skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second paragraph of the article claims that companies knew about "upstream" collection as well. This is, from my understanding, the main point, as the Google engineer Brandon Downey issued the very harsh statement, and I quote, "fuck these guys", when the infamous smiley-face slide leaked.

EDIT: Apparently the "upstream" collection does not refer to the third capture method in question, which exploited the fact that Google did not (at the time) encrypt its internal communications.
UPDATE: We've decided to run a discount on the Business Builder, $50 off, the next 12 copies and to see if this helps. https://gumroad.com/l/gfXK/fzzlpie Apologies if I'm breaking a rule by responding with this - I hope not, let me know if so... but I do want everyone to know that we are trying to take your advice! :)
Dude, Where's My Uber?
As a former Bloomberg user (ugh, its so annoying that my new boss does not see the value in $25k/yr for my favorite IM client), I can say that the author has it dead right that most underestimate the caché and value to the actual network (so what if the new product is good, all my clients/brokers/etc are on Bloomberg)

TR's Eikon product shows you how hard hard it is to compete, depending on the package it can be 1/3 the price of a Bloomberg for a great product, but still has trouble gaining traction...
Next up: Desert Bus 2048.
Renderings: http://imgur.com/a/IuLNe#0

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Bitcore Core v0.9.0 release overview
I've tried this several times too and it has never worked well. I've been both employee and employer and I really wish people were more rational about this.

Not only that but I think this is the key to fix the economy! Think about it: if people could accept salary cuts for less work we would have more jobs and could transition to an eventual post-scarcity economy smoothly.

Creative workers don't output more than 25 quality hours a week anyway.
I definitely relate to this. When I get a compliment, I instinctively feel the need to say something negative about whatever it is that is being complimented. No idea where that comes from.
Hollywood's practice of using independent talent is a better model for technologists than the standard corporate employee/employer relationship.

It allows more flexibility & creative potential. It keeps Hollywood in a leadership role over many fashion-driven industries.

As the technology industry becomes more about abstraction, it also assumes more characteristics of a fashion-driven industry. Having independent creators will only increase innovation and market liquidity.
Depends how you define attention. From your spouse saying "that's nice" or you fellow coder saying "cool" to a billion people using your software, to hacker news karma, or acknowledgement of your comment. You can see the range of attention that I'm trying to get across.
This reminds me a lot of Vega (https://github.com/trifacta/vega), albeit using a HTML/CSS approach as opposed to a JSON one. By default, I'm excited for new ways to approach data visualization, since its a really exciting topic with no clear winners.

I was worried about the hefty price tag until I realized that it was free for non-commercial projects. Will definitely try and play around with it this weekend, as I imagine combining this with basic Python templating could be an even stronger dataviz REPL than mpld3 or vincent.
I don't think interviewing candidates based on basic knowledge of CS is cargo-culting Google and Facebook. I think this predates those two companies. Also, someone that implements hashCode() correctly and can't spout off how a linked list works, is a problem for me. I guess it is subjective.
I would be doing EXACTLY what I am doing now. Spaceflight software, startups and tons of volunteering.

I was at a point in my life where I seriously had to ask myself this question quite seriously. After much grief, I'm in a very happy place now. Not necessarily pleasurable, but happy. I help startups get launched, dreams turn to reality & I get to flex my geek muscles studying neuroscience and designing software that challenges me.

I realize that I am amongst the very lucky few. I recall the seriously hollow feeling. Being surrounded by stuff. I am fortunate enough to have friends (some billionaires) who surprisingly have not only dealt with this but have figured out some pretty awesome ways to live life without being an over the top Rap Star consumer. (which I unfortunately succumbed to for a while).

I have fewer cars, and other useless toys, but it's wonderful being free. Doing things because you want to and doing things to be happy (again not to be confused with pleasure). To be honest, it really doesn't take much to get there. You don't even have to be a millionaire.

