skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your response and the OP are quite wrong on a few fronts.

First off, YC is NOT looking for companies that take $20M exits. They certainly happen, but it's not great for YC. 95% of the money made in the valley from liquidity events in the valley are from 10 companies-- YC is trying to be part of those 10. The smaller exits just keep the lights on (don't believe me? Do the math on what YC gets from a $20M exit after being diluted thru a funding round or two).

Second, to say "The approach of remaining independent, and investing profits back into to the company followed by technology zealots such as Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs is unattractive to an investor," is just flat out wrong. There are certainly long-game consumer plays (like Facebook) where revenue is eschewed. But Heroku? Parse? Dropbox? AirBnB? Monster cash flow businesses.

As to whether Jobs would do YC-- he might not have when Apple was already growing. What about when he was selling blue box hardware? What about when he came back from India and got a job at Atari?
I think that may just be a straw-man argument. It should not be difficult to figure out how it works, the logic is laid out right in front of you.

There is always a learning curve when taking over a project.
"so lots of heuristics has to be applied"

I would think if I was going to submit something to W3C I'd consider asking someone to proofread it.
It's not about the fact that the rich guy's getting it, it's about the fact that the car is now in production.
I wonder why Norway has 2x adaptation compared to neighboring Finland and Sweden?
Wasn't Google working on some P2P protocol for Chrome?
He may not have cared about money as much as other rich people, but it seems like he loved to make money, or, in another sense, sell a lot of something.
I had been doing my own research recently on 2d frameworks and engines to use, and while I don't have any experience with the following, they do seem to have a fair amount of respect within the game dev communities:

https://love2d.org/
http://www.sfml-dev.org/
What should you be working on?
Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border
I believe, and of course I may be wrong, that SJ did care about money, but as a means of something.

I'm sure he would be very bothered if he didn't have money to take Apple to a fair, or to get the needed parts.

(of course, if you're starving you care about money)
Actually, one of his houses was less than a mile from Larry's place.
To be fair to the author of the presentation: if there is a problem, it isn't features and reuse. It's tight coupling, boilerplate and overhead. (Although it is funnier to say that the problem is features and reuse, like it is more provocative to say that Django sucks).

I won't slam Django, Django is good. Its most salient traits are its mindshare, liberality with features, big plugin ecosystem. And these traits were not all present from the beginning, when it was the Django developers who were reinventing wheels and going without features. Django's top traits are historically contingent. So in an alternate history, we might be talking about CherryPy having basically the same problems, because of the inherent pain of taking on so many features so quickly, then maintaining backward compatibility, etc.

Good framework or library code takes significantly longer to develop than similar functionality inside an app. When you add goals like trying to reduce boilerplate and coupling, it gets much harder and slower. It is totally valid to question why not just charge ahead with something easier to develop and get done more quickly. There is a real issue to think about here, it's not so clear cut.

It isn't as simple as saying "Flask is only nice because it has no features, anything with features is necessarily ugly." Both features and clean design take time and if you want both, even more time. But design is hard while features earn mindshare and dollars... if they work reliably, then who is complaining?

Now, at this point, Flask actually has a significant mindshare and plugin ecosystem of its own, so it is really inaccurate to say it has no features. And actually Flask does have a number of dependencies as well, with much of its implementation tucked away in Werkzeug (which is hardly a simple library).
You probably have. The links that appear in the top bar of the site are (usually) paid. Not all ads on the site take the form of a square image on the right.
It's a 2200-word document written by someone whose native language isn't English, and there is a single verb that doesn't agree with its subject. Since that's the only actual complaint you appear to have about the document, I'll assume you agreed with the very well reasoned, well researched viewpoints therein. Overall worth reading, I'd say.
The freecreditreport spam is amusingly clever.

