skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul, you are right. I should not have used such a strong analogy. My intention was to draw a clear distinction. I wanted to be playfully controversial to highlight the point, but the implication was inappropriate and contributed to a degradation of the conversation from functional to name-calling.

You have accomplished a great deal and have contributed enormously to the startup ecosystem. Techstars and other programs that take equity are also a great benefit to the community, and I would be remiss to leave a lasting impression on the community that I felt Y-Combinator or Techstars are anything short of remarkable.

MassChallenge is a unique model with huge promise. Clearly, there is room in the ecosystem for multiple models to coexist. We are proud to enable the type of community that Y-Combinator pioneered without taking any equity from startups, and we are excited about the opportunity to contribute to the mounting startup renaissance and to shift the broader economic discourse from one of value capture back to one of value creation.

Sorry everyone for the coarse commentary. As noted previously, you are all invited to visit us in Boston any time. Our deadline to enter this year is April 11, and we would be honored to help you win.

http://www.masschallenge.org/enter
I think that's a valid question. Python aims at "batteries included," so everything you get out of the box when you do a "make install" should count.

With that in mind, I can't think of many that are bigger in terms of coverage.
I have only posted comments under one account - using my full name and prefaced with a clear indication of my role as the founder of MassChallenge. I have not influenced or attempted to influence any other comments on this thread offline, and I do not know who is writing comments under the name whatucantsay.
Harbinson & Steele's "C: A Reference Manual" is updated to cover C99 in the 5th ed: http://www.careferencemanual.com/

Admittedly, probably not the best beginner's introduction, so there's still a gap there.
NASA has a lot of really good pictures up on their site actually.

Here's a front on shot of Discovery. It has some people in it, which are great for scale:
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/imageviewer.cfm?mediaid=510...
Effects on the margin matter. If enough workers shun one place for its conditions, something is bound to happen.
Indeed, and I do :)
If you have Verizon and are willing to pay for it (I believe it's another $30/month on top of your data plan?) you don't even have to jailbreak. However, I entirely understand if $60 every month is too much; I rooted my Android phone to use it as a hotspot without paying a fee up until I updated my firmware.
Languages/implementations also vary in how much overhead switching to C costs you, especially in loops say, which eg the pidigits benchmark does sort of measure.
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We should do a long post on this but haven't yet. 90% of our companies get follow on funding of $400K-$2M in the round after Seedcamp. In 80% of these cases at least 1 of our investor follows into that round. Only 2 of our companies have died so far. The others are building their businesses and Revs. As said...I need to write a good post on this :-)
I agree that Rolling Stone &c are printing some excellent reporting.

The reason, I suspect, is that they force their writers to be entertaining. Not only does this mean people read and appreciate the long-form articles (and thus build demand for more of them), but it forces the writers to properly get to grips with their subject.

A lot of self-consciously 'serious' investigative journalists put far too little emphasis on turning their research into an engaging story. I was talking to one last week, who seemed almost offended by the idea that he might use 'narrative tricks' to engage readers in his articles. He's won many awards, but little public attention -- and IMO it's precisely because he doesn't consider himself an entertainer.
In case anyone else wants to tinker with it in a Git environment, I've created a clone repo on GitHub at https://github.com/gnufs/aima-java
If I were a rock star I wouldn't be applying for a temp programing job
Watch out, here comes the radioactive cleaning technologies. All those companies and tinkerers that enviously eyed the BP oil disaster aftermath but had to sit quiet because their stupid algae/biochemicals/nanorobots only eat stupid nuclear waste can now let their half-baked offspring loose in Japan. Yee-ha!
So in short.Instead of trying to invent the wheel just invent tires. I like this approach,but its very tempting for us young entreprenuers to Invent (idea) .
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Not sure what you mean with "people who do not need to keep a record of the dates and times they create content on their computers". Could you elaborate?

I think this specific blog post should clarify at least some of the use cases I have in mind for The Board:

http://lucasr.org/2010/12/06/adding-to-the-board/
Here's Topolsky's blog post on the issue: http://joshuatopolsky.com/post/4327161218/this-is-my-next-pr...

