skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the purchased items I think it's fine, but for the items people are donating, the intent is usually that they be claimed by someone who plans to use them, not someone who plans to flip them. Though it does depend on the item; sometimes people give things away because they just want to get rid of them, especially with hard-to-move things like appliances. You can sometimes tell by the tone of the listing what the intent is, and I suppose it's up to each person's ethics whether they want to respect that.

It's a big controversy in communities like freecycle that attempt to maintain a certain charitable ethos and actively say that flippers aren't welcome, sometimes with exceptions for people who repair things (it's usually considered okay to take something broken free with the intent to repair and sell it, because that isn't pure flipping). Probably less controversial on Craigslist, which is a bit of a free-for-all.
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No, there's a very sizable and useful ClojureScript standard library:

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/blob/master/src/clj...

... the idea is that the parts of it you don't use will be optimized away by the Google Closure Compiler.
That is soooo cool.
I disagree. He does add real value.

1) He retakes clear photos of the merch at a variety of angles - something that many craigslist postings lack

2) He himself has a threshold of quality, and inspects the product before picking it up from the original seller - I would much rather trust a guy who buys 10 cordless drills a week on craigslist to know the drill is bad, than relying on my limited knowledge of cordless drills and their common defects.

I'm willing to pay a few extra bucks for his vetting.
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Ancestral Armenians shared a rich oral history with their Near Eastern neighbors, including a very old form of the Flood Epic, shared by Assyrians, Babylonians and Sumerians.
"if you are creating a startup just to get into ycombinator you should not be doing a startup."
If this was the case, then I would prefer taking my chances with banks than pg.
The essay is quintessential pg: some things that are not his specialty he gets wrong but clear and full of great insight. It should be required reading.

When pg talks about his naive decision in high school to major in philosophy he says: "I thought studying philosophy would be a shortcut straight to wisdom." I believe this is the central fallacy that people have about the discipline that turns them off quickly once they realize that it's not a royal path to wisdom but a broad and technical discussion on what qualities such a path would have.
Real estate agents and the like bring an awful lot of time, skill, experience and special knowledge to their problem domains that their clients don't have. What does someone like this Craigslist middleman contribute?

Do buyers and sellers go to this man the way people go to real estate agents for their services? What would Craigslist buyers and sellers think of what he does if they knew about it? Respectfully, I think they would strongly prefer he weren't interfering.
Yea I found that fact too. I imagine that the fraud values are outliers which my algorithms think are good values.
Everything you said ... absolutely and totally. I had a background similar to you. My first programming job was writing assembler for flight recorders and ADCs.

Modern programming is a drudge. Everything encapsulated in increasing layers of abstraction and further away from what is actually happening. If it all disappeared tomorrow no one would know where to start from first principles again as these are no longer taught.

Its a tragedy.
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They could be pulling a Madoff. I still wonder how he got away with it for so long.
I appreciated the look into ClojureScript as someone who's never touched it (and whose interest is definitely piqued now), but I'm baffled by the article's initial hook of 'let's compare how many characters it takes to accomplish the same task'. Is this really a meaningful metric? There's value in comparing the relative clarity and expressibility of each language, but that's not necessarily synonymous with brevity. I get that it's not the heart of the piece, but starting with such pedantry seems to detract from the point.
innovation is hard and high risk. Franchises sell predictably. blasting out Call Of Duty 17 is a matter of staffing a bunch of artists for less money than you will bring in.

Same thing for movies, and books, and music, and basically every big company business model ever.
There will always be imitation, but to me the innovation going on right now is staggering. Touch screens are still fairly recent, and so many games have been created to take advantage of the new controls like fruit ninja for instance. And it's not just big players anymore, but thanks to app markets, anybody can publish and have friends play their games. Nintendo Wii is also fairly recent. I spent last weekend at a party playing Just Dance with friends - something innovative, but also just another link in the chain of gaming evolution - PaRappa, DDR, Guitar Hero, etc.. The Sony Vita is just about to be released and the thing has a full touch screen on it's back side. 3DS, Wii U - I still dont get how the tablet as a controller for a console is going to work, but at least their innovating.. and how about that minecraft innovative yet evolved ;)
That's lame. We're not kids, we can make our own decisions. It's not like we're going to totally trust some random dude on the internet.
The Corporation-Wide Web: Your Internets are shrinking like a cheap linen shirt.
1) It's a slide deck for a talk. What were you expecting, a detailed tutorial? I also don't think you got the most important bit: focus on employees.

2) Scaling is also… really custom. I'm extremely unlikely to have to find a way to shard git repositories across a network of users. And they do cover their architecture and release back a fair number of their tools.
Architecturally, we're more similar to PhoneGap than Appcelerator: we do use the native WebView as a container for the app.

