skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh... I just had one other brief idea. Executives are always looking for better ways to network, so one potential option to try would be grabbing their attention where they're already networking. Take notice of any events in your area and talk to the production team about setting up a booth.
I somehow missed the header saying you work at LivingSocial…

Out of curiosity: are there any developers in the Santa Monica office, or is it just sales? I'm in the same building.
I hope this, or something like it, takes off: http://www.hostmygig.com. It's a sad thing to see great unknown bands not be able to fill a tour or find the right venues. Look forward to seeing how they get the word out.

Oh and a request? I sign up for the betas of a lot of these out of interest, to see if anything looks like it will take off. I am constantly getting notifications and updates, which is fine, but without mentioning what your service is - don't make me go to your website to remind myself what you do and find out if I want to stay subscribed: please just put a quick paragraph in your email footer.
Hey Nicholas, thanks so much for writing this up again! Really kind of you.

Good point about the FB stuff - we did have the option to browse, but that seems to have been missed in the latest update.

The SEO suggestion is spot on. It's something we've perhaps lost sight of a little in the throws of building the site, but in hindsight, it's something we should have been building in right from the beginning. Discrete geographic sections, as you suggest, could be great for this.

The social 'flow' too is something that's important which isn't fully developed yet. I agree with every post you should have the option to auto-tweet / post, in fact the app should lead you through this process & make it feel rewarding too.

The sharing buttons we have in there right now are (as I think you said in your original post) admittedly a bit half-baked - so also a great place to improve :)

In terms of community, it's a slow burn. We've been reaching out to a few local communities for whom Yoink really makes 'sense' - i.e. Burning Man, Freegans and Disaffected Freecyclers but as much as they've provided incredibly positive feedback, there's still a lot of friction to getting things listed. It's amazing how easy it is for someone to say they like something, but then the next step - taking an action - is immensely harder. Whilst some could see this as discouraging, we rather are trying to find out what the real 'mechanic' is for people who'd want to post. Ultimately I guess whatever we do it largely comes down to a lot of grunt work, which slowly builds inventory & traction.

I'll have more of a think about online communities, and potential ad partners.

Flyering has afforded limited success so far, Of ~500 flyers handed out to people, we calculated around 60 visits, 10 signups, 1 post.. So it doesn't seem to be the most efficient system just yet :) I wonder how effective it actually is.. if you think to yourself how many times have you ever taken a flyer and taken action...?

But a few interesting things to think about for sure! Really appreciate you taking the time to write this up again!
I don't know for sure but my feeling is that showing that you're the type of founders that will make things happen is much more important than having a stellar background.

Many YC founders are very young and don't have a killer background yet they can show that they have what it takes to succeed as entrepreneurs.

I know that we didn't have an amazing background and still made it in :)
In radio transmission there is no substitute for power, both on the jamming side as well as on the side that wants to get their message through.

20 dB is a big deal because it would make the jammer a lot harder to locate, especially if it times its interruption well and can get away with extremely short bursts of activity followed by relatively long periods of silence.

Other tricks of the trade: jam from multiple locations with short bursts, slap the jammer right under the nose of the receiver that you want to jam (that way you need a minimal signal and are almost impossible to detect at range until you're right up to it).

This is the way TV pirates in Amsterdam would broadcast their signals in the 80's to the receiving dishes on Hotel Okura. They were so low power and right up close to the dishes that they could push legitimate broadcasts (mostly German TV) right out of their slot. KTA (the then monopolist on Cable TV in Amsterdam) had the un-enviable task to come up with a solution and finally settled on a system where if one antenna was flooded with a rogue signal they would switch to antennae mounted on a chimney of the electricity plant on the other side of the city (Amsterdam had very little high buildings).

Of course, pirate TV stations found out about this quickly enough and located another transmitter near there and so on.

I have all this info from hearsay, cough.
I'm curious what it is about Elon Musk in particular you consider to be "off kilter".
Google wants to be a wireless carrier, held negotiations with Dish
For those just joining us, this is what's called an "obscenity" or "moral atrocity". Please keep this in mind when reading comments praising this inculcation technique.
They send you a message and you can edit it?
http://fitsby.com/, awesome!
> powerline + chain idea

The US military got this: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/blu-114.htm. Carbon fiber instead of the chain, but same principle.
"Monetary policy" and "ideology" are two distinct and separate concepts.

I'm not even sure I would be in favor of labelling bitcoin as having a "monetary policy." Monetary policy describes governmental policy-making. The rules of the bitcon protocol are also unlike "policy" in that they can never change.

