skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a couple of things that might help you a bit:

1. Alex Honnold's brain is atypical. His amygdala simply does not respond to stimuli the way that it does in most people. To learn more, read this (excellent) article:

http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...

2. While I am (at best) a mediocre climber, the section you quoted rings true to me, particularly this section - "Climbing is an intimate relationship with our world’s most dramatic landscapes, not a self-boasting fight against them." There is something incredibly natural and sensual about climbing on rock that I can't describe without sounding like I'm talking about sex. And...that's traditionally where people tell me to give them my keys because I've had too much to drink. :)

3. Climbing is a deeply meditative activity, particularly when you get into a place where each movement flows into the next. When I am there, my mind shuts down and it is just a rock and me doing the most natural thing that I have ever found (see #2). That flow is deeply beautiful, but when you climb with ropes, you have to be in near constant contact with your belay partner. When I am with my regular belay partner, it interrupts that flow. When I am with a new belay partner, I never get close to it.

I suspect that if my amygdala worked like his, I would free solo simply to avoid having to communicate with a belay partner.
Squaring the square
It's long but well worth watching if you have any interest in science education.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI
Complete aside: am I the only one who imagined Naval flipping through a physics book to double check his assertion?
Good evening, I regret to inform you that Google custom search is dead.

http://fortune.com/2017/02/21/google-site-search-discontinue...

The good news it's that it's reborn as an ad support version. Google doesn't want your dirty cash when your competitors are willing to pay much more for ad placement on your site.
Ride sharing is coming to taxis
In a general sense the iPhone (platform) isn't the most popular in terms of market share.
This article is like celebrating a car accident where the stunt-driver did not wear a seat belt, somewhat reckless and irresponsible like this http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/31/us/skydiver-no-parachute-succe.... It is an extreme sports trend like kiteboarding where getting "better" is equivalent to getting as close as possible to personal harm. :(
This Month in Physics History: Joule and the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat(2015)
As long as they continue to burn trash this is a joke on par with the ad campaigns for californians to conserve water and not waste food; actions which, do not target the actual major offenders amd are little more than feel good measures.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/20/515814016/t...
I used to believe in every little bit helped until I read actual data on who wasted or contributed to the problem on a large scale.
You don't need the most market share to have the most gaming activity. People that use iPhones are much more active with gaming apps for whatever reason.
Are we reading the same article? I didn't see any recommendations, just some interesting info and a couple of theories that might explain the results that were seen.
Edison, Clarence Dally, and the Hidden Perils of X-Rays (1903)
Ichiro, Clemente, Rose who else? Gwynn (who was small and fast in the beginning of his career)? Henderson had a lot of pop and wasn't notably fast. Edgar Martinez had no speed at all but could hit for an insane average.
Email in my profile. Let's talk
And telling me my time is worth so little that I should not even be allowed to ask if the content has any hope of being relevant to me is monstrously disrespectful of me and my time. The people at YC don't have to answer this if they find me to be too excessively rude. I would be happy to hear from people who have already watched some of the videos or whatever.
I'm trying to work out what bothers me about this.

I wonder if it's actually bad advice for all those thousands of entrepreneurs to be advising them to go for being mega gigantic.

It's bad advice because those thousands of new entrepreneurs have a much greater chance of long term success by NOT following the "go super big" path.

Indeed it appears that taking a "quite successful" company down the "go super big" path might lead to a variety of adverse outcomes (as I have gleaned from reading the stories of many failed venture backed companies).

I suspect that what is niggling me is that perhaps YC and all the other venture capitalists maybe are really now acting and advising what is in their interests, which is really not in the interests of all these bright eyed new entrepreneurs.

I suppose YC's history and origin make it feel like they are on the side of the entrepreneur, but is that still true?
That was when Steve Jobs was still alive. Things have changed. iOS isn't the gold mine it used to be.
Yeah I am really excited with Webassembly as the new JVM/CLR. But I was told this wasn't going to happen. As the downvote illustrates, there are many javascript militants who probably think we do not need any other language.
Explore El Capitan via Google street view

https://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetvi...
Although this is certainly a clever method of obfuscation, the most shocking thing in this article is that Britney Spears has an active instagram
I wonder if printing the exact same document on the same paper might mess up watermarks
It is the principle of the thing. You know, live free and all that jazz.
There was a very good interview with Alex on Joe Rogan a few years back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OusYaNWBy08

In a typical Rogan style, it's a pretty relaxed and "real" chat, about girls, shitting your pants etc. Gives a little more insight into how top athletes like Alex think and approach their craft.
Music Driven Graphical Visualization System
I really like this and we actually thinking about trying a CRM earlier today. Hopefully, I can find sometime to contribute. The ability to import contacts would be super useful. I might be able to get to it this weekend who knows...
critical skill is importen, student must have the ability (http://www.aidatour.co.id)
The nose has only been free climbed by 5 people.

