skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think Haskell is a superior language is most respects and I would definitely prefer it for my personal use, I think SML is probably a better language for teaching, particularly for a language-theory course.

Two are two particular issues: laziness and the type system. Laziness is both complicated in practice and makes reasoning about the evaluation semantics more challenging. It can also lead to unexpected behavior for those unaccustomed to it (which will be nearly everybody). Furthermore, the type system is much more complex which makes it a bad model for learning about implicit typing and type inference.
A cheap and easy-to-use bluray software
Xilisoft Blu-ray Creator 2 helps you create Blu-ray discs from various videos for playback on any Blu-ray players. With the Blu-ray creator, you can easily burn your videos to Blu-ray discs (BD-R, BD-RE, BD-25, BD-50), and AVCHD on DVDs (DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL). Besides, it supports converting videos to BDMV ISO and AVCHD ISO.

Additionally, the powerful editing tools enable you to customize your Blu-ray movie by trimming video, cropping video playing region, adding subtitle/audio/watermark and adjusting image settings. Creating Blu-ray DVD menu from numerous templates and adding several titles into one disc are all available.
Yeah, a lot of the buzz I read comes from people freaking out about the cost of the Ivy League.

Cost of state schools is just a tad bit less.
Techniques for Managing Shared State
I like the fuzzy and the techy. I am an artist who works with code, and creates performances, installations, etc. I find it helpful to construct projects that have a good balance of different skill sets - engineer, artist, craftsperson.

I'm also big advocate for the idea that art is a kind of research, that artists are researchers just like scientists, ie, the same way a car company would have an R&D department thinking of future cars, artists are a kind of R&D department for humanity thinking of possible futures (and ways of understanding our present).

Some links to my work

http://thesystemis.com
http://eyewriter.org
http://yesyesno.com
Ask HN: Marketplace for ideas?
Below is a quote from http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html:<p>"But as Larry and Sergey found, there's not much of a market for ideas. No one trusts an idea till you embody it in a product and use that to grow a user base. Then they'll pay big time."<p>Do you think that statement is still true? If so, what about openinvo or any number of other sites that are trying create a market place for ideas?
How about paying 2.3% tax? [0]. Google's open about it because it's the industry standard (eg Facebook is owned by Facebook Ireland Limited).

[0] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/22/google_double_irish_...
Just putting my 2 cents in for what they are worth.

Its hard for me to keep track of what the community thinks of comments without their karma score beside them.
This is pretty cool. I'm most impressed that the iPad 2 has the horsepower to do all of the face-tracking and geometry rendering.

As others have mentioned here, Johnny Lee had something similar running with the Wii hardware but as far as I remember the display was all driven by a PC which was (presumably) much more powerful than the iPad.
I applied and didn't get an interview. And I agree that a filter of some sort is needed for YCReject to be meaningful. I'll persist in my efforts, but that doesn't imply I will be successful.

More to the point, though, I think much of the value of YC is in the network of alums and mentors they provide. Unless there is some buyin from those mentors (or others of their value) then I don't think there's much point to YCReject except as a team to cheer you through the low points.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=10+meters+to+feet

Bing does a very good job on such queries.
As i mentioned I am not sure how the math works - but what I believe occurs is that the manager of the charity is likely not a "person" but setup as a trust. the money goes into that trust and is leveraged via loans / collateral just as is spelled out in several of the methods described in the link.

The point is that the donations to charities and the income of your own charities also offset each other.
This of course brings to mind Yegge's interview loop theory: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
One way I think we could greatly improve the US Healthcare system is by regulating hospitals to file fares publicly as the airline industry has been doing for over 20 years now. I think it would ad much needed transparency to hospital charges and allow patients/customers to make educated decision about there use of health care services.
About 2. Google map ui is moot on places where you need off line access.

And using all the data you and others provided to google, but in an offline manner is illegal.
This looks like it would support some fun new game mechanics on the iPad. I can imagine some sort of game where you have to look at the screen from different angles in order to perceive the route that your character (or a ball, vehicle, etc.) ought to take. Even something like 3D Pong would be kind of neat.
Bitcoin leads to tax/govt.control-free gambling
I agree with this, too. I wish them well, but am voting with my feet.
Hmm, I feel like having a marketplace for ideas is like having a marketplace for glasses of tap water.
Talk with some private practice doctors some time. They often spend about as much time dealing with patents as they do with the insurance company. As to the initial bill, they need to inflate it because the insurance company will always try and drop the price on something. It's the same game purchasing departments at large company's play where it's easier to buy something for 75$ after the 25% discount than 500$ without a discount.
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"We have a lot to offer startup founders, including a beautiful environment, multicultural society, publicly funded health care and a strong economy"

This mindset seems to be a big part of the problem. There's apparently a mindset amongst we Canadians that people should want to come to Canada simply because we're so great. We're like America, but not as screwed up.

