skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a16z has an Official Rapper and he made this video about Ben Horowitz
I have idle on Mavericks in /usr/bin/idle. There is also emacs and ruby.
Same in SF and Oakland. In fact, most of the approved new housing units in Oakland are designated to go in a giant development area on the water that doesn't even break ground for another 2 years... And people wonder why rents are so high.
I am trying to get into the start-up scene (or at least it is a consideration). Recently a friend came up with (what I consider) to be a decent idea for a start-up. Working on that idea and fleshing on the business and technical aspects, I forgot how good it feels to be completely absorbed by something and love every minute of it. Definitely will keep up with the threads
Either you're wilfully ignoring the point I'm making, or you've missed it completely.

I get that I might never know if or when I'm being monitored by some device, but that in no way justifies explicitly recording someone without their permission.
I generally agree with this perspective, but a two-sided marketplace is one of the business models that really does need to grow fast. No one would install the Uber app if it didn't have any drivers, and no one would apply to be a driver if there were no riders.
I used to do that too! On a Spectrum, I had to type in the program, but I didn't even know how to read, so I just matched the symbols on paper with the symbols on the keyboard and tried to get the same output on the TV. Can't remember the games though.
So do the lines between stations and a strike mean that detector heard the strike? That's incredible if so... there's a station in California picking up strikes over Missouri.
So how do you scale out to multiple droplets on Digital Ocean? Set up your own HAProxy instance?

What do you do when one of your droplets disappears or crashes?

Where do you host your database?

Not quizzing, real questions from someone also looking to drop heroku.
There are only 23 million people in Australia, and its a small population spread over a huge area. That means shipping is expensive, which isn't great for trading low value second hand fast fashion items. An item that can get shipped for $2.80 in the US would cost $7 at least in Australia.

Also, Australia Post doesn't have any APIs to automate shipping. Girls had to physically go to the post office to ship items, and there wasn't tracking either. This meant a lot of customer service headaches.
This has got to be parody right?

Assuming that Team A can meaningfully be assigned a prior score for the expected number of goals against Team B (and, independently, vice versa), and assuming without reference to any evidence that the number of goals they actually score over a period is independent from the number of goals the other side score, and assuming the outcome of the match is determined by a random number generator along a probability distribution based on said statistical priors, and not by a bunch of quick-witted athletes and a ball... you get a set of results with quite a high variance.

Any fan who struggles with basic arithmetic will tell you it's an interesting sport precisely because teams with significant disadvantages have a non trivial chance of achieving a result.

But no, that's not important because if you assume things that are palpably untrue, like there being no indications of one team being more likely to score next from general play, and scoring attempts being a matter of probability rather than ingenuity, skill and physical effort... then it would be a bit like watching a random number generator.

Admittedly, he doesn't follow soccer.
The Battle Against Self Inflicted XSS
That doesn't explain the ones that are continually leave the station, with the prediction constantly resetting as the bus doesn't leave. Or the ones that don't show up, and then the next one does, right on time.

If you don't know where something is, you don't know where it is. To give a number anyway is disengenuous, and breaks trust. To do it all the time, and call your data 'real-time' without caveat - lying may be a strong word for it, but it's still appropriate.
Podcast Networks Are Probably The Wrong Answer
Oh, people are infinitely varied, but I'd invite you to try taking away the average footballer's television, then consoling them that you'll tell them the score when it's over :)
I've done, and many of us do, tons of very valuable innovative work that we're not financially compensated for. There are other kinds of compensation, of course, and sometimes indirect financial benefits.

I just don't think the language will thrive as well as it could if the number of users is limited by a financial barrier. Sure, it will have users, and sure, they will find it useful, but a lot of its potential will go unrealized.

You could make the same argument with tools, so why are languages different? I think because they are more foundational.. other tools are built IN them not just using them. They become a substrate. Or not, if they're not widely used.
Those services are not inherently illegal in other jurisdictions* for one thing, and where specific activities have been deemed illegal the operators either abide by the judgment of the courts or exit the market. Case in point: Google allowing EU citizens to apply for delisting of privacy-infringing search results in accordance with EU data protection laws.

* I'm not sure about places like North Korea, but trying to offer services there would be embargoed by domestic sanctions in any case.
We do not make cars, and very few of the NHTSA regulations or FMVSS apply to this kind of product (at least for now). My point is that we recognize our own testing, regardless of its thoroughness, is not enough.
"As an indicator, the chart below shows Google search frequency for rent related phrases."

That chart has no y-scale, so it's impossible to tell if it means anything.
Honestly, in a city with good transit like SF, you shouldn't be driving to the places you want to go anyways.
Muh 486DX66 running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with QBasic.

