skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like it's not active for everyone yet. I'm getting redirected to the usual download screen. Nice to see that Spotify are filling out their offering in terms of platforms.
>As Kurzweil fleshes it out, the P.R.T.M. is even more like the Hierarchical Temporary Memory system proposed several years ago by his fellow entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins (who founded PalmPilot). Kurzweil’s weak efforts at differentiating his theory from Hawkins’s—“the most important difference is the set of parameters that I have included for each input … especially the size and size variability parameters”—are likely to convince no one.

Yup. That's what I thought when the book was announced and I said this:

>So is this On Intelligence 2?

I find being an armchair cynic is even easier than being an armchair futurist, since I haven't read either book (the rip off is clear from the synopsis).
Pundits are posting clickbait containing the word Apple and there's no end in sight :(
Also, Visual Studio is still the most advanced IDE in the world. And also Microsoft's development suite for Windows Phone 8 is amazing. It's years ahead of android, and a "bit" better than iOS. Just no developers care because the market is so low.
I'm not even sure that is possible to harden a wireless system to the point where an attacker can't bring it down for many orders of magnitude less investment than what it cost to put it up in the first place. The more sophisticated the more likely it can be brought down. If you want to get through use CW (Morse) and plenty of juice.
Accepting Bitcoin is much easier than it was a year ago. At NameTerrific[1] we use Blockchain Wallet[2] to temporarily hold transactional funds.

Whenever a customer places an order and chooses to pay by Bitcoin, we will use Blockchain API to generate a Bitcoin address for the invoice. After the customer pays, they can press a "Check Payment" button and then the system will simply check the balance of the Bitcoin address generated. If it's greater than or equal to the invoice balance, it's considered "paid".

We keep a history of Bitcoin exchange rates (the NameTerrific rate) for tax purposes. All invoices have records of the applied BTC/USD exchange rate so they can be translated into fiat amounts in the books. For Australians, the GST is being accounted using the daily rate method (BTC/USD rate from the invoice, and daily AUD/USD rate from an official source).

The wallet gets cleared every 10 BTC or so to prevent theft.

[1]: https://www.nameterrific.com

[2]: https://blockchain.info/wallet/

EDIT: WordPress.com accepting Bitcoin is huge.
This could be a helpful way for the IDF to track Hamas and other Palestinian users and to see what they are most interested in reading about. Either as a way to target them electronically, or by other means (covertly for exploitation or recruitment, not by missiles).

Also might be humourous to know how many Hamas operatives or supporters have reached IDF "Research Officer" rank too.
This is only gamification if you believe this is a war being fought on social media. Of course, if you believe that, you should quickly rush out of your filter bubble.

War always included propaganda for the home front. Back then it was ridiculous posters, nowadays it of course happens in social media.
A wrench large enough to budge a foundation nut costs closer to $100. A $5 wrench with a breaker bar will just snap the wrench.
An end to faking it: could a new law damage the world of design?
Looping the selected chords I click... reactor grade win.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4774098

full reddit discussion : http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/12vg6t/the_admins_a...
> They only crack it open when shit hits the fan and they need to know what to do...

...and sometimes you can skip the Employee Handbook entirely and head for the Shitstorm Encyclopedia...
Why wouldn't Nest advertise to friends of people who like (and possibly own) Nest? If you were installed as their chief marketing officer, where would you advertise the thermostat?
How a Robot Will Steal Your Job
Had to turn off JavaScript to access the page. Has anyone else had this issue?
I know there is a tendency to be cynical, but I think a lot can be said about the following:

The public appearances of the President as well as the candidates are not sycophantic party propaganda. While the Wen Jiabiao's and Hu Jintao's of the world are lionized in The People's Daily and other party organs, the US media regularly shows American officials getting grilled or having to explain one thing or another. That not only are critical things said of Obama regularly in print or on air, but also often horrendous things from his opponents, and who can "get away with it" (meaning, no trip to a labor reeducation camp), says volumes.

Yes, this is a bit of a lionizing Obama video, but can you picture Xi Jiping doing anything this candid to his supporters? The whole idea of young students eagerly volunteering for a candidate they believe in is unheard of in China:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBK2rfZt32g

And: despite the whole money thing. Yeah, it's bad, the problem definitely exists, etc etc. But the Super PACs lost and Karl Rove melted down on TV.
The vast majority of employers want to hire employees to work in their office. Elance is generally not designed around this goal.

I think a site like I'm imagining might restrict candidates to your local area and require that they be willing to work full-time and on-site. Maybe those would be optional, but that's the idea.
I don't need a degree in Physics to understand Newton's laws, even though I couldn't derive these laws on my own. Heck, the explanation fits in three lines, and it explains a ton of things.

