skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me share with you my scenario: I have spent 5 years and a considerable amount of my yearly income developing a product I think can honestly revolutionize the electronic braille reader industry for the blind. This is a multi-billion a year industry that has stagnated and seen no innovation or development in 30 years. It is in dire need of disruption, and there are hundreds of millions of people around the globe that can benefit from new technology here.

I am a "lone wolf" garage-based inventor. If there was no such thing as patent protection, by the time I went from zero to manufacturing and product availability, any of the current big names in the market could take my tech and bring it to market with their existing connections and heavy market presence and there would be a) nothing I could do about it and b) no incentive for me to innovate and come at a solution in such market space at such a heavy cost to myself.

Patents actually work really well for this sort of thing. I'd be interested to here in alternatives you think could work, that don't rely on keeping the idea secret to the last second and securing millions to billions in angel/vc capital.
Those falling-note videos use Synthesia (formerly known as Piano Hero): https://www.synthesiagame.com/.
Yes I had done web scrapping commercially, sometime back when I had just left college. I had to scrap website(s) for getting data about all pharma products available in india. So basically market research. But as soon as I realized this was against TOS of the website, i deleted all data and communicated this to client. I had to discard the contract and return even the previous payments.
Although I am happy that I did. :)
That's such a good point I'm going to time travel back to fourteen hours ago so I can add a fourth sentence to my comment to say exactly this.
Pre-empted by California state law given certain conditions.
Hopefully the 28th Amendment: http://www.wolf-pac.com/the_plan
You can fake gamma correct blending quite cheaply in the fragment shader. Just square the RGB values before blending them, then sqrt the result before storing it. The visual impact is significant for fast moving items, there's a higher continuity of motion.
Nearly all of these use cases are covered by a number of social enterprise platforms such as Yammer or Socialcast without the need for new employees to setup filters.

In Socialcast activity streams can be filtered by groups which could be public, private or externally facing(meaning you can invite people outside your company to participate in them).
People can be notified directly by @-mentioning them in your posts and so forth.
And of course all the content is searchable and filterable.

The usefulness of these social enterprise tools was not clear to me until I saw it being used in both a 40-people company and a 13,000-people company. It brings about collaboration, transparency, a way for people to discuss their issues and to often vent about things they dont like.

Maybe its time for Stripe to check it out too :)

Disclaimer: I work for Socialcast, the VMWare company
Introducing cldoc: a clang based documentation generator for C and C++
There's a lot of documentation on the web for Git, but the Git/Github integration can get a little hairy if you get out of sync.

The pull request workflow depends on what you're working on (Personal project? Company project? Massive open source project?), but Red Hat has a pretty good overview of a fairly standard system that most people should be familiar with:

https://openshift.redhat.com/community/wiki/github-workflow-...

If you have any more questions, feel free to shoot me an email, I'd love to help you out.
I'm wondering if YC tracks false negatives to tune their filters on the application process?
>>So i guess everyone else whose time and money she is wasting outside of the RIAA is just acceptable collateral damage?

Whose time and money? The government. Please, we wasted so much money already on senseless wars and security theater that this argument is silly at this point.

>>Note that while they won't throw her in jail, it will come out of her paycheck, they'll also make her sell a lot of her assets, etc.

One word: bankruptcy

>>It's hard to predict, but instead of helping others and getting a good legal result, she may end up having wasted some RIAA money and fucked over a lot of people. What a great idea!

OK, I'll grant you points on this one. Getting a bad precedent would not be a good idea. Although, note sure if that is even possible in this case so you just sound like you are fear mongering. How are people going to get fucked over? Are you sure you are not just spreading FUD?
Employees frequently steal (and use) confidential data when switching jobs
I hope browser vendors only implement support for webkit- prefixes for now-standard properties (eg. box-shadow), and not for properties that only WebKit implements.
Yes, but for most present electric cars, this is not an option. Certainly not for the Tesla.
I generally agree with you, and find myself revolted by pseudo-(or not-pseudo-)-religious tripe of the sort in the OP.

But I also don't think that it's unreasonable to say that altering your manner of cognition for a while can cause you to reflect on yourself in a new way and realize something new.

In practice, though, I've never really seen this theory come to fruit. Having acid trips was really fun, but my cognition really was more impaired then altered, and I didn't learn or realize anything.
The article focused on the license terms, not what you can get away with. If you run a small business and don't want to worry about BSA license audits, this stuff matters.

It also appears that you're using a student version of Office, the licensing terms are most likely different for that version.
That's really cool. I have been tempted to try the Lingua Latina books, which argue a softer version of this thesis: that memorizing tables of inflections doesn't work as well as "immersive reading." I'm inclined towards this because, as a non-Catholic, my interface with Latin is textual rather than aural. It would be interesting to hear from someone who tried both.
I have been working on this use case of private/shared email and have been testing in private beta for a year with a firm of 40 staff. If you are interested, please send me an email (joran@ronomon.com).
Herb Sutter: atomic Weapons [video]
Having recently fired it up again the xbox experience (outside of xbla) remains decidedly old school:

- You still need the correct dvd inserted to play.

