skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is perfect. We've been using GitHub + OpenSCAD and have been looking for a less hacky way of doing 3D diffs.

Signed up!
IPhone 5 Release Date: September 12th?
On the very form where they collect your email:

"Receive your online orders at our new parcel kiosks in the Toronto area"
Accel is not in the business of publicly traded stock, they are in the business of high risk high return private investment. They invested $12.7 million in Facebook and selling it for $1 Billion. They have already made their money and want to return it to their LPs, take their 20% commission of $200 million and raise another fund to do it all over again. Even if the stock went to $100 per share the marginal return on their investment vs. them spending their time investing in the next Facebook. By my calculation they have already netted $200,254,000 on this deal +/-.

EDIT: They will Net the $200m from this deal and then another ~$400m from future sales.
It's cool. You can quibble semantics or argue which specific portion of the sexual assault laws he has or hasn't violated.

Don't understand your reference to Democracy or what it has to do with this case.

Regardless of all aforementioned responses: My point remains the same. shrugs
Sorry, tongue in cheek ... but do you say that you are self-sufficient? You are never using any public transport? Never drive on a street that wasn't built by yourself? Only eat things that you grew yourself. (No, it is not enough to counter with "I'm paying for it/I pay taxes.") First world societies are made up of people that _can't_ no longer be self sufficient.
A game is built on top of a game engine which is in turn built upon an API. So gears of war is a game built on the unreal game engine which is built upon the API of directx or openGL( plus whatever for sound, OS windowing, and input).

In the HTML5 world, impact, construct2, craftyjs, and limejs are all game engines. You use them to make games, rather than writing your own routines to deal with canvas rendering, audio, and input.
DHL has those in Germany. In fact over 2400. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation
I'm an avid and happy user. Of course something like BufferBox would have been better, but I understand that investment does make a lot more sense as a parcel delivery service, as you bind customers to you. I hope they break up that monopoly at some point.

The question is why nobody did something like this before BufferBox in the US? Normally we are the less innovative ones :)
Why to-do lists don't work
New nano-particles that shut off cancer genes
Thanks for your patience about all the (YC S12)
I realize the frontpage has been clogged with launches recently. It's because Demo Day is coming up in a few days. Every batch I tell the startups not to wait till the last minute before launching, but most always do anyway, with the result that there's a glut of launches a week before.

The good news is that the flood should be peaking about now. In the meantime, thanks for putting up with it. Although for HN readers the volume of launches probably starts to become an annoyance, for each startup that's launching it's big deal.
Probably worth revisiting this bit of commentary from Rob Pike:

"Regular expressions are hard to write, hard to write well, and can be expensive relative to other technologies... Standard lexing and parsing techniques are so easy to write, so general, and so adaptable there's no reason to use regular expressions.

"Another way to look at it is that lexers and parsing are matching statically-defined patterns, but regular expressions' strength is that they provide a way to express patterns dynamically. They're great in text editors and search tools, but when you know at compile time whatall the things are you're looking for, regular expressions bring far more generality and flexibility than you need.

"Encouraging regular expressions as a panacea for all text processing problems is not only lazy and poor engineering, it also reinforces their use by people who shouldn't be using them at all."

http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2011/08/regular-expression...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2915137

Personally, I think they're pretty darn useful and too powerful to not learn, but Pike's comment makes me think that maybe they're also a crutch that I've relied on too much rather than learning enough about lexing/parsing.
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Yes. Bind a toggle between dvorak and qwerty, and get to playing. Your trash talking may suffer for a while, but you'll manage.
Neat!

Looking forward to seeing OpenSCAD and STL diffs together on the same page - that'd be a powerful OpenSCAD learning tool as well as a good change-management / collaboration tool.

Definitely cool to see where this goes - I've been wanting "GitHub + Thingiverse" for a while.
Whether or not the rape investigation is politically motivated or not is irrelevant, it must still be investigated. And part of that investigation is interviewing Julian Assange to let him give his side.

In reality, the investigation will most likely be dropped since they don't seem to have any evidence and it's their words against his.
You mean like a post box?
I don't think anyone's arguing that there's a fundamental right to all possible health care, but many people would argue that all have a fundamental right to basic health care, which is absolutely possible to offer to all Americans. In fact, many other countries do it while spending less per capita on health care. Of course, there are hard decisions to be made, but the status quo seems worse to me by a long shot.
This may take off, but they need some sort of unlimited plan as well. The reason Amazon Prime does so well is because some people can't get over the mental hurdle of paying for shipping. At $3 per package, on top of whatever existing shipping rate there is, BufferBox could be seen as cost-prohibitive to many frequent online shoppers.
China: Android dev discovers 190 pirated versions of games in app stores
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Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage
That's a very narrow window of value. If < $10k means you're better off going with the per-transaction rate, >10k but less than $13,095 means you're better off with a regular merchant account and > $13,095 but less than $21k means you're better off with the flat rate, then how many firms would really benefit from this?

