skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re-applying per se is definitely not a red flag. We often accept people on the nth try. But if you're reapplying with substantially the same thing each time, you're effectively just testing our consistency. It would be a better bet to change more than wording.

Video quality can be at least this raw:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=855057
Because it makes you feel that it's possible for you too to make it and still make mistakes.
5 Reasons The Future Will Be Ruled By B.S.
Is it relevant to mention that Ozzie was/is one of joelonsoftware's canonical examples of "Architecture Astronauts" (that is, someone whose idea of minimum viable product is every app sharing everything)?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
Amazing what putting a flashy UI around an outwardly boring piece of software can achieve. LIBOTS has been around since 2003 I think... Mint and Yodlee, Hipmunk and Orbitz - I wonder what other unglamorous services could be improved with a better UI? Maybe GDS?

Congrats to Jeremy for the coverage - good luck with any plans you have for TLDR!
In any case you can't shave on the last day of your life.
I actually emailed info@ycombinator.com about something like this and Kirsty responded "We can see that applications have been resubmitted so don't worry too much!"
Very unlikely, I think. Jobs was forced out and felt he had a lot to prove. Gates left voluntarily as the richest man in the world. There's very little chance of him coming back.
I once interviewed someone who said they wrote a web browser in Qt. After inquiring a bit it turns out they had really forked the Arora browser I wrote. I had fun for several minutes asking him questions about the code that he clearly had no clue about.
Right now we're focused on building the best team and making the best product we can. If this should lead to an attractive acquisition offer at some point in the future then we will surely consider it as a company and weight the benefits and drawbacks. We don't currently have a profit-sharing plan in place, but depending on the future direction of the company, it may be appropriate to put one in place. All of these things are too nuanced to make general predictions at the moment.
Well in a limited fashion this experiment could be actually be done. I'm not sure how this would be modeled, but I guess giving smart young guys that don't know nothing about programming a set of "tools" in a simulation that can be used to create the building blocks of many different data structures.

Then provide problems, and look at what they do and invent in order to solve such problems.

Will be very hard to do this in an unbiased fashion actually...
Is github a generic enough name for what you want to do, long-term?
Not currently. We usually approach specific people we want to hire and pitch them on coming to work for us.
Are startups necessarily stressful or freedom limiting?

That's an interesting question.

In my model of human psychology, when a person is passionately driven to achieve an ambitious goal, he gets stressed out about obstacles that stand in the way. Does passion necessarily cause stress? I think so, but if you know a way to have passion without stress, please let me know.

As for being freedom-limiting, startups take a lot of time, and you generally have cofounders, investors, employees, and (hopefully) users relying on you. These external factors are big responsibilities. Does responsibility necessarily limit freedom? I think so, but I would be interested in counterexamples.

Thus, if you want to avoid stress and limits on freedom, you would have to avoid passion and responsibility. I suppose you could start something not very ambitious, that you aren't very passionate about, avoiding cofounders, investors, employees, and users. I would have a hard time calling such an endeavor a "startup".
AMD: There will come an end to the core-count wars
How big is a case?
RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
did you send the email to tips@techcrunch or directly to mike?
Absolutely. Hence, thought experiment and aliens.

Having programmers explore in a (to them) really weird language (like Prolog or Haskell) and seeing what they come up with might be a good approximation, though.

I may never have thought of difference lists, but then Prolog made them seem obvious. :)
Google Search Appliance gains support for cloud services
Perhaps not, but the name has served us well so far. Early adopters like to identify with new technology and the name GitHub does that extremely well. I can't predict if we'll need to change the name later on. The next few years should make it clear wether the name is too restrictive or not.
It's difficult technically to do this in an equity round, but you can do it if you're raising money with convertible notes. We encourage startups to do it, actually, as a way to reward investors who are useful sources of advice and/or commit before the others.
No. They are fully aware that their support is abysmal and they are fully aware of their false positive rate and they are fully aware of the positive consequence to their bottom line. Just because they abstract the stealing process doesn't make it less stealing.
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/LHY9etBp
This is another important lesson for entrepreneurs and hackers to learn. Sometimes, you have to cut loose even good ideas, in the service of the best of your ideas or the one you feel most passionately about.

You'll have dozens, or hundreds, of ideas during your entrepreneurial development...but, any one of them will probably require absolute focus and dedication to make it really work.
ok :) To understand this better: are you asking for feedback on the plan/strategy, or on the current site and app?
This post was right on -- been there and suffered from it. And @radioactive21 could be right -- I know some of my weaknesses that led me there, but that doesn't mean all the listed effects were any less real or damaging.
Adding Human Intelligence to Software
Thanks for the response! I actually did some research and used this video as a model for my application! As far as the re-applying I actually meant re-submitting* (I.e. I have never applied to YC before with any company, however I have re-submitted my app for this session probably 5 or 6 times) I'm guessing the comment below addresses that particular question?
Table Surfing - a bit like Couchsurfing, but then with tables
Scott Guthrie would be great for the role. He's one of the few people I've met that is actually an exceptionally good developer, understands vision, and has strong leadership skills.

