skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, TF tries to pick good people even if they are working on not-so-bulletproof projects at the moment. That's likely the justification here.

Keep in mind that the funding is a grant (rather than equity/royalty/loan) and is not given to the project but the individual.
I'm not a legal scholar but it seems like Joda-Time's Apache 2.0 license can be rendered irrelevant if Joda copies API spellings from Oracle Java.

Yeah. Let's just stop writing code alltogether shall we? Together someone somewhere probably has our future code pre-copyrighted.

If you respect stupidity, stupidity wins. Don't let it go unchallenged.
This is a very interesting concept. I wonder how the previous Thiel Fellows are doing. Probably too short of a time period for any definitive results to come out, but it would be interesting if selection of highly qualified individuals is more of a predictor of success than say, Harvard or MIT.

One might argue about the pedigree & network you get from college, but couldn't motivated Thiel Fellows build equally powerful networks by virtue of being a Thiel Fellow too?
Hopefully this means that the documentation gets some help, especially some of the official libraries. So far working with ES has been a mixed bag… seems good in theory but I've had a hard time getting over the learning curve.
They are also a big sponsor of http://www.embarcchicago.org/.
GPGMail for OS X (what you recommended here) works quite well, and I recommend it too. That team also does a good job of keeping up with Mail.app versions (which is a hard job).
It seems that his major concern in all of this is money. This is a guy who will happily take ethyl bromoacetate out of Zyklon B if theres a buck to be made.
Lob (YC S13) is hiring its first growth engineer
Lob is hiring its first Growth Engineer. If you are interested, please email jobs@lob.com with your resume, Github, and any personal projects (blog posts, open source, speaking, etc.) you are proud to share.

Background

Lob (YC S13) is creating a suite of cloud APIs for businesses to enhance their operations. Our first API is a print and mail API. Our API is the AWS of printing, it enables companies to integrate printing directly into their web/mobile application. We’ve been featured prominently on Angellist and recognized as one of the 10 hottest startups. We’re profitable and growing fast.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Growth Engineer that has a passion to find repeatable and scalable ways to increase customer growth and conversions. You will be one of the first engineers to join and as such will have an unprecedented opportunity to shape the future of Lob.

Responsibilities

Analyze our customer funnel, identify barriers, and implement solutions at each step along the way.

Understand and improve user signup and API integration flow

Use data and analysis to help impact business decision making

Integrate A/B tests across the application and create deterministic ways to identify success/failure

Implement strategies to acquire users, increase conversion and engagement among current users.

Requirements

Experience with Node, Angular, PostgreSQL, HTML/CSS

Fluent with multi-variant testing, and conversion analytics tools.

Knowledge of delivering and measuring the success of onsite advertising, off-site syndication, or email marketing is a bonus

Benefits

Health benefits for you and your dependent(s).

Open vacation policy.

Commuter benefits.

Free lunch, dinner, and snacks. (Our fridge is always stocked!)

Ground floor opportunity as an early member of the Lob team; you'll directly shape the direction of our company.
"Think about it. In order to share a webpage, you’ve got to open an email, copy and paste the link, and write out some sort of explanation to the recipient letting them know what the link is about. And if you want to point them to a specific section of the article or page you have to copy and paste those sections."

Does anybody share links via email any more? Wouldn't 99.9% of the population use facebook, twitter or pintrest?
I am one of the guys behind Objective-Cloud. We will support Swift sooner than later.
WebObjects used to be highly regarded. I would assume that given the Objective-C origins, Swift could use it as well?
Probably when Apple has a server product that requires it?
Furthermore, Apple did bring up a slide during the Platform State of the Uniform (slide 56 in the PDF) saying source compatibility wouldn't be guaranteed (but that converters would be provided) because the language will evolve. I can't imagine that they'll introduce dramatic changes that will break code generated by PaintCode, but it would be a pain if you have to completely regenerate your all rendering code with each update to Xcode/Swift.
The Platforms State of the Union at WWDC did bezier path drawing, so I'd say yes.
I think you're attacking a very narrow strawman by making it sound like a singularity event is something we'd actively plan or work for.

Why do you think "human-like" AI is a requirement for a singularity to occur?

Isn't it much more likely to emerge simply as a side-effect from continued exponential technological progress and the ever increasing network density?

Maybe try to look at it with less anthropocentrism, perhaps consider how we have evolved from shouting to the internet in a mere few thousand years?