Looks like they should say "if you're doing more than $10k (or $13k if you want to bring in the competition), but less than $21k, take this deal". But of course, no one would take it.
The little time I got to play with Statwing my impression was it is really intuitive and powerful, but IMO the biggest hurdle is getting your data into the app (or in this case, into a CSV first). Data sits all over the place, if you guys can reach out and snag it for me after a quick OAuth dialog, that would be a killer feature. I'd use it a lot, lot more.
You can add that video to your App description on Google Play also...
Seems high to me. Minimal traction in a difficult-to-make-money niche (paying people you know).
I think these days for web development its not really a question of productivity vs perf, since you can pretty much attach your app from whatever language into your load balancers / db clusters / caches etc, and you get solid, scalable performance (that's been my experience with python, ruby, and php at least). There's really a great degree of freedom to just choose whatever lang you and your team are most productive in and just go from there.
> It's not a technicality, diplomatic ties are broken and restarted all the time.
How is it not a technicality? the idea of having an embassy is that a nation can have representatives in a foreign nation operating and relaying communications. What the UK is going is saying "you have operate, but not for these 15 mins so that we can take what we want from your embassy"
> Arguably, Ecuador risked it's ties with the UK first by habouring a wanted suspect.
See the aggressor isn't Ecuador. Ecuador was still considering when UK issued the letter. The normal thing to do is let Ecuador make their decision, and then act accordingly.
>if they can't spin "no, he's wanted for rape, he should go on trial", they ARE weak, and not just diplomatically.
Ecuador has asked that they guaranteed that he won't be extradited to the US so he can face trial for rape. UK and Sweeden hasn't guaranteed that. If it is "just all about rape", then they can make that guarantee, but they aren't. Ecuador has asked the right questions and the UK hasn't given any strong answers.

IMO the proper diplomatic response from the UK would be to use a diplomatic back channel and ask Ecuador to deny him asylum. In exchange the UK can give Ecuador some under the table concessions. Even if Ecuador resisted, Ecuador could give him asylum and then the UK could issue it's letter. The Order of Ops matters. Many UK foreign diplomats agree.
Based on the ones that I've seen around UWaterloo, they have different sized compartments for differently sized shipments. I'd feel comfortable shipping a snowboard through their box.

You punch in the key code they give you, and the box your package is in pops open.

Apparently they take a percentage of the charge that FedEx/etc would take - it saves the shipping company tons of money not having to have an office/make multiple trips.
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Is this international? I would recommend the service to friends but can't find any list of which retailers are supported from the FAQ or About pages. I suppose I could create an account and trudge deeper but honestly, I can't be arsed to do that much work just to find out if Canada is supported and advertise this to my friends.
The advice isn't to mathematically prove anything, which as you mentioned is hard and may even be unsolvable.

The advice is to look at the issue as you would a mathematical problem, critically and analytically. Don't use shotgun debugging or quick fixes, but instead try to understand the code thoroughly, what its goal is and how it accomplishes it. Instead of testing with random data, mentally walk through all the possibilities and branches.

This is akin to making a mental model of what you are trying to do, and then verifying that the model is correct, and that your code matches the model.
The box in UWaterloo is in a public building in high-traffic area. (almost like a vending machine).

The delivery man (based on some sort of arrangement) fills up the lockers, telling BufferBox what's in each one.
>>> "The courage is in leaking them with a name attached to the leaker or distributor."

Which Bradley Manning did not do.

>>> "Bradley Manning is an example of what happens to people who leak stuff the State doesn't want leaked."

Yes... Bradley Manning is a perfect example of what happens when you illegally releases hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, violating oaths you swore to your country. You go to jail. For a long time. What is your point?

And I'm sorry, but as the family member of someone who has been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan for over 100 combat missions, and the recipient of a bronze star (with valor).... I have a different definition of what exactly "courage" is.

