skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless they changed the product massively, Synergy is just about rerouting input from a host to client PCs, but it won't stream video or audio.
Another plug: http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ although this is more from a games historian enthusiast point of view.
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Exactly. That reason would fly better with me.
Not sure I'm entirely fond of the idea, either. Luckily the place I worked for was led by good people that actually wanted the users to have fun, and not just take their money.

However, it definitely feels more like gambling than a fair or straight auction to me.
Ask HN: What else is in your list of daily reads?
Besides HN, I am curious -- what else do folks here read on a daily basis? My short list includes:

* CNET News http://www.cnet.com/news/
* Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com
* Mac Rumors http://www.macrumors.com
* Wired http://www.wired.com
* The Verge http://www.theverge.com
* xkcd http://www.theverge.com
* IEEE Spectrum http://spectrum.ieee.org
So, how much does one actually cost?
You are right, I shouldn't question this guy's fascination with any tech. Especially if it's something that he can love, and do for good money.

Still, mainframes...
Right. There are still more "successful" companies that are _not_ YC than those that are. While there are some advantages to YC, there are advantages to other incubators, or other angels, or completely bootstrapping, etc.
> This guy is a sheep

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN at the best of times, let alone under circumstances like this. This is a bannable offense, so please don't do it again.
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When it comes to building a successful startup, you really should focus on just 2 things:
1) Build great product
2) Talk to customers
2.5) Iterate + repeat

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'networking' and what you expect to get from the said activity. You can just as easily raise money from SF/NY investors even if you are based in Atlanta - if you have a great product and good growth. If you are missing great product or good growth, you can't raise money even if you live in the investors' basement.

In terms of talent acquisition - that might be a legitimate reason. Keep in mind that (good) talent is also very very expensive in SF/NY. You are basically competing against the best companies in the world in terms of mission + compensation. So really ask yourself if you have what it takes to attract the best talent.
> You can view the high price as the free-market finding the intersection of supply and demand given the regulatory and legal constraints but that seems like a less than useful way of understanding 'free-market'.

Stop using regulation as a stalking horse for your argument. Everything you need to know about the price of epi pens you can derive from inelastic demand (people don't want to die), and barriers to entry (copyrighted brand, network of doctors writing prescriptions, and yes, FDA approval so these things don't kill people).

The price is high because people will pay almost anything to not die. This drives the price point up to capture consumer surplus. It's easy to understand.

The Free Market isn't a magic bullet that will drive down these prices. For one simple reason. Rational actors don't compete on price. I'm going to repeat this, because so many people don't get it.

Rational actors don't compete on price. Rational actors will spend up to their expected monopoly profits to create a Nash Equilibrium where new entrants into a market will be unprofitable. The simplest way to do this is through dumping. (see "competition" in the generic drug market for example) Why doesn't this happen in every market? Regulation.

Maybe you don't like that in unregulated markets, people starve, are poisoned, are denied treatment, and worked like slaves. Because that's how you maximize profit, by minimizing your own costs by maximizing externalized costs. So you'll think anything to avoid that realization. Like blame 'regulation' for what's obviously rationally maximizing profits.

And if you want to know how exactly the 'free-market' for medical supplies would work without regulation, just look at the 1800s. Demand was still inelastic, so prices were high, quality was low (for obvious reasons), and competition was still stupid, because price fixing and dumping were still more profitable than competing on price.
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If the age of self-driving cars is upon us, what's keeping them off the roads?
pretty sure the experience would not be great on the original ipad. Low resolution and probably to slow to properly decode the video stream in realtime.
Not that my opinion matters for anything, but I don't want to call out specific companies as having "low" potential. Now is probably uncertain and stressful for each of them, and I wouldn't want to undermine anyone's confidence as some anonymous armchair investor on their big day. (I know one should not be affected by that, but we're all human.)

To your point, I wonder if there is some sort of calculus within YC: Company A has 1% potential of a $10B exit, Company B has 50% potential of $100MM/year ... what do we do? Cold logic says we invest in Company A over Company B (not that this is zero-sum), but they can only make so many investments and the real numbers are much smaller than one-percent. Whereas, a series of conservative investments keeps them solvent long-term, while the bigger exits slow boil.
On one hand, I agree with other comments that the author may be overly alert to alcohol dependence signals in society. It has become somewhat of a social norm to joke about using alcohol to get through unpleasantness, but most people I know don't take the jokes literally. That may be difficult to see when you've had difficulty with alcohol in your own life.

