skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with you, as I am in the same situation. I am however slightly ahead of you in the process (end of 20s). Right after graduation I chose the first option you said ("maintaining a steady lifestyle and income by seeking well-paying jobs in the tech industry"), but beside getting better at programming (mastery) the latter two benefits (autonomy and purpose) are not fulfilled.

So I quit my job just two months ago with no immediate plans, hoping to enter the startup world, or pursue other dreams outside programming. I am as clueless as you are at this point, but one thing I can tell you is that seeking a well-paying job to begin with post-graduation is not all bad. You are young and you have time, and money in the bank helps A LOT when you are in my shoes. Having to worry about your account/juggle part-time jobs/living with your parents is no fun.

On the other hand, I would also like to hear what people ahead of me have to say as well. Should joining a startup be the first thing to do post-graduation? What did you do when you were not quite sure where your purpose was?
I'm immediately tempted to apply it to politics. I won't, or at least certainly not here, but it's interesting to think about.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4284524
http://pandodaily.com/2012/06/04/source-lefkofsky-and-samwer...
Europe Could Hit Microsoft With $7B+ Fine Over New IE Antitrust Violations
No, we aren't using the word empirically differently. I'm just saying that the interesting conversations revolve around where to look, not whether to look or not.

"Empirically" there is something interesting on that island. I'd love to hear ideas of what it could be, along with ways to test those ideas. The former without the latter is how snake-oil gets sold, but shutting down all conversation because snake-oil could be sold doesn't move us forward.
Every dismissive comments not a "middlebrow" comment. There are some people here with some really great knowledge. I love the "highbrow" dismissals because that's when I learn something new.
Because when billionaires own everything they won't be able to coerce us? Government is the ONLY entity capable of checking the power of the private oligarchs who control the majority of the world's wealth.

Do anarchists have a solution for the straightforward fact that "free markets" lead to massive concentration of power in the hands of a few unaccountable billionaires?
the studies linked to there specifically address antioxidant supplements which you then change into dietary antioxidants as if they are the same thing. They are not. Supplements doing nothing is the norm. It says relatively little about the presence of the same things in a diet. Example: fiber.
Out of curiosity, do you have your girlfriend as a starred user? Is your pattern of facebook interaction notably higher than with other friends?
Backing up online has two issues: 1) cost. Dropbox does not offer very high storage solutions so far. I have 3TB of videos and photos, where am I going to store it ? 2) access speed and upload speed. Especially upload. It takes forever to upload, unless maybe you have fiber connection...

The technical solution for most people is just not there yet. It's way cheaper to backup on a solid drive and store it at your friend's.
Just because you got rejected doesn't mean you should give up or conclude your idea was the wrong solution. Soon all cameras will have wifi capabilities, so my advice would be to consider that if you peruse the idea further.

I was very surprised that your rejection email said "you guys", I know YC keep it casual but that's really stunning word usage coming from an investor. As an EIR I saw many acceptance and rejection emails and never have any been written with such sloppy English. I guess it's part if the YC image, but I'm still surprised.

Your video sucked, and I'm sure you're far better at math and software than presentation skills, but that stuff doesn't matter if the idea is solid. You can hire those people later. Check out the kickstarter video Brydge for an example of how to make a great video.

I would agree with others though, forget Windows, build prototypes for a Mac, because every single photographer uses a Mac.

I think your CSI-like unblurr proves you go both have first class skills, keep at it, there's definitely a product that's not yet been built that deals with photographers' needs specifically. Dropbox isn't is for sure.
When this came up on Reddit earlier today, I read that if the vote passes through and they need a majority people to vote for it, but that doesn't happen, they will make the project a federal one instead of state, so no state money would be used for this, and nobody would be able to do anything against it.
Hmm, it's not an attractive site - if you need/want to go minimal and not show pictures of the items I'd look at a more elegant black and white layout like http://www.net-a-porter.com/ or http://www.thegridsystem.org/ even. The most compelling point of difference to me is the 'make an offer' so i'd include that more prominently.
How I automated non-essential purchases:

create an account on slickdeals

set up a deal alert for your desired keywords

don't think about it again until you get an email alerting you to a good deal

This removes a cognitive load for me. I no longer waste time researching trivial outlays.
The pro-Disruption argument goes like this: In a digitally connected age, there’s absolutely no need for public carriage laws (or hotel laws, or food safety laws, or… or…) because the market will quickly move to drive out bad actors. If an Uber driver behaves badly, his low star rating will soon push him out of business.

Well-said. This is the point of view I've come to agree with, so I was eager for the counterpoint. But then came this:

It’s a compelling message but also one with dire potential consequences for public safety, particularly for those who can’t afford to take a $50 cab ride to Whole Foods.

