skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, of course not, I only cited the UMASS pamphlet because it's the most well written summary of the information. But every other source from the NY Times to Wikipedia says basically the same thing, e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/opinion/01proctor.html
So that's what it's like to have your SO reputation gain max out...
i thought that similarity of experiences is a founding principle of fast food retail.
Game developers are not aware of non-work. Also, if your game does not look like a 100 million dollars IT SUCKS! NDA, risk, OpenGL complexity == boring/dangerous, etc.

Games == Assets == IP == Millions of dollars == Risk.
right - i'm always a bit extreme :)
Take as long as you want to.

And again, even if you can't redirect to paths, thank you for giving this domains away. You made a lot of people happy.
It depends on the model you`re wearing. The Flow is waterproof, and the KSO Trek is made of leather. I wore the latter every day while running in the snow last winter in Southern Ontario.
59 seconds with Eric Ries
Nice job - the screen shots look good, I'm tempted to ditch my home-grown app, but I'm not sure how easy it'd be to get my recipe database into the app.

One critical feature I'd like to see is a bulk way to get stuff in and out of the app. If you could sync a directory of text and image files with Dropbox, that would be awesome. I want to be able to load my library into it; I want to get stuff back out easily; and it'd be nice to write my own scripts against the datastore. (e.g. epub/pdf conversion).
A while back I did a lit review on the correlation between grades and teacher evaluations. I remember being surprised at how little of a correlation economists found between the two variables. Based on my memory, things like teacher personality, teacher nationality, grade variance, and class size matter a lot. Didn't pg have an essay about how "Turns out" is a euphemism for I'm too lazy to provide evidence?
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If you watch a video could leave a comment saying what speakers spoke and what time.
Google grew the market for click ads. Facebook entered a big market, but shown itself to have poor click-through rates. It also has high costs. It might find some new market (selling marketing not sales - banner ads rather than clicks), but it will take years to grow its market.

I think Facebook is basically a photo-sharing service, and a host for Farmville (at least, in terms of costs). Photos aren't getting smaller, unless they find some revolutionary compression technology. Hard drives aren't getting much bigger, though RAM and SSD drives will help. Hosting lots of photos (which is the real reason people stay locked-in - it's too difficult to upload their libraries to another network) is not a cheap business.

Facebook doesn't get search traffic. People aren't looking to solve a problem (and possible buy something), they are looking for a friend from high-school. There's not click-through in that.

Sales (click-throughs) is reportedly poor if you do it in Facebook. What about marketing (banner ads)? They can research how people change their "likes", which gives advertisers some data on how a marketing campaign worked. I'm skeptical though - people aren't on Facebook to shop (look at how their marketplace is going), and they'll just ignore the ads. Besides, it will take a long time to develop the model, convince marketeers to use it, and then wait for the market to grow.
Maybe my thinking is a bit slow here, but can't you even only begin to hope to answer this question if you assume Alice and Bob are cooperating in some fashion?
Trail running in Vibrams is awesome. As it is trail running provides an uneven surface, which means every step will use a different combination of leg muscles. This prevents any one muscle from getting too tired, and balances out your leg. With Vibrams the effect is amplified even more; add in the fact that you're constantly aware of every step you take, rather than just plonking down your foot on whatever is there, and you end up with a form of running that can feel simply amazing.
Shoes outside, barefoot inside.
Definitely programmer. An average designer and a "rockstar" programmer (if he is truly a rockstar programmer) can make a web startup significantly better than what a great UX designer and average programmer can do. UX is important but almost without a doubt your UX will evolve over time and the one used in the beginning will almost never stand the test of time (hopefully the technology behind it will for the most part). Obviously you dont want terrible usability but overall if you have great usability and buggy applications then you will not succeed in the end anyway.
Clickable: http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/2010/10/17/meterrec-released
Yup, I miss the omnisio startup school videos - they were brilliant.
Indeed,

Android is great in the next version and good enough in the present version to have a strong market share. Never as polished but generally having the features you need...

