skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen "fake O'Reilly" paper books from other publishers that use cover designs very similar to real O'Reilly books.

They were quite obviously intended to deceive an unsuspecting buyer into thinking the book was an O'Reilly product.
(I work for Netflix)

It's funny that you mention the Chaos Monkey, considering that Netflix has 24/7 on call programmers for tier 1 support.

We do however also make great efforts to make sure that we are resilient as possible to failure of 3rd party services.
We are building a realtime digital signage solution mainly powered by nodejs. Maybe we got rejected because we are from germany?
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What do you think is going to happen at renewal time if you develop a heath problem? Can you afford $3000 a month?
IT Salaries 2012: $90,000, 1% Raise Typical
That shouldn't be a problem being from out of the US.
I know companies that throw everyone out of the office at 6pm sharp. No working from home allowed either. They seem to be doing just fine. Sometimes you have to force people to work reasonable hours or they'll just burn themselves out in a year or two.
Interesting point. I view YC's strategy as playing the central limit theorem -- taking a high-volatility random variable (startup returns) and increasing the sample size until the sample mean tends arbitrarily close to the population mean.

Smart, guys.
From what I have seen PowerShell is woefully underused and unmastered by many, many folks working in the MS stack. Probably because it is so much easier to use the GUI for everything.

The MSDN site has always sucked, and it's almost always better to Google searches for MS tech help than search within MSDN or the knowledge base. (I frequently find the MSDN article I need from Google. In fact there is a MSDN search widget available for iGoogle!!!) Language and framework docs, help, and searches from within VS are quite good, and from what I've seen of VS11 beta, even better. Also SQL server docs are good.

But, yeah searching for OS docs & help is no fun.
Does this sharing process still carve a giant hunk out of the recipient's Dropbox space allocation, though?

That's what I don't understand about any of these services -- Google, Dropbox, and whoever else. If anything is "unlimited" these days, it's disk space. At this level of play 5 GB is about 25 cents worth of storage at most.

Paying for disk space in the cloud is no smarter than renting a cable box from Comcast or leasing your phone from AT&T. If Dropbox could just get past the notion that disk space is worth anything, their value proposition would become a lot more interesting.

If bandwidth is the real concern, which I imagine it is, then they need to find a way to charge for that instead.
Ireland votes with its feet
We got rejected :). We didn't build our startup for YC, though. In fact the YC application was just a super great opportunity for us to have a 'checkpoint' at our startup. So, I think this was great. Good luck to everybody else! Check out http://eatfindr.com/ if you'd like to find out more about what we applied with. ShowHN coming soon. :)
I agree. From a developers perspective they are a nightmare. Log onto their portal and there's more than 8 SDKs available for download without a clear message which are for what phone market or even still sold.
It's like business economics is flipped upside down in Silicon Valley. Social networks that make little or no revenue are valued higher than companies who do have revenue. Is earning money a stigma? It's as if you're better off not even trying to earn money, and just pretend that when you do try to monetize that money will magically flow into your bank account.
The post refers to Twitter MySQL 5.5. I would be interested to know what Percona, a more mature fork, is doing with respect to these recent patches from Twitter.
I'm building http://www.iwaat.com, a search engine for web applications that I'm working to turn into a Yelp for apps. Also a solo founder looking for others to join me on this project.

If you're building a web app feel free to add it to the site.
I think the reason they're saying it's a bit more tricky than people realise is because, even when dealing solely in terms of relative speed, you're dealing with orbits.

If you try to accelerate, you'll actually end up in a higher orbit. It would be like putting down the gas to overtake someone on the highway and end up flying above them and even if you let off the gas, you will slowly drift further away as you're now dealing with a small amount less gravity.

It's tricky, because the common person doesn't have any clue how to relate to three dimensional movement in an orbit.
I guess Linux gets the shaft?
If I recall correctly, I read a while ago they have even opened up their kernel code to Univ programs. Don't know if that is still true.
Seriously? I can see a license that prevents you from creating a clone by inspecting decompiled source.. but a license that doesn't allow you to attach a debugger?
It was actually an Apple story, so it's really much, much more a TM story than a HN story.

also, the last time I had a story on both HN was like 3x TM, so I think that scale is huge. Compete.com is probably off in terms of under reporting--but under reporting equally for both.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techmeme.com/

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/news.ycombinator.com/
MPAA intersection US Government
Doing contract work?
RasberryPi review
We are building http://listypedia.com

Listypedia is like Wikipedia for lists. It is a place for the users to find precise and
concise information about the things they are looking for. It allows users to create and share
lists with their social network. Few examples of the lists could be most scenic places on earth,
things to carry for a camping trip, must have productivity apps for iphone, etc. The items added to the lists will be character limited precise answers. The users will be able to create protected lists that will be visible only to authorized users. Users will be able to create new lists or use existing lists and share it with their network to keep track of what they want or things that should be done as a group by using the list as a checklist.