Context is pretty important when talking about aid vs free vs solo
So, YC branches out into the MOOC business.
Longer, but still memorable.

2001:4860:4860::8888
Because it is rude. Your examples aren't YC companies and many YC companies are successful that don't produce billionaires.
Google Nintendo's AR Games if you haven't already seen them. Mind blowing fun, and years ahead of Apple's efforts. The archery and golf games were incredible.

I was hoping for years that it was a sign that Nintendo was going to release Super MARio...

https://youtu.be/45zzei39WMg
Try UpWork. In the past I have used UpWork to hire a programmer aged 19 or 20 and paid $23 per hour.
I'm not sure where to find it. I grabbed it at the Sierra Nevada brewery outside of Asheville, NC. I wish I'd gotten more than one bottle.

Here's the label - http://imgur.com/a/KnIBN
Hear, hear. I'm a bit of a Scotch anorak and I do love my beer & bourbon as well.

The importance of the casks cannot be understated I believe; American Oak/Bourbon casks are a wonderful, core part of the whisky experience, though there are other types of casks that are used (sherry casks have been in vogue of late, for example).

Your final point, which I construe ultimately to be about the nature of trade that made the Bourbon, the Scotch, and the Beer, is well taken and is a true wonder of trade's relationship to the enhancement of humanity (qua man). It naturally also reminds me of George Thorogood and leaves me to ponder that his song could all have been sourced from the same barrel. Hmm.....
Despite IPWatchdog's hugely pro-patent bias, there's at least one thing I can agree with them on: "...the Patent Office has become more arms dealer than honest broker."
critical thinking is very importen thing, student must have the ability (http://www.aidatour.co.id)
I find it slightly amusing (and kind of sad since I don't wish any hardship on anyone) that my parents always thought games were a waste of time and/or were actually damaging, but my brother and I have turned out to be as or more well rounded people than a lot of the other kids we grew up with. Most of them were the kids of my parents friends (who you always find yourself compared to) who did not play games. That is not to say I think I'm more successful or better or anything, but a lot of the people that I grew up with had more "normal" social habits (that usually included drinking, parties and drugs none of which I'm necessarily against) but the end result was that a fair number had to drop out of college due to alcohol and drug problems or something else and a surprising number ended up back home or nearby not too many years after. I can't help but feel like video games, while not necessarily preventing alcohol/drug use can provide a more active outlet that can be social in and of itself. Looking back I do wish I had diversified more (more volunteering, for one) but given that I grew up in a really remote area without easy transportation, gaming (especially online) was actually a pretty great outlet and I ended up interacting with a lot of people I never would have otherwise.

My friends and I got together last weekend to lay about and play video games (Paragon and L4D2 for what its worth) for the first time in a while (everyone getting married and having kids etc) and I can still feel the slight condemnation but given we're all stable, good job having members of society nobody can really say anything about it anymore ;)
But yet they clearly state they make money by charging artists to play their songs for listening. Music has a dirty history of pay to play(payola) and this is just an instance of passing a small pittance onto some desperate listeners.
Sir Humphrey ?
> Making your organisation too dependent on a remote service can indeed be a scary prospect

At every company I've worked for, internal services have been less reliable than github. Certainly way less reliable than gmail.

I get that it's scary, in that it feels like you're giving up control over something important to your business. But I'll posit that you never actually had control, only the illusion of control.
I worked at geek squad during college, my job title was "Counter Intelligence Agent".
From wikipedia.

"the quality of appealing to or being aimed at ordinary people."

The article says that he's arguing against populism when it supports Trump or Marie Le Pen. But now he want an engaged electorate. You can't really square the circle. What I hear is "We want more people who support the right thing to vote."
Yeah, I mean, it isn't really a secret in the digital media or affiliate space. Since I do this for a living, I tend to keep my eye on where affiliates are gravitating towards with their media and marketing efforts. It can sometimes be an early signal of where to test.

But that totally depends on the brand tolerance for it. For example, if you are a big family brand, you're not going to be an early adopter of Outbrain and Taboola type stuff if your adjacent ads are acai berry drinks, colon cleanse kits, etc. that all link to flogs and fake news sites because the network might be turning a blind eye to quality at that stage of things.

