skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you missed the point I tried to make.

DNS is 15 years older then HTTP so of course it's not meant to be used that way. Domain names where put in different configuration files once, and then your mail client, IRC client, NTP client and so on just worked forever. With HTTP you suddenly started to use domain names by typing them over and over agian.

Personally I'm not sure the web will look like this in the future. I think domain names will be hidden from users once again. Netflix will of course use domain names internally to get content from their servers, but the user only needs to find the Netflix app from som App-store.
This is discussed now and then, but it's difficult to get all the architectural pieces to align to make it really work. A GC needs some kind of cooperation with the language, so you need to agree on common interfaces, which is a bit of a coordination problem.

One of the goals of the now-defunct C-- project was to do that by providing a low-level target language for compilers, which also had a portable set of GC hooks. But it didn't reach that goal before running out of funding/developers. The most popular current target language filling similar space is the LLVM IR. LLVM has some goals regarding enabling GC via standardized hooks, but not rising to the level of actually providing a language-agnostic GC: http://llvm.org/docs/GarbageCollection.html#goals-and-non-go...

Another option is to plug in a collector like Boehm (http://www.hboehm.info/gc/) or MPS (http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/). Boehm or the conservative mode of MPS sidestep some of the integration/architecture issues, with various accompanying downsides.
No demo, no screens? Atleast have the courtesy to display your work properly.
You're not required to have a co-founder. No need to be angry about this, but be objective: two or three smart people can accomplish more than one smart person.

You can work hard and maybe bootstrap your way to an MVP of a product, but sooner or later the amount of work in the startup will become too much. When it does, you are going to need to build a team around you to handle the load.

The fact that you are so adamant about not wanting a co-founder is detrimental in that it signals that you are missing the point about how a company is mostly about building a good team that can execute, and second, about focusing that team on an interesting idea.
I wonder if there's a buffer overflow in there too - how long is the command buffer and what's the maximum size of that header...?

From personal experience, SOAP is one of those protocols that feels massively overdesigned and unnecessarily bloated.
I totally agree. I started using Cloudflare's free service to add HTTPS support to my most important sites. I have some concerns about routing my traffic through another company, but free is free and I really think people need to transition to HTTPS everywhere.
Finally solved it. Apparently splitting in half isn't always the optimal step, sometimes you have to move a different amount.

Example:

9 3 3

6 3 3 3

3 3 3 3 3

2 2 2 2 2

1 1 1 1 1
"Again it may be due to better support for WYSIWYG output during printing and pre-press, better color matching etc."

Basically that. Whenever you wonder why something "odd" gets a foothold, look for the money trail.

One thing to note is that there was a couple of Amiga variants that lived on in broadcast media, as it was very capable of doing video work.

BTW, the BYOD kinda happened back in the day as well. There is a claim that accountants brought their personal AppleII to work so they didn't have to fight for mainframe time.

Edit: oh, and i wonder how much the dock connector had to say for the long term uptake of iPhone in the corporate world. Never mind that Apple was quick to offer a WSUS like service to handle app rollouts.
Yes, the whole "platform series" from MIT press is fantastic.

The first book in the series "racing the beam", especially so.
Yep. The one thing Intel frets over these days is cache misses. Hyperthreading is all about keeping that pipeline busy even if the original thread encounter a cache miss.
Anopa – An init system and service manager built around s6
Take that ML!
At least redditors seem to be calling out the "professional" for reckless egotism. I'm pleasantly surprised.
My solution is called Statico: a json file with all the site content and front-end magic to display it. A locally run software allows me to edit the pages, upload images to S3 and update the json file. The additional advantage in my opinion: no server. All hosted on S3 :)
machine learning + go|java|scala
The reason single co-founder companies are less likely to be accepted is that, once you start to get to a certain scale, there's just FAR too much work for one person to do.

We're already experiencing this. There are two of us and we need an extra 24 hours in the day to get everything done.

Get a co-founder if at all possible, it'll save your sanity.
Well those small shops, especially if they carried Apple, probably knew not to offend. Apple was no better to stores than MS was/is to OEMs.
tl;dr: but only if you're inside the lan or your target has enabled remote administration.
I used to work as a tech support rep for a huge cable company and hated it. I had to do a 2 hour commute to work and deal with angry customers all day over the phone, my company often released products that don't work, like we rolled out a disastrous digital phone service, a video-on-demand service that should still be in pre-beta and it was my job to support all these bad products.

As I worked for the cable company, I also had a side project app I was working on. Soon my app started making money, in 6 months it made its first $1000. Then sales started doubling every week, in the next 2 months my app was making more than double my fulltime job's salary at the cable company.

