skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is it possible that they could genuinely be fully committed, but just can't commit in the way YOU (i.e. the other partner or investor) wants them to be committed...and it still be a success[?]"

The key is trust, not agreement. If there is a belief among the partners that everyone is acting in good faith, then the relationship can evolve in a healthy and productive way.

Short of total commitment rather than hedging bets, my two cents on the type of disagreements mentioned earlier would be something along the lines that these various inputs be assigned a cash value, and that the company issue a promissory note payable upon liquidation or similar events to the person making the "investment" rather than converting the "investment" into equity.

This connects reward with risk more directly should the company become successful and avoids the sort of wide disparity between founding partners that incentivizes legal action or engenders bitter feeling.

Good luck.
And when one side in a relationship is able to offer take-it-or-leave it terms which may change at any time without notice simply by being published on some arbitrary web page, but the other is not? Does this really meet conditions for a binding contract?
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According to Facebook.

Again, if local law (or a jury nulification) trumps this, FB are SOL.
Awfully off-topic, but it's their 3333rd post. Quite a run for a company blog.
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I think the best defining difference is persistence, which means memcache isn't a database but Redis is.
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No, unfortunately I am not helping those children. I am not rich. However, I agree with you on Mars photos. They are fascinating.
This is true but such a discussion must be balanced with the cost of compliance for newer market entrants.

For example if running a social network or email service etc required following a large rule book then we probably would not have Facebook and maybe not even gmail. We would all be using some clunky Microsoft or IBM solution that took years to add new features because they had to get it all past the regulators.

You don't want to get an angry phone call from a regulator because you put some weekend hack up on HN.
If I remember correctly there's a year long grace period after which the investors can choose to force the note to convert. I don't know much about how that works though.
And also like... the XNU kernel?
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I'd recommend staying at ~$80k. One of the mistakes I made last year was over-building inventory (possibly because I had access to $150k from Start fund).
I need to go through my kickstarter list; I have enough projects backed (100+) that I can start to get data out of it, not just anecdote.
I agree with the points made in this article. Most publishers' apps really do suck. The startup that I'm currently working for (http://storydesk.com) is solving this problem by building a product which makes it simpler for publishers to drag and drop image and video assets, and type in their text to create native feeling content "apps" using a web based tool. The publisher's content can then be viewed in a native iPad player app which has a fast, consistent user experience.
This seems like a more public representation of what is probably being done on most sites anyway, with the exception of the login credentials being invalidated. That being said, it is more than a little unnerving to know that my account will always be accessible in one form or another. As a member of the "internet" I felt that there were certain understood "rights" that were available to me... account suicide being one of them. I guess that type of thinking is more hopeful than realistic nowadays.
Take care when writing your own bootloader, or you may find yourself essentially maintaining two separate kernel trees.
"It's a lot of people and enough doctors working together to achieve something. Things like:
- He is cured of cancer"

And without the proper rigor, this can not be possible to determine. That he has no cancer can more easily be determined, but the whys and hows may have nothing to do with his process.
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Re 3: I don't think anything like this exists yet (as you've described close to the "holy grail" of numerical languages ;-) ), but you might want to check out Julia[1] if you haven't done so yet. It doesn't do everything you want, but has decently good performance, makes it easy to call C libs (and Fortran I think), and is doing some interesting things with parallelization. Unfortunately it doesn't yet have MPI support, the performance you want, etc. but it's a very new language with an active community, and I think it has goals compatible to yours.

Re 1: As yolesaber said, most decent IDEs/editors should give you tools to deal with parens. As for pretty-printing equations: I used to have a Perl script that would convert code to LaTeX according to certain rules, but it's lost in a previous job's IP. Still, this should be reasonably achievable with a set of regexs + LaTeX assuming you use a consistent syntax throughout for your equations, without too many ambiguous cases. :)

[1] http://julialang.org/
Reality TV will be there. I'm only mostly joking.
Is this planting a seed regarding their new app thats in development? :)

Agreed that theres a ton of wasted effort in this space. Something along the lines of apples Newsstand has so much pitential.
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LongPW looks like an interesting idea to start with. 1.Giving the username, makes the service more risky security-wise; so why not omit it. So I give only a meaningful phrase and a color. Like, "This is my meaningful phrase" and "red", "yellow", "green" for levels of security.

2. At the end the meaningful phrase becomes the password.

3. Thought of an mobile app version?
Agreed. Regardless of the technical definition of "database," I think the word implies durability in some sense.
This article is just, plain, silly. The author criticizes Balanced because they don't support Bitcoin? Yea, so, here's the deal -- startups need to make money, not chase down ideological, academic experiments like Bitcoin.

