skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the big difference between redo and make is that make requires knowledge of dependencies up front, and this is sometimes tricky to get right.

"as you can see in default.o.do, you can declare a dependency after building the program. In C, you get your best dependency information by trying to actually build, since that's how you find out which headers you need. redo is based on the following simple insight: you don't actually care what the dependencies are before you build the target; if the target doesn't exist, you obviously need to build it. Then, the build script itself can provide the dependency information however it wants; unlike in make, you don't need a special dependency syntax at all. You can even declare some of your dependencies after building, which makes C-style autodependencies much simpler."

https://github.com/apenwarr/redo
Gmail has done this since 2009, though it depends on good behavior from the sender.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-eas...
You can stop granting new licenses, IANAL but ability to revoke licenses you've granted (without allowance for this in the terms of the initial granting) would hugely surprise me. Of course, with the GPL that is still potentially messy.
I'll soon have to decide whether to enroll my child in the dual language immersion program at our public elementary school. Subjects such as math, social studies, science are taught in Chinese.

Anyone have experience with or know of any good studies on kids learning language in this way? How valuable is it for an American to speak Chinese vs something like Spanish or French?
We use Dropbox to make it easy to upload minor changes to your design. Layervault explain this use case very well,

http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/66790684642/announcing-dro...

we need to do a better job of explaining why Dropbox is worthwhile.
Yes, not yet via the web interface. Please email support@circuithub.com . Thanks.
I actually thought his article was pretty terrible. It's a fun, casual read for a rant, but I wouldn't hold it as much evidence of anything.

"If you don't believe this, just ask a Chinese person. Most Chinese people will cheerfully acknowledge that their language is hard, maybe the hardest on earth. (Many are even proud of this, in the same way some New Yorkers are actually proud of living in the most unlivable city in America.) "

Ha, German people told me the same thing about German when I was in Germany. Guess it depends who you ask. Grammatically, I think Mandarin is pretty simple. Pronouncing it and writing it is another story. Grammatically, I think Japanese is tougher than Chinese, writing is just as hard when using Chinese characters (maybe harder, because many kanji have different, dissimilar readings), but easier when using the kana, and the pronunciation is easy as can be. On another tangent, having sampled various metropolises, I think NY is actually very livable.

English, my native language, has plenty of bonkers exceptions.
It was likely downvoted since it was essentially content-free. While we can all appreciate a good joke, they lower the signal-to-noise ratio. This isn't reddit. A good comment says something constructive about the product.
While you are correct that it would require pretty above median savings, it wouldn't require anywhere near $125,000 back then. Interest is a very powerful force over 40 years.

From 1949 to 1989, the stock market averaged 7.2% annually. Saving and investing only $20,000 per year for those years would net you about $5m at the end.
The principals of every noteworthy company in the US probably gave some money to a politician. This is probably not even the first time a YC principal did a fund-raising activity.

My read is that YC is being used as a space, and is not giving YC funds. If this were direct to a candidate, I don't even think it would be allowed unless that candidate paid market rate for the space (or the host did and declared it as a donation). I'm not sure what the rules are for committees rather than candidates.
I wouldn't ever say that using floats compared to, say, precision decimals in any language is leaking an implementation detail.

As a user of a library/API I need to know if I can rely on it being precise or not.
Maybe I'm missing something but what is YC's involvement beyond being an event space? It seems crazy to call YC a DNC fundraising organization from this invitation?
We are currently producing thousands of units for customers, but have yet to reach Apple scale.
Nice. I remember doing this to my scientific calculator at school.

Modern colour LCDs are still polarised, so I can only view my phone and tablet in one orientation when wearing my polarised sunglasses. On the plus side, they make for an excellent real life ad-block to those annoying video billboards (which are just portrait LCD TVs).

I wonder how practical it would be to make a private display by removing the polarising film from it and then viewing with polarised glasses.
I'm not sure whether or not it's the case with Korean, but in Japanese, many homophones are tonal, though not often explicitly acknowledged as such. words like 神 (kami: god) and 紙 (kami: paper), or 席 (seki: seat) and 咳 (seki: cough) are fairly consistently spoken with a particular distinguishing intonation, which helps, along with context, to disambiguate them from eachother.
On that note, it would be great to know what AWS `User Policy` Flynn needs / expects so I could grant it a unique IAM key with limited access for creating servers, etc.
Getting Lazy with C++
The stock market averaged about 7% annually during that period (and it was a slow period. the average for most periods is roughly 10% annually).
We build before we learn, earn or burn.
You want tech to have influence in DC? This is what you have to do. I doubt it matters to Sam if the president is R or D.
It's actually quite simple. You write a short shell script to produce the output you need and redo handles the dependencies.

For example, the shell script named "banana.x.do" is expected to produce the content for the file named "banana.x".

