skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. People with no clue how to create and scale a business have copied a formula developed by people who actually do understand this. This isn't just not helpful, it's actively harmful. By anointing themselves as the local "conveyor belt" for interesting companies and talented entrepreneurs incubators have created confusion in the market that harms perfectly good founders who do not participate. People say... "you should apply for XYZ accelerator" and my reply is... "why?" Is there any reason to other than that other people do? It has become a sort of tax or validation stamp that we are all expected to seek out... and after that go on Shark Tank?! Then at some point we get acquired by Yahoo?

Successful startup outcomes and solvency in the incubator world are not correlated well. The companies that are selected are carefully directed through a maze of expensive professional services controlled by the program directors. The bargain becomes... if you use this lawyer, this PR consultant and this accounting firm we will support you. What this means is that every failed startup isn't really a failure because in the end that company spends all their money paying off the incubator's network. It's an engine of corruption that takes advantage of people and companies that can least afford it. Whether they create any real startup success is not especially relevant to their continued survival, it's just a bonus.

Many incubator programs also tends to select for people who are very well behaved, polite and have simple A to B ideas. True disruptive innovation is usually created by disruptive people who have very big ideas.

I don't think incubators really intend to hurt founders or the market, but they do.
I know right. Edit: jep, that's me they're quoting.
well done! I got only to a 512 block tile.
Invite please!

sb2nov@gmail.com
Hi.

I mentioned selenium in the section below that, but I'll drop a note to it in the AJAX section too!
Yes, in this single case, that is true. I, and many of my peers, went to public school. I was broke.
Elon Musk goes head to head with ULA president in congressional hearing [video]
> These would be DRM copies that you would own.

Did you mean "DRM free"?
You created an account just to say that? Wow.
nothing it was just a joke...
Well if you don't count Overture from IdeaLab in Pasadena, but that was .com era 1
Because nobody wants to pay for the technology to track a plane before the plane goes missing.
Where Apple design is headed in 2014
could you explain what the kernels that "do it right" do differently from those that "hammer the I/O subsystem"?

Not being an expert, it would seem to me there shouldn't be much difference but obviously there is (i.e. TFA also says "linux woes").
Elon Musk and ULA president vie for national security launch contracts [video]
I'd be interested in seeing a meta-version of this: give two papers with identical methodologies, one showing that employers tend to hire women less because they are biased, and one showing that employers tend to hire women less because the women are less capable.

Then present them to reviewers and see which ones they would accept for publication.
Gimp abstracts differrent frames of animated gifs as layers. You may like it or not, (as well as the inability to link layers) but not call it "incorrect".
You should be worrying about plateau in your mind set long before you worry about the pay aspect. Yes we all need income of some sort. Start with living within your means, and then follow what interests you as best you can. Im 51 years old next week, started coding Portran and Basic at 13, worked as a dev, then did consulting, business operations work, started my own business in Hongkong, and now im a product manager of an American software company responsible for Asia Pacific. I could get paid more elsewhere but i love my job and the environment ( live in Guangzhou ).

You will get all sorts of advice about learn this, do that. Bottom line, know yourself well, especially what is deeply important to you as a person, and the rest will take care of itself. Spend time to ponder, have fun, try everything, stay optimistic, read widely.

Right now I get up at 05:30am every day to hack on Arduinos in C and Pythong and burning my fingers with soldering iron, and doing stuff to help my son on his PhD research into humanitarian logistics. 07:30 i down tools, breakfast and shower and go to my day job of ERP, global MNCs, C#, ABL, databases cloud this-and-that. Evenings i review and CTO on a system to help people collaborate worldwide. In between times im learning yoga. Colleagues amazed i do so much. The secret is that hackers/developers are blessed with a natural curiosity - when we learn to occasionally turn that on ourselves we can find that which motivates us, and then can follow that and have tons of fun.

