skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmm, what exactly does he mean by data-oriented programming?

iirc that's something where you don't store data chopped up into objects, but have arrays that keep all the data of one "aspect" of all "objects"... or something like that. something game programmers would use, helps avoid cache misses.

is that what he was talking about? if so, what does it have to do with macros?
If all you need is MySQL, the MySQL Workbench is pretty awesome now that it's a bit more stable:

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1. But they are privately owned so their primary obligation should be to act in a way that they believe benefits the university and complies with the law.

2. My answer to your question is yes, but specifically in the case of Universities, doubly so. The value of the University is highly dependent on the quality of the students.
I don't think its fair to say one should "never work with local times". I frequently work with "floating time", the opposite of "fixed time".

You can accept user input as (year, month, day, hour, minute, second), convert to a common timezone, and store as seconds since epoch. To display, convert back to the common timezone, but omit the timezone identifier. This is useful for events which are local for the user, since they don't care about their own timezone.

See the iCalendar spec,

They are used to represent the same hour, minute, and second value regardless of which time zone is currently being observed. For example, an event can be defined that indicates that an individual will be busy from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM every day, no matter which time zone the person is in. In these cases, a local time can be specified.

http://www.kanzaki.com/docs/ical/dateTime.html
I used to think that, too. Then I actually tried Vim. I was wrong. Vim is significantly faster for text editing.

Go check out some screencasts from experienced Vimmers or Emacsers.
Talk to a corporate attorney who specializes in startups. Setting up a real startup (assuming that's what you want) is a lot more involved than merely setting up a corporation.
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Anyone here guilty of thinking they'll be happy (happier) after they've built a successful startup...?
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> I think the concept of wreaking havoc on fortune 500 companies is actually a fair representation of the hacker spirit, whether it is done by damaging their websites, or creating small startups to compete against them. I prefer the latter, but it is perfectly ok to associate the former as part of the same hacker ideal.

While that may be your opinion -- and I don't necessarily disagree with it -- the point remains that the author took Zuckerberg's comments about hackers to mean that he considered himself what we know as a "black hat" hacker, which he clearly did not.
Don't let sunk costs arguments drag things on...
So the concept of selfless Karma has been rediscovered?
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Slight problem: admissions for prestigious schools aren't based on sheets of paper. For most of them, admission decisions are based on interviews, where the admission officer is inherently able to determine sex, race, etc.
After I saw that comic I made:
http://936months.appspot.com

Really is amazing to see your life in dots.
Re: Leadership Qualities

It strikes me as odd that so many high level tech execs/founders in SV aren't Asian, if only because so many engineers I've met are.

I just assumed that with the % who get into great American schools (especially in CA), there'd be more Asian entrepreneurs/business leaders.

Then again, I could be overestimating the number of Asian's seeing as how it's less than 10% of the U.S. demographic.
Wasn't this part of the hysteria about the Guantanamo Bay detainees; that if they were brought to the mainland, they'd have to be allowed due process?
I have a certain amount of sympathy given that Japanese immigration features in all of my nightmares.

That said, attempting to cross borders for the purpose of working illegally (sorry, I don't like the law either, but there is no conceivable way that YC does not count as employment) will not endear you to law enforcement. I wish they had been more polite in the course of discovering your true purpose and refusing you entry, but if they hadn't, that would have been a crazy result under US immigration law.

There's better ways to handle one's business and legal affairs tactically, but start with knowing that the US really doesn't have a visa category "People from countries we like, for any purposes whatsoever, no questions."
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Did you not see the article linked directly after that statement?
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So the market is folks who are technical enough to design electronic hardware, yet not technical enough to swap files over the web? Hmmmm...
I would go so far as to say that calling YCombinator "training" is an outright lie. It's a business incubator and angel investment program; they pay you to develop a prototype, and introduce you to potential investors.