When you say

# redo banana.x

redo invokes banana.x.do with the command:

sh -x banana.x.do banana.x banana XXX > ZZZ

so banana.x.do is invoked with three arguments and its output is redirected to a file.

$1 denotes the target file
$2 denotes the target file without its extension
$3 is a temp file: XXX, in this case.

banana.x.do is expected to either produce output in $3 or write to stdout, but not both. If there are no failures redo will chose the correct one, rename the output to banana.x and update the dependency database.

If banana.x depends on grape.y, you add the line

redo-ifchange grape.y

to the banana.x.do, creating a dependency.
redo will rebuild grape.y (recursively) when necessary.

The only other commands I haven't mentioned are init and redo-ifcreate, which are obvious and rarely used, respectively.

That's it.
Images containing text that I can't select? But.. why?
As others have said, Hack-a-Day is great for inspiration, and MAKE is great for beginners (although falls short once you gain more experience). MAKE has a bunch of great intro books to Arduino, etc. in both paper and eBook form I'd recommend checking out.

I'd recommend buying an Arduino and some basic parts and a breadboard to toy around with. The Arduino.cc Playground (Wiki) has some great resources for interesting projects. You could also buy a MAKE book and an accompanying kit, although the kits tend to be a bit overpriced.

If you're interested in a bit more thorough understanding of electronics, I would recommend checking out the Students Guide to the Art of Electronics. You can find a pdf floating around online and buy the book to support the author (who is an amazing teacher)! It runs through all the basics of analog and digital electronics while keeping it interesting and the math to a bare minimum.
> Just because you're in a market doesn't mean you can actually receive broadcast TV.

This is the problem Aereo solves, yes.
Reverse Postman
It kinda does actually.

It speaks to the fact that perception of moving faster does not match reality.
Maybe they're using Monster cables, for a better digital signal? (Kidding, hopefully obviously)
I feel like you missed the context. My understanding was "We're about to spend time discussing our culture (Core Values) at our next all hands/meeting. Let me just give you some brief background on why we as a company are doing this exercise." I don't think the goal of this note was to go into detail. That would be overkill and steal thunder from the upcoming event. It was just to contextualize why they're going to cover it a) Number 1 reason investors put huge gobs on money into AirBNB b) It's what we'll be most remembered for etc.
It is also part of UK law for Marketing folk
The $200 Billion Rip-off: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...

The telcos have already promised to lay fiber, received concessions for it, and delivered little to nothing. Google may start ripping off taxpayers like that, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until I see it.
It's been well documented that around 8-10 months, infants lose the ability to distinguish between phonemes that do not meaningfully contrast in their linguistic environment. An English speaker can certainly hear the tones, and may even be able to pick out different tones in isolation, but it takes significant training to be able to interpret them as contrastive as opposed to inflectional, etc.
All faculty deserve fair treatment
Nothing against make, but I've found that it feels really nice when the majority of your toolset uses the same language. This is what I liked about Rails. Rails is ruby. Bundler is ruby. Rake is ruby. It's all ruby, which allows for a certain synergy, streamlined feel, and less cognitive overhead. I don't blame the js folks for attempting something similar.
Problem here is that particularly such "unsubscribe" links where used in the past (and still are, I guess) to reassure spammers that somebody is there. Because one problem spammers have is the quality of the addresses they have. Many spammers use lists from dubious sources and a big number of addresses are invalid. So, if they get an "unsubscribe", they know which addresses are better and can deliver more spam to it ...

So many don't dare to use such links and rather click on spam.

The only solution could be some "trusted" functionality that goes via the own mail provider of the receiver. But of course the mail provider can not simply send information to the sender of the eMail .... So the thing gets complicated. As much I learned, for spam clicks there is something like that available ... some kind of trusted feedback chain that gives information to trusted senders, that some mails where labeled as spam. Thus those senders can (indirectly) adopt their eMail campaigns.
Could someone point out to me (non superficial) differences between various service discovery projects that have popped up recently like,

[1]. etcd
[2] skydock
[3] consul
[4] zookeper ( ok this is not new)
[5] flynn

They all seem to be doing the exact same to me.

1. https://github.com/coreos/etcd
2. https://github.com/crosbymichael/skydock
3. https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/
5.https://flynn.io/

Edit: flynn uses discoverd (https://github.com/flynn/discoverd)
I really like the simplicity and the 'guaranteed to self destruct' feature.

