skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are required to disclose everything. This slide reads like it was written by someone whose knowledge of criminal procedure comes from TV.
Thank you. Best of luck to you as well.
I just like knowing what's on my system.

`pip install awscli` just installed 26 other modules besides awscli. Now I feel a little obliged to go check out those 26, as well, to see what they are.

I agree about not re-inventing the wheel. But the amount of stuff installed is definitely a considering factor when choosing between two seemingly identical scripts.
Holy Extrapolation Batman! Or, "We can estimate, using data from extant high-speed rail networks." I think you'll find that HSR generally has good on-time performance where it is not forced to share lines with freight trains (ie, not Amtrak). Since there are no mag-lev freight trains, and no plans to build any, it's reasonable to think that mag-lev trains would only be affected by weather in very extreme circumstances (not your run of the mill snow storm).
The file size will far exceed the normal size of the video - easily detectable.
Social entrepreneur brings the business back into music
You are directly sending a POST request to the {domain}/play/ URL I presume. I gave the URL to my friend and it gave him a 405 Method Not Allowed error.
took less than an hour for the hoax to be revealed.. :)
Thank you for the feedback. I am not willing to let anyone invest in me; that was not made clear.
This is entirely false.
For gods sake, you have to put lab technicians on the stand for cross examination when they test your blood.

For something like this, a report gets written, and the person who wrote it gets cross examined.
"The very instant I graduate High School, no longer will I conform to the societal bullshit that which I have been subjected to my whole life."

Please realise that societal bullshit doesn't go away after high school. You may find yourself disappointed if you expect a major reduction just because you leave the realm of the underaged.

"I don't care if you've never programmed, developed, or designed in your whole life. My only requisite is that you carry more motivation and determination than all of Y Combinator combined. "

That's a rather high requirement :)
Great enthusiasm!
Shakespeare?
Actually, apples hybridize very easily.
If you can't get As in high school humanities because you're too busy managing a single desktop computer & residential internet connection, you're probably not half as smart as you think you are.

You should take about 5-10 years off for introspection.
I wonder if the fish shell could autocomplete the commands; it has a feature to generate autocompleation settings from man pages.
Your story isn't unique. Thousands of people on this forum were kids just like you once. Put some code on your GitHub profile. That's the most important external link you could have included in this post, yet it's conspicuously missing.

Spend some time in the business world learning to "conform to the societal bullshit" and spend your evenings bootstrapping your next startup. You sound like you have the technical skills to be a developer, but lack the maturity. It does not impress people when you use big words. Smart people explain things in a way that dumb people can understand.

You don't need a partner - you need a job.
My letter came across as quite hubristic - I know. In truth, I like to think I am humble. But, then again, that is so relative. And, something difficult to communicate while trying to prove competence.

Thanks for your feedback, morgante.
Agreed. To effectively grow or run a business, fluency in risk and payoff distributions of your decisions is important.

Taking the time to up your education a bit decreases the downside risk of failure, forces you to learn a wider range of material than you (realistically) will teach yourself, and it doesn't hurt that brain cognitive development doesn't really end till 22-24 age range in most people. These all improve the payoff distribution of any decisions subsequently made.

As someone working on/in entrepreneurial tech myself:

1) the vast majority of interesting engineering challenges are within larger organizations (and thats awesome)

2) Nothing is worth sacrificing your health, nothing. Your health is the best predictor of how productive you can be intellectually. Any willingness to forgo health indicates a deep failure of understanding how to be productive

3) go to school and force yourself to take hard classes. The coolest tech opportunities lie in having DEEP understanding of topics. There are amazing engineers out there who never finished college and they're great people, but they all really regret not having finished their undergraduate. Every single one of them, if they could got back in time, would force themselves to finish undergraduate degrees

4) dropping out is ok come graduate school though :)
I emailed you a longer letter, but I wanted to encourage the following:

1. Focus on your classes now. You're a student, and until that changes, you need to do your best to stay the best student you can be.

