skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is YC not a marketplace for ideas?

Sure, we need to fight for validation of that idea though building them out, getting social proof, floating an MVP...

But in the end - we are vying for our idea to be selected and a stake in that idea purchased through YC investment.

Now, PG, can you correct me if I am wrong about hte following. It has been oft repeated that YC is investing in the team -- have you accepted anyone who has come as a single founder and stated "I have no idea what I would make, but here is my CV, history, background -- select me as a YC candidate for backing"?

Isn't part of proving out your credentials as a team proving that the team can build upon something, and has an idea to build? Even if that team winds up pivoting off the original?

So, maybe it would seem that idea/execution are the yin/yang of success? In as much as potentially team/mentorship is the yin/yang of entrepreneurship?
So it's a failure of editing.

> Measured by their profits, the six largest financial institutions in the US now account for 55 percent of all banking assets.

should read

> The six largest financial institutions in the US, as measured by their profits, now account for 55 percent of all banking assets.
Sadly, my 'meme' isn't there on the video. Helvetica doesn't like my language I guess.
How much more convoluted can Adobe make their product line? The idea of a suite of Adobe products begging to be updated every minute like acrobat would be enough to drive me to tears...
Way to issue a challenge that all large communities struggle to solve!

So I have two thoughts that I think are in a different vein than many comments below (tried to read them all but may have missed some. Apologize for repeats)

1. Similar to other suggestions, but with a slight twist, modify the up/down votes to utilize the Net Promoter Score methodology. It has its issues but it reduces a really difficult problem to a simple question that provides a broader spectrum than y/s. Could limit the "would highly recommend" super-vote to one story per day so users would save those votes for those articles they find extremely valuable.

Actually, thinking about it. Would be cool to get a view of only stories that people have "spent" their one super-vote as that is signaling extreme importance. I think many people find many stories interesting, but would only find a few EXTREMELY interesting enough to spend their super-vote on.

2. One challenge is that HN has grown in size so much that there is no set of top stories to satisfy the entire group. Would be interesting to provide a view that matches your personal preferences. Reddit does this by subreddit, stackoverflow by tags. My personal background is personalization in the context of eCommerce, which looks more at user segments. So users who find hard-core tech knowledge interesting vs. VC news vs. geographic location. In some ways this is already being done via segmentation in the classic view: http://news.ycombinator.com/classic Are there some other obvious segments on HN?
Well given the shuttle program is coming to an end, there would probably be a far better short term outlook for those astronauts in a position like this. Is NASA keeping all it's astronauts or downsizing given the limited opportunities of the next few years.
I'm curious what industry you're in that you're able to make significant use of Haskell?

Haha. I'm an integrated circuit designer. When I write Haskell, it's for my side projects or for some kind of optimization or signal processing problem.
Sort of:
http://mashable.com/2009/11/27/silverlight-iphone/
I suspect that touching the screen would, at all but one depth plane, break the illusion. The brain is eerily good at fooling itself, until it receives contradictory information.
Also, it's weird that the article talks about "XLR mics" as if they're something special ...

Not really. This is an article geared towards people used to amateur or, at best, prosumer computer mics. 99% of those are not XLR.
He does mentions Haskell. Pharo is Smalltalk. Erlang is functional.
We may be both correct. The over-inflated-self-payment form of cheating, ala Bristol Palin, may very well be the pedestrian 'new money' scam (for lack of better phrasing), whereas the other modes are far too sophisticated for her ilk and reserved for old-money to whom several hundred thousand is peasant pay.
Yup. I'm wondering when more average people are going to start noticing this.
This is what the site says:

"StatCounter is a web analytics service. As of 1 June 2010, our tracking code is installed on more than 3 million sites globally. (These sites cover various activities and geographic locations.) Every month, we record billions of hits to these sites. For each hit, we analyse the browser/operating system used and we establish if the hit is from a mobile device. For our search engine stats, we analyze every hit referred by a search engine. For our social media stats, we analyze every hit referred by a social media site. We summarize all this data and this is how we get our Global Stats information.

We do not manipulate the data in any way. We do not collate it with any other information sources. No artificial weightings are used. We simply publish the data as we record it.

In other words we calculate our Global Stats on the basis of more than 15 billion hits per month, by people from all over the world onto our 3 million+ member sites."

The only thing they talk about are hits, and they mention it extensively. Maybe they do some analysis to determine unique users, but if so they don't mention it, and that would seem to be a pretty big oversight. That's why I said as best I can tell they use page hits.

