skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really understand what you are trying to get at. Are you saying that nobody would want to go? Or that anyone who does want to go is being irrational? The first seems obviously false, and the second seems completely irrelevant.

The fact is there are people who would go, it doesn't really matter to them if you understand their motivation.
I think this change is a definite plus, but I disagree this sort of change is startup-specific.

Trying new things is just how you're supposed to build a company, at least when you care for the long term rather than next quarter.
Unless if the courts find the contract non binding.
Doom 3 BFG Edition source code released
I hope you know plan9 or other OSes beside *nix/POSIX so you have a larger field of view.

If I had crossed the desire threshold to start that project (#1 project in my mind since I left college) I'd leave the C ecosystem altogether, design a typed ,functional ,binary friendly, modular, subset of C (and probably be forever alone). Something in the groove of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitC, even though its talented author concluded it wasn't a successful path.
I certainly wasn't advocating ignoring them, I agree with you completely that all interest groups (which I think is a better definition than calling them political social networks) should take part, and I'm sure they will.
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!

"Most unreadable web page seen in a month"
One of the firms behind the site calls it "a design provocation intended to spark a reaction and fuel a conversation" on their Tumblr.

So I guess you're supposed to react and start talking.
>>He's giving it to his employees who presumably have worked for it with "blood and sweat"

No they didn't. They were getting paid already for the value they provided to the company. Do not delude yourself, this is nothing more than a handout.

>>An alternative would be passing it down through inheritance or selling to a bidder, neither of whom invest blood or sweat.

So you are OK with some employees receiving a gift and you oppose the heirs receiving that same gift. Of course I'm opposed to just giving stuff away, but if you have to then leaving it to your heirs makes more sense from an evolutionary point of view.

Another option, if you really want to give away your money, is to create jobs for people with nothing to do. This way they will earn that money instead of just receiving a gift. For example, fund public works and pay people who you want to help to do that job. Pay them reasonably even. Maybe even include education benefits. Isn't this a better option than just handing somebody free money?

If those people do not want to do these jobs then they do not deserve the money. I'm really curious why would anybody disagree with me.

Of course, there are always exceptions. There are people in the world that truly need free money. Example orphans, the elderly, disabled people. People who even if they wanted to work they simply can't. My logic is undeniable, how can you oppose anything I say?

At the end of the day though we are all free to do with our money what we want. Still, I cannot help but hurt when I see money just being wasted away by giving it to people who have not earned it (heirs excluded of course).

Edit: Thanks for answering. I really do believe I'm right so it is nice to have somebody explain why that may not be so instead of just getting down voted (which I don't mind). If more people could try explaining why they disagree with me that'd be great. I really want to hear why anybody thinks I'm wrong. Maybe I am wrong. I'm willing to change my mind if there is a good reason.
MySQL, memcached, and a custom pure-memory database that stores volatile real time data.
>>It seems to me there are two types of people interested in the colonizing of Mars. Those who think it will happen eventually, and those who want to make it happen.

The funny thing is that colonization of Mars is not something that will happen without the latter group. There is currently no economic sense in going there, which bars it from happening on its own.
Please see my comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4833953
Thanks! Great to know your experience with them. I can't edit the original post any longer (Didn't know that you could only edit for X amount of time) but I will try to recompile it all periodically and republish it or put it on a website where I can edit it in-place.

You mention the fill rate was around 1% - this meant that 1% of the time there were ads to display? Isn't that quite low? What should we expect and aim for?
This post is literally impossible to read on an iPhone.

When you zoom in, the large banner ad on the left floats & overlays all the text.
Idea beginnings and endings
So this is how the Nigerians are stealing your identity with only your name & address. $4 for an SSN from those shady companies online, and a quick phonecall....

