skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to hear about peoples experiences working with Titan (or other graph dbs, for that matter) - I've been following the project with interest for some time now.

If you don't want to comment on HN I'd really appreciate an email to craig dot glennie gmail
"...capitalist dream of privatizing profits while socializing losses" - what a nonsense! Socialising losses has absolutely nothing to do with capitalism as an economic system. Take your stinky socialist agenda elsewhere.
Perhaps this could be said of all fields, but there is just limited time in a class to absorb

Which brings us to that what can you expect to actually learn in a class anyway?

I'd say that for any non-trivial curriculum (which ought to include most of a university...) you need to read about the subject yourself and do your own learning. And once you do that where do you need the classroom? For asking questions, maybe? But a classroom probably isn't the most effective way to ask questions.
Not a bug: Google distinguishes between megabytes and mebibytes, and between kilobytes and kibibytes. See the difference between that and "1 MiB in KiB" [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=1+MiB+in+KiB&cad=&oq=&gs_l=
That is an old version of Titan. Please see 0.4.1+ and Titan's caching model: http://thinkaurelius.com/2013/11/24/boutique-graph-data-with...
200 years ago, someone said the exact same thing about london vs. New York. Give it time.
Yes, but Jefferson's nephew in South America, let's say, post-Civil war hardly can be called well known or powerful. It is no given that every Roman noble had nothing to fear from pirates. Caesar's contemporary Claudius fared much worse when he fell into pirates' hand, even though he actually came from a great patrician clan and was related to a man no less than the prominent Sullan general Lucullus. This episode, if true, delineated a subtle, bold, and decisive nobleman who did not shirk from the responsibility of his rank. It is no accident he was called the last patrician.
I think this is the interview you're referring to.

There's a transcript below the download link.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/gavin_andresen.html
To constrain your infrastructure according to the needs of a computer is also silly. Imagine if, in order to hum a tune, one needed to write sheet music using a programming language. Or if every spoken conversation were halted the instant a word is used incorrectly.

Mathematics (and a lecture on mathematics) is closer in nature to a conversation than a road.

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HILARIOUS ELEPHANT DANCE
On the downside, some deep pocketed businesses subsidize everyone else's content consumption in exchange for some of their attention.

That's not the most important downside by far.

The downside is that the fabric of the web and the content on it is distorted by the drive to gain views and clicks, at whatever cost, because of a purely advert drive model. Adverts migrate to the positions with the most exposure, editorial content gets thinner and thinner until it represents the minimum effort required to gain views, titles become clickbait, journalism becomes churnalism, advertorial becomes prominent, product placement becomes the norm.

There are very real downsides to the ad supported model, so if you are going to argue for a transaction free web, recognise what you are giving away - it certainly isn't just a little bit of your attention now and then.

Perhaps there are ways to address those pernicious downsides to the advert-driven model and moderate its effects, but those effects are currently distorting a lot of the content on the web to make it less informative, less engaging, and less interesting than the ads it lives to serve.
> San Francisco is a city where you need a car, but can't afford it.

Maybe for some people, or for some definition of "need." I've been in SF over three years with no car, although I rent a car for a day maybe once every couple of months.
What's the advantage of this over hiding your service behind spiped?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Google themselves be one of those vendors as well? Android has cursor support, and there are a few ChromeOS laptops that ship with touchscreens as well. Although, not owning any of them, I'll readily admit that I'm not sure if/how the browser distinguishes between those events - the OS might be abstracting all of that away too.
Last night's atmosphere stood in stark contrast to the evening prior. I think it's due almost entirely to how the state troopers interacted with the crowds. They were in their normal, non-body armor uniforms. They walked among the crowd, exchanged laughs, and generally set the mood at ease. By respecting the protesters, the tensions were lessened - the situation, deescalated. At the same time, the riot ready police were a mile away, ready to take action if required.

