skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on your opportunity cost. You are 17, the world is your oyster (as long as you're willing to work for it.) Don't be a jerk, but don't feel like you have to stick with these guys forever.

If you've got other opportunities - either learning, or working, then I wouldn't let this gig hold you back.

If you're still in school and have no better project to work on right now, then stick it out till it becomes a solid resume piece.

In the meantime, blog about everything you're learning and doing. That's the way to turn your meh experiences into long term assets.
Why would PG and YC ever let us mess up a good thing? There's zero incentive for him to let us participate in his success.
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This space is getting crowded. How many Dropbox clones are there now? I just saw that ownCloud released a new version recently.
So, the site makes it easy to seek a binding decision against someone that's enforcable anywhere. If I'm the potential plaintiff that's great! But if I'm the potential defendant, I just say no to the request. I want it to be inconvenient to bring a binding decision. I at least make the P go through the pain of seeking out a physical arbitrator. In the status quo - no decision - I win.
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Or the developer might have to spend more time on support now.
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Alternatively, you might just level with your bosses and encourage them to pivot to something simpler/smaller.

My motto: If you can't build a demo of your app in a weekend, then you're aiming too high
What publicly traded companies compete in the same space as YC?
I was just about to say... I guess that's to keep people's hopes up.
It occurs to me that Science Fiction suffers from the same malaise as every other form of cultural entertainment these days. It panders to the lowest common denominator -- the preference in society for stuff that doesn't challenge or take you too far out of your comfort zone -- politically, intellectually, morally or take you to the darker fringes of weird.

I know lots of people who can't grasp something as delightful and fun as Meat. Its just too far removed from their routine.
Stackoverflow is a great resource. The link below is has details on Rails (maybe not best starting point for Ruby) but helpful site to learn and find good resources.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-ra...
Instagram snobbery is silly. That is all.
Hashing is one way, and encryption is two way -- correct?

edit: Might as well look it up. The user "bestsss" at Stack overflow confirms this is the case.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4948322/fundamental-diffe...
In C# that'd be:

using colors = org.somelib.colors;

I don't know if Java has something similar.
> Have I given you any indication that I would have trouble focusing on the interview?

Sorry, I’m not trying to imply that you’d have trouble following the interview. I mean pay special attention to the form of the interview, and the style of the questioning (i.e. watch out for when Terry follows up on something the guest said, when she allows him to keep talking and when she re-centers the conversation. Think about what kinds of insights the she draws out, what she can get him to say that wasn’t pre-planned, etc.), rather than only to the content of what the guest is saying. I think if you pay close attention to the way Charlie interviews, you’ll find yourself wanting to throw something at the screen.

Terry Gross’s interview with O’Reilly was impressively respectful and polite, considering the way he was acting. Asking difficult questions is different from pissing on people. What I mean is, Charlie Rose will ask a guest a question, and then when the answer isn’t what he wants to hear, he’ll parrot back at them effectively “well isn’t what you just said completely wrong, and isn’t it actually like this ....?” What is the guest supposed to say to that?

> Can you think of any guests who have appeared on both shows recently?

Here are some from the last few months:

Steve Coll:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#... http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12336 http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12341

Peter Bergen:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#...
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11463

Peter Beinart:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#...
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12282

Matt Weiner:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#...
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12256

Jonah Lehrer:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#...
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12302

Ahmed Rashid:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#...
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12281

Charles Duhigg:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#...
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12254

Masha Gessen:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#...
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12210

Tim Weiner:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#...
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12283

Katherine Boo:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&#...
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12151
If that's the case, why does he need to start a discussion with that kind of statement?
Oracle could pull all resources dedicated to the development of Java. Burn the forest to get the Google tree.
Drastic and unrealistic, but Ellison doesn't like to lose.
The problem isn't just trademarks and API compatibility. I just wish Android could run a true JVM. Problem is the JVM spec is only licensed to TCK compliant implementations, and those aren't given to un-licensed mobile implementation.
Your last statement goes against basically all of human history. Economy is the exchange of value (i.e. trade). Trade has always existed, and for nearly all of human history, it existed outside of the state (since there were no states). Even during the age when states began to form, loads of trade took place outside the state's borders (i.e. likely as much trade took place on the silk road as it did at each terminus).

States can certainly make trade easier and safer (though it doesn't always do so), but to say trade cannot exist without the state is simply wrong.
I don't see any way to contact them on that page. I do see this, though:

"Prioritized account recovery support is currently offered on an invitation-only basis for selected users."

