skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought a good bit about the reflection of TL;DR. My Gut reaction was to think we're heading to an idiocracy, but it could be people just getting smarter. Trust me I love the virtues of deep reading, but think of all the knowledge you could gain if it was done well? There is an entire business about providing executive summaries on books, news, and other important bits of information that we're inundated with. While I would cringe at a TL;DR for The Brothers Karamazov, I think there is some merit to being able to get a lot of tidbits quickly from a lot of news source. Would be very interesting to compare Fox, NYTimes, and the Washington Post on their 'gist.'
He included far more code than was necessary, if that's the case. I don't see why the implementation of the function expression would be relevant if so. Clarity would help here.
Definitely ... until someone finds tax advantages to being in a different category and people gradually "reinvent" themselves as being in that category.

You were outraged at hedge fund managers classifying their income as interest (15% tax) rather than "earned income" (~35% income tax)? Well, wait until the income tax goes back up to 50+%, and see how many non-"earned income" ways there are to compensate employees...
Wow, definitely something I am going to check out. From a quick look, it seems that your Lisp code for the example looks a lot like HTML itself. For example:

(defun blogpage (&optional (posts *posts*))
(html-frame
"Restas Blogdemo"
(<:div
(<:a :href (genurl 'add) "Add a blog post")
(<:hr)
(render-posts posts))))

I don't know much about functional programming though, so sorry if that's an incorrect assumption.
Fantastic mini example of the point the author makes about TLDR's

I started reading your comment (first 9 words), nearly stopped reading it thinking "they don't get it," carried on for some reason and 5 words later it showed that I agreed with you completely!
I think the name is the least important thing on the page. Why are you so fixated on it?
You can just type the domain name with ccTLD included, e.g. "google.us". It will show in the top row.
If you do run from tip, please check the build dashboard: http://build.golang.org/ We make no guarantees about the stability of tip, which should be obvious but I feel compelled to point it out anyway.
Neat, but I like http://domai.nr/ better because it shows interesting TLDs that would make my domain be one word. For instance, it suggests tim.do/rr for my username.
Thanks for the tip! Will do :)
I see 4 very strong, smartly chosen brand names in this list: wevorce, fivetran, simplyinsured, errplane. But, wevorce wins this round.
> As is the team’s “Food Wench”

:facepalm:

don’t get all up in arms

Excellent. It's just marketing by using words that would otherwise be pejorative.
I've read your post several times to make sure I understood it correctly before posting.

I replied to your baseless assertions that kids need male role models and both genders for their development: "in the absence of a father figure kids will look for role models [several examples of male role models]", "you don't want a homogeneous environment". My links show research that specifically says this is not true. The author of the article goes to great lengths to say it's not true. Do you have any facts or personal experiences that say otherwise?

(If by "uncle" and "Clint Eastwood next door" you didn't mean a male role model, and by "homogeneous environment" you didn't mean gender-homogeneous, then what did you mean)?
> The scholar who wrote this article can't bash this kid's product until he actually builds something useful.

What kind of logic is that?
22-year old community college dropout starts $100M company, Nasty Gal
Right, you want him to give you more signals about what they are looking for so you can tell them what you think they want to hear - that's the wrong approach. You should instead focus on being awesome and hope that YC recognizes how awesome you are.

The perfect application may look identical to the perfectly gamed application - but the intent is different. And it's a bit naive to think YC isn't really, really good at sniffing out that intent.
Just because it doesn't work in a car doesn't make it a bad design. Television doesn't work in most cars, but people still buy them.

Something doesn't have to solve every use case to be useful.

FWIW, I tend to agree with you. I think the better problem to solve would be to have electrical energy generative/storage devices. But I've been wrong about these things in the past so I try to second-guess myself.
I really wish people would stop referring to Microsoft SQL Server versions in a way which makes it hard to distinguish from SQL standard versions.
I assume you're talking about buying stock. When you do that, you're not actually giving money to the company unless it's an IPO; you're buying shares from other investors.

