skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting, they invest an average of $15,000 in each company so let's say they have invested somewhere around 6M.

According the the FAQ (http://ycombinator.com/faq.html) they take an average of 6 or 7 percent stake in each company.

For shits and giggles let's use 6%. A low end estimate of their ROI would be around a whopping 174%. Their current holdings of the 7.78 Billion would be around 466 million.

This is all wacky math I realize but it's interesting to take into account how well this fund has done.
Annoyingly they are 16:9 which means you lose some vertical resolution versus 16:10. I'm pretty sure I bought the last two displays with 16:10 in this area.

For those who care about colour checkout http://www.hughski.com for a device and http://lwn.net/Articles/499231/ for details. It turns out that manufacturers do ship displays with completely wrong colour calibration (yes I'm looking at you Lenovo).
As in Google Groups?
Whoa, that's a bummer story. Not quite that London trader who somehow managed to lose $2B on bad hedging, but still.
This App Will Train Your Brain To Remember Anything
HTML5 Motion controlled space invaders using webrtc/webcam and canvas
The guy in the article mentions having trouble figuring out how to change the brightness using the non-OSD controls.

As great as LCD monitors are, the one thing I miss about CRT's is having an analogue brightness control. It made it really convenient to adjust the monitor at night.

(Also, I miss not having blue LED's and touch-sensitive controls. They really need to force designers to read Don Norman's book).
It's always a good idea to separate business logic from presentation logic. The idea in Meteor is that your business logic can run on either the client or the server as is appropriate in a given situation. For example, if you want to get the most recent 10 posts in the news feed, the exact same line of code works on both the client and server. Why have two APIs for this when you could have one? Of course the server still has to make sure that clients can't read or write to records they shouldn't (cf point 6, "Sensitive code runs in a privileged environment.")
It's pretty incredible to think that YC is likely the highest performing venture fund in history.

For 380 companies that works out to about $7.6 million invested into a portfolio of companies worth $7.78 billion. Assuming a 2-7% stake for YC(after dilution), that puts the value of YC's share at $155-$545 million on that $7 million invested.
How tech can help the 'screwed' generation make ends meet
Thanks Jordan. I've emailed you.
Pure functional: Lisp, Scheme, Erlang etc

Wha???? You didn't even mention Haskell under pure functional languages, but listed three that aren't.
You're not taking into consideration the various dilutions and other preferred rights from other investors but all in all - it's clear that this fund will be very successful.
GiveForward Raises $2 Million For Crowd-sourced Donation Service
The actual review also is about half the minimum length of a novel[1], and as this review describes, takes two hours to read. In some ways I'll agree that it's appropriate because it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" or so, but it strikes me that we should amortize across the time spent on the subject. If you compare this to, say, spending two hours watching lectures from online courses, I am not sure the review of Mountain Lion really holds up.

In that sense, the review-of-the-review indeed packs much more density-of-gratification than the review did. If the gratification density is to be reflected in the points value, then the points are justly apportioned.

[1] I am basing this purely on the word count and the fact that NaNoWriMo requires 50,000 words to classify something as a novel; I have not checked to see how actual novels fare against this goal.
What makes this "hacker" news?
Twitter Doesn't Care About Geeks
It depends on how much you value the extra time and effort it takes to replace them. If you buy spares ahead of time to negate that time and effort, then have you really saved money?
Paper.li Monetizes with Pro & Enterprise Versions
For what it's worth, the original title was changed to "Is C++ worth it?" after the fact.
Helping Microbusiness Take On Megabusiness
They just sent me an email begging me to sign up again. I quit the streaming service because I ran out of interesting things to watch.

(Of course the email is a "no reply" - we want to talk at you, not hear from you - and gives no indication that there is any new worthwhile content.)
Good point. Added Haskell
I think this is what really bothered me about them, its almost like that cliched part in a breakup where you get to go "you've changed".

