skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you get feedback from customers I doubt the line to join the dots of an online presence moving into a physical presence isn't that long.

I bet their customers have been asking for a way to synchronise their shop floor stock with their online stock, and Shopify would naturally want to be the provider of the whole experience.

There's probably many reasons why your idea never got picked up originally. They may have been already working on or thinking about it; it may be similar to another idea submitted; they may not have expected it to be a viable option at the time.

The fact they didn't even respond sucks as that's not a good community spirit. Just be pleased that you've managed to predict what the future was. The trick is how to do something useful with those predictions.
Bitcoin is definitely still too volatile to be a reliable store of wealth, but this is related to the exponential growth of the bitcoin network, not the volatility of the currency itself.
Both examples seem to basically be making the point, "Hey, if you're pitching or presenting a public face, we note that you have better luck without a strong accent."

I think the author is just trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
For comparison, my last laptop, an Ubuntu-certified (yay!) Dell set me back $450 (€337).

It's a solid average machine, works well, does what it's supposed to do. But I've been feeling like getting myself a better (more "high-end" system) - be it an ultraportable like the MBA, or a desktop replacement like the 17-inch system76/Clevo laptops.
All of the names it makes fun of have perfectly sensible explanations.

"Program Files" and "Documents and Settings" have spaces to force software to support spaces in paths.

system32 for the Win32 version of system makes perfect sense. 64-bit Windows continues to use the Win32 API, and renaming system32 would have broken compatibility with dumb programs that hardcoded the name. SysWOW64 is the system32 directory for Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit. WOW64 is perhaps an overly cutesy name, but it's actually fairly descriptive.
Qt 5.1.1 includes QtCreator 2.8.0 instead of QtCreator 2.7.2. Other than that it's just a bugfix release.
No but allowing leading and trailing spaces is not user stupidity. That is design stupidity.

You know like recording numbers as string in the format: "0000000000000000000000000123.23210000000000000"
Biography on A&E of Schwarzeneggar tells stories of him being in the German armed forces (post WWII, duh), going AWOL to work out at night.

And he was studying to be a real-estate agent after his first few acting gigs because he wanted a plan B if his acting career didn't work out.
It's not the bitcoin volatility that has triggered this price drop (BC has been relatively stable recently), it's the fact that they were overpriced.
My desk is the right height so that my elbows form just over a 90 degree angle with the table. Having my chair lower, and thus having my arms bent more is extremely uncomfortable.

The problem I have with the Model M and their various clones is that the keys simple sit too high. The only way I could get comfortable is by getting one of those keyboard gel cushions that sits in front of the keyboard. Not required with the Apple keyboard.
There was a thread about this yesterday. While the quote does not deserve the beauty prize the conclusions that are drawn from it are as bad as the quote. Paul has already qualified his position and obviously did not mean to come off either racist or xenophobic, he's the guy behind the start-up visa proposal.

See here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-graham-on-startup-founde...

http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html
To be fair, you did say:

> There is absolutely zero reason why HR/recruiting people should have final say on a candidate. None.

Now you're saying:

> Well there are obviously certain areas where they should have final say
1. The article quotes "linguistic characteristics common to a specific ethnic group", but the author then seems to conveniently miss off that qualification in his complaint later. The NYT article quotes PG: “You can sound like you’re from Russia,” he said, in the voice of an evil Soviet henchman. “It’s just fine, as long as everyone can understand you.”

2. The NYT article then goes on to say "Graham told the Strikingly founders that Chen’s accent was too strong". It doesn't say what "too strong" means, but given that he previously said "as long as everyone can understand you", it seems reasonable to assume that this was the problem. The NYT article continues by describing how another founder was quiet and uncomfortable at public speaking. I see no discrimination against "linguistic characteristics common to a specific ethnic group" here; just discrimination against not being able to understand the speaker, which seems perfectly fine when considering about investment into people who will need to do considerable public speaking to achieve success.

3. Betteridge's law of headlines wins again.
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This kind of advice is simply alien to a large subset of the population. I have no single "passion." I move from interest to interest rapidly, I'm never really interested in mastering anything, rather getting practical knowledge about something then moving on.
Dear HN readers,
Could you please give me some feedback about this project that I developed?
I do see a lot of traffic but nobody wants to share their thoughts.

Thank you
Yes of course:

https://btct.co/

https://bitfunder.com/

http://mpex.co/

https://www.havelockinvestments.com/

It's all risky and low volume, as you might expect. Then there's also OTC with people doing auctions on forums, etc.
How to process your data so it compresses better
I was looking at Impala (Cassandra) as well as keeping an eye on Drill progress. My data is write only in ETL stage so it seems it could be the right way. Lots of testing ahead! - thanks
https://btct.co/security/ASICMINER-PT
I bet their competitors can't wait for you to switch to their free accounts.