- You can't turn the xbox off and expect it to save your progress.

- Some games are tightly integrated with xbox live, good luck not paying for it.

- It takes forever between the xbox boot time, initial game load time, copyright notices, in game menus, and save game load time to actually start enjoying a game.

- Installing games to the hard drive for a slight load time bump is very, very slow.

Since picking one up I've been really spoiled by the ipad mini. Just pick it up and play, don't sweat the details.
Have moved on to other software pastures now, but spent many years building large-scale LOB applications whose sole presentation layer was Excel. Seamless federated data sources, powerful multi-dimensional calculations, easy (re)formatting and charting, and very, very fast delivery, usually around 5-10% of that of some "killer app" from a team of developers the client couldn't afford. And around 5-10% training time, too, because say what you want about their idiocy level, users GET Excel, quickly. It is ultra-intuitive, to the extent that any technology/business tool can be.

Those who sanctioned trading on VaR models built on pasted data were obviously not qualified to hold their jobs. Neither are those who over-glorify or over-promote the virtues of "it ain't real unless programmers built it", and I say that as a programmer. I work with other UI tools now, but I have yet to work with a better or faster-adopted one. The ubiquity of Excel in the workplace is well earned; the poverty of its many implementations is no different from all the other ubiquitous human poverties.
Oh nice, my knowledge of WWII is being criticized by a Pearl Harbor truther.
I worked at a tech start-up in China for a year. Labor costs definitely are cheap. That said, considering the high taxes, the extreme levels of regulation, the rules that make things difficult for foreign-owned businesses, the necessity of an ICP and the great firewall, it's actually not such an amazingly cheap place to do business.

I've talked to several who have moved shop to SE Asian countries, but I can see advantages of Mexico, Chile or other Latin American countries that are a bit more welcoming.
It's true you may have set a low bar re: proofs, I just don't think any formal proofs are needed at the first step.

Learning about numerical convergence and computer arithmetic so you can understand why your MATLAB Linear Algebra program is not giving a useful result is far more valuable and doesn't need any proofs. It needs a knowledge of how to use theorems and results and what the conditions are for
a result to be applicable. But there is no need to do the proof. Especially since many many proof sare quite idiosyncratic and give no help in suggesting how one thinks like that.

Using the analogy of the car I am talking about teaching someone who rides a bike to drive a car. My explicit non-goal is being a mechanic of any kind. So your example of modifying your car is a strawman. That's exactly what I assert a student-driver doesn't need and *shouldn't have to do. It is going to be pretty much useless in actually learning how to steer and how to follow traffic rules. One is about proper usage, the other is about understanding internals. Sorry I still disagree and reassert that proofs are no use at all and a huge distraction for programmers trying to learn math. There is so much valuable and useful
work a programmer can do even using existing mehods without ever modifying them. Especially with special purpose languages like R and MATLAB - the underlying algorithm are very mature and a first time user is not expected to modify them.

Quite separately I think it's extremely valuable to learn/relearn the foundations of math but this is for anyone and not specific to what a programmer needs to do useful things with math. Yes and it should be taught in high school math. It's not taught bec the teachers didn't learn it that way and so it goes ...
Pointing out that you can't just charge anything you want for a product isn't a "straw man". It's just a fact.

Sorry.
C++ Generics: Meta-Programming and Variadic Templates
Mostly says small cabals of people trying to boost the image of their group. Bob says Fred is awesome, Fred says Mike is awesome, Mike says Bob is awesome. Smart people review code and judge for themselves.
To correlate. I do much of my programming at home on two 23" monitors on a desktop, or at work on a 15" mbp and a 27" cinema display - and I absolutely love the excessive screen real-estate.
But sometimes I am visiting family, at an airport, &c and want to be somewhat productive. I won't write as much code as I would with my normal setup, but there is an allure to keeping a tiny laptop/ultrabook in my go-bag and writing some small bit of code whilst sitting at a coffee shop. I'm not normal though, I take great pride in having ssh'ed home from the top of a 14'er.
My absolute dream is to have a phone that can plug into a docking station and drive a full workstation setup. When it's time to leave I would love to just pick up this device, and have everything with me and operational (albeit in a limited capacity). Until the Ubuntu phone announcement, the Surface is the closest thing to my fantasy device (a major problem as well being that I'm a game developer - the HD4000 in the thing makes me cringe).
Reminds me of Rondo

http://www.fracturedsoftware.com/rondo/
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For anyone who is curious (or skeptical) about the incredible potential for psychedelic use in a therapeutic setting, I highly recommend this read:

http://www.salon.com/2011/09/28/the_new_lsd_cure/

Probably the best general article I've read on the subject in recent times; it's also very hopeful.
Those are some extremely insightful and promising thoughts that deserve more research. If you venture more in those explorations, I'd love to read thoughts you have :)
Is It Cheating to Explore Outsourcing Without Telling Your Employees?

