skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least I haven't...
Nope. I heard it was later tonight... good luck!
> as I've written in the past

link?
Aren't there regulations around trade with certain countries? Can anybody speak to the issues around a US company accepting payments from people in countries that aren't too friendly with the US?
They have a heap of employees for apparently not selling anything yet https://www.zaarly.com/about. Is this common for startups to take on this many people?
I got off work today at 5pm....checked my email & HN atleast 100 times since then :/
Thanks Cameron. We're hoping to share more data in the future.
Related to liked pages, I've noticed a few times in the past month or two that friend's months-old status updates that have links to products on Amazon.com now re-appear in my current news feed as "sponsored posts".

So it seems like advertisers can also sponsor posts containing links to their domains to re-appear in your feed.
lots on news this week n accpeting bitocoin! reddit is looking into this too!
the world is shifting to bitcoin!! if it is indeed less inflationary/deflationary than we can just transfer USD into bitcoin on www.coinbase.com (which is pretty much paypal for bitcoin) - S12 YC company
What is the point of this and who's behind it? (serious question)
$3.99/year is nothing. I can't believe people would hate on that.
do the form's authors want to add a field for 'Accepted?'

luck everyone!
Neil Young Raises $500k for Pono Online Music Format
Show HN: Teach your kids numbers
I've been working on this app at weekends for the last few months.

It is built using Appcelerator Titanium and I created a simple drag and drop animation framework as there was no native support.
Creating a Data-driven Classroom
Regarding the use of three dimensions for visualization, see Tamara Munzner's forthcoming book, "Visualization Design and Analysis: Abstractions, Principles, and Methods." [1] Although still in draft form, the section "No Unjustified 3D" is relevant:

> Many people have the intuition that if two dimensions are good, three dimensions must be better – after all, we live in a three-dimensional world. However, there are many difficulties in visually encoding information with the third spatial dimension, depth, which has important differences from the two planar dimensions.

> The cues that convey depth information to our visual system include occlusion, perspective distortion, shadows and lighting, familiar size, stereoscopic disparity, and others. This section discusses the costs of these depth cues in a visual encoding context, and also the challenges of text legibility given current display technology. It then discusses in what situations the benefits of showing depth information could outweigh these costs, and the need for justification that the situation has been correctly analyzed.

> In brief, 3D is easy to justify when the user’s task involves shape understanding of inherently three-dimensional structures. In this case, which frequently occurs with inherently spatial data, the benefits of 3D absolutely outweigh the costs, and designers can use the many interaction techniques designed mitigate those costs.

> In all other contexts, the use of 3D needs to be carefully justified. In most cases, rather than choosing a visual encoding using three dimensions of spatial position, a better answer is to visually encode using only two dimensions of spatial position. Often an appropriate 2D encoding follows from a different choice of data abstraction, where the original dataset is transformed by computing derived data.

Although I'm not sure I would recommend it, you can do 3D in D3.js by extending the DOM to represent a 3D scenegraph. For example, with X3DOM: http://bl.ocks.org/1291667

[1] http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/courses/533-11/book/
Wow, that's big news. Now they just need a client that doesn't take days to download the block chain :| Seriously, I wonder if one of the bigger barriers to bitcoin adoption is the lame official application.
Wow, what a dumb document to publish. Anyone not hired or fired from this place will have a field day with this.

"Also, it is a place where the guys frequently use the women’s bathroom."

Sounds like a really creepy place to work.
Wonder if it supports git instead of their server if desired.
Can this YouTube video predict your move?
> So where are the reliable exchanges right now?

MtGox is a really good exhange.

Bitfloor is also really good and seems to be run by great people (plus it's located in NYC instead of Japan, which I think is nice), but you have to be willing to forgive them for a security breach in the recent past. (Never leave large amount of BTC in an exchange.)

CampBX is another good option, they are located in Atlanta, GA.

Sorry if I've left out anyone's pet exchange.

A (generally) better way to acquire bitcoins for spending (as opposed to speculation/wealth storage) is to use bitinstant. You can literally buy bitcoins at Wal-Mart and CVS (which are super ubiquitous where I'm from) using bitinstant.

