skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717961

Other submissions, some have up-votes, some have comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718106
Isn't this just the same as Dynamic Programming?
I'm not employed, so I'm not sure how that's relevant.

Perhaps if you talked about anything else we wouldn't automatically think "oh, this guy again."
Apple Buys Beats
That smells like a just-so story. The grim scenario you describe could happen in any franchise situation. What stops McDonald's from doing this to its franchisees? Not this type of law.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717961

Other submissions, some have up-votes, some have comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717980
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717961

Other submissions, some have up-votes, some have comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717995
Apple Near $3.2 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
Apple To Buy Beats Electronics for $3.2B
I would like to see "keeping investors informed" as part of the honesty thing. I've had a few YC founders dissapear without so much as a "we're shutting down."
Except that you're risking hiring people that know all the trivia but still can't program FizzBuzz properly. The test loses its predictive value.
Thanks sirn. The top two things are on the roadmap. Especially preview.

Regarding font selection, which fonts would you like? I'll have to bundle the fonts with the app, so I'd like to hear what people are into. Right now it uses Meslo for source and Avenir everywhere else.

GitHub recently fixed the unable to fetch PR updates when issues are disabled thing. You aren't using GitHub Enterprise are you?
gcj is dead since 2009.

The only alternatives, besides Excelsior, is the new RoboVM, Websphere Realtime JVM, Aicas, Aonix among a few other ones.

And if Graal eventually replaces Hotspot on the reference JVM, it might be that Truffle comes along as well.
Something interesting though.

Beats has a popular cross platform music player app. iTunes is under immense pressure from apps like Spotify who are far more youthful, fun and social. So having a decent app for Android/Windows would be useful and Apple definitely doesn't have any experience in house.

Also just saw this comment about the app, "ATT put it on my phone without warning me or asking me if I wanted it." Existing carrier licenses to preinstall iTunes on Android could be useful.
The World's fastest elevator
Very reproducibly too.
Apple Considering Buying Beats Electronics for $3.2B
Speaking of ethics, I think you mean:

"Also, there were more than two Y Combinator portfolio companies named as defendants in my federal lawsuit over money transmission"
How To Kill The Feature Creep Monster: Launch And Sell Early
When did you give it a try? I bought it after using it for the full trial period and I never had an issue with either version. Pretty sure there's just a login on app launch that checks if you've paid, there's no difference between free and paid versions at all.
It's cedar, like the others have said, you should never use pressure treated wood or any type of sealant in a vegetable garden.

I have a cedar raised garden I built 4 years ago. It rains 10 months out of the year here and it's still going strong. No indication of any rot or breaking down.

But your comment is important and shows the power of the internet though. If you went to build a garden, you wouldn't just run out and buy pressure treated wood because you know it lasts more. I'm sure you would take the time to research it at least a little bit on the internet. You'd find this out within the first 10 minutes and then go build yourself a great bed.
1-5M downloads of the app according to Google Play Store.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717961

Other submissions, some have up-votes, some have comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718137
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717961

Other submissions, some have up-votes, some have comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718138
I remember seeing it and promptly forgetting about it. Thats precisely what I needed. Thank you.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717961

Other submissions, some have up-votes, some have comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718137

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718138
Apple Said to Be in Talks to Buy Beats for $3.2 Billion
> Keeping off-the-record or confidential information (whether about YC itself or a YC company) private and secret.

> Not behaving in a way that damages the reputation of his/her company or of YC.

This can turn 'unethical' pretty darn fast.
I can confirm they did lay-off most of their staff though.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717961

Other submissions, some have up-votes, some have comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718137

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718146
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717961

Other submissions, some have up-votes, some have comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718137

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718158
Product lessons we can learn from Google+
"Specialization is for insects." -- Heinlein

A fiction writer, and a fictional character voices it, but seriously, fuck specialization. Sure I'm only a "master" of a couple domains, but familiarity (to the point of competence) in others gives me insight and ideas on how to further my work in my primary and secondary fields of interest/employment.
My team and I have been working on a problem over the last week or so that screams modularity problems. Each time we think we have it solved, someone says "Wait, there's this report only 2 of us have ever heard about that doesn't work because X, Y, Z." The discussion has lasted a couple weeks and is starting to push deployment times back.

