skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was reading an article about implementing an interpreter for Brainfuck in PyPy, and when the example code for some simple Brainfuck programs came up, I just stared. I really fail to see how one would go about programming just about anything in that language. (Here's the article in case anyone is interested, a pretty good read IMO: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/04/tutorial-writing-interp...)
I brought this up with a couple Facebook PMs last week; they seemed nonplussed. One of them brought up the fact that the average user has fewer than 150 friends; he gently suggested that I was an edge case.

I disagree, even someone with 10 friends will show one face to five and another face to the other five (if those five are a separate group.)

Zuckerberg's comments about "integrity" suppose that we have an atomic identity that we sometimes modify out of weakness of character. Nonsense. Our identities emerge out of interactions (the linked essay makes the same point without sounding like an undergrad who just read some critical theory.)

The unfortunate thing for Facebook (and Google+) is that no one has made a successful feature set around different friend groups in the same service. Facebook might have to resign itself to being people's public face.
The core activity of a band is making music. The bottom line can be helped a lot by marketing. Other roles may be very important to allow the musicians to focus. Sometimes musicians need to be kept sober or made to practice more, with which others can help. So other people can make value in a band and deserve to get paid. But take away the musicians, and you have absolutely nothing. Plenty of people have made good music without lots of managers over them. In that specific sense, musicians are the most important part of a band.
I actually wrote that knowing very well they are a YC company. What I feel is that there are some awesome ideas/challenges being worked on by YC companies and then there are not so inspiring ones. Maybe a dilution due to more available pool of money.

Somehow I felt YC should only work on really challenging problems, but its a perception that doesn't lead to profits always :).
Remember that Xcode 4 was 4.99 on osx before Lion.
Something like 300 million PCs are predicted to be sold in 2013 I think? Most of these will have this new hardware.

Just like someone above mentioned, Microsoft needs to jump first. Windows 8 is more extreme, but a similar example is that the release of Vista made 4GB of RAM become the defacto standard for laptops without raising price.

I'm sure this new hardware will be more expensive, but I would predict that less than a year after it's out, the prices will stabilize such that a split-screen laptop will cost the same as a normal one with the same specs would have a year or 2 ago.
I don't know if Facebook will be people's public faces. At least for me, it's a much more private thing than Twitter and I'm much more comfortable posting personal content on it. Is that not the same for you?

Also, I think Google tried to tackle this issue with Google Plus, but they were just too late to the game. Maybe if they'd come earlier, it really could have been a successful solution to this problem.
Sadly, this is the truth.
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No doubt. I'm on the side of "acceptable UI but provides maximum values through functionalities".

I used Ext-JS (Ext-GWT) before too on a (failed) startup. I'm not ashamed to admit that.
I get it, but it's still a stupid law that punishes the average iranian citizen that has nothing to do with the iranian government. I recently lost a job offer in a semiconductor company because of the deemed export law. And by "a foreign person" they actually mean chinese, iranian, syrians and cubans. Most technologies aren't restricted to most of the world including Saudia Arabia and Pakistan the origins of almost all terrorists.
I have that, too. It is very cool and it's fuuny to watch some people get confused when I give out my address and it's not something they recognize like gmail or yahoo.
5 and 7 series are legit. 3 series are for people who get their first six figure job, and college kids of well-off parents.

In San Francisco, every 10th car is a 3 series. I wish I was joking.
The redesign is only skin deep. As soon as you log in you're back to the old UI.
It's a common financial strategy among the fabulously-wealthy. Selling shares would incur all kinds of taxes, but he can get a line of credit with a reasonable interest rate quite easily, pay no income taxes, and actually deduct the interest he pays from his taxes. So he carries a lot of debt but it's all backed by assets and paying the interest is tolerable.

Yes, if that's what he's doing, then in the event that his assets utterly evaporate he'll be in a spot of bother. But it's a pretty well-trod path, and probably some non-trivial portion of his assets are quite stable and reliable and not terribly volatile. I won't pretend to know the precise details of his situation, but living off a line of credit isn't at all uncommon and perhaps isn't even unreasonable (from the perspective of financial self-interest alone) for a person in his position.
http://blog.oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/visualizing-bayes-theor...

gives pretty intuitive visual explanation of Bayes theorem .
Hmm. Should Rovio sell Angry Birds support contracts?

Windows occupies a rather unique market position of ubiquity and scale, and its still debatable whether such a thing would be viable given the R&D costs in producing a modern desktop OS, mobile OS, programming languages and runtimes, Metro, etc.

I'm not a Windows expert, but it's pretty undeniable that Apple and MS pour bucket loads of cash into their respective platforms. Linux, on the desktop, has barely caught up to the last decade's state of the art, and in many places (such as graphics drivers), it relies on closed-source software.

