skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If YC research is a success, would you consider establishing a website onto which researchers can publish the data and the analysis they did to reach their conclusions?

Often I see people say what they used to take the data and then the end result of the analysis, but never do I see any details whatsoever about the specific techniques or steps they took to transform the raw data into what ends up being published.

It's a very frustrating thing for me and I don't see a mainstream or more easily accessible way for me to post my raw data + analysis other than making a blog for myself, which I have no easy way of promoting in a paper.

I think it would be great to be the ones that set the tone for transparency and it would be a fantastic way of teaching others how to analyze data, or how to catch errors in someone's analysis.

Right now there's a huge wall of obscurity in that we have to take the author's word for it. I know many things cannot be reproduced in experimental science, but the analysis of the data should be. I can't see a reason why people would not want to share their data in academia since most people are funded by DOE, NSF, NIH and DOD and hence by the taxpayer. I think it would be great for pedagogical purposes, it would encourage best practices and it would help us be honest.
Thanks Andreas! I know this isn't necessarily a "product," but thoughts on putting it on PH?
Interesting, that definitely gives some perspective on why Uber has taken so much more flak in Europe than the US, where the taxi market is uncompetitive and routinely tries to take advantage of passengers.
time to switch to Bing?
Personally I chose to join a famous later stage startup instead of a startup for this very reason. Both offered great compensation and fun roles, but while the later stage startup gives me a lot of RSUs that will soon be liquid the earlier stage startup gives me stock options that expire under these kind of unfavorable terms.

There is a bit of a double standard on stock vesting between founders and early stage employees. Both take about the same amount of risk and the employees frequently give up more salary for less equity. However, while founders owns all vested stock outright the employee stock options most often expire after 30 to 90 days.

The quick stock option expiration is especially problematic since the termination might not be voluntary, and might be a result of changing life circumstances or a company-initiated termination.
Sweet! It's really cool to see your neighborhood through the lens of other people :)
Hi jobu,

My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

You do not need the iOS app's Pro Features for looking up or entering Logins. But you can read much more about what you do get for purchasing the Pro Features here: https://support.1password.com/guides/ios/pro-features.html
I'm not sure what character has to do with anything. I think the real story here is how emotions (both by Weev and prosecutors) interfere with our ability to give all equal justice.
Simplest to compile, but very hard to optimize, hence why register and restrict are needed, among many other tricks.

But that is a talk for other day.
Yeah, that's crazy. I don't have time for that.

I played 2 games of Dota last night. One 35 min (ranked) and one 43 min game (unranked). It took less than 5 minutes to find each game. I had one game fail to start due to fail to two players failing to load. Reborn has been having some server issues so it's not unheard of. Total time in game was like 1:30.

The ranked game was a complete stomp - 59-14 in 35 min but the losing team stuck it out for the entire game. We could have ended it 10 min earlier but we didn't for whatever reason.

No rage quits or gg ff calls or intentional feeding. I'm not highly ranked (no clue what the equivalent is in LoL; I'm just at or slightly above average) but it's rare to get RQs in ranked at my level.
I just can't imagine a situation where you brought on VC funding and were still able to maintain tarsnap's ethos.

The inescapable push would be to find fast/big growth areas, and to change tarsnap in whatever way necessary to fit in those niches.
I received an unsolicited email from these guys. The email does not get subscribed to many things to keep volume low. Did they buy a bunch of addresses to spam?
Publications and grants are the currency of academia: if one doesn't have a recent publication record, a hiring committee doesn't have a way to gauge one's performance and capabilities as an academic; if one doesn't have a history of getting grants, a hiring committee will be (rightfully) skeptical of one's ability to bring in money. Excepting teaching schools, one is hired for one's abilities as an academic researcher to bring prestige (through publications and PR) and secure grants (along with that sweet, sweet F&A money). To get grants, one needs publications and preliminary data. One also needs grantsmanship skills, and one only gets those from direct experience.

A YCR "fellow" (or whatever it'd be called) would probably not be a competitive candidate for an academic position. It's not because they weren't in academia, it's because they will likely not have the work product used to measure performance in a academic setting. A hiring committee is not going to risk department funds on someone with a non-existent track record when there's a line out the door of other candidates.

I think OP is correct in perceiving that selecting YCR would probably close the door to a future in academia. I will also predict that YCR will have difficulty hiring top academic talent.
The age aspect is interesting. Although the age of Nobel laureates has been steadily increasing, so has the 'gap' between discovery and award. [1] It's partly due to the amount of learning needed to contribute meaningfully, so starting earlier is always better.

