skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to discuss the target percentage. Yes I'm sure 100% would be nice in an abstract sense, but there are a lot of things that would be nice.

I can assure you that my favorite waitress having a bachelors degree in early childhood education doesn't make my food arrive at the table any quicker, or her recitation of scripts sound any better. Or my favorite coffee barista who has some liberal arts degree or another doesn't make coffee any better than the illegal who can't read or write. Perhaps if all lunchroom ladies were competent FPGA programmers then they would shovel canned peaches onto trays better, or something.

So I'm not seeing how the hotel desk clerk in Shanghai having memorized the periodic table is going to improve anything in any way.
This was quite helpful in outlining the differences between the options as well as the key differences in specific features. I also like the philosophy approach.

As an aside, some have argued (see previous Angular / Ember deck posted to HN) that Angular is something for building frameworks rather than a framework itself. I would also say that the documentation for Angular is comprehensive but not good (as a newbie). With the version change to 1.2 a number of issues crop up that invalidate old solutions like $sce content escaping and other bindings, and often times the documentation on the AngularJS site goes a bit beyond comprehension that have yet to pass the appropriate "abstracto-cline" of understanding.

Thanks again for the analysis - well done.
New USB plug coming: Good news, bad news
A video game you can't even see
At this point, I'd just like to inject that looking anything across a network as a function call is probably not a good idea.
Uber to deliver Christmas Trees for $135
A photograph of how this type of equipment looks can be found on pages 28..39 of this IAEA publication:

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1278_web.pd...

Fig. 10 & 11 show the devices used for radiation treatment of (almost always) tumors.

Fig.12 is the (ancient, green) therapy device with an apparatus (white) to exchange the radioactive source coupled beneath.

Figs 14 & 15 is how the "heads" look like after being scrapped.

(Page 34, Fig 20 & 21 show another type of this kind of treatment devices.)

Story about a similar device being stolen (and unprofessionally dismantled) in 1987:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident (Wiki)

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub815_web.pdf (IAEA Report)
Trying to stop a terrorist plot with TSA security checks is like trying to prevent a divorce by hiding your wife's car keys.

It's indicative of a shortsighted, reactionary way of thinking that glosses over the nuances of the problem.
http://chaplinjs.org/ is also another great full featured framework on top of Backbone. Vanilla Backbone is more of a framework starter kit. I don't think it makes sense to compare it directly to frameworks like Ember or Angular.
Don't forget about the revolving door between the finance industry and the people who regulate it.
When you say that you offer an investment based on default terms and in the next paragraph you say you also continue to make investments at later stages and at different valuations then people have no reason to assume that those investments are mutually exclusive.
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Another thing that is not mentioned, is that Steam on OS X is kinda bad. Tends to freeze often etc.

In the case of Linux, Valve has the incentive to ship a better version because they'd be running that version on their Steamboxes as well.
We like startups that will grow huge. Usually that means a global reach, but we've funded a few that address a large regional market.

If that market is elsewhere, we have to believe that bringing the founders to Silicon Valley will help the company more than it will hurt by being away from their customers.
I think you should create a video or have a step by step page with photos on how the product works. I get the basic idea but you need to convince me to sign up and right now there isn't enough info showing me how using your startup will improve my workflow.
7 teachers cannot beat statistics.
Yeah, I've only had success about 3/4 of the time I've used Wine. Maybe less. That's still 3/4 more than 0, so I absolutely love it, but it's definitely not perfect.
Top 10 Startup Mistakes
Agreed, this would be a nice feature.
You're absolutely right. The accessibility features are lightyears better on iOS. This means that far more people with visual impairments are using iOS and thus more apps are being developed for the blind on iOS than other platforms. It's a pretty virtuous cycle :)
The Woman Entrepreneur's Handicap
If you're this ready for funding, you should probably shop around.
I wish I could try it out on my Mac without having to boot up Windows... likely not going to happen anytime soon though
backstabbing and empire building

It's inevitable after an organization reaches a certain size.
Interesting. Can you explain your rebase workflow a bit? I never thought of merge and rebase as overlapping that much, although I only use rebase to combine commits together.
If they don't need or want this job why are they coming for an interview at all?

If after research and any questions they want to ask ahead of an extended interview they still aren't sold on the reasonable possibility that it's an interesting opportunity it doesn't seem a good use of my time, let alone hard cash.

How many sales have you made at that price? My figure isn't hypothetical, it's our standard day rate which we sell at and is the opportunity cost for those people's time. I'm not seriously saying that we'd ever consider charging candidates, just saying that the company is already making a significant investment in the person.

Maybe this is a local thing and supply and demand are more out of whack where you are than here (the UK) but what's being proposed doesn't feel equitable to me even in a candidate driven market.