And the way the purging happens is pretty interesting too. Typically it comes in the form of new policies. I forget what the wording was at the time, but I recall when FB started making the shift, some of their policy wording and examples was so obviously targeting recent things affiliates had been doing on the platform it made me laugh. Even reading through their current policy site's prohibited list is pretty much a checklist of every major affiliate category there is.
It's only rude to the people who believe that unpleasant things shouldn't be talked about.
That's not the NFC party most people are attending. For me the most common use of NFC is to automatically pair/turn on my headphones and my portable speaker.
Big companies work like mafia.
Mobile apps in general seem to be a race to the bottom from a business standpoint and Android is much more so that than Apple. I strongly dislike both platforms, and generally harbor a very negative opinion of Apple in general, but if I were to venture into mobile development I'd target Apple first and worry about Android (much) later.
One of the things I wondered when I read this story is if it would be possible to develop software that would somehow circumvent this type of situation. For example, using autoencoding or something to lose watermarking details intentionally or something. But what you're discussing seems more advanced than the yellow dots idea.

I was surprised to see printers being involved--I thought something like this leak would all be digital. I was also surprised that the Intercept would not be more savvy about printer identification because it's been publicized so much over the years.
It's essentially for efficiency but not merely; it would be impractical to do with partial spends. Transactions are immutable and spend all of their inputs because it's easier to track and verify no double spend has occurred. If you allowed for partial spends, you'd have to trace the ancestry and descendants of all the transactions to verify whether there was enough bitcoin to spend it. This way if you have a transaction and it hasn't been spent since it originated, you know exactly how much can be spent.

I think it's natural to think of addresses as having a certain amount of bitcoin in them like an account at a bank. But bitcoin doesn't actually have accounts with balances. It just has transactions that have yet to be spent. You can calculate the amount of bitcoin that is spendable by an address so it looks like an account, which is what every wallet does but underneath it's just a collection of transactions that point to some address that you have the private key of.
Oh come off it. Most of the world is this way; if not who you know, it's often just plain old bribes.
Who care about actual phones, what matters if the OS it runs, and Android is far larger in that sense.
YC in session is still about a relentless pursuit of product market fit. They're still the best accelerator for driving teams towards attaining this, and the lectures pertaining to this will be fruitful for any team.
Saw this small test earlier today, pretty impressive stuff: https://twitter.com/kylebrussell/status/872123141346140160

Also, ARKit was discussed here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14490239
There's something called Free To Play games these days, and I dont see why you would not consider them as gaming, even tough 90% of users don't pay anything (no DLC). They are still gaming.
Apple keeps doubling down on platform specific services and APIs but as their market share dwindles this becomes increasingly untenable. Porting Apple Music to Android was a step in the right direction but they have a long way to go in the new world where services are more important than devices.
I'm not sure that link shows what you think it does. From the same site -- Android has had greater market share than iOS since 2010: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266136/global-market-sha...
The thread seems to be dismissing it as it is an unsubstantiated claim.
If you watch the lectures you will find a more realistic view of startups. They start saying that the odds are against you and it is a better bet to work at a startup instead of founding one.
>Now what did she say she'd do versus what she actually did that led to this change under the new administration

Well, usually USPTO director changes at the start of a new administration. So the better question is: why was she kept on until now? what changed?
We can't meaningfully speculate about what such a war would look like, technology will advance too much before then.

I don't think it would be nuclear though. Nuclear bombs are delicate devices, the only reason they work on Earth is because they hit too fast to intercept.

Interplanetary war will have at least 1 month long trips between the two planets unless we see some insane tech breakthroughs. A war fleet would be pretty easy to spot and blast out of the sky, as would any missiles launched planet to planet. Hitting something at the insane speeds of ICBMs becomes much easier when you have days to aim.
Engineers Are Not Mechanics
It surprises me that you think the tech aspect of Uber is the biggest. It's not; the biggest aspect of Uber is operations. For every city you have onboard, you need significant people on the ground that work on driver recruitment, dealing with local gov, training, driver support, local marketing. Some markets have their own apps (like Australia with its on driver-to-driver interim chat feature).
Tutorial: Building a Django back end for a mobile app
> Send some xor-ed file out using a non-secure connection and sneak the key out somehow ?

Stray thought: You don't have to sneak a OTP out, you only need to sneak it in. Then you do your XORing, transmit the mangled data, and erase that copy of the key.
You know, I am homeless. This introduces substantial obstacles to me accomplishing anything. I cannot watch videos with sound in a library. I end up having to jump through a lot of hoops to do anything like watch a video in order to try to further my goals.

