skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that the points have only been talked about in terms of the money they can cost you as a direct affect....The fact that they can make you lose your right to drive a car, and the myriad costs that carries, has been completely ignored.
I don't know about the US but in the UK it does matter. If you have a university which takes students with A* average grades and a university with D average grades, they don't teach the same syllabus. It just doesn't make sense, universities have to teach a syllabus that matches the ability of it's student body.

There's also significant difference in employability by university (statistically speaking).
Oops. Thanks for that correction. Hadn't seen that figure quoted anywhere in relation to their purchase of the domain before.
I think there's something much simpler going on. If YC's track record has been pretty good (or at least, better than average), then Yuri Milner now has a pre-vetted list of companies in which to invest, without having to do any research at all. The simplicity of the strategy is actually pretty brilliant.
I meant that it appears to be random (or even anti-intuitively correlated) if you look at one factor only: I believe you need both genetics and environment.

The anti-intuitive thing is what others have said: migrants are bolder (entrepeneurish) or they have some requested talent.
"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."
– Steve Jobs in WIRED magazine, February 1996
When I first started using git via GitHub, I worried that I was making too many small commits. Ofc it seems like there is a fine line between many, small needless commits, and effective micro commits. Over time I've tried more and more to tell a story, as you say. I think it's a good technique and ultimately a lot more informative than one, big commit.
http://bubblemark.com/flex.htm
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Most ICE's will run on pretty much anything as long as you nail stoichiometry and it burns at approximately the same speed as the hydrocarbon chains found in gasoline. It's actually pretty trivial to retrofit a normal car to run on liquid propane or natural gas. You can even run them directly on hydrogen gas, but pure hydrogen's far too volatile to be dragging around in a passenger vehicle. Interested to see where it's going.
It certainly functions.
It would make me feel constantly judged, arbitrarily even (because how would you ensure level-headed tagging?). It'd be as bad as downvoting, which is deliberately not possible on HN (with few exceptions).
Yes. The phrase "at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford" also appears twice in this 256-word article. The large gap between two concepts - "high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying" and "$1.50/gallon gasoline" with no attempt to explain how you might get from one to the other - increases my skepticism.
It looks to me like it is a more efficient/convenient fuel tank.

The article says "our technology is based on materials called complex hydrides that contain hydrogen. When encapsulated using our unique patented process, they are safer to handle than regular gasoline." It also says "micro-beads".

That implies they have a new metal hydride material/manufacturing processes that stores hydrogen. IC engines can burn hydrogen "without modification" (replace the fuel injector-based system with a gaseous carburetor system).

Being able to store hydrogen compactly, safely, and efficiently would be a big breakthrough. Having said that, hydrogen is an energy storage method more than an energy source - you have to create hydrogen using some other energy source, e.g. solar, wind, or (currently most commonly) from natural gas (not quite as "green").

Ref:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydride

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
Which television news network in the US has had better coverage of the Egypt protests than Al Jazeera? I mean, MSNBC and CNN are using the Al Jazeera feed for their coverage in some cases....
While I don't have any intelligent thing to say about Moonlight and Netflix, I did want to point out that Netflix streams to a ton of disparate hardware (and OSes, including "normal" ones such as OSX). Thus, I get the impression this is a legal problem more than a technical one.
I'm not in the AV industry, but as someone involved in malware cleanups I can tell you that having access to the source code makes it slightly easier to go through the code base in order to identify ways of getting around the AV.

It's also possible to do some source code analysis to identify vulnerabilities in the product that might not be otherwise fairly easily exposed.

The virus signature database is pretty much worthless for all but the lowest hanging of fruit. There are plenty of tricks botmasters use to get around signatures, and AV firms are moving (or have moved) to more behavioural characteristics to detect malicious code. It guess it all depends whether that's in the updates or in the code base.
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But then you don't have a car when you land
What a fascinating entry. I absolutely would not want to debug over IRC, and definitely not using gdb. That is some mad skills.

Up one level, BTW, is a discussion about his 20% project at Google working with (or against) clang. Also insightful reading.
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They're guidelines.

In the case of OS X laptops, they're almost uniformly used as single-user machines. This just takes the hassle of having to sudo to do it.

There are a few other reasons they specifically opted for /usr/local instead of other paths here: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation
I looked back at the code and you're right so I patched it up.

Thanks!

Anyone wanting to see what I was doing wrong can go to the link below
https://github.com/thomasdavis/thomasdavis.github.com/blob/8...
P.S This is in no way an attack on Rails or the wonderful community. I my self contribute to Rails and have found these problems a hindrance to get more developers to participate. Hence the idea for starting the newsletter.

