skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only in the Valley, where merit matters so much more than your education or background, would this kind of success story happen.
Countandra - open-source clone of Twitter's Rainbird
It's yellow press for techies. :-)
It was all planned out and I myself had a clear path outlined but if your partner is supposed to do the marketing and PR and simply refuses to start with it, what are you going to do?
No nonsense asciicasting for serious hackers: http://ascii.io/
Node-minecraft: A node wrapper for communicating with a Minecraft server
By "serious CAD", what do you mean?
whatever they speak in Belgium

Dutch and French. :-)
I haven't decided yet (still have about 7 months to do so). I guess it really depends on which direction life takes me, but I really can't commit to either option at this point.
I'd consider offering a sample of the videos, similar to what Peepcode does, so people can get a sense for the quality of the instruction.
That concern is probably warranted, someone can get banned for a unnatural backlink profile. To be reconsidered they have to go through all their bad backlinks and either have them removed or tell google why they can't have them removed. A few blog networks and someone could potentially knock out a competitor for some time.
Or the silver markets [1]. Difference is the SEC doesn't protect Bitcoin exchanges [2]. Thus, while both roll back time in terms of the asset as a currency, only one rolls back the clock in terms of regulation. A loose analogy would be a cat-and-mouse game with primordial mice.

[1] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/a-conspiracy...

[2] http://www.lextechnologiae.com/2011/06/26/why-bitcoin-isnt-a...
That's an interesting pricing method for the beta period. I'd love to read a post on how that went after the beta sign-up period ends.
Слабовато.
This story is about what you do after you have a product. It presupposes the product then identifies ways to market to a very specific audience. In that respect, the article seems spot-on.
It's not that they're good at burning fat, it's that they require more energy to operate. They will get that energy from anywhere they can, be it from diet, stored energy in the form of fat cells, or protein in the form of muscles.

Don't anthropomorphize the constituant parts of the anthropos.

Also, if your body wants more energy, it's for a reason, and that reason is that the processes of maintaining life require it. And yes, it will get it, but not by making you less active - that's the tail wagging the dog. You're less active in that case because your body can't support the activity rate without burning more calories.
why would verizon block it?
Why I Started a Company
Mine was Ghostfox. I had enjoyed using ghostzilla and found it pretty nifty for browsing on my school computers, so when they folded and the browser started getting increasingly outdated, I hacked together an extension for Firefox using VB6 (gasp!) that mimiced the hiding and being shown as part of another app bit.

I believe that the ideal first project would be something you require for yourself, and probably something that you know might be a tad challenging too.
China Sees U.S. as Competitor and Declining Power, Insider Says
For those who are thinking about getting recommendations from YC alum should really read this: http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Should-you-try-to-get-endo...
Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3785819 . I posted a lot of comments to it.
Are you f'ing kidding me. He writes an entire article about how there is no professional support for Linux without mentioning Redhat or Canonical that both provide professional support.

He may have a good point in the middle in that there are still some driver issues. But those are not really issues if you treat Linux the same way you treat the competition. If you buy a computer with Linux loaded on it you will not have any issues.

But his main point, that there is no professional support is utterly and obviously wrong.
We launched early, asked for money right away [...]

You have no idea how I like reading this. I'm sick of all those new websites that offer their service for free, hoping to figure out how to monetize later.
Microsoft has made an exception to the Metro sandboxing rules for hybrid Metro/desktop browsers (including Internet Explorer):

http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/129/

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Windows_8_Integration#Internet_Expl...

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/win...
I'm a little skeptical about this.

Recommendations from YC alums that you barely know should be pretty worthless. I've been asked repeatedly by people I've met for < 30 mins to recommend them, and I've always had to politely decline. The recommendation mechanism is meant for people with whom YC founders have actually worked or studied.

My advice would be:

- explain in simple language what your product actually does. Please avoid buzzwords.

- explain why your team is awesome & what you've accomplished (together & individually)

- build stuff, release it early & talk to your users. Then explain in your application what you learned
Ask HN: who thinks Ashton would be great as jobs? What a f'ing disgrace?
Seriously you guys in the hacker community, do you agree with movie execs sabotaging a tech legends legacy?
Well someone should let codeacademy know that HTML/CSS aren't programming languages!
They are building a "Metro style enabled desktop browser" (see http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/02/building...) which has a lot more power than Metro apps.
amazing price - looking fwd to diving in once i'm done with my udacity course this week.

and thanks for implementing my feedback!
I haven't looked into anything yet. It's one of those projects that I'll embark on when I'm relatively free.

Personally, I would need the ability to add email aliases. I use plus addressing rarely.
If one were finalizing ones political views in the 1980's and settling to write ones book, one would be doing so against a background in which the Chinese, the planet's cleverest race, had suffered a truly wretched century, bringing them to misery and ruin. Do brains make a nation rich? No, brains are what makes a nation take a Great Leap Forward.