Here's to doing... and realizing that the journey is the reward! Cheers to my fellow HNers looking beyond the bounds of modernism or most -isms.
Maybe all I want in life is a yacht and a motorcycle? I've already got the motorcycle....
Had the same problem ourselves while building Segment.io that every static site generator was a bit too opinionated in weird ways, so we made Metalsmith[0]. Check it out, and you might not need to make your own anymore :)

[0]: http://www.metalsmith.io/
2048 RAND
Paul Buchheit and Geoff Ralston never had YC companies and first became well known creating major advancements in email. Trevor Blackwell is a hardware engineer who spends his time building segways. Carolynn Levy is a lawyer. Robert Morris is an academic. Kirsty Nathoo is an accountant with an engineering degree who went to school in the UK. Jessica Livingston has an English degree and is best known as an author who wrote about primarily non-YC founders. Garry Tan is well known for his design expertise. PG has a philosophy degree, spent time in painting school, and has a PhD in CS. That's a pretty diverse group. The fact that the last 3 full time partners they brought on are young YC founders is pretty much meaningless - why would they not bring on the people they have worked with before? It just so happens that recently, most of their work has been done with YC founders. Honestly curious - after reading the bios of all the partners, how would you suggest they bring on more "unusual" partners? Any examples?
try Homejoy, another YC company.
A better mix of the games would increment by 2 or 4 randomly, like the 2048 board does. It's not like either game is over in 11 moves.
OK, so when's 2048: The Movie coming out?
That makes sense, the key is only recognised by the Mobile Safari on the iPhone.
Goes against the Protestant Work Ethic. This states that to be a good person you have do be diligent and work hard.
Entertainment should make money if they continue providing something people want.

But it seems like they are extracting rent by using lobbying to maintain control over the pricing and distribution schemes in order to maintain their wealth without generating any for anyone else.

Maybe it's not quite the right term, I'm not sure... it seems that way sometimes though.
> Failure to grieve can cause long-term psychological problems.

Sure. But this presumes that one is a lesser evil.

I'd defer to you which is worse: The Void, or someone having mixed emotions for a while.
That's not the stuff that typically goes wrong.

TCP? DNS?

More like persistent cache misses in SQL or some weird edge case caused by an errant vertical tab or a filename getting too long or some limit in array length causing your compiler to do weird stuff.

Knowing how any of that list works is more for sysadmins than programmers.
An Analysis of Steam (Used Python, BeautifulSoup, and Google Spreadsheets)
Perhaps not. The big plays have been fixing weak and outdated, yet vital, industries.
i feel so fortunate that i can truly say, that for me, one of those things is software.

i really would do this for nothing.

(don't tell my boss)
I'm not so sure... given the (apparent) network effects, and the fact that (I assume) Bloomberg users aren't going to be too price sensitive, you're unlikely to make a big dent their user-base anytime soon.

What you are likely to do though is bring in new users who were price sensitive or who couldn't justify $20,000 for their particular use-case. For those who wouldn't spend $20,000, $2000 is a lot easier to swallow.

So instead of taking Bloomberg's market, you'd be more likely to create a second tier of service.
I think for many people, most people even, this is not a rational decision. It's not about your time being worth a certain amount of value to the company and 4/5 or 3/5 of availability being worth proportionately less. Some people are offended by the idea of you wanting to structure your weeks differently in the first place & think of it purely as special treatment. They are obsessed with the idea of a five day work week and the traditional employer-employee relationship and accepting employment on non-standard terms would be giving away the employer's implicit power over the employee.
Please add this RFS to the dropdown on the application.
key takeaway for me is so many fin-tech startups are asking the question by trying, the only real way to find out. personally agree that this is not a fight you tackle head on - need an angle.
Weren't they the ones that got picked up during startup school office hours?
Donald Rumsfield summed this up nicely:

> There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
Like this one? http://sarvagyavaish.github.io/FlappyBirdRL/
Is there any way you could make the watch feature not dependant on watchdog? The watchdog installation fails on pip on Mac. I then had to install Homebrew just to be able to install libyaml, which then meant I could install watchdog.
Didn't spot the dancing gorilla in famous YouTube video?
Oh yes, the problem is not technology! If only we could take money from the rich and give it to the poor, our problems would be solved! Automation good! Free market bad!
>Most people think "memory is fast, disk is slow" but the reality is "high-level caches are fast, other caches are slow, memory is really slow, and stay the hell away from disk".

