skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out http://www.lowrisc.org

"lowRISC is producing fully open hardware systems. From the processor core to the development board, our goal is to create a completely open computing eco-system."
Yes! All locals have access to every previous plan they've built. But, because requests are usually different, reusing content isn't very common.

Custom itineraries on Fiverr are definitely in the competition, but because we pick every local before making them a Localfu and have a system to build awesome plans, we hope the experience is better through us.

TripHobo is cool. Because we're only giving recommendations right now, I could actually see our users getting local recommendations through us, and then optimizing and booking the trip with those suggestions through TripHobo.
This isn't about keeping score, but about tracking detailed statistical information about every play. Tennis scoring is quite standardized, as any player will tell you.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis#Scoring
'California Needs Uber' – Uber's Petition Against AB 2293
Kill the Dashboard in OS X
The one that worked came with a Rhino Records mini CD of Little Richard. Luckily I didn't have too many of them, and was worried every time that it would get hung up inside the drive...

Edit: Found a pic of it:
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/OTYwWDEyODA=/z/s3YAAOSwxCxT76G9/$_...
Thank you :)

It is not me who you have to convince! :) It's the general public (and fighting decades of propaganda).

Maybe a YouTube viral video or something, I don't know :)

I wouldn't go showing the plutonium dust article. Reminds me too much of Alexander Litvinenko.

And your point about reprocessing in France actually reinforces my point: it required multiple inter-governmental agreements at the highest diplomatic levels, and complying with EURATOM, very especially (as it applies to you) the 2001 Joint Convention, OSPAR (?) and I'm sure plenty more of red tape (source: IAEA publications).

Being U.S. based is obviously a benefit to you, since they're the most likely to shrug international oversight (and you say you're not reprocessing anyways).

Plus, France is the most pro-nuclear country in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Convention_on_the_Safety_...

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/1997/inf...

I saw the diagrams on your website, it does look like a very unlikely target for being blown up, but the likelihood doesn't enter the equation when irrational fears are bandied around (they might say you're lying, etc..).

I just want you to be very aware of the stigma and irrationa l fears, and the regulatory hazards, because I very much want you to succeed.

I've talked to politicians (outside the U.S.), and they tell me that pushing a nuclear agenda, while economically sound, is political suicide. Some countries have a "stealth" approach (simply by not calling attention to media and quietly "expanding" current facilities), while others, like Germany, caved in to public pressure.
As a blind person I have seen the disability system abused. Using Blindness as an example I can understand someone who has recently gone blind using Disability. It bothers me when I see people like me who were born blind and are capable of holding a job chose to get Disability instead of working. I don’t understand the logic of this since it looks like your benefits max out at about $2600 a year but a lot of this depends on how much you worked in the past. I’d like to know how much the person in this article gets a month. I realize I’m lucky that I have a well-paying Software development job but I would not want to live on SSDI income. First it would reduce my quality of life while I could survive I wouldn’t be able to have the disposable income for things such as vacations or new technology that I have now. Second having a job makes me feel like I am a productive member of society. I am sure it is different if you live in an area with chronic unemployment but I would feel like my worth was lower than the average person if I made the choice to live on disability when I was capable of working while all my friends were holding down jobs.
Unfortunately it's mass market consumer stuff.
Maybe they misspelled "bald"
What about roman concrete, I heard they also had the steam engine, but steam technology was regarded as useless because of the abundance of slaves.

Wikipedia seems to indicate that they were responsible for a number of technological advancements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_technology
Starting in the 1980s, I used to score baseball games obsessively, taking great care to produce a beautiful and informative document. Somewhere along the line, with more and more information about the game becoming available in real time, it became clear that continuing to do so was pointless. The sad part is realizing that maybe it was already pointless before that.
I can't figure out the reason why some of these companies got selected into YC. I can see why Bikanta, Helion Energy, Ginkgo Bioworks, BitAccess, and ProductHunt might get in. However, some other companies look like run of the mill startup.

I use non-YC companies on https://news.ycombinator.com/show, ProductHunt, and AngelList for comparison. In comparison the quality signal of recent YC companies (the ones not mentioned above and some others) is not that high* compared to Non YC companies. I looked at the profile of the founders, their twitter and github pages and most importantly the product; nothing stands out so much.

*I am not saying the YC companies are bad, I am just saying they seem to be of the same quality as what is out there. I would expect recent YC companies to have a higher quality signal than what is out there.
I think this is where innovation will plateau and BAU wars will start
Problem: employee can exercise the options, but must do so immediately and must pay tax on them when they are exercised. Employee can NOT sell the shares now.

Solution: Provide the employee with a loan sufficient to cover the tax burden (to reduce risk, make it no MORE than enough to cover the tax burden), which is guaranteed by a lien on the shares. Employee still owns the shares, and the company making the deal must shoulder several risks including the risk of the stock price falling, but can charge enough to make up for these risks.

With such companies there is often a large interest in purchasing shares which the market cannot satisfy (because the shares are not available publicly), so perhaps you structure the deal so that the loan gets paid off in SHARES instead of dollars. Then the lender could finance it from people with an interest in the shares.

