skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think GMail offers anything contractually "forever". The service is always offered "as-is", and you have the option of either continuing to use it or taking your data elsewhere. (Hence the furor over the new UI.)

If you'd said "Never offer something for free", which seems to be what people are responding to, I'd have a whole other set of arguments...
Yes, that's probably a better formulation of the question.

I wonder if YC already tracks this, maybe informally? It would be a good means of testing their own selection processes. Then again, they probably focus more on the "false positives" (YC startups that did poorly) than "false negatives" (the ones that got away).
There's also more important applications for this, for example detecting common postures and grips on fallen asleep drivers or knives that know when their not being handled properly. Additionally a world of possibilities opens up for the blind and disabled if you can inform them of objects they are touching in a room. I find these applications (and surely many more I am not enumerating) much more appealing then controlling a phone, but alas, that's what sells.

Lets hope the eye-candy stuff propels the technology so that the really useful stuff can be built at a lower price.
Maybe, because now I really see everyone around uses it (and mostly in relation to django).

But as I also said, Python had a lot of libraries back then 10 years ago when I used it with Zope, WxWidgets, PyGame, CherryPy, ...

And in last paragraph I try to say exactly what you said in relation to Perl and other languages of this kind.
Way more secure. To be fair: I've come to this opinion via other, smarter researchers.
I'll try to summarise in two words: "Technical Debt".
GMail generates revenue, so it doesn't work in your example as a "free" service. You pay for it by agreeing to have your email trawled to pull relevant ads.
Very good point, I was also pretty freaked out by this bit
Earn giftcards for working out. Wha?
Take a look at this: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/
Looks really good! I think it would be useful if a two finger slide moved the cursor by word boundaries as opposed to speeding up the cursor. For example, in your video around the 1:00 mark, you two-finger swipe to get to the end of the line, but fall short by a couple of characters. If you moved by word boundary, then mistakes like this would be much less common. (I would suggest that when two finger swiping backwards, you move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word, and when swiping forwards you move the cursor to the end of the next word, much like how option left/right work in any Mac text area field).
That whole affair sounds sordid. What was American Airlines thinking when they decided to detain, bribe, and extort third-parties in their private investigation?

And kudos to Murkharji for resisting AA's attempt to press a confession out of him to use against Vroom.
There's this famous case too: http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pudding.asp
Yes, Python was strong before Ruby (which I indicated hopefully), but it wasn't as mainstream as it is now when it's everywhere (at least in circles around me).

I back then used it for a lot of things and most weren't related to web. But I think it made the biggest jump after Ruby backslash. From quick peek at TIOBE:

""" "Programming Language of the Year" award winners is shown below. The award is given to the programming language that has the highest rise in ratings in a year. """

2007	Python
2006	Ruby
2005	Java
Based on this story I assume: http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pudding.asp
Whether it's useful or not, it's a pretty cool idea, no? Bringing Facebook like counts into the "real world".
How to improve memory and concentration
Very interesting article on how to increase memory and concentration. The article discuss that Dr. William Greenough in 1970s suggested that you need to be in good shape and to exercise and you'll be able to learn more and to function more effectively. So, beside the physical workouts, the mental exercises can be much more effective to improve your brain memory, increase memory capacity and improve concentration. Furthermore, it encourages you to start training your brain in order improve brain power and improve your memory. It worth reading it!
> As for how easy it is to make a game, that's actually hard. I believe you should also separate "normal" games from "social" games here as both are radically different.

Valid, but I think the author's point still stands. "You merely need somebody with a computer, a good idea, and the ability to make a game." That's true. Look at Tiny Wings. Andreas Illiger happened to be incredibly good at game design, and was a capable iOS programming. Granted, it's a rare combination. And perhaps it IS rocket science to make multiple successful games. But when you've got tens of thousands of young developers who enjoy making these games, probability dictates that occasionally one of them will strike gold.

I don't think social gaming is inherently more predatory. Long-shelf-life games are every developer's dream. Why make hundreds of little games when you can make a few big sellers? So every game developer loves features that keep users coming back, whether discovered intentionally or accidentally. Adding social capabilities to a game makes it infinitely more fun. (Remember when we played board games? It's really a return to the days when games were social endeavors.) Social capabilities are just another feature that keeps users coming back. It's just such a big draw that you can get users spending thousands of dollars. I fail to see how that's much different from hardcore console gamers spending thousands on the latest Xbox + PlayStation + games.
+1 because I want access to the library, because I want every app out there to buy it from you and use it, and because I think the real goal of a project like this (just like the design prototype which inspired it) is to get Apple to recognize that this is how all text should work iOS-wide.
You can also call the original method without the ugly leading comma like this:

_.throttle(
->
console.log("Foo")
500
)
>high school physics professor //

Total aside but I'm curious. Was your high-school class lead by a bona fide professor or are you using the term in the French sense of "teacher"?