In other words: why not pay?
Nice work!

Suggestion: A lot of requests going to the server when creating a resume. Use local storage for storing the data and send it to the server once when user clicks the save button.
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My home insurance company offers a rider for electronics damage - about $19/year, and it paid $50 out of the $100 to fix my Nexus One when it fell. It's Liberty Mutual, but I think all the big insurers have a similar deal.
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Yes. There is a patch which provides static compilation support for the system image and should eliminate the startup time. However, the changes from 0.1 have been enormous already, so this will not be merged until 0.2 is tagged.
Just a small note that the power adapter on these things sucks: http://store.apple.com/us/reviews/MC747LL/A/apple-45w-magsaf...
Thought I saw this earlier in the day. Deja vu?
The new Apple iStartup, just like every other online photo sharing startup, but now shiny, thin, and twice as expensive as Instagram or Groupon.
I can't remember where I read it, maybe even HN, but I'm regularly reminded of this quote:

"Never use a new language for the first time for a project you love or that's important to you - you'll end up hating both the language and the project."
Military interventions increase civilian deaths
Shopify is a Canadian company based in Ottawa.
From my experience, the obsession lies somewhere in the overlapping segment of the euler diagram of "nerd-cred", liking the tactical feel, and nostalgia.
Soft tabs or Hard tabs?
From "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" about the ingredients in ice cream sundaes. Pretty interesting show when it was on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrSdPWV5Tjo
I mean, downvoting me is fine, but this article already dropped from 3rd place to somewhere in the middle of the second page. It's being flagged.
FWIW, I actually had my first standing desk at a large company (International Paper) in one of those pre-fab cubes. One of the "benefits" of the cube farm is that some of them are extremely adjustable. My desk was secured against the walls on these brackets that you could pull out of the rack in the wall and move the pegs up/down. In my case, I "adjusted" my desk surface up a few feet and stopped using my desk chair. Whala, standing desk.

YMMV, but the cubes were sort of an enabler in getting me started (since the investment was $0 and about 20 minutes of work adjusting things).
"she later told me that I was anti-authoritarian and more likely to do what I thought was right rather than what I had been instructed to do. I am still baffled to this day about how that is an undesirable attribute"

Pretty much sums up everthing that is wrong with Corporate America, American government and American society in a nutshell. Your betters (aka "leaders") want solders, not moral people. This is social Darwinism in action, and it's not going to lead to a good place.
I don't think I'll take your bet.
Can an artist login be used the same as a regular one, for liking songs and such?
What a phony little post. The author appears to be willfully conflating the act of hiring with the act of investing, which are held to completely different legal standards.

Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies here - but also to pretty much every sentence in the last two paragraphs ending in a question mark.

Edit: Completely forgot to mention the fact that PG has made it abundantly clear that his statements revolve around "the ability to communicate", not some sweeping bias against immigrants - which is absurd in itself, considering how diverse YC funded founders are. I think it's really unfortunate that people seem to want to exploit his candor, when he's essentially giving helpful advice to immigrant founders that it would be well worth their time and effort to improve their communication skills.

Had the author spent even a few minutes researching this, he could have easily discovered the full context of PG's quotes, PG's clarifications, and the fallacy of his investor == employer logic, which really makes it look like he's trying to deliberately mislead readers.

Maybe it's time for PG to update his "What you can't say" essay:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
And ~/bin as well.
The Road to Selenium 3
Doesn't appear so.

It is also missing any system for aiding in the transfer of domains (it leaves this up to users to negotiate individually, which could introduce fraud). An escrow system would be nice.
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I'd think about this, but it isn't convertible to a UK layout. It's not just a question of keycaps - we have another key to the right of the apostrophe (~ and #) narrowing the return key, and the return key takes up the space of the \ and | key, with that moving to the left of z.
It's bizarre how much shelter, food, clothing, health care, internet access, etc. cost given how productive our economy is.

Guaranteed basic income + a modicum of required public service would allow people to literally do whatever makes them happy and drastically reduce suffering.
Ditto. Shopify is great and easy to use. I recommend it to any of my non-technical friends who needs an e-commerce site.
which are held to completely different legal standards

So it's OK to discriminate when investing because it's inside a legal loophole?
They don't keep a server version of the password (they don't have access to your password), but they do have the authentication credentials. A password manager that only worked online would be frustrating.
Breaking down your points:

> a company that doesn't pay taxes

Every company has an incentive to pay less taxes. Even people do. (I'm not necessarily saying it's the right thing, or endorsing it.) But this is the government's realm.

> turning their OS more and more into a cage

This would actually be a deal breaker for me. If OS X turned into anything like iOS, where you need prior approval before being able to run certain code, that would be it for me.

