skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the media had done their job and covered the protest when it started getting big, or when the tear gas started flowing, I'd understand.

However, there was a near blackout for the first few DAYS of the protest and the only news was social media. I, too, have friends in Istanbul and have been given first hand accounts. The number of apolitical members of this protest are staggering. As a friend said, the generation was brought up to be apolitical after their parents had grown up in an over-politicized and protest-heavy culture that led to the coup and horror stories of abuse of political prisoners.

(BTW, everyone I've talked to only decided to go out after the tear gassing had been started; the demonstration was in support of the demonstration rather than the original Gezi Parki protest.)
The lack of controls on that business forever made me wary of using cadaver parts for transplants.

I didn't know that, but cadaver parts freak me out so when I had my ACL done I did the standard patellagraph. If I tear the same knee again I'll have to go cadaver or hamstring, but hopefully that never happens (knock on wood). The problem with the hamstring is it never quite heals as strong.

As an aside, pro-athletes typically go cadaver because the time to heal can be quicker. They probably aren't getting bad ones though.
Our existing established currencies (USD, EUR, etc) were born out as an easier way of bartering (i.e. don't have to carry the the weight) or in form of exchangeable IOUs (I'll pay you back when I'll harvest).

I was just wandering if BTC could take the role that the shells used as money by our ancestors.

To add on top of that, for bartering there is no sales tax, etc.
7. In general, don’t start a startup you’re not willing to work on for ten years.

Best piece of advice he gave, and I think more important than "built something people want" (both are important).

But did he take the advise himself with Loopt..?
The Best Marketer in Silicon Valley Is...
Why not go one further and train their staff to search Flickr and Twitter for images instead?

What about firing all the editors and teaching the writers to do that themselves?

Get rid of all the janitorial staff and mandate everyone spend more time cleaning up.
Ah, point taken... but this may be a chicken-or-egg problem. If things are such in a company that a significant group of people start abusing WFH, that seems to imply morale has somehow been damaged and people aren't excited about their work(anymore?).
Is WFH-abuse causing low morale/productivity at work, or did something else cause the decline in morale/productivity thus resulting in WFH-abuse.... I dunno.
Sometimes you can certainly judge a person's personal ethics based on the work they choose to do.

But silly mobile games using a business model SV geeks don't like? No. In the grand scheme of things Zynga is trivial and harmless.
> Its an interesting (if controversial) theory, that your DNA is no more private to you than your fingerprints, and they already fingerprint you when you are arrested and put those fingerprints into a national database.

I find that argument entirely disingenuous. The only way they are equivalent is if the DNA information is stored in their DB as a cryptographic one-way hash. This would remove all additional information from the DNA and only use it for unique identification.

Let alone the fact that swabbing your mouth should be a violation of your privacy (and blood tests).
Lie detector tests are: 1) invasive; 2) highly unreliable.
I saw "ACL injury" and my first thought was "ultimate frisbee."
if in the future you get involved in a crime scene they won't have an arrow pointed straight at you.

Conversely, will knowing that "the government have my DNA" make people less likely to commit that future serious crime? It's all a balancing act...
I think if the judge in the monopoly trial had split the OS and Office into different companies it would have benefited the customers and the shareholders. (eg less network effect and more competition)
Links that represent real-world relationships are not meaningless, because a human being decided to create them. Those are exactly the sort of real-world "votes" that Page Rank is supposed to key off of.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, I got hellbanned for that comment.
Graphene Light Sensor 1,000x More Sensitive
As in: "The actual accuracy of DNA is closer to the percieved accurancy, in the public's mind, of DNA"
What the Heck Is Happening in Turkey? A FAQ for the Rest of Us
This doesn't leave you awestruck? http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0803/lh95_hst_big.jpg

I remember looking at that picture a while ago and thinking that it sucks that we'll never get to visit any of those million/billion/unlimited planets. Maybe in 1000 years they will be able to jump between planets with ease, but I don't think anyone alive today will ever be able to set foot on anything except Earth, the Moon, and Mars.
This is probably vitally important for the kind of company YC starts but consider
businesses that won't require you to do this, because retention is very very hard
too.

Retention is critical. What is your easiest, best hire? Continuing to employee someone you've already hired and who has worked well for you. Everyone complains about difficulty hiring and how expensive it is, but companies don't seem to do anything about it. How about proactively giving the sort of raises ($10-$20k) available by switching jobs? I used to work for a company that just whined about how hard hiring was while watching the median tenure of an engineer be 20 months. Not even to mention the 8 employees dedicated solely to hiring, so there went a quick $1mm per year as well.
There is only one definition of "legal": allowable under the law.

