skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a look at the slides/paper and you are completely correct (I thought the same thing).

The plot is essentially saying that if you compare the "average household" to the households of Netflix and Hulu subscribers, customers in the latter are about 2.5-3 times more likely to be "cable cutters". This is what what I would call "Netflix and Hulu killing cable."

The whole premise of their article is flawed on a misreading of a figure. The study they cite contradicts their claims.

Here are their slides:
http://www.experian.com/assets/marketing-services/brochures/...
Not a direct answer to your question but if I were in a situation where I needed art like those faces and I didn't want to spend money (and believe me, there are lots of people who wouldn't want to be paid much for great work out there) I'd "cheat" by initially using photos and Photoshop to do the hard work.

Indeed, I just gave it a quick go. Searched for "old russian woman" and did some stuff with posterization and pixelation: http://imgur.com/a/Tj2Os - it's not great, but it took like 3 minutes. Obviously, I'd be looking for photos that could either be heavily edited or were open licensed/public domain if I were doing it for real.
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Much-Hyped Philadephia Drug Bust Uncovers a Few Prep-School Dealers
Show HN: an app that aggregates sharing economy listings
No matter what your experiences are, it will prove my point ← seriously?

I'm playing the odds here. There are a few odd ducks that opt to be in contexts where social norms are not to their liking. The vast majority of people go where they feel comfortable. The main point has to do with consensuality, so for most psychologically normal people, an honest account will support my point.

I can understand, though, if someone finds my mention of The Castro somewhat "othering." The othering wasn't my intention. It was a gedankenexperiment about being outside norms that support one's chosen boundaries. There are also a whole panoply of unspoken social norms and power relationships that change and come into play as well. Only holistic experiences, actual or imagined, are efficient for communicating these.
Here's a bug:

I signed up via email, I was told my username had already been taken but then it let me go to the next screen and create polls with that username.

I like it though, nice design & well executed.
HR is a dangerous force like that, you bring it in to prevent discrimination, and before long it exists only to hold open the door and collect signatures for anyone who registers a complaint.
Right, and the the incompetence can be subtle and from many causes, such as poor management skills, just-less-than-necessary technical capability, in addition to the standard Dunning-Kruger effect, and cargo cultists who identify superficial qualities of entrepreneurships. Ironically, in an entrepreneur you want just the right amount of impostor syndrome, but the process may select for Dunning-Krugers.
The SENS Research Foundation has a network of supporters among portions of the VC crowd in the Bay Area. Some of the halo of attached or associated young researchers there should explore putting one of their lines of research more likely to get somewhere interesting soon into YC, see what happens.

A completely baked form of allotopic expression or toolkits for glucosepane breakdown in tissues could both produce viable and highly useful technology platforms prior to being far enough along to be applied to the reversal of aspects of aging. Neither of those seems too far away to be non-viable for this sort of timescale, and meaningful biotech projects are very cheap these days if you have access to a provisioned lab.
You're probably right. One of the most interesting things about heroin is that there are no long term negative side effects other than the addiction itself. This is as opppsed to something like meth that will make your teeth fall out with regular use. All the pitfalls of heroin addiction are socioeconomic. I'm sorry for your loss.
No. With a list of the users hashes and their salt, you could reverse it all in a matter of minutes or seconds on even a single low spec machine. It would offer nothing over just storing the plain text.
You typically don't see that big picture when you're 20 - it's hard not to see it at 40. Probably another reason the stereotypical "startup" employee skews younger.
I'm not an american citizen, but I can't have been the only one with a reaction of: "Comcast? ... Comcast?!". But this is really awesome -- hope more tech is going to get open sourced from Comcast and similar companies.
75C is a hard-set yolk, right? Blech. :)
Hashcash implementation in PHP
Future Proof Your Code With Promises and Promise.all
I find the timing of this and the "New Deal" press releases a bit confusing -- is YC starting to take biotech companies now (like YC S14) or in the next batch?

I'm assuming the New Deal terms are for S14, but was also surprised to see the announcement after the applications were all in.

Can anyone clarify / point me to what I've missed?
Same here. In my high school the rich kids with fake ID's drank and everyone else smoked pot.
I, too find the new maps occasionally frustrating (although I prefer it to the old version.

To answer other's questions. It's a game of "who moved my cheese" in which Google changes the way some feature works (for example - creating a link to a location), and when I try to find out how to do it "the new way", I only get results for "the old way".

I just discovered recently that you can show the sidebar (with the "Print" and "Link" buttons) in new maps by clicking the gear icon and select "My Places" in the lower right corner of the screen. This is non-obvious behavior.

Am I stupid? Perhaps. Can a case be made for the fact that moving navigational elements is bad UX? I think so.
It has nothing todo with robots per se. Robots just make it a lot easier to feed a lot more animals in a narrow space with little human interaction.

