skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article, but I'm even more skeptical of using LOC as a measure of expressiveness (whatever that means). I think expressiveness has more to do with how "native" a language feels to you. Just like a hispanic might think in Spanish, I think in English, and we are each more expressive in our home language. I would probably butcher Scala code, but a Python guy would butcher C#. I also think this metric ignores boilerplate code. In C#, I make a new class and it pre-fills a ton of boilerplate. One could debate that this is "expressive", but it's something that a native speaker doesn't even notice; our eyes ignore the framework and go straight to what matters. Same for long function prototypes and object types. We're not typing every line of code; most of them are typed for us.

It also ignores coding standard guidelines that many people follow, including hungarian notation, or expressive variable names, which can make lines of code get split up even though the naming conventions themselves might be considered more understandable because of it. Established languages are more likely to follow this pattern than the arcane notation used by most modern functional languages.

In the end, languages to the "more LOC" side of the list feel more native to me than those on the "less LOC" side of the list, and so I feel I'm more expressive in them, despite the statistic. I think LOC is not a useful measurement for anything, really, except for linkbait.
The Rise Of Seth Godin Infographic
This is the one written in Go right?
The only two monthly expenses I still write a check for is the water and sewer. That does not stop me from realizing how expensive my mortgage, electric, etc is. Trying to save people from their own stupidity or ignorance by making them fill out menial former is not the answer.
42.fr is free...
Article screams of "you jelly?"

And most of us are, indeed, jelly. The bottom line is, if you're into start-ups, you understand that in many ways it's a lottery. Instagram won last week, then Pinterest, and now Summly. This is the norm. Over-paying for products that aren't really even products.

I'm surprised a professor at Cornell hasn't understood the VC culture yet. I was talking to a friend last week about this cute chick he wanted to introduce me to. Turns out she works at a relatively famous startup in L.A. as a secretary. It also turns out that she makes more than my mom (who's a research chemist). I've just learned to /sigh, move on and then quickly get back to work.

Throwing money around is how Silicon Valley works. Get used to it.
In terms of spawning time and overhead, yes. In terms of parallelism, containers are like threads ;)
"I think this reflects well on Mayer's distrust of yahoo's HR department."

I'm confused by this statement. In a highly technical company like Yahoo, aren't the hiring decisions made primarily by the managers of the groups that have the open positions? It doesn't seem that an HR department would have the ability to figure out whether a software developer is even minimally competent.
I remember reading that Docker and LXC would only work on 64 bit platforms. If your uname -m was x86_64, the file would be there.

Also read earlier today that Go's GC on i686 (or really any 32 bit platforms?) is not suitable for a daemon like docker, it leaks. This may be fixed in tip. I have no idea.
Paul Graham Says Y Combinator Is Pickier Than Ever, ‘Hardly Any’ Bad Startups
The man only missed 22 days in 5 years! He worked for 15 years before that in media and wrote 5 books before he even started blogging.

Lesson learned: Blogs don't take off on their own.
Engineering the Bitcoin Gold Rush
Is asking roles just a part of gauging the community or does it have an affect on what types of ShowHNs are curated for that user? I'd consider myself both a designer and a hacker, but would prefer to see more design and front-end oriented ShowHNs.
Correct, it is written in Go. Checkout the repo to see all the wonderfulness. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker
Watsi is doing great stuff.

One related thing I would recommend, if you're interested in charity & philanthropy, is to check out GiveWell (http://givewell.org). They have very well-studied recommendations of charities, and they recommend them on the basis of "most good for your dollar". Some of the most efficient treatments on Watsi are on the order of thousands of dollars per child's life saved. That's pretty damn good as "good for your dollar" goes, but GiveWell's recommendations are often a factor of 2-10 better, and the evidence base to support their recommendations is quite strong.
If they are really rejecting candidates that don't come from a prestigious university they should be ineligible to apply for H-1B visas.
It is written in Go. As opposed to (?)
"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."

