skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of opportunities claim to be a chance to work on interesting problems together with other smart people. Filtering opportunities is hard. Filtering by language is flawed, but what better techniques are there?
The other big catch is randomness, which is often not understood by neophytes. If you try to find relations in sufficiently large data set, you're bound to find some that are "caused" by randomness. Tools like p-values are of little help when you fish for many relations (and not just one in particular).
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Congrats! Sometimes it sounds like having fun is half the battle. (Pardon the war metaphor.)
God, why are physical product startups so terrible. I understand it's the nature of the beast. But still, it's been at least 25 years since the advent of carrier shipping and the proliferation of make-piece manufacturing throughout Asia.

I suspect there is a billion dollars in it for someone with supply chain experience who wants to make the Amazon of manufacturing.
Thoughtful and interesting. This post makes me second guess myself.

As a counter point: I wonder if this is a personal decision. Some people are interested in deep mastery and some people are interested in broad mastery.
‘Tis the season for Chromebooks
I imagine the comparison is supposed to be based on adjusted for inflation wages, 1965 to 2007.

This article has similar numbers: http://www.kyklosproductions.com/articles/wages.html

Also includes this quote. "As one source has put it, "in 2000 a CEO earned more in one workday (there are 260 in a year) than what the average worker earned in 52 weeks. In 1965, by contrast, it took a CEO two weeks to earn a worker's annual pay"."
Another Groupon Horror Story.
IIT-Kgp to groom 30 students into entrepreneurs
Spot on. We're always something. Sometimes we're a language, other times we're a framework or something else. Spend enough years programming and there will always be something in which you specialized. Doesn't mean you shouldn't pick up something different if you want to. Doesn't mean you shouldn't want to, either ;)
Map of NYC's tech start-ups
Robotium - A selenium like framework for testing Android applications
Robotium is a test framework created to make it easy to write powerful and robust automatic black-box test cases for Android applications
General Assembly Launches Hybrid Education
Overheard at my last Bullpen Cap VC Meeting
> I don't believe real time is very hard.

At scale it is. More here:

http://www.quora.com/Hunch/Is-Hunch-actually-doing-anything-... (this one got a vote from one of the founders)

http://hassy.posterous.com/my-favorite-startups-hunch
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Alibaba cleans up here simply by facilitating connections, and this despite many problems.
Just my $.02 but good luck initiating a bidding war when you are cold-calling VC's ... they see this as a company who has a "need" for money versus someone looking for a partner for growth.

My suggestion would be to keep a poker face when offered term sheets etc. no matter how tight money may be pretend you only need money to leverage more growth and not to stay afloat.

If you have a product with a quickly growing user base they should be able to see the value. You just have to sell the ability to make money with or without them. If you cannot do that you will never initiate a bidding war
I knew I'd seen this stuff before! https://www.buymightyputtynow.com
GCC will probably not use any specific hardware facilities, which means this is probably going to be implemented with regular atomic operations.

Within a transaction block, the results of all reads are stored (to a local, hidden variable). When the transaction is about to finish, all reads are repeated and if any of them yields a different result, the transaction is restarted. When the transaction is committed, there will likely be some kind of a global lock (that will be held for a very small time).

As GCC probably doesn't require any kind of threading or locking, it's most likely that the write lock will be a spinlock using an atomic read-modify-write and some kind of yield instruction (monitor/mwait on new cpu's, pause on older).

As far as I can see, there really aren't lots of other methods to implement STM, especially from within the C compiler.
Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Like I've already commented its great to hear from you and see which of the features I think are important are also important to people who have tried the app.
Half of our company is made of MBA's. Getting an MBA is very different from doing a startup. If you want to do a startup, do a startup. However, there are useful things you can learn from an MBA. Here's why we like them: http://feefighters.com/blog/should-you-hire-mbas-at-your-sta...
Project Management
The Gemini product is very easy to use and is great for project management and bug tracking. It also has a free 3 user license or a free 45 day trial.
That being said, after watching this video it struck me how little innovation has being going on in the email space.

Granted, change for change's sake is not always a good thing, but for a video made before I was born it seems strange that even the mail.app that ships with Lion still hasn't fundamentally changed from its neXt forebears - we still have the three large horizontal textboxes on top of a large textarea for the body, and everything seems to function in exactly the same manner.

No wonder people my age barely use email anymore. A subject line? really?
Leadership, foresight and intuition are needed in a technical founder as well.

There are many many more non technical people looking to do a start-up; it is also the case that most non-technical professionals can easily be replaced. But remember we are talking of partners, not employees.
Appreciate your comment. And you're right about decision trees, though they can be useful for simpler problems, such as classifying documents into categories, whereby you have "sub categories" and the parent categories are mutually exclusive.

Decision trees are really only useful for problems where there is mutual exclusion between the different options, so they are definitely no silver bullet.
And yet their competitor, the Atlas rocket - uses a Russian engine ?

