skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes sense. Knowing those reasons you don't think it will work and attacking those specifically is actually a really good way to debug. Dave Friedberg (Founder of Climate Corporation) actually has a really good approach to this that he talks about here (3 minute video): http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2796

He basically says to lay out the unknowns, and systematically work towards making them knowns. Good luck!
The copy is not my best work. But hope it gets the point across -- a quick application is good enough.
I'll be presenting this at the Docker Meetup San Mateo hosted by the awesome folks at Edmodo tomorrow night! The event is full, but we will be streaming live!
It's interesting that they have a waiting list. I guess it could just be for marketing purposes, but you'd think that BB probably has the most experience of any company building scalable messaging infrastructure. I can't imagine their system would buckle under the load of a couple million users.
Not what you asked, but Win7 has a desktop weather gadget.

More along the lines that you asked ...

- Install cygwin and run it in a bash terminal there. Probably some tweaking required, may or may not work. cygwin's minterm does display unicode.

- Translate it into python and run it from a dos terminal (or from cygwin). I don't think the regular cmd.exe or powershell will display unicode (I could be wrong), but a replacement like conemu does (just checked). If you like this weather thing you'll like conemu better anyway.
Oh yes, I remember reading about the Minitel many years ago. Thanks for bringing it back to attention.

The fall of these old technologies leave behind a somewhat somber mood in me. Kind of like the decline of UUCP.
1) Aren't recent patent events demonstrate that Apple is clearly paranoidally interested in control? Monopolistic grip = control. Banning competitive technologies = control. Codecs are just in line of Apple's usual behavior. Vorbis isn't even new. You could say that VP8 is relatively new and Opus is very new, so Apple is too slow to adopt them. But Vorbis is nowhere new. Apple always showed clear disdain towards open codecs, and it was never based on technical merits. Closed codecs equals control (or to make it more clear patents = control).

2) Arguments about what's an "open standard" aren't new either. I hold - open standards means unencumbered by patents. Especially when applied to the idea "open Web requires open standards". Luckily, W3C adopted that position.

3) Ubiquitous common denominator in audio players is still MP3. They aren't forward compatible though, i.e. players which support just MP3 can't play AAC.

5) Clear evidence is that other manufacturers successfully implement open codecs. It's not a downside, it's a benefit (for them and for their users).
This was my first ever hackathon so I didn't know what to expect. But, it was lots of fun working on Pollse and seeing the project come to life in such a short amount of time. Great job team!
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No it wasn't the end result he was going for. But to say that the patient was wronged because of it is a grave injustice to the doctor who worked hard to get it right. Firstly, the patient must have been described the possible risks. Even back then, we knew that messing with the brain could screw up a lot. Secondly, it is tough to ascertain whether his life would have been any better with the pain of those seizures. His ability to live a normal life was already impaired.
Perhaps, but my fear is that Soylent's cavalier attitude is how you cause the next asbestos or thalidomide: things that seemed great, were rolled out extensively, and ended up being huge health disasters.
It wasn't intentional, but I will take full credit. I'll pass it to legal for the copyright and patent.
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In the early 1990s US West (previously Qwest now CenturyLink) launched a Minitel service in the Minneapolis and Omaha markets called "CommunityLink"... The service was fairly short-lived as competing offerings from providers like AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe provided more services targeted at American users for a lower price. Many of US West's Minitel offerings were charged à la carte or hourly while competitors offered monthly all-inclusive pricing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel#Minitel_in_other_countr...
> What is the percentage of Reddit users that also use Bitcoin

There's quite a significant userbase in r/bitcoin, although reddit itself supports Bitcoin for Reddit Gold purchases and they've stated the number of purchases is negligible: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1lcy3h/dreamhost_ma....

The reddit bitcoin tip bot that others have mentioned is used fairly often (thousands of times a month), here is a collection of stats incl. frequency of tips: http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcointip/comments/1nslow/updated_b...
I'm not sure if anyone is so binary with their food that they will only give themselves a choice between an exquisite meal or powdered, bland goop. Maybe I'm just not "hardcore" enough.

I can crack a few eggs in the morning, toss in some veggies and have a hot, delicious breakfast to enjoy with plenty of protein and it all cooks in just a few minutes.

For the most part with "weekday cooking", the most time consuming part is the prep work and that stuff can be easily batched as long as you plan ahead.

I just don't see how anyone who would consider themselves as foodies could be happy drinking this stuff for the majority of their meals.
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Thanks. It's pretty easy to focus on optimizing your app rather than optimizing your business (I see this a lot actually), and it's a bad way to go. Similar to PG's thoughts on raising money as quickly as possible and then going back to work, you should tell the best story you can in your app and then get back to work as quickly as possible. Whether you get into YC or not, your business will still be there waiting, warts and all.
This is fantastic and beautiful!

