skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't require Al Queda to come up with the idea to do bad things to the United States on the anniversary of doing bad things to the United States. Anyone who hates America would naturally choose to act on 11/9.
>"The properties of the outlier data, by definition, are not charachteristic of the data-set as a whole"

Graham's statement about three-quarters of the value of YC's $10 billion portfolio being comprised of Dropbox and Airbnb counters this. It's the difference between the probability density function and the aggregated cumulative distribution function.

This is actually part of the founding logic of modern portfolio theory: let's suppose all start-ups have a 1% chance of making it to a billion and a 99% chance of going bust. From the start-ups' perspectives, the $1 billion exit outcome is an outlier scenario. If I put a few hundred of these guys in a portfolio, however, it would be improbable for not one of them to Instagram.

This oversimplifies as it assumes simple distributions and pre-known probability densities, but it illustrates one of the un-intuitive effects of the way variances combine mathematically.
As a non transit user, I see the addition of the turn by turn (especially with Siri integration) as a plus and don't miss the transit at all. So I wouldn't say it is universally inferior.
This is different from drag queens. Drag queens can reasonably expect to be able to prance around (I'm sorry, I can't find a more respectful term) in women's clothes. Women can reasonably expect and have to full freedom to dress however they want. I have a lot less sympathy for the action of harassing /b/ for the intent purpose of driving more visitors to your site. That's not to say the punishment is a billion times harsher than the "crime" warrants, I just believe there's a difference between walking around in certain clothes and lying to a group of people, no matter how depraved these people are. In the same way, although I believe I should be able to shouts slurs at people without being beaten up, I think I'd earn less sympathy than if I were beaten up because of my sexual orientation.

Also, no one is really blaming, I'm actually just curious. Anyone who knows /b/, knows what they're capable of, especially if you give them your name and what you look like. In 99% of the cases, it just fizzles out, but was she really betting on not being the 1%?
That is the same with any planning/management technique, but unfortunately something that people still keep getting wrong.

No technique will allow you to reliably and efficiently solve a problem until the problem is well enough defined.
Well, that's a new one, that we help the startups too much with their pitches. I suppose I should take that as a compliment, since pitches are my particular specialty.

It's simply false though that raising money at a high valuation means you don't get investors that help you. If anything it's the opposite; the startups that raise at the highest valuations also tend to raise money from the best VC funds.
Wouldn't the browser cache make that a fairly ineffective tracking method? The odd bit of data about some websites you visit doesn't particularly benefit Google, not nearly as much as the data you give them when you directly use their services.

I'd be sure to keep local backups of every font and library you point to just in case something breaks, though.
HopStop is the app you're looking for. I just moved to Brooklyn and was recommended the app by someone who's been here only a few months. It gives ridiculously thorough directions, and has an offline transit map you can use while you're on the subway.
funny, kelly sutton wrote a similar-ish post on TC Disrupt last year: http://kellysutton.tumblr.com/post/10164180568/your-idea-is-...
Not a separate app, in any meaningful sense of the word. I use it extensively for personal use; I have a couple spreadsheets online involving personal data and I just click a button in the menu for spreadsheets to open up the script editor.
Did Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Twitter or Dell use YC or anything similar? In my opinion YC is a business to make money out of desperate entrepreneurs.
Amazing list thanks!
You probably heard it already, but you should read make documentation. It's full of convention like this aimed at helping the C ecosystem.
There is one huge product flaw that will become apparent in about 2 months, it will begin on YouTube.

Vertical video is about to get even worse.
>It's the best iPhone YET made, period.

I think what is pissing most people off is that up until iphone 4 (not 4s), the iphone was arguably the best smart phone around. 4s and 5 have been improvements to the iphone but have not added anything over its competitors. Most of the competitors can do what the iphone 5 does and more (such as NFC and / or wireless charging).

Bottom line: There is no reason to stick with the iphone 5 other than "I am stuck in the eco system", or "I love apple" or "It is good enough". The "better than the others" argument doesn't fly anymore.
I think you are going the wrong way with this. I mean who cares, right? It's just a television program that viewers happen to enjoy. In fact, that's how ALL tv shows are nowadays, including Community.

