skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this gets bigger every year. My team made it to the finals last year but there weren't any teams from Brazil or Ukraine. Paul seems to be doing a good job finding people all over the globe. I like the idea with Pond. I noticed that many ideas (even ones that didn't win) could be turned into viable businesses.

Anyone on here go both years?
1) is a question of business model. If they want to sell for less than cost, then they need to factor in that others can unlock the device, without paying, and use the device for something other than their store.

Just like they factor in that people might buy a machine and do nothing with it.

1) also has a problem in that is puts a post-sale obligation on the company. Suppose the company goes out of business; can people unlock the device? For that matter, do they have to provide telephone/email support in order to unlock, or will postal mail (with 6-8 weeks response time, to the factory in Korea) suffice?

As for 2), you rightly point out that there are reasonable concerns. The submitted proposal to the members of the German Pirate Party says "Weiterhin darf die freie Softwareinstallation nicht zu einem Verlust der Gewährleistung oder anderen Nachteilen für den Verbraucher führen" - Furthermore the installation of Free Software does not result in the loss of warranty or other disadvantages for the consumer."

Though it also has clauses which exclude "devices for industrial and safety-critical applications as well as devices where erroneous or malicious software can cause direct physical damage." Your observation fits right in the middle of those two.

I think it's not so complicated though. Do overclockers sue Intel when an overclocked chip melts? I think that excluding the use of "erroneous or malicious software" from warranty coverage is enough.
Does anyone have any good resources for Bitcoin in business?
It was that email that prompted the blog post. For the Cue team's credit, they got in touch afterwards and we exchanged a couple of emails about it.
Is that the link you meant to put? It seems to be unrelated.
Virtually every other investor makes an order of magnitude fewer investments every year.
Ops, should be fixed now - no more hardcoded HN username. Thanks for reporting.
I think the math behind YC and incubators can sometimes falsely justify an increase in the quantity of companies accepted.

If you look at each class and say, "Well, last year we had 5 breakouts out of 50. Why not increase that denominator to change the numerator?"

Unfortunately when you do this too quickly, the numerator doesn't change. It stays the same or sometimes even decreases (in my example, holds at 5).

Staying focused while growing is a very difficult thing to do.
Notably missing: any topic covering networked applications, servers, or version control.
YC has gone mainstream , highly competitive, but so are the egos of the cofounders, not everybody is willing to work straight for 12-24 months for a potential exit on the same idea
I don't follow this. How could it be more profitable for landlords to have a price ceiling?
Such a blog would be awesome, or even better a comparison site like snapsort.com. There are so many new ones coming out and so much vaporware that it's hard to keep track.

A killer dev board for me would have:

- at least 2 cores
- Linux-supported GPU, preferably with open drivers that are being actively developed
- Able to run rudimentary linux desktop powerwise)

Nice to haves:
- USB powered
- HDMI

I don't want to buy a dev board and have to add 10 different addons with cables and junk hanging around it. If a lot of this comes builtin, I'm willing to drop a larger chunk of cash.
Three little ICANN atrocities that make the ITU look good by comparison
I, on the other hand, love beer and chocolate together. Not quite as nice for breakfast as coke (soda), chocolate and a cigarette, but I ain't that young any more.
Maybe it's too much trouble to reply/type/converse on a phone, for enough people that it makes a difference.
Having a police force larger than many standing armies is a huge boon for making cities safer. Stop and frisk probably doesn't have much to do with it.
> The use of the phrase "even number, or the number zero" implies that zero is not even.

Ah, no. It implies that some gas station attendants might think that it's not. It's idiot-proofing the instructions.
Dunbar's number is the amount of social relationships an average human can have: 150.

Maybe at 84 startups the total number of founders went above 150?
Life: Saying no.

Programming: Saying no.
Quite useful for Android developers.
Regulating free speech is difficult.
An additional thought on this is that not only my own time went into games, but my competitive spirit did too. After dropping games, my hunger for being competitive and becoming more skilled did go into computer science, and my rate of improvement and excitement shot up with it.

Playing videogames, I used to have thoughts like, "It'd be cool you could level up like this in the real world to become uber powerful by just training a lot like this". It turns out you can [in our industry].

I still do enjoy videogames a bit, but not with any sorts of long term thinking with it. It acts as the chill-out activity now.
The issues are totally different. Meg is an ex board-member doing triage after a series of clusterfucks. She has to sort-out the politics and vision thing that has been left over from the previously aborted pet projects of more than one "administration". In that sense, its similar to the Yahoo situation with Marissa Mayer. What you want to see is think-fast+move slow...not more haphazard whiplash. That being said, she still may not be all that great. Time will tell. The automony thing is a complete embarassment, and she was on the board that approved it.
This is awesome! Thank you for making and sharing this! I recently launched a web app and of course users can upload profile pictures. I totally plan to implement this and allow users to take pictures from right within the app! Feel free to check it out and see your excellent work in action - https://writeapp.me (it's free).