The constitution and the laws of your state outline your rights (if you live in the US). Part of the deal is that sometimes you can be arrested for crimes you didn't commit. But that's why we make sure that people who are arrested are guaranteed a speedy trial from a jury of their peers, etc.
> It's all a matter of perspective. If you come to arrest me for a crime I know I didn't commit, then no, the arrest is not "legal" per my definition of "legal".

How does that work? The police can only arrest people after they are convicted? They have to arrest them first and then charge them.
For which you have separate remedy. It's an unpleasant irony, but resisting an unlawful arrest is, itself, not lawful.
I was asked to renew our expiring VS licenses at my previous role, and was all but paralyzed by the bevy of options and bundles available.

What is the motivation behind having 10+ bundle and service options? Is it to trick us into buying the wrong thing, then forcing us to buy other addons that we initially didn't realize we needed? Is it an attempt to maximize sales by offering tons of bundle options to extract the maximum value out of the variety of customer needs that exist out there?

I guess shops that are even looking to buy VS are so locked into VS that we will spend the cognitive energy to figure out where the best value is for our needs, but this current method just doesn't seem elegant or efficient to me.
Backbone.CollectionView: Easily render and manage Backbone.js collections
Perhaps a better title would be 'Startup Aphorisms' :-) But generally some solid stuff. I'm alway a big fan of fearing complexity, if you can't understand it how do you know its working? How can anyone outside your company understand it? And when it breaks your screwed.
"Did the Soviet Union make a serious strategic error in declaring war against Japan when it did?"

I've always wondered why American troops stopped at the Elbe and left Berlin to be captured by the Soviets.

Was there a deal? Soviets get Berlin in exchange for attacking Japan?
I had mallet finger once and they coded it as a broken bone with the associated costs. They wanted to charge me for a full broken bone and typical time spent with hundreds of dollars of costs when all the doc did was spend 5 minutes, give me a plastic splint and tell me to not bend the finger for 8 weeks.

After many phone calls I finally got someone on the phone who realized how idiotic the code was and changed it to something more reasonable to the service rendered.
I totally bought into GAE when it was first released - evangelized it, wrote and adapted a bunch of libraries for it and ended up implementing a dozen or so projects on it.

The price hike completely killed me. I optimized what I could but there wasn't much to gain. Because of the way GAE is architected it forces you into efficient design.

I switched to AWS, and now with a lot more traffic across all the apps I am still paying ~20% of what my GAE bill was. I invested a lot of time into the platform, only some of which can be applied to other platforms, and fell for the bait and switch.

I really don't like what Larry has done with squeezing profit out of each business unit - the pricing just doesn't make sense for eg. implementing a simple spam filter for blog and forum comments using the Prediction API cost $30 per month alone for a site with thousands of visitors.

Completely killed a product that could be the center of making Google the best cloud platform for developers.
> Conversely, will knowing that "the government have my DNA" make people less likely to commit that future serious crime? It's all a balancing act...

So, you are arguing for giving up your DNA at birth to make people less likely to commit future crimes? Because you are arguing that the means justify the end here.
> Usability sucks

Could you be a little more specific? What actions are difficult to do with the current interface? What specific modifications would make them easier?

I think the design of HN is really tight and focused. My one complaint is that it's difficult to go back and find ancient comments I've made for later citation.

> And it's ugly.

It doesn't load hundreds of images and enormous JavaScript libraries. It doesn't leak memory and cause my system to swap. It doesn't spam obnoxious ads with sound everywhere. This makes it beautiful to me -- almost a nod to what the Web was like in the early days, back when completely unstyled content was still good enough for a lot of sites.

The color scheme doesn't matter to me as long as I can read the text.
Not to me - my local Dominos has mysteriously stopped taking online orders "for the time being".
Ohhhh, ok.. I got you.. So, 'organic farmers' just happen across natural fields of tomatoes and lettuce that animals have just been politely saving their poo for?!!!? Damn, dude - I never knew!!! That's so awesome!!! Heck, I think I want to be an organic farmer now that I know they don't actually have to do anything - it being 'natural' and all... That's so awesome - I never knew that's what 'organic' and 'natural' really meant... You're just so awesome - I am serious about patenting your logic... You clearly have it all figured out, with your accusations against strangers on the Internet and all, and I'm telling you, man, "The Holey Bucket" is GOLD! Just remember us little guys...

"...stop using terms like 'organic link building'..."

Na, I think I am just going to keep on trucking and just start ignoring argumentative, condescending know-it-alls a bit better... starting with you...

Lest you get into this territory: http://goo.gl/j7f1v
Replicating Financial Research
Vancouver startup lets doctors make virtual house calls
Yet until a credible leadership figure actually _offered_ unconditional surrender, it was going to be war as usual.

But it wasn’t. The A-bombs were quite unusual. They were extraordinary weapons, and would have required extraordinary justifications to use on the military, let alone on civilians.

