skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume the screencast has a limited shelf life, so yes, my "other plans" are about that. Although at this point, I think the problem is more about organizing the content so it's not overwhelming. I'm not worried about running out of material or burning out, at least not for a while.

What happened to RailsCasts?
This might be the most heartwarming story I've ever heard. I think even if I'd stopped working at the airport, I'd show up to do my job for 4 days a year.
The title seems misleading - the IDE is not opensource, but they offer free license for opensource projects.
That is entirely unclear (about the authorization) since people often want to present their side of the story in terms that they see as best, and having someone say "well you were doing <x>" where X is some evil thing.

As we (Blekko) get better at identifying and shutting down click fraud and other schemes to defraud advertisers a lot them end up being traced back to hosts in inexpensive hosting services. That is but one of many ways of having a machine on the Internet that generates cash for you. We ended up basically shutting out a couple of class Bs from an hosting service in the Ukraine for that reason, people can write us and get white-listed but in over 27,000 IP's not a single one was a legitimate user. Way too many people coming up with schemes to get some "free" extra cash.
Do you want to make extra money through online? make real money...as I had made alot.. go to website Big57.com
The Gold iPhone isn't just for mindless sheep that want to show off
I like that you upvote your critics. That amuses me greatly. I had not viewed the video before I made my first comment but after watching the video I'm impressed with your implementation and solid practical concepts, but I still abhor your Hoon syntax. I haven't looked into Nock yet but I have a feeling I might knock its syntax as well, pun intended.
Ask HN: How do affiliate sales sites work and what % of sales do they make
Hi,

I am thinking of creating an affiliate sales site (something like a daily deals aggregator) and I still pondering about a couple aspects of the business model and technology behind it. I hope someone can explain some details over the following:

1) I know that affiliate sales sites work on percentage from sales. I've been trying to find what percentage those site normally work on? I read somewhere that it is about 10% which sounds about right.

2) I've mulling over the technology behind those sites - one thing that I've found out already is that a small 1x1px image (with a source url, the url of the aggregator site) can be used on the last step of the checkout. Each request it polls, means a sale from the affiliate site. Which means that at the end of the month (or any other invoicing period) the aggregator site will have a pretty good idea of what amount has been sold from the affiliate.

One concern here, and maybe it is just paranoia kicking in, though: with this approach, I would have to rely on the honesty of the daily deals site. However, I've heard some stories before about sites turning off their affiliate link every x amount of orders.

Have you had any experience with building such sites? Or have you got any feedback/anwers/ideas on the points above? Please share

Much appreciated
It must be in the valley that there is 'inflated salaries'.

Around mid-atlantic salaries never recovered from the economic downturn, and they show no sign of ever doing so.
"BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
Not to disrupt the hate, but let me propose an alternative scenario:

* The board approached Elop to take on a risky position: a failing company losing marketshare.

* Elop says, "Well - I'm willing to give it a shot, but this is pretty bad. I need something in the contract that will allow me to actually make some money in the event that all else fails, and sale is the only option."

The CEO in this kind of structure does not unilaterally make major business decisions. He is advised by the board - in fact he serves at the whim of the board - and they generally can stop anything they don't agree with.

Now if we had a scenario where every board member had asimilar clause, then the idea that he deliberately drove the company into the ground would have more merit. But to me it just seems like a clause that any reasonable person would want before taking the helm of a sinking ship.
So true. I've been working on my iOS app for about 4 years now, and recently started work on porting it to the Mac. But it's so much more tedious than I expected, for exactly the reasons you mention: lack of documentation and support, lots of subsystems to work on, legacy controls that aren't customizable. Attending WWDC and talking to people on both AppKit and UIKit teams, it's striking how little they seem to collaborate; it's like they live in their own organizational bubbles, and there is very little push from on top to make them more streamlined. They have made some progress on some frameworks to consolidate them across Mac OS and iOS (MapKit comes to mind), but it feels like they still operate as two independent entities within Apple; one being the young hot-shot with all the resources, and the other being the envious legacy-system that knows it's past it's best.
Pilot salaries are all based on union contracts. Union contracts are all negotiated by union leaders. Union leaders are all senior pilots. Senior pilots have a strong incentive to negotiate contracts that pay senior pilots the most, even if it is at the expense of new pilots.

I know a guy who flies less than 20 hours a month but makes well over $100k/year. He's been a pilot for over 20 years and knows how to work the rules so he makes money even when he's not flying (being on standby and such).
In China. Good luck with that.
Looks like Google's been reading http://donttrack.us/
Is this preferable over ipython/pylab notebooks for math/scientific python programming?
Release the clients: Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl
> What if you want a h4 to look the same as a h3? What if you have two h3 tags that you want to style differently?