Years ago, I was a netflix evangelist, getting into heated online arguments with my friends about how awesome netflix was and how it was going to decimate blockbuster (Can you imagine how chuffed I was when that actually happened and my friends had to issue mea culpas, one by one?)

I really thought people were being hyper reactive when netflix first announced their pricing changes and Qwikster, I was actually going to buy a ton of the stock when it was at $64.

But I witnessed their newfound intransigence first hand, they wouldn't let me use the ipad app unless I had signed up for streaming (even though I was a paying customer with an actual DVD queue that I wanted to manage), they removed the ability to put an account on hold, forcing me to cancel my account after almost 6 years as a loyal customer, and the kicker was when I actually went and got an AppleTV and realized that for the way I watch movies, netflix was just a waste of money.

Oddly enough, I was such a fanboi that I would have continued to support them anyway, but there was just this corporate ugliness that I saw in their new direction that made me sever my ties with them.

Netflix never really built on the lead that they got in the movie rental space, they should have built a box that they'd have sold to users as a loss leader to let people watch movies directly from them ... but they never did, now they're dependent on the studios, and hardware makers (Sony, Samsung, Apple etc) to actually deliver movies to people which is not a good place to be. It almost reminds me of how Microsoft surrendered it mobile and tablet lead to Apple ... only Microsoft had strengths in other areas that let it absorb such a massive screwup.

I don't know that Netflix can do the same thing, especially in the face of vicious competition.

I really do wish them the best of luck though, because (just like most real life relationships) even though we've broken up, I still think of them very fondly from time to time.
What makes an object recognition system great?
A lightning talk-sized introduction to Python interpreter bytecodes
As an alum of Excelerate Labs, I can tell you this data is nowhere near accurate. For example, FeeFighters exited about 4 months ago and we had about $1.5 million in funding and 8 employees...none of that is listed here. The information is incomplete or incorrect for the majority of companies who went through Excelerate.
I absolutely love these - they are just "there" without ever having to invest any time or money in maintenance. Almost the perfect no-brainer transportation alternative.
What's interesting is that if 2-3 years ago, ycombinator had the ability to identify and pick winners. I have the impression that in the past year it became the other way around.

Y combinator by picking companies are in fact the kingmakers and are creating the winners.
The issue with Gmail is that you can't affect the order in which the filters are applied.

For example: A error email gets sent to a development mailing list. Normally I tag all of the mailing list emails, and skip the inbox.

- What if I want the error email to stay in my inbox, but only if it's an error email?

- What if I want that email to get tagged as "ERRORS" and "DEV_LIST" and skip the Inbox?

I have to do weird filters like:

filter #1 - if list:DEV_LIST and not subject:ERROR
then tag w/ DEV_LIST and skip Inbox
filter #2 - if list:DEV_LIST and subject:ERROR
then tag w/ DEV_LIST and tag w/ ERROR

or:

filter #1 - if list:DEV_LIST and not subject:ERROR
then tag w/ DEV_LIST and skip Inbox
filter #2 - if list:DEV_LIST and subject:ERROR
then tag w/ DEV_LIST and tag w/ ERROR and skip Inbox

As you can imagine that these can get quite unwieldy.
This is one of the reasons why IPX was a bad idea and never took off. Automagical discovery is always great until it doesn't work.
If that's what they want, then let them use the money to hire an Exec. If not, don't force it on them.

This just limits the charities options, and only benefits exec.
As long as you don't sell your product to Google and stop development as soon as I get used to it and start liking it.
>why are they so cheap

Maybe they are made by slaves in North Korea underthe work exchange program they have...

EDIT: downvoted, but I was being serious... Maybe they are using labor such as that to make these. I dont know I cant think of another reason they are so cheap - unless they see an opportunity to steal the market by dropping margins and getting these to go in high volume ove rthe next months/year...
This is my next: Safari 6.0
there is alot of good information here on various 27" displays from korea. http://www.overclock.net/f/44/monitors-and-displays
The architecture is designed specifically to support your choice of backends. The Meteor client and the Meteor server speak a simple JSON-based protocol called DDP. A Meteor client can talk to any server that can speak DDP. A Meteor server can talk to any client that can speak DDP. In fact, clients can connect to multiple servers by calling Meteor.connect() to open additional connections.

