skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrongheaded is a polite way to put it.

Do I have this straight?

Publishers are allowed to make guidebooks and sell postcards without permission and also without recompense for the artists.

Historians and critics are allowed to include the photos in books without permission.

For-profit corporations are allowed to use the photos as long as they don't collect them into a single database marked "highly dangerous public database of art photographs".

But nonprofits who create a digital guidebook are copyright criminals - with the implication that they're not allowed to distribute the work for free, because it might affect the profitability of a hypothetical not-yet-existent commercial alternative.

I'd hope a good lawyer could sail a battleship through that line of argument. It's clearly prejudicial, discriminatory, inconsistent, arbitrary, and not in the interests of either the public or the copyright holders.

I suspect if it gets taken to the EU Courts, it will be shot down in flames in short order.
Snapchat, probably.
I would separate power (even historical power) and it's inter-linkage with wealth and fame from simply the inter-linkage of wealth and fame. That to me is the new thing, removing power from this equation
Project had been in hibernation mode since this HN thread, which already has some interesting discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7711961

For examples with some activity, check out House of Cards Season 2 or Game of Thrones Season 4.
I think it's "reproducible" in the sense that it starts from scratch every time, rather than sometimes starting from scratch, and other times starting with a pre-populated node_modules. If you want actual versioning reproducibility, you'll need to put an npm-shrinkwrap.json in your root.
I'm not sure about considering upvotes. People might send out message to all their friends saying "There's this thing called hackernews, can you sign up and vote for me?". Similar to how someone would launch a kickstarter. I don't think that this will be very common, especially not in the first few batches, but it will become common sense after a few years.

Remember, you're dealing with hackers here. I worked my YC application from every angle and tried to get every possible edge and advantage. Not necessarily because I wanted to game the system, but because I'm a hacker, and it's my nature [1].

On the whole, this is a really good idea. It's kind of mind blowing that YC would seriously try this. The concept itself is a brilliant hack on the idea of startup funding. Maybe they'll find the next AirBnb/Cruise/Dropbox, but probably not. Either way it's a great example of pushing the envelope to find new ideas, which sama has been all about lately.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
translation: they use websockets on AWS with insane numbers NPM modules.
Ohh, almost meta-meta-photos of Mona Lisa!

Could get better: the museum could place some camera over / behind the paiting, and we could get pictures on how Mona Lisa sees those photographers
Yeah they seem like a legit threat for that reason, but so did Twitter once upon a time.
You look for grit. What evidence can you find that shows they don't just give up when things get hard?

Thing is we don't find out usually until after we invest what the real problems are...so we optimize for people we want to spend a lot of time with and work on these problems/issues whatever they may be.

Most founders feel imposter syndrome after they're accepted. The great thing about being part of a batch is you realize you're not alone and then learn that shit show is actually a default state. When you learn that, you relax and focus on the resourcefulness you need to solve your problems systematically.
One aspect of testing they leave unsaid is you identify your users (cookie, most commonly) to make sure each user always gets the same experience. That's why your numbers are all based on unique users, not merely users.

Their experience will still change once their cookie expires, but that amount of time is completely under your control.
> "Be Nice" may dissuade commenters/potential customers from pointing out legitimate, immediate flaws.

I don't think HN users are going to have trouble doing that, but there are different ways to do it, and the nicer ways have the critical property of opening the discussion further instead of shutting it down.

We HN users are used to thinking of ourselves as the scrappy underdog, calling out incorrectness and badness with pristine honesty and with no particular effect on the situation, except occasionally a righteous one like forcing Google to do customer service. We don't think of ourselves as being in a position of power, but that's actually an illusion, as many who've walked into a wasps' nest of critical comments and come out stung can attest.

To me one interesting social aspect of this experiment, quite separate from who gets funded, is that it unambiguously puts the HN community in a position of power—a perspective that we're not accustomed to, and which requires developing different habits (edit: I mean a higher standard of conduct). Maybe those habits will end up translating to the community as a whole (yay!) Or maybe they won't show up at all (boo!)—but at least we can all keep reminding each other to be nicer in these threads.
It's true that you gain some technical knowledge by learning all that. The question is whether that is worth the opportunity cost of not learning other things or doing something else during that time.

Every minute you spend studying nginx config files or adjusting work_mem is a minute you are not spending working on your actual product or app.

To some extent it is indeed beneficial to know how all that stuff works. But at some point your time is better spent working on things that differentiate your specific company from others, rather than spending it on twiddling the same set of knobs that everyone else has.
at least make a magic url like news.ycombinator.com/applyhn even if there's no toplink yet.
Can superbooks be hosted from, sold through, other platforms?

Can I create a super book and sell it on Amazon or my own website?
Isn't it "give them bash, take them their privacy away"?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/13/windows-1...

