skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're doing the same thing. Our team is located in NYC, London, and Aurora, IL.

We launched our little meta-board gaming company at http://susd.pretend-money.com a little over 1.5 months ago. And we're already profitable!

We made a conscious decision to forego taking money from advertisers/investors, and even dodged a pre-launch acquihire offer, in an attempt to create something that's 100% our vision (unless YC wanted to fund us.) Our plan is to grow slowly, keep up the quality, and use the money that we're making from the show/blog/podcast to fund even more ambitious community/tech projects.

AND!

Board Games are Big Business!

Board/card/traditional gaming (whatever you want to call it) has been exploding in America over the last 10 years or so. It taps into that primal need for people to sit around together and ACTUALLY interact with each other.

We're in a bit of a "Golden Age of Board Gaming". Quinns gave a hilarious talk on the subject: http://susd.pretend-money.com/videos/v/board-game-golden-age...
Maybe it's the headline. When I read the headline, I thought it was an early stage company looking for a CTO/Chief Architect
I came up with a similar idea years ago but I'm not interested in creating hardware. This needs to be built into the machine, not a bolt-on. The machine itself needs to only accept cards in horizontally.
I have a theory that there are three main markets for computer usage, each of which has different characteristics: recreational, productivity and gaming.

The recreational market cares about media, information, news, music, video, 2D games, sharing pictures, Facebook, Skype etc. Typically these are typically the home users. They want free, but don't mind ads. They care about good design and intuitive interfaces. For them the PC is a large tablet. They are usually quick to adapt new technology, because there is nothing that binds them to one platform.

Then there is the productivity market. These involves all kinds of professional software: MS Office, AutoCAD, Photoshop, IDEs, financial software, video editing, Share point. Customers here are often Enterprises, who care about reducing cost and risk. They are normally slow to adapt new technology (yes I am look at you, IE6), but care about the latest buzzwords. If the prices for some software is too low they get suspicious. This market also includes hobbyists. They don't mind learning curves for software, which will tie them in.

Now MS Office (mainly Word, Excel and Outlook) is an interesting case, because it is the only productivity app that even most home users use. In many cases it is the only thing that ties them to Windows. I don't think there is any viable replacement for it yet, which has the same usability, functionality and compatibility (and I say that even though I myself solely use Google Docs).

Finally there is the gaming market. They care about running the newest 3D games on the lastest hardware, which makes them good customers because they regularly buy new computers.

Now it is easy to think the MS is on the way out on the recreational market, but a) that is not the only and maybe not even the biggest market and b) let's not forget that there is overlap (most recreational users are also productivity users). Microsoft may loose some revenue, but I don't think it they will get bought out for patents by Oracle any time soon.
Like Warren Buffett? Please note that Jason Zweig actually put tech in relation to Graham rules. Very interesting.

EDIT It would be nice for you to give some data to support your point.
Sure why not, better return then a lot of stocks I bet on. (err invested in)
US Authorities Seize Bitcoin Operator Accounts
I was intrigued by your background. Since you invited us to Google your name, I hope you don't mind my posting this here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/05/man-allegedly-b/
The built-in web browser is a cute feature, but all the prompts waste space with <username>@<hostname>.

Autocompletion - a feature I generally don't use in other contexts - and reduced functionality seem to be its main USPs. With readline, process substitution and subshells (for ad-hoc fork/join jobs started from the command line) it might be competitive with other shells.

For example, a reasonably common pattern for me, on the command line, is:

$ for d in *; do
test -d "$d" || continue
(
cd "$d"
time-consuming-task-1
time-consuming-task-2
) &
done

I don't think I could do this in fish today without writing a script, as it doesn't have subshells and can't run functions in the background.

There's also a big advantage in having the shell be the same (or highly similar) to your preferred ad-hoc scripting language. It means you can retrieve complex commands from your history and paste them into the script, with only a slight cleanup to parameterize them. A whole complex operation can be spiked and tested interactively before being put together into something reusable - possibly without foreknowledge that the task is going to be that tedious, or needs to be encapsulated. Zsh looks like a better alternative to bash for these reasons.
Some ATMs are designed to hold and keep the card if it's known to be stolen or too many PIN attempts fail.
Instant Messaging for Teams
Why VCs Bias Technology Startups
Just a note: The reason for the verification process that customers must go through in order to receive an account is in place to prevent spammers, misuse and AUP violations.

The current signup process for developers remains suboptimal, and a number of teams are working on this, but I thought I would quickly followup. If you still want to try out Rackspace's Cloud, I can connect you with the people needed to help debug why the verification service failed - if it failed for you, it can fail for others in the same way, and is therefore a bug.
I really like this idea, and can see myself using it, but I do have one concern: What happens after the product is built? I will need maintenance and will want to add things later on. It doesn't seem like I can rely on a 3-day coder to stick with me long-term.
Why choose DI interception over aspect oriented programming?
Sure. These things are about getting new and interesting companies to build on Google's infrastructure. Then when the time comes to acquire them and monetize them through advertising, all the integration is already done.

