skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you want to compare two sides of a founding partnership, the facts is the technical cofounder, early on, is more valuable member of the founding team.

Hmm. Let's try this on:
"if you want to compare two sides of a marriage, the facts are that the wife early on in the more valuable member of the founding team." Nope, doesn't work. There are way, way too many dead "great products" for me to buy that argument.

>-Y Combinator is what, a 3-month bootcamp to teach founders what they need to know about running a startup.

If Y combinator were doing such a fantabulous job of giving technical co founders the basics, their success rate would be much, much higher.

>You can learn a lot about being the non-technical founder by trying your hand at starting a company. The same is not true about writing product.

You can learn a lot about running a company by running one. But you're going to waste a lot of time and money if you've never done it before.

There are also a lot of YC graduates looking for heads of marketing because they've completely cocked it up. If you only knew the kinds of basic dumb ass questions about marketing they don't understand.

I'm not saying it's not possible to do both or that business can't be learned. I am saying the lack of respect towards anyone not a programmer will be the end of the silicon valley species. That's what pushes all new blood out, and what will cause your own downfall.

If you think you will continue to have market power, given that pretty much every VC is begging the government to fix immigration (aka hire more cheap labor), you're delusional. Perhaps having a business co founder who understands economics might be useful at that point.
Extending the range of your car keys with your brain
Then keep your BTC on an exchange for as little time as possible. Deposit right before selling, withdraw right after buying. In my experience, Coinbase credits the BTC within minutes of sending to a Coinbase address, so exchange rate fluctuations while waiting for confirmations shouldn't even be as big of a problem, as it may be for other exchanges. (If outside US or otherwise unable to use Coinbase, that may be a bigger problem.)
"The web-based game teaches rudimentary JavaScript fundamentals, including everything you’d learn in an introductory computer science course, by forcing you to code your way through the game. In order to get from one level to the next, you must understand the lesson being taught and prove it through writing your own code." - From the TC Article
Thanks!

I'm in the fun position of essentially being a graphic designer made to be a web designer in a stingy startup environment where they don't want to pay someone to actually code things. Another designer and I put together a very sad website, and I wouldn't mind having a system for having includes for my header and footer, but even simple concepts like preprocessing scare me off. Heck, I run scared at the mention of the command line. I guess the only real answer is to bite the bullet and learn this stuff (I do frequent HN after all, you'd think I'd be more comfortable with some of these concepts).
You are (mostly) wrong. A job interview is a perfectly legitimate activity to undertake on a B-1 (business) status. I have done it more than once. At immigration, they ask the purpose of your trip; you say, "job interview;" and they stamp your passport with B-1 (business) rather than B-2 (tourist). It really is as simple as that.
> If, by happiness, you mean contentment, then removing desire can give you that.

But would this not require, in some sense, the desire for contentment? I suppose this is just a semantic issue; somehow our usage of "desire" excludes this case (perhaps because it is so fundamental).
> If you want to do projects in robotics, DARPA has both money to give you, deep connections with the universities developing the basic science, and a program manager to manage the project that typically has a PhD in the field.

The last head of DARPA now heads up Google X. SFBA has tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars available to it.

Capability isn't the question. Its the will that matters. As an investor, are you willing to sacrifice returns for the equivalent of the laser or the transistor?
We should give the drones the legal ability to own themselves. That way they don't have to sign anything over to a new "owner", they can just decide who they want to drive around.
The comments below the original story indicate it's fake.
Abstract: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/12/4418.short
Full Text PDF: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/12/4418.full.pdf

I'm on an academic network, so I'm not sure if the PDF's paywalled...

From a cursory glance at the paper, this is what they had to say about how they kept the mice awake:

Mice were housed in a light/dark environment with lights on from 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. ... A previously validated, enriched, novel environment (Gompf et al., 2010) was used to promote spontaneous exploratory wakefulness. The short-term wakefulness (Sh Wake) period selected was 3 h during the lights-on period. With zeitgeber time 0 h (ZT0) referenced to the onset of the lights-on period, Sh Wake occurred at ZT8–ZT11, while extended sleep loss (Ext Wake) consisted
of 8 h of continuous wake time at ZT3–ZT11 with 16 h intervals in the home cages after the first and second days of 8 h wake time.
I have never seen a post on HN more inevitable than this ... and I love it. I guess the next is "Flappy 2048 in pure CSS".
First, Bloomberg's code base represents decades of cumulative institutional knowledge. That's both the downside (it looks 30 years old) and the upside (it's been thoroughly tested and users know what to expect).

