skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of alternatives to YC, YC is just the posterchild for incubators rightnow.

As far as archenemies are concerned, if by that you mean there needs to be several competitors in the market so that the customers (the entrepreneur) has choices and the players in the market are forced to compete for the customer, then I agree. There are other incubators in the market, some with better deals; YC happens to carry a good deal of name and a great network with it though.
The selector engine runs right to left so even if you start with an id but end it with an element it will still be an expensive query. I think the key is to think about your selectors and not go overboard because it's easy.
> Having a hierarchy isn't a bad thing. Having no idea who has the final say is a bad thing.

This is an absolutely classic rule of managing any organisation where competing priorities must be settled.

Chains of command have a very high cost, but they can ameliorate internal politicking and remove uncertainty about what, if anything, has been decided.

However, decision making power must come with accountability for the decisions, or it will NOT turn out well.

A purely flat organisation will wind up with de facto bosses, minus any institutional constraints on their activities and minus any accountability. If you're dealing with a sociopath the damage they can wreak will be magnified by the lack of structure to constrain their power.
whys this guy's name in green?
No. The loser may be asked to pay for the legal costs of the winning party. This is not a good strategy for most people, even for Hill (I suspect).

Hill's attorney had two things in mind:

1. If Hill won, it'd have been very bad for RightHaven.

2. If RightHaven backed down, it'd be good for Hill.

3. If RightHaven won and got a large judgement against Hill, the outrage would be huge. But Hill would still be up for the bill.
I'm not disagreeing. In fact, I upvoted you.

But I'm saying that the first impulse impression/reaction for a comment should be based on what it says, not who's doing the saying. After you read it, you can qualify it by its author. It's not like I'm suggesting we hide the author or anything - it's right there, when you need to find out who wrote what. But don't make it stick out any more than it already does. Put the content front and center, and make it the focus of attention. After you've read the comment and judged it for what it says and how its written, then reflect on who wrote it and what kind of weight that will give it.
Ask HN: How do startups work
As summer rounds the corner, I decided to start from the beginning of Hacker News posts from

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2 which is http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html : A Student's Guide to Startups.

So, I don't take Business Classes (I am in Engineering, closest thing we had was one course: Engineering Economics) and Paul said in his essay near the end

One thing you can do while you're still in school is to learn how startups work.

It would preferable not to have a textbook definition, I just want to know how it applies currently.

I saw some threads here, that said they hacked together an app on the weekend and then label it as a startup. I honestly thought it was just a weekend project. So is the term more or less flexible ?

As someone who has a startup, how do they work ?
#define UNALIGNED_LOAD64(p) (*(const uint64*)(p))

#define UNALIGNED_LOAD32(p) (*(const uint32*)(p))

Any function that uses both of these violates strict aliasing rules and might miscompile on recent gcc versions. Only one of them isn't enough, because char* is allowed to alias anything in C/C++. But if you use both, then you have a uint32_t* and a uint64_t* pointing to the same memory, violating the language spec.

ffmpeg has a header of macros to avoid this problem. They have names like AV_RN32A (aligned, native-endian 32-bit read), AV_RL32 (unaligned, little-endian 32-bit read) and so forth.
Scalability and acquisition is not going to be a problem, this startup is well funded and probably won't have any issues with either of these. What I find the bigger problem is that ads can be expected at intervals, but to directly tie them to the quality of the game, I find the more difficult proposition.
You're probably right. Not all values have been assigned a glyph yet.
Military spending.
Sometimes I wonder what the computer industry would look like if it had been developed entirely in japan inside a protective bubble from the outside world. What would code look like? What would the input mechanism look like? It's a bit staggering to think of the complexity needed.

The standard keyboard has been simply shoehorned to accommodate japanese and chinese character sets.
'Javascript for Web Apps' would be my title
Hierarchical Queries in MySQL (Function substitute for CONNECT BY)
Except cpufreq (kernel CPU frequency scaling) isn't running during the early boot stages when the BogoMIPS value is calculated.

Like I said, it's possible the bootloader starts up at @250Mhz or so and leaves the kernel to later switch up to 800Mhz. I don't know why you'd design a board like that though (normally you want to boot nice and quick), but you never know.

Also, even though cpufreq reports in Mhz those values will be extrapolated in the kernel from a base frequency & clock multiplier registers somewhere else, so it can easily be out by a constant factor.

Once some benchmarks come out it should become more obvious if there's anything to this.
Maybe because it's a new account?

"created 43 mins ago"
Western union is definitely less than what you're quoting there from BoA.

A general tip in this area is to find out what immigrants use to send money home. You can be pretty confident that they're getting a good deal.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434424 Also check out the parent thread.
What I don't understand is that Microsoft provides their software in ISO form, but then doesn't provide a way to access the ISO. It always necessities installing a third-party program to either extract files from the ISO or create a virtual CD-ROM to mount the image.

