skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly so that people interested in specific kind of posts (for instance dev posts) can just subscribe to that blog.
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:( Thank you, Dennis.

dmr posted to Usenet quite often over the years:

http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=research!dmr

http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=dmr@research.UU...

http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=dmr@alice.UUCP

http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=dmr@research.at...

http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?user=dmr@bell-labs.c...
Paul, while I do see your point, you aren't looking deep enough here. Please let me explain.

Yes, this comment is missing some crucial content, yet, it is not a contentless comment as proven by the up votes. It is a war cry against those who seek to end this world in a fit of greed. It seems contentless to you because you are unaware of the game Monsanto is playing. I'm not just talking about giving a few kids Asthma by pumping chemicals into the air, I'm talking about risking the collapse of our life support systems for the sake of profit. Please read up on Monsanto, our survival depends on us to do the right thing. http://www.right2knowmarch.org/about-2/educational-links/
When someone says things like this, I have to ask if they really understand the difference between a language and a framework:

Under Ruby, we put C++. On top of Ruby we put the Rails web framework. It’s not very common to actually code anything in Ruby. You pretty much only see people coding Ruby while using the Rails framework which governs the whole thing.

You can replace Ruby here with Python, Django or Groovy and it is still correct.
I wonder if it says something about MS's corporate culture, particularly putting process over people.
I just moved to Boston, I hope they roll it out here asap for the exact reason you state above.

Just to show how disruptive it is, the guy ordered batteries and had them shipped to a 7-11 which also sells batteries. I bet 7-11 did not consider cannabolization in their analysis.
It's true, he preferred the brackets formatted this way.
Although this makes his comments only viewable by comment-necrophiliacs like us and are unchallengeable by reply. It's like alnayyir is a zombie gadfly. Creepy.
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The last time I saw 'John John' 
We can all dwell in loss. It's informative and healing. I recall a very potent day involving John F. Kennedy Junior. At around 11pm, on Columbus Avenue in Manhattan on the day before he died, my girlfriend and I bumped into him: "John John!"
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> One way or another, someone will always need to be available to answer students' questions. Books, videos, and clever programs running in web browsers simply can't do that.

Can't we use a model similar to Stack Overflow for answering students' questions? Most questions are bound to repeat, so I don't think there would be so many questions for the experts to answer after a while.
I don't understand. Can you explain why you think having the speaker on the back of the phone is better than it being on the bottom?

A 2nd grader's understanding of physics informs us that yes, indeed, there will be some situation in which the iPhone's speaker is obstructed and another speaker isn't (why, you could stand the phone up!). But what obstruction is going to be more common?

If frequency of obstruction isn't the only issue, what's the compensating virtue of having the speaker on the back of the phone? How valuable is that compensation?
As an integer-heavy workload, it should do pretty well - provided that your projects are parallel-buildable (eg. make -j works).
Profitability - but VCs don't give a shit about that - in fact one told me that right on the phone... Maybe things will change.
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Well my inability to articulate myself clearly has caused a torrid of downvotes thinking i'm some kind of free speech nazi, better not to try...
Based on my chats with other founders, I think the seed financing market is still pretty strong. Companies that should get funded are still getting funded, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I wouldn't get too worked up on the scary headline...

In reply to another comment I saw, this applies even to non-YC companies.
Plucky tree: the last time I saw Steve Jobs
> If you had started on an android phone, you would probably have written a similar piece talking about how apple phones get muted when placed on a fluffy blanket (as the edge gets covered), and how the android hardware designers did it right.

Probably not since the rear speaker on the Android phone would be completely muted by the same fluffy blanket.
I'm not sure how many more ways I can break this down for you. I figured my previous comment was pretty clear.

Asserting that Cloudant is only selling Monsanto a simple data analysis is disingenuous, as clearly proven by Cloudant's own press release where they state how significant their partnership with Monsanto is. Partnership is a key word here.

Selling someone a service like Google Analytics (random example) is a lot different than partnering with a company for multiple weeks and shaping the entire core functionality of a company around your collaborative efforts. Even more so is saying that this partnership will help shape the way the company fundamentally does business.

Like I said, its disingenuous to downplay Cloudant's role, considering how highly they emphasized said role.
I think it would be better if it were on the top. When I hold my phone upside vertically sometimes I manage to cover the speaker with my hands.
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Gfranc,

You aren't clear enough on the difference between fiscal and monetary policy for your comments on corruption to make any sense. If you think US banking policy is corrupt that has nothing to do with Krugman or Keynesian models. Quite the opposite since Krugman has been arguing very publicly AGAINST the sorts of policies you seem to find instinctively distasteful: he does not think the bailout is solving the underlying economic problems with the banks and writes practically every week about WHY. The fact you attack him without knowing what he actually says is revealing.

