skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That all depends on what criteria you use for adding people on Facebook. Personally I try to keep it to people that I actually know in contrast to people whom I've met once or twice.
No matter what happens you're still trusting your friends' judgement in character.
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A few business cards, various papers, glass of water, mug of pens/pencils etc., postcard received from a friend visiting Amsterdam, small buddha statue kind of like this: http://bit.ly/iO2Iy5
Now you can know where your friend's very attractive friend lives, game changing!!!
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> However, from wikipedia: "Of features found in C++ or Java, Go does not include type inheritance, generic programming, assertions, method overloading, or pointer arithmetic."

For many people (including me) the lack of all this "features" is a feature in itself. I certainly have not missed any of them.
That is how it is for everything when you are submitting something for approval. Always provide everything you can to make their job easy.
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The interesting bit is that $9 million is a normal amount for one company's series B round. In this case, that money is going to (in theory) benefit 60 companies. That is a big change that could have a significant impact.
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I'm not talking about "my idea" (I didn't even apply) or the value of ideas in general. I merely dispute the notion that a YC partner would hear an idea, forget it, and never make use of it again. I've seen it said several times over the last few years by defenders of YC and I don't buy it.

The reality is that some people will have genuinely good, novel ideas but not be accepted (perhaps the applicant didn't seem motivated enough). Not using that idea takes conscious effort; "forgetting" the idea is exactly the recipe for inadvertently passing it on to someone else.

I'm not contending that it does not make sense to share an idea with YC as part of the application process. Weighing the financial impact of giving away the idea (most would contend this is relatively small) against the potential benefit of getting into YC, submitting an application to YC will often be the rational decision.
I got an email like this from my domain provider the other day. I was curious if someone might be able to sniff the network for SMTP messages then go request a bunch of password resets from the website. There support staff was not too interested in the idea.
Yeah - you should provide more info here rather than just getting blind emails.

People need more info to gauge their interest in wanting to email you.
I'll let PG answer that:

On-time applications for s2011 were up by 84% from w2011

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2512854
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How naive of you to ask... No, how about you try to disprove it?

Unlike math, moth social science studies require years of work. I could of course go to a library or search Google to try to find something that would support my point (hint: most likely I will find something). Would that be proof to you? Regardless of what you think of it, it would still not be good enough for me to consider it as proof. Because it would be equivalent to what's known in the statistics circles as a "fishing expedition": cast a wide enough net and you will find something to support your opinion regardless of what your opinion is.

The best way to produce a true "proof" would be to ignore everything that's been written and perform a sociological experiment. That would require years of work, expertise in conducting similar experiments, and millions in funding. Is that what you are asking me to do?

It is impossible to make any progress in the soft fields without relying on intuition. Learn to accept it. Think of intuition as a little Bayesian engine built into your brain. Often biased, but if honed properly, extremely powerful. You are well warned not to trust everything I say; but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't seek out a better perspective on the world. Only through seeking a different perspective can one avoid being biased.
You can actually call up the developer relations people and find out if anything is particularly troubling they can think of before you go through an expensive dev phase.

Their comments aren't binding (or even something I'd reference), and the approval criteria is constantly evolving, but they're pretty good at pointing out concerns from a 30 second description of the app.

This is good to do if you're doing something you think may get you in trouble, but think it won't necessarily do so. They've been very helpful in the past about their criteria for the different GPS APIs etc.
> We make the code open source when the first device is ready.

What I don't understand is this: weren't people upset that 3.0 wasn't (still isn't?) available when the Xoom launched? Did the Xoom not count as the first device? I mean I honestly don't care either way, it just doesn't seem like he addressed the issues I've been hearing about.
if it's undesirable email that keeps getting sent then I'll either ignore it forever (unlikely) or more likely respond with a reason I'd rather not get your email.

If someone repeatedly puts effort into emails to me then I will respond because they deserve that much for taking the time.
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If you're actually using them as a backend, I'm not sure you couldn't start them up and shut them down.

But yes, they are expensive.
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Uploading also require knowledge about what exactly is needed to perform a good enough emulation. What level of granularity, how to interface the emulation to reality, how to ensure that any inaccuracy in the emulation won't make it insane… The brain is messy, and may require even more insights than Friendly AI does.