Muh Nibbles! Muh Gorillas!
Sure. But with enough datapoints the probability of the correlation being a mere accident is going to be vanishingly small.

And by enough I am talking about hundreds and more of datapoints. If one looks at things like yearly values of something for within last 10 years like the page spurious correlations is doing one is bound to find some weird ones.
I know what you mean. I have multiple examples of experiencing this realization about different professions.

For example, the day I discovered that they sell surveilance cameras in regular electronics stores, I was very surprised. Up until then, I had thought that only special kinds of highly trained professionals even knew how to get them and that the whole thing was a giant unified system that cost close to infinite amounts of money.
Really interesting. It also depends what other datasets are available
Http://thehackerblog.com/every-c99-php-shell-is-backdoored-aka-free-shells/
Cynophagy
Not on your life. Domains simply aren't complicated or expensive enough to think twice about feeding Google's consolidation and analytics game. Perhaps harsh, but come on. Domains.
Well written. One thing I always find funny about the startup world is the idea that hardship is good. Hardship isn't good. Hardship sucks. Sometimes hardship is something you need to survive to accomplish your goals, but not always. While there are a lot of successful startups that went through a lot of hardship, there are a lot of them that didn't. It seems that based on a lot of factors that were outside of your control you were playing the startup game on "hard mode" and you gave it a pretty good run anyways.

Also a pretty good lesson that having a good job and comfortable life maybe isn't so bad after all (a very un-silicon valley lesson).
See my answer to tedsanders.
I'm excited. Not so much by the fact that Google now provides this service (which I may or may not use) but because this is going to put a tremendous amount of pressure on other ISP's, and competition is badly needed in this field.
That's not an "opening salvo" -- that's the thesis of the piece. His contention is that soccer, more than most other sports, is a poisson machine. He goes into the math.

"The randomness of a football match is no different from the randomness of every day life."

Well, no, actually. Some things in life are more random than others. And however skilled they may be, the large number of (fallible) people on the field playing this game certainly doesn't make it less random.

As games go, soccer doesn't have many structural impediments to randomness. We'd (hopefully) feel pretty silly if we got worked up every few years about a global coin-flipping tournament, but, here we are, getting worked up over teams of people engaged in an event where the outcome is dominated by chance.

(And oh, hey: it sort of pegs the irony-o-meter that you're accusing the author of being closed-minded about sports when you can't even be bothered to read an argument because you've decided that you disagree with it in advance. Well played.)
Thanks for posting this! It sounds like it was incredibly difficult at times. Hard to imagine, but thanks for making it vivid.

I would love to hear more about the following (not holding my breath):

"After hiring a few people and finding an office in NYC we were ready to launch. We solved the chicken-and-egg problem using techniques that we promised never to speak of again because they squarely sat on the grey/black spectrum of naughtiness. If there was a line, we definitely crossed it. We had to. These hacks were harmless to others, so I figured it was only a problem if we got caught."

Edit: ++empathy.
Not everyone learns by reading a book or article. Lots of people learn by tinkering.
The intention of the scheme is to make scarce parking spaces available by pricing them at the market clearing price.
I don't think that's what he meant.

He meant running a business, from SF, whose primary activity takes place in Rome, and was also illegal in Rome.

Not just running a business from SF that's illegal in Rome.
> Use Google Synthetic Records for integration with Google App Engine, subdomain forwarding and Google Apps setup

What is Google Synthetic Records? Google Search doesn't know.
So now my domains can be hosted by a company famed for its responsive and transparent customer service!
Thanks for your work, interesting information.
OK. That's a very valid explanation in this case.

Kind of like all the ebay replacements that never seem to get anywhere in spite of how awful ebay is.
EDE – small and fast desktop environment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7933697
> 1. If you want to prove that its a waste of time to watch soccer, its much easier to state how nothing relies on it.

Which is not even a good point for the author, since football matches have had profound significance; they have helped prop up and destroy military regimes (such as in the history of football throughout the military dictatorships of Latin America in the 70s), led to race riots, political activism, etc. I'd say that football is much more important in that aspect than we may think at first glance.
I want the system to be flexible, allowing me to configure three parts to my needs:

First, a variety of device types and brands together.

Second, how it notifies me, SMS, email, phone call, etc. It has to be able to stream across the Internet, both to notify me, and so I can view video on demand, but be secure against hacking; using BSD as the OS would be nice, but Linux can be secured pretty tight.

Third, I want to configure the effects of a breach with layered effects: stepping inside the fence might trigger only a warning audio, continuing to the house might trigger a different audio, etc.

Mainly, I want to put some thought into the setup, and then not have to consider it again; it just works.
Fast Bluebird promises now work with AngularJS
After looking further at HealthKit I agree it solves the dashboard, and sensor calculation methods (to the extent of supported hardware types).

