skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flipside of living in the information age is that people will try to control information, which is tough, and makes them look bad (and anachronistic) when they fail. Information is a weapon to them, and can only harm. Not only that, but today's PR and legal people (not the most internet-savvy by and large) were trained on the basis of press releases and other controlled-source information dissemination techniques.

This error points to who FB wants to be (old-school bureaucracy where stupidity is swept under the rug), rather than what it has the potential to be (e.g. open). This is how they dig in for the long haul, by making themselves look as clueless as the big boys, rather than as smart as the little guys.
That's plain BS. When I was in Warsaw in December and iPhones were everywhere. During the holiday season I saw tons of people buying legitimate non-pirated music, movies, and games at stores like EMPIK. In fact after the new year when I went to buy some albums it was hard to sort through what was left on the shelves because so much of the stock had been cleared out and made a mess of in the holiday buying rush. It's true that a lot of people in Poland may be income limited due to low wages, but I think making it seem like everyone there pirates everything because that's the only way to get it is totally wrong.
I really like your story man, and I'm glad you're succeeding but I just wanted to voice my opinion on one of the things you said-- "Back at home I immediately found out the cards were worthless. I had paid the kid $100 for the cards, and eventually pestered him". Even if the kid knew, I think it's wrong for an adult to come back and reneg on a deal with a child. There's a big power imbalance there. You seem like a great guy, I just kind of found that a bit unethical.
I think saying that GitHub is a special case is a copout. The real meaning of this presentation is that if you treat your employees well and let them do their job, they'll build great stuff.

Yes, not all companies will have the same success as GitHub with this approach, but I bet for most it would be a huge improvement over what they have now.
I know when I moved out of my last apartment, I sold my washing machine for a couple hundred dollars less than I could have made, because it needed to be gone by the end of the week. I don't have storage, I don't want to keep something that size sitting around my new apartment. I totally understand and appreciate what we're both getting out of the deal.
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Very cool - I am updating by building from source right now.

Cloudant runs their business on BigCouch and I think tat it is very cool of them to open source it.
An API That Makes Life More Fun
It's a perfectly valid point of view (btw: point of view != argument).

Everything else being equal, a well defined opponent is much easier to fight that a vague one, or one that presents itself as your friend.
>"It's similar to how Salesforce.com started with small businesses and eventually broke into enterprise sales from the bottom up."

No it's not.

Missteps with something like Salesforce might cost people jobs.

When a hospital makes a misstep, people might die as a result.

A hospital's operations are no more a scaled up version of a small group practice, than its physical plant is a scaled up version of a bungalow.
My potential co-founder is currently here (S.F.) on an H1B visa and it will be a year or two before he receives a green card. Does this rule him out as a co-founder? We've been investigating the options but so far a definitive answer has eluded us. I'm hoping someone here has dealt with this situation before and can enlighten us.
Startups are a lot harder for people with debt/no savings/kids/mortgages/etc, but there are plenty of cases where resourceful people found a way to make it work.

When you have debt and a huge-but-not-immediately lucrative opportunity in front of you, I imagine you'll manage like entrepreneurs have for centuries. Sleep on couches, eat ramen, rack up some more debt (credit cards?), dodge or persuade your creditors, etc... And hope that it works out.
That was much more explicitly my lament: Why wouldn't you sell it instead? For example, that's what Brent Simmons did with MarsEdit, and it turned out to be a pretty successful foundation for Red Sweater Software.

But you're right that I don't run a business with >$100k in profits, so I suppose I very well might just not get it.
I laughed so loud I scared myself. Now, I know why my wife looks at me funny.
I think it's an accurate assessment. I live in NYC, and most neighborhood bars are not crowded and noisy as hell.

However, if I go to a "destination" for out-of-towners[1], then yes: it's packed, noisy, and insufferable.

Same thing with traffic -- most of the personal automobile traffic in the cities comes from commuters that don't live here.

[1] I was trying really hard not to say "bridge and tunnel" ...
I think the buried lede here is that FB is cracking down on some clickjack-y crimes. I have to wonder if this is the first salvo from their recent partnership with the FTC.
That's probably because they have started featuring M G Seigler's articles a lot. And as we know, he's an ardent Apple fan.
They need to work out the business model of both Apple and Valve taking a cut of the sales. Not everyone is happy about forking over around half the revenue of an app.
A year and a half is a long time in reddit time
So it's not the politicians "own personal gain" that is primarily behind of this, but the gain of companies/people. The politicians are just puppets for the men in power of the economy.
Is a spotlight like the Bat-Signal possible?
It's worth noting that this Just Works in Android due to intents.
I've experienced the second theory first hand. A bad partner is much worse than no partner at all.
I disagree. Letting the kid get away with this teaches that there won't be any consequences to questionable actions.
Wow, I laughed so hard I cried! This is hilarious...
An AirBNB unit was rented out in our building, and was a semi-regular source of noise and trouble. So, we took the listing to the landlord and they shut it down: it's illegal here now, and it's specifically forbidden in the lease.

