skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will agree with this. I would rather pay more up front to use something on demand, than pay what amounts to a rental fee.
Thank you! Lots of fun stuff to look through!
My reflex reaction to this article -- aside from commenting on Boeing's awesome new HN-themed color scheme -- is that the new Airbus A380-800 now has a genuine competitor at last.

Thing is though -- engineering marvels of these flying wonders aside -- the demand for high-pax airborne people haulers has been rapidly shrinking in recent years. Especially with new ETOPS-certified smaller, narrow-body, 2-engine aircraft, the demand for such massive capacity aircraft simply isn't what it used to be. There are already a few flights across the Atlantic using 757s, and you can be sure to see more in the next 5-10 years using ETOPs 737 and A32X aircraft.

To wit, the 747-8 has sold nowhere near expected projections, while the now comically-delayed 787 has broken all sales records in industry history, pre-order or otherwise.
ZedShaw for the opposite of US President..the guy that gets it done or at least attacks the inequities with some humor..
Will do! I'll be sure to look through others first. Thank you for the suggestion.
Oh absolutely. Dropbox is reaching the point where now my father and mother use it. It hasn't reached Facebook levels yet (by that I mean, my grandmother ;)), but it is getting there.

But with each incremental user, Dropbox's value increases in an e^x fashion.

For more on why I think so, here is a more detailed breakdown: http://marcgayle.com/how-dropbox-is-printing-money

There is no reason that Dropbox's growth will slow any time soon. It is a fabulous product, and has the referral system built-in.

It's the closest elixir to magic I have seen in recent times.
Yes meetup is really good at this. I started a meetup and for the first couple weeks only about two people joined. Then all of a sudden the meetup machine kicked in and practically overnight about 50 people joined.

They definitely work hard to make the $19/month they charge you worth it for their customers.
More on the backbone.js part:

Models:

Flow.Models.BaseModel

- Flow.Models.Account
- Flow.Models.Activity
- Flow.Models.Attachment
- Flow.Models.Comment
- Flow.Models.Count
- Flow.Models.Invitee
- Flow.Models.ListItem
- Flow.Models.Tag
- Flow.Models.Task
- Flow.Models.TrackedChange

Collections

- Flow.Collections.Accounts
- Flow.Collections.Activity
- Flow.Collections.Attachments
- Flow.Collections.Collaborators
- Flow.Collections.Comments
- Flow.Collections.Folders
- Flow.Collections.Invitees
- Flow.Collections.List
- Flow.Collections.Projects
- Flow.Collections.Tags
- Flow.Collections.Tasks

Controllers:

View:

- FlowAccountTasksInfobarProjectsListViewController
- FlowAccountTasksViewController
- FlowActivityPopoutViewController
- FlowBillingSettingsAccountsDivisionViewController
- FlowBillingSettingsCreditCardDivisionViewController
- FlowBillingSettingsDeleteDivisionViewController
- FlowBillingSettingsSubscriptionDivisionViewController
- FlowBoxDetailViewController
- FlowDelegatedTasksInfobarPeopleListViewController
- FlowDelegatedTasksViewController
- FlowFolderDetailViewController
- FlowFolderInfobarPeopleListViewController
- FlowPopoutListViewController
- FlowProjectDetailViewController
- FlowProjectInfobarPeopleListViewController
- FlowQuickSearchResultViewController
- FlowSearchResultsViewController
- FlowSidebarPeoplePaneViewController
- FlowSidebarProjectsPaneViewController
- FlowSidebarTagsPaneViewController
- FlowSWFPhotoUploadViewController
- FlowTaskDetailInfobarPeopleListViewController
- FlowTaskPopoutFormViewController

Event:

- FlowAppEventController

Front:

- FlowFrontController
Test Driven Development Lifecycle
How exactly is it circumvention when it is working exactly like the Times intended?
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This is a very charitable reading :)

I knew people like this. I worked in a database consultancy full of them. They eventually drove me out, because I couldn't connect to them on any level. They had no excitement for computers, or technology, or anything they did. They had a job, and they did that job (usually poorly, but the two boss guys were legitimately good at what they did, so were able to set out the database schemas and such so nothing got too fubar'd later on). They're the sort of people who say "a job's a job" and can sit at a desk from 9-5 doing pretty much anything as long as a pay check arrives.

