skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've read, Windows 8 machines do not have stickers on them with product keys. There are tons of forum posts on the web of people trying to do clean installs then realizing this fact. I honestly don't know how activation works now.
The author walks through the iterative construction of the following Clojure code for figuring out how to make a specified amount out of coin denominations:

(defn change-for [amount]
(let [denominations [25 10 5 1]
amounts (reductions #(rem %1 %2) amount denominations)
coins (map #(int (/ %1 %2)) amounts denominations)]
(mapcat #(take %1 (repeat %2)) coins denominations)))

He does it while trying to minimize the "cost" of the code, which is defined in an interesting way for anyone who mostly writes imperative code.
How about just buying from places that sell a clean computer without crapware? Yes it will cost more. And watching shows on TV costs more if you want to see them without commercials.
I am so offended!! Why is this only limited to any two people? What about interspecies relationships?
I would say if Jaehyun does not qualify, I cannot think of another one who does
Perhaps I wasn't clear. By I "success" I meant financial success for you.
The black box that could change the world
This isn't actually the Sieve of Eratosthenes. My undergrad advisor published a short piece about a family of functional prime generators of this form, that don't have nearly the efficiency of the true Sieve: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf

The gist of the problem is this: in the true sieve, each number is touched once for each of its prime factors. In this sieve, each number is touched once by each prime smaller than it (until a factor is found.)

There are a lot more primes that aren't factors of a given number than primes that are.
That's a stark accusation. Do you have data to back this up, or is this your suspicion?
Basic psychology. It's easier to avoid eating candy if you don't have a desk that's literally fifteen feet from an open jar that nobody is watching.

If it were that simple, we would all be much healthier than we are.
While QA testing is not. Specially it is current year.
The simple approach is to look at equity allotments.

If a single individual has 90% of the equity, it doesn't matter if there are 50 other people also with equity present and working at the inception of the business. That business has, exactly, one founder along with 50 early stage employees with equity stakes.

AFAIK Steve and Woz had equal equity in Apple, and both were present at the founding of Apple (along with a third guy, who sold his stake back after a week). So, both are founders -- no word play necessary.

There's nothing wrong with being an early stage employee, and we don't need to artificially inflate their worth by acting like they are founders, when the actual ownership facts indicate otherwise.
Nitpick: ASLR was first implemented by PaX for Linux. OpenBSD ported it from PaX a few years later.
Original article discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4797036

Now redacted paper cached here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i9i2ChY...
I'm using a Macbook Pro with a 512GB SSD but I dual boot so really if I boot into Mac or Win each only have 128GB available not including what the OS uses of that 128GB.

My plan was to triple boot but not with such limited space.

Oh and the recovery partitions eat up a lot too I haven't checked exactly how much.
What exactly is a moderate republican? Sounds like a closet libertarian..
> But it also begs the question, when did "only 40GB" for your files on a laptop become a deal breaker?

That question was raised -- and not begged -- probably some time around 2005.
No, actually he can't anonymize that data. High variation might as well be a signature for a short list (under 1000) of companies.

Also, his company has spent time and money to gain access to data that should help him pick emerging companies. I'm not sure why you would feel entitled to that. I'm sure they are working on some data project to help automate decisions on applicants, if not they will be eventually.

That data will give them an edge when making offers. When you are in a position where asymmetrical information is working to your advantage why would anyone give that up?
To borrow a meme: why not both?
The distinction between a founder and an employee is that founders take on substantially more risk. If you convince your friend to join your company when you've just started it (or when it's a week or a month old), he or she is taking on just as much risk as you are and is a founder. It doesn't matter if it was "your idea" - they're taking a large risk, and they'll have a huge impact on how the company develops.
The suggestions in this article are somewhat reasonable in scope, and would not affect that issue greatly; meanwhile, if there is a serious issue with a developer abusing their certificate, they expire within the year and Apple can make their lives really hard if they ever want to get another one.
I don't think he's talking about Apple. He's talking about places like Dropbox, where it was a lot more like a single founder + team than multiple founders, but PG and YC don't consider Dropbox to be single founder.
Wow, that's crazy.
Yes, Yoplait has 26g of sugar. That's quite comparable to 39g of sugar in a can of coke.
The title shows us the Tragedy Life Of A Lonely IT Guy...
Apple developer accounts cost $100/year; if you are in the position of having more than 100 devices you need to routinely test your applications on at your large organization, you can certainly get more developer accounts (even if it is just reimbursing employees for bringing their own developer account with them as they work their job).
I prefer the bottom one, though I don't like the lettering much, it might be better with another font.

edit: Some 2 minute ideas: http://i.imgur.com/yQnLt.png
This makes me really sad. I was so excited when I heard news of this report earlier in the day :(
> I start working insanely early. I start at around 3 AM in the morning, The energy level are really high in the morning. I also take in a lot of water.