There's a million things to talk about and this margin is too narrow: I might do a deeper dive in a follow-up post...
I'd be interested to hear this, too. Also outside of the context of applying for an incubator, even- the general idea (as far as I can see) is to work for as little as possible, keeping cash in the company. Sensible, but I live in New York, and rent/food isn't cheap. I've been wondering to myself how I would balance that- I have savings, but not a ton.
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You have extrapolated data from this article that is not actually in existence.

Here, let's look at the actual budget for Texas: http://www.lbb.state.tx.us/Other_Pubs/Overview_Highway_Fund_...

Texas levies a 20 cent per gallon tax on gas and diesel, while the federal government levies an 18.4 cent tax for gas and 24.4 cents for diesel.

Over 2 years (the budget period for the state) the gas tax provided $4.55 billion for roadwork. However, 1/4 of the state gas tax revenue is diverted to education so the actual revenue is around $6.1 billion. Additionally, $6.9 billion of funding is provided from federal sources. This is roughly equivalent to the amount raised by the federal gas tax but also pays for things like airports. A further $2.7 billion is raised through registration fees, and other motor vehicle related taxes and fees.

In total the gas and motor vehicle related taxes pay for the entirety of the TxDOT budget plus they help subsidize the local school system to the tune of 3/4 of a billion per year.
Actually, you could write Facebook in x86 assembler but that would be a drudge!

Oh ... and I do know an electronics engineer who probably could do Angry Birds in hardware, but almost certainly wouldn't want to. "What is Angry Birds" I can hear him say.
Thanks! Yep, we see good command-line tools as being the best substrate to build on: even if we did support every platform, people are going to want to run scheduled builds and so on.

We actually find ourselves developing as Chrome extensions for the first few iterations, purely because the debugging tools there are great. After that, it's an easy switch into a mobile app, using our Catalyst debugging tool.
There is real value:

People who do not have time to check craigslist's free section around the clock are able to buy items at less than retail price.
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I needed a better way to take markdown notes. So I made a gem.
You're right, they wouldn't. GitHub would never hire the PM you're referring to, because that's the type of PM that makes engineers hate their jobs and become demotivated.
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"Totally devoid of information."

That seems a little harsh for something that is clearly intended to be an overview of general principles, not specific technical details.
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Sure. Email me; my email is on my consulting company's site (see my profile).
True, I agree with your points. The problem with mobile as an "innovation" platform is that it's heavily slanted towards the top. I would argue that over 50% of the app downloads come from the Top 50 list. It's really hard to break that without a substantial paid ad campaign
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One man's "reusable abstraction" is another man's "why the hell is this thing being abstracted?" ... perhaps with Lisps more than anywhere else ;)

For example, in David's final gist, we have:

(defprotocol ISlice
(-shift [this]))

(deftype Slice [start end]
ISlice
(-shift [_] (Slice. (inc start) (inc end)))
IFn
(-invoke [_ x]
(cond
(string? x) (.substring x start end)
(vector? x) (subvec x start end))))

(def s (Slice. 0 5))
(def v ["List Processing" [0 1 2 3 4 5 6]])

(map s v)
;; >> ("List " [0 1 2 3 4])
(map (-shift s) v)
;; >> ("ist P" [1 2 3 4 5])

When I think there's a good case to be made for the clarity of this alternative:

slice = (start, end) ->
(list) ->
if typeof list is 'string'
list.substring start, end
else
list.slice start, end

vector = ["List Processing", [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]]

vector.map slice 0, 5
# ["List ",[0,1,2,3,4]]

vector.map slice 1, 6
# ["ist P",[1,2,3,4,5]]

... but with careful compile-to-JS languages, it's pretty great that each can do it their own way, and the resulting code can play nicely together.
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GH is a special case. They're darlings of the tech community, and they throw a ton of events.

Even if they were crappy to work for they would probably have an easy time hiring.

THAT SAID, "finishing the internal CRM system" is a problem that happens in organizations an order of magnitude larger, methinks.

My finishing platitude is, how did you hire - and why do you retain - engineers that don't give a shit about the project they're working on?

Also, why is your PM screaming? A project meeting deadlines is his or her responsibility. Sounds like you have a crap PM to boot.
Yeah, Ikaruga was a classic. For very traditional "bullet hell" stuff, I recommend you start with the Touhou Project (a million games, all of them are essentially the same thing). I've also been playing a lot of Jamestown lately. Unfortunately, I'm running on very little sleep and nothing is else to coming to mind, but definitely check those out.
All these are good points.

