skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they wouldn't be good metrics for comparing apples and oranges. you're right. what other proxies are there for how serious/committed the founders are and/or how well thought out the business plan? or do you just take all 'review my startup' links with a grain of salt?
The last wwdc i went to experienced a sharp decline in population after the keynote.
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Yes to everything prawn says. Tell us what the site does and please take down that food porn reference. It gave me a strong negative reaction, and I'm guessing you don't mean to associate your service with an industry that requires regular disease testing for participants....

Strategically, one option for bootstrapping might be looking for specialty food-related experiences. Perhaps launch in one or two specific markets (around SF?) and call some wineries and other food-oriented travel destinations and offer to market their products. Offering trips+experiences will justify higher prices and gives you a viral hook by encouraging users to get discounts for group travel. I'm much more likely to invite friends to a weekend outing than to the house of a stranger.
Yeah this is something that happens a lot at WWDC. Every year Apple threatens to check IDs at the door, but they never do that I have seen besides at registration.
I was thinking the exact same thing. My superficial reaction is that they could embed jruby in their java code and use the real active record model. this would let them reuse the validation logic and all that good stuff.

I'm really curious if they explored this possibility, and if so why they rejected it.
iRobot is amazingly successful not just in home robots but also in the military and public sectors. I love my Roomba and I'll be purchasing the Scooba 230 too.
It's the term robot. For most people that means human like machines. Making human like machines is a terrible waste of energy compared to just making the form of a machine match it's tasks.

If you instead say machine automation rather than robot, well then you see that we probably are in that revolution.
It's too bad there apparently aren't any robots ready to put into service in Fukushima. They might have robotic arms or cranes for doing things like shuffling fuel rods, but what can help with doing improvised welding or wiring in a hostile environment?

In recent months NHK reported on experiments in using simple robots that could help the elderly in Japan with a few chores, but they were a flop mainly because the people involved rejected them instead insisting on human companionship. There's a shortage of working-age people, and a growing percentage of retirement age people there. Many of the younger people stay in the larger cities making the shift even more dramatic in some areas. In the 60's many predicted flat-panel on the wall television sets to be in use by the 80's. It looks like general purpose robots will take longer than many would have hoped too.

Perhaps something remotely controlled by a human with VR gloves etc is viable for the emergency repairs? Things would have to be well shielded to avoid having stray neutrons altering data bits.
It seems to me that most of the innovation doesn't come from big companies anyway, so why should Apple give them precedence for any seats?
Google I/O got sold out because every body who got the ticket knew that they are going to get a latest android phone which is priced higher than the ticket price! Definitely a big motivational incentive to hit the buy button.

Not true for all attendees but probably for a good percentage.
Lobbyists.

How do you think laws are written so fast in response to events? Surely there has not been a single law in a very long time that was actually, truly, written by the sponsors in congress pushing for them.

They are written by aides and lobbyists.
If that's a primitive robot, we've had primitive robots since the first push-button elevator or automatic door, many decades ago.

It's like the defining-down of AI. Proponents promised strong AI Real Soon Now for decades; now they say that we're just being unfair if we don't count email filters as "AI".
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This should be the best Flourish evers!
While these kids clearly don't understand what Philip Rosedale is building (or even the space they're entering) you still shouldn't blindly accept what Naval Ravikant is saying. They're obviously naive about how much their app should cost to build and are at a distinct disadvantage because of their naiveté, but outsourcing in the this way could allow you to iterate faster and more effectively than if you only relied on your smaller team alone. Believe me I am no fan of outsourcing in general, but blind generalizations like this are harmful and misinformed. I am a little disappointed that I am starting to see submissions like this on Hacker News.

Please go watch the Foundation Philip Rosedale interview and learn about his concept before you dismiss it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irF-V9RUuXo
Hard, but not impossible.
I wanted to buy new headphones. I was considering the Sony MDR V6 (or the new model that recently came out, won't name the model, don't want to advertise for Sony...). I was ready to pull the trigger, when I thought about the whole whole Geohot fiasco (and other Sony fiascos before that). This led me to research more headphones, and settle on the Sennheiser HD 25-1 II.
It costed me a little more, but I couldn't have been happier. Awesome headphones, avoided Sony.
Nobody ever acts like the next revolution is the next revolution. If they did, it would be the current revolution, or at least the current fad.
I agree. The title is misleading. I'll have to be more careful on future HN posts. Although, if someone else posted it I would have little control over that.

I don't think your alternative isn't quite right either.

Perhaps, I should have just titled it something like:
"Ask HN: Review my theory, The Free-Market Theory of Programming Languages"
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This is a weak article. First, it ignores the existence of commodity robots. Something like 4 million Roombas have been sold. They are easy to use commodity robots that sell in volume from Best Buy.

