skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am kind of sad that Ron Conway is no longer a part of Y Combinator funding team. I really thought of the original Y Combinator team as a dream team!

PG - will cutting the initial funding to 80K give Y combinator a better chance to scale? Will you be giving opportunity to diverse companies due to more money being available at your disposal?

PG- my humble request to you is - can you invest the money saved due to this change in diverse companies/founders?

I know you have always said - that you like to invest in people who are like you - i.e. hackers. I, however, have always thought of Y Combinator as brewing pot of coffee. The only issue is the person brewing the coffee - i.e. you, PG, - only likes cream (i.e hackers) in his coffee (Y Combinator) and therefore, the only choice the world gets from this, otherwise brilliant coffeemaker, is a plain black coffee or a coffee with cream.
My humble question and a request is can the person brewing the best pot of coffee be more inclusive and experiment with other choices such as coffee with sugar (single founders) and coffee with splenda (non-technical founders)in a statistically significant way?

PG - I know the final product will be very different but the world will get more choices and, more importantly, the reduction in funding from $150K to 80K would actually create additional opportunities for diverse group of deserving companies!
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Canada Set For Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits, Anti-Piracy Company Warns
> not algorithmically possible to reach

I just meant undecidable propositions.

> Do you have an example

Maybe check out the conclusion on p.76 of this book[1] by Penrose (and the argument supporting it that begins on p.72.): "Human mathematicians are not using a knowably sound algorithm in order to ascertain mathematical truth".

His example is our knowledge that a certain computation will not halt, and the impossibility of constructing an algorithm that can prove that fact.

More flippantly, you know that you can examine the soundness of your own reasoning, but no algorithm can reach conclusions about its own correctness.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/dp/0198539789
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Sounds like anyone with a family is pretty much excluded from what you call "startup life" then. $80k wouldn't get me alone through half a year without selling my house and moving somewhere really cheap in the US.
Hibernate and 'Communications link failure' issue solved with C3P0
SEOs Are Not Growth Hackers
Cross browser html5 webcam (getUserMedia) shim
Same here. Can anyone detail why? Browser, OS, hardware....
Ok, I created an account, but apparently there were some kind of hiccup and now I can't login. There is no information to get about it, and there doesnt seem to be any way to reset the password.

Please fix that so I can sell my services!
If YC was going to try and create a startup community outside of SV they would want to go somewhere else where actual hackers were. Certainly no where in the midwest. Maybe somewhere like Boston or NY... wait, didn't they try that?
No I didn't. Sorry I'm not familiar with it - can you tell us what the pros/cons of that approach might be vs. what I did?
This seems like an interesting article, but I was only able to read a few paragraphs before all the letters got jumbled in my visual cortex and I got a headache. For the love of god, light text on a dark background is a bad idea: http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/10/13/why-light-text-on...
Picirus - a small appliance that backs up your cloud accounts
Of course, some languages only support elimination of tail calls when they're recursive. I believe that Scala suffers from this (since the JVM doesn't support tail call elimination).
Thank you for the interesting link dap.
This was created out of frustration with all the PHP based forum software. I created something much simpler for my own group of friends. Then, two years later, I decided to clean up the code and release it as a paid service. I’m hoping the one-time fee will be a no-brainer decision for some groups.

FYI: I’m using Paymill for credit card processing. They were easy enough to get verified with. Really happy to have a service like that in Europe :)
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Sorry, I was talking about "fear of negotiating" topic. I don't claim to know why there are gendered pay disparities, and there's certainly some injustice going on. Lack of desire to negotiate can't explain all of it.

I certainly don't believe that "women are inferior". I was talking about negotiation skill. It can be learned, and there are plenty of women who are excellent at it.
Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
Well then, to play devil's advocate, there's this -

How to interview a VC:
http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/27080999978/intervie...
Yeah, I was worried there for a sec. :^)
>Good call, guaranteeing $150K plus the seed money for the given inputs was far in excess of what you could raise elsewhere for comparable inputs.

Which would mean they would have their pick of ideas since everyone would try YC first.
Diagram suggests Iran working on nuclear bomb much more powerful than Hiroshima
Have you guys seen leanpub.com, it's self publishing on steroids
Ah, ace. Thanks.
You're Not Alone
Microsoft gets patent on augmented reality glasses as 'AR wars' start
India policemen suspended over Facebook arrests
Personally I don't have, nor do I wish to have, a Google+ account.

No reviews from me.
Strong iPhone 5 sales knock Android into second place
My way of seeing it is... the system is everything, so the system is /.