For people, this show how tasteless and low class the thing is. For others, it's something to believe in...
Rubinius and the Mandelbrot bench
Interesting read on the possibilities for Rubinius performance backed by Mandelbrot bench performance comparisons
Games also need

- instructions

- high scores

- online high score boards

- update mechanisms / announcements

- options that can be turned on and off

- methods for purchasing

- a website

- and more....

The idea and implementation is only the first step.

I've been in the game business for a while now, and one thing I've learned is, if I say "oh, that's a simple idea, I can do that in a week..." I should add 3 to 4 weeks, and that's for a simple indie game idea.

Good luck though. I feel like you're doing yourself a disservice going for the $1 from a game by the end of October however. Why not go for "significant additional income to your bottom line"?
That's what I'm talking about (or are you being disingenuous). Calling them mistakes (I assume you mean creating the more closed environment) is assuming that OS wars inevitably play out a certain way.
Yes, but on the other hand, places "where people have to walk barefoot" often have high rates of hookworm infection - they typically enter the body through the soles of the feet - causing anemia, stunted physical and mental growth, child morbidity, etc.

As my medical history professor put it: "Have you ever noticed how in [American civil war] pictures, Confederate soldiers looked smaller than the Northern soldiers, like some of them were still kids? A lot of them had their growth stunted because of hookworm, due to walking barefoot." This was a major public health issue in the Southern US in the 30s. It still is in much of the world. Suggesting people run barefoot is pretty irresponsible, and shows how many things they take for granted - like people crusading against vaccination .

Also, a lot of peasants centuries ago ate poorly, too. Want an example? Read about pellegra in Italy, beri-beri, or how much alcohol was commonly consumed in colonial America on a daily basis. As counter-intuitive as it must sound, many peasants were poor, and weren't always able to eat well.
But prior art doesn't have the viral effects of the GNU licence. This would be an actual patent, but with licensing terms that required anyone creating derivatives to either release them or to patent them under comparably-free terms.
2008 Videos: http://www.youtube.com/startupschool#g/u

2009 Videos: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos?kind=highlights

2010 Videos: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos

Thanks for all hard work that went into Startup School! Especially for going through the extra work to record and stream online! Really hope to make it out next year!
Here is my thought... this thing looks geeky and hard to use. could you take a few of these features and make a single use app?
Most things that get called "unlimited" are usually dependent variables, though. For example, if a cloud hosting plan offers "unlimited" storage, but only 5GB of bandwidth between the compute nodes and persistence nodes per month, then really you can only store (5 * the number of months you've had the account) GB, because, past that, there's no way to get more bits persisted.
Much better...

How do you do that BTW? I had a look through the FAQ etc. but didn't see any formatting help.

EDIT: I see it just works if you don't have a trailing slash?
Mike, re-title this article please... I thought by reading it I might actually learn something ... I appreciate the speculation, but i'd like my 2 minutes back lol
Games is a hit-driven market, like releasing a CD or building the next social network. The top performers make a lot, but the losers just lose.

HN is for vertical niches (JOS fans), and people looking to build the next big web-app (pg fans). It's also good if you want to read about geeky stuff and general business. But there just isn't the space to discuss 2 winner-takes-all product lines. The two sub-communities would both find it too noisy.
The argument you give could easily be made about cigarettes or any other well known health hazard. "I can't see what's bad about X, many people X all their lives and they seem fine".
I'm using the app store, so the purchasing side of things is not too bad, but yes, all the rest still apply. Haven't even started on a website yet, and I'm planning on making a simple video too as these seem like a good way to show off the game

Why not go for "significant additional income to your bottom line"?

