skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So doing the winter batch in California seemed like one of those rare cases where the self-indulgent choice and the ambitious one were the same.

There is nothing more heavenly, more sublime than that rare situation in life in which the self-indulgent choice and the ambitious choice align. There's a keen insight to be had there.

Unfortunately, those moments are very rare.

For instance, at least, in terms of my personal temperament and disposition, I have found that I most enjoy life, from a "human" perspective, in places that are terrible places to do business, and may, in fact, have very dysfunctional local economies, high amount of corruption, etc. I'm the kind of person that has the most fun in the colour of Greece, Italy, southern Spain, Portugal, Argentina, etc. I can appreciate the comparative orderliness and clockwork of Teutonic and Anglo-American civilisation, but it doesn't make me happy, and yet I need that whole universe in order to sustain my livelihood in any practical sense. But everything else about it doesn't make me very happy.

I wish there were some way to reconcile those two. I haven't found any place that has an optimal intersection of cowbell on the one hand, and practicality on the other. Maybe it exists, but I haven't found it. However, my natural sense is that there is a inherent, perennial tension between the two.

That's why that particular phrase really got me. I wish dearly for such a Shangri-la.
I always thought the term githug was for when you take a dead old Google Code project you didn't write, and give it a new home on github.
Looks like it might not be a new-year effect. A lot of search terms decline over the holidays.

If you ignore the dip, it looks like it might be nothing at all or just a "backlog" of would-be searchers from Christmas.
Is Backbone.js worth it for interactive web pages that don't require posting to a server?
Cameras, certainly, but wouldn't flashlights be pretty standard?
Digg and Milk founder Kevin Rose goes to work at Google
The NSA is building the country’s biggest spy center
What Isn’t for Sale? (The hidden cost of a 'price-tag' society)
In my years as a Flash developer, I built many custom scrollbars: each more painstaking than the last. Why build something guaranteed to be lower in quality than something else that's been in place for years? Let the professionals innovate.
One of the things that I noticed is how YC's opinion regarding patents has evolved since its founding.

>"If you're accepted, we'll deal with the paperwork for you. We'll incorporate you, get you a corporate bank account, supply simple, generic employment agreements for you to use, and so on. We can give some advice about patents, though you don't have to deal with that in the earliest stages; you have a year after making a discovery to file a US patent application for it." [http://ycombinator.com/old/sfp.html]

However, the best part of the story was the I'm-quitting-my-job smile.
Hurrah! War is Over! Upvote to the Googolth degree! To be brutally honest, it concerns me that dissent on HN is not welcome.
I should have mentioned... I was shopping for used cars. They tend not to place them on the windshields of used cars in actual dealerships in the GTA. Some "show models" perhaps of used cars, but not all.
GrooveShark also overrides the default context (right-click) menu. That doesn't mean that it's a good idea.
Save power by working in a helmet to save 30min of a lightbulb when you host equipment worth millions eating up gazillion kilowatts?
Concerning your 1st point. While it certainly whould be nice to forget CPython and focus on PyPy, I don't think that really is an optional for the forseeable future.

CPython is written in very cross-platform portable C, and supports a lot of different systems, among others IBM Mainframes. It would take a long time before PyPy gets that kind of support.

PyPy is also a very different kind of implementation. I haven't heard much about any projects that have embedded it inside of an bigger application with great success. A common use of CPython.

PyPy still have a long startup time. And it takes a while for the code to by optimized. The last point is something that will not change. Python is used for a lot of small scripts, and even bigger projects such as Mercurial, where PyPy will have a tough chance, if any.
Travel, technology and foreign culture - oh my
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with the founder of an exciting YCombinator-backed company in the context of my company, PalmLing.com, and our own application to join YC this summer. For those unfamiliar, PalmLing uses technology to break down language barriers to promote travel and cultural exploration. The conversation centered around our own passions for technology, travel and exploring foreign cultures. Here I was, talking with someone working hard to build a landscape-changing business and all we could do is share stories about our favorite travel experiences. After the call, I started thinking about what trio of topics could possible be better than traveling the world and exploring foreign cultures with the aid and facilitation of technology. And why aren't more entrepreneurs focusing on this immensely exciting and large market opportunity. I put it to the community to weigh in . . .
My brother is not dumb, he simply doesn't know about cabling and electronics. I would venture to bet that you would look pretty dumb trying to perform his job as a carpenter.

All he wanted to do was have the best picture for his brand new PS3, and the salesmen in Futureshop were eager to sell that to him.
Twitter went down all the time and yet stomped all over its competitors, all of whom had far better uptime. Digg was outsourced for rock bottom prices. Facebook and WordPress are mountains of PHP code.

