skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, when I said "the TCP implementation", I mean the implementation of TCP that doesn't allow large enough window sizes. As you correctly point out, there are other TCP implementations that don't have this problem.
1. Conceptual elegance. It seems to me that recursion and the complexity that emerges from uses it fascinates many people. GEB comes to mind.

2. Directly dealing with these mathematical formalisms (the Y combinator, SKI combinators (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus), etc.) can become really important in programs such as interpreters.
Much better reporting over at ars. The articles are completely different, and it seems that the ars writer actually knew what he was talking about.
I mistrust Yelp because they scrape reviews from other websites. I have found a couple of reviews that I posted elsewhere under fake user names on Yelp.
I grew up in rural area and it was boring. There wasn't much to do beyond climbing trees and catching lizards. Not recommended.
Interestingly, they don't mention Blogger (which is how the Twitter co-founder went into and came out of Google). Which seems to be doing just fine.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/blogger.com+livejournal.com...

I don't see the problem, if you start a startup to make a shitload of money and you do make a shitload of money, then, mission accomplished right? (or, as DHH would say: Profit!)

There will always be companies that get screwed up in the acquisition process, just like there will always be companies that don't. But, let's fuel the rumor that Google kills all that it consumes, why not?
Wow, this is horrible advice.

1. You have to take risks sometimes. He's done good work and it's worth putting some cash behind it (if necessary).

2. It's not a hobby. It's a business or a research project. In either case, it's a serious thing.

3. This project could be a money-maker in two ways: corporate sponsors for a research project, or corporate clients for a business product.

4. I agree with the take it easy part, but not the other part.

5. That's a joke right?

6. That's also a joke right?
Big companies are where startups go to die
Genius. "I love Perry Marshall and Brian Todd! They are awesome! I'm going to take what they do and I'll do it 100x better!"
not really, its just another case of Google getting into an industry because they see someone else have success in it. If it works? Good. If it doesn't? No biggie, they only lost 2 days of revenue in the investment.
When I was an undergraduate, an adjunct professor in film did something like this, to film a point-of-view shot for a character falling to their death.

It involved, a rope, a camera, a pulley, and some work gloves. Very effective, but low tech.
Keyhole -> Google Earth was a big success too.

The thing is that we tend to forget the successes a little bit because they got to merge so well with Google.
Looking at the list of acquisitions on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions), I can only think about Blogger but I have no experience on if it changed for the best. As far as I can tell, it looks like it's still working fine.
The mistake is the stupidity of doing things like "buying furniture to fill the rooms." We live in a 3300 sq. ft house and could care less that it looks so bare. It's not hard to not let stuff own you. The bed my wife and I sleep in was built by me 10 years ago for about $50 in materials from Home Depot. Some of our furniture is old (just old, not antique!) stuff that was thrown out by others and refinished by us -- free. The chicken coop I just built (we live on a farm) was made almost 100% from materials that were lying around.

There's nothing wrong with owning things, the problem is that too many of us are owned by our things.
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene (video)
I used to be a big fan of Adwords. The customer service used to be awesome.

This year, I don't even get a response after sending multiple emails.
I'd go for option 1. It seems like a solid system and it does have value. I would love for my city's library system to use it for example.
Hey this is an interesting article and the premise kinda sort maybe makes sense to me, but the article itself makes the assertion that increased safety is creating fatter kids without making even the lamest attempt at proving a causal relationship. Correlation != causation, and in such an audacious claim in particular, especially for an article published in WSJ, that is utterly irresponsible.
How about an iPhone app that combines data from the calendar, contacts, and does push notification? You just open the app up when you see the notification on the icon, and it shows you the event, and if you reply yes or maybe, it adds the event to your calendar. There would be a list of recent invites to give you quick access in case you want to change your mind. A similar list of upcoming events would also be great.
Diving deep into Amazon Web Services
I think eventually we'll settle on compilers/translators which generate cross-browser JS object code from your notation of choice; like ParanScript (Lisp), Red (Ruby), and GWT (Java) with the feature completeness of today's best JS frameworks.
Suggestion: It seems reasonable that some comments will be accurately valued at 0, or -1... maybe even -5. But from time to time, comments get forced down to -10, -15, -20... and that just seems to be taking it too far.

Perhaps have either a hard lower limit, beyond which it just doesn't make sense to go, or, have a soft lower limit, beyond which moderator must have some minimum karma score to be able to downvote further.
Congrats, guys. Is this paying-yourselves-market-salaries profitable, or ramen profitable? :)
The idea was some sort of middle road between abandoning any hope of commercial success, and doing it 100% as a classic proprietary software business. I have no idea if it's feasible for his product though.
It might be a valid business idea, but essentially that's how you milk the fad.
There's no reason why IM and microblogging can't supplant SMS. Even ordinary phones are enough to run clients for those nowadays. The fact that it doesn't indicates the market is broken.
Yes, school is important. As someone who is going into their sixth year as a graduate student, I've given this some thought.