edit: apparently you can also buy them using coinbase (a YC company). I didn't realize you could do that until someone else mentioned it, since they advertise themselves as a hosted bitcoin wallet.
I've been looking for something like this for a while... I'm writing an application that I want to have run on PCs as well as my Raspberry Pi (using Python preferably, although C++ is always an option), and eventually, I'd love to be able to port it to Android (+WP/iOS/BB/whatever else) as well. I'm still at the deciding state, obviously, as this is not a common thing for some reason. However, I'd love to use Python, so I'm comfortable with just having PCs and an RPi for now - but that still begs the question, is it possible to create an application (using restricted OpenGL calls) that works with both OpenGL full and ES systems without modification?
The vast majority of the Australasian landmass is desert.
Mostly just curiosity. I'm "behind" it in the sense that I set up the form and posted it to HN.
Seriously, before asking for people's personal info can you give us at least a sentence or two about why you want it?
Yes, hitta.se used C3 (Java IIRC). I believe it was their pilot project as both companies are from Sweden (possibly with government/universities involvement) and they used airplane stereovision to generate 3D, which would explain fantastic detail of the whole Sweden (I remember looking at the funny rotated skyscraper in Malmo). To be honest, I don't know why did hitta.se drop its 3D maps. I was playing with hitta.se before NOKIA bought the technology from C3 and there were internal rumors that C3 will be acquired. I would assume licensing costs were the main culprit; given the use of airplane flyovers, the data extraction was very expensive.
It's not that uncommon for a company with $15 million in investment money to have that many or more employees.
ran into an odd bug right off the bat - "directions" generates a proper turn-by-turn list of directions, but the map pane goes blank rather than displaying the route.
I posted that link at the same time as someone else, with a post date like 5 minutes after them. I also didn't clear off the referral parameters (I got the original article in an email blast about tech news, with two utm_ parameters). So maybe it looked like a referral link or a possible duplicate of someone else's. shrug

Either way, that article really made me re-consider the 'Senior' in front of my title. Very well written.
There is an interesting factoid that hasn't popped out of this discussion, Google is a power company [1]. They did this for a number of reasons, but one of the benefits is that they get to play in the slush pond of kilowatts. Energy companies 'trade' energy (because as ajross points out it is sometimes in the wrong place at the wrong time) kind of like Internet providers 'trade' bandwidth. As licensed energy provider Google and trade wind kilowatts in Iowa for coal kilowatts in Georgia. Its a great way to 'hack' the fact that transmission costs and land costs make it hard to build renewables near your data center.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=E...
Verizon Will Reduce Speeds of Repeated BitTorrent Pirates
Call me crazy, but I think adding modules to JavaScript seems a little more pragmatic than entirely discarding it in favor of Python.

Also: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:modules
Infikno looks sweet. I'd totally use that.
No, it's actually quite different.

The scenario you outlined is quite important and actually has a name: it's the "Bertlmann's Socks" thought experiment, and if you want to read about it I'd seriously recommend the paper by the great J S Bell[1].

To use the language of your example, both pens begin in a superposition of clockwise and anti-clockwise. It's not the case that each pen has a particular spin value, and that we're simply unaware of which has which. The pens really are in a superposition.

Until, that is, a measurement is made on one of them. At this point the joint pen-pen system collapses and both pens have determinate spin values. The nature of the entanglement ensures that those spin values are different.

The notion that quantum-entangled particles could have well-defined properties that we're just ignorant of was actually pretty popular in the early days of quantum mechanics. In fact, the theory was put forward by Einstein, among others. As it turns out, however, that we can test for this. The tests have been done, and it seems Einstein was wrong on this one.

[1]: J. S. Bell (1980), "Bertlmann's Socks and the Nature of Reality"
I think Google is more focused on getting as many people using Google Maps as possible than it is on giving a small benefit to Android sales.
YC W13: "The X for Y class"
Google benefit the most when the most number of people use their software services, so making their maps multi-platform is in their best business interest.
Google makes money whether a user is on Android or iOS - as long as they're using Google services. Android team may not be pleased but it is in Google's best interest to serve as many platforms/users as possible.
Good. Apples map data is OK, but their search sucks.
I've never used email any other way.
Asking Questions vs Giving Advice
Breaking will always be easier than making. A 'jammer' is about the easiest kind of transmitter to make, you don't care about signal quality at all (you want the worst signal quality).

For an analogue: you can take a length of steel chain to the nearest powerstation and lob it over the fence. Likely you'll spend a lot less than $650 and do substantial damage.

That doesn't mean that the powerstation is badly designed, it just means that we expect people to behave in a non-destructive way and we use the law against those that can't seem to live by the rules.

Society is a fragile thing, a few hundred dedicated jerks can undo the work of hundreds of thousands.

Breaking things is dead easy.

edit: credit for the powerline + chain idea in this thread goes to ghshephard, score one for parallel invention.
> Why? Shouldn't this be a benefit to using Android?

Google makes its money from data/advertising - Android is a hedge to prevent a single dominant player from controlling the flow of data.

In itself, Android isn't necessarily profitable for Google - but it opens the door to their services ecosystem which is profitable.

Not taking advantage of Apple's Maps gaffe would be ignoring a massive chunk of the data pie. And with Nokia hitting the scene with their map services, Google needs to act fast.
According to my experience last session this isn't correct. Invite emails went out 6:59pm EST.
Fantastic. This might finally allow iOS 5 hold-outs to upgrade to iOS 6.
Facebook is going to spam your friends regardless of whether you "Like" anything. My policy right now is to "Like" things that I think are worthy of attention, and which I'm not embarrassed to be associated with. Not that Facebook will suggest them to anyone without getting paid, but I might as well help some good people get value for their advertising dollar.