Wish you well.
Aren't you forgetting your spouse's salary?
Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)
> competitors can create an account on the contest series website and learn more about the rules and different phases of the contest series by going to: http://bit.ly/AsteroidHunters
NProgress.js natively requires jQuery (1.8+). If you don't want to use jQuery as a dependency, there's a PR on github that uses CSS instead https://github.com/rstacruz/nprogress/pull/28
I have Threes and they way way over-designed it. Also it's rubbery interface is really quite annoying. This one however is a perfection - simpler idea, pure gameplay, subtle animations and UI mechanics. It really beats Threes hands down even if it's a "clone".
YES! YES YES YES! You talk like a true craftsman founder.

So many founders seem to think they have to do incubators because it is what is done. They treat it like traction. And they are completely indiscriminate. "I just got into the podunk incubator! #win #retire #done"
I hope this is one of those cases where HN changes the title to the actual title, because this abbreviation of it has a very different tone than the actual paper.
Timo Boll vs KUKA Robot (Table Tennis)
I agree that these are great for teaching kids science, but there are a few hurdles. First, kids don't really know what makes a good slide - they'll take opaque things like a orange peel and hope to see something (you can only see transparent or semi-transparent stuff). Second, it takes a fair bit of attention to learn how to hold it up to your eye and move the focusing stage around. Third, it's hard for a young kid to build one of these without supervision, and if you're a teacher in a 30-kid classroom, you can't supervise kids individually. None of these problems are insurmountable, but they do prevent Foldscope from being an instant educational hit.
Good to see this summit involving the kernel developers, since their past situation sounds rather bleak interaction-wise: using kernel version from 2009 and haven't tested the improvements in the (2012) 3.2 kernel.

BTW, Linux provides the direct I/O O_DIRECT interface that allows apps to bypass the kernel caching business altogether. This is also discussed in Mel Gorman's message that this blog borrows from.
In-app anayltics initialization is a bitch too. So many motherships to talk too, so little time.
The main difference for me is that I don't need to buy music that only sounds good on first try or for the first 30s anymore. After intense spotify usage I know what music I really need, so I buy it. On the other hand I discover way more than before, my consumption is way up now.
Awesome loving it!
I think he's talking about how the image before he commits to the rotation is vastly different from the image after he commits to the rotation - not that the arrows are doubled.
I have used a few of the Kimsufi boxes and had no issues with them. At meanpath.com we use 40 SoYouStart servers and 5 big OVH servers and have never had any issues. Excellent support was provided when we did run into problems with quick hardware swap outs or whole server replacements.

If you want to test out the speed of the network feel free to download some of our publicly released crawl files on http://archive.meanpath.com which is on a 2gbps burstable pipe.
I tried using this and it was too much of a straitjacket. It's really, really hard to write a decent framework (for anything!) and I don't think scrapy really succeeds.

In the end I dumped my scrapy code and replaced it with a combination of celery, mechanize and pyquery. That worked much better, used less code and was much more flexible.
> Anyway, brewing is a fun hobby. But one of those that sort of lulls people into making hasty business decisions.

Well said. I started brewing as a hobby about 20 years ago (egads!) But always knew that I would lose the joy of it if I tried to turn into a professional gig.

A friend is in the process of opening a brewery right now. He drastically underestimated the legal paperwork involved to get started. He's sitting on a great space with all the new equipment installed and still waiting in the local government to finish their end of the process....
I was partially being facetious. This article is about a Rube Goldberg-esque API and this site is about hackers. I'm just pointing out that it can be done cheaply with better flexibility and precision by hackers like me. I'm one of those people who find the Nest algorithm frustrating and want to tinker with it (with more properly placed sensors etc). It's not really rocket science for people who understand the basics of control theory.

