skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Made an angel too (tried to do Tyrael but can't pull it off) http://new.weavesilk.com/?d9he
Indeed, he would have called Eric Schmidt to let him know about this Android bug before it being released.
Well, if we have to write computer programs for our own brains, I suppose the rule should be that the level of praise should be based on a combination of the usefulness of the project combined with the effort that went in to it. Usefulness because it is good to know how to find out what people want, and effort because kids have a very hard time sticking to stuff for extended durations.
Note for everyone checking only the screenshots and not reading all the comments. The Calendar app is fine, the People app has this problem.

"It's only broken in the People app (like #29 said, Calendar is fine).

I'm running JOP40C, and I can confirm this bug (in the People app) with all date formats."
We've currently 5 people who've solved this quiz... nah, is it really too hard?
Maybe using the word "protection" on the business page was a bad idea. Merchants don't need to pay us to resolve chargebacks. We just try to make their services better in the future through premium data services. Please see this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799225
All things being equal. But that's the question -- is there something we are missing?

I was surprised this would not be mentioned as a feature, for example, if it were true. But there is only this remark at the end:

“One challenge is to achieve long-range order using copolymers without defects over large areas,” he says. With millions of data-storing dots on a disk’s platter, error rates must be very low to avoid significant numbers of them being positioned incorrectly.
Seems like it was blocked by AdBlock. Disabling itresolved the issue
Neat! Would love to know how you handle prediction and correction.

My last ludum dare was webgl+websockets, but because I used server lockstep (it being a 72hr game and coded from scratch) it was pretty poorly received :/

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/30/cage-flight-autops... <-- give it some love
I think his point is valid exactly because people are bad at randomness.
Exactly. This is why I used cash from my other business to bootstrap.
Hacker News has a user state in which the user can login and appear to post as normal except that nobody else sees their posts unless the other person has the switch "show dead" set to yes, which is not the default, so basically very few people can see their posts and they are all greyed out like super-downvoted posts.

This is an implementation of the "hellban":

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...

AFAIK you can get hellbanned automatically (site flags you as a likely spammer) or by a moderator. In most cases the people getting hellbanned deserve it, but in a few the call is questionable (IMO; but this is YC's site and not a democracy).

math0ne is currently in this state. He has a response to this thread that is marked dead (I can see it, you won't see it unless you toggle showdead to yes on your account page).

The fact that he has been in this state for so long and still posts (though not very often) is somewhat mind-boggling.
I'm surprised that nobody has brought up the 5.2 song[1]. The 5.2 song is about these problems with upstream and confusing Linux for posix, the "liner notes" for "Aquarela do Linux!":

"Just as the original song professed its love for Brazil, "World, you'll love my Linux" is the passionate call of an idealistic dreamer who can't bear the thought of software that will only run under Windows, and yet loves the situation with software that will only run under particular Linux distributions.
This problem has proliferated itself into the standards bodies, with Posix adopting Linuxisms ahead of any other variant of Unix.

Posix and Unix have made it where you can write reasonably portable software and have it compile and run across a multitude of platforms. Now this seems to be changing as the love for Linux drives the standards bodies into accepting everything Linux, good and bad.

We also are faced with groups writing software that only works with particular distributions of Linux. From this we get software that not only isn't very portable, but often not particularly stable. Our idealistic dreamer in the song loves running one, or more than one distribution of Linux for a particular purpose. Unfortunately, the rest of us are left with the unattractive choice of doing the same, or relying on herculean efforts to port software that is being actively developed in a way to discourage porting it to other platforms."

[1] http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html#52
You didn't need to give your age, it was obvious from the name you chose for the module ;)
It takes a certain amount of "willful naivete" to try anything new and uncertain.

Doesn't mean you're an idiot to the facts. Just means that you're willing to temporarily overlook short-term problems / obstacles to pursue a long-term goal.

I'm with you on this one
Actually, now I can see the menu, but neither "quick play" nor "create game" work. Says "Something has gone wrong - please try again". Firefox 16.02 on Windows 7.

Music is great though :)
As I think Ryan would be the first to agree, he may have built Treehouse on his own but his early businesses have all been very much built with the support and partnership of his wife Gill.

Ryan has also been a master of bootstrapping businesses upon business. He built Carsonified on the foundation of simple workshops he ran, he built ThinkVitamin on the foundation of Carsonified and he built Treehouse on the combination of both of them.

I say that not as a critic but as an admirer. I think he's done a first class job of building his reputation, wealth, influence and expertise through all of these.

However I think it's somewhat disingenuous for Ryan to state that because he has done Treehouse on his own, "so too can you". It's what the people want to hear and it will bring the enthusiasm of the bulk of HN readers who are going it alone.

