skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually sleep on my side but, when I do, I never dream. If I force myself to sleep flat on my back, I almost always dream. What's up with that?
>–It’s harder to get a license. From 1996 to 2006, every state enacted graduated driving laws that make it more cumbersome for young people to get licenses. “Young people must now take more behind-the-wheel training (which is more expensive), fulfill additional requirements for permits, and once they are allowed to drive, they are often restricted to driving in the daytime without passengers.” The number of younger Americans without a driver’s license has risen from 21 percent to 26 percent since 2001.

This is a great development, considering the recklessness of many young drivers and their relatively high accident rates.

I always thought that the roads would be much safer if our legal drinking age and legal driving ages were switched, so that we'd have years of experience dealing with the effects of alcohol before we hit the roads, which would hopefully decrease incidents of driving under the influence of alcohol.
HBO has a bullheaded insistence on distribution through cable operators, though. I can watch Netflix without a cable connection but HBO actively refuses to even think about an Internet-only subscriber model.

It's reminiscent of Sony's attempt to keep their content studios and product groups under the same tent. Any company whose business model is based on running unstoppable forces into immovable objects is always going to be at a competitive disadvantage in the long term. HBO just hasn't figured that out yet.
Exactly. There's a time element to this. It takes 7-11 years for a startup to go public. Your life changes during that time and so does the relative impact of your salary on runway.
Yes, other things were quite nice too. It wasn't the only good thing, just the best.
Has Apple ever bought a high-profile company? They make acquisitions now and then, but they seem to be mostly (all?) companies that have solid tech but aren't on the public radar, or at least weren't pre-purchase: P.A. Semi, Siri, that kind of thing. Arguably NeXT falls into that category as well, although it's a bit of a special case since it was Jobs's company.
> I'm working on a thing right now that's integrated with Facebook, and I'm excited about it.

As someone who's done that sort of thing, and has had to support it for two years, I can only wish you the very best of luck.
Just a side note. I worked at a YC startup, but did not found one.

> I would first of all argue that monetary value should not be the primary consideration of deciding to go to college.

Which I agreed with (I am in college right now, after all).
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Could be they're updating the pages for WWDC 2013. I want to say last year it was released on April 25th.
What's the fun in a rolling restart. It's probably Apple strategy to bring down the site and get some speculations up every time this happens.
I always think of driving a car as managing a steam engine machine during the industrial revolution. There're levers, and pedals and cogwheels, and everything needs to be pulled and turned in certain directions. Short, I hate it and it is bad for the environment. Also, cars are expensive, need a lot of care, consume space, and going anywhere always ends up searching frantically for parking space. I rather outsource the whole transportation business to public transport and then I can also code or read while I'm moving and not have to administer this weird steam-engine-like machinery.
I have never signed in to any google account on my Galaxy Nexus. It works OK but I don't really install apps - it's too much of a hassle to track down the APKs.
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A romantic matchmaking Web site.

Actually I tried in 1995 but gave up due to:

(1) At the time, the Internet and/or dialup
bandwidth was too small for sending pictures
of people easily.

(2) I was trying to develop on OS/2, which
seemed to be more advanced than Windows in
1995, but there the infrastructure for building
such a Web site was still very poor.

(3) For storing photographs of people, hard
disk prices were still too high.

(4) I was highly concerned about privacy,
e.g., concerned that some pretty woman
would have her picture and information
on the site, and some wacko would download
all that info, print it out, and put it
up on trees, lamp posts, doors, walls,
in men's rooms, etc.

(5) Believed that, still, really needed
a walk-in local office, as was common
at the time. That is, could not expect
that could do it all with just a Web
site. In the local office wanted an
environment for couples to be introduced
that would be safe for the woman.

(6) At the time, the matchmaking industry
was moving from data on paper in books
to video clips in VCR cassettes to be
viewed in a walk-in local office. I
wanted to have the video clips in
digital form that could be viewed
on computers in the office, but then
the conversion of video from analog
to video took way too much computing
power, and the disk space cost was
way too high. Also the operating
systems didn't supply easy means of
working with digital video.

(7) Was concerned about how to keep
up the image and reputation of the
company that it was for serious
romantic matchmaking, e.g., looking
for a spouse, and not for another
version of pimps and prostitutes.

So, I gave it up.

Lesson 1: A lot of those 'social'
concerns in the end people don't
much care about.

Lesson 2: The infrastructure was not
ready, and developing it just for that
project would have been way too
expensive. E.g., Firewire was just
getting started; there was a prototype
card for a few thousand dollars; there
was no device driver software.