A few minor problems, though - it kind of slows the down the browser. Like a lot. I'm using a new Macbook Air and this thing is incredibly fast and has actually never slowed down on me once (and I really abuse it). Also, it seems like the image is kind of stretched. Maybe I'm getting fat and don't realize it. But all in all, excellent work. Would you consider putting it on GitHub and allowing people to contribute? I'd be first in line!
If that's the case, one could argue that "even number, including the number zero" would be an equally idiot proof but more technically accurate phrasing.
Link to actual project on indiegogo:

http://www.indiegogo.com/popslate
Coming to America for Entrepreneurs
Let's call it canonical offside rule.
I don't see this as a problem at all. I don't know if remembering the entire body of knowledge by heart is even possible for the average human being. I like to compare learning in University and schools similar to how memory works in computers. When you are taking a course it is similar to transferring data over a slow 28 kbps modem onto the computer, the process is slow and frustrating however as the course goes on and you understand the material better it starts to percolate up to faster caches. When you write a final exam the material is in the L1 cache, you can instantaneously rattle off answers to complex problems like it's no one's business, there's a question on Red-Black Tree deletion- no problem, question about quick select - too easy! 5 years go by and you've not touched the subject in any meaningful way so of-course if someone asks you to write a Red-Black Tree or implement Quick Select you probably will not be able to do it from the top of your head. There's a cache miss as the material is no longer in the L1 cache, you have to go down to perhaps the harddrive, which involves dusting off that copy of CLRS and reviewing what all the cases of a Red-Black tree insertion and deletion are and within a couple of hours you'll be able to start implementing it. Sure it's not the same as writing the answer in 15 minutes on the exam but it's significantly faster than learning the material for the first time which would the equivalent of getting data over a network. This process works well enough, there's little that you've learned a long time ago that you can't pick up again in a relatively short amount of time.

This property of brain to forget less use facts to make room for what you use more often has been acquired over a very long period of evolution. I don't know what schools can do to make sure that the students NEVER FORGET what they learn in a class. And imo to expect that is completely unreasonable.
If you have an interested in permanent identifiers, you might also be interested the archival resource key standard https://wiki.ucop.edu/display/Curation/ARK and the EZID service http://n2t.net/ezid/ . Disclaimer, I work at the same digital library where the standard and the service are developed and maintained.
More interestingly, with WebRTC and P2P in the browser, it's really only a matter of time until they won't know who the original sender is anyways. Everyone will become a sender and these telcos worrying about too much content are right back where they were.

P2P basically nullifies the sender pays argument. If the sender pays economic model prevails and I were netflix, I would immediately invest in a netflix client that is P2P, so that I am only really paying more for less popular content and any sufficiently popular content is self-sustaining.

I'm generally all for any regulation that ends up spurring more P2P solution, but the problem we then end up with, and is a serious one, is that less popular (or simply not-yet-popular) content becomes too expense to be sustainable and we end up with less content to choose from. The long tail will either cost more or be discontinued.
I believe education should create well rounded people by exposing them to the the breadth of human achievements in the arts as well as sciences. I don't remember all the books we read in English class either, but I appreciate literature more in general having been there.

I don't particularly care about English literature or any <subject x> for the sake of building a well rounded education. The more important thing is retaining what you learned and building on that.

The real tragedy is that many educational programs emphasize the kind of rote learning you seem to want everyone to aspire to instead of critical thinking faculties which, properly instilled, will assert themselves for a lifetime.

To think memorization is bad is incredibly short sighted and stupid. Would you like to look up a book every time you do programming? No. You remember certain methods and certain part of the standard library so that you don't have to spend 10 minutes googling method x to accomplish result y.

Principles is nice and all, but what make you an efficient problem solver is because you have access to an inner world of factoids and knowledge.

Sure, memorization for the sake of memorization is useless. That's why you learn critical thinking skills that you love so much so that memorization will be useful.
Yep, alcohol was consumed a lot more often, partly because clean drinking water was so hard to get.
To get decent GC performance, you need a large space for copying, which doesn't work so well on mobile, so they probably went with a less efficient in-place collector. Its a trade off really: low memory operation or high performance even when a lot of garbage is generated (and memory isn't so expensive)?

WinRT has built in support for reference counting now (both in run-time and in its libraries); that's a big deal for mobile! Sure, the collector is still present and you can use it in C#, but...the game is changing quickly. Apple, of course, supports reference counting already, Dalvik does not as there is no easy way to bolt that onto Java (though I wouldn't be surprised if Google eventually does what MSFT did with WinRT).

