skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One easy example is FP in low level, performance sensitive code. There are many algorithms where there is an FP implementation that is almost as fast as the imperative, mutable state version, but there are several algorithms with no known equivalent speed FP version. Also, even when the speeds are equivalent, sometimes the imperative mutable version is simpler.

Conversely, FP shines compared to imperative mutable state in things like concurrency. I have clojure code where I can replace a call to 'map' with a call to pmap (parallel map), and take advantage of multiple cores just by adding one character. Try doing that in C.
I was a little off - sedative-hyptnotics like benzos and barbiturates can also kill you through withdrawal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens

"Withdrawal from sedative-hypnotics other than alcohol, such as benzodiazepines or barbiturates can also result in seizures, delirium tremens and death if not properly managed. Withdrawal from other drugs which are not sedative-hypnotics such as opiods, marijuana, cocaine etc do not have major medical complications and withdrawal is therefore not life threatening."

Galanter, Marc; Kleber, Herbert D. (1 July 2008). The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment (4th ed.). United States of America: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. p. 58. ISBN 978-1585622764. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6wdJgejlQzYC.
When we applied during the last cycle, we made videos for each of the founders individually and edited them together. Didn't take much time at all, but it did lead to an interesting thought process about "how do I come across well in a short 'hello' video? what do I want to project?" and of course "what will grab their attention?"

In the end I shot my video with a cell phone camera. Took two takes and about 5 minutes. Finding the right location for it took a little longer, but fortunately the place just popped up one day while walking around town.
There's another option: you can learn to love what you do, or at least like it more. A typically western mindset is that if you're at point X and you want to be at point Y, the route to happiness is moving from X to Y. Simple enough, in theory, and this essay provides a lot of insight on how to achieve that, where Y = a career you love.

On the other hand, though the idea may be foreign to a lot of us, you can learn to want X. It requires something of a massive paradigm shift and requires plenty of work that resembles various eastern practices such as Buddhism/Yoga. There's an excellent book on the subject by Timothy Ray Miller called "How to Want What You Have:"

http://www.amazon.com/How-Want-What-You-Have/dp/0380726823

edited to add: I should note that these approaches aren't neccessarily in conflict. You can work to do what you love, or if for whatever reason you can't, you can work to alter your mindset to make what you do more interesting.
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The future of online content is in aggregation.

Traditional news orgs that are making the unnecessarily painful transition to online news need to slim down their operations. Simplify. The future is distributed media. Fire half your staff and pay independent news sources for content.

Arrington has a breaking story about Twitter planning to colonize Mars? Business Week likes that bit of news, and pays him for sole distribution rights. That's cheaper than staffing a tech biz writer that is inevitably going to miss out on some big stories.

In the end, the way to make it is going to depend on the way you allow your users to access content. Format, quality, etc. You have to drive users, period.

Control the content, control the users. Pay for good content, not for good writers.
Ask HN: How to safely buy a domain?
I have contacted a domain owner through his registered email, and offered him a certain amount of money for the domain.
He accepted, and instructed me to pass the amount to his Paypal account, in exchange he will transfer the domain on my name.
I was wondering whether there is some sort of middleman to ensure the domain transfer?
Maybe Paypal can insure the deal? I know they take a lot of measures against frauds.

Thanks for any suggestion.
Yeah I guess I see a difference between those two.

They are not saying an Israeli-American but a Jewish-American. The emphasis is not on nationality but on ethnicity.

However, I won't pretend to understand the cultural sensitivites involved (I'm Australian).
LLCs are the "hot" structure right now for a lot of things, but they don't necessarily have the case law to back them up. So it's possible that you could come up with a situation where there is no precedent.

That said, my co-founder (an attorney) set us up as an LLC initially (when we were doing consulting type work). We just switched over to an S-Corp because of investment requirements (we took seed funding). Also, VCs want you to be an S- or C-Corp
escrow services exist that do this. example:

http://www.sedo.com/services/s_escrow.php
KK is no blogger. I have absolutely no time to read this giant essay while at work.

I did skim enough to have some optimism that Kelly knows what he's talking about. The biggest problem with many pundits is that they overgeneralize Moore's Law. It's not some magical exponential improvement in everything that has a battery attached. It's a statement about a specific technology: silicon transistors.

Kelly seems to have noticed this. He spends some time discussing the fact that magnetic storage is on a different exponential curve.
Wesch talks in the same way about the changing user base: the web became the home of usual people instead of the elite.

They take the web differently from the old users: for them everything is for free and for fun that's why you can't really charge.
Use an escrow service, most of the big registrars will offer to do that for a fee.