Essentially, we have a distributed set of `devices` which interact with `customers`. Each customer has a `session` with the device. During the session, the `customer` may make various types of `payments` (coin or credit card) for various types of `fees`. Additionally, the customer may receive one or more `tickets`. The data model is getting pretty big with:

* Devices

* Sessions

* Line Items

* Allocations

* Payments

* Adjustments

* Violations

* Fees

For accounting purposes, we need to be able to map our payments to the fees and violations they are paying for. Customers might make a single payment to cover multiple violations and those violations may be across multiple sessions.

The number of times I've heard "this new solution fixes X but breaks π" is frustrating, but I don't see how this could be separated out. Perhaps others have insights that would simplify all of this, but it seems to me that the essential fact of our system is that the payment/line item/allocation system is responsible for many tasks/reports. I read articles like this and pine for:

A) A project where true modularity is achievable.

B) The skills to make my current project truly modular.
the modern gnome2 already exists as 'gnome3 classic mode' or mate (which will support gtk3). lxde is also nice.
That's the interesting question. Because the answer is: nothing.
Show HN: View.coffee, Dead Simple Client-Side Framework
$1,000 is way too low - any lobbyist has more than that in his pants for "walking around money." They spend more than that taking a Govt. Official to lunch.
I know a lot of people don't like the quality of Beats but they are great for listening to hip hop and other bass heavy music. Still I am surprised by this Apple purchase. I would assume the tech would power their headphones for now on? Can't imagine it is for the music subscription service
I think you want "exclusively" where you have "uniquely".
Yeah, YouTube is pretty huge. In 2010 I learned a lot of bike maintenance just by watching YouTube.

I learned lots of music stuff on the web in the 90's, but having videos is really necessary for a lot of things. Without a video it would be really hard to explain how to change cranks and so forth. It occurred to me that even 5 years before that (2005), I wouldn't have had access to that content.
Yes. It makes three requests to googleusercontent.com and one to fonts.googleapis.com.

It's interesting because the site has gone to some length to host jQuery, Bootstrap and other stuff you could see referenced in HTML source, but CSS file requires stuff from Google servers. So maybe they simply missed that one.
if we can imagine each civilization to have its own "black box" what would be typical last words recorded by it?

"ability to control the uptake of
foreign DNA bases as a safety measure that would prevent
the survival of alien cells outside the lab, should they escape. But other researchers, including Benner, are trying to engineer cells that can make foreign bases from scratch, obviating the need for a feedstock"

sounds like a darn good candidate :)
Sounds like another satisfied Apple customer.
I see, thanks for pointing it out! It'd only be trustless for minor decisions, then, not worth risking the 1st hash reward to find another, and that's not very interesting.
"I'm an advisor for Walmart." --your profile on this web site.

Is your argument really that I haven't written about enough different topics? Well, here's some for you:

- Toxic waste in Palo Alto http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=88

- Supreme Court briefing requirements http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=87

- Business schools http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=58

- Airport security http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=49

So given that I've written about a variety of issues, do you have any substantive response to any of the questions I pose above?
Create and Use Life Automation Bots
Just replying to what I think is your objection, apologies if that's not what you meant.

I think the point being made was that a lot of things that we think of as outside our domain of expertise, and thus inaccessible, truly aren't.

It's worth attempting to construct the garden bed yourself, and you might find that it's not nearly as insurmountable of an obstacle as you'd imagined. In this particular case, treating the wood might have been part of the process of learning how to make the garden bed, as would using a saw, polishing the wood, etc.
dr_ian_malcolm.jpg
Yeh... Tesla, Uber, airbnb all use illegal sales techniques. I miss PG's more unvarnished advice.
Source Code Pro and Inconsolata-dz would be nice. :-)

I'm definitely not using GitHub Enterprise. From what I've seen in the connection log, pull requests from repo with issues disabled are completely missing.

Also thanks for the app! I can now finally do a code review on a toilet. Yay!
Serious question, could all content providers get together and ban Comcast together or would that break an anti-trust law?
If Google and Amazon did it, it would send a very strong message
Report: Apple to acquire Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion
Hi all,

I tried to make a very simple jQuery based framework. When I saw Atom's "class View extends jQuery" code, it's flashed my mind. Views are actually DOM objects, and jQuery is not that bad about it. So, what if we can use jQuery to manage logic? I know, lots of people already do this but I mean in a cleaner way.

So first, I reached out to Space-Pen which is a framework by GitHub. But it was a little opinionated. I just want "dead-simple" thing and built this one as an experimental project.