We fundamentally miss the point in being so self-congratulatory. When trying to attract tech entrepreneurs, why not stress the thousands of students graduating from schools like UofT, Waterloo, McGill, UBC, and the like? Streamlining visas and making them internationally competitive is one thing, but why do we consistently try to sell Canada on quality of life when trying to attract entrepreneurs? We should be focussing on why Canada is a great place to start a business, and fixing whatever issues prevent it from being one.
Great information Geoff thanks so much for posting this. Out of curiosity, is this the approach that you took to secure each of the partnerships that you have with the large companies? What was your success/fail rate like before you finally had some biters?
You should assume that ITAR is completely random and non-sensical in what it restricts. My spouse used to design power systems for civilian communications satellites and because of ITAR was forbidden from showing her client, a South Korean telecom company, an analysis indicating that the satellite they had purchased would not run out of power during its lifespan. The reason that ITAR came into play? The analysis involved calculating the satellite's orbital trajectory and eclipse schedule, and such information cannot be shared with foreign nationals under ITAR. What if the Chinese found out? They've only been predicting eclipses for a few centuries (millenia?) after all....

ETA: Technically ITAR shouldn't cover stuff like that, but in practice, the attorneys at my spouse's employers felt very strongly that it forbade disclosure.
Georgia? We've always been at war with eurasia.
How does this work? Is it an iPhone emulator? If so, that seems non-trivial to get working considering how little is publicly available about it.
For me, YC & the rest of the seed funds have seemed to light a fire under would-be entrepreneurs, which is great. It's opened up lots of doors and spurred on innovation, which is the whole point. PG & co deserve a round of applause.

But I find it bizarre and a bit upsetting that YC has become the be-all, end-all (at least on HN). There were great startups before YC and there will be great ones after YC. I'd like to echo the sentiment of others who have said the following: If getting into YC (or TechStars or whatever else there is) was part of your strategy, then you're probably not going to succeed. The value they add is immense, but they are by no means king makers. Many YC companies will fail, and some will succeed and those that succeed might just as well have done so without YC.
The 3DS depends on a very narrow viewing angle, so the different approaches cannot be combined at this time.
DRM drives gamers to piracy
Having watched my children I must respectfully disagree. You need buttons because your hands are now wired that way. My little boys are happier with the sensitivity of a tilt. They were never wired to buttons.
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I worked two jobs, spent very little, saved money, went back to school for electrical engineering technology, graduated and became a programmer

I was one of six kids. We were always taught learning was important. We went to Catholic schools. We had nothing but always lived in a neighborhood where everybody worked. I think that is very important. Seeing cause and effect is very important.

But this is not unusual. Many people in the US have parents or grandparents who started with nothing.

Poverty is a cultural and political creation. Most people that desire to save and invest and are allowed to keep the results will work their way out of it. Those who are taught to consume and borrow or have the results of their efforts taken cannot.
What would be interesting is if a random set of the unaccepted got the same opportunities as the accepted. But that's not possible...

Instead what yc needs to do is accept a control group and see if there is any correlation between being chosen and eventual success. Then again...
I definitely value the experience more than the money, and I would love to start my own start-up(s). The problem with that; however, is that I don't have the knowledge to physically build my ideas. That's what the E.E. major is for.

Maybe I should stick with the E.E. major and work on CompSi&Coding in my free time.
Does it bother anyone else that YC has become so important that it's being covered in Forbes? I appreciate the attention that the startup community has been getting these days, but I'm sure many of you likewise enjoyed the underdog status we had.
Well, aside from the bobble-head app having no use, the other three seem quite useful and have gotten a few good ratings.

Depending on the client and their app I see iOS/Android dev houses and individuals charging anywhere between $50 and $100 per hour.

Now, I think that both of these numbers are on the high-end. the $50 being for a dev house that has all their staff in india aside from some mgmt here in SF. The $100 being a dev in NYC who was a good dev, but not a designer.

Depending on your situation, interests and what you want to/need to make - I would go on the lower end to get more business (assuming you have need of more)

Also, I cant tell what exactly was required of you as a developer in creating these projects (I didn't look at them to see the architecture - but clearly you're connecting to services that have the data, and in the case of the music streamer - streaming the content)

How difficult were these for you to make? How many hours did these apps take you? What is your strength and weakness?

