skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm mbellotti's cofounder at Exversion. For me, the main takeaway of her post is just how different the YC interview experience can appear even to members of the same team. As the other female on the team, I've always found my chromosomal makeup to be a huge advantage rather than a disadvantage (especially after establishing some level of technical competence). Despite my own belief in merit over affirmative action, it's one of the biggest tools in my toolkit, frankly. Where males have nepotism, we have novelty and the promise of good PR. I would even go so far as to say it may give us a net advantage over all-male teams.

I digress. My own view of the YC interview is such, taking into account the magic of hindsight: that we shouldn't have depended on PB and our interviewers to drive the conversation toward market size. We should have anticipated the concern on our own and brought it up as it's something we're already used to having to defend. Should've, could've, would've -- who knows if that would've mattered, but it's my best guess. Then again, we also spent our 10 minutes successfully selling them on our team and execution abilities, which we evidently did very well based on the feedback we got in our rejection email. In fact, I don't think our interview could have gone much better than it did and I still feel overwhelmingly positive about it. Contrary to Marianne, perhaps, I feel pretty viscerally that we sell our team better than we sell our product/market fit at the moment. And with the caliber of applications YC sees these days that include companies with crazy good traction, we can't properly apply the YC priorities of yore ("great team, not much else yet? You're in!") to our interview and extrapolate that it was our demographics that didn't get us in. As Marianne's (mbellotti's) experience shows, it is certainly something to consider, but it is just one of dozens of possibilities. It's also worth considering that demographics may have helped rather than hindered us in getting the interview in the first place.
Is some UI duplication really so terrible, especially on a desktop with a big screen? There are times when putting something where the user expects to find it should trump reducing clutter.
Quite a leap from food trucks as parasites to racism. Racism is serious business and I don't think that criticism was in good faith.
The epic fail is in some misguided areas of linux land tying the GUI background image renderer and program launcher to the sound driver such that they (supposedly) cannot be separated in practice although there is no technical reason why they shouldn't be separated. And that's considered anything other than an epic fail.

It would be like demanding if I install grub bootloader, the plain text grub config file may ONLY be edited by vi. Why not nano or emacs? Well we're trying to implement a consistent user experience by limiting user choice and ...

Its a creeping windows "all in one" design model, which is mostly awful. The opposite of the unix "do one thing really well" model.

If android did something that dumb I'd call it out, although I can't think of any example of equal fail level. Imagine if you're only allowed to edit the screen brightness (or autodetect screen brightness), if and only if, you install dogcatcher podcast player, because hey, doggcatcher is awesome, who can disagree with that. And if you remove ConnectBot app then the systemwide GPS/location system completely stops working, because, hey, why not? "I replaced my cell phone battery and that made the volume buttons stop working, because it makes logical sense to bind the two concepts together"
Your comment doesn't make any sense.
This is a good article on the homelessness in SF:

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_4_san-francisco-homeless...
Check out http://programmingpraxis.com/
Great and inspiring professor. Taking his ML course on coursera and trying to follow his talks.
Hey,
I'm an iOS dev and I'm definitly interested with new ways to monetize. Do you guys have a website or an email list to keep me updated?

Also, trying to give you my opinion about ads,
the #1 issue I face is how low the eCPM is

2) how low is the number of user clicking on an ad.

3) most ads are irrelevant with the product.

4) Ads usually are about another app, which to some degree the ad is saying "hey, stop using this app/game" and download/use ours instead.
I agree completely. I studied Finance but had a work study with an econ professor and was amazed at how much hand waving existed in their economic models.

I felt like I was charting very simple things(gdp, oil prices, ect) and he would come up with his own suspect analysis off that limited info.

The worst part was that this guy had had a high ranking position in the presidents cabinet!
Great article guys, downloading the app now
More realistically what would happen is that the government would start imposing huge fines and tracking down those that evade them (such as tax cheats, except easier because tax cheaters are smarter than the average BTC user at fooling government regulators).
Funnily enough, I found mine in the rotating part of a 2.5" hard drive.
I'm happy to learn this is a thing among us engineers!
In general, no they should not because most of them don't actually do engineering of the code that they write. But some developers actually do approach the task like engineers and they definitely do deserve , the title for that. Devops is a movement that brings developers and sysadmins together and that is one sign that there may be real engineering being done rather than buggy code being flung over the transom to the Ops team. Engineers pay attention to design, do TDD, write acceptance tests, integrate pieces written in several best-of-breed languages rather than relying on the compiler and link editor for integration.