When companies raise money, they only raise a given amount. This is true from seed rounds through IPO and subsequent stock issuance. If people want to buy more shares than the company's issuing, some of them won't get shares (and raising the price of equity isn't always the correct answer, especially for an early stage startup).
I think this is generally true, although in a gay family setting you may not get a good role model for the opposite sex in that role.

Here is the thought experiment, heterosexual girl raised by two women, marries a young man, who behaves badly in the relationship. Now it is clear that one should never tolerate abuse in a relationship but people do all the time, and they make excuses for it if they are emotionally compromised. So what prevents our heroine from not rationalizing "oh this is normal for men in the role of husband." ? That would be the wrong conclusion but they may not have an intimate (or internal) model of a good hetrosexual relationship. It works the other way as well of course, gay children raised by heterosexual parents not having a role model for a well functioning gay marriage.

I don't know if that is a "big" problem or just an existing flavor of the "kids in a good/bad family environment" knowledge. But as the article points out, we're still about 10 years away from the first wave "second generation" kids from gay parents reaching a sizable enough cohort to make any useful observations.

Of course your last point suggests the question, "What sort of city would twins raised by gay wolves found?" :-)
Yes. That's how we pay for the public goods that our society relies on.
World Series Puzzle
Be careful there. It's explicitly illegal to resign one's U.S. citizenship for the purpose of reducing one's tax bill.

For instance, Saverin nominally gave up his U.S. citizenship in order to make doing business in S.E. Asia easier.
If most Go projects had a non-trivial amount of CGo in them, then you might have a valid argument. But I would say that most Go projects probably don't have any CGo in them at all, much less a non-trivial amount. Hobbling the language for the sake of slightly better C interoperability just doesn't make sense.
Those are things that might be compelling to the content creators, but I'm not seeing much that's compelling to consumers. (And I'm not convinced that there isn't already another similar service that also addresses those concerns.)

As the others pointed out, most of us don't want yet another game distribution service -- we already have a few.
>This is pretty far off the mark. American subscription to free market orthodoxy has many flaws but protectionist hypocrisy isn't high on the list.

Oh, it very much is I'd say. The US pays lip service to the "free market" but subsidies their agriculture big time. It gives billions (trillion?) to it's car industry. And most important of all, it uses its military and diplomatic might to secure favorable trade agreements and cheep resources. The very term "banana republic" was coined for whole countries with pro-American corporations puppet governments. All this is using the country's money and power to ensure a favorable trade outcome. Nothing "free trade" about it.

But I was talking less of mere products (of which American can consume easily, a chair is after all a chair) and more of cultural consumption (foreign movies, music, etc).

But even for mere products you have people seeing Japanese car buyers as not "buying American", articles and politicians asking why Apple is not producing stuff in the US, lamenting the outsourcing of jobs, etc.
Very nice! Much like instantdomainsearch, but with much broader TLD coverage.

Your pricing for Gandi seems incorrect; for instance, Gandi charges $15.50/year for .com domains, not $18.54.

Sad that this still points people at GoDaddy as the cheapest option; you get what you pay for, and GoDaddy has numerous well-known problems (in their policies on how they (don't) support you if they get a complaint, and in their many distasteful actions as a company).

You might also consider doing the obvious domain hack searches, at least for exact matches: if the term the user typed in ends with a valid TLD, drop that suffix and search for that term with that TLD. For instance, for the term "exampleio", since it ends in "io", show the result for "example.io" and label it "domain hack" on the left (where you show the labels for "exact match", "gTLD", and "ccTLD").
I'm glad to see work in the area of making linux containers more accessible. I recently stumbled upon openruko[1], an open source Heroku clone, and from there discovered linux containers and lxc[2]. It takes a bit of configuration to set up useful containers, though. I think the ideas behind Heroku and The Twelve-Factor App[3] are good, and containers are an important building block. I'm excited to see (and I'd like to see more) tools like Docker that aid in robust and streamlined container-based deployments in-house.

