skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java can do pretty much anything that any other language can do.

Sure. That's part of my point. But just because languages are computationally equivalent (cf. Turing), that doesn't mean one is as powerful/expressive as another. I can get things done a lot faster in Python than in Whitespace.

The boilerplate in Java is a huge drag on everyday coding, and Java has weak support for (among many other things) working with functions, text manipulation, and in some cases even basic arithemetic. You can make things work eventually, but sometimes the effort required and volume of resulting junk code is prohibitive for otherwise useful programming techniques. That's an asset if and only if the people on your team aren't up to using those techniques anyway (and can't easily become so).
nice work! i agree, it's more about small changes that make a difference in the long haul rather than trying to drop weight fast.
I wasn't aware of that price difference. Why is the Retina MBP so much cheaper, despite the more expensive screen?

And when I say unsupported, I mean that they look crappy because they don't have Retina support.
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CloudMine has supported this for months, and also supports Java code in addition to JavaScript.
One issue I see with this, is mobile ISP's could, or will abuse it.

Last year, I got a phone call and e-mail from AT&T stating that if I didn't stop using my phone for tethering, I would be automatically "upgraded" to a DataPro 4GB data plan, which would override my "unlimited data" plan.

The issue with this is, I was using my Android phone as a hotspot, and I was using it to watch videos from MSDN for work purposes because funny enough, AT&T's 3G network was faster than my work internet connection.

My concern is, with phones and tablets blurring a line between mobile computers and desktop computers (with docks included), if the next phone I get in a few years comes with the ability to dock my phone to use a full desktop, is that going to count as tethering? Is "desktop mode" data plan going to be different than a "mobile mode" data plan? Will I be forced to finally give up my "unlimited data" plan on my phone?

AT&T has tried numerous times to get rid of my data plan, and I know one of these days I'm going to get a bill and it's going to be gone, and I'll call AT&T and ask what is going on and they will just say "We don't offer that plan anymore, so you were moved to the most appropriate plan" just like they tried to do years ago.

I could see since I am a "unlimited data" plan user, they could implement this six strikes plan, and use it any chance they can find until the inevitable happens.
You picked an interesting comparison -- Finland is one of the rare European countries that is actually less dense than the US. The population density of the whole of US is ~34/km², while Finland clocks in only 16/km². Even when you account for the fact that the northernmost third of Finland is essentially unpopulated, Finnish population density is still well under the American one. (And I quess you guys have the Rockies, Alaska and a few deserts too...)
I don't think so. I remember reading on a blog that Mac & Windows users have to pay too.
For public key exchange, it doesn't matter who gets the keys along their path from phone to phone. But, for the paranoid, you would use Bluetooth or NFC, and show a key fingerprint on both phones (ideally in the form of an algorithmically generated graphic plus the original hexadecimal) so the users can compare the images side by side and make sure the keys are valid.

As for endpoint security being the weak link, I tend to agree with you, but it also depends on who is trying to snoop on your conversations, and what level of resources they have.
This is a fantastic idea. I wish I could go back in time when I was graduating high school and enroll in something like this. Would have saved me tens of thousands, and increased my earnings over lifetime by quite a large amount. Congrats.
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I agree that yes, you should definitely be experienced if you're going to be going 20mph on a longboard. It's fast. But, if you've got brakes, and I've ridden both electric skateboards with brakes and non-electric skateboards with brakes before and both are easy to use, you'll probably never end up going that fast in the first place unless you're being reckless.

A power slide is one way to stop, but brakes work just fine. The reason the sand throws people isn't because they're slowing down, it's that they don't expect it and can't predict how quickly it will slow them down. Decent brakes have neither of those problems.
Kevin Rose: We’re Not Trying To Lowball Startups At Google Ventures
I'll throw in my 2 cents as typical HN 'suit'. For background, I do have a technical co-founder and am working on something currently and we've been working together over a year and are on our second project.

First, I think the OP's response was perfectly acceptable. Its important as a technical co-founder to determine quickly what the "suit" can bring to the table although I do think he left out some valuable skills like marketing, user adoption, team building. He did include 'industry experience' which is critical. (edit: I also recall my co-founder then asking me situational questions like how I would market x app, who would use it, pricing, etc to see if I've thought through the process)

Second, one aspect that I see missing often is chemistry. Over the last few years I've attempted multiple projects with several different people and I can't stress how important chemistry is with your co-founder and/or team. I actually really enjoy hanging out with my co-founder and consider him a friend and we regularly hang out (with each other's families) and that kind of trust carries over to our work. Trust is something you can't quantify so for those in search of co-founders, don't just look at credentials but look at the person too.

