skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the comments here and the actual website is devoid of any advice you'd actually find valuable if you were interested in applying to these kinds of programmes.

Here are my two cents on what to look for (I don't know the answers)

* Who are the partners behind the fund, what have they done in the past (pre-investor) and what is their core skill (tech, product, marketing, sales, operations)

* Who have you previously invested in, and where are they now?

* Who are the limited partners of the fund - did any VCs/rockstars/partners invest?

* Why are you superior to Y Combinator? Startup accelerators are very popular now. They generally have the same mentors, the same deal terms, the same investors come demo day, the same "industry connections", whats your USP? (some good answers here might be specific domain knowledge of partners, a strong alumni, and so on)

I am always bullish when sites list such an array of mentors because being a mentor is generally high upside (fame/feel good/networking/karma) and very little downside - no skin in the game, as it were.

A buddy of mine once told me that equity was "quick to give away, impossible to reclaim" - you're giving these guys a significant % of your company, be sure they're good - and there is nothing wrong in applying for dumb money. Just don't tell them that.
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People keep bringing up Linus' C++ in git rant, and I don't understand why it is used as an example, as it contains no real substantive reasons as to why to dislike it.

There is no real argument made one way or another. If we look at the linked article there are real arguments as to why people don't like C++. Templates, multiple inheritance, and a whole other range of stuff. All Linus is yelling is "I hate C++, I hate STL, them Boost guys aren't worth anything" with absolutely no reasoning what so ever.

As a project leader it is okay for him to disagree about using C++ within his source code base, and within context it is a perfectly valid email, but to use as an example as to why C++ is bad, it is a very bad email to quote.
In the case of Deep Blue the movement of the pieces isn't pertinent to the game - if human/robot assistants moved all pieces for both players it wouldn't alter the result [except possibly in some very edge cases].

For IBM Watson playing Jeopardy against humans the buzzer reaction time is exceedingly important. The buzzer is an integral, possibly even central, part of the game.
This American Life claims to have found original Coke recipe
Yeah; it's sending back text/plain...

http://httpstat.us/404

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx/0.7.67
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:13:09 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
X-Varnish: 651017685
Age: 0
Via: 1.1 varnish
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Another avenue is to find mailing list and google groups for either the technology you're using or the business that you're in.

For example there is a jobs.perl.org for finding perl developers.

Also there seem to be tech job listing service associated with sites that developers may frequent like stack overflow
(http://careers.stackoverflow.com/) and TechCrunch (http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/). I just saw a job advertised in my city while visiting stack overflow.

Good luck,
C

PS I'm a developer in Canada that works from home and I know of a number of developers that also work form home (or are capable of doing so). If you let me know what you're working maybe I can help.
Folks might accuse you of NIH, but the quality of outside libraries is variable, suitable for a prototype but for shipping code you need control of ALL of it.
I'm pretty pro-filesharing (whatever that means) but I just don't understand what the big deal about IP addresses is... Would someone mind explaining it to me?

Fingerprints aren't people either, but they can help build a case against a murderer/whatever. What's the issue with "This IP did this, the ISP says you had that IP, it's you or someone related to you that did this Q.E.D."?
Springboard review by profquail (and agmiklas)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2123670

Some previous discussion about Springboard
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921166
I would A/B test "Free Trial" vs. "Sign up now for a Free Trial". Also, forcing people to enter a CC number before their Free Trial probably reduces your signups significantly.
He might have had keep-alives enabled. Apache + keep-alives + slow clients is a recipe for disaster. Seems everyone learns this the hard way. I learned it the hard way in 1998 when the Starr Report was released and my web farm was running Apache on Ultra 2's.

patio11 learned it the hard way recently too http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/19/running-apache-on-a-memo...

Amusingly, patio11's "Memory-Constrained VPS" have the same amount of memory (512 MBs) as those Ultra 2's I mentioned (I think, they may have actually only has 256 MB at the time).
Ditto. Whenever a company hides pricing information, I assume the product is incredibly expensive, or that there's some kind of licensing model that involves a phone call and a salesperson. Considering that it's only $10/month, the pricing should really be more prominent.
Just went to look at it, looks interesting but I got a 400 error once when I visited this page http://www.dashboardtosuccess.com/how-the-dashboard-works.ht.... You might want to look into it.
because a lot of people use WIFI in their house, which a lot of people fail to secure...so for all you know someone else accessed it
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What's wrong with European venture capital?
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That makes a lot of sense. I hadn't thought of its past when the compiler wasn't as solid as it is now. I suppose I'm spoiled by the fact that a lot of that had already been completed by the time I started coding.
A lot of people who have written and maintain large C++ code bases will tell you straight up that they prefer C to C++.