Different strokes for different folks............
Should this thread's title be changed?
Hybrid apps serve the website locally, from the device, because if you didn't there would be a lot more data being sent over the wire, and your app would perform significantly worse. The only thing (well designed) hybrid apps generally use the internet for is querying apis, just like normal mobile apps do.
That's ridiculous. Apple has more than $100 billion in cash, surely they can afford something better than crack.
His argument was twofold. I think you're right in that he touches on the effects of supply and demand in relation to job availability. However, he also touches on the fact that you need to work hard and "make yourself valuable" in order to find employment. Therein he argues that most people don't put in the necessary effort because they believe that they are owed or are entitled to jobs.
I honestly wish they had some kind of affiliate program. I'd make so much money pimping Square out to local businesses, especially the ones I truly care about. I am so sick of being told: "Sorry, we don't accept AMEX" or simply "Sorry, we don't accept credit cards." Are you kidding? It is 2012!
Their pricing is 3% on credit cards, and 0 on everything else. At best they would see 1% margin on credit cards, so $250M at 1%, is $2.5M/year. 10X optimistic projected revenue is a great deal for Venmo, and BrainTree is getting a functioning custodial account system and the team that built it.
Obligatory pedantic reply: it's "piqued" not "peaked"!

Source: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/peaked.html, Paul Brians, Professor of English at WSU
I agree with this in general but if the original investment was only $12.7 million, that's pocket change to Accel and I would think the LPs would have a say in whether or not they should hold or sell. For their next fund, they would have no problem raising several hundred million dollars without having to sell their FB stake given their stellar track record.
Do you mean OpenSCAD and STL diffs side by side, and live edited, so when you change the code, you see the model change?
Clarke may have been reading too much into Perelandra by interpreting it that way, but Lewis didn't seem to object to that reading in the correspondence, and defended a view that Weston really was an accurate portrayal of what what Lewis saw as a likely future outcome of space-travel, an arrogant war of conquest to dominate the galaxy and subjugate any other worlds that might exist, in pursuit of technology and power.

Among other comments from his letters:

I don't of course think at the moment many scientists are budding Westons: but I do think (hang it all, I live among scientists!) that a point of view not unlike Weston's is on the way ... a race devoted to the increase of its own power by technology with complete indifference to ethics does seem to me a cancer in the Universe.

He also liked to sign off his letters to Clarke with comments like, "I wish you every success except a
practical realization of space travel".

edit: A bit more in the section "Lewis and space exploration" here: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1754/1
Think about the scale at which it must operate. It is quite literally awesome. I wish I could give numbers. :-(
Multiple fields actually invented Kalman filters independently and it turns out they are all actually the same thing, they just have widely varying derivations. My personal favourite explanation comes from the textbook: Probabilistic Robotics (2005) by Thrun, Burgard, and Fox.
Pretty useful. Although it would be better if you could just send the diff over the wire when trying to look a previous version -- it takes way too much time to download the whole model.

Being able to continue inspecting the model in the same position it was before loading another version would be nice as well.
When a planet-bound civilization at our level or above falls to barbarism, almost everyone dies. The planet simply cannot maintain billions of people without pretty advanced technology.

In the end, that last % is probably not that significant, specifically because space-based habitats have a very strong advantage over planets -- planets are much rarer. The solar system can sustain many millions of space stations with >1M pop each, with cheap travel between them. I'd estimate that complete system-wide reversal to barbarism is pretty damn rare in that situation.
Which is basically anyone for Visa/MC, and even some people for Amex. Once you're reliably processing $20k/mo, your options for merchant accounts expand a fair bit.

I think what this does is retain existing Square merchants a bit longer -- ones who grew from $0 to $8k or so, are now evaluating real merchant accounts. Inertia, other advantages of Square (PWS), etc. might keep those merchants another year or two, getting them up to around $20k/mo revenue, and then Square might come out with something new for them (a Square-specific payment instrument? Pre-loaded cards using ACH per merchant or across Square with 0% fee?)
Kudos for the "ballsy" simplicity. I don't know if people appreciate how big of a risk this is for Square.

Square is placing a big bet on the numbers working out in the long run. If their analysis is just a little bit wrong, they're going to burn through millions of dollars in losses.

Why? Because the 1.3% "sweet spot" is almost certainly well below their cost. "Interchange" is the wholesale rate that processors like Square pay to card networks. Visa & Mastercard publish their rates and as far as anyone knows they're not negotiable. According to FeeFighters which did a lot of public research around rates, the average interchange rate for a typical card mix is:

1.58% + $0.13 per transaction

Unless they've figured out a way around standard interchange, this is Square's approximate cost.

Remix that into a 2.75% flat rate and you'll find that Square already charges less than that cost for purchases below ~$6 (even considering that there's a special, lower small ticket interchange rate). And now for businesses that hit the sweet spot around $17-21K/month, Square's probably also taking a loss.

No doubt Square is betting on a mix of merchants that fall in the profitable peaks between those troughs. All in the name of simplicity.

