skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I come from a KDE background, but I find a noticable difference in user engagement when window resizing / minimizing / creation is not animated. The default animation moves minimized windows to its spot on the taskbar / dock, which gives a lot of useful context to users who would otherwise get lost.
It's not a definitive change and the problem is worldwide.
https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm on the Disclosure Data tab.
The reason they were allowed to be exempt was that they were a small community who promised and demonstrated that they would take care of each other in old age.
That's a rather weird use of the term “oracle”, which normally means “a black box that solves a decision problem in a single step”. Normally, to decide whether you've achieved your goals, you don't use a black box - you use performance metrics that you've defined yourself (and thus can't claim not to understand).
Link fail.
1. I always ask folks -- in private and group meetings -- "do you want the red or blue pill?"

2. Founders have asked for the brutal truth of the 'red pill 'every single time. No founder has ever asked for the blissful illusion of the blue pill. Not once!

3. I've coached 700 startups for TC50, LAUNCH Festival and the LAUNCH Incubator (27 and growing!)... never had a complaint. Not one. That includes Dropbox, Yammer, FitBit, CafeX, Clicker, Brilliant.org and hundreds more.

[ background: The person making these claims is close friends with my former partner on TC50 -- that partner was accused of some very nasty things. ]
Possibly they subcontract it out to non Amish?
The OP said Getting hired away from your current company is the _only_ way to get a fair raise (emphasis mine)

A single counter example is sufficient evidence to disprove such a universal claim.
Apart from the fact that material production is still the real source of material goods, that sounds like an individualist fantasy. The idea of controlling one's own mind is a tautology, and as for the body, who can say where it starts or ends? We are interdependent. Combine those two assertions and I don't think you can draw any lines around individual persons any more.

There is some particularly crazy thinking in philosophy on self-ownership, which may interest you:

Cécile Fabre, Whose body is it anyway? Justice and the integrity of the person

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cpt/journal/v9/n3/full/cpt2...
Very good point. I do realize most(friends & family) want only the best for me. However, none are introverted and nary a one's track record suggests they could cope outside of an intimate relationship for any length of time. We have differing needs and wants. Only recently has my mother has realized I am being genuine when I say, "alone does not necessarily mean lonely". I am generous and trusting to a fault, I empathize deeply and I abbhor asserting my will upon others(and detest others' will forced upon me). Yes, my professional and social life have suffered(sic)for it, according to their standards... which are pretty mainstream. However, I AM happy alone, I am better alone & while I do enjoy contact(and am quite charismatic), it is work for me. I don't 'network', I don't participate in group activities & I avoid crowds... not b/c I'm scared or unable, it is work, and it is not enjoyable. I am solo, I am celibate by choice and I make just enough to not be a burden on others. Just because I could make several factors more income, I could get laid any day of the week(not bragging, I used to... a lot) and I could manipulate those who are drawn to my odd persona, it doesn't mean I should do those things. I ENJOY less in almost every facet of my life, it is how I cope with being overwhelmed or stressed out(both come quite easily for me).
... and I am soooooo excited for your latest startup Ric. You're going to change the world -- again!

much love, thanks for speaking at the Angel Summit earlier this month!
BMW fan here! (To an extent). BMWs have their flaws (buy a 15+ year old E46, I dare you), but damn, it feels much more like they thought things through. Nothing in the interior of my E46 annoyed me. I've driven the F30 as hire cars many times and love it. However, I drove a 2015 Mercedes E-class for 3 days last week...:

- The parking brake is a PEDAL and the release is a totally separate lever.

- The button to disable auto start-stop is labelled "Eco" rather than a more standard VW/BMW "A" icon in a circular arrow.

- The gear selector is a weird stalk (drive is down, reverse is up, and park is a separate button you push inwards?!).

- The cruise-control always stayed -1km below what is set.

- The gearbox mode selection cycle in the order: Eco->Sport->Manual, i.e. in eco, you need to cycle to get to manual rather than being able to select it directly. Also, flipping up a gear with the paddle DOESN'T put it in to manual mode.

- The cruise control stalk is complicated and had an LED, which is out of view.

- No button on steering wheel to directly change radio station.

- You need to dig the brake pedal to enable the auto-hold.

- To wash the windscreen, you need to push inwards a small button on a stalk to the second level! The first level activates the wipers without water. I dry-wiped the windscreen a few times before realising.

But apart from all that, it was a nice drive.
I was intrigued about the part about not being able to ready the response body more than once. Can anyone more experienced explain why this decision was made in the core libraries? And if there is a good reason to not read the body more than once, is the author making a mistake by trying to get around it?
That's different. Hwang's case was the story of a fraudster, who built his empire based on deceit, bribery, using his students like slaves, and generally knowing which buttons to press to incite a wave of nationalism mixed with personality cult.

