skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, for goodness' sake. You could have made a legitimate point if you hadn't been so abruptly cut-throat.

The fact of the matter is that connections, luck, etc. rule pretty much everywhere. It's useless and unproductive to cast this blame to specific, ultimately small entities. If I had been born about 5 miles north of where I was born -- in the ghettos, vs. to a household that valued education, I would have been living a very different life. And I'm grateful that didn't happen, I'm grateful for all the opportunities I got, that my dad had friends in high places and were willing to hire me as an intern. I'm grateful that I had the social support to seek therapy when I had depression, a place to live when I was unemployed and penniless, friends that respected me, etc. I would not have had a lot of this if I was living in the third world, where opportunity is scarce.

That is the way it is. You could chide YC and all the VC world, and I'm not sure if you'd get anywhere. As far as VC firms and incubators go, it's clear to see YC is something else: they're funding nonprofits like Watsi, their partners seem to have some sense of social good, so I think snark here is misplaced.
Interesting, in what way?
I don't find these articles tedious. I think it awesome that people want to solve more problems with computers. The more people that can solve problems, the more people that will solve problems, the more problems that get solved. People want to use the power of computers to solve problems, and that is hard to do. Until it is easy (never) these articles will continue.
This is a nice idea and the design is elegant. However, I already use Vimium's "b" key command for this, and it comes with so many other features too.
I'll give it a try tonight :)!
> Anything else? :)

A disable cache checkbox in the developer tools options.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651888
G+ has done what none of Google's competitors could do: make me look upon Google with utter disdain. Google has been extremely pushy about getting people to use G+, and doesn't offer any kind of "Never bother me about G+ again" option. The more I get pestered to sign up for G+, the less I like Google overall.
Good recommendation. Its a thorough book looking at the genesis of OODA (& much more). Not an easy read since its much deeper than pop-nonfiction that most people are used to.
(somewhat controversial opinion) I would have rather heard you say that you do have an investment in Hackpad. Why don't you consider making an investment, especially if it brings value to you and USV?

As for conflicts of interest, I prefer to assume everyone has a conflict :) I follow ZH here: http://www.zerohedge.com/node/13972

> The reality is, critical readers should read analytic posts and the rest of [the internet] with the blanket assumption that the author is totally "conflicted." ... This turns the conversation to the content, and away from the author, the author's biography and the contents of their IRA account / blind trust. This (the content) is, of course, where the focus should be.
Logical Increments PC Parts Guide

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

has been doing this to present their data.
We use Google Spreadsheets for our sites Version history page. Makes it easy to maintain an up-to-date list of all the changes we push out.

Its pretty easy to setup your own:

http://open.qz.com/post/52146389669/build-your-own-versions-...

https://github.com/Quartz/tumblr/tree/master/open/examples/g...
CryptoLocker malware demands ransom for computer files held hostage
Julia here from Hackpad. Sorry to hear you're having performance issues in Safari and Firefox. We just launched a new feature that shows the live position of your active collaborators' cursors, and we're in the process of polishing it to ensure optimal performance across browsers. Thanks for your patience and stay tuned!
If you do a lot of cold calls our beta app might help you track and manage them... check this out: http://www.getinch.com
It's not that hard to get a free meeting with pg.

Scroll down, click apply.
I thought this was for bookmark searching, that would have been far more useful.
Silence is one of my favourite bands.
I agree. If anyone can figure out how to monetize this mess, it's Google.

Or maybe the return on the $4bn investment isn't worth the brain and manpower necessary to wrestle the app into some kind of monetization scheme?
Sometimes silence.

Sometimes guitar based music: Robben Ford, Matt Schofield, Johnny A, Satriani etc

Sometimes electronic/pop: Daft Punk, Empire of the Sun, Cut Copy, Ratatat, El Ten Eleven

Sometimes electro swing: Parov Stelar, similar on pandora radio

Lots of Rdio radio and Pandora lately, influenced by one of above. Lately Rdio seems to introduce more artists than Pandora, and has more features (adventurous, artist only)....
Today I bought this side project - what do you think?
Still no Klingon? Quvatlh!
At most you can claim that the US was one of the of several participants on the winning side of several of those conflicts (and, in each conflict, a fairly late joiner.)