But all the infrastructure
did become ready, solid, and very
cheap but for much more general
purposes than just romantic matchmaking.
So, even if the needed general infrastructure
is possible, likely can't afford to develop
it just for one, narrow purpose but likely
can get it for free if just wait until
it gets developed for larger considerations.

Lesson 3: The project just needed to wait
5-10 years.
These photos are breathtaking -- the sort of thing that makes one feel small in a colossal and complex world. It is the landscape of Milton and Dante come to life, beautiful and terrifying, ferocious and serene.

But, Dude. Really? Standing on a curved precipice over a river of fire? You are absolutely fucking insane.
Par for the course...
You didn't find a cofounder. You found a date for a party. In six months you may look back at this post and facepalm, or you may have a healthy relationship. You just don't know yet.
HBO is gaining a lot of traction outside of the US, especially in Scandinavia with HBO Nordic (HBO GO equivalent without a cable subscription). So they have the platform to do it, which means if the cable market starts plummeting they can pivot and start offering it as a seperate package rather than an add-on for cable.

I have hope that they will do this, but looking at the history it's far from certain.
Fantastic, thanks for the heads up.
often a waste of time (though I see a lot of traffic on HN about computer games...)

Wait, what?
It's not exactly a bullheaded insistence. They're owned by Time Warner Cable.
Great idea. It would be nice to vote on some of the ideas and then filter the most voted...
Maybe a way to filter by popularity too?
> HBO actively refuses to even think about an Internet-only subscriber model.

And you know this how? I'm pretty sure the execs at HBO have run the numbers.

Why HBO Can't Afford To Offer A Stand-Alone Streaming Service
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/05/11/why-hbo-cant...
Flash based electronic greeting cards.
Aka, worse is better.

http://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
//It’s harder to get a license. From 1996 to 2006//

As the parent of two teenagers, it is my opinion that at least in VA, it is still way too easy to get a license.

Although neither of mine had that desire to get a license as soon as possible, like we did as kids. My son didn't get his until weeks before his 18th birthday. My 17 year old daughter still just has a permit and doesn't seem to be in any hurry either, which is fine with me.
A better reason to downvote that comment (which I didn't do) is that the performance of important cryptosystems is limited by MD5, SHA1, and RC4 performance. Cryptosystems like, say, TLS.

Fun fact, by the way: there aren't any practical attacks on HMAC-MD5.
My guess is this is exactly what they're planning to do, but that a revenue tipping point hasn't been reached in the US yet: cable subscriptions still provide too much money for them to be willing to flip the switch. Experimenting in Scandinavia lets them lay the groundwork without prematurely giving up the huge US cable revenue stream.
Coding will not save you
The problem with this is that the actual transit cost per GB never seems to come close to what the ISPs charge. $1.20 per GB could very well be 100 times what the ISP ends up paying to actually move the GB. The basic problem is that the up-front infrastructure and maintenance costs are expensive, but the transit is extremely cheap. So, unless the ISP charges a base minimum amount, a heavy user just ends up heavily subsidizing the infrastructure and maintenance costs of the light users.

Not to mention that charging by byte is a great way to stifle innovation on the web. Basically, I would disagree with your assessment.
Big data/analytics to benefit fantasy sports
Despite the above being pessimistic, it is absolutely (and sadly) spot on.

Let me detail a little bit, as often short concise posts are only evident to those with the experience, and appear dismissive or not very constructive to those without.

The best candidates for co-founders are people you've already worked with, in a situation where your livelihood didn't depend on it (school project, same team at another company, etc.).

When you launch a company with someone, you will essentially spend all of your waking hours in their company. That includes the long hours at the office, but also the phone calls at 11pm, the emails at 9 in the morning on Sundays, etc.

In order for this to work out, you need someone you absolutely trust and can communicate effectively with, in the context of a healthy professional relationship.

It's hard. I have really close friends with whom I would never start a company; there are people people I have worked with and deeply admire with whom I would never start a company. It's really hard.

That's why if you want to maximize your chances of it working out, you have to really be confident about your choice. Picking someone you'd never met the week prior and making them your cofounder can work out, just like it can fail miserably. There are already so many variables in a startup; why add another unnecessary one?

(I'm glad I wrote this entire post without making a parallel with marriage! :D )
It seems that at least for the moment GB will be repackaging the existing Homeworld games (2, maybe 1) so that they can be purchased over Steam/another platform. There don't seem to be plans for another game yet.

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1029/homew...
One problem is that often the data is highly valued -- the team may have spent years building it.

That was clearly not the case with the flawed paper this OP is concerning itself with. So, not a valid excuse in this case.