Sure we could always go the trial and error route, but then we're talking human torture and human sacrifice. (An upload counts as a human in my book.)
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If that 911 turbo s cabrio is black with black wheels im probably looking at the same car.
What's their phone number?
I have. Some of my team has been sending me emails and I have not been receiving them. First Amazon Cloud, then PS3 Network, then LastPass,now Gmail... is our world falling apart?
I hadn't thought of this angle. I will say that when I stay with a friend (early 20s) it's typical to bring beer/food and buy the other person dinner/a meal already. I think some people could circumvent the system- but many will be happy to avoid the etiquette questions and just pay a friend-of-friend.
Would the 'Trust' button really work any better than the 'Friend' concept? It would just get devalued due to 'inflation' in the same way that people has 800+ 'friends' on Facebook.

What message does not clicking the 'trust' button for friend send to them! Only purely factual information would avoid the problem, e.g. showing family relationships. Showing how long you've known the person would be a good start.
Go's a System language. Doesn't that mean it's more suitable for writing a web server, database, driver or OS than as a web site scripting language?

I mean, no one would write System code in PHP, and it's rare to see web sites written in C, so why write a website in Go?
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The only thing I have ever used robots.txt for is to stop from leaking pagerank. I have a folder called /redirect/ and i exclude that folder in my robots.txt. I then link to sites like this /redirect/?l=www.mysite.com

Anything I don't want archived, I put behind a login wall.
Microsoft and the 'Consumerization' of IT
I wish I could upvote this more than once. I'm a professional so I don't need requests to be sugar coated. I also don't need lots of detail in the first email. If I'm interested then I will get back to you!
Worth adding that given the likelihoods of failure of a startup (high), risking the house on it would be insane.
Contracting pays more since the employment term is fixed and job security is 'less guaranteed' than a salaried position. Also, finding a new gig every few months, learning systems from scratch, and being embedded into a brand new environment frequently is not for everyone.

One advantage of contracting is that you can get a nice long break when you're done (i.e. being between contracts). Depending on your ability to budget financials for this time that you're out of work, ability to find new contracts, and motivation level when unsupervised, you can use this time to focus on a company. In a likely scenario, you can make the same net amount in 9 months as you would in a year for equivalent work after taxes, all depending on your negotiation skills and gap between salaried and contract pay, leaving 3 months to focus on your company.

Get a good accountant, it's well worth the cost in tax savings. As others said, watch for the big tax bill at the end of the year, or you can work with your accountant to pay taxes in monthly periods. A staffing agency is sometimes easier to deal with for taxes since they handle service taxes, if applicable.

Get good at doing interviews, since you'll be looking for new work once or twice a year. Recruiters are often a necessary evil so be good to them. Contractors also naturally have better networks since they move around so often and make new friends.
I went with the light blue metallic. That color is strangely entrancing at night [my 335xi is in a very similar hue]
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Speaking from personal experience, you are exactly right.

I used the service a while back just to test it out. I ended up at at place that was technically perfectly fine, but there were a few things that made me cancel and book another place - for a pretty hefty fee.

Again - technically there wasn't anything wrong with it. I haven't submitted a review because I don't know how to do it without being indiscreet.

Friends of friends is a great solution to this.
Don't feed the trolls! :-)
I'm starting to loose track of all the HTML/wireframing and prototyping tools - now i am on overload and dont know which one to use.
I am obviously a fan of YC. But, I would caution putting too much weight on what investors tell you or even their investment activity. At this point you are such a big deal, there is incentive to tell you whatever you want to hear.

Interestingly, much like investment portfolios (and most other things), investor opinion quality falls under some distribution. The opinions of a very small number of very no-nonsense, intelligent ones is probably the best indicator of batch quality. The rest matter very little.

On a related note, I think the distribution curve for YC batches probably shifts a minute amount to the right each batch but mostly fattens. Then, the range of investor opinions coupled with a growing positive bias creates what seems like a uniform larger shift to the right. Just speculation though.
this doesn't change much with age :o)
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That was incredibly insightful. I really liked the comments about Warrior Scholars.
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"Although, I don't know too many web apps that need better performance than python."

Web apps aren't just CRUD anymore.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

If your server in Go is 10x faster than your Python server, which is not necessarily unreasonable, that's 10x less hardware expense you have, if your website is actually "doing something". That can add up.
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Hmm.... A small desk lamp, a scotch tape dispenser, two unused staplers, two unused hole punches, two vertical wire-files for the bits of loose paper that won't go away (one of which is completely empty, the other half-so), two stainless steel water bottles, my sunglasses, the wrist watch I never wear, my keys, a couple of smaller writing pads, and three VOIP phones (for testing). There's also a couple tech books that I never open (because I use the eBook versions on my iPhone, exNook, etc., now instead), along with the latest squarebound corporate policy tome that says I shouldn't post this.

