skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loving it! I've sent you a few feature requests through your form, I hope it helps you a bit :)
You have my sympathies. One thing that might help it to pay attention to your attitude and demeanor. One problem is thinking that you are humbly begging for a job and that they are in control of the process. A bit more of a chip on your shoulder may help. Sure some my be put off by an "attitude", but if you arent having any success, why not? It may make you look like a can-do person.
The site is pretty slick, but the backtest I ran when I cloned the algo is pretty slow. It's been running for about 10+ mins now and it's only 40% done.

As well, in the logs, when I see stuff like:

2012-05-31handle_data:35INFO -63.520880 shares of Security(6109) sold.

it doesn't really inspire a lot of confidence. What does it mean that -63.520880 shares were sold? Does that mean they were bought? And the fact that you are purchasing fractional shares also doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
So, issuing valid critiques of this acquisition is tantamount to crying, meanwhile the defense of the purchase basically boils down to:

1. Big names invested (a bit circular, no?)

2. Marissa wanted to make those big names happy (why? So they'll be willing to foist some other overpriced deals on her? Isn't she the one holding the checkbook?)

3. She wanted a "good-looking spokesperson" (is a rebuttal even needed for this one?)

4. Lots of press. (Acquiring a worthwhile company can do the same...and good press to boot. Is this American Idol or a publicly traded company trying to devise a cogent, technically sound turnaround strategy?)

5. Marissa said she wants to acquire mobile and, well, this is mobile. (Well, that certainly checks out. Nothing to see here)

The article then closes by stating that the company probably isn't worth $30 million, which makes this a good deal for D'Aloisio. Yeah, no kidding.

I'm not sure an article can get any dumber or more pointless.

If the goal is to paint legit criticism as jealousy or crying, then the author should at least bring a valid counterargument.
Right, I agree. It is not our decision when we collectively stop thinking we have free will. It might not happen at all. When I say "We ought to" I really only mean that facts point in one direction, and our beliefs point in another, and whenever they become aligned we'll be better off.
The Oakleys, the beach, the looking off to the side. It's not any one thing, it's the totality of the circumstances.
I know Y Combinator is selective. However, claiming a 0% false-positive rate is just plain denial. Or possibly a redefinition of "bad" start-up or "bad" founders.

It comes across as arrogance, and "pride comes before a fall" and all that. I would also definitely say that the Valley hype machine has been producing what sounds an awful lot like its famous irrational exuberance lately, yet meanwhile VC returns-on-investment are not actually that good.
Or he was attempting what hu-mans refer to as "humor" :-)
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It's certainly not sociopathy. I can think of a number of reasons why he might have behaved that way and I've seen similar behavior from similar people in similar circumstances.

Your level of maturity is an asset which not everyone has at your age. The reason people are more permissive of poor behavior from young people is that they are still learning the ways of the world. Hopefully D'Aloisio learnt from this experience.
Many lispers prefer to roll their own thin layers on top of hunchentoot, or even use it raw, but I prefer the slightly ticker layer of restas.
This is an idea whose time has come. I've also seen Evernote used as a game distribution platform [1-2].

With how much Evernote is expanding as a platform and as a way to store and index information, maybe the next threat to Google isn't Facebook but Evernote itself.

[1] http://flowandzonegames.com/break-bad-habits-addictions-card...

[2] http://flowandzonegames.com/hypnotic-visions/

EDIT: Was Postach.io a bookmarking app in it's past life (and a pretty good one too)?
If this is true, imagine what it's like to be a Yahoo engineer. You just lost the ability to telecommute. You've suffered through downsizing. Morale is (by all reports) completely in the tank, and now they dump $30M into a 17 year old?

I'd want to know where my chunk of the pie is.
I attended a talk given by Gabe Newell at my university back in January, and in it he mentioned that he wasn't satisfied with it and they might phase it out. So Greenlight may not always be there.
Let him know in the seriouseats comments... He's a really cool guy and would genuinely like to learn if he's ever incorrect about something.
how does the color blind decides how not to waste his vote in a national election?

i joke. i joke...
Taking "technical expertise" to mean "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics", and having nothing to do with art or psychology or anything else that could be dismissed by a certain type of person as "fuzzy":

"Cindy is a transplant from Seattle, where she was previously a Research Scientist and Engineer @UW Bioengineering." --Seems to qualify.