UPDATE: I went to the Wikipedia link you provided and it says this: "StatCounter (July 2008 to present)
Usage share of web browsers according to Stat Counter.
Statcounter statistics are directly derived from hits (not unique visitors) from 3 million sites using Statcounter totalling more than 15 billion hits per month.[22] No artificial weightings are used"

This seems consistent with what I said earlier.
Speaking of...does wikipedia list their web traffic numbers? It seems like they would have a pretty good representation of the public knocking on their door.
I learned a cunning (probably UK-only) technique the other day.

In the UK you have to pay "stamp duty" when you buy property. On a property over £1m in value, it's 5%. So if you have a fancy £5m apartment in London to sell, that's a not so fun £250k stamp tax for your buyer to pay. What to do? People are transferring the ownership of such properties into corporations and then the "homeowner" only has to sell the shares of the corporation to transfer the property rather than the property per se (stamp duty on shares is significantly lower than on property). Someone then obviously pockets the difference.
The problem here is that it doesn't distinguish between these two cases:

1. Multiple people independently submitted a content they found, because they found it interesting. This is (generally) good. Maybe it's not the community's cup of tea, and gradually fades away, but that's fine.

2. Somebody notices some fresh, overtly linkbait-ish article. They post it ASAP, hoping that fifty other people will be slower on the draw, netting them fifty upvotes. (Those people may be doing it for the same reason.) Either way: fluff gets submitted. Maybe it has fifty upvotes, maybe there are fifty others that just crowded out something really fascinating. This sets up a feedback loop that rewards posting things because they're linkbait, not thought-provoking.

I suspect that rewarding duplicate submissions too much tips the scales towards rewarding submitting linkbait. Looking at the new page basically ever backs this up. I don't know if adding a cost to submissions, reducing duplicate-submission karma, penalizing everybody involved for flagged->deleted articles, or what will help, but that seems like the root of the problem, so let's talk about it!
I've tried it a few times since it launched and just did a quick try doing a self-Google. Again, less useful results than Google.
Though, in fairness, Erlang has a completely different emphasis than most other functional languages - instead of provability, experimenting with type systems, or state-phobia, my understanding is that it was pretty much engineered for making stable systems, and everything else is a secondary concern. (It was also put together by a telecom, rather than academics or hobbyists).
It leads to unconstrained, unaccountable behaviour because nobody has any clear procedure for punishing divergence from the group's interest. There is, if you like, no "immune system". In such an environment parasites thrive -- and indeed a major driver of both evolution and civilisation is adaptation to parasitic behaviour.

The idea of a democratic process presupposes an institution, which includes explicit divisions of power, which is independent of the individuals taking part.

It is still a hierarchy as someone will hold the power. It is an explicit hierarchy because those powers are enumerated. That the process of replacement is democratic is slightly besides the point (though not entirely, as it prevents all-or-nothing power acquisition).

Whereas a loose, "flat" organisation with no differentiation between the rights, responsibilities and power of members is utterly vulnerable to the first sociopath who happens upon it. Such a person will wind up with an informal dictatorship and everyone else will be stuffed.
Indeed. I asked the same question earlier to the sound of crickets. Hitwise has, in the past, presented Wikipedia hits from search engines, but the last was 2007, so its not really useful for comparison.
Yeah, I concluded the same thing. Languages with standards seem to be largely worse off than languages with canonical implementations with regard to interoperability and ecosystem coherence. I think maybe the problem is that if your standard isn't restrictive enough to ensure general interoperability, you end up without it.

It seems strange that Haskell seems to be a special case to this, but even there you see language extensions that ghc supports but Hugs et al do not. It's just that, for most people, ghc just wins outright. SML/NJ vs MLton is a harder question to decide given the freakish performance that MLton can achieve.
I know in WW2 they tested pigeons and chickens. It really doesn't put you in an esteemed class if you're classified as a missile pilot; I mean astronauts had chimps, that's cool. Chickens? Not so much.
And what is the advantage of seeing our own karma? It seems to me that it is (marginally) more useful to see karma of other users than one's own.
YC Reject Reject
Because you start from scratch, instead of improving upon something already big. You might make more money by making Google 0.01% more popular than by making your smaller startup 1% more popular, while the effort could be similar.
iPhone Simulator binary, not source code per http://www.pieceable.com/viewer
> I thought that hackers and playstation 3 "owners" would be on the same side

Apparently, Anonymous took down the PSN for some time in protest to the litigation. I'm sure that galvanized the viewpoint of some Playstation users who may not have even been aware of the bigger picture.
I see what you mean about YC potentially falling into this category, but I was really referencing sites like openinvo.com that are designed for the sole purpose of drafting and selling an idea (no execution required).
Money, money, money is what is important. Kids would be better served by chalk, pencil, and teachers with masters in their fields, rather than bullshit technology and "teacher training", but nobody makes a pile that way.
No, they don't. The scale only goes to 7. Fukushima is now at "level 7", but doesn't mean that the crisis is "at the level of Chernobyl".
Have you heard of CoffeeScript? It makes writing JS a much, much more pleasant experience.
I think of it as getting in a feedback loop, which people often call iterating. Practicing is also close. The idea of iterating is simple and can be seen in anything from education to genetics to investing.

