skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and yet there is no +1 button on that page..
These aren't all remakes/clones. For example: ioquake3 started from the GPL release of the Quake 3 engine from iD software. It is not a clone or remake it is just a continuation. And it doesn't replace Quake 3, it is just the game engine.
Twitter's new Photo search
Oracle proposes donating OpenOffice.org to Apache Software Foundation
Too bad authors get paid by publishers by the number of pages

This is not true. Authors get paid by the number of books sold, period. For my book we had an approximate target length, but that was a precondition. Past that gate, all we saw was $x/copy.
>> That number is about as high as I'd want it to be. If it were 100%, I'd worry we were being too conservative in who we funded.

There is market feedback in this thought (and in the footnote where you cite 'beta'). Really what you are saying is that you are aiming for a level of conservatism/risk relative to the market.

I'm curious what the funding rates were in 2006 and how they changed. How much of the increase on funding percentages were due to being better at doing YC and how much of the increase was due to their being much more risk capital in the market?
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Unicorn (3 workers) + Sinatra gets 2,300 requests per second.

Thin + Sinatra gets 1,000 requests per second.

https://github.com/joevandyk/unicorn-on-heroku for unicorn code/results.

https://github.com/joevandyk/unicorn-on-heroku/tree/thin for thin code/results.

The weird thing is I tried scaling up to 10 dynos (even tried 50). I didn't see any throughput improvement.
A question for PG - What's been the most surprising numbers to emerge, in your opinion, up to this point?

You mention the concern that would be inherent if funding was at 100% prior to yuri with regards to an overly conservative stance. With, as you have stated, the real goal being finding the next google or facebook isn't a 90+% level almost as worrying ??? Wouldn't something closer to 70 make a better balance in terms of maximizing coverage to increase the chance of landing the outliers ?
Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
Urban Terror is not open source.
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You can't pay taxes in Bitcoins in any industrialized economy in the world.

Taxes is not what a money makes. Colonials, Greebacks, French Assignats. They all were used to pay taxes. On the other side the Somali shilling is (still) used as money. The russian (tsarist) ruble was used as money during 1918-1920 Civil war. Hell, shells were used as used as money.

As for taxes in bitcoins, it can be just of matter of time. You know the tune: Cheaper to tax than to fight
I was kind of hoping to see Age of Empires on that list, no luck though.
Well, I do like grilled cheese, and I'm happy to have five more opening in the SF Bay Area (please be Berkeley, please be Berkeley) but... really? Sequoia Capital funds grilled cheese restaurants nowadays?

I mean, apart from anything else it's going to make 'em look especially silly if it fails. I can see the annual report now. "This year we made $50 billion from five IPOs in the computer-aided drug discovery, computational nanotech, and metamaterials sectors. We also wrote off $10 million we invested in a grilled cheese chain."
I don't know if anyone else remembers, but I think it was either Windows 95 or Windows 98 which, after selecting shut down, the eventual result would be a message that said, "It is now safe to turn off your computer." I remember thinking it was magic when the computer would actually turn itself off at this point.

This article provides a good explanation for why that behavior was necessary.
Paul Graham: Total Value Of Y Combinator-Funded Startups Is $4.7 Billion
FWIW, the fact that it's standardized against Windows makes Windows kernel developers' lives suck too - any change can break some dumb device that only actually worked purely by coincidence against XP SP1 or some ancient version
There has never been copyright for design. Copyright for source code and for binaries works quite well for protecting software from wholesale copying, piracy notwithstanding. Software ideas are a dime a dozen. The real protection comes from the difficulty of the implementation, the pace of change, and the first mover advantage.
Everest may be statistically less dangerous, but I suspect that's because the vast majority of climbers today (really, all except a handful of Sherpas at the start of the season) are climbing with fixed ropes on guided ascents. Everest today is still a dangerous mountain, but the dangers are themselves statistical (bad weather, illness, etc) more than technical.
Steve Gibson? But did he write it in assembly? ;)
Twitter Unveils Photo & Video Sharing
The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable
Thanks for testing it out! Great results!
While I'm just speculating since this doesn't seem like the type of thing I really want to give my Facebook credentials to, it seems that it wouldn't be especially anonymous if the people who are 'dueling' don't have a lot of mutual friends with each other.
PyCon US is funded by, and run by the Python Software Foundation, is over 10 years old, and runs for almost two weeks if you count sprints. pyCodeConf is a different animal entirely.

I say this as the chair of PyCon US for the next two years, I also think that pyCodeConf may be for-profit, but I'm unsure.

