skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. That is kind of dangerous. In a way corrupt politicians who are in bed with mining companies will probably try to delay or minimize exposure as much as possible and only act until it is too late. By that point a lot more people would be exposed to these chemicals.

I also understand people mostly accept and support mining, as it is seen as the only real economic driver in the state. This might change that perspective, depending on how it is handled.
It would be smart to recognise that startup returns aren't normally distributed.
But... what about the children????? We must protect the children!!!
The difference is that FFMpeg is very, very CPU-bound, taking four hours instead of two to encode a movie is a big hassle. On the other hand, not many people use a world-facing FFmpeg instance to submit jobs to. I don't see why security should trump speed here.
This comment makes me so angry that it is difficult to remain calm, but I will try. You have this wrong. All three of us are in charge of so much more than you suggest here. We all participate in investment decisions and advise the companies on many different matters-- including business strategy. Since we started YC, there has not been one important decision we've made that I have not been a part of.
My dad, who's run a small business successfully for 25+ years, recently retired and I've agreed to have him support me on the operations side of my business. My mom is by far the best usability study ever. She's in her 60s and doesn't get technology that well but can use pinterest. If my website is usable for her, it'll be usable for anyone.
That doesn't address the major obstacle I see when trying to introduce programming to beginners.

Finding smart people who can think abstractly isn't actually that hard -- lots of people can do it. But those people won't become productive programmers until they've put in thousands of hours absorbing the minutiae of how our current computing world actually works.

The layers of abstraction go very deep, and every layer leaks a bit.
"No one cares about Windows Phone or BlackBerry - so I didn't test them."

Often these forgotten platforms have the most issues with attackers/exploiters. There was just an article on here the other day about the wave of Windows XP exploits we are bound to see now that it no longer gets patched.
I went to school to learn, spent long hours in the library and lab, and was a whore for knowledge. Many of my friends were/are the same way, and are very successful post college. We also partied our asses off, made a million and one friends, and had a hell of time doing it. And some even managed to be competitive athletes at the D-I or club level. Don't begrudge us for it, or think there is an inverse correlation between beer consumed or frat you joined, and willingness to learn/do work.
This is absolutely amazing. How do you keep up with changes to all the various stores? If I were a niche retailer, is there a way to be on the amber.io system? I'd think a plugin to some of the popular eCommerce solutions on the market (magento, woocommerce) would be great for getting more stores onto your network.
(I think) that this is an opt-in feature that came out a few months ago, so that 4sq could push suggestions to you about where you are, or notify you of nearby friends. At least, I remember being asked if I wanted this feature.
Yelp is where people go to get recommendations and people with unrealistic expectations are given a soap box to pontificate.

I'm not saying every negative review is uncalled for, but I can't count the number of times I've heard someone say, "Fine, I'll write about this on Yelp." It's supposed to be a recommendation tool, not a weapon for revenge.
Is that more a problem that your phone has crappy battery life? Mine charges whilst I'm asleep and lasts fine for the rest of the time. Also it fits in my pocket fine and is never inconvenient unless I want it to be (i.e. Turned off). You now have two things demanding your attention.

Also, what if you get a phone call when your phone is downstairs and you are upstairs?

Limited utility.
Most of the old options have been mapped to the new interface (see opt_old2new() for instance). So most of the old commands are still compatible. Libav also has dropped ffmpeg forked copy since a long while, so FFmpeg is actually more retro compatible.
Aereo has done well in court so far, I don't think this will be too much different. They have common sense on their side, no technical knowledge needed (everyone on the court will know about TV antennas).
Although I'm not sure how exactly an algorithm can be inherently prejudiced, that sounds rather postmodern.

All known halting program/input pairs are inherently a little bit prejudiced.
The expected monetary return on a startup is positive, because the giant win at the end of the tail more than pays for the losses.

However, the expected happiness is probably negative (unless people like failing). The guy at the end of the tail is not 10,000X happier than the average person.
1) Why don't you trust them? I've personally never read a Supreme Court ruling that got the technology angle fundamentally wrong, though I have seen a number where the Supreme Court's principles are at odds with certain values and beliefs often held by technologists.

2) What's so defensible about a business model that is based entirely on taking advantage of someone else's product? Without the content produced by the networks, there would be absolutely no reason for Aereo to exist.

I think Aereo will win, because the precedent is on its side. However, I also think the company is just taking advantage of a loophole and should try actually producing content people want to watch instead of simply taking some other company's content for free.
I could be bad if the state doesn't really have the best interest of its people as the top item on their agenda.

I would think that would be pretty obvious...
> If you major in 'business' or 'communications' then you are majoring in 'fucking around'. There aren't too many jobs that I know of are looking for this.