School is one of the few times when it's okay to just learn without also producing something of value. What I chose to learn was computer science and some math and physics. In grad school, I've learned a lot about high performance systems. While this knowledge and related skills are highly valued in the real world, very few real work entities would be willing to pay me to acquire it.

It's tough to learn this stuff on the side. You really need to devote years to learning to be useful. During that time, you're not producing much of value to the outside world. My PhD dissertation will not represent six years of effort; more like one or two. But it took four years of learning to be in the position that I could do that level of work in a year or two.

If you take a CS undergrad, some company somewhere can probably get use of them at their current skill level. But that company will have little interest in paying them to continue learning.

Regarding what you put out versus what you put in, that's true of everything.
save to say 200N has

irb(main):014:0> (1..52).to_a.sum+(1..36).to_a.sum+(1..53).to_a.sum
=> 3475

revenue so far (that's the least minimum), in reality, it should be higher since $100 and lower tees are getting bought out.

congrats!
COBOL thwarts California's Governator
OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious
Judging by the slimy, manipulative, popups that won't go away, or will only go away if you hit a "cancel" button that's not there, don't even click on this link! Don't give these guys another advertising cent! Seriously, a popup posing as a chat from a female? Stay away!
"They've worked hard for it, and it's what their parents have focused their lives on. But the problem is that the country can't provide the lifestyle they feel they deserve. Only a few will get it."

Ah, such economic ignorance! What is this "country" that "can't provide" if it isn't the people themselves who are to be provided for. People both take and create jobs.

the national college entrance exam—China's magnified version of the SAT

The SAT is (or was) a covert IQ test. If the Chinese test is the same, then these kids are wasting the vast portion of their energies.

At one top Beijing kindergarten, students must know pi to 100 digits by age 3.

Why would you send your kids to a "top" school in order to destroy them intellectually? Who in the world thinks that such insane tasks could be valuable?
This writeup oversimplifies a little. See e.g.
http://coherentnoise.ca/blog/2008/08/response-to-the-surpris...
YUI 3: The goals are lighter, faster, consistent, power, secure
I love what you guys did here! Simple idea, but brilliantly executed.
Reminds me of The case of the 500-mile email: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Some stats are ridiculous! A monthly salary of RMB45 ?That might be true 30 years ago.
This is really neat. Especially the idea of allowing users to modify the database. How would one add data to the demo to indicate that Cambridge, MA and Silicon Valley are the best places to start a tech startup?
Email me and I'll see what I can do.
10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life
The author seems to be is appreciating an anti-feature. If you can squint at a block of code and know roughly what it does based on formatting alone, you've probably found an artificial pattern which should be rewritten at a higher level of abstraction (if you can without hitting the conceptual ceiling of your language).
Yeah, my blocker stopped all that, so I didn't see it, only the pure pleasure of someone spewing forth unintelligible nonsense.
But if someone is wildly successful with an AppEngine site, it's a much simpler acquisition because it already sits on top of the Google infrastructure. Conversely, it's much less appealing to any competitors for the same reason.
I hope it's not "getting into an industry because they see someone else have success in it" because that reminds me of Microsoft and I don't think it's worked out well for them.
Has anyone said anything positive about this??

I for one will - this is a great idea. People who are looking at the fad aspect of it are missing the position that the company has.

What these guys have set up is a system that allows them to be the middle man between companies and green energy. Yes, having a green website may or may not appeal to the majority of small internet startups out there, but all they need to do is build up some reputation as a green company. What they've built is incredibly flexible; you can throw out the 'calculation of your website's green energy cost' and replace it with anything, really. After they've had a couple of good months of press coverage and some big corporations using their service, they then have the perfect position to reshape their website to go after the hundreds of green opportunities that will come up within the next few years.
"In both these cases, the information is communicated at or below the speed of light, in keeping with Einstein’s axiom that nothing in the Universe can go faster."

Isn't it that nothing that has mass can go faster? (And technically, if I remember correctly, it's that nothing that has mass could accelerate beyond that.) That's a pretty significant distinction.
Not sure that I like the sound of "We hope to have SOMETHING back soon."
Your server's really slow from here - some pages timeout when loading. Is everything OK?
Hmm, it's totally, amusingly, ambiguous whether you're referring to the site or my comment on it!
Michael,
Neither of the options you have provided would equate to 'giving up'.
So I would give a definate NO to giving up.