I feel misled after reading the article. Not knowing the context, I assumed that he was actually referring to some sort of training; something like business school, in which you pay to be taught. Instead, being given an initial investment to form a corporation, write a prototype, and shop it around to venture capitalists is pretty much the definition of "doing business," even if it is only the first few steps.

I can imagine why CBP officers would feel misled as well. And it doesn't help that he is saying he had no intention of keeping the business in the US. Starting up a business in the US just to take the capital and move the business overseas? This isn't something that a lot of border officers are going to take kindly to, nor is there likely to be much in the way of laws encouraging it.

I would absolutely like to make it easier for successful, smart, and educated people to immigrate to the US, and make it easy for people to immigrate to the US in order to start a business. But going to the US to hit up investors, work for three months to get a prototype going, and then move the business elsewhere? You're going to have a hard time selling that.
But what if Verisign really doesn't like Bank of America, can they cast doubt on their websites now?
"You have no right to enter a country where you are not a citizen, regardless of what treaties and protocols your two nations have set up."

I am a citizen, so I have a right to enter this country. Why is it that they harass me?

I suspect they just like harassing everybody. Citizenship is barely involved.
Still an improvement over the currently media manipulated majority that vote in elections.
I always wanted to do it, but my dad didn't want me to. He thought that engineers would only be needed to maintain software in the future (this was the mid to late 90's). I eventually took a 100 level CS course as a junior and loved programming ever since.
This solves one of my problems with datetime and timezones in Python. The other being that it is totally awkward and bafflingly hard to add and substract from datetime objects.
Kinda splitting hairs. Even though it's automatic, it's not called garbage collectio, and its handled quite differently in iOS 5 than in languages such as Java. iOS releases memory the instant its reference counter gets to 0 - not seconds or minutes later.

As you must know, the very name Garbage Collection implies an asynchronous process that travels up and down the program memory street at periodic intervals, trying to find garbage to collect.

The iOS model is more like a waiter in an expensive restaurant who comes and takes your plate away the instant the last morsel of food is in your mouth. You don't have to discard the plate yourself, but you can guarantee he will pick up your plate the moment its free to be picked up.
> What business is Google in? If you said search, guess again.

Really? Advertising, search ... semantics. Everyone knows that AdSense/Adwords is Googles money making machine
Asian demographic is 4.7% of U.S. population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...
> c) it's clearly better that 100 innocent sites should be closed than that a guilty one should keep its DNS entry.

Did you mean to write this?
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It was not at the time. I've only been jailbroken since the untethered for iOS 5 came out.

I would have been better off it was jailbroken because I could have more easily navigated the file system and deleted the corrupt image cache right on the device.
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Telnet is not the best thing to use when talking to non-telnet servers since it's not a raw protocol that just passes data back and forth. For example, telnet appends an ASCII NUL to any CR in the stream. Netcat gives a truly raw socket.
I think it's interesting that the article is about the difference between the Asian avg. (1457) and the white avg. (1416), a difference of 41 points, and no one addresses the difference between the white student avg. and the black student avg (1275), a difference of 141 points.
No, sorry. They're two very different things. Search would be, to the general public, providing answers to questions they have. No one should say search upon any analysis, though, because search in and of itself isn't likely to make money -- well, except for selling unique user's searching habits to other companies for demographics information so that THEY can create better ads.

Advertising, on the other hand, is what happens when you weight certain search results higher than others because they pay you more money, or when you, as Google does, separate out potentially interesting advertisements for you to click on.

You can run a search engine without being a business, without making money, and without having advertisements or search results weighted by how much money they gave you.

That said, how does Duck Duck Go make money?
Although it sounds like one of the founders missed half of it. ;)

Congrats on upverter night on HN. Three articles on the front page.
I agree that dateutil is excellent. I think it's also worth mentioning how powerful dateutil's `parse()` is. You can pass virtually any string representation of a date to it and it will return a Python datetime.
I think enough people are used to using LaTeX that MathML was never going to catch on, as its too verbose.
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I agree with this. If you want to be an entrepreneur, it doesn't matter if you start a construction company, a funeral service or flower delivery. You might not ever write a line of code and still have a perfectly profitable fast growing business.

