skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's been plenty of reporting about the propensity towards terrorism in engineers specifically. Did you have a specific question, or do you just refuse to do your own research?
Too bad that Android blocks you from installing real Linux apps.
Because the current market value of that content appears (for reasons that I personally find pretty bullshit, but I'm not the decision-maker here) to be a pittance.

We have, culturally, decided that art is worth very little, and this is the (inevitable? I don't know) result.
Now imagine how bad the outcry would be if this was required to vote.
I tried using this with play.spotify.com (for linux) and had the same problem, it needs flash to work...
It's nice to read about people using other apps as primary interface to their own. And all the quirks they are forced to do to make it work.

I run this small email-helpdesk<-->Trello app [1] and I thought I was the only one trying to come up with the best ways to map features from what Trello has builtin to what my app needs.

Users sometimes find it awkward, but in the end it works very well.

[1]: http://boardthreads.com/
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> However the author then goes on to making a comparison between React's createElement/createFactory APIs and the hyperscript-helpers npm package, which is incredibly uncharitable

It's more than uncharitable; it's nonsensical. There is quite good hyperscript support for React. If hyperscript is so great that being able to use it with Cycle is a plus for Cycle, then logically it's also a plus for React.
It is not just rigorous but outright restrictive when it comes to exercising a right.
That's good news! I'm still on 2013 for now.
Yep! It's one of the things Ember is (or should be) best known for. The whole "don't break the web" tirade.

React-router should be able to handle it (you said you were using react, wasn't sure if it was in conjunction with react-router), but the documentation that describes the updating patterns of the URL isn't so easy to find... This might help though:

https://github.com/rackt/react-router/issues/266
(Issue from someone trying to change URL without triggering re-route, might help with saving params to URL).

I was thinking that rather than how multitwitch does it (which is multitwitch.tv/<stream1>/<stream2> or something like that), you might want to pass the streams as query string params (ex. "&1=<stream1>").... But then again, you could just use their style. Also it might be smart to selected layout type.
Pushing EV certs, offering services around it (monitoring, issuance controls, deployment, APIs).
It seems to unfairly penalize startups who've pivoted since after the accelerator.

We've been to one. It was early stage, and within our geography. When we spoke to YC/500startups in 2013, it was all about having traction or earning revenue and breaking even. We didn't have that. We were academia dropouts with some patents and an idea.

Going through the 1st accelerator helped us because we didn't even know how to put together a pitch deck. We've since pivoted because ideas change, become more focused and polished. Our idea, business model and pitch is completely different.

YC would not have accepted us in 2013, someone else did. Now if we want to apply to YC post-pivot, we get penalized? That seems incredibly unfair.
Why Breather is more like Uber than Airbnb
I don't think they're discouraging people from seeking help elsewhere so much as saying that if you get help elsewhere, don't also expect help from YC unless your numbers are really, really good.

In other words, if you're going to go with another accelerator, commit to that program and decide that you're going to build a real business off it. It worked for both SendGrid and Digital Ocean. Don't expect that you'll be able to bounce between programs and accept help from everyone, because if you need that much help, it starts looking like you really don't have your shit together as a founder.
Rubyist here...how does Scrapy compare to Nokogiri?
Let's use an example I face every day. I work in an industry that by in large doesn't hire women or black people. So yes, I'm around people who are very racist and very sexist every day -

It's pretty fucking important for me to be able to function socially around people who have political views I consider to be abhorrent - people who act on those beliefs every day.

Would a better course of action be for me to leave the industry? because that's what it would mean to cut all the racists out of my life.
The two biggest problems with React:

1. Updates are O(N), where N is the size of your virtual dom tree.

2. You have to manually keep track of dependencies within your code, in order to trigger updates.
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Routing in Meteor is non-trivial if you want it to behave how a single-page app should behave. The defaults provide the bare minimum of usability and arguably worse than what we had with server-side rendering. It's exasperated by the fact that the routing libraries are not part of the core framework.
Why not shutter the pre-pivot startup and apply as a fresh startup to YC? If the idea, business model, and pitch are completely different, is it actually the same company?
Before I read the article I thought it was going to be a rant about the absurdly verbose type signatures and/or errors that can result. Here's the longest one I've seen in the wild -- 8.9kb for the name alone. If you're bored, I dare you to try to find the opening parenthesis without using Ctrl+F. Also, if you start reading tokens and wonder what "tetraphilia" is, it's the love of monsters. Seems appropriate.

http://www.pastebucket.com/97614
It was more a reference to the required latency from message received on wire, to messages processed, routed and dispatched on wire - for the scale, rather than physical location and speed of light issues.
Also, isn't Hystrix a good example of defensive programming in a services environment? Seems to work well for Netflix.
Don't Make Me Code

