skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your electronic offerings are OK. While I'm skeptical about your business model, as it stands, one possible pivot would be to pitch it at musicians as a dynamic arrangement/compositional tool.

I would very much like to try it with MIDI output, as I personally enjoy tweaking synths and effects more than the compositional tasks of harmonizing melodies etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703898
The Influx team is doing great things - however from the perspective of someone who's tried using InfluxDB in the last few months for a production app:

I really, really wish they'd hire 2-3 more database engineers to focus on the actual timeseries database, not nice looking tooling around it.

Simple things like incremental backups are still not working as expected in recent releases. Useful features from the 0.8 series still haven't been ported. And tsm1 is a neverending effort it seems.

We've went back to Postgres for storing timeseries data since we didn't feel confident to use InfluxDB in production.
Also see Andrew Gelman's post where he reanalyzes data from this paper and shows that, after adjustment for age, the morbidity increase has been happening among female population http://andrewgelman.com/2015/11/18/first-second-and-third-or...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_the_United...

That's just England, not including the rest of the UK.
Ehhhhh... don't fluff the street up that much. I would say that there are plenty of really smart people who can math the fuck out of things, but that generally the software engineering precision is not what you would expect given the amount of money and effort that goes into this stuff.

Given no other information, I'd probably take an engineering manager from SV over one from Wall Street, but I might want a Wall Street PhD over a SV one, unless the task was to build a programming tool. Then I'd throw all the WS guys into a ditch.
Just out of curiosity... have you used JGroups before? I've heard negative things about it but wasn't sure if those were unfounded or maybe just early versions.

Any thoughts of how these compare to something like the Data Distribution Service (DDS) for group communication?

[DDS]: http://portals.omg.org/dds/
One problem is that you might want to make it so you can hear a sample before it consumes your quota.
> Many of these are just normal teenage behaviours and don't necessarily suggest a young person is at risk of getting involved in cyber crime.

No. Some are just presenting normal teenage behaviours.
The rumor back in October was that Alibaba was leading a $1B funding round.
Try something as follows:

First, don't worry too much if you think your attention and focus is not good or it's getting worse because this act of (constant) worrying itself keeps you in the very same (worry) loop you want to avoid/escape at the very first place. Just keep in mind, an average amount of lack of attention is common as it happens to most of us because of our aging, work, life style, and the environment (both real and digital). Try to avoid doing unnecessary tasks as much as you can and don't push yourselves too hard. Focus on the progress and not the results alone to improve your chances.

Second, exercise and meditate besides having good sleep and a balanced diet (this part is pretty common advice as most of us already know about it). In addition, I would suggest you also include some sports performance psychology books in your reading list as they often contain some really good applied research to improve the performance of professional sport-man. I think, in some way, a technical (or business) person is not very different from those sport-men when it comes to attention, focus and performing under pressures in work/business settings. The visible aspects of tasks and their execution (a sport-man and technical/business person perform) are different but the mental aspects of these tasks are very similar to those tasks one has to carry out in a technical/business context.

Last, you can consider counseling and more serious help, if above-mentioned self-help methods doesn't work in your case. Most of the time we don't need to think about this step if we keep working on the first two points regularly unless we've some strong evidence that we must consider this last step.

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Note:

I'm not an expert in any mental health and performance related field (like psychology etc.). I'm just a normal technical person like most of other HN community member.
That 1859 article-writer is lucky he lived before computers were invented.

His head would have exploded in moral outrage, from all the people engaged in non-productive amusements, to the general detriment of society.

Those who attempt to make other people ashamed of having fun are just the worst. I catch myself being judgmental and snarky sometimes, but in keeping with the nerd code, I have never intentionally tried to make someone else feel bad about themselves for liking something I don't like. My personal niche obsession might be infinitely superior to yours in all possible ways (in my opinion), but that doesn't make you a bad person. It just means you're from a different nerd tribe.
More to the point: Access to money begets money.
But that's how most editors work anyway, even Hollywood ones - if they don't have a score to work with they take temp music from some film they already like and later commission something similar. I'm not sure why you think this is such a radical concept.
ZDNet had an article about Apple's secrecy in 2009 [0]. Of note:

> Apple closely monitors all communication on its corporate network and routinely plants false information with employees in an effort to track leaks.

[0] http://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-secret-society/
I've lost my ability to focus on a single task for hours like I could when I was in my teens, but I don't blame it on social media. I blame it on adulthood. The sheer amount of crap we have to deal with day in, day out, starting with having to go to work to earn a living, pretty much precludes me from being able to invest any significant amount of time into anything - there's this constant worry that I need to be doing something else.
Spore (2008) had a soundtrack that evolved based on your actions and your creature's evolution.
Perl's greatest features (for me) have always been community and documentation/literature. In the beginning I thought every technical community was like Perl just because it was all I knew. I was quite surprised to find out how poor documentation was elsewhere and how disconnected the users were.

