skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked on both avionics software and web software, and you're spot-on correct... the procedures and development styles are entirely different. Avionics development is laced with simple, easily-understandable coding techniques shrouded in requirements, verification, and paperwork. And yes, real people do sign off on things. Unlike in the web world, where you can whip out changes every day, it's not uncommon for there to be a delay of months (or even years) between writing a piece of code and deployment. We were working on software for the Boeing 787 about five years ago...
Actually, I've got quite used to Chrome not having a title bar and saving me that extra bit of space too, although it took a while.
Autoadmit is for old people these days. It mostly trolls itself. All the great XO posters are 26-30.
YouTube Myth Busting
Best pure Mac solution seems to be http://www.stainlessapp.com/ in my own uneducated tests I can 100% load my MacBook Pro with 4 tabs each chugging at 2000/sec permutations
I think he was pointing out it's humorous that a cloud hosting company is using another cloud hosting company to host their materials.
Fairly short post, the interesting bit:

Myth 3: Traffic, growth, and uploads are bad for YouTube's bottom line. There's been a lot of speculation lately about how much it costs to run YouTube. With revenue estimates ranging from $120 million to $500 million, and costs on an equally large spectrum, it seems people can pick any number to fit any theory they have about our business. The truth is that all our infrastructure is built from scratch, which means models that use standard industry pricing are too high when it comes to bandwidth and similar costs. We are at a point where growth is definitely good for our bottom line, not bad.
Chrome is doing ~1634/sec for me on an old Pentium 4.
What would have to change for it to make sense to go solo?
FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more
I wouldn't want either one.
For starters, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472271

To continue, how FF never looks like its in the background (the tab bar color never changes, for example) — actually, scratch that, the app itself doesn't look or act like it belongs, period. But, thats what you get for using XUL instead of Cocoa.

Even more, how it takes 2-3x longer than Safari to launch and feels sluggish to use (because it is, compared to Safari, which I can use without any effort on my part), how it continues to eat up memory, despite having the problem (apparently) fixed on windows and linux, etc. Take a look through the most duped bugs for FF/Mac. Then fix them, instead of ignoring them for years.

Oh, and the "you are using free software" thing on first launch (if thats still there) and the hilariously inaccurate chart comparing FF to Safari when downloading — it feels incredibly condescending to read.
Quite a lot, and we sometimes fund them.

It's only a problem to see an application again if it doesn't change.
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Because you can't stream live video to or from the iPhone over 3G yet, and it only works for h264, so it's fairly pointless. The existing apps are pretty much crap because of Apple restrictions. We're ready to pounce if and when we think it's a good idea.
asking is fine, but if the company is more than just one guy, don't expect them to answer. From what I understand, it's a liability matter; telling someone why they weren't hired can get the employer in a lot of hot water if the reason was a questionable one.

But really, you should treat it a lot like dating; even an attractive person is going to need to ask several attractive members of the appropriate sex before finding someone for whom the feeling is mutual.

In either case, don't take rejection too hard; there are plenty of fish in the sea. Again, extending the dating metaphor, it's considered better to find yourself someone who likes who you happen to be than to try to modify yourself to a particular person's preferences. Sure, improve yourself, but improve yourself in general rather than just bending to the preferences of one entity.
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsolete

1 a: no longer in use or no longer useful <an obsolete word> b: of a kind or style no longer current : old-fashioned <an obsolete technology>

Typewriters are obsolete. Quills are obsolete. A package from last February is not obsolete.
This should be a poll. You know how to make polls, yes?
That would still be subjective anecdote. The only non subjective you have to go by is this. Many people have decided that YC good for them.
I've almost finished Accelerando.
I can't remember which was the previous one..
They should include debian testing as a distribution, since a lot of people run it as a desktop version of debian.
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I've wondered about that myself. Up until the last two years, it seemed like there was a symbiotic relationship between mainstream news outlets and bloggers where the old line media provided the facts (and a fair helping of bias) and the new line media commented upon, fact-checked and elaborated and recontextualized. About two years ago it seemed like the balance tipped and all of a sudden the old line media was reduced to verifying and validating stories that were already out there in a big way. I do know that there are blogs that do original reporting but it seems like there exists a place for an organization that is trusted to check out the ground truth of some of the more speculative stories.

I don't want to live in a media world where it is impossible to tell if an article of financial news is a scandalous revelation or was just made up by someone who thinks that the elders of zion meet under a tree on wall street.
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The Heinlein "Howards Families" comes pretty close: http://sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com/2007/07/heinlein-a...

