skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I notice that all the companies you mention were in earlier YC sessions, the last being Optimizely in W10.

I've noticed, the companies I hear about going through YC now seem to progressed further along than companies in earlier YC sessions. I admit, this may be due to media reporting bias of covering companies that have product and traction, but I'd like to see some stats comparing YC companies by session and launch dates. I suspect we'd find that more companies being admitted into current sessions are already further down the development track than earlier in YC history.

Of course, this should be expected. YC has grown significantly, and has a ton of media attraction. It has become a signal of success, so YC has more applications from companies which are already seeing success and YC gets to limit their risk by taking on companies further down the track.
FubuMVC is finished after 2.0 release
So build more effective mass transit systems... We have to work harder as a nation to make it a point of pride to use public rather than private transit. We got ourselves into this pickle by convincing everyone that owning your own car was the ultimate status symbol, when in fact we have merely traded the tyranny of transit schedules for the tyranny of parking garage fees, gas taxes, foreign oil imports and trade imbalances.
This is a great article. Thanks for the post. I'll be sharing it around.
> That smiley face looks like the face of someone that just passed an acid test. -- ‏@alekslitynski

I remember the mess I saw on my PSP when I tried it out when Acid 2 was important.
Nothing is for free, but the article clearly states that the released RHEL doesn't have good enough ARM support, which means CentOS/RHEL 6 can't do ARM well.

If the CentOS project decides to take on ARM when RHEL is released, it's a matter of resources.
You realize that this had to have been in development for months if not years prior to this release, right?
Make cars unusable first, and then a decade later a decent public transit system will arise.
The major advantage (depending on your use case) is that your dataset is not limited to the size of your available memory.
Installing Windows with cobbler
liberals' great claim is that they don't enforce any social order. They are about freedom, you can do anything you want, believe anything you want, want anything you want !

I think you are really confused, that's some anarchists and libertarians. Liberal democracy is about the idea of a social contract and trying to balance the greatest freedom for the greatest number, not limitless individual freedom. It has always been philosophically against limitless individual freedom as it considers that damaging.
I don't like the weekly sales and store, and I'm afraid such things and their growth could eventually lead to destroying what was originally great about Humble Bundles.

I really like the expansion into more than just games... the eBook bundle is great!
>> Safety for the merchant.

Sorry, but f*ck the merchant. We have thousands of years of history of consumers being ripped off by merchants. Laws and payment methods have spent the last few decades arranging themselves on the consumer's side and you want to rebalance evrything in favour of the people who have (historically and continually) been ripping the rest of us off?

No thanks.
Intel Acquires Wearable Startup Basis Science for $100 Million
Cryostasis: surgeons will soon revive gunshot victims using suspended animation
That would change if they didn't give people the ability to park on the street.
Not unless you're trying to compete with Intel. Consider the various bitcoin ASIC miners: beat all other technologies for solving that problem for an investment of a few million.

However, algorithms are so rarely the stumbling block for applications; data storage, management and communications are. The major exception is graphics, hence the GPU.
Diversity of focus. To start I have nine monitors attached to my laptop via the internal video card & four DisplayLink docs. They are placed around me in such a way that requires that I do a small amount of refocusing throughout the day as I move from monitor to monitor. I also sit next to a window and will make sure to stand up ever 30 minutes to an hour and focus far into the distance. I do this because my eye doctor was growing concerned that my eyesight continued to get worse when it should be stabilizing. Since I've gone to what some may consider to be an extreme in terms of constant eye refocus my eye's have stabilized and haven't changed for a decade. Your results may vary.

Here's my setup if you are curious:

https://defaultstore.com/mydesk.jpg
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It's meaningless because the 'market' of which share is measured is an arbitrary classification.
What Can Macklemore Teach You About Being an Entrepreneur?
Cool project. I recently did a similar project that involved controlling an Arduino from Node.JS. A friend suggested I use Firmata, which is a standard protocol for talking to Arduinos via the serial port.

http://firmata.org/wiki/Main_Page

Very painless to use, and the script for the Arduino is included on the Aruidino SDK examples menu. You can get up and running in Node.JS in just a few lines of code.

For what it's worth, my project involved playing the brass bells on a christmas ornament from a game of 2048.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLxCrZ49p8
Check your policy (if you haven't). It might not say anything about the doors being locked.
I think the human subconcious mind is capable of levels of pattern-matching and intuitions that manifest as vision: aka something you "know" but can't necessarily explain.

Visions aren't always correct, but they're enhanced by immersing yourself in the relevant context and data to provide your subconscious mind ample time and information to make those connections to generate those "Aha" moments called inspiration.