Underneath it all is closed source hardware (like those graphics chipsets and proprietary processor cores). Nobody tends to complain about that, since spending millions on hardware development is out of reach. Making use of software source code is equally out of reach to nearly all users: thus, they just don't care.
I like your ambitions and the ability to write popular posts on HN. But I do not buy into this post, it's obvious that there's is something which bothers you:

You together with your friends were rejected by YC in the past, now your friends got into YC—without you.

So, what does it mean? Was it because of you? Are your friends more entrepreneurial than you and are they just smarter? Graham says the team is always more important than the idea and that he rather takes great teams with mediocre ideas than the other way round—so it must be you, you do not fit into YC?! Or was it just by accident? Nobody knows but this awkward feeling will stay with you for some time.

Getting into YC is for many younger entrepreneurs and starters a great opportunity and finally an approval for their skills. Saying "I decided not to go" to the interview and then after your friends gotten into YC saying "but again, I said no" and writing just a long blog post is just—sorry no offense—the desperate try to keep your state and save your face. It's like those guys in a bar seeing a hot babe too shy to approach her saying "no, she not my type" or "c'mon guys, is this your league? She is ugly!".

Bringing up the job offer from Friedman (which was more kind of a PR stunt of 42floor) is another weak try to prove that you go your own way forgetting that this job offer was ok but not a real opportunity like YC.

Not that YC is everything and that you won't have other opportunities but we all know that YC could have been a great opportunity learning new stuff for you and why miss it? This was a heavy bummer which you haven't worked up yet. You don't need to tell the world about it or that it hurts you but don't tell us that you are fine that you missed the hot babe while your friends are dating her already for months.
All of the (moderately) famous people I know on Facebook have (at least) two Facebook accounts: their public / fan identity, and their private / friend identity. I think it's officially against the rules, but even when they obviously use the same name, and presumably log in from the same IP address, Facebook doesn't seem to care.
It's a lot of work to redesign a website, especially one with lots of weird pages. Makes me wonder of how much of an undertaking that would be... perhaps it would be easier to rebrand, build the same thing in a better way, with their API.
Technically true, but I write most of my code in the REPL, then use edit-method to get it into my editor.

Fom the link: NOTE: If you're using Ruby 1.9, you can use edit-method on methods defined from the Pry console. As these methods have no associated file, this implies the -p switch. This functionality doesn't yet work for Ruby 1.8.
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Awesome! I met these guys in Puerto Rico, and they are a great team! If you need some programming work done, you should consider helping them bootstrap http://bootstrap.getblimp.com/
Creating Classification Trees in Ruby
Premature optimization is not about "optimizing before you need it", it's about optimizing before you've measured it. In this case, you have already measured it; you know the cost. There's nothing premature of optimizing at this moment. I would consider spending a day profiling the current setup to figure out exactly how much you could optimize.

> and takes a lot less programmer time

I don't see how this is true. You've already spent time setting up a distributed system from scratch (pretty much at least), and you also need to maintain it. Distributed systems are complicated stuff; lots of stuff that can go wrong. If the optimization made it possible to use a single machine, it would be much easier to grasp and debug.
I don't want to take away from the excitement of an exit for a 20 year old, but Giglocator was around since 2009, it never got much traction.

I would have expected the 20 under 20 to be building new products in the program, or building/scaling their existing businesses. This strikes me as going against the spirit of innovation that Theil espouses.
This isn't really hostile to hardware vendors if you think about their incentives. They're the parties who would benefit most from a user buying a brand new phone once the 18 months of support expires. There's zero incentive for most hardware vendors to support old hardware with software updates, because unlike Apple, they don't see any additional revenue once the phone is in the customer's hands. Apple even gets revenue from customers of second-hand iPhones years after initial release, thanks to their cut of the app store sales.
Minus the part about t only working well for java and having to write your code in java ;)

I also use rubymine for ruby development and it gives me a lot of the IntelliJ stuff, but it doesn't always work. I.e cmd-b to jump to the method definition.
James Dole, cousin of Sanford Dole, who was the first President of Hawaii after the overthrow by the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingd...
This new perspective on the BMC makes total sense, it aligns the planing process to start with the client in mind (which, by the way, we sheldom forget to do).
You can form a baseball team entirely out of players. They might even play pretty well. You just can't form a baseball team entirely out of managers.

