skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember back, maybe ten or 12 years ago, there was another difficult online game/puzzle called, if memory serves, notpr0n.com. It was pretty difficult, requiring lateral thinking, some amount of technical skill, and some strange trivia knowledge. I feel like this is just another version of that: hard internet puzzle. I'm also not discounting that this is some sort of ARG for something or another.
I think from the NSA's perspective this is both crude and unnecessary. They have better ways.
So what's the part of the process that I understand poorly? I'd like to know, so I can improve.

Honestly, we agree.
What would you do differently
Hey guys been working on a project for awhile. Please visit my website at let me know what I can improve and what features you think would be pretty cool.

Thanks!
I think I got that point. But if there are ANY smart backers in the very-public Kickstarter community, then the project (should be) cancelled before any harm is done. Kickstarter is an acutely bad place to put scams of this sort, if the community effectively serves to quash them.
Does it? I checked this with Mailgun yesterday and they told me to send through the API instead of using SMTP. So I did, tested with Gmail today (where it was ending up in spam) and it arrived in the inbox.. I'll check with them again.
I think the $7-$8 price point is ideal. It is affordable enough for most companies to be able to justify it. Over $10/meal starts seeming a little extravagant to me.

Source: Startup founder who is about to sign up with the service to give it a try because I've been looking for something like this.
Q: What happens if the startup does well after the safe and doesn't need to raise any money and doesn't have a liquidity event? Are the safe investors stuck with a security which does not derive any economic (e.g., dividends) value and they don't have any control?
George Washington also resorted to violence, and if you're British during the late 1700s, you might even call it terrorism.
I don't think the "negative utility" aspect you bring up is warranted. If "creativity" is a term of differentiation, it only implies unconventionality. There is plenty of room between utilitarian and detrimental.
And share it with everyone.
EC2 doesn't do that, AWS does, for many things.

E.g. you can have a nice app running with elastic beanstalk, file storage on S3, database on RDS, full text search on CloudSearch, without worrying once about apt/yum, incompatible JVM versions, backups, stuff in /etc or setting up iptables and ssh, which is what most people think of as sysadmin work.
All I'm saying (and really all I'm saying) is that I disagree that suppression of individuality and creativity are key goals of education.

They may well be outcomes. They probably are, and that's sad and we should certainly not be content with broken educational systems. I just don't think that's anyone's aim, perhaps just a miserable side effect.

>> Where were they trained to do that?

I'm not sure, I seem to have skipped those lessons. But then I'm one of those people that periodically takes several months off to go travelling.
So, based on the writeup, it's just an option? And this didn't exist already? It seems so obvious in retrospect it's surprising no one had thought to do this.

Is there anything special that makes this substantially different from a vanilla option, or is it just that a Safe is standardized in an easy to use way?
where to buy those desks?
By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime...

Huh?
I think drinkable water may become a huge issue in relation to energy demand. While I think it is an absolutely solvable problem, I'll bet that it will blow the peak energy use prediction out of the <<ahem>> water.
> I know that while building a rapidly growing business at Aha.io I want more "screen time" not less.

Yes, and if you work for Frito-Lay, then it might be your job to get people to develop unhealthy eating habits. But simply because you have an interest in people behaving a certain way, does not mean it is in their interest to do so.
Well, this makes the fact that I asked for this for Christmas awkward AND useless...
The humor in this article is so subtle.

"Why is Henry eating lint off the floor? Science would tell us that there is one correct answer."
I don't know how most people define creativity. The author seems to be equating creativity with independent, non-conformist risk takers. Which is not how I'd define creativity, but maybe that is what makes people "creative".
Well, we do it a lot when we make your engineering tools ;-)
I don't understand why this is more useful than just creating an object and settings its prototype to `Error`.

Anyone care to explain?
True, but it doesn't always play well with non-msft tech stacks.
I thought the key learning was the average exec gives their organization a 7 out of 10 on innovation. We're all above average in our own minds.
In most countries, giving your bank details gives them deposit-only access.

The US is behind the rest of the world on this one.
I've seen software patents get both rejected and approved. It is by no means a rubber-stamp process.
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It happened because I though that if I could point to the exact local address the wire went to, then the immense paper trail would mean they could reverse the transfer in case of blatant fraud, hopefully while also arresting the people responsible.

Now I know better though. But not by listening to the NYT's assurances about how much more diligently the banking system prevents outright fraud.
IANAL, but I'm surprised by the EFF's amicus brief. A large portion of it is an enumeration of the deleterious effects of NPE "trolls", but from my understanding of the case, it's purely about establishing better guidance on what is or isn't patentable under section 101. SCOTUS seems unlikely to be moved by the pain caused by NPE's, when Congress could readily change how patent infringement or licensing works for PE's vs. NPE's if they considered it a serious problem.

