skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great interview that reinforced some of PG's ideas that I am familiar with from his essays. The one that intrigues me the most though is that all really great ideas look like crazy ideas to begin with. While very counter-intuitive this seems to be true and is borne out by the data from actually funding hundreds of startups. [1]

So here is a question for PG. At one point in the interview he says that the majority of applications that YC gets seem to be terrible ideas.

"And so I have seen huge numbers of terrible ideas, you know? No one has seen more terrible startup ideas in the world, I'm sure."

If [1] is true, wouldn't that imply that this set of terrible ideas, may in fact contain a few gems - some really great ideas? In fact, based on the analysis and data, one could even argue that the magnitude of the effect (how good the idea is) may be proportional to how bad it sounds in the beginning! So in selecting startups to fund, how does YC distinguish between terrible ideas that would actually be terrible, vs terrible ideas that would actually turn out to be great. Maybe there is no simple way except a gut feeling, or based on how good the founders are. Or maybe the only way to really find out is to actually build the product and let the market decide?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
GeoSim – Advanced 3D City Mapping Technologies
Same reason a city can crush your car if you use it improperly. Your property is a responsibility because it does not exist in isolation. If you fail to live up to that responsibility, the city must take over the responsibilities. That may include destroying a fundamentally unsafe and unusable structure that exists on your property.

If you can build a house in an impermeable bubble located in low Earth orbit, I'll agree you can do whatever you want within that bubble. As long as your property shares the same landscape and air and ecosystem as my property, I care what you do with yours.

Ever lived next to a dilapidated home?
This is a new app that YC's software team made for people attending Demo Day, but since it's not public, there's not much to see here.
A contributor just uploaded the data in CSV format as well.
Sounds good.

Step 0: overcome social anxiety and general awkwardness.

Edit: to make this comment a little less pithy, I will say that I've ordered 'What to Talk About', and it has lessened the looming daemon of small talk...somewhat. (http://www.amazon.com/What-Talk-About-Cocktail-Elevator/dp/1...)
Somewhat meta, but it's interesting to see this post get a second wind: http://hnrankings.info/8198725/
I'm lost. Which one is first and which one is first?
Cloud is important and has to be first. But if cloud is first then mobile is first. And vice versa.
I can't think of any others, but a $60 Colt M1911 is indeed a hell of a bargain. Unless it's in a dire state of disrepair, I'd say that price is about $800-900 cheaper than expected.
Solution for Facebook: have a second, unfiltered feed
So with the washingtonpost running a story on Facebook's unfathomable filtering, why don't we ask Facebook to create a second feed: Very simple stuff, show me my friends' stuff, I'll take care of the filtering...
China's Underground Wholesale Markets
Everything else, on HN is anecdotal garbage. Be Polite to a cop, thats not giving up your rights.
Ya, like other groups in California don't?

Some of the Asian communities do a better job of it than other ethnic communities. That isn't racist. Facts aren't racist. Only people's interpretation of facts can be racist. It only says something about you if your only interpretation is that the condition is directly tied to race.

If the condition isn't tied to race, then noting this might cause other people to benefit themselves economically through cooperation.
What's an "extreme mitten" ?
"Dog Benadryl"
Here is an exoskeleton for babies, albeit not quite for newborns:

http://www.newbornbabyzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ba...

But I believe these are discouraged nowadays for slowing development.
Most of the effort involved just getting a workflow down, fleshing out my core `db.clj` abstractions, iterating until I understood What Not To Do, and getting a feel for Datomic's idiosyncrasies. I'd had a modicum of Datomic experience from using it to store the blockchain in my attempt at implementing a little bit of bitcoin in Clojure (https://github.com/danneu/chaingun). Here's my first attempt at writing a forum with Clojure + Datomic (https://github.com/danneu/clj-forum).

Like most of my Github projects, I now cringe at the two projects above even though the last commits were less than a year ago. But they worked and show how at least I was able to get started. I was also learning Clojure.

