skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that they qualify it as "official." Presumably there are longer flights the military doesn't talk about.
It's new. They rolled out a few changes recently.
Wow, fantastic news, thank you!
I should clarify that I was being sarcastic. I, in fact, am a Turing complete chauvinist and don't consider HTML and CSS to be "programming languages". ;-)
Girlfriends and wives are always the hidden factor that will hold you back if you don't consider this carefully.

So I say, go straight to the root of the problem. See if you can make a plan that allows them to destroy neither their personal lives nor the company.
HTML/CSS??
How to price your web application
They said no because Apple didn't bribe the right folks. All they had to do is give away a couple of iPods and then the city would have agreed to their deal.
I wish I'd thought to screencap this, but I had a similar error in Vista when I first tried to install my Nostromo, and again later when I thought I'd see what would happen when I plugged in my ergodex.

It was frustrating enough that it caused me to nuke my vista partition and go back to boot-camping XP.
I'd love to go, you guys are just a few streets away from where I live!

But can you accept mutt as a mail client? :P
Feature Or Bug - a tumblelog of technology oddities.
Maybe I should add a way to undo votes. I bet a few people would like to.

Or maybe I should just not accept submissions ending in .jpg or .png. Images are the Nile Perch of social news.
I am not even sure what the FIA is. Did a quick search, but didn't find anything.
Funny, it's that same frustration that keeps people going back to Gentoo.

edit: I actually like Linux. I'm using it now.
It wouldnt be surprising if this was the case, given the future importance of UAVs in the military for recon and strike operations. Its probably a safe bet there is a lot of secret stuff going on behind the scenes..
> Really, if Ville-Marie were in charge of designing computers, the world would still be using quill pens.

Sounds about right.
FIA is the Formula 1 governing body. No relation to aircraft at all.

No idea what the FAI is either though..
There is a feature on everlasting flight here:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16722484.500-everlasti...

It makes a bit more sense to have forever-hovering lighter-than-air craft [LTA]. You can learn more about it here:
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/cat/aircraft/blimps-lta-...

The efficiency challenge of the Zephyr is the really interesting part.

People have no idea how big of an impact these systems will have. In-orbit satellites just can't compete with the cost and ease of LTA deployment. The applications include constant surveillance, much better GPS,and better wireless communication infrastructure.
No, they don't
My impression is that techcrunch et al. have increased the awareness of YC lately...unclear if YC pr is responsible for the increased coverage or if it is viral/result of YC companies doing well...

How is YC not a fund? No LPs?
Me too, it sounds intriguing. But if it happens to be an extension of first order predicate logic which includes states, then I think it could be another barrier to progress. Note what a mess the CYC group have made of trying to model human concepts http://www.cyc.com/ with heavy reliance on first order predicate logic.

The best logic I've seen to date for helping model human conception is Fred Sommers's Term Functor Logic: http://www.formalontology.it/sommersf.htm

A great book on the Logic: http://www.amazon.com/Invitation-Formal-Reasoning-Frederic-S...
EU says Web search for bomb recipes should be blocked
You're discounting the way business is done in the military. An industry leader would do well to announce a relatively irrelevant feature like longest duration if it impressed decision makers in the government enough to give the business more money.

The really important tech beyond lighter than air ships that I mentioned in another comment is in-air refueling of UAVs. With that, any autonomous ship can be in the air until maintenance is needed. That is more important than the longest run of an efficiency craft.

