skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes a little more sense if you don't think about the game as an assembly of parts, which isn't really explained anywhere. For example there is some strategy with trying to make the ghosts be as bad as possible, so they are in a nice neat line immediately after a power pill.

As usual, kudos to the team for making a puzzle with so many layers.
It seems to me that he has gone to enormous lengths to use consistent pieces to make letters (as befits a programmer -- DRY design), which makes them all look very samish, hurting readability. I think a better approach would be to figure out how to make the glyphs seem more distinct without being inconsistent or ugly.
I believe he means that it uses CSS transitions, not javascript transitions. So the animations are what are, whenever possible, "CSS-powered"
I did address them. I said:

Public companies have a responsibility to their (rational) shareholders to minimize expenses that have no possible ROI. Taxes are chief among those.

If you're asking for my opinion, in my opinion what he is saying is absolute nonsense. The populist drivel spewed in those tweets is an attempt to appeal to his Shark Tank audience. If he appears relatable, the show's ratings rise and he gets the accompanying ego boost. He's doing it for the same reason that centimillionaire Hollywood types advocate for socialist candidates & ideals that are in direct conflict with their own financial interests: popularity.

Any company that has options available to it that will lower their tax bill without negatively affecting their income and growth prospects should pursue them. In fact, they have a legal responsibility to their shareholders to do so.
I was looking for this tool called XRumer but I can't remember the link...
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Streak. Only. Ever.
> Even with your own code, you can achieve purity and immutability in Java or C++ if you want to, but you are mostly fighting against the language.

I think purity works very nice in D, using D definition of purity.
No me, nothing beats ICFPC'07 (http://save-endo.cs.uu.nl/)

The whole task was just formulated as "save Endo". A spec of Fuun DNA (a virtual machine), Endo's DNA and a two pictures were provided. That's about all contestants were told. Then, we had to discover Endo's DNA contained loads of fun things inside.

Oh, ICFPC'06 was incredibly cool, too, but I didn't participated at that time and only took the task years after that. Don't want to sound whining but other years are more conventional (a complex, but mostly well-defined task) so less fun in my opinion.
This is not exactly surprising. With the unbelievable amount of energy microsoft has put into preventing ODF at every turn, this has to be something that scares the hell out of them. Office is still one of their bigger cash cows. I'm sure they're furiously trying to talk the UK government out of this decision.

This is great news for the UK people however. I'm constantly impressed with how tech savvy some parts of the UK government. A great example would be this gem of a post:

https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/building-a-new-...

And this: https://github.com/alphagov
Bill Allowing Americans To Unlock Cellphones Passes House, Heads To Obama
You can't tackle, or even really talk about, all diversity problems in tech startups at once. The reality is that it's currently a "whitelist" (no pun intended) problem, not targeted exclusion.

Attractive, white, young, well connected males who can afford to live in the Bay Area get a disproportionate amount of startup funding. Diversity is an enormous problem on many different axes.

You use "easy mode" as a pejorative, but YC should be tackling an enormous problem narrowly. There's no other way to make much progress.
Since we're talking academic: agent-based economic modeling, in which you come up with scenarios and assumptions about how different folks make decisions (which might be heterogeneous--e.g., your imaginary stock market could include the equivalent of the unfortunate individual investors that watch CNBC and follow bad strategies, and institutional investors, and HFTs), and you see how they play out. If your model seems to resemble the real world in interesting ways, you can simulate applying some intervention--a transaction crash, a commodity-price shock--and see how that plays out. Up to you to pick which scenarios and models to explore, of course.

It's fun because you have more flexibility in the kinds of models you can toy with than if you were simply working with equations and had to assume a spherical cow, and you can connect computing with a different discipline, and you get an almost reasonable excuse to borrow some extra compute cycles for a couple of larger simulations. :)
To me the difference in his worldview (as it relates to cost reduction and ethics) versus yours is mostly about theory vs practice.

In theory, freeing people from labor as a necessity is a good thing where we all gain time to pursue our creative passions instead of putting in 40-80 hours as wage slaves; in practice (based on economic trends and prevailing contemporary political views that seem unlikely to shift in the near term), it appears to be hurling us towards something vaguely like the society that was presented in the movie "Elysium"
Locality-sensitive hashing works decently enough for finding duplicates/near-duplicates.

