skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi - I'm a cofounder of a startup :). I would first ask; considering that you sought out the incubator, do you believe that they can help you advance your startup to a point that justifies even participating in the incubator at all?

If the answer is yes, then let's consider a situation that you would accept. I understand the desire to continue your business as a single cofounder. However, I would think that you want to grow this startup to something beyond a lifestyle business. Otherwise you wouldn't be seeking out an incubator (most wouldn't accept you). If that is correct then you'll seriously want to consider adding another cofounder to your team. Find out every area that a startup on a successful growth trajectory would need to face - Networking, marketing, seo, b2b, engineering, design, developing pitch decks, giving pitches, generating leads, more networking, dba, and google 100 more.

Now find out which of those areas you suck in. Then eliminate the ones you can effectively and efficiently outsource. Then hopefully you're left with high quality skills and personality traits that can only be filled by someone that is different than you are. Find and grab that person as a cofounder. The efficiency and productivity added to your startup of even 1 more person to cover areas that you left unfilled will be worth sharing your startup with.

Then you can enter the incubator as a two person startup and with your original product.
That $16,000 should go directly to the user, untaxed
"You can screw around with that and come to realize that you're completely out of control, you don't know how many threads are involved and exactly how"

I think this was the turning point for me, the day I realized someone had created this large concurrent system with absolutely no idea or care as to what was going on. (the not uncoincidentally same day qa discovered some serious problems making the app become almost useless with extremely high CPU loads)
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Friends and contacts of comedian Patrice Neal are credit reporting reviews that he has approved away from problems from a action.
Well, to be fair, COD is an RPG. If you have to farm and craft for 20 hours to get a decent weapon, you're not playing an FPS. Halo on the other hand is a different story :D
Title should then be CS:S if I remember the acronym correctly?
Show HN: Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos
It's not just about preserving this abstract, ivory tower concept called "journalistic integrity."

A product review is close to useless if you have no trust in its author. The crux of a review is the author's opinion about something. Whatever verifiable facts are contained in the review are still only those facts the author chooses to highlight. Consider: if authorship doesn't matter, why is a review different from a press release? In short, a review cannot speak for itself because context matters.

Let's set aside the ambiguous case of adding affiliate links and talk about out-and-out payola. If a blogger takes a secret cash payment to write a false product review, then I believe that is dishonest and wrong no matter how well written or useful the review may be. (And not to confuse what's legal with what's ethical, but taking cash for reviews on your blog might even be illegal[1].)

[1] http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/ftc_votes_to_end_blogger_payol...
I spent a while in Perl and tend to agree, I was the only one in my group who went out of his way to write readable/maintainable code. Everyone else believed in extreme code ownership and enjoyed playing "golf".

I've never coded in Python, but spent a little time in Ruby and liked how they knew you could do things many different ways, so the community and leadership focused on identifying and promoting idioms. I think that's a key factor in adoption. Perl had some of that (and the excellent "Effective Perl" had a chapter on it), but you need to make it part of your culture.
Jesus I hope so. Blackboard is probably the worst piece of software I have to use with any regularity.
I used to attach video to bug reports occasionally. All the developers on my team hated it. They forced me to stop.

They found it slower than scanning through text and didn't like the lack of copy + paste ability. Also I think they liked the ability to read the tickets directly from email, on mobile, etc.

That may have been specific to the type of work we were doing. I'm interested to know if you tested the video-based bug tracking concept with development teams using existing (more cumbersome) tools, before building a targeted solution.
Its absolutely Google's fight. Google does nothing but publish links. Linking is absolutely protected speech. Google's entire business is being threatened by a judge ignorant of the law.
$16K per infringement is akin to $5 parking tickets. There's close to zero financial incentive to not park in a convenient yet illegal location.
Does anyone know if this is also true for developing bluetooth low energy devices or are they going to be more open about that?
I actually can't think of any other examples off the top of my head, but the "design patterns are language features in more expressive languages" is a common idea, so I'm sure others can suggest other examples (or google).