It's not that hard to get access (perhaps not unfettered) to research labs in high school. In grade 10, I talked to a professor at UCLA and started coding physics simulations for him. Many people I know worked at research labs far before the age of 22. Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad won 3rd place at the Westinghouse Talent search for neural research at age 17. Feynman started tinkering early, and Einstein taught himself geometry at age 12.

If you're curious, you can push your way in. However, this isn't easy, and we need to make it easier for students to get involved earlier. At any rate, YCR will certainly find talent at all ages.

[1] http://priceonomics.com/why-nobel-winning-scientists-are-get...
Are you saying that we therefore shouldn't mind the ad-hominem bias?
Thanks. Currently it's 100 recent post with 500m radius, but I think I'll make ability to change this parameters.
Barring some strong marketing leading up to launch, that's not realistic, which is the point of the quote. Instagram's first day performance was in the "so good you'd sound like a joke for suggesting it was possible" territory.

With that said, actual viral growth is absurdly fast. I didn't really have an understanding of it until one of my tweets got picked up during the Ferguson riots, and the speed is just staggering. It increments faster than you can reload the page. Hundreds of people per second. 25k in a day is totally doable under those circumstances. It's one of those things you can read about, but have to see to really internalize.
Not cheap, but undoubtedly the most common paid app I use. For me, the workflow of jumping in and out feel smoother and saves time compared to other products I've used. It's only a few seconds, but to me at least, I stay much more productive and in flow, which easily makes it a cost savings.
The "displayed size" would probably shrink, but so what? You'd just need to look at the book to see it.

Decimalization would help even with equities where the natural size > 1c. HFTs who want to get to the top of the book could compete by offering $10.0073 instead of racing to be the fastest at $10.0100. HFTs would compete on price rather than speed.
Hi suhailpatel,

My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

I don't know what version of Android you are on, but if you are running Android 4.0 or higher, you can use our snazzy Filling feature so you don't have to copy and paste Logins anymore. You will find more details here:
https://support.1password.com/guides/android/filling.html
> I am still to find a sys admin that likes systemd.

Here's another one: I spent 18 mos in Google Site Reliability Engineering (and did a lot of pager work at startups before that) prior to transferring to software engineering, I think I can speak to both perspectives.

Systemd is incredible and is a huge advance in maintaining linux systems. It boggles my mind that anyone could compare it to what we were all doing before and walk away saying: "nah, I'll stick with the stringly-typed shell scripts and the stale pid files, thanks."

Specific technical reasons in favor /for sysadmins/:

- unit files are rigidly structured data and this is a Good Thing. Configuration is not code. Unit files are also very easy to write.

- systemd understands cgroups and manages them properly. Every single critique I've seen of systemd is from someone who either doesn't understand cgroups or doesn't realize why they are so useful and important. Cgroups manage jailing, process isolation, resource control (CPU shares, memory limits, block io shares, etc), privilege separation and dropping, etc., and this is all configurable by systemd using simple and declarative unit file directives. Like it or not, we are moving into a containerized world.

- machinectl is already useful for managing VMs and will only become more so as it matures.

- people shit on the systemd journal, but, I'm sorry -- you're wrong about this too. Structured binary logging is simply more efficient for this problem, both on the write and on the query side. The journal also can integrate with the systemd journals running in any VMs or containers running on your system, so you can get a unified and metadata-tagged logging stream of everything happening on the host

- socket activation enables zero-downtime restart/deployment for network services, any incoming connections to the port will be added to the listen queue by systemd before the target system comes back online
I don't hate you, I just think you belong in the kitchen. Because that's where the oven is, Jew. ;D
Clojure lazy evaluation and stack overflow exceptions
Here is a paper about a poll of physicists. http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1069

Question 12: What is your favorite interpretation of quantum mechanics?

Top Three:

Copenhagen: 42%

Information-based/information-theoretical: 24%

Everett (many worlds and/or many minds): 18%
Why You Should Apply to Y Combinator
It could be worse.

There are startups that offer options that don't even give you the choice to exercise them even after they 'vest'. In this case, exercising can only occur after either a sale or IPO event AND the company has to give its blessing; and the company in question wonders why they have trouble with both hiring and retention.

I know it sucks but read all the legal terms related to your employment, ideally before you join.
Ask HN: Why would DigitalOcean require 30GB for a Wordpress droplet?
Found this rather odd, needed to create a wordpress site today and decided to spin up a droplet on DigitalOcean.

See: http://imgur.com/qOmfMh5

The Ubuntu 14.04 image with Wordpress requires 30GB space, which seems rather odd to me. Any idea why DigitalOcean is doing this?
Videos from 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Portorož 2015
You can always waive IP rights in a system that reverse is not true (i.e. conditionally opt-in to IP rights in a system that categorically rejects them).

