skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely has lots of possible good uses. It remains to be seen if some of the capabilities get abused and if they do whether people judge that as too high a price for the conveniences, or if they judge it to be, on the whole, worthwhile given the benefits (mostly conjecture till implemented, at this point).

If they could put this along the drug routes (if they can deal with the difficulties of monitoring over water) this could have the potential to strangle superficial (surface) drug routes (now that small subs are gaining popularity with traffickers, maybe this would not matter much). Also could be used to cut down on cross border human trafficking.

Certainly, it would seem, tracking a suspect just became much easier and in the future, cheaper then deploying a whole team of people on the ground staking someone out. Altho, I imagine, they would need to have multiple signals to have more certainty that they know who's who.
3D Printable Human Ears
Sadly "map" is also the name of the critical "map" function which operates on lists. Maybe with an indefinite article ("a map") it's clear enough.
Poe's Law strikes again. I can't tell if you're making a joke or not.

Assuming you're being serious: no. Linux distributions do not work this way because Linux was itself deliberately designed to be unlike Minix.
You all keep underestimating Dave McClure. That man is incredibly savvy and smart.
Ebooks are obviously superior technology, however the technology is of more benefit to the publisher and distributor than the reader.

In fact, an Ebook requires a particular device and battery charge; it cannot be readily shared unless you want to give away or lend your device. You cannot easily annotate or draw a diagram next to a description. There isn't yet a satisfactory electronic equivalent to the experience of flicking through a book.

IMHO borrowing another student's well thumbed and annotated textbook will often be more useful than downloading my own pristine copy.
You can embed SVG into HTML if you wish.

Basically, browsers support SVG.
We live in a nation which likes civil rights in the abstract but not in the implementation. This causes us all to lose.

A plurality exists to clamp down on many freedoms. Use cases to deny first amendment rights are popularized - heck our biggest media companies built on the back of the first amendment now wish to see it neutered. Gun rights folks want the Obama administration to pursue second amendment restrictions, yet some of those most vocal about protecting such freedoms cheered on the Bush administration when it wanted to clamp down on speech, or when gay rights pushes are defeated.

Security. Think of the children. Moral outrage. etc

The rich powerful elites have successfully divided the nation to such a degree that they can push through any invasive law they like because they can always bundle together enough of us who hate enough more of us to gain a plurality in its support. More usually they don't need that even. They have the political class in pocket and when it comes to election we have no vote outside of the gerrymandered two sides of the same party system.

Rambling but you get my point.
> Jobs are replaceable. People you truly love are not.

Thanks for sharing. A wonderful article which summarizes the whole purpose of why we live. Work should be the means to the living experience rather than the ONLY living experience.
Pinterest wouldn't be the best fit for link sharing sites like Pinchit; the layout emphasizes pictures over textual content.

I has worked well for an open source images+poetry app I'm beta testing now, http://www.poe3.com. I don't have enough content to show personalized pages yet, so letting users scan the images on the page has been useful.
Just out of curiousity, does piracy affect your sales? Do you do anything to combat it?
> It’s not a question of whether each of these things will happen; it’s a question of when.

Don't like how she comes off as "super relationship expert full of wisdom" here. I don't care how many relationships she's had, or how old she is, not all relationships are created equal, and these things she calls "inevitabilities", while certainly common, are not inevitable. Being in a relationship with that mindset could just turn it into a self-fulling prophesy.

As just one easy example, you don't have to have children, so her comment about kids doesn't apply to any couple that decides not to have kids.
I found this honestly repulsive. It's one thing to shun those who would steer someone away from what feels natural, and it's another to offer life advice based on what one perceives to be the norm. Just because you got hitched early doesn't mean I want/have to.
Is it just me or do people seem to take a special pleasure in criticizing Marissa Mayer above and beyond what most CEOs receive?
Given Jekyll's enormous backlog of issues and pull requests[0], can we expect this to be maintained or supported any bit beyond the late night drunken brain fart that this is?

[0] https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
Cool... though I wish we'd hurry up and get to the point where students can just input answers digitally rather than this "Print out this digitially created form, use a pencil, then scan it back in" process.
I would rather kids jump straight to the programming.
Typesafe Config says hello.
Nah. Not an efficient way of getting that information. And just in passing, here are some Canadian IP stats... don't know if I believe it - but I see 48 patent trials in Canada in 2012.. http://www.ippractice.ca/litigation-statistics/intellectual-...
This is, alas, the inevitable consequence of the technological progression that most of us here strive towards on a daily basis.
Nexus 7?
Oh I know! It's fundamental attribution error! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error)

Oh wait - that's not right, that's actually the gross error that all "What's the X behind Y?" questions make - when in reality, it's probably about 100+ different things all coming together at the same time.

