skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better question: why not emacs with evil mode?
Sad, I spent two days writing a program I was sure to beat all the rest. Now I won't be able to run it :( Hope you fix the "gaping security holes" soon (whilst keeping the code Python-based), as seriously, I love Python.
I worked in IT around '96 and was lucky enough to commandeer a 21" 1600x1200 CRT at that time. 2d was ok, but the Pentium 90/133? I had could power Quake at 1280x1024 at about 5-10fps, so I had to crank it down several notches.
The Strategic Consequences of F-22 Termination (2009)
Why don't you use XCode's profiling tools? They are quite comprehensive and XCode is free.
Gracious offer, do you have a linkedin or a link to your current profolio?
Lower the barrier for entry and allow companies to grow fast without going broke. Love it.
Dr
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Nuclear fusion laser-beam experiment yields surprising results
Sounds like a good idea. Should probably fix scrolling first though.
Nice! We'll be waiting!
Typo in first sentence is not very welcoming.
Wow, you can really see how the 'open city' feel of Midtown Madness made it into GTA after the acquisition too. Amazing.
Likewise!

Thanks pg.
I agree with michaelochurch. I think this is less important that where the money will be spent than what kind of culture your are creating.

In my observation, here in India (I am from India) that a child born in a poor family remains poor for whole of his life . There are exceptions, but this is true for most of the cases. In my opinion, the reason behind is that the society and culture makes feel a child of poor family that he/she is poor in all aspect of life. This goes to un-conscious mind of children that they are poor and they never come out this thought when they grow up and even if they are very very talented.

Please do make such kind of culture where kids feel bad simply because their parent can't afford something for them. Please do not make kids feel that they belong to a poor family. I can see the current bid is $20K which is a big amount even for a middle class family.

I know that world is not perfect, but we can try making it better at least by not playing the money games in kids matter. If you think further, this kind of culture is a way to society where only children of rich people will get proper healthcare, education etc.
I have read the available Skyhook litigation documents in detail, and I have worked with multiple location services APIs in Android and other mobile devices. I don't want to argue about every point in detail, but Google isn't demanding location data from other location/mapping/location-services stacks. If you really have you own whole location ecosystem, as Nokia does, Google won't go after you because you could make a good case that is, in fact, anti-competitive in an illegal kind of way. So I do not think "But for Nokia that would be selling phones that improved the service of a direct competitor." is correct. The Skyhook case is about changing the way the Android location APIs work, and those are NOT part of AOSP.

Bottom line, though, if you stepped outside of Google's constraints, like replacing the Android location service internals with Skyhook and keeping the data to yourself, Andy Rubin would personally leave a horse's head in your bed. The article says "Skyhook claims Google uses the threat of incompatibility to act anti-competitively." Which is the less nice way of saying if you don't follow Google's rules, whether or not they are spelled out in any contract, they will make it impossible for you to sell Android-based products with Google's ecosystem. Whether that is actually anti-competitive, is, of course, the subject of that litigation.

One thing Andy Rubin knew is that carriers can be dicks, and being a dick to carriers and their OEM partners, to the point of threatening with losing access to Android products is something he did not feel apologetic about. He learned that at Danger.

It's too bad Skyhook ended up in the middle of that. I have my own stories to tell about OEMs afraid to use interesting technologies because of the AFA, and the way Google used it. Some people think Google's behavior is similar to a case where a mainframe software maker got RICO'ed for bundling.
Deflationary pressures tend to do that. I wonder if they're motivated enough to "stimulate the economy"
Shivering inside :)
Repackaging the discussion into a platonified seven sins format is not the right way to approach this.
So do the economics actually favor moving some manufacturing back to the US now or is this a token measure just attractive enough because of the right amount of tax incentives mixed with the intangible benefits like good PR?