2. Don't see YC as an endgame. College will open up more chances to go do stuff than ever before.

3. You shouldn't use your age as an excuse not to build stuff now. Go learn a language or start hacking on a project. Now. Just because you can't sign up for something like AWS (which is just a waste of money compared to other providers) doesn't mean you can't get stuff done on your own box.
What impact does the "radome" have on aerodynamics and fuel efficiency?
Show HN: Blanket, an attempt at an anonymous, secure, trusted messaging app
Incessantly cynical distrust of the government is the new blind patriotism.
Best of luck but try to be cautious in who you trust. Make sure anyone who bites on this offer to work with you is not trying to just take advantage of you because of your age.

Is interesting seeing the difference between all the comments about how useless college is in one thread and here so many recommending college. That said I loved college and couldn't imagine my life if I haven't taken it. Paid for itself within a couple years too.
I disagree with this claim. It is my firm belief that high school grades do not reflect intelligence. But rather, applied work ethic. Indirectly, I chose to get poor grades by allocating my time to things I thought were of greater importance. Then again, is that in it of itself indicative of ill-wit?
Long-time user of boto[1] here. It has been the go to library to hook your python code into AWS and has a fairly active following on github[2].

One API point that I've found lacking in boto is a "sync" command for S3. Take a source directory and a target bucket and push up the differences ala rsync, that's the dream. Boto gives you a the ability to push/get S3 resources, but I've had to write my own sync logic.

So, the first thing I went digging into is the S3 interface of the new CLI, and to my surprise, they've put a direct sync command on the interface[3], huzzah! Their implementation is a little wacky though. Instead of using some computed hashes, they are relying on a combination of file modtimes and filesize. Weird.

Anyways, glad to see AWS is investing in a consistent interface to make managing their services easier.

[1] http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

[2] https://github.com/boto/boto

[3] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/sync.html...
everybody want to be a bodybuilder but nobody want to lift no heavy ass weight!

Okay, so roid users are willing to lift heavy ass weights, what they aren't willing to do is put in the time, research, and diet to get fit naturally. It takes years, not 16 weeks, but the reward is actual health, health that will last into your old age.
No, it's not, and in fact it's not even close. Wikipedia quotes SF at 17,800 people per sq.mi. There are tons of cities that are double that, while Mumbai tops 80,000 and Dhaka, Bangladesh squeezes in 115,000:

http://www.newgeography.com/content/002808-world-urban-areas...

Not that I'm saying SF should aspire to Dhaka standards of housing, but there's way more to it than just population density, or lack thereof.
If you use the link to the last year's presentation on the last page, and download it, you can see last year's presentation was made by "micah smith" (who apparently has become "michael smith" this year).

The entire presentation is clearly a copy of the previous year presentation, with some words changed by some moron with an agenda whose understanding of criminal procedure came from watching too many law and order episodes.
I can watch 720p+ videos but I have definitely noticed recently that loading is slower and sometimes more inconsistent.

The subscription feed is a mess. Before it was a grid and now it's in a list. The only reason why I know there are more videos uploaded than what's in my feed is because video authors title their videos in parts. So if I see "Part 3" I know that Part 2 and Part 1 are somewhere, just not in my feed.
>Believe it, it's possible to not succeed yet want to succeed more than anyone else on the planet

absolutely
well put, I second this sentiment. The people chiming in on HN who are advocating a more thoughtful approach, of figuring out how to make school work out, are the folks on your side.

it takes time and years of effort to be successful. Make it easier by forcing yourself to level up with more education etc first.
I am a UK national, just signed up using my UK bank account, however, I am currently living in Mexico, where I also have a bank account. Is there any chance I can change my credit card and address? I don't mind having a London (LON) server for now.
Why is your writing so formal?
So this effusive line: "A success of honesty and humanity that may or may not be insanely successful, but is at least authentic and refreshing."

