skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sympathize because I went through almost exactly the same experience with YC - we applied to W14, flew to the interview and did not get in.

Myself and 3 co-founders are all in our early to mid 30's, and have put in about the same amount of time and effort into our startup as OP et al, working on it full time for almost the same period before applying. All of us live half-way around the world from SV (Israel), and got on the plane on mostly our dime to show that we're taking the program, application and interview seriously.

I remember walking into the waiting area and seeing all those fresh-out-of-college-with-a-great-idea founders (not being cynical here), and I immediately felt out of place; very similar to what the OP describes. Not intimidated or phased in any way, just that we were the odd man out. Most of my co-founders and myself are married, have kids, and are in a different place in life than what I'd speculate is the average YC applicant profile. Or perhaps I'm just stereotyping, I don't know - it sure seemed like it from gazing around that room. No offense intended to past/present/future applicants.

The interview was very ordinary and I didn't feel like it went great or terrible. At one point it was mentioned that we're doing something very similar to a recent YC graduate, and that they weren't doing that great [0]. I imagine both were factors in our dismissal. I couldn't say exactly what it was that didn't get us past the interview phase.

Overall I'm not sorry we went - it was an interesting experience, and we managed to arrange other meetings in the valley while there. I'm also not overly upset we didn't qualify - it probably would have helped us move forward, but it's not the only way to succeed and definitely not the end of the world. Take it with a grain of salt and move on.

[0] Don't know if that's true or if I misunderstood the speaker.
I've noticed a significant battery life increase after getting rid of all the Google apps from my phone. I generally get two days of normal usage with my free software apps (F-Droid stuff) while other owners of this phone report getting a single day of battery life.
I don't think you realize that euthanasia isn't always voluntary.
Pinboard has tags.
Data Science Interviews: What can you expect?
What's with that last sentence of the intro? This is an article about a roller coaster that kills people, not an argument for or against euthanasia. I come to this page wanting to read about a death coaster and then I'm thrust into a debate on whether it is moral to euthanize people.

Also, the source isn't really that solid. It's one sentence in a post on Metro which, since it looks like it's based in the UK, I don't really know much about.

If you want to include criticism for something make it a separate section or something, not a sentence in the introduction.

It looks like this was the revision where that sentence was added in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euthanasia_Coaster...
Say what you will, but while Boyer-Moore can be tricky to implement, it's not exactly a fancy algorithm.
Especially this part: Subsequent inversions would serve as insurance against unintentional survival of particularly robust passengers.
I've done some aerobatic flying, and I would not always describe the experience of high G maneuvers as pain-free. Maybe someone more medically inclined could explain why this roller coaster might be different?
Or, don't be so afraid of strangers? People should be allowed to rent out their own property.
I'm in it and it's awesome. They're doing some really cool things pushing forward the tech for online delivery and course management. And I'm happy to say that it is every bit as rigorous as you would expect from a Top 10 program.
My pet peeve with python is the classic:

return x,

I have never wanted to declare a tuple without surrounding it with (). Too bad it's not a syntax error in python 3.

Also, as opposed to one of his examples, if you are using python 2.7, declare your exception blocks as:

except (FooException, BarException) as e:

It's forward compatible with python 3, it's easier to read and the syntax errors are clearer.
Brilliant Prank Using Google To Mess With Someone's Head
> My argument is that market should decide.

Or maybe, just maybe, the people should decide instead of random companies who don’t pay taxes. And ‘the people’ usually decide by voting for their favourite MP who can then implement their wishes. Laws regarding regulation of taxis did not fall down one day and then were accepted as the god-given rights of taxi drivers but were implemented because the general population thought them to be a good thing™.

It’s not up to Uber to decide otherwise.
Why Almost Everyone Is Doing Business Intelligence Wrong
I certainly see Delicious and HN as being in the same landscape, but different. Delicious has the concept of friends, so there is a social network aspect to it. HN has comments, so there is a forum aspect to it.

I don't have many friends on Delicious, and no friends with really similar interests, so the social network aspect is not worth much to me. HN has lots of reasonably bright and knowledgeable users, so the comments are worth something to me. It's the classic private vs public dichotomy in social networks.

If Delicious could somehow mix in some of the forum aspect that HN has, it could become enormously valuable to me. If it let me read and participate in discussions like HN, but focused on the areas i am specifically interested in (more Rust, less Bitcoin), it would replace HN in an instant.
I vote before looking at the article. Yes I've regretted it a few times, but generally I don't.
To me, a large part of the value proposition behind angular is in a) making your app as declarative as possible and b) isolating resuable and imperative code in modules (directives or services in the parlance of angular).
The other main trouble is that if one of these large sites scrapes your OWN unique content (lets say a blog post) and has it on their site Google will treat the larger site as the OWNER of that content due to it's higher rank / reputation leaving your OWN site getting penalised (or at least not ranked) for DUPE content - this is something that needs fixing
Check out the mean sunshine hours in those tables to figure out why Lisbon is perceived to always be sunny, it is because it is. Literally twice the sunny hours a year.

