skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure they paid for some patents though. As I understand it, pretty much all the technology was licensed from SRI.
100 years is peanuts, relative to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeslantkering, which was designed for a 10,000 year storm. Basically, the greater the damage if anything goes wrong, the sturdier things should be. This one has been in operation for 15 years, but has never been truly used yet.
Your logic: It's not option 1 or 2 (statement is unsubstantiated - when you say it "was objectively not very good," you really mean "in my opinion it was not very good"). So it must be option 3 (also unsubstantiated), since option 3 is the only option left (unsubstantiated).

To answer your last question: 1) As far as I know that kid did not hold any high-ranking role at the company anymore; the talent probably lay elsewhere. 2) There are many reasons and unless your name begins with Marissa and ends with Mayer, you cannot know for sure.
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Balanced is looking for support engineers
Balanced is growing __FAST__. Really fast. We're trying to scale our support infrastructure and we need sharp engineers to help us pave the way. This engineering position is an externally visibile role for Balanced, so it requires strong interpersonal and communication skills alongside sharp technical aptitude. We handle a dynamic variety of challenging problems that arise in every day support operations @ Balanced.

- You should be able to enjoy hacking in multiple languages and quickly adapt to foreign environments.

- You're very comfortable with frontend as much as you're comfortable with backend.

- Your communication skills are fantastic.

- You like to automate things.

- You are big fan of open source and understand that we're an open company[1].

- You are vehemently opposed to over engineering.

[1] http://blog.webfwd.org/post/45960028671/what-does-open-mean-for-businesses

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We created our own system by parsing the XML documentation generated by .NET to generate a in-memory model of our REST API and then render a full documentation based site our of that :-)
The one I mentioned above, you cannot conditionally create functions using function declarations.
All 2 of them.
Thanks for the correction, I've updated the original.
a) What benefit would you expect from JSON over XML justifying a new standard?

b) REST does not imply JSON.

c) Question marks are not pack animals.
on the flip side, someone could create a list of where you rank on the cost of living, amount of free time, environmental health standards, living space, and so on. Suddenly a lot of us would find ourselves on the other end of the scale.

with that said, I do consider myself tremendously lucky, but when looking at such lists there are more dimensions to consider than just salary number.
I put that under "domain expertise."
Moai [1] is very mature, used for a bunch of commercial games, broad support for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome (via NaCL), with Linux support forthcoming. Scripted with Lua and/or used directly through C++. Open source.

[1] http://getmoai.com/
This is my (pessimistic) take on this Summly thing. I think the following scenario happened:

15 year old kid does something with computers and for some reason the press is all over it. Some smart investors thinks; "hey, I can use this to make money". They invest money into this 15 year old which gives him more press coverage. Wait a few years and the investor gets his buddies at Yahoo to buy it for a substantial amount of money. Ka-ching, money in the bank.
> By definition, Yahoo's directors know how to spend Yahoo's cash reserves best.

This is absolutely incorrect. There are many instances in which there is a personal financial connection between a board member and an acquired company. For example, a board member is a limited in a VC fund.

Didn't bother reading after that.
sorta wish this was the start of the "negative killfile" in the William Gibson Idoru trilogy. Because, you know, 3D cyberspace Walled City and stuff.
I'd change the default displayed price, even on a free game, to be something other than $0.00 (and for those people who type 0.00, it should directly take you to the link).
They got that through marketing, not technology. Have you seen the launch video for Summly?
If you have a cool screencast showing off what you made using docker, add the links here. We will take the best ones and put them on the docker.io website.
If you want to specifically choose your sources, I think you're right. If you're happy with a 'best of' on a topic by topic basis, newsletters can/do work.

With newsletters, one is throwing their reading experience to the mercy of the newsletter editor.

This is part of the appeal for many non-power readers. The majority are not particularly interested in curating or even controlling their sources and are happy to outsource it to either trusted editors (see almost the entire print media or something like Techmeme) or the "cloud" (e.g. Reddit or Hacker News).
Do you know which president I had in mind? I lived through quite a few 8 year terms, and yes, that includes Reagan.

If your response is "but everyone knows which president you were referring to," then surely it's fair game to refer to whoever that is since the facts are universally accepted? :-)
I don't see the correlation between income and usage. E.g. look at Missisippi and Minnesota.