Which is also far from the truth, which is any part of this pipeline can be fast or slow, depending on what you're using it for.
That's a bit like saying Seiko ought to be able to steal marketshare from Patek Philippe. Exclusivity has its own utility aside from nuts-and-bolts functionality.
Huginn – Know when the world changes
Does anybody have experience using the Rift with the Ibex window manager[1] (esp. on OS X)? Or another similar solution? I'm very interested in using it as a gigantic monitor!

[1] http://hwahba.com/ibex/
This story is fake.
I'd rather have cat pictures and memes than this humorless intolerance of whimsy.
> Just because you're happy with what you have doesn't mean you can't also be intrinsically motivated to make life better for yourself and others.

An important note: the clinical definition of Attention-Deficit Disorder is exactly "being unable to feel motivated, except under conditions of stress/fear/pain."

A common self-medicating strategy for people unaware they have ADD, is to invite unhappiness and stress in order to derive motivation from it. If the only thing that can get you to start working on a project is the feeling of a looming deadline, you may want to get yourself checked.
Would anyone please link directly to the pdf of the paper so I can see for myself how they're keeping the mice awake?

The typical way is for them to put the mice in a position such that it's impossible for them to fall asleep without falling into water. All that this proves is that extended stress leads to lost neurons, not necessarily the sleep loss.

People often cite the "Fatal Familial Insomnia" disease as evidence of lack of sleep's ill effects, but they neglect to point out that the "insomnia" part is sometimes not observed in patients who then die anyway. So the sleep loss is apparently unrelated to the death.

There doesn't seem to be any conclusive evidence linking sleep loss to neurodegeneration. It's seemingly just something that people want to believe in absence of evidence.
What are the options for non-sold books?
You just gave up your First Amendment rights
This morning I was at the grocery store and I noticed they were still stuck in the 1800s with their stupid shopping baskets and checkout lines with registers. Dinosaurs. I saw their ancient distribution method and was like "Fuck. This." I just grabbed things off the self and left my money right there in its place. They got a shipment last night but had not put the items out on the shelf yet. I just went into the back room and grabbed stuff from there too. I'm not waiting for that shit. Fuck them and their stupid choices on how they want to sell me stuff. Idiots. I know better than them so I'm just going to do what I think is best. I deserve to get my groceries any way I want... when ever I want.

Piracy is not a technology problem. It is an attitude problem. Some people straight up just want stuff without paying. Some people are willing to pay but don't want to wait. Some people are willing to wait but want it one click away.
That's when you become Elon Musk and actually change the world. But if we're talking about like $5M, enough to retire quite comfortably, I'd just experiment and not worry what others think of what I do/create.
Ask HN: Is the YC application frenzy justified?
I'm applying to YC for the first time and wondering about the need to "hack" your YC application.

My thinking:
1. The YC guys are all really smart and at this point are great at sorting good from not-so-good companies
2. They say they are primarily looking for good people who have determination. It seems that simple answers to the application form will give them the data to make that call.
3. We don't want to spend time hacking getting into YC, we'd like to rather hack building a great company and assume they can judge our ability to do that without frills.

=> At this point we've spent about 1 day on our application and we're keen to move back to working on our company. Is that crazy? Does YC want high levels of polish (multiple hours on your video?), or are they polish immune?

