skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oops, my bad, looks like My T-Mobile is only available in Hungarian. If you're adventurous you could try using it with Chrome and automatically translating it. It's still better to call them tough, especially since the English IVR is (or was a few years ago) very basic, so you can connect to someone really fast. Also, the person who takes your call is probably confident and comfortable talking in English, unlike in stores where you get to whoever is free atm.
My hands feel so much better using the Contoured. Especially when you include:

* a trackpad you can mount in the middle of it, and
* a footstool so you can place the keyboard on your lap.
They mean $80k for YC VC ($20k each from Yuri Milner, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Maverick Capital) plus the $14-20k from YC itself.

The ~$20k is for 7% (of common stock); the $80k is under START Note terms, essentially convertible debt which inherits the cap/discount of the next note you do. It's conceivable that just means an uncapped note, so adds onto your Series A.
Yes. Just try importing your product into the Chinese market. Or getting your Chinese money out of the country without Hong Kong's help.
How is that a legal agreement? Isn't it a clear cartel?
Top Bitcoin exchange hit with $75 million suit over failed partnership
CoinLab Sues MtGox for $75 Million
Shenzhen hosts the biggest Software company in China: TENCENT. Also the ecosystem is changing fast with a year of Startup Weekend and HAXLR8R over there.
Having made several angel investments, I can tell you my eyes kind of roll when I hear the billion dollar valuation. It's very apparent when a startup has taken the number 1 billion and then just divided it by the potential number of users for its particular product and then by 12 months to come up with the monthly cost of the service.
The last investment we made presented numbers that were far more modest, but we knew the team seemed highly capable and respected their honest assessment, so we went with it.
You should tell your database to go easy on the rouge - a lady keeps it subtle.
Whereas I actually identify more strongly with a hacker in Chengdu than with an old age pensioner, former government worker, in the Bronx. Or a banker.
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I spent the few months doing what I described in the post - pretending it didn't happen. It's amazing what you can convince yourself of.

When I finally decided I was being an idiot, I started to focus on finding a job. It was way harder than I thought it would be (there is a theme of being arrogant here - another post another day).

I'm now working at a startup as a software + product guy. Learning from some really smart people and loving it so far. In lots of ways, the storm was the best thing to happen to me.

I can only say that because I really have a lot of great people around me. It made me appreciate all the opportunities I've been given and can sympathize more with people who haven't had the same support.

Thanks for checking out the post.
Interesting news, especially given their consideration of adding bitcoin support. That would be huge for the BTC!
It could also be because we've had comparatively little time developing software.
I'd pay 20k to do it.
No, not a subset. It's UE3 cross-compiled by Emscripten from ~1MLOC of primary C++ source. Some configury to use OpenAL (mapped to WebAudio), and of course OpenGL-ES (mapped to WebGL).

/be
This argument doesn't make sense. Should Tumblr not get credit for subdomained blogs, or Wordpress.com? This seems tantamount to not giving Facebook or Pinterest credit for logged in sessions. How is this traffic any less an indicator of usage?
This should really point to the full-page article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/business/how-apple-and-other-corporations-move-profit-to-avoid-taxes.html?pagewanted=all

And the title should be updated to the actual article title: "Apple's Move Keeps Profit Out of Reach of Taxes"
With all due respect - what is going to change about your startup in the next few months? Things like retirement account loans from your parents are to get you over a rare and unexpected setback in an otherwise exciting curve. Otherwise, you're just borrowing other people's money who need it (i.e. these are not wealthy individuals taking a risk with money they can afford to lose).
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Funny, I was just today thinking about the overuse of another word: "hacker", after seeing another job posting here for a programmer, but using that word.

It's been abused so much that I am not even sure what it means any more. But, when I read the job descriptions, there's generally nothing beyond a standard programmer that is being sought. If every programmer is now supposedly a hacker, then what's the point of the word?