What surprised me about people like this is that I always ascribed the ability to do a job in that manner as something that required a lower intelligence quotient: you had to be OK when presented with broken processes, manual tasks that are easily automated, and have little real pride in the product you produce. I thought this sort of stuff would drive reasonably smart people mad. But here they were, reasonably smart people, who just didn't care. They were all a product of CS when it was the "money" degree, like BioChem is now. The smart choice they made was "If I don't give a shit about any job I could possibly do, I may as well be paid decently for it." The author even says "I also have no idea what job I'd do otherwise," even though he clearly dislikes what he's doing.

The author is alienated because he doesn't give a shit, and he's found himself in a position where that isn't status quo. A lot of the posts here are surprised he's got this far; which I think shows HN's fairly biased population. There are loads of programmers who don't care. They aren't working in the Valley at companies you respect, because to be talented enough here requires passion (he seems to indicate he's in the Valley, but that doesn't mean he's at a company you respect ;) ) But someone, somewhere is coding crap bespoke software, and all those CS grads that aren't in the Valley are getting hired by someone. It's easy to forget all these people when you live in hacker communities like the Bay Area, Portland, NYC etc.
I hate CMake. I hate autotools, too. But, if there's going to be a replacement for autotools, it's gotta be better than CMake. At least autotools is standard on every Linux/UNIX system these days. CMake is just another build dependency for very little gain.
Even with those three products, I still find it hard to believe they'd be one of the most profitable companies in the world. If you look at the top 50, it's filled with mainly oil companies, banks, and hardware producers (Microsoft being an exception). Google crept in at 47 due to AdSense, which I think Facebook could overtake.

I'm not saying Facebook cannot be wildly profitable, I just don't think it'll come close to the top 10 (what I'd consider to be "the most profitable companies in the world").
Thank you for leads to both. Coloft sounds great! I think my friend has gone to a few of their events. So, I'll be sure to drag him with me.

I'll see what meetup.com has to offer too. Thank you again!
I wouldn't be surprised if this used to be part of a big internal build system, and they hacked up an autoconf/automake setup for the public release.
I was a FF user until I found out Chrome was much faster with the webkit, but I'll always give Firefox a shot again if they manage to beat Chrome's speed.
Hey Justin, I'm working on a site called Sparkmuse (in beta) which aligns with much of what you're describing. Here are some of the things we're working on right now:

tracker.startupguild.net – The fundamental building block of our current community is the "Spark", a description of the problem an entrepreneur wants to solve and the solution want to use. This is an area where people can get feedback and meetup with potential cofounders. Each Spark is divided into stages and will eventually track the progress from idea through execution.

news.startupguild.net- We're building an open discussion area for entrepreneurs to show off their work, ask questions, and have meaningful startup discussions. Somewhat different, but similar in concept I think. I don't want to trample on HN because this community is amazing in itself, but the audience expands beyond startups alone.

blog.startupguild.net – We've been communicating with accomplished entrepreneurs and investors to schedule times for them to come by and give direct feedback on our Sparks. Kind of a direct engagement guest blog post in a manner of speaking.

toolkit.startupguild.net – We're partnering up with a wide range of great tools and services that have agreed to make deals for entrepreneurs trying to build their ideas from the ground up. Another project we're developing is Matchmuse which is like an e-harmony for entrepreneurs, providing recommendations based on a person's expertise, the expertise they need, where they live, and the ideas and feedback they have discussed on the site.

