skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: he notes our techniques are based on writing, but it goes deeper: our symbolic writing (including mathematical notation) is based on speech, for which we have dedicated linguistic structures in our brains, much as we have a visual center. It is deep-seated, and many have argued fundamentally entwined with sapience. Thus, even if it's not theoretically the best way, it might be the best way for us. But I'm going to argue it is the theoretically best way:

Linguistic descriptions have a key advantage over pictorial in that they represent or reference rather than show. This enables them to be compact, and omit unnecessary detail. (Of course, showing rather than telling is a strength of visual representation).

Yes, you can have a hierarchy of visual systems, and zoom-in or hide. But a fundamental problem here I think is in choosing the hierarchy - that is, the way the system is modularized.

Different modularizations of the same system are often appropriate for different uses of that system, or for considering different aspects of it. For even a slightly complex system, there are a huge number of different modularizations possible, and not all of them are useful. Often, you'll start with a poor one, and eventually have insights moving you towards the ideal one. (Of course, sometimes the "right" modularization is obvious, especially for well-known families of problems).

All this is very difficult. My point is that it is easier to switch modularities linguistically than pictorially, by changing your concepts. Without the right modularity, it's difficult to pictorially show just the aspects of interest instead of the whole picture. In contrast, one can linguistically omit detail by referencing it (implicitly, as a separate module).

Maybe it's possible to do this visually, though I suspect it thereby would have become linguistic!

[Though the above is a counterpoint, I'm very impressed with the talk. He's working both ends of abstraction, with concrete working software demonstrating cool useful practical techniques that, while not universal, would be helpful in many domains; and also framing it within, and using it to illustrate, the deep universal and philosophical idea of unthinkable thoughts. BTW e.g. uncomputable numbers.]
How do you have this info? Any chance of those becoming public?
I'm pretty sure the YC partners don't have the time to comb through dinner attendance applications and manage the rest of that, unfortunately. Maybe they could outsource that, though.
Curious if you heard this from a first party source?
I see a basic income as basically a mechanism by which the elite pay off the rest to stop them rioting.
Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company
And libertarians seem very concerned with adhering to the letter of a 226-year-old piece of paper. Being concerned with orthodoxy isn't just a Marxist thing.
I originally included "short" as a criterion, but I removed it as subjective.
And PG's essays are chronologically organized : the topmost are the most recent.
Start up to challenge users to photo contests
Yeah, I emailed info@yc
Probably because it's a few static HTML files that are stored with dozens (if not hundreds) of other single purpose sites, whose infrastructure is managed programmatically. (i.e. they have an intern run a script when they need to migrate it to a new cluster, and that's the extent of it)
1 minute out of 2 for me. Meh just applied for fun anyways. I'm still staying in SF on my own with product revenue anyways. Location is all that matters to me.
As a Pythonista Javascript is really strange. Let's combine two arrays with a + b. Wait, why is it now a string? Why did it just create a undefined.jpg when I run filename + '.jpg'? Ah damn, I named it filepath. I guess I check if this object is empty by comparing it to false, works for arrays right? Except it doesn't and it doesn't work for arrays either because they might contain a 0.

The lesson is, always look for a method that does what you want.
The Airbnb Economy in New York: Lucrative but Often Unlawful
Presumably it's useful to people who are writing papers in the process of deciphering it. Assuming anyone other than crackpots are still trying.
It's almost depressing. It must have taken significantly more work to embed these ludicrous rules when designing the language!
I've fixed an am deploying now, was a race condition with two requests happening at the same time. The code to create the user via segment.io on intercom was being fired inside a transaction, which was rolled back. I've moved to an after_commit block instead :)
Bought by Rockstar a long time ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_San_Diego
I used it once and liked it. But they came across as dorky snobs in there marketing.
Why would they take them down?
To me, it is not obvious that it is wrong to say "to live with dignity you must do something that benefits others in a way the market can recognize, or have a compelling story why you can't," for some value of "dignity" which is partly dependent on the surplus capacity of society.
why dont they address the server and encrypt the user address at the server level, so a network eavesdropper would only see traffic too and from servers but not the particular addresses being addressed. The user puts in an address e.g. yaName@yaDomain.com the sender and receiver address (maName & yaName) are then stripped on sending the D-mail and encrypted with the D-mail servers private key the receiving server (maDomain) then goes through the public private key exchange with the sender (yaDomain) thus securely passing the user address between the two servers without the eavesdropper knowing from what user the D-mail originated and to what user the D-mail was addressed to. This system would become more secure the the greater the number of users on each domain.

