skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention there is a guy in the photo who wasn't involved at all and just happened to be sitting there and allot of people are mistaking him for the guy who was fired. Sucks to be him right now.
How we use Python at Spotify
PG and crew always seem to debate that the startups view their batch-mates as competition.

This will likely exacerbate that, so I am interested to see what PG thinks about all of this.
I find it impossible to get anything bang on the first time around. I find that even the best plans and ideas can start to show problems once you get into the guts of the implementation.

Being able to input and edit things quickly greatly reduces the friction involved in doing refactorings. If I can do it fast enough, why not just refactor 3 different ways and see which one makes the most sense?

Also helps with prototyping, being able to from a conversation to a "did you mean like this?" in 30 mins is helpful.
No, it's the behavior of malfunctioning hardware. The new drivers happen to trigger the malfunction in a different way.
>Would you want to install Mountain Lion on a five-year old Mac? Hell no!

Why not? I have, works perfectly...

> Apple is not stupid. They're actually really freakin' smart. I'd be willing to bet OSX users replace their laptops, on average, more than twice as often as Linux or Windows users.

I disagree. And the strong resale value of their products testify to this.
I don't think you should get the downvote but I think you're completely off base. The parent makes great points; one of the best comments I've seen on HN in a while. I think these points should be something that anyone looking to join a startup understands. The culture fit as discrimination, t-shirt as indoctrination, the idea of giving up salary for modest are all real negatives in many cases that seem great to many, especially younger people. Not all startups play these games. If you want to work for a startup that does, that's fine, you may have a good reason to, such as a belief it will be a hit or wanting the experience, or what have, but be informed that these things really are tricks and games, whether or not the founders realize they are playing these games or are just "cargo culting" things they read in TC.

Realizing these things does not make you a corporate workaday drone.
My thoughts exactly. This looks like a less feature-rich Yahoo Pipes. Plus, Pipes has YQL as a fallback for even more advanced operations.

Perhaps it wins on simplicity for new users? Yahoo Pipes is pretty simple though.
This is an inspiring story. You have honored him by sharing the story here.
Headline is disturbingly inaccurate

Don't you know that this is a simplification of the fees for casual sellers, where before, there were multiple tranches for listing an item, and if it sold successfully, you also paid a final value fee.

The new fees represent a simpler and better to understand system, where the first 50 items per month for casual sellers are free to list, and easy to understand final value fee.

This is in fact a decline in % of what you would pay!
This guy writes about operating systems the way I used to when I was 12. There is perhaps a valid point (I don't know, I don't use a Mac) hidden in terrible writing and fanboy opinions.
This article is just plain stupid. Apple's service isn't what it once was, their hardware is lower quality now, blah blah blah...we all know that. Have you been living under a rock for the past 3 years?

"and Linux… Well, as someone who helped found Gentoo Linux, fuck Linux. It’s the absolute best thing for servers, AND NOTHING ELSE. If you’re running Linux on the desktop, you’re a person who would rather fix his computer than use it."

You kidding me? For the vast majority of OSS development and use, linux is by far the easiest solution. People (including me) use linux because they DON'T want to fuck around with shoe-horning software into running on a Mac or Windows. It's just the simplest solution for using and developing open source software. The above quotation may have been true about 6 years ago, but it sure as hell isn't true now.

Welcome to 2013.
There are no valuation estimates; just estimates on sale prices when companies have exited. Luckily the biggest exits are the ones that have press interest and thus have a price attached.

My methodology depends on research into previous funding rounds and a bit of guesswork, influenced by how the exit is framed. (Is it an acquihire? Or a traditional exit?) The reason I put the H/M/L indications is to be up-front and honest about it. You're correct in that they could be off, but $250million is <25% of the total value of exits that I have recorded.

In some cases I've had insiders e-mail me with details where my estimate is off; in these cases I do correct my figure but keep the original H/M/L indication.
You've never heard of a double entendre?

How many terrible jokes have been made along the lines of "I'd like to put my hard drive in her RAM slot".

Jokes like that were old and corny 20 years ago.

HINT: though it uses the terms "hard drive" and "RAM slot", as used, they don't actually refer to a hard drive or a RAM slot.