Smells more like companies just trying to sound cool, which of course has the opposite effect and is annoying to boot.
Why are some investors losing interest in YC companies? It's not only noted in this article, but was also a topic of discussion after this past demo day. Is it because YC seems to be investing in less startups 'trying to hit the home run' like Airbnb, Dropbox, arguably Stripe now? To me, it's somewhat confusing because the companies are still solving pretty darn realistic problems and are doing so uniquely.

[edit] this comment was posted (somewhat so) in the hopes that one of the partners will respond with their thoughts and if they plan to address this and if so, how so?
Yeah, but... actually export products already have much better quality control than domestic-oriented products we ordinary chinese consume everyday, except our great leaders who have special farms around the countries producing organic "特供品"s for them) , We envy you Americans!

At the outskirt of my city there's a special farming zone producing high quality vegetables for Japan, I always wonder what dose that taste like, must be very delicious.

There're many merchants/stores here selling defective items (B品/外單） western companies rejected. It's very popular among young people, especially clothes.
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I think it has some lower-level Android bits, I don't believe it has Dalvik though...
IRC logs showed the passphrase was extracted from the ColdFusion app's memory.
The question is whether the lag significantly affected people's behavior, .... The most logical explanation is that Bitcoin was perceived as overvalued at $266

What are you talking about the price for? Nobody is quibbling about the value. We're talking about the quality of MtGox's service, and yes it affects traders' psychology, as well as automated trading bots. Maybe it doesn't affect your psychology, but that might be the difference between an experienced trader and a novice.
"Do whatever you can to keep it going" only applies inasmuch as you're not taking advantage of other people to make it happen. The upthread poster taking money from his parents' retirement account to get "a few more months" on his startup and pay rent is not ideal.
The point is benchmarking concurrency limits, not that it would improve raw performance.
Doesn't the modulus function avoid most of the issues, here?

float RoundToNearestWholeNumber(float f) {
if (double.IsNanOrInfinity(f)) return f;
if (f < 0) return -RoundToNearestWholeNumber(-f);

// make sure we're working with a consistent value
float v = DiscardExtraPrecision(f);
// the fractional part is guaranteed to be representable
float r = v % 1;
// largest whole value up to v (the floor)
float w = v - r;
// switch to the ceiling if in the upper half
if (r > 0.5) return w + 1;
return w;
}

Feel free to disillusion me.
Because the kids that are smart enough to do the next big thing are most likely smart enough to avoid VCs.
I look at that, I don't understand what the issue is?

Can you explain. I might be able to help, I've got some experience with uwsgi + bottle.
That's not even the beginning of the costs.

Again, the article directly addressed this issue. Read it.
On Chromium 25.0.1364.160 on Ubuntu 13.04 just the running tab died.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but you raise a good point. At what point are people enabling you and at what point are you just being prideful (if you take it or not). Obviously you have to have some discretion, but I've always struggled with that line.
"Damnit, he's not guilty of anything. Can we humiliate him or something to save face?"

So proud.
4. Marry someone smarter than you are

Hard for this to work for both spouses, I guess....
The thing is, the popular (high-level) definition of burnout is "The magic that allowed code to mysteriously flow through my fingers to the keyboard is broken". Or, to a manager, "My golden-egg-laying chicken is on the fritz". And in many cases (assuming no major underlying issue) it is a simple cause, and a simple solution. So I don't see too much harm in articles like this if they can help out some people.

The only downside is if these articles do more harm than good, by either trivializing the condition or offering harmful advice for the cases in which it doesn't fit.
this article makes YC look ridiculous
Man... I was just told recently by a good friend that I am very good at helping people but bad at asking for help. I guess it's time for introspection...
Mahbod Moghadam (RapGenius) brags about abusing Vyvanse at Disrupt NY 2013
I'm shocked! Valve doesn't accept bitcoin as a payment option? :)
I'm trying to do windows development and I'm learning that if you don't try to force it into a unix-lixe env, it works fine.