However the risk for most startups is not that they will exit for millions and the CEO will only own a paltry 20% of the company rather than 70%. It's that they will die. It has taken me many years to realise it but the presence of a true co-founder dramatically reduces this likelihood.

It feels odd writing this all these years later because I knew Ryan at the very start of my career and almost the start of his. I then was a single-founder, he was working with Gill. I feel like we've passed each other going the opposite direction.

I gave only a small fraction of equity to my first co-founder and paid a high price for that. I have now come full circle and realise the importance of a good co-founder and of an even split between you.

Ryan is right in that he can do it without a co-founder. However if you fit that mold you probably already know that and are running a business quite possibly as the sole influencer already. If you don't then I think there is good reason for the astonishing faith of the valley in the co-founder. There is a degree of group-thought, sure but there are a lot of very, very sound reasons not to go it alone.
Nice! Took a while to load, though, wonder why that is.
Thanks to Google, there shall be no 12-12-2012 apocalypse.
The previous poster was most likely referring to the critical thinking and reasoning skills that generally come with a degree (though many possess them without going to college), not the major itself.
Great fun! I registered for an account, but then stopped being able to play multiplayer games. Maybe I'm just missing it, but there "quickplay" button that I was using as a guest is no longer there.
The existing chargeback process is already enourmously skewed against a merchant from an online transaction perspective.

all they have to do is acknowledge they're making a refund or change the customer's mind

Well, that means the merchant continues to be at a significant disadvantage during an even more complex chargeback process.
You can certainly start a business without a cofounder. What's hard to do, empirically, is to start one that gets really big. There are a handful of counterexamples, like Amazon, but Treehouse is not one of them yet.

We have a lot more data about what happens in startups than any individual founder does. What interest would we have in mischaracterizing it?
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Make sure you're playing "Score Rush MP" which is the multiplayer version. You might have accidentally started the original single player version. Select the game from the "Games" dropbox in the top right of the website.
Very simple. A threshold for an outstanding achievement by a school kid is a solid, noteworthy, postgraduate level work.
I answered this down here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799229
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Hi Pete - great hearing from you. :)

Yes, Gill has played a huge role in running our earlier businesses. She has also supported me hugely during the running of Treehouse. But I've shouldered the weight of making all of the big decisions at Treehouse. The buck still stops with me.

I wrote this post not as a "anyone can do what I did" post but rather a counter point to the rhetoric that is coming out of The Valley.

It's important for new Founders to hear both sides of the argument.
Yes it's a very hard task, but you don't need 1500 employees to do that :p
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Indeed, and frankly I think the US dodged a bullet in that respect. I've always been interested in politics and have a belief that there's a strong correlation between the way the campaign goes and the way governance would go if the candidate is elected.
Looks like a variant of Muphry's Law got you there.
How is that children's fault?
Funny enough, this is how I see and use Linux as well - as a server OS. I have little concern of its Desktop prominence.
I came here ready to seriously hate on you, but now I love what you are doing. :)

Sometimes customers see their credit card bill, decide they don't want the service anymore, and instead of calling our number (printed on the credit card statement) or logging into their account to unsubscribe, they just call the credit card company and ask them to stop payment. It's really frustrating, because we gladly refund money if people aren't happy with our product.

Anyway, the issue is that sometimes the simplest thing for a user to do is call the number on their bill and ask for that charge to go away.

If you could partner with the credit card companies, and get your contact information or url listed on bills, that would be a HUGE win for you, and for startups like us. And if you could somehow save the credit card companies money, or even make them money, it could be a win for them to.

Whatever you decide to do, good luck. And post back again if there's anything startups can do to help you. :)
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No no, I'm not being sarcastic in the congratulations. I just actually think the single vs. co-founded projects are vastly different in % chance of success. I do think the difference really is .01% to 5%, sorry if I wasn't being as tactful as I could've been in delivering the message.

I haven't hit a success yet, but I've tried to put the puzzle together alone and with others. I think it'd be a lot harder to do alone. We disagree there, and as of today, you have a lot more credibility than I do -- and it's ok to disagree.

We've all got 100 different factors in the equation, not just 1 control to tweak. That's why different shoes for different feet are a-ok :)
This has now been implemented. Check it out.
A good way to get a free marketeer to stop talking is to ask them to come up with a free market system that doesn't end up hopelessly stratified. I don't know whether they shut down, like a killer AI given an unsolvable problem, or start reevaluating their views.
I wasn't implying he had done the wrong thing particularly, graphic redesigns can be expensive and it's not clear how much value they add, he has clearly avoided them.