Now you add customization classes to these special cases instead of shoving them every-fucking-where.
Sessions and cookies in Ruby on rails
And, perhaps, versions of the 4K display with and without a GPU would fit into their m.o. of making pretty high end stuff requiring low effort on the part of users.

and then if the monitors could also run iOS on their own when the computer is elsewhere ...

With as much cash as Apple has on hand it must be difficult not to just put out a single continuum Nano-Touch-iPhone-Mini-iPad-monitor-TV with OS X computers only occasionally filling a role for content creators.
Nope, they're now offering PyCharm Community Edition which is free to use for all and open source under the Apache 2 license.
Indeed, they seem to ask you for "Silverlight" for other stuff, ugh.
> If you want to update all the large margins across the app, you can do that in one place. That wouldn't be possible using inline styles.

Sure can, your pages are generated, generate the styles from config or constants. There, I fixed it.
Nothing to do with Frank Key's absurdist narrative "Ascent of the Mountain at Hoon", then?
http://hootingyard.org/archives/9019
Rram challenges flash
Startups highlight opportunities for government and startups to work together
This is going to be a really great resource. Thanks for yet another great contribution to the community Mattt!
I've lived in SF since the early 90s and have been through several business cycles. It feels like 1999 all over again, maybe 1998. A couple months ago I saw an ad on the NY subway for a company that delivers dog food and pet supplies to your door (deja vu anyone).

Property prices and rents in SF have spiked 30-40%, in some cases doubled, in less than a year. Same pattern as with the NASDAQ in 1999-2000. This is predictably driving the cost of doing business up, especially for companies that need to pony up for an actual office, payroll, etc.

Of course the details are different from 1999, but it feels a lot like that time. As Mark Twain said "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
How Designers Can Contribute to Open Source Projects
I think "hot girl" phenomenon he is referring to is girls recruiting engineers. I've definitely noticed that happening among startups both in the bay area and elsewhere. I know of one trendy startup that most definitely employs one very attractive young lady in an "admin" role, but her primary function is most definitely social recruiting.
It's really hard to separate one's thinking from current trends and fashions, but I try my hardest to do it. I don't think most do, though, or even realize how influenced they are by their environment.
That's a mistake. You should charge a little money. People will sign up for anything if it's free.
Super-simple translation support for Angular.JS
My twitter stream was filled with gold iPhone bashers on Friday and Saturday.

This one really got to me:
https://twitter.com/eEditor/status/381084430611144704

The iPhone is a fashion item, and is going to follow fashion trends. This includes going gold.
"Still, I should at least make that a rule, even if I don't enforce it."

"You might not get notified when shit hits the fan" seems like some natural enforcement :-P
Mullets are cool, right?
Box from Bot & Dolly [projection-mapping onto robotic moving surfaces]
This is What 1 Billion Friends Looks Like On a Map
5by Video Discovery Service - Acquired by Stumbleupon
Have you found the link to the source? I can't find it and so curious :)
I think this illustrates why banking/money should be the most heavily guarded, regulated and most aggressively prosecuted industry there is.

Fraudulent activity by the banks should be the corporate equivalent of a capital crime.

Every major banker should be held personally accountable to the actions of the banks they lead.
>Apple didn’t release something out of style to which mindless sheep are flocking because it’s new. Apple released something in-style to which millions are flocking because it’s attractive.

I'm sure there are plenty in each camp. There are people flocking towards it because it's now. And there are people buying it because it's attractive.

Sometimes new is attractive. I know at least 3 people on my own Family Plan are getting silver or gold because they are 'tired of black'. No big deal.

I think a lot of people get too worked up over other people's personal opinions. And in the end, I'm not sure that anyone will really care about the color (gold, black, or whatever) in 2 weeks.
Why PR for Your Engineering Team is not Crazy Talk
And yet, it's a forum and to a degree, also a link aggregator. If it's only purpose was to promote YC, only YC members would have accounts, but people already discuss all kinds of things here, not all of which directly relate to Y Combinator.

People keep complaining as the site grows that the content no longer reflects their particular views. To me, there are two possible solutions to this, or three, if you count "just ignore it": enforcing a more narrow definition of what can and can't be posted, or else smarter filtering of content.
API Interactions with KVO in ObjC
Deleting "Must Have" Features
>nVidia is another company which has been working on polishing up some documents in order to release them on their FTP site. //

You know this for a fact? It's not that the announcement was made now to gain traction in the Linux community and push forward Nvidia as the graphics company for Linux then?

It surprises me a bit. Too be honest I'd have thought Nvidia would need to document their drivers for internal purposes and that the detail already in the internal documentation would be more than sufficient for the Nouveau team to use. But I'm an outsider to GPU engineering and programming in general really so a misapprehension is quite likely.

>Many more projects are ongoing all over the world and any two of them could at some point make announcements on the same day.

