skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not cool to criticize startups in silicon valley because that's what the place stands for. There's already enough people in the world who will say it's a stupid app (probably 99.9%), I don't see anything wrong with some encouragement from a small community. And like you observed, an app won't get traction no matter how famous the founder is if it's not good enough, so life is not exactly "unfair".
I have no idea how starting with <?php in a file is relevant. Should we also start mocking languages that expect a given file extension?
Dragonaut by Sleep is also pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-FjO3E8K-E

One of the few songs where the low quality makes it sound better.
Houses and bedrooms are hardly necessary for private sex. You don't even need buildings. Just space or cover and careful (or not so careful) timing.
Ideally web app and its data is instantly accessible anywhere, not just on your desktop. They bypass any possible install restriction (or AppStore restriction, which is why Apple is deliberately keeping Safari in 2010).

The look & feel argument is total bullshit at least for me. Every native app I am using is completely different. The only consistent look & feel is with ms office apps like excel, word and powerpoint.

Performance is also a lot about how and who wrote the app rather than if the app is native. It's just harder and requires a lot of knowledge to make javascript app perform well, but it's not some impossibility.

And yes, standards are still creating too high level APIs and it takes forever to gain more and more access to the same things native apps have. But that will get better due to extensible web manifesto.
In 8 years you'll be able to upgrade to a battery pack that's half the weight, which means it can be lower capacity, increasing your miles per dollar, while giving you increased range versus when you bought the car.

Because it will be smaller it could theoretically even be a free upgrade, depending on the recycling value of the old pack.
I hate the fact that breakthroughs like this are patentable.

People need to follow Alexander Flemings lead:

The pharmacist Sir Alexander Fleming is revered not just
because of his discovery of penicillin – the antibiotic
that has saved millions of lives – but also due to his
efforts to ensure that it was freely available to as much
of the world’s population as possible. Fleming could have
become a hugely wealthy man if he had decided to control
and license the substance, but he understood that
penicillin’s potential to overcome diseases such as
syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis meant it had to be
released into the world to serve the greater good. On the
eve of World War II, he transferred the patents to the US
and UK governments, which were able to mass-produce
penicillin in time to treat many of the wounded in that
war. It has saved many millions of lives since.

http://www.mobileworldlive.com/blog/penicillin-the-antidote-...
It is known that Stoneham's constant alpha_2,3 is normal to base 2 but not to base 6.[1]

[1]http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/dhbtalks/dhb-nonnormalit...
Ask HN: Do you organize conferences?
Looking to connect with conference organizers to understand what are some of the biggest challenges are in terms of marketing and pulling off a successful conference.

May I have 15 mins of your time to chat?
Egos are colliding over attribution. Go figure!

There’s a patent issue too, but it’s difficult to evaluate since the issue is between a non-profit (The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) and a public institution (University of California, Berkley) and most people acknowledge that either would be better for progress than any commercial entity.
Probably related: http://blog.brakmic.com/writing-a-console-twitter-client-in-...
It seems most people criticize software not because of hate but because of confusion. Digital products like software don't have a physical "shape" that makes it obvious what they improve on. (E.g. the initial confusion about the intended usages of Adobe Lightroom vs Adobe Photoshop.)

Imagine if blind person was told about a bicycle and how it can transport a person from point A to point B. Then someone else presents him with a description of a car and how it has 4 wheels. The blind person might say, "but what the hell would I want 4 wheels instead of 2?!? That's twice the maintenance and replacement parts!" But then you explain that the 4-wheel can self-balance without a kickstand and can transport 5 people instead of just 2. Those kinds of conversations never happen because people can see the obvious differences between a bicycle and a car.

Unfortunately, the "shape" of software is amorphous. We can all be "blind" to the value proposition of unknown software. Software is described with "words". (Sometimes with screenshots too but then again, the screenshots themselves often have more "words" surrounded by GUI boxes or colors.) This is why so many "Show HN" threads have the question, "what exactly does this do?" or "how is this any different from X?"

As for your theme... I don't know about Techcrunch comments but on HN, there's a propensity to be skeptical & criticise rather than fawn & praise. (https://venngage.com/blog/why-you-need-to-stop-obsessing-ove...)

To me, "hater" is somewhat clickbaity but I think it originates from the "haters gonna hate" meme so if you want to riff on that, I get it.
Al Cisneros is still the vocalist/basist/leader. The original drummer, who also played in Sleep left the band in 2008.
Here's their comparison with browserify and others: https://webpack.github.io/docs/comparison.html.
Personally, I use browserify because it is ultra simple to get set up. No config file, gulpfile or anything and I'm using es6 and watchify to auto recompile. We use webpack at work, it's more performant and has some nice features, like using it manage your css and images as well, but getting it set up can be a headache.
I find it interesting because it is the only data that exist that can quantify and contextualize the anecdotal reports of the volume and impact of helicopter use at Davos.
My editor aligns things for me - no effort at all.
So a big reason to use Webpack is that I can replace both Gulp and Browserify with it, and have one fewer component?
There is this project : http://weboob.org (Web Outside Of Browsers). It allows the use of certain web apps in the terminal. It's a french project, so it's mostly french apps that have been integrated.
> It's not cool to criticize startups in silicon valley because that's what the place stands for.