Perhaps that's the problem right there. As someone who has written a lot of C++ for quite some time, the most nightmarish aspect tends to be working with antique codebases.

The way people program in it has changed drastically over the last ten or so years. It's possible to have a reasonably painless experience with modern C++ that is pretty much impossible with codebases with significant history.

A lot of that is because the compiler support simply wasn't mature enough, so people did what they had to do to ship. If all you're dealing with is old C++ code, it's extremely easy to find that you prefer coding in C rather than C++ (which is almost what that old code really is).
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I think you're selling to the wrong audience, your product is very very hard to sell. People will worry about stuff getting lost only after they lose it. The insurance industry spends a fortune in advertising to counter this problem, you're never going to be able to charge enough to make that a viable strategy for you.

What I recommend you do instead is actually sell your product to the insurance industry (perhaps as a white-label product) for their customers. It provides direct value to them as they can use it to reduce fraudulent claims and manage accounts more easily as well a providing a value-add for their service.
Ditto, only for Scheme in general (I used Chicken the last time around). I chose Racket this time for all the "batteries included" stuff.

I've never shipped anything written in Scheme, but my excursions into it have always left me a wiser programmer.
Re: This particular part of - there are three legal systems within the UK, England & Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland; though England & Wales* (where this was ruled) accounts for over 80% of the population and probably a greater proportion of businesses and contracts.

They also have a common enough history and basis that it's unlikely that rulings in Northern Ireland and Scotland would be substantially different.

* Wales now has it's own legislature so Welsh law may have minor differences in certain areas but this wouldn't be one of them as it's not an area the Welsh assembly have law making power over.
I wonder if they slowly move the bodies that have elliptical orbits.
"(great for GUIs, not so great for writing drivers)"

Probably the most succinct description of the relative strengths of Objective C and C++. Objective C for GUIs, C++ for drivers and embedded development.
There's a similar solar system where I grew up, too.
Scale is 1:1.
TidePowerd didn't give up any equity for Springboard money (it was the previous fund)
Hudson moves to Github
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most small businesses still use Excel and Access for their data. They consolidate their excel files from various sources like quickbooks, other spreadsheets. But if you are just starting, the only thing that matters is to measure the user count and number of sales.

It is only when you start spending for marketing, outsourcing etc you need to start keeping tab on your "profit margin","revenue" etc
Google's own Wave servers probably plugged in to BigTable and who knows what other proprietary stuff. So the source code probably wouldn't have been so useful anyway.
I understand your point. I posted it here and been around long enough to (mostly) understand how HN works. That may not be true of all the others involved in the programme.

I've linked to a couple reviews by previous participants. In this thread at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221229
Okay, all of these points are fair enough. I guess I didn't make it clear enough, but:

There's no language currently out there that covers as much ground as C++ and is anywhere near as good at it. C99 falls into a similar bucket as Go or Objective-C in covering a subset of cases where C++ is useful.
Also: http://nokiaplanx.com/
Misleading title. I expected to find a comparison of various webservers. Instead it looks like release notes from somebody's web framework.

Incidentally, the proposed HTML syntax in the 2nd half of the article is terrible. Developers have been closing HTML tags for 15 years now, to the point where we've associated little pyramids with correctness. All this syntax does is make all your code look broken all the time.
> the tools for C++ coding suck. Hard.

?? What's wrong with vim? (or emacs, or your flavour of choice)
Yeah but you know, and I know, that's a rubbish argument. Absolutely it could happen and that person obviously should bear no responsibility. But an IP address is enough to bring the argument to that point.

Pretty big leap to go from "Well MAYBE someone else used this IP over this persons MAYBE unsecured wireless" to "I guess we can't use the IP as evidence of anything" (Which is the gist, I guess?)

Don't get me wrong, I think we should draw-and-quarter the people filing these lawsuits -- I just have trouble seeing how an IP address is meaningless. Is IP address information still used in cases against spammers or crackers?
>So I had to steer him into categories full of what I called "semantic difficulty"--where the clues’ wordplay would trip him up.

This doesn't seem as useful as it's written here -- it's only useful under two cases: 1. Not all the clues are chosen before time runs out. 2. The money you gain here is wagered on a Daily Double, or the money Watson loses here is not able to be wagered on the Daily Double.