It's entirely reasonable to know what forking and dongles mean in the normal sense, yet to hear comments about "forking" and "big dongles" and understand they're not being used to refer to the usual things.
Not according to NASA, and they should know best:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/news/16411537/nasa-deni...
Hmmm, that's not how I saw it at all going through YC. The companies on the top of this list are the ones I look up to, and it's cool to see people sticking it out after 3+ years and kicking ass. There was healthy competition inside the batch to do things like launch and have new stuff to show off each week, but it always felt motivating not mean-spirited.
I'm thinking they named it that way on purpose. It has a lot of media coverage. It makes people more aware that they're losing the privacy they took for granted in the past, when using the web.
The feature seems to have been adopted by many browsers now so i'd say its mostly successful - but even if it wasn't, the media impact probably makes it successful for them, IMO
I'm using powerline.el[1]. It's an Emacs version of a Vim plugin.

[1]: https://github.com/jonathanchu/emacs-powerline/blob/master/p...
My experiences with Apple hardware in the past 7 years do not mirror this.

In total, I have seen three serious problems with mine and my families computers: 1) Failed hard drives 2) RAM that went bad 3) A clusterfuck of problems on a 17" MBP pre-unibody (Apple eventualy got it working, but it's on its last legs in general now because the owner refuses to install patches).

This is across, I wanna say... approximately 20 Apple devices ranging from phones to iMacs.

They're not perfect, but compared to the amount of problems from when everyone I knew had Windows PCs, I take a lot fewer support calls.
DOS didn't have a gradient gray background; it was black.
High fees are bad, but so is low sell-through. How do you drive traffic to listings?
I find this whole argument moot. DNT is binding neither in a legal nor in a technical sense. If you don't trust someone to handle your internet tracking history, why would you trust them to keep an informal promise, ESPECIALLY considering they have a get out of jail free card saying they accidently ignored your DNT header because they thought you were using IE 10?

Microsoft did right(for once) with making DNT default on IE. It exposes the DNT idea for what it is: Snake oil.
Same with my email ...
Hey everyone - before commenting, please notice how many people have already commented with essentially your opinion. No need to pile on.

What we have here is a cascade of overreaction. HN and other communities are overreacting too. Think how much better it'd have been if, for example, PlayHaven had waited a day or two to think through this (assuming we've already got the story right, which is unlikely). That applies to you too. Let's just take it easy for the time being. Probably by tomorrow we'll have a clearer view of the facts.

Don't try to hurt someone on the internet, especially when others are doing the same.
We did the same thing with one of the sites at work... You can make a purchase without login, and the related emails to a given order includes a token so you can see that order's status without login.. If there isn't an account at that email, we generate one with a few space-separated random words, and email the user... password recovery is email only and pretty easy. All in all, the user experience has been pretty well received.

Now that I've seen this in practice, it would be my preferred way moving forward. It didn't/doesn't take that much effort to do things this way. The bigger issue is in the occasional phone order our demographic is mostly men 50+, so some genuinely don't have email.. we use an internal address in that case...
I've had my Air since it came out. Still solid. Still SSD.
I compiles are a bit long, and flash kills. But still solid built.
I wonder if Google Alerts will even survive until the next spring cleaning
>Most novice programmers can click on a character on screen faster than an expert Vimmer can type 20jFp; or LkEEE or /word<cr> or any other nasty way Vimmers have to use because of our archaic, ingrained keystrokes.

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I'm sure if the data were publicly available it would be, but in reality that would just introduce a whole load of bs guessing games to the ranking.
Wow, that's amazing that insiders are sharing knowledge with you like that. Ever since I've found seed-db I've been sharing the surprising (to me) fact with people that YC has ~90% of the recorded exists in the accelerator ecosystem. That figure, of course, comes with an asterisk :)
Ask HN: Where do you go to learn to make things?
What websites did you use when you were just learning the basics of web development?
just enable html5 player and you can choose 1.5 on youtube. Or, if it too fast (depending on the speaker), just do:

document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.3
I'd love to check it out. Github id: cespare
Get on board TEAM JESUS. Seriously. People here don't like it (and most of them are as depressed as you half of the time), but basically, you've replaced your spirituality with corporate and technological cults.
Ditto.. I also really appreciate it when you are writing a comment for a blog you crossed in a search. Never been to X site before, likely won't be back.. but like to comment when an article's content is dated, or no longer relevant. Sometimes that gets harder than others.
A story of a guy who invented a way to use WAPT to purchase Nikon D7000 for $100
I really don't understand what makes someone do something for 4 years that he or she clearly dislikes.