What contributes to these highly productive periods? How do you consistently get yourself "in the mood" to be productive? Do you find yourself getting distracted at all (i.e. the internet, music, news, etc.)?

> Apart from a breakfast break at 8 AM.
What do you eat for breakfast? What does your breakfast period look like?
Daylight savings time?
(Note: I realize that this is somewhat off-topic for the thread as a whole, but I post it as a direct response to the specific argument you are making in your comment. With that in mind, I will also explicitly say I don't even disagree with your conclusion: I just feel that there is a misconception about jailbreaking that should be corrected that is causing the argument to not really follow all the way through to the conclusion. In the end, I still agree that Apple already has the control they need in this scenario, and the suggested solutions in the article would not cause them any challenges in that regard.)

The percentage of people jailbreaking their iPhone over time has not really fallen, excepting of course times when we don't have a current jailbreak (like now, but that rebounds quickly when we do as the demand is latent and pounces); I wouldn't even call it small, as it hovers upwards of 10%: of the hundreds of millions of active devices Apple has out there, tens of millions of them are jailbroken (and yes: they are often current devices; the people most likely to want the absolute newest device constantly are also the people most likely to want even more out of it and thereby jailbreak).

That said, that isn't really relevant: jailbreaking has nothing at all to do with the device testing limit on applications because jailbreaking isn't really about applications: it is about all of the little modifications we make to existing software using my Substrate library... the default repositories in Cydia actually carry an insignificant number of "applications" (something that could be installed with a developer certificate) in comparison to the number of Substrate extensions. If you told me tomorrow that everyone in the world could now get infinite developer certificate access, we in the jailbreak community would say "so what? that doesn't help us" and continue with business as usual.
Moore's Law: 2^(500/1.5) = 2e+100 (assuming no limits!)

Adam Smith: division of labour (specialisation) creates wealth. It is limited by the extent of the market. Therefore, economic forces favour larger populations.
If you have separate classes of people, forming separate markets, they are smaller and therefore less well served. Hence, the elite are materially far better off by participating in larger markets. Consider: can a million dollars buy you a better smart phone?

Of course, people want to feel superior. The above reasoning can also be applied here:
http://partiallyclips.com/2003/09/25/dome-house/
The usual complaint regarding systemd is about its extensive and fundamental use of cgroups for process group tracking. There is nothing in the POSIX standard that offers a feature similar to cgroups -- a simple example is to track all processes spawned by a given child process (or by anything it in turn spanws), and be able to kill them all, even if that particular child process terminates early. So any implemention of this feature, whether or not it uses Linux cgroups, must be independent of what's specified in POSIX.

POSIX standardizes approximately nothing relating to sound, so the same problem is there too for PulseAudio. Nor does it standardize anything about devices being added or removed, so there's no standard API covering udev or some other hotplug solution.

One argument you could make is that Linux should offer no features that are not standardized in POSIX. I bet that would not make many developers or users happy, though.
That's all stuff best left unsaid. And does it need to be pointed out that all this complaining about someone's tone is a bit whiny? Because it is.
You wan greek yogurt. So Good!
What does that simile mean here? Build other people's apps?
I see phones and tablets as just another platform to put your service on. To rely on app sales at this point seems foolish. Correct that, relying on app store visibility is very risky, unless you're a big dog. In the end, a better bet seems to be building a good service with a targeted audience that needs your specific product, otherwise you'll be in the business of making blockbusters, and you won't last for long.
Everything in moderation including moderation.
Yes. It could.
Ok, great discussion and yes I do understand the 'its in the spec why can't I use it' feeling. For disks its pretty straightforward to "see" the consumption and for other things (like RAM) you don't get a clear idea of how much RAM you get to use for your applications vs all the other things hogging RAM [0][1].

