skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect there is a completely unrelated reason not mentioned. The Mac Pro isn't being assembled in the US for tax breaks or good PR, it's for the turnaround time on built-to-order machines. I expect a similar sort of reason (i.e. unrelated to economics) is involved here.
Okay, well, don't please anyone be despondent. Do something fun to pass the time and start thinking about what we will all build tomorrow. We need every man on deck for our future. And remember, if we don't get YC, there are mass Angel investors out there, and there is Kickstarter (did you see that Dark Mail Alliance is taking bids!?). And I applied for a Shuttleworth Fellowship. Or alternatively, we can just build our stuff with no help at all. We actually don't need any cash. Just good advice because navigating the processes are full of pitfalls. Honestly, I am in my school library reading a Gothic horror novel to pass the night. That and doing an investigation of radium dial painters in the 1920's.
Jesse is starting out but is more determined than most. He has worked on a commercial game and is interested in internships or similar arrangements. He has demonstrated the ability to pick up new languages and frameworks. Might be an asset for startups with limited funds.
The current dispute between Marshallese and Latvian is a phenomenal example of the sort of puzzles here.

Apparently the Marshallese require some characters to display with cedillas, and Latvian has characters traditionally named "(some letter) WITH CEDILLA" even though they are displayed with commas... so if you just say "LETTER WITH CEDILLA" it's now not clear whether you mean cedilla or comma, and correcting it would break Latvian.

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13128-latvian-marshal-adhoc....

Not sure how they do this work without going slowly insane.
While it may in fact technically be a 'meme', I think a better word is 'myth'.
Defining dimensions in inches, cm or points for screen use is a big bag of hurt that should be avoided at all costs.
Good luck to everybody. Let's get more productive in the waiting hrs. May the force be with you.
Nice. How did you get there?
The Horn of Plenty: How piracy became a $413m business
I hear this conversation at least 2 times a year. Every year. For the last ALL years in my memory. This is getting old.
Wonder how it would fare with a rotating hand.
Um, yep. I remember being stuck on 14.4 back in the day.

Waiting for webpages to load... Well, it was like waiting for webpages to load on an edge connection. Waiting 2-3 min per page load, basically. 2 hours for a browser upgrade download, you know the ones chrome does in the background now... And it might not successfully download the first time. Ahh, those were the days. Napster could take 20min to download an MP3 and still corrupt it.
Tmux Copy & Paste on OS X: A Better Future
They can invalidate as much as get invalidated, this gets balanced out, so how is it an advantage ?

It could easily be detected by nodes by checking the age of the transactions inside the block.

An honest node block would contain more recent transactions than a bad node block
http://www.heavensgate.com/

edit: okay just learnt someone already posted this one. needless to say, the visit to this site still creeps me out!
When I was 28 years old, found I had high blood pressure. Over next 7 years I took BP meds but also lost weight and worked out. Doctors ran tests but never found a root cause - it was just high for no assignable reason and I was told to take meds. At 34 years old, was in best shape of my life, except still taking BP meds. That year, I stopped taking the meds, but monitored BP every few months. It was borderline high but not crazy.

So this year, I turned 38, off the BP meds more than 3 years now. Then, last month while in China with my family, I had a full blown stroke. Result was lost 2cm of my left brain directly in the region that controls speech and right arm & hand motor skills. Spent 8 days in a Chinese hospital.

For about one week, I talked like a stone cold drunk and my right arm was useless. I thought I might be that way forever. Luckily, after two months, I'm basically fully functionally recovered. Bottom line is the path from a risk indicator like high blood pressure to a stroke or heart attack can be fairly short. Now, at 38 I know I must make some radical change if I'm going to live to 70, no less not be a paralyzed half brain dead invalid.

I'm certainly interested in quantified self tech now. The problem is everyone that needs a doctor to take an intense personal interest in their long term health cannot possibly find a doctor to do so, for any number of reasons. Opportunity is to empower the individual non-medial experts to easily monitor their own health and risk factors over time. Will likely be moving into product development in this space myself.
Yeah I do, but there's not really a lot in it that would show my current skill. I'm hoping to change that by offering to work for free. However, here's a current link to my linkedin and github:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jesse-horne/5a/a33/b04

https://github.com/jessehorne
For those wondering why Air Power Australia care so much about the USA's military hardware, part of the APA agenda is to lobby for the Australian government to obtain an export license for F-22s from the US Congress. Currently no country has been granted such a license.

Australia is participating in the F-35 program, but there is a case to be made that with its limited range and loadout, the F-35 doesn't suit Australia's defensive requirements.
> In most residential apartment buildings, renting out your space for less than 30 days is illegal, unless you are present when you have that visitor.

