skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We tried that once with Bell Telephone. Their profits were dialed down a bit via regulation, and it was an oppressive, horrible, and un-innovative network. You weren't allowed to buy a telephone and plug it into the jack at home... you could only rent them from the company.

Thankfully, that company and environment are gone. Let's not recreate them.
A lot of commenters here saying the tone of the OP is bitter. I say the tone is human.

This team has every good reason to succeed: they spent 2 years of their life working together building something that's now getting significant traction - and making them money.

Every fundamental metric indicating whether the business will work or not were established facts. That should put them head and shoulders over anyone else.

Given all that, it's hard NOT to feel emotionally invested after 2 years. And it's hard not to want to spend time processing the experience the way they did.

At this point, it doesn't matter why they didn't get in. It would be great to know, and yes, it's awesome that they got some actionable feedback -

Actually, I want to say something about that too. Even if the feedback isn't what you wanted, shaolin69, it's all the more valuable because it's coming from someone who isn't like you. I agree with your priorities - especially your viral loop tricks (way to go on that, by the way). But I hope you'll tuck it away somewhere for the day you scratch your head and wonder "ok, what can I do now to boost traffic?"

But. As I was saying, it doesn't matter why you didn't get in. You still know you have the makings of a successful business. YC's rejection doesn't invalidate your track record. So be encouraged! I'm glad to see you took advantage of your time stateside to look at other accelerators and got some interest. Best of luck, looking forward to hearing your success stories!
This seems like a logical fallacy. Of course you have to separate your language's tokens with something. This is not "significant" whitespace. It's token delimiters, and they don't generally need whitespace. for example func(){return 1} has no whitespace between func and the open paren, also

func (){
a := 1
return a

}

while ugly, this still compiles just fine. It would compile just as fine if you randomly flipped some of the spaces into tabs.

Whitespace is not significant in Go.

The difference between significant whitespace and requiring "some" whitespace is that if you did something like that in Python, you could end up with a program with different logic depending on which spaces were flipped to tabs. This is why mixing spaces and tabs in Python is verboten.

In go, you can mix spaces and tabs all you want, wherever you want in your code and it will never ever change the logic of your code, period. (obvious exceptions for changes inside string literals)

So, it's not really a matter of degrees, and Python's method is completely broken if you ever mix tabs and spaces, which as Rob Pike points out, are completely indistinguishable in the default views of most editors.
Take their very visible taxi licence number, the place and time of day, and report them. The penalties are severe.

That said, if you're within 6 miles of Charing Cross they have no right to refuse... beyond that they are permitted to.
It's disingenuous, or maybe just naive, to think that a generation who has been on the earth 20 years longer than you doesn't understand what's going on in your generation.

That's funny, most of the people I know who talk a lot about this, and think today's youth are just fine, are over 40.

The point is that there has always been rhetoric from elders about how terrible the youth are. Aristotle complained about the atrocious manners of the modern youth. Your grandparents' grandparents probably talked about the lack of community in the modern world.

The game panics in the OP are just one category of a general theme. My wife is doing a paper on the "Girl Problem"... turns out you can go back 500 years and find a continuous written record, in both popular writing and policy, of the "current" crisis of morality among young women.

With age comes wisdom, sure. But age also brings a sort of amnesia. The evidence is overwhelming.
If you're currently missing concerts, have you tried http://www.songkick.com/ ?
Citation needed (I guess you are talking about the Google webfonts).
Wow, sounds like you really dedicated yourself to the task.
Really ? It's not too expensive. And it seems the workers get a much better deal than with Addisson Lee.

I make a point to use minicab firms if I'm not using a black cab, having spoken to a couple of drivers about the working conditions under Addilee.
Fair competition is great.
It isn't a level playing field though if Uber can do everything a Taxi can without the extra obligations that add to overheads.
It's much too late for all of us. What's done is done. You can't reverse it.
That's why you shouldn't use Google's android builds. Keep reading the post.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=986471
Umm, citation needed. Salaries are usually at least 50% of a company's expenses, and UK tax on salaries will be 30-40% of that, so that's at least 15-20%, likely more.
And we can all get a chance to swap our jobs for zero hours contracts, what a wonderful world.
> Another way to think of paradox is simply rejecting false dichotomies in favor of a more complex and uncertain reality.

That, as it so happens, is an excellent shorthand for Buddhism as well. Which I believe is a fruitful avenue for discussion, as the author does here.
My takeaway: if you want to throw creepers like this guy off your trail, harvest a hotel picture from the internet and post it to your Twitter account.
The application process is probably similar to large companies like Google and Facebook. The barrier is high, but not stupendously - you have to be good and a little bit lucky. Certainly Google aims for a very low false positive rate when hiring; plenty of top people get rejected, but that's the only way you ensure you don't hire chaff by mistake.

