skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skimming this, I noticed a few mistakes.

I was 30, not 31.

My degree is in CS, not computer engineering, which is a hybrid of CS and EE.

We were already working on another company when we decided to work on ecommerce. We were making software to generate web sites for commercial art galleries (who didn't want web sites). So we didn't suddenly decide to write software to make stores. It was more a question of switching to a market that wanted what we could make.

Robert's apartment was not in NYC. I was the one who lived in NYC, and I was visiting him in Cambridge.

I didn't wake up with a specific sentence in my head. I just woke up with the idea that we might be able to control the software on the server by clicking on links.

It's an overstatement to say that the idea of Viaweb was too strong to fail. We came close to failing several times. It is true though that the best thing we had going for us was the quality of the software (rather than, say, marketing, or connections).

We weren't the only ones "insane enough" to make web-based software. At least one of our competitors did. It was a big help though that our most dangerous competitor took a long time to grasp the idea.

The story about the origins of YC omits Jessica. We decided to start it one night while we were walking back from dinner in Harvard Square (http://ycombinator.com/start.html).

Robert never devoted his time exclusively to YC. Jessica and I did, but he and Trevor have always done it part time.

As far as I know, no one has ever tried to put a valuation on YC. You could value our current assets fairly precisely, but that would come to less than 500m.
I believe your theory is essentially peak oil: When the price of extraction exceeds demand. Oil will still be there, but it would be economically unfeasible to tap, especially with the rise of alternative fuels.
The most interesting part of the article is that the author uses Comic Sans as the font in his text editor.
I personally block ads because I view them as effective. They're effective enough to pay for decades of television, they probably work.
I feel it's worth mentioning that the Amazon mp3 store was DRM free from the get-go, and long before Apple started providing DRM free music. In fact, it was probably on the example of Amazon that Apple was able to make such a demand ("look, the music industry hasn't imploded yet").

Also, while Apple does sell DRM-free files, access to their store requires iTunes - not exactly DRM, but a vendor tie-in that limits your access to the store and your purchased music. Contrast with Amazon, whereas you can buy/download tracks from your browser.
Solid print - Making things with a 3D printer changes the rules of manufacturing
Sacrifices the poor make to keep a mobile phone
Takeaways From The 100 Largest Public Companies
Wow, I did not think of that, but may buy it because of this
Love the idea! About time someone did this. What's the tech stack like?
Show HN: TagKick - Untag Facebook photos with just one click
I find these oil report news pieces to be incredibly lacking almost all of the time. First of all, this person is speaking predictions and postulations without showing a single piece of data. Not a good sign.

I'm very skeptical, because the net return on oil reserves has been steadily declining since the early 1900s. Shale oil is extremely expensive to extract/process and also relatively dangerous. The production cost ratio is less than 10:1 if I recall correctly, while in the early days of oil drilling the ratio was in the hundreds to one. You could pretty much poke a hole in the ground and have sellable oil gushing out with no further effort. Now it's a struggle to get just past the "economically feasible" point.

The tarsands in Canada are a great example of this. Currently they are sitting at a ratio of about 5:1. And that's also a very dangerous, and highly polluting extraction process.

Another problem is oil reporting is context. They'll throw out a number like 169 billion barrels of oil. That's the current reported bitumen content in the tarsands. Sounds huge. If you do the math, that's about five years' worth at current world consumption. Five years. For one of North Americas largest and most championed reserves. With the extraction ratio taken into account, we can slice one year off of that. And if the demand trend continues it's even less. I'm not convinced that a few percentage points of extra fuel efficiency in consumer vehicles is really going to make a significant dent in demand.
Bypassing Microsoft Windows ASLR with a little help by MS-Help
Congratulations, Nic, on what is likely the world's first Emacs-hosted startup! For those who don't know, teamchat is implemented in Emacs Lisp using Nic's elnode (async web server) and shoesoff (IRC bouncer) libraries, among others.
Wells Fargo is a bigger target, but they also have many more layers of protections and an interest in providing customer service. My hunch would be that it would be easier for a criminal to profit off of attacking WF than attacking a personal bitcoin user, but that it would be easier to actually cause financial harm to a personal bitcoin user (even without profiting themselves). But to clarify that, I have a couple of questions about how storing your own bitcoins works, since I've never used it:

* How does bitcoin storage work with offsite backups? If someone compromised the backup, would that give them access to your money?

