skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this seems like Google's response to Amazon's drone PR.

On that note... A driverless car can get a package to your driveway, but a mule can bring it to your door. A driverless car can scan every road, but a mule can scan parks and pathways. Reminds me of this http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/30/google-buys-bufferbox-loc...
nah, but 1.3 does.
The Tx costs of a trade will probably yield a rebate but they will need to move significant volume to generate enough revenue to cover their other costs. There would be no commission if they sold their flow. The only other way to make money here is to internalize even further and give bad fills or jack up other fees.
I am curious about this too. Though B1/2 may seem appropriate for YC, I am not sure how they get around the fact that you are not supposed to "work" for any employer.
Well to some extent they are always looking for the next business. And discarding as 'useless' $100M/yr businesses because they didn't show up in the numbers when your annual revenue is $60+B a year.

Robotics isn't a 'smart gap' market (where if only smart people would focus on it they could dominate it) there are lots of brilliant people already toiling away there. It isn't an advertising market.

In Asimov's vision of the future the robotics company that developed the positronic brain is the dominant corporation in the galaxy, and perhaps Larry is working on a positronic brain equivalent. But who knows. Maybe they are afraid of Bezo's drone army, or Musk's rockets. But why Boston Dynamics and not iRobot? Why a fragment of Willow Garage and not Neato? Why a self driving car but not Tesla? Lots of questions. Its a fun puzzle to try to solve.
The Etymology of 'Shorty' in Hip Hop
What do you all think of this design? I used Medium, Exposure.so and Internet.org as inspiration.
Nice troll. I give it a 6.
> You don't think if Qian was Russian, and this was the 1950's that the government wouldn't have done something similar?

yeah, more or less.

Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), technical director of Nazi Germany's missile program, became the United States' lead rocket engineer during the 1950s and 1960s

this guy was a former nazi, AND his home country of germany was a soviet satellite state, he seemed to escape suspicion. so this guy was a nazi and a communist, but he was all good. no problems here! gee. i wonder why.

there were also many soviet defectors that were never chased out of the country.

this is because he was chinese, plain and simple. doesn't look like us = not one of us. that was the thinking back in the day.

i wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that his accusors simply didn't think a chinese person could be smart enough to be a rocket scientist, either. people actually thought this way back in the 50s.
Zeller's
Ah ... I see I was out of date: http://blog.golang.org/the-app-engine-sdk-and-workspaces-gop...

Also in the above link: "[W]ouldn't it be nice if you could write a program that is both a stand-alone web server and an App Engine app? By using build constraints, you can."
What? You think Scribd pays their investor to promote their product? Isn't it much more likely that their investor is promoting the product they invested in for free?
Just because "Defense" was added later, that doesn't mean it was at some point not a military-oriented organization. 'D' or no 'D', (D)ARPA has always been about improving military technology.
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Why does that alone mean it makes more sense?
I'm not actually stupid/suggesting a ban on new words.

I argue the new word should be accepted once it's proven useful. That doesn't start with the dictionary.

I don't think it's a matter of time or bandwidth; you can surely find authors who published at the same time as Marx and we're not in the dictionary 23 years later.

Also, note I distinguish useful isms.
It's more specific than that: make the story about the person rather than the information. Change the focus, change the framing, change the questions asked by reporters. This is a mechanism employed by powerful entities over and over throughout history, especially in the Information Age.
All this does is make me realize how much I take my IDE for granted. In no example that I tried did I even get past the first line before I missed using IDE autocomplete or shortcuts. It got under my skin that I had to type out each character.

Take the Scala example. I would NEVER type "@SerialVersionUID" with correct casing. I'd maybe type "@Ser" and then auto complete. Or "@SV" and then auto complete. I can't recall the last time I typed an entire type name. Or finished braces using Enter + "}" instead of CTRL-SHIFT-Enter.

The UI is well made though.
I never see any other links like that for YC companies (and there are a lot of YC companies) on HN; that's why I was curious.