In the United States, the use of antibiotics in livestock
is still prevalent. The FDA reports that 80 percent of
all antibiotics sold in 2009 were administered to
livestock animals, and that many of these antibiotics are
identical or closely related to drugs used for treating
illnesses in humans. Consequently, many of these drugs
are losing their effectiveness on humans, and the total
healthcare costs associated with drug-resistant bacterial
infections in the United States are between $16.6 billion
and $26 billion annually

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_farming

The same goes for some countries in Europe. And as companies are importing goods from cheap farming companies such food can be found everywhere.
I'm feeling like a bit of a spammer posting about this so often, but I think it's just coming up so often because it's a real need.

I've started writing a series of posts about the fundamentals of full-stack development. It came out of what I have been explaining some students I have been mentoring recently.

http://daemon.co.za/2014/04/introduction-fullstack-fundament...

My goal is to explain the different layers, the concepts at play in them, and how they interact with each other.

"It's a roadmap, not a recipe book". The format is going to end up being similar to this post about microservices I built.

http://wayfinder.co/pathways/53536427f7040a11002ae407/a-fiel...

This is the outline so far : http://i.imgur.com/qsGqFFk.png
What about running it through two+ different OCR engines?
Ask HN: Why use MongoDB?
I have given three chances to mongodb. Not fill my expectations, in the end for me there will be a need for a join or complex queries. I have tried to use it in 4 projects and does not convince me. Can anyone give me a reason other than replication to use it
Checkout www.sqldashboards.com

Regarding your points:
1. Currently 13 charting widgets
2. Database SQL query format
3. Configurable and Themable (3 themes so far)
4. Not yet but would be nice...
You could have a line-chart with the ball at the end? Like this(ish) http://imgur.com/FGFGjI8
Everything Your Startup Needs To Know About Corporate Venture Capital
How about this guy?

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Fifth-problem--...
Ask sama: Can you update "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund"?
It seems like many of the ideas on the old list are still relevant but since it is over 5 years old I was wondering what YC is particularly interested in now.
I love Mailgun and use it for every project that needs to send out email, but you have to admit it doesn't address the OP's purpose: To decentralize and own your own email
Sorry, but that's not the case here.

Horvath alleges that illegal behavior took place. Github has said that their investigation has found no such thing, leaving things at an impasse until Horvath produces the evidence that she claims to have.

The NSA likewise says that no illegal behavior took place. Independent investigations by other arms of the government, including the Senate, have found otherwise. Furthermore, some of the behavior that the EFF and ACLU object to -- such as the collection of metadata -- the NSA do not deny that they are doing it. They only claim that such activity is legal and beneficial.

Until Github takes a stand or makes an assertion with which we can agree or disagree with, the situations are not the same. Right now, Github is basically being asked "Have you stopped sexually harassing your female employees yet?" and its refusal to answer that question is apparently grounds to judge Github.
Hoping they add Objective-C to the list soon! I'd really like to learn that next.
A question if I may:
Could you "accidentally" make a FIPS compliant library? Assuming that the LibreSSL fork where to include ONLY the FIPS approved ciphers and hashing algorithms, it should be possible to have a library that could be passed of a compliant.

If I understand you correctly, the issue with FIPS is that you would have to be able to disable all but a subset of the features, regardless of these feature being worse or better than what is defined in the FIPS documents?

That's a bit more that one question, but I would like to know. Thanks.
I'm highly sympathetic to austrian explanations of economics, and somewhat to chartalist explanations* (but I don't generally agree with chartalist prescriptions) but I'm unconvinced that debt causes crashes. I personally believe that debt systems aggregate small, localized crashes which happen all the time into large, systemic crashes.

A good resource is Mandelbrot's (mis)behavior of markets. It explains a lot of things like how the Pareto principle appears. Reading between the lines, it is easy to see how levy-alpha-stable distributed events can aggregate into bigger levy-alpha-stable distributed events, since this distribution obeys the undefined-variance equivalent of the central limit theorem.

*The "QE for the public" is a horrible public policy choice and to me is exactly a good example of where chartalist prescriptions go off the rails. The Jubilee is a better idea, but to prevent a total collapse of the banking system, you could structure it differently, like making all debts voluntary. Basically our society has been trending towards this (with currently the exception of educational debts) and so what we are seeing is that people with good credit that don't spend their line of credit boozing through their twenties being highly valued. But because lending from individuals is becoming tapped out as their credit is wasted, a lot of debts have become shifted to the public, in the form of municipal, state, and federal debt - sometimes through public spending and sometimes by explicitly converting private debt into public debt.
I'll redirect you to here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/23qnnc/i_finish...

