skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual study abstract: "Habits of cell phone usage and sperm quality – does it warrant attention?" http://www.rbmojournal.com/article/S1472-6483(15)00300-4/abs...
How to recover the lost reminders on iPhone
You link to a paper that is exploring the use of palm oil as a lubricant? Who knows if it actually works and if you could even produce enough palm oil to replace what we currently use.
Possibly a different example can shine some light on the matter. Imagine getting a group of people who are over 30 and do not have a significant other. Then say, "Those people who have not gone on a date in the last 4 weeks are not single because they don't want to have someone in their lives".

Imagine a telling a group of obese people "Those people who have not gone on a diet in the last 4 weeks are not overweight because they don't want to be slim".

"Anyone who has not had an address in 4 weeks is not homeless because they do not desire a home".

You can probably imagine hundreds more scenarios. When faced with repeated failure, many people fail to act in their own interests. In fact, I don't think the unemployment number is necessarily dumb -- it measures the number of unemployed people who have not given up hope of working. But we really need a measure of all the people who have given up hope, but still want to work.

What's unfortunate is the attitude that your question implies (and I'm not actually suggesting that you have this attitude, though it is very common): it is easy to think that people who have given up want the failure that they now experience. Normally this is not the case.

I once saw a homeless person trying to explain to someone their predicament. I don't remember their exact words, but it was something like this: "It's -5 degrees C today. I live in a cardboard box on the side walk. Do you really think that I wouldn't rather sleep in a warm bed? But I've got a lot of problems and this is the best that I can do right now." Followed by considerable profanity (probably their case would have been easier to follow for the listener had that been omitted).
> It's not an unreasonable position for a municipality to chose lose money on a stadium. They typically lose money on symphony orchestras, ballets and performing arts centers. That one is considered low culture and the other considered high culture is not relevant is we assume that the people are being ably represented.

This rests on the premise that is is reasonable for taxpayer money to fund any cultural activities at all, "high" or "low".

In any case, even accepting this premise, the difference is that the examples of "high" culture you cite are, unlike professional sports stadiums, generally not promoted on the basis of claims that they will contribute to the economic development of their communities; rather, they are generally promoted on the basis of unfalsifiable claims that they will have a positive cultural and educational impact.
To be fair, the MLB is wildly popular.

73.7 million attendance last year, by far the world's most attended league. There isn't a close second. To pull 30,517 fans per game to 2,417 games is truly astounding.

To put it into context, the MLB is almost as popular as the NBA and NHL combined.
(responding to your comment and the other comment about a possibility of attackers)

I agree that the baseline should be independent, autonomous, safe operation of each vehicle without any network/cooperation, but in time it's going to go beyond that. I have no doubt that it will happen.

Once independent operation is proven to be reasonably safe and dependable for everyday use, it will have achieved a certain degree of safety and efficiency - significantly better (at least in safety) than humans, but still prone to occasional accidents (regardless of who/what is at fault), especially when human drivers are still allowed to drive on the same roads.

At that point, people will demand even higher levels of safety (similar to the nines of high availability), and greater efficiency (i.e., speed). Unfortunately, with human drivers sharing the same road, those two demands are at odds with each other; greater efficiency inherently reduces safety. At some point though, the demand will be great enough that we'll have to adopt something better - something with a higher level of coordination between vehicles, and where only computer-controlled vehicles can participate.

It certainly won't be pushed or adopted universally in one step, and it'll likely never cover all road infrastructure. It will be adopted first on high throughput routes, much like you have private toll roads today. Instead of paying a toll (or perhaps in addition), your car will enter the roadway by joining the network. Without network compatibility, you'll be unable to use the road.

Once you've joined the network, however, your vehicle can literally drive at breakneck speeds, avoiding other traffic by incredibly small margins, and all with significantly higher safety than non-networked roads.

Of course having a single network controlling vehicles opens up a possibility for attacks, just as modern commercial aircraft can be vulnerable to attack. It will be an issue, but not one without reasonable mitigation strategies and best practices. The "network" in question may not even be centralized in nature, but rather a decentralized, local mesh network with safeguards in place for each vehicle to detect and respond appropriately to situations where the network seems to be guiding vehicles outside safe bounds. There are a lot of ways that it could be implemented, but it'll be important (at least to me) that it's not all controlled by one government/corporation/entity, but instead rolled out as a set of interoperable industry standards.
Exactly. Throw in a 2x or 3x liquidation preference and participating preferred and some of those investors will be lucky to get their initial investment back.
My experience has been positive.

Their team has been doing good work. For example, Azure had the first/best Docker integration of all the cloud providers. What they had was superseded by docker-machine and swarm eventually, but they were definitely thinking ahead of the curve.