I know I'm nit picking, but I think that it's really important to keep concepts clear and crisp. (There's a bit of ideology for you!)
I wouldn't put Elon Musk in that list. I think you're mixing up two distinct types of people there. There's a difference between a person having an unconventional idea, e.g. for a business, and an unconventional theory, which they claim has a sound scientific basis. These unconventional theories are often stated with an unjustifiable certainty by people like Kurzweil and I think that's what irritates people.
Translating pitch to a playable guitar tab would even more difficult than the pitch detection. Unlike the piano, the same note can be played in multiple places on the guitar neck. Auto-generating guitar tablature would require not only pitch detection, but some kind of logic that would pick the most appropriate string/fret depending on the surrounding notes/chords.
Or "Partner" in law.
It redirects me to https://www.spotify.com/us/start/?ref=play.spotify.com

Edit: But, that doesn't mean you're wrong - http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/15/3649068/spotify-browser-p...
moultano: my comment was not meant to be cynical; I'm sorry if it came across that way. In hindsight, I could and probably should have worded it differently.

My main point: this is not an isolated incident of FaceBook pushing the boundaries of what's considered acceptable by users to make money; there have been other such incidents in the past. Given the history, should we really be surprised?
I think this Udemy course, called HypeBomb, could help shine some light on Growth Hacking - http://www.udemy.com/hypebomb-growth-hacking-for-startups/?c...
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If you give 50 engineers the task to come up with ideas for breaking a countries infrastructure on a budget I'm pretty sure 45 of them will go for the electricity plants and will look for the most vulnerable place to cause a dead short in a high voltage circuit. There aren't that many of them, they're our Achilles heel. I'm not at all surprised that the military has taken this idea into their arsenal.
It's not stupid - the difference between uncertainty and superposition is subtle. Let's simplify to the case of one pen.

Say the pen is spun in the box by a classical random number generator. You don't know which way the pen is spinning, but you do know that it's either been spun one way or the other. You might say that the probability of finding it spinning clockwise when you open the box is 1/2.

Now say the pen is prepared in a superposition of the two spin states, again in the box. As before, we might say that the probability of discovering the pen spinning clockwise is 1/2. However, this time we the probability isn't generated by our lack of knowledge: we know exactly what state then pen is in. When we open the box, however, the pen will change instantly to the state of spinning clockwise, or the state of spinning anti-clockwise.

In the quantum case, the probability is an expression of what we think will happen to the pen, not what we think has happened to it.

It is hard to grasp, and harder still to believe. There is, however, good reason for thinking that, sometimes, the pen changed just as we opened the box.
I think the key is to understand what should be considered part of our "critical infrastructure" and ensure that is reliable.

For example, when I was managing the IT organization for our company, despite the fact that everyone in the office has a cell phone, and despite the fact that they also have a VOIP phone (Polycom Soundpoint IP 501 SIP), that is driven of of POE connections, and we have a generator with 36 hours of diesel supplying the routers/switches that supply those phone - Every conference room had a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Systems) analog phone line that was cross-connected with a piece of copper at our punch-down block, directly to the 300 pair coming into our MPOE - no active electronics (on site) required. Those land lines are the critical infrastructure, that need to be defended (along with COs backing them up).

If someone comes up with a good (cheap) attack against them, that will get my attention.

I guess another way of approaching this is, if Police/Fire/Medical organization start relying on LTE systems, and those LTE systems become a critical part of our infrastructure for economic/infrastructure/life safety systems, then yes, we need to start focussing on hardening them.

This is my way of saying yes, when we wargame this out, we should consider "What happens if there is an extended LTE outage during a disaster, does this impact our first responders significantly? And if so, we need to take steps to protect ourselves there."

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.

And that's another point - let's not spend large sums of money trying to harden the LTE system (though, reasonable investment makes sense, so the research presented is good) - but instead, let's direct those resources to tracking (and stopping) the bad guys that would do this sort of thing in the first place. That, then, protects us from all of their attacks, not just the LTE wireless system.
Now who wants to start a fantasy YC W13 pool?
That has to be a joke. No one seriously would use the tagline "A social network for chicks."

[edit] Looks like people are just having fun. Look at the "ShareBNB" (boxers and briefs one). Even if serious, that's a very limited audience and CL can take care of that audience already. I think many are just decoys.
Please note that he's probably the least off kilter and by far the most rational/works more from first principles than analogy of the bunch.

He quit a PhD in physics at Stanford to go chase the internet with ~$2K in his bank account. He then invested the $20 million (all in) he got from Zip2 straight back into X.com which later became PayPal through what can only be described as a series of random accidents that lead to its eBay sale. That's insane risk for someone who essentially had fuck you money.

He then subsequently plowed the $300 or so million from the sale of PayPal to eBay, and pushed it directly into both SpaceX and Tesla - well before NASA or the world really had any need for either one of them - there was no guarantee that NASA would need SpaceX, or that COTS would continue to have government support (SpaceX bootstrapped on these contracts), or that any launch vendor would go with him over proven tech.

