skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone is definitely taking that attitude. I bet on Goldman Sachs when this came up a while ago, describing their actions as 'Pump and Dump', but there's no reason their customers couldn't be doing the same. The problem is that we've then very clearly got the first two layers of a bubble pyramid, and the roadmap for the next crash becoming all the more clear.

Honestly, some days I do wonder if we wouldn't be better off as a society radically restricting the operation of the various investment markets. The current system seems almost designed to create financial instability through irrational exuberance, deliberate bubble creation and wild crashes while they work out how to build the next house of cards...
That's the beauty of his approach, in my opinion. He deploys the money in one shot, to many companies (portfolio theory says this reduces risk), and does so with little diligence. He may be pricing many angels out of this type of deal because they won't have this same appetite for risk as Yuri does. What he finds acceptable for risk is not what most angels would, thus he can price out the risk premium with the uncapped convert.
Facebook Launches ‘Startup Days’: Monthly Hacker Events For Platform Developers
Boulder's TechStars launches global alliance with startup accelerator programs
There's a new OpenGL output being developed for Processing in the latest 192 pre-release of Processing. It is very performant.
That barely begins to address the problems though. When you're writing formulas, you're writing in a small box with no syntax highlighting, no serious whitespace, and no comments. It almost seems like Excel's designers worked really hard to come up with a user interface that would make introducing errors trivial and noticing errors very hard.

And yeah, I understand that spreadsheets were never designed with the idea that people who would use them to enter long complex formulas or for purposes where defect detection would be really important, but that's how they're used in the real world.
Ah, yeah, I can see that. We're a group of 4 developers who started this project this past Friday so we're still hashing a lot of things out.

Hopefully we'll get the message across clearer the next time around, thanks for the notes. I'll keep them in mind when we get more attention in future.
Ah, great. I had a situation today where the when/then deferred would've simplified my code quite a bit. Now I just need to upgrade jQuery and clean up the quick hack I did in the place :-)

https://github.com/bergie/midgardmvc_ui_create/blob/master/s...
I would have bought one, if it worked as a phone as well. I barely use the phone, but I don't want to have to carry a separate phone with me. It could be a trifle thinner, but it just about fitted in my inside jacket pocket
I'm from Canada too and I simply think they are trying to take another buck from people's pocket.

Unfortunately for some of us with or without the regulation the situation is already "regulated", personally I pay about 65$ a month for 100GB of combined upload/download.

Bell, Videotron and Rogers already have limits for the Internet usage, what they are trying to do now is to force the small providers to impose limitations, basically they will kill the concurrence.

You will see a similar situation in the mobile phone offer ... huge prices versus Europe for e.g.
No More Stolen Beer.
I am a little skeeved out but the unattributed (and presumably unauthorized use of a free hacker webcomic for advertising purposes.
A huge percentage of the ads served on the self serve platform are affiliates promoting other dating sites.
> Broadly speaking, they're doing it wrong. The solution to a too-complicated tax code is to fix the incentives Congress has to make a complicated tax code

Controlling people's purse strings is a main source of congressional power. I don't see them giving much of that up any time soon...
Only this site or the whole slicehost block?

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=mattswanson.org
Google open sources its Mac deployment engine
So if you are willing to be anal enough to make sure things are always "in thier place" and have a few webcams to spare, you could have the webcams point at the food storage locations. This could do a large part of the inventory management automatically... at least have a "present/not present" bit for ingredients.
IANAL, but I suggest taking a look at this book:

Making It in the Music Business: The Business and Legal Guide for Songwriters and Performers.

http://books.google.com/books?id=r8rU60NzsDMC&pg=PA42...