He must hate his himself.
True, however, the vast majority of rapes of women are by men, and the vast majority of rapes of men are by men.

It's not like the issue of men being raped is predominantly due to women, whereas the issue of women being raped is predominantly due to men.

I also wonder if all the 'alpha male' bullshit might actually be a detrimental influence on prison rape, since it so clearly reinforces and mimics the sort of hierarchy that exists among men in prisons.
You really think Craigslist is able to disrupt this vertical.
When was the last time you saw something innovating coming out of Craigslist?
There is a connection called mSATA, which allows a mini pci-e plug to double as a IO port. Nearly all ultra-books use this connector, and there are many good SSD products that use it. Apple have continued to change their adapter in different revisions, depreciating many lines of third-party SSDs for Airs. While mSATA may not have been in common use when the Air was created, it is now incredibly common.
Exactly. I expect this from people who don't know anything about Linux or the concept of OSes in general (e.g. when people hear I use Linux they assume it's for "servers and programming" only), and frankly it's quite understandable in that case. It's a damn sight more odd seeing someone who "helped found Gentoo" be seemingly incapable of distinguishing between Gentoo and other Linux distributions in terms of system maintenance.
One note... I really don't like that there's no mention of subscription pricing before giving you information.
Ok honest question and I hope you don't take this the wrong way:

Preface: Today two of my co-workers were lamenting over a similar phenomenon that you described, in addition to describing their MBP hardware troubles (dead motherboards, in this instance). Their solution was to buy another macintosh.

Why is this the solution? I don't buy the argument that other PC makers are worse. If my laptop died after 2 years, especially if I paid Apple prices for it, I'd be so pissed off that I would buy just about anything but another Apple device.

Have you tried using a quality PC with a modern distribution of Mint or something installed? I think you might rethink your position about "everyone else being worse". Take this with a grain of salt, I've had the same dell laptop for 5 years with Xubuntu and 0 problems. If I didn't have that experience my outlook would likely be different.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but who are you talking about when you say 'she'? I thought it may be the author, but his name is "Daniel" (and there's an avatar picture of _him_ in one of the comment replies).
Mobile chat apps have overtaken Twitter and Facebook in Japan and Korea
Few ways currently, and more to come in the next few months. Basically:

1. Sharing your listing on social networks (good, not great for driving traffic).

2. Ability to list on multiple marketplaces, so you don't NEED to sell it through SellSimple - you can still list it on ebay, craigslist, etsy, etc. If it sells on one of those marketplaces, we'll auto-delete your item from SellSimple and all the other marketplaces. You're also not charged any SellSimple fee if it sells somewhere else.

3. Retention features on iOS - can't compare to eBays network, but downloads are growing quickly and users are buying items.

This is more a long-term strategy help to help us overcome chicken - egg. If we can exist long enough for that to happen through a free posting tool - we'll be able to (eventually) have enough traffic on our own listings to generate a high sell-through rate.
This reminds me of the Elon Musk NYT issue. He must have known he was wrong, but upped the intensity to defend his position instead of backing down. I'm sure Adria knows she effed up big-time, but pride won't let her back down. Had she turned around and asked them to stop, they would have been sufficiently humiliated to do so and perhaps learn a lesson, but not so much as to become unemployable. At this point, Adria could salvage some respect by apologizing, admitting she overreacted and expressing regret about the fact that they were fired.
Thank you for sharing this story, and congratulations!
except the hardware wasn't malfunctioning, the article says he flashed the gpu firmware and all issues were resolved.
Once you learn to jump quickly between words, lines, etc. and change whole blocks of text with a few strokes you discover another dimension of vim that's very hard to replace with other tools.
A startup doesn't have to be an unstable get rich quick scam as you seem to imply. In other industries besides our's, people expect a new company (also known as a startup) to also be ... you know ... a company. Honestly, it's comments like these that I feel make tech startups look like caricatures and just silly.
This is from 2011. Is that on purpose?
Thanks for the early access. From what I've seen so far, Docker is topnotch.
"Now she can go write a book, while this guy lost his job."

He can write a book too. And he has free time now to do so.
Drive a niche wedge in. Easier/cheaper to gain traffic in a niche, but they're still going to be potentially disgruntled if fees are frustrating them.