The author is the submitter of the post and is replying to comments. He addressed the same question there too.
Hmm. So small example on what I saw recently was being able to swap the authorization/authentication piece from hitting a service to users defined in XML for locally running the project. Architecture flaw? No. Problem in tooling? If you have a convincing enough argument, yeah. Does Spring feel like it lets you do too much in XML? Hell yes. It's awesome when it works. It feels too convoluted when you don't need it.
Oh, yeah I agree their fears aren't unfounded, but they take a really over-reactionary stance to the threat, I think.

IMO they would be better served working with companies like Netflix to figure something out that is more mutually beneficial rather than pissing away billions on half-assed alternate solutions of their own (that are designed to maintain the status quo at the expense of the obvious preference on consumers to keep things simple) like "Ultraviolet media lockers".

Of course, I'm assuming Netflix would also be a reasonable party to compromise solutions and maybe they aren't; I don't know for sure, I just know that the media guys have a very "must-destroy-at-all-costs" view of Netflix in particular.
It is called marketing. Cores do not matter, until they do for marketing reasons. See recent Apple keynotes.
In the UK (at least in my anecdotal experience, I know people in London, Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire) it seems there's hardly any money to be made in selling weed any more. I'm sure further up the chain there is, but at actual dealer levels (I've never come across a "street corner" sort of person, just those who either sell from their home or travel to deliver) there's very little profit available. I don't know how long this has been the case (seems to have become so much more over the past couple of years I think), and having never been a dealer myself I don't know exactly how much can be made now, or in the past.

But essentially, it seems there are very few weed dealers left, other than two types: pot-heads who sell to a circle of friends to subsidise their own smoking, or people who sell harder drugs (in my experiences: cocaine) and have a bit of weed on the side but don't focus on it.

Cocaine on the other hand... I've had friends who sell it (not in a "I became friends with a dealer" way, but just people who I found out deal unrelated to how I knew them), and there is a lot of money to be made there, even selling fairly small quantities. It's been a few months since I've had a conversation on this topic, but afaik it's still the case, even with people who sell to a few dozen people, mostly small quantities, can make a hell of a living from it.

All that said, it's possible my knowledge is from a fairly affluent middle class angle (hell, the last person I met who randomly turned out to be a coke dealer was somebody who held a decent job in the PC hardware industry, though he's stopped dealing now).

Would love to know more about the economies involved (for example I've heard rough numbers of cost for cocaine from its origin in South America to UK consumers, but not in huge detail), but it's very hard to find out this sort of information without being directly involved yourself.
This is a very big deal for me. I've had Netflix, Amazon and Hulu streaming via my Roku for over 2 years now but no HBO. I use comcast for internet but no TV so the Roku HBO app would not work.
It is not how they are selected that is the problem - it is what they need to do to get tenure. This is what kills all innovation.
This is amazing work, beautiful pictures. See also, their ISEE-3 Reboot project: http://www.rockethub.com/42228
My drunk friend kicked in my front door so I took the opportunity to replace the busted strike with an electric strike. A Raspberry Pi controls the relay to switch it open, accessed via a simple Node.js app or text message (with Twilio posting a webhook to said app).
In order to do this, Google would need access to the plaintext of the email message, which defeats half of the purpose of the supposed encryption initiative.
Just to be picky, the language does have the 'class' keyword... but it is reserved for future use.
Having used HazelCast extensively, and considering making some of my code Sirius-depentant, I can tell you that it is not more advanced. Sirius is basically just a distributed key-value store w/no partitioning, whereas HazelCast has a lot of abstractions built on top of the simpler principle[1]. In fact, it might be a bit overkill in some situations, and that's one of the reasons I will consider Sirius.

[1] http://www.hazelcast.org/docs/3.1/manual/html-single/
That sounds like depression, to be honest. As someone who has depression, and is trying to get better, my best advice is to start by at least mentioning it to my GP. Doctors can help!
>> See, I've always wanted someone like this, but never found it.

Start hanging out at bars and clubs.
Ahh, I guess that's fair.
You know what burnout feels like? It feels like dropping everything you're doing, everything you were hoping to achieve, packing a small bag, and flying away to a different continent for a few months.

Burnout is when working at a YC startup during YC feels like a vacation. When waking up at 10am and coding until 10pm feels like rest. That's burnout.

You do not fuck with burnout.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought you had something like this in mind but wanted to be sure.

So when you say "In some of the environments I've worked in, women who have "alpha" traits are not looked upon favorably and detested by their male counterparts." you are saying that women who have traits that are pseudo alpha - in other words behaving as if you have the 'highest rank' when you haven't earned it or got it as a matter of fact, is the kind of behavior that men detest.

I guess my question is, unless there is something distinctively obnoxious about a woman behaving in this way, is this really a gender issue? There are plenty of men who behave like this aren't there? And my experience has been that both men and women don't like men doing it?

So it seems that either a woman doing it is doubly bad (which seems like a form of sexism - you can't even be obnoxious if you're a woman because it's distinctively obnoxious) or it isn't really a gender issue.