Linux and MacOS both support mounting images out of the box.
Ah, that's going to be the next poll :)
To be honest though, I don't have much control over what the animal will be. That's one of the artists at O'Reilly's choice: http://oreilly.com/news/lejeune_0400.html
Blog Spam. Actual link: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1103/1103.4282v2.pdf
"...and are being leveraged in targeted spear-phishing campaigns launched against select organizations and individuals that work with or for the U.S. government"

Perhaps you work for or with the U.S. Government. Information leakage is fun! ;-)
Pulse: Visualize your TDD flow right from Eclipse
hmmm. Never realized that before. Thanks!
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Soviet books design
Correct, here's a post by one of the paper authors: http://www.acunu.com/2011/03/big-dictionaries-ii-versioning/
They do apply to the screensaver/home screen only. I think the discount is still way too low, though.

Are they really sure the people they want to advertise to are those who would accept having ads pushed to them in exchange for saving only 20 bucks?

To be clear, I'm not making a judgement call on such people, I'm just wondering how great of an advertising demographic they are.
Middle click not working as expected? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=67844
Project Contour — a new and innovative usage paradigm for digital devices
Winklevii Facebook appeal rejected
It will be interesting to see how this turns out. It seems to shoot down (or at least delay) the idea of free Kindles at the end of 2011.

I just bought a Kindle 3 Wi-Fi. I'd just rather plunk down the $20 extra for an ad-less version. I want less things distracting and potentially watching me, not more. And I'm willing to pay for that privilege.
Agreed. There some fear-mongering with that type of headline.

Of course, I had no idea that flash could even be embedded in Office applications.
Planning for Happiness
Seems so!

Bank of America: 1 EUR = 1.5017 USD

Western Union: 1 EUR = 1.4590 USD

Google Finance: 1 EUR = 1.4429 USD

I'll try them for the next quarter.
Super landing page. Maybe you could compile a little badge/icon for each listing, so that if the person does some promotion on their own, in a blog say, they can drop the icon in at the end and it will link them to the hawtcakes page. Basically instead of just a plain link, a nice button.
I'm curious: why the editorializing in the title of this submission? It seems to me the original CNN title is perfectly sound.
sammy is taken by sammy.js, I like blueeyes and chairman.
This is a bad way to store hierarchical data in MySQL: the performance is terrible due to the number of queries that have to be issued. The nested set model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model) is a better solution.
That was fast, and much nicer, thank you!
and i'm not seeing any definition of what the hash is, or why it should be any good, apart from the code...
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The logo loosely reminds me of the Amazon logo.
Eggaduppa: a social guessing game where you compete for a cut of the ad revenue
Can no longer see even my own points. Don't think that's positive - I like the feedback over what comments I make that people like and which are less well received.
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buy an ocz vertex 3. These drives scream.....http://thessdreview.com/our-reviews/ocz-vertex-3-240gb-sata-...
I think pg's idea of a hacker is not a person who only hacks code, but it is more like "Venture hacks", "marketing hacks". To hack is

a) the process of grokking through hacking

b) the process/mindset of circumventing apparent barriers in front of you.

Both are very hard, and require a great deal of street smarts.
what does this do:
#define LIKELY(x) (__builtin_expect(!!(x), 1))

oh, to answer myself, is to help predict the branch direction - it indicates which is likely the common case in the test. http://kerneltrap.org/node/4705
In future, please do not post shortlinks here.
The IAEA doesn't mention anything about this, so I'll withhold judgement until then.
Maybe it is just me being the lowly I.T. Geek I am but I do have a difficult time feeling any sympathy for the "Wonder Twins". They were set for life before pursuing this litigation and will still be set even with this ruling. I guess since I was not lucky enough to be born in the "Silver Spoon" way of living it makes my care threshold for them set very low :)
Great point here: "One simple jewel of advice given to me by one of our senior software engineers, Joseph, was that if we shared our motivations as decision makers (e.g. "We're working on this project to generate revenue in the short term, instead of infrastructure improvements because we're trying to hit a short term revenue goal
of X") it helped him understand why he was working on a project, and which aspects of that project to spend time thinking about improving."

Sources of Power by Gary Klein[1] is a great read about decision making and there's a whole chapter about communicating intent and motivation.

"When you communicate intent, you are letting the other team members operate more independently and improvise as necessary. You are giving them a basis for reading your mind more accurately."

The U.S. Army actually uses a Commander's Intent statement, which was streamlined into:

- Here's what I think we face.

- Here's what I think we should do.

- Here's why.

- Here's what we should keep our eye on.