What? We're talking about Uber Taxi, not the black car service. In theory Uber Taxi should lower the cost of a cab since there's presumably less overhead. What I really want to see is a bigger discussion about government regulation being forced out by tighter feedback loops, which is the main point of contention I see with things like Uber, Sidecar, etc.
"KISSmetrics tracking techniques worked even if a user had cookies turned off and private browsing mode turned on"

Where can I read more about this 'unstoppable tracking'? (how) can one counter such attempts?
Better yet, don't use Paypal.

As a business you now have several decent options for handling your online Credit Cart or payment processing.

As a consumer most credit cards and banks now make it easy to pay online or pay people directly.

At one time Paypal served a purpose, but the rest of market has largely caught up or passed them.
That doesn't contradict anything I said. "Fluid intelligence declines after 30" != "Old people can't learn anything".
Would you just select { case <- reader... case writer <- data..} ?

I know this isn't the same as posix select, but it does let you have one goroutine coordinate the hot potato..
> The fact that a single person is allowed to own an international crossing is laughable. I know they probably can't take it away from him, but that it happened in the first place is a joke. I hope that this never happens again.

Why laughable? If the owner of the bridge does not provide good enough value and operational efficiency, then competing bridges will be received with favor instead of skepticism. If the government owns the bridge/infrastructure and does not provide acceptable value or efficiencies, it would likely be even harder to create an alternative.
Thinking as a Hobby
My key takeaway from Horowitz talk was "Don't sip sizzurp (AKA Purple Drank)."
I don't see the financial incentive to develop for Windows RT and the Surface. The iPad is too dominant. Android tablets are munching on the periphery. I just don't see the market acceptance of the Surface. It is not "better" than the iPad. It is a different vision and direction. But why would millions of users follow that vision when iOS and Android offer a compelling enough platform already?
I fear there is no hope even if you opt out - the vast majority of users aren't going to opt-out, which significantly reduces the class size, which will in turn make litigation against Paypal less appealing for most class-action attorneys. It's kind of evil genius.
> "Don't mind those other, more affordable playgrounds. Pay attention to how we mill the shit out of this block of aluminum just for you."

Which is really how any fashionable product works. "Forget that Armani Exchange produces its goods in the exact same country using the same cheap labour as Kmart - we use nicer cuts of fabric and make nicer looking products." Design and materials subjectively increase value, so I can only see the mini selling like hotcakes.
This one? http://samy.pl/evercookie/

Can you explain why one shouldn't use this? Is there a law in US forbidding using Etags for cookies?
Thanks for the clarification. While you're right, technically, users don't own their Facebook pages or the content on them, there's a common sense perception that we do – and Facebook ignores that very real sentiment at their own peril.

Businesses, on the other hand, are a less gray area, IMHO, and I'd say I agree completely with what you've written here.
I don't recall ever reading anything by Eric Ries saying you should track your customers no matter how hard they try to prevent you from tracking them.
"evercookie"[1]

[1] http://samy.pl/evercookie/ etc.
I'm glad the audio is good because it was pretty crummy that day (at least from the balcony).

I had to strain to hear what the speakers were saying.

Was the volume OK for those on the main level?
The title is a bit sensationalist - there was incorrect code and it made the copy/paste rounds. Presumably all incorrect code is dangerous to some degree but I'm certain there's a more fitting title for this story.

At any rate, here is a pull request for PHP which attempts to address the issue:

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/221
Guessing it's because of the slides. Is there a platform you suggest for playing embedded YouTube videos and a slide deck at the same time?
After the horrible mess that is OAuth, is anyone really expected to give this a second look?
Thanks for doing this and putting them up, the talks are amazing.
I like this solution much better, here is why:

k-means is not a mode seeking algorithm, I think. You are clustering your color space, but you're not even guaranteed to end up with colors that are very close to those in your image. With a high k you're getting actual colors in the image, but they're not really dominant anymore.

What about mean shift? It's based on one method of non-parametric density estimation. Another method is this: Some sort of histogramming, which is another method of non-parametric density estimation.

Also other colors spaces will pay off immensely.
Facebook Nanny Blocks You From Visiting Facebook Unless You Have Notifications
Interesting. I've been through first 10-15 maps, no mention of American Indians. Did I miss something. It mentions about other nations (British, Spanish, Russian) but no mention of Indian Nations.
How will these translate to actual sales? If Microsoft ships a lot of OEM devices and the manufacturer's channels are stuffed but don't sell - it won't help them at all in the long run.

I wish that instead of shoving MetroUI in the user's face by not allowing you to launch directly into desktop shell, they would have done something like Apple's Camera lockscreen slider - it teases you and is there at the bottom, but if you want you can ignore it completely.
How is "Ruby 2.0.0 feature freeze" an inaccurate title?