Isn't it still unknown what is sent to Microsoft even if the user says "don't" in the settings? What was with "everything the user types is copied to MSFT" servers?
This assumes someone will back it up, re-archive it as storage technologies/costs change and then remember how to decode it that long from now.
>a database has more commercial value than a postcard

That's comparing apples and giraffes. A more accurate comparison would be a publisher's collection of postcards, and the business machinery used to make money from them.
I mean, my comment was partially in jest. I check gpg.asc probably more than the average, but not as much as a well-respected Debian maintainer. :-)

By the way, I am increasingly interested in trying to wrestle my VMs and various boxes into order. I am tired of failing to learn different DSLs for automation and love the pure Haskell of propellor, which is your tool for managing Debian boxes.

http://git.joeyh.name/propellor.git

Part of its cleanliness a la Haskell (which I doubt I can ever learn, but applying it to a task like this makes it seem tangible), is you have signed configs and you encrypt your own config into the repo (with cute patches removing this folder will get my ire comments in the docs).

It is very refreshing and honest, like your other software. Hats off to you, sir.
Great app, but this still doesn't address the issue of homographs, where a word can have wildly different meanings (some of them uncommon meanings) that just happen to be spelled the same.

For instance, in the live example, the word "Application" is used to refer to a computer program, when the more common meaning likely refers to the verb, as in "The application of a band aid".
Spies in the Skies – Analysis of Government Surveillance Planes
6 links that will show you what Google knows about you
Im not sure if versionpress is having load issues. But Im not able to load any docs.versionpress.net links.
Strings vs. Enumerators
it's easy on heroku. I haven't done it with native modules though
I do kinda say in the articles that this tutorial set is not supposed to teach the reader about rendering or graphics programming. The whole reason for my writing it (3 years ago) was so that someone who already knows graphics programming could create a voxel engine.

If I had to also teach modern OpenGL in the articles too, they would be over double the size before even getting to anything voxel related.
For the curious, the last entry on the list is the single unicode character:

U+1F595 REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED
Easy Intro to Haskell's Algebraic (Product) Data Types with Cats
What are you looking that YC offers? Or, do you just want the YC stamp?
Well I for one think this is also a super cool idea. Agree with what many have said re: gaming -- just be particularly aware that people will try to figure out how to game this.

But I'd emphasize the qualitative side of the evaluation process -- it should be based on a somewhat opaque mix of upvotes, thoroughness of discussion, and thoughtfulness of answers.

I'd almost treat the various 'Apply HN' threads as open source interviews. Upvoted and the like should be a ROUGH filter, but I'd hope that the YC partners will look at the answers in the threads as a crowdsourced interview and select on the merits more than anything else.

Anyway, excited to see how this experiment plays out.
For a relatively simple service, I'd instinctively be happy paying $5-10 per year.

To ask that per month is going to be difficult.
If it will not bring about complications, can that category of submission be open for say one week.

Then the feedback and comments would be open for say another week.

Putting time restraints would help give applicants approximately the same amount of attention. And also allow members take out time and ask all questions they want.

In addition, can the submission be restricted too so we do not see 400 words submissions? I'll go for a maximum 2 mins video pitch alongside a link to a website.

Finally, great idea!
I doubt if, if only because the entire web and even offline world is equally filled with ad scams too. Go look at anything advertised via taboola our outbrain. :-/
> Network encryption: built-in TLS support encrypts database connections

> RethinkDB 2.3 includes TLS support, contributed by Josh Hawn. Josh integrated OpenSSL, enabling encryption on the wire for both the client driver protocol and communication between database servers in a cluster. This update also brings encryption to RethinkDB’s web-based administrative user interface, which you can now access with an HTTPS URL.

Yay! WAN Replication over TLS is built in now.

I'm not sure how I feel about the web interface, might be better to stick with SSH tunneling for that.
A lot of the Windows 10 UI is built with UWP XAML.

Source: I work on it.
Hello HN!

We're the Bubblin'oes and we're trying to "reinvent" books.

I know this sounds a bit hackneyed but our motivation with Bubblin is to make books a first class citizen of web. Make them gorgeous, accessible and full of life.

It starts by considering that book is a collection of webpages. And then we can choose to do books with anything inside 'em: WebGL, Shaders, CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5 - you name it!

Recently one of our books 'ABCs for babies'[1] was well received in this community.

It's nothing but a bunch of cute alphabets and animals done in pure CSS3. It's also open source:

[0] https://github.com/marvindanig/ABCD-Animal-Book

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11237233

[2] https://bubbl.in/cover/alfabet-polski-by-tomasz-walen
How Secure is TextSecure?
You may be right, but I'm pretty sure the community would hate it if we didn't consider upvotes at all. The idea is to fit this process in to how HN already works, and see what happens. HN's pretty good for discussing stories about technology and startups, and a lot of those discussions are a kind of vetting of investment decisions and startup pitches anyhow. Why not move that way earlier in the process and see what happens?