That link doesn't reference your exact idea, but I thought that was part of that. However, since I can't grep my collection I can't prove if that's actually something Heinlein said, or a confabulation on my part.
Amazon Kindle's beware, a solid competitor is here ...
I read this, and I like your thinking about the types of people you are looking for.

But I have to say: You're asking for clarity, want applicants to avoid unnecessary or confusing language, etc. Why not practice what you preach? Why not include some of the "read between the lines" bits in your essay ("If this wasn't already clear, we're not looking for the sort of obedient, middle-of-the-road people that big companies tend to hire. We're looking for people who like to beat the system") and copy and paste them directly into the application form? It will make your life easier, and it will make it easier for YC applicants who are struggling with the process. Judging by the fact that you had to write this essay, people obviously don't know what you want.
More info about the instruction set: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

And it's not hack-free:

The Block II AGC also has the mysterious and poorly documented EDRUPT instruction (the name may be a contraction of Ed's Interrupt, after Ed Smally, the programmer who requested it) which is used a total of once in the Apollo software: in the Digital Autopilot of the Lunar Module. At this time, while the general operation of the instruction is understood, the precise details are still hazy, and it is believed to be responsible for problems emulating the LEM AGC
Potential responses to a bigger company’s onerous contract demands
The file menu is gone? Finally! Another win for my small laptop screen. Even IE has removed it.
With awesome hits like "Worlds Apart", "CHIC.TV Models", and "Spin Cycle", it won't be long before I ditch the old cable box for YouTube!*

*Just kidding YouTube. I love you, and I know you'll get better stuff than old "Starsky and Hutch" episodes any day now.
Software. World of Warcraft. Text messages. Phone calls. Your gym membership. The $20k of digital goods in your IRA. Brand-name goods (the name is bits, not atoms). Ambiance. Experiences. Charity. Politics. Gift cards.

People pay for bits all the time. Don't be afraid of charging for them!
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Well, since I have no intention of participating, let me share my idea: I'd ignore the words entirely and just choose some random ones. Then, I'd work the SHA1 hash up to the very last letter, then save the internals of the SHA1 data. From there, work all of the possible last letters. When that fails, back up one step (which I saved earlier), advance with the next letter, then keep going again with just hashing the last letter/number. This ought to get you another order of magnitude over naive brute forcing. Probably as clever as it is possible to get.

It's those last five characters that are the most interesting. If you have the time to get through all of a given set of words, then you can try a new word.

Good luck.
heh. yeah. I can't tell you how many bogus abuse complaints I get. The other day, I got a spam complaint; the 'spam' contained within was an abuse report sent by one of my customers.

Another time I showed someone on a mailing list how to look up the owners of IPv6 addresses. he included that with his abuse report to the owner, and the owner of the IP block (who happened to be an upstream of an upstream of mine) forwarded the message back to me, as if I was somehow involved.

In both these cases, I responded to all involved. in both these cases, I didn't hear anything back from anyone.

I can only imagine that most abuse desks are either understaffed or poorly automated. The thing is, handling abuse is important, but it's not easy. It's not easy to send a good abuse report, and it's not easy to parse it, to weigh the rights of all involved, and to do the right thing on the other end. An abuse desk person needs to be part lawyer and part network admin. Add to that the fact that most ISPs put the least effort they can into abuse, without getting put on blacklists, and you have a job that is usually done poorly.
still uses windows 95 theme

waves cane at children on lawn
I wonder why it is seen as acceptable to send out automated mails containing the legal equivalent of what I would call 'cartoony threats' - "I'm going to sue you for a billion dollars!" especially when they lack solid evidence of what is actually going on.

I'm not saying it should be illegal, but it does seem, at the very least, quite rude.

Publicly pointing out 'hey, company X was really rude, and it turns out that they weren't paying attention when they sent the mail' as this article does, is probably a good first step towards convincing companies to be a bit more careful before throwing around threats.
Oh lord I would love to work on this.
Palm opens up SDK and WebOS developer portal
This is a few days old but I couldn't find it in SearchYC.
When you're working in that kind of paradigm they're pretty essential...when you have higher level constructs things are a bit more self explanatory :)
Can we stop pretending that "secret" security questions are secret, please?
Seconded -- very good question!
Not standard practice at all.
Hopefully I won't feel stupid posting this, but I wished someone had done the same thing when I applied. (pg -- if you'd rather I not share this, feel free to delete)

Original Dropbox YC app: http://files.getdropbox.com/u/2/app.html

Had to remove some names and one sensitive thing but otherwise unedited
Since the OP hasn't replied yet, I'll chime in with an example: Suppose his is the sole income supporting a family of 5, and he needs financial resources to feed, clothe, house, educate, and entertain 5x as many people as the typical YC founder. What would have to change would be the availability of said resources.
Suggestion: Add a word counter to the application to help people keep it under 120. (Or tell me how to use it if it is there already. :-) )
It's also possible that their move caused that supplier to add support after the incident so that such a thing doesn't happen again.
How would one determine which category they likely fall in ($2M max or $10M+ potential)?
Our experience is that larger companies are often quite flexible and can remove many of the onerous demands. It's definitely worth asking for them to be removed or amended.