On the other hand, if you think fiscal policy is corrupt you have the uncomfortable reality that there hasn't been much of it: the White House scaled back the needed stimulus from a projected 1.2 trillion to 800 billion and overall government spending STILL fell. This is why U6 is over 16 percent now: private sector demand collapsed and nothing has stepped in to fill the gap. If you think there has been too much corruption with the fiscal stimulus you are also pretty much alone. People seem generally content funding additional transfers to local governments to keep public services running. I haven't read a lot of popular anger over fiscal priorities. I have read a lot of people who are angry at banking policy though.

None of this is insider information. Nor do you sound informed to be citing bloggers who were crying wolf about deficit spending at a time when US borrowing rates were falling or sounding the alarm about inflation at a time when the US economy was moving in the other direction. You might be right in slamming on the American political system since it gives voice and power to these people, but I don't see what your criticism has to do with the one guy in the NYTimes who is trying to get the brakes put on bad policy and has constantly criticized both left and right and been proven time and time again right on the money with his critiques.

Also -- you should drop the right-wing fool/idiot claptrap if you expect people to take your posts seriously. It makes you sound confused instead of smart -- especially when the blog you cite approvingly reverses the words while seeming to mean exactly the same thing.
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The only time it make senses to grab as much money as you can is when you're building to flip. I've always viewed raising as little as you can if you are serious about building a sustainable business.
Because it would be better for every handset maker to not be held by the nuts by carriers. In most markets Android has more market share, Apple would be wise to be able and set the standard for future messaging.
As I too was (and am) a nobody, who got to meet Steve Jobs on several occasions, I bring you: My first encounter with Steve: http://dailyperry.com/post/11206943414/my-first-meeting-with...
Let's not compare the two legends. They made their own marks in vastly different ways. Both magnificent. I love them both. RIP.
My guess is that they didn't want to put holes in the glass. It'd be less sleek. But it would sound a lot better.
This is on the frontpage of a mainstream Australian news website: "Google engineer slams Google+ as 'pathetic afterthought'"

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-e...
I think one of the things that made Jobs death such a punch to the gut for me was the fact that until very recently, we all had some hope that his health problems were chronic, debilitating, but not terminal (Joe Nocera had, for instance, reported that Jobs cancer had not recurred at his last medical L.O.A.).

When Jobs' death was announced, I immediately began reevaluating the little moments and snapshots we had of Jobs in the last year; his head resting on his wife's shoulder after a talk, his voice at the Cupertino city council meeting. Someone else pointed out how remarkable it was that Jobs had achieved all he had while staring death in the face. Remarkable, yes, but also very sad.

So, I'm relieved at stories like this, showing Jobs enjoying his life even as he knew it was drawing to a close.

Thanks!
That should not be surprising: Profitability makes VCs less necessary, which gives you leverage to walk away from a term sheet.

Google was a great example of that.
P.S. Here a old TV show by Milton Friedman on Schools (RIP). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLVIrmG6Ysk
(There is always a documentery first and then the last third of it is disscution between friedman and others, thats probebly the most intressting part)
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
Unless I misunderstood what you meant by "frothy".
Agree every young internet company needs their "dead bodies parts selling on ebay" moment. A corporate CEO scanning the WSJ seeing a headline like this is ultimately a good thing:

"Cloudant drawing heat from tech community over Monsanto deal"

or in the futre

"DOJ investigating possible Cloudant deal with (insert rogue nation) ..."
In addition of what 'edw519' just said (which btw spared me a lot of words, thanks for that), nowadays, although I can feel quite miserable and suffer a lot on this kind of situation (which I'm in middle of one right now), I usually thank my life for having it happening.

And do you know why? Because it's due to such things we grow a whole lot more with these tough moments in life, since it compels us to think about what we have done wrong, what were out mistakes to end up this way and makes us to put everything in perspective and therefore rethink our life and evolve and learn a lot from that.

See, I'm a 26 years old programmer and on Saturday (Oct 15th) will complete 1 year my mom has passed away in a totally unexpected way (and that brought me a lot of legal and heritage consequences -- and a lot of big choices I wasn't prepared to make so early) and I don't have to mention all that messed up a lot my life.

So here I am now in a middle of a crossroad, rethinking my life and deeming quit programming and start one of my others wills, like carpentry or something like that, trying to talk to friends or friends' parents who work someway with that kind of thing. So, the point is you always has options to take before really thinking of suiciding (and I could say I'm bipolar who has his depressed moments), despite I've never thought of killing myself.

