skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're a single founder, It's definitely harder to get in. But that doesn't mean you can't be a single founder. For single founders, if you can demonstrate traction, it's much easier to get in. Traction solves everything.

I would have thought that the reason a single founder would apply to YC would be so that the program would help gain traction (or pivot till product/market fit).

If a single founder builds a product and demonstrates traction then IMHO the hard work of building a company and getting customers is done and advantage of applying to YC is less apparent (atleast to me).

In other words, if you build a product and get traction and have customers then what is the value of applying to YC vs just pitching to VCs?

I'm sure I'm missing something here. I just don't know what it is.
OT but I think it's one of the reasons mandrake/mandriva never quite took off. There was never a great centralized repository network you could count no - I grew tired of using the PLF system to grab a list of mirrors, and having to update it all the time because participating mirrors were offline or defunct after a few weeks/months.
> Why is there not a simple "quick start" that shows how to get it up and running

This is what I love about Angular: just go to angularjs.org and right on the landing page you find excellent live code samples and videos guiding you gradually into Angular. Besides, Angular just feels much more intuitive.
I would recommend starting with MooseX::Declare instead of Moose if you are trying to upgrade your Perl, as Moose is great above standard Perl OO but doesn't go far enough by itself.

Previously I found that MoooseX::Method::Signatures was very slow, so I ended up selecting Method::Signatures::Simple.

Coupled together, you end up code that looks somewhere between Ruby and Java. It's not my first choice for a new project, but it's not a bad way to fixup an old but large codebase.

Possible code example:

https://github.com/mpdehaan/Elevator/
The disparity between what is paid out for "guaranteed income" (welfare) and what one would get for having any paid position should rise.

Also, if everyone under a certain earnings gets $30000 a year - having a part-time job or a job making $30000 more - makes perfect sense. They are making more than those who don't work and their employers can use them and pay them accordingly.

The real problem right now is that it's a half way system... Minimum wage positions can be a worse deal than going on disability or accepting a generous state's full benefits.

On the other side, employers are supposed to provide a form of welfare to part of their workforce.
Lowering themselves?

You seem to be under the misapprehension that these people ever held the moral high ground in the first place.
This is very interesting. Can I ask some questions? How is what you are doing different than diaspora? Is it interoperable with it? And what kind of traction have you gotten?
It's actually what's happening on mobile. Everyone uses webkit but they all have a different version, with their own set of patches and compilation options.

So it's as fragmented as on the desktop.
So you've never bought a DVD or streamed anything through Flash or Silverlight by a major publishing studio? Never watched a music video on Youtube that it didn't allow you to directly download?

If so, congrats on sticking to principles. But that's not really a realistic solution for the majority of people.
Fwiw our site isn't as big as rap genius and we see highly variable performance and timeouts even on requests that on average only take 100ms. I'm not ready to blame heroku entirely since there's a lot of moving parts that still could be at fault, but after optimizing as much as we could we still see the behavior. It feels like the routing layer could be the most likely problem. Summary: you might see highly variable request time regardless of traffic levels.
It reminds me of http://www.fefe.de/ncp/ It's always interesting when people come up with the same thing independently.
> Example, I would always advise against a "single member" LLC because an LLC is considered a Partnership, thus Courts will not enforce Partnership protection where there are no Partners (ie, single member) and the LLC can be liable for Founder's personal debts

Is this actually true? I keep reading stuff like this on the Internet, but the corporate law textbook "corporations" by Alan Palmiter indicates otherwise. It would be nice if people qualified their opinion by referencing actual cases or studies.
With the Singapore media reporting nearly every event that happen on the island, from the mundane to the salacious, how is it that the unusual death of a young American expat gets no ink at all? Obviously a higher up must have ordered SPH to suppress the story. Why? As history has shown time and again, once there is a cover up, the bells should be ringing... Something's rotten in Singapore.
Get ready to have the same old arguments about Marxism. Only instead of 'means of production' it will be 'means of technology'. The article isn't looking for truth its looking to push an agenda about class with technology as a proxy.

Technology invariably leads to an overall increase in jobs and wealth. The computer calculating amortization tables may put a banker out of work, but it also allows thousands of unskilled workers to perform a task that would require calculating one. A job they wouldn't have been able to do otherwise.
They'll talk to lots of people. It just won't be a salesman. Its more-likely to be existing or previous customers.
Shame, lots of good posts on Posterous blogs.
Do I understand this correctly? Windows in Quemu will feel as fast as installed directly?

If thats the case, I would buy a windows 8 CD just to play around with it without having to leave Debian. Will Windows 8 run in Qemu?

Does this latest Qemu run under Debian 6?
This seems to go against what the ember core guys believe in http://twitter.com/trek/status/302811479135092736
You could try to partially reuse: https://github.com/github/gitignore
Which try to be a gitignore database.
I agree, the other way to look at this is that they're working through the weekend to figure it out.
$ nc -l 8888 > file

$ cat file | nc host.example.com 8888

I don't think a dedicated utility is required.

