skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But saying there's some higher form of value that 'brands' bring that has nothing to do with building profitable businesses is disingenuous."

Where the heck did I say that? I said building profitable businesses is a formula and leadership/brands are a multiplier in that (very complex) formula.

I'm saying that A-Players with great brands have value. It's pretty hard to unravel that value. What's the financial impact of bringing Jobs back to Apple? What was the financial impact of Google buying Android? What would the financial impact be if I was running Square instead of Jack Dorsey? There's no way to know. But you can't disregard the impact of great people because you can't precisely measure it is wrong.
Thanks! Everyday I'm hustlin'.

That pattern of setting background colors for multiple blocks is by far the most embarrassing part of this whole launch experience, and I've already built a fix that'll kill all those ridiculous repetitive actions for 1.0.2.
Startup Patent Report for week of March 6, 2012
"Lifesaving" is a pretty nebulous concept. Does a plow which enables higher crop yields and thus less starvation constitute as life saving? Or a weather satellite, which allows prediction of rain patterns and more efficient irrigation usage? Modern technology is all interconnected, and only a few extreme leaf nodes could be unambiguously declared non-life saving.
I've seen the clip a few times now, and I agree it's creepy in a bad way, but maybe not the way you describe it from a writers perspective. Here's my take, watch it with the sound off. Notice how much you will end up looking at the eyes to figure out what is going on, and how little said eyes are emoting.

I experienced a disconnect between the visual and audio performance. The audio is telling me there is all this drama, despair, etc going on, but the visuals are just not keeping up. To top it off, any adult with normal faculties can tell you the whole thing is trying really hard to push your emotional buttons, something that usually pisses me off.
New Challenger Video: Super 8 Film Of Space Shuttle Disaster
Oh yeah, it hurts. Like I mentioned in my reply to the parent, totally embarrassed by it and have already built a fix for the issue in v1.0.2, coming in a week or two.
I'm not talking about api's either. I'm talking about js as an implementation of ideas about what a language should do. It is built on a lot of great ideas and most are well implemented.

Since you aren't providing your sure-win idea changes, I can't be sure what you don't like but I can guess. All of them are well documented at this point. And they are easy to understand and avoid.
It did cost a lot, but honestly, as a programmer I type so much, its totally worth investing in a good keyboard and I love my DAS keyboard.

The only thing I wish is that the keys were in a flat grid rather than staggered, but it seems very very hard to find any keyboard like that, so no biggy. I've considered getting a Kinesis for years now too, but since I got the DAS, I've had no plans of switching any time soon.

I haven't completely worked out my vim bindings since I've been doing a lot of Qt development in QtCreator lately and just used that without vi mode. I use Colemak for my layout so some of the default keys are a little less than optimal, but I also don't want to change them too much. With one or two simple key swaps it seems quite usable though.

On windows (where I don't use vim) I did map alt-gr to some common programmer symbols; mapped caps lock to control and control to backspace. On my laptop I use vanilla colemak though (including caps lock as backspace, though I'm likely going to change that some time).
Codecademy and Gamification
Their entire mobile development toolchain is based off of it?
Lobbyists are getting rich off of the war on drugs
Compared to the ways people used to settle their differences in the days when war wasn't online, I also am enthusiastic about these developments.
This all continues to look more and more like the war on drugs. An unwinnable battle that has no net effect except to piss everyone off and waste money.
I like JBoss Seam 2. It's worked out well for several sites.
The only thing that is annoying me with Windows 8 so far are the contextual menus where you need to move your mouse to the bottom right-hand side. The delay is too long and it makes the experience less fluid IMO.

I'm liking the Start Metro screen and getting used to the dynamic tiles.
Thanks, I had missed that. It's almost as handy as the --patch option "git stash" didn't have.
Next Xbox May Not Have a Disc Drive
Apple profit margin 51% on each 16GB iPad with 4G LTE.
I would go so far as to say that this a glimpse of the future of all development. Changing paradigms in user software on the mobile front might result in similar changes for power users / developers as well. Simpler UIs, cloud-storage, less need to care about file types, etc. Most developers right now would claim to hate such a system for writing code, but I bet it will represent much of the future of development.

Simplicity in the environment will result in faster, higher-quality development.
Exactly. Which makes it all the more surprising that this could have happened. As soon as you realize your entire instance is left open by default, it should immediately cause you to check the default security settings on the system databases to see if there is a "party" going on there as well.
Push notifications are a great way to consume time-sensitive information, like price/airfare,
sports, stocks, app reviews, etc. Airgram makes it dead-simple to deliver these alerts without
having to build your own app, so that you can focus on building interesting services.

