skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds a little like in this case (young?) people look at YC as a critical external validation around their professional worth. What I thought most interesting was that YC is now the customer for this individual. Typically a startup finds the most important validation around that first or 10 paying customers. That's because you feel fantastic realizing you were right - that your idea does matter enough to others to write a check for it. Secondly, that validation is the most important part for the other pieces coming together; attracting other bright minds to your startup, raising an angel round, getting into YC, getting more customers. As I read this I couldn't help but feel as though YC was the intended customer for said startups. So rejection was devastating because they'd built a product with just one customer in mind and they passed.
The classic movie Say Anything touches on this issue as part of its plot.
I notice that he omits the full output of `git push`. A lot of the confusion is caused by the fact that the default push mode is `matching`. I don't know what git version he is running, so I can't say exactly what text was omitted, but I would have expected to see two things:

1. Not only mention of the rejected `master` branch, but also the successful push of the `gh-pages` branch. Which makes it a lot more clear that git is trying to push multiple branches, and that the rejection has to do with `master` and not `gh-pages`.

2. The push default of `matching` is changing soon in upstream git (because it is suitable for certain types of workflow, but can cause confusion, as seen here), and the last several versions complain loudly if you do not set the default. This is intended to call attention to this common pitfall, and to notify users so that they are not surprised by the change when it happens.

With git v1.8.2, here is the full output of `git push` in his situation (you may note that the non-fast-forward advice has been improved, too):

$ git push
warning: push.default is unset; its implicit value is changing in
Git 2.0 from 'matching' to 'simple'. To squelch this message
and maintain the current behavior after the default changes, use:

git config --global push.default matching

To squelch this message and adopt the new behavior now, use:

git config --global push.default simple

See 'git help config' and search for 'push.default' for further information.
(the 'simple' mode was introduced in Git 1.7.11. Use the similar mode
'current' instead of 'simple' if you sometimes use older versions of Git)

Counting objects: 8, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 428 bytes, done.
Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To /home/peff/foo/die-git-die/parent.git
148db6f..25cd4ef pages -> pages
! [rejected] master -> master (fetch first)
error: failed to push some refs to '/home/peff/foo/die-git-die/parent.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do
hint: not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing
hint: to the same ref. You may want to first merge the remote changes (e.g.,
hint: 'git pull') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.
Using the term "white supremacy" in this context is offensive.
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I'll believe it when I see it working. Most likely they will still find a way to make it next to useless, forcing people to keep writing/targeting JavaScript.

FYI, you're talking to them right now. Patrick Walton is a Moz employee.
Mistakes like this happen often, being able to purposefully delete history (at least as far as the remote is concerned) is a very important feature of a VCS.
Why are there no DB tests with Go?
For starters their vehicles had a reputation for spontaneously combusting...

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/08/19/fisker-karma-cooling-fan-...
It's already pretty close to being there; you only need to install a plugin now in order to get first class support in the IDE [0]. A few days ago, you would have had to install the VS2012 Update 2 CTP (hard to justify in a corporate environment in case bugs slow development), but now that it has gone RTM, there isn't much a barrier to entry besides awareness that the plugin exists.

[0] http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/abafc7d6-dcaa-...
I haven't seen the video but generally he's been very complimentary of BK:

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=114685143200012
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116129092117475

And two basic verbs 'pull' and 'push' are straight from BK.

My impression's been that the crazy command set is in part due to the early design idea that the basic commands represent primitives that operate on the fundamental git model on top of which something, potentially separate and more human-friendly will be built. Except it didn't quite work out that way.
Too many wantrepreneurs is complicating the filtration process there :)
This seems like the sort of thing where they don't really care whether they sell any or not. Gaming on Ubuntu is a hot blog topic right now, so they took an existing product and put Ubuntu on it. Probably cost a couple thousand to do all the paperwork surrounding a new SKU, and they'll probably sell enough of these to make cover that. Boom, Free marketing and some cred with the indie gaming & Linux community. And if Steam on Linux does take off, they've already got their foot in the door.

It's kind of awesome that we're at a place where releasing a Ubuntu desktop is a matter of "why not?" Rather than "why?"
YC needs a better application process
For an organization that fishes for ideas like it already owns them, its application process sure does suck. Not too innovative or creative there. It's not like I'm going to go into the scientific details of what I have in mind, what I am actually doing, or how I am doing it, when asked about having ever hacked something besides a computer. I don't think it's possible. I know that I have the technical ability to accomplish what I have in mind. That's not the question. Good luck choosing applicants. Next time, maybe you should choose who wins by rolling dice.
Only 3? ppfffffttttt
I don't understand how creating a branch is a major operation.