So, no, this certainly doesn't fix the problem for a lot of us.
This is a function of a few things. Here are a couple reasons that happens:

-Their mortgage is close to underwater. They have to sell at an objectively high price to get out.

-They're trying to short sell under an agreement with their bank. They price it intentionally high to keep it from selling.
I didn't think, but let Google surprise me with what it suggested when I typed "get ":

get directions

get him to the greek

get glue

get smart

get low lyrics

get off my internets

get rich slowly

get away today

get to know you questions

get fuzzy
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I never saw this one the first time around, but the judge's ruling sounds crazy to me. It basically boils down to "I don't understand this, so it must be patentable."

I'm really staring to rethink my opinion on those "learn to program"/"don't learn to program" arguments. Certainly for anyone making descisions that affect software development - a first year computer science student could see that showing an ad before showing a video is trivial.
For the last half a decade I have been buying mac hardware. Even when I run linux on it I know that I can at any time get rid of it on the used market and get an insane price back. Compared to any PC, even when I would hand build them the value drop just to my house was always more than I imagined. Last year I was looking to maybe build a PC, looking on craigslist almost every listing was more expensive than if I bought the parts from newegg brand new.
Oops, certainly did. I think you're right, but my expectations were a bit a higher with the curated nature of the site.
This is the state of the Internet under the DMCA--anyone can post or repost anything, even if they don't own it, and it is the burden of the original content owner to find each instance of unauthorized use and request it be taken down.

Part of Maddox's post addresses the frustration this can cause among people who create original content for a living. It seems to me that this frustration drives a lot of the worst impulses of groups like the RIAA and MPAA.

It also seems likely to me that there could be good technological solutions to the problem, that don't require lawsuits and crazy new laws. However, there is no incentive for people to develop these technological solutions. Instead the financial incentives (in this case, ad revenue) drive tech folks to build stupid sites like Ranker.com.

Acknowledged: I'm only addressing part of the story here...the friendly "you might like this!" emails are ridiculous. It's probably some 20 year old making 8 dollars an hour sending them...the 21st century equivalent of the telemarketer.
IBM blocks Dropbox and iCloud as well as Siri
This seems extraordinarily painful. I usually have five or six stack frames between GetDataFromDatabase() and code that can raise error dialog to user or return HTTP error code. This means every single one of those stack frames are going to duplicate this annoying if err != null sequence.

The article author is quite wrong when he says "exceptions are broken by design because they force errors to be handled at points far away from the cause". Exceptions don't force you to handle errors at any particular location; they allow you to handle errors anywhere in the stack. On the other hand, return values do force you to handle errors then-and-there, which 90% of the time is a half-dozen stack frames away from your handler.
Anyone know of a graph of the LCD price / sq inch over time? How fast is it falling?
The marginal cost is also time and energy spent on support as well.
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I changed too my linux window manager three days ago to stumpwm. It feels and runs great. Try conkeror web browser If you didn't yet, +10% productivity gain.
I personally find a GPS unit (or, now, a GPS app on my phone) to be way more convenient than a map. Safer, too, since I can pay more attention to the actual driving.
Not at all. You can pass error values back up the call chain if you want to.
Well, Java SE is going to be fully modular starting with the upcoming Java 8.
Looks a lot like a backend session key collision. Some session could see passenger manifests, others shouldn't and someone got accidentally merged into the one that could. I'll start checking my apps and see whether low and high sensitivity information use different code paths and maybe rely on layered sessions or something like that from now on.
Well he was in the #2 and #3 spot in the U.S. App Store, he was selling more than almost anything else there. :)
YC is essentially a small, early-stage VC firm, focused on the tech and software market where very early seed investments can make a tangible difference.

I can't think of a single public company that operates according to that model. That doesn't mean that it's wrong, just that most early stage VC firms are small partnerships which gain no advantages through raising capital in the public markets.

(In fact, the greater scrutiny and publicity that publicly traded companies face is more likely to be a serious downside that VC and PE firms want to avoid.)
Correct. DotCloud started using LXC in May 2010. Before that it used OpenVZ in 2009 (http://openvz.org), and even before that it used VServer (http://linux-vserver.org) in 2008. Back then the notion of stacking 2 types of virtualization was incredibly weird and remote.