Alternatively (and more simply if you already have a search index), Lucene has a 'more like this' feature that also works pretty well in practice. It takes a document's tokens and submits them all to the search index in one query.
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Bose sues Apple's Beats 'to protect' noise-canceling headphone technology
Yup. The data is from here http://streetscore.media.mit.edu/data.html and it's used in all PlacePulse surveys. http://pulse.media.mit.edu/ You can choose which question you want from the big menu at the top.
He made that comment before the "Learn More" link took you to the Github page. Before, it said "Documentation" and took you to the /docs page, which was just dumb of me.
If I were you, I would put the full scan at the end of the setup workflow (straight after verification), so that by the time the user gets to their report, you have full results for them.
The point of §1201 of the DMCA was to prevent piracy by preventing circumvention of DRM. It wasn't meant to be used to lock down cell phones. So in some ways, it is a quirk. In other ways not.
Could someone convince me why I should care about the gonads and skin color of the people writing code for me? Does anybody really think YC's performance would be better if their founder classes looked like a diversity picture from a college recruiting brochure?
Sorry, but I think you guys are taking the downvoting a little too far. There's a difference between being unwelcoming and being critical.
I've been using Vagrant/Virtual to run Ubuntu LTS for my Javascript dev env. Does it make sense switch to CoreOS? I generally run it as a headless server. No X-windows or GUI needed.
I call it "herding cats".

Definitely an uncommon skill, and the top 1% are
not even good enough.
What difference would it make? Religious institutions, writers, horse-traders, scuba divers - a market is a market.

If you go into any business harboring that level of disrespect for your customers then you're probably going to fail to provide a product they'll be willing to use. Although there is also an argument to be made for domain experience - if you're going to sell a service to religious groups wouldn't you be more likely to understand the market without having a bias against religion?
They all appear to be following the same trend. It could just be that it's no longer the cool kid on the block. Plus the doc seems pretty good so many people go straight to it without google?
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer if the gov't didn't start enforcing "morality".
Class issues help people from the wrong caste. Who cares about poor men when there are rich women who don't have enough in their lives already?
The same amount that it took to get you where you are right now? I also am sensing you are trying to make a joke. While I may be very ignorant in this area I'm not looking to made fun of, just for someone to educate me on what is wrong with the question.
Model View Culture on Open Source: critique and analysis of culture and politics
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster gives a good approximation of what that would look like. "Pretty well", "yes, but well below what's considered safe limits", "yes, detectable but minor."
When white people enter a black neighborhood, it is "gentrification", and it holds blacks back.

When white people move out of a black neighborhood, it is "white flight" and it holds blacks back.

White people! Stay exactly where you are!
What I would like is something that took street photos and safety info and somehow deduced what visible characteristics correlated with safety.

A while back I was reading a mailing list thread where someone claimed that adding more street lighting didn't improve safety. This struck me as bullshit.

I did some Googling to dig up some fact to show just how right I was. Apparently, not so right at all. There were assorted studies that showed (or suggested, not sure) that adding more lights might actually make a street more dangerous. They can make it easier for a hidden thief to case a place or a target, and some lights create enough glare that it becomes harder to see past a certain distance.

It got me thinking that popular notions of how to judge safety may be very wrong, and that reality may be quite counter-intuitive.

Another example: I grew up in a city, lived in apartment buildings. Anyone who had any money moved out of an apartment and moved into a house. Hence, anyplace that was all houses was a good neighborhood.

Years later I discovered how totally wrong this was and marveled at how such impressions get formed.

Having better evidence about what factors make a location safer, and to what extent one can accurately determine safety by visual inspection, would be very beneficial.
You might be able to do a lot of the same stuff in AppleScript, but that's AppleScript and this is Lua, which to me personally is a huge advantage.

And it's not quite a Lua "scripting bridge". That term usually implies automatic bridging between two programming languages, such as Lua and Objc, but all our bridging is manual.
Well said.

I actually built an MVP for a "Kickstarter for Missionaries" crowdfunding project a couple years ago. I thought (and still do, to some degree), it could be a good way for churches and missionaries to get steady/predictable support (which has always been a problem for my friends who do it).

But, the same dilemmas exist. Figuring out a business model I was comfortable with seemed hard. And, like you said, the more open you are about other faiths/sects using your platform, the more likely you are to tick off hardline people.
But a dividend is a quantifiable amount than just the company buying shares and hope the market follows rationally.
When i look at the bose QuietComfort earphones - earphones that are supposed to have(according to reviews) the unique ability to greatly block non-constant noise(for example talking) - and ability that to my knowledge nobody else has, and on the other hand are really expensive($270) and beyond the reach of many, i wonder:

Would some sort a programmable(app based) headphones enable an affordable noise reduction earphones that do a great job ?

Because all in all , noise is huge problem and a huge potential market.
Let's pretend this indiegogo raises the money necessary to move the polar bear. Do we really think that the zoo is just going to give up the polar bear to be moved to Canada?
"Next time hire an accountant."

They were disrupting the IRS!
Seems to be down ("The connection to www.aptible.com was interrupted while the page was loading."). Synopsis?
How many companies can possibly afford the cost and management pain of running a 285 node database? Few would have 285 servers of any type? So if this is what it takes to get 1M writes on Cassandra that is some poor ROI. 10K writes/sec is not impressive.
Previously on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7976841
I think what they mean is that you don't have to type any javascript yourself, such as setting onclick-listeners. At the top of the page it reads "CSS powered (jQuery fallback)", however, if jQuery fails to load (e.g. when visiting the https-version of the same page), it doesn't work.

