skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently this happens also by "normal users" who specifically turn off whatever can be turned off?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...

The most interesting part:

"We configured our test virtual machine to use an HTTP and HTTPS proxy (both as a user-level proxy and a system-wide proxy) so that we could more easily monitor its traffic, but Windows 10 seems to make requests to a content delivery network that bypass the proxy."
One of the reasons we're trying this is to question a lot of our own assumptions about the best way to find a great startup. Best practices will probably arise over time on how to best apply through HN, but I'd rather we let ourselves be open to surprising ways to present a startup.

I think we'll actually learn more during this experiment with less rules on format up front.
I agree with you on most of these points but I do want to clarify a few things. Banks circulate money, they don't just hold on to it, and that is good for the economy. Don't get me wrong Banking as a reality is among the scummiest parts of the modern economy, but as a concept they provide invaluable services.

To respond to your point about contributing to society, I totally agree that parenting is among the most important contributions you can make to society. But I don't think that you can be a very effective parent without the wold view provided by interaction with both people and knowledge. And this interaction is very difficult to find outside of the university and workplace setting. As a parent you should absorb as much knowledge and experience as possible so that you can pass that on, and your children can build on that rather than wasting time re-learning it.

Finally, you are right that welfare allows people without money to live while making basically no contributions to anything. But is not a comfortable life. Anyway my point was less that you shouldn't give your children money because it will make them Deadbeats, and more that you should try to get as much value from each dollar as possible and I don't personally believe that giving all of your money to your children is likely to be the best way to achieve that.

I apologize for my formatting. Writing this on a phone.
"There was a girl on TV who was talking about..."

What do you mean I'm banned?
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Hey Dre - I just met your mom at the glory hole at Brietbart!
You may not be able to answer this, but has memory usage ballooned after replacing the traditional dialogs with xaml ones?
who is the value holder - the accounts or the distributors?
How is there no port? I have to run my server on some port, are you saying I can choose whatever my port I want and your service detects that somehow? I don't need to use process.env.PORT ?
No no, here in America we want cars that are cheap, safe, eco-friendly, fast, self-driving, and comfortable.

Trains certainly won't do.
I'd say this is not that model. The way HN works now is clearly by bandwagon effect, and we want this to be pretty close to the way HN works now.

If you think of HN users as 'investing' their time and energy into which stories they read and discuss here, then arguably this is kind of already happening. One way of looking at this experiment is to ask what happens if we take the existing system and permute its feedback loop, i.e. take one of the outputs (startups gets funded -> HN discusses them) and make it an input (HN discussion -> startups get funded). It's impossible to predict how a complex system will react and it's a fun kind of problem to think about. Of course, such permutations often just produce an unstable mess. That could happen here, i.e. the whole thing could turn into a trainwreck that produces no clear signal.
Needed but perhaps impossible. An example of the increasing metrics gap between open and closed web. Messaging of various natures seems to be the fastest growing and, in terms of overall transactions, perhaps most popular "social" action yet behind walls it seems the hardest to measure.
Phrasing matters. If someone applies with a project management app you can say "Seriously? Another project management app? How is this different than X, Y, or Z?" or you can say "How is this different than X, Y, or Z?"

The former puts the applicant on the defensive whereas the latter encourages discussion.
Unless the state of New York is going to let the city of New York secede, they should be helping out. Otherwise, the state has accepted responsibility for everything and everyone in its domain including the city, residents, and workers of New York City.
How does that work? If your local taxes are more than what the US would take, they take nothing? And if the US taxes are higher, the US only receives the surplus amount?
What kind of manual steps are you talking about? Updating Drupal is usually fairly straightforward and unless you're talking about an alpha/beta release or doing a major version upgrade and definitely doesn't require manual database changes most of the time.
Do you expect "Apply HN" to continue in Winter's batch?
Well it's still a very basic effort. If the job it's trying to do is annoy users, it's fine, but if it's trying to limit use of bad language, it mostly fails.
I find software can actually be pretty social as you ask your peers for code reviews, go have lunch with each other, ask each other about their opinions about things, have planning meetings, just chat randomly about stuff at the water cooler, make jokes on company chat and so on.

Sometimes it goes overboard and you don't have a contiguous 4 hours to just focus on coding.
Actually I enabled Insider (Fast) on the 4th I'm still on the normal Build is there something else I need to get a Insider Build?
No one can respond to your comments while you are actually watching the show. This would be a feature that Netflix/hulu/amazon would have to add.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208%28v=vs....