And in each of the consituent conflicts, members of the same side the US was one were prosecuted by the court, and several of those were convicted.

The "way for the victors to humiliate the vanquished" argument really doesn't hold up in the case of the ICTY.

It holds up even less well with with the ICC.
I am doing it in Common Lisp, I haven't released it yet but if you drop me an email to max on mr.gy I can let you know when I progress and also tell you about how I designed my system if you like. To summarize: Come up with a model for documents (e.g. datastructure, what is it made up of, how is it represented). Then think about how to input a document (makes a big difference, I made a markdown like language) and how you can render documents (html, paper, audiobook, video...). I concentrated on the idea that my documents should represent structure of content while the type of content (mixed?) is irrelevant. I then started writing backends that support rendering of sets of content types. E.g. HTML can do a lot, including video. But on paper it's hard to play back audo or video data so we fall back to a simple url (which sucks on paper too, but we could render QR codes on paper for instance). So there is a lot of room for specialization, I am trying to keep the core concepts as generic as possible so I can extend the system later on, and maybe use my document format to write a song after I implement musical content types in some backend some day maybe... You get the idea I guess.

Regarding hiccup: I wrote an HTML DSL myself, which I also use in my document pipeline, it is released and can be found here:
http://mr.gy/software/macro-html/

By the way, I work prefessionally with Clojure at the moment, and I'd rather advise against using it. Ihmo it is not ready, I like some ideas, some I like less, but its still a mess and the (only!) implementation is not on par with a real lisp yet.
>I think it's very presumptive to think that because someone is "just" growing marijuana, that they aren't dangerous.

I think it's more presumptive to think that they are dangerous, absent strong evidence to think so.

> I'm not sure what alternatives there are.

One alternative is to regard a man's home as his castle. Police have no business breaking in merely because they suspect somebody possesses the wrong plant material. If drugs get flushed, so be it - there is no moral imperative that says the cops have to be able to make their case at all, much less based on what they find doing a search.

The alternative is patience. Stake the place out. Come bother the homeowner when they are arriving or leaving or checking the mail. Reserve "no-knock" for hostage situations, kidnappings, and apprehending people who are actually known to be dangerous - it should be a very last resort, not a first resort.

The vast majority of no-knock raids serve no purpose except to help the police feel good about themselves.

> Point being [...] that there is not a problem of officers wantonly shooting dogs; rather, it's symptomatic of larger issues in law enforcement.

Why not both? Let's conclude there is a problem of officers wantonly shooting dogs and there are larger issues in law enforcement.
One in five stars have Earth-sized planet in habitable zone
Bret is a lovely and amazing person, but don’t sell yourself short. I guarantee you if you come up with a topic or problem to work on, and devote 10+ years to full time reading/tinkering/inventing/implementing in the field, allowing yourself to be creative, sweating the tiny details, and worrying more about making your inventions wonderful than profitable, you will be able to amaze yourself and all of the rest of us with what you make.
I actually tend to like YC and the people it funds. They started with a noble mission, which was to provide access to funding for a larger set of people. I'd say that 75% of the YC founders I know are quality people.