- Now, talk to me.

Obviously this can be applied to any organization. It's always in your best interest to tell someone why they should be doing something and not just what they should be doing.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Sources-Power-People-Make-Decisions/dp...
Yeah, I totally agree with that - I've gained 45 points in the last hour, but I don't know why. That's a big turnoff for me.
I own and love pixelmator, especially given the price, but I think it bears mentioning that it doesn't have full PSD support. While understandable, not being able to edit a type layer within a PSD (type is rasterized upon import) can be problematic when working with others or updating a file.
Well, really from $307 to $108, since the $199 requires the $9/month for a year commitment too.
The title is a bit misleading. You get the kit for free if you sign up for their $9/mo "Personal Genome" service.

Its still cheaper than before, but not _free_.
They're gone again.
Incestuous. This can't be real.
That's my take. RepRap is enabling interesting activity. It will be great when something better comes along, but there's many people who can get use out of RepRap in the meantime.
I wonder if ads will be specific to what you have on your Kindle or (even scarier) what you have purchased at Amazon.com.

Why is this scary? Amazon has been offering recommendations based on your purchases for what seems like decades.
Actually, I think there is a flaw in not providing the number: You have no idea which comments are generating activity

When my number changes, I click threads and scan for a different number than I recall for my posts.

This tells me which ones are still being read.

If there was a visual indicator of posts that had the arrows ticked since I last looked - this would be solved.

Otherwise, it is akin to throwing your comments to the wind with no indicator of how each is received unless they get greyed out by down voting.

EDIT: I don't feel like I have any incentive to click the arrows on anything if I cant see the result of that click. This really really is a bad design choice.

At a minimum we should be able to see our own scores.

EDIT #2: Also, assuming two people reply to a questions asking for a recommendation for X with a link -- you have no idea what the crowd's opinion may be of the links without them replying.

Typically good content is VOTED UP as an indicator that it is, in fact, good content.

The more and more I think about not seeing content scores, the more obvious it is that this is just flat wrong to not show them.
Funny... I live with the conversion issue almost every day. Something we Canadians (and I suspect everyone doing online transactions) have just gotten used to. That said, every barrier to an acceptance is one I want to eliminate. Thanks for the input!
How Do I Start an Impressive Project if I Don’t Have an Impressive Interest?
Right, I have to imagine if I were a spammer, I would churn through new accounts fairly regularly anyway.

(Not to imply new accounts are always unwanted of spammy — we were all new once…)
It's become routine for law offices to provide their lawyers with clean installs when they take a laptop across the border. They can then just download the encrypted client files when they arrive at their destination. It's not such a great idea to be crossing the border with encrypted files on your computer like the article suggests. Even if the border guards can't decrypt them, it still makes you look like someone who is, rightly or wrongly, avoiding their scrutiny.

For those of us without an IT department, Dropbox works nicely. Just remember to scrub the folder before you travel.
Or, maybe duplicate submissions shouldn't give the original an automatic upvote?

Why shouldn't they? The fact that someone else indepedently thought the article was good to submit seems to be at least as strong a sign of interest as a click of an arror.
People might initially be excited about your idea, but after 3-6 months of you building it and not hearing from you, that excitement might die down or be tempered.

I'd say you need to do a couple of things. First, provide progress updates while building. Once you're done building and you decide to approach them again, re-iterate the pain points and benefits and try to build back that initial excitement. Also, read up on the principle of consistency in sales (for example pick up the book Influence by Cialdini). The idea is this: if you initially got a written and public commitment from the prospects, then those prospects will keep their word. They may also be less willing to flatter you given that kind of a commitment.
Oh, they will. Wasn't there a projection about this here recently?
A US check being cashed in the UK or most places, can take a few weeks. We had an office in West London, and the best way we found to pay our European team was by bank wire. You may want to look into Ruesch International (now known as Travelex Business). Might also be able to use them for other Sweden/Germany/France and Russia as well.
Just to clarify, this is WontFix on Server 2008. This is in no way a statement that MS will not do this in upcoming operating systems (nor is this message a confirmation).
I just tried this for my native tongue, Dutch, and I am getting stuff wrong because it doesn't have the correct translation for it.

Stuff like "the friend" is translated to "de vriendin". Or "near the sea" can't be translated as "bij de zee" but has to be translated to "vlakbij de zee". A lot of them are context dependent as well, and don't make sense the way they are presented.

"Forward" is one I kept running into, it can be translated in two different ways depending on the context, "naar voren" or "vooruit" (BTW, define: vooruit in Google doesn't give you anything, search in de Dikke Van Dale a Dutch Dictionary). It made it immensely frustrating to go through Level 1 and I just gave up after a while.
Along with hiding comment vote counts, maybe you could try experimenting with hiding story vote counts as well. It may encourage readers to comment on stories they are genuinely interested in rather than the top voted stories of the day.
I don't get why a cumulative karma score even exists.

