skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What FP languages/platforms do you use? There was a book about Evolutionary Neural Networks in Erlang. I've heard OCaml can be great. Clojure and Scala have a few tools like that as well...
Synopsis: Parag Khanna, CEO & founder of Factotum, global strategist and TED speaker joined us for a fascinating conversation about mapping the different networks from logistics to infrastructure in Asia. Drawing his background in international relations with his experience in the US military and work in the foreign affairs advisory council for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008, he offered a combined perspective with technology & geopolitical mapping and explained how the dynamics of infrastructure building and network connectivity across cities and people from China, India to ASEAN to create the next Asia century.
I'm a bit tired of the AD blocking debate. There will always be two camps in this; the tech savvy, and the web consumers who think Facebook is the Internet. Lumping people into these two categories only ever worked for computers and the web, because remember; a computer is unforgiving, the programs that execute on it are unforgiving, and a computer is only as smart as its user. With very fine grained precision I can allow what traffic I want to see on my network, and I do not apologize for that. In the end AD blocking is about control structures trickling down into the consumer web. If it is the case where I am paid better than stupid people because I know how to serve them ADs better, then I suppose I win on a hermetic level; I have recast the purpose of a computer; which is something to do my bidding, and made it a mere device and gimmick for my users.

If on the other hand users are in control and I try to seize back that control, then I am in a silly game of cat and mouse, and this becomes a game of who can devise the smartest way to outsmart smart people. Not the game I want to play. Money is about keeping the channels open to receive an exchange, and if there are hangups by web publishers about whether they should disband AD networks because of AD blockers, then the game is lost.

Just open up more channels. Seek out other ways to monetize: https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324

Also similar: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647
Not sure why I'm down voted, that was a genuine question...
Note that this is mostly an issue for Sublime Text 2. Sublime Text 3, which is in beta, has a much more consistent Python 3 embed.

Unfortunately, ST3 is in one of those death-march betas that have been ongoing for years, fragmenting the plugin space. If you write a plugin for ST, you either need to write Python that simultaneously targets Python 2 and Python 3 (possible, but restrictive), or you need to maintain two versions of your plugin.
Who needs paid timeoff and healthcare when you can work 20 hours/week and get free Obamacare?
convox.io is pretty awesome for deploying docker applications to AWS ~ part of the current ycombinator batch.
"Vive — Classpass for hair blowouts"

I'm trying to think of a better "X for Y" startup parody, but am failing.
This article is a recap of the startups included in Day 2
Show HN: Check if your spouse is on AshleyMadison.com
Or they have high fixed costs.
Jeb Bush doesn't know anything about computers or software, and neither does any major politician. I guarantee you JB's 'Technology Advisor' advised him on this policy position and a few talking points, and now he's saying them.
It actually resides in the pch. The processor is called the management engine. In newer platforms, it gets to decide if the processor even gets to see the bios executable code.
It misses on the standard HN article by actually getting to a point within the first 3 paragraphs.
It's almost like American's are crying out for a nation-wide system where college is funded for everyone.

In Australia, everyone that wants it gets a tax-free, interest-free loan for university, which is something around $5k/year for tuition (My 5-year engineering degree was $22k). You only have to pay it back if you earn over $45k/year, and you just pay a few extra percent tax until it's paid off.
If you're short on money for food/rent, you will be paid that too.
OMG! It looks like someone used MY email address to sign up!
(bonerman@gmail.com)
"I'm guessing that in 10 years netflix will have tiers and packages. You'll be able to buy an AMC package and a comedy central package, etc."

Possibly. I don't think it is the way they should go though. IMO, people don't want to pay for specific kinds of shows especially not based on the content provider.

I decide on a day to day basis based on my mood which type of show I want to watch and I want it all provided through the same interface.

I think instead they should have a couple of tiers based upon show release dates and content format.

Want all the new tv content produced in the last year? Pay an extra $10/month. Want everything in 4k? Pay an extra $3/month. Etc.

That way plenty of people will just be happy with the base package of $10/month. But people who want to talk about the latest episode etc of a show can pay $20/month. Those with 4k tvs and who want to watch the latest shows can pay $23/month.

Honestly, I tend to watch good but older tv shows. Like this year I have watched Friends and Scrubs. $10/month to be able to watch these older shows is a good deal. $20/month isn't really worth it.
Multiple Founders Slowing Innovation?
Multiple Founders Slowing Innovation?

I may be wrong but worlds most disruptive companies are run by single founder( or a dominant co-founder). Tesla, Apple, Ford, Alibaba etc.