Creating a branch is non-destructive and cheap, tidying up after accidental creation is also easy.
It doesn't look like biomass was actually used to produce the hydrogen but rather pure xylose:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201300766

I suspect much more research will be needed before a practical system using biomass as a fuel source directly is available. Still, the nearly quantitative yield of hydrogen from an abundant source is encouraging.
Personally I'm all for fiat currency, but on the spectrum I'd rank gold ahead of Bitcoin as a value store. (Also copper, steel, and other useful metals.)
I just failed precalculus, but I've aced my programming classes.

Is it worth switching majors? I've been programming forever, but the math simply too hard and not interesting enough.
Try a twitter search: https://twitter.com/search?q=Jacksonville%20startups&src... -- good way to find people talking about events, orgs, etc.
Lack of support for unix beards.
I think you've clarified it better, thanks for that. But take the MBA: the narrative typically goes something like, "I want power/money, being a corporate executive is one of the best means of achieving that, getting an MBA at Harvard makes that much easier, therefore I'll do whatever it takes to get into Harvard."

The narrative here is "I want to succeed/win, getting into YC is going to help me, therefore I must get into YC and I'll do whatever it takes even though every time I've tried so far I've failed." The seemingly obvious question here is: what are you trying to succeed/win at? It obviously wasn't a product you're passionate about (although going into the fourth try, it sounds like the latest pivot is growing on you). Fame, power, money, personal validation? 2.3 kids and a white picket fence? YC isn't the only way to get it, and it's probably one of the harder ways to do it.

If it's common to treat YC as a Harvard MBA—something like "if I have it, everything in life will almost magically work out for me"—that's pretty interesting and surprising to me. I always thought it was more about speeding up getting a specific vision or idea to market, or at the very least iterating on an idea until it grows into something huge.
Google doesn't lose your mail.
BofA could keep track of your bit coins.
Competition for this?  Paid, Daily news site focused on context and quality.  
Does anyone know of competitors for this concept? -- Paid daily news focused on context and quality.

I find myself not getting a lot of value out the news sites I peruse lately, and would gladly pay for something that is put together with more 'care' and a focus on journalism over sensationalism.
Lucky for you that bit coin is 100% non-anonymous, and every transaction is published to every entity in the economy.
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no i think you did not understand my example.
Do bearer bonds still exist? It thought they were replaced by electronic securities because, you know, their only unique purpose is for theft.
This is the reason pulling all matching branches (and pushing all matching branches) by default is generally a bad idea.
Isn't it odd that they keep claiming the robot is being created to "test combat clothing for soldiers"?
Does anyone know existing sites already doing this?

I find myself not getting a lot of value out the news sites I peruse lately, and would gladly pay for something that is put together with more 'care' and a focus on journalism over sensationalism.
Mainly because those were not adventure games, which is what the article/retrospective is about.
So you did all this to tell us indirectly that you have the best web framework in existence? ;)
FWIW I've been a huge fan of indie developer Wadjet Eye Games, who have continued to make old-school adventure games in the modern era (all available on Steam). http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/
Re the conclusion: to protect yourself, don't run an OS that will silently install software just because you clicked on a blue link in a program published by the OS vendor.

Steve Ballmer should be jailed as an accessory for allowing this.
YC looks more at the person, not the idea. We're happy to provide help or discuss this with you, but coming here making insults is pointless.
Malware Bitcoin-miners, hmm? I don't like Skype as a vector... what if you could put it in the browser instead? Which leads me to a less malware-y idea: write a JavaScript/Flash/similar component that mines bitcoins in a web browser. Put it on your site instead of ads. Has anyone beat me to it?
There will always be ways to monetize malware. I'd rather they monetize it by mining Bitcoins than by doing something more destructive.
Which is ironic, because a major part of Silicon Valley's success was that it was populated by inventor people who don't send clothes to he dry cleaner, and not the empty $1000 suits of the east coast.
Almost nobody (for any reasonable definition of nobody) has immediate redundancy for their data center. I've worked for three $1B+ companies whose entire business was based on their data center being up and running - and none of them would have returned to service in less than 48 hours if a data center had gone down.

"Not being prepared for them is unforgivable" - would mean that 99% of business do not deserve forgiveness.

It just doesn't make sense to have that kind of redundancy for such a rare event for all but a very, very small minority of businesses. (Telecoms, Google, Stock Exchange, 911, etc...)
Live scene of rescuing patients infected with H7N9 bird flu
If it is in our bodies for eons, maybe it isn't so hazardous?
Mining bitcoin on a CPU these days is like digging for gold with a garden shovel. Once upon a time it may have worked, but today it's basically useless (even if you do it on a million computers at once).
github is business after all — i think they just forgot about me/my post. also they told me previously moving to a new domain is an old idea.
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I think that you should try to read and understand more about what YC is looking for through its application process. You are just doing pointless critics. You are actually demanding a better application for you, not for YC.

