skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it is inevitable to have a lot of unsuccessful research projects before one breakthrough. Similar to startups where most fail. Those "failures" add up to the cost pretty quickly, and you cannot avoid them.
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How do you ensure that you don't forget data while you're moving it around?
Thank you for your enthusiasm -- we think Cryptomove is cool too!

There are no special provisions right now to have storage in the cloud or on any special servers. This alpha version has servers making TCP/IP connections. The data is stored in directories that have to reside on mounted disks. So, as long as TCP/IP connection works and directories are available, the servers may reside anywhere; as long as disks are mounted, they can also reside anywhere (say, NFS).

Obviously, versions beyond alpha might choose to have a hierarchy of storage devices -- from memory disks to mounted disks to cloud storages.

Cryptomove does not use any TOR interface.

The current version randomly sends data parts from one server to another via a TCP/IP connection, or moves the part within the local store. Therefore, the path traveled is not known in advance. However, the movement is star-like -- after the part hops randomly N steps, it retracts back to the point of origin retracting the same path.

On the forward path, each data part is encrypted (AES) on each server with that server's password, so at the end of the path of N steps it is encrypted N times. When retracting, on each server it gets decrypted, and then re-encrypted again.

When it comes back to the base server, it immediately starts another random path forward, again being encrypted moving away at the base over and over, while being decrypted/re-encrypted on the way back.

By default, the movement is not frequent -- each part moves once a day. If there are many parts, then one would see constant movement of random parts in random directions. However, data user may accelerate default movement frequency. Similarly, system owners (Admins) can slow down or accelerate the frequency of any part that travels through a particular server.
For years, I assumed the same thing, that "fasting" meant experiencing significant hunger. I always associated it with going entirely without food for some vague amount of time that was probably some consecutive number of days. But three weeks ago, after some Googling, I began what is called 'intermittent fasting'. Since it's only been three weeks, all I can say personally about the benefits is that I'm still doing it and have no plans to stop in the future, but I can say that by the third day, the hunger issue was negligible.

The first Google result on the term is pretty good: http://jamesclear.com/the-beginners-guide-to-intermittent-fa...

At its simplest, for men it means eating all your food for the day in a roughly eight-hour window, often noon to 8pm. (There is apparently some scientific thought that women may have significantly different needs; I really can't speak to that.) In practical terms, this translates to "skipping breakfast" and avoiding midnight snacks. This turns out not to be that difficult, but has definitely had an positive impact on me, so far. Discomfort-wise for me, I tend to get a bit of a rumbly tummy around 10am, but generally it subsides pretty quickly and even by 11am I can easily go for another couple of hours without even thinking about lunch if I get busy. It is far from constant hunger. (But I won't lie and say it's zero... just, negligible. Literally. It can easily be neglected and it will in fact go away.) I can also say that I'm hardly watching the clock in the evening and trying to judge whether it's the crack of 8pm yet or not... I often eat at noon-thirty or 1pm and then dinner at 6pm and am done thinking about food for the day, without any willpower expended. It just happens.

I say this mostly to point out to people that there is something to investigate that they may have misconceptions about, as I did. I will fully and up-front admit once again I am not in a position to extol its benefits particularly. (I like to do something like this for at least a couple of years before I do that.)

(But I will go slightly out on a limb and say that I would not be all that surprised to discover that "intermittent fasting" has somewhere between 80-120% of the benefit of the scientifically-studied high caloric-restriction diets, with much lower willpower and discomfort costs. It turns out that if you dig into those, we've really only studied "normal (modern) diet", "heavily calorically restricted", and sometimes a particularly unrealistic fasting schedule (see link), so if you're interested in a point in the middle of the two we've studied, you're sort of scientifically on your own. Hence the possibility I cite of 120%; currently it would fit the two data points we have just fine for it to turn out that "caloric restriction" isn't the optimum and is in fact overshooting.)
Social engineering, environmental causes, and freedom are exactly what this is about (as well as congestion, which I forgot to mention earlier). How should decisions about a society be made? If public transit is a social good, is it okay to encourage it by taxing people out of their cars? Even though people clearly prefer their cars for all of these reasons? What if city planners fail to foresee a technological innovation (like fleets of self-driving cars) and end up spending billions and inconveniencing millions over an ultimately unnecessary cause?