For more details on PyCon management/etc, you can see: http://jessenoller.com/2011/05/25/pycon-everybody-pays/ which I did recently.
You are refuting a straw man appeal to authority instead of the actual argument, which is so short it fits in just a couple of sentences and is included in its entirety upthread.

You sound very insecure about your point of view.
Yup. That's a feature of currency systems that are pegged to a commodity. The difference is that instead of coconuts or gold, the scarce commodity is a bunch of random numbers.

The are many problems with such systems, which is why the entire planet moved away from them starting about 100 years ago. Just like the initial users of BitCoin who are sitting on millions of the things are limiting the bitcoin supply in order to slowly sell them for real coin.
Statement from the document foundation:

http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/01/statement-abou...

As an aside, it's not clear to me whether this move also includes assets outside of code, such as the Openoffice.org trademarks.
Please be aware this will not remove your files, as they exist on the filesystem (this is intentional, of course, as it allows offline working with Dropbox files).

If you wanted to actually remote wipe, you would need other software... sounds scary to be completely honest, I wouldn't trust any packaged software to not create bigger security holes than it is preventing.
If you ask me, screw the grilled cheese restaurant. A grilled cheese van would be a licence to print money, second only to a cupcake van.
If your app is doing any network IO, I'd expect unicorn + multiple worker processes to give even better results over thin.
It is a great book. Sadly, the hostile reaction toward the Everest climbers expressed after the disaster seems to also be present in many of the comments on this thread.
So the real post should be: How to lose $81,000 in Bitcoin.

Step 1, go back in time to August 2010, and use the old client
Step 2, get $90 worth of Bitcoin, and don't take proper
precautions with your wallet file.
Step 3, wait for Bitcoins to go up 90,000% in value.

The current client prefetches 100 keys, for your protection, and has many other safeguards in place.

Bottom line - Bitcoin software is becoming more robust as Bitcoins are becoming more valuable.
I'd say so. It may not be meaningful in the life accomplishment sense, but I'd imagine that staring death in the face in those moments before the click is probably about as vivid and emotionally intense as life can get. An experience doesn't have to be virtuous or reasonable to be meaningful.

I find this conversation pretty bizarre. Of course climbing Mount Everest is meaningful. It's used ubiquitously as a metaphor for the ultimate in human achievement! Just because it may be selfish or egotistically motivated in some circumstances doesn't mean it isn't a deeply meaningful and symbolic challenge to undertake.
Your argument then is that despite the fact that the participants of the largest economy on Earth are effectively forced at gunpoint to use US dollars, dollars aren't necessarily any more valuable than cryptographically random numbers, because other currencies have in the past stopped circulating.
I make a pretty mean sandwich, with oven-fresh bread, mozzarella, tomatoes, and prosciutto, with a bit of salt and pepper for seasoning. Anyone care to fund me?

I'll name my shop "Panini Veri" (non quelle schifezze spacciate per panini italiani!)
Cool idea. Very well narrated and concise. The 1 min next to video convinced me to spend one min on it.
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This article is from 2009. Gold is over $1500/oz now. That's one expensive suit compared to 1999's $279 bargain model.
It's an interesting angle here...

When someone wants to eat, they pay immediately by mobile in a quick and easy way (hopefully), and hence lock themselves into not being able to change their minds, or going somewhere else, or not going anywhere but home.
To be more precise, an IBM PC-AT. It is closely related to the A20 line enable.
Aupeo: great music library, disappointing app
Austin, TX

The Texas Tribune is looking for experienced developers to help us improve and open source our Knight Foundation-funded, Django-based news CMS (http://armstrongcms.org/), and build interactive "news apps" that make it easier to understand what's going on in the Texas government. Few people know what's going on in their state governments even though that's where a lot of the things that actually affect people's day-to-day lives get decided. We're fixing that by making it easier for people to find the information that they should care about.

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You know sometimes it really annoys me that I work somewhere that only supports IE7. Good thing that jobs thread came up today.
I like that your board is real-time. Geckoboard requires an upgraded subscription to improve update speed. Will real-time be a feature on all plans of ducksboard?
Power off uses APM or ACPI and is not related.
Artificial Hardware Fragmentation: The Next Big Problem for Android
The only real solution for these companies is to incorporate offshore (or to have no money). This could be a significant long term issue for US companies, and makes me more hesitant about incorporating in the US where I am vulnerable to patent trolls.
Hmm, I think I'd need to try a sample before I invested...
Could Google TV become a console platform?
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It also helps to earn their trust. It has to be earned, though, and this takes time and ongoing collaboration.

