skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article can probably be renamed to "why Javascript is bad"..only patents and dependencies issues were related to react native..the rest of the article was about how Javascript sucks..and I think developers are already equipped to take the call if they want to use js on a large project or not..
Windows network security now easier with osquery
Aqua – Website and User System Starter
We haven't moved much from MVC apps, have we?
It didn't just start growing. There was talk of it being the base of the OS (excluding the kernel) since 2012 (as mentioned here http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/systemd-update-3.html).

> We have been working hard to turn systemd into the most viable set of components to build operating systems, appliances and devices from, and make it the best choice for servers, for desktops and for embedded environments alike. I think we have a really convincing set of features now, but we are actively working on making it even better.

I'm pretty sure I saw others posts, but my googlefu is a bit weak.

So, the expansion was in the plan from nearly the beginning (for good or ill)
What is an ideal stage for a company to apply to YC?
We've gotten together an excellent team and partners, and are just starting to build out the value prop. However, we don't have any customers / traction yet. Should we wait to apply, or apply right now?
It's ok! The example storage engine could implement more functionality, just to demonstrate i.e. how rows are serialized/deserialized etc. The test suite was very helpful.
Why did I stop pursuing game dev?
Mobile Apps Future: Driving Towards IoT and Bots
Importance of mobile apps in boosting revenue for businesses have increased beyond measure; the future of mobility and apps is now integrated with IoT and Bots.
Let 'localhost' be localhost
Project's website: http://www.luatex.org/
This is also why retail is such a bad investment. As soon as an area is hot, the landlords capture all the value. (And why Kmart became a real estate play rather than retail)
I was unclear before -- an exam with an average score of 90 is equally bad as one with an average score of 10.

The variation in score is maximized when the exam has an average score of 50.

Since an uncurved score of 50 is a failing grade, you'd need curving to make that system work.
This is very much true.

If renters and young people were more engaged in local politics this wouldn't happen.

It's baffling to me how engaged people are with Federal politics, where many of the issues are distant and may never affect peoples' lives, while at the same time they have zero interest in local politics, which affects their lives closely, directly, every day.

Additionally municipal government is so approachable and citizens have incredible access. You can just email people and they'll get back to you. You can go to meetings and address council directly. In my town of 600k+ I've coincidentally came across a councillor on the street multiple times.
So git with a few pre-commit hooks?
Perfect local server with Atom
I've added a list, with links, to the end of the blog post.
Git doesn't currently handle "accounts", it handles lines of text in diff form. You can't currently use git to pay for things, though no doubt someone will add this feature.
I just assume it's because it's inconvenient to someone's preconceived political notions. Happens all the time around here.

I've also been modded down to oblivion recently for saying that I don't like exercise because I find it boring. Whatev.
And a 2009 LWN post as to why grsec won't be accepted: https://lwn.net/Articles/313621/
'Power Posing' Co-Author: "I Do Not Believe That 'Power Pose' Effects Are Real"
Do most colleges really not do this? The University of Melbourne had a split like this back in 2003.
Ha, this was my go-to resource for my computer architecture lab. It helped a ton, really great guide.
Just watching a podcast with Robert Scoble saying that next year or 2018 will have Tim Cook on stage at a keynote where Apple will deploy more innovation than it has in the past 40 years. While I think that's probably a slight exaggeration, they're almost certainly going to be introducing a lot of great stuff in the next few years. It will, however, almost certainly also be over-priced.
I've been told (including by current members of the Mtn View city council) that the lack of a grocery store in this neighborhood stems from city staff who are convinced that the neighborhood can't support one. Many people in the neighborhood are skeptical of this, and expressed a desire for a grocery store (along with restaurants and more retail) at a neighborhood planning meeting this past summer:

http://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/planning/activeproj...

I believe there will be future community meetings, so if you live in the area, get involved!
The problem with the ultrathin MBP, like all ultrabooks, is that it is not designed for sustained CPU use. It overheats quickly and the CPU will be throttled. You will be better off with a proper mobile workstation like the Lenovo Thinkpad P50 or P70 with Xeon CPUs and better cooling.
Do you think it's usually possible for two potential cofounders who don't already know one another to sufficiently evaluate one another quickly enough to start a company together in the short term (say, less than 3 months)?

There seem to be similar challenges to creating a scalable solution for finding an SO/spouse (another unsolved problem).
That's what users actually care about. Market demand.
Two Questions:

1. Would YC consider a media/publishing company that is not really a tech startup short of leveraging tech to reach a broader audience. (it's more like investigative journalism to arm buyers with info. needed to negotiate better deals.)