In the 2nd half of 2011 other PaaS players caught on to the wonders of container virtualization - Heroku for example started using it with their Cedar stack in April of last year.
GSV Capital (GSVC) is the closest thing to a public YC. But they aren't. They invest in later stage venture backed companies. I'm not aware of any other public venture funds, which aren't really comparable to YC, being that it does early stage deals exclusively.
This is science fiction we're talking about here, keep that in mind.

I disagree with your assertion that unlimited energy is the 'wrong question'. Consider the scenario that energy is created from the destruction of matter (vs oxidizing it) and we switch the entire planet to that energy source, we eliminate all green house gases associated with energy production and a big chunk of those associated with transport (all cars/trucks/trains become electric, no more coal or fossile fueled power plants, we burn hydrogen/oxygen in planes perhaps. So on the climate change front at least we can revert the human contribution of CO2 back to prehistoric levels.

Ok so then there is the question of actively regulating the temperature of the ocean (which we might want to do for other reasons like food production). One might speculate on using the planet mantle as a ginormous heat sink. It has a fairly large heat carrying capacity over all.

See when you're writing science fiction you don't run into this bump:

"And on this note, there's practically no magic in fusion power. They can't drastically undercut "primitive" fission reactors, because much their infrastruture would be identical (heat exchangers, steam generators, power generation, the power grid...) Add up the costs of modern power, and fusion also carries most of them. It's like a "factor-of-two" miracle in the most optimistic fantasy -- not an order-of-magnitude, not earth-shattering magic. (Less optimistically, I don't see how anything like tokamaks or laser ICF machines can be anything but more complicated and costly than conventional power, and I haven't see any physically-sound alternatives.)"

You are extrapolating on existing fusion principles and getting stuck. Gene Roddenberry invented "warp engines" which provided the energy in limitless quantities, and then went on to think about "Ok given some reason why X is true, now what?" kind of stories.

My take on Stross' essay is that we don't really do enough of that. And that is in part because our technology is 'close enough' these days that writers fall into the pit that you just stepped in, reality, aka 'non-fiction.' (I really liked the cyberpunk examples in this regard) So getting one's thought process out ahead of that can be quite challenging. (Easier if your fiction it more fantasy oriented, since you make a hard break with reality)
the article isn't meant to be offensive. Android is great platform and Instagram is cool service too. I just see Instagram as platform, not just another photo hosting service for twitter. Any other thoughts?
This. Cracked was my first thought when reading the post, but Cracked has a load of writers and is one of the sites that gets ripped off often.
C is fine. C is C.
If you want a better C, create one.
You could name it something clever like C+=1, or C++.
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What's painfully pedestrian to the proficient can be profoundly esoteric to the uninitiated.
Furthermore, it's the top Google hit for 'objectify'.
Or let it hike back up to $15 to show people what they missed out on, then do a sale next month for $5/copy.
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SSL fix flags forged certificates before they're accepted by browsers
Companies are extremely sensitive to their public image and want the sports they sponsor to match that.

Formula 1's image used to be exclusive/glamour/rich and so had Rolex type sponsors. Then when tobacco adverts were banned it went after young/adventure/excitement types.
But do RedBull really want their cool/hip/trendy young customers in Seattle to picture RedBull with police shooting democracy protesters at the Bahrain GP?

For example, IBM sponsor golf - Apple don't. IBM's customers don't care that the golf tournament is being held at a course that doesn't let women in - Apple's certainly would!

BP - frankly they could put baby seals into a wood chipper on national television without damaging their public image!

But CISCO are the most vulnerable to image. Up to now they sold to big business who just bought on a salesman's word. But now they are trying to be the face of the internet to regular buyers. Having their name plastered across news reports about visitors to the olympics being banned from posting twitter/youtube/facebook doesn't look so good.
nodb.js is the fastest scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. nodb.js features: auto-sharding and data integrity anaylsis

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The incentive to go public is for companies who could use additional funding to grow. VC isn't short cash.
Objectify is a nice framework, but after reading the examples in README made me feel like I am required to take extra iterations: create new responder files, write more codes for each Responder class, etc. This approach is little tedious.

I personally think that writing reusable libraries using Decorator/Presenter patterns or Modules with ActiveSupport::Concern is simple approach.

Avdi's slides: https://speakerdeck.com/u/avdi/p/making-little-classes-out-o...