Treating your project as a research project does not equate to giving up.

I don't know enough about this market/competitors/technology/market size, etc to define what you should do going forward.

The question I think you should be asking is 'is this a viable business'.

I suspect most of the YC community who are telling you to go for it! are potentially speaking from a start-up attitude of 'live the dream' etc. etc.
They may be right, but not every business is a good business.

Your technology might be the best out there, I just don't know. Personally, I wasn't blown-away by the demos, but I'm not saying that to be harsh, just that from my perspective, I'm not seeing your competitive advantage.
You've put a bunch of work into this, and it may be the best in the market and able to make a significant contribution to the world.

Does your university have a business school, or entrepreneurs club or something? Maybe you could get somebody there to help with defining the market and business planning.
Come on, folks...the story that this blurb points to is the top rated story in the site right now. This article doesn't add anything to the discussion.
This is kind of how I feel too. I agree that a college degree may not be a good indicator of skills. But is the solution really more standardized testing? The data on standardized testing is pretty clear: It leads to teaching and learning to the test. Which is great if the test encompasses absolutely all skills and knowledge that people are supposed to have, but that's not the case.

People need to give up the idea that it's easy to evaluate people. It's not, you can't just look at some one-dimensional number. (Be it GPA or some certification score.) If you want to really know their strengths and weaknesses, you need to get to know people.
Y Combinator’s Demo Day Summer 2008
Has Facebook given up on its non-iphone app sites?
Both http://m.facebook.com/ and http://iphone.facebook.com/ sites are down for me. Is this true for other people?
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From: http://www.signandsight.com/features/614.html

We've learnt in the natural sciences that the key to understanding can often be found if we lift certain dividing lines in our minds. Newton showed that the apple falls to the ground according to the same laws that govern the Moon's orbit of the Earth. And with this he made the old differentiation between earthly and heavenly phenomena obsolete. Darwin showed that there is no dividing line between man and animal. And Einstein lifted the line dividing space and time. But in our heads, we still draw a dividing line between "reality" and "knowledge about reality", in other words between reality and information. And you cannot draw this line. There is no recipe, no process for distinguishing between reality and information. All this thinking and talking about reality is about information, which is why one should not make a distinction in the formulation of laws of nature. Quantum theory, correctly interpreted, is information theory.

And can you explain all these strange quantum phenomena conclusively with your information concept?

Not all of them yet, but we're working on it. With limitation it works excellently.

How?

I imagine that a quantum system can carry only a limited amount of information, which is sufficient only for a single measurement. Let's come back to the situation of two particles colliding like billiard balls, and in so doing entering a state of limitation. In terms of information theory that means that after the collision the entire information is smeared over both particles, rather than the individual particles carrying the information. And that means the entire information we have pertains to the relationship between both particles. For that reason, by measuring the first particle I can anticipate the speed of the second. But the speed of the first particle is entirely random.

Because the information isn't sufficient.

Exactly. Its randomness is ultimately a consequence of the finiteness of the information.
That's just crazy cool. It doesn't look like its going to be long before we should doubt the authenticity of video as much as we do photographs now. File this one under "Ministry of Truth"!
Once the US adopts cap-and-trade, will Co2Stats switch to purchasing carbon credits instead of renewable energy?
Geeking with Greg: Stories about Amazon's Early Days
Of course you can't see the ninja. What kind of ninja would allow himself to be seen when he's sneaking up on a samurai?

I think the samurai represents Flash: He's from the same country as the ninja -- he might even be a close relative -- but his moves and his costume are a lot more ostentatious, and he's got better PR. He's also owned by a shogun who controls his every move.
"6.033 = Computer Systems Engineering." There are non-MIT folks here.
Is it really? High-end X86 server hardware is quite good.
Love the interface, but just sports? Concerts and other events would be spectacular (though I'm assuming those are already in the plans for he future).

Also, what about allowing users to sell their own tickets? I have a PAX badge that I wont be using and would like to give to someone so it doesn't go to waste.
The Web Entrepreneur's Customer Service Toolbox: 100 Hacks and Resources
> worry-warts take over and take all the fun out of everything.

What an intriguing thing to say. Many people I've spoken to claim that all the fun is in the city. I guess it's a kind of caged, packaged fun.
> At one top Beijing kindergarten, students must know pi to 100 digits by age 3.

I really have a hard time believing that's even true to begin with, but if it is what a completely pointless exercise.
Hmm no, what kind of browser do you use? Send me a screenshot, if possible, at boris@bomega.com
"The editors of Nature should know better than to put a headline like "faster-than-light information transfer" on there, since that is exactly what isn't going on."

Totally. The article even contains this sentence:

"In other words, these photons cannot know about each other through any sort of normal exchange of information."