We already have a demonstration DDP client that is written in Python :)

My prediction is that in the future, you'll often see a breakdown where the user interface team works in JavaScript, and some of their code runs on the client, and some on the server. Other teams will build backend services in whatever language is best for the job, and they'll talk to the JavaScript written by the UI team (sometimes interfacing directly on the client, and sometimes, for example when multiple services are integrated, going through some JS code on the server.)

That's just a guess though.
Lisp, Scheme, Erlang are functional languages, but they are not pure functional languages.
yeah, that annoys me. The calendar shows the current date! Why doesn't the weather icon show real weather? Or at least, not fake weather.
Also would like to see how much of that money went to the same founders. I hear that after the getting funding after the first "success" gets easier.
problem solved - user had no webcam or mic on their system which when flash was trying to detect hardware would cause the crash - we found a workaround that would fail safely if there are no webcams available. thx @heretohelp for helping us find a fix to this.
I thought reddit and HN were using the same system. What's the difference?
yeah, sum types are my #1 missing feature in go. i'm excited that mozilla's rust has decided to add them.
All the same brand, or from multiple Korean sources?
Ask HN: Review my startup, For tech startups - www.inqvest.com
InqVest (www.inqvest.com) is an online platform for technology startups to get seed funding. The site is in beta but you can sign up using any dummy email address.

I would value any advice on the general concept, design and usability of the web app.
It looks like this is only iPhone apps, is there a gallery for android?
You think that google groups is an analogous email client?
Also, Scheme is Lisp.
When is someone in charge of such things for an OS vendor going to realize that for any of "my" documents, what I really want is to tag them?
Google TV will get its own version of AirPlay
I am no expert in this area, but I believe this is a fairly good example of the issue you are describing. According to the study, it appears as if the gender system used in some languages appears to bias individuals perception of the object.

http://public.wsu.edu/~fournier/Teaching/psych592/Readings/G...
Sadly, not a good monitor review (from the likes of say Anandtech). If you're going to do a qualitative review, you need to check color accuracy, tracking, gamut, etc.
Also relevant -- http://www.davidjarvis.ca/dave/gallery/star-sizes/
Sigh. No, they "owe everything" to effectively building the only cell phone that didn't blow goats.
>I expect him to have a bias towards Apple and developers because he makes his money off of Instapaper for iOS and he is a developer.

He also has an Android app for Instapaper.

http://www.marco.org/2012/06/06/instapaper-for-android
They're being sold at a price which guarantees a (probably good) profit.
To compete on that market you basically need a name. Rather than trying to invest lots of money in marketing and try to "compete" with LG/Samsung/etc those guys prefer to sell them "cheaper" for a profit.
Anything a user can do w/o handing over their email address and info? That's a pretty big barrier of entry these days.
Como ganhar dinheiro - receitas de doces para vender - doces par vender.
The point is that a 30% failure rate is less than the 50% discount so you only end up saving 20%, with the spares included in the purchase.
Edit: I meant to say functional not pure functional. Blog post changed.
Sounds great! Thanks for that info, now I know what to look for in the docs :)
Bootstrapping your web app
I was referring to Common Lisp. Corrected it.
I think funny that it's easier to dumbi-fy the user instead of creating something worth some like tagging and making metada easier and more useable.

