skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nicest rejection I've had to date
Ah, I see, thanks. It makes sense now.
Rejection by YC does not mean your idea/team/execution is not good. Just keep working on your startup, in the mean time you may want to try some other top programs like techstars, 5000startups, angelpad, etc
This is a great response. Just wanted to chime in and say I also much prefer the EDIT3 version to the current webpage. Look nice and separates the quotes very well. Seeing as how the main point of quotes tends to be to read them I would guess there might be less on the side of link following and making them small under there will also make the formatting look more consistent with different size urls.
My "workfow" for this is such:

While surfing around the internet I find interesting things. I high light a section of text and add it to my diigo list. I then have system which sucks in the rss feed of my diigo list and combines it with a bunch of other rss feeds (youtube and vimeo favourites, my wordpress blog, etc) to populate a website: http://fuzzyslogic.com

I only occasionally search back through my diigo list. I use tags to allow me to filter content on the fl.com site.
www.getjuniper.com just got rejected! We definitely have better luck with getting ladies to like us than getting PG to like us. ;)
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Is the goal a better representation of the "lower class", or a bigger pie for everyone to share - and therefore a bigger part for each member of the lower class, who could rise and become wealthy too?
When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review
He, as a 9/11 family member, makes a persuasive emotional argument. However, he is unaware of, or ignores, a special type of blindness people develop when doing repetitive tasks like searching baggage. People will only see the common, ignoring the uncommon all together. An example of this is the gorilla and basketball experiment. TSA emploies have a similar problem they will only see the common things they need to confiscate, small knives and water bottles, but miss the rare and dangerous stuff, guns or bombs. They have done studies where they send a bag though airport screening with a bomb and a water bottle in it, and what happens frequently is the TSA will find and confiscate the water bottle but miss the bomb. This is not a fault of the TSA being incompetent it is because the TSA emploies humans. By allowing small knives through not only does it make passengers happier it makes it so that the TSA is not distracted from real dangers.
me....
Exactly. Per Wikipedia it is about 12 deaths per 100k on average from the period of 2004-2012.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_...
I have a 90%-working chip-8 emulator in JS. I never got around to fixing an instruction that waits for user input, though. http://luna.thehorseplace.us/pr/chip8.html
Was the whole supreme court of Chile on the CIA payroll, to declare the following UNANIMOUSLY:

On May 26, 1973, the Supreme Court of Chile unanimously denounced the Allende government's disruption of the legality of the nation in its failure to uphold judicial decisions, because of its continual refusal to permit police execution of judicial decisions contrary to the government's own measures.

Could it be possible that the CIA wanted to remove him as soon as he got elected AND that also and independently he abused power so much as to lead to this declaration by the supreme court?

I tend to respect each country legislative body - especially at the higher level. More recently, even Zimbabwe supremes denounced the abuse until they resigned - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1850771.stm
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I agree. The damage is already done. It's going to take a response tenfold the magnitude of this publication to rebut it. Even then there's going to be people citing it.

All granted that it's true that RR was so far off to begin with.
In any development, you probably want to throw away your exploratory prototyping - that's not TDD specific. I've seen/heard "write it; throw it away; rewrite it" attributed to Knuth on several occasions, but I'm not finding the original source.
>Sure, it's irresponsible and illegal for off-duty officers to speed, but it's also irresponsible and illegal for regular citizens to speed, and yet that doesn't seem to stop them from doing it. Why would you expect the cops to be any different? Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?

a) A higher standard? Sure. I suppose I'm extremely naive, but if you spend your day punishing people for doing X, I think you should have an appreciation for why you shouldn't be doing X or at least be a role model for not doing X.

b) I actually wouldn't guess that, among the general populace, the majority of people regularly speed at 90-130. Again, that's probably naive. I drive like an elderly person, so I may be biased.
But "the question", as you offer it, is based on the fallacy that there is some underlying natural law to the way we use words. There isn't. There is no blank slate "to start with," no axioms from which everything else follows. Words have always been used in the context of how they have been used.

Therefore, any reasonable model of how people use words will have some representation of how people have used words. My model uses simple word frequencies, yes, but it doesn't predict that one modifier sequence will be preferred to another because "that's the way it is." Rather, it predicts a sequence will be more preferred because it more rapidly and more evenly converges on a meaning.

How is that prediction tautological?
In case anybody also wanna review those classical QBASIC games, I've just found Boxer.app[1], a free DOS emulator on Mac. And there's also a big collection of DOS games for free download[2].

