skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4 bottles of Ensure Complete would only be 1400 Calories/day, vs. 2200 Calories for Soylent. You'd have to drink 6/day, making it $66.43/wk for Ensure Complete (cheapest Amazon price) vs. $52.88/wk for Soylent.

Of course, you said that you considered $73.48/wk to be "very close to Soylent pricing". Sure it's in the same order of magnitude, but a 40% increase is nothing to sneeze at.
Randomizing Gzip levels (and random padding) only increases the number of samples you need to take.
Android 4.3's New 'Always-On' Wi-Fi Feature Buried in Settings
Some of these are pretty hilarious, in a non sequitur kind of way:

> I like my hook-ups like I like my dignity: immense, quiet, and not human.
How are multi-row transactions these days? That was the largest problem when I looked last... A data store does not a database make.
You'd want to have the secret last in the hash, otherwise you're open to hash extension attacks in some rare cases.
Good thing no functionality has been removed, then.
looks like it, thanks for the mirror!
Why delete the article? More to the point, why post the article here and then delete it? If you're going to blog, and especially if you're going to share your article about YC on a place like HN, then you should be prepared for whatever feedback you receive.

I'm well aware someone has posted a mirror to the original article, and I've read it. I'm just sort of baffled by the deletion in the first place. The article made it to the front page, so clearly a decent number of people liked it. A lot of others didn't, hence, the flurry of critical comments. Either way, the article generated a big response. Was that not the intent?
I know there's a level of micromanagement that will frustrate any employee, but being told what to do is a fairly significant part of employment.
JPEG is optimized for photographic images with lots of smooth gradients. It does badly with sharp edges, which scanned documents tend to contain a lot of.
Have you tried Ensure Complete? I got so impatient while waiting for my Soylent order to arrive that I actually did. First of all, it's loaded with sugar, and lacks Soylent's heavy dose of fiber to balance out the glycemic index. Result: sugar rush followed by a nasty crash. Secondly, it lacks some of Soylent's extras like creatine and MCT fats. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it's expensive: it would be almost $465/month, or $15/day to get 2400 calories from these ( http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ensure-Complete-Chocolate-Nutritio... ). Whereas the Soylent team is working to get the price down to ~$200/month, or ~$6.50/day.

Soylent will be not only one of the highest-quality products in its category, but also perhaps the first one that isn't "for the well-off." I anticipate that it will shrink my food budget substantially. Not to mention the future savings on food-related things like dishes and silverware. Hell, if I really switch to it full time, I might even be able to save on electricity by unplugging my refrigerator!
As Sparrow fades away, few contend for the Mac mail crown
No w.org, for Wikipedia?
Giving equity away as referral to raise a seed round? 
so right now, we are currently bootstrapping our startup and we'd like to raise a seed around to help us focus soley on the startup.

Raising money is a pain in the ass, that I get. Some friends have been asking how they can help us raise that seed round. While I would love their help with connecting me to people that are willing to seed us, is it right for us to give our friends equity (small amount) to help us raise a seed round?

The core team is focused on building the product and have been passing up consulting projects to focus 100% time/effort on this project. While I dont mind our friends wanting to connect us to people that have the cash to fund us, I dont know what the best way or best practice is to reward them (if their connection does indeed fund us in some way).

Part of me believes that my friends should be helping me regardless of what I give them while my co-founders think we should be compensating our friends for connecting us with potentially our seed investors.

Thoughts?
Tabbed shells, combine with ssh or putty.exe, etc. : http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MakingABetterSomewhatPrettierB...
FreeBSD 9.2-RC1 released, can run on i386 with 128MB of RAM
Chances are any genetic algorithm would be impractical due to the necessity of using a human as a fitness function. Unless you could create a neural network to classify jokes as funny or not... which immediately suggests to me an AI version of that standup comedy competition. Hm; maybe I have a new side project.
If you live in a Condo, you've agreed to the by laws of the association.