Second, for Bloomberg's target customers (big banks, big traders, big hedge funds), the price is just noise in their budget. If you had a "cheaper" Bloomberg clone, you might get more customers but less total revenue. The people who have been trading for 10+ years and know Bloomberg terminal by heart will still want a Bloomberg terminal.
Just to expand on that, Istanbul isn't even a state (though it's a very large and important city). The USA is a federation of states, with a multifaceted legal framework and also the biggest single-country economy in the world (EU is bigger, but isn't as tightly connected or managed).

Would the comparison of Istanbul to New York City be more appropriate?
uhm no. Unity is not free, only the limited indie version is, Pro is $1500 which anyone who is serious about making games needs. Making a bigger game with a Team of 10 for iOS ? Get ready to shell out $3000 per seat, another $1500 for Android and basically youd also need Teamserver which is another couple of thousands.

I think revenue from the Asset Store is relatively minor compared to that. Ive heard of success stories that sell plugins worth a couple of thousands per month, but thats about it and those are not many.
When you sell BTC on Coinbase, it takes anywhere from two days to two weeks for Coinbase to actually pay you. If they get into dire financial straits like Mt. Gox, then this period will gradually widen to become many months, and then some payments will stop going through altogether. So you'll have sold your N bitcoin and they'll have lost it.

I guess this problem is unavoidable short of using lots of different exchanges. Maybe there just needs to be more than one Coinbase.
Does anyone know if MemSQL has improved in ACID compliance (especially full durability performance) in the nearly 2 years since Domas previously[0] dissected it?

MemSQL sounds too good to be true sometimes, but I want to believe. Just wish it was open source.

[0] http://dom.as/2012/06/26/memsql-rage/ (hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4162488 )
People usually don't realize that Tesla was days from insolvency back in 2008: http://www.autotrends.org/2008/11/17/avoiding-insolvency-tes...

Elon is an all-in kind of guy, but has his hands full. More Elons please.
I highly recommend Computer Systems - A Programmer's Perspective. I learned a ton from that book. I think chapter 2 or 3 is where x86 is covered in some detail. It's really well written, and the way they present assembly, C, and certain parts of POSIX draws everything together really well such that you come out with a good mix of practical and theoretical knowledge.
That does not mean that all families are supersets of a nuclear family. A stepfamily years down the track is not a superset of an earlier nuclear family. It's like saying that the cars on our roads are supersets of aluminium ore, there just happens to be time variance. Or that synthetic clothing is actually made from trees (via swamps -> oil) and therefore a superset of natural clothing, there just happens to be time variance.

And, strictly speaking, an embryo is not always created at the time of intercourse. Even if your definition was correct, it is possible for the father and mother to be together, the father to leave, and then for the egg and sperm to meet. This can be be up to 3 to 5 days later.
If a deer eats your dad-tree, dad-tree becomes dad-tree-deer.
Yep. Same boat. I'm a student though, so I'm curious how things will change once I start my career.

I'm a bit minimalist, and it sounds like you are too. I hate carrying more than one bag when I travel, and the thought of having a ton of stuff I don't need makes me really, really uncomfortable. It's surreal.

Do you use this "never satisfied" outlook for personal improvement? I'm really glad I act that way. It keeps me moving forward, even if I seem a little cynical along the way.
It's quoted in the article, and the article draws a good rationale for why our own confidence shrinks in the face of awkward self-awareness.

Nevertheless, whenever I feel like I'm confronting bullshit artistry on a profound and deliberate scale, Donald Rumsfeld is my yard stick, and a distorted image of his smirking face is conjured in my mind's eye, and replaces the bullshit artist's face, and that quote rings through my head with lots of reverb and phased, flanged echo.

The next unit of measurement in scales of bullshit artistry, in terms of greater precision and smaller units, is Bill Clinton's debate regarding the meaning of "is":

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If
the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is
not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that
was a completely true statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton#In...

The conversion ratio between Rumsfelds and Clinton-Lewinskies is 1 Rumsfeld = 1 Mega-Clinton-Lewinsky.
The templating is the easy part. It's all the parts that go around it that are the interesting/fun part.
good points, and great article! Maybe you know better than I do, were Neal Goldman and co-founders originally Bloomberg guys?
I hope someone is crazy enough for the Tall Tower project. It is the kind of project the Human Race needs to convince ourselves that we are still capable of getting Big Things done.

If you don't know about it already, it is a project jump-started in part by Neal Stephenson, to build a 15km tall tower.

http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/project/the-tall-tower/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE0n_5qPmRM
don't do that, just be straightforward instead. At least they know what they are dealing with, liking it or not is simething else.
Sure, it's not a blatant lie, but imo it comes close enough. Suppose you do say this, and later a client finds out you actually hardly have any or no other projects ('work' projects, that is), I'm pretty sure they would think you haven't been completely honest. And such thoughts harm trust.
I've heard this kind of comment about reusable content throughout my career in many different contexts and it's always equally true and false.