I do think that Silicon Valley's arrogance and general out-of-touch attitude-- and unashamedly handing out VC connections to children who already benefit from a massive private welfare system is pretty damn out of touch-- poses a threat to the reputation of technologists in general (including people like me) and I'm going to fight the tide by making fun of this sort of shit. When the country stops liking "the techies" I would at least hope that some of them would recognize that we're not all the same, and that lifelong engineers are of a different (and better) character than the reigning VC-halo/TechCrunch leadership.
Default mode network
Booktrack - Soundtracks for books
OTT for audio books - Netflix for audio books tons of audio books.
How does this idea sound, a library of audio books you can access on your tv and mobile devices for a low monthly fee. Similar to Netflix users can listen to thousands of audio books + enjoy app from the google play store. all of this through our set top box that comes with a gesture remote for apps.
New Apple Manufacturing Facility Coming To Mesa Arizona
8 Things I Learned From Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
I truly believe in the low-featured phone market especially in emerging countries. The strategy is swimming against the stream of smartphones everywhere which don't have the growth rates in countries like Nigeria, Indonesia, India etc. than in America/Europe.
Flynn - The open source crowdfunded Platform as a Service
The controls are based around using dual joysticks. With a keyboard there are 8 directions of motion centered around the S key, and 8 directions of pointing your gun centered around the L key. Pressing L fires the gun.

Check out the docs that liebfraumilch linked to in another reply: http://www.oldskool.org/pc/BCW/BeyondCastleWolfenstein.txt
Does encryption prior to backup mean less de-duplication?
Npm, the node.js package manager, down for 6+ hours
Firstly, there isn't "a crime rate". You can't aggregate "a crime rate" across all crimes. Different crimes have different rates - you can't fold a murder into a rape into an assault into a burglary into a failure to pay a debt. If you think that there is "a crime rate aggregated over all crimes", then there's some fundamental things you don't know about criminology.

The thing about murder is that it's fairly unambiguous and usually recorded. Just about every other crime has interpretations and wild variations in recording - it's hard to compare across similar culture countries, let alone across time, without voicing an armload of caveats.

One example is comparing the assault rates in Australia versus that in the US. Australia has a much higher assault rate... until you look at the details. An assault in Australia carries several charges, the most severe of which sticks, but each of those charges makes it into the total stats. In the US, the stats are only published on aggravated assaults - those with a weapon or serious bodily harm. Two guys having a fistfight outside a bar will add to the Australian stats, but not the US stats. It's the same story with the same country across time - not to mention wildly different reporting rates, especially when you're considering a period where modern policing was still in its infancy. Murder is one of the most consistently defined and reportable crimes, hence why I used it.

was a major part of the reason why crime rates were so low.

That is very much putting the cart before the horse. Victorian England was rife with theft, unsurprising for a place with plenty of poverty and no welfare. I'd buy a 50-times increase in drug crime, because that's a crime now more than it was then. I wouldn't buy a 50-times increase in debtors crimes, because debtors prisons are no longer a thing and bankruptcy is no longer a crime. It's just hard for anyone with any familiarity with Victorian England to see it as 50 times safer than modern day England - this was a tumultuous time, with the industrial revolution obsoleting jobs left, right, and center. There was huge amounts of poverty, and there was legal reform at the time because the rise in petty crime against harsh penalties meant that there was a lot of dissatisfaction from the disproportionate response at the bench. There were huge problems with alcoholism (gin being very cheap) amongst the urban poor causing fights.

So, in context, is it safer to walk around Victorian England than modern-day? Well, the assault rate would have to be astonishingly low, because theft certainly wasn't, and we've already seen that murder was equal to or greater than today's rate.

Do you have a link to Moldbug's comment where he discusses this 50-fold decrease? I tried to find it as I wanted to see how it was sourced, but there's a lot of waffle - the front page is only two posts (and one announcement) that total 20k words. I have no idea where in the archives it might be.
It is a protocol, not a service.
Have invitations for the interviews for YC Winter 2014 been sent out yet?
Socially Conscious E-Commerce Startups
Wow that's great for just the first month! How did you initially market the app?
How is "the crime rate" calculated?
Engelbart’s Violin (chorded keyboard)
Fred Kummerow seems like a credible authority on the subject of heart disease:

"My findings indicate fried foods, powdered egg yolk, excess vegetable oils, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and cigarette smoke as the greatest culprits in heart disease."
http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/full/10.2217/clp.13.34
Interesting writeup - I've been thinking a lot about this recently, as a member of my family is dealing with an ongoing illness which is poorly understood.

