skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've long felt that my intelligence is only average, and I've always tried to compensate by working hard. It had been 20 years since my last calculus class when I returned to college, and I was quite worried I'd not be able to keep up. I worked my way through most of a small calculus book before starting the class, to refresh what I'd forgotten. During the class, I spent something like 5-6 hours per day during the week working on Calculus, and around 10 hours per day on the weekends. I worked and reworked every problem until I fully understood what was going on, comparing my answers to the answer key for the odd problems, and computer algebra systems for the even ones when possible. I worked so hard it would have been embarrassing to admit it to my classmates. Only a retard would have to work so much, I thought, but I was determined to be the best I could. I ended up at the top of the class.

The point is, if you're really determined, working hard can go a long way. The key is to try not to worry about the other people that make it look easy. Later I heard this quote:

"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all." - Michaelangelo
I admire (and even envy) your ability to be transparent, although it has left me questioning the purpose of social taboos and whether or not the custom of attempting to keep knowledge of things like extramarital affairs private is beneficial or not.

As 'jaquesm points out above, publicising it could be seen as a form of "public shaming". Attempting to hide it, however, leads to people in your community speaking in hushed tones behind your back, which is annoying and possibly a greater net negative in the long term. I realise that this may be more than you care to divulge, and I don't want to focus too much on your personal situation, but is there any particular reasoning or philosophy behind your unusual (I think it's fair to call it that) approach?
Potential ways to get past the 66 bottleneck:
1) Try it in the winter. I theorize (without as much data, obviously) that "summer projects" are more likely to be drama filled than something Jan-Mar.
2) Consider 2.5 or 3 classes. You'd still end up with 150+ companies per year. I know it would sort of screw with the current schedule, but there could be some overlap, although at the cost of partner happiness. Maybe have the .5 session be split over a longer period of time, with interviews happening slightly offset from S and demo day slightly offset from W. The longer period would be useful for certain kinds of startups.
3) Invest in a human cloning startup. Once there are 80 clones of each partner, scaling becomes easier. This may take tens or hundreds of years to be effective.
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If anyone is curious as to the research on this topic, check out Carol Dweck's book "Mindset." It has a ton of examples from academia, sports and business on fixed vs. growth mentalities and how that plays into a person's success in life.
Tonido server embeds a light weight web server and we support Http Live Streaming (HLS). The issue is with the browsers. All browsers dont support HLS yet. We can use something like flowplayer or JWPlayer. That is one option.
Why Tesla is like Amazon and Elon Musk like Jeff Bezos
No, I'm watching the 61A videos on Youtube.

I'll need to check out the Javascript based implementation sometime. But it is really annoying that the course is using something that hasn't been updated in ages.
Well, the other issues with WebObjects is that at this point it is no longer Objective-C, but Java...
> Except that now with the new design it means it's cheaper to just buy the RAM from Apple

That's an artificial price increase. It's not that the RAM has gotten cheaper, but that the ease of doing it is no longer there with this iteration.

> Things change.

You say that as if it has meaning or bearing. Things always change. Change does not mean it's better.

> As time passes and Apple designs more and more sealed enclosures

Yes, they make trade-offs. They sacrifice things in one area for things in other areas.

> hopefully your skills and income are similarly increasing and you can stop caring about this stuff and just order it with the ram you want.

An increase in income does not mean I suddenly become stupid with money and am willing to pay more for what amounts to a style change. As for caring, it's precisely because I care that not being able to easily add in RAM is an issue.

> Life is short. Do you really want to look back on your deathbed and remember that you know what DIMM pin configurations and signaling speeds were?

And do you want to look back on your deathbed and know that you spent extra money on something simply to pay for style instead of making sure that your disabled son was taken care of?

Don't starting pretending to know someone else's reasons for wanting things, or that you can offer sound financial advice (you can't). Shit, it's like your applauding their decision to remove valued features of their product for something far fewer people cared about.
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Ha! Good call. Yes, you're right.

I have a natural tendency to prefer to be remote, anyway. But yeah my current situation, amplified by being in a very central social city like Singapore, really amplified it.

Thanks for bringing this up.
I think if the couple can come to terms between themselves, then forgiving one affair could be a good thing. But only one.
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The short version is that we learned YC in its then form was O(n^2). As the batch size grew, it was hard for every partner to know exactly what each startup was doing. Especially since things often change fast at startups.

