skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could not agree more. Having lived and worked in Singapore (and Zurich) I can honestly say that for the vast majority of people it is a great place to live. Singaporeans and expats all acknowledge that yes, it is more strict than the US or Australia, but unless you enjoy things like vandalizing cars, selling drugs, or stealing street signs you can live exactly how you like, with the added peace of mind of knowing that you have a near zero chance of being the victim of violent crime.

I am guessing (perhaps incorrectly) that most of the people who talk about what is "wrong" with Singapore have either only been there once for a few days or have never been and only base their opinion of the place on the story about the American kid who got caned.
I don't think you have to do a thing to the college system to fix the problem I'm pointing out. You have to fix how we finance education in the US.

Government guarantees of loans are always a recipe for moral hazard and inefficiency. Look at housing.

Either the government should directly fund higher education, as in Canada, Australia and other countries, or it should end guarantees on education loans from the private sector, so that they can have a more effective market. I'd be fine with the government subsidizing loan rates (say, paying the first 3% of the interest rate.) But the overall rate should be determined by market forces and the risk that a student will not earn enough to pay back their loans.

Borrowing 100K to learn basket-weaving should not have the same implicit risk as borrowing 100K to learn software development. As long as there is, you're effectively subsidizing the basket weaving at everyone else's expense.

Also, the solution suggested by the OP doesn't scale. There aren't remotely enough available internship opportunities to handle the demand if a large percentage of college students went this route, nor would big companies want to spend their time attempting to filter what would essentially be high school graduates looking to work in the corporate space.
And accuracies measured in hundreds of metres.
As the author of said blog post, I'd like to reiterate Yammer's awesomeness.
Bitcoins may have value for the anonymization, the lack of fees, and the ease of micropayments. It's not essential that a fiat currency is backed by a government, it's just the easiest way to create a fiat currency. Bitcoin right now is essentially backed by those merchants who accept it in exchange for goods and conventional currency. Bitcoins have value RIGHT NOW due to this backing, at least partially. Their long-term value is less clear, of course.
This event happened almost a year ago, when the value of said coins was closer to $900.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=782.0
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Do you pine for the days when people wrote their own map-reduces rather than relying on clunky porcine languages? Are you just aching to translate a regular ML algorithm to a distributed one? Do you wish you could implement that paper on data compression to see if it may solve the problem you're facing?

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Who? People with a strong computer science background with interests in solving hard problems with practical connotations.

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* [Due credit to Linus Torvalds, circa 1991]
Stencyl has left me with a great 20-minute-ran-through-the-basic-tutorial impression. Stencyl has an astounding number of usable blocks and a custom code block for the things blocks just can't handle (although, I admit, I don't know how easy that is to use). I'm delighted to see that it even has Kongregate API blocks.

My general impression of block based programming tends to be that they've got a handful of blocks and a quickly-thrown together interface, but Stencyl certainly exceeds that with a number of integrated functions (such as a project "market" which makes downloading tutorials painless).
What percentage of Android users are female?
Well, there are other options on the East Coast. RTP, for example has a fairly large tech scene, but doesn't host many large tech conferences. And it's within driving distance of Miami.
Yes, both are dashboards for online metrics, so they will necessarily be similar.

We believe that our product puts the accents in different places. Two things we put much emphasis on are user interface and true realtime updates. We spent a lot of effort polishing the UI and making sure it's consistent and informative, we're using websockets to deliver updates as soon as our backend gets them.

Check out the demos for both of them and pick the one that pleases you more.
Exterior glass doors
The timber wooden house called Bierings is located in Utrecht, Netherlands. Designed by architect Rocha Tombal, this house has minimalist exterior and has different shaped windows protruding from its surfaces at various angles on all sides.
Clearly it's FUD, because anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly endorse bitcoin is stupid or engaging in FUD, or possibly both.
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I find it interesting that you so readily equate "lower-tier" VCs with "lower quality" VCs. Is this a reliable rule?

If you were a low-tier good-quality VC, surely you'd become known as a top-tier VC pretty soon?
Efficient transactions schemes are not necessarily good stores of value, as Cowen points out; more importantly, if that's primarily where Bitcoin's value is derived from, Bitcoin will be worth zero when a better transaction scheme arrives.
Yeah, absolutely makes sense. Here's a proof by cases on my point:

Companies are highly valued b/c they (a) generate income or (b) have the potential to generate income. (a) companies are trivial cases, since they already make money. Let's move on.

