skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had a similar experience.

Lately I have been doing interval swimming where I swim one lap freestyle as if my life depended on it, and then another lap doing the backstroke as fast as I can. I am going 100% the whole time.

I rest for a few minutes and as soon as I feel I've got my breath slightly back, I do it all over again.

Not sure what it is about getting the hard pumping that hard for short intervals, but I've lost weight in the process.

The thing about it is there is no way to become content. You see a lot of cardio people churning away at the same rate on the treadmill as they were doing last week.

But with my interval swimming, I am going 100%. You are always pushing full throttle; there's no allowance for contentment.

http://www.quitrunning.com/interval-training-swimmers.htm
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/sprint-training/
When it is "correct and secure" to break a setup that I've made, and is how I prefer it to be, it is no longer "correct and secure."

Glad I switched to Linux full time -- and guess why? Yep, because I ran Vista for a year and abhorred it.
The value proposition and purpose are clear, but I'm not sure why you're focusing on students. It seems like it shouldn't be too bad to make it more generic and show good rentals within a decent radius of some user-supplied location. Also, if you're going to be appealing to landlords, I don't think "screwed" is a professional word to have in your slogan.

Even if the "Houses, Condos" etc. icons are supposed to work in the future, I think they're too huge and don't really add anything visually.

When I search for a rental, I think the map takes up too much space. I think I would prefer to decide which results to focus on based on the information returned first. The search results page kinda pisses me off because I can barely see the first result since it's taken up by this gigantic search box with so much space around the "Filters" drop-down menu.

On the "Browse Rentals" page...what's the purpose of this page? Why should I want to browse all the rentals available on your site when I'm only interested in some locations I have in mind already?

Otherwise, I think it is a good idea since people might start renting more and would like to know what they're getting into beforehand, but the site just looks really busy right now. Too many different colors; you have a million different shades of blue for example.
It isn't, but a few people have asked me the same question, so I might write it up soon. No rocket science...I just followed some good advice: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=58
This seems like such an obvious thing to do if you're a huge tech company, why hasn't MSFT or YHOO done this yet? I have a hard time thinking this is a good thing, the last thing we need is Google dominating the VC market.
I wish I could downmod for the overly sensational title. So Google's doing something that a lot of other big tech companies do, so what? If the article had said Google was starting a YC-clone, that would've been something.
the title is very link-baitish
I'm pretty sure MSFT has a venture wing. So is Intel
He says that Omnisio was part of his "portfolio". I assume that means he had stake in the company, so by being acquired, he made bank. Of course he "couldn't be happier". If I just cashed out for bank I couldn't think of a way to be happier either.
To clarify: Yes, I will be starting another email related startup. However, I don't intend to make a competitor to Xobni.

Email is a huge space. So many things are broken today that it's hard to know where to even start fixing. I'm very proud of what we've achieved at Xobni but there are many exciting things beyond what our sidebar does - plenty of problems to attack.
Interesting. It seems that (according to my Python prompt)

x, y = 1, 2

and

[x, y] = 1, 2

and even

x, y = [1, 2]

are all identical in function. Are there any (subtle) distinctions between the three?
Also check out iTunes U as well, I have picked up some interesting videos from there (I also believe they are all free): http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunes...
Nokia has huge interests in VCs.
Yahoo has the brickhouse, but its not external though. Employees could come up with start ideas, take "time off" from their project for say 6months and build it. But ofcourse its a Yahoo property, but not really yours.
From the article:

String reverse

Python doesn’t have a built-in reverse method for strings. Luckily, this can be easily done with slices:

def reverse(str):
return str[::-1]

If you don't like str[::-1] (even though it is a common idiom), you could just use

"".join(reversed(str))

Is reversing a string really common enough to have a special function for it with such a general name like reverse?
Those are good questions. Better email client would indeed be desirable. I am kinda surprised by the slowness of innovation in the space of email clients. I feel there is still a big opportunity in this area for some completely new product written from scratch...just nobody got it right yet.
Non-compete is not enforcable in California. :)
I don't know if there are any higher level differences, but I suspect the pure tuple version (the first) would be a little faster.