I also could do that, as a non-tech founder, I wish they put less emphasis on technical skills, but I actually tried to understand their reasons, not just complained with the first argument I had in my mind.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'd absolutely love to have gaming become mainstream on Linux. I just built my first Linux box this week after 20+ years on Windows and Mac OS and I'm loving the amount of control I have (being a newbie I have my fair share of hair-pull moments, but that's part of the fun imo). I'm just a little bit apprehensive about dev studio adoption.
> I know that I have the technical ability to accomplish what I have in mind.

YC doesn't. They can't read minds. That's what the application is for.
WebGL FTW!

:)
This sounds familiar. Most of my friends (both in an out of tech) have similar. We also often have a second box full of folders that we're One Day™ going to use to organise our important pieces of paper into.
>`200 OK` means only that the transfer of a document can take place -- the legality of the request is a different matter. This would be like holding DOT engineers responsible for making it possible to drive drunk, since the roads have no features to prevent offenders from entering the highway.

You're confusing violating a law with violating the law. If getting "200 OK" means you were authorized and can't be convicted of unauthorized access to a computer, but you proceed to purloin credit card numbers and make fraudulent charges to them, you're still going to jail for credit card fraud.

The real issue is that "unauthorized access" is hopelessly ambiguous if you don't use the likes of protocol status codes, and totally redundant if you do.

If you get "200 OK" then you haven't made unauthorized access because you were authorized. If you get "403 FORBIDDEN" then you haven't made unauthorized access because you were denied access. That interpretation makes "unauthorized access" impossible to achieve, because if access is denied then there is no access to be unauthorized and if access is granted then it is authorized access.

The trouble is that the alternative interpretation is even worse: If you can't rely on what the machine tells you, how do you know when you're authorized? Some cases are really obvious (e.g. you are not authorized to places orders against just any random customer's credit card), but those situations are pretty much always separately illegal regardless of unauthorized access. What that leaves is the hopelessly ambiguous cases, which is what allows prosecutors to argue that violating terms of service or downloading too many journal articles is a federal felony. I'm still not convinced that those cases need to be illegal at all -- and if you can articulate a specific one that ought to be then by all means prohibit it explicitly and stop with the blanket prohibitions on whatever "unauthorized access" is supposed to mean if it doesn't mean what the machine allows you to do.
I don't recall the fees being all that exorbitant the last several times I bought through Ticketmaster. They came out to something like $2. I am not a rich man, but boy would I feel silly hating a company over a couple of dollars.

Meanwhile, my distaste for EA comes not from my critical evaluation of one of their games, but from the fact that their games don't friggin' work. I don't even play EA games (simply not my cup of tea), but my fiancee loves her some Sims. I defy you to try and do tech support for an EA game and come out still hating Ticketmaster more. I would gladly pay a $5 fee to make their games stop crashing and corrupting her data! There are game-breaking issues in their products that have existed for years for which the only known solution is "Use the version on The Pirate Bay." As one of the few honest PC players who refuses to torrent games, that is just galling to me.
Well, I think it's very hard to accept the fact that human decisions can be arbitrary, especially when it comes to the judgement of something that you worked very hard to create. It's along the same lines as calling someone's child ugly. Even if it's a random person, that remark will still sting, you will wonder if everyone else feels the same way.

If you really wanted to avoid the emotional consequences of this decision, you could make it completely random. It would be not only stress-relieving but an act of humility given the truth: that you will never be able to predict the success of these companies.

You have a peice of information they do not: you know that it's nothing personal. But if you tell a reject that it isn't personal there are two scenarios that are most prominent in their minds: that you tell the truth, or you're trying to make them feel better while there is something subtle wrong about themselves that they can't find. The latter option has much more weight put on it because the consequences are more dire. If they have two options with equal probabilities, as far as they know, but with one result being far more devastating than the other, it would be stupid to neglect this possibility, because what if it's true? If this was tribal warfare this could mean life or death, people aren't just going to believe your words.
Don't worry, Anonymous will hack them and keep us safe.

Certainly, the power divide between the government and people (inside or outside of its borders) continues to grow. The scary thing to me (in a distopian future) is that robots won't hesitate to do as they are programed. Soldiers sent in to "subdue" their own population might at least think twice.
Disclaimer: I'm just a stupid teenager.