I'd love to, but you've got to learn to crawl before you can run, as they say
This is a great idea. My wife does (healthier) ingredient substitutions all the time, or if she is accidentally out of something. One thing she uses is apple sauce instead of butter/oil in cakes or brownies, you don't even notice it at all.
Smoking causes cancer not because of "tobacco" or smoking or not "THC" (your cite) but because of free radicals that are released during the process of burning these carbohydrates that are - especially - joined to additives, such as benzoates and their chemical brothers. They then incorporate in your lung's DNA: Essentially, smoking _anything_ that burns at these high degrees of temperature will most likely create molecules in a state that replace your default circular ribonucleic acids. And that are the agents of cancer. And, btw, (because of my utter ignorance to this health issue that will most likely kill me) I am a smoker, too...
Yes sorry, the UX guy makes the product easy to use and look good.
I'm not sure I accept the premise that games are relatively undiscussed here. There are many fields that are more obscure.

But perhaps part of the answer is sitting there in your question. Younger tech is more exciting tech, and though Hackers is an awesome book, it is also a historical document from thirty years ago, when personal gaming systems were in their infancy. Now it is thirty years later. Programmers have been exploring games for almost fifty years by now. (Spacewar will celebrate its fiftieth birthday in February 2012.) Computer games, as traditionally defined, are a relatively mature field.

By comparison, the web is a youngster, only in its teens. Social networking on the scale of Facebook is a handful of years old. The era of ubiquitous omnipresent wearable mobile networked computers -- we call them smartphones for the moment -- is less than five years old, even if it can be said to have truly arrived yet. These things are very exciting, because we have no idea how they will turn out, and because you can walk down the street and see opportunity everywhere. There are so many ground floors to get in on.

And, of course, many of the new opportunities will be games. But they may not all be called games, at least not at first. For example, my understanding is that game critics are having quite the existential crisis about Zynga's work. Farmville certainly looks like a game, and it is sold like a game, but it isn't like the games that have come before. Which brings me back to my first point: Game genres which are decades old may not get as much press, but people talk about Zynga on HN all the time. Because they are new and different.
Recursion explained
Nokia dumbphones massively outsell iPhones too, but as far as developers are concerned, the only real game in town is iPhone development. Android apps don't make nearly as much money for us mobile developers, and device sales aren't going to solve that problem alone.

So yeah, speculation is warranted. I'm deeply embroiled in the market, and I think the jury is out.
Texts, tweets, and Facebook walls are the new slambook signing or passed note in class (or even Mad Magazine hidden in the textbook). It's a distraction, a thing to pass the time in homeroom or a really boring lecture.

And, for the record, high school has never been engaging, even for really really smart people.
I got a pair of super-flimsy canvas shoes for $20 from Payless Shoes on Market street two weeks ago. I've noticed that my calves aren't sore anymore and I have generally more energy.

So the solution can be pretty easy.
What about Twitter? If this is true, shouldn't the "fail whale" have plagued the company years ago?
"As of September 2010, the Windows OS controlled 91% of the PC market (Net Applications, 2010), while Intel microprocessors controlled just over 80% (IDC, 2010)."

Not sure how Windows can control 91%, but Intel only 80%, since Windows only runs on Intel. I would think, in the PC market, Intel would have almost 100% now, since Mac OS and Linux run on Intel. Not sure what other OS he is thinking about.

Anyway, this is great to see, and why Microsoft is so worried. It is possible the reason they let Windows Mobile OS stagnate in the first place, fear of Mobile market becoming to popular.
I simply typed the letter 'b' into the box and it reloaded with Bank of America. It was fast in doing so, but not what I wanted. I agree it is an interesting concept, though.
I happen to know a guy who's father was a prominent biologist and a cancer researcher. He used to make a point that cancer is a result of a random process that is present in all living things, and if humans managed to cure all other deseases everyone would still get cancer sooner or later.

Point being, not many mummies had cancer probably because they simply lived much shorter lives than modern humans. We have pills and defibrilators, they did not.
I've always loved the title of that essay, since Dijkstra wasn't known for being humble.