Indeed but you'd expect Nvidia, or similar, to be manoeuvring themselves to align with Steam's announcement.
Best fake recommendations ever! But yeah we make the assumption the developer and their app (food delivery or otherwise) has some data (users, items, actions) on which to build a model. Otherwise you won't get very far...

Thanks! Some of our tutorials have test datasets (e.g., MovieLens) if you want to try it out - http://docs.prediction.io/current/tutorials/movie-recommenda...
Could you stop lying about Climate Science please?
So they actually did opensource it. Sorry, my mistake.
Now the news is even better :)
But each major iOS version is slower than the one before, it's just that we got used to it (and loud people on the internet always use recent devices anyway). I think this blog post is a good example of something that is definitely a polished turd. A clean, beautiful UI for a resource hog:

http://blog.ittybittyapps.com/blog/2013/09/20/lifting-the-li...

And something else that we have accepted is that Apple's services are what they are. For example, iOS 7 has polished the Photos and Camera apps. But in the big picture, Apple's ecosystem for photos is still a complete mess. There is Photos.app with its own Camera Roll, iPhoto for iOS, Photostreams, Journals, Moments, iPhoto '09 with its own Events, and no sane way to keep everything in sync.
Startup 5by gets acquired by StumbleUpon
From pedestal to pinnacle, all things are quantum, not classical. The metaphor that better avoids scaling obsolescence for your project is perhaps Bohmian, rather than Maxwellian.
The tech bubble of the late 90's was a fascinating phenomenon. It was global and widespread. My grandmother had significant money in tech stocks at the time.

The overall amount of money we're talking about here is MUCH smaller than that. A couple of orders of magnitude at least. As such the effects of any bubble popping aren't going to have widespread consequences here.

A major pullback in funding will definitely affect engineers. Jobs will simply be a bit harder to find, but there are so many technology companies operating outside of the startup funding domain that I don't think it will be terribly impactful.

The worst case is we go back to like 2005, which isn't really too bad at all.
Are you guys the first YC graduates to get in Asian markets?

Can you say a little about what you plan to do differently for the Asian audience vs. the Western audience?

It seems the Chinese have a very different sensibility of what constitutes a good webpage design, are you sure Strikingly models and aesthetics will be accepted by them? And, do you expect any resistance because you guys are not Chinese-based?

Best of luck though! I personally love Strikingly-made sites, I just wish there was an easy way I could download them (I would pay for this if you guys would be willing to offer this service).
http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983225
The .exe download is blocked at the office.

Is there a .zip version available?

I also assume the installer doesn't require administrative privileges... Am I right?
Wait, Google heard its users? I guess persistence and yelling help... better late than never huh?

Now if only they could hear the real bug reports too...
Get a dabbawalla
Nissan Lands Exclusive Rights for iTunes Radio in Cars
Even if you aren't noticing it, you're not missing out.

To reuse a great Mel Brooks line, the girls have an opening they're looking for you to fill, but it's not the interesting kind: at best a Sr Software Engineer at some massive company writing Java on a team that "is just like a small startup in a big company".
It's not impossible, but it requires either secure hardware or homomorphic encryption.
It depends (imo), on the amount of money you have left and who its from. If you've raised $1m from well-to-do-but-not-rich family members and with $500k left you're realized you're totally unqualified to be in your business, or the concept was terrible, no valid pivot, etc., then yeah, give the people back your money.

But if you've raised $1m from professional investors and you have $100k left, for example, you might be better off trying to double down or raise more money.
He nails what others have missed on the discussion about native ads, despite -- somewhat ironically -- his sales pitch at the end.
Stay Focused: How  To Increase Your Attention Span
There is no definition of 'seed', so I'm not sure where you're getting these ideas. Seed is just pre-Series A.

I am a YC W13 founder and I just raised a 'seed' round. Our investors signed the paperwork as a 'seed' round. We raised >$500k.
It's not a big leap.

The report hasn't been disclosed because they are under legal obligation not to disclose.

The report hasn't been disclosed because they are corrupt.

The report hasn't been disclosed because they are embarrassed.

The report hasn't been disclosed because they are lazy.

The report hasn't been disclosed because they are incompetent.

What other possibilities exist? Which one is most likely?
Does anyone know what software he's using to display those charts and graphs? Is that a 3rd party app or a custom in house dashboard? I've been looking for something like that for my SaaS business.
That's what I meant, through Game Center and iCloud.
When we were planning our launch I was blown away at how easy it was to get on some fairly major publications; most of them actually reached out and made contact with us. Granted, we had a very compelling story (I lived in my car, our product democratizes breaking news), but in my excitement I made a huge mistake, which I'm glad the author focused on. We got too much press too long before our product went live.

We were a couple months away from launch, and all of the sudden BBC, Yahoo and San Francisco magazine are asking us if they can feature us. Do you really say "no" to BBC?"