I think in the end you will be sued if you use any non public domain music. You may be found innocent in court under fair use, parody, education or some other loophole but it won't be until after buying your lawyer a new boat.
Quora's Technology Examined
Yes, updates are critical, they need to work closely with the Android developers to get those updates out for all devices as quickly as possible, for about two years minimum. Main reason I got the nexus was because I know Google will push updates.
YAMMER helps turn the mayhem of the corporate world into return-on-investment unicorns and leveraged-employee-engagement butterflies.
We are a medium sized start-up that is battling several big enterprise software companies in this space. So yes, our target customers are in the enterprise space BUT we are turning this space upside down with our viral approach and how we build solutions for the user (which doesn’t include an army of salesmen). We are solving consumer type problems but also monetize like enterprise software. (i.e. real revenues with fewer users)

What's in it for you?:

-GOOD catered Lunch and Dinner daily

-Fancy Apple Hardware of your choice (you can have a PC if you REALLY want one)

-Amazing group of smart engineers (sounds cliche, but we really do have smart people here :D )

-Ability to have influence without authority.

-Working with technologies like Scala, Rails, and advanced JavaScript

-Wine and Whiskey Connoisseurs onsite at your disposal

-Our CEO is David Sacks, and yes, he is responsible for making the movie, "Thank You for Smoking".

-Top of the market Start-up Compensation (we pay to play)

Check us out! https://www.yammer.com/about/jobs
Yeah, I agree it's unbelievable stupid. that was meant as a tongue in cheek statement, hence the 'yeah, I know' at the end.

OKCupid used to use tokens fwiw.
What you need to know about Facebook's Instant Personalization
I don't feel like funding is the main problem I face. If I really felt my business was a 100% winner, I could raise that cash. What YC and other accelerators/incubators do that I see is most helpful is help slash down the product into something that is marketable. I have a tendency to come up with "cool" ideas, but lately (as a part of an incubator) I've seen that the least sexy ideas are the ones that have an accessible market. That perspective is the real value from accelerators.
What is Yahoo! Combinator?
Good luck with Swaptitude, it definitely appears to fill a need...

I'm sorry to hear about the TicketStumbler situation; out of curiosity, did you consider selling before shutting down? If so, it would be interesting to hear why you chose to shelve it instead.
Ok, it was working. Getting crushed even further. Maybe it will work again in a few?
I believe that if you spend more than 5 seconds thinking about something like this then you are starting off on the wrong foot. Flip a coin and then move on to more important stuff.
Porn Industry Follows in RIAA’s Footsteps with Lawsuits
Actually people have. Check out http://openhatch.org
http://letspocket.com - my first app, MVP stage. I posted in on HN 2 weeks ago and got an amazing response with hundreds of signups and thousands of hits. Now I'm working on a premium version so I can monetize and start marketing heavily, hopefully within a couple weeks. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Jumpstart Bundle
I work for the Entrepreneurship department at my school (clarku.edu) and am putting together a software bundle with apps that will help students get their businesses off the ground. We will make these bundles available to student teams that are ready to launch.

I already have 5 free accounts to Less Accounting and am looking for other useful apps. If any of you would like to donate 5 free accounts to your app please let me know. I will also put you down as a sponsor at our next big event in march and your logo will be featured on all the flyers and posters.

It would be great if some of you could help out.

Thanks, guys!

contact: bweidlich at clarku.edu
Scientists convert skin cells to beating heart cells
Actually his most recent post was, "@SweetOwl proxy servers"

http://twitter.com/ghonim
Intel’s billion-dollar mistake: Why chip flaws are so hard to fix
the posting really doesn't have much meat. pretty vague, not that much specific information. i was hoping for something a little more in depth...

does this blog remind anyone else of one of those "how to make money fast at home" advertising thingies you see in pop ups?
Your argument in #2 seems to imply the potential for a different quality (higher in some dimension of quality) of candidate to now apply to YC. Assuming that's true, it's strictly positive for YC.