Fucking what? Would you say nobody in Hollywood should ever judge a movie script because the place is about making movies? "Well, whoever wrote this script obviously put a lot of effort into it, so here $50 million"
An admirable effort sure, but I can't help but feel it's empty words. The careful avoidance of any mention of techniques for evaluation is the most damning evidence. The reason the battery of achievement based metrics have become a defacto standard is they are comparable. Every student taking an AP is taking a known test, and receiving a known score.

"Community involvement" in contrast is much more vague. It's hard to put a marker on the relative impact of various activities. Do you discount things if it's organized by a third party (ie the community services most prep schools already require for graduations)? How do you account for the economic factor? It's a lot easier to be involved in your community if you aren't working to assist your struggling family. But at the same time, do you reject a more qualified candidate purely because they come from greater privilege?

Simple market forces are going to force the achievement race simply because spots are so limited yet have such a drastic effect on life trajectory.
Both shows are sold out. Must wait at door.
What can we learn from how jQuery symbiotically pushed the Web Platform forward?
I think that's the point of the Valley, isn't it? That you can try to do something stupid and people will give you the benefit of the doubt? Idk about you but I made $6k off AirBnB last quarter, which was nice, so I'm not complaining. That's a big obvious one, but I could probably list 20 others from the area that have affected me in a positive way. (My point being that sometimes something great comes out of what seems dumb, as is well known.)

I don't disagree at all that serious looks at what went wrong are very, very useful to everyone else, but I personally like that Silicon Valley is a sort of safe space for experimenting with dumb ideas where people won't make a big deal out of it if one or more of your ideas don't work out.
And without JS you don't get real applications on the web. Dumb text is fine for web 1.0, 2.0, but modern web applications are expanding far beyond that. Are there ways to be abusive with JS? Sure. But JS is what enables web applications as opposed to just having text-on-page (newspaper 2.0).
While there’s a patent issue, this is an issue of attribution (i.e. ego). I know most would prefer either a non-profit (The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) or a public institution (University of California, Berkley) than some commercial entity.
Love it - fascinating idea
How serious does Microsoft treat this project? (WinObjC)
I love this album. Great for long (stoned) afternoon runs in a canyon.

Always thought it sounded like Sleep decided to take up where Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" left off.
...or simply trading those "rights" for the freedom to be responsible for their own lives. One gives up a lot of freedom to be an employee. That tradeoff might be worth it for some people, and not as much for others.
It sounds like he's acting like a product owner as well - being one of the only people that actually knows how the game works.
> If you just want the things you list, you can go somewhere much cheaper than Tokyo (e.g. central US, northern/western Europe - as you say, any large city in a developed country will do)

Right, I'm not claiming Tokyo is the best place for startups. Just that there's an investment opportunity (I was going to say "arbitrage" but that's too strong as it implies risklessness).
Calendar Control in ASP.NET Installed 45K+ Times
I think each entry is supposed to be tweet-sized, and it's supposed to be read as a sequence of tweets (numbered so that Twitter's web site doesn't mess it up).
Seems I might be outdated, and ES6 does define an order.
I am if anything a critic of Rumsfeld and have called him the most overrated minister (his SID project is just one example of his unrealistic ideas) and it's easy to point fingers at the many damaging decisions he made in the Bush jr. administration. In other word I have nothing good to say about him.

But I have no idea what kind of problematic (and wrong) decisions I would have to do if I was in power and so isolated from that (which I have no problem with) this is just a fantastic and wonderful thing to read. I wish more of the older generation would enrich us with games, apps and other perspectives to counter what seems to be a very youth centric avalanche of location based dating apps and other young generation issues.

