skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a more personal note, I'll add that I find it ironic that you accuse me of meanness, contempt and belittling others, because I find that rather mean, contemptuous and belittling.

In the future if you have a problem with something that someone has written on the Internet, why not contact them and have a civil conversation about it? It's not like I'm hard to get ahold of.

If in the future you do that, you might find that you've misunderstood the motivation of the article you find so objectionable. And the author might find out from you that they could communicate their point in a better way. The world would get better all around, and that could all happen without resorting to profanity and name-calling in a public forum.
What I mean is that a lifestyle of constant luxury and leisure provides no problems, no resistance.

Whereas taking on actual challenges - as BG has done - provides things against which to struggle, and stimulates creativity.

You're right that it's a conscious choice. Choosing the "easy way" means that you aren't likely to be as creative and productive as if you take on complex challenges.
What on earth is livecoding: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/16150/1/w...
not the CDN going down. the client being unable to reach the CDN.

the http request the cdn to get the file is not a 'free' operation. network timeouts take time.
Developing Automated Testing Frameworks with Noah Sussman
I just want to read
TechHateCrimes Documents 'Tech Hate Crimes'
Openssl: uses only 32 bytes (256 bit) for key generation
10 productivity tools and hacks for entrepreneurs
Most startups in the financial sector focus on trading and institutional investors nobody thinks of the little guy, the individual investor.

We are trying to build a poor man's Bloomberg for individual investors and simplify the world of financial analytics.

http://craytheon.info/ (Its in Beta)
mod_disk_cache and mod_mem_cache make that pretty irrelevant.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_disk_cache.html

re:edit
hxincl uses a similar style as ssi but with a couple of enhancements:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/hxincl.1....

if you want exactly SSI syntax, ain't nuthin' stopping you from pointing curl at localhost.
Both Thalmic Labs and the Meta project are examples of longer term projects that raise money through YC. There are a bunch more in the current batch that have a much longer time frame. While the three month demo is a constraint, it is not one that kills ambitious projects at YC.
if you are worried enough about performance to start using external resources in this way, you are probably going to benefit much more by using r.js and a build step to build a single (or a few partitioned) javascript files.

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rtt#...
Interesting that this was downvoted... I wonder if it was the tone or the content. While I don't think it's clear that this person's desire for self-improvement is their "biggest problem," I like that this comment points out a potential assumption in the grandparent comment: that improving ourselves is some kind of requirement or moral imperative.

You could make a plausible argument that self-improvement allows one to accomplish more for others, and use this to connect self-improvement with moral obligations to the community. And you could simply have a deeply ingrained desire for self-improvement (Maslow's Hierarchy seems to suggest that this is a fundamental human need). However, I think it's good to acknowledge that this idea -- that we should improve ourselves -- is not prima facie necessary; it's simply another human desire.
Seems like a cool idea. A bit worrying that basically it just turns the data into xml.
Who is the author? I can't find anything about him except for his real name and a self-description of "hacker". I'm confused why he thinks it's reasonable to create something so authoritative sounding as "crypto 101" without bothering to explain his credentials to do so.
This isn't a black swan. Cringely is using the term incorrectly.
What you link to is the answer, and no, no one implements it. The exchanges don't want to, and feel no incentive to :(
Computing is still too clunky: Charlie Rose and Larry Page in conversation
Interestingly, it's about 270 miles, just outside the quoted range. I might be able to make it by hypermiling, but I fear that Tesla's numbers are under ideal conditions. If it were cold out, or if I were going faster than 55 mph, I probably wouldn't make it, and I'd be stuck in the middle of nowhere, so I'd probably have to proactively find a place to charge it about halfway.
Will Office for the iPad really bring Microsoft billions?
Funny/ironic: I'm actually already doing the stuff I believe in ... and trying to figure out how to monetize it, which requires me to figure out how to get traffic (aka "attention").
How is Greek and Latin helping you ? is it to infer meaning through etymology/roots ? or the different grammars ordering ?

I never really cared about languages before programming, but after learning it, then logic, semantics, ontology I think about other human languages a lot. I'm curious about your point of view coming from the opposite direction.
My friends made an improvisation to the comic:

http://i.imgur.com/etuhc8z.jpg
Some of my collegaues paid for Bloomber _only_ to access Bloomberg chat. This is not $1/y, this is around $20000/y.