You can resign your citizenship. I remember hearing reports of people doing this last year (going to Singapore)
Show HN: I'm writing a leanpub book about Common Lisp web programming
Link to leanpub page: https://leanpub.com/lispwebtales
It had me until Alter Ego. Why not just use Google Authenticator?
How "comfortable" became "comfterble"
> in volume I doubt a retina screen is any more expensive than the low-res ones

I'm skeptical! Retina has more and smaller parts that require better machines to work with. Source or evidence?

PS iPhone's miniaturization adds cost compared with an iPad. And it has margins over 50% instead of 30-35%.
Transcript: Supreme Court Arguments On California Gay Marriage Ban
This is correct, we don't currently support 32-bit hosts, and don't publish 686 builds.

We do plan to add cross-arch support in the future, though - it's just a lot of work to get right.
The nerd in me likes this idea. But I can't see the practical use. Nevertheless, seeing the DEATH of the RSS INDUSTRY following the killing of Google Reader, a new format wouldn't feel out of place. Fresh new start and everything... :)
Letters have laws that special-case them.
>off of

Another idiot...
Actually, with these new plans, T-Mobile allows you to pay the whole cost upfront if you want.[1] But with time value of money and all that, I don't see why you would want to, especially considering they're giving you a loan at 0% APR.

That also means, though, that it's not any cheaper for you to pay upfront. They just take that full price, subtract out your down payment, and divide by 24 months. Also, what they're not telling you is that you need to have good credit to get those super-low down payments. For those with mediocre credit, they might charge up to 50% of the cost of the phone for money down.[2]

[1] http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/?features=371e5c4a-3dc6-... ("or pay in full today at checkout")

[2] Same link as above: "0% APR On Approved Credit for well-qualified buyer."
Most 25-29 year olds I know are still living like college students. Buying gadgets, not saving, and spending more than they earn.

There was a guy at my last job that tried to unionize because he felt he deserved more money. He was also unwilling to to anything in the slightest to learn another skill or actually do something more for the company. This is just one example, but I am seeing this more and more.

The problem is entitlement. Nobody wants to do the work required to earn a good living. They just want a good job handed to them.
As said before, containerization is the new virtualization. This is History in the making people.
It is there, it made it in very recently, so the docs aren't great.. but check out the CLI docs for some more information on push/pull

http://docker.io/documentation/commandline/cli.html

We welcome all pull requests and issues, so if you notice something missing in the docs, feel free to let us know, or add :)
Google Objects To 'UnGoogleable'
What are the top 10 things that we should be informed about, in life?
Living in the Future: Startup Ideas
Stop focusing on the imbalance of women in tech and focus on education
Startup Paedae offers trip to space. Unique signing bonus for talented engineer.
It is actually finished, just poorly documented.

$ docker pull base
$ CONTAINER=$(docker run -d base apt-get install -y curl)
$ docker commit -m "Installed curl" $CONTAINER yebyen/betterbase
$ docker push yebyen/betterbase

It's buggy but it should work. Let me know if you actually do that, I will try to pull it :)
There are similar tools written in other languages, python, c, perl, etc.
No worries, thanks for asking. It's currently just an MVP so it's manually curated and based on popularity rankings. Expect your first email soon!
Stop the Cyborgs
Fixed. Added a new mod_rewrite only for page requests that lack a query string:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$

RewriteRule ^ycombinator-companies$ /cache/ycombinator-companies [PT]
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
This pizza is not "worth" $750,000, it simply cost that much in terms of delayed value of bitcoins.
Or possibly someone who's never been handed responsibility for an ethical decision at work. I mean, otherwise, what are you going to say? "I went and helped that homeless guy even though he could have stuck me up"?
Just a gauge for now :)
The fact that desktop flat panel retail prices have never scaled by LCD element pitch is the best I have. But in general arguments of the form "newer/better/fancier technology must be more expensive!" are always wrong. Things are getting cheaper, not more expensive. This has been nearly-universally true over the last three decades. I see nothing special about LCDs that would argue against that.