Second, many people, going back to the early 20th century, have imagined buying cheap general purpose robots, just as they have imagined buying jet packs and holidaying on space stations. Just because I imagine it doesn't make it feasible. The reason there aren't many autonomous-robot startups is that no one knows how to do the AI. It may make sense to you that you ought to be able to put together robots like you put together a spreadsheet, but that's not how it turned out to be. The article admits this, describing day to day tasks as "incredibly complex". Yet then asks us to imagine the cheap, capable robot.

Third, the "mysterious" capital behind Willow Garage is Scott Hassan, an early and thus very rich Googler. It says so on the WG web page [http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/about-us/history].

Fourth, Microsoft has Robotics Studio, a package that competes with ROS in many respects. It is exactly a "robot operating system" on top of Windows. Researchers pretty much ignore Robot Studio, but why does this journalist do so when he says that "what we need Microsoft [...] to do is build an operating system....". It has been trying for years. Thanks for the advice, though.

A low-quality piece for Spectrum, picked up from a blog.
Yes, to answer #4:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/tix/2292204668.html

(Edit: Not my CL post. Just something I came across this afternoon.)
What about short explanation of the deal at the top, and a long funny story after that?

I too found the long emails easy to dismiss. I don't even know where to look to find out if I need this real quick - and I'm not going to invest the time to read it to only find out its not of any interest to me.
Ask HN: How should a beginner learn to code?
I'm confused. Dropbox does file-sharing, not remote desktop. Also, your requirements seem to want your computers to not be synced, hoever Dropbox syncs across all clients - so differentiating between computers (e.g. "a list of all available computers") is not necessary.

Unfortunately I do not know of any out of the box solutions. You could setup samba shares on each computer and if you want to access them anywhere then proxy through Amazon. Otheriwse, I'm hoping this might help you better phrase your request.
i find "visualize process not outcome" extremely effective, both in sports and in doing things i don't want to do.
Loads of articles about non-technical founders needing to learn to code. Short of pursuing a CS degree, and after Tryruby.org and Codeschool.com, what do you recommend?
It's something I might be especially likely to use if I moved to a new city, and wanted to meet people, and try something different for the hell of it.

There is a social angle to be worked here. Maybe allow users to post profiles? I'd be much more likely to try this if I could see that interesting-looking people were going to the same dinner as me.
Dubai Aquarium is one of the largest fishtanks in the Dubai Mall
I recall Hotmail's servers were revealed to have some funny names, including rotate-the-shield-harmonics.hotmail.com.
I've been at Bali Buddha two days ago :)
ok, I'll send you an email.
Are you a developer?

Most of the pieces exist as open source (assuming VNC is good enough for you), wrapping a nice GUI around them using something like wxPython might not be to hard.

It's an interesting idea for sure. I've been fiddling around with tunneling VNC over PageKite (my project) a bit, but it hadn't yet resulted in anything I'd call a "product vision". This post brings me quite a few steps closer to that. Too bad my TODO list is already rather long...

If you are interested and able to do some coding, I could probably be talked into helping out and providing some infrastructure. ;-)
Let's say IBM wants to build a huge free electron laser, and synchrotron light source, maybe mimic SLAC.

NSLS-II, currently being built at BNL, has a total project cost of $912 million. LCLS, at SLAC, has a total project cost close to $350 million or so, but it's been estimated that they saved several hundred million reusing previous facilities from the linac (plus land) So, $1bn to build, plus operational costs which would be pricy. And you want one of each because a FEL is different than a synchrotron.

Now, for your $2bn+ops costs, you can service maybe 500 experiments a year, maybe a bit more, but less than the demand. At the labs, proposals for experiments that are generally picked are picked based off of merit, usefulness, promise, etc... not necessarily based on who can pay to use the facilities and what sort of profits could be tied to the research. You know... science, often done by tons of professors who get their money from the government as well.

Admittedly, the budget hits probably wouldn't affect the operations of these facilities too much, but they would definitely affect the people who propose to use these facilities. For example, the guys who did this research probably don't get their funding out of the operating costs of the SSRL.

So, yes, the government is the only entity that has invested this kind of money (largely through the DOE) to be able to do this on the scale that they do. I don't see any company picking up the slack anytime soon.

Lists of light sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_synchrotron_radiation_f...

http://sbfel3.ucsb.edu/www/fel_table.html
Or DataMapper if you want to keep using a relational database as your persistence medium.
Since the session videos will be online after the conference for registered Apple developers (that's what they did last year - setting a new Google I/O-pressured precedent), I think that leaves the sessions you really want to go to, Labs, networking, socializing.