Even then, a good team won't break the rules for you. They may, however, be more willing to explain them and to consider rational adaptations.

Generally speaking (more for non-startup environments, I guess), getting along well with your Operations folk can be as much of an aid to your work as anything else. Good ones aren't much interested in bullshit (or bullshitting), though, in my experience; the normal workload already provides sufficient quantities of that.
One thing that's going in it's favor is the SEO advantage you get. This data is eventually going to play some role in the SERP rankings, one way or other. I'm not sure if it's confirmed by Google, but it apparent enough. That's incentive enough for sites to add this button.
I think that the other issue is the culture around(and design) *nix and BSD systems, where a reboot is generally only done when very bad things happen to the system, and nothing else can correct it. Often, there are a lot of other things going on that prevent the system from gracefully rebooting.

So hardware vendors might test a "standard" reboot, where nothing is broken, and the OS is in a stable state. Unfortunately, that probably isn't the case where most required reboots occur.
He has a tendency to blow things out of proportion and to air these problems publicly, using inflammatory language when most people would choose to use more direct channels.

All of the incidents I have read about have been legitimate problems, but I personally would have handled all of them very differently.

This particularly incident, for example, probably could have been solved simply by e-mailing github. In Shaw's case, he assumed they were in on it. I'm sure he had his reasons, and certainly the troll behind dongml gets no sympathy from me but I don't think blaming github and dragging them into this was appropriate.

Honestly I've never understood why some people (seemingly) defend him unconditionally. It sounds like he's a really stand-up guy in real life, but I'm still willing to call out my friends when I think they've gone too far.

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Digital black market uses Bitcoins, requires TOR, sells drugs
What to do when one of your users 'screws up' your application
Carriers of today hold 90 aircraft, 2 RAMs, 3 Phalanxs and 2 Sea Sparrow launchers (specs from Wikipedia page on George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier). I'm pretty sure with all this they can defend themselves pretty well.
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The lost coins went from $900 to $81,000 in value. So yes, it is just as bad, and makes your comment about simply "waiting" look a bit silly.
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I'm OK with the idea of software patents in theory just like I'm OK with the idea of the death penalty for extreme crimes in theory. Because we live in an imperfect world made up of imperfect people, I don't support either in practice.

Perfect software patent system > no software patent system > broke software patent system, but I believe the perfect system is impossible, so I'd rather see the software patent system dismantled completely than exist in a broken state.
It depends on what they're acquiring you for. If they're acquiring you as a team of great programmers and they see your code is shit that probably isn't good.

If they're acquiring you because you built a product that has great adoption in the marketplace (YouTube), but your code is spaghetti they won't care very much.

If it's based on revenue they really won't care.

In most cases your core team will be required to stay on at the new company long enough that any missing documentation will have had time to get written.
Has Google confirmed that it will affect search rankings?
AFAIK, Apple relaxed the restriction on cross-compiled code (Flash-to-iOS) last year.

This isn't a dynamic interpreter is it? The Android Java code is compiled, and then inserted into an iOS Dalvik wrapper app.

I am not an Apple or Android developer tho', so perhaps I have misunderstood the question.
San Francisco: CastTV (http://casttv.com/work_here)

We are the San Francisco "startup" unit of Tribune Media Services, hiring software engineers, program managers, and product managers to build the world's more comprehensive video database/discovery engine. Our consumer site has >1M uniques per engineer and our clients include Microsoft, Google, TiVo, Comcast, IMDb and more.
[disclosure] PyCodeConf co-curator here.

We chose Miami because it is on the East Coast putting it in the middle of travel for West Coast US, East Coast US, and European travelers. Miami was chosen specifically because it doesn't have the weather issues that arise in the back portion of the year that are part and parcel of living on the East Coast. It could be 100 deg or 3 ft of snow, it is anyone's guess for most cities capable of hosting a conference in fall. Miami was also chosen because it is not the "goto" place for conferences so it will be an experience, which is what we are working at setting up. Also the fact that it is not just a commuter event means that those attending will be there for all of the social events without the strong urge to run home for the evening.

As for differentiation, we love what the PSF is doing with PyCon. Our target is a smaller, tighter focused, more intimate experience. From top to bottom the event is focused on showcasing where things are going within Python, so talks will be far more "risky" and "futuristic" than the average PyCon talk. To clarify, this is not a dig on PyCon, just a differentiation point - both formats are needed. The conference itself will have a more social feel about it than other conferences with fully planned out schedule including evening social events (see CodeConf or JSConf for models). Also with PyCon 2012 moving west, PyCodeConf is a great way to get your Python fix if you are on the East Coast.