I ask because it has been common to use that terminology with Python releases for as long as I can remember, as well as with other projects I've worked on or am familiar with. We would have said the CPython 3.3.0 feature freeze was in June, with the final release happening last month.
Gruber's article also says:

>You can argue the iPod wasn’t targeted at “everybody”, but it was (and remains to this day) targeted at almost everybody.

Which I strongly disagree with.

I remember buying a used 3rd gen 20GB iPod in early 2005, and it was so expensive then everyone wanted to look at it because they had always wanted one but could not afford it. Friends laughed at me because they had bought Rios or whatever they were called for 1/2 the price.
Well done!

I actually had the same idea, but changed it slightly when it came time for execution because I wanting to use geolocation api's. Never really ended up finishing it though, turns out theres not much quake activity on the east coast and I lost intrest. :(

http://quakes.arrly.co
Officially the dumbest thing I've read on YCombinator ever.
How about just making it a part of the video? The video would automatically switch back and forth from the video of the speaker to the slides as necessary. This is the format that was used by pretty much all of my college classes, and I never had any issues with it.
A year or two ago I would have sided with the dominance that the iPad exerts in the market and felt that Microsoft was doomed without a tablet available until Fall 2012, but honestly -- I'm about to switch from my iPhone to Android and purchase a Galaxy Note II as soon as I can get my hands on it and frankly I've got a Mac and several Windows PCs and I still prefer the clusterfuck that is Windows 8 over OS X. Interestingly I think Microsoft still has a chance.
HP prices Envy x2, its alternative to Microsoft Surface, iPad
The wealthy seem to extert power by buying off governments. Reduce the power of gevernment and there'll be less for the wealthy to buy.
Thanks Joe. If you would sell them assembled I am sure folks like me would buy them :)
I find irony in this thread because Ayn Rand was a huge proponent of IP and laws that secure its rights to the creative originator.
I'd guess Canadians are interested in collecting tolls :)
http://blip.tv/business-of-software/professor-clayton-christ...
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Metro on the desktop isn't about creating a better user experience for desktop users. It's about getting developers to make metro apps that provide a good user experience on tablets.

Microsoft's biggest problem when entering the tablet market is the sad state of their ecosystem. And to try to fix that, they decided to sacrifice the desktop user experience.

I think that's a pretty bold move. It's also a really really stupid move.
> > Multiple inheritance

> Sorry, there won't be multiple inheritance.

Thank all that is holy in the world.
The trick to hbase performance almost always relies on getting the row key and column qualifier design right. Your keys and qualifiers should be chosen to exploit bulk scans. If you have any specific questions, shoot me an email I can give you some pointers (email in profile).
There you see the problem with this post and people who talk like this. The whole point is they make it a "Us vs Them" debate. 'We are poor' and 'They are rich' so obviously they must be exploiting us for their wealth, kind of thinking. Once you say this then you get a free run to depend on the 'rich' for anything and everything. And if they deny any help and ask on what merit you ask for help, you can brand them straight evil.

If there is one thing people like this need to learn its that no body gives it to you in life, you have to go and get it. People who started AirBnb are not descendants of aristocrats and kings, they have not inherited billions in wealth to start new businesses on zero risk. Those people bit by bit have built their own success. Do they have to give back something to the society? Yes- Taxes. But they are not responsible for all wrongs going in the society.

Besides what is Ayn Rand saying anyway? All she is saying is we must not make up a few pay up for everybody else. Are you as a millionaire responsible if somebody else isn't. How the hell are you responsible for it? Laws and Regulations are supposed to make to help everyone get rich, not to make every one poor on average.

When a disruptive business model makes it debut a lot of pain ensues. Automation replaces people, new model of supply chains eliminate middle men etc. Our job is to move to new productive level of work, instead of fighting new trends. Its futile to fight disruptive trends, because the inherent benefits they offer means there is nothing stopping them.

Expecting a stranger to worry about your financial well being is the most ridiculous way of living your life. He has no obligation towards you, and its stupid on your part if you expect something from him.
The chess champion Capablanca said that he was protected from losing games due to minor blunders because his opponents assumed he was so brilliant that he saw something they didn't, so they played safe and avoided taking advantage.
And with no documentation? And frankly a nothing description of what it does or how it works even at a high level.

edit: sigh, I put my mouth before my brain sometimes. I guess I accidentally criticized someone working in the open rather than an announcement of an undocumented web protocol.
Moronic and supercilious article.
It would be interesting to do some sentiment analysis on comments and look at the statistics of dissmissive/approving top comments and all comments in general in HN threads.
The title at the time of jfaucett's comment was just "Ruby 2.0.0".
When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be coverage of how under-the-hood EventMachine's model only allows it to scale up to a certain throughput per-process (which is reasonably high for most uses of it) or how there is some fundamental complexity in how it's written that pretty much guarantees there will be livelock conditions (and deadlock conditions). So I share your bewilderment about why they chose the things to highlight that they did.