That is, he was one of his own kind. A legend, if you could call him that.
Kbenson gets what Im saying with a simple, static server for interfaces and such. I totally agree that a more feature-rich server, esp tolerant of hostile networks, has all kinds of performance and structuring issues that arent easy to do. Got to learn tat the hard way applying B3 class assurance to one I built. The FSM's and info flows piled up quicker than most would think.
"SMTP STS relies on the certificate authority (CA) system and a trust-on-first-use (TOFU) approach to avoid interception. The TOFU model allows a degree of security similar to that of HPKP [RFC7469], reducing the complexity but without the guarantees on first use offered by DNSSEC."

Also, can be used with DANE for additional security.
The only thing necessary to make self driving tech highly valuable if that it be significantly safer than human driving.
It seems like a big step in the wrong direction. Sending invoices on paper should become a thing of the past. But even if you are sending invoices digitally, then choosing a common format would be the first problem. There are already several existing formats, from Edifact to XML based Oagis, with no winner in sight.

Rest assured that these petty JSON, vCard or the like ideas have little chance to work in real life, specifically if you need to compress invoices into the space limitations of QR codes... Real life B2B invoices are much more demanding.

When it comes to payment information, that is much simpler to solve. You don't even need to QR encode that, relatively simple forms with human readable numbers can be read by modern smartphone banking apps. I have two different installed (two different Swedish banks), works with most of the invoices I get home. The few that still come on paper, that is.
It looks like this may be the updated version of the article:

US gov't sets record for failures to find files when asked

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/697e3523003049cdb0847ecf828af...
The traction I saw in https://leadiq.io/ was NOT in the product as much as the founder... it was clear to me that you were a winner who knew how to execute at a high level -- even if the product was a little awkward and round around the edges when we met.

Truth is, we're all a little awkward at the start... Uber and Thumbtack were both a little awkward when I did those angels rounds too.

The job of an angel investor is to look at the promise of the startup -- not the problems.
It made me shaky if I had to share my Company's name as I am in a similar position to you where there are only 6 people at the company and I'm in a easily identifiable position there.
Currently that is optional so I put as much detail as I could about my position without giving away any company details.
+1

Sam is wildly successful
I'm wildly successful

We've disagreed twice in 10 years, but when we do it's like two huge bulls cracking heads -- it's ugly! :-)
Is there anything about IETF standards that creates an outsize share of control for a limited number of corporations?
It's something else to see your little hometown newspaper on the front of HN.
That's just how the design industry is. You could say the same thing for almost all forms of design:

There is a terrible trend among designers to start doing visual design too early.

There is a terrible trend among designers to start doing typography too early.

There is a terrible trend among designers to start doing UI design too early.

The cold truth that designers don't want to admit is that most companies never even reach the stage where graphic design matters. It is almost entirely done to appease the fetishes of early adopters. Look at Craigslist. Look at Amazon. Look at Flappy Bird.

The thing is, the kind of design companies actually need: which is Capital D, integrated, cross-disclipline Design, most professional designers don't actually know how to do. They know how to push words and pictures around around in an image file. They know how to conduct a brainstorming session. If you're lucky they know how to do usability testing. And if you're really lucky they know how to think like a user. But they don't know how to move in a principled way through all of the domains of production at their company and articulate a vision for how design practices can be dispatched to advance their goals.

And the subset of designers who do know how to do that, are generally so disenfranchised within their organization that they are fought every step of the way until they give in and just make pretty mockups because that's what their coworkers want.
Most likely they're referring to the C# part being written for Microsoft's "ASP.Net Web API" framework, rather than just being a web API in general.

That framework is designed for C# programmers and most of the resources (tutorials/stackoverflow answers/etc) around it will assume you are writing C#. So it makes some sense to use C# for that part of your application even if most of the underlying business logic is implemented in separate F# libraries.

That's probably why they specified it - to explain why they're using both C# and F#. I can see how it could be confusing, especially if you're not familiar with that rather generically named framework.
Here is a great talk by mjg59 about using the TPM, and why it's required https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rML5DfYUh_k
I thought Jane Street used OCaml! (I know the two are similar.) Why did they need to target the CLR?
Then you must ask the OS vendors to include it, not startup developers.

And in any case, encrypting DNS won't solve the surveillance issue, since the HTTPS handshake sends the domain in clear-text, so that the server knows which certificate to send (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication)
Not just what you know, but who you are too: Privacy and identity
I actually believe it's fine for folks to incubator hop -- Sam does not.