Just wanted to clear that up since I didn't get that into the article. :)
Yeah, that ought to be in the controller or provided in a helper method outside the model.
That sounds like a fun NLP project. But given the less than stellar performance I've seen in those types of programs you'd probably either need to accept a lot of false positives or a lot of false negatives. Except for the clear "u r a fag!!!!!!!!!!" cases.
Random thoughts from my experience:

1) Doing a fifth year Masters at the same University is a waste. It is better to go to a different school. You get to meet new people, get exposed to different perspectives, and perhaps even live in a different part of the country.

2) If you are not rich and do not get into a top-10 school, taking on a 100K in debt for college is a bad idea.

3) Getting into a top-10 school is hard. If someone suggests the "transfer after 2-years" option, ask them for stats. Be aware of "self-selection" in that people who bother applying will likely have solid stats to begin with.

4) The key benefits of a top-10 school are networking/peers and the school's selectivity. When it comes to knowledge, classes are useless IMHO. You can get more complete information in books. If you are truly stuck with a concept, you can hop on a bus to the local elite school and convince a grad student or professor to explain something to you. Oh .. and don't forget about all those lectures online :-)

5) Not having a lot of school-related debt makes it less stressful to become a young entrepreneur.

6) If you did a solid but cheap undergrad program, doing a course-based Masters at a top school might be worth it.

7) If you want to go into academia, school matters. Top-20 is okay for undergrad. Top-10 (general or field specific) for grad is a must.
Hey That Chinese soldier looks just like Ultraman
They don't endorse the Kurdish nationalistic sentiment, but that doesn't make them biased against the Kurds. For instance, they don't portray Kurds as bad guys.

You are right though, they are partisan. They're biased towards the Palestinian cause, for example. But they still give all sides a chance to voice their views.
Not true, it's perfectly legal to distinguish candidates by university. It's not a protected category.

(I'm not a lawyer; but I have had training in the legal aspects of hiring and I run a job board)
My impression as an american is that grades mean more in UK schools than they do in the US where grade inflation has reached almost comical levels.
This is how capitalism works. As oil's price rises, the expected return to investing in alternatives increases. That's what drives research ultimately, not "blindfolds". If you think oil is running out faster than its price warrants (ie you think serious work on alternatives isn't being done), you're free to buy oil futures, since it seems you think oil doesn't have its future scarcity priced in sufficiently today.
Or a link to a complete sitemap.
That describes my experience perfectly!
Creating hydrogen has always been an energy intensive task. It is impractical to make it from electrolysis and is now usually made from natural gas. Burning it may not create carbon but making it usually does. Pure hydrogen will infiltrate most metal making it brittle and cause premature engine failure it is in contact. Hydrogen is not safe long term for engines that have not been redesigned for it.
The price is without a reference I doubt any ligitamate company would claim it as it would be trivial to shoot down.
The Mail is as far to the right as the Graun is to the left, the Torygraph is centre-right. Not to mention that the Graun is s tabloid now...
I was assuming po meant some automatic system. If you wanted to use humans maybe you could have moderators do it.

I agree that it'd be dangerous to let anyone tag. People on YouTube usually mark anything they disagree with as spam. Hopefully it wouldn't be the same here though.

After reading your comment I realized I've seen downvoted comments but I can't downvote. Is there a karma requirement?
Use breeder reactors and we'll have all the energy we need. Breeders with integral fuel cycles have little proliferation risk, fairly short-lived nuclear waste in small quantities, and extremely good passive safety. They can be fueled by the waste from light-water plants, and there's enough of that sitting around to last us a couple centuries. We had one working in the 90s and Clinton shut it down. (Source: Prescription for the Planet by Tom Blees)
As long as you can't leave this contract (with your property), it's not a voluntary contract.
With the same logic you can justify slavery.
Like most things, it depends.

If you want to program in the industry, the name on your degree doesn't help you much. I couldn't justify paying for the big-name private university that accepted me, so I got a BS in CS from The College of New Jersey, and have since been fortunate enough to work at Google. I also paid off my student loans within 10 months of graduation. If you go this route, and do extra work on the side, you might get the same education you could at a top university. But you will have no help. A difference I didn't appreciate when I was 17 is the support structure a big-name university provides. They already have contacts everywhere, plus you're more likely to be surrounded with self-starters and high-energy workers. If you need help, you might get it.

