skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of my family's business. We do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies, and people always want to know if they're going to get funded. We always say that we have no idea, for reasons discussed in this post: http://blog.seliger.com/2008/12/21/the-worse-it-is-the-bette... :

"All this also helps explain why a “batting average” or “track record” figure is useless regarding general purpose grant writers, as we describe in this FAQ question: http://seliger.com/faq.html#anchor5 . We don’t know if our clients are going to come from Beverly Hills or from places where most residents haven’t graduated from high school. From a grant writing perspective, a client from the latter place might be more likely to be funded than someone from Beverly Hills."
> You can very well replace "fortress" with "battleship" and the idea is the same.

No, you can't, because the battleship can move and attack your supply lines.

Battleships won the first world war. Not because of any engagement they participated in, but because the Royal Navy stopped German merchant shipping entirely, while the Kriegsmarine only managed to harass British shipping. You cannot go around a battleship when one of the primary points in it's design is to be fast enough to interdict anyone.
There are many tested evented I/O frameworks for other languages. Node.js is a good thing, but people are hyping this stuff too much.
No need. We see a ton of stuff on Twitter, HN, Convore, etc. Our own list of major project priority aligns pretty well with a lot of the feedback we receive.
Just curious, where did you execute ab from? I've uploaded your code and ran ab from my laptop - I've tried it under 3 different internet connections - and I only get about 100 req/s.
There is an RA1 reimplementation called OpenRedAlert.
First look at Windows 8 UI
There is a BTC client written in Java, though it is very immature still. An employee from Google made it. http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/
Have you invented something patentable, and do patents motivate innovation?
I'm sure they're not going to use ASP.NET controls. If WebOS is universally accepted as developer friendly I don't see why Windows which is planning for a similar toolkit will not be considered so.

And let me know when the day arrives when you can develop and run platform-neutral apps in Mac,iOS or in fact Linux. Don't be unreasonable. Thanks.
What we need is a trade association to address this issue. One specifically focused on software startups would be nice. It'd probably have to be funded more by investors and recently successful startups. Maybe Fred should give it a shot.
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I'll echo the other reply to your post -- have you any experience with webOS?

I've gone back and forth between webOS and iOS phones over the past couple years, and while webOS is not better in every way, and is significantly handicapped in some ways, it's also significantly better than iOS in some ways. I really don't see webOS phones as poor attempts to jump on a bandwagon just to scrape whatever profit they can. This is much more a case of healthy competition.

I too expect Apple will eventually adopt a similar multitasking paradigm for iOS (you could call it Exposé-inspired, or webOS-inspired, as you wish), negating webOS's most obvious advantage. Which you could attribute to the effects of competition. Or maybe Apple would have inevitably done it once the hardware got powerful enough -- who knows.
What about Google Docs?
Don't forget Warmux. There's OpenLieroX and NiL too, but they're Liero clones instead. Like Worms, but not turn-based.
Looks like OS X and Linux have nothing to worry about here. It's the Microsoft Bob idea wheeled out again with a trendy minimalist feel instead of a dog.
It gets worse - Silverlight is now the development story for WP7 while HTML/JS seems to be the premier way to write apps for Win8 (though I assume there'll be a way to get SL/C++ working with the new stuff - I'll be stunned if there wasn't).

After almost two decades of Win32 being the best way to write apps across the Windows platform, that has been upended in a year or so. That's a big deal. But we now have two competing stacks on the phone vs tablets/PCs which can't be a good place to be.

Disclaimer - I know no inside details of Win8 UI/development platform plans from my time at MSFT.
You are correct. I am on 11.0.696.71.

I was wrong when I said 8.
And software has copyright protection as well. Putting aside the length of copyright protection, which is a separate problem, copyright doesn't protect functional elements.
You can get Firefox and Opera in portable versions that don't require admin rights.
Well, as someone who goes to NCSU, I plan on driving it at least :-)

Miami is only close for people living in Florida is more my issue. NC is pretty close to centered along the east coast, has a fairly large tech hub and doesn't get many conferences. Then again, I am slightly biased in the respect that I'd like it closer as well.
I agree. They didn't tout "native HTML5 is coming to IE10" for nothing a few months ago.
I would've thought that the widget/tile implementation technology would be Silverlight, not HTML5/Javascript. Didn't we also see a playing down of Silverlight at MIX11? Has Silverlight fallen out of favor?
Late update: I posted a much-more-detailed analysis (with lots of embedded Dilbert cartoons as illustrations) at http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/2011/06/why-we-lawyers-can-se....
Googling for working at amazon doesn't paint the rosiest of pictures. There are many posts about extreme frugality and poor work-life balance. Any chance I can get your take on it?
They want to work with other free software, they accept "liberal" licenses, but they don't encourage using them. They even encourage GPL over LGPL.
Ahh, I misunderstood the question.