There is a pretty big difference between 12 hours of cloud and drizzle and 2 hours of steady rain followed by 10 of sunshine in terms of the human misery factor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_duration
Replicant is free software, unlike CyanogenMod.
Qt has shaped up to be such an attractive, pleasant-to-use framework. QML has turned out quite convenient, too. It's a pity that Qt's foundation remains a fundamentally memory-unsafe language like C++.

I'm using a lot of languages now that offer significantly more safety, both memory and type (including OCaml, Golang, and playing with Rust).

Even with the very welcome additions of C++11/14, it still seems like I'm stepping back into a previous era when I write C++. I use C occasionally, but when I do I know I'm manipulating memory directly, and if I'm not careful it can bite me. C++ has adopted so many modern language features that it's easy to forget it shares many of the same attributes as C, even if most of them are now avoidable with care and attention.

One nice response to this dilemma is Niemeyer's go-qml (sponsored by Ubuntu, if I'm not mistaken). go-qml allows you to create your main Qt program in Go, leaving QML for the layout only. So no C++ at all (except under the covers, of course). I look forward to seeing how go-qml evolves [1].

1. https://github.com/go-qml/qml
>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.

Philosophies have been swapping ideas for thousands of years and it shows. Take a look at thinkers like Plotinus for example. He lived in Alexandria back when it was a multicultural metropolis hosting people from across the known world. His philosophy uses ideas and language you would expect to find in eastern traditions. Thanks to his extensive influence you will also find this jargon in western philosophy, christianity, islam, etc... This might not seem relevant to you. But if you know the historical connections between neo-platonism and philosophy of math it might.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus
To be fair those mediums all kind of suck in their own way.
One of the best salary negotiation articles I've read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501366
If he got rid of the bar on the right it would look much better, way too much clutter currently. It's very distracting.
The Difference between Hard and Soft Links
Cool write-up!

One thing though, the hover menu doesn't really work with my Nexus 7, as it sends me straight to reddit. Hover in general assumes a mouse and doesn't work on mobile, which I'm guessing is why it was not included out of the box.
I think two minutes of that 3:20 are just getting to the top. The 10g only lasts 60 seconds.
How fancy and efficient the underneath runtime library, memory management, process scheduling, network stack, block I/O, device drivers have been designed and implemented so that someone can just write naive code to achieve such a high performance and think himself a genius.
I just don't understand, how is it that in your mind voting is a better way to let consumers decide than actually giving them choice? Alright, let me stop right here. I know where this is going. You like state and regulations. I don't. I think each individual should decide on his own with his own money he spends or doesn't spend.
Ditch Your Android.
If a homophobe being driven to quit his public position because the media is "so deferential to minorities" is your deciding issue, I hope the door doesn't hit you on the way out. The urges that I get to leave the country are due to a surplus of privileged, solipsistic upper-middle class people destroying the place in the name of saving a few bucks on their taxes, or avoiding having to send their kids to a public school, or some other minor inconvenience. Your absence will help with that.

I'm going to make an easy assumption that the author is from the exact same demographic group as Eich, so the controversy over him managed to penetrate the author's fog of not noticing the important issues that are a matter of life or death to millions with the fairly trivial matter of a short-term CEO becoming embarrassed.

edit: Eich seems like a nice guy, so when I call him a homophobe, I'm just saying something factual - not trying to attack his character. My grandmother is a homophobe and I still love her.

Seriously, though: Removing limits to political spending, shutting down the public schools, crumbling infrastructure, universal surveillance, largest prison population in the world, the situation of racial minorities and integration backsliding rapidly, massive unemployment/underemployment, college reaching unaffordable levels, the number one reason for bankruptcy being health care costs from illness, a newly-appointed CEO who donated to defeat gay marriage in California being driven to quit by people who were upset about it.
10000+ people told us their size in their favorite brands. Here's our site.
Response to Hawking: AI Helps Us Understand a World We've Endangered
Last week, a group of scientists led by Stephen Hawking warned that advances in artificial intelligence could produce uncontrollable and disastrous consequences for humanity.

The physicists and computer scientists who co-authored an article in the British newspaper The Independent raised the specter of superintelligent machines. Those machines, they wrote, may spin out of control one day, evolving without human intervention to become more powerful than, and uncaring toward, their creators.