As far as I'm aware this is as much as they've publicly released regarding telemetry, as for the "keylogger" thing I thought that was just a conspiracy theory.
Essentially when I said I'd be more specific, I would provide requirements. But this is a game, not a business app, and writing up the requirements for 'fun' and a 'good experience for the gamer' is not exactly easy.

We were a bit more specific than 'make it easier', I just have a vague memory exactly what we said because it was 8 years ago and a lot has happened since then.

And we were a super small company. I had to wear many hats; overseeing QA was one of them.

Micro-managing is an extreme term, and I don't think we were. We weren't telling each developer what their tasks were for the day, we were communicating with their project manager and saying which bugs or features had what priority, and by the way we played the build and we think the font looks too small, could you please increase the size, it's okay if the UI takes more space, please remember not everyone will be playing this on HD tvs, thank you.

And I was playing each build to do some internal verification that the bugs they say they fixed did get fixed, yes. Personally I think it's better the publisher knows what's going on with their own game (keep in mind, the developer didn't pitch the game, they were hired) than blindly trust that everything is going the right direction, until it's time for a milestone payment and "holy shit, that's nothing like what we asked for! you don't get paid until it's fixed!"
A clbuttic issue.
I personally find it almost absurd to expect the very agencies that are nominally in control of Federal expenditures to reliably track and then expose their own waste, folly, and, yes, theft of taxpayer funds.

Why do you think their is such huge support behind political establishment outsiders such as Sanders and Trump?

Many people are simply exhausted by the lies and deceit that flows from elite Washington circles nowadays, and thinking that self-reported figures are going to placate them is wishful indeed.
377? Back in my day there were only 7.
You'd think the RAT would charge a battery acting as buffer. But who am I to armchair quarterback an entire aerospace industry.
The author states that he won't be able to retire. I find that hard to believe; programming is fairly lucrative.
Nah. A lot of teams don't know about HN before they apply to YC. Many make it into the batch and are good.
Apply HN: TrueCost browser extension, see and counteract environmental impact
That isn't filtering suggestions, so no, that's not what I was talking about.
I visited the office a few times between maybe 2008 and 2012, if you were working there then, we likely were in the same room at some point.

I can't remember the exact syntax, but I used to find it hilarious that each Venda tag had to have a unique label, and since the code was notoriously difficult to navigate, everyone just ended up using random numbers and hoping that it wasn't used elsewhere.

<venda_something label=5318008>
...
</venda_something>
There is a pretty big range - but it ends up being a nice mix of large, medium and small. Large distributors will typically be your macro beer and liquor brands. Mom and pop distributors will typically be niche wine distributors.

A handful of chains have developed systems to create PO's, but a majority just rely on sales reps to service the account.
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I would LOVE to apply for the next round of YC driven by the community. Unfortunately, I can not due to family obligations.

However, I can HELP!
I am the founder of OpenDomain - we are "Open Source for domains". We would love to contribute a domain to a startup.

If you want a Big Data startup, you can use NoSQL.Com. Or if you want to disrupt hollywood, try www.Free.TV (Justin Kan once called me to get this domain but ended up going with Justin.TV)

We have contributed dozens of domains to open source - including Drupal.Com, EcmaScript.Org, and OsCon.com - I would love to help your next startup!
Neo-victorians.
Problem: All products have some environmental impact, like carbon emissions, water use, energy use, etc. It's hard for consumers to know what environmental impact a product had to make good buying decisions.

Solution: With a browser extension, display product impact collected from trusted partner on eCommerce product pages and allow user to donation a portion of the priced externalities to help counteract environmental impact.

Built a prototype at a hackathon last weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tInzzamB-A
If it was $500/year, I would get them in a heartbeat as contacts currently cost $150-300/year, depending on fanciness (monthly/weekly/daily replacement, coatings, etc)
You should check out Baqqer. We basically built it for equity crowdfunding and perpetual crowdfunding projects from HNers. It works to help build community, resources (knowledge, capital, feedback), and shows some social proof.
Hi HN,

Krewe places people into a group of six of their peers who all live within a half mile radius of each other. Since it starts with a small group dynamic, it's comfortable to meet up at first. And since everyone lives so close to each other, they can meet up often and become really close. Eventually, they can expand the group and build up a strong local community and a network they can rely on to succeed in their careers, find romantic partners, and enjoy an incredible social life.
Don't know yet. Let's see what happens here. Also, Fellowship actually runs three times a year, so the next potential cycle is in the fall.
Of course just because they have the patent does not mean it will actually work or that we have the technology to do so.
Unclear on why this is a good thing. Dumbing down language helps whom, exactly? I guess if you want to hasten the Idiocracy this is your app.
It's ironic to me the reputation for American pragmatism when compared to attitudes in many areas, particularly in the area healthcare. For better theoretical independence from government, we suffer for reduced practical independence due to healthcare costs, and lack of sick leave & vacations, etc.