Aside: Why can I respond to you and not cmelbye?
Map:

https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=map:fixed=-60,180,80,...
Vermont’s Healthcare System Cure for America's Ailing Healthcare
The article doesn't seem to want to explain anything to me..
REVOULUTIONARY THINKINING! Seriously, thank God we see some thoughts of this ilk actually voiced in mainstream media. Not on like...FOX or anything, but still. The trouble is reaching the sheeple, not the people who already "know" for the most part. But this is where it starts.
The Hobbit 2 Is Bad Fan Fiction
Would be cool to grab a copy and check out..
Yes. IIRC, earlier stories said specifically "impersonating other users", not using other users' passwords.
On its face, this sounds unethical

Meanwhile, on their face, comments by anonymous "officials" who depend on the intelligence communities for their livelihood are to be taken seriously? I mean really.
We're using Producteev, Skype, Google Docs. Nothing fancy really, nothing very expensive either. Tried (and loved) Basecamp, but it was really just too expensive. All the real "work" is done via SSH on one Ubuntu server or another at various hosts. Ansible makes things way easier as well.
The statement itself isn't true from the outset, consider NPOs, OSS, Wikimedia projects... It's just a meaningless cliché.
Where is the GE jetpack then?
The real question is, what makes the military 30 times more important than space exploration, given that we are leaving days of (relative) peace?
I have been running a remote team for a year now.

Communication:

- chat during the day (hipchat)

- skype for voice calls, usually to quickly discuss something

- Google hangout (highest bandwidth communication, I run my daily standups on google hangout and sporadically for "crisis" moments or "clarification" moments)

Project management:

- trello

Product management:

- prodpad

So the trick is to have a daily scrum meetup on google hangout every morning so that you can explain tasks, check how far everybody got the previous day and update the trello board to reflect the new state. It's the only moment in the day that communication is cheap and high bandwidth.

Knowledge center:
Google docs and github wiki

There are other auxiliaries like github, airbrake, circleCI and papertrail that report into hipchat so you can get a sense of the work being done.
Leaving aside the fact that I applaud the actions Snowden took, in general if one's credentials are used in unapproved ways then one will face investigation, in any setting. When you have to use passwords, use good ones, and keep them secret.
More particularly, they are stopping automated testing of IE8 in their CI system. However, they specifically note that they are happy for the community to continue IE8 support, and expect those with significant dollars that still need IE8 support to join together and keep up the IE8 support. Maybe your client that needs IE8 support is willing to pay extra to keep it, and you can be a part of the solution!
I agree however my suspicion is that it has still been used.
Off the original topic, but I read something in the last week for MS treatment that seems to cure it completely. This is done by taking the patient's own bone marrow, and transplanting it back after killing off the existing bone marrow.

Somehow, this has shown to be a cure, but the doctors that came up with it don't yet know why - the treatment is ahead of the knowledge in this case.

Edit: Here's the story I read: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Ottawa+doctors+behind+br...
Keep in mind that amnesty could simply be a ruse to bring him into the country, after which they can say, "he's not telling us everything!" (see: Salim Hamdan) and arrest him based on that.
OK, I can't go to the Marketplace in Eclipse and install it, Strike 1, Perspectives are removed (HUGE) Strike 2, the entire Window menu has been removed Strike 3.
Sure, the marginal cost. You do need to have a staff, compliance, etc.
Are you commenting purely from the headline? It doesn't seem like you read the article.

> Half remained on drugs continuously; the others stopped taking drugs when they became well but restarted them if symptoms emerged. After seven years, the researchers found that those who were not continuously on drugs had a much greater likelihood of getting a job and resuming their regular life activities than those who remained on medications. Remember that people who stop drugs have a higher rate of relapse? It turns out that over the seven years, those who remained on the drugs relapsed as often as the others.
What programmer has a caps lock key? It's mapped to Ctrl on my machine.
edit: removed snark.

