skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But surely there are success stories which are outliers/anomalies/red herrings, that you really don't want to try and replicate?

To say that every missed opportunity is a failure is like saying that every CA lottery I didn't buy a ticket for was a mistake. That strategy risks over-fitting to successful fluke's, to people who made bad bets that happened to work out. There is enough loose money floating around today that some people out there are going to make bad bets and succeed.

I don't see why you/YC wouldn't focus on bets where you have an unfair advantage over the market and feel fine passing those up where you don't, even if they have some non-zero probability of success.
"A baby born in the U.S. this year is likely to live to blow out 78 birthday candles."

Considering you blow out a candle for each year since you were born every birthday, I think they just said that we're all going to live until age 12.
How well would this work on a TV as a basic HTPC? I'm looking to play with something simple that would only need to really run a browser with Flash.
I don't buy that argument.

I would pay for an Ubuntu that runs flawlessly and supports more software.
I am really getting sick of this word, "Startup". It seems like every other article I read is an article about a "Startup". Let's call them what they are, a small business. No more hipster talk :(
This is the first project of mine I have actually launched. I'm a huge procrastinator and am prone to leaving projects half finished but pushed through and got this one live. Hopefully others can find it useful too!
Something I just cobbled together:

curl http://api.4chan.org/b/res/423418552.json | python -mjson.tool
curl http://api.4chan.org/b/res/423418552.json | json_pp

Example for grabbing a thread and prettyprinting the JSON of it.

Because, you know, we need more 4chan in the house.

(EDIT: brief skimming of the comments indicates it may be semi-offensive, so be warmed. We're skimming /b/, after all.)
It still requires scrapping to discover the thread ids though does it not?
Interesting concept there, plus some great shots
Do you have a source for this? Also is there something that owners of older boards can do (such as cutting the trace?) to make sure their boards don't overheat?
"It seems intractably difficult with the tools that we have available to us right now."

I think that's actually the problem rather than the optimization function. There is an vicious circle where lack of tools implies less interest that implies less research than implies lack of tools.

I am very reluctant to think that TAI's optimization function would make a difference in terms of techniques usability in GAI problems. I agree that fun factor is not quantifiable under current knowledge. But that doesn't mean that there is not common ground between them. For example, it is not the first time that path finding is being approached using ML:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru...

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru...

On the other hand, most games use finite state machines for decision making which could be approached in many different ways:

http://ccrg.cs.memphis.edu/assets/papers/NNApaper12.pdf
Read all about it: https://angel.co/help/docs#free-closing
Tesla is adding service centers, which many states require for vehicles to be sold there.
I agree the metaphor is a bit excessive, but it was supposed to mean "knowing the imminent end of something". Of course, life is incomparable in value to a simple product, but that's what metaphors are about.
In the law of evidence, there is the idea of balancing the relevance of evidence versus it's unfair prejudicial quality. How relevant are Obama's transcripts from college? Meanwhile, given that the media is composed of the stupidet people graduating college each year, can you imagine the shit storm of unfair prejudice that would result if Obama had taken courses in say critical race theory or African studies? Meanwhile, would any prejudice to the Romney campaign from the information in his tax records be "unfair" prejudice? Or legitimate prejudice?
He kind of did--he was one of the founders of Halcyon Molecular. They were aiming for low-cost DNA sequencing but things aren't looking too great. There are even rumors that the company has run out of funds and is shutting down.
Was "darwin libc" copied from somewhere? Maybe a BSD project? Check your facts.
Lots of countries do it. Ireland got independence from UK and pegged the currency for 50 years. When a country gets independent their economies are often quite tightly tied already, so the smaller country is often beholden to the larger country already.
We'll have indexes and a catalog view soon.
Great article! I also had severe RSI, which I eventually overcame in similar way. I also switched to an ergonomic keyboard, and I'm using a pen-like mouse.

However, for me the most important component was to start using a break program. I get so into programming that I completely forget to take breaks, so the break program is crucial for me.