I am a little burned out on the message I consistently get from people online that I am not allowed to solve my very serious financial problems because I am too poor to afford manners. Meanwhile, everyone seems okay with rich people not caring one whit about my suffering. Me misphrasing something is apparently an offense punishable by potential starvation.

So, yeah, I'm kind of bitter about how rich people treat poor people these days. It is generally pretty monstrous.
So crazy, my palms are sweaty just thinking about it
Might this explain what's going on with the US presidential Twitter feed?
What is annoying is that the user pays for this. How much more yellow toner do I need to buy because my print outs are covered in yellow dots?

I wonder how many million extra gallons of yellow toner and ink are wasted every year printing these tracker dots?
It's also possible that her degrees from MIT and Stanford and experience as a lawyer at Google had something to do with it.
Does she have any close family with health issues that will now get magically taken care of? Sometimes taking a jail sentence is part of the deal.
Why I write
From what I've gathered this totally depends on your market. Creating a paid app or an app targeting US University students? iOS first. Creating an ad supported app or targeting an international market? Android first or use a framework that supports compiling to both platforms.
> For some reason, pep8 says you load your modules at the top of the file

Clarity of dependencies is the “some reason”.

Like most style rules, there are times when breaking it is justified by other considerations, but it's not an arbitrary rule.
std::randint is supposed to use thread-local storage for its state. At least according to cppreference: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/randint
GP is comparing phones, not operating systems.
It's still a massively popular and profitable platform, though the easy money is harder to find.
Unreal Engine and Unity is going to have ARKit support. If your ambition is to make an AR app for both iOS and Android I suspect that one of those engines are better.

I don't believe giving ARKit to away makes sense for Apple at all. It is, from what I can see, a pretty advanced technology and widespread adoption of it on other platforms will not help them selling more iPhones.
This is all covered in _great_ detail in "The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5", by Christopher Anderw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defence_of_the_Realm - this article is a nice summary of that book.

The book goes into _lots_ more detail, including the CIA/Angleton side of all this.
We don't know their priorities so we can't really judge that.

I am sure there are many things that you don't care about that others would think you should, but it doesn't mean you are wrong and they are right. The world isn't black and white.
They were most likely waiting for the Commerce Secretary to pick and vet a replacement.

Lee's demise was a long time coming. Many small businesses and independent inventors absolutely couldn't stand how the USPTO had pretty much turned against them and become a monster.
Most people have it but it can either be dormant or actively turning ones' brain into swiss cheese. Unless he's never gotten an MRI of his brain, I would doubt his brain is swiss
Lovely, another AFB I have to memorize. Damnit!
Have you tried calculating what percentage increase in cost there would be if you moved to an aws billing style?

Basically I'm curious if your hands are tied to gcp because of the fine grained billing they provide?
>hugely pro-patent bias

Would you expect the director of the patent office to be anti-patent?
When I picture a "Startup Veteran", I picture someone who's worked with one or more companies to a large and successful exit. Someone like that is likely fairly wealthy, and so doing a startup doesn't have the same amount of risk as someone doing it for the first time has.
Which is bullshit because founders get paid more and have an ownership stake. This is a laughably bad attempt to provision their companies with junior developers who have a slave mentality.
I'd never hire anyone who had worked for Uber anyway. They're far too loose with the truth/superiority complex. uber = above, as in above the law
We're not talking about VCs but freely available courseware. The mentors are apparently YC alumni rather than VCs.
NSA leak suspect was ratted out by an office printer
It really is a thoughtful and beautiful gift to his uncle beyond the grave which is truly amazing.
I think the rudeness isn't about unpleasant things here. But using examples out of context.
Are you referring to the new company when looking at a potential employee's past experience? Couldn't you just ask them why they were terminated? I don't think Uber is going to fire actual scapegoats that weren't related. That would surely leave them up to even more legal trouble.
No, you are completely wrong. Cloud providers are not carriers, they are service providers(PaaS, IaaS.)

"Carrier" in this context(Net Neutrality) is short for telecommunications carrier, which are regulated by the FCC in the United States[1].

The classification is a legal one. It was refined by the Telecommunications Act of 1996[2]

AWS/Azure/GCE are neither regulated by the FCC nor classified as telecommunications carriers as they do not sell broadband access.

Simply owning you own "backbone" does not make you a carrier either. There are plenty of large corporations that own their own backbones that are not carriers. Being a carrier has nothing to do with hosting content either.

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

[2[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
> ...google's mapping service...

I guess we'd immediately be aware if google's _nomap wifi flag /actually/ did anything or not.