Damn, they went from Name & address to full bank access in no time at all...
PEOPLE STOP trying to find good reasons whether we should colonize Mars or not.
Interplanetary colonization will happen. It's just a matter of time. Now we have a visionary man named Elon Musk that has proven himself by realizing the impossible not once not twice but 4 times.
Let's all support him and contribute our 2 cents to make it happen in our times.
AMEN
It won't hold up. The disclaimer states Facebook has no distribution rights. Facebook requires the right to distribute your content. Common sense dictates you give Facebook this right when you use their service. The courts will laugh a disclaimer as the one in the hoax out.
I seriously still have no clue what I'm supposed to be looking for.
He seriously downplays potential risks of global warming, and he's built his career on this single argument. I know objective science, and he doesn't practice it (most people who write editorial books don't). To be clear, I don't have a strong opinion on how global warming will play out due to a lack of data, and I think he may very well be correct. But I don't trust him either.

Anyway, do you have a citation? I didn't mean to start an argument about his character, but I'm skeptical of the claim about New York.
Startup Genome: The world's best cities for startups
Thanks Vince
Implementing an OS is hard work, even if you build on the very hard work of those who have tried before you in terms of APIs, abstraction layers, etc. It doesn't sound like you have a lot of familiarity with low-level software development, or software development in general, so you just took a "hard mode" project and cranked it up to "nightmare".

Generally this is a bad idea because without any external motivation, you lose interest and stop working. With external motivation is worse, because you can burn out and become a catatonic shell of a person, staring absently into space for the rest of your life.

Just some FYIs:

> On the side note - It’s 21st century, but our PCs are still booting up as old-fart Intel 8086.

You should read about EFI (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech...)

You should also read all of the lecture materials from good universities OS classes. In those classes, you basically do this. Some classes are more guided than others. Some places to start:

- CMU: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/

- UMD: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~shankar/412-F12/

UMD uses a toy operating system called GeekOS that the students extend. You might find browsing its source code useful (http://code.google.com/p/geekos/)

Good luck!
Whoops! Thanks for catching that
gagege, you have been hellbanned. When you post comments, very few people can read them. I checked your comment history and my guess is it was the "thank you, captain obvious" comment that got you hellbanned.

Sorry to be offtopic, I just hate to see people wasting their time here when their reason for being hellbanned is a bit dubious (there was only that one bad comment that I saw). It makes me paranoid; perhaps I am just talking to myself!
Poll Everywhere (YC S08) is hiring a lead designer
Out of curiosity, what does the 'carcass' usually consist of? Wouldn't any leftover money go back to investors? Or does that get divided out to founders (seems like that would be a bad incentive). Or is it mostly related to the product (domains, code, etc..)?
Probably in other areas, but a major one is in IO-Kit (their device driver framework) which is written in and uses a specialized subset of C++ called Embedded-C++, though the userspace API for it has a C wrapper.
This doesn't seem better than jQuery datatables.
Anyone who has ever written a small RTOS on a small 8 bit embedded processor will only laugh at the OP. And, I hate to say, it would be justified. There are about twenty or thirty books between where he is now and where he'd have to be in order to even start talking about designing an OS for a desktop platform. Add to that 10,000 hours of coding low to high-level projects across embedded to desktop platforms.

A quick read of the "About" page is probably in order:

http://gusc.lv/about/

What to say?

"Someone holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" --Mark Twain.

Here's the tip of the tail:

http://www.amazon.com/Embedded-Controller-Forth-8051-Family/...

http://www.amazon.com/Operating-System-Concepts-Abraham-Silb...

http://www.amazon.com/Performance-Preemptive-Multitasking-Mi...

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Operating-System-Prentice-Hall-...

Have fun.
I wouldn't say that it's unreadable, but I have no idea what it's trying to say.
"At the same time, Windows 7 initially had an uphill battle in the market because consumers associated it with Vista."

Reminds me of Server "2008 R2".

"I even know a couple people who are still on XP because, in part, of their feelings about Vista."

Not to mention organizations too where deployments takes time. Reminds me of NT4 end of support.
What's the benefit to YC?
Having a small (but very strong) R&D team helps you eliminate most of these "processes". The buzzword here is "iterations". Lot's of them.

