skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the article more closely. This is about craftmanship trying to survive in an age where craftmanship itself does not scale. It's not about the "submarine PR" phenomenon that concerns the Paul Graham article.
>will technically have to refund people potentially millions of dollars //

Presumably OUYA is a company with some limitation of liability for the owners, I don't know much about USA company formation but it seems that the company would fold and there would no longer be a legal entity to hold to account. IFF this is the case then "technically" they won't have to refund anyone beyond what liquidation of the company requires.

This is where someone with knowledge of company law steps in and corrects me ...
> This cheat sheet sucks. Some examples:

Make a better one and get it to the front page of HN.
The "van" is striking; it's the Dutch version of the German "von". The fact that the former is larger than the latter indicates that the list contains more Dutch UDIDs than German, interesting.
Another UDID checklist: http://dazzlepod.com/apple/ Partial UDID search accepted, i.e. search "d565" instead of your full UDID "d56504ca3b268177f76fef0c2c446ba183afd12b"
Foursquare's experience with sharding MongoDB has, as far as I understand, been far from automatic and transparent (based on their blog posts and the word on the street).
Speaking of monokai, I recently switched to molokai and am enjoying it.

vim = https://github.com/tomasr/molokai

Xresources (e.g. xterm) = http://delicious.com/redirect?url=https%3A//gist.github.com/...

iTerm2 = https://github.com/larssmit/iterm2-getafe
Jeff Han demonstrated this concept a few years ago, but without the laser: http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ledtouch/index.html

I tried to wire one up myself but couldn't get it to work. I think certain LED matrixes don't work as well (maybe translucent vs transparent LEDs)
Andreessen, Thiel, and other VC action figures
>> When: 20 October 2011, 9:00 am.
>> Application Deadline: 20 September 2011.

2011?
CircleCI (www.circleci.com), which we use has similarly promised this functionality in the coming day.
Nice option, but not perfect. It still only gives you three thumbnails to choose from.
LabView IS fun, I've written a couple of drivers and a (physical device) testing GUI with it. As I've been thinking about it more I see two hurdles to overcome with LabView though:
- Layout: Spaghetti code becomes a very tangible issue if you don't follow guides on routing religiously. Intro courses only touch on this and LabView code in the wild are rarely clean. These visual routing guides are ORTHOGONAL to good code design practices which you also have to follow to make maintainable and understandable code.
- Navigation: There is no VIM or Emacs for LabView code as far as I know. Navigating a codebase and following function references deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole becomes tedious pretty quickly. Visual breakpoints help here but there's no substitute for quick navigation, I never found a Ctags equivalent for this language.

(Caveat, EE turned software engineer ranting)
Awesome code review. Thank you.
Please also add "blocked extensions" so we can add zip/rar/.tar.gz/.torrent/etc as these will download if you hover over them.
Here Is a Picture of a Gawker Writer Wearing a Tutu with a Shoe on His Head
Dark for code, light for prose.

Currently wombat and solarized-light, but I seem to like to change these every couple of months or so.
This is a failure on Google's part, perhaps their most dangerous weakness.
I love this theme!
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Hiring Developers for Film Software start-up.
Description: We are looking for motivated and hard-working web and mobile developers that can help us create software tools for the entertainment industry. Local to Los Angeles a plus but not a requirement.

What we’re looking for in you:

Web Dev - Solid working knowledge of Python (Django), JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Experience with object-oriented JavaScript is a big plus. We are looking for people who can learn quickly and can build on top of what we have already created.

Mobile Dev - We’re looking for someone with some experience in iOS and a solid background in programming. Ability to create an awesome mobile version of our web applications.

About us:

We are a start-up making software tools for the film and television industry. We have been developing a sophisticated web application over the last two years that will change how the work behind films and television shows are created. This is cutting edge technology in a niche market with major studios signed on to use the software upon completion...

We’re located in Los Angeles but you can be from anywhere in the US. We are a smart and flexible little company trying to create something that hasn't been done before - an overused statement that can truly be applied to this project. The positions are freelance/contract jobs until

What Now:

If you’re interested, send us an email to programmer.inquiry@gmail.com with “Interested Programmer" in the subject line. Include a resume please.
Chinos from ten years in the future: http://shop.outlier.cc/shop/retail/chino.html
Thanks. I haven't seen it anywhere else, but can't really be sure I came up with it. Just seemed like a good optimization.
Very nice!
Note if you put the | at the end of the line the
whole command is copy and pasteable.

Also you could pipe to `column -t -s:` to align nicely

Also you can download the 57K index rather than
the 1.3M manual to get the command list.

curl -s http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html |
sed '/<li>.*-inv.*p>:.*[^>]<.a>/!d;s/.*#//;s/-inv.*:/:/;s/<.a>//' |
sort |
column -t -s:
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yes, lets be realistic.

