skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely love NY, but I think if I lived there I'd be too distracted by the glitz or too envious of all the rich i-bankers to do a startup.

I live in Boulder, which IMO has a the perfect combo of livability and talent & resources need to launch a tech company. It will never be Silicon Valley, but that also means it will never have the traffic. It's really nice to be able to walk or ride a bike to most meetings. And every day I seem to bump into fellow entrepreneurs while in line at the coffee shop a couple blocks from my office.
Comparing Internationalization in web frameworks
“Apple is an innovative company, but I think it’s mostly a design innovator.”

Which is really the crux of what Apple is (I came here to say it and saw Thiel beat me to it). Apple has always been a product innovator more then a technology innovator.

The iPhone was still, very much, a breakthrough device. So was the iPod but neither were "technological breakthroughs"
Introducing your biases does not strengthen your argument.

No one really knows what people will be talking about in 100 years. That said, the iPhone seems to be as good a candidate as your examples. The interface was revolutionary compared to the devices which came before it, and the idea that 3rd parties could distribute apps without going thru the carriers was also a big change.
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I like their movie predictor: http://hunch.com/movies/
The iPhone may not a technological breakthrough in that it changes the life of billions of people, no. In that vein, neither is Paypal, to be honest.

The part that annoys me is that Thiel drops this linkbait-worthy note, then doesn't qualify it by saying what would be a technological breakthrough (I did read the new yorker summary, too). Lot of hot air here.
Well Peter, you're part of the problem. The more you invest in e.g.: social networks the more entrepreneurs are going to follow that instead of, you know, what you call "innovation".
In all cases, those companies got the algorithms + the team that developed them. Are we really debating the difference? Or were you sitting in MS/Apple/eBay's boardroom?
At work we have:
Bacon
Fort Awesome
Chuck
Norris (these two have a removable wall to make Chuck Norris)
Agile
Buttercup
Wolverine
Filter this into a prioritized list that you see cursory potential to solve a problem, ordered by size of the problem (in terms of market size or cost). Take #1, create some assumptions and subject it to a "validation towel off" by speaking to the consumer and the customer (can be one of the same, may be different). Lather, rinse and repeat.
http://nickclifton.livejournal.com/9501.html

"The support implements and tracks the Linux variant of Intel's Transactional Memory ABI specification document. Currently this is at revision 1.1, (May 6 2009). For more information see:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-c-stm-compile...
"
I believe the "fix" shell command is just

git commit --amend
Compare that to the previous century. Where is the equivalent of the airplane, radio transmission, space travel, television, antibiotics, the Internet? Those were breakthroughs, not just incremental advances. There s never 'enough progress'. One should be an optimist though, there s innovation incubated in the life sciences
"the little company that made shiny, walled-garden media players"

Yup. That's all Apple ever did all right.
I never knew that! This opens up so many more opportunities to comment! Thanks!
How many iconic, break-out products are ever "technological breakthroughs"? Behind virtually every iconic product is a string of lesser known antecedents with the same fundamentals but imperfect packaging, pricing, or timing.

Counterexamples? Would love to hear them.

Otherwise, this is an extremely banal observation on Thiel's part.
That particular statement reflects a lot of experience and maturity and I was just appreciating that. Nothing to do with Daniel.
What do you do when feature work is long standing and worked on by multiple people?

In this case there should be a topic branch for the big feature and all development comes off that branch. You can simply replace master with the topic branch and topic branch with your personal branch and this model will work.
Awesome CSS3 Buttons, über simple markup
Cool. What's the company name?
I don't think that's true. I think the innovation of the iPhone was in two areas...

1. It was the first product to popularize touch. That's going to have a big impact in the future of technology. The gestures pioneered by the iPhone (swipe, pinch to zoom) could very well exist 100 years from now and if they do the iPhone will be their ancestor. That's a big deal.

2. The iPhone saved Apple and Apple changed the conversation in technology. 10 years ago adding more features and giving users 20 different ways to do things was considered an asset. Now the technology industry has changed direction back towards designing a product and giving the user 1 way to do things that's easier. I'm inclined to believe we'll eventually reach a happy medium between those two philosophies but there's no doubt the design side was losing out before Apple's resurgence.
Duct tape doesn't generally provide structural integrity. I snapped some headphones (big over the ear ones) in half the other day. Duct tape wouldn't have held them together (or rather, it'd have just bent and not clenched my head like they should). Slapped some sugru on, it hardened up, and I was good to go.
When do we get ARM chromebooks?

They have been 'coming soon' since May.
In what universe is starting a company with no clear revenue stream a good thing?
I just finished reading To Mock a Mockingbird (though I don't recall a formal definition) so I'll take a stab and leave it to others to correct me.

Combinators are the basic building block of combinatorial logic. Simply, they are functions that permute, group, repeat and/or eliminate their arguments.