The sessions. All of them are top-notch. Learn how to write code like an Apple engineer or think like one. They all know how to present and they all are happy to be there.

The Labs are unbelievable. You come with your thorniest bug/problem to the appropriate section and an Apple engineer will sit down with you to figure it out. You might have to wait a while but they will bring in other team members, if you have a particularly thorny issue.

When it comes to networking/socializing - just waiting in line for sessions/talking to people next to me - I met people who had written top-selling iPad/iPhone and/or well-known apps.

Oh, and partying. That is almost like networking but with full bar service.

Good luck and congratulations to those going, it's like no other technical conference.
True. Fuel and instructor costs are through the roof, not to mention maintenance. Probably primary use would be school field trips, open cockpit at local airshows, a place to take your first date, etc.
What does shva=1#inbox mean when Gmail loads?
"Collectively, the committee is responsible for billions of lines of code."

think about that a minute.
Could be, but I imagine there will only be a handful of pilots actually looking to get their type certification, the other 4,995 probably are just looking for the "... and these are my MiG keys."
This seems like a somewhat trollish comment, but serious question: is it easier to find in the iOS App Store? How is that possible?
This is the first I've heard of length of stay/visit being barometer. Guess its much easier for google to track when everyone uses analytics.
Ask HN: If I believe there's a tech bubble, how should I proceed?
Basically, in the event that we're entering a tech bubble, how do I as an entrepreneur capitalize on that? I'm already building a product, haven't sought investment and want to know what I should avoid to maximize my chances of success.

Discuss!
To say that attendees know they will be getting the latest Android phone is a little presumptuous. That'd be like saying if I wanted a new car, all I need to do is be an audience member on Oprah.
1. Maybe not. I've attended WWDC on behalf of small startups and for Yahoo. In both cases, my managers told me (and the other attendees) to go ahead and purchase a ticket with our personal credit cards as soon as registration opened. The company would then reimburse us later. There was just no other way to secure the needed tickets without charging $20k+ on a corporate card - which would have required weeks of approval first.
To the human or the printer?
Impact of January GPS glitch on US military slowly being revealed
Smalltalk would be a good non-snarky answer and one with some basis in history, although Smalltalk seems to have been a much stronger influence over the JVM than the Java language.
What a clever idea. Whether I fly it or not, I'm in for $10.
The great paradox of this article is that the ultimate way to achieve things is to evolve to a point where you stop reading these kinds of posts. When your media diet is greatly composed of easily digestible lists that instead of instructing effectively end up only distracting you from achieving, you begin a reductive process towards not actually achieving at all.

I'd go as far as to say this article will not help a single person as far as it comes to "achieving" anything. Will it create a momentary dopamine pulse for those that read it? That enjoy clicking? That enjoy distraction? Yes.

But thats not how doing anything worth a shit gets done - other than temporary brain relaxation - and that could have been spent more effectively driveling around I Can Has Cheezburger instead of this article.
Why thank you. :) Seems to be blowing up a bit... Should have it within the month, at this rate.
I/O Pressured? PDC/MIX has been doing this for a few years now...
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1. Pick a Language
2. Find a beginners guide to said language.
3. Start building stuff.

You need to start building stuff. The only time I've ever learned to code was when I was trying to build something. Reading books, taking algorithm classes, etc never did anything for me. Give me a real world problem and turn me loose. That's how I learn best, and I expect most people do too.
The title is just a statement of how long it took to sell out, "WWDC sold out in ten hours." — tell me where the exaggeration is in that sentence.
"It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools" does not mean, as so many programmers seem to believe, that tools don't matter at all, only skills do, so if someone failed it can't possibly be their tools, only their skill.

It means that part of being an expert craftsman is having the experience and skills to select excellent tools, and the experience and skills to drive those excellent tools to produce excellent results. Blaming your tools means either that you lack skill, or that you chose your tools poorly because you lack the experience and skills to choose correctly. Sitting there and defending bad tools does not impress me; it makes you sound like a craftsman who can not tell the difference between good tools and bad tools... and that's a bad craftsman.

Yes. Tools matter. Good tools won't bring you to your optimum peak performance on your own, but bad tools will guarantee you'll never get there. Bad tools typically take longer to work with, and typically teach bad habits to get around their deficiencies.

Da Vinci with a mop and a bucket of mud may be a better painter than you, but he would never beat Da Vinci with quality tools.
Have you looked at http://www.logmein.com? They have a free version, and it's a solid in-browser remote desktop program that just runs a small background program on any computer you want to connect to. Only issue is I'm not sure they have support for Linux... could be a deal-breaker for you.
Is there video evidence of this anywhere? I read the whole thing, all I saw was a drawing...
I think the first step is to decide why you want to learn to code - do you want to persue a career in software engineering, or to build an MVP for your startup idea?
Since you're interested in Ruby, try learning rails. I suggest reading through Ruby Guides' Getting Started[1] and then going through the Rails Tutorial[2], where you make a Twitter clone.