(See also the edit above in response to your earlier deleted post).
I had to switch to mostly indie games with I switched to Linux, which is great, there are a ton of awesome indie games. There are some mainstream Windows titles that I can get to run in Steam via Wine, but it's a pain. I really hope Valve can get the big mainstream studios on board.
O #UberTREE, O #UberTREE
I'm a big fan of Tap Log. Semi-structured notes and logging, lightning fast. Not free. Only tried on Android.
I thint there is an unfortunate temptation to look at the students and think "how stupid are they?", but I wonder if the issue is more about familiarity of tasks.

If students are going along solving word problems that always make sense, they have zero practice in identifying which questions are well posed and which aren't. It may not be that they're bad at reasoning through word problems, so much as they aren't used to word problems that make zero sense.

Given that context, it makes partial sense for a child to think "I must be making a mistake--I can't see how this problem works, but it must work somehow, because these problems always do make sense, even if sometimes I get them wrong, because I am not smart enough to understand them."

Is that a good attitude? Heck no. If nothing else, this experiment shows that we need to teach students that math problems aren't always going to be nicely set up so that they make sense. But that's different from thinking kids are dumb for not adapting to an unexpected wrinkle on a test.

An interesting companion experiment would be to prompt the students to explain the problem first, or see whether they could accurately determine which problems made sense and which didn't, when they knew that was what they were doing. My prediction is that the results would not be great, but that they'd be better.
Those who censor are not the only enemies of the internet. When being monitored by an unaccountable organization capable of all manner of violence, a threat is implied and speech is hindered.

Furthermore, why remove speech when you can just make sure no one ever finds it? Increasingly, most people only access content on the internet via a handful of giant corporations (google, facebook, etc). It is their algorithms that determine what speech we come across. These could easily be leveraged to shape public discourse.
I thought the purpose of this type of funding was to fund the idea stage, so you wouldn't need traction yet.
The remaining 9% though (that YC leaves on the table) could be worth at least $100k during next funding round, probably more if you expect to be successful.
Awesome. Looking forward to fixes and improvements. I'm already satisfied with using IntelliJ.
Sure, your company invests the time of many people in the process. But you do it because you've determined that overall it adds value to have another employee. It's worth the cost. Hopefully, most things that they would otherwise be doing if not searching for a candidate would also add or maintain value of some sort (whether monetary or not). So really, it's just another value adding task that must be done. So we've established that in the end you gain more value by having that employee than it costs to hire them.

From the employee perspective they may or may not actually be looking for a job, versus casually interested in all possibilities (like me). They also may or may not already have a job, in which case they'll have to take the day off to go through such an extensive interview, giving away work and potentially IP for free.

If I have a job and/or I'm not really desperate, then the cost of the interview may be greater to me than what I see as the potential gain. Especially when compared with the other possibilities out there. There are a lot of companies that will pay for any significant amount of time spent coding for an interview. Why would I waste my time with a company that doesn't value my time (esp. taking it off work), the work they're asking me to do, or potentially the IP I give them (e.g. if I come up with a new way of looking at a problem or a new solution they haven't thought of during the code interview).

A couple hours is a reasonable sacrifice, IMO, but may depend on each candidates situation. If I as asked to spend more than 2 hours coding, I would ask for compensation or turn down the interview.
Yeah, the author addresses some of this in the "Apples to Apples" section but doesn't get into details. I'd be interested to see which combination of smaller packages works well to achieve similar capabilities.
Scaling Duetto: Part I, the Data Tier
Maybe that's what they're going for. :P
So stealing three gallons total? I guess I'm not clear here. The idea is that I steal a gallon of milk, am convicted, punished, then three months later steal another gallon, repeat, and the third time (three more months later) I potentially face the three strikes rule, right? (Ignoring that stealing milk probably doesn't trigger the three-strikes rule being non-violent; also the 'three months' is just to suggest "some time has passed since conviction").
The author is indeed suggesting writing RESTy APIs are fool's errands, where the operative word is "RESTy" (ie, misinterpreted REST, which is the most common REST implementation, sadly)

I mostly agree with that author's sentiment.

I disagree with your interpretation that the author is suggesting scraping as a proper alternative to an actual REST (not RESTy) API.

Barring that, I tend to think you, the author and myself have more agreements than disagreements on the subject at hand.
> Windows comes installed on almost every PC sold. Linux does not. Therefore more work is required to use Linux.

Keep in mind that most people who play games (and I'm not talking about Angry Birds or Facebook games but people who use Steam) tend to build their own PCs.