As the saying goes "You don't need to outrun the bear, you just need to outrun your friends". YC only has a finite amount of money, and presumably an annual budget. If you're good, but there are 30 companies better than you who take up that money then you're out of luck.
Ironically I don't get console log in Firebug anymore since FF 29 (conflicts with other plugins it seems ?), so that forces me to use the dev tools.
Well, if you already mention the NSA to make discussion "more relevant" to recent events (which were about... NSA surveillance), then it would be also good to mention that the advice from your article are not meant to secure you from the NSA :).

It's good for people to know exactly how much security they get by following particular advice :).
Hi, To the person who is downvoting every one of my comments - if you disagree with me, please write a reply to me. Downvoting here on HN is meant only for people who are significantly detracting from the discussion. Thanks.
So the use case is primarily to produce something machine readable rather than human readable (it's not that unreadable, but still). I can see that. Is there a human-readable flag?
If you want to travel a mile, you can just walk.
> Livingston said the latest class of startups entering the program will be its most diverse ever, containing both the oldest entrepreneur the group has ever back at 57, the youngest entrepreneur they’ve funded at 17, the most female entrepreneurs they’ve ever admitted, the most foreign entrepreneurs they’ve ever admitted and, for the first time, 6 nonprofits as well as the normal mix of tech hopefuls looking to make it big.

According to this [0] article, the oldest person was 57 years old.

[0] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/02/06/want-to-g...
It's still useful for tablets. There could be other back doors, but, without a PLMN-connected radio it will be harder to find you in order to backdoor you.
Google maps already integrates with Uber. If they managed to get such connection, I'm not sure why a bigger black cab company operating in large cities couldn't get an agreement to include taxi/bus lanes on a separate app. Can't imagine Uber forced Google to cooperate with them...
I actually prefer OsmAnd to Google Maps. Although that's mostly because I can download the maps for offline navigation.
Are you talking about this article? http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte...

> A port that is on average utilised at 90 percent will be saturated, dropping packets, for several hours a day. We have congested ports saturated to those levels with 12 of our 51 peers. Six of those 12 have a single congested port, and we are both (Level 3 and our peer) in the process of making upgrades – this is business as usual and happens occasionally as traffic swings around the Internet as customers change providers.

> That leaves the remaining six peers with congestion on almost all of the interconnect ports between us. Congestion that is permanent, has been in place for well over a year and where our peer refuses to augment capacity. They are deliberately harming the service they deliver to their paying customers. They are not allowing us to fulfil the requests their customers make for content.

So I'm reading it with my republican hat on, and I'm thinking: why is this any business of the government's? This sounds like a contractual dispute between two network companies over upgrades. Why should the government get involved in this?

The "consumer satisfaction" angle at the end might be more compelling, but more to a Ralph Nader type than even a Bill Clinton type much less a George Bush type. And the Ralph Nader types raised these objections in 1996 in opposition to telecoms deregulation, and they lost over a bi-partisan effort.

You can raise the specter of "monopoly" but the fact is that the cable companies are by and large not legally monopolies (after the 1992 reforms), and nobody really wants to tackle the whole "natural monopoly" angle because it's hard and doesn't lend itself to any good solutions.

I think the tech industry's best play is to keep pushing Google Fiber-type competitors hard and complain to Congress if states put up hurdles. Because what Congress and the FCC have been willing to do is step on the states when they try and raise barriers to competition (which is what the 1992 reform embodied). But this might make investors unhappy.
I get a bunch of lighting umbrellas: http://www.amazon.com/Interfit-INT484-36-Inch-Octobox-Softbo...
US Rep for 2015 Biennale Begins Work
A port of the famous 'footguy' (http://waste.org/footguy/) to Android plartform.
Where I live anyone can be a cab. You raise your hand on any street any time of day and some car will stop. As a result, prices are normally 3 times lower compared to the US. You negotiate the price with drivers beforehand and you don't have to tip them because all of the money go directly into the driver's pocket. I've never heard anyone complain about this system. Now tell me how is this a bad idea?
modern processors are really, really fast at simple, straight-line operations

Exactly.

Especially given the overhead of the network: for most apps, if the user notices anything else, you've screwed up.

KISUFI [kiss-you-fee]: Keep it simple, you fantastic individual!
you're delusional if someone is going to pay $10 a month for bookmark software. I could see in the realm of a dollar a month, not $10.
> That's because calculus is taught in high schools and is generally taught in college regardless of whether you major in CS (so for example someone wanting to self-teach CS after college will have taken calculus).