Automatically and transparently sharding across an arbitrary number of nodes is a case that is actually required by a tiny fraction of the industry. And that fraction is already paying people to monitor and control that sharding because they're too large to trust the "automatic and transparent" algorithms.

The big users of Cassandra and Hbase use them for deeper architectural reasons than simply automatic sharding.
Enquire.js – Media Query Callbacks in JavaScript
Good read. Reminds me of the oldie but goodie http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...
Implementing something using as little foreign code as reasonably possible can actually be a good way to make it correct an secure.
You write it once and prove it's correct. After that, you're done, no matter how libraries around you change. If a library function gets a bug or gets slower, your code is unaffected. And your code likely won't get significantly slower as you update the compiler (it's more likely it will get faster).
> Note the usage of 'kids'.

That's probably true. The whole thing smacks of grasping for straws. It's just spreading FUD. UDID data has been flying around WiFi hotspots and in plaintext over networks for years. Harvesting them is like harvesting names and addresses from postcards. I wouldn't put it past people to aggregate a bunch of them, then pin it on some well known government agency to pull a publicity stunt like this.

The first people to fail to protect the privacy of app users: iOS app developers and the folks at Apple who wrote that part of the SDK. (Who should've known the result of counting on hordes of hobbyist devs to "do the right thing" with the UDID.)
Thanks for the idea. We will make that update right away
Huh?

The whole point of paying twice as much is that you spend a fraction of the time defining product specs, and don't have to wait.

If so many pass up a 50% discount to get immediate satisfaction, they aren't likely to change their preference for waiting once the product they already didn't buy becomes dramatically more expensive.
FYI, it came out more than a year ago.
I bought a couple $100 suits in Vietnam when I was there. The fit was good but the quality was low. They fell apart within a year. That was the experience that everyone I talked to who bought made to measure clothing there had. You get what you pay for.
This is why you sometimes see retailers where literally every single item is on sale at all times, but they still get to post a nominal "full price" that no one ever pays.
Like 'almost' said; it does use cookies to remember you between session. In practice they are not strictly needed.

In a traditional web server the request comes in, some operations are performed to product an output, and the server discards all state. When the next request comes in the server handles it from scratch; authenticating sessions, loading objects in to memory, etc.

In arc, when a link or action is generated the interpreter (I think) the stack is captured an serialized. This, and he closure that the link would execute, is referenced by a unique fnid. When the user clicks on a link the server restores the previous stack and executes the closure as though the response and new request cycle never happened.

This makes it very easy to write web applications; you can concentrate on the exact flow you want rather than creating a bunch of separate-but-linked controllers that have to duplicate a lot of logic. On the down side it does violate the stateless nature of the web. I can't take a link and sharers with you. URLs become meaningless; instead of pointing to a resource they become merely a way to communicate state back to the server.

As a disclaimer: I haven't actually built anything in arc. I have peeked at the HN source code though. I do believe that it does use the traditional-style request handling for some parts where storing the stack causes issues or is unnecessary (e.g. A link from homepage to article uses a traditional stateless URL).
How about:

Will the answer to this headline be 'no?'
Cool! Here is an rpm variant with simplified sed:

whatis -s1 $(rpm -ql coreutils | sed -n 's,.*/bin/,,p')
One wouldn't have to be naked. With the right kind of camera and lighting, customers could also be wearing an opaque gown. (Some care would have to be taken to ensure that the software isn't tampered with.)
dr.do,
play.do,
gtd.do,
docs.do,
go2.do
So you would prefer something like the this:

http://i.imgur.com/ryiPq.png

It seems like poor UX to me. It's a little ugly how line length isn't constrained and you're unable to do anything but type a query into the box. Special queries would require memorizing commands or just doing without.
Ask PG: "Response to an RFS" or not?
The idea we are applying with (W13) happens to fit very well within the contraints of YC's RFS 1 (Future of Journalism). The match is coincidental though: we didn't set out to be a solution to RFS 1.

Question: Should we say we are in response to RFS 1? Will it affect your view of our application and/or thought process? Thanks!
Was the wording of the headline that made you completely disagree? You can interpret stuff in anyway you wish, especially when you feel a need to argue against a point for the sake of arguing. From the context, overall OP's message is very clear. Basically, it's the same old "get out of your comfort zone" motivational preach, but OP sheds a different and interesting light and gives simple analogies that HN audience can easily relate to. I fail to see any reason to criticize it purely due to the word choice.