My last thought is that although you're a 'suit' like I am, you need to make an effort. There is a general curve that says in the idea phase the majority of the workload is done by the technical co-founder. While true, I do my best to try and offset that. It gives me no joy to sit on my ass while my buddy is coding to 3am every night. How would it make you feel if you're busting your ass pitching, getting customers, and doing cust dev while they are at happy hour? So to respond to this I do my best. I've picked up basic design skills (PS/AI/FW), I've gotten his help to install ruby and learn basic HTML/CSS so I can make easy changes. I alternate every few days from doing something design centric, customer oriented (get feedback/lead gen), to thinking about our product direction.

So my take aways are: ask questions, figure out if you can work together, and make sure everyone is willing to put in the work to make it happen.
The Story of the Only American Not on Earth on September 11th
Some other factors to think about:

Road quality in the United states is low compared to other OPEC countries

Seatbelts and motorbike helmets are still not mandatory in all US states

Car quality and safety in the United States is lower than other OPEC countries

EDIT: I meant OECD, not OPEC.
Thanks Cynthia. This was a tough post to write, but I had to get it out. I wanted everyone I work with to understand why I'm leaving and how I came to the decision.
Migrating from Mongo to Riak at Shareaholic
For anyone interested, the person who claimed responsibility for this is tweeting about GoDaddy's response: https://twitter.com/AnonymousOwn3r/status/245568841160196096
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This looks incredible. I've been wanting a clean way to select multiple random objects from my Parse db. Until now, this was the best answer: https://parse.com/questions/random-search-its-possibile.

Also, it seems possible to combine this with IronWorker. You could create a worker in Ruby, then in the Parse Cloud Code, call that worker's endpoint. Something like this (rough sketch):

worker.rb:

require "some_ruby_email_gem"
cgi_parsed = CGI::parse(payload)
email = payload["email"]
SomeRubyEmailGem.send(email, "Welcome, #{email}!")

upload.rb:

require 'iron_worker_ng'
client = IronWorkerNG::Client.new(:token => config['iw']['token'], :project_id => config['iw']['project_id'])
code = IronWorkerNG::Code::Ruby.new
code.merge_worker 'worker.rb'
code.merge_gem "some_ruby_email_gem"
client.codes.create(code)

url = "https://worker-aws-us-east-1.iron.io/2/projects/#{config['iw']['project_id']}/tasks/webhook?code_name=#{code.name}&oauth=#{config['iw']['token']}"

puts "Add this url to to your Parse Cloud Code:"
puts url

Parse Cloud Code:

Parse.Cloud.define("welcome, function(request, response) {
var user = request.object.get("user");
var url = "https://worker-aws-us-east-1.iron.io/2..." // the url from upload.rb
http.open("POST", url+"?email="+user.email, true);
});

EDIT: HTTP requests to 3rd parties within Cloud Code are not possible yet, but Parse will add the feature soon. (http://twitter.com/ParseIt/status/245584646686003200)
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I wouldn't worry too much about it. Faking an ID towards a wireless network is pretty easy to do. There will probably be apps that would fool the WiFi into thinking your iPhone is an Android device.
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I think you'd be surprised - these types of tactics seem to be the rule and not the exception these days based on the way that these sites are set up.
I want to start a company right out of school
If accurate this is the sort of thing that field testing should reveal. However, because the Apple community has made a fetish over the most minor hardware releases and an industry has sprung up around stealth photos, Apple has given themselves little opportunity to uncover this sort of basic design flaw. In some way, it appears to be the same sort of issue that was discovered with the iPhone 4 antenna after its release.

These sorts of functional failure may indicate a weakness in Apple's design process and one which Apple may have trouble addressing without changing the relationship between marketing strategy and product development.
I'm surprised this doesn't bother more people. Especially because facebook, etc. are so open about their policies. Holiday claims this will make Facebook go by the way of Myspace, but I'm not as sure. I think too many people are too invested.
That is an example of terrible design, combining the two biggest no-nos in playing card design: Full Bleed and Asymmetric backs.
The metric that 0.2% of all companies represent a whopping 16% of winners is not a relevant statistic. It's based on the premise that there are 500,000 new startups in the U.S. every year. I'm guessing this number is counting every incorporation which means many companies would be double or triple counted. 500,000 separate companies would mean that 1 out of every 7 people are starting a new company every year. Regardless, this does not represent the total field of companies that a reporter can choose from to write about. The percentage of relevant companies in the 1000 that are VC backed is going to be much higher than the percentage of relevant companies in all 500,000 incorporated.

I also don't agree that a reporters job is to predict winners. If you're beat is startups, then in my opinion, it should be enough to simply cover companies that your userbase would find interesting or useful. As long as the story succeeds in delighting your readers there's no shame in reporting on a company that ultimately fails.
Anything Stripe builds is going to be orders of magnitude more battle-tested and reliable than anything I could possibly build. This is such a mission critical piece of an application, _I don't want to avoid touching it as much as possible_.