As a specific case, Python has many design patterns built into the language. Iterator pattern: generators and iter/next. Factory pattern: have class objects override __new__, callers don't need to know the details. Singleton: just use module-level functions; modules are themselves objects if you need to replace/stub/mock them. And as with any language that has first class functions/methods/callables, the command and strategy patterns mostly go away.
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Most of my friends I've given this advice to are not engineers and aren't in a highly competitive position where they can easily "just change jobs". For engineers, changing jobs often works to increase your salary, but there's something to being said for staying at one company long enough to build something great. There's more to life than just money.
I don't think that's a fair analogy to use. While government regulatory agencies covering the telecommunication sector may indeed use telephones, they don't stick a recommendation to use Company A on their website... especially if they have just given Company A a simple slap on the wrist for an arguably large grievance. You may (or may not) counter by saying that Facebook is an entire market in itself that can't be ignored (which it isn't), but after viewing their Facebook page I see no additional information that I couldn't simply find on the front page of the FTC's website.
I wonder how you define successful. Microsoft doesn't seem to like releasing simultaneous player counts except on launch days and of course launch is almost always the highest count you'll find, but the Halo 3 launch day count (750k) I found isn't that impressive compared to run of the mill counter-strike numbers on steam (75k). Mind you, counter-strike at this point is 12 years old. I'm pretty sure that no one will be playing either of those games in 12 years.
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I welcome the removal of the black bar for one simple reason: the valuable screen space it had taken on my netbook has been restored to some degree.
Why does HN keep pushing these sexist posts to the main news area?
8 years of development, and a completely rewritten runtime, and it's ONLY TWICE AS FAST. http://alltheragefaces.com/img/faces/large/misc-are-you-fuck...
I've never used ClickOnce, so maybe someone with more direct experience can chime in!

My current project, and my last project (Xobni) both worked with COM components that could not use Reg-free COM for various reasons. Thus, if another app registers the same COM component, and then the user uninstalled that app, we needed to be able to re-register that COM component, which required SYSTEM level privileges in order to avoid a UAC elevation prompt.

Services can also be useful if you want to be able to run code when a user is not logged in, or if you want installs to be system-wide.

For example, in DesktopBootstrap, installs are for "all users," but if one user disables auto updates or starting up with Windows, it actually asks the service to disable those things for all users. You need a service running as SYSTEM to be able to pull that off, again unless you ask the user to elevate you.

Finally, I'm curious about ClickOnce's browser-powered install. I'm not saying it doesn't work -- it might even increase conversion rates -- I'm just curious. I'd love to learn more about what happens with users who are using a non-ClickOnce-compatible browser, and/or who don't have the .NET framework installed yet.
this is f*cking awesome. I feel like I'm in 80s. Thanks, HP.
Complex event processing in Java and .NET with Esper
I guess I still don't understand. Does anyone have anything concrete they can point to?

`sudo apt-get install gnome-shell` gives a new shell, entirely separate from Unity with almost zero config overlap. A few seconds of drop down boxes gets you from Ambiance to Adwaita if you prefer the stock Gnome3 look and feel. Otherwise, it's basically stock GNOME3.
Most of Sony Ericsson's Xperia line support ANT+, and I use it with a Garmin heart rate monitor transmitter.

http://www.thisisant.com/pages/developer-zone/android-api
And yet when it comes to government enforcement, there seem to be an awful lot of problems we haven't been able to hack around:

- Brokenness of patents causing anti-competitive behavior

- Absurd copyright laws preventing the building of an untold number of innovative products

- The emergence of true competition in the wireless space.

I could go on. We're very good at making end runs around corporations, big and small, but mostly because they can't kick your door down in the middle of the night.
We need to shut it down. It's already pulling $50bil a year in taxes http://deathandtaxesposter.com/
The larger you are, the harder it gets to disobey their rulings. Google can fight if the ruling is illegal or obviously unfair, but they can't hide and pretend it's not with them after being mentioned.
Look, here's the FTC's mandate:

"Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful."

The FTC exists to enforce that. Now, it's fashionable nowadays for the ill-informed to insist that government is worthless, but in fact this law and similar ones underly every aspect of American society and you owe everything to have to their existence. Without government anti-fraud efforts, commerce does not exist, full stop.

Private enterprise are the applications. Government is the operating system.

But let's take another look at your point: your argument is that I should right now go and delete my account a couple years ago because I know today that Facebook was lying a couple years ago. For everyone who has a time machine, that is a good remedy - it will solve the problem for those people admirably. For those that don't, we need effective government enforcement of anti-fraud laws.
I think this is exactly his point. Most web projects start out immediately in project management crunch mode, listing long sets of features that are "priorities" for various use cases or stakeholders. In project thinking, lots of things can be priorities because you just do the first priority first and then you can add developers or time to do the other "priorities."

What needs to be obvious? makes clear that priority, from a design standpoint, is a fixed resource that time, money, and manpower can never buy more of. You want to add this feature and make it obvious, yes you can afford to do so, but no you cannot do it without making other things less obvious.
Kim Stanley Robinson fan?
Greyhound buses too.
Well said!