Yes. You do. While it was cool to watch signups come in at a rate of 1 per minute (to an empty landing page), now when we actually do launch it will be an uphill battle. Getting press isn't hard if you have a compelling product, but it also should be a part of your overall launch strategy.

Make press happen the way you want it to, and time things right. I found reporters are by no means offended if we said, "We're not ready yet; we're heads-down focusing on product. It will be a much better story in a month when we launch, can we circle back then?" You're the founder; make it happen how you need it to.
Why didn't you just click on the 'x'? I did not even notice it, and thought the article was well worth the read.
JetBrains has actually open sourced the complete IntelliJ Community Edition IDE/platform:

see http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Home and https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

Incredible!
Short Facebook.
But both paths come with risk. Riskier doesn't always mean more reward, but no risk at all does mean no reward. That's all I really meant. Risk is of course relevant to each of us and we all define it differently, but everyone entertains some form of risk in their lives in order to just eat and keep a roof over our heads. It's worth it :D
Python Apache Ant path matching library
Show HN: MinoCloud - Database, Notifications and Authentication as services
From the profit chart it seems to me that there was a boost in Q2 and then in Q3 things essentially returned to how they were before.
I've yet to get bumblebee working on my laptop. Same system works fine under Windows. :(

If Nvida could fix Optimus for other OSes, there might be more Linux users/gamers.
IPython Notebook is an incredible platform for interactive learning, and I used it as the basis of all examples in Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly - to go "final" tomorrow!)

My one complaint is that it's still quite a pain to get all of the necessary dependencies installed so that both IPython Notebook and all of its 3rd party package dependencies that might be used within the notebook "just works" across all supported platforms. However, that's not so much an IPython Notebook problem, per se, as it is just some of the pains in the larger Python ecosystem.

My recommendation to overcome the hurdle is to use Vagrant to take care of packaging IPython Notebook and all required dependencies so that you can provide a virtual machine featuring an IPython Notebook UI that "just works" once it boots up and you point your browser to localhost:8888.

I wrote about this at length if anyone is interested in thinking about the Vagrant+IPython Notebook combination a little bit more - http://miningthesocialweb.com/2013/08/24/reflections-on-auth... - and there's also a screencast illustrating how easy it can be to get it all running in the way I am describing.

In my opinion, there's no better way to reach the masses than with this combination of technologies. I hope to see more and more tech book writers jumping on board and treating the code as an OSS project with the book being the "premium support" for that OSS project. It's a win-win for everyone that way.
This is a good writeup.

In general, this type of mindset is important, especially for company founders. It's not so much "PR" or "sales" or "marketing", but more about understanding what's important to the target audience, and explaining why what you're offering is a good fit for what they want.

VCs, business partners, employees, customers...they all have a different perspective on the world, and it's hard to be successful in business if you're unable to get your message across.
Here's the relevant part of the video that the picture is from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&t=2980
Seriously, no way would I pay a bill that the business owed when it was shutting down out of a personal credit card. It's the business, not you who is liable. Also, if you can pay on a credit card, you can pay the business on a payment plan and it will cost you a lot less.
> This problem was not a 2.6 second delay. It was a multi-hour delay.

Technically this is not a problem. SMTP does not guarantee instantaneous delivery, just that if a SMTP server accepts the message it will be delivered.

In reality, this 'delay' could be perfectly normal and is just fine according to spec.
Basic Virtual Currency Design Mistakes Costing You Revenue In Games
Android Device Manager allows user to Lock, Wipe and Locate device remotely
I mean, glsl compilers and optimizers. And as time goes on, Nvidia is moving more of the fixed function out of silicon into GPU software. Which is effectively binary blobs that need to get uploaded to the GPU. This all seems like quite a bit of "propietary IP"
Hmm, it's been a while since I checked but last time I went to Dunkin Donuts they still had that "Get a free donut on your next visit by filling out yada yada yada" on the bottom of the receipt and CVS seems to frequently have contest offers for a small survey. Similarly Tops supermarkets used to have something like CVS's when I used to shop there as recently as a few months ago. Maybe it's only chains now?
JetBrains open sources its IntelliJ Community Edition IDE
Cool! Requests has got to be my favorite Python library. There are so many times I have replaced ~80 lines of urllib2 ugliness with 2-5 lines of requests. Simple, Pythonic, pretty...
People leave big companies for smaller companies for a variety of reasons that don't have to do with money: product, culture, team, technology, or just for the sake of working at a smaller company. And for the record, Google is not a perfect Utopia that has a monopoly on all the good developers with a flawless interviewing system.
> is just like a small startup in a big company

That's my favorite line. It lets me know to run the other way. Often, when people use that line on me, I ask about the equity I'll get as part of the deal. Usually, it turns out that they want founder-level enthusiasm without the pay.
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