I hated my fulltime job but i didn't want to quit a stable job. Unable to make the decision to quit, I called in sick one day, and then stayed home for 2 weeks, I was secretly hoping to be fired. I showed up at work 2 weeks later and no one seemed to notice I was gone. Some people thought I was just working a different shift. My supervisor didn't really notice. So I finally decided it was time to quit. Told my supervisor I was quitting because I started a new business I wanted to focus on instead. She was very cool about it, told me they like me and would hire me again if I every wanted to come back and that was it.
YC is not perfect and they have admitted so in several occasions. Plus they can only fund so many startups, so getting rejected doesn't mean you have to rethink your startup.

The way I see it, continue with your startup and apply again.
On the flip side, even Liberia's ministry of health (see author's credentials) could afford the $45, then disseminate to the clinics.

// Disclaimer: I lived and worked in Cameroon in the 80s, writing software for tracking and publishing data for various govt ministries.
You could already do this without coding anything.

http://recover-weblogic-password.appspot.com/

Here's the same thing for WebSphere:

http://www.poweredbywebsphere.com/decoder.html
One difference between Motorola and Intel, is Motorola was less concerned with breaking backwards compatibility.

If the 68k family had continued to evolve past the 1994s 68060, I'm sure they could have just dropped backwards compatibility to some of the more complex addressing modes, or just devoted less silicon to them, and making what remains faster. Kinda like happened with the ColdFire version of the 68k family.
I completely agree. The arrogance of the programmer community to say things like "we know that is bad for them" is comical but sad.
Learn C, and do something with machine learning. Once you master C everything else will seem easy. This will help you by mastering another language and give you something to focus on that should use some of the math skills you probably gained from your physics degree. The nice thing about learning C is you'll never have to wonder how the other languages work because most are implemented in C/C++.
David Beazley's PyCon 2015 Talk – Python Concurrency from the Ground Up: Live
I use arch and still despise it. The reduced boot time isn't worth the headache the overly complex systemd suit of tools has introduced. BSD might have some issues, but it worked very well for my use-cases.
I used to write reviews on these consumer-level network devices and in my experience they nearly all ran a root-privileged server under Linux. Inevitably they would end up having some sort of cgi interface that would take in parameters and make a "system" call to do email, change configurations, etc. It was only a matter of how much time and effort I wanted to put in to show that I could break in by screwing with the variables. They also would always have an unused telnet or ssh server that was left over from the original developers. Lesson-learned - Don't ever enable remote access for these cheap consumer devices.

Edit: Remembered an amusing case where I reported a vulnerability to a manufacturer. I reported something like "If you add an administrator's email address to the device that looks like 'myemail`reboot`@gmail.com' the box will reboot". The manufacturer got right on it and "fixed" the bug. Their fix? The new firmware had an explicit check for the string "reboot" inside of submitted email addresses. Kind of tells you the quality of engineers they have developing these things...
"Many places and people believe there should be limits to free speech if it's in the public good."

Those people are wrong.
here's the story about it. put it on google translate. http://whyownit.com/blog/we-failed-warum-die-verleih-app-why...
What was the title you submitted?
Selling the item each time requires each party to research the resale value based on current condition. It's easier to agree on a rental rate than a resale value. Also, the original owner might not want to sell it but instead make a little money renting it when he's not using it. I assume in a tent it forward system the original owner could request to have it returned at any point if they needed it.

The cost of space differs greatly per area. In some areas the cost of space exceeds the cost of certain items but in others not so much. In the Midwest, for example, a 2500 sq foot house only costs 200k.
Tense in Git Commit Messages
I sent an email why my boss was out one day saying, "I'm leaving at noon today, and this is my last day here." That was kind of fun.
Y Combinator Investment Trends
When you say ARM is now as "evil" as Intel, are you referring to processor architecture, business practices, or both?
Its still a Schedule 1 substance, indicating it has no recognized medical value, and on the other hand, the government owns patents on THC compounds used to shrink tumors.
Of course, it doesn't actually reverse the (lossy) Markdown transformation. For example, the source "9." turns into an ordered list that looks like "1." and CSS won't reverse that.
Ya I quickly noticed after the first couple of videos!
Yes, but you can be an excellent software engineer without being good at competitive programming.
How to let down 28,000 people (Pickle app for competitive selfies)
We were rejected last year after doing a very late application and probably because we hadn't quit our jobs nor built a prototype, or even lived in the same city (I hired my co-founder on a remote team before, and took him with me when I left). We probably ticked all the reject boxes.

We kept pitching other investors for a while, then quit and bootstrapped the prototype by taking on consulting work. Pitching was hard and most APAC investors just wanted too much control for our comfort. Bootstrapping was actually easier than we thought, so when we got term sheets from local investors, we turned them down and kept getting consulting gigs (mostly data warehousing work - boring but necessary).

