skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and I was just sharing my own personal experience to try to counter some selection bias.
Maybe you can sell it to the Hansen brothers
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/

I'm not familiar with the Flask tutorial. But usually when you create a new Web or Windows project in Visual Studio you just hit F5 and you're already running a basic "hello world" app.
Which is not to say that they couldn't change it at some point in the future, but for now, they are pointing to the same server.
Hey kongqiu, this was actually a bug on our side. Until today, we were in closed beta where we required users to have at least one friend on the service.

We removed that requirement last night. Unfortunately we left in a piece of code that redirects you to the thank you page if the login fails. Facebook Auth has been failing intermittently for us all day, so that's likely what happened to you.

If you try again, you should be able to sign up immediately (and if Facebook fails again, you'll see an error screen rather than the confusing thank you screen). Sorry for the inconvenience.
Will Facebook notification emails be sent to Facebook email accounts? Delicious.
Hey Bad_User (if that is your real name),

Just to back up what I wrote in the article.

I've worked with 2 start-ups. Both had a major feature release every 4-6 months with minor releases every month or two. At Piehead, most of our projects are less than 2 months from client sign-off to launch. Based on talking with other developers in the Boston area, these timeframes seemed pretty similar to what they were seeing at start-ups and agencies.

I didn't list a huge number of start-ups because I felt the post was getting a bit long and didn't want to jam a bulleted list of start-up names in the middle of the article. There are about 20,000 start-ups listed in the BizSpark directory. Granted, they aren't all web start-ups, but I've only got 5 fingers on one hand and I bet there are more than that in the directory. If you want to see a bit about running a web startup on .NET, the guys at http://www.stackoverflow.com have posted lots of articles outlining the pros and cons they've encountered.

It's also worth noting that almost everybody is a follower in the tech world. PHP and Ruby both evolved from Perl. MVC was in use before half of us were even born. In the end, these are just tools and the power comes from what we build with them.

You use the phrase "all evidence is to the contrary" a lot. If you only see evidence supporting open source tools, you're likely not looking too hard. There are pros and cons to both ecosystems and blindly tying yourself to either one will only hurt you in the long run. My main point was that many developers make decisions based on opinions not facts, and your comments seem to re-enforce that. If PHP, RoR, Django or some other platform is best for your project, use it, but don't hide behind hyperbolic psudeo-facts.
Where do you live? You should set up a co-location data center for BitCoin Mining rigs. I pay 0.23€ per kwh...
Because they are all a bunch of "dumb fucks" to use the words of the founder of Facebook
Fix a market, help people in trouble with Python & Clojure at ReadyForZero.
since leaving Windows
> whois hackerne.ws

...

Registrar Name: GoDaddy.com
Registrar Email: dns@jomax.net

> whois ycombinator.com

...

Registrant:
Y Combinator LLC
320 Pioneer Way
Mountain View, CA 94041

In other words, someone bought the domain, and pointed it to the same IP. It's been mentioned before, but pg should do a redirect to the correct canonical domain, since there is nothing stopping the domain owner from hijacking, or doing otherwise bad things with it.
Kudos on taking the initiative and implementing this idea. I've often wondered how Facebook became so successful given that the one thing it's supposed to do well---manage your social network---is probably the least functional aspect of the site. For the most part Facebook is a personal homepage with photos and a forum and that's about it.
There's a number of ways to get data in and out of Google Docs to sync with enterprise services. Start with the Docs API and Google Apps Script API.
Video: Disappearing Car Doors
Doesn't appear to be owned by YC.

http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=hackerne.ws&pro...
Don't word your responses so harshly. It discredits you.
I use QuickCal [1] together with iCal. Syncing with my Android works over Google Calendar but adding events is way faster with QuickCal and a keyboard for me [2]. I used Google's 'Quick add' function for a while but got annoyed about the slow development [3] and the lack of functionality. Also, nothing is as fast as a native app that you can start with a shortcut. I can even switch between calendars in no time and it will tell me if my new event conflicts with an existing one while I type.

At the moment, I find the greatest annoyance in broken syncs with Google. Its so annoying, that I tend to use local iCal calendars only now. When you have a Mac Air in your pack, looking up and adding dates is often faster than with the phone anyway. Longterm though, I'm seriously thinking about going for an iPone and MobileMe just to get rid of this annoyance.

Fantastical looks great and I will give the free trial a shot later. But on first sight I can't see any obvious advantage over my current setup which was only $1.

