skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome. Are there any competitors?
Couldn't agree more about the clutter. Try loading techcrunch; it blocks Chrome for 10 seconds on a sandy bridge i7!

It's this sheepish behavior of bloggers that lowers the quality of their content as well. Just gathering random people's friends isn't the smartest strategy to monetize content. Good quality content+seamless payments should replace this model.
Here's a question to PG:

I can imagine many reasons, but I'd be interested to hear from you why you chose to share these numbers at this time?
Our artists get to choose the technique that works best for them. A lot of it is done using the computer, but some of it is done by hand and scanned. The coolest bit of art tech is definitely the Wacom Cintiq. It lets the artists draw on top of an LCD panel.
Cool idea! I have been going through the dev hiring process currently, and it is a huge pain in the ass to write up a test and email it to everybody, then review the answers and try to keep them straight. It would be great if the interviewers could create specific questions and keep track of individual candidates answers, as well as comment on specific parts of the answer and (maybe) even rate the answers or sort them by 'best' answer for internal use.
1. Get tons of cash by being successful & selling bonds
2. Buy up every short call and option on any tech company
3. destroy the Internet
4. Profit!
Not really.

Ron Paul spoke in favor of drug legalization[1] and is highly critical of the US monetary system[2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMIgT_NGgek

[2] http://www.ronpaul.com/tag/monetary-system/
I think the the fact that the dangers are mostly statistical is what makes Everest so dangerous. Not to make light of the difficulty in summiting Everest, but you can literally just hike to the top. This invites a lot of amateur climbers who lack the experience to even recognize dangerous situations, much less deal with them.
That's my question too, shouldn't they have launched a website to display those +1s? Or at least release an API so that others can use it?
Does it bother anyone that China continues to hack us? It is very possible that this was a government-backed attack, which wouldn't be the first against Google by the Chinese government.

The biggest problem is that these don't seem to be sophisticated attacks. They didn't find a backdoor or install some malicious piece of code...they simply "hacked people" with phishing scams.

I think a great place for the US govt (and Google) to spend money would be to inform people about phishing and how to detect it. Being a savvy internet user, I sometimes forget that these scams that look ridiculous to me might very well look legitimate to someone else.
> More clutter, slower loading pages, and gimmicks to get to you upvote a site.

I've been pretty happy with the improvement caused by http://www.disconnect.me/, especially on my relatively high-latency WiMax connection at home. It still lets you load e.g. facebook.com, but only when you actually go there on purpose, not as a widget in another page.
Wouldn't a libertarian dream be more along the lines of being able to buy drugs without needing tor & bitcoin to avoid legal restriction?
Flying a plane is safer than driving.
Eventually, you do need to complete the transaction in the real, right? These aren't virtual drugs. The FBI can pose as drug dealers, collect your bitcoins, and send agents to your door instead of drugs if you're in the US.

Bitcoins may be a better candidate for selling virtual goods like stolen credit card numbers, security exploits, and secrets. But even then the money/goods from cashing out bitcoins have to go somewhere. If some dude goes from broke to millionaire with a single large deposit and he's going to be on the fed's radar for life.
Intel Atom Android Tablets Arrive at Computex 2011 Venue; 10 Devices
Why a hyper-personalized Web is bad for you
Indeed, many enterprises such as the one I work for do not care about Google apps etc.. not working since they usually cater their browser versions towards in-house software development.
you were contract by Google, not Gilt.

they simply gave you the option to register with Gilt if you are interested in purchasing the chromebook.
Sorry but I think you are doing this to get some exposure to your website rather than "ongoing hiring". Please stop it.
For a second, I thought it was a perl script.
What's a "new" SF reader?

Someone who's young and reading SF is probably going to start out on Harry Potter or contemporary young adult fiction. By the time they're reading adult stuff -- be it current cutting-edge authors or golden age classics -- they're not going to be "new" to the genre and its conventions.