Do you think we'll still be using our eyes and hands to interface with the network, in another thousand years from now?
I think this article says a lot about the tribulations of doing your first startup from scratch. I particularly love this part:

"Here’s what people never tell you about startup life. A lot of it is mundane, boring, grunt work. Imagine being stuck in an MMO game where you’re grinding levels without knowing whether you’ll ever make it beyond that 2 by 4 patch of 8bit forest waiting and slaying the same stupid monsters over and over again and then going back in for respawn."
No, I just think that you'd be a fool to have ever believed any promise that the cloud would eliminate downtime. Even if from a technical perspective that were true, there's still the possibility of human error.
don't get ahead of yourself. remember twitter #music product?

was vine an acquisition or an internal dev project?
Never like @pmarca. This is another perspective on who this guys really is. His involvement in the Bitcoin bubble is very indicative on the human material he's made of.
Disqus Face Palm
I highly recommend overtone as well. Very cool project!
And what's interesting about this experiment is that it's not an aberration. This has been replicated over and over and over again, for nearly 40 years. These contingent motivators -- if you do this, then you get that -- work in some circumstances. But for a lot of tasks, they actually either don't work or, often, they do harm. This is one of the most robust findings in social science, and also one of the most ignored. https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation/transcript I'm linking to a TED talk transcript because it makes the point better than I can.
Not sure I agree. I've enjoyed how intentional SoundCloud's updates have been over the last few years without trying to do too much (like every music service ever). The changes have been subtle but useful for both power-users and casual listeners.

I think their approach to discovery needs some attention, but definitely wouldn't expect Twitter to be instrumental in helping with that.

I'm biased, as I'd hate to see anything ruin what I think is one of the best music services right now.
Could someone explain in a few lines why & how is elasticsearch a revolutionary thing (technically) ?
pretty neat to see this rendered in a site i built years ago. :)
I hope this doesn't happen.
Yes there is nothing stopping you from doing

let p1 = scat [c..c']^/4
p2 = delay (1/4) p1
p3 = delay (3/4) p1
in (accent . legato) (p1 </> p2 </> p3)

It's a full programming language so you can do a lot more than that!
IMHO the problem is the NOT infrastructure per se, it's the theoretical part that is cumbersome. If you now why you are doing something, it's easy to understand why you should not save the 'key' in the "Keychain" or sign random emails.

To use GnuPG correctly you need explain to average Joe concepts like:

* PKI
* Key signing
* Web of trust
* Revocation key

The problem is that, as Einstein said: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simple.

Same problem I can't talk bitcoin with most of my real-life friends. They are incredibly smart people, but they are not familiar with key concepts about BTC and don't wanna wrap their minds around it when we're hanging out having fun.
Vine was an acquisition. Dorsey found it and convinced the Twitter team to acquire.
But this is about a software release for the PC gaming community, not the Xbox community. Handling things this way shows that somebody's got an embarrassing (though mostly harmless) PR blind spot. It's fine for Microsoft to have it as a goal that everyone who plays PC games is also part of their Xbox ecosystem, but pretending in any way that it's already that way is off-putting and not helping.
Wow, the OP loves jumping to conclusions. I've seen on HN a couple of threads where people claim that Apple employees say they, at a minimum, need to clean up the codebase first before open sourcing the language. While I don't know if that's true, I'm prepared to wait until Apple, not this guy, says that Swift will or will not be open sourced. Just because it's not open source now doesn't mean it'll never be.

Then they point out that there are 3rd party HTTP libraries, and completely ignore the possibility that maybe Swift might be just the thing to catalyze the creation of a new one.

To be sure, unless you're serving from an OS X based server, it'll be hard to deploy Swift-based apps until significant supporting infrastructure has been built. But I don't see any real evidence that "never" is the answer to "When Can I Code Swift on the Server?"
Sounds like an interesting case that somebody should just start a project to add swift as a frontend to GCC - maybe a kick starter project for a grad student. GCC has support for all of the language constructs that are present in swift.
No, original commenter is correct. You'd need contact with your victim, you have to hold a reader device directly over the pacemaker. Really you may as well stab them.
Soundcloud is a platform for sharing audio, people upload audio podcasts to it among other things.
So is this basically a sort of more-visual copyscape/turn-it-in system where you can see which parts and how much of a document come from other sources? It's interesting from that perspective, but there's far too much visual noise for it to be the primary document structure of the internet. To simultaneously see every related document to what you're currently reading? Seems like there would be a high cognitive load there.
How many of the people decrying Andreessen's stance on Snowden would still take A16Z money?

Where are your principles now?
Yea, I've been slowing moving all of my websites off of dreamhost. One more to go and I'll be able to close my account.

They had really great service when I signed up 10 years ago. I've been completely frustrated with them for the past few weeks though - I've had at least 5 different customer support reps give me the same wrong instructions instead of recognizing and fixing the issue, followed by a manager who "helpfully" did it for me and completely broke the website. It's still offline...
I generally agree, but I still get links from some of my older family members :)

In particular I get email links when my sister travels internationally (she uses a throw away email address rather than logging into main accounts/social media when traveling).
Based on previous years, it would likely be difficult to make the comparison with Harvard/MIT (or similar), given a good number of the fellows spent time at either of those institutions. Those who did have had access to the resources of both circles.
OK I think you're missing what I said. The incentive is not altruistic impulse + money, it's altruistic impulse OR money. So far most of the Tor nodes really are run on charity!
If only we had Yet Another Dynamic Scripting Language (YADSL) that we could use to write web frameworks! Because there are only like 17 with full ecosystems and tools and libraries to talk to every existing database engine, yadayadayada.