BTW, what does a deadbolt have anything to do with your Nest/HVAC system? Do you want to depend on Google to open/close your locks as well? It's _not_ normal to take 15-30 seconds to open a Z-wave deadbolt remotely (it's immediate if you use the lock keypad) with 50% of success rate: something (probably the security C/R exchanges) is timing out: the default timeout is 20 seconds. For me, it was 100% (knocking on wood:) with a few seconds latency for the times I tried, executing a night arrival scene from a phone in a car, which turned on path/door lights and unlocked the door, because I'd have groceries/takeouts in my both hands.

I'd tend to agree that Z-Wave devices and a Vera* controller is probably too much for non-tinkerers to handle in the current state, because average people can't even handle a wifi printer :). There are people who use Nest as a basic thermostat, i.e., for the looks only.

The main motivation for me to squawk on this topic is that I don't like the _trend_ of external services (nothing against Google per se :) owning my data and now control of my home.

We (hackers/tinkerers) can do better and demand a choice.
I think we need to update the old saying to "If it floats, flies, fucks or has DRM... rent it."
pyquery uses lxml, which is pretty forgiving on any non-standard/invalid markups.
I think there's something funky with Chrome and font rendering. Reload the page and it should be fine
Is this the same algorithm used in games like Dying Light? These new breed of games allows free movements from rooftops to ground with very realistic graphics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=J2T...
Australia has extensive VAT taxes, tariffs on top of that, and byzantine regulations that dissuade foreign firms from entering the market (they apply to digital products too). When firms finally do they have to pass the legal costs and taxes on to the customer. Consumers in the rest of the world aren't going to pay for that difference. The real player saying 'fuck you' here is the Australian government.
fflush is unrelated to the business of flushing data to disk. It's just a libc FILE* thing. It causes libc to empty the (typically tiny) stdio buffer associated with the FILE* using the write() system call.
Adam Curtis Films
"They treat it like traction." Agreed! Just got an email tonight from a guy who is so pumped to get into an incubator and I was like... ummmm... You are being pimped. I sent him your post.
Moreover, considering the average time it takes to IPO, it might be way too early to make this type of statement.

500 startups, YC, and Techstars started less than 10 years ago.
Yes, mistyped.
Spotify is music rental, not music purchase. If you spend $120 on Spotify, you get to listen to thousands or tens of thousands of songs over that year. If you buy 10 albums, you get those albums but you didn't get to listen to anything else. One isn't better than the other -- but rental and ownership aren't direct substitutes for each other.
I'm saying that you can put together a better (customized) system than Nest with these parts without relying on any external services.
You know what makes me sad now? That there doesn't seem to be anything like these for css files- in particular for extracting references to external files and images, and moving a css file from one directory to another while maintaining relative links.
Thinking like this is dumb. I really hope people don't think like this.

Incubators/accelerators are, like anything else, tools. You should do them if they provide value to you and your business, and create more value than equity they require. For us, that was decidedly true; we moved to the valley with a very small network, and I can directly trace many of the early successes we had (not that we're a success yet) to someone I met through the network at 500s.

Do people really do incubators because they're the 'thing du jour?' I really hope not. It's a lot of equity to give up for just a name. We went in with the goal of completely blowing everything out of the water, being smart about what we used it for, and using it to learn and build our network. In that, I believe we were successful. Nobody should do it because of the name or because they think they can't do it on their own.

I know we could have done it on our own, but this...ahem...accelerated us along that path.
> I did however not like the idea put forth by the
> paper that managers should assume that people lie
> about their performance

How about: people are generally poor at objective appraisals of themselves?
Damn leechers. This is how p2p and user-friendy apps actually kill torrenting.
YC's PR submarine.
When I was in school, most of the big tech companies were done with intern applications by the end of March or so. Anecdotally, my employer has ~10 interns each year and all but one or two have signed offer letters by the end of February. I would definitely suggest moving things up in the future (obviously its too late this year).
Why? Instead of A, B, C, you can go with 1, 2, 3. Ie use the binary logarithm of the numbers.
Keep in mind this isn't targeted only at netflix but also at other provider that do price geo-locking and may have local support.

