skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're rapidly there: core support is around 80% or so now, which is definitely in the range where using a polyfill for the remaining IE 9- users is plausible for many sites.

It'll be nice when you can assume full support but I'll take vertical centering, easily consistent heights across elements, etc. now.
Having been a fairly active member of HN, I've noticed the following trends about companies they choose to invest. Companies generally get bucketed into the following:

1. Company did something relatively novel with regards to growth hacking and/or digital hustling ("these guys got 10,000 users in a day")

2. Company/founder built an MVP with little technology experience, but got massive demand by using something off the shelf and wants to scale it with technology ("this girl sold these items using wufoo as an e-commerce and wants to scale now")

3. Company/founder did something important in tech before (sold a company) or had a role in a company people from YC alumni generally have an affinity for ("this guy was the head of marketing for X company, it grew to 100 million users and sold to Google for X million")

4. Founders are from MIT/Stanford/etc and did something cool while they were there ("AngelList says 'TEAM = STANFORD' and one of the founders built a robot")

5. Founders have some sort of extensive domain knowledge in a market that can be a billion dollar business (platform/data play) ("No one is building farm tech ($XXbil industry), but these 6 guys from Iowa are")

6. Company/founders don't fully meet 1-5, but have inklings of one or more and have the potential for a billion dollar business ("Smart scrappy guys who are building the next big messaging app")

There are of course exceptions to all of this, but the general theme is that (1) the business model doesn't necessarily matter (they'll figure it out, all 6 situations make these individuals smart) and (2) the makeup of the team matters more than anything else.

I'd put PH in bucket number 1.
Ugh. Whatever happened to not wasting an excessive amount of space? Allocating 4KB for what is essentially a single bit flag seems like a needless waste of space, especially given that we already have syscalls that set up triggers to manipulate individual words in userspace (most prominently, the futex syscall, but there are others).

I suppose that if the state of your PRNG neatly fits into (almost) a multiple of 4KB, it makes sense to allocate that space explicitly and put a guard bit in there, then mark the entire region as INHERIT_ZERO. This has the added benefit of making it less like that PRNG state is leaked somewhere.
If you're really suggesting what I'm reading into your post, which is that 'academic pdfs' are somehow some sort of glorious special species because everybody in academia uses latex and all publications are typeset using that, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in.
Matt's struggle to find the cause and cure of his son's disease reminded me of a post I read sometime ago:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gvi/metamed_evidencebased_healthcare...

While probably not applicable in this case, I think many people struck with rare/weird diseases could find this service useful. MetaMed is basically a group of people who are really good at maths, know the newest medical technologies and procedures, and are willing to dig through and evaluate tons of medical papers and publications.

I hope that this will help someone. I'm also interested if anyone on HN used this service and could tell how it worked out in their case.
That solves a different problem.
I'm in favour of making it easy for individuals to own their 'digital' life.

However, simply having a 'data store' isn't enough. You need to have a system that actually runs some infrastructure for you and then 'data collection' is an obvious side-effect. There are number of projects I'm involved with that take different approaches to this, including technical infrastructure for distributed systems and personal clouds [1,3] as well as business models and market places [2]. Systems like these can provide benefits to end-users that include resilience and flexibility -- it's not just about privacy.

[1] http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/ and http://openmirage.org/wiki/overview-of-mirage

[2] http://hubofallthings.com/what-is-the-hat/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8020635
Thanks for the tip.

RealTalk will enable you to communicate with businesses on your smart phone. Picture a messaging layer on top of your old phone book, but in your hands.
In India, when we were younger, we'd sometimes all call someone on their birthday. Before you know it, there'd be eight people at a time (with people dropping in and out to wish) on a conference call held at the birthday person's number. That person would pay nothing for this.

I'm pretty sure you can still do this.
You're making an invalid assumption; specifically, that fail2ban is only useful to protect ssh.
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I just enabled Roost for a political site I run with 750k uniques because of this clever little Show HN. Thanks, guys.

The site's users (who are in the 45-65 age bracket, and so are not exactly at the vanguard) are 33% Safari over the last 30 days. Surprisingly good.
And how does that increase the number of satellites in orbit or the available downlink bandwidth?
> "Data ownership will not be solved by technology"

I would say 'data ownership will not be solved by technology alone'.

I think it's completely wrong to think we can deal with any of the data ownership issues without understanding how the current technology got us here and what new technologies we need. However, I do agree that throwing some tech out there and expecting it to take off is not going to happen. There is the hard work (as with any new solution) of defining and selling the benefits.
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Not many brick and mortar businesses are sitting behind the computer either. What market is this a burning problem for?
TalkTo did not integrate with third party services.
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Mobile has lower rates. Expansion of ads to countries with lower rates. Both increase the overall reach & revenue of Google ads, but lower CPCs.
What's the best way to do Database Versioning?
How does everyone do their database versioning?
At work, one of our applications is a custom cms, where we need to keep track of changes to two small tables and preferably keep them in sync with git branches.