Whenever I read these "Apple is bring manufacturing back to the US" stories all I can think of is the famous exchange between Steve Jobs and the President where Jobs supposedly said flat out, "those jobs aren't coming back" [0] Granted Apply has been known to make definitive statements like that only to do a 180 not long after.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...?
Yeah, I immediately thought of that too. I've been to that webpage in the past 1-2 years, it's a game I used to play with friends every once in a while.
I'm always torn whenever I see a Bret Victor talk.

On one hand, I agree with almost everything he says in the talk, amazed by the prototype tools he presents, the concepts he discovered to make those tools usable. And I can see that in each talk he has some new insights to present, deeper connections, better and more general creations - and thats really exciting.

On the other hand, his attitude that he doesn't plan to turn the tools into products, that they're just prototypes, that he expects someone else to come and create actual products - that rubs me the wrong way.

The thing is, we've found excellent collaboration platforms exactly for these kind of prototypish things that we don't plan to make a product of yet we would like other people to toy around with the general idea. The most recent incarnation is GitHub.

So why not publish some of these prototypes? Its not about the code, its about forming a community that will build upon those ideas. Its about kick-starting the construction, setting it in motion. As far as I can see, that is what Victor is hoping for - people taking these ideas close to their hearts and building them in reality.

Is the idea not ready yet? Not exactly polished enough or general enough to be published? The visualization drawing / exploration tool looks like an awesome start to me...

I don't understand.

Edit: Oh wait. https://github.com/damelang/nile contains the presented Nile viewer. Nevermind.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17455578/unthinkable_tho...

"Evolution, so far, may possibly have blocked us from being able to think in some directions; there could be unthinkable thoughts."

Which prompts today's startup idea:

1. Use Silk Road imitators to send hallucinogens to Amazon Mechanical Turk workers

2. Ask workers to solve impossible problems

3. Pass responses into machine learning algorithm

4. Gain godlike insight

5. Rescue humanity from self-destruction
In some places, table-based designs are apparently still hip, and I come across few for localization. Gives me huge facepalm dealing with them...
Maybe the one person who (supposedly) left the cult to continue disseminating their message?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)...

Only one of the group's members, Rio DiAngelo/Richard Ford, did not kill himself: weeks before the suicides, in December 1996, DiAngelo agreed with Applewhite to leave the group so he could ensure future dissemination of Heaven's Gate videos and literature. He videotaped the mansion in Rancho Santa Fe; however, the tape was not shown to police until 2002, five years after the event.
AddressSanitizer went into GCC 4.8 recently: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html
I flagged this entry, to be honest. Ranting is one thing. This went further. The sense of entitlement pushed it over the edge for me.
> winners of a computing, math, or science competition

Because parental resources don't have extreme effects on these competitions as well? Or is it just an easy-to-propose feel-good alternative?

Sheesh. pg obviously foresaw negative reactions, but this entire thread is simply ridiculous. Please just step back and ask yourselves how your comments affect yourselves. Is it really healthy to view access to YC as some kind of golden ticket? The YC application must basically be a free-to-enter lottery! (I must be pretty foolish for not playing all these years.)

To the extent that silly valley is currently a bubble-fueled casino, complaining isn't going to put a stop to that, and dinner for a not-fully-formed teenager fulfilling their parents' expectations does little to augment that. And to the extent that there are still real companies being built on technological merit, some inspiration and accelerated social connections will do little to further disrupt that.
Ah, I advocate deriding content, but it's very easy to slip from content to the person :)
Powerful short (micro) story! Yet one must suspect that life would have found its own way.
While I may disagree with your conclusion here, I'm quite chuffed that I have now learnt a new word: "utile". Neat!
Why you shouldn't argue over text
> when would that ever happen legitimately?

Never. Aka, on buggy code.

Instead of asking when that happens legitimately, why don't you ask why does it evaluate to a legitimate value?

> Why would you expect any language to do something that made sense doing that?