Someone who is coming to SF for the first time as a mature reader may well have difficulty handling the internal dialogue within contemporary adult SF, as it has been evolving for decades -- but there should be no problem starting with the likes of H. G. Wells or Jules Verne (recognized literary classics by those outside the genre) or 1984 or Brave New World and working inward from there.

Either way, I figure it's unlikely that anyone truly "new" to the genre is going to start with the likes of Asimov or Heinlein or Clarke today (which is not to say they they should be ignored, but that's a whole different argument).
How to not suck at tech conferences
Sociable Labs is hiring a bunch of engineers for front-end, back-end and leadership roles. We're making great strides in creating a platform that drives sales and referral traffic from social networks (mostly from Facebook).

We're a highly collaborative bunch consisting of Google, MIT and Microsoft alumni who likes to learn and kick ass. Non-standard employee perks include a no personal time off policy (we don't count how much vacation time you've accrued), and huge amounts of gourmet chocolate.

E-mail me at julson@sociablelabs.com and I'll make sure to pester our HR with your resume. =D

Here's a link to our jobs page: http://www.sociablelabs.com/careers.htm
I thought portfolio theory referred to holding a diverse bunch of assets, no? (I could be wrong on this.) For example, an investment portfolio might be comprised of 90% T-bills, and 10% "high risk" assets (yes, I realise the risk of this statement becoming quite false in the not-too-distant future, given what has been said about US debt recently).

http://seekingalpha.com/article/43008-portfolio-allocation-n...

In YC's case, it's portfolio is entirely made up of high-risk startups, so to the best of my knowledge, it's not classic portfolio theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory
I believe that when you bookmark something to an iOS device's desktop, the favicon is the default application icon, so it makes sense to make it big and fancy in that context.
Is there more to the app than a sudoku rehash, a Rush Hour rehash, Sokoban, and a sliding tile game?

I mean, those are all reasonably nice puzzles and should be easily worth a $1 download just as is, but that seems like a crazy amount of activity for slight variations to common puzzles wrapped up in some pretty gloss.
Another alternative: http://i.seemikecode.com/

A little lower barrier to make an interview, although there's no IDE involved.
looks pretty cool, congrats.

btw the blog link in the nav says "blag'
For the sake of thinking it through, how exactly would a government get rid of bitcoin?

I imagine they'd make it illegal to accept bitcoins as payment, which would remove all legitimate users from the market, but illegal drug buyers and sellers may still use it as payment, along with underground bitcoin/cash currency exchanges.

The anonymity of bitcoins may prove to create great enough demand, and help decentralize the illegal drug trade.
Well, except for the part where drug prohibition is one of the most absurd legal philosophies of the modern era.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/end_the_war_on_drugs/
If Bitcoin's involvement ends up being like Mexico's, we should see the BATFE overseeing illegal firearms sales to Bitcoin users soon.
SpaceX Responds To Forbes Contributor Loren Thompson
Conde Nast Digital purchase 285 domain names related to Reddit
Los Altos, CA – Wimm Labs

http://wimm.com/

About us:
"We're a well-funded stealth company building a revolutionary consumer product with an emphasis on a unique, connected user experience. Our founders are leaders from Intel, Zing/Dell, WebTV/Microsoft, Apple, Netflix/Roku, Palm, and Rambus, who all share a passion for building really cool stuff. We offer competitive salaries and benefits."

We're hiring in a number of positions, including, but not limited to:

* Marketing Manager/Director

* Software Program Manager

* Developer Relations Engineer

The job descriptions are up on our LinkedIn page:
http://www.linkedin.com/company/978865/careers

Our funding announcement:
http://wimm.com/news.html
> Encirclement and passage was one of the lessons the American military learned (sort of) from Stalingard that they later executed in the island hopping campaigns of the Pacific.

I was just reading Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourses_on_Livy) last night, more exactly a chapter called "Fortresses are generally more injurious than useful":

> But when the prince has not a good army, then fortresses whether within his territory or upon the frontiers are either injurious or useless to him; injurious, because they are easily lost, and when lost are turned against him; and even if they are so strong that the enemy cannot take them, he will march by with his army and leave them in the rear; and thus they are of no benefit, for good armies, unless opposed by equally powerful ones, march into the enemy’s country regardless of cities or fortresses, which they leave in their rear. We have many instances of this in ancient history; and Francesco Maria did the same thing quite recently, when, marching to attack Urbino, he left ten hostile cities behind him without paying the least attention to them.