I think they look great.
http://www.spacetime.us/iphone/
ddg perhaps
"They're making money" is often the simplest explanation - not that I'm advocating a conspiracy theory.
Having been pitched a few of these schemes by CPA's and trust attorneys after selling a business I had one conclusion:

It's just not worth the incredible complexity that will ensue to do most/all of these things. I think especially in light of PG's post about avoiding conflict and big transactions to keep focus.

Maybe if I were retired and done with the "game" I would have more willingness to try these... or maybe if my wealth was in the billions, I might view these strategies as sport or some kind of contribution to CPA employment levels, but overall pursuing complex strategies like these for anyone under 60 without a penchant for paperwork and dull conversations with lawyers is suicide.

Also, there's always the risk of an audit from hell. Imagine trying to focus on your startup with that hanging over you.
That "vast %" was in some grants, not over the whole fund:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41221202/ns/health-health_care/

Your comment, as it stands, makes it sound like Bono is siphoning off funds, which doesn't appear to be true from the evidence available.
My ambitions really aren't a programming career. I'd live to be able to program whatever ideas pop into my head. I'm able to do that only with lsl.

What I want to do (eventually) is start my own company that creates technology to aid education. I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a stack of ideas already lined up; however, I don't have the knowledge necessary or the capital. My end goal is to help people, and I feel as if it is time to decide the first real step.
This is very cool. I'd love to read more about how it works. I think they're running a dedicated iOS simulator for each app and streaming the user input/video output via Flash. Even their $60/mo plan has a limit of 10 simultaneous viewers, so I imagine it's pretty taxing on their hardware.

They must be capturing the output at some deeper layer though since OpenGL doesn't render (but it does run).
SECONDED!

Add Mozart/Oz to the mix for good measure.
Isn't this exactly what some of those twin studies have done? Looked at pairs of identical twins where one was adopted into a family of wildly different socioeconomic status?

Anyway, the article (and the studies) did say "Over the long term", as in leading into adulthood. While I'd have trouble believing that being raised in a bad inner city ghetto has no effect on your adulthood, I wouldn't have trouble believing that many intelligent, hard-working kids (the ones who don't get shot, at least) manage to escape the ghetto.

I'm reminded of something I've often heard about homeless people. People can end up homeless for all sorts of reasons, most of them not their fault. But the ones who stay homeless are almost invariably mentally ill. If you have the coping skills of a normal human being, homelessness is a rather unpleasant few months that you can eventually put behind you. But if you don't have those coping skills, that's when it becomes chronic and you get stuck on the streets.

Also the studies did say only 40-50% of the variation was attributed to genetics. The other 50% is peer group. People generally have a tough time going friendless, yet that's often what's required to escape a bad situation.
That can work well, depending on the amount of income you need every year, due to the progressive tax system.

e.g. you earn $3M one year, but only need $170k a year for the rest of your life.

If you pay taxes now, you are hit at nearly 35% rate. If you defer the money to your future non-earning years, you'll only pay a ~25% rate on the income.
Since you send them a copy of your iPhone simulator code, they must be running this on some kind of Mac OS X system, and giving you VNC-style access to the app.

Kinda dodgy.
I think the home button is a red herring. Toddlers 'get' it. It's the weird inconsistent in-app controls that they struggle with.

Red vs green us also something that kids get early. They know about traffic lights and trains (apart from the 10% of colour-blind boys).

It's writing that they find frustrating. Writing should be left for over 6s. I've seen learn-the-alphabet (flash) apps with textual buttons!
Even ignoring the preference for those with previous spaceflight experience, how many people qualify for this job?
It would be good to provide a link. I've been through the last 8 days of pg's comments which you can browse here and haven't seen anything to that effect:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

Discussions will end up quite boring if people use votes to agree or disagree rather than expressing their point of view in a reply. I tend to think of votes on HN similar to the options for moderation on Slashdot: vote up for insight, vote down for off-topic or flamebait.
Ebeats $77.77 contest nearing it's end, scj already claiming victory
scj is claiming victory already. With only 4 days to go, does anyone wan't to take him down?
Both the school and the journalist assume that their knowledge of what is healthy is reliable but in reality there is widespread disagreement about what constitutes good nutrition. This is one of the reasons why authoritarian approaches are bad.

However, it is pretty uncontroversial that banning things, especially highly sought after things, has unintended consequences.
I totally agree with what you said. I will send out some emails, and see what they say.