And with Tesla, there was no guarantee that laptops/smartphones/tablets would explode from 2005-2010, driving down the cost of Li-on batteries by an order of magnitude as South Asia's factories came online with their economies of scale, hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of billions in surplus capital that all combined to help make electric cars and an upstart car company price competitive with established luxury car brands.

There can be no doubt about it - Elon Musk takes huge risks, he is very lucky, and these are not the actions of a normal person. Normal people do not do these things - the risks he took were abominations on a risk adjusted scale (if the recession continued to decimate the economy and kill demand for veblen goods and SpaceX didn't get that 4th launch - Musk would be done - as in out of money and out of luck).

Which reminds me - the best investors are mentally damaged in some way, especially in terms of emotion (a distinct lack of empathy and emotion).

Because, if they weren't, well, they'd do what everyone else did, and be just like them.

To be contrarian, is to be damaged.

This does not mean that any of the people are mentally damaged - I merely found the studies on the relative percentages of functional psychopaths in leadership and investing positions highly curious (http://sgforums.com/forums/2092/topics/154210).
It's cool, but it's got some usability issues for "playing along" unless you already know the chords, etc. The 1/2 time was also pretty choppy for me.

Rocksmith [1], which can be described as Guitar Hero for real guitars and basses, does a pretty nice job with the UI, difficulty levels and such. It would be cool to see a more open version of Rocksmith where you could load up tabs/songs on demand.

For reference, I wouldn't pay for Soundslice, but I have already shelled out $100+ on Rocksmith (Game, Bass expansion, songs, cords, guitars, etc) and am willing to shell out more (Ex: A Rush Pack just came out I believe.)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k...
Is it too late to apply with that idea?
kivy ? http://kivy.org/#home
There are some tax issues with receiving money from certain foreign countries ("terrorist" nations or "israel boycott" nations) that limits tax attributes related to income received from such nations, so you get taxed on such income but generally are limited in your ability to deduct expenses related to such income.

Legally, there are some export laws that may apply, but those depend on the good or service being exchanged.
The interesting thing about Lytro is not so much it's current offering, but the potential the technology unlocks.
Looping is in there already, i believe.
Did you click the link? It seems real...
YC guys like .59 as I see ))

little imperfections make this life interesting
And is also a logical fallacy.
> I guess, yes: if you aren't going to use Facebook for three years, maybe you should disable your account before you leave.

What? Why would you have to disable your account to not have facebook send out notifications on your behalf?

> Regardless, you certainly have had many years now to understand and deactivate this feature

How could you understand this "feature" (bug), if it only shows up in other people's streams?
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Sailor Planning To Sail Around The World In A 10-Foot Boat
if it's not, at least they got three schmucks talking about it
> You can put a stop to all of this by deleting your Facebook account.

How is this any different than deleting all of your email accounts and acting like that IS the solution to spam?
Will be a rejection letter?
You kinda lost me a little at Kurzweil's diets (which are okay, regardless of whether or not they confer "immortality"), but you irrevocably lost me at Elon Musk. You might have strong opinions, but you have no idea what you're talking about.
Rapiscan accused of faking privacy tests for airport scanners
You don't have to prove anything; that is the job of the prosecuting agency.
A Single, Severed Cable Cut Contact Between Russia and Its Satellites
So his conclusion is we have to have more of a Big Brother state, to track our whereabouts at every moment, with the assurance that this will help assert & protect our identity?

Give me a break...
I've been using blockchain.info for the past week and love it, the Android app is great, the wallet is encrypted client-side, it backs up to Dropbox, it's just great.
It depends how deep an understanding you want. You don't need a degree in Physics, but if you want anything more than a superficial idea then you do need degree-level knowledge of the necessary maths and physics.
Native apps in HTML/CSS/JS, now if someone could just convince google, ms, and apple this is a good idea and that the W3C specs are good and vendor prefixes bad, my day would be perfect. I must say though I'm exited about this project and the simulator is a great addition. It makes me wonder though, anyone think we'll ever see that coffeemachine written in js instead of c?
Good analysis. :)

As history would have it, one (or many people) shouting at the top of their lungs about the future does not have a huge impact on the future typically. He has a lot of interesting theories, and plenty of uninteresting or outright dubious ones (I suspect he is accelerating his own death with his over-the-top vitamin consumption). The people who make history are the ones who make it, not speculate about the future. Be wary of anyone who charges $25,000 an hour to make speeches - the line between oracle and scam artist is pretty thin these days.
Which direction you consider Microsoft is taking?

Personally, all I see them doing is the same thing they have been doing for 2 decades: milk their legacy cow. I don't really see big changes in direction. They have Windows Phone? Yes, but that's hardly new, they had Windows Mobile and CE for ages. Windows Surface? Sure, but again, not new, they are just catching up with the market.