Also consider I could sign up to netflix with my credit card 'not get access' and initiate a charge back (maybe even after a couple of months of watching through a vpn), the pressure would be exerted through visa/mastercard which australia can somewhat pressure (as they have local assets).

Naturally that goes to the point were Netflix refuses Oz customers the ability to get there service at all and misses out on any part of the Aus market or they commit whole hog and give Aus everything. The other thing to remember is that other small countries may initiate similar policies so it might not be just Aus who misses out.
I just scored 21748. Oh men It's Addictive :)
Women’s Unwillingness to Guess on Standardized Tests Hurts Their Scores
The assisted GPS thing is incorrect and missed the point. Assisted GPS just uses cell towers to speed the acquisition/interpretation of a satellite signal(s) and to use those cell towers to triangulate when satellites aren't available. The reason it doesn't help is because it's a GPS receiver, it's a bit like saying your TV can't be used to locate your house because your tv only gets VHF.
Interesting that the writer seems to take what is described as "rage" (a meme reference) and "sound and fury" (idiomatic) literally. Other than that, this is rather a tardy and something less than nuanced summary of the events of the last week or so. Kind of strange - I thought the magazine was working to modernize its tech coverage.
Here my Proof :)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz9_OO8kXRkfaExtc0JBMUVoNTg...
Hm, so it is similar (but not identical) to the old Azerus, or the new tribler:

https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/
Must have been fond of lead paint as a kid.
For those that missed it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Ben_Charles_P...
The “Getting Shit Done” Sleep Cycle  – Better Humans
Cosmos not doing it for you? Maybe try I F*cking Love Science
Full-Stack Developer - Emjoyment
Looking for full-stack developer to join well-funded startup disrupting mobile job search. You could call it Tinder for Jobs. Investors include former Pres of Qualcomm and a former Board of Director at Baidu.
First Major Update For iOS 7 Rolled Out
> The only downside, of course, is that it costs money.

No, the only downside is that iTunes Movies are DRMed BS. I have to buy an Apple TV to watch it on my TV. I have to use an iPhone and copy the movie to the phone, wasting my precious flash space.

With the .mkv files I get from a .torrent, I can stream them to my TiVO with pyTivo [1], or I can host them on a server [2] and use StreamToMe [3] to stream them to my phone, ipad, computer across the cell network or local wifi with no restrictions. I can stream to non Apple devices with Subsonic [4].

It means when I'm visiting friends or family house we have access to all my movies without me having to plan ahead. It means when I accidentally arrive 40 minutes early to a meeting I can kill time in my car by streaming an episode of a TV show.

To me that is the reason to pirate. I'm happy to buy stuff. I just want to actually be able to use the stuff that I buy. There is no service out there that does everything I can currently do.

[1] https://github.com/armooo/pytivo

[2] https://github.com/caldwell/stm.js

[3] http://zqueue.com/streamtome/index.html

[4] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
20484 after about two hours. A few close calls and at times I felt like I was playing Tower of Hanoi leveling up areas. Only pushed up twice.

Final part was fast as all you need is two 128 blocks, one 256, a 512 and the 1024.
Mt. Gox faced 150,000 hack attacks every second
I disable it because I've absolutely no use for it, and it's one more possible attack vector on the device. I've no idea if it has an impact on battery life (and it's probably not much of one in the context of my normal use of the device).
> frankly, nothing can be worse than the iOS 7.0 upgrade

You didn't live through 4.0 with a 3G did you?
There's also tidy-html5, developed by W3C: https://github.com/w3c/tidy-html5
> My major anxiety is how to clearly see what's "core" and what "fad" and focus properly (and hope I'll be employable by my 50's).

As always, the classics. If nothing else, knowing how to write a compiler (especially including parsers) will keep you employed. Not because you need to write compilers all the time, but the techniques are useful and timeless.