Why can't NYC come up with some common-sense regulation, like everyone is allowed to rent their apartment to up to 8 separate groups of people, for not more than 6 mos out of the year total, or something? And that landlords are not allowed to interfere?

This would prevent "hotel"-style abuse, like different tenants every night in a residential building, but still give people the flexibility to rent out for the occasional weekend, or month, or whatever.

The 30-day thing is just ridiculous.
As these broke down and broke down other things around them, they probably created soil (as funguses still help to do) which enabled more advanced plant life to thrive. Love it
Did do some work with them a few months ago. Had to update my linkedin.
"Open standards /rock/." is a bit overblown, don't you think? There are still very real problems with open (read: sort of "open") standards. In the end we all just want something that works. There are indeed a great deal of proprietary solutions which satisfy this criteria, and continue to do so for many years.
Thanks for the update!

Good luck to all who applied!
Websites and companies we like are exempt from "you're doing it wrong" comments.
upvote for fontBomb!
It feels DOSsy, to force the file extension to bend to your 3-character limit rather than let it all hang out. Then again, it highlights how accustomed we are now to hiding our filenames with folders and web apps.
...although built using PhoneGap therefore can be easily ported to all platforms.
Sorry to hear that :( I'm working day and night at the moment to get this back up and running. Want me to shoot you an update when it's ready?
I mean this is neat but why not try histogramming the results over a really long period of time? A fuck-field if you will. That will contain much more information.
Still seems risky to me. There are some numeric calculations where input and output values are small but intermediate representations might be many times larger. It's not certain that all the people working after you are going to be aware of the assumptions intrinsic in your code.
> it's a whopping 11 lines of code.

If you think 11 lines of code is a lot, you're overly focused on concision at the expense of readability. I've never (read: never) worked on any Ruby code, yet I find the posted example more readable than the supposedly more valuable xpath.

At the very least, they're the same. If you're writing code in Ruby, 11 lines is nothing. If you're writing code in Ruby and xpath is used nowhere else in the project, that single line of super-compact xpath might as well be 1000 lines of Ruby -- it doesn't matter.

If you're trying to compact 11 lines of code you're probably doing it wrong.
The past two weeks there have been at least one and usually two or more Microsoft related articles. This is even more annoying than the drivel posted by the NY Times.
The documentary "The Corporation" actually illustrates this point quite well. The psychological profile of a corporation is one of a sociopath, hell bent on making profit, at the disregard of all else.

Don't be loyal to a corporation, don't buy into propaganda about the well-being of the corporation == your well-being.
Time to watch some BSG reruns.
The actual assembly of a consumer tech product is generally less dramatic an aspect of the cost than you might think.
> So do the economics actually favor moving some manufacturing back to the US now or is this a token measure

Haven't Apple always sourced their glass from the US? I thought Corning made most of their stuff in Kentucky, but perhaps I'm wrong.
AWESOME
I'm already addicted
Good luck to everyone.
Nice! So say we all :)
Compatibility and UX qualms aside, this is a really fun little project.

It'd be fun to bake something like this into your app even, which I'm sure you've considered, but it'd make a nice little poweruser/admin tool, especially for those who prefer keyboard over mouse. For instance, I'm picturing Github with their command-bar backing it.
I believe the real issue we are discussing is do the ends justify the means. Is setting the precedent that you can buy a seat at a YC dinner worth a 20,000$ charitable donation. All in all I think it is. Also as a fifteen year old programmer whose parents definitely couldn't afford the 20k, I don't see this seat at the table as a great advantage and am thankful that the less fortunate will be helped.
Show HN: Radar, a Dopplr remake
excitement..nerves...trepidation...
You want each character, on it's own, to be universally useful? That's a pretty high standard, there wouldn't be very many characters to meet it and include in the repertoire.

Pretty much every character that exists is useful to some people some time, but not every person all the time.
A game for those of us rasied on metroid, castlevania and metal slug
We're much better off with formats that were documented with inter compatibility in mind in the first place. Historically, it's been quite difficult to build products that work with MSO formats as MS not only did not help meaningfully but actively seeks to hinder others from doing so - plus the format is buggy and odd. Read what Wikipedia has to say on the history of the .doc format:

>Some specifications for Microsoft Office 97 binary file formats were published in 1997 under a restrictive license, but these specifications were removed from online download in 1999. Specifications of later versions of Microsoft Office binary file formats were not publicly available. The DOC format specification was available from Microsoft on request since 2006 under restrictive RAND-Z terms until February 2008. Sun Microsystems and OpenOffice.org reverse engineered the file format. Microsoft released a .DOC format specification under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. However, this specification does not describe all of the features used by DOC format and reverse engineered work remains necessary.
I dont understand. Lavabit's full process, including the last resort off switch, worked. Snowden was well served to rely on it, his emails were not read by the government.
For that last point, if it was Writely, my understanding, from a distance, was that it was a build-or-buy and they bought, then later rewrote. And rewrote again.
I'll be wait and pray :D
Key takeaway: "1px is always equal to 0.75pt."
I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that a company named "Sold" sold itself when it got the chance.