There will also be curating features where in the list creators and also the curators will be able
to control what goes in to only allow relevant content. It will also allow users to vote and
comment on individual items.

Listypedia will bring in all the good features of yahoo answers, wikianswers and stackoverflow. It
aims at organizing the unorganized content on the web in the form of social comments, blog posts,
etc.

We are planning to launch soon in a month.
This is similar to something that I've been working on called sxc (S-Expression C). I'm not sure what language he's writing it in, but without a powerful macro language that can manipulate the s-expressions/lists the lisp syntax is just cosmetic.
Be positive. Stay determined. Keep Hustling.

It sucks to be rejected with anything in life, but you only truly fail if you give up. You all seem smart and there are some great ideas here; don't give up and I am sure I'll be hearing about you all in the future. :)
Does Writing Code Matter?
I'm sorry to get the rejection. Most of all it made me kick myself for wasting time on low-probability bets like this. I should have spent the time on things with a better chance of paying off.
Why would you work an 11-12 hour work day? If I had a job like that I would quit, even with no real marketable skills. I'd rather take ye olde 9-5 job even if it meant a substantial drop in income.
I shouldn't have to. But i got no way to be sure Google leaves me completely. I auto-clear all types of cookies on each browser exit anyway, for performance.
20 video views and a few LI views from 'stealth startup in SF area' - We haven't put a demo online until our patent app goes through the first stage.
The whole process was fun though - especially after posting the app we realized how confusing everything sounded so we kind of expected a rejection.
Anyway, back to building the system :)
Great answer, llaxsll.

I agree that the checkpoint brings some value.
I'm not so sure - historically only people from the US , UK, Canada & Australia seem to have made it in. I don't blame them - being from one of these places significantly simplifies the whole visa stuff.
Sounds similar to Quixey: https://www.quixey.com/
Not sure why you got down voted, seemed like valid info.

Of course being twisted in the way that I am twisted, it also generated a thought about 'real time digital signage.'

There are lots of trucks on the freeway, they drive along at night from point A to point B, so how cost effective would it be to put a very high mileage car to drive along behind them and optically stabilize the projection of signage on the back of the truck? (I saw the building projections and thought, those are pretty cool) Imagine you're driving down the freeway and you see a billboard for a restaurant which is available in a couple of miles.

Trucks could do this on themselves, perhaps it would offset the cost of gas. Imagine a unit that used GPS to know where it was and an arm that extended out the back and projected on the truck a location sensitive billboard. Either way it would be a fun hack.
>What they should not be able to do is poach specific clients. //

I find your indignation interesting as this is exactly what the non-compete would be preventing - the subcontractor from working directly for the client that you (the main contractor) introduced them to.
I worked at Pixar for ten years. The bulk of our costs went to the rank & file workers. People with the talent to make films like that are rare and in demand. Maybe CG films are different but all the CG studios are worried right now about narrowing profit margins in the face of rising costs and declining DVD sales.
Yup. They'd be the closest competitor. Although, they seem to be focused more on the technology than building a community which is my next focus.
That's a cool idea. Unfortunately...I find the name rather awkward. Your site looks quite nice, though, best of luck :) Simply applying to YC is an achievement in itself.
'Star Trek' tricorder comes closer to reality
BTW, there is already a YCombinator company called Embark: http://ycombinator.posterous.com/embark-s11-is-now-plotting-...
I thought the same thing, except when they are reviewing it they must be taking brief notes like, hey my pet peeve no co-founder, or what ever. All I am saying is if they structured it to say a scale of 1-10 (as in 5 of the reviewer thought you needed a co-founder) or 5 out of 10 think the idea isn't good enough, or 7 of 10 thought the you didn't stand out, etc.
I'm not sure this is the right question. pg repeats time and time again that the product doesn't matter, the team does. So really, the title ought to be:

Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
Introducing Webbygram, my vision of how Instagram on the web should feel.
It's the best they've done so far...
Garde enfant
Bonjour, Mon papa et ma maman travaillent beaucoup pour nous faire plaisir. Tellement, qu'ils sont obligés de courir partout pour venir nous chercher à l'école, ensuite ils s'occupent de nous...
I said to bring the price down, not the experience.
There's something to be said for a language that's written in itself. Been picking up Clojure over the weekend; just for fun I clicked "go to definition" on defn and there[1] I was looking at the source, all Clojure. Not that I think I'd be spending a lot of time looking for bugs in defn, but it's a neat feeling to be able to go under the hood like that.

[1] https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju...
Those links are very useful. However, I note that at each refuted point, the author is constantly being surprised by an actor creating a solution that does indeed do something new. This includes interoperability with VMWare hypervisors and userland networking performance with virtual networks.