[1] http://smellypuppy.com/quickcal-desktop/ $1 in the App Store
[2] To be fair, I'm using a cheap HTC Wildfire and it feels slower every day.
[3] You can't even add a reminder without using the Mouse! At least this was the case till two months ago and it seemed like the dozens of request didn't have an impact.
It is called deterrence. The N.Korea has A-bomb and several hundred of conventional artillery systems in the range of Seoul - several minutes of the artillery fire would cause losses in Seoul on the scale of losses from a nuclear bomb.
This is an excellent moment for Microsoft to pitch Windows Phone 7 tied to a "WP7 partner discount" on Windows 7 OEM licenses.

Sadly, I must add. WebOS is much smoother and overall nicer than Android. It's also much easier to program for.
Yep still working on Aterium. Going really well.
Why? That doesn't make any sense. Email notifications are to remind you to come to Facebook to check out the content. If you view your email by coming to Facebook, you're already going to have seen the notification. Am I missing something?
The recruiters are usually contractors, and they have a lot of turnover. Not that you should have gotten silence, but it's possible that's why.
Why Bing Could Beat Google in Social Search
A lot of people who don't like it seem to be missing the point. When I want to create an event, I don't want to launch iCal or navigate to Google Calendar, I want to enter the event in as little time and as intuitively as possible.

Accessing the app from the menubar solves the issue of speed for me, and the natural language processing lets it all feel intuitive and (dare I say) "magical". It just understands what I'm saying.
I believe he means Excel 2011 for Mac.
And how would they profit from it?

Google profits from Android phones mostly indirectly, through increased mobile web usage. HP has no such revenue source.
You can do unsafe code on the JVM: http://robaustin.wikidot.com/how-to-write-to-direct-memory-l...
Why wouldn't you? What in specific are you afraid Facebook will do that Google would not?
And then when I want to actually review my day or week or month, I can pop open iCal or whatever calendar system I use.
There is no Excel 2011 on Windows, so it pretty much has to be the Mac.
You forgot n=0.

edit: and I forgot n=⊥
Yes he wrote that.

Indeed he also wrote QEMU.
Yes, but by using the kill switch, a govt might think they'd silence internet dissent. (But good luck with that.)
Assume I have an engine that can monitor for for varied content both on the web, and on the twitter stream. I can setup rules to watch for specific content, either key-word based or source based, and then tweet that content, or post that content to some other feed.

1. How can I monetize this

2. How can I manipulate the tweet based hedge funds
Actually I think he was referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_basis
No, you've got it wrong. He was referring to us.
seriously -- this is a direct quote!

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
There's something sort of like that for Toronto City Airport (YTZ) to Ottawa (YOW). Porter flies out every hour and is just slightly more than a coach seat on the train. You can buy a fixed time ticket, or a flexible ticket for slightly more.

flyporter.ca if you're interested.
Productivity applications bundle for the Mac
How the iPhone 4's noise cancellation technology works
Yeah - I was responding to "how can one trust facebook with email" -- because the users who would trust facebook are "dumb fucks" according to facebook's founder.
I was just using the layout my tech guy at the comp lab told me, and he was talking about using two gpus.
I think he said "making a dent" as in "improving". .NET has no positive impact on my life.
Consumer aggregation. Magnified by mobile and web. It's a trend that's going to be bigger than social, because it adds economic value and is measurable to the Nth degree.
my source said a .06 7 day rate, soo...I dunno. if its just .06% per year...that's horrendous. Banks suck.
Ask HN: At what point in the life of your startup do you register your trademark
As with lots of startups, our focus is on value-adding activities, from validating our market, to iterating on product based on early adopter feedback. Legal protection is typically not top of the list.

At what point do YC companies / other startups worry about the legal aspects involved with starting a company?
now we need a client bash script generator to ease the pain of connecting to the remote server. Does this mean i would have to ssh N times before i could use scp to download some files? probably not a good example...
SSSHHHHHHSSSHHHHHH!!!!!

You're giving away Netflix secret sauce!

They KNEW the shift in perceived value and have completely owned the execution of exploiting that shift.

This is why I said that netflix is YEARS ahead of every other player.

Plus, they have Adrian as their cloud arch and he is a damn genius.
Spaniard here. Male, 24. People are mainly protesting against bipartidism not addressing the country's problems and working together for the greater good of the country, since they only play dumb and fight childishly.

