skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments are more likely to use something like this. For example to block an area (protestors) to communicate from outside. Share photos or videos that might damaging, etc.
I don't think so. At least for me the plane ticket is way over $600 (and I'm willing to spend a lot more just to be interviewed by these people)
Currently looks like the largest platform for shared workspaces is ShareDesk http://www.sharedesk.net/

It says they have over 950 priorities and they have a very impressive UI.
Incredible work Adrian. +1 across the board.
Here, learn why so you can form an informed opinion. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/04/why-mi...

IE10 and Windows 8 are even stronger on the security points. Think of PC security as somewhat akin to vaccination. It only works for everyone when enough people are immunized. Herd immunity, it's called. Your sticking with objectively less secure browsers on objectively less secure platforms hurts us all. It's not something Microsoft should be encouraging, not just from a business or marketing standpoint, but a moral one as well.

Oh, and IE10 is objectively faster than Firefox too, thanks to the integration with DirectX 10 which is already compositing everything else on the screen in Windows 7 and 8.
Have you tried guitar pro? It doesn't have any video component, but as far as tab software goes, this isn't even comparable.

but as far as html5 tools for guitar tabs goes, this is certainly a huge step forward.
The US military has a longer history with video games then that. www.americasarmy.com
Very, very pretty little scroller!

That said, the content is quite a bit of fluff with not much substance. What I got from this: we all think Zaarly is really cool. We don't care what you wear. We have nice chairs. Have fun!

This wouldn't help an incoming employee onboard any faster, or easier, which is the point of a handbook, no?

It'd be nice to see a "your first day" walkthrough.

Oh, and there'd better be a _real_ policy behind this doc, as they're going to be highly susceptible to lawsuits from their first few terminations.

For an excellent new employee handbook, see Valve: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
Any HNers at the Techiepalooza in Scottsdale, AZ tonight?
Email in profile, let's meet up
Awesome!

I'm sure someone else has already said it elsewhere in the comments, but I find myself wanting to share the different demos with people and I'm sure it would improve the viral coefficient. Toss some share buttons on there, perhaps?

In any case, I'm going to take this for a spin next time I sit down with my guitar. Nicely done!
The github link is https://github.com/unconed/MathBox.js

As a math/visualization geek I'm smitten by this.

Loved this quote:

"I wasn't 100% sure whether other people would have the same a-ha moments that I've had, but I'm convinced more than ever that seeing math in motion is essential for honing our intuition about it. MathBox not only makes animated diagrams much easier to make and share, but it also opens the door to making them interactive in the future."

It's stuff like this that makes me pine for better WebGL support across the board.
I think they already have a hybrid Elance/Monster site to perform this- Elance. Once you have a rapport established with a contractor, there's nothing keeping you from sending them a job offer.
Right? Jquery DOM mess < Backbone < Angular.
The game has been up on the IDF website since July.
stopped listening when he said NC. NC already has two damn gerrymandered democratic districts, it doesn't need to gerrymander any more.
That's a non issue. At the end of the interview, you go out in the main room, and will go and see their finance person to ask her to reimburse you, no question asked (bring a copy of your tickets in case she asks to see them, but I don't remember she did). You will get the answer later, and decision making is independent.
From one guitarist to another, this is absolutely amazing. It would be great if numbers would scale down when zooming out—otherwise they overlap one another.
Dude this rules awesome job!

Only issue for me is that even in 1/2 speed its moving to fast for my eyes to focus on the numbers. So what I need is to have the lines separated like musical notation so that I can look down and read ahead and see the next line coming, without the numbers moving, so my eyes can focus.

Pretty much everyone that reads music/tabs reads ahead of where they are actually playing its probably something you do subconsciously without realizing it but being unable to do so makes reading tabs much harder.

Other then that this is really really cool!
OR... just spend ~$1000 and get 3070 cores of what you really need (FLOPS)

How?

The latest and greatest Nvidia card at your favorite retailer.
Recommendation: Release it as a beta/working product and tell them they are the privileged few to get it and that their usage and feedback will decide the future of this product that might somebody make millions of dollars.

People like to feel important and people like to support that seem to have a potential to rise.