So props to Rumsfeld for never feeling too old to try new stuff.
>Human brain and human behavior is not "black and white" anymore, it's never going to be. It's a complex system of neuron junctions

Aren't those neurons fundamentally firing on and off, like that of a binary system? On and off is analogous to "black and white"
OK, is this for real ? Does everyone have to use the Oracle OCI library under the hood ?
I think you substantially over-estimate the number of tickets which can actually be 'solved' like this, and dramatically under-estimate the cost it would take to solve the problem. I'd have a hard time believing that the large number of companies who all operate this model are getting the cost-benefit analysis wrong by such a large margin as you seem to suggest.
Correct, and I understood that, so I was not clear. My question was on whether or not patient notes are also associated with more-bureaucracy-for-the-same-health-outcome. At higher cost. Maybe more patient notes actually lead to better health outcomes, even though they're an annoyance for doctors and cause them to see less patients.
An in Depth Look at Blockbridge Storage Profiles
NFS also hosted one of the first widely-exploited integer overflows (not for code exec, but for privilege escalation).
I don't know man. Every time I've worked with that style of approaching the problem, it feels like I'm just writing HTML with different syntax.
No lead yet, however we could have detected the cause of the problem (water quality that would be corrosive to old pipes)
Source, readme, and ideological rant here: https://github.com/joeltg/grasp
Honestly, it's 2016. Running a modern web page and browser without javascript is just silly. You're losing out on a lot of quality of life features, that people just expect to be there. It's the equivalent of taking away a touch interface from modern mobile phones.
Top and 3rd comments on the HN thread are both criticism, and if you actually read the follow up article on tech crunch:

Some say it’s dumb, some say it’s great, and a lot say something in between

What do I feel about it? It feels fresh

Mind you, it’s on a massive hype-train right now so take it all with a grain of salt

That doesn't sound like you're not allowed to criticize a startup.
can you share more?
This is the guy who became "famous" for commenting ALL the time on TechCrunch. Sorry, I can't take you seriously.
Reminds me of the JFK quote "We have nothing to fear except fear itself"
Damn. I hadn't read about that before. That's messed up. Most messed up being that the courts basically refused to hear the truth because it was classified. There's a defense for ya - "We can't submit the truth as evidence, so we'll have to go with this falsehood over here. Good luck."
> To me, "hater" is somewhat clickbaity but I think it originates from the "haters gonna hate" meme so if you want to riff on that, I get it.

Yes, it's a riff of that, and a term I've seen expressed by the startup crowd frequently. (That, and "anyone who criticizes my startup is just trolling," which is a related but different problem.)
After that I did. And I was so much surprised, Apple delays 2FA activation for a week! 'to be sure that you are you'
The Butler Didn’t Do It: Hello Alfred and the On-Demand Economy’s Limits
It's definitely an album.

The definitions are fairly woolly, but generally speaking, to be classed as a single, a release can have up to three tracks, with each track up to 10 minutes and in total no longer than 30 minutes runtime.

Anything with three to five tracks, with a total run time of up to 25 or 30 minutes (depending on who you ask) can be classed as an EP.

Anything with a more than five tracks, and less than 30 minutes runtime is a mini-LP.

Anything with a longer runtime than this, is an LP, otherwise known as an album. Even if it only has one track.
Many endorsers have already committed to implementing changes consistent with the report recommendations – from revised essay questions and marketing materials, to the development of entirely new recruitment, scholarship and high school programs focused on community engagement and caring for others...."We don’t want students who do things just because they think they have to in order to get into college"

This is sort of an impossible goal. If you put something on the college application, and judge students by it, then you are certain to be selecting students who are doing that activity just in order to get into college.

At this point, I think it may simply be better to use a lottery to fill slots at the most selective colleges. Set a bar at 1400SAT, top 10% of class, and one significant extracurricular. Then award students additional points for slightly higher SAT or better class rank or more exceptional extracurricular. Do a lottery, with your chances weighted by total points.[1]

Top-ten schools are recruiting from a pool of over a billion people, that means that among the top 1% of that pool there are 100,000 students each year. Distinguishing among that top 1% is nigh impossible, and if you try to do it based on any measuring stick, you will just set off a red queen race. Asking for people to show that they contribute to the community on the application is not a recipe for producing people who can successfully contribute to their communities. It is a recipe for producing people who can create the appearance of contributing to the community. The two are very different.

[1] I'm sure this policy would have to be slightly more complicated when taking into account the needs of recruiting a competitive football team, or in rewarding the biggest donors. But overall, I think this kind of plan would work for filling most of the slots in college class.
Science has always been a human endeavor. The politics around mid-20th century physics is a similar minefield.

However, it's far more pure, than, say, typical SV venture capital.

Lander is widely known for being both a scientific and political heavyweight. He knows how to gain power, knows how to wield it, and uses it both to serve scientific goals and his own.

Such use of power has pushed forward science to some degree by allowing considerable economic resources to be applied in a focused manner. But it gets used for other purposes too, because Lander is still a human, and still makes mistakes.
"Our surroundings have a profound impact on our psyche."

Is this a proven fact?