"Of course, the natural question I’m sure a lot of people have is: why SB Nation? The easy answer is that the people at SB Nation share my vision of what publishing looks like in the year 2011. They think that the technology used to create and distribute news on the web (and mobile) is as important as the people who are responsible for the content itself. And that’s not just pillow talk — SB Nation is actively evolving its tools and processes to meet the growing and changing needs of its vast editorial teams and their audience communities. They’re building for the web as it is now. From the perspective of a journalist who also happens to be a huge nerd, that’s a match made in heaven. SBN isn’t just another media company pushing news out — it’s a testbed and lab for some of the newest and most interesting publishing tools I’ve ever seen. In short, I was blown away when I saw what kind of technology they’re using to get news on their front page and engage audiences, and even more blown away when I started talking to them about what could come next."
10 years ago it probably would have been a smart idea for ISPs to create their own music download services. Of course, like the media industry in general, they're so far behind the times it's funny. If they wanted to even try to keep up with the curve, they'd be introducing film and TV show downloads instead.
This story dates from June 2009, but taking into account the article counts from this date (2.9 million, 13.6 million for English / all respectively) doesn't account for the disparity in numbers.
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Congrats on all those downloads. I have to say though, I think most people see it's free and just download it into their 'temp' or 'ebooks' folder and then forget about it. I know I used to do this when I was younger and learning new programming languages all the time.
Where is this leaked document?
Sounds like Telstra, formerly Telecom Australia and before that a division of the Postmaster-General's Department (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmaster-General%27s_Departme...).
That's why I used the term "penalize", rather than "require". We could for example give comments from named users a higher default score.
According to his website [1] for this, he says that "TLD has been tested using standard hardware: webcam, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, no GPU processing is used and runs in a single thread. The demands of the algorithm depend on required accuracy of the algorithm. Implementation for mobile devices is feasible." in response to "What kind of hardware it was running on?"

So, according to him, it is lightweight enough to run on mobile devices. I'd imagine there are also several optimizations that can be done (leveraging multi-core chips or GPUs, for instance) to make the performance significantly better than the prototype he's demonstrating now. Also, taking into account Moore's Law, we may not be able to run this on today's mobile devices, but surely could on tomorrow's. Given that research is generally a few years ahead of industry, I would expect that, by the time this would come to market, the devices will be more than capable.

[1]: http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html
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Which is why you should also care about post-quantum cryptography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
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My first blog post in over two years.

TL;DR: whilst it might be very efficient to get lots of poor outsourced content written on the cheap and pushed on to article sites, it’s nowhere near as effective as great content published and promoted properly on your own site when it comes to attracting link weight, traffic and brand awareness

Discussion/thoughts always appreciated
I'd enter Oracle as a counter example.

Personally, however, this is not something I would want to achieve, but to each his own I guess.
At least some of the processing could also be off-loaded to an accessory device. How much work is the Kinect doing vs. the actual 360?
Once they put the service behind a paywall for the customers, they'll only end up putting themselves into the same market as Spotify and iTunes.

In other words, they'll just be a new face among the crowd in the market called The Competition, doing exactly the same thing as everybody else, yelling the same meaningless cant as all the other vendors. Not "share," but "buy."

And if the competition's already doing better than BT and has a more established fan base and brand, well, roll the dice.
Hate that about Safari. Most of the time I certainly don't want to read a PDF in the browser.
Well that's not going to work, though it is a good idea since they seem to think that movies, tv-series (many of which they can't get the rights to before they are too old to be interesting) and porn isn't shared over p2p.
Because there's always a "for what" in there. An an analogy, consider MMA. On the surface, it seems to answer the question "what's the best martial art?". But really, it only answers the question of what is the best martial art for fighting a single opponent in an octogon shaped ring in front of an audience aiming for a submission? And the answer is of course Brazilian Ju Jitsu, exactly the answer the founders of UFC wanted...

Former cop Rory Miller writes about this in his book, the police experimented with BJJ and found it useless. Why? Because in BJJ you pin your opponent on his back because it makes a better show for the audience, but as a cop you always pin your opponent on his front so you can handcuff him!
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Ok, sure, but I'd rather see a rough attempt at getting some numbers than just throwing your hands up in the air and saying "gee, that's a hard problem".

