skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> that value is in allowing people to make exchanges they wouldn't otherwise be able to make.

Well, you could say the exact same about every currency. If you are a chicken farmer, it is easier to buy a pound of pork for $5 than trying to trade your chickens for a slab of a pig (i.e. barter). All currencies provide value, since they are a lot easier than barter. The question is not that, it is whether or not they are based on something of inherent value.
Surely there are better ways to deal with this problem. Different languages have different solutions for this, but completely breaking the naming conventions doesn't seem like the way to go.
Just based on probabilities, getting two interviews is pretty good on its own -- that's passing a ~low thousands to ~150 filter. He didn't pass a ~150 to ~50 filter.
From the article:

> Every extra $1,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) contributes $78k to the annualized revenue number. This is basic math

"Basic math" tells me that $1k in monthly revenue is $12k in annual revenue [1].

I ran some numbers and figured out that he's actually talking about $1k of monthly revenue growth per month. I.e. if your plan costs $10/month and you get 100 new customers per month, then at the end of the year, you'll be making $78k / year more than you would have if you didn't have any new customers.

This is, indeed, basic math. (In particular the sum of an arithmetic series [2]; he comes up with 78 because it's the 12th triangular number [3] [4].)

[1] Plus a little bit if you're putting the money in an interest bearing account, but interest rates are very low right now.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_progression#Sum

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_number

[4] http://oeis.org/A000217
I feel like it is a relic of a Google Past: the search company that wanted to organize the world's information and make it findable.

Today's Google seems to be a product company that wants to imitate other major tech companies and beat them at their own game (Google Apps -> Microsoft, Android -> Apple, Google+ -> Facebook).
But that's what I see with generator like yeoman, bootstrap template and compass mixin, it's getting really fast to get a UI up and running. I mean making a quadratic color palette in sass is simple 3rd grade math, shading, grading and other color transformation are few mixin away. I can't have a function in photoshop that tell give me the best contrast on the font I use when I change the color of my button for example. And I am wondering how it has affected the workflow.
Reminds me of http://www.timer-tab.com/ although I don't think timer-tab support url instantiation.
These simulations are wonderful. I'll be showing some of them to my microbiology class later this semester when I discuss vaccines.

I wish there was a simulation for ring vaccination though. It would be a nice visual aid for explaining how smallpox was eradicated.
> I think the reason why there aren't more alternative languages, is that right now Apple is completely arbitrary about accepting a language/environment or not. The fact that one still has RubyMotion, eero, MonoTouch, and a host of others, despite their original stance of no is a nice circumstance.

Well, it's a little more than "those exist despite Apple's original stance." Apple explicitly changed its rules to eliminate that restriction in response to developers' feedback.

> Your mind is stuck on "less/more permissive." What I'm asking for is "more explicit" and as a consequence an element of commitment. As it stands now, it's arbitrary, and Apple can just say no in the future.

Ah, I think this might be where we are seeing things differently. Apple very clearly changed its rules to allow alternative languages, which means it's "supported right now," which I view as close to the maximal level of commitment one can get from Apple about anything. I don't feel like something more formal would indicate more of a commitment. Apple could change its rules to disallow alternative languages tomorrow; it could also do the same thing the day after it set down standards for alternative languages.

After how abruptly Apple cut off Carbon and Java developers, killed development on the Objective-C garbage collector almost as soon as it was released, deprecated the garbage collector shortly after the App Store was released (meaning that GC apps were then banned from the store) and axed Rosetta after just two OS updates, I've come to realize that Apple has absolutely no qualms about changing its mind no matter how explicitly it supported something yesterday.
My os has no networking and there is no 3rd party software.

DOS and C64

God says...

C:\Text\PLATO.TXT

y I am to praise any one who appears
to me to speak well you will very soon find out when you answer;
for I expect that you will answer well.

Listen, then, he said; I proclaim that justice is nothing else
than the interest of the stronger. And now why do you not me?
But of course you won't.

Let me first understand you, I replied. justice, as you say, is the
interest of the stronger. What, Thrasymachus, is the meaning of this?
You cannot mean to say that because Polydamas, the pancratiast,

----

Yeah! That's what they think! Kick da ass, God!
Refactor if doing so will give you an advantage.