"Kelly was previously at Google as a UX design intern for YouTube and is currently Senior at Carnegie Mellon University double majoring in Human Computer Interaction and Industrial Design." --Borderline. I'm not sure whether UX design includes handling code or not; if so, it would definitely qualify; if not, it could be dismissed.

"Prior to Goldbely Vanessa headed up UX and Visual Design at Blip.tv, and was a Senior Interactive Designer for Gilt Groupe. [...] Vanessa handles UI/UX and all things creative at Goldbely." --Again, if "UI/UX" includes handling code, that would seem to qualify; if not, maybe not.

So it looks like 1 to 3, assuming you mean what I think you mean.

[Edit: not originally included was this: "Iolanthe received her Masters of Engineering, EECS in 2010 from MIT and also holds a B.S., EECS, Physics from MIT." This brings the count up to 2-4 out of 10.]
Given the number of people trying to beat the market with their personal algos, at least a few are certain to beat the market for many years, even if their strategies were no better than random.

Edit: I don't mean to suggest that it can't be done. I'm just suggesting that the existence of people beating the market may not be a good indicator of your ability to beat the market.
Most of the people who don't succeed financially made a terrible choice of who there parents were. It's probably the single most important choice one can make.
Understanding Postgres Data Caching
It's really nice to have another Weather API available. The only option I was considering prior to this was WeatherUndergrounds's API which is fairly simple to use. However, the pricing for Forecast's API is much better. Also, having a hyperlocal forecast for any lat/long is useful like DarkSky is.

Forecast's Pricing [1]

1,000 API requests per day is free. $1/10,000 API requests after that.

WeatherUnderground's Pricing [2]

You need to use their pricing calculator, and if you want historical weather, the price goes up a lot. $520/month for 5,000/API requests per day.

[1] https://developer.darkskyapp.com/terms_of_use.txt

[2] http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/pricing.html
Surely there's a sorting metric that could solve this? Something like score = k_1/age_of_post * k_2/frequency_of_posts with appropriate k-weights.

Personally, my Google Reader has a folder for 'rarely updated', which I usually check first. Then I have the 'All Items' sorted by magic and skim the first few pages or so for things that strike me as interesting. Then I mark all as read.
I've never heard of these, which is part of the benefit of YC I guess. What that said, none of them seem to offer what BuildZoom does which is a list of all the contractors in my area sorted by reputation. Even if their reputation metrics are questionable at this point, at least they are making an attempt at it.

I just contacted a painter through buildzoom. Let's see how it works out. Contractors in my area (Tahoe) are notoriously hard to track down.
That was a typo.
The "tyranny of the loudest" is a problem I wish more reader software addressed. If someone tweets 100 times a day, just show me the one that was retweeted 10 times. If someone tweets once a month I want to see every one.

Maybe give the option to accordion out a "100 tweets hidden" link.
Is this different to what would be expected by random sampling? The fact it goes from 70% to 70% makes me wonder if there is and underlying variation by state at all.
Maybe a lot of those searches are just "alternative to Google Reader", which would be a subset (90% of it?) of the "alternative to Google" results.
I should have known better about the age thing. I know it's a stretch to compare the two, but Summly seems more innovative than "a unique new social network" if you know what I mean. I give the kid tons of credit.
Would it be possible to allow custom post paths? I'm looking to move off of posterous and I'd like to preserve the link structure domain.com/title.
Elastic for the searching, but S3 for the persistence it appears. AWS credentials are even "expected" per the readme.
yeah that's not too cool.
Designing for high resolution Retina displays
We're finalizing the first newsletter so we'll have an archive on the site shortly!
?? Evernote lets you view by created date or updated date, I use both of those all the time.
> Imagine if facebook would allow their users's public posts to be viewable in g+. That's what Tumblr does.

