skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a walled garden is good if its one company, and bad if its another? Be fair.
The comment that makes me think:

Spec'ing HTTP 2.0 has been such a clusterfuck. According to Mark in an email to the HTTP Working Group, as of January 2012 they were "past the four year mark (on a WG that was originally chartered for a year and a half)".

No wonder he's concerned about failure through "spending five years fighting and gazing at our navels."
I agree, the pseudo-anonymity of the internet allows us to more freely criticize each other, but is that necessarily a bad thing? We can't improve without feedback, and negative feedback is useful too.

So yes, be more mindful that there's a person behind whatever you're responding to, and try to be polite, but at the same time don't hold back your opinions because you're afraid you might hurt someone's feelings.
Comments on the original post indicate that if you do 6/7(1+2) then you get 2 as well and the iPhone is just throwing away whatever digit is in the position of the 7.
Agreed, I constantly look back on the work i have done in the past and think that i had no idea what i was doing. Learning to program is a skill to be honed continuously.
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You're correct. It's only "zero" in the sense that it's so low that nobody cares enough to quantify it. Several of our competitors spend over $100 million per year (each) on TV commercials, billboards, and online display ads. We have a guy that writes blog posts when he has time. Oh, and we have a Twitter account. So, yeah, there is that.
Despite the apparent discomfort/amazement, did the product serve you better?

If so, then just enjoy it. Otherwise you should also start asking what's in the McRib. :-P
My iPhone gives 9. I entered "6/2*(1+2)".
Has this been to the front-page yet? I have noticed this a lot...especially about frameworks and platforms.
It seems that pushing "(" doesn't push the entered value onto the stack, even though it's still visible on the screen. "6 / 2 (2 + 1)" becomes "6 / (2 + 1)".
I'm not sure I understand the value of this project at all.

He says that maintaining a monolithic Makefile doesn't scale, but that seems unlikely considering how far BSD stretches Makefiles for it's ports system. Sure, Make has some rough edges, but I don't see how Javascript is possibly preferable for gluing together build processes.

The fundamental problem here is that "task based build system" is a silly idea. Make isn't a programming language, you don't define function names. Make is a dependency graph with files for nodes and command lines for edges. We already have a system for "tasks": stick things in ./script or add things to PATH!

By all means, make a metapackage for your test, lint, etc scripts, but define your concatonation like this:

out/foo.js: banner src/foo.js
cat $^ > $@

And generalize your minification using a pattern rule, here's ours:

%.min.js: %.js
$(yui) --type js --nomunge < $< > $@

Then add in a gzipping rule:

%.gz: %
gzip --best < $< > $@

You could trivially stick that sort of thing into `grunt.mk`...

And here's how you'd use that:

include grunt.mk

my-app.min.js.gz: my-app.min.js

my-app.min.js: $(find src -name '*.js')

That said, sometimes it is nice to add some "tasks" for discoverability & encouraging their usage:

include grunt.mk

.PHONY: all lint test

all: my-app.min.js.gz lint test

my-app.min.js.gz: my-app.min.js

my-app.min.js: $(find src -name '*.js')

test:
./test/run

lint:
./script/lint src

What if you want to run a subset of tests? Or lint with particular flags? Run a shell command like this one:

$ grep test: -A1 Makefile

Then copy paste and edit the output!

Simpler is better.
> My point has nothing to do with background color and legibility

If you build something that people can't use, you've wasted your time. That search box on the left is useless unless someone a) understands how Heroku works and b) knows what they're looking for in the first place. Reviews? Ratings? I guess they work for Hotscripts.

Heroku add-ons are for people who already understand the architecture of their app, not necessarily some guy looking to add something on for the sake of it, hence the obvious pricing. You have to know the audience.
Agreed, bitcoin wallets can and have been stolen, but it is difficult to imagine a scenaerio involving bitcoin and 10 million separate individuals.

The only thing I can think of is if bitcoin becomes really popular and lots of people use hosted wallets over the web. This will always have a certain amount of risk, after all who thought linode would get hacked? (seemingly from the inside).

The solution will probably be some kind of insurance, much like how gold is secured today. I can envision bitcoin savings wallets(which don't need to be online) being put into some kind of uber secure virtual vault.
I learned to build web applications fairly quickly. Zero to a job doing it in less than a year. It's solving other peoples' problems that's the hard part. You only get better at it with experience across several projects - and that is where you keep learning, every day.
"Psychotic" also works here, but for a different reason. While a psychopath may be able to perceive, but unable to empathize with, a person, someone in the depths of psychotic delusion may be unable to perceive a fellow human being. It is perhaps not nearly as common "in the wild", but it does occur (the killing of Tim McLean by Vince Weiguang Li being the example that comes most easily to mind). In fact, generating a sort of "target psychosis" has been the aim of most modern infantry training for some time, since teaching people to see, recognize and react to targets is an awful lot easier than training them to kill humans, even under severe threat. (Human-shaped targets were introduced to training after it was discovered that most infanteers never actually fired an aimed shot at an opponent in either of the World Wars.) Similarly, you can sniff war on the horizon when the machinery used to dehumanize the enemy is started up.
The Milner point seems backwards: for an existing investor, cash is what they already have, and the presence of an existing investor means that their investment will be pre-diluted. If "runway" is all their startup needs, any investor would be happy to provide it.