Interestingly I signed up for the trial of Google App Engine. The only thing they wanted to approve me was for me to enter my GMail password. In other words, they'd already scanned my email and decided if I was a good candidate. Worrying, no?
That is neither easy nor a solution.
Read "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance", Lou Gerstner's firsthand account of IBM's historic turnaround. IBM was 3 months away from running out of cash when he got there in 1993. It survived largely because he bet the company on a pivot out of tech entirely (the IBM of today is a professional services company) and into a new market where they're not subject to the same Innovator's Dilemma forces.

The same thing could happen at Microsoft, but it's unlikely with Ballmer (or any insider) still at the helm.
You forgot Zuck; the guy has plenty of charisma.
If you don't mind, (I am looking to start donating to the EFF and ACLU in the future), can you explain a bit more why you decided to stop supporting them? Was it just bitcoins, or is there something else also going on that I should be worried about?
Essentially yes. The game is massively unplayable for a lot of different kinds of people due to the really triggering nature of the card content (rape jokes, pedophilia, racism, sexism, etc.). A lot of people find that content to be one of its virtues, but I've generally found that only certain kinds of people really enjoy CAH (read: white men).
<($cmd) is called "process substitution." The fish equivalent is

($cmd | psub)

I miss incremental history search myself -- that's probably my most used bash feature. Typing a few letters and then hitting C-P or up arrow works, but there's no way to refine the search if you don't get the result you're looking for.
"University of Phoenix...They are a company that makes it easy to get the same quality diploma that you would get at the local college."

It damages the credibility of the author to make a statement like this. University of Phoenix degrees are less marketable than those of public universities. If someone wants specific evidence there is a Frontline episode on education that features UoP heavily.
In addition, UoP is basically a parasitic entity exploiting a loophole. They take federal money intended to provide access to useful education, and people who think a degree will improve their marketability, fail to deliver to either party and pocket a percentage.
Lotteries are probably regulated to the point where this can't happen, but I used to play poker at some quasi-legal charity games quite often. They sold instant bingo tickets, which are very much like instant lottery tickets. There's a box with a defined number of losers and each prize.

Most of the return from a box came from let's say 5 big prizes (out of let's say 1,000 tickets). Let's suppose the return is 50%, and the ticket price $2, so the total payout on a box is $1,000. There would be 5 $100 winners, and a number of smaller winners that added up to the other $500.

The people selling them would watch and count how many of the $100 tickets were redeemed. (Gamblers tend to not hold onto the winning ticket secretly, they cash them in right away and buy more.) If there were, say, 2 of the big winners left but only 100 tickets remaining in the box, the guy running it would purchase them all. The two big winners would pay for the whole thing and his profit would then be the sum of all of the small prizes left (which was expected to be roughly equal to the 2 big tickets).

Since it was a charity game he was effectively stealing from the charity, but also robbing the players collectively because any time you were near the end of a box but still able to buy tickets you could be sure there were no big prizes left.

I wonder if instant lotteries ever do this. If they see it's near the end and they've got a disproportionate number of prizes left they could simply pull all of the tickets.
> Does mailchimp.com? I doubt it (but I'd be impressed if they do).

They do. Also they have two-factor authentication.
Reminds me of the story behind "The Cat in the Hat."

"In May 1954, Life magazine published a report on illiteracy among school children, which concluded that children were not learning to read because their books were boring. Accordingly, William Ellsworth Spaulding, the director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin who later became its Chairman, compiled a list of 348 words he felt were important for first-graders to recognize and asked Geisel to cut the list to 250 words and write a book using only those words. [33] Spaulding challenged Geisel to "bring back a book children can't put down." [34] Nine months later, Geisel, using 236 of the words given to him, completed The Cat in the Hat. It retained the drawing style, verse rhythms, and all the imaginative power of Geisel's earlier works, but because of its simplified vocabulary, it could be read by beginning readers."

From: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss
Sure they're patentable (but this one's expired)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis
Here's a good article on finding your first customer. http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/07/how-to-find-your-first-cus...

As a developer freelancing is probably your best bet. Find jobs with software you can resell again with minor configuration.
It's not often discussed, but 20% of Kickstarter's top 20 projects are board games. The Pebble and Ouya skew the average, but D&D style games with little plastic figurines clean up with multiple games clearing $2MM or more.

http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2013/05/15415-ranked-31-mill...
> My point was more to the fact that before you even see a job description, or what they want from you, they lead with why they want to you

Fair enough. I'll work on the language to emphasise that more.

