skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a succinct way of describing your product.

From http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html :

One good trick for describing a project concisely is to explain it as a variant of something the audience already knows. It's like Wikipedia, but within an organization. It's like an answering service, but for email. It's eBay for jobs. This form of description is wonderfully efficient. Don't worry that it will make your idea seem "derivative." Some of the best ideas in history began by sticking together two existing ideas no one realized could be combined.
Great Article. Though I wonder how much weight is given to your interview/product growth VS. background of the founders(which you can't really hack)
Australia has a tiny population relative to its landmass. While it's rich in extractive resources (mining, minerals) from which much of its present wealth derives, it lacks both water and fertile land for agricultural production.

This itself is interesting: because Australia is an island continent, with few or no internal volcanoes or rift zones, the land is, literally, ancient, with many nutrients vital for ag production missing (one estimate I saw was that seeding land with an infinitesimal amount of iron would greatly increase production). Much productivity is due to windblown dust from the Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia. Even where irrigation is possible, evaporation causes accumulation of salts which degrade ag values. The first settlements in Sydney very nearly starved due to difficulties in producing sufficient food.
Unfortunately it didn't really took off, but it's a shame because it's a good, polished and complete implementation that allows for some advanced scale-out topologies (it can also be used as a foundation for data dependent routing and map/reduce scenarios).

<rant>I guess it's not much used because people like to reinvent the wheel every time (by manually implementing queues using tables with all the traditional concurrency problems) instead of learning something a bit more complex.</rant>

Anyway, it's not going to be thrown away anytime soon as it's used in other parts of the engine (e.g. SMTP mail integration, Server Events and Query Notifications).
F*ck Yeah Sarah Austin
So I made this last night, taken from the new reality show by bravo, startups:silicon valley.

http://fuckyeahsarahaustin.com

Our vision for F*ck Yeah Sarah Austin is really to become one of the top 10% websites in the world. We are about to close a $10m round on a $1b valuation.
There is one more aspect here: concurrent vs. sequential. You can have a system which is both asynchronous and sequential, like JavaScript and Twisted, and another which is concurrent, but somewhat sequential (with mutexes and such). Erlang has both asynchronous message passing and concurrent threads of control (without any locks) which, without the simplification it makes (there -> async, concurrent; here -> sync, sequential and no shared state at all) would be pure madness :))
ideology behind the currency is fascinating and remarkable

I'm going to take the liberty to nit pick.

There isn't any ideology behind bitcoin. It's just a protocol.

Among existing serious bitcoin users, there's a pretty diverse range of political opinions (some of which I find pretty distasteful), plus disagreement on the actual merits and potential demerits of bitcoin.
Cool. But what if the two pens are spun randomly in a box by say a random number generator spinner (each is pen is still anti-correlated - you just don't get the spin) - such that you do not know that what state they are in (superposition?). Then, probabilistically, they are both clockwise and anti-clockwise - until of course you look at it, a point at which they "snap" to a specific spin (which they already were in? You just didn't know it yet). Wouldn't that give you your unpredictable states.

I'm sorry if this sounds stupid - I just want to understand.
>Google controls the play store, and many carriers sell locked phones that prevent you from installing your own software outside of the play store

Which is exactly what's going to happen if Moz makes an OS. Additionally, I'm pretty sure you can always sideload an APK even on the locked phones (may be wrong there).

Don't buy those phones. Buy a nexus if software freedom is what you want.

Me personally? I think the iOS strictures make a store I like more than a control I despise (and jailbreaking is both legal and pervasive for those who want a bit more there).

I kinda like (as a consumer) there aren't monthly subscription apps, even if it makes certain concepts not viable.

As a developer, I feel pain every time X can't release Y and they really really really want to. I'll take that for not having to worry about malware(yet: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Android-Malware-Antivirus-P...) and a couple other pieces of chrome consistency.

Firefox for me should be dumping buckets of cash into performance instead of this sort of project. It feels like the dumpy stepsister to chrome these days (and yes, I do download new versions from time to time).
If you stopped being friends (I assume you mean real friends, not FB friends) with someone because of a single FB like you couldn't have been very good friends to begin with.
Thank you for maintaining sockjs-tornado! Performance has been shockingly good.

Setup: sockjs-tornado behind haproxy (on the same ec2 m1.large machine)

Over the 6-hour period the post was at the top of HN, there were about 480 concurrent users. At that time, the python process was using a grand 33 megabytes of memory and the overall system load was at 6%. Go sockjs-tornado :)

In the past couple days we've pushed 12+ gigabytes of real-time data through the server without restarting it. Memory usage has grown to a measly 60mb.

2. We've been using sockjs-tornado to push around ephemeral world update events, and Firebase for more persistent state-sync things like chat and presence. That's a pretty vague answer, I'll write it up better in a blog post!