I have heard the knock that he is a bit "empire" focused. But moving him to CSA would force him to view the company as his empire rather than an org.
The Unwelcoming Chair
Absolute value of a signed it:

a= x >> 32
return (a + x)^a

Careful; right-shifting by >= the size of the type is an undefined operation, and might not do what you expect in all cases. (For instance, it might do nothing at all on x86, as integer shifts/rotations in ia32 are all performed modulo 32.)
Reminds me of http://www.noonhat.com/lunch/
Resubmitting is fine. Do that as much as you want.
I know this is from Cracked.com but there's actually some insight to it
Sometimes the lesson isn't really learned any other way.
Twiggy, a new (faster, better) pythonic logger
I use linode VPS. Similar to the rackspace suggestion. Although it's a VPS, it can resize in under a half hour. So if you have constant scalability requirements (don't need to spin up/down during the day), I love it.

I run a friends' site at MediaTemple, which handles all the scalability aspects for you. But he doesn't get much traffic (not enough to really impress me WRT their scalability), but they advertise that they'll handle as much traffic as you need.
Sites currently down.

If you're going to be featured by TechCrunch or big media, please contact your hosting provider and make sure you can handle the hits. This is exactly the WORST time to have your site down.
"The connection attempt failed" is what I get when loading the Adobe Flash thingy.
Definitely agree, those were both great talks. It was easy to see how Brian's personality comes across in the AirBnB culture (or maybe vice versa).
at first it's a fascinating claim. But in actual fact what you're doing is not reducing bounce rate or increasing pages per visit, you're just using a more valuable subset of your traffic instead of everything. Seems like an obvious choice for a google acquisition though given how deeply it's linking with analytics.
Very true, even within one university. I once took a class on the physics of life, that is, I photocopied the last couple of pages from the book containing lists of formulas from another student and did the exam (books allowed). I had no idea whatsoever the subject was about, but by guessing which formulas to use based on the units I was able to complete the exam. 4 ECTS credits for 2 hours of work.

On the other hand there are experimental courses where you spend many many times that amount of time to get 4 credits.
Interesting article in WSJ about some research around the language used by lying CEO's:

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/08/11/how-can-you-tell-if-a-...

I'm not saying Ballmers lying, it's just interesting to read the quote above after reading the article.
Steve Jobs: “Open Systems Don’t Always Win”
Where do economists go?
But shouldn't the comments from the source code provide an explanation?
I have at least the excuse of not being a native speaker, contrary to S. Palin :) Thanks for the correction.
Ask HN: What's with this "Your IP is infected" junk?
okay HN, I'm noticing something more and more.

My university uplink must have been tagged by something because more and more, I'm seeing a "your IP has been flagged as infected" messages on some pages off HN.

Scanning with SheildsUp shows... nothing.

Upon talking to my schools IT dept -- and apparently the ISP they use has also tagged them.

So what's the tech? Should I be concerned?

What's TRWTF?
As in nearly all performance metrics, your mileage will vary (greatly).

At some point I'm sure that the cost of loading external files will outstrip the benefit gained from not having it in memory. You need to test this in your application. It should be pretty simple -- just write everything in separate files. When you feel you have enough done to accurate represent a (performance) profile of your site, do load tests. Then concat all the files together, and do a load test on that.

In short, it's time we start thinking about performance as a result of architecture crossed with implementation. This means you have to include your specific business logic and data models in your implementation. You can't evaluate scalability issues without doing some testing in your specific case, if you want the results to have any meaning.
Actually the term "cloud" and "internet" generally mean different things. The cloud refers to services sitting on endpoints that you don't maintain (or likely don't own either).

The internet generally refers to the communication infrastructure between endpoints. You can be all in on the internet and not care about the cloud. The opposite is more difficult though.

Also Steve's 7" answer seemed odd. The iPod Touch is a 3.5" tablet. He's saying that he can't figure out how to create a device that made good use of twice the diagonal?
Commit messages are a better place than comments for explaining the rationale behind cross-cutting changes.
And a lot of experience, with Macs, with the iPod, with the iPhone, etc.
Running a preauth that you don't intend to capture (or won't capture in a reasonable time frame) is a violation of the card association operating regulations and will result in abuse fees, and if continued, loss of your merchant account.
How to Maximize the Battery Life on Your Linux Laptop: Productive Geek
I do some work for a company has appends a ~140 word privacy statement to every message (without a sig marker, of course). It includes the phrase "return the original to us
by courier collect". sigh
37Signals' product URLs are not app_name.com and they're doing just fine. Millions of dollars fine.
Thanks jtchang! What broswer/os are you using?
Businesses don't need the government to tell them how to treat their customers.