If you lease, you've signed a contract with your landlord.
thank you for this. I was looking for something like this for a project I was working on
New U.S. Spying Revelations Coming From Snowden Leaks: Journalist
I've read the processor docs and programmed x86 assembly in both real and protected mode, so I know a thing or two about segments. People eventually decided segments are no good, and compilers and OS's universally use paging instead to give each process its own address space.

But the "memory model" concept used by DOS and early Windows compilers was incredibly confusing. Did anyone here ever understand it?
I agree. I'm not arguing for the sentences to be reduced, and I'm surprised at the shortness of two of the sentences. I generally think that if abuse of authority is involved, then harsh sentences are warranted. But to characterise a 17- and a 28-year sentence as a 'slap on the wrist' is indicative of a damaging mindset around sentencing.

Those are not light nor trivial sentences, and characterising such long sentences as such gives us things like decade-long 'three-strikes' sentences for stealing pizza.
It's interesting how ageism is repellent when we're discussing development jobs, but natural when we talk about politics. There are in fact many 60 year old developers. They were in the primes of their careers in the 80s. They're probably better than you at assembly language.

Perhaps a better line to draw is between lawyers and other kinds of professionals, lawyers being overrepresented in Congress. But the track record of nonlawyers (doctors, for instance) in Congress isn't all that great either.
The Chrome SSH client is close to becoming very useful for me. I stopped using it because IIRC you can only store a handful of connection credentials at a time.
I don't think it's sleazy at all. It's simply enthusiastic.
Linkbait aside there are some reasonable points being made here, specifically "Failover means downtime" about HBase. We run into this pretty much every day in one of our customer facing applications or APIs and it's quite frustrating to have to explain that there's very little you can do to prevent it.

I haven't looked too closely at MapR yet, but "instant recovery, seamless sharding and high availability" are impressive claims. It's still decidedly differently than HBase in my mind given the cost.
I guess it depends really on what they're doing. If they or you are leaning towards on equity being given I would write up a very specific contract that states all of what will be done, and under what circumstances they are awarded equity - how much, etc.. and also probably setup a sliding scale of amount depending on how much they get you. You'll have to decide how much you need and what dictates what amount of equity. It won't only really be a referral - you'll have to provide other information to potential seed investors - so I'd just say put a profile up on AngelList (angel.co) and keep whatever equity - your friend can point people he/she knows to your AngelList profile then.
I'd learn Chef or Puppet.
My experience of the Ruby client referenced was that it was a little out of date. I was seeing errors when trying to use it a couple of weeks ago.
Linux is bigger than Ubuntu. There are Linux WMs that are FAR beyond what's available in Windows or OSX.
Apologies, I meant Geary the email client which is written in Vala. Geany is an IDE which has support for Vala.
The press-release said 10nm _class_ with a big asterisk next to it. I would be willing to bet that means something like 19nm.
I have a .org and am not a non-profit. I do however use if for not-for-profit purposes but I when I registered the domain, no one asked.
Sounds like a good theory, but I'm not sure the data backs you up. Obama is the 5th youngest president at 47. Clinton was the 3rd at 46.

Take a look at the average age of...

Republican congressmen in 1949: 54.9

Republican congressmen in 2011: 54.9

Democratic congressmen in 1949: 50.4

Democratic congressmen in 2011: 60.2

The democrats have gotten older, but not by much more than the general population. The senate has gotten older, but not dramatically so.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-CONGRE...
The case for vertical navigation
I believe you're thinking of this [1].

[1] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/vertical/papers/2013/hpca13-isa-...
My project isn't huge, but larger than it could have been using idiomatic javascript.

The scoping with modules and the typing really helped since I'm familiar with C# and having "everything light up" in the IDE. Saved a ton of time letting a compiler catch things instead of writing tests.

I tried coffee script, but found the copy/paste option for javascript that I have already written won me over.
Flash chips are typically spec'd in terms of bits in the industry.

