skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yaur, I'll simply have to disagree with you. If you ask most people "why is Nike stupid, why are their running shoes completely wrong" nobody would give you an answer, nor do I have an answer. Anyone (including me) would say: "They're not stupid, they put billions of dollars of research into engineering and have a great understanding, their shoes are very comfortable and that's why they can charge $100+ for them."

... except for the 50 people in the world who know something that Nike doesn't. Those 50 people who do have an answer to that question are the people who can topple them by doing something better.

Nobody delusional can explain something clearly, and answer all your questions about it - if someone clearly explains something and you think they're delusional for it, likely you're just not qualified to judge. You may be the kind of person who, if you got back sent 1,000 years into the past, would learn to ride a horse and learn some trade, because it's obvious that recreating anything from the future is "impossible", or someone would do it. Nothing wrong with that. Just doesn't apply to startups.

That advice in the context of startups is simply completely wrong, irrelevant, and inappropriate. Couldn't disagree with it more.
Interesting. And it looks almost the same as a Sai / Jitte as well.
How stories shape personalities
I find that it's a mixed bag. There are some good technical discussions had here (far better than one would find on /r/programming most of the time). But the discussions about tech monetization and SV startup life in general don't hold great appeal to me.

But, I'm a midwesterner with a fair salary who's happy with where he is, which is probably a bit alien to begin with (at least in tech circles).
I'm surprised there's no mention of the van der Walls attraction used by geckos feet. http://mappingignorance.org/2013/07/04/quantum-mechanics-in-...
I hope that fungus in my basement colonizes the city and leaves my basement alone soon.
Why Rust Appeals to Me
Hey why don't you come to Costa Rica? you can ask for political asylum here and work for tech companies. I'm an engineer and have always worked for american companies here. Also you can try New Zealand which is very similar in tech jobs like Costa Rica.
Yeah, I would make the SQL injection and command injections test a little less kinetic =). Using a simple SELECT test, like SELECT @@VERSION, would be a little safer... Edit: Forget to say thanks! This is a pretty cool list.
This is an awesome comment, thank you for sharing. Do you know of any other resources/materials like this? (Specifically would love to learn more about these kind of principles as related to mechanical engineering or a factory/process setting)
Hacking for me was always about pushing the envelope, and if that meant getting the right tools for the job, then that also meant working for old industrial monopolists and building out my crystal palace in my own free time. After work I would come home, switch on my Pandora's box, and use my paycheck to have fun. The problem with doing this for extended periods of one's life is that you see all your peers getting stinking rich, and you almost feel left behind, like a lone wolf hacker who missed the proverbial boat of investor money. On one hand this can feel miserable because Fear of Missing Out (F.O.M.O) feels like a legitimate thing to be concerned about. On the other hand, the hacking escapades are exhilarating and quickly drown out F.O.M.O because those same people that are getting rich are missing out on the joys of low level disk hacking, and twitter bots that can disrupt markets and sway the stock market any way one wants. The F.O.M.O is quickly drenched by fun. Let fun precede every other activity. This is the hacker way.
For the time being! Just started to notice a bit more grey though.
Pidgin/Adium also no longer support group conversations for Hangouts chats, at least as of a few months ago.
I know this isn't ideal for most people, but you can run a low-power server (Rpi2!) at home with a Tmux session running and Finch/IRC open therein. You can catch up on your messages from any device.
Exactly. I spend way more on digital media than I did ten years ago. Games on GOG especially, some on steam (if there's no DRM-free version), digital music downloads from bandcamp, direct from artists and in some cases through resellers.

There's nothing about being on the internet that makes people not want to spend money. Some people are just cheapskates and will never buy your stuff and some people don't have economic resources to do so (for example students, etc). Chasing these people will just eat up your time. Focus on the paying customers.
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Its funny the author mentions all the Google Play stuff about installing apps to users phones without them ever even knowing.. I actually found a company exploiting this in the wild using browser extensions, I wrote about it on this blog:

http://extensiondefender.com/blog/

I'm not sure if the news I released had any effect, but they rapidly pivoted from a "desktop to mobile" ad network:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141209085229/http://vulcun.com...

To some kind of e-Sports betting site:
https://vulcun.com/

Oddly enough I submitted a bug report to google telling them they should set a content-security-policy on play.google.com, and was basically told "wont-fix" so the vulnerability to play store still exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk

See around 1:56. No significant heading or pitch changes that I can see, although it is difficult to tell because the camera is so far away.
Nice; sort of a programming complement to Shutterstock's _List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words_[0]. So helpful to have a bunch of minds working on useful lists like this. Good to see that GitHub passes this test!

