skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May you provide more insight into why the persistence in doing so?

I'm curious as to why you would put so much value in joining an incubator when you could spend the same amount of time in growing your business. Funding is not the goal, but gasoline for the vehicle that will take you to your goal. Seems like a waste of time for such little money. I know the "status" from joining the YC program is quite high there, but it does not guarantee success.
Awesome, the "fake Kinect" effect is pulled off really well!
Harry Fox Agency claims heavy breathing and car noise is a copyrighted song
If you want laws other than human right abuses, take Gandhi and his protest of the national salt tax.

Copyright, a state enforced monopoly.
national salt tax in India, a other state enforced monopoly.

If we just want to limit us to laws regarding state enforced monopolies, there are plenty in the history of mankind.
Even easier - Focus on the community (github) - Look at how fast analytics.js spread. Making this simple, easy and elegant is what developers like.

Another angle would be to sponsor or be at as many hackathons as you can get too. http://www.localhackathons.com/

There are a TON of developers at them and most of the events get press anyway - get both!
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not so long ago (few hundred years) the new world (America) was behind African infrastructure and yet pulled itself up.
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Thanks koopajah. Lockitron may be the best solution out there. I was hoping for a padlock that did pretty much the same thing, but with some tweaks I might be able to make the lockitron work for my needs. Perhaps using it in a metal box with a key to the shared kayak storage shed inside.
Haha, no, body text is them common English expression. I just translated “Brotschrift” literally to English and somehow convinced myself that it’s an actual English expression.
Apologies for not being clear. We all already have and use Google Chat. Failing that there are XMPP clients on all the relevant desktop and mobile platforms.

The one thing that has the lowest utility is a web based interface to chat since it essentially doesn't work well in the background in the same way as an app like Pidgin does.
apart from which, i've noticed that most arrogant people are obsessed with the need for other people to defer to their accomplishments, rather than the need to actually accomplish anything. for people like bellard who just quietly get things done, the accomplishments are their own reward.
Your approach depends on a very simplistic idea about investors. In reality, the fall on a spectrum. Some demand low returns but insist on a high level of confidence about the outcome. Others are investors in name only; what they really do is glorified gambling. They are almost sure to lose, but the (slim) possibility of an outsize reward goads them on.

The thing to appreciate is that Kickstarter can help creators validate an investment-worthy idea in the marketplace, shifting it from the high risk / high reward category to the lower risk / lower reward category.

That means more money from eventual sales can go into product and market development, instead of an inveator's bank account. In many cases, the need to pay an inordinate return kills good ideas in the cradle. By giving creators a way to lower the cost of the capital they depend on KS opens a range of possibilities that would remain closed if high-stakes gamblers were the only bankers in town.

If you and your friends don't want to help these project either, that's fine. But why take the extra step of mindlessly smearing the people who run them? Personally, I see Kickstarter's ability to atomize risk as a good thing, especially when it can drive down the cost of capital while checking its more extortionate tendencies. I've never met a "panhandler" who can do that.
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$92k is enough for 1-4 people to survive working out of their living room for quite a while. That said, the real value of YC is feedback from the partners and your batch mates, followed by the captive audience of investors on demo day.
Just FYI, you're violating Twitter's API display guidelines. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-tweets
I hadn't thought about this. Essentially, I would be doing a postmortem on whatever I build. Good idea!
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Crowdvance's Fundraising Model is a Game Changer
The default bootstrap-template could have been modified, at least.
sounds like some bullshit to me... "we got hacked because we don't use our own shitty software." Security is a tough business. Just look @ hbgary.
Fluid?? Are you joking? Try it on Android (Nexus 7 / JB) Urgh...
Well, in general the price level of bitcoins, how much individual bitcoins are worth compared to other goods, is going to end up being governed by

MV = PQ

Where M is the quantity of bitcoins, V is how fast they criculate, P is the price things in bitcoins, and Q is the size of the economy that bitcoins are used for. Since the bitcoin design prevents M from increasing that much, and since V tends to fluctuate a lot but remain stable in the long run, you should find that the value of each bitcoin mirrors the size of the economy that uses bitcoins in the long run. So buying bitcoins is essentially a bet that people will use them for more and more things.

With US dollars the government (or central bank). tries keep M at a level where Q doesn't move around too much, but bitcoin doesn't and can't have an institution like that.
I think the piece illustrates a very good point that the general public would enjoy reading about. Which is that booms can push out diversity and that a tragedy of the commons is occurring in SF with people driving out the character they came to SF to experience.