Our clients were involved since day 0 (which I think is the key of our success btw). The first prototype (built in two days) was in Erlang using Mnesia.

The drawbacks are:
+ not having lots of engineers knowing C and Erlang
+ Outsiders having problem with LISP (that's why we implemented PIG)
The man who turned his home into a public library
Turns out the Arduino guys were well aware of the issue a month ago: http://smartduino.com/arduinotmtrademark-intimated-us-to-clo....

So I guess the unresponsiveness is on their side...
I don't think "mentioning Github" is the only piece people are using when deciding to question your communication skills. The word "microcontroller", except in certain extremely specialized situations, should probably not be used with a client. I understand it's a hard pill to swallow. I mean, you're both speaking English. Why does it seem like you're not speaking the same language?

In a way, you're not speaking the same language. Try assuming your clients have no concept of not just programming, but any of the process of building an application or solution to a problem that uses technology. Don't discuss details. They are probably paying you so that they don't have to worry about the details.

By way of example: I have the reverse problem with my wife. She is a nurse. When telling me about her day, she used to fly through a great deal of technical details using an amazing number of acronyms and abbreviations that I found not just unintuitive, but completely incomprehensible. I genuinely care about how her day was, but I found myself exclaiming in exasperation, "I have a clue what any of that means!" She now explains only what is necessary to get the point across, and defines acronyms as she goes along, if necessary. That works, but, in your situation, I'd abstract my communication at least one more level than that.
Just to help you play, on: http://gutomaia.net/nodeNES/#example/scrolling/scrolling4.as...

on line 82 change:
CPX #$10 to CPX #$20
this will load 8 sprites instead of 4

and on lines 290-297 remove all 4 sprite lines, and put:

.db $20, $00, $00, $80
.db $20, $01, $00, $88
.db $28, $02, $00, $80
.db $28, $03, $00, $88
.db $30, $04, $00, $80
.db $30, $05, $00, $88
.db $38, $06, $00, $80
.db $38, $07, $00, $88

Then you will have Super Mario!
eBay. :)

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=FE-5680A
The Time Out NY app is fantastic. As in this one:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-out-new-york-for-ipad/i...

So what's the deal with the horrible magazine one?
There are a bunch of teaching OSes which are a great place to start for this stuff.

The actively developed ones we chose between when teaching the OS class at UW this fall were:

JOS (mit) https://github.com/guanqun/mit-jos

Pintos (stanford) http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/

OS161 (harvard) http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~syrah/os161/
Reflecting on TDD
Quite right. The precursors to runaway technological advance (or other meanings of "technological singularity") could definitely make economic sense, meaning that a singularity could occur without the same sort of semi-irrational drive and vision that the "make it happen" people provide. While those people are necessary for Mars colonization, they may not be for a technological singularity.
Vancouver venture capital gap: all brains, no bucks
You're thinking of a positive proof that a proposition is false.

Yes, of course! Thank you for reminding me of that! I abase myself before your superior semantics. I'm not worthy, and I shall soon delete this now defiled account name.
EULAs are "contracts of adhesion":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract#Contract...

While they are not worthless, they are not nearly as binding or enforceable as your normal commercial contract. Standards vary and the jurisprudence is not clear, but indeed you "can't give up your civil rights with single click."
Quadz - HTML5/jquery game
There are some vaguely cool ideas, themes and concepts here, but what is it really for? Why should I use this, what can I do with it? And why doesn't the prominent search bar do anything?
The UN’s Internet Grab
This doesn't come with an elaborate test suite, but it does pretty much everything that does in a few dozen lines of Perl.

https://github.com/neilk/misc/blob/master/randline

I've had this script (or versions of it) around for more than a decade. I didn't know the technique had a name.
Sony Ericsson Mobility Report Brief Analysis
Show HN: The easiest way to find gifts for friends and family
This is what we built last Startup Weekend in Stuttgart. Probably the easiest way to find gift suggestions for your friends. We use the open graph to create a personal interest profile and then aggregate Amazon products for it.