The reason those educational software products aren't selling has nothing to do with the fact that they were offshored and everything to do with poor market fit or marketing, I guarantee you.
pg: thank you for sharing this.
I'm pretty sure it leverages your interests (pulled from facebook) in some way. FWIW, highlight is one of those ideas that seems great in theory, but I could never see it being a huge success. I just don't have the desire to randomly meet friends of friends that happen to be around me. It seems like it would be an awkward - almost forced - connection. Call me old school, but I much prefer organically developed relationships.
One of the reasons why companies do not offer relocation is that if person can be lured to move into Bay Area then the same person can be lured to move out of Bay Area.
New York Passes DNA Requirement For Convicted Criminals
Sorry to make two posts, but I have another suggestion.

If your goal is to make a difference and you are passionate about Deca, I'd suggest finding a very important problem that only Deca can solve. You probably envisioned some specific problems as you designed Deca. Those are good candidates.

If your goal is to get paid, then choose the problem you solve according to the one that will get you paid.

I'm happy to help brainstorm this too.

On the other hand, if your (unstated) goal is to get widespread adoption and accolades, you've got a difficult path ahead.
SPDY support in Jetty
The reason is because they view it as a consumer electronics device. How much RAM is in your DVD player?
Slower and integrate less well than javascript?

C'mon.
I can definitely see the benefits of using this tool as a brainstorming function, however why try and force ideas to create a startup. The function of a startup is to make a company in order to respond to a need. I believe that need is only going to be fully satisfied when the company/person/startup addressing it has some underlying attachment to the core issue. Grabbing a hold of an idea that is a result of some exterior process, to me just seems wrong and lacks a genuine intention.
There's actually a good reason that you get credit for a long time and that is successes are so rare and valuable that you deserve credit for a long time.

The vast majority of these silicon-valley companies are built with investors' money (typically from Venture Capital firms). The VC business model generates outsized returns on a few successful companies which pay for all the failures. Careers and entire funds can swing to success based on the outcome of one company so if you're a founder you deserve that credit. It also means you've returned tons of extra money to investors that pays for all your subsequent losses.

Kevin Rose specifically is an interesting case because Digg was not a success for his investors, but her personally did well.
If you believe that the human brain is entirely physical, then there's no reason why an algorithm couldn't output equivalent or similar results as an imaginative passionate human.
You are correct, I believe the risk of dropping out to do a startup is large enough as to be considered reckless.

We can argue about Facebook all day, as many have before, but even that in itself lends support to the notion that it was mostly luck. We cannot agree on and point to any specific idea, or combination of ideas, that lead to Facebook's success over others. More, we cannot show that Zuckerberg actually held any such idea as the basis for his actions. Targeting schools? Convenience. Targeting social? A common idea at the time. Using php? Convenience and a common choice at the time. Not all successes are due to some sort of genius. Many are just unexpected and happy results.
Source-level debugging please.
Good point, although if you knew what you were doing with PDF ( which is, after all, itself written in a programming language... )
They are also asking the facilities to turn off their overhead lighting as well --which presumably is not billed.

Moreover, since most would be fluorescent, the amount of energy wasted would be minimal compared to equipment.
Social Review App Cheers Lets You Import Your Oink Data
Apple launches ‘Great apps for the New iPad’ section
Right, and I was asking basically how our consumer protection laws would allow for such tactics?

If a customer asks for a retailer's lowest price on something, they should be forced to answer, not tip-toe around the question asking if they want the best or the worst this-or-that...
My mom won’t care about the Windows 8 Start button
They do --but with the camera & video equipment available today, unless they search people before they enter facilities and confiscate, it's more of a gentleperson's agreement that people will not take surreptitious photos of others' equipment.
"He's starting to believe..."
Amazing insight. This will extend my runway by ~10%.
I didn't catch that but you are absolutely right.

I have a feeling this project is going to turn out just like those ones from the 90's did too.
Wow, a form prompting for personal information after 4,783,500 pixels explaining why it's a terrible idea to type the same type of thing into some other website? I burst out laughing!

Hope this infographic pays off for them.
There are very few books that pull off these mini-stories. I found the Arabian Nights (unabridged Burton version) to pull this off with amazing elegance. The characters usually use the mini-stories for some contrived example but the stories are very short, quick and on message and together the arabian nights is a solid read.
The most recent Econ Talk (http://www.econtalk.org/) is an interview with a former Goldman quant who said that Goldman's culture changed "markedly" for the worse when it went public. Before that, Goldman's partners had a huge incentive to make sure "psychopaths" weren't handling the money, and access to capital was quite limited. Capitalization was a constant problem, and they fought for it. After going public, that problem went away, and so did the fear of the psychopaths.
You'd have to keep the sprinkler system constantly pressurized, though. I've never seen one that can do that - they all take x seconds to really get going.
You are correct. I don't use the word often (apparently) and always thought the correct spelling for "cachet" was with the little e. Thanks for the tip!
Everything You Need to Enjoy the NCAA Tournament in Peace [Toolkit]
The professor was giving a generally good advice for average people. (though of course I do not consider anyone going to Harvard to be average)But the professor is also ignorant of what is going on with the internet (trend) and never saw what Zuckerberg was seeing. But Mark was also lucky because part of the success of Facebook is the continued screwing up of MySpace. I remember Sean Parker saying that Facebook would never have succeeded if MySpace corrected all the little issues they had with users because they already have the network. Network is difficult to break, no matter how good your features are and how much money you have, just look at Google+.
As I understand it (as a regular on the ZeroMQ and Crossroads mailing lists), the reasons are as follows:

1) Trademark issues - the original developers of ZMQ have been prohibited from using the ZeroMQ trademark and, thus, from making official releases.

2) The new ZeroMQ contribution policy[1], in which pull requests are merged without review and then later reverted/enhanced if necessary, is seen as incompatible with the goals of some of the lead developers. These developers prefer a more rigorous review policy.

There are more reasons, but from what I can tell, those are the main ones that haven't fully been covered here.

[1]: http://www.zeromq.org/docs:contributing (see "Philosophy").
Note that the number needed to downvote comments changes over time. About a year-ish ago I was able to downvote comments with ~200 points - today I am unable to at 330 points.
I like that people are learning Git, but why are there so many tutorials for it?

The Git commands that are most useful 95% of the time just didn't seem that hard to learn, IMO. It's not worth wasting memory for the other 5% of the time because I'll probably need to check the man pages anyway.
Excellent use of tax dollars, freedom of speech, and small government.
Happy birthday YC! It's awesome that YC is as scrappy and as startup-minded as the hackers they fund. They stick to their roots. They talk the talk and walk the walk.

now pg, please put some left and right padding on those static pages =]
To be fair, patents were a far less ugly beast back then. They were still stupid, but not the existential threat they pose today.
Yeah, you can't zoom this page on desktop browsers. Although you can in mobile Safari. Chrome and Firefox seem to simply scale the underlying the pixel value in order to achieve page zoom, whereas mobile Safari seems to zoom into the viewport which, paradoxically, leaves part of the viewport unviewable.

However, desktop zooming should trigger any media query switches you've put on the page.
If Rick Santorum becomes president, I think the eradication of porn from the Internet will be a quaint footnote compared to the other draconian things that'll come to pass.
"But the founders in the first batch turned out to be surprisingly good. And great people too. "

I'd love to read a "where are they now" post on the first couple batches of founders, along with some quotes from them.
I've spent two decent-length cross-country round trips with a combination of camping and car-sleeping in my civic coupe, so I can't really not comment.

1. The main thing that bugs me about sleeping in the civic is the blatant advertising of yourself as vulnerable (even in spite of sticking to unpopulated areas and only when it was too late to be worth tenting). I slept in my reclined driver's seat, but I can't see half in the trunk being much better unless you really make some modifications to give yourself privacy.

2. You will be waking up when it gets light and any segment of the population starts to function.

3. In case it could make your sleeping arrangement flatter - it's not too much work to pull out the rear bottom cushion. Although this just might make the trunk threshold more of a bump on your back.

4. The first trip, I planned to do a bit of coding. I did do some, but it was quite hard to set aside the transient mindset and concentrate on something as abstract as coding. If you are indeed able to 'focus completely on your work', it's because you will basically be living at whatever coworking space you choose, and retiring to your car to avoid pissing them off.

5. The day after car-sleeping, I generally prioritized getting to a proper campsite while it was still light out. Even just setting up a tent and cooking a simple meal provides more stability and comfort than sleeping in the car does.

6. If your goal is really to do both, then do both. Consider even starting off your project with some hermit time in the woods instead of SV (get a second car battery (used) to completely run down with a car->laptop PS). But if your priority is to pour yourself into your startup idea, then have a solid backup plan for a more stable home base in case the car thing isn't working out.
You can't do that without the consent of every contributor. At least not legally.
> PariSoma is in San Francisco and will cost $295 for full-time

Wow that's relatively pricy. You can rent a room in SV for < $200 more (before utilities and furnishings)
He'd laugh all the way to being millions of dollars richer. Kickstarter has no provisions for refunds when a funded project fails its goal.
Nah, I don't feel like it. I'd have to download the nginx source, apply the patch, and compile it, and all that seems like a lot of work for not much benefit.
The question that has nagged me more than "Where's _why?" is "Where's nickb?" Did anyone ever find out?

Work your way up this thread

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=152388

from child comment to parent comment and see what you think.