Disclosure: MSFT employee and general programming languages hacker.
Doesn't it depend if an idiot wrote the instructions to start with?
No matter how many free icons get released I always love 'em. You can never have too many icons even if they're the same but just marginally different.
Life: Knowing who I really am. Like I thought I could be like every other kid on the block but I later accepted the fact that I'm just a geek with not much of a social life and I'll be acknowledged if I do what I do best

Programmimg: I wasn't offered computer science in college(my country has a bad system). Rather I was offered math. I didn't see myself good enough in math so I decided to give up on programming for a while. I later read the quote "never stop doing what you love doing best". It really told me I made a fool out of my self. Now, I'm back to the keyboard.
Best Guides Ever.
Jesus, part of why I left facebook was because I got sick of the photo dumps where someone would upload 50-100 unedited pictures of their kid's birthday party. Who could possibly want to look at all of those pictures? I can't imagine that this change is going to make anyone enjoy using Facebook more.
Cool, thanks. I actually don't use the service as of now, but I've been over some of the features. I will probably use that service or a similar one in the near future.
I can only hope to be as level-headed as you seem to be when life throws a new wrench my way. Good for you, and thanks.
An idea I had to scale beyond this number might be to use a spaced repetition system in conjunction with an email client https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Trying to build my own framework with PHP.
Indeed it would. However, Bloomberg wasn't making a mathematical proclamation, he was telling people when they could get gas after their house was demolished. This isn't even an issue.
If you walk at "going for a stroll" speed instead of "competing in the olympics" speed it's actually fine. For me, I can code or even play civ at 1.6 to 2 mph.

The only thing I've done where I was frustrated by walking at the same time was play StarCraft 2. This was just when I had one 30" monitor and was using my SteelSeries 7G. The mouse control is really hard for SC2, but I play zerg, so you can do macro cheese types of strats while walking. (I'm plat though. I think you'd get slaughtered if you tried this at diamond or higher.)
Former spy chief says U.S. has had its cyber '9/11 warning'
Slow news day over at the bbc?
I don't live in Oregon or New Jersey. What's a gas station attendant?
Are you thinking of the quote from this article? http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Teller-Reveals-Hi...

"You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest."
Frisks are enabled by Terry for the exclusive purpose of detecting weapons that would endanger officers, and are confined to explorations of the outer layers of clothing (ie, to places where weapons can easily be both detected and accessed suddenly by an assailant).

But NYC is accused of going far past the Terry authorization; the NYPD has been sued for demanding that people turn out their pockets, and for arresting people for drug possession.

If you read the general orders for a large police department (I've read Chicago's, but not NYC's), they're clear on this point: you can't reach into someone's pockets without having either consent or an arrest.

Consider that "Stop & Frisk" may be marketed as a systematic application of Terry v Ohio, but might instead be emblematic of something broader.

(It's also worth remembering that NYPD statistics are controversial; look up "CompStat". I read some Chicago police blogs and get the sense that NYPD's statistic accountability is basically loathed outside of NYC --- which doesn't make the Chicago police right!)
The refresh rates on the demo video are incredible for an e-ink screen. Is that even real? Is this some new generation e-ink screen?
Check out this interactive map of liquefaction risk. If you zoom into SF you can see that most of the skyscrapers are built in a high risk zone. Guess they figured it was ok.

http://gis.abag.ca.gov/website/liquefactionsusceptibility/
As of (IIRC) Gingerbread, you get thrown a NetworkOnMainThreadException if you're making network calls in the UI thread and haven't explicitly turned StrictMode off.

(The WinRT SDK goes a step further, there simply _aren't_ any blocking network/FS methods available. async/await makes that less painful than it would seem, though.)
The original article is very fuzzy and it isn't clear at all whether bitcoins are used in Iran (it's mostly about how bitcoins could be useful).
I read something similar in this interview:

http://www.esquire.com/features/teller-magician-interview-10...

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect"
I don't see this as a problem at all. I don't know if remembering the entire body of knowledge by heart is even possible for the average human being

It's possible, if you practice.

I don't know what schools can do to make sure that the students NEVER FORGET what they learn in a class. And imo to expect that is completely unreasonable.

You can't do this, but adults could take some time out of their days to practice what they learned. That way, they will keep retaining what they learned over decades, and the amount of practices should keep going down.

This process works well enough, there's little that you've learned a long time ago that you can't pick up again in a relatively short amount of time.

Those residual knowledge help make practicing and maintenance of our existing knowledge much easier. We could take advantage of it.