Edit: Sorry about my comment coming off as a bit hostile, I did not intend it to be.
> Corporate Federal income tax on $100,000 if you and your partner had a C-corp instead and took 40k salaries then left $100k in the company.

> Roughly $22,250 (About 22%)

I think your shot-in-the-dark about getting "unexpected news from his accountant" is close to the mark, because the author didn't seem aware that the C-corp would have taxed the $100K at all. The comparison point was completely missing from the article.

The other missing point about C vs S/LLC: Later on, when the corp has grown like a weed and it's time to take money, there will be a double taxation under C that is very disadvantaged.

Honestly, this is a case where the HN commentary is better than the article it points to.
Yeah, the most mainstream predictions I've seen show sales adding around two million jobs over the next decade.

People forget that a lot of services are easily adaptable to new conditions. It sucked if all you knew how to do was to manufacture the perfect buggy whip. If you know how to sell something, it doesn't matter if it's cars or cattle or houses or industrial robots. Yeah, you have to learn about your product, but the basic skill set is quickly transferable.
Nice. Very Unix-ish in its spirit.

The client-server arrangement is backwards though :) Typical arrangement is for the clients to do the "anyone there?" broadcast, for the servers to reply and then the client would select the server, connect to it and they would go about their business. In your case, the server connects to the client. If you re-arrange this to natural client-server order, you should be able to get rid of the fork() call and this will help with portability (not that you probably care at this point).

Also,

size = fread(&buf, 1, 100, ft)

No harm in using chunks larger than 100, especially when dispensing larger files.

Also, consider switching to multicast for discovery.
Finland is in the midst of very seriously debating a "citizen's income", which is a guaranteed minimum income for all citizens[0]. I believe that there are also serious movements in Iceland and Denmark promoting similar guaranteed income initiatives.

0. http://binews.org/2012/04/finland-launch-of-a-basic-income-c...
I should restate: if someone started with backbone on a project, there's no reason to pull it out and restart with ember. It has its advantages for a certain type of project and a certain type of developer today.

If you like minimal frameworks, like to make your own design decisions and want to build your own framework on top of a library, backbone is great.

If you are just looking for a minimal subset of MVC because you're doing some high-concept app that doesn't fit into the standard web application paradigm, it's worth looking at backbone.

Most importantly, if you're retrofitting an existing application, backbone will be invaluable for years.

The ideas behind it are solid and relevant today and it's not a bad idea to use it. I just believe that if you are starting a web application today, for 95% of the use cases, you are better off sticking with jQuery or moving to Ember, Knockout or Angular.

That isn't to disparage any of the other libraries and frameworks, though.
>They could run some of the content they're currently relegating the digital ghettos of BBC3 and BBC4 instead.

Better yet, take the money they're paying to run Madagascar and use it to fund more original BBC content.
It seems that way to people who've never dealt with the PTO. Some examiners are like that, to some extent... but most of the ones I've dealt with really have no desire to just give you whatever patent you ask for.
That's okay! Use the right tool in the right place. And agreed, I like knowing where a function comes from.

I'm not totally convinced by the move to 100% functionalist constructs (there are some places where OO is nice), but it's a nice stylistic practice.
Lots of respect to Knockout for making an interactive tutorial one click from its homepage. http://learn.knockoutjs.com/

I didn't really get rolling with Ember until I started to piece it together at a high level looking at Discourse's source.
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No. The projects are completely separate.
I'm not sure about Angular, but ember is definitely not based off of backbone (and probably not Angular either)
Pythonect 0.4.2 release
Keep it short.
Well the point of all this is that simple scaling math like that doesn't add up because of the queuing latency introduced by heroku's routing layer. But still at that scale your point is valid.
That was still my choice, and if you want to take that choice away from me you better start making photos and writing songs, because I'd be pouting.

s/choice/privilege/g
Like the author, I too am concerned people aren't taking this seriously. Not to say that anything can be done about it, but just to face it (as you would your own mortality): If you aren't developing software, your job will likely become obsolete someday. And, indeed, if you are developing software, and not keeping up with advances, yours will too.

This is not fiction, this is truth and it's inevitable. I'm curious how society will adapt to the fact that the finite resources of the world will actually start to constrain them. Almost certainly birth rates will decline. Households will probably return to a single income earner (who is now making what both earners used to make combined).

The world will be different, but people keep trying to hold onto this notion of 6% unemployment like it's sacred. It's a relic of days where we needed the human brain and body because it worked faster than a computer and robot. Such is no longer the case. That is the paradigm shift, and that's why things will be different.
The Blue Elites Are Wrong
Yes, but there's a step before

$143 is money that is missed by a college student, for example.

