skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I'd hate to own a MBP again, it just can't handle my lifestyle. With my current Thinkpad, everything is repairable, a new screen is $45 for 1440x900 @ 14in, DisplayPort is right there for my external monitor, and it can take a beating without issue.

I've thrown it in the back of my pickup and let it slam side to side as I drove all over town, no worse for wear. Speaker fell from 20ft up and busted the screen once, and an angry former friend punched it and broke the last one, but I was able to get a new screen same day and swap it in both instances. Took me two screws and less than 5 minutes to be back up and rolling again.

If I need more than an i5, 8GB ram & an SSD, I've got a new KVM box that I can use as a desktop easily.

Wrt iPod Touch as an iOS development target, that would likely work for some applications, but if your app involves voice or seeing how performance is over cellular, it'd be non-optimal. Same for using an iPhone 5, your missing out on features that newer devices bring to the table, so you can't optimize for them/leverage them.

On another note, the Mac Mini is one of the most neglected product lines out there that Apple is currently selling, akin to their routers before they finally killed them off (which was a mercy kill).

Mac Mini: http://www.macworld.com/article/3154027/macs/what-the-mac-ne...
This is not true. Many app developers use the affiliate program from their app's web site to claw back some of the 30% commission.

Minimise the house take, so to speak.
They show you exactly what's in the bag in their official video: http://gizmodo.com/juicero-ceo-begs-you-do-not-open-our-juic...

This is part of their disposal process. You're supposed to cut the bag and empty it into your green bin, etc.
Doubt it. You can't use those methods to identify users if the phones are just being used to mine new accounts.

I'd assume the miners just wipe a phone clean, reinstall Uber & create a new account.

There are no special settings & variability in installed apps in that case.
I can get on board with that. This would help even small businesses that are reinvesting in growth.

But, to truly level the playing field, we would also have to tax capital gains at the same rate as wages.
I highly doubt you can apply that much pressure without wooden boards breaking or warping.
“Sometimes people have this misapprehension that Bitcoin is a democracy. No Bitcoin is not a democracy; it’s called a 51% attack for a reason. That’s not a majority of the vote, that’s not how Bitcoin works.”

So I get that he's trying to get at the fact that it's not a large majority, but 51% is a majority.
> but it seems like a roller would be able to provide a more efficient and focused method of squeezing than a press they're using now.

Or maybe, just maybe, a screw-driven piston, like many actual juicers have...

But let's be completely honest - the machine was always meant to be an expensive countertop device. It looks expensive, it weighs a lot, people will think you spent a lot of money on it even if they don't know how much it'll cost... This is exactly why the engineering staff was told "go nuts" on the hardware design - the more expensive and custom, the better. It does the job of looking like a high-end appliance exactly and precisely, and really nothing more.

This company always intended to make its money back selling overpriced juice packs like Keurig, banking on people with more money than common sense buying and using the hell out of these devices for the $14 juice packs. Selling the machines near cost or even as a loss leader was perfectly acceptable, as long as customers had to come back to them for more juice month over month. It just turns out consumers were smart enough to see through the not-so-clever ruse of buying a $400 counterweight to squeeze a package of pre-squeezed juice out of a bag and into a cup...
Scrypt (the version that cryptocurrencies use) is broken, but if you compare memory-hard PoW such as Cuckoo Cycle against proof of space we can assume that most people have more unused storage space than unused RAM and thus space is a cheaper resource, possibly leading to more decentralization.
Using more than a hundred stored procedures in production
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> There is a difference between giving anecdotal evidence and speaking from years of experience.

No. No, there really isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
Ok this I feel is super useful for me. You gave me actionable feedback and I am super thankful. I will definitely improve upon this. Yep I get defensive, thats something I am working on. I took all the feedback to heart. The person who commented on the "fake testimonial" did change his statement (check it out). I tried to find a real user image but I felt I cannot use any user's image without asking them. So I am trying to internalize all comments. I also replied to everyone who took time to help me. I have not used this site much. I have been active since the YC application days.
> Why on earth would you get yourself involved in a petty fight over people writing comments that aren't "useful" on your post? - Yep I should not have. It was not worth. My bad.

> Have you never used this site before - Only sometime

> You're not internalising it, you launch straight into a hurt defence - I will improve

> Someone quoted from YC policy, presumably to shed some light on the situation, and you dismiss it as a stock response written by a lawyer - I still think its a stock response. YC should do what it should. I don't expect everyone to agree with me (hope this is not attitudish, i am simply narrating my stand on it without being influenced by anyone)

>start praising a competitor - Whats wrong in praising a better service? Isnt that the freedom of such forums that people can express their opinions?