I installed chocolatey [1] a package manager. With that I install python, git, and vim and I'm up and running. My vimrc and gitconfigs almost worked copied straight out of linux. I use cmd. My advice is not to use cygwin and the other stuff like it...

[1] http://chocolatey.org/
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> They assume rational actors (people making decisions based

> on their own self interest).

That's untrue of some schools of economics that advocate free markets, e.g. Austrian.

> But anyone linking to mises.org is probably a follower of

> the church of the free market. And they generally

> strongly disagree with the idea that humans have

> cognitive biases (because their faith requires it not to

> be true).

That's an ... interesting ... claim. Care to justify it?
but how to tell the difference ? lol
And how am I misunderstanding something exactly?
He can prove his innocence by re-downloading the exact same porn again.
My high school used AFS and Kerberos at least up to 2007 (when I graduated, and my first-hand knowledge ends). Agreed on the pain.
Can I pitch you? I know it may sound like a small question, but I would love to have just one email sent between us.

I have been running with my start up for about 9 months. Its almost ramen profitable.

spoiledtechie with gmail
man you made my day ;)
As Brendan said, it's UE3, all of it. See the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV32Cs_CMqo (second half of video) for the Sanctuary UT3 map, complete with bots, shooting, etc. Once the engine was ported, we threw random UE maps at it, and it worked fine.

It works in any browser that has solid JavaScript and WebGL support. Audio will work with Web Audio, but it'll gracefully not have audio effects if it doesn't. There's no Firefox specific magic here. If you're on Aurora/Nightly, then you get asm.js/Odinmonkey optimizations and it runs even faster; that's it.

Edit: UE3 was chosen because it's known stable and optimized tech. This isn't the pinnacle of what can be done, far from it. But neither us (Mozilla) nor Epic wanted to be working with code that was still under active development for a next generation engine while simultaneously trying to port it to a new experimental platform. One step at a time! :p
LOL pirated movies.

How on Earth will he find such things when he's back in China?
That doesn't sound like a compelling reason. If that's true now, that was at least as true before when the terms tended to be even worse for entrepreneurs. What's changed recently?
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Thanks, yeah I released the app and have been adding stuff at the same time. I wanted providers to be able to list their own app so they can have an account and upgrade it when things change. I hope to have several hundred over the next couple of weeks.

Filtering and categories are also in the works.
Converting RAID5 to RAID6 in mdadm
My personal 10 tools for Mac dev (in no particular order):

1. Sublime Text 2
2. Tower
3. Kaleidoscope
4. iTerm2
5. Oh-my-zsh
6. Xcode
7. MAMP Pro
8. CodeKit
9. Homebrew
10. CodeRunner

Honorable mention to: xScope, Sequel Pro, Transmit
I was also shocked by the general shoddiness of the document in general. So many ambiguous issues, and so many areas where potential disputes were left unaddressed.
Does packed struct hurt performance on x86_64?
Or if your data supports it, you shard based on an algorithm that is repeatable and cheap, and the client can compute where to look for data, if it exists.
I dunno, I think I'd trust random HNers for accuracy in their technical commentary more than I would CNN.

(This is more criticism of CNN than praise of HN, understand.)
The fact that we are encouraged to celebrate disruption and people are even using the term in their branding is testament to the dearth of true innovation.

So many startups are busy trying to one-up existing products and services, but relatively few seem to be trying to create new products/services/markets.
re: "is there a deterministic way[?]"

I would assume so.

Perhaps adding a word-checker to bitcoin clients that looks for recognizable words (or attempts to validate a URL found inside the most recent block).

If block contains words or URLs, disregard it. If not, accept it.

Now Namecoin on the other hand...
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I would recommend switching to Dvorak layout,if you have the time and energy to do that. I switched to Dvorak a year ago and the amount of wrist/finger movement is much less than that with Qwerty(I did it to increase my typing speed, not because of RSI).
Don't laugh, it could work -- they could make an argument that, at least at first, doing a "soft release" on Linux first gives them access to a huge group of relatively savvy beta testers.