To add extra security batch sending by the server would make it even more secure

e.g. every 3min || when unsent messages to domain x > 999 --> send D-mails.

this would add latency and create bandwidth spikes but would negate time based inference attacks.

edit: relevant xkcd; http://xkcd.com/927/
My video was watched 6 times the day after the deadline. But I sent the link to 2 friends so I am guessing 4 views came from YC. I am going crazy waiting though....
Yea, or you could use "===".
Since comparing strings and numbers generally doesn't make a lot of sense, you could just consider it a case of "undefined behavior". As many other people will write: There's only one case I can think of where the unsafe-equals operator is reasonable and that's `a == null` to check for null/undefined.
And "MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING" is not overkill?

Seems to devalue the entire standard and project.

edit: Unicode should be universally useful. This is not. I would love to be convinced otherwise however .....
Your Cart:

* 350m snaps per day + potential growth
- At least 3 interaction screens per snap (pre-view/view/post-view): that's over 1bn places you could put, say, ads per day. Do the CPI/conversion math on that.
* User data for 200m+ users + the ability to extend and refine
* A direct line to 200m+ home screens via push notifications
* Enough inertia to mitigate the threat of competition (Facebook challenged with the Poke app, that failed)
* The potential to change/extend the feature set to more revenue oriented streams
* All other possible things you could do with an enormous and massively engaged captive audience...e.g. walking past Starbucks - they're having a slow day. Receive Snapchat from Starbucks with scannable special offer code and super quick expiry. We've just made Groupon for the high street.
* Rights to all the above until the end of time

Total: $4bn

Doesn't seem so crazy to me.
The current system isn't really socialism or capitalism. It's the best of both for a well-connected elite ("the 1%", but it's closer to 0.1%) and the worst of both for the rest.

Their connections comprise a welfare system that keeps them from really failing.
Give in to your anger at the name; it will only make the Dark Side Mail Alliance stronger.

Or maybe, Dark Mail is like Blackmail, but with some plausible deniability?

(I agree, it's an awful name for appealing to non-criminals.)
this is what I was referring to
I hired a freelancer to help me out with my current project. He was a buddy of mine. I'm not sure how I would've evaluated otherwise. Is there a version of Scoutzie but for devs?
Why...

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
Misleading linkbait headline. He still has a cable subscription, he just gave up his set-top box.
20k? Wow!

I suspect that a resourceful kid could get a meeting with PG for free if they thought hard enough.

So I see this as 100% Donation. In some traditions, the value value of a donation is from the heart of the donor. In others it's from the benefit to the recipient. I am in the latter camp. I hope there is a bidding war and some rich self righteous jerk pays 500k to it. I think the charity would do a lot of good with that money.
Yep. Along with `== null`. I also only use "==" with `typeof` since `typeof` always returns a string.
Glad you enjoyed using Sold. We are definitely dorks, hopefully not snobs, and had a ton of fun making our marketing in house :)
I don't see where the hypocrisy is in creating an application that maps the location of tweets with the "F-word" and then not writing the word "fuck" anywhere. It isn't the intention to advocate cursing. The goal of the application for me was to work in a new framework/language set on something that some people may find entertaining. Writing fuck on the about page or not doesn't really change the message, I didn't intentionally do either it just isn't the vernacular I use to write about my development work.
An invite to a YC dinner is free

The catering isn't.

Besides, my point wasn't about suggesting something else, it was just remarking that the whole intent of auctioning access to a business dinner is to sell some kind of percieved power to those who can afford it.

If there wasn't percieved power there, then the prize wouldn't raise much money.

Now it could also be that this prize was chosen precisely because it counterpoints the eventual use of the money, which would be as good a reason as any.

At the end of the day there are many ways of getting rich people to pay into charity and this is just one of them, is also probably quite effective as it taps into the whole dynasty thing.
I believe that the SCIMP whitepaper is from 2012. They haven't released their current protocol , and they said they don't want to talk too much about it because there could be changes.
Hunting Afghanistans Moneymen
Title (while the actual article title) is imprecise.

The author still has "cable TV". The author has a "basic cable tier". He's getting it plus a $5/month discount against his broadband, so he is not actually paying anything to get the basic cable channels.

But he's not actually "without cable TV". Which is how he's able to watch HBO via HBO Go.

Which is why the title is imprecise.
I see that it's lower at the ends than in the middle. I don't see that a parabola is a good fit - especially not from your example, where my intuition says it'd look more like a bubble bursting than a smooth rise and fall.
7 Sins of Doomed Teams
Now you have three problems.

(But along with relational algebra, they are among the few abstractions that work really well)
Well, I wrote this off of the top of my head, and it has been several years since I've used the library heavily (though I have a project now that needs it, so I most likely will be dusting it off and fixing any hairy bits).

https://github.com/capnmidnight/xml-stuff/blob/master/README...

However, just take note that the main concept of the library is "make it work". The idea was that, given an XPath expression with several attribute selectors, it would fill in any necessary nodes to just make it happen. So you can technically chain a ton of editing commands together, by using an appropriately complex XPath expression.