I may have missed something but I haven't seen some tumblr post posted on G+ via RSS (yet).

> Having RSS publishing is a good first step for an open and interoperable social platform. Add to that the ability to see all unread posts from a group of subscriptions and the ability to subscribe to outside rss feeds within Tumblr and you got yourself a very good social network/feed reader/blogging platform.

A good first step but they (facebook, twitter) all ended up removing it.

> Maybe the kids are on to something.

More like the parents (read: youngsters from the 2000) were on to something. I had high hopes for RSS and even higher for ATOM (I ended up writing my own flat-file blog system that only used ATOM documents as storage, I really liked it with the full xslt mumbo jumbo but in the end it's xml and that was it).

>I wonder if there is a business model for a social network that keeps posts in the open and encourages consumptions from outside platforms through rss.

Some tried to monetize RSS by adding ads in the feeds but that didn't take off. Reading a site's content only in the rss feed cuts off its authors from any kind of revenues (worse if the online reader displays its own add along the feeds).

I presented a project when I was a student. It consisted of a website that offered any registered user to transform the RSS/ATOM feeds they would have supplied into a mini updated WAP-enabled website for browsing the feeds on those old nokia of the 2000s. It was nice and all but when one of my advisors asked me "how would you turn it into something profitable or how would you bring it to the market?" all I could say was "this would never work because nobody with profits on his mind is promoting webfeeds".

I though the news-publishing industry would use RSS as a kind of copy-pasta medium but it doesn't look like things are going this way (at least not on the public side of things).

RSS (and ATOM because "i want to believe") isn't dead but I am not convinced it's going to make a come-back on any for-profit social network.
no, no reason not to use plain urxvt without the client/daemon bit.

at the time, I think I was on some kind of network where urxvt's terminfo wasn't likely to be installed anywhere. I know I could install it everywhere in ~/.terminfo or whatever, but it was a pain to get to a new host and realize that I hadn't set it up. I went back to xterm.
Something else that Marco didn't dwell on is the diversity of stuff that you can basically just plug into your rss reader if you want notification. A website may choose to use it to publish anything they wish. Misc. examples:

1. Following a user on reddit via rss:

http://www.reddit.com/user/PresidentObama/.rss

2. Following a search term on reddit via rss:

http://www.reddit.com/search/.rss?q=manbearpig

3. Checking a mailinator throwaway email via rss:

http://www.mailinator.com/rss.jsp?email=webmaster

4. Google Alerts (RIP.)
It's funny what a few days of teaching Operating Systems will do to a man.
Google gets ‘ungoogleable’ off Sweden's new word list
It looks like a poll hijacked by Mini and steam train enthusiast groups. The Mini and Mallard were nice pieces of engineering, but you'd have to be a pretty hardcore fan to place them on a pedestal above the jet engine or medicinal use of penicillin or decoding DNA (or even relatively mundane things like radar and ultrasound) as significant examples of innovation.
This type of thinking marginalizes women by constantly comparing them to men. It sets the equality for women in tech cause back by subtly ingraining the idea that we should be focusing on the males rather than the females.

If you are in favor of more women in tech then say exactly that. Unless you're actually just against men in the tech field, in which case you should just carry on doing what you're doing.
For the record: not Oakleys, not at a beach, but yes, looking to the side.

If we're done picking on looks and personal issues, something I tried to avoid very carefully in the article, perhaps we can focus on content and ideas?
I really like this. I do want to see a directory though.

Just a little detail I really like the way you show how much money will go to each party involved in the sale:

http://itch.io/about/faq#someone-buys-my-game-for-10-how-muc...

I know it's just a sum, but I like the way you formatted it :)
Oh really? So you see an article titled "What it's like to have two mothers", respond with "kids need male role models" but excuse everybody, what you really mean is, "it is important for children to be exposed to people of different age, ethnicity, culture, opinion, and such". Ok then.

