skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually like twitter as a product and company much more then facebook or others in their vertical. It does one thing and it does it well, disseminating news and opinions within your "social" circle.

They don't invade your privacy or try to become your portal to the internet or do many of the other things that I don't like about facebook.

Sadly, it looks like investors and the economy feel differently.

I could honestly see a post-social-media world though where facebook dies and twitter is the sole survivor.
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If I were Tesla, I'd also request that the licensing party grant a reciprocal bulk license to Tesla as well. Or, barring that, that Tesla reserves the right to revoke the license if you initiate a patent lawsuit against it.
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Volvo did this with the seat belt.
You're welcome. Good luck! Seeking professional help was a very difficult step for me. It meant facing a lot of things about myself that I really didn't want to.

Please keep in mind that if you are diagnosed ADHD: medication, if directed, is only one part of living with it! A comprehensive treatment plan is absolutely necessary. You can't just pill it away. A lot of my treatment so far has been forming healthier organization habits, especially around time use. I had the plan before I started the medication, but I felt like my transmission was stuck in neutral. For me, at least, the medication a facilitator for the cure, not the cure in and of itself.
"It is not about being funny, 'call me maybe' is very relevant in the eventual consistency world."

That's not fact, please don't state it as such. That's your opinion on modern day vernacular influencing an unrelated field/topic.

Perhaps you didn't actually read what I wrote, but I said I'm aware of how good their content is/can be. My issue is that a blog of that caliber is using something in our modern vernacular that has been beat to death and adds no actual value.

It'd probably do you best to read what people write instead of putting words in their text or assuming things outside of the scope of what they said...
I thought this was going to be about how I don't agree the icon should exist at all.
It seems to me that this press release was meant to invite interested parties to contact Tesla's legal department, though it didn't say so explicitly. If I ran a car company and saw this, that's what I would do, which I'm sure also didn't escape Tesla's notice. This press release seems more about announcing and explaining Tesla's intentions rather than acting as a binding agreement for a multibillion-dollar megacorp.
Start up Silicon Prairie.
When you make it easy to copy innovative designs, companies can really only compete on lower manufacturing costs and more advertising.[1] That's why engineering firms pushed for stronger IP protections through the WTO in the 1990's: Chinese and Korean companies were copying the designs of Cisco, etc, and undercutting them on prices because they didn't have any R&D expenses.

[1] At least when you're talking about physical products that are sold in one-off transactions for money. If you can leverage network effects or lock-in effects, or hide your innovations behind arms-length protocols, like many internet-based companies do, you're not as vulnerable to copycats.
How do you define what an entrepreneur is?
You should be really careful with licensing when you're dealing with music. If you become big enough for the record companies to notice, they will come at you hard and fast with their lawyers.
"the added expense alone is not enough to justify treating people with disabilities as second-class citizens, who have to be "minded" rather than allowed to freely navigate their own communities, "because it's a bit cheaper that way!""

Reminds me of a Better Off Ted episode resolution:
http://www.tv.com/shows/better-off-ted/racial-sensitivity-12...
Just checking out the submission form and was wondering what do they mean by "What tools do you like?"
Languages used ? IDE used or text editor ? Frameworks ?
Hmm... This does cast a shadow on Twitter's future. It's a shadow, so it does not have solid ground to back it, but it's a shadow, so it makes people nervous.
I'm going to wait until I get more information before I pass judgement on it...

But I wonder if they purposely delay displaying the contents of the liquid. It seemed a bit comical in the video when the guy pours something into the cup and it takes a couple of seconds for the animation to run before it displays, "beer"

I think you'll get a lot of poking at that aspect of it because humans generally know what they are pouring into the cup, so taking so long to identify it makes it seem slow/laggy. It gives the feeling of "why does it need 5 seconds to tell that it's water. I know it's water instantly, why doesn't it as well?"
I was wondering the same thing! But I'm pretty sure YC knows what to expect from even the best hackers at hackathons - 24 hours of hacking is not the same as months/years of customer discovery and polish.

(Not saying hackathon hacks can't be viable or polished, I've seen many that are absolutely both.)
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Even more interesting - Richard White's tattoo of the RSA algorithm back in the 1990s. It was an open question whether his arm could travel outside the US.

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1995/12/msg00332.html
> For that matter, the twitter home page doesn't even tell you what it is, I guess at this point we're just supposed to know.

Well it does say "Start a conversation, explore your interests, and be in the know." so it does give some indication. But yeah I'm guessing not many people are landing on their home page having no clue what Twitter is.
They very well could be. But more likely, the people that would meet there could go on to do great things together and perhaps YC would be a part of that.