It came out of a need to repair thousands of broken XML documents. It's probably not very complete. It was written for one project--and though I took time to make it generalized--it didn't make it into a key role into any other projects; I just didn't ever again have the need to deal with XML documents on such a scale.

It's actually one of the first "big" things I wrote out of college. I'm not too happy with some of the design right now, but the functionality has held up over the years and it's not as shitty as some of the other code I wrote at the time. I guess I knew that a lot of the project was hinging on how easy it was to write XML documents, so I made sure I did a ton of testing to make it work.
It is if you're American. Atrocities were committed virtually every day in Vietnam, the scant few they were forced to charge got little more than slaps on the wrist, if they got convicted at all. One jury had convicted a service-member of premeditated murder but they withdrew the verdict after finding out there was a mandatory life sentence.

http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American/dp/0...
The big professional associates generally put out a set of consensus guidelines that are aimed at giving "physicians in the trenches" a (relatively) easy interface as to "best practices" in terms of preventative medicine and risk reduction.

That being said, this is a matter of separating the noise from the signal in the population which is quite hard. AFAIK, and I am probably missing a few, but the only real long term modifiers are aspirin, low blood pressure, and high fiber/low cholesterol/low glycemic index foods. Everything else - there isn't enough data to separate noise from signal except for a few specific cases (someone found a gene polymorphism or mutation to something specific, i.e. the risk of blue converse sneakers or something like that)
$4.07 Dual H Bridge DC Stepper Motor Drive Controller for Arduino L298N
superior to bup or rdiff-backup?
yep. there are tons of factors to take into account (genetic, economical, etc.), but doing this right often means changing lifestyle altogether.

congrats on the change :)
I've seen this a few times, pardon my naivety, whats a c-bomb?
> if you have Goldman or RenTech on your resume

RenTech is in a completely different league from Google and Goldman. I've never met a single person to even get an interview there.
Even if this specific character isn't of any particular use, the fact that you can now represent every character in Webdings in Unicode is kind of nice, I guess.
One of my favorite parts of his website is the Links section: http://worrydream.com/#!/Links

It reminds me that the way to be amazing is to do an amazing amount of work.
Do realize that doctors are required to do continuing medical education (CME [1]) to maintain their license? Not to say that the system is perfect, but it is false that doctors do not do some sort of continued study in their field (mandated or not.)

Doctors most certainly have an incentive to keep their patients from getting sicker. One of the ways we evaluate quality of care is incidence of morbidity. How often does this patient continue to return to the hospital? This is a huge risk to physicians, in the form of a lawsuit.

It isn't like there is any shortage of patients who require care. There are so many ways that hospitals encourage doctors to do bad things to make a buck, but preventing preventative care would not be the first thing I'd target.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_medical_education
Um, the number of crimes in a given time period divided by the population?
Please add pineapple bookmarklet: http://pineapple.io/discussion/bookmarklet-released
Hey, I had thought that ExpanDrive was using Dokan, but I think I'll pick up a copy now that I know some of the backstory. Thanks for posting here!
I can really empathize with Harj. I have a paternal history of high cholesterol, my grandfather recently having bypass surgery. Using WellnessFX I discovered that I have an extremely high Apo B level, nearly twice the upper limit of the low-risk range. Thinking my first test was an anomaly, I was retested over the course of several months with consistent results of less than 3% variation.

Using this data, I've modified my diet and am seeking medical advice to reduce to a normal range. My cholesterol levels are all normal. I eat healthy (a seemingly subjective measure) and exercise regularly. My doctor said I am in perfect health at my recent annual physical.

I'm privileged to be able to afford private blood testing. Apo B data is within everyone's grasp, yet it seems so under-utilized.
That "Yeehaw" terrified me.
iirc High end athletes (not sure if ~500 minutes /wk counts) die younger due to accumulated byproducts of metabolism and accumulated damage/wear across the body.
I guess they don't even know in which server it's hosted anymore.

It's probably way less effort to just leave it here. It's not like it's using a lot of space, or requires some beefy performance anyway.
Is powdered egg yolk a commonly eaten food or a common ingredient in processed foods?
Seems like a great idea, but I couldn't help but find this http://i.imgur.com/h7DjXen.png picture to be really awkward.

What's going on with her legs?
Measure theory opened my eyes when thinking about infinities.
The education tries to ingrain "do no harm" but then again, human nature is human nature.

The folks who go into primary care - i.e. GP's, pediatricians, etc, tend to be more altruistic, and think along the lines of preventative medicine. (They certainly aren't in it for the money...). It's really the subspecialties you hear about some random doc who is pushing tests or surgeries somewhere.

