skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Interest Rates Are Made Of And How The Fed Affects Them
thanks. that was interesting.
I hadn't thought of DOS attacks as an internet equivalent to a sit-in. But I think is an apt analogy, is a sit-in not equally disrupting to a brick and mortar business?
Ask HN:  Any YC alum local to the SF Bay area before the applied?
Anybody know of any YC alum that was local to the SF Bay area before they applied and got accepted to YC? It seems like a majority of their companies move here from out of town.
Thanks, I appreciate the offer. Email me at dealsforhackers@gmail.com to talk further.
Careful, plenty of people on HN probably thought that before anyone at Paypal had even heard of WL.
I agree. Which is why I think higher tuition fees -- or, in other words, and end to subsidized postsecondary education -- is a good idea. Remember, those who don't have are the ~50% of the population who don't go to postsecondary education.

(And don't try to claim that this is because they can't afford the associated costs; studies have repeatedly found that the costs of higher education are a very very minor factor in determining students' postsecondary attendance. The largest determining factor, by far, is the educational qualifications of students' parents.)
Great idea regarding the consultants. I'm sure there are a ton of consultants who would be happy to work with startups for cheap, in order to build long-term relationships.

Fantastic idea!
Jud, first of all congratulations!

You ought to be proud of the fact you have built a working inventory management system. You also ought to be proud of just interviewing with YC.

Keep Going!

If there was no market for inventory management systems, then you would have never been invited to interview.
IDK, YMMV.
will surely do.. thanks
What about "International Edition" textbooks? For example, the site could offer an international edition of a textbook for 1/10 the cost of the US edition. The International Edition textbooks are paperback, and of lower quality, but contain the same information, and are MUCH cheaper.

What do you think?
Summary: The man (Chang) said ConnectU (the Winklevoss venture) joined with his company and the litigation was an asset, but he received none of the settlement.

An interesting argument. IANAL but it sounds like a compelling case.
Hmmm the wonderful sound of irony.
The Apache Foundation board was initially made up of people involved in creating Apache software, and membership is expanded through election by the existing board.

The Eclipse Foundation board is mainly representatives from companies who have paid the substantial "strategic member" fee.
Discounts on technology conferences would be huge. Great idea - thanks!
Google Hits ‘Send’ On Priority Inbox For Android’s Gmail App
I've not tried pair programming using collaborative editor but I've done sessions of requirements gathering with teams using EtherPad (I guess now it would be Google Docs given Etherpad was rolled into Google Docs).

It's fun and almost LAN game like in terms of having everyone create stub items, then others go in and fill them out, then someone else goes in and further adds to that given item, etc etc.
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Totally agreed - I think that books will be a big part of the service. Wholesale books aren't too expensive when bought in bulk, and the savings can be passed on to users / customers.
I assume these would work okay for bloggers/ writers in general. Sure I'm probably underestimating some of the tools professional writers use to organize things.

I think the main use case is really outside work, those that just want to use things like facebook/twitter and various chat platforms. Although the netbook is really the wrong form factor, you really either want a tablet or something closer to the air. With the netbook it feels like they are giving everything you can do on a regular computer but then ripping most of it out via software.
Very interesting read, although that's probably because my cofounder and I had nearly the same exact experience you did. We got an interview for this round of Y Combinator with an idea that could be summed up as, "it's pretty much an improvement of X."

But ultimately what any pitch comes to like that, whether it's the innovative minds at YC or the cruftiest, oldest-school VC, is always the same:

a) If X has competition and it that competition already has existing traction, they will point out it will be hard for your idea to catch on because of established players.

b) If X has competition and it's bad, they will point out that nobody will adopt X to begin with even if your version is better (generally "chicken and egg" problems)

c) And if any of them have any direct experience with X, they will point out they already did this and it didn't work.

My cofounder and I ran into scenario (b) and despite spending the spending the majority of our preparation time on (what we thought were) convincing answers, we didn't get accepted either.

If I had one regret, it's that we had a potential pivot for our idea that I think could have been spun off as a completely original idea W, and we spent barely a minute talking about it. We brought it up, PG went into brainstorming mode with us, and I walked out wishing we had just pitched W to begin with. But perhaps that story is for a blog post of my own.
This is a related paper on eprint: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1784602
Need help on my Project
I'll be creating a small project, basically an Asset Management. Anybody here familiar with it and can share their inputs? I already research something about it, but I want also to make it something kinda unique amongst the other asset management/inventory tools. Any help is greatly appreciated.
There should be as many scientists roughly in each party.

Political parties are not static. They move and evolve and change, and grow and shrink and may become tiny and spend years in the political wilderness.