Looking at (b) companies: they're highly valued because market conditions + company fundamentals suggest they CAN generate income soon. Let's assume company fundamentals (leadership, labor) are constant and solid (trivial, since they're being advised by PG and other VCs).

Therefore, highly-valued companies that do no yet generate income can only be negatively disrupted by market forces. Based on the initial assumption about (b) companies' potential, I argue that (b) have been selected such that they are not particularly vulnerable to negative shocks.

Therefore, their valuations have a very, very high floor and are sticky in the downward direction.
Grim Fandango is now completable with residual: http://residual.sourceforge.net/ (the intention is residual is to 3D adventure games as ScummVM is to 2D adventures).
Yep, several separate identities concurrently online. Each with their own emails, separate IPs via different VPNs (usually), and narratives to run..
Probably nothing. Remember that unmanned drones were used in combat in Vietnam. They were quite short ranged of course, and could only be used for one mission: Sidewinders.
If YC holds common shares, then you need to adjust the expected value down quite a bit. On any exit that isn't a huge win, non-employee common shareholders are by far the most likely to get short end. The expected value is probably 10-50% of the fully diluted headline value of a VC deal.

But YC is clearly going to do spectacularly well. They deserve big congrats for what they've accomplished.
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We're looking to hire a software engineer to build out our web-based front-end and manage a team of developers in India.
What's the death rate for people who are sensible?

Sensible how? Like not climbing Everest? Be careful how you define it, because there's the danger of saying that everyone who lived was sensible. Anyway, that's kinda like saying that drunk driving is only dangerous if you're not sensible when you're doing it. We can't survive that long that high, and our judgement becomes seriously impaired, similar to being drunk.
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I've been a remote worker for maybe 5y now. I realise now that I've spent more time working remotely than I have in an office. My experience with getting hired on various jobs has been: the people with who(m?) I've worked remotely with before (for example, because they've been somewhere else at a different organisation) have absolutely no problem (and are enthusiastic even) about hiring me, and the people who have not interacted with me in that way, and especially not worked with remote workers before are really very wary indeed - but the enthusiasm of the people who have worked with me remotely is enough to overcome that. There's clearly a division, and clearly people can move from one side to the other, but it seems very individual: people are happy for me to work remotely rather than for "staff in general" to work remotely. So there's a reputation thing going on - but it doesn't seem a reputation that is widely understood - its a reputation understood only by a set of people who've had the experience. I don't really know how that reputation can be propagated and understood by others without the hard sell from someone already in there...
Thanks, we've taken note. Definitely something to think about.

On a tangential note, our main objective is not differentiating from Geckoboard, it's creating the best online dashboard out there.
One way to measure is just on exists so far, which is a strict lower bound, but doesn't change with the market. I bet YC is in the black just from exits, and this can be measured explicitly. What is the sum of YC's returns from exits (and cash value for stock) over the sum of money spent on investments?

Measuring the value of companies that have grown dramatically since the last round if pretty arbitrary. If this estimate were done on the same companies in the same states but in 2009, wouldn't it be off by 50%?
100,000 might as well be 20 bucks to a fund manager who has some high-risk fun-money set aside, or to some dot-com billionaire who thinks the crypto aspects are neat.

I really hope this is the case with the insanely large buys, and it's not someone mortgaging their home.
Think about decibel. People talk about decibels all the time, but don't ever talk about bels.

According to Wikipedia, "A decibel is one tenth of a bel, a seldom-used unit."

In other words, people will adjust. Someday, we'll be dealing in millicoins or whatever. And not think twice about it.
Nexuiz got forked http://www.xonotic.org/ it's actively developed.
Could you explain in more detail how these trigger a reboot? From writing a 32-bit kernel I understand how the triple fault method is supposed to work, for example, but would love to know a little more about these methods.
Sorry, but Facebook's graph describes my actual friends. Gmails with my bank and landlord are not a better representation of my contacts.
Coca-cola has managed to deal with this for a hundred years. Google has managed it for 10 years. These things are called trade secrets. You protect them through NDAs, being intelligent with who has access to the information, and not open-sourcing the code.
I didn't realize "doing us a favor" excused them for being deceitful about the situation.

The favor they should be thanked for. The reprimand is for misrepresenting what happened to make Comcast look bad when SearchYC was being run outside the TOS for residential internet.
The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce would throw a snit fit if the government issued a travel warning for their fair city. The Chamber of Commerce in Cape Town is somewhat less influential in that regard.