E.g., The T (thrush using the bird naming convention) combinator takes two args and swaps their order: Txy = yx.

The B (bluebird) combinator groups it's 2nd and 3rd args (overriding the default left-associativity): Bxyz = x(yz).

The M (mockingbird) combinator takes a single arg and repeats it: Mx = xx.

The K (kestrel) combinator takes two args and eliminates the second: Kxy = x.

There are two schools of 'lambda calculus' that use a set of base combinators to build arbitrarily complex ones. The first school uses B, M, T and I which is the identity function: Ix = x. The other school combines B, M and T into a single combinator that permutes, groups and repeats with one application. It's called S (starling): Sxyz = xz(yz). This latter school uses S together with K.

Whether using B/M/T/I or S/K/I, you can build up pretty much any other combinator:

B = S(KS)K.
E.g.,
S(KS)Kxyz, applying the leftmost S =
(KS)x(Kx)yz, dropping the parens (which are still implied when not present due to the left-associativity) =
KSx(Kx)yz, applying the leftmost K =
S(Kx)yz, applying the S =
(Kx)z(yz) =
Kxz(yz) =
x(yz) = Bxyz.

T = ((S(K(S((SK)K))))K)
M = ((S((SK)K))((SK)K))
I = SKK. E.g., SKKx = KK(Kx) = K(x) = x = Ix.
V**xyzwv = xyvzw.
V** is spelled: (S(K((S(K((S((S(K((S(KS))K)))S))(KK))))((S(K(S(K((S((S(K((S(KS))K)))S))(KK))))))((S(K((S((S(K((S(KS))K)))S))(KK))))(S(K((S((S(K((S(KS))K)))S))(KK)))))))))

The up-shot of all of this is that any computer program complete with arithmetic functions, boolean/propositional logic, list processing, etc. (i.e., Turing complete) can be expressed as a sequence of these base combinators. There are other practical (less theoretical) applications in programming. E.g., Using the T/thrush combinator to improve readability: http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/09/thrush-combinator-in-s... .

The Y combinator, for which this site is named, encapsulates recursion (i.e., a fixed-point combinator). It's spelled: S(K(SII))(S(S(KS)K)(K(SII))).
SEC rules in the United States restrict the sale of unregistered shares in a corporation to 'qualified' investors. For an LLC or LLP you create your own rules which you outline in the Articles of Organization and they let you sell parts of the company to friends and family. I've seen several great links on the pros/cons of various company organizations here and elsewhere.
There is a great play around the collection of data outside of just social space. Hunch has done a great job aggregating this data via a social means and displaying the data to the masses in an appealing way to drive more people towards their "recommendation" engine. I work for a site called Ranker and we're focused on a similar data play with much greater focus on SEO.

* http://www.ranker.com/
Nested Selectors: The Inception Rule
In the meantime, I'd recommend installing clj-stacktrace as a leiningen plugin. It's far from perfection, but it's an improvement. There's a technomancy article describing how to do it.
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I take a different approach, mostly because I've fought hard to do the right thing..and it rarely works..and I usually end up looking like the bad guy.

I do what my managers want and when things start falling apart, I remind them about the warnings I gave them before-hand (sometimes with a smile)

I don't worry about the business-side of things because I'm not a partner in the company and it's not my job. If these situations happen too often, or I get blamed, I leave and find another job (usually with better pay).

I saved my last company from many disasters because the boss decided to let his 20 year old wife with absolutely no experience make business and marketing decisions based on what she was feeling that day. It was actually pretty interesting, because I used it as kind of a testing ground for the worst ideas ever. In many cases, the results were predictable and entertaining.

In 2008, we saw that things were getting bad. Orders were slowing down and management asked me to give them some marketing ideas. I gave a bunch of ideas that were inexpensive to implement, but would take time. They didn't listen. Fast-forward to 2010. They want to start trying my ideas. When they weren't making money in 2 weeks, the ideas were considered worthless and dropped.

Sometimes you just have to let children touch a hot iron to see what it's like to get burned. The smart ones will learn from this and not get burned in the future.
I'd really like to see a detailed comparison to ClojureQL, which I'm currently using on a couple projects. I've been using ClojureQL in a project and so far have found it pretty satisfactory, but I've been wishing for something like Korma's entities.