When a party is reduced to a regional rump, and has several litmus test for their tiny, tiny tent. When one of the most important test is are you anti or pro science, you can't seriously expect a lot of scientist to belong to club which is fervently against anyone who dares to believe in evolution.
Because they formed (conglomerated) from an accretion disk around the Sun. Being a disk, it is in one plane.

Why a disk? The sphere of dust surrounding the Sun is drawn inwards and conservation of angular momentum flattens it out to eventually form a disk.

Simple explanation:
Accretion disk: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/A/accretiond.html
Planetary formation: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/plansysform.html

Wikipedia (detailed maths): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disc
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From what I saw, part of the war cry text was that "we're only anonymous by number". I think it was fully understood what was happening. But yes, this is one way to realise the ramifications of your actions.
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Well, Thomistic philosophy does try to start with the minimum possible set of assumptions as it works upwards toward a conclusion. As I said before, you may not find it convincing, but it is at least an interesting attempt. I'd suggest "Reality: A Thomistic Synthesis" for a general overview.
Also shows the problem of first followers in action.

All of Europe got smacked around for a while by this great disrupter, but eventually, they learned from Napoleon, found some weaknesses, and then broke him in the two key battles ending the Napoleonic Wars. He couldn't maintain his 'first mover' advantage.
Finally! This is one instance in which the mobile version should have come first as it's so much important there.
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For a story with a (bad) ending, that was really engaging to read. It sounds like you're still optimistic, and I'm definitely wishing you a ton of luck.

Rejection notwithstanding, I think the advice to get the system installed into a few other businesses is actually golden -- not just from a revenue standpoint, but from the product perspective. You'll get non-family feedback on how the system can be improved.

To be fair, building/selling a cool system is a higher goal perhaps than doing YC. (I say this knowing that for a ton of us, the hierarchy is confused in our own minds, haha!).

Either way, Jud, plug on, keep tooling and keep writing. I loved reading this...
Interesting...I had not heard the quote you cite. The French did the same as always but it was by no means an easy affair: "It has been a damned serious business... Blücher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. ... By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there." ("nice" meaning "precise").

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ni8Mc1b1ygAC&pg=PA185&#...
> Adds insult to injury that the decision is made by a bunch of middle-aged politicians who have mostly been to university and paid much less than they expect students to pay from now on.

It's annoying and seems unfair, but the health of a nation's finances can't be placed at the mercy of eternal, unchanging entitlements.
Maybe there should be an option: "I will defend Wikileaks in my words and actions, but not step over any bounds in doing so" or is that the same as "I'm too chicken"?
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Anyone here used lift and found a level of productvity over Django/Rails/PHP Framework of choice?

I find most of the things that make money tend to be boring crud applications which really don't require much in the way of fancy features which makes one of the main arguements in the article invalid.

I am itching to learn something new though but wonder if its going to be worth it or should I turn my attentions to something more mainstream.
It might be a matter of time before Oracle decided to cut all of the oxygen lines for these open source solutions judging from Ellison's comment about RedHat business models.

What do you think would happen in order for a library to be certified (passed a certain TCK) would require to pay Oracle a huge amount of money?

Oracle can get more money from IBM, RedHat, SpringSource (SS uses a modified Tomcat for their tcServer) and a slew bunch of other companies.

Whether they'll do it or not, I don't know.
Two issues:

* Then it's easier to block by AdBlock

* Advanced sync'ing between ads and video (required for many ads and features like subtitles) is not possible in HTML5
Wharton offers life-long, tuition-free courses to alumni
Napoleon was innovative, but only covering his career to 1805 sort of ignores the final punchline. Over the next ten years he was repeatedly defeated by a coalition that could field larger armies, and slowly but surely stole (or improved on) all of his innovations. Thus demonstrating the "innovator's dilemma."
Quick poll: any reason to stick with Google Code instead of moving to GitHub?
Hmm. How can the airlines possibly give away 25% of what you spend? They are only making 2% of what you spend from merchants for providing the card or something thereabouts.

edit: Maybe some airlines do it by only letting you use reward miles on seats that they wouldn't have been able to sell anyway or something along those lines. But some don't. I know Southwest reward tickets aren't heavily handicapped or anything lame.
The other problem is that, if you tell Candidate X that you are not hiring her because of e.g. insufficiently experience with SQL, and it develops that you have previously hired a non-Q developer who didn't do SQL either, you now get to answer a lawsuit alleging discrimination against Q candidates. (We all know people are package deals, but if you put in writing that you hung your hat on a particular detail, then you're going to look like you're lying to cover your antiQist biases.)
I've heard a little about those editions but don't know much about them, so I think you might have some user education necessary. But it sounds great on the whole.
It's the constant flow of 0-days that makes me convinced - yes, I don't doubt it's a clusterfuck. I've heard rather damning things about the photoshop codebase as well (several years ago) - it seems likely to me that there is some kind of systemic problem at adobe.
Tech books often come with a section in the back that basically just reprints the manual that comes with the software. It's not as bad today as it once was, but you'd often see these big huge books that were essentially 1/3 API reference. Publishers love to do this because it forces new editions to be made with new revisions of the software.
It was also way more efficient to drive a horse than any of the first cars.