That dystopia is compelling, and familiar. It’s been aired repeatedly every few decades as society’s fears attach themselves to each newly imagined technological threat. Of course we can't know all the repercussions of what we create, and by that token, the scientists’ article is irrefutable. That said, their fearful argument should not be the last word on AI.
Indeed, in the not too distant future we expect to move to spinning disks, with the data arranged for streaming reads. Streaming off disk can be pretty fast. LZ4 compression is fast enough to give us another big boost without turning CPU into a bottleneck. But the big enabler will be spreading data across disks, so that in principle we can use every spindle we own in service of every nontrivial query. The fact that server logs have a very high write-to-read ratio really helps us out here.

Today, we're keeping everything on SSD -- twice, in fact, to maintain a hot spare for each server. SSD prices have fallen to the point where, even renting from Amazon, we can make the cost model work; and SSD is a great crutch as we tune our storage layer. But spinning disk will be a lot cheaper.

As for Java: we've been pretty surprised ourselves. Going in, we expected to need a lot more "native" (C) code. As it turned out, currently the only non-Java code we're using is the LZ4 library, and even there we only recently moved to the non-Java implementation. We do soon expect to move a few more bits of code to C, such as the core text-search loop. But based on the performance we've been getting in pure Java, we don't anticipate any need to move more than a fraction of 1% of our overall code base.

We do have some code that lives in a sort of middle ground -- Java code written like it was in C. Our database buffers live in a set of 2GB byte arrays, soon to be replaced by native memory blocks. We do our own (very simple) memory allocation within that, and use a sprinkling of Unsafe operations to access it. This gets us closer to C performance (not all the way there), without any of the hassles of bridging across languages. This part is still well under 1% of our overall codebase.
I’ve always had major difficulties with finding clothes that fit. For as long as I can remember, I have been tall & skinny with an extremely narrow waist, and so pretty much every shirt or pair of slacks that I have ever owned have fit me poorly. To make matters worse, I decided to try online shopping a few years ago, only to realize that I was spending even more time returning clothes because they were the wrong size or fit.

While growing up, my best friend and I have always shared the same exact height, weight and body type and so we've always been able to share our wardrobes and advice with each other. It then came to me last year that this act of sharing was something people all over the world could truly benefit from.

So we slowly started building our website, www.fitbay.com, with the ultimate goal of building a community that would help everyone with discovering all the brands and products in the world in the right size & fit. Basically, you plug in your height, weight and body type and we’re able to instantly show you clothes that fit you based on the recommendations people with your exact measurements have made.

To get the initial recommendations we needed, I organized about 3-4 coffee meetings, inside & outside of work each and every day, asking friends, family, co-workers, acquaintances (and people on Reddit) to share with us their height, weight, and sizes they wear in their favorite brands. In doing so, we were able to, quite early, create the sensation of a “personalized store created just for you where everything fits” and a community of people who share the same fit-related issues.

In just 5 months we’ve now grown from just 50 to over 10,000 unique profiles on Fitbay having shared a total of 60,000+ unique product recommendations.

Help us out by visiting the site www.fitbay.com and sharing your thoughts here, and please do let us know if you have any ideas or feedback. Keep in mind that the community is still invite-only, but if you sign up using the link above I’ll do my best to make sure you get access within 24 hours.
The author himself wrote:

The constructions I have described show how to make precise mathematical sense of the Buddhist views. This does not, of course, show that they are true.
It's easy to miss things in documentation because there is so much of it. The bootstrap documentation is really a reference utility. This article is great even for stuff that is in the documentation because you might not think to look for it.
I find it particularly galling that "Death with dignity" is "a silly loaded catchphrase designed to put opponents off balance" and yet "Death with courage" is something you throw in to support that belief. You need to take a moment to listen to your own rhetoric and think about the people your opinions effect.
Bing It On – Take the Bing versus Google Challenge. Would you bet against Bing?
100% agree. Someone is pushing this site.
I'll point out the obvious, which is that now your bookmarks are all tied to that browser. Not a huge deal if you don't want to switch browsers any time soon, but it can be nice to sit down at another person's computer and pull things up.
MIT AppInventor – WYSIWYG android apps using Scratch
I guess the term is "UK and Crown Dependencies"
Pinterest is as good an execution of bookmarking (even if not thought about this way) as I've seen. What sets it apart is that content is very visual, organized by content and boards (directories) and easily discoverable. I visited delicious again, and all I see are tags and page titles.
Is there a reason why you didn't use another event-driven framework like picoev[1], ivykis[2], or the more popular ones like libuv[3], libevent[4], libev[5]?