Compare that to police in full armor, with tactical weapons trained at the crowd, perched atop armored vehicles... It's no surprise to me that things got so far out of hand on Wednesday, but were completely different on Thursday.
"Image does not mean anything when you are entering a business that is already super competitive, and is amongst the most highly regulated industries."

I'd say it matters a great deal. Theranos has assembled a board with very strong ties to the government and, presumably, with an eye toward overcoming -- prophylactically or reactively -- any regulatory challenges that may arise. So, with the regulatory "defensive line" in place, so to speak, Theranos is free to focus on image, consumer marketing, and a steadily growing media blitz.

I would presume that its strategies right now include business development and channel alliances. As such, growing its mindshare and establishing itself as a breakthrough company -- and courting emotional comparisons to Apple -- will help with those goals. They will help by establishing awareness among partners, and indirectly, they'll help by fueling consumer demand. That's a time-tested channel marketing strategy. Companies as diverse as Apple, Nike, and Procter & Gamble are very good at running that playbook. Theranos is in a very differently industry, with a very different rulebook, and very different competitors. And it remains to be seen to what degree these efforts will matter. But they're not wasted efforts.
Proud I got your first HN comment! Wouldn't it solve a problem for you?
Try teamgum.com
Yep, the author of the article is apparently pushing some socialist agenda. Socializing losses is in no way part of Capitalism and actually could not happen without state setting distorted incentives.
I dont have anything in mind but yes, something related to mobile, apps and machines (robots)
> >as a way to avoid thought.

> no. It is a way to avoid liability

Its both, and largely the liability involved is the responsibility to apply thought.
> You're joking, right?

Not in the slightest.

> Y Combinator has not discovered a recipe for startup success.

Nor has Harvard university. I think you're looking at the wrong output. YC (and other successful incubators) are about the alumni network, not the success of the startup. Just as universities are about the alumni network.
Opp.io – Focus on actions in your messages
Just serialize the continuation to the database and everyone can fork() the state language analyzer with their own queries.
New York is a place that forces you to accept that human life is mindlessly, ludicrously, and inexcusably unfair. It's not there in the abstract ("lifestyle" shows about rich losers, poverty on other continents) but quite visible, every day. It's in front of you, and it's not easy to accept, but after a while you learn from it and tune out the idiocy, while keeping the insights that make you a better person.

In the suburbs (and the mentality that is now dominant in San Francisco is suburban, because the locals have been priced out by fratty douchebags and basic bitches) people have enough distance from what's going on that they don't have to acknowledge the facts of social injustice. They can persist in the delusional belief that "the rich" are more successful versions of themselves, and not preselected winners who've had social connections and resources delivered to them since before birth.

I don't loathe "California", insofar as many people I like live there and it's a big state with some beautiful national parks. I'm just disgusted by what it has become, and especially by the utter defeat of the technology/engineer culture in Silicon Valley at the hands of MBA C-students and people flushed out of McKinsey.
I was not that big fan of circles, made sharing with the wrong people easy.

I like that my personal life (facebook) and professional (linkedin) is two different networks. Its hard to accidentally share the the bad joke with my professional network.
A noob question I suppose, but couldn't the salt be generated deterministically from the email and still serve it's purpose?
Al Gore Sues Al Jazeera Over $500M Current TV Deal
Thank you very much for writing this, I will pay for the book when it comes out (assuming you provide a way to do so) even if you give it all away for free...

This kind of step-by-step start to finish guide is exactly the kind of resource I find the most useful when I want to learn new things..
I was wondering why he changed his name:

http://www.skypaint.com/baby/andresen.html
Pointer events aren't too big of a deal, they are simple polyfills for them. Collaboration between the vendors today has never been better.

Just look at IE, it went from being a last place browser to being a second class browser (first class being Firefox and Chrome). IE 10 pioneered CSS grids, the basis for a mature CSS flexbox spec (thank you MS!!!!), CSS regions (although it is only iFrames =/), setImmediate, pointer events. The competition and collaborations between the browsers (and Adobe) today has set an era for stability and phenomenal progress.