5 months later, and I think the product has gone into much more interesting directions without time and investor pressure than it might have otherwise, whilst we are closer as co-founders having worked together on the gigs and been through a few "client bumps". Some of the work actually helped clarify our own data model and understand our target market better.

It's quite freeing not to have a boss at last; I'd say that was the main factor in not taking money (the banker who thought he might "quit the bank and join you guys to help out with management" was particularly scary). But YC's terms - even excluding all the advantages that come with the network, coaching, reputation etc. - were by far the most generous and founder friendly, especially in their lack of protective provisions.

Not sure what this thread is for, but throwing the story in there since there are so few tales of bootstrapping and it's discouraged by PG in one of his money essays (he argues that it delays the launch). I think our story is most relevant for non-US-based founders who cannot as easily tap into the Valley money, and for more experienced founders who can command a high enough market value to make part time work.
> The fact that you are so adamant about not wanting a co-founder is detrimental in that it signals that you are missing the point about how a company is mostly about building a good team that can execute

I disagree. Having a team of employees is quite different from giving up 50% of your equity.

Its been said by YC partners themselves that co-founder disputes are a major reason why startups fail. A co-founder just means a lot of additional risk.

May be if you both have some crucial skills that you bring to the table, it'd be worth taking on a co-founder. But if you can build the product on your own, I just don't see any good reason to give up 50% equity + take on the risk of disputes arising.
The problem with making things simple for newbies is the knock on effect of making it hard for non-newbies to do non-newbie things.

Sure, we can then work around the allowances we make for newbies, but complexity is the bane of reliable software.
Reno Wants to Be Silicon Valley's Back Office
SpaceX to Try Daring Rocket Landing Again Monday
How they manage to deliver such low SNR ... the article has barely any content at all.
Hurricane Katrina was also predicted with a detailed article in Scientific American explaining the outcome of the exact same scenario a few years before it actually happened. Naturally nothing was done to prepare.
Yes, I'm an idiot. If you look in that paper I linked to, it shows the real impact factor is about 1. Which is still low, but not as crazy low as 0.122.

Also if you look up the original ebola paper there were actually several papers that cited it and discussed the results, and apparently nobody noticed those either.
fingers crossed

I am so happy to see how much effort and consideration that everyone is putting in towards React and Angular as a Modern Web App Framework standard*

* - Standard for Client Side Web Frameworks
Which is one of the reasons why we don't grow beef from desalinated water.
Introduction to AGDA [video]
Easier as a developer perhaps. Does that not require init scripts to keep it running if the server is restarted? (I'm not sure how the typical node package is configured).
U.S. Economy Grinds to Halt
Leaked details, if true, point to potent AMD Zen CPU
They are not compatible in one quite important area. Declaration files syntax for external modules is different for flow and typescript.
New Wingsuit Technology Has Daredevils Flying Faster Than 160 MPH
To me systemd is not the reduced boot time but the simplified service management.
A Brief History of Graphics
The Apex of the Art of Dominoes
Use chrome's/firefox porn mode
I am not an expert on the economics of pharmaceuticals, however based on work of an expert I have come to believe that patents are not essential to the way medical research works today.

Patents are essential to the current business model of pharmaceutical companies -- they are necessary to guarantee a return on investment, but the portion of the investment devoted to R&D and clinical trials is dwarfed by the marketing.

If you look at the big companies you can divide their budget into 4 big
categories. One is R&D, one is marketing and administration; the
other is profits, and the other is just the cost of making the pills and
putting them in the bottles and distributing them. The smallest of
those is R&D. The smallest is Research and development. Profits
usually are about the same. Marketing and Administration is
more than twice as much.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/11/angell_on_big_p.htm...
> I prefer the jQuery way where the template just contains an id or class

Are you saying you "got" what a project like angular that has more than 1000 contributors "didn't get"?

> The template needs to be simple (since designers also have to edit it), and the intelligence should be in code.

Designers shouldn't touch the code. Designers should stick with design. It's your role as a developer to do design integration. At best designers should only deal with CSS and HTML, they should never see a template tag nor be responsible for placing them inside html files.
If systemd had no ill will towards syslog, there would be no journald.
Musk and Gates on superintelligence and fast takeoff
From http://foundrs.com/find-a-cofounder :

(the wrong reasons to want a co-founder:) Yes, it's true that startups with only one founder are more likely to fail. But it's due to signaling: if you, as passionate about your idea as you are, can't even convince one more person to join you, how will you get users excited to download your app, get investors excited about the market, and get Microsoft and Coca-Cola to partner with you?

