skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just added BitBalloon (https://webmenu.org/apps/bitballoon), some comments on the process:

Really would be nice if I didn't have to manually crop & resize the screenshots before uploading. Just resizing and cropping them centered would have done a fine job in my case. Though you would probably want to disallow images that are too small so you don't get scaling artifacts.

When you get a validation error for a screenshot, the form forgets the URL, so you have to retype that every time.

Would also be nice with a tagging widget when entering tags. Currently there's no indication of existing tags.

Apart from that everything looks great! Good luck!
"In addition to office hours, there are dinners. Dinners are typically catered now, but in the early days, PG would make some goulash for the handful of YC companies."

What sort of stuff did PG cook?
Yeah that is one reason we just use instance storage with database replication. Instance storage is generally faster and cheaper than EBS especially if you have a "very high I/o" instance.
22% of Sun-like stars harbor Earth-sized planets in their habitable zone
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Any ideas for a Demo Day substitute? The deadline is probably just as important as the investor connections (i.e. something that only produces the former would still be valuable).
IANAL either but now its publicised, I suspect they would be knowingly violating or at the very least they could be accused of it.
Oh, it wasn't "freedom of open spaces", it was "freedom of travel". A large part of being a teenager is "discovery". As a young teenager, my range was effectively limited to where I could pedal. The "freedom" was the world I discovered once I gained access to four wheels. The beach, San Francisco, San Jose, the mountains, and even simply staying out late (I hated biking home at night)
If anything, Ioannidis's paper would hugely understate the problem, because he was only looking at the percentage of papers that couldn't be replicated. But just because a result can be replicated doesn't mean that the study is actually correct. In fact, the vast majority of wrong papers are likely very replicable, since most wrong papers are the result of bad methodology (or other process-related issues) rather than fudged data.
The big breakthrough here is that Bluetooth LE uses a totally negligible amount of power (such that many devices can run for years on a CR2032 button cell).

Also, you don't need to take your phone out of your pocket to tap it (it doesn't have to touch the computer, just any moderately firm object, such as a knuckle through a pants pocket).
To be pedantic, you mean Set to not implement map, right?
If you don't do anything physical at work then raking leaves might actually be good for you. It's exercise, fresh air and I find these kind of chores somewhat tranquillising to the mind. Same with other chores, but I'm sure there are ones I hate more than others. If there are physiological and psychological benefits of doing these chores, then it might be costing you more than the $10/hr of hiring someone else to do them. Sure you might be able to get some of the benefits by say going to the gym, but paying someone to do your gardening while you go to the gym to get the exercise you missed from doing the gardening seems a bit insane.
> Yes it does. AFAICT it's working well. There are 5 releases in the 2.10.x line and I haven't had a compatibility issue between any of them.

This isn't quite true. I have a library (Breeze) that works with 2.10.3 but not 2.10.2. Something in name mangling changed, I think.
Apple has not received 1 warrant.

Apple has not received 2 warrants.

Apple has not received 3 warrants.

Apple has not received 4 warrants.

Apple has not received 5 warrants.

Apple has not received 6 warrants.
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> the development of important features stalled for AngularJS as the team was busy working on Dart version.

Not true. Google grew the team. Take a look at the activity on Github. The velocity has been consistently high throughout the development of the Dart fork: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pulse

If there was some important feature you wanted, you are always able to submit a PR yourself. That's how open source works.
Let's be clear: learning about those lessons will take maybe, at most, a month or two of reading a couple of books, reading PG's essays, and reading a few of the blogs written by great entrepreneurs and VCs. That's it. An MBA probably does teach you this - it just doesn't need to take two years and XYZ thousand dollars. There's a lot of fluff in an MBA that's just not necessary for a startup.

The fact also remains that the vast majority of people I know who got an MBA did it for the network, not for the education.
> Sigh... I knew this was going to happen. :-/

Yay... I was hoping this would happen :-)

> This is part of Google's strategy to push Dart in the browser.

I know, great, right.

> Sadly, this is the nature of so-called "Open Source" at Google.

I criticize Google often but yeah this is great. Good for Google. It is more than what Oracle or Microsoft or others do.

My opinion is this -- JS is a shitty language. It was a shitty language, no matter how many "good parts" books will be published or how many frameworks one builds on top of it -- it is still an ugly language that makes me want to tear my hair out every time I use it. You love it, great. I hate it. I was hoping from day one someone, some company, would find a good replacement. I can tolerate compiling to it and treating it like assembler. It is even better if it gets bypassed altogether.

There were other posts here about JS's warts, so I am not the only one who welcome any other sane, normal, language to replace it.