I've written about my experience here: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/ and I have also reviewed different Mac break programs here http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/26/mac-os-x-break-programs-re...

Discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3635692
I would be suspicious of this. It's not just one alarm bell ringing.

- The website. Jesus. With all the templates and content management you can pluck out of thin air, the result is very shoddy. Apparently that isn't a warning sign enough for some people.

- No corporate history. The company has another site but their blog there is empty. No news. Dodgy RSS listings. The whole thing is even shoddier than the product site.

- The payment is through Paypal. Address was visible yesterday (now encrypted) as mr.hipboy@gmail.com. lolwut? What a handle. Very professional. Real name appears to be Luffy Wang of Hesseney Road, Hubei 150, HK. (hipboi@qq.com) This guy really likes hips.

- The product is $49. Less than the price (delivered) of two Raspis with a SATA controller and port. This was what made my eyes light up. The phrase "too good to be true" exists for a reason.

- And while I'm talking about specs, why do the pictures and words disagree so much? How many card readers are there? Are they SD or MMC?

- Oh and it's available almost without delay. Despite that there are no reviews, no tester units in the wild. No videos of on working. Not even the hint of a fart from a prototype.

+ There is a GitHub page: https://github.com/cubie-tech This is probably a detail I wouldn't have bothered with if I were running this scam.

Yesterday my acquaintances on G+ and I decided that this is most likely a scam. I really hope it's not and I'll be the first in line for the second batch, but please be careful.
Nobody is claiming that Svartholm alone was worth $60M to Sweden. Still, is it equally "obvious" to you that not even a tiny fraction of the lump amount was allocated to "strengthen the relationships between the immigration departments" of the two countries? If you want to believe it then please do...
BeagleBoard/BeagleBone have full schematics available (http://beagleboard.org/hardware/design)
A corner deli is a small business but is clearly not a startup. Why lump in this kind of small business with a different kind of small business?
Meet the first-ever class of startups from... nReduce
I'd argue that people generally have an underlying expectation that they'll be able to do far more on the internet with web apps than with physical mediums. If that is true, then having elements from the real world into web apps does promote a sense of familiarity and an intuitive understanding of, at the very least, how to get started.
Brilliant idea. The only other tools I use in conjunction with AngelList are Trello (Investor management) and a mindmap for keeping track of who knows who (AL has asynchronous following so their "You know via" isn't that helpful to me personally)
Which the SoC in the pi isn't perfect on either. IIRC They redacted everything about the graphics from the datasheet.
cnx say it is expected to be open hardware.[1] if true this would make it a pretty big deal. sata also.

also this is no 'scam' project..

>the cubieboard (intended as BeagleBone competitor) and that aliexpress shop are both from Tom Cubie (aka hipboi). Also the author of the initial u-boot/mmc for sunxi and the software engineer at Allwinner Tech who GPLed the code released by QWare.[1]

assuming this is accurate, this puts him in a pretty good position to support it.

Fwiw, I have Linux running on my a10 tablet and it runs pretty well.. obviously a light weight desktop.. ff runs well on most sites, although there is slow down on complex sites eg. engadget

there is some linux support for the gpu, but not the video acceleration (hopefully, 'yet').

1. http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/08/31/49-cubieboard-allwinn...
I think number of sales is not anywhere as important as the percentage of total profits, and Apple has an overwhelming dominance in that area. The reason I say profits is more important is because you end up with more money to allocate to R&D and innovate more. In addition, the bigger your war chest is, the better of a position you are to jump on opportunities that come up.

Perhaps this is why Apple managed to come out with two revolutionary products (iPhone and iPad) within the span of just one decade, whereas competitors are mostly stuck in reactive mode.
Are some of the threads not rendered to JSON yet? i.e., do we only get it for new threads?
That's great news. No hope for a posting API I presume?
What a bigoted statement. So, metaphors should no longer be used? If I can afford to write this metaphor, having lost my brother 3 months ago, I don't really get it how people are so sensitive about metaphors, even if they are a bit too strong.
If you want to get really depressed, read Gizmodo's (or Engadget's) review of their Meego(?) phone that was never sold because of the MS acquisition.

