skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp could incorporate obfuscation proxies if they wanted to. Like the Tor connection bridges that exist to help get around a Tor block.

Maybe only activated once they detect a threat or something.
It's not so much because of promises, its because sync IO blocks the GUI thread, so you have to write callbacks somehow. Pick your poison.
This is good cheat sheets, but can we have PDF downloads for it ? Also PhalconPHP would be a great addition :)
I had a friend (who I've known since high school, and I graduated in the late 80s) unfriend me because of a link I posted as a reply to his reply to a mutual friend's post.

My take: my now unfriended friend can dish it out, but can't take it.

His take (via some third parties): I'm a close minded evil conservative [1].

Yes, I come across posts from friends (and acquaintances) that I don't agree with but I won't unfriend any of them over it. There are 50,000 other channels I can "watch" and I'm certainly capable of changing the channel. Pity more people don't realize that.

[1] Libertarian actually. My friend is, in his own words, "a liberal pinko Commie." Make of that what you will.
That's exactly it, and why I don't have the, "Facebook = Bad" mindset. It just seems to be bad for most people, in practice, over the long term. Once I found any lost friends I would try to move it over to a better forum for extended contact.
Siris rooms is interesting - it's pretty much what most startups in India are building towards. Like the billion dollar OyoRooms (Lightspeed), Fabhotels(Accel), GoIbiboRooms (Naspers).

This model works well in countries where the law and order situation does not permit for a Airbnb to flourish.

The problem is that soon you will need to reserve rooms to work with these hotels - and here comes the differentiation in approach: some startups will just reserve 1 room in a hotel, and will not have enough of a stick to control quality ( http://yourstory.com/2016/04/oyo-customer-service/ ) or will book sizeable number of rooms in fewer hotels and so will grow slower (by orders of magnitude).

However as a model, I think it can work in Africa.

EDIT : I think YC has a lot of experience around Airbnb (working with regulators and in the product space of hotel bookings). They could bring some serious value to the founders and really accelerate the learning curve for them.
I wouldn't consider Wesley Snipes and Paul Hogan especially smart...

Besides which, on assets, taxes is normally only collected when an item is sold. Since the bitcoin in possession by Satoshi were not touched, there should be no taxes owed.

Also, when you're rich, or perceived to be rich, people are afraid of harming you, and often treat you nicely in hopes you will return the favor, and this includes the government. If you don't see how this is true, then you have some awfully rose tinted glasses on my friend.
You can just decompile the program. Binaries aren't a magic black box. Given how much FB stands to lose by lying, is imminent l unlikely they think they can get away with hiding stuff in an Android app. As much as I despise FB, this isn't one of the reasons. (Using WhatsApp still gives them metadata and contact info.)
Well maybe don't be one of the idiots who participates in this nonsense?
I take cold showers every now and then (more often in winter actually) and like you said I kind of like it. However what I usually do is warm it up at the end, partly because I like the feeling of warming up from being cold but also because I feel cold the rest of the day otherwise.
I'm also skeptical. The journalists I know would love a fight like this. The marketing advantage to the paper could be huge. And the US legal protections for newspapers are so strong that suits like this are very, very hard to win.

And that's just the general case. The WSJ isn't an ordinary paper; they can charge $400 a year because their readers believe they can get a business advantage. The moment readers think that anybody with a few lawyers can get a negative story killed is the moment they stop relying on the paper.

And if somebody did end up taking them to the mat, they're owned by Rupert Murdoch, a famously combative media boss and son of a reporter whose net worth is north of $12 billion. The guy started Fox News, which might as well be called the Angry Shouty Channel. I cannot think of a worse person in the world to attempt to intimidate with a lawsuit.
It's not exactly one, but I think the tone is excessively aggressive. The words maybe not right on the money, but someone not carefully parsing them might easily find themselves feeling that way. Riding right on the edge isn't the greatest idea when you'd like people to interpret your words charitably.

You can be civil while disagreeing strongly. For instance, instead of calling something "idiotic" you could say "I disagree in the strongest possible terms. I do not believe your facts have a basis in reality." This is still somewhat rude, but a lot better as it avoids entangling their personage.
Needs a (2014) in the title. Early 2014.
Domains are used for another reason: To emulate thread-local variables. I hope that support is not going away, because it's really handy.
OK, fair point; he is a genius for sure but not a genius cryptographer.
I had an uncle unfriend me after I called out some of the racist, misinformed crap he was spouting in response to Prince's death. It's unfortunate, because I really want to like the guy, but his posts had really boiled down to one (or, rarely, more) of: sportsball fanaticism, "Immigrants are scary!", or "Why doesn't anyone care about Vietnam Veterans?!"