I am still impressed that the bombing runs on Afghanistan 6 years ago took off from America.
Reminds me of that $5 laser microphone that could record conversations from miles away.
It is definitely something to consider, and while I don't think translating Python to Common Lisp would be all that difficult, I do think that getting the C libraries that Python wraps working with CL might be a significant effort. A lot of the good libraries like csv, re, etc, are implemented in C if I remember correctly.
This is obviously a joke, people shouldn't take it so seriously. It's great because it makes a good point. I have a security background so I generally like it when OS's try to become more secure but annoying the user with constant warnings doesn't accomplish much in terms of security.
Miguel de lcaza (of Gnome & Novell fame) calls OOXML a "Superb Standard"
As a Canadian citizen (now living in Silicon Valley), I would not be surprised that this action was motivated by the threat of a strike from the Ville-Marie meter-maid union :)
Entertainment should come out of your own pockets. We just paid for food and housing out of our YC funds, in addition to miscellaneous expenses for incorporation and etc.
I would have voted for this one twice - very exciting research. I'm especially fond of the 3rd dimension, especially if it gives us 100x the storage at massively faster speeds.
A grad student in almost any technical field should know enough to shut down a city. Gating information isn't going to stop that.
Some time ago I wrote a program that does this thing in 3D.
Screenshots and source is here: http://adomas.org/shg/
"Misquoting Mr Burns...that's a paddling."
I can't wait for a good multi-touch lcd as a standard input into any computer.
Uhh, if you really want a challenge...

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
Depending on your age and current lifestyle, saving up beforehand makes a world of difference. I currently own a house and have a very comfortable job (which I would have to leave). Fortunately, I have saved up for the obligatory 6 month emergency fund, which I may dip into if my team is accepted into the program.

If you have decent savings, then great. Planning is always key, but taking risks are where people make themselves in life...
People are incredibly fickle. Wasn't myspace around this 'hype' status last year? What website will be next year? Probably not facebook.
> Unless you somehow lose intelligence and execution ability when you get married and have kids, the structure doesn't make sense to me. It seems to be geared towards single, foot-loose folks. As somebody who's put long hours in on multiple technology projects, I don't feel that having a higher overhead translates to being a worse risk.

Higher overhead may not make someone a worse risk, but it does make them more expensive. That has consequences.

Is your participation worth twice as much as that of someone with half the overhead? If not, why should YC pay for your overhead?

As someone once said, "The universe is not here to please you."
As a married person who applied to ycombinator (and didn't get selected):

You are totally focusing on the wrong things - think about the application, your product, and your team (not in that order actually). Worry about the other stuff once you get in.

- Visiting/bringing wives is nice, but keep in mind that apart from the expense, your cofounders won't really be seeing them all that much.

-Make sure all or a majority of your founders can move. If they can't you've just given YC an easy way to move on to the next application..
If you think risking the delta between what YC offers vs. living expenses for a few months is worth not applying, you might (as a potential founder) want to reconsider your appetite for risk.
How High Can You Count: New Facebook Fundraising? (Kara Swisher)
So they're using RF to cause the salt water to release hydrogen, but when you burn hydrogen you get water. Unless there's some other reaction going on in there, all they're doing is converting electromagnetic energy to chemical energy to thermal energy. I don't see how this can even be used for energy storage, let alone energy generation.
Gotta love the meter maids.

And the unions.

Combine them and that's quite the powerful force. chuckle

So silly but sad at the same time...
I just mean implementation difficulty to do a clean, efficient, extensible new implementation.
Desktop vs Web for email
After reading the latest xobni thread, I am curious how people choose to read their email. I use gmail because I can access it anywhere, and that feature pretty much trumps all others, privacy concerns included.
600 a month rent is what I'm paying, splitting a large rental house with 3 other people in Santa Clara, so definitely doable.

I agree that the food is really high. If you are really trying, the one time cost of a rice cooker and a 10 lb bag of Basmati rice from Costco will go a long way, as will bag lunches instead of going out. If you try, food can really cost very little.
I see his point.
Craft Manifesto
This is a great article. Thanks.
how academic to claim that programmers only implement ideas of others.. is the insight in the new theory, or the revolutionary application of the abstract theory?
I completely agree -- I use the web for ease on the go. I have way too many computers that I regularly use to bother setting up a desktop client.

Lots of companies don't like email on other servers, calling it a security risk.