The more popular AirBNB gets, the more likely it seems that this sort of reaction will become the defacto one in popular areas.

This is already the case with large developments like Stuytown in NYC: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/05/31/airbnb-takes-manhattan-wi...
As an example: I was playing Myst, uh, IV? And there was this puzzle that required me to find a short-enough path from one kind of a spot to a different kind of a spot (you had to pick up a soap bubble with a spoon and carry it somewhere, but it would evaporate if you carried it for too long; anyway, the details don't matter).

I was making a map of the level on a piece of paper, and bungled it up (the rooms that were supposed to be adjacent appeared on two completely opposite sides of the paper or something like that). The obvious next step was to write a Python script to take a description of the map (room X: exit north leads to room Y, exit south leads to room Z, etc.) and produce a map (in ASCII art; I didn't want to spend too much time on superfluous graphics).

It was more exciting to write that script and see the map it generated than it was to play the game itself.

I may be weird.
Does anybody knows which is the javascript interpreter he is using on the screencast?
No, it's just that their's quite a large number of assholes to go around and the primary problem of civilizations is keeping them acting in the best interest of the governed.
> A lot of their pages are loading 1,000+ nested replies.

Reddit only shows 200 comments by default. It also used to be you needed Reddit gold to even show 1,000 on the page when it first loads.
He also changed basic game mechanics to make it NP-Hard. Packman's scoring is based on collecting items and is not time dependent. So there are effectively unlimited games that all share a perfect score unlike the traveling salesman which has a single optimal solution. To make it NP-Hard requires one way paths though the maze.
Thank you, also for the note about the LiveScripe echopen. How essential is it for you to have live audio recordings?

We'd like to start with screen flows, but we want to support more stateful element changes in future releases, too. Would you like to do a Skype call with us in the next few weeks and talk a little bit more about your workflow?
PAL output might be an issue in much of the world.
> A lot of their pages are loading 1,000+ nested replies.

Reddit only shows 200 comments by default. It also used to be you needed Reddit gold to even show 1,000 on the page when it first loads, not sure if you still do (my gold expired)
Missing ocean heat may never have been missing at all
I was just reading a long comment thread about craigslist on reddit yesterday. It seemed like most transactions take place over the phone, not e-mail. Whoever calls first at the right price gets the stuff, a good deal will be gone before the e-mail would be read.
And that's why they get rich with software hackers thinks its easy to write your own.
Looks like something that comes as part of Webkit:

http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/JSC
I wonder why Rails was chosen for the backend.

Naively, it seems like a bit of overkill. You don't need a full stack web app framework to create REST endpoints, right?
Ruby on Rails 3.2.1 is out with some fixes and doc improvements
Here's the new API for withheld content:

"text": "@chatty's account is withheld in: Greece, Hong Kong, Malaysia,.",
"withheld_scope": "user",
"withheld_in_countries": "GR, HK, MY",

https://dev.twitter.com/blog/new-withheld-content-fields-api...
It's jsc (comes with Webkit) - it's present on Mac OS X by default in

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/jsc

You can just do:

sudo ln /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/jsc /bin/jsc

To be able to invoke it directly from the command line.
Most of the issues with public transport can be solved with some careful planning. If you haven't seen it already, http://carfree.com/ covers a lot of the practical ones (including how you migrate existing cities over to being car free).
Woo Verbling!

My favorite story of Verbling: the cofounder who had an "interesting" job "talking to people" who were "under stress" which required him to learn a bunch of different languages.

I veil the secrecy so the founders can use it to get a cool press hit if they want... or reveal it publicly when they want. (PandoDaily would love that story... email me and I'll intro you to Sarah Lacy if you guys want.)
I have been rejected 4 times and each time I learned things.

socialadmanager.com - 2x it was that my product lacked focus and the value it created was as obvious as I thought it was.

spotted.at - 1x I learned that even if I had been funded I would have failed because the product was simply not something that people would pay for.

i.crowdfunded.it - 1x I learned that I did not understand the customer / market etc... enough to complete the YC App.

The biggest lesson is that I (a single founder) have tunnel vision. If I had a co-founder it would have been easier to see all of these problems because I would have had another perspective.

I am applying this cycle and even though I won't get in I don't see it as a rejection. Instead I see it as a way to ask some of the smartest people around if they would/would not use my product and if I am articulating my value prop in a clear and concise manner.