Copy paste when you aren't sure if the requirements will change. Nothing is worse than building an abstraction only to find out it's useless given this new project requirement and that the two abstractions should really be separate.
284,000 EPS scaling to 5x10^8 with XPSPL.
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It messes up around Antarctica, but it works much better than mine, which doesn't even exist, so I should probably be quiet.
One common sense argument is that as industry developed and competition increased, the dominant players were able to perform regulatory capture to ensure that they could rule the market through easily-gamed IP laws.
Link to the accompanying blog post for people like me who can't test it right now:

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/2012/08/webcammesh-demo/
Thank you for that data point. Though it raises some points. What failed in such instances? Was the business or the founder? Is this data ever published, or are you just given an empty notice of decline? (Excuse my ignorance in that part, because I have not gone through the process).

edit

Thank you for the thorough explanation rdl.
You missed one (WoW; 2004).
Is it an extension to San José International Airport, or exclusive airport for google? How does that work out? I am confused by "The companies would be granted a 50-year lease and pay an estimated $2.6m in annual rent, along with an estimated $400,000 in fuel-flow fees and between $70,000 and $300,000 in new taxes."
Where have all the proofreaders gone?

The same place the investigative reporters have gone. We get what we deserve.
This is a very complicated and interesting topic. Many economists believe that inflation is necessary to keep people from hoarding. Spending, either in the form of acquisition or investment, is necessary to keep the economy juiced up.

In other words, your criticism would be considered a design feature by many economists. Some even considered adding a fee (demurrage) instead of facilitating inflation, encouraging you to use whatever money you had. This would be akin to a 1% asset tax instead of an income tax.
I mentioned this in a post the other day, but I get most of my local conference/meetup information from regional female dev mailing lists I'm a part of. These groups are really good about ensuring that the whole tech community knows about what is going on in our area, and they welcome male participants to post new events and job listings whenever they come up.
Even New York City has parking lots adjacent to public housing. I don't know why either.
Dell Deal in Doubt
"If I'm going to spend $100 on something that's available in 6 months I don't really care if it comes out of my bank account now or then."

I do. What if a better implementation of the same basic thing comes out for $80 in 3 months?
Would you even recommend it for someone not interested in making it through? I'm just curious as to the overall process.
I don't remember where I read it, but it's good advice:

Copy the first time, only start refactoring if you need the code a third time.
That's pretty big talk coming from someone whose site has ~250 !important declarations in their CSS on a single page, and had to use a jQuery plugin to handle cookies (lol). If working there is an "amazing job" then I'm on a pretty awesome level.
One thing that stands out here is the work-life balance for employees will not be there and Netflix does not think they should care about it. Given that they measure the effectiveness of the employee, one can always be more effective if he/she works longer hours every single day. Same goes with the no vacation tracking policy. That only means there are no vacation. You are getting paid so deal with it :)

Of course startups in the valley are in general not big on work-life balance anyway.
I think this extends to any video game or virtual world you spend a lot of time in. There have been periods in my life when I dreamed about healing party members, and when I catch myself instinctively checking nearby rooftops for snipers.

Either that, or I have officially lost it. (Or both; they are not mutually exclusive...)
I've never applied to YCombinator, but I've been through interviews for other top 10 accelerators, and the insight gained from the interview was invaluable. I would guess (hope) that you get a lot more insight when participating in these programs, among other benefits.
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I believe this means they are paying rent to the city for the land, which explains why San Jose is excited that it would bring in revenue.

I'm inferring the city is the recipient of rent, because the statement about rent is lumped in with fuel fees and taxes, which are already doubtless going to the city.
Start an australian kickstarter.

Find some US or UK partners, make it a project on US kickstarter to bootstrap, and away you go :)
I am not sure if this pertains to you or not but what about using someone’s social media presence as a tool to promote the articles. For instance lets say Mike posts some content on your site and Mike has an okay Facebook following of about 800 friends and about 200 followers on twitter. Then lets say Sam does the same thing but he has 4000 friends on Facebook with a few hundred subscribers and 3,000 followers on Twitter. I am not sure if this would work with your business model but if Sam gets picked for his submission I think the publishers would like to not only know his social media presence but also see him send a tweet saying “I just wrote and article for XYZ Mag check it out here somedomain.com ” and then doing the same on Facebook. I also think that makes him far more valuable as a content creator. This is just a random thought do what you will with it.

As far as actually answering your question… I agree with everyone below me. It was hard to understand what I was looking at immediately which means I would probably not stick around to find out.
Many thanks for the piece, Chris. I enjoyed it.
Hey, it's good when people disagree with me - keeps me from believing my own bullshit. Cheers.
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I think that's exactly what the author tries to say. I've also joked expressing it as "you don't refactor your twins."