[0] https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...
Actually, neutrino properties are not explained fully by the current "Standard Model" of particle physics: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/february-2013/neutri...

For example, the Standard Model predicts that neutrinos should be massless, but we know from experimental results that they do have mass. So while these neutrino experiments may not be "unknown physics" (in the sense of totally novel results) they are exploring "unexplained physics" that is not predicted by the widely accepted theoretical models.
My body decays faster than the rate at which I change my unhealthy habits.

I have too much experience now to know that many ideas & projects will be expensive or impossible ... kids don't have that limitation.
The Data of Love and Sex
> For one thing, Wilkin believes he has discovered another form of "compensation", similar to Timothy Church's discovery that we reward ourselves with food when we exercise. Looking at the question of whether it was possible to change a child's physical activity, Wilkin's team put accelerometers on children at schools with very different PE schedules: one which offered 1.7 hours a week, and another that offered nine hours.

> "The children did 64% more PE at the second school. But when they got home they did the reverse. Those who had had the activity during the day flopped and those who hadn't perked up, and if you added the in-school and out-of-school together you got the same. From which we concluded that physical activity is controlled by the brain, not by the environment – if you're given a big opportunity to exercise at one time of day you'll compensate at another."

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/19/exercise...
> But isn't current computers an example of microscale fabrication that worked without being biochemical or biologically-inspired? They are made using optical etching, completely different from anything biology does.

Yes, and as such, this is another example suggesting that the road to nano-technology is not through the shrinking of macro-scale machinery.

This may be moot, however, as this is not a self-replicating technology, unlike either Drexler's hypothetical or biology's actual molecular assemblers.

Drexler's claims about the feasibility, let alone the performance, of his proposed computer strike me as highly speculative and sometimes self-serving (see, for example, the section on thermodynamic reversibility.) Furthermore, computer performance has made huge advances since the devices (Z80, Motorola 68000) he was comparing to.
yes, but what's amazing is that it's obvious how to calculate it. You look at a chart, mouse over the price at the time, figure out the number of shares at the time (mostly affected by any splits or new shares) and multiply. Instead of actually calculating it, though, I asked a robot to, using human language.

Finding someone who happened to ask the exact same question by doing an Internet search is a different problem entirely. Wolfram Alpha can instantly answer questions that require certain levels of deduction or calculation, and which have never been asked in the history of the world. Google can do that too: for mathematical equations like 453442433 * 234523432 + 3485478347434879. Applying this to questions of a general type that require real-world data is miraculous.
I had the experience, that things people identify as "stupid decisions" are often just "economical decisions"

For example, a company I worked for had the best technology, but bad UI and the competitors had good UI, but their tech was old and inaccurate.

For years we thought they were imbeciles, because they didn't update their tech and we would smash them in the future, because they cannot catch up with us.

But in the end the customers bought the software with the better UI and didn't look behind the scenes.

So their decision was logical. Why pour money and time in parts of the software when noone wants to pay for this.
Understanding is also important when instead of getting rid of something/not copying some tactic you want to copy it. I once was in some cheap cinema where instead of the heavy red curtains they had some structures they painted red on the wall. My guess is that you have the curtains on the wall for a better sound quality, the sound in this cinema was really bad because of reverberation.

The only problem is that it's sometimes not possible anymore to find out why something is the way it is.
The problem is that when you're renting, your landlord has zero incentive to install panels on the house. You're the one paying the electric bill, after all.

If you own, however, you'd be crazy to have a south-or-west-facing roof in Las Vegas and not throw some panels on there.
Disclaimer: I scanned the comments and couldn't see anyone talking about this, but please forgive me if I've missed this as it does seem like an obvious point.

Coding for a startup and not receiving pay, is likely still not legal. In my experience with US immigration (I'm Australian, living in Canada...traveling to the US from time to time) they don't really care about the money, they really just are about if you're taking away work that could have otherwise been done by a US citizen. Which leads me to the point of:

The fact you're doing the work for free is very likely to be irrelevant, its just the fact that you're doing work that is an issue, irrespective of the reimbursement you're receiving.
Perforce is quite heavy weight. Most companies using it have dedicated staff managing the infrastructure and p4 repos.

I worked at one company where you couldn't even create a branch or do a merge without going through one of them!

