skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is yet another manifestation of the dark side of open source movement: the expectation that the generosity of the few must always support the comfort of the many. More than once I have commented that the only missing feature of GPL is that all free software must be distributed in source code, and compiled/build from scratch in every system it is to be deployed. Binary distribution requires a parallel form of licensing with appropriate fees/royalties.

Your case would be easily be solved if you were willing to pay an expert provider for their know how in implementing this types of solution. This solves reasonably well the problem of reliability (customer is unable to tell a lemon from the real thing, but is at least able to demand a refund or sue in case of breach of contract from the part of the provider).

This does not have to be expensive either. For a couple USD$100's you could have access to standard configurations, designed to meet the common needs of most customers. Or you can pay premium (a.k.a. consulting) fees to have a tailor made solution made for your particular needs.
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No one ever leaves your first mover product to go to a copy unless they have a reason to.
Woah there, comment-space. Let's hold our rage-horses.

This looks like YC is playing host to the president of the United States, who happens to be a Democrat.

Edit: As Sam said, it's even less dramatic: They're not even hosting, they're just lending the space.

Plenty of apolitical institutions with space do the same thing. (Museums, botanical gardens, etc).

In another year they may do it again with a president who happens to be a Republican, or Lizardman, etc, etc.

While the tickets do amount to donations, I think it's an error to see this as an endorsement of anybody on YC's part. In a few years they could just as well do the same thing with the RNC and a different president.
Regardless of their perceptions or actual travel speeds, the lane-switchers could be providing a much needed liquidity between the more dynamic right lanes (with entrances and exits) and the more static left lanes. Perhaps it's in doing so that they unwittingly ensure that everyone arrives at the same time. (Although it's almost certainly not the optimal time…)
> First, most poor people also have access to computers --- as in, have them in their homes.

It depends what you mean by "most". If you mean "more than 50%", that is technically, barely true. 57% of households making less than $25,000 have a computer; the $25,000-$50,000 bracket reaches 76%. For "internet access anywhere", the numbers are 50% and 64%.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-569.pdf
Again, adolescent power fantasies.
This just all goes back to the seemingly unholy relationship between business and government these days. It shouldn't matter what party and what capacity.

They just shouldn't be related, much less running fundraisers. Even if it's just the space.
Ongoing innovations in open firmware like OpenWRT allow deployment of reasonably robust routing schemes, such that the mesh nodes themselves compute the routes most efficient for transport (and also repair those routes when nodes go down). Groups like Commotion Wireless, Freifunk, Funkfeuer, and LirbeMesh all deploy firmwares derived from OpenWRT to this purpose. The actual capacity, range, and sensitivity of the radio hardware used, whether unlicensed or not, will still be gating factors. Along with ambient noise levels on whatever bands are used.
coq is LGPL, apparently.
Disrupting existing markets (not a component of all company-building, but certainly a critical piece of many YC companies) is fundamentally about political issues.
> 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.

It's been done, pretty much how you'd expect:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Privacy-monitor-made-from-an...
blaurenceclark - When you say "one line of code to add the SDK" can you add some light? Is your plan to track ALL interactions of the user...thats a lot of data to triage :)
FWIW, the default PowerUser role that can be assigned to an IAM account was sufficient for my tests. I don't know if it could have worked with fewer permissions.
It's to the DNC, and President Obama is their guest.

This is a political fundraising visit. If it were a visit by the President of the United States in an official capacity to talk about issues, I would be ecstatic that it was happening at YC, regardless of the President's party. The difference is the trip is being paid by the DNC, from political funds; an official visit is paid by the taxpayer.

Maybe I've been influenced by working in government facilities where any political lobbying or support is completely banned, but this seems exceedingly inappropriate.
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you listed it explicitly (your third bullet point in the original comment)
It's a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee, which happens to be bringing along the President.
Surprised that we are 70+ comments into this thread and not one mention of a similar scenario right off the coast of San Francisco:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Islands#Nuclear_waste_...
I read page 2. I think sama's comment clears things up.
An overlay of other polarizing material won't change the polarization unless your transparencies are somehow quarter wave plates? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_polarizer#Circular_pol...)
Ada does it all.
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^ You articulated it better than I did. Haha.
This is why driving is exhausting. There's always a few people who, evidently lacking any real stimulation in their lives, feel the need to constantly jockey for positions on the road, endangering everyone around them for a mere ego trip. It seems like many of these drivers view their driving habits as reflections on them as a person; e.g. they cannot appear weak by yielding to others (even if yielding produces an optimal result, time-wise).