To grow bigger we have to (a) make it easier for each partner to know what each startup is doing, or (b) make it unnecessary. The answer will probably be a bit of both.

The symptom was not startups having trouble raising money (that seems to be working about like it usually does) but us partners always feeling confused. We were not ahead of the aircraft in the way we'd been in the past.
I look forward to reading about yc start-ups, but increasingly find myself shaking my head, wondering how some of them will ever amount to sustainable businesses. I've always attributed this to the fact that yc must know a whole lot more than me.

I was at the first startup school (in Cambridge) and I remember thinking that about reddit whereas the one I thought most promising (click fraud detection) seems to have flopped.

Other than making a bet on the people, I wonder if YC also has no idea about which startups will succeed.
Anecdote: I discovered when quitting nicotine that first thing in the morning and after lunch were the times when my willpower was weakest. Your mileage may vary.
What does it mean that the interview process is "decentralized"? Seems pretty centralized to me: only YC partners or friends of partners do the interviews, and they even require traveling to Mountain View in general
Absolutely forgiven her. It's something we talk about. We help other couples dealing with the same type of hardship. Keeping it to ourselves doesn't prove forgiveness and it keeps us from helping others.
This would've been a great comment if it hadn't have your real name attached to it.
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Teams don't usually blow it away over petty issues. What they do is manage to ignore/avoid/be blind to serious issues for stretches, especially when things (on paper) seem to be going well.
How the embeddability of Lua impacted its design
Three parallel interview tracks.
Did YC bring in less interviewees this batch than summer 2012?
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Ah yes, I remember those days. SOE had Tanarus, Infantry, and Cosmic Rift out, which were all fun in their own way.
Plan 9 is significantly more recent than Unix: Back when Unix was first invented, graphics existed but there were more kinds of graphics devices, and it wasn't entirely clear that vector graphics, for example, wouldn't become the way forward and deserve the majority of developer attention.
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This is common practice in most countries but the US. In fact, you can read it the other way around: why do you think companies are now forced to not ask for pictures in the resumes in the US?
I saw the link to friends in the article. I think that page is a good idea. But I also read that in the 3 yrs in Woodstock - he "never met anyone". In the 3 yrs in Portland - "some dear and deep friends (made) worldwide, but none in Portland". I'm certain there were great folks in both places that could have been great friends that changed the authors life for the better. Unfortunately, these folks were local and probably provided little support for either cd baby or host baby.
But would the defective PG clones in the early years fund too many bad startups?
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Half of these static site generators, I could not find by typing their names in quotes with cms at the end in Google.
Publicly acknowledging his wife's affair could be seen as an act of forgiveness- he is showing that he isn't ashamed his wife had an affair. Protecting secrets implies the past affair is shameful even today, that his wife needs to feel constantly ashamed, and gives those who discover the secret the power to embarrass or emotionally attack him and his wife. Refusing to hide it is a public declaration that it really doesn't matter today.
As someone just said on reddt #4 reminds me of python -m SimpleHTTPServer. Very useful, even when you are not coding in Python!
Being open about the affair has many benefits.

It cripples the rumor mill, taking away the secretive intrigue. If it's out in the open, people have less to speculate about and less to talk about.

It makes it possible for us to help other couples going through it. Dealing with this can be an incredibly lonely experience. We want to help make it less lonely for couples.

Keeping it a secret doesn't help anyone and it's only built on the social need to keep up appearances. That's useless in a world where the only people's opinions that I care about are my family's.
I studied violin at Juilliard with the great Dorothy DeLay. She taught the greats such as Perlman and Midori, and she insisted that 'talent' was nothing more than a 'mood.' I will always treat her viewpoint on this as gold having taught so many youngsters over the decades. So, work hard, and think big of yourselves as your reward (although that can be so hard to do!)
Great deck! Out of curiosity, one of your slides seems to say that plain text emails perform better than HTML (i.e. fancy) emails:

Plain text: $17,500, Fancy: $4,300.

A bunch of replies in this thread have people saying HTML emails perform better than plain text ones:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4856529

Am I reading any of this data incorrectly? Is this a case where the answer really is, "it depends"? Or is there truly one format that is better than the other?
He has already updated the app: https://twitter.com/joenrv/status/275289692998623232

"#FalconPro v1.0.2 uploaded to @GooglePlay. Get ready for some extra butter thanks to @romainguy ! Should hit your devices in an hour or so"
Has stop and frisk helped Oakland? The city is ranked 4th most dangerous in the US.