Still an early version, but we are interested in your opinion on it. Thanks! :)
Digg Is Back
Integrate SkyDrive with .NET and Windows Phone 8 SDK
I perceived it more as an "ad hominem" attack to a competitor than as a service to the backers, go figure...
Does Creativity Come With A Price? New Insight On Creatives And Mental Illness
Snapclass - Our Attempt to Disrupt Online Education
Most of the comments seem so negative... When I was 16 I was also interested in OS development and actually wrote a bootsector, a very small kernel and support for fat12 in assembler. Previous experience? Basic and QBasic. It's quite a good way to learn and it is possible when you take one step at a time and are willing to spend some time reading... Your mind is a great tool, have some faith in it.
I may come off as a bit nutty here, but do we really want to add another mechanism to C/C++ for something that has been worked with for decades?

Most of these issues are things you learn really fast how to avoid in production systems, using things like #pragma once, include guards, and proper symbol and header exposure when writing C libraries.

This doesn't really seem like much other than feature bloat for something that works, works well enough, and which probably won't be implemented in a timely fashion by at least 1 major compiler vendor (Hey folks! There's life outside clang and gcc and icc!).
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Now Available
Facebook Privacy Panic: It's Just A Viral Hoax
This is what we built last Startup Weekend in Stuttgart. Probably the easiest way to find gift suggestions for your friends. We use the open graph to create a personal interest profile and then aggregate Amazon products for it.

Still an early version, but we are interested in your opinion on it. Thanks! :)
This is a little html/jquery game I've been working on for the past two years, on and off. It should work in recent Chrome/Safari/Firefox/Opera. jquery.animate-enhanced plugin converts javascript animations to CSS3 which is very smooth where accelerated (like on iPhone/iPad). There's also a native version for iPad (free and paid, a lot more levels) - the same web app runs in UIWebView. Check it out. Email me at quadz@8x.to if you'd like promo code for the paid iPad version.
Also if anyone knows how to handle the Amazon API limits - thats still a big issue for us...
See also: No Copyright Intended

http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
RoCanvas.js - Create Interactive Drawing Boards
Google's Acquisition of ICOA Was A Hoax
That's a bummer. Reading this article was inspirational.
Try viewing it on a mobile device. Not only will you not know what they're trying to say, you won't be able to read it.
No it's actually unreadable. Half the text is super low contrast.
This is an interesting idea with a horrible landing page.

But right now it's just profiles of three (interesting) people. Their messages and vision are great, definitely something I could get behind, but there's nothing there to engage in discussion, encourage others, or really give the site a purpose beyond "showing off the efforts of three people."

It's a portfolio. With a really bad landing page.
I think I get it, sort of.

Use the search bar at the top, type in something (or choose one they rotate), then facebook post or tweet it out, and it'll spread their message, and indicate to them (and everyone) that you're willing to work for (better health, food, money, whatever).

Pretty undiscoverable functionality, imo.
I tried Foundation coming from Bootstrap and found that Bootstrap was much easier to use. Foundation did not have simple documentation and configuration was complicated.
Show HN: GiftPool - My tryptophan fueled weekend project
nice, though like all the others I've seen, it doesn't work when trying it with RTL direction.
Most (all?) Java IDEs do this as does XCode ( Obj-C) and probably many other things. This isn't the point here though...
Heeeeeeeey.com
Ericsson Mobility Report November 2012 [scribd]
This is pretty interesting. I find this type of behavior to be everywhere in the software world. If I cannot figure something out with a platform, let me re-write it. Interesting observation is that the number of these "re-writes" is inversely proportional to the experience of the person proposing these ideas.