However, in the case where the Id is the nature key (e.g. SSN), the Id can be known from the user input. Creating an employee is just a matter of PUT his full record along with his SSN as the Id.
I saw Zach Holman present this in Cape Town today. These slides are merely a back-drop to what was an excellent talk.
The timeout on the application is now exceptionally fast. I can go maybe three or four minutes at most before it doesn't let me save anymore.
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I agree with this in concept, but that doesn't mean that YC must fill that niche. Along those lines, it would be nice if there was a good system for getting hired as an employee (not co-founder) of an early stage startup (and not just in SF).
Hi, I'm one of the founders of pentotype. We're creating a new kind of wireframing software and we'd really love to hear your feedback. We have been working on this for more than half a year now, doing some customer interviews and building a prototype. We're planning on launching an MVP in a few months, but we've gotten to a point where we'd really appreciate some broader feedback. Especially, we would like to know if you faced the problems shown in the video, if you see other problems and what you think about our solution.

Thanks
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Why is that? convincing banks to give you money will be much harder, at a high interest rate, and you have to give the money back whether you're successful or not.
Considering he's getting these items off Craigslist and turning around to sell them on Craigslist, the only reason people aren't saving money is that they aren't beating him to the initial purchase.

Well, that and managing to ferret out poorly displayed/marketed items and re-post them with better advertising. That is a valuable service, but I'm not sure how much of his activity can be meaningfully characterized as doing so.
Nice workaround, but what to do about the browser's rendering? When the user goes back to the browser, what would he see?
Science used to be called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy. Many of those people would not call themselves philosophers today, because the meaning has shifted.
What kind of "value" is added that is secret? Don't you think buyers and sellers alike should know up front what they're paying for?

To the seller: I'm going to make probably $100 on this washer in a couple days by Windexing it and taking some good photos. That's your fee for my pickup and selling "service."

To the buyer: I bought this washer a couple days ago for $100 less. That's your fee for my delivery and vetting "service."
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I second this. I'd rather be at the dentist than on a SourceForge page.

I swear it's the "myspace.com" of open source hosting.
Articles has less screen real-estate (because of 3 columns) and it seems like more work to just scroll through and read the headlines. I'm sure it will grow on me but not a huge fan at the moment.
> Either corrupt, or ass-kissing douches that have no idea why they are there.

Sure they do - they're there for their own personal gain. The second-most important thing is the benefit of their "campaign contributors" - in other words: the companies/people that bribe them.

My country is on the list too.
Assuming that they bothered mentioning it.
Both CoffeeScript and ClojureScript “transpile” into JavaScript.

ClojureScript does come with its own standard library just as you say. However, I don’t know if that’s CoffeeScript’s “biggest advantage,” althout it’s related. The way I would put it is that while the author claims that ClojureScript is “OO, the Good Parts,” CoffeeScript is JavaScript, The Good Parts.

Meaning, CoffeeScript programming is still very close in mental model to JavaScript programming. This is why it doesn’t require its own library, you are writing JavaScript and can use any abstraction or library you like.

Its syntax for OO programming is really sugar for using JavaScript’s built-in semantics in a legible way. Locally namespaced extensions are a wonderful idea, but they aren’t really JavaScript. For better or for worse, CoffeeScript eschews such deep departures from JavaScript.

That’s a disadvantage when you want something that’s a big improvement, but it’s an advantage when you are familiar with JavaScript and just want to get things done.
The same thing came to mind when I read it. I presume it is, in fact, a new point.

And it makes sense, given recent trends. How many recent startups can you name that succeeded in spite of terrible aesthetics?
I know what you are saying, and I strongly agree. But in comparison to chopping $75k off of you're bottom line then I think you are going to struggle to find a way to be less efficient.

Depending on the size of the company it might just make a great graduate / junior dev recruitment program. Take them on with a probationary period and watch how well they do with the sideline gig. If they turn the code to spaghetti within months then you probably don't want them working on the core business. The last one through the mill becomes supervisor for the next one.

The only potential issue with this strategy is damaging the brand name of the consulting company. I'm not entirely convinced that this is really an issue.
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> I dont mean to nitpick, but I get really annoyed when people do extravagant things when they can't afford it.

Everyone does. Good luck getting people to settle on your definitions of "extravagant" and "afford."
You really want one of these for the heavy stuff though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairclimber

It makes a world of difference.
YC is good at starting companies but unclear if it can successfully grow them
Examples of difficult problems solved by using humans who think they are solving another problem / having fun:

* ReCaptcha

* DuoLingo

* Fold It: http://fold.it/portal/
You're offered $10mil right now to quit programming for good. Do you take it?
To clarify, this means you have to give up your programming job (if you have one), and you're not even allowed to code for fun. You can, however, hire other people to code for you if you want (so you could still build and run a business, but you would never be able to get 'stuck in').
English partly developed out of French (specifically Anglo-Norman French) following the Norman invasion in 1066.