Anyway, spread it selectively among golfers like this till you have around 200 users. By far the best people to try and approach for you might be either the gold course managers or better still, get the caddy's who work there your app and tell them that they can give it out to only 5 people etc. They will slowly build up your user base with their excitement of the product (if they are excited and it's relevant to them). These people, due to our age, experience and optimism will take this as a privilege and will be able to to talk passionately about it. That's exactly the behavior you want from your first 100 users. Also, watch what your users do very carefully and take the time out to talk to them. No shortcuts.
a Phi is not quite as you imagine it, it's more like a single machine with 60/61 cores (when you cat /proc/cpuinfo, there are 60/61 entries).

the main optimisation techniques for GPUs aren't difficult to grasp (in my opinion), although not all classes of problem are suited to execution on GPU.
Would Bitcoin be considered another currency to stand alongside the USD and the CAD?
consumer kepler boards have no double precision hardware, in this case a Phi would destroy it.
I'm not following this thread; Are you suggesting that him sharing tabs isn't subject to copyright? Tabs sharing websites have to pay royalties, and have had to for several years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablature#Legal_issues
Or for that matter, kilometres per litre.
There is actually some merit to the notion that this is one of the <least> violent times in Human History. But I wouldn't trust that intuition very far. The world is becoming a much more dangerous place as we speak. But for comparison, The US has been at war for 12 years, with under 5K combat deaths including the invasion of IRAQ and what-ever-u-want-to-call mess in Afghanistan. Thats comparable in order of magnitude the civillian deaths of the single day 9/11 in the US.[2]

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
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I can see the benefit of having a single codebase, but how would this fare against the likes of Unity, where the optimal backend is used for each platform?
Blanket cynicism doesn't add anything to the discussion.
It's an opt-in list of companies that applied to YC for the winter 2013 class and still a work in progress.

Edit for the prepositionally focused: It's so HNers and other applicants can check out some of the other companies that applied.
That's a fairly narrow part of the story as there was also ~85% inflation between 1914 and 1942. Due to significant deflation in the 1930's.
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I could also see this handbook being used against them in the case of harassment, discrimination or wrongful termination suits.
Yeah that's out of date. Even Flash is allowed now.
YC 13 emails?
Has anyone gotten an email from YC about getting admitted or not? I've been waiting all day to hear something & nothing so far. Just wondering if other people had gotten anything yet?
Speaking from Experience, the Partners interviewing you probably won't even know which of the interviewees did or did not accept checks. Kirsty issues them as you ask before or after you interview and it is very casual.

I certainly don't think they would hold it against you even if they knew. They're good people and don't expect you to do anything for free
Because future armies will be soldierless, only innocent citizens will die in wars. Right?

This article is about gamification of image of war, it is not about gamification of process of war. Imagine future where army is profitable by selling rights for TV translation of war.
I've been working with this engine for some time and it really shows that these game industry veterans know what they are doing. It's a delight to use!
Sorry for the bug! We're considering to release a offline version which don't need to create an account. Thanks for feedback!
I see your transmitter, and I raise you three equally cheap receivers and a machete.
But you'll have to start running pretty fast, as it is very easy to pinpoint the exact location of the sender/jammer. This is also true for any network, not just LTE. WiFi, GSM, HDSPA, etc. Many military vehicles have jammers like this to block mobile connectivity in order to prevent IEDs.
It wasn't wrong but the changes are somewhat subtle.

Previously Apple disallowed using languages other than Objective-C and JavaScript.

Now they allow you to use any language you can get to compile on the device (some languages have issues because you technically can't do JITing on the iOS device, the OS stops you from self-modifying code) but you aren't allowed to run code that was downloaded at runtime.

Example: You can embed a Lua interpreter into your app to run Lua scripts, but the scripts you execute have to all ship with your app, you can't download them at runtime and then execute them.
Such behavior is criminal in nature. And the FCC will find you, and they will crack down on you.

"Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equipment, including devices that interfere with cellular and Personal Communication Services (PCS), police radar, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and wireless networking services (Wi-Fi)."

47 U.S.C. § 301, § 302a(b), § 333 all make it clear that this activity is illegal.

Just selling jamming devices will attract the FCC's attention. https://www.fcc.gov/document/craigslistorg-users-warned-remo...

Once you've decided to be a criminal, you don't need a $650 device to do a lot of damage. A $20 container of gasoline, or, heck, a $5 piece of chain link at the right electrical substation can cause tens of millions of dollars of damage.
Fraud issues aside, I'd be surprised if there weren't regulatory concerns, especially considering how many countries PayPal is licensed in. Currency exchange might not be covered by their money transmission and banking licenses in all regions. The U.S. federal government has shut down other "virtual currency" companies in the past as well.
If you zoom out, it's easier to see what's going on (although the numbers run together in the example given). I think a different default zoom for the demo might be helpful.
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Apple was so quick to fix it...
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This is incredible. Really interesting concept, fantastic execution. Great level of polish. You should be incredibly proud of this because it's really well done.

I love the Beatles and Yesterday is one of the few songs of theirs I just can't play. This app helped me finally get it.
Very interesting to see a major brand starting to accept Bitcoin. I guess that's a huge next step. So where are the reliable exchanges right now? Haven't really looked into BTC since the Mt Gox incident.