You can very well replace "fortress" with "battleship" and the idea is the same.

Anyway, I highly recommend the book, and you're mentioning somth about the US Army learning from the Germans' mistakes. Well, I can tell you that they certainly did not learn anything from reading Machiavelli, otherwise they wouldn't have trusted Karzai in Afghanistan (there's a chapter called "How dangerous it is to trust to the representations of exiles"), not to mention trying to conquer peace by bribing everyone involved in ruling present Afghanistan (there's also a chapter for it: "Republics and princes that are really powerful do not purchase alliances by money, but by their valor and the reputation of their armies") or not doing anything about Abu Ghraib ("How dangerous it is for a republic or a prince not to avenge a public or a private injury").

Here's the English translation of this great book: http://oll.libertyfund.org/simple.php?id=775
No, they simply gave Gilt a whitelist of email addresses of people wanting a Chromebook.

The email I got says right there: Remember, you must use this email (...) to access the sale
That's what laundering is for. I'm not that familiar with bitcoins. How easy would it be to launder the coins?
I'm surprised people keep bringing up the Freakonomics issue. First of all, it was poorly argued in the book. Secondly, Lehrer mentions in the VERY BEGINNING that "the causes are plural." What's most surprising is that he did not once cite Steven Pinker, who has written and argued at great length about the decline of violence in the past few decades.
So? Are you seriously suggesting that if the family had disapproved of his mountain climbing, they would actually say so in a public interview?

'We're terribly upset and saddened and she'll never know her father, but while we're suffering in public, we'd like to mention that we were against the whole climbing thing in the first place. We told you so, John!'
100% agreement, which is why we, the Gosu guys, are working feverishly on IDE support.
Someone who advocates for legalized drugs is no more a supporter of the illegal drug trade than someone who advocates lower taxes is a proponent of tax evasion. This is a silly and insulting conflation.

Likewise, someone who advocates for legalized private currency isn't a supporter of illegal, black-market currencies designed for hired crime, money laundering and tax evasion. The disconnect is even greater when you consider that Ron Paul, and advocates of "sound money", advocate for commodity backed currency, while BitCoin is backed by nothing and is as "unsound" as money can possibly get.
typo in Why Do You Need CodeInterview: "How do you know his is a ninja?". I'm assuming this wasn't as intentional as blag may have been ;)
Show HN: Rage face submission via webcam, ELO-rated
Yes, but he is not in favor of drug use. A crack house isn't Ron Paul's "paradise". An abortion clinic isn't a pro-choice's "paradise".
Tennessee Making It Illegal to Share Netflix Password
SEEKING WORK

Remote or on-site in Jacksonville, FL. I will travel at your expense if requested.

Stuff I want to do: Clojure, Ruby (with or without Rails), Haskell, Lisp, Lua. I tend to prefer backend to frontend but I'm up for anything. Machine learning and AI stuff is especially interesting to me, but I'm content making website backends, desktop apps or anything else.

Other stuff I can do: Javascript, PHP, HTML, CSS, Java (a little), C (kinda rusty), Python (a little), basic *nix server administration, languages I've never heard of (I pick them up fast).

zak.wilson@gmail.com
I have showdead turned on, due to 'interesting content' that is occasionally found there.

I do think the worst is when a user deletes a comment after it has had 2 or 3 responses. Doing so removes much of the value of the 'children' comments. Perhaps, it's something pg could look into. Deletion of a lone comment (no children) isnt that big of a deal.
I don't understand how you would be handing it over to your competitors:

1) if it is proprietary software, just add a clause which forbids reverse engineering. If it really is as complex as you describe however, I doubt reverse engineering it would be an option.

2) if it is open source software, I don't see the big deal. Even if they get the algorithm your software can still stay steps ahead of theirs.