The physician review of this data would still take time from the visit. While this can be corrected with changes to the consultation procedure, that in itself has side-effects (longer consultation -> fewer appointments/day -> longer time until next available appointment && increased cost).

If the API integrates with the EHR backend and the doctor can receive this data prior to your appointment and have this data stored in the EHR then these problems are mitigated. Though, these issues still stand, "with zero EHR integration".
1. It doesn't sound like anyone is "notifying" Microsoft in any way. They're almost certainly just using the NCMEC hash set (which they helped develop) to identify known images.

2. You ought to provide some kind of legal citation for your claim that a judge can order a service like Onedrive to shut down after just two allegations of illegal content.
Hasn't Google's been a registrar for years? You could register a domain for $10 as part of signing up for Apps at least 2 or 3 years ago.

I guess the new part is they're offering it standalone? Seems like a lead gen effort for AdWords/AdSense more than a serious product.
Is there nothing Google won't compete with?
Chicken-and-egg. It's expensive to add a bunch of stuff to the road for computer cars to read, and if there are no computer cars to read them, what's the point?

Computer cars will lower the bar on what's valuable to put into the road. I can see the point in 30 years where computer driven cars are even simpler than today, because it made so much sense to add the automatic road markers, which made automating cars easier, which make all cars automatic, which led to roads being updated only electronically, which is now a simpler problem than today (driving on roads with only other computer-driven cars actively broadcasting beacons of their location and position, and road markers/signs/lights being trivial for computers to read).
Google Tracker, I/O edition–what Google is working on before the big show
I had a Fitbit Force for a couple of weeks before falling victim to the the rash/skin irritation problem [1]. It got quite bad, and my doctor had to prescribe a topical steroid for it to go away.

Fitbit handled the situation rather poorly. There were hundreds of users complaining about the problem in their community forum, and it took months for the company to initiate a recall. What annoyed me the most was that during this process, they claimed that there was nothing wrong with the product, and that if there were one, it was due to a nickel allergy. I know, with confidence, that I am not allergic to nickel. This was still their conclusion when they posted the final voluntary recall [2].

I now have a minor scar on my wrist, and I can't recommend any of their products. This isn't because they're bad but how badly the customer service was during that period. I hope they can recover from that slip up, but I don't see myself buying anything Fitbit anytime soon, especially with so many other nicer fitness bands being released.

[1]: https://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2014/Fitbit-Recalls-Force-Ac...

[2]: http://www.fitbit.com/forcesupport
Many posters here criticize the a anti-sports bias, but perhaps this bias is useful to an individual and a humanity?

Popular games became popular because of the path-dependent random development some time ago, should we continue on with the status quo?

Or should we try to engineer a new type of game with massive popularity that would be more beneficial to the society and the players and the watchers?

I guess the latter. Afterwards, football, soccer, hockey sports popularity is based on marketing and are successful in large part because of the huge switching costs.
Any suggestions on how one gets an invite? How broad is the program?
Whatever. Why not just go to namecheap and get a domain there? There is nothing special enough about this service to make me want to use it.
I used to think like you, but I've since understood since that this is the wrong battle. You have 2 things that are more and more diverging yet use the same platform for distribution:

- websites as-you-know-them, which goal is to provide _information_

- webapps, which goal is to provide _services_

Your point of view is completely valid for the first kind: when you want the information, you don't want the frills that go around it. You want clear pointers to it in the form of clean URLs. You want it to be accessible on your smartphone that doesn't run javascript because it's heavy and has wildly different inputs.

But the second kind is completely different. When you (as in the general you) are using GMail, you actually want to use an application to manage your mail, possibly send and receive them. Whether it's in your chrome browser or native in your OS matters only as far as how easy it is to install, and on that point the web has won. But it's just a happy accident of how things have evolved.

You are not against javascript per se, you are against web apps in general. Which is totally understandable, because there are better ways to provide services on a computer than using a shiny HTML+CSS+Javascript interpreter that fetches programs on-the-fly and can't even do half of what a real OS can do.
My boss has one of the new Infiniti's and it also automatically stays within your lane if the car starts drifting on its own.
Agree 1000%. Just one more way for them to connect the dots. No thanks.
That offering was just a referral/signup for Godaddy and enom.
I would far rather deal with Google than GoDaddy or some of the other domain registrants I've dealt with. I realize some people have had poor customer service experiences with Google, but mine have always been OK. Obviously I speak as a consumer, if I were running a business depending on Google services my support needs would be more urgent and my expectations higher.
Is the photo not available? Starting an article with a description of a photo is a bit of a letdown when you can't see the picture.
AL Senator tries to bog Space X down with red tape
Hmm... I learned on a 12-bit (PDP-8/E). The first 8-bit I worked with was a Kaypro-II. Focal and assembly on the former, S-Basic on the latter.
I think it was a combination of bad luck, timing, and some bad decisions on my behalf. I learned a lot from the experience.