That's the kind of understanding I mean. It seems there isn't one concise, simple explanation for these effects. I wonder if it's because the reasoning behind it is that complex that you need to resort to esoteric math and abstractions (in which case, the current theories might be crude, Occam's razor and all), or if it's because no one truly comprehends it enough to explain concisely.

By the way, I picked up Leonard Susskind's lectures to watch. It was all fine up to special relativity - his explanation about frames of reference was so obvious, it just made sense. After that, though, nothing made sense anymore.
For some reason, I always thought it was matter of time that Bitcoin would be declared illegal. People say different things regarding its legality so I will continue to stay away from it, at least for now.

Though, I think Automattic wouldn't accept it as a form of payment if there was such a possibility.

Is there anyone who can enlighten me about the legality of Bitcoin?
Now is a good time to use that option knowledge to make a killing! :-) Link baitness aside, tech journalists focusing on stock price rather than companies was one of the less useful parts of the dot com bubble.
Misfit Labs is on the list too!

They just launched a successful campaign on Indiegogo and were on TC yesterday.
Daemon is only half the book, read the other half called Freedom_TM.
I find it hard to be surprised by anything that the IDF does.
NO BRAND CUFFS
With no central authority standing behind it's value, right now you are engaging in barter. What is the legality of barter in your jurisdiction?
I've been following their updates all day and haven't seen any that have 'glorified murder'.
YC Rejection Emails Are Out
YC just sent out rejection emails.
But since it can never be set as the default mapping app it will always be a sub-par experience. What happens when you open your contacts and want to map your contacts address? Or when you are using any other app and want to map an included address?
Bummer, we just got a rejection email for Contactable (http://becontactable.com).

The email came via Mailgun, here are the headers:

Received: by luna.mailgun.net with SMTP mgrt ????61; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:17:01 +0000
Long ago I read Kurzweil's "Spiritual Machines," because people kept saying he was a smart guy, and AI intrigues me. It was the first and last book of his I read. It literally had me laughing out loud at the sheer ridiculousness of his predictions and the pomposity with which he delivered them. I remember thinking to myself, "Everybody thinks this guy is a genius--but he's just writing bad sci-fi! How is he fooling everyone? What's going on here?!"

Looks like his new stuff is more of the same...
In between posters and social media it was "Support the Troops" yellow ribbon bumper stickers.
Rejections are starting to go out....
Eh. Didn't get an interview.

Whatever. I'll apply for the next cycle.
quick question, regarding the people that can't buy Wordpress services with Paypal or credit card, how do they buy bitcoins?
Is "partner" an example of title inflation? Law firms do have a lot of "partners" (anywhere from 20% to 50% of lawyers at a large firm), but I think it's more a matter of law firms just having naturally flat structures. Each partner operates pretty autonomously in terms of bringing in business, managing associates, running cases, etc. Levels of organization above "partners" are more facilitative and strategic (where to open new offices, etc) than operational.
I asked Adrian via twitter, and bass (as well as standard notation) tracks are planned for the future.
Kurzweil is the epitome of [reductionist, emergentist] materialism.

The essence of this sentence is not in the individual letters.
I applied:

Mobile based hacker-to-hacker platform used to infiltrate CIA database with content gathering and storing-
market potential: Iran, N. Korea, China, Cuba, Russia...this will redefine the black market. All i need is a little startup cash
It's worth noting that Dropbox Chooser is a javascript tool and intended for web applications.

Native applications might still find it easier to directly access the dropbox folder (no need to know the user's account credentials and faster syncing than through the API with its rate limits).
Content Security Policy 1.0 is officially awesome.
This has always irritated me. Normal people and economists use the same word to describe two different albeit somewhat related things. If you include debt (and I think you have to), we had some pretty severe deflation starting 2008. But the prices people pay for the things they buy went up during that time period, something that can happen while you're in a deflationary economy.
This is great. Would love to see tab support for 4 and 5 stringed instruments as well (5 st banjo, tenor banjo, mandolin etc)!
I feel you, brother. Same story for me...
Bitcoin is an unregulated financial asset, similar to gold. The fact that it exists in digital form makes the whole situation much more complicated.
If you're going to call those "propaganda", could you please suggest another term we can use so people know we're talking about things like Triumph of the Will and not anodyne bumper stickers?
I doubt he actually thinks there's anything wrong with Elon Musk, the whole post is just a roundabout fan eulogy.
I actually remember reading an article in the New Yorker about Elon Musk a few years ago that portrayed him as a bit crazy. Looking at the plans for Tesla and SpaceX at that time, there seemed to be only a slim chance they would succeed, and if I remember correctly Elon had invested a big fraction of his fortune in these ventures (at least in Tesla maybe?). Today you wouldn't call him off kilter since he has really delivered on his ambitions, but before this happened his portrayal in the media was a bit different. There were definitely some people rolling their eyes and thinking "yeah sure Elon, your going to replace NASA and revolutionize the auto industry."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/24/090824fa_fact_... (full article is for subscribers only unfortunately)
Ask HN: Looks like the app store search algorithm changed
I religiously track my app's ranking in the App Store for my key search terms and it looks like there has been a major tweak today. My app that usually ranks around 60 for a search, has dropped down to 126, and my less popular app has moved from 250 up to 127 for the same keyword.