There is a push behind the new "Accountable Care Model" that tries to incentivize better performance on overall health metrics that tries to address this, but too soon to tell how well it works.
Instagram is an example of "mobile first" in the sense of the article. It's a thing.
ClusterMail v.1
This is a Mass Mailer written in Javascript and PHPMailer that is licensed under GPLv3.
Video was by the good folk at http://www.wyzowl.com/ I am pretty sure it was a genuine voiceover but might be wrong!
> I used it once and liked it. But they came across as dorky snobs in there marketing.

*their

Congrats to the team and to Dropbox!
Mainly Instrumental for me.
It varies from movie soundtracks (especially by Hans Zimmer) to classical and even trance or digital mmusic (which you can find in http://di.fm).
Chinese photo app gone viral
That's a really cool utility - can it be used with a caching proxy to reduce network traffic?
Delta allows use of electronic devices below 10K feet as of Nov. 1
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.

This is it, isn't it. The scale of the problem is so vast that it's easy for everyone to shrug off their share of the responsibility. This seems to be the case with all civilization-scale problems and one of the deepest flaws of our species.
I think many of us prefer to work on problems that are more interesting, even if one can't get rich doing it. You could also make money running porn sites or casinos, but it's just not very interesting to code to base desires.

Let's also not forget that most of these people who can rich via this route know for a fact that they are selling a shit sandwich to the company that is acquiring them. Do SnapChat founders really think this business is going to make billions in revenue and survive for years? This is the equivalent of 'flipping' in real estate. Take the money and run. You can admire it, but don't ignore the damage and waste it leaves behind to the main stream investors whose equity was handed out in an acquisition for these kinds of companies.

I'm much more interested in companies which create lasting value or solve real world problems.
Hahaha that's an excellent name! I'd love to sign up for that. Maybe with a little default footer in the emails that explains what the domain means.
Quadrotor Wheel Can Fly, Float, and Roll
Nice that you've done this via your own methods. Per taking photos when in social gatherings, we offer the ability to skip the photo when you'd rather not interrupt your conversation. That said, the Instagram-ization of everything has made photos at dinner more socially acceptable IMO.

The ability to follow people at your goal weight and/or people who stick to a routine that intrigues you is something incremental to the personal blog approach. Regardless, you should check out TwoGrand. Would appreciate any thoughts/suggestions.
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My favorite bit is where all of these are true:

'1' == 1
'1' == [1]
'1' == true
1 == [1]
1 == true
[1] == true

But this is false:

[1] == [1]
I take it you found this on after checking out the new Wayback Machine?
I think it's important that we separate our support for Ladar's legal problems from our support from his technical decisions.

I think we should support Ladar as a person for bravely deciding not to comply with the government's request, but that we should be extremely critical of the technical decisions that lead to his ability to have complied.

LavaBit was a service offering "secure" email using a mechanism known to be insecure, which unnecessarily put a lot of users at risk. It seems injudicious to fund its redeployment, and even a little bit strange to fund the same person to develop something new.
I get a google products vibe from these sorts of acquisitions. Don't get too comfortable with that little startup! It could disappear tomorrow...
I think this is brilliant. Most programmers prefer code to be more readable for computers than for humans. I think the problem is that we grow up with the notion that computer programs have to be very strict, in syntax, types, comparisons etc. Is there really such a need?

It was for a similar reason that many people used to like XHTML over HTML. Not always because they needed to validate it, but to please the computer.
Congrats on the acquisition ! Can we know a little more about who (if not all) of the team will be joining Dropbox ? How many people were working at Sold ?
http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm
"(IIRC, in the US over 40% of the GDP is eaten by the gov)"

http://www.morganwarstler.com/post/44789487956/guaranteed-in...

It looks like it's strictly less than 25%, though there could well be categories of spending that's excluding.
Can you email me? I've got a site that does high pageviews that I'm struggling to monetize.
The undefined.jpg thing won't happen for variables in strict mode, it'll error.

[].length is what you want for the second. IIRC [] isn't false in Python either.
Agreed. This is why Snapchat is attractive, and the model of "get users and content now, monetize later" has worked in the past. So this is simply a scaled-up challenge. I'm curious to see how Snapchat makes its money.

Here's some of my ideas and they all involve in-app purchases:

* Corporate deals that allow you to place products in your snaps, kinda like Photoshop. Example: you pay $0.99 to be able to place a character from South Park in your Snap.

* High-quality snaps, that take advantage of your camera's full resolution

* Sound snaps, so you can record 30 seconds of audio and send it to a friend. Great for sharing tracks you make or music you're hearing, or just to record some idiot yelling on the bus.

There are many more possibilities. Snapchat can almost be thought of as a "social game", a sort-of cross between FarmVille, Instagram and Twitter. You can still share basic things to your friends, but you can pay to send even better things. My ideas may or may not be shitty, but they still prove that the service probably can monetize, in my opinion.
Funny how they actually went for the huge trackball design in the earlier iterations.