For YC it's the falling cost of bandwidth, the falling cost of storage, the falling cost of computation, an increase in the number of internet users by nearly 1 billion over the last decade, a doubling in the global economy over the last 2 decades - quite frankly the list leading up to the creation of a Y Combinator is almost endless - and I haven't even dealt with the actual people who help make YC the success that it has become today.

Single factor explanations of complex phenomena are stupid.
yeah the nexus 7 is an awesome device for kids too.
A brilliant way to display poetry, I'll definitely give you that. I think the overarching message here is that it works a lot better for art than anything else.

Cool idea. And a four letter domain name. Impressive!
> it's another to offer life advice based on what one perceives to be the norm.

But isn't that the case when anyone gives life advice? Everyone has their own own perceptions of norms.
Unanswered Question: why Minix?
...because the law is a highly specialized domain, and because it would be foolish to guess about that domain. Also because a given case may be all about the specifics (and discovery may have to do with asking the right questions).

But if you don't believe me just speak to any attorney.

Also I can tell you as someone who's looked at the software industry for over twenty years that YES not knowing what you're doing can be very costly.

Of course a lawyer can still give you bad advice, but that may be a reason to talk to more than one lawyer rather than guessing which is unlikely to help.
its much easier in start up environments generally to telecommute.

Once a business becomes huge there are other factors at play that may mean there are trade offs. For instance Bill Atkinson left apple in 1990, Similar to Woz. Great people for their time but not happy when it goes corporate.
Jeez, they're still leaking? I wrote about this place for a high school class in '82... Had nightmares for weeks afterward.
I second rafaelj's recommendations, and there is also a good interactive tutorial from the F# team: http://www.tryfsharp.org/Learn. You may find it a bit slow paced given your FP experience but it may be a good way to actually try out the syntax rather than just reading about it.
I've personally found that reading technical/scientific books on an ebook reader like the Kindle is not a joy. The main problem, for me, is very much the linearity. It's actually easier to navigate paper than the dominant ebook UI paradigms, which are very well suited to reading novels, but not much else.

If this is just a product of which software I'm using, please tell me, I'd love to use better software.

(The iPad with its big screen does work for scientific papers though, because those are usually short and rendered as a PDF that benefits from being able to see the entire page on the screen. But the reader software I've tried there is also very much linear.)
They weren't recommending you get hitched early; the advice was more along the lines of "if you find someone that means something to you, don't deprioritize them just because you're busy at work".

I honestly think it's good advice. Too many of us think life can be run in sequence (hard slog at work > make money > do something I love doing, spend time with family, etc) when really, everything happens in parallel.
I'm guessing but I think it straddles a legal grey area, depending on what's carried out (how something's done).

In general one cannot expect any privacy while in public. That's been established many times over by the courts in the US. On the other hand, tracking recognizable people, I think without a probable cause, would be illegal. On the other hand if they just keep the footage and regressively backtrack activity after an activity was found to be illegal on the ground, then I don't see how using the generated footage would be illegal --and this would help law enforcement to some significant degree (i.e, someone was found stabbed on the sidewalk, no witnesses, let's backtrack the footage and track the attacker forward or backward).
I chose not to move out to the Valley so I could stay in a great relationship, and it has proved to be an extremely good decision. My life would not be nearly as enriched as it is if all I did was work, and had I moved there I too probably would have fallen into the trap of putting career above everything else. My bank account isn't quite as fat as it could be had I moved there, but then again I pay half the rent--less, actually--and spend less on pretty much everything else as well, not to mention I have no state income tax, and I still get a pretty high salary.

That said, I understand everybody is different. Although I will say that I too thought I was somebody who didn't need a relationship. I changed my mind when I fell into a great one and saw first hand what it had to offer.

There's also a quality to young love that I don't think you could ever find once you hit middle age. At the risk of sounding really shallow, young people are much more beautiful on average. But it's not just that. The experience of growing old with someone is considerably different from meeting someone when you've both already aged a good amount. These are experiences that you will never be able to have if you put them off for too long. The same cannot be said of work.
Is your relationship authentic if you're forcing to put yourself in one before you hit 30?
And it's also why we shouldn't just be focused on creating the technology, but we should be increasingly focused on the system (society) into which it is being placed.
This article reminds me of a book I recently read: "The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter" by Meg Jay– I highly recommend it to anyone in their 20s.

Some portions of it apply more to the 20-something working at Starbucks while waiting for his band to make it big, and the HN crowd won't relate much to that, but there's plenty of other solid advice that I definitely related to.