The prob is that we're all tech geeks here and all we want to do is turn our fetish for coding into the next big thing, so we always try to think in terms of software solutions.
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As someone growing up at a border (1 mile from the Austrian / Swiss border) - I have to say that this is a whole different thing in Europe (between Switzerland / Austria / Germany for sure).
Well you get checked for the stuff and if you are over the allowed quantities for the stuff you have with you - and you may have to show your ID but that's it. If you didn't do any wrong you have no problems.

For me (and many families in my town) it was completely normal to shop in Switzerland, or go to the gym there. I've once switched the border every day just to use the swiss highway, cause my commute was shorter and faster this way.

Reminder: Switzerland is not part of the EU (european union)
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I can't help but agree.

Perhaps if he was able to prove that his business was not in the USA and that it would not be in the USA, then he may have been able to show the difference between training and returning, and incubating a new business.
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This could be due to a perceived lack of leadership qualities as much as a real one.
if you read through the blog you'll find this experience by 'Zak':

- http://zakhomuth.com/my-us-border-nightmare

- http://zakhomuth.com/us-border-status-update

- http://zakhomuth.com/us-border-status-update-41408
Why do you find it difficult?

>>> datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 1, 23, 33, 30, 591993)
If you really want a good investment, figure out how to how sell something at a higher price and get someone else to do the work at a lower price. Then use your $3K to seed the business and use the business to pay off your credit card. It's all about cash flow.
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People say that, but does anyone have an earlier confirmed source? Let's not just believe what we want to.
Sorry, but this analysis does not seem useful.

In the subset of apps that
1) are tracked by crittercism, and
2) crashed,
here is some data. Great. I'm more interested in the number of apps that did not crash - but those have already been filtered out of the data set. Also important if you want to make a meaningful comparison, what percentage of apps on each platform are tracked by crittercism?

Way too many unknowns to draw any meaningful conclusions from this data.
tl;dr: direct memory access via firewire can recover the key within an hour.

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The 5th amendment covers US citizens, not foreign nationals attempting to enter country.
Right, but they are still subscribed to many of the same rules, most specifically the "free movement of people" for which they are bound by EU law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland%E2%80%93European_Un...
Yes, keep it in a decent bank, and don't bother with bonds or equity.

If you find some project that you're passionate about, then don't be afraid to burn through a little bit of your savings in order to learn and explore.
From blog post: "Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Corporation X data stream, or have other people do that for me?"

The answer is yes but most of users don't use it like that. it is what it says it is, database of people. and a way of reaching them.
Before this you couldn't acces most of them but only few.
when i first went to facebook i was amazed how many people are there but werent online before.
The author, Steven Hsu, is a physics professor at the university of Oregon. He has a rather informative blog [1] about physics, and lately genetics. In particular he has recently been doing a lot of work with BGI, currently the largest human genome sequencing company in the world.

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Since iOS5 there's refcounting

Actually, that's not true.

Since at least NeXTSTEP there's refcounting. In 1989, NeXTSTEP introduced their NSObject-based Objective-C runtime with relied on -retain and -release calls to count object references. I can only find records commenting on NSObject's support for -retain and -release, but it may have been done earlier in a different Objective-C based runtime. (And I'm certain refcounting was pioneered in earlier runtimes.)

In 1995, the OpenStep standard introduced autorelease pools, which helped automate reference counting. Calling -autorelease on an object increments the retain count and instructs the enclosing autorelease pool to decrement the count when it pops.