[1] https://github.com/openruko
[2] http://lxc.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://www.12factor.net/
The Spotify API now has a live test console
Announcing Airstone
If this article's premise is correct, Yahoo is buying Summly in order to generate more news about Yahoo rather than the intrinsic value of Summly.

However, this article is adding to the flood of news about Yahoo acquiring Summly, thereby giving the purchase even more publicity. I wonder how many articles have taken the same approach.
Quantopian is a great tool. I've played around with it, and all I can say is I wish it had existed when I was day-trading.
I think buildzoom is going to be big. I'm remodeling a condo in Florida, and it has been a nightmare to find contractors.

In fact on the flight on the way home I penciled out some ideas to improve this that aren't too different from what buildzoom is offering.

Edit: After reviewing my notes, one thing I considered was that for better or worse, a lot of the industry is under the table and transient. Maybe buildzoom will force the industry more into the open.
Yep, it sounds like a conspiracy to me as well. :)

The one thing that I have learned about corruption is that at least small instances of it occur everywhere, even if its not "the norm." Wherever there is way to make money, people might very well be doing it.

And yes you are right although I tried to imply that shareholders were the ones being screwed - this is obviously unfair to shareholders, whether the transaction is corrupt or not.
Has anyone consistently beat the market with a home grown trading algorithm?

I suspect it's possible but probably needs more signal than just stock price.
Guy Who 'Hates To Be A Curmudgeon' Explains Why Buying Summly Makes No Sense
My brain must have been malfunctioning. Every right, not every write. Doh.
I recently graduated high school (for perspective).

1) Nobody I know outside of techy-majors (I'm in college now) uses Twitter.
2) Everyone uses either Facebook or Instagram.
3) As many people use Tumblr as people use Twitter (but not limited to just people interested in tech)

I am very wary when people assert that Facebook is not cool anymore and is going to be replaced. Sure, it's not cool anymore. Then again, texting is not "cool." It's basically assumed you have a Facebook in the same sense that it's assumed you are willing to receive texts.

Keep in mind that all those meme-y, "Confessions"-type pages proliferate precisely because they are addictive time-sinks for teenaged and college-student users.
This is a good and interesting question.

Since YCombinator depends on finding Dropbox and AirBnB scale startups, I imagine one of the most important metrics to them is whether they've rejected a business that went on to achieve that scale.

Of course being in YCombinator can increase a venture's chance of hitting that type of success, so keeping track of who they rejected is just a proxy for how well their applications strategy is. They may have rejected a company that _could have become_ AirBnB or Dropbox. But this is less important since in this case that would indicate that this ability lies with YC, not the startup, and so it's less important which companies they pick. If true, this would run counter to the founder-centric model they profess, so I'm skeptical it's how they feel.

This question of who to let in reminds me of the tradeoff of precision and recall in IR. A large class can reasonably be termed higher recall, while a class where they actively exclude companies with predictors of failure increases the precision. THe two metrics are inversely related, but it's possible to have high precision and recall if you're only looking for a very few number of things and you pick them all.

It seems to me that culling out likely failures would only make sense if the partners had determined that the presence of these likely-to-fail companies negatively impacted their ability to help other companies reach their potential. This seems a likely rationale to me based on PG's comments about how dying startups take up so much of their time.

So what it really seems to represent is a vote of confidence in the partners' ability to help startups increase their chance of massive growth. And/or a recognition that likely-to-fail startups have deleterious effects on the rest of their batch that outweigh the likelihood that they'll be successful outliers. Either way it doesn't seem to have much impact on companies that apply.

It will be interesting to see if PG writes a How Not to Apply essay. Such an essay might destroy the predictive value of these behaviors, but if it stops the behaviors and they were causally linked to bad outcomes then it's a net gain.
Except undercooked meat (however safe) is often tough.
Charles Babbage had a working computer long before Turin. If he could have implemented it in transistors or even valves rather than mechanical relays how much further would we have been today?