I would love for them to be able to monitor their own vital signs more closely (via wearable tech), but even that when done in isolation is not necessarily going to help - for me the real breakthrough will come when we aggregate this data. Imagine being able to use machine learning to detect patterns across groups of people that can help pinpoint specific triggers for disease and illness.
Book Review: 'American Psychosis' by E. Fuller Torrey
Amazing open source library for thermophysical properties
Fine; set up the launch site in Antarctica. :P
This is an area of huge interest to some insurance companies, however one of their biggest problems are water leaks within walls that take weeks to build up and cost insurances millions. If anyone can find a cost effective way to solve that problem, the potential would be huge.
AFAIK, it's just a prototype Bret built to illustrate his point.
I think the OP is referring to the fact it's much easier to focus and improve on specific items than it is to follow some nebulous generic advice. "Lose weight" is much less effective than "Exercise 30 minutes per day and eat 2200 calories per day".

What seems to be likely regarding cholesterol in general is that it has been greatly over focused on to the detriment of more likely culprits like sugar and refined foods. Of course, the cynic might say you can't take a pill made by Pfizer to lower your sugar and refined foods like you can to lower your cholesterol.
It looks like the main work is happening in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864098 which is marked as blocking that bug.

I'll ping Mike and see what the status is.
Hi,

I'm glad you like the daily rate.

I'm hoping that a daily rate will prevent contracts that are too short (as you it's not that cost efficient to get)

I like escrow in general, and want it to make sense for hourly/daily rates.

Obviously, I wouldn't make a timer like oDesk- no sane top programmer would want to use that in this hiring environment. A nice thing about fixed price contracts is that I could just demand all the money in escrow (this is what ooomf does).

Let me know if you have any ideas for improvements. If so, open an issue!
Check out section 6.1. It briefly describes how the selfish pool can use a Sybil attack to selectively forward blocks, greatly increasing the probability of winning the 'first wins' tiebreaker.
Introducing Prismoquent
For me, using PDF.js in Firefox for Android, it looks even worse; most of the text is garbled junk characters (only code blocks appear correctly). It's substituting characters and using a different font which PDF.js could not load. (Another renderer is displaying it correctly.) Using character substitution as a standard technique is a really bad idea, and is the only thing that is preventing me from taking a deeper look at it with a view to using it as a backend for a play script/musical/opera libretti format that I wrote; it makes the document inaccessible to things like screen readers and prevents ready copying of text and search. Is there a good reason why substitution is used? If you're willing/compliant to the notion of removing it, I'd probably be pleased to help out with the project.

(This script format tool I wrote is also written in Python, and at present I'm writing to HTML and using wkhtmltopdf to produce a PDF, but that tool is making a mess of the text kerning so that the final result isn't as much of a pleasure to read from as it should be; your tool, however, is producing what are in my eyes quite nice-looking documents---I can easily overlook minor spacing issues at this comparatively early stage.)
So, it would suck to introduce you to this guy named Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Here are a few random things that are still bugging me (using Linux):

1. Please either respect the font sizes I set in the Firefox Preferences, or add a setting to change the font size inside the devtools. Currently the inspector and style panel on the right, among others, seem to use a fixed size that is just tiny enough to be seriously annoying.

2. All URLs everywhere should be clickable, middle-clickable, and have a context menu for these actions as well as other common stuff like copying it to the clipboard. Last time I checked there was no way to get the full URL of a stylesheet, clicking on it would only open the Style Editor which doesn't seem to expose the URL anywhere either.

3. Sometimes the devtools get stuck somehow, i.e. I suddenly can't open the Inspector anymore, or the console wwill stop displaying messages. This happened at least up until FF25, at which point I gave up and installed Firebug again.