Likewise, you can give away all the physical stuff you want, but it's great that the rights exist in the first place.
I'm going to suggest Long Beach, NY as a possible east-coast outpost. Lived there for a couple years, it feels like it could support a young startup scene (I've worked for startups for at least 10 years). Artsy surfer town, great boardwalk with inspiring beach (actually the entire south shore of Long Island is just one spectacular beach after another), nice nightlife, 45 minute train ride to Manhattan.

Long Beach seems to be starting to embrace the idea with things like its Bridgeworks project http://liherald.com/stories/New-startup-incubator-coming-to-...

I kind of want to start a company myself, there...
Cool initiative, but companies that have state government as clients would not agree to a federally hosted cloud based service.
What made NPAPI something nobody is happy with has little to do with standardization approaches.

Web APIs aren't a replacement for a plugin mechanism, and never will be, because they live below the browser instead of as a peer of the browser.

Your dedication to a two-tier system of platform-level code access would be less hypocritical if you imposed the same restrictions on yourself -- but of course, if you did that, you couldn't actually ship a working, high-performing browser.
Thanks. It was interesting.
Hi acrooks,

My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

I'm so glad to hear that the transition was and easy one and that you are so satisfied with our product! I will certainly share your kind words with our designers and developers.
I appreciate your answers. It's interesting seeing where and what people shoot in our town.

Good job!
I know people who have worked at places like Bell Labs for awhile and then gone back to academia.

It's not easy, but if you succeed (and publish) then you can often get an academic job afterwards.
In Zimbabwe, 33% of the country has a flush toilet and over 10% of the country does open defecation. 75% have access to clean water. (Stats from the first hit on google.)

Are you asserting that Baltimore has less than 99% flush toilet usage or 99% clean water access?

http://www.urbangateway.org/news/more-million-people-without...
What does "publication" mean in an Internet Age when anyone can publish anything?

If you mean "vetted by a tiny handful of fallibly-human organizations such as Nature and Cell who may or may not decide to accept your paper regardless of its actual merit and based mostly on how 'hip' the research is," well then we're back to the hazing/cliquey-clusterfuck thing again.

"Grants" seem equivalent to "angel investments" in the startup world... which seem a lot saner, btw.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/09/10/gre...
Federal tax law generally requires that unexercised options expire not later than 90 days after termination as one of the conditions to their keeping ISO status.

Startups by and large have held fast to this requirement.

A few, such as Pinterest, have agreed to extend the 90-day expiration period out for several years. This allows employees who hold vested options having potentially significant value to leave their employment and not have to face the choice of losing such options, on the one hand, or doing an immediate exercise that might trigger a large tax while being left with no near-term ability to liquidate the underlying stock so as to pay that tax (and further facing the risk that the underlying stock might decline in value, leaving them having paid a gratuitous tax on stock that may subsequently have little or no value).

This is an important and very good fix but it does destroy the ISO status of the options and converts them to NQOs.

If the 90-day restriction, therefore, is not built into default plan documents, the company cannot offer ISOs to its employees. It is thus not normally an option for startups to eliminate the restriction wholesale. Any discussion of this issue needs to take this into account because there are various trade-offs in doing it one way or the other, at least one of which may not be good for employees.
Well, it's hard to separate "Colin Percival" from "Tarsnap". I mean, yes, what I really mean is a way for me to be involved; but I have every intention of continuing to run Tarsnap for the foreseeable future, so they can't really have me without also having Tarsnap.
Hi jwr,

My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

Thanks so much for appreciating our dedication to our product. Security is incredibly important to us and we take the quality of our work very seriously.
So, the threat is that Weev is going to take public information and make it... public?

Basically, the threat unpacks to "I'm going to use the fact that I'm newsworthy to make already-public information more public by putting it in the news." To which I would suggest that our clickbait-driven, eyeball-obsessed media should find it ethical to decline to participate in such shenanigans. Though my phrasing should suggest what I consider the odds of that to be. They really shouldn't even have run this, and, well, they did, didn't they?
Thats an very good comparison. Thanks for it!
It should be noted - an option containing an early exercise attribute is typically rare for common option holders and usually only reserved for management. I.e. most people with a typical amount of options (~5,000) would typically not have this ability.
NASA has unfortunately been neglecting low-gravity (centripetal acceleration) research. The only research I am aware of in this area was conducted by the Soviet Union on mice, and (to the best of my recolection) they found that ~0.3G and relatively low RPM were required to maintain fitness. I agree with you that further work is required on this subject, as it could help future Martians to be healthier and more productive throughout their journey, but it does not seem to jive with NASA's current priorities. NASA has repeatedly rejected proposals for studies and experiments in this area.
Oddly this reminds me of station trading in Eve Online where users fight over the price of their goods based on mere cents on an ISK.
You guys might want to see if you can do a better job of publicizing the LastPass import. I googled for it and found some of your support forum threads where users had contributed scripts to do it, and I thought that was a bit iffy, so I resolved to deal with it later. I then saw another comment here that clued me in to the fact that LastPass has an 'export' feature that you guys can import from. 60 seconds later, it was done.