Was actually about effectiveness?
San Francisco is is pretty sparse, relatively. It's certainly not top ten or anything.
Someone on the other end has to read that.
Login to play...bye!
"That was kind of my point about the rough start, you won't get emacs to do the real work without putting time into figuring out how to get it to go."

I disagree. It's not true for most IDEs, why should it hold for Emacs? This argument was also raised about Linux, but then Ubuntu came along and proved it was wrong. This seems to me like a religious stupidity - you have to use it for everything or it won't work at all.

My main motivation to use Emacs is org-mode and Common Lisp. That's already real work; although I try to use Emacs for everything, but using it for just one of these things would be perfectly valid use case for many people.

It's not that I wouldn't like to mess with the editor either; in fact I did a lot. But it still was not enough for it to work decently. I will have to try one of the starter packages yet (probably Prelude), though.
I have a Lisp solution to this that I wrote some years ago when I was going through Project Euler problems.
https://github.com/2old2randr/Euler/blob/master/monopoly.lis...
Cmwelsh, thank you for your feedback and time. That sounds like dogma.
Well this is what you get for wanting to live in the cool city. I get that more and more startup activity has moved up from the valley to the city but you also get far more of the folks with money to burn who want to play entrepreneur who sit around these places chatting with each other more than doing anything.

Down the peninsula we have the hacker dojo for a $100 per month membership with great space and a nice atmosphere. Very rarely do you have to put up with overly loud frat boys playing entrepreneur for show.
> “Headphones are the new cubicle,” he said.

What will be next to go?
I wholeheartedly disagree.
I'm afraid I don't actually know anything more than the intertubes can tell you :)

I noticed it had happened sometime last year, and thought I'd share what little I know.
You might like this movie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitless

The people in it fight to the death for their smartness drugs.
If you want to do something big, go to college and major in a non-CS subject. People are realizing social/apps has been so overdone and that there are more interesting and profitable ideas to work on -- ideas that require domain expertise in more than just CS, like healthcare, neuroscience, biotechnology, ecology, electrical/mechanical engineering, physics, real estate, interior design, architecture, etc. You can look to the recent YC classes for evidence of this trend.

At worst you'll graduate with a degree and lots of friends at 22 with almost twice that left before you qualify to receive Social Security benefits.
The BeagleBone Black [1] is also $45.

[1] http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black
I have to say here that I've been impressed with both the price and performance of Cloudfiles.

I was using S3+Cloudfront for a long time and with cloudfiles my bills pretty much HALVED.

What made the difference ?
GET request pricing. Amazon S3 charges for each get request on an object, so with millions of requests on small objects, you get hit pretty hard.

Also, Akamai seems to be really fast :)
Considering that the cheapeast tabletts did go from a $500 iPad 1 in 2010 to less than $50 [1] now, this seems probable. ( Extrapolating, we end up with roughly $1 in 2020 and tablets become essentially consumables one can throw away when the battery dies.)

[1] $35, http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/694599061/Cheapest_Dual_co...
I'll sacrifice some potential wit and explain that your writing style is rather self important. It's not uncommon at your age (not trying to be insulting here) but you need to balance your desire to self-promote with a demonstrated ability to get to the point. People will notice more if you show instead of tell.

Your letter has a lot of words in it which are clearly used in an attempt to impress. Coupled with the numerous grammatical errors (read it aloud, carefully) and breathless tone, it will likely remind many on HN of their younger selves, emphasis on younger. I hope you do find someone with your intensity, because those have been some of the most rewarding friendships I've had (I'm 30 now but remember what it was like to be your age).
Eh. I wouldn't call it a train wreck. I'm perfectly capable of accomplishing 100% of what I need to accomplish in Gmail, which is create, send, sort, search, and delete.
I think they're speaking about system dumps at the manufacturer level.