Apparently some do.
Transparency. The biggest complaint I hear about these places is that they aren't transparent in anything -- from reasoning behind their prices, to the resolution of conflicts.
Thanks for your thoughts. The goal of this product is not as a developer tool (yet). We are trying to solve a user engagement issue. Here'a bit more on the thinking behind it.

Website owners typically have one important message or call to action that they would like each visitor to process. Since we don't have consistent design standards, the user has a inconsistent visual experience ingesting web content and messaging.

This happened with digital display ads. Services like The Deck have provided solid improvement with engagement through conformed ads in a single dosage per page.

We want to bring simplicity and consistency to the web experience. We hope that a thoughtful design, one well-crafted sentence and a call to action is what we need to increase engagement on your website.
What I think you're saying is that the reader should be customizable in terms of some DSL for a grammar. It would be nice, but I'm not sure how composable it would be (in the general case, I think it would come down to having the behavior of READ dependent upon a black-box current-parser procedure).

The nice thing about readtables is that it exposes what in essence are transition hooks for each character, so you really don't need to care about the grammar of stuff you're not interested in parsing.

OTOH like you said, extending the syntax for numbers or symbols becomes quite hairy. But even with a DSL grammar approach, you'd need to change major parts of the grammar (which means copying and modifying the normative grammar of CL syntax - not that different from grabbing a portable CL reader implementation today (http://twitter.com/vsedach/status/26484049015)).

The big downside is deciding on which class of grammars that will support, and how they will be represented.
"His job was to advocate the right technologies at the right time. Yet MS rarely makes the right choices in this area. Technology decisions are made by political GMs who want to hold on to their empires."

So he had much responsibility and little authority, always a combination that guarantees failure.
Thanks for that example. I was just wondering if you use any library for parsing the hash based URLs (another nice thing that sammy provides) ?
Code Complete is a must read for professional developers.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is always good for a mind-bending read. All of HP Lovecraft's work is excellent. Anything by Arthur C Clarke or Isaac Asimov or Ray Bradbury. All of Ayn Rand's stuff (the philosophy is flawed, but the plots and writing are something to behold).
Well done. I have one request: The ability to filter by language
Will do. Ironically, we also created SlideDeck.com. So we will be building one as our product tour.
I actually have a draft of a similar post (except for TUAW, LikeHacker, Mashable, and the like in addition to TC). It should be up today, look out for it. :)

EDIT: posted, check it out at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1805510
I believe Jobs was talking about fragmentation. You would have to especially adapt the UI for a 7" device, like you have to especially adapt the UI for a 3.5" and 10" device. You can’t just shrink it down or blow it up.

Jobs seems to believe that Apple shouldn’t fragment their product line any further. He seems to think that 3.5" (pocketable) and 10" (more stationary and more capable) are sort of local optima and that Apple should stick to those.
Sharing the Google Sky
Not wanting to point out the obvious, but Apple is the leading seller of 3.5 inch tablets - the iPod touch.
Don't know any jQuery, but that looks like a monad. Glad it's found it's way into practice.
Meant GitHub in general. Can't beat simplistic zero downtime rolling deploys!
I think Bill's passion has shifted too far away from Microsoft's business for him to ever come back in earnest. I assume that's why he left in the first place.

Jobs, on the other hand, was immersed in the same tech/philosophy at NeXT that he would subsequently use to revitalize Apple.
hi nice site, please consider having a table view that have the following columns: Book Title, Author, Publication Date (make the table sortable by any row)

And if I click the table row, it can expand to the long descriptions and cover shot you added to each book. What first at attracts me to a book is the title, author and how recent it is!
I’m only quoting Jobs here, not presenting my own opinion but I think I can shed some light on that point: iPad and iPod touch do not use the same UI, they do not have the same intended uses. Jobs obviously seems to think that 3.5" (where you sacrifice functionality for compactness) and 10" (where you sacrifice compactness for functionality) are local optima.
+1, you can tell how valuable it because I always end up crying when I'm trying to track the history of something and it turns out the change is from a branch merge that wasn't properly tracked, and thus you can't get the precise commit that introduced it.
I don't know how workable it would be, but I always liked the idea of management's base pay being the average of everyone that worked for them. Any bonuses would have to be a multiple of that base pay; to include stock.