I'd love to team up with you on some of these things. If you're interested, please hit me up, email is in my profile.
It's a little difficult to say. One space where there seems to be very little research that I've been investigating recently is compression for database records (or in our case, serialised complex objects stored in a data grid) where the statistical model is build across many records and then is constant during compression and decompression, as opposed to being adaptive. This means that you can exploit global redundancy across many records and you don't need to store the model with every item, which is good if your items are small, you store zillions of them and space is at a premium (i.e. you're storing it in RAM).

These use cases are normally pretty application specific though, so I imagine a lot of in-house code gets written for things like this. Seems like a pretty similar use case to this, I'd be interested in seeing details of their algorithm - I can't see it anywhere obvious on their site.
Self plug: I created a free web app that helps entrepreneurs form "circles of trust" which are mastermind groups really.

http://ongoingfeedback.com

I am looking for feedback to take this further.
Thanks!
People who want to upsell you a commercial version tend to say such things.
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And LZO.
Fukushima: How risk assessment fails
This is a beautiful thing in a world of 600mb printer driver install packages.
It's a chopper baby
I hope it does like you say, it's an awesome product.
You could always write your own, more politely worded, manifesto.
Hrm. Happy to answer any questions. I work for SQLstream. (I'm not speaking officially for SQLstream at this moment, of course.) The upshot is that it's a realtime query and manipulation engine that works with standard SQL. There's a relatively simple SQL app running under SQLstream that gets the live data, does GEO IP lookup and other manipulation, and then vends it to a the webserver in 60-second chunks.
The email alert method of retention works to some extent, but the more engaged users (multiple meetup groups and interests) get so much email it just becomes spam. Plus, alerting to new groups in a very high traffic location is also a bit overwhelming. I wonder if they are tracking unsubscribe-from-email metrics and aiming to satisfy this (probably quite small percentage-wise) set of users too?
You pay a little more for hardware, but Apple usually outdoes itself in support.

To be clear: that money is going to support.
The README says:

"In our tests, Snappy usually is faster than algorithms in the same class (e.g. LZO, LZF, FastLZ, QuickLZ, etc.) while achieving comparable compression ratios."
Doesn't Google use GPL2 all over the place?
Here is another great article for understanding the Google / Wikipedia ecosystem
http://www.johnon.com/399/google-las-vegas.html
I have no reservations about making a 'reddit' comment in a thread named "The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers". It's humorous, people.
It would be easy to say that this is "Not of interest to hackers". I found it an interesting example of what NOT to do with your userbase.
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When I think of "hustler" in this sense, I think of someone who is constantly involved in relationship-building work (although I've never heard the word used in this way, but let's run with it). He may be a scam artist or unethical; he may not be. They're not all bad (but most are). The hustler's social and work lives have fused into one more-than-full-time job, and he chooses his friends based on how useful they are. He usually started out fairly well-connected, and has the huge leg-up of an MBA from one of the big three (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton) business schools, and now has a huge network of contacts. This is only a marginal advantage for entrepreneurs (mid-level investment bankers are useless "connections" for startups) but it lets the hustler feel full of himself because he has other options (i.e. his connections can get him a $250,000 job, so you should feel privileged that he is taking the time to talk to you) than whatever project he's doing at the time.

When it becomes insufferable is when the hustler thinks his social connections deserve to trade at a ridiculously high rate against more evenly allocated (and therefore more common) assets like talent and drive. As he sees it, he knows all the important people, but any idiot can code. So he tends to offer terms like 5% equity for writing all of the code to implement his idea. They get what they deserve when only idiots want to code for them.
Chess.com.
Readability-inspired Wikipedia Beautifier for Chrome
I think that Justin would agree the key to our current mastermind group is rooted in the fact that we all get on the phone and spend 60-90min together.

Much more valuable than a message board or email thread.

Although, your app seems really interesting as well. I believe they would both be effective and perhaps complimentary..
Interesting, I had missed that. It also says

> Finally, snappy can benchmark Snappy against a few other compression libraries
(zlib, LZO, LZF, FastLZ and QuickLZ), if they were detected at configure time.