But... converting PNGs to JPGs makes it unusable for many many use cases.
Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications
So disappointed that YC stoops to this level. Building companies should not be about political issues and this is a new low for YC.
Is Data Governance Dying?
Say you have a long build process and do a quick semi-clean by hand to speed up the next buld (not the best idea, but not inconceivable), deleting the .a files, but fogetting to delete the matching .o files. Then, your next build will produce some novel (to you) error messages that may take long to clean up. Worse, the command building on the .o and the .a might just say "OK, I'm given a .o without a .a; fine, then I'll do a slightly different thing"

Also, having two rules means duplicating a command:

foo: foo.a
baz $(BAZ_OPTIONS) foo

foo: foo.o
baz $(BAZ_OPTIONS) foo

That's bad from a maintenance perspective.
There was an article in the NYT Sunday Magazine yesterday which had VP Biden being put on the hot seat by gay marriage supporters[1]; I would hope that the NSA's mass data collection practices, which are much less controversial (they are widely unpopular, unproductive, and give terrible power to any bad actors who have access), would be as worthy of questioning.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/magazine/how-the-president...
What an amazing story. Here's the documentary's website: http://theyarewe.com/, which was oddly not linked to by the original article.
> It's an electronic trading card game, in the same vein as WoW TCG or Magic the Gathering. It's actually pretty good - until you get to a point where you just can't compete with people who have the very powerful rare (and expensive) cards.

You should try Mojang's Scrolls [1] if you like CCG gameplay and deck building, but dislike the pay-to-win aspect or the prerequisite of spending hundreds to thousands of dollars to be competitive.

In Scrolls you can use real money to buy preconstructed decks, custom avatars, and a few randomly selected cards in the store's "Just for You" section, but most of your cards are purchased with in-game gold which you must earn through playing matches.

You can play against computer opponents, and your starting precon is strong enough to regularly beat the easiest CPU deck to earn gold which you can use to buy more cards.

Advice for new players: Don't choose Order as your starting faction (I did and kinda regretted it). Buy scrolls from other players in the trade channel, not the store. And use the price guide at http://trading.scrollsguide.com/ as a starting point to figure out reasonable prices for cards (it's based on parsing prices from trade channel chat).

[1] https://scrolls.com/game
> Unless, of course, laws prevent a free market, in which case there would already be people kicking up a fuss.

It's funny you say that because it was the Democrats who clung on to SOPA even after all the public outcry [1] (which was spearheaded by the tech/startup community).

That, combined with all the NSA mayhem and drone strikes, makes me wonder what the heck they were thinking.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405297020375040...
“Negropodamus” disses Internet of Things, predicts knowledge pills
Fun office prank?
Learning Quickly and Breaking Things
+1 for the link. I hadn't seen tup before, and I really like how it feels like make in its simplicity, but is more explicit about the graph inputs and outputs, cares more about the output (e.g. deleting old files), and watches the file system for changes.
lol. tl;dr: "the more i practice, the better my luck" + "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" + "hate the game, not the player"
> benefits of a "fiber optic signal" somehow going to my house over copper

This is what is sold in the UK a lot, its called fibre to the cabinet (FTC) and does indeed make a difference, if your cabinet is on the street corner (100m) that beats the 1 mile maybe to the actual exchange as a lot of internet speed is dictated by the decay one gets with copper signals.

[0] http://www.thinkbroadband.com/guide/fibre-broadband.html
I think it is fine to support your beliefs or political party. Just be prepared for the fallout. In this case the fallout will likely be small.
I've owned a Casio G-Shock that was negative by default (G-5600KG) and I found that the viewing angle on a negative display was much more narrow than on a positive. Most of the reviews on Amazon state the same. Anyone have an explanation for this?
"Robotgame is a game for hackers. You write robots in Python, test them with our kit, and submit them to our server. You can challenge other robots yourself, or wait for the server to match you up automatically."(http://robotgame.net/)
Discovery to sell HowStuffWorks for $45 million
Please name some of those use cases.
Where are you based? Reach me via email (it is on my profile page).
to be super clear: YC is not hosting the event, just lending the office space. my apartment is far too small.

there's plenty i think obama has done badly, but i think he's done a lot of good things too. and for the political issues i care most about (all related to startups, pretty much) i think he is likely to help the most. of course, everyone is welcome to disagree with me on this, and many yc community members do.
Sigur ros. This album is particularly lovely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojLgN7wqc5A
I often find that by moving right I pass a TON of people who shifted left in anticipation of heavy traffic ahead.. left lanes back up, right lanes open up.
Does it also apply to solid state switches actuated by a capacitative touch sensor? I wonder why this or something of a similar nature isn't a solution to most of these issues.
"For now we’ll keep collecting data to see what other worthless knowledge we can assimilate."

I see what you did there.