> As an early startup, I'd be interested in why you don't have a programmer/technical cofounder?

Because I haven't found one yet -- that's why I'm looking. Most web startups are created by people already working within web-focused industries, so they have constant access and strong social ties to myriads of potential technical co-founders. A good idea starts getting tossed around between mates at the pub, and after a while they decide to give their day jobs a shove and go for it full-time. But I'm coming out of the world of transport planning: there simply aren't any potential technical co-founders within my professional or social circles.

So I've spent the last couple of months making inroads into the London software-development scene, trying to find a technical co-founder. Unfortunately, I've found that "I'm looking for a co-founder" translates, in virtually everyone's mind, as "I have no money nor am I ever likely to, and want you to work long hours for nothing more than sweat equity" -- an assumption which closed off every conversation before it had a chance to begin. So because I already had a committed investor on-board, I switched to saying I was hiring a lead developer instead. Unfortunately, this leads to the following:

> I know I sure wouldn't own a project (YOUR project) on the level you describe without significant equity.

Exactly! Which is why the job posting very clearly states that I'm offering significant equity AS WELL as a competitive salary. And I really mean it!

But this just isn't coming through. If I tell people "I'm looking for a technical co-founder, and can pay a competitive salary", then they say they're not interested, because they can't take a job that doesn't pay a good salary. But if I tell people that I'm hiring at competitive salary for what is essentially a co-founder position -- with all the equity and responsibility that this implies -- then they say that they're not interested, because they wouldn't want to work in a startup that doesn't give them significant equity.

Somehow, developers assume that equity and salary are such binary opposites that the majority of them are literally incapable of parsing a verbal or written offer of BOTH. This is proving to be more than a bit crazy-making -- but I keep telling myself that I wouldn't have wanted to hire such nincompoops in any case. Eventually I'll find a technical person who both has the skills that I need and is sharp enough to parse what I'm saying...

The developer community is (rightly) full of stories in which obnoxious and intellectually-lazy businesspeople just couldn't comprehend what was directly in front of their eyes. I've always gotten a good chuckle out of those stories, because I identify much more strongly as a geek than as an MBA. But now I'm learning that it's possible to tell such stories from both sides of the divide. This is a tough lesson to absorb!
Yes, it is on a different level -- that was just the first example that popped in mind (and I hesitated posting it, worrying that I could offend someone else). But you have the same problem with any analogy; there are always differences between the two items being compared.

I think the problem for me is that I see it as a software bug, and since it is a bug that comes to light based on personal actions / data, it gets under my skin. Kind of like how Clippy got annoying back in the day. Or when Tivo makes inappropriate recommendations because you happened to watch a particular show (such as "My Tivo thinks I'm an 80-year-old retired grandmother").
Obama admin. aware of IRS scandal during the presidential campaign
Of note is that there is at least one documented case of someone (supposedly) reverse engineering lottery algorithms to give themselves better odds:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023514/Joan-R-Ginth...
what's the innovation here? nanosolar has been printing (and selling) rolls of complex chemistry solar cells for several years.

From TFA:
One of the most important aspects of this approach, claims Watkins, is accessibility. "We're developing our processes to be able to use these existing printing technologies so that the barrier to entry for manufacturing these new printed solar cells is as low as possible," he said.

--

that's the whole reason everyone is pursuing printable cells: cause paper and film processors have already done the heavy lifting how to produce on a massive scale (like 10 meter wide lines moving at 900 feet / minute).

and there are no real numbers, like efficiency or $/watt.
The mention about not having a centralized datacenter is interesting, so here are my two cents. A decentralized datacenter could be modeled after the open-source model. The data would not belong to any one single entity, but would be able to be accessed by interested parties via an API. (How to enforce which "third parties" get access to this data is another interesting question.) The algorithms for fast, efficient access and retrieval would then be improved upon by the open-source community so everyone could benefit.

I like how search is becoming more contextual, but I don't feel comfortable when this data belongs to just one entity. My high school history teacher often used to say "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely", which is why I believe user data should somehow be decentralized. How to go about this is the million dollar question.
I agree on "personalized" search. It can be handy (I search "Backbone" and get BackboneJS), but I worry that highly personalized search and content can lead to a feedback loop in which your pre-existing perceptions and biases are perpetually reaffirmed.

Imagine someone who takes Fox News and InfoWars seriously only being presented information from those sources. They could never escape!

Or take someone interested in mindless topics like celebrity gossip and whichever Kardashian has recently lost weight. A customized information feed will only enable them to fritter their life away in the pursuit of mindless, inane entertainment. They might come to think that these things actually constitute attention-worthy news!