Edit:

Nope! Up to randomness due to multitasking and paging, a benchmark on one million cases yields the same times, up to noise.
Congratulations on your success, I suppose minus the costs for an individual this would be a healthy income, it or depends on your driving vision for the site, if it is to maintain that traction then I must agree with other comments that doing this alone simply wont work. If youve got good numbers as youve showed theres every chance you can try for funding.

I must also note that while I am very glad you have succeded in your milestone and its obvious benefits from a marketing standpoint, I find the whole area of self promotion on such an early scale somewhat of a recipe of disaster. My own startup (Travel social networking / Commerce site) is in private until september time yet from friends, family and testers our turnover and profit in the last 4 weeks dwarfs this figure. I could easily push these figures for marketing purposes but until i have sustained traction in reaching our targets they add no real benefit to us.

Nonetheless good job, but go get some extra help with that money!!
Yeah. Someone should change the title. Very misleading and not title of OP
I hope you're more successful than these guys were:
http://chandlerproject.org/

They had a lot of great ideas and vision but the project didn't turn out to be a success unfortunately.

I think there is a book called 'Dreaming in Code' which documents Chandler's failure in more detail. Probably worth a read! :)
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People lack critical thinking skills and the power to change their emotional schema, the way they deal with events in their lives. They are a product of their environment. So where on the giant can we attack with the greatest work/reward ratio? Education? Media? I don't know. Human beings are some crazy ass animals yo.
Because relational databases are an extremely stable and reliable persistence layer, that is widely understood, can usually be scaled up through various well practiced techniques from clustering to sharding, and makes it easy to optimise the handful of bottlenecks you're guaranteed to run into by bypassing the ORM system and doing some direct SQL or stored proc queries for those handful of bits that need it.
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Yeah... Slicehost is what I use, but linode.com offers plans with more RAM for the same price, though their service isn't as "mature".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=258958
I think that for web applications, ORM is the right word. In fact, for almost anything that uses a database, an ORM is warranted. This is from someone who's done it both ways several times, including writing my own ORM a couple of times both as a side-project and as part of a project that "didn't need ORM".
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Fantastic and ironic in a sweet way. I've never dealt with VCs myself (firm believer in bootstrapping + angel funding), but I can imagine many VCs turned down deals on the basis that the start-up was competing with Google, or that Google was likely to move into the start-up's space... Now Google's moving into their space.
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Since we currently have a problem getting ipv6 deployed, I hope they use some of this $12M to figure out how they are going to get everyone to use it.
RE startup time, we know it's an issue and we continue to work on it.

RE slow during normal Outlook usage, please email me if you'd like to try it again with level 3 support. I'd love to figure out what's going on in your case. adam dot smith at startup-name.com. Thanks.
why the pi?
I hate bad science too, when it's sold as science. For instance the arguments put forth by creationists.

When it's an ad, well, it's just an ad. I don't think those Apple ads with John Hodgman are going to be published in any scientific journals any time soon, but they're still great ads.

I'd say this is an effective ad. I can't think of a better way to get the message to people that Vista is getting a worse reputation than it deserves.
Study: 58% of the world population could be overweight/obese by 2030
Isn't this dumb? Don't you just consume bits in precision instead of bits in maximum variable space?

average += (x-average)/count

As soon as count becomes large enough, (x-average)/count will equal zero in your system and you "averager" will be broken.

Seems to me you've just moved your representation bits from one side of a decimal to the other.
Is he anal, or an Apple fanboy? Or both? There's probably a large purple center on that blue/red Venn diagram.
I'm not sure exposing bad science in marketing campaigns is really a worthwhile endeavor.
The project to just get the internet to work consistently at my house is about to get $200 in research funding too.
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So out of interest, what do you think is the proportion of people who really know what they are doing vs the wannabes?

I think that those of us with our collection of domain names are going to see an exponential increase in value over the next two quarters.
The question is, how bothered are all of you about the impending Get Rich quick rush.
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Cool. He made onstar in his spare time. Nice hack indeed.

As a side note, I really don't want onstar to add the ability to turn off the ignition remotely!
Because the <1% of the population that would realize it's not valid science is entirely outside of their target demographic. The point of the ad is to make people think "maybe I've been wrong in believing the bad stuff I read about Vista" and this will accomplish that with almost all of the people who see it.
I'm guessing MS is planning on spreading this by a lot more than word of mouth. They're launching a humongous national campaign in all forms of media, on which they'll probably spend more than the entire worth of Gerber.