Everything is part of the system, so the system configuration should be either /configuration or /config. But then, you already have /etc... why bother?

Anyway I doubt he's aiming to be POSIX compliant so... he's free to do what he pleases. The journey is going to make him a much better programmer.
It might be a contributing factor, but I doubt it's the only thing going on. There was an interesting study recently showing a gender bias in academic science [1].

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109.abst...
I think you're right. Their word choice about security ("ridiculous" security) seems to be a wink-wink-nudge-nudge touch. In other words, it looks knowingly negligent, and I wonder if that could have legal consequences?
Seems very useful. I bet I'll be using that a lot.
Google integrates Drive with Gmail, enabling 10GB file transfers
Good point, I'm not very familiar with Scala. I think Clojure may also have this limitation.
May I recommend uWSGI for hosting?

http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Ruby.html#runnin...
Wait, why is it tech-savvy to be worried about your privacy?
People interested in how tail call elimination is performed by the compilers of other languages may be interested in a post I wrote on the F# team blog some time ago: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fsharpteam/archive/2011/07/08/tail-c....
Ezeep secures funding from Mangrove to let you share your printer with the world
Like a boss.

Just kidding, this list is ridiculous and he should have never married if this is what he was expecting.
While this is nice and fluffy, the core of it is:

> I do have something fantastic that I know they'll love, and I know how to grow it quickly. However, I don't have the necessary technical skills to build it myself. Sure, I could always outsource the development - and that's certainly an option that's still on the table, but I have a feeling this could be really big, and I don't want to miss the opportunity of having the very best people committed and working with me on this.

> I already have a detailed outline of the business, and have purchased an extremely valuable and relevant ".com" domain for this particular venture. The marketing plan is set, my vision is crystal clear, and I'm bursting at the seams to make it happen. All I need now are a couple of A-players to join me.

Which might as well be part of a craigslist ad from an "idea guy."

I like a bit more disclosure from my idea guys.
"There are plenty of large cities in the world that are safe or safer without also being police states."

Can you name one?
How to make CS courses better
Pessimist!

Declaring it negotiable means to me that they may be willing to pay more to a better candidate, me!

I guess it depends on the stage. In a job ad $Negotiable means I won't bother applying because I don't know what ballpark we're looking at. A negotiable amount in an ad (for example $100k, negotiable) could mean they'll try to low-ball you later, or it could mean you can argue them higher. At that point it depends who you're dealing with.

But if you've been through the interview process and there's an offer made, but someone drops the n-word that's when you know somebody has a little more money to play with and it's your job to try and tease it out of them.
My feelings is that everything is a negotiation... but there's always a price.
Looks nice. I'm not sure if I like the semantics of the .data selector. Especially since I come from jQuery I would think of it more to do with data attributes.
I recall (can't find them now) there are studies which basically explain away the entire wage-gap between men and women as two factors:

1) women negotiate less
2) women take more time off for children, thus advance more slowly

Basically showing that there is no inherent gender discrimination on wages in the US, in the aggregate -- that it's entirely due to choices made by women, not any kind of discrimination whatsoever.

On the other hand, there are also blind studies testing resumes in certain areas, which show that employers perceive resumes with male names to be stronger than identical resumes with female names. And on the other other hand, I feel like every engineering place I've worked would always hire an equally-qualified woman over a man, since there are so few of them to begin with.

So, who knows...
This is obviously not true. Language matters. Are you as productive in BrainFuck as in C++? I don't think so. C/C++ isn't the end of all progress in language design. Modern languages eliminate or vastly reduce whole classes of concerns like memory management, wild pointers, null pointers, incomprehensible template errors, etc. Some of these problems can be patched up for perhaps 30% by a post hoc static analysis, but the effectiveness of that is much less than a language that has been designed to make these errors impossible by construction. Modern languages also make lots of stuff easier through a good standard library, language features like closures & type inference, a REPL, a good IDE (the feasibility of which is also a function of language design), etc.

Sure, they don't solve the problem of magically and instantly conjuring up the program you want; nobody is claiming that. All these little things add up nevertheless.
Google+ has a fantastic "Block" function, you should use it.
How will you generate revenue?
I didn't mean that most kids know the basics of programming. I meant they know general computer skills. I never thought of the music class example. However from what I remember most people I knew hated music. They were being forced to do something they didn't like and had no use for. I think it's the same with programming and important not to make the same mistake.
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I'm trying to imagine the scenario where my app publishing history precludes me from a job, and I'm struggling.
Small Business and the Mobile Payment System
I'm confused as to what qualifies a child in your eyes to begin learning programming. Do they have to want to start learning themselves, with no external stimuli? How do you propose that that characteristic correlates with future programming effectiveness?
Not only that it triggers your brain to start getting sleepy.
>Programming on the other hand is a niche skill which you absolutely do not need to know or master in this world. Maths, Physics, Chemistry and languages are skills that are much more important in terms of a general skill-set to master daily life than programming is.