Now it will take a couple lines of code to add another unit to a customer's monthly bill instead of dozens of lines of code and an extra database table. It's not too complicated, but it's enough to make it much likelier that I'd introduce a stupid bug.

For me, that's the benefit.

Context -- I'm a young programmer and don't trust my own code as a matter of course, and I'm working in a bootstrapped-to-the-hilt startup where any ounce of effort saved is gold.
There are a few issues with jobs, one is we want to focus on building great things and don't want to spend time exploring opportunities in parallel. Two, it's hard to narrow down available opportunities to a few we would actually be interested in. Three, we don't want to invest too much time interviewing and writing resumes to only find out the position is not exciting after all. This thing while it's not perfect it's the right direction. Ps I wanna know salary!
Care to share this idea? I'm struggling to see how DRM can benefit the little guy.
Nice write-up. I do the same sort of segmentation. It's just good practice to break things up into independent parts. Your registrar should only register domains, nothing else. DNS should be separate and distinct from that as should email and web hosting systems. And you should manage them all with separate, unique passwords. Doing that will go a long way toward making your systems secure and reliable and easy to diagnose when things go wrong.
The cost of processing a strike make be less than the cost of processing a subpoena.
Probably in the sense that half the community got butthurt over his rant about semicolons.
To who exactly? I left Comcast due to their horrible service but that meant stepping down to a 6mbps DSL line. In the evenings Netflix can't even maintain a stream.

I have a choice between two terrible providers. If you know of some amazing ISP we can all switch to, I'd love to hear it.
There have been plenty of electric longboards before, but none even close to this size. Someone else linked to this: http://www.zboardshop.com/ which is basically the same idea but the difference in implementation is night and day. This board weighs 12lbs, the Z board weighs 37lbs, and it's one of the lighter competitors.
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I can't help but think if you're willing to carry around a long board for your journey, the extra effort in pushing it manually is not much and probably more fun (I can't really judge, having not used the product).

If you were really against walking or pushing, then a foldable bike would be a lot more useful, safer and cheaper.
What exactly does one's gender have to do with using these tools?
When looking at these numbers, and thinking how the official retirement age in most countries has been raised to 67 or 69, does anyone else feel like old Boxer from Animal Farm [1] ?

They keep dangling that retirement carrot in front of us, but by the time we get to enjoy it, we're dead.

[1]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)
Do you know when this UI pattern was added to the style guide? Because, FWIW, webOS had something similar with sliding, over a year ago, in their Maps app.
My goal wasn't to peddle my product. It was more to protect the existing brand that I've created around the product.

While you aren't completely correct in your second point (as I found out in my own dealings with LinoType), I do want to take a moment to apologize. I'm sorry for barging in a causing raucous that could have easily been handled privately.

To all, please accept my apology for lack of tact. You live, you learn, you do better next time.

Regards,
Ryan Myers
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This would have been useful in college...
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uhm... no.
"Your security is based on the kindness, and apathy, of strangers."

I repeat that warning to anyone who has become just computer-savvy enough to use a computer as well as they drive their car.

The tinfoil-hat jokes have tapered off, over the years, with the mainstream news coverage of stolen user information.
Absolutely. The weight difference is definitely the biggest difference.

I've ridden longboards with both foot and hand brakes. All the hand braking boards I've tried had a cable from the board to the controls and even with that hassle, I much prefer them to the foot brakes. Moving your foot around and trying to get even pressure at 20mph is a lot more tricky than squeezing a lever.
They certainly contributed to the web, even if part of their contribution was rather counter-productive (IE, we're looking at you!). But you have to admit that it's quite embarrassing for a company as well-known and large as Microsoft to finally use HTML5/Canvas on a website and still not being able to draw smooth curves.
I'm currently working on a similar service for training workers in the heavy industries (oil, forestry, mining, etc). Flash based first, HTML5 next. A site design that feels more like an environment than a web page, led by interactions with a virtual character.

It is hugely inspiring to see that you've just nailed this sort of seamless and beautiful experience. I'm going to sign up for a course just so I can see how you've handled the various design challenges inherent to such a service. We've got our own exciting plans, but I'd love to learn from your example.

Also, I've got one nagging question I'd love your answer to. We've got a bunch of artists in-house, but don't have much in the way of great tools for animation. What tools did you use to do the animations on the Prof and the backgrounds? (Love the moustache mountain!) I'd be surprised if that was done with Flash keyframes, as I find them to be painfully slow to work with.