The only time when it doesn't make sense is when the amount is less than the fee for the escrow.

If the amount is large enough you may want to use a notary public or a big legal office to handle the escrow bit.

here is a short list:

http://www.moniker.com/aftermarket/domain-escrow.jsp

http://www.afternic.com/buy.php?p=4

There are plenty more.

beware of escrow scammers!!
Looks like something to do with taxes, but I can't figure out the phrase that matches his trends. "Taxes", "income tax" and "tax forms" all produce trends that have similar peaks as his, but nothing has that distinctive rise and dip at the end of the year.

Neat idea. This seems like the sort of thing that could be done with genetic algorithms - the problem has a natural objective criteria and evolving a search string is relatively straightforward.
Are plugged-in employees more productive?
Seems useful for both parties. The initial message from Ebay/PayPal was harsh as well.
Perhaps so - and "publish or perish" is the academic equivalent of appearing at the Pyramid club night after night. Einstein did publish but only once he was, indeed, so good they couldn't ignore him.

So, the first part "be so good they can't ignore you" certainly works - if you are really, really good. Of course, by the nature of a large scale society, most people, even most really good people, aren't so good they can't be ignored. Someone who is a bit smarter than an average full professor but who has no official credentials would probably not be hired if they wrote a few above average research papers and got them published in a modest journal. Someone who writes an earth-shattering research paper would get hired but, well, that's by its nature unusual.

Of course, every field has a somewhat different path to success, which is one of my points...
just to be sure i'm measureing from the correct thing, did everone else get:

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I am the classic example of a boring suburban upbringing resulting in a penchant for the unsafe (I don't really consider myself self-destructive, but everyone else does ;P) But kids are fairly rebellious no matter how they're raised. This is mostly a problem because parents hang on to their kids far longer than they should. When puberty hits, kids get rebellious because -wait for it- they're adults! They have a biological imperative to get out into the world and mate!
Looks very Chrome inspired ;)
I wrote the article and would note that the review sprung from this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666809 on Hacker News. Might be interesting background reading if a discussion gets started here.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=714668
I'm actually happy there is no Pyramid Club for software. The thing about programming is that you don't have to reach the very top before people think of you as a success.

Open source is the opposite of a pyramid club. You can produce things to impress people, you can produce things for your own enjoyment or you can things that just solve a problem that needs solving.

Entrepreneurship, of course, is different and I'll leave that to the entrepreneurs. Indeed, what's great about open source is that you don't have to be an entrepreneur to do - you can be but its totally optional.
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No more employees (or employers)
See, there's the problem. You're trying to wrap a custom data model around HTML. HTML should model one thing: HTML documents. Browser-readability should have nothing to do with a REST API to a web service.

But your browser is attempting to render an XML document, then the server probably has a MIME content-type error someplace.

I do agree that it is nice to be able to test something pretty easily, but the browser is probably the wrong thing to use for this. I always end up mocking up some scripts using curl or just manually typing in commands to the HTTP server using:
telnet hostname 80
Alcohol withdrawal can produce a condition known as delirium tremens, which can cause seizures that lapse into death. Withdrawal from most drugs, while certainly unpleasant (in the case of heroin, for example), is not directly fatal.

But alcohol is not the only drug whose withdrawal syndrome can kill you. Another exception is the benzodiazepines, which are prescribed for anxiety or as sleep aids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_withdrawal_syndr...
They could even have offered the supplier to help fix the software. Should be an easy job for one of their engineers.
It is very easy to conflate the motivations of the individual with the motivations of the institutions they are associated with, and this frequently ends up cheapening one or the other.

Very well put.

It would be a mistake to see the space race as something which was "only" about military ambition. It was about different things to different people, and it grew more meanings over time.

But, though there are a thousand different histories that can be written about any event, some historical perspectives are more useful than others for answering particular questions. For example, when you ask "how come the country was happy to write NASA a series of blank checks during the 1960s, but not since?" it's valuable to remember the military angle. In the 1960s the development of better space technology was understood to be a matter of life and death for millions if not billions. Now... not so much.
Thank You HN: This is what keeps me going
Hey everyone,

I am following HN already for a while and I am also in the process of doing my own startup/mISV business.

Why am I saying thank you? I am from Europe and over here we don't have such a strong startup culture, even less a software hacker culture. Nevertheless everyone needs to hang out with similar people who try to do their own business, who don't care about taking a corporate career and who are happy when their business becomes ramen-profitable.

HN is the place for me to hang out, reading the news, following the conversation - it gives me the feeling that I am not totally crazy and that I belong to a community.

