skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering if YCombinator is looking to partner up with industries like TechStars has with Disney and Sprint?

It would be awesome to see Y and or TechStars or another incubator team up with the Recording Industry! I'm surprised that industry hasn't already established an accelerator.
Requiring auto ownership increases costs much much more than making people pay for the amount of parking they use. Subsidizing car ownership for everyone is not a scheme to help the poor.

People who ride the bus have to pay for how much they use it. If you don't have to pay for the amount of city property you use to keep your car, why should we expect people to pay to ride the bus?
>These days you need a union card (i.e. a CS degree) to get a job. That's a shame. I've been refused a university position for lack of a PhD - to teach a subject that I largely invented. There's something wrong with that.

My only degree is in physics and my career has yet to be harmed by this
>> part of MSFT's injection of cash into a near death APPL and a way for MSFT to get the monopoly police off their back

Afaik, it was a deal that Jobs made (with some other parts) because Microsoft had been found to have code in its Windows' video software that came from Quicktime.

I googled this:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/stop-the-lies-the-day-that-m...
You're right, there's absolutely zero middleground.
Offline and Web have always been very funny to me. Why should it be the Web's responsibility to make offline better, it is the Web after all -- the epitome of online connectivity. If anything, it should be the mobile companies responsibility to have better offline support. Maybe they could start by not choosing to arbitrarily wipe Web browser data as the first step of reclaiming memory for the operating system (I'm looking at you, Apple)?
I think it's done to more easily deal with internationalization. Instead of making the design fit the translated text, just remove the text altogether and stick with just the icons.
Hey... I run Bloomberg Beta. I think that creating a self-fulfilling prophecy is absolutely a dynamic here. Our goal wasn't to succeed at predicting so much as it is to get to know great people before they start companies. If that action induces them to start companies, and they have a great experience doing it, but our prediction's accuracy is compromised -- that's fine. We're using data as a tool to make things better, not for its predictive value in and of itself.
Detail, detail, detail. The key is that at least there is top level visibility that the Government needs to get it right and that we need a balance between security and privacy. Hopefully there's more coming.
Actually it's more like tons of testing, data analysis, and quick turnaround time on execution.
Oracle Nashorn: A Next-Generation JavaScript Engine for the JVM
You can move paragraphs around with M-<up> and M-<down>. It also works on headlines/plain lists.

Just discovered this yesterday and wish I had known about it earlier.
While most articles on HN are about the riches and the way to the riches... This man lives in a 3 rooms apartment and does magic with his hands.

That's a truly enjoyable link.

Look at his face in the selfies, he looks happier than most!
maybe it should be free to edit, pay to share?
Funny thing - FADC (one of Dustin's groups seen in the screenshot) is getting a ton of requests today.
Theoretically that is possible if you could somehow actually show all the possible permutations of a design and throw it at enough users, but there simply are not enough users where you can get very far with such a test. Thus we still need people in this world who can design with empathy for the average user.
Besides being only a single data point the returns for one $300M fund aren't a good indicator of the returns for 2-3 concurrent $1+ billion dollar funds.
I don't think it's likely at all. It would have been discovered by now if that were true. If you want to get away with stealing $400 million you certainly don't do something that invites the maximum amount of scrutiny, as they did in closing Mt. Gox in such a haphazard, clearly minute-to-minute manner. If their aim was to steal $400 mil and get away with it they would have shut down the Mt. Gox operation in a much more graceful, deliberate, and mysterious way.

