skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One barrier was created with the express intent of being a barrier.

The other is a tool for improving communication between people that developed separately from other similar tools, and is pretty much equivalent to a different API.

I don't think they're comparable. Unless China decides to ban export of all chinese-language media, and import of all non-chinese media.
Japan has a lot of smart businessmen, but their problem is actually that the government has supported their businesses too much. Japan is in a horrible economic situation precisely because they've honored failed entrepreneurs (or at least their ventures) too much. They've honored them by preventing them from failing completely when they should have -- they've backed them with state funds and as a result have created zombie entities that have contributed to the prolonged deflationary cycle that Japanese citizens continue to experience.

It's a fine idea to honor peoples' attempts at entrepreneurship, but by propping up failed ventures instead of making room for new innovators sends the wrong message to their economy and is causing untold number of problems.
I don't really want to hear the arguments, but I'd be interested in the demographics. I think you should convert this to a poll.
I think it's a matter of a lack of distractions. The wife is asleep, and the coworkers are gone.
Of course I could be wrong and maybe some functional languages define in their spec exactly when tail call elimination must invoked.

Scheme does. I believe it was widely considered an innovation in the field of programming language specification that they specified that.
Is there a transcript of this?
I agree with you that it should be fine except that you are joking about it while we're talking about critiques of HN itself. He was talking about how posts get voted into oblivion for saying good things about Apple (which could be a serious problem with regard to addressing intellectual conversation) and you downplay the importance of that by making a joke.
We agree on those points, however. It's a big pain in the backside that they don't document their API better. And many of the classes, like TTPhotoViewController and TTScrollView, have some big problems that require modification to overcome.

But besides being a free library, I used three20 in many of my recent apps because I have been working with publishers to build navigation-based apps that require things like image caching and URL navigation. A number of other features of three20 are quite welcome, despite their quirks.

I usually try to do a quick test of the framework before I integrate it into a project and guarantee that it will work, because, you're right, some of them don't behave as advertised. This is even the case with some of Apple's libraries, but I daresay their documentation is better than three20's.
An App to manage all my scanned documents. Interface like iTunes, but each document can be a PDF/TIFF or emailed document I want to save and archive forever - like each month I scan my bills, my current lease, my employment contract, birth certificate, etc etc.

Bonus points if you can encrypt and backup to Amazon S3 or something.

37 Signals do the same, but I would like to save everything locally, not to a webapp.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/585-going-inbox-zero-on-your-...
I suspect that some of them are people that took rejection by YC a bit harder than they should have, and that some others are simply here because they can't see a good thing without being tempted to try to destroy it.

It's almost entirely the latter. Only a small percentage of HN users actually apply to YC, and I can only think of one who became abusive on HN after being rejected (and he sent me an email recently apologizing).

Most of the nastiness we get here is from new users who show up and think they can behave like they do on other sites. This has been happening for years. But I wouldn't attribute to them such complex motives as not being able to see a good thing without being tempted to destroy it. I think they're just 13, or nuts.
On the other hand, the Japanese fear is an opportunity for foreigners with more mercenary spirit.

The lack of biz contacts are daunting but if Softbank can make it with a Korean president, there is nothing stopping us. (or at least that's how I justify trying things here)
Thank you for the inspiring article and for your comment.

I agree that nowadays the fear of harming one's reputation through abuse of their code sounds unreasonable. Leaders of major scientific codes told me, however, that this was their overwriting concern in the 80s and 90s. As an alternative to imposing barriers to entry through fees, some groups demanded collaboration on the first project that used their code (a method that doesn't scale well, but doesn't require writing of thorough documentation, another thing that many scientists dislike). Hopefully, the times they are a-changing.
StavrosK, I'm delighted to see you post this; I was hoping you'd do so!

If people are interested in calculating the sample size before running an A/B test, I'd recommend tools such as the following (to which I have no connection):

http://www.danielsoper.com/statcalc/calc01.aspx
Hopefully. :) We'll try to pressure our designer @karrisaarinen to write a blog post about it.
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From those guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Politics are off topic, but I'm wondering if this might fit under the "interesting new phenomenon" clause.
Some seriously nice apps in there. Really impressed by the concepts and execution.