Sources:
http://feefighters.com/square-calculator
http://usa.visa.com/merchants/operations/interchange_rates.h...
Thats it..this is getting on my nerves.Look at HN's homepage, of-late, there's been too many articles on un-interesting YC startups (most of them) and worse yet, most of them, from TechCrunch. TechCrunch gets paid for featuring YC start-ups or what?

http://i.imgur.com/imXhb.png
This question spans not only personal programming projects, but all sorts of spare time "hobby" projects and what politicos would refer to as "lifelong learning" in general.

What's he best use of my spare time an energy right now?

Counterpoint answer to others in his thread: Dijkstra's "Do only what only you can do", if you overcome the intimidating aspect of seeing yourself as uniquely positioned (not necessarily uniquely talented) might be the droid you're looking for.
"A good name is the most important part of a software interface" - absolutely true. Naming is so important and yet so many apis spend seemingly so little time on this - win32, OpenGL I'm looking at you guys ;
Pretty neat! Found a group of friends that were all in the same dorm together (that wasn't my dorm) and even clustered the people I hung out with last summer and two summers ago.
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A new Telephone and Web Conferencing service.
Ahh, yes, that makes a lot of sense. And then if someone jumps around, send the whole model, but if it's sequential, just the diff will work.
I have never seen this process work with a post box. Please package in box SFO-03-01-AA and select it to be delivered to NYC-12-02-AC.

While the logistical process is the same, its much more like an inter-office mailstop than it is a post box.
(To be clear: the amazon service lets you add anything with a website, not just items sold through the site)
I imagined this was one of the main concerns.. what I learned now from your comment, is that everything runs through Betable, makes a lot of sense, but Apple probably would still want to be extra careful. Are Google, Apple and MS already doing due diligence on Betable to approve the games that would go live with your platform? Will it work like a "Betable seal of approval" ?
US court upholds breast cancer gene patents
MongoDB/10Gen hiring Haskell dev/evangelist
You're getting down voted because cynicism is cheap, and that's all you brought to the discussion.
So far so good. Interesting batch.
Thank you for writing this! Calling them a pinterest clone because the site looks a little similar is absurd! The only similarity I can possibly see is to Canvas, and even then, it's very new.
Unfortunately I think it's going to take time...
Getting a Startup Job as a Non-Technical Person
Not really -- they're objecting to having invested in the early stages of a company in good faith that the company would keep its promises. If they wanted dirt-cheap shared hosting, there were plenty of other ways to get it, even at the time (1and1's three-year free deal comes to mind). Most of the people I know who still use their lifetime accounts use them for hosting small static sites, e-mail, et cetera, with the specific goal of "not having to think about hosting".

That's what they were buying. And they're getting screwed out of it.
IndoorAtlas is similar, but doesn't require WiFi in the building. It utilizes magnetic variations to detect the location. http://www.indooratlas.com/
Interesting demo. I don't know anything about this space but it seems to download a ton of data every time I look at a different diff (like 8-10 MB). Is there any way to reduce this? As an outsider I don't even understand how that much information could be needed to render this thing.
I think your comment is great, and equally applies to experienced Objective-C developers who could miss something interesting here :)
it may be marginally easier to drag/drop photos to picplum, but its 3-4x more expensive than using Costco's photo web service. And some of those extra steps with Flickr or other sites are necessary, for example selecting the paper finish and border style.

This is optimizing something that isn't broken. It may not be as slick, but I'm loosing features and paying three to four times as much for the privilege by using PicPlum.
+1

Go with your guts and just build it.
using PicPlum, you can make it effortless, costly, and have to wait for the mail.
I don't mind seeing the launches on the front page here, but I wish I could see them all together rather than haphazardly like this. Is there any chance we could have a /yc-s12 list which has all the posts with "(YC S12)" in the title?
I think the parent commenter's point is that this isn't merely a game engine, it's a game. I was interested because I was curious if I could use this in Ludum Dare[1] next weekend, but it seems that it's not just an engine; separating the engine from the game wouldn't be a simple task.

* [1] http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/
Perhaps the volume behind Starbucks (and upcoming unannounced deals?) have allowed them to negotiate those seemingly nonnegotiable numbers...
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=YC+... works pretty well
Your girlfriend didn't recognize penises?
Kim Kardashian is not really that famous globally, I only know who she is because of the internet. My parents and all my friends have no idea who she is.

Assange on the other hand has made the newspaper here many times.
Fuck this guy, I don't need someone telling me shit.
Can we have a new link at the top of the HN page which wil take me to the: "YC Batch" section. Then all the YC launches/news can be under that one category - and the regular news feed can be about the general happenings in our industry?

You could also have historical batches as well. So if I want to find out anything on YC11 - I go to their batch page?