So, what do you think? :)
It looks like YC's answer to the Zidisha situation.
StartupCast Episode 1, a podcast about Iranian Startups
We discuss Iran's startup scene, opportunities, culture, and what's happning now in Iran.

Please do share this :)
thank you
I thought the weakest part of their argument is that second graders have no problem logging into anything. My daughter is in second grade and her class manages just fine. They all have their own login on the school computers and no problems.
Hi Tom,

What's the ethical problem here exactly? I linked to the lawsuit docket, it's clear that my company filed it, and it doesn't matter either way in the context of my argument.

Furthermore, had I written "my" as you suggest, it would make it sound like there is a potential ethical problem because I say so. But my point isn't that there is a potential ethical problem because I say so. My point is that there is a potential ethical problem when lawsuits in general start getting filed.

Aaron
Apple in Talks to Acquire Beats Electronics for $3.2 Billion
"Legal" and "ethical" may overlap in places, but IMO those are largely orthogonal issues.
I haven't heard of UberPop in the US: a quick google says it sounds like a more open version of UberX, so it would also be illegal: the sticking point is drivers without a professional license/commercial insurance taking money from people for rides. In the US the version of Uber that uses professional drivers is technically called Uber Black: in my experience when people say "Uber" they mean UberX (because it's cheaper and so more popular).
In the spirit of being honest as requested, all of these are so vague and context-sensitive, basically they amount to nothing.

You'll have to do a lot more work and be more specific than this generic wishlist, if you want people to really abide by your understanding of ethics.

Oh and this one:

- Keeping your word, including honoring handshake deals.

... is plain dangerous. Handshake deals are not deals. They're just a problem about to happen. Someone's neurons keeping the memory of a "handshake deal" will start misfiring.

Write it down. Even in an email after the meeting. If it's not written, it didn't happen.
There is an awkward period (after clicking past the warning and before verifying the signed SSL certificate fingerprint) which is no more or less safe than HTTP, but which is more cumbersome and might encourage often-bad behavior in some users. After verifying that the certificate is signed by her (which requires trusting her public key--more hoops), you get some benefit.

It's difficult to weigh the cost/benefit, and nobody is denying that PKI can be awkward.

/thread?

ed: ok, i guess we might still debate the cost/benefit of getting a free cert--i don't really know.
etoileos - last news update 2012 and wasn't even about the project

fluxbox - active and kind've interesting

awesome - more of just a WM than full DE

ratpoison - ditto

enlightenment - okay, kind've resembles Win 95 too... but more of a DE than the others you listed

windowmaker - been around forever; hasn't really "innovated" in forever; just a NeXT clone if I remember correctly for GNUStep

I think my point stands. I was talking about LXDE, Xfce, and RazorQT.
Article's behind a paywall, so I can't read it.

But if I were to guess, someone at Apple is talking to someone at Beats about something.

The meeting could be anything and someone would still write a story about acquisition talks.
Treated wood also costs like twice as much. I know that as a guy trying to just plop together a garden box I'd probably go for the cheapest wood that doesn't look like it will fall apart right away.
I'm not sure exactly what he means, but perhaps he's referring to what you choose to post to this particular site:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=author%3Athinkcomp#!/comment/sort_...

Wikipedia has a term that might (or might not?) apply here: "Single Purpose Account".
Thanks, I added this to the Winklevoss newsline: http://newslines.org/cameron-tyler-winklevoss/
But thats exactly what its for. Beats has a unique streaming service thats curated by actual humans and is what apple has been building with iTunes radio. 3.2 Billion for that seems like a lot to me though
I think it's worth noting that there's never been a "weird" WM/DE that attracted a sizeable userbase purely on its own merits. Gnome 3 and Unity were to a great extent forced upon their users. If there were real benefits to means of desktop interaction that differed significantly from the established "Windows 95" and "tiling WM" modes, you'd think there'd be a few enthusiasts on the side exploring this realm and touting its productivity advantages.

I'd bet the majority of the lightweight "Windows 95 clone" WMs and DEs exist because GNOME and (to a lesser extent) KDE alienated their userbases by trying to be "different" and "next generation" (mostly by poorly cloning OSX and the latest Windows version that nobody liked anyway), so I'd hesitate to say that experimentation should be left to them.