It would just be icing on the cake that they don't have to pay 30% or whatever to anybody else for those early adopters.
Thanks to a HN thread I posted in, I had my very first mention in the New York Times Magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/magazine/the-3-10-13-issue...
Zimahl, minutes after making the above comment: "a bomb is a bomb"

A bomb is a bomb. Whether it's thermonuclear or a "works bomb" is irrelevant. However, even killing someone isn't always murder.

How is popping a soda bottle equivalent to a brick of C4?

Not my words, I certainly didn't equate the two. But I also wasn't the one who equated a "works bomb" as you called it to popping a paper sack behind someone's head. My comment of "a bomb is a bomb" is in regards to the fact that she knew it was illegal because she knew it was a bomb. And everyone these days damn well knows you don't do that shit at school, nor even bring a rubberband gun to school. You'll get, at a minimum, expelled.

I never said I agreed with the felonies but this shouldn't be chalked up to some simple slap on the wrist. She knew what she was doing.
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I was thinking Night City in Neuromancer, but basically along the same lines.

"But he also saw a certain sense in the notion that burgeoning technologies require outlaw zones, that Night City wasn't there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for technology itself."

"Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored research who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you'd break the fragile surface tension of the black market: either way, you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a fixture like Ratz, though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks."
They still keep the know-how and the factories/facilities in China, even if they got the design from somewhere else.
Come on guys, this is HN. Not Reddit.
That used to be Japan | Korea | Taiwan...and look now
Watch out guys, we're dealing with a--

okay, just color me surprised that anybody needs that much accuracy. I stopped playing shooter games in ~2004.
But they should give context, which is often

a) purpose for posting (ie 'I like the design of this site', or whatever), or

b) context that is inherent in the article but not obvious as a submission (ie the topic of a blog).
You'll probably want a graphical diff tool. I use Araxis Merge, because I've used it for 15 years or so, but I'm sure there lots of other good options.

I can still remember the day our lead developer (at my previous job) led a mutiny and we switched from Windows to Macs. A great day in my life. ... I'm sure you'll enjoy developing on your Mac.
You've disabled issues so I cannot add one.
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what could be more compelling than the best people avoiding YC?
He doesn't do a lot of the new videos. It's lovely to hear his voice when he does, though. Makes you feel just a bit more special.

Perhaps Sal doesn't have a great understanding of cryptography? He doesn't do a single cryptography video on khanacademy as far as I know.
It's kind of like the hippocratic oath - "first, do no harm". You shouldn't be borrowing money from your parents' retirement account to get a few more months on your startup, unless it's a very specific situation.
The Y2K issue was at least explainable to non-techs. Storing two digits is ambiguous. Simple enough. This one, though, no one is going to understand.
> meaning there were no serious mirroring efforts

Unfortunately, this is also the case for the majority of commercially-published science. And no, JSTOR is not a good response because JSTOR doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of science. Science is one of the most important efforts in human history, and we don't have backups, or even mirrors. Great.

Edit: does anyone know some orgs with deep pockets that would be willing to accept and host 30-50 terabytes of papers? I can't seem to find anyone that doesn't wuss out. I know it's risky, but it's also critically important.
> To the best of my knowledge

I think you you need to improve your knowledge then. Or provide a citation.
I feel like your and my experiences are completely reversed. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop OS for 14 years, and in the past 8 years the idea of downloading drivers or hardware not working out of the box has become completely alien to me. The last driver I had to download for Linux was for a Lexmark printer in 2005. Everything since then has just worked. When I get in front of a windows machine, though, I'm always ripping through original packaging looking for network, graphics or peripheral drivers, even in Windows 7. I remember Windows XP SP2 didn't ship with drivers for the Intel Etherexpress line of network cards when it came out after 5 years of the eepro being one of the most popular network cards on the market. Insane. My normal trick became to boot the system onto a linux live cd or USB drive, download the drivers and then boot back to windows to install them.
Heh, and I thought he was talking about the Phillies slugger. It seems Ryan Howard was the name of a character in the US sitcom "The Office."
Starting with IE4, Internet Explorer provided an asynchronous interface for fetching URLs. If I recall correctly, you had to go out of your way to use the synchronous interface.

