skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as we know, there aren't.

Startups are especially hard, too: smarter, crazier people; more pressure and responsibility (the average value of a startup team member is far beyond that of a Fortune 500 employee); long hours with a small team in confined spaces.

There are lots of pieces of advice from experienced entrepreneurs (e.g. http://bit.ly/2VMN10, http://bit.ly/3mgEBQ), most of which is interesting and valuable but decidedly unscientific. We'll keep adding resources like this to our blog & site, but automating it is another challenge altogether.

There is definitely a massive matching problem in the recruiting industry. I think that a big part of why this is so hard is that it takes a gnarly combination of technical & social engineering to fit these pieces (us) together. We like hard problems, though, and we're working on throwing some interesting stuff out there. Stay tuned.
At night, there are border patrol stops coming into CA from AZ and within the state heading north to Los Angeles from San Diego.
there is a new iphone version on the app store. It's called IQ boost. The web site is http://tnxbai.com there is a link to the app store from there.
These articles always take the same approach: letting us know how lack of students graduating with science degrees hurts our culture and our competitiveness.

These articles would be far more interesting and more of a catalyst for change if they could explain how graduating with a science degree can benefit a young person's life.

I don't mean abstract benefits like "problem solving skills," either. I mean concrete benefits, like getting a job. For example:

Imagine you are 22 and just graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Physics. You don't have the best GPA, but not bad, either. Let's say a "B" average. You had to program some stuff in one of your classes, but you aren't really a programmer. For whatever reason, you aren't going to graduate school. So, you need to get a job. You'd like to stay somewhere in the upper midwest to be close to your friends and family.

What kind of job do you apply to, and where?
Even though it didn't take a large amount of personal risk for the developer (besides possible banishment from the iTunes app store), I have to admire him for taking the risk, by bootstrapping his own publicity (a TC post) on the cost of a silly idea.
I briefly had a job repairing vacuum cleaners years ago.

Dyson vacuums are seriously overpriced pieces of junk, but few people realize it because they don't see them broken in the same ways all the time. A few notable points on their really shoddy engineering:

- The power cord was not a heavy enough gauge for the current the motor was pulling. I was amazed to find that the cord itself got hot -- not warm, but hot -- while running the vacuum. This happened on every one I worked on, so it wasn't a random bad motor.

- Instead of a plain ol' belt-driven brush, Dysons use a belt-driven brush with a NEW! FANCY! CLUTCH! at the other end. To save you the trouble of ever having to replace a two-dollar belt, they added in an 80-dollar part that cost an hours' technician labor to replace when it (inevitably) failed.

- Everything was plastic. Notably, the plastic rotating brush rode directly on a set of plastic rails in the front housing piece. Why is this bad? Well, it works OK so long as everything is perfectly aligned, but if for some reason the brush catches something and comes out of alignment while spinning, then it eats right through the plastic carriage. The replacement cost for a new front nose piece, plus brush, including labor, was around two hundred bucks if I remember right.

I will grant the Dyson uses a clever filter system that I wish more vacuums used. For example, its motor is guarded by a spongy HEPA filter which prevents it from falling victim to all the fine-grained dust that destroys the bearings in everyone else's vacuums.

The downside is, we had more than one customer that didn't wait long enough before reinstalling the sponge that they had just rinsed, and so completely destroyed their motor. Dyson specifically refuses to cover that particular error in their warranty.

...And that's more than you ever wanted to know about Dyson vacuums. :-)
Disclosure: I'm one of the authors

We actually started Early Access when chap 1 was available. One of the things we told Manning we really wanted was as much early feedback as possible, so they're giving it to us. There's a forum on the Manning site to talk about the book, and some of the feedback we get on early chapters will help us drive later ones.
Congrats to Razume
And we still know more about your portfolio companies' job openings than anyone else on the planet...

For the rest of the world:
http://startuply.com/#/investor%3A%22y%20combinator%22/1
It is not a matter of people complaining from both angles.

The concern is that Apple is obviously controlling what gets in but they let this (supposedly poor) app in.

Just like everything else, it's about being fair. If you break the rules for someone, then you need to break them for everyone, otherwise it's not a fair playing ground.
I vividly remember going to Manhattan in 1998 and not seeing a single child. (I was 12 at the time).
GHC (Haskell) switches to git
Looks like Apple is facing the problems of running a platform.

It's new territory for them and in the mobile space the only ones doing it commercially.

They should look at the good job Salesforce has done with force.com.
$3.3 billion in Location Based Mobile Social Networking
MP4 is an odd format: all frame metadata, usually about 2% of the total file size, is in the front of the file and MUST be fully downloaded & decoded before a video will start playing.

Actually that sounds quite convenient for seeking.

