skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would you buy it?

The comment you replied to answered that: Because of the hypothetical situation that Google would want to pay $5bn for it. You'd buy it to shop it around to the big players.

To a certain extent, the valuation of some companies can be pumped on the basis of to what extent the big players are likely to be competing for it, and not always on the basis of possible revenue, but strategy too. E.g. denying a competitor a company that is seen as having some percent chance of being a threat if paired with the competitor, or buying a company that is seen as having some percent chance of helping you become a threat.

Consider that even if Snapchat on its own was/is worth 0, if SnapChat has even a tiny chance of helping Google propel G+ into the position of a viable contender to Facebook, Snapchat is suddenly worth a huge amount to both Facebook and Google. It might even be worth a lot to Google even if Facebook only thinks that the combination would be a threat, if it'd make Facebook tie up lots of resources trying to "counter the Snapchat threat".

(in that vein, I think that one of the ingenious part of the massive Gmail quota was that while it got quite a bit of PR attention that mostly swayed geeks, it terrified large parts of Yahoo - I was at Yahoo when Gmail "hit" - and it tied up hundreds of man-years worth of product manager, engineering managers, developers, marketing people and others radiating out from the Mail team, all trying to figure out how to respond; I can only imagine the same must have been the case in Hotmail and others; as a feature Google could've offered a much smaller increase over the competition and still gotten most of the PR, but that huge bump, which was largely symbolic, triggered massive resource hogging responses from competitors)

And a lot of that kind of thinking boils down to guesswork, which can work both for and against them in terms of valuation.
The fallacy of "just" should be added to the standard lists of logical fallacies. "Just do X" assertions are problematic in a number of ways:

1. "Just" carries a hidden assumption, that the thing is simple and straightforward.

2. It's awkward to respond without tacitly accepting the burden of proof for why you can't do the thing.
Please be sure to include Pinterest in this one.

They might be valued higher than Genentech at this point.
This is awesome. Quite possibly one of the best solutions I have seen so far to manage bookmarklets.
No need to make that disadvantage deeper by contributing to it.

I also find selling connection-potential to be as anti-meritocratic as you can be.
I was hoping the same. I was nearly giddy with excitement, then I tried searching... no dice... re-read the description... ah.

I might try making this a reality. It'd be incredibly useful.
Catching Invalid JSON Parse Errors with Rack Middleware
Well intentioned probably. Full of suck though. Let's face it, if Y Combinator can't fund a few scholarships for whatever school it wants to, it isn't the most successful incubator in the world, or whatever it is. It can and it should it it wants to. Drawing attention to it like this seems remarkably gauche.

This seems to implicitly support the 'poor' in a rather patronising way. Rich person pays for kid to come to dinner. Poor person gets gift of education.

Wonder who would bid if it was rich person gets to pay for poor person's kid to go to dinner and rich kid gets 0?
I like this project:

https://bitmessage.org/
So I wonder, what is the percentage of YC companies that match this profile?
IBM Hits Twitter With Patent Infringement Claims Ahead of IPO
Funny, I just spent some time this weekend creating a json API wrapper around the little-known Memento API that wayback offers. My idea was to make a bookmarklet that would show prior versions of the page the user was visiting. (The backend is pretty trivial, actually, but I could use some help with the javascript/dom parts.)

(The CDX API linked below is links to the actual warc/arc archive files, not the web-viewable versions.)

Here's some info on the Memento API that links to web-viewable versions of a given url:
http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/07/2013-07-15-wayback-machine...

http://web.archive.org/web/timemap/link/{URI} will return a text stream of urls and dates.

Edit: formatting
I love your analogy, but I think you drew the wrong conclusion. Doctors don't have an incentive to prevent you from getting sicker any more than your mechanic has an incentive for keeping your car out of the shop. Why would your doctor read the latest research on preventing disease when he can make a tidy profit from treating your disease?