[1] http://boxerapp.com/
[2] http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/
OK, I guess "as of late" means "since the Internet."
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0 views. Which is weird because last batch we got 4 views and we feel this was a much better application.
4 views, average of ~ 55 seconds
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Basically, Intel & HP bet on the appearance of "Sufficiently Smart Compilers". And they didn't turn up. Most of the code people want to run on high CPUs is written in C or Fortran. Producing correct parallel code from branchy, pointer-filled, shared-everything codebases is difficult.

Basically they gambled on the mother of all handwaves and lost.
Maybe he was fired for drawing negative media attention.
Looks interesting, are there any serious drawbacks from JSON?
Can you add an easier way to browse the quotes people have already posted? Also, if you spend a few days adding more quotes to the database, the site would be a lot more fun to hang out on. Consider that there may be viewers who want to observe passively before adding anything themselves.
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The viewing happens "embedded" usually, which I think doesn't report view count or timing as accurately. (I've seen different behavior on what seem like the same configuration)
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Don't put too much thought into this. We had ~1 view when I applied a year back and we got called in for interviews.
Same here. Analytics say the only views came from our flyover state.
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Anyone get an interview?
I think the issue here is that off-duty police officers speed aggressively with the knowledge that, if caught, they will be almost certainly let off the hook due to their job. That makes the situation completely different than people with any other "just a job" job.
Technically, the data is there to answer this question.
I think it's easy to forget that there was a time when accelerators did not exist. It's a great resource and experience for those accepted, but not being accepted does not necessarily equate to failure as you suggested.
IA64 was an entirely new instruction set on an entirely new architecture; having nothing whatever to do with x86. Compatibility for x86 was added later to try and improve sales.

AMD64 / x64 pretty much hops into a different mode and goes on executing from there. Given how many modes and instructions these chips support, I don't see why adding another would easily upset people.
I was thinking that must have been the case. That or I didn't spit out what made it revolutionary quickly enough.
"An improving economy should help, as well as new products like its Haswell chips, a power-saving processor that supports touch-screen computing on ultrabook computers, which are hybrids of notebooks and tablets."

I was expecting this, let's see how it holds up against ARM.
The US government 1. Has a really crappy track record of finding a return for its investments.

I question this premise, which seems to have become an article of faith with a lot of people. Could you explain what you base this view on?
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8 views total here. No idea how many minutes. 2 pr 3 might have been ourselves by accident.
Not that this refutes any of what you're saying, all of which I believe, but... aren't all talented programmers a bit underemployed? I don't think anyone in the mainstream has figured out how to unlock even 10% of the value that a talented programmer can bring to the table.

Perhaps I am jaded, but I look at what most people do at their day jobs and it makes me sick to see trillions of dollars of unrealized economic value being spilled on the floor because the wrong people are calling the shots.
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Cool idea, I've always wanted some shirts from my favorite startups.
Hah, reminds me of back in my grade 8th grade (equivalent - ~13 years old?) 'typing' class (circa 1995) - a friend made a 3d engine in QBasic that let you fly a wireframe spaceship around. It was pretty amazing, all things considered.
The whole point of a class-action lawsuit is to aggregate a large number of people with relatively minor harm into a single lawsuit to avoid heavy per-person overhead. There have been plenty of class-action lawsuits where the harm per person was less than the cost of an airport hotel room for one night.
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Doesn't have to be a ticket on AA.
That's assuming that Intel gets a decent cut of tablet market at all. Intel making a decent low power CPU isn't going to make Arm go away, and Arm is only going to work its way up the ladder from its current dominance in the embedded and mobile space.
Doesn't Scala do this already?
We, Body Boss (http://bodybossfitness.com) didn't even have a product last time year, and we thought just having a good idea was enough for acceptance. In the past year, we've boostrapped like crazy, built a product, launched and acquired plenty of customers to validate our idea.

YC rejection for the 2nd year in a row has done little to dampen our spirits and ambition. Here's to another rejection that motivates us to succeed!

- Proud Rejectee
I never interacted much with others in CS courses until my last year. I took Japanese, though... you are forced to talk to others in language courses, and have plenty of opportunities for fun (mistranslations, lots of confusion, etc). Figure out which language department is the most fun in your school and give a 101 course a go. It lead to me studying in Japan for a year, which was some of the best times I had in college.
The original Apple logo was doubly clever, as it referred to both of Newton's important contributions to physics (gravity and prismatic separation of light).
Prepping to go back to finish Bachelors, need advice on working while in school.
Guys, I'm planning to finish by CS degree at UCB next year. I've been working for almost 8 years since I was booted out, but I've talked to counselors there and the path back in is straightforward. I have to do two semesters of CC and then re-apply. The counselor made it seem like as long as I get a B or better avg. during those two semesters, the re-apply process is a mere formality.