Also, http://code.google.com/p/rubyizumi/
This makes sense, now that I've thought about it some more. It is logical that they would use the predictor to decide where to invest. But, they probably don't actually have any money to invest. By hyping themselves on TechCrunch or whatever, they can get some seed funding :)

That's my theory anyway.
Ask HN: How do formalize / capture your ideas?
This happens all the time -- you have an idea (for site) that you've been toying around with in your head for a while.

Do you want to formalize it -- capture it somehow in some documentation format that will allow other non-technical people to read and understand it?

What do you do? What do you use?
Are you sure?

Hacking might be all or nothing because the marginal cost of software is zero, but marginal costs in most other industries are a lot higher. Just compare software to working toilet. Selling another copy of software is essentially free. Selling another working toilet is not really free. In the libertarian world you describe, plumbers would have no trouble making a living off the precise market value of their labor. This is especially true for credence goods of all kinds; wages are very similar for different plumbers and mechanics, because nobody pays high prices for high quality (since it's impossible to recognize), and nobody buys the low-priced option because it's perceived (in the absence of other information) of being of lower quality.

Your theory is interesting, but not hard and fast.
On the technology adoption curve, educational institutions mostly fall in the late adopter category. Budget cycles are multi-year. The weak point of this Facebook app is not the concept (bringing students data from their campus' student information system and presenting it in familiar Facebook territory is a great idea). The weak point is that it has to deal with the college/university (deans, IT dept.) to 1) get the app working at all and 2) get paid. I could see both 1 and 2 being somewhat allayed with a semester-long free trial but the hidden kicker is always integration. This is an app that requires giving the FB app developers controlled access to the university's information system. One of the schools I attended didn't even have it's college administration network physically connected to the rest of the campus, it was separate and isolated from the Internet. Imagine the inertia an app company might have to overcome to have access to a school's info system..

Great FB app idea, very difficult environment culture to execute. Abilene Christian is pretty progressive and not the norm, judging from their campus + iPhone vision.
the best way to show non-technical people a new concept is by building a base prototype
I meant more like how does the richness of the interviewing medium affect the hiring outcome. For example, should interviews be conducted on the phone, in person, or via IM? I've read that most hiring decisions are made within a minute of first seeing the person, so the medium in which interviews are conducted almost certainly makes a difference. But how? Similarly, which yields better decisions, group interviews or interviews with multiple individuals?

Even though Startuply is upstream of the interviewing phase, the types of collaboration features they choose to implement can potentially affect the way the resumes are evaluated. I'm not sure how much research there is in this area, but it seems like something the company could potentially use to their advantage.
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Are you both a fan and patient of the NHS?
Apple doesn't really judge on how "poor" the app is. Simply put, follow their guidelines and submit a working app..and no matter how shit it is it'll be accepted. Case in point: all those insane 99 cent Project Gutenberg books, TripLog/1040.

(on second thought, I could think of a lot of apps that don't deserve to be on the app store, like developers who steal Apple sample code and charge for it. and this moron who has a $1000 app. but neither are breaking any agreements. doh.)
what I would love to see is nice recommendation engine in the background which would notify all the job seekers and startup employers to get what they want.

It has to be accommodating enough to return varying results depending on the interest of the technology,location etc.

It is there in some of the existing job portals but some unique ways

1.which would be more effective even in case of huge data set.

2.To arouse interest in people who are registered there but not actively seeking jobs.

3.where people would like to get co-founders/collaborators.

I know it is easy to think but hard to implement and that too within fixed scope of time and motivation :)

Let me know your thoughts on this
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You guys in the US & friends probably don't see it as clearly. The US focus on self esteem - justified or not - and the vague post-modern concern with various shallow attributes, like gender, background etc., is actually quite stunning to me. I've grown up in a progressive part of the eastern bloc. The schooling in science and math there has traditionally been focused on tangible results.

From the year 1 onwards. Unannounced in-class tests used to be common. If you solved the math problem you got good marks, if you didn't you get poor marks. There was nothing judgmental about it. And you could not move into higher education if you didn't have good marks.

Let me give you an analogy. Have you met the wacky person on a party who is an awful dancer, but doesn't realise it? You know, like Elaine from Seinfeld. Embarasing, obnoxious and feeling good about it. If it were a child, the US&friends school system would tend to encourage them and telling them how awesome they are, lest their feelings get hurt. An eastern block school would just give them bad marks and let them move on...

(And in soviet russia, the party embarasses you!)
Ask HN: News more Deliciously. How's the tweaked idea?
And so we've come full circle.

http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/housesystem/trailer.htm...

http://housesystem.thinkcomputer.com
demo@harvard.edu / demo
Yahoo bosses under fresh pressure
A Patently Risky Business
Clydebank Ship yards
getting it into the app store?
Hi there, Peldi here from Balsamiq. I intended for that sentence to sound 'tongue-in-cheeck', but clearly I should have added some smileys at the end... :)

You bring up a good point, I shouldn't have prejudices against anyone. I think that my sentence stemmed by my disappointment with a blog which I used to love and have grown tired of lately. I am not anti-VC in general either, they do a lot of good for a lot of people.