I'm not usually big on the self-help books, but here it's a psychologist talking about examples she's had of patients dealing with their personal/professional/love life and how they addressed those things. It's a quick read- recommended.
[Anecdote] Seagate and ExFAT; I will avoid these two till the day I die.

I've had at least 3 (I'm not sure, maybe more) Seagate internal HDDs failed on me in the past several years (I don't do anything remotely crazy with my MacBook Pro or other machines). And I've had a 1TB external HDD and 3 USB disks ruined by ExFAT (yes, I always 'eject' the volume before yanking in out from USB port).

I don't know what the hell is wrong with either of them - Maybe I've been unlucky. But that's the truth, and I'm sure the problem wasn't from my side.
Yeah, but part of my goal is to only have to change the source for the image in one place. I suppose I could have a partial template with the SVG in it and pass in a variable for the scale, but I would still prefer the elegance of having a web-accessible API so I can use the images anywhere.

And of course, IE8 and below don't speak SVG.
How successful is Y Combinator, anyway? I've seen some vague numbers, and I have no idea how that compares to other investors
I still have my flowchart stencils and a couple of pads of gridded report and display paper from my COBOL classes... I need to clean my office.
A 1.8 Gpixel sensor has at 24 frames/s and 24 bit/pixel a data rate of nearly a TBit/s. So I would actually like to see, how they are handling such a data rate (inside of the drone). And how they actually get the data out of the drone.

And to look a bit more into this numbers ( and using the numbers from Backblaze [1]) it seems that the uncompressed video of a single drone over a year would cost $1.5e9, of course divided by the compression ratio. However for 14 days of video the storage cost would be in the ballpark of $60M per drone, that sounds actually quite possible ( especially given an additional factor of ~20 lower costs due to compression and a similar factor of ~20 for five years of HD development).

So this seems actually be technology which could on a timescale of five years be available at costs comparable to two or three police cars (plus the costs of the drone, which should be in a similar range). And I for one find this quite creepy.

[1]roughly $50/TB http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibration...
Pinterest makes "browsing" fun for a lot of people and it works very well at that. Pinterest does show specific categories of content. A similar experience to compare is Google images, where you provide a keyword and get a similar infinite-grid layout. Not everyone is searching for something specific; if a user can browse (or view by keyword, as in Google Images) they can gain inspiration or direction toward a goal.

Pinterest's UX approach is not worthless - it can and does work for many interaction scenarios where users want to browse content rather than search something specific.

Further, I think the two UX paradigms (search vs browse) can work together to serve the needs of users. Search for specific content can provide exact results first, and then related/similar results can display in a browsable pinterest-style grid.
Define a serious relationship! What's the significant property? A duration over 6 months? Or you already moved together? That's a difficult thing to do.

As far as I understood, Elizabeth is somewhere near her 40ies and I'm not sure if she even developed her serious relationship in her 30ies, as she is quite ambitious herself and comments, that she met her significant other at work... that happens a lot. But what really surprised me, that this almost got her and/or the other fired. I know a large amount of couples, who work at the same place and everything is fine!

And most importantly: What if, there was not this girl. This guy?

For me there was not this girl and I am 30. Of course, I had serious beautiful relationships with all the grinding imposed by one or two ambitious humans and also the nicer sides. But in the end, I'm single now and love to work on ambitious projects where I meet ambitious people!

Be, who you are and be proud of that. Love will hit you anyway and there is no need for a "task" or the hassle of developing serious relationships in your 20ies. It can happen to you any time, no matter of age. Even in your 80ies. If you are not convinced, watch this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1602620/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I'm constantly amazed at the human mind's inability to measure happiness on an absolute scale

Under its other name, the ability to adapt to misfortune, this inability has been a very useful thing for humans to have.
The broad point here is a very important one.

I came to Silicon Valley in my late 20s. I'd already had a lot of relationship ups and downs. I got married not long after getting here. I'm now, um, older...

It's great for folks who are fresh out of college that a bunch of middle-aged VCs who missed the boat on Zuckerberg because after the dot.com boom they were "playing it safe" backing their MBA buddies in startups which went nowhere, are now desperately trying to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted and find the next Zuckerberg by investing in very young entrepreneurs. It's great. There is some brilliant innovative consumer apps that have come from this - diamonds in a pile of rhinestones admittedly, but they're real.

When I was 22 and my best friend were 21 we were being laughed out of every funding source we could find by suggesting that (this is in 1993/4 mind you) we set up an "Internet Service Provider" because we were European Physicists when the world wide web was created by and for European Physicists and we thought it was going to be big. "What is this Internet thing? ...It's an American fad, going nowhere... you're just two young techies with no business experience... etc." I am genuinely glad the environment is better today than it was then.