Here's the reasons I think you need to be a little bit more nuanced on this topic:

a) Sometimes it doesn't matter - The plate and chair in the background don't need to be invented from scratch everytime

b) Sometimes it's just a starting point. You won't know it's library content because it's been edited, enhanced or used in new ways.

c) Sometimes it's just part of a bigger whole. You're not going to notice the brushed aluminum bump map when it's combined with the libraries 'scratched specular map' and a few other ingredients - a cook isn't cheating when he uses bouquet garni or a garam masala from the catering supplier.
Yes, agreed. But the difficulty here is that a lot of those niches are very small, in terms of number of users. Assume for example you're building a product focused on munis, which I don't think is a very well covered niche for now. How many potential users are we talking about here? 20,000? A bit more maybe? Yet you need to build a whole technology platform to serve them. Only makes sense (from a venture perspective) if you use munis as a beachhead to expand into another area, but as it turns out, the next area requires you to pretty much start from scratch on a number of fronts, because it is going to be so specific. So building a large business here requires you to address a bunch of different niches and hire specific teams for each - lots of venture money required, IMHO.
Getting a job after failing at entrepreneurship
That's just it, though. It's the exact same number of pixels. It's a single 1080p screen divided in two.
Like for when you sever a finger in a kitchen accident and the surgeon won't agree to re-attach within the 6-hour window of feasibility unless you pay him up front in cash. (Really happened).
Ask HN: Who is the guy I see every time I click on the Y logo accidentally?
I have probably seen his face 50 times. You know the guy I am talking about, the one with the glasses pushed up on his head. Is he part of any successful or failed YC company that I might know? Just curious.
I have no idea why; the Docker container just started randomly serving a really old version (several hours ago) for no apparent reason, and then started serving the right thing. I seriously have no clue what happened.

I am very sorry. Have a direct PDF link: https://9d0df72831e4b345bb93-4b37fd03e6af34f2323bb971f72f0c0...
> You aren't rich enough until the whole world is rich with you.

According to you, anyway.
You're probably trying to submit a url from a banned domain.
To get to point when you don't need more money is not that hard. But it certainly depends how much you want. In the end you have one hamburger for lunch anyway [Bill Gates]. Attention is trickier. It brings more power, but also more social pressure.
And a prime example that Perforce is still better for game asset management than git :)
"Of particular interest to us are ways to use the Internet to fix government—for example, crowdfunding social services."

Aren't all social services crowdfunded?
I think the general pitfalls of a browser extension is that you're essentially trusting that the browser, which is acting almost as an OS in terms of separating the memory contents of different extensions, to work correctly. The idea is if you have an extension doing crypto, an extension that is syncing data with google has no way of reading the data from the crypto extension. You also have to make sure the same applies for websites as well...extensions should be able to grab data from sites, but not vice versa. Without this kind of perfect separation, your crypto extension is really just a sitting duck and none of the data in it is safe.

As far as how they differ among browsers, Chrome (and I suppose Opera, now as well) does a good job sandboxing one extension from another, and from stopping websites gaining access to running extensions. Is it perfect? I can't really answer that.

One problem with Chrome extensions is that unless you want your users to have to download the .crx file, and drag and drop it into their browser, you have to use the Chrome webstore. This is especially retarded because in order to upload your extension to the Chrome webstore, they either need your private key you signed the extension with, or they generate a private key for you. This means that your private key is not private and extension signing is a complete joke. So if you're releasing an extension for the security-literate, it makes sense to create a .crx file, sign it yourself with your own PGP key, and offer it as a separate download that they have to drag+drop into Chrome. The chrome webstore is not a secure means of distribution.

Firefox, on the other hand, is more forgiving with installations but has no real sandboxing. This means it's possible for one extension to read another's data. Plans to introduce threading (and I think as a consequence of threading, sandboxing as well) are in the works, but it's still going to be a while until Firefox gives extensions the same protections Chrome does.

Really, if you can, it's best to do crypto in a native app where the sandboxing is done for you by the operating system and you don't have to rely on a browser. Node-webkit is a great way to do this since it merges the two worlds nicely (at least for desktop).
Ask HN: Next Gen idea for digital books
Instead of selling digital and printed version of books separately, why can't sell a physical book and one the customer has done reading it he can return the book and get a digital version of the same book for free.

I suggest this because most of the people still love reading books on printed books but once they are done reading mostly we will use if for some quick reference or read some favorite part again. So we can use the digital copy for this.