If SEMAT gains traction then there will be a lot more real engineers in software and the people who use the title because it is cool will be forced out by a new generation of fizzbuzz type questions. http://semat.org/?page_id=28
Increasing H-1B visas leads to billions more in tax revenue and GDP.
There are still some restrictions on exporting cryptography. For example, under US law you can't export strong crypto to Iran, North Korea, and a few other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U...
I'm finishing a PhD in Materials Science at a top 5 US institution with mostly experimental work. I don't do someone else project, I do my own project and I direct it, this is true for most of my peers.
A ring cut from a single crystal of silicon may be strong enough. Regardless, it would look very nice.
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Therefore it's not requried for the quality at all. They use it to oblige some perverted suppliers, instead of telling them to drop the DRM. In practice they can influence the suppliers but Netflix didn't even attempt, instead they are rushing to put DRM into HTML.
I'd also be curious to see how it performs with mass amounts of sprites, something like pixi's bunny demo:

http://www.goodboydigital.com/pixijs/bunnymark/
White House picks Twitter lawyer as chief privacy officer
> It(Tastypie) has URL routing, which makes setting up an API namespace in your URLs super simple.

Isn't that something that this release has added, and the new release, is, the main theme of this discussion.
Statements like this put a chilling effect over the whole industry, even if they never take any action.

Bitcoin users should push for a letter of no-action by the CFTC.
If you're on HN and using a desktop with a good graphics card, are you in the "less tech-savvy" crowd that would not be able to shut down a computer?
why the username?
CSS Zen Garden is 10 Years Old Today
I agree with the sentiment, but I find the actual text of "[citation needed]" too flippant. Instead, I just ask the person to provide a source or an argument.
Sorry, all. I've taken the "submit" function of HN to get to the discussion about a URL.

Surely this has been on HN before?
But detection probability is directly correlated to planet size and shortness of the local year.

Eventually, Kepler and Kepler-like probes will be able to locate all earth-like planets with orbits that cross the path between the star and us. However, this technique will find the larger planets with shorter orbits first.
Can detect is one thing, can detect at the same distance is another. Assume you can detect an earth like planet at say 100 light years and a Jupiter sized planet at 1,000 light years and you find 1000x as many Jupiter sized planets that does not mean there are 1,000x as many just that you can detect them in 1,000x as much space.

Granted I don't know there search pattern but we are talking about less than 1,000 systems at this point. And I think we have found 2 reasonably earth like planets already which suggests there are at a minimum millions of them in this galaxy.
I don't see how the fact that gas planets are capable of migrating inward shows that our model for planetary formation is deeply flawed. I didn't think the current model said that it was impossible for planets to migrate inward.

The point about sampling bias is that our current techniques are bad at spotting systems like ours. If this is true (I think it is, but I'm not qualified to say), we wouldn't expect the evidence to fit our theory even if our theory were true because we are nearly incapable of finding evidence that does fit our theory no matter how much of it there is out there.
> There is currently no widespread recognition of the profession in the IT community. We almost never see any job posting requiring the title, or any company giving additional compensation/responsabilities because of the title.

The main difference between a comp sci. degree and a software eng. degree when I graduated in Quebec (circa 2007) was mostly courses about rational rose and the waterfall process. Software Engineer is a nice title and all, but I don't see its advantages over a comp sci. degree.
It could be either but for ease of prosecution they'll probably dump it into the commodity category because (I believe) it gives them more regulatory leeway in their efforts.

I don't believe that the CFTC [1] regulates currency transactions but they definitely regulate commodities.

[1] http://www.cftc.gov/index.htm
I don't see the issue. Software is very abstract and tons of our vocabulary is stolen from concrete counterparts as metaphors, I can't see how you can object to "architect" without it being totally arbitrary or fundamentally not understanding computers.

Just a short list of terms which we've appropriated for software:

Bugs that don't bite, computer mice that don't squeak, bits you can't bite, windows you can't see through, desktops which do not involve desks, perls you can't wear, pythons which are neither British or snakes, rubies which are not red, gnu's which do not roam plains, dog-fooding which involves neither dogs or food, running which does not involve feet, killing things which does not involve death, zombies which are real, frameworks which do not involve lumber, libraries which do not involve books, bricks which cannot be built with, ajax you cannot clean with, bandaids that do not stop bleeding, androids which are not humanoid, chatting without talking, hits that are not violent, etc.
It is true, but at the time they came up with this tradition left handed people didn't really exist :P That is to say if you were left handed you were made to be right handed.
I am surprised all the types of email you mentioned make it to your Gmail inbox. Gmail has a good spam prevention mechanism (maybe the best out there). Unless these emails are drafted specifically for you, in which case I think you should be flattered! :)
Well, the obvious answer would be: Track whether a user has clicked on the link and disable the vote buttons until they have.
While it's true in his category of "PhD's that work" the most useful degree is Computer Science as it's closest to "data scientist" of all the available PhDs you still need domain knowledge to apply it. So while it's no coincidence that Physics, Computer Science and Stats/Maths postgraduates are all in high demand in the field of applied economics itself (hedge funds, high frequency traders and the like) it's also notable they aren't just trading by themselves.
We've been recommended by two YC alumni for our W13 application and didn't get an interview, so this is not necessarily true.
I really love Parse and I'll keep using it until (if) Facebook forces unwanted changes, but adding in new features that they most certainly had in the works before the acquisition does nothing to assuage my fears of that happening.
Thank you for your own story.

