skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's absurd, a company has every right to drop active support.

Well, barring any service level agreements they might have made when advertising or selling the products.

But I'm not saying whether they should or shouldn't drop support, I'm saying that doing so indicates they don't care about the users of their product.
It should support a few template sentences which define a word, which is then allowed to occur in the remainder of the text.

More useful than a document which uses only 1000 common words is a document which uses only 1000 words, plus words which it clearly defines.

I feel as if I could write almost anything if I have that, and it will be self-contained and accessible to anyone with the thousand word vocabulary, plus the ability to internalize definitions, which is a very basic faculty of the intellect.
So many of the quotes feel like pure projection. The guy makes up little fantasies about everyone he spied on, even assuming his tales are true, he certainly doesn't interview them afterward to see if he guessed right or was way off. For every fact there's a lot more deep ruminating that would be more at home in LiveJournal than a sociology study, but it was his journal, so I can't really fault him for that.

If it's true, it's an interesting peek into his mind, and confirmation of some public vs private social mores, but all the pontification on society and morality and futility is just so much old man yelling at clouds.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't disclosed as lots of dangerous things could be done in the wrong hands.
> I simply didn’t realize how little room you have to advance as just a programmer

I think this is one thing that has changed dramatically (and for the better) in the last ~10 years.

I started as a developer in the 90s. The only way to advance was to go into management. I was pretty conflicted, as I was promoted from developer to manager. Quit, went to be a developer at a new job, and got prompted to manager again. Quit again & later was promoted to manager again. Did it a forth time & then have been in management ever since.

I really loved coding, but coming from lower income family, was terrified of poverty and thus very motivated to climb whatever ladder someone put in front of me.

I'm an engineering manager today at Google and really happy to see there's now a world where engineers can excel without having to be a manager.

Over the years, I've had a lot of good career talks with people about if they wanted to do people management (or at least try it).

A little bit of a tangent, but it's interesting the myriad of ways those conversations go. Sometimes people who would be clearly great at it, don't want to try it for less-than-good reasons. (E.g., not feeling worthy, would the team respect them having been a peer).

Sometimes people who would be terrible at it, really want it for bad reasons as well. (E.g, manager = power (ha!), manager is the only way to advance or be respected (not true!).)

Of course, they sometimes want/don't want for very good reasons too. (E.g., "I like helping people grow" or "I would have to talk to people and I hate that", respectively.)
My Experience as a Man at the Female Founders Conference
That's postdicting. I never heard anyone say that ever.
Cool, this would also be useful for tracking communal or shared gear for other types of organizations, like student clubs (probably a bit pricy for them, though).

How did you decide on the pricing breakdown?

50 tools $20/mo | 150 tools $50/mo | 500 tools $90/mo | Unlimited tools $150/mo
Why do you think proximity is the most important factor in friendships? Or does proximity and ease-of-hangout trump other factors for friendship like common interests?

How will you get people to use your platform? What's the advantage of this over meetup.com?
Seattle locals complain a little about all the cranes across the skyline. I see it another way - Seattle is absolutely going to eat SF's lunch if it doesn't change.

One underestimated part of CA's success, though, is the fact that non-competes are illegal: http://asr.sagepub.com/content/76/5/695.short. If Washington State banned non-competes, it would have a really tremendous long-term advantage.
I bet LinkedIn was not started with the intent to allow spammers to take over. It became a business need over time as the result of being a for-profit enterprise. Starting projects with a noble cause is a good idea but one also has to maintain them for continued growth.
This is an excellent idea. Do you need a prototype and a team in place before participating?
You're not the only one. Words exist exactly to avoid the problem this app creates..
> Even the webapp requires a linked smartphone; a phone number is [currently] a hard requirement of Signal.

I never said otherwise. What I said was:

> Signal text and voice chat works just fine if all of your communicating party's machines are offline.

This was in response to an assertion that Signal was designed for the "always-online" world. Signal works just fine when your contact is completely offline for extended periods of time.
I assume you're referring to: http://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489.abstract

for the $80k number.

In case you haven't seen it, there's another paper that argues the opposite: more money does make you happier (but only if you know how to use it).
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-mone...

I make more than $80k and I can certainly say that I was less stressed before I took a huge pay cut. On the other hand, I like my job more so I guess I might actually still be happier. All else being equal though, if I made more I imagine I would be much less stressed..
Portugal! :)
> What are the situations where you think it will benefit people more to go the open route than applying directly?

No idea! But you can always do both. It would be interesting if HN picked fundamentally different startups than YC does. That's really the genesis of the idea, as I mentioned above.