When you're small, the person hiring you has often already decided that you're a risk worth fighting for and will push through any roadblocks.
Atlas of Innovation
These myths are officially busted.

No they aren't. Myths are busted with science and testing and experimentation. All this article did was contradict the myths. It did nothing to show the truth or falseness of the claims.

If you are going to use something like the high quality show, Mythbusters, to model your contradictions, you should learn something about science from the show and actually prove whether or not your contradiction is true.

This post didn't even come close to doing that.
An important example is when Microsoft launches the web suite for Office 2010 and it potentially runs slowly in older IE versions.

What will also be interesting is how far their backwards compatability travels. Will Microsoft signal the death of IE6 by not supporting their own software in their web Office suite? Unlikely, but interesting regardless.
I agree with you, I suppose I tend to take those things for granted, possibly because I've been fortunate enough lately to work in environments where both 1) and 2) are pretty much a given (lucky me).

Pair programming is an agile practice and in my experience it is a LOT easier to do agile when you have good people on your team, not just good developers, but good human beings.
This is cool for breaking news, but everyone and their mom has to have video streaming capabilities on their mobile device for this catch on.

I mean look what happened to Seesmic and others. How is this any different?

In five to ten years it makes sense, but now text messaging makes more sense because how many consumers with cell phones can text message?
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neat; but especially if you are writing software to support the product you sell (rather than the product you sell being software) the 'it's done when it's done' is a viable alternative.
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Nowadays, as people realize the outcomes of their dependencies on the environment, there is an urgent need to search for alternative sources of energy in a bid to conserve the already fast diminishing fossil fuel levels. As a result, many people are turning towards alternative sources of solar energy power with the most obvious choice being the energy obtained from the sun.
Yes, all kids who grow up in suburbs turn to drugs and wild women because they are convinced the whole world is boring. I really enjoyed the essay but making sweeping generalizations about kids raised in the suburbs is ridiculous. Also, it's not as if the suburbs don't have things like computers or theater or whatever else it is about large, urban cities that make them so much more interesting.

Whenever you see someone writing sweeping generalizations about rural or suburban life, you can bet that person is parroting things they heard or assume to be true from their wonderfully urbane life.
Everyone who replied to you recommended practicing by writing. I would say practice by SPEAKING. Writing is clarity of though + inner voice. "Pitch" your goals to friends and family, one at a time, and run to the keyboard that moment when everything clicks and you have your most powerful tone. You would be surprised by the quality of your writing then.

I even use casual associates; I call them out of the blue months later to catch up, and when it's time for me to answer the "so what you been up to" question, fireworks happen.
Ask YC: the image on PG's front page, what does it mean?
"The world premiere of Joy Luck Club director Wayne Wang's film, "The Princess of Nebraska," was viewed 165,000+ times during the first 48 hours -- the equivalent of landing the 15th spot on Hollywood box office charts."

Yeah, if movie theaters were free and instead of you going to them, they came to you. If there's an "equivalent" to 165,000 tickets on an opening weekend of a Hollywood movie, it's probably closer to 165,000,000 page views. And that's in how much revenue is generated--for the production company, a film playing in an actual cinema would rake in more than a YouTube release of equivalent revenue, because your local movie theater makes almost nothing on ticket sales while YouTube probably makes a significant percentage of ad revenue. It's not like YouTube can give all ad revenue to content creators and sell overpriced popcorn and soda, after all.
That's very good advice. Thanks.
10 Concerns About Google Chrome OS
Some interesting points concerning Google's recently announced Chrome operating system.
Throw me into a fresh install propagated with dummy data for a fake company.

You wont be able to see how the field names you have provided correspond with things on the screen. I tried this with our user accounts' "home" areas, and people are not as interested in seeing someone else login area. Seeing your name in small font "[Hello, mahmud] [help] [logout]" etc, makes a lot of difference. My dummy data populator actually takes stuff from your geo location and is very use specific.
You had applied earlier (SFP05?) and been rejected, right? If you don't mind, it'd be really interesting to see the earlier app too and compare what changed between them?
Musicophilia (too much psychiatry, not enuf music)

b4 that

Anathem (will read again after a few years)

b4 that

Halting State (cool)
its the logo for arc

http://arclanguage.org/
"It did nothing to show the truth or falseness of the claims."

