skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what's the difference between a standardized PC running a custom/customized OS and your hypothetical console?

Typically software repository choice, versatility, and upgradability of components.
They say that about the Gates Foundation as though it were a bad thing
I don't see anything in your explanation that would push my opinion one way or another, which means that you should probably take the long term view and do the rewrite.
I think the main difference lies in the end goal of the student. We train people that are looking to become software engineers. People that are looking to dedicate the rest of their life to creating software. The Starter League is more suited for founders looking to build a prototype, or people of other professions looking to gain basic competency in tech.

Their classes are 96 hours, we total over 500. We also have around a minimum of an 1:8 ratio of instructor to student.

I think the last major difference is that we set up an employer day at the end and recruit companies looking to hire junior developers. Two weeks on from the graduation of the current class we've had over 13 students with offers at an average of above $83,000.

We also cost $12,000 versus their $8,000 (for the most comparable course).

I've met Neal, and some of the guys from Starter League and they're amazing. They're going to keep crushing it, now with the power of 37signals! Good job guys.
thinking the paid version would depend on local competition. Pay more to get more if you have a lot of competition. if low competition, they would pay less for the ad. You can determine which truck should pay how much based on geospatial statistics if you have a location for each truck (let me know if you have any questions about this). also, my brother in law has 2 food trucks on a Hawaiian island - and there are plenty here in California, so I hope you will add more locations.
Inclusivity vs. Exclusivity
due to the massive information asymmetry, didn't FB have a legal and moral obligation to provide an accurate valuation? this was my understanding from reading all the post-IPO anti-facebook fallout articles.
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.
Nice. I think there are a lot of programmery types out there who would like to improve their UI/Photoshop skills. I'll definitely check this out.

If I could offer one piece of constructive criticism:

It would be nice to see some examples of things you've built. That's the #1 thing I look for. I realize this can be problematic when working for someone else.
Tangential: a great source of perspective, humility and historical insight is E. B. Sledge's first hand account of the WWII battles at Okinawa and Peleliu. With The Old Breed, http://www.amazon.com/With-Old-Breed-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891...
Can't use bitcoins to buy a conference ticket? I love the irony :)
John Ford is the famous western director, not so much an actor. Though I'm sure he did some stuff. Or is there another John Ford associated with westerns?
It's the same company it was 3 months ago. The 10 Billion is in Facebook's pocket. They could care less about what the stock is trading at. They got theirs.
The quote is a variant of the age old poker saying "there's a sucker at every table, if you're not sure who the sucker is, it's probably you".
The application at http://starterleague.com/apply is the first step. As we review applications we choose people to interview either in person, via skype, or by phone. We are looking for passionate and persistent people that are willing to spend three intense, immersive months in Chicago.
>has linux desktop failed? Really? Correct me if I am wrong but we are talking about a concept which has spawned thousands of distros used in millions of computers still.

Desktop linux has utterly failed, yes, clearly. OSX grew to over 10%. Linux desktop continues to remain statistical line noise. That doesn't mean that literally no one on the planet uses it, just that a very small number of people use it.
The point isn't that life meant never having to work. To make a stylized sketch of it: life, or identity, is increasingly made more legible to the State. Legibility of information is the backbone of state power(1), moreso than even violence or popular support. Legibility of identity is therefore granting the state more power over the individual, which further undermines human autonomy by making the ability to live dependent on remaining in the good graces of the State, by paying our dues and contenting ourselves within the all-encompassing social system that develops.

(1)For instance, the first recorded use of writing is not typically for poems or liturgy but for tax documentation for imperial states.
Linus has guessed it took him about two weeks to get git to the point it was self-hosted.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg24132.html

It's still impressive, though.

Edit: Should have read further. It looks like Linus got git self-hosting in two days.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/9
The problem is that "The Inmates are Running the Asylum." Most techies would've scoffed at the MacBook Air, if it were described to them with specs, before it came out. Steve Jobs didn't have a reality distortion field. He lacked the one most of us have.
> Have you thought about doing this for RSS as well?

I'll consider this idea.
Full disclosure: I currently own FB shares (at a loss), but could sell at any time.