The lock conditions it has are for particular workloads at particular throughput/utilization, so 99% of the people using it won't hit those conditions initially (and a lot of people aren't writing systems that will ever reach those limits). However, we have a particular service that acts as a TCP multiplexer/router/load balancer to provide high availability for some of our mission critical applications. A little over a year ago, I initially wrote it using EventMachine in a couple of weeks, then spent almost a month trying to find what I thought was a bug in my code where a full deadlock would occur if 3 or more connections were established in a small enough time frame. Turned out to be a bug in EventMachine. After fixing that one, I found another where if 5 or more open connections fired the same event within a small enough time frame, all 5 would hit livelock and given enough connections hitting the condition, the whole process would deadlock. Once I hit the second bug in EventMachine itself directly related to concurrency handling, I switched to Netty and rewrote the whole thing in Scala in about a week and it's been rock solid since.

I've been doing some development on the side in Go because its particular flavor of types and concurrency model is fascinating. It's not that Go is anti-event, it's that it's overwhelmingly stream oriented (not low-level streams, but data streams). Once I finally hit that moment of clarity that goroutines/channels was all about connecting streams of data and not connecting raw streams, they became a much more natural solution. However, don't get me started on the difference between a non-blocking read on a channel and a blocking read on a channel.
Erm, where did this come from: "Microsoft ships a lot of OEM devices and the manufacturer's channels are stuffed but don't sell".
After being at Microsoft for 5+ years, I consider it much more cocky than paranoid. Cocky because there is a pervasive mindset that if Microsoft builds it that customers will automatically flock. Windows Phone was a wake up call, but most of the company still believes this.

Also, their continued focus on Windows and Office continues to suck the life out of many smaller products. There is no escaping the gravitational pull of Windows or Office.
It's baffling to think you could seriously believe that everyone (even anyone) who is poor enough to be on welfare actually enjoys their economic station in life, does not have any ambition of upward mobility, and has no intrinsic motivation.

Based on the productivity increases and stagnant wages of the last 30 years, working stiffs probably deserve a permanent vacation, but I assure you, they won't be getting it. As Frederick Douglass once said, "power concedes nothing without demand", and workers the world over have been demanding less and less of their employers over time.

Rand's bogeyman was government. A liberal's bogeyman is big business.

My bogeyman? Bigness. Not regulation, but simply big organizations that try to exert power & control over individuals. (How big is too big? Not sure, but here's a start: >1,000 individuals.) Some government regulation can actually combat this negative exertion of power (e.g. consumer protections, food labeling) whereas other regulations can make it worse (e.g. TSA, airport screenings).

I love small organizations. I think I love startups because they are small and most people start to dislike startups once they get big. The best big companies try to reorganize themselves to feel smaller.

I think Rand was a sycophant for corporate titans whom no serious startup entrepreneur should view as a role model, neither the titans nor the author herself.

As for the OP, I think the Randian connection is overstated. People who hate government tend to love Rand because it gives them a moral justification for hating the only institution society created for its self-benefit. The entrepreneur in question isn't some crusading Randian; he's just your everyday government hater who happens to have a library card.
To be fair, I just came across this and thought it would interest some HN readers. I don't know that the author's made any claim that it's ready for mass consumption.
11 people attacked in unlicensed cabs. How many were attacked in licensed ones, I wonder? Zero?

Just like the nurses strike here in the bay area. The media repeatedly informed us, some died while replacement nurses were working. I guess no one dies when union nurses are working.
True. I guess from that perspective, anything that's not a major cluster looks like a dumb terminal.
Or they click the little star on the address bar...
Is there a large overhead for having to use a goroutine rather than the lower level? Do you think it's appropriate for Go to expose that, or do you just miss it?
> don't be discouraged if he thinks your idea is terrible, he's not always right

I made it to interviews last year, thought we did OK on the interviews but were ultimately rejected. Looking back, it was definitely the right choice to reject our idea. Holy cow was it bad.

One of my teammates went on to get accepted for a fantastic idea in the following round, though. I since joined http://counsyl.com and am way happier working here than if I was still working on the terrible idea we had (p.s. we're hiring http://is.gd/counsyl_engineering).
Instead of fixing, eliminate
I just love having fifteen fucking bridges to the same fucking place.
I think Microsoft would be better off today if they had been broken up by the government.

Windows, Server, Office, Gaming, and Online as individual companies would all have been powerful, fierce competitors in the aughts. A few of them would already be dead, but others could be incredibly strong.

Instead they are a huge conglomeration that lacks vision and direction.