EDIT: Also, I think he's referring to iCloud only.
Our Brains See Men as Whole and Women as Parts
I'm not the downvoter, but since we can't know either way, is it of significance when making a purchasing decision?
Not too clear about what your last sentence means. Could you please clarify?
identity confirmed and email replied to! :)
I wrote a very simple/basic calculator when I was shopping around for a home. FWIW, here it is:
http://krishna2.com/test/fastloancalc.fcgi?term=30&rate=...
And how much money have they generated to date?
who cares how other people do their biz, its how i'm structuring my (not game focused) operation to the full extent that I can :)

(and because there are no outside investors, it is so to the full extent that fiat authority can make there be no org chart :) )
Is there a hard memory cap for transactor local storage in the free version? Or is it more along the lines of: "we'll politely ask you to switch over to the paid version if you're eating up massive amounts of disk space"?
Ask HN: What is the shortest fizzbuzz code you can write?
Any language is viable, and the snippet must be able to work independently. How few characters can you get it?

I narrowed down my JS fizzbuzz to 64 characters:

for(i=0;i++<100;)console.log((i%3?'':'Fizz')+(i%5?'':'Buzz')||i)

It uses a global though, Douglas Crockford wouldn't like it.
There are also Android apps listed in the gallery (see, for example, FishPop on the first page).
Yes, not disputing that it's possible to script things together. The appeal of Phusion Passenger has always been that you don't have to script things together: it just works.
Am I the only one who worries about the branding of this?
Man I really liked pointing out that IE was the only major browser that didn't work on every major OS. Apple just lost what little high ground they had left in my book.
No, but the question by the OP was "how" are they doing this... I was speculating.
What sort of sites are you visiting that do work without javascript?
Your browser history doesn't update itself when you scroll to a new section in a long page.
Isn't there too much emphasis on 'click' on the page? The interface gives a feeling that it not benefit power users.

I usually never leave my keyboard when reading/writing emails. Keyboard shortcuts on GMail (and Sparrow) have been the most important feature for me to get my mail done faster.
Gittip minimum raised from $0.25 to $1.00
Really though Apple and Microsoft need to both just accept that they lost the browser war and ship with Chrome or Firefox.
The system itself uses the correct, new logo in all cases I've seen.
but at what point does that alone make them a scientist?
(NB: I actually froth at the mouth over the weakening of the word scientist, when the way in which many folks do "data science" is not in accordance with any scientific principles.)
>Aliens living 14.6 billion LY away from us see a Universe that looks just like what we see in all directions.

How's that? Won't they see a completely different universe due to the speed of light? If they're 14.6 billion light years away from us, and they in our direction, won't they see what was happening in this area 14.6 billion years ago?
I think it can already be taken for granted that if you are concerned about color accuracy, gamut, et al, these are not the panels for you.
> Before I started in the game industry I had worked extensively with several low-end “Computer Assisted Design” (CAD) programs like MacDraw and MacDraft to design wine-cellars for my dad’s wine cellar business, so it seemed natural to use the “click & drag” rectangle-selection metaphor to round up a group of units to command.

> I believe that Warcraft was the first game to use this user-interface metaphor. When I first implemented the feature it was possible to select and control large numbers of units at a time; there was no upper limit on the number of units that could be selected.

I wonder if this wasn't a possible case of patent infringement given the current definitions folks are using to sue.
Wasn't the original Apple "filesystem", circa II, a flat one?
That is, a list.

Not only is it easier to work with, as the article suggests, but, obviously, it's faster!

I use globbing on a daily basis over other later approaches, e.g. regex. But it works best with a relatively flat filesystem. Too deep, and it's off.

The simplest approach possible.

But before we can fix filesystems, maybe we need to teach people how to name files in ways to make their life simpler. Long filenames and ones with spaces and punctuation inevitably become a huge PITA. Yet we think of these as "must-have" conveniences.

I used to believe that too. But over time I've realized this slows things down immensely and introduces lots of unneeded complexity. Speed and simplicity is more important.