Cuban is right in that the Facebook IPO was great in that they sold their shares for higher than what they were worth and maximized the benefit for FB.

But the more important fact is that investors, who are the lifeblood of this entire market, got fleeced, and that's long-term bad.

The people that you do business with MUST have confidence that you will live up to your end of any deal that you make with them. If you're only going to do a single one-shot deal with someone, I suppose it's doable to screw them for whatever they're worth. That seems to be the Wall-Street-style business model that is popular with some people these days.

But if you intend to do business over and over again, screwing everyone you deal with is a great way to go broke very quickly. As well, if you attain the reputation of being someone that is bad to do business with, then you will suffer as well.

Do you think Andrew Mason is going to get as good of a ride on the next company once Groupon fails? How difficult will it be for Facebook to have another secondary if it needs to raise more capital?

My guess is that any new deals underwritten by Morgan Stanley will get a second look-over from any potential investors, given the fact that they really sold some snake oil with FB at $100B.
Agree with all of this except there is no evidence that the A/B testing world as a whole knows anything correct about statistics, in the sense of being able to profit from more sophisticated bets than "this idea seems not too bad". If players bet real money on the probabilities they claimed, they would be bankrupt. Contrast against the auto insurance companies and such who get this stuff right.
I'm not critizing this, which looks nice esp for people learning (and I'm sure somepeople "work" better with cheat sheets)

But, one reason I like Python is it's small and regular enough to not need a cheat sheet (this does not apply to stdlib which has large swaths of wtfness, and is changing as people keep bloating up the language, ternary)

And, any decent editor should be highlighting, tab completing and hooked into pyhelp to provide a context aware , dynamic, interactive "cheat sheet". E.g vim with following vim plugins pydoc, python_calltips, supertab and proly should throw in pep8 and pyflakes. Check it -> https://github.com/njharman/dotfiles
The author is probably hating whatever editor gave it that title. In the text, "These were not global deluges as described in the Genesis story of Noah, but were more focused catastrophic floods taking place throughout the world. They likely inspired stories like Noah’s in many cultures, passed down through generations."

A Biblical flood was 1) proximately caused by a long period of rain and 2) covered the world. Glacial dam breaks, like those which caused the scablands, are not.
I guess now we know who watches the watchers.
That makes sense. Here are two of my iOS apps:

http://onevoiceapp.com
http://thinklegend.com/commit

More of my design work is here:

http://thinklegend.com/design

I appreciate the feedback!
Facebook now 60% off all time high of $45, at new low of $17.58
It feels both right and wrong - say I sold a inferior product to someone at a bloated price. As a seller, I made heavy profit and my business is a success. But I knowingly inflated the price and screwed the buyer (of course, it is buyer's responsibility to evaluate the value of the item he/she purchases). The second part (bloating the price) just feels wrong.
The app itself is on Linode, the database is on Azure. We were contracted at a point when we could not influence that.
Worlds First Linux Ultrabook: ZaReason UltraLap 430
Why has C prevailed over Pascal?
Actually the whole idea was brainstormed from day one together with 4 Estonian founding engineers. Those 4 together with Janus and Niklas had worked together already for years, first on Tele2 Everyday portals, then Kazaa and Joltid.
SOLID principles and TDD
Once someone has added this to their bookmark toolbar and started to use it, they are likely to forget where they got it
from. And when they want to know where they got it from, they are likely to look for clues in the source code of the bookmarklet.

So, I humbly suggest that you add to the bookmarklet some "googleable" string such as "Author: niyazpk". When I googled on "niyazpk" just now, your Github was the fourth hit.
I'd be very surprised if they released something that didn't do updates of some description. Even consoles these days do frequent updates, in fact I'd guess the only reason that earlier consoles didn't do this was because fast internet access was not ubiquitous at that point.

The main difference between a console & PC is largely marketing and also the default UI which is presented to users "out of the box".

What would be nice is a standardised box with a simple UI, good graphics hardware (and solid driver support) and a lowish price tag. That standard experience could be basically the "Steam box" but with an option for advanced users to unlock the underlying Linux System and install regular Linux software.