Now this isn't to say that doctors are bad people who want to make you sick... on the contrary, most of the doctors I know are more passionate about helping people than making money. They are, however, subject to whims of the hospital they work for, which I can almost guarantee is more interested in making a buck than keeping you healthy. This is true of all large companies though, and as Clayton Christensen has taught us, this sort of marginal thinking usually leads to disruptive innovation by a start-up.

<shameless_plug> Want to disrupt health care? Omada Health is hiring! http://omadahealth.com/jobs </shameless_plug>
But pixels are not perfectly square, and not visible on >300 ppi devices? I think we should accept that you can't rely on pixels anymore, and it's a good thing, which will let us move on to better display technologies and better, vector, graphics. When you do that, and if you want, make vector squares, you can let the rendering layer 'snap to grid' for rendering your pseudo-pixels.
They point out that existing email leaks a lot of metadata, but I do not see any proposal to fix that in the new protocol. How would you hide/encrypt/otherwise protect the list of recipients? Someone somewhere has to know where to deliver the message, especially if you will continue to use human readable/memorable email addresses as we currently know them today.

You could have the server know the addresses to forward the message and then forget them. However, then the server knows this information at some point and it could be sniffed/recorded along the way.

Does anyone know any more details about the specifics of the protocol? How would you minimize metadata leakage if you were implementing such a protocol? I am not sure it is possible to guarantee the recipient list won't be leaked.
Since a lot of people have trouble imagining why Snapchat is popular, I wrote a blog post on it a while ago: http://www.brianchu.com/blog/2013/09/11/photo-embarrassment/.

One thing that bears noting is that Snapchat is closer to mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp than it is to photo sharing / social networking apps like Instagram or Facebook.
They started with a noble mission, which was to provide access to funding for a larger set of people.

I'm simply curious, did you mean to imply that this is something of the past?
I didn't dispute that. The key itself is fine. I'm just worried about using it for JSON retrieval! That part is undocumented as far as I can see, and therefore subject to change without notice
Mathquill: WYSIWYG math with only HTML, CSS and JS
Here's the thing though. You can hardcode serial processes with OODA in mind. That's basically what the Toyota version of lean is.

But not only is OODA fractal, but it's concurrent. Hundreds running in parallel that comprise the enterprise. The takeaway is that the processes need a shared O for that kind of organization to work.

Here's a deck I put together a while ago on this: http://www.scribd.com/doc/97861801/OODA-Build-Measure-Learn-...
To be fair, the vast majority of the comments in that link are really positive.
The thing that jumped to my attention was that this drive has 7 platters. I've heard that as platters go up reliability goes down. Can anyone who knows more about disks comment on this?
Not that I'm aware of, which is rather unfortunate. One way to do this might be to take an existing open source SPICE implementation such as NGSPICE (http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/) and build a GUI around it that provides the real-time visualization of the signals.

In the meantime, if you're looking for a free, easy-to-use circuit simulation tool, I've used LTSpice (http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/) in the past for my EE classes. The Windows version runs pretty well under Wine and the UI isn't too shoddy. It's pretty far away from Bret Victor's vision though, as you need to rerun the simulation again in order to see a new plot of the node voltages and currents.
Great analogy. I mean, they charge something like 18$ for a beach chair on South Beach.. People still go and still pay.

I don't know, the article came across as missing the point in my opinion.
I'm sorry to let you down, but what you're describing is not what I have visioned for this. But hey, if you're going to create this on your own, the source code for Backtick is available on GitHub (https://github.com/JoelBesada/Backtick) if there's anything you need to know!
It's also almost completely broken in pdf.js (firefox's new default viewer) - I guess that one should be the same between linux and windows at least.
No more than when someone needs to say "with all due respect" before offering criticism. It's a prophylactic way of acknowledging the reality of what some people will think (which would be valid as they might jump to conclusions) and warding or dulling the harshness.
Hey, thanks for the link.
Haha. They have not looked at my video, so I have a strong chance to see the same email soon.

It is a little bit annoying that they asked for so many things, but then knock you out with your first line.

On the other side, thanks to this application, I feel that I am more concise. It is all about staying positive and moving forward regardless what happen.