I highly recommend Objects on Rails book: http://objectsonrails.com/
Conversion to Zimbabwean dollars, naturally.
Google+ seems to have been adopted by a lot of major players in the tech industry. Quite a few notable people post on it pretty regularly, possibly because it's hard to effectively tweet about technology issues in 140 characters.

I'd probably switch to it exclusively too if I could use it to export to Twitter and Facebook.
You may be right, but another thing to keep in mind is the volume needed to maintain the same amount of income at a lower price point.

Staying higher in the rankings isn't worth it just for the sake of the rankings if you're only making the same amount of money.

Plus, there's the additional support cost.
OpenBSD Network Shell update release
I'm not a hacker but I think this is relevant to everyone, especially young professional males. Good stuff, dude.
NVDSP: High-performance & easy-to-use audio DSP for Novocaine on iOS and OSX
Hi all, some of you may already know that Novocaine allows you to read, write and play audio very easily on iOS and OSX. My project called NVDSP allows you to easily filter the raw audio data with for example a lowpass filter. It works with the accelerate framework and is a biquad 2nd order IIR filter (basically means it's pretty awesome).

Currently supports peaking EQ (make your own equalizers!), bandpass, lowpass, highpass and notch, and more coming soon. What do you think?
And I will take that, if coupled with demonstrated competence and a solid, sensible vision, over being "nice", "accomodating" and "willing to answer questions", every time.

This attitude is not true of all OS developers, though. There are lots who are really even-tempered. But they are also very focused and not necessarily willing to accomodate everyone with a "bright idea".

While it might make the learning curve a bit steeper for mere mortals, I actually believe this is what makes a better OS.

I would be interested to see a "Linux" where Torvalds also controlled the userland. What would it be like?
Hi all, some of you may already know that Novocaine allows you to read, write and play audio very easily on iOS and OSX. My project called NVDSP allows you to easily filter the raw audio data with for example a lowpass filter. It works with the accelerate framework and is a biquad 2nd order IIR filter (basically means it's pretty awesome).

Currently supports peaking EQ (make your own equalizers!), bandpass, lowpass, highpass and notch, and more coming soon. What do you think?
That is not a question. Where did you get the 80% figure?
Excellent point, really its only zero to distribute. Definitely need that cost included as well.
What percentage of people actually get angry at this sort of thing? It's insane for luxury items -- either you value an item at the price it's listed for or you don't. If you don't, why are you buying it in the first place?
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He should get a prize.
We all knew Google would win. Next up the imminent appeal (if Oracle want to get themselves butt hurt a second time). If the jury and judge had ruled that API's were copyrightable, who knows what that could have done to sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and any other site that relies on a third party framework, library or piece of code to functionally operate.

Oracle are the rotting enterprise dinosaur that refuses to accept evolution and adapt or just die. The patent system is a absolute joke.
Does anyone have any good resources on how Linux LXC compares to BSD Jails from a security perspective? I've long been a fan of BSD jails because of how simple the security model is to understand, and how secure they've been in practice. Jail has long been a killer feature for BSD and very, very good reason to use a BSD-derivative for web servers, etc. as you can run each and every service that has the potential to be compromised in its own jail to minimize the overall risk; whereas the best Linux had to offer has traditionally been a chroot'd environment, which while good, has absolutely nothing on a BSD jail.

I'd imagine that LXC has the potential to change that, though I presume it'll take some time for a) adoption to increase and b) for it to prove itself after that.
I have several in my car, and I make use of them. I find they are great for navigating freeways, but GPS is better in-town, particularly for locating an arbitrary house address or a business by name.
He's also constantly inundated with arguments/accusations/requests from idiots. If you ever read through some of his Linux newsletter arguments, you can see why he'd develop a take-no-prisoners style of communicating.
Resulting in an improvement in Java for everyone

C/C++ doesn't seem to have done too badly since Bell labs stopped developing it!
Every major "alternative investment manager" that has gone public in the past few years is well below its IPO price:

Blackstone (BX): -65%
Fortress (FIG): -90%
Apollo (APO): -35%
Och-Ziff (OZM): -75%

Think about it for a second. These are some of the most successful traders in the world; they aren't going to undervalue their own company.

Likewise, the only reason a firm should go public is if (1) they need capital, (2) they want a "currency" for acquisitions, or (3) they fell the firm is so overvalued by the public that it makes sense to sell shares. The first scenario is likely false for YC, the second wouldn't make sense either, and the third is exactly what we have above.

Here's my response when a similar question to this one was asked last month:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3893952