But if you want to work at a top research university, you might want to get the biggest name on your degree you can. I know a few PhDs who complain that degrees flow downhill - they feel they must get jobs in the industry, since they have degrees from second-tier schools. When they came to the USA, they viewed an economically-priced degree as the better deal. But there is a glut of people with degrees from top universities who are looking for research positions, so they believe theirs don't come up for consideration.
I definitely got the feeling its another of those pie-in-the-sky research projects we hear about and wonder a decade later what ever became of them.

Sure the gas could cost a dollar-fifty but its $500/oz right now and it assumes limitless free hydrogen to encapsulate in our nano-thingees. But hey it could happen right?

Forgive me my cynical skepticism, but call me when its at the gas pump.
Deliberately proposing bad solutions sounds fun, but wow could that backfire. Applied to software projects, the "bad" version will get the go-ahead, and we'll be stuck maintaining it forever.

You could argue that this is already happening, but the difference is I think the people proposing bad solutions are usually not aware their ideas are bad. I'm sure I've been guilty of proposing and implementing bad ideas in software myself.
Well, aside from the social acceptability of using the word "nigger" to denote oppressed people in general, I really don't see student-faculty relationships (at the university level) nearly as bad as this article portrays.
I'm curious. There's a John Lennon/Yoko Ono song called "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" from the early 70s.

Was that comparison in common use at the time? I can't find any references elsewhere, but it seems like a strange coincidence otherwise.
http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html and apparently legal as well.
FWIW, Microsoft provides a Silverlight runtime for OSX[1]; for embedded streaming I assume they hand out crypto certificates on a case-by-case basis. So yeah, pretty sure it's a legal thing.

[1] although being located outside the US, I can only assume that this is what is used.
China is not really a communist country as originally envisioned. Certainly, there are large disparities in income between the party elite/entrepreneurs and some random farmer.
Late reply, but from my perspective, money is a wealth object. (so are information, knowledge, personal network, name value, skills, and etceterum). wealth is about ability to change the world around you. Money's certianly easier to transfer around, as it is a medium of exchange, but information is the wealth of facebook. The money's just what it can easiest get in exchange. (it could ask for lumber, or any other commodity or service....)

That's a core point I try to raise in a lot of these discussions; that money isn't anything but something to exchange for -other- things.

The point of owning money is to exchange it for something...and outside of an equity market discussion, one shouldn't really look to have more than they need in the slimmest instance...but that becomes difficult.
Try "The Knack", written by Norm Brodsky and narrated by Sean Pratt. I've listened to a ton of audio books and he is one of the best. The book is really good too.

Here is some of the work Sean's done: http://www.audible.com/search/ref=sr_nsrch_lnk_1?searchNarra...
On the beliefs of econs
I thought the founder of RenRen was an American? Or at least a Chinese in America.

It's not his fault that Mark did not make a serious effort at internationalization until recently.

You can't expect to start thinking about China 3-4 years after founding and expect the landscape there to be that same virginal ground as your home market. You need to be serious about it from year 1. Though of course that's not in the means of most companies... Maybe there's a startup idea here somewhere?

Groupon seems to be on top of it though, so good for them.
To some extent. But "news coverage" can, and is, also slanted by many networks to shape and promote specific behavior and knowledge amongst it's viewers, without them necessarily being aware of that. There is perhaps a deeper evolutionary reason for viewers to crave information of a certain color, but the producers also cleverly manipulate.

One could perhaps argue that "reporting" sucks in inverse proportion to it's objectivity, completeness, and emotional neutrality.
That's why in all Ayn Rand novels, the protagonist's problem isn't just the fact that the masses interfere with his projects and thwart his greatness - the problem is that they do this because they don't recognize him as superior.

I have no idea why so many people feel the need to comment on Ayn Rand without reading it.

If you read the Fountainhead to the end, you'd realize that Roark was completely happy toiling in anonymity, as long as his building was built properly.
1. Whatever marketing they do will also (somewhat) benefit you. That's good.

2. Decide how to position yourself. Will you be the cheapest? Will you provide the best support? Will you have better marketing? Will you have more features?

3. Don't worry too much about it. If you're in a growing market, they won't steal many customers, instead they'll help you grow your market.

4. Time to really talk to your users and find out what really matters to them. Probably, it's not more features, but something else. Or perhaps 1 feature that's hard to do. Then focus on that, ignore all the rest.

