skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We moved to TokuMX (http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokumx-for-mongodb/) recently and saw a 2x improvement in response times. They've swapped out mongo's backend with their fractal tree storage engine which is MVCC. Definitely worth checking out.
Your use of "mechanical" makes no sense. The definition of "mechanical", according to Webster's dictionary is: Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion.

Everything that moves can be considered mechanical.

There is no "mechanical" vs "organic" division. It doesn't even make sense.
I just incognito when Ghostery messes up the page view.
I'm not suggesting that there's no room for developing and maintaining relationships.

But when you're the CEO of a company with employees and/or investors, you need to prioritize and filter, and you need to recognize the important, worthwhile conversations from the unimportant, unproductive ones.

Spending an hour of your time arguing with a person who doesn't want your advice in the first place and won't even tell you what he's working on without an NDA clearly falls into the latter category.
Meetup has a messaging system so they don't have to give out email addresses.

Anecdotal: I never enter my email address on meetup group registrations because it seems weird that they would ask for it since they can already message me. I think it's also because so many organizers have abused meetup.com groups and meetup.com itself, despite millions of users, looks shady.

I always enter my email address on an Eventbrite event though.
I don't use a pin because I don't want to have to enter one every single time I want to quickly check something on my phone. Those extra few seconds would be a many-times-a-day annoyance, and I try to keep my day annoyance-free.

Since a fingerprint scan is faster, it is security I would probably use. (And the hyperventilation about hypothetical 5th amendment issues doesn't bother me one iota.)
In Tutorial, when being instructed to place the 8th-grader, it's not clear that it should be placed on a specific tile out of 6 (?) highlighted. Took me some clicking around to notice that small green arrow against greenish tile and realize that.

Later on, same hiccup with "Now press forward". Green smallish arrow against cyan background next to green header pointing at green field... you see where I'm going.

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All in all, while this is not something that I'd play, it appears to be really well done and it leaves great first impression. Congrats on the launch and here's to hoping it will make you rich, healthy and happy! :)
They're on the bleeding edge now!
I was under the impression 42floors use their blog as a way to come to the attention to their target audience.
You make it sound like competency is a bad thing. What a sad state when people don't value it and think it is someone else's responsibility to provide it for them.

"clueless line and project managers..." is an ad hominem and doesn't support your argument.
It's really mind-blowing. Whenever I talk to people outside of the industry...their first comments are:
1. Won't people steal your idea
2. Why are your competitors talking to you on the phone
etc.

I think the Internet is just so big that people are more comfortable sharing. Which is really cool :-)

I hadn't come across Founders before, gonna' take a peek :-)

Thanks!
Voyager Golden Record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
Is there anywhere that we can read about this product that Maciej is working on?
Same. I stopped by the one in Wisconsin (on canoe trips) frequently as a kid. I thought they were common.
You could try compiling MiniBrowser which is bundled with WebKit-GTK tarball.
The issue I see with ban/demote mods is that, as you say, somebody will find a way to play anything without human input, presumably the admins can't be responsible for checking every ban/demote decision so it would become a really good algorithm which can get played. That means that unscrupulous people can wipe out the moderation, and then play the main algorithm which is now lacking mods?

Forcing them not to be anonymous seems like an interesting idea, but could well be dangerous. It's not necessarily a good idea to publish identifying information about people breaking criminal spam/bot rings for example.
Fair enough. It's funny how angry I get when I think of someone needing an "escape_once" function or "is_serialized". I think this discussion might have to become part of my interview process, because if someone doesn't understand the absolute undeniable terribleness of trying to determine if a string has been escaped or serialized by inspecting its contents, then I really don't want them in my code.
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Spending an hour of your time in a discussion which helps you reaffirm and/or challenge your own beliefs can be incredibly valuable.
Well, for starters, I don't like that they have designed the new compose like a larger chat window. I prefer the compose not be a modal or window. I want my formatting above my message, right under the subject line. Perhaps, when compose is click a compose tab activates with full view on page compose form.

...and if they want improve auto save, give me a history diff every time it auto saves just incase I want to revert to previous version. This would be helpful for those times auto save kicks in just after you deleted a sentence or paragraph you're rethinking. Once message is sent, edit history can be removed.
> Economics doesn't have this property.

is sounds like it is an unfalsifiable statement for you.
My two regrets from college are not taking a programming class nor spending any additional time in statistics. Now I am trying to teach both to myself. As a 33 year old with a young child, doing everything I want to do now is becoming harder and harder.
An electric motor, complete with stators, etc. has been known for a while and it didn't change our concept of 'mechanical':

http://www.arn.org/docs/mm/flag_dithani.gif
Organic vs. Mechanic is a false dichotomy. There is some latitude in how you define either of those terms, but I think you have to be rather extreme to put them in complete opposition.
I haven't used Google Apps beyond a little testing, but our small shop did move to outlook.com (office365) about a year ago. Main selling points were archiving/litigation hold, included licenses for Office, and the familiarity of clients with the Microsoft name.