4. Please support all different color syntaxes (ideally as in Firebug where I can choose my preferred format and have everything converted to it)

Otherwise it seems you're doing a great job, I just wish you would get the basics right first before adding stuff like a 3D view ;-)
It does. encbup uses CBC mode, which means that you'll only have per-file deduplication, but EncFUSE uses the less secure ECB mode, which means per-block deduplication (roughly almost as good as unencrypted).
Yeah, this is one of my pet peeves. "Feedback" originally had a quite technical meaning that it more or less lost once it became a buzzword in the 50s, in much the same way that "object oriented" lost its meaning in the 89s.

The really important thing about "feedback control" as developed by Black, Nyquist, et al. wasn't that they realized it's a good idea to check to see whether your plan is actually achieving its goal, and correct if it's not. That's just common sense, after all (although the usual disclaimer about common sense being uncommon applies).

The real technical contribution of "feedback control" is that true feedback, in the sense of a dynamic system, can control a system without having to build a model of it. I.e. if your control system is fast enough relative to the system it's controlling, it doesn't have to _predict_ anything, it can just _react_.

Which, if you think about it, is really the _opposite_ of what people usually mean when they say your manager gives you feedback in your performance review, customers give you feedback on your product, etc. When you get that kind of feedback, you still have to figure out what it means in order to do anything with it.
Couldn't you just use one of these things, but instead of batteries plug right into the wall?
Though this also makes me wonder when AT&T and Verizon will each buy search engines.
So in your view a free market has perfect actors with perfect information

Where did I say that? You don't need perfect information; you just need the freedom to act on whatever information you have, combined with your judgment about what's important.

none of them think "climate change" is a hoax?

A free market also means we all get to exercise our own judgment, instead of having the government exercise judgment for us.
This is great for prototypes but there's an edge case that breaks it's usefulness in live sites.

Sometimes google will make already logged in users reauthenticate. It will redirect to the authentication page and you'll get a bunch of HTML rather than json returned, and the user won't know why it's not working.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6671909
>sometimes I'll stream wmbr (wmbr.org).

I had a quick peek, I was wondering if RMS would be listening to it of this moment.

I also had a listen to the Fretless, nice. My sister used to be an excellent fiddler.
"No good deed goes unpunished". I feel really sorry that current state of affairs requires you to make this disclosure for donating something.
Apps Scripts are pretty amazing. You can add custom UI elements to Google Spreadsheets and have it talk to external services (even your own).

My team is currently using it as a makeshift JSON level editor for a mobile game where each tab represents a collection of objects and the schema is defined dynamically by whatever is in the frozen header row. (think Backbone collections and models).
Google Glass users can now invite 3 friends
That's pricing for Google Site Search, a Google-hosted search engine of your own site. It's not a way to buy SERPs for the entire Google web index which is what SEO services need.
Siri advertises 'Bing' on some results, I'm sure they get paid for that.
Titanpad.
Any Glass users out there with a friend invite? ;-)
If their IPs became known, they might get blocked?
Because what if there where 6 equally important datastructures, or 100?
The only datastructure you need to express when you are programming is the AST, in my humble opinion, and lists serve it well, visual trees might be interesting.

The Lisp-2 design has a very good practical reason: 50% of a common type of mistake are impossible to make. More namespaces don't hurt a language, while less namespaces usually do (Javascript for instance).
not working on spanish iMac keyboard...
I agree about the word pixel being mis-named. But what if I really do what to draw something in pixels?
Don't trust the whims of human nature.
Considering that the fungus theory was raised by Dawson in 1859 (and widely debated), and JttCotE was written in 1864, it's likely Verne was influenced by modern scientific debate.
I've noticed these problems on Linux too... On Windows, The PDFs render correctly on SumatraPDF, Adobe Reader, PDF-XChange Reader and IIRC also Foxit PDF Reader.

But I'm sure there's still a bug in my PDF font handing code :)
There's a technical reason - the blocked pages might open infinite URL spaces or bring the site down (crawler hitting /cgi-bin).