FYI, kids grow up just fine in culturally and ethnically homogeneous environments. There is a world outside the United States or wherever you happen to be from. There are very large countries out there made up entirely of one ethnicity and one culture, and not everyone in those countries is devoid of empathy.
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'hate speech'? Oh well, I guess somebody wanted to make a quick buck. Lot's of money in this nonsense.
> Set that up in under a minute.

Looks like it. But to be less snarky, I'm no longer very compelled by speed of setup. The result is at least 10x more important.
Keep in mind that I am by no means representative of the younger generation since I'm a really techy guy in Silicon Valley who is very much plugged into startups, etc. The fact that I frequent HN makes me much different than 99% of 16 - 21 year olds.

I do feel like most people my age do not care about privacy. I obsessively use and tune all the FB privacy controls, but I feel like most people don't know about them.

The appeal of pseudonyms on Tumblr has more to do with aspiration than privacy, I think. A lot of people younger than me (who I've FB stalked!) who use Tumblr use it like they use Pinterest: basically a collection of aspirational images. For example, a 16 year old guy might have a Tumblr that's full of pictures of sports cars, beautiful women, exotic locations, music artists that he likes, etc. There is certainly no actual blogging, because that requires lot's of writing. They'll typically have a tumblrID that has less to do with their name, and more to do with their identity. So someone who plays sports might have a tumblrID of "sportsguy123" (you get the picture).
DigitalOcean's New Control Panel and Transparent Design Process
It's not logic. I just think it's messed up to ridicule someone for making something cool and getting a nice payday for it.
Invest in startups that pitched at YC Demo Day
Agreed, but the markdown formatting didn't seem to work on my first test post. Still, a really cool idea. Nice job, guys!
> it is important to point out that Go essentially solves the same problems Java does

One of the major selling points of Go is its concurrency features built into the language. Namely, first class channels and lightweight threads. Java has neither of those. In particular, very few languages support lightweight threads in an M:N scheduling style (Haskell, Erlang, Rust), which in and of themselves makes Go a very attractive tool for concurrent programming.
This is the second article from the same author that is well reasoned and factually incorrect (the first was the MongoDB hate). Check http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/03/26/what-does-30-mil... to see there is some research going on there. Also, glue or not, a successful mobile, one that has an audience is worth some money...
ASK HN: Tell us a survey topic.We'll make you an Infographic about it
Pollfish.com is a fresh startup (1 month old) in beta stage.

We have more than 150k mobile users and anyone can perform surveys and get answers.

We want to make an interesting survey/infographic to our panel.

So we are taking votes HN community. If you could ask anything what would it be?

Tell us the topic and we will get you the results to the most interesting topic :D

Can't wait your comments !
I partially agree - I do use RSS to check for sites that publish daily updates (yes, even Hacker News). But even with those, you don't need to overload yourself. Right now I get about ~100 news every day, which is perfectly fine with me. I went away last week, and I was greeted by ~500 news. I was able to skim through those in maybe one hour, so it was fine.

Everytime I feel that my feed reader is overloaded, I write down every site that I follow, and decide about which sites I really care, and which sites i can easily unsubscribe without problems. I also try to remove sites that post the same thing (this happen a lot with news sites).
It's not that bad. It's short, a real word and memorable. I've never seen a product with an .io domain catch on and become mainstream though, but I guess that's not really relevant.
I was in Kuwait for the 09 elections when women were first elected to the parliament. What was the incident you talk about?

Additionally, high castes in India frequently complain about the government mandated reservations for low castes and other minorities (example, at the IIT [1]). I remember there was a year when the low caste positions went vacant just because they were reserved for them, while qualified high caste students were rejected.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_policy_in_Indian_In...
I would have to reluctantly grant this point. ;) Although they did make a fairly good case that the MINI did contain some innovations which were significant at least within the auto industry. (Disclaimer: I sure do like my MINI.)

I think Tim Berners-Lee should have ranked higher, too, btw.
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Having some paper and a pen can certainly do wonders - just last week I was working on something involving a lot of trigonometry (collision detection in a game), and being able to visualize and think about it on paper helped a lot. Quick visualizations are probably one of the best use-cases in general.
Secure Boot complaint filed against Microsoft
Excellent! that's just replaced http://instantdomainsearch.com/ for me (even thought that seems a tad faster) thanks to the inclusion of .co.uk.