I'd also like to see a rationale from the author, much like Clojure itself has. Why write this when ClojureQL exists? If entities are the only reason, why not write them as an addon? To be clear, these are honest questions I'm curious about, not rhetorical arguments against Korma.
If this is the case, why did you not use a gothic, New York Times-y font for your header graphic, such as is much, much more typical for newspapers than the font you did use? Why does your header graphic appear to be nearly identical to mine? Why is your functionality nearly identical to mine? It's just a massive coincidence?
Used LT3A7P3NJEX3

thanks!
I know I'm not a language, now try telling that to the recruitment agent.
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So, if you d take a stab, in what sectors do you expect to see the real breakthroughs? My bet is on genetic medicine and the brain sciences.
Bigger Net Loss Means Better Chance of IPO Success?
Your own movie database in 5 minutes with IMDb API and Perl
Outside the mac world, "F11" is a pretty much universal "toggle full screen" binding. Chrome at least supports with on-screen help when you enter full screen mode.
I understand that it is frustrating to you to feel that someone may have been inspired by some aspects of your project. However, I think it's important to consider a few things for perspective:

1. Your web app is close to, if not already, dead: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-may-let-hacker-ne...

2. So what if this guy was inspired by your app? Who doesn't do research before implementing an idea?

3. Your most persuasive evidence--the header font--appears to be the most unpopular aspect of the app, judging by the comments, and so will probably be changed shortly, anyway.

4. The developer is not in direct competition with your project, as he didn't even code it for the same platform (yes, an iPad can browse the web, but yours was not, specifically, an iPad app).
Although I mostly side with Tiel on his observations, to be fair you're comparing a century to a decade. And in hindsight it is easy to tell what was a breakthrough. Remember that when computers were invented few thought that we would have them in the palms of our hands.
As I understand it, the basic sell is more direct control over the exact SQL generated.
Crap, I want to use this in my web game, but my users are already used to using esc for other stuff.
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Except for the little matter of dying from a heart attack or cancer. Or an asteroid impact. Or that I can't afford a my own 747, or spaceship. Peter Thiel is lamenting that we have set our sights so low.
The entire reason that SpaceX exists, along with Tesla Motors, is that Elon Musk worked hard to figure out new ways for people to send money over the internet. He made lots of money himself, and now he creates electric cars and builds spaceships. I wouldn't worry too much.

Edit: confused eBay and Paypal. Musk founded Paypal.
>Think of all the web developers out there whose audience has now increased dramatically because of Facebook and iPhone getting more people to use the web.

Do you have any data that backs this up? This seems dramatically counter-intuitive. I don't imagine a lot of people who would otherwise not be using the internet buying iPhones.

Facebook, perhaps, but not the iPhone.
Hah, here's the prof http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196443 (I don't think there's any more unpopular comment you can make here) see it's -4 that shows but realistically I think I had -11 downvotes (it might be -10).
Here's an interview with Chris Dixon on the Ebay purchase.

eBay is an interesting challenge because so many of the listings don't have metadata like product IDs.

The work Hunch has been doing on the open web is a good fit for this kind of unstructured data.

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/21/chris-dixon-ebay-hunch/
You know, it's great to say that, but the vast amount of job postings are asking for a keyword set oriented around languages and frameworks.

One optimizes for what is apparently selected for.
It is truly unfortunate that this app so closely resembles Giles’ work. In hindsight, everything seems obvious: “Hacker News... As a Newspaper.” Yet nobody did it before Giles, and now somebody else has done it after Giles.

It reminds me of the talk about how obvious the iPhone UI is, such that Google wasn’t copying iPhone but just proceeding along “obvious” lines. Yet, it seems that they were busy proceeding along the obvious line of imitating Blackberry until the iPhone became a hit, then they were proceeding along the obvious line of imitating an iPhone.

The author of this work seems to be saying that he did this entirely independently. I am prepared to accept his word for that, which is why I use the word “unfortunate.” There are so many truly new and novel things to invent, it is a great shame that two smart people put work into inventing the same thing instead of giving birth to two different ideas.
I think Norton 2009 started the trend.
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the curse of dimensionality is the worst problem that affects machine learning

customers don't want to create training sets large enough to train text classifiers; often the number of documents they need to sort into a category is too small to fit in a category.

As for semantic indexing, it was hard to do in 2005. In 2011 it's easy. DBpedia and Freebase are a chromosome map for the human memome. With large amounts of instance information, it's possible to do things that a big rulebox can't.

These tools are aiming for the market segment that Cyc aimed for, but will use very different methodologies.
Google's Search Algorithm being challenged?
You should try pulling from http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
That's my go to site to road trip info.
I am in Columbus as well. It does feel like something is brewing, but I'm not sure how it will end up since the mentality is a lot more conservative. My info is in my profile, if you're interested in catching up.
Every startup is already a “lab!”

So you do like "lab" companies - you just don't like calling them labs?

I'm on the "call it like it is" side of the equation.

I actually like what Milk is doing, and I like "lab" companies in the mobile space. I think, outside of Angry Birds" its going to be very difficult for an "iPhone App" company to exit based on a single app. I think the "Tapulous" model, where a single brand makes a whole bunch of Apps is much more attractive. I think these kinds of companies are going to have a much harder time getting early seed funding unless you're a Kevin Rose or Bill Nguyen (BTW I think Color became a lab, I don't think it started that way). But on the flip side going to be much easier to bootstrap these companies.
Firefox should be coming out with another API call that lets you have full access to keys in fullscreen mode (http://jlongster.com/2011/11/21/canvas.html#keys).