If you can get by with only a "list of files", you are better off.
I don't know whether he is for sure, but I have noticed that he tweets and blogs (and sometimes podcasts) throughout the day. And he's clearly being mentored by or adopting Gruber's blogging and advertisement style. If his main effort is, at this time, programming, I bet it won't be for long. He's clearly trying to build a Gruber-esque personal brand.
I really don't understand what is being said here. How are folders a hard concept?
Gittip is a site for micro-subscriptions to fund open source developers. I got a lot of feedback this week on HN and GitHub that the minimum subscription should be raised from $0.25 to $1.00:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180

I rolled that out today, so if you wanted it, go use it. :^)

https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html
How likely is it that low skilled manual labor is the highest cost factor in high tech manufacturing of things like monitors.
I've tried a lot of weather apps, and my favorite, by far, is eWeatherHD. It does just what you're asking - with a last 24 hour trace of temp and barometric pressure. It will also show you the next 12 hours of temp, what temp it feels like, chance precip, UV index, and other things.

Not affiliated in any way, but really appreciate all the details in this app, and was annoyed at all the app purchases I'd made that only showed a portion of what I wanted to know.

I also like the sunrise/set, moonrise/set, moon phase info. I only miss tide info, but am not at the beach that often anyway.
> Fringe physics theories that are well-known and where third-party documentation exists, such as Time Cube, can of course still be covered.

But only as fringe physics, which is where another great big bunch of ill-will towards Wikipedia is from: Even if your pet theory gets an article, it isn't going to be treated the same way as Quantum Electrodynamics. Most of the citations will be to the reliable sources, which are by the people who think you're a crackpot. This causes a lot of pain to the people who insist 'NPOV' means 'Treat my nuttery like it was a real Grown-Up Person science'.
Sorry, I guess the random sampling I did was all iOS.
> a better device is more pleasant to use.

A cardboard bike is probably not great. Bt getting people on bikes is important. If they have an okay experience on a lousy $10 cardboard bike then there's a chance that they go on a buy a bike and use it.

And, like everything else, there's a lot of nonsense spoken about bikes.

Most people do not need carbon fibre frames and titanium widgets etc.
Larry Page has lost his voice
Turns out I found the book through the article, which was about Peter Seibel.

However, here's the link to the item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4186129
I wonder how many teams have pair programming engraved into the workflow. As in "for at least a year." I tried it more than once, on different projects with different people and it universally sucked. To say that I hate it with passion is an understatement. Perhaps it was because the language was C or because the routine was instigated by a clueless management, but still... in what conditions does it actually work?
When speaking of tree-derived products, is recyclability a green feature?

Trees fix CO2, so having an excuse to grow more trees, sucking CO2 from the atmosphere, and depositing it in the form of bikes, may be a benefit.

It likely comes down to the amount of energy used in the manufacture. I don't actually know, but intuitively I'd guess that steel manufacture (or aluminum on lighter bikes) uses a lot more energy to manufacture.
Hacker News is written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

Reddit used be written in Lisp, but they switched to Python early on: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html

I do agree that they look alike, Hacker News was inspired by Reddit.
How is this even possible ?

Do I even understand this correctly ? If you have multiple monitors, and an application goes full screen, the other two monitors go grey ?

I am still on SL on my mac pro, so I have yet to see this ... what the fuck do people working at apple (with multiple screens) do ?
I see that happening to me. I have about 30 movies in the streaming selection that I've been meaning to watch. That rate of me watching them is currently faster than the rate I've seen new movies being released that I would like watching. So I'll reach a point where I might quit it, or just put it on hold for half a year maybe.

Then there is also the selection aspect. Streaming movies, on average, seem sub-par to the dvd selection. I know Netflix is between a rock and hard place. Content owners probably want too much money in order to enable streaming, but if Netflix start charging more, customers will drop it.

What if they had streaming tiers - basic/premium/ultimate. And charge more for some movies so that content owners would accept streaming as an option. Maybe I would pay the same or even more than I pay for DVDs just to have the convenience of not having to deal with physical discs, mailing them, waiting for them.
What do you mean by "hiding habits"?
I suspect the good reason is they didn't want to spend time making the 64-bit kernel support 32-bit EFI and didn't want to create and qualify an EFI update for 64-bit machines that have 32-bit EFI. Likewise, they probably didn't want to spend time supporting a 32-bit kernel when they stopped shipping machines which require it 5-6 years ago.