skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its interesting that since publishing this at least two other bits of smartphone based mining malware has appeared.

clearly these malware authors have too much time on their hands I mean unless you harness multiple thousands of smartphones together and make a bitcoin mining smartphone botnet theres no way you can make enough money to make this worthwhile.

It does speak to the entrepreneurial nature of malware authors though. Rather than create more wallet stealers, these guys are constantly striving to find a new "magic malware quadrant"
I'm surprised no journalists are taking the advantage of the views they will get by writing the opposite story. i.e. write about how many fires per vehicles capita in cars from other manufacturers vs tesla.

I personally would love to see normalized fire figures for other manufacturers like Ford, Chevrolet, Honda, etc.
I don't think you got what I was saying. Try a closer read. The internet is for-pay; we are paying for it, and there's no way around it. The question is how we pay for it.

In your pre-eighteen-year-old case:

* Most likely you (or your parents) bought stuff from a company that advertises on the web. So you (or your parents) were paying, just not directly. And as I point out, you were paying extra.

* If you didn't buy enough of the advertised products, your internet was subsidized by other users who did. Same for people in poor countries. But these subsidies are wasteful, as the advertising overhead takes a huge cut.

* You still paid for the opportunity costs of an inferior product.

* Most importantly, you still paid for and will continue to pay for the damage to society that advertising and an ad-supported web inflicts. Ads are dishonest and manipulative. An ad-supported web is driven by click-rates, not user satisfaction, so we get the proliferation of link-baiting empty (if not manipulative) content that we all see today.

But you are right in that if we ditch advertising, we need some way of distributing the costs progressively, and make sure that people who have little still have plenty of internet and internet content access.
> He means drinking doesn't get better, so stop drinking. He doesn't mean "life itself."

I feel like you either didn't read my comment or you didn't read OP's comment history. It's not as easy as "...so stop drinking." Someone who has gotten to OP's stage in their addiction has a tough road ahead. It's a road that takes more than rote Hacker News pedantry to traverse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens

It's reasonable to assume that anyone who would write the OP or the comments in their history, could use some perspective on stopping drinking and the machinery of recovery life.

You can't possibly know what the OP meant. But I strongly suspect that it wasn't a casual: "Hey everyone, drinking is not so hot down the line, so stop now!" It is a request for help. I could be wrong, but maybe someone else might realize that it is possible to recover from the point where you might think that "drinking doesn't get better."

> ... He doesn't mean "life itself."

I'm not smart enough to know what you mean by that or what the OP actually meant with their post. This leaves me wondering: Someone has a cry for help, and this is the best comment you can come up with? I hope we aren't going to argue whether or not it's a cry for help. Though, that's probably the real issue here. I can retract my comment if you find that it is not up to spec. Pedantry above all else.
Blackberry's Software is DoD audited. If they change OS's they have to go though a lengthy re-certification program that Samsung KNOX and IOS6 only completed this 1 year ago.

The US government is one of their major customers, and a lot of business men and women like the piece of mind their phone is DoD approved for security... Even if they do nothing else to secure it.
unless this is programmable in javascript, how is it allowed by apple?

and if it is javascript, then it's missing a key feature of hypercard that made it accessible, hypertalk.

here's another hypercard inspired app:
http://infinitecanvassuite.com/
John McAfee's Last Stand (2012)
Hey man, hang in there.

Everyone in this thread has different advice from different experiences. Different things work for different people. Here's my advice: tell your friends to hold you accountable, ask them if you can call or text them when you're feeling vulnerable. Hell, move in with a friend if you're currently living alone. If you don't have anyone like that in your life, join a group like AA.

Humans can be solitary creatures if we let ourselves, and when solitary the world looks very different. Surround yourself with positive relationships and open yourself to them so they can help hold you up.
I didn't think you could run your own login and payment on Apple. Or have they changed that?
All language can be weaponized, indeed. However, Postmodernism did add an effective tool to the arsenal, which is to insist that you get to redefine the terms your opponent is using to suit your whims, and (watch the "and" here, it's important) it smeared a patina of academic correctness over that process. (Yes, it has happened since time immemorial, I'm sure, but the intellectual traditions of the past several centuries would at least have rejected it.) Intellectuals now considered this not only legitimate, but a desirable method of argument. They put fancy terms around this process like "deconstruction", but "redefinition" is really at the core. And some really sophisticated "redefinition" it is, to, as befits "intellectuals", that includes the ability not only to redefine the things your opponent said, but also to redefine the things they didn't say.