I've found Scala to be a fabulous language for writing > 90% of my app(s). The overhead of Scala's built-in collections, for loops, property accessors/mutators, closures, etc is simply unimportant outside of critical hotspots and provides so much in terms of brevity and expressiveness.

Yes, Scala's lack of looping constructs (break, continue, a real indexed for loop) means that you're better off writing performance-critical things like crypto or protocol parsing code in Java (or if it really matters, C called via JNI). But once you're concerned about performance at that level, every language requires you to carefully consider what your code is really generating, what your allocation patterns are, etc.

Scala is a much more expressive language compared to Java, and the Scala standard library is excellent. Completely dropping Scala for Java when you're building large, complex systems seems like chopping your foot off because your small toe hurts. Use Java or C for the % of code that needs it and Scala for the rest!
I'm really quite sick of Google nowadays. I don't want any of this new stuff they have been introducing.
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The FTC Act: "Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful."

The FTC is empowered to enforce that with a variety of penalties, including extensive fines.
Seems to work. That is incredibly cool/terrifying.
Oh Janine, you so funny.
No disrespect to CourseKit, but what's so special about this LMS vs all the other new ones on the market every year? BBBB suing you is not the biggest issue LMSes have, it's actually getting traction.
I wonder if they are really losing sales here though, I imagine most people buying fake Chanel/Rolex etc wouldn't be able to afford the real thing.
The FTC disagrees with you. But maybe you know better?
What is the big deal? This is a reddit post in the feminist subredditum.... IMO this is just fear-mongering and exploiting the sensitivities of the (mostly male & slightly nerdy) tech workforce. The point is that women are NOT being actively discriminated against. If women do not want to ask for more salary, that is their own fault. You could say the same for recent immigrants/visa-applicants who do not want to piss off their employer and will work for pennies so that they can remain in the country.
"It struck me more as simple than gold. If a VC that invested in a company gives them advice then obviously his goal is to make more money... but that goal will, in turn make you more money too."

Not necessarily. Especially when talking about funding, the VCs are NOT out to help you or your business. They are out to make money. Sometimes those goals can coincide, but not often.

And seriously, the rest of that post is just an excuse for their bullshit. They have money. So fucking what? Why should that enable them to take most of the company, when it was your hard work that actually made it successful? I understand they need a return, but there is no reason why they should get the lion's share of the reward.
"Technology policy outreach." There, I think that uses enough bullshit for them to understand.
Researcher’s Video Shows Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything
A derivation of the heat equation (CUNY lecture note)
Don't think only about the function, also think about the artistic possibilities.
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"all of a sudden I'm in a de_dust pub server and I just picked up my first mp5"

Ahh the memories..
"And I'd rather be doing that for myself on a side project or in the start-up lottery or within my own business than for someone else. If that isn't possible, then even for someone up the chain. If someone else (VC, client of mine, landlord, etc) also profits from this endeavour, so be it."

Other people profiting off your work is fine. But if you did the bulk of the work, why shouldn't you get the bulk of the reward? Why should some VC doucebag get the most of the company simply because they had money?
But if your carrier offers an android app to do payments by credit card...
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If you are getting good pay and you have no stock options then I would recommend riding the ship down (although in this metaphor you seemingly have multiple lives). If it is no secret, then there is nothing you can do, really.

I don't think you have any liability here, though you are playing in a grey area without outright telling them (at least in an email) that you are worried about the state of the program. If they ignore you, then it is on record for the future.
Wow. Many thoughts arose:

- Is this more, less, or equivalently legal (copyright-wise) to just posting the youtube videos on youtube in the first place? It seems like the act of compositing them in this way would be significant, but maybe not?

- The normalisation of audio could use some work. SwitchCam seems to do something (the youtube volume on each clip was different for me), but it didn't quite work.

- I'd be really interested to know how automated this is, and how much human curation is required to get it right.

- Presumably, the next step is stitching the multiple videos together to make 3d models, allowing you to pan to places between the various camera operators. :)
>"If you were the FTC, what would you do to Facebook"

Or Google, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, Adobe, and thousands of smaller companies who data mine user accounts and change terms of service every day.

I used to have a subscription to The Economist. Recently I purchased an issue at Kroger. Two weeks later a special subscription offer appears in my mailbox - the first marketing material in they have sent in at least three years.

What Facebook did is the bread and butter of today's business - even if it sucks.
The alternative is definitely the way to go.