The experience has been as I expected it would be: quite painful. We have not gone an entire month without service disruption. There have been problems with the service getting blacklisted. Support is, well, Microsoft support -- untimely, disconnected, uncaring, and when phones are involved very difficult to understand.

Anecdotal, sure, but according to the various forum/community postings I've come across trying to resolve various issues, not uncommon.

Caveat emptor.

edit: turns out what I was talking about (office365) and what the OP is talking about (outlook.com) aren't the same thing. Apologies.
Well, that felt intuitive. I didn't want to click on a card then click the (i) to view a detailed description. So I held ctrl and clicked it. It worked!

I'm going through the challenges right now. So far I'm really enjoying this. Nice work!
Yes, they are expecting that. Imagine that.
At least that reduces my options back to one again! I hadn't seen that before, thanks.
If you're building a startup might this be too expensive to implement?
And I click on ads I'm not interested just to waste the money of advertisers.

Double checkmate stats and machine learning!
"The map is not the territory"

Very well stated.
> Is it really that unreasonable for an OS manufacturer to restrict the devices on which it can be installed?

Yes, it is. If I pay for a product, it's my prerogative to use it in any way I please. Copyright grants a monopoly on distribution, not on controlling post-purchase usage of the product.

It's one thing to say "we only officially support installation of this product on this list of devices, and can't guarantee it will work on other devices", but inserting artificial restrictions into the product that prevent people from even trying to do officially unsupported things with the product, at their own initiative and at their own risk, is something there really isn't any justification for.

> do I really want the pain of people using it on an Arduino?

What pain? How does it even concern you if people are installing your firmware onto an Arduino, provided that they have legitimate copies of it?

> Opening it up to all the devices dilutes the main thing it has going for it.

Obviously, not installing OSX on other devices is what dilutes the "main thing it has going for it" for those people who have chosen to install OSX on other devices. Are you seriously trying to tell people that their personal preferences are objectively wrong?

> Sometimes there is freedom in restriction.

Straight out of Orwell.
That is hilarious:))How can you take a company like that seriously?
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I think the implication is that he left them in the voyager.
> You are saying that conferences should not be like parties, because conferences are not like parties

Not quite.

What I am saying is that conferences and parties have different goals. The goal of a conference is to advance the field. The goal of a party is to have fun. The goal of a conference is not advanced by organizing a party, nor is the goal of a party advanced by organizing a conference.

A conference can (and perhaps should) have many elements of a party in it — evening social activities, perhaps even in a bar where alcolhol (gasp!) is consumed. All of this may be perfectly fine. But, these activities should be organized with the goal of the conference in mind.

However, what many conference organizers seem to do is fill the days with talks, (while minimizing the time between talks to fit as many as possible), and then on the evenings they try to organize the best party they can think of. The best party, mind you, not the best socializing activity, which might have advanced the networking in the field, but the best party, whatever the tastes of the organizers and/or the prospective attendees.

This makes the conference a series of undiscussed talks in the daytime, followed by a series of usually pounding party keggers at night. The talks can be watched at home if they are filmed, and the parties can be had locally, too. There is no reason to attend these kinds of conferences. Unless, of course, you are already connected and go to any number of conferences a year and meet all the same people — your party buddies.
Pulleys are not that rare. Block and tackle is, but you have pulleys in your hands.
I'm in Europe (Sweden), and while a lot of people on HN and in the tech community care, most other people I know here just don't have this on their top 100 list of things they worry about.

That said, I agree that sensitive or not, we really shouldn't be sharing everything over only a handful of communication channels (typically home & work broadband connection + mobile phone data connection). It makes surveillance all too easy.

This is where I think smart people could make a difference. When I want to share data with someone in the same location as me we should really be talking P2P only. It wouldn't allow NSA & co to get the same full picture as easy as they can now with central data hubs and only a few communication channels.
Ghostery adds some weird play button you have to click to view the article, not sure what that is but it's new and annoying.
Who wants to mash up this information with the 3d information on buildings in NYC to see how the skyline in NYC has changed over the last century?
I disagree that "this" is why people don't like cocktails. That's a very broad statement, encompassing thousands of (existing) drinks that are great. I think it's more of a taste preference and has little to do with bad prior experiences. If said people are basing the totality of drinking cocktails based on their first go at it, there may be a bigger problem there.
Here is my problem with people like you pulling out their study reference lists against every anecdote: results drawn about people in aggregate do not necessarily mean much for this specific person in this specific situation.