My feed is a lot less unpleasant now, but we're both that much more isolated in our echo chambers. Granted, I think the acoustics are much nicer in mine, but a breadth of discourse does, one hopes, help to keep one's mind ... if not more open, at least more aware of what other people are thinking.
> If your position is unpopular with your friends, then it's because you think the law is more important than the entire society it's supposed to protect.

Sir/Ma'am: you get my gratitude for voicing this. People do forget why we have laws in the first place.
European children are quieter because demographically there are fewer children, meaning that children will be more likely to interact with an adult than with other children.

Adults do not like unquiet children, so they become conditioned to be more quiet.
Google, Used by 1B+ Chinese, Blocked Nationwide for Years by GFW.
I was a user of K5 and I don't think anyone there viewed it as "ephemeral communication". If they thought so, it seems as though the joke's sort of on them, given that the site stayed operational for almost 17 years.

I can forgive that sort of attitude among the early users of Usenet, because there was a long period during which it was just technically infeasible to have a permanent archive of everything (and it's still kinda true, if you count binaries groups; most Usenet providers don't keep everything forever). But that was definitely not the case by the time K5 came around.

The site's culture, at least IMO, was that if you really embarrassed yourself your way out was by ditching your pseudonym and starting over (or by saying the dumb thing under a throwaway account to begin with, which was perhaps too easy on K5).

There's perhaps some argument to be made that forums that require real-name registration ought to allow comments to either be deleted (bad) or anonymized (probably better) on request, to allow people to move away from past statements. But I don't know if that's ever really been a reasonable expectation on a pseudonymous forum, at least of the non-toy/non-amateur variety.
You can't just have an ending tag, please insert the opening tag to match.
Distributed means spam. That's not a solved issue. Email sorta gets around it with tons of filtering. On IM, spam is much more annoying (it's assumed you'll get lots of junk email even if not spam).
> The media is 100% to blame

implies that nothing happened here but the media overhyped someone. While clearly true, and I have no doubt having a young female entrepreneur was a good angle, that's not the story.

If anyone promised what Theranos promised it would be a big story. Could have been a 73 year old Doctor. No big needle draws? Tons of tests right at the doctors office? No more slow giant labs? A big breakthrough like that is NEWS.

Having a female founder was just one more bullet on the 'cool story' checklist. The hype would have been there without the female founder angle the OP focused on.

Saying the media is 100% to blame also absolves Theranos, its board, and its founder. Even when being overhyped they shouldn't have lied. They shouldn't have hidden things. They could have acted MUCH better.

They could have not sold their services while knowing they didn't work.

Absolute best case: they were wrong about how good their machines. But due to hype they kept trying and thought 'we can fix this before were caught'. And it just snowballed and snowballed.

I'll also point out the end of the comment tends to imply that women run companies into the ground or aren't qualified to succeed since all anecdotes are of failures.

For my anecdote: I've heard companies tend to elect women to be CEOs when there is basically nothing left to lose and saving the company is nearly impossible. Because by that point they figure it doesn't matter they don't have the 'best', some other proven CEO that happens to usually be a guy.
> No one (at least, no one I know) is installing node modules like isArray to use in the browser.

Erm, well, considering the adoption rate of Browserify and Webpack, I'm going to disagree with you there. Especially considering React's momentum practically requiring some form of module builder.
Having worked in a large set of codebases as a consultant, I'm pretty sure it's the former. The code that runs the world is mostly garbage (the proprietary stuff that is, because they can hide it)
Same. I even went to the extent of completely deleting my Facebook account. I knew that it was going to be a shit show with this upcoming election, and I knew that being constantly bombarded with opinions from a ton of people would stress me out, even if we're in agreement. I don't have enough self control to just ignore those people, so I would inevitably end up in heated debates which ultimately serve no purpose other than pissing everyone off.

As for your A/B scenarios: the latter seems more common amongst my peers, but it may actually be indirectly caused by the former.

I frequently see people opting out of political discussions just to avoid being tag teamed by a group of political extremists.

I think the fundamental issue is that many people want to be accepted and liked by everyone, which is impossible once you start expressing your political views. Therefore, we take the safe option of remaining silent.
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How are social networks making us more stupid than generations of family-run farming communities?

Anyway, I don't see any evidence that people were ever able to speak frankly without being rude, nor that silence being uncomfortable is anything but a personal problem. Maybe you think silence is uncomfortable because you aren't properly socialized?
I interviewed with these people a few months ago. Unfortunately I didn't get an offer but out of all the companies I've interviewed at they've been probably the best interview experience.

To elaborate, I liked the fact the interview was take home questions that seemed relevant to the actual job but still were pretty interesting, plus they even offered (unsolicited) to compensate me for taking the time to interview. Also the whole process was pretty fast, no dragging around waiting to here back from them.