I'm super excited to finally be able to finish my degree, and really looking forward to being a student again. I've hit a plateau in my career by not having my bachelor's. I get paid about 120k now, but I think I need the degree for the more formal hardcore stuff. I want to do data science, big data, or more hardcore stuff. I've been doing enterprise, web app, reporting type stuff that I'm really tired of. It'll also just be a personal goal.

I've saved up for 3-4 years and I have almost 70K in the bank (plus maxed out 401k + employer matching for the past 5 years) to fund my degree. I even hope to do a masters if any program will have me at that point.

Even though I have a bit of money saved up, I want to at least have some form of income while I'm in school. I'd rather not graduate with $0 to my name. So I want to know what the best thing for me to do right now to start preparing. I'm planning to move back to the bay area in Jan 2014 and start CC then, so that's my timeline. I am thinking that I either need to set up some "passive income" in the form of mobile apps maybe, or start a freelancing or consulting side gig. I think the latter is more realistic. I plan to spend my free time between now and January getting myself set up for this, so I will be learning some mobile dev.

(2K char limit, cont.)
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Not really. Current residential electric rate here is 0.0541$/kWh, compared to 0.232$/kWh in LA. I am sure they would enjoy having this cheap electricity, but they're too far from here.

Furthermore, to take his example of solar electricity from the Sahara to the UK, the line of sight distance between both is over 3000km[1], includes underwater segments and is more than 25% longer than the longest HVDC link(the Rio Madeira, at 2375km).

Can electricity be sent over long distances? Sure, but not intercontinentally, or even intracontinentally if you're looking at, say, New York to Los Angeles.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+between+the+sa...
One problem with freelancing is it seems most of the jobs are either php or ruby. I've been working with .NET, javascript, coffeescript, and SQL the past few years. I'm very good with those and can do every aspect of an app. Looking on careers.stackoverflow, and craigslist, .NET jobs seem to be pretty rare in the bay area. What would you recommend I learn if I want to work about 20h/wk there? Ruby? PHP? And which framework(s) (RoR, Cake, etc)?

Another option I've been toying with is using Xamarin to leverage my C# skills to build mobile apps. This is something I'm going to probably be doing anyway. Would I be able to get part time or consulting work doing this? Or is it too niche? I thought I'd build a handful of apps between now and then to try to make a little side money, and then start doing contract work with those skills.
All right, shoot us an email. I have just added my email address to my profile.
> If there is a 1% chance the world will end unless we do x, we shouldn’t do a cost-benefit analysis. Instead, assuming x is feasible, we should simply do it.

To me it's pretty simple this has a value and if doing the alternative is valued worse then no you don't do it.

Everything has a value - smog, a lost lake, all lakes lost, death, extinction of animals, happiness. They can be hard to find but we can make approximations around probability curves.

The real issue is when you start valuing things like the environment and life people turn off because they can't handle the fact a Starbucks coffee has a higher value than millions of the worlds humans. And while they blank this stuff out it makes change hard.
"It's not that you're particularly bad."
Finally, how do I go about getting started as a consultant?
Nothing here yet. We applied a week late. Anyone else apply late with no email yet?
But they're even wrong on that. Saying that -0.1 is like 2.2 is not correct. The difference between -0.1 and 2.2 is an order of magnitude (e.g. a difference by a multiple of ten).
I understand it. The problem is that not only is it a fundamentally flawed concept but the tools are inadequate. Moving a control by as much as one pixel in IB can completely scramble your constraints, including deleting user constraints attached to properties.

The API is ridiculously verbose and the visual language is underpowered and cryptic. It's sad but going back to manual frame calculations actually saved me a lot of time.

I think a lot of iOS devs don't realize how crap it is because they haven't taken the time to learn how other platforms solve these problems in a much more logical & developer friendly way.
Revisiting the 1992 WIRED Media Kit
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We had 10.
I remember playing around with that Gorilla code adding custom bananas which exploded half the screen, hehe :)
What is the opportunity cost of me writing this blog post? ...
I could also be sleeping, cooking, at the pub, or any number of things, but weighing up the various trade offs and benefits of these actions ‘like an economist’ is simply not possible.

And yet somehow the author's brain does make these decisions, mostly subconsciously.

It seems like a big part of the author's criticism of "economic thinking" is that it oversimplifies reality. The conscious human brain simply does not have the capacity to consider all of the possible inputs and outcomes of problems in a system as complex as the world economy.