I really haven't used anything more advanced than keeping a directory of db scripts under version control, so any advice would be appreciated
Ask.com & AOL are large chunks of change for the "google search network" syndication partners. This is probably most of the $3B+ in traffic buying.
Love your initial presentation. The business side console looks a ton more useful than https://talktothemanager.com/.

Might need to find a way to mesh into existing Twitter back workflows for larger enterprise customers. These guys have spent a lot of dough building distributed Twitter workforces. Need to make it ultra facile for them to come over to your more intimate product.
I too struggle with the choice. Polymer/web components _might_ be an easier sell to my boss as it doesn't require as much framework specific knowledge and would make it easier to get new teammates up and running.

However, the polyfills + ammount of http requests in a very modular project don't inspire the confidence that Polymer is ready for prime time.

My thought is that when web components lands in browsers natively, and if some of the request problems are smoothed over, it would be easier to translate a react project than a project in another framework. You could replace things piecemeal. But by then, who knows how much more compelling react might be.
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Who IS supposed to do that if not the CEO?
Most business owners have smart phones & so do their employees.
I have no idea how you'd play a game like that on a phone. Are you thinking about tablets?
There is no such web site.

I've advised another family on how to repeat our success, and they managed to find a second patient by setting up a website for their child. Both kids had de novo mutations in KDM1A and could be mistaken for brothers. So, sequencing + social media has already discovered a second disease.

After the success with Bertrand and NGLY1, the NIH reached out to me to see if there was a way that they could integrate social media into their Undiagnosed Disease Program.

Unfortunately, the NIH can't (or won't) set up anything right now.

There's an urgent need for this too: genome sequencing is going to unearth the raw data necessary to discover thousands of new genetic disorders like NGLY1 deficiency over the next decade.

But, if that data stays isolated, those discoveries just won't happen.

Kids won't get diagnosed.

If only there were a site full of technically minded entrepreneurs that we could share this opportunity with...
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I see what looks like a place marker embedded in the letter A, which makes perfect sense for Airbnb. Maybe that's what they were intending?

...and after staring at the logo for a few more minutes, I still can't see any more resemblance to genitalia than the letter A.
No, I didn't. I don't even have an Amazon associate's referral code, so I must have pasted someone else's. Hoping 1 person on Hacker News will buy a book I linked to in one comment so I could earn $0.25 does not strike me as a great earnings strategy.
Staying out of the region would be the most sensible thing to do. I didn't read anything that mentioned avoidance as a precautionary step, albeit the most logical of precautionary steps.
What percentage of businesses have someone available to answer text messages? My feeling is the answer starts with 0.0 and then may have some more zeros before a non-zero digit occurs.
It has tripled in the past three years, so that seems unlikely given there is no Ask / AOL growth.

Maybe it is YouTube payments. There is talk about YouTube Revenue being $3.5B and I assume that started from nothing about three years ago. I assume about 1/2 of YouTube revenue goes to the content creators.
I strongly recommend those talks.

The 'magic washing machine' talk is beautiful. One of my favourite quotes of all time comes from it.

And what we said, my mother and me, "Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books."
Kind of like https://www.intercom.io/ but for real life?
Good point, but my impression of this tool is that it's more intended for quickly tacking an external API onto an existing Django app, and not so much for building an internal API for a client-side MVC app (Angular/Ember/Backbone etc). It can certainly be used for that too, but Django is kind of overkill for that use case, and a lighter-weight framework like Flask with a REST plugin like Restless and (optionally) an ORM plugin like SQLAlchemy is probably sufficient.
I know you said "CS-", but seed-able PRNGs in user-space can be immensely useful in tons of other situations, allowing things to be debugged, replayed, and synchronized.

So even if you convince to use urandom for their crypto needs on *nix platforms, it'll still have to be easy to seed one in userspace if someone really wanted to.
This is a really heartening story both because it's objectively amazing and, to me, for personal reasons. My wife suffers from an unknown congenital myopathy. She, and by extension I, are actually VERY fortunate. It's a very mild expression of that class of disease, so it's not a death sentence, but it's a life sentence. She can walk unaided and climb stairs (slowly, with effort), but she'll never run, among other things. She has very weak muscles in her extremities, a very high resting heartrate, breathing problems, and she basically can't gain muscle mass.