Just thinking about the next IE version gets me tingling: partial ES6, Media capture, HTTP2, Web Audio API, etc. I could have never imagined that the IE team would become so sharp! Now if they can implement some CSS stuff as well (masking, shapes, composting, blending and filters PRETTY PLEASE) and make the browser more deferential to the content (shrink title bars and remove the border around the window por favor), then I will fall in love as I have with Safari.
I use Cocos3D for iOS and Android 3D apps and games. It's also free. :)

Best bet is to load up the project "Cocos3D Mashup". Then you can adjust things, try loading new models and taking programmatic control of the scene.
Seriously, it means the world to hear this. Thank you!
Plenty of people designing complicated things do crude whiteboard sketches to help them discuss or reason at a high level.

How much you want to bet there are whiteboards at NASA with cartoon squiggles of "Earth" --> "Mars" on them?
I miss Current TV, especially the Vanguard docs. However, Vice makes up for the loss.
I'm amazed that the article doesn't mention Lojban at all.
Build a Node API Client
(Not legal advice.)

Someone giving you a bad reference, or refusing to give a reference, because you won a legal case against them is generally the kind of thing that could get another legal case started.
Interesting concept. It's basically a PPP report, I was used to do it with my investors. PPP stands for Progress/Problems/Plan. Would like to try it with my team to see if it's effective.
Slightly off topic, it would be interesting to see how the rents compare to Hong Kong, Tokyo, London etc...
I suppose if you have too many lawyers and not enough jobs for them, some will run around filing frivolous lawsuits that the counterparty will have to hire more lawyers to defend against.

If you have too many doctors and not enough hurt people for them to heal, what are they going to do? Run around hurting people so that they can then heal them?
Crayola chalk is horrid. I gladly pay premium for well-made chalk (and I suspect most mathematicians prefer high quality chalk), which makes white board markers significantly cheaper.
Unfortunately around '99 "the powers that be" (NIST and IEC, if memory serves) decided to stop the confusion between SI units and (the usual) power-of-two usage.

Now it's Xebibytes for power-of-two and regular SI units for the rest.

It irks me no end, I'm a power-of-two person. But that's the way it is. (Also floppy disks had it wrong too 1024 * 1000 ... sigh)

You might as well argue the usage of Crackers vs Hackers.
> It was Snowden himself who said is was office gossip.

I just checked and read back that part of the article and that's not at all how it is portrayed.

He says he was "told" about it by an intelligence officer. With an amount of detail that makes it hard to discount as just "rumour" (for Snowden, if the story was false, these details wouldn't have checked out, also someone had to have been deliberately spreading misinformation damaging to this TAO crew).

Also, in the context of the entire article, Snowden recounts this story as one of a number of reasons why he took the steps he decided to take to become a whistleblower. That's not something done over just office rumours.

Therefore, apart from the assumption that Snowden is deliberately passing off disinformation as truth himself, there's really no reason not to accept this story as fact, or what Snowden believes to be factual.
I think an unambiguous human-speakable language would be a great candidate to teach to a computer.
AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf]
Excellent point. I tend to think in relative terms myself, where "garbage" as adjective can be new-and-improved "garbage." I work in healthcare-billing-electronic-records, so if I make a form that makes it easier or more pleasant for a doctor (someone who actually does useful stuff) to collect money from insurance or treat a patient, then it's still a net positive. Not everyone can improve the world through social or political change. Some people have to treat wounds and tend to daily care, literally or figuratively.

Finally, by removing unnecessary barriers, maybe they get more done or do it more accurately.

Edit: Maybe, we can help to make this seemingly inevitable dystopian future a little less bad?
> Socialising losses has absolutely nothing to do with capitalism as an economic system.