Sam's Post:
http://blog.ycombinator.com/getting-into-y-combinator

my post:
http://calacanis.com/2016/01/26/incubator-hopping-should-you...

99% of the investors out there agree with my position -- the 1% that don't work at YCombinator. :-)
Caching with Instance Variables in Rails 5
Edward Snowden LibrePlanet Privacy can't depend on corporations standing up
The fish shell? Does it claim POSIX /bin/sh compatibility?

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...
I feel like this a matter of balance. Taken to either extreme, you could end up poor doing something you love. Or paid decent to do something you never got super good at cause you hate it.

Probably the best strategy is to select something within the venn diagram of things you like and things that are lucrative.
I perfer the verbosity because it helps with eliminating ambiguity when the code changes hands or goes into "maintenance". This is especially true in weakly, or duck, typed languages.

Both have merits though.
And a search tool so that you can compare salary's in your own field.
Erm, AlphaGo's payoff in technical terms is maybe far off, yes, but the PR was huge!
When I was broke I would sometimes ask folks "hey can you should me how you would tackle this problem?"

It was then up to them to do the spec work or not.

However, when I was able to afford to pay folks, I was like "well, if I pay three people $500 or $1,000 to do a project and pick the winner as my eventually designer, that's a good use of $1,500!"

Thanks for taking the time to share this story. I'm far from perfect, but I work really hard every day to help as many people I can.... because so many people helped me get to the top of the mountain!
The developers need to talk to their own lawyer about the future. If they stay at Apple, the firm might pay for their legal costs. But if they leave, they'll have to pay their lawyers themselves. Even if someone like the EFF comes in to defend them pro-bono, they're going to be out of work and un-hireable (no company is going to take on that potential liability).
Colour Analysis Charts by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1902)
Sounds like it really wants to differentiate itself from the "old kind of socialism", which has a heritage of thought which already contains a lot of the things mentioned here.

And, as with most socialist thought, tends to kick up a lot of cries and moans from the self-professed economists in the room.
It was a pleasure to watch you grow into an awesome CEO yourself!
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Hey HN,

I just launched this little side project, it's not entirely on typical HN topics since it's coloring books, but I thought there might be some interest.

I'm exploring a few idea around augmented reality to enhance the coloring experience and be a proof of concept of augmented print content (I haven't seen much else on that field besides some advertising)

Would love to field any questions or garner some feedback. Thanks
You've fought really hard to get RedTri through some very rough times... I respect that a lot. It's been awesome to work with you JB!

If you have kids, I suggest checking out their SF page:
http://redtri.com/san-francisco-kids/
That's sort of my point... the PR they got from the recent Boston Dynamics video was significantly less favorable. So DeepMind stays in the family, while Boston Dynamics is out.

According to some sources, they paid around $400 million for DeepMind. Boston Dynamics only cost them a bit more than that. They could have kept both of them running indefinitely.
It might even be 20 core processor, because htop actually shows threads and most processors nowadays are 2 threads per core.

For example my R710 shows 16 threads while it's only 2x4 real cores.
A semiconductor fab costs several billion dollars. Rollout of a national communications network still costs even more. The world is still full of big lumps of capital that aren't going away any time soon.
I know. I was waiting for some life or death problems...
Successful deployment of STS would bring to zero the number of real-world use cases for DNSSEC/DANE, which would be a very good thing.
"Don't mistake your vocation" doesn't mean "follow your passion".

Paraphrasing, it means "do what you you're naturally good at"

"Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed".
I can't read the whole book but I couldn't find anything in the Amazon article about land or enclosure.

The enclosure wiki article doesn't mention Luddites. The only thing I could guess at is that this process seems to have driven peasants into the cities to become workers in factories. But i thought the luddites were skilled if not educated upper middle class workers(like UAW autoworkers used to be) not peneniless peasants. Although I suppose some of them might have been employed as apprentices and developed the needed skills.
Unlike DNSSEC (which does not solve the problem the root comment complains about), DNSCurve/DNSCrypt doesn't require universal deployment to function. The 0.001% of people who use DNSCurve get most of the benefits of DNSCurve, despite being in a tiny minority.
I talked to Sam about his original comments and he said they were not fair and he corrected them.

Sam and I are actually, and I know this is hard to believe, fond of each other. We started as Sequoia scouts together and have both had great success being startup advocates.

It's nice that the companies I work with took the time to uncloak/create accounts to defend me. It's touching actually.
You still need to think of what's inside the module and how it behaves. It's nice that a contract allows you to, say, kill an attempt at denial of service that messes with the parser, but it's better to make your parser resistant to denial of service in the first place.