There's a lot packed into that saying.
Citymapper raises $40M series B
I'm no fan of bundleware. I've been running PortableApps.com for over 10 years with over 500,000,000 app downloads all 100% bundleware free. Our format disallows bundleware and many of our users use our software on their local machines due to that.

uBlock didn't start blocking SourceForge because of the Dev Share opt-in bundleware program. They started blocking SourceForge because of the GIMP situation which SourceForge backed off of as a result.

uBlock isn't designed to block bundleware. uBlock lets tens of thousands of download sites and software publishers that distribute bundleware. Most of them distribute far worse bundleware, far more of it (some come with 10 offers or more), and use far more dark patterns to trick users into installing than anything distributed by SourceForge. But uBlock still specifically blocks SourceForge despite only about 10 of 400,000 projects using it, all of which have opted in to the program.

Essentially, uBlock appears to be blocking based on the whims of the developer rather than any balanced and fairly applied policy. That's one reason I decided to stop recommending it to others.
So does not allowing the majority to vote and handing voting rights to a few selfless individuals who will do what is best for society overall.

Even killing a person for their organs if it saves more people is a net gain in safety and health.
It is very brave of Brendan to pursue such an obviously dead-end idea.
Yeah, the way that the public school district system happens to interacts with housing markets is a remarkably powerful way of impeding class mobility. If your family already has a home in a well-funded school district, or if you can afford to move there, you can do very high return-on-investment things for your children. (Or, as you mentioned, if you can afford a private school.) And moving your home is a market with very long timescales.

Note that I am not saying that the school district system is somehow intrinsically morally bad, or that I know of a better alternative to it, just that it has this unfortunate result if you think class mobility is a good thing.
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We can't maintain something simple for a long time. Maybe that's human nature (or developers nature ), but the success of a framework is the start of its demise. Excited contributors will try to "improve" it and that always ends up adding complexity to what was a simple and elegant solution.

Maybe the problem originates in the tendency to rate open source projects using metrics like number of commits. A simple and elegant project that does not have recent activity is labeled as dead and people stop using it, even if it works well.
OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code
Note that an eccentric orbit spends most of its time out in the far reaches, since it moves much slower out there. The odds are against the happy case.
Salaries of Orlando Developers in 2016
I really love the idea. Though we currently use Intercom and would be hard to move from it. I really want this integration in Intercom (and I am sure they will do this soon). So you might want to plan on how to tackle them.
Davos 2016: Fourth Industrial Revolution set to benefit richest
Considering the examples use C,C++,Java as the statically typed languages didn't impress me. There are far better languages. Also, performance of the solution will be worse in dynamic languages.
That looks like an artist's rendering to me. They appear to have done it to keep the bridge in the picture instead of blocking it, sacrificing realism for aesthetics.

Also, I don't think this is meant to replace cars per se. It looks more like it could replace shorter flights to me. For example, people could take trips to Las Vegas on one instead of going by plane.
I don't think that is cynical. :)

Cargo culting seems very prevalent in the current startup culture -- especially in those that are "playing startup".

These founders see all of these external things that startups do and assume they must be necessary for success -- or that they will at least will help cover up any problems they have.

Unfortunately this is just like carving wood into the shape of a radio and expecting it to work. It might look the same but it has none of the things that make it a radio. You can even attach a real antenna to it, but it is still just a block of wood.
Noooo. Damn.

Really loved Ateml's IDE. Microchip always charged for their IDE/compiler and I never felt like it was quite as nice to use.
When you have a 100 times the interest and limited bandwidth then you only get a short time to look at each company and you end up choosing on the basis of appearance not substance as this is a faster heuristic.
You said all that and still managed to not answer the question. It's okay, though, it was somewhat rhetorical (I already know what you'll say).
Why did you "pivot" to an entirely new company, rather than starting fresh? Each "pivot", especially when funded, is baggage.
No, the "PATENTS" file cannot revoke the "LICENSE" file.

React's license is BSD. The PATENTS file additionally ensures that Facebook grants you a license for any patents they might have on technology that's in React. This grant—not the copyright license—expires if you sue Facebook, which is pretty standard for a patent grant.

Note also this clause:

> Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Facebook or any of its
subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit alleging patent
infringement against you in the first instance, and you respond by filing a
patent infringement counterclaim in that lawsuit against that party that is
unrelated to the Software, the license granted hereunder will not terminate
under section (i) of this paragraph due to such counterclaim.

