skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment comes off as over-dramatic, and somewhat fake, almost like you're looking more for attention than justice.

Nowhere on the app does it ask you for your sex. If you were so afraid of your application being viewed differently because you are a woman, hiding that fact on the app is as simple as using an alias and answering the questions without saying 'OH YEAH, AND I'M A WOMAN.' And if you think any of those at YC, whether pg and gang, or the alumni, would 'dock' you on points for being a woman and overlook your potential and that of your idea, you yourself are being sexist for assuming that a man would be so irrational and illogical for the sake of gender discrimination.

And sorry for being harsh, but don't pull that 'they don't relate to me' crap. We're all aspiring entrepreneurs trying to make it out there with our ideas, connections, talents, etc, and any decent person would judge you on such. I don't need a pair of breasts and a rush of estrogen to relate to you. You're perpetuating the same gender gap you are criticizing others of exploiting.

I know you're a woman, but man up.
In other words, browser detection is still The Wrong Way To Do It.
What's the difference between a "cheat sheet" and a man page?
You beat me to it. I was going to post that link, but now all I can do is recommend that people check it out, as well as other sequences by Eliezer:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
I wish the boo support was more "official". It's terribly neglected compared to the c# and js offerings.
A great example of how great software inspires in more ways than one.
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Hey, Verizon ticked all the boxes in the feature chart. Let’s see where that gets them :)
The answer to "would you pay?" for any dedicated, single-purpose consumer electronic:

NO.

If it only does one thing, it's effectively an expensive paperweight - except that I'm sure I'm not the only one that uses my cell phone as a paperweight as well as a phone, so it's even worse than a paperweight! The apps market is huge for a reason - let's listen to that lesson.
The number of things you can't do with HTML and Javascript is getting smaller every day. I see no need at all for flash in the long term. The only time I like flash is flash video players, but those will be replaceable in the future as well.
I like how they moved modules around towards the end. Like they were refactoring it :) (even though I know it was always meant to be that way (remembering the computer animations from school))
I would be very nervous holding GPS company stock. It seems inevitable the the good times are gone. If the stock price doesn't already factor in Google releasing something that improves what people can do with google maps in the car, some thing's funny.
Can you tell us, who they are, if their companies are conflicting, we delete our application.
Looks nice, but not a killer app in the sense that the parent is talking about. A more sophisticated settings/preferences is something only a small number of people would use.

Google maps in the car, everyone uses.
Reminds me a little bit of

http://astrometry.net/

here is an overview:

http://cosmo.nyu.edu/hogg/research/2006/09/28/astrometry_goo...

It's fun to read about but way over my head mathematically.
In the graphic it appears that the central S0 truss segment is attached to the Z1 truss, this is not the case, it is actually attached to the Destiny lab module directly.

The descriptive text for the Z1 truss is similarly incorrect, it contains attitude control gyros and served as a temporary mount point for the P6 truss, it does not serve as the central mounting point for the entire truss structure.
One has to factor in that there are thousands of things he could have printed that would have had roughly the same effect (eg. "Piss off", etc).
why the hell would Bangalore come in here?
I partially agree with you. I lived in Seattle's International district this past summer, and biked quite a bit. At first, I was apprehensive about the traffic, but it wasn't bad once I got past my first ride.

One resource you might find helpful is the maps on Seattle's Department of Transportation website: (http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/bikemaps.htm). They show the streets that are safer to bike. When I lived there, I biked southbound on 5th because I live on 5th, but that felt a little sketchy around 5th and Pike. According to the map, 2nd has a bike lane that I could have used for going southbound.
I have both a BlackBerry and G1 and the Google Voice app on the BlackBerry doesn't work as well. It doesn't natively take over the dialer the way it does on Android.
It's good to remember that not all refactoring is cleaning up messes. Sometimes you need to build something in a certain way at a certain time because you don't yet have the supporting structure to build it the way it should be in the final structure.
Paul,

Would you tell us, which YC alumni is going to read the applications for us in advance,if we see any conflicts then, we delte our application.

Thanks,
I draw a slightly different conclusion than the author.

>I noticed they were all similar in some way to “Napoleon Dynamite” — culturally or politically polarizing and hard to classify, including “I Heart Huckabees,” “Lost in Translation,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Sideways.”

To me, what all these movies share in common is that they are so original that they are less accessible to the first-time viewer (or, in the case of Farenheit 9/11, completely tied to one's political leanings).