It's not out of the question that getting picked by HN could actually help a startup succeed, since the community might naturally root for it in the market. For some startups, that might affect the outcome. But I'm just speculating.
"alaskan pipeline"?
Just a small nit: The words sound alike but they mean different things.

"Grammer" is a German company making automotive components.

"Grammar" is the thing with words'n sentences'n shit.

Just sayin' ;)
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I vowed to never "upgrade" to Windows 10, but this really makes it tempting. Damn you, Microsoft.
Can you elaborate on the who the large distributors are? Are those like Budweiser and Coors, who also distribute alcohol from other manufacturers?
Also, while I don't loce what I'm about to suggest it makes sense:

1 upvote = 1 + (Account Age In Years / 2)

Or some metric discounting (but not eliminating) new accounts while proportionately weighing soneones contribution/participation in the community.

while to some extent everyone should be represented, but some members of the community have been here much longer, are much more knowledgeable, and participate a lot more. they helped shape the community, etc and may have gone to YC in early days.

ive been here for ~2 years, i know a little bit about tech and startups, however(and this doesnt map 1:1) some people helped build this community and are core contributors, there votes (as their advice) is worth some percentage more.
Could be handy for non native English speakers though - less to learn.
Very misleading title. In fact, the last quote in the article is "Science isn't about truth or falsity, it's about reducing uncertainty".
My teen daughter and her friends provide me with all the citation I need. They could not care any less about FB.
I don't use them for sockpuppetry. I just like changing accounts every so often.

I was just pointing out a direction someone could go.
The only thing you need is willingness to try convincing the community to fund you.
I have trouble believing that G+ outstrips Twitter when it comes to social sharing. I think there is likely something at play other than that which isn't captured by this analysis. For instance, Twitter doesn't auto load articles the way G+ and FB do, so perhaps there is a distinction to be made there. At any rate, if G+ was this successful, I think we can all agree Google wouldn't have killed / pivoted it, which means the data is suspect in some way.
Man, this thing totally should have been called Newspeak.
IMO, anything other than a strait carbon tax is a horrible idea. Cap and trade works out as billions in free money to existing company's and makes this a long term political football. Subsidies always have the same downsides as communist style planned economies. ex: Ridicules amounts of corn production because of politics not because that's a good use of resources.
This. Complete waste of time.
In many cases, what you read about as "acquisitions" are actually "asset sales," meaning that the seller and the acquirer have specifically agreed on what assets have been transferred (say, real estate, IP, brand names, machine tools, whatever), and what have not. Similarly for liabilities. There are, of course, laws relating to fraud, consumer protection, etc.

It's only when you actually acquire the company (buy the outstanding shares) that basically "everything" transfers to the purchaser. And even there, they can agree on carveouts for specific liabilities or other things, such as existing customer support.
Contact lenses with cameras and retinal projection devices have long been a sci fi device.
I am not very sure about this for a few reasons:

1. There is possibly several ways to game the upvote system. HN community is not anonymous, and there are people who have more friends here than others. A lot of very good founders would probably not have enough friends here. That might create bias once an Apply HN post reaches first page vs. another.

2. Participating startups risk facing public bashing while hoping to get priceless feedback. This happens often here, even unintentionally sometimes. This also poses a risk that a lot of startups would not be 100% honest in one way or another to minimize bashing. This is commonplace on Reddit. But this is not Reddit and any founder cannot forever escape people here. This is an ecosystem forum which is extremely civil in Show HN (with a few exceptions) but might not be so when competing for a resource -- the 2 YCF spots. Maybe Reddit is the way it is because everyone is competing for points.

3. Publicly applying for funding might step on private financing laws of several states and nations? It might also be against some by-laws. Would this constitute a public offer?

Maybe this could be helped better by doing one or more of these:

1. Apply HN posts should not make it to homepage and should be a separate section.

2. The heuristic should not be known publicly of what YC partners are looking for.

3. Companies should still be required to fill a YC app before posting. Then it's a public contest rather than a public offer to sell shares.

This would be interesting for sure!
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> It'll change if/when you have kids. You'll probably have a half-dozen calls a day coordinating things.

So much organising is done over WhatsApp nowadays that we have an old Samsung phone just to run that app, with only appropriate contacts loaded.

I'm not a fan of proprietary messaging but I can see that it is a lot more efficient for organisers than making a call to every parent.

I don't recall having made a voice call on it in months.
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How do you get reliable data?

How will you make money?