The key here is not this precise application but the technology that it implies.
Well, I mean, you're kinda stealing from the government. They're the ones paying the processing fees. Just because it's legal doesn't make it honest.
Maybe. I don't know much about those who were DDOSing wikileaks, I know more about breaking rules 1 & 2.
If that is the premise of opponents of stem cell research, they may be drawing rational, moral conclusions from it.

However the premise itself, "stem cells are people" is most certainly definitely drawn from religious faith.

The premise that black people are rather similar to white people, on the other hand, seems to draw on scientific knowledge. Obviously, there's still the step of drawing a rational, moral conclusion from that also.
What is your strategy for making money with boring crud applications? Consulting? In-house software developer? How much are you earning with this strategy?
For reference, the program he is referring to can be found here.
http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductD...

I love how that in bold blue letters the page says:

"The immediate bank deposit of $1 coins ordered through this Program does not result in their introduction into circulation and, therefore, does not comply with the intended purpose of the Program."
The intrinsic value of the metal has literally nothing to do with it. If you take $0.01 of brass and turn it into $1 coin you didn't make any "profit."
The Flash VM used for Actionscript 3 (AVM2) is supposedly a total rewrite from Flash 8, so theoretically most of the codebase is pretty recent.
Remove tax exemptions for churches and then we can have money for basic scientific research and tax cuts for billionaires.
I must be missing something very fundamental here, so bear with me. On the first gearbox he showcases, the one that multiples by 5/19's, I don't understand how you can combine a set of gears that multiples by 5, with another set that multiples by 3/5 to get 19/5s.
19 appears to be prime, so I don't see how any combination of multiplying/dividing 5's and 3's could results in any number divisible by 19. Does the differential itself have a ratio of teeth of 19/15 (53/519/15 = 19/5?) or is there another key piece I'm missing?

Otherwise, very impressive. I love it.
I agree that it's not a perfect analogy, and perhaps shouldn't be taken as an analogy at all. That said, I don't think that means there's nothing to be learned from what did and didn't work. It's rather similar to how I like to reference Demming's 14 points in term of how to manage any business: obviously not all apply, but many do, and you can still learn valuable philosophy from the ones that don't.
Hey Emile,

Here's what I'd do:

1. Pick 3 - 4 startups you have to work for. Like would die to work for.

2. Identify 3 or 4 projects you know they know they need done. It might be web design related, sales, marketing, etc, etc.

3. E-mail them and say here are the 3 projects I've identified from the outside. Here's how I would do them. If you'd like to get more in-depth we can meet up.
If you have a relatively stable income, when the economy is at its lowest ebb is the best time to borrow money and invest. You'll have less competition for the money and less competition for the investments you buy. Finally, the stated policy of the Federal reserve is to inflate the currency. This damages savers and rewards borrowers. The smart thing to do right now is to borrow and invest in things that provide a real return over the pitifully low interest rate.
You're talking about the PAL codes[0] which were, indeed, 00000000 for a long time. That's entirely separate from another set of 'launch codes' that the Commander in Chief is never far from[1].

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Permissive_Ac...
[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nuclear_footb...
It makes sense to reason from the specifications of the runtime environment. For example, the spec for memcpy says that it's behavior is undefined when memory areas overlap. Then it would not be correct to use it for overlapping memory areas even if it works in some particular implementation as trial and error may show.
I've mentioned this before, I've never understood putting a ToS or privacy policy on a website.

Is it a legally binding document? They can change at any time and without notice. Who is to say what you just read, and apparently agreed to, didn't change in the few seconds it took you to post something.

How can you prove someone has read or not read it when something goes to court?

ToS of this comment: If you read this, you owe me 10 dollars.

Stupid, isn't it?
Consulting and In-House software. Most of them I can throw together in a few hours using any framework I am slightly familar with.

As for how much, its on a case by case basis. I charge less for non-profits and people who are generally nice people.
One thing I'd love to see would be a system that detected when I used the mouse to run a command that had a hotkey shortcut and displayed the shortcut while performing the action. For example, if I used the mouse to click the File menu in notepad and then clicked Save, I want something to tell me "HEY! You're doing it wrong! Try Ctrl-S next time."

Whether this is handled at the OS level or on an application by application basis, the interface would need to be spot on to keep people from deleting the damned thing, but I would love to see this sort of functionality integrated into more of the things I use on a daily basis.
Why did he wait this long?
"As his famed opponent Arthur Wellesley (Wellington) said after defeating Napoleon the final time: "They came on in the same old way and we defeated them in the same old way.""