While Europeans seem to have come to the opposite balance of concerns on independence.
So in order to get distributors onboard, we have been signing up bar and restaurant groups to use our service to send sales reps orders.

Our goal is to go back to distributors and ask for integrations once we have the orders to back it up.
OK, this is very cool. Great idea!
I am not against public investment.

I am for using modern IT practices to add transparency and accountability to the process.
> This is dream which happens only when you are asleep. In real life an older person is less energetic, less enthusiastic, can't do weekends, has health issues, has responsibilities, has family commitments etc etc.

This is complete nonsense. The best and most productive engineers I know are in middle age or beyond. In addition to raw technical ability--which does not decline in my experience--they have a level-headedness about making decisions that is rare to find in younger people. It's a critical success factor, especially for complex projects.
Well put, you have a way of gently articulating something I can barely say coherently.
Can this be used with a CI service very easily?
I'm not sure which thing I mentioned you need a reference on. For p-values on machine learning techniques, http://vovk.net/cp/index.html
I'll eventually do a blog post on this subject; it's very good math that all ML people should know about, though Vovk, Schaefer and Gammerman write pretty dense articles.

For statistical power... "Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences" by Jacob Cohen.
HTC Vive VR Problems
It is a split, the bars, restaurants and stores get to speed up ordering immensely and also don't have the interruptions of sales reps in and out.

The distributors get to streamline how orders are placed and have records of them. They also get to save money by servicing house accounts that might rely on telesales to take orders.
> Landlords won't rent to you unless you earn 40x the monthly rent

I've recently seen 45x monthly in Manhattan and LIC (Queens).
What a fun and educational quiz! Thank you.

And the answers are:

- a word from the 10 commandments

ass, of course. An easy start.

- a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock

Today I learned that Herbie Hancock is a jazz musician who made an album called Mr Hands. I also learned that there is a video of a man being buggered by a horse called Mr Hands.

Thank you for enriching my life.

- a James Bond film

And at this point I lose all respect for the compiler of this list. Octopussy is a James Bond film. That is all. Any other usages are just silly.

- the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination

Santorum! Santorum! Do people actually use that word, or is it just a running joke?
This is hilarious, can't be serious. We have also:

- burro (donkey)

- cerveja (beer)

- inferno (hell)

- torneira (water tap)

- frango assado (roasted chicken)

- aranha (spider)
Okay cool!! All good then.
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Depends on how you define success and failure. I've had 7 failed startups (#8 is in the process of failing at the moment). I consider them all failures because I didn't end up with FU money. Funny thing is startup 6 & 7 really got me close.

Although, even if I won a billion dollar lottery, I'd still move on to startup #9. Half the fun is in the building anyway :-)
Being nice and being direct are not opposite to each other.
What makes the deployment "realtime"? Is it just that you get terminal output of the deploy happening? That's been around for a while now. Or am I missing something?
Yes, you can host it anywhere -- even on Github[1] pages!

Our open source tool - Bookiza[2] - does exactly this.

It will bootstrap a project (manuscript) for you in your local. Then:

$ bookiza server

Now you can "develop" your book like it were an app. Once ready, hit

$ bookiza publish #and boom it will go live.

Yep, it is fun! :-)

[1] https://craigleat.github.io/#1
[2] http://bookiza.io
easy.

- a word from the 10 commandments: blumpkin

- a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock: two girls one cup

- a James Bond film: donkey punch

- the surname of a US presidential candidate: yiffy
That's right; many people do something they don't really like (or even completely hate) for a living.

Even if you don't like the kind of programming you're doing (or perhaps just the lack of having total control over the requirements), it still has a lot in common with programming that you do like.
*better than European
Zuckerberg: "coolness is done for us." http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-admits-coolne...

But really, at that point, it's common knowledge. Kids these days are on Instagram and Snapchat. Take a look at this article. It's really light, but it should refresh a bit into how tweens and teens consume social content: http://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-te...
Promising ! This could be an interesting way to stimulate startups from around the globe. Last time I felt this way was when I discovered Stripe Atlas.
My personal crazy theory is that Microsoft is distancing itself from the windows platform and moving towards a more Unix based system. I suspect that Microsoft is finding that moving forwards on their original platform is untenable in the long run, and that a Unix like system will improve their product and also be cheaper to develope and maintain. I might be overly optimistic though.
You guys are missing that this is a joke. This is a reference to this comic: https://xkcd.com/1133/.