It's been half a year since I last touched Datomic. My forum is purring along without issue. Datomic's datalog queries are one of the best parts about Datomic. But it's also hard for me to grasp the performance implications of what I'm doing. I should've written a blog post back when the idiosyncrasies were fresh in my head.

My forum is deployed to Linode, and it hilariously shares a box with the Datomic transactor. My forum boots very slowly though as its Datomic peer loads data into memory. I never really dug into that. And I'm not sure how I would deploy my forum to Heroku since I'm trying to move my production projects there (I need to automate). I wanted to check out Datomic's REST api, but then I got a job.
Yeah, they're really closer to an audio book series than a podcast at this point, but perfect for long road trips.
Ten Tips for Foreign Founders
Might just be the parts I looked at, but some of the data is bad. e.g. Repeated orders, orders with 0 cost, but then the cost is calculated into another line, etc.

Also why does the Florida Police (or anyone) need a 800k Mine Resistant Vehicle??
Hello, dallen33!
I thought it was being creepy and adding my location to the list of available cities but apparently someone from Bristol has been here already.
Exactly. When I ran into a problem with my furnace, my landlord came over with an armful of electric space heaters. Still left me on the hook for the jump in the electrical bill, but better than nothing.
Yeah there are a few mentions on Twitter about that. One guy recorded it: https://plus.google.com/+AlanKnecht/posts/4Uwj889NhWU?pid=60...
Ah yes the libertarian view of "The free market will solve all problems" while ignoring all data to the contrary.

Here's a good counterpoint to this view http://zompist.com/libertos.html
There is a CSV uploaded as an update.
I was surprised to see a number of mine-resistant vehicles associated with very rural counties in Washington State. Not being completely sure whether a mine-resistant vehicle was a tank or not, I googled the term and came across this article:

http://news.yahoo.com/as-wars-wind-down--small-town-cops-inh...

Choice quote from the article:

“Here’s the thing,” Shellmyer says. “Washington, Iowa, has 8,000 people. We have an MRAP now. We have a SWAT team. We have [police] dogs, and we have a SWAT team transportation vehicle that’s not armored.

The city councilman began to think: “Goodness, this is overkill.”
As suggested by a Quora user, you can search for answer at Quora.com, having a friend who is citizen or greenholder opens the company for you, you join as a stack holder. (Disclaimer: getting your own attorney). Some guys I know applied O-1 visa successfully to creat their own business.
Digital Ocean launched #IPv6 support in NYC today
I see places where the prices change year to year based on when it was acquired. I wonder if it's a depreciated cost based on how old it is.
That's good, and there are plenty of them for you to play. The more the merrier.

But doing my own game means a lot of actual work, and I can and should be able to choose the license of that work.

GPL takes away that choice from me.
Quick question, is the apache license really the most relevant for a dataset? Does that license apply?

I ask only because I'm planning on doing something similar.
From the Article[1]: "The Times is now posting the raw data to GitHub here. With this data, which is being posted as it was received,"

The data they got was bad in general. Their original article[2] also discusses the lack of information out there.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/upshot/data-on-transfer-of...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-polic...
I'm stuck using RHEL5 and it would be nice if I could run sublime text. If it were open source, I could probably build it against RHEL5 libraries. The official binaries don't support my platform.
Don't forget trade within the EU is "free", so I - being located in the UK - could buy a laptop in Germany and import it free and legally (bar shipping costs). Therefore, the arbitrage would be simple and legal. Importing from the US, on the other hand, carries significant import charges as I found out the other day when I imported a BeagleBone Black.
Surprised I was down-voted for pointing out something that's mildly racist.

I am Asian myself, though not Chinese. There are such groups associated with my ethnicity which engage in such mutual support. I, personally, am not laboring under the impression that this is any kind of proof of one group's superiority over another. Please produce your evidence to the contrary.

So, is any mention of ethnicity an automatic indicator of mild racism? How is this at all logical? It's not, so I'm pleasantly surprised that you were downvoted.

Do we ignore all the back-scratching that's been happening in the California high-tech sector (and one that's lacking in diversity too)?