I can't wait for driverless cars. We are the ones who make traffic much worse because we have to have our own way.
From the bottom of the invite: "Paid for by the Democratic National Committee".
Do me a favor, tell Obama to shutdown the NSA's spying on America?
It looks like a standard fundraiser for the Democratic Party. Notice how all the tickets are political contributions. That's completely different than an event the President attends, like a college graduation, etc.
currently working on this. :)
I was thinking the opposite - lane switchers cause "turbulence" in the flow and hence contribute to slowing everyone down.
This is getting off-topic, but as a native Korean speaker, I'd say Hanja ("Chinese characters" used in Korean) is overrated. :)

(I do think some amount of Hanja education helps learning more Korean words, but using them in everyday documents is another matter.)

Some newspapers banished Hanja entirely in 1988, when many old-generation scholars decried the sorry state of Hanja education and the impending downfall of the Korean culture.

That didn't happen, and one by one, those newspapers that ran the op-eds of worried scholars followed suit, a process hastened by the introduction of the internet. (Writing Chinese characters with a keyboard isn't really an easy process. Especially when you're speaking Korean: you type Korean first and then have to convert each word to Chinese, so why bother?)

Nowadays, Korean culture is just as strong as before, Korean dramas are popular in China, and many official documents are arguably much easier to understand than in the 80s, partly thanks to the efforts to banish esoteric jargons that nobody could understand without writing in Hanja (and only poorly understood even when written in Hanja: think about it, you can't understand what a telephone is even if you know the Ancient Greek words for "far" and "voice". You could only have a vague guess.)

On top of that, many of these "esoteric jargons" were direct import from written Japanese words during the colonization period, so they were never a proper Korean word outside a small group of people.
> YC is not hosting the event, just lending the office space.

This is one of those distinctions that are likely to be lost on a lot of people.

That said, like others have written, this kind of thing is probably what it takes to have some influence, unless Obama has taken to reading snark-filled threads about the NSA on reddit.
Geeks have a hard time understanding the deeply political nature of the world. Not playing politics doesn't make you wiser or smarter, it just makes you a schmuck, because someone that plays politics will come around and eat your lunch.

Why the democrats? On social (think Mozilla and Eich) and science/tech issues (the evangelicals), they're far more in tune with Bay Area techies than republicans.

If you doubt this, I will give you a tour of Crazytown (aka Toronto) where Rob Ford has made track gauges a political issue. 1435 mm? You're a liberal! 1495mm? You're a conservative!
seems like $20 includes service and the return shipping cost. Shipping cost to send the notebook is on us
But it's not the President. It's the DNC. They just happen to be bringing along the President, right?
Down voted for telling the truth. That's the moment when you know you called it right.
> Luck is code for "variables I don't see."

> neither luck nor skill is the main variable, but pre-existing social class and status.

Under this formulation, class+status are a big part of what's commonly called "luck".
Too late. Their security reputation has been terrible for over 5 years I guess. Quite a few services therefore do not allow a mail.ru email address for registration.
One more point in their announcement is laughable because of how it contradicts itself.
1. По условиям конкурса, участники смогут рассказать об обнаруженных уязвимостях спустя три месяца после отправки сообщения. - That one says hackers will be able to publish their vulnerabilities within 3 months after reporting said vulnerabilities.
2. Таким образом Mail.Ru Group обязуется быстро исправить любые найденные ошибки - And here they say they will be obliged to promptly fix any found errors.
Are they saying they will promptly within 3 months fix vulnerabilities? Ok, if they fix them the following day after they get the report, what's the point in keeping a hacker silent? I just don't understand those guys.
You can't. To watch legally you have to have cable TV.
r > g has been the historical norm since the industrial revolution, with the notable exception of the period ~1910-1970

Actually, the data says quite a bit more than that. I'm looking at the chart shown in Krugman's review (Figure 1, a bit more than halfway down the page):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-...

First, this chart says that r > g has been the historical norm since antiquity, not just since the industrial revolution. The first data point on the chart is for years "0 - 1000". I'm assuming that Piketty's book gives some explanation of how he figured out the rate of return on capital during the Dark Ages. :)

Second, the chart says that the difference between r and g decreased all through the period studied, up to the "1913 - 1950" data point, when r < g became true for the first time. Then, up through the "1950 - 2012" data point, r and g both rose sharply, but r < g was still true, and the difference between the two was more or less the same.