Given the above and that most networking hardware is still configured by hardware engineers, this sector does seem ripe for disruption.
They have done that for quite awhile, at least it was happening ~8 years ago when I took an OS course at my school. Windows source was available, can't recall which version.
In my view, documentation -- not just any documentation, but correct, complete documentation -- is at least as important as code. I don't release any of my own personal projects for general consumption until the documentation is done.

Not having good documentation demonstrates a lack of respect for the user's time. To be a successful project, people of varying skill levels should be able to use it.

In order to compete successfully with closed-source Unix variants, GNU had to have as good documentation as its competitors and the result was excellent documentation (even if Info files were a bit baroque). The result was comprehensive and useful manuals for GNU projects such as GCC, Bash, Emacs and so forth. It's a real shame developers today haven't followed in their footsteps.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something,
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

- Upton Sinclair
One thing jumps out at me... so only WindowsRT has Microsoft Office - that's pretty much a required app for many business PC users and severe fragmentation if it's seriously not available on the other Windows8 editions.

Am I missing something? Does this imply shift to "cloud" office?
Did you post the video on Posterous? If so, just know the video count isn't entirely accurate. It counts views to the parent site, as well as views in the Posterous manager, so it's really hard to tell a hard count of actual views.
I'm not sure of the overall utility of what's been made here, but it's very cool that it's possible.

It also is a great showcase of how .NET isn't as limiting as some people think it is- you can and should be using Redis, MongoDB, Memcached and the like as appropriate. Don't think that .NET developers can only use MS tools.
Whether the ladies involved were put up to it or not is irrelevant. The fact that FIFA could persuade a sovereign nation to amend its laws to align itself to FIFAs corporate interests is a highly disturbing precedent.

South Africa has a very high murder rate, presumably the police there have better things to do than arrest people on the basis of what they wear to a soccer match[1]

(Big rant warning)

BTW, FIFA are a hopelessly corrupt, self-serving organisation, easily the most corrupt in modern sport. I wouldn't take anything they say seriously. They are actively bad for the game of soccer globally. The English FA (in charge of football in the UK) has publicly stated that they will back any delegate who will run against FIFAs current president, a toxic character called Sepp Blatter. FIFA and Blatter hold soccer back by not adopting technology like video refs and goal line technology (you know, stuff present in nearly all other major sports) which introduces enormous controversy pretty much every week in the game. Conspiracy theories about refs and dodgy decisions abound. They pay no tax on the income they make from organising the World Cup- as they are registered as a charity in Switzerland! It's pretty much accepted that they bribed FIFA delegates to vote for hosting the World Cup 2018 in Russia (cold, hard for fans to get travel visas), and Qatar in 2022 (extremely hot during summer when WC games are played, alcohol banned because its the Middle East)[2]

[1]http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/232544/20111017/south-africa...

[2]http://www.ghfapremierleague.com/read.php?1,45386
I'm just the messenger – by no means am I in any way associated with HN.
As someone who has worked intensively both in the fields of rendering and AI, I can say there are easy and hard problems in both. There is much in the way of AI that we already know, it's just that your average developer actually knows very little about AI (not trying to be insulting, it's just been true in my experience) -- and much more so your average company or publisher does not care to fund AI beyond enemies that can throw themselves into your gun barrel. Propositional logic, expert systems, backwards chaining, and neural networks are very powerful tools that we know a lot about, but most games rarely implement (perhaps trivially at most). We still tend to hand-design/script quests, when these fields of AI could provide very powerful emergent gameplay. What it mostly boils down to (for the sake of interesting gameplay) is proper knowledge-representation (i.e. abstraction) and reasoning (a prolog-like reasoning system would be a good start). And of course, path-finding/locomotion is pretty much a given. Interestingly, it is less about implementing these and more about designing a game that can use them properly - almost without doubt you need to create a game world that functions on its own, where every NPC has its own set of motivations, which is a very different task from creating a game that is limited to what the player does.

Other than that, there are still plenty of hard problems left in rendering, especially with regards to effective procedural generation (which arguably falls more under modeling). Our ray tracing is still far from "realistic" - take a more complex scene than a table with a wine glass, and we can still usually discern the difference, especially with complex materials and subsurface scattering (human skin STILL does not look quite right). As it is, we are only able to calculate light travel by points (we use the term ray tracing, but typically every ray does a number of steps, unless every model is mathematically calculated). Light travel should be determined by complex volumes -- which is pretty much impossible to simulate on today's hardware ( O(n^6) magnitude at least - growing by volume, travel distance, number of objects, volume bounces (dear god), and number of pixels calculated ).
Thanks for the positive comment. I have heard not so good things about the name from multiple folks. We are thinking to change it, but until we find a better one we are just going to keep it :)
I think this implies "We already can sell Office on x86, but we're not even sure we can sell Windows on ARM".
Working at Twitter isn't really a "day job" (even Facebook or Google wouldn't be a day job in the sense of being an IT guy at a local school district, or something else).