You should not be worrying about object size. Write libraries in a way that makes sense for your problem, then use Closure compiler to strip the unused code from each application.
Very sweet homepage by the way.
Iran says it sends second monkey into space, brings it back safely
Why I Try Not to Write Bad Reviews
Er... I would hope that I get some sort of Not At This Address notification (in some fashion - exception, special return value, option type, etc, etc, etc.). Dropping the ball like that by default is really not helpful in building correct systems.
hipchat, github, google hangout, waffle.io, google docs, chatbot
Hey, author here. I've been working on this on and off for a couple years and finally just released it this past week with new documentation. Please let me know what you think and if you have any questions or feedback.
Toggl is nice for simple timekeeping.
Sad to see how close we were to a windows release with the CLR being a first class citizen and a revolutionary storage system as well.

Fast forward a decade, a couple of major windows releases, and we are still doing C++, NTFS and COM.
yeah, there are lots of new things coming through. but also, these things often are much riskier (or the risks are simply unknown because they are so new and, with chronic illness, you may be taking the drug for years). i think just this month something was approved (in the usa) that, for some people, apparently "cures" ms with just a few injections over two years. one of the options i face now (far down the list, thankfully) is only safe for 2 years - after that you hope something else has come along...

[didn't want to hijack the thread; posted initially because i think articles like this can lead to attacks on doctors, when often they are aware of the possibility that they are wrong, and are simply doing the best they can with limited data]
> It's hard to imagine a time when reading and (basic, not necessarily creative) writing were separate skills, and that having the one did not necessarily imply having the other. We've changed a bit since printing happened.

I'm guessing you don't have kids - it was quite an eye-opener for me when my eldest learnt to write before learning to read: I'd always assumed writing was harder than reading, and that both were intimately linked... They're definitely separate skills.
The worst part of 1.3 (well, anything > 1.2.2) is they're removing comments from their documentation. The docs are already abysmal; now they're removing the only part of the docs that was decent (since people would post solutions to common problems).

Although, to be fair, half the Disqus comments were just complaining about how bad the docs were.

http://blog.angularjs.org/2013/11/farewell-disqus.html
Screenhero is nice for remote pair programming, remote tmux/pssh sessions as well when both devs use vim/emacs, also: https://github.com/portly/pssh.

Campfire for chats, dumbot as a minimalistic task manager in campfire https://github.com/tadast/dumbot#tasks

Github issues for technical/code problems.

Google hangouts for standups
... and thus some developer starts pondering an alternative editor for source code... usually culminating in a design of some sort of an "node" editor ;)

Seriously though, were there any useful ideas developed regarding code input besides code macros with variables?
Any hints?
Video conferences: Skype & Blackboard
Chat: Skype & IRC
Productivity: Viscosity, Sublime, Tower, SSH, VirtualBox, Adobe CS6
> The infographic is based on actual numbers we have of leading mattress company's products so there is nothing false about those numbers.

Well, those numbers are quite distant from what I know from working with several factories, not in the US but I cannot imagine the difference to be very high in production costs. There is quite a vast difference from the cost of making a cheap mattress and an expensive one. We buy mattresses from factories that might cost us $100 and others that cost us $800. Between them there is tons of other models. Put there the factory margin which these days is much much lower than it used to be and gives you a factory cost.

So your numbers, I don't doubt they are real, but they are quite a generalization. And well, I haven't searched online but can you point me to a similar product i.e. futon/mat for $3000 on any website? I'm curious about it.

As per the gimmick.... well, mattresses have been called mattresses for a long time and have been thicker than 5" for a very long time. And so have been futons. I am afraid I can't really buy your the marketing gimmick argument.
Typing practice seems like a waste of time unless you're actually bad at typing. Learn vim, use autocompletion, and write real code.
Interesting, why do you use hipchat AND Skype AND Hangouts? Those all seem to overlap quite a bit. Our team meets and chats in Skype, I didn't see the need for hipchat while we're all using Skype.