So what advantage would a patent even give you in this case?
What I frequently wonder is why an overwhelmed and understaffed organization can approve so many patents. If I were in their position, my default would be to deny almost everything. Are they being told that approving patents is in the best interest of America? Is this a case of patriotism-gone-bad?
I'd be surprised if it was not intentional:
http://xkcd.com/148/
Just curious, I'm currently in the works of publishing my first game with my brother. We started our company a couple months back, and the idea of applying to Y Combinator and/or seeking funding popped up. We decided to just work part-time and spend the rest of the time working on our product. From my understanding, I thought that most VCs/incubators don't really go for the gaming startup whose plan is to just create and publish games (which is what my brother and I are doing), since most gaming companies don't really "explode" and get bought out. Did you guys do anything specific when you pitched your startup to YC? How did you convince them to fund a gaming startup?
So, to put it bluntly, they can't do a good job, so they shouldn't do the job at all. I agree.
I would be interested in the valuation of the group of companies that you "almost" funded.

Let's say you ranked startups during admission on a 1 to 100 scale, and took the top 20 scoring startups. (I don't know if this is the metric you used, but I imagine the following protocol could be adapted regardless; as long as you kept the data.)

Take the bottom 5 scoring startups that you funded - i.e. the ones that just made it. Now compare their outcomes to the next 5 --- i.e. the top 5 scoring startups that didn't get funded.

If you see a significant difference, that could show that being a part of YC adds tremendous value to a company. On the other hand, this sort of analysis is really hard because the data points are so few, and the noise in the data so high (the volatility is just too much to make meaningful conclusions).

It's still an interesting experiment to run, because there is a chance that being a part of YC adds just such a large amount of value that it still comes out in the data.

This sounds like a good instrumental-variable exercise for finding out whether the YC branding adds a significant amount of value to investors.
True, but there's still a very good chance of being acquired for less - which means you have to adjust the EV down.
Oh, I meant bicycle. And it was still attached to the large clump of bricks I had used as a "theft deterrence" when the perplexed officer on duty took me to it. He actually had the cheek to grumble about not being able to interview criminals in the interview room while it was full of my crap.
Does it make sense to generalize about 200 startups based on 5 exits?
.. and that they're for 20 years. That's 5 generations in software, easy.
The coins are a mechanism for laundering. My point is you can't launder goods. Heroin is heroin is illegal no matter how you came about it. You could have gotten the drugs for free without cash, credit, bitcoins, goats, bushels of corn, or anything. It's still illegal to have heroin.

With Silk Road, the drugs have to go somewhere. And there's probably a paper trail leading to the origin of the package as well unless the dude is driving across the country before dropping it in the mail Ted Kaczynski style.
Men, money, and manufacturing: The North had all of them, the South had none.
Is that just the first few chapters of the 2nd ed?

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/Draft/i1-2.html

Many chapters after that one are just blank.
[not the OP, nor am I affiliated with em]

I'd have to be at my home desktop and check my history for a good list of links, but I got to use a handful of competitors when I was looking for work a couple months ago. I'd have to try this one out to be sure, but the extra polish plus the ability to use the interviewee's own IDE could be huge advantages.
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How is the government going to shut it down? If a government makes it illegal to use bitcoins, this is hardly going to stop their use. This is an article about drugs here, right? Has prohibition stopped the illegal trade of drugs?
I seriously doubt that the public is even aware of the issue, or that they are able to understand the issue.

Without that public pressure the only thing influencing Congress is lobbying and campaign donations. Big IP is very strong and assertive.
hmm, should new painting viewers bother with rembrandt, michelangelo, caravaggio, da vinci, etc?

um, yes!

asimov, bradbury, clarke, huxley, etc are worth reading no matter what century you're in.
He's saying there should have been a control group. We can't directly compare startups that YC funded with startups of equal quality that YC did not fund, because the latter does not exist (assuming YC is correctly selecting for quality.) To isolate YC's influence, you'd need YC to pick a set twice as large and fund only half of them at random.
Other related projects/sites/products include Blueberrytree[1], Trollim[2], CodeYourIdea[3], HappyJobSearch[4], OneDayOneJob[5], and the aforementioned iSeekMikeCode[6].