I have some ideas written down that could be executed simultaneously (with the right staff) so an agency type of business crossed my mind.

Especially one product is designed (sorry for being so vague) in a way that could attract a few companies to do a buy-out. How is it with that if a product was done by an agency rather than a startup (in traditional sense)?
Maybe they should include wait times in the app?

"Grimaldi's Pizzeria > 33 min (3 min walking + 30 min in line)"

"Rubio's Pizza & Pasta > 17 min (5 min walking + 11 min in line)"

Edit: Google Traffic for restaurant lines? Track line speed by phone GPS location in the waiting area and dining room?
Well, in the article it states that laws are LESS draconian for restaurants, but the fixed costs and chance of bankruptcy is much higher.

"every mobile-food employee has Health Department certification. The trouble is that he needs to employ four people, each with his own license; if one quits, it can take two months for a new worker to get the proper paperwork."

"And stationary restaurants, by the way, require that only a single employee on duty have a Health Department certification."
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You might as well say that Windows 8 doesn't work for Windows because Windows 8 occupies a different part of the computing world. It exists in a market where an ever increasing number of people are telling Microsoft that Windows Classic is an unfeasible product to revolve a business around.

For years techies and the media have been clamoring for the end of Windows, the end of the desktop, and the post-PC world. Now it's here and has somehow caught everyone off-guard in that Microsoft actually listened.
As someone who has read a bunch of science fiction, I completely appreciate being able to actually see where the neighboring stars are.

I hope the creator does more with this. Or open-sources it so that people can add to it. For example, I would love to see the binary systems handled better so we can visit each member of the system independently.
The google Ngram viewer:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chattel+propert...

Currency doesn't even register. Slavery wins by miles.
Oh man, memories of having gcc and egcs both installed with different support levels for C++ :(
Be careful — two.js is only for drawing things to the browser. It doesn't do much else. There are many game libraries/fraemworks available, both 3d and 2d.
Usability should be viewed as a quality aspect. Reduced usability means low quality product.
As the article points out, this sort of situation is exactly what creates the difference between first and third world nations. The only difference is that in countries like Ecuador most of the economy is like New York's food truck business.
Fundersclub begins charging a 20% carried interest
Guess there isn't a better way to generate profits from their services.
1. There should be some kind of control group.

2. If the world is in fact biaised in favor of Zuckomorphs, then your own biais would be a good thing, but a biais nonetheless.
It's just a digital pet rock, which made the inventor a millionaire.
If it's on The Register then they almost certainly don't understand the source material.
EMarketer Data Suggests Tweets CAN Win the Hearts and Minds of Consumers
I think you'd have a better chance getting a response from Obama on the issue before the CFTC chimed in. The limited experience I've had with the CFTC (and other financial regulatory entities) implies that they want to maintain the broadest reach possible and will rarely, if ever, offer clarifying statements.

We have literally asked for clarification on sections of regulations before and offered several scenarios asking which interpretation was correct. The response : "we can't offer an opinion on that." Even though they would be the ones enforcing it.
Wouldn't that be 0 MPG? ;)
Again, I'm not a finance person, but I believe you could argue that the legendary item is a virtual good, rather than a virtual currency so long as it had in-game value aside from use as a monetary instrument.

The money transmitter regulations might (should) apply to sale of in-game currencies, however as these are only valuable as instruments of trade.

That said, it's probably totally legal if one were to use bitcoin to purchase a virtual good such as a legendary item, (allowable without restriction under the guideline) and then sell said virtual good for USD or another currency. Following that line of reasoning it wouldn't be too outrageous for commodities markets to open up trading in-game goods for the sole purpose of virtual currency exchange.

But that's pretty contrived...
Please tell me this is just a bad joke.
My full first name is Tal. While I'm far too busy with work to engage in any meaningful fundamentalism, this doesn't stop my friends from giving me irreverent nicknames that start with the three letters of my name. As you can imagine, this particular one has by far the most sticking power, which has oddly morphed into a sort of personal brand over the years.
Ah. Interesting.

So the fact that the lawyers are taking the Fifth can reasonably be used as evidence that some of the specific claims and assertions already made are materially fraudulent.

Taking the Fifth in your own lawsuit must be quite startling for a judge to behold. One can imagine possible sound reasons why a defendant might take the Fifth or the Sixth (right to consult an attorney, i.e. you caught me off guard but I might answer your questions later), but that is not pretty either, in a civil case.
>I am not sure how I would take offense, perhaps certain groups are predisposed to do so?