She has been working with doctors on both coasts to try to nail down a diagnosis, so that we can think about having children (we need to know what, exactly, to screen for). So far, we have had many promising diagnoses, all of which have been negative. We might be looking at a new disease, and the information in the article about genetic sequencing for new diseases lines up with what her doctor at the NIH has been working on (they just recently collected genetic material from her close relatives). Thank you for sharing a success story on the new disease front, and thank you for your work to turn your personal tragedy into a force for good in the world. You're the best kind of people.
How is it good for the world? We do not have a food problem, we do not use the majority of available arable land as it is. Is it good that advanced nations restrict births? Why not third world or worse? Whose lives are made better?

Really I am just curious the justification.
Another angle: totally inefficient solutions can be useful too. I put this sample up a while ago, Ridiculous Adding, https://gist.github.com/stephanwehner/11227766
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Belgium's population has a natural rate of change (i.e., excluding immigration) approaching zero (0.2% per year in this decade, and even lower in the previous one). Neighboring countries already have negative natural growth. Since population crashes also have bad effects on societies, it's not surprising that many European countries have adopted pro-child policies.

Belgium is not contributing in any significant way to world population growth. The 0.1M Belgians born each year are basically cancelled out by the 0.1M Belgians who die in the same period.

You say "China good, Belgium bad" but in fact China's population is growing more than twice as fast as Belgium's (0.5% per year in this decade; much higher in the previous one). In absolute terms, China contributes 300 times more to world population growth than Belgium (2012's natural population change was +6,690,000 in China, compared to +22,000 in Belgium). And that's without taking into account that "families are believed to be hiding tens of millions of babies to evade the one-child policy" in China according to the very article we're supposedly discussing.

And so I am pleased to present you with this award for The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Belgium" in a Serious Hacker News Comment.
Moxie's criticism of portknocking implementations [1] has several facets that apply to fwknop. I would not recommend using fwknop in general.

Unrelated to security, but practical experience from using fwknop in the past: port-knocking tools that depend on timestamped packets are a great way to get locked out of your server if you have time skew between server and client. EC2 instances will drift a lot over their lifetime, so if you're not running NTP you will likely eventually fall outside the portknocking implementation's grace period, and then be unable to access your server at all, short of rebooting it or figuring out how skewed the clock is. Not fun.

[1] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/knockknock/
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For example, $50k can get you a basic antibody garage biology operation going...

Depending on what you want to do, it can be way less than that. For Cystic Fibrosis, the FDA denied inhaled mannitol, a dry powder, due to lung bleeds in trials. http://www.familypracticenews.com/single-article/fda-panel-v...

It is possible to formulate something chemically similar for not much money in your kitchen. Most people with CF are plenty familiar with keeping things sterile.
I actually got a chance to tour the LIGO facility in Louisiana recently. They have an open house "Science Saturday" that, while somewhat kid oriented, is pretty well put together. The control room was particularly fun to look around in and I'd recommend a visit if in the area.
The calculation (1.96 / 2) / sqrt(164) for the margin of error isn't applicable in this case because it's not a Bernoulli pass/fail event, and is instead an open-ended question.

If you framed the question as "Do you think this is a sex object? Yes/No" then the margin of error might be more applicable. I count 10/164 (6%) who did: stating that 94% of people don't think AirBNB's logo is a sex object is a much better lede.
We use LiveChat[0], which even looks like that.

People go to the site, open live chat, ask questions and get real answers immediately.

[0] http://www.livechatinc.com/
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One might imagine naughty parts from just about any logo.

The Y Combinator logo looks like cleavage to me.
Overfitting will only occur when the dataset is too small for the model.
It looked like a bent paper clip airplane, I can't see the genitalia at all.
Surely in any business, there is at least one person sitting around doing nothing worthwhile at any one time? E.g. if you go into a shop, there's a very low chance that everyone working there is actually busy doing something, someone's always standing/sitting around
There are no words for this; an incredible story. My thoughts and prayers are with Bertrand and others with NGLY1 deficiency.

It seems that while Professor and Christina Might were making a herculean effort to discover and fight NGLY1 deficiency, Professor Might was granted tenure (!) at the University of Utah and is considered a rising star (http://admin.utah.edu/academic_affairs_posts/rising-stars-at...). I doubt anyone makes excuses for late homework in his class.
Which is why configuration files should use the null-routed example.com domain.
"There's No Protection In High Ports Anymore. If Indeed There Ever Was." http://bsdly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/theres-no-protection-in-...
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You can look through the ACM article to get a good overview [1]. Yes, it's taken a lot of work to get to this point and there's more to go. In order to enable a fully decentralised system, we need to understand and tackle the basic problems that all developers face, which is more involved than just Mirage (as described in my comment above).