[1] https://github.com/kazuho/picoev

[2] http://libivykis.sourceforge.net/man3/ivykis.3.html

[3] https://github.com/joyent/libuv

[4] http://libevent.org/

[5] http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html
Ask HN:  what's a good open source trouble ticket system?
I'm after something lightweight and reliable for customer service at a ~10 person startup. suggestions (both positive and negative) please!
Web Giants Slam Proposed Net Neutrality Rules
Untangle Spaghetti Code With a Simple Change of Perspective
Another game with a long-running dev time that turned out really well is Cave Story. It took five years and is on the same level as Braid.
There are several forms of euthanasia. Involuntary euthanasia (against the will of the patient) is something most people would agree is wrong and this roller coaster would unlikely be able to be used for it.
That's what I get for shooting from the hip. Physics is often required by the five programs referenced in the article, but not directly by current ABET criteria. Though the mission of the program could indirectly require it.

As I tried to imply, physics is the one physical science where there is an introductory sequence that requires calculus as a pre-requisite and it's application to pass.

http://www.abet.org/uploadedFiles/Accreditation/Accreditatio...
History of Shetland#Pawned to Scotland
Is the explanation for #1 correct?

"when the default value for a function argument is an expression, the expression is evaluated only once"

I would explain the behavior he shows as due to the default value being mutable. I don't see an expression there, just an empty list used as a default.
CityMapper – Point to Point City Directions
I think that someone dying is pretty horrible, even if it is less horrible than dying some other way.
Right. He was a lobbyist for the NCTA up to the year I was born, back when cable networks were just basically coax wires carrying OTA signals.

Most recently, he was a managing director at Core Capital Partners, which is a VC firm that invests in a bunch of internet/cloud computing early-stage companies: http://www.core-capital.com/portfolio.aspx.

Arguably, his strongest bias should be towards internet companies, not against them.
> What if you don't want to pay for that specific service?

Don't use it. Call a minicab instead.
Fascinating essay. I enjoy and appreciate the references to Buddhist ("Eastern") philosophies given that the paradoxical thinking is what most of us attribute to it.

What is the catch with Aeon? There don't seem to be ads, paywalls, subscriptions, or other monetizing strategies, but the content seems fantastic. Is it charitable intellectualism?
Let Our Video Go
Let me make it clear: I am not in the least bit interested in your moral judgement of my beliefs, nor am I interested in your advice regarding my rhetoric.
Metro is a free commuter newspaper. Mostly adverts. It's not exactly the New York Times.
We will never know, as the baseband driver is not free ;)
"Thus, the bar argument is initialized to its default (i.e., an empty list) only the first time that foo() is called, but then subsequent calls to foo() (i.e., without a bar argument specified) will continue to use the same list to which bar was originally initialized."

This actually happens when the function is defined, not when it's called the first time.
"Moreover, to exist is to have a particular identity, to have a nature, to be something."

Tweet! Assuming the conclusion! 10 yard penalty, return the sliotar to first base.
Surprised to see this - given the amount of technical detail inherent in common Web libraries (Angular, jQuery, even jQueryUI), Bootstrap is downright lean.

You could read about every grid detail, form & UI element and JS element in less than 20 minutes.
Check out https://www.kifi.com. I'm an engineer there, so am very biased, but it might be what you're looking for. We're building a full text search engine that integrates directly on Google, so you can find important things super easily.

We have on-page contextual discussions (launching early next week: sending a link to any email address, and replies to the email thread show up in the discussion). And we're working on recommendation engines based on your keeps / social connections. Let me know what you think, we're a small team and want to make it the most useful platform as possible.
I thought there was a way to fatally catapult them into a neighboring park and then, because they died there, the game engine would penalize that park for killing its guests. But I might be thinking of a different amusement park simulator.
$0.40? As in 40 US dollar-cents? As far as I know, it's much lower than that, around $0.005 (probably lower now, Bitcoin has dropped since then)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3305

"The new fee after this patch is 0.5 cents."
i got an alert saying that too many tweeter queries can block you. Seems like a dangerous thing. what say?
Oregon was one of the first places in the world to legalize euthanasia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_the_United_States...
Also, for the first example, it is a scope issue:

def foo2():
def foo(a=[]):
a.append('ba')
return a
return foo()

print foo2()
print foo2()
print foo2()
print foo2()
print foo2()

Gives

['ba']
['ba']
['ba']
['ba']
['ba']
These laws are all well and good, but in practice:

1. Completely ignored everywhere because it cuts costs to have an intern

2. Obeyed because it protects corporate profits

3. Obeyed because it protects corporate profits

4. Obeyed because that's the only way to extract work/profit from the intern

5. Obeyed because that's the only way to extract work/profit from the intern

6. Completely flagrantly and aggressively ignored 100% of the time, always, everywhere

So I guess the laws are strict, but not ever enforced. The intern-ization of corporate US is a pretty well documented situation which has been used to slash costs at the entry level, thus creating a new "entry level" which requires internship experience and pays effectively what a non-free intern used to make.
Carbon nanotube clothing could protect against chemical weapons
Metro is a low quality free tabloid given away. It's found on buses and trains.