Also http://bitcoin.com/ looks way more accessible and polished compared to last year. What are the major obstacles for mainstream adoption?
Having had the chance to work with Challen a few times outside of going on Groupers, I can attest that she is, indeed, a phenomenal person.

But Michael's right -- there's something magical about the experience of having a combination of a crowd and an algorithm, where you get the best of scalable, automatic responses and a personal connection when you need it. It also lets Challen manage friendships with thousands of people at once. She's MySpace's Tom for the new generation.
MtGox is actually out of Japan. He is referring to the bitfloor hack which is based in the US.
Why did this get tweeted as "List of YC W13 companies"?
You made me jump out of my chair for a bit :(
Nice work on the UI. But I think what he meant with "to-do list" is that he has no control of what people can put on his inbox, and that he has to waste time reading emails before he knows what that person wants. To solve something like this you'd have to have this problem in the first place, so talking to a lot of powerful people is what I'd do in the beginning (and that's why it's a hard problem to attack IMO).

I'm thinking of taking a stab at this idea too.
Has anyone received information on their applications yet?
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Clicky the little flag. Zoom the page. Some of the font drops off the bottom of the page, and scrolling doesn't work. (Chrome, macbook pro, OSX).

On the main text. Zoom the page. Some of the text falls off the left hand side, and there's no way to read it.

I mention the sight thing because it's clearly ignoring the fact that some people cannot see; and other people cannot hear; and other people cannot talk; and other people have neurological problems. It makes assumptions about people's ability to understand visual cues.

But, if you really want to talk about the rest of the document: It assumes people are reasonable, and thus we don't need rules. But we need rules because some people are not reasonable, some people are arseholes. Clear rules give those people hints about what is acceptable, and makes it easier for you to get rid of those people if they don't become acceptable.

It feels like they've left themselves wide open to legal action. All that ambiguity is what lawyers dream of.
>My point is writing a blog post saying python is neither call-by-value nor call-by-reference is made up shit

I guess so, in the sense that all of those terms are "made up shit". But they are useful for explaining the concepts.

>The blog post didn't simplify anything for someone who doesn't already understand it. So why not stick with terminology which is used by Java, C#, C among others?

Apparently, as others have pointed out here, the term "call-by-sharing" has largely come into popular use from people explaining how Python works in user groups. That's a strong indication that it actually is a pretty effective way to help newbies understand it.
I agree, but think the issue is slightly deeper. The branding lays the sass / pass / social elements on a little too thick for my taste. I immediately get the sense that this software is limited compared to a 'hard core' game engine. I'm sure that's not the case, but the visuals seem to belie this.
You're right, we're not native English speaker. Thank you for correcting :)
Manager: "Take as much time as you want, but know that your absence would be highly disruptive to the company."
Does everyone in the team get an email? or is it just the one who submitted the application?
This is really great, I was going to post to ask for just 4 strings, but I suppose people can just reuse the bottom 4 guitar ones for bass?

Hope this takes off, really well done!
Seriously, if you have an entire continent at your disposal, running an economy is easy.

Which is why Australia has such a remarkably stable economy, right? Oh, wait... http://www.abc.net.au/news/linkableblob/3873450/thumbnail/je...

See http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3872646.html for context, and in particular the bit about "mad boom and bust cycles".
yes, life is an exercise in discretion
This must have made a wonderful internal bug report in Apple.

Perhaps a profanity filter lurking where it didn't belong?
Congratulations to Josh, Jon and the Torbit crew, impressive set of customers. Love the Slideshare embedded in the article.
I'd much rather buy the app for the iPhone than pay a monthly subscription.
I think you miss the point. Such a critical system should not be so fragile that pretty much anyone can disable it, one would hope.
Petraeus downfall illustrates scope of feds' e-mail snooping powers
I believe everyone does.
Like the easier room creation and code highlighting. Seems to work really well. Private messages and privates rooms would be great. Also interfacing with IRC would be cool.
Nice to see tent in there.
Working on our site.
Are they all getting 500 emails/day?
libGDX[1][2] (it's not an engine) is a great cross-platform Java library that allows you target the desktop (Win/Mac/Linux/etc), Android, HTML5 (through GWT), and now iOS all with the same codebase, built on standards like OpenGL ES/WebGL.

Mario Zechner (the main guy behind libGDX) wrote an excellent book[3] last year on Android gamedev that has you start from the basics up to creating your own game engine and games.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/libgdx/

[2] https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx

[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430230428/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
> this handbook being used against them in the case of harassment, discrimination or wrongful termination suits.

Exactly. And since courts tend to favor employees, Zaarly's corporate neck is very exposed.