On the other hand, the challenges she writes about women facing aren't fabricated, and she's giving herself as an example of someone who used alcohol to deal with those challenges. She sees signs that others are doing the same, and is disturbed by it. Even if there's some projection going on there, obviously there are some other women in a similar situation, and maybe this post would be helpful to them. In some professional and social circles, I don't doubt there is also significant pressure on people of both genders, but women especially, to drink with the guys to fit in; perhaps reading this first-hand account of the effects that can have could change behaviours. It may not be perfectly unbiased, but I don't see it as worthless either.

Reading some of these comments, I can't help but notice the parallel to the men on the panel discussed in the post. Commenting on the points made is one thing (ideally while trying to understand where the author is coming from more fully), but dismissing the author and her thoughts outright because you feel you know better seems counterproductive at best.
VZW gives you an ipv6 address. I actually use a USB stick + vzw SIM for a backup internet connection via pfsense and it works well - ipv6 included.
I can relate to the author of this article. I taught myself JavaScript in parallel with the Web Audio API around 2012.

Warning, shameless plug:
Since there are no books that teach sound artists how to program using JavaScript I decided to write one based on the process I went through.

It is available for pre order if anyone is interested:

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Pure speculation: 28nm masks and manufacturing are significantly cheaper than 16FF and newer, which likely helps meet the cost of HoloLens at the volume they're forecasting. Moving to 16ff or Intel's 14nm allows more for processing cores at a fixed die size, but also makes it more expensive.

There's a reason it's called the bleeding edge. :)
Not at all. All of these companies have the potential to be worth billions of dollars or else we would not have funded them. Of course it's not always easy for people reading a short summary on a blog to see that potential, as you can easily verify by reading the comments on early articles about uber or Twitter.
Say yes to more things that felt uncomfortably hard.
From an economics perspective, taxing the airwaves is just as efficient as a land-value tax. The market response to something being taxed is to not make as much of it. As long as the tax is set such that the land or spectrum is still worth using, it's the closest thing to a free lunch.

And it's not as if taxing the spectrum changes how much more money cell phone companies would get at different prices.
How many startups presented off-the-record?
I have to say you've really piqued my interest. What are some of the obscure things you're interested in?
And what's the actual cost to make one?
Welcome to commenting! I'm sure you have much worth contributing.
Fair enough, but I think by definition if a company's founders are targeting high/huge potential then it's not a lifestyle business.

> To your point, I wonder if there is some sort of calculus within YC: Company A has 1% potential of a $10B exit, Company B has 50% potential of $100MM/year ... what do we do?

These days, I think the answer is increasingly: both. YC is in the enviable position of fantastic deal flow and also being able to scale up their operation (classes have been getting much bigger).

Of course, they definitely still are going to miss out on some great companies. But I suspect those cases are increasingly ones of YC not recognizing the potential, not cases of passing on companies with only $100MM/year potential.
You are fine using apkmirror to grab an update you haven't yet received from the Play Store. When you install the apk, Android knows you are updating an app, verifies the signature, and ensures it came from the same developer.

Android is sane: it won't let you downgrade, further updates from the store will work correctly, etc. Since apkmirror usually get their apks from the Play Store, you'll be okay if you know what you are doing.

That said, your skeptical attitude is very appropriate. Installing apks from outside of the Play Store is by far the biggest vector for malware. Users that only install from the Play Store are currently safe (less than 0.15% of those users get malware).
Of course not, the cars & their license plates also give it away.
Thank you for your response, Mr. Buchheit. I really appreciate it.

This is the answer I was looking for, one that explains your driving intentions. I'm nothing like a venture capitalist or investor, so I appreciate that I may not have any kind of good read on these companies' potentials.

All the best to each of them and to you.
I was really disappointed since the Nexus 5. I'm not sure why Qi charging was removed. Quick charging doesn't replace being able to just put your phone down to charge.
I am fairly consistent in my criticism of Go. I am also fairly consistent in my insistence that the Dependency Inversion Principle is one of the harder concepts to wrap your head around of the SOLID principles (not least because several other concepts use terms similar).

But golang's structural typing actually allows for some of the easiest demonstrations of the implementation of the DIP of any of the strongly typed languages I've used.

I find Martin's definition of the DIP counterintuitive. A description that makes more sense to me is "interfaces should be defined by the 'users' of the interface, not by the implementers".

With a language like C++ or Java, to achieve this requires either lots of adapter layers or compiler tricks. With golang it is simple.

As a for instance, let's say I'm writing a restful client library for a specific application. It is tempting to to hard code a dependency on the std lib http.Client.Do method. If instead with 3 lines of code, I define my own interface for Do that matches the std library definition. I can use the std library, or any other library that matches it (one that is faster say or implements back off).