I owe a lot to random Perl community people for helping pull me up (literally since I was a child) to the point that I could get a job, then get better jobs, and eventually choose my own work and support a family.

Its been years since Perl has been the main tool in my toolbox but there is plenty in ~/bin and I plan to give Perl 6 another go. Still, I think of Perl often and fondly.

Has anyone else ever had that "If I am ever wealthy I will help __some open source community__"? More and more I realize life is passing by and being wealthy isnt important to me at all. So I better just say thank you here. ;)
Me too. His abrasive style was one of very few writers who inspired me on my Descartes like journey into the rabbit-hole and back out, and I regret not having read his works sooner. The world truly has not yet seen his equal, and suffers for it.

One thing in particular he said that struck me was that one should write as if they were already dead. That is to pull no punches. A great but hard to attain goal.
Apparently, their API is structured to work on a per web page basis or even a higher level than that but I could be mistaken.
Can't sign in Google Calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
Seems a bit much, doesn't it?

This might be the pets.com of the twenty-teens.
Does the article explain what the play on Joan was? I can't find it.

My guess is get close enough to find the personal details necessary for identity theft.

Long cons like that fascinate me. Such a large investment, especially of time, with real risk!
I feel lucky with the first song I generated: https://www.jukedeck.com/share/2220b4dea9fde155ffbe9ccc7015b...
It sounds really good.
Not to put words in his mouth, but I think the above poster was referring to having medical insurance cover said dental costs because the loss of bone in the jaw would cause other medical complications down the line in young people.
How Lugg (YC S15) Got Its On‑Demand Moving App Off the Ground
What about the scenario in which a person sees a child being sexually assaulted and intervenes? This is certainly not self-interest on the part of the rescuer, other than satisfying a deeply-held moral conviction. It may also be well thought-out. For example, my children have never been raped but I know I would use lethal force if necessary to prevent it.

Even violence based on self-interest is ultimately grounded in morality. For example, if one has a right to life, self-defense is morally justified and murder is wrong. Both are motivated by self-interest (one licit, the other illicit).

If violence does not contain some moral component, then we're stuck with very bizarre consequences (e.g., genocide and violently stopping genocide are on equally amoral footing).
Show HN: FrequencyCheck – Check mobile network compatibility worldwide
This article smells like a P.R. hit for Two Sigma Investments. Note that they list 4 billionaires from D.E. Shaw: David Shaw (founder), Jeff Bezos (founded Amazon.com)...and the two Two Sigma founders. The link to Two Sigma is the only link that appears in the piece. And if you look up Two Sigma, they are hiring aggressively, and almost all of their other appearances are glowing articles in Forbes.
No, because you didn't create those other files, your enumerated bits won't have the right color ;)

"Bits don't have Colour; computer scientists, like computers, are Colour-blind. That is not a mistake or deficiency on our part: rather, we have worked hard to become so. Colour-blindness on the part of computer scientists helps us understand the fact that computers are also Colour-blind, and we need to be intimately familiar with that fact in order to do our jobs.

The trouble is, human beings are not in general Colour-blind. The law is not Colour-blind. It makes a difference not only what bits you have, but where they came from. [...] The law sees Colour.

Suppose you publish an article that happens to contain a sentence identical to one from this article, like "The law sees Colour." That's just four words, all of them common, and it might well occur by random chance. Maybe you were thinking about similar ideas to mine and happened to put the words together in a similar way. If so, fine. But maybe you wrote "your" article by cutting and pasting from "mine" - in that case, the words have the Colour that obligates you to follow quotation procedures and worry about "derivative work" status under copyright law and so on. Exactly the same words - represented on a computer by the same bits - can vary in Colour and have differing consequences. When you use those words without quotation marks, either you're an author or a plagiarist depending on where you got them, even though they are the same words. It matters where the bits came from." - from http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

Basically, non-recorded metadata about how a sequence of bits was created matters too. Not just the bits themselves.
3D printed safe auto-dialer robot
Typically sealants are applied to the permanent molars of children, and remain in place at least through young adulthood. Apparently there are some risks involved with old sealants. My dentist blamed a partially-eroded sealant for a cavity I got in my thirties.
CGP Grey does a really good job giving an overview of the history of The City of London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc

Along with another video about the governing structure of The City of London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ROpIKZe-c
Facebook has an old phone number and email of mine (like, I've changed countries twice since them). It has warned me every time I've been on the website in the last 2 years, but at least I don't get the "We've been missing you" emails. And it's up to them to cut the wire now.
I don't know where I stand on this. To be raising such ridiculous amounts, they must have some incredible technology to demo.