It's great that somebody made XHR asynchronous, but it was just going with the flow of everything else in IE-land.
you can chalk this to incompetent ad ops people. When they set up these things in ad exchanges or DSPs, they simply accidentally (or intentionally) set the wrong settings for the campaign
Your impression is true, and there's a good explanation for it. In my experience, the cost of software failure is much smaller than the cost of hardware failure.

If your software fails, your robot might behave erratically. No problem, just revert to the last stable version and try again. OTOH if there's a mistake in the hardware spec, you will have to replace that $5000 sensor, or worse, your robot might electrocute someone.

End result is you can get away with shitty software, but you can't get away with shitty hardware.
> "It's also funny because on the first link from google[1] (below the youtube video) it clear states: Warning! The Works bomb is illegal to make! Don’t do it! The information below is purely for educational purposes (such as research papers) and may leave ... crucial steps."
Yes... and? What is your point?

Everyone knows that these (whether they be called "works bombs" or "Drano bombs") are illegal and you'll get in trouble if caught. And even though you say they're harmless, many other sources disagree - people can get injured.

So, my point is that you'd have to be naive to think there wouldn't be repercussions setting one of these off in a school.

> If you think IED has no emotional baggage
The opposite actually..

Typo. I incorrectly added the "no".

> Just 1 idiot speculating and saying the words "cherry bomb" cost me 3 hours of questioning by police.
So do you think that had to do with the term "cherry bomb" being used, or with the suggestion that perhaps you were responsible for vandalism?

No, they really didn't care about the pipe, those things happened in the dorms all the time. Kids passing basketballs around and hit a sprinkler, or kids goofing around and crunching up some drywall. Damage happens with 100 18-year olds on one dorm floor. But the questioning centered on causing damage with the "explosives".
Let's not discount the fact that most people need the social pressure that a live classroom brings to bear.

Most people--even us self-motivated HN people--are far more likely to do hundreds of hours of coursework if there's a real class, human teachers, and other students than if it's online to pursue at your leisure, or in a book sitting on your shelf for that matter.
What do you mean "off limits to foreigners"? I travel to china regularly, and have never encountered an "off limits" section of any city. *

* I am very obviously a foreigner in China.
Git log is my friend
If you use Xcode, it has a visual difftool that is pretty good. I never use anything for git besides cli and Xcode.
Theoretically speaking, if you have the cooperation of 50% of the network (in terms of computational power), then you could remove 'in-appropriate' transactions. However, after you decide to remove them, their will be 2 versions of the block-chain until yours becomes longer than the original again. Obviously, this is never going to be attempted.

Unfourtuantly, there is theoretically no way to prevent people from coding arbitrary data into a transaction. Assume you do have a filtering mechanism. It seems obvious that at any point in the block chain, there is at least 2 legal, non-suspisious, transactions. Using just this, Alice can encode 1 bit of information by saying that the first legal transaction is a '0', and the second legal transaction is a '1'. Transactions can be ordered in a deterministic way (for example, look at them as a giant binary number and sort numerically).
The psuedo-anonomous nature of bitcoin means that attempting to filter spamming by the source would not work, as you cannot differentiate a new account that is part of a spam attack from a new account that spent at a bad time.
Great idea. Hope everyone uses FELT. Much much better than a non-personal email but almost as easy.
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Imagine if we could crowd fund this event!.. sigh.
Probably the best article about YC I have read.

Not sure if that's saying much given how many I read, but perhaps it is :)