The plausibility of a link between prosperity and IQ is also going to depend on one's basic assumptions about how nations work. Suppose that national prosperity is basically a battle between the good guys building and the bad guys looting. What happens when both the good guys and the bad guys are smarter? Smarter bad guys makes things worse and the bad guys generally out number the good guys, so it is no surprise that the planet's smartest race lose 30million members to a man made famine.

There are rival basic assumptions, around which one could build ones political theorizing. I like "Man versus Nature". So I'm temperamentally inclined to smarter is better. But I can see how some-one who sees the world as "Man versus Man" would dismiss "IQ leads to prosperity" as not worth considering, because there is no underlying mechanism to make it work.
So I get to create awesome pages and host them on a website that can't keep data secure? Sign me up!
Great idea. We'll definitely follow up with something if we get good results.
Would be really great if these pages were automatically generated from a project's README. It would also encourage devs to write better README's.
Or this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667657
Autism Prevalence: More Affected or More Detected?
Just a random thought: as a German I have the impression that people here would be much too paranoid to do something like that over the internet, even with SSL.
Signed Up.
Yes, and it only takes 8 seconds to make a complete baby (by this logic).
Something else worth noting: from how I understand it, 0MQ isn't safe to use over the internet. Safe in your infrastructure, inside your firewalls and such, but not over the internet. So, in terms of making, e.g. public-facing API, you don't really have a good choice except HTTP.

EDIT: This is incorrect, read below.
Not just here to say I've had a similar experience: how are the kids of today going to be amazed when top-notch graphics are in all devices?
Well, I feel you on the not-liking-abusive-games thing. But I don't think that's a mark against micropayments per se. I mean, that would be like saying that most criminals deal in cash, so cash is evil (which, by the way, is an argument I've actually heard before.)

Don't throw the baby (micropayments) out with the bathwater (abusive games).
Don't borrow trouble. He's a fairly skilled actor, and you might be surprised to like the result.
There's actually a couple of people who have sold over $1 million of templates on Themeforest.
I hereby resign
> I just wish people could forget the idea that Math is fun. It is not. It's interesting, but it's not fun and can be totally counter intuitive, thus there is no "fun" way to demonstrate it.

I couldn't disagree more. As an example, linear algebra is something that has been bothering me for years, long after my college math courses. One of its central topics is eigenvectors and eigenvalues. Every textbook I can remember would demonstrate these with pictures of a sheared rectangle (or a sheared box in 3d). That's fine, but it isn't fun and its not motivating, so no surprise that the concept never clicked.

Then very recently, while browsing wikipedia I came across an excellent demonstration of the concept: "eigenfaces" used in facial recognition software. Its fun, useful, and it clicked.

> how do you demonstrate that the ensemble of invertible matrix is dense in the set of R(n,n) matrix in a visual manner?

You could draw a picture of a circle, emphasizing the line of the circle as the boundary of the set. The invertible matrices are the interior of the circle, and they complement the singular (non-invertible) matrices which are represented by the boundary of the circle.

But more importantly, the teacher should first explain why this might be useful to know in the most concrete way possible, whether its theory behind an applied technique in engineering or a lemma used for an important abstract theorem (no handwaving - tell what's important or significant about the abstract theorem).

It is the teacher's job to motivate the students, good ones do so and bad ones don't. Lazy teachers who don't think its their job to motivate students will get exactly what they complain about: unmotivated students.

Students (American or otherwise) who are willing to just put their heads down and drill rote symbol manipulation are doing themselves a disservice - it generally does not lead to much insight or understanding of what they are doing (though it may in the exceptional cases of very smart students), especially as the math gets more advanced. Moreover, being adept at calculating is not useful in the age of computers. You only need to do a calculation once (as an algorithm in a computer program).

More important is to gain insight and understanding into the nature and limitations of the subject matter. Then the student is more likely to recognize the cases where it can be applied after they're done with the plug-and-chug problem sets at the end of the chapter (which plague even advanced math textbooks in the form of boilerplate theorem proofs). Of course, simply showing how to plug-and-chug is easier for teachers so they praise obedient students who are easily motivates and ask easy questions.
I have to admit... I did have a "First world problem" meme image in my head as I posted this and thought it might not be an appropriate complaint to raise on HN.
[...] those tasks were never common/important/etc enough to justify even an hour writing up a tool to automate them.

I can't agree more. It took me a while to get there but in the end it's exactly what everybody should do.