Obviously they still got the cert, though not of the particular case they wanted.

I'm interested to hear how some of the much brighter legal minds on hn would handicap this case. My uneducated guess is that the patentability of software will largely survive, but the Court will try to formulate a test designed to exclude claims that would be clearly too abstract were they not "instantiated" on a computer. Something like the Amazon 1-click patent would probably survive, while the Alice patents would not.
It's a little late to talk about Scala like that. There are very nice improvements on each of those topics you complain about. Of course still there are many works to do but for now there is no other language with such potential IMO.
Understanding Bitcoin charts
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I always tell my daughter to not forget the number zero when counting and that it is important, without it we can't have the number 10, or 20...and so on...etc
The hilarious part is that all of these "geniuses" are being tricked into spending tons of time on a puzzle that has no solution or end.
Convertible notes convert into equity (either at the holder's or issuer's option) on the QFE - a Qualifying Financing Event.

Often that also includes certain revenue threshholds and/or time limits.

Does the "safe" have provisions for this?
When you specify you have "studied in mechanical engineering", is it safe to assume that you have never held a position as a mechanical engineer in a non-educational capacity?

If that is the case, how is your anecdotal observation that you have "never EVER seen anyone use calculus to solve their problem in the real world" even remotely close to relevant?

Furthermore, I have noticed that people have a tendency to conflate "using calculus" with their experience completing homework assignments in their high school/college calc 1 courses.

No, that's not what "using calculus" is, unless of course you're still a student or cannot conceive of a world beyond your own narrow life experiences.

Many of us use mathematics to solve real problems in the real world on a daily basis - and it would be beyond arrogance to suggest that calculus is irrelevant. If you get a chance, pick up the book "Concrete Mathematics" - and "Concrete" is a play on "Continuous and Discrete" math. It's by Donald Knuth and it's a wonderful read. If you're a working programmer or employed in a technical field, you will be better off after understanding how to solve the problems in that book.

Calculus and all derivative mathematics touches more facets of our daily lives than perhaps any other "theoretical" field in academia.
I didn't track time on this, but it took me 5-6 days to get it all done. I wasted a lot of time though: I didn't know much about NodeJS backends when I started this, and next to nothing about AngularJS. I did a couple of things three times until I got them right; I used to work as a front-end developer until I got fired last month, so now I'm trying some new things. I'm glad it's an inspiration for you.
Creativity is not simply an idea in the same way that a start-up is not simply an idea. The ability to execute is essential to creativity. A lot of real skills are involved.
I've rooted my Android phone and I've been using LBE Privacy Guard that basically lets you do just what you describe.

I actually just a got a new phone (Nexus 5), and the app is crashing on open right now, I imagine because I'm using KitKat or something like that. But that's besides the point.
Give Your iOS App An Unfair Advantage By Adding Keywords To Its Title
It's like a complex Sudoku puzzle, you probably wouldn't understand...
Very interesting article, it looks very prescient right now, kudos. I agree with you that the bitcoin protocol as a p2p irreversible log of transactions is a real and still misunderstood great invention.

It's akin to the gunpowder: the Chinese were the first to toy with the volatile stuff in the 8th century B.C. But the killer app (!!) took a long time to emerge.

The current state of affair with bitcoin looks a lot like a bubble, there's no question in my mind. As long as it's a speculative device, it's actually dangerous/endangered. It needs to find a use and stability, which might take a while.

One of the strong cases you laid out is hyperinflation: I can see local bourgeois looking for a safer place to park reserve purchasing power before escaping abroad. That's a limit case, however. The rest of the people are by definition struggling if there is such a crisis.

Cheers!
While you are surfing the current IT Wave watch out for the next one: Bitcoin
Everyone is creative...it's what propelled human beings out of the woods as a successful species. It's the defining characteristic of humans. We're not big animals, you think we would have survived all the large predators if we weren't creative or be able to populate all regions and adapt to any environment if we weren't creative.

You are creative, trust me, you're the result of millions of years of hyper creative areas of brain specialization however current culture has convinced you other wise.
Except that, most creative ideas are bad.

If you never fail, you're not trying hard enough to do stuff that's appropriately difficult for you.
So did YC just invent private equity options?
Yes!

I think I made is to minus 15 with a friend. I might start again...
Show HN: PSD Grade - Lint your PSD's.
Anybody know how this compares to convertible equity schemes, like [1], which made front page last summer in a few stories?