The depth usually required for a CS degree is not usually required in high schools (and often not available there), nor is it usually a requirement for non-STEM degrees, and people wanting to self-teach CS after college will very often be non-STEM majors.
What would HN, Reddit, etc be classified as if not social bookmarking?
Black cabs have no obligation to pick up fares and will regularly refuse to take trips that they feel are inconvenient or they think will likely result in a return journey without a fare, even after you're in the cab. Want to go south and it's near the end of the driver's shift and he lives north? Back to waiting for you.

This is in comparison to the NYC system where once you're in the cab, they're obligated to take you where you want to go.
They made the process of paying for the software a laborious pain in the ass. They are desperately trying to extract money from those who can pay, which sadly drives away those who can pay but don't want an involved process.

I have worked at lots of companies where I had a monthly budget of 10k+ that I could spend on whatever I wanted, but if I wanted any sort of complex deal (can't just put on CC with a line item) -- had to bring in legal and other groups -- instantly killed any interest.

"Licensing is based on the data needed (e.g. all of it vs subset), how it is used (e.g. internal only, external, product integration), etc."

What a goddamn horror show. I simply want a product, I want to pay for it, and I want to use it. Turning on Dropbox for Business was a decision made in about 5 minutes... "You all like it, already using it, awesome! I will get team setup." -- 5 minute later I had given Dropbox $3800.

I really think they are getting in their own way for no benefit. They have created a very high barrier to EVEN HAVING A DISCUSSION about buying the product. So, if I don't know exactly how will use it -- I can't purchase it. Stupidity.
If they are going after your features, you should go after their customers. You're the one leading the group right now and considering they are copy cats, you'll always be ahead of them in the game.

Try to contact their customers through twitter, their Facebook fan page, advertising and whatever you can think of. I'll leave it up to your creativity on how you can persuade them to your product but if you can do that you can bust the other company.
I found it quite funny that I read your comment after finding the HN stories in my RSS feed on Feedly.
I had a look at your website and you write about interesting topics. I’d like to keep track of that.

It appears, before the rebuild, you had a feed @ http://mkaz.com/rss.xml — which is gone. I guess the Lanyon web server doesn’t generate atom or RSS feeds out-of-the-box?

That’d be a pity, while a Web based on Markdown+Git+WebSocket (or something alike) still is a long shot…
Was The Windows Registry a Good Idea?
Sleio – Search engine that donates 100% of its profits
One of my criteria when buying phones is "Must support Cyanogenmod". It hasn't been a problem; frankly speaking, there are enough good phones that are fully supported that I don't need to mess around with the semi-working ones.
You can't block progress.
Rosseta spacecraft kicks off manoeuvres to chase comet
I am a very happy pinboard user.
My car doesn't have a blender, a mini-fridge, or a hot tub. Some cars do. I don't think my car is worse off because of their lack.

Along the same lines, my mother used to always buy cars that were manual transmission and without power windows or locks, because they were features which made the car cost more, broke often, and were expensive to fix. The minor conveniences they afforded were not worth the costs.
Older submission, 34 days ago, 43 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525066

If anyone wants to try this with people, type "Columbia University" as the location. I'll try to stay there all day.

Welcome back, tomd3v! I see you solved the bug where anyone could rooms by URL. Unfortunately, that bug was also the only feature that let anyone use this for chat. Instead of fixing it, you should have spent time on some of the features suggested in that thread. It's already clear you're just going to get the same feedback again this time.
Symantec Executive Says Antivirus Is Dead
Multipath TCP becomes really useful when coupled with source-sensitive routing. Some on-going work on this topic (based on the Babel routing protocol for mesh networks):

http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~boutier/source-specifi...
Isn't Google -- through Google Ventures -- a significant investor in Uber? That kind of may give them a different set of considerations than "a bigger black cab company" would have.
I read somewhere that Yahoo refused to sell delicious back to Joshua Schachter when they were looking to ditch it.

I moved to pinboard.in when it came out and it's exactly what I need, nothing more, and the guy who runs it keeps it simple. Really loved the sync to import all my existing delicious bookmarks.
Central to his teachings is the view that things are ‘empty’ (sunya). This does not mean that they are non-existent; only that they are what they are because of how they relate to other things.

Immediately I thought of Category Theory as this statement is a not terrible expression of what CT tries to teach. I'll immediately recommend the paper Numbers Can Be Just What They Have To (http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/phil/NumbersCanBeJustWhattheyHave...) for more exploration.

Briefly, while CT is usually "bootstrapped" off having a notion of objects and their relations, it becomes quickly obvious that focusing on the objects themselves is useless—they are given no emphasis in CT and thus wither away to being nothing at all. Instead, absolutely every interesting property of the objects must be expressed in the relations they take with other objects.

This is formalized in the Yoneda Lemma which, in a not terrifically generalized form, can be written

forall a . (forall r . (a -> r) -> r) <-> a

which is to say "the collection of all ways to relate an object to other objects is isomorphic to the object itself".