Totally agree with the morning meetings though, plus we have one longer scheduled weekly.
The whole phrase means "asks for something specific". However, using words like 'something' make you sound vague even if you aren't, and using jargon like this signals "I'm in the crowd that gets you". Most people do these things without thinking.

There is no 'ask' on its own and no one would refer to the ask on it's own. The entire phrase is an idiom. An ugly sounding one, but one that's here to stay, like 'day of' and 'going forward'.
I see no Russia, have there been a lot of Russian founders before? I don't think so, i have more or less followed YC and haven't heard of one. Why is that? Lack of interest from Russians or some specific flaw common to them which leads to their rejection?
> Why can I respond to you and not cmelbye?

There is a timer on new posts before anyone can reply. It's to force people to think a little before they post and is pretty effective in rate-limiting flamewars.
It still seems to be the thinking today.

Success by Asians is smeared as being the result of industrial espionage, cheating or pure luck.

This drip feed of soft propaganda and sterotyping can't be good for society, when clearly many challenges remain:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-lorde-asian-...
wasting an employee's time

In the sense of "meaning of life stuff" (fulfillment, meaning, purpose, etc). Your salary is what you charge someone to make you do things you wouldn't normally do. Sometimes, especially in "tech," jobs and natural interests align. In the normal world, that isn't always so.
> I think there is something to using physical locations to keep references to files. I can remember the shelf that I stored a notebook and the rough location in the notebook of a sketch for a project from 2005. I can't say the same about my filesystems even with the help of "cloud" services of more recent years.

You have a point.

There has been research on making "File Explorer"-like applications have similar "enriched" context as what you're referring to, but it never took off.

(various interesting ways to approach this idea, but they are irrelevant to the point I want to make here)

I think one reason (though probably not the/foremost reason) might be that, unlike an actual physical storage context, there is no guarantee that whenever you view a particular folder, it will be displayed in this particular manner.

Some applications have their own file-explore/open dialog, sometimes apps or websites will transform your view. Currently, most OS's have at least three different ways to "view" the same folder (list/icons/details).

If your data is on a USB-stick, it's even worse, every device will show you its particular "interpretation" of your filesystem structure. This was less of a problem with the smaller 512MB sticks that might contain just a few files, but nowadays 32GB sticks are not uncommon, holding a user's entire documents library (or a copy thereof).

Contrast with a physical file system, nobody is going to impose their "view" or "interpretation" of your personal (physical) files. In fact, it's considered bad manners to reorder someone's bookshelves without permission ;)

That's (part of) the reason why you can find files so easily in physical systems, because every time you interact with it, your memory of where particular items are located is reinforced, because there is just one representation of that system, regardless of context. This representation might even be sub-optimal qua efficiency, and you can still at least reap the benefit of familiarity.
Not defending "undefined" here, at all. I'd rather see the definition be, at least, exit(0xff) (or some other mechanism that reliably denotes "method not found", "message not found", etc).

I'm pretty sure I'm on record in HN for ranting about the fact that C & C++'s undefined & funny behavior literally created multimillion dollar industries in building analysis tools to cove their gaping problems. Which is why I am tend to boost Rust when possible (designed for correctness and determinism! woo!).

Dropping errors is not IMO better or worse. Both are silent failure modes.
I know it is hard to accept that there might be things humans might not be able to explain.
Anyone who could make Minecraft by himself is at least kind of okay.

I recommend you build a game of similar scope before saying stuff like this.
A few of Qian's colleagues at JPL were also from countries under Communist control and they were never under suspicion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n

So yeah, pretty much. From commie country + not white = commie.
the 'd' syntax for sending DMs has been around from nearly the beginning (or from the actual beginning?) of Twitter. That in itself is not a bug. However, Twitter should be stripping that leading 'd' from anything that is reposting or from a 3rd party OAauth session.
Another vote for the X1 Carbon. Definitely the way to go. It's too bad hardly anyone knows about it though.
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That is a much bigger issue than the specific content of the repo. While it may not be "valuable" from a code quality and usefulness point of view, the C+= repo was a modestly clever satire.