And of all the trading stuff I worked with, Bloomberg had the less downtime of all. Even it's full (FULL) of legacy shit and crazy interfaces (things like some realtime feed has a binary protocol and I had to write the state machine for doing the handshakes, error checking and stuff). Still, it worked 100% of the time.
This is an entirely new level of irony.
Apparently blockchain.info only provides the encrypted wallet after the alternative authentication is succesful. They don't have the ability to spend your coins.

"It is highly recommended you enable two factor authentication on your My wallet account. Your wallet data is still only encrypted with your password however a second authentication step will need to be passed before your encrypted wallet data is output."

There's also GreenAdress.it which has interesting security system in place using "nLockTime": http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/20puhg/while_blockc...
mailing lists are so unrelentingly painful. So stoked to see Threadable take on a hard problem and make something really awesome.
DuPont is the best one I've heard of, matching 150% of the first 6% (i.e. they'll contribute up to 9% of your salary).
Was Elon's resume impressive back in 2002 when he was starting SpaceX? That was before even Tesla, so as far as I can tell back in 2002 his resume had a BS in Economics, a BS in Physics, X.com, and Paypal.

Normally that would be plenty impressive, but I don't think that is a particularly impressive resume for somebody looking to start a rocket company. The connection between Paypal and space exploration isn't exactly strong, even with an undergraduate degree in physics. I suppose he could also put "hassled Russians for a decommissioned ICBM" on his resume too though. ;)
> I'm going to have to review my physics textbook, but I could swear that steam engine consumes energy.

If you're going to be pedantic, at least be correct.

If you were to consult your physics textbook, somewhere near the beginning under the heading "Conservation of Energy", you'd see that the steam engine neither creates nor destroys energy, merely transforms it into a different form.
"The better approach would be to abandon lithium-ion for a superior battery technology."

There have been dozens or hundreds or thousands of companies and teams and people working on alternatives to li-ion for 20 years. We're arguably not much closer to a "breakthrough" in energy storage. I'm mildly convinced saying 10x batteries are around the corner is analogous to saying a universal cure for AIDS is coming next week. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but I can pretty much promise you that no company is going to get that tech, design, produce, scale, and sell enough cars a month from now to be a "black swan" for Tesla.
One notable distinction here is that these games are "crossbreeding" like memes, being remixed into many more different variations than before. Their simple gameplay is probably one thing that encourages this cloning and remixing.
How did your dream vision playing this first-person version of 2048?
Improvement is also a very fuzzy notion, it really depends how you wanna look at things.
Building the next Instagram or WhatsApp: The Network Effect Playbook
or you could just, 'y'know, run SSI. what web server doesn't have SSI?
What problem are we actually solving here?
"Science. Science seems broken. The current funding models are broken and favor political skill over scientific genius. We need new business models for basic research. There are a lot of areas where scientific developments can have huge commercial applications — materials, neuroscience, climate engineering, and cheaper/better ways to get to space, just to name a few—and we’d love to figure out a way for it to happen. "

I think he misunderstands the meaning of the term "basic research":

"Basic research (also called pure research or fundamental research) is a systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena without specific applications or products in mind." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research)

So the very idea of basic research is that there are no forseeable commercial applications (or indeed any practical applications).

Personally, I think that private funding is NOT suited to finance fundamental research, since the time horizon there is way too long for most VC companies, and I doubt that many of them would finance something "just because it is interesting and we don't understand it yet".
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization (29 July 2008)
I recommend a thorough read through the resources on http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev as a starting point.
Chordify is great! Their backend is written in Haskell, and part of it is open source as well: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HarmTrace
Most movies / tv shows are already currently available digitally or without DRM (Netflix, Hulu, Apple, Amazon, etc).

In the USA.
>You do not need a consultant to show you how to do that.

Is it any wonder that consultants have turned it into something that they need to show you how to do?
So basically, we've gone down a path of solving problems we've created ourselves.
That's a ridiculously amusing project: http://github.com/ranman/gitshots I work on it from time to time... I'd love to like... design it or something. You can render a video of all gitshots for a user: http://gitshots.com/user/ranman.avi
I'm trying to untangle VCL.
Serving pure HTML files off S3 is pretty popular. No SSI there.
Not true, unfortunately. If you skip the first leg of a round-trip, airlines will cancel the return leg.
After reading a recommendation for the book "A Guide to the Good Life" on HN, I reviewed it on a hacker site I have. Stoics throughout history been some of the best-equipped for finding joy in life, which is one of the reasons their methods have been taken by so many others.

When you're dealing with these issues, stoicism is highly recommended.