So thank you HN, thank you everyone who is here and if I can have one wish it would be that HN stays the way it is: The place for young startup hacker to hang, get inspiration and get motivitation.

Am I the only one who is in that situation? Share your thoughts! If you know of any HN like events in continental Europe, share them as well!
I wonder if this has something to do with the way our brain handles ocular saccades. ( The rapid eye movement we go through when scanning a room, changing the direction of our gaze. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade)

The brain 'cuts out' our conscious vision during these rapid eye movements. just look around the room at several different objects quickly by moving only your eyes. You will discover an almost complete lack of visual information between points A and B. You would expect to see a blur of movement for a fraction of a second while your eye moves to the new target, but your brain edits this out.

It seems at if a cut during a film could be roughly equivalent - I wonder if some of the information directly preceding or following the hard cut gets edited out by your head becasue it perceives it as a visual anomaly or artifact, much the same as during a saccade?

To another point in the article- edits in film aren't (or shouldn't be) used primarily to keep the viewers interest. During a narrative, a cut should is made to bring context or to move the story forward. This was the way editing was first introduced in fact. Cutting for cutting's sake isn't generally considered good editing.
We can't always keep our cool and merely explain factually what is wrong. We get angry and indignated and need to vent that. I don't think it's wrong to show that, as long as you also make the point using the proper arguments.
Great piece of work. I could've written every word of it myself... if I had the time. :)
Mis-encoded messages don't mean anything. You have to know what encoding some text is in for it to be meaningful.
Excellent article. Being a self-taught CSS/HTML/Jquery front-end developer (and SEM Acct. Manager by Day) the nuts and bolts of image recognition were black magic to me. This was a fantastic read.
First guess was football, since it would be seasonally periodic, and would spike in different times of the year due to the different international seasons... but the peaks aren't in the right spot, so no dice =(
The search term is likely to be "Flowers".

Flowers are sent in the highest volumes on Valentines day and Mother's day.

Both graphs have spikes in February. In Britian, Mother's day is in March. In the US it is in May. These correspond directly to the spikes presented.
Here is curry in php 5.3

function curry(){
$args = func_get_args();
$fn = array_shift($args);
return function() use(&$fn, &$args) {
$nargs = func_get_args();
foreach($nargs as $narg) $args[] = $narg;
return call_user_func_array($fn, $args);
};
}

$add20 = curry(function($a, $b){return $a + $b;}, 20);

echo $add20(5); #25
How is their no map in this post?
Just in case you weren't joking, "touch" comes from the Unix utility of the same name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_(Unix)
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I remember reading about a study which showed that, at least for certain companies, judging from first-decade performance, hiring based on interviews was less intelligent than hiring based purely on GPA [1]. The reasoning was that judgment during interviews is suceptible to various human biases to which GPA's are not.

At least part of PG's reasoning seems susceptible to similar biases: for example, whether or not he recognizes a username might have a lot to do with how memorable the username is. I wonder if sorting users by a subset of their upvotes - say, those received from news.YC alumni - would make more sense in "highlighting" intelligent applicants.

1. Would appreciate if anyone who recognizes this links it for me.
Different approach to engineyard contest
The problem with that is, like much Eastern spiritual thought, it doesn't scale. Sure, we could all be Zen practitioners, but we'd have no fast computers, cool phones, or footprints on the Moon to show for it.

IMO Paul's essay is well-crafted because it shows that Protestantism isn't a requirement for a Protestant work ethic. He comes close to the truth, but never actually comes out and states it: as long as you're competing with people who love what they do, you don't stand a chance of succeeding unless you share that passion. And unless your job is to pick up garbage, you're always competing with people who love what they do. Faking it, as the Zen school of thought advocates, isn't going to cut it.
Looks like a winner. http://www.google.com/trends?q=flowers&ctab=0&geo=us...
In fact it is flowers.

US: http://www.google.com/trends?q=flowers&ctab=0&geo=us...

UK: http://www.google.com/trends?q=flowers&ctab=0&geo=gb...
Really? To me it looks very Cocoa inspired- it looks like they're moving lots of the elements of their OS X theme over to Windows.
Why did they release the phrase and not just the SHA1?

ETA: I'm using 1249c4b7f578204f10798c0269f8488280fb9981

ETA2: Ok, I guess I need to be more clear - by releasing the phrase they remove the possibility (as remote as it is) of someone finding an exact match.
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If the countries where marijuana is legalized (or at least decriminalized) are any indication, then no, addiction will not rise. The main examples are the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
You might be interested to note the unix command touch --- "A touch utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX", from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_(Unix)
Yes, almost all professional photographers are reluctant to relinquish their copyrights and will as you say "be an extra x% charge". But if these people, who literally make their living on their appearance and reputation, are serious then they should be happy to pay that extra money.