I don't think the article was saying that here was any connection between political beliefs, they were just presenting it in the same way as political maps are shown.
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It's official - Blue + BUILD 2013
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445059
What's actually right about Yahoo's purchase of Summly: we are still talking about it, and are still reminded that Yahoo exists. The marketing was great (the video is really well-done), and to be honest yahoo really could use some marketing boost at a time like this.
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A million downloads of a free app is not really that noteworthy. My friend made a simple, free iPhone game in a weekend where you tap on a soccer ball and keep it from dropping and routinely gets 10s of thousands of downloads a month with absolutely no marketing.
Yes. But do you know what YC round they are? I've known about Svbtle, but didn't add them because I couldn't figure out what round they are and couldn't find an answer on HN.
I think there are a few banking mainframe apps that are 30+ years old...
I wish all the best to the team at Watsi. They have an amazing concept. It's captivating how straightforward it really is. They offer the possibility for anyone to make a difference to the lives of real people, and watch that happen, in almost real time.

I don't know what these kinds of projects will do to the "future of patronage" but it gets people aware of the problems, gets them involved and brings in real results, with little effort. That can't be a bad thing.
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That's a very odd number for North Dakota given that AT&T didn't sell the iPhone for a long time while Verizon sold Android devices.
Worst part is that we have to pay US taxes as well local taxes even if we don't live or make any money in the US. If you live in a county with an effective lower tax rate you have to pay the difference.

I take home less money than someone with the same job and same expenses. In addition it's so cumbersome to file from abroad that I have to pay someone.

It's like the king of England collecting taxes from the ones who left.

We also have to declare the entire finances of any company that we own more then 10 percent in which is a huge problem for the other 90 percent owners that aren't Americans.

I don't think this will ever get fixed since Americans abroad also don't have any representation in congress. :-(
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This! Obviously good investments are almost always oversubscribed, and additionally not all startups are raising angel money all the time. You need to find the overlap of:

* Company is raising now
* You can get in on the deal
* Terms are acceptable
* You want to invest in the company

These are some reasons why professional investors are so busy taking meetings, and why so many angels piggyback on deals with more active/well known investors.
Also, it occurs to me, I use Instapaper to deal with this issue in RSS...hmm...
Why would you brine a chicken breast for 24 hours!? Wouldn't this account for the difference in texture? With the surface area to mass ratio as one breast has that would be like brining a turkey for a month (maybe more).

Everything I've ever read says that 30-60 minutes is plenty for a breast. Even Alton Brown's fried turkey recipe [1] recommends 8-16 hours for a whole 13-14lb turkey.

The other thing not addressed in the article is the target cooking temperature and rest time. Did he pull them at the USDA-recommended 165° or did he pull them earlier and let them come up to 165°? Were the cuts allowed to rest?

1: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/deep-fried-tu...
But if you're Yahoo in 2013, where are you going to find high quality engineers?
Doesn't every US carrier have a prepaid brand?
Trust me, if it didn't cost extra as a part of ISP packages nowadays, I'd be on USENET.
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"We trust that many of our users' programs will also see improvements just by updating their Go installation and recompiling."

Does anyone know if it is possible to determine what version of Go a given binary was compiled with? Perhaps extracting some metadata from an ELF section?
It looks completely different now: http://ctrlq.org/files/screenshots/b76a925667955563e430ac0d7...
Last year I filed all my deductions from renovating and selling an apartment online. There's a fair amount of functionality now (according to the FAQ selling forest, business income, house/apartment sales (K2,5,6) investments (K4) et c) can be done online.

The swedish tax authority also incentivizes people to e-file: if you e-file, you'll get your tax return before midsummer, which in Sweden is a BIG holiday, when most people kick off their summer vacation. Even if you accept the defaults, but file on paper, you'll get your money in August instead of June.
I have that use case also, but I use Instapaper to do it, not just for HN but for anything I read on the Internet (inside of an RSS reader or not).
Ouch. Still, hard to find fault with the analysis, no matter how unpopular it may be with much of the readership of HN. Many folks here would love to sell a company to Yahoo! for $30MM after 18mo with minimal engineering effort and download numbers probably below those of many folks reading the news on HN.
So there is no connection between the two.
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We should all be very happy. This is a sign that easy money is still out there for the clever individual. I applaud the kid for what he has done. Yahoo might be stupid, but we've known that for a long long time.
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Ironic. The post says: "But it's really not ok to act functionally illiterate when you're not actually illiterate, when an advanced society that once put a man on the moon worked so hard to educate you."

If you'd read the text more carefully you wouldn't have missed the sarcasm of the passage you were so quick to dismiss. He was being sarcastic!
No. Just data. I would have been more descriptive, but I was writing that reply on my phone.

If you think it's a brag, I apologize, I try to offer as much insight and perspective from my "learnings the hard way" as I can.
To me this whole "new Yahoo!" thing is all backwards.

1. Yahoo! is in trouble. We need someone to take us out of this rut? But who? Enter Marissa Meyer: an executive with little top-level leadership experience and even less experience making desperate companies like Yahoo! relevant.