As a user of Azure, I admit that find some aspects of the service unusual, such as requiring users to pick a globally-unique identifier for every server they boot. As in, they ask you to provide a string for your instance's name, then they provide a hostname based on that string; if the hostname (thus the name you pick) is taken, you'll get an error.
> Soccer, the action flows pretty constantly

Yeah, but it's the same level of action in a single NFL play spread over an entire match.
It happens. Be kind to yourself and take it easy.
As a non-YC startup, I feel it quite unfair to be subsidizing other startups with our fees to DO.

Which is a shame because I really appreciate and enjoy what the DO engineers have done.

Nonetheless, I feel slighted, and while I had been otherwise happy with the service I am now all of a sudden incentivized to explore places more ecumenical.

The feeling for me will probably pass, but I wonder how many other people have been similarly slighted.
Ask HN: Should YC provide marriage counsellors to its portfolio founders?
YC has said that many companies run aground because of conflict between partners.

Wouldn't a huge amount of money be saved and possibly more successful companies be made, if YC required all portfolio companies founding partners to attend marriage counselling?
You send server-to-server messages on port 587? That is... non-standard. But an interesting approach.

You are using your users' gmail credentials? Or are you simply delivering over 587 the same as you would over 25?
China's upcoming VR theme park could be amazing
Agreed. The personal touch would likely have been lost as YC funds more companies.

And seeing Aaron in his entrepreneurial days, still makes me tear up. It makes me wonder what might have been possible if not for the tragic ending.

"Apparently the world is a ridiculous place".
The A-10 is obsolete because it's an air frame built around a cannon. The cannon is heavy, and the ammo is heavy. For all that weight the ammo runs out somewhere between 12 and 20 seconds.

The most efficient way to destroy things on the ground is with guided missiles and bombs. An F-35 with a brace of SDBs is going to do a lot more damage than an A-10, both because smart bombs are much more effective on a pound-for-pound basis and because it can get on station much more quickly. A strike aircraft with modern optics it can fly above AAA and shoulder launched SAM range and still engage moving targets on the ground.

The troops like the A-10 because it's loud and impressive and makes them feel like they haven't been forgotten.

Politicians like the A-10, too, because by staving off the ax once again they can make it look like they're doing something to support the little guy on the ground.

The Army brass likes the A-10 because they suspect when the shit hits the fan the Air Force will decide the multi-role aircraft all belong in some other role and abandon the Army altogether.

But none of that has any bearing on the effectiveness of the air frame itself. Not many people realize the A-10 only carried out 20% of the CAS missions in Afghanistan. The A-10 was the bee's knees when it was new and we were worried about thousands of Soviet tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap. But it's not 1985 any more.
No the fundamental issue is that an application should not require any external service to boot.

It has nothing to do with Ruby, or Rails or even Redis. It's just a design flaw of the application, that you often learn the hard way.
It seems like market saturation of YC companies will dilute their brand. Better for everyone else I guess.
3 hours is Albany. I pay about $800/mo for a 4b/3ba house there. When I used to be on the Amtrak a lot there was a fair number of folks doing that commute, mostly lawyers and construction guys.

90 minutes is Rhinebeck/Poughkeepsie. Plenty of country and suburbia places for $1100.
The product video nails it. I would purchase this if only there was a major city with a tech industry that was affordable enough to buy a house in.

One thing though, how well do the vents block air from flowing through? I know the vent grates I have now always have a some air flow seeping through when I close them?
I don't watch normally but I left the seahawks playoff games on in the background while I did other stuff. It's okay.

Watching with other people is pretty good. You chat while the commentators are going on about whatever or they are playing yet another incessant commercial then you watch the play and go back to talking.
I agree but it's from mismanagement/sprawl/lack of focus rather than poor macros. If storage costs and storage needs are really going down then I would be much more likely to use a cloud storage service. I would much rather have some "it just works" cloud magic but as it is right now they are just not economical for individual users. Are storage costs really decreasing? There haven't been any price drops on consumer HDs in years and I don't recall any S3 price drops recently...
Mine tends to be python but JS makes a lot of sense for things that need GUIs.
This is probably a leftover opinion from just a few years ago using AWS. At that time, the pricing model increased shockingly fast with AWS. I know a few startups that were caught off-guard.

AWS is far more competitive now and relatively inline with offerings from Digital Ocean and Linode.
Contracts are part of contract law, which the name suggests is a law. Of course contracts are legally binding documents, and a breach of contract is a violation of contract law (which is a civil, not criminal, offense).
I had a good time at the last baseball I went to (company event).

Didn't even see a minute of baseball.
I guess most people here will get your reference - piling on, you need even less framework if you just pipe your data to /dev/null.
I believe blktiger's point is that it was a good signal for value but is no longer.