That's probably true, but given the lacking security in other areas in almost every company I've heard with this policy, the security excuse is useless.
Porn Industry to Take on BitTorrent Sites
Here are a few more essays by Rota:

http://www.rota.org/hotair/hotair.html
Alternative view: http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/w/c/wchuang/News/...
A peek inside Apple's new nano and classic iPods
Mainly your food seems extremely high. If you don't mind the tasty Lipton noodles ($1), Shells and Cheese ($1.50), Frozen Pizza ($2), Hot pockets ($3 for 2), Spaghetti (~$2), Canned soup ($1-2), Cereal ($0.25)... you can eat a lot of cheap meals. I don't see why it should be hard for someone to eat nicely at $300/mo.

For instance, last night I ate a chicken breast ($1), mashed potatoes (instant kind - $2), and green beans (can - $1.50), with a can of Coke ($0.25)... a decent meal for $4.75.
10 Search Engines You Don't Know About
That's a way to read it, but I don't think that's what he necessarily says. He says: "Those who do not become computer scientists to the second degree risk turning into programmers who will only implement the ideas of others." You can also read it as: "There are two kind of programmers; if you are a computer scientist to the second degree you risk turning into a second-type programmer."
Atlas Gloves - DIY Hand Gesture Gloves and Software for Google Earth
I love it! Be sure to check out the demo video here: http://atlasgloves.org/demo
I'm not sure there's an appropriate response to this other than "WTF?". Here are some things listed as programming languages within this article:

HTML/CSS (markup and presentation languages)

.Net (I suppose you could write .NET bytecode by hand)

Oracle (a database that uses PL/SQL, which is listed separately)

Windows NT4 (everyone's favorite operating system)

ASP (a web programming platform that supports several languages, most of which are listed separately)

Ajax (a programming technique, using Javascript)
Would've been nice if the article had tried to delve into why, instead of a four paragraphs repeating the same thing.

I'm just one of those guys that wishes for a port of Direct3D to linux in my dreams...
Great to know. Now what bothers you second-most? The Apple PR team would like to know so they can work it into their next press hit.

Seriously, though. This article presents one side, except for an out-of-context quote from an unnamed "bureaucrat" (emotionally laden term). Maybe the town is wrong and Apple is right, but I would want to get the full story before saying for sure.
Facebook to take over Stanford classroom
> Unless you somehow lose intelligence and execution ability when you get married and have kids, the structure doesn't make sense to me.

You lose a lot of time, time that would otherwise be spent working on your startup. Time that is important when you are trying to cram as much as possible into a 10 week timeframe.
The meter revenue is only part of the story.

The parking fine revenue is probably significantly greater than the fee revenue. I don't know if that is also true of the fine profit.
Any embedded (or systems) programmer would probably chuckle to see 'C' so far down these types of lists. If you placed the same quiz on a site like embedded.com, the results would be different. +1 for the pointless vote.
AI and singularity talks
$35/day for food is insane. You can eat really really well for less than half of that (if you are willing to cook).
You do not have to be on a noddle diet to be successful.
A lot of people are talking about leaving on ramon noodles until they become successful. I personally do not eat a lot, I have a startup and I am working on it (you gonna love it), but I will be damned if I have to eat freaking noodles and some lean cuisine. I rather have one kick ass meal then having 5 bowls of noodles. If you do not eat right I promess you that it will, just like sleep, affect your work. Get a steak and nice drink and a good quality french roast.
$100 for entertainment is way too much ... YC's no fun ...
I can't stand desktop mail. It's not portable (sure, lugging a notebook is or having a space limited IMAP helps) and there's always the backup problem. I hate worrying about losing messages so I tend to offload that risk to competent folks over at Google.

As for security, email is not secure. It never was and probably never will be. PGP etc. is too hard for most of the people so even if you use it, majority of your corresponders won't.

Desktop email is an anachronism. With the proliferation of rich mobile devices (e.g. iPhone) it will become obsolete.
I use outlook 2003, and I think it sucks (about as politely as I can put it), but I have to use it at work.