PS, this comment reminds me a pattern in HN where an article ends up in front-page; say, about the need for hard-work in a startup, and the comments which would go up in arms about how working "smart and not hard" was the key, that there is more to life than just work, blah blah blah, sometimes arguing with a straw man. Yet, when some 37 Signals article hits about working 4 days a week, etc etc, again some people arguing how the "great" work was only done by putting a lot of work, crossing the higher walls, etc. All in unnecessary amount of comments by making a mountain out of molehill. Without taking to extremes or pointing out some edge cases all this would be avoided.
At this point I'm not inclined to believe the FBI any more than AntiSec ... Maybe less. (typed on an iPad that's not on the list)
It's one of the things that prevents me from ad-blocking sites like Google. Some of the time I will actively be searching for the ads, and avoid the natural results, because the natural results for some product searches can be extremely spammy with "review" sites and comparison shopping sites with horrible user experiences dominating the results, while the paid results are usually decent retailers or distributors.
For reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1420553
What you described on the bottom is not unique to bespoke, these details can be just as easily adjusted on a made to measure suit.

What's unique about bespoke is that the tailor (technically, the cutter) will make a brand new pattern just for your body, which will be based on a much greater number of measurements. Also, the fitting of a bespoke suit involves multiple fittings (http://www.thesimplyrefined.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/B...), using each iteration to ensure a perfect "fit" in accordance with the tailor's vision.

Made to measure suits, on the other hand, involve a single fitting. After the fitting, the suit is made, and can only be altered to the same extent as, say, a standard size suit that you bought at a store.
TextMate themes work with Sublime directly.
I think when you buy Apple products expecting the quality you get from Apple products, wanting the headphones to be high-quality is not unreasonable. Why does he even care about the Apple headphones? Because he wants them to be better, and one of the more important aspects for a headphone in his opinion is physically embedded markings.
Microsoft pushes Skype as an "Important" Windows Update
My business partner Will just found Skype - the new version with the "performance improvement" middleware - is included in Windows Update as an Important update.

Anyone else encounter this?
Edit: Remote work is generally something that is possible but highly unlikely. I was misinformed about remote work, and now cannot go back and edit the comment.
Okay, fixed. Thanks again for letting me know.
Always look forward to watching these talks. Thanks for doing them every year. Really glad that Andrew Mason is doing another one.
What I want, ideally, is exactly a page of organic results that fulfills my search query with perfect relevance.

Ideally, in the perfect world, I don't need the navigation, page 2, or even a place to refine my search. Ideally, I don't need any of that.

If we're talking about what I want, that's it.
I kinda like the collapsable sidebar present in Google Maps. However, I rarely miss the extra space taken up by the current sidebar on the main search results page.
That may be the best sort of match.
The title seems apt actually. I think 'universe' here refers to the concept of a set so large that it is closed under all set theoretic operations and since mathematical operations reduce to set theoretic operations (in the usual foundation scheme) one can start with some elements in this universe set and perform any arbitrary manipulation and the output will still be inside this set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck_universe
Inter-universal presumably refers to geometrical statements which hold
across different such universes. At least, that's my understanding. The paper is well beyond my knowledge.
I've been fetching results from the openfeint api for a bunch of the UDID's. I'm not sure, but it may be significant that so many of the UDIDs get a result from the API. Shouldn't openfeint only know about the UDID if the user has played some game in their network? And wouldn't we expect that to be a distinct minority of the total population of all ipad/iphone owners?
Also note that only the most basic library functions are likely to be optimized specifically for your platform (e.g. assembly). Mostly basic memory stuff like memcpy, strcpy, memcmp, strcmp, strchr,... Anything more complex can be usually be made very fast with just pure C code, comparable to implementations that come with your compiler.
Two minor nits about Google search:

(1) the bias toward current results seems overweighted. Maybe I'm the only one this annoys. I use the custom date settings more than any other feature on Google, maybe it could always be exposed.

(2) I wish there wasn't two buttons that say "News" that do different things while they have more sets of buttons in identically analogous places that say "Images" and "Maps" yet for some reason both buttons do exactly the same thing.
The speakers page still says 2011.
O'Reilly books launched on Inkling (iPad, iPhone & Web)
Why is having a business model that generates billions of dollars in revenue annually, employs tens of thousands of people, and still allows you to maintain dominance considered a failure?

The ads platform is self-optimizing, punishing advertisers with poor ads, low relevance, and poor brand perception. This results in ads that are from more trustworthy sellers and whom generate real customer interaction to justify buying those ads. To me, this system encourages higher relevance in commerce queries because those who deliver the best user experiences after you leave Google are the ones that can afford to bid to the top of the ads marketplace.
49% is a whole lot. For that much, you should find a co-founder who will work full time.

Also, to reiterate what other people in this thread have said, find better ways to monetize this. Think about bigger ads, charging trucks to send email to your subscribers, etc. Traffic solves one of the bigger risks for a food truck.