Because raising an error in those cases would:

1. Make the language simpler and easier to understand (and to implement). No coercion rules, not guessing what some other developer meant when they wrote `a == 0` (are they asking for numeric equality, or could `a` be a string or a boolean value too?).

2. Make it easier to identify the bug in case it should happen.

Let me ask you, do you also think syntax errors are unnecessary too? Because, why would anyone write a program with invalid syntax? Why would one expect any language to do something that made sense, like not compiling/running the code, in those cases? Wouldn't it be better if, for example, in case a line contains a syntactic error, the interpreter would just discard that like and run the program anyway?
This article that was submitted on HN has a section on Vic Gundotra on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6420546
For what it's worth, sheets also has publish as CSV which is super useful for, say, building d3 graphs (d3 consumes csv like a champ).

I'm using it a lot lately as I have to create static sites with a bunch of different translations. I have the translators edit a set template, which is aggregated into a single sheet. Then, a (racket.. could be python or anything) script reads from the published csv and outputs all the translated pages. Super useful.
IT client support...
It's got nothing to do with bootstrapping.
Haha, that is true! So I have a random question: your account was created 700 some odd days ago, which seem like a long time for some one who is currently applying, but if you read hackernews just for the content, I am not sure why you would be on this thread... And I believe one of your older posts said you worked for google... so I guess my question is what is your motivation to be in this thread? Purely for curiosities sake...
Thanks for the update, I had already become despondent, but am now reinvigorated!
I'm not sure Catalyst is excellent anymore - it's certainly not as good as when it was called Quantum. That particular episode has been extremely divisive and for me personally I'm not sure what to take from it at all.
How about Stunts 4D and Super Off Road?
I don't think it's about being in their social circle, but about the high concentration of smart people and being able to absorb their knowledge.
Somewhat off topic, but I've been learning C through Zed's LCTHW -- and I must say I'm rather impressed at how well it's allowed me to properly learn the concepts involved.

I do wish it was further along though, I haven't seen much change in the month or so I've been working through it :(
What's really interesting thing is that all numeric coercions go through a string coercion, and that coercion doesn't (at least in Chrome and Firefox) have to even return a string. Presumably, the toString() method is run repeatedly until either a string or a number comes out.

So a simple fraction type can be done like this:

function Fraction(n, d) {
this.n = n;
this.d = d;
}
Fraction.prototype.toString = function() {
return this.n / this.d;
};

//Demo
var x = new Fraction(1, 2);
alert(x * 38); //19
alert(x + x); //1
Yup, came here to post this link. I literally was just playing the trial version hosted on this website YESTERDAY. It plays perfectly under WINE in Mac OS 10.9 on my MacBook Air.

Such a fantastic game.
"were much, much more efficient with limited resources"

You are cherry picking which resources you care about. What about power consumption? What about heat? What about physical size? What about noise? I remember the fans in those old PC's, mine sounded like a jet taking off.
yeah, I would also be interested in having a private channel.
Sometimes, not always. People call themselves "engineer" a lot, but have no idea what "engineering" really is, which is more of a focus on the process than the technology. Therefore, developer and programmer are theoretically distinct from "software engineer" in strict terms. Too bad no official certification process exists for software engineers as does other fields of engineering.
Horrible to be reminded of PROGRA~1...
We will be waiting...
I think the stuff about the effects of high sugar and high carbohydrate diets in the first episode is pretty solid.

Which one is the naturopath?
I don't work for Sold, but I think the #1 thing you should consider is how you brand your company to make it attractive for acquisition. A good name can go a long way.
you're stealing my idea ! http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-use-google-doc-spreadshe...
I like it a lot. Lots of potential for versioning.

I feel any real load could kill the server though (or your AWS budget!), so maybe trigger the save when I stop typing for half a second. Seems to lag a little when I type quickly.

I'd like to be able to save certain URLs as different versions to share. Could come in handy for collaboration or editing too.
I'm pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word.