Cute, except that Waterloo was Wellington's one and only victory over Bonaparte. It was the only time they met on the battle field, and even then, Michel Ney made most of the tactical decisions (and mistakes) on that day.

Remembering Napoleon for Waterloo rather than Austerlitz, Ulm and Jena would be like remembering Hannibal for Zama. The fact that his name has become synonymous with his unremarkable defeat on that day, and that Wellington, a reactionary, anti-democratic, ennobled aristocrat, is somehow looked upon with favor in this country (America), even more so than his adversary who was an ally of America, who doubled the size of our country with the Louisiana Purchase and who actually planned on settling here after his second abdication, is a testament to the lasting power of the British anti-Bonapartist propaganda industry. More books were written about Napoleon in the 19th century than about any other man, living or dead, and most English languages books on him were written by Brits, and most of those books vilified him as the Corsican Ogre, the Great Usurper and so on. Were it not for this cottage industry that sprang up during the Napoleonic Era and lingered long after, most Americans would probably still have a favorable view of Napoleon as they did during his lifetime.
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AKA the Denial of Democracy attack.
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Half the article seemed to be about external monitors and hard drives... uh, hello! This is not supposed to replace your desktop people!
1) Signing on bonus. That 75,000 miles extra reward miles is a "one-off" for spending a certain amount at the start of the card. There is a cost of customer acquisition (CCA) for a credit card member and presumably some of the CCA is factored into the bonus. The 'hack' is to constantly apply, use, bin and then reapply for cards to maximize the bonus.

2) $1000 in airline fare isn't actually a $1000 liability to the airline, because that is the market price where as to them the cost price is going to be less... and as you suggest if they restrict it to a few seats per plane the cost price is even less.
Likely Objective-C. Small chance that it might be MacRuby.
Filing a lawsuit isn't always the first action, typically it's the last resort. There could have been negotiations and other attempts to come to a settlement before finally suing in court.
From what I can see on the presentation that he links to, there's nothing to warrant the 10x more productive claim. Perhaps he's just doing a bad job of explaining the secret sauce, but I mean really? Shit like:

bind("tip", xhtml,
"done_checkbox" ->
ajaxCheckbox(userStatus.equals(Full(TipUserStatus.done)), (b: Boolean) => {
val currentUser = User.currentUser.open_!
val evertodo = TipUserBind.find(By(TipUserBind.tipid, this),
By(TipUserBind.userid, currentUser)) match {
case Full(tub) => tub.delete_!; true
case _ => false
}

makes you 10x more productive? The spreadsheet is also just for JVM frameworks, although some of them are probably MVC too, it's hard to tell.

Also, you can really tell that both the parties involved come from heavy corporate backgrounds, with massive tables of features and rating them against each other. A scale of 0, 0.5, 1.0? And then the Lift guy switches to /11? Give me a break...
Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks
This is useless for 99% of the content creators out there. Only filmmakers/movie studios/or education use would benefit from this. People should realize that most online video content needs to be snack size (2-5 minutes MAX).

Audiences are too fickle to watch more than a few minutes of video. The average video is watched 2 minutes and then people taper off. They would rather consume more pieces of video (quantity) than more of a single video.

In the lean-back environment, this would be a different story.
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Funny... I got the message that I could upload longer videos, but the bullet points next to the upload button still say "Shorter than 15 minutes."
Awesome, this has to be karma.
No Nonsense Logging in C (and C++)
I heard you could do just about anything in emacs... but using it as a web framework?

Ok, now I just have to give emacs a try.
? I'm not sure I understand. Are talking about marketing the term for the general public, or in order to convince scientists to study them?

As for the scientists, I think they already have an interest in studying asteroids, as evidenced by this list of NASA missions involving asteroids:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.ht...

I really think this is more about organization than marketing.
Per the comments in the link, this story is almost one year old, and was first covered by Caroline McCarthy of CNET

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10424028-36.html
I wish more programming competitions followed the format of the ICFP. 72 hours, teams of a half dozen or so, solving an open-ended problem, often an optimization problem where an exact solution is NP-hard. You're judged by how well you do, not by whether you get the correct answer (which often isn't computationally feasible anyway).

That seems to most closely approximate real-world programming problems.
I think that there is an optimal number of rejections. Too few and you don't realize all the things that can go wrong with your business. Too many and it wears down on you. We had what I feel was too many, but then we finally raised a big seed round.
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This might be true but it doesn't mean that anyone could launch a missile by keying in 00000000. And if it is true, it just means that the Air Force resented having one of many of their layers of security defined by someone else.

By the way, my bike lock has the same code.