Maybe tighter gun control makes cities safer? It's supposed to be rare for a SF resident to successfully obtain a concealed carry permit, and a local ordinance requiring weapons at home to be locked up was upheld just a few days ago. (http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/federal-judge-uphold...)

Not sure how many people know this, but in 1993 there was a mass shooting at 101 California street, resulting in tougher gun laws. (http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/10-YEARS-AFTER-101-Califo...)
You might be interested in the discussion from one of the previous submissions of this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555562

Here are some other items about the Fourier transform:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Afou...
A man with one watch knows what time it is.
A man with two watches is never quite sure.

Documentation and code can, and surely will, diverge from one another, leading to all kinds of nasty misunderstanding. As long as there aren't any reasonable† tools for keeping them in sync, it's best to avoid the problem altogether.

IMHO it's good practice to have separate `implementation' (mostly code and static data) and `businesse requirements' (mostly documentation). Minimize overlap, strive for singular responsibility: it should be clear whether a particular change should go into documentation (change in requirements) or into implementation (to match the requirements).

Tangentially related, if you have a habit of using `git blame' (or equivalent in your SCM), commit comments are good place to mention changes in business requirements, especially small ones.

† nope, UML is not an aid here.
Give yourselves more time by adding a month to each session. Reduce the number of sessions per year and increase the duration of each.
tl;dr: know the stdlib and the ecosystem well.
> And eating Thai food.

Get acquainted with Malaysian/Singaporean while you're there too.
I actually have android on my iphone 3G (as a "recovery partition"). But I was asking specifically about ubuntu; perhaps I should have been more clear.

And that android, BTW, is completely unusable - I just keep it there in case my 3G gets borked in a need-to-reinstall way (like it did two years ago).
Why? What if someone is going through it and wants to talk about it with someone else who's experienced it? I'd LOVE to help them. My wife would LOVE to help them. We can't do that very well if we keep it a secret or speak about it anonymously.
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These are all pretty standard. No surprises.
>I would certainly buy one if you can link to a comparable complete package for $100 or less because the Apple TV 3 still isn't jailbroken

Sorry, you're right. Again, lots of stuff in my head that is based on watching this space. This stuff is a bit of a grab-bag right now. The biggest thing is, there are just so. damn. many. of them. And they're all different enough to make porting a headache. And they're often dumped by their OEM with buggy firmware and a lack of source code to go with it.

So, what I meant was, I'm willing to spend $100 today on something that is well supported by and will support the Linux/Android community for development. I very honestly think that whoever does that first (Pengpod maybe?) will do very well at it.

The MK802 III looks promising, already a Linux port is progress by someone who has the chops. I have the AMLogic box from OvalElephant and it works decently enough. Honestly, the Raspberry Pi is the best bang for your buck currently. You don't get 1080p but the hardware acceleration support is decent.

(Also, the AMLogic M3 that is EVERYWHERE (seriously, you can get it for $30-$50 places if you look) and is likely to benefit from the Pivos software in the future).

I think it's still a few months away from "complete package" in the sense that people think "complete package" with the Apple TV. That having been said, I'm still waiting for someone to do it 100% right.
More like a language smell. The best you're doing here is naming your callbacks. Take a look at F#'s async for a beautiful way of dealing with this.
66 still seems a very high count to even remember all the names, leave alone keeping track of where they are.
The "appreciability" of code as art
If you know how strong the bias is, couldn't you just weight the post-lunch scores downward by the same amount?
I suppose email was a fad?

Fb has replaced all my personal communications
Quick question for you and the GP, if you would be so kind:

I'm currently working on a project which is set to become my master's thesis (I'm writing my final undergrad exams this month). I started it a few weeks ago; before that I never thought I would go to grad school and I had a severe distaste for academia.

Now I'm feeling academia suck me in. It's hard to describe, but I'm "good" at the aspects of academia that I hate--the bizarre politics of it, for one. I also really enjoy having the freedom to work on hard problems without any immediate paths to monetisation.

Do I get out now? Is it okay to do this for a while? I am obviously not asking strangers on a message board to make my life decisions for me, but I'm very curious to hear your thoughts.
Using a .Net/CLR, a Java/JVM and a C++ Window in another process
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(a) can be solved using technology to some extent. What you need is a tool to record what a startup is doing and why certain decisions were made.
Perhaps some population control measures need to be implemented.
So what about when you have someone like me who works hard and still fails? I vary my methods. change my environment to make it easier, pay for training, do what ever. I examine what I did wrong, I still get it wrong, no matter what.