Please feel free to reach out if you have any more questions -- my address is in my profile
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> I think Western civilization as a whole has completely forgotten how to win wars.

Two points here:

1. Guerilla warfare has become a lot more effective in the 20th century. You can't just drive in with tanks any more.

2. Winning wars in the past has been done with horrific casualties to civilians and troops on both sides, and structural and economic damage that took decades to recover from. That's not winning a war in any sense.
A year or so ago I came to this same realization and removed all but a handful of likes. There's no point in most of the things people like. Yes, liking can be used for signaling but beyond that it's pointless.
Is there a relationship between coinbase and blockchain.info? Even their websites look very similar.
You could display a large picture of the fret layout and the strings for each chord played.
That's an interesting powerpoint at the bottom of the techcrunch article.

I see your argument that slower page loads leads to less engagement and higher bounce rates, and I'm somewhat skeptical - how do you know that your data isn't saying that more engaging websites are faster because they're more engaging?

If being engaging is correlated with delivering more value, they're likely more profitable and more able to invest in higher quality engineering & infrastructure than other sites. This would likely lead to decreased load times. In other words, how do you know the cause from the effect?

I think the only way to make the argument you're trying to make is to compare each website with itself when loaded slower.
I saw one that said "A hyperlocal social photo bookmarking site for mobile" and immediately thought of http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta... .

Definitely use a less douchey description in your actual YC app. Or at least name your company Devil's Deuce Interactive.
So you're saying that the alternative to Erlang's simplification is not a four-way combination but an 8-way one. Yikes.
The more high-tech a society is the more vulnerable it is to this kind of attack. Infrastructure that isn't there can't be broken.
Has any other applicant class done this??? Don't get me wrong but if it wasn't done before I dont know if we should do it now...
Hibernate
Heart rate in animals in hibernation even slow down to a couple of minutes.
Now I'm curious. What is Cluckbutton?
>> So where are the reliable exchanges right now?

> MtGox ...

> Bitfloor ...

If this is the first two you come up with I'm guessing none of them are reliable.
What's the difference between your site optimizer and cloudflare's optimization?
No relationship. They look similar because they both use an open source web gui tookit called Bootstrap.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
liked the picture
Apple’s Stock Price Is Crashing And There’s No Bottom In Sight
We saw the same thing...
Honestly, it shows in a few places. I think you have a hell of a product. It might be worth it to pay someone $50 to proof read it. (or even a fellow HN'er who will do it for a pro account)
The crowd was amazing, only in NYC
If you don't "Like" anything, what would they spam your friends about, in your name? (Maybe it's obvious from my question that I don't use Facebook.)
World first: Chinese scientists teleport data
Scala with actors fit into rank 3 too.
> Backbone is all good and well for small projects, but I think it's be best to look elsewhere for larger projects.

This is such ridiculous FUD, and I'm surprised every time I hear it. Compare the apps built with Backbone section of their site against similar lists of any competing framework. There are some seriously complex apps there. More big ones than any competitor.

Just because a framework is minimal doesn't make it ill suited for large projects. That goes for all frameworks, not just js ones. And yet I see this argument trotted out against minimalist frameworks in every language I work in.
Not really the same thing. I think this is atrocious, but given that it's a current event and involves countries that tend to arouse people's atavistic passions, an in-depth discussion is probably not on the cards.
My $5 would be spent on a large wrench to undo the foundation nuts of power line towers.

You're gonna need a breaker bar for that which will cost you more than $5 (but not much more... your point stands).
Ok we are in, let's see if we can get something out of this all together!
Sure, correlation does not imply causation. I think most of our customers are smart enough to understand that.

The engagement charts are typically broken down for each site so that they are compared with themselves. It turns out, in both cases there is a strong correlation between performance and the business metrics you care about (bounce rate, conversion, time on site, # pages viewed, etc).
Well, added Splash to the list. It was funny to see at least one other company very similar, and that is launched! At least we know we are headed in a good direction. :)
I was hoping this would be a way for me to choose which files I sync to which machines.
OK fair enough but if I code something wrongly it doesn't work and fails badly then I'm at least partly to be blame, no?

It's moot anyway as it appears the test is proprietary and so can't be investigated further?
AFAIK CampBX has never had any issues whatsoever, but I actually would prefer an exchange that has had issues and worked them out in a professional manner in the past.

Anyway, all bitcoin exchanges are perfectly reliable for exchanging. Where they have had problems in the past is when people use them as a bank. Don't leave your fiat currency or coin there. Do your exchanging and then take your money out.
Let's get this straight: Ray Kurzweil is just a few ticks off crazy. Outside of Moore's law graphs (which he didn't discover), his predictions quickly veer off course into crazy land, especially in the case of diets and theories on intelligence (which others have routinely criticized him for - see everywhere).