Thanks for pointing this out, I'll watch out more closely in the future.
Code.

I've found it's generally a lost cause to tell people about your ideas and expect them to understand it. They'll try to fit it into their existing conceptual framework, which is probably not what you had in mind.

You've got to show them, so that they've got a new conceptual framework to anchor their ideas to...
I really like this idea, thanks, would implement it on my site too.
You guys are totally right. I think that if I really dig deep, I fear that the reason I didn't submit to Techcrunch before launching was that I felt like they were so out of my league that it wasn't even worth trying. So maybe that sentence above is my way to rationalize this insecurity of mine...if you know what I mean.

Oh well, we live and learn...I am doing Balsamiq primarily as a learning experience - learn about having my own business and learn about myself in the process (what my limits are etc).

Today has been a good day in that respect, thanks HN community! :)
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That's an unfair low blow to TripLog/1040. I think it's clear that while its UI isn't exactly a work of art, it's a useful app that a lot of people like and will pay money for. That doesn't really compare to a free ebook.
Search field is not aligned (left) to the ads block on the right side of the site
Time to brush up on the "Learn Cobol in 24 Hours" books and move to Sacramento!
I recall reading somewhere that only 2-3% of patents make enough money to even pay back the application fee.
Try http://jaanix.com?q=git , we aggregate reddit and hacker news, delicious import is off right now :(
If I were in his position, I'd do the same thing. When he gets fired for not doing his job, he'll be a liberal hero for stalling the evil, tyrannical government of Schwarzenegger who was trying to suppress the lives and family's of California's most productive workers.
That's interesting - I always assumed that most pilots were ex-Air Force and got their training that way. If you can fly an AWACS you can fly a 747, I guess.
Just 1 developer on a continuing basis (me), and I paid another contractor to do some programming work, and another contractor to input some data.
QuickBooks isn't the only option. My startup makes this:

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/software/exponent/enterprise.ht...

and we use it to run everything. And it runs on Macs.
Computer languages are the real Tower of Babel
While there has probably been an upswing in "funtamentalist Christianity" in the U.S., I think you have an uphill climb trying to prove that there is really even a correlation between the trends of a decrease in graduate science enrollment by Americans and the religious issue. What's the data your post is based on?
Solzhenitsyn and Putin
RedditAll is now included. I am happy to link to YCStartups and the other sites in the YC ecosystem.
But that only exacerbates the problem. People will start to vote for what they think others will like instead of what they personally like.
Is this where you suggest becoming a bum in Menlo Park (Wisconsin)?
Apple and Ruby Roundup: iPhone Config Utility on Rails, SproutCore Tools in Ruby
Also from Wirth: Algorithms and Data Structures
http://www-old.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/AD.pdf
Dude, you've got to let it go. If you don't, it will eat at you until there's nothing left.

You're evidently a talented and creative person -- find a more constructive outlet for your energies.
Why would I want to see so many credits at the start this video?

Also, what's with the Wii background music and sound effects?

I'm happier when I have fewer, quieter things in front of me, not a constellation of shiny, floating gurgling choral singers.
Providing historical context in an environment where people otherwise assume novelty (and nominally appreciate differing viewpoints so long as they're relevant) should not necessarily imply a lack of constructive work. I just keep quiet about what I'm working on now. If you were in my position, you would too.

But your point is duly noted. I think this will be my last post here, at least for a long while.
The trick is the almost-invisible edit as they zoom into the underside view of the cola-stained rug.
I got some minimal feedback for my site http://Muziboo.com ... i think may be because I am a passive reader of the community ...
Yes I'm sure it's "reasonably straightforward" to build a dialysis machine in a couple of hours, racing against a dying baby.
Hey, I didn't mean to chase you out of HN :)
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Ticketstumbler (YC Summer 08) launches
I guess I was making the assumption that the 7 or 8 startups mentioned there were all of them. If they had some sort of large data set I'd be more impressed.

Still not so much as if their algorithm holds up to scrutiny over the next 3.
It's flattering, but displays an even weaker grasp of basic geography than my own, which says a lot.
Over-driven: why our cars guzzle gas
Ext2resize sucks, but apparently so do I, and also a lot of other things too
I changed some of the details but I know someone in the position I described and I don't have any good advice. I was hoping perhaps the denizens of HN might have interesting suggestions.
freshbooks?
That's just looking at the Schrödinger's cat experiment from the point of view of the cat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_immortality
Grats on the launch guys. Wish I had this back during the Stanley Cup finals.
I find a bit "strange" to see Portugal in the middle of Europe surrounded by Spain, France , Germany and Switzerland...
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The guy who wrote it (Brian Greene) is a string physicist, so he definitely thinks so.