An example from

http://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/144-dijkstra.htm...

He was legendary for not sitting quietly in lecturers and talks by others. Instead he would grow increasingly agitated until an outburst could not be contained any longer.
David Gries recalled a time when he was lecturing with Dijkstra in the audience when he read "x=a" as "x equals a". This is of course a short hand for "assign a to x" and not a statement that x really is logically equal to a. From the back of the room Dijkstra shouted "becomes" and the room fell silent.
Hey, I've been looking for a URL for my new app, this one looks perfect:
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While it's certainly true that android is happy to run on mips, there is currently a Renaissance of arm-based SOCs with interesting silicon coming from freescale, ti, marvell, phillips, qualcom, and samsung to name just a few. Most of these have thier own combination of differentiators like video codecs, signal processing cores, and analog interfaces.

I see mips running mostly in set top boxes that use the discreet codec/drm devices and routers with external 802.11 radios and switches, and some network-centric processors... but there doesn't seem to be nearly the level of diversity present in the arm ecosystem lately.

I hope that android's architecture agnosticism allows more payoff on investments in other interesting architectures like mips, sh, and openrisc.
Thank you PG, Jessica and team! It was very motivating to see everyone! I did not attend personally but the videos were terrific!
I do not agree: Cancer is a common "disease" (and I disagree that cancer is a disease, as it is quite different from any other concept we call a "disease") of the modern world because of lifespan. The longer you live, the more likely you accumulate the necessary mutations (i.e., organic state changes). To my best knowledge, there is no lifestyle factor involved (However, I admit that you could argue that environmental pollution has increased and ultimately trace that back to lifestyle factors).
Really? “Smoking”, like nearly all uses without further clarification in the media, refers of course to the smoking of tobacco. No need at all to start a stupid holy war because of that. There seems to be little doubt in the scientific community that smoking tobacco causes most lung cancer.
A valid argument, but one that i would suggest is only because of a lack of competition, similar to the facebook/myspace/friendster battle I think if it were early enough someone could still have come along and ousted twitter with a more reliable site. That said, it certainly never came true. As with any rule I believe this one has exceptions to it, but in the end I think my advice holds true for most startups even if it does not for all.
Although I agree with your order, I don't think it really addresses the question. If my budget limitations force me to compromise on either the user experience or the code, which should be compromised?
cancer IS a disease of the modern world

That depends on how you define "world". As used in the headline, the distinction is drawn between the modern world and the modern people who live within it. In that context, the headline is entirely correct.
The story can't be that simple. If so, you wouldn't expect there to be an increased cancer risk from the use of smokeless tobacco.
"... One of the lead researchers, Dr. Bernhard Zipfel, when commenting on his findings, lamented that the American Podiatric Medical Association does not 'actively encourage outdoor barefoot walking for healthy individuals. This flies in the face of the increasing scientific evidence, including our study, that most of the commercially available footwear is not good for the feet' ..."

Lots of expert & product placement in this article. I call a Sub ~ http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The "ladies' night" strategy
you could probably buy all this stuff for under $100 a harbor freight. Lame article
...and Google’s growing suite of cloud services (e.g., Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Android Market)

...that run on commodity hardware running Intel chips.
I don't know, but i've rarely seen webfonts that work out well on Windows. I haven't tried on any other OS.
What about the Uno [1] which is a half eunicycle, half electric motorcycle?

[1] http://www.bpg-motors.com/
Indeed,

Humans moving to Northern climes traded the hazards of living in clothing for the hazard of living with endemic diseases (which both clothing and a colder climate warded off).

But I'd personally like to avoid both kinds of problems if I could...