You wont push yourself hard enough when running with a co-founder you are kind of shielded. Only if you push yourself harder that you attain greater heights.
This may be a rant as my reaction to YC fellowship rejection or may be it does make sense?
Jesus was a single founder, Buddha was a single founder. In Hinduism there were a lot of single founders(rishis) also lot of them also had cohort(s) which in a sense are co-founders

I think having a co-founder helps in short term but in really long term being single(with the right cohort) helps.

Solution:
I believe the solution is ancient Indian style Guru Shishya Parampara(Mentor- Mentee) when you should look for a Guru rather than a co-founder or start working on a prototype then find a Guru(Teacher). Currently its like "find a co-founder" is on number 1 or number 2 on the must have list. This is wrong (Note: Finding the right Guru who can provide actual positive value is very hard)

Odds of Executing a successful start-up are already less and with a single founder, you sure are even reducing the odds of the company being a successful but if it is going to be a disruptive company it has to be a single founder company or the founders have be in so much in sync or one of the them should be doing something less significant(dominant co-founder).

What do you think?
I think the important thing is knowing when not to care. Unfortunately, a lot of developers don't care because time complexity isn't even on their radar. So in the times when it does matter, they get burned.
I feel like I remember reading that startups.co acquired Zirtual's assets and not Zirtual the company. Possibly they did this so they wouldn't be liable for anything like this?

As is, whatever is left of Zirtual presumably doesn't have any assets worth suing over.
Where do you get that "most data is complex" in a way that leans away from relational DBs?
Just curious... Given that we have gitlab, bitbucket, assembla, etc. which provide free private git hosting and even more services if you don't need private repo - why would anyone host on dropbox?
I can only recommend against Awesomium. Their library has a lot of bugs which I can see past, but the way they support their product is repulsive. On average it took them 3-5 days to get back to us on a email ticket with a half-baked response that then took another 3-5 days to clarify. The founder didn't seem phased that this was a problem and had zero empathy that we had deadlines to meet and software to ship.

We ended up ripping out Awesomium from our product and replaced it with CefSharp. Now we don't get held up by Awesomiums crappy support because we can just fix our problems ourselves. We couldn't be happier. That said, it would be nice if there was commercial support for CefSharp. We have a team of full time native developers who have to deal with CEF issues that would be nice to put on somebody else's plate. Anybody know if there is such a thing?
No outgoing HTTP requests? GAE has URL Fetch API from first day.

Also, GAE can now run docker and also connect to MySQL running on Google Cloud infrastructure, which is a separate offering.
This is the way media/PR works in the US.

The media markets and develops a consumer base, and then sells or exercises its influence over those consumers to its customers. You generally think of this as just advertising mixed in with the medium, but most articles are specifically placed. Other articles are just fluff to reinforce the marketing identity.

Institutions that stick to authentic journalism can not compete against those supporting capital interests, and most consumers can not tell the difference.

I am just really curious how the cash or influence flows. Does a YC partner have a majority or significant investment in TC? Do you just pay flat out for coverage? Do high ranking journalists, editors, or partners at TC have capital interests strongly connected to YC?
I heard a lot of the ticketmaster surcharges are kicked back to the artist, in a sense ticketmaster is playing the bad guy to get more money for a concert without blaming the artists.
Some of Maciej Ceglowski's comments on this are quite funny:

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/634105719139143680

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/634104940089049089

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/634104022127915009
Would Zirtual's investors be on the hook?
That would create a high 'contribution margin.' A profit margin usually includes fixed costs. :)
Like data engineering? Stealth-mode big data startup is hiring founding engineer
Come build the infrastructure that data scientists depend on to access big data! It shouldn't take a CS degree to use big data effectively, and abstracting away the difficult parts is our mission.

You will:

- Be a founding member of the team that builds the next generation of ETL software.

- Come up with novel ideas on how to make complex technology user-friendly, and then turn those ideas into robust software.

About you:

- You love data engineering.

- You build robust and scalable data systems three times as fast as other developers.

- The JVM is your friend.

- You like to work independently and drive the direction of a technology stack.

- You’re living in or willing to move to San Francisco.

Even better if you also:

- Have experience with Scala, Cascading, and Docker.

- Know the ins and outs of current big data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, or Tez, but this is not an absolute requirement - you're a quick learner!

- Have startup experience.

About us: Pre-launch, profitable SaaS company started by people who love data but think current ETL tools suck. The position is onsite in SOMA, San Francisco.

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Does it matter what I think? YC has grown without me, and to be honest, I would probably make it worse. They've funded crap products before. I mean, that's their whole approach. Even airbnb was crap when the founders started. They say it themselves. YC is in the business of making businesses that make money. They do fund projects like Watsi that make a positive difference. At the end of they the metric is money and how much they make. I'm not saying that's bad. Just saying that what I think won't make Sam Altman pick up the phone and tell everyone to change their approach. When you make stuff, you will mostly make crap. But every once in a while you'll make good stuff.