It is possible that you gave Google permission when you signed up.

I think it is more likely that the URL has all of the information Gilt needs to process the request:

http://www.gilt.com/google-
chromebook?opromo=Google_Chromebook&ocl=Email&ocat=Link&
email_address=<any email would work here>

I visited that URL and replaced the original e-mail address with a different one and it worked fine.
I would not be surprised if the United States got a specialized "Cyber Force" branch of the military sooner rather than later to go along with Army, Navy, and Air. There are apparently already papers about it like this one from 2008:

PDF:
http://www.albanylawjournal.org/articles/solce_0609.pdf

Abstract:
https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?actio...

Granted, that niche is somewhat filled by the NSA, but it is not a branch of the military per se. And increasingly cyberspace will be as important or more so than land, sea, and air.

The problem is any formal "Cyber Force" announcement will kick off the 21st Century arms race. But forming a Cyber Force in secret will severely limit effectiveness. I think we're about at the tipping point when the United States sees a hacker battalion here and there as not enough. It needs strong hacker branch.
I see, so rather than actually discuss the points I make, just attack me as some chinese govt astro-turfer... wtf!?

Just because I haven't commented before doesn't make my comment less valid... does it?
I don't mean to derail this thread too much, but it makes me sad to see PyCon move to the west coast. Basically all of the conferences are already there and PycCon was one of the best conferences on the east coast.

Though, to be fair, all of the conferences are their for good reason.
The forces in HP's favor in the tablet market are pretty different from the forces in Android's favor in the phone market.

But that said, I agree the tablet market is just heating up. The iPad is a pretty formidable competitor, not just because of its existing market share but really because it's a good product. Still, there's room for more than one product.

My impression (from reading press, not from firsthand experience) is that a few Android vendors (notably Samsung and Motorola) and RIM have all stepped up to the plate, took a swing, and pretty much struck out. Maybe they'll get better over time -- probably they will -- but it looks like they shipped too early and quality suffered as a result; the reviews I've read have been largely negative. Meanwhile Microsoft doesn't have anything coming soon.

All that means HP has a really good shot at the #2 spot right out of the gate.

If that's enough to get developers to return to webOS, the platform might still have a chance.
I'd love to hear about specifically what habits you find useful.
i really like the UI. i wonder though what the input would be with a traditional mouse/keyboard setup
I agree. Why didn't ppl drill on this (and impact on Silverlight) in Q&A rather than meaningless questions like is this a skin?
Microsoft invest lots of money into lots of different technologies, then dump them later. OLE, COM, Win16/32 and many many others have fallen by the wayside over the years.
Design fully interactive prototypes in no time
They really moved prototyping to the next level.
> Britain had the naval and air power to hold off Germany. Russia had sprawling territory and the winter; Britain had the English Channel. Germany would have been better served to win the North Africa campaign; that might have actually left Germany with a defensible position.

I firmly believe that the only possible route to German victory would have been capture of Gibraltar soon after the French campaign. German industries sorely needed raw materials, and it's war machine sorely needed oil. The Mediterranean could have provided both, and all the Germans needed to completely secure it would have been the Rock and Suez.

Was the capture of Gibraltar in any way realistic? With Franco joining on the German side, perhaps. The Germans had siege cannons that should have been able to reduce the foundations that Gibraltar stands on into rubble. But Franco had already won his war -- he had little to gain from joining, and a lot to lose.

Without an axis Spain, taking the Rock would essentially have required first attacking Spain. And they had a large, experienced and well-trained army, which would have had good defensive positions on the Pyrenees. I don't know.
All cards on the table, we have struggled a bit under the growth. Yes, first worlds problem, I know. Shopify is a very complex product and in many cases it's our customer's first foray into the world of building a company.

We want the support and guru team to act as a kind of virtual assistant and be with our customers every step of the way. Like any company sometimes we don't get this right and have to change stuff.

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Intersting... native HTML5 does make a LOT more sense in this context.
I had an interesting conversation with Martin van Creveld not long ago about fighter jets. Since he is one of the more famous military historians out there, he often gets asked for advice by senior defense personnel. Lots of European governments asked him if they should purchase F22s, etc. from the US. His advice, get UAVs, fighters don't matter any more (He just wrote the definitive book on the history of Air Power, btw).

Anyways, no one actually takes his advice. Acquisitions are always busy buying supplies for the last war. Surprise, surprise.
Reading this made me think, what other old games do I _want_ to see open-source-cloned, and what does Google think about that?