Besides, it was French that shamelessly ripped off Vulgar Latin (re + portare, "to carry back")!
'Can you imagine if Hollywood released a press releasing saying "Kill the internet?"'

I don't have to imagine it; the rights mafia has been trying exactly that since they found out about Napster. SOPA is just the latest "kill the internet" and it won't be the last. PG's making a good point: instead of fighting a purely defensive war, why not make them defend themselves against us for a change?
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Too true. And it doesnt help that Call of Duty 17 made $400M in one weekend or something crazy like that
> What would Craigslist buyers and sellers think of what he does if they knew about it? Respectfully, I think they would strongly prefer he weren't interfering.

Having tried to buy things on Craigslist, nice, clear photos are amazing - it saves me the trouble of shlepping somewhere, looking at the clearly mis-represented item, sighing, and shlepping back home.

As far as the sellers, what exactly are they losing? They stated the price they wanted to sell for, and they got it. You could argue that they could have gotten more with a better camera, some cleaning, and a better ad, but at that point you can argue that nobody should hire ad agencies.
From inspiring kids to land on the moon and explore space, it goes down to this? Surely, there can be more productive ways to harness and encourage creativity and STEM. What about, say fuel efficient passenger planes, or cataloging cancer genes?
Nice insight.

About DC:

I've been to DC once for a couple of days. For tourist destinations the metro was fine, even though Georgetown seemed to be unaccessible due to its residents refusing a metro connection there (fear of gentrification?). Also the similarity of the stations made orientation from inside the train different for newcomers.

I've also used the the SmartBike DC, which wasn't nice, since there are few bike lanes.

About car sharing:

My experience is that car sharing is cheaper than rental if you're using the car for less than 6-12 hours a day. But your right, those numbers work differently from town to town. As soon as I added expectable car price decline to the monthly costs of owning, car sharing became incredibly cheap. I'm also happy to not have to deal with maintanance and tax/insurance issues. If I'd had to travel by car daily, owning/leasing a car would still be the cheapest option.
I thought that this would be an advantage as well but what ended up happening is that I found myself spending a lot of time in the generated javascript. Either I was checking the generated javascript too often to see if it mapped to the coffescript I wrote, or I'm fixing bugs in the generated javascript forgetting that I was using coffescript.
We've gone into excruciating detail about how GitHub's architected: https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast
> neither JavaScript nor CoffeeScript provide any kind of doesNotUnderstand: hook

Feature is Proxies, it's in Harmony. I know v8 has an implementation, having used it in node (takes a command line flag) but not sure what the status is elsewhere.
antonmks, did you consider using OpenCL instead? If yes - why CUDA outweighed it?
Yeah, just after I wrote that I realized that Deferreds/Promises are monads.

You don't have to convert them, but you do need a way to write code using those pure functions "inside" the monad which I don't think is easy with this model.

You should be able to just chain your actions together, with a wrapper function to turn pure functions into actions. I don't see why you would need to convert the actual pure functions to monadic style.

I guess what I had in my head when I made the comment was the convenience functions or the syntactic sugar around a monadic solution. Seems like the node guys are playing with things like this but all the solutions I've seen seem so ugly.
> (Cambridge also has far too many sets of traffic lights for its size, which introduces an entirely artificial ceiling on the capacity of its road network for reasons no-one seems to quite understand. You can usually tell when the lights fail at a major intersection, because the drivers all start being polite and taking turns to proceed, there are hardly any queues in the area, and journeys are invariably quicker and more pleasant. Note to people wanting saner traffic systems for cities in future: competitive routes and stop/go lights are an evil that will cripple your efficiency.)

Incidentally, I did hear about a study that indicates that roundabouts are far better for safety than traffic lights. Unfortunately, I don't remember the reason they concluded for this. Suffice to say... I don't really see much reason to ever use traffic lights if they can be avoided.
It looks terrible - almost like something I'd come up with.

The main points for me are:

- The fonts for starters just don't look good. I'd re-visit that.

- The skinny horizontal menu

- The "More" links below each article summary need work. Its a little overwhelming and just runs on from the text.

I should note that I don't recall what it looked like pre-redesign.
Very long article about 99 designs, with exactly 0 links to their site. Why? Some outdated SEO advice?
I wonder if it would be possible to scale the business. If you wrote a script that could flag potentially lucrative items for manual review, you would likely be able to cut out much of the searching, allowing you to target CLs in multiple cities. If he's making $38/hr in one city, he could hire someone for $18/hr in another to drive around and pick up / drop off items and pocket the $20 difference.

I'd be interested to see how well this would work out.
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