Plus Karpeles does not strike me as a criminal mastermind. Maybe that's why he's a mastermind?
2. HLS tools exist[0][1][2] to convert C to HLD for FPGA programming, these results are used in production designs. As @jangray says below, debug tools are sold by commercial vendors as a value-added capability for production teams; it's not a "freemium" market.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_synthesis
[1] http://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vivado/integrati...
[2] http://www.synopsys.com/Systems/BlockDesign/HLS/Pages/defaul...
Asian -- what kind? It's extremely common for Chinese to choose english names independently of their "true" names; the Japanese people I know don't do that.
That is about as cool as it gets!
OOB is unlikely to ever sell.
The problem there is, Intel intentionally kills any non-x86 Intel arch. For example, the Itanium was brilliant, and then they repeatedly threw it under the bus until people hated it.
You're positive about that? They could fund a campaign calling for speech restrictions for a group I'm a member of, and I'll probably feel peeved about it (or even stronger feelings), but so long as it doesn't affect the workplace, and the CEO is still doing their job, I wouldn't call for their resignation.
That would be the hope. :)
Great to see things like this back on the front page. This is what HN is about rather than tech stocks, IPO, Tesla public announcements and things that belong on Reddit. Thanks a bunch, that being said I will working on this tonight!
I think the problem is that we don't seem to have hypothesis' that guide our interpretation of the numbers.

In the absence of a guiding framework on how to interpret your data, you're bound to min-max individual criteria; we'll never know if we're just in a local maxima, however.

I'm not saying this is an easy problem, mind you. It's easy to wax poetic about having your culture guide decisions when you can point at a graph and say "yep, we're making $xx,000 less per hour".
That's part of it. The other part is that the content is so obviously secondary to serving ads and trying to get you to interact in a valuable way (to them). It's a miserable experience.
Need a beverage that deceives the mind into thinking the body has just finished exercising to release "growth factors" such as "B.D.N.F". This way, we can stay at home and keep on reading hacker news, as apose to, you know... exercising.
Ah, this reminds me of Marwencol, albeit slightly less disturbing.
It doesn't seem so weird to expect an Armenian to look middle-eastern?
> fad

You realize that iconography predates all civilization, right?
This isn't exactly right - optimizing the NewsFeed and eliminating exploration may be a more efficient UX in a way, but that doesn't mean it's better. I don't hear "reduced exploration" and think "that's way better". I'm not saying that's why FB made the decision, but Dustin doesn't know why they made it either. I'd have made the same decision as a UX focused CEO though is all I'm saying.
Tor software has the public keys of Tor directory authorities built-in. But it needs to trust those directory authorities to provide true up-to-date information about the network (Tor clients download the public keys for all the relays which are currently online and are deemed to be OK by the authorities, from the authorities (or their mirrors - everything is signed by dirauth keys.)) If the dir authorities are compromised, Tor clients are screwed.

You have to start trusting someone in a web of trust (or in wherever.) Just because you can do smart end to end encrypted communication with all the relays / with everyone you want to, someone has to guarantee that you're not being MitM'd (during e.g. DH key exchange.) At least that's my understanding anyway.
Pending Comments Update
Since some people were alarmed about pending comments, I thought I
should explain what's going on with them. Sorry for the delay, but
between implementing them and now I've had to help get the current
batch of startups through Demo Day.

To recap, pending comments are a feature we hope might mitigate or
eliminate the nasty comment threads that sometimes occur on HN. It
essentially turns HN into the sort of hard-moderated forum where
comments have to be approved by moderators before being seen, except
to make it more democratic (and less work for us), any user over
some karma threshold can approve comments.

Since the implementation touches many parts of the code, and I am
at this stage still the one who understands the HN code best, I was
encouraged to write it before I left.

The plan from the beginning was to make it possible to turn pending
comments on or off per thread. Since the simplest v1 was to have
pending comments sitewide, I released it in that form first. That
code didn't break, fortunately. The next day I finished making it
work per thread. Or more precisely per item tree; a moderator can
turn on pending comments for anything from the whole site to an
individual comment.

When I announced pending comments I said the threshold for endorsing
comments would be 1000 karma. Some people have been alarmed by
that. But 1000 was nothing more than a plausible initial value of
a variable meant to be tuned by the moderator. In fact, the threshold
never was 1000 even at first; I set it to 500 in the first release.
Maybe it will end up being 50. The only way to figure out what
works is empirically.