But here's the problem I have with Ray Kurzweil and other people like him - you can't just ignore them, you can't just write them off. He's like the Joker. A guy that makes proclamations on the edge of what's reasonable, and when he's right, he's really right - and the results of what he thinks are about to happen will really screw us all. I think this of all slightly off kilter people, Peter Thiel, Aubrey de Grey, Sean Parker, Elon Musk (the least off kilter of the bunch - most rational - but man, does this guy take insane risks - I'm long TSLA :), Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis (he is amongst one of the worst on the proclamations) - these are people who should be listened to, not because anything that they actually say makes any sense - because they often don't.

No, they should be listened to because of the very nature of their personalities. The way their personalities are set up makes them act like early black swan detection devices. This allows them to call the black swans out well before they're apparent to the rest of us. More often than not, they're wrong though.

They're like the canaries in the coal mine. Vigilant, plenty of false alarms, and usually ignored most of the time.

But sometimes these people, they are just so fucking right - that you better hope you are on the right side of the wave they just called out.

Too many people have been screwed thinking that the crazy fool talking about crazy things should be ignored. The counterfactual is also true:

> All prophets are false prophets.

So watch these guys out of the corner of your eye, don't take them too seriously most of the time, but if things come up, again and again and again - take notice, think carefully and make your own decisions.

They are just early warning detection systems - it's up to you to make the final decision as to whether or not it's time to fire the nuke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov).
Bitcoin does have a particular monetary policy coded into it, which can be seen as an ideology.
The future is here my brother:

http://multibit.org/

http://electrum.ecdsa.org/
I was at the open panel where they talked about this. You can watch it on livestream[1]. Also my raw notes[2].

Basically, I got the impression that Verizon was being forced into this, and they we going to do the absolute minimum that was required in the agreement.

One moderator pressured the Verizon guy, asking what happens after 6 strikes and you've been throttled for 2-3 days. The Verizon guy said that that was it and they had fulfilled their contractual obligations. Basically, he was saying that if you survive the throttling, nothing happens after that.

The MPAA and RIAA people on the panel didn't seem to like that, and then stressed that they still could do the old-fashioned sue you for damages way if you kept doing it.

[1] - http://www.livestream.com/internetsocietychapters/video?clip...

[2] - http://pastebin.com/CqEM0D6Y
That still doesn't make it right to post tweets glorifying murder.
First of all, have you validated this app with your market? Have you actually approached executives and golfers to see if they would use this app? No amount of strategy will overcome a lack of desire or need, so if you haven't done that yet, I'd make that my first priority before sinking a bunch of time & money into anything else.

Assuming the idea is valid, I'd concentrate my efforts on a single country club. Not a public course, but a country club. Golfers that are serious about using golf as a networking tool probably belong to a club (again, something to validate). You'll obviously need to get the club to sign on regardless whether you're pitching them directly or not.

Once you've got the club's permission, there are a number of things you could do:

You could partner with the club and offer an exclusive (but limited) co-branding opportunity. So the app would be a "service" that the club offers to help members network. This would add credibility to the app and make members more likely to take interest in trying the service.

You could negotiate a deal with the pro shop to give away discounts or free memberships to the app with purchases.

Anyhow... you get the picture. My point is to start with a focus, don't spread yourself too thin. If the app takes off, you can always expand.

Think about Facebook's strategy. They started out just focusing on one school and then branched outward to other ivy league schools before finally branching out to all colleges and then the public.
That stops me spamming my friends but it doesn't stop my friends spamming me.
If that's true, the decision to remove the stagnant Google powered Maps was the best decision. Now, if Google releases a mapping app, it will have to include turn-by-turn navigation and better overall experience.
Yes. For example, both the FBI and the ECB have written on bitcoin in a way that acknowledges it as a useful medium of exchange.

What are you looking for? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page has a lot of good info on a lot of stuff. reddit.com/r/bitcoin is a pretty helpful place to ask casual questions.
Google Transparency Report Shows Rising Trend of Government Surveillance
> the world is shifting to bitcoin!!

I think that wins the prize for the most hyped remark on HN, ever. Really, the world has not shifted to bitcoin, it won't shift to bitcoin in the near future and possibly never.

Bitcoins are interesting, a very nice implementation of the idea of a digital currency with some thought provoking possible consequences. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market), but it isn't a general currency at all, let alone that the world is switching to it.

What you are seeing is that a few companies have caught on to using bitcoin as a way to promote themselves because 'accepting bitcoin' is a way to get free press.

Can you get by for a month just spending bitcoin without any other resources than bitcoins at the beginning of the month, sufficient for a normal months' worth expenses?