Nobody's argument can survive a "deconstruction". I don't just mean, nobody can convince anyone in the presence of deconstruction, I mean, the argument itself can not survive.
Microsoft Office Mobile now Free for iPhone and Android
It's a "private app store" (their words)—a catalog of published apps developed in PencilCase. A named feature within the app, insofar as I understand.
Yeah, its amazing they don't even think a second about contracting their software needs out.
Yep, people rarely realize this when they talk about media bias but it's a major element of influence. No matter how "balanced" a report is within itself (rarely actually balanced), if all you hear is stories about the IRS targeting specific political groups and the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi (conservative stations) or anecdotes about how much money Obamacare is saving people and how many local government programs are underfunded (liberal stations), you're going to walk away with a skewed perspective. The choice of stories and tone will tell you everything about a media organization's biases.
Planners and adlibbers
Aw, dangit! That right there is why I should always double-check my mental math with a calculator.

I should have said 20.45 minutes, not 1.## seconds. Mea culpa. It's still not a huge savings, comparatively.
I just watched a video overview of the changes. It seems like you must still mouse over to reveal the menus, even with the new option to put menus in the title bar of the window instead of at the top.
I'm very curious how many people are avoiding commenting simply because they're terrified of being dragged into an internet pissing match.

I'd be one. I typically only engage a popular repetitive internet arguments when I can make a solid point at the fringe and then back way. Even if I agree with someone's conclusion but want to point out that a piece of their argument doesn't carry water, it can turn into a disaster. The issue are just too hotbutton to bother.
I'll upgrade once Ubuntu somewhat mandates it, which is 14.04.1. It's easier to not worry or care about it.
Nope, it is my opinion.
There was also this[1] accident where a Tesla utterly destroyed an Accord in a head-on collision. Again, the fatalities were not occupants of the Tesla.

The Model S weighs roughly the same as a midsize SUV. I wonder if the difference in weight distribution makes it more or less dangerous for the other car in an accident.

[1] http://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-driver-veers-into-oncoming...
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/calculated-errors-the-... is probably a better article on the topic.
Brvty
This looks amazing. Very impressive. I hope this is successful, because you deserve it.
Grouper is hiring a lead designer in NYC
Hey HN,

We're hiring a designer to help us design the perfect night out with friends. You'll be responsible for working with the product team in NYC to define the look and feel of Grouper.

These are some of our favorite designs http://dribbble.com/grouper

A good candidate should:

- Be able to speak about the tradeoffs in your own designs

- Have a copy of Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think"

- Have a passion for building products people love

Bonus points:

- A student of behavioral psychology (e.g. habit formation, social cues, etc.)

- Interest in semantic HTML/CSS

If this sounds like you, send an email with your dribbble profile to tom@joingrouper.com and we can chat.

Cheers!
Show HN: AprilApril.js – mess with your visitors on April Fools' Day
I don't have a direct answer for you (still researching), but if you haven't read Mindstorms by Seymour Papert [1], I highly recommend it. It's generally about how computing can help kids learn problem solving in a variety of contexts, including several bits about the LOGO programming language. It's from '88, so it is definitely dated, but many of the concepts are pretty timeless.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful...
I didn't say any existed. Re-read the comment.
This is good for YC startups in the long run. When you're out raising a series A, you really don't want the negative signals when Horowitz or Khosla decide to pass.
> 2. Negative signaling risks if the participating firms passed on a startup

To me that would be the most significant reason to do it.
These April Fools' things are so cliché, I know. But I'm still learning and this was a fun little project to work on. Comments on the code are greatly appreciated.
Get through the tough, deadly part, then look into Ibogaine treatment in Mexico or Canada.
We (Lollipuff) released our application. We were undergrads at Nebraska, Iowa State, and Idaho: https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/102/lollipuffs-ycombinator-ex...

(Though I did a PhD at GT, and David worked at Google post-ITA acquisition. :-/ However, our CEO did neither.)
Thank you for mentioning the cash injection. I was starting to wonder where RIM was getting all this money they keep losing quarter after quarter.
Seems good, but the honest competition to this would be all the other tablets with styluses.

Surface Pro, Galaxy Tab, Asus Vivotab Note. Each hit vastly different price ranges (Surface Pro ~$900 high-quality device, Galaxy Tab rounds out $500 mark, and Vivotab Note hits $300).

I doubt Sony can beat the Vivotab Note on price / performance, and I doubt it can win on flexibility vs Android or Surface Pro.
Thanks so much! I don't know if I deserve anything, but it definitely has been buckets of blood, sweat, and tears. :)
Indeed, the local Jack-n-the-Box has a nice kiosk through which you can place an order and pay.
The same way it calls everyone you know your "friend"?
I got a kick for a second imagining the band Muse as a YC company.
A "hand-drawn" map of Toulouse
yes, but some of us have higher standards of creativity than the 100th version of 2048 or the front page of reddit.
Those companies can be fantastic environments to grow and learn. Not everyone knows at 21 that they want to be an entrepreneur, much less has a great idea that they want to pursue.