Things like SD cards are really small consumer electronics devices and are spec'd in terms of bytes.
It may do that, and when it does it's probably for the better. When you are in a pre-seed startup, things are not rosy, and you want to make sure that your potential hire does not hate being a part of it in a few months.

In other words, you want to make sure you hire the kind of person who really wants to join an early stage startup, in spite of all the risks associated with it.
Apparently it's groovy, I just knew it as the templating for Play before now :)

http://www.playframework.com/documentation/1.2.5/templates#s...
I would bet my ten dollar watch that you are a developer and not a marketer. I suppose that you might point out that geckos can't really talk, and Flo will not answer your questions about car insurance :)
Seeing the data would be pretty convincing. Could you please share the data that leads you believe that:

- Showing passwords in this fashion is consistent with most users' expectations about how their passwords can be accessed.

- Requiring authentication before showing passwords has the effect of encouraging people to leave their computers unlocked in a potentially hostile environment.
Honestly that's kind of disgusting. One arm of the "system" fucked people's lives up. But restitution goes to another arm of the same system.
Why are you concerned about this? I didn't see anything in the announcement that would suggest it.
https://www.power.org/documentation/power-isa-version-2-07/

BTW, if you want to roll your own ARM you have to negotiate for an architectural license.
Rebuilding the world technology destroyed
Seems like a silly thing to worry about, you can happily code against c# (and .net in general) without Visual Studio.
Well, OSX does run on commodity hardware (often with little to no modification). It just isn't sold on non-Apple hardware and the EULA "forbids" it
Yeah, in Mexico they are one of the biggest ISPs still
Were those two people still sitting judges up until the time the other co-conspirators agreed to cooperate? If so, it would have been massively more important to take down the judges.

Later

The appeals decision upholding Ciavarella's conviction suggests that he was still a sitting judge at the time Powell began cooperating.
Disturbingly, we kind of do... See common attitudes towards prison rape, and the origin of the concept of 'rape culture'.
If you have a ton of shell connections open at once, consider trying a "base station" linux machine from which you jump out to other machines, + tmux. This way you ssh to machine1, run tmux, then you can create as many sessions as you want in whatever combination of windows/tabs you like. Bonus: you can disconnect from machine1, and when you reconnect everything is still in place. Worth a try for sure!
It's better to brake a bike with the front brake alone
I've been interested in something like this ever since I saw Monty Python's The Funniest Joke in the World [1]. Tldr, it's a joke so funny, that it literally kills you after you hear it. I wonder what to what limit a humor generation algorithm could diverge. Could it be a joke funnier than anything anybody's ever seen?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gpjk_MaCGM
As a YC founder, I'm really sorry you had such a bad experience with other YC startups.

I don't think your experience is generally true of YC companies, though. They vary in so many ways, including those unrelated to success.

The biggest problem seems to be communication. None of the things you discovered were inherently enough to make them toxic -- but not learning those things sooner was bad. (I suspect even the best company would have a hard time raising an A in certain markets).

The "VCs doing vetting for you" with a Series A has a big cost -- if you're otherwise the same and going into the same job, you get a lot less equity, and on much less favorable terms, after an A. Assuming you're in a position to take the risk, being one of the first employees is ideal, or being an employee in a later stage company which is already knocking it out of the park (if I had to get a job today, I'd be looking at employee 1-5, or going to a place like Tesla or Apple or CloudFlare or whatever, where success is already apparent, and the team is obviously already awesome.) And, manifestly, VCs fund shitty companies at Series A (and later!), too, so it's not even great vetting.