I'll do some tests, I'm curious about the results
Nothin' like a good, low, daily dose of amphetamine to keep you focused on your ambitions.
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You just don't get that kind of service from any other company (especially in the computer hardware business).

...because most hardware companies are trying to compete for "price conscious customers" as commodity products, and therefore don't have any margin to spend on support.
Out of the standalone systems, I prefer Wordpress. It is powerful and simple, but it should (ideally) be run on a separate server for security reasons.

We wont be using Wordpress for Freeversation.com; We plan on integrating a Django blogging application into our main codebase, to avoid rewriting Django templates as Wordpress themes.
I agree and in fact was starting to wonder if I was developing false negatives. However, if you get a positive response it is less likely to be a false positive.
I think he is suggesting that they dont even exist in a usable form yet.

If they did, surely they would have been delivered to the reviewer in a usable form?
Sensationalist title, but I guess it might have been used to prove a point???

I agree with TorrentFreak and say that Moses Avalon went a bit too far. I kinda see where Avalon is coming from, meaning things are going to shits, but the entire diatribe is such a rambling of non sense it's hard to take Avalon seriously.

I highly doubt there would be an attack on the media at such a level because then you're blatantly stepping on freedom of speech, which I am sure media sites would not be happy about, and would love to write up a storm.
> The reason it looks blurry is that Microsoft's accelerated DirectWrite API uses different font rendering than the old GDI API.

Oh. Well, that sucks, because it means that I have to choose between hardware acceleration and readable fonts.

> If you don't like the look of the text rendering on our system [...]

That makes no sense. First, it's for Vista and not Windows 7, and second, I've already tuned Cleartype on my system. Even if it's possible to change my settings so it looks good in Firefox with hardware acceleration, changing it means it will look bad everywhere else.
Want more :-) There are thousands of blogposts about how various testing tools work, but very few about WHAT to test and HOW to test it. Something with exaples on some app like a simple blog or photo gallery, etc. would be awesome.
YC graduates seem to be getting more and more diverse and interesting.Of course, the total number of graduates has gone up to 43, which explains the diversity.
Whilst this article is about more than just pitching everyone, that is the first thing that hits you, and personally I disagree with that as an approach. If you are at college coming up with the idea of Facebook then maybe it works, but in general the results you will get are too biased (sometimes in both directions).

People that care about you (parents etc) are likely to like your idea no matter what, friends probably fall into this too. When someone says "that sounds like an OK idea" most people hear "that is the best idea ever". At the other end of the scale some people just don't listen and are negative, they cannot immediately see how it will work and dismiss it as a bad idea. And with regards to things like Mechanical Turk, if your product is really targetting people who are willing to answer questions for a few cents then great, but in general I can't imagine it is that useful.

Pitching and validating ideas against people in your real target market is a good start, but even then there is a massive difference between saying they'll pay for something and actually paying for it. If you pitch someone an idea and it results in useful questions and a level of excitment then that is a better indicator, if someone says that sounds great and then starts talking about something completely offtopic then I would say that means they don't really believe it.
Sure, you can have deterministic concurrency. But that's not what he's talking about. Concurrent operations being non-deterministic is the accepted norm. If you're talking about deterministic concurrency, then you can qualify it as such; anything else is pedantry.
Awesome thanks very much. I can see the main difference is your taking a project driven approach and I'm thinking about an entrepreneur/company driven approach.

It sounds like people could potentially meet on The Startup Guild and move any projects they come up with into Sparkmuse after meeting.
isn't this a contradiction in terms? in a bubble, 'earlier' equates to a smaller burst
looks very professional to me, but...
you have to click on sign up to get any price information. if i´d be a "normal" user i´d perhaps had left the site before even knowing that it´s quite expensive.

the video is cool, though the voice sounds bored.

maybe a more interesting example and screenshots/videos of the mobile app versions could be included in the video.
i woulldn´t sign up without seeing how the mobile versions look.
but anyway, quite interesting! (kept me from finishing, ok starting with, my paper :)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony

5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

6. the incongruity of this.