Let's use another issue for example. If we wanted to end Cosa Nostra (the capital-M Mafia), and didn't care about freedom, the cops could tomorrow round up all of the known members and throw them in jail forever. Or better yet, execute them. That would end the whole ordeal. We don't do that because we think there's a greater good in freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention. We believe in due process and the rule of law. There's in fact good logical arguments underpinning and supporting the utility of these ideas, but we don't need to trot them out every time we invoke the ideas themselves. They are cornerstones of our very successful civilization.
If you live in SF or NY, you're exempt from the conversation.
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> For the character building experience of it?

Are you seriously suggesting that it builds character? Honest question, because if you are, it would seem that fasting for that purpose alone would be a good idea.
Why would this change your feelings toward YC? I don't understand why, in yours eyes, someone's wealth would affect the validity of their contributions.
type theory has broad applicability, since it serves as the basis for all modern programming languages design and research. another nice example is kripke logical relations, which can be used to give a model for a programming language in which you can prove certain safety lemmas for critical code.
And the current German minimum wage is still only in effect in some industries, and in those no one worked below minimum wage before anyway.

It’s done literally nothing.
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Nothing :(

But the code and config mechanisms are terrible to use and the documentation of them is even worse.

It's ok if you want to use it as it is out of the box. But try to do something like change to forward looking dates ("On Monday" should mean next Monday instead of last Monday) and it isn't as easy as it should be!
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I'd love to be able to use more public transit. After all, I'm
blind, in case the username didn't give away my secret.
However, my city does not offer bus service on nights and weekends,
and frequently places that I wish to go are not even served by the bus
system, even though they are definitely within my city.

I try to walk to as many places as I possibly can. For the rest, if I'm
going somewhere during the day and it is reachable by bus, I do that.
Otherwise, I'm stuck taking a cab.
In reality, what this means is that I try to limit the things I do outside
of my home. That's kind of easy for an agoraphobic anti-consumerist nerd.
But still, I'm grateful for online shopping when I need it.

As an aside, the ideal city for a blind person in the United States is
Portland Oregon. I don't live too far from there, and I visit it
occasionally. The Max is beautiful. Portland has obviously made
a huge effort to provide great mass transit, and from what I saw, it was
very heavily used.
I don't agree. Other cities have good public transit, and especially other countries have shown it to be viable. I don't think NY's traffic has as much to do with it as their excellent public transit.
I had never visited Jet.com until I needed another pair of shoes.

The shoes I buy are normally $100 - 20%, at Shoebuy.com. Total was $83 shipped back in 2013.

Was all prepared to buy them at Shoebuy.com, then Jet.com came up in Google shopping search.

Same shoes, $60 at Jet.com.

Coffee filters. Normally pay $3.69 for 100. Two bags of 400 filters (800 filters total) was $7.18 from Jet.

Cat treats. The big 6.3oz bags of treats are about $3.50 at stores. Got three bags for $5.37.

This company will not be in business very long. Go there and find stuff to buy!
A voluntary version of this is something I was shopping around before straight-up disillusionment set in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blueribbon/wiki/constitution
Yes, it's negative. Investing two hundred and fifty million dollars in something that seems to have no business model other than giving money away is the exact opposite to the YC philosophy of starting companies. And the signs you claim mean they are "doing something right" I claim are only signs that they're spending 250 million dollars.

And remember Carl Sagan: "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
It took me about 90 seconds to find him[1] given what he said about himself - why so suspicious?

[1] http://www.rle.mit.edu/uqg/people.htm
I imagine game developers are the few people left using C++. Does this come down to not being able to get around pauses in garbage collection?

I wrote a little C++ in iOS a few years ago when I thought I might try to share some code with Android. Unfortunately, Objective C++ was slow to compile. I think the biggest problem with C++ is that it's simply harder to get correct code:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/128836/InDepth_Static_Cod...

[Update]

Sure, there's a lot of code that was started 15-20 years ago that was written in C++ because it was the best thing at the time. Java's JIT has greatly improved. I'm sure C# is also great. Large apps like Hadoop are written in Java. IBM's Watson is mostly Java.

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/ibms-watson-written-mostly-in-jav...

Why does C++ offer advantages over C# on Windows, for instance? In 2015, starting from scratch, where is C++ needed?

Please consider that I was using C++ when it was cfront. I seem to be getting a lot of "how naive" from people who've probably never used C++. Yes, there are dozens of desktop apps in C++, especially legacy, but there are millions of apps, mobiles apps, and web apps that are in other languages.
> Won't giving YC equity to these researchers (who are working not-for-profit and releasing IP freely) incentivize research that benefits YC startups directly and hence increases the value of the equity held?