Very very disappointing.
Another excellent point: C. C is absolutely wonderful for writing low-level code like kernels, device drivers, and language interpreters. For anything else, it is atrocious. The problem is that these two spheres require drastically different tool sets. Kernels and the kind need to be exposed to the underlying implementations because they need to manipulate these low level devices. Application software on the other hand should be completely insulated from such low level details of the system.
The malloc tax is unavoidable unless you use an accurate relocation GC which for a language like C++ is basically impossible.
What is a renewable energy certificate? Who gets the money when I buy one of those?
i wonder if this is the yc startup that pg mentioned at the hacker meetup monday night--the one with the idea that initially seemed "kind of crazy". pg?
"it's up to the parents of the individual kids to decide how far _they_ take it with their individual kids."

How would you handle situations like sliding in baseball, where the kid who bears the greatest risk of injury isn't the one who slides into the base but rather the one whose getting slid into?
YC should fund a start up that designs logos.
The "Colbert Bump" is real—at least on one side of the aisle
Cool! Was this presented at siggraph? Siggraph always has the coolest stuff
There is some prior art on this concept.
http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html

Speaking of cool places to work, there is of course Google. But I notice something slightly frightening about Google: zero startups come out of there. In that respect it's a black hole. People seem to like working at Google too much to leave. So if you hope to start a startup one day, the evidence so far suggests you shouldn't work there.
'wardrobe malfunction' now has an entry in the dictionary?
We can't answer that for you... but we can tell you a bit about our own situation.

Personally, I've been running my own (much simpler) VPS hosting startup (http://prgmr.com) for more than two years. I'm on my second Porsche worth of personal money plowed into the thing (ok, second Porsche boxter... I'm probably still on my first, you know, real Porsche.)

I dono. I mean, my company breaks even these days... most of what I've gotten out of it is experience and contacts (and those are worth something... my bill rate as a consultant verges on ridiculous, and I have a book deal. Pretty good for a Midwestern hick with no formal education.) I don't regret doing it, but if I had a chance to do it over I'd focus more on being more public (blogging, documenting, etc...) and less on the actual business.

If I could 'open source' my project, I think that would magnify the benefits (that is, credibility and contacts) But you can't really 'open source' an ISP, which is essentially what I am.

So yeah, personally I'd advise you to go for option #2, unless you can get significant investment from someone else.

But then, you sound like you started from a different position than I did. It's possible that because I had so little when I started the credibility is worth a lot more to me than it is worth to you.

Also, I have my own conflict of interest... your project sounds pretty cool, and I'd like to be able to use that technology for my own projects, or use products built by other people using that technology. Open-sourcing it is likely the best way to get the tech out to the masses.
This sounds like a case of "Damn, I don't want a pay cut. I don't want to deal with the fallout of being the head of the department that has to hand out the pay cuts.. Better come up with an excuse!" more than a computer system problem.
A nice antidote to this completely nonsensical article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263021
Everyone I know at measure map talked like they were happy about the deal and getting incorporated into Google Analytics was completely above board.
Become an Inventor
Edison Nation, an outgrowth of the PBS television series Everyday Edisons, aims to provide an easier way for would-be inventors to navigate the sometimes costly and complicated course of taking an idea from conception to store shelves.

Feel free to digg it:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Become_an_Inventor
The site :) It's almost admirable how they find different ways to say the same few things over and over again while obscuring the fact that they're not telling you anything of substance. Its like "we're good, we're great, we're amazing, we'll make you lots of money. What does it do? Well, it'll make you good, great, and lots of money! How does it do it? Its simple, our unique knowledge will easily make you good, great, and lots of money." Its like a broken record if you know to listen for it.
Summary:
"Edison Nation, an outgrowth of the PBS television series Everyday Edisons, aims to provide an easier way for would-be inventors to navigate the sometimes costly and complicated course of taking an idea from conception to store shelves."

Feel free to digg it:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Become_an_Inventor
the difference between researchers and entrepreneurs

"the details on how to implement the software/algorithms have been published in an EGSR paper which is available from the project website. Ideally, a product team like Adobe would carry the torch from here on and create a professional quality implementation of the ideas presented in this work."
Think back to how much of your western education was spent on completely pointless exercises...
I love the idea also.. Big corporate spends lots of dollars for minor boosts in image. This offers really clear value to really wealthy customers.
>which makes any sense.

Luttgeinstein/Chomsky blah blah blah. Who says nature is supposed to make any sense? Our "sense" is an artificial construct of the thoughts we are capable of thinking, limited by our inadequate brains and even more inadequate language.

Having said that my money is also on many-worlds, because it is the only one that makes sense.