* If you lose the file (hard drive crash, home burns down, backup system fails, whatever), does neither you nor anyone else have that money anymore? I.e., someone wouldn't have to gain access to the money themselves to deprive you of it?
Not security, insurance.
Does Cisco use Cisco equipment? If so...

Vulnerable by design, not surprised...
I built something like this (a long time ago) for my own purposes. So did a startup we're working with!

That says there might be a need for it, but on the downside it's really simple to build, so competition can spring up very quickly.
It's all emacslisp. Including the webserver (it's elnode). So there is an irc bouncer written in elisp tightly integrated with the elnode webapp. The bouncer uses a modified rcirc (built into emacs) to connect to the irc servers.

The robot framework is also written in emacslisp.

The irc servers are ngircd and the webserver is nginx.
I don't mind a happy hour, I can't make it tomorrow. Would love to see more of these events in the DC area.
John McAfee wanted for murder
Exactly.

It doesn't matter what you call yourself. What matters is whether you build a history, integrity and value around that name.
Finally a free proxy for watching Netflix/Hulu outside of US
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Bottom up is really great when you know what you want to achieve, but in some areas, like game development - You don't know what you want to make until you make it. It demands quick iteration and evaluation. In such environment it's great to use top-down.
> I don't think anybody expects him to kidnap employees

Nobodies does. But some would expect that he still has a couple of old pals in the business, who might:

* either give him illegal access to information which should have required a warrant which wouldn't be granted;

* or make it so that he gets a warrant that some more regular folks wouldn't have been able to secure.
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What kind of HW are you into? I kind of left the HW world, for web.
> You can try googling "VLC damages speaker" and you'll see hundreds of threads turn up.

Now try "work from home" or "moon landing hoax".
It's pretty well accepted that oil will never physically run out.

Long before even extraction/refining costs make remaining oil infeasibly expensive, supply/demand will send the price spiking to uneconomical levels as soon as oil production so much as slows down relative to growth in world-wide demand.

That's what the US increase in extraction is primarily about: trying to avoid price shocks between now and when the economy is, or can be, substantially run on natural gas and renewables as global demand outstrips supply. And even then, all we'll likely have done is smoothed the increase in price over the next 20 years.

Similarly, the increased CAFE standards are much more about lowering American dependence on oil, fleet-wide, than environmental concerns.
Yes. It's a Guice thing.
Looks really interesting. Love the new themes.
How will reducing wealth disparity help the U.S. economy grow?
Foobar2000 is proprietary and Windows-only (thus I cannot even try it).
"USA is lawyers gone wild"

Not as much as the tort reform-obsessed would have you believe.
The new Acer Chromebook
I think the moral of the story is clear: If you want to build a successful startup, you must first hate Windows.
There's also an extra closing div tag in there.
What the FFMPEG?
>>>>Right now I have 101 tabs running

Dude, I get claustrophobic if I have more than 4 or 5 tabs open. Dare I ask why you have 100 tabs open?
Really excited to see the new advanced features in an awesome product, while remaining easy to use.
2MB of null could be a bug somewhere with compression or decompression
I don't actually.

Real names work for facebook. That does not mean that pseudonyms do not work for others.
Feedback most appreciated. We've been building a while and are eager to hear what you think of it.
John McAfee Wanted in Belize for Murder
Best SEO Practices for Website Design
more than launch pages? finally!
Really unhappy to see animals being given away as "prizes".
I think the contributors to racist, misogynist, and child porn-defending subreddits are only a tiny minority of Reddit's users. Most of the popular subreddits are fairly benign (AskReddit, IAMA, etc.)