We seem to have this discussion too much. Startup culture is business culture. Hacker culture (making and breaking) to me almost seems diametrically opposed to startup culture (making and selling). Startups don't want to reinvent the wheel so much that they rely on the big guns (Apple, Google) to do the foundation work (e.g., making an OS). Twenty to thirty years from now, who will know how to make an operating system. College students online lament that there are no challenging programming jobs anymore so they can't use the deep knowledge from their CS degree. It seems to me that the most challenging stuff that you can make a lot of money from today is a Mac application. My dream is to see a resurgence of MIT and Unix hacker culture.

I know my writing style is disjointed and awkward, so sorry about that :P
Good point. I played Grim Fandango and the Monkey Island games long after they were released.
Poker at the very least is played for EV and moves are made with the expectation of the randomness converging over many samples. This is partly why tournaments are considered luckfests by most money game players since you need to win so many coinflips to win.
My theory: it's about risk.

The CEO of Apple or Google has an inordinate effect on the net worth of a number of wealthy individuals. It is impossible to predict whether that effect will be positive or negative, yet people have a strong incentive to ensure it will be positive.

Thus, a number of people who would do perfectly fine at running these companies are disqualified immediately, simply because they've never had experience at running a large company before. Nobody will take a chance at a random unknown when billions of dollars are on the line. And this artificially restricts the supply of CEO candidates, while the amount of money available to pay them remains high, artificially driving up wages.
I'd prefer that the government tax bads/externalities vs. trying to encourage good, though -- a fossil fuel tax which is small but constantly increasing would be the single best environmental and energy-independence policy the US could have. (I'd also consider a tax on fossil fuel imports on top of that, and surtaxes on certain means of extraction to cover the environmental risks and other externalities, but a lot of that could come from mining fees from DoI -- and, the is a good case for "use up the foreign and low-cost sources first, retaining US reserves longer").

If the tax goes from 5-10% now to something in the thousands of percent over 100 years, it would lower fossil fuel use even as efficiency increases, while encouraging alternate fuels. The only losers would be primary producers (and I guess refiners, etc.) of fossil fuels; broad-spectrum energy companies should do ok since other forms of energy are still available and would gradually replace fossil fuels.

There is not a shortage of capital. It's just that right now, energy investments in new technologies aren't always viable. Creating an escalating tax would instantly make a lot of new energy projects viable, and private capital would be happy to make loans/equity investments/etc.
It's already not an apples to apples comparison. For instance, what's in the Node examples is much the use of frameworks built to enable rapid prototyping, not built to handle the needs of performance-oriented services. So we're comparing some optimized systems designed to be used in production versus frameworks designed to be terse instead of performant.
Not even necessarily that someone was better - people who read applications are human too, they have things that resonate with them, they have opinions, fallible memories, biases and gut feelings. At the end of the day, this comes in to play too, as well it should. Getting rejected doesn't mean you were empirically worse than any given candidate, it may just mean the two parties involved in the possible relationship don't have the chemistry that would make the endeavor the best it could be. At the end of the day, there's a limit to what you can infer about the relative merits of your idea from a rejection letter.
Disappointing answer incoming: we haven't found the time. If you know Go sufficiently to write those tests (they should be fairly easy to write for someone who works with Go regularly), we'd be very happy to accept a pull request.

Also, just to reiterate something I've said elsewhere. We've done some spot testing with Go 1.1 and its performance is super. We really look forward to showing Round 3 numbers next week!
Why Do We Keep Making Ebooks Like Paper Books?
What happens if you picked wrong and bought a Karma instead of a Model S a few years ago? Is an orphaned Karma still a viable car, or will it drop in price rapidly (or go up, as a collector's item?)

I guess most people buying $100k cars can afford another one, though.
What matters in the early stage is your team's passion, skills and commitment to do something. Mobile or no mobile, good idea or bad idea, if you dont have above than you are not heading anywhere wrt running your startup.
" i think they just forgot about me/my post"

If you found an exploit and sold it to someone, you would be richer and they wouldn't forget you :)
High price/low spec. No thanks.

The $300 Windows RT 32GB tab offer cracks me up, though.
I bet the easy-to-remember and apt name helped combat the product's "lack of SEO friendly links". Conversion from someone hearing of a product once in offline media, even if they're a perfect demographic fit, seems impressive.
I got 5,159 and 7,703 with Firefox Nightly (v23).
I got 2,566 and 4,895 with Chrome Canary (v28).
Or just honesty . . . I don't know how it would blow over in the press, but personally I would find it really refreshing if they just said, "Yeah, it's always online because you fuckers pirate too much. Deal with it." I guess that the gamers would probably not like that very much though.
This is true to a huge extent. The quality of the traffic matters so much more than the raw number of visitors.
It's really a shame, because it really takes almost no time to learn. And basically the point is that the desktop disappears and the only thing left is your work.
Edit: Or entertainment ;). Point is application is whats important.