In the worst case, we'll at least get a lot more data for the voting ring detector.
Nice idea. But that's the problem, it's just an idea.
Actually, I think the issue is that you just don't understand the meaning of those words.

The "rich module ecosystem" he is speaking of refers to npm. With node and npm it is trivial to install a few modules from the command line, write up a custom server, and very quickly have yourself a dynamic web page or API.

The "realtime JavaScript cloud" is basically any node application running on a service like Heroku or with any number of hosts and providers ranging from self-managed VPNs to esoteric AWS services. Applications that run on this realtime JavaScript cloud are incredibly portable as engines can be fired up and torn down very quickly across both server-side and client-side environments.

This service that he has been a part of creating does exactly this. It empowers the user by streamlining existing development processes.

I would say that his sentence is rather meaningful contemporary industry jargon.
Are the distributors mom and pop shops or big corporations?

How does Walmart/Costco/Big grocery store chain place orders for liquor now?
Chances are you can apt-get install zsh and then chsh just like you always do with an Ubuntu install.
Well, that didn't last long:

"Nintendo asked us to remove this site for copyright infringement. I guess Zelda30Tribute was a little too pixel perfect :-) We're sad about that, but we get it. We started this project because we love Nintendo and the joy they have given us throughout the years. From the start of development, we knew this result could potentially happen. Nintendo has every right to protect their IP. No complaints from us, we had a blast working on this tribute and made some friends along the way. "

From the exact site linked. Looks like this project went the same way as that Mario 64 Bob-omb Battlefield remake and Full Screen Mario.
I have no trust that the ALA (American Library Association) with anything copyright. They always were cowering or helping out the Corporations to over enforce US Copyright Laws.

Former System's Librarian who was always shocked at how anti- Open Source and Fair Use librarians and the ALA was till I left in 2007.
One good reason to use a list like this is to filter suggestions. If a user types 'cun' into a search box, almost all websites will not want to suggest you-know-what as a completion.

Edit: and alas, at Blekko they never let me ship an April-fool's "Did you mean: Mother trucking son of a blintz?" module. No sense of humor.
I assume this was posted now because of this:

> Date: received 31 Oct 2014, last revised 5 Apr 2016
Yeah, that's why projects like https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking exist.
Nobody can stop you misinterpreting what the other side writes:

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-03-27

The Egyptian National Council for Human Rights considers HRW report biased, and they state why:

http://www.nchregypt.org/index.php/en/media-center/news/1427...

"The author of the Human Rights Watch report has intentionally disregarded one of the fundamental testimonies from the reporter Maged Atef about the murder of one of the Police officers after which the exchange of fires started. However, the report, in an obvious bias stand, has taken into account this testimony in more than twenty parts of it related to other happenings which do not condemn the Muslim Brotherhood."

"In addition, the author of the report did not mention any of the human rights violations committed by the management of the sit-in, including cases of kidnapping and torture, as well as cases of using the persons who were participating in the sit-in as human shields and detaining them in the sit-in."

I'm not saying I agree either only with NCHR or HRW. But I'm claiming that the categorization you promote is biased, especially because you don't explain how it is possible to have so many victims among the police unless they were killed by the armed opponents, which, if the later were shooting from the mass, obviously disregarded the lives of the people around them too.
If you like, you can also turn off the web UI completely with `rethinkdb --no-http-admin`.
> and of course we have class syntax now anyway

Even using Class syntax you're still locked into prototypical inheritance model. There is no classical inheritance in JS. (Probably a backward step in UX to call it "Class")
Here’s what’s new in Build 14316:
Static entry added to hosts file pointing directly to NSA.GOV.

Why would anyone use this obvious SPYWARE? The entire OS is designed to kill your privacy and send your data to the NSA. No thanks!
Toptal Just Acquired Skillbridge
QUESTION for people like you: +20 YEARS OF PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE that like to be in the zone, cranking code and building, releasing stuff to the world and then enjoy the impact of that when people use it.

Have you noticed that now more than never before there is plethora of amazing libraries, frameworks, language, tools, platforms, clouds, etc. that are easily available to use and if you like to build stuff WHY NOT CREATE YOUR OWN THING and come up with your own ideas and build them instead of continuing working for one company probably using the same software stack? Why limit yourself? have you entertained a regret like this?

I ask this, because I'm in the same boat as you and this is my small regret though I'm working on the side, slowly, to build my own thing in the free time that family and my day job allows it.

Cheers!
If I was to guess I'd say HN readers would be more impressed with innovative technology than how the company actually would make money.