Is anyone noticing the change? Have you determined any of the underlying reasons?
"did you get your rejection email yet" - my wife
Dropped out recently after a year and a half. Working full time in Redwood City, CA @ Inflection, LLC as a Software Engineer currently.

I originally started out at Inflection this Summar as an intern with the unspoken goal of being full time by the end of the year - Within a few months that happened. My manager told me later on that he knew I was shooting for that without even asking. I definitely think the first year of school helped out, but I've personally found that I learn more efficiently when on the job or just experimenting with projects on my own rather than being knee deep in class work. That being said, I really think it's a personally decision - Everyone learns differently.
Lets just keep going... this is only one stop...
If you have a mac, you can use this:

http://www.sandwichlab.net/websaver/
I know!
I think his argument is more that Microsoft can try to go in that direction (by which I presume you mean the dream of seamless mobile-tablet-desktop integration) all they want, but their current policies are pissing off all their partners and customers to such an extent that they will be unable to, and are thus doomed.
How to bootstrap from zero to $50M: SteelSeries founder Jacob Wolff-Petersen
How is this a gamification of war? Reading a blog is not war. Social media is not war. Getting a virtual badge for reading a blog has nothing to do with the morals of war. Does the author realise that people get real badges in war for ... you know ... killing other people! Not for retweeting some 140 character long message.

Propaganda is nothing new and propaganda was always quick to adopt to new media. Get over yourself...
When I am reading someone else code I spend a lot of time figuring out a section of code only to realize its for some corner case. If only there is a hint thatz not the main logic will save lot of time. The fix everyone will immediately suggest is proper commenting which is clearly not working. I am just exploring alternatives.
Dealing with Disappointment
How Rimac is building electrical 1 million $ supercars in Croatia, bootstrapped
Obsecurity Server
> Important to note - it's highly unlikely that any group of people will be able to establish a coordinated attack on 20 major metros. That level of conspiracy would be stopped by the time planning got to the 3-5 city attack.

It's trivial to do. Make a bunch of jammers on timers, and plant them around dozens of major cities at your leisure. One disaffected person working alone could do it.

P.S. Magnetrons are tunable by simply changing the magnets, and microwave ovens can be had for $20 apiece if you buy in large quantity. It does not cost $650 to make a very powerful jammer.
I received a message in facebook promoting some album. I was hoping to be redirected to the app (as usual) but this time, the web version opened. I tried it in Chrome but no luck until I open the same link through facebook.
Got a reject. I kinda feel relieved now. Time to focus on how I can do better with my project. All the best guys.
lol sorry bro. You should also consider TechStars! I know they just opened for the next class.
I'm not sure why there's so much vitriol about Kurzweil. Maybe it's disappointment that we don't have our brain uploads ready yet, just like we were pissed about no flying cars twenty years ago. He doesn't have to be right all the time to be worth at least considering his ideas without getting so angry.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

Maybe the title is too sensationalist. But even something like "A New Kind of Science" may not have been so earth shattering, but it was still a lot of fun to read and play with.
Being slightly crazy didn't stop Howard Hughes from multiplying his parents' fortune.
What's with the iPhone photo they used? Did they go out of their way to find the dirtiest smudged-with-fingerprints picture they could find?
Who wants to sell your YC interview spot?
I wonder has anyone done this in the past?
Found this uncovers a few samples to play around with, not sure if intentional or not.

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=site:popapp.in+preview&#...
I just wish more people were aware of the disturbing similarities to Wiemar Germany... Here's the leader of GD denying the holocaust and defending Hitler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXy7f17GXtQ
That worked for me.
This looks awesome. As a guitar player, I really hope you guys are successful with this this. Is there a way to browse through all annotated videos, rather that just recent ones?
I'm going to show up for an interview anyways.
OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOES!!!!11eleventyhundredandone!!

Life goes on, folks, in spite of angel investors wanting every last ounce of your collective creative juices for almost no wage.
Actually such systems can be built, I saw a demo of one based on UWB tranceivers, it was proposed replacement for the JSTARS system. The reason it worked was that 'dumb' jammers needed to raise the entire noise floor, and 'smart' radios were using singletons (single pulses of RF energy across a wide spectrum of possible frequencies) so a small transmitter could use kilowatt nanosecond pulses which always landed above the noise floor.
C++ returns
I agree with your first statement. I disagree with your second statement.

I'm not a fan of Elon Musk - that would be making a fundamental attribution error - and it is a logical fallacy to think that one person is perfect. No body should be respected irrespective of action - and merely by name - that's simply foolhardy and cognitively incoherent.

