skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was planning to use Go on a new project, but there were two blockers that made me decide against using it: the 32bit memleak issue and lack of support for older Linux distros.

The go guys seem very dismissive of valid concerns from developers who really want to use Go:

e.g. Sarcasm for users who need to run on older linux kernels and distros:
http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=3211#c14

e.g. Solutions for 32bit memory leak is: works for me on 64bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQLhGZVN4A

I bought a book on Go and was planning to use it for a new project, but decided against it after seeing the disregard for developers with valid concerns who want to use the language.
Regarding 1., my phone reads strength and inclination of the field. I suppose that these two, coupled with a compass, could in theory give enough information to collapse the belief state to a single position. Moving a bit should give you enough data to further ensure precision.

Either that, or WiFi. :)
I've read both the version you told PG, and what you say you should have said a number of times and I still don't get it.

It sounds like Google Wave. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing, but it sounds like you are having the same problem they had: explaining what the hell it does.

When I tried to explain Wave to people I said it was a combination of the ideas of Wiki, email, chat and a forum, designed to make accomplishing shared work easier. It's still not great, but I don't think it's an easy thing to communicate.
You don't agree, otherwise you wouldn't be abusing your body like that. This is the definition of lip service.
And decades of dumping. And slum lords. And wild dogs. And squatters. And massive pollution. And peripheral crime. And dodgy-to-nonexistent infrastructure.

People see cheap building sales in Detroit and they don't realize those almost always come with requirements to pay back-taxes, tear down all the structures, decontaminate the grounds, etc.

There are good (read: expensive) reasons that much of Detroit remains abandoned.
Try http://gun.io/open/
iPodTouches go with the generation of phone they are the same generation of.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353

I suggest release date to figure that out.
We're looking to make a change to Baker (https://github.com/simbul/baker) an open source tool for publishing books and magazines on the iPad. Its a hybrid app, so it allows people to create their magazine or book in HTML/CSS and then wraps it up into an app. Its pretty sweet actually, the people behind it do a really great job.
The limitation we're trying to get around is that you can only include one issue (or book) inside your app binary, and any additional ones need to be downloaded at a later date. We'd like to be able to include multiple issues of our magazine up front, since the issues are small and it will save us the cost of setting up a server (at least for a bit). Plus the user won't have to be connected to the internet to get more issues, which is a nice feature of people are traveling, on a plane, etc.
> in fact, [Good Will Hunting] seems intensely concerned with the insufficiency of Will’s education; his lack of formal education is implicated in his inability to engage in supposedly normal social and professional behavior.

Um, actually no. The character's "inability to engage" is very clearly rooted in his having grown up in an atmosphere of severe emotional and physical abuse. I'm wondering what movie this guy watched that he missed that.
Thank you to the whole team of heroic PyCon organizers!
You posted this 17 hours ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215828
I don't see a lot of the child prodigies really keeping up the pace. How many of the companies started by 16-year-olds actually last? Maybe in the 80s when guys were genuinely making blockbuster video games by themselves in college (e.g. Jordan Mechner, Eric Chahi)... but they really only had one or two hits in them.
> when the ORM could just allow you to use relational concepts directly

There is a database toolkit in ruby-land that allows you do just that! It's called Sequel.

I've built an example, which I deliberately kept as bare-bones and explicit as possible: https://gist.github.com/1aa977a63b7d6a727497

You can also build something similar on top of ARel which backs ActiveRecord.
Great talk by Rob Pike:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs
"Go Concurrency Patterns" with cute little gophers playing Chinese whispers with megaphones
Hope that they're still keeping the Win 8 Pro upgrade deal available until the end of Jan 2013.
Something similar to this already happens in the UK, except it takes place in the middle of cities rather than in abandoned areas:

http://2.8hourslater.com/
I promised myself to be a volunteer next year. Really excited about it. The 2012 conference was wonderful. It was engaging, informative and had an excellent set of talks/speakers. Major props!!
Been using Win 8 as my main OS (because i'm developing a WinRT app) for about 4 months now and it's great. Eagerly awaiting the RTM build.
(TM) also means that you've submitted a trade-mark application.
While I can't offer technical feedback like everyone else, I'd say tone down that background a little bit for easier readability. :)

Edit: Instead of #CCC try #EAEAEA. It made a good difference for me.
Never got an estimated ship date then and seeing this post reminded me about it.

Aside from the fact that the order screen has always said ships in two to three weeks?

You either have terrible attention or you're lying.
Five Steps to Fixing Bad Apps
> Those all fall under the umbrella I gave.

Yes, all or nearly all! That the trig functions are the source of the most important orthogonal basis in Hilbert space theory need not be good to know just for physics or signal processing!