Occasionally you can see situations where "old" stuff is cheaper, but usually it's due to things like mature production processes being exploited by manufacturers who aren't competing at the high end anymore (and thus don't have to pay for their own R&D and/or worry about cannibalizing sales).

I know you want to believe that it costs Apple $559 to make that $600 phone, but it doesn't. It's probably not even close. You're being fleeced, and that's a good thing for the industry as it drives innovation.
The linked article (and title) says:

> “There are hardly any startups in this batch that are bad,” Graham said.

But the following [1] says:

> Y Combinator founder Paul Graham said this he feels like the contracted size of this class means that there are essentially no weak startups in the bunch

There's a huge difference between "hardly any bad startups" and "essentially no weak startups" so
it seems someone at techcrunch is misquoting pg.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/26/y-combinator-winter-2013-de...
Sweet. I will be reviewing this thoroughly as I have been looking forward to it since the PyCon demo!
See Google Reader. When you create your own solutions, you don't have to worry about somebody else changing the rules down the road.
Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B (video)
btw, in case you want easier browsing for selection, there is this http://www.hnshowcase.com

consider maybe also interesting askhns
How to Use Google Alerts for Content Marketing: Collect & Store Content Ideas
Split this into metro areas please. Generalizing for the entire state makes no sense.
> Reposted to bypass censorship

There's (usually) no censorship in HN, you are just getting downvoted, most likely because folks think your comment is impolite, uncalled for, and brings nothing to the conversation.
From the business standpoint, what are the risks/hurdles that need to be overcome for Quantopian to offer a "Operationalize Algorithm" button that starts running on real money?

Surely there could be some structure in which Quantopian gets institutional trader status (or whatever the "trade for (virtually) free" status is), and then passes off the low-cost trading to its users, for a fee.
> "You shouldn’t come back to hundreds or thousands of unread articles." ... "you shouldn’t subscribe to feeds that would generate that kind of unread volume." ... "you’re using it in a way that’s not good for you."

These sorts of prescriptive statements don't read as "I see the value others may derive from other use cases." They explicitly read as "I don't see the value" and "I've looked and I don't think it exists."

Further, using an RSS reader to skim a frequently-updated site, of which I read only a few articles, is precisely the point.

High quantities of postings exacerbates the flaws of their designs. But with RSS, it's easy to skim pages of headlines. After a long weekend I can deal with hundreds of unread articles precisely because I'm interested in so little.

If there were aggregating services that delivered what I was looking for, I'd certainly prefer that. But I haven't found them.
There's been breakdowns of the cost to produce the iPhone. The BOM on the iPhone 5 is about $170, then throw in labor, marketing, distribution, etc. I think for iPhone 1, it was estimated Apple's cost was about $240 per device.
EXACTLY!

I've been saying this for the last three years here on Hn: Yahoo is stupid to not be aggressively and heavily spending their massive cash reserves to buy back into an innovative place here in the valley.

Mayer is no dope! She knows that being the convoluted portal that Yahoo is, is a death sentence. They need to act quick and fast and often.

Buying up a very young tech upstart is a good step toward splicing in some new, nimble DNA - which Yahoo needs desperately.

$30MM is also a marketing number!

Remember when everyone's exit plan was Google or Facebook? Well, add Yahoo to the list for exit acquire players.
> It is the socioeconomic fabric that gives meaning to ideas, things, and ultimately people.