Hopefully this helps.
No. 'Using it' would mean distributing a product that directly makes use of the patented technology.

In practice, however, this will simply force patent trolls to jump through a few more hoops and find the least expensive way to distribute the product in some form in order to defeat the intent of the law while following its letter.
This is the first good usage of bitcoins I've seen yet. Buying stuff that you don't want traced back to you.

I'm kind of sad I didn't think of it first but then again I'm not sure I would have acted and created a service like that even if I had the idea.
Why should anyone need to mess with the A20 line and the keyboard controller to simply reset a computer?
Can't forget relocation compensation and discounts on all the products. You also get a shiny new MacBook Pro and iPad 2 when you join. Also SeatMe is straight up awesome.
Here's the thing about US citizens who are paranoid that the US government is spying on them when they make international phone calls:

Any government could be spying on you. The CIA has various rules about the restricted circumstances under which it can spy on US citizens, but MI5 doesn't, nor does ASIS or CSIS or the DGSE or whatever the KGB is called nowadays or whatever the Chinese equivalent is or... well, any other damn spy service in the world. If you're a US citizen then there's dozens of countries which could be spying on you at any given time, and one that can only do so under certain circumstances.

Think it's unlikely that the French secret service want to spy on you? Think they probably have better things to do? Yeah, so does the CIA.

Oh, and let's not forget that the police and FBI could be spying on you too. Sure, they need a warrant. But convincing a judge that you need a warrant is surely no more effort than convincing your superiors at the CIA that it's worth devoting effort to spying on this random dude.

In conclusion, this guy has weird, single-target paranoia.

edit: Also, afaik, none of the stuff he's talking about is actually in the Patriot Act. That's why it was controversial when the warrantless wiretapping scheme was revealed, because it was both secret and not specifically authorized by any law.
The same could be said of the valuation and time scales of any Ponzi scheme, so this comment isn't as witty as you think it is.
You don't explain how it actually affects your business. As far as I can tell from reading the piece, the government hasn't actually done anything at all to you. You just point out (correctly) that international calls may be monitored, and then express your outrage over this. Although I agree with the sentiment, this is almost pure politics with a strained business hook. It's not really relevant to Hacker News and I don't see how it could accomplish anything beyond inciting political debate.
"And I bring it up and write about it because everyone seems to think that the Patriot Act is some far off - "doesn't really affect me" kind of thing."

I've never thought that, and I've never met anyone who talked about it like that. It's always been very clear that they are taking our rights from us in order to 'protect' us, whether we like it or not. I've never found anyone who said otherwise... Or even tried to justify it.
After they chased everyone away, now they just to just get rid of it and save themselves the hassle.They might as well donate all their Java patents to Google and save themselves another embarrassment.
I highly doubt that people paying high consulting rates for web design are the same ones that are flagged as 'high risk' in the NSA systems.

Higher risk than a farmer from Kansas, undoubtedly, but nothing that would make the government assign people to actively monitor your international communications.
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I've been begging publishers to let me have a go at a ~100 page F# tutorial book, but they've told me again and again that books without a wide enough profile on the shelf just won't sell.

It's sad really. I hope ePublishing fixes this.
I believe I will start this community, and hopefully get some advertising down within the HN community.

I would really appreciate it if users can help out, or donate some of their time to this community board.

I'm looking for additional Administrators, Moderators, Designers, and Programmers to join the sub-groups I will be creating.

Please post below if you are interested!
Not working for me in IE 9 (yes, I am that guy) or Opera 11.11 http://imgur.com/34Ad3
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int 19 should just execute code in the BIOS that triggers a reboot. Setting CS and jumping is re-entering the BIOS at the same entry point as at power-on. The BIOS should then reinit all the hardware.
The actual Achilles Heel of Bitcoin is the sparse few exchanges that convert Bitcoin to hard cash. If these exchanges can not control price manipulation schemes among their traders then Bitcoin's value will quickly bubble and pop. What Bitcoin needs is to be accepted by an established trading exchange which would stabilize the real world price of Bitcoins.
"like any portfolio of startups ours has a pretty steep power law distribution. If we can produce accurate estimates of the values of the top 10%, we'll have a sufficiently accurate estimate of the total value. "

No... this is incorrect. Power laws looks like this (imagine the "top 10%" in green): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law so the median value, or even showing a histogram of all values, would be WAY more informative. My hunch is that the "22.4m" average valuation is way higher than most YC grads.
What are you talking about?
PG doesn't play dice with people's startups.

/Insert Einsteins's quote about god being dicey
I'm just getting the following JavaScript that naturally does nothing.

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