The review basically said that someone had finally created the perfect competitor to the iPhone. And it was never released. :(
Memoize the Practical Method Decorator
I expect this is obvious to most of the HN crowd, but the current answer to this problem is: Use The Internet.

Most dealerships now have dedicated online sales managers that workd more like fleet sales than a traditional salesman. You email, tell them what you want, and often get pretty straightforward answers. You can do the whole thing online, and walk in with a cashiers check the day you want to pick up your vehicle. Or often have them drive it to your doorstep.

It cuts through much of the bullshit of going to a dealership. This is really the only worthwhile way to buy a new car, particularly a special order.

Plus, you have a paper trail.
Ask HN : Any devs watch the Frontend Master Videos?
Thought it's marked down from $1099 to $325. I don't have much money and want to be sure I am making a great investment. I have been using jQuery for about 1 year at work.

https://www.mjg.in/FrontendMasters
Oh yeah. It's basically only good for learning about when a tracker gets shut down.
For $99/year, you can put any open source program on it you like. That's all it costs to be a developer.
All of the old threads were rebuilt, so everything should have a JSON representation.
Good article.

Voltaire wrote something about this: "The perfect is the enemy of the good." It's hard to keep in mind, especially when inexperienced.
Probably not. Since we don't have user accounts, and already have a bit of a spam problem, I'd be pretty worried about what a real POST API might bring.
how so? my experience using it over the past year leads me to say otherwise; it feels extremely well thought-out, down to the finest of details (and amazingly so when you drill-down to the subtleties of the ui).

sure, not all the features were there with wp7, but from following the development of the platform pretty closely, i’d say their choices in what to put-out (and not include) in each release were also very deliberate. and what exactly would you say is missing in wp8 vs. ios/android now anyways?
Thank you for that, I was looking for the line too.
Should I feel bad knowing that ... someone wasted valuable time...

No, but you should feel bad for thinking "it looks pretty" ==> "someone spent a lot of time making it look that way."

In particular, what you need to consider is: maybe they didn't spend all that much time on the visuals. Maybe they were either just really experienced, and it took next to no effort to get it to look that way... or maybe they had next to no knowledge, but used a framework to make it look as if they did.

I find this is a very common mistake managers make, BTW: assuming they can estimate, in the blink of an eye, how long it took to get a certain feature or behavior of an app into existence, out of nothing (and quite often, getting this estimate off by an order of magnitude in one direction or the other).
You are focusing on the time needed to make this. That is only one part of the equation. The other part is the time spent using it.

If this is (and it seems likely) an internal tool that gets used a lot, pretty soon the time it took to make it a little bit prettier/user-friendlier will be repaid in multiples during the entire lifespan of this application.
This is not a story.

Sweden have in the past (since 1979) sent aid to Cambodia.

In 2011 we sent 168 million SEK and in 2012 and 2013 we will send 200 million (a total of 400 million for 2 years) and this was decided a long time ago.

Do you really think Sweden will pay 400 million to get one person back and have him serve ONE year in prison?

http://www.swedenabroad.com/sv-SE/Ambassader/Phnom-Penh/Utve...
How long did that take? Just the current active threads across the boards, right?
As far as I understand the link love direction Zemanta is taking, it's more about helping a user to use their judgement and good taste when recommending links to their readers.

That's how I use it anyway (albeit somewhat lazily at times).
You may want to check out AI War[1]. The designer sounds like he is well-versed in AI and made it one of the game's selling points.

It's also an extremely DRM-friendly game too!

[1] http://christophermpark.blogspot.com/2009/06/designing-emerg...
Looks like some coded messages are being sent as well, pretty interesting:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ze9zn/hackers_say_...
Doesn't something have to be fast in order for it to be kept fast? My experience using the Github web frontend is one mostly of frustrating slowness, especially as of late.
I want to stress the mouse recommendation.