That is one of the few areas where the golang type system is pretty cool in comparison to its peers.
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We were talking about readability, not speed. (Of course, you could also just write a macro.)
That's a number set by the licensed manufacturer, which I'm not party to. Sorry.
Well.... no, not really. Processors really are fundamentally asynchronous. They are state machines which react when external signals impinge upon them. Synchronous behavior is a useful illusion, a convenient reasoning tool for some kinds of tasks, and our traditional notations for describing computational processes are all based on this model of how computing might be done - but it hasn't actually been done that way since the batch-processing era.

I learned this as I dove into low-level hardware work - drivers and embedded systems. When you're dealing with hardware, life is fundamentally driven by interrupts. Processors spend most of their time asleep. When something happens, the signal level of an input pin changes, and the processor reacts: it wakes up, it starts executing the interrupt handler for that signal, it does things, it sends messages, and then - its job done - it goes back to sleep.

So what, we're talking about normal computers here, you say, surely they're different, right? But no, they really aren't; it's the same process of signal, interrupt, handler, return, all the time. Every context switch, every packet receipt or transmit completion, every timer tick, all of it, it's all driven asynchronously; the system is a hierarchy of event handlers waiting for their opportunity to respond to some external signal.

If you're trying to build an IO system, then, the synchronous model is an expensive illusion. You can force it, but it isn't reality. You spend time waiting, you spend time blocking, you build complex APIs that pretend to poll arrays of connections in parallel; and all you're doing is forcing that illusion of synchrony onto a fundamentally asynchronous world.

It's backwards, all right, but it's backwards because our traditional way of describing computation is backwards, especially the languages which follow the imperative tradition. Functional languages have gained popularity in part because the mental model works better for asynchrony; instead of describing a series of steps to follow, and treating the interrupt as the exception, you describe the processes that should be undertaken in certain circumstances; you effectively construct a state-machine instead of describing a process, and then you leave that state-machine to be poked and prodded by whatever external signals come along to drive it.
It would be awesome to see an interactive playground for this, where people can just mess around with simple examples. I wonder if it would be simple enough to have a codepen/jsfiddle of this.
This scientific work claims to have determined life's purpose/meaning
Taking away Friday? Personally that sounds amazing. I once worked 10-hours four days a week. Having an extra weekday added incredible value and productivity to my life, and more than made up for the 10-hour days.
In software, the testing environment usually isn't more expensive by several orders of magnitude.
Many of the points are based on personal taste. But others are just wrong / misunderstood. Specifically:

> See how when you assign to a variable you don’t get to see the result.

Yes. Because assignment doesn't return any value in Python.

> Instead I have to know empty collections in python are false

No. There's always `len(collection) == 0` available.

> import os / Python had no idea what os was.

That's just some mistake the author made. Importing modules works just fine and in many style guides it's preferred over importing specific functions/classes.

> Instead we have to look at an entirely different module named shutil with the function rmtree.

This is exactly because of being explicit, like the author wanted Python to be a few lines above. The `os` module maps pretty much exactly onto basic OS operations. There's no rmtree, because it's not a basic mapping. It's a complex procedure, so it's somewhere else (with other complex functions).

> Shell commands like cat are in my fingertips for such things.

This is not a feature of bpython as far as I understand. It's a feature of ipython though. Just choose your repl.

> I run it like this: run(`codesign --verify $app`)

Whatever the language, this is a bad way to run external applications. What if the `$app` contains spaces? Or hyphens? Or semicolons? Again, author approved of the explicit approach in the same article, so they should just pass an array of command and arguments instead.

> In contrast Python distinguishes the two with: ["codesign", "--verify", app] "codesign --verify {}".format(app)

They're different things, and that's a good thing. If you want to print out a list as if it was a single command, you can do `' '.join(the_list)`, but without proper escaping, it's not always going to be correct.

> Here are some examples of what I do in Julia which does not require extensive libraries:

And I call BS at this point. If the author can do "Modifying and resigning iOS apps." in Julia without extensive libraries, they should show that. Calling an external command does not count.
FYI, Venning, I don't believe parent is PG. It's a different Paul. PG's user account is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
Where did you move and why that place?
I know: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/08/y-c-switches-up-its-manage...