Edit: I upvoted you after people started to downvote you. Not sure why they are doing it. Your point is valid.
Need any C# devs? Contact details are in my profile.
Just because it's how many objects they store. But now that you mention it, it has no relevance to the probability of data loss due to global catastrophe, since it cancels out.

If you're proposed reliability is data loss of one in 100 billion per year, that assumes the risk of e.g. global thermonuclear war is no more than that amount, or you're ignoring it for the purposes of the calculation. Which is why I wonder about their assumptions.

As for a comet destroying at most one data center, if it really ends civilization then the data will probably be lost before too much longer even if the facility physically survives.
I've done a fair amount of work with CEF (the native version, not CefSharp), Awesomium, Coherent UI, and the native WinForms WebBrowser control.

If you are targeting Windows and don't need features that are specific to Chromium, I recommend the WebBrowser control above the others, because it will save you quite a bit of file size in your application, along with less memory usage.

Unfortunately, the WebBrowser control defaults to an IE7 compatibility mode, which is where it's gotten much of its bad reputation. However, you can force it into IE11 mode, assuming that the user's machine does have IE11 installed. (And if you are producing a Windows app, customers who have refused to update their systems to IE11 are probably customers not worth supporting.)

Oddly enough, there is no API to do this. You have to write a value to the registry listing your .exe filename and the IE version you want to use. But this value is in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, so you don't need administrator privileges or a UAC prompt to do this.

WebBrowser also sends an IE7 UserAgent string by default, but you can easily override that.

I posted the code for both of these tweaks in the MarkdownPad forum, where I was encouraging the author to use the WebBrowser control instead of Awesomium which the product currently uses:

http://forums.apricitysoftware.com/t/why-is-markdownpad-spaw...

(Friends at Awesomium, don't take offense! I just think WebBrowser is a better match for MarkdownPad, since it doesn't need Chromium features and IE11 compatibility would be plenty good for their needs. They actually used the WebBrowser originally but switched to Awesomium because the author didn't know how to force WebBrowser into IE11 mode!)

The problem I have with both Awesomium and Coherent UI, besides the large file size, is that they are both stuck on old versions of Chromium: IIRC Coherent is somewhere around Chromium 31 and Awesomium is in the upper 20's. (Sounds like there is a new version coming out though.) CEF keeps much more up to date on the Chromium versions; not sure about CefSharp.

Coherent has nice integrations for Unity and Unreal Engine, including hardware acceleration, which was a real problem when I tried to integrate CEF into Unity a year ago. (This has no doubt been resolved by now, but at the time Chromium was going through a restructuring of the hardware rendering pipeline and CEF just bailed out on it for a while.)

I did a fun little project with Awesomium (originally for the late great OnLive) that composited multiple WebViews transparently on top of each other so each one ran in its own thread. Kind of like stacking transparent iframes but without the single-thread limitation:

https://github.com/geary/awestack
IANAL but almost certainly not. This is one of the primary purposes of corporations: to limit liability.
Is that really easier than just hiring Joe's Sandwiches to cater the Rotary event?
I too choose to extrapolate all my losses over the next 100 billion years.
Where I am (New Zealand) the whole stream TV/movies business is just started to heat up with about 5 services launching in the last 18 months or so (in a market with just 4 million people).

I saw a few recent talks at a Industry event from the providers and the feeling from them is that the content owners wanted very much to avoid a single provider being a monopoly.

The impression I get was most people would end up with around 3 providers each charging $10 per month and each with exclusivity on some new shows (or sports I guess).
(serious question not trying to demean Pando): does Pando have enough readership to warrant being included in the press section of an event with competitive press entry? I've enjoyed a lot of the Pando articles I've read, but I don't see them around very much and I pay a lot of attention to the tech press. Plus, it's pay-walled for the most part right?

Even if they don't have the readership to support this it isn't a criticism of it as a journalistic endeavor or business, but I'm just wondering if this warrants such a complaint.
I argue that "ripping off" is based on the value that a consumer receives relative to the price of the product or service.

Imagine you say: "I will tell you a joke, if you laugh then you must pay me 100 dollars"

If I give you 100 dollars, and you just run off with it, I got ripped off.

If I give you 100 dollars, and you tell me a really funny joke, then I was not ripped off.

Your problem seems to be that telling jokes is virtually free, and the profit margin might be 94%.
Systems diagram of mobile app growth
Merely mentioning the observation is clearly an attempt to influence the reader. If I say that I notice you did not beat your wife today, then I have clearly directed the reader to an unpleasant accusation.
Please name one of these schools! I would love to see their "value proposition".