I live in the Bay Area, but SF is a little to far for a usability study - if you set one up closer to San Jose, I'd be interested in helping out.
you mean those that pretended through their comments and tried to look good?

because 90% the time I read a comment during March it was like it was sent through s-mail and was stucked between a stamp and an envelope
Gmail is the best interface for email, on or off the web.
What matters most is the ambiance in which the course is taught; a gifted student will thrive in the company of other gifted students.

This sentiment comes up time and time again. The first occurance of it being explicitly stated (to my knowledge) was Thoreau, who said that the advantage of Harvard was simply that: The association of the generation's best. But I believe he stated this in a chapter entitled "Economy", and it ended with, "...and the association of other students costs nothing." No one else points out that important point, and it amounts to this: Charging smart people just for gathering them together is a ripoff.

The same is true with housing. Hey, I'd love to buy one of those foreclosures in detroit for 8 thousand dollars, but the problem is, no other smart people are that smart [1], and so you have to live with crackheads.

[1] Unless they do later, and I become a successful land speculator. That's not the goal, however.
Interesting observations -- esp the one about Google being an active participant and influencing the direction in which the Web is headed by interacting with other players like the SEOs. This is very similar to George Soros' notion of reflexivity. A brief intro may be found in the 1st few pages of this book:

http://tinyurl.com/3828qf
This sounds really cool. I cant help but be reminded of the promises of the LEO satellite networks in the 90's though. Anyone heard of Teledesic? It was conceived by Bill Gates and a few others to bypass the traditional land based systems and deliver very high speed internet (even by todays standards) to users all over the world. But last I heard the project was canceled, citing that there was just not enough need to go beyond what people currently use.
Ouch.

No it's not. But neither am I here to please the universe.

I'm just saying that it's not a lot of money. Perhaps it is to you. I can make that money as pocket change in a very short amount of time in my normal consulting business. If YC wants to pay 10 bucks for their team members, more power to them. Not my call. They've got their math to do and I've got mine. Even families have profit/loss statements and break-even points. Their rates have consequences. After all the universe is not here to please them either, right?
I just discovered TinyURL
I'm sure many of you know about this already, but it's worth using if you pass links around. http://tinyurl.com/
What did you go by, insightful comments? Number of submissions?
On behalf of the rest of Canada, sorry! We're not all this stupid about programming languages!
Learn to love Mr. Noddle.
There is a world of difference between a rocket launch and a blimp launch.
Come on, guys. These replies are just pot shots. Take the snarkiness somewhere else.

I've worked 3-6 month projects where every minute was slinging code. And I regularly put my house and family on the line for my business.

I already have a business. I show companies how to run technology teams. I'm just looking to move into startup country because I like that environment more than the suit and tie world. I've led 5-person startup teams, and I've led 40-person rearchitecture groups. I like the startup teams a lot better.
Teens create a new site to experiment high school video project
Myspace for teens promo video from the fastest growing teen social network
The great iTunes revolt
I used to use desktop email. Pain in the neck - what about when you're using a different PC, what about when you're upgrading to a new O/S, what if you're at an internet cafe and just need to find that email...