Do people actually care about the environmental impact of their purchases, or is it just social signaling? Could you capitalize on signaling with social media sharing of "I just offset the environmental impact of [my purchase] with TrueCost!".
The NSA actually has a lot of useful PDFs related to hardening existing OS's up on its site that you can find through Google:

Search: site:nsa.gov filetype:pdf hardening

(works in DuckDuckGo as well)

The search will probably get you noticed, but I remember spending like 2 days in highschool just scraping and going through every PDF I could find for useful things to know. ~
But tech is not a meritocracy

But it should be, and the issues laid out in your links detail failures to reach that ideal.

We can do better. That does not mean we stop trying or abandon the ideal that you should be known for your works above all else.
I wish I was a millionaire spy :(
Sounds interesting. I don't know French, so could not try it out, but can you please elaborate a bit more on how it helps students ?
This product has Salesforce replication, and it's free to try: https://rjmetrics.com/product/pipeline/
Apply HN: Wiredhere|Connecting you to Fitness partners and trainers near you
Website: www.wiredhere.com

What we do:
Wiredhere is a mobile app that allows users to find partners or trainers in sports and fitness. Tennis, gym, and even basketball partners will be easily accessible within the app; as well as knowing who the best trainers are due to our rating system.

How:
Users simply choose their facility or university they attend, the activities they're interested in, and that's it. The user will than get a push notification through their phone soon as someone creates an activity and is looking for a partner.
We are partnering with our University rec center as well as 2 other local gyms near us to have their trainers use our platform. All users will be able to rate the trainers similar to how ratemyprofessor.com operates.

About us:
We're a group of 4 entrepreneurs who has known each other collectively for over 20 years. We are two programmers experienced in a number of languages, a sysadmin, and a data scientist. We also have worked together in the past with startups, so we actually get along (unless there's a debate on who gets the last portion of tea).

Feel free to ask us ANYTHING. We love criticism.
Latex is a wonderful way to make a marketing paper look like a scientific one. It doesn't accurately describe the method, but that isn't really its purpose. It's a more technical description of the blog post, meant for people using the product to understand some of the tradeoffs and get more accurate results.

They are still having people make very fundamentally flawed assumptions about the data, which results in incorrect conclusions, and they are still not presenting the results in a way that people correctly interpret them. That being said, those are really hard to solve, and models that would try to correct for them would likely require a lot more data and be overly conservative for more people.

What are your reasons for disliking Optimizely?
They also had their currency value cut to half in 2008, and that had a very real impact on the purchasing power of people. The currency has recovered a bit but the change is still there and its's big.

There are also currency controls for taking money out, etc. Iceland is still in severe shock.
Hey everyone, I found one! He said folk, without saying "indie" before and "music" after! Dead giveaway!
I guess the lyrics of Thomas Campion's "I Care Not For These Ladies" are right out, then...
Global dark theme? Bash? Windows 10 is starting to look really awesome.
Sites like this have been around for a few years, or decades in the case of the Netherlands [1].

Unlock Democracy did a much better one — without any "opinion" after each statement — for last year's election: [2] (If anyone wants to try it, a valid postcode in England should be B94 5PJ, or make your own at [3].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_Match

[2] http://election2015.votematch.org/

[3] http://www.doogal.co.uk/PostcodeGenerator.php
As someone who's been to LIV a few times, I can say that entrance alone on most weekend nights (fri/sat) is $100. "Premium" drinks like Patron (how is that premium?) are $25 a glass. Those skyboxes on the second floor (that look down on the dance floor) start at $10,000 minimum. Fortunately, I never had to pay because I had a mutual friend with the owner. LIV is definitely on the top end of South Beach nightlife, but there are other clubs that have similar prices.
Honestly, we don't really know. We have very few hypotheses around this idea. We're just insanely curious to see what will happen.
As far as the disadvantage you mention, that happens when you launch. That happens when you start getting press. That happens when you announce a large funding round. That happens when you're doing well.

In our experience, startups are far more likely to die by suicide than by homicide. Iteration is the only practice to greatness that we've ever seen and you can't do that well without talking about your idea to others. In a vacuum, you can only go so far.

My advice is similar to how we're approaching this experiment: don't over think it.
We can do things like that if we really need to, but my guess is we won't. Experience has taught that such measures make others feel less welcome, which is a bad outcome and not in the open spirit of this experiment. Good comments and insights speak for themselves; if those older users are as good as you say, they can sing for their supper.
Great point and I agree to some extent. But take the example of Medium vs tumblr(or blogger). Eventually they both have to monetize but it is upto what compromises the business is willing to make. And like I said the platform at some point started serving more to sales and recruiters and linkedin employees themselves have lost motivation to have a completed profile
It sure looks like you are. "Gartenlaub wants to see the warrant in his case so he can challenge it as based on false information and therefore invalid." According to the article the warrant itself and the filings in support of it are unavailable to the defense. That is essential to making arguments on the legality of the warrant in the first place, the scope of the evidence gathered to the warrant, and factual arguments derived from the process of executing the warrant.