Indeed, the only way to figure out if pending comments will work
at all is empirically. The plan is for the moderator to experiment
with turning pending comments on for individual threads. If that
works, maybe after tuning the parameters he'll gradually expand to
more and maybe eventually just turn on the feature sitewide. Or
maybe that will never be necessary. Or maybe software will decide
when to turn on pending comments.

Nor does the threshold for endorsing comments have to be karma.
That was the obvious choice for a v1, but it would be easy to
incorporate or substitute other things like account age or average
comment score, or even introduce randomness.

It's impossible to predict exactly how pending comments will end
up working, but one thing you can safely predict is that whatever
happens with them won't ruin HN. The main moderator is extremely
sensitive to the state of HN, and if something he did was making
the site worse, he'd be quick to notice.
Cheesecake is good for you
VICE is amazing. That's real journalism. Getting out there getting to the front lines and asking uncomfortable questions.
I can understand your frustration with doctors.

Around 15 years ago I had redness and pain in my eye. It got bad enough, that although after-hours, I went to a Cigna Urgent Care center. I was examined by a non-specialist who didn't know what the problem was, but guessed it was probably a bacterial infection. So he sent me home with antibiotics, and told me to come back in "about a week" if things did not clear up. Well, a week later it was only worse, so he told me I needed to see a specialist "immediately".

I was in terrible pain. Redness, photosensitivity, etc. I get an appointment with a real opthamologist, and he said I have a viral infection in the cornea, and its serious. I had already permanently lost vision (from 20/20 to 20/50). Antivirals + steroids cleared it up, but it created a dynamic that is difficult to manage to this day.

Now with corneal ulcers, the surface of the cornea is uneven. This prevents the tear film from distributing evenly.

With poor tear film (tear break up time, TBUT) the eye becomes inflamed.

With inflammation, comes neo-vascularization, nerve destruction, and more epithelial defects. All these conspire against proper tearing, and the cycle repeats.

So - its very important to get whatever dynamic you have under control. 'Dry eyes' is actually pretty serious, but most opthamologists agree we don't have good weapons for it.

Some people have dry eyes, even though they produce too many tears. Its because their tears are defective. Like some people having high HDL, but their HDL is defective.

Almost all the OTC stuff is crap. All I can do is recommend

1) Find the best specialist in your area, and see them. I saw a cornea specialist at the Mayo Clinic for a while; they were "OK". But I was surprised they had an even more famous individual there - and she never once said "hmm, what we've been trying for the last 2 years hasn't been working, lets see what my (famous) colleague X thinks". So you have to manage your doctors with great attention. Also, my suspicion - is that cornea MDs like to operate (in my case - cornea replacement), not treat. Operating is probably more profitable.

2) For dry-eyes, you should consider a few things. I use Systane Gel Drops going to sleep. Friction between cornea and eye lids is a problem. The various PM oil formulations are too goopy; but this is the thickest liquid that seems to protect me through the night. I don't wake up with red eyes.

3) For the office, consider moisture being wicked away from your cornea by ventilation. I wear a hat and glasses. Try things that make a full seal, like something Ridick would wear, or a motorcycler. Try Wiley-X Climate control stuff. Since the seal needs to be perfect, try them on first.

4) I love my Oakley M-Frame Heater lenses. Huge, wrap around the face. I wear clear even at night if I'm not wearing goggles to protect that micro-climate around the eyes.

5) You can try the 'dry eye forums' at http://www.dryeyezone.com/talk/ .. YMMV.

I hope things get better.
I don't think a lost decade is what low-income people need right now.
Sorry, when did those threats happen?
"Yes, Pearson conceded, "there is not enough evidence to be firm about [healthy eating] guidelines", but no, the findings "did not change the advice that eating too much fat is harmful for the heart". Saturated fat reduction, he said, was just one factor we should consider as part of a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle."

So, pretty much get a balanced diet and do not overeat.
That's pretty lucky for them then, because you won't legally be able to after their bill goes through about speech in the workplace.

edit - that's a pretty unfair hypothetical, and it would be directly affecting your work then, but I still suspect you have a line, if only to avoid things ever getting a little bit too Kafka.
"We don't even need the 'political will' to do it."