I don't think Apple's going to do it though. Way too many developers use Macbooks, and I doubt they'd want to piss them all off. Also, Tim Cook is at the wheel now -- he seems like a bit more practical and mellow person than Steve Jobs (this ain't necessarily a good thing) - so I doubt he'd do anything radical like this.

> lets their hardware be assembled in factories where employees work in harsh circumstances

I'd like to see this change - but is there anything much we can do about it? I haven't come across ant "Fair Trade" laptops yet (unlike with food, clothing, etc). Definitely would be good to go with a company that treats their workers well - but then there's also the issue of verification, of whether they do what they promise to.

On the positive side though, Apple claims to be environment-friendly - I hope their claims are true.
Fair, if pedantic, criticism.
These are two excellent points you're raising here.
About the 1st one: My intent with the sentence wasn't just to focus on the added revenue these projects provide, but also on the increased visibility they give to Kickstarter as a whole, which very much carries a long term impact for Kickstarter (SEO benefits, better brand awareness, etc).
But I see what you mean: If these projects were truly hurting Kickstarter as a platform for everyone, they probably would have figured a way to make them stop.

Which brings me to your second point. It's true that the celebrity status is extremely tough to define and even tougher to measure in order to apply fair rules for everyone. But if there's a need for it, that is: if the existence of some projects start being detrimental to others, then I trust Kickstarter will work on it, crunch some data to figure out a way to prevent that from happening while remaining fair to project creators. Maybe by blocking projects a-posteriori, as they already did in the past.
Just tell that you run a business. Most people who you don't want to be confused with (who actually don't do much and are business wannabes) wouldn't tell that about themselves. They “are entrepreneurs” in state of their minds and in their daydreams but they don't run any business. Actually, most of them think that “being an entrepreneur” > “simply running a business” so they wouldn't lower themselves to claiming that as they always aim so high and want to feel so important, right?
Yeah. Had posted it earlier, but it just fell off the new page. Let's hope second time lucky :)
I was typing another comment just as you posted this but making essentially the same point.

If you are using Linux, FreeBSD or Mac OSX you can use local open source encryption before your data touches the sync program (or even the online backup servers) with EncFS.[1] I'm using it with Dropbox and it is solid, easy to use and set up, and does efficient file-based encryption (so no re-uploading folders just because you changed a file inside).

Gnome desktops even have the Gnome EncFS Manager[2] if you want a GUI way to set it up.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS
[2]https://bitbucket.org/obensonne/gnome-encfs/
Many countries have "banned" software patents. "EU patents" have also "banned" software patents, but they pass thousands of them every year.
These acts protect the vulnerable and exploitable. HN readers do not count as exploitable. Anyone who makes it to the interview stage with pg really does not count.

But that's not really the point - we are entering a period where many, perhaps most "jobs" will be as freelancers or in small professional tribes. We stop thinking of the global elite and start thinking about everyone, including the vulnerable - and employers (or investors) will be able to exploit these new self-employed workers. But we are not sure how or where they will exploit them.

I think we can see an age of wonders ahead - but as always ages of wonders need hard-headed regulation to succeed (I am thinking factory safety legistlation to stop children crawling into looms not the stuff politicians complain about).

So, I say we are likely to wait and react to the way the world has changed. To put it loosely, we need to see children being forced into looms, before we realise that's a problem and ban it. And the fact that this will all be done in different countries only complicates matters enormously - the next health and safety legistlation movement will come from the WTO.

And no, pg wanting to clearly understand his investees maybe on the edge, but its not exploitation, nor socially undesirable, so it is not an indicator of the new problems we shall see.

Edit: Hippo related rewrite basically
>>But their role is to get resumes in front of the real decision makers, and to take care of all the stuff like W-2 forms and whatnot nobody wants to deal with,

Don't forget enforcing dress codes and other such nonsense policies in the "employee handbook."
State what you do. Don't look unemployed.

Some can't take a spouse with unsteady income. That can't be helped.
WWOOFing sounds like a lot of fun! Wish I had done that instead of go to graduate school and accrue debt. Now I'm stuck paying that off, and when that's done my wife and I want to start a family. Maybe our children can WWOOF if that's still a thing when they're of age...
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The people he would be hiring are working essentially at subsidiary companies, at least for their tenure at YC. They receive their payment from YC, and work under the direction of YC, so as far as they're concerned, they are YC employees, and they deserve equal treatment. You can't discriminate on ethnicity or country of origin when hiring.
The answer is "no", because Title VII affects employers not investors.

There are some other anti-discrimination laws that affect other business relationships, with different provisions, but largely they address things like housing and public accommodations, which a startup incubator decidedly is not, and, in any case, looking at Title VII's particular rules isn't useful to evaluating of those other laws would apply anyway.