Although you would be breaking the standard convention.
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Agreed. I added my name even though it is very unlikely to get this far. But on the off chance that he'll actually be required to take the floor, I'll be watching C-SPAN.
Yep. A lot of sounds tend to get that FM-synthesis flavor. I've found MAX/MSP to be useful when processing audio in realtime or using some pre-recorded stuff (some funky custom flanger on some piano recordings, for instance).
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So it looks like we're headed for a temporary reprieve, and that's great, but as long as Big Content continues to lobby as heavily as it does, we will continue to face these attacks on the Internet. What are companies like Google doing to ensure that the Internet is not run by Hollywood? At some point, the tech industry is going to have to hold its nose and get into the lobbying game in a serious way if we want to prevent future attacks like SOPA. We are in no way helped by the fact that a lot of software companies lobbied in support of it. How are we going to counteract that, if not with increased lobbying efforts?
"The DNS blocking is basically the same power as domain seizing, which the feds already have today."

A similar point was made during the SOPA congressional hearing (sorry I forget by whom).

The problem with that argument is that it mischaracterizes recent government behavior with powers that the government actually has a well-established legal right to assert.

As I understand it, they "have the power" to seize domains in the same way that they "have the power" to attach surveillance devices to your car without a warrant. i.e. "Because they're doing it and we haven't successfully sued them or otherwise forced them to stop."
Yeah, that's the kind of thing I need to hear!

I think I am more of an inventor at heart than I am an entrepreneur. But willing to learn! :)
Any Catholic who told you that was pushing an agenda. Well, another agenda.

[Catholic...ish?]
Yes, that's apparently what causes them to secrete ambergris.
Sadly, top center, a typo: 'Saudi Aramco' (not 'Armaco').

I mention it here because it's not exactly easy to contact RM...
It turns out, at least for me, that the courses themselves have been widely available in various formats (such as through MIT OpenCourseWare), so that by itself isn't new. The main difference that I've seen is that I think Stanford not only has the content, but is also chose to the right approach to providing an online experience that is amendable to actually learning the material.

As I said, having the videos themselves is not a sufficient motivator. Either I start out with full enthusiasm and quickly burn out, or I procrastinate and never start the video series in the first place. Or I see a question, answer it, and have no idea if it's even in the right ballpark. By adding some form of scheduled assessment, even if it isn't "real" (let's face it, the actual grade in these courses is meaningless), I think they've hit a sweet spot -- and these are the types of courses that I'd like to see more of, particularly in CS, where automated assessment (submission of programming assignments for evaluation) is more easily feasible.
Cooking + statistics = ♥

Design is really nice, I'll just make hover menu font little bigger and changed the color of "ask a question" btn.
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Oh please, just look around you - people have their faces buried in their phones everywhere you go, and it spans all demographics. Go to any airport and count the number of people using iPads. I don't need to provide data to back this up, although I'm confident I could; it's all around us.
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Don't quote me as this being the primary reason of any kind of reason but someone I know who was writing a technical book with a publishing company said "You're not paid to write books on just subjects that interests you, you get paid if there is market demand for that subject and the publishing company is willing to deal".

I can't say for certain whether or not there is higher demand for Vi/Vim over Emacs or not but I am guessing base on the information provided above it has some factor to do with it if not entirely.
i do not know about you but its often good to get out of work leave it all for a couple of days. Have drink visit a concert spend a long weekend with your kids / wife / friends, seriously take a break. it will refresh and energize you.

And if we where not lazy we wouldnt invent computers robots remote control etc.. usually the time your not working you get the best insights. so therfore it's not good to work hard. It isnt even good for a donkey to work har why would it be good for you?

Because you miss the adrenaline if thats the reason you got yourself a recipe for burning out divorce and alcoholism
Understand the mind is the most valuable tool you have.
Try some yoga / budhistic meditation and you will reward what's between your ears better, and make better use of it.

if your work simply is boring decide what else to do dont let it spoil you, to many people get spoiled that way.
The app is not at all dead, and I use it on the iPad far more often than on my computers. If you're curious enough to search my site for Hacker Newspaper, you must have also noticed the numerous minor tweaks and updates to Hacker Newspaper I've made since that post where I briefly considered dropping it over six months ago.
Why do you think the best and brightest are all in the software/tech industry? I'm not convinced that this is true.
You ask this question as if it were a rhetorical question.

Is there any reason to believe that such an economic system that also combines much of "good" properties of capitalism cannot exist?

Disciplines like game theory and mechanism design have made tremendous advances over the last few decades. Surely we can put these ideas to work in designing better political and economic systems.
Asteroid impacts and space travel? This is what keeps you up at night?