Granted, these scenarios apply a bit more to customized news feeds like Yahoo homepages or Google News, but to some degree it applies to search as well. Sometimes I worry that I am already trapped in a closed information loop. Maybe the U.S. is an oppressive dictatorship and North Korea stands for freedom and innovation! I may never know.
Most companies seriously underestimate the level of exposure they have. We usually recommend applying inbound marketing techniques to your recruiting process to improve your exposure. A few tips:

1) Open source one or more useful projects. Smart people will use them, fork them, etc.
2) Have a referral program, and make sure it's easy to use. A lot of companies have a program that gives employees $1,000 or more if they refer a candidate, but not a lot of companies make the referral process an easy one. Build a landing page for each position. Include a little information about the company and the job. That way, employees have something to share on their social networks and via email.
3. If you're looking for awesome and nothing else will do, consider allowing remote work.
4. Set up a company page at Work for Pie (shameless plug) or Coderwall or similar. It'll help developers get to know your team and culture much better than a simple job description.

Good luck!
Ok, substitute to "South Park jokes". Same deal.
Another problem I always had with bookmarking websites was my lists would grow too long and interesting bookmarks would get lost in the mess without pruning them.

So I created a website 2 years ago that constantly visits the URL and lets me know whats changing on the website the bookmark is pointing to and emails me the deltas.

Not trying to hijack the OP’s thread but if interested , visit diphur.com
Not as bad as this

"Android malware attack spreads via e-mail"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/03/28/android-malwar...

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/mobile-security/311417-window...
> Want to run a bash script? Just run bash fooshnizzle.sh

Why not just

#!/usr/bin/env bash

? In zsh I never worry about running bash scripts because they run by the kernel with the shell/interpreter specified after the hashbag.
Because YOURE FIRED
Try Notes, Netware, and Novell Application Launcher. It's the Terrible Trifecta...
I've seen ATMs in the Netherlands that have a semi-transparent backlit plastic facade so its very obvious if anything is stuck on the front.
Sure. An example of a gamble that is a little better is "Capitalisation Titles" (at least we have this in Brazil). You pay a fixed monthly fee and participate in some type of raffle with good prizes. In the end of the period, the bank gives all your money back with monetary correction.

In other words: a lottery that you at least have your money back.
More "South Park jokes", but yeah.

I swing back and forth on which one I like better. Cards Against Humanity is fun because it lets you come out and say truly horrible things. Apples to Apples is fun because it lets you imply truly horrible things in really creative ways.

At its best (read: I am indeed a horrible person), either one is like drawing a smiley face on Hitler.
What if there were two bodies instead of one and they were 1 light year apart. What would motion be like then?
Seems pretty easy in python:

from subprocess import call
call(["ls", "-l"])

or

import os
os.system("ls -l")
Hadoop and friends.
1 month, or 1 year: It's gotta get done!
This makes me want to apply to YC. Congrats to PG and team for landing so many interesting part-time partners.
But great for customers. I use my Amex on everything, and often won't shop where I know it won't be accepted. I just love the company.
Inter-thread Communication without a Mutex
I think more accurately various middle-parties work in an unco-ordinated fashion to bring coca-cola to remote areas.

This also does not account for the need to keep many (vaccines) at a specific temperature range and be used within a specific amount of time.

I am not saying that the Coca-Cola corporation could not do it, or that the PR upside would beat the costs, but if I were Warren Buffet, I would get them to use UAV Airships to do the deliveries anyway. NetJet logos of course !
You're not missing anything. Most if not all of your concerns were voiced during the internal dogfooding phase and, as usual for G+ and Vic Gundotra, duly noted and ignored.
Am I the only one who came here for the Perf/Perv jokes?
The equivalent to || and && are the commands "or" and "and.":

$cmd1 && $cmd2 || $cmd3

becomes

$cmd1; and $cmd2; or $cmd3;

i.e., they're just commands that inspect $status and run their arguments.
I don't think so. It took Debian a bit longer to get their UEFI stack working but it is now with the release of wheezy.
Except America doesn't have anything like this... yet.
The Docker team is hiring
Android did not switch to IntelliJ. Google has given you the option of also using IntelliJ. Many people who do not like eclipse requested IntelliJ support and Google listened.

This has been brought up a couple times in the sessions, they didn't do a great job of explaining in the keynote. If you want to hear the official story, watch a recording of the Android Fireside Chat session.
Headline says "sighed with Apple ID" as if that's a bad thing, but it's actually a good thing, as it means Apple has already revoked the Apple ID (and presumably the associated certificate), so as soon as your computer updates its certificate revocation list, it will refuse to run the application (even if you try to bypass gatekeeper).
nice work on the site......cheeky bit of self promotion for my iphone tabata timer app https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tabata-hiit-timer/id44160046...
I never really mingled with the worst of them but this not something that many students do. Drinking in the weekends and on weekdays sure but regularly getting a delirium tremens (if that's what you mean with DT) made me sit up in my chair.