Only slight annoyance is that I have to scroll down to see all the TLDs, that slows down the process a little.
Great job. From 2007-12-01 to 2008-12-31 you only managed to lose 215.81%. The benchmark only lost 37.04%.
I don't think those people and corporations matter to Oracle.

Oracle doesn't go after startups. Or even companies like Facebook or Dropbox etc.

It goes after: government agencies, banks, insurance companies, multi-nationals, huge retail chains, logistics, payroll, and such. And it does a killing at it.

Web style big-data are not Oracle's domain.

And it's not like those startup people will afterwards (when they "grow up") go work in the enterprise and use Mongo and MariaDB there. It's just different kind of problem domains altogether.
In a workplace environment, all can cause problems.
“99 Bottles of Beer” JavaScript challenge
Poll: "ungoogleable"
What do Hackers think "ungoogleable" means?

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/03/26/sweden-raises-white-flag-on-ungoogleable/
Something that cannot be found on the Web with a *search engine*.
Something that cannot be found on the Web with *Google*.
As a coder, why would you join one of these companies with non-technical founders instead of just building or co-founding your own product and collecting vastly more equity? I don't see the draw.
Correct. I meant CalDAV/CardDAV by extension.
Thank you! Indeed `git submodule foreach` is quite useful.
Although I skimmed a bit, but I was a little let down when the author started heavily editorializing the issue. I guess I just want to see more data and less up-font opinions on issues like this.
PressureNET Live API: Crowdsourced atmospheric pressure data
75% equity in a company with a product no one knows about, or 30% equity in a company everyone uses?
40 percent of America's workforce will be freelance by 2020
Is that the rearranging bug on iOS? Stupid workaround: Visit the legal button, then try rearranging.
haha damn, I started work this weekend on pretty much the same idea (and I even named it forecast)

This is great though, nice one :)
This story is behind a paywall.
Right, I agree. And exactly because of this, I hope pg doesn't divulge into what these 'predictors of failure' are from his perspective.
It's true - but I like to think of it as an instance where it's ok to break all the rules and see something unexpected. Sometimes as a dev I feel boxed in with regards to how technology is intended to be used.
(disclaimer: I work for Quantopian)

I can't speak for the author of the algo, but from the algo, it looks like the relevant lines for your question are 34 (order(stock,indicator * context.bet_amount)) and 35 (log.info("%f shares of %s sold." %(context.bet_amount * indicator,stock)).

Our backtester (Zipline) will only order whole number of shares, obviously. If you pass it a fractional number, we take the floor: https://github.com/quantopian/zipline/blob/master/zipline/ge...

The log line you're seeing should probably flip the sign of the number of shares before logging. order(-63, sid(6109)) means sell 63 shares of security 6109. The log line is simply logging the negative value instead of the positive one. Users can log anything they want in their backtest.

As for the slow performance, apologies - being on HN has resulted in a lot of people running this algo and while we're scaling up new servers, it's taking a bit of time to distribute load.

thanks for using Quantopian!

[Edit - added source link to Zipline's order method]
>Only a few, but some of those startups will become the software giants of tomorrow and they will not use anything from the Oracle ecosystem. Something to be really worried about.

As per my comment above, Oracle doesn't care about those startups, whether they become the "software giants of tomorrow" or not.

They sell to government agencies, logistics, payroll, multi-nationals, banks, finance, insurance companies, etc.

Those sectors do not overlap with the startups using MariaDB, Mongo, or what have you. Totally different problem domains and people.
DHH is so mouthy it actually is really beginning to give the impression of massive insincerity.
Fantastic UI, I love the animations but wish I could drag to move around the globe. I love the rapid pace of weather API improvements. Good job :)
Wakemate would probably be a better example of a YC disaster. Didn't quit run away with its customers' money, but had some serious PR and internal problems...
By the time everyone is using it, it's too late to be a co-founder and 30% equity is certainly out the window.