skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was tied in to Adobe Bridge which is tied into the other apps.
Ok. Waiting for "Flappy 2048 4D" now.
I recognize Stephen Merchant's face used as 'Tim Burke' in the 'Hire the Best Candidate' section. Are these all famous mugs, or is that the only one? I don't think I recognize any others.
Is the flow of time regular?
I couldn't agree more with this.

I'm lucky enough to live in an area that has sub-optimal cell reception, there is no 3g in a ~200 meter radius from my place, only 2g. It used to annoy me but then I got used to it and when I leave home I just let my mind wander and by the time I get 3g coverage again I'm too deep in my stream of thought to feel the need to check my phone.

That 20 minutes walk to the office each morning with myself is amazing, I can focus on the blockers I found the day before at work and more often than not, find solutions or at least work arounds, since it's essentially a distraction-free environment.
This is pretty incredible what's happening. I think both 2048 and Flappy Bird are the first games that can be called memes. I don't think this phenomenon has happened before? To understand the value in them you have to understand the history.
He forgot category theorists...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7414767
Unreal is _very_ good despite its flaws. I have used a bunch of them and Unreal was the clear winner among them. I too have left the games industry but may come back in some years and this is a good sign for me. I may start with Unreal. If I were better off financially, I'd try right away with the 19$ a month thingy.
"Also, kind of ironic to note that Cuban made most of his money by selling his company to Yahoo"

An irony yes but doesn't detract at all from the point that he is making.

One can recognize that something is wrong but still play the game and take advantage of the fact that others play by a certain set of rules.

Cuban's perspective comes from his interfacing with many entrepreneurs and he sees the zeitgeist in interactions with people seeking funding.

If you've ever watched Shark Tank and have seen him grimace you would understand where he's coming from.
heh, I think you'd be surprised. Doing it well would mean hiring photographers, texture artists, illustrators, and so on. I'd think it would be like a collaborative still life if anything — people working together to create a perfect depiction of something, even if (as in the original still life paintings) it's just a plate with some grapes. The fun is in the process, and people will pay for it too!
my idea: a social network for startups who believe they are changing the world. It will be called ignoranceOfYouth.com.

In all seriousness, fixing my local animal shelter's web site has a bigger impact on this planet than 99% of Silly Valley's app lottery.
"FPV Flying" (First Person Video) of an R/C plane or quadcopter is quite similar, although obviously you're not in said vehicle.

The challenges there are mostly around downlink and latency, with analog video being the standard for its favorable latency and signal fade characteristics.

Many flyers do add a few more channels to their existing radio control systems in order to use camera gimbals with head tracking to allow the true "first person" experience you suggest.

Obviously for a real vehicle something like modern in-dash parking systems using stitched camera views to build an immersive environment would be more practical than a gimbal, although software latency is occasionally harder to control than that of hardware.
Money becomes a power if you have a lot. Money then becomes more than just a medium of exchange, it becomes a capacity of will.
There's also the math-themed band from the movie "Proof" that had a silent song they called "i" (their imaginary number).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377107/quotes?item=qt0392968
> The best way is a browser extension, but even that has its pitfalls (firefox especially since there's no real sandboxing).

I would be greatly interested if you could expand on some of the pitfalls of browser extensions and how they differ among browsers. Thanks in advance!
Variance is production-oriented which, for data visualization, requires a ton of the "designer interface" as much as it does from the "developer/analyst interface".

The CSS is broken out into necessary structural bits (where everything is gray, there are no margins, &c.) and then into visual themes.
If you aren't a designer, you can just use the stock theme.
If you are a designer then you can start from the ground up to build the visual identity that you need.

At no point do you ever have to start throwing `!important` everywhere to override our styling decisions.
We intend to release actual SASS/Compass mixins so that you can generate the structural CSS directly in your workflow instead of juggling multiple CSS files and their implicit relationships.

As for IE9, it's all flexbox issues.
All of the charts are responsive, and Variance leans on flexbox CSS quite a bit (which IE9 does not support).
The tax agency said Wednesday it owes money to 918,600 taxpayers who did not file a 2010 tax return. Total amount up for grabs: more than $760 million.

It is possible that some of these people have other sources of income that they did not pay taxes on that the IRS does not know about. Including this income might cancel out some of the over-withholding and result in zero refund or even owing the IRS. There are also people who have complex tax situations that might require hiring a professional tax preparer at a cost of hundreds (or even thousands in the case of some Americans living abroad). It may not be worth it to pay money to get a small refund.
>>It doesn't seem like this lifestyle is fundamentally sustainable for society (foraging does not scale).

