skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read that in it at all - I thought it was gentle in explaining some of the absurd things that happen in javascript. In fact the "quick, in-web browser development" statement looks to me like damning with faint praise.
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Oh, it was such a tough game to play!
Agreed. I really appreciated his candidness about the whole process. For example, I've often wondered how the whole give away a t-shirt thing makes any sense considering the work that has to go into shipping them and the relatively higher cost to produce the prize for the backers.

And I've seen the waterfalling prizes before, where you could end up with several things for what seems to negate your original backing offer. Ze Frank's word of warning here is incredibly valuable.
Or, just skip the 20 cent and let 10/50 be the only subdivisions. (Currently, we get by with 1/5 and no 2.)

Frankly, if we're talking radical reform I'd rather keep the quarter and ditch the dime; even 10c seems too small to fiddle with most of the time, so 25c is the smallest denomination that seems worth bothering with. (Also, it's ubiquitous in mechanical coin-op devices like laundry machines, pool tables, etc.)
I'm only about a month in with Ruby\Rails, but I like it a lot and really like the community I am finding. Nice.
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did you watch the samples? They seemed pretty low key
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Does anyone has some good suggestions for different difficulty levels of locks to train with?

I am quite fast with basic locks but as soon as they get a bit more sophisticated (i.e. mushroom heads) I can play around for hours and don't get them open.
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"I'd wager a large percentage (if not a majority) of age 50+ men in the US have them done"

In my sample group, it's not as large as you think. I'm a 43 year-old post-vasectomy father and out of a group of ten close male friends/relatives I've encountered 2 close calls and 2 oops babies. And these are intelligent responsible men. The majority of the excuses range from "I just never got around to it" to "I don't want to get cut". Seriously?
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He must have already filed at least as a sole proprietorship. The first benefits to becoming an LLC or an S-corp is the liability limitation: it lets you distinguish between your assets and the business's assets in a legal sense, so you don't (for example) lose your house because your company gets sued. The next benefit is business-related tax deductions. This goes hand-in-hand with business-related tax complications, so if he isn't planning on taking deductions and can't see a legal need for separating his business assets, it might be amounting to a more complex (and therefore expensive) tax situation for no tangible benefit. Of course, other things he may decide to do (such as hiring employees or issuing stock) could force him to incorporate.

I'd be surprised if it didn't make more sense to become at least an LLC, but tax law is complex. If I were him I'd do whatever my accountant told me to do.
When I was in grad school there was a pizza-by-the-slice place where all prices were tax-included and an exact multiple of 25c. The only coins in their register were quarters. If you gave them any other coin, they counted it out and dumped it in a jar next to the register. A manager claimed that it was way more efficient and easy to count that way (and throughput mattered a lot during busy times). It also meant that a large percentage of the time the customers had exact change counted out before they even got to the register, which meant they didn't even need to make change and throughput increased further.
We need to follow NZ's lead and ditch the five cent coin next. Even 10c pieces are a waste of time. Can't think of many cash transactions in my daily life where it would bother me to round to the nearest 20c. Certainly not dinner or a round of drinks, lunch, a full bag of groceries, etc.
This is an interesting example of how disruptive technology is. E-commerce is just too powerful a force and the low costs and ease of use will soon demolish our conceptions of what a retail store should be. With rising gas prices, no one wants to drive to a store, spend time searching for products, and be subject to annoying taxes and price hikes that B&M need to have to profit. It's an interesting but scary proposition because as more stores close down and jobs are displaced to programmers/web developers/etc, you get a pool of uneducated workers who saturate the employment pool with good work experience. This leads to lower and lower wages due to obvious excess supply and, well, you know how that goes. This is truly a scary transition that will become more commonplace in the coming years. There will be an uptick in jobs for people like us, but most people, even college students now, have no idea how to do much more than load memes in a "internet explorer thingy firefox". An even scarier question is when will E-commerce no longer need an abundance of highly paid programmers to build their infrastructure? I fear Amazon has nailed the proper way to shop online and their template is just that, a template. Wordpress killed the idea of a unique blog. Everyone can have a wonderful looking site and have no clue how anything works. When everyone can be extraordinary and stand out, no one stands out.
The primary inspiration for the article came from Patrolling with Sean Kennedy on RantTV. I haven't seen the Doomsday show, though I might check it out now that you mention it. Thanks!
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It's a great thought. Amazing a cardboard toilet can hold 275 lbs. of human, though. Remarkable.
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Working Nanomorph(aka T-1000) conceptually possible with todays technology.
A little insight for those unfamiliar with the concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanomorph

Due to the increase in the spectrum of functionality using nanotechnologies. A functioning robotic Nano-morph is in the conceptual range of technological possibility.