I'll guess that most of the people who gave you that advice probably learned it some 30-40 years ago, when it was more applicable.
This is not only obviously true, I think it is also a completely reasonable calculus. They just proved that if the entire Redis cluster goes down they can get it back in 2.5 hours. It's almost certainly a caching layer, so there is no permanent data loss. If they fix the application bootstrap dependency on a Redis connection, and they add monitoring to more easily see in the future when the Redis cluster is the problem, next time that time period will probably be way shorter.

So, a very small risk of an hour or so of downtime sometime in the future which will not cause data loss, or tens of thousands of dollars a month for a failover cluster? I wouldn't replicate it either.
It is technically correct to say "breach of contract is not a crime". But it isn't correct to say that "breach of contract is not illegal".
Apple analyst and popular S.F. DJ dies after being stabbed by mob
The UK knew. They just aren't going to answer to Alex Salmond.
There are indeed. But is YC really going after those?

As far as I understand they are def interested in research etc. But I have still to see any real complex or hard problems they are trying to solve. Or am I missing something?
What is your point? No one should build expensive weapons because attacking them is so cheap? If anything, that strengthens the case for more expensive and sophisticated weapons. Canopy glass needs to block lasers, more RF shielding. Or you just think war is pointless, yay cool story bro.
I'm a former employee. Never saw this either.
GOLD+Strengthens+On+Further+Bullish+Offensive
How did user testing go for the UX portion of your work?
Or, depending on the version of the GPL, if you make service that you let the public access

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.en.html
The "A" version cannon is internal.

But no, it doesn't matter whether or not the cannon works. It's not what you'd use to engage targets on the ground. Or the air, for that matter.
How disingenuous can you people be?
If you want to use Microsoft Software, BizSpark is great. I've signed up a couple times for a couple different entrepreneurial endeavors of mine. Super easy. Always free.
I've got both Xen & KVM systems under my care.

It's no longer true that Xen needs to mean managing the kernel outside the VM. PVGRUB can be specified as the 'kernel' to boot, which will chainload a grub which can be managed inside the VM, which lets you run any kernel you wish and manage the boot process as you would on a non-virtualized system.

Amazon uses Xen for their EC2 product, and as I understand they too now set people up with pvgrub.
I just merged a change that picks a random osx system voice, so now you can hear the numbers read in german, chinese, etc. I guess the next step will be to allow people to set one.
When (not if) it breaks, you're screwed: no way to get access to the data, the client is completely opaque and there's no logging or a way to reset it. When it stops syncing, or they “handle” a network or server error by silently logging you out, you won't know until you miss a meeting or use stale data.

The main reason I pay for Dropbox is that simple model. I have a full copy on every machine, and if my internet connection fails, they go down, or something breaks I can just copy files like normal. If I see something odd, there's a full log & the ability to revert any changes.

There are times where boring is good and your core personal data is one of them.
Elon musk personaly blocks model X order of rude customer
Yes. Get a new job.

Go to Hired or Indeed Prime, list yourself, and watch the offers come in.

This is your first full-time job, right? Some jobs are good. Some jobs are good for a while. Some jobs are never good. It seems like this one was good for a while.

I suspect that as the youngest FTE, there's a lot of internal politics around promoting you. Possibly it involves you not having a college diploma (I assume you don't). So leave. Go somewhere else, where your talents will be recognized.

Incidentally, a friend of mine is 21yo, was hired at 19 as a full-stack dev at his fast-growing startup in SF, promoted, and is now leading a team. I'm sure you guys would enjoy meeting each other. Email me (email in profile) if you want to be connected.
Mossberg: Apple's own apps need work
automatic calorie tracking and nutritional macro profile breakdown for everything I eat, including restaurant food, without having to weigh, measure portion size and manually input.
Not on the production side. Tar sands, etc.
Do you think it's lack of YC seeking them out or lack of startup founders tackling these problems?
From a developers point of view, you're right. But there are package management systems and other stuff depending on being able to download from Github.

Ofc, Github isn't to blame for this, rather the ones that thought Github would be great to use as a CDN.
It wouldn't make sense to consider family lineage from before the team existed. That alone limits how much you can expand the pool of eligible shareholders.
Yeah, but all iOS Keyboards have serious stability problems. I'm sure that it's Apple's API's fault first, and hope that MS's resources help iron things out, but its really frustrating.

Integrating Cortana into the keyboard could be interesting though, would like to give it a spin if more convenient than it is today in comparison to Siri.
Certainly not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raffaello_Sanzio.jpg

No selfies in the canon here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchner_1919_portrait.jp...

Utterly unimaginable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muybridge_disk_step_walk....
Odd use of the word ecumenical.
That makes me feel better, actually. It's obscene money, and I don't agree with the subsidy. But, the players get beat up, and CET. Some commit suicide.