What we really need is another one so that we can spend our time poking at a new language instead of building useful things! Swift would be an especially good one, since it doesn't have anything new to offer (unlike Clojure or Scala or Rust or Go) and it has great interoperability with Objective C (which Apple abandoned for server side programming in like 2005) AND it doesn't run on anything other than OSX, which is awesome because Apple discontinued Xserve over 10 years ago (EDIT: Xserve discontinued a few years ago), and there are basically no hosting providers of any kind. We could spend literally tens of person years building up all that stuff instead of using the massive infrastructure already in place!
I do not think he is blaming the Thiel Fellows.
After reading the link, it seems clear to me that there was someone that received a fellowship that clear should NOT have. The person putting in the link is just trying to raise attention to this fact - maybe to try to get the fellowship to help correct the situation.
It does come off as spam, but honestly if this happened to you, what would you do?
Please read the story of the dead link and then make your judgment. I probably would do the same after someone ruined my reputation
I genuinely have no idea why this is getting downvotes. Was I not clear? I thought we were all on the same page here re: "standards are good, pointlessly breaking compatibility is bad."

There's an established standard for USB gamepads, and Microsoft (a) ignored it in favor of their own proprietary standard Xinput and (b) convinced quite a lot of devs to only support Xinput. This means that a perfectly functional Logitech or Saitek gamepad from the late 2000s is useless with modern games, and a 360 pad is useless with older games, unless you jump through hoops with drivers. It also means that it's difficult to get a 360 pad working correctly on non-Windows platforms.

It makes no sense that the Xbone controller, which has the same controls in the same places as the 360 controller, wasn't backwards-compatible out of the box; and I'm suspicious that they'll push devs to support the Xbone pad exclusively to force 360-pad owners to upgrade, because they've already done that once.
> This is now the bog standard reply of the closet fascists who support the NSA and their rampant spying.

Yea man, those "closet fascists and their support of the NSA" and their statements in no uncertain terms that the NSA always been despicable. So let me get this straight: between 1) people who have always been fine with the NSA until a couple mos ago and 2) people who have always been disgusted by them and see this as an (unsurprising) affirmation of that disgust: the LATTER are closet fascists? You realize that even someone like rms fits directly into your characterization of "closet fascist", right? That should help you understand how stupid your conclusion is.

Your core issue is that you're conflating "hey man this has happened for ages and it's just how the world works" with "this has happened for ages, where the fuck have you been, people who are just deciding to get mad now that it's in fashion?". The former is definitely a bog-standard apologist tactic (though I'd argue that it's been around for a lot longer than just Snowden; it's basically the neo-con anthem, and neocons aren't exactly in the "closet"), but the latter couldn't be more different from apologia.

> I'll add finally, that yes apparently we should be surprised because the same closet fascists now adopting this whole grizzled "wise to how the world works" persona have previously spent the last few decades strongly claiming that the NSA would never flagrantly violate the constitution in this manner, that they were stalwart defenders of America and apple pie. You can see the same sort of evolution with torture, where the people proclaiming that it is a "necessary" action in today's ruthless dog-eat-dog world

Again, you're mixing up two different views. "People who actually paid attention before it was fashionable" doesn't consist only of the people defending this bullshit, it also consists of plenty of people that were protesting it. I know it makes you feel better about ignoring this for so long to pretend that the only people paying attention were apologists, but that's just flat-out, 100% wrong.
I'm an European and treason and espionage are political crimes. If Snowden is a traitor, then he spied on my behalf against U.S. government. For me and many other citizens of so called free word he is a hero. He should get a medal.

In U.S. media the discussion centers around Americans being spied and if that is illegal. As a non-American, I see U.S. UK and other mass surveillance countries as constantly attacking me personally. As more and more people feel the same way, it will eventually have real consequences to U.S. interests. It might take generation or two, but it will happen.

First world countries are very interdependent and this kind of attacking harms us all. Even in the cynical machtpolitik world view this can be seen as shortsighted strategy.
If I give secret information to Bob, and Bob gives it to the enemy, that could land me on the hook for giving it to the enemy. Bob may not be at fault, either, since I'm the one that signed the secret clearance agreement with the government, not him.