As a customer, I can attest that Balanced provides a really, really valuable service to anyone building a marketplace. If you need to support money in via credit cards and money out via ACH, no other solution like it exists. It's fantastic.

Bitcoin is an investment, not a currency. Buying bitcoin is not much different than buying gold. It serves exactly none of the properties of a currency: It's not a good medium of exchange, store of value, or the other derivatives thereof.

Moreover, it's a rogue currency, not supported by any government. In fact, it is decentralized by design. This is great in theory -- decentralization can be great in company structures, software design, etc. But not currencies. It doesn't work. There is no such thing as a modern currency that's not backed by a central bank. Bitcoin is a libertarian's wet dream -- a currency not backed by the Fed that enjoys widespread usage. But it will never be more than that, a dream, because the economics of bitcoin as a stable currency simply don't work, certainly not in a modern economy.

Some of the problems bitcoin is trying to solve are important, and worthy for sure. For example, cryptography in the context of digital payments and identity. So let's take the parts that need solving, but solve them in a practical way.

Innovation in digital payments is coming, but any company operating in this space, as a matter of strategy, must support the existing payments infrastructure. Square is a great example of this: Get everyone swiping credit cards and creating square accounts, then, start paying digitally with your Square "tab".
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It's like a tornado learned how to use Photoshop and just starting slinging Layer Effects everywhere without a reason. The website itself is just as much a mess.
Download the raw data and query to your liking.

Under Debian, US Census TIGER files are available as dictionary files. You can use this to identify specific areas as you wish.

My analysis showed that the most expensive top several ZIP codes were SF Financial district, Stanford, SOMA, Marina, and Pacific Heights neighborhoods, as well as Atherton. I suspect the data may skew high, though it would help to have a distribution within each ZIP code as well (SD, median, quartiles, 5th/95th percentiles).
Mailinator has deduplicating. In fact, it has all sorts of nice optimizations, and the author writes about it quite eloquently. I wish mailinator backend could be used for mail servers instead of Exchange ;)
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While I certainly agree that knowledge of how interrupts work is foundational to writing an O/S, the comment about using VS is just silly. Last time I checked MASM was included.
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While most of our new code is PostgreSQL, I support apps that use Synergex, FoxPro, and Access.
Wow!!

Too ambitious. Doing that requires millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man hours to make. How do I know? I do electronics and low level programming work and I am really good at it. Just understanding the bugs that manufactures put in hardware and then solve in software(because it is way cheaper) takes a ton of work.

As I suppose he is not super rich, he will have to convince people to join their project, a la Linus.

Good luck with that!! I really wish a clean-no backwards compatible OS were real, I will add native OpenCL, OpenVG and OpenGL to the list, but my arachnid sense tells me a person that does not use Unix will have a hard time getting traction with geeks.
Nice work!

Have you thought about trying to pull in domains from Afternic MLS as well?
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A lot of publishers aren't app developers, they're just using existing technologies which aren't the best, or using them for mixed levels of success.
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Of course it rewards creators. Much of the content you read in your local bookstore or watch on TV wouldn't be made if the authors didn't have any system in place in which they could guarantee a return on their investment. Yes some people will do it for free, but many wouldn't have the ability to do so if they weren't able to sustain themselves.
There is that.

$/sqft factored by apartment size results in a greater uniformity of rental pricing than would be immediately apparent. With few exceptions, the higher-cost areas will have smaller apartments generally catering to singles / childless couples, while families are driven to more to the periphery. Atherton and Stanford would be notable exceptions, as both include sizeable parcels (though how many of these are available as rentals is another question).
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Really interesting change.

Not sure what metrics YC collects on each of its cohorts, but if "Cycle Length" and "Total Cycles" are two of them (i.e. end-to-end time through build-measure-learn loop), then it would be valuable to see if January's teams deviate, in a meaningful way, from the established average and mean.

Hypothetically, you'd think that "Cycle Length" would decrease as less cash in hand forces teams without product-market fit to tap into higher gear (or sustain that same high level of output), rather than spend valuable attention wondering about how to get a piece of the "carcass" should things crash and burn. Total cycles would then move up and to the right, as teams get a few more in near the end of their runway.

That said, there are at least two additional potentialities.

1. "Cycle Length" and "Total Cycles" are already running along their respective natural asymptotes.