Anyway, if you want to retain everything you learned, you should take a look into spaced repetition which is a learning technique that help make knowledge maintenance an efficient process.

All that is left is our educational system to recognize that knowledge maintenance is important.
Yes really. If you have any further questions about the python language specification, you can answer them here: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/
Quite useful for most developers. The optimization process described here is applicable to many flavors of development. Very nice article OP!
Life: coming back to india to start a company

Programming: Trying to create a framework that generates code.
Many see formal education as mostly learning facts and procedures. Of course we will forget these when we don't use them often. However, I think the goal of education should be deep learning of concepts. Although we'll forget the procedures and details, when we truly learned a concept, we will always have a good idea what the concept is about, what it means, how to apply it, and, most importantly, where to go to learn more about it.

Of course, deep learning is difficult to teach and assess on a large scale, so it is easier to test for knowledge of facts and procedural skills and teach children to perform well on these kind of tests.
"Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest. My partner, Penn, and I once produced 500 live cockroaches from a top hat on the desk of talk-show host David Letterman. To prepare this took weeks. We hired an entomologist who provided slow-moving, camera-friendly cockroaches (the kind from under your stove don’t hang around for close-ups) and taught us to pick the bugs up without screaming like preadolescent girls. Then we built a secret compartment out of foam-core (one of the few materials cockroaches can’t cling to) and worked out a devious routine for sneaking the compartment into the hat. More trouble than the trick was worth? To you, probably. But not to magicians." [1]

[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Teller-Reveals-Hi...
You can still find many documentation online, a quick search on Google show a lot of results.
There is a community of developer too with some docs/tutorial. Here is an overview:
http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/documentation/Overview-W...
That statistic probably captures more than just weapons charges. It's possible that the majority of those cases were actually drug charges.
Some years back, it would have been great. But today we could just take a pic and upload via the mobile.
Why Should you Open Source?
When searching for "tonnido" in the app store, there are three results of the same app with different titles. What's that all about?

There's:

Tonido

Tonido for AppliedMicro

Tonido for Freecom
Could not agree with you more. The more advanced I become with a language, the more I like to go back to even basic docs and read the small-print fancy uses for built-ins. This article touches on a number of them, and it's tricks like this that help you write better code (when used responsibly, of course).
I'm interested too to see what happens there with TI after their decision to refocus on embedded. The Omap5 is an interesting chip as it contains a highly deterministic Cortex-m4 as well as an A15, though so far documentation is hard to find, so I'm not sure how they've tasked it, or how it's plugged into the peripherals. It's not a massive success, and the Imagination GPU is just as closed as the Mali, but its a way forward.

Lots happening.
Hmm... I was going to use wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)#Deli...) to show you why you're wrong, but then I found this:

Two recent articles in Current Directions in Psychological Science
criticize deliberate practice and argue that, while it is necessary
for reaching high levels of performance, it is not sufficient, other
factors such as talent being important as well.

So maybe the "just practice more" attitude is an oversimplification. But still, I think if you were really stupid or whatever, you wouldn't have been able to write such a good comment. The "beaten by your parents" thing makes me think of learned helplessness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Exactly. If they don't do this there will be arguments and disputes and within 24 hours they'd have to release a clarification to state the even/odd status of zero.
Looks like a mock-up to me. No way that's real.
[video] Commodore 64 Training VHS with Jim Butterfield
I don't think so, I love HN especially for the comments because a lot of smart people are voicing their opinions here. It goes to the point that comments are often more interesting than the linked article!
Yes Quora has one.. The others don't
I'm curious: what did you find were the predictors of failure? Was it a matter of focusing on problems (with the assumption that the teams with the least problems were, on balance at least, more likely to be successful)? Or did you find that there were certain counterintuitive factors that made a team likely to fail, even if they seemed solid?
It would be a taboo and Scott's character could be questioned if his wife did not agree with the disclosure. That doesn't seem to be the case.

Our social system could use more people like Scott and his (reformed) wife. To me, they look like leaders in personal development and growth, let alone relationships.
No Cocoa was not available on those platform. OpenStep was running on NeXT OS, and was available from NeXT on the Windows platform.
NeXT and Sun worked on getting OpenStep running on Solaris but Sun did drop the ball and switched direction by going with Java.
OpenStep was never available on HP-UX, only WebObjects and PDO were truly cross platform before the switch to Java. PDO=Portable Distributed Objects which was an alternative to Corba back when Corba was such a big trends.
Wow, an Internet film distribution company with an integrated "HypeMeter"!

If you want to know why Hollywood isn't very innovative, it's because this is what passes for innovation in Hollywood these days.

Here's a movie studio that actually innovated: Pixar.

See if you can spot the difference. "HypeMeter" indeed.