This would ensure that the base salary only goes up if the average wage goes up and clearly define the bonuses. At least for those where the bonuses are published; I'm thinking SEC filings and the like.

In practice it probably wouldn't change much though.
Is this video online somewhere? I'd love to see it!
Can you give me some example of 'cloud' services? Aren't they web application/services?

And Apple classifies iPod touch as portable music player/gaming device and not 3.5" tablet.
No landing page yet? The reluctant promoter of a self promotion book! :-)
Microsoft sees "unprecedented wave" of Java malware exploits
to be honest that page feels way too similar to those spam pages thrown up by domain squatters.
Yea, i use these entries, too. Sadly, it breaks some pages functionality.

I was shocked to see that, when you are on paypal.com and click to register a new account, it routes you through some dubious ad network. Scary shit.

Saw this behaviour on another rather large site the other day, can't recall the URL though.
We implement some of the concepts of ROWE, but we don't really measure results in any quantifiable way. We hire the best, most driven people we can and give them the means to produce awesome things. So far so good!
I work in Plain Old Java most of my day, but have side projects in both Clojure and Python. I agree with the consensus here about the error traces in Clojure, but I'd like to point out this is not inherent in the platform. When I'm programming in Java, I find the stack traces to be a massive advantage in diagnosing issues, as they present a lot of detail right down to the location of the problem (Python is similar in this respect). Irrelevant plumbing may bloat the traces a bit, but usually quite separated from the important lines, and having too much information is rarely an issue for me.

I think the problem with Clojure (and perhaps Groovy too), is that the compiler/runtime for the language invades the traces. If you look at the example given in the original post, almost the entire trace is Clojure plumbing. That's the real issue, and it's not the fault of the Java stack.
Really awesome app idea, here are my suggestions:

1) The green color scheme clashes with the red and orange banner.

2)The duck doesn't stand out because there's little contrast between it and the banner. I suggest changing the banner colors to something that blends in better with the rest of the site.

3) The barcode takes up a lot of the screen, but isn't valuable. With a short name like Zuzu, people can easily search for it on their phones. The goal is to excite them enough to search for it.

4) Get rid of the "Perch" menu bar. All those links can be horizontally listed under the banner giving you more space to show off the product.

5) Make the box of scrolling pictures MUCH bigger, stretching across the entire screen (horizontally). The words in the pics are too small to read.

6) Get rid of the "Wake up and win with Zazu" image and keep the tagline "Zuzu wakes you up verbally..." on a single line.

I hope this helps. If any of this is unclear and you'd like me to make annotations on a screenshot, let me know.

Goodluck!
Almost everything is for sale - although they may not be able to agree on a price.
I operated in the high risk space from 2002-2007 and we never had holdbacks that high. 5-10% was normal.
Well said.

I've read that memory is an integral strength of high performers in fields such as chess and music.

And btw, you can extend this casual dismissal of expertise to knowledge of algorithms and data structures too. Would this author be equally dismissive if somebody pointed out that, what he was solving was an application of so-and-so algorithm.
Worst part about Facebook is that the person usually gets an email notification...
I dunno. I think they're pretty awesome.
"However, it was as if an angel had intercepted his thoughts and words. The angel being the thief."

By this standard, a rapist that wears a condom is to be given an elevated status, and is worthy of praise. This is utterly wrong. To punch someone in the face with a smile is still an assault.

"The world is a harsh, unforgiving place, in which we lose far more than we win. But if this thief would merely open a university program for thieves, then surely the world's karmic balance might be shifted for once in a healthy direction."

This speaks volumes about the author's metaphysical and epistemological positions, many of which I believe are deeply flawed. Ask yourself: is the world always a harsh and forgiving place? What kind of a world does sanctioning a thief create? What is this concept of karma that the author writes about, and how do I know it's even sensible? Or is it a couple of things (one true, and very real thing, and another mystical and non-real thing) conflated in a package-deal?
Will iPad sales dissuade developers from using Flash or promote the development of iPad apps to augment rich Flash sites?
Yes I use Dojo extensively, It is my toolkit of choice for a plethora of reasons, but accessibility is one of them.
The Interactive Media/HTML5 Impedance Mismatch
If you ask an engineer if other engineers should work toward standards or make up their own, they'll tell you every time that engineers should work against standards.

In the programming world, libraries represent those standards and every time you try to roll your own solution to a well explored problem, you're telling the rest of the world to avoid your code.
Do you use lynx for browsing the web too?
That seems to be the secret trick here, it's more about creating autonomy and encouraging mastery and purpose than about actually measuring anything, or managing anything. And if it works, it's gotta be a nice place to be. Congrats on building an amazing company.
GridFS now in MongoEngine