Wish the final pic had a NSFW warning though.
Teacher who gave students zero marks becomes a folk hero
Monkey Web Server v1.0 have been released
Actually, yes, at least sometimes. Web based email clients are useful on occasion, but that has nothing to do with the point I'm trying to make, which is that we could do something better than either "traditional" desktop apps, or golem-like chimera apps crammed into a web-browser.

Why not use the browser for navigating hypermedia and then let the browser handoff to a different app to do things that require richer interaction? It doesn't have to be a pre-installed traditional desktop app... there's the aforementioned JNLP, and who-knows-what-as-yet-uninvented approach. I'd love to see more people spending time on that "as yet uninvented" thing that trying to turn a browser into a crappy X server, and goofing around with nasty, brutal hacks like AJAX.
Questioning gmail's reliability?
> "...it relies on toxic batteries..."

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/teslas-closed-loop-battery-r...
LinkedIn Hacked – How to Protect Yourself - DarkLit
That's actually pretty good.
LastPass - eHarmony password checker
Why would this extension need to access "your data on all websites"?
Because SPDY "looks like" SSL at layer 5, while SCTP does not: common deployments of Squid (one of the most popular HTTP proxies on earth) will pass through SPDY if they allow SSL, without any config changes.

On the other hand, SCTP has much stronger interactions with basically any deployed firewall/proxy anywhere, lacks widely used implementation for popular operating systems (Windows!), etc. For many networks, deployment of SCTP might mean replacing millions of $ networking hardware.
I love the inherent schizophrenia in the US political system. They are so in love with anti censorship technologies when employed against countries they don't like, like in China or Arab Spring, even going so far as to help develop the tech (tor) or ask the maintainers for special considerations (the US gov asked twitter to alter its maintenance schedule for Arab spring). But when the software could be used closer to home, they target developers like they are one step away from terrorists. The hypocrisy is... challenging
still working my way through it, but was certainly put off by a lack of respect for the language it was written in.
Cloud Computing Experts Release White Paper on Cloud Computing
I was really hoping that everything would be upside-down on that page.
With all due respect this article seems naive. Sure Google is building self-driving cars now (not exactly innovative, since virtually every 3rd grader lists that as one of the things they imagine in the future), but they did that after acquiring a hugely profitable core business which was "just another search engine".

Everything is "just another xyz" until its not.

What YC gets is that it asks it's founders to solve a problem. Maybe a real pain point, or a problem you don't know even exists until someone points it out to you, but whatever it is -- solve it well. At that points your minor pivots are leveraged until, before you know it, you're moving a mountain, when you started just intending to move a pebble.

And BTW, didn't Dropbox pass on an acquisition from Apple near $1B?
There's more to the loan than meets the eye. Do listen to Musk's short explanation here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
New Neuroscience of Choking
That's funny, I thought it was reminiscent of Agent Smith.
They tried to patent neem :|
This is an interesting thought. The next Xbox3 and PS4 will be way more powerful again. But will they release a new model every year like the iPad/iPhone? I guess not. The momentum (and money) of mobile is incredible.

On the other side everyone expects Apple to make something interesting with their Apple TV like enabling Apps or selling their own TV. I am not sure they will do because Airplay works fine. But a standalone box has a few advantages to mobile devices which only stream to the TV: More internal room. Unlimited electricity. Better Controllers.

@Cloud Gaming
This is really interesting and has potential for disruption. But OnLive is not available in Europe, so I can't try out how good/bad it is working. I can only speculate lag will always bother the die-hard fans?
It's probably prudent for most developers to instead use phpass [0] rather than attempt to roll their own implementation.

[0] http://www.openwall.com/phpass/
First off it looks great and works well, well done!