Consequence(s): A. Awesomely cool discovery re: limits of productivity! B. The number of founders able to remain highly productive while simultaneously squabbling (and providing PG w/ massive headaches) decreases.

2. The "Starting Date" for raising an additional round of financing shifts to the left (i.e. becomes earlier). With less cash in the bank, and hence a shorter runway, the average starting date for teams w/o product-market fit to begin seriously committing time to fundraising shifts "earlier".

Consequence(s): A. If more time fundraising = less time building, then the average total output of a team, in the 12 months post-YC, could decrease.

Mitigation: Personal access to the best VCs in the world could mean that the length of a "Funding Cycle" (i.e. total time spent raising a round) decreases, thus offsetting consequence 2a.

It'd be great if these numbers were something YC actually collected. If there's a science to building companies, you could certainly glean great insight from those digits.
I am no expert but I think the problem is assuming that the caller ID of the incoming call to the bank is authentic.

I'm curious if you could break a similar system that assumed that receipt of an outgoing call made to the customer's phone number was validation of identity.
This breaks ctl-c in my opinion. When I ctl-c I want shit to stop, not dump (potentially large quantities of) output into my terminal.
Thanks for checking it out. The sort used in the code is Javascript's native sort method which is not guaranteed to be stable and varies by browser (Chrome vs Firefox for example sort differently in the W/L/T columns - try clicking W then T in each browser.) Kind of annoying really.

For sure, the invert part is not great though.

Edit: Found more info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3026281/array-sort-sortin...
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> How to handle Interrupts in C? Will they perform as callbacks that await some return values or do I have to use inline assembly to process them correctly;

Not to disappoint you, but you should try doing some more low level programming or dabbling with some existing OS code to have an idea how this kind of programs look like. Maybe having a look at Minix for a reference of simple OS?

Have you thought about targeting ARM? Its architecture may be way less trickier than most Intel CPUs.

Well, good luck with that. Worst case scenario, you'll end up reading lots of interesting resources.
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You're at the top end in terms of Average Revenue Per User of your SP (ARPU). USA is ~$60 per month. You're suggesting you're probably in the $100+.

I'd suggest that the costs to your provider over an above the average user are absolutely minimal - a little extra network traffic on average. So if ARPU of $60 yields 30% margin, cost of plan and handset is $42.

Let's say I'm right and 1/3 of your plan is subsidising your handset. We take a further ~$30 from the "cost". We're left with $12/month to support your > $100/month subscription. Sounds about right to me.

EDIT: Sorry, calculated $1000+ for one year... oops.
So cut all those in half: $6 a month to support a $50 a month subscription?
Worse case scenario: we get lots of people up there, then lose the ability to resupply them. They, not yet being self-sufficient, all die slowly.

I think everyone who would consider going understands the risks.
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The use of ZIP codes in GIS is largely a matter of convenience. The geocoding is generally good enough, particularly when using a statistically significant sample. And the underlying data are generally available as they're attached to most of the data of interest. That said, DIY geocoding with pretty high accuracy is possible and available:

http://opengeo.org/technology/postgis/
> Whenever someone tells me about the "right" to healthcare, I ask, "From whom? From me?" This question exposes this "right" for the robbery and slavery that it is.

> If too many doctors quit, the government might try to make them work.

Well, what a load of rubbish. Numerous free countries do indeed have some sort of right to healthcare in their laws: in practical terms it translates to a promise by the government that it will pay the market rate to ensure that there are adequate doctors working for it.

(One could, of course, make some generalised argument against taxes, but that doesn't seem to be what this is.)
I had the opposite reaction. Many of the things the OP wants to change are really bothering me about "modern" operating systems.

A recipe for coming up with good ideas is looking at something that has been around for a while and asking "What would it be like if it had been invented now?".

And if all else fails, this will be a wonderful learning experience.

I know this is a cliche, but before writing comments like this ask yourself if a) you are unnecessarily discouraging somebody for no reason and b) you would have said the same thing about successful projects when they were first started.

Finally, the one piece of advice I'd give on this project is that you shouldn't focus too much on the overly ambitious goals and don't worry if you can't accommodate for all of them just yet. The likelihood of achieving the next milestone is somewhat proportional to the number of milestones you have achieved. Get to v0.01 and take it from there.
sort -R isn't actually a random permutation or shuffle like one would ordinarily expect from a 'random' output: if you read the man page very carefully, you'll notice it only speaks of 'random hash' which means that 2 lines which are identical (quite possible and common) will be hashed to the same value and placed consecutively in the output.