So it's apparently OK for strategic US rockets used to launch military payloads, to use Russian engines but not for a private company to employ Canadians.
Same. I really appreciated the little dynamic order-summary text at the bottom of the order form. It includes your shipping city to make the text really friendly and personal. It's probably the first order summary I've actually enjoyed reading. Little things, man!
The Cherrity Pie Festival Featured in the Denver Business Journal
Good music is no longer a scarce commodity. If I was a working musician, I'd be working on honing my live performance, since a really good live show is still by its nature a scarce commodity and hence a source of value.
Your way of doing it almost certainly decreases conversion rates, but feel free to test.

The idea is that, for every transaction ever, someone has an amount of money they'll go up to for that purchase. If it costs more than that, no sale. If it costs less than that, they capture what is called a "consumer surplus." (This is micro-econ 101.) It happens to be the case that a lot of software is sold to businesses which have ways of calculating value against which all common startup software price points are negligible. Accordingly, attempting to capture some of the consumer surpluses from businesses does not leave them meaningfully worse off.

Can I give you a concrete example of how this works for Appointment Reminder? I have a particular customer whose appointments are worth in excess of $2,000 each. His actual usage of the software puts him in the $29 / month plan, but the software demonstrably makes him in excess of $10k each month. He pays $199 a month for the software, and told me that if I charged him $2k a month he'd pay it without a second thought.

It is strongly not in my interest to tell him "OK, start on the $9 plan and you can upgrade to the $29 plan when your usage goes over the limit.", because he'd never reach the higher plans. The difference in $29 and $199 is not meaningful to his business but, aggregated over similarly situated customers, it is very meaningful to mine.
Can you name an economic system that doesn't have similar flaws? Economic systems only usable by hunter-gatherers don't count, unless your real argument is with civilization rather than capitalism.
As an electronic musician trying to gain exposure (with tracks in the process of being published to Spotify), I wonder if this is good or bad. 200 fewer indie electronic labels means a little less competition for visibility on the service... but then it also means electronic listeners are less likely to use the service in the first place.
A good hacker can pickup a new language quickly, maybe half hour, or 1 day, or three days for complex ones. But also usually with each language, comes a set of tools and practices, that take a bit more time to become proficient with, and are also necessary to reach a high levels of productivity.

Recruiters expectations varies on each market situation. In my experience, as a freelancer doing remote work, few if any hiring companies are willing to wait that time. You are mostly required to have demonstrable high quality concrete experience in the specific tools to be used.

Various factor are involved in this situation. Among these, one thing is that is difficult to identify good hackers. Also, hiring the wrong person can be very costly for a company.

Hackers have to send the right signals, to surpass these barriers. Some are lucky, and their careers give them the right opportunities. Others doesn't have that luck, and must put an "special" extra effort, to be able to advance and get these "best opportunities".
I'm sure the FBI monitors CEO for purchases of large quantities of piranhas and white cats with diamond collars.
NeXT might have failed, but it failed upwardly. http://news.cnet.com/Apple-acquires-Next,-Jobs/2100-1001_3-2...
How Compact Disk is made and tips how to remove scratches using Banana
Xkcd: Money Chart
New record for speed writing on iPad
Sigh. Why don't people like you come to my part of the world? If I was in London I would be jumping up and down with excitement right about now.

I am a developer. I am passionate about startups. I am passionate about technology. I am passionate about carving my own path through life. I am passionate about breaking down the challenges that come with business, science and culture. I AM READY TO BE A TECHNICAL CO-FOUNDER. FIND ME, SOME ONE, PLEASE!
Tablet demand triples ahead of holidays, 66% of buyers want Apple’s iPad
808 doesn't use FM, but VCOs with low pass filters (aka "analog synthesis"). Yamaha synths from the 80s, OTOH, were running on FM (the DX7 being the best known member of this large family). The most "interesting" FM synth probably was the original NED Synclavier, but it's rarer than the white tiger and was as expensive, back then (probably still costs an arm and a leg nowadays).
alias ec='emacsclient --no-wait'

and add to your ~.emacs -> (server-start)
A Smokin' Hot Penny Stock: Positron (POSC)
Randomness can be a curse, but can also be a blessing when introduced as in the random subspace methods. This again abstracts to understanding your business needs and whether the results encountered make sense given the features' [absence of] independence. An API giving you a wide choice of algorithms will still rely on you to run something like ICA as a pre-processing step to identify this statistically independent randomness.
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Patrick - Thank you I really appreciate you taking the time.
There wasn't an RFC for NAT44 either, because the IETF didn't want to encourage it. Realizing how that worked out last time, the debate is raging about NAT66 specification.
A Case Against SpaceX
Personalization and the "Ick" Factor
Actually, sperm whales are still considered endangered, e.g. by http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.ac.... If you have any reliable sources that we "need to limit [sperm whales'] numbers for our own survival", please cite them.
Thanks for the reply. I always thought the Russians had been lost more people, materiel, etc. than anyone else and were pretty much done in by the end of the war. (I'm not sure where I got that idea, now that I examine it.)
HN frowns on novelty accounts and bot posting, but if they were allowed I would write a bot to post this link whenever someone mentions learning a new language quickly:

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

I’m not saying that a good programmer cannot become productive in a new language quickly for some definition of “productive,” but it seems thee is more than meets the eye when it comes to learning a new programming language.
This is a blatant copy of my web app Hacker Newspaper.