At any rate, the team should learn to write papers as they build up the data set. That way they always have a little more data than anyone else working with it. Because without release of the data on which a given paper is based, there's no way to know if the paper is actually valid.
>You should not rely on services you're not paying for

Whereas you should rely on services you're paying for?

How are they different?

Terms of service even for paid services are BS anyway, and it's not like you will sue them.
Nice article. Never written much JavaScript myself, but as an Objective-C / iOS developer I understand the delegation part well, as it's an integral part of Apple's UIKit and AppKit API's. Though the concept was kind of alien to me before I started writing Objective-C code.

A few years ago, when I started learning Objective-C I used a book written by Aaron Hillegass. I liked the way he explained delegation vs. subclassing:

> Once upon a time (before Baywatch) there was a man with no name. Knight Industries decided that if this man were given guns and wheels and booster rockets, he would be the perfect crime-fighting tool. First they thought, "Let's subclass him and override everything we need to add the guns and wheels and booster rockets." The problem was to subclass Michael Knight, you would need to know an awful lot about his guts so that you could wire them to guns and booster rockets. So instead they created a helper object (delegate), the Knight Industries 2000 Super Car, or "Kitt."

> Notice how this is different from the RoboCop approach. RoboCop was a man subclassed and extended. The whole RoboCop project involved dozens of surgeons to extend the man's brain into a fighting machine. This is the approach taken by many object-oriented frameworks.

Source: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass.
Can someone give us an overview of the state of ZFS on Linux? Last time I had checked it was implemented over fuse. Has this changed?
I'm 19 and attending university. The local bus system has a bus that goes from literally in front of my apartment to the heart of campus, and it's free for students. I buy things from Amazon or a supermarket that's only about a mile away. Almost all of my entertainment is digital in some fashion (usually downloaded TV shows or movies). And I don't live in a huge city -- its population is about 100k. I have a car that I use maybe once a week at best. I just don't see the point in driving all that much.
Crowdtilt, rapidly growing, hiring lead iOS developer
I am either missing something or this article is way off as this 768-bit cracked RSA key shows http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-768
>It's prototypical OO. Don't swim against the current. Swim with the current.

The current seems to be what the developers want to do. And JS doesn't really let them.

Why define the current as the arbitrary capability of a random language?
FWIW, If you use one of the largest instance types (4x large or whatever), the VM will probably be on it's own host which would mean you're unlikely to have neighbors ;)
This post has already been done before under the title "On the value of a better mouse trap".
You may have a point. It's not how I would do things but maybe that's why I'm not the boss.
When you exceed your limit they charge you a penalty.
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I laughed at the "incredibly simple" bit myself. I'm sure it must seem that way to people who live at the top of the stack doing javascript hackery and MongoDB maintenance. It's amusing how few people, even in this world of open source everywhere, have ever bothered to do something as simple (in an only-slightly-ironic sense of "simple") as build an OS distribution. Android might be the "simplest" of this kind of thing, and it's still a 10G+ tree.
I'm not sure I understand what problem you mentioned you see here. I think most people know social difficulties are associated with ASD. What constructive additions would you add to the article, beyond just "these people will never be good managers" or other such unfortunate stereotypes?

Also FYI your implication that aspergers etc. limits collaborative ability is wrong. The only difference, in my case, is a lack of small talk, fluff, and emotional context. While this may impact promotions in workplaces where politics trumps technical ability, for many people it does not impact ability to communicate eloquently and collaborate efficiently.

In fact co-workers who know me well especially enjoy brainstorming with me, I've been told, because you can't offend me by shooting down my ideas, suggesting scrapping entire lines of work, etc. (this is one positive benefit in my particular case of aspergers).

Conversely though, it takes a lot of effort for me to constantly remember how sensitive and attached people can be to their ideas. This requires a careful effort to walk on eggshells when pointing out bad designs, dangerous code, etc., but generally is not a problem as long as I formulate a good social protocol for such situations.
"This is a great development, considering the recklessness of many young drivers and their relatively high accident rates."

Is it? Is it working? I just spent five minutes on Google trying to answer that question, but if it's out there it's buried under megabytes of high-Google-juice warnings about teenaged driving.

It's only a positive development if it's working. If it isn't working, then it's just an expensive imposition sucking away time and funds that could have been spent on something more productive. But I honestly don't know which is the case. Anyone have a better bead on analysis than I do? I think it's an interesting question. Many of these programs have been going on for long enough that there ought to be an answer out there somewhere.
true.

irrc there is only a constant factor of time difference between the two.
Or it might be that the prototype thing never really caught on and people want something more class like.