If you want to look at whether YC is doing something illegal, you need to do the work to find a law that is actually applicable to what YC does.

If you want to argue that YC is doing something immoral, then bringing in an irrelevant law is both unnecessary and unhelpful.

The article here is lazy and pointless.
Maybe you're not familiar with every other sport, but seldom is secrecy used as a strategy.
Mapbox is working on a really slick tool for guided feature extraction from satellite maps [1] that'll be part of the iD editor for OpenStreetMap. I'm hoping this will provide a HUGE help in adding more buildings into OSM.

And while not mapping, John Resig's Ukiyo-e [2] project is one of the coolest projects I've seen in the digital cultural heritage space in some time. He's been applying image recognition to these incredible Japanese woodblock prints from museums, galleries, dealers, universities and libraries all around the world. Because these things are prints, there could be hundreds of prints from the same block master all around the world, but because the expertise in the field is so divergent, the cataloging practices are really inconsistent. Different institutions might call artists by totally different names (or think a print is by totally different artists). So he built a search-by-image search engine of hundreds of thousands of Ukiyo-e that finds and reunifies prints totally independently of their metadata. Which is cool when you find 5-10 of the same print in places around the world. But it's cooler when it matches 2 prints with totally different artists and publishers and dates because at some point after the first print was made, someone bought the block master, cut out the face and replaced it with another, then did the same for the signature [3][4].

Actually, The Vectorizer owes a big debt of gratitude to John and his brother Mike. Mike Resig is a geographer and was the first to show us a process for how this kind of automated identification is possible.

[1]: http://www.mapbox.com/blog/user-friendly-guided-feature-extr...
[2]: http://ukiyo-e.org
[3]: http://ukiyo-e.org/image/met/DP134583
[4]: http://ukiyo-e.org/image/mfa/sc214530
We are thinking of local storage. There were multiple challenges related to it. Sending all data at once would make save slower. and when you save some small change a lot of data would have to be resaved at once. By splitting the data save into chunks we thought would give best performance - user experience balance. We will rethink on this and get back to you. thank you for your time :)
So you're saying Investors should be forced to invest money into something because the person pitching them is in a protected class?

Clarification: Discrimination based on race, ethnicity, etc is bad. But employers need to be able to hire based on the ability to do one's job. If a large part of one's job is to communicate... things start to get murky.
If you need further help with finding such issues, I have at least a little experience in testing encoding/charset/Unicode stuff as well as i18n issues.
When I said I was trying to get different results I didn't mean artificial results. There were times when I answered the questions how I thought I would actually act in a situation. And I've answered the questions in how I would want to act in a situation. I wanted to see if there is a difference between who I am and who I want to be. What is the difference between actual self and idealized self.

If I wanted a different answer then all I could have done was answer the opposite of what I did before.
I agree with this 100%.

Happiness is an arbitrary condition based more on psychological factors than actual actions performed.

And as such should never be the full determining factor of your career.

For example, what makes you happy changes as you grow.
Also, environmental conditions instill certain standards of happiness in people and as those conditions change so will a persons perception of what makes them happy.

Somtimes a simple change in your perception and internal state can do more for your happiness than changing some external materialistic aspect of you life like a new job or new car.

Existentialists would say: "love what you do".
Yes, that's the question that is being asked in the OP: is an investor subject to the Civil Rights Act. Which, in my opinion, is quite clearly to be answered 'no', since an investor doesn't fall under any of the categories in the law, the interpretation guidelines or (as far as I know) in the case law. So this is basically whining by somebody who doesn't know what he's talking about.

Even when you hire somebody, you can discriminate all you want, except not against a limited set of criteria such as ethnicity, gender etc. So if you decide to not hire somebody because you don't like his shoes, that's perfectly within your right (except when you can construe that the shoes are correlated to another, protected aspect. Let's say you don't hire a woman because she wears a bra and you don't like bras. That's almost certainly a violation).
Well, YC isn't hiring them and also probably doesn't have >15 employees. So, no.

You choose to invest or not based on any criteria you like, and the aesthetics of a presentation is better grounds than most.
This ex-Microsoftie sounds a lot like Clippy..
I don't remember. The test I took were online versions. I took several at different websites. I really don't know the validity or reliability of them.
Who says it's a 'loophole'? What does that even mean?
Yes, just like its apparently fine to shamelessly misinterpret what people are saying.
Except that your comment is completely nonsensical... You can't apply one industries hiring metrics to anothers as if they translate in some way(when they clearly don't).

Not being passionate about laying bricks doesn't mean you won't be hired for menial labor, not being passionate about a position in this industry might very well stop your from being hired for a programming job...