However (yeah there's a but)... it's breeding a generation of young technical talent burnt out on mediocre over-angel-funded startups with little real world life or experience. It's not that either end of the spectrum is right - it's that we've gone too far past a happy medium.

I used to run an internship program and I'd advise the young undergrads that they should get out and do the things they want to do after college, take risks, travel while you can and while you're young. So long as you have a good narrative, have learned a lot from your experiences, and take the opportunity to grow up and gain perspective on the world, people will forgive almost anything before you're thirtieth birthday so long as you're prepared to knuckle down and focus by then.

I don't think that's true today. We've created an environment where to be a first time entrepreneur over thirty is seen as questionable. By 40 even with experience if you haven't already had a home run it's VERY difficult to get financial backing right now. This is irrational of course. The idea that real world experience dulls your blade which would otherwise have been fresh, right out of college, is silly.

I am happy that I didn't spend my 20s just getting burned out. After we couldn't get our startup off the ground, we finished our degrees, did some real world work, got some life experience, and I don't think either of us was worse for it as a person.

I meet a lot of people looking around in their thirties and realizing, like this article says, that they've never really learned the broad range of interpersonal skills and relationship skills outside of the startup bubble.

Do what you love to do for work. Absolutely. But don't lay on your death bed wishing you'd worked less and loved more. Really. Don't do that.
I approve of this. Don't listen to that other guy. This should be standard.

One addition though:

Cocktionary = HashMap

"Dictionary" never really made sense.
A flat tablet will not, and never will, provide the same spatial awareness as a physical object, by definition.

You can say that it's not important, but it's not a problem that can be solved in software.
Women love using an information layout analogous to a physical format that's been obsolete for 1500 years due to having been superseded by pagination, and in which one loses one's place whenever attempting to reference previous information?

Pinterest is an anomaly; infinite scroll is broken in concept.
It makes it harder to learn, and improve your behaviour. Just what we want in a community?
Minix is not a linux distribution.
I agree and have a hard time convincing friends/family, polarized on either side, this same point. The agenda of the elites is being advanced by whichever party will take the lowest bid. And cleverly enough this just keeps us pitted against each other while allowing for small victories/defeats, depending on what side your on. I wonder if Roman/British common folk had discussions like these while they watched helplessly..
meteor has a way of serializing and deserializing datetime values http://docs.meteor.com/#ejson
I've pursued many women in my life, and failed. I'm not especially tall, good looking, or rich, but I am smart, somewhat charismatic, and have a solid character.

Everything I've done in my adult life has been motivated by my desire to be attractive to women that I'm interested in; studying hard to get good grades, going to grad school, pursuing good employment, developing my personal and social skills, working out, everything. I'm getting better all the time, and I see my successes, but now in my 30s I'm not sure what the message is here.

Should I have just grabbed any woman that would have me, even if I'm not interested in them for the sole purpose of "developing a serious relationship"?
As living in your next door - Stop right now and stop that noise during the nights! everyone hates you
I find this article a little condescending and trite, most of the things you "need to learn" are skills you develop from interacting with people in general, not just in personal romantic relationships.
I think a lot of startup folks are very much like the barista waiting for the record label to discover him and his buddies' musical talents. It's a good analogy actually.
All factors are not created equal though, and you must admit that there is probably a combination of a few key factors that help explain most (but not all) of their success, no? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle)

I think that is what they/we are trying to get at.

I agree with your general principle that causation is rarely as black and white as we make it out to be, but saying that all/most phenomena is a result of hundreds of different factors coming together at the right time and right place would make it very difficult to ever learn anything about anything.

> "..the falling cost of bandwidth, the falling cost of storage, the falling cost of computation, an increase in the number of internet users of nearly 1 billion over the last decade, a doubling in the global economy over the last 2 decades."

These are all situational factors common to TechStars, 500 Startups, etc. but which don't explain YC's unique success.
I'd definitely not recommend getting her a non-laptop (eg. ipod touch, ipad, nexus 7, nexus 10, etc.).

Get her a cheap (<$300) netbook (acer still makes great ones), plop Linux on it, and here we go!

She'll have an environment she's familiar with, with a real keyboard, and plenty of room to grow.

In the meantime, have you tried overclocking the Pi? It may make browsing better.
> FAA could regulate this as their domain

This is similar to having a law and FAA enforcing it. They don't need to have the tech to prohibit others from using it. Surveillance satellites is a whole other can of works IMHO.
I don't know how much it is going to help as you're going to have to wrap the values anyway to get a Map with heterogeneous values.
I don't think that is what the OP's saying at all. I think the point is that shutting yourself in to work on code 24/7 startup after startup for year after year (which is very easy to do in Silicon Valley - you look up and five years went by) is going to limit you at a time when the most important skills you need for your long term happiness are being learned.