No. If you look back on my posts, you'll find frequent comparisons of mine of the Bay Area tech sector to the old boy network in Mad Men.
I'm a dilettante hypermiler, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-efficient_driving) which is mostly about driving slowly. And wow, it's amazing how mad some people get when you drive the posted speed limit.
I think you are over simplifying the complexities involved with this analogy . Backpack seems to break a lot of laws explicitly. I would rally love to see what the founders have researched about different destinations and airports.
I'm really excited about some of these, but particularly ubiome. It's pretty "ew, gross" to think about, but it does seem like an area of medicine and diagnostics which is open for deeper exploration, finally. (disclaimer: I met the team a couple times before in bay area tech contexts and like them)
Did you read the whole article? I realize that the two sentences you quote are in there, and taken by themselves, they can be viewed as infuriating. But his overall point is quite different.

What he's saying is more like "You're not going to win the physical confrontation, so don't try to start one, and don't act like you're going to." That's pretty good advice. And he advocates going ahead and suing the police if they are in the wrong, and videotaping them, and and and... He's not just holding an authoritarian view.
If we're lucky, those massive armored vehicles will be parked behind the station, and left to deteriorate. They're so expensive to operate, small departments are loathe to actually use them. If we're unlucky, we get the events in Ferguson, MO.
Sub-LimeText

They use wordplay on the sublime editor to name themselves.

It's up to trademark lawyers to prove if the name is associated with Sublime Text or not.
Ah, I didn't really read the articles, just dove straight into a python interpreter to start checking out the data. I figured it wasn't the Times' fault, but just a warning.
Hmm.. But are the prices any different for products inside the EU ? Or are there any states that levy a lower purchase than others .
"Death begins in the colon" seems to be attributed to an expert (albeit an old one), but unfortunately the adage is mostly associated with "wellness" practices on Google; it seems to be a shibboleth for things like colonics.
I agree, there are usefull generalization of the derivative. But an important detail is that the operator that is discussed in this post is not linear, i.e. D(x+y) != D(x) + D(y), so it doesn't have all the expected ("intuitive") properties that the usual derivative has.

I don't know the origin of this notation, but I can make up a possible explanation. If you think that every prime is a function of an abstract variable x, so 2 = two(x) = 2 + x, 3 = three(x) = 3 + x, 5 = five(x) = 5 + x, ... evaluated in x=0.

Then, for example, 60 = sixty(x) = two(x) * two(x) * three(x) * five(x) = two(x)^2 * three(x) * five(x)

A number is a function of the primes of the factorizations. You must change the primes into the functions, but you must leave alone the exponents.

Then D is the standard derivative, plus evaluation.

D(60) = sixty'(x) = 2 * two(x) * three(x) * five(x) + two(x)^2 * five(x) + two(x)^2 * three(x) = 2 * 2 * 3 * 5 + 2^2 * 5 + 2^2 * 3 = 60 + 20 + 12 = 92

(I'm mixing the functions and the values when they are evaluated. It's usually not a good idea. If you do that in a Calculus exam the TA will be rightfully angry. But the notation in only text is horrible, so please forgive the technical details.)

With this idea if you have numbers A, B, C such that A = B * C, then A(x) = B (x) * C(x). But if A = B + C then A(x) != B(x) + C(x). This "explains" why the operator D follows the multiplication rule, but not the sum rule.

For example, ten(x) = two(x) * five(x) and six(x) = two(x) * three (x) then sixty(x) = two(x) * two(x) * three(x) * five(x)

But fifteen(x) = three(x) * five(x) and ten(x) = two(x) * five(x), but twenty-five(x) = five(x)^2 and clearly three(x) * five(x) + two(x) * five(x) != five(x)^2.