If they're anything close to what the second demo video shows, then they're basically building Tony Stark's home computer interface in Iron Man.
...and an England, apparently.
How can a private investor feasibly do a fixed down-side, small-stakes shorting of Magic Leap? Hypothetically speaking.
Deep Speech 2: End-To-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
Here's an—in my opinion—almost exact equivalence: a font is a little program in a nearly-Turing-complete language. Nobody really cares what fonts end up on your computer. But if you create an image (e.g. an advertisement) that contains pixels manipulated by the font-program you ran on your own computer, then you have to pay to license that use of the font.

Within the realm of audio production, there's an even closer equivalence: soundfonts, which are also little nearly-Turing-complete programs. Playing a MIDI file "through" a soundfont? No problem. Putting that track on a CD and selling it? Nope, need to license the font.

Really, you could think of procedural music generation as a really complex and "stateful" soundfont program that has a nonlinear relationship with its input.
I have actually helped a company where our initial interaction was via an internet comment, so don't make assumptions. Stating market reality is not being harsh, there is an abundant supply of royalty free music available at a very low cost or for free. If you're demoralized because someone states the facts of a competitive market than that is very unfortunate and you're not really fit to be an entrepreneur in a highly competitive market. From experience, working on a product that is failing is very demoralizing. I actually will like to see them do something novel and great with their technology.

Moreover there is great ideas* in this thread that can actually help the company.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10707389
Setting aside the question of specific methods (flogging and stocks), I don't see why you consider the idea of force being justified only in cases of retaliating against an attacker to be "annoying". Hard pacifists are extremely rare (Jainists are an exception) and more often than not set up as straw men to promote an agenda.

Capital punishment's issues primarily stem from the fact that you're using an exogenous body of collective action (the state) as a proxy to put people to death, with all the problems of public choice that come as a result.
I'm not challenging the claim that it contains a lot of texts; I'm challenging the claim that "everything has already been created and just needs to be found." That claim is explicitly false, regardless of the version of the Library of Babel you are using.

Edit: Reply to your reply:
One inherent limitation with the current code is that it has to assume some encoding. Currently, there is no encoding that contains all known glyphs (e.g the Prince symbol, uncommon kanji, etc) so there will be texts that can not currently be generated, regardless of how much you increase the character set.

Edit2: Even if one were to allow ASCII art to represent a character, you then have the problem of how to distinguish between ASCII art substitution and actual ASCII art. Consider "Densha Otoko," which basically consists of message board posts that often contain ASCII art.

http://portal.nifty.com/2007/04/15/b/img/012.jpg
While the situation you identify isn't totally impossible it is fairly unlikely.

Invasive/Disruptive species (those able to outcompete native species in similar niches) in the modern world almost always come from larger landmasses. Presumably this arises because they are exposed to more intense evolutionary pressure from the larger amount of competitors/ecological niches present.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_introduced_species#Asi...

see for instance, almost no problematic species introduced into asia, a few in africa (although connected by land, the Sahara is a major barrier).

Note also, the almost total lack of island species in this list.

Although oweing to the large presence of europe in this list, this could be largely documentation or selective human action issue.
Google says D-WAVE quantum computer is 100M times faster than PC
Isn't the quota only applied to downloads? So you can listen to it before you download it.
Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) and Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
This algorithm was documented over 23 years ago on Usenet:

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/90q3/urinals.html
Related, "The average age of suspected cyber-attackers has dropped dramatically to just 17, the National Crime Agency has said."

"We know that simply criminalising young people cannot be the solution to this and so the campaign seeks to help motivate children to use their skills more positively."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/08/average-ag...
You're vaguely aware that YC is a private equity firm right?
You shouldn't even need an account... unless you want to enable advanced features. Access to your location and maybe your address book should be enough. I deleted Cortana on my phone as soon as it asked me to login with a Microsoft account :-)
Looks similar to IPFS (https://ipfs.io/) but with less ambitious goals. And the IPFS team is also working on JS implementation that will run in browser: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs.
Nice work, really look forward to listening to some of what this creates!!
But how does putting people with worse grades in college help?

It doesn't fix the actual issue: access to quality primary and secondary education.

If a person going to a school with mostly minorities and underpaid staff never heard of complex numbers, then their math study won't be successful, no matter if they need a 3.5 or 3.0 GPA to attend.