If that's a joke, you are a genius.
Parse Hosting, head-to-head with Heroku?
Telecom in Brazil (black hat customer support)
From a user perspective, it's exactly what people have been asking for when they started buying iPads to replace their desktops.
U.S. has highest first-day infant mortality out of industrialized world
I know a software architect who was formerly an actual architect. His Facebook profile says: Architect (Buildings, not computers) and Architect (Computers, not buildings)
Congrats Greg, Ranvir, and Team! Exciting to hear about all the progress.
In my experience, gitk and other TCL/Tk apps are pretty ugly. That might be enough for some people. Doesn't stop me.
You can sign up on our website to be contacted when you can start using the iOS SDK: http://www.adtile.me

There's a Reservations button at the end of that page.

Number 3 is something we're working on really hard to match the app's content with ads without requiring too much effort from the developer when using our SDK.

Let us know on the Reservations form a little about your app and we'll get back to you!
I worry that an initiative like this could potentially extend to laws where only large companies such as Google are allowed to store any public user data because only they can demonstrate reasonable compliance with deletion orders.

The complication here is non-obvious but real: Google has been pushing a hard link between online and offline personas to the point of absurdity sometimes. They are in a unique position to profit from a law that requires this kind of link. Compare that to, say, HN or even very small websites where no such policy exists and no such policy would even be realistically enforceable. How could HN verify the authenticity of a deletion order?

I don't think Google is as altruistic as Schmidt pretends here. They are in a great position to leverage their ToS in a way that would effectively outlaw smaller competitors. He is obviously not pushing a technological idea here, so it follows he must be lobbying for a legislative one.
"The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue."

Shareholders should call for someone with such a profound disconnect from how the Internet works to step down from a technology company.
I spoke with Matt at Bittorrent about how we used the Bittorrent protocol to reinstall collider data workers at an LHC detector data taking operation; hopefully that conversation made it into www.doesbittorrentequalpiracy.com somewhere.

If Bittorrent is just for piracy, Netflix is just a toy for streaming B movies when you're bored.
Haha me too late to the party. I just joined. Frantically watching the video lectures since the assignments are due today (hard deadline)!
Hi Suhas,

First off, I was lucky enough to use one of the promo codes, thanks! This exactly what I've been looking for. I'm trying my best to leave gmail, but all my emails are stuck on big G's servers. Thus, causing me login just to search old messages.

My only problem so far was the fact that I use Two-Factor Auth. Once I remembered this, there was no problem, haha. I just went and generated a new app specific password. But, I forgot, and failed three or four times trying to use my regular password. So no problem with the app. Maybe just adding a reminder to your support docs, or display a tip in the app after several failed attempts to help forgetful users like me. =)
There's the civil vs. criminal issue, as others have already pointed out.

Also, in the order leading to the Prenda attorneys pleading the 5th, the judge basically said "I have drawn these inferences. Tell me why I'm wrong.", and they declined to do so (pleading the 5th). According to Popehat's coverage, that seems to leave him pretty free to stick with the initial inferences.

IANAL and all that.
An extra note: An undergrad degree in econ can be very useful in getting familiar with the terminology and the sorts of facets that finance and economics professions are interested in. Beyond the BA/BS in Econ, there isn't much more to learn in post-graduate economics. My suggestion for anyone wanting to learn economics is to learn it in undergrad and mix it with another discipline.

I am surprised Abnormal Returns picked up this link.
That statement is untrue. Among journalists I know of, the one who has studied this the most and reported on it in the most detail is Gareth Porter.
What I find very positive about clang/llvm is:

- Everyone now seems to be using LLVM for language prototyping instead of JVM/.NET, clearly positive for native compilation and to show people without compiler knowledge that managed != VM

- The compiler as a library implementation of clang allows C, C++ and Objective-C to enjoy tooling support similar to JVM and .NET languages

- As someone with a sweet spot for the strong typing found in the Pascal family, the integrated static analysis are just great
I have to blame you, because now I had to take the course in coursera! I always wanted to learn machine learning. Better late than never!
The more I think about it, the more similar these sorts of groups seem to inner-city gangs. Otherwise good kids get caught up in the wrong environment, find acceptance within a peer group, and then become seduced by the intoxicating taste of power over others. As someone who engaged in my fair share of computerized mischief as a teenager, I can understand how a kid could fall into that trap. As someone who's pulled all-nighters to re-install/recover servers from attacks -- because you can never really trust your systems again, otherwise -- I don't think even the "non-profit" attackers realize the harm they cause.

If someone has a beef with society, there are plenty of honest and constructive ways of "sticking it to the man" without resorting to violating people's property.