If there is a real issue with high value items, that might be a way to select a niche.
5K marathon at Ruby Conf India 2013....
Well, they just continue to make their services less appealing to the average user. What else is new?
Startups that sell things don't need as much traffic to make the same amount of money. Dropbox & Airbnb should be a lot higher than Scribd. Also, the list is missing Shoptiques.
> The judge agreed with McCracken’s harsh assessment. He sentenced Anaya to 292 months in federal prison—more than 24 years—with no possibility of parole. Curtis Crow and Cesar Bonilla Montiel, the men at the top of the organization, received sentences half that length.

I guess justice is served and we call sleep better at night? Is "war on drugs" a magic formula which can be used to justify anything, just like "war on terror" and "think of the children"?
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Check out around 16:00 to 20:30 in my talk: http://pyvideo.org/video/1764

In short: it's bog standard public key cryptography. My browser has a keypair and my email provider has a keypair. My public key and email address are bound together and signed by my email provider's private key. When I want to log into a site, I pass along that certificate. I also pass along a document containing where I want to log in and and the current time, signed by my browser's private key.

The latter document ties a given login request to a specific keypair.
The former document ties a given keypair to an email address.

Together, they identify me and prove that the person logging in really is the same person that was authenticated by the email provider.
People don't live in ghost town. Facebook has won agree that gracefully
GCC and C vs C++ Speed, Measured
Well, that's sort of a rhetorical flourish, but I expect this to result in a fair degree of backlash. I trade synthesizers and high-ticket audio gear fairly regularly, and I feel comfortable calling myself an expert on that market. It's not a business for me, but I make my living working with pro audio so it does have a professional dimension. I think a lot about pricing strategies, and incline towards building listing and shipping fees into my price - I make a bit less, but my trades move quickly and a single all-inclusive price creates goodwill with buyers.

But there is no way that I'm going to just silently eat fees of 12-13% (including Paypal transaction charges), when I also pay shipping, insurance, and signature confirmation fees to minimize the risks of chargebacks on items costing hundreds or thousands of dollars. I have other markets I can sell in, of people who I've known for years on pro audio forums and a moderately active electronic music scene where I live. I liked selling on eBay because I could usually get a 10% premium or so over a local sale, but now that margin has disappeared. bulk dealers will just treat it as a cost of doing business, but traders in specialty markets like myself will just raise their prices or sell in informal markets. As a buyer I'm also much less inclined to subsidize ebay.

User acquisition of auction customers is indeed expensive, but I bet there are opportunities in peer to peer trust arrangements similar to escrow transactions.
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Hey you know what would be super xtra cool? If this Keep thing let you keep clipping links, like, automatically, from the same site, whenever new stuff is published, into your Google Drive(TM), which is super cool b/c it syncs down to your computer so you can read those clips offline... OH NEVERMIND.
You can't just keep adding prompts every time there's a change, you'll end up creating a scenario where there must be a prompt for every change made. Default settings are needed just like any application.
fyi, aufs which is the union mount filesystem required by docker (and cloud foundry warden), is not well supported on rhel, centos, and other linux distros, seems mainly support for ubuntu.
I can't tell how many times I have went to Apple forums to find threads hundreds of posts long and spanning multiple years without a fix.

Why don't they send some of those geniuses to fix these problems? Can't they afford to support their products?
I actually get pretty relevant/entertaining things in my what's hot feed.

I'm pretty sure it depends on who you follow, it only takes a minute to search for a couple of your interests and follow them but worth it
Just FYI: There are those of us reading this who understand your comments and agree wholeheartedly. The difficulty I think you're facing here in getting this point across is that people are angry right now. Angry mob mode is very much enabled, and it's a mode which reduces people's ability to empathise and change their minds.

Kudos for trying though.
I had no idea 9Gag was YC-backed. You've created a monster.
One time I started editing an nginx.conf file in nano while setting up a remote server on Linode. I forgot to sudo when I opened the file and couldn't save my changes. I might be an idiot here but (could I have resolved this in nano?)... but I'm fairly certain this would have been a non-issue in Vim.
Show HN: BiggestPriceDrop.com
Created this app because nothing like it existed. I've always wanted to be able to sort products from my favorite online stores by how much each product had dropped in price. I think we're still the only site that does this. Please let me know if this is not true! What are some ways to get exposure? Google has already indexed over 600k of my pages and most of our traffic is organic search. Thanks, any suggestions or feedback would be appreciated.