My only suggestion would be to do some (more?) filtering on the results and specifically what images your showing to the end users, as you will see from the below screenshot there can be many duplicates shown depending on the search term, which reduce the user experience.

http://pingbin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-20...
FYI, Nintendo is right on schedule with their console compared to their predecessors, and Nintendo doesn't sell their hardware at a loss, so I don't think it's fair to lump them in with PS3 and Xbox. In some ways Nintendo is a very innovative company, in others they are a very conservative company too.
He'd rather 'make things that people want' than 'make things that Larry wants'
IOS '86
The title is somewhat misleading. Its more of a discussion of why jQuery Mobile sucks.
Zipkin -> Harpoon -> whale-killing

http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012...
Microsoft also doesn't do much that is interesting. They tend to imitate and their imitations are seldom better, and are often worse, than the originals. The only moderately recent exception I can think of offhand is Kinect. Are there other innovations they've brought to market over recent years? Microsoft's research division does amazing things, of course, but I'm talking about products.
I don't think a Like button was in the original charter.
They have your eyeballs, now they just need someone to pay for them.
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20071023002351...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents
UEFA Euro 2012 Online Marketing - do they do enough?
"before swearing at me."

Followed by shitty" and "web crawlers" in all caps ^^ Someone ate a clown for breakfast I see.

"No, we are not going to ban all the links from GitHub"

What? Slow down there -- why would you care about invalid links? Did you just say that you can't possibly allow users to post links, as long as you don't know they work for automatic crawlers, not just for human visitors? And someone else chimed in saying you give arguments? Heh.

Well, you give an attempt of one, with "we are not crawling in the sense of", and then refute it with the bit you quoted: "web crawlers and other web robots". It's not called webscraper.txt, it's robots.txt period.

So how then would a website determine a rogue user agent? You dress up like the slimy guys, you get the banhammer -- what do you expect? If you care so much about Facebook and Twitter "content" that it is worth it for you to be undistuingishable from attackers, then just cope with it. But don't pout at me, just eat up what you ordered.

And what delusions about the internet? You just beat around the bush and then finish with that strawman? And what is an "imaginary delusion", by the way? The one you imagine I have? Now that's a Freudian slip if I ever saw one ^^

"Completely evil, wrong and backwards"... so... You're entitled to know the validity of links posted on your site, but website owners aren't allowed to care about their resources and who they offer them to? Who's deluded?
Probably because it can't say "your data only from Youtube".
Thoughtbot's trail-maps
The problem with your strawman is that it's so lame I cannot even be arsed to school you, sorry. Try harder maybe.
A friends dad once told me he wasn't responsible for his credit card debt because the companies kept sending him credit card offers. I believe in personal responsibility. Let the government do what it does best.. Schools, prisons (I dont like the privatization of prisons), streets, highways .... But I wish they would stay away from business loans
How Big Data made Groupon refuse $6 billion from Google
The addition of long-running linux instances is one of the big wins here.
Unfortunately the article doesn't expand much useful information beyond the title...

TL;DR:
> According to Google statistics, Romania leads the way with a 6.55% adoption rate, followed by France with 4.67%. Japan is on the third place so far with 1.57% but it seems here “users still experience significant reliability or latency issues connecting to IPv6-enabled websites.”
Farmers in the United States in particular are mostly in a commodity business and the market for non-GMO products is relatively small so there is not room for all, most, or even a large minority of farms to accept the lower productivity of non-GMO crops for higher prices.

On top of that the situation is still more complex, crop variety research in everything but Wheat and Oats is dominated by private industry so their interest is to ensure that any new varieties fall under the patent protection regime that GMO crops offer because the protections are better than plant-breeders rights. (Also I disagree with the 2x difference posted above but do agree that the divergence has become substantial.)

In addition because the global fertilizer business is effectively a cartel fertilizer prices have nothing to do with the costs of production but instead what the market will bear. (Natural gas is a key element and has been near all-time lows for quite a while but fertilizer prices are relatively high.) So the fertilizer companies are pricing to ensure that you must stay on the highest-productivity path in order to stay above water.