That (and how) it socializes harms while privating profits, and thereby serves to advance the interests of the capitalist class at the cost of others, is the feature for which the system was given the name "capitalism".
Tell HN: Pick your co-founders wisely
Don't underestimate the importance of picking your co-founders. This is the single most important decision you will make for your startup. Don't assume that just because your co-founder is your friend that he won't turn around and try to sue you later for code you sacrificed your time, health, and happiness for. If one of your co-founders is non-technical, make sure he/she has some semblance of understanding of what's possible/feasible to build with limited resources and data. Don't build in a bubble. Be collaborative with your team about the direction of your product. It's not always important that you make the right decisions, only that you ship something, test your assumptions, and pivot when needed. Don't for one second think that the "business" founder's input about the product is automatically more valid than your own. Arguing/discussion is healthy but make sure by the end of the day a decision is made the entire team is comfortable executing upon. Finally, if things are running fairly smoothly, make sure all legal documents are in order and everyone's interests are protected so aforementioned business founders don't sue you. </rant>
Will let you know as soon as we spread public access!
Looks like https://idonethis.com/

... but competition is good.
Nah, that's a new one.

Here's the one from 2011:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.htm...
> imprecise click.

"Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear war"

When you're dealing with high-yield nuclear warheads, anywhere within a few hundred miles of your desired target is probably going to be plenty good enough.
Is this a good example of advetorial?
You could make a start page. Users can add calendar info, schedules, pictures of family/friends, and anything else that they want to see when they open up their browsers.

Of course this would also be useful for yourself if it's more of a personal project.
Wow, I had no idea Kilobytes was redefined to 1024 bytes until I saw your response.

> The kibibyte was designed to replace the kilobyte in some computer science contexts, where kilobyte used to mean 1024 bytes [1]

I was aware of "kB vs kb" but Google doesn't differentiate between kb, kB and now as I have learnt, KiB.

Still, it's news to me, I missed the news of kilobyte being redefined to 1000.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
By 2025, Sexbots Will Be Commonplace
I think you've confused The Atlantic with medium dot com.
That's very interesting. So what do you think solar roadways did better? Or is their concept just more reportable by media because it's more understandable.

What role did you play? Do you think a marketing team is necessary for a successful campaign?

By the way, email me if you want to chat sometime. I've been kicking around an idea for a better kickstarter.
Wired always likes to portray everything likes it is the "next big thing."
Why don't you call it what it is? bash / sh checker rather than shellcheck. Or do you plan to add other shells?

Ksh, csh, rc, tsh - not everyone uses bash.
Please vote this advertisement down. This should get wired autobanned in my opinion.
Marketers had already for many years been leveraging the ambiguity to sell things in powers-of-1000 scale (SI uses of prefixes) knowing that much of the market would read them in the powers-of-1024 uses of the prefixes. While standardizing the marketing use as wrong might have been better in some senses, consistency with SI and providing a standard and unambiguous (if new and less familiar) set of prefixes for the useful powers-of-1024 scale was better the status quo at the time.
All valid points that seems to be resonate among Technical/business co-founder alike.
Who says it's about theft?

Do you not remember what happened with Codespaces?

How many times are there posts to HN: "AWS is down in <FOO>" with dozens of comments "yep, XYZ doesn't work right now"

How many service based companies have been bought out by a bigger fish only for the service to be shut down or changed in some dramatic way?

For the majority of businesses I very much doubt that theft is the primary concern with using SaaS. Control, visibility, access to your own data regardless of the app/system author's current situation, etc.

Even if theft is your primary concern - and I will grant you that for most small companies where it's targeted theft, the finger more likely points to an insider - using SaaS, especially if it's one builds on a third party provider's stack, means you are increasing the potential for breaches, and you don't even know what that increased potential is, and potentially you may not even know if a breach occurred.