Also, Pallegra wasn't a disease of the traditional peasant diet but was a result of the introduction of corn into the diet, a feature of development. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra#History)
To co-opt the analogy, a more illustrative programming language might be Ruby rather than Java, to reflect the ability of the courts and Congress to monkeypatch the original implementation.
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AMD has a decent share of the current 'Wintel' market. In the recent past IDT, cyrix and transmeta also dabbled in x86 processors.
actually I just added it up, $60
This smells like troll, but just in case it isn't: Reddit is working just fine for me.
I'm no troll either! It was definitely down or at least creaking for 10 minutes. :)

Killing this post now though.
Great presentations, still need to catch up on some. The Caldwell and Chesky ones struck a chord with me from the ones I saw.
Why not try a limited/free with ads version if you are going to do one? With the Android Market having a 24 hour return period on purchases, seems a "lite" or "try before you buy" version would be more suited towards iOS.
Interesting, didn't know about hookworms. But two points:

(1) According to Wikipedia, "the usual method of infection is ... walking barefoot through areas contaminated with fecal matter". How often do you see fecal matter lying around in the areas you walk in? When I suggested comparing the "civilized world" with "places where people have to walk barefoot", I didn't mean that you look at /all/ aspects of those places. You can have your cake and eat it too - in the "civilized world" you can walk barefoot without having to worry about hookworm as much as you would in the developing world.

(2) If hookworm is still an issue, feel free to go with a middle-ground option like wearing Vibram Five Fingers. They're almost as good as barefoot while still protecting you from hookworm et al.
This is the stupidest thing I think I've ever read. Kudos to the moron who wrote it. I hope you get the HN you deserve.
The classic problem of having a two-sided market with an interesting real-life analogy of bar-hopping/clubbing. Interesting to see whether Red Beacon or Thumbtack address this issue the best (or maybe the services market is big enough for the both of them).
Do they also have a positive derivative?
Median quality of atendees was also -phenomenal-. Lots of really smart and driven hackers.

I also got to meet edw519. I can confirm - he is as awesome as his HN comments suggest.
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Well, yes, but have you looked at the incident rates? And, mainly, cigarettes are far more dangerous than anything else not because of tobacco, but because of chemical additives such as phenolic acids the tobacco industry use as "perfumes" to make them smell and taste better. Those additives are far more carcinogenic than tobacco because of their circular nature making our cell machinery believe they are actual C/G/T/A's.
> How often do you see fecal matter lying around in the areas you walk in?

Have you ever been to San Francisco?

How about any city with any stray animals whatsoever? Have you never accidentally stepped in dog crap in a park? Fecal matter doesn't have to be human in origin to spread disease.

The fact that this story keeps getting reintroduced and the Vibram Five Fingers are always mentioned makes me suspect it's a marketing ploy, much like "the suit is back" / The Men's Warehouse in PG's "The Submarine" (http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html).
For future reference:

2008 Videos: http://www.youtube.com/startupschool#g/u

2009 Videos: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos?kind=highlights

2010 Videos: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/videos

Thanks for all hard work that went into Startup School! Especially for going through the extra work to record and stream online! Really hope to make it out next year!
I was part of a small team contracted to build the screenreader for Vista (Narrator). It's a tough thing to get right. Once we had a working version I tried finding and starting Visual Studio and building a simple Winforms app all with the monitor off. I didn't get very far.
Wrench icon -> Tools -> Developer tools -> Resources -> Enable resource tracking

Find the flv file, copy the URL and download using wget or curl or whatever.
Yes, thank you so much for doing this. The quality of both speakers and attendees was fantastic. It's really awesome to be surrounded by that many people that are as technical and as focused on building businesses as I am. I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to attend.
I can also relate to this problem ? I want to learn programming from scratch. Should I start with C and then go for C++ and then to Python or which way ? For me difficulty of learning is of no concern, I can manage ? But how and where to start ?
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/sep/14/costs-of-wearin...

"Curious, they used MRI and saw that the Achilles’ tendon compensated for muscle fiber length. The tendon was significantly thicker and stiffer in high-heel wearers."