I think YC is definitely worth spending lots of time on, I'm just not sure if it's important to them. It seems quite feasible that in spite of all the “get into YC” articles they’ll be able to make the call on a naïve interpretation of their application questions.
It's curious how well your comment fits with the article this discussion is over, because I think that's the underlying problem. It's no longer about fundamentally "hacker" interests as much as it is about financial gain, influence, legalities, and gobs of other rubbish.
I agree. Good tools could enable a second/separate tier of professionals to create a disruptive presence in the areas dominated by Bloomberg users. It would be simple to expect that Bloomberg would react accordingly.
You're overthinking this. There are benefits to using a CDN beyond caching; you exaggerate the risk of the CDN going down, and the effort it takes to create a fallback for that. For most applications, a widely-used (cached) free CDN is a no-brainer and is nice to your end users.
Variance, like Vega, draws a ton from Wilkinson's "Grammar of Graphics". In particular I wanted something like Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 R library, but on the web.

I toyed with the idea of an explicit data format that could be generated by different tools (I talked about this at the 2012 Clojure/conj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyGggdg31mc).
Conceptually that route is cleaner.

However, the reality is that any such scheme requires "escape hatches" to drop into the target representation (be it HTML/CSS, Canvas, &c.).
We decided it would be best to embrace a single target, HTML+CSS, rather than try to build an abstraction targeting multiple final rendering systems.
Yes. And things are a lot better now, I remember using IBM WebSphere UI tools (written in Java) circa 2004-5.

It took several seconds of whited-out buttons and stuck UI for every CPU intensive operation -- all on the same thread. And that was from IBM, and from tools that you paid for a small fortune.
I'm amused at how the whole Agile community is nothing but a hive mind. For 10 years they're all obsessed with how good Agile is. Then starting two weeks ago, they all think it's terrible.

Agile works fine. Software engineering methodologies don't kill projects, managers kill projects.
I've been with SDF for years. I cut my Unix teeth on their servers. They're a fantastic host and I am very impressed that their "Meta Array" coped with the influx of HN traffic without skipping a beat. I've been periodically checking the site, with an empty cache, while this link was on the HN front page and page delivery was consistently sub-1s. Theirs is extremely cheap hosting too. I have nothing but praise for the SDF.
I would think that this is the part that would need to be changed:

> The utility of that is -inf. The utility of not opening the door is also -inf.

Humans don't value anything--even their own continued existence--at inf, just at pretty average-levels-of-high numbers. We seem to get "intelligent" things done despite this. What's wrong with building an AI this way?
I want it to talk to the user in an Alien Kid voice from Her.

"Get off your fucking fatass, you fucking fatty! You call that tub of shit a body? The scale tells me you gained four fucking pounds this week!"
I remember reading something about O(2^n)... That may apply to the cost of making the illusion appear real: it doesn't scale.

It may be that instead of looking at rendered photo-realistic grass, one may be better of going out touching the real thing.

As for the artificial realm, who cares if it isn't photo-realistic? It is artificial anyway.
Yep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syoqjYLDs48
Angular 2.0 Dependency Injection – Applied To Backbone TodoMVC
I left a job in the midst of Dotcom Boom 1.0. When I was trying to resign, my boss was like "Where are you going? How much are they paying? We'll match it! We'll better it!"

He found it hard to grasp that my plan was to do absolutely nothing. In fact, I told him my plan was to go watch TV for a while.

I was by no means rich but I had enough money to keep me going for a few months and this was during the Boom. It wouldn't take more than a couple of days to find a job when I was ready for one.

If you're living paycheck to paycheck and have big responsibilities (kids, a mortgage, etc) it can be inconceivable that you're willing/able to not play the game of trying to always acquire as much money as possible.
I call bullshit on this one. Having a big-tech company on my resume has done nothing but send an endless stream of recruiters knocking on my door. Doesn't make getting a final offer any easier, but it has definitely improved my chances of getting the interview I want vs. just any old interview.

I always hear "Well if Google/Apple/FB are willing to hire you..."
The problem with trying to 'top' Bloomberg isn't so much in making a better (all encompassing) product; it is more in trying to convince the legions of users and financial companies to make a change.