Richard Feynman described in one of his books the best way to appear like a genius is to always be actively learning at least 3 new unrelated topics, and you will glean patterns and details from everywhere to constantly increase you understanding of these topics, leading to inspiration.
Hey, I wrote this (12 years ago)!

And, was just yesterday thinking of an update based on Facebook-Oculus and being confined to a brand-friendly Likerverse. A possible title would be, "I have no down-thumbs, and I must dislike."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scr...
This is a great article. And it does highlight some of the reasons why I enjoy both 2048 and Threes. I bought Threes on Android the day it was released and started playing with 2048 a few days later. Threes is great when you want to really sit and plan out a game, thinking a few moves ahead. 2048 is more for quick semi-brainless fun with the patterns and numbers. It requires less mental focus, which is why people keep making one-offs to keep it fresh. I packaged up the original 2048 as a portable app over at PortableApps.com using node-webkit and am doing an update to it tomorrow. I wish I could package and sell a portable version of Threes on PortableApps.com as well so more people could enjoy it.
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In our case we will wait till next batch to reapply (we applied for the 1st time when we were "naked and stupid" ;-) )

Some months have passed, we've learned our lessons, gathered great team, got feedback from around the world and finally seeing that we're onto something. Nice thing is that on the day-to-day basis it seems that we are doing exactly the same thing as few months ago. But when looking from the time perspective we've discovered that there are changes - details really matters!

Now preparing to hit the local market so we'll make mistakes and adjust our stuff on local scale before hitting US & YC (and it;ll be also nice to show some real numbers from the market in our application).

Good luck to all S14 applicants!
In many older parts of California you can rent an apartment over a garage. Great system. Revenue for the home owner, good environment for the renter, distributed rentals. Of course that was then, right? When people talk about rentals versus homes now they have a mental image shaped by very strong zoning. That is the apartment strip, this is the single home suburb.

Compare to Japan, Tokyo in particular, with tiny homes and tiny apartments pushed into every nook and cranny.

Why do our costs keep rising? Because we have structured it that way, for the apartment owner and for uniform suburban living.
Google beats back Yahoo to reclaim No. 1 spot in U.S. Web desktop traffic
NYC Neighborhood Finder
I don't have any production experience with it, but I did load the entire Bitcoin Testnet blockchain into it without issue. In Redis the same dataset required ~6 gigs of RAM.
Snapped (Snapchat Client for Mac)
Good,now maybe you could fix that broken IndexedDB spec and come up with something more usefull...

and implement basic stuff like Summary/Details or you know some HTML5 form controls...

And some file system api, seems to me Mozilla dont care about offline webapps,since the WebSQL debacle...
Indeed, trepanation can succeed where meeker DRM fails.

It is sometimes said of great creators that they "open a vein" for their art, and "pour their blood" into their works.

Can we do anything less, as consumers, to protect their exclusive rights?
Hollywood has been doing this forever. It's pretty well done but without any people it's strangely unsatisfying.
a bitcoin miner isn't a isn't a general processing unit.It does something specific that's very very easy to optimize and implement, and you don't use latest manufacturing process but tools like easic , hence the small investment.
The Drugging Of The American Boy
> If anything the people criticizing Brendan Eich are trying to take away his freedom...

Freedom of speech isn't freedom from criticism, and criticism isn't censorship. Freedom of speech isn't freedom from social consequences for speech. Freedom of speech isn't an unconditional guarantee of employment.

Sometimes, freedom of speech becomes distasteful. I don't feel like this is one of those times, but I can understand why someone might disagree. In this situation, I see one person exercising their freedom of speech (in the form of a campaign donation) and a group of people responding with their own speech. That seems fine to me; if you disagree, could you elaborate on why, or describe what you think these employees should do instead? It seems to me that people responding to Brendan Eich should not have less freedom of speech than him.
Hah, I love 2048 hacks. Also, Firmata is the ideal way to handle something like this - I was just trying to be barebones and keep things raw.
Sounds like the Intel i860 from the late 1990s. Frighteningly fast VLIW in theory, but in practice not so much. I think untweaked code ran at 3% of max speed.
Animal testing is horrible. There are some cases where it may be necessary, but this is just excessive. There was one guy who exploded hundreds of dogs in a vacuum, basically just to see what would happen. And I bet there are probably worse things being done even today.
QWERTY was intentionally designed to be inefficient? I thought it was based on statistics of common letters or something. Care to shed some light?
For the confused: @alekslitynski is making a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Tests.
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Can you elaborate on how this helps people?

See Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking: http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Parking-Updated-Edition/dp/1... .

Parking is already very expensive in many urban areas and it's implicitly subsidized by zoning requirements. The true cost of parking is even higher.