[1] Ruby Guides - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
[2] Rails Tutorial - http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
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Wow this sounds too good to be true. What's in it for them? Are we obliged to give them our first born son or something?
Run spell-check. Your page has 'receive' spelled wrong (recieve). This will kill you credibility-wise.
i was expecting to read something about scalability of battle.net...
It's getting awfully bubbly in here. Sure, we give it away for free, that's OK, we'll make it up by volume .. huh?
Have you seen https://www.copilot.com/? Looks pretty close to what you want.
The Microsoft involvement in this is bizarre, what Microsoft are offering through the scheme is an order of magnitude worse than what Microsoft already offer through their BizSpark scheme (which is worth taking up even if you're not building on an MS stack)
I would really love to go to one of these now that I am starting iOS in one of my courses. I wish Apple had student tickets for this conference. :(
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Fyi... "Each team must include at least one student (graduate or undergraduate in Engineering or Computer Science) who was a full-time student in the 2010-2011 academic year."
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Lynda.com has some good training. I'm finding their Ruby on Rails 3 Essential Training to be very easy to follow. I have been programming in PHP for the last 3 years, so I do have some experience with programming, but I think this training would be just fine for beginners as well. It is $25 a month for a basic account and you might find that a little high, but I think it's worth it for the amount of training that you have access to.
I think the issue is with prepared food (especially hot food) and I have to imagine that there are licenses, health inspections, etc that restaurants need to have, and if I could start a restaurant without one, then wouldn't everyone?

However I've been doing more research and found this quote:

Ken Sato, principal environmental health inspector for the San Francisco Health Department, says an underground restaurant would only be investigated in case of a complaint.

"We'd issue a notice to cease and desist operation," he says. "

from this article: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/04.06.05/dining-051...

So: I guess green light?
Yeah. That's more of a transactional style help desk tool.
Pick a small project you want to work on, then start trying to make it real. Ask for help from people around you. People like helping other people, especially if 1. you make it easy for them, 2. you seem to be putting in a genuine effort.

Tons of "Ask HN" posts on this topic have already been posted. The first step to showing people you're serious is to actually do your own research first.

The post that got me started with writing code was http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/05/teach-yourself-you-t...
We work so hard to bootstrap our ideas and start ups either as our main gig or on the side, we've got to have a bit of a sense of humor about it, no?

How is this for a slogan: "MasterIncubator, a better way to spend your nights and weekends."

I should note that this isn't a profit venture, but a site to help the right people connect with each other to create what they otherwise may not have been able to alone.
Apple used to offer student scholarships to WWDC (I got one back in 2003). It looks like they no longer do that though (as of just this year).
This seems like a good incubator but the title is way off.

An incubator's value is much more complex than (dollars) + (office square feet) - (equity %). Ask almost any successful founder from an incubator such as YC or DreamIt, and they'll tell you the equity percentage is easily worth the benefit. In fact, the percentage can easily increase the total value of the company.

When Paul Graham/Ron Conway/Yuri Milner are financially motivated to see you do well, the intros and connections these guys make are priceless. Just see how Paul Graham went to bat for AirBnb when he tried to get Fred Wilson to invest.
Wow. Lightspeed is investing a huge amount of dollars and energy in creating a viable alternative to the YC ecosystem.

Seems like this it the type of act that is characteristic of a firm that is either quite visionary or quite desparate, but I'm not sure which is the case here ;-)
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I am. I have my own startup to worry about though!

It's very tempting because I think it's the kind of thing that could see Dropbox-like success and there is a bunch of open source code to borrow from.
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Another factor influencing language popularity is to have some control over the language popularity metrics. E.g. Groovy lead developer Jochen Theodorou got involved with changing the TIOBE algorithms in January. In February, Groovy jumped from 49th to 25th place in one month.
It honestly is a great way for them to learn about what's going on out there and meet some up-and-coming entrepreneurs. Whether it is this company or the next, it gives them a chance to build a relationship with great founders.
I feel that the fact that OP mentioned the time, it was supposed to be read as a grand feat, which it wasn't. But if I'm wrong then I'm wrong.
I just mean the simplicity and quality of Dropbox, not synchronizing anything.
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Ad 4: If they don't already, requiring developer licenses should, at the very least, work in Apple's favour.

Maybe they can set up some more requirements and allot a certain amount for press.

In other words, they might have to micromanagement and control more - which is very much in the spirit of Apple.

I'd be interested to see if any event experts have some common wisdom on thwarting scalpers.