> if you already have all the answers, what do you need YC for? - I don't have all the answers. I still need to find out the answer to my original question - why did YC reject me twice. Some folks have helped me by telling me that its combination of team/domain expertise and traction. But would have been nice if YC could have told me that themselves.
>1: Frankly, your apparent confusion as to how commenting works is a bit jarring - it befits someone asking for help to acquaint himself a bit with how things work, but that's the least of your problems - I am not sure if I understand.
"Not using it" means "compared to using offline means for communication or just not communicating," not "compared to using an unauthorized online means for communication."

Your job as IT is to deliver business value. It's certainly possible that people not communicating is better for the business than people communicating over a hackable service, but it's not the conclusion most people have come to.
I don't think the braniacs at Juicero thought that far ahead. They're probably using premium carrots for their product.
49, write code every day. The whole SO thing mistifies me. I really think the survey skews, because "graybeards", don't waste time filling out surveys and they know how to RTFM to get answers.
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OK, so if the customers are victims of their universities, why would we call the journals who help them out "predatory"?

The quoted phrase, "a bunch of predator journals have emerged to lighten the purses of these poor folks", clearly implies that the journals are out to hurt their customers.
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In a sense, yes. However, I think the farmers in this analogy were more willing/able to be nomadic in the earlier days of osx and ios apps, where now they are much more likely to make the land their permanent home.

This could be because the app store is more stable or reliable as a source of income or from a realization that the Mac App store is the best/only way to present information to a sufficiently wide audience - that wasn't really something developers knew to be true in the earlier years I imagine - maybe the thoughtful ones knew but the rest were still warming up their feet.
It's a hard problem and I'd like to know too.

When I was doing a MSc in environmental engineering we were careful to let the stakeholders decide what environmental problems are important based on their feelings and not try to prioritize ourselves. Part of it is practical, it's very hard to have stakeholder buy-in on problems they don't care about, but part of it is that I don't think there is consensus on how to do comparisons across problems. You have to make difficult value judgments. (How many kgs of CO2 is one beautiful pristine forest worth? etc.)

Some keywords you could look into are multi-criterion decision analysis and ecosystem services.

My intuition and back-of-the-envelope estimates say that household waste, recycling, and water use don't matter that much.

I'm not too popular with the environmental committee at work because I like to remind them that their annoying, time-consuming eco-friendly intervention of the week matters an order of magnitude less than switching a single meal per week from beef to a veggie alternative.

I think the big questions are: how big is your house? what type of energy do you use for heating/AC? how much do you drive/fly? do you eat animal products?

For most people the rest is comparatively not super consequential. (With some exceptions of course, there are hobbies that are 100x worse than others. People around here drive snowmobiles with 2-stroke engines, they are much less regulated and produce horrendous pollution compared to cars.)
Also, if you enjoy teardowns of cheap Chinese crap, big Clive's got your back:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5z2gkrGRuWd0JQMx76qA

What I've learned watching his channel: Don't skimp on your USB chargers, get Anker or IKEA ones (seriously, the IKEA charger was amazingly well-designed).
Technically 50.0001% should be sufficient, but that doesn't sell as well in the press.

It's odd that it wasn't architected to require a super-majority of 60-66% from the outset. That would make it more resilient.
He's developing a more detailed discourse about his idea here (in the last 15 minutes)..

https://stealthisshow.com/s02e14/

http://content.blubrry.com/stealthisshow/S02_E13_The_Future_...
You object to spending 2 min squeezing pre made juice, and this juicero contraption is the next logical iteration?
... maybe?

You should be taking the course of action that's most likely to lead to the best outcomes. If it's one-on-60, it's not clear to me that fighting back is that course of action. (I really don't know what is best in that situation.)
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"LSD is active when swallowed immediately but nbomes aren't. So for a knowledgeable user it's not hard to avoid nbomes"

LSD might be pharmacologically active immediately, but not perceptually. It might take a while for the user to be sure they haven't eaten plain paper. Anyway, what is the "knowledgeable user" supposed to do when the substance they've taken isn't active immediately? Spit it out? By then it's too late. I really don't understand how this knowledge is supposed to help you avoid nbomes.

"you will never be able to find out how much LSD is actually on your tab"

Knowing what you're getting is great, but of secondary importance to making sure you're not getting poisoned.

The government should really step in, legalize it, and inspect the manufacturers and require testing, much like what is done in the legal medical industry now, with legal pharmaceuticals.

That process is itself currently far from perfect, and occasionally there are safety scandals even with legal pharmaceuticals, but it's still far better than the situation with illegal drugs now, when users have to seriously worry that their next dose will kill them because of potential toxic impurities that would all likelihood not be there if the drug was legal.