When you can go to your local greengrocer and buy an apple with bitcoin I'll cede to you that the world has indeed switched to bitcoin. Until then, it's neat but not quite there yet.
what % of interviewed Cos are accepted?
Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator
So does a wire cutter :-)
I think the main thrust of the article is that many systems are vulnerable to control channel interruptions. In those scenarios, a jammer can be far less powerful and much harder to detect.

In many cases, the underlying encryption system for communications is particularly vulnerable to disruption. In those cases, individual bit flips caused by intelligent jammers can cause the loss of entire frames.

BTW, the public safety standard for digital radios (P25) is also vulnerable to this sort of attack. IIRC, jamming the digital system often had the side effect of getting users to switch to less-secure (unencrypted) analog modes that were vulnerable to interception.
Silencers in real life aren't like what you see in the movies. They are just enough to prevent hearing loss (usually) but that's it.

If you want to shoot something quietly, use a crossbow.
Yep. You can do the same thing with "enable plugins" which handles Flash and other plugin-related technologies.

Opera doesn't need noscript because it's built in by default. Opera also made it extremely easy to toggle JS on/off if you want manual on demand control.

It's great for testing web sites you're developing because it takes about a second to test a page without JS, then reload and test it again with JS.

It bogggles my mind how Opera has almost no usage. Chrome, FF and others usually copy what Opera implements first. That whole "button and tabs in the title bar" look as been in Opera forever now.
How will you prove that you traded with a country, company or individual that is embargoed?
In the preface to the book Kurzweil argues, with good reason, that “reverse-engineering the human brain may be regarded as the most important project in the universe.”

- for anyone interested, the Human Brain Project is at the forefront of this: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/12/tech/human-brain-computer/inde...
> I swear I had not looked at your text before writing mine

I'm asking this out of curiosity, rather than to imply either that it is the case or that if it were the case it would somehow be a bad thing. Is it at all possible that your eye might have caught what he said without actively reading it, and planted a seed in your subconscious?
If you read the paper, the authors discovered ways to make LTE jamming 20 dB more efficient than brute force; arguably this is a legitimate weakness in LTE. IIRC other protocols are just as bad, so I am skeptical that these vulnerabilities are relevant when designing a public safety network.
"The challenge of figuring out how the mind works is too complicated for even the smartest of entrepreneurs to solve on their own."

I would agree with that statement. The main problem is still simply understanding exactly how the brain works. PRTM I think is just one model that describes a type of functionality, as noted in the article there seem to be many more, and certainly we don't know enough about how the brain itself works. Once we have good well tested models for the functionality there I don't forsee any major problems in holding us back from replicating a brain ie. AI or singularity or whatever.
Ahh yes thanks for the tip, this does make it a lot easier how foolish of me for not trying to zoom! The only issue I have now is that when you zoom out its harder to see the timing but perhaps thats more a problem with tabs then the implementation.
Beware, the page spams your history while you page through it.
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What is this, someone enlighten?
That was beautiful. It puts my prime number elevator thing [1] to shame.

[1] http://cautery.blogspot.com/2012/05/animated-prime-number-ma...
My nexus 7 didn't play video at all. The rest of it worked though, and looked awesome!
I can't speak for Cloudflare, but I can tell you a few of the things we've done to make Site Optimizer awesome. A big differentiator for us is our focus on browser-specific optimizations. For example, if you visit a page in Chrome we'll swap out the images for WebP versions. WebP is about half the size of JPEG but looks just as good. We've also developed a lot of cutting edge optimizations for mobile that are unique to Torbit. We're also able to leverage the data we get from Insight to make our Site Optimization service better as well.
Well, taxes are surely one big reason, but not the only reason. Bloomberg invests in renewable energy because it is the personal view of the majority shareholder that we should be doing it.[1] We get 58% of our energy from wind power and offset an additional 25% by purchasing GREEN-E certified biomass certificates (RECs).

[1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-01/a-vote-for-a-presid...
I have no idea how this whole thing works (quantum mechanics, entanglement, "teleportation"), still there are news all over saying it's the future.

I shouldn't need a degree in Physics to understand how it works. Is it really that complicated and magical, or is it still so barely understood that no one can explain in simple terms?

Anyone feels the same?
Based on observations from the past 2 years, emails go out when applications are decided on in no particular grouping except when they were decided.
For some reason it doesn't work on Chrome with AdBlock on. Just letting you know
Slow, leaky, rusty: Britain's £10bn submarine beset by design flaws
You're only addressing part of the problem. File size is a much easier thin to fix than refactoring DOM bound soup.
"Google groups once snatched the big byte from Yahoo forums. May be it is time for facebook to give Google the taste back."

I like the closing line. Nice blog.
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So far, no roaming charges. The service seems okay. It's basically AT&T towers. I may change back to SimpleMobile once their 3G access for iPhone gets good enough. They're not so uptight about tethering as StraightTalk. (Probably because of AT&T)