If they are unwilling or unable to do that but still care about their picture on wikipedia, then they can certainly get a talented amateur to do it for a very reasonable fee. It (probably) will not be as good a professional photographer, but it will be better than what wikipedia likely has now and will be cheaper even with relinquishing copyright.
Well... Now we know what Linux code is covered by Microsoft's patents ;-)

Seriously: this is something that should be expected. This is the only license they would use to license Linux kernel drivers that allow Linux to run better under Hyper-V. It's not out of kindness but of forcedly enlightened self-interest.

It's likely a response to some heavyweight clients saying: "Look... We use Windows here, but those Linux servers won't go away and they run like crap under your Hyper-V thing. Fix it or we will run VMWare, Xen or something else"
Reminds me of one of my favorite sayings about this topic:

"People pay for atoms, not bits"
Damn! I thought about Mother's Day and Valentine's Day, but I searched for those phrases, I didn't try to think of what they have in common. I also noticed the small spike near Christmas.

Thanks for preventing me from having this going on in the back of my head all day.
It's a cookbook!

Sorry. Couldn't resist.
+1 - excellent point.
Excellent review. I wish more were of this quality.

A colleague of mine uses the Kinesis because of stress and it worked for him. He is a really fast typist. I would guess something in excess of 80 words per minute. He types with it resting in his lap and his arms resting on the chair arms.
If that's so, my skills at setting up lighting, choosing angles, and editing, learned on a A-level equivalent Media Studies course, would be more useful than my entire Software Development degree!
Thanks for this, very awesome!
What would be really great is to have a 'YC of ...' in each different area. For instance, New York could be the YC of Finance (e.g. startup: private equity exchange), LA the YC of entertainment (e.g. startup: low-budget TV show delivered through the web), etc. They needn't be about SW/webapps, but whichever area they focus on should be cheap enough to at least prototype something.

Within just the SW/webapps space, it doesn't much sense to have a YC clone in every US city. But it still would make sense to have a YC clone in -say- India or China which focuses on the unique needs of its market. (I suspect these already exist but most of us YC-fundees or YC-wannabe-fundees haven't heard of them and wouldn't care if we did.)
Indeed; the reason humans can't navigate is that one human's influence is dwarfed by the "invisible hand". (Which may or may not be exactly Adam Smith's "invisible hand", but there's certainly an "invisible hand" of one sort or another in play.)
Have you compared running your code in JS on an ad-hoc cluster like this vs running it in optimized C on a local machine ?
Read the job posting (https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?jid=5072, posted by lg here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=714731) where they actually mention "Imagine a job as a Linux Kernel Developer; now imagine this job inside of Microsoft. Well, it looks like Hell has frozen over, if that sounds like something impossible and you like doing the impossible and you want to be part of an exciting change, than this job is for you.".
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What bad things could possibly happen if you start this relationship?
But this one was insulting. It clearly portrayed the facts with limited judgment. At least as I read it, it made the "prominent personalities" that did not supply properly licensed photos as the source of the issue, if it is a real issue.

At least as I understood it, it was quite neutral to wikipedia itself.
apparently not "that" different, just started seeing a few pop up, I guess I am going to have to be careful about what tabs I leave open over the next 30 hours.
Congratulations Fogcreek! I liked what I saw at the demo site. Might have to consider it over Redmine or Bugzilla + MediaWiki if the price is right.
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We are currently looking for laid-back, experienced mobile software developers with a published portfolio/production experience in one of the following frameworks:

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We prefer full timers, but would consider contract work.

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Please send resume/cover letter to haseman at the above url.
You should be careful you're looking for something that doesn't exist. That keeps you wondering why you don't find it forever. Perhaps you already have the hang of it, but the purists are getting you down, making you think you don't get it. In practice, there is no such thing as purely functional code, just like there is no such thing as purely object oriented code. If you succeed at avoiding state/mutability and side effects and end up with (less) code that you think is easier to understand, then you are simply doing a good job.
As someone who interviews developer candidates, this is not just good advice for applying to YC, but to tech jobs in general. Putting bullshit on your resume in any form is the same thing as putting shit on your resume. As with all useful communication, you're limited. Cut to the essence.
It's for the best that they are prevented as much as possible from succeeding at this biological imperative (pregnancy) before they have the necessary means and capabilities.
Haha, nice work guys -- great minds. We made: http://shacontest.doloreslabs.com - same approach but server side.

I upvoted you :).