With the ability to 3D-Nano-Print Nanobots, and the versatility of super-magnetic Nano-Ferrorfluids it becomes possible to believe that a functioning prototype could be produced within a relatively short period of time.

Some inspiring references to the concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4IavKUzK2c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluid

http://www.nanoarchive.org/9845/

It's a simple concept when you think about it.

As 3D-nano transistors get ever smaller(1-10nm) & processing capabilities grow ever larger, this concept may soon be reality before we even dared to imagine...

I'll certainly be working on it...

Won't you?

;-)
Same here :-).
It's so it doesn't cross the subconscious barrier of "under 20 dollars". $99.99 doesn't cross the subconscious barrier of $100 for example. It's probably been A/B tested to death, since it's so widespread among retailers.
You just explained it perfectly for me -- Best Buy is CompUSA, just on a curve 5-8 years behind it.
Pretty soon, the only end-customer things in cities will be coffee, restaurants, bars, yoga, and gyms. And Apple stores, apparently.

It seems nostalgically sad, but there's also going to be lots of space for doing "something" locally. I don't know what though.
YC app closes at 8pm PST, my application went in at 8:01. Wondering how strict PG is
The point is to look at genomic variations across the entirety of the human genome, not so much to match genomic variation to phenotype. What you're saying makes sense, but I think that is more a next step.
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"business person" is very broad. Same as "programmer". In each group there are wide differences in abilities. Certainly if you're good at anything (boating, photography, skiing, programming) you've had people who don't know anything about those things think you are the "expert".

The right business person can be a tremendous benefit. The wrong one can kill your business. Obviously it all depends.
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I've been saying this is what magazine publishers should be doing for digital issues for years. At least mainstream popular mags.

For their print editions they mail surveys to a subset of readers, use those results to show advertisers what their subscriber base is made of. The advertisers create a one-size-fits-all print ad for all those people.

And then for digital... they continuing doing the same thing and wonder why no one wants to pay for their ads!

Deliver a digital issue for free each month with a 3 to 5 question survey before download. BUILD ON the results each month, so you get a personalized ad profile for that reader. And then DELIVER appropriate targeted ads in the issue to that reader.

I realize I'm not revealing anything new or ground-breaking, but I've worked in the publishing industry and you wouldn't believe how many high-level people don't understand this at all.

Not only are the digital magazine products right now terrible themselves, the ad model is completely broken, and I've seen almost no progress on either front. Time is running out for these guys.
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100% agreed. being an asshole is one problem, thinking about what's shared, and like you suggest, taking a moment to make sure if our message will be perceived as we intend is another.

i enjoyed this article a while back, it touches on the stuff we'd do better even if we are polite and respectful on the surface.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes
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To the biz guys here who might think that we're unicorns, I'd like to point out that there are definitely people out there who are very technical and would love to co-found with someone more business-oriented.

We generally have simple conditions for that to work:
- you have to respect our work, because for us it's an art form and a craft, although we do realize that creating business value comes first. We spend decades refining this craft and want to take pride in every line of code (even though it might not always be possible).
- We are concerned that you will treat us like codemonkeys and it will be a PBH-like relationship, where you'll be asking us for status every day, while doing little to no work yourself. You won't be able to code and optimize a large scale distributed system no matter how hard you try. I can most likely figure out whatever it is that you do with a bit of time and elbow grease. However, I'd still much rather work on the product, which is where you come in.
- We're also concerned that you will not understand anything about how software works, and will still insist on having a large say in the day-to-day engineering. You'll need to pick one, either you learn fast about how things work and contribute bit by bit, or you let us run the show where you're not the domain expert.
Let's just imagine the one-liner of the big companies today:
- Google: Yahoo with PageRank
- Facebook: Friendster for colleges
- Dropbox: Files sharing made easy
- Yelp: User reviews for restaurants

All ideas seem small and narrow at the start. It is true that you should recognize the possible direction the startup could go, but as PG said before, it is important to first make something that a group of users really really love. From there, you start growing into something bigger. The main point is that you may not know what it will grow and evolve to when you first start the company.
And Apple stores, apparently.