Here's one example:

> Whatever it is, it’s cool.

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

All any woman has to do for a harassment lawsuit is point to that phrase in a courtroom. "They will happily invade the place where women are exposed! and it's corporate policy!"

Not the brightest idea in corporate leadership.

And another thing: Suppose they wise up and actually get a real company handbook. All any woman has to do is bring out this version and describe that "Zaarly has a well-documented history of harassment against women."

Edit: s/discrimination/harassment
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You need to realize what military victory is first. It is the annihilation of the old and the creation of the new. You destroy what you don't like and you create what you do like.

In WWII, we weren't terrible fans of fascism. It was annihilated and replaced with Western-style democratic cultural norms and institutions. In the case of Eastern Germany, Poland, etc. it was communism.

Regardless, there was never any debate that fascism had to go and what had to be put in place. And there was never any doubt that this must be done with force.

Today, the idea of forcing a political system and a way of life onto an occupied territory is unthinkable. As a consequence, victory is not achievable.

> How would you suggest achieving your 'overwhelming military victory' in Afghanistan, or Iraq?

By a sustained and overwhelming effort to turn the cultures of those regions toward American values.

Skip the bombing and the incursions. I would bomb them with DVDs of the Jersey Shore instead.

Look up Ataturk for effective strategies of modernizing large tracts of Muslim populations.
No - I totally get the point. But, if you are going to engage in criminal activity, the bar to your destructive behavior isn't a $650 transmitter. It's a $20 containers of gasoline.

If you want to hurt people, it's pretty much impossible to stop you from doing so (or even slowing you down) - all we can do is catch you, and put you in prison after you do so so that you can't hurt more people.

I'm not suggesting we ignore security (I like SSL, and passwords on my accounts) - but we can't create a world where everyone has to treat the populace as though they are intent on creating destruction. This is the mindset of the TSA and "Search everyone, because any one of them might be carrying a bomb." At a certain point, we have to trust that the vast, vast majority of people are good.

And, in the whole scope of things, jamming an LTE radio transmission system has pretty big penalties, and very little financial payoff, and a pretty good chance of being caught. It's one of those asymmetric criminal activities that is balanced in favor of society, and against the criminal.

Where you want to put your attention in enhancing defenses, is places where there is a strong incentive to commit the crime, and less chance of being caught. Guarding against petty thieves, lots of safeguards/fraud alerts around things like credit cards, or your paypal account. That's where attention needs to be spent.

You know where it's important to spend a lot of money on counter-jamming? Life Safety systems like Nuclear Power Plants, or Plane/Car navigation systems. Where lives are on the line, I totally agree that we need to harden, harden, harden those systems. Also, SCADA systems - that control large amounts of underlying infrastructure. And the Stock Exchange. Spend a fortune on ensuring that the bad guys can't cause havoc, kill people, or create large economic damage.

Perhaps your LTE/Cellular coverage is better than mine, but I'm pretty used to having to track down a WiFi connection to get any serious work done, or make a reliable Skype call. I don't put LTE coverage in the "Mission Critical" category of infrastructure.

Also, if you are in a situation (Prison, battlefield) where the vast majority of your opponents are intent on doing you harm, you also harden the crap out of everything. And pay the price - because you need to.

But, all else equal, I'd rather have the money/resources that might have gone into putting MILSPEC anti-jamming capabilities into my LTE NIC, instead be spent on making it cost less, draw less battery, and give me more bandwidth.

Let the FCC catch the 3-5 jammers at year intent on doing harm, and put them in prison to consider the wisdom of their behavior.
Sorry for the bug, we'll fix it soon! Thank you :)
Nope, haven't heard anything yet. They might just be delayed trying to catch up as more people submit.
Not necessarily true. It's not through reply, but instead compose. And theoretically you could bind to all the trigger events, but you may miss some, and there's a lot of bindings...

You can click on the big compose button in the top right. You can use one of the two keyboard shortcuts, you click click on an email address in an email, you can click on the email icon in the little contact card, etc.

Binding to all of those events (such as the contact card) is about as difficult, if not more so, than binding to the creation of new compose windows themselves.
Unfortunately Lawyers get paid quite a bit to make exactly those types of small things look very bad for their opponents. Another one that stands out to me is in the clothing section.

> We will never implement any sort of expectations around what you wear, but we maintain all rights to mock your future mother-in-law’s choice of clothes if you choose to wear them to the office.

A decent lawyer will turn that into the company openly supporting and even encouraging harassment.
Answered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4791596

Summary is that there are a lot more ways than clicking on the compose button to bring up a compose window.
This was enabled for me by default, and I'm certain I've never seen that page before. I created my FB page in 2008.
Thank you kind sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
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