Better go with something cheaper or the free tiers of Heroku, AWS, etc

You're probably still developing the system, or having only a small amount of requests.
But surely if handmade goods fetched a premium then the now unemployed masses would use their time learning how to make and making the desirable handmade things thus driving the price down?
Science behind teaching Problem Solving
I read the article intently up until the point where he unceremoniously dismissed the entire IE6 team as "lazy".
> It's the only high-level language I know of that only has reference counting for memory management.

It's also the only high-level language I know of that can't really be parsed ("only Perl can parse Perl" they say).

It's a dead language really, you can also see this from the number of noisy evangelists vs. professional users nowdays (and that comes from someone who has used Perl almost exclusively for the past 10 years), if you couldn't see it from the diminishing quality of important modules on CPAN (e.g. I pulled my hair today over JSON::XS generating '-inf' from values on one side and crashing on the other side while trying to parse it).

So, I'm learning Go now and improving my JS skills.
HTML , CSS , JS -> JQuery for front-end .
PHP , Phpmyadmin + PDO for backend
When programmers discuss Python on the web, this comes up again and again. I agree with you - it is a minus for me in terms of using Python. There are "solutions", there are people who say you get used to it, there are people who say it does not matter, yet it comes up again and again. I guess it does matter, to some of us at least.

I can open up a text editor and start writing C, or Java, or Perl, or PHP - all without that much thought on whitespace, indentation etc. I can later run indent -kr, or perltidy, or astyle and so forth and make the code I banged out look nice and tidy. Sometimes I feel like doing the nice indentation myself while coding, sometimes I do not and let the scripts do it. With Python "there is one way to do it" and you have to think about indentation while coding. It is annoying. It is like Java and exceptions, forcing me to put try/catch loops everywhere and messing up my scope - even for a little prototype program which will be run once and will never need to catch an exception. It is treating me like I am an idiot and forcing me to work in a regimented manner.

When I first learned Python, at one point I decided to put a do/while loop in my program. I was not able to discover how this was done in documentation. I go on IRC #python and am told Python has no do-while loops (which I later confirmed is true). I was told, and I am assuming the source knows more than me, that this is due to the indentation system. One screwy thing done as a result of another screwy thing.

There are a lot of nice things about Python. The code is clean and understandable. It sometimes allows you to do in 2-3 lines what might take 10 lines in another language. And so on. But some programmers feel certain aspects of it are drawbacks, and these things are not easily dismissable. If they were, they would not be brought up again and again.
Agree. The author seems to be blaming technology for the malaise in the economy. If so, we should have been hearing sob stories from the buggy whip makers' guild about how automobiles have destroyed its members' livelihood.

As with most things, I blame overactive, overreaching government that is spending our economy into oblivion.
Now every TV broadcast is digital, BBC3/4 are less 'ghetto' and more 'dumping grounds'
> salesmen, sales representatives, dealers

I still see a place for a person who is capable of framing product relevance. These positions will transition to more resemble marketing and support positions than the traditional wheeling, dealing salesman.

I know it's not a popular opinion around here, but selling and supporting products The Right Way(TM) does take a level of creativity that computers probably will never possess.

Then again, after a technological singularity, anything's possible.
What you can learn from the monster LibreOffice project
No, presumably the pitch is: clone Heroku's software stack as an OSS project, then get the server/VPS sellers to let people opt to install it as a package when they rent out a node, the same way things like Wordpress can automatically be installed.
Designer reaches $2000 in sales on I Will Design You
The trusted platform model has its advantages and not everyone wants to root their phone. I've never understood the argument that the world would be freer if we banned iOS.
Is Amazon’s Marketplace encouraging buyers to file refund claims?
Why won't you hire someone who has a unfavorable opinion on a language? Do you feel the same way if he mentioned Java instead of Python?
It says explicitly that you don't care about that value. If you used i, for example, you wouldn't know whether the loop depended on the iteration number.
I get your point about angular -- I tend to think it has a particular use case in mind and does really well for that one. However, my point was that backbone doesn't give you much more than plain javascript itself -- let's not expect to abstract everything away compared to one of the full service frameworks. YUI, however, is aiming to be a full service framework. What is the additional benefit?

Now, it's possible that YUI would show itself closer in terms of LOC/complexity to the other frameworks in a larger application. But looking piece by piece, ember and angular just seem to do things more efficiently, more clearly than YUI. And that was my point when discussing LOC.
I'm pretty sure something similar to Adobe Access can be implemented for html 5 without requiring us to close source browsers, or patent them. I fail to see why you think otherwise.
Be careful what you ask for. NetFront have switched to using WebKit as a basis for their rendering engines, finding their way to various gaming gadgets, both console and hand-held.