I made a few sketches myself as part of a larger project I'm working on (a year without cameras): http://crafture.me/post/64711241777/startup-school-2013
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As much as I love(d) Blackberries, the messaging experience and the BBM—this page looks like pure irony.

5 years ago, yes, this would be massive and had the potential to get bigger than any other messenger. But now, where tons of messengers are avail with Whatsapp leading the way, no chance.

This is so sad.
> He gave it the self-deprecating name Soylent — after the dystopian movie Soylent Green where Charlton Heston discovers that society has been living off rations made of humans.

I wish he had chosen another name, not because I dislike the name Soylent but because people will always make this association with the movie. Any time I tell people about this project I get 'hur hur is it made of people?'

Regarding the quote, the name is not self-deprecating (at least by my understanding it is not intended to be), and Rob's influence is the book, not the movie.

From http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/rob-rhinehart-no-longer-requi...:

> Actually, in the original book Make Room! Make Room! Soylent is made of soya and lentil. The movie changed many aspects of the book, though it's still one of my favourite movies. My Soylent is human-free.
Based on your points:

a: Agreed with the medical uses, but I personally, don't wear my watch that tight. Maybe I would if it had value, but my watch is closer around my wrist bone and loose. Then again, it's a metal band and not leather / plastic, so it's usually either too tight or loose.

b: I have no interest at all in controlling my TV by flailing my arms. Thats just not me.

c: yes - but not by movement. Volume buttons that can double as up down arrows or something like that (but then, why wouldn't you just swipe the screen of the watch) to navigate would be cool. I don't see an iWatch having a lot of buttons, if any.

I've had many discussions about this with many people; from salesmen to doctors.

My personal hopes for the watch:
Be good at what it should do: notifications. Show me what music is playing; what the caller id of the incoming calls is; who the text message is from; upcoming appointments, etc... And just like the iPhone, it's top priority is to show... the time! A watch is still a watch and if its gonna replace my Tagg Heuer, it better tell the damn time.

I also think though that a problem with these devices (including Google Glass) is people that wear expensive sunglasses, expensive watches, etc... do so, mostly because of style. I think Google should partner with a Ray-Ban, an Oakley or whoever to make the frames for them. I highly doubt Apple would, but it would make sense to hire a Tagg, a Movado, a Tissot, etc... to make the bands / face casings. I've joked that if Apple made a watch, I'd wear the Apple watch on my right arm and continue to wear my Tagg on my left. A watch still very much has value to me, even though my phone is always on me.

More than anything, I want an iWatch to stop me from looking at my phone every 5 minutes. The action has become obsessive and I can't help but think it's rude. Looking at your watch constantly says to people your in a hurry or in a rush. Looking at your phone all the time tells people your a socio path or don't care whats happening. Neither are good, but the prior is less of an evil then that latter, haha.
Once this is out in the wild, I'll be curious to see how people who adopt this for the majority of their diet handle themselves when eating "real" food. It's pretty common for dieters to have serious eating binges when they break their diet, and I could see the same thing happening with people who choose to use these sorts of meal replacements for the bulk of their diet.
You will have to rewrite anyway. Multiple times. If you pick a RDBMS you will have to rewrite it to scale, if you pick MongoDB you will have to rewrite it for reliability, if you pick Heroku or AppEngine you will have to rewrite it to avoid paying them a good chunk of your profits.

That's probably the biggest surprise I learned from working in a fast-growing, well-functioning engineering organization. The half-life of code in a market that's actively growing and changing is roughly 1 year, i.e. 50% of the code you write now will have been removed within a year from now. And attempts to optimize for problems you're going to have in a year, rather than the ones you have now, actively make things worse because you inevitably have a different product direction in a year, and baking in last year's speculative assumptions just means there's more code you have to work around.
If you're interested in seeing more like this, then I'll throw ours into the hat as well:

[1] https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/102/lollipuffs-ycombinator-ex...

[2] http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/20/how-to-write-a-winning-y-c...
Yes, consultants aren't really any more expensive than employees, but they're no substitute: you're still going to want some employees on your team to impress investors (among other reasons).
No, I was correct about the standards: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/03/22/intermediate-floati...

C98: "5.10 The values of the floating operands and the results of floating expressions may be represented in greater precision and range than that required by the type; the types are not changed thereby."

You're right that most compilers in practice changed the precision to double. I think we're in violent agreement (and I learned a lot from this debate!) :)
While we're at it, let's define privacy.