I met my cofounder at the TC Disrupt Hackathon in 2011, were selected as one of the winners, and have worked together ever since. We even did YC last batch.
Not very often, let's say 20% of the time, I decide that the signing in some site to comment on a blog or create a quasi-account using Facebook is unlikely to be a privacy problem: I'm willing to give site X my main email address, even to receive newsletters and commercial offers.

At this point, Facebook asks me to share my friends list (often much more) with site X: the only rational response is scrambling for the "close tab" button in the browser and writing off site X as untrustworthy jerks, because they dared to ask for unneeded personal information.
Reading their lists and applying patches would be more "aggressive".

Even the ability to write proper code would be a more aggressive policy.
Personally with AngularJS I tend to embed multiple views with

<script type='text/ng-template' id='hackernews.html'>
</script>

And you can call one view with your usual "templateUrl: 'hackernews.html'"

Especially if I have many directives with more than a few lines of html. That way you can embed them in your main html or in a separate cacheable file.
Where else other than HackerNews am I supposed to find random and interesting PDFs to print out and leave in my bathroom for people to read?
After getting to level 6, I was like screw this, I just want to listen to some Ye.

good work though!
I really want to make the installation and usage as simple as possible- simplicity is my #1 priority!
If you ever get her to try it out, I'd love if you'd email me to tell me how it went! You can find my email on my github profile.
You'd need some place that allows for VIPs I think... I've never used Digital Ocean. Sorry.
Elon Musk is one of the most interesting inventors of our time, and comes across as a completely stand-up guy. Watching companies like Tesla and SpaceX take on and solve these incredibly difficult problems is inspiring. I'd guess that this patent move is motivated by goodwill, and any benefit to Tesla probably goes together with the larger goal of bringing good to the world.

But when I see "this man will save humanity by selling chemical battery powered automobiles" it comes across as more than a bit hyperbolic. There is plenty of opportunity to criticize cynical attitudes without making such a ridiculous claim.
It's much more important than that. Yes, the protocol says it's only for errors/deviations. In practice, the changes can be more substantial.

The vast amount of legal, scholarly and media attention to an opinion happens on release day. When words change after release day, the public deserves to be immediately clued in to that -- even if many/most of them end up being typographical.
I'm not sure what you've added here other than to exclaim surprise. Bugs can be surprising, bugs are usually not intentional. Given the fast response by the etcd team, they seem to be taking consistency very seriously.
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This is an ideological argument rather than a practical one, but the usual counterpoint is that even pure leeches of OS development contribute to its success by displacing competitors, training users and developers, and there is always a chance they'll change their position on code contributions when it's in their interests. I personally prefer 3 clause BSD because it gets used without some developer, entrepreneur or corporation engaging lawyers to sort out these issues. Freedom from legal BS is the best freedom I can gift to users.

IMO the AGPL cuts off your nose to spite your face. I understand the rationale, but I find it excessively onerous and complex for the users I really care about (other devs).
I used NoteSuite before, but wasn't too happy with it. It's UI is quirky, tries too hard and gets mostly in your way. Notebooks doesn't fall into that trap. I'm not aware of others but my research into it wasn't that exhaustive, so if there are other decent OS X apps I'd love to hear about it too.
Or the aliens didnt allow it to evolve so that they can come one day and crush it ... x( ...
I don't know, to me he presents at least one pretty compelling point indicating that point. The species which exhibit the exaggerated facial features could not even form a fist with which to fight.
> I recently got a couple of times a warning from Google while using the web from home saying that there was "Unusual traffic from your computer network"

How/when is warning being communicated to you?
Inter-team collaboration drops in a competitive environment. One of the nice things about hackathons is that you can get feedback and ideas from other teams in those environments. If you're actively competing (and for something as scarce as a YC interview spot), then the incentive to help someone else out decreases.
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That's essentially what he was talking about at the start, he avoided it largely because of issues with setup. Putting wires into the blender would subject them to being destroyed during the testing process or require putting a hole in the pitcher which also isn't ideal. The strobing idea is actually the way that you'll usually adjust the timing on a car engine, it's a well documented and tested technique, and fairly easy to figure out when you've got a harmonic frequency.
Very interesting. But the link to the actual tattoo on that page appears to be broken. Here it is: http://imgur.com/xKupqeG
Double that pet peeve with Yahoo Groups. No way to make an account without giving them your mobile number (fake number services/landline/Google Voice won't work.) Funny, do you really think Yahoo needs that info?
Nice piece of work. It would be cool if you could OCR the text out of the pdfs (perhaps using ocrad.js) and push the text in as a GitHub commit. In that way, you would have a full history of all changes to a document.
Check it out fellow Hackers! Made by a Stanford-bound 17 year old.
Yet more proof that our laws are increasingly becoming meaningless. The people at the top don't care about them but they expect us to.