The challenge often is getting over the personal hangups which prevent one from facing honest feedback. There is a general narrative where a person's will to achieve a particular goal finally overcomes the fears related to identity and the outcome, and progress accelerates.
Mobile Opportunities: not in the apps
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these units seem all messed up.

A becquerel is the number of radioactive emissions per second. So stating becquerels per time is like talking about power per time.

Are we talking about a mean over a period, a cumulative total (becquerels hour), or what?

I'm guessing the Hiroshima blast number is the instantaneous peak.
There's no Mathematica app or equivalent for the iPhone?
Node.js wikipedia entry marked for deletion for not being notable
That sounds similar to something I suggested in a previous discussion on this topic here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2405266
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I disagree, I didn't put words in the author's mouth. I didn't chose the questions or the framing. I also disagree, it is out of line to suggest that. Startups existed before YC. YC does not hold a monopoly on determining or ensuring success. Their "rejection" letter alludes to this fact.

YC has a tremendous amount of experience and their intuition and insight I'm sure leads to better decisions regarding startups, but they're in no way infallible.

I suppose my main point is that there are plenty of good companies that are fund worthy that don't get into YC for various reasons. One of those reasons being that YC doesn't have the time or resources to take them in. The YC model has been successful but there is still an underserved market here and that is why others are popping up, not that there is a bubble necessarily as the author suggests. There's no reason why angels wouldn't "invest in companies that are not vetted by Y Combinator?".
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It is not only about keyboard, but about general user interface. It's probably highly subjective, but Ti-89's OS is probably only CAS that I have ever seen that is really easy to use (at least for me).

But on the other hand, while I used to have some kind of calculator always at hand, I mostly eliminated that recently as to minimize amount of stuff I'm carrying around and use my smartphone (Python on Symbian is pretty good approximation of scientific calculator, modulo some input problems) or random REPL windows instead.
Skipping the SSD because it's "too pricey" and going for the fastest CPU, most RAM, and best GPU is just stupid.
On the other hand, you're saving time.
Multiple layers of blogspam on this one.

The closest to the source appears to be this:
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArtic...

But I can't find a link to the actual original.
The parent poster was talking about immutability, "the early days" and copying data. I think my point was that you don't have to copy data all the time but this requires a clever interpreter/compiler that you could not have run "in the early days".

I'd also like to use the opportunity to say that I find those OOP vs FP posts at HN rather pointless.
Startup Quote: Jeff Clavier, managing partner, SoftTech VC
In Honduras, foreigners can't own more than 3/4 acre of property. The way around this is to have a corporation own the property, and you own the corporation. The system is setup for this purpose.

Even smaller properties are owned by corporations to make the paperwork easy, and to avoid the same types of taxes.

The downside is that mortgages aren't available for buying corporations, so financing is trickier
Making mistakes of all types and consequences is part of an entrepreneur’s journey, the only real failure is not trying.

- Jeff Clavier (@jeff)

http://startupquote.com/post/4545661784
Shouldn't an article on "advanced programming languages" include at least one dependently typed language? I mean, I'm pretty slow and halting in Haskell and Erlang, but with ATS and Coq I don't even know where to start.
I found the embedded slides didn't work for me, so here's a non-embedded link to the same slides: http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/the-road-to-being-a-kick...

I'm a big fan of:

(1) encouraging techies to take and make opportunities to present publicly; and,

(2) improving the quality of the presentation in terms of supporting material and presentation styles.

In the past I've found sites like Presentation Zen (http://www.presentationzen.com/) to be really helpful for improving the quality of my presentations.

I'm no Lawrence Lessig but here's part of a presentation I did last year at DEFCON: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XotF9FyiAZc (Self-critique: still need to work on reducing the "ahhs". :) )

Also, like most things, improvement takes time: for many of my earlier presentations I just used a vertically scrolled single HTML page for my "slides"--it did the job and allowed me to concentrate more on the content. Nowadays when I actually manage to finish the content earlier than the night before I can put more time into increasing the production values.

(Incidentally, I think the DEFCON videos from last year are possibly the best layout for post-event videos I've seen with legible slides and decent sized speaker view.)
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This is an excellent article for any CEO taking their company from about 25 to 60 people.