My favorites (thus far):

An awesome looking iPhone game powered by a Rails app: http://warsquare.r10.railsrumble.com/

AirportAtlas, find power, wi-fi, etc. in airports: http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/team-rocketpants

Newspaper.ly looks like an app I had an idea for: a news reader that only shows you stuff the app thinks you would like: http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/infinity-pool-boom-boom

A co-worker's IM gateway project: http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/this-we-can-have

Project management that makes sense to me: http://splendidbacon.com/

(And of course my entry - http://tldr.it , a summarizer for RSS feeds and other URL's - http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/my-other-car-is-your-face)
I run a business in China. To run a business targeting Chinese consumers, you need to be based inside China.

I often see people ask American-based startups: "Why don't you offer Chinese support and try to grab the Chinese market?" It's really not that simple. Even for an existing startup, successfully entering the Chinese market basically requires you to run a totally new business. If you don't treat the Chinese branch like its own indigenous company, you won't get anywhere. I think Google is an excellent example of a company that failed, or refused, to understand this.
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i don't know if i believe its possible to represent all of everything in text, downvote or no. Besides it'd fork at least once before it got finished.
Controls and intro need a lot of work, as they're extremely opaque to someone using a computer (tap? drag? they don't even work on the intro page!), and have very little obvious uses. For instance: it took me a while to figure out that the "X" on the right gets rid of that weird white triangle overlay (what's the point of that anyway?), and about a dozen clicks to get the overlay back (bottom edge of the screen...? why?).

That said, once you figure out how to use it, it's an impressively nice experience, and best of luck to them. I love that it uses local storage to cache data, that's exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to see when I first heard of it.
I think the article starts off badly, its YouTube vs Hulu comparison generates quite a bit of negative sentiments.

Every country has its own policies, it is quite tough for outsiders to intervene or change things around. Think Cambodia, Vietnam. In Chin'a case, it's the government's case to require Web content to be censored. That's how it is, think of it as cultural difference or the rules of the game if you want to play.

The opportunities to grow in developing countries are great, it is just the process to come in, understand how the local does things and how can we adapt our policies to make it work that matters. A few other countries that offer similar growth opportunities less the restrictions are Malaysia and Indonesia. (just look at the Jakarta Composite and KLSE Composite index)
Textmate 2 joke was a nice touch : )
I find most of my investments through 2 methods: general news as an indicator of future growth prospects, and through industry stalking. I am primarily interested in high capital growth and mostly invest in an industry peripherally related to my own work which I can keep tabs on through industry contacts (i.e. who's hot, who's not).

In both cases those methods yield potential investments which I then look at financials as a basic check - does this company's balance sheet and P&L indicate anything obviously dodgy? More importantly, do their accounts offer any insight as to how their business is actually going; in many cases I find this is not the case as through sufficient accounting manipulation little reflection of reality is left in the reported figures.

In terms of your service what I would like to see is some sort of graph of executive management & directors and their histories. I have a personal blacklist of individuals based on their ability to ruin companies, and I also have a few folks that I basically would invest in anything they do. This is largely industry specific though not always the case as there are folks from finance & legal backgrounds who end up being chairmen or directors across a wide variety of industries; this can be good for finding investments in new industries.

Another thing is the company's history, particularly (but not limited to) the balance sheet. In some cases future prospects look great but the company has burnt existing investors through heavily dilutive raisings (as an example). These holders will suppress any rise in price so for me that is a reason to stay clear despite everything else.

You asked about "before" but on-going is also important. For the small (speculative) companies that I invest in I try to stalk most of their staff; in particular I want to know if key members of staff leave (not necessarily executives); or if there is unusually high turnover. Tools like LinkedIn and Twitter have made this a lot easier but it would be great if it could be automated.
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Repost this here in case the other thread dies: Some seriously nice apps in there. Really impressed by the concepts and execution.

My favorites (thus far):

An awesome looking iPhone game powered by a Rails app: http://warsquare.r10.railsrumble.com/

AirportAtlas, find power, wi-fi, etc. in airports: http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/team-rocketpants

Newspaper.ly looks like an app I had an idea for: a news reader that only shows you stuff the app thinks you would like: http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/infinity-pool-boom-boom

A co-worker's IM gateway project: http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/this-we-can-have

Project management that makes sense to me: http://splendidbacon.com/

(And of course my entry - http://tldr.it , a summarizer for RSS feeds and other URL's - http://r10.railsrumble.com/teams/my-other-car-is-your-face)
I like Mixergy as well, although to be honest, I haven't sprung for the subscription. This Week in Startups is high quality with great back-and-forth and a lot of variety. I'm also an avid This Week in Venture Capital viewer. Don't miss an episode of either.
Acunote (http://www.acunote.com/promo) is still better (which I'll admit is kinda an unfair comparison, given this was made in only 48 hours). Managing an agile backlog is possible in acunote. And it is free for up to 7 users (startups will be able to go a long way before having to pay).