In 2011, Lion and iOS 5 introduced ARC – Automatic Reference Counting. It's actually a pretty sweet memory management solution where simple statically applied code transformations streamline memory management without the need of a garbage collector. As you note though, circular dependencies cannot (yet!) be handled by ARC. To assert that circular dependencies can only be handled through garbage collectors is possibly short-sighted. I know the team that implemented ARC already has prototypes that handle some kinds of circular dependencies, or warn programmers of possible circular deps in their code.

To say automatic ref counting is "far away" from garbage collection is rather disingenuous. It's simply different. Both have tradeoffs. Garbage collection handles all memory management for you; automatic reference counting still requires some manual memory management. GC gracefully deals with circular dependencies; ARC leaks memory with circular dependencies. GC requires runtime overhead in memory and clock cycles; ARC minimizes memory and CPU overhead and, when you need zero overhead, you can drop down to manual memory management.

Frankly, I far prefer ARC to GC. ARC gives me almost all the benefits with no runtime overhead. There's nothing running alongside my code that might randomly suck up cycles or pause execution, and I can always profile exactly what my users will run. Don't knock refcounting just because it's not vogue.
Is this what you mean?

http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html

Wow, I had no idea it went this far back. I've always been curious about etymology. After seeing this whole thread, I dug up these references:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/hackers-and-cracke...
I know, but the quote just reminded me of a difference in 'no comment' laws that I thought was curious.
Andreesen Horowitz gets more credit than it deserves for venture investing. The group has only generated returns from its late-stage growth and PE investments (Skype, Groupon, Zynga). Let me explain.

This article, for example, cites a16z's investments in iconic companies Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Groupon, Airbnb, Box, Fab.com and Pinterest - but all of those were late-stage growth rounds or secondary purchases, where they aren't going to add much value as investors.

Many of those growth rounds were won against competing VCs because a16z paid the highest price and wrote the biggest check. Writing lots of big checks allows you to quickly invest lots of capital and raise new funds. And stay in the headlines.

It's not to say that those are bad investments. They're great investments. It's just not venture investing or helping entrepreneurs build companies. You know who else made late-stage investments in Skype, Groupon and Zynga, besides a16z? Silve Lake, the mega-LBO fund. They're about as far from venture capital as you can get.

In fact, a16z hasn't had a single notable exit from it's early-stage investments. That's not to say that they won't - it's just too early to tell.

Don't get me wrong - the firm is lead by some of the most amazing entrepreneurs ever. In fact, I would have trouble not taking a meeting with them, just because I would want their feedback on my business. But they haven't yet shown a track record of helping to mentor early stage portfolio companies to successful outcomes.

And that's what VC is. Groups like First Round Capital, Union Square Ventures, Sequoia and more, have exceptional track records working with early-stage companies and deserve tons of credit for being amazing VCs. Andreesen Horowitz isn't in the top-tier today.

Am I missing something about a16z's early stage track record? If so, please let me know.
From my experience, that seems to be the policy in Amsterdam. I am en EU citizen, but live in the Netherlands. If I fly to the US I can reliably expect lengthy and silly questions. Example:

Agent: why did you come the Netherlands six years ago?
Me: to study

A: where's your student id?
M: that was six years ago...

A: any other proof you might have?

and so on...
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Doesn't do months or years. Who knows how it handles dst transitions.

I can't remember for sure but I don't think you can subtract two dates and get a delta?
I think there's a good way of phrasing it that doesn't hurt anybody's feelings and ensures your partner doesn't feel betrayed: say you lost interest and motivation in the product and at this point you're more of a liability to the company than an asset. Say you don't want to bog down the progress of the project and that it's in everybody interest that you move on and let people who are truly passionate about it give it their best.
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When I tried to register for an SSL, their website shows a javascript error.
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Why does it say "Chrome does not handle client certificate enrollment correctly". Any ideas?
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All I can say is, I can write C++ code that will not surprise me with unexpected copies, contain huge memory problems, or surprise me greatly with the memory model.Stop whining and learn to use your tools, goddamit.
I mean, that's a self-reinforcing situation.