Perforce. Never again.
I am reminded of James Hughes, a transhumanist but also a proper sociologist, who wrote about the change in transhumanism from democratic left-leaning people, whose vision of technology was for the good of all, to libertarians (and thence singularitarians and neoreactionaries): http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20130501

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In 2009 the libertarians and Singularitarians launched a campaign to take over the World Transhumanist Association Board of Directors, pushing out the Left in favor of allies like Milton Friedman’s grandson and Seasteader leader Patri Friedman. Since then the libertarians and Singularitarians, backed by Thiel’s philanthropy, have secured extensive hegemony in the transhumanist community. As the global capitalist system spiraled into the crisis in which it remains, partly created by the speculation of hedge fund managers like Thiel, the left-leaning majority of transhumanists around the world have increasingly seen the contradiction between the millennialist escapism of the Singularitarians and practical concerns of ensuring that technological innovation is safe and its benefits universally enjoyed. While the alliance of Left and libertarian transhumanists held together until 2008 in the belief that the new biopolitical alignments were as important as the older alignments around political economy, the global economic crisis has given new life to the technoprogressive tendency, those who want to organize for a more egalitarian world and transhumanist technologies, a project with a long Enlightenment pedigree and distinctly millenarian possibilities.

It isn't something that just happened. It's something that was done to the area.
Google started manually looking at and approving all Android apps submitted to the Play Store a while ago, if I recall correctly. They just don't take 14 days to do it.
Math4D
I don't think he's saying that.

He's just observing that if after the initial successes YC had coasted and another not-YC accelerator had coasted, YC would still continue to be more successful as a result of the brand & network effect.
I'm 40 and I think I might be the only person who really just doesn't give a shit?

I mean, I feel a bit different, sure - but do I really feel much different to when I was 20? Not really. You do some things, then you do some other things, life continues. Maybe if you stop thinking so much about it you'll feel better.
For these guys rational thinking has become a kind of solipsist secular religion and, like with all religions, its adherents are seriously delusional.
will do and hope Apple may do something about that.

until then, will stick to current solution and test ahead of any new iOS release.
The way it works is that they are promising 99.99%. If it is lower you will be reimbursed for that month (if I remember correctly), but only when you complain to them about it.
Isn't the problem that once the insulin subsides you're hungry again? Sugar (and other high-GI foods) are very quickly processed and stored as fat, and the reserves in the blood are depleted soon afterwards.

The amount you eat isn't a function of how many calories are in the food, but how hungry you feel (assuming that the willpower you can put into fighting against your hunger is constant). Therefore the best foods to eat would be the ones with the largest "satiety load" per calorie, and I'm pretty sure high GI is inversely correlated with that
A party of pipe dreamers, who've confused enlightened selfishness for enlightened self-interest.
It's 'van der Waals'.
> Software engineering has not been very financially rewarding

What other lucrative careers do you mean? Law/Medicine? Anyone with their own firm will make more money, including software engineers.

Are you not saving enough?
HeyU a Dating App You Can't Hack
HeyU is a new video dating app with a soul. We especially made a dating app that will make you smile. What other dating app can you answer questions like, "What's your fav. internal organ?"

It's also a dating app that you can't hack. Why?
- Phone # verification means one unique user per phone
- 15 second video profiles of yourself means more honesty & more commitment. Show off your personality and who you really are or show the world through your eyes. Upload videos of yourself singing, dancing, skateboarding, and more! HeyU puts the creative power in your hands.
- We also have video chat, but you have to unlock it.

We built HeyU because we were having a terrible time on Tinder and OkCupid. We know that dating is hard, so we wanted to build an app that will make people happy. You just might find someone pretty cool.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heyu-dating/id1017146634?ls=1&mt=8
Hmm... haven't seen anything standing (besides their security being on par with Hangouts).... I guess the lack of SMS integration on Android and the fact that the contacts are identified via phone number?
You might find value in exploring the idea of Characterization Tests or Software Seams.
It seems to be more about not perpetrating destructive cultural values. Tech elite use the natural curiosity of tech lovers for their own benefit, sometimes subversively. Is that good or bad? Depends on whether the tech lover cares or not. But if the tech lover doesn't even realize they are contributing to potentially detrimental cultural values then they can't make an informed and mindful decision.
I guess that's yet another Google feature everyone outside the US can give a flying fuck about.
I have 23gb of free storage with DB (took advantage of early referral deals), and of the many sync storage services I've tried (many of which no longer exist), DB is the only one that's consistently worked near-perfectly for me. Aside from wondering at the products seemingly coming out of left field, had no idea of any internal company issues...
3rd-party CSS. I.e., if the page includes CSS from an ad network, the network gets the request and can track it. Basically using CSS instead of a 1px tracking bug.

One of the many shitty, underhanded methods these companies use to track people without their knowledge or consent. I will shed no tears for these companies when they go bankrupt as people push back against their methods.
How about just using something like this http://www.pushtotalk.nu/2013/05/ptt-for-windows-7-skype-msn...
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I would like to add that it should be easy to blow away your db and recreate the structure with enough sample data so that the application works in a dev/test environment without having to pull in a db dump from some other machine. Depending on dumps drives me crazy.
Because there are many condoms made with animal intestines ("sheepskin") on the market, and they wanted to reinforce that they're not those. Of course, they could have just said "latex" and left it at that.