This will also help us to carry our collection everywhere and save papers as well.
To the degree that they're actually offended, I think it may be more reflexive that the employee would put an upper bound on the amount of work they would do in a week.
If you pick up almost any book on eastern philosophy you'll find that living in the present is the key. Give up the future. It won't be how you imagine anyway.
Why Boston's newly minted "Innovation District" is already a misnomer
The latter also has a lot more negative side effects and is probably more expensive.
My ultimate goal is to work on a project like this. For now though, I have a hard enough time coming up with bad ideas. I can't imagine how I'll end up in a position where I know how to fix real problems.
Same here, however, I can post comments but not stories. Not sure if they flagged us as spammer.
Transform Your Street: Fall of Cybertron (on your real street)
"Desire", when you strip away the connotations, generally just means "spikes in your dopamine system that reward you for acting toward a goal your brain associates with a previous large dopamine release."

Contentment, on the other hand, is something more like "the lack of any particular goal currently requiring you to think, plan, or expend energy."

Basically, they're at odds: when you have a desire, you are by definition discontented.
How to drive great returns as a Tier 2 Venture Capital fund
Well first, I think Google starting engineer salaries are closing in pretty quickly on what the head of DARPA makes, so there's that aspect of things. Second, SFBA does have a lot of money, but it's expertise is in investing that money into consumer products. It does not have an established track-record of doing fundamental R&D, and VC's don't have the kind of technical expertise (in the relevant areas) a place like DARPA does.

Now could they acquire that capability? Sure, with time and money you can buy whatever you want. But will comes into play there--why invest in that capability when you can get quicker returns in consumer products?

I do agree, though, that a big corporate R&D lab like at Google is better-positioned to tackle these sorts of projects than VC-funded start ups.
The hard part is styling... I could even just upload a .txt file and be done with my blog.
Frankly, RE: "hacking the app"

You will most likely be found out pretty quickly and you're just wasting people's time if you do get through. If you have a good idea, stick with that. If your idea isn't good enough, improve it.
Well, yes. If you're going to ping someone for a misdeed, don't turn around and do it yourself. That's what being a hypocrite is. Ironic that first you ping be for being condescending, and then when it's pointed out that you're doing the same, you then hypocritically accuse me of being a hypocrite. Ironic also that you ping me for not being able to take criticism, but you've got to lash out if you're criticised yourself.

And, frankly, screw the anti-intellectualism that considers that remark of mine a 'high-brow' response.
Internal corporate collaborators unknown to the executives speaks to a failure of corporate security/infosec. I'd imagine current CEOs are increasing their organizations security measures to protect not only against corporate espionage but also state players. If you are CEO and you are forced to comply that is bad, but not nearly so bad as complying without knowing it is happening. Not knowing doesn't allow you to leverage legal, oversee the extent of compliance or plan for the contingency of the compliance becoming public.
This is my favorite theory so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_714
Stoicism seems like it would be relevant to a Roman. If you had no air conditioning and very little good things, being stoic would probably make you pretty happy.

We're not in ancient Rome anymore.

I don't see any reason for modern humans to be stoic. It seems like a great way to stagnate. When you can't change your environment, it makes sense to change your mind to accept your environment. When you can, self-modification is harmful. It lets you accept things you could change if you worked to to change them.

Stoicism seems to be at odds with a personal drive towards self-improvement. It doesn't seem relevant to modern environments where this improvement is possible.
There isn't a H1B transfer, but people often refer to it as a transfer, including immigration lawyers.

Basically, you must get a brand spanking new H1B to start a new job. However, if you have already recently gotten a H1B, then you can skip the quota, and get it approved pretty much immediately. This is commonly referred to as a "transfer" even though it is not technically a transfer.
I've been wanting that for months.

I would put one camera in each of the lights, so I would have front and rear stereo vision.

The top of the screen would be forward, and the lower part, or a small window could be towards the back.

Easy parking!
Python for Beginners: Reading and Manipulating CSV Files
I suspect the answer is...not by a direct head-on competitor. There's very little desire for Bloomberg users to switch. It's not overly expensive (relatively), so there's little price pressure, it works really well, there's a broad network effect, information is accurate and timely and reliable.

So say you duplicated all that, maybe even with a slicker interface. Who cares? Charge 1/2 the price. So what? Just because the guy down the street sells Pepsi for $1 doesn't mean I feel any pressure to go walk all that way when my $2 Coke is just fine.

I suspect that coming in from some other angle, doing something entirely different, and slowly bringing on-line some of the Bloomberg terminal's attributes and winning over users is the only way. But even that would be tough. If I'm spending all day looking at my Bloomberg terminal, do I really want to fuss around with some other machine and yet another monitor? How can the space on a trader's desk be physically won?

At this point, it's like winning over corporate America's reliance on Microsoft Office products. It's almost not worth the effort. Just build a different app that does something else entirely that helps with productivity that Office doesn't cover...rather than produce yet another word processor, spreadsheet, presentation suite.
Congrats on this article, guys. I hope the YC experience is going well. I got to watch your office hours at Startup School and was totally inspired. Glad to see you still killing it!