And maybe stores for other brands, provided they will come up with a way to offer a similar experience as that of an Apple store.
A tangent, but I like the fact that more and more people are seeing BV's video and getting inspired by it. It's made a big impact for me, and I'm seing a steady stream of folks referencing it almost a month after it was given.

What is just as interesting is that I've also heard incredibly negative reactions to his talk, which is also telling.
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"Animals? We're a freaking zoo.

Andy: When Paul described the type of person whom he
believes is an animal at his "How to Start a Startup"
talk, Andy was the first person of whom I (Steve) thought.

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This is a little too post-apocalyptic. I think the biggest thing you miss in your argument is that a lot of human beings don't really want to do the same thing as all the other humans. There will never be a point where Amazon is the only option for E-commerce. Wordpress will never be the only blog software option. There are millions of people who won't go to Walmart simply for the fact that it's Walmart.

Honestly, do you think there will be point when we say, "Welp, we've written all the software. Now what?".
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I remember thinking during class at business school (1992-1996) that the internet was going to cause a major shift in retail. To survive in the internet age, retail would need to morph into basically a manufacturer showroom, with very knowledgeable staff and where most goods were ordered in-store or online and just drop-shipped.

Why? Because the retail industry had devolved into essentially a real estate business; manufacturers bought shelf space from retailers. Manufacturers had essentially no control over the person-to-person sales/education experience for their own goods. Manufacturers hated it, especially new entrants, since it was so hard to introduce a new and actually better product.

It's taken about 20 years, but this is finally starting to happen at scale. Companies like Sony and Dell tried it, but they didn't really invest in the right floor salespeople or retail experience to make it anything other than a Sony store vs a Best Buy. Apple is really the first company to nail it, and it's paying off big time. It is really cool to see, as I think it's such a move in the right direction for both manufacturers and customers.
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NYC has B&H, so I don't understand why the issue of where to buy AV equipment is even an open question :)
He's very fortunate that the code wasn't lost in the sands of time.
Apparently I am excessively optimistic.

If a dude acts as a father to the child and then wants to walk away with no responsibility, he's an asshole regardless of DNA and I have no sympathy. Fatherhood doesn't just stop, even if it turns out to be some other guy's sperm. The kid doesn't care about genetics. All the kid knows is that his dad didn't care enough to stay in his life and doesn't want to take care of him.

I do think it is unfair, in a "life isn't fair" way not a "they shouldn't have to pay" way, when the child was the accidental product and the father is on the hook. It is still the best thing for the kid to be supported, but I think it is awesome that there is technology that can keep the situation from ever coming up in the first place.
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To hear that there's another one down there.
Also depends on the particular idea and what you are trying to do. It is entirely possible to start a business, hire someone to do the "programming" and make yourself a nice living. Not every idea needs to knock it out of the park and result in multi millions. And as everyone knows most will not.
How has Word Lens taken over the world? It is an awesome technology, but there are many awesome technologies, and not many of them become amazing businesses. (However, that said, there are awesome technologies like the Word Lens in this class of YC).

When Facebook started off people just said it was MySpace for college students. Those with imagination that joined early now reap the benefits of vision.
We submitted! Stoked.
I've had to grow a thick skin and focus on being the person I want to be, without getting caught up in outcomes. And learn empathy.
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I think there are several problems with Best Buy.

* only seems to stock the cheap crap with high markup. You quickly learn to avoid this (looking at you, monster cable.)
* Staff is not knowledgeable. There is not a lot of imperative to buy at Best Buy, since you get the same level of help as you do at an online retailer - at best, none. At worst, misinformation. You generally figure it out based on reviews and research either way.
* The corporation aggressively pushes things that will cause ill will. Lying about HDMI cables, high warranty costs, upselling way beyond the customer's need, etc.
* Its usually more expensive than an online competitor.