Actually, we had a team of 5 working on this. Running operations is really intense and time consuming. There is lots of customer service, community management and making sure items arrive at their destination. Then I was there to work on product and I had 2 developers as well.

I looked at the figures, and although it might be possible to cut out all the tech/product side and just leave operations, then we would really be in a zombie state. I thought it was better to cut our losses and move on.
I'd suggest using Linode over Digital Ocean.

They already are the same price/performance [roughly, unless you are buying DO's $5 nodes]. They also have stuff like load balancers built out and are reasonably reliable [although only at the datacenter level, they don't have multi-DC load balancers]:

https://www.linode.com/nodebalancers
If it was robots playing no one would care.

Not true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCup :)
I am managing software development teams in small startups and big companies in the Valley for more than 10 years now. I've probably had several hundreds of interviews, looked at thousands of resumes and hired a couple hundred people directly. One of the things I always look for during the interview is how the candidate is different from me. I obviously don't want to have weird folks who behave outside of the social norm in my team. But I absolutely love employees with different than my experience, education, background, and especially I love people who disagree with me. The team members who can argue with me are my best employees. These are the people I will be chatting to bounce ideas. These are the people I will be working hard to convince that my proposal is the right one. And these are the people whom I will go to when I need an advice (simply because they might see the problem from a different angle than I do).

"The Company Culture" is important. But you do not create it by writing blog posts or even by having company off-sites every month. I create the culture in my team by re-enforcing my values every day during meetings or simple chats at the water cooler. Most software developers are smart and can easily see through the BS of startup or large company "culture building exercises" when the day-to-day processes in the company go in a completely opposite direction.
I'm a bit disappointed about the paid upgrade, it really feels like ExpanDrive is only working properly since this last version. For me, v3 has always been dirt slow with cloud storage.
The reason it was unsupported was because they were just fronting for godaddy and enom and expected that you'd get support for the domains from those registrars directly.
As long as they keep providing superior services, I'm personally fine with that.
There's a few options out there. You can treat DO as a compute-only EC2 if you'd like. I work on a project called Rubber [1] that can provision servers and templates for you. DO is one of the supported providers. We've taken care of a lot of the annoying stuff for you, like mapping security group rules back to iptables, setting up DB replication, off-site backups to S3, and so on.

You'd likely be able to do the same with chef, ansible, puppet or whatever else. I don't have deep experience with those options, so I can't really speak to them.

[1] -- http://rubber.io/
sure, but as an analogy, can you see tic-tac-toe not as an obvious tie but as one round in an epic game of attrition? Would it be fun to see who could win a continuous stream of tic tac toe games, games played end to end for 24, 36, 48 hrs, maybe with no breaks for food? Cage Tic Tac Toe, where someone actually does start losing due to their weaker constitution?

While that could be imagined to be a fun sport, just as the soccer you describe is a fun sport, perhaps there is a way to play with some other rules that achieve more fun for the fan, for the player, and which give a sense that you know who is the best team in this tournament, rather than who comes from the country with the better long term immigration policy with respect to the game of tic tac toe?
Actually, namesilo offers free whois privacy.
http://www.namesilo.com/
Ubuntu One File Service
The ability to influence millions of internet users to share your content has great value. Reaching 130MM unique visitors gives Buzzfeed the power to run target advertising campaigns that companies will reward them handsomely for. They are the largest content provider on Facebook with 39MM interactions (shares, likes, comments) which is 11MM more than the second largest content provider, Huffington Post.

Check out more statistics on Internet Trends of 2014, Buzzfeed slides start on slide 44:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kpcbweb/files/85/Internet_Trends_201...
I am a big Linode fan and I hadn't realized they price-matched DO. Thank you for the info.
An invite only beta to an at request service? That's kinda dumb. It most certainly won't be a representative sample.
Unlike some people, I'm not going to call an absence of solidarity bigotry. Not being aware that other people are treated very differently by the same system isn't an offence. It's just, as you say, not being aware due to not being affected.
While it's easy to demonize "environmentalists", it's pretty clear in the SF Bay Area that environmentalists and property owners are in collusion (or property owners are using the environmentalist label to limit supply).

Ultimately, the best way to root-cause a policy issue is to follow the money. Someone is making money from a lack of governance.
Researchers Create 3D Printed Interlocking Bricks Which Require no Mortar