The problem is that:

a) It's taking about us. People who are not software developers would brush past the descriptions of developers as mere scene setting. But it's rather insulting to those being described.
b) If it is true, it makes us the villains. And we don't like being the villains. We believe our motives and actions are reasonably noble (or at least not harmful). It hurts to be told that their not.
c) It's colored with a lot of emotion from the author. I get the sense that this is precipitated by an underlying feeling of: "Does my time in SF mean NOTHING!?" Which is a reasonable emotion, but comes across to the subjects (us) as a sense of superiority.

I believe that it conveys it's point much better to a "lay" audience than it does to us because we (rightly) get lost in the details.

I'm very luck that I like what I like and that what I like is the "hot" industry right now. I do want to remember that everything isn't roses and sunshine. That this boom does have losers. But I'm still moving to SF because that's where the place I want to work is and because I like the city. And screw you Rebecca Solnit for making me feel like I don't belong. You were new to SF once and you don't have that right. But I might just take the train instead of a shuttle.
That looks extremely close to what we wanted. It even looks like you can run it on your own appengine instance. Thanks for the pointer.
Abstract math is somewhat special just like studying programming languages and semantics is somewhat special: it's something of a meta-science, applicable to all the programming you do.

Everything else is specific to the domain you're programming in; these "meta" fields (I need a better name for them) have programming or reasoning itself as the domain.
Human Blood Contains a Significant Amount of Non-Human RNA (from food)
If they have the ability to add options to an individual product, they're already a mile ahead of Square. Square's biggest oversight with their Register app is that it's completely unusable for things like food orders. You can't add bacon to a burger with the touch of a button, you have to type it in. And if that bacon is an additional charge, you have to go back to the categories section, then go into an extras category, and add it to the order as a separate product.

If you've got five or ten additional charges for extras, you've now got a receipt that is very long and nonsensical, and you've wasted a non-trivial amount of time needlessly switching between categories.
That's a cop-out given the abundance of search tools, regexp, CTRL-F, etc...
So its more of the broke-ass-young-hacker-with-a-dream-culture than anything else?

Edit:

From the replies of other members it is obvious that my comment here is not correct.
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Thanks. Sorry, no newsletter, blog, rss feed yet. Went dark while I recharged my batteries. Been working on some open government stuff. Will hopefully go public soon.
Solid article from top to bottom. My weakest link is Gandalfing like no other. I'm the moron who spends like 3 weeks eyeballing a new language or lib by consuming its spec, video presentations, tutorials and all of that but then produce 0 code in the entire time frame.

Then I'll take a break for like a week and when it comes time to coding something I'll forget most of what I read and then I use that as an excuse to read more.

It's the loop of death.
It costs me nothing but a combined few hours to apply and interview. Given how many YC companies fail it's clear that YC is no silver bullet, but I do think I could get a lot out of it so it's worth the effort and rejection.

Not getting into YC hasn't slowed me down one bit. I'm on my second attempt at growing a business and I'm far smarter and self-aware than when I started. I'm doing quite well on my own now. I'd still probably benefit from YC a lot, but if I never get in then so be it.
Thank you! Writing the article, I was struck by a few constant themes: everyone in this community is VERY NICE, they are VERY COMPETITIVE, and the game is BRUTAL. The game itself is punishingly hard.

To me, the central revelation was that the game was so fatalistic that only nice people could survive it. And when those people get together to play each other, it's a huge party. I wanted to tell a human story about people who just happen to be extremely good at Tetris.
Ones that don't work very well on Nexus 7 / JB. Seriously, the point of a web page is to convey information. This one sucks hard at it, because it jitters like crazy while scrolling.
Thanks for the advice. As an n-time YC reject where n currently equals 1, I totally agree it's a great way to think about your startup and an excellent exercise in communication.

I'd imagine n is going to get larger over time for us before we can prove ourselves worthy, but we'll keep applying. In retrospect, I think it'll be fun to look back at all our applications and see what progress we've made and how our idea changes over time. If anything, we'll have a clear message by then. ;-)
My lawyer friend always said 'the probative value must outweigh the prejudicial value' for evidence to be accepted. So just because something is true and relevant, is not sufficient to make it admissible as evidence.

So, I guess I can see that argument here. Just because the software has a "bug" isn't sufficient to conclude the results are not accurate. The prejudicial value outweighs the probative value.
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You are restricted by the set of tools you already have right?

I can't believe how many times a great advancement in theory in different field comes from pure math advancement (or applying pure mathematical results). Say in economics, if Nash didn't apply topology, how would one ever know Nash equilibrium exists. Stable matching, compressed sensing and others also comes to mind.