Edit: Don't take this "explanation" very literally, for example this idea doesn't extend to D^2 directly

D^2 (p^2) = D(p+p) = D(2p) = D(2)p+2D(p) = p+2

D^2(p^2) = D(p+p) != D(p)+D(p) = 2D(p) = 2

D^2(7^2) != (seven(x)^2)'' = (seven(x)+seven(x))' = seven'(x)+seven'(x) = 2seven'(x) = 2

The implicit transformations of numbers into functions and the evaluations in 0 make cause many problems.
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Those are probably not the actual acquisition costs the government paid. The way the surplussing process works is the people doing the surplussing just make a random guess at the acquisition value if the exact information isn't available. For most things that number isn't readily available to the person filling out the surplus paperwork.
Sockpuppet votes cause posts to get killed and accounts to get banned.
yesterday I think, on Geometric Algebra

Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3284160
Why would they brick phones, costing each user (and likely themselves when the users sue) hundreds of dollars in damage when they can easily disrupt phone service in an area for a controlled period of time or block specific subscribers at the telco?

Because it's not their money?
I assume the back is where the serial number lives?

Seems like that would work... once. The ID and credit check requirements would probably not make it a viable long-term solution though.

And, again, irrelevant to Airplane Mode.
EdDSA for OpenPGP
> when surrounding vehicles were breaking the speed limit ... the Google car would accelerate to keep up

for n, neighbor of neighbors
if neighbor.vel > @vel # TODO: add something like: " and @vel < maxVel"
@vel += 1

Just don't forget to grep for "TODO".
Mittens intended for extremely cold weather, like San Francisco in the summer.
Keep a programming language backwards compatible vs. fixing its flaws
Not really - should CTOs who know how to read and write actually read and write for the job? Of course.

Imagine a newspaper managing editor or the head of a medieval scriptorium. We would not expect either of them to be doing the day to day lettering or articles, but the idea they should not use their literacy I. Support of the rest of the business is crazy. As is the idea that the only coding one should do is "on the product"
Just finishing up the Fall of the Roman Republic now, it's a fantastic series and podcast. Unrelated to Rome: Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on the Mongols is equally awesome.

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh
Deep Habits: Lawyer Uses Weekly Planning to Accomplish More
Scribbleton: the little personal wiki
Why do you think that we think that's what happened because the two executives "can't"?

I think it happened because both had lawyers looking it over due to the fact both are operating in the heavily regulated space of high-level officers in one of the world's largest publicly traded companies, and it would be suicidally stupid to not have lawyers looking over your every official utterance... and while the words are in the lawyers hands, the PR department might as well have a go too, since it's not a hard guess to think this could go mobile-first, cloud-first... er... public.
Extreme cold weather mittens.
It's important to keep in mind YC was judging these companies based on their long term goals, whereas we can only judge them based on their version 1.0.
I haven't seen anything like it in the US. But I spent some time in China, and at the local grocery store close to my apartment, there were a couple of teen-aged looking kids with a hot-air soldering station and some smt stencils who were re-working cell phones (probably failed QC) in their spare time when they weren't selling sunglasses or wristwatches and that kind of stuff.
You mean churning by creating frameworks and brands and then dropping them within a year or two?

Quick, what's their free email service called today?
It might turn out poorly, but even if you have "recourse [...] after you've been detained", you're put at a significant disadvantage for the rest of your life, just because of an arrest record.

See my post here -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8199524
you can handle the Bhut Jolokia pepper with it.
Going the speed limit or lower in the passing lane, especially in rush hour is dangerous and probably causes more accidents than just going a bit faster or moving over to the other lanes when someone gets too close.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016721/Slow-drivers...
So, the ol' bluff a college student because they don't know better.
But you have already paid for the ticket, isn't it?

The other question I'm wondering would be, how could it be possible in that case that A -> B directly would be more expensive than A -> B ->C ?
What in the world do police need parachutes for?
Counter-argument: If what you're saying is really how the law works, then why is CA attempting to pass this at all? By your logic, if they don't pass it then they can use it all they want, but if they do pass it then there are restrictions.