As of right now I'm manually creating the accounts of new customers (has something to do with creating new database tables which is done half-automatically). Right now there is only a trickle of new customers (due to the lack of marketing) and it's not worth it (yet) to program a fully automated registration process which would require a registration form, payment processing and above mentioned account creation.
Oh, one of those lunatics again.
Says that I need a Mac to "use the How To Program Installer" (which I don't have), is that a big part of the deal? Do I need a Mac for anything else related to this 'course'?
I'd be curious to hear the feedback you guys are getting about using Stripe.

I had the same concern as the grand-parent when I first arrived on the page, then checked your HN handles to check your backgrounds.

I wonder if is a recurring theme when devs use Stripe, and if so, would a simple "secure payments by stripe" icon or logo suffice to communicate that aspect of security.
Yes. And 6 years (2006 the migration started) is far from "nearly a decade" if I can trust my math. The Munich migration has been attacked, downplayed, doomed for as long as it is running. The article here gives some hard data based on a reply to a request from the opposing political party in Munich that hoped to get some ammo to attack the migration. Instead they got well researched data that shows the opposite - so far they are absolutely in budget, saved 30-60% of costs (as planned), reduced support costs (as hoped) and created a side project called WollMux that tremendously helps in migrating the VB cruft and macro ridden templates that accumulated over the past 10-15 years into a reusable library of centralized functions.

They "deduplicated" a lot of redundant forms (one little example: The act of asking for PTO was implemented in 45(!) different forms depending where you work in Munich - now it is one single unified service for all) and by centralising stuff they can now do useful statistics that simply didn't exist before.

The focus on Open Standards starts saving a lot of time and money in the archives already.

(Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat, have been involved privately in the migration a bit since 2005)
All the US carriers besides Sprint are backing the ISIS payment system. They've invested tens of millions of dollars into ISIS. They aren't going to let Google walk in and eat their lunch when they have the power (granted by Google ironically enough) to simply shut them out of the market. You can still side-load Google Wallet but it's DOA without wide support so it doesn't really matter.
Frustratingly, Mashable doesn't directly link to Codecademy. It instead points the hyperlinked name to another page on its site, and obscures the relevant URL behind what you might naturally consider to be another Mashable page.

They should try showing less contempt for their readers.
I am curious what PG has to say about this.

You're in luck. From the link tomblomfield supplied:

"Actually it would be better to expend that effort on your company or the application. Don't spend a lot of time spamming YC alumni trying to collect recommendations. They don't carry any weight with us unless they are very strong. We can tell the difference between a recommendation that's being made for our sake (because the alum thinks it would damaging for us to overlook the application), and one that's being made for the sake of the applicant (e.g. because the alum is benevolent and they begged him to recommend them)."
Show HN: Hacker News for iPhone
http://fastmail.fm and http://pobox.com/ are the services people keep recommending (for IMAP, SMTP, etc.).

Check out this blog post about fastmail.fm:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2012/03/from-gmail-to-fast...

I'm not sure how well either of the services does address books and most importantly sync'ing it to multiple devices. It could be as simple as LDAP – but then again, that's not trivial but probably still doable. :)

Personally, I also like google docs a lot. Something like Zoho Office wasn't an alternative for myself primarily because I didn't like the UI at all.
Terrafugia: The flying car flies again
This is terrible. It needs step controls for the transport. For example, I didn't see the exact command used to start the 'Nyancat' demo, and the Cap demo is pretty fast-scrolling. If I can't rewind to catch stuff I miss, then it severely compromises the value as a teaching tool. As a matter of fact, lack of proper transport controls is a huge problem for internet video in general. Solve that and you will be covered with gold.
Right now we only have an installer for the mac. The course should be similar on a Windows machine but some things are a little different (i.e. opening up the terminal). We're hoping to support Windows OS in the near-future, but for right now we only have Mac OS support. If you purchased the program, e-mail us at support AT elmcitylabs DOT com and we can either give you a full refund or help you through the process.
That doesn't help. If I listen to the 10 o'clock news in the Netherlands, do I get a choice of languages? Newspapers in two languages? Parliamentary questions and interviews in 2 languages? Seriously?
Things I Missed So You Won’t Have To – WP7 SDK
I did a zombie port of this to JavaScript so I could take a peek at what's going on without having to remember my C++. Take a look:

http://jsfiddle.net/zENKM/
Ask HN: Can I do Y Combinator On Tourist Visa
Hey Guys,

I'm planning on coming to the USA in particular Silicon Valley for summer (at least) so ~3 months.

I have applied to Y Combinator but regardless of investment, I have decided to pursue this idea and will be hacking away at it.

I'm from England and I'm wondering can I do Y-Combinator on the tourist visa for 3 months or is that not allowed? If not, what visa should I apply for...