Unfortunately, due to memory limitations of some of these devices, they don't really score well on automated compliance tests as "nice-to-have" features are trimmed in an effort to get a workable browser on constrained devices. Have a look at http://console.maban.co.uk/ about the capabilities of these devices. Remember, there are more game consoles and handhelds than iphones and Android device.

Surely we've learned from IE6 why a defacto standard is worse than an open and implementable standard?

Monoculture is a terrible price to pay. Don't forget South Korea's 99%+ IE6 dominance. http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2012/11/15/2012-update-to-the-20... -- such a lock-in that it becomes a political topic: http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2012/11/13/ahn-pledges-to...
One of the things that optimising algorithms are really good at doing is demonstrating that your fitness function is incompletely specified.
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Game console browsers
awesome work.

Running smoothly on Linux, tested on Firefox and Chrome.
Indeed, 'terrible', 'evil' but not 'lazy'.

Nothing could cause such pain without a lot of hard work.
Randomly, I got curious on what drive it was, and it may have been a Seagate GoFlex Pro Ultraportable:
http://www.seagate.com/sg/en/external-hard-drives/portable-h... (look under the Performance tab)

I'm not sure what powers the Singapore police may have, especially since the Todds may already be out of the country, but they certainly didn't have any problems persuading a filmmaker to turn over her phone, laptop and desktop for an investigation:
http://spuddings.net/2013/02/07/mha-investigates-ex-bus-driv...
So technically not "do/while", but:

while(some_condition):
do_stuff
I can't believe how many apology-niks are on here trotting out the old merde about how we need DRM, and won't somebody please think of the rights-holders.
Here in the UK we pay the TV license fee. Now, granted most of the output it funds is utter crap, but hey, we paid for it.
There should be no reason for DRM to be applied at all, but especially not if delivered via the web.

If the standards wonks permit this, we really need to fork the standards, and avoid this.

If the open web does not support your intended business model then go away and change the model.
>By removing the ability for movie / tv studios to make money from content, the likely outcome is we simply don't have big budget movies or high quality TV anymore.

I want to see some evidence that this is happening. All their movies are on The Pirate Bay and Hollywood is still making record profits. How is "making record profits" a problem deserving of countermeasures that are both ineffective and draconian?
Start a full-time freelancing career after college
Put this in a text editor and run it in python:

print(reduce((lambda x, y:
x + y), xrange(10)))
print(reduce((lambda x, y: x + \
y), xrange(10)))

HINT: It runs.
Do you want to make an app and everyone steals it and doesn't pay for it?

You can't steal an app, but you can copy and distribute my software all you want. Some of us actually work with business models that don't rely on legal privileges and broken "protection" schemes.
> You assert this, but you haven't provided evidence. Web application developers are providing great user experiences.

Are you serious, or are you really just that out of touch with how we work on desktop and mobile apps?

> What tools do you need to provide a good user experience that the web as it is now doesn't have?

- Performance, performance, performance, performance.

- Performance.

- The ability to use the right language for the job. The right language isn't the right language if the performance is pot, so no, Emscripten isn't a solution. I'm talking about everything from exposing SIMD intrinsics when writing time-critical software to languages that actually support compiler-checked type-safety.

- Performance.

- Common widget toolkits providing a common user-experience across applications, from which users can learn platform conventions and be immediately comfortable and familiar with an application. These toolkits allow us to reinventing the wheel every single time. No, bubblegum and spit collections of JavaScript and CSS are not the same thing.

- Standard library which provides the functionality necessary to conform with platform exceptions and integrate with the platform.

- Tools. Debuggers, compilers, and most especially, profilers and deep instrumentation.

- Platform integration. This isn't just "cameras". It's also the iTunes/Media query APIs, in-app purchase, airplay, spotlight plugins, quickview plugins, menu items, and the mountain of other things that platform vendors implement to provide an integrated and coherent experience. Platform vendors push forward the user experience by providing richer platforms. Web vendors don't.

- Unification of code, UI, and styling. The DOM has to go, as does CSS and JS as separate entities. It's a ridiculous model for UI development and it makes producing genuinely re-usable and interoperable component toolkits very difficult.

I could probably go on all day. I WANT a non-proprietary, open, standardized application platform, but I need a platform that lets me provide the best available experience to end-users, and the web isn't it. I'm writing my software for my customers, and choosing technology over user-experience doesn't do my customers any favors.
"If a company pours millions of dollars into something that many people enjoy, why shouldn't their works be protected?"

Kodak poured millions of dollars into the film development system. Why shouldn't they have their revenue stream protected too? Why not freeze the progress of technology to ensure that no business ever becomes obsolete?

We had entertainment before copyright. We will still have it afterwards.
I wonder if the Todd family have transcripts of the Skype calls where Shane aired his concerns regarding the demands being made of him, and what he was planning to do about it went back State-side -- I venture that the Chinese government does.