Give it a spin! http://www.airgramapp.com

"I think notifications will become the primary way that we consume on the mobile device and may be
the reason we move away from downloadable software and back to web based software on our mobile
devices." - Fred Wilson (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/mobile-notifications.html)
Are you using the region parameter? Or bounds? (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/ge...)

That should restrict the results to your region of interest (at least: to the UK)
That sounds like a question for Gabe: http://mylawyergabe.com/
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There's very little in Windows 8 that requires multiple touch input - pretty much the only thing touch input can do and the mouse can't. This is what's ultimately allowing Win8 to keep mouse keyboard and touch on the same level.

Compare with Apple and some of the iOS gestures such as four-finger (!) swipes...

(I wrote the article)
> Sellfy found way how to sell files

I guess English isn't your native language, which explains why the headline here is ungrammatical. You might want to just use the actual headline. Or at least delete the word "how" from your headline.
Have you tried right clicking the whitespace? or are you talking about the charms bar, which does indeed take too long to come up?
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>lift has some great ideas

Such as? We tried really hard to use lift, but it was terrible. It is just an ugly mix of rails and seaside with a lot of un-fullfilled promises being used to market it. Like the type safety they claim is so unique, but which is virtually non-existent and pales in comparison to all the SML, ocaml and haskell frameworks.

>i'd prefer scala community to push lift instead

The scala community abandoned lift because the lift community is incredibly hostile and constantly attacks both lift users and scala developers. Since lift ostracized themselves long ago, the scala developers have focused on play instead.
iPhone is top-selling cellphone in Japan
The operations npm needs to log in for are a fairly small percentage of the total. If you need to upload a new version of a package, then that takes a password. If you just need to search for a package, or download its latest version, those don't need authentication. The overhead from using proper slow password hashing would be minimal.

And evidently the CouchDB guys agree with me, because they switched to using PBKDF2 for password storage -- essentially, iterate SHA several thousand times to make it slower.
Right, but I can counter your anecdote with my own. All of the iPhone users I know are like your Droid users. They use their iPhone for 1) making phone calls 2) checking e-mail 3) browsing the web. None have jailbroken their iPhone or installed more than 10 apps.

I contrast that with the Android users I know (including myself). I know of only one user who is still on a stock ROM. I don't know of any that have less than 15 apps.

If you haven't figured it out yet, most of the iOS users I know are older adults who value simplicity and ease of use. Most of the younger people I know value Android and are more than willing to accept a slightly higher initial complexity for vastly greater control. That's why I asked for data, specifically. It's very easy to draw incorrect conclusions by extrapolating from your own worldview, simply because your friends tend to be like you.

The only comparison I've seen between Android and iOS users is this (http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/17/smartphone-data-usage-jumps-89...) 9 month old study comparing the data usage between Android and iPhone users, and that actually stated that Android users consume more data than iPhone users. So, given that, I don't see how anyone can confidently assert that iPhone users use their phones more heavily than Android users. The (admittedly weak) data tells us the opposite, if it tells us anything at all.
People think they hate personalized search, but they actually love it.
This what Notifo was trying to do but ran into quite a few challenges with adoption. You should talk with them more to see how you differentiate and solve the problem they had...
Can you explain how Airgram compares to (now deceased) Notifo?
There is a certain amount of irony that Windows 8 works quite well is most (all?) virtualization software except Microsoft's VirtualPC.

Also, is anyone else feeling that they love Windows 8 on a tablet but are constantly frustrated trying to use it on a desktop? One of my first experiences that kind of sums of my experience was clicking on a 2-second mp3 (I wanted that gorgeous notification tone), only to find myself waiting 3 seconds to it to switch from Desktop/Explorer to Metro/Music Player, play my 2-second clip and then leaving me staring at a rather dumb, blank looking Metro media player. (It would be helped if there was a metro version of explorer, but still, I feel very limited without many windows open and expose mode, and of course windows 8 hasn't really improved the command prompt.)
I don't know what you mean by "all traffic"; on the previous page it says the FBI installed some kind of device to capture the suspect's traffic, which is hardly a controversial practice.
This feature of vi/vim along with not being able to save and quit as quickly as I can in emacs (ctrl-s ctrl-x, baby, none of that :q! shite) is the reason I use emacs. I totally respect those that use vim, but I'm not a freaking machine.
I think there's something to be said for considering pg's approach for non-American universities outside the top rankings.

I get the impression that the best American universities are perfectly fine, and then some.
I never thought I'd see the word 'taint' on the front page.