2. We need more productivity and creativity. Umm, lets get rid of work-from-home. That should do it. But we'll give out free food in company cafeterias. It's what Facebook does, right?

3. Our HR department sucks at hiring. Should we fix it? Nope. Just contrive some draconic hiring practices -- we're only going to look at people from engineering programs at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Harvey Mudd, and, of course, all the ivies. This kid went to CMU and has had already had a couple of floundering start-ups? Nope, don't even consider him. This is what Google does, isn't it?

So, in short, every single strategy is backwards. Instead of fixing the ACTUAL problems (leadership, HR, productivity, creativity), Yahoo! constantly misfires. Productivity is a side-effect of an already-positive company image. Good hires are a side-effect of an already-healthy corporate image.
I think you're supposed to have read irony into that comment. If you had bothered reading after that you would have seen that. That and the author's critique of people who can't be bothered reading more than a few paragraphs - in your case presumably because your default assumption is that you must know more than the author of the article and that he cannot possibly have been making a sophisticated point that would take more than that single sentence to unpack.
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Here are the courses [0], which I find at best overly optimistic in terms of timings, and critically lacking in mathematics and actual computer science.

[0]: http://www.42.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/programme-42.pdf
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I got my great grandma's couch reupholstered. The couch itself was free to me and I expect it to outlive me as well. I'm pretty sure she didn't get it new. I'm guessing manufactured in 1880 or so.

I dunno. It's pretty comfortable, and as you say, that couch problem is solved.
I dont understand why the current wave of criticism is leaving the market penetration (and 1st mover advantage), brand, and million users (and climbing) out of the picture - like it's not important. And are assuming that Yahoo must of paid it all to hire 3 people.
Check out my site: Seed-DB (http://www.seed-db.com). In addition to Y Combinator, I have data on 150+ accelerators around the world.

(YCList gets data from Seed-DB, for example)
The best way to answer the What's your greatest weakness? question is by highly accentuating a positive trait and stating how you overcome the stated weakness:

- Sometimes, I am too nice to my customers during phone conversations, so I set mental time limits for how long a call should last

- I need to be caffeinated in order to code my best, so I always make sure to stop by the coffee shop on the way to work

Yes, it is cheesy to answer like this, but it is a cheesy question to begin with.
From the 6Wunderkinder Android team:

When we started developing Wunderlist 2, our product design team came to us with this beautiful layer concept for Wunderlist’s Detail View. Since we strive to create a consistent Wunderlist experience for our users across all platforms, it was very important for us to have the Detail View behave the same way on Android than it does on iOS and the Web.

First, we tried to use existing open source code, but they just didn’t offer the behaviours and quality that we and the design team needed. So, equipped with a big pot of coffee and a few long nights, we worked on what is now SlidingLayer. After the launch of Wunderlist 2 we received a lot of email from Android developers that were interested in the techniques we used for the Detail View element.

It works the same as any other container on Android. For flexibility it extends from FrameLayout, so it’s as easy as to drop it inside of your XML layout and so you can adjust the parameters as usual. You tap to open, rather than sliding and you can place it on the left, right or middle. After opening, you can dismiss it by sliding it away. To make things extra simple, we introduced an auto mode within the parameter that determines which side to stick your view to. For instance setting the gravity of the SlidingLayer to the right in any container or using alignParentRight = true from within a RelativeLayout will automatically stick your SlidingLayer to the right.

We are super happy to be opening it up to the Android Community and hope to see more and more developers getting inspired to use the component in their apps.
I think there would be nothing but good coming from "lightweight", ad hoc charities, instead of enduring NGOs and other institutions.

The problem with conventional charities is that if they're successful, they put themselves out of business. Even if a funder supports that idea, it's entirely possible the organization will become an "institution" in its own right, and find other problems to solve -- and when you have a huge pool of money looking for problems to solve, there's no incentive for it to be efficient at all.

Charities, especially in Africa and other parts of the developing world, have institutional biases toward ongoing involvement -- the people involved don't want to create dependency, but the pressures on the organization lead it in that direction.

I prefer preventive medicine and economic development to paying for medical treatments (more effective for each dollar invested), but I support Watsi's methods, and if they can use those same methods of transparency and direct, small-dollar donor involvement to solve other problems (or, better, if other organizations copy their methods to solve other problems), they will dwarf the impact of any other YC company to date.
I thought all YC start-ups were required to report on week-on-week growth!
He didn't say anything to that effect at all. The only things that come close to that characterization are:

1. "If a site posts many items each day and you barely read any of them, delete that feed." (emphasis mine) If you're skimming all the items in a feed and deriving value from it, this piece of advice doesn't apply.