If the upper levels are in more uncertain and ambiguous situations, that makes it even harder to judge performance, which will give even greater weight to wild heuristic guesses in hiring, and more cover for things like nepotism.
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Propel's implementation of related collections definitely could use some improvement. In your example, you wouldn't necessarily lose your new object, it just wouldn't be persisted through a call to the parent order to save. My general habit is to call save on a newly created object directly, and as soon as possible. Regardless, I definitely agree this is one (and there are some other points) where Propel definitely has rough edges.
Doesn't anyone view static typing as done in a language like Haskell as a form of documentation? I am not saying ALL Haskell code can be deciphered by its types - hell no. But a useful technique is to express the semantics of the program into the type system (as much as possible anyways) to communicate intent. This is a huge benefit over dynamic languages imho. So there is more too it than just verification, even if that is extremely nice.
Do tools matter?
And why do you think its not?
We have tried a few times (before this company was established) and yes, it can be crap. However, we've got a few ideas on how to fix this such as matte overlays, light filters, anti-speckle laser projectors, etc. We're very early stage so I can't tell you whether any of those will work at all, but I'm confident we can solve the technical problems - it's the business side I'm finding hard!
Yep, there is no silver bullet.

But that doesn't mean all bullets are created equal.
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It's such a cliche but worth repeating: there will always be someone more X than you are (rich, skilled, fast at running 100m, skilled at coding, effective at business) whatever it is. If you're attempting to derive your sense of happiness through relative goal posts like that then you'll never stop - you won't ever get to a point at which you have an "absolute" sense of success. The good news is you can get that sense of absolute success now: just focus on what you have and practice being happy (which is both a choice and a skill).

Secondly: don't think about what you can do out of the context of how that helps someone else.

"I can code"
"I can make music"
"I can ride a horse backwards"

All these are fantastic skills - what problems do they solve? You'll notice in each of the cases referenced in the original post, he is picking a very specific problem with a well defined revenue model. These are everywhere. Practice looking for them, and practice releasing anything (there are so many free services out there now you barely even need a backend for your site in order to make money - for example you could create a static site to generate affiliate revenue without a backend, then pay someone to build the backend once you have cashflow).

At any rate, don't focus on what you have to offer, focus on what other people need and eventually you'll see something where you think "you know I can do that - I could solve that problem" then you do it - and it might work or it might not, but you just keep trying.

Also just some context: I'm 31, I was "the kid to started the lemonade stand" etc. etc. I never had any business success, studied engineering at 21, got trapped in technology and emerged about 2 years ago and have been reconnecting with my business/sales self ever since. I currently gross about $200k per year but have a team of 2 people and a wife and child to feed so whilst we're subsisting we're not rich. We are growing, and with each year I find that my focus on solving problems and keeping my clients' and customers' needs at the front of my mind at all times, and not getting wrapped up/absorbed in the technology, not only does the business grow but that rate of growth increases as well.
It's better to learn something in your 20s or 30s then say "I should have done that when I was 12" and then never learn anything and become an ignorant 40 year old!

It pains me when people compare themselves to the upper 1% of upwardly mobile people and then lose their self-worth over the whole deal.
Part of the "Big Five". 'The extent of the power that the Big Five had was considered by some as equivalent to an oligarchy." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_(Hawaii)
how revolutionary the battery is? Compared to the ones in the market such as Nissan Leaf, Mitshubishi imiev, etc
I like that photo of the lake. The tagline should be "Want to access your money? Start swimming!"
I (the author) appreciate the feedback. I believe that many of your criticisms are addressed in the actual paper. First of all I completely agree that my sample size is too small for a conclusive proof. I mention in the paper that I hope that others will try and replicate this experiment on other pieces of software. I do think it's appropriate when conducting an experiment to publish a conclusion, not that the experiment will constitute proof (or an established scientific theory), but as a conclusion to the study that others can try to confirm or refute.

I also mention in the paper that it would be beneficial to conduct this experiment using different type systems for the reasons that you stated above.

The argument against static typing that I was testing didn't mention any particular type system nor any particular dynamically typed language, it was a general argument that stated that unit testing obviated static typing. Because the argument was so general and absolute I felt that any static type system that could be shown to expose bugs that were not caught by unit testing would be enough to refute the argument. I was not trying to prove that any type system would catch bugs not found by any unit tested software. The paper also points out that I'm trying to see whether unit testing obviates static typing in practice, in theory you could implement a poor mans type checker as unit tests, but my experiment was focused on whether in practice unit testing obviates static typing.

Finally I believe that my conclusion in the paper was at least a bit more modest than that of the blog post. The lack of apparent modesty in the blog post was caused more by a lack of ability on my part to accurately summarize than an inflated sense of accomplishment and self importance.
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It's not fear it's business.