The product I am applying with this cycle has paying users and is complete VS previous years where I just had working prototypes so the thing I am really looking forward to this time is hearing what they think of my product. I have stopped caring if I get in or not.
Apple and Google as Creative Archetypes
JavaScript has a strong design principle of not throwing errors for syntactically valid constructs. The most common way it accomplishes this is through gratuitous use of implicit type conversions. It does a lot of implicit string conversions, even on things that you would think of as error codes, like undefined or NaN.

JavaScript went down the path of being a "forgiving" language because it was intended to provide "extra" (non-core) functionality, under a lot of environments, in the hands of non-experts. It made sense at the time that it should fail silently rather than noisily to not crash the page it was on. It also tried to help amateurs who just banged on code until it did what they wanted, by generally doing something rather than nothing, and by trying to infer intended behavior from undisciplined code. It was never intended to make large-scale or robust applications, so it didn't make decisions that would facilitate that use-case.
Only if you're in a car. For cyclists they're far more dangerous than traffic lights (where you can do a hook turn), and also pedestrians (you can install pedestrian lights, and the cars will be going slower anyway).
Quicktime? We don't need no stinking web standards!
I absolutely, fully, 100% agree with this. "Hunt the back/options button" drives me nuts on iOS. The ramifications of this are that when options aren't "pretty", they are hard to get to - on iOS, if you want to change Safari settings, you have to exit Safari and go open a separate Settings app to change them. I swear under my breath every time I have to do it. The physical back button is the single most powerful feature Android has over iOS, and the physical menu button isn't far behind.

A single, consistent, verb for "give me more things to do with this view" is so much better than "guess which button/graphic/icon on this screen means 'menu', then find out where it is, then press it even though it's only 6px by 6px, because we didn't want it to overwhelm our listview".

Maybe a compromise could be reached by either a) adding a visual cue that there are menu actions for the current view, or b) making menu buttons in your app invoke the same menu that pressing the menu button would.

I feel like this is trending towards "iOS works with only one button, we should too", and I think it's the wrong step. The search button I could kind of see - it was nice, but rarely used just due to the nature of how mobile apps were built. The menu button? Leave it alone, please. I like it just how it is.
uhh, automation is going to be much, much faster than a human who is constantly scanning

of course, it can't analyze the data as efficiently, but it would definitely be faster to have an automatic filter that saves time in looking through obviously overpriced or useless postings
Fantastic. Thanks for going to the trouble of finding and linking that. Much appreciated.
Gosh, I would have written

Google Freedom
A 0 1
B 1 -1
C -1 1
I had a statistical machine learning course whose exam was mostly factual questions, closed-notes, and oddly enough I think it was reasonably relevant, despite the fact that I usually dislike pure memorization. It didn't ask for specific formulas, but more like concepts and terminology, and how they'd be applied. It's not that these are specific things you should memorize, but that it's at least a necessary condition: if you can't, without notes, say what an expectation is, what a loss function is, what nonparametric regression is, etc., and when you might use some of these things, then you probably didn't pay attention in class or work any of the problem sets, because after a semester of actually doing the course you should definitely know all that without even really thinking.

So even if an A doesn't guarantee you actually know statistics, it's at least, imo, justifiable to say that a low grade means you definitely don't know statistics. You can always argue that you'd look things up if it was open book, but past some point if you don't know any of the material or even the basic terminology of the field, saying you could look it up amounts to saying that you could learn statistics from scratch if you needed to. It's sort of a test of, "can you hold a reasonably intelligent conversation on the topic without constantly checking Wikipedia on your smartphone for basic definitions".

(That kind of exam is probably also particularly suited to statistical ML because not knowing those things is the most common kind of real-world mistake... the details of an algorithm you can always get from an R package or Weka, but not knowing how to analyze a problem or what the main issues even are can't be solved by open-source code.)
Why do we care whether the screener was leaked "by nomination day"? That choice seems arbitrary.
Why has it been deleted?
Wat? Isn't that somewhere in Cambodia?
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$ php -r '::'
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

Wat
Dead Papermill is Google's future Data Center
How does a new search engine complying with existing laws impact "freedom" (a nebulous concept) in any meaningful way?
In my experience, a lot of students strongly prefer memorizing to thinking, and will penalize you on student evaluations if you force them to.

My evaluations went up a full point when I switched from writing my own open note/open book exam to using the department's standard "memorize all the things and do mechanical transformations" exam. Students complained a lot less also.
> If you're running a startup I really cannot think of a singular reason as to why you wouldn't apply.

Nitpicking: No interest in moving to the Bay Area would seem to be one.
That is what happens when a Saudi Prince invests $300m in a tool that could bring an unwanted uprising in his country. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/saudi-prince-invests-...
Has YC rejected applicants despite impressive early traction?
Making them just open-book, open-notes is an easy compromise that scales nicely.
A useful new web service to complement this would be a site to determine which tweets are censored in which countries and publicly log them for convenient searching and analysis.
Pffth, you just need to learn Hebrew before you learn PHP. That says "double dot twice".
Why the US never fails and we do?
This is the greatest video ever.
I can't speak for others but I'm building a Rails app that could benefit from an Ember front end for a small subset of the full app. This series shows how easy it would be to 'plug in' Ember into a much broader Rails app.

