skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hackathons are indeed very supportive learning environments, just make sure to comprehensively relearn topics picked up at a hackathon
This kind of bs talk radio approach is exactly the thing scientists are trying to cut through. If the data says football is damaging most kids lives, we should go with the data. It's just a game and there are plenty of other games we can play. It has nothing to do with "fear-based news".
QBASIC allows for functions (as well as subroutines), looping (while, for, do-while), structs (type) as well as multidimensional arrays. That said, all I really remember from my QBASIC days is abusing the crap out of GOTO.

Apparently QB64 can directly access C header files as well as Windows DLLs [1], although I don't think the author used any external modules. The source is described as being a solid monolithic block of 12k lines worth of BASIC, which in and of itself is fairly throwback-worthy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QB64

edit : checked an old QBASIC manual to confirm whether or not multidimensional arrays (2+) were supported

DIM cube(3,5,4)
We wrote an app to create invoices for my company as PDF for easy printing. Had a lot of good feedback from business associated so we released it as a full paid app (With free accounts) - http://www.rocketmailmerge.com
Stories In The Smoke: What A Bomb Expert Sees
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I think you got the right idea here...but the brogrammer rhetoric just completely fails to relate to me as a female in tech.
> They've been pushing back the sunset of SABRE for over a decade.

If AA has relied on SABRE for so long, why would they want to replace it? Cost?
Now, do you really think people get injured at a hackathon?

this is the worst account of negative physical effects brought on by hackathons I've seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5302940
Hackathons are a great supplement to accelerate learning, but anyone who wants to build decent products needs to learn things the right way at some point.
This is nice. I like it.

Thanks!
Absolutely shocking that Malcolm Gladwell's initial declaration that football is unequivocal brutality does not play out as clearly in actual data.
I'd like to speculate that the name of the founder(s) is a small hint towards them being US-Americans:

The Dread Pirate Roberts is a fictional character from The Princess Bride (book and movie), who in the novel turns out to be not one person, but a title given from one retiring pirate to the next successor because it's easier to work as a pirate when everybody is scared of you.

In this case, it's a fun way to hint that Silk Road is not operated by a single person, but by a group from what I think are US-Americans. There I merely speculate: I think the movie was a success in the US but not much in any other country. In fact, the only people who've quoted the movie to me are US-Americans.

Can people from other countries weigh in on this? Would non-Americans choose this as a pseudonym?
Stop victimizing yourself. There was nothing "brogrammer" about this post. Females go to gyms too!
No one's claiming that...

What this means is, instead of slashing budgets in a recession because you think debt slows growth, instead invest in a recession, because the alternative is no benefit to growth plus putting more people out of work.
It seems like a PayPal button would solve the same problem a whole lot easier.
Not to "get big"
Most of the "good" games of the 1990's were written in assembler, as were many of the "Demoscene" graphics demonstrations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
This is some of the first non-trivial code I ever wrote: http://trevorcreech.com/tmp/SHOOTEM.BAS

I loved QBasic.
Does this need the overhead of being a fully-fledged Rails application? What about making it a Sinatra app?
The demo app is not served over HTTPS, nor do the instructions tell users to use HTTPS. This is bad.

Yes, in its normal (unattacked) operation, the connection to Stripe will be safe HTTPS. But if someone does a man-in-the-middle attack, then there will be no connection to Stripe, just a connection to an evil website that steals the card (or both to be sneakier; it doesn't matter).

If you're not serving your site over HTTPS, then an attacker can arbitrarily rewrite the content of your site, so no one can trust it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_bodybuilding
That's a valid concern, however departing employees have been telling Apple this is an issue in their exit interviews pretty much since the day the App Store went live. After all this time they should have been able to come up with some level of compromise solution.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5560334
Hackathons are a great for innovation. I hope to see more startups spin out of them though!
I agree. Unfortunately, given the development cycle (last major release was 2011) and some of the issues with OpenCL on iOS it looks like they may already be going that way. It's not included with Xcode currently, but link here if you'd like to download:
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=Grap...
Lucre is almost as poorly thought up a name as postgresql. seriously, developers should never be allowed to name things that real humans will see.
Ask HN: can you recommend a check-writing API that isn't sketchy?
I'm looking for a service that is sort of a merger of EasyPost and Dwolla where I can POST a form to an URL and have a physical check mailed in a real envelope to an address drawing against my account.

I've found a handful of services out there that do this, but every one of them appears to be sketchy or doesn't list their pricing on their website, which is always a red flag for me.