Which is poking fun at how funny things sound when you restrict yourself to only that many words.
I really liked the architecture, but I don't think container is a good name for the kind of isolation it has. For the machinery work as expected, the namespaced application must follow the Oz-rules/policies. Container nowadays are complete environments, everyone with different rootfs and so, very different of the kind of container required in subgraph. It can lead to misinterpretation, because I cannot reuse existent distros/rootfs and package managers to run other applications in subgraph. As I've understood, subgraph only bind-mount the common directories from host to the namespace mount point of process on top of a tmpfs. Hard to reuse an ubuntu app.

How persistent data will be managed isn't detailed in the document.

Seccomp-bfp is a good enhancement. It can really fix the well know security issue of docker when using volumes with write permissions.

Still wondering what's the plan for persistent data. If someone has more info, please share :)
Ultimately as with so many trends the underlying thing here seems to be "Go where the users are". Users are using lots of chats and chat apps, so now we all need bots to meet them there.

That's why this fascination with bots and conversational UIs seems particularly cyclical, as various chat rooms/chat apps come and go in popularity. Just the other day, I was pointing a colleague to The Jack Principles, a book/presentation/best practices compendium whose lineage traces back to the 90s (and I think now is a great time for Jellyvision to sell us all a new edition in bookstores).

The reason this is particularly exciting this time coming back around in the zeitgeist is that we have better tools than ever (NLP has come a long way, machine learning and deep learning are doing exciting things, the "platform" level concierge/assistants of Cortana, Siri, Alexa). Maybe this time it might be more than a passing novelty.
Do you know of a resource that explains all of the causes of various RSI symptoms and how to avoid them? Like how did you learn about the ulnar issue?

I've found that there isn't an RSI doctor you can go to easily or look up on yelp, and when you go to doctors they can be pretty useless in this category.
> Most anti-aliasing techniques do boundary smoothing by treating each pixel as a little square and visualizing the fraction of the pixel area that is contained inside the outline.

Note that this is a kludge [1].

[1] A Pixel Is Not A Little Square: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
I'm gonna go further: that is actually a fantastic mission statement!

I believe that it is very important to have goals that are simple in definition. It can really help the cause if the ultimate meaning is somewhat allusive. The act of interpreting the mission statement bakes in a dynamic element that can help keep an organization from getting stuck in place.

That I can interpret this mission statement in a verbose, complicated and applied manner is an example of its utility.
Okay Samsung, you now have 1 year to demonstrate a working prototype or significant progress and effort spent building towards one, or you lose your patent.

At least that's how it should work.... sigh.
SurveyMonkey Intelligence – Competitive usage/download metrics for mobile apps
Ibn Khaldun – Mohammedan Theory of Evolution from Lower Forms
Mammal brain successfully returned from cryopreservation for the first time
No mention of Typinator? I switched to it a few years ago because the performance on some version of OS X (don't remember which) was way better than TextExpander's. It does its job, so I've never bothered to try out anything else.
A similar editor was made for the book Thing Explainer[1] by Randal Munroe from XKCD. A book that explains all kinds of different things, from space shuttles to microwaves using the top 1000 common English words.

[1] https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/
If it's both a "Show HN" and an "Apply HN" what do you recommend as a headline? Apply and Show are related but not the same.
Wouldn't vulva be more accurate?
It's a joke. They even explain in the summary that it is a reference to Randall Munroe's book.
> Competent programmers tend to be much more cynical about their own ability to write good code.

Yes, and so instead of writing something from scratch, these prudent, smart programmers link in some well-tested, popular, widely-used third-party bloat, and repeat that a number of times to make a big program, fast.

Smart programmers definitely have ways to make hugeware.

One skill that smart programmers have is to skim through the documentation of some API with a thousand functions and immediately see how to combine six of those functions from completely different places in the documentation to solve a task. Of course, the entire thing is brought in!

(You wouldn't want to be taking apart some well-tested third party code just to make it smaller. There is the risk that something could break. Plus you create a maintenance headache since you're introducing a fork. Each new revision of the bloat has to be stripped down to size all over again. Your thoughts then turn to that 128 GB MicroSD card in your phone and suddenly the bloat looks small).
Programmers should compete with other programmers, not managers;
Getting root access on a Tesla Model S
Not just a joke: https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/

Randall Munroe did an entire book that way.
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We are now working on creating full-fledge interactive environments that will let authors create courses on Data Science, Big Data, AI etc. where all the execution happens on our servers and learners can interact with their sand-boxed environments.

And we just released our iOS app today (will be in app store in a few hours).

Some examples are

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