(To the argument that it wasn’t possible to target the military apart from civilians: that’s exactly why nuclear weapons are so problematic.)

it deliberately ignores both the wide diversity of opinion which existed within Japanese leadership

An alternate interpretation is to not take it alone, and to see it as deliberately summarizing the wide diversity of opinion which was already going through the complex process that you rightly point out. News of Nagasaki’s destruction interrupted a meeting by the Japanese Supreme War Council, not so much about whether to surrender as about how. I don’t think it’s facile at all to call this, in context, “ready to surrender”.

The US did not know the details of the meeting, of course, but they chose to spend 70,000 human lives on an assumption with no particular justification, while under no special immediate military threat – at that point, Japan was relatively contained, and the fear was that if left alone it would reach out again in a matter of months or decades, not weeks. The threat was diplomatic: that Japan might surrender to the USSR. That seems worth presenting as something other than the rueful conduct of justified, proportional warfare as an absolute last resort.

As an American, sometimes I look at other countries that haven’t come to terms with major war crimes – the Armenian Genocide, for example, or indeed Imperial Japan’s crimes in China – and I shake my head.

Then I remember that the US has the A-bombs on our record, and we’ve made it almost 70 years now without admitting as a nation (meaning in standard textbooks, in mainstream entertainment, etc.) that these were, by any sensible definition, crimes against humanity of the highest gravity.

There’s this objection people sometimes raise: that it’s easy to say these things if you weren’t there, if you weren’t under the pressures of command, knowing your nation’s people were dying by the day. That’s true. I don’t know what that was like. It’s easy for me to moralize from a distance. But that argument isn’t actually justifying the act of the A-bombings, merely moderating judgment on the people who did it. Saying they didn’t really know what they were doing is very different from it was a good idea.
It's hard to feel bad for the employees. Unless it was their dream job to work on manipulative valueless flash games that spam people on Facebook, they chose their place of work for all the wrong reasons.
no problem, they are pivoting.Why do people hate Zynga so much?
PostgreSQL as NoSQL with Data Validation
When you have the fact that the Japanese had already sent delegations to negotiate a surrender, that everyone who wrote at the time either knew that Japan was trying to surrender or was confident that they would surrender as soon as Russia entered, and that the US Strategic Bombing Survey also concluded that the bombs were unnecessary, we're getting outside the realm of your standard counter-factual here.

It's much more like saying 'well, this body was stabbed through the heart and then burned, but they almost certainly would have been dead even without the burning' than 'some complex series of actions occurred and we have no idea which of them was actually relevant in the resulting outcome'.
>>I recall George was the technical lead at Numenta and has since left.

George Dileep left Numenta and co-founded Vicarious Systems[1].

[1] http://vicarious.com/
FYI the blue theme is included as part of Update 2 for VS2012. It looks much nicer than the light and dark themes that 2012 has by default.
More unreliable than the hypothetical DNA vacuum cleaner? I'm sure if they can do that, they can come up with a more accurate lie detector test as well.

I find check swabs invasive as well. If they can get the DNA in other ways that aren't invasive, I'm not sure why they have to be cleared to do it in this manner.
you're right. It's usually the least experienced and/or those with visa issues that get trapped by this.
I'm not Zynga's biggest fan, but every company has a goal of making a profit. That doesn't mean that company mission/vision statements are irrelevant.
On funding innovation
Software development is not about mastering a set of tools, the same way that mastering x ray machines, a scanner, and an echografy does not makes you a doctor. It does makes you a great technician.

There are more abstract concepts, as well as reasoning methods in CS than just tools.
IBM Using Roomba Robots To Measure Data Center Heat
You can edit the scheme after hunting down and installing an extension which was not available at the initial release. The same could be said for the start menu on Win8. MS could have easily quieted the many loud voices by including options so the user can choose their own preferences.
This might be a simplistic view, but my fingerprint is a symbol of me which can be used to identify me. My DNA _is_ me, just the smallest piece of me that is in fact, me. What makes taking DNA any different than taking blood, or one of my fingers? If I were to leave DNA behind somewhere at a crime scene, I would expect it to be gathered, but removing it from my body "routinely" rubs me the wrong way.
Yes, I was being sarcastic. Sorry, I thought everyone knew what a douche Pincus was: (and this is just ONE example):

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming...

Sidenote: Does HN stop editing after a certain timeframe? I can't find a link to edit my original comment to add this.
>Unfortunately, since it is a university research group, they probably disclosed responsibly and whatever defect allowed this form of jailbreaking will soon be fixed.

I wouldn't consider that unfortunate. Responsible disclosure should be praised!
"I think you should offer less equity and more salary, though."