2. The info. in these reports can capture value by being sold right away, but giving the info. away for free is more in line with the mission of eliminating information asymmetry (by selling we are just replacing one inbalance, with another)...so is it better to capture initial value...or try to build trust to the point of people going straight to you to research purchases...and monetize later on or with add-ons (i.e. outsourced negotiation.) or eventually becoming the defacto source for consumer research (which is bound to be monetizable one way or another)?
That's a brilliant idea, I almost forgot about this. When I installed networking gear in the 90s, common knowledge/best practice was to always fix duplex/link-speed on fixed installed gear (routers/switches) because they frequently messed up autonegotiation.

Try a managed switch where you can choose 10/100, Full/Half and see statistics. Also try to get a "netstat/ifstat" like display on the logic analyzer to see bad packets/collisions/...
Made that mistake once - nobody viewed the re-submitted video.
On android at least, if you need to play music, couldn't you do that in a background service written Java and then have a UI written in RN that connects to that service?
It is true. Counselling is not good enough though. Given how ineffective it is, it is essentially permanent denial.

Moreover, there are other issues to verify, say, a person born with hip dysplasia should be treated regardless of weight as weight loss will never fix the underlying problem.

Also aching hip joints quite effectively prevent many kinds of exercise, which does not help with weight loss at all.

Without an effective alternative course of action, the surgery may be the one remaining effective measure.
I thought the plans might include a Mars-Earth cycler [1] but possibly that's a science-fiction pipedream for the near future?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
It didn't need to happen in componentDidMount with multiple calls to setState. If it's not getting info that it would only know after mounting, it could have happened in the same line that isConnected is initially defined within the constructor!
Has there been any graphic designer co-founders accepted into YC? If so, has there been anything noticeably different about that dynamic compared to usual co-founder teams of hackers? If not, are applicants that include graphic designer co-founders at all desirable at YC?
Is YC still looking for contributions towards its New Cities project?
I'd just say people who buy into a product for 'ease' and 'beauty' deserve to be trolled like this. I've dealt with a ton of people on iphones when working at EIG and I can say honestly that 98% of all email issues are because people can't get macmail to work, and even apple 'geniuses' have no clue.

It's not your host's fault you can't freaking get your email to work it's Apple's! The settings are the same for all providers the protocols are exactly the same, the only difference is server, if we give you that information and you can't figure it out then you're SOL - use gmail instead.
What would be some of the things you consider powerful in the Allegro Lisp?
How to set up cron job for MantisBT EmailReporting Plugin?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59159 is an older reference, and that's 16 years ago..
Anywhere in particular in China?
Thanks for answering.
Prehaps a batch of single founders is a great way to do this. (i.e. they all work on their own ideas, and at the end of the batch, they consolidate based on relationships they hit off, success of individual ideas, etc...)

I think YC would agree that people in the same YC class make some outstandingly strong friendships.
This is why I think the Tesla brand will be much stronger than bmw or Audi. They are the new Apple who are thinking different.
Lispworks is really nice. But I find the Slime integration with emacs works fantastic when you need to support lispworks/allegro/ccl/sbcl with the same interface.
Would you have noticed Dropbox and Instacart with that order?
If you took the "one tool one purpose" thing to an extreme, you'd only have one binary with OpenSSL compiled in, right?

Given some familiarity with the suckless ideology, it seems that it is the simplicity of static linking, not conservative use of disk space, which is its virtue. For, if anyone groks the tool chain perfectly but lacks disk space, I'd like to hear the secret.
I have been using RN from 0.19 onwards never broke my app a single time. React encourages thinking in components and component would be tightly coupled. I have many kitkat users on my beta app on playstore. For me reactjs is way simpler. Angualr seems like a jee framework.
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What's the connection between taxes and the amount of vacation you get?
Just think most people have had to settle for dying on a silicon rock buried under a 100 miles of nitrogen.
Joe Gebbia (cofounder of Airbnb) studied graphic design prior to founding Airbnb.
Any project on GitHub. The labels are just too make it easier to find stuff to do.
I can understand and consider the choice of words to be bad.
Can anyone shine a light on what LuaTex actually is?

"an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language" doesn't help me that much.

What's the advantage over (La)Tex?
fwiw we've funded Iron Ox (http://ironox.com/) -- they're basically farmers
Iran, Saudi Arabia dash hopes for OPEC oil deal
We could ask ourselves why aren't we attempting such a difficult task as space collonisation as a collective entity. Why are we busy fighting each other over limited resources when we could collaborate to build a better future for ourselves..

Well, man is still a teritorial animal driven by instinct, and as any animal, it perceives the unknown as dangerous and it will attempt to stop, in a knee jerk reaction, anyone who will try to change the status quo.

We're still driven by the past, by what we know, than by the future. We're not used to thinking in terms of probabilities and possible outcomes, but Elon does.

This is why most great breakthroughs have been made by exceptional individuals that fought through resistence and brought progress for the rest.