In my own experience I've found if you don't make at least small changes that people can see, early adopters think no one is working on the product and go away - because they perceive nothing will ever improve. This effect doesn't really apply to community or social networks though for the reasons you said.
You say people like you as if I was in bad company. Read point 5 of http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html to see someone who is generally respected in these parts on the exact same topic.

Don't forget, we've seen this play before. Apple on top of the world, Steve Jobs removed from the picture, a guy at the top with a history of execution but not innovation. (OK, the current CEO's history is in a more relevant field than Sculley's background at Pepsi...) The result was very much not pretty.

They are going nowhere for a while. They are clearly ahead of the market, and they have a core constituency of fans. But I'm willing to bet money that in 10 years the luster is off, and in 20 they will be just another technology company to most of the world.
well done i like it
it is actually worse than that. There is certain type of online customer that will literally click through "Interested->Purchase->Yes->Confirm>Pay>Done" without every really looking at what they purchased or why they did so in the first place.

After they realize what they actually purchased which is a legitimate product but not appropriate for the customer, they just uses the chargeback process to get their money back.
The Blackberry DevAlpha A&B devices are OMAP 4460 & 4470 respectively. The battery life is remarkable. The performance on this dev alpha really puts tegra3 to shame.

The big win for me for OMAP5 was going to be using the ISP pipeline for vision and feature extraction especially with the low latencies provided by qnx. Linux is not even in the same league.

I am very disappointed about this announcement as this group consistently created industry-leading innovations. When I first heard they were trying to find an acquisition partner I also assumed Amazon would pick them up. I wonder what factors prevented this?
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I don't think you're mischaracterizing it (new word for me :D). I'm writing the post out of my own personal experience.

I wanted to point out that your advice is optimized for the success of Y Combinator (as it should be). This of course doesn't mean it's good general advice for all Startups.

Single-Founders who grow their revenue to medium size ($5-$25m) will usually be extremely happy. They don't need to be doing $100m of revenue to succeed.
I agree whole heatedly with you about the quality of a obsd router/fw. I don't support enterprise networks so my viewpoint is a little different. Unlike ios and cisco hardware current OpenBSD releases are finicky with commodity hardware. I remember being able to pick any old box (486, ancient pizza box sparcstations) and being able to set up a OpenBSD firewall on it pre/post ipf debacle. Recently I have ran into a number of boxes that I could not get openbsd to boot on, most recently two older shuttle boxes. Hardware support is what really troubles me.

On a completely unrelated note I think too many people overlook the contributions of the OpenBSD development team when it comes to Openssh. On a much lesser scale they have also given a lot to the OSS community with OpenNTP. For clock synchronization you have the ntp reference implementation, openntp and Miroslav's chrony. For desktop machines the reference implementation leaves a lot to be desired (especially when it comes to power saving) and or is massive overkill for the problem at hand. Unfortunately chrony seems to be the only clock synch tool that is mindful of power saving and suspend/hibernation. OpenNTP synchs clocks with acceptable accuracy for common use cases without running a ton of code that only a few people fully understand.
I don't know how I feel about this: https://github.com/flatland/drip/blob/develop/src/org/flatla...
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A conceptual problem with this analogy is that when a corporate whale dies in a community the people that live their wouldn't be represented by other separate organisms - they would be the cells of the whale and cells of other whales.

This article is just much like the theory of social darwinism, in that it willfully twists valid scientific knowledge to push a social agenda that has little in common with the analogy. "We need more [vulture capitalists], not less" my foot.
paper - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.3663v1.pdf (the link and redshift, 10.8, are just under the image).

it's a photometric redshift derived from the lyman break. rest-frame ultra-violet emission less than 912 A is "completely" absorbed by intervening neutral hydrogen, and between 912 and 1216 A partially, in lines. so objects are dark at shorter wavelengths than 1216 A (in the frame of the galaxy). their observations show that in our frame there's no emission short of 1.46 um (infra-red). and 1.46e-6 / 1216e-10 ~ 12 = 1+z, so redshift is approx 11.

if it's correct (photometric redshifts are not as reliable as those obtained from spectra, but are technically easier to achieve, and this is really pushing the limits of what is possible - my partner, who is still in astronomy, is sceptical that this is real), then it's the most distant object known.

i guess the above isn't very clear. i'll try again. hydrogen gas just floating around in space absorbs ultra-violet (UV) light. so you don't see much UV from galaxies.

now distant galaxies are redshifted so much (by expansion of the universe) that the UV ends up in the infra-red (IR). so what you observe are things that are only visible in the IR - everything shorter (optical and UV) in our frame was absorbed (UV) in the galaxy's frame.

so one way to find extremely distance objects is to find things that can only be seen in the IR. what you're actually seeing is the redshifted optical; what you don't see in the optical is what, in the galaxy's frame, is absorbed UV.

but these galaxies are very faint, so they are hard to detect. using a gravitational lens boosts the brightness and so makes this technique more powerful.

i'm not sure that helps (a diagram would make things much clearer). the technique, well, the resulting objects, are called "lyman break galaxies". but i haven't found a good reference googling.
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Other copies of illegitimately copied code isn't going to save you from copyright infringement claims.