Why assume prototypes are better or that people should adapt to whatever (potentially BS) way a language offers for organizing code, instead of the other way around (languages should adapt to the way people want to use them).
It's a responsive issue, not sure if it's intentional or not.

At browser widths of about 1400px and above, a buffer appears on the right hand side of the page. If your cursor is in that area the main content div won't scroll.

I'm thinking it may be an error since the main content div stops expanding at about 1400px but the black header/nav does. At widths lower than 1400px the header and content div expand/shrink together and the scrolling problem does not occur since the content div fills the full width of the page to right.
I run my own email.

Price: Already paying for internet connection anyway.

Custom domain name: Necessary - but not that expensive anymore.

Storage size: limited only by how much storage I'm willing to buy.
Well, in 4 years you would be making a lot more than 80k, and you would probably have 10x the number of connections if you've even made any marginal effort to network (going to meetups, inviting people to have coffee/lunch, etc.)
How long would Netflix's contracts last if it was Apple (huge threat to media companies) who owned them?

Netflix has already lost some of it's content because they were deemed too big of threat to the content provider's main business (e.g.: Starz [1])... I only imagine this problem would magnify 100x if Netflix were owned by Apple.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/29/technology/netflix_starz/ind...
You made a page that doesn't display in firefox? http://imgur.com/OrPMl6g
I really like this.

The only thing that kinda threw me off a bit was putting the partials in the /views/sync/resource/ folder. Feels a bit non-RESTy.

I imagine, for a sufficiently complex app that sync folder will become a bit messy - although, I guess it's like the 'layout' folder.

That's just me being nitpicky though.

This is awesome.

As others pointed out, this would be perfect if it weren't for the fact that you have to use additional resources to use it properly. i.e. another dyno for Faye or use Pusher.

Thanks for this though.

Edit: One thing I would love to know is how this interacts with caching though. Russian Doll Caching specifically. Every time an attributed is update, does it bust the entire cache and have to reload that entire fragment - as opposed to just the partial?
I really hope you're not being literal here, this is just offensive through and through with the most cursory of deeper consideration.

First, you want to violate the rights of ALL for the sake of whatever less-than-100% who do consume alcohol. Nice. Why don't we also set up a national curfew for all adults, including the few law-abiding ones, since we know a larger portion of crimes happen when it is dark outside? Thank god you aren't in political power.

Second. Just because you had the privilege of living in places that may have been survivable without a car, you would subject the 90% of the population living in a situation where meaningful economic activity REQUIRES traversing at least some miles of highway to essentially being shut-in for 5 extra years. That's 5 years with no chance to get a part time job, accumulate work experience, participate in meaningful things... My parents have full time jobs, no they would not even have had the option of giving me a ride if they wanted to had I wanted a job in high school -- nevermind with 3 brothers you are talking about them being chaperones for 5 hours/day. Seriously bugger off.

I question the "recklessness" of younger drivers having a correlation with age and not simply with years behind the wheel. I have an Indian co-worker who is almost 30 and he just got move to high-risk insurance, only 2 years exp driving. I'm 30 and have been speeding 15 years now, perfect record without even a parking ticket and I pay $48 insurance on a luxury car.
Does anyone have a corresponding graph of passenger air-miles flown for the same period? I'm curious about the impact of lower-cost airlines and if "road-trip" vacations have been substituted by airline trips.
People have already beaten you to it, with accurate ID and everything: http://www.onda-tablet.com/onda-v818-mini-quad-core-7-9-inch... (they probably have one that copies the big iPad, too, with the same panel mentioned in the article...).
I completely agree. The way I put it in the incubator application was "Finding a cofounder is half-way between finding a housemate and a significant other". There's no way to tell whether anything like this will work out right away.

Regardless, we'll see what happens. Some people were interested in the analytics behind the site, so that was one of my primary reasons for posting - and the backstory to give context.
The implication is that computer games are a waste of time. This is a belief often held by people who have not realized that "waste of time" is not a globally defined function.
I don't understand why no one has sued google over this... That would be my first reaction...
WebRTC is not in gecko 18 which is the version Firefox OS will initially ship with (ffos versions 1.0.1 and 1.1). WebRTC support should make it into firefox os when we pull from mozilla central again to branch off version 1.2, but development won't be getting started on 1.2 until later in the summer.
I really hope Netflix doesn't get bought by anyone, especially Apple. What they're doing is great and they don't need a bigger guy behind them.
Since this is going the same pattern as all other internet discussions (and since you assume an awful lot about people who disagree with you) I'll just refer you to the wisdom of The Dude: "Well, that's like your opinion, man."
I'm using the twentytwelve WordPress theme which utilises the Open Sans Google Font - maybe a cdn issue? shrug.