I love these kinds of projects though. "Pointless" is only in the eye of the beholder, and if I worked there, I would probably find this pretty useful.
Flynn isn't a service discovery library by itself. It's more of a self hosted Heroku. Though, it does use etcd for service discovery.
The ultimate source of luck as a factor seems to me to be your origin:

- Were you randomly selected by the genetic lottery to be smart, attractive, healthy, etc.? Other traits might also matter, such as charisma and alpha personality characteristics. I've often noted that individuals with a slightly manic personality are actually very well adapted for high-speed industries. I've experimented with using things like modafinil to push myself a little further into this state with extremely positive results on my career. (My natural state is more "beta" and contemplative than "alpha" and high-energy/assertive.)

- Were you born into high or low socioeconomic status?

- Were you born in a rich and relatively free country or a poor or corrupt/despotic one?

- When were you born? Not only does this matter on huge scales (e.g. it's better to be born today than in 1500), but it also matters in a cyclic sense. Do your life span periods of highest work productivity overlap with an economic high note or with a recession?

Finally there is the obvious factor of accidents. If I get hit by a car and get brain damage, obviously I'm less likely to be successful.

These lead to a few questions for me:

(1) To what extent is it statistically in the best interest of most people then to support some form of social safety net?

(2) Is it in my statistical best interest to support some level of social safety net given that by doing so I might gain additional value due to higher rates of cooperation? (Assuming that I am in the top, say, 25% of the ability curve and might not need a safety net as much as many.) A safety net can also be viewed as insurance. What if I am injured, get cerebral meningitis and get brain damage, etc.?

(3) To what extent can these be hacked? Look at my first point about genetic luck of the draw, and how I've managed to kind of hack this a bit with chemistry and make myself more of an alpha personality when it's advantageous to be one.

Personally I think that (1) and (2) are nonzero, which is why I do support some level of social safety net as opposed to naked capitalism. I also think that (3) is a definite 'yes' based on personal experience. Makes me wonder what would happen if you gave the poor nootropics. (Before the PC police whack me for that last comment, consider that I don't just mean IQ. I also mean assertiveness, energy level, ability to focus, and so forth.)

At the end of the day I disagree with Peter Thiel. You are a lottery ticket. You are just a sentient, intelligent lottery ticket. You get to choose when you are played, as well as use whatever hacks you can get your hands on to change the numbers beneath the scratch pads. You also belong to a community of other lotto tickets and together are capable of conspiring against the rules of the game.
Also, Stripe's "$1.75 billion" valuation is misleading because the round was for preferred shares, which have privileges (and lower risk than common stock). We saw something similar for AirBnb, which Marc Andreessen pointed out in a series of tweets:

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/457017580385873921

Square's valuation was based on common stock.
Nay, ATT would need 2x the GDP of the entire universe to acquire enough Monster Cable for that.
Memory Wizards
#OurNetmundial: End Global Surveillance and Protect the Free Internet
I'm sometimes amazed how otherwise competent adults take seriously anything that ATT or VZN say. It takes a tabula that is particularly rasa to just ignore the last three or four decades of behavior from these rascals. It's actually much more likely that they'll orchestrate another "rip-off", except for more money, than that Google will ever do anything even approaching that.
Yup. Just like South Africa had the moral upper hand because they maintained official segregation laws when in the US it was illegal by law but still a de-facto practice through social bias.
This is actually a serious problem, and really solving it would be very, very profitable. For an example of the issues involved, listen to the Mixergy interview by the founders of TouchFire, and iPad keyboard. They describe the baroque method of hiring a manufacturing consultant so you don't get eaten alive by a bad Chinese manufacturer.

http://mixergy.com/steven-isaac-touchfire-interview/

Let me know if you would like to talk more about this. Contact info is in my profile.
Page 2 of the invitation seems pretty clear. Did you scroll down?
Here is a more critical reading of Piketty (http://business.financialpost.com/2014/04/10/terence-corcora...).

One thing that surprises me when I read reviews about Piketty (I haven't read the book) is that they state as if it's a surprising fact that the inequality is inherent in free market Piketty was smart enough to find out about it. Is this a news to even trained economists?
I love the free market ideal, but the reality is that the gov't will fuck up your business.

Since the DNC holds political sway, and is the most likely to pass a law or start proceedings against your business it's best to make friends with them.

It's like police in Mexico, the smart people pay off the first cop they see before they end up having to pay off the entire precinct.

The reality is that the way companies like Uber and AirBNB will thrive is by paying off the DNC so that suddenly city council is restricting opportunities to minorities (by not letting them sublet / drive cabs) rather than a AirBNB / Uber restricting opportunities for minorities by under cutting cabs / hotels.

You want to pay these assholes upfront.
I guess I don't understand the problem with homophones. If two words are pronounced identically, presumably there must be some way to disambiguate when speaking, which could be used in the written text as well.
That still has you packing away about $1k/mo to start with for 10%. Again, that's 2 months or so worth of income for an average person in the 60s.
I'm not saying it doesn't have any grammar at all. But you try to speak Dutch for a month and come back and tell me how you feel about Chinese grammar.