Thanks for releasing this here on HN. I hope you have a great launch. I'll be sharing your service with my team, and my friends, many of whom are frustrated night owls looking for better morning time.
Looks like a great technologic improvement, but not revolutionary at all. A search for "electric skateboard" returns a dozen manufacturers, some with similar specs, most much cheaper - yes, they have that bulge going on but it doesn't change much in terms of feasibility. A skateboard is still not a viable means of daily transportation unless your route consists solely of smooth, untrafficked asphalt and you're a lucky person.

Why not sell it by what it is (a very cool electric longboard), instead of making surreal claims about changing the world?
What's wrong with it? It keeps system with less cruft, allows the vendor to focus on current attack surface only, and makes everyone stay more-or-less up to date.

Just look at how quickly, relatively, the whole Flashback outbreak simply... died out.

Apple issued critical updates going back as far as Tiger, which is ANCIENT, and barely has 1% of the market.

A 2008 MacBook would easily run 10.6 and 10.7, both of which receive updates just fine.
Crockford is as important to modern JS as Lerdorf is to modern PHP. He has a very minimal role in the community, and most of that involves resting on his laurels and being divisive.
Hi there, this sounds incredibly effective and I know a number of very talented friends who'd be interested. I briefly read through the description but couldn't find the answers to the following questions:

1. How are accommodations handled? Do we have to arrange that on our own or are they provided?

2. Do you help with visas? My friends are Canadian so not sure whether they can stay for 9 weeks in the USA without a student visa.

3. Does the entrepreneur lesson plan differ at all from the regular employment plan? Or are you in the same plan and just pay differently?

Thanks in advance for your help, phenomenal company and vision.
Care to point us to some better resources?
Im pretty sure possession of child porn is illegal. You don't need to mess with copyright protection at all. And widespread piracy doesn't stop the commercial enterprises, after all, Hollywood is the most pirated and massively profitable
In only one state in the US are seatbelts not mandatory for adults (New Hampshire). Otherwise, the only differences are between states in which you can be pulled over for being observed not wearing a seatbelt (the "primary enforcement" states) and those in which you can only be issued a seatbelt ticket after being pulled over for some other reason.

I also think the road and car quality questions are up for debate.
The thing I find most fascinating about Trump is how he is always stomping on the edge of being a joke and being a serious business guy.

That level of not-giving-a-crap of what other people think and ruthless self promotion is in my opinion very rare among internet centric people. Most are way to concerned about their personal and professional reputation to take a stand on borderline "controversies" such as Trump did with the birther issue. Even Thiel seems to be somewhat coy when it comes to his support for Ron Paul.
An other site like downforeveroneorjustme.com is:
http://www.cherchezvous.ca
french site but work for any site.
Yeah, that's kind of the conclusion I came to. But that just makes me ask the question: Then why doesn't every developer with a related skillset just learn Objective C already and try to charge me lots of money? I mean, if I didn't already have two jobs on top of spending months of the year on tour, that's what I would do. Sometimes capitalism doesn't work.

Thanks for your well wishes!
Just went through the demo. You definitely have a nice start. Seems like a combo of Mixpanel and intercom.io.

I would recommend a JS API to reduce barriers to entry.

Even better if it can install a little widget on my site that allows the user to ask a question or view their past conversations, a la intercom.io.
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As to salary, i just ask up front during opening discussions (before interviews). I ask them to give me a ballpark of salary range so we're not wasting each others' time.
Researchers typically do not have the time to keep up with the literature outside their subject domain. Major breakthroughs often occur when someone is in the right place at the right time to pull together the disparate threads of seemingly unrelated research. If Google can address this problem algorithmically, it could have profound impact. These thoughts have been rolling around my head since my young brain was warped by the esteemed James Burke many years ago.
I don't think it has much to do with the liberal-conservative distinction. I'm at the conservative end (Clojure, Haskell) and prefer a lot of liberal languages over Java.
Yeah! I requested this when I first started using parse a long time ago. I'm so happy that I can now implement hooks for syncing other db's.
If I don't like how a plugin works, I can uninstall the plugin. If I don't like how the browser works, I can... oh, I guess I can uninstall that too.
Ditto from Canada.
It would seem that 180HP is indeed a bad idea. These boards are aiming for 2.5 horses, which sounds like a blast.
Subprime's risk is also bounded: funds buy the mortgages, they're paying a fixed sum of money in exchange for an uncertain payoff in the future, predicted by models.

A large part of what made it blow up is leverage: that fixed sum was often more than the entire capital of the fund. That doesn't apply to YC, I think; to my knowledge, they don't borrow any money to fund the batches. The main investment PG et al makes is in time, energy, networking, and brand name. And that's where it could blow up: fund 10x more startups, most of which fail, and suddenly the YC brand isn't worth anything with investors, PR, employees, etc. Perhaps that's why PG doesn't do it. In this case, his intuition is a perfectly rational response to unintended consequences that are outside the awareness of his conscious thought process.