For example, I walked out of Napolean Dynamite and was bored to tears with Lost in Translation. The second time I watched those movies, I laughed my butt off at Napolean Dynamite and I found Lost in Translation to be one of the deepest movies I'd ever seen. Just the thought of Lost in Translation now gives me a yearning heartache. If I used Netflix to rate these movies after my first viewings, I probably would have given them 1 or 2 stars. Now I give them both 5 stars.

(As an aside, I highly recommend all of the above mentioned movies. I'd love to see an expanded list, so if anyone has one, please share. Going by my theory, I bet The Big Lebowski is in there. :)
I'm not so concerned about opening up the reviews to trusted others (after all, if an application is successful it is open to peer review and scrutiny anyway), but I do have a question regarding 'early' submissions (which are described as preferable).

Do early submissions get reviewed BEFORE the actual closing date? That's the clear implication from what I've read elsewhere on this thread, because it's stated "there is more time to review early applications"

In my case, I submitted (initially) soon after the applications were opened, and have been editing, proof reading, clarifying generally and improving on it, and re-submitting right up to this evening - the evening of the closing date. So there are quite possibly at least 30 different iterations of my application. My first submission was crude, but early. My final submission is probably a factor of 10X better, but two hours before the deadline.

So without giving too much away YC, which iteration gets reviewed and when, and how do you know when the submission is final, if you review before the close date?
I got my first web dev job after two weeks of reading some PHP books and coding up an application to help my girlfriend of the time keep track of some stuff for her business.

I sucked, but I got a job (making poor wages of course) and it didn't take too long to get past the median and (I think) into the higher percentiles of PHP talent.

I'm not that smart so my easy entry into the field has always had me disconcerted and I've made a concerted effort to dive into parts of development that are more difficult or require greater rigor. So much web development really is just playing ferry for the database, and the frameworks are just making this easier.

This might all be a good thing for a certain class of problems that these frameworks solve, but if you make your living making dynamic forms or whatnot, I'd consider diversifying and picking up more skills.

There will always be a class of problems on the web that are truly difficult and require real, uncommon expertise. A much larger portion of the work on the web will be increasingly easy to complete for lesser trained or qualified people, with much thanks to those who improve tools and technology for their benefit.
Full page:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1
True, but that's true for any feature if you use it just for the feature's sake. You can use animations for so much more than that. For example, it can be very illustrative to animate a data structure manipulation.
Oh boy, good timing. This happened yesterday (I was a passenger):

http://external.sidneysm.com/smashies.png

http://external.sidneysm.com/smashies_real.jpg

Good times. Except for the car, which is (probably) totaled, and the driver, who is significantly less insurable now. Highways and rain don't mix. This tool... not amazing, but definitely quicker than paper to crank out a decipherable sketch.
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Seems to me like it would take some pretty crazy 3D modeling to come up with that structure. I'd love to see the model of that and how they computed what to put where in order for it to collapse just so. Along the same lines I'm sure the manufacturing of that is pretty unique too.
This is wonderful. My friends and I made a few sites on there, but I can't remember where. Mine and another friend's were in SiliconValley, I remember that much. Thank you, thank you!
What does HTML5 mean for us?
Except that LLVM isn't actually a high-level VM. You have to bolt on quite a bit to even begin to run Python, Java, Scala, etc, and achieving interoperability between those has yet to even be approached.

LLVM is the best thing since sliced bread -- and there's even work to provide an alternative to Java's c1/c2/interpreter backends using LLVM -- but it's not really a direct replacement for the JVM or any other high-level virtual machine.

Something like this might be: http://vmkit.llvm.org/
I'm a Linux user with Open Office 3.0 by night and Win XP with MS Office 2003 by day. A friend recently sent me a .docx file from MS Office 2k7. I was unable to open it in OO 3.0 but it worked fine in Word 2003 (it's supposed to work in OO). Just yesterday I typed a Word 2003 doc with heavy use of formatting... OO was unable to preserve the margins. I've found that Excel spreadsheets which make heavy use of macros will open but the macros probably won't work. That being said, I used Open Office exclusively when I was in school and personally felt the UI was easier to use didn't find the features lacking. I've never had trouble taking a file from OO to MSO, but the reverse will often have cosmetic defects.
When Kleiner Perkins was raising its first fund, it was not an established brand and the idea of venture capital was still very new. I suspect KPCB would have liked to raise more.
Why don't they just allow the application to run on my browser? Why prevent it from running even before knowing whether it will fail or not?