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/31/thefunded-founder-institute...
I'd agree their billing leaves something to be desired, if that's what you're talking about. I think they're trying to centralize all their services into a single environment, but it is failing miserably. Xbox live and Azure services do not necessarily need the same billing platform.
Is the Irony parser also managed .net?
LHC plans for open data future
From the documents, it appears that the holder has the option to get money back, or shares in the event of a merger/acquisition. They also have priority rights over shareholders in the event of a dissolution.

So no, they DO derive economic benefits, but it may be a long time coming.

[Edit: this is almost the same as convertible notes. The only difference is that as a debt holder they may be able to force a resolution at maturity, but that is usually to the detriment of the company. But as the preamble says, most angel/VC investors dont actually want to be a debtholder"
All of these apps are essentially doing the same things - sending text, pictures, and status notifications. It's a hard sell, but we really need a standard like email or xmpp to allow interoperability.
1) "We" do not all pay taxes, and I want to point it out, because I am being forced to finance a system which I do not believe in.

2) The OP said that 'suppression' was a goal of the system, not of each individual actor; you were addressing the teachers, and I was saying that they are participating in a dangerous broader system.

3) It is not useless to point out that politicians pay for nothing; if they were paying, I would not care how the money was disbursed.

4) Please address the nationalism and statism which is evoked by the anthems and pledges at schools; how does this help the children better their lives?

5) If there have never been "nefarious aims" in the public education system, why did Brown sue the Board of Education? I am simply reciting history, do you disagree with the history? Or do you disagree with my conjecture that all "nefarious aims" may not have disappeared when Little Rock was desegregated?
Thanks for the link, the game seems awesome !!
Did you do analytics of which HN users actually signed up? Is it the ones that follow the Show HN twitter? ie. People highly targeted for signing up for trials of new products?

I would say your sample size is not nearly large enough to be conclusive. :)
but in the worst case with the convertible note, the investor gets their money back.

and often but not always, the note will also provide that if the note matures hasn't been a QFE, then the note can convert into common stock.
Well, they may find the smartest 4chan users this way, but in reality how many really smart people have time to visit that website?
NRL does amazing work. Their people are highly qualified scientists who get paid peanuts.
Neato. Is this new? Are there any companies that have financed using SAFEs?
This is exciting, especially the updated texture.

I used Soylent because my dinners were so depressing (crumbled tofu with deactivated yeast) that I figured I might as well just gulp liquid nutrition. But, honestly, that was even more depressing. So I just learned to make some nicer simpler dishes, and I've been fine.
Or "LINQ to EF" which you can suppose it stable just when working with "MS SQL Server".
Supreme Court could abolish software patents next year. Here’s why it should.
Well, in that case you'd lose the stack trace. If you just set the object's prototype to Error.prototype, and you add additional properties to the object's prototype you'd be modifying the Error's prototype as well.

The aim of this helper is to create a custom object which has the same functionality as a traditional Error object.
Y Combinator Introduces Safe, Its Alternative To Convertible Notes
GateKeeper will not arrive on iOS, rather the converse will happen. Apple will lock down OSX. You will need a developer license to install 'non-approved' software. The success of iOS has demonstrated to them that people like velvet handcuffs. If you have any interest in open platforms you should not be giving Apple your money, and should be doing what you can to explain the dangers to others.
I think the author got it right and d23 hid that in the ellipsis.

>TOR, short for The Onion Router, is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines.

>Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks.

[edit: To be perfectly clear, I was only highlighting what was actually said. I don't know anything about the dark webs.]
Except for the fact that Litecoin has been advertised as ASIC-proof for the last year.
This is definitely looking much better. The marketing folks at Soylent seem to have kicked in. The packaging looks sort of like space food. The texture looks more "substantial", and the color is a step up from beige. I wouldn't be surprised to see flavoring coming next, with more color varieties.
First drone launch from a submerged submarine
Vapid articles like this are up voted on HN on the mistaken idea that this somehow is bringing America down a notch. Inaccuracies of this story aside, people that want America to fail would be much better served by actually building something useful themselves.
I agree with your general point, but at the time U.S. was locked in an existential struggle with the Soviet Union and essentially was taking all sorts of actions around the world against many parties sympathetic to communist causes. Not saying it's an excuse, but it does provide some context
An option, strictly speaking, has an underlying security that already exists. The Safe, like a convertible note, doesn't have an underlying security yet, since the company hasn't created the preferred stock that it would convert into yet.
I think the context for limiting "screen time" is very important. For example, I'd have no qualms limiting my future children's time on the television. However, I'd actively encourage them to spend more time on the computer, especially when they're making things.

I find it interesting that the mass media groups computers, phones, and televisions together, when, in reality, vastly different things are happening on the different devices.
Clear hoax, but I do find it interesting, because C++ engineers do seem to be outearning people in more high-level languages, which is surprising not because it's low-level but because it's a bad language at its level of abstraction (C, on the other hand, fits its level well). I don't know of anyone cracking $250k in anything other than C++ (usually in low-latency trading) or Java.