And consumerism is?
First, even if the companies did know, there was probably a tacit agreement with the NSA that the NSA would always allow them plausible deniability. "Not only are you doing your country a great (and legally-required) service, but everyone involved will go to their graves with the details. Have you heard about how [competitors/famous-companies X, Y, Z] have fully cooperated for decades? You haven't? Exactly."

The NSA seems to have been forced by events to break that likely mutual-understanding.

Second, what does it mean for a "company" to know something? What if one compartmentalized group of employees know – perhaps ex-military/intelligence people themselves – and believe they are both compelled to comply and to keep the full details from upper management (for everyone's protection)?

Does that count as the "company" knowing? I could see the CEOs saying, as they have, "no", and the NSA saying, as they are here, "yes".
100 Petabytes of Cloud Data
Why are there so many different ways to measure disk usage?
Even at working 25 hours a week, a freelancer can make a good income.
oops, my arithmetic was wrong, but my point was right... I think?

If it's 21:00 in a timezone that's GMT-3, you take 21:00 - (-3) and get 00:00, the correct GMT time. No?

Oh, I see your point, it says nothing about rollover.

Okay, I dunno. Times are confusing.
I want to be able to see through other people's vehicles.
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If a start-up can figure out a way to provide the mass financial information that Bloomberg provides and charge even 1/10th of what Bloomberg charges ($20,000 per year), it would disrupt the monopoly that is Bloomberg.
Official Says NSA's PRISM Targets Email Addresses, Not Keywords
The tale of Docker on Windows (or: I wish I had a Mac)
Good news, such a keyboard is already over 30 years old! http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861
Ctrl-F "red dw" - not disappointed. But yeah, it's a little disturbing that ideas once considered ridiculous are making their way to the real world.
Can design save Silicon Valley?
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HOw is this different from cdn.js? I already use that, and it too is on Cloudfare.
How does this project fit in with the web components standard? Seems like you would want your nomenclature/long term direction to be in line with that. This is an interesting project, but as far as the battle for mindshare goes, I'd be betting on Mozilla/Google...
This is amazing.

Although I have to try to figure out how I am going to explain why my work isn't getting done now...
Huh? The game server instances would still need to sync between themselves, so this really wouldn't address latency.

Rather then having the latency between the client and the server, you'd instead have latency between the two servers.
Could MH370 have been "swapped" mid-air?
You ever read "The Glass Bead Game" by Hermann Hesse?

He was pretty prophetic, apart from it is not being played by monks.

edit - the interesting game that is developing is the iterating of simple games as turns in a game on the playing field of github.

Humour seems to have value inside this game, which is not surprising given the form.

It also has a fair amount of value outside it as well, which you might want to keep in mind.
Done.

http://hnplays2048.herokuapp.com

Github: https://github.com/grant/hnplays2048
The revival of Full disclosure from P2P
The Full disclosure BitMessage Channel - > Name:"Full Disclosure" / Address: "BM-2cUJLnjw3CdmKv3x9cgCLHY54sTAwFjbmZ"
A few months ago I had to drop my spam threshold from 5 to something like 2.5 -- my spam issues cleared up immediately.
If they're going to go that far they might as well include a picture of the dog with humorous car-related statements in Comic Sans floating around its head, maybe even ones poking fun at NASCAR, e.g. "SUCH REDNECK", "MUCH CRASH"
What I'm excited about for is the infinite view distance for reading. Right now I have to strain all day to view text which is far too close for my eyes. I'd love to get to focus at the horizon and still be able to read.
I already took Crypto 101. Where are the next ones? :)
What made you want to do this? Exercise?
I used to think like that a lot but more and more I wonder if it is really a good idea to go through life in a way so you have it nice when you retire.
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In the case of the shirt, there isn't confusion about if it is a soft drink, but a lawyer could successfully argue that a customer might buy the shirt thinking it was a coca-cola shirt. If the coca-cola trade dress did not exist, it is extremely unlikely that a shirt with that design would be marketed.
This is something that YC can help with, though. They have shown a willingness to be much less risk averse than the average VC, and are at least making an effort to seek out long shots that probably would have trouble raising funds for a 10 year horizon project (such as SpaceX) on their own. YC can help a non-Elon Musk get started in the right direction for some of these projects, put in some money (both through YC VC and as angels), and help introduce these teams to the right partners at the right VC's for raising the right funds at the right time. This doesn't make it a sure thing that this will lead to more Tesla/SpaceX successes, but it can only increase the odds. Bravo.
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Edward Snowden Ted Talk: Here's how we take back the Internet [video]
Now, we just need a service to archive messages, like BitText.
Such drive. Much fast. Wow.
will_brown, your title has nothing to do with the article.
You dont get access to the source with Unity though, which is a huge thing. You can get Sourcecode licenses for Unity but thats where they start charging big money. The same is true if you want to publish for consoles.
RiveScript is a FOSS chatbot scripting environment that you might want to try:
http://www.rivescript.com/
http://www.rivescript.com/rivescript
http://www.rivescript.com/aiml