Imagine a company that runs a service on Heroku (who in turn have built on AWS). So by using this service, you suddenly have great potential for individuals at three other corporations to heavily influence your ability to do business and remain profitable, either through data loss, downtime, or the aforementioned security breach.

I haven't even mentioned the issue of data privacy here - it seems quite common for modern SaaS startups to rely on VC funding to offset the costs of providing their service, with the vague notion of "if you build it, they will come... and then we can somehow turn them/the information we hold on them into a profit"
> Right now, much of the rent money in the Bay Area is coming from investors, not cash flow.

Do you know what the ratio is? Was in 2000? Is in NYC or elsewhere?

How to calculate? Investment divided by revenue of startups, or divided by city or metro gross product? Investment in current period, or cumulative with some decay factor?

Is there an index that gets at this that I don't know about?
NIMBY's will never let SF become Manhattan (I.e. dense commercial surrounded by dense residential surrounded by dense suburbs connected by extensive subway and rail). You'll just pay Manhattan prices for sprawling hell because nobody will let anything get built. SF's future looks more like D.C. not Manhattan.
Please let me know the URL as well.
From the article you posted:

> At first, the crowd was quiet, even peaceful, he said. But as night dropped, more began showing up. And cops came, too, with riot gear and assault rifles.
Reading over the product's ingredients list [1], it sounds as if this guy has made soap. Good, old fashioned soap, being the saponified byproduct of oils and an alkali.

Don't get me wrong; I'm a big believer in natural soap over chemical detergents. Detergents don't generally distinguish between the oils in your hair and the lipids in your skin's cellular membranes, which causes a lot of irritation in many people, and is probably disruptive to your scalp's natural oil production and conditioning process.

Be that as it may, I don't see anything in this list of ingredients that is some sort of groundbreaking revolution. This isn't "a world without shampoo." This is a world without SLS/SLES/SCS and its various derivatives and equivalents. Good, yes. Gamechanging, not really.

For whatever it's worth, I highly recommend soap for hair. Not your run of the mill bar soap, which is probably not soap at all, but a compressed brick of detergents. I mean natural soap. Buying this company's stuff is one way to go. Buying the same product, at a presumably cheaper price, is another. Making your own is also kind of fun, for the home cook who fancies a little lighthearted, "Breaking Bad" style cooking action. I've done it a few times, thankfully without burning myself. :)

[1] http://static.squarespace.com/static/519d2fb5e4b0f5d1146b14e...
Aside from the fact that this reads like an advertisement, I completely agree with the premise. I haven't used shampoo in about two and a half years. I do "wash" my hair with just water once or twice a week and will occasionally use a "shampoo bar" (basically what this article is selling, but in bar form and much cheaper) when my hair is getting really greasy or there's someone I'm trying to impress and I need the "squeaky clean" look.

I used to have massive problems with dandruff and hair that was so greasy that I needed to wash it every morning, but that's not nearly as much of a problem anymore. Right now, it's been about a week since I've done anything to my hair (well I've combed) and it doesn't feel hardly at all greasy. I mean, it doesn't look like I washed and conditioned it this morning, it just looks like normal hair.
Does it work better than bash -n?
The most intriguing line: While he won’t reveal specific plans for the near future, he says that the next step for his products will be designed with the goal of eliminating waste entirely.

It'll probably lead to another ad/article in the future.

I was hoping for something that brought hair-cleansing out of the shower - like a spray you can use once or twice a day. Functionally, this is no different than shampoo, it just has natural ingredients.
Their about page[0] says "ShellCheck is a static analysis and linting tool for sh/bash scripts."

[0]http://www.shellcheck.net/about.html
I just started a nopoo experiment beginning this month. Just use a boar bristle brush and water only to wash hair. Google 'nopoo' or reddit /r/nopoo.
VisualRust: A basic Visual Studio extension for Rust
Interesting, there's another Silicon Graphics alum. Other Silicon Graphics people include: Jim Clark and Ben Horowitz.