Also acunote makes sure you don't have to reload the page most of the time (even though Splendid's reload is very fast). I'd really recommend competitors to borrow from it.
Tldr.it - Summarizer for RSS feeds and other web pages (built in 48 hours)
There have been a lot of studies about this lately... if you think yes, why? Is it because kids today do not necessarily need teachers for answers like kids in generations past (due to the internet?)

If you think 'no' is it because you think it is a bad example? It doesn't 'seem right'? How would you fix education?
Your EKG waveform, which is discussed in the patent application, is a much more likely candidate for being uniquely identifiable than your heartbeat.
Does anybody have any experience using an ipad? It has a full pdf reader so that at least should work well.
I'm guessing in this case downtime does not refer to systems being in a down state but rather the sysadmins have time to work on whatever interests them.
5by5.tv

they have a variety of shows that talk about different topics, with a few of them focusing on startups and entrepreneurship.

great question too. i travel to nashville from about an hour and a half frequently, so i love listening to podcasts.

oh, and even though its not about startups and such (although a few of the episodes are), npr's planet money is really well done podcast on economics. highly recommended.
I agree. It is like doing a survey on the importance of AI research and only surveying AI researchers. A much less biased survey would also include CS and statistics researchers.
Touche. Good point.
Your list is good enough for me :-)
> There "are" issues that continue to plague Linux in the Desktop department.

I'd be interested in knowing what you are referring to here.
You beat me to it! I was just going to comment that this was the office version of AirBnB! Hopefully there will be some Toronto additions.
Very nice. Looks heavily inspired by Cultured Code's dashboard (http://culturedcode.com/status/).
Price would be useful to have. It looks like the front page asks non-free spaces to mention that clearly in the description, but browsing through, the descriptions are pretty vague on that. Clicking through to the sites, it looks like they range from a person or small company with some spare desks they're willing to let you use free, to dedicated commercial spaces charging $20-30/day to rent. Those are pretty different categories, and I doubt I'd normally be looking for both simultaneously.
It is trivial to identify. If you don't have a vanity URL, it is in your profile URL.
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The browser recognizes the protocol of the skanr:// link and launches the application.
Thanks for checking out the application.

We think it solves a different problem than Acunote. From our own experience, tools often get in the way of working and Acunote does a lot more than we and other small teams need.

And as I eluded to in another comment, we think Splendid Bacon lets you use tools like Acunote to manage the backlog and other details or accomplish other similar project tasks.
Decide your sample size beforehand, and only stop the test after you've reached it.

That may be the gospel among A/B testers, but from a Bayesian perspective, this is definitely not the best you can do (though it won't necessarily be wrong). Beware, Bayesian methods are provably optimal.

The details are here for the interested (chap. 4 & 6):

http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html

It's not casual reading... I wish there was something shorter available.
I agree. I also heard the owner of a small but decent ERP consulting company was working for a different company in L1 or H1B.
Only a small percentage of HN users actually apply to YC

Slightly off-topic, but what about the inverse of that: how many YC applicants are active HN users [1]? Just curious as to how much of the applicant pool comes from HN.

1. Since you have to create a HN account to apply, I'm assuming 100% of YC applicants are HN users, so maybe how many actively participate?
I'll express here what I feel while reading any man pages..

Examples should be at the top!

(10 years of frustration in that one line message :p)
this code solved the problem in under 1 second.

I would say for code that is executed one time ever, even including the sqrt(n) part is premature optimization (though I did include it)
I'm liking it a lot, as well. We'll see if my other team members want to use it tomorrow at the office. We actually use an intranet tool that we build for clients for project management at work, but I'm not convinced that it manages a software development project well.
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Not to be a hater here, but I believe by working at the office on work computers, your job might be able to claim the rights to your business. I'd be careful with that one.
Well, somebody need to translate them with machine assistance into English first.

That mean, probably only a fraction of Chinese work will ever be translated.
Great to hear you like it! We'd love to hear your team's thoughts on the application.
I believe the only dataset that YC needs to furnish is the official list of alumni.

Follow-on rounds, exits, and current status can all be provided by the community. But there seems to be no authoritative dataset that shows which startups participated in YC.

But from your comments, I'm guessing that some companies prefer that their mere involvement with YC not be disclosed at all, which makes this a harder task then just periodically exporting the name and URL of every portfolio company.