Seems fine to me.
As you pointed out, the video was beautifully crafted and the tune used was quite catchy as well. It's called "Up From The South" by The Budos Band, in case anybody was looking for it.
This is to be predicted, as if you don't have a working Kindle you are not going to buy e-books for it, where they make most of their money on that product line. Companies that have high margins ("the Apple tax") or secondary markets (Amazon, and again Apple with iTunes) have good support because they a) can afford to have it and b) can't afford not to have it: a lost customer is a loss of thousands of dollars of future profits; for most companies you can talk about thousands of dollars of revenue, but the actual profit to be lost from an ex-customer are so low as to make even hiring support staff untenable (most hardware companies), and when they are required the staff are often gulags with very very strict service/refund quotas (telecom companies).
I agree with you there. There emails sometimes can be a bit much. But consider this... the people that consider it spam and unsubscribe might also be the same people that won't go to more meetups. Meetup also lets you adjust frequencies and which emails you want to get.
Interesting. I've heard about many of these startups before today (Convore, Earbits, etc.)

A few possible explanations, I wonder which is right:

1. I'm on HN more and I pay attention to YC companies more.

2. YC companies are launching sooner and sooner.

3. YC companies are getting more press attention sooner.

4. YC is funding companies that have more product "in place' before going to YC.
Just to use one example, I would assume that the crawler/indexer/ranker "secret sauce" in the appliance can't link against any GPL libraries.
This article reeks of the familiar vogue of people bragging about not having Facebook accounts: It's probably not that hard for you if you have an underwhelming social life, don't date, and aren't that connected to those around you to begin with.

I lost my phone last month, but my contract restarts in 3 days so I've been holding out to capitalize on the free phone they give me. I'm 22, and it's been miserable because I have an interest in the opposite sex (among other reasons).

And when I do have a cellphone, I possess the willpower to keep it in silent mode until I wish to check it. Someone made the point that possessing a phone instills the expectation in others that you'll respond to their pings in within a reasonable amount of time. I challenge that. It doesn't take long to train people to understand your mobile availability. And moreover, who's keeping track?
More Mythical Man Month.
Firefox market share is going to continue to shrink as Chrome takes over. They've just been way too slow to respond. It is a shame since feature wise Firefox is a superior browser.
awesome, but I can't live without links to articles in other languages
Actually, while it will do that it also tries to shift edges to lie on pixel boundaries when possible. This distortion can make edges look clearer though it also looks brutal with certain type faces. Most people like whatever they are used to.
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Distributions are GNU/Linux. The Linux kernel is Linux.

And yes, I did well actually you.
Wow, can you share any more information about the successful versus unsuccessful ads? Creating 300 ads seems like an awfully large time investment.
All navigation elements are still accessible – they fade back in on mouse-over.

Edit: Added a note above the large screenshot to reinforce that (though it was in the bullet points as well)
> No you CANNOT.

Well, with elaborate replies like that ... I'm not sure whether I should bother, but: http://i.imgur.com/rxFgd.png

> Greasemonkey

Chrome plugins can do a lot more than Greasemonkey. Why do you think Jetpack exists?
Here's my theory based on my own experience: YC has been going on long enough that most of the start-ups have applied to YC before, been rejected, and kept on working on their start-up. So by the time the start-up is accepted into YC, they have a more complete product.
Cool idea, but wouldn't this make more sense as a Stylish theme?
Parallelism is just an optimization; and concurrency does not imply non-determinism. Concurrency means you've got more than one thing in flight at a time. Having more than one task in flight, whether you switch using coroutines, or asynchronous completions, or an OS scheduler running on a timer interrupt, or cycle counting in a virtual machine, or via higher level language constructs like futures and promises, or reactive programming, is concurrency; but not all of these things are non-deterministic.