And installing Linux is just as easy as installing Windows, if not easier (you won't have to go on a driver hunt most of the time for instance).
Facebook App requires users agree to be monitored by microphone at any time
I just looked at your submission history again and even the most recent one "Game industry of Finland" on slideshare is marked [dead].

Looking back through your history, the last 129 submissions are all [dead] it changed right between #129 and #130.

Your #130 was "Startup - Bill Watterson, a cartoonist's advice" which got 192 karma points, but starting with #129 "Brilliant Resource on Typography (practicaltypography.com)" posted one day later, everything is marked [dead].
It's pretty good for two founders in the earliest stages (e.g. only a rough idea of what they want to build). It's not so attractive for startups that already have a prototype and a couple of customers.
Foggy Periods, just a confused thought dump
I have days where the steps necessary to create the future I want are so clear. Today is not one of those days.

For the past two years I've been working weekends on a project collaboration app for the construction industry. Saying marketing has been a problem would be an understatement. I have, or maybe even had, 3 partners. Yet the only thing to show for the past two years is what I have built as the sole developer.

I'm currently doing contract work for two companies. The work and people are nice.

But I'm tired, I'm burnt out. I'm considering taking a job full time from one of the companies I'm contracting with. This is the most rational direction to take.

My health has been neglected, my family has been neglected (even though I didn't realize they were being neglected until this past summer).

Everything came crashing down this summer. My fiancé almost left me, I fought for us and our son and now we are back together. So that is good. We took on new partners to handle marketing but all I have received thus far from them are more things to build. Those things have been completed, so now would be when their marketing should pick up. Have not heard from them in a month. I had pleaded with them to start the marketing 3 months ago, but its just easier I think to have the monkey keep building.

I am proud of what I have done in the past two years. I have stared into the abyss chewing glass, and still managed to cross the finish line. Marketing was never my thing, I accomplished my part.

So now is the time for change, I think I will spend the next 6 months recovering, getting in shape, fixing personal finances, just refocusing on the basics. Then I will start a new company. Solo, by myself. It will have to be a consumer product, since breaking into the enterprise market has proved to be a task that I don't currently have the soft skills for.
But there's little if any evidence that there's any real threat of mentally unstable people, or not particularly smart terrorists, wanting to carry out attacks either.

If these people existed, they'd be attacking trains/metros today. The Madrid and London bombings show how devastating these can be - and on a train, you could do it with a pretty high chance of getting away uninjured - just leave your bag on the train and get off before it's due to explode.

Yet despite the ridiculous ease, low risk and effectiveness of such an attack, they still very, very rarely happen.
Is it luck when I accidentally upvote (and can't un-upvote) a HN story when simply trying to scroll down the page on iPad?

I mean, I'm not saying all my upvotes are haphazard, but there has to be a margin of 'accidental upvotes' to which the pattern could never be discerned anyway…

I can't be the only one… ¬_¬
Why are some domains penalized? Just curious.
Worrying about updates is a fact of everyday life for people dependent on accessibility features, on the OS as well as the APP level. Updates to apps often include changes to UI, which completely change the way blind users interact with the App via VoiceOver. This means that with every update there is a risk of the app no longer being accessible or having to relearn the entire interface.

It's true that Apple's accessibility features are miles better than Android's, but they aren't perfect. Jailbreaking allows people to add the functionality they need that isn't currently supported.

A great example of this is f.lux which is an amazingly useful app for people with low-vision, but is not supported on non-jailbroken devices.
How to Stay Productive in Your Feed Reader by Avoiding Content Overload
I'm much more willing to believe that their new business model is driven by a small Google "tax". It's like Amazon's strategy of sitting on top of online commerce and charging a small fee to make those transactions more efficient (more profitable for both the buyer and seller).

Google's ideal world is where you want to use google everything to carry out every transaction. In that world Google Glass, autonomous vehicles, AI, anything that makes commerce more efficient and profitable would benefit google. They want to sit on top of everything rather than just internet white space.
I've run into the Gervais principle in practice too, and I have a different thought. It's a thought that I find very depressing.

It seems to me that the vast majority of people are timid, conservative, and simply too afraid to do anything. The sociopathic business hustler types I've met may be awful people, total assholes who stomp on everyone they can, but they also are unafraid. They're initiators. They make things happen.

It seems sometimes like there's two kinds of people in the world: monsters and the timid. Heroes only exist in comic books.

If this is true, then perhaps societies and economies tolerate the antics of the sociopaths because they are the only people who initiate new actions on a large scale. I definitely see that tolerance in peoples' attitudes toward "captains of industry" who have obvious narcissistic or sociopathic leanings: "sure he's an arsehole but without him there would be no X."
We wrote some code for couch potatoes
We had a quick idea and just coded in few weekends. Celebrity Social is an unofficial name. Basically it's a site for anyone to engage easily with celebrities or show casts through their tweets, organized by specific TV shows. We know most of the time the casts don't tweet about their shows anyways but heck, let see...