Fans paying high ticket prices, parking, meh whatever, make them pay more instead of begging from taxpayers though.
Agreed, and the lack of diversity is also a bit heartbreaking. No women, and no under-represented minorities (as far as I can tell). I'm sure YC has tried to fix that in present classes, but still funny that the stereotype of silicon valley is grounded in real life.
Well that's wrong.

The UK has (8,516 + 5,098) ~= 13.6GW of wind capacity[1].

They seem to have reported the UK offshore amount ("8,179MW") as the global capacity:

The global offshore wind market experienced a record year by installed capacity in 2015. Consultancy FTI Intelligence has projected installed generation capacity to nearly quadruple to 31,200 megawatts in 2019 from 8,179 megawatts in 2014.

[1] http://www.renewableuk.com/en/renewable-energy/wind-energy/u...
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Thanks!

Storage and networking are both areas we're investing a lot of work into right now. Blob storage isn't the first on the roadmap on the storage side, but I'll definitely pass on this feedback.
How is this hard to understand?

Pay publicist > get flowery article > receive IRL reputation points > profit
You're not going to fail over to a secondary datacenter in under 125 minutes. A RTO under that costs a prohibitively stupid amount.
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> Changes to the language: None

Best part of Golang, more languages need to borrow this feature. Second best is how relatively easy it is to get going with it.
I agree, I was expecting something like ncurses or something
Previous hn discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9741137
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Something about imitating the semantics of a UNIX shell in JavaScript doesn't sit well with me.
Are you planning to offer storage options? I find it's ridiculous to have to upgrade to a higher CPU/RAM plan (or add a new node) just because we're running out of disk space. We don't need detachable volumes or anything fancy, just the ability to increase the amount of disk storage.
Many of us now in our 40s started on Commodore 64s, Atari 800s, Apple IIs and similar when we were actually preteens. I think starting relatively young is pretty normal for every generation of programmers actually.
I'm pretty sure the OP intended to write "economical" instead.
Arcadia: Clojure Programming Language with the Unity 3D Game Engine
The Russian model is more like this in that they build an advanced model and then a 'monkey model' that is simpler and easy to mass produce quickly. The rationale being wars are either over very quickly or grind out over the long term. If the latter occurs they should theoretically be able to scale up faster then their opponent who is still producing their most advance machinery.

I read this in a great PDF doc a while back written by I think an ex Russian officer who talked about this and other strategies like their officer heavy army to allow quick expansion through bringing in civilians. I've not been able to find it again if anyone is familiar.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11025852

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012814
I don't understand why you would feel slighted, this is just a business partnership (albiet a large one) and no different than when Microsoft offered $500, 000 in azure credits to YC companies. There are certain perks to joining an organization of entrepreneurs and developers, this is one of them.
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Why such confidence in the future adoption of this system that you stipulate will be both dangerous and inconvenient? This might work as a scifi plot device, but it's not predictive.

[EDIT:] What if a moose crosses the road?
I stopped using Dropbox after the Snowden revelations broke loose. Dropbox does not use end-to-end encryption. You have to encrypt by yourself.

That is not particularly hard, but it still means that you are storing your files in a honeypot from which the NSA regularly draws a juicy feed.

Especially users outside the USA should never use a cloud service that lacks automatic end-to-end encryption.

As a non-American, you would also reveal your identity (along with your data) to a host of American surveillance agencies by paying by credit card. So, that is another non-starter. Along with unencrypted data, that is just an accident waiting to happen. They would store your dropbox data alongside Angela Merkel's digitized private phone calls to her husband. "I love you honey!". Seriously, I pay for cloud services only with bitcoin.
"I am wondering if you can send me a price list of your shaving brushes and I will be meeting up with him later today or tomorrow morning and let my guy know we should start on it as soon as possible to get the domain in the morning"

This is unsurprisingly accurate.
Off topic: I love it when websites are 'mobile first' without ever testing on a mobile browser. Every single link has a "new window" icon that's stretched to the entire width of my screen: http://s18.postimg.org/q551s8byh/tmp_14731_Screenshot_2016_0...
I've worked with some especially brilliant engineers that came out of the military. In point of fact, the attention to security concerns is generally impressive.
sure enough, it's a real term, and it's relatively old..
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/185999.html

I have never known what to call this, but have definitely been engaged in draining a few fleas.

Also, I can't believe it's been that long since google answers has been closed..
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I suspect the author means to liken it to zen sand gardens[1]. Though people also just like the name zen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_rock_garden
I guess if you're building a CLI intensive application in node to begin with then this library seems like a pretty nifty way to do it. I've used plenty of CLI tools that don't offer auto-complete where it really would be handy to see.