Interestingly, all your recent comments seem to be about how you dislike Reddit. Consumption of a chill pill may be in order.
Who's up for a road trip from the Bay Area? Bonus points if you have a livestock trailer or something to tow it with. Somehow I don't think my Prius will cut it...
"if your someone they want, they will kiss your ass to no end, but the second they don't want you, you're treated like a worthless piece of shit."

I'd like to be given more graceful declines, certainly, but you can't seriously expect them to devote the same amount of time dealing with rejections that they do on acquiring talent. That's not a reasonable request to make of any employer that goes through hundreds of applicants for every firm hire.
Ditto. Quora's strength is only the competencies of the people who contribute. With any Q/A site that deals with subjective content that isn't moderated by knowledgeable/qualified persons in those matters, it's more of a rush to see who can answer the question first with the most words and inflated vocabulary to warrant upvotes more than it is a place to get real responses. When anyone and everyone is allowed to pour in their two cents, and especially when credence is given based on popularity or place of employ, the results cannot be taken as seriously as they could be. Doubly so when it is used as a means to advertise your half-baked startup initiative.
Static solar panels at 45°N latitude only work for really remote areas or with heavy subsidies which are much better spent in southern areas. (Even adjusting for transmission losses.) http://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/eere_pv/national_photovoltaic...

Now, as your in a remote area it's worth considering, but even if it's minimally expensive there are still far better mounting options than vertical which makes the discussion somewhat moot IMO. Also, full time tracing may not be useful, but you can use a manual bracket to change the angle once in spring / fall and get noticeably more power. EX: (http://www.crown-international.co.uk/products/season-adjusta...)

Honestly, it's a cool idea, but space is not the problem with photovoltaics it cost to deploy which is really the only important question.

PS: As to 25c / day, that's assuming you could get on the grid as long as it's worth paying for it can be worth far more than that.
It is entirely correct. First of all, they do not serve hundreds of thousands in one install. Second, it doesn't matter. The point is they are individual sites, they are not tied to each other in any way. So lets say they host 100 sites on server X. Now one of those sites explodes in popularity and the server can't handle it all. They can simply move the site to its own server (or a server shared with a smaller number of other sites). It doesn't matter that the data is currently in the same database, as the data is in no way tied to the data of the other sites in that database. So it can be trivially exported and moved to a different server.
Like WOW just to name one example.

Or on Github or SE or your email address.
Well, I'd imagine it's critically important for customers who can't even consider devices without the certification (i.e. some parts of the federal government). I don't believe any iPhones or Androids currently meet the standard, so it's actually kind of a big deal.
Pretty fair, for every $ that Apple steals from Samsung in patent BS, Samsung raises their rates to charge Apple for chips.
Ahh, a quick bit of googling does seem to suggest that LTE should provide lower latency than HSPA. That certainly is a benefit, much more so IMHO than the bandwidth numbers we see carriers boasting about!
Wow! Thanks for the reminder about how great NTK was. :-)
Is it a live cow or meat?
>You have to provide a credit card to use Usenet (unless you use bitcoins). Making it easy to be targeted.

Which does nothing but say you accessed the server- not what for. Furthermore, the better providers don't keep logs.
They're not going to stay alive if they don't introduce something revolutionary now.

Doing something revolutionary doesn't require tons of money, companies with far fewer resources than RIM introduce revolutionary products all the time. In fact I'd say most innovation comes from startups working on a shoestring budget.
Immutant 0.6 released - an application server for Clojure
I'm a 100% Linux user

I find systemd & others are hurting Linux as much as it hurts BSDs.

In fact, just look at the ArchLinux forums, its FILLED with systemd issues. And most people know by now about the "disable pulseaudio, use pure alsa" trick to solve "all Linux audio issues". Heh.
American cars are a teeny tiny part of world CO2 emissions. Whatever else their pros and cons, hybrids and Teslas aren't going to matter to global warming.
"Your failed business model is not my problem."

- Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Blogger
this reminded me of `A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it)` : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4209052
It is not a random "someone" at Reddit. It is their CEO! :)
I second this. I understood what it does, but the why? (benefit) is not clear.
Agreed, Valve has been known to go for the things that add the most value to the experience, whatever that may happen to be. Before it was lip syncing and facial expressions, now it may be game economics or building the best PC gaming distribution service. So long as they have stellar artists, having a slightly inferior engine means very little to me as the end consumer.
Awesomely done. Easy of Discovery and Recommendations nail the user experience.
thanks for the comments guys. i often work alone so it was interesting to check whether my standards match others. i agree on the points identified as being the weaker parts, and i'll try fixing things (not sure if that means re-writing or adding comments) when i have a moment.

[if this were paid work i hope i would have done something a little better, but that's easy to say...]

but also, in the context of this thread, maybe this shows that code doesn't need comments as terribly as some people seem to think.

my own opinion is that generally if you need a comment you should try to improve the code first, but that sometimes they can be useful. unfortunately that's a rather pragmatic approach that doesn't make for great blog posts or discussion flame wars...
Google announces $199 Acer Chromebook
XML? This isn't 1999. JSON is the way to go.

Hell due to the simplicity CSV would also be acceptable.
awww man. templating. thanks for catching.
ha ha ha !!!
Why?

There is a long history of animals as gifts/prizes such as for dowrys in marriages.
Your first paragraph might have changed my life.
Reading Manpages with Vim
Paul Buchheit: Misconceptions About Our Tattered Safety Net
Keep in mind [one page view != one ad view]. If you refresh the same video more than once, it does not keep repeating the advert. There is also a limit to the max number of adverts shown per session to a user. Moreover not all videos have ads and not all ads are shown to all users. There is no point in showing an ad for home-depot to your European demographic, likewise there is no point in wasting ad bandwidth on a 150 view home-video.
New Acer Chromebook
Patience my good people. We all remember what happened the last time there was a rare particle delay...
> I packed up what was left, put all but necessities into storage. Sold my car.

(Not directly related to the article, but) : In the West, is it always the husband that has to leave the house? I once saw a movie in which the husband comes home and discovers that he being offered a divorce, and the wife says, "Leave my home". She was a stay-at-home wife, and he was working. I found it odd that she refers to it "my home" rather than "our home" or "the home" or "I think it is better if we both live apart", which is more civil.

If so, it's a cultural dictum, rather than a legal one, right?

(I am from India and I don't know many divorced people).
Same result.
Maybe first prize can be a pardon for the cow. Something like what the president does for turkeys every Thanksgiving.
Or rather, the best innovation doesn't come from love, but from hate.

"I hate writing Windows software." Builds the first web app.
There is also a long history of parents arranging those marriages - doesn't make any of it a good idea.
Think of it as my Fireman "Golf11" channel that was giving us orders that we could fulfill or reject (bcs busy). A civilian channel complementary to 911 would be helpful in "war time" (Sandy) or in peace time ("bake some cakes for School party")
This is a terrible idea and perpetuates outdated stereotypes of Iowans for a cheap laugh. Our specialty is pigs, not cows.
Lennart has said that systemd won't run on BSD in exactly the same way that OpenBSD have said OpenSSH won't run on Linux. There's a separate portable branch of OpenSSH. Anyone is free to maintain a portable branch of systemd.
"Current Customers: The new platform is being rolled out over the next couple weeks. Currently, only new Customers will have access but please don’t think we forgot about you"

Ouch. I understand there is a large amount of technical work involved in getting everybody transitioned over smoothly, but you'd think they'd get the current customers ported over first, instead of driving off without them and promising they'll be back to pick'em up soon.
Increasing battery life in linux
And indeed, an entire charitable organization dedicated to giving animals as gifts to developing communities.

http://www.heifer.org/
Why the Y Combinator model don't work/exist in other countries?
If this model spread to other countries it will be awesome, imagine the number of good ideas dying, when they just need a push.
nice, big elisp fan!
I think its hilarious he sent out the email thinking it would scare the responsible party. Instead, his email threatening OP got sent to the same blog shortly thereafter.