Also, I think that we all know enough about programming and languages and their many uses that we can talk directly about it, rather than about an analogy.
The App store and iTunes are the first micro payment systems to really reach a mass market. It's so easy - click, and I get something.

If an app is 99 ct I am not going to go through the trouble to search for a torrent - I will just click on it, and not having to enter my cc details _yet again_ just makes it easier.

He could sell it in the iBook store no? Link from the web page directly to the iBooks store, done.
Great perspective from Paras in the article. No doubts the way his business has grown is actually a story of how determination and simplicity in an established industry can lead to great businesses.

However, using a blanket statement to characterise the potential of a startup might not be the best way forward. From what the author says, it would be impossible to see Twitter, Foursquare, Square ever be born. I for one would not be happy if they did not exist.

Just because one has never seen an idea getting successful might not always mean it is impossible. It often means no one has tried hard enough. I know the pragmatists would thrash me by saying the contrary.

The truth is that there are many ways to go about founding a company. One is to actually set off to found one because to you the joy of founding and working for yourself while solving a real pain is what is of prime importance. The idea or the sector you are in might not be the closest thing to your heart. (Though it must not be too distant too). This is the way that Paras speaks of and for most of the folks it is great.

Another way is to just work on something that solves a real problem for you. It might be just a simple app that tells you all the cool places in a city maybe just your city but something that you want to do and feel there is a real need for. A point to be noted is that by now you have not thought of how it will make money or how the server bills will be paid. Well do not worry you are not the first person to go this way nor the last one.

The other route is to just come up with a crazy idea that everyone who hears has just one thing to say: "Why won't I use this with that or why do I need that". Don't worry if others cannot see what you clearly see. In such a case the final product is already in your head and you can see hundreds of uses for this. Every day you refine it in your head till the reality and vision of the product converge. Chances are that if you actually stayed around to see them converge then you have something going on for you. Either you actually believe in the product and it is a great product that the world did not see the need for till they started using it OR you were just being delusional. I would say the chances of being delusional if you stuck around till a final MVP are not very high.

Each of the above 3 paths are for different types of people. So before you follow any advise as a rulebook, step back and do some soul searching. You already know what way to go for.
What is this doing on the HN front page? It's fluff, and not particularly good one at that. Please remove/flag this.
Compare it to some of the recent articles on Paywalls, there's almost no discussion of business models left.

Instead you have people ranting "content should be free", "paying is an outdated model", "the nyt are stupid" without any kind of coherent argument.
Who on earth would want to hug a newsman?

Now webmasters everyone loves! :)
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Exactly what I had in mind as well. I'd prefer if the current UI stays as it is, but if I click on a user's profile (or hover over his username), it would be neat to see the type of badges earned.
That is your opinion and PG has given you the opportunity to act on it by so pressing the flag button.

Others, me included, might want to press the up arrow because it was a clever idea, 404, 4.04, and a day to celebrate webmasters is really cool. Maybe it could be celebrated by gatherings, conferences, etc.
launches itself on UDP port 1434, and if the packets hit a vulnerable windows 2000 server

Technically speaking, UDP Port 1434 is a SQL Server service-discovery port and it would depend on SQL Server (2000) to be installed to have any affect.

My experience as a former SQL-Server consultant is that most organizations have been phasing out SQL Server 2000 for quite a while now, and only business-critical applications which for one reason or another are impossible to migrate to a newer version of SQL Server seems to be the only reason it is still around.

This doesn't explain the sudden drop, but just thought I'd clear up what I considered factually incorrect ;)
I've worked at places that worked a bit like this. The problem is that it leads to fierce competition between the groups to the detriment of the company as a whole. Groups will think nothing of costing the company $10 million if they can make $1 million, and stopping your nearest competitor group from making money is almost as good as making money yourself.
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Comments that are legitimate and well thought out often get downvoted if they disagree with the popular opinion, but "me too" posts that agree with popular opinion get voted up.