I forwarded it to my VPs of Product and Engineering, swearing I didn't write it myself. :-)
The iPad (and other tablets) can have arbitrary keys. I see great potential in tablets for replacing graphing calculators. They have all the right specs, they are portable and their UIs can very much surpass that of traditional graphing calculators, especially when it comes to data entry. (My only problem is that I despise all the existing apps because they are so damn ugly. They offend my sensibilities. That's probably just me, though.)
125 job offers for Node.js on Indeed.com, doesn't that make it somewhat notable? http://www.indeed.com/q-Node.js-l-United-States-jobs.html
And "The Option Option" (stock options) is not really deferring taxes since you're also deferring the income.
Why buy a netbook and an add-on keypad if the user interface is still going to be the bottleneck? The CPUs in current generation calculators are fast enough for basically any undergraduate use case. (With better software, the HP's 75Mhz CPU would be able to keep up with any computation task that makes sense for a device with a small screen.)

Yes, they ought to be a lot cheaper, but I think your target of $30 isn't quite realistic. Good keyboards aren't cheap, and neither are chips with power consumption low enough for running off AAAs. Certainly, if you want a high-contrast high-resolution screen and a lot of RAM, you'll be looking at a lot more than $30.
Since tax rates vary depending on which party is in power, deferring taxes until they are lower could save real money.
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The culprit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mootros
When did it jump up? Do you know of anything they did that'd make them suddenly more popular?
Can Restaurants Benefit From Wireless and Mobile Credit Card Processing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTE#General_notabili...

The article in question has a single external reference: a page on the CommonJS wiki which basically just says that NodeJS exists. Add some real citations to the article and the issue goes away.

Edit: Some anonymous user removed the notice. Here's the old version of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Node.js&oldid=...

Also, notice the sentences "You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason" and "If this template is removed, it should not be replaced." in the original warning.
Let's not jump the gun and start pointing fingers. Wikipedia is a hard beast to manage and we have to assume the moderator acted in good faith.
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I don't see why any of those articles should be deleted.
On Node.js
Stopped reading at "once a program compiles [in haskell], it's almost certainly correct".

Haven't done any Haskell coding, but I just seriously doubt that in any language.
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Hey, thanks! My blood pressure was sagging a little tonight.
I had never thought about it in exactly that kind of way, of artists being researchers just like scientists, but I have to say I totally agree. Thanks for the links; Lights On! was mesmerizing.
How this guy got a blank book to the top of the Amazon charts
In the classroom setting there are a few more reasons why they are appealing, relative to a computer they are less distracting (although there are still games for them) and they can be used in tests without to much fear of them being misused for teaching. They also allow a teacher to learn one tool and be able to help students rather than having to deal with varying hardware configurations and maths programs.
Meanwhile development of a true iDevice emulator is underway. Unlike XCode's iDevice simulator (it compiles the dev app for the host architecture [x86/x86-64]), this emulator is based off of ARM QEMU with lots of hard work going into emulating the iPhone's hardware. It directly emulates stock iOSes/apps.

Project page:
http://www.iemu.org

Github:
https://github.com/cmwdotme/QEMU-s5l89xx-port

Screenshots:
http://www.cmw.me/lcdworking.png
http://www.cmw.me/ichargetoo.png
http://www.iemu.org/oibiemu.png

Author's Twitter:
http://twitter.com/cmwdotme
I was more referring to a democratic process like - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

I agree that a loose "flat" organization is prone to serious problems :)
Yeah - you pretty much need a family financial advisor to get that stuff working right. The Palins aren't at that level (yet - they sure are working hard on it, though).
I have needed this product for months now to demo my company's app for prospective buyers. This will allow our technical sales force (who are on PC's) to share this via GoToMeeting with prospects (we're a B2B in a very relationship-driven industry).
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Ask HN: What do you wish monit/cacti/nagios/zabbix/etc would do?
My co-workers and I have been writing some software to monitor the activity and health of our servers at work. We found that many of the available solutions were either painful to deal with and setup or expensive. We were hoping to find some sort of agent-based hosted solution similar to most of the current web analytics services. We couldn't find one we liked so we're creating one. We're at the point where we're just pre-processing the incoming data that we're tracking.

What type of info and data do you all think we could all use for server analytics/metrics?
I think the concept of seeing your own karma total goes hand in hand with seeing karma scores on your own comments. People will want to track and monitor their karma if they are able to.
Computer science, EE, and coding are three very different things. Make sure you really understand what each one consists of before you decide to pursue it in school.
Can someone give TL;DR summary of this post? My, does it go on and on...
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This is actually my life's goal.