I'm not intending to pointlessly nit pick here. I am really interested in whether you feel there is something about a woman doing it that is likely, for whatever reason, to incite a more negative reaction. Could it, for example, be that men are very attuned to alpha dynamics and feel that they are being in some sense 'wronged' when a woman challenges them? etc etc?
And do I need to present that address to interact with society? If a policeman stops me in the streets, can he demand to see my address for no reason at all? Is it now, or will it one day be illegal for me not to carry that address around with me?

The problem isn't that it's possible to identify people. This is something that can be done, for example, by looking at someone. The problem is in the relationship between the state and the citizen.
Single stories, while meaningful and often illustrative, are not particularly powerful ways of illustrating how a system is broken.

And YC talking about funding startups in Biotech is talking about industry science, so calling is a "false dichotomy" is a little absurd.
NFL is one of the easier ones to go watch at a bar or restaurant because the games are weekly. Other sports with games on almost nightly are a lot harder to go out and watch.
I feel like this is also a suitable explanation of the impending correction that needs to happen in scientific research. We promote scientists who are adept at Batesian mimicry of the scientific power structure, and not necessarily adept at science.
"Customers in Colorado and Washington State no longer need to pay a premium for black-market marijuana."

Colorado, maybe. Since the retail operations are not open for business yet in WA, we still don't know if retail is going to be cheaper. That's the part that worries me. I look at the tax structure (25% on each of the three players involved: grower, processor, retailer) and wonder how they're going to keep it under $100/quarter ounce.

It's happened already in WA: tax the hell out of something and then wonder why revenues dropped. A few years back WA jacked up the tobacco tax a ridiculous amount (I think a pack of smokes was like $8). Shortly after, the state complained that revenues took a dive. Duh, ya think? They raised taxes so much it was now practical to either order via the Internet (KY has smokes for $3, IIRC) or drive out of your way to the American Indian reservation.

If a quarter ounce of legal weed comes out to $150 because of taxes, this grand experiment isn't going to end well. (If someone has some hard math on what the consumer-level price might be, I'd love to be corrected on this.)
>> The people sitting on the corner slinging dope is itself an image, and may not be reflected in reality anymore.

Have you been in a bad part of town lately?

The places to buy drugs are liquor stores and car washes in bad neighborhoods. Plenty of people standing around willing to sell you $20 worth of your drug of choice.

Why do you think so much gun violence occurs in those areas?
Just one thing: Restraint vs Device in design
> Who stores my private key? Google? Chrome? Both seem troublesome

If you use the OpenPGP plugin for Roundcube, you paste your key into a form on the settings page whilst logged in, and it gets stored in your browsers localStorage (never sent to the server). Of course, with this system, the key needs to be managed externally and pasted into each browser you use, and you need to trust that the server doesn't send modified JS which steals your key.

To make it so you don't have to manage the keypair externally, it could be sent to the server after being encrypted using a password, then whenever you need to use a new browser, it will retrieve the encrypted key from the server, decrypt it with your supplied password and then store it in localStorage. Or perhaps it should remain encrypted when in localStorage, and when you log in, retrieved from localStorage, decrypted with a supplied password and then stored in a global variable.

Javascript crypto in the browser works... until the person running the server decides to steal your key when you log in, or until somebody finds an XSS flaw in the app.
Reliably delivering email in todays spam-filled environment isn't guaranteed.

Players like MailGun, SendGrid and Postmark provide such features as part of a EaaS product.
I'd sooner say that men and women _currently_ have different kinds of relationships, for the most part. For men who have been conditioned toward independence but who have greater emotional needs than that model allows, the independence model can feel repressive. Likewise, I've known a number of women who lean more toward independence than intimacy. (This switching of relationship models seems to happen more than a little among the trans-men and trans-women that I know.) It isn't clear to me that the relationship categories are linked to anything other than cultural/societal conditioning.

Listening to feminists talk about relationships is actually helpful, in that by acknowledging the basic equality of women, we as men can allow ourselves to form the kind of relationships that we each want individually, rather than the kind that is trained into us from childhood. Escaping from societal pigeonholes can be good for men as well as women.
Lol. Yep. I accidentally do that every so often, and I always feel bad about it.
Absolutely. Being good takes a lot of time and dedication. Had my main goal been making money, I'd surely have hired an artist. Good thing is for us, programmers, games can be relatively easily reused with new art on top of it.
You still need a high speed internet connection, a computer (or do these streaming sites work on tablets? I don't know) and of course know where to go. Also, when your favorite pirate streaming site gets shut down (they all do eventually), you need to know how to find another (safe) site to keep on. Yes less hassle but still not "Cable TV" easy.
Just a nitpick:
Hovering over any of the "About Us | We're hiring | Blog" or "Help | Privacy Policy | Terms" links in the footer also underlines the separators.