"I am not the exception" is a good principle to live by, but it is also important to note that sometimes you are the exception, you are in exceptional circumstances, or you can become the exception (through exceptionally hard work for example, or exceptional stupidity. Being the exception is not always a good thing).

My experience is similar to lightcatcher's. When I was younger, before I was married and had kids, it was common for me to sleep 0-3 hours for a few days while I was working on something and then crash for a few days, sleeping 10-14hrs. Basically I slept when I felt tired, stayed up if I still felt alert. At the time I did not feel less productive and I did not feel like I was putting out lower quality work. Looking back objectively those were the most productive times of my life to date, and the quality of the work was on-par or better with anything else I have done. Temporary sleep deprivation under specific conditions was highly effective by all the objective measures I can think of.
Isn't this the same as #4?
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There's never been a dichotomy between organic and mechanical. All things that move are mechanical. 'Mechanical' simply refers to motion. 'Organic' is a similarly blurry categorization.

The terms you're looking for are 'natural' and 'artificial,' as in "of nature" and "of artifice (created by man)." These are natural gears, which are so surprising because we'd long assumed the gear itself to be an artificial concept.

Notes:

1) I don't use 'artificial' in the more modern connotation, meaning roughly "fake" or "not genuine." Rather, I use 'artificial' in the original sense of the word, deriving from the Latin artificium, or 'craft.'

2) To be fair, 'mechanical' has increasingly taken on a connotation of artifice or man-make ever since the Industrial Revolution (cf. 'mechanic,' 'mechanism'), but in the truest sense of the word, this is not necessarily the case.

3) My semantical nitpicking aside, I admit you raise some interesting points. I want to acknowledge that.
Does that mean the patent for the gear is now invalid?
Capitalism is just engaging in free exchange with others. You can't have real freedom without having capitalism.

So when you say that capitalism should be told what to do, you're saying that people should not be free to exchange with others as they will. The alternative is to be coerced, manipulated, and controlled by some overarching authority. In a democracy, presumably that authority would be the government.

That brings us full circle... the people too stupid to voluntarily participate in free exchange are somehow smart enough to elect benevolent intelligent leaders who will instead make their choices for them.

Do I have that about right?
That's a different issue. This is about how they commercialize (monetize) their offerings, not about who grants what data to _Govs_. One issue is companies have more say with regard to how they monetize your data, the other is about how they are compelled, by law, to hand over your data to govts.
There has long been an expectation of formalized privacy in emails, which was asserted in numerous laws -- basically extending the concept of regular mail to the electronic counterpart.

It's like saying "most regular envelopes go through the Post Office using plain vans, if you want secure communication you send it in an armoured van staffed by personally-vetted Congolese mercenaries". Nobody touches Post Office vans not because they're hard to assault (they're not), but because they're shielded with thick walls of law.

I know that smtp is more like sending postcards and yadda yadda yadda, but that's not what most legal systems have assumed for 20 years, nor what the public at large expects.
No, a million times. If you're a human being, you should be focused on your life. Period.

That means appropriately dedicating time and effort to your company, if you have one, but not forgetting to live your life too, continuing to invest in your personal relationships, etc.
The technology just wasn't there yet.
These IMAP integrations, like TripIt & Slice, have been a part of Gmail for a long time now (since Gmail has supported IMAP for years). This is Microsoft playing catch-up. But yea, I hear you..
My work also uses office365, but I don't recall too many problems with it. There were some migration troubles, but not as bad as our previous setup.

However, we do have 500+ employees and are a large business for the country we're located in, so probably have a bit of weight when it comes to getting support.
without naming names, there are DEFINITELY programs/whole schools in the UCs that are worse than many Cal States, in my opinion. Nonetheless, my opinion in this world doesn't count for very much.
That occurred to me, but I think it's fundamentally different. "False dichotomy" still admits (and IMO implies) the possibility that these are real actual things, but that the same entity can be both.

