skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "looking for technical co-founder" and "looking for seed funding" are very similar. They're about the can'ts, not the cans. "I can't do this without someone to code it", "I can't do this without money to build it".

Non-technical founders need to do what they can do, without a technical co-founder and without money. There's a bottomless well of such stuff for any startup. The more you get done, the easier it will be to find a co-founder or seed money later.
It seems like the usual "Hi, I'm the new CEO" letter can't be very inspiring. I mean, it would be rude for him to slam Steve Ballmer right after replacing him -- he needs to have some tact. And, he can't be to enthusiastic and claim that they'll be making devices with rainbows shooting out of their SD card slots -- that'd make everyone say, "Who does this guy think he is?"

I'm sure everyone read it with a neutral response, because it was pretty boilerplate (as it kind of has to be).
One interesting this is that all JS_ exports in their libraries have been removed. This kills support for things like GWT DevMode [0] among other plugins. This is good for security, bad for GWT.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/Google-Web-Toolkit/Q...
+1 to this. I guess the question is whether these stodgy old publishing houses can adapt to thinking about how they can be more forward-looking than Amazon, rather than continuing to try to protect the paper model. I hope they do, because as much as I like the convenience of Amazon's products and services, the lack of interoperability is a big turnoff.
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It sounds like an enabler for spam. Can anybody shed any light on this?
At least in current Nightly, you can hit the Esc. key, to pop up the console regardless of the panel you're currently using (à la Chromium, basically). I'm not sure in which release this landed, though.

For the vertical split thing, opening a bug is the easiest way to get the feature in [1].

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c... (this is a URL with the right bugzilla component. just log in, fill the blanks and submit)
what the heck is wrong with us? I was also distracted by it.
> 2. paying others to not just discredit Hayes' work, but to make him look "as foolish as possible"

> 3. putting together a team of over 100 people, including 25 professors, to act as "spokespeople on Hayes"

> 5. getting paid scientists to write op-eds accusing Hayes of being a "junk scientist"

> 8. sending sock puppets to Hayes' talks whose job was to only ask him the same embarrassing questions (“everywhere Tyrone went there was this guy asking questions that made a mockery of him. We called him the Axe Man.”)

These are the truly terrifying ones. The weight of people -- supposedly credible scientists -- that they were able to bring to bear to speak against him calls into question effectively every controversial scientific finding. If that much 'scientific' expertise can be bought, then you never know if that failure to reproduce certain results was bought and paid for or not! Following the funding sources isn't always possible. It completely corrupts the whole scientific process and destroys its objectivity.

If you want to see a similar example, look at what's happening to the team that discovered irregularities in rats generated by Glysophate. They're being discredited in a very similar way, only much more thoroughly. How do we know that all of that paper's detractors haven't been bought in a similar way?
He did more than that: he brought it to the attention of their investors. The investors should feel lucky to have this conduit of information. Because if what I read in the thread is correct, they may have a problem CEO on their hands. Those guys exist- they are very smart and persuasive and can even be charming when they need to be.

But they are company killers. And if I am an investor I want to find out sooner rather than later.
The main reason that I find this hypocritical is that similar complaints against non-YC companies, whether Google or Microsoft or some startup or US Government, are not given this treatment.
Please note that this is something Remya created around 2003; more than 10 years ago. I am not sure how it was posted in 2013.
Yeah I think killing this was pretty weak. If the post had been full of praise can guarantee it wouldn't have been killed. Sounds like the guy had exhausted most pre-sue options. Think it's right and important that companies NOT adhering to the presumably high standards that YC strives for get highlighted as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbUXjRUMPo
Release notes include a link to a list of new contributors and their contributions. Never noticed that before.

https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2014/02/03/firefox-27-new...

Looked up some past numbers:

Firefox 24: 43 new contributors, 32 volunteers
Firefox 25: 51 new contributors, 39 volunteers
Firefox 26: 43 new contributors, 27 volunteers
Firefox 27: 41 new contributors, 35 volunteers

I think Mozilla considers its employees and the employees of known major contributing companies to not be volunteers.
Probably all swapped or funded at fixed rates. You don't do an LBO and then go bust when rates rise. You still need to refinance but the assumption is you have made cost savings, sold stuff and reduced leverage by then.
"Once open-source gets good enough, you'd be crazy to compete with it." -Larry Ellison

Any startup that sets out to recreate Photoshop would also compete with GIMP and Pixelmator.
I agree with your assessment but I think its a negative. Nadella needs to be able to command respect on his own. If you're right in your thinking then it indicates that the board really doesn't have confidence in him.
It should be noted that Medium article rarely make the front page nowadays due to penalties, so a personal blog post might work better.
Exactly. That was a few years before Microsoft has succeeded at their mission of putting a computer on every desktop.
wrong, re-watch the video in HD full screen.
A how happy he was with the service post would read more like spam than a call for discussion.
FiftyThree Files Trademark For “Paper”
AdamWong, you are exactly right!
Twenty-two years ago, Windows 95 was three years in the future. As I recall, Microsoft's only truly great product was Word (Excel was getting there, I think), although I guess Flight Simulator wasn't too bad. Microsoft was trying to pretend that Windows 3.1 was a competitor to the Mac. Lisp machines were still trying to make a go of it.
Do Larger Seed Rounds Lead to Bigger Series As?
I feel PG is wrong to kill the Doctor's valid question.