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2011/11/imitation-is-sincer...
Money: a chart of (almost) all of it, where it is, and what it can do
Perfect, something I needed to model out what amount I would need to raise, how to compensate employees and possible co-founder split in the equity. Very helpful, thanks for sharing!
The trick is to evaluate why they suck and use that to improve your ideas.
This is humiliating to us as a race of sentient species.

If we still badly need sperm oil, why don't we work to inject the relevant genes into some bacteria and get our oil in any quantities we want to? Or reproduce the process in any other way (synthesis, cell culture).
Nice work! I'm using the app right now to add this comment. I agree with all the feedback so far, but it's still worth the money even in its current state.
And now every protocol needs to add NAT66 traversal to work around you. The lack of NAT66 is not ignoring a problem, it's trying to prevent a massive externality.
Couple of suggestions (take them or leave them):

1. say what your idea is. Or at least the sector / problem you are addressing.

2. say what technology set you are using. You say you are currently getting a 'prototype website' built, so you have a stack - what is it.

3. as you aren't a technical founder, are you a domain expert (i.e. if the product is, say, financial services related, then presumably you have would have a track record in this sector). If so, then big up yourself.

4. Be positive. This whole post is (to me at least) far too negative. From "shotinthedark" and "slim to none", to your story about the web agency dropping you. Full marks for being honest, but presentation counts for a lot and again if you aren't the technical guy, you need to be the 'hustle' guy and that means everying (every email, chat, etc) needs to be +ve!

As for finding a technical co-founder it is definitely possible (I've done it a couple of times). Think of it as pre-qualifier for having a shot at further challenges (funding, getting customers, etc). If you can't convince one person to work on your idea, then something is seriously wrong. Especially if you have some funds (given that you are paying a developer and designer, you must have at least enough for covering someone's basic living costs).

If I were you I'd delete this post, and rewrite it as a compelling story about why someone should come work with you. You must think you are on to the opportunity of a lifetime - so "tell them about the dream" (to quote Mahalia Jackson).
Also, it's a bunch of small time techno labels, and not a single major label is a part of the enormous sounding "200 labels".
Interesting, but gives too little credit to the anti-whaling campaigns: it certainly was no accident that whaling was forbidden as soon as that became economically feasible.
> I'm just sick of the shortcuts and "user-friendly" approaches to creation. I feel more lost than if I were to learn the fundamentals. I never get the questions I actually want answered, answered.

Depending on who says it, that could mean anything. Can we have some examples? Lest we send you off on a wild-goose chase learning every last detail of some huge trendy framework, only to discover you were meaning something that takes 5 lines of PHP...
It's worse than that even. In much of Corporate America you are whatever keywords the HR person has been told to look for! Language, framework, operating system ... it's all the same to HR.
Don't waste your time reading it.

AllTheImportantBits

1. NYC has overtaken Boston as a VC hub.

2. Bloomberg is trying to get a really great Tech University.

3. Living in New York is very attractive compared to living in Suburbia with great weather (Silicon Valley).
Out of curiosity, could you provide some more info on Pomodoro techniques? Never heard of it until you mentioned this, and am curious to learn more / understand how it can be effective in software. To me, context switching can be very costly, so I am very skeptical of breaking off my concentration every 25 minutes. Thanks in advance!
An Appreciation of Locality Sensitive Hashing
No, in this case CPE means whatever is attached to the cable modem.
Distributism has some interesting properties of socialism / capitalism, but would still have killed the whales probably... "The Venus Project" guys believe they can do this, but it just seems like a human enslavement program masked as human empowerment.
Google Developer Day Berlin: The HTML5 Demos
This article was a waste of my time.
Ivies, Extracurriculars, and Exclusion
If you do not trust the software you're running then you should not be running it.

Yes, I often decline to run software. Even if I do "trust" the software and its author, running it may unnecessarily increase my attack surface.

Honestly your best bet is to turn your computer off & unplug it from the Internet. Sandboxes, VMs, BIOSes are all subject to bugs which could lead to security vulnerabilities. Wrapping yourself in pillows may make you think you're safer, but it's not necessarily true & often is too much effort for most normal users.