Browser detection is frustrating for users using standard compliant browsers.
heh. It is actually fascinating how strong crowd sourcing can be. You would logically opt the manual root & surprisingly lot of times esp for cost and simplicity of solution

5-6 hrs of a good developer == 1 month of 3 ops in India or elsewhere. Except that getting ops to work itself can be painstaking.
Programming SEGA Genesis in 2009
I don't think they'd bother with that sort of math. Appple enjoy their slice of the app pie, but I don't think they are dumb enough to get greedy about it.
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Yes, the Unladen Swallow people know that Py3k is the future. They also know that Google has a shit ton of Py2.X code that it's their job to make fast. That's why they're developing against Python2.X and then when it's time to merge back into CPython it will be merged in trunk (2.X) and then forward ported into Py3k.
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Man pages rarely contain many examples. Man pages always bury examples on the last of many long pages.

I think a few really good examples beat eight pages of definitions.

A cheat sheet is nothing but good examples. Awesome.
If you are just starting with Flash, goto http://flash.tutsplus.com/ and start doing the tutorials with the examples and once you are fimilliar with the environment.

Visit http://www.gotoandlearn.com/ for a very good set of video tutorials and examples. Gotoandlearn is IMO one of the best starting points to dive into flash.

After this you have Google :)
Here is what they say in the website:

"Specifically, a fixed length of audio is converted to audio DNA; this conversion process extracts certain features from the signal based on the psycho acoustic considerations. The system has two components, one that enables the extraction of Audio DNA from a few seconds of recording, and the other is an efficient search engine that finds the exact match for the DNA.

The audio DNA is based on extracting 64 sub DNAs every 3 seconds. The sub DNAs are generated by looking at the energy differences along the frequency and time axes. These 64 sub DNA form the chromosomes of the system, which enables the system to uniquely identify the chosen song."

Looks to me like pretty much the same technology. This is again not a surprise. Most implementations of this idea will be using similar techniques. What I am amazed at is that somebody thought that all this was feasible.
All that said, it's incredible to see it included at all. Boo is a fantastic language that's getting better by the day, but it's not well known at all. It's great to see even their level of support.
Ask again in 5 years.
I disagree, any type of programming is magic.

I'm tired of these software 'engineering' types who insist that computers are run by using 'maths' and 'numbers' (whatever those are).

Clearly, computers are run by aphasic tonally-separated spinning disks. These disks fire puffs of air out the sides of the computer, creating little tiny tornados, which summon air spirits to call the fire spirits, which causes the screen to light up and the keys to make tappy-tap noises.

anyway.
to be clear:
not statistics.
not math.
not regulated pulses of electrons.
MAGIC!
I think the maps are only part of the deal here, and google is failing on the most important aspect: actually planning a useful route. Have not used the new app. but the current version of Google maps on my BB has a routing algorithm which simply sucks eggs...

I can't tell you how many times I've tried to use the directions Google provided on my BB, only to revert to my TomTom. The latter generally provides better directions and has blazingly fast recalcs when I veer off the designated route.

(More recently I've discovered Goviko, free-ish, which works better than my TomTom because it will take live delays ahead into account when planning my trip, but sucks the life out of my BB faster than a ... well you know.)
I'm stoked that I was able to help you. That makes writing this article completely worthwhile.

1. Dave (designer) works in our NYC across office right across from me (http://www.carbonmade.com/blog/2009/09/24/150000-portfolios-...). Jason (programmer) works back in Chicago and is moving to NYC in May or sooner. What I find works best is to plan for the future, but not to necessarily bring it up with the other folks until it's time. I actually find myself saying "let's focus on the present" a lot more than I find myself sharing my thoughts for the future. Sharing those thoughts are best left for when you've completed a new version or a major segment of your product. Keep everyone focused on the task at hand and bring out your plans for the future only at the appropriate times.

2. Someone mentioned in a response to one of my posts (and I'm paraphrasing) that "a response to a support ticket takes the same time today as it does tomorrow, so you might as well answer it today." I think that's very true. You shouldn't let it derail you if you're deep in concentration, but if you see it and you can take a minute to respond, why not respond then and there? By responding it won't weigh on you for the rest of the day and affect your other work.

3. What troubles have you been having? I think the decision of having a user guide or not should be based on whether your product needs one or not. Luckily, ours is simple enough that a few FAQs do all the work for us.

Let me know if you have any other questions here or via email [at] spencerfry [dot] com. I'm also open to having lunch/coffee/beer with you if you're in NYC at any time.
Google isn't doing it because of "anti-trust concerns."

Android isn't a competitor to the iPhone, because Google does not sell Android operating systems. Google sells services and ads, and the way to ensure that as many people as possible have access to them is by developing Android and putting them on every non-Android device with significant enough marketshare.

They make money if you use their services on an Android device; they make money if you use them on an iPhone.