The others seem right though, and really they all just come down to "reduced risk". The big problem for investors is that they have a hard time picking winners. YC and its community have a better track record.
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What a great and inspiring story. Damn well written, too. Reminds me of those lost cat stories where the cat somehow jumps out of the car hundreds of miles away and shows up back home against all odds six months later.

I completely understand why you would go back to the thing you were passionate about. It's amazing how ingenuity becomes available when you do that.

By the way, I think you should blog up a storm around your startup. You have a great david-and-goliath story and the ability to tell it. Everyone is going to be cheering for you.

Edit: hmm. After reading http://askolo.com/thomas#4f72682c83a416244b000022, maybe not blog, I don't know. But definitely find a way to keep sharing your story.
Well reasoned :-) I am reminded of the pithy epithet "Haters are gonna hate." sometimes when I read comments on HN and elsewhere.

The pendulum of 'responsibility' in our society has been swinging toward 'group' responsibility and away from 'personal' responsibility for a while now. The number of people who feel disenfranchised or held back or discriminated against, can reach further now with the Internet than at any time in the past. The combination of these two situations has as one of its outcomes and out pouring of emotion (generally hate) against the 'others.'

I realize that when the pendulum is heavily into the 'personal' side of responsibility those people are more likely to commit suicide rather than to spew vitriol. Clearly that is a bad place to be as well.

The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle, where people take personal responsibility for their own challenges and the group takes responsibility for those things which are (or should be) beyond the responsibility of any one person. The canonical example is education, where the group should be responsible for making sure educational opportunities are available and the individuals should make sure they take advantage of all of the opportunities afforded them.

It is a new thing in the world that the meanest and foulest 10% of society have the ability to reach just as many people as the nicest and wisest 10%, I cannot predict the eventual impact of that fundamental change.
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Doesn't matter.

The insurance companies would be entirely within their rights to block the scraper, and they'd probably be happy to sue and drag it out for five years. It wouldn't take that long for Leaky to run out of funds (and the distraction would likely be fatal even if the legal expenses weren't).
I've never understood why so-called "paleo" dieters have to push this point so hard, which as far as I've ever read is pure speculation (in roughly this time milk drinking populations have evolved a lactose tolerance).

I'll easily buy the idea that we eat way too many refined carbohydrates and that has an ill effect on our health. Why harp on the "we're not evolved to eat grains!", if this were definitively proven to be false would paleo dieters jump back to eating bagels? I doubt it. This seems more to be the case of people taking up an extreme position and then cliaming "science!"

Eat more fruits and veggies, and less refined grains? sounds great. "Science" tells us to stop eating all wheat products! Sounds more like fanaticism.
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On a single page, without any plugins, menus, custom data, sidebar/widgets logic etc. Real sites will have 10-100x worse performance, so you might get 100k/day on the same machine.
They don't actually care to get the competitors' prices right. They find a "worst case" example somewhere and go with that, with tiny fine print saying something like "results not typical" or "results may vary based on location".

For example, Geico says "you could save up to $500". I don't even pay $500, but as long as they can show there was a single case where they saved someone $500 they're golden.
That's a really good question...

But Y Combinator isn't really about looking for successful companies. They're looking for rockstar founders, probably destined for success, that when put together will create "scenius" (i.e. An awesome geeky fraternity).
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1 ambiguous notation, 3 different interpretations. The Casios both have reasonable interpretations, but the iPhone should probably give some kind of warning that it is about to ignore entire numbers.
The look book was awesome, it brought all the invitations on the site to life. You could curl up on a couch and flip through beautiful stationery at your own leisure. It made it a pleasure rather than a chore by simple getting it off the computer. Tracy, where were you when I got married? I was impressed that Tracy had to learn pdf scripting to pull it off, she learns just about anything, and fast.
In WolframAlpha 6÷2(1+2) gives 9 but 6÷2x with x=(1+2) gives 1.
It would also allow orphaned works (works where the copyright owner cannot be identified or located) to slip into the public domain.
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so in the case of ONP (I assume this is the business you're referring to), is the challenge for you is finding folks who'll buy ad space in your magazine?