Any suggestions?
Technically, they're not sports
If they sold gift certificates, they would make an immense fortune.

Don't _you_ have people you'd like to send to Mars?
But then you risk becoming another horror story of Paypal if things go wrong.
Heh.. I think it is much more personal if a girl rejects you, and you need to know why. Tough love, man!
This looks cool, but probably worth pointing out that it's only relevant to Americans or Canadians as it relies on Stripe.
Yeah, eBay seems like a piece of shit to sell on. But that's eBay's fault, not the person who leaves bad feedback. And if you're an eBay seller, then you should know the risks of dealing with them to sell your stuff.
What WTF provides is the ability to come up with an idea and get a quick gauge as to whether it has merit (it works with projects at various stages from new ideas to coming up with new features for existing projects and anything in-between).

For example, you have likely heard of "Facebook killer" apps and "New way to organize your inbox"-type ideas in the past and the general reaction is "Oh ffs, not another <insert product here> clone" but most ideas still have some merit even if their initial briefs are rather ambitious and somewhat tenuous.

Your Facebook killer may be too ambitious but with a bit of focus you may be able to come up with a smaller, more niche product that benefits a particular demographic given feedback and some direction.

This is what WTF provides: Sure, it will not give you a definite "If you build it, they will come" answer but it might just be able to help you salvage something that doesn't look like it is going anywhere.

In addition to helping you shape a project, it may also prevent you from spending time and money on something that just will not work as a result of feedback so you will know fast if it has any potential before spending time and money on it.

AS to stealing your idea, this is rarely the case. The thing that sinks most projects is lack of focus and aiming in the wrong direction - something WTF is designed to help prevent.

Thanks very much for your insight... this is exactly what WTF was designed for.

Mick
I still like the old one more. But whatever....
Did the 10,000 take the protection, or did some of them gamble, but chose to honour they sales (and/or had already shipped product with funds still in escrow before the price dropped)?
Hey, guys! I'm the guy making this game! :D
Yeah, I compile it in QB64 and use the SDL hooks in it to actually make it run on windows/mac/linux. But yeah, QBASIC has all those things you mentioned already.

Also, yeah, I use the big ugly eye-burning white-on-blue screen. You can see a photo of the development box here:
https://twitter.com/manfightdragon/status/319786194395357185
Go with the data, right. The data shows that NFL players have damage, not the average high school player.

That's like saying, "Studies show that the top 0.01% of hackers are suicidal, so don't do computer programming!"

I've played other team contact sports (Basketball & soccer), but really football was the best at making me resilient. There's no comparison. The benefits outweigh the risk for 99.9% of players, & for the elite who go on to the NFL (0.1%), then the risks may outweigh the benefits.
_why's print spool client (OCaml)
The Princess Bride is extremely popular among 20-40 year olds in the Anglosphere. Australia, Canada, USA, UK.

This narrows down your search for the Dread Pirate Roberts to like 150 million people. So the fact that this English speaking Silk Road founder is from the English speaking world and was probably a child or teenager in the 80s is not really narrowing it down much.
Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll take a look at your series, and maybe read Algebra: Chapter 0 when I'm feeling ambitious.
it's not really about the startups that spin out of them as much as it is about inspiring people to build!
Statistically, things do not often go wrong with PayPal. The number of "horror stories" is extremely low for a payment service with hundreds of millions of accounts and $145 billion in payment volume. Regardless, the idea here is to be quick and dirty to accept occasional payments. There's no risk there since you can immediately withdraw the payment. If your account gets closed, who cares. You don't need a Stripe account, a Heroku app, and devops knowledge when copying and pasting a PayPal button or telling someone to send money to your e-mail would suffice.
Government agencies don't really work like that. The PTO doesn't get to give itself raises based on profits. The PTO's behavior is based on legislation, court interpretation and a small sliver of their own interpretation after the direction they receive from those more powerful government bodies. Last year there were about 577,000 patent applications [1] at $180 each for a little over $100M in revenue. That's fantastic if you're most companies, but just a tiny portion of the federal budget.

The current patent situation is a failure of the federal government to understand and legislate contemporary technology, not a misalignment of incentives.

1. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm
New site? Post it to TrafficSurf for exposure from other entrepreneurs.
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I'm a female in tech. And this totally speaks to me -- please try not to make general comments like "as a female in tech". It has much more to do with your experiences than being female. Granted, I competed in Olympic lifting and played a college a D1 sport in college. (Plus, I'm pretty sure I could out-squat gaillees.)
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Boxing is extremely damaging to the brain. The gloves make it even worse because it allows a boxer to sustain more blows for a longer period of time. If there were no gloves there would be quicker knockouts and less bouncing of the brain around in a boxer's skull for extended periods of time. This is why many posit that MMA is safer than boxing. Smaller gloves mean quicker knockouts. There are also ways to win MMA fights that don't involve direct punching.
And it can be fully refundable.
"The benefits outweigh the risk for 99.9% of players"

Does the data support that or did you make that up? This would be a more interesting discussion if it has some scientific substance.
So _why described a nearly-working OCaml program in the file he entitled SPOOL/HOMEWORK. The fact that it was handwritten turned out to be a surprising challenge, proving to be a real barrier to my own experimentation with the code.

I took the time to type it out, and it works. However, I'm actually still not certain I got it right. I would appreciate a second set of eyes.
Hackathons are less like gyms and more like playful matches in the park. :)
Technically (and subjectively for most people) they are. Golf, tennis, athletics, etc... plus the many limited-contact sports such as soccer, baseball, etc. etc.
In information theory terms, if you ignore the current expectations of ordering and try to construct an ordering rule based on the information content of each ordering, all orderings have equal information content. Spreading out the information content so that it arrives a little bit with each word instead of in bursts and trickles doesn't get you anything, except that maybe the human brain can process it more easily in smaller chunks. Is this a theory?

This actually jives with the fact that languages with less information per phoneme (Japanese, Spanish) are spoken at a faster rate in phonemes per second than languages with more information per phoneme (Mandarin), so that most languages contain a similar information rate.

"Across-Language Perspective on Speech Information Rate" http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/summary/v087/87.3.pell...
What is probabilistic programming?
Writing Python in Scheme
It still runs fine on 32-bit Windows. But NTVDM is gone from 64-bit Windows which is probably much more common these days.
Hey, my cousin/your girlfriend just linked me to this. Thanks!
I love simple games like this, reminds me of the good ol' days. =)
Perhaps magical thinking serves a psychological purpose when managing stress during the early stages of entrepreneurship and long odds of success. However, this ode to eschewing analytical thought, and going with "what we know" or whatever alternative it is proposing is an embarrassment.

It is an epistemologic absurdity, since, if we simply "know" anything, we have to question provenance of that knowledge. Our unscientific random biases and assumptions may be as likely to be right as they are wrong, but analytical thinking improves upon them, especially at the multiple perspectives and scales for appreciating outcomes as allowed by economic analysis. Critical thinking does require more effort than going with your gut, but that extra effort is justified when the improvements are great.

Anyway, the post kind of disproves its own point, since the straw men it uses are low-effort applications of heuristics rather than economic analysis. The author seems to believe that economics is a discipline defining a specific set of aphorisms that can be universally applied to any situation.

Perhaps there's a joke in there somewhere about learning a more rigorous version of economics before you can "unlearn" it or even advocate the virtues of "unlearning" it. Presently, it resembles the work of people who claim that science can't explain how bees fly or other similar nonsense as justification for reveling in ignorance.

Incidentally, though it isn't really central to the subject of the article, the quote about sociology is out of date, since modern sociology involves a fair deal of modelling and mathematics.
Last I checked volleyball and tennis are sports... And there's several very popular limited contact sports like baseball and basketball.

And that's sticking to the technical definition of contact sports, when I think we're really talking about collision sports, which is what NFL is classified in...
What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?
Is there anything a layperson can do to help?
Are the USPTO managers paid according to the fees they collect? Are they not on a fixed salary?
I received this exactly email last year,September 16 to be precise,it was the first day of the rest of my life.
Make no mistake about it, receiving this email hurts, but then you pick yourself up ,make your product better and better and keep on going.
All the best moving forward....
In my last company a VP once told us, when you do a good job- customers don't feel a need to tell you about it. They just assume things are going right and let it run that way.

But when you do something wrong they generally want to make it clear.

That is what is happening with PayPal here. No one feels the need to write something good about them when everything is going right(Even if that is happening all the time). One genuinely dissatisfied customer can bring you a lot of bad name(Even if sometimes that is purely an exception).
Paypal is infinitely better than Stripe for me, simply because Stripe doesn't work outside US/Canada.
I'm happy that you're okay. Just don't let it control your life in a negative way / cause you to live in fear. I know that sounds easier said than done. While not on the same scale, it took me a while to move past insane amounts of fear anything a nasty storm rolled through due to a traumatic tornado event when I was younger.

A life lived doing what makes you happy is a good thing. I realized that later in life than I should have.