The airports are more than happy to buy into the idea of extra security measures because it means that they will spend more money in the airport while waiting for the plane.
While we're at it, what would be really cool is if we could design a program to automatically look at the Haskell program, decide if it's undecidable, and fix it.
If importance were gauged by doing dirty work without which things would fail, then the janitor is also more valuable. But janitors are cheap because they are easy to get.

If good* PMs are paid more, it is because they are harder to get. That doesn't mean they are more important, just that the company believes them to be worth it and does not believe it can get a better deal without paying unreasonably for it.

* good means whatever the person hiring thinks it means. If the hiring manager believes in auras or psychoanalysis or nepotism, then those things will determine the hire.
That never happens though. The only way for money to sit still is to literally pull it out in cash and stuff it under a mattress.
Considering the amount of work that would have gone into redesigning the exterior, I couldn't fathom how much work would be involved in redesigning the logged in interior part, it's not easy to just redesign an entire web application and when you're a site like Paypal the logged in view UI probably doesn't matter so much because you've already succeeded in converting a visitor into a Paypal account holder. When you're a site as big as Paypal, you've got to approach changes like this very carefully. Having said that, it's good to see design updates being made the old design screamed 2001 and needed drastic work.
My grandfather taught me HTML

Whoa O_o
There is quite a bit of national park areas that do not allow humans, many in the pacific.
Also in Italy is a common strategy to fill of "paid content" such kind of sites (and also blog & forums) right after launch. It makes sense, indeed.... Who wants to partecipate to an empty reddit?
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The ruling was pretty airtight, though, from all accounts.

Why would Oracle pursue what ultimately will be a tremendous waste of resources for them and for everybody else? (This is a bit of a rhetorical question.)
I believe the original statement was "Windows on a phone". If Windows Mobile (Windows CE) doesn't count, Windows Phone 7 (also Windows CE) doesn't either. Windows Mobile 6.1 through 6.5 was actually branded Windows Phone.

Maybe people are just realizing that the Microsoft of the Xbox era isn't the same as the Microsoft of the Windows 9x era and the grass isn't always greener on the Apple side. Maybe people are just sick of hearing the same anti-Microsoft circlejerk and facts-be-damned arguments. Hell, I'm a Linux user and I get pissed. Even when MS comes out with a good, competitive product, the Internet cries "failure!" before it's even released. "Why doesn't Microsoft just copy Apple?" "OMG Microsoft just copied Apple!"

For the record, I felt the same way when the Internet started bashing on ChromeOS and the iPad before giving it a chance.
The big problem on mobile is that the Like button is extremely tiny, and not all platforms can utilize the iFrame version of the Like plugin. By making it available through an Open Graph action, developers can embed it into apps, on web pages with a better target than the standard Like button, and on web pages as well in a way that fits the design scheme of the website.

It seems like it allows Liking of any page with Open Graph tagging, only question I have is if you can use it to Like a Facebook page still. I plan to test that out shortly, probably tomorrow.
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Bruce Schneier posted a good opinion piece today. In particular he notes that unlike virtually all other government activity, the TSA has never done a cost benefit analysis, and that tweaks to the process of spending an unlimited amount of money on security theatre won't actually achieve anything.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/06/rand_paul_take...
Wow... CircuitLab is like a modern, web-based Spice. I love this idea. I will be using your site to quickly generate images for papers and presentations, and I will certainly recommend it to students. Awesome!

(Are you using Spice as the underlying simulator?)
Ah, this must be "the island owned by an American gentleman" as it was called by our BnB host on a neighbor island, followed by a warning not to try and dock there.
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Can you crowdsource all the way to IPO? Do the crowdsourced investors get right of first refusal? Can you do something like:
Round 1) 1000 investors put $100
Round 2) 10000 investors put in $1000/each
Round 3) 10000 investors put in $10000/each
Round 4) IPO

Will VCs become more like activist hedge funds, that invest in public companies. If startup stocks are liquid, will VCs have to deal with mark-to-market valuation of their portfolios?
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Don't feed the trolls telling me not to feed the trolls. Got it.
If he has enough cash he could apply for EB-5 visa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa
It's utterly astounding how quickly the technology seems to need to be scrapped and replaced in TSA-land.

I need to get in on this racket.
What kind of assurances do we have that he won't develop it?

Seems like the ONLY assurance is to have it under the state or federal park program.

Note that this was not public land -- it had been owned by the Hawaiian Pineapple Company and then Castle & Cooke, so this is not a public to private ownership transfer.

Wikipedia has the details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai
means big brother in korean
means also grandfather in chinese (I think it's certain dialect)
"PayPal.com gets a new landing page" is more like it.
Good luck then. Sound like an exciting project.

Oh and; Whiteboards are white. You don't have to re-project the white part. (Didn't see that in your list. Sprang to mind)