The way I see it, you don't need to understand the theory of computation to solve probably any problem that is solvable via computation. Given, it would be potentially far less efficient but not fundamental.
MailChimp founder here. Here's a little back story to Alter Ego, since it does tend to confuse people. There was a time, not long ago, when email providers were under attack and suffering from some major breaches (http://www.cauce.org/2011/04/epsilon-interactive-breach-the-...). It's hard to describe the feeling of helplessness when you watch industry peers get systematically attacked like that. We wanted to do whatever we could to prevent that by providing 2FA protection to our customers. We researched RSA and other solutions. It seemed way too costly to ship key fobs to millions of users (our larger users could afford it, but not our vast majority of small business users, who are the ones who need the most help w/security). Still, we ordered the RSA hardware and fobs to try it out. While the equipment was all en route, RSA was breached (http://blogs.rsa.com/anatomy-of-an-attack/). To be safe, they told us we had to wait for new hardware to be re-issued. There's that feeling of helplessness again. We decided not to wait, and to just roll our own 2F app because we could make it free and easier than most (2 critical requirements for our SMB user base).

It's important to note that Google Authenticator wasn't yet open for integration (trust me--we badly wished for it). There were only rumors that they might open it up, and frankly, we couldn't wait for them to decide. Now we all know that it's been opened up, which is nice. And fwiw, in the next couple days we'll be announcing support in Alter Ego for Google Authenticator and Yubi Key pass-through.

Someone mentioned Duo. That's an impressive app. We didn't know it existed until after we launched AlterEgo (their CEO introduced himself in the comments when we launched AlterEgo). I was blown away by what a thorough app it was. Still, it wasn't "free enough" for our users (Gasp! How dare they charge money?!?). Remember, we wanted maximum usage, so it was important to make a free app. We could theoretically and happily do a pass-through integration for Duo users too.

Someone mentioned the uncertainty of relying on a Google service, considering Google's recent "spring cleaning" of Google Reader. Roughly around the time we launched AlterEgo, I don't remember all that much spring cleaning going on at Google, so I can't say we had concerns they'd kill their 2FA service. I vaguely recall them deprecating the Google Translate API (which we heavily relied on) and I vividly remember them sending us a ginormous bill for using their Maps API. Larry Page hadn't yet made his "more wood behind fewer arrows" statement, but the writing was on the wall that we can't all just feast off of Google's generosity and altruism forever. So at that time, I think we were more concerned about Google eventually charging us for the service (God forbid, right?). If we had even tens of thousands of users activating, that would be a bit expensive.

Hope that explains things.
GSM is the definition of phone. Why not just call it "DIY handset" if that is what you are really doing yourself?
Or bad means "bad bet" (before the fact) instead of "unsuccessful bet" (after the fact).
Saw that, and no interior shots of the Iowa. My only guess on why they would have an exterior shot and no interior shots is that they didn't actually get inside.

I would presume that the Iowa would be locked up fairly tightly because I don't think it had been de-militarized (code for rendered incapable of warfighting) at the time.

EDIT: I take it back, Wikipedia says she was decommissioned again in 2006, and donated to the museum duty in 2011.
They've got a pirate theme going, get a sense of humor!
I agree - sorry I think I should have chosen better wording. (Where I said "relatively worthless" I should have said "overly-valued")
Someone targeted with disgusting rape and death threats most definitely is a victim.

At this point, what prompted them is irrelevant. What is important is to remember that it's not OK to threaten to torture, rape and murder someone. Obviously. Your comment is yet another attempt to downplay their seriousness.
I really like this reply. I was both in finance and technology and there is a degree of glue and thought in both. However, in this case it's about the false perception that was created to the outsiders about Summly's level of innovation.
Except it already was done in the mainframes and commercial UNIXes, nothing new.
Another profitable tactic would be to find the sweet spot of people who make enough money that they can be accused of large tax errors, but not make so much money that they can afford to fight it all the way out in court.
Looks good. 2 things I would add:
- automatically exit the "getting website preview" on taking the mouse off the div.
- an X or some way to close the website preview thing (once website preview loaded).
Good luck!
>This is all fantastic work, from both Google and those working on the draft, but this is years from being standardized properly and years more before it's ubiquitous on all browsers.