where are you currently getting leads from right now?
I would be extremely surprised if that was true. Even if you count not having to own a car or commute as long-distance in New York. I live in a 1 bedroom apartment that is 2550/month and _everything_ is more expensive here. A bottle of wine that might cost $9 in most places is $14 here. Bars and restaurants are far more expensive than they are elsewhere in the states, and city tax kills me to the tune of around $800/month.
All I could think of while watching it was 'its a parkour robot!'
Is there life after RIM and Blackberry in the enterprise?
Thanks Adam - we really appreciate the support!
Actually, this is an excellent point - get a head start and see how you can get involved with legislators/regulators to pitch yourself as a neutral 3rd party that is essentially checking if insurers are playing by their own rules. This way, you are also becoming a sort of audit tool that legislators never had an easy access to.
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I'll also add a link to the Google Solve For X talk from Mike Cheiky / Cool Planet, as it's relevant here and pretty interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYVlZ9v_0o
Mmmm alas, I didn't learn PDF scripting (eugh, one of the reasons why I dropped my original startup idea) — it was all painfully done by hand in InDesign. That said, we're looking at scripting for this time around!
since when does a concept need to be easy to explain for it to be great? Ever heard of general relativity or quantum physics?
I started programming around nine years ago, and I still have a lot to learn.
Are rounding errors a crime?
Sitting in Union Station after first quarter freshman year with a 10 hour wait for train, read the fortran text for the next quarter cover-to-cover several times. Was ready to go when class started after winter break.

I am still learning programming many years later after countless languages and many challenging projects.

So I will give you a two part answer:

1) 10 hours
2) 46 years.
Mentally, I perform no-written-operator multiplication first, then anything else, so I can see why the calculators (and WolframAlpha, in some cases) are getting the intention wrong:

"6 ÷ 2x" gets parsed as "6 / (2 * x)"

"6 ÷ 2 * x" gets parsed as "(6 / 2) * x"

All that's done in the equation in the article is having a pair of brackets instead of a variable, but the result is the same to my brain.
I am assuming that its not autonomous and the angle/thrust is either pre-programmed for the demo or is human operator controlled.
Yeah, there are definitely some upsides. Especially with reminders and graphs and planning and all the stuff applications are good for.

The downside is, if the neuroscience research is correct, more of a disconnect between actual value and the money system. Where more people will steal or embezzle and risk assessment abilities get even worse than they already are.

Combine that with the surveillance opportunities, which is the more obvious concern, and it just seems like something to be careful of. One reason I'm glad the bitcoin experiment is going on now. An alternative to giving all my financial information to google and cell phone companies (because everyone loves how ethical their business practices are) deserves more people working on the problem.
I agree. I suck at coding Makefiles but I can't imagine using anything else and never bought Rakefile or Cakefile. I really don't want my build process to have dependencies.
This is exactly why the 6th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees the right to face your accuser.

"in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him"

It's harder to accuse someone, or even insult or disparage them, when you have to face them. And that is something that should be hard to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confrontation_Clause
You can't question either Eric Ries's or Steve Blank's chops as entrepreneurs. Read this piece we did at Xconomy, which includes the story of how Steve and Eric met and influenced one another: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/07/06/eric-ries-th...
This link here lists exactly what their sources for AstronomicalData are: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/note/AstronomicalDa...
To me the key sentence is:

>You should also resolve to expose your children to all sorts of opinions and information, in order that they will be better equipped to make decisions and to survive.

A great way of saying that if you don't learn on your own to discern good from bad, you will never learn to do it, and learning requires exposure to all sides.
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I hope it comes soon. It's expected long
At GDC this year there was a lot of talk about using the planned Unity3D-to-Flash feature. At this point, the only advantage Flash has over Unity is that more people have the Flash plugin than the Unity plugin. I think a lot of game developers were planning on switching to Unity once the market penetration question was solved by exporting to Flash. Unity was poised to become the no-brainer choice for game development. A few years down the road, the deployed base of Unity-powered games would become large enough that the Flash part could be phased out, like ActiveX was (i.e. slowly and painfully but inexorably).

By adding this license fee, Adobe puts a serious damper on that.

(edit: people were planning on using Unity for plain old 2D games; the nature of the toolkit is that even exporting those to Flash would run afoul of the licensing requirement)
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Steve and his people tell me that an e-book version coming later this year, probably iBooks first then Kindle (which is harder because of the formatting limitations in ePub).
28 years and counting.

basic, who can remember. turbo basic, qbasic, pascal? all grade school...

flash took 1.5 years from flash 5, as2 to as3.

php, asp, don't think I ever got fluent enough to not have to refrence..

javascript and jquery took me about 2 months from novice to master. 4-6 months for everything html5 and css3 related.

still working on the objective c, c++, etc.
You have to test it without the explicit "*" and see if it performs the order of operations correctly.
I'm sure Sequoia has a laundry list of valuable connections for any YC start up.