Edit: I didn't provide much context. He is Paul Buchheit, a (the?) managing partner at YC Core.
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Considering it was bought in china, is the insecurity a bug or a feature?
Pay attention to everything that is apparently mundane and ordinary. Don't dismiss it as normal or uninteresting. The more different things you can appreciate in this way, the easier it is to let go of the "surface stuff" and be who you are inclined to be naturally, as over time your values will adjust to make room for the mundane and it correspondingly becomes easier to see what you really care about. If you cling to a narrow value system then you never hit the point where it coheres into a life you feel in control of - and that will really leave you adrift when you're older and all the opportunities have passed!
The government bureaucrats will probably end up taxing those technically inclined universities to support the teaching of intelligent design.
This seems absurd to me. What exactly are we going to sit there and do while waiting on the data we need to fulfill a query?

I work on services where any given endpoint may handle many thousands of requests per second. We don't care about a slight penalty to query the database, because these are very short, and our services return responses on the order of 100 ms.

Maybe these are things you care about in a language like Javascript, but in something statically typed, they just don't seem like a problem.
Words via author:

I had years prior sought to axiomatically describe consciousness.

In reducing the problem, I had encoded a naive, minute ("minoot") function:

c = ⌈P∞⌉ᵘ•σm

…whence “⌈P∞⌉” symbolizes some perceptual vector bundle, that persists on some computational boundary “ᵘ”.

Albeit, the function, though perhaps quite wrong, encompassed some logic; computational systems (life/non life) bound in some computational limit, such that there exists u, a non-polynomial time complete function sequence.

Therein, a quaint meaning rather merely emerged, en passant. See ‘Purgeable Paradox’ section via specified quora url.

'Complete' (albeit brief) paper: http://www.academia.edu/13808157/Consciencia_Aequatio
no worries! i can see how what i said originally could be read that way and suspect we may agree that there's a bit of an unhealthy tendency amongst some of our peers to overstate how well science works and underestimate everyday reasoning that we all must do. Science is messy too. The world we're measuring is messy.

I say - use the best method that you reasonably can use and see where it gets you. If that's science then great, but often you need to get by with a lesser method and that is ok.
These are $125 for two pens or thereabouts in the UK, same device. Presumably import is regulated?

https://onlinedoctor.lloydspharmacy.com/uk/allergy/epipen
Url changed from https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602224/a-bug-hunting-hack..., which is pretty much entirely cribbed from this.

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$100M for a seed fund, right? Can't imagine $100M being a serious play for anything other than a seed fund. I think he'd make a good board member, not so much as an early stage investor.
Actually, I was thinking more of "real-life" relationships than online ones. Online it's even worse in some ways, as you point out, but better in others, as you can easily find a niche of people interested in whatever obscure thing you might be interested in at the moment -- though whether you can leverage that common interest to a meaningful relationship is quite another story.

As for moving, I've done that many times in my life. I've found that for me, unless I already know somebody in the place I'm moving to, and can meet people through them, I have a very difficult time making new friends. And there's virtually no one I know well anywhere any more.

I think what it ultimately boils down to is not being very social to begin with, combined with some social phobia, with mostly non-mainstream interests, and being content enough with my own company most of the time. That's lead to a lifetime of habits and choices that have resulted in the withering of my friendships the lack of enough motivation to make much effort to get new ones.

Most of the time I don't even think about it, and when I do, I just wonder why I should bother, as my attempts usually lead to nothing or just more pain and suffering.

It doesn't help that the people I'd probably have the most in common with probably aren't very social themselves and have problems making friends too.
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All the points in the first (Uriel) rant are attacking JavaScript itself, and most if not all those points are remedied by using ES2015 and FRP.

All the points in the second (Ryan) rant are attacking bloated/poorly-scoped software and abstractions, and none of the points (except mentioning $NODE_PATH) have any relevance at all to Node.js.

So really none of this is relevant to Node.js (or JavaScript) being inherently bad, it's just pointing out that people can use it for bad things, which is no different to any other language or runtime.
> Light enough to be flown fully assembled by helicopter.

Kind of an amusing phrase, though I imagine it makes more sense out in the Australian bush.
> how exactly the 'free-market' for medical supplies would work without regulation, just look at the 1800s.

Do you have a source for this? Medical costs started angling up steeply in the 1960s with the advent of heavy regulation.

> dumping were still more profitable than competing on price.

Isn't dumping competing on price?
Harris has never called for killing people (Muslim or otherwise) in middle east. What he is calling for is: fight the vicious ideology of Islam, period.

What he is demanding is there should fear-free, public discussions about various evils of Islam: e.g. pedophilia practiced by Islam's prophet Muhammad, Allah's misogyny and Allah's very existence and so on.

How does this justify your claim?

edit: removed quote copied from parent.