Not true, and this is a large issue of the STEM mindset. People majoring in communications or business can work just as hard as someone who is a STEM major (note: I say work just as hard, not that one is more or less difficult). It is what you, as the individual, choose to take from the experience.
Or maybe those threads are flagged by many people?
NSA Says It Would Welcome Public Advocate At FISA Court
You people seem to basically beg for this kind of tracking everywhere else. Someone questions it, and immediately there are 15 of you to tell them why advertisers, the government, and god, AKA facebook deserve to have access to everything you do.
I can't see why anybody cares about Aereo. Do people think it is unclean to receive DVB? I mean, why spend money on a service so you can spend more money on your metered mobile data plan to pick up a signal that is travelling right by you for free.

I'd certainly pay for the ability to stream TV in distant markets, like IVI.TV did, but it seems like Aereo was created just to have a lawsuit, not satisfy any need.
Sorry, I don't get what you're arguing here. Are you saying the C-compilers generated poor code when the FFmpeg project was started back in 2000? Are you arguing that if the FFmpeg project had used Modula-2, this would have sparked more work on Modula-2 compilers?

Or are you perhaps just wishing that history had taken a different turn?
If they get more comments than upvotes in a window of time (IANpg but last I heard, it was the first 30-45 minutes after submission), they'll suffer the same fate as submissions about sexism in tech.
Well for one, I could have sworn these were United States and one country. State rights makes it so they don't operate that way and the Federal Government of the people, by the people and for the people can't help the people without a request from another source in the same way they would offer aid to a foreign nation.

This of course never leads to governments using this to play politics to be able to blame the Federal Government to make themselves look better, or the Federal Government look bad. No that would never happen.
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If using one antenna to capture and retransmit a show is not legal, and it isn't (or Aereo would simply do that) I don't see how using more private, leased antennas to retransmit a show is anything but a blatant violation of the spirit of the law.

While I think the law making this distinction is silly, and the law is dumb and needs to be changed, I don't see Aereo's workaround as something that fits within that law.
There is apparently a firmware patch from Seiki to make the backlight adjustable. I don't think I'd do graphics work on it that requires absolute color-accuracy--the 30Hz would already be too painful with a wacom anyway.

What I'd like to know is if the viewing angles are so bad that you see different colors, inverted colors etc. just while sitting at a desk with it (since it is so large you are at pretty big angles from pixels on the edges).
We is Meldium (YC W13) - a startup helping companies manage passwords & accounts for the plethora of web apps we use to run companies today.
Sometimes, at my office, someone decides to make popcorn.

I never hear them eating it.

But, on the other side of the office, the smell encroaches, stirring the taste buds with delicious promises. And then I look up, curious. And then I realize what happened. And then my stomach goes, "Oooh, that's a good idea."

And then it's too late.
"cd -" and also using "cd" with no arguments to get back to $HOME are great tips. I also have a bash function called "up" to get back N directories up the hierarchy so I can do "up 5" which is like "cd ../../../../.." but much easier to type.

up () {
if [[ $# -eq 1 && "$1" -gt 0 ]] ; then
local i d
for (( i = 0; i < $1; i++ )) ; do d="../$d" ; done
cd $d
else
echo "Usage: up N"
fi
}
The scammer swapped the serial number sticker behind the battery! If the phone wasn't inoperable, I could prove it.

(How do I know? The sticker was off-center and poorly attached + the phone was missing some memorable scuff marks. Also, my phone worked.)
If you're actually curious about what the argument is, the broadcasters' petition for Supreme Court review lays it out:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Aereo102813...
And what makes you think that that is the top item in the agenda of the federal government?
Two ideas:
Buy bitcoin mining equipment.
Have a kid and use money to spend maximum time with him/her doing cool stuff so he/she grows to be awesome and thankful to you.
I had a photo of the serial number -- the scammer swapped the sticker!
Thank you, I am gonna look through terms precisely, just wondering how it works/worked for other companies, cause I cant really find ANY info what happens if you fail in terms of seed capital.

And yeah, 15% is high but they say it can be "washed" during next round of funding
Appeciate your information!
I for one would like to include the other players,Corporate & private industry, with their collusion/lobbying/takeover of lawmaking added to the discussion. Don't forget, when the [Pick-An-Acronym &/or Pick-A-Branch] wasn't doing their own spying, [MaBell, AT&T, Axciom, MS, Dunn&B, Google, etc] were selling the data to them.

More relevant today than when it aired almost a decade ago...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/
Or perhaps a sizeable number of women simply don't find the idea of starting a business as interesting as other endeavors.

Less than 10% of nurses in the United States are male.

Why isn't there a hue and cry about this gender imbalance? Is it even a real problem?

And guys, what could the nursing industry do to make it more welcoming to you? Anything? Or are you simply not interested in it?