30-70% of residents are homeowners and therefore real estate speculators with a vested interest in prices going up. See this comment from a homeowner in my town of Dublin, CA: http://www.arounddublinblog.com/2014/03/dublin-ca-positano-h...

There is a strong, universal, and intentionally designed political will against housing affordability.
If you have your own home, or perhaps a very forgiving landlord, an electric door strike is much superior to a servo twisting a lock. eg, this one is $40 http://amzn.com/B003TN1HAM

It won't interfere with the regular operation of the door, and can be operated by a simple relay -- the more complex mechanical bits are handled for you.

You may also be able to use an electric deadbolt with keypad like http://www.amzn.com/B0045Y1LNM with your existing keys, or even the existing outer facade so it isn't obvious to a passerby (say, your landord) that you've swapped it out.
You mean all of the time I spent writing brilliant comments just to get over 1000 karma was unnecessary? Well bah!
Your text seems almost like Turkish gov't pawn propaganda.

a 4 hour account, and a very well put together defense of the recording. Any one that speaks Turkish and listened to the full recording will not mistake the following for anything else, "I can send 4 of my guys there (Syria) to fire rockets".

>For one thing I did not hear anything you would not expect to hear from most of the statesman in the west in a similar situation.

So lets cut the bullshit. Attacking your own people to create fear and thus justify war means is TERRORISM.
It's a multitude of satellite images, combined with a Doppler analysis of satellite pings of the aircraft, plus a fuel-range analysis, plus a radar analysis of the northern half of the potential travel routes...

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.

No one knows that, yet (possibly ever). But they do know that the plane did not travel north west, as it didn't show up on the civilian or military radars of multiple countries.
> we'd been running for about 1 year and had $1m in sales at the point where we joined YC

Did that affect the valuation at which YC invested?
Leland Yee investigation: 8 shocking details from the affidavit
The npm debacle is partly your fault (and here's what you can do about it)
Help stress test my Skype replacement?
http://107.170.237.209:3006/#hackernews

or

http://107.170.237.209:3006/#hackernews-swirl

for the swirl effect...
The Logic of Facebook’s Multibillion-Dollar Shopping Spree
Last year I built something similar with Lego Mindstorms and a bluetooth control app.

http://kuxhausen.com/legoitron/

However, I stopped using it as the command strip's velcro would come apart whenever the door was slammed shut.
http://107.170.237.209:3006/#hackernews-swirl <-- for the swirl effect
Personally I love them. I buy almost every one that comes out. I'll be passing on this one, but I'd be very sad if they stopped offering weekly deals. It's a good chance to try developers/genres you haven't before.
I sincerely apologize for saying this, but should all this have been made clear since Day 1?

Not making public even a very basic whitepaper as to how to implement a site-wide change (and such a major one as well) just seems... off, given the high quality of this site otherwise.

But thanks for the explanation. Duly noted.
create new channels with the hashtag
offline webapps

Paging Dr. Oxymoron
>(the same reason they sell/create/display glossy monitors, because they demo well).

They create very few of them. The few they do create are because some of us want monitors that are not intentionally blurry. I am capable of controlling the lighting in my environment. I do not want my monitor to deliberately make everything fuzzy just to avoid a glare problem I don't have.
Deliver working software frequently
This actually makes me curious about how much the housing crisis we find ourselves in now relates to America's love affair with the car. Afterall, the explosion of suburbia goes hand in hand with that love affair. Perhaps it's a chicken-or-the-egg problem....

... but maybe not. Maybe if it weren't the demand of car-centric transportation systems, and thus car-centric city planning, perhaps the housing we would have otherwise built would have avoided the housing crisis we're sweating over now. Or would have at least mitigated the crazy supply and demand problems we're facing.
I suppose Facebook can get away with it as long as the barriers to competition are high enough. If competition was possible then users would presumably use the site with the best interface.
Can't wait until I can get a browser that uses this, especially on Android.
What company is offering that? The offer sounds enticing and I'd like to find out more but you have no link to it here or in your profile.
I thought we went to HDMI because VGA ports are terrible, and VGA starts to flake out at higher resolutions.