Maybe some keyword filtering would do HN some good.
I was thinking mining online data to gauge the feeling of the market awhile ago, looks like someone is actually doing it.
Ongoing diagnosis seems simliar to one of the recent X-Prizes:

http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/

And the idea of the X-Prize seems to be mostly in-line with the spirit of Y Combinator. I only last night saw all the current X-Prizes and am pretty impressed.
I think you've misunderstood what PG was saying. In this analogy, Y Combinator and Basecamp are the products for sale and HN is a promotional channel. PG's point is that Y Combinator benefits from Hacker News in ways other than the direct "I clicked on the link from Hacker News and then immediately took an action that made money for Y Combinator."
Two counterpoints:

A retail game is considered a failure if it sells less than 1m units at $50-70 but the Humble Indie Bundle sold only 450,000 units at an average of just under $6. Clearly there is a market for full-priced games.

Both Steam sales and the Humble Bundle are vehicles for games that have already sold at a higher price and the sales curve is tailing off.
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Everyone pays the same price whether they're a 100 person firm or just two people? So you can have five clients per server or fifty? I think that you need to give some consideration to those using more resources paying more.
Soundrop
Just FYI, ConcurrentHashMap is indeed lockfree (although it's got a gargantuan memory footprint). Wrapping your HashMap with Collections.synchronizedMap gives you a blocking threadsafe HashMap.
You aren't supposed to know that, unless you say you are. I'm not really that important, and remembering that was really fun for four days.
So did megaUpload
Wait... This is 2012 and they wrote this document on a typewriter?

Why?

Performance of the typist? Security concerns?
In the US (where this data is from), both men & women are legally allowed to have 12 weeks parental leave (unpaid). There is a handful of states that pay a portion of the salary to women (fewer to men) who take parentnal leave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Americas).

Parental leave. More women than men take it.

Can you prove this to be true? In addition, can you include all types of leave & break the info down by gender and prove that women take 5% more leave than men on average? All kinds of people take sabbaticals for all kinds of reasons (not just parenthood). This might appear to be an interesting thought exercise, but there are too many variables involved to say the possibility of maternity leave means hiring women costs more than hiring men...
Just wait until 10.8 when this is mysteriously integrated into iCal.
I should've said "unschool". Mia culpa. There's no way I'd go back for another degree at this point. I just might be interested in finance related programming.
Creative use of bootstrap
Boxcar?
Still not addressing the chicken or egg problem. I won't use your service until you properly vet workers. Reputation screening requires a lot of transactions.

Task Rabbit has sacrificed short term growth (most likely) to install an incredibly rigorous screening process for their workers.
Seriously...been getting a lot of help from Sam lately and it's unbelievable how insightful the guy is. If I had a billion dollars, I'd pay $43M to have Sam in my corner. ;)
I'm running it on my Android phone now. It works pretty well.
I wish it uses Facebook/Google/etc. for user accounts though. The last thing I want to have to do is have another user/password.
Also, what is the difference between this and Notifo (yc2010 I think)?
The nameless mob will probably tear that shirt off you if you do that. Not having a name often gives people freedom to do naughty things.
I love colemak. While I'm still not quite as fast as I once was with qwerty, it does seem to take less effort and my fingers seem to dance over the keys as most key combos do really seem to be placed side-by-side.
On-call best practices: Page your manager
Kara Is Self-Aware

It's a game.

Pity. I thought the long AI winter was over.
Anyone have a video link? Google came up empty for me
What would that even look like? GPL code can't be mass pirated by an army of private users, as with TPB--because it's free. And if some major players stole GPL code for commercial use, that would be remedied with a lawsuit, if at all.
New iPad is unbeatable
You should consider your tone here. It's unwarranted. You literally know nothing about what went on here, know nothing about the value that they're are getting (patents? team?).

Is it okay/smart for Facebook to buy/hire a team of 4 engineers for $8M or is that because they are buddies with VCs? I assume Loopt had an engineering team of 20+. Is it that out of bounds to think that that (plus patents and perhaps some tech) could have an eventual financial impact of more than $43M?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667166

4 Days ago and 0 comments. I'd say this 'repost' is warranted, was an interesting read for many people it seems.
I think this is actually a pretty strong endorsement of TOR, just based on what I briefly read here. They had a wiretap running, and all they got out of it was "he's definitely using TOR." That's pretty awesome, if you ask me.
Thanks for the feedback, super helpful -- it's exactly the reason why we wanted to roll out in a private beta.

The short of it is that we're sacrificing a lot of this to save simplicity right off the bat. Frankly, it's the main competitive advantage to all of the many other tools out there, we believe. That said, there are a few of your requests that we're actively working on.

In particular, points 2 (add/edit progress bar), 2 (we're working on file attachements now), and 3.

Stuff like multi-user accounts and deal checkboxes are unlikely. We are looking to add reminders, however.