I still think that there is a place for a brick and mortar retailer of electronics. In fact, done well, I think it could thrive. I'd pay a couple of extra bucks to talk to someone who knows what they are talking about, and to be able to get something I want now. But Best Buy is predatory. Somehow treating your customer shitty while charging more isn't sought after. Odd.
"while doing little to no work yourself. "

Why that assumption?

Added:

"I can most likely figure out whatever it is that you do with a bit of time and elbow grease."

Have you? Or are you just assuming that as well?
Thank you, I didn't take the time to check my googles before omitting a link. :)
Would submitting at 8:01 mark the application as late?
I don't think that's a fair characterization. No one forced the hands of those backers. I hadn't heard of the project until you linked to it, but having read through the updates it's evident that Schuyler was totally forthcoming about his lack of experience in this area. Any backer slightly less skeptical than yourself who said "I'll give this guy a shot" was completely entitled to withdraw their pledge if they felt he was getting in over his head as the total amount pledged ballooned to over 15x his specified threshold. He's posted nearly 70 updates since launching the project, and it would appear that despite the delays it is coming to fruition. It's not as if he fleeced his backers for $90k and skipped town.
I cheat the same way by selecting "_OO_". Guessers get frustrated because, intuitively, it doesn't look like there are 30+ english words matching this pattern: root, fool, loom, noon, etc :-)
I don't understand why you seem to be attempting to speak for all moderators. I don't know or care what your attitude is about moderation, I'm speaking of my own personal experience with SO moderators.
Wow, what do the negative reactions say?
You're really doing Professor Hawks a disservice by imagining him as some kind of foul right-wing agitator. He's actually bending over backward to be fair.

Here's how a slightly more partisan biologist (Peter Frost) responds to the same material:

http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2011/07/arroseur-arrose.html

Here's the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html
For someone who wasn't there, can you elaborate?
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"and that the would-be entrepreneurs need a technical cofounder"

Part of the problem with this idea (as someone else commented "goes around like a windmill") is that a non-technical person is even in a position to judge the skills of a technical person (or vice versa).

At least if you hire a programmer you can fire a programmer. If you take on the wrong co-founder (who doesn't have the ability or skills you thought they had) then what do you do?
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I don't know if the economics of this make sense but it's always seemed to me that the logical end goal of this is that brick and mortar stores should refocus as marketing arms of manufacturers. That is, they should price goods basically at cost such that they're economically indifferent to whether a sale is made or not but charge manufacturers a significant sum for shelf space and promotion.

Lots of goods genuinely do require an in person experience to evaluate whether to buy but can be had cheaper online. What ends up happening is that people go to the stores to handle the goods & chat with the salespeople, then later buy online. In effect, B&M stores have been giving a huge, inadvertent subsidy to online stores the entire time and I can't help but imagine that's what's really crippled their businesses.

I think perfumes will be one of the early indicators of how these new business models will play out. The entirety of the experience of a perfume is how it smells and that's something impossible to convey online. At the same time, all perfumes of the same brand are guaranteed to be chemically identical and shipping costs are a minor part of total costs so it's perfect as an online good.
This looks really, really nice. Gorgeous UI.

But I kinda consider the ability to choose my own colors to be a critical feature in my drawing programs! BALEETED
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First off, realize that I don't actually care about the FAQ or site rules at all. I care about getting value out of a site. That's true of everyone.

Second, I asked a question, and I believe it was a good one. However, it was closed for being "too conversational," whatever that means. Instead of merely answering my question, the mods instead chose to make condescending comments, which eventually lead to an answer in the comments, so why not just answer the question in the first place?

SO mods think their job is to eliminate 'bad' questions. But that's not their job. Their job is to foster a community and a valuable site. Look at all the 'bad' questions which have made it onto HN and Reddit that have been closed by an overzealous mod, then re-opened due to mass appeal. Overzealous SO mods are a known problem, so much so that they've alluded to it repeatedly on the SO podcast.
> but your link is more of a hit piece than anything

NewsMax. I'd sooner watch Fox News or read the gaggle of NYT's neocon pundits.
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