It's really upsetting that the government can stand by and just watch people suffer and die when they could be doing something to prevent it.
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Something to consider for SLOG (or other journals, e.g., bcache) is that write endurance of the Optane 16-32 GB models is pretty poor. You might want a bigger Optane (or SSD) as a writeahead log / WB cache not because you need the capacity, but because you need the write endurance.
If golden handcuffs are "stock that was previously granted but either has not yet vested or has vested but the employee can't keep if they walk away from the job", I'm curious at what point unvested stock becomes "golden handcuffs". The one-year cliff? One month in? After the first day, when waiting for your one-year cliff is one day closer than your one-year cliff would be if you quit and started a new job the very next day?

(Hope this isn't coming across as combative — if we're gonna have a discussion of semantics, I'm trying to nail down where you're coming from :) )
What do you think is a fair price, given what you get from Apple for that 30%?

I'd be more than happy for it to be 0%, but you do get a few things for that cut:

* Credit card processing

* Handling refunds (you need to do this manually on refund, just another thing to deal with)

* Some level of app discovery

* Distribution of app and files

My biggest problem with the 30% is that it is now the de-facto amount that other similar services charge developers for everything now (Google Play - there are others too that escape me now).
>"We're not bothered by qualifications or CVs. We just look at the candidate and work out who they are, are they Mr Grumpy, Mr Slow, Mr Happy?

If you consider that presenting a cheerful face for customers is part of the retail job description, then the Mr. Men-themed interview is essentially a work sample.

"If they tick all the right boxes then we put them in the shop for half the day."

Which is followed by a longer work sample, it appears.
No, I was pulling that 2.5 year figure from my prior life of selling cellphones to businesses and the occasional consumer. On average 40% of a wireless account will upgrade per year, so about every 2.5 years you'll see a line upgrade devices.

Its great that Apple supports the iPhone 5 still, but the user experience on an iPhone 5 is different from an iPhone 7, and its hard to optimize for a device you don't have that is multiple generations newer.
Sure, given enough instructors and a huge amount of time you could probably teach it. But starting with javascript gives you almost no benefits and saddles you with the huge burden of attempting to teach a language known to have many quirks and strange conventions.
These caterpillars didn't evolve to eat plastic as far as we know. Evolution takes place on unimaginably slow timescales. It took tens of millions of years for things to evolve to eat wood. Probably these caterpillars already happened to produce a chemical that reacts with plastic. I wonder if they even get any nutritional value from it.

That said, bacteria can evolve pretty fast because of high population sizes and low generation times. In the 50's they found a bacteria that had evolved to digest the synthetic material nylon. I wonder why bacteria haven't evolved to digest plastic yet. Possibly there is some scientific reason that it's inefficient to digest. Maybe we could speed evolution up by dissolving plastic in a liquid first so it's more accessible to them.
I can't even imagine what it would be like to be administered a hallucinogen surreptitiously in a age where zero recreational use of said hallucinogens gave literally no one a chance to be prepared to explain what the hell was going on in their brains.

I'm reasonably certain that if someone slipped me something now, thanks to youthful experimentation I'd at least catch on to what was going on pretty quickly, but I can't imagine experiencing that with literally no frame of reference.
Often times managers demand an estimate from you, not because they need the job urgently done, but just so that they can hold you accountable to something. If you promise something, they can assume that you will give your best to keep that deadline.
And maybe that makes you a slightly less desirable target than the elderly lady in the next carriage over, but maybe it also means you get your ribs kicked in and your skull smashed by a dozen yobs. One stray kick in the nuts is all it takes.
At least the faculty had integrity.
Well yeah, I'm only talking about the benefit for people who actually want what Juicero offers. I'm not sure if those people actually exist.
I'm glad to see this one winding down. In my city it was used by high school students to hassle and mock each other. Yeah, I know, according to their terms of service and geofencing stuff high school students aren't supposed to use it. Tell them that.
So, they are engineers to place more wear on the cable (i.e. male plug) than the port (socket)? Great.

I wonder whether (well, suspect, I guess, that) crap cables can negatively affect this, e.g. through inferior materials and manufacture / specifications adherence producing more friction. (Anyway, I do my best to ascertain what are quality cables and then, if necessary, pay a bit more for them.)
Yeah, API gateway was written as some hack it seems (or maybe they used some third party ESB or a soa framework and slapped cloudfront on it). All the swagger extensions to configure it, these 200 status codes for 500 errors - its all barely usable.

Just take your own rest backend and put cloudfront on it and it you'll have more functionality and as much or more scalability and security, for an "api".
Nintendo likes to keep it's IP on it's own hardware, but Square Enix (for one) has released several of it's most famous RPGs on Android (most of the Final Fantasies, Chrono Trigger, etc.).