Everyone's freaking out about Reader already but it could already be setup to function like this for all we know.
Information recorded in the logs are transmitted to google when you submit a crash report. So although they may not intend to send this information out, they're making it really easy for all this information to be inadvertently leaked to a third party (google).
Two words "Colonel Sanders". Look him up if the name doesn't get to you. See when he figured out success.
Well, at least DuckDuckGo wasn't named in the court order.
Don't know if I would want to work for a company who can't accept that I've have been dressed up as a chick, then 'forced' to drink with a bunch of other dudes dressed up with chicks. What if they see that photo of me throwing a cupcake at someone's face?!
I am also humble, despite, or perhaps because of, earning (the equivalent) of 'employee of the year' award at one of the largest companies in our country.

I do know how much some of my classmates know because I've helped them do their work in their new jobs. After helping one of them for free for a weekend and finding it frustrating, I then had a well-paying (almost full-time) job for almost a year while I helped four of them do their "work" and teach them along the way, as they paid me to help them. Six months after I stopped helping them, as I had found a "real" job that paid better, all four had to find new jobs because of recent under-performance.
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I've created a wikipedia stub for CarrierIQ. Apparently, the article existed before and has since been deleted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarrierIQ
Working hard isn't simply working more hours.
So Facebook just needs to make an extra $16k a day on top of what it would have otherwise. Not so unrealistic. (Just to carry on the point.)
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wow. super cool
"The Rest of the Story": http://codahale.com/the-rest-of-the-story/
When I am 40, if I'm in no good spot to be running a business, my plan is simple:

Immigrate to Nicaragua, grow vegetables and herbs, and start a bakery. Live on American tourists' dollars and spend the rest of my life surrounded by happy people.

Of course, most people aren't so ready to pick up and leave. In that case, find something you love. If you truly love running a startup — REALLY — you'll get somewhere. Make sure it's your passion above everything else before declaring the limits of your potential, though.
nuclear control systems are prototyped by experts in haskell

Do you have any source to back that (honest question)?
This. Is. So. Cool. Wow. I tried several concerts, several angles, and everything works pretty smoothly. Any critiques I might have are quite minor.
Pretty soon they'll be scanning us to get onto freeways...
After someone was stabbed and kille don a Greyhound in canada there was a call for airport style screening of passengers.

Given that most greyhound stops in Canada are REALLY in the middle of nowhere this looked like it was going to prove interesting.
Picture a parking lot at a crossroads in the tundra 100mi from anywhere, a greyhound sign on a pole. An x-ray machine, stack of plastic crates and a backscatter scanner manned by a dozen very very cold and bored mounties.
That is far too metrically clumsy to be by Ogden Nash.
we need root. :)
"So I'm not supposed to work hard and get rich because as a side effect that some one else also is?"

Way to not read the article. That's not what's being said at all. Nothing wrong with working hard, however, the person that should reap the primary benefit of that hard work should be YOU, not some VC or an employer. Furthermore, hard work does NOT mean spending every waking minute slaving away at something.
It might have, but it doesn't really matter because page load times were never the end goal anyways—engagement was. More people searched, emailed, whatever with faster page loads.

Now more people will see and use all of the things Google has to offer. Cross-pollination. Their services have been silo'ed for too long. I'm sure this is the kind of advice Steve Jobs gave Sergey Brin a couple months ago.
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I find it ironic that this webpage doesn't work on an actual WP7 device (w/ mango). But, FWIW, I love my WP7.
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Great work, hope you can handle the traffic that is coming your way. I would be surprised if you didn't get bought by Google.
I headed up the team behind a similar project a few years ago called Classhive (www.classhive.com). The UI we built for the project is eerily similar to CourseKit, and we faced a lot of the same difficulties mentioned in this thread to get it to take off (which it ultimately did not). Even taking the one school at a time approach, it's still very difficult to get teachers to completely change which system they use when they know students are using Blackboard for every other class (even if it's an awful piece of software).

An approach that we didn't have time or the support to explore was building something that students would champion themselves, regardless of University or teacher support. This meant jumping into an area that might be controversial, and support things like the sharing/selling of notes, cheating, gossip, and more social interaction between students in large classes.

Until someone creates a product in this space that is inherently addictive and breaks a few rules, I do not think anyone is going to knock Blackboard down as the king.
Not bad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders

Also makes me think of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Moses
My thought was in a similar vein...does the OP actually have the experience to accurately determine whether the project is doomed to failure or is just a self perpetuating kludge series?

Usually, lots of stuff in a small business is totally fucked up, but that doesn't mean it won't make money.

Honestly, even if it is going down the tubes, it is likely to be a hell of a learning experience. Learning to deal with stupidity is a valuable corporate skill.

With no equity, the time to leave is when something substantially more interesting comes along or the checks start bouncing.