Good Luck everyone! (including me :)
Has anyone seen a Google glass application that really wowed them yet? Not to say they don't exist but I've not seen any myself yet which makes me wonder the future of glass.
You can probably make your service do both screenshots and WARC, instead of loading a site directly, load it through WARC Proxy (https://github.com/odie5533/WarcProxy), that will write out a WARC file and you can still store your screenshot.

Once you have the WARCs you can upload them to Archive.org and they can be added to the wayback, or you can set up your own service for browsing them, built off something like warc-proxy https://github.com/alard/warc-proxy (Yeah, same name different purpose...)

There is also a MITM version of WARCProxy that will let you store HTTPS sites: https://github.com/odie5533/WarcMITMProxy
Do you feel that the concerns expressed are not legitimate? If attending Bing is more beneficial than a YC dinner, why not make an unconditional donation to Bing and then open up these dinners to teenagers willing to apply/write an essay for them, regardless of ability to pay? It would have the added benefit of self-selecting out those people whose parents think it is a good idea for them to go to such a dinner and reserve it for only those who are interested.

Obviously, any donation to Bing is better than no donation to Bing, and the reality is that it probably is a net win for the parents with less money, but it seems like it could be even better refined and ensure that there are fewer cheap-shots like in the thread below.
I'm about 40 lbs lighter and ran a half marathon this year. Less beer than in the digg days. But thanks!
Identity is more important to us than fact
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6642106
Oh by the way, as mentioned in another comment, Vimium comes with a tool that probably is exactly what you're looking for. Just press 'b' to search through your bookmarks.
What about the fact that we have dpi's going from 250 to 450, everywhere in between? We have color temperature problems, we have totally different screen aspects sizes. Between all the things we can't control, why is it still a good idea to render with pixel accuracy?
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1. Doctors are people like any other. But they've spent years specializing in evidence based medicine. They aren't perfect. No. But they are the best we have.

2. The far bigger problem is doctors order tests that wouldn't change treatment but rather help avoid malpractice.

3. The quote -- every time I read it -- makes me laugh because it's so disingenuous. My wife had a week of dietary training in med school. You know what else she had a week of? Renal. Cardiology. etc. If you think diet and exercise are the only--or even the most effective--means of lowering morbidity for chd (which is what OP is worried about) you'd also be wrong. So I'm not really sure why OP should be looking for a dietary specialist vs a cardiologist.
Hmm, I thought if you took ROAD (radiology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology and dermatology), you avg. income is $250K/year.

For comparison, an average developer salary is about $100K/year. So that is a $150K difference. Taking into account net worth, I think it's pretty optimistic to estimate avg. engineer net worth to hover around $125K at age 30, while avg. doctor's net worth is at -$100K to be pessimistic.

Assuming that a developer and doctor is saving 25% of his pre-tax income which is respectively, 25K and $65K and putting it into an investment account that yields 8% annual return, after 35 years, a developer will have 6.5 million with $100K starting amount and the doctor 12.09 million with -$100K deficit.

So financially speaking, it's nearly 2x more monetarily ewarding to become a doctor or a lawyer over an engineer despite people's complaint about grad school debt and late start.
What would be interesting is if you could elaborate on a) where you would get the $1000 and how significant $1000 is to you personally (vs. whatever your assets are) b) what you would hope to gain by paying $1000 and doing this that you could get by being creative and not spending the money.
The worst part is when a site is stored in the wayback, then the domain expires and the new owner (or squatter) has a robots.txt that blocks everything, then all the old content becomes inaccessible.
I've read over the SCIMP protocol. From their white paper, a sample message looks like this:

<message type="chat"from='velma@silentcircle.com' to='daphne@silentcircle.com'
id="0FF6CF98-32FE-4EED-9DEF-D66A0E50EA8F"><body/><x xmlns="http://
silentcircle.com">?
SCIMP:ewogICAgImRhdGEiOiB7CiAgICAgICAgInNlcSI6IDE1MDcyLAogICAgICAgICJtYWMiOiAiZlp
YYURlQ1ljVTA9IiwKICAgICAgICAibXNnIjogIkloT051Sm9kK0Fjb09KQ1prZ0xHQXliSmJjbC9WNzhl
cmMrSFY4K1FHcUJ2cEdlb2RaSWZwNTRKVWluU2g0N0lZTjFORkJOaXBjTVdubWlsMXVtbi9pcG5rVk8rd
VJZdUJuQjdpZXZEK1pZQzBYV0hHQWQ3WWJtOWRsYkpSd0oyIgogICAgfQp9Cg==.</x></message>

which worries me. Yes, the connection between the server and client will be encrypted, but my message still has metadata that isn't encrypted. I'd just like an answer from Silent Circle / Lavabit.
Zed Shaw's Learn C The Hard Way [1] makes extensive use of Valgrind, with a nice crash course in [2]

[1] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

[2] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex4.html
Trying is excellent. Trying and failing is also excellent, in that it's how we learn. Trying and failing and then selling the product as if it's a success? Less excellent. :-)
I nominate the name "NSA-Mail" -- No Spying Allowed Mail.

It's descriptive and co-opting the enemy's own name is the kind of thing people who want to stick it to the NSA can really appreciate.
People said the same about Facebook & Twitter. People thought Google overpaid for YouTube – now it's clear it would have been a steal at twice the price.

You mention Groupon. I've knocked Groupon a lot, but it's still got a public-market-cap of $7B, more than the Google buyout offer people said they were insane to reject.
Keep it classy, Internet. Keep it classy.
I'm not too much into impressionists, but I love Debussy.

For Baroque; Start with the king, Bach. Beware though, some complained it takes away from their brain cycles.
Concerto in A Minor for Four Harpsichords:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_if3nhq64pE

Just give yourself a bit of time to get familiar with tonality and harmony.
This is pretty standard operating procedure, unfortunately. They can expect software licensing audits as well.
It's simple, you buy the beach next door, and wait for the popular beach to implement any of the above changes. Then you advertise as the beach without ads, the beach without admission fees, or the beach where you can build free sand castles. Then when the people come, you sell your newly successful beach, and run.
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Part of the problem here is that the privacy users care about here is not from a third party, but from whomever the recipient might otherwise choose to share the content with.

And that pretty much requires a party other than the recipient whose interest it is to lock down the client as much as possible to at least increase the hassle-factor in violating the senders trust.

Otherwise, if the recipient had the "EvilReplicatingToFacebook" fork of the app readily available, it'd quickly destroy any value in the app.
Blinding irony being the "cool detachment to all theories guy" persona you project here being equally as abstact as those you observe.
I think if your main source of income is stickers, that's risky. They will (and already are) become commoditized - with MessageMe, Path, etc... all jumping onboard.

I'm guessing that stickers (siloed in each app) are a fad that will eventually go away.
And they would like look a six-pack of fugly cheap plastic thingies. And you have to chain them up yourself. And they wouldn't talk to an integrated app.

300 buckadingdongs for 6 sensors, a hub and an app seems quite reasonable to me. This would be especially useful for a landlord to unobtrusively monitor properties.
This*1000.
As a 20 year old student, this would be fantastic. I don't have the parents who could bid on this, so I suppose I'll shoot for it myself.
I tend to agree, though I suppose it's not entirely proven that it's never failed. But the "unthinakble thoughts" argument seems to be to go in two different directions - the analogy to sound is misleading; we have reason to believe in the existence of ultrasonic vibrations, and they don't require us to hear or not hear them. But thoughts don't exist separate from our minds. Truly unthinkable thoughts wouldn't be thoughts at all. What the concept seems to represent here is "novel ways of thinking" and those are in fact generally not impossible to share with other thinkers (luckily).
I like this improvement as I no longer have to resize my browser window to cut long lines of text.