This would allow games to be developed directly on the console itself, if this was combined with providing tools such as model editors , game engines etc for free or at low cost it could really lower the bar for Indie devs to produce some fairly high end games.

Also if the console proved popular you would have "stealth installed" a Linux desktop in millions of homes worldwide.
There's a large perception problem, but realistically tablets can meet more than 80% of the needs of 80% of users. Especially with a physical keyboard and a solid internet connection, almost any tablet (and an iPad definitely) will handle email, websites, chat, and provide a full app buffet.

This is why the M interface was so big for Win8. Tablets are poised to cannibalize laptops as the primary computing devices, and the surplus will shift from manufacturers and retailers to consumers as prices drop for primary computing devices.

We've never been able to deliver a package of cpu, gpu, storage, network, interfaces, inputs, outputs and displays so cheaply before.
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I'm pretty sure the ISP (or ISP's ISP) owns the IPs and are just "renting" it to you.
So my uncle has this philosophy that if a school provides scholarship to a student, irrespective of the amount of money, the school is putting some faith in the student and that is very valuable. Some schools provide a no-cosigner loans that are also in the same light. Just a perspective.
I don't see how the opinions of the stock holders, pundits or analysts mean anything at all to Facebook. Why does Facebook need to control the narrative? No one has any influence over them.
I'm not part of this to make sure anyone follows my advice. I'm part of this to offer my advice.
Funnily enough, Drucker is quite fashionable in Japan ATM (or more exactly was when I was still in Japan 2 years ago): http://www.economist.com/node/16481583

While a lot of those practices are clearly inefficient, let's not forget that they have their plus as well. It is sometimes madening to see consensus building in Japanese meeting, but people are less likely to be blinded by their limited understanding as well. I can't find the reference, but a former colleague of mine knew of some research that showed how Japanese were more likely to know the actual decisions being taken after a meeting compared to their European/American counterparts.

Also, caring about the content of the emails or doing faxes means you are not as likely to answer them with a two letter words, which is just being efficient at doing useless things I suspect the fax thing itself to be more of an artefact of the average age of people in charge in Japan: my gf parents had a fax, but nobody I knew in my own generation in Japan had one. There is also most likely an early adoption paradox.

In the end, Japanese economic woes are mostly demographic I am afraid (GDP growth per capita is closer to the US than most people think), and inefficiencies should be considered with that in mind.
> Do you see the Japanese recognizing/fixing the massive inefficiencies in how they do business any time soon? The Japanese economy's been down in the dumps for the last 20+ years, and these sorts of things can't be helping.

A lot of those inefficiencies exist for the purpose of maintaining the employment rate. They succeed at that.
? From my experience, the worst thing that can happen with a plug failure is a very slow leak?
Valve should get involved with the guys behind the Open Pandora console:

http://openpandora.org/

http://icontrolpad.com/

There is a next-gen design in the works, Valve getting involved with it would be a serious wake up call ..
(1) So your advice would be to cancel my (potential) very effective marketing campaign in FB because it's stock is sinking? Or should I reduce my personal activity? Or what?
I swear I saw this in a movie already...
It sounds like they're profitable and I thought 37S was a proponent of slow growth, no hostility intended but I'm confused about the goals of 37S and Starter League with this agreement. Presumably if its an equity investment you expect some kind of liquidation down the road right?
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" Reddit book club beginning Sept. 8
A fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders (to be)? I'm not sure. I know that selling stock is not quite the same as selling a used car.
A lot of it is definitely for consulting purposes. I thought of going into that line - seeing how what movies, TV, and music wouldn't be taken even for free would be interesting to the producers of that content.

Looking at activity on torrents gives you a really good idea of relative interest in something, and in addition, on membership torrent sites, it could be cross referenced with the other interests of the downloader simply by using their history to give you some idea of demographic and to guide marketing strategies.
I'm going to be very surprised if FB is going to need to raise another 10B.

Also, it's interesting that when facebook pulled one over on the bankers, "they got screwed", but when the bankers do it to everyone else, it's "business as usual."