I'm happy to say that my friends in the area were okay as well.
We're a two person development team who sits in the same 5 foot radius and we've had to merge xibs semi-frequently. It's not overly viable to ask the person next to you what files they plan to work on in the hour, because that can be difficult to determine in advance. Additionally once I upgraded Xcode before my partner, and suddenly our xibs were out of sync. In terms of one person working on the UI, even if that's the case, the other person might change an outlet, or create a non-UI object in the xib. It's complicated to coordinate changes because the breadth of features (as they appear in the codebase) is unpredictable.
Well... the server is getting hammered and the player list is like... more than full. Going to add some player limit to avoid ruining the game for everybody.

EDIT: OK, server restarted, game is now limited to 20 active players, should help with lag a bit.

EDIT: Lowered the limit to 16, improved some inefficiencies in the network code. Looks like it's running fairly well now.
> It turned out that the average radar gun generated a net profit on the order of $1000/day/gun. The obvious question is why aren't there radar guns on every police car?

I agree with your sentiment. But please bear in mind, that the profit per radar gun would probably go down, if enforcement was less sporadic.
Kettik, http://www.kettik.com/ (not mobile friendly), was rejected as well. Not very surprised or dejected by it as I was pretty much in the exact opposite founder demographic they were looking for. Single founder, close to 35, middle of the road play by the rules kind of guy loved by all (2) the big corporations that hired me over a span of 11years.

Oh well.. targeting for the YC application gave me the required focus in the last 5 months to turn my hobby/personal-use site into a full fledged travel blogging & recommendations platform ready to launch in a couple of months.

I don't think i will re-apply any time soon. My goal, starting Kettik, was to achieve creative, financial and geographic freedom. To create something of my own, travel, live and work from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Not sure how free i would've been if i had funding, a team to manage and investors to give returns to. So i guess the best thing to do is to continue on my own and focus on making Kettik profitable enough to sustain itself, me and my co-founders (if i manage to find any).

And maybe one day if it grows too big for me to manage, i'll go knocking on YC's doors again.
I think you're conflating anti-theist/philosophical anarchists with atheists.

Concluding there is a creator, simply transforms one from being an Atheist into something completely separate.
And UKians soon

http://thenextweb.com/uk/2013/03/01/stripe-uk-europe-launch/
Does anyone know if Latour is even still at Apple?
People are making small mistakes all the time. Lower speed gives you more time to correct your own and other people's mistakes.
No, if you keep stripping away the abstractions you end up with quarks.
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Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?

Absolutely.
Just recalled one of my several questions i had when i was a small kid to which i never got any answers, so here's my kiddy question

can it be that.. we are beings living inside another huge-living-being and working for it under some laws. like the way we have cells in our body working for us, we could be something like cells working in this huge-living-being.

can this explain the multiverse idea i.e a universe inside another universe inside another universe.. and maybe finite in number.
Some believe that if you really proved that the universe was a simulation, the universe would change into a newer and better simulation.

Evidence suggests this has happened before.
Hackathons are also a lot like gyms because some use the time to flex their abs and pecs infront of other techies.

This analogy just keeps on going!
In this case it was obviously intended to be a criticism of Bitcoin enthusiasts. I personally don't see a problem with online dating.
I spent a lot of years using wasd and the mouse, but I no longer have a mouse. Anything you can do for us trackpad users?
You know what guys, I feel honored to have been given the opportunity to apply, be reviewed and then rejected. Today is one of the best days I have had in weeks. I just realized where we were and how far we have come in the month we were 'associated' with YC. YC really got us to speed things up, change our user interface, create a prototype (although YC never saw it, cause we were late), change our entire strategy.

I think YC has done more than enough for me. Anything more and this would become a fairy tale :). To be honest, I never wanted this to be an easy fairy tale. I want this to be a story worth telling to my children. I like battles where the victor emerges half-alive.

Now its time for me to captain this ship to the shore. And damnit I will :)
This is my ship, my baby, and I will never let it sink alone.

Im so thankful for the people in my life. They stick with me and believe in me regardless of my lunacy, willing to take the bullets for me.

Keep working hard people. We'll meet each other at the finish line. :)
So as a scientist, speaking to young scientists, perhaps she should have said something like "First please note that while the following answer may be the truth, the nature of my job sometimes compels me to give non-truthful answers." Perhaps such a disclaimer should be given by any "scientist" whose PR operations sometimes preclude accuracy?
More click-bait. This seems to describe a reality show, without further implications.
150 million people out of 7.079 billion possible candidates? In my view that is narrowing it down a lot!
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Nice looking website guys!
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