I had serious issues myself and switched both the general posture and my mouse. Using a 'vertical' mouse from a company called Evoluent in this case. It made a big difference for me.

The Kinesis Advantage (Pro) is next on my list, but too expensive for now, and it isn't easy to get in over here as well.
Yes, there is startup fan fiction. This isn't even the first piece I've seen on Hacker News. I think it's kind of fucked up, but who am I to say, working a regular job for the man.
Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day
I'm a bit suspicious, too. Googling the name of the board turns up maybe 10 results all in the same domain. Immediately following are things not related to the Cubieboard. I'm probably gonna sit this one out for now.

EDIT: Using some different terms brings up a ton of articles about the board from popular sources, yet they're all new within the past few days. I dunno, it might actually be real, but it me a bit uncomfortable, but that may just be me.
Grassroots aerial maps using kites + cameras.  (#opengov champions)
A good follow-up to this article could be [this review][http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/portable-cathedrals] of the deceased Nokia N9.
IMHO, restrictions on speech and/or commerce do not need to be imposed by a government in order to count as censorship. Any controlling body will do.

If you control software distribution on a plaform, you directly or indirectly control every information that customers of that platform receive. I think this covers censorship.

Of course iOS does not have a dominant position in the market yet, so censorship is limited by the customers choice to switch to another device. But as I explained above, the moment to speak against the control is now, as long as there are still alternatives left.

I think this "plain old business decision" is a political issue of great importance.
i call this bs.
theres never been more links on "personal" sites & blogs than now.
it's an information desert because a huge amount of the links are dead or simply garbage.
Mobile Safari successfully refrains from adblocking.
I figured as much. Just wishful thinking on my part--it'd be nice to be able to build a client wholly atop the API.
Speaking of slowdowns - until recently, a gmail login quietly set cookies by redirecting through multiple subdomains during the "Loading" prompt. Most notable was that it passed through accounts.youtube.com to set a cookie.

It now seems to achieve this by using ocsp.thawte.com. Not sure how that works, I can't see any HTTP or HTTPS fetches from youtube during gmail login, yet it still manages to set a third party cookie. Can OCSP do this?
Compare that to how many would have closed without the massive handout.

Chrysler was able to force some to close by holding over the dealer organizations' heads the threat that the government would not do the bailout and all Chrysler dealers would go away.

Unlike a market-based failure, the government-led restructuring was surely not done fairly and likely some reputable and honest owners were penalized for not being more politically connected.
A couple of questions:

- What does the top chart represent that blends into the background?

- What is so costly about rendering pages for Googlebot that it takes almost twice as long as the average rendering time for public views? The throughput is especially interesting as it is less than 30% of its public equivalent.

- What does 1 cpu unit equal to?

- Also interesting to me is the fact that API requests require the most horsepower, yet also provide almost the lowest response time and very high throughput. How API requests are so different from "browser" requests, since I suspect both are powered by the same backend?

Sorry for my naivety.
Can I ask that all product blogs provide a link to the actual site? Not everyone knows what layervault is and it would be nice to browse to the site without having to manipulate the address bar.
More than likely 2A is just to have some headroom for everything. They likely allocate an amp for the two USB. I can't seem to get access to the site now but I imagine there are a couple 5v and 3.3v pins in the GPIO header that are allocated a few tens of milliamps.

That said, you're right that the board itself shouldn't pull anywhere near 2A.
Yes, it's a lot harder to be successful in a highly competitive market with many well-funded companies.
I thought that was exactly what the article tried to imply.