Again, thanks for the awesome feedback.
And the reason they didn't was that they evolved from typewriters that relied on a forward/backward spin to move up and down (except for the carriage return lever). We're lucky that the original terminals didn't have a scroll knob on the left and right of the machine to move up and down and a lever to move to the next line or we would have been stuck with that concept for years and the laptop may not have been invented because the knobs and lever would have required some elevation, which means the whole thing would have had to have been bigger.
Internet Beauty: Location
It doesn't look like it supports multiple users on one account. So a 100 person firm would need to use 100 individual accounts.
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>Netflix & iTunes make video & music so easy to get at such low cost, with walls just high enough that jumping 'em costs more than complying,

The problem is when they alter the deal - pray they do not alter it further. Netflix is nice and all, but as a recent TheOatmeal strip suggests, it's not for everything. A great deal of their content still requires disc rental due to studios stuck in last century.

And then their library took a huge hit when Starz pulled out.

As for iTunes, their price is still too high for me. $10 for an album? Pass. And the less said about their (still DRM-encumbered) video offerings, the better.

I'd much rather see a model much like the now defunct AllOfMP3 had - you pay per filesize, at a flat rate, - pick any format you want.

>Methinks the real point of the issue is that there is a subculture which is he11-bent on illegal/immoral behavior

But are you willing to assume that the lion's share of, say, The Pirate Bay's users are that subculture? I'm not going to deny that a cracker culture exists - but they're kind of a minority. Most people would rather get their content at a non insulting price with non insulting terms.

>do you seriously think the author would be satisfied if someone just gave him a shoebox containing all commercial music & movies outright, no strings attached? or would you expect him to nonetheless find something to pursue, contrary to rules, to exercise his intellect & creativity & efforts on?

Keep in mind that it is human nature to strike back at someone who wrongs you in some percieved way. If you shit on someone long enough, eventually they'll start doing things, even against their own best interest, just to spite you.

I'd wager the MafiAA and like organizations occupy that point in a lot of people's minds.
It takes you to some spotify app with no description. Sorry, but pass.
It's Courier, not an actual typewriter.
Somebody mentioned Stripes in the blog comments, but it hasn't been update in a year:

http://www.stripesframework.org/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/stripes/

And by '...frameworks for java', do you mean Java specifically, or any JVM language. Several good options for the latter.
The Olympics, while wonderful, are nothing more than entertainment, so the ethical considerations of "should we or should we not do X" are typically pretty much inconsequential. The ramifications of a runner setting a new record are, in the grand scheme of things, pretty much null.

The ramifications of the average human being able to learn more in less time are relatively gigantic. So gigantic, in fact, that I think they dwarf what small social-inequity considerations are raised (if it can really be done for a $90 kit right off the bat, then just wait until economies of scale kick in).
You're overthinking it. All it means is a bunch of traffic was going to and from known tor nodes.
I like the idea of unified notifications, but ultimately you have the chicken-egg problem, and for that you need to find an entry point. I'm working on the same problem and whoever solves it, it will create some great value. Can't wait until notifications get detached from email.
That point also struck me as odd considering he later pitches the idea of making a product to abstract away paralellism... a problem that would certainly be out of reach to all but the most educated (read: PhD from a good university).
I have to disagree with you there, clearly the user of DRM is the copyright holder. They are using the tool to perform their activity, that of "safely" leasing their content to consumers.

In the same way, the user of DirectX is the game publisher, not the consumer who buys the game.
I've had to work with Play lately, and I find it quite delightful. It's butchering java as a language (or at least what's considered good practice), but since it works so well, you tend to overlook that.

I'm also a fan of maven. There's nothing better than checking out a huge project with a great deal of dependencies and just have it build perfectly with a couple of keystrokes.

Seems like the play developers (Guillaume et co) went for a clean break with legacy java though. And if you want that, you can't depend on maven.

Only had a cursory look at 2.0 so far, but moving further into Scala territory and adopting SBT seems like an interesting move to me. Play is becoming a great vehicle for Web developers who want to ease into a Scala future.
Those are very nice!
> Are non top-tier universities really that bad?

Yes.
The notes say "AIDE is fully compatible with Eclipse projects. Just copy the sourcecode to your device, open any source file in AIDE to load the project and start coding." Assume that's what you want :)
That was in a trial for ADHD treatment in adolescents. As a result, they don't advise the use of Modafinil in children. It is unclear to me whether the 933 studied were adolescents, and if so, whether or not a similar rate of rashes are seen in adults.

The Wikipedia page also says: "From the date of initial marketing, December 1998, to January 30, 2007, FDA received six cases of severe cutaneous adverse reactions associated with modafinil, including erythema multiforme (EM), Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS), toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), and drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) involving adult and pediatric patients.

I have to admit, six cases in eight years doesn't strike fear into me.