I like to see what other people think of my opinions and if I've touched a nerve. And I guess average comment score could conceivably be useful. But Total Karma just seems pointless. If the idea is to identify the oldtimers, then show their join date and be done with it.
So are you suggesting different amounts depending on the currency and the location of the enquiry IP? Example: $30CAD, $30USD, 18EUR, 2600Yen?

That's something to think about. Have you done that or know a service that has?
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Thank you.

Headlines like this always cause me to read the comments first just because it looks too much like bait.
Sometimes we accidentally upvote or downvote something. Would be nice if user could Undo/Change his vote.
I probably would buy one of these, if I hadn't already bought a Kindle a month ago.

I spend hours with my Kindle, but only a few minutes on the home screen. I keep the device in a case and I couldn't tell you what "screensaver" images it displays on standby. In other words, I probably wouldn't even notice the ads, and I'd save $25 on the device.
Good point, but using nested sets means a lot of work when you update. Doing the work in a UDF is a lot quicker than putting it into the code that calls the SQL. I've done that. [sigh] Maybe I shouldn't admit to it.
Would be nice if all URL's were clickable.
But, uh, so what? Does something bad happen if your karma goes negative? That might be an issue. Otherwise, I don't get why people care.
I made a quick site a few months ago that will let you search for stuff in other languages on Twitter - it translates the results back to English for you.

For example, here's what Japanese people are saying about Fukushima: http://twitmersion.com/ja/Fukushima

Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out the magic incantation to get the courtesy limit raised at Google, nor any way to pay for more capacity so it will probably get rate limited for the day pretty quickly.
Running DotCloud on Windows
A few years ago, I had some time off from work and decided to spend the week learning *ML. I spent a bunch of time with Standard ML, including the entirety of the older version of the Harper book, and implemented a bunch of nontrivial toys in it.

In the end, after having covered the whole book, I became frustrated with the language and jumped ship (to Haskell with a quick stopover at OCaml). My main reason was fragmentation: SML/NJ, MLton, etc. all have somewhat different "standard" libraries, which means that in many cases you can't use libraries written for one compiler with another. I ended up having to choose which compiler and set of libraries I wanted per project in order to optimize the availability of libraries for that particular project, which is a frustrating experience. I'd rather learn the idiosyncrasies of one compiler than two.

Before jumping to Haskell, I dabbled in OCaml. I did not implement anything serious with it; rather, I went back and reimplemented a couple of the small toys I'd done in SML using OCaml. I decided that if I had to choose between one of these and the other, I'd probably end up going with OCaml: since there's only one major implementation, you won't run into the frustrating experience of trying to merge two disjoint but frustratingly similar ecosystems. To my sensibilities, however, OCaml is a bit uglier syntactically than SML. In the end, I just never clicked with OCaml, and decided that Haskell would scratch my itch better (and it has).

Having said all that, I don't mean this to imply that you shouldn't read this book! Reading Harper's book on SML made it much easier to pick up OCaml and Haskell, and I definitely consider it an excellent use of my time. SML is a really nice language and a good introduction to Hindley-Milner, but the SML ecosystem is something of a jungle and you'll probably get frustrated if you stay too long. The biggest thing going for SML vs OCaml, in my opinion, is that the syntax is just plain nicer.
How Amazon Can Sell More Kindles Without Lowering The Price
Apple TVs work similarly now for video streamed from iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch devices since iOS 4.2. Might they use the same private key?
Keeping kids healthy is an absolutely unacceptable explanation for this.

I could think of more plausible reasons, but if the claim is taken at face value the direct implication is that schools have more authority to police kids health than parents. If this is the case, it would be perfectly logical to impose requirements for home diet as well.
I've seen so many websites list this deal as 'free' today, it's pathetic since it's not actually free!
One way or another, you're probably going to want to set up an account of your own in Europe and figure out the cheapest way to transfer large lumps of cash into it.

At least in Germany, there's absolutely no charge to wire money to another account in Europe, including the UK.
Facebook May Strike China Deal With Baidu
This one reminds me of SkiFree http://sovietbooks.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/baikal-meridi...
Took me a few moments to figure out what to do, would have been good to have a big green button to grab my e-mail instead.
Take a look at an exchange service such as xe.com. Basically the way it works is that you would do an ACH transfer to them and then they would do the conversion and then transfer out to the requested bank account. These services are supposed to give you the best conversion rates.
This intrigues me. I don't get your comment. I thought it was going to be a joke about drugs or some church or something. Is this in response to the title 'Experimenting with HN'?