Human consciousness seems to be a very low-bandwidth single-threaded process while the amount of information processing occurring in the brain which we are not consciously aware of is immense. This may explain why when it comes to complex systems naive common sense often seems to work better than the careful analytic thinking that has been so successful in simpler fields such as physics and engineering.
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Scariest thing I ever did was ask my wife out for our first date. And I used to be an adrenaline junkie!
Probably one of the better games that runs within the original QBASIC was Wetspot/Wetspot 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv9VDvvGRkQ
> Furthermore, even if the probabilities were known, what matters is not just the weighted relative costs and benefits, but the potential for absolute disaster. If there is a 1% chance the world will end unless we do x, we shouldn’t do a cost-benefit analysis. Instead, assuming x is feasible, we should simply do it.

This is extraordinarily dangerous thinking. The "One Percent Doctrine" [1] is and was a huge driver behind the rationale for all the national security and counter-terrorism efforts in the post September 11th era - former Vice President Cheney is recounted as saying "If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response." That very same logic was likely extended to Iraq - if there is a 1% chance Saddam is building WMDs, we must invade (it helps that the Bush Administration believed the chance was far greater than 1%).

Another problem with this 1% kind of thinking is that it's not even clear if many of the kinds of events that are purported to end the world would actually end the world - global warming won't cause human extinction; it will just cause hundreds of millions, if not a billion, deaths (through disease, flooding, displacement); the same applies for nuclear holocast.

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

EDIT: I realized the irony is that you could call this the "Dangers of Thinking Like a Politician."
We like to talk about the "10x developer", but journalism has to be the field with the highest disparity in value. Some journalists are worth their weight in gold, and some are worth less than nothing.
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The thing I really like about the Haskell Fibonacci and that Python FizzBuzz is the ease of scale. Want the next value of fib? Grab it. Want to put more restrictions on fizzbuzz? Add them to this list.

You build the sequence with only the necessary amount of starting information (0:1 for fib, ( (3, "fizz"), (7, "buzz") ), and generate the rest as you need. These are the (I think) most beautiful solutions to problems.
Not really related to this outage, but I think it's interesting to note that Sabre dates back sixty years! The ball got rolling in 1953, with a chance meeting between AA's president and an IBM salesman. IBM was working on a massive air defense computer system at the time, and they decided that a similar system would be good for airline reservations. The system went live in 1960, and has been running continuously ever since.
We had like 15 from 5 different cities with 4 of 5 in SV and Boston including a SV view this morning. All views were for the full 2 minute video. Maybe we were on the cut-line, not sure. The competition is stiff...congrats to the people that got interviews.

We didn't have a prototype at all and I think even with a really strong team, it certainly has to hurt the chances.
The government... will never run out of money.

Um, isn't that because it collapses first? Or at least prints money and causes huge inflation? We'd like to avoid that.
I don't think the accidents and deaths are limited to the 800 officers they identified. The set of officers speeding is certainly greater than the set of officers identified as speeding, and the accidents would probably be from the former set.
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FYI, your website is completely broken on my Nexus 7 tablet. It appears to be some sort of fixed-width design that goes off the left side of my screen.
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Except that Lisp is dynamic, and OCaml is static.
That's cool, but it's worth noting that was not a new attack at all. It was known for 10 years before that, and very well known for 2. Elcomsoft didn't even pretend it was new (though they didn't credit previous work or name it, oddly), they just pointed out that 1Password was vulnerable to it.
The gameplay video reminds me of the early 90s game, Syndicate

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_(video_game)
If anything, I bet it has gotten better since the Internet. Pre-Internet, it would take a local news agency to ferret out problems. Now, problems can be reported by anyone and viewed by many.
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Aarrgghh!

> there are only two universal properties

Yeah? So what are they???

Hm, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_property) thinks there are a lot more than two:

"This article gives a general treatment of universal properties. To understand the concept, it is useful to study several examples first, of which there are many: all free objects, direct product and direct sum, free group, free lattice, Grothendieck group, product topology, Stone–Čech compactification, tensor product, inverse limit and direct limit, kernel and cokernel, pullback, pushout and equalizer."
Well what is really weird is that yC's top hits as per an annotation on Harj's recent mock letter on Rapgenius got looked over:

" We missed Dropbox, Heroku and Airbnb. " [1]

If the 3 supposed hits that presently created most of yC's entire known value got passed over by the VCs at first go.. one has to be a bit skeptical about the whole idol contest.

[1] - http://rapgenius.com/Harj-taggar-well-be-circling-back-lyric...