For example, I'm fairly confident that the data on Motorola devices can be read completely using USB from bootloader mode without any data modification (using tools like RSD Lite or sbf_flash). By itself that wouldn't get past OS-level encryption, though. That bootloader is entirely Motorola's with functionality and communication protocols dating back to before the pre-Android razr flip phones (from what I could tell back when I was doing battle with the XT720).

On the other hand, passphrases for boot security on mobile devices are often extremely weak (pin or what-have-you) and easy to brute force (assuming there is a backdoor to access the TPM contents or whatever it's called on ARM/OMAP/etc if it uses that sort of thing)
You could live and bootstrap from SE Asia for the $700-$800 rent that's being charged for 1 desk.

You are making your money on the internet[1], leverage it into not paying premiums for location based stuff...

[1] Of course, this is the step that may be lacking for a lot of companies that pay these kinds of rents.
There's more dramatic license than just that - if you inject yourself into your behind, there's no way a "pressurised stream of blood spurted halfway across the room". Not going to happen.

I have the "fortune" of having to do injections in that place every week for several years running now, and I'm far from handy with a needle. The worst that ever happened was a thin rivulet. And that was dramatic - usual is nothing, or maybe a drop or two of blood.

Based on that part alone, he's dramatically exaggerating. Combine that with having every side effect in the book, and my money is on this being made up in large parts.
Thank you for your input. I would like to think investing in me has a greater ROI than the lottery ;).

Also, I appreciate your concern for my better interest.
It's comments like yours that I don't like. Also, I don't like this comment I'm writing.

Gmail had good UX, and people went to it for that. Now it has a few flaws. As people who care about UX, these flaws are worth discussing.

Some 'hackers' don't do UX, which is fine. So those people may find the topic boring. But many people here are making things, and find the UX direction of the leading web email client interesting. If only to see future trends in web site development. Other reasons this is interesting is to see how they are monetising their apps more, and how they are trying to make email a worse marketing channel.

Having worked at Google, it is understandable if you get annoyed when people bash your company. But that comes with being successful. So don't sweat it too much.

xo
Yes, of course. Because it's absolutely fair to compare prices in a city in a first-world country to ones in third-world countries, based on population density alone. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with that approach.

But as long as we're staring intently at the bark on the trees, you should tell me: how much more expensive is co-working space in Mumbai than in rural India? Do you get a discount if you bring your own water?
> I looks the organism erected a fence to protect whatever it is in the center.

It does look like that, but it doesn't make sense, since if the flimsy fence is strong enough to keep something out, the cocoon should also be strong enough.
San Francisco's density is 6,800 people per square kilometre.

New York City's density is 22,200 people per square kilometre. In fact every borough, including Staten Island, is denser.

Tokyo's density is 35,600 people per square kilometre.

Manila is the world's densest at 42,900 per square kilometre.

San Francisco is the 20th most-densely populated area in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popula...
Google products changes recently have been a pain to use. Damn, its so annoying coping up with these crappy UX changes nowadays

1. First of all the new Gmail inbox with the tabbed interface, it does not show you the number of unread mails in each of the tab, once you have opened a tab, the new mails count vanishes. There should at least be an option for enabling that.

2. Hangouts, it just sucks. Does not work reliably on a data connection, messages are received late. Can't discover online contacts on the UI easily. Makes it easier to chat but harder to find people to chat. I still don't get why did it replace a fully functional chat client with a half-baked piece of crap !?

I don't even want to get started about Google+, the connection model is very good, but the execution is very crappy. Why is Google forcing everyone onto Google+ ?
And if you're still bored on a Wednesday morning, you can read about how this Olympic sprinter took testosterone, HGH, and EPO yet cleared all his drug tests. After reading this, you might realise Olympic drug testing isn't as effective as it's said to be.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/athletics/7403158.s...
Trying to lace your writing with competence is one of the quickest ways to undermine your own credibility. Be patient, go to school, and put in your time and one day you'll find that you come across as competent without any extra effort.
Indeed. Of all the 'usability nightmares' I've seen on the internet, Digg was by far the worst offender and deservedly so given the transition of users from Digg to Reddit. Gmail has made some odd changes (specifically compose on the bottom right) but ultimately it hasn't irked me at all. I mean, if people want a free e-mail service, they can still go to Outlook or Yahoo.
SMS is not a secure channel. For example transmitting patient info over SMS violates HIPPA.
I had an conversation regarding FileVault with the geniuses recently too.