Your suggestions are welcome:

1. Is this site/app cool, useful..?

2. What name should we use?

3. What you like to have or do (with celebrities online or people talking about specific show)? Assume we can take this really really far... But we don't want to duplicate GetGlue.

4. Any minor bugs, errors, problems you saw?
I can't really compare, because I've personally never used pycparser. The nice thing about using libclang is that you're just using the same backend as the actual compiler and you can be sure that you're going to parse complex things correctly and reliably.
A friend once patched an ircd so that it would not accept messages not written in e-prime.

I thought it a brilliant hack.
Since migrating to a new platform might be considerable work you could suggest they install this plugin to disable the em-dash miss-feature: http://wordpress.org/plugins/disabler/
I am using yourkit (java swing apps) and finding it very powerful and useful in finding memory leaks, tracking down tough bugs. Which do you prefer? What type of apps to you develop? Im curious about profiling android apps, havent looked into if this is possible with yourkit.
This makes perfect sense and is a good policy.

As a policy, they won't invest in future rounds. So everyone else knows they won't, and no one asks "why isn't Kima investing in this round?". It can be bad when an investor who's already in a company doesn't participate in future rounds, as it signals that someone which more data isn't interested in putting more money in. They're avoiding this entirely, which is good for the startup.

It's a really bad signal when you get seed funding from someone who does do follow-ons, but they don't want to follow-on with you. It can make it very hard to fundraise.
Scryer: Netflix's Predictive Auto Scaling Engine - Part 2
How the Internet is Killing the World's Languages
Success is almost always lucky, but it's rarely only lucky.

Was luck involved in "What if successful startups are just lucky?" making it to the front page? Surely. But it was also an article that caught the interest of many prominent HN readers and posters. Luck isn't going to get you anywhere if nobody cares about what you're saying.
It's so hard to read an article that starts with such a ridiculous assertion:

Really, nobody takes your website serious anymore if you don’t offer an API.

Especially when this article gets posted to Hacker News.
Yeah you don't even have to link it. Just sign up, then link it via the Harp site, then share it using the web interface.

You don't lose out on anything at all, I'm doing this very thing.
Of course but with this said:

> This should help you to launch the first version of your product and to test your initial hypothesis about the market before (potentially) raising more funding to grow the business.

They are shooting for helping companies who know what they need to execute do it fast and not worry about the rest, at least for a bit. After personally going through almost 6 months of angel investing diligence hell to get a similar deal, this is completely something I appreciate.
You mentioned you invest all over the world. How does the legal stuff work with companies incorporated outside well understood markets like the US, EU, Singapore etc. Do you require they reincorporate somewhere else? How fast do you make decisions in these cases?
Every 1% of a billion dollars is $10,000,000 ... just saying. :)

If it's your only option for money, then sure - though if you're that ready for investment where a firm will give you a response/money within 15 days (along with what due diligence are they doing on you?) then you should likely shop around. $150k for 14%, 13%, 12%?

Obviously it doesn't just come down to %. I'd rather give some people 10% or 15% or more if they were the right fit. :)

So overall it's a moot point, but it's also not in some circumstances. :)
Missing the point. TSA is just another jobs program. Another example of how a large bureauocracy has to keep expanding control. The best solution against terrorism is for people to be brave enough to accept it, and brave enough to defend themselves and the people around them. No government will ever encourage this sort of behavior because it gives up too much control in the process.

At any rate, the TSA is not going away. Just step in the scanner, raise your arms like you're already a perp, step out, and be on your way.
Very true, iOS doesn't give users control of their data. To me that's more of a reason to not use iOS rather than a reason not to use WebDAV.
"Javascript doesn’t care if you have a penis or vagina. Javascript works if you write proper Javascript."

nailed it
Wait, how would having a laptop in the classroom prevent this situation?
We are investing only once in startup
or via Kima15
or via many type of deals through Kima Ventures

We are never reinvesting in one of this deals.
Most of it can be streamlined and re-used.
Occupy was a glorified flash mob. The real revolution, when it happens, will not be tweeted.
There are a number of reasons I prefer iOS to the alternatives (mostly the quality of the third-party app ecosystem).

There are a number of reasons I like the flexibility afforded by a more open system than an out-of-the-box iPhone (from my pre-iOS 7 jailbroken days, mostly F.lux and being able to set non-Apple apps as default handlers for links/maps/etc).

For me, the former list is more compelling than the latter, so I'll happily keep using a non-jailbroken iPhone rather than switch to Android/Windows Phone/etc.