It's obvious that HN is not a news site, but a discussion forum based upon censored news. If this complaint had been about a non-YC funded company, the moderators would have left the story up. Heck, every other story on HN is usually about somebody complaining about a company's product or conduct.

Why is YC afraid of open discussion? So what if one company out of the portfolio is having problems? Nobody expects the investments to be perfect, yet killing the conversation makes it look far worse, as though there is something to hide.

End of the day, profit trumps transparency. Remember that the next time people get on the soap box and talk about internet freedom blah blah blah.
it's more about the education that most Indians receive.

He was educated in the US. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella:
"Nadella earned an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business."
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Well, it frees the user up from having to go to the gym later to do some cardio exercises.. Half-joking.
The new Cold War; government vs citizens.
Are those mutually exclusive? Couldn't they miss a trend and then eventually bring it to market late, and then change their minds about it shortly afterwards?
Also Southwest in America.
Interestingly enough, I was in a relationship with my ex for pretty much all of the last 9 years... and yet they didn't highlight a single post or picture of her in the lookback. Can't be coincidence.
Having the ubuntu man pages on here would be amazing.
That's nice. Here in Sweden, this is a standard way of delivering medications to those who need it pre-sorted for easier delivery. It also has environmental benefits, since the waste can be reduced.

It's called "ApoDos" (which is just a portmonteau of the "apotek" which means pharmacy, and "dos" which means "dose"), here's a web page from Sweden's largest pharmacy: http://www.apoteketfarmaci.se/Tjanster/Service.aspx?UniqueId.... It's in Swedish but there's a picture of the delivery bags used, tney come on a roll in a plastic case.
You know what I don't want in production?

Dual-column layouts that still require me to scroll to the bottom of the page, and then back up, and then back down.
IIRC (old Windows NT4 MCSE here) POSIX subsystem never had access to TCPIP, which made it pointless. It was a sales point, rather than a genuinely useful subsystem.

That said, I think OSs are irrelevant: people are happy to pay for apps, cloud hosting etc and MS are happy to provide it to them, Windows or not, for money.
Virginia Court Says Domain Names Are Not Property
Sounds interesting. I'll have a look at this. Thanks!
Benchmarking Amazon's MySQL/RDS with Provisioned IOPS
I still feel like I don't know who this guy is. I'm sure he's awesome but a lot is left out. The MS official bio stuff says he has a family, has worked for MS for a long time, has some degrees, and loves cricket. But what has he been doing at MS for 22 years? What roles has he had?
Reading your parent poster's HN about page will show the reason.
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He explained why on that post, but if you're wondering when this page falls off the top of the front page, keep in mind the possibility that it was flagged off by users like me. This thread is pure, distilled drama.
>> "HN is a news site, not a forum for people with issues with companies we've funded (even when concealed as Ask HNs). So I'm killing this. If you have an issue with Dr Chrono, please contact them directly."

I understand the reasoning behind killing it but considering the guy was only here as a last resort after trying everything else + it was a YC company it would have been more appropriate to offer some help, especially considering the OP had already tried pg's suggestion of contacting the company.

Also - around a month ago there were several Ask HN posts from people having trouble with Coinbase and they weren't killed. Why? [1]

[1] This is an example from almost a year ago but there were several in the last few months too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427985

NB: We don't know all the facts and can't pass judgement on drchrono but I think the above still holds true regardless.
Oh my god, that's ridiculous. Nobody spends half an hour a day waiting on auto updates. The update downloads in the background and takes just a few seconds to install after restarting the browser.
Why do you need to actually look at them? Apart from the long windows reboots/updates, I don't really see any application doing upgrades in the foreground anymore.

Or are there still some badly behaving update apps out there?
Or perhaps it's not as big of a deal to him now as it is to you.
Fun fact: 50-70% of felons register and/or vote Democratic, while less about 10% of felons affiliate with the Republican Party.[1]

[1] http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/31/Study-Mos...
I agree. And if the OP really just wanted honest advice on whether to sue a start up or not the OP should have omitted the name of the start up. However, the name was provided because HN was not being used to get advice but was used as a side channel to provoke action from a Y Combinator funded company.
The answer is obvious. HN is not a bastion of independent journalism -- it is the 2014 edition of a trade rag.