The original interpreter is based on Perl, but there are other first-party libraries:
http://www.rivescript.com/interpreters
This dog just went for $2 million at a Chinese pet fair
I thought it was interesting (and a bit funny) to see powered exoskeletons on an RFS so close to Elon Musk's companies, given the running joke about him being the real life Tony Stark.
So my lab is working on treatment and vaccine candidates for early childhood infections -- some of which have severe health impacts in second and third world countries. We're primarily government funded (state and NIH), but we'd love more collaboration with our clinical counterparts, especially not in the US. Would YC back a company whose sole purpose is to interface between wetlab people and people people? I would like to setup a group that does this, but its seems infeasible without the right corporate connections.
I like this very much. I used to do very similar with PHP, but I'm now a Python dev. Sometimes, just sometimes, writing plain old simple html is easier, and having a basic include would save a ton of heartache for maintenance.
Actually this is a different but related area that Steve Mann calls mediated reality. It's essentially a level beyond AR by not only augmenting what you see but manipulating what you see (improved human vision is an example).

Meta is trying to achieve this through their AR glasses, which Steve Mann is part of.
This stuff is basically at the CISSP CBK level, i.e. essentially worthless except as screening questions. Maybe it's ok as a baseline, but you really want something deeper and more relevant to your specific position.
Hey, please replace Google Groups. It's the worst best solution out there. We use Google Groups a lot for our b2b software trade association (http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com)

One key question. Typical startup conundrum. How can I rely on you to keep the discussion archive alive for the long term when you're just starting out with no revenue? Are the archives easy to export and rehost?
That's really cool! I've only tried my hand at some small wood working tasks. The price of tools makes me stay away from it generally.
What's this missing that the consumer version will have?
Agreed, grandfather was wrong to say "official language" (not really "flawed logic", just wrong.) It's just being pedantic though; I knew what he was getting at.
I think it depends on what your end-goal is.

If you're interested in creating a production application that uses Crypto, you should use existing high-level systems, and learn how to minimize your own areas of vulnerability. (Similar to your link)

But some people enjoy algorithms, and enjoy playing with information.
That's a different goal, and a different objective, and would understandably have a different reading list.

For example, I went through a period a while ago when I was really enjoying learning about the development of the Apple II. As part of that, I read through the reference manual, and enjoyed learning various memory locations and what they did (None of which I remember, fwiw..)

I had a fun and relaxing Sunday afternoon reading the manual.. But I wouldn't expect those "skills" in Apple II memory locations to be particularly applicable to modern application development.

If you want to write an app, use tools. If you want to learn for the sake of enjoyment, that's awesome! Just remember the historical context, rather than trying to re-implement older bad practices.
We're not really interested in making fun of people. If we sponsor the car, better believe we'll be watching and rooting for Josh Wise.
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So you can see your tweets ;)
It's more like religion & spirituality. Religion is about the rules for a population. Spirituality is about personal practice & morality.
What specifically are you hacking away at?
Tesla would not exist if Elon Musk hadn't bet his personal fortune. He showed terrible results at first so all his investors gave up on him. Your average YC founder would not have been in a position to pony up $40M to do the Series E himself.
Group files complaint against Verizon on 'forced' VOIP conversions
I'm willing to bet that it took more time to write and setup the homepage than to write the generator itself.
The disagreement is over whether the non-rewarded computation is a "waste." I don't think it is, because it's crucial to the operation of the network.
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The company I work for doesn't have a contract with a catering company, but we have catered lunches. I think you overestimate the number of long term contracts companies enter into with catering companies. While catering companies may have a large number of those contracts, the percent of companies that can afford/want to pay for them is not large. Reducing the cost and quality absolutely represents a quality of life increase (I don't live in California, and I would love to use them).
How many people really need or want attention? I somehow know that nothing I have ever done or will do would ever earn me any attention, so it must be the case that I don't need it or I'd be very unhappy right now.