However, there are certainly non-vegan condoms.
Do you use Trillian in conjunction with the google-native clients? I seem to recall trying Trillian -- years ago, though -- and finding that it had the same issues as Pidgin and Adium, losing messages whenever you were active in another client.
SV has been funding the Mom 2.0 bubble where 20 yr olds provide Mom services to other wealthy urban 20 yr olds for a generally rather large fee. Look at startups that boil down to "Mom can you drive me to the mall" "Mom can you get me a sandwich" "Mom can you do the laundry" "Mom can you adjust the thermostat" "Mom can I crash in your livingroom overnight when I'm in town" "Mom can you mail me a monthly care package" etc. Not all startups in the current bubble are Mom 2.0 but enough are to make it a cultural thing.

Anyway the point of extreme youth focus in the Mom 2.0 bubble is it makes sense when you're 20 and urban and rich and have never lived away from home (aka mom 1.0), but once you're 40 and you have become the Mom (err, Dad, or whatever), then it's kind of a hard sell and you're just not going to fit in with the biz model.

There is also a mythology that kids will lock on to branding for their entire life, so the most popular group to sell to is kids. It doesn't work, of course, but its a very popular mythology and highly politically incorrect to question it. If it actually worked of course, I'd spend my lunch hour driving my Segway around to play Pog games in between gaming sessions on the Colecovision or something like that.
"...I didn't expect that it would come to resemble a brothel." Truer words were never spoken.
Airbus patented a jet that could fly from London to New York in 1 hour
Scanning the Dark Web
Lately "Cultural-Marxist" has become shorthand for anyone holding beliefs even slightly adjacent to "the rich/powerful are evil and they're corrupting the pure and poor/powerless" or "there are two kinds of people: the oppressed and the oppressors".

Whether this characterization of the article is fair or those beliefs about the world are true are both reasonable questions worthy of consideration.

Anyone looking for a little information on the origins of the term "Cultural Marxism" should take a look at the wiki entry for the Frankfurt School, under the subheading "Conspiracy Theory".
You know, I think that optimizing the deadliness of atomic weapons is a lot more defensible than this. The nukes have arguably prevented large-scale industrial war since WWII. I'm having a tough time coming up with a defense for building malware, though.
So V8 will be moving from a two tier to a three tier architecture.

Spidermonkey is three tier and JSC is four.
Watch Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk 'Wing It'
Help yourself. My ideas are free for the taking no charge :-)
>Now, that's the logic, and it's a sound logic, go explain that to people every time you are drinking water in a pub and they go: "ehm, uh, you don't drink?". Which, by the way, if not explained properly can seem like you are a recovering alcoholic

I find it amazing that people think asking why you don't drink is acceptable, no one stops drinking for fun.
I've heard of people avoiding alcohol after a positive (A;G) or (G;G) test for http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs1799971.
Yeah I got that, I wanted to hear more about it
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I once used a Bitcoin trading bot with some luck- called 'Butter-Bot'. It had the ability to amplify gains vs. holding during the times of the upward market. Did quite well- it paid for itself in a month IIRC. Then the market started going sideways & its limitations began to show. It doesn't work at all anymore. I think the devs went out of business after pouring all their resources into a newer version which had better strategies for the evolving market. It's too bad, I was a big fan.
> I'm not an idiot

Nobody called you an idiot.

> I'm afraid this is pretty much getting the entire cloud thing wrong.

This was in reference to your comment "most users will assume the internet is broken". In the context of "it's OK because the customer thinks everything is down" the comment would be completely appropriate. It's being done wrong if this is the way we approach things.
Hm, the landing page states "No signup, no registration." yet the popup once clicking "Create a Room Now" prompts you with "Sign up to know when we launch:"

Might be better to revise the copy to reflect it.
by my deeds I will honor him, V8
I doubt the value of this repository. The first naughty French word "allumé" can't be considered naughty, dirty, or bad, like, at all. And many others are not naughty under too many circumstances...

Except very few swear words, word filtering is pretty much useless.
Feedback for MVP of my first version of website
Hey all!
I have launched my first version of product. It was tough to decide the minimum viable product for the product.
So, I have launched it soon to get early feedback instead of late launch. Link to website is http://www.passonate.com/ .
It is a platform that focus to connect passionate or like-minded people around. "Its linkedin for Passionate people"
Hope you like the MVP and provide feedback that help me to iterate the product.