Just askin'
Not to answer for the OP but I'm both a Linode and Hetzner customer. The Hetzner machine has been solid and their network is great. But.. I keep the most important stuff on Linode because if a piece of hardware in the Hetzner machine blows up, I could be off the air for $indeterminate_time whereas with Linode, the worst case is I fire up another Linode within 5 minutes and reload from a backup.
Thanks for the heads up. I bought it and it was useful. Still, it's woefully incomplete. For example, no coverage of Ember Data, no use of Views, etc. Still, it was a good starting point, and I've been able to figure out most of the rest of it myself.
Yeah, I heard about that. Thing is, I talked to him last sem and he wasn't sure that Go would be allowed at that point, so I decided to wait a sem. Have you heard anything from the people doing it in Go this time? Its awesome to have the opportunity to use it, but I think it would throw people off for a the first 1-2 weeks while they were getting used to it which might put them at a disadvantage relative to the class. Andersen said something similar too - http://da-data.blogspot.com/2013/02/teaching-distributed-sys...
> optimizing for external validation is a dangerous trap. You’re fighting over a fixed pie against well-credentialed peers. The most likely outcome is a middle management job where you’ll have little impact and never seriously attempt to realize your ambitions.

That should be in every college freshman's welcome packet.
I live in Santa Monica, I've walked ~8k each day for the last 3 days around the city, don't own a car.

I don't own a car, so I haven't paid _too_ much attention to parking, but it seems like there isn't a whole lot of space down near the promenade, or basically anywhere in the whole touristy part of town.

I walked in some residential neighborhoods tonight, and lots of people had garages and driveways, so even one (admittedly long) block off of a thoroughfare, there was a large amount of on-street parking.
A post on this would be very interesting.
You don't actually understand how bankruptcy works, do you?
Not all debts are dischargeable.

Yes i'm sure i'm not spreading FUD.
It is entirely possible that the supreme court will take the case. If they made the decision that the ratio of damages like her case was okay, it would fuck over all the other similarly situated people who aren't just lying on the stand.
It's funny. You're arranging words in a seemingly meaningful pattern, but when I parse it, you aren't saying anything at all other than calling me childish.

You can disagree with someone about a moral question, but the only way you can both be right is through moral relativism. Otherwise, one person is doing the right thing and the other person is doing the wrong thing even though they think it's right. I wouldn't use the words "good and evil" because they have a bit of a manichean connotation to them, but if you take the plain, everyday meanings of "good and bad", they make sense in this context, and what you're saying doesn't.
It does not mean that. The filer has to prove they invented the idea, which they can't do if you've published it prior to their filing.

But wouldn't that be exactly "first to invent" rather than "first to file"?
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As a countryside-dweller who visits cities now and then, I'd be more than happy to use public transport in cities if they provided good ways to transition between driving and public transport.

Very few cities have a good "park and ride" culture where you get safe, modern parking structures on the main approaches to the city, and then frequent express trains or buses into the center. Without this, it's more tempting to just stay in the car and put up with a little extra traffic and expense in the city center.

(In London, the closest thing you get to this is parking at Westfield in Shepherd's Bush and tubing it in, but Shepherd's Bush is too central to London to avoid adding to the worst of the traffic.)
Yea, she screwed up big time and it certainly makes me unsympathetic to her, and she should be charged for perjury and deal with that fallout. It's probably a bad personal risk tradeoff for her to go to trial again.

But it doesn't change the fact that it's still a shakedown scheme. The fact there were offers might change what we think of her personally, but shouldn't change the sense of justice.

It's similar to someone being extorted, and we say "What an idiot; he refused to pay $5 protection, now he has a broken knee". It's still unjust and unfair. Or the folks protecting Aaron Swartz's prosecutors: He could have just plead guilty to a felony and taken a lighter hit.

It seems like your position here is for her to make an efficient, safe, decision, instead of for actual justice, regardless of cost.
sorry for the tangent. Hi overgunn77, can I email you? I have a couple of projects that I might need to contract out due to lack of time, and your email was not in your profile. I am also taking a trip to Mexico soon, and it seems like talking to you might point me in the right direction.
LA Startup RadPad takes on the Rental Market
I think one of the big draws of credentials is the ability to measure your success.

Getting into a great school or landing an important job is a lot easier to quantify than startup success.