I have a hypothesis that any field would benefit if we introduce some pure mathematicians to them.
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But AFAIK EDGE almost never gets anywhere close to its theoretical speed limit while 56k modems are usually very close, so in practice EDGE might be something like 50-100% faster.
I don't feel like storing my passwords anywhere but in my head. The rare case that I do write them down, I make sure it's not easy to find what account it belongs to and that it's stored securely. And it's usually only written down temporarily until I remember it.
Just a question:

This is exactly what i would expect from anyone claiming to be a UX "expert" - they should be able to show me new UX models that I, as a non-expert - would not have thought of.

In this particular case - the fluidity of the background transitions along with the data changes was fantastic - and I tried it in reverse to mae sure it worked both directions.

The execution, I expect from a developer implementing the vision of the UX expert.

Am I wrong? Can you explain?

(An aside: This is the type of "UX Expert" Quora really needs. The UX on Quora is so horrible, it was 30% of the reason I quit using it)
So its more of a value-added activity than anything? Seems expensive to trade 7-10% of your business in exchange of network contacts. Have you ever explored the option of making those network contacts yourself?

Edit to the reply below

I'm just curious as to what benefits you get. I know of the program. Though I'm not their target market.

Im not being pedantic, just genuinely interested in your POV.
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Such a horrible arguments, no wonder it got down voted.

If you think you can do better than Flattr and produce a service that charge less, feel free to implement it. Competition is healthy, and there is no software patents in Sweden, thus no state enforced monopoly to stop you.

As for the TPB site itself, there are not a single peer reviewed research that say that independent artists was harmed by the site. Now days with the promo-bay, they have done more good than most labels but without charging a single dime.
Hi Xcelerate,

I understand you're in the "Tetris world". I'm also interested in starting to play Tetris more seriously, but am not sure where on the internet all the Tetris people hang out. Got any pointers for me?
There is a well documented thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see the blocks in dreams or when your eyes close. There's been some neuro research on it. When I asked these guys about it, they said they got past it after a while. They all say, yes, I have experienced Tetris Effect stuff, but at some point the brain seems to filter it out.

My impression is that these players are spending a lot of their conscious energy on the next-piece box, constructing the stack, and just staying calm. I think the majority of what they're doing is near instinct at this point, since they play so much, they just kinda "know" the right move for any given situation. Or at least, most of them. A max out game is a combination of random luck and extreme skill/practice.

The documentary "Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters" (steaming free on Hulu) has more on all of this. Disclosure: I wrote parts of that film. Ben Mullen is one of the main subjects of the film.
Do we still need photoshop to create great website?
But even further, do we still need proprietary software in our workflow to create the best web design, now that we have tools like css3, saas compass and a plethora of javascript tools ?
Check out TetrisConcept and Hard Drop.
Learning programming with Ruby is like sex with your 14 year old GF. Neither of you know what to do but it's SO EXCITING! Then you find out she's pregnant and you'll be supporting her for the next 18 years.
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If you think YC is just network contacts you don't know much about it. And yes, I think YC can easily add that much value back to just about any startup.
This is great. Already bookmarked.

One little thing though: please add the fullscreen button on these trailers, it would be much more enjoyable to watch them.
This article is a good example of why I don't buy non-creator owned comics (aside from the fact that I view Marvel and DC comics from 1990-on to be pure shit). I know most comic fans don't give a shit but I do.
It is sometimes useful for me to break down this type of problem into:

* enough memory to remember the identities
* fast enough recall of identities from memory @
* fast enough exploration of possible solutions @

@ Fast enough is when you can do it all within the amount of time it takes for solving the problem to give enjoyment rather then ending a frustration.

Without the above I have to use different, usually more intentional, strategies.
Not only is it not at all what the author is trying to say, I'm honestly confused at how you could arrive at that.
I second this.

In programming languages, different paradigms differs as much as how different field in math. So a more concrete analogy would be one jumping from different paradigms of programming languages. Like someone using a imperative language like Java for their entire life and must learn to read a Haskell program.
Why is control-space so difficult? Christ, Eclipse auto completes so much you can just bounce on control-space all day. "m" ctrl-space "sysout" ctrl-space... It's so easy.
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The Oxford studies are pretty clear that people tend to chose one method, and a small delay in that method prevents them from completing suicide.