So what's the point? Well, as the paper linked above suggests, sometimes the "intrinsic nature" of things makes them very difficult. We'd often like to equate two things which "ought to be the same" but aren't because their intrinsic nature differs. If you work in standard mathematics (set theory) you run into this problem because everything is described as having an intrinsic nature derived from sets. If you work in CT-based math you have no such issue because objects fail to have intrinsic natures altogether. They only have their "extrinsic" natures, their relations to other things.
Rains a lot in London.
The idea of freeing your phone is cute, however, there are some considerable dangers.

* The software that you give access to your phone (be it drivers or the recovery images themselves) isn't signed by anyone. Some of the software isn't even available via HTTPS. I think it's a bad idea to trust some HTTP and unsigned executable more than Google, who are making all they can to ensure the integrity of anything that runs on your phone.

* Unlocking your bootloader is a bad idea. Google erases all your data whenever you unlock your phone[1]. They don't hate you, they've just realized the security issues that come from having an unlocked phone. Take this for example: You're at the airport and ready to leave. However, TSA stops you for a "random" check. They have your phone for about 5 minutes and there's nothing you can do about it. Now, they could ask you for your passcode but then you'd know something's wrong. Now, your bootloader is unlocked, which means they can see your device at firmware level and alter it to their liking it. Nothing can stop them from plating a backdoor in there or just making a copy of all your files and you wouldn't know. That's why Google does [1].

[1]: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_maguro#Unlockin...
Right, so Google end up with the IP address of the NAT gateway that my mobile provider puts me through. Hundreds, if not thousands, of other people will be sharing the same gateway.

In addition, DNS doesn't send my GPS co-ordinates along with the request, so it will just be IP geolocation data which Google will collate for their own stats on their DNS servers (So they can see/log what regions people access from, etc.).

Just because it mentions storing location doesn't mean they are trying to monitor every step you take when using their DNS.
They already have a quantity domain... it's called "integer". While I agree that domains are important and should be utilized, I hope your examples are exaggerations.
"without excluding anyone of any ability."

It's all well and good that it is written that way on paper but do they actually follow that in practice? Is there any reason to believe an Uber driver wouldn't make every effort to accommodate a passenger needing some extra assistance?
Google Ventures are an Uber investor, I'm not sure if that's what sparked the integration but it probably didn't hurt!

I'm not sure if there's actually a comprehensive source for bus lane data - if there is, it would be really useful for motorbike users too (who can generally use bus lanes).
I use pinboard for private bookmarking. In fact that's one of the improvements of pinboard over delicious. At the time I used delicious I always felt that I had to work to keep my bookmarks private. I set my privacy setting once at pinboard and I never have to think about it.

For me, pinboard is bookmarks that I don't have to synch, and have automatically available at home, work or wherever.
2 months old, previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7389258
> ii) Should search engines pay the scraped sites if they are charging to access their indexed data? probably some of the scraped sites has a specific license forbidding the search engine to sell their information in any way.

Any reputable search engine will respect robots.txt.
and I have a policy that if the company does not practice open pricing by publishing their prices online I will not do business with them..

Fuck that non-sense of pricing based on what ever they think they can scam me out of
Sometimes downtime is in that grey area where you'd like to avoid it but it's not worth doubling your hardware costs.

Or maybe your other server is already down for maintenance. Or you want both servers to be patched as soon as possible - simultaneously would be best.
Two other Black Cab app startups:

Get Taxi
http://gettaxi.co.uk/

Hailo
https://www.hailocab.com/london

I believe these have faced some resistance in some cities even with a strategy of working with licensed taxi operators.
Nope: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/virtually-no-evidenc...
I'm confused by people who want to make their data public, but want to control exactly how people access it.

You mean like TV? or Radio? or print....
It's interesting, but the problem I have with the presentation is that the modern manifestation of this idea has nothing to do with Buddhism. While we can maybe say that Buddhism came up with some similar-looking stuff, there's no causal link, and the philosophical systems are not working within the same paradigm. Like seeing a human face on the surface of Mars, this is an example of coincidence more than any deep connection.

Well, OK, that's unfair, because Buddhism and formal logic are both human endeavours, and have to deal with the same facts. But this disconnect is even true with parts of Greek philosophy. "Atoms" as we understand them are very different from "atoms" as Aristotle thought of them, even though there is a historical connection. Today's chemists would do badly if they relied on Aristotle for anything other than historical curiosity.
I don't think that an article this long was required to compare an Arduino with a Pi.

The comparison chart also seems to want to make Arduino look like something you would not want. It does not really reveal anything of meaning as these are two different machines.

In my opinion the definition, comparison should only mention that an Arduino is meant for real-time hardware-specific controlling/monitoring while a Pi is more like a small computer that has a possibility of controlling/monitoring a few hardware elements.