What I also don't understand is how this plugin was in any way 'missing'. It seems we had plenty already[1].

[1]: http://www.designrazzi.net/2014/free-jquery-accordion-menus-...
The article gives a "typical cost" of $3-5000 for a Japanese person keen to show their generosity. It doesn't make it clear the policy will pay out anywhere near that much (the British policy we are given a direct link to covers a lot more than holes in one, but pays a maximum of £200 on alcohol only for holes-in-one, at an overall premium cost of £49.95 per annum)

Even if the $3 premium really is a one off fee which covers $3000 worth of celebratory cruises (both of which I doubt), an amateur golfer with a 1 in 12,500 chance of getting a hole in one and enough disposable income to join the sort of golf club that expects celebratory cruises probably shouldn't bother.
Yes. Problem goes away after manually compiling the the latest HEAD, which is admittedly not the best solution.
I've met quite a few YC founders from Europe. They were white, and shouldn't count towards your reputation for diversity.
Note that the graph states the trend for the last 5 years was "doesn't go up or down", so the level is interesting.

It's just no hype any more, but at least for half a decade. So it's also no decline.
They can't put a "small" portion of themselves in another country, that's why Pfizer was trying to buy Astra Zeneca. You need the merger of two relatively sized (by value) companies.

You know what you need to do that? It's in the tax law.
But the real point isn't to strictly define the benchmark, but more what it looks to elucidate: large scale nuclear ships and their outcomes.

Russia (probably from not having to deal with protests as much as Western countries) made their nuclear ships and they perhaps proved to stand the test of time. (?)
true it may be that the situation is to blame since they are only doing this special Heroku add-on interface to pander to its clients. but yea bad situation indeed
Or table this with WTO, G20 or new body to set a minimum tax at a few key points like company tax and income. We're going to see increasingly mobile assets and company structures IMO so a global body working together to set benchmarks makes sense. The alternate seems to be countries will be stuck in a race to the bottom in trying to attract companies & talent.
Any chance of getting some transparency of what automated or manual processes have affected a particular story (ie, on the story comment page itself), possibly delayed by some period to prevent bad actors from realising their voting rings or whatever were discovered?
Unfortunately, you can always game the system:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-05/pfizer-s-u-s-losses...
Write a parser (analog to the Edifact one) and I will add you to the contributor's list and update the site with the new code.

Let's crush IBM :)

Do something that matters. Leave your mark here.

I am awaiting pull requests :)
YC is starting to take a lot of the right steps. I know for me personally, as a female founder, my attitude has changed a lot in the past 6-8 months (from "I guess I'll keep reading HN & essays because I don't want to miss out on interesting content... but I don't feel good about it, and I'd definitely never apply" -- to now being able to be an unequivocal fan, attending Startup School, etc.).

Honestly, any effort at all is appreciated, although some efforts count for more than others. For instance, the Female Founders conference is fine, but I (and I think a lot of people) probably assign more credibility to efforts that really demonstrate a depth of thought on the issue. Here's a tiny example of what I mean, just from this essay, in fact: I always see VCs and journalists citing to the percent of portfolio companies that have a female founder, and every time I see this, it makes me think they're not really serious about analyzing the dimensions and complexity of the issue ("Out of how many founders TOTAL, not how many companies??"), so the fact that SA at least pointed this out puts this piece above not only other investor posts but also posts by tech journalists -- people whose very job it is to, you know, point this stuff out. That's a tiny example, but to me it counts for a lot more than just boilerplate "we support women blah blah blah." [1]

The same principle probably applies for what kinds of events/projects you sponsor. "Women in tech" conferences are great and all, but the more innovative (and tangibly helpful) the initiative is, the better. I'm not sure what your suggestion/feedback mechanism for this is besides HN and talking to your own portfolio, but it may be worth setting up another channel to get ideas from current non-YC technical women/female founders (maybe anonymously, or at least in a more conducive forum than the HN comment section).

Anyway, just my thoughts. I second the other comments about the importance of race/class diversity, too, but I don't have as much to add on that. (Not that race needed to be tackled in this particular post but the title maybe shouldn't have used the term "diversity" if it's mainly going to be about gender.)