Mech Commander 2 : No open-source clone, BUT...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...

Morrowind :
http://crystalscrolls.sourceforge.net/
http://openmw.com
(zomg I want a co-op MP TES:MW clone)

Not found: Project Space Station.
That is pretty awesome. Was a little worried about the integration with traditional Windows apps, and I still am, but it looks like they just might be able to pull it off.
Okay, okay, okay.

Forget rumors that Microsoft is going to buy Nokia or RIM. Looks like MS is going to buy Palm from HP.
The software that you use on top of your OS to ask your OS to reboot is irrelevant. We're talking about what the OS has to do to the hardware to get it to reboot. The blog post even notes that Linux 3.0 will be attempting to mimic the kludgey way in which Windows tries to get your machine to reboot.
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I can see this being very nice for tablets, which was demonstrated, but I'm far more curious to see what kind of innovations they throw into a standard desktop version.
Are you suggesting that Sequoia and other top VCs are making investments where the expected return is less than 1?

AirBnb could end up being worth $0, but it could also be worth $10 billion. A $1 billion valuation would be a bet that it's expected value is substantially more than $1 billion. You may disagree with that assessment, but the people making that bet have a pretty good track record.
If your algorithm is non-trivial, wouldn't it be better protected by trade secret law? Patent law ostensibly requires you to disclose the algorithm (though patent attorneys seem to be very good at avoiding that), which would allow your competitors to develop competitive, but non-infringing algorithms. If your algorithm is so far ahead of everybody else, they don't stand a chance if you just keep it to yourselves, right?
Morals are a social construct. This kind of discussion is exactly how they are developed and passed on, and always have been.
Do they expect the enterprise to flock to this? As a nerdy consumer, I love that they're moving forward on UI, but as someone who deals with end users, this is going to scare the shit out of people. I don't see a start button anywhere in those screenshots.
It's Windows, there isn't going to be a change in userbase no matter what MS does.

Windows users will not switch to Linux (but it's the year of Linux on the desktop!) because of the usual issues, but serious (non-VS-using) developers will never use Windows either. As for OSX, Apple hipsters aren't going to spontaneously start using Windows, and Windows users aren't going to start spending 2x as much on their computers any time soon.
I doubt that by "running an online service" he's disclosed sufficient details to allow somebody to reproduce his invention. Can you tell how PageRank works just by using google?

Not unless you google "pagerank" ;)
Early in a Twitter users life, you realize you can't read everything. That's fine. But what's harder to overcome, is not opening up the stream as a means of distraction. Humans' basic foraging tendency makes it so enjoyable to find that little piece of interesting information. Except you do that too often, and you don't actually get anything done.
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Silverlight is dead, Jim
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Side question: we're going to see the debut of OS X Lion soon this summer, as well. How often does this happen, when we have a year when both MS and Apple reveal their upcoming operating system?
Netflix still uses Silverlight, correct?
Microsoft's API churn must be disconcerting for developers trying to figure out what to standardize on going forward. This is yet another API for writing Windows apps. WPF? Silverlight? HTML5? I would always have a fear that something else would come along and supplant the API I was working with.
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I see opportunity here for someone to make a "Business OS." Microsoft has forgotten who pays their bills. Business users do not want all this crap.
Microsoft unveils Windows 8 (video)
Does this mean that the majority of new PCs sold with Win8 will have touchscreens?
Great story! I'll have to check out Hidden now.
Amazon lost $3.18M on last week's Lady Gaga promotion for its MP3 store
Apple actually tried to introduce HTML5 as the development platform for the iPhone, and developers didn't want it.
How will this work for people doing real work on their PCs? Apple (with Lion) and now MS seem to be treating power users as an afterthought after trendier tablet users. Don't get me wrong, I love the new stuff MS is doing on WP7, for example. But I still need a PC (or a Mac) for most of my work.

Is it just me?
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MS will probably announce a business (or "Executive") version later.
Chronically lazy and hyperactive

If you have those two traits I suggest you also research ADHD/ADD/Adult ADD. There are tactics and strategies out there specifically designed to help those who struggle maintaining focus for extended periods of time. There are also medical options which can greatly improve your ability to focus, process thoughts, live a more manageable, productive existence and have better relationships with those around you. I share this because I know and have experienced this myself.
Clicked on the first link to the doom project to find not a single link to a "screenshots" page. For a remake of a game I can't help but wonder if you could screw up the marketing any more than that.
I'm guessing bringing HTML5 support for their APIs is only going to bring more developers to their platform. I may be proven wrong as time goes.
I don't care what's "allowed" or not. Where I dive there are no scuba police to tell you how deep you can go or what gasses to breathe. There is no evidence that most divers breathe air down to 50m. What you subjectively "feel" about narcosis has little relevance to what's actually happening in your body or how impaired you are. As for your comment about feeling "stoned" the first time diving after a break you seem to be implying that divers can somehow adapt to narcosis over time, which of course is completely wrong.
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I am being condescending because you are posting dangerous misinformation in a public forum. Divers who believe those lies and fairy tales tend to end up hurt. If you don't know what you're talking about then it's better not to post at all.
No, that was a completely different issue. Before ATX the power supply could not be controlled by software at all—it only had a mechanical switch, often near the back of the machine rather than in front, because that's where the power supply was.