5. Most likely, you don't want to get into a feature war.

6. Brand yourselves as "the first". Put that on your homepage, on all your branding and marketing. "The first". They can never compete with that, except by saying "we're the second". When you talk to the press, make sure to mention you're "the first". The first always sounds better than the second.
The terms are only worse in the beginning, the YC organizers do not have a $1B fund to lead on A, B, C rounds and beyond. Because of the ability to double down on the winners the terms may actually be better than what the YC team gets.
Gasoline is an energy storage method.
DH0, upvoted to 5 (while my comments are 0 and -1):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2138625

This was my first day. I stuck around for a day or two, then I just logged out and stopped participating. Just use this as a site to find links, and when you're not logged in there's no incentive to go see what people said in reply to you, and no focus on karma score or anything. I don't know if the site requires a certain level of karma to submit new items, but I don't really feel like submitting things here when I don't feel like they'll get a fair shake. (There were good discussions on some of my other comments, but another one where it became clear that I no real discussion was possible because of ideology combined with the "fucking idiot" comment were enough to have me stop participating.

This is just FYI. I'd love for there to be a place to have good discussions with people. I don't know how to make HN that place, and so I'm just going to use it as a source of articles to read.

I think all news sites that allow downvoting end up operating as a sort of "smear the queer" system for punishing people who have a minority viewpoint, without regard to how well they articulate it or even what they are actually saying (in some cases.)

Edit: Yes this topic got me to log in, and I'll be logging out now. I don't really want to debate the topic that I got attacked over, as my original comment was actually trying to defend someone else's perspective. Please whether you agree with me or not, take this as "market feedback" of what a new user experienced, and why I'm not participating. Maybe I have thin skin in your opinion, that's fine. Maybe I'm way too wordy to participate on a site like this! That's fine too.
To me as a someone hiring, the "big name" part doesn't matter, but the school itself does. The curriculums are just not the same everywhere. I worked in a computer lab of an "online university" at the same time I was getting my Comp Sci degree at a large state school, and was shocked to see that Juniors in the online university had projects where they had to write a Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion app in Java (this was more basic then my freshman level comp sci!).

That said, you shouldn't just limit to Harvard, CMU etc... There is a very small four year school near us that I've seen crank out extremely smart Comp sci people, who have learned better fundamentals then people I know from CMU.
Whoopsie. I just remembered that the YC application actually does ask for university, GPA, and major. I won't speak for pg and the gang, but I strongly suspect that these exhibit an exponential decay in saliency the longer you have been out of school.

(i.e. if you're still in school, maybe getting good grades at a good school is a useful proxy for future ability to do meaningful stuff, but if you have been out of school for seven years, having done meaningful stuff is a much better proxy for future ability to do meaningful stuff.)
The average human still does so. We, the wealthy, get a lot of our wealth (such as food) from those other people.
I should also say school only matters for people with < 3 years of work experience. After that I find the experience itself much more important.
I've seen this in action. I think if people would just be in the habit of saying "I believe X leads to Y" that would be sufficient, and doesn't require being too formal. But I think that habit is way above the level of discourse in America, where, near as I can tell ideologies and social news sites reinforce a partisan or "if you're not one of us you're not worth respecting" attitude.
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Also, now that you have competition, congrats, it's a movement and you can reach out to the press. Plan and start a press campaign.

1. Prepare the story for them. The story is not "we're a startup". It's not "we have features". It's not "".

2. The story is: "Artists are selling things online! Startups are letting them."

3. Prepare a story pack for the press. Include contacts of artists (that like your product) that they can talk to, photos, even mention your competitors. Also make sure you mention you are the first.

4. Now talk to all the press (also niche press), and answer your phone immediately when they call.

They'll write stories. They'll talk to artists (that you preseleced to be the ones that use your product). They'll print photos. They'll mention you are "the first startup that does this."

Awesome. Growth time. If and when you do get press, follow up with a marketing campaign if you have money to spend on that. But only after you get press/buzz.
Gasoline is already stored energy.
Being impartial means that everybody hates your guts equally.
You mistake the "low end" and "simplicity" for value and price.

If your product is very simple but solves a big problem, you provide a lot of value and therefore can ask for a lot of money.

Amount of features != price. Value = price.

Search for the one or two features that offer a LOT of value, then charge a lot of money, and forget all the other features.

Also, don't charge 49$/m. If they pay 49$, they'll pay 79$ or 99$, plus you have more money to acquire customers.
The most convincing form of disagreement is refutation.

The only "problem" is that it may be "objectively" convincing, but it rarely convinces the person who's opinion/belief you refute, especially if there are deep emotional or irrational underpinnings, e.g. religion/fear/indoctrination, etc.
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Right. They are also taking turns at being anti-Sudanese, anti-Iranian, anti-Indian and anti-US. Just pick your preference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC
The global scope thing is not entierly true, you can use closures to minimize the global scope usage.

The problem is not that bad:
- on the server side, always sanitize user input
- only put script tags from places you trust