EDIT: Many commercial products suffer from this problem where the existing version is "good enough" and people are happy using it for several hours a day, but the producer needs to convince users to purchase the new version anyway, so they end up adding a lot of pointless, irritating, and even product-breaking changes just to make the new version seem revolutionary and worthy of an upgrade, even if it's actually making the product worse. Many open source devs don't seem to have realized that there is no reason for them to play this game. They don't need to sell anyone a new version in a cardboard box, so there's no conflict of interest here; they can do less work and make their users more happy by keeping things stable and incrementally improving things. Yet, very often, they ape Microsoft, Adobe, and company's spastic thrashing anyway. More ribbons!
Also, even if it does break down after a year, you can just plop together a new one.

It's just wood.
5 Clever Ways to Increase Mobile App Reviews
What codebase are they starting with? How long will it take to develop a tournament quality game? The announcement says a "small team of UT veterans that are beginning work on the project starting today" and that a playable version won't be available for "many months".
This isn't at all about the hardware but more about the streaming service and its curation. Beats Music is curated by humans and has a unique recommendation engine. It seems like a lot for that though.
Feds approve Bitcoins for campaign contributions
If you are doing a MITM attack, you might as well change the content of isis.txt on the fly.
There may come a time when indoor pictures could reveal your location as well. If you were to create a database of lots and lots of architectural plans, you could conceivably use computer vision algorithms for determining dimensions of a room as a few more known bits of entropy for identifying an indoor location.
Yeah, not your strongest argument ever. Aaron Swartz and Google AdSense have absolutely nothing to do with money transmission. Nice try though.

The general sentiment I get from the community is that if you're an expert on a particular issue, and you happen to have an unpopular viewpoint, you shouldn't participate. The community is entitled to that sentiment, and I am entitled to strongly disagree with it, which I will continue to do so long as it persists.
Apple in talks to acquire Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion
Apple close to buying headphone maker Beats Electronics – FT
If this was around April 1st, I'd think it's an April Fools joke.
Well, I mean it's probably good to watch the YouTube video anyway in case you don't know about turning off the fuse box. Might seem obvious in that case, but when you're just learning something you don't know what you don't know yet. Good to at least find out if there's anything that might kill you.
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Beats is a big brand. Despite snootiness from audiophiles, the 'goodwill' value of the business must be significant.
Huh. I find it annoying because I'm usually watching for the car once I get the text and so extra time after being told "I'm here!" feels longer (it's like having a recorded announcement break into the hold music on a phone call), but also I think because I had assumed that they were getting somehow tracked on how long it took them to get to the pickup and they were gaming it by making the signal less useful to me. I know it's not increasing my trip length, thanks!
I'm a Crunchbanger too. Nobody can say Crunchbang looks like Windows95, just browse the forums and see what people are doing with it http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewforum.php?id=6

You might find some useful info regarding Crunchbang/LXDE here http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24640

Part of the appeal for me as an artist and hacker, the Crunchbang community is incredibly creative. You can see the personality and careful attention going into the screenshots. Any pixel on the screen is fair game for customization. In my opinion, it's worth the effort to tweak your config files and get exactly the look you want. For me it's a balance between functionality, getting the most from my laptop's small screen, while creating a pleasant work environment that I don't despise.

FWIW I still use Openbox but disabled the decorations. I use pytyle2 to manage windows. Pretty much I use the Crunchbang default colors, dark but not too dark, works well at night as well as in daylight.
Perhaps not, although I have to click through a page or two of the search results for the pattern to become particularly apparent.

I wouldn't know anything about having unpopular viewpoints coupled with subject matter expertise. Maybe you're right about HN.
OK, I'll definitely look into it. They literally just enabled this a couple weeks ago, so I didn't get to test much.

If you want, feel free to email me jacksonh@gmail.com with any other issues or details on this one (especially if its a public repo).
CNN article: "Meet the 'NeRD,' the Navy's new e-Reader"
I have left feedback on it, refusing to ride would just slow me down even further at that point and isn't worth it to me.
It's not mystery or even laziness that stops people like myself, it's the consequences of screwing up. I'm happy to explore the mystery if I can afford those consequences.
There is now a MEAN variant with Ember
Full Stack JS Nodember replaces Angular in MEAN with Ember and builds from there
"Article's behind a paywall, so I can't read it."

Hence the other submissions....

There are about 10x on the new page right now.

FT's the originating source, tho.

(the one you linked to)
Yeah, onslaught isn't something I see talked about much anywhere else and was loads of fun.