In fact, at the design level, you need to consider making whatever language you'll have to recognize as simple to handle as possible, with a recognizer that has the least computational power possible.

In a real application example, it would be great to isolate the ASN.1 parsing in TLS in some sort of prison, guarded by ruthless guards charged with blowing the parser's brains out if it so much a looks the wrong way. But it would actually be better to use a language that can be parsed with a simpler automaton that is more amenable to verification and inspection, because even if you hold a gun to its head, the parser can still give you the wrong answer.
check out wedemand.com (queremos). Also Songkick tried that with Detour but it didn't work, so they shut it down
I responded to a bunch of the comments and included the URLs of the startups who came to my defense -- which is very touching to me.

... and because you should check out how awesome their startups are!
When they bought BD, they said they would "honor existing military contracts,” but that it did not plan to become “a military contractor on its own.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/google-adds-to-...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456240/under-google-robot-ma...

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/185570-google-finally-pro...
If you want to see how it works in practice, just look at a pro sports league such as MLB. Everybody's salaries are out in the open and the players use this information, with solidarity, as a key component of their collective bargaining process. Though the top players make many times the minimum salary, they still participate and work hard as union reps advocating for all players, even those making the minimum.

Now, I'm not saying this website will function anything like a union but by sharing salary information everybody can work together for greater fairness for all.
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It would be nice to also consider completely dropping support for non-TLS SMTP.

Unlike HTTP where connecting to abandoned non-TLS websites can be useful, e-mail is only useful if someone is reading it, and if they are reading it they can take action to enable TLS.
Go's core library specifies several interfaces for reading, writing, and closing streams. Here's Reader, for instance: https://golang.org/pkg/io/#Reader Those interfaces do not promise seeking, so they apply to as many things as possible. (See https://golang.org/pkg/io/#Seeker .)

The HTTP body is provided as an "io.Reader" which actually backs to the network stream, and since TCP streams can't be seeked, it's an error to think you can. This means that native Go HTTP handlers can handle a multi-gigabyte upload or download without consuming all that RAM at once (assuming there is some way to stream), but you lose seeking. You can easily recover read-only access by using io.ReadFull to fully consume a reader into a byte buffer, but then you pay the price of consuming all the RAM, of course. (https://golang.org/pkg/io/#ReadFull ) Whether or not it's a mistake depends on your situation. Fortunately, in the HTTP context, you have a Content-Length that you can examine to make decisions if you need to; the generalized io.Reader does not have that, either.

This all comes from the nature of HTTP itself. I tend to consider it a basic requirement for any web development environment that there be a way to correctly deal with an HTTP upload as a stream, and that the environment not "helpfully" unconditionally load the entire stream into memory for me.
thanks pal.... I love what daily drip is doing in education and, yeah, pivots are scary -- but it's better to pivot than die!

We are going to have massive success together... can't wait to high five in seven years (or less)!
What happens at the maturity of the fund of the company is still chugging along but hasn't had a liquidity event?
Okay, I'm lost: why the downvotes? This sounds like reasonable comment, even useful (the first sentence is a good summary of the article's subject). I see no attack to any particular group.

What in this comment could possibly rub HN the wrong way?
I wish there was some sort of financial/billing organization that could lay the law down and establish one of these as standards, but since billing is such a broad topic we may be lost on that front.
One could use a single certificate that is valid for all domain on the server
Sam changed his original statement. I forgive him for saying I did those things and believe it wasn't his intent to damage my reputation (which he is doing by banning me from YC -- it's a harsh move that I'm having to do a lot of reputation damage prevention on).
If, like me, you believe the only real-world adversary for large-scale mail transport between places like Google and Yahoo is state-level actors and dragnet surveillance, then deploying DANE reduces your security, by tying you to trust anchors controlled by world governments.

DANE is generally a bad idea, and it's great that STS is explicitly proposed as an alternative to it, not an application of it.
Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11320127
Socialism is commonly used today to mean a large welfare state. See Bernie Sanders describing the kind of socialists he is, and you'll realize he isn't actually a socialist in the strict sense of the word.
Ask HN: Will there ever be an open OS for smart tv's?
Aside from being totally limited in most aspects, my smart tv recently announced it will be ending Skype support. I was planning on buying a webcam for it, but that clearly makes no sense anymore. I'm sure a lot of other people have though.

Will there ever be something like an imaginary "ubuntu tv", that I could just install and have total freedom on my tv while at the same time having a clean, user-friendly, remote-control-oriented UI?
One more reason to switch to Python 3