2. "RSS works best when following a large number of infrequently updated sites." Works best, not only works.

3. "It’s not enough to interleave their posts into a “river” or “stream” paradigm [...] because many of them would get buried in the noise of higher-volume feeds and people’s tweets." It's not enough, not that it's categorically not valuable.

The whole article dovetails nicely with Instapaper's purpose, which is to ensure you don't miss reading articles you find important. Relying solely on a river of news that's filled with high volume sources leads to a high chance of missing stuff you otherwise want to keep close tabs on. Pretty uncontroversial stuff.
Yes. Yes it is. +1

So much of what goes on in transactions in Silicon Valley has little to do with the headlines and a lot to do with power brokers and their interests.

It's a shame we don't have investigative journalism in Silicon Valley any more - partly because it's out of vogue nationally, and partly because Silicon Valley journalists love to hob-nob with investors. I'd love to see a follow-the-money on this deal.
Exactly. Licensing costs for technology involving mobile phone and mobile communication adds lot of expense. Fair comparison is with the IPads with mobile data but that still lacks the licensing for mobile voice.
"Off of"? Are you retarded or just american?
Fun fact; if you look at the robots.txt file for ycombinator.com, this page (dday.html) is the only one that's disallowed.
I've got to say that people who can quickly assemble appealing MVPs from existing markets are exactly the sort of people Yahoo need, but the reported purchasing figures is a hefty price to pay for three staff, especially if all the available evidence points to them being productive startup generalists rather than visionary corporate project managers

Imagine how many MVPs Yahoo's existing staff could create if allocated $30 million of development time for skunkworks projects...
The facts keep changing here. How does a 12% interest accumulation on a $500 loan come out to $3000? Or maybe the $500 was the interest, in which case your "loan" amount was $4167 (which, I'll just say again, is hardly an insignificant fact -- lots of people would love to get a $4k loan at 4% with a 3-year baloon payment!). And I don't see why you ended up paying the remaining $2500k to a lawyer when even you admit the tax liability was correct (and in any case why would you pay >50% of the amount being contested on the lawyer anyway? That's just not worth it.)

The one item that strikes me is the bit about the citizenship. And I can clearly see how that would be a huge disruption. But frankly I'd blame an unjust INS policy here. I don't see how you're pinning this on the IRS for correctly (if inefficiently) enforcing its tax code.
Check the technical paper: https://bitmessage.org/Bitmessage%20Technical%20Paper.pdf
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To elaborate: In Sweden, even if you accept the defaults, your creditors and employers will send you statements (sv: kontrolluppgift) of your debts, interest, earnings, income et c that you can easily double-check against the defaults.
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Avg. net worth of 29-37 year olds down 21% since 1983; 56-64 year olds up 2x
Google, why not add RSS content to the Google+ stream?
I hear what you're saying, but the problem with poor deals like this which are done for reasons other than the headline reason, is that they're effectively random. You cannot structure your business in order to get an exit like this. You tend to luck into one - or more often you get it because you have a network of unpublicized connections who have interests that are not overtly clear. The rest of us? We should be happy when money is going to solid, well-built businesses with metrics we can all understand rewarding us for hard work and innovation - because unless you're already an insider, that's the only thing you can control to get a win.
By definition, even if you include your statement, Yahoo directors know how to spend Yahoo's cash reserves best. It may be for their own best interest, but your statement doesn't contradict the OP's.
I'm reminded Yahoo exists every time I check my false-negatives spam filter training file. Virtually all spam which gets through to my inbox is from Yahoo addresses, often from compromised actual people I need to receive mail from (including at least one partner at a fund, my dentist, etc.)
If one needs be "more respectful" then one is lacking in respect. The literal dictionary definition of disrespect is a lack of respect.
Would you discount someone who didn't write tests, but wrote the solution in a language that had a strong, static type system (like Haskell, OCaml, etc)?
The point is to dig up something cool in the vast universe of information and actually deliver it. It is nice there are friends and university Professors who knows about this certain technology way deeper but can they _really_ deliver ? Sure, they will teach other kids and those kids will teach others or maybe going to be employed at some tech company.
This kind of success is just more potent a visible. It really depends from what angle you look.
This guy has financial, educational and social success. From standpoint of the startup culture, I think he's done very well. Anything can be judged only by comparison to something else.
Well, I'm not finding a lot inherently wrong with using new and existing apis to make other things. I would in fact argue that that is why we create apis.

However, I feel like people aren't very upfront with the fact that they are building on top of APIs. For whatever reason, there's this perception that arranging existing resources into a more valuable arrangement is somehow not a valid approach.

I'd love to hear others thoughts on this.