I suspect that the profile of applications that YC gets are 1-3% "We should definitely interview this team" (bucket 1), 75% "these are quick rejections for one (or many) reasons" (bucket 3) and 20-25% that need a deeper read to handle (bucket 2). Even if applications tripled (which I also doubt), a small number of the "extra" applications will fall into the first bucket (and may well be a consequence of #2 above), which may crowd out a few of the applicants in the second bucket who may have gotten interviews and ultimately selected but will now miss the interview cut. Loss for them surely, and maybe a small loss for YC, but one that is being more than offset by the increase in applicants from the first bucket.

I think the Start Fund announcement is certainly damaging to the other "competing" programs as it makes it slightly more likely that a "bucket 1" team will apply to YC rather than TechStars et al, probably has harmed other angel investors' prospects slightly, but in the short term is an enormous win for YC and the startups that best fit the YC "mold" (to the extent that there is one).

But I'm still a little confused by the collective hand-wringing that's going on in the last 72 hours. It's not like the Start Fund has cornered the market here. Anyone else could come along and say they'll match or could do it with Tech Stars or any of a number of other responses. I think that Yuri is being especially bold (some would read as reckless) and that's naturally going to cause some disruption. I don't view that as bad, unless my own application to YC S11 is a "bucket 2" application that is now de-selected for interviewing, an outcome that I view as a quite realistic possibility, but even then I have to say that it caused YC to select for "better" applicants, and I need to dust myself off, pull on my big boy pants and get back to working on it.
What's new in Google Docs?
4chan Founder Unleashes Canvas On The World
Motorola to introduces first Android CDMA handset; MILESTONETM XT800
PiCloud (San Francisco, CA) is hiring engineers, marketers, and salespeople.
http://www.picloud.com/jobs/

We're developing a cloud computing platform for general computation. Engineers work with a variety programming languages (python, c/c++, java), distributed systems, and data stores.

We're a growing seed stage firm, so you'd be playing a large role in our company. Unfortunately, remote is not a possibility.
After hearing about Samsung's reluctance to update Android

FTFY. They've got a bad track record with keeping Android updated regardless of model. The Galaxy line isn't their first.
I'll hopefully be moving to SF at the end of the year :)
You're looking at it from the wrong side. 1.4% of all white men marry an Asian woman (I'm ignoring the minute amount of gay marriages and marriages to non-Americans). However, a stunning 18.8% of all Asian women marry a white male. Only roughly 7.5% of all white males could possibly marry an Asian woman. In that light, 1.4% is quite a lot.
A buddy of mine is hiring PHP/Drupal folks in Maryland:

el http://www.unleashed-technologies.com/about-us/resumes/mid-l...

http://www.unleashed-technologies.com/about-us/resumes/devel...
Study on Sharing and Social Value as the New Currency
I got a notification from my antivirus program about a malware. I am not sure what it said exactly though because I pressed "Deny Access" quickly. So, beware.
I'd like to apply as a new grad (I'm graduating in May), do you have time to chat via email or phone so we could talk about which position would be best, or should I just apply to one and see what happens?
An Open Letter To All Companies Who Grew Revenue By 200% Last Year
jQuery 1.5 released
Restraining order against George Hotz, PS3 hacker, granted
"Intel is staffed and run by idiots."
I hope he encrypted his disks before he published the keys.
As someone who lives in an area where forced busing still occurs, the result is actually quite different. The middle class students are sent to private schools, charter schools, homeschooled, or the families move away altogether. If they go to the public schools, they can't learn because of the disruptive students who are bused in. The parents resist all efforts to raise the property tax base because their children don't attend public schools anymore, and so why should they pay for them? And so the schools lose even more money.
Samsung Moment owner here, forever stuck on 2.1. I also steer people away from Samsung.
thanks, things are good now
Leonidas (Tampere, Finland) is looking for passionate programmers. No remote unless you convince us otherwise.

We are serial entrepreneurs for hire. A client gives us one week and a vision, and we try to create as much magnificence as we can in that time. And then if it's feasible and the client wants us to, we take it all the way to a finished product.

http://leonidasoy.fi/
I wonder whether there’d be any good way to encourage people to use more inspection-friendly code, e.g. in R, Matlab or even better Python/numpy/scipy. I wish that science journals would accept/encourage source code appendices to articles or at least prominent links to online source code, and that such code, ideally clearly organized and commented, were as expected for “serious” articles as bibliographies are currently.