HN should make it clear that voting should reflect the value a comment adds to the conversation and not whether you agree/disagree.
I've never heard of Houdini so I had to look it up (it's a purely procedural 3D animation package): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houdini_(software)

Here is their demo reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leJks6ay4tg

Apparently Maya, Softimage and 3DS Max are not the only players in this space anymore.
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No one pooped the old hegelian/marxist chestnut about quantitative changes inducing qualitative changes?
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Rebrandable ebooks (.pdf, not .exe) are still quite popular way of marketing online. This is my stab at taking pain out of ebook rebranding. Please tear it apart so I can fix what's left broken. Thank you.
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If they had done this five or more years ago, when there weren't many ways to obtain legal and DRM free music it might have been a story worth reporting, but otherwise this seems like a non-story in the making.
I did a quick google search for "the usual arguments", and as far as I can see it boils down to three objections: loss of control, governments becoming out-of-touch with their populations, and having a single point of failure.

In regards to the single point of failure, I've got no real answer except that governments have scaled well so far. However, this answer doesn't deal with the fact that so far we've always had other governments to compare ourselves to, which keeps the population in a healthy state of mild envy.

Loss of control is a big issue, and not one that's going to go away any time soon. To take the extreme case, there is basically zero chance that any country currently under sharia law will adopt this form of government, because it gives human science the right to veto Mohammad's commands. Likewise, any attempt to join Canada and the USA will suffer from dissidents who don't like to give up their national character.

It is inevitable that large governments will be less attentive to the needs of individual communities, but not to the degree that it is often expected. The simple fact that 200 million + people can have one president indicates that social stability is more important that actually being able to make an impact on the people who rule the country.

I don't really feel like I've given a very good answer to your question. Perhaps the only route to world government is to start with a small country, demonstrate that it works better than the current forms of democracy, and aggressively support national revolutions during times of world turmoil. Because the fourth branch of government is based on independently verifiable science, it wouldn't be too difficult to set up an international confederation of government science. The social laws of different countries would tend to converge simply because everyone would be working from the same data and the same conclusions, and hopefully after fifty years or so the international confederation would collude to vote through policies of non-aggression in their respective countries.

So, yeah, the linchpin in the system - the property that allows it to work across national borders - is that government policies would be able to be verified and tested using internationally-standard science.
if you mean inferring types from un-annotated programs, it has been tried a couple of times - if you search around you can find other people's attempts (i think there is a thesis and a dead project on the net).

[To answer your question; I think it would be useful (I once started work on something similar myself, but never got to actually unifying types). However, the fact that other people have tried and failed to be come popular suggests that there are (more) problems (than you might expect).]
The soviet shuttle imitation did this in its only flight back in 1988:

The automated landing took place on a runway at Baikonur Cosmodrome where, despite a lateral wind speed of 61.2 kilometres per hour (38.0 mph), it landed only 3 metres (9.8 ft) laterally and 10 metres (33 ft) longitudinally from the target mark.[4] The unmanned flight was the first time that a spacecraft of this size and complexity had been launched, completed maneuvers in orbit, re-entered the atmosphere, and landed under automatic guidance.

If the figures are true and not just Soviet propaganda, that's one amazing automated landing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)#Flight_into_...
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I suspect a few things are at play.

1. Free - it's free. People download stuff all the time if it's free.

2. Multiple downloaders - no doubt some people bookmark the page and refer to it online vs downloading, so they count multiple times.

3. Charging $1 - I think charging anything for it would probably have skewed the numbers way down - likely to less than 20k. What might offset that back up is the author's name - Zed's got quite a rep already, so people know what they're getting in to up front.
What I like most about Wikipedia is the random reading binges, where you get from History of Lithuania to Glass Onion (Beatles song), stop by at surface-to-air missiles and finish with the Carlsberg brewery.

Perhaps print-on-demand unique pre-made binges "100% guaranteed random subjects" are a business idea? As an alternative to newspapers in train station kiosks?
Definitely not genuine. Clicking on the symbol at the bottom right of the page leads to a disclaimer posted 3 April:

http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/disclaimer/

Interesting, all the same.