Contestants aren't able to make up categories, to create ones that would cause Watson trouble; they have to pick from the six on the board.
http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/chromium-rel-...
only.
Thanks. I was thinking about getting a Makerbot. I'll look into these others.
I thought that one of them was going away with D2?
On our family visit to Rome in 2000 (10 people! the logistics! don't remind me ;-), we got a private tour of the Sistine chapel, since my brother knew someone who had pull at the museum. No rush. Fantastico.
Previous discussion on this same article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=885482
True, the model is different now (equity investment) and Red Gate has less direct involvement (but still involved). Red Gate did invest in TidePowerd after the first cycle.
The more dynamic nature of Objective C enables many of the design patterns used in Cocoa development. Delegation, key-value coding, binding targets and actions, the introspection behind Core Data, and many others.

Obviously, C++ being Turing complete these are all technically possible with C++. But in practice it would amount to "Greenspunning" the features of Objective C into C++.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_Tenth_Rule
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Thanks.

English was my favourite subject at school, but I didn't get Fitzgerald at all. I remember arguing with my teacher around the introduction - the teacher was trying to talk about the prejudices that the narrator brings to the book, but I thought the opening was Fitzgerald's attempt to convey that the narrator was largely free of prejudice.

Something put me back onto all this all about six months ago. I've just reread _Tender is the Night_ (fifteen years on after a couple of retries. I don't think I finished it at school although was somehow familiar with some of the end). I'm pleased I did, and now feel I'm doing better with that than Gatsby, which I'll tackle after I've finished _The Beautiful and the Damned_.

I will be content only when I feel that I know what Fitzgerald was trying to say.

If you're in London at a time and would be happy to let me buy you coffee to discuss Gatsby further, that would be much appreciated. There's lots of things I don't really get - valley of ashes, owl-eyed man, significance of who turns up at the funeral. As well as the arc itself. My email is in my profile. I do occasional trips to NY, Chicago and Sydney/Melbourne/Adelaide too if you're around any spots there.
Not sure why the down votes? Am I wrong? Was I offensive. Eh, to each their own.
Where this would be the most important part for the content-providers:

"“when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100 percent and Apple earns nothing,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “All we require is that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app, so that customers can easily subscribe with one-click right in the app...”"
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After not being able to find a suitable online stream of this event (I don't have cable), I gave up and built a rudimentary antenna for my TV. Basically, I just wound a bunch of copper wire around a piece of cardboard and stuck it in the window. The other end of the wire went into the cable port on the back of my TV. Surprisingly, I was able to pick up the game in crystal clear, digital 1080p!
In case anyone didn't know, Wave is now in the Apache Incubator: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html
That makes a lot of sense. My campus ACM group used Wave an enormous amount when the beta invites started going out, and we kept two organizational waves which mimicked the system you describe. One was a list of the screen names of every member, and the other was a list of waves.
It's cool that a song made with this is in structured text (json), you could share a song through github and people could fork it to remix!
I'm designing such a language. It's called C³. I would like some feedback on my design "rules of thumb"[1]. I'm literally still at the whiteboard! [2]

[1]: http://blog.c3lang.org/aims-and-rules-of-thumb-for-the-desig...

[2]: http://c3wife.com/?p=523
Isn't the argument usually the opposite? That due to the copyright laws today, Shakespeare couldn't have even written his stories?

The sword cuts both ways. He can't base his works on other peoples' works, or he can't put a lock an key on his own.

Also, his plays weren't meant to be read, they were meant to be seen being performed. Unsurprisingly, that's how the popular music artists of today make the most money as well. It's not even piracy that causes that, either.
Here is the secret to getting the whole nginx/fastcgi vs. apache/mod_php thing to click in your head.

The trick is to think of it in two layers. The "spoonfeeding" layer and the "worker" layer.

In nginx/fastcgi, nginx is the spoonfeeding layer and the fastcgi worker procceses are, you guessed it, the workers. Nginx effectively acts as a proxy, holding open the thousands of connections users have made but only a small fraction of them are actually being worked on by the worker processes at any given moment.

With apache/mod_php there is no spoonfeeding layer. Every single apache child has the php interpreter loaded and acts as a worker process. When you look at your nginx vs. your apache setups think of apache children as the fascgi workers not as nginx.

Most of the time people switch to nginx and claim amazing results what got them that was the addition of a spoonfeeding layer. Technically, you could have done that several other ways. Most higher end sites who've had to care about this stuff for years let the loadbalancer handle the spoonfeeder layer, that way the (web)appservers can focus on being appservers. Doesn't matter if its a $120K Netscaler or a $0 copy of varnish or ha-proxy bound to localhost, the point is you never want a 1:1 relationship between "active but idle user connections" and "worker processes".
I really like Nokia Plan E. Get it? Nokiaplane? Ha!

http://nokiaplane.com
My favorite example of weird adaptions is STALKER/Roadside Picnic. It started out as a sci-fi novel about an alien invasion. Then Tarkovsky made an excellent movie adaption that never explained what the cause of the anomalies was, and mostly served to explore philosophy and the human condition. Years later, it was turned into a first person shooter/horror (sort of) game.