Could women in technology be the flip side of that coin, when sexism by bosses and coworkers is eliminated?
and it's down
In this case are clearly not under represented if you reflect that PG also says they wield genuine power at YC.
I think Paul nails it. And I think there are a lot of really misguided social engineers in these comments.

Treat people well and fairly, all along and throughout life, and let nature take it's course. Are things imbalanced right now? Absolutely. Is it because of unfairness in the past? Absolutely.

Can we speed things to being better by being unfair the other way now? Absolutely not. We create a Frankenstein of a 'better culture'.

I believe it is analogous (pun) to running pure sound through one equalizer that distorts it and then through another that tries to bring the sound back to true by using your ear. It sounds plausible, but it can never work.
The initial release of FFmpeg was in 2000, well after that stage in C's life.
> Tangent: if I am attempting to prove that I am not bigoted against group X and by doing so I point out that I have members of group X amongst my friends, haven't I made my point if they really ARE my friends?

No, having friends that are members of group X does not disprove prejudice against group X. Finding specific people of group X meet your bar from friendship, no matter how high that bar is, does not mean that you don't have a bias -- even potentially a very strong bias -- against people of group X, it just means that if you do some people have other characteristics that have weighed sufficiently in your favor to outweigh any general bias you have.
It's not dumb. It captures the very common sense notion that there is a difference between playing a DVD for some friends at home (private performance), and setting up a movie theater with said DVD (public performance).
> And I do know something about groups working on getting girls and women interested in programming. In fact we've funded two that are partially focused on that: Hacker School and one of the nonprofits in the current batch.

Can you share more about what Hacker School is doing to get girls and women interested in programming? "Hacker School is currently only for people who already know how to code," according to their FAQ, which seems counterintuitive to getting people (women or otherwise) interested in programming.
Thank you, so startup company doesnt have to pay anything back if they have $0 in assets and failed? Am I right? In a usual use case of course.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but is there anything actually being planned aside from... a website? It's good that people are trying to do something, but putting up banners on the web and starting yet another website isn't doing something.

Are you going to organize rallies? Provide logistical support for people who want to do so? Even a snail mail campaign would be an improvement over Yet Another Complaint On The Internet.

Don't get me wrong: The cause is great, and drawing attention and support to it is important. But this might as well be a high-profile version of trolling a forum. It's not going to help anything unless you take action that will reach the people in charge and the people who might not currently be aware of what's going on and how important it is.

I don't see this doing much of either.
I have never understood the concept of "taking content for free" and the implied judgment about doing so, with regards to 'retransmission consent'.

If you run an organization that broadcasts content to anybody with an antenna, you should not be shocked, just shocked when somebody picks it up and uses it as they see fit. If you don't want that to happen, don't broadcast your content and don't abuse the public spectrum to try to still exact control over the use of your broadcasted content.
The author seems to have particular ax to grind against tenured faculty. This seems, at least in my personal experience, to be a bit of red herring.

I've spent time around a couple of research universities (the kind where the degrees do pay for themselves), and I've known a lot people who pursued PhDs, post-docs and faculty positions. Most of these people are extremely bright and incredibly hard-working, and many of them were paid less than than third of what a typical programmer makes. Why did they put up with it? Because they loved their subject, and they convinced themselves they had a shot at tenure.

But tenure is incredibly hard to obtain at an elite university. You've got to sacrifice your 20s and much of your 30s in a haze of work, and the odds are still very slim that you'll win the tenure lottery. And if you do win it, well, you've just spent the last 15 years proving you're a workaholic who can't stop. And if you do manage to slack off? I know at least one professor who was told, "Absolutely, you're a professor for life, no question. But your salary is paid for by the research you bring in. If you can't bring in the grants, we can't afford to pay you. At least not much."

So for every piece of tenured deadwood, there are probably at least 4 crazed workaholics (and in my personal experience, far more). And beyond that, there's 50 or 100 grad students, postdocs and young faculty all working for ridiculously low wages in hopes of getting tenure.

So let's do a little thought experiment: What happens if we do what this writer from the American Enterprise Institute wants, and get rid of tenure? Well, to make an analogy, how would the behavior of startup founders change if they no longer had a tiny chance of a big payout someday?

I do not know why US education keeps getting more expensive. But tenure, ironically, seems to be one of the things holding down salaries at elite universities, in the same way that big chunks of equity hold down startup wages. Unless somebody can provide actual numbers demonstrating that tenure is a problem, I'm inclined to look elsewhere.
As of this week ABC's iOS app no longer allows users to watch over-the-air shows unless they have a cable contract. There's only one reason I can think of for this boneheaded move: ABC wants people to have cable because ABC owns ESPN and ESPN makes more money than any other network.

In the US, they're called the "public airwaves" for a reason: we the public own them and networks just license the use. I frown upon the behavior of the networks and hope Aereo will prevail.
> don't understand how it affects them

And this doesn't change that.