What are you saying? Google, Craigslist, the Museum of Natural History and Earnest Hemingway have no meaning without glue like finance?
Facebook isn't going away soon, but do please look into being the next timesink for the web. It definitely feels ripe for a new timesink. People are getting bored with Facebook, no doubt, but they still use it daily. Surely it will be disrupted in the future, (few of the original NYSE companies exist) but not anytime soon. When Mark said there were other social networks, PG's laughing response of "Not really" was correct. If half of Facebook's daily users quit it'd only set them back a year or two. On top of that, Facebook is in the great position of already having the chicken-egg problem solved, so if they did want to move into, say, PayPal's area, they could do it. (Imagine if grandpa can send his grand daughter money for school and see her picture while he does it. Way more comfortable than PayPal. Not to mention they could probably do better fraud detection, etc)

Again for emphasis, Facebook isn't going away. People share more than ever and use it daily, but they are getting bored with it so a new opening for another timesink has been created. For example, all of the people I know that use Pinterest also use Facebook. Pinterest is a newer timesink, but it doesn't replace Facebook.
Rooshv seems to be preventing SPAM by limiting registration duration
Been reading this forum for a while, and the signal/noise ratio quality was really good. It was a bit weird for this kind of forums/topics.

This method might explain how they keep a good signal/noise ratio. Serious members will probably have to wait and be serious on the 1st day.
The human mind has a number of faults hard-wired into it like optical illusions or the illogical notion that it is unfair if your mom gives extra toys to your brother and not you.

Lesson for entrepreneurs everywhere: your brain is lying when it says price should be a function solely of production cost. Supply and Demand is the Law!
Very little correlation, zero causation.
Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed, Scientists Suggest
As a fellow 17-year-old, I have nothing less than respect for Nick. You're obviously doing something right if you sell your company for $30M before you're an adult. Who cares if he's not an AI researcher? The scholar who wrote this article can't bash this kid's product until he actually builds something useful. If he came up with a revolutionary AI theory, great. But the people who take an experimental idea and see the value in it are the people who change the world. Einstein came up with some good theories, but nobody will remember his name when someone uses the theories to create a time machine.

Are we going to ridicule Tesla Motors for making (highly innovative) cars because they licensed the steering wheel or navigation system from another company?
> I don't understand why other governments don't seem so easily bought and sold for a pittance

I was in Scotland with my US born wife. The airwaves were rife with outrage. Politicians had expensed $200 radios to government accounts that were for personal use. My wife could not believe the country was so focused on a pittance.

I think of it like broken windows and graffiti in New York. Once in a while, something big like Watergate or Blagojevich comes along. Otherwise America doesn't care. Other countries do care. There is a principle at stake.

New Zealand for instance, is one of the least corrupt countries in the world. One of the oldest and most popular TV shows is called Fair Go. Fair Go largely deals with tiny little grievances. But the country, as a whole, cares.
Is an Online Business a Real Business?
I remember when selling to Yahoo! was the exit plan.
China increases 2020 fuel economy standard to 47 MPG, 34 MPG by 2015
We're Stuck in the Mobile Stone Age...Someone Light a Fire
I didn't downvote it, but it was downvoted for a good reason. He didn't spend much effort to understand a simple sentence.

http://code.google.com/p/vitess/wiki/ProjectGoals#Why_did_we...

> Go’s existing mark-and-sweep garbage collector is sub-optimal for systems that use large amounts of static memory (like caches). In the case of vtocc, this would be the row cache. To alleviate this, we intend to use memcache for the time being.

For a self-described systems level language this is ridiculous. I would like Go to replace C++ and Java, but false optimism won't make this happen.
With the subpackage, did you actually put the stuff in subfolders of the original package, or did they have two different top-level folder names? In other words, was it

import (
"github.com/foo/x-core"
"github.com/foo/x-adapters"
)

or

import (
"github.com/foo/x"
"github.com/foo/x/adapters"
)

If the second, then do you need to do something special with regards to compilation or anything else?

One thing that bugs me with the second approach is that the package names then have to be different. If the original core package is called "x", and you have an "adapters" package, would the package name be something like "x_adapters"? Just "adapters" seems a bit presumptuous (it's very generic).
> It's not just finance. Craigslist? Airbnb? Facebook? Apple? Glue. Put it this way: if you walked out the door with their source code tomorrow, how much of their value could you replicate?