It would be a nice bonus if Android ran all other smartphones out of the market, because having control of the market leader makes it easier to guarantee that everyone has access to their services, but that is not their aim.
Technically this would be the 6th state of matter. The 5 others being:

Liquid

Gas

Solid

Plasma

Bose-Einstein Condensate (this one is really overlooked)
So they just memorialize the account without sending a "Hello, are you really dead email?" to check first. Design flaw.

(Hmm, maybe we need a form with "Just a flesh wound" or "I'm feeling better!" options.)
That's not what Google said. They said they'd like to port it to the iPhone pending apple's desire to have it. That means at some point in the future they'll port it to the iPhone.

So, for the foreseeable future it's Droid or bust for this functionality. That's an advantage that gives Droid a real opportunity to see some serious penetration.
All hell will break loose when algorithms start writing these articles, imagine information just getting recycled with no new information conveyed. Of course, algorithms could detect correlations and patterns in text but would they be able to produce original and genuinely interesting articles?
The solution to rural depopulation: the kids stay.
Wow. Where can I buy one?
Wouldn't surprise me if this was an automated system that malfunctioned
I'm skeptical of this type of business, simply for the reason that I think you have to actually help people to make money. You can trick them in the short term or exploit some discrepancy, but this doesn't sound much different than spam, so I can't imagine it being successful long term.
One of the rare times I have seen an app, instantly realized what it does and instantly started playing around with it. And Safari is my default browser.

It needs motion and cross-browser compatibility.
It needs a way to save and share animations.
After the two above are met, I am confident that this will go viral quickly. (As I type this on my laptop, two other people are toying with the app on a computer in my dorm room) HN community made?.
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I must say I am very happy I was able to get icefox on gmail way back in the day. One by one as Google buys assets I can use my icefox user name in more and more places. Ever sense Firefox came around it has been harder and harder to get my user name on a service before someone else does.
The main reasons local versions are more popular are a combination of:

- it's in Chinese

- it's not blocked by the GFW

- it's faster (the GFW slows access to everything outside of it down)

- it's still accessible when China Telecom has been tweaking the routers and DNS servers (which they seem to do every week)

That is, practical reasons which lead to adoption and growth.

There are, of course, cultural specifics that have to be taken into account but those are pretty obvious if you're building a site in China for the the local market. And these local touches can only add to the site attractiveness together with being inside of the GFW. So, it's kind of obvious that a local site is going to do better than a foreign one.

Occassionally people will talk about designing the look of the site for the local market but I'm not convinced it's an issue. Good taste is good taste everywhere. For example, the iPod is just as popular here as everywhere else. A well designed and functional site in China is always going to win over the equivalent site that is outside of the GFW for the reasons above.
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I see a movie coming... serial killer memorializes victims' Facebook accounts 24 hours before the murder...
For some reason these arguments all seem to start with the assumption that we are not all zombies. I have yet to see any good evidence that we aren't and it seems like the simplest explanation.
Sorry, but it is a competitor.

Many of these phones that are being sold are the official, "Google branded" version.

That means Google has certain deals in place with the carriers.

Also, they are making Google search and there other properties default on Android, no matter which way you put. They make more money if you are using an Android device (Google is embedded everywhere in it) unlike other platforms.

This DOES make them an anti-trust concern.

Google Voice is also provided for free as well, and guess what. Google Voice is getting investigated by the FTC.
For all the people out there with Twitter but no cell phone... all 3 of them.
Depending on Yahoo/Geocities' TOS, it may be Yahoo that has copyright.
0.3.0 is out, with a bunch of fine-tuning loop optimizations provided by Dmitry Baranovskiy, and CommonJS/Narwhal support, for those of you who use JavaScript on the server as well as the client.
So personal ambition is an evil to the community and must be suppressed, then?

Sure, that's a strawman summary, but speaking /as/ the son of a countryside peasant that not only left for the big city but the country entirely for greener fields in America, I cannot at all support the view that youthful ambition is harmful, regardless of its effects on small communities. Seeking a better life than your parents had - and seeking to make your children's life better than what you've had - is far from repugnant or malicious.

The romanticized notion of a warm, inclusive small-town culture ignores the many cultural and economic ills isolated communities produce alongside Mom's "famous" apple pie. Even if we change the cultural incentive, it won't change the fact that these communities tend to /stay/ poor, and simply lack the resources internally to change that. Perhaps the answer isn't to shake an angry cane at the relentless changes wreaked upon small communities, but figure out a way to increase the incentive to invest back into the Heartland.

Say, encourage geographically localized startups...