skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suspect that YC has done very well as a fund.

But I also suspect that the partners have all made FAR more by investing individually into YC companies after they've been in YC. Here are links to some of the investments YC partners have made. (I suspect there are more... these are what are shown in Crunchbase.)

Paul Buchheit: http://www.seed-db.com/investorgraph/investorview?investorid...
Garry Tan: http://www.seed-db.com/investorgraph/investorview?investorid...

So in a way... Paul's stake in YC is kind of irrelevant. :) (Also, I think he's having a lot of fun with YC, which really makes it irrelevant.)
HeartWave: world first lactic-acid / ECG / HR sport sensor goes to Indiegogo
This project tries to replace existing HR-only sensors. HeartWave uses NeedForSpeed style UI to introduce complex ECG signal to sport market.
It is straightforward if you read the license closely with hardware in mind, but I've been releasing stuff under the BSD license for much longer than I've been doing embedded development. I thought I knew what the BSD license meant, but my understanding of it hadn't considered the implications for hardware distribution, and I imagine that's true for most people.

As interest grows in open-source hardware and embedded development, it's something worth drawing attention to. Not every vendor will mention the license, some will just shrug and move on.
Perfect at the moment... we don't have decentralized personal data storage yet and "hidden secret offsite offline backups" is a big regression in terms of usability.

Encryption is the big missing piece in a lot of cloud computing.

That being said, this is still about the law and not technology. Although I'm confident in technologies ability to provide self-defence.
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And the US more than 100 years ago wasn't too different from contemporary developing countries, either.
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I disagree with some of these. But mainly 2. Computer and 4. Local storage. While, the definitions can be bent any which way, I don't think people will be using PC's the way they have been and are today. I'd suspect we move more to a cloud based server setup, where our phone/tablet/laptop have some local stuff on it, but for the most part everything else is hosted.

Which is why I think the same will be true for local storage. Yes, some local storage will always exist. But as we see today with SSD's, you'll have your apps, or things you need most, locally, everything else will be remote (similar to a secondary drive today). The OS will be smart enough to move the things around as necessary. All our devices should be "connected" all the time so worrying about being on wifi or not shouldn't be an issue.

17 yrs is a long time. Just look at 17 yrs ago...
Well the 30" market is 101PPI and has been for almost 9 years by my memory. A 40% jump isn't too bad after all that time.
I don't know that their opinions are as varied as all that. Certainly they express that full range, but in my experience, they're all just contrarians of one stripe or another at heart, with the "God" or "CFC" stuff being rationalizations that stem from a belief that climate change is false, rather than the other way around.

If there were substantial numbers of people going from evidence to the conclusion that climate change is not real, then I could see not labeling them all with the same term, but there isn't.
What makes you think they'd switch back to 16:10? (I'd love it if they did)
It was never my intention that people who use my open-source library complicate their supply chain by pushing additional work onto their customers.

The paperwork wouldn't necessarily just mean slapping a post-it™ note on the product, it could involve paying for lawyers, translators, and so on.
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"[Javascript] is functional. Really."

I don't really agree; just because a language has first-class functions and closures, that doesn't make it a functional language. Sure, you can write functional-style code in Javascript, but you can do that in almost any language, many of which don't have first-class functions and closures.
A. Always. B. Be. C. Coding.
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check out http://makezine.com/. it features articles on RPi projects from time to time. It has dead-tree version as well.
First of all, if you really are an anarchist you need to think a little bit more about the implications of an anarchist society (or whatever) and grow up a little bit.

I sometimes feel sad for Linux as a platform, the whole computing landscape changed beneath their feet (desktop to mobile) and they never really grasped old one to begin with.[1] It's like the rug was taken from beneath their feet.[2] And then I think that a lot of that is unwarranted, by most metrics linux is doing very well today. You can casually find Linux users on college campuses and linux developers working on the most popular websites but it feels like it would never be the tidal wave of change that some people expected. I never did (and I say it as a long time linux user) and as long as the FLOSS community keeps working on creating the best desktop the FLOSS movement can make I don't need it.

[1] This also means that there are a lot of new opportunities for the linux platform to take advantage of.

[2] And yeah I know, "android is Linux" yada yada but I mean the traditional Linux platform.
A change is as good as a rest. Maybe coding isn't his primary 'job'? I myself started on the business side, so the evenings and weekends learning to code were great fun and I definitely didn't see them as negative
What about www.nitrous.io (ex action.io)?
I know they just introduced a new verification policy and are aiming to collect info on hosts and renters so they enforce some accountability and what not. Maybe if they also forced hosts to prove that listing their place on the site does not violate their lease and/or local regulations in order to actually list it. It seems all the backlash articles I've seen talk a lot about violating your lease. This can vary from building to building and is a total non-issue for non-rentals. I own my house. If I wanted to list it on AirBnB I do not believe there is any legal issue for me. In theory, there isn't anything illegal about AirBnB any more than there is anything illegal about BitTorrent. Both of which are tools that serve a very legitimate and legal purpose. Some people use them illegally (by current laws, regardless of your opinion if that use should be illegal).
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To be fair, that's literally the point of a search warrant (/subpoena/"demand letter"). It's a bit like saying that the phone company has already done all the work identifying who you call. Well, yes, that's what you use them for. I assume your point is more that we use these services for more than any one service in the past.