Check this out:
http://timtyson.us/archives/2008/01/theft-by-taking/

Old MS Office file formats were never engineered to be future proof in any way, and they're a huge headache for Microsoft, and they do indeed behave oddly in new software, and Microsoft cannot wait to get rid of them, and nobody in their right mind can blame them, honestly.

Open standards rock.
Now a startup CEO but my background is in project/program management and software engineering
Looked great on an iPad retina in landscape. All I thought was that it has all 16 colours in it! :)
Haha, this had me so confused.

I was wondering if I had missed some amazing technological advancements. Still waiting for that resolution on standard widescreen lcd's.
Just keep refreshing for nonstop, entertainment. Boy, makes me want to buy! [audio]
"Get Shit Done" is completely different than the other ideas lumped in here, ie "ship something", "fail often" etc. Many people may mistakenly apply these concepts in such a way, but it is not inherent.
Thanks for catching this. Corrected.
The "Nutritionist"
NIST to Review Crypto Guidance Methods: Agency Seeks to Rebuild Trust
How about "because you're being paid 6 figures to do it and you could be getting paid $25k for something a lot more shitty"
I'm starting to wish we'd see anything Dropbox was doing with all the acquisitions.

Dropbox has hired some really smart people (and shuttered some great services) over the past year or two, but I haven't yet seen that intellectual capitol reflected in their services.
Because parental resources don't have extreme effects on these competitions as well? Or is it just an easy-to-propose feel-good alternative?

I took part in those competitions. There were plenty of winners from humble backgrounds and non-coastal regions. Plenty of years, the winner would be from some no-name town in the Midwest. Sure, being privileged helped, but there was real diversity, and most people with the talent had a chance.

Sheesh. pg obviously foresaw negative reactions, but this entire thread is simply ridiculous.

Does someone foreseeing negative reactions to something, and then doing it anyway, mean those negative reactions should not occur? If I steal something, I'm pretty sure I'll get negative reactions (social disapproval, risk of physical harm, jail time, etc.) because, as it were, it's actually the wrong thing to do. If I do it, I can't dismiss people's hatred for that action as somehow invalid by saying, "yeah, I knew that would piss you off." The fact that I knew beforehand that people would find the action offensive doesn't mitigate it's general wrongness.
I was half expecting some if the words to blink at me, but, of course, support for the blink tag has been removed from modern browsers. Hooray for opinionated code.
I really like your app. I have been using it for a while and brought a few IRC buddies on it.
This sensor doesn't seem to do any extraordinary detection like that. It's an ordinary RH/Temp/H20 contact sensor.

Now if the sensor could watch the walls for far-infrared discoloration to show unseen leaks that would be useful in your part of the world, but that's going to be a ways off.

http://smokedamagemichigan.com/water_damage.htm
None of the linked reviews [0] are still up, and all but one of the review sites themselves are gone.

[0]http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/reviews.htm
But you did decide to fund "less" startups when you had some scaling issues. Does this mean you said "no" to startups that you would've said "yes" to if you had scaled well?

It looks like the increase in quality of startups is an independent factor to your ability to accept all of the really good ones.

Does this mean that you will need to figure out how to scale more aggressively or start rejecting more and more good startups?
Do you work for Binary Cocoa? Is this your LinkedIn profile http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jesse-horne/5a/a33/b04
My gut reaction is to say that all three of these ways of thinking (interactive, visual, and symbolic) are all useful and should be used where their advantages can be best applied. As a shallow example, I think that the basic visual/interactive representations can be fantastic teaching tools, and once you get an intuitive feel for how the system behaves, you can then switch to symbolic representation and move on to the more higher-order systems which those building blocks are composed of.