Just like CSS3 and HTML5. But you can start using it now, all the same, and many people do, all the same.

>Also, while its performance is very impressive when comparing against vanilla HTTPS, I haven't seen any impressive numbers of it vs vanilla HTTP?

It's not supposed to be used with HTTP. And the web of the future is not supposed to have much HTTP without S, either.
Other founder here. Looking forward to your feedback.

Clickable: http://ad.venture.io/
Perhaps you've missed the sexist issue postings.

Wench = OK, get funded.

Dongle = Problem, lose job.
Git Submodules: Core Concept, Workflows And Tips
I guess I just assumed that bringing the meat up to a safe temperature would cover that. I'm not talking about cold-roasting chicken.
Love Dark Sky. Looks like they have executed this just as well.
Ah, this is nice to know.

Even though I do have some issues with Go, it is nice to see safer languages being used for this type of work.

Good work.
The IRS is funded on a needs basis, not as a percentage of tax revenue.
It might be that they don't need every peer to play nice, but a quorum of peers. If that were the case, a client with a buggy implementation could easily gain popularity quickly and mess things up, but it would take an attacker with a botnet to do it intentionally.

It also looks like they're making this free as in beer:

> Bram Cohen explains that the patent is in no way going to restrict user’ access to the new protocol, quite the contrary. BitTorrent Live will be available to end users for free, and publishers who are using the service and hosting it on their own will not be charged either.
I had a visa to Russia delayed because under employer I put 'self', and they didn't seem to grok that. To their credit, the agency called me and asked for clarification, vs mailing documents back.
Most law degrees in Australia are double degrees, aren't they? I haven't found too many schools that offer single degrees in Law.

Mind sharing with a non-Australian why that's the case there? (And if so, how it's different from doing a single Bachelor's degree and a JD after that.)
There are several factors at play there. It's the parents, the backers, and all the personal connections between them and Yahoo execs.

This deal is not about the tech, or the kid. The kid does sound smart though, so I am happy for him.
All the stuff, sure. But I have yet to find a scenario that doesn't involve at least one of them.
I’d love to trust these numbers, but it’s very hard to, partly as the article provided absolutely no analysis. To me, it just looks like a blatant advertisement for their services. “What does it mean? They’re both important! Spend your money with us!”
I've got the same issue actually - I've been thinking of using Postach.io as a way to collect random musings and photos of text in books I'm reading / pondering.
Apple's broken promise: why doesn't iCloud 'just work'?
It's also very unjust. Where were Douglas Engelbart's billions? Tim Berners-Lee, is he a billionaire? No, we have 17 year olds making quick millions gluing together the work of dozens of Ph.D's who will never see that kind of money in their lifetimes.

I'm not sure this is fair. Look at the number of entrepreneurs that actually succeed, then look at the positions that people with a CS Ph.D actually end up in. On average (using a median), I'm willing to bet those with a CS Ph.d do a lot better than your average startup founder. We just hear about success stories.

All of this is also ignoring the huge benefits that come with becoming a professor, if you are able to. The kind of pay, job security, and benefits that come with the MIT professorship that Berners-Lee has are enormously beneficial to ones peace of mind.
I would argue for Docker, but i'm biased :)
Spotify API with clients libraries and test console
Aneth. . . . you're reading our mind. Come back to Quantopian on Thursday. I think you'll like what you see.

Yes, there are people who trade today and make money using algorithms. They are few and far between, mostly because the toolset is so hard to build. Data, backtester, trading platform, etc. all take a long time to build. We're trying to make it much easier by providing all the tools. You need an idea; we'll make the rest work for you.