Places built explicitly around parking (like Atlanta or Phoenix) end up paying high time costs in the form of driving.

There is no free lunch (or in this case, parking spot).
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Hopefully history remembers him as the dick he really was.
Don't worry, it's pretty new. http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html
I am saying that yours is a poor and unrealistic suggestion.
Even nobodies have the right to be dealt with fairly and receive their money back if the company dealing with them has fouled up. We've seen again and again in the bitcoin world that companies with truct built up can either take the money and run, or just fail miserably. Consumer protections are a god thing.

Chargebacks themselves are a necessary part of the trust infrastructure you talk about. Not just for new merchants, they keep the established ones honest too.
Ubuntu has great ARM support
floating point in short: computer representation of scientific notation(1) with sign bit, exponent(2) and coefficient(3) crammed in the same word.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation

2. base 2, biased by 127, 8 bits (IEEE float)

3. base 2, implicit leading 1, 23 bits (IEEE float)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point...
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Google begged Steve Jobs for permission to hire engineers for its Paris office
Microsoft made Office for the mac long before that deal was made, and it was only done as a show of confidence for the Mac platform; Apple didn't really need the money (they had more than few billion in the bank, were still profitable, and far from death). To paraphrase Mark Twain, "news of Apple's impending death had been greatly exaggerated."
Wow, that's awesome! I wasn't expecting it to be just a single shell script. A very complicated one, but still simpler than I was expecting.
Thus far, have we found even a single piece of debris that we know came from the MH370?

I just don't buy the idea that the plane ended up as far south as it did and I haven't really read of any solid evidence to support this other than one blurry satellite image with a large but unidentifiable object. If that object was in fact part of the plane, I have yet to hear of any explanation as to why the plane was that far south of it's last known position instead of continuing north west.
Transactions are not reversible. This feature is important. No, BTC cannot replace Visa/MC etc.
There is no evidence that points to QWERTY being designed to be inefficient.

http://www.economist.com/node/196071

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-t...
Wish they would have included OpenGameArt, which is currently trying to become funded. It's such a wonderful resource for the tremendous number of programmers out there that, like myself, can't draw worth a darn.

http://opengameart.org
$119 (in Australia, at least) is too much for me to try editing capabilities. How about you keep the price but only prevent me from saving? I need to know how it feels editing the documents before I commit to such price.
There is nothing that precludes public contributions to the project. The important part is that the change be useful to 'webscale' type applications.

Prior to this announcement, the only people involved have been these companies to get it bootstrapped, so the work so far looks a bit slanted to these companies.

Taken from the FAQ:

http://webscalesql.org/faq.html

"We’ll be doing everything in the open, so everyone in the MySQL community will be able to take what they want from what we do and contribute however they like."
You have to be careful what you're measuring. How well someone works in on a job is different from the first face-to-face meeting/interview. A better predictor of how well someone communicates and interacts in a team is probably (1) how well they communicate in the application process and (2) how well their previous employers said they communicate. A blind interview could still have text correspondence, programming interview questions, etc.

I still think you're not learning what you think you're learning from face-to-face. I don't have data on that, but then again, I'm guessing you don't either.
Why did 30 yo former Microsoft engineers apply for YC?
Not really though, when the Palm CEO comes out and says Jobs told him if he didn't agree to do it they'd attack Palm with patent lawsuits.
Mac Office has often surpassed Win Office in many ways; in usability for example. It is at least a different product, not better or worse.
This is a great explanation: http://daily.sightline.org/2013/08/22/apartment-blockers/
"The research hints at the rent increases caused by some of the “rent raisers” above: 6 percent higher rent per parking space in Los Angeles, 12.5 percent in Litman’s model, up to 35 percent in the forthcoming Sightline analysis."
The've already killed the mailing service :(
Opinions? This guy actively worked to deny rights from people. Would you feel the same if he had actively worked to deny rights to other minorities?

Nobody's denying Mozilla's right to hire him as CEO, just as nobody denied other companies' right to prop up apartheid South Africa. The fact is that actions have consequences, and those companies must weigh the benefits of their actions against the possibility (very real as we've seen in this case) that others will justifiably not want to associate with the business as a result.
You are right that they assume the subject is looking at a face, and so will always produce "face-like" output.

The paper includes a quantitative evaluation, in which they take a set of 30 distractor face images not used elsewhere in the study, and for each of them determine whether the reconstructed face is more similar to it, or to the original face the subject was looking at. On average, the reconstructed face is closer to the correct face than the distractor 62.5% of the time.