GMail is excellent. Well thought out interface, and it just works.
Does Facebook Really 'Cost Businesses Dear'?
Lightweight applications and upgrades
A decent article on pricing, but I wish the article was contextualized in a larger discussion of revenue models that included applications that provide free services - its too much a part of thew new wave of web apps to ignore.
I use both. You don't have to choose just one. Having your own email server gives you lots of options.
N.B. The talks are from last year's Singularity Summit, not the one that just ended.
Everybody assumes automatically Apple is in the right? I wonder, if they allowed Apple to modify the public space in exchange for money, wouldn't they have to allow every other business to do something similar, too? Maybe they were more worried about that scenario.
Sun to Launch Product at TechCrunch40?
Consider this a vote for "no image submissions allowed".
He does the same thing with C# and .NET. Where C# is a programming language that runs on the .NET framework.
The choice of desktop vs web for email boils down to whether you are an individual user or an Enterprise. I suspect that Xobni is targeting the enterprise. Otherwise, I dont see the point of an outlook plugin. Software as a service has been and will continue to be a hardsell for enterprises due to the security considerations of having a third party handle your proprietary information. Its not just about paranoid IT admins. Companies will probably need dedicated mail servers to be in line with Sarbanes Oxley and other regulatory laws.
Dealing with Friends, Family and Foes
Another trend in memory technology that I have not seen the mainstream media talk about is the "memory-bandwidth gap." Memory technology has kept pace with Moore's law (in the case of SRAM) or has failed to do so (in the case of DRAM) whereas fiberoptic technology has outpaced Moore's law. The result has been routers (which need lots of memory to buffer packets) that are slower than the pipes that feed into them. So far, these observations have been restricted to the networking research crowd. It would be interesting to see a blog/mainstream media article that talks about the commercial impact of this trend in the face of the Youtube fueled streaming media explosion.
lame submission != spam.
So it is always a violation of Sarbanes Oxley for a public corporation to use Google Apps/Gmail?
I don't think the "no images" solution makes sense. Images are just one of countless kinds of lame submissions; why single them out? I thought the whole idea of voting and oracles was to be able to avoid that sort of hand-to-hand combat. Why use a heuristic spam filter when you have a Bayesian one that works better?
I really don't care for Gmail. I run my own IMAP server and use Mail.app on my Mac, and RoundCube webmail when I'm on another computer.
Well, if programmers don't know the amazing new abstract theory they can't apply it. And admit it, most programmer ideas are about business and code.
Three possible solutions to this quandry:

a) Annoy your co-founder like a nagging girlfriend and he will break up with you instead of you breaking up with him. Everytime he uploads a new file or makes a change, complain about it. Ask him to work longer hours or pay you through equity to work longer hours. Find new ways to nag him to no end. Pretty soon he will find you terrible and give up, giving you the project and you will never have to worry again.

If solution "A" doesn't solve the problem move to solution B.

b) Cut and run, now. When you become a multi-millionaire he may go after you. Even if he does, well you are a multi-millionaire and have the money to fight (aka FaceBook).

If solution "B" doesn't solve the problem move to solution C.

c) Program naked, demand that your co-founder be there so you can collaborate closer to come up with the best product. Tell him you won't program unless if he is there.

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I believe you have a self-confidence problem, it is very important to be confident in yourself. If your partner is not pulling his weight and you are not far enough into the project to determine if it is worth a red hot cent then it is a great time to split.

Then give him everything you have done and set it up for him on another server. You program on your copy, he programs on his copy, if he ever bothers. I am sure he won't so that means that you will never owe him anything.
Check pgpool-ii: http://pgpool.projects.postgresql.org/pgpool-II/en/
I use mutt, over ssh if I'm working remotely.
I did not say that. But they will need a 3rd party auditor to certify that Gmail is "secure" -- whatever that means. SOX has caused more pain than transparency..
Thanks for the answer, I didn't know how third party data storage worked under SOX.
Target this man if you want your hand in Facebook
another great website which covers all the latest AI news http://www.ainews.org
http://tinyurl.com/3ex4y8 ? =(
In the spirit of TinyURL; http://www.hugeurl.com/.

It makes any url huge because Bigger is Better!
Want close friends? Best log off the Internet
"Quoting Mr Burns correctly? Oh, you better believe that's a paddling."
I get frustrated from time to time with the thread-centric organization (especially with long branching threads). Nonetheless, it's my primary mail client.
If only I could get users to get out their CC's in the first place.
I slipped pretty rapidly from gnus, in emacs, to thunderbird, to gmail - it's just too convenient to have it on the server with a good interface. Sometimes, I do miss the fact that the others are open source, and hackable, though.