Clean-room reverse engineering of functionality could work. For copyright. There'd remain patent infringement issues, if claimed.
It doesn't actually list jobs FOR open source (companies), but - like many others - jobs USING open source.
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I don't think anyone has ever said that you can't. Just that it's harder and success is less likely. Yes, certainly co-founder add additional risks to the equation and do indeed reduce the magnitude of success, should you find it. But as others have said, the more important # to optimize is your chance of success.

I'd love to see data to the contrary versus an (admittedly inspiring) anecdote... All of the data that I've ever heard about (from PG and other sources) seems to support that ideas that people who find a co-founder have a better shot.
The lag can be unbearable at times. Makes my HP touchpad running CM feel fast. I've had some luck shutting down processes in Settings->Apps. An XDA member reported that his performance and battery life improved after cycling the battery a couple of times.
Just going to leave this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3507420
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To be honest, I quite hate it when people are all "oh my god can you do that shit but you're only 17". I hated it as much in the 10 years before it.
As nice as the compliments seem, what they're really saying is "this is only impressive because you're dumb since you're only x years old".
I've fiddled with computers for the past 10 years. I've accomplished less than many others in that time span. Cheer on me proportionally to my accomplishments, perhaps even to my effort, but please not to the inverse of my age.
Age shouldn't be a factor in rating of skill.
Luckily, on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. And I like it that way.
A century ride is actually pretty doable. It's somewhere between 5-10 hours for most individual, possibly a tad less if you're good and are riding with a group. You mostly just have to keep moving.

A double-century is a bit more challenging, but this is also a commonly encountered distance for recreational riders. Times tend more to 9-14 hours. At this distance, chafing and other discomfort can be an issue.

Elite cyclists may attempt 300 or more miles in a day, which does start to get a bit stiff.
Sure, I can use all help I can get! The source is on Github, feel free to improve it. Or, if you don't like it at all (it's PHP, and not the cleanest code), drop it and write a replacement.

Contact me via email and we can chat about it. You can also find me as "gamambel" on IRC, eg. irc.oftc.net in #tor.

This goes for anyone reading these lines :)
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I do too, and I wish people would realize that we practically trip over ourselves to issue refunds whenever they are requested, because we want to avoid chargebacks at all costs.
Absolutely. We've found that under the existing chargeback system only 21% of claims are decided in the merchant's favour.

We started ChargeBack.cc with the aim to level the playing field a little more. Under the existing chargeback system in most cases the merchant receives very little information about what has gone wrong and who the customer is. Our aim is to use data to help merchants resolve chargebacks with less cost to themselves. By keeping the chargeback outside of the banking system we take away a lot of risk and cost from fee, fines etc... so that's one step. The next step is to give merchants the tools to provide the best response to the customer. Yes, it's still not going to be equal, but hopefully it'll help merchants spend less time, less money and generally get a better result than they used to.
Hey everyone,

I'm looking for some feedback on my yet unfinished book - felt like this was a good time. The most developed chapter right now is "About flow" so I'd really love your thoughts on that one.

You can get it for free with this coupon code: HN0.1
It's a volunteer project all driven by myself. You are right, I did not spend too much time on it - even the source code is mostly not mine. But I think it serves its purpose, and it was more important for me to actually have a platform for FOSS jobs than spend hours coding one.
It's rather low to say that I tell people this because it's "optimized for the success of Y Combinator." I was saying it before we started Y Combinator. For example, in "How to Start a Startup" (http://paulgraham.com/start.html):

Ideally you want between two and four founders. It would
be hard to start with just one. One person would find the
moral weight of starting a company hard to bear. Even Bill
Gates, who seems to be able to bear a good deal of moral
weight, had to have a co-founder.

I already knew then, both from my own experience and from watching other startups, how necessary cofounders were. Since then I've observed the trajectories of over 450 startups YC has funded. I'm even more convinced now that cofounders are necessary. And that you dismiss as "rhetoric" and offer instead one piece of anecdotal evidence that is not even conclusive yet? You do not make a very convincing case.
yes, unfortunately the frequency and language analysis didn't result in anything useful except for some vague hints the encoded language might be asian, perhaps written by a westerner who traveled there.
YES, open hardware goes as well! I actually thought of a alternative name to "FOSSjobs" to include Open Hardware, but could not imagine a better name.

I have updated the short description on the website to reflect that.