(This bit me once. Filed a bug about maybe clarifying the man page, but nope, apparently we're all supposed to recognize instantly the implication of a random hash.)
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The New Yorker on iOS is a great example. It's an atrocious app. Each issue takes >100MB, there's no font resizing or dark mode, and articles are laid out such that 1/3rd of the screen is white space.

A magazine-porting framework for iOS and Android would rock. Sales would be tough, though--you'd probably have to partner closely with Conde Nast or another big publisher for v1.0, and...well, good luck with that.
Also, found this http://gutomaia.github.com/nodeNES. Quite interesting.
is it just me, or just the border radius has been removed ?
Nobody really cared about CDMA vs GSM. The market decided that issue with dollars of GSM vs CDMA with a resounding "meh".

I mean, look what they did with Healthcare. So many things they could have addressed, but instead foisted a huge behemoth of a law unto consumers and businesses.

For all you know, they might have selected TDMA because some congress critter writing the bill had a cousin who had a factory spitting out TDMA chips. Then we all would have been stuck long-term on inferior technology because some congressperson made a political decision.

Give consumers choices. Let them decide what's important to them. While it sounds nice to have some benevolent Government helping to organize us and make important decisions, that's just not the way that history has shown it works.
Maybe I misunderstand the Perl Foundation grants model, but, isn't a great deal of that success due to the highly experienced developers who have already been contributing for years? Would the same success apply when the codebase in question has had little or no iteration?

Not to mention that TPF is a group of many committees who report to an entire board?

If there was mention of a governing board of developers who want to establish committees for developing the language further, I think that'd be a much more sensible and focused use of the funds. My perspective of his proposal was basically, "Pay a minimum rate for my time over the next 4-6 months and see where I can take this language". Something that leaves me even more uneasy is his ability to communicate the finer points of where this funding might be directed, or what the promise for delivery actually is. I have to believe there is some kind of metric for his progress thus far and his projections for progress moving forward; anything less is bush league panhandling for a hobby passion.

Just my two cents, obviously, and no offensive to the aims of the project author, which I actually think are interesting and probably worthwhile; but interesting and worthwhile are not cause for donation.
Buying the CD wouldn't give you public performance rights, either.
The author of this article seems to be very concerned about something, but I'm not entirely sure I understood.

He implies that, under Obamacare, doctors will be compelled to provide services to patients at rates far lower than is currently standard, similar to how the cardiac surgeon was trying to compel the author, as an anesthesiologist, to work at a rate he considered too low.

Under Obamacare, will doctors be compelled to do work at sub-standard rates, or will they merely have the option to do so? In Canada, the government pays doctors specific fees for each patient seen or each procedure performed. Doctors can therefore take on as much, or as little, work as they wish and are paid accordingly. This system does have its drawbacks, but nothing like what the author of this article is describing occurs.

If, under Obamacare, doctors had the option of taking as much work on as they want at government-set rates, supply and demand would soon force the government to offer competitive rates. If doctors are instead legally compelled to offer care at substandard rates, then there could be a problem as the author claims.
Somewhere in the Callahan books, in particular once when discussing an Irish Coffee robot.
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Great job. The pace of adding new features has been impressive. I think Blockchain.info is the best online bitcoin wallet .
Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious but wouldn't piping through awk 'rand()<.1{print}' give a decent streaming random sample of roughly 10% of input?
Two people, prototype in 2 months (CTO of BugSense here)
On a related note - can anyone give me perspective on the quality of their VPN service?
VC loses half the equity they would get otherwise..
Good luck, I certainly hope you don't end up like losethos.
Microsoft has lots of great command line tools, I used MASM(Microsoft Macro Assembler) and the compiler and linker when I was learning (long long ago).

Nothing is more flexible that command line tools as it lets you do scripting(programming your own environment).

It does not matter if you want to use "already made by someone else windows, text, menus and buttons", but it is essential when you make (or manage what other people's make) everything.
That's a great idea - about assigning a promissory note payable at some event in the future.
eBay has its own takedown process and follows US law because they are US-based. They only seize domains for sites that are outside the US (but their domains are registered in the US) and do not respect US laws. There are still huge due-process concerns, though.
Nope. If you want to know how to make a small OS that can run on a PC, take a look at xv6 which is a modern re-implementation of the sixth edition of Unix and is on Github. You can compile it and then run it in qemu. Fork it, read and understand the source and then expand upon it to your hearts content. That would at least give a very good starting point.
It's basically impossible for this to fail if you view the whole thing as a learning experience for the author.
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