The real issue in this case, however, is that the FBI can request the data and no one will ever know that they did. That can only lead to abuse. How many of those 192,499 requests were actually used to fight terrorism? Well, we can't find out...
I think the real audience is programmers who are parents. Much like HTML for Babies -- http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0615487661
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MIT's New programming framework for reinforcement-learning experiments
MIT's New programming framework to make it easier to set up & run reinforcement-learning experiments

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/machine-learning-algorithm-outperforms-predecessors-0529.html
Intel Science Fair does more harm than good, since when it was the Westinghouse. It is one of the vestiges of privilege, where a bunch of rich (and a few lucky) kids get to hang out in a research lab and then write up the lab's work as their own, earning a branding of "genius" unavailable to the less privileged class.

Why is it harmful, you may ask? Because every smart kid who didn't get handed a professional project to submit, and doesn't know the game, thinks that he/she is so much less smart/hardworking/creative/accomplished than these supposed geniuses, and is discouraged from continuing in science research.

Lab experience is great for kids, and we should be expanding that experience to everyone, not using it as a tool to cement the position of the upper classes.
Not him, but the people whose data he hosted. Dotcom was acting as an ISP, not a consumer.
That library looks cool! I wrote a Go client library for Braintree the other day if you want to take a look.

https://github.com/lionelbarrow/braintree-go
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My main thought would be to work on creating some custom enclosures for some of the "just circuit board" things I bought.
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People talk about Retina displays etc ... but back in 2003 (yes, 10 years ago) ViewSonic had even higher resolution display called the "ViewSonic VP2290b" [1]

It was 3840x2400 in just a 22" display. It has a 204dpi and again, that was 10 years ago.

Any for the nay sayers, yes - this was mass produced to the point that IBM was selling them as the T220 display [2]

[1] http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/viewsonic-vp2290b-lcd-m...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors
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Sure, it's a generalization. There are a lot of self-made entrepreneurs in the developing world. There are also a lot of tycoons getting rich in the oil and gas industries because of cozy relationships with corrupt governments.
Ask HN: all the macs in the room are 41m early, do yours too?
So basically all the macs in the room I'm in (mine included) are 41 minutes early. We are all either on Apple timeservers, but I am on pool.ntp.org. Are we the only ones? Paris timezone here.

See for yourself: http://i.imgur.com/D00IFMW.png
You are correct that there is a big danger of a duopoly. The previously Microsoft-dominated world of computing was boring and in places stagnant. Repeating that hegemony would also be boring and stagnant.

That's one reason why I think viable ecosystems are valuable. The question is whether someone can stitch together a Tizen/Yahoo/OEM or Jolla/Baidu/OEM, etc. axis and make it work.
$1499 maybe, pulling off a 4K in 24" at the market rate 30" is going for is a tall order.
> If there is no incentive for white hats, they just won't play the game.

There are more incentives than money. Some people like the thrill, some like the "thanks!" from the person they helped, some just like fucking around with web security.
Also, being listed on FB's responsible disclosure page isn't worthless.
Man, that reminded me of the days when you'd design a great website, only to view it in IE a week later and realize that there were purple borders around all your image links. Apparently Chrome for Mac is verrrry lenient when it comes to relative positioning on <th>s.

Anyway, just pushed a quick fix. Sorry Firefox + Opera folk!

edit: Github pages still building :(
Following on from leaving the thread of the topic…

I've yet to see a single early retirement blog deal with the issues of investment risk, inflation risk and longevity risk properly. It's starting to drive me a tad potty. I will literally buy you a [starbucks] cookie and mail it to an address of your choosing if you promise to start using "Expected Annualised Real Return" instead of "average interest".

To be specific about the problem, a 4% annual interest over 4 years could represent: 2%,2%,4%,8%. Those will result in something different to a flat 4% pa. If you are going to have a withdrawal you need to work out what you do in the 2% years, because otherwise you have less money earning interest than expected and your gap starts to widen. Now what if the fed prints a crapload of money to lessen the national debt load, and you are suddenly facing $10 coffees?

Anything other than the risk free rate needs to be treated properly, as a risky return, or we are going to see in 40 years a lot of people who thought they'd saved enough for early retirement, but it turns out they had not.