This is not to say HN is evil. Think of all the problems that legitimate news outfits have with conflicts of interest. Now take away the imperative to do journalism -- HN has never taken on that mantle -- and there is now no reason to resolve said conflicts in the usual news-outlet ways.

We are in the uncanny valley of news: not quite corporate propaganda, not quite integral journalism. I happen to enjoy it, but let's not pretend that YC is the NYT.
Now you've just established the fact that HN is a good place to raise problems with YC companies. :-)
Thanks for review. Bookmarked so I can eventually improve my write-up.
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Half an hour? Really? I spend maybe 5 seconds a day dealing with FF's updates.
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The ultimate patent troll is going to trial against Google and Motorola
Maybe the moderators will ban this post manually?

At some point there will a rather innocuous post which will be blocked, and it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

I think it's coming. I think people are sick of the nannying and censorship and ready to move on from HN.
Satyas public interview with Om Malik is also interesting as he talks about the future of technology.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Hiss2EkE
This is really terrific. I think the best feature is the integrated search, which is significantly better than Google if you're looking for authoritative API docs.

Questions: How did you source the docs? Can they go stale? What versions are being used and is that configurable?
San Francisco or longer runway?
Well one easy thing they could do would be avoid using sponsored links when the subject matter could be heuristically identified as relating to public health and safely. How much revenue do these words really generate?
Yes, I have the previous generation paperwhite. I love it. I just keep the radio off except to download or purchase new books. I periodically use calibre to extract the books I purchase and strip the drm. My calibre library is in ~/Dropbox/Library/. That way everything is automatically synced to one of my macs which has an always attached time machine backup. Said backup is rotated with another drive in my safe deposit box every month or more often if I'm working on stuff I don't want to lose.
As an ex-MSFT employee and somebody who actually got a chance to talk to Satya I found the letter to be very true to his personality. Excited to see what he does in Redmond.
A clipboard manager for Mac OS X (free)
With longer messages and asynchronous, so basically email.
It seems to me that mailing lists solve a different problem than chat or bug trackers. They allow to discuss about the project itself, which is necessary if you have > 1 main dev. That's something that sourceforge did and github does not, probably by design. Maybe something like discourse could work for that.
Me too, the time it takes to initially load a link is really long compared to Chrome, even on a quad core mobile device. I hope they resolve this soon.
I read pg's reply [0] but to kill this story but not to kill all the other complaint-based stories that we see here on a weekly basis is a double standard. How many other stories do we see here that are "I hope my blog post/Ask HN post causes enough of a ruckus that I get what I want"? Tons, yet they aren't killed despite being possibly against the guidelines. This is the first YC-backed complaint we've seen and, to have it killed, was just poor form IMO. I don't see how it was against the guidelines anymore than the people trying to get their gmail/paypal/godaddy/twitter/etc accounts back.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178300
Probably a smaller market segment than any of those, since network effects are important. Maybe render farms or networking or top end embedded or such.
Perhaps HN should just ban negative complaints completely, because the same applies regardless of if a company is YC or non-YC.

After all, what was FiftyThree's letter to Facebook about Paper other than an attempt to leverage public opinion to get a company to respond to an issue ?

Negative threads often turn into flamewars and make people behave aggressively with each other. Sure there's a place for negative articles, but maybe that place shouldn't be HN.

Remember when HN was about startup founders and hackers helping each other ?
Off topic, is there anything like your service but for movies?
...but I expect more from doctors.

Is that really reasonable, though? Doctors don't have a use for statistics in their daily professional lives, and they almost certainly have less free time in which to immerse themselves in a field of math that isn't going to help them.

Journalists, on the other hand, often should or need to rely on statistics to convey useful and pertinent information in a meaningful way. That they often obviously aren't taught and otherwise usually don't learn statistics, or at least not effectively, strikes me as a much bigger problem than doctors who don't have that knowledge.

Now, the people who write reports like these, they should have and use a thorough working understanding of statistics. I'd say what's really missing is effective collaboration between the people who do the work and the people who should be doing and writing the analysis.
For those who's not familiar with V2V standard, or think this is useless, here's some more context.

The whole standard stack is called Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) / Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC). Short range is as in being shorter than cellular networks, which is easily over hundreds of meters.