Definitely left a positive impression!
It's true for drug use as well, but that's not the point. The point is laws do deter, they don't prevent everyone, but they can easily kill mass adoption of anything. You can try to skirt around that all you like, but it's true none the less. Bitcoin is not special in this regard, if the US outlawed it, mass adoption would not be an option. And no, you don't need consistent enforcement of laws to make them intimidating, selective enforcement does that too.
At this moment i have:

Paypal:

50 USD

10 USD

4 GBP

10 USD
Yes, this seems like something that could very easily end up making a bad system even worse.
I would imagine some base shared memory copy on write queue system would help here immensely.
Other commentor already nailed it I think. How many critical security issues do you think Github has had that you've never heard of? Not knocking Github, it's just the nature of extreme open source I think.
Inevitability in technology
Yes, they definitely do.
I know we weren't supposed to comment on this, but the truth is, it's impossible to evaluate these like this. Doing such a shallow pass is just completely unfair to the founders here.

I think a better idea would be more of a facemash approach, where you have to evaluate just two and pick which one is better. That way you can do a deeper dive and say something sensible with your vote rather than something stupid.

I vote that the results are thrown out from this thread and a round robin type approach is done.
Never had the problems with Node described in the article. Node forces thinking about modularity and composition though, which I'd wager is what the author is actually struggling with. Write functions that do one thing and they're pretty easy to compose, even if they're asynchronous. It's really not hard to debug what went wrong in the stack trace when you name your functions.

And I think exception handling is much worse than passing errors up through callbacks. It forces you to think about edge cases. Not sure how python handles this, but I can't tell you how many times I've seen Java or C# code swallow exceptions which is much harder to debug IMO.

People really seem to have a problem with there not being "the one true path" in Javascript, but it's not something that gives me much anxiety. Javascript is incredibly moldable, which is part of what makes it so powerful.
Though I don't know how efficacious it is, it's listed as a treatment for acute episodes of specific kinds of tachycardia (like Wolf Parkinson white syndrome - http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/159222-overview#a1)
I've been using Node in production for a few months now, having come from Ruby (Rails & Sinatra) immediately before, but having used JavaEE and PHP before that. I find it... fine.

For error handling, bluebird's typed error catching (http://bluebirdjs.com/docs/api/catch.html) is working well for me and I'm finding it analogous to my experiences with Java and Ruby.

I'm rather used to using ORMs as well and I use Bookshelf (http://bookshelfjs.org) on top of Postgres for this as well. It definitely has room to grow, but it's also fine.

I've also gained a dependency injection container (Bottle.js, see my write up here: https://blog.boldlisting.com/declarative-dependencies-for-un...), which I sorely missed in my Rails days and which gives a lot of structure to the application.

I think the biggest concerns on which I'd agree with the author are the pace of the community and lack of agreement on things which are well-decided in other, more well-established development environments.

That being said, there's huge potential with Node because of that. There are more coders in the world than ever (I'm assuming) and Javascript is a great low barrier to entry language that encourages people to explore various runtimes. In 20+ years of coding, I've not seen this level of excitement and engagement in a development environment. While it may be rocky for another few years yet, I suspect we'll end up with a very productive platform, simply because of the amount of involvement. Of course, it's totally understandable to want to wait for that before jumping in. :)

As a relatively new Node developer, I'm much more concerned about the single-threaded nature than the development environment, but so far even that hasn't been a problem.
> > you can't conclude A causes B

> right, this is what I referred to as "=>"

Except that it isn't quite, since you were careful to clarify that your \implies (i.e., '=>' or '⇒') was the \implies of propositional logic, which explicitly disclaims any causal relationship. \implies in that context says precisely and only that the antecedent is false, or the consequent is true. In this sense, 2 + 2 = 4 \implies Barack Obama is currently the president of the US, and 2 + 2 = 5 \implies George Bush is currently the president of the US, even though there is no causal relationship in either case.
Nope, it doesn't. Even using their own metrics they are abject failures: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-tsa-a...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/01/tsa-fails-95-percen...
I hear that.

It's one thing to have a debate on the internet, where all the information in the world is basically at your fingertips and you have a chance to review your comments before posting them.

It's another thing to do this on the fly in real life.
But WhatsApp doesn't have the information. It's like ordering Fedex to turn over a package that they've already delivered.
Thanks malyk! It's a huge space.

Some more data that we find really attractive in this space:

Average cost of US Wedding(1): $32,641

Average cost of Wedding in NYC(1): $82,299 (We are located in NYC and are focused here for phase 1)

Most of those vendors are paid with paper checks. There's an obvious push towards better payment solutions.

Mobile Wedding Planning (2) : Couples are using smartphones more than ever to plan their wedding and they expect personalized solutions.

More Couples Depend On Professionals(2) : Couples are spending on wedding professionals to help them plan a perfect day, and to ensure they have long-lasting memories.

There's plenty to disrupt, and couples are more and more asking for mobile and easy payment solutions. WedWell is really excited to be working on this space!