Unix will probably stick around, too. And I'd be willing to bet on strongly typed functional programming (but I might be biased there).
> the agency seeks to enhance its ongoing work in the identification and characterization of near-Earth objects for further scientific investigation. This work includes locating potentially hazardous asteroids and identifying those viable for redirection to a stable lunar orbit for future exploration by astronauts.

The asteroid redirection idea sounds really awesome and incredibly complicated. Is it what NASA plans to do in case we have one heading straight at us? Do we have to blow up those that can't be redirected? What exactly does “viable for redirection” mean?
Why is there no win state if you get 2048?
News organisations are already obligated to print retractions when they make mistakes and asking a questions(although it is often used by the media as weasel words) is different to deliberately misleading someone.

In regards to the other two evangelical preachers should probably need to specify in advance that there is significant empirical evidence in direct contradiction to their statements before making them publicly.

In the case of the vaccination debate this should definitely be a crime, there is significant empirical evidence to prove that what anti-vaccination campaigners say is false. There is some precedent for this regarding the claims of chiropractors in the US which went to trial and found that they were lying about the efficacy of their treatments. (Also on a side note why would anyone listen to a completely unqualified "celebrity" over the opinions of someone with a PHD in virology or epidemiology. Most of the anti-vaccination campaigners are not adequately qualified to have an opinion on the matter anyway).

Also I feel that it's whether it is for personal gain is a big factor, if you are just ignorant that is unfortunate but not necessarily malicious.

There are also examples here(in Australia) of companies being fined for misleading the public, a notable example is "balance bracelets" being recalled from sale here due to false claims.

That being said despite the similarities between the two there are some pretty large cultural differences between the US and Australia which may make some of my points moot. In general Australia favours stronger consumer protections and government regulations, a free and independent publicly funded media service(ABC) and very negative political campaign adds often backfire and lower the public perception of the person making the attack rather than the other way around. Additionally Australia does not have any explicit legal guarantees of freedom of speech akin to the US constitution so some forms of speech, such as overt racism, are already illegal and people can be denied entry for public statements which indicate "bad character" such as holocaust denial etc.
You can buy a DVD set which has the original versions (no CGI, Han shoots first etc) on the bonus disks.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Original_unaltered_trilogy_%2...

IIUC, only the 2008 release set has them. But you can still buy those. Just check the reviews etc carefully to be sure it's the correct release.
No, the void where the selection for movies you can rent is abysmal. The vast majority of films I want to watch never seem to end up on Amazon or iTunes. Or if they do, you can only buy them but not rent them. I just want to pay $4 and watch a film. Piracy let's me do that. The film industry doesn't.
Except iTunes only has a tiny fraction of films available to rent. Bittorrent has basically all of them.
New Yorkers coverage is always kinda meh. Like, why quote random reddit users? They could've quoted Gavin, Eric, Andreas etc. Also, that's a lot of words in that article to say the bitcoin subreddit went apeshit over Newsweek.
> A lot of bad experiences with Ovh.

The customer support goes up with the bill. You can't ask the same support for a 3e/month server and a 100e/month.

> Seemingly better network and infrastructure than hetzner too?

Yes. Ovh is one of the main Isp actor in Europe at the Wan level. Moreover Ovh is full ipv6 compliant, unlike hertzner, and bandwidth is totally free without quota.

Ah, and Ovh building itself their servers, they are the biggest PC manufacturer in EU. They don't even play on the same field.
Like if you have steam or gog - then installing a game is one click away. No need to find and search torrents for games 10 years old. And everything is patched and working.

I have bought kindle dollar books just because I was lazy to find "drm free" version and convert it with calible.

But my price for IP crashed way down - 5-10 Euro is the top I am paying for something.
Here's someone:

I am not from USA but I also tried to use those services using a VPN, but when I use a VPN I do not get an effective speed that is stream-worthy so I say, "screw it, I am not paying twice - once to VPN and once for the service which I can't really stream anyway".