Physical Layer and Link Layer of WAVE/DSRC are defined in IEEE 802.11p. It's so much like other protocols in IEEE 802.11 suite that it's only an 802.11 amendment and is now integrated into IEEE 802.11 standard. In US regulatory domain, 802.11p uses 5.855 GHz - 5.925 GHz, which is slightly higher (and not overlapped with) other 5 GHz 802.11 protocols like 802.11 a/n/ac, so that V2V won't be interfered by WiFi devices. Above Link Layer is not conventional. It's designed to support TCP/IP on top of that, but just for non-safety messages. Safety messages are supposed to use WAVE Short Message Protocol (WSMP), which replaces IP Layer and Transport Layer in TCP/IP suite. WSMP is believed to be more efficient in V2V context.

A promising application of WAVE/DSRC is Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) and Emergency Braking. Consider following scenario:

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A B C D E
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where ABCDE are five vehicles on highway. In ACC, each vehicle uses radar, infrared, etc. to detect distance between the vehicle in front of it, and adjust speed. Theoretically this may reduce safety distance because machine reacts faster than human being and in case of emergency the vehicle can brake by itself. However, it still cost time to detect the change of distance, to calculate, and to brake. So if A encounters collision, B would brake, then C detects distance change, and brake, then D brakes. When it comes to E, accumulated time is much longer. This means you can't really reduce distance that much if you want to rely on automatic emergency brake. With V2V enabled, each of the vehicle keeps broadcasting vehicle broadcasting so they all know each other's condition. If A encounters a collision or brakes very hard, E would know almost at same time when B knows. This means E can react much faster, so vehicles can be much closer to each other. This is very useful for trucks considering the aerodynamics. Also, with vehicles closer to each other, you can put more vehicles in the same high way.

Other applications include interaction collision warning, travel time prediction, and integration with pedestrian safety system etc. The key thing is V2V is localized, distributed, and thus real-time and more responsive than cellular connection. It's definitely gonna enable more exciting technology advances in automotive industry.
Ah I see how this might be important in Europe then.
Why does it look like an iOS app
We built a clients SDK on top of a regular HTTP library (as any other do).
However if you want, you can get access to the parts of the library that exposes headers, http methods and other thing that effectively allows you to do work with the rest API directly if you want to.
Putnam has argued against a strict fact-value dichotomy in "The Collapse of the Fact-Value Dichotomy" and in a recently published book of essays edited by Putnam entitled, "The End of Value-Free Economics (Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology)." Economic justice, theft and fraud are not strictly questions of moral values--this presupposes a spurious fact-value dichotomy. These notions have both normative and positive aspects; the positive aspects of these notions (and others, related to class dominance) can be captured in game theoretic terms--and should be.

In the Preface to Game Theory Evolving, economist Herbert Gintis suggested that the mathematical methods of non-cooperative (and cooperative) game theory developed by von Neumann and Morgenstern, Nash and their successors–Gintis among them–have the potential to elevate social and political discourse above ideological debate.

Gintis does not take the step of applying game theory to the topics under discussion--but neither have most of the comments here, with the expected result.
No, and generally even the binary itself doesn't expose any of that, since you want the same program to run on your in-order atom and your OoO, multithreaded, Core iFoo.
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Pixelmator's proprietary, and can't run on non OS X ATM due to reliance on, IIRC, CoreGraphics or similar. If they recreated those libraries on other platforms they may have a PS competitor.

GIMP is poor quality.
Here's a suggestion: design the SDK such that calling a method returns you everything you need to construct the REST call yourself: the verb, the url, the query params, the form params, and perhaps some headers.

case class HttpCall[OutputType](
verb: String,
url: String,
queryParams: List[(String,String)],
formParams: List[(String,String)],
resultType: Class[OutputType])

trait Api {
def getMyTasks(): HttpCall[List[Task]]
def getTask(taskId: String): HttpCall[Task]
}

The SDK can also provide a driver for making the http calls:

trait Driver {
def call[Out](httpCall: HttpCall[Out]): Out
}

So now api invocations look like this:

val myTasks: List[Task] = driver.call(api.getMyTasks())
val aTask: Task = driver.call(api.getTask("foo"))

What's nice about this design is that the consumer can write their own driver if they don't like yours. Prefer asynchronous over synchronous? No problem!

trait Driver {
def call[Out](httpCall: HttpCall[Out]): Future[Out]
}

Everything in the article except for grep-ability can be achieved with this kind of design.
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http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ the reserved capacity pricing is much better than the on demand pricing. Basically like EC2 on demand vs reservations. We set our reserved capacity at about 70-80% of what we expect to use most of the time. We could probably shave a few tenths of a cent per gig off but we get a good price on everything above what we've reserved so it's worked out.

If you use a lot of cloudfront bandwidth without setting up a reservation, yeah... you're gonna pay through the nose.
Why is this user's (drdal) other comments not showing up from his user page?

His Ask HN on an entirely different topic seems to have disappeared from his user page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7173135
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7153132

Or, are Ask HNs not counted as submissions?
It even works for Google, why wouldn't it work for YC companies?