About your larger point, maybe. If true I doubt it's a cultural thing but just the way people are.
Also, remember this is a power law distribution. So talking about an average amount of dilution is probably risky. The dilution on the single largest exit is going to move the needle the most.
His family made a lot of money on that same narcissism, and derived a lot of security from it.

Conversely, someone who can be talked out of climbing a mountain can also be talked into keeping his day job, and probably will be.
Well, actually, Cowen says it doesn't in this case.

Can I (bit)coin the Tyler Cowen fallacy?

So Tyler Cowen says it doesn't matter? Frankly, I have a hard time trying to remember when it was last time that I heeded to TC financial (or other) advice. Maybe, when that moment will come people will just not bother asking TC what they should do.
Airbnb buys German clone Accoleo - Opens first office in Europe
I'm feeling like this is another 'Buzz', another failed attempt to get social. The proposed idea of sharing stuff with my 'friends and contacts' rings very hollow, since the vast majority of my google contacts are people I've only emailed once, and never have met. For a company seemingly filled with very smart people, this is a pretty basic mistake.

-1
I mentioned this in the comments section of post about blocking bullies. It would be great if you could follow a project or a person without having to see every comment and commit made. I watch around 100 repositories now and some of them are very active which results in my feed only containing updates from them.

As someone in the comments of this article (on the site) mentions, it would be nice if GitHub had something like Facebook's stream approach where you can hide individual posts or users. Perhaps even hiding a certain category of updates either globally or specific to each project?
As oxtopus said, this is something I never hope to see on a trading site. Especially just for counting views.

And really? 5 downvotes for saying that the link does't work? This community has really declined.
I'd be interested in the valuations based on traditional things such as revenue, assets, cash on hand etc... not that these things necessarily matter to Y Combinator as a company making $0 that is bought for $1 billion is still significant, I'm just curious what percentage actually is profitable.
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Startup like environment with AT&T backing. Imagine a magical place where engineers are in charge.

Hiring Ruby on Rails engineers at all levels for internally facing tactical tools to support our Search and Data organizations. We have giant data sets and need your help in managing them.

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Sure, maybe we are both being selfish. But even if we take our selves out of it, I think it is better for the conference overall if more professional programmers can attend -- which is an argument to make it easier for the most programmers to go.
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Whoa. This is allowed by the facebook TOS? Including the bit at the bottom where anyone can see who has been duelled against whom, and who won?
I don't know much about github's customer service,= but from what I can extrapolate from Shaw's rant, their service had a flaw which was likely just an oversight. Shaw never made an attempt to contact github about it (under the belief that they were in on it) and instead chose to exploit another flaw in their service and then angrily blog about it.

I don't see how that makes github "out of touch" nor do I see how this situation was created by a "general disregard of customer service." Granted this might be true, but it doesn't sound like it had anything to do with this particular incident.
With the numbers of startups growing with every batch. Do you think it dilutes the value Y Combinator provides?

I wonder if pg and YC partners would be able to give enough time and attention to 62 startups.

YC brand and alumni network is stronger than ever. YC is great at scouting great entrepreneurs at early stage. At this point YC may be acting as a filter for investors.

The big question is, Will YC still the advisory role to create great products? or Is it now a funding school that provides a brand and access to Angels and VCs?

Would love pg, YC partners or alumni to chime in on this.
Only on iPad though, right? I have the iPhone version.
North Korea training 3,000 "cyberwarriors"
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Oh. Well, that's not so bad then.
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Interesting project, but what are Apple's current views of dynamic interpreters? At one point I know that you couldn't interpret code at all. Has this changed to allow interpretation of code where no additional code is downloaded from the network?

BTW: direct link to project: http://www.in-the-box.org/
The solution here would be a browser plugin (sandboxed) that presents like the bitcoin client in a tab but interacts with a cloud account (that is supposedly very well secured) to derive its information.

The plugin could even interact with websites within a framework, or pickup bitcoin hyperlinks like with an emailto:.
As much as a wonder if there is a point, it can't hurt to write your elected officials and tell them, in reasonable, cogent terms, why software patents cause problems and how they should be fixed.

You can find and write them here: http://capwiz.com/c-span/dbq/officials/
Twitter launchs new search+photos experience
twitter launchs new search+photos experience, improvements for search with photos and videos http://j.mp/k0K7GK
Awesome!! Going to install this right now.
You also have to account for the other services and facilities that YC provides. I believe pg has mentioned previously that the total cost per startup for YC is about $40k. That would be about a 16x return. Still pretty amazing.
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The pragmatic choices are F# and Scala, in the sense that these are top-quality languages that it is, right now, possible to get a paid job doing. Both are extremely "viable" because they can interoperate seamlessly with .NET and Java respectively. Another is Erlang.