The entire reason for attempting to pass a law like this is because it's assumed it would be illegal for the police to do it without a law passed specifically saying they're allowed to (Like everything else). If the police in MO did this, they'd have tons of lawsuits against them.
Not entirely: it is the only way to do it coherently, but it is not so easy to explain.
Where's the D3 vis of it? :D or iPython notebook on it? ;)
Is this speed measured by GPS or vehicle?

In my experience, even though speedmeter in the instrument panel shows 10mph over, actual GPS speed is around speed limit.
The e-mail thing is the killer. Can you make recommendations for how to network with investors when someone is coming from outside Silicon Valley?

I too am in the finance space and my networks are concentrated in NY and Chicago. However, because I want to take a more product-centric approach initially, I feel like I should be talking to people in California instead. Just one problem: I don't know too many finance people in California.

Is the short answer to just fly out there and do my best to network within the span of a few months?
I've found "Conversationally Speaking" quite helpful, also: http://www.amazon.com/Conversationally-Speaking-Increase-Per... An easy read with practical tips on how to communicate with others in various situations.
Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load
That would mean a rewrite in a compiled language, like go.
NB: The conversation in the comments here explain what the full use-case vision of this platform is:

http://www.producthunt.com/posts/roomvine
Monroe, Kentucky's refrigerator was a steal for only $2,394,800.0
Zero tolerance public schools have taught us that anyone who can draw a gun is a terrorist.
In other C++ news

codeblocks: "The 06 August 2014 build (9855) is out."
RMS – Introduction to Free Software and the Liberation of Cyberspace
They can screw you around pretty easily and legally, even if you are an owner. They levy fines for noncompliance, and if you don't pay the fines and comply, they can put liens on your property -- even if you own the property outright. It's all part of the contract you enter into upon purchasing the property. Membership in the HOA is compulsory in many cases, and your purchase of the property comes with the obligation to join the HOA and be subject to its Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions (CC&Rs).

So why in the hell would you sign that sort of deal in the first place? Well, if you don't have to, you shouldn't. But in some cities, such as SF, it's extremely hard to buy a condo that doesn't come with an HOA.

HOAs are as prevalent as they are because in most cases they are highly beneficial, both legally and financially, to building or subdivision developers. So more and more developers are using them.
Ask HN: What would you do?
I found a startup on Craigslist that I've been doing freelance work for, for about a week now.

I just got paid last week but now the startup wont sign my contract listing things like hourly rate, payments, and so on... Pretty basic stuff no crazy clauses or anything.

They refuse to sign my contract but want me to sign theirs... Much much longer (10pages)

As freelancers - how have you dealt with a client who won't sign your contract but wants you to sign theirs?

Thanks
Many could argue there is great beauty in the records of games played, the statistics, and the codified events of the day's action.
Would these cars overtake others, for example if there is a car towing an other on a one lane (each way) road going significantly under the speed limit?
If you're interested in ancient maps, I've found that Geacron[1] very cool. It allows you to see a world map from any year since 3000 BC (of course with varying accuracy).

[1]: http://geacron.com/home-en/
Helion seems unreal. I am not ready up to date with fusion research, but as far as I know there was not even a demo or prototype in lab producing energy for a few seconds (or minutes), and they claim to have a product in 6 years. Can someone tell me what I've missed ?
I am the co-founder of Open Rev. (www.openrev.org), a platform where researchers can collaboratively annotate research publications and scientific books. I am a physicist and we designed our platform such that scientists can explain complex scientific contexts to each other (latex, markdown, image support).

I presume that there will be little “where is this reference from” but more “what does this word mean” (for example look at all these acronyms in biology and chemistry papers).

Third kind of annotations is simply posting links to good references. From tests in Physics classes it turns out this is what students did and liked a lot. Sometimes its just damn hard to find a good explanation or image of a physical concept.

That brings me to my last group of annotations: Explanations. That is the rephrasing of the scientific language that is sometimes written truly encrypted. We also anticipate people to improve the scientific content by suggestions new solutions, highlight flaws, post missing derivations, etc. This is likely the hardest annotation form, since it requires "academic rigour" as some of you have noted. And this is what we are shooting for.