Latterly my UK high-school had a doctor (Ph.D) as the head of physics but that was quite rare at the time (and I expect is now).

Leads me on to wonder what sort of high-school class Einstein or Feynman or Hawking or ... might put together; indeed, whether they could do it well.

--

Edit: For some reason I can't reply to you, I was going to guess you were French but it seemed like too long a shot, and it was ... thanks for your answer. Your written English is impeccable.
I got both of my awesome suits from Suit Supply. It sounds like a generic store, but they have some sweet suits that fit really well and the people there are pretty amazing, at least the NYC store. Not sure where you're located but they're big in Europe.They also have alterations in store so you can watch everything being done.
http://www.suitsupply.com/shop/1/Suits?filter_27=736
I'd venture to say that most YC rejected companies (that would define themselves as successful) could care less about proving anything to YC. Building a company is hard and stressful and beating yourself up over something that happened in the early stage is foolish. It usually comes down to not pitching it well enough or being unlucky. A "successful" company will overcome much bigger obstacles to get to that point.

It's a two way street and sometimes the company may be happy they didn't get into YC because it opened different doors that led to success. Maybe in some cases YC could have closed some doors that were crucial.
While people do sell alot of pretty useless stuff on that site, there's also alot of really useful services too. I wish they would do more filtering of the nonsense and get it focused to the more serious stuff, but I guess part of the fun of the site is getting a hipster to dance in spandex and sing happy birthday... Congrats to the team on a successful fundraising round
The Headline is wrong. It does not move me to read the sub-headline.

The sub-headline is in a hard to read color.

Overall, the copy is just not sales-driven.

You seem to be approaching this as a programmer, and not as a sales person. Of course, you mention knowing nothing about copy writing.

Your best shot is to describe the book as if you were describing it to a friend.

No long sentences.

No long paragraphs.

Just to the point, but from a first person perspective. Tell people why you wrote it, and what they will get from it.

Also, your headline has to grab the visitor and pull him into reading the sub-headline.

Good Luck.

Edit

I'm willing to guide you towards something more effective marketing-wise. But I'm swamped right now. If you are willing to be patient and are willing to work on this in a period of two weeks, I can do it.

About me: I'm a programmer/copywriter with about 5-6 years of marketing experience (and a bit more programming).

My email is my username, but add a .com at the end.

BTW- This for free.
Couple things:

* In my particular line of business, the quality of one's website has vanishingly little to do with success. We have a cookie-cutter front page that says cookie-cutter things; its purpose is to confirm that we are, in fact, a real business. It succeeds at that.

* I have no doubt whatsoever that people outside software security, or maybe even new entrants in software security, have much to gain from press hits. But "fresh hits" do very little for us.

* Only a very small minority of our business is "event driven", such as when a CEO realizes he has an immediate security problem. We're an engineering service. In the overwhelming majority of cases, we're working for other engineers and their product managers who've known for ages that they need help with security; we get engaged when it makes sense in the budget and the dev cycle to engage us.

We're one of the largest pure, dedicated software security firms; we're also one of the more mature/established of them. Most of our business tomorrow will come from executing competently today; people who can reliably flush security flaws out of arbitrary pieces of software are in short supply and high demand.
Another example of this is USB vendor and product IDs. The USB standards body charges several thousand dollars for a 16-bit VID code; when you buy one of these, it comes with 16 additional bits of "address space" for your company's product IDs.

This makes sense for exactly nobody. Large companies are never even going to notice the $2000 that the USB consortium charges for a VID, and of course, not even the most massive international conglomerates are ever going to ship 65,536 different models of USB peripherals.

Meanwhile, the guy in the garage with an idea and a shoestring budget only needs one PID. But he either can't afford the $2000 or has much more immediate uses for it.

So an enterprising company in Holland immediately bought a single VID and started reselling the PIDs for about US $20 each. The USB Implemeters' Forum hit the roof, revoked the VID, and threatened to sue, but because their agreement didn't explicitly disallow PID resale, there was nothing they could do. It wasn't as if they could ever reassign that VID to any paying customer.

So I guess it's a good thing for the rest of us that large organizational gatekeepers are so often run by morons.
40 million miles @600 MPH = 66,666 hours in the air or 7.6 years. Granted, you can sleep in the air, but I still think there is some multiplies involved in that number.
Pinboard(.in) has a $25/yr "pro" level; believe he's said the pro service is enough to keep it running for everyone.
very much agree. apart from anything else, the inspiration is so obvious that if you don't credit you're basically just asking for a fight. and if you get it in the app store he might even be in a position to hit you with a DMCA takedown. my guess is it wouldn't happen, but why take the chance when all you have to do is give credit where credit's due? it's the right thing to do anyway.
Very interesting. What's the legal theory behind this? Shouldn't trademark infringement protect against consumer confusion?
It's funny that this got voted back up from light grey. One might have a morbid interest in the list of people who cast such votes.
Fair. But Zynga's games still suck. Perhaps their infrastructure is sound, but I run screaming every time I see their latest badly-programmed, ad-infested game take over my newsfeed.