And I'm almost completely broke and just moved to a new apartment with my brother, which I'm still paying for it all by myself. I must say I have some tempting job offers in front of me in my programming area, but I think now is a good cue to starting doing some new stuff (and I deem myself quite great on web programming, and my friends and former coworkers think the same).

Whenever you find yourself struggling like you're doing and kind of stuck it's time to put everything in perspective and consider doing something new and somewhat unexpected and maybe your life will present you completely exciting and new things. And it's rather important to throw your pride away and ignore what people around you are saying. It's more important than ever to hear your inner voice, your intuition and find what could make you happy or at least make you away from your current feeling of failure.
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Other examples? My family consisting of holocaust camp survivors and their friends own multiple german autos and machinery.
Here's the first go at the number: (415) 329-5992

It's just using the basic Twilio text to speech, but I'll get a proper recording in there so it's easier to understand shortly. Website should be up in a day or so. Any feedback is appreciated.

If anyone wants to pitch in with some ideas on how to provide a better service or wants to hack together, let me know!

So far, I'm planning to put up numbers for major metro areas, and possibly allow for personal numbers that will either transcribe and email messages to the owner or go some sort of SMS route.

Also, if anyone has a contact at nad.org, please let them know.

DISCLAIMER: this is for good karma only, any ideas for this other than not for profit will be turned down :)
"... I didn't even notice ..."

The date is on the top of the article but maybe I should amend the title.
Paul, branding us as "dumb" for reasoning this way seems beneath you. Where, in this line of reasoning, do we diverge?

1. Monsanto is a despicable company.

2. By "working closely", Cloudant implicitly condones Monsanto's ethics.

3. By announcing it publicly, Cloudant goes beyond condoning Monsanto's ethics and appear to actively support Monsanto's actions.

That's roughly my line of reasoning. Are losing each other at #1, #2 or #3?
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Wonderful post. I especially understand why the dogfooding is so necessary. Here's An article I came across that talked about how the senior management at G were using G+ http://theunderstatement.com/post/11018308302/googles-manage...

As for platforms, IMO even Yahoo did a great job. The hackdays they conduct twice a year is testament to this fact. It's a different thing that they are not able to capitalize/monetize any of those wonderful ideas but I am guessing the reason for organizing those events were different.

Totally agree on the Amazon doing platforms right. Still a little skeptical about FB given that their APIs seem messy, at least at the moment. But given the demand, I am sure they will deliver.
To the downmodder(s): I'm not trolling. These are honest questions I have.
For example, explaining the history of operator precedence in C:

http://groups.google.com/group/net.lang.c/msg/3651ddf298937d...
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"... the exit status should be nonzero. .."

true but it's from P7, "C progamming language", pure K&R.
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What if he died peacefully?

return 0;
I've heard that it's YC alumni + YC company themselves that moderate. The moderation tends to be more subtle. eg ghostbans as a way to combat spam.
Back during the 2000 bubble, folks started companies where the payoff in the biz plan was based on $1M per employee. Therefore the goal became hiring, and salaries/signing bonuses became stupid.

The bubble bursting was actually a boon for companies with honest-to-god businesses.
Agreed, these answers sound like a mix of cleverbot and wolfram aplha.
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Thanks I'll definitely take a look at GainSpan. Yeah I don't necessarily want to build everything from the ground up if the components have already been built.

Here's an example though. Lets take the fitbit as a very basic example. Mainly it's a well written piece software that needs to interact with multiple sensors: gps, gyroscope, heart rate monitor, probably temperature.

Now, I can grab a gyro and an arduino project to read and utilize data from that gyro, as well as all the other components... Separately. But I'm not sure where to go from there in order to turn all that into a single embedded system. It's possible I'm just repeating myself and you've already answered my question, lol. Maybe I just haven't gotten my hands dirty enough yet.
I think "return -1;" would have been appropriate =(

But seriously, this page actually brought a tear to my eye. It's like all the C code in the world right now feels a little less cheerful...

EDIT: But yes, there is something oddly inspiring about the world just moving on.
Maybe, but printf() is the function used in the original hello-world program on p.6 of K&R.
How did you learn the GNU make tools?
RIP, Dennis Ritchie.

I love that the tribute code is short, concise and has enormous meaning.
Best way to get an online business started?
What is the best way to get an online business started without being in the valley?
If only the marketing of Diaspora could have been combined with the technical details of OneSocialWeb.

Facebook is great because it "gets" what average folks want and need. It being centralized is a huge boon and while a few folks bitch about their privacy, very few people actually care. That isn't to say privacy concerns aren't legitimate - they are - but I know most of my peers just want to see pictures and read up on the latest news. Facebook is dead simple to use, requires nothing to get started, and has inertia. It won.