That's does not compute to me. Why is chemistry an inherently more important than programming?
yeah, free speech sucks when you don't agree with it. :((
> "You gave AcmeFamilyPlanner 4/5 stars, Mrs Candidate -
> say, do you want to have a career or a family?"

I am almost certain that questions like this are illegal in any nation a HN reader would want to work in.
So many times I've found a buggy app and reported it to the developer before I left a review of the app. If the response is positive, I'm willing to help out with any more information necessary to get the bug fixed and rate the app based on the post-fix performance. If the response is negative and dismissive, I will rate the app based on the buggy state.

Recently I had a couple conversations with the developer of a Windows Phone app, Jack of Tools. There was a bug when I was using it on Windows Phone 8, and I reported it using the feedback. We emailed back and forth, he sent me a beta copy to test if it was fixed, and the next day that fix was pushed into the store and I gave it the 5-star rating the app deserved.
Yup, 'ask Fred' gets easier when you are dealing with one off events.
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What I Learned About Writing ReSharper Plug-ins
Or it could be the power output of their own version of the Z-machine, which everyone should be copying if they're serious about fusion research. Let's hope we don't see such bullshit as pre-emptive strikes again. Their clerics and officials already said that nuclear weapons were against their beliefs. The Pentagon and CIA should learn to keep their shit to themselves.
It's an expression, not an understatement.
They're doing it right, this is just piss-poor journalism. See Alex3917's reply.
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Why in the world would you want your review of a random mobile app publicly associated with you? I would rather just not bother posting a review.
http://tent.io ?
Mobile testing tool: auto-load URLs on multiple mobile devices
Looks great for a tool build out of laziness :-)

But OS X Archive Utility hangs on my machine during extracting ...
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It would be interesting to compare this with another author's experience [1] using Sphinx. He also notes that EPUB and MOBI outputs are more challenging than PDF ones.

[1]: http://pedrokroger.net/2012/10/using-sphinx-to-write-books/
Okay, thats one app. What about all the other innocuous apps you download?
Well, aside from the infidelity, sure.

I was saying that because someone agreed to a set of conditions, it doesn't make the conditions necessarily okay or reasonable.
Loader.io - free web app load testing service
Be sure to check out the video of simultaneously testing on 27 devices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NvzRfyhd5Q
"1) women negotiate less"

Simply because it's a choice made by women doesn't mean that they're not being constrained by discrimination or sexist norms.

Consider: what if the reason women choose not to negotiate is that the penalties for negotiation are higher for women? E.g., they'll be perceived as bitchy or ungrateful, while a man would lose nothing by negotiating or even gain character points for being assertive and proactive.

Not providing evidence that that's the case, here (though to some extent it certainly is). But even free choice is constrained by the system it's embedded in.
It is also worth noting that if said music-based economy was a one in which the music was digital, most likely there would be rampant inflation due to counterfeiting.
Original author here.

I wonder how many of the commenters so far read the Experience = post that I linked to in this post? [1]

Maybe you are smarter than the average bear, but I regularly engage with big brands and publishers, who just want to "build an app". They do not see the bigger picture that, to be the most effective, they need to build something beyond an "app". The point of this post (and my other posts regarding Experience) is to help them gain a broader perspective.

I've found it works well.

[1] http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/04/02/experience-stuff-time/
This is the right approach; there are all kinds of reasons a server API might fail and being offline is only one of them.
To some a government funding of the press and a 'free' press could be seen as mutually exclusive. Personally I relish the BBC, and hope it continues to report the news, but in general 'government owned' journalism raises it's own questions.
I agree with all of these problems. I believe that the solution is to root out these inefficiencies and corruptions, not to replace them with a new set of inefficiencies and corruption and a wholly pseudoscientific core.
Use Redis man; I heard is really good.
I think what you're missing is that antirez has gotten his C codebase perfect enough that hardware failures are the cause of most of his crash reports.