Having a real business plan here means you can give away a much smaller chunk of the company, or pay cash, and give away no equity.
If you've already been (in say 2010), is there a possibility of going twice?
>Kickstarter reserves the right to reject, cancel, interrupt, remove, or suspend a campaign at any time and for any reason. Kickstarter is not liable for any damages as a result of any of those actions. Kickstarter’s policy is not to comment on the reasons for any of those actions. //

This is the get-out-of-jail-free card [that's a Monopoly board game reference]. They can cut off pledgers or project creators for any reason and don't have to tell you what it is; of course the law [which?] still applies.

There is an interesting glitch in the T&C. Kickstarter make a distinction between refunding a pledge and cancelling a pledge. The meaning of "cancel" is thus unclear, it doesn't appear to mean refunding money as that's what "refund" means. This is shown in the phrase "Project Creators may cancel or refund a Backer’s pledge at any time and for any reason". If a project creator receives the money then 'cancels' the pledge it appears they're in the clear WRT the terms and conditions ...?
Very interesting tutorial! I've had exposure to GAs before, but not in the context of machine learning and so it's interesting to see how my experience can apply to that area.

I had a course on design optimisation in the last year of my degree and I'm constantly surprised by just how relevant it is to a lot of different fields. It really is worth familiarising yourself with optimisation techniques if this kind of stuff interests you, because they can be applied to a very broad range of problems.
There is a graphic that shows 18.5% for the organic and 81.5% for the ads/rest of the area.

The main reason I disagree with the conclusion is that the area used by Google, or any other company for that matter, for navigation/other tools is hardly equivalent to space used for ads.

That in no way is intended to say that the space is used "efficiently".
He was my favorite professor and that was my favorite class in college. I can't believe I discovered he has blog on hacker news, of all places.

If any undergrads at Madison are reading this, take his class. You definitely won't regret it.
to me this is like tv shows. it use to be about 50 min of show, 10 min of commercials

now its about 42 min show, 18 min commercials
> I didn't mean for a minute to imply that he was one

Ok, fair enough.

But I am trusting my gut instincts here. Not so much having read the paper, but reading the way Ellenberg, Conrad, and Tao discuss the paper. To argue by analogy, if PG and Mark Zuckerberg both came out and said they were both intrigued by a new startup, that certainly wouldn't mean it was a shoo-in for success, but I imagine that VC's would be lining up to take that gamble.

Please also keep in mind that Perelman's proof of the Poincare conjecture confused the hell out of everyone, and I think it was a couple of years before experts came to a consensus that it was correct.

Of course, your pessimism could well be accurate. In any case, the consensus view in the mathematical community will be that ABC "may have been" proved (unless a mistake is found immediately). For better or worse, we are pretty damn cautious.
One way to replace it, would be that when you sign up, you provide email. The website sends you a private link. And you always use that link to log into the website.
Instead of typing in the address into your browser, you'd type it into your email client and get that link, and click on it.
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As you said, people dismiss them. That's a failure.

It's a failure to deliver value to the searcher and a failure to deliver value to the advertiser.

The idea is fine, but if in practice people just ignore the ads...

Google is making great money from search-based ads, of course, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a massive inefficiency created by a large number of users ignoring a large number of ads.

The obvious opportunity for a competitor is to correct that inefficiency and deliver more value for searchers and advertisers.
Except such an arms race is highly asymmetric in Google's favour.

Google can have a team of 10 working full time racing Ad-Blocker's volunteers.

Google can ask for ever more aggressive permissions from web masters, Ad-Blockers must play nice with browsers' plugin api.

Google can hire away the most productive Ad-Blocker developers.

Google can ban ad-blockers from chrome's plugin repository and halve the ad-blocker userbase overnight.

Google has the warchest for a multi year engagement. Most plugin authors cannot last a single year fighting full time.

If Google went total war then ad-blockers would disappear within a year. It would be a massive PR hit, maybe even a legal issue. The risks make it all a numbers game, but there does exist a point where Google can no longer ignore ad-blockers. Thus ad-block users must be careful and not become too numerous.
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Actually, it looks like RIM is offering to pay the difference between what your app earns and $10,000. So if you earn $4,000, they'd pay you $6,000.

So if your app is not going to go past $10,000, there's literally no incentive to promote it beyond $1,000 (except the enjoyment of knowing so many people are using your app).

It's not clear what the cutoff date is, although presumably it's the Blackberry 10 launch. So to maximize profit, you should promote it enough to earn $1,000 just prior to launch, take your $9,000, then promote it further.
Giggity: CLI Quagmire animation in Node (demo of picture-tube and play.js)
@pg: How many hackers attend each year? I forget to count ;)
I'm not a LabView fan for various reasons, but something neat they've added as of V8.0 (I think) is an auto-format tool which will take a mess of wires and organize it. Vastly improves readability, and works really well.
Where is your Github repo?
You might want to ask whether users have installed any game associated with OpenFeint. Some examples are listed on their Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFeint.
Lambda Labs Debuts An API For Face Recognition