I think this is all besides the point, though. Unless I'm missing something big, Snowden's crimes are all conditions of his having a security clearance.
So cool to see it in action!
Also Qobuz.
Wow, that is interesting .. not something I will use, but interesting tech nonetheless.
On the topic of Swift's openness, it appears to be somewhat ambiguous at this time; that is, the door is neither entirely open or closed. For example, in response to general questions on this topic, Chris Lattner responded:

"We don't have anything to say about that at this point [...]"

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.user/493

And...

"Right now we are focused on finishing it up for the final release this fall."

https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/473907124288770050
Swift Likely to be Open Sourced
Knowing that someone is spying on you is worth much less than knowing that they use Camera Model XYZ, which transmits on XYZ frequency and the camera is located at coordinates XX, YY.
Super Evil Megacorp Lifts the Veil
WebObjects hasn't been related to Objective-C for a while (It was rewritten in Java in 2001).

While WebObjects is still apparently being used by Apple's Online store and presumably some other internal applications, I wouldn't expect any serious WebObjects integration for Swift from Apple.
Why? (Not snarky, genuinely curious)
Is it possible you could give some examples of projects that were created in house at Apple that were open sourced?
This is a broader point than "it was because of their names." As I understand it, the court is saying that Google copied the whole package structure of Java, including a whole tree of associated names. It's not just that some names happened to match up, but that the whole structure of the Java libraries was considered a creative work and Google copied that whole creative work. The names are a component of that, but you can't point at a name and say "That was the copyrighted thing," because it was the aggregate API that the court considered copyrightable.

(Again, not a lawyer or legal advice. This is just my layman's understanding.)
I maily share links/articles/videos through email with friends and family. This is way easier to do when you want to share a link with a specific group a friends/people and not with the "world" or "one person only".
City of Chicago Data Portal
http://www2.nycbar.org/mp3/DoingWellByDoingGood/pbi_business...

Major pro bono matters, or smaller cases with great
human interest, are far more likely to receive extensive
coverage. Holland & Knight, for example, received highly
favorable and extensive coverage of its work in the
Rosewood case, including a glowing front page, above the
fold, article in the Wall Street Journal and People.

Hogan & Hartson, similarly, received a great deal of
play in the media concerning its representation of
African-American plaintiffs alleging that Denny’s
restaurants had discriminated against them. In both
instances, the firms undertook these time-consuming,
controversial cases because it was the right thing to
do. However, their creative, successful lawyering
became a front-page story.
It's not sad that people need to take action. Taking action feels great, and is empowering.

Reset the Net is a step forward. A step, on a journey towards a society which stands up for itself, by taking action.

The purpose is to showcase all of the awesome companies who really care about privacy, and showing users methods by which they can increase the privacy in their electronic communications.

There's really no pressure for you to embed any JavaScript.
Do you need something beyond "highly scalable search solution"? A lot of enterprises (and I'd guess startups too!) need good search solutions and your two players in the Java space (that I know of) are Solr and Elasticsearch. We are using Solr in our product, but the more I hear about Elasticsearch the more I want to give it a serious try.

My reason for not using it originally was that we had prototyped our solution using Compass (which was the project before Elasticsearch) only to have it abandoned to work on Elasticsearch. So I was concerned about the "one dev" model and losing something that was a key component of what we needed.

Since then I've not been impressed with SolrCloud (would love to hear good experiences, but it seems their distributed model isn't right) and have been giving Elasticsearch serious thought again.
Interestingly, many if not most of these items are covered in CS169.1x [1] over on edX.

Also, my recent 100-level courses at a continuing education arm of a public university covered 1, 6, 7, 8 and touched on 2 and 10.

In my experience, the most consistent omission is #2 'How To Write'. It's so rare that my own limited, but apparently good enough, ability has been a significant bonus throughout my career.

1: https://www.edx.org/course/uc-berkeleyx/uc-berkeleyx-cs169-1...
Andreessen comes across as amoral here. Actually, that's not completely correct; he believes what's right is anything that helps his bottomline, and anything that hurts his bottomline is wrong.

It's a very similar argument that Lanny Breuer put forth in not going after wall street.
At the moment, this release is targeting the Xbox community, because that's who owns Xbox One controllers. I'm sure Microsoft will do a proper page on a more Microsofty domain in due time when they actually release the drivers with Windows.
Looks like it cycles through a bunch of different animated gifs. Is the title Face Palm because it was a Face Palm for you, or is there some actual face palm action going on with this link?
Andreessen is a "grand master" when it comes to tech/startups. I really do respect his insights, he's obviously a very intelligent person. However, in this case, it seems Andreessen is not much of a student of history and government.

Anyone that listens to Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" and "Common Sense" podcasts will know how dangerous these government powers can be.
I'd argue that getting address books to understand what keys are and how to use them would be more impactful. If I put public keys in my address book, which is nicely integrated with my mail client anyway, then sending encrypted mail should be far more straightforward. The problem then is getting people to use new address books.
Noooooooooo.
That's what anti-SLAPP laws are for.