We are still not ready to act like a single consciousness. I wonder if we will ever be..
The project released it's first public beta in 2007, so you probably can't count that as a recent Lua win. ^^
The "more details here" link is broken, if the maintainer is reading.
Yes, but to be fair a lot of people came to the confrence, only to see this speech.

Source: Me, I was there.
Right now what I'm objecting to with systemd is that this system replaces syslog, has been created and driven by the enterprise linux distro, with full-time experienced linux devs, and has been released and used in production for years...

... and still doesn't have functional centralised logging ability. People have to use dirty hacks to make it work. This is my current headache.
A lot of research has been made in this direction by the PaX team/brad spender of grsecurity. In fact, many of these techniques were first implemented on modern kernels by that bunch. However, political moves have always clouded that -- pax/grsec is run as a project of passion and not as a day job, and therefore there has always been reluctance to deal with those (and get involved in sometimes very territorial code review/maintenance sessions).

Unfortunately, by not really crediting or even acknowledging this research (and also ignoring a lot of work thats been happening in academia on hardening commodity kernels and applications), the Linux kernel is a)playing catch up to other operating systems (instead of adapting newer techniques) and b) alienating researchers even further.
He actually talk about this in the Q&A. Filed under possible "future optimisation".

They didnt think it'll add that much in practise.
Is someone's creds on 'getting things done' largely based on visible projects? Or are other things considered?

For example becoming a self taught programmer? Quadrupling one's income? Doing all that while starting a new family? I feel like I'm becoming significantly more formidable. But the side project that pulled me into becoming a programmer, itself, is still lacking clearly visible progress.
Due to a lower atmospheric pressure (0.087 psi compared to Earth's 14.69 psi), water in mars begins to boil at 10 degrees Celsius, or 50 Fahrenheit.

Gravity in Mars is 3.7 m/s², compared to 9.8 m/s². In a way, it's convenient since it would take less effort to reach Martian escape velocity.

Mars does not have a magnetosphere, and therefore little protection from radiation. The technology to induce a planetary magnetosphere does not exist. If Mars does form an atmosphere, it can be lost to space during increased solar activity.

What I think is that our best chance is to send robots to prepare an habitat for the first manned visits.
Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars is wonderfully bonkers
I am pretty sure access to food is a prerequisite, but not a direct causative agent. Otherwise everyone in the West would be obese today, not 1 in 5.

And yes, manufacturing practices may be truly causing this, coupled with more hectic but sedentary lifestyle preventing people from cooking properly (it takes time and care), compounded by lower quality of basic ingredients and higher levels of stress.

It is highly unfair and unjust to throw it also onto a single person to invert, especially a sufferer.
> Actually impossible, not just expensive like getting someone to Mars in the very near future. The tech didn't exist.

What about the tech to grow food in space? Is it "just expensive" or it doesn't exists? I think it doesn't exist.

I think we need a dedicated food-growing space lab, and run it for least 10 years, until we're confident we have a robust technology that works.
> Do we "elect" a init system, as one nation united under Torvalds?

Debian selected it via an election.
I bet/hope that next time he has his staff vet the questioners. Those publicity stunts wasted valuable time.
To me, that doesn't seem so much in support for DRM, so much as support for something like the negation of "death of the author".

I think there is room to say both "this was the authorial/creatorial intent behind Mario's sprite, which should be acknowledged as being distinguished by being the intent" and to say "I aesthetically appreciate this deviation from the creator's intent, more so than the original intent."

The deviation in interpretation from the original intent is, I think, a new (derivative) creation, in a sense. (Though it may be an accident, and might not have an intent to create behind it.)
Yes, I was extremely irritated by the questions.

I was actually there in the audience. Trust me, all the experts in the room, from all over the aerospace industry, were very irritated too. Many folks walked out of the room when people started asking silly questions.
Not sure how much overlap there is with your particular skill set, but Brian Chesky had a Product Design background before starting Airbnb. Paul Graham even recommends attending design school over b-school in his How to Start a Startup lecture.

Q: Do you see any value in business school for people who want to pursue entrepreneurship?

A: Basically no, it sounds undiplomatic, but business school was designed to teach people management. Management is a problem that you only have in a startup if you are sufficiently successful. So really what you need to know early on to make a start up successful is developing products. You would be better off going to design school if you would want to go to some sort of school. Although frankly the way to learn how to do it is just to do it. One of the things I got wrong early on is that I advised people who were interested in starting a startup to go work for some other company for a few years before starting their own. Honestly the best way to learn on how to start a startup is just to just try to start it.
Absolutely that last sentence. I'm 27 but only in the past 12 months have I figured out what I'm supposed to be doing. So keep asking the question: what is something I can I do that is helpful to people, I enjoy doing, and am good at? If you're fortunate enough to come up with a reasonable answer, the pursuit of that thing in and of itself is enough.
Static linking is a virtue now? I don't understand the advantages.
Thanks for the detailed response, I very much appreciate it. Looking back, I suppose you are correct that my comment didn't add much to the conversation.