It seems to me that these kinds of discussions tend to conflate forced government surveillence with voluntarily giving your information to other people (such as Facebook).
> believing in your idea is certainly important

Not just your idea - also important to believe in yourself and your team. In many ways this will supercede the idea because the idea is just one manifestation of a solution to a problem that you're solving. With time and experience your understanding of that problem will evolve, as will your solution.
6 Million dollars sent instantly for only 17 cents. (SilkRoad)
It is not there yet. When you install it it says "There is a line for this app, you will have to wait". (or something like that).
http://buttcoin.org/the-reddit-bitcoin-tipping-bot-is-the-wo...
They tried to release it a few weeks ago and it didn't work under the stress. So I'm guessing this is to let it build up a little slower.
If they're technical they aren't expressing it in Canada, are they? 1/10 the population, very roughly 1/10 the GDP, but not even a fraction of 1/10 the visible (computer) high tech, right?

Given how qualified, that is "weak", his statement was, the point I'm making is I believe apropos. It's a jab at our Tory neighbors to north, not some profound judgement of CGI's abilities.

And in the political arena certainly you must be expecting such jabs?
Wow what an awesome project. Keep up the amazing work!
Yeah, that's a serious problem for me, essentially using their leverage with the Google platform to keep competitors out of the market. Not cool Google.
How many people wear watches anymore, to even make a wearable device marketable? Quick unscientific poll in my office is VERY low - on the order of 20% or so. I don't see why Apple would even consider a watch device given that small percentage of people who even wear one to begin with, and the subset of that small percentage who would wear a device like this.

edit: found more people with watches
I hated how most of the critiques on HN were centered around "loving to cook" or "loving food." I think that's a moot point.

I love the idea of Soylent and meal replacements in general. The critique I had for it was that everywhere I looked for the recipe, I saw references to maltodextrin. I don't want to fill my diet with maltodextrin instead of whole weat bread/oats. I hope in the future there are varieties where I can have more control over the carb source I consume a lot of in my daily meals.
For example, employees are typically more committed to the project.
Here's are key differences:
1) Amazon's offering scales. There's no way I'd ever be paying $90/mo in storage costs without good reason. If I just send in a few things, it'll probably be a dollar or two.

2) Amazon has an inventory control system. You can request certain quantities of items be sent back to you at any point, for cheap.

3) Amazon allows you to use their marketplace as a way to get rid of the stuff, so your average storage costs decrease over time and end up being much less as long as your stuff sells.
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If your primary motivation in hiring is to impress investors, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. You get investors so you can hire employees. You don't hire employees to get investors.
>The cease and desist order has affirmed my decision and crystallized my dislike of Facebook as a company.

The cease and desist order should have nothing to do with affirmation of your decision to quit wasting time, nor your view of Facebook. They're required to pursue trademark violations if they wish to retain it.

Change the name, sir.
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Am I only the only one who worries what the repercussions of an ad-blocking-by-default browser getting market share might be?

"Facebook, sign up now for only $4 a month..."

"You have 12 tweets left. Why not top up now?"
I don't think the authors's GetByPersonId() goes far enough. I suggest PersonFromPersonID() which puts the return type and the parameter in the function name.
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Running powertop and fixing things that it recommends helps immensely.
If you want to avoid lawsuits then don't use the very trademarked "Facebook" in the name of your app.
First make sure the fire sprinkler system is operational..
Google Play shows this as incompatible with both of my tablets (Nexus 7 and 10), so apparently this is only installable on phone models.
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It's stuff that 8ig8 doesn't know is already on hand. Keeping certain track of it takes more time than the repurchase is worth, for occasional use. A related situation is why lots of people have several identical pairs of scissors, can openers, and other things that they don't use every day: eventually, as you buy more of them, the time it takes to find one costs less than buying a new one. But 8ig8 has this problem with things that are hidden in the attic; just figuring out whether it is in there at all is painful.
A hope that's admittedly probably wildly optimistic is that Wikipedia could help people get better at critically evaluating sources, since everyone knows you are not "supposed" to take it completely uncritically on the basis of the publisher's authority. If you get some familiarity with it gets reasonably easy to spot which articles have something strange about them. Sometimes it's the writing style, sometimes the tone that clearly sounds like advocacy or PR copy rather than encyclopedia copy, sometimes the absence of or particular choice of references, etc. I tend to also start with strong prior skepticism depending on the area, e.g. articles on present-day companies, but not ones big enough to attract a lot of real editors (unlike Google, Microsoft, etc., which do) are inherently suspect for paid editing, while articles on mathematics, whatever other problems they might have, typically don't ring my "might be a PR shill" warning bell.

Can be useful even outside of Wikipedia! Distinguishing between trade-nonfiction books honestly trying to cover a subject, versus trade-nonfiction books that are thinly veiled ads for a piece of technology (or the author's management/diet/etc. consulting gig), has some similarities.
I have vigorously criticised Soylent in the past. I've tried hard to turn that down.