All that and a small model bus with my hometown on the destination board to remind me that if I fail I'll be back on that bus going somewhere I fought to get out of.
Seems incredibly likely that he'll take the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize as well.
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At I/O, didn't they say that those music cube things were running Android? It certainly looks as if they're planning on moving in that direction pretty soon.
Curious, biking to work does it for me. I have a very relaxed route though, does yours require you to pay a lot of attention?
I have a hard time believing that integrating Skype video chat into Hotmail will have people abandoning Gmail to go back to a somewhat dated service. Thoughts?
I always read about the Airbnb hype on the startup blogs but I knew I would never use it. Now I actually might, if there is an offering in the place I need to be. Because I can always reach out to my friend and check up on the host. Maybe even get a deal (bypass airbnb commission)?

This is killer.
Or, you could talk to your mutual friend and ask if their friend is on the up-and-up.
It's going beyond cute and getting into downright tedious that the Node.js crew think they have some sort of unique lock on concurrency and speed, when instead they are late to the party with an inferior implementation. This meme needs to die. I'd take Go in a heartbeat over Node.js for anything remotely non-trivial.
And the ultimate form of exercise is swimming.

What?
The median is also somewhat interesting: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USCenterPop_Median201...
People keep touting this, but the actual number of cases where you really want this is actually pretty limited.
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It's actually quite easy set up out-of-band communication with someone on AirBnB. I did it the first time I used the service because I didn't really understand how it worked. You only have to express an email address in text which automation can't recognize.
as a side note I would feel like a jerk charging a friend of a friend to stay (like $60 a night), especially if the friend in common asked me as a favor.
At linode that kind of money will give you 4G of ram, cpu power in the same ball park and loads of storage and transfer.
It seems that Backends - and the GAE in general - makes most sense when you view the system as a whole, and work with systems of a certain size. Tasks goes in to queues and backends are started and stopped as needed - stuff like that. If all you need is to serve a long running process, linode and the like is more economical.
I never understand how bare wikipedia articles with no commentary or news worthiness make it to the front page...
Legal pads. With all the technology I deal with on a regular day, nothing beats having a legal pad handy to jot notes on. Something about handwriting really seems to help me remember interesting things from Hacker news, or odd notes from phone calls.
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Let me google that for you:

http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.html

Literally the first result when searching for "apple developer support phone number".
This advice more or less matches my experience with busy people, although there are some people who just won't read your email no matter how you write it.
I am with you:) I hope App Sketcher can bring in some fresh air. It's not using images or graphic objects to emulate web - it uses real HTML elements and jQuery UI components as building block on top of a webkit based design surface. So in a sense it gets you covered from concept/wireframe to prototypes and even into early phase of development.
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Bubble 2.0: What are your predictions?
Internet is an interesting market. Here are some of my thoughts.

-Consumer is rather independent and unexposed to a Bubble bursting. They would just have less options to choose from for online services
-Most Web companies are still private
-VCs and mystery VC financiers have the greatest financial exposure
- "Fluff" companies that are copy cats or have no business model other than "hot potatoe" valuations have a huge exposure.

Here are some of my predictions
-The bubble will burst in 2013 but, it will be a soft landing. The downward cycle will be very short.
-Consumers will continue to demand more from internet companies.
-Mashable will only publish 30 articles a day rather than 100
-Google will not have a talent shortage anymore
-Capital will dry up for social web and move into other verticals
-Small impact on the overall US economy
-Twitter will be worth $250 million

Overall, I think the downward cycle will be shorter than the previous one. It seems that the internet just makes everything go faster, including business cycles. It is almost unfettered capitalism.

I am looking for other people's opinions and predictions.
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I suspect a number of people will go "hey, cool. I didn't know about that", click the +1 button, then go about their day.

I certainly didn't know antifuses existed.
probably http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview.html ?
Always happy to read what is on Bret Victor's mind. Chris Knight, Mitch Taylor? Morons. Bret is the shit.
When the food served every Tuesday is the biggest complaint, I think you're running a pretty tight ship. There was no shortage of attention for those who needed it.
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That's pretty much the problem. Google has not released the source for Honeycomb, even though the first device is out, and several more are supposed to be launched in the next month.