Of course in specmanship you can't speak truth when your competitors don't right? So you can't advertise this as "xxGB of disk space" which accurately reflects the amount available to the user any more than you can say 700 Mhz of available CPU power is yours to command. This because brand Y will tell you all of the GB on the disk since that will get them some sales for people who don't read the label closely and are doing number + unit to number + unit comparisons.

When I worked at NetApp the customers would say "Gee you've got n x yyyGB drives in there, how come I don't get that much storage?" And the answer was well there are RAID parity data, OS overhead, snapshots, Etc. Never a very satisfying conversation because they always believe you give them more space if you "tried harder". And the sad thing is that is true, but what wasn't true is that the customer would accept the cost increase of the extra engineering to make it so.

I'm amazed at the changes that dirt cheap magnetic storage has wrought. I've been cleaning out my 'junk box' to make a donation to the Hacker Dojo and came across some speed matched 8MB DIMMs. Yup four speed matched DIMMs for a robust 32MB of memory. About the only thing they are good for, if you're not into 'old' computers, is perhaps geeky jewelry.

The Manual of the Yoga 13 [2] indicates there are 256GB and 512GB disks available, since it didn't look like any of the partitions scaled with storage size (restore partition for example just has to be big enough to hold release images) you can add more space by adding money.

So I totally understand how disappointing it is to see half the drive or more consumed by unknown stuff, but on a larger system that would be a quarter or an eighth of the drive. And I'm sensitive to the 'my laptop is my only machine' argument too (although the natural backup feature of having two machines should not be overlooked!) it is that we've arrived here on the back of super cheap spinning rust, and SSDs don't have quite the economies that rust does.

[0] Not a new issue, see CP/M 80 system advertisements bragging about how much "TPA" you got.

[1] And yes you can run atop(1), Taskmanager, Etc and see how much you're being given access too, but I haven't read much outrage over that at the moment.

[2] http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/ideapad_yoga...
I'm with tptacek here. I don't see anything was particularly inflammatory, I just thought it was an encouragement post to solo-founders.

Going to your quote at the beginning, I think the low points part is really true, (as a single founder, I know it's really hard). The vote of no confidence from your friends I think is way off base though. Not everyone is at the same point in life, and many if not most 20-somethings don't aren't in a good enough financial position to not have an income for a significant period of time.

We just got done getting huge loans to go to college, some get married, some have kids. It's not just, well he couldn't convince his friends to quit their mortgage paying jobs to do a startup with him his idea must suck.
Nobody believes me when I say Fractals solve literally everything efficiency related. Even though it's true.

Nobody believed me when I introduced on-demand script injection for javascript, today it's IT etiquette.

The power of popularity I guess.
With the high frequency of "Looking For Co-Founder" posts, I was hoping that there would be plenty of success stories around! Please chime in, if you met a key team member (not necessarily a co-founder) or if you know some body who did!
This story on Vizio's PCs from summer had a part that suggested the 'Microsoft Signature' program was at least partially an attempt in this direction:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/15/3076519/vizio-reboot-pc-am...

The program doesn't seem to have gotten much traction, though, and to the extent it's mentioned at all at Microsoft they are not discussing the "less crapware" angle.
When it's a SSD, it matters. Those are very expensive. You pay $1300 for this laptop and you're only getting 128 GB, and only half of that you can use. I'll bet he is pissed off about it.
Even as somewhat of a lisp weenie myself, I still think they made the right decision at the time. If this had taken place in 2012, it would be another story. Clojure is an awesome web language, and so is Ruby/JRuby. Hell, even Node.js would be a good fit for reddit.
I think that basic psychology has something to say about willpower as well.

I'll gamble that it's easier for someone to avoid eating candy than for a nicotine addict to avoid a cigarette that's 15 ft. away or an alcoholic to avoid a drink while in a bar -- yet people successfully quit nicotine and alcohol all the time, and without shutting themselves in a room for life.