As some would say, "Life isn't tv!"
You know, after reading your post I have to agree that yes, NFC being vulnerable to the same problems as it's alternatives makes it 10X better.

I'm sure any day now Apple will come out with NFC in the iPhone 5S as they realize they've missed out on a huge opportunity.

Please pay no attention to the ticketing app of which they will probably take a 30% cut. NFC is where the money's at which is why people have stopped buying iPhones and are instead only buying phones with NFC.

I just tossed my wallet, 4S, debit/credit cards, and cash into the garbage, now I just carry around my Galaxy Nexus looking for someone who wants to me to beam them bitcoins. I'm looking forward to walking 5 KM to get to a grocery store to buy food now that I can't drive (my drivers license just got revoked because the police won't accept a picture of it) and theres no where to sell me food in < 5KM (they don't support NFC).

NFC really does change everything, it's a whole new way of living.
Last line of that post is hilarious.
I think HTML5 at the moment is great for making prototype mobile apps. Getting traction before investing in a native app hedges a lot of risk. The approach (native vs. web) also depends on the type of app and the customers you are trying to reach. There is a time and place for both and i think the times and places for HTML5 will only increase in the future.
And less space than a nomad. Lame.
This. http://i.imm.io/E9zF.png
Seems like a lot of privileges for an userscript managing extension.

Later edit: After a bit of searching I also found that FAQ.
They should really put that information on the chrome web store.
Setting aside all of the political/philosophical objections to this decisions. from a practical perspective, I would be completely fine with this decision if they changed one thing:

Make it dead simple for me to go to the 'developer dashboard' in crome web store and let me create a new extension by just uploading a whatever.user.js file. Don't make me package it up, don't make me know what a crx file is. Let me just hack together so JS to scratch my itch, and throw it up somewhere.
The unfortunate fact is that there is not much difference between the two cases. Most people who are looking for a cofounder when they start YC are still looking for one 6 months later. Alarmingly often that's because they recruited one in the interim who's already gone.
Why would you ever want a temporary solution to any problem? It might be an accurate description, but to someone like me, the first reaction is, "Sold!"
Wait, what? You're writing a rant about other entrepreneurs not solving problems when your startup is "google alerts for video games and movies" with no apparent business model?

>> You need to be a painkiller, not a vitamin.

If you read that article, he actually says "very few are (painkillers)" ... being a vitamin isn't bad, it's just easier to market a painkiller ...

>> I feel like an asshole for saying all this, because I never want to talk badly about fellow entrepreneurs.

The fact that you have to add this to your post is a good clue that it may have been unwarranted or poorly worded.

Look, my startups don't cure cancer but I like to think they solve problems for people. If people ask me for honest advice about their startup or pitch, I will definitely give it. But I don't go to conferences and then publicly rip the participants (or most of them).
If they "don't understand (or care) that you're doing a x-point sprint", then you have big problems, since they have to choose 'x' points worth of stories to put into a sprint, and that's one of their two key responsibilities.

Also, you cannot substitute points for stories - that's the whole point of the estimation process. (and also a large part of why software projects fail. "Doing 'A' is 10x harder than doing 'B'" seems to be hard to understand until you have points to spend).
This (and not div shadows) is exactly why CSS was invented. If you're looking for a web browser that lets you quickly change the look for individual web pages, try Opera.
All of which add _unnecessary_ complexity and time to the development lifecycle. Don't tell me you don't need a debugger in JS no matter how small your methods are and how many tests you have. All code has bugs. Period. You are arguing against fact. That's fallacious.
Can't this reasoning be applied recursively?

If you're going to learn C, you better learn assembly, so you know what the C is doing.

If you're going to learn assembly, you better learn CPU architecture, so you know what the assembly is doing.

If you're going to learn CPU architecture, you better learn digital logic, so you know what the adders and multiplexers are doing.