> Oh we see [your MacBook] has a password, would you be able to write it down here?
Haha, nope!
> Any, uh, reason not to?
Nope.

From a conversation later on, apparently not many people opt not to give up their keys. I'm not sure why they pushed me to give it up either, the geniuses know full well that they can just boot their diagnostics disk without the password anyway.

Bear in mind that the default setup for Apple's FileVault also sends a copy of the encryption key to Apple too (associated with your AppleID), where presumably there is access granted to the US government also (willing or unwilling).
I really doubt pg would be suggesting, as an entrepreneur and investor in entrepreneurship, to be wary about besting supposed idols. Myths, hearsay, and not scientific.

The top-most comment is fair to point out bugs, but I don't see the correlation with Jobs and his genius, UI/UX brush. Are you suggesting mandates for consistent UI -- whatever that has to do with the article's discussion about the compose window -- creates more bugs? Makes Maps slow? They should fix those things, but it has nothing to do with UI / UX consistency nor Jobs.
Shaftoe – A Simple Web Service for Encrypting Messages Using PGP
I don't know Haskell so I haven't used parsec and attoparsec, beyond tutorials and running a few examples. I read the tutorials, then proceeded to make my own version in Java that works similarly (also typesafe). It's easy to make it work, but it always retains the same disadvantage : runtime evaluation.

Runtime evaluation means that your program figures out the structure of the grammar into it's internal "recursive" state machine every time (in some cases every time you evaluate a string). This means that your parser is effectively running on a very slow, very ad-hoc virtual machine inside your program. In the case of ANTLR (or yacc) the program itself has the required structure. Result, yacc parses happen at close to memory transfer rate (depends on the grammar and the semantic actions obviously), whereas parsec parses, well, you're lucky to get 10 MiB/s (similar grammar happened at > 1 GiB/s in java with ANTLR).

The difference is large enough that it quickly becomes very hard to ignore. Plus, I like the fact that the ANTLR syntax is more concise, which makes it easier to keep the whole parser in your head once you're used to the language. Furthermore there's the testing application that comes with ANTLR, ANTLR studio.
Shameless plug as this is another great use of my webapp http://gauth.apps.gbraad.nl/ (http://bit.ly/g2fauth) Just bookmark and use it offline. keys are stored locally.

The Chrome extension was forcibly removed from the Chrome Store as BigG was somehow not happy; you can however still install it from here: http://bit.ly/g2fachrome
I would love to go to college. At this point in time, it does not seem financially feasible. And, I love CS.
Thank you for your feedback.
It's one of the most densely populated places in the US, (depending on how you count metropolitan areas). And, surprise surprise, it's more expensive than most other places in the US.

But hey...last I looked, real estate was pretty expensive in Tokyo, London and Paris too. Their governments must all be pretty evil with the oppressive zoning laws.
I don't particularly mind having to connect to Facebook, but the permissions required go way beyond what makes sense for what this game claims to be. When I denied access, it caused a server error on the nanodoc website.
Fun fact:

When anabolic steroids were banned by congress in the U.S., the DEA, AMA, NIDA, and FDA were all against the ban saying they were harmless [1], and they mostly are, especially if taken with doctor supervision.

Now they have been pushed underground (unless you have the money to doctor shop) and you get all sorts of bro science around them which can be a real problem.

Thank science the U.S. government is saving us from ourselves.

[1]http://www.steroid.com/The-Steroid-Control-Act.php