Let me share with you an anecdote: In undergrad, I took an intro computer networking class. Everyone else could understand what was going on. There was no assigned reading material and lectures didn't follow from any text. I always was the lowest student in the class, no matter how hard I tried. Everyone else could understand it quickly. I worked hard on that class but it didn't matter. Not everyone who works hard will show positive results, I guess. I more or less flunked my way through school. Sometimes I'd work hard, sometimes not. It didn't seem to matter.

Or, if I'm facing someone who has worked hard and is also very intelligent? I don't have a chance.

The rhetoric of these articles and the rest of these posts here have a coded meaning behind them: there are no disadvantaged people or students -- only stupid or lazy ones. It's a corollary of Survivor Bias. If you work hard, everything will be peachy-keen OK and nothing will go wrong. If you work hard and fail, you deserve only scorn.

For me, it was, never mind if you work so hard that ignored everything else, worked so hard to not get beaten by your parents, worked so hard to get mastery of material -- I must be still too lazy or stupid since I failed.

I don't know what it is that I don't have that everyone else does. I'm likely to not ever know.

This is a topic that I'm very familiar with so that's why I wrote a lot about it and sound perhaps a little crazy.
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What Money Can't Buy:  The Moral Limit of Markets
It's funny given the economic argument, how we don't often hear about plans to start building in Pacific Heights, where many VCs and business leaders reside, given that it's a neighborhood with probably one of the lowest population densities in the city.
None of Germany's nuclear power plants is built after 2001.

Yes. I guess we'll be fine if we just kindly ask those terrorists to not crash their planes into an older plant.
What are some examples of things that WebObjects did right? Are there still published docs for it?
Whitespace as syntax? Really?
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Because I would feel odd knowing what you just disclosed if I were to ever cross paths with your wife. Your wife might be OK with it, but that's not an issue. How other people feel about it is.

To put it bluntly - nudism belongs to a nudist beach.
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It had been 20 years since my last calculus class when I returned to college

The greatest problem with our educational system is to neglect the fact that students begin to forget immediately after graduation. All these years in k-12 education gradually turns to dust until only reading, writing, and some basic agelbra are left, and some career related knowledge.

Trignometry? Biology? Chemistry? These are subjects that all adults once know in their high school years, now all forgotten.

Instead of documentaries assuming we know chemistry, or trignometery, or biology, they introduced "DNA" as if we never been in a biology class. They only skims the top of the scientific knowledge cake because they never assume everybody knows.

Imagine the complexity and increased believablity of fiction and non-fiction if they have to wrestle with an audience that know those things by heart, even if they only took a chemistry class that single semester?

Alas, we forgotten and our educational dollars disappeared in a puff of smoke.
I want to second your weight lifting suggestion. Also, when you're strong, people treat you better. It's probably related to the halo effect surrounding attractive people. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Also in Minneapolis us internet has been doing selective fiber rollout for a year or so. http://fiber.usinternet.com/
That does happen. But having been in my fair share of partner disputes, banal and stupid issues blow up teams just as often.

When you're on the outside looking at a team, it must seem as if the members share a purposeful determination. And they often do. But just as often, the startup effort simply becomes a new norm, inhabited by human personalities, inclined towards squabbling just like dorm roommates.

Membership in a startup team can amplify drama as much as suppress it. It fuels personal squabbles with a sense of import. The best way to resolve the overwhelming majority of conflicts is to walk away and let them cool down naturally. But in a startup, it's easy to tell yourself "we have to resolve this problem right now; the fate of the company is at stake!"

It's also probably the case that a lot of long-term simmering "important" issues actually started out as manageable problems that could have been dealt with, but for poor conflict handling early on; either the issue is broached and turns into a scalding fight, or fear of that fight keeps the team from addressing it early enough.

You would think this would mean founders with stable marriages would have an advantage. :)
I wouldn't call Dalvik a poor JVM, just a JVM optimized for a certain mobile application mix (not so GC intensive) that Scala doesn't really support yet.
According to https://developer.apple.com/resources/http-streaming/ it looks like HTTP Live Streaming would work on Mac Safari as well.

I'll take a look and see if the web server in Tonido works there.

Edit: Looks like there's no actual transcoding option on the web interface. When I attempt to play one of my MKV files, I just get an error.