All I have merely stated is thus:

These people are early warning detection systems for future black swans that can fuck us all, and they come with high number of false positives.

So don't get sucked in with their rhetoric - but don't ignore them either - because if you do, you'll get fucked.

Make sense?
Hmmmm....sometimes I read these I feel like a sheep, as if I am supposed to become indignant upon command, which sadly I usually do.

Yet to be honest I am more saddened by the ignorance of my fellow countrymen then of the governments increasing distrust and oppression. Large groups of people in power tend to like to stay in power and will do anything to accomplish it. This has been proven time and time again throughout history. All hail "corporate feudalism"!
"Support the troops" is indirect propaganda. The thinking promoted is, you should support the troops (who deserve it because they are blameless) by supporting the war, even when the war is unnecessary.
Let's all chip in here and not click this link. Don't support these pointless articles.
Mixpanel for Pirates
It's cool to see the traffic on this bit.ly url.

Protip, add a + to any bit.ly url to see stats:

https://bitly.com/Sua5z2+
No worries. I am kinda glad now, normal service of being broke and working my butt off can resume -
I am the 97%.
Well, I don't know how many non-combatants die in the cartel wars, but I guess I'm saying that the Israeli-Arab conflict is lesser in magnitude compared to past and present violent conflicts around the world, perhaps contrary to perception. So it's not Vietnam-big (where millions lost their lives); it's Mexican drug war-big.

Of course, while not a big conflict in terms of actual warfare, it carries a lot of political influence worldwide.
OMG! This app is app dev company's good product ! I LOVE IT
Terrorist
Me too. Best of luck next time to everyone!

Btw, there are post-application morale-boosting celebrations happening all over the place. I'm hosting one this Saturday in the Bay Area. Hope you'll join us!

More info here and here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4787228
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4775943
I would personally not buy their stock any time soon.

I keep meaning to write a blog entry on this. To understand my reasoning it helps to be familiar with The Innovator's Dilemma (see http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Ca... for the book). The basic assumption of that book (backed up with many examples in industries from ship technology to hard drives to backhoes) is that any technology that has a well-established value proposition will tend to show exponential improvement on that value proposition over time. Users needs also follow an exponential curve, but it tends to be slower than the technology improvement curve. (A lot slower.) Therefore if you have 2 technologies competing for that market, eventually the cheap crappy one will be good enough, and after that point hits it wins. The premium technology will always show great revenue curves even once their low-end users start switching, but those curves hide a great oncoming disaster.

In every market that Apple is in, it is the premium product. It has competitors. And its competitors have a pretty good sense of the value proposition that they need to deliver. Therefore every market line for Apple is doomed. They show no signs of having new ones to wow us with, so Apple has a world of hurt coming.

But, you may ask, why did they not have this problem historically? My answer is because Steve Jobs' genius lay in constantly finding and delivering new value propositions. He found and defined markets for pretty computers, light laptops, smartphones, and so on. The whole Innovator's Dilemma argument depends on competing on a known value proposition, and Jobs never sat still long enough for his competitors to do that.

Of course Jobs is now gone, and there is no sign that Apple has anyone who has that talent.
Uh oh, downvoted for writing the truth? That's /never/ been done before--not /once/!
afaik that's a terrible idea.
Hi everyone -

Startups are hard. I hope you'll keep going in the face of adversity.

If so, Mixpanel is here to help. Forward a copy of your YC rejection email to free@mixpanel.com and we'll hook you up with our $150/month Startup plan, free forever.
Don't look for the right job. Look for the right company, and evolve once you're in.
Machines judge humans in interactive courtroom drama.
A new form of entertainment where audience is on the stage with motion tracking over a large area that feeds into software controlling animation.
I completely agree. Unfortunately, many places that use SSN for identity verification don't seem to think so.
Have fun being escorted out of the office by the cops
A lot of people do that, and unsurprisingly some people (maybe all) working at YC do not appreciate it. Personally I would advise against it and think of a different way to get to the partners, n.b. Instacart, rather than show up to YC when everyone is extremely busy and putting YC staff in difficult positions.
I guess we shouldn't ever do anything that nobody else has done before.
Wireframe.cc - a Simple Wireframe Builder
Netflix on Linux is now a reality
Neither did we. Keep calm and carry on.
ilanco <AT> gmail.com, if you've got an invite to spare. Thanks.
It was fun anyways. Applying really lit a fire under my ass. Since September, I learned a ton about web development and starting a business.
Well, I'm not sure picking nits is a good policy either ;-)

(or am I picking one now?)
Is this serious? Folks really throw rejection parties?
You only need to see Android's gains (globally ~75%, China - 90%) to realize that this has already been happening. It was just a matter of time for most investors to realize it, too.