The party in charge hasn't done shit about the whole economic crisis. First they tried to fool the people into thinking there was no crisis. When it was so obvious they couldn't keep lying, they passed some stuff that didn't really address the main problems (rigid two-tier labor market, too much spending on pointless bs, almost no-value added economy, too much regulation, and so on). They prefer to spend their time battling oh-so-important problems as fierce copyright laws or populating our roads with pickpocketing speed traps. Oh yeah right, and wether we should be able to speak to a civil servant in any of our languages (spanish is not the only language spoken in spain, almost every state has its own regional dialect/language, which are for the most part mutually intelligibility, but hey, let's make a big deal out of it anyways, who the fuck would care about easing conditions for the self-employed or the start-ups, right?).

The opposition, luckily in such a good place to just play the nice guy part and thus get the job with a few good proposals, are drowned in their own pile of corruption-related shit and instead of making easy proposals to win voters back, they prefer to try countless aggressive ad-hominem attacks against the prime minister and his clique wishfully hoping they'll eventually step down.

And while they all are pulling each other's hair as if this were a playground, there's +20% unemployment, +45% unemployment for young spaniards and a whole lot of just plain misery sweeping the country. I'm talking tonight-there's-no-dinner misery.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=recursion
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039

An HN member bought the domain and pointed it at news.ycombinator.com

Edit: There's also http://y.ww.com/ which was created by jacquesm when he was giving out subdomains to ww.com (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796231)
1. Skype offers the best product in its market (and is the market leader)

2. Skype has 110m+ active users, and 660m+ overall users.

$8.5b is too much, in my opinion, but Microsoft obviously believe that it's a fair price to pay for the reasons above (among others, of course). The value gained is tremendous. What Microsoft does with that value remains to be seen.
You could follow material posted online. For example, last semester, I sat in on this class: http://cbcb.umd.edu/confcour/CMSC828H-syllabus.html

If you are a bioengineering MS and know Python, then by studying the materials and journal papers, you may be able to do the assignments. At least it will give you an idea of the important problems and existing approaches.
Dont feel me, bro!

http://madeforhackers.com/x/2.5.png

Good tagline for a tshirt, not for a business
That's the thing about Microsoft. It's lack of compatibility with the non-Microsoft world means that if you just "want it to work" you have to go all Microsoft.

The side effect of just wanting it to work is that eventually the whole infrastructure of the company gets dragged into the Microsoft nickel-and-diming machine and the relentless upgrade treadmill. They make you pay license fees every year for unnecessary upgrades that just move the menus around and often break applications.
No brandcuffs!
Exactly; for some reason people (and at least in western EU, more women than men) believe that they can just study something that has no economical value whatsoever but they 'like it so much' and then cry foul when there are no or badly paid jobs in those fields.

It is bad in Spain for sure, but I'm not seeing the youth (or older actually) getting more creative unfortunately; the weird will to cling to what was (and doesn't work anymore) like 'the siesta' is painful to see.
He is suing you because you can't get a patent (2) and you wanted to fix some bugs (1) which you did?

So why haven't you made him any money, which would make him want to be your friend? Was there ever a plan to make money?
Well the weird thing is that in this particular situation, bureaucracy could indeed create some economic value.

The current situation is this - we have a financial crisis set off by the collapse of the US housing market (the biggest single market in the world). Because of the financial instruments involved in financing US mortgages from 2002 - 2008 it's difficult for banks to tell how much any of their investments are indeed toxic debt, which means they don't know if they are solvent or not. Furthermore, they know all other banks are in the same situation, which means they are hesitant to lend to other banks, let alone consumers.

So, we have a stagnant world economy even though we have production capacity and we have people in need of goods and services, because the money supply is essentially being hoarded by the financial institutions. In this situation the government is the only source of demand left. It could create this demand by investing smartly into infrastructure or paying someone to dig a whole and another person to fill it up. One is clearly better than the other, but in the short term they're both better than austerity.

I hope I wasn't unclear. I think it's important that everybody realize this. These people might not have sophisticated reasons to protest austerity, but they are actually correct.

EDIT: I hate to bitch about being down-voted. Please don't think this is about the karma, but it is disappointing. I think what I wrote clearly adds to the discussion. I suppose it's okay to vote down if you simply disagree, but I spent time constructing a thought-out response and I think at least a discussion of where I got it wrong is in order...
Find the people who currently hire for such jobs. Tell them what you want to do, ask them what they look for in candidates. Turn yourself into the candidate they're looking for.