Every time you hear a physicist interviewed about string theory what you get is: 'It's not very good, but it's all we got'
Online: Remember Your Very First Time?
Do you remember the very first time you went online. How did it feel? What did you do? How did it change your life?
http://freeagentcentral.com is the best web based accounting system there is. I've used Freshbooks and Blinksale before but these guys handle almost all accounting needs end to end for a small business. Although primarily UK based they have a universal version that works world wide.

They also have a beautiful API so we can fill in any gaps very easily ourselves and they're adding new features every week... and they are probably one of the top users of http://getsatisfaction.com.
It references fewer academic papers than the Dragon book (guess: by a factor of 20).

Examples are in "a subset of the language Oberon, which is a condensation of its ancestors Modula-2 and Pascal".

I'm annoyed by Wirth's EBNF, in which "0 or more repetitions of X" is notated at {X}, when X* has precisely the same meaning, and is much more familiar. However, Wirth's description of it is more intuitive for me as a coder than Kleene closure ("smallest superset of X, including \lamba, closed under concatenation").

conclusion: a compiler book, like the Dragon book, but less academic (that's a good thing) and with Pascal examples.
Build it and they will comprehend.
Fan when we can take care of medical questions quickly and efficiently (yes, it _can_ happen with the NHS), but also critical of some poor experiences we've had.
American Airlines & Kayak: Why no Open API?
In regards to the App Store: why can't people understand the concept of a line?

People are complaining because supposedly "unworthy" apps like this make it through ahead of their world-changing app. That's because the "unworthy" app got there first! Apple's got a long line of apps, and as near as I can tell, they're processing them in order of receipt. Why complain? Just wait it out...
According to Carl Sagan, the experiment will not produce much. I don't think they actually expect to produce micro black holes.
The most 'interesting' probable result is actually a negative outcome. IE they fail to detect the Higgs boson. That would mean that the 'standard model' needs to be abandoned.
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The trouble with language transliteration
Amazon DevPay Introduces Tiered Usage-Based Pricing
The Wages of Pointless Rewrites (Perl to PHP)
Wrong. Case in the point is my startup. We've build it and it works nicely. Most people still do not get it, probably because they do not have time and motivation to understand it.

If your idea is too complex to explain using words the odds are high that the implementation will not fare any better.
the only predictions worth a damn are the ones with money involved.
JavaSchools: the other side of the story
problem 1: voting sites don't work, because they attract too many users

problem 2: subscription sites don't work, because they attract too few users

startup idea: a subscription voting site, with smallest possible monthly fee ($1 pcm?) - the purpose isn't to make money, but to limit users. Would probably work best for a vertical market or special interest group.
I think Joel already wrote the book on this (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/09.html).

For good developers, the only motivation you need is already intrinsic to them, that is the desire to do awesome work and be recognized for this by their peers. Just facilitate this, sit back and enjoy the show.

Lame rewards confuse the picture and (a) piss off the guys who are bound to feel slighted, and (b) dilute genuine motivation with a perceived need to look good to managers.
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OK, explain how they don't 'mean anything'.

The guys is expressing his opinion. No doubt in somewhat vague terms, but I feel like I have a good sense of what he means.

Also it's easy to say to anyone who expresses an opinion to back it up with a rigorous scientific study. But that can simply be a rhetorical technique to limit discussion.
Yes I agree that was some weak reasoning on his part.
Be upright after the Botox injection
I had a very bad experience when I first had my Botox injection. It was not that I was reacting to the injection or having some bad side effects or anything like that. Soon after the injection I drove back home and had a sound sleep for two hours. That was the mistake I made, to lie down on my face, the medicine that was injected spread to the other muscles as well stretching them.
Thanks - http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi

They give other reasons, but I wonder if it is also retaining the quality of the community. Also, they seem to use public bookmarkin ("favourites"), and not voting as such. Maybe that makes a difference.
On a cultural front, this has a lot to do with role models. The average American grows up associating the pinnacle of achievement not with inventors, professors, or entrepreneurs, but with CEOs, people of relatively mediocre talent who manage to exploit private-sector bureaucracies and navigate their way to the top.

US&A : A second-rate producer of scientists, but a world leader at producing bullshitting rainmakers. Yay.
I forget the name but there is such a company out of Spain and CA who have an algorithm that analyze the song and compare it to others that were hits to give you a number.

found it
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/07/spiritof.musi...
God this website blows.

Just kidding. Hi, I'm Dan one of the cofounders of TicketStumbler.com. If you have any suggestions or feedback please leave them here no matter how minor.

If you have scathing criticism and are worried about being down modded, please email me directly - dan [at] ticketstumbler (dot) com.
maybe because they YC does it in Silicon Valley too? for us in Europe you are all in the West...