A skilled independent dev actually puts time and effort into a beautiful UX. Zynga seems more concerned with churning out the next addictive rip-off, since they know their games have no staying power.
My wife was in the same position. She found some work pretty quickly networking at startup meetups. She ended overseeing a technical project, and doing some lite database work. She had a few opportunities; but picked the one that had the fewest hours.

If she has some skills, or can even pretend to have them, there are people that are desperate to give work to other people they meet at meetups.
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So the Dutch company was able to keep on selling?

Nice story, thanks.
With Cygwin, your home directory should be your WINHOME (I'm doing this from memory, bear with me), so, in fact, your cd would be

cd Desk<tab>bla

or, worst case,

cd ~/Des<tab>bla

Running programs is also a tiny fraction of what bash can do - it's a full (well... almost) fledged scripting language and you can do things like loops, conditionals and other stuff. Before I discovered watch, I'd do things like

while true; do df -h ; sleep 10 ; clear ; done

Also, the PuTTY-based console has a lot of niceties when compared to a plain console window - it's prettier, you have better font controls and better clipboard integration.
This. I wish Steve Jobs was still around, but just as much, I'm glad Jeff Bezos is still around.
Well this is a particular case. On one hand my teacher did have a phd and was a brilliant man. On the other hand I am Moroccan and English is my third language after Arabic and French, both of which tolerate the use of professor to refer to a teacher (Although they have words for both).
Worst pun ever.
Startup returns usually follow a power law. That means a missed good investment is potentially hundred times worse than a accepted bad investment. A single good investment like Heroku, Dropbox or Airbnb can easily outweight all other investments combined.

Obviously they don't want to accept just anyone, that doesn't work for various signal, scale, attention and effectiveness reasons. They do however accept (positive) outliers without traditional credentials, which is the opposite of what a traditional company does. A traditional company is looking for safety, VCs and YC are looking for maximum leverage (not the typical financial two-fat-tails kind, the only-upsides kind that Nassim Taleb et al. likes).

As for your question, I can't imagine a reality where they don't track that sort of thing.
This isn't the half of it. Many PhD programs are funded, and most people going into them know they're studying things for the joy of learning about them and are not necessarily going to find work easily, especially at lower ranked schools.

Try going to one of the top ten law programs, taking out an enormous amount of debt, dealing with 3 years of opportunity cost etc., in what's supposed to be a professional program that tracks you onto finding good paying work, and then finding out no one wants your professional services.

Not whining ... I made my bed, it's made of student loan bills, I've got to sleep in it. But you can be damn well sure that I shout from the rooftops about the very dubious investment proposition that even "elite" educational programs offer these days...
You appear to oppose those things¹ - I'd certainly be interested in your reasoning. Is/Should reproduction be a basic right of all people that can not be withdrawn (despite many states in the world advocating death sentences).

Is there something wrong generally with wanting to improve the genetic make up of the world's human population - most of us practice a mild [innate] form of eugenics in our mate selection don't we?

Or is it specifics of what Russell advocates that are most clearly wrong in your view?

Probably this is going too far OT ...?
ive never used them, but indochino seems like a trendy startup type company you might like.
How is Amazon making money overnighting me deodorant for cheaper than what I can buy at Safeway

Your local safeway had to have that deodorant shipped at some point, too.

Then they had a shop clerk unbox it, put a label on it, place it on a shelf, eventually drag it over a scanner and (in america) put it in a nice brown paper bag for you.

The brown paper bag, the scanner, the shelf, the label, the clerk, and no least the brick & mortar store surrounding all that costs Safeway significant amounts of money - in addition to the truck that initially shipped the deodorant.