I just wish there is a little more contrast for TOC items when the section is expanded.
This. There is a definite finite life cycle of social sites. Would do investors well to study the rise, domination, fall, and practical disappearance of such sites. BBSs, usenet, Compuserve, AOL (freaking bought Time-Warner!), MySpace, many others - all out to take over the world at one time, all legitimately worth vast sums at their peak, all now little more than rotting corpses. Know when to invest, know when to cash out, know when to stay away.
As of version 1.14, wget natively supports warc (including built-in gzip and cdx index file generation).

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_ou...

This makes creating a browse-able mirror of a site in warc format fairly straightforward, as wget will automatically make links relative, as well as fetch requisite files (css, js, images) for each page.
Fully admitting I've only read the website's summary bullets: I disagree. The point to me is not as much dissemination of material but thinking through materials in a language other than left to right words or symbols. It harkens back to renaissance books in which words and scribbles mixed together in what was, for the times, a coherent mixture. We're talking note-taking for instruction, tools to think about and optimize problem solving ... tools for thinking rather than sharing, even if the source appears to be sharing or instruction right now. That may not be true in the future... I, for one, am sick of OneNote being "the best thing since lined paper" and living otherwise with notepad.exe alternatives. What, precisely, will bring the tablet from its consumption roots into a true work/thinking device? There's a lot of room for more visual note-taking apps, and eventually that will be the new low-hanging fruit of computer vision and natural language input. Someday, for some tasks, at least.
Thanks! Vimium's "b" hotkey is not exactly the same though.

Backtick comes with a bunch of bookmarklets already available without you having to save them to your browser first. I'll also keep adding more commands to it as I get suggestions and find more to add.

The point is, Backtick allows you to discover new bookmarklets just by searching in the console while Vimium only has those that you've added yourself.
I'm disappointed with this Kickstarter campaign. One 23 minute video and almost no text explaining the project. The video isn't even made for Kickstarter, it's just the announcement video from Inbox Love. How do they expect to get almost $200,000 in donations with a campaign that looks like it was put together in 10 minutes?

I want Darkmail to succeed (and I don't mind the name like many here), but I have serious questions about the protocol and the community, no one which have been answered.
"and that lifelong engineers are of a different (and better) character than the reigning VC-halo/TechCrunch leadership."

In what way? That's not a disagreement or a challenge but I'm curious what you mean by "better".

In any case isn't this exactly what happens when things become to popular and money is made? (Reminds me of that Paul Simon song where he refers to Joe Dimaggio.)
We need to stop coddling the elderly
Here's an interesting response[1] from Michael Everson back in 1997. Also interesting is that there's already a reserved area in the CSUR (ConScript Unicode Registry) for it[2], and you may even have a font that shows it[3]! I was surprised I had one: !

[1]. http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML...

[2]. http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/klingon.html

[3]. http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Test_Klingon.html
Many medical techniques were probably pioneered by specialists and later adopted by general practitioners.

The perceived difficulty of mastering pure functional programming for practical work might be a result of bias in the typical CS education experiences. That might shift as the value of pure functional programming gets more universally recognized.
The core of eclim is a server that talks to the Eclipse JDK, for which there are vim, emacs, etc, front-ends.

Eclim also happens to provide an Eclipse plugin that _embeds_ Vim in Eclipse, using the NetBeans protocol, just as you are embedding Vim in Sublime. The author of eclim is also very responsive, if you wanted to ask him about anything.
Good luck everyone!! :fingers crossed:
Fantastic. I would never have thought of that. Great execution.

Is there a repository of bookmarklets that this could hook into?
Valgrind is wonderful, but I'm more excited about the Address Sanitizer work going into clang.

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html

It catches more stuff than valgrind, and only slows a program down to ~half normal speed.

It requires compile time instrumentation, but I'm usually ok with that.
Yeah, but as far as I can guess, derwiki's service doesn't use wget, so running a proxy to store the WARCs is the next-simplest thing.
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"interactive widgets can express ideas which text and static images in published papers can't"

This. I had such hopes for iBooks, but then making widgets is hard, and making a Microsoft Word for widgets, harder still.