Anyway, great work Google, keep releasing new versions of Dart, Dart UI, Dart IDE and so on.
From what I remember previous batches saying, it was some noodle dish. Maybe he can chime in with a recipe. :)
> normal or even fantastic lipid levels

At work a nurse comes in and we can get tested for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes. I go and each time even up until my NAFLD my numbers practically perfect.

Maybe I do have some ApoB protein trouble. Although I doubt there is a lipid clinic anywhere in Canada for me to go to.

Thanks anyway.
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Higher kinds are quite nice.

1. In scala you could write

class MyClass[A[_]](a: A)

and it can only take a 'container' (List/Future/Option).

in C#/F# this is invalid:

class MyClass<A<?>> {
public MyClass(A a) {
}
}

You could make a plain ol' generic that took a concrete type List<Int> but not just on the type.

2. Implicit Conversion: In C#/F# you get extension methods, but it doesn't help you take an existing class and ad-hoc make it implement an interface.

So in scala I could do this:

trait XMLSerializable {
def toXML(): XMLNode
}

and then let's say I want to make existing classes in the standard library implement this interface:

implicit def toXMLSerializable(li: List[_]): XMLSerializable =
new XMLSerializable {
def toXML = {
transformListToXML(li)
}
}

I can now do:

val genericXmlSerializable: XMLSerializable = List[Int](1,2,3,4)
You are able to spread hate and FUD as well. Good job.
Better yet, the government could just force Apple to continue claiming that they've never received a report.
Caas car as a service would be better directly from the manufacturer.
Reverse argument, for context, I'm just about to graduate from a mediocre state university in the mid-west:

Not all of the young minds that are "learning to code" really have the potential to write programs at the same level as the average ValleyBoy RoR Jockey™ (or even the average casual Hacker News reading hobbyist coder). The number of students in my program that had massive interest in our numbers ( 100% placement with the highest average starting pay ) and almost zero interest in actually learning to code is frightening.

These students tend to slither through the technical classes with a lot of help from google and their friends, only to find themselves unable to compete for real developer positions and settling for the same 4x,xxx "business analyst" warm body jobs that seem to be the holy grail of the hoards of non-stem degree holders.

On the flip side, if you can actually get fizz buzz to compile and can stomach the idea of living in the midwest, prepare to be wined and dined by everyone under the sun.
Your second paragraph exactly describes Everpix's computational needs: bursty with no use for local persistent storage.
I'm pretty sure the government can, and would, even go a step further and order that the language be left in the next filing, and even arrange written (and of course sealed) immunity for doing so. I certainly can't imagine that SEC reporting will ever be an effective roadblock to what the government considers national security.
ISRO's commercial arm has put 28 satellites in space for foreign countries, including TECAR, a military satellite for Israel. http://www.antrix.gov.in/is_launched.html
http://www.antrix.gov.in/launch_services.html

They also sell complete satellites to those who want to use other launch firms. http://www.antrix.gov.in/geostationary.html
In addition, if you want to build your own satellite, you can buy space subsystems from ISRO. http://www.antrix.gov.in/sss_systems.html
If you need ground systems to track your space hardware, that can be obtained for a price too.
http://www.antrix.gov.in/gsystems.html

The Mars mission is good advertising and will help to grow ISRO's space outsourcing business
Linux desktop, CentOS, SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu all have worked fine for me the past 15 years. I have fewer problems than when I have to do something on/with Windows. So either all my machines and all my experiences were really lucky or your post is an elegant troll.
At least some (if not all) of that can be explained by rating inflation. The same gap in ability translates to many more points today than 40 years ago.
I'm aware of JS language angst, yes.

Developers aren't flocking to Dart. Many are resentful of it.

You can ignore the resentment and the reasoning behind it if you want, but that won't make Dart more reasonable or beneficial.
I agree having deadlines can be motivating but there is nothing like going out there and getting some customers to put a fire under your butt.
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I don't know why the article list salaries, payroll and personnel costs as separate numbers like that. Payroll includes salaries, and personnel costs includes payroll.
According to a friend of mine who works at one of the big US rental companies, they go to car auctions and sell for very low prices.
They go to the sales lot. A lot of rental car companies have their sales divisions and dealerships to specifically get rid of old fleet cars.
15 seconds, but yes, this should always work.
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It's quite possible that a judge might conclude that a warrant canary violates the spirit of a gag order. But I suppose there's only one way to find out.
There are a ton of developers outside of Silicon Valley. I'm sure there have already been plenty of studies done focusing on the Bay Area specifically if that's all you care about, but a nationwide survey is helpful for indicating the state of the industry at large, including non-tech hubs where VC funding is not nearly as available.