Sources:

1 - https://www.theknot.com/content/average-wedding-cost-2015

2 - http://ir.xogroupinc.com/investor-relations/press-releases/p...
Right, same - can walk into any restaurant on 16th on a weeknight and grab a table in minutes.

Maybe Capital Grille, but even then, places are rarely full.
What is the performance like? Comparable to V8 javascript? Or maybe even comparable to LuaJIT?
Who Was Ramanujan
I like taking cold showers after getting out of the sauna at the gym. Living in minneapolis though, there is no way in hell I would ever cold shower in the morning before work. The hot shower in the morning and my leather heated seats are the only salvation from the cold ass winter.
I understand your concerns and they are legitimate. Full fledged browser based CAD systems already exist in things like Onshape. Our algorithms will run partially on the server and mostly in the browser. However, CADWOLF isn't really about CAD in the browser but rather altering the way engineering is done. Instead of doing design, CAD, FE, and documentation separately, everything is done together. This drastically alters the engineering workflow. It will also let us create templates for structures like fittings and trusses so that users can pull them into their own structures without the need to do their own design and analysis. We can do for engineering what GitHub has done for coding and make a warehouse of templated structures available to anyone.
I'd trust the brilliant mind behind Bitcoin to hold onto some backups of keys worth half a billion dollars. Since you never know, such a a thing could come in handy someday.
It was a small shop run by two guys, mostly drawing from their first and second degree connections. But they had hundreds of customers and were making in the mid five figures per month IIRC. Take that with a huge grain of salt.

People were more than happy to pay a percentage of their savings, but that might have been due to personal relationships with the founders and the fact that these people were pretty rich already.

And yes, the ongoing relationship you mention helps. That gives an answer to "why wouldn't I just do this myself and keep 100% of the savings?"
Is be curious to hear you expand on points 3 and 4.
Thanks! There's a lot of old tech in the wedding space, but the act of planning a wedding has largely stayed the same. We're hoping to evolve that. Our goal is to make it easier to iterate with more vendors. With scale, prices may also come down.
Is there something I'm missing in the XRay paper that mentions speed? The only overhead I can find mentioned in the paper is CPU and memory utilization.

If XRay is able to trace millions of probe points with less overhead than uprobe + frontends, that's extremely impressive... But I just don't see any numbers so far that have said this is the case?
Marissa Mayer the executive definitely crashed a burned. She created no value for Yahoo. There isn't even one Yahoo success during her entire tenure that she is responsible. Marissa Mayer spent $2.3billion dollar on completely worthless startups.

Marissa Mayer got lucky at Google and will never get lucky again. She will never do anything important in tech again.

Could anyone save Yahoo? I don't know, but there are certainly people that could have done a better job than Marissa Mayer.
I'm going to copy paste a comment I made a while back that I still stand by:

"""
I [deactivated Facebook for] three years and regret it. I realize now that I should have just shaped my use to fit my needs: unfriend or unfollow people I don't care to follow, write more messages rather than scrolling through the newsfeed, and join events and groups more deliberately.

Now I actually use it to keep in touch with people I care about, rather than just pretend that's what I'm doing.
I missed out on some things during my three years with Facebook off, and although I learned so much from having done it, I wouldn't do it again.
"""
Transcript of Tim Cook’s Interview on CNBC
The R cheat sheet also looks incomplete. Is this a work in progress?
I have repeatedly paid Pinboard money, which is more than I can say for the vast majority of companies YC funds. If that's not "real entrepreneurship" I don't know what is.
Thanks again for being a client! We're really lucky to have clients like you and your fiancé. Your feedback is helping us make a better product.
Ugh, i just fat-fingered the downvote button. Now i'll have to unmask myself to show my amusement and almost-wishing-it'd-happen at this idea.
Dumb bookmakers! Why offer 5000 to 1 odds?

Look at this gem: a 20-year-old woman named Karishma Kapoor, whose $3 bet will net $14,600.

Vegas isn't nearly as stupid. E.g. the Cleveland Browns epitomize hapless. And yet a quick search for payoffs for next year's superbowl shows them at 200 to 1. http://www.footballlocks.com/nfl_futures_odds_super_bowl_li....

Those aren't necessarily the odds you could get in Vegas, but that's still the general idea. Never, never, never give crazy odds like 5000 to 1. Unless it's a bet something like "an asteroid will strike the earth in the next year and wipe out all human life". Because, if they're right, there's still no way they're getting paid!
Military tests unmanned ship designed to cross oceans
Very scientific.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11610891
"Shirataki profitable" just doesn't quite have the same ring, as much as I love them.
"taken as a whole, the systems used to move illegal drugs around the world comprise a logistics network likely bigger than Amazon, FedEx, and UPS combined."

I'm calling bullshit on this
Ah yes, the famously quiet and reserved Italians and Greeks. Truly a reserved region /s