Let's see: Also I mentioned characteristic functions and Bochner's theorem which are core probability and not just physics or signal processing. Characterization of time invariant linear systems might be in mechanical engineering and might be tried even in economics! Seismic data analysis via the fast Fourier transform is, yes, in signal processing but is also mostly regarded as geology or just looking for oil or anything 'down there'.

I tried, as you can see, I really tried, to show how trig was for more than just your father's topics in physics and signal processing. I tried!
Finding a good woman is certainly difficult enough. Vastly harder, however, is knowing that you found the right one and building a solid relationship with her.
I'm apprehensive about moving somewhere just on spec;

One can do this by couchsurfing. That was my technique, back when I was in your position. It needn't be expensive. Just don't wear out your welcome by staying on any particular couch for more than a week or so.

The fact that you're in Santa Cruz, though, makes me wonder if even the couch is strictly necessary.

Your projects sound just fine. (If that word sounds too highfalutin, call them "hacks" or "scripts". Whatever.) Put one or more of them on Github if you can. I have interviewed CS majors with good GPAs who had literally never built anything that they weren't assigned to build for a class, who had (e.g.) never deployed a page live on the web. The skills and disciplines required to build and ship things are largely orthogonal to what they teach in undergraduate school - it's like the difference between being an art historian and painting a portrait, or between having a Ph.D. in linguistics and delivering a lecture in Hungarian - so any chance you have to demonstrate them, even at small scale, adds depth to your qualifications.

I have no hiring authority at the moment (and am on the wrong coast, alas for both of us) but I'll give you this link to my colleagues:

http://www.acquia.com/careers/acquia-u

There's still plenty of work for Drupal developers, and PHP programmers in general, if you have (or can develop) the personality to deal with it. You will probably need a sense of humor. ;) It's not a great job for perfectionists. But it is a job where a little knowledge can go a long way. If you learn how to analyze queries and create strategic indices in MySQL, for example, people will think you're some species of wizard. The wizard bar is low.

Think of something to build yourself. It's a good thing to practice doing. Start small and develop the habit. Heed the words of Ira Glass:

http://youtu.be/BI23U7U2aUY
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

You got it right the first time -- figured you'd try again with more linkbait words?
What are the thorny edge cases that C# generics have? Java generics have use-site, not def-site variance, which is the source of most of the confusion... but C# gets this right.
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Slightly OT, but in Sublime Text, cut with no selection cuts the entire line.
Outsourcing is not quitting. You're creating a business correct? Does the CEO of every business clean the toliets and wash the windows? In the beginning yes but your hourly value increases as your business grows. Outsourcing is just workers on demand (just like the EC2 instance you may be running your startup on).

As for the co-founder it should be pretty simple since you're a technical founder. When I started FriendsEAT I got courted by 20 "idea/marketing/money" potential co-founders because I was a tech founder. Since you're not in a major city you should run a meetup, go to a local techmeetup, go to hackathon... You'll see them all over.
This looks about right for any kind of business, not just software development.
I think he is using quotemarks to highlight the revised wording, and that these are not intended for final consumption.
Very interesting link... From 5.4.3, it actually looks like their magnetic positioning system works better in an indoor environment with lots of magnetic perturbations.

I would not have expected that result, but thinking about it more it does make sense. They are estimating "where have I moved" using the local magnetic field, which is very different than how GPS works "where am I in relation to a fixed constellation".
He's top of the page on HN, a great position from which to promote his product.

It's pretty clear from the responses here that nothing in the post communicates clearly what his product does, despite being about finding a better way to do just that.

That's a shame, and there's a rapidly vanishing opportunity here to correct that.

So the feedback he's getting here is the most valuable he's likely to ever get.
Using Joel's definition of inventory and then reading "The Goal" would be a useful thing to do.

IT and software shops often have no clue about what is actually stopping them from shipping product.
thats exactly what I did. though I really like cf and its attempt at making domain management a bit more 2.0. they havent nailed threat protection yet.
Let's see how many more Facebook reposts the hufpo title gets.

(yeah, i consider that the dumbest metric ever. Only even looked at by bloggers and creative ad agencies who are clueless about market research)
Of course there are other factors involved as well. Even with an ideal environment there is still a lot that can go wrong.
The standard idiom in Go is X緑, I believe.
I know of merge, but usually I just don't need it. article.users.editorial would usually be enough for my needs.

I'd have great usage of union (which doesn't exist, or doesn't exist in the version of rails I'm stuck in) though.
With a barcode that horribly long, wouldn't they have been better going with a QR code for reliability?
I think you make excellent points.