From the article: "But today, in another one of those unusual political coincidences, Cambodian officials announced the “strengthening of bilateral ties” with Sweden – along with a $59 million aid package sweetener."
There are plenty of examples of (admitted, simpler than humans) organisms which are effectively "immortal". The heat death of the universe will get them all, but human mortality is nevertheless a good deal more complicated than just entropy.
Mercury, A User-Generated Roguelike
Thanks for the enlightening observation, but I'm already quite aware that TPB is in Sweden; nonetheless, the Swedish government has gone to what would seem to be extraordinary lengths to punish an offense that has had a minimal impact on its citizens, and rather disproportionate impact on outsiders. I ask again, what are the Swedes getting out of this?
AAC License Fees
Cool. I will have a look then. Thanks again for the tutorials and fixing Jitsi bugs. This is definitely a step in the right direction for moving beyond Skype. Great to see it.
Interesting paper (and makes me feel more justified in rejecting Hadoop). Do you have any blog posts / other material about the techniques you're using at Sense?
The link remindeat.com/login gives me a 403 error.
HUB, YO. Limited edition products by cutting-edge young designers. You dig?
When you switch from US to Global, the lifespans all stay roughly the same, or go up a bit. Yet the deaths per 100,000 in practically all categories go way up. How does this make sense?
I knew AAC wasn't free, but I didn't know its that pricy!

Also check out the ridiculously long list of licensees: http://www.vialicensing.com/licensing/aac-licensees.aspx
Just a few minutes, since we only store active threads in the database. Was only ~9,000 threads.
Watch a man age 12 years in 8 minutes
What do those companies charge?

How difficult would it be to migrate?
Yes, WSGR will do the closing for free, for any startup that they're willing to take on as a client (i.e., credible). We'll be announcing other law firms who will do the same shortly.
Get Your Customers to Want to Pay
3 Questions To Help You Align Company Culture With Core Values
I think the point being made here is very good and deserves being stressed again: It's usually a combo of workplace, stretching and psychological fixes that works the best.

Also, this book is very good and covers a wide variety of bases to help you understand your problem:

http://www.amazon.com/Its-Carpal-Tunnel-Syndrome-Professiona...
Http://rubygems.org down
About the price of the chinese Android mediacenters. Probably nice, but the great thing about the Pi is the community support.
So the OP cannot express an opinion about what Apple should do, without "having a sense of entitlement"? Can you describe what an "un-entitled" criticism would look like, or how it would differ from the OP? Or should we just not ever criticize Apple because they are a private company and we can buy Android devices?
Developer Staffing Survey: Needs Outstrip Supply
Yes, but AFAICT these people didn't claim to be "Anonymous"

"An anonymous individual or group..."

The original article says nothing about them claiming to be "Anonymous" as the HN title implies, only that they acted anonymously. Adjective, not noun.
I also don't allow any app requiring those details (unless they are needed obviously, like VoIP), but I think what most companies want is the unique serial number, so they can keep a track of how many unique devices are used by them. But since Android does not gives permission at more granular level, I simply don't install any such app, or don't upgrade one which ask for it.

As for Facebook, I am using Tinfoil for Facebook app (It is a website wrapper, essentially). It was faster than whatever app Facebook managed to write.
The Law of Requisite Variety
Wow. As someone who is actually active in the A10 community, I know Tom and this is not a scam. Some people focus more on developing cool shit than on their website.
"Jailbreak" is a made up term. As far as I know, it originally referred to accessing arbitrary files on the filesystem (getting out of a chroot jail), but it now refers to a process including gaining access to the bootloader and/or kernel. Either would be an acceptable use of "jailbreak" (though the former might be misleading), but the term has never meant "run unsigned apps". HTH :p
That is a very serious claim. Do you have any data/evidence to support this, or is it all strongly worded opinion? If that were actually true, it would be grounds for regulatory action under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890. Many companies other than Google depend on the interconnectedness of the web, as represented by, among other things, inter-site linkages.
I use a Kinesis keyboard plus a Magic Trackpad stuck to the middle above the modifier keys. It works really well there as long as you don't mind tap-to-click.

I've found that with this setup my wrist pain basically disappears. I haven't run any kind of controlled experiment to see if it's that or just getting up and switching to laptop-on-the-couch-mode every few hours, though.