You are conflating the "thought vs. glue" ratio with the "past thought vs. currently generating thought" ratio.
Clever idea. The only problem I see with this is that rare occasion when that poem you were writing for your Bronies is accidentally tagged as "Published."
They've had this since the beginning of Prime in 2005. 4 members of your household or 4 coworkers basically means anyone you want, regardless of if they have the same address as you.
This looks great! Evernote is one of my favorite apps and I use it daily. The Markdown support is just icing on the cake.
I think you're missing what he says. Hacker News and Reddit are completely perpendicular use cases to RSS.

From the article: The true power of the RSS inbox is keeping you informed of new posts that you probably won’t see linked elsewhere.

I feel like I've been shouting this into the void over the last few days of RSS-related submissions, but RSS is not best suited as a news-discovery paradigm. Aggregators like HN or Reddit serve that purpose. RSS's sweet spot is tracking deeper content on niche sites or topics that don't get swept up in hype mills, and if you're interested in more than two or three blogs or sites like that, RSS is essentially the way to track that content. Being able to share that and discuss with a select group of people was icing on the cake that Google Reader added.

Without seeming overly defensive about it, I feel like everyone who dismisses RSS lately with "that's what HN is for" has never used RSS in the way that many of us find indispensable.
How to advertise free on Facebook
you guys can click on the [link] right above the post and you'll be able to reply without a delay.
Note that this is not a new service, but the discount percentage has been increased:

“Previously, we gave a 2% discount, which was probably only significant for high volume senders. 10% makes it significant for everybody.”

However, I'm still not doing it – too much hassle. Instead, I just have 1Password create unique passwords for each service I use and change the passwords once in a while.

That said: I'm a satisfied MailChimp customer and I really appreciate that they continue to improve their service.
Really, that's quite likely, but I don't actually know of any myself, so I chose to keep it to software that I (1) knew about and (2) others did as well.

It's worth pointing out (because I'm a Lisp nerd) that there is a decent amount of Lisp code that is still executable today that was written a long time ago. In terms of software systems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29 is the one I know about; there might be quite a few others I don't know about.

Also, I've gotten the impression that there is some sort of slow move to Java/.NET from the COBOL systems.
WORLD WAR 3 NKOREA, FIRE MISSILES INTO SYRIA, UK BACK WW3
There's nothing stopping you from uploading an app. From the readme:

> Can I upload/sell other stuff besides a game?

> Sure. Got a game soundtrack or art book you also want to sell/distribute? Feel free to upload it as well.
Steam has Greenlight now, so you don't have to be "vetted" by Valve anymore.

There are many other services already though that provide similar functionality, such as indie game stand, desura, etc. that have none of the restrictions you've mentioned as being a reason to not use Steam.

So again, what makes this service compelling?
Google Authenticator is opensource[1] and implements a standard.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
I just hope the GOP doesn't find out Swartz was a Chomsky fan. We can't defend Swartz, he was soft on terror!
Why is this being upvoted? There is nothing new about being able to share Amazon Prime benefits.

And here I was hoping it was an annoucement that you would henceforth be able to share your Kindle lending library benefits. That's my biggest annoyance, since I'm not the one in the household who has a Kindle.
Dang, I been tricked!
Seriously, though, it's not in our nature to take counsel from folks who act disrespectfully. The quip about a non-reading president and "brogrammers" fits that.
I'm surprised that nobody has yet pointed out that an emphasis on what college a job candidate attended only makes sense when you're hiring kids fresh out of school who have no real accomplishments they can be judged by. Even if you're hiring someone with just five years of work experience, what they've accomplished during their years of employment is much more relevant to their success at your company than where they went to school and what grades they got. Is Yahoo hiring anyone over the age of 25?
IRS uncorks Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2013
I do agree they should be consistent but in their defense, one of the above is an actual quote while the other is not.
Yahoo should not be surprised when future prospective employees would rather work at or found a startup.