A credentialed life might be much less exciting, but it removes a lot of doubt.
The post from Sivers' blog[1] a few days talked optimistically about how, at least in some ways, we're beginning to see a fix for this.

You can break out of the credentials trap by making and doing stuff and by looking for people who make stuff. Public creations and contributions, even as simple as blogging, are becoming much more of an accepted credential (offering more external validation in Dixon's words) and that's great.

(Well, mostly great. Great that people might look at your github as a credential, perhaps going a tad too far when people proclaim that Github replaces resumes.)

I'm nothing but a wee programmer from New Hampshire, and while hating on Stack Overflow is cool around here[2], it allowed me to help thousands of people and create a (literal and S.O.) reputation. I wasn't thinking about career with all my days and nights contributing to StackOverflow, it was more of plain old poor time management mixed with some desire to be useful to someone. Yet SO and a tad of blogging landed me a book deal, which is a far more interesting outcome than anything my regular career-minded things (getting a degree and getting a job/experience) have done. By miles.

Unlike the external validation in the post (getting a degree), making stuff encompasses a much bigger pie. You aren't competing against the other people with law degrees. You're showing tangible reasons you might be useful. Really, if your field allows it, making stuff publicly is the best credential we've got.

[1] "It's all who you know?" - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198956

[2] As of writing the first comment is bashing the SO system, which is a typical top-comment for these sort of stories: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5210648
"But optimizing for external validation is a dangerous trap"

You dont think this is strongly present in the startup world as well? In a number of ways I think many in the current form of the startup world are even more hungry for external validation but perhaps in a different way and from a different crowd.

"You’re fighting over a fixed pie against well-credentialed peers."

This also present in startups but instead of fighting for the next rung on the latter you are battling others for a piece of a limited number of funds, eyeballs, reporter coverage, demand, etc. The point being is that there is always a bottleneck or constraint in any field entrepreneurial or not. I'd agree that for an engineer, while quite rare, startup success has the potential to enhance your career probably more than being a smashing success in corp but both are funnels in different forms.
Obama Signs CIP Executive Order
Just like they believe in the twin lands of "Information" and "Electronic" two other places we travel to for conflict?

Or, you know, it could just be that when we militarize something we're not used to being involved in war we call it something something warfare.
Has anyone else here had good experience working with big brands? Any other tips?
It seems to be something of a pattern that when the state has in recent history held monopoly power over something that is evolving in a way corrosive to that power, they immediately jump to the stage of dismissing it as "unreal" in some way, and just end up shooting themselves in the foot by pointing out that their own claims of sovereignty are exactly as "unreal".

The state rules by force, its currencies are real because they say they are and have the power to force behind them, its borders are real because they say they are and have the power of force behind them.

As soon as they lose that power, as in the case of bitcoin for currencies or other digital property or jurisdiction in the case of cryptographically protected distributed spaces which simply have no visible anchoring in the physical world, their claims are worth exactly nothing.

It will be an interesting world as more and more things move out of the sphere of state control and into this sphere.
Given that it's a Disney property, I'm stunned that they are available on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ducktales+full+e...
Ask HN: Why does everyone call it Sublime Text 2
Why not just call it Sublime Text.
I don't state the version on any other IDE I use.
Tune Out The Crowd
You mean to say high quality is something built with lowest common denominator in mind like windows?
Following the Peter Thiel point, I think that the education system is currently flawed in the way that it sets up the end goal as being college. From the beginning (elementary), kids are trained to get good grades to get into a great college, but there's very little active discussion with students about careers and life in general at the early phases. Everything done at an academic level is to get into a good college, rather than learning for curiosity's sake and building something of value. I know this because I fell for it when I was in HS, and it's something that needs to change.
Ahh, Hacker News, where Adi Shamir counts as "some Israeli CS student".

http://www.amazon.com/Differential-Cryptanalysis-Data-Encryp...
I agree with all of those great things except grunge. While fun then and even now, to my ear it lent little to later music - a dead end. It's easy to find Radiohead, rap, and Rage's influence through eras, but which post-grunge groups of note were influenced by Nirvana?
The Principles of Craftsmanship
I would say that Mexico's immigration laws are less open that the US's, but enforcement is nowhere near the level of US enforcement.

Mexico has no Border Patrol, no DHS, no USCIS equivalents and is more open to bribes and such.
Old video games are particularly interesting as artifacts because they implicitly highlight the capabilities of hardware and the sort of peripherals that could be expected during that period.

One of these days I'm going to find the time to sit down and play Colossal Cave Adventure.

And then after that maybe I'll find somebody willing to play Spacewar! with me.
Fact of the matter is set of mind and setting play a pivotal role in the surface content of a trip. You're deluding yourself if you think people don't often walk away with hand-wavey interpretations of their experience. My point is there is more to psychedelics than that edge case.