[1] It also affords YC/SA a bit more benefit of the doubt when the post also asserts some, uh, less-well-thought-through things, e.g., that other industries are doing worse than tech on gender issues. (Like who? Who's doing worse, specifically? I literally can't think of a single industry in 2014 America that's doing worse than the startup/tech community [both statistically and anecdotally, as well as based on my own personal experience]. Not even investment banking -- and certainly not medicine, law, academia, or traditional business. It's not helpful to sugarcoat it.)
That seems incredibly easy to represent as a patch

patch /users/1 { active: true }

or as patch for json

patch /users/1 { "replace": "/active", "value": true }
In a linguistics course in college, this tribe was used as an example of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Supposedly, members who were taught English and spoke it well still had trouble with relative direction because their original language (and culture) didn't have the concept. I always liked the example even if I thought it was dubious. Very cool to hear that someone else can corroborate that and make it at least a shared anecdote.
Great question! We audit customers against an adapted version of HHS's pilot audit protocol for covered entities[0], tailored for cloud-based software business associates. HHS is starting the permanent audit program and we expect them to publish an audit protocol specifically for business associates this fall.

NIST Special Publications are great resources, and we use them where appropriate, but as I'm sure you know, they're not specific enough to just audit against a single publication and call it a day.

For example, NIST SP 800-66 Revision 1[1]:

1. Only covers the Security Rule
2. Consists of mostly pointers to the other, substantive NIST SPs, and
3. Isn't as detailed as the audit protocol from HHS, which is the entity that will ultimately judge your compliance

Again, all of that said, we love NIST(!) and use their methodologies and guidance (including SP 800-66 Rev 1) extensively.

[0] http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/enforcement/audit/

[1] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-66-Rev1/SP-80...
How would you build out at a metrics cluster that needs 1M writes/sec?

285 nodes that are easily automated to create/destroy/monitor doesn't seem like a management pain to me, personally. Just depends if you have the write internal tools built.
We have a HIPAA compliant dedicated server with another company, and including bandwidth for 100,000+ / month visits, it is around $1500. We could easily host another website (e.g. Complaint server) on the server with extremely little additional cost.
Wait, so companies are legally obliged to maximize income, even if it goes against the will of the shareholders?
I actually think that clckwrks[0] cms could become it. Having a cms that is less buggy than those commonly used these days that can guarantee plugins being correct would be pretty huge.

0: http://www.clckwrks.com
Feedback appreciated. We're rethinking the whole flow, and we'll definitely try to make sure it's clearer. The intentions were good, I promise. :)
Stay for now on Ubuntu. Personally I would be sceptical for some time before the hype of a new Linux settles down.
Ubuntu is proven for many many years and stands on the shoulders of giants named Debian. CoreOS is a pretty new shiny product which still needs to prove itself.
So how do patents "encourage innovation" again? It sounds more like patent attorney & bureaucratic speak meaning lots of money flowing toward them at the expense of everybody else.

Here's yet another example of patents hindering innovation and reducing novelty within the market. Why can't we just focus on real innovation & novelty instead of this legal drama?
For easier experimentation, I have created a Terminal.com snapshot with this setup.

https://atharwat.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/wordpress-on-termi...
Where is it marked experimental on the website? Almost certainly a mistake.
I also owe much of my professional success to rails dhh and so many others in our community. Convention over configuration is still a revolutionary concept. Thank you!
The selection problems that make Stanford grads have a leg up on startups isn't education related, really, it's network related. YC helps get more people into the circles required for fundraising. There's no other way I, for instance, would have had any credibility with the people who fund companies.
This year, our theme for MHacks (http://mhacks.org) is that "Hackathons are for everone."

We've changed our advertising to focus on the first time hacker experience rather than competition, lowered the prize amounts, and have adapted our application to be as blind to experience as possible.

In my experience, smaller hackathons are actually much more exclusive because they tend to be much more homogenous due to the self-selection bias; whereas, at a larger hackathon with thousands of applications, we have the opportunity to focus our outreach to welcome a much more diverse audience.
I love how you can write this :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
You, guys, just crowsed the line.
> Withdrawals are time delayed with notifications delivered to your phones and emails.

I see what they are trying to do here but why not just simply approve/deny transactions? Time delay seems a bit weird.

I don't know much about it but if it's delayed by 1-2 hours attacker can simply make request at 4AM in the morning.

> Up to 97% of bitcoin is stored entirely offline in geographically distributed safe deposit boxes and private safes.

Again, I know what they are trying to do here but this does not make me feel safe. Drop the hardware and you have potential data loss.

How are the logistics? Are they going out on the same truck to multiple locations? Etc.

Just seems a bit too high level and does not contain any context.
Yes, as soon as they came out. Too geeky and complicated. For this to have the impact on the web it needs to have, it has to be adopted by everyday non-technical users. Annotations serve as notes explaining why a lot of people consider something garbage, but most often just need a warning that essentially means: "A lot of people you respect or who think this item is garbage". Not censorship, just a flag.

Hypothes.is and W3C annotations are like HN with only comments, no up or down votes.
relevant for everybody who cares... if you run a business based on this software you care and should care.