Good luck to the author, nonetheless it will be a good learning experience for him.
All companies should be employee-owned.
Hotel room burglars exploit critical flaw in electronic door locks
Good idea, that's probably the best way to make the most out of this simple challenge.
Every decision requires willpower. Doing things without thinking (making habits out of them) saves your willpower for other valuable things you have to do.
We use ElasticSearch and Solr for search heavy applications.
Notes on Soundslice
We are also using NuoDB.. which is pretty cool.
I'm part of the p.irateship hackerspace, and we're just down the street from Lorem Ipsum on Somerville Ave. I would like to talk about a few different possibilities with you. My email is seth at sethish.com
Indeed. I always feel it is better for people in his position (attempting something so incredibly complex with a very low level of related experience) to do the work, then talk about it - rather than the other way around. Talk is cheap when you don't know what you are doing.
Zillow Acquires HotPads For $16 Million To Grow Its Rental Marketplace
This should really be at the top, I couldn't stand reading the original linked.
Would the reduced chance of success of a single founder startup be compensated for by the reduction in investment, time required and increased number of companies that could be funded? Even if you think single founders succeed only half as often, having twice as many with no founder breakup issues could put YC ahead.
I'm trying it out by using it to buy one of my wife's Christmas presents.
The laws apply to any electronic access or communications, including phone. In this case they accessed their own account so no laws have been broken.
Now, I loathe GoDaddy - for their elephant-hunting CEO, sexist homepage, and most of all because I had to use their awful admin interface for work - but expecting a company with whom you have a commercial relationship to delete their records of you seems unrealistic.

Sure, you can mark the account as dormant and remove the authentication credentials, but at some point it's a matter of historical fact. Governments tend to prefer that companies keep accounting records, and look unfavourably on those that don't.
Is meant as a hook. And the most important part is that you complete it, that's the kind of validation they are after. But all feedback is good, so I am sure they'll have harder challenges soon.
Good luck Julie Larson-Green
The Unix/Linux systems are designed by a lot of very smart people and have gone through many iterations. No doubt they do have some historical baggage, but, there are good reasons why the current design is as-is. Not trying to learn the history will doomed to repeat it.
OWLIM-se
Its a RDF/sparql database
As I said, concentrating the community in the Bay Area leads to mental inbreeding and a narrow perspective. Funding Midwestern startups might lead to successes that couldn't have been achieved in the Bay Area. Also, such startups could be funded with less money and will have a longer runway.
[deleted] ChuckMcM is right, let him find out what he doesn't know. Props for the ambition.
We hope to. I'm not sure how realistic that will be. There have been several conversations around providing compat layers. No work has been done on that yet.
Good content generation is one reason 37signals is doing so well.
This is cool, should make Rusty Russell's CCAN [0] a whole lot more interesting. Instead of just snippets of useful code, it could contain full modules like CPAN/PyPI/PEAR/CRAN/CTAN and various other repositories for other languages.

[0] - http://ccodearchive.net/index.html
Having just read the post and most of the comments, this seems to about sum it up. The post barely sneaks in an ask for community opinion on Kickstarter's communication policy while focusing on casting aspersions on the project's validity (including some amazingly shameless "asides" about the founder's reputation). Now the lawyers have come out and it's just getting further and further from useful discussion, if that was truly the original point.

It must be said - bitch all you want about the claim that these guys manufactured Arduino, but on nuance, it appears supportable. When team members who built something (or worked on it to a significant extent) move on, the work they did previously is in their portfolio whether you like it or not. This practice is standard in other industries, too, especially marketing. And of course, the obvious: if, as is claimed in the post, Arduino is afraid of damage to the brand, why not complain about all the other BLAHduinos out there?

This makes Arduino look bad, and if the founders of the contentious project are actually shady, they are loving the cred this reaction will earn them.
You know what, if you have hesitation about posting something, then you probably shouldn't. It's one thing to have a specific concern about his project, but it's quite another to call into question his skill as a programmer and indeed quite arrogant to assume that you know what it takes to build an OS.

There is a big difference between saying "You don't have what it takes" and saying, "I think the obstacles you face will be very large, good luck!"