But, by all means, vote for a D or an R this November because, yeah; they'll change things.
My god you are insufferable. Go ahead and grep what I wrote if you know how you fucking moron.
You may criticizing the author of its choice of words. You may disagree on what I state or don't state. But calling out people that they should add value, while all you do is trashing them is a bit controversial and it has no place here.

On the actual critique: if you have had worked with eventually consistent database, a 'Call' record's presence is really a great pun on the 'call me maybe' phrase. I'm really sorry if you don't appreciate that part either.
...but when a programmer who has gamed the system gets an interview and then is discovered to be a fraud, doesn't that defeat the purpose of using this service in the first place (to save thousands of interview hours, per the article)?
Wouldn't their increased strength and size also offset the increased force of the blows to make it about the same as the current situation?

In my head I'm comparing it to something like: If a 250 lb NFL linebacker tackled me at full speed I am pretty sure I would break multiple bones. But NFL running backs take that kind of beating 40-50 times a game, 20 games a year.
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What are your thoughts on using NaCl? On one hand it gives harder-to-misuse primitives, on the other is uses elliptic curve crypto.
Fair enough. I'm emotional. I don't usually cuss when making logical points. What I meant to say is, electric battery technology will move humanity in the right step which I strongly believe will have a big impact on curbing climate change, which I feel is one of the biggest challenges humans collectively face.
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You can change contrast, brightness and such in most modern OSes, but I'd rather have people take it into account and choose colours wisely. The problem for most colour-blind people is contrast, not the colours them self.

I can't speak for all colour-blind people, but generally OSes have been really good at it, the problem is usually inside the browser window. And making everything look like a unicorn had puked rainbows all over your screen, while making it very readable, is not comfortable.
Well in addition to Finnish "tietokone" (data machine, or information machine), there is at least Swedish (also Norwegian) "datamaskin" (data machine), nowadays usually shortened to "datorn", and Turkish "bilgisayar" (information counter).

So form of "computer" seems to be the choice in a large number of languages, though.
I believe that was the joke. :)
Relevant news article from today: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CENSORING_SURVEILL...
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When you say you're getting a warning from Google, do you mean Google Search?

If so, I've encountered a number of mundane things that produce a warning and require a captcha to continue. For instance, if I fire off a bunch of queries using the "site:" modifier.
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I saw the press release as more directed towards average automobile buyers. As a "We will not be the ones preventing your favorite Automobile manufacturer from producing an Electric Car in the style you want, and neither will the research cost of the technologies we use".

I believe the message was phrased in a way to be directed at consumers so that hopefully the consumers will send a message one way or another to the other manufacturers causing them to come to more official agreements with Tesla. (which will of course have terms).
I am not sure you are solving a real problem. I don't 100% understand the point of interests in your app, but as far as tracking tasks and connecting with friends/family who want to accomplish goals I don't see why I wouldn't just use Google Calendar or notes on my iPhone along side with just texting or calling them. As for the video, it does showcase the product fairly well and the landing page seems great for trigger signups.
Is there something unique about racism and sexism that solves itself if you ignore it?

Through some historical circumstance, or due to the sensitive nature of the subjects, there is a lot of energy expended around these topics which is counterproductive and divisive. Calling out bad actions is good and necessary. Vilifying people, not so much. (In this, I am not accusing you, but making general observations.) The group dynamics of targeting and scapegoating are part of the unsavory range of human behavior manifested by sexism and racism, yet these can be manifest under the banner of fighting those sexism and racism.

Again, I'm not accusing you of this, but you seem to be asking about why many people don't want to engage. It's often this dynamic which makes many otherwise well meaning people wary and weary of talking about these issues.

Another way of putting it: What you're saying is that the industry should just start acting like a community of equals and get on with it. I entirely agree. We should also keep in mind that community is key here. This will work if there is some sense of community and will fail if there is only the facade of community with people paying lip service, playing parts, and wearing masks.

There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went for "Truth and Reconciliation." In this, a bottom-up approach may have fundamental advantages over a top-down one.
Yeah, that never happened. It may be a reference to Alien Dalvik being rumored to be included w/the first actual MeeGo release (Not N9, which was branded MeeGo, but was really still Maemo.) Critics of this speculated that this would keep developers from developing native apps, and now, in the haze of ancient history and a lack of fact checking, a few people think that this actually happened and are using it as a parable to inform future strategies.