Once you "satisfice" on hard location, cash, and stability requirements (which, for many people, especially those who want to startups themselves, can be pretty easily met), probably picking for "how awesome are the founders and how much do they like me" is probably the next thing to optimize for. "How much responsibility and room to grow/learn will I personally have", too. Then just make sure "if the company is super successful, I will be super successful too", and then focus on maximizing the odds of the company being super successful.
http://www.genesi-tech.com/products/efika/5200b
Store it in HDFS as sequence files. HBase (as the article mentions) is a beast to manage with many moving parts. But, HDFS is just rock solid and very stable. If you want to analyze logs, you can do so in a batch mode (I recommend using Scalding or Pig). If you want it to be more "searchable", then take a fraction of it using a MR job and index it in Solr or ElasticSearch.
Same here -- I rewrote all my javascript code in Typescript and am very happy with the result.

No longer am I concerned about errant semi-colons or a stupid typo in a method name on an error handling path that a unit test missed.
Cause it makes it windows only.

EDIT: to add, I like the idea of typescript (it's a much smaller step than compared to something like Dart). But their tooling is all around Visual Studio, which ties you to Windows. I don't dislike Windows, but I want my development tools to be cross platform (which is why I like Sublime Text, Eclipse, and similar tools).
The install.sh goes off to github and pulls the latest - it's not a method for keeping the same version across machines. It may be fine for your needs, but it'd still be nice to have 'stable' or suggested versions to use.
I fail to see the humor in this.
Obviously I am biased about the benchmarks project, but I disagree concerning the predictive power of the rounds to-date.

Thus far, the rank order of each round, as we add more tests, remains largely consistent. The most extensive test--Fortunes--exercises request routing, database connectivity and pooling, the ORM (if available), entity object instantiation, dynamic-sized collections, sorting, server-side templates, and XSS counter-measures. On the whole, where a framework has received an implementation of Fortunes, we see roughly the same order as in the other test types.

To clarify some points:

* The magnitude of the Worlds table is intentionally small enough to easily fit into the database server's in-memory cache. This is an exercise in measuring the frameworks' and platforms' database drivers, connection pooling, and ORM performance; not the performance of the database server. As an unintended side-effect--largely thanks to the contributions of readers--the scope of the project has broadened to include some Mongo and Postgres tests so it is to a very small degree a rough comparison of the request-processing capacity of three popular database platforms. But it is expressly not a benchmark of database servers.

* The response payload is intentionally extremely small because these tests are designed to exercise framework fundamentals such as request routing and header processing among others. Increasing the payload size directly increases the number of frameworks that will saturate gigabit Ethernet. As it is, even with a trivial payload, high-performance frameworks saturate gigabit Ethernet on the trivial JSON-encoding and plaintext tests.

* A larger payload JSON encoding test type is planned for the future [1], but I would caution that it is unlikely to shuffle the rank order seen in tests to-date in any notable fashion.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/13... (see #13)
Exactly my feelings about it. Being able to specify types, and having the compiler warn me of mistakes is a godsend when comparing it to just writing javascript.

And when valid javascript is valid typescript, it seems odd to not opt to use it when the only addition is a compile step to ensure sanity.
This story is interesting when the increased price is within the wallet size of the addressable market. A good example of that is coffee - I can buy a $1 cup of crap or I can buy a $6 venti-bs-caramel-late from Starbucks.

Wow, you've convinced me to make a 6x price purchase based on narrative, but in real terms its still six bucks and I have the money in my pocket.

What seems to be missing is that you can't increase the price point of your product via better narrative without also considering what the market is able/willing to pay for it.

With WP Engine we took the concept of commodity hosting (~$10-$15/m) and decided we wanted to offer a non-comoditized product with amazing narrative for $49/m. We ultimately changed that to $29/m (which is still 2-3x) because the size of the addressable market prepared to pay $59/m for that size account was slim. We make more money from selling at $29/m than we would at $59/m, and have a much healthier GPM than $10/m hosting.

(I ask the same of the $20 toaster and the $400 toaster in the OP's example.)

To suggest that we could keep on raising prices based on better and better narrative would be false.
I was asking opminion.
I don't think that's something they are trying to solve right now. Although HBase guarantees write consistency, I think http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html is the closest paper on how to go about it, but I could be wrong.