Programming on young kids should be fan and with e
a minimum friction that can frustrate or stop them from learning. I found ScratchJR and Alice 3D as good ways to start programming together with a parent.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977263
Source code of Stephen Hawking
For anyone interested, there's a PR in the rails bootstrap-sass gem: thehttps://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/pull/954
If this sort of thing interests you (or even if you think it is totally ridiculous) you should definitely check out Handmade Hero[1], which is a livestream of a game's development. My own programming skills have improved from watching Handmade Hero as I've picked up some new techniques (and shed some bad habits as well).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive
Jquery.animate – Rewriting of jQuery.animate method
Pretty sure the definition of embedding (that at least the article uses) is to call Python from rather than having Python call the other language.
Here's my thinking.

The fact that people can get killed for their sexuality is the worst bit, and also the one most amenable to change. There are many societies where being outed like this wouldn't be a life-threatening situation, so it can be done. Of course, turning a place like Saudi Arabia into one of those societies is somewhat difficult, but it's a worthy goal.

Hacking a company's computers and exposing people's private data is also bad, but much harder to change. I'm not sure we'll ever achieve decent computer security. Stopping attacks on the other side, by convincing people not to try, is probably also not feasible. So stuff like this will probably keep happening.

Then we come to the other end of the private info, where people give it away. I'm skeptical about ever changing this too, but I think the particular case of homosexuals in places like Saudi Arabia isn't very instructive. That a person will risk their life by giving their potentially life-threatening private info to a company in order to gratify their sexuality is predictable, and doesn't really say anything about the possibility of convincing people to be more careful with their info in general.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10085920
This is hacker news bitches, y'all should be into this shit. "Ashley Madison" is a company dedicated to profiting from people lying to their spouses. Lighten up on the data privacy aspect and cheer your anonymous bros for bringing some justice.
Err... An index fund is no different than an actively managed fund save that instead of trying to actively rebalance the fund they just buy a basket of stocks or what have you to try and model some index.

That fund is just transacting in stocks, bonds, or other assets. The liquidity they might provide is to the broader market by buying and selling assets like any other investor, just doing it with the pool of money provided by fund participants.

If you have a problem with that you should be concerned by any fund, actively or passively managed, including mutual funds, hedge funds, etc, as they all operate on the same basic principles.
FWIW it is possible to ship a native node.js module that falls back to an emscripten version when a c++ compiler isn't available - see http://insertafter.com/en/blog/native-node-module.html for an example.
Thanks for the write-ups that you did. It's so much more tempting to contribute to a project when there are active public summaries of work being done. Sometimes, I admit, I don't even bother submitting my pull requests on projects with 50 unmerged PRs and no activity. When I see evidence of a progress and organization like those blog posts, it makes me want to contribute even if I don't necessarily have a personal itch to scratch.

I'd love to see more posts soon, if you or someone else ever gets the time*!
The US ain't all that different. It's more complex, but it's possible to get deferred interest loans, interest paid by the gov't and income-based payments.

That said, the free flowing money is a big reason why private school cost $200K/yr for a 4-year degree.
New Molecule Mimics Exercise, May Help Diabetics
Really? I did it. And yes, it was a STEM degree.

Hell, you can work 16 hours just on the weekend which still leaves your week free. And you can work all summer. I graduated with zero loans.
Some ideas...

- Mobile apps: ability to browse/create super easily from your iPhone or whatever using any app that integrates with Dropbox

- Storage space: though not always written in stone, most git hosts expect code and prefer you keep your media, if its heavy, elsewhere. Users of git-annex, largefile, etc. benefit from this.

- Collaboration: lots of people use Dropbox, not all of them need to use git (or at least, not all the time). See above.

Unfortunately, after reading the readme I see this: "Do not directly interact with Git repositories in your Dropbox folder - always use git-remote-dropbox. If you're using the Dropbox client to sync files, it's a good idea to use selective sync and disable syncing of the folder containing the repository to avoid any unexpected conflicts, just in case." So it's not as rosy as my above points hoped for.
Yep I get it but it seems like an incredibly naive and almost arrogant message to relay...

"Hey customers, buy our product for $16 even though it actually cost $1 to make"
I love these companies... such a great/fun read.
That includes housing. Whether or not you're going to school you need to pay for housing.
Thank you, seriously, thank you, for pointing out the obvious that eludes so many... Have an upvote...
I can never imagine having as much knowledge of any programming language as Casey does. After only programming for a year now, it blows my mind that anyone can know and explain programming as well he does.
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/19/407736307/robot...

I think we're a ways away from that, unfortunately.
Discussion from 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8464573
Wow the shilling is hard in here, that dashboard is an extremely limited implementation and looks like garbage. Why would you ever pay $99 for it?