People tend not to use anything available to kill themselves. Most houses have many things which could cause certain death, but people tend to stick to a certain method.
If you are talking about morality, I would stay away from those that want to deny peoples access to general useful information. To quote professor Eben Moglen:

The great moral question of the twenty-first century is
this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful
information can be costlessly given to everyone at the
same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can
have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever
moral to exclude anyone?
I couldn't have said it better. C provides a wonderful set of glasses through which other languages make excellent sense.
I think that monad is actually the "." in the OO world. This is because in my view the monad actually sits in between the functions and controls the function combinations and the value between the threading. So for instance Maybe will decide whether to really call the next method based on the value itself (like null). Or I maybe wrong :)
I've had reservations about Kickstarter [0], but I've backed maybe $800 worth of projects and the experience has been positive [1].

However, I do maintain that Kickstarter needs to do a lot more to make it clear what pledging entails, specifically that it doesn't equate to buying or even pre-ordering.

0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323835

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832427
/picks-up-rant-baton

Ha -- I've seen this too.

This is why I've started hating inheritance. I see people who think 3-9 class deeps inheritance trees are ok, and they then go out and design new 3-9 class deep taxonomies, and become very proud of their abstractions. Of course, most times a simple function (or lambda) will do just fine to patch over the inconsistencies. By patch I mean something like middle-ware.
People who live in quirky neighborhoods don't like it when they get gentrified. A few decades ago San Francisco was a quirky small port city with a higher-than-average number of artists, free-thinkers, bohemians, aging hippies, gays, etc. Today it is becoming a large city of hardworking nerds, and the douchebags who feed off them.
definitly yes! I used vimwiki some bit but lacked some menu and time functionality, although I am sure that it could be tweak to work like a great command line blog platform.

But there are a lot of tool, that take .md files and create a static site with it. Which is a great start, where you could bind a deploy script that could be triggered from vim for example.
It is the same with hand sketching, nothing beats fast mockup of what the end result could be.

Unless we can code faster than using photoshop. Untill that, photoshop will be around.
Your class is not representing the "Monad" abstraction, but the "Identity" value wrapper that happens to have a Monad instance.
I think Q is closer to the size of the market rather than the size of the "economy." "Economy" implies both tangible goods and buyers and sellers for those goods. The problem with Q in the Bitcoin sense is that it can move around a lot, since it is an obvious target for speculators with no interest in tangible goods.
Not a bad landing page
It's Ruby. Every little fucking thing is front page news, from drama to RC releases to security holes. Welcome to programming by celebrity, where what you write isn't half so important as what you write it in, and how many tweets it generates.
About as hard to prove direct correlation as for you to prove the opposite. However, use common sense. The data is overwhelmingly in my favor.
It seems like it'd be possible to automate gem testing for this scenario. Take the 1000 most popular gems, run the tests that come with the gem in 1.9.3. Run the tests again with the RC and see if any that succeed with the stable version fail with the RC.
What's the "latest stage" startup to go through YC. I've seen a few companies that have been around for quite a while like Vayable go through YC. What's the most money raised before going through YC?
He wasn't trying to explain how to use monads. There are good tutorials that do that. He was trying to explain what they are. And that definitely involves their operations and the laws that apply.
But then your employer starts releasing volumes of your old work with the title "Thurn's life work" one day, and one of your friends say, hey nice book, so you're going to pay me back that $200 you borrowed in college right, Mr. Big Shot?
Chrome also bundles FFmpeg.
IP laws not only thing holding them back. But it ain't helping either. No incentive to spend resources (be they $money, or time inventing).
Why not add the functionality to an existing platform? Its would be simpler and would grant you a bigger userbase.
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1) Where is the evidence of the opposite? The data is overwhelmingly.
2) U.S. is certainly in the top tier of strongest patent laws.
Save up more money and buy a Macbook Pro. The cheapest model will do. You can probably get it from Amazon cheaper even with Tax and Shipping.

If you are getting into Linux, get a Mac since it is essentially a type of Linux. As a full stack mobile/web developer, it is nice to set everything up on your mac pretty much exactly the same way as you would in your Linux production environment. You don't need to worry about some packages you use may behaves a little different in Windows or Linux. You can run virtualization on PC, but why run virtualization when it will just work directly when you open up the OS X terminal.

To be fair. I have not always been a Mac user. I started programming when I was 16. Got my bachelor's degree in Computer Science and started to work as a software developer. I have always used a PC for 10+ years. However, it just became a pain to match your PC to your production environment which is pretty much a Linux box these days. A lot of times, in order to build something scalable, I end up trying new technologies and compiling the package from source. It is nice to set up your dev environment on a 'linux-ish' box (aka OS X) while your target production is also Linux. And if you want to do iOS dev, then you will definitely need a Mac as well to make your life much easier.
A pretty resentful and bitter piece by someone who seems to feel personally wronged by an industry he is clearly not a part of, but feels above on a moral and personal level.