You certainly can do "real work" in OCaml or Haskell, but (and I say this as an OCaml user) it will be an uphill struggle. As I sit here right now, at my Mac, I am working in C on Oracle bindings for OCaml, because I need them myself! OCaml is a great language and a great community, but F# is ready for prime-time and we're not quite yet.
This isn't generally the case anymore--funding rounds these days tend to assign a 1X liquidation preference to both common and preferred shares, so assuming that a company gets acquired for more than its valuation, you shouldn't need to adjust EV down.
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Microsoft Buying Nokia's Phone Business For $19 Billion
Let's not forget the venerable DOSBox, which allows a huge variety of old games to run on Win7, Mac and Linux.

Some of my favourites: Wolf3D, Doom, Rise of the Triad, Hexen, Duke3D, Quake, Sim City 2000, Sim Ant, Civilization, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Warcraft & Warcraft 2, Theme Hospital, Syndicate, System Shock, X-Wing

http://www.dosbox.com/
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Sure deflation is part of the Bitcoin design but the actual real-world value of a Bitcoin is determined by traders on Mt Gox, and as an exchange Mt Gox doesn't give the impression of being able to prevent common price manipulation schemes.
You can have several competing specifications, recognizing the old BTC balance and offering a new balance in a new spec. People (who can be) separate from the spec proposers may implement clients that connect both to the Bitcoin network and the alternates. Eventually, one (or maybe more) new protocols win out and trade move to the stronger protocols. BTC would be left as legacy and eventual discontinuation.
So, you want Delicious?
Impressive.

What about the control group though? You know, the 50% that were deemed fit for YC after the interview but lost at the coin toss backstage. How did those compare?
Re: the social graphs, I should have said that for me personally, my friends aren't on any of those services so that's why it isn't relevant.

I'm saying +1's main reason for existence SHOULD be to fix search. And they should say as much. A better search experience is a much more valuable thing than friend recommendations.
your front page animation is broken in chrome (but not ff).
This is extraordinarily sad news. Shame on the posters here who seem to be taking delight in judgment. The guy is dead, grow up.
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Long term I think the big question is how much of the success of YC companies is directly related to the external benefits of being YC companies. There's no question they tend to get far more attention on every front (VC/valuations/press/bizdev/hiring, etc) than they otherwise would.

In a few years when there are 1000 YC companies it will start to mean a lot less to all those people who have been helping YC companies succeed to date. It probably already means a lot less to a VC to hear you're a YC company, because they've met 300 of them.

If it's the YC halo effect that's driving high returns it will be a big problem if it starts to wear off.
A cursory googling for "elephants culled on reserves" shows several stories from reliable sources indicating that you're not mistaken.
Oracle 'donates' OpenOffice.org to Apache foundation
Reminiscent of Starbucks' "Mobile Pour" joke ... which isn't that far from viable in a high-dollar high-traffic area.

http://www.starbucks.com/blog/introducing-starbucks-mobile-p...
That wouldn't be inflationary because no more money is being created. No matter how many times you divide that one bitcoin there will always only be one bitcoin when you add it up and thus would still be deflationary because it is still increasing in value.
Thanks. Will appreciate any feedback to improve.
Mostly what I'm seeing (watching the video) are what look like garbage-collection hitches, and instances where the demonstrator has to repeatedly hit the same spot on the screen to make something happen. It doesn't look anywhere near as smooth as a first-gen iPad. This stuff matters, as it turns out.

As for the rest of the demo, well -- shrug -- it looks like iOS. I tend to agree with the downvoted grandparent: bring something new to the table, or don't waste my time. My guess is that few people other than patent attorneys will end up making any money from this product.
Google Chromebook up for presale on gilt.com
1 Unicorn worker is roughly equivalent to a Thin instance. You can only put a single Thin instance on a dyno, meaning that the first benchmark is what you previously could only attain in terms of throughput.

I might've not explicitly said this in my article, but see the first benchmark where I say:

"1 Unicorn Worker (Roughly equivalent to a single Thin instance)" - stating that this is Thin's (and was Heroku's) previous limit.

With Unicorn you can gain 3 to 4 times more throughput.
Yeah, we found that after we already made the page public and didn't want to touch it right after launch.

We have a fix that we'll apply in a few minutes. Thanks!