See also

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292858

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249499

and other threads I found just by Googling the two usernames in question. I don't claim to know the "official" correct answer to the question of what happened to nickb, with whom I interacted mostly as co-founder of the former New Mogul site, a website with HN's interface for business news.
You aren't going to get a self-sustaining colony on Mars for the cost of the Apollo program. Just getting a biosphere-level of sustainment would be several orders of magnitude more expensive. If "self-sustaining" is meant to mean an insurance policy, then it requires more than just generating food and water; it will require a whole manufacturing base. I don't think 10+ trillion dollars, about three orders of magnitude more than NASA's budget either now or during Apollo, is unrealistic at all.

For comparison, the space station cost $150 billion 2010 dollars (according to Wikipedia). It is in low-earth orbit and satisfies no conditions of self-sustainability. With a factor of 100 on that, which is impossibly optimistic, you are already at $15 trillion.
hyperlinks:

http://zigfu.com

http://zigfu.com/en/zdk/unity3d/

http://zig.tv/examples
I haven't had a chance to checkout Githug yet, but for me, as a former SVN user, the switch to Git was daunting. I can't really explain why, but wrapping my head around DVCS took an embarassingly long time.

For those that I point to Git now, especially those that are semi-technical, it's really useful to also point them to a nice intro. As with all new things, lowering any barrier to entry is usually a good thing.
They're all inundated with offers from the millions of "idea guys" out there. Idea guys a dime a kilo.
That's the reason I actually moved in NYC. For a French 20 something, it's a great city to live in, it's not too far from Europe and the tech scene is booming.
My next stop will probably be Brazil. I've travelled over 45 countries and Brazil seems to have that unique combination of "human" perspective, a work culture and a growing tech ecosystem. You should give it a try :)
Both FreeBSD ports have been already updated.
Pwnium: great exploits, fast patches
Reminded me a bit of this old project from someone trying to stop non-cats or their cat carrying a dead animal from entering a cat door:

http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/Flo_Control_1/flo_...
Not sure I see your point - one of those thousands of developers out there can partner with or hire one of those thousands of him out there as well. There are lots of people who can program and lots of people who have ideas, and not so many people who can work together to technically execute ideas into profitable technology. Which is kind of the point the people you have been arguing with have been trying to make.
This is not quite correct. Senior bankers (and certainly senior institutional salespeople, of which Greg Smith was one) are typically required by their firms to be licensed by FINRA. Certainly not all investment bankers or traders are required to be licensed (and I don't think they should be), but a significant fraction are.

Also, fwiw, mortgage brokers and lawyers are required to be licensed in almost every state. Licensing--or lack thereof--has little to do with ethical behavior.
> Name a successful product made by bad developers.

Wordpress and nearly every PHP app you can find.
They aren't superfluous.. Wall St uses the information to determine what manufacturers in Apple's supply chain are receiving the most revenue from those millions of units sold. Before Apple started releasing their supplier list, teardowns were the only way to figure out whose products were inside Apple's products.
Markdown as a Service
This reminds me of how I used to read series out of order (back when I read many books that were part of a series, in physical form so the whole series was often unavailable). Much as you learned about the new girlfriend through exposure, I found I tended to be able to put the important things together. Since exposition is one of my favorite parts of a book anyway, this sort of drew out the exposition, as parts of earlier books might be referred to that I'd not heard of before.

(Disclaimer: I also read choose your own adventure books straight through.)

Now, Amber.. Loved the first book and have read it repeatedly, but could never get far into the sequels.
Google Reader provides subscription management and stuff, so it does have server-side features. This app allows you to access those subscriptions.
Lessons Learned From My First Game Release
'Cambridge Seed' sounds like a reality TV show about a sperm bank that only accepts donors from elite universities ;)

Congrats to everyone who has ever applied and the YC team! You have changed the rules of the game for the better...
Ah, the vindication of Neal Stephenson! :)

Also: It's been a long time since I read Godel Escher Bach, so I cannot trust this for sure, but at the time I got the feeling there were hints that the book as such ended before the last page, the remainder was just there as filler.
Here are comparable thoughts in a more approachable, useful, and digestible manner -- http://methodandcraft.com/articles/streamlining-the-handoff.
If you want more background to what led up to our fork of ZeroMQ, read the flamewar on zeromq-dev from February carefully hidden in a "C++ assertion" thread at http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2012-February/0..., or from http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2012-February/0... which relates directly to the trademark question.
Well $someapp_i_just_downloaded pretty much has free reign to do whatever it wants anyway since it's running locally, and probably even had admin rights at some point during the installation process. If it were malicious then it's already too late to worry about it by the time it's showing you the OAuth dialog.
V8 Benchmark Suite extended with physics simulation
It's amazing to see the humble roots of YC and what it has grown into now. As a person who made it through 2/3 of the previous batch I can honestly say there is no other experience like it and solely the intelligence of the people you are placed in the same room as week in and week out is enough for you to be at least as ambitious as the founders of YC were. Quit your job, make the leap, build something great.
Consider all the lawyer jobs that will be created!