In my defense though, my comment was a response to another poster who seemed to imply that no one buys Apple products due to it being a status symbol, at least that's how I interpret the line "Just stop with the status symbol crap". Said poster then uses their own reason for purchasing a Mac to completely dismiss the possibility that the broader market might base their purchasing decisions on less logical reasoning.

My main confusion with the downvotes stemmed from the fact that while my comment may not have had much to do with the original topic, I thought it was appropriately related to the post I was responding to, and said post arguably had as little to do with the original topic as mine, while not garnering similar downvotes.

In any case, thanks again for the explanation. I'll try and do a better job of staying on topic and crafting my responses.
Sam, thank you so much for taking the time to add so much value to all of the applicants of YC. I have learned so much.

For emerging industries like our's in the virtual reality space, there is so much money driving the industry into gaming and the desires of the bigger players like Facebook and Oculus. Is it more valuable to align with these bigger players and play along with their game, or disrupt the industry but risk being outcasted?

Thanks!
Stan Sedberry
Vidi VR
> even a poet

since there is a ~10 minute delay when accessing the internet, I think any form of entertainers would be quite sought after :)
If an upgrade took years to apply, this wouldn't be a standard operating practice.

Such as in high risk environments with certification requirements. You wouldn't tell a bank or military "upgrade it".
Ignoring your snark, I had the similar experience at a Salzburg and Berlin based company. On the other hand there were many companies (Zalando, ProhectA etc) which were copying the shitty model of useless programming puzzles.
Yes I was there. Trust me, you're not the only one that felt that way. Almost everyone in the audience are very smart, respected people in the aerospace industry. Scientists, engineers, you name it. Many walked out very irritated.

Lot's of people from outside of the industry went to the event, just to see this talk.
GUI step-by-step derivative calculator source code
Thanks for sharing your thoughts sama and mkagenius.
* And I want to throw a personal question that I haven't seen anyone ask. If ELon asked you to be the president of his Mars colony, would you take the role and if so, what would be your first action as ruler lol
If it were 90% applicable if would be good. These are not validated and are likely much less accurate.
Of course it depends on where you live. Even in europe you'll find lots of underserved areas once you'll leave the cities. No provider is interested in building the network in these regions.
BDE. One of the last legends.
This is a big assumption that Mars is deserted. No one (including Musk) has right to colonize any species humans or aliens.
Show HN: WebM player with support of VP8/VP9 and Vorbis/Opus written in Golang
How much of SailfishOS is covered by GPL or GPL compatible license? I don't want to invest my time into someone else business for free.
"the US is paying full price to subsidize the cost to much of the world. The US is the profit center that makes possible the steeply-discounted-almost-free sales elsewhere."

Yeah, right. So why we pay ~30% more[1] for the same iPhone in Europe? I've seen this "we pay for the rest of the world" myth over and over again, but never reliable proofs or sources that support it. Sure, I bet Apple gets most profits from USA, but it's because it sells most of phones there, not that they are "given for free" elsewhere.

1. http://micgadget.com/36729/iphone-7-price-in-usa-china-europ...
Yes but is it Azure-specific blockchain which isn't compatible with sth like ethereum?
I agree with this. The correct way would be to make the entire metro area a 'city' (or maybe a 'megacity') and absorb (and remove) all lower levels of governance.

This way voter representation is on the scale of the locality. It would encourage factoring in the needs of all citizens within that economic zone, instead of factions of shards that battle each other.
We should not be colonizing foreign lands instead making our own planet better in all sense. Elon Musk and company are well known for big promises, I'm still waiting for 35K Tesla that was supposed to come out last year.
I've considered the question before, and I considered it again while watching this - would I go? I've decided that I would, if given the opportunity. I'm an engineer. I'm in excellent physical health. I have a family, but they are at a point where they can get along without me. But then I consider that there are or will be hundreds of thousands of others who are in the same situation and also wish to join the queue.
Ever tried enduring hunger on a starvation level diet? If not, please do not say "all you have to do", because you have no idea how impossible it is.

CR people who are reducing calories count to what you propose from healthy levels almost never go to maximum restriction immediately exactly because of this problem. And those diets are extremely precise and meticulous. A minor deviation is enough to cause long term health problems.

And even at 50% caloric restriction it will take years to lose a large amount of weight.
An ancient Greek algorithm could reveal all-new prime numbers
having a more-modern language for scripting? I remember that tikz (a library for vector graphics) had to emulate some floating point math because it just wasn't supported by TeX (which meant when I wrote my thesis, my macbooks fans were going through the roof).