Is this a Silicon Valley thing?
Yeah, the "instagram" of audio. A lot of producers do this kind of post-production (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5eJOhUeWPY)
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When you're lodging in Breckenridge during Spring Break, there's plenty of places that you can stay. There's Breckenridge rental homes, which are ideal if you have a group staying with you. For smaller options, a condo or apartment might be just the right size. There's also several hotels, resorts, and motels to consider. Since the ski season has been extended until April 21, you can also stay in a ski-in, ski-out rental which puts you right on top of the action. If you're flying in and lodging in Breckenridge, many places will shuttle you to and from the airport for free or a very low fee.
Ah - so we've been focusing our hate on the wrong entity?
Its more fair then the "what can I make you code under pressure, without references, while I stare at you" tests, and its more like what you are hiring them to do. Its also good for figuring out who you don't want to fly across the country to interview with you. It also lets people self select and go- I don't know how to do this- maybe this isn't the right job for me. I'm assuming these tasks are toy tasks and the company isn't getting IP value from them- I'd let your candidates open-source what they build, so long as they don't say why they (really) built it.
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Thanks for the link, we will be experimenting with cdnperf in the coming weeks, and make the move if we are happy with it.
Google Earth Discovers Woman Trapped On Deserted Island For 7 YEARS
Try this: http://www.autistici.org/en/get_service.html

However forget about the second optional requirement. The way the SMTP works, means that at some point your email messages must be read and processed by the server, if you can't trust it, you already lost. The only way to be "safe" in that regard is to encrypt the payload with GPG as already suggested.

Furthermore, server-side encryption of your stored emails is indeed possible, but it will render impossible for the provider to offer basic functionalities like search in the web ui.

If you're really concerned about privacy issues and really want all your email encrypted you might be better off self hosting your own mail server, but be warned if you don't know what you're doing and you don't take proper care of it, you'll end up in a situation that is even worse than using something like gmail.
Are you sure that's the quote you wish to use to defend the validity of this iteration of 2048? Because I would argue the amount of "progress" and "achievement" has very diminishing returns other than validating this as a meme post.
I would mention that not-knowing-you-know something may not be a matter of hiding or repression but a matter of factors inherent to human "computation" - if we make the assumption that the most important kind of human knowledge does not come as static facts but as dynamic algorithms, ways to do things.

Assume a person has a bunch of algorithms available to them. They may not be able to tell if algorithm X works with problem Y until they start interacting with problem Y and find out that heck algorithm X does work.

With this approach, we can imagine knowledge that actually can only exist hidden within multiple of level not-knowing, at least if knowing is being able to fully characterize one's abilities.
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Book: https://9d0df72831e4b345bb93-4b37fd03e6af34f2323bb971f72f0c0...
It's mostly a problem of conflating many different emotions under the one umbrella-term of "happiness." If, by happiness, you mean contentment, then removing desire can give you that. If, by happiness, you mean relief or satisfaction or excitement, then no, removing desire will not give you those.
You have the power to get your teeth fixed by someone. If you did not have money, you'd have to use other forms of power to get it done (calling a favor, threatening, bartering, etc), or perhaps you couldn't get it done at all because you lack any source of power that's sufficient.
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http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surgeon-simulator-2013
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/qwop
You're welcome! And I agree that the upsides of CDNs are overrated - but in fairness they do have the benefit of being very easy to use, high performance, and ease the bandwidth costs of applications. The geographical proximity thing is a nice feature, and expensive to reproduce. Of course, even these upsides come with their own downside: front-end developers have gotten into the habit of including every lib under the sun. Heck, it's just a script tag! This makes the page heavier, which makes the CDN even more indispensable, and it leads to a downward spiral of browser-hosted bloat-ware that requires a CDN to load in a reasonable amount of time. This is, of course, a win for the CDN sponsoring companies.

What's remarkable to me is how ubiquitous and unquestioned the use of CDNs has become.

BTW NoScript/Ghostery don't address the CDN issue. They don't actually block CDNs, they just block explicit trackers (mainly in the forms of iframes and scripts linked to known-bad hosts).
Perhaps related: There's an app called "Shapes" on iTunes where the devs deconstructed popular songs into "shapes", basically a set of keys that will sound good with the song no matter what you play:
http://www.playshapes.com
You're completely missing the point. Yes, "seller" is a good word, but there are dozens of other paradigms for selling.

If I have a Rembrandt painting, I am a seller... But do I want to sell like Walmart, or do I want to sell like Sothesby's?
On your first bullet, naming functions and variables, I think that is important, sure but I think, and this may be blasphemy, that it is a little overblown. Many would make that seem like the most important thing but I think you can be a competent programmer and a valuable without being great at naming. For one, it is very subjective. You may think 10 compound words resulting in 100 character variable name, ala Java or .NET, makes perfect sense, while others think it is ridiculous. Also, I'm not sure I think "technical debt" is a real thing. If you have not dealt with complexity or algorithms then you may not be doing the kind of programming many other people are doing. Also, as a programmer, if you don't know basic algorithms and data structures, for me all the knowledge of what is hip is not a great substitute. But I can agree with a lot of what you're saying here.
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I was just thinking about this the other day. How weird would it be to have a technical interview for a job where you and the employer both hook up via OR, walk up to a virtual computer, and start coding at a computer inside the game?

Things are about to get crazy.
Then suggest pip first. If they need pip, they can easy_install it.