This is a primary source. If YouTube says that more traffic makes YouTube more money, nobody else is in a position to contradict them.

I believe that lying about that in public could have legal repercussions.
Agreed, in theory, but Amazon changed the TOS of their API to limit/disallow third-party access to its data from mobile devices:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/amazon-killing-mobile-a...
except that amazon has invested in engine yard and we have a cloud service that runs on top of AWS(http://www.engineyard.com/cloud-services) so it's not so humorous.
Why is that the logo? What does it mean?
Brent, if you're good with GSL and basic numeric analysis, take a look at CL-GSL:

http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-gsl/

other stuff

http://www.cliki.net/Mathematics

Feel free to ask me privately for any help you might need, there is also the #lisp channel on freenode.

Fun times are ahead :-)

Cheers!
Looks like a heavily stylized letter "a".
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It will run, it just won't be an enjoyable experience. They'll conserve RAM by only allowing 3 applications to run simultaneously. My guess is that they'll disable fancy Aero effects and they might move inactive processes to a low priority setting.
FF is becoming the Betamax to Twitter's VHS. Superior tech, more feature-rich, yet doomed to obsolescence/niche status as Twitter rides the wave of mass appeal.
I installed it and took it for a test run today. I like the idea of apps being being like mini web pages, being purely HTML + CSS + JavaScript.

The documentation is well written too. I liked the "Hello World" tutorial.
What happens if the project falls through/runs out of money? It would be cool if the developers signed some sort of contract requiring them to open source everything in such a case.
A combination of an 'a' and a character position sprite (what ever they are called ;) )

The new design on the site looks nice too.
YouTubes current obstacle to getting better content is going to be Hulu which a large number of major content providers have a monetary interest in.
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I am always suspect of these type of articles about bleeding edge technology transforming business. Steve Gilmour is notorious for this w/ twitter and xmpp.

While all the jargon sounds great, it is very detached from the reality of most IT departments who only buy software because other well known companies are using it - not because its a great transformative technology.
Because you can't stream live video to or from the iPhone over 3G yet

Yes you can; we've already done it. A coworker of mine hacked together an app to do it in a day or so. There's also some companies offering services to do it for you (Ripcode, etc).

and it only works for h264, so it's fairly pointless.

It's fairly trivial to do realtime transcoding (x264+ffmpeg+segmenter).
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Lately, I've been thinking about the applications of a distributed system like this.

What you really need is an incentive for users to stay on your site. Porn is a good way to get people to do silly things like letting their browser eat up all their CPU. There used to be a virus that would popup a picture of a girl who would take off her clothes as you solved captchas for spammers (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2210674,00.asp)

Maybe something like: "the lower the hamming distance, the lower my top!"
The twitcam's site looks like more thought was put into the design, and site design is important.
I think that the benefits of price (free) and availability (theater comes to you) are only likely to increase movies watched via YouTube. Once a movie does have 165M page views in an opening weekend (and one will), which will be a better measure of movie performance: the box office or Google?
I don't think we're much influenced by how memorable usernames are

Well, by definition, biases aren't intuitively obvious. But I'd love to hear explicit introspection about this in the essay: what are your biases, and how do you eliminate their affecting your decisions?
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This is a great source of stuff for:

function get_smarter():

1. Am I smart enough yet? (default answer: of course not!)
2. If yes, go make a grillion dollars, or go fishing, or something. (Note: this statement is unreachable).
3. Otherwise:
1. Do various important things, until I have some free time.
2. Pick a book from my book list and read it.
3. If I've read it already, check all the references at the end, and add the ones that look good to my book list.
4. get_smarter()

"If your book list is empty, add Gödel, Escher, Bach to it before calling the function for the first time.
And with that, I'm off to go finish the book!"

http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/godel-escher-blog
Cool, this is a good cheat sheet. I use Nano for command line editing these days.
This is kinda cool, but do you have to be following everyone that appears in on the screen?
Yet another attempt to "explain" web 2.0
http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=9439

Rtm noticed the white and black bits together make a lambda. That was unintentional, but I'm pleased.
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Actually, I believe it reads 'arc'. You just need to stretch a bit to see the 'r' and 'c'.
The end of viruses with chromeOS?
# YOU WOULD THINK THEY CAN COMMENT WITHOUT YELLING.
I'm loving the Aero-Glass mockup. It reminds me of the "All-Glass Firefox" extension.
Interesting question. On the one hand, they could give IT shops a reason to upgrade to IE8. The main holdouts on IE6 are corporations with legacy apps.

On the other hand, such an requirement would give the same shops a reason not to upgrade to Office 2010 at all.