It really does suck that Facebook is spamming our friends in our name, though. Perhaps you're right, and it's best not to "Like" anything, so my friends don't associate my name with the annoying intrusion of commercial messages into their news feed.
Thanks for posting :) Let me know if you guys have any questions about the YC interview!
We'd love to but I'm not sure how people could update it since there's no login. We really can't do it without compromising the integrity of the data.
> a $5 piece of chain link at the right electrical substation

Hah! I see I used the exact same example you did, this is funny because I swear I had not looked at your text before writing mine. Low tech sabotage is an interesting subject, and I think it is almost impossible to defend against.

Have an upvote.

A long time ago around a campfire in Colorado this subject came up, how much damage could you do with $5? Gasoline came up quite a few times, the water supply and electrical utility were the main targets of opportunity.

My $5 would be spent on a large wrench to undo the foundation nuts of power line towers.

The next storm would do the actual work and would take down half the grid. I don't think the power companies are in the habit of checking those nuts to see if they're still there.

And you wouldn't have to hit all of them either, just a few choice ones.
It's pretty inexpensive to buy a laser you can shoot at a helicopter or airplane, temporarily blinding the pilot.

With no equipment whatsoever, you can go to your local grocery store and start opening bottles of cooking oil and dumping them on the floor. Besides costing the store money in lost inventory and cleanup, you can easily cause hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage in medical costs from people slipping on the oil.

You can also buy a cheap car for around $700 and use it to start running down pedestrians.

What all of these have in common is that they are inexpensive and easy to do, they are virtually impossible to defend against, and they leave the perpetrator holding the bag. And the bag I'm talking about is huge and glowing. It has big flashing neon letters on it that alternate "I'M THE HUGE ASSHOLE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!" and "COME ARREST ME!"

Look at it that way, and this hardly even seems like news. It's just another addition to the staggeringly long list of easy ways to disrupt society that have near 100% odds of landing you in jail.
Hey, at least it will have a better shot at finding a business model than twitter... ;) I kid, I kid.
I wish someone had asked me these questions when I was starting out :)
everything about this is awesome. No critique just praise - great job!
How a protest increased our sales by 500%
Agreed.

For instance, for legal / HR purposes, it's important to articulate (and get everyone to acknowledge in signature form) zero tolerance for harassment, and what to do in cases of harassment.

This feels like an extended form of a "mission statement," i.e. these are the values that we want to work by. For that purpose, it's a fine document -- just don't call it an "employee handbook."

I hope zaarly is far enough along to have other docs that do cover the more mundane (but necessary) aspects of employment. If not, they're exposed to unnecessary liability.
Usually, and this is not always the case, many different developers build side by side with each other. You can tell by looking at the nacelle and blades of the turbine to see the variations in design.

I was on a turbine in West Texas and all I could see was wind turbines as far as the eye could see to the horizon.
Because Google wants you to use their services (and see their ads).

Google’s goal with Android is to prevent losing control over mobile platforms. Imagine a world in which Apple and Microsoft are the only two mobile OS vendors and then both decide to make the default search engine in their browsers Bing or something. Google wants to prevent that.

At the moment there is about zero danger of Apple gaining any kind of significant control over mobile platforms that would allow them to do anything like that. It’s not going to happen – and there isn’t even any indication that Apple wants to make it happen. (Even if it were to happen it’s easy enough for Google to pull all their apps.)

Maybe Google’s Android division also has plans to more directly make some money with Android, but I doubt it. Even if they had, though, I doubt that is in any sense a company-wide policy. Their goal is to get the most users to use their services. The maps people want everyone to use their maps, no matter which device they own. If it is possible to easily grab a few million users on Apple devices Google will obviously jump for that.
I think you're arguing at cross-purposes. You are quite right in relation to crime or vandalism by a member of US society carried out for mere profit or malice. But consider the more troubling case of terrorism or similar organized attack. If one can disrupt cellular communications on a large scale parallel to an attack on physical infrastructure (eg a bomb or...), the immediate and economic damage could be significantly multiplied. Likewise, consider temporary but coordinated outages in 10 or 20 major metros. It would be difficult to catch the perpetrators but would impose considerable economic costs.
This is being worked on, but I don't know the details.

However, for just spending coin, it's easier to use a hosted wallet like coinbase.com (a YC company).

You don't need to run an actual bitcoin node yourself unless you're doing something beyond just using bitcoin for spending. (e.g. holding large sums for long periods of time, mining, building some service, etc.)
I know several groups who got in YC and asked for reimbursement for their travel. YC wouldn't offer it if it biased them in any way. They are sort of the "gold standard" in incubators.
I remember hearing that this is basically the way it works in management. The higher you go the more general your position becomes.