There are awesome groups within organizations the size of Google, and even organizations the size of IBM. There's clearly more non-awesome in a big organization too, but if you get stuck in those, you kick back for a year or two, then go do another startup.
> if you do pay for it, then you get proper support and everything

I wouldn't call it 'proper' support.

Last company I was at (2 years ago or so) got pretty awful support, and we paid for google apps (50 bucks a person per year, plus whatever the integrated postini cost [$5 a month per user or something?], for 100+ people). It was a minimum of 1 or 2 day turnaround for support, via email only for anything other than 'the entire site is down'. Not sure if that has changed or not since then.
Rejected also.
I would like the weak point of the application, so that i could at least improve the application.
Really, a oneliner would be enough.
One such proposal that I like is "sweet-expressions" at http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/. That page also has a rudimentary set of implementations for some Lisp dialects, including Scheme. It's too bad that new Lisp dialects never seem to take notice of these features.

Also, quick links for others looking for Pliant:

Pliant syntax docs: http://hc.fullpliant.org/doc/language/syntax

Pliant language docs: http://hc.fullpliant.org/doc/
Interesting that it fails to mention LINQPad. I'm always surprised to find a .NET dev who doesn't use this on a daily basis (for the REPL rather than any LINQ abilities).
A realtime collaboration application, check it out at tutor.nodester.com
If you want the features of the operating system formerly known as OS X Server, you shell over $49.99 in the App Stare: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion-server/id444376097?...
U.S. standard of living has fallen over 57% over a span of 40 years
> On the other hand, a request for 7.5% of the item price as a reward is somewhat excessive - that's more than the insurance premium. You had a legal duty to return it, and the reward offer was at their discretion.

All of this seems to be responding to the complaint that Borrow Lenses' offered reward was insufficient, but I don't see any such complaint in the post. To my eye, it looks more like his complaints are a) that they misled him and in so doing caused him financial injury, b) that they falsely accused him of lying, and c) to add insult to injury, they spitefully refuse to do business with him after he took umbrage at their false accusations, despite the fact that he has dealt fairly with them and he is the only one who was injured in the whole affair. Points B and C really seem to be the crux of the matter — that is, it's not that they reneged on the promise, but how they treated him after they reneged — and it does sound like very unprofessional behavior from this company.

Also, he did not actually request $600 from them, but two free rentals. Unless this company is operating at a loss, the cost to them should be substantially less than $600.

> you would have been better off clarifying the terms of your agreement at the time

Upon being told "That sounds fair — we will give you two rentals free when we get the lenses back," what kind of clarification would a reasonable person seek? Based on Charlie's story, this doesn't sound like a misunderstanding, but one party simply going back on its word. (It could be that the exchange was actually less specific than it sounds in the post, but I think we're just dealing with how the situation comes across there, right?)
hi there. I dont even know your name, and reading thoroughly reddit, I couldnt find it anywhere either.

my impression is you are extremely business-smart person that is just learning business. You are not afraid of making mistakes knowing every mistake is an opportunity to learn new things, plus most mistakes can be fixed. please write a after-post about your financial situation after converting every emp into w2 as I think you are fully aware by now they would not pass "irs 20 questions to be 1099" rule.

btw: too bad you are not located in the New York City. I have been let go my work recently and thinking about doing something else than 8-5 w2. I read between the lines reading you and felt chemistry that we both could learn alot and accomplish alot business-wise (of course, I could be wrong...)

I would like to connect with you. would you please email me? (my address is in my HN profile).

btw #2: thanks for sharing your story. I sure learnt new stuff today.
Fitness giant sues exercise app developers
They're taking 'Remote Desktop (host)' away from standard (non-pro) editions. That sucks.
Depending on the problem, there might be other tools that lie between 'source code' and 'documentation' on the readability-versus-accuracy scale.

I'm specifically thinking of strace, which I've used to diagnose problems that I was having with apache and chromium, among others. I don't think I would have got anywhere from reading the source. lsof is another, though I can't offhand think what I've used it for.

If you do find yourself in the source code, being willing to play around with it is invaluable for working out what's going on. If nothing else, you can insert a printf to confirm that you're looking in the right place.
Incredibly vague patents, used against two companies that have produced innovative fitness products. I hope this doesn't stick.
Thank you PK... :) and yes, we definitely got lucky.
Do they have Tesla Roadsters?
Also a solo founder building http://comics-headquarters.com/, a place to publish your comics online. :)

I am currently looking for artists who can help either write stories or/and draw. You can contact me using the web form in the site.
To be fair, Mike has repeatedly talked about the importance of higher-level charting libraries in the d3 Google group.