He's completely sidestepping the issue here. The issue isn't that Google's development is not transparent or community oriented. Android is developed by Google in-house, so it's their decision for when they should release the source. Most of the time, they were fairly prompt about releasing the source(somewhere around 1-2 weeks at most). Those delays are acceptable, because Google probably did a final pass to take out useless comments and other randomness that works it's way into any source tree.

The issue is that Android is supposed to be an Open Source OS, which means that the source should be available if you can get the software. Since Honeycomb hasn't had the source released, it really can't be called that.
I'm somewhat surprised it isn't further west. As a midwesterner turned west coast resident, I keep getting the feeling that there's more people here than there really are. It doesn't help that alot of the tech/hacker community is west coast based, or at least the most vocal/prominent folks anway.
can barely see the text.
well, statistics say marriage is the number one cause of divorce.. i would say your line of thinking is spot on.. ;-)
I grokked math as a kid, but it was precisely because I was able to make the leap that the language of math was arbitrary and substitutable while other kids were stuck not understanding the meaning.

Then we need to teach them that, not a new set of symbols. Again, I think the crucial insight here which you uncovered is that people are distracted/confused by the symbology, perhaps trying to take everything too literally.

By the way, the way to "eyeball" a third is to use your two hands (rotate them so palms facing each other) to divide into sections A B and C; since we can very accurately eyeball a 50/50 split, you simply compare A to B and B to C, then adjust your hands until A=B and B=C. Bam, you have thirds. Once you get good at this you just mentally visualize invisible dividers instead of actually using your hands.

When it comes to a circle, if you are staring at pies all day then maybe you are better than average, but many studies have shown that humans are horrible at discerning angles other than 180 and 90 degrees.
Given Microsoft's investment in Facebook in 2007 (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/technology/25facebook.html), can we expect a Skype for Facebook or some other sort of integration?
That's what early stage pre-incubators like Founder Labs are aiming at.
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"More restrictive free plan" <- this really sucks, would like to know details, i hope they dont restrict the CPU hours less than the current 6.5 hours/day
I can't debate you on that. I'm just reporting what I read in Harry Lorayne's book. And with one simple reading, and about 5 minutes of rehearsal, I knew all 26 letter translations.

But I never tried to convert it to use.

It seems on the internet, some who have learned Morse Code recommend techniques like this, while others recommend against mnemonic techniques.

Wikipedia has a few other examples of other mnemonic devices, so it seems that someone has found these techniques useful. And people learn differently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_mnemonics

If I compare it to learning a foreign language, I know my experience with that was that the hurdle of memorizing vocabulary was large, and memory techniques helped that. But it wasn't until I practiced, that I was able to "think" in the foreign language, and all intermediate steps went away. And books on memory book say that same thing.
Wow, what a day... I had an ear-to-ear grin this morning when I learned of support for Go on App Engine. I'm releasing my 3rd GAE app this week (Python) and have big plans to dive into what would've been my 4th and 5th...

Now I've just finished reading the announcements about the road ahead for pricing and support, and I'm having hard time trying not to be upset...

y = mx + b

The big selling point of GAE for me was minimizing the cost of 'b'... I don't mind paying a little extra 'm' if it allows me to avoid 'b'.

For billing-enabled apps, it appears the smooth real-time transition between free and paid will no longer be supported. Now there will be a fixed cost associated with every app every month. Gone is my fantasy of launching great little apps and marketing them until one of them happens to hit the jackpot (possibly by pointing out another great idea -- "the next big thing").

This completely changes the dynamic of GAE for me. Now, If I'm going to support an app, it's going to cost me money whether it's used or not.

$9 per app per month doesn't sound like much for scalable hosting, but sometimes the best ideas stem from little baby ideas, and little baby ideas are prematurely eliminated from consideration if it costs $9 a month to host them.
Genuinely curious: how did he improve the world? At least I heard more news about his Swedish affair than about anything significant disclosed by wikileaks (nicknames of the politicians aside).
I wish there was a way as a renter to specify your place as available to friends-of-friends only. My wife vetoed my putting up our house on AirBNB when we plan to be out of the country precisely because of the (lack of) trust problem.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm assuming you're referring to the book/category list (which requires a hover to turn blue). I will change that. Thanks again!
I am working on posting the source code to the site now.