For a nationwide survey, I have to say these median salaries are actually pretty high. Very, very few careers requiring only a bachelor's degree can boast these numbers taken across the country.
oups thanks - corrected this!
Does anyone know of a similar survey focusing on just the bay area?
The obvious dual to "the cheapest generation" is "the poorest generation". College is twice as expensive, and there are half as many jobs.
Actual article title: US secretary of state visits Poland to discuss security issues, business ties

Submission title at the time I wrote this comment: The Washington Post should learn more geography

Why do you give that title to this article?
Yes.

The user agent (UA) string is used by almost every major web brand for one or more of the following purposes:

- To serve different levels of experience to different classes of browsers. This is necessary if you want global coverage i.e. all classes of devices and connectivity. The payload of desktop version of Google is fully 140x bigger than the lightest mobile version, Facebook is similar (check this on http://prism.mobiforge.com). RWD can't do this (many RWD sites simply don't load at all on lower-end phones).

- Serving different experiences to different types of devices e.g. desktop / mobile / TV etc. Don't think this is necessary? Try some of the sites mentioned with a different UA strong and see how it feels.

- Analytics. Google Analytics, Omniture etc. all rely on the UA string to identify types of devices/browser.

- To offer links to the correct app stores for the various mobile OSes

- To make sites faster/lighter for lower end devices. This is important for low-speed connections, faster page loads, metered data plans.
I share a lot of the sentiment here, but I also think our generation is conditioned from a decade of hearing about all the newsworthy corner cases.

As an example: cops don't always make it worse, 95+% of the time they are helpful and create better outcomes for society. That said, all we've heard for the last ten years are the news stories that you mentioned - so we think of them as a negative force.

I think this same problem applies, in some capacity, to all the institutions listed here. That said, every single one of these institutions needs a massive overhaul to be a functioning member of the future (except cops, I really think you're wrong on that, they may need new priorities from the government -- but their organizational structure and methods seem to work pretty well).
> What if we start having well known brand logos like the ubiquitous golden arches as codepoints.

I think trademark laws would stop that. I'm not sure, but I don't think anyone else is, either, so the uncertainty would prevent it from happening.

I do see what you're saying, and it would be a slap in the face if a script for a fictional language were standardized before every script for every living language made it in to the standard. However, and this is where you and I differ, I don't really see that much difference between emoticons and other little-used typographical marks living languages sometimes use. Face it: The smiley face is typed a lot more often than the per mil mark (like the percent mark, except 'per thousand' instead of 'per hundred'):

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

So the middle finger is rude. People are rude sometimes, and the middle finger is a well-established way of showing that, myths about its origin aside:

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.asp
Has Apple explained how they're able to decrypt iPhones for law enforcement yet?
I always thought "dude" meant: The crusty tuft of hair on a horse's asshole?

Seriously, a science teacher in high school read that definition from a dictionary, and handed out photocopies of it to my class, in the hopes that it would discourage us from using the word, because he got sick of hearing it. It had the opposite effect, obviously.

...but anyway, that's why I laughed when The Stranger in The Big Lebowski implied, with subtlety, the same meaning when he said it was a name "no one would self-apply" where he came from.

I'm sticking with "hairy horse anus."
That's a totally valid point. My guess it that they assumed most users would keep their phone in a pocket (since it's easier to tap than if it's buried in a bag).

In any case it's a big upgrade from people who leave their computer unlocked all day. I'd love to see them add automatic proximity-based locking.
Mostly rice and chilli con carne.

Its been a while, so I can't remember exactly. It was made in massive batches and wasn't that tasty (sorry pg).

It was fun though.
you have a link to some specific chainable/fluent code that looks like what you're thinking of?
They were paying themselves nice salaries weren't they.
No big secret. Just another small business man evading all kinds of taxes, like tourism tax and income tax. These together can reach close to 50% of revenue. Wait until the IRS sticks its fingers in the "sharing economy". It already requires amazon and ebay to issue 1099-Ks for "large users", defined as $20K or more of gross revenue a year.
> When traveling, I will often take multiple photospheres (computationally expensive).

The computation is actually relatively cheap, it's keeping the camera open and on that's expensive. The camera is, bar none, the most power hungry component on modern smartphones.
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Doesn't the Cochrane Institute already do something similar?

They perform meta analysis of studies and talk about the validity of their statistical methods.
http://summaries.cochrane.org/

Read about it in the book Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.
You're making a pretty classic correlation/causation error here. I'm pretty sure that high child mortality and low economic prospects (e.g; conditions where many people are hungry) are considered to cause high birthrates, as the parents attempt to maximise their chances of having some offspring to look after them in their old age.
Ugh, ever since we added scala to our projects, the compile-time has doubled. It's certainly an issue to me. It makes it harder to get into flow when I have to wait several minutes for compilation.
To be fair, there's a lot more to user acquisition than a slogan.
Do you believe YC will increase the value of your company by 5-8%? Yes.