But "PG as the test of their company's viability" is because PG is a gatekeeper.

"but rather, how much a poorly crafted value proposition or explanation of your product can instantly and quickly turn off your customers."

People have to be able to understand what you are saying. You can't confuse them or give them big words or concepts.

Ironically PG isn't really a good filter for this because he is so high level. If you are selling to a pizza shop owner most likely they didn't go to Harvard and their brain isn't wired the way PG's is. OTOH a concept that the pizza owner understands can be understood by PG as well.

One of the things I always suggest (for researching business ideas) is to run stuff by "normals". Whether it be people at the train platform, Starbucks, or Walmart to use as additional intel and data points.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought this article is about pitching to an investor. I thought that once your gotten your idea in front of PG that you've already hammered our your product with customers. Do organizations pitch to PG that have not tried anything with customers yet?
I agree. Dissecting their initial answer:

> So what is Rocketr?
> “Rocketr is a bottom-up approach to knowledge management. We connect people through their notepads. Basically, people take notes and decide how to share them. The primary mechanism by which they share them is through co-authored notebooks.”

> Rocketr is a bottom-up approach to knowledge management.

That reads like pure marketing fluff. That's your opening statement, and the first thing I hear is dead air. Rocketr is, from here, a methodology. It's an idea. Nothing more.

> We connect people through their notepads.

Okay, this is what it wants to accomplish. My notepad is on paper. How is this methodology going to help me share my notepad and connect me with people? Which people, btw? Why do they want to see my notepad?.

Up until this point, we still don't know what Rocketr is. What is the actual product? Hell, I'm not even sure what the problem is. A notepad is, for me, a place to jot notes down in. It's not a formal document. It contains phrases and doodles. So, I'm not even sure I'm in the right frame of mind.

> Basically, people take notes and decide how to share them.

Again, is note sharing a big issue? I can see content management being something, but note sharing?

And the "decide how to share them" has me confused. I thought that was the problem you were solving, how to share them. Maybe you just mean permissions, which is really something I would assume anyways. It's not a feature.

> The primary mechanism by which they share them is through co-authored notebooks.

So... what? This is going to be an iPad app? I'm assuming here, as it could be something like one of those pens that you take a note with and records the sound (I forget the name), and it has the ability to share the actual notes. That would be interesting. But I'm assuming that's not what you are doing, and so you are going with an actual iPad?

Maybe real time notes, for a meeting? Seems that could get confusing fast.

Regardless, I'm still not sure what it is, or where it sits, or what problem it's solving for me.

You need an elevator pitch. Something that describe what the product is, who the customer is, and what problem does it solve for the customer, and how it solves it.

From there, you can expand, but something simple, something straight forward. Something that is filled with nouns and verbs. Because, I honestly believe if you can't define your product like that, you don't completely understand it as well.
WSJ has, from what I've seen of it, anyway, a thriving community of lively and animated discussion... as long as they post an article about President Obama or the Democrats.
Or cognitive dissonance. Which many alcoholics and drug addicts do experience, if we wish to continue with his chosen analogy.
Common Lisp has hash-tables, vectors, and sets .. had it, in an ANSI-specified document since 1984. The implementation details of these is, well, implementation dependent, be they HAMT or whatever.

The language provides a wealth of tools out of the box, but it's the job of the programmer to choose more appropriate tools for the problems at hand.

The following is the Common Lisp specification. 12+ implementations, half of them industrial strength, more than half commercial vendors, and everyone of them has to adhere to this spec:

http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/8.2/ansicl/ansicl...
What part did you not understand from my post?

These are native code compilers without any need of extra runtime exactly like C.

Just because most people only know Oracle(Sun)'s JVM, it does not mean it is the only way to execute Java code.
illamint: the feature is sold as "comfort access keyless entry," and it allows the driver to start the engine without inserting the electronic key. (Without this feature, the default setup for BMWs is that the driver must insert the electronic key before starting the engine -- a form of two-step authentication that isn't susceptible to the attack described in the article.)

FWIW, I know about this firsthand because I bought a new BMW last year and I was adamant about not having the "keyless entry" feature -- for security reasons. The BMW salesperson acted like I was a bit crazy.
Nothing new about brown press.

A little demodé even.

And i bet $5 nobody here ever landed on it's pages.
That sounds way depressing, but only because of how familiar it is (i didn't even have kids!)

I hope your app becomes popular during the Olympics, and you can work on your passion!
Your post smells like almost anybody who doesn't work in a start up is shit.

Its far more easier to say all this when you tons of financial support to fall back on in case of failures. And there are a lot of rich kids I know who do it. I have friends who happily didn't finish their graduation, worked at call centers and threw random efforts at businesses and failed. Often is such cases, some one else is footing the bill. And most of your failures are sponsored by the person's dad or elder brother.