Maybe more startups should choose M&A-friendly names. Acquired.io, which is available for registration, is a sure winner.
VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke
Are there any other projects with similar goals that you would support?
... and I've been waiting for Monster Truck Madness 3 for almost as long. :D

Loved playing that game with my coworkers, and always raced as SnakeBite. Go Army Armstrong.
IROS 2013: Quadrotor Wheel Can Fly, Float, and Roll
The table of contents is enticing. However, affirming the disclaimer noticed in the header & footer, the text would profit from attention from an editor.
Tesla’s Groundbreaking UX: An interview with UI Manager Brennan Boblett
Adobe confirms stolen passwords were encrypted, not hashed
I am already using it to improve my pitch deck ;).
The kind of euphoria that could be on the way?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU
It's useful to know the relative magnitude of risk factors which you can and cannot control.
At least it is for the contents that somewhat makes it understandable, being it's mostly listing of data.

What I'm talking about is table layout being used for the sole purpose of aesthetic reasons. And those I've seen so many of those sites using bad design decisions every corner (texts embedded entirely as a graphic, etc.) and they are usually one speaks out their concern about SEO...
I rarely get nervous, but this time around I am. Good luck to everyone!
The article repeatedly claims: "The F-22A Raptor is the only US fighter aircraft design in existence or planned which has the capability to penetrate and survive the advanced air defence weapons now proliferating globally".

I'm no air defense expert, but why do I have a hard time believing this? Existing fighters, bombers and drones seem to work fine with most of the countries the US is dealing with right now. If the US has to go to war with a Russian or Chinese armed adversary, would small fighter planes play a huge offensive role anyway?
20 years ago I was playing Castle Wolfenstein 3D on a 486 DX2 66, and the game was not like this one at all.

Back then the thought of playing over a wide area network was unthinkable, now it's expected... Amazing how far things have come since then.
I disagree. I actually really liked it. It was concise and the seven sins format made it actually easier to remember in order to catch yourself committing one.
It renders surprisingly fast. It reminds me of running XP on modern hardware. Old software just runs so much faster on new hardware than new software.
for some reason,the only site that backtick is working for me on is the backtick site itself.
So I found out this actually installs and runs on my XP box.
So what do we think they're manufacturing with sapphire? Watch faces or 4K touch screens? Perhaps gearing up for an extra-secret (no manufacturing leaks) iPhone 6?
> Open standards rock.

I'd like to expand on this. The Microsoft Word team is the only group of people that ever had any say over what goes in a Word document. In the old days, a Word document was nothing more than the serialized version of what Word had in memory. Photoshop files are the same way. As soon as you're not the only one with a say over the file format, you turn it into a standard. And you step up to make it a good standard because otherwise nobody's going to use it.

My conclusion is that any standards rock.
Awesome! I hope it works out for you!
STYLESHEETS ARRIVE. The Microsoft guide to CSS c. 1997 still live.
lol yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bw9RE_ruMk

Suggestion: Gold interview invites inside candy bars for next time.
A look at the source shows no blink or marquee tags, unfortunately.
Ah yeah, I understand what you mean now. XPath's `/` is something like a token that means "separate these two things". In CSS the separation between segments is the zero or more whitespace characters that live between the parts of the selector.
But if every state refused to offer these tax breaks, then the unemployed could still get jobs and the tax burden would not be lifted from businesses and placed on everyone else. Budget shortfalls on the state level are common and it's generally recouped through sales taxes, cutting services, raising property taxes, etc.
If I have a successful exit, I'll start travelling and will try to meet as many startup people as I can all over the world to find out people who are passionate about creating something different. This will help in two ways:

1. I'll get to meet awesome people in even the smallest cities which I'm sure will inspire me to do even better this time.