Third, the chart says that, for the rest of the 21st century, not only will r > g be true again, but r will continue to rise while g will fall sharply--which has never happened before in history. So I think it's wrong to claim that Piketty's prediction for the 21st century is just a prediction of things "returning to the historical norm". It's not--it's a prediction of a drastic change from the historical norm.
> This is important: the really painful part of being stuck in traffic is not, really, the actual amount of time that it takes to get from Point A to Point B. Rather, it’s the “stuck” bit.

I've noticed this tends to not matter so much if you're not the one driving, more so if you're in the backseat. Self-drive cars anyone?
Nothing is pointless. :)

I wired one of these tasteless gnomes (http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/meerkat-solar-light) up to our build server with a Raspberry Pi (which also plays sound effects). It has to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever claimed expenses for!

Seemed silly at the time but now everyone loves it. No one has to be the guy that tells you that you broke the build. The anger is all directed at the meerkat and you can't ignore it like you ignore emails.
Where do we go? Lobste.rs?
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This is just the kind of thing Altman needs to do to climb the social ladder and to get into the right circles right?
Thanks, cmwalker25! Hoping these lessons help others avoid those traps.
I can’t really comment on US politics with too much internal knowledge, but from what I gathered, a lot of what YC start-ups are trying to do involves “making the world a better place” (to use what became a trope with the recent HBO series) and that involves bending the rules and needing the law to be adapted to modern conditions: understanding taxi licences when Uber is around; city planning with AirBnB; on-line gambling; airline insuring against delayed transfers when you are not flying a partner’s flight but a Chipmunk connexion, etc. Payment processing and taxing on-line commerce are probably the largest issues.

From what I gathered, raising money for is the simplest form of lobbying, and Y-Combinator feel they need that access to smooth transition from its alumni proving a business makes money to making it squarely legal. I’m not sure why the DNC rather than RNC or another party; I believe you can’t have both. It might be because it seems unlikely the RNC to win the next election either in San Francisco city-hall, or in California, or even at the Federal level.

In either case, I wouldn’t expect Y Combinator not to have appreciated the sensitivity of their decision off the bat.
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What would be a good data representation at that scale? Is a typed/schema-driven approach preferable?

For ingesting such massive amounts of data, it seems a sensible serialization would have minimal divergence between the wire and memory representation, such as Cap'n Proto.

Handling composite types seems tricky too -- eg, for prefixing lengths to strings or lists, it appears the extra CPU time for variable-sized integers would be preferable to the I/O overhead of billions of wasted bytes that come with a fixed-size prefix. Assuming explicit begin/end delimiters aren't even an option here.
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It might be cliche but The Social Network soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is really excellent.

Other suggestions:

Boards of Canada

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I don't think that's completely true. The point is for many that we all complain about how businesses get breaks from the government, and vice versa. Then things like this happen and we are all supposed to be "OK" with it?

The idea is we need to get past crap like this, not play along with it.
I really like Elixir's syntax and really want to get into Erlang. I can't wait until I have some free time soon. Any good resources other than Elixir Sips?
You are currently at minus 7 karma.

You might want to re-evaluate your understanding of how karma on HN works. It is rare for people making factually correct statements to be that heavily downvoted.
Actually after Jeff Lindsay latest blog post[0] I thought that the project was put on the back burner. What is the relationship between cupcake and the initial author(s) ?

[0]: http://progrium.com/blog/2014/02/06/the-start-of-the-age-of-...
What do you think HN is? Some kind of place where you can talk freely with no consequences?

Imagine if the feds had a nice small social network of the elite in tech and those who aspire or like to become techies, and if they had access to all their clicks, comments affiliations etc.

Better investment than that huge data centre in Mormon-land.
Spoken Korean used to have some tones until the 1500s, then lost them. In written Hangul (the original 1400s version) the tones were indicated with a dot diacritic to the left of the character.

It's not known if Hangul influenced the dropping of tones from the spoken language or not, but around the 1500s and into the 1600s tones started being omitted in written Hangul (probably to make it faster to write, like dropping vowel diacritics from Arabic). Hangul also lost some letters and there's been some vowel shift with two different vowels (애 and 에) nearly merging today.

Like in Japanese, it appears the Korean tone system was replaced with a length system to help identify homophones, which lasted until very recently. My understanding is it's still formerly part of the language (and is taught in grade school with this rule), but most Koreans don't really use it anymore.

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2014/01/tonal-vestige-in-kore...

I think today you still hear vestiges of tone in Spoken Korean but it's more used as part of the phrasing and is distinct from statement/question tone changes like in English. You can hear it in longer conversational Korean like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMnp3efz6s4
There was a significant thread about this a couple of days ago [1]. Although this isn't technically a repost, substantively it is—the story hasn't changed. Normally, we kill such reposts as dupes. In addition, this thread is the sort of heated discussion we usually penalize.