That's equivalent to saying "won't paying in U.S. dollars to these researchers (who are working not-for-profit and releasing IP freely) incentivize research that benefits the U.S. Federal Reserve directly and hence increases the value of the U.S. dollars held?"

Obviously not the same scale, but you get where I'm going with this. Indirect incentives don't quite work that way.
India's Premier Student Run Hackathon – InOut
I’m reaching out because I’m the Organizer of a student run India's Premier Hackathon at NIT Surat called InOut - (https://hackinout.co/) On the weekend of 31st Oct 2015, more than 300 of the most talented student developers and designers from IITs, IIITs, NITs, DTU and various other technical institutes are going to gather together for 30 hours to build things like mobile apps, websites, and hardware devices to show off their skills. We’re stoked to be hosting the first large-scale collegiate hackathon in India, and stepping up the hackathon game with amazing hardware equipment, top industry mentors, and of course involvement with awesome companies. I believe your sponsorship would add tons of value to our attendees. I’d love the opportunity to tell you more about the event and see how we can work together to get your firm out in front of some of the top developers in India. I am attaching media deck for your viewing. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_qi8BzxX1nWcnFxNlQyNzU2eHM/view?usp=sharing)

palash@hackinout.co
I live in Los Angeles. Where is this mass transit they speak of? There are exactly zero mass transit options for me to use to get to work (San Fernando Valley to Santa Monica) within a reasonable time.
Ask HN: Who are attending InOut 2015?
I’m reaching out because I’m the Organizer of a student run India's Premier Hackathon at NIT Surat called InOut - (https://hackinout.co/) On the weekend of 31st Oct 2015, more than 300 of the most talented student developers and designers from IITs, IIITs, NITs, DTU and various other technical institutes are going to gather together for 30 hours to build things like mobile apps, websites, and hardware devices to show off their skills. We’re stoked to be hosting the first large-scale collegiate hackathon in India, and stepping up the hackathon game with amazing hardware equipment, top industry mentors, and of course involvement with awesome companies. I believe your sponsorship would add tons of value to our attendees. I’d love the opportunity to tell you more about the event and see how we can work together to get your firm out in front of some of the top developers in India. I am attaching media deck for your viewing. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_qi8BzxX1nWcnFxNlQyNzU2eHM/view?usp=sharing)

palash@hackinout.co
Most breaking changes are including warnings 2 versions ahead of time... In TFA they outlined, iirc, 2 changes that would have less time than this. This isn't a magical, final interface we're dealing with... it's iterative changes over time.

TBH, I don't like getting stuck at one point.. in practice those using React have been embracing the one-way flow that flux-like frameworks bring... This has been distilled down to Redux (imo, the best workflow option for React), which has signalled some distillation in terms of the interfaces React exposes. This is combined with different rendering paths coming to light, and I think it's pretty great.

I'm currently working in an environment that is transitioning from the old-way, to a more current way of doing things. I've been working with node since pretty early on (0.4) and was following it before that. The more I've embraced this continuously updating workflow, the less friction I've experienced as a whole. That doesn't mean no pain, just less of it overall.

The React/Facebook guys have been very good members in this larger community, and I applaud them for their efforts... Dropping their own render in favor of Babel, and reducing some of their mutation enablers only show them to be working with feedback from the community. It may be at a pace that's harder to keep up with, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be doing it.
If so many people support government regulation of the drug industry, why aren't more people taking drugs?

If so many people support the government regulation of debt, why aren't more people running up debts?

If so many people believe our society should have hospitals, why aren't more people going to hospitals?

If so many people support national parks, why aren't more people hiking in national parks?

If so many people support government regulation of the radio spectrum, why aren't more people listening to radio?

If so many people support conservation efforts for lobster, why aren't more people eating lobster?

If so many people support the public good known as _______, why aren't people making use of ________.

The reality is most sane people support a very broad range of policies which do some public good, even if the people themselves don't expect to directly benefit from that good, especially over the short-term. We can all support the existence of hospitals, even if we have no plans to go to a hospital this year. But we want hospitals around just in case we might need them, this year or at some future time.

Likewise with mass transit. I bike to work whenever I can, but if the weather is especially awful, I take the subway.
I started a subreddit called Life Pro Tips. Initially I seeded it with some of the best content I found through browsing reddit and kind of forgot about it. I submitted it to their self-serve advert program and it just kind of developed into what became a default subreddit.

At the same time I started it, I registered the domain with the intent to some day build a standalone site out of it.

That day finally came and I finished the site (I work on side projects like this in my spare time outside of work and always have).