2. In the process I might discover concepts that I can work on be it non-profit or for-profit.
Suffering? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
DIY Mini Solar Car (Ultrafast 14kph Toy)
Ongoing mall shooting in New Jersey
Just got back from "I didn't get to Round 2-Comfort Food trip to Rite Aid for best ice cream ever- Thrifty brand mint chocolate-chip," and they definitely stop serving ice cream well before midnight, so logically, a second trip is out of the question, which means… I will haavve to get an interview. ;) Good luck All and when in doubt - Rite Aid's Thrifty ice cream :)
Nitpick: apart -> a part
Is it fair to call it a "Show HN" when the project did a Show HN a year ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840032
Ask HN: DigitalOcean asking for government ID?
Although I used Heroku's free dyno to host my side-project, I couldn't justify the cost to move it to a paid dyno. Instead, I looked for a lower cost VPS and found DigitalOcean. Reviews looked decent and the price was right.

However, after signing up and giving them my CC info, I was informed that my signup had triggered DO's automatic abuse detection and I needed to submit some supplemental information. I complied and submitted my name, physical location, phone number, and my personal twitter account as asked. Fair enough, I thought.

I then received another request, this time stating To help us verify your identity, please send us a scan of your government-issued photo ID or passport to verify@digitalocean.com

Now, I like to think that I am not as stringent or even disciplined when it comes to privacy or shared data. However, am I off-base to feel that this request is beyond reasonable? I know the practical answer is "If you think it's unreasonable, take your business elsewhere". I understand that and may well do so (e.g. Linode).

I am in Canada and I do know that in the US it is common for merchants to ask for photo ID along with CC, but I am much more comfortable flashing my ID card in a brick & mortar store than I am sending a digital scan to an online business I have no experience or relationship with.

When I googled this type of request, I couldn't find previous references to it. How do people feel about DO asking for government photo ID to go along with CC information? Is this a common practice that I am just not informed about?
Although they're not 7 deadly sins, arrogance and delusions of grandeur should be in here somewhere.
The rationale in the article was perfectly reasonable to me. A px should be a physical pixel or whatever integer multiple makes for comfortable viewing, with all the other measurements allowed to be non-integer. Anything sized in px would then be both sensibly sized and scaled with good fidelity.
I may or may not agree with you- but one could make the argument that xpath is likely heavily tested and proven, and will handle unexpected corner cases that arise in the future, which those 11 lines of ruby will not. In that case, using xpath lowers the amount of future headaches with that code.
It's a no-brainer. One seat at one dinner for one seat for one year of education. That's an obvious win for everyone. I'm sad something so trivial turned into something so meaningful can become so controversial.
What are their defensive requirements then? As far as I know Australia does not have any island territories not close the it's mainland. Would range really be a problem for Australia's defensive needs?
I don't disagree. I'm just sensitive to the "open standards /rock/" thing. It glosses over a lot of nuance. What I'm trying to suggest is that something being an "open standard" does not necessarily make it better. Historically, there have been a number of open standards which have been failures for technical reasons, political reasons (within the community behind the standard), no good reason, etc.
What's the bandwidth cost for this kind of app? I'm always afraid a popular rampup would incur a huge bandwidth bill for sites like this.
And then there is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

I am not fat, I've always been thin and my cholesterol is bang on perfect, my blood pressure 120/80 or better. Although I've slacked off the gym for about four years I'm pretty active at work.

Anyway out of the blue I am diagnosed with fatty liver: it hurts, I can feel it. Know how people with fatty liver die? Heart attack or stroke, fatty liver significantly increases the chances of either or both.

My grandfather died at age 52 of a heart attack, his daughter my aunt died of a stroke after multiple heart attacks age 70-ish and her brother my uncle also died of a heart attack at age 52 same as his father. Their brother my uncle had a quadruple bypass in his late 50s.

I'm beginning to wonder if people with a family history of heart disease really have NAFLD.
Yes, hugely. Ground attack fighters are basically THE first wave going in to take out things like rader and C&C equipment.

Missles can get in, but they have limited search capabilities.
Yeah, I understand why. I was just pointing out that on the surface, it seems kind of weird.
Sure, fighters, bombers and drone work excellently when your adversaries have few if any functional modern aircraft, or when their ground defenses are so vulnerable and/or disorganized that (often risky) strikes can take them out. However, there is more than one type of adversary.

It is important to control the air, or the adversary will be able to deny the air and probably the ground and/or sea to you. In that sense, whatever is playing a huge offensive role very likely depends on air superiority.

RAND runs studies on the effectiveness of the (quickly aging) US fighter fleet. There are quite a few of these out there and generally the conclusion is that US aircraft like F16s (cheap multirole fighter) and F15s (fighter/bomber or air superiority fighter) designed (and sometimes even built) in the 70s and 80s, even when equipped with modern electronics, don't have a clear advantage (assuming they don't fall apart on the way to the battle - http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-f156nov...).
Well, it's a new version of a 1-year-old project. But I see your point, I'll remove the "Show HN" part.
Real-time Fluid Simulator