Of course Facebook isn't going to get valued as highly the next time through - THEY KNOW THAT - and that's why they got as much out of their IPO as they could.
It makes me happy to see the concepts from RES ported to HN. Thanks for sharing the link; I think this will legitimately help me to speed through the front page more quickly in the mornings.
pilsetnieks: before financial markets made it possible for people to exit their investments with relative ease, all investments throughout history were made "for keeps" by people looking to "stay in" essentially forever. The idea of "investing temporarily" (which almost qualifies as an oxymoron in my view) is a more recent development, but has become dominant to the point that it is now considered "traditional."
I agree with your view on what the funds collected by Kickstarter are. It's fairly easy operation when dealing with the Arts, as in "I am donating to an artist that I like". But once a product comes into the mix... that's a whole different game.

I feel that the system used by quirky.com is more conductive to a real world product.
Is this in response to this comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471765):

A start-up changes a person in the same way a war does -
trauma, triumph, battle, and blood.

on the 'I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned' thread?

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471391)
Show HN: Voyager, my video game made from wool
Some business plans will benifit a lot from being in a specific location; however if you currently live in a city with friends, family, and maybe a SO with a job starting right where you are until at least you hit MVP isn't a bad idea.

I'm personallly biased towards lower cost areas, the same funding slug buys you more runway. Being in michigan I'd say Detroit ISN'T on my top list of cities to start in, I find Ann Arbor to be more expensive but offers better quality of life and is right next to a major univeristy. Grand Rapids is cheaper, and has StartGarden.com that is trying to build a whole ecosystem.
To place in context, worth referring to this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-facebook-worth-2012-5
Apple has been telling devs to move away from it for a least a year.
More info + trailer here!

www.voyagerthegame.com
No, but I know people don't have problems which these virtues would solve, or more people would value those virtues more highly. Granted, some people would have reasons for not following them, but others would implement them if they were useful in each individual person's life.

Openly committing to a policy such as this is only really useful for putting yourself on a moral pedestal above others, to improve your own self esteem or make others look bad.
I like it a lot and looks very handy. But the author seems to be missing the point of a cheat sheet. I'd prefer something I can post on my desk to take a quick look, a 6 page summary is not a cheat sheet nor it's faster than googling.
Who's hiring on the east coast?
I'm a recently laid-off developer in pa and was wondering if anyone knows of anyone looking for a python developer? Thanks a lot and have a great day!
Great quote. I hadn't heard that before. I really like that.
I think there is another part of this alleged story that is equally as disturbing as the FBI having this data in the first place:

that an FBI agent's laptop, let alone an agent in the "Cyber Action Team", was susceptible to a common Java vulnerability.
I laughed, but that's not true. It's the first payment option available: http://bitcoin2012.com/tickets

It's just done manually.
I've always wondered about the equity deals that get struck on SharkTank. Sometimes you see them make deals where the founder retains 51% of the company, but if you dig into the paperwork from ABC you see "ABC takes 5% equity or 2% royalty from all companies that appear on Shark Tank" (previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3946008 ). Whose share does that come out of, and where does that leave the founder? If it comes out of their share, they'd be left in a minority position if they now hold 46%, the "shark" hold 49% and ABC holds 5%.
No liquidation, no. Financially we'll participate in the distributions (The Starter League is an LLC) as long as the company is profitable. But this is way more than that - this is an investment in helping other people learn and for us to become better teachers. The returns from that will be far greater than the financial returns.
DevBootcamp teaches you the full stack for being a Rails developer too, not just Ruby. I'd say they differentiate by getting 80-90% of their students entry level development jobs after and that's a core part of their bootcamps.
How to Use Facebook's Ad Sizing Changes to Your Advantage
What I would like to see is a way to change the HAProxy configuration on the fly, or something like a configuration backend. That would avoid reloading HAProxy after each config change, and allow a much more flexible configuration.
>　Funnily enough, Drucker is quite fashionable in Japan ATM

Yeah, that's why I mentioned him and said he'd be spinning in his grave if he saw もしドラ, because it's a quintessentially Japanese situation - everyone's buying this book that discusses grand ideas and talking about it with one another, but no one's actually applying any of those ideas to real life.