Please don't claim that the BSD license is revoked if you sue Facebook, and please read more carefully before you make claims of that nature... because not doing so leads to FUD, and also endless confused and uninteresting threads, as has happened in so many previous React threads.
If you're doing Scala/Play development, then I kinda feel like you should just use Scala.js. So you get a familiar language, providing the same sort of benefits as Elm, that almost definitely will be around for years to come. There are concerns with the size of the generated code, but on balance it doesn't appear significantly worse than most of the JS frameworks available.

I realize that's a suggestion that will only apply to a relatively small niche in comparison to many of the frameworks discussed, but since I'm a part of that niche... :)

But yeah, you probably should be using something better than ES5. So is it Typescript? Elm? Clojurescript? etc? I think Elm is out. And while the others are probably good, long-term solutions, why learn a new language if you can get more or less the same feature set with something that already integrates with your build-tool/stack? Seems like a no-brainer to me.

And then once you have that, do you really want a client-side "framework"? For some problems maybe... but I feel like if you solve the basic problem of language, that question becomes a lot less relevant.

Just seemed like an appropriate place to vent my own thoughts on the subject lately. I get there are plenty of people that don't care for or aren't excited about Scala for one reason or another, so I'm not attempting to persuade anyone it's the right choice for them.
There's a lotta grumbles about Sam and YC taking this stance at VCs these days. FWIW I think it's about right but SO hard to judge.
I like their proposal to close off the ports of San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton, Richmond, and Redwood City so they can run their pipe across the Golden Gate just above sea level.[1]

The tube size seems to be increasing, with proposals now up to narrow-body airliner dimensions. That's probably necessary, but it makes it harder to put tubes in freeway medians.

Nobody seems to have a good solution to emergency escape. There's an assumption that vehicles can be pushed or driven to the next station. That's probably not good enough. Experience with subways and Eurotunnel indicates the need for escape systems. Emergency exits at the ends of cars, escape stations from the tubes, and emergency repressurization systems for the tubes will probably be necessary. Airlock doors across the tube will be needed so you can repressurize a section rapidly, without waiting to repressurize hundreds of miles of tube. That's all possible, but it adds cost. Remember, the whole point of this is that it's supposed to be much cheaper than maglev, because the tube is cheap and dumb.

This is a classic problem with monorails, too. Look at pictures of fictional monorails[2] vs pictures of real ones.[3] The real ones have bigger and heavier track. Single track sections usually have walkways, while double track sections can use a rescue train on a parallel track. Here's a list of monorail fires and evacuations.[4] Remember that Hyperloop cars are powered by lithium batteries.

At least HTT is trying to build a closed loop. Musk's prototype is just a straight run. Straight is easy for this; it's turns that are hard. Turn radius is the big constraint on high speed anything - route planning and land acquisition are very tough for large turn radii. That's why the Northeast Corridor rail system runs so slowly.

Maybe people will be more tolerant of high-G turns if roller coaster videos are played inside.

The Hyperloop system is probably buildable. It's the low-cost claim that may not hold up.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/19/hyperloop-transportation-te...
[2] http://www.transfuture.net/transart/albums/userpics/10002/ci...
[3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Tokyo_Mo...
[4] http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/KimEd3.html
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We don't want to do that; however, I think sometimes when people think they're getting help they're actually getting hurt.

One of our goals is to release as much advice as we can for free for anyone.
NYC's USPS is notoriously unreliable, especially for those of us without the luxury of doormen. Despite living in a nice neighborhood with a vestibule that would certainly house a package just fine - and then include that the postman has keys to get to just outside my apt door - USPS packages are routinely lost, yet "delivered".

Amazon at least mitigates this loss risk by unquestionably resending the package without additional charge. This exercise has grown tiresome.
Thoughts on this map:

* There's a route from Miami to Orlando and a route from Jacksonville to Atlanta, but nothing connecting Orlando to Jacksonville?

* Connecting Phoenix to Albuquerque and Denver to Salt Lake City is going to be really goddamn hard (mountains) for how small those cities are (but no SLC - SF?)

* Spokane-Boise, but not Reno or SLC or Seattle?

* Boston? Baltimore? Tampa? Charlotte? Cleveland?

* Why is (tiny) Concord, CA even there?

But most importantly, it's huge! Doesn't it make more sense to start with a single route (IMO, Boston - NY - Philly - Buffalo - Toronto - Detroit - Chicago)?
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I thought the dream was SF / LA to NYC, how does that work with that map?
Charles Babbage (and Thomas Colby) also argued for uniform rates in the British postal system.
So you're advocating screwing over the investors from the first accelerator? Especially after they guided the startup to a potentially successful pivot?
It's not a bubble, it's a balloon
Hi All, This is Stefano, NetBeez cofounder. We decided to build NetBeez because we felt the pain of supporting remote users without having proper data available to detect network and application performance issues. Users generally knew before us that this or that application was not working. The monitoring tools we were using only checked the status of routers and servers and were not good at detecting partial/performance failures that users experienced.