Muse uses technology to tackle very traditional industry-type problems - career planning and recruiting. A team with a combined 5-10 years at McKinsey and the exposure to an international network of thousands of very smart and career-driven people (plus lots of client companies) is exactly who you would want for this kind of company.

Yahoo and Google were started by PhD students. AirBnB by designers. Marissa Mayer planed to start with McKinsey, Sheryl Sandberg actually worked there (and in politics). Peter Thiel was a lawyer and derivatives trader. Marc Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle.

Why all the hate for people who have not dropped out of college / have worked in another industry? Clearly great entrepreneurs come from all sorts of backgrounds.
I've looked in the mobile-game market and most of the people I met told me, they have to sell mini-games to publishers/sponsors to make money.

They have to think what the sponsors want, not what they or the players want.
Hypercard was what I first started developing on back when I was young. Great to see it come to life again.

Javascript instead of Hypertalk though... ;)
The problem with this kind of initiative is that it uses humans difficulty with recognizing the scale of large numbers.

We see a savings of $400 million and think "we should do this!" But it's a drop in the bucket even if it were that much of a savings.

If each government employee needs to change their font, or needs to set it as the default font, or needs technical support to configure the defaults in their word processor. If IT needs to modify images to use this font as a default. Just these actions are going to cost a significant portion of that $400 million when you consider it across the millions of federal staff.

This also assumes things like the government is actually paying for ink or toner in quantity, instead of, for instance, holding a contract with Xerox who charges per impression rather than based on how much ink you use.

It also assumes that there is no difference in legibility between the fonts. That people with vision impairments will not have difficulty with reading the document.

An easy way to think about whether an initiative like this is reasonable is to think about whether it makes a lot of sense for any individual to do. Do you think you, individually, could realize any significant savings by changing your fonts? If it only makes sense when millions of people do it at once, and even then only when certain assumptions are met, and then only saves a few dollars per person per year, then it actually is more likely to cost a lot more in overhead to make sure it happens than it will ever save.
Gnome-Shell convinced me to switch away from wmii.

The trick is to use extensions. In particular, the "shellshape" extension for GNOME Shell is a pretty good approximation to sane tiling window managers.
Aha! I understand now, and I also agree that our positions aren't that different. I happen to work for a media operation, and I tend to think they would outsource the whole operation (writing, editing, layout) to a computer, if given the chance. So, I'm a more of a Grinch about these innovations.

I hope you're right, because contemporary journalism clearly needs to be doing something better with its time.
Again, being able to use some existing Android apps is a feature, not the point of the phone
It's a little confusing what functionality is where. I get the sense it's a OS X development suite (à la Adobe's ability to publish native iOS apps) with some kind of app companion (to include AppDrop?).

I think it remains to be seen exactly how much "programming" you can do natively on iOS
Ask HN: How do I deal with the "unpaid overtime crowd"?
The moment I step through my work door I set a timer for 7.5 hours. Once that timer is up, I close all my work, and go home.

There are 4 people on my team, who I honestly think just do not have their own lives. They come in at 8am, and leave around 10. Every single day.

I am at the bottom of our "scoreboard" for bug fixes, yet I work the most efficiently. They have 3x more fixes than I because they just choose to sit here for hours and hours and hours and just work, I don't get it.

Now I look bad in comparison, management doesn't give a shit (obviously) and I have already had my job threatened. "I have no problem buying out the your contract, you're the least effective on our team". And "Why can't you be like _________ and __________?"

My favourite part is, I designed the entire UI/UX for the app, I coded all of it for over 15 mobile devices. These people do not have the same skill set as I do. I explained everything to management, and they just told me "I don't buy it, I expect you to unofficially make up yours hours".

Now they want us to come in on Saturday. Of course the rest of my team has no problem with this, but I run my own company and any second I can find that is free, I'm using, and bet your ass I'm working on my own shit on the weekend.

I've never been so stressed out in my entire life.
Most normal cars survive "normal" crashes just fine, don't they?

Tesla buyers tend to be sports car buyers who want to drive fast. Whether this means we should expect accidents with more force or that Tesla should anticipate this and design accordingly is debatable.
"not people seeking the shelter of Google, McK, Bain, etc."

It seems that by leaving such companies to form startups, such individuals would represent the very definition of 'risk-taker'...
I wouldn't say they're risk averse. This is the second company they've started and they're 25.
Bonus: Educated at top-level schools and companies.

This is one of the best YC applications I've seen. Smart people working on a huge opportunity that they understand and have some traction in. Numbers and initial strategy suggest they've done their homework and can succeed.

This is exactly who YC should want.
This is the company that built the swedish travel planner, just check their site out: http://www.forslerostjerna.se/cm2f/default.asp

I know that they tried to recruit a 'creative pascal developer' about a year ago :)
Focus Life Gear – clothing made of RF shielding fabric to curb mobile device use
Overall, not good. While it may seem nice that microsoft is adopting other platforms its only doing so that it will remain the defacto standard for business.