Also if I can do it on a tourist visa... what visa should I apply for afterwards (I can't sponsor each other like some people have done as I'd still have the majority)

THANK YOU GUYS.
"The Herman Miller Performance System", also known as the "Toyota Production System": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System
Uh, how about these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_algorithm_appli...
Hacker news could easily be made more self sustaining for pg an co. Plenty of people would probably volunteer to be a maintainer. If not, one unobtrusive ad would probably be enough to hire one.
Definitely! College isn't totally about the classes or the books. A lot of the experience is just being around a lot of people who are interested in the same subjects (and being around people who are interested in different subjects!). It can be a really enlightening experience to be around people who aren't hackers. I think from the perspective of skills and finances, college is becoming less and less appealing. But as a social and personal experience, college is becoming more and more valuable as a way to learn how to connect with people from diverse backgrounds.

Even if your only goal in life is to make better technology, you still have to interact with people who aren't hackers, and college is an easy way to expose yourself to a very diverse group of people.
Ok, but say that I figure out how to install Python + Django myself (on a linux box), is there anything else that would be missing from the Mac installer?
There's nothing stopping squatters from registering these domain names other than the fact they would have to register so many. That's part of the beauty of it.

Re: making it a paid service -- how would you charge?
Quite a good read and a good introduction to the topic. I somehow ended up writing a Python version. Here it is: https://github.com/rheide/Hello-genetic-algorithm/blob/maste...
First: congratulations; doing something meaningful AND succeeding at the same time, moreover at that age deserves some congratulation, and some nods. Good work.

Second: With rather good spirit and having something to say (obviously, you know your stuff), I'm rather surprised that your blog doesn't mention the obvious design inspiration, and even adds some copyright.
Is there nothing more disposable than yesterday’s paper?
Fastmail. Been happy with them for years.
In Wake of Groupon Issues, Critics Wary of JOBS Act
The media keys on my keyboard do not work under Win7 without letting windows download extra drivers.

Let's not even mention my printer.

Meanwhile with ubuntu 12.04 beta 2 everything came up without configuration. Printer included.
If you install Windows the same way you install linux, you'll find the same kind of driver problems - particularly with network cards, which makes it harder to get more drivers from the web. Pre-installed Windows comes with drivers, sure, but freshly installed Windows requires downloading them.
Bought the series. The videos are buffering very slowly with many interruptions. My connection should be able to handle this though?

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1871768101.png

It may be related to the mediaelement.js player. Skipping and searching is not working either.

look forward to you fixing this issue.
A major "aha!" moment for me was 37Signals writing "If you have a 30 day trial anyhow, launching with billing code written means you've swapped something customers actually will notice today for something they won't." I don't endorse that specific advice (because you should probably auth cards on launch day) but the kinda relentless scope-cutting it implies has been a major win for me.
Thanks -- I track these errors and fix them within a day or two. It's a side-effect of how the search works. Over time the number of results that throw this error should drop close to zero.
Spend 2 weeks on your product/biz and a day on your application. It will be a lot stronger.
Think Quarterly - Creativity
Thanks. I may be giving up too easily. I think I will upgrade to core i7 laptop and run virtualbox soon too.
Global Financial Crisis in one sentence
AOL took 9 years for 1M users, FB took 9 months, Draw Something took 9 days.
Content aside, this commenter found the acrobatics to avoid first person painful to read.
My team applied, and we did not get any recommendations. I tried to be as simple as I could but the scope of the project is quite enormous. Hopefully I provided the right amount of information while not overwhelming or being confusing.

We have no product, just a good idea. I hope YC gets the amount of passion and enthusiasm we have for providing the product, not just to make money, but because of its potential to change the shape of technology.

We'll all find out soon, and I wish good luck to everyone that applied. If we get to the interview stage I'll be sure to post our application so people can look at it, and I encourage everybody else to do so. It was nice during the process to read all the apps that can be found around the web.
Sorry about that. We haven't had any issues before, but we might have faster connections. We're currently serving the media from Amazon S3, but we'll switch to Cloudfront to see if that helps. If you're still having issues, e-mail us at support AT elmcitylabs DOT com
I signed up for two reasons:

- I'm a seasoned PHP dev with an interest in Python + Django

- I appreciate your interesting pricing scheme :)

I'm also a PC user, so I hope when (if?) you release a Windows installer you'll send out an email.

One criticism - I think you should have a 'confirm password' field after signing up.

Good luck with this, I'm interested to see how it works out for you.
Google acquires TxVia to develop Google Wallet
My understanding is that Munich had a lot of issues which were orthogonal to Linux - decentralized support, lack of inventory, lack of standards. Of course, it didn't help that the original proponents were of an 'ideological' bent and perhaps bit off more than they could chew.

Either way, a 9 year IT project is really dismal.
iTerm2 is clearly a great terminal. I find it buggy when using zsh however.
It could be an Economist thing; they don't credit their writers either.