That's the same FUD I hear every time I tell someone "that particular feature set is beyond my risk/reward threshhold".

Here's the counter-argument to that:

Would you have your surgery at a hospital where the staff were playing Flash or WebGL Facebook games on the intravenous drug pump management console?

We all have decisions to make about risk vs. benefit. I make mine with different considerations than yours. This is OK.
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Since I couldn't post two links on one submission, here are the first two videos:

"Forming Your Startup": http://generalassemb.ly/hybrid_classes/forming-your-startup

"Introduction to Web APIs": http://generalassemb.ly/hybrid_classes/introduction-to-web-a...
http://adage.com/article/news/o-overstock-backs-o-change/230...

Overstock.com changed their primary domain to "o.co" in what I can only assume was an attempt to make people type less.

Customers rarely entered "o.co", instead they entered "o.com" because that's what they expected to domain to be.

Result: tons of cash wasted as Overstock reverted to "Overstock.com".

Get a .com and move on.
Have you tried Supercollider? It's an awesome DSL for doing all things audio.
EBay Snaps Up Hunch, Dives Into Recommendations
Site is hammered as far as I can see, you can check what you're missing out on at http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/11/21/check-out-these-beau...
Let me reverse that question for you:

Can you name an ecosystem (as in, natural system) that doesn't have similar flaws?

A predator predates on its prey as long as feasible. When prey is overhunted, some of the predator population dies out (negative feedback, if you will), or the predator adopts (behavior or genome) to use alternative food sources, or to better utilize the resource. Nothing new to see here, move along ;-)

Not that I approve of predatory use of natural resources; we humans sure should know better. Just please don't make it sound unnatural.
I am not a language, but I have a certain taste in languages.

While I am somewhat capable of coding in Java or C, I just enjoy the Ruby community, the podcasts, the expressiveness of the language and the approach to solving problems way more than I do with the respective C/Java equivalents.

I am not a language, but I'd like to chose the tools that make me happy.
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/
tl;dr

The reason why so many whales were killed in the 20th century was the distant ramifications of replacement of whale oil by petroleum. It took another 100 years to find solutions to these ramifications, and only then it became possible to save the whales. Ecological activism did not play significant role in all of these developments; neither did the numerous well-meaning international treaties, moratoriums, and other chest beating displays.
Fully grown decision trees are notorious for their risk of overfitting your training set. If you're uncomfortable fully growing the trees, you then have to consider whether you want to grow them out completely and then prune them, stop growing after a specific depth, train the trees using a random subset of features in the feature space (and then how many do you select? Do you use the square root? Logarithm?), etc. Even then, what are you using to choose when a node splits? Information gain? Information gain ratio? Gini index? What about when you have a feature like credit card numbers, which are unique?

These are all choices that the user has to make. For something as seemingly simple as a decision tree, you can see why some knowledge is required before embarking on any machine learning mission.
Can somebody point me to a photo series of Google employees giving a detailed tour of the inside of their most current datacenter?

I was under the impression that Google values openness more than all other companies, but I can't seem to find anything like that on Google.
When 'Everything is a toy', there is no real meaning whether it's an ebook, a book, a cutting board... The question is, whether a book allows for anything special, or is removing books 'robs a child of a variety'. I think not. We can't all have every stimulus available for our children. I never experienced snow until I was 30. Some kids never see an ocean. Some live in the city, some in a more rural environment. Some have pets, some don't. Future generations will not live with paper in their household. They will not be robbed of anything.

Keep in mind, this isn't saying ebook readers are suitable for everything. No ebook reader, at the moment, can match a huge, colourfully printed kids book, not to mention their fragility and price isn't suitable for kids. The same goes for feelies, pop-up books, cards with animals, or colours or other such educational toys, and so on. Take those out of the equation, and there are no advantages for print over digital. Actually, there is no advantages for print over anything if those are taken out, since a child will just refer to them as yet another toy.
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Settings links were unofficially added in iOS 5.
Feel free to email me at sam@sammcd.com if you would like to discuss this more.

I just want to say that I did not use your app as a source at all when designing my app, but I did use newspapers.
I had the same thought. This "sky crane" thing doesn't look like a good idea. I hope it'll all go well.

The rover is awesome though. They should build 20 of them and send them to all planets and some of the moons as well.
vvvv is great ... there are some other graphical media interfaces out there as well, but PD and vvvv are the most er... popular? edit: oh yeah and supercollider!
Exactly. It would make sense for them to try to get around the ban individually, but here they are trying to arrange to all hunt whales collectively. I really don't understand why they didn't all say: "Let the other companies pay for the lobbying about this".

EDIT: I think I could actually explain this pretty well in a cognitive dissonance framework. "We hunt whale. We know we're good people. Therefore, good people support hunting whale. Only bad people don't defend things they do. Therefore, we have to defend whaling."