If you're truly building a one-page style app, Rails is, as you say, probably not your first choice. Sinatra maybe?
If I were writing this particular app as anything other than an example, I agree that Rails would be overkill. However, I wanted to provide a starting point for Ember/Rails apps that are much more complex. For instance, I wanted to illustrate use of the ember-rails gem, structuring ember files in the asset pipeline, merging handlebars templates in ERB, etc.
Here's a similar derivation (assuming |x| < 1), applying the geometric summation twice in the last two steps, but presented a bit more visually:

x + 2x^2 + 3x^3 + 4x^2..

=

x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + ...
+ x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + ...
+ x^3 + x^4 + ...
+ x^4 + ...

= sum i from 0 to infinity (sum j=i to infinity (x^j))

= sum i from 0 to infinity ((x^i)/(1-x))

= 1/(1-x)^2
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Yeah, that’s because it’s deprecated. It’s supposed to go away. Good riddance.
I'd like that too. Would like to be able to sort on something stuck in a data attribute. https://github.com/javve/list/issues/35

I might take a crack at a patch if no one else does.
Nice! Great idea!

However, your quote on the front page makes me think: Will osod.im be here years from now?

I love the concept, but I would hate to loose it if I did choose to start writing a sentence a day, describing what I've done or thought about. If only to look back at it once myself or potential children. Have you considered 'open sourcing' it? Making it self-hosting.

It would also be neat to have a bit more settings, like whether or not stuff should be public, etc.

But I read that you hacked this in one night and might not have thought about all this (but I hope you do now!)
I wish there was some technology that could take a bunch of code and warn you of common errors before having it execute and 'noisily crash the page it was on'.

Maybe someday...
Mastery (or taking a few notches down, competence) has both a memorization, and application component. Can't get around that. The problem is that people assume that the memorization component must be learned by memorizing, and that the application component by applying. Rather, the memorization component comes from applying, and the application flows from memorization.

You're ability to apply your knowledge to the world hinges on your ability to remember what your knowledge is. Even now, when you just 'google it', that relies on your memory of broad concepts and ideas. Recognition IS memory (a specific kind of memory anyways).

So yeah, on one hand, over the top tests of memorization is ridiculous, since it just results in everyone cramming, and then forgetting 3 hours after the final, and then when the next course rolls around building on the knowledge, you lose 3 weeks doing review, you can't get away from memorization, or testing your memory in school.
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That's exactly what I meant. It becomes a real problem when you're looking to fill a technical spot. It's really no different than casting actors, though – that's always been a flood of wannabes. My point was just that lowering the barriers to entry on the technical side means more people feel qualified, even if they aren't. Practical issue more than an insurmountable obstacle.
Are you saying the "..." actions overflow button is supposed to go away? Because if you're not, your comment makes no sense in the context of mine.
But the back button is horrible now that it doubles as an up button. It confused me and that kind of behavior makes it utterly useless. It’s a waste of space.
You have an awesome attitude, and, in my limited experience, the one required to eventually succeed. Keep at it, and I hope you find a cofounder someday!
Why do you think your product must be finished to apply? Apply early, show progress.
Option D: Google opens their Chinese office outside of PRC, and embraces circumvention technology.

This is the Internet, you don't have to open a physical office in every market. Censoring services for the whims of every government just dilutes your brand.
"We assume full configurability of the amount of ghosts and ghost houses, speeds, and the durations of Chase, Scatter, and Frightened modes"... "The game alternates between Chase and Scatter mode fast enough, so that each ghost reverses direction after covering only one tile. "

I'm sorry, but this is a sick and twisted version of Pac Man.
What presentation software is he using? Is he just jumping from his slide deck into a shell?
If a kid acts unethically, its your duty as an adult to correct a wrong, and if needed, discuss the kid's actions with his parents.
It's not really fair to say "any rational person would take option #1," as a rational person could also make the decision that they'd rather not be party to supporting censorship.
It’s a legacy feature. It will go away.
If she wants something cheap, then I might as well offer her to take picture with my phone. EIGHT FULL MEGAPIXELS.
According to the link from this post by dantheman[0], the Twitter API will make this data available.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3516483
Thanks, I'll look how to get this working on linux.
I don't understand how a gestural interface would become a guessing game any more than physical buttons would be. Regardless whether your interface be gestural or physical certain actions would presumably do different things depending on the current context. Instead of remembering to press a particular button, one would remember a particular gesture.

Unless you are talking about guessing whether your gesture was recognized.