I just wonder whether contributing to an atmosphere of "frenzied investors" like the original article alludes to is helping or ultimately could wind up hurting in the long term.
Thanks, that's a really nice thing to say
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You're forgetting your history. Apple bought NeXT in early 97, the iMac came out in early 98, OS 9 came out in late 99 and OS X didn't ship in beta until 2000.

Obviously Apple was working on Pink/Copland all through the 90's, then Rhapsody/OS X since early 97. They didn't ship OS X for _3 whole years_, all the while losing market and mindshare to Wintel.

RIM stating that they aren't abandoning the current form of BB OS is to me equivalent to Apple shipping bug fixes for OS 8 (i.e. OS 9) and Carbon support in OS X (blue box), except in RIM's case they are declaring software/service support for BB OS because they understand that smartphone buyers are on a 3 year cycle imposed by the carriers.

I'm not trying to defend RIM's failure to execute, but it's a difficult, multi-year process to ship a new platform without nuking the company. In my mind their biggest failure is that they should have bought QNX in 2007, not 2010.
Agreed: Personal Anecdote

I made a $15,000 software purchase a few years ago (A bunch of copies of CS5 Master) and the same day I called for support because it was not running well on our brand new machines. I was told "Sorry sir you have to pay $79 to talk to a technician because you use a server (Level two Escalation)" Me: I just purchased $15,000 of software and I have to pay to talk to someone who may or may not be able to solve my issue? Them: "That's correct" Me: "Please let me speak to a manager" Them: "I can't do that sir"

Sorry Adobe, but at a minimum buy me dinner before you... I'm sure you can finish the rest.
I'm going to second the reply to your comment. I thought what you think too, but it turns out the energy of a city matters. I moved from the Bay Area to San Diego. I LOVE San Diego. Still have many friends there. Unfortunately the tech community there is really small. So I moved my entire company to Austin. We are much happier here. Plus, our revenues have doubled in the three months we've been here--just from the connections we've made.

Austin feels like a "mini-Bay Area" to me. I didn't want to start my next company in the bubble, especially since we're working with a lot of "oldschool" businesses. Austin is booming, but things are still relatively inexpensive here, and there are plenty of customers. Plus, we found an amazing Python developer here--I'm not sure that would have been as possible in the Bay Area.

I'm still willing to travel to the Bay Area; I just don't want to live there again.
I'm happy to say my mental math and my phone's (Nexus S) math get 9.
Thanks for the suggestion ohashi. I will give a 2nd shot at the visa interview. If they reject me again, I will probably approach the American Chamber of Commerce then!
How likely is it that they will be able to collect the money, legally? After all, using programs like haXe, people can bypass all adobe software used in the creation of the software. Can Adobe monetize the use of said software by taxing the original creators? It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, unless they implement some DRM wrapped around the "premium" apis.
So I read the entire debate and while I generally agree Schneier on this topic one of Mr Hawley's arguments gave me a few second thoughts about the efficacy of reactive security.

Bruce's argument is like this: There are two kinds attackers, amateurs and pros. Amateurs are easily caught because they don't have the time or knowledge to properly plan an attack and the pros have the resources to work around any defenses the TSA has set up because the TSA cannot be proactive enough in its measures. Bruce argues that post-9/11 security measures are both superfluous and insufficient at the same time.

However, what if the amateurs and pros could work together? What if the pros developed attacks and published the directions? Amateurs could use those directions to their hearts content. In that sense, reactive security may not prevent al Qaeda from attempting new clever attacks, but it will prevent copycat attacks an the part of sympathizers (or folks with their own agendas) who have no overt connections to major terrorist networks. Organized criminal hacker organizations have been known to pull this very same stunt by releasing easy to use programs which make it possible for dilettantes to pull off attacks that they would otherwise be unable to do.

In fact, it's a little bit like computer security, where, every time a vulnerability is discovered, either by a security researcher, or through a successful zero-day exploit, a patch is developed to plug the hole and thousands of sysadmins apply the patch as soon as possible. In this way, we can't prove that say, Apache, has no vulnerabilities, but we can be sure that it has no known vulnerabilities and all the easy ones to find have been dealt with long ago.

So it seems to me, that by routinely 'plugging holes' so to speak by implementing reactive measures, the TSA is increasing the marginal cost of each attack for al Qaeda significantly, and this hypothetically, does increase security.

Of course, that doesn't detract from any of the other arguments against the TSA in it current incarnation, especially the obvious haphazardness of its measures, the occasional abusiveness of screeners, and its political essence. It does though, seem to make one of Bruce's arguments seem less strong.