This works for all other jobs too.
Microsoft: Will Have Four Versions Of Windows For ARM
Nope, after 21M BTC are generated the miners keep going; new blocks are still needed to record transactions.
Here is the list some notable products from MSR: http://www.quora.com/Microsoft-Research/What-products-have-c...

A recent success is the Kinect, which was the fastest-selling consumer product on record.
>Well, the number of engineers that can actually patch something, in say, the JVM, are rather limited. So I'm not sure open source is nearly as big a deal as it's made out to be, as far as patching goes.

Rather limited? Thats just not a good excuse where I'm coming from. If I need a bug fixed, it doesn't matter I don't know jack about the JVM today, if the cheapest way for me to fix the bug is to jump in myself, I'm going to become a member of that very limited group that can patch the JVM.

It would be nice if we were developing in an environment that we could throw our hands up and walk away, but in the project I'm working on, we've already had to dig very deep into opensource components of our stack to fix their bugs that would have blocked us from shipping.
Now generalize. ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier-Mukai_transform
> the fact that we simply can't know when a program is correct

What do you mean? Correctness of a program means it works according to the specification. Programs can be proven correct.
150th Anniversary of Color Photography
So true. If I need to co-write a paper or presentation I either use Latex and Git (for serious work) or Google Docs for one off stuff. Nothing beats Latex for writing something really lengthy, but the setup time is too much for quick 1-2 page documents.
For completeness, the next two paragraphs in Lawson's post:

"Of course, this is a ludicrous argument from a security perspective. The webserver is a critical part of the chain of trust in protecting the credit card numbers. There are many subtle ways to trojan RSA encryption code to disclose the plaintext. To detect trojans, the web firm has a client machine that repeatedly downloads and checksums the JS code from each webserver. But an attacker can serve the original JS to that machine while sending trojaned code to other users.

While I agree this is a clever way to avoid PCI audits, it does not increase actual security in any way. It is still subject to the above drawbacks of JS crypto."
When I interned at Google in 2006, one of my side projects was an all-JavaScript Pivot Table tool for internal analytics. I doubt any of that survived to present day, but it's nice to imagine.
Why on earth would you trust PayPal/Mint/banks with money? Or Google with e-mail/search/browser data?
Bonnaroo: Hippies to be Controlled by RFID
Sorry about that. It was a bit passive aggressive.
Or you can write a simple paravirtualized eth card driver and its implementation side, without trying to emulate real hardware. Linux is free software, take advantage of that.
I still don't have the new Facebook messages... :-/
Convenience. Facebook, for many people (myself somewhat included), has replaced email as the primary method of staying in touch. When email is only being used for website signups and a few similar, non-primary tasks, merging it into what you use all the time makes a reasonable amount of sense.

(Honestly, but not part of the point above, I don't have any issues trusting Facebook and Google with my data. I find it much less likely they will be hit with a Sony than others, and any really private data I have wouldn't go into any hosted service.)
LIES! I don't have the link and I can't email an email address.
I agree, git-subtree doesn't quite do what they do in this blog post, but it covers similar ground and is really easy to use in comparison.
My Google offer experience: I turned down a offer from Google last spring. Long story, but my reasons can be summed up as having a more challenging opportunity in a leadership position at a small company versus having to enter the "engineer" lotto where you don't know what team and project you get placed on.

Funny thing is, I had a call from one of their recruiters today. A couple times previously somebody contacted me by email and I said "sure, call me", and didn't hear from them. But this guy was out of the blue and from a different office and had a different approach to it.

The message was that things are different at Google and they at least from his office's perspective, they treat each recruitment uniquely.

My take away is that Google is a big company and you'll get different experiences depending on how you enter the HR process (college grad applicant, versus sought after name). The OP in this case is doing a lot of generalization.
I haven't used it enough to really give you any gotchas. It has let me open source some stuff to github really easily though.
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Positive Black Swans: How to fund research so that it generates great ideas
Why would you want to use QEMU for CS140 and an inferior solution for CS107?
Ah, you are right, it's 'max'!
They don't ask applicants this.

Given a list of 14 programming languages, they ask you to rank your best three for the purposes of conducting technical interviews.
It's been months since this launched. I've had this for a quite a while myself.
I have always said that CANT is an acronym for Choosing Again Not Too -- cant.
You'd be surprised what people do, sometimes they just ignore that. Or they make them a contractor with a 1099, which is also illegal (or borderline).