Disclaimer: I am an actuarial student working in investment at a pensions consultancy. My living revolves around trying to quantify these risks.
I don't know. It's certainly a sign that the quality here has gone down, but at least the quality is still good enough that such an ignorant comment still stands out as such.
This is a cool project idea. You should run some sort of automated "clarity" detection to get numbers/statistics on air quality in Beijing.
The "public domain" designation has its own problems, nicely summarized on Google Code (https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/FAQ#Can_I_host_code_t...).

In particular, Dr. Richard Hipp (SQLite's main author) has talked about problems that came up from releasing it into the public domain. He eventually created a second license specifically for companies in places that didn't legally recognize the public domain, and wanted to make sure they were protected from liability.

Licensing is complicated.
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Police have to return material..

<sarcasm>aaawwwwww</sarcasm>
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National Security Letters are warrant-less. A search by the government is [should be] only legal if it meets the conditions of the Fourth Amendment.
This sounds like an awesome project! The artist in me loves stuff like this.
great idea, i think this is needed and might be useful with many other products. i will follow this one for sure.
I don't think wise.io are competition for Myna. The tech does fairly different things, and I think we're targeting completely different markets.

As for whether my comment was misplaced or not -- I guess that's up to the community to decide if they care to do such a thing. I do admit it was a bit snarky, but I also genuinely do find the titles a bit amusing.

Tying in to another post on the front page right now, I do think that generalists are advantageous in early stage companies, and titles tend to be more appropriate with specialisation.
I don't see why this is a problem. The manufacturer of the hardware is the only person bound by the license since they're the only people copying, the only people who need to have the software licensed to them. They're bound to give a copy of that notice to anyone who buys their stuff, but nobody downstream has to care, they're protected by the Doctrine of First Sale[1]. Unless the author lives in a country where that doesn't apply.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
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I think it's easier. They already have the relationship with us, we are familiar with the product, we fill in all the existing gaps, etc.
>Yes, your coffee is great and wonderful, it's what you look forward to, etc etc. I'll first say that the majority of people don't have such an intimate connection to coffee

...

>I don't even drink coffee and I get this analogy they're making.

I think those two quotes are related. You don't understand.

...

>I wouldn't say that with such disdain if not for the fact that you clearly think the world of your coffee, yet can't bother to think for the extra two seconds it takes to realize that there is definitively something in your life you buy regularly, that is of no use to you, that you get more because it's simply there.

caffeine is by far my favorite addictive drug. It's special in that most other drugs that are even close to as pleasurable carry with them significant dangers, or, at the very least, interfere with my ability to work effectively. Caffeine is the opposite; not only does it feel good, it makes me far more effective.

Like most addictive drugs, though, the delivery mechanism? it tastes really good to the regular users. And much like old scotch, fans can get something out of relatively small differences in process. I mean, I am okay being actively dependent on caffeine in ways that I'm not okay being actively dependent on alcohol, so price does matter more... I've got a moderately high threshold for "expensive" when it comes to whiskey, for instance, 'cause I'll go through a few bottles a year. If I needed a double to get up every morning, I'd pay more attention to how much the stuff costs.

But yeah, uh, middle-class people regularly paying extra for "special preparation" of their drug of choice is a luxury, to be certain, but it is a very traditional luxury.
I am yet again reminded that I made the right decision to not go there.

I really think the Valley is coasting on its 90s mythos of being a hotbed of genuine creativity, real opportunity, and interesting cutting-edge culture. Today it sounds like an overcrowded, overbought, overpriced workaholic golden handcuff treadmill. The radical futurist "burning man" culture seems almost gone, having been priced out or workaholiced out-- no time to do interesting "maker" things or create culture when you're doing 80 hour work weeks. I know a few people who live there and they say the same.

A few replies mentioned Modafinil/Armodafinil and Adderall. I have nothing against nootropic stacking, but feeling like you have to take something just to keep up with the baseline is a sign of a deeply dysfunctional workaholic culture.

Many other large overhyped cities are not much better. If I wanted a mega-city I'd pick New York-- expensive as fsck but tons of culture and a deep, diverse economy. Also genuinely not needing a car cuts into the cost somewhat.

A lot of the downsides mentioned apply to startup culture no matter where you are. Fake mentors, incubator gators, networkaholics, and sanctimonious self-righteous sociopaths are major potholes on the entrepreneureal highway.

Where to go to do genuinely innovative work or really bootstrap a labor of love?

The former, I'd say hard to say. Maybe academia if you can handle a vow of poverty, or maybe an established company with a lot of R&D going on.