[1]: http://blueberrytree.ws

[2]: http://trollim.com

[3]: http://www.codeyouridea.com/coders/

[4]: http://www.happyjobsearch.com/

[5]: http://www.onedayonejob.com/

[6]: http://i.seemikecode.com/
Just check first picture on Tumblr.

"Guy driving away with my MacBook."

So guy steals a laptop and drives away, puts laptop on a seat next to him, with screen up?!?
It's definitely not the kind of language that you spend a few weeks or months with to learn a few new concepts. It's a language you learn because you can see yourself doing a lot of real programming in it. I call it the C++ of the Java world, meaning that Scala is to Java as C++ is to C: a more complex and expressive language that piggybacks on top of a hugely successful ecosystem and is a powerful tool for those who invest the time to learn it well. I'm learning it because I think it has a bright future in commercial software development, and it's nicer to work with than most languages that can say that.
I was thinking less about the conflict in Iraq than the conflict in and around Israel, where small groups of insurgents have over the past decade mounted increasingly sophisticated attacks on Israeli armor in the open. The deterrent factor here is just as important as the ability to blow stuff up.
Let's face it - it's a pain in the ass to type on the iPad and mobile safari is painfully slow. The iPad was built for 10% input and 90% output. I love the iPad for media but it mostly sucks for doing anything productive and it sucks for researching compared to using Chrome on my mac or PC.

I for one hope Chromebooks solve that problem and provide a reasonable alternative to the iPad. If they do that's a big win for the web, which has taken a beating as of late.
Etherpad, codility.com, interviewstreet.com
My understanding is that the person who asked that question wants to measure the value YC is adding, separate from YC's ability to select promising teams. Obviously there's no way to separate those things, so s/he suggested an absurd experimental setup in which half of the accepted startups, chosen at random, would be excluded from YC.
Source: http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-...
Tracked by stolen laptop camera, suspect arrested
But then when they don't attack you have 2 armies sitting and waiting until the supplies run out (assuming the other learns you are not going to attack back). So when one realizes they will run out first, or another army is coming to cut their lines, or the city behind them is starving, or one side drops mustard gas into the other trench ... what do you do?
5 hosts that support Rails and the exact service level you should expect
Why Video Games Suck… Wait, What?
My guess is this ends up being voted as inexpedient to legislate. I just don't see how they can even begin to enforce this and deal with all the edge-cases.
I'm surprised the triple fault method doesn't reliably work - I thought that processors were guaranteed to restart if you do this; I suppose it doesn't guarantee that other components get reset in the same way.
The control group would consist of the hypothetical startups that you didn't fund (but were qualitively equal to the ones you did fund).

EDIT: gabrielroth got it.
What is the modern lead? BPA?
Top Ten Ways the World Didn’t End
Lot's of good suggestions for GitHub coming up lately through various blogs.

I think it's high time GitHub put a public Brainstorm/Suggestions interface with possibility of voting the entries.

There's a GitHub profile on GetSatisfaction but there's no activity there.
As a Libertarian / Anarcho-capitalist myself, I didn't see it as insulting at all. In fact, I do dream of a totally free marketplace where anyone can buy and sell whatever they want, anonymously if they choose, so long as they aren't violating anyone else's rights in the process.

And if you narrow it down a little more still, and think in terms of the "techno-libertarian" mindset, something like this probably is pretty close to a "dream" to many techno-libertarian types.

That said, it probably wasn't necessary to put the Libertarian bit in the headline. Whether it was intended to be insulting to Libertarians or not, is unclear to me.
This has the same problem as Facebook Likes - you can create a +1 for a url other than the one you are currently on. And spot the javascript callback which encourages a '+1 this page to reach the video' setup.
Unless I'm much mistaken Chrome is the most secure browser out there, so it makes in a video from Google about security imho.