Finally, the vast majority of modern farmers in North America have gone from being cooperative-oriented to more pro-market and largely believe that this current state of affairs is somehow in their best interests -- what is good for agribusiness is good for farmers. It is my humble opinion that the market is totally broken and farmers are very ineffective at working together to counter-balance the powers of the large corporations in the industry.
Another dirty little secret is that WebSocket does not (yet) work over SPDY, despite the fact both protocols essentially originated in house at the same company.

Both are effectively hacks on existing well established protocols, but both affecting different layers. With WebSocket, you cannot use your tried and tested HTTP parser. With SPDY, you cannot use your tried and tested SSL implementation. With a little bit of foresight, implementation of both might have involved use of only SSL Next Protocol Negotation (SPDY's approach) and a completely separate, orthogonal SPDY/WebSocket parser. This would also remove some of the more "innovative" features of WebSocket (Sec-WebSocket-Key and that magical fixed UUID).

This is a testament to how heavily rushed both protocols were, and the kind of thing that could be avoided with a more strongly community lead process, which was missing at least in the early stages of WebSocket. I have no idea what it was like for SPDY, but given that the "innovative" header compression feature somehow survived, I'm guessing not good.
Thanks for the look / comments!

Yeah, it's a tough call, isn't it? Obviously the pictures back from eBay are all different URLs, because they all belong to different auction listings. I suppose one way to do it would be to filter results with the same title, price and seller - try to catch those that upload multiple listings of the same thing?

Maybe I'll look into that :-)

Thanks again!
You could always use AppFog on top of Azure. Then you get proper PaaS plus Azure IaaS....
Page Up and Down keys don't work.
Fish - my new favorite shell
But there is no real Amazon competitor in SV -- at least not where they dominate -- merging product/delivery with web services.
Peter and the sibling comment to this one seem to be ill-informed about firearms.

unless you are the worst hunter in the entire world, would never need such a weapon for hunting. It's like a bow and arrow with a grenade on the end.

This is false. An AK-47 shoots 7.62x39 cartridges, similar to .308 Winchester, which is a very common load for deer hunting. I own an SKS, which was the predecessor to the AK, and shoots the same ammo. It's very cheap, and like the AK is very reliable. This, plus some quirks of US gun control laws, have made this a very popular hunting rifle.

The sibling comment said

I know a guy who hunts with an AR-15. Is that necessary in any way?

Actually, he's got it completely backwards. The loads used in an AR-15 are too weak to use in deer hunting, unless you're a damned good shot. It's a 5.56mm bullet -- essentially a .22 caliber bullet, but with a bunch more velocity to it. This standard NATO round was designed (or maybe later rationalized?) with two important features: (1) it's smaller and lighter, allowing a soldier to carry more of them; and (2) it generally does not kill its human target (and understand that deer are tougher than humans in this regard), and thus ties up not just the enemy's wounded, but also medical resources in caring for the wounded.

The bottom line is that deer, and even more so, bears, elk, moose, etc., are really tough prey. It takes a lot more to take down one of them than it does to incapacitate a human enemy. Thus you need greater kinetic energy from your ammunition when hunting them.

This, of course, says nothing about rate of fire. Semi-auto is very helpful to a hunter. However, full auto is not useful. But then again, it's not very useful to most soldiers, either. That's why the later NATO assault rifles -- M16A2 -- no longer feature full auto. They're selectable to single shot, or three-round bursts.

EDIT, clarification: actually, saying that it takes more kinetic energy for large game is only part of the picture. The real key is energy transferred to the target. So a solid bullet that passes through the target does less harm than a bullet that fragments and gets caught up in the target, thus imparting all of its energy into the target.
There are billions of dollars worth of ASICs in the wild designed to accelerate processing TCP.
Obligatory: http://browsertoolkit.com/fault-tolerance.png
This isn't journalism, it's a piece of agitprop. I'm not just saying this because I think their claims are bullshit, but because the article quotes the lawyer for the farmers, but does not quote a Monsanto spokesman or contain the usual "could not be reached for comment".