If you're going to learn digital logic, you better learn solid-state physics...

I mean, it's always useful to know what's happening under the hood, but it's not always realistic to expect that to happen. I don't think the average C programmer need to know assembly any more than the average Ruby programmer needs to know C.
Extra complexity.
Not all programmers are alike (a rant on Clojure).
Just to add, if you think you can raise your child (startup) alone than don't be afraid to do that either. You'll never know, the right co-founder may be just around the corner, if at all
Divide room along one diagonal by urinating a rough line if bladder is full, or else cut your finger with your teeth and set the line that way. Similarly mark one side 'A' and the other side 'B.'

Remove undergarments and crumple into ball in both hands.
Stand in what appears to be the center of the room.
Select an unfamiliar song and spin around singing it with eyes closed until you can no longer remember any lyrics, at which point stop and use both hands to toss up the balled-up garment.

Open your eyes and search for the garment.

If the garment lands so that the 'front' appears to face up, append zero to the left of the number, else append one.

If garment lands in side A, flip all bits, and if garment lands in side B, flip only the bits of position equal to 1 mod c, (rightmost position called 0 for this purpose) where c is the value of the sub string of your current number generated from every third digit (positions 2, 5, and so on).

Repeat until the desired range is reached by the number of digits.

The method assumes that you have an incredible penchant for mental math.
Thanks Tony! I can't say I'm only saving one other domain, but I'm getting close to having sold off almost 90% of my names.
Unfortunately, I believe the OP misrepresents the original article quite a bit. The Chinese article is three pages long but their summary only covers details from the first page. The second page features personal stories from several employees and their families, which the journalist said made a much deeper impression than the tasks he went through as an undercover employee. The third is a commentary along the lines of "is this the best China can do?" (i.e. forever be implementing other countries' creativity, instead of being the inventors), and a final reflection saying that working conditions at Foxconn have improved greatly over the last two years (apparently working undercover at Foxconn is something that's been done several times before), but the hostile attitude toward employees has not improved.

Aside the editorial content at the end, I think the article was quite fair in that the journalist simply reporte what he saw (if the windows really have screens installed for suicide prevention, merely describing this fact does not make an article "trash"). I also don't think the author has any intent of making the Western world go up in arms about anything. The point is more about checking how much things have changed since the famous chain of suicides was made public.
I remember very clearly queueing in Waterstones Old Street
to buy a book on Marimba - it had sooo much hype that even I thought I needed to get upto speed now

Yes, hype is death to expectation management, but it sure beats everyone ignoring you

this is not the fault of YC companies nor even pg. Just live with it. And keep polishing those pitches :-)

edit : bit more positive
here's a little ted talk transcript downloader i threw together. because watching videos is a timekill (sounds like the author learned this the hard way :) sometimes we'd rather just skim a document - focus on the words not the delivery. below is a filter - the way UNIX utilities are supposed to be written, remember? it's bourne shell, sed and curl (no bash needed). no ruby python perl nonsense; no release on github; just simple stuff; simple. i'm not endorsing curl as an httpclient but seems like people like curl so that's what's used. 1st the filter fetches an index of all the speaker names called "ted.idx" if ted.idx does not already exist. you then feed speaker names to the filter and it outputs the transcript text to stdout (if there is a transcript) with each transcript separated by a line of 80 dashes. each line is prefixed with a colon and a space.
you read the output file however you want; maybe something like this:

less -Gp--------- file.txt

then you can jump from transcript to transcript by pressing "n" or "N"

would you like to download all the ted transcripts? this will do it:

filter < ted.idx > file.txt

here's the filter:

(note: \&#039 does not need the backslash in sed; that's only to get past the HN forum software without being translated)

read -p'what should we call this command? ' d
[ x$d = x"" ]||
echo don\'t forget to place $d in your PATH
[ x$d = x"" ]||
cat > $d << done

c=http://www.ted.com/speakers

[ -f ted.idx ]||{
echo fetching ted.idx... >&2
b=\$(curl -s \$c/atoz |sed '
/Showing page 1 of/!d;
s/.* //;
s/<.*//;
')
curl -s \$c/atoz/page/[1-"\$b"] | sed '
/href=.*speakers\/.*html/!d;
s/</\
/g;' |sed '
/speakers/!d;
s,.*=\",,;
s,\".*,,;
s,.*/,,;
s,\.html\$,,' > ted.idx
}

echo >&2;
echo "usage: less ted.idx" >&2;
echo "usage: grep speaker_name ted.idx |\$0 > file" >&2;
echo "usage: sed 'line-no!d' ted.idx |\$0 > file" >&2;
echo "usage: \$0 < ted.idx > file" >&2;
echo "usage: less -Gp----- file" >&2;

while read a;do
curl -s \$c/\$a.html |sed '
/notranslate.*href=.\/talks\//!d;
s,.*href=.,http://www.ted.com,;
s/\">.*//;
s/.*/url = \"&\"/;
' | curl -sK - | sed -n '
s/\&#039;/'"'"'/g;

/<title>/s//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
: /;
s/<.title>//;
/transcriptLink/{
s/.*nofollow\">/: /;
s/<\/a>//;};
/^----------/p;
/^: /p;
' ;

done
Apple Keynote video for iPhone5 introduction is live
You can use the default makefile with no targets to set options globally for a directory as well i.e.:

echo 'void main() { printf("omg\n"); }' > simple.c
echo 'CFLAGS=-g' > Makefile
make simple
./simple

(yes I know that is not valid C but it serves this example and compiles fine :-)
To be pedantic, > and < aren't pipes, only | is. A pipeline means that stdout of the first program is stdin for the next program. > and < set stdout or stdin to a file, not another program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_%28Unix%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirection_%28computing%29
One thing that a lot of people forget is the general diagnostic criteria (e.g. http://behavenet.com/personality-disorder)

Specifically, one big glaring criteria that most people don't meet is "C. The enduring pattern leads to clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning."
... make it shite ... LMAO
my exact search was:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?num=100&pws=0&sa...

The company name was picked up through the linked in profiles.

The only app-based thing I found (quickly) was a phone app, not a web app.

https://www.couplewise.com/

But from their domain whois data, they seem to be on the East coast.
"Q300: Tampermonkey can access every page that I visit! Is TM evil?"

http://forum.tampermonkey.net/viewtopic.php?t=78
That would suck! The whole point of user scripts is giving power users convenient control over ANY page in their browser - regardless of what the website owner thinks.
It is illegal to incite a riot in the USA, so they are following US law. You cannot run into a filled movie theater and yell "fire", so the film falls into the same context.

Also, the film was faked and actors tricked - the dialogged was dubbed over afterwards and static scenes like blackboards were changed out.

All that said, this film wasn't the cause, it was terrorism and they used this as an excuse, it could have been anything.
Your reactions are amusingly similar to reactions people had to touchscreen phones before the touchscreens became good. Yes, of course, take away my keyboard, I'll just type my BBMs on shitty glass! Those damn touchscreens, a solution in search of a problem.

As a point of interest I can buy food with NFC within a 12 minute walk, and I don't even have an NFC phone.
I used to believe similar things and suffered from depression. I tried to kill myself with a boxcutter.

I offer a suggestion for an antidote for your philosophy:

Carefully read as much of this website as you can:
http://csp.org/index.html

Then you will have the knowledge to make an informed choice regarding the use of an entheogenic drug. Good luck!
Electrical resistance is dependent on the temperature. The lower the temperature of your cpu is, the less power it uses.
Yes...
But the micro USB cable is interchangable between many devices. There is always one somewhere when you forgot yours.

Making it something completely new and unstandard and charge 30$ for an adaptor to everything up to your car that supported the old connector does not seem to be that much of an improvement. I see a lot of trouble in adopting the new iPhone and not many gains other than its faster lighter and lasts longer.
All of Simon Sinek's talks are fantastic. He did a longer talk in the same vein for CreativeMornings/NewYork a few months ago.

https://vimeo.com/40979758
Wow, it's been a while since I've thought about Marimba and their Castanet product. Back then I was working at their competitor (of sorts,) PointCast.