In the 90's the argument was, "I use windows at work, so I should use (buy) it at home." Now in 10's it'll become, "I use windows at home, why should I stop using it work?"
Senator: Ban violent video games, but I traffic guns
On an unrelated note, does anyone know if YC is investing their $[18]k using their SAFE security or will they continue using Series AA?
Thanks @kjemperud!

Note - there were plenty of other amazing talks at the summit. But I could only pick a few to mention here in order to condense the post into something that fit around the framework of the Hooked Model.
Pittsburgh has more interesting cars than I'd expected: I've seen an orange lambo or two, and an Enzo...

Not to mention all the cool stuff that comes out during the Vintage Grand Prix.
There's no such thing as bad press. As long as Tesla has people looking at them they're going to use the opportunity to push their product.
This is Great advice! I think op and myself can handle a single day and maybe 2 with the third being the hardest. I know for a fact that exercise helps a lot but taking these three days to really get it in and leave the weekend for the fun is super. Once I start seeing results from the exercise I know I'll want to get in more workouts over time. A great way to slowly wind down the drinking without the anxiety and other symptoms of withdraw.
I had similar misunderstanding before reading comments from biologist http://www.reddit.com/u/Unidan on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1a16ga/earths_north...

It is not zero sum because of depleting of soil's carbon pool and other resources.
The number of people who are smart and also go to those schools and get hired by those companies is a small number compared to the population of "smart people" at large.

A bias toward people coming from those places indicates that the same old fashioned "good ol' boys" style network is a much bigger factor in "success" than intelligence or any other measure of capability.
You're right. Just submitted the Wikipedia link not to spam the new submissions page.

Here is my original comment under the ink-saving story of the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7488218
Take it easy people. If what people get after publishing their applications is divertory criticism, it would discourage others from doing same.

Today is the deadline for YC. The idea is to give applicants final ideas to help in their application. That's what this thread should be about.

Ladies, thanks for publishing.

If there are international applicants that have been successful, please share. If you are ok sharing privately, I'd really appreciate it. My email is on my profile.
There are legal requirements to publish many things as Paper, so the Fed will be in the business of printing for a long time.

I think for this solution to work they should actually consider even more extreme type faces, font sizes, and shades of gray. How are we to know that just making the letters "weight" lower wouldn't have the same effect?
Clearly we should commission a team of 12 experts to study which fonts cost the most to print, their legibility by a group of 100 Americans who represent the diverse age and backgrounds of American Citizens, and how fast they can read them, factoring their average wage to also value the man power cost of the new fonts.

To this end I'm submitting to my senator a proposal that outlines a $1 billion earmark for research in to the cost savings available through a mandate to use an alternate, but yet undetermined font. Additionally to avoid copyright issues on fonts, $4 billion will be set aside to find a team to create a new public domain font that will be accessible to anyone.

In as soon as 5 years we should have a new font selected, and as early as 2030 all new documents will be printed in the new font. Lastly all existing public works will be reprinted in the new font. We expect completion of this project by 2050.

By 2050 the war with Russia, and China should be over, and the United States of the Northern Hemisphere will be operating in only one language Chinglussian. All documents will be printed in this.

Adding the additional characters that Chinglussian requires should only cost another 8 Bitcoin. (the rate of inflation on BTC is expected to be practically infinite as all the worlds wealth packs in to 40M coins). We have already reserved those 8 Bitcoins, so as long as they aren't lent to another group in the next 35 years the proposed budget will account for that.
I made this list with some of the variants of 2048

http://abimaelmartell.com/2048-showcase/
If his CEO friend didn't know he was doing this, they would not be acting together - the friend would not be performing any action at all. But if they communicated with each other and agreed to act this way (like Apple and Google did), then it would be collusion.

But even if it wasn't outright collusion, it could still be ethically questionable to limit another person's opportunities just because you're afraid of losing someone's friendship.
Congrats!

I really like the site and the concept. Two things:

1.) How do you make money? As a potential investor, I wish this was more transparent. One of the reasons I use Betterment and Wealthfront for equities is that their fees are very clear on their homepage. Because real estate has a history of hidden fees, I think it's important to highlight this right away.

2.) What does "$235m+ in Transactions" mean? Closed through RealCrowd? In funding? Previous closes with the principals of the company?

Wish you guys the best of luck, and am excited to watch you grow!
And if this were about typical consumers, I might agree.

But this is about the government, who most likely has a contract with a supplier, locking them in to their ink prices when they buy the printer.

And, if nothing else, getting approval to buy a printer will take longer and require more paper work than getting approval to buy ink.
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