This is not a false dichotomy, nor is it a true dichotomy, but a misunderstanding of just what concepts like "mechanical" are.
Japanese, due to demands for translation and robotics.
Did anyone else find it odd that the 2am and 4am times weren't qualified? (US? East Coast/West Coast?)
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How can one disable WebRTC on chrome/firefox? (Apart from using an older browser of course)
So far Microsoft is doing everything right with Outlook. If I didn't already have a gmail address I would easily prefer Outlook over gmail.
Brains developed naturally, so I'd imagine evolution would be capable of developing a natural analogue to a microprocessor if there was sufficient and sustained evolutionary pressure for such an adaptation.
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I think they're actually quite sophisticated about it - they look at the time zone according to the shopper's browser. So they're looking at local-to-the-shopper.
Yes. I have no hard feelings for the Prof. He was right I was wrong and at the end of the day I was little wiser than before.
5. A gear is no longer (and was never) either mechanic or organic, it's simply a pattern for solving a certain type of problem. Humans and evolution both found it, but it's more useful for humans.
There are so many ways to do this. Go to Startup School* (where I met pg, Ron Conway and more), Startup Riot (where I met Andrew Warner) or a conference like PyCon, where I met other startup people, including some YC founders. For all the money involved, the startup world is surprisingly open.

*https://news.ycombinator.com/susapply
Agree with Vietnam. As a % of fraud I'd say 70% is Vietnam. And few if any legitimate orders from Vietnam. In our experience.
Flashnews from a whisteblower 2016: in joint cooperation with DEA, NSA and FBI, Apple had updated their software to capture users fingerprints while they touch the screen and send those to The National Anti-Terrorism and Happiness Database, guarded by the NSA.

For years Apple has been denying direct access to finger-print reader, built-in behind your device's screen, but recent revelation shows that the backdoor is being widely used by the US government.

- "I didn't know they can do that, but hey if it keeps us safe then why not?" - says Jennifer Stone, Apple products fan. - "You know after we put the boots on Syrian grounds there has been so much terror retaliation on our soil that probably at some point they would require to finger-print every American, but this way thanks to my Apple device, the government has actually saved me a trip to the local police department for a full finger-print read. Its all good, you know. yolo!".

EDIT: breaking news September 11, 2020. A North Korean terrorist organization successfully hacked into NSA mainframe and downloaded over 25 terrabytes of data related to american's social security records and credit card information. they also obtained driver's license database as well as DNA and fingerprinting records for over 300 million americans. The US government is going into full shut down; starting tomorrow everyone will start receiving new credit cards, new social security numbers as well as new drivers license. Since DNA and fingerprinting information can be reproduced and faked quite cheaply, starting tomorrow no criminal case in the US legal system will be tried based on the evidence introduced from said sources.

- When 911 happened, we had terrorist using our infrastructure, our planes, our airports and our buildings to cause terror. Who would have known that 20 years later storing detailed information on 300 million Americans under one roof in one building would be so hazardous to the National Security. - said independent security contractor.
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"One drug might only work in 10% of people while another cure might cure another 10%, and so on."... I believe this, to some degree. But I don't think it's that much. A lot of drugs get killed because of side effects, poor bioavailibility, unexpected responses, interference with other drugs that are common or necessary in the cohort of cancer patients, etc. Those things are much harder to predict. It is embarassingly easy to find compounds that kill cancer cells in vitro.

However, this:

"Cancer results from finite genomic mutations that biotechnology can easily list."

Well the first part is true. The second part, not so much.
Well, for the second bullet it is.
Anecdotally, awful. Especially at the very early stages of customer discovery, you lose so much resolution in the answers.

I didn't go into it in this article because it was out of scope, but stories are much better than simple facts. I always tell Startup Weekend teams I'd rather they talk to 10 people than get 10,000 survey results.
This is a great point and I think many doctors are pushing for new ways to perform clinical trials but adaptive trials generally only change a single parameter during the course of a trial (dosage for example). And POC trials open up the number of patients that may be willing to participate by administering tests at local sites but the state of clinical trials still has a long way to go. Once it's firmly in drug companies' and insurance agencies' best interest to open things up then we may see more rapid change.
For Ruby developers, there is https://github.com/chrisbranson/ruby_identicon
when was the last time u saw people walking down the street playing w their fingerprint readers? readers are not as ubiquitous as iphones.
5. "mechanical", in the sense used here (roughly, "performing a function involving physical as distinct from (bio)chemical, nuclear, etc., mechanisms") is orthogonal to any sense of the word "organic", plenty of other biologically-produced structures are "mechanical" in teh same sense; its not that there is a false dichotomy at issue, the senses of the words are well-understood to not form a dichotomy at all, though there are other senses of the same words that might be part of something understood (rightly or not) as a dichotomy.
you may be thinking of emerald therapeutics and the work by Brian Frezza.
The main aspect of your product they didn't like us that you were inserting yourself between Facebook and their users. Any platform provider would try to stop that because that relationship is the foundation for every platform's value.

The only possible chance you have around this is growing so fast and becoming so essential that the platform provider can't punish you without punishing themselves. See, e.g., Facebook and Zynga.