Is there anything stopping HDMI doing 4k at 60FPS?
Or, a perfectly good community will have turned into a wasteland where no one can live.
How do we measure growth? Its a bit opaque (at least to me) how to evaluate the growth of an early early stage organizations where paying customers would likely be in finance, biotech, and governmental/university RnD.

I agree its a bit more manageable to evaluate in b2c /b2smb / b2b cases.

I guess its also for me, I've seen so many well publicized, brilliant technologically sophisticated analytical tools startups fail over the past two years, i'm just leery of how i've seen quantitative products "grow fast" too early.

But seriously, how does one evaluate technology that (when positioned well) becomes a substrate for core product strategy for other organizations and entire technological ecosystems? This is a question I hope to know the answer to this spring :)
I think he means like Chrome OS or Firefox OS type apps, where its just locally hosted html+js in some cases.
There is absolutely zero "How to" in this article. It's purely a marketing piece.
A lightweight Ruby logger
Why don't you read a fucking ADHD support forum and wonder whether the suffering caused by poor executive functioning/nervous system disorder is real?

Why didn't they mention how many more times you are likely to die in a vehicular accident than non-adhd users?

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&q=adhd&hl=en&as_s...

Google scholar for ADHD, why don't you realize that these ADHD articles are more akin to anti-vaccination articles?
>He isn't using the functionality that Photoshop provides

And since that is the same for the vast majority of photoshop users, he provided a super helpful guide for them. It does not say "how everyone can switch to gimp".
Facebook to use satellites, drones to spread the Internet
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FPGAs aren't particularly hard to find in the PC ecosystem, especially on first-gen parts or custom jobs like Apple machines. I've seen some SSD and RAID controllers ship as FPGAs, and some sound cards bundling them for DSP use. They're usually not reprogrammable.
Who is "we"? I've never had a chance to play with an ARM server but I've been interested.
The Office 365 website offers a free months trial.
A judge would never allow that kind of grandstanding. I've worked on a price fixing litigation. What happens is that the parties hire antitrust economists to estimate the damages based on empirical data and theoretical models. Then these economists present their reports to the jury as expert testimony.
You can set the value of the karma threshold automatically, to some multiple of the standard deviation of karma for all of HN. So you won't have to constantly revise it.

I assume the distribution of karma here is exponential, so take the distribution's parameter lambda to be the highest value of karma, and set the threshold to half of the inverse of lambda. This page explains it better: http://www.phy.ornl.gov/csep/mc/node18.html
> multiple non-residence ownership taxation

One thing Copenhagen has done (in a not entirely coordinated way, with some messy parts) is to have large amounts of the housing stock just not permit non-resident ownership at all. A very common organizational structure is the resident-owned cooperative apartment building, and the bylaws usually require that you live there as your main residence as a condition of ownership: if you move, you sell. (Some exceptions for limited-time absences, e.g. if you take a sabbatical abroad, you can rent it in your absence without selling, usually for up to two years.) Another common organizational structure is buildings owned by nonprofit associations dedicated to building and maintaining good-quality housing. They rent but don't sell apartments; they do allow subletting but again with time limits. This particular class of buildings arose initially as "improve the housing of workers" type charitable initiatives (some funded by philanthropists, and some by labor unions), but the organizations have persisted to the modern era, and have continued to construct new buildings (partly through state support for construction costs).

The market is being liberalized a bit lately, with many new buildings being sold as private condominium ownership. But there are some worries that if non-resident ownership is completely liberalized, the city will become like Paris, with a large proportion of apartments in the city center being pieds-à-terre owned by people who live elsewhere, which sit empty most of the year except when the owner wants to fly in to eat at Noma or something.