The reason I hate Soylent is, as several other people mention in this thread, the over-blown claims made in their crowd-funding drive.

Before any work with nutritionists or dietitians the Soylent team were claiming:

> "You can finally join the easy, healthy, and affordable future of nutrition."

> "What if you never had to worry about food again?"

> "For anyone that struggles with allergies, heartburn, acid reflux or digestion, has trouble controlling weight or cholesterol, or simply doesn't have the means to eat well, soylent is for you."

> "Soylent frees you from the time and money spent shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent health,"

> "By taking years to spoil"

> "there is much evidence that it is considerably healthier than a typical diet."

Some of these are just enthusiastic US marketing. I'm in the UK where we have stricter rules for advertising, so there's some cultural clash there.

But some of them are sleazy and not truthy.

That bad-feeling is retained by many people, even though the Soylent team are now working with real food scientists and being more careful with the claims.
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This is an interesting analysis. My biggest concern about hiring consultants is that they don't have "skin in the game". Meaning, the typical consultant isn't going to be around to live with the consequences of their decisions.

Consultants are still very useful for "marginal areas" of your business. Meaning, consultants are useful for jobs that need to be done, but aren't significantly time-consuming to hire a full-time employee.
is it capped on low amounts? if it's not people might start hacking reddit accounts
I completely disagree with this article. If you need someone working, lets say 30-40 hours per week and you hire an on-site consultant then the consultant will also spend some time going to the toilet, talking to people at the office etc.

To go with the many unscientific formulas used in the article, here is one more:

consultant_cost = employee_cost + revenue_to_consultant_firm

employee_cost = consultant_cost - revenue_to_consultant_firm

In short: If you actually need a full time developer (and are able to find a qualified one), you are better off hiring him yourself, if you need him for a while.

The article is well-written but it's marketing mumbo jumbo for hiring consultants.

Disclaimer: I work as a consultant, but I'm hired because they don't need my position full time and they don't have other people in house who have the same knowledge.
The main problem here seems to be: Why must every company on earth have its own Wikipedia page?

That said, I can see why e.g. Microsoft, the East India Trading Company and BMW should be recognized in an encyclopedia. And there are examples of products (lines) that could/should be mentioned in a vast online encyclopedia as well (e.g. Windows, BMW 3 series) because they influenced industries/trends/zeitgeist and/or lifes.

But why, for the love of god, should every consultancy, contractor, forrester and his second cousin have an entry on this site?

EDIT: typo
Yeah, at one point I did a modest eBay selling campaign of stuff I owned that wasn't exactly high value but was easy to photograph and describe and had some value. I doubt I made minimum wage. I keep selling on eBay as an option for the odd item here and there but it's hard for me to see it being worth my effort for the general case. I suppose I could investigate a local eBay packager (or whatever the term is) but, as you say, for most stuff I just give it to a local charity and take a few bucks off my taxes.
Nobody wants a BB device. Our workplace has been trying to push these devices on users for free, and they would rather purchase $750.00 iPhone.

Myself, I love the BlackBerry 10 OS but it is rough around the edges, lack of ecosystem, apps, and hardware isn't the greatest. I think what they are trying to do with BBM is get some brand recognition back and then hopefully sway people over to buy their next gen devices in the future. Even BBM as a service could be enticing, enterprise cloud by BB. Also, BBM will help sell enterprise customers on BB devices because they are able to communicate with their friends on other platforms.

Edit: Anyone else lamenting the fact BBM should have been available 5-years ago should start looking at iMessage in the same terms. At that point it didn't make sense to lose their hardware advantage now they have to throw everything and hope something sticks.
You can already find such recipes on the DIY Soylent sites. There was one based on Chia seeds, peanut butter, and a few things you can find in the grocery store.
Does soylent contain actual soy or not? If not is it still going to affect estrogen like soy? What are the actual facts on excess soy (or anything in its makeup that's included in soylent) and estrogen? What are any hormonal changes that have been seen in the months of testing so far if this has been tested?
I totally agree with you - I don't think it's specifically emoticons that are the future. Snapchat is definitely a perfect example of the direction we are going in (picture + text).
You can run on bare-metal providers like SoftLayer, which allows you run your own trusted hypervisor or OS. This, as you said, isn't currently possible on AWS.

Incidentally, PrivateCore has a trusted, remotely-attested hypervisor that encrypts memory and runs on providers like SoftLayer: http://www.privatecore.com
+1, Google Hangout does a great job on this + archiving the conversations in your mail inbox.

Another one is Facebook, where you do not have to request a messaging connection to the other party.