The world of finance is terrible slow at adopting new technology (I know a lot still use XP, sadly). So first, you have to convince people to upgrade. Then the next fun part: actually doing it. 1) fund the change. 2) get the gigantic IT departments to implement the change. Not so easy.

Then, will users even want to use something else? The finance world still uses Blackberry!
100% native on Windows maybe (and even there it depends on the Windows version). On the Mac it's like a foreign object.

And that's for the more basic widgets -- more advanced widgets have custom implementation from primitives in SWT, so they are hit and miss with regards to native look and feel.
I'd prefer a browser option myself too. But, this is what we've got for now.
Yes, of course. We can tolerate diversity. Luckily not everyone wants the same things.
Are you guys aware of Stripe's mailing list philosophy? https://stripe.com/blog/email-transparency I think it is genius, theoretically, but it is a bit difficult to get right technically. If you guys could implement a way for companies to adopt that without the need for lots of filter wrangling, that would be epic!
This IS the reason capital IQ started. They've done reasonably well.

There are a couple reasons why it's really difficult to disrupt this industry:

1) An mvp won't cut it. If I'm a trader with 300MM in my pocket, then I need access to information. All information.

2)Reliability. Traders need a highly reliable connection. No room for error. A great counter example is Reuters. I worked on a support desk where I had both Reuters and Bloomberg (at a cost of something insane, probably close to 100k/yr). I imagine that when a major pricing error occurred on any exchange, I would find out within 30 seconds to a minute. Despite all its resources, Reuters proved time and again to have pricing issues. Connecting to hundreds of exchanges with thousands of securities is difficult. When you start to go outside of the US, there's some really bizarre logic. Bloomberg was incredibly reliable on the other hand, and their support team responds to issues within minutes.

2) Network effects. Bloomberg messenger is the way to communicate in finance. Also, Bloomberg leverages its network to constantly monitor prices, so pricing problems are discovered REALLY quickly. It's kind of like open-sourcing security pricing monitoring.

3) Reputation. Even if you create a perfect replica of Bloomberg, would I stake my clients money on your track record? Even with a good track record, why would I not trust Bloomberg when it's the de facto standard?

4) IP? not sure about this one, but I imagine there are a lot of features baked into Bloomberg with legal protection.

5) The cost is insignificant for most of wall street.

Funny story: on a whim I interviewed with capital IQ while I was in college. They asked me to design an interface that would allow people to access financial information quickly. Having never used or seen Bloomberg, I immediately started describing a system of keyboard shortcuts, to which my interviewer responded that I was basically just describing Bloomberg terminal. Didn't get the job.
> I'm quitting my job, or they will learn to speak English

From your description of events, they clearly already know how to speak English. They choose not to include you in their personal social interactions, in part by not speaking English (but, you know, people can still do that even if they speak your language.)

> The official tongue here, and the company, is English.

Is it? If "here" is the US, it doesn't have an official language. I wouldn't be surprised if the company didn't either -- most don't.

> When you're at WORK, speak it.

If they are violating workplace policies by their non-English interactions, your best recourse is probably to the people responsible for enforcing those policies rather than HN. If they aren't violating any workplace policies, and they speak English to the extent necessary to effectively do their jobs, I'm not sure you have a legitimate grounds for complaint. Certainly, not for entitled demands.
When you realize you've enough of everything, you are truly rich.
Simply disgusting.
I'm ashamed to admit that it took me a while to figure out what the "hamburger button" is. Never heard it called that before. :-)
Why a "Startlingly Simple Theory" is so Startlingly Wrong
The "processing failed" banner is quite ironic considering our recent collective experiences with cryptography. Why the Mt.Gox failure and so many other hackings and exposures of supposedly-private data? "Processing Failed"
While this may be convenient for developers, I doubt gamers are going to want to see the same rehashed textures, objects and effects with each game they purchase. Reusing art assets - to me - just sounds lazy. Like something you'd find in one of those poor 'Game Creator' apps.