All the code is also fully open source under a permissive license [2].

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628

[2] https://github.com/mirage/
> Rusts approach, I think, is in the entirely wrong direction. You should only have one kind of reference, but if you use it correctly the compiler should figure out how to free it.

This has been an area of intense research for four or five decades now, and it's probably not going to get better than what we have now, in the general case. In the presence of general recursive data structures, the compiler can't know when each object is going to die. I'm pretty sure you can easily reduce this to the halting problem.

To date, you've had three sorts of solutions: 1) explicit malloc/free; 2) tracing GC or reference counting + various tricks to take advantage of special cases; and 3) putting additional information in the type system to help the compiler infer when objects might become free while preserving memory safety (this is the direction taken by Rust, Cyclone, MLKit, and to an extent C++ too).
Why would a business not have someone available? This isn't much different from an employee answering a phone, granted in this case it's the employee's personal phone.
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this looks like it was designed with a spirograph back in 1970. also, it looks like kim kardashian's ass, or a paperclip
You're right, but I think they are, unfortunately, part of the capital T capital G, scare quotes "The Goverment" when talking about regulating fiat currency.
Thats why we support "free software" to block such kind of arrogance
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99% of retail businesses don't have live chat.
Could someone explain briefly how you get facebook token which is necessary in script ?

I know how to use Charles just don't know where to luck and what variables to look or where is it generated.
Your aim is off the mark. The comment by pmarca says

How did Hacker News evolve from the discussion board for YC, to the discussion board where the first comment on any post involving a YC company is reliably someone crapping on it? What an amazing shift.

My comment was even-toned and didn't criticize any organization in particular. If writing that "[nonprofits] thus deserve extra scrutiny" constitutes "crapping on" anything, we are operating under very different definitions of what it means to crap on something.

(Bayes Impact has explicitly aligned themselves with the social justice movement; if I'd crapped on them, you'd have known it. Instead, I tried to write as even-handed a comment as I could while still making my point. Indeed, it took several edits to remove all traces of snark. I've been rewarded for my efforts with downvotes and a reprimand. This is not the way to foster reasoned discussion.)
wait. what are you implying it is then?
Rust will be the language of the future
My comment was a little flip, I know, I should have asked a more friendly question. I'm wondering why it hasn't been discussed (as far as I can tell). Java has had it for ages, Ruby will have it in 2.1 and Python appears to have it as well [1]. Isn't Generational GC feasible in Go for some reason?

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/gc.html

Edit: Here is a discussion of gc in go. Go has only just gotten a precise collector, which is a requirement of a generational gc, to allow moving pointers.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/fiOs3mGH...
If it were 2014, I would say Lucas Duplan
Eventual Concurrency vs. Eventual Consistency
If I'm not mistaken, the CFO mentioned that Simpson's Paradox was at work (by name) during the actual earnings call.
It's actually a historical issue. In the US cellphones orginaly used standard POTS numbers while in other countries cellphones often had an easily distinguishable format. This means that in the US granny wouldn't know she was calling a cellphone so charging her extra would be an unpleasant suprise, while in other countries she knew and was thus implicitly accepting to pay the charge.
Yes, but your GC application has to basically be approved by that point, and you are just waiting for a slot.
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This is very true, which only became aware to me and probably most people after the movie "Dallas Buyer Club" reached a widespread audience.

I don't exactly fault the FDA though, because if someone is diligent, they will almost definitely get their hands on the drugs through whatever means, illegal or otherwise.
Of course we've considered it.

It's a murky moral calculus.
Another interesting thing from Civilization was the copy protection. Every so often it would ask you to guess the correct symbol off page N of the manual. If you got it wrong, rather than end your game, it simply removed all of your military units.

Being that I was in 6th grade when Civ (DOS version) came out, and the rich kid down the street had it, I played for about 6 months before my parents bought me the actual game as a christmas present.

By that time I got a legit copy of the game I was a master of all things Civ... All things except the fact that you could fortify units INSIDE towns. Imagine me, positioning 8 units in an array around a town and having those units disappear every N turns due to getting the copy protection wrong.

Once I got to keep my units and I fortified one inside a town on accident, I turned into a Civ monster. Once CivNet came out I proceeded to crush all comers in my small town.

Good times.
Thanks! Thats on the roadmap.
Please don't assume that a lock-in based on network effects must mean users are happy with (or even aware of) that trade. I don't like FB's practices, or the way LinkedIn deals with me, yet I maintain profiles on both sites.

Twitter was unambiguously non-private from the start so there were no broken expectations.