Solo founders usually fail because they are bad at convincing anyone of anything.
The NYT paywall is easy to get around. (Copy/paste the title and search for it in Google) Of course that's the irony mentioned, since the article in question was paywalled.
Fascinating comment from Christopher Chedeau of React: "The end game isn’t ReactNative. We want the web to win. Would be great for Angular to try to implement on top of our same primitives to see if we could share the work."

It's as if ReactNative is being treated (strategically) as a more powerful version of PhoneGap.
True, but it may look worse than it is. The 41 seems to be tenured and tenure-track professors; there are about 10 adjuncts and 10 lecturers listed by the department.

At the time I went through it, there were fewer faculty, but the only class actually taught by a grad student was the giant introduction to CS; almost all of the upper-division classes were taught by professors. Class sizes for the required classes did get a little out of hand, but it wasn't as bad as you might think.
> Big data analytics with Pandas and SQLite

> A Large Data Workflow with Pandas

> Data Analysis of 8.2 Million Rows with Python and SQLite

> This notebook explores a 3.9Gb CSV file

Big data?
population control
This is very true. If someone won't chase an idea because it wasn't validated by YC in the first place, they seem to be on very weak footing to begin with. (Similar to the people who only want a high brand name school.)
I don't see how email addresses were much different than HTTP URLs - they just worked iﬀ you had a contact stored, but that's equivalent to bookmarks.

I also don't see domain names becoming invisible any time soon, simply because linking is too damn useful, and most companies have to incentive to destroy that.
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Obligatory question, asking for an implementation in Brainfuck.
> Where on earth did you get that idea?

Well you didn't disprove my assertion (I was obviously talking about front end frameworks) by citing a front end framework that came with an extensive testing framework. So why on earth are you saying something without backing it with facts?

> But it was definitely helped that it was so heavily promoted by Google

I started using AngularJS in 2011 it had 0 promotion from Google. It wasn't even a Google product at that time.

> Again...what? JavaScript doesn't have `ng-model`...Angular does. It's an Angular problem through and through.

No the problem is that Javascript doesn't have pointer variables,therefore when using variables in a scope you need to use object properties and not objects directly if you want to refer to it in the outer scope. It has nothing to do with angular but everything to do with the way Javascript works.
I'm going to challenge you for sources on Armajaro - the cocoa price vastly increased following his scheme and his commodities trading business has won incredible gains.

Armajaro did 2 major trades [I confused the two], the first in 2002 at 15% of the crop (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/21/coffee-globa...) and the second in 2010 at when he took delivery of 7% (that you noted; IIRC he purchased more but took delivery of this portion??): http://www.tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=cc1&d1=20000101&d2=... - notice in 2002 to 2007 the price ramps as it does 2010 to present.

Now the official story with Amajaro is that (eg http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8fb81fa0-5374-11e3-9250-00144feabd...) he lost "millions" but I've not been able to find specific details of this trade and the selling on of the cocoa. He purchased 7% of a crop that his CC+ fund bets on price changes of - the fund is making large gains (http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/06/anthony-ward-letters/), ~15% in 2010.

The above FT story reports that the problem with the trade was that customers expected extended credit and despite a $55M for 6% investment the company, doing many other deals, went under; reported as a credit issue. They sold for $1 to another commodities trade company [Ecom Agroindustrial Trading], FT reports Amajaro Trading was valued at $200M-$300M in 2012. I'm skeptical as to whether Amajaro made a personal loss in any of that, whether it's possible that the price was artificially lowered to sell on a lot of commodities for $1 and avoid tax? Does that seem at all possible?

As a complete novice to the field, could you explain why it's not a good plan in general to seize large proportions of a commodity, for example in these two positions with an increasing price and a stable retail demand for the end products?
Before posting a question like this, please bother to look into the logistics involving the company (for example, their actual plans for scaling). They are a new car company. They do not yet have the capacity to manufacture at high scale, but they are working on it. Whether or not they hit their plans, 40k cars/year is well beyond their stated expectations for the year 2015.

I mean, are you supposed to be able to just wake up in the morning and say "hi, I am a car company" and manufacture 50k cars?
I wish they'd gotten Jo's name right. Luckily her work speaks for itself.
I think only the application (not all the listed co-founders) gets the mail. :)
We were rejected 3.5 years ago after interview stage.

We built, we launched, we hustled and we grew. 12 months ago we launched a nationwide TV campaign. OpenRent[1] is now the largest letting agent in the UK (bigger than Foxtons for example), established, and well on the way to fully disrupting one of the oldest industries in the world.

YC rejection was tough, but we believed in the idea and whilst I'm sure YC could have helped us make fewer mistakes, it didn't stop us wanting to solve the problem we all believed in. So we went and did what it took to succeed.

Chin up to anyone facing rejection - use the information learnt from the application process, and go prove them wrong!

[1] - https://www.openrent.co.uk