However, we are careful to intervene less in controversial stories about YC or YC startups. That's the first thing PG told me about moderation and the thing he has emphasized most. So I'm going to suspend the usual rules and leave this one untouched for now. If it falls in rank, it will be purely because of user flags, and if that changes for any reason, I'll edit this comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7612060

Edit: s/heated political discussion/heated discussion/

Edit 2: Enough users have been flagging this post to auto-kill it. I've unkilled it four times so far and will try to keep doing so, though I can't promise how quickly. (Flagging rarely kills a post—usually it at most lowers its rank—but in cases where flags overwhelm upvotes, it can.)
If I'm not in a hurry I go to the left so I don't feel like I have to monitor quick-cutters from two directions and it makes the whole drive easier. If I'm in a hurry I consider each lane like its own Slinky, expanding and contracting; my method is after my lane has a good run where I'm passing others, I switch to any other lane and hope to catch it in the right Slinky stage.

Seems to work better than sticking with a lane. Probably just the placebo effect, but I'll take it.
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There's some truth to that, but OTOH programmers have a different mindset -- if you write software for a living/hobby, generally you'll have above-average intelligence and enjoy dealing with complex dynamical systems and elegant models of the real world.

This explains why so many suggestions in this thread are strategy games, roguelikes, and deep puzzle games.

Also, the HN demographic skews to a certain age range, so there's a lot of nostalgia for 1993-1999 games. (If this describes you, check out the site formerly known as Good Old Games [1])

[1] http://gog.com
This is a bit icky, but smart. Other industries play ball, and we should too.
While what the author says is true, I feel like there's a hint of ethnocentrism - his complaints all (over)emphasize the use of the link between the pronunciation of a word and its written representation. Whenever the author discusses things like writing the word "president" or forgetting how to spell "tin can", implicit and unmentioned is that the hypothetical person knows the pronunciation of the word, and is attempting to translate it into writing, which, of course, is a natural thing for someone coming from a phonetic language to assume the importance of. Yes, more logographic languages like Chinese have a weaker link between pronunciation and written form, but this is a tradeoff, not simply bad design. One could similarly make an argument about English speakers forgetting what words mean (or for that matter, just that it takes forever to say anything in English).
Looks like a beautiful app. Unfortunately I wouldn't use it. The killer feature for me is not just time tracking, but automatic invoice creation. Being able to track time and then generate an invoice with the click of a button. I use Cashboard, which has this feature, and costs about $9/month. I see Freelancy has export to CSV - but it's simply isn't worth my time to write a program to convert a CSV dump to a printable invoice to save $4/month.
Can you clarify the definition of "lending" here? Is YC charging for use of the space or is it being donated?
Are you sure flynn uses etcd for service discovery instead of its own[1]?
Looks like it uses Google Omega instead of RAFT which etcd uses.
https://github.com/flynn/discoverd
I live in an area of suburban Dallas, TX where the city and telcos laid fiber over 7 years ago. U-verse has always been capped for us. I'm hoping we get on the list for Gigapower but any attempts to get information on this have been futile. Local reps know nothing about Gigapower and emails to corporate get no response.

I had such a poor experience with Uverse when it first came out that it made even TWC internet look significantly better so I've stuck with Time Warner.
We track interactions/behaviors that matter. From working with a number of apps we've been able to identify and combine interactions to make the amount of data to manage much smaller and easier to triage
>Not playing politics doesn't make you wiser or smarter, it just makes you a schmuck, because someone that plays politics will come around and eat your lunch.

That's not an argument to play politics. That's an argument as to why the system is fundamentally flawed.
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my favorite one is: mā ma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, mā ma mà mǎ. Which translated literally is: mom rides horse, horse slows, mom scolds horse.
The philosopher Nick Bostrom has an interesting view about this question, based on the selection effect[1]: if you consider your presence in the traffic as a random sample from "observation acts", then you are more likely to be in the wrong lane (and hence would benefit from switching), simply because it is denser, i.e. it entails a higher probability mass for obversations of that type.

[1] http://plus.maths.org/content/cars-next-lane-really-do-go-fa...
I would love to read the history about that. Got any sources/references?
Replace "lane switchers" with "high frequency traders" and this debate reads just as intelligibly.
I'm always torn between the idea of liquidity or turbulence. Intuitively, turbulence makes sense, but then what happens to facilitates people in the left lane exiting at their destination?

I'd love to see some work done to figure this out.