It does seem, for now, that using a painful language increases one's compensation potential at least at the high end. I suspect that that will change in the future, but it may not happen quickly.
This is awesome and I'm sure it will be a boon to app developers who want to include Machine Learning capabilities in their apps.

It looks to me as though Ersatz's focus is on providing a limited range of relatively standard models, but make them highly accessible, stable, fast, and suitable for production, whereas most available frameworks like Theano, PyLearn2, etc are more geared to the tinkering researchers and less to be used in actual products.
I wasn't trying to nitpick. Correcting the example, and yes recovering from a malloc failure _could_ be a worthy goal, but on Linux by the time your app is getting signaled about malloc failures the OOM killer is already playing little bunny foo foo with ur processes.

If your app can operate under different allocation regimes then there should be side channels for dynamically adjusting the memory usage at runtime. On Linux, failed malloc is not that signal and since _so many_ libraries and language runtime semantics allocate memory, making sure you allocate no memory in your bad-malloc path is very difficult.
> So many reasons to keep GPL. They can use GPL just fine, it's just that they don't wanna contribute if they modify it.

More charitably, they don't want to be _legally obligated_ to contribute if they modify it.
> Unfamiliar things are distrusted and hard to process, overly familiar things are boring, and the perfect object of beauty lies somewhere in between (Sluckin, Hargreaves, & Colman, 1983)...

(More details in http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0b/open_thread_july_1622_2013/9f1o )
Very interesting! Sounds like a really good thing for YC members.

So if a company manages to get to a pre-IPO stage, will the accounting for these warrants be more complex? It sounds like trying to value one of these warrants might add some/a lot of extra work.
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They've also done a REALLY good job of addressing peoples' critiques.

For instance: manufacturing. They've contracted with an experienced, FDA-certified manufacturing facility that Does This Sort of Things.

Can't wait to get my soylent!

(My girlfriend has been trying to create DIY soylent, so I'm really curious how hers will taste different than the "real" thing. The experiment from last night: soylent flatbread!)
So this is about functional claiming in patents?
According to http://www.onlineconversion.com/prime.htm, the number 845145127 is not prime since it has the factor 503. So the sentence should read "By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new number...".
This can solved by containerization.
So soon you can be sitting there under the water and pop a drone into the airspace.

What I find particularly interesting is the way the wings scissor out in a bilaterally symmetric way for long duration flight. As opposed to a tomahawk which just has relatively small wings that pop out.
Certainly I have (the former, not the latter). You won't be surprised when I tell you that it wasn't a horrible tragedy and that I didn't die on the spot because of this, or accidentally purchase a handgun instead of a watermelon. In fact, it was such a minor event that I hadn't taken the time to make plans ahead of time for such an eventuality. Likewise, the first time I used pointers, nobody told me ahead of time that it was even possible to have a pointer that pointed to nothing. Understanding this, and (more crucially) learning exactly how to know when a pointer was and was not valid, was what got me my first merit badge in C. Everything before that was just Pascal with less formality.
I found the ancestry information for more interesting than the medical part. So all may not yet be lost.
The reason why haven't heard of it is probably because I only put the code on Github less than two weeks ago ;) - I've really been blown away by the response though.
Justices like Breyer often reference data about the positive or negative effects of an interpretation of the law in their decisions.
Yeah, thanks for the downvote.
And sorry for being allergic to 3 families of plants.
Well best of luck! Of course I don't really know, but you're obviously motivated and have skills, so I would bet you're now on the upswing.

I am finishing something now that I hope to post to Show HN as well. Get some feedback, etc.

Edit: AKA derpson5, decided to change my username. Sorry HN DBs, wasted a record.
I only found out today how Nelson Mandella place in Glasgow city centre got its name.

To piss off SA, the street their embassy was on was renamed while he was still being held.

There's more the story: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22976781
Obviously most of the blame goes to the FDA here. The only problem I have with 23andMe's handling of the situation is that they continued to sell kits after November 22 promising that health information would be available and then retroactively removing that part of the service. I ordered the kit one day before they announced this, so I guess as soon as it arrives it's going back in the mail for a refund. They should have immediately removed the promise of health information on November 22.
Internet-wide efforts to fight email phishing are working
Yes. Last line of the post.
Prussia was an eastern European country. Most of it is now Poland, some of it Russia.

Modern education is less indoctrination than industrialized daycare.

Grading systems at least have some hope of removing some of the biases inherent other forms of judging people, which tend to come down to social markers (the way you speak, dress, who you know) and perpetuate elite prejudicial advantage. Similarly uniforms: they're a social equalizer for people from a poor background.