Whomever it is better take care, if more stuff gets leaked, they could be looking at corporate espionage charges. Not something I'm sure someone who used to work at the CIA would take lightly.
Comic relief :)
Oy, another tedious industry beauty contest to see who has the most Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent.

But! If we have to award another medal to the most popular kid in school, let's do it right. I am impressed that in the space of a decade Apple has been able to:

-- Maintain world class hardware design across their entire lineup

-- Achieve a substantial and successful global retail presence

-- Write a world class desktop OS and guide it through two major architecture changes

-- Write a world class mobile OS and scale it through a 10x performance increase

-- Own the browser space

-- Build a full mapping stack

-- Build a partial advertisement stack

-- Own digital audio players

-- Popularize two major new forms of user interface

-- Birth a major new form of user experience

-- Become a major player in digital media sales and rental

-- Permanently entrench themselves in ~The Enterprise~ without selling any ~Enterprise Solutions~ at all

-- Tangle with mobile carriers and come out alive

-- Tangle with the Korean chaebols and come out alive

-- Tangle with Microsoft and come out alive

And all this while still shipping the only trackpads in the entire industry that actually work. Kudos, Apple! You're still the prettiest girl at the party with the most cake.
This has brightened my Monday up. One question... How do the logistics work out here?

I can't think of anything more amusing than 4 neck-beard hackers winning a cow at a hack.
"Let me make my point more clearly" - yes please do because your first attempt was gawd awful...

Part of the reason I would rather not invest in fracking (aside from the immediate environmental issues) is that if we want to end up at clean and sustainable energy then why make expensive investments into intermediate technologies that don't significantly impact the underlying problem. While it would reduce emissions that doesn't make it a good choice. If we gave someone 4/5s of a vote instead of 3/5s of a vote that would still leave a lot of people in our country pretty ticked.

The post you were responding to is saying they want to pay more for our energy because that is the only way people will understand that it needs to be used (and obviously produced) wisely. Fracking and natural gas allow for us to use more energy at cheaper rates albeit a bit cleaner. Bottom line, the poster above wants to pay more for energy and encourage people to use less/produce cleaner.
You can't currently frak $2 a gallon gas yet. It's the higher price that makes these new techniques profitable.
>"This is precisely the problem with Google. Soulless."
A service like google doesnt need a "soul" , it needs strong products, great user support and fast servers.
And dont worry about A/B testing music, producers knows what works and not , and are using the same gimmicks over and over again , and a lot of marketing techniques ( including A/B tested marketing ).

Is there something fresh and new in Gaga's music ? no , it feels over produced and over marketed , i dont think Gaga's music has soul , it is like mc donalds , pre-pooped food. It has no soul.
I've used Paypal in the past.

Bitcoin is like cash (pseudo-anonymous, nobody can technically interfere with your transactions...) except it is digital while preserving these advantages. This is why it cannot be compared to Paypal.

So, Bitcoin is like cash, except in the important ways in which it is different. And along with also gaining some more disadvantages as well.

But you're right, Paypal isn't cash. But then again, neither is Bitcoin.
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"For more than ten years I've wondered what's happened to common decency and professionalism."

Monster and Craigslist, I assume.
Pseudonyms have been proven to improve dialogue because anonymity means honesty or at least a willingness to communicate without concern of reputation. No one wants their real names attached to their opinions on the internet, as those opinions are likely to change or come back to haunt them in the future, just like nobody wants to be doxx'd even if they haven't done anything wrong. It's just an invasion of privacy that doesn't need to exist for conversation to happen. I feel like I've cited the Blizzard RealID debacle a lot lately, but it fits the bill here too.