So it's better than random, and I think it's pretty cool work, but the quality of the reconstructions is pretty terrible, considering that a randomly chosen distractor will usually be very different from the test face (~half the time opposite sex, frequently different race, different age, etc). For comparison, it would be interesting to evaluate some simple, obviously terrible reconstructions by the same metric. For example, we could "reconstruct" the face as a image that is a single, solid color, the average RGB value of the pixels in the original face. Another "reconstruction" that it seems would very likely do better under this evaluation metric is something like the "race-gender-age" of perp descriptions in the news ("white male in his thirties").
Yeah, you're right. Really bizarre move by him given the makeup of Bay Area tech.
If I'm interpreting the visuals there correctly and some assumptions from it are correct (neither all that likely), it looks like it's fairly accurate at first, and the more images that are shown and reconstructed the more bleed-through of prior images can be sees when reconstructing.
The occasional selfies were funny :)
Would developers write better software if they had to write on slower, older machines with less memory and storage?
Rents higher than 30% of income seem pretty normal to me (living in Germany). Makes me wonder: aren't rents prone to rise to the level that people can bear? If people can bear 30%, rents will rise to that level in attractive locations.

That's part of what makes the game rigged against common people.
Don't ever forget that bittorrent was originally brought here by time-travelling librarians, and some day they may return.
Why should anyone use a currency that others are holding in an effort to cash out though?

My economic activity in that currency would enrich others who have done nothing but havng on to it. Not really an attractive feature.
It wasn't stuck at just the icons, it let you expand to see words as well. It was much better in my opinion and I rarely had it at the collapsed state like his screenshot shows.
With a payment gateway, processing billions of dollars per year is still peanuts. For instance, PayPal processed $52 billion in Q4 2013.
Sort of it makes me think of a potemkin village except it is not. I think the lack of natural items in his shots minus what is in the background is what helps his images come off as inexplicably real.
This is essentially what happened in my group when I was at Yahoo. Our group spent several months on a redesign that made it significantly more modern and easier to use. After it went live, though, this decreased the number of ad clicks by a significant number, and the people in charge hurriedly reverted all the changes back, since they needed to make their revenue numbers in order to make their bonus.

When you are stuck in a company that can't innovate because a shitty site leads to more money due to inertia, then you know you are on your way down. This leads to your best developers thinking "what the fuck did I waste all my time for?" and they will leave in no uncertain terms.
So your complaint is that the ads don't know more about you?
LLOOGG has shut down
Acid2 pass itself maybe uninteresting, but Servo also does layout in parallel (right now, not in the future). No other engines do.

http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2014/02/25/revamped-parallel-...
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"It's a mix of feelings, we're still thrilled by all the love for Threes. But it has me wanting to never make a small beautiful thing again." - Threes dev Greg Wohlwend on Twitter (@aeiowu)

I liked 2048 and its offspring, but it's a shame that this sort of rapid cloning can discourage talented game designers from working on great little games like this.
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Servo [1] is an experimental web engine developed by Mozilla, written in the Rust language [2], which is also developed by Mozilla.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/servo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%2...
Per Yegge's post about Amazon's use of interfaces everywhere internally (https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX), he/Amazon is probably the prime user.
It got bought by Data I/O and renamed Azido. I've used it briefly and it made me beg to go back to Verilog.
Not much I can add, except, "Where was this Jeff Bezos when a customer wanted to quickly flip around in an e-book on the Kindle?"
> What is wrong in the culture / education of engineering

...or, does the typical engineer's needs and tastes differ so much from the typical customer's that most engineers simple cannot not see the latter? For example, many of my friends in tech could not and still cannot see why so many consumers prefer iOS to Android given how much more customizable or "tinker-able" the latter is. The ones that get it the best are the ones that play tech support to many non-techie family members.

Engineers brains just work and see the world differently than most people.
As I understand it, Mill has no privilege mode so I don't see why you need even L4! Providing a Unix compatible API (all except fork()) is basically just building a modular emulator. Mostly grunge work once you work out the access rights matrix :-)
> "We're blind." ... "Everything must be tested."

And your solution is to do LESS TESTING? We don't know what we're doing, so let's cut back on the amount of data we can use to inform our decisions?

> "We are slaves to the numbers. We don’t operate around innovation. We only optimize."

I don't see why numbers should ever stop you from innovating. The difference between "innovating" and "optimizing" is just a difference of scale. You can make a huge change to your layout or site function and look at the numbers it the same way you'd look at a font and color change.

The quote above seems to say that people shouldn't make decisions based on numbers, and that's absurd for a company like Facebook. What should be the basis of their decisions then? Management's gut reaction? Whoever feels the strongest about a change wins?

Customer surveys and user metrics matter - both are often numbers. The real issue here isn't that Facebook uses numbers too much. If they made the wrong choice, it's because they put too much emphasis on the wrong numbers.
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