> helps more people to start understanding and caring

And this does nothing of the sort.

That's why it's useless. It is the very definition of slacktivism.
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You mean, not many people use VLC?

https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc.html#thirdparty
Education has been labor intensive. Being labor intensive means that it is exposed to healthcare costs.

I wonder how much of the rise is cost is tied to our inefficient healthcare system?
Advertised, but the 39" model does not deliver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AClZklhqeA

Edit: Looks like crossflashing, may fix it. Testing now...

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1482611/review-of-the-seiki-39-4k-...
"matte will scatter light in all directions."

Unless you are saying one pixel smears into another, doesn't scattering light in all directions end up giving better viewing angles with good brightness uniformity?

I always thought the reason a matte screen hurt contrast was because of scattered light from the room raising the black level.
I believe that if you use a watchface that updates by the second, rather than by the minute, it cuts battery life down quite a bit. Perhaps that explains the discrepancy.
Client, Server, APIs (live stream about basic Internet architecture)
In other words, this is a posture piece: it's about your reputation, and only about the issue at hand insomuch as it is important to give that issue its due.

I mean that ('posture piece') as neutrally, perhaps, as it is possible to mean it.

>come away with the idea that YC is somehow sexist.

And you can say, with a straight face, that YC is not sexist? That it's just the tech environment, and you're on the 'right side'?

Again, this is about your reputation--controlling the narrative.
> And while it's possible for women to be sexist too, if you think Jessica, Kirsty, and Carolynn are sexist, I'd like to see you say it to their faces.

While I don't agree (really, I know virtually nothing about those women and haven't met them), I think you would find that many of your critics from the original controversy do think they are sexist and would say it to their faces.
Arguably, it's as mature a response as they deserve...
The details aren't fantasty: they're history. Times change.

He is even very clear that they were specific circumstances, and that it's not generalizable advice.
Abstraction is the wrong word, I agree. It's more of an abstraction of experience. On a freeway at 75mph, you're actually traveling extremely fast by a natural standard, but the experience is designed to feel more like a brisk walk in many ways.
Do tell, how much does the average person in Austin, Texas have in common with somebody in Salt Lake City, Utah? How much do those people have in common with the average person in Oakland?

States rights make it so that each state can dictate policy best suited and tuned for its own population--and so that it can be held more directly responsible by its populace.
Overheard conversations are worse, yes.

Magical solutions don't seem to work for me. I do not think I have the somatic components necessary.
There are also recent studies that confirm different manifestations of it, for example [1]. I tend to agree with Wikipedia on the publication bias aspect, but I don't think you can sweep away the impact of stereotypes at all. I also think working to change tech stereotyping (in general) as one of the things that will actually make a difference, so I guess I'm biased too.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23713580
Styleable select elements built on Tether
Python:

for i in range(1, 1+10):
print(i)

(Yes, I'm into Py 3.x.)

Applesoft BASIC:

10 FOR I = 1 TO 10
20 PRINT I
30 NEXT I

Forth:

: RANGEPRINT { A B -- }
A B <= IF
A . CR
A 1 + B RECURSE
THEN
;

1 10 RANGEPRINT

Prolog:

?- for(N, 1, 10),
write(N), nl,
fail.

Haskell:

Ummm ...

EDIT: Okay, no loops in Haskell, but the logic of the above Forth version still works fine (probably better, actually, thanks to TCO).

rangeprint a b
| a <= b =
do
print a
rangeprint (a+1) b
| otherwise =
return ()

rangeprint 1 10

(I never can figure out how to indent stuff like the above code.)

EDIT #2: Maybe the following version is cooler?

rangeprint2 a b = dolist $ map print [a..b] where
dolist [] = return ()
dolist (x:xs) = do
x
dolist xs

rangeprint2 1 10

EDIT #3: I think I like this version best:

listprint (x:xs) = do
print x
listprint xs
listprint [] = return ()

listprint [1..10]

That was fun. Time to go back to the life I presumably have ....
> I found myself essentially having to recharge it overnight as I could only get about 1.5 days worth of battery life from it and hated seeing it die in the middle of the day.

You should return it. Mine is never less than 5 days.
> Note that there is no similar hand-wringing about the lack of women in the fields of sanitation, construction,

Yes there is, and examples of programmes to get men into. Ursing or women into construction have been posted to HN before.

Someone always always makes the same point as you and for some reason it always manages to infuriate me. I've had to re-write this 4 times because it was so vicious at first. But it does feel tbat a person must be deliberately trollin when they trot out the same tired bullshit that other idiots spout, especially when that bullshit has been debunked on the same forum that they're posting to and when it is so easy to debunk with a simple websearch. It feels as if some people like living their lives with the blinkers on.