The most innovative thing I've seen Microsoft release was the XBox - and even then, it was the next logical step after predicting the death of PC gaming. They released it to keep their DirectX/.NET lock-in.
This is crazy. Which is easier to get away with? Arson, or a suitcase dropped off somewhere jamming an entire city?
Water and fuel supply lines as well along with transportation infrastructure.
Perhaps. That is always a distinct possibility. I cannot preclude the possibility that I have no idea what I'm talking about and as per the Dunning-Kruger effect, I might not be aware of how little I know.

However, it should be known - I'm long TSLA and have been since the IPO - so don't think I don't know anything. I also know Musk's background inside and out (due diligence and all).

But why do you know who Elon Musk is? Because he succeeded. Let's say he didn't. Now do you think what you do now?

What if the GFC had continued into a depression - who'd buy a an unproven, $5K reserve priced Model S (a veblen good) during a recession, with falling gas prices? He'd be out of capital within the year without cap-ex funds from Panasonic, Toyota, Daimler and the public markets to lever up and be set to produce 20K cars next year (~$1 billion in revenue).

What if the 4th Falcon launch failed and Musk ran out of cash (COTS pays only after hitting each milestone)?

What then huh? You must always look at the probabilistic alternatives, because confirmation bias and the survival bias will fuck your thinking up.

By the way - I do have strong opinions. But I hold them weakly.

I am liable to change them at any moment based upon empirical evidence.
Apple is trading at under 12 times earnings right now. Still seems like a pretty reasonable buy to me. There is almost always a bottom in sight unless a company just reeks of failure.
I'm pretty sure you just got trolled - their website is a 404.
Human Ancestors Made Deadly Stone-Tipped Spears 500,000 Years Ago
Who should be fired for the Microsoft Surface?
I thought Knockout and Backbone were two implementations fixing the same problem. Can you expand?
This stuff looks a bit like the "Megaphone desktop tool" of some years ago.
He didn't even mention one of the other facts that lots of people are using their technology, the fact that C# is growing in popularity, which is why windows servers are purchased. Windows servers aren't purchased because someone wants exchange. The developers for a new company choose to use C# for development, then naturally want everything to be of one OS. Then they hire Microsoft IT personnel who install Exchange. He also says if you don't use Office you don't need Exchange. Who the hell uses Exchange because you're using Office? No idea what this guy is talking about. He also doesn't talk about other gigantic money makers, like Microsoft SharePoint.
I'm not sure what you wanted to say either but two things are notable about your comment: 1. you broaden the context to include the entire history of the Israeli-Arab conflict, 2. you make no distinction between military and civilian casualties.

Between 1860 and 2010 there were a reported (by Israel) 3,971 Israeli civilian casualties of terrorist attacks.[1]

Between 2000 and 2012 there were a reported (by Israel) 3,034-3,726 Palestinian non-combatant civilian casualties of IDF operations.[2]

Obviously, tank battles in Sinai are not going to produce the same casualty rates as wars of attrition fought at street level in densely populated cities. Air strikes on Gaza (10,000 people / km2) are precisely on the same order of devastation though. The broader you make the context, the more you mask that fact.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_casualties_of_war

[2] http://old.btselem.org/statistics/english/Casualties.asp
No, I've already related that particular trick on several occasions to various people. I even remember the very first time I talked about it with a guy named Nick (who worked for me at the time) while walking in Toronto, we came across a utility plant (basically nothing but a very large transformer) on the edge of downtown that was so exposed that I thought it was unsafe and remarked how easy it would be to throw some chain over the wires.

The station wasn't particularly big and I'm not sure how much damage such a move would have made but I still felt quite weird given that there ought to be at least a fair sized fence around an installation like that if only for safety.

Low $ sabotage is an interesting subject, it shows well how asymmetry works to the advantage of an attacker, not unlike how our computer security is arranged for. Attackers only need to get through once, defenders have to succeed all the time.

You by yourself could undo the work of many more people of a similar skill level. It's quite sobering to realize just how fragile all this stuff is.
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Supply a web feed to remotely control sniper robots and you can eat you popcorn and snipe Palestinian kids and get badges for it. Go all the way, right, was is about winning after all...
The Self-Taught Developer's Guide to Getting Paid
Uh. They released tablets with multi touch before apple did, just no one cared, ha ha.
I see - superposition and uncertainty are distinct concepts that should be thought of differently.
Yes, i have a Bachelor in CS, and YES it helped, gave me the foundations. I also have post degree courses and certifications that validates the experience and expertise acquired.
There's an article about it here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2014144/spotify-tests-a-web-a...
Today is a perfect day for spam marketers to reach us.

I have read every single email very carefully today.
Yes, that one is fake. I had to check though.
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