BTW, on the target page you can read hacker reviews from most of the other major sites, my review, and a bunch of other stuff. The site was a project I completed so that I didn't have to describe the same books over and over again on HN (So apologies for not diving into a huge amount of detail here) :)

http://hn-books.com/Books/A-Guide-to-the-Good-Life-The-Ancie...
Hands on with Valve's redesigned Steam Controller | Joystiq
This caps off some pretty amazing reasoning.

Earlier, the government insisted that simply collecting information in their databases was not a 4th ammendment violation, because the actual 'search' only occured when they _search_ the database, not when they collect and put in their database.

(I think maybe they even defined 'collect' so it somehow only applied when they did a search, not when they actually collected?)

Now they:

> ...strongly rejected suggestions by the panel that a court authorise searches for Americans’ information inside the 702 databases. “If you have to go back to court every time you look at the information in your custody, you can imagine that would be quite burdensome,” deputy assistant attorney general Brad Wiegmann told the board.

> De argued that once the Fisa court permits the collection annually, analysts ought to be free to comb through it, and stated that there were sufficient privacy safeguards for Americans after collection and querying had occurred. “That information is at the government’s disposal to review in the first instance,” De said.

Combine them both, and, well, you see where you get.
No, it appears this is only talking about the FISA court orders

>> “All 702 collection is pursuant to court directives, so they have to know,” De reiterated to the Guardian.

So, yes, companies knew they were being served with FISA warrants (that they complied with) but AFAICT they were unaware that the NSA was tapping their data lines like the example where they tapped data lines between Google's (and others) data centers. [1]

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...
I agree. It's closer than a lot of people think. It's hard to describe an electric car driving experience, but the best way is to say that the accelerator is exactly the opposite of the brake. In that, the more you push it, the more force pushes you into the back of your seat, exactly proportional and instant at all times. There's no lurching from downshifts, or waiting for RPMs for climb, then fall off, then downshift.

It's a neat experience, and everyone I know prefers it, but it's too damn expensive to get it. I don't think for long, though. And I don't think it's going to take some great battery breakthrough either. I'd say you need about 50 kWh in a sedan, minimum, for it to work well for trips (plus a bit of charging infrastructure). If you want to sell a car for $40,000 (which would be $33,000 after rebates, less in California), that means you probably can't have a pack that costs more than $20,000 (since you can buy a decent gas car for that, and that's before you remove all the gassy bits).

So, $20,000 for a 50 kWh pack == $400 per kWh, which is totally doable. I think when the Leaf first came out, the estimates were that it cost Nissan about $500 per kWh, but if they don't have it down below $400 by now I'll eat my hat. And Tesla probably already has the cost below $300, what with using commodity cells. I think they only reason Tesla doesn't put out a $40,000 sedan is because they know the demand would outstrip their battery supply by a factor of 200 (and murder demand for the Model S), so they have to wait until they build their own factory.

But! Nissan already has their own battery factory. Their batteries are not nearly as energy-dense as Teslas, so fitting 50 kWh worth in the Leaf may be their biggest issue right now. But there's a lot of wasted space in that car. I think they can do it just fine. And when they do, if gas has just tipped north of $4 by then, they are going to make a lot of noise.

They sent me a survey a couple months ago, and one of the questions asked how much extra I'd pay for EPA-rated 150 miles range (instead of the current 75). I was about to drag the little slider up to about $12,000, but it stopped at $5,000 (or $208 per kWh). That may just be a random question with no basis on their current engineering, but I think they're up to something.
What happened to the Hydrogen option? A few years ago, everybody was talking about how it would be the best possible fuel and how much better than batteries it is, but I haven't heard much about it after.

From a distribution point of view, it seems like both batteries and hydrogen are pretty much equally bad. Is there something holding back the powertrain technology with hydrogen?
This is fantastic. Now I'd like to see the people with the capital to fund the series As and Bs of these companies make a similar commitment. Don't leave the future entirely in the hands of Musk and Thiel.
I think too much, and do too little, and don't even own a cellphone.
A legitimate problem we're solving by…
inventing a new templating language.

Did we need a new one to do this? Absolutely none of the hundreds of existing languages could have possibly worked, so let's reinvent SSI with different syntax?
SAC Retains Palantir to Boost Surveillance After Charges
Ycombinator is a website that can get your blog, product or statup a lot of traffic so I would be suprised if there isn't people gaming the search. It can be the difference on launch day of your startup getting noticed or not.
Webpage not available - nice touch!
How about "by paying attention."
Why you should Get your Shit Together Before you Make it Big
Semantics3 and Two Tap close the loop on adding ecommerce to your app
I'm betting some combination of procedural generation and scanning tech a la Kinect will start taking a lot of the workload off the artists. This has already begun to some extent, with many if not most AAA titles using procedural generation of terrain and vegetation.