Even many papers in computer sciencey topics leave out critical implementation steps in describing algorithms and approaches; even a mediocre implementation makes the authors assumptions’ and precise meanings much more explicit. Often (though not always) code is as readable or more readable than mathematical formulae.
Netflix has many open positions in Los Gatos, CA.

http://www.netflix.com/Jobs

HTML5, javascript, iOS, Android, Silverlight, Security Architect, J2EE, QA and more. See the jobs page for the full list and hit the link to apply.

There is a startup-driven culture at Netflix that rewards risk-taking and high performance. It's a great place to push the bleeding edge, whether you build client software (lots of A/B behavioral testing) or server software (as one of the larger users of AWS, we're breaking new ground all the time). Come help invent the future of movie and TV watching.
this used to describe me, but my brother-in-law turned me on to doing all of my cooking on one day of the week, and freezing everything. this has several advantages (and one major disadvantage):

cons:

* you lose pretty much an entire day cooking

pros:

* don't have to cook when i get home from work
* everything i eat now is a real meal,
(including bag lunches for work, i just
grab something out of the freezer, and by the
time lunch time roles around, it's thawed and ready to go)
* i'm wasting a lot less food/money, because the
ingredients get used almost as soon as i buy them,
and the food goes straight into the freezer instead
of lingering in the fridge
* i'm (slowly) learning to really cook
We hire smart people who get the job done. Yeah, we use a lot of Java. And RoR. And Hadoop, Cassandra, etc. We use AWS and we run a DC stuffed with custom-configured servers. In general, the knowledge of a specific technology/language/framework we already use can be helpful, but not a requirement. Chances are, you don't know everything you need to know to do this job. So willingness and ability to learn is a requirement.
I only started cooking a few months ago, and discovered the secret to delicious daily meals:
1) a piece of meat (steak, salmon, etc.)
2) a handful of veggies (asparagus, broccoli, green beans)
3) sea salt + pepper
4) a frying pan

You can get a fair number of unique combinations out of that, and it only takes 10 minutes to get your meal cooked (6 minutes for the veggies, 4 for the meat).

Maybe I'll get bored of it eventually, but for now, I'm shocked-and-awe'd that I can so simply make food that tastes so damn good in my mouth.
Pet peeve: eventual consistency isn't for scalability and performance, it's for availability. In a well designed system, the whole debate only matters during in a failure condition: a strongly consistent system gives up availability upon a certain kind of failure, an eventually consistent system gives up consistency upon a certain kind of failure.

There are strongly consistent scalable "NoSQL" systems e.g., BigTable. Megastore even provides complex distributed cross row transactions.

In a well tuned system, loss of availability (in a failure scenario) could be minimize to seconds. What this means for performance is that you have systems which encounter second-long latency spikes upon failures.

It also isn't a binary switch:

1) Quorums can be used to achieve read-your-write consistency in the case of simple failures (loss of 1 node out of 3).

2) There's multiple kinds of relaxed consistency models. One of them is serializable consistency: you may get a stale read, but the the order of reads is the same as the order of writes. This is used by PNUTs and can be achieved by serializing the writes through a single master. This means that there's (again, for a short time period) loss of write availability in a failure, but there's no loss of read availability.

3) Paxos/multi-Paxos can be used to achieve atomic writes (all available nodes receive the write) while withstanding simple failures (similar to quorum protocols... and I believe multi-Paxos uses quorum protocols under the cover to improve liveness over "raw" Paxos). This is at the cost of higher latency (and complexity). [Edit: In this case, you're dealing with full-blown strong consistency, but with -- at the cost of latency -- the ability to tolerate certain kinds of simple failures/trivial partitions]

Clustrix looks interesting, but it looks like it addresses the scalability and performance issues with RDBMS, but not the availability feature. If an RDBMS were to drop the "A" and "I" in ACID (C in "ACID" means serializable view of the execution, which is not the same as the C in "CAP": the latter means all nodes in a cluster agreeing upon what the data is which isn't required for the former), it would be possible to build a highly available, low latency RDBMS; but it would also not be as useful without atomic and isolated cross row transactions.