I'm sure you're getting a lot of new users today. Good luck! :)
Linksys WRT router gains faster SoC, more RAM, OpenWrt
Thanks, it was the main idea of the app.
I think the idea is you would use the "FFI" type throughout the program, perhaps embedded in a larger structure if you need to track additional data.

The same thing is frequently done in C. Wire format data gets padded and __packed as necessary, and then that's usually the program representation as well.
> there were no more poor people ... because everyone did their duties.

In a society where people are scarce and visible, the social contract is enforced by association. Just like everyone looked after each other in most places around the world in small villages etc. - iterated prisoner's dilemma

In a city of 20 million people this breaks down. - more defectors
Right, and that's why I'm not going that route. As I said: King, not rich.
It's still irrelevant to the question about the correctness of what he's saying.

If you don't care what he had to think, your comment is both paradoxical and non-contributive.
I'm surprised that there's no mention of an 83(b) election. I'm not a tax expert (hah!) and you might be nervous about giving anything that could be construed as tax advice, but I imagine you could safely say something like:

"While we cannot give tax advice, we strongly suggest that you consider making an 83(b) election when you are initially granted employee stock options. If you choose to make an 83(b) election, you may need to do so within 30 days of joining."

As I understand it, this can be a Big Deal (tm).
However, for someone in the tech industry the opportunity cost of not investing
in themselves (i.e. coding, reading about code, meeting people, etc)
for the same amount of time they are cooking (grocery shopping, food prep, cooking,
cleaning, etc) usually isn't worth it.

I would argue that the time spent away from the technical side doing other things is a bigger investment in self than a few extra hours a week writing code.
Post-scarcity is what happens when the current resources that restrict our actions are no longer an issue. There will be different bottlenecks for development but those resources are so far removed from our current concerns it is hard to imagine.

Imagine a world where energy is practically free, you might be tempted to think that spells the end of scarcity. But you still have to deal with thermodynamics. Your factory could be churning out countless diamonds with the free energy you are getting but you are going to need a large heat sink for all the entropy you will be pumping out. The scarcity then is your local ability to dump entropy.

Or imagine a reality where we create a Dyson Sphere and have super nano-tech and world peace is a reality. No more scarcity right? Those descendents are now competing with other space faring actors. They may be content to stay in our home solar system and wait for the sun to kill the species or wait for another actor to take our star. The new scarcity there is solar system redundancy.
Also makes the feedback / change process transparent! As long as all employees use git.
ahem Wayne Gretzsky ahem ... not Jobs
Interesting to see that 90% of angular is tough! Thanks for your thoughts.
Scanning your comments, I haven't learned about what tracking is accomplished by serving the https://cdn·ampproject·org/v0·js file itself, can you please comment on what data (if any) is collected by being 'the' place all AMP sites phone home to on page load by default?

Two other points, and I hope these are received as constructive criticism.

1- You only score 'B' on SSL labs for the domain serving the AMP JS file.[0] Maybe this is intentional so as to include support for Android devices that no longer get updates but it's not great security for the rest of us.

2- Your page explaining the project executes Google Analytics tracking code and has no privacy policy and does not disclose the fact that you are tracking visits. This is a breach of your very own Google Analytics T&C's[1] which read in part "...You must post a Privacy Policy and that Privacy Policy must provide notice of Your use of cookies that are used to collect data. You must disclose the use of Google Analytics, and how it collects and processes data...".

Neither of these inspire confidence and I hope you can get at least one of them corrected soon.

[0]https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ampproject.or...

[1]https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html
What is your topcoder handle?
They generally aren't transferable, and the market for shares in these kinds of companies ("startups that aren't demonstrably on the trajectory of a Stripe or a Twilio") isn't liquid.
You can game “taking an innovation to market” any number of ways. Making the product unrealistically expensive. Only manufacturing a very limited number, or even a single, item. Making an item that technically uses the patent but is in a very different sort of field than any product which would be actually useful. Making the actual product practically unusable, or hideously ugly, or horribly uncomfortable.

These are all things which normally would be solved by competition in the marketplace, but you don’t have competition, since a patent is a monopoly. So you have to solve all these problems some other way.
I believe 83(b) only applies to restricted stock grants, not ISOs, but I am not an accountant.

I have worked for two startups early enough to take advantage of the 83(b) election. In both cases, the companies assisted me with the election, providing all the paperwork, etc.