Anyone writing an article who thinks they need to only talk to one of the parties in a lawsuit isn't practicing journalism.

I'd rather not see this on HN. Maybe the topic is appropriate (patents), but the article doesn't give any information about that aspect of things.
I would say the persistence needed to make something does make it hard. I understand what you're saying, but I don't think you can say it makes it any less difficult to ship something.
When Scott Guthrie spoke at Node Summit he was presenting off a Macbook Air....
I thought Google logon defaulted to SSL for all services.
The Case for Computers at Top Chess Tournaments
Isn't salting a canonical way to vary the output for the same input, thus reducing feasibility of precomputed attacks like rainbow tables? What are the benefits of some extra mangling, besides security through obscurity?
I'm not arguing against using a framework, if it fits your project requirements, and we can argue the day long about micro-vs-full-stack. There are good arguments for both, they suit different people and projects.

My own observation is that bad codebases are the result of bad development practices regardless of framework. In my last job the code quality was so poor (and the management processes so broken) that whether they'd used Django, Flask or roll-your-own would not have made a whit of difference.
Yes, and that's great. To AirBnB, non-solicitation means less competition, because they are going to solicit anyways.
You must take the next paragraph into consideration:

All major internet sites, anybody with more than 50.000 passwords, should design or configure a unique algorithm (consisting of course of standard one-way hash functions like SHA2 etc)

So he is in fact telling you to use a standard one-way hash function along with whatever custom implementation.
Queen Victoria’s journals posted online… as we dig into royal reality.
Yes, but why is this significant? Its not like this is the first time that Tesla have brought a vehicle to production. They've had cars on the market since 2008.
An array slice can also be used as an lvalue in an assignment:

@a = (10, 5, 9, 6, 17, 1);
@a[3,5,1] = qw(yes no maybe);
print "@a";

>> "10 maybe 9 yes 17 no"

In fact, because the slice can be both an lvalue and an rvalue, this is an easy way to transpose elements in-place.

@a = (10, 5, 9, 6, 17, 1);
@a[0,4] = @a[4,0];
print "@a";

>> "17, 5, 9, 6, 10, 1";
Just found this if any PHP developers wants an easy to use bcrypt password library. https://gist.github.com/1053158
It doesn't matter that they know your salting tactic, it still stops reverse-lookup tables with common passwords online.
Care to explain why you hate App Engine so much?
Typical entertainment industry arrogance. They won't offer it until it's very obvious that they're losing out by not having it as an option.

Why lead when you can follow and still stay rich?
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That reminds me of the sage advice Bruce Schneier wrote in Secret and Lies, "Anyone who creates his or her own cryptographic primitive is either a genius or a fool. Given the genius/fool ratio for our species, the odds aren't very good."
I actually think Christopher Nolan or whoever else was involved in writing the recen batman movies are also familiar with Girard:

http://www.jonathanlipps.com/blog/2008/07/the-dark-knight-an...
> The PBKDF2 protocol allows you to safely brew your own password scrambler using any hash functions you choose. It is equivalent to bcrypt for common purposes, assuming the hash functions you pick are decent.

NO! Bcrypt in particular is designed to resist GPU brute forcing.
This is not the first time I'm noticing how US is checking every passenger against some database with everything he said online. This makes me a lot less likely to ever visit the US, and if awareness about cases like these grows, I'm sure others will think the same way.
I think the story here is: company that offers a password vault product thinks it's a good idea to encourage users to enter their passwords in third-party websites.
Forget B-School, D-School Is Hot
X.org 7.7 Released, includes multi-touch support
You missed http://gamedev.net one of the best game development boards.
Not just Django, every framework sucks for sophisticated applications.
See also: http://content.gpwiki.org/index.php/Game_Engines
Chris Mason, the lead Btrfs developer, is leaving Oracle
A NO FUSS Euro2012 Wallchart
Simply Zesty founder offering €10K to two Irish startups (for equity)