They're making a TV show based off of the game now.
Perhaps as a counterexample, when I'm write some linear algebra code that I expect to perform reasonably well, I greatly prefer using eigen to other BLAS implementations (well, except the MKL, but that's a different matter entirely.)
I'm thrilled with my Wave and the Bada OS.
Your on dodgy grounds right now, as the idea was developed in the course of doing business for your employer. Any IP rights will probably belong to your employer, you either need to leave before you work on it or negotiate an agreement with your employer.

The later might not be impossible but depends on your company, Salesforce actually started in a similar way with Benioff leaving Oracle to pursue his vision, Larry Ellison actually not only gave his blessing but also invested in them. The investment bank I was working for we're completely happy for me to work on a non-competing startup.

Salesforce actually have an investment fund especially for startups building products on Force.com, have you considered applying for it as an alternative to your day job ?
Power.

That is the answer pure and simple. You can cloak it in deep discussions about statistics and attitudes and backgrounds. But there it is, naked for all to see. Liberals OWN acadamia and will not give it any of their power over the curriculum, philosophies, budgets and directions to any group who holds other ideas, much less ideas the may change the balance of power they hold.

Sadly, the most important part of her article, "We are never the best interrogators of our ideas. It requires motivated critics to lay bare our hidden assumptions, our misreading of the data, our factual inaccuracies" will go unoticed by the people who need to hear this information the most. It is ironic that the very essence of universities: scholarship and research, are the things most damaged by conservative discrimination. The ideals that should be held highest are the ones most damaged, and also the things LEAST cared about, behind money and power.

People will be people won't they?
Why I no longer trust EMC
Apache isn't that bad. I haven't used nginx, so I can't speak to it, but the reason I haven't is that I can push 500+ Mbps out of a single box running Apache with just some basic configs. mod_php may be slow, but Apache itself is plenty fast.
WP is trash. You can speed it up about 10 times with just a couple query fixes and removing the 100 extra calls to stripslashes you get when you pull a get var 100 times.
I was intrigued by all the linked technologies, too. I've spent a day or so writing a site that I can't imagine being more than a few static pages, and it's just running on nginx on this VPS I bought.

I can understand monitoring for a site that -has- to be up (otherwise testing suites would start to break), but not the cloud database, let alone programmable markup or managed hosting (Heroku). Surely all that extra complexity is going to cost more in downtime than the time taken to set things up manually?
Java FormattedTextField (with MaskFormatter) implemented in JavaScript
Tim Berners-Lee - Why the //, #, etc?
Neat advice for programmers from an application writing perspective, but it made me consider something else that I think might have value as well.

I'm one of those people who started out writing code but ended up taking on more of a management role. I like to think of myself as being cut from the same cloth as Rands (randsinrepose.com), in that I'm reflective of the programmer's point of view when I engage in management practice.

One thing I've noticed in the HN community, and the technical community at large, is that "idea" people are often dismissed out of hand. Don't get me wrong, the vast majority of ideas that "beginners" pitch are ill-informed or naive to the point that the idea is just unusable, but occasionally, you'll come across a rare gem contains some insight that is outside the reach of a master.

The key is that the beginner very rarely frames their ideas in the language of the programmer, so we have a tendency to simply check out of the conversation. I like to engage idea people and use them as a springboard for ideas. They're often so excited to talk to someone who they know can make their idea happen that they'll take direction from you. Then again, they're sometimes completely hard headed and stuck in their idea rut. As the master, you get to decide who you want to engage and who you don't.

I've worked hard on building my skills at gaining trust and guiding the conversation with idea people. I find that if you open your mind and listen, you can extract the valuable parts from their ideas, reframe them in the language of the programmer, and become a facilitator of great ideas that otherwise wouldn't get traction.
An added benefit to having a magazine-like view is that it won't be as a big a jump for graphic designers accustomed to print design. Perhaps a plugin for Adobe InDesign could help.
Also don't forget licensing issues. It becomes important when you make a living of selling software.
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LAME: A Case Study in Mathematical Programming
I made one such comment below, whose main point was "I am participating in this". I thought it would be useful for readers to know this is a real programme with real mentors and not, for instance, some kind of scam. (I don't know anything about the investors, so didn't comment on that aspect.)

My karma is indeed low - no time for big contributions - but I'd hoped some folks would know me from youDevise's sponsorship of HN meetups in London.

If mine wasn't a useful comment or led to confusion, I apologise.