This article is about rebooting, as in resetting all the hardware without turning off the power. The original IBM PC had a well defined way to do this, but after decades of clones and clones of clones there's no longer any one method that's guaranteed to work on any machine.
The article mentions that land is scarce. It is often the case that the high cost item is not the obvious one, but the scarce one. California had very high housing costs, not so much because construction costs were high, but because land costs were. I would surmise that, in the case the article mentioned, a $300 house would not help much, because the cost of acquiring the land to put it on is so much higher.

My town is a bizarre case of scarcity pricing. Just before the crash, larger houses were going for well over a million and more modest houses were over $500K. Land was cheap. A lot could be had for $15K-$30K. The scarce item was water hookup. A Chevron station with leaking tanks had contaminated the water source and there has been a decade long moratorium on new hookups. To build a new house you needed a cheap lot and a $350,000 water meter. One man had actually accumulated 15 of them.
This looks like a tablet OS rather than a desktop OS.

The elephant in the room is Office. How is Office going to make the transition to a Windows 8, touch-based UI and still be usable to the dozens of millions of current users?

The age-old desktop vs. touchscreen conundrum arises. Apple has two versions of it's OS: OSX for desktops, which is (currently) not a touch-based UI, and iOS for it's small and large tablet devices which is touch-based.
The United states was already giving overt aid to Britain at that point. Had RAF lost and the German invasion of Britain seemed realistic, the USAF would have joined in to prevent that. While it would have taken only weeks to end the RAF, Germany didn't have the shipping capacity to maintain an invasion, and it would have taken months to build.

Also, few considered air power to be actually capable of fighting battleships until the Battle of Taranto, where the effectiveness of air raids surprised almost everyone. The German planners almost certainly didn't believe in the capability of Luftwaffe to destroy the Royal Navy.
FYI: You're the only person in this entire gigantic thread that has posted salary levels.
He seems to have forgotten about the Bismarck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck

true fact: my wife's great uncle, Tuck Smith, is the US pilot who spotted the Bismarck, back when the US (supposedly) wasn't involved in WWII.

http://www.navytimes.com/legacy/new/0-NAVYPAPER-1642064.php

(Interesting fact, he was flying over Wake island on 12/7/41)
I've never heard of a Vietnam startup. Are there a bunch of you guys out there?
What bothers me at least is that although Google finds these things (thank you), how many non-gmail accounts have been hacked but nobody has noticed yet.
We've already expanded a lot and empirically there has not been any dilution so far. If anything the brand value of being funded by YC seems to increase with the number of startups we fund, not decrease.
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Yes exactly. I definitely didn't mean to say I wanted the numbers for profitable as opposed to the '1% chance of being Google'.
From a UI design perspective, I think this will alienate lots of existing Windows users, which might lead them to sticking with Win7 (XP anyone?) or moving on to OS X Lion (to which Win8 is surprisingly similar).

Microsoft is taking their phone UI and scaling it to the desktop, which is a big risk given how many people use that phone.

I give them credit for taking a risk, but IMO, this is the last nail in the coffin of Windows.
Those who like their current homes will stay in them. Those who think the 300$ house is a good idea will use them.

Whats the problem? name any product and I can find an argument on the side of nobody choosing to use it.

I, for one, have a use for a 300$ house. I have a piece of land on which I would love to be able to place a few smaller cabins. Currently doing so would run me around 15-50k per building.
One idea I thought was great: boycott of East Texas by tech companies, the larger the better.
I work in financial services and there's been a mad rush to build iPad apps. I think this will be very well received.
What does "Prototypes that actually look good!" mean?

The thing about prototypes is that if they "look too good" the people who see it forget it's a prototype. Then you get bogged down in details like "why is that button so orange?!?" every time you show it off.

That's why low-fi prototyping tools like Balsamiq are so good... they help you create things that look like prototypes.
I looked into building a house in my town. Estimates for getting a permit were 2 years and $50k-$100k in costs. I bought a condo.