(Example! The warrant included Device X, because Secret FBI Source Y said it had classified information. The device was searched, but contained no such information; in fact it had been completely wiped. This lets the defense argue that the FBI knew the source was unreliable, or that the evidence found was exculpatory (eg, evidence the target had been hacked to plant the child porn). None of this is available to the defense.)

The government says that the evidence gathered in the warrant has been made available. They could very well be lying, or simply mistaken, and it's impossible to investigate. Regardless, it is only part of the issue.

The process here is that the judge looked at it the government's arguments, without involving the defense, and said "yeah, it looks good, trust me / them".

(Which, incidentally, is completely contrary to the notion of the judge as a neutral arbiter rather than an inquisitor working for the government. Not surprising when the FISA court itself essentially operates in that capacity.)
Would love to hear how the IC-connected network was setup.

> disconnect the cable from the IC and plug my earlier cable in to it. This allowed me to make a special REST call to the CID

So the cable from the side panel connects to the above network via VPN? Interesting approach :)
> Facebook has and always has been targeted at adults. It was for people post high school.

Zuck made it for himself and it has aged along with him. It's possible people will always sign up for it, but it's also possible that it becomes grandma's photo sharing site.
> Thankfully the shader code is in GLSL as you would expect

That's not necessarily what I'd expect, given that it's from Microsoft Research. I know they're a pretty independent bunch, but still, kudos.
This is because we no longer live in the time of the founding fathers. Most Americans don't see themselves living in a state of tyranny, and reject the thesis of protracted, mass violence being necessary for a modern free state. Whether this is due to the cowardice or sanity of the American people is a matter of debate.
This is just a phonetic misspelling of the contraction "should've" which really is pronounced "should of"
Facebook ceased to be cool once Mom, Dad and that crazy Aunt were on it :)
This is a really neat idea. I know a lot of musicians who struggle to find other musicians to jam/start a band with. Generally, they find people who say they're musicians and willing to dedicate time, but those people turn out to be flakes.

How are you going to vet your users to ensure that these are the more "serious" hobbyists, i.e. the people that are playing/singing for 2 hours every day?

One last frank question: how do you plan on making money?
The biggest downside could really be incentivizing promising founders to gather upvotes rather than building something.
great idea..took note
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Except that unless batteries and storage solutions get orders of magnitude better, you have to back every megawatt of solar or wind with natural gas, oil, or coal for the calm, cloudy days.
The slowing pace of innovation as measured by time saved. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/magazine/are-we-doomed-to-...

The trend since the 1970s in which the wealthiest reap the majority of any economic growth and hold more and more assets while the middle class and poor have seen wages stagnate as compared to inflation or shrink, and an increasing gap in wealth. http://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-...

The trend of finance as an increasing part of GDP and shareholder return being seen as a better proxy for economic success then long term growth, investment in durable assets, and infrastructure, especiall when much of the value finance and immediate shareholder returns add are questionable. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember_2...
So is there a way to do both? I've gone down the manager trail for the last 7 years, but I'm not sure I want to do it anymore. But after 7 years, I feel like I am behind all the engineers that have that many years of technical experience under their belt.
clickbait?
When you're typing, you don't have to write "um" at the start. That has a use in verbal communication but it's superfluous in the written word, and forces me to choose whether you're deliberately giving the impression of being a teenager or you just type as if you were speaking.

That aside, I still disagree. I bet that if those 70 year old people had the choice of looking at things they used to do, or being able to actually do them again as if they were 30, they'd prefer to do them again. They're forced to settle for the pictures because that's all that's on offer.
One of the reasons I finally gave up on Windows was the horrible way they dealt with multiple monitors - especially with Windows 8. Oddly enough I've switched to a single monitor setup anyway.
Snapchat doesn't have a good way to monetize their user base though. It's probably going to be a difficult problem for them, especially with their inflated valuation. More power to them if they can pull it off though.
Can you talk a bit about the technology behind it?
How to Write a History of Video Game Warfare
UK government sets up an international “Olympics of e-sports”
That is not the model they use, you fallback farther than you think sometimes.

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845