I thought it was interesting that when he compressed the paragraph describing an equation to is algebraic representation (x2 + 2x = 10), we immediately grokked the algebraic version better, because we have loads of experience reading and manipulating the algebraic expression. If I think back to my own learning career, however, I learned the basic tenets of algebra using -- you guessed it -- interactive and visual representation through Hands-On Equations [1]

[1] http://www.borenson.com/

(now that I think about it, Hands-On Equations serves as a very nice "tldr" for this speech and the related concepts)
No first tier investors show up at events where entrepreneurs pay to pitch. It is only slightly less evil than placement firms that charge a fee to applicants.
There's work to provide this "module by contract" notion you're talking about exactly (http://www.mpi-sws.org/~skilpat/backpack/) but it's very new and far from implementation. OCaml does a good job of this and is usually the poster child for parametric modules done right.

That said, dynamic languages allow this kind of contractual module imputation by the virtue of allowing absolutely anything to be considered a module and hashed out at runtime. At the least this means carrying around a lot of tagging/runtime typing information so you can call up runtime errors. At the most, it means that your whole system is held together by an increasingly wide set of unchecked and uncheckable assumptions.

Cabal hell is annoying but at least it's checking.
Show HN: Tablo - NaNoWriMo profile pages to help authors share their progress
Drank the retina Koolaid? I couldn't believe it myself when I started doing the math. The Nexus 5 has 1.5x the detail for each screen point compared to a Retina iPhone. The iPhone's @2x retina assets are outclassed (somewhat) by the @3x assets of a 1080p phone...
That's not being the grammar police, that's being a grammar teacher. I see nothing wrong with that.
I grew up in Mesa and it's nice to see this happen here. Phoenix isn't a large tech hub and by Apple putting this plant in Mesa, this will help put it on the map (on a smaller scale)
Ask HN: What do you want to create after you close your first big exit?
I'm thinking: side-projects, software to improve other's lives, or anything where you aren't necessarily aiming for maximum profit.
my mom(who was a primary school teacher) had been a diabetic for about 10 years.The doctors who treated her told her to eat more wheat based meals instead of rice based ones and told her to increase the dosage of tablets when sugar level crossed 200 .No doctor ever told her about carb counting which IMO, was the first thing she should have been told.I came upon carb counting from some articles on the internet.She is trying this for the last couple of years and now her ppbs is 107.
Strictly speaking, it could be implementation-defined behavior.
you are posting on a table based design right now
Lenovo pursued BlackBerry bid, but Ottawa rejected idea
#3 is totally wrong.

First of all, if your wife graduated from med school, she should have taken the Hippocratic oath. An oath written by the guy considered the father of western medicine.

You know what he had to say about diet?

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”

He also said something along the lines of "if you don't know diet you can't call yourself a doctor" but I can't find the exact quote.

>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.

Actually, you'd be wrong. Consider a clinical study carried out by the inventor of bypass surgery and another doctor, in the best heart hospital in the world considered by US News & World Report.

The study had very sick heart disease patients, who were told they had a year to live by their cardiologists, change their diet. 23 opted in for the study but only 18 chose to continue with the diet after a couple months. Those 18 patients are still alive today 20 years later, and several had an angioplasty done giving photographic proof their plaque buildup had cleared out. The ones who dropped out died shorty after.

The 18 never had a heart attack after they changed their diets, while before they did they had a combined 49 coronary events (that's ~3 heart related emergencies per person average).
Credit Risk Specialist by day / web developer and writer in the early a.m.
Eh. 'number' means 'IEEE 754 floating point value' and NaN is certainly one of those. Abbreviations are tricky.
Working towards your goal.
I agree it's tough trying to glean facts from the media now. Everyone seems to have a vested interest.

However, when you consider that pharmaceutical companies in the US pay doctors (not always directly for prescribing their drugs, but close enough), and also fund most of the research in the US, Australia and probably most other countries, that seems a much stronger candidate for bias than a science researcher who is trying to tell a story on a not-for-profit TV network.

There are plenty of medical "breakthroughs" throughout history that have come from people who were initially branded as heretics/crazies but who eventually were proved correct. Germ theory, antibiotics, anaesthesia etc.