NetBeez agents monitor the network and applications from the user perspective. You can apt-get our software agent and install it on different linux boxes, then start running PING, DNS, HTTP, and Traceroute tests agains web applications. By doing so you catch two birds with one stone, because you validate (1) network connectivity and performance at the locations where the agents are installed and (2) detect problems with the web application itself. Also, you can understand if a problem is local (only affecting one location, thus most probably network related) or global (affecting all the locations, thus most probably web service related). We also have a Raspberry Pi image available on our website.

That's pretty much it, I hope you like it and please feel free to reach out to us anytime if you need help to setup or configure it.
They whitelist Taboola, Outbrain, and other native ad networks. I think the strict standards horse has left the barn.
No. R&D spend has risk because you only succeed a certain % of the time. Valeant succeeded by jacking up prices. They were able to do so by partially paying copays. Here then you have a version of the principal agent problem. Customer gets more meds than needed and gets brand name valeant meds at no cost to themselves; valeant gets its money by gaming the payment system from PBMs. Thats why esrx and CVS cut ties with philidor(guilty sub of valeant).
Don't forget all the shady tax shit they do too -- the very worst of corporate America's 'financial engineering'.
Being able to trace oral tradition back in time and discerning origin and carrier is eye opening... The aspect of peeking into the past is alluring... However, what's the confidence level here? What are the basic assumptions?
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That's a very narrow view. Each item is priced as part of the overall cost of shipping, and supply+demand factors. Amazon knows the average bundle size.
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> The low end is something like the PIC 10F family, when compared to the Cortex-M0 its about a tenth the cost and a fiftieth the power consumed

I don't really believe either of those claims. At 1ku quantity on Digikey (which admittedly is not the cheapest vendor) cheapest Cortex-M0 chips cost $0.378 and low-power chips (NXP KL03) start from $0.504. That aforementioned KL03 is advertised to run at 50 µA/MHz.

Meanwhile cheapest PIC costs $0.35 and is rated 175µA at 4 MHz, which equals to 43.75 µA/MHz. Of course the power consumption figures are not directly comparable, and something like µA/MIPS might be better metric anyways. But based on this there is no way PIC is anywhere near fifty times more power efficient or ten times cheaper.
Who uses scala.js? I was not under the impression that it was "ready".
Not sure how much relevant it is, but author's stance on JSX reminds me of a meme known as "Baton Roue" which depicts person throwing a stick into the wheel of the bicycle he's riding. In other words - sure you don't have to use JSX, but if you really decided to work with React you are highly advised to go with JSX because that's what makes work with it much easier: you get familiar syntax which is easily parseable when somebody else is reading a code. However, if you decided against JSX then you're doing yourself a disservice, because sticking to raw JS does not improve development process at all, probably even opposite.
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Follower vs. Leader
In a sea of people who are thriving to be CEO, inventors, corporate leaders, etc. I can't help to wonder if anyone actually wants to be a follower and not a leader?

I am a decent programmer. Not great, not a rock-star or whatever. But I am a great worker, yes I might be biased but experience has proved that right. What makes me a great worker is my honesty, motivation, will to learn new stuff, improvisation, curiosity, hard working, knowledge about various areas, etc.
And that is what always ends up making me a "leader", but I don't want to be a leader. All I want to do is to find a great leader to follow. But I am not able to do that. Where are very few leaders worth following in my country, if any.

Don't get me wrong, I like IT, I like business in general. I see it as a big game for adults, and it is fun to play. But, I also have other interests, that sadly can't bring any money, I don't want to get into details but take my word for it that there is no money.
And where ever I work I end up being a "leader", first unofficially, then officially. And the person above me is usually a owner of the company.

And, OK, this might sound weird. But deep down I don't "believe" in him/her. And I cannot be a follower (in the purest meaning of that word) to that person. I cannot submit myself to that kind of person.
And then I end up being a leader (unofficially, at least to the extent of the part I lead) and that is the exact opposite of what my career goals are.

Has anyone here have that situation? And how did you resolve it?
There is no single optimal way to divide the cost among all the passengers. See also: airlines, and capitalist vs socialist economies.
Maybe you are just more cynical than me :)

Actually I think cargo cult thinking is more of a problem at the accelerator/angel/VC level than at the startup level. We have all these funders copying the YC model and relatively few trying to do things differently. We need much more diversity in funding and acceleration models. All roads might lead to rome, but we don’t all need to travel there on the same bus.
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