The algorithms to control grass reacting may be difficult to write, but that only has to be done once. You could as well have said ten years ago that it would never be cost-effective to create photo-realistic CG films, but that has been pretty much accomplished at this point, and game developers are already borrowing techniques from films.
Wow, that was an uninformed comment.
Huh? The game server instances would still need to sync between themselves, so this really wouldn't address latency.

No. If you design the game properly, they actually don't have to coordinate very much at all.
The problem is that you'll never see the generalist's CV. The gatekeepers ahead of you (HR or recruiters) will always find someone with more of the right keywords or more of the desired experience to push first.
Hrm. That's interesting, I've never thought about the focal point issue before. Do you know of anyone working on this problem or any general status on this in "the field"?
Technically solves the addiction problem, I guess?
Many points have already been covered, but there's one really important one: the data.

It's not just about implementing a niftier interface to look at financial information. You must have the information itself first. Bloomberg has been aggregating so many different sources (hundreds, if not thousands) and they have been doing it for many years now. There aren't that many companies out there that are good at this. Only Reuters comes close to Bloomberg, as far as I know, and they aren't really that close. For individual data sources there are alternatives, but nobody else has such a comprehensive offering. There are all kinds of issues related to each data source that you would have to tackle one by one. Of course, anyone can subscribe to the different data sources, the costs are not going to be prohibitive for a well-funded startup. But regular licences would not allow you to display the data to your customers for free. You'd have to strike deals to be able to resell subscriptions to your customers and make the process easy for them. All of the data providers will want to get paid, data is not free. Once you start processing the data, you have to start archiving it because history is important. Bloomberg has been collecting data for decades. In some cases, they have data that the data providers themselves don't have because they were not so good at archiving in the past and many of them are still focused on providing real-time data only. So, if you wanted to buy historical data, it's going to be hard to get it. Often your only choice is to buy it from Reuters or Bloomberg and they are not going to give you licences for reselling the data. Note that even if you archived a lot of data from real time feeds over time, you still might have problems with the original data providers not letting you use the data for commercial purposes. And last but not least, even you got your hands on all the data that your customers would expect you to have, you still need to process it. Every data source has it's idiosyncracies that you'd have to master (not to mention that data formats have been changing over the years and documentation is often non-existing). This is very tedious and time consuming work, not the kind of stuff that excites most young startup founders. Bloomberg has been very good at processing, normalizing, and storing financial data from a multitude of heterogeneous data sources and they have decades of know-how.

Off the top of my head I can imagine only a couple of possible lines of attack that might have a chance:
- Start with a niche solution, then expand slowly year after year, market after market, data source by data source. Your product will have to be relatively cheap though, so that customers would be willing to buy it in addition to Bloomberg.
- Buy the data from Bloomberg. Develop your own UI. Get acquired by Bloomberg.
And the Semantics3 angle: http://blog.semantics3.com/announcing-our-partnership-with-t...
I don't get the big deal about whiteboard coding and such. I have to write code on paper for my CompSci class exams and it's never been really difficult. If it were PHP it would be though because it's hard to predict the argument lists and function names.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432097
also, which is it. are we on s3 or on a linux server with python?
Google Keyboard now makes suggestions based on your typing in other Google apps
If they get into dire financial straits like Mt. Gox, then this period will gradually widen to become many months

When that kind of situation happens, people need to take the hint and stop using the service.
As I pithily mentioned on Twitter, Email is the once and future king.
Poll: How much of a salary cut would/do you take to work remotely?
I currently work remotely for a yearly salary > $100k, but a friend recently told me I could be making twice that if I joined his company in San Francisco. It got me thinking, but even though I love San Francisco and spend about half my time there anyway, it would take more than a $100k/year salary increase for me to go to an office every day. The actual number it would take for me to do that would be about an extra $200k/year.

If you currently work remotely, how much would take for you to go back to the office?

If you work in an office, how much of a pay cut would you take to be 100% remote?
http://www.donaldguy.com/Flappy-Doge2048/

I contributed.

(warning: your CPU may cry)
This. I still code in VB6. Alot.
There are things built into some standard libraries that are able to be combined in a way that produces a list intersection, but that are O(n^2). I prefer working in high level languages as much as the next person, but there's no substitute for knowing basic algorithms and data structures.
Ah ok, yeah now I totally understand :) Thought it was the whole 'Does any one even use PHP' getting thrown around again.
Not really. They're late by several centuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_variant