Like you mentioned, a lot of people use HBase as a data-store, it's incredibly good at that.
Err, also applies in Australia, UK, other commonwealth countries as far as I know.
Those post-date the G5 by several years, though. Things had gotten better for POWER by then, but it had already lost much of its market.
Direction is being told what to do; micromanagement is being told how to do it.
What you replied has absolutely no relation to what I said.
That would be a nice ideal, but that hardly represents the real world.
Applied homomorphic crypto – secure meeting scheduling & a (small) paper error
We use HBase pretty extensively and I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it's very clunky. Though the documentation is pretty good these days, setting up and managing a HBase cluster on production and in scale involves tackling many moving parts. Setting up Cassandra is almost a joke in comparison.

HBase-Hadoop integration is great, but Cassandra has caught up significantly on that front. If you want strong consistency, apart from HBase there is no other (non-sql) solution that's really battle tested. If you're okay with eventual consistency, you should take a hard look at Cassandra.
If you start rattling off business numbers to someone with nothing more than a layman's understanding of business, finance, and/or the particular field the company is in, the numbers may indeed mislead, even as their true meaning would be absolutely clear to someone more clued in.

Without knowing exactly what was said (and what the actual situation of the company was), I can't credit the author's assertion that the numbers were "half-truth", especially in light of the misunderstanding and naïvety evidenced by the rest of his post.
Wow, awesome to see your own startup on a list like this. This is our first PR presence. Thanks heaps. Paul
My house has a front door which can be locked. I often leave it unlocked when I am out in the yard (and thus need access through the door on a minute-by-minute basis) or when I have guests over.

I side my house I have safes, medicine cabinets and a gun rack. Those things are locked all the time, and I only unlock the cabinet when I need to use the items inside the secure container.

So, too, I have a use account login. Sometimes I will hand my computer to a friend (or they sit at the computer, same thing) so they can do stuff. At no point does my friend's physical access to the computer imply that they need access to my bank account details. So those credentials are locked up in 1password to prevent casual theft.

Keychain Access and 1password both require a master password to unlock the ability to see stored passwords.

The argument about "having physical access negates security" is missing the point: there are different forms of physical access. I won't let visitors plug in random USB, FireWire or Thunderbolt devices for example. They have use of the machine, they have physical access. But if any of them made moves to dunk my computer in liquid nitrogen before removing the RAM, I would shoot them.

If the computer is locked, my password safe is locked. If someone steals the computer (or an NSA agent inades my house to freeze and steal the RAM), the key material is encrypted and thus still not accessible to casual inspection.

The attitude of "the NSA can break the encryption so it is not even worth hiding things from the visitor casually using your computer" is defeatist.

Rethink your assumptions. What are you protecting against? Do I need to switch to a guest account to prevent casual guests from seeing my credentials? How does that aid convenience?
> Sure. Let's start with a thought experiment: I have something very rare, which has no practical uses but which is easy to give to others. Will you give me your car for a big pile of it?

How does the success/value of gold not completely destroy this line of reasoning?

I'm not saying it is destined for success or failure, just that this is not a coherent argument against Bitcoin.
Where in the World is Edward Snowden Seeking Political Asylum?
Voluntarily at that, isn't that great?

Your landlords should not be encouraged to peek into my apartment.
The Cars of the Future Will Come With Advertising
I don't understand why people keep thinking that Cassandra is only eventually consistent.

It can be set to any consistency level you like for both reads and writes:
http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/dml/data_consistency
> heavy dose of fiber to balance out the glycemic index. Result: sugar rush followed by a nasty crash

Good God, man, that is not at all what fiber does, and has nothing to do with the role of fiber in diet. Please stop consuming this before you hurt yourself, and please stop talking about it before you hurt others.
I think this research is interesting and based on real data.
5 days after that, we are seeing the funding falling further comparing with the predicted line.