Is that Github's business to host political/comedic content? Not exactly - they do code hosting. On the other hand, code is just text files and they can host any form of data.

Is it their business to police content? That depends on jurisdiction - for example, in the USA, much depends on obscenity or hate crime laws. In Germany, if something were deemed to be Nazi propaganda, it would be illegal.

Obviously, none of this applied here - instead, the internet 'progressive' outrage machine created a PR nuisance for GitHub that needed to be addressed somehow. It creates an unfortunate precedent, and points to the trouble that a person or group can have when they don't control their own content and servers.
Woah! Very interesting variety. I was expecting all Germany, UK, Ireland, etc. but this is much more interesting than that.

On a separate note: I want to say kudos to pg & the team for doing this. pg found himself in hot waters when he made the remark about not preferring founders with strong English accents. Actions speak louder than words, so I have to really hand it to them for doing this, this is the best possible thing they could have done in response to the harsh reaction they received.
it's just not a lot of senior dev or team lead experience.

In the traditional world, yes. But what about our wacky tech world where the 22 year old is a founder/ceo/manager of the entire company? Are you less experienced and knowledgeable that that person?

I agree with your part about not hiring externally for new internal projects though (unless all your other internal projects are horrible and you need new blood to get out of institutional brain damage).
Another good one, titled "Mobile Computing Research Is a Hornet’s Nest
of Deception and Chicanery" is at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/nestofhor....
If you work with the K-12 system in the US, you'll discover that a lot of your customers are still happily chugging along with IE8.
This looks fantastic. I don't think I'll ever find a good use for it, but I may shoehorn it into something anyways. It's really pretty!
Hacker Quotes Chrome Extension: Inspiration for Hackers, for free
I read the whole paper, and it doesn't at all look like the "real deal".

No actual evidence in the form of malware samples (after exploitation of the netwrok), detected "duplicate" certificates or whatever is provided. Not even network captures of any MITM traffic going to the hidden VLAN.

The only "evidence" provided was the presence of the hidden VLAN, which got assigned some 30.x.x.x IPv4 addr via DHCP.

This could simply be some internal management VLAN of the ISP. As the author had stated, the ISP installs updates remotely. So that's their way of connecting to the router. Regardless of updates, ISPs always have a way of managing their equipment remotely.

A WHOIS was performed by the author, and the address turns out to belong to the DoD. Howerver, it's more likely that since this is a "private" VLAN, this address has nothing to do with internet WHOIS records. It was just made up by the ISP.

The authors getting a ping of 8ms to the NSA/GCHQ, is really just them talking to some local server at their ISP.

Also the described attack on TOR seems completely wrong. No details were provided, but the basic premise looks to be just wrong.

To conclude, this whole paper smells to me of sensationalism and confirmation bias.
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ok, now I'm a little afraid.

The self driving car + mega ships + quantum computers + boston dynamics = what, war drones?
Exactly.

Front/back of an envelope makes sense, but not so much on a napkin.
Snitch: mobile notifications from within your app
As others have mentioned, other brokerages have tried offering zero-cost or ultra-low-cost trades, only to slowly restrict the number of free trades available and eventually move to charging for all trades. Zecco was the most prominent.

I'll be interested to see if they can find a sustainable business model. I'm on the fence about whether I'm going to open an account. Even if they go under, there's basically zero risk to customer funds, but it is a hassle to do paperwork on another account.
I wonder if China has the same level of waste that NASA does. Elon Musk is making great strides in space exploration because he is willing to embrace new technologies and do the work in-house, as opposed to NASA's way of using only "proven" technologies that are nested 5-6 levels deep in outsourcing, with each level taking a cut.

I'm certain SpaceX could make a dollar go a lot further than NASA can. Perhaps the Chinese even further.