmph.

I also disagree that tagging was responsible for flickr's success.

(2001, not 2004 for creating it, incidentally.)
Yahoo makes move into interactive mobile display ads