Statements like these make sense intuitively but I would rather see scientific evidence for this statement than just accept it.
The problem is not really torrents. The problem is that seeds are ephemeral. But an equally ephemeral source for any protocol will always make the availability of the resource low. The solution is not to change the protocol; the solution is to have less ephemeral sources.
How is this different than a franchising model, where a parent corporation (say, Taco Bell) sets a bunch of conditions on the franchise license, but independent operators actually execute the restaurant business?
To be fair, there is a lot of hate on tech forums, because that is generally the attitude of most techies. "Oh, that's stupid because of X. I've seen that back when it was Y." Most people in tech appear to believe that if you think of reasons why an idea will fail, that somehow makes you smart. I've learned the opposite, that figuring out how to make idea work is what makes you smart.

That said, HN is the Mecca of all startup-wannabes. You're going to get a disproportionate amount of lashback here either for or against all-things-startup.

Like anything, if you're going to post a comment, or a product, expect a lot of dumb negative feedback and ignore the haters. Take the good negative feedback and internalize that, though.
A lot of breakthroughs in science have a similar fate. One example was finding that DNA was a double helix with Watson, Crick, and Rosalind Franklin. Watson and Crick got all the credit but Franklin definitely played a major role in that discovery and was mostly written out.
Feds find serious deficiencies at one of Theranos's labs
I think this depends on the demographic and context more than anything. Sometimes a start-up will be posted to HN and it feels like everyone in the comments section has "drank the kool-aid" and othertimes it seems the exact opposite possibly being too critical (though I feel like a healthy mix is the usual around here). As far as HN is concerned I don't think there is a general "you can't hate on start-ups" mentality but there are times when things can be click-y on any conversational site.

Now news sources like TechCrunch? Good luck. If a start-up is on the rise they'll publish whatever gives them more clicks. When a start-up is on the decline they'll still publish whatever gives them more clicks. If that means "not admitting they're wrong" then that's just how it'll be.

As for Peach I downloaded it to try it. I didn't "get it". Thought it was terrible because I couldn't share or do anything without finding people first. So I uninstalled. I don't have time to cultivate friends on yet another social network; it needs to essentially be done for me. Which yeah sounds super lazy but I don't think it's off the mark either.
There are other comments, such as (in order of most recommended):

> Eagerly anticipating your gamification of waterboarding.

and quoting Rumsfeld's' opening "I’ve done business, politics, and war."

> Yes, we get it. You’ve killed people.

and the rest in the same style.

Maybe Rumsfeld's PR peeps didn't think this Medium appearance through.
You nearly brought me to tears. /hug

I'd hope to have that strength had I been in your position.
Good advices but I would add TypeScript as well
Reverse-Engineering Google Nest Devices
How is this different than other marketing automation software? I like the idea of personalizing based on weather (clever) but how personal can you get? Are you analyzing tweets and language to understand their behavior and tone?
Britain and Bill Gates pledge 4.2B dollars to fight malaria
There's no particular reason to assume that a more productive business will be more profitable than a subsidised one. That's a completely separate question.

If industry is more efficient, the Japanese people don't need to spend more. The same rate of spending will buy more goods and services, supporting more production by more businesses, generating more demand.

You can't get away from the fact that the same amount of money spent on production by a more efficient company generates more demand for the things that company needs in order to produce. Production by capital-consuming activities by its nature generates demand.
How we used Agile to make a drinking game
#TabletGate: New England Patriots Blame Surface Tablets for Loss
Samsung's gold Gear S2 smartwatch will soon be available worldwide
The Broad Institute has given an exclusive license to a commercial entity (Editas Medicine) for certain uses of CRISPR. I don't imagine UC would behave any differently.
> such as plates, mugs, … mugs, …

I see you also have too many mugs.
You can run "webpack-dev-server", which uses your Webpack configuration to serve your scripts with its own web server.

That means (1) it can do incremental recompilation, which I can't live without since my build takes 20 seconds; and (2) it can block requests while compiling, which is way better than having a background thing (e.g. watchify) recompile your code, since it means you're never interacting with a stale (or god forbid partial) compile.

The dev server also does automatic page reloading on recompile via some injected script magic. In my case that means I often don't even need to alt-tab to see my updates, like if I'm messing around with styling.

Webpack also has a whole paradigm that expands the use cases of require() in a pretty interesting and useful way. For example, you can tell it that require("../../icons/lolcat.png") should resolve to "static/lolcat.[8 chars of base64 SHA-256].png" and also do the appropriate file copying. Or you might want require("./stuff.csv") to resolve to a parsed JSON table, or any such transformation. There are a bunch of plugins for common uses. It's common to use require() even to load your CSS, because then Webpack can handle running it through your auto-prefixer or whatever.

It might seem kind of bloated, and I love Browserify for its simplicity, but I've come around to really like Webpack now that I've spent the proverbial 4 hours.
Artificial Intelligence Solved the Mystery of Flatworm Regeneration