I'm curious (and I think it can be a useful sub-topic) what you think made Java worse for DRYing. The rigid type system? Added verbosity?
I tried it sat with a lamp behind me. The result was slightly trippy: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3723930/Me.png
Whoops! Indeed I did. Sorry, I think my brain mentally blended it with the other initialism in the list.
EasyPost drags the postage stamp into the 21st century
It may change eventually, and the exchange rate does fluctuate dramatically sometimes, but it has been shown in the past that the market value of bitcoins tends to stabilize around the electricity cost of mining.
Plan 9 is on a rolling release since 2002.
>The "map brightness to Z" trick would seem to be too simplistic, but it totally fooled me into thinking this was doing some kind of crazy computer vision trick.

That got me wondering about what sort of tricks might be out there.

For human users, you could use a face detection algorithm to find faces in the image and then place smoothed face meshes (or even just blobs) under them, and you'd have a fake depth-camera that would be pretty convincing until someone put their hand up.

Googling around, I found that there's a lot of research being done in depth inference from video. This paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/celiu/pdfs/ECCV12-autostereo.pdf is particularly impressive, although given their one minute/frame benchmarks, we'll be waiting 15 years or so before Moore's law can bring this technique to a JS demo.
Many Rubyists use Travis to do CI with their gems, and have ruby-head testing, often with allow-failures set. Here's one of mine: https://travis-ci.org/drapergem/draper
Name is almost as good as a great Brazilian django course, by the genius Henrique Bastos, called Welcome to the django: http://welcometothedjango.com.br
Although I do agree with you that the difference between Bitcoin and other fiat currencies is a matter of degree and not type, there is a rather important difference that you are skipping over. The fact is that there is accountability with respect to Bitcoin issuance, whereas there is little to none with respect to the amount of currency issued in other venues (i.e. central banks), except the possibility that people will flee the currency and devalue it.

In fact, with respect to money creation there are not a lot of set rules. The main problem is keeping supply matched with demand. From a governmental standpoint demand is usually enforced (at the very least by forcing taxes to be paid in your currency).
Why do Linux distros have different package names?
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In theory that would work, but the effort to get all the dependencies working for each gem could be overwhelming.
Misleading title, forgot the 'exec enclave'. Google is purchasing a lease for hangers and terminal space. They are _not_ buying an airport.
There's a lot of information on the web about this; you could try the search box at the bottom of this site as well. It has evolved over the years, but is still fairly similar. (I have slightly privileged information about YC, and I don't want to go through the effort of figuring out what is public by quoting these sources).

It's also the wrong way to look at it. A better way is "what does it cost to apply" -- it's maybe 30 minutes to 10 hours of your time to fill in the application (it's more if you needed to do more thought about the business anyway). There is zero downside if you don't get in -- it doesn't prejudice YC against you at all in the future, and is confidential within YC -- and potentially high upside.

The ultimate test of "is it worth it" is to ask how many YC alums would recommend YC to someone else. As far as I can tell, that number is >80% (I can't think of anyone who wouldn't). I would recommend YC with only two reservations:

1) If you're doing a non-US startup (say, something local in China), and have exploding growth, no plans to expand to the world market, and unlimited capital, YC might be a distraction (although I doubt any company like that reads HN)

2) I think the biggest benefit to YC is to be able to launch during YC, or to have already launched. If you can't launch during YC, it might be worth doing YC later (when you're about to launch), or more likely, change your launch to something smaller that you can do sooner. There is probably 10x more value in YC if you launch before or during YC than after demo day. We made that particular mistake ourselves. OTOH, spending an extra year or two pre-YC building something no one wants is ALSO bad.
It's not about the money, but the people you meet. Quite frankly, I often feel lost navigating the territory of starting my own business even with the support of cofounders I trust and respect.

To be able to get advice from the caliber of YC's network as well as be around teams that are trying to do things that others deem "crazy" or "destined to fail" is an enlightening experience you can't just get anywhere. There's so much I don't know. YC is a great way to bridge some of my many ignorances. Certainly not the only way, though.

I'm not suggesting that wannapreneurs should just blindly shoot off a half-baked idea to every incubator and just sit on their asses waiting for someone to dump money in their laps. Are there people like that? Sure. But setting a little time aside from working on your startup to apply to a once-in-a-lifetime experience that can only help your chances of success is, I think, a justifiable use of time.
The Digital Laser
Laptops are easily lost or stolen and crammed with parts that are poorly cooled and hard to replace or upgrade. They should be treated as disposable--you can't really afford it if you'd struggle to replace it even once. If I had that problem and absolutely had to be mobile, I'd buy a netbook, work remotely on a real computer (VPS, EC2, whatever), and back up religiously. You definitely shouldn't squander a big fraction of your entire net worth on the Apple Tax, suggestions here to the contrary.
Check out Klout.com you could work with their API and include that into each content creator's profile.
Also the "hero banner" or whatever it's called has some serious artifact issues. It looks almost like a magic eye
That is correct. It uses libc for resolving names because systems might be configured to use NIS or LDAP before DNS. With cgo disabled it defaults to using its own DNS resolver and resolv.conf.
If your point is "if you aren't able resolve the dependencies in the code you include, then don't try" then I suppose I agree.