Since it was a subreddit that I created, I thought I could write my own rules for it. We ended up having a community discussion and only allowing self links due to people spamming unworthy "TOP ___ life hack" lists.

When I launched the site, I had an Automoderator rule approve anything that was submitted from the site I built. One member discovered this, reported it, and before I knew it, I was shadowbanned and told to remove everything. Reddit didn't even tell me about the shadowbanning (I found out due to another mod making the discovery of it). They claimed that it was violating their TOS because the site had ads on it (I have lots of reasons why I disagree with this, and how they treat certain sites preferentially, but I'm not interested in explaining it, honestly).

Considering I have a career and this was a side project, I gave up on reddit and it was the best thing for me. I've spent countless hours of my life moderating and contributing to making that subreddit a nice part of reddit (ultimately helping them create content, for free), and there was never any kind of gratitude (aside from a reddit gold I randomly received, which is worthless to me) expressed to me.

At this time there is nothing compelling enough on reddit for me to return, and I have a feeling the company and its employees know they are in trouble.
My commute in is about 40 minutes by car and 80 by bus with walking from the stop. Double that for the return trip, and my bus commute is almost 3 hours out of my day. And the bus pass costs $130. So it's not even saving me a lot of money. It works out to just shy of 2 weeks of my life that I loose per year taking the bus. That's not insignificant.
> It's inconvenient.

> My car takes me from right where I am, to exactly where I want to go, exactly when I want it to, in a minimum of time.

There are ups and downs to both options. With public transit, someone else drives and you can get work done (or nap or whatever else you wnat to do), so the time cost arguably is less.
Because it's not that big of a deal and you already know it has health benefits? You might as well ask 'why exercise and have to feel tired afterward.' I'm not suggesting anyone starve themselves.
It's unique for sure. And a rapid departure from the previous logo. It sort of reminds me of the old MTV logo.
When someone works really hard on a problem and then puts it out there openly, you have to respect their work. And from their perspective, they've put weeks/months/10 years into a piece of work, and it can come off really bad if you approach them and ask them to explain it to you so that you can understand it in a fraction of the time. For complex ideas, you can talk at somebody and they can get the general gist of it, but for many technical things you don't understand it until it "clicks" from gears moving in your own head. I understand this case is pretty drastic, but his claim that one needs to break down the barriers in their mind shows how much he expects from an individual to understand his work.
Sam Altman is personally donating $10 Million to YCR.
This is one of the greatest thing he could do to show some honest generosity towards the world.
Bravo.
Although, as I mention when people rant about how no one will use California High Speed Rail when it's finished, BART carries 360,000 people a day. The standard response to that is usually pure denial.

What we have in the US is the result of under-funding public transportation for the last 75 years.
In this case, "doxxed" means "taking the staff pictures from the Imgur website, putting them in a collage, and adding a caption that says 'even the dog is fat'"

Context is important.
The easy solution to all this is to start encouraging companies to promote work-from-home days. If you do the bulk of your work on a computer, there's no reason you absolutely need to go into the office every single weekday to get your job done. If every company that allowed their employees who could work from home to do so at least once per week and worked together to evenly distribute those days throughout the work week, we'd see a massive drop in traffic. This could easily be done by providing tax incentives for doing so, and the money saved on road maintenance alone would likely pay for it. I can't get over how insane it is that we all insist that we need to work face to face when our faces are buried in a computer screen for the vast majority of our work days. It's absurd.
> The only site I ever visit while I work.

You never Google stuff for your work? Never read online reference manuals / docs, like cppreference.com, docs.python.org or whatever language rocks your boat?
Seems like a promising event with Google, RethinkDB, Exotel and Github onboard as sponsors already.
I think pre 1.0 should represent that breaking changes are happening more often.. a 3-month release cycle with breaking changes in pretty much every stable release doesn't bode well in that regard. However, they have been very responsive to the larger community and these additions and changes are really a good thing. Mostly they break out rendering pipelines to support multiple renderers, and they reduce opportunities for mutations, which fly in the face of a flux-like workflow.
Don't think of it as as 40x gap, think of it as a 10 year - 500 hours gap.

The expert has the 100 years - 500 hours study that are needed.
While it's important to get legal advice, there are two things to bear in mind.

First, the meaning of a law can only be settled in the courts, strictly speaking. A legal opinion is a best effort, but it is an opinion, not a judgement.

Second, Parliament can amend any law it passes at will. And it has the power -- rarely but sometimes exercised -- to make its legislation retroactively effective.