The latter? I'd look at smaller tech centers like Austin or Boulder, less overbought cities like Seattle, Chicago, and Toronto, or towns and smallish cities with a tech, R&D, geek, or major university presence or just a nice quality of life.

Some examples of the latter include Bloomington (IN), Lansing (MI), Ann Arbor (MI), Asheville (NC), Oak Ridge (TN), Orlando (FL), Roswell (NM), Santa Fe (NM), Huntsville (AL), etc. Note that a lot of these are in the South or the Midwest, not the trendiest of places.

Then there are total contrarian choices: Detroit (cheap real estate, interesting maker subculture) or bumblefuck nowhere.
Yeah, to some extent I'm speaking out my ass a bit since I don't know the full details. If the judge issuing the warrants acted improperly, fire him. If the judge shouldn't have issued the warrant, but the chief shouldn't have asked for it, reprimand them both. If everyone acted legally but the laws are stupid, fire the legislators and get new laws. You've got to find the right point to apply your anger to effect appropriate change.
Selling vulns/exploits may be distasteful, but it's not illegal.
This is what I do with RaspBMC. It's fairly nice, except for times that XBMC locks up (like when indexing all of my music on my fileserver over UPnP). It appears that more than a few places in XBMC they aren't checking return values (eg, calls to malloc() and such). It's something I've been meaning to look into, but time is not always available.
I can only talk for my own Mac but no, its time is correct: 18:03. Both when using time.euro.apple.com and pool.ntp.org.
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Quick question about golang. In your code, go.user / user.go
You have a Boolean function Guest(). Is this a common practice in Golang vs. writing it as IsGuest() ?

Thanks for sharing, BTW!
He has no duty.

If he is going to use the white hat label, which he does, then he does in fact have that duty. If he chooses to hide the vulnerability or sell the knowledge and/or exploit to another party, that's his choice of course, but then he cannot use the white hat label.

The 4.5K is representative of how much they care about customer privacy. That's what, I think, his only point is.

I understand that's the point he's trying to make, but I respectfully disagree since as previously stated I view the reward as a gesture of good will and not as a payment for services rendered.
To be fair the NSL is the same thing as a warrant minus the judicial oversight (and possible paper trail). A NSL isn't diametrically different than a warrant.
As a UK resident, they just got the word wrong.
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V8 is implementing optimizations for asm.js, as highlighted in Google I/O. (It is ignoring the "use asm" directive, though.) So there is some measure of buy-in from other browser vendors.

There is also a spec for asm.js and a relatively small API footprint, making it an open standard, albeit one not (yet) sanctioned by ECMA.
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As a multilingual speaker (English, Mandarin, French, all fluent) who eventually let English take over as my main language here's what I think.

If you learned two languages since birth you develop two language sites. I read somewhere that the Wernicke's area is divided into two if you do this as well. Perhaps auditory memories are triggered based on language as well. You think and have internal dialogues in different languages which triggers completely different memories. This explains why one might lose one language, but keep the other one.

Whereas, for learning languages later in life, a person tends to translate the new language into the main language. The internal dialogue is always in the form of the main language. The memories are one contiguous experience based on one language. Often, when self examining during meditations, it is hard to make out what language is used. This explains why a brain problem will wipe out sections of speaking ability across all languages because they are all eventually translated from the main language.

Like people who started with C, we tend to think in C and see how new languages add on to C and just remembers the new rules of the new language relative to C instead of having a completely new life experience from ground up of learning the new programming language.

In short: Bane said: "I was born in darkness, you simply adapted"
I look at start 8 too... I choose start is back because it uses as much of the ms api that are already installed, so is the one that produces the closest start button... now they even have a xp mode with the cascade menu... I missed that, I really don;t like the scrolling because the cascade allows me to point and click without having to search first.
As a professional Erlang developer who now develops with Elixir, I need to stop this right here. This is NOT just about syntax. Elixir simply is not just a pretty face for Erlang, but enables metaprogramming that is simply NOT possible in Erlang without writing 10x more code. Elixir comes with it's own standard library, HashDict, Reducers, and more and more. I'll have to write another blog post, because this misconception that Elixir is just a prettier syntax is somehow still around.
Does not work for me on firefox, safari, chrome
@arbuge 100% agree that the non-mobile web has advantages over mobile - and that many people have become blinded to that fact. Thanks for the comments!
That used to be the case, but these days it is mostly satellite data.

The newer civilian satellites (a lot of them are dual-purpose military/civilian) are capable of resolutions below 1m. ~2m resolution satellite imagery has been available for over a decade now (e.g. the IKONOS and recent SPOT satellites).

I think (?) most of Google's imagery currently comes from the GeoEye-1 satellite, which they partially funded.
8ms GTG response time is probably fine for most users but isn't great. Even Monoprice's cheap IPS displays are 6ms.
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