Amazon pays only the truck.
Yahoo attacks Facebook with dodgy patents claims (again)
Isn't that in a sense addressing teachers?
But law is one of those areas where ad hominem is literally true. If the Supreme Court says something is the law then it is, unless there's a constitutional amendment overturning it.
One can only approach the limits of Adobe's stupidity, not actually reach it.
Broken systems always seem to pop up, as do ways of exploiting them to make money. Steal This Book describes all-expenses-paid vacations to gambling resorts that existed in the U.S. in the 60s and 70s. The condition was you had to buy hundreds of dollars worth of chips to gamble with. They were specially marked such that people could gamble with them but not cash out. People realized you could just play red and black against each other in roulette to exchange those chips for a complete set of regular chips that could be cashed out. (They would usually make many small bets and incur the small 0 and/or 00 cost once or twice rather than one big bet and risk losing all the money.) Practically free vacation.
I definitely could be wrong in my conjecture. I've used sleep reliably under Arch Linux in the past. (Not using it now because my laptop doesn't work anymore without being plugged in.)
I think the assertion is that you can build the same type of abstraction over ZeroMQ that the Erlang runtime provides, at which point the "over ZeroMQ" part is just an implementation detail.
I still don't get why you think making money is pointless if you can't spend it on healthcare. There's plenty of things you either use while paying for them in taxes (e.g. roads) or things you wouldn't be able to buy even if you wanted them (a private spacecraft, too expensive, or a child prostitute, too illegal) yet they haven't made you stop wanting to earn money.

I'm covered by the NHS, I still find plenty of reasons to cash my paycheques.
Maybe it's because I've moved around too much (and also lived in Europe for a bit), but I don't actually find urban areas in the U.S. that tied to their geographical area. Atlanta is different from Los Angeles, sure, but in broad strokes they share a lot of similarities, certainly more than either one shares with Paris, Rome, Tokyo, or Copenhagen---or with the rural areas 100 miles away from each.

Heck, Americans move around so much that most people I've met in urban areas are not "from" that state in the first place. Some of the friends I made in Atlanta were from New York City, others from San Francisco, others from Iowa. Some of the friends I made when I lived in the Bay Area had grown up in the Midwest. For my part, I grew up in a mixture of Chicago and Houston, but don't feel any more "at home" in either one than in the Bay Area or Atlanta.
If your premise is that Google is a big bad company, this is your case? I've always found this story to be excruciatingly disappointing.

So, besides cameras and lasers, they also had a wifi sniffer on board that just captured all the data in the right frequency band. That is, after all, the whole point of this exercise: gather data and see what you can do with it later on. The case for doing this for WiFi is obviously that matching SSID to GPS locations and a little bit of triangulation through signal strength gives you a fast, precise enough location with a simple WiFi scan without having to wait for a one minute cold GPS fix. That you are not even going to get if indoors.

The big problem here seems to be that they captured raw data instead of just running an actual wifi scan like your network card would. But if you've ever had to manually trigger one, you know that these take time, and then they only represent a single snapshot. So capturing raw data over the whole timespan solves both the timing problem and it allows you to get much better results given that you can now pretty exactly tell when a network comes out of reach. These things however require analysis that is easier done at some backend, not on the same machine occupied with freaking 3D lasers.

And yes, it turns out, that if you were sending an email at the exact same time the google car was in reach of your network and that your network was unencrypted, they could possibly collect single isolated frames or fragments of your message. The reason we don't use WiFi for time critical stuff after all is of course that data corruption is very frequent and might require many turnarounds for one package to arrive in whole and correct.

If you want to prove that Google is evil, find that 'Chiquita colombia killings' case. This one is just.. stupid.
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What? No one needs an expert in medieval studies?
I should start selling access to my wifi tether password at airports and other places where wifi is hard to come by.
Suspend-to-RAM, as opposed to suspend-to-disk, is way faster than booting.

Why chase down suspend bugs? because they are bugs.

I'm with you on fixing window managers, generally speaking.
I suspect people downvoted you because of the tone and your use of a rhetorical question—if you'd just said, "I don't pity highly educated people who don't understand supply and demand in their chosen job market."

And you know what? You're right. I'm in English Lit grad school, and the number one thing I tell other people who are contemplating it is not to go. Then I tell them to read Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas and Thomas Benton's articles: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Big-Lie-About-the-Life-of/6... .
The part that bothers me is the psychological trickery that goes into this. Social games are really about manipulating the psychological triggers for addiction and I don't really see a distinction between this and, say, gambling addiction.

Calling the reward systems in games psychological trickery is a bit much. Gameplay have long been based on the psychologically rewarding system of 'do something good, get positive feedback; do something bad, get negative feedback.'

The first arcade games had theses reward systems - do well and put your initials on the leaderboard; do poorly, pay another quarter to keep playing. The fact that it's psychologically enjoyable to play these games isn't trickery - it's basic human-environment interaction. That some people have addictive responses to these mechanisms doesn't mean it's insidious trickery, it just means some people are more likely to become dependent on the rewards these games offer.
I think it will be a wonderful boon for people with artificial limbs. A sense of touch may be all that is needed to reduce phantom limb pain, among other things.
What irks me about this is how AA is handling these clients. They are looking at the cost in today's dollars, not the advantage of having that money in 198x dollars. If AA had simply bought 30 year bonds with the income they received from the program, they would have probably come out ahead.