I can't even find any info on this Gerber Real People (though I only tried searching for that) but my guess is they have little or no similarity. And there are plenty of viral ads that actually did work, including one by Microsoft promoting Halo.
Interesting concern: What if some malicious hacker breaks the anti-theft system and starts sending it arbitrary commands?

Just a thought. Still, very nice idea.
Good points, but how cool would it be to simply scan a project's open tickets and then fork it, hack away on one and submit a pull request. That's a far more cooperative spirit than simply forking someone's project for your own purposes.

Also, if someone is going to take the time to go through the code after forking, they might feel like fixing any bugs or handling a few new feature requests while they're at it, especially for small, informal projects.
I don't see a download link.
Wow, call me crazy, but I'm buying one of those on eBay immediately.
This link-bait thing has to stop. Every now and then, somebody wants to get creative with the title.
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What an amateur, the algorithm described here suffers from the same problem as keeping the running sum only in the other direction. It will stop working when the values you send it divided by the count are smaller than the precision of floats on your system...

Actually depending on the values you give it it might preform a lot worse than the running sum version.
Is this the fastest liquidity event for a YC company?

Well done all at Omnisio!
it's an iritating title
Incidentally, this functionality is but a subset of Erlang/Haskell style pattern matching, which does seem to be very helpful in many circumstances (unlike, as is rumored, at least by PG, prolog's pattern matching). It's actually a favorite feature of mine: one that I'd like to put into any language I'd settle into.
Wow do I hate guys like that. Sites that force you to use letters and numbers and have a minimum amount are so annoying.

Sorry, but your site isn't as important to me as it is to you. If I sign up, I probably don't care if someone gets my password, and I just want to use something short and memorable. I'm probably only signing up because I want to save state. You should be preventing dictionary attacks by exponentially increasing time delays between login attempts or locking a user name after a few fails anyway. I shouldn't need that secure of a password.

Those standards might be fine for a bank, but for 99.9% of web apps they're ludicrous.
Or was Zenter faster?
And the "myth" that Perl is hard to read was "busted" by showing that someone wrote a book called Perl Best Practices. I don't think that will convince anyone not already convinced :)
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One of Google's strengths is innovative strategies to counter employees who are leaving just for the sake of novelty, also knows as their 20% projects initiative. From what I hear, this is no longer enough to keep their employees there, especially the ones who have already made their money from GOOG stock. I posit that this move is as much to address that as to change how they buy startups (they were already doing that a lot even without a formal VC arm)
I agree, but I also find it a little humorous. I don't think it's such a big deal.
It does seem that the set point is movable. If you've been overweight for 20 years, there may very well be nothing that you can do about it.

An interesting (but very difficult to conduct) study would be an investigation into this particular rubicon of flab. How fat can you become for how long before it is impossible to go back.
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For some reason, it doesn't even seem to have the same appeal as YC. If given the choice, I would much rather work with YC. I'm a bigger fan of Paul Graham than I am of anyone in Google.
I'll say the same thing from the other YC/Google post:

I'd much rather work with YC. I'm a big fan of PG, not really too intrigued by anyone at Google. I guess Paul Buchheit has tainted my view of Google (or maybe he's just more interested in recruiting for Friendfeed), but either way, Google being in VC just doesn't hold the same appeal as YC.
Earlier discussion about startup (DHH) vs startup (pg):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173000
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This part is somewhat bogus however:

Many “owners” of spectrum either hardly use the stuff or use it in highly inefficient ways. At any given moment, more than 90 percent of the nation’s airwaves are empty.

The solution is to relax the overregulation of the airwaves and allow use of the wasted spaces. Anyone, so long as he or she complies with a few basic rules to avoid interference, could try to build a better Wi-Fi and become a broadband billionaire.

That's like saying that 90% of the sky is empty so air traffic control is not doing its job well enough. Just give everyone a pilot's license and tell them to watch out for other planes...