In most of such cases its not risk that they are taking. They just don't have any more options left. They are not good at doing day jobs, because they have had it easily their whole lives. Such guys just can't work under a boss. So they feel business is what they need to do.

Now if you are struggling to pay your home rent, you have a sister to marry off and your Dad's retirement is due next year. I don't see why such a person should not take a job in a big company. You won't understand the plight of this guy, unless you walk in his shoes.

You can call him coward, or under confident or just not capable to taking risks. The fact is such a guy is fighting a daily battle to keep his affairs running. Big risks, with big financial failures are not possible for his already financially stressed life.
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I think that this is a different meaning of 'different' from the one usually recognised in computer science; it's my understanding that what usually matters is extensional equality (are the same outputs (eventually) produced for the same inputs?) rather than intensional equality (are those outputs produced in the same way?). Otherwise, all compiler transformations would be illegal.

(You could argue that a (correct) transformation that sends space usage way up may actually change even extension equality, in the sense that it could result in the transformed algorithm failing on a given piece of hardware when the original algorithm would have succeeded. However, my understanding is that the state of 'realistic' computer science, where hardware limitations are part of the reasoning, is in a much more primitive state than 'idealised' computer science.)
No, YOU don't get it. Maybe you should not reference places you've never been too in your posts.
yoklov, for some reason I can't reply directly. There are a few common lisp libraries of persistent, immutable data structures that perform well. This one is implemented most closely to Clojure's: https://github.com/ks/X.FDATATYPES . This one has been around for a long time and is quite stable: http://common-lisp.net/project/fset/Site/index.html .
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When a person has seen only a single sociopolitical system, it is easy to just shrug and say "it just is this way.". It is often only after seeing the totally different systems active in other societies first-hand that it becomes brilliantly clear that not only are the wrongs back home unacceptable, but that the other society you have found also possesses its own share of injustices that the locals are indifferent to. It is not wrong to be enraged at the suffering and petty evil everywhere. It is simply uncommon and stressful to try to do something since a single individual's effort may seem like that of an ant.
I don't like the part about using people's names.

I personally don't like it when someone I don't know uses my name unnecessarily. It strikes me as odd and makes me think they're trying some psych 101 tactic on me. It's completely counterproductive because it makes meh mind jump off topic.

It's fine to show that you know someone's name (like at the end of a call), but if you wouldn't throw a friend's name into a sentence, don't inject a stranger's.
1. The 32 bit memleak is indeed a prioirity and the Go team has made definitive statements about dealing within coming couple weeks.

2. Most of the team is a bit young and cheeky but they do mean business and actually engage the public very patiently about modifications/improvements etc in their mailing list. The dismissive attitude is usually them trying to stick to their core goals of making go an expressive, orthognal and highly readable language. Usually they have good enough reasons for picking a choice.

I would seriously recommend you to "not browse through" some source code but rather "play" with it. It really does feel different. Its like the feel of a quick dynamic language but on a more type safe static language. Its kindof fun at the least. Not the mention their CSR inspired concurrency approach. Its really interesting.
Give it a shot, what you got to lose?
Pathological bridge-burner here. Agreed.
You mean VM Kit then, with AOT compilation for Java, just like Clang but for Java.

http://vmkit.llvm.org/
I completely understand. I'm exactly the same way. However, I think it's really important that entrepreneurs think long term. This stuff takes a long time, even overnight success. Give it consistent work but try to keep it a healthy side project in your head so you don't freak out over a lack of early success. Good luck!
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I don't know much about India, but what has always me from making the leap to entrepreneurship in South Africa is that there is no safety net if things go wrong. I wonder if a similar dynamic exists in India.

Yes, we have a public health service with free care in South Africa, but the state hospitals are in a shocking state. Private healthcare and health insurance is very expensive, and there is no in-between state provided insurance option (like US Medicaid). If you get sick without health insurance, you will end up in a shocking state hospital to be neglected and abused.

Yes, we have free public education, but the public schools are in a poor state. You don't want your kids going to a public school (some good government schools exist but they are difficult to get into if you don't live in the expensive feeder areas, and they charge substantial fees).

From what I've read about India, the state is fairly incompetent (more so than even South Africa), and I wonder if people choose to work for BigCo, rather than risk total catastrophe if things go wrong.

The level of risk in SV (or any first-world country) if things go wrong is probably an order of magnitude smaller than it would be in a third-world country.
this one opens for me as well. Maybe this has to do with Security settings on the domain?
Which gentleman is a police officer?