Their brand brings better investors, more qualified employees, press and more qualified employees.
Dude! what doth my tattoo read?
Sweet! what doth my tattoo read?
DUDE! What doth mine read?

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Out of curiosity, how can you tell it's not the built-in locking mechanism? The lock screen looks the same, except for the glow around the avatar to me. It even shows the alerts in the top right corner. The screen locks in the same fashion as normal (using the hotkeys, waiting for it to time out, etc), too.

What am I missing that makes you think it's not the built-in locking mechanism?
I have read about C.V Raman's objections to space missions in Tamil language sites only.

I dug up the following for your reference:

http://new.modernrationalist.com/2012/07/science-vs-religion...
I think about the flip side. I don't think Apple executives or those of any other company would be liable if a "canary" was false. Not trying to "the true messiah denies his divinity" the discussion, but the statement is entirely consistent with a state of affairs where Apple had been served with or complied with warrants. And as in a state where they had not, publishing a "canary" is good public relations.
Perhaps they're taking a calculated risk that the government wouldn't risk picking that public-opinion fight. Not many consumers care about the LavaBit story, but "Apple exec arrested for violating secret gag order" would be quite the news event.
> Secondly, what he said is that pointers are not just addresses, but typed addresses that know what type they're pointing at.

Hum Ok! At first i thought he was disagreeing about pointer representing addresses; now with the way you have put it, and by reading again, i see he is adding more information to it.. thats not only address but a typed address (unless void of course)..

Sorry for misunderstanding.. i want to reiterate that i agree with you "dicroce" ;)
This is interesting. I'm aware of the fact that some plan 9 protocols were ported to linux, but are you suggesting that this v9fs is a replacement for fuse in common use cases? Do you know about simple comparision of fuse and v9fs implementation of the same userspace filesystem?
I've always seen it from a highly pragmatic perspective as a mere method of transport.
I have a friend who works for a HUGE dealership! i can preseo the idea to them and see wassup? anyone wanna build a HTML/CSS prototype using bootstrap + backbone.js? do we have a name?
Your examples are irrelevant because they're controlled environments - in a gun shop most of the guns are locked up behind bulletproof glass. The police make certain they're the only ones with guns inside a police station. And nobody would be stupid enough to start something in a place where people are practicing shooting targets with already loaded weapons.

The point about the teachers is a good one - though culturally and politically I don't know if that would work very well in the United States. But to be fair to your point, we would have to also allow the students to carry guns to protect themselves against the teachers, who now represent an oppressive and violent arm of the state after all, and we're down to the same problem - how does one tell the difference between a trustworthy, armed person and an untrustworthy armed person?
Yea, I'm going to have to optimize the uploading process a bit. Thanks for the feedback. Your page looks very nice and will be featured soon!
I've had the same experience in major American cities - hotels being cheaper than AirBnB - but only when looking at full apartment rentals on AirBnB. You can (obviously) usually rent a couch cheaper than a hotel room, but that's not really comparing apples to apples.

That being said, both AirBnB and hotels make it difficult to compare their prices "apples to apples" as hotels tend not to include taxes and service fees in their posted prices / AirBnB tends not to include cleaning fees (last time I checked)
Make it less bloody ugly. I was horrified how awful Xfce looked in Wheezy compared to Ubuntu Quantal. So wish Xfce would upstream the Xubuntu changes.
I have huge issues with these 'surveys' as they never seem to reflect market realities in my geography. In the last three years I don't think I've seen many engineer or developer jobs listed in the whole state of Arizona listing salaries above 80k. I'd guess the average advertised openings range 50 - 80k, with the majority of 80k-ish ones near Phoenix.

However, most AZ companies needing devs seem to be Java shops with government ties hiring entry-level devs, which probably distorts the picture as most developers would then logically be graded up every year or whatnot and probably making above 80k after 3 years.

So maybe I'm not really saying the numbers are wrong, just that they seem wrong for entry level and sub 25-year-olds in the AZ/NM region. Or that there's a big disconnect between listed salaries in job openings and the actual average salaries among those with established positions in most markets.
It can be modeled and incorporated into price.

I don't have evidence, but I expect once you correctly account for the risk in your cost model, your pricing will be wildly unattractive.
Oh, also, I see now that I have a very unclear typo. I am able to unlock my computer using Knock after using the system hot key commands to lock the screen.
Nice. You could also add thank you as a service.
If the NSA intercepts data "near" Googles data centers, what's to believe they don't do that at Apple too? I'm really not worried about warrants and gag orders and all that. What about the fact that all (lots of) the traffic is being pulled straight off the fiber all over the place? Anyone with more technical background care to comment?
Will note for future reference.
Xfce is 4.x right now. I want them never to move to a version 5.

Rant: http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/582674.html

All they have to do now is not fuck up. Xfce: please, just don't fuck up.