Seconded. This is exactly counter to advice I heard from PG when he was giving a talk at YC once, which was "negotiate for equity, not salary". At the time it sounded like good advice, and I still think most I've heard from him regarding starting a company is. But in this case, after having spent a year actually involved in a startup from the beginning that's been raising money, I find it hard to imagine any company who's followed a similar path to us (basically how you see most YC companies go) would be able to offer any sort of meaningful equity after even a second seed round.

It takes a lot of growth and additional options grants for single digit equity in options to amount to much at the exit. I would focus on the salary, possibly experience for your career if you need that, more than I would in getting rich off of a startup that hires you after they are funded.
You also have to factor in that long before then, the Japanese had developed a culture of political assassination, see for example the end of this section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto#1920s_and_1930.... That substantially raised the barrier to getting to the "ready to surrender" point of the group that was making the decisions. And that decision did not meet with universal acclaim, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan#Attempted_mi...
Billionaire Pledges $30M To Spur U.S. Innovation
That's true. I've never considered that before.

What limits space photography? I just realized I know nothing about digital photography either...
Not the same thing.

Lie detectors don't actually work, and take up people's time. Following people around reveals anything a person is embarassed to reveal publically.

DNA analysis doesn't take up the target's time, works better than lie detectors, and reveals much less embarassing facts about the target.
- The free food/snacks get cancelled.

Relevant recent discussion: The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5751329
Are the timings that precise? ISTR that there were only 24 or 100 frames per second, so a micro-controller ought to be able to send the proper signals.
With hardware access all bets are off.
In almost all circumstances, I agree. However, the one circumstance I don't agree is when systems are being kept secure mainly against their own users. In this case, insecure systems are preferable (as a user), especially when the attack vector is likely to only be triggered intentionally. Since I don't plug my iphone into random USB cables pretty much ever, the only likely case where this vulnerability could be exploited against my phone is if I chose to jailbreak it.
I'm astounded. Apparently the massive cruft and bloat of VS 2012 weren't enough -- they're actually issuing a VS 2013 that builds on a tool that has long since jumped the shark.

I have to thank Microsoft, though. It was the advent of both Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 that finally convinced me I needed to make my career independent of Microsoft products. I'd made the mistake of getting caught in the M$ rut in the late 1990s, and I've regretted it ever since. Visual Studio seemed like a fine tool for over a decade, I thought... and then the wake-up call of VS 2012 came like a kick in the teeth.
Haha about the "20. Hire people that you could describe as animals.". Without context it looks a bit silly.

"Yeah, this guy is totally a zebra. Oh, that programmer over there is such a squirrel".

Great advises, thanks for sharing!
$NEXT
Normally, I would definitely be serious and more technical. However, the fact that Pincus is one of the biggest scammers out there and people still: 1) Believe him 2) Invest in his companies 3) Work for him, leads me to be a little sarcastic. It's hard in this day and age with information overload to see people still getting involved in pyramid schemes and wanting to buy snake oil.
The accusations of 'revisionism' show an underlying bias - in the former soviet union and much of Europe, this is has been the accepted historical perspective for some time.
I thought the whole deal with Zynga was that it was circling the drain (yet profitable) while waiting for "real money gaming" to be legal and possible. These cost cutting measures in their legacy business would seem to be a good thing in that light.
More like a padawan mind trick...pretty transparent, if you ask me. You're right, "brothers and sisters" had me rolling my eyes as soon as I read it. Not to mention all those articles saying he sold his shares of Zynga right before the layoffs..
The Series A Gap is an issue for almost every entrepreneurial community outside the major hubs. It is time to have a brutally honest discussion about funding innovation, and how to disrupt concentrated funding.
Then take it from all babies from birth if you think so. But the idea that you are outside the system but on first infraction you are there forever baby is unjust. You must have ways of getting out.

The idea that a government will have much harder time catching someone with clean record than someone that 15 years ago was caught with marijuana in college is unsettling.
He ran it for 7 years before being acquired, and is still working on it at Green Dot. I would consider that taking his own advice.
Depends. An ACL tear can feel better on it's own after a few weeks assuming you don't go running into any hard direction changes. Many docs would prefer pre-hab prior to surgery in order to get maximum flexibility and strength for every patient, but most insurance will not pay for it.
interesting since companies like Salesforce have always had ticker symbols like $CRM
He writes like he's trying to evoke JFK, when in reality he evokes Richard Nixon.
Are you trying to make an argument that this was not important advice?
Fairly sure she's a woman ^^;
I wonder how this will affect Instagram usage.
This story gave me some inspiration for a short parody… The Downfall style http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c...
We followed up directly on this and it seems to be working fine now.
The Deep State (2012)
Because it's the only class where you do REAL problem solving and you don't just learn things by heart or discover things.

Also because it solicits your brain a lot. Which is always good.

And finally because you use math every day. There are some things in math you are not going to use yes, but most of the program is important imo. So many people nowadays just can't do simple calculus it's worrying (especially when we need to split the bill).