Frankly with the amount of plugins I usually use (0-2) this isn't really problem...

The point is, there are some great features and fixes tucked away in there and sometimes I only want say <5-10% of the library, I could write it myself but then I loose all the collective knowledge embroiled throughout.
I am not a great programmer but when I tried Lua I was actually having fun coding and it was working really easily!
When we talk about copyright policy, or enforcement, the effects are not limited to the big rich companies that it is easy to hate.

There are plenty of artist-friendly, or artist-owned, labels and distributions companies, and they are also hurt by piracy. In fact I would argue they are hurt more than the big labels, because each individual missed sale is a bigger percentage of their total revenue.
I'm torn. On one hand, yes, this is unsatisfactorily slow.

On the other, all my experience has taught me that making objects (especially in the case of ActiveRecord objects that are mapped to database tables) directly responsible for their API serialisation leads to pain: those objects end up bloated, the API reflects internal concerns rather than usage patterns, and it's really hard to evolve the API or to provide multiple versions simultaneously.

So even though .to_json sucks, I'm far from convinced that it matters. I'd fix it by taking it out entirely!
With a collective market share of 1%, I find it hard to believe that the reason Linux distributions use incompatible package names is to get revenue from usage statistics.

Maybe we should use Hanlon's razor here:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
"Google's executive jets – of which is has at least eight – carry very few people in great luxury, with the larger aircraft in the Chocolate Factory's fleet coming equipped with double beds"

Chocolate Factory?
What the hell is going on with this article?
To be fair, it throws the average way down and also it isn't entirely fair to use the 2004 date since they have been releasing expansions throughout the life of the game, but I still don't think the original list is a sign of a healthy overall market for PC games (though it is proof that the right game hitting the right market can still make a significant amount of money on the PC).
In the sense of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry–Howard_correspondence, the theorems are the type signatures of the API, and the proofs are the implementations!
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I wouldn't recommend applying with no idea even if they allow it again. My group got to the interview round with no idea last year. Here's in practice what happened: The entire interview was spent by the interviewers trying to see if we had good ideas that we just weren't aware of. (No, pg wasn't one of them) I would say that, yes, we do have ideas, but we hadn't sat down and talked about them, so we were brainstorming under pressure without any preparation.

It was weird because we actually had intentionally not prepared any ideas because we were on the "no ideas" track. We spent our prep time practicing questions about ourselves, and our team.

What we learned after and what was said to us by YC staff was that the no ideas track ended up having a higher bar of entry. It makes sense because you're bringing less to the table, so the bar has to be higher.

My suggestion would be, sit down and make some ideas with your team, and build a small prototype. That's really your best bet if you want to get in, it will make your interview more predictable, etc.
A few weeks ago.

And I'm not really referring to its weird behavior. To use cabal, you have to write a cabal file to specify dependencies, build instructions, etc. With the `go` tool, no such meta data is required. Everything that is needed to build a package is inferred from the source by the `go` tool. This is what makes it less annoying than most other distribution tools.

Of course, most other distribution tools support a larger number of options, so perhaps its not a fair comparison. But that is irrelevant to typical workflow annoyances.
I don't make apps. I buy them. My ability to buy them is predicated on other people writing them to target WP7. Microsoft's messaging excludes WP7. I am well aware that you can target WP7 and WP8 simultaneously; I am also aware that Microsoft doesn't really give a shit if anyone actually does and that it is an absolutely insane proposition to expect greenfield development to actually target WP7 today--because why would it? I sure wouldn't, because the WP7 market is tiny! But it's Microsoft's job to take care of its early adopters who trusted them, and their messaging indicates no desire to really do that. OS releases and app releases are two different things, and Microsoft is falling down on the latter in a way that means I will simply not go there.

I want my phone to have the literal newest-and-best for at least two years and I don't want the platform setting a direction in which I am not explicitly included as a first-class citizen. Which Microsoft isn't doing. And, sure, you're right that Apple doesn't do that either! Great! I use my Android phones as daily drivers and the Nexus devices do exactly that. Why should anyone do differently?
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