Reminds me also of CriticalPath
Sorry.. Flash? I think the market pretty much gave its opinion on that one.
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I agree with you.

But we're wrong. We're just saying this because in our eyes, these "problems" aren't worth solving. We're not interested in them.

matchist (matchist.com), my current venture, wants to help freelance developers cut out all the bad things about freelancing. We want to save you time, money, and headaches.

I love this problem. It NEEDS to be solved.

But you might think it's the stupidest problem around.
Exactly. I worked on my startup for a little over a year before my current awesome cofounder joined me (approached me since I had already "proven" myself, I wasn't explicitly searching). Big fan of just leaping forward and doing it yourself.

Self-promotion, two articles I wrote on the subject:
"I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks"
http://www.limedaring.com/im-a-designer-who-learned-django-a...

"How to thrive as a solo non-technical founder"
http://weddinglovely.com/blog/how-to-survive-as-a-solo-desig...
I would just like to remind downvoters of this comment that a downvote is not a way of disagreeing with someone. This comment is part of a debate about a web technology. It's not a troll or a personal attack, so I think it's perfectly valid, don't you?
I know you didn't ask for product feedback, but I think your product has a problem: You need early adopters to start using it, but early adopters naturally hear about the news and developments that you claim to deliver. In otherwords, I shared your product with a few coworkers, we signed up, then we all independently decided that we'd hear about those things naturally, through other channels. Sounds like a vitamin.
Another point: A founder of a "hyped" company can always turn down an investor at a high valuation for another investor at a lower valuation (that presumably offers some other sort of value-add).

The situation Vinod describes would therefore only exist if founders either:

a) Didn't agree with him about the role of an early investor, or

b) Were not optimizing for their company's success.

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It's also worth nothing that if (a) above were common and I were a price-sensitive value-add investor I'd give interviews exactly like the one Vinod gave to Techcrunch.

I'd attempt to convince entrepreneurs that they shouldn't focus on valuations and should instead focus on the benefits investors (like my firm) provide. This isn't an uncommon argument (though it normally happens behind closed doors). Google Ventures, for example, is known to make it [1].

1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2012/07/19/when-fundin...
While I accept the premise of your comment (that Apple won't do this), I have to note that they released a software update to enable 802.11n, costing $1.99.
My understanding is that Kickstarter is a funding platform, not a donation platform.

Funding and donation have very different connotations.
Those options aren't obvious, and they change. The "show only important updated" option disappeared from my feed recently.
Warrantless Wiretapping program expanded, extended through 2017
I was thinking the same thing, really. In most cases, I like my pages to look about the same. I like my font some generic, seen-everywhere san serif font, I like my monospace a standard monospace. I have no problems with other fonts existing, but I could easily see some people that do, and would change everything around. For them, there'll be a Firefox (or other) extension that'll turn it off.

The valid reasons I could see for a downvote for you are:

* asking a question that doesn't further the use of web fonts for their own end --- which seems to be the focus of the article

* calling designers "self-absorbed" and implying that novel fonts/etc creates worse user experience.
The safest, greenest motorcycle
I was actually surprised they used those words.
Historical Geniuses and Their Psychiatric Conditions
Milwaukee Police News
The antiterrorist think-tank Quilliam says this is not true. The attack was planned and was not related to the protests.

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f0e249d1af58faacc207ffae...
I didn't mean to demean the work, there is clearly a whole lot going on behind the scenes here. It was more of a rebuttal of the "more data is bad" idea. My point above was unclear, but this idea doesn't necessarily represent more data, just the same data presented in a more human-friendly manner.

I really like what the team has done, this could have a long-lasting impact on anything with heavy use of stats and figures. I honestly have a few enterprise applications that would benefit from a similar treatment. e.g. reports that aggregate certain operational stats and must be hand-written every week.