See also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/04/12/40756...
With a name like "Science-Based Medicine" it just has to be true </sarcasm>
The Enterprise Is Cool Again, and Box CEO Aaron Levie Is Loving It
Warning: people on PTSD are most likely on anti-depressants such as SSRI's and MAOI's which have interactions with MDMA, potentially causing serotonin syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin_syndrome

It can take weeks to a month of widthdrawl from SSRI to prevent interactions.
1) Yes, lots of people don't run memtest86 at all.

2) Even those that do run it typically run it for no more than 24 hours

3) Many people don't build their own hardware these days, its a VPS or EC2

4) If you've selected ECC RAM then you know way more about memory failures than >99% of Redis users
One comment, in the browse section put an indicator of how many projects are in each category.

For instance:

Python/Perl (0)

Cool site. Good luck!
Here is the diagram:
http://cdn.theguardian.tv/brightcove/poster/2012/9/28/120928...
Wordpress is free and open source - and help users that don't want to host their own blog with a simple way to host a blog on wordpress.com.

If a user can spin-up a hosted buddycloud instance on their domain, that's got to be useful for them.
Good article, but I had to use reader on Safari on the iPad. Wired should know better than to disable zoom.
A wiki which ranks pages the same way HN ranks links.
What stops google from simply refusing to crawl sites that want money for appearing in search results?
I don't hesitate to give apps 1 star if they're not useful to me for whatever mundane reason. My primary use of the review system is to use it for my own later reference, and to get better personal recommendations on apps that I like.
the App Store has that (in the form "was this review useful?") and reviews are still worthless for the most part.
Because it gives weight to your opinion.
So this color-glass condensate is a very-high-energy type of matter. It goes on the list with:

Solid
Liquid
Gas
Plasma
Glass
Crystal
Superfluid
Supersolid
Superglass
Dark
Likely a rhetorical question on your part there, but it is an interesting conundrum. Because the drug works directly on the brain and folks emotions, and because those effects are directly bound up with the therapeutic area under study, I can't help thinking a placebo would be really hard to do well here. Any other phenethylamine that subjectively mimics MDMA is going to be messing with the same systems.

I guess (as may have been suggested elsewhere) you could use a non-seratonergic stimulant of some sort to give people the feeling that they are on something, and rely on them not being able to tell what it is. You'd need to screen for anyone that had any recreational experience though.
Facebook's click fraud problem doesn't seem to be going away:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312731

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4648982

It seems like a short term play to not fix this. It's been made somewhat better after the move to default CPM a couple of months ago. With CPC you can low-ball the bids and get lots of cheap impressions (despite the click-fraud). But after a month or so, they completely shut down my ad where I did this. I got lots of clicks on the ad, but no conversions. :( Looks like the OP experience the same.
You lied to me. :(

Quantum teleportation is faster than light
The reason I asked was your comment about taking advantage of source control and the implied separation of content from formatting.

The only real advantage that I can see to going with publican[1] or asciidoc[2] is that they're free tools. The main disadvantage is that you'd have to define formatting via XSL.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocBook

[2] http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
The point is that the employer wouldn't even have to ask the question. The data is now public.
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That was basically my point. It would be strange if they _stopped_ processing it.
I think he's basing that on recent history. There's been a fair amount of privacy issues that have gotten a lot of press and attention in the "tech" corners of the internet, but been either ignored or immediately forgotten by the population at large.

My guess at the reason behind this would be that, in general, "threats" to online privacy are not exactly overt; one needs a certain degree of knowledge about what is going on under the hood to even understand that one's privacy is being violated (understanding the implementation of cookies, flash cookies, referrer links, social plugins, etc etc etc is hardly trivial for someone not interested in the details of tech for other reasons).
Hypothetically, what if you only bartered and never used 'money'? Would you be required to sell a goat or cow in order to get the cash to pay taxes? Would someone from the IRS just show up and take a goat to sell if you didn't pay?
Why not just give the app developer the Google+ names of everyone who installs the app?

Why is that different?
Sure, taking that out of context makes it look like a typical craigslist ad, I agree. But I think I gave enough reasons why this isn't just a typical idea coming from a random business guy. Besides, I will of course reveal what the idea is once I meet prospective cofounders in person.
> You cannot reduce risk, you can only replace it with another".

I don't understand why you would say this. Is it not the case that using a language with automatic memory management (say, Python) is less risky than using one with manual memory manamgement (say, C or C++)?

There are tradeoffs (e.g. performance, having less control over various things), but they are not tradeoffs between one risk and another risk, they are tradeoffs between risk and something else.
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You wouldn't ask that question, but use that information to disqualify the candidate before the interview.

Just because you can't legally discriminate based on certain things doesn't mean people don't find ways to do so anyway.