Sure, attendance rate goes up, but the outcome is the same.

You need to target the roots of the issue, not the outcome.
I liked how this article started out talking about interesting anecdotes of people being conned and very gracefully transitioned to the longest running cons in the world (organized religion).
Discovery.com article posted Monday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693338
> median salaries for developers in San Francisco ($114,400), ostensibly ground zero for the "shortage", are only a whisker higher than they are for dental hygienists ($112,970) and are considerably lower than for registered nurses ($127,670).

What are you trying to prove? Nurses are a frequently-identified national shortage. So, unless you are trying to, by comparison, establish that there is also a shortage in dental hygienists (which I have no problem believing), I'm not sure what you are trying to establish.
Honestly though, non-profit public domain cancer research should be tax-supported.
I didn't see in the article -- what was the post-money val?
You might be able to find someone to create a derivative on it. You would probably need a non-trivial amount of money to make it happen.
Augmented reality has been the sci-fi dream forever, but I'm really, really skeptical about its applications in real life. Not that they don't exist - the shoot-em-up game demoed in that video looks fantastic. The Gmail app looks horrendous. Worth billions? Depends on the implementation, and a demo video is very far from the real thing. I wouldn't be investing.
Some serious questions:

1. Why not just use fs.writeFile to create all the site info as json files as either a one off or a chron job, then run a gulp task to either use something like jade or else roll your own rendering to put the JSON in the right place on the page, then output the result as html to a public folder, set up an express static server and have a catch-all splat after it for 404s? What am I missing here?

2. If your site is fairly static like WeWork's, why not just have it as a SPWA, set all the links to retrieve a JSON file from the static server and process them on the front end? You could even use history.pushState and checking window.url to make sure that history works and links would load the right thing.

3. When someone logs in, are you doing a DB lookup then serving their dashboard page statically (somehow, for some reason...), or does this static build only apply to part of your page and not others?

4. Could everything Roots does be replaced by one 6 line gulp task? Not trying to be mean, just wondering if its target userbase knows what gulp is.
I haven't given up on Influx, yet, but I'm close. A simple "DELETE * FROM series" without a where clause the system to freeze up while the CPU spins out of control, usually requiring a reboot to clear up after the KILL'd proc.(0.9.4 + Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and Go 1.4/1.5 combos all exhibit the behavior for me).

I have also not been able to get incremental backups working, have not been able to restore any snapshots, but I have had data survive reboots.

Unless I can get fairly predictable behavior out of Influx the proceess on my systems, it's going to remain in the "unpredictable-so-undependable" category, and far away from "I should pay monthly for this service".
MySQL is a Better NoSQL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10697244
>Many of these are just normal teenage behaviours and don't necessarily suggest a young person is at risk of getting involved in cyber crime. But if a young person is showing several of these signs, try and have a conversation with them about their online activities. This will allow you to assess their computer knowledge proficiency so you can understand what they are doing, explain the consequences of cyber crime and help them make the right choices.

At least quote the rest so you don't misrepresent what they're saying.
Follow people you don't know, unfollow friends, like things you don't like, change the email address, let it expire (If you don't log in at Yahoo for 1 year, they delete it), change the password, lose it, don't update your phone number. There's always a way back because they're really keen to give you access to your account, but as you progressively get bored of it, you'll feel like you don't need to install it on your new phone. On top of that, they now have to filter our false information.

The only problem is to explain to the TSA agent that you've falsified your identity on a US corporation website, but I've given up going to US too ;)...
Do your teeth feel any different with the sealant applied?
Kinda amazing how these guys are past Series C now and still haven't released a product.
Yes, but Apple was able to screw the music industry pretty hard so the other content providers are much more wary of dealing with them.

Plus iTunes was a blue ocean concept -- there was no serious competition for purchasing music online (at least not as easily as iTunes + iPod made it). To get into TV they would be going against some huge incumbents with lots of money.
I'm working through a mindfulness meditation book (The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590308476/ref=as_li_tl?ie=... ) which helps me regain some of the focus that I feel as though I've lost. I've been at it for about two days, and I feel as though I've been helped a huge amount-- I bet it'll be helpful for others, even if they don't have ADHD, as it offers a lot of tools to address the constant zig-zagging of attention resulting from our super-stimulated environment.

If meditation practices fail at helping improve your focus, there's always stimulants. I enjoy brewing up the beans from Stumptown.
To be fair, any ideal which is unwilling to do this is likely to die out when those who are not opposed to force use force against them.
> Mrs Merkel, 61, joins an eclectic list of former winners, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin ...

A German is given the title and those are the first two names you choose to use?