Updates do have to be made to support a touch interface, which is why I think you're request is not a trivial undertaking for most companies. RPGs work, but I can't imagine playing a game like Contra on a touch screen.
How can I find a similar type of volunteering effort in my area?
Spend time to fully estimate each task in each feature point in hours and double it of course. Now increase the unit of time by one: 3 hours = 6 days, 2 days = 4 weeks, 4 weeks = 8 months.
You can host your own versions of them. For that extra layer of security, you can stick them behind a domain that's only accessable behind a company-wide VPN.
I just watched that man thread a potato into a potato. He's full of the dad jokes -- really entertaining. Not sure I can handle more than one in a row!

Thanks for that.
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Probably? Batteries seem relatively dense compared to most products... But there's probably more at play.
I've gone as far as getting months of gym memberships over turned after they told me one thing in person and then told me another thing a few months later when I started getting billed again. Charge backs and the point systems are the best things about credit cards.
Huh... I was confused when somebody told me they bought an Spark enterprise server license... now even moreso.

I think they probably just bought a license for a commercial fork of OpenFire.
Can you think of a plausible architecture that would satisfy that constraint? I'm not an expert but it's not obvious to me how to do it.
Nearly everything works without an IDE. There are added services making working easier in IDE though. Saying "no IDE is needed because the modular system is so good" usually either a delusion or kind of misguided roughshod pride ("in my time, we just made bits by banging rocks together, you kids are so spoiled") that sacrifices productivity for no real reason.
> Note that making a car door work has been a solved problem since roughly the 1930's.

This is not the first time someone's been unable to open a car door after a high-speed crash.

In fact, nothing in the article even tells us whether the emergency open handle would have worked, or whether the problem was the car frame was deformed enough to jam the doors.
Fortunately (according to [0]) they were told about it before the dose kicked in.

0) https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-oral-history-of-the-b...
A legislator from Russia's third largest party likely isn't that powerful, and he definitely would not have been when Roman was a child. Plus, doesn't sound like he was very involved, divorcing his mother and having three other sons in other marriages plus starting a business career.
Good to hear! In that case, priority over other users is not a concern, at least.

Honestly, given your question, just wait. If you are open to rebranding after joining YC, then I just don't see the reason to spend the money on registering a trademark. As I said, the priority issue seems to be taken care of for you. And while there are other benefits to registering, don't worry about those until you are convinced this is the name you want to use.

Good luck!
This is a good line!
I hate to point to conspiracy theories but the only reason someone might invest in this company is if they are investing money not in the product (because it is obviously a flop) but to gauge if consumers will eventually be dumb enough to allow abuse from appliances just like they allow from internet and mobile phone companies.
Definitely, VR dev can cost a pretty penny. The only reason I have a VR capable rig is cause I was given the CPU & GPU by a friend who reviews hardware after he was done with them.

Android has low development requirements, but you can definitely get by without a flagship phone from each of the major vendors, one mid-range device will usually suffice.

Wrt web development, why bother with a Windows VM? It either renders in Firefox & Chrome or it doesn't, and if IE/Safari can't hack it, tough luck, you get the JS free version of my web app for being a steaming pile. I'm not willing to waste resources on dying platforms, that is silly.
It's really not marginally more work. I think it'd take me at least three hours a week to plan out meals like Blue Apron does and acquire all the ingredients myself. That's a ~42% increase in time spent if you wager 7 hours normally spent on cooking and cleaning.

But I also just flat-out don't like going to the grocery store, mainly because the one near me is so busy. It's great if I go at 11PM on a weeknight, but I'm usually too sleepy to do that. It's complete chaos on a Saturday or Sunday (and go too late on a Sunday and the produce section will be emptied out too).
Yikyak didn't fail because of garbage code, it failed because of absolutely stupid decisions of direction. Adding usernames absolutely killed the app
Pretty funny isn't it. Seeing the cult of the CEO in an article about the cult of the CEO. Cultural changes always need time.
> If doctors are replaced it's because medical care has improved beyond their capabilities.

Don't bet on it. Software is much cheaper, so when cost of resulting mistakes + cost of software < cost of doctors and their mistakes, some hospitals will do the switch.
If we are going by Hanyu Pinyin (漢語拼音), it would be Taibei.
It would be interesting to know more about how to make mining dependent on space and not cpu. Seems like you could use cpu to compress and create more space, thus pinning it back to cpu?
There's alternate delivery mechanisms for nicotine. I've been using a rather foul-tasting "mint" oral spray [0]. It tastes like mint-flavoured death, but it's good for a quick 1mg dose.

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/Nicorette-69547-Quickmist-Duo/dp/B004V...