I would be wary however of learning very much with a one time experiment with only two funded companies. That would be similar to giving a prospective angel investor the advice to invest in two companies in the next thirty days and then no more.
B is tough. Would be interesting to see the sum of the karma of all users who upvote a single one.

Another thing to watch would be the mean user karma of all votes.
A bunch of low-karma vote stuffing would actually bring a post down.

If you can get a ton of massive karma users to upvote and game this, maybe you should just get in by default?
Derivative. Do people actually want this? How are you going to monetize?
Very nice. Well done and lots of information.

I'll be back. Particularly interested in the stuff about South American history because, well, I don't know much about it beyond the genocides and events connected to them.
So-called "superusers" are probably overrepresented in your circles (as in mine), and thus your point of view is kind of skewed ;) Ask your family members or people on the street, an overwhelming majority of regular internet users won't have a slightest clue what an RSS reader even is
> mix of upvotes, thoroughness of discussion, and thoughtfulness of answers

Yes! I'm glad to see someone arriving at the same basic vector that we did.
Apply HN: Wildfire – Waze for Safety
When breaking news happens around you, how do you hear about it? Whether it's a mugging, fire, or a shooting nearby, there aren't effective ways of notifying the immediate community in real time.

Wildfire is a safety app where users report crimes and safety related incidents in their area. They also receive push notifications in real time when a situation occurs nearby - like Waze for safety.

App video: https://youtu.be/U7aeZ2a2o2s

App homepage: http://www.wildfireapp.io/

Huffington Post article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rawan-abushaban/wildfire-app-alerts-users_b_9287408.html
Sweden is such a perverse mutation of civilization for so many reasons. This is just one example of a symptom.
I agree in spirit, but then you end up with aggravating cases where Apple refuses to let me write "fucking" and replaces it with "ducking" instead ;)
If you are an insider then sure, you're sending a lot of data.
Yes, they just booted their prime minister. Sounds like a politically healthy country to me.
Apply HN: WedWell - Vendors bid for your wedding
WedWell (http://WedWell.co) helps couples hire the best vendors for their wedding by getting vendors iterate details electronically and to bid for their event.

A wedding brief, created by the couple, is a text based description of what they want to see for different aspects of their wedding. Initially we will breakdown the brief into the first wave of vendor types: (DJ's, Cakes, Flowers, Photos, Invites). The brief can include links to Pinterest boards, Spotify Play lists and Google Drive documents. Ideally, the brief becomes the digital representation of the couple’s wedding that they draw all inspiration from.

Couples can invite vendors to bid on their brief by viewing a list of the vendors and sending them messages. We will also solicit external vendors for the couple’s brief.

Vendors will respond with their proposals. The proposals will come in as text/hyperlinks to describe their services. It's up to them to sell themselves to the couples.

The couple will tell WedWell how much they want to pay for each vendor type. We may give suggestions for pricing based on analytics available to us. The couple will put a credit card down for each of the vendor they would like to book. After the week long bidding period the client will then have the choice to either confirm or cancel the awarded prize (50% of the payment).

We will normalize all the agreements. The vendors will receive 50% of the prize as the contest ends. We will then award the other 50% after the wedding. We will build in a rating system for each vendor to ensure the best vendors are rewarded with more contest wins.
Great idea. Can you also consider an equity arrangement for HNers who would like to invest in the selected startups?
It's like Periscope/Meerkat
AWS is much like renting a car. If you only need a car for a week out of the year, you're much better off renting one rather than buying one and leaving it idle for 51 weeks. But if you know you'll need a car every day, it's much cheaper to buy or long-term lease one rather than rent at the daily rate.

AWS is the daily-rate car rental. It's great when you have 1) highly variable load, and 2) your entire infrastructure is instrumented to scale up and down quickly with minimal manual intervention.

If, for example, you are running a large e-commerce site -- the case it was designed for -- AWS is great. Your load will be average most of the year, then go up a lot for Christmas shopping in November, then go up even more in December... then load goes back down to average for the remaining 10 months.

Part of the issue is also cultural. Younger developers who grew up hearing "cloud is awesome" every day think the very idea of colocating hardware is archaic and ridiculous, and won't even consider it.
I have visited a local community center event website for 15 years. They recently moved over to Facebook. Their feed is public. If I don't have the FB app or am not logged into FB, it's almost as if there is an entire division of losers, sitting around at Facebook cooking up ways to make me login or install the app. From are you a robot unreadable captcha's, to denying the page exists, to limiting the number of posts, limiting readable post content, its ridiculous.

Whether they are king or not, all I am ever going to remember them for is taking a gigantic shit over what the Internet is supposed to mean.
In the PT version we have "bissexual" and "homem gay" (gay man). Bad words? Huh?
They were this year as most everyone should have received a 1095 from their employer.
Good to know, thanks. :)