Many people on this site idolize Steve Jobs, so do what he would do:

1. Acknowledge that Facebook won its game
2. Start playing a different game.

You're spot on about Wave. Wave had the potential to be the next wave of communication (ugh), and they set their sights on probably the one standard that will never be disrupted, instead of trying to disrupt a relatively new segment. Wave should have been a social collaboration platform. I know that all I use Facebook for is communicating with members of my co-op, and we all could have easily moved our house business over. Instead, they blew it and we use Facebook for organization, scheduling, and collaboration.
No. It makes sense to raise as little money as possible as you can when you are building to flip. Think about it. I'll explain the math if you can't figure it out.

Not all new companies are startups. Startups are companies that are in search of a business model. They are building something that is at least somewhat capital intensive before they can get revenue.

There is a lot to be said about bootstrapping, and if you can do it then that is awesome. But there are lots of ideas that require some cash to get off the ground.
How so? Google raised a bunch of cash at the beginning.
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There should be an easier way to do this.
Awesome. Wish I saw this before I paid (wayyyyy more than $2) for an animated video for http://recessionitis.com

I'm def gonna give it a try.. I just got to brush up on my "coloring" :-)
My take-away from the article was that at most the stupid money is drying up, and very likely the article is wrong.

Opportunities still abound to use technology to disrupt existing markets. If that can be demonstrated to people with capital, they will invest. Even better, if that can be demonstrated to customers, you don't need people to invest.
Because rubber feet have friction and hold a phone on a surface much better than the iPhone's smooth back does.

Also, putting my iPhone down without scratching the front or the back glass on a piece of sand or dirt is an art.

Yes, the iPhone 4(s) is pretty, but you sacrifice function for that beauty.
My JS is minified with Closure Compiler, but it still reports that "Minifying the following JavaScript resources could reduce their size by 7.2KiB (6% reduction)." What can be done?
Spoiler alert.

I'm looking forward to poking around and finding some of these on my own.
Man, I was just diving into C this week with Shaw's learn C the hard way and K & R (I'm beginning to wrap my head around pointers. Quite beautiful, really).

This snippet made me tear up. RIP, Dennis Ritchie.
Agreed. Thus far, every time my iPhone 4 has fallen has been a time I put it on an ever-so-slightly tilted surface and it seemingly slides under its own power. I'd be fine with a little more friction on the glass backing.
There was an angel round early, but when it came time for KP and Sequoia to enter, the dynamics were quite interesting. The company retained an enormous chunk of the ownership in part because they could (already!) walk away if they needed to.
I think it's arguable whether this is a true problem that has never been dealt with until Apple tackled it. The author of that article seems to be the only person I've encountered that has had this alarm being muffled issue.

Various devices deal with this in various ways (by putting little ugly feet on the back as someone noticed, by slightly curving the surface on which the speaker is located, or as iPhone does it by placing it on a plane which in most scenarios sits perpendicular to the surface on which the device is resting).

Whether Apple's solution is the most elegant is also arguable but everyone is entitled to an opinion. One thing is for sure, this wasn't some obscure problem that no engineer has ever thought of until Apple decided to save us.
If this is better then I guess I'll stick with Java:

object HelloWorld {
def main(args: Array[String]) {
println("Hello, world!")
}
}

Different is != better, not in my view.
fair enough.

But you could also argue that this reinforces my point, as few people use pypy instead of python.
Exactly. Numpy is fast enough. Its the code calling it that is slow.
Uhm? I’m confused now. You seem to be reading way too much into that article.
free(dmr);
Spotify, MOG, Pandora, Farmville, are all popular users of the platform.
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>> knowing how oracle is doing everything possible to alienate java

I'm an optimist, I think I'm seeing indications that Oracle might back off and give this thing the room it needs to grow. Larry Ellison is growing older and though it's not always the case, he may be growing a bit wiser.
Something about C saying that is incredibly depressing.
I cried.
What I don't understand is why the earpiece couldn't also double as an "external" speaker. They're about the same size.
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I feel I should explain myself. I understand iMessage is much more than SMS and I love it so far. What I am saying is that is has been difficult to convince friends to use it. They still require a SMS plan since not everybody has an iPhone. Using iMessage will cut into their limited data, while using their SMS plan will be unlimited. Once more people have iPhones, we can ditch the SMS plan and use the "cheaper" data.
Shouldn't everyone at Google be an experienced Google+ user by this point?
Years ago in my CS program, someone floated the proposition that there has only ever existed one make file, and all others are edited copies because so few people understand how to craft one.

It was certainly true for most of the beginning CS students. We copied the instructor's (or TA's) standard make file and tweaked it for each project ...