The empty spaces are important.
This was pretty much expected. Why don't people respect copyright laws. Businesses should not be run this way.
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wrigley "My own startup (Travel social networking / Commerce site) is in private until september time yet from friends, family and testers our turnover and profit in the last 4 weeks dwarfs this figure."

wrigley "At present I cannot personally fund this project and in order to get to demo phase need to bring a hacker on board to work in partnership, what resources or methods would anyone suggest in trying to attract a hacker on an equity only option at present?,"

whats the truth then?
wow!!
i'm now digging in omnisio to find the recipe for such hot cooked deal!!!!
I still think reason stories like this make the papers is because they are so rare. Yes, it sounds easy, and get rich quick, but the graveyard is full others not so fortunate.

Turning any business around effectively still requires skill and knowledge of the market and methods.

In a way, this article reminds me of other I read of people that buy poorly advertised items on eBay (poor description, no pictures) and turn them around for profit simply by putting up more detailed information and high quality images.

Essentially anyone can do it (low barrier to entry etc.), but the difference between those that do it well and make good money and those that can't/don’t really is often down to persistence, practice, more practice, and yet more practice, and in many cases fortunate timing. The fundamental lessons of flipping houses, flipping websites, or flipping any commodity seem to be the same.

I wonder how this can apply to flipping start-ups.
;)

I ran a startup for 7 years, was very successful, but as a single founder, I understand fully the problems and concerns of PG et al. My biz (electronic products design/manufacturing/distribution) was very demanding, maybe / (shouldbe) a software company will be less so. In which case the rules change?

Im hoping....
Ask YC: Starting a web startup in India?
Hi All,

Do you think is a good idea to start a startup in India?

I came to SV hoping to start development of my application but the costs are just too high... so now I am considering to do it in India... I have worked in India before and there is just no comparison with the costs and I know there are plenty of qualified people over there...

What do you think?
Any advice?
no - he's absolutely correct. this was discovered earlier this year, IIRC.

cf: http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54629/
your theory is one theory, and it's the view held by society. does not hold that the set point theory is invalid. I would not be at all surprised if your (extremely complex) body system had an 'equilibrium' weight which it will attempt to normalise itself at, at the translational, post-transcriptional or homonal level. likely a mix of both.
It's not really an issue in an academic setting. Pretty much everyone has access already.
He used two commas in his post and they demarcated a parenthetical phrase.
What security does Erlang have? Does it have more than a single security mechanism: a shared secret (cookie) for allowing communication between nodes?
you had to move to make a cost comparison?
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A good example to remember that having on on your side people with the right connections is as valuable as a good product.
I believe Singularity enforces application security by validating the safety of the application code. This is completely different from the security mechanisms of Windows and Unix, which are based on protecting memory and separating the kernel and applications with a carefully checked interface. I doubt that much existing OS code would be useful for the new OS.

Singularity is really exciting. There are some big potential efficiency gains with this kind of OS. The biggest one is in reducing the number of context switches performed by the computer. A context switch is when the OS replaces the CPU's registers, saving the current values and reading in new ones. This takes time and can push application data out of the cache. With current OS's, every kernel call results in two expensive context switches. One to enter kernel mode and another to return to the application. In Singularity, an application's call into the OS shouldn't require a context switch.
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>> the latest wave of entrepreneurs who, like the day traders and real estate investors before them, are looking to make a lot of money without much effort.

The article pertains to a different breed of online 'entrepreneurs', called salvagers.

In the 'ground-up' startup world, the reality is not the same. It's not as simple as it sounds. Building a startup and running it profitably is equally difficult (and self-satisfactory) as running a brick-and-mortar business.

Btw, here's the original NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/technology/29flip.html
You always see things like this, "Will start in five years." "Later this decade." and so on.

But nothing ever comes from it. Whatever happened to starting small, cheap and fast? Is this only for webapps these days?
It's not very difficult to make a functional search engine. With the amount of resources cuil had, all you would have to do is provision a few thousand servers and deploy a nutch cluster on them.

Then you pair random images with random search results. Voila, you have cuil.

The criticism is duly applied as Cuil made the claim that they would be better than Google at the same game. Powerset never made such a claim. The people who criticized it didn't have an understanding about what it was actually trying to do.
YC is not a VC fund, and Google is not starting a seed-stage funding program.
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> Perforce

yeah but google code doesn't use perforce either... so it's possible (not saying likely). I tend to agree with the rails thing...
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There is a list-reverse that changes the list and returns None but maybe the reason there isn't one for strings are because they are immutable while lists are mutable.
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