"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." - Structured Data
>> by that logic, you should never donate books to a library, since it is effectively costing the author sales.

Precisely. Should authors and publishers be paid by everyone that wants to read their work, or should the books be available freely to all that want them? (And yes, they would get paid for the number of books the library owns, but the system is set up to minimize that amount and it should certainly be less than the number of people reading them.)

What is the moral difference between pirating a book and paying no money to the author, or borrowing a copy that had been donated to a library and paying no money to the author? The borrowed copy prevents another patron from borrowing at the same time, but this feels more like a physical limitation (and legal loophole) than a morally relevent distinction.

People try to place value on making sure that authors get paid, and on making books freely available to all (that live near a library?), while neglecting that these are mostly incompatible with each other.

Oh, and the "I later bought my own copies" argument is also commonly used in favor of piracy.

It's reasons like this that I don't claim any strong opinions on these issues myself. Things are complicated. There are too many factors at play - especially when you toss in greedy corporations and all that - to make clear distinctions between right and wrong that hold up from all angles.
I immediately converted the Why the Lucky Stiff chunky bacon melody to your app's name after seeing that it was part of the Rails Rumble.
Fix my software without me having to tell you what's wrong, darn it!
> I suspect that some of them are people that took rejection by YC a bit harder than they should have

This was in part because some of the stuff I saw tossed around was very strongly targeted at YC and you personally, not so much against HN.

But I'll take your word for it and I really hope that those that get rejected by YC see it for what it is and don't take it personal.
Definitely worth checking out inspire9.
OK, this web site has a terrible terrible interface. It uses these nonstandard recessed ovaloids and SOME of them are text fields and others are buttons that take you to other pages. It also tries to establish a HTML5 database without letting me know why.
>For Youku’s Koo, Chinese Internet companies are developing superior business models

>YouTube, owned by Google, is inaccessible in China.

Kind of hard to determine one business model is superior when they aren't even allowed to compete.
Completely unrelated to tech - photography and music I find interesting.

http://ishitbits.tumblr.com
I've not actually tried using Jersey/JAX, but it looks like a very clean setup for quickly writing low-latency JSON APIs.

I was a very early adopter of Jersey and JAX-RS and I have to say, it is one of the first API's that I have seen come out of Java that provides the rapid development and prototyping typical of Ruby or Python. If future Java API's take their queue from JAX-RS then Java will again become competitive. I trained a guy just last week on JAX-RS and had him up and running in less that a day. Only truly elegant designs can provide that level of simplicity while exposing the ability to accomplish the task you want without having to make compromises. JAX-RS is a gem in the Java world and I hope that future Java API's will follow suite.

As well Netbeans tooling for JAX-RS goes a long way to reduce development time. You can write a JPA annotated class and Netbeans will gen the schema as well as the REST service. Or you can write the schema and Netbeans will gen the JPA class and the service. While I am generally not a fan of reliance on tooling this is a case where it helps without pooping all over your code.
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> Join a startup

I liked how Adam D'Angelo suggested that people should join a startup that a) has a great team that is still small, and b) has traction, and c) lets you learn a ton of stuff.

We're in exactly that situation. Our startup, iTeleport, makes the top grossing VNC-based remote desktop client on the iPhone / iPad.

a) We're a team of two people -- myself (I did my CS PhD from CMU) and Vishal Kapur (BS/MS from MIT, and has worked at a large company and a successful startup over the past few years) -- and we're having a lot of fun doing what we're doing.

b) We've got traction -- more than 100,000 paying customers @$25 a pop, and growing -- we've even been featured on 37signals' Profitable and Proud blog series.

c) Finally, we're working on some incredibly challenging problems all the way from redesigning the user experience (we applied for a patent on our interface hack, which was recently approved) to squeezing every bit of performance juice out of memory and CPU constrained devices when transferring large amounts of graphical data. We're working on a p2p network stack that enables any endpoint to speak directly with any other endpoint without requiring any servers of our own to manage (and pay for (and worry about)). Most importantly, we're in touch with our users, we know what they want, and we want to learn how we can continue making something they want and like. We're making more than $1m in revenues a year, but we feel we've only scratched the surface, and people who join us now are going to really learn an incredible amount about every single aspect of how to build and grow a startup.

We're a team of two, and we're looking for a third. We're very picky, but for the right person, this could be the opportunity of a lifetime. If anyone's interested, go to iTeleportMobile.com, see what we're all about, and email us from the jobs page.
great idea for a site. good luck in the rumble!
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I found it, a custom URI scheme - cool.