CEO

President

Vice President of ___

Director of ____ _____

Coordinator of ____ and _____
Muhuhahaha (evil laugh), and my parents thought I was crazy when I told them there was a new digital currency you kept in files, that had no inflation, was (almost) completely anonymous, and - get this - that it was real and traded on actual markets. When I started talking about Bitcoin mining, that was when they seriously thought I was going off the deep end. And really, most non-tech-savvy people would think the idea was crazy.

Crazy enough that it's genius.

I smile a little every time I see "Bitcoin Now Accepted Here". I personally don't use them, but the ideology behind the currency is fascinating and remarkable. Not to mention the credibility WordPress gives it (and hopefully soon, Reddit...).
If you're curious about why he, or anyone else, is interested then fair enough - however given he makes it clear that all information submitted is available for anyone to view, I don't think there's any need for him to explain why he wants "personal info", clearly he only wants it if you are happy for it to be public information.
Do you think there have been changes to the interview process?
A distributed queue for servicing many small jobs
No matter what the message will be I am already working on the project to finish the prototype till the end of the month.

I believe YC is an awesome opportunity and even I we'll be rejected the project will be launched.

Good luck everyone to get to the ready prototype and go on to the big things from it ;)
I'd like to know as well. And for that matter, is there any interesting material out there that talks about Bitcoin?
Ah, I misunderstood your comment - my apologies. I thought you were making a snide remark about the "sign language" part of the communication doc. I guess if I shouldn't leap to accuse people of leaping to accuse people of things! Sorry :(
I see the fact that you don't ever hear of people doing this, or chucking things into substations or off roadbridges and so on, as the ultimate evidence that international terrorist networks, to a first approximation, do not exist.

If there really were highly organised terrorists everywhere plotting against us, wreaking substantial havoc across society would be pretty easy for them. The actual attacks that do occasionally happen are more in line with politically irrelevant rogue lunatics, placing grandiosity over efficacy.
i think the problem / missing context / explanation is that they currently have a very strong, shared culture. in many ways that is a good thing, and something that this document is trying (perhaps unconsciously) to preserve.

all your (completely valid) issues examples are cases where someone drifts outside the assumed common culture (and i agree that is also when you most want a handbook).

apart from "emergent issues", this also runs the risk of being exclusionary. if you don't feel like "one of the gang" then a handbook like this is going to make you less likely to join the company. from a small-scale, short-term viewpoint that might seem like a good thing. but in the longer term i am not sure it is so healthy.

[from personal experience, as someone who was raised in one culture, lives in another, and typically works with people from a third, i find things like holiday "quotas" extremely useful information in guiding how i should behave and / or whether i should be working there...]

hmmm. and if they really did try to understand and write down some description of their culture, and failed, it suggests that they're not so great at getting a handle on who they are, or what they are doing, or at negotiating between themselves to find common ground. which all seem like important skills.
love the creativity. looks like it paid off
Engineyard-local is built on top of Vagrant. The goal is to provide an easy to use Engine Yard instance hosted in a VirtualBox VM. It uses the same OS, the same packages, and the same cookbooks for configuration that an Engine Yard Cloud instance does.
nuts. but thanks.
YouTube is not the service provider when the video is accessed as an integrated part of the OP's website. That YouTube take action against infringement doesn't mean that you're not infringing by embedding copyright content available there on your own site (particularly as it's commercial).

http://www.out-law.com/page-7235, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/29/guitar_sites_under_f... give details of take downs, a few years ago, around the provision of guitar tabs. Note that the MPA moved the next year to make specific provision for licensing of guitar tabs, http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/04/legal-guitar-tabs....

I suspect Capo, http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/Capo/, operates the way it appears to because they can circumvent many things (that copyright in the music or production of the tracks would restrict) by using the users purchased tracks as the source for the information.

Soundslice looks awesome but if they've not yet consulted with copyright experts then I fear they may be looking at a lawsuit imminently.

Choosing Yesterday [which is beautifully played] as one of the example tracks was pretty ballsy. FWIW the YouTube video links to Bandcamp where an album of covers are available - Bandcamp are obviously aware of this sort of issue, they can't sell unlicensed covers lawfully. Bandcamp T&C (http://bandcamp.com/faq#mixtape) specifically rule out the use of their service for covers. $0.091 is the current fee per digital play of the track (audio only), sync fees can be more or less; see eg Limelight or HFA or BMI.

http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2012/03/on-posting-cover-songs... covers the licensing requirements quite well.
Nope, but I fully expect a rejection letter :D
People who have $100/year to drop on facebook are also people with enough disposable income to be worth advertising to.