Those may be poor comparisons, but I know enough about psychology to know that people who want to change, do it on their own; jar of candy 15 ft. away be damned.
Not sure this makes sense. The example of leveraged loans is quite distinct from residential mortages, for example. Also, the credit risk of the latter is pawned off onto the federal gov't in the US. Either way, banks should be banks. They should be taking the risk they underwite. Shares and bonds are a slightly different animal than asset backed secured loans, but they are now essentially all treated alike: things to pawn off with zero net book exposure. Investment banks structured as partnerships also had downside risk -- that is one of the main structural differences in a legal sense -- and that also should not be overlooked. Lasltly, private capital being more illiquid does not display the option-like pricing response to Vol that comp tied to public equity does.
The pulled report is still available here: http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--...
You can't do that right now. Not until next year. Only "upgrade" versions of windows 8 are available. That's why they are so cheap. You can't use them for a clean install. Those will be $100 or more.
On another note, I think he's also pointing out that success for a single startup founder != success for YC. Treehouse, at 3 mil rev for a solo founder, I'd consider him pretty successful. I suspect he is now pretty well set whether it gets huge or not. That wouldn't come close to moving the needle at YC though.

Maybe it's a lot more likely for co-founders to make it huge, Apple, Google, etc. His post is pointing out that you don't have to be Apple to be a hugely successful startup and to be really well off personally. YC is looking for the next Apple, but Joe Schmoe startup founder is just looking to not have to worry about their mortgage.
There could be other things in the chips that make them unhealthy, such as food additives or advanced glycation end products (see here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20497781). Running doesn't make you a super-detoxifying omnivore.
that's a really cool simulator! what's the license for it? I can't find it on your github account.
You can not in this case. There's no full retail version of Windows 8 available yet.
iTunes Match is available for iTunes under Windows too, but it is unreliable and fairly rubbishy on both. It's also excellent for totally breaking the Music app on my thoroughly updated iPhone 4S when working over cellular data.

Short form: Better keep local copies of all your music anyway.
No, commercial sweetened yogurt products are. Which seems to most 99% of yogurts sold in most supermarkets in the US.

Those have little to do with plain yogurt, as it comes out from the traditional process and as we know it in Europe.

Plain yogurt has very little sugar and only naturally occurring at that:

http://www.fageusa.com/products/fage-total-0-percent/
An excellent long-form article about this type of algorithm in Go: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/11/13/the-go-i-forgot-...
As someone who smoked for 14 years, quit, and now has no problem being around smokers, I concur.

People simply lack willpower and discipline.
Ok, here is a serious question. Do you think this is his first laptop? (and btw he's commenting on Mossberg's review so he's not out any money)

The criticism that Microsoft would do well to reign in their OEMs putting crapware on their offerings is well taken. But understand that Microsoft got convicted of being a monopolist by being pretty aggressive telling OEMs what they could and could not put on the machines they were selling. If I were Microsoft I would err on the side of not pissing off the Justice department and let the market sort it out.

And by and large if you have purchased a laptop from an OEM with Windows pre-installed in the last 5 years you've noticed that it has a lot of crap on it, and those are 250GB and 500GB drives. So I am hard pressed to believe that any buyer today, given the 'small' size of 128GB of storage, would have any expectation that even half of that would be available without doing a lot of work.
Yahoo plots alliance with Facebook in new search deal
Teaching Robots By Demonstration Shown To Be Effective, For Users And Robots
It is a word play on "moral support". e.g. a cofounder provides moral support when external pressures are high. Bill doesn't seem like the type to need "moral support" because he can alone handle a high "moral weight".
Is Mechanical Turk a $10 billion dollar company?
Right on... Jon Skeet offers a very fine article on the slipperyness of date-time arithmetic here (it's about .NET and Noda Time, but the same issues apply): http://noda-time.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-wrong-with-dateti...
How Much Longer Can Tech's Free Party Last?
Libertarians are, to me, more about rigid ideology.
you're also not being honest with your users. you're not actually filing chargebacks on their behalf, at least not at first. you're asking for their permission to harass/spam/threaten the merchants they have a problem with - then filing a chargeback if you don't get what you want.
I completely agree that software vendors have no respect for storage consumption, because by and large its been 'free.' When I installed Photoshop last it had a freakin' HD tutorial video as part of the install. 10 - 15GB of 'clip art' is nothing to these guys. But this is where we diverge perhaps.

The author of this piece is screaming about the lack of space on the lowest end version of this Lenovo model, why?

He isn't the target market if he (like you and I) want a couple hundred GB free to put things into. No, the target market for a 128GB machine is someone who doesn't have photoshop or world of warcraft or Autocad installed on their machine, rather they are probably someone who just surfs the web, consumes stuff online, and wants to keep a modest music collection around. So if you aren't writing code and you aren't doing photo or video editing or any of a dozen storage intensity things with your laptop, then "only" 40 - 50GB is fine.