As for startups being hard, I'm looking for experience now, so that when I start my own, I won't be lost.
I like the focus on having a solid, measurable, _objective_ benchmark. Everyone knows that it takes hundreds of hours to get very good at something, but this essay is a great reminder that simply putting hundreds of hours of practice is still no guarantee of progress if you do not have a way to measure it.
Sent you an email. Also added links to YC Reject and YC Reject Reject to Y Combinator Universe ( http://ycuniverse.com ).
Graphing calculators aren't pointless, but most people using them are missing the point. (And TI likes it that way.)

Why not just put Mathematica on a netbook? Aside from the fact that a netbook is 3-5 times larger and thus less portable, it's all about the user interface. What's the smallest laptop you can get that has a real number pad, with its own enter, +, -, x, and / keys? It's probably bigger than any netbook. A graphing calculator should have a keyboard that is designed not around general-purpose text entry, but around entering math. Even the graphing calculators that have QWERTY keyboards also a dedicated number pad and a bunch of other keys.

Even though I have a full-size 109-key keyboard and a pair of monitors totaling over 4 megapixels, and I have MATLAB, Mathematica, and a bunch of other math programs installed, I still keep my HP-50g on my desk right under my monitor. It turns on instantly, has a pretty good keyboard layout, and even though the screen resolution is monochrome 131x80, it makes good use of the whole screen to display just what I'm working on. MATLAB et al are basically worthless for short computations even if you do keep them running at all times, and while they are both faster for large computations and have more features, they aren't as interactive and simpler functions are take too many keystrokes to get to when compared with my calculator. (I will occasionally actually use a 50g emulator on my desktop for some of the tasks that are a bit cumbersome without a full QWERTY keyboard, but still suck with native software.)

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Of course, the above is only why we should be continuing to use and develop graphing calculators. It has nothing to do with the current markets. (Astute readers will have guessed this based on my use of an HP calculator as an example.)

The current reality in the calculator market is that calculators are designed for and marketed to teachers who train their students to be machines that operate calculators. TI and Casio are competing to see who can better enable bad teaching methods. They do this by offering standardized platforms, fully locked-down to assuage teachers' fears about kinds of cheating that shouldn't even help on a properly designed math test, and they partner with textbook authors and publishers to integrate their model's functionality in to the "curriculum".

Nobody is designing or marketing calculators to engineers anymore, and engineers are for the most part not using handheld calculators as much as they used to. I don't think it's clear which is the cause and which is the effect. What is clear is that you can't judge the entire concept of a handheld graphing calculator based solely on the models that weren't meant to be useful. Almost anything a good calculator can do, it will do better than a general-purpose machine.
Thanks for the feedback.

More details:

Venmo: handled everything but design (but worked alongside their designer)

Wolfgang's Vault: handled everything for the app, based design off of existing iOS app

BSG Bobble: ported from iOS (also agree with it being pointless, fun project though)

Philly Concert Hub: everything (even the web app that gets listings, http://phillyconcerthub.com)

None of these were overly difficult, nearly everything is just a native client that connects to some web API.

I can't recall the hours for each, sorry.

Strengths:
I think I can build a decent product even though I'm not a designer
Good understanding of both iOS and Android

Weaknesses:
I wish I did more testing
Introduction to Architecting Systems for Scale
Japan raises nuclear crisis alert level to that of Chernobyl
Ask HN: AWS & Aspera?
I had a few questions about using Aspera for AWS. I am willing to pay for the consultation. Any takers?
This is exactly the problem. Google is not only asking people to submit map data for free, but basically giving the impression that the project itself is 'free' when in fact the people that submitted the data cannot use it 'freely'.
There are a few extensions for chrome available.
See vrome and vimium and vim-like smoozie.
Vrome (http://www.chromeextensions.org/other/vrome/)
Vimium (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgn...)
Vim-like smoozie (http://code.google.com/p/vimlike-smooziee/wiki/English)

However, because Chrome's extension API isn't as robust as Firefox's these extensions are very limited especially when compared to the feature-set that Vimperator and Pentadactyl provide you in firefox.

Hope that helps.
Bought. :) my boys might be getting a little old for it but I have plenty of other kids who like to play with my iPhone. (I think handing your iPhone to a bored kid is one of life's simple pleasures - I recommend it to everyone (who has an insured iPhone))
Internal champions are an absolute must-have!
Not to imply you don't realize this, but the proportion of web users who use IE is a different statistic from the proportion of web traffic from IE. It's very possible that the proportion of web traffic coming from IE is significantly lower than the proportion of web users that use IE, and in fact, I'd guess it's fairly likely to be the case since heavy web users are probably more likely to use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc. than an average web user.

Now, I too would be very surprised if that observation brings 45% of web users down to under 10% of web traffic, but I don't doubt that web traffic from IE is lower than 45%.