[Disclaimer: I work on a Dynamo-style database, but fond of PNUTs as an architecture (more difficult to implement, but IMO a better fit for plurality of web applications) and generally fascinated and interested in distributed systems, databases and systems programming in general]
The reason is it is the second best. It doesn't solve the problems the ipad solves any better.

If it tried to solve only slightly different problems, it could still have a good market share even if it wasn't as famous as the ipad.
2007 is over three years ago.
This just screams link bait and spam.

Just look at the domain: "howtohft.blogspot.com".

1) Post fake "how I built X startup to do X" post, add juicy terms like "bootstrapped" and "college".

2) Post on HN

3) ????

4) Profit.
Someone posted to me about this on twitter...looking more into it, it's a false positive. You can check at http://onlinelinkscan.com.
This article is little more than an ad for the "Cybracorp" company.

Even if we discount the advertising properties of the article, it's just a "Gee, Whiz!" popularizing-science type of article. Every new technology has an upside and only an upside! Gee Whiz!

What about the bad effects of RFID'ing all beer kegs? There's bound to be some. Maybe it would decrease the market by letting the cops know where keggers are being held, and who's at the kegger. Maybe the economics of kegs, liquor stores and brewers aren't as simplistic as described, and the current arrangemet actually makes sense.
Submitted lots of times. Here are a few:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156163

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157322

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2159550

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161867

It appears http://searchyc.com is broken. That's a shame - the search link at the bottom of the page is complete crap, and SearchYC was brilliant. It appears to have been broken for a few days now - I sure hope it gets fixed soon. 8-(
I will tell you the secret to bananas: A banana muffin recipe.

Once bananas are overripe you can still make muffins from them. Once they are really quite overripe, you can put them in the fridge for several more days, and then you can still make muffins from them. I haven't yet reached the point where I took the overripe bananas, peeled and crushed them, put the crushed banana in containers and froze them, then thawed them two weeks later and made muffins from them... but I bet that would work.

Once the muffins are made, they freeze nicely. Thaw them on a plate in the microwave: about 45 seconds per muffin at about power level 40%.

The more general secret to small-batch cooking is: Aim to use the freezer. (For example: I have friends who apparently went through decades of life without realizing that bread freezes pretty well -- fresh is better but frozen is not bad. Don't ever let your bread grow stale unless you have the desire to make croutons.)
It's still not worth it at that price, IMO. The Tab was ahead of it's time, and now that its time is here it's behind. Wait for a real Honeycomb tablet; you'll be so upset if you don't.
Wow, thanks so much for the insight. Are you guys from Brighton then? am based in Bournemouth.

I was looking at n.america / Asia and aus, the application to yc depends on my ability to stop procrastinating and actually get something ready!.
Not exactly sure how the title relates to the questions asked in your post, but this pretty much explains everything you need to know about YC: http://ycombinator.com/about.html

Travel expenses for the YC interviews are reimbursed up to $600/team. If you are accepted, you are expected to make your own living arrangements and cover all of your living expenses (rent, bills, food, etc) for the 3-month stint in CA, though this is typically what the YC seed money is for.
Is Netflix hiring straight out of college? The only "New College Grad" position on the page is for designers. I'd love to work at Netflix - my email is kev@inburke.com
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Totally agree, hopefully MS will get on the ball one day and improve the editing features. Limited syntax highlighting and an awkward commenting tool are available, but mostly unusable.

Google Spreadsheets is catching up fast (and has even surpassed Excel in quite a few areas), I'm hoping that this motivates MS to make more improvements.
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