History is very slippery.

edit: Looks like there were press releases about it being available for N9 and N900. My history is slippery, too:) It never was.
All I see are graphs with no units on the Y axis.
If you're interested in this, you may also want to check out https://www.courtlistener.com/, a service that regularly crawls court websites for opinions. Not sure if they show multiple versions though.
"Promissory estopple". Look it up.
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It should at least be standard for web programmers to develop with the most common disabilities in mind, like different types of hearing and visual impairment. In many cases it would often be trivial for a lot of sites to better accommodate screen readers, maintain usability at larger font sizes, zoom levels, etc. if it was a design consideration from the start. A lot of accommodations also improve the experience for users on different types of devices, in situations in which sound is inappropriate, etc. But because it's not a priority or a standard, things which could easily be accessible are not, and we are making modern life more difficult for others simply through carelessness and a lack of concern.
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That does seem potentially reasonable, you're right. I think the longer the better with this sort of thing, but it has to be balanced with available resources.

10 years would seem to me to be above the minimum required though, you're right. I'm not sure how far under 10 years I'd be willing to say that for.

And no matter what is reasonable -- there WILL be software still running that's even older than 10 years, for which there's no longer any developers confident they can update to a new version of OpenSSL with potentially backwards-breaking changes. Reasonable or not.
Most people are actually unaware of Ford's "innovations" on pay, or the reasoning behind them, but that does not dilute the profound impact the actions had.
I've never seen anyone fail at it?
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this sentence sounds grammatically incorrect to my non-native-English ear (O_o)
The family of Lisps isn't functional by definition. There are Lisps which are as non-functional as one could imagine.

Anyway, where the hell are you seeing the lambda calculus in JavaScript (ignoring that "it's based on lambda calculus" is probably as useful as "computers usually work with 0s and 1s")?
Possible, but unlikely.

Has any such malware been seen in the wild (by creditable sources) as oppose to just proof of concept?
http://emberjs.com/guides/concepts/naming-conventions/ ?
"We're almost certainly not trampling over your rights, citizen. Now why don't you mosey along and stop asking about it?"
I think the comparison was to draw attention to just how deadly the Spanish Flu was. In history class we were taught about the Black Death as this huge and earth shattering pandemic, yet we hear nothing about the Spanish Flu. A lot of people don't realize just how deadly it was.
You can produce memristors on the macro scale[1], in fact, it appears that any pair of oxidized conductive metals will work[2].

http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm[1]

http://youtu.be/rvA5r4LtVnc[2]
That is context, that Eric is someone who's made tech contributions many HN'ers have used, and who many HN'ers have a relationship with -- that I believe was missing from this post prior to your comment.

I'm not sure if you were assuming everyone should recognize his name. Because, without that context, it is clear there are many many people, every day, who suffer things that many of us have sympathy for, but would not make a lot of sense to probably anyone to alter HN, every day, in sympathy for.
In my opinion, your argument about only C being usable from FFI is a strong one against using Rust if you're making a library.

It is possible to expose Rust data and functions to Python, Ruby, etc, since Rust is ABI-compatible with C. Unfortunately, you lose most of the Rust standard library since the Rust runtime is not freestanding. And I'm not sure how -- or if -- Rust will fix this issue. It's certainly desired, but it will be a lot of work.

The only bright side to all of this is that Rust is such a modern and pleasant language to use that scripting language bindings are almost not needed. Almost. But it's still a enough of a low-level language that bindings are highly desirable for quick prototypes, exploratory programming, and other scripting tasks.
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This is my life almost exactly. I am a bit younger, and my drug problems might be more severe.
Seems ironic their cert doesnt match and I get a browser warning. What happened to Debian? Is Security something they have only heard about in folklore terms?
rdrdss23 asked "How is this not highly illegal?" and the simple answer dragonwriter gave is: because there's no law against it.
I have a rather clear picture for the scenario where "one easy-to-remember password for large number of sites" is the proper action to take...

Basically the rest reduces to: "I know enough to know better, but using a Password Manager is too much trouble."
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It depends on the kind of hackathon you want. I agree that having prizes makes everything more competitive and serious, but it probably also increases the overall quality of participants. A new developer with maybe a couple weeks experience probably wouldn't bother with this hackathon but would try their hand at a hackathon that doesn't feel as competitive. Do you want the hackathon to attract a wide variety of people or do you want to target top quality engineers?

There's no right answer, it's up the organizers. YC has chosen to attract quality, which makes sense given their business goals. An organization that teaches people to code should focus on being inclusive and avoid the competitive nature of valuable prizes.

To use your sport metaphor, professional sports are very competitive and attract amazing talent. But you or I would never show up to compete in a pro-sports game. We might join the game in the neighborhood park though.
Did our feet evolve to avoid slipping on banana peels?