Would this work? If not, why not?
Very interesting chart. MS matches Dow Jones almost exactly in recent years. NASDAQ did usefully better. On that evidence there's not much reason to invest directly in MS.
What is the response if the court rules that the shutdown was unwarranted after the fact?
Ah! This wasn't in the version of the bill that I googled (first result when searching 'sb962' showed me the original bill).
Bill, I enjoyed this article a great deal.

Can you explain the basics behind your process for speaking to investors after demo day? Did you just compile a list of people to speak with, or was there networking involved at YC which led to the right people?

Sorry if this sounds basic. I've read a lot of articles, but the process of talking to investors still seems hazy to me.
I have only worked on one legacy C++ code base, and it was a student job, but I've enjoyed it a lot. Most of "modern C++" can be applied to an old code base step by step, all the way up from C with classes. As long as nobody decides to introduce the project's first "const" somewhere in a core class... :)
Thanks!

This has been an issue we have struggled with for a while. What you are suggesting is basically how Leaflet typically handles scroll events. The issue, however, primarily lies with the Apple trackpad. Basically the Apple trackpad "fakes" inertial scrolling. When using the base Leaflet implementation, we would zoom straight to the target zoom level (great), but then the tail end of the intertial zoom would force it to zoom once more (bad).

For a normal map of the world that has like 20 or 30 zoom levels, accidentally missing the target zoom by a level does not matter too much. However, on our maps, with only a couple zoom levels, missing your target zoom level really hinders usability. Therefore we debounce the scroll events to keep zooming to a level at a time. So its not a matter of tile rendering blocking zoom, but rather a purposeful, if imperfect, decision.

This is by no means the right solution and we are keeping our eyes on the new Leaflet release that may help solve this. Great catch, btw.

If you are really interested, here is a thread on exactly this issue:
https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/issues/2154
Yes, "explain" is misleading and we took it out of the title.
Because prior judicial approval is the key check to preventing government abuse; if police want to shut down a protest a judge potentially telling them they went too far 6 hours later is not going to help.
Yup! Not saying you were right or wrong, just throwing ideas into the fray, and seeing what other people think of it. Aren't discussions amazing? :) Anecdotal consensus while not always accurate is often a cheaper, and quicker method of determining the accuracy of certain ideas.

I can agree with people being on the run more often due to the portability of digital devices, but still don't see why you disagree with physical books simply having a greater array of sensory input.
The video looks awesome. Sadly I do not own any Apple products. Would love a web app to play with in browser. Also syncing, backup, exporting are very important for me in a product I am to entrust with my thoughts.
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People would, on the surface, see a different beast, even though it remains 99% the same language. Not worth it.

With this argument, every release that adds a new keyword (for example) would have to be given a new name, since it will very likely break some code. Question that remains is how much must the changes be before the thing deserves a new name.
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this is really interesting, I'll surely use in future projects!
I think experience is greatly overrated. The main reason is that languages and libraries and frameworks change so quickly in software development. How much does 10 years of experience in C++ development help in JavaScript development? It's difficult to say, but someone who has 2 years of JavaScript experience can easily be at the level of someone with 10 years of C++ and 1 year of JavaScript.
Sorry for the confusion, I meant from the 3 biotechs I mentioned. There's plenty of X for Y among the others, you're right.
Meteor is going to be big
Every Known YC-Funded Company Since 2005 (Includes Today's YC S14 Demo Day)
They were too busy building real value instead of chasing ad revenue for a long time--I'm okay with that.
Returned devices often do not work--that's why they're being exchanged.

Also, just on the carrier's corporate retail side (small in comparison), we're talking about over 2,500 locations, over 25,000 reps, and over 500,000 new monthly adds and upgrades. Serialization is very expensive and does not eliminate the tricky human.

Also, even a disabled device is still worth parts.
Bla, bla, bal... How about showing us some great products instead?
That may be true, but it should still be mentioned in the article in the interests of a fully informed electorate.
> Perhaps a smarter idea for Ecuador is to take all of the USD they're circulating and convert it into an existing and proven cryptocurrency

Not sure how that would be smarter. They can spend these USDs (obtained via exchange into their EcuNewVirtualFiat) to pay back their USD debt, or to buy BTC or Dogecoin. Now, which one is immediately smarter?

"No fiat lives forever", true, but most well-managed fiat lives long enough for the former to be a feasible and indeed smart move.
I think that both WhatsApp and Facebook are significantly overvalued, but some very smart people not only disagree with me, but also put their money where their mouth is.
Yes, that was a bit of a throwaway line wasn't it?

However, the State legal authorities have seen fit to halt all demolitions while they investigate, and the qualifications of the building inspectors are being checked, and a close relative of a post holder is building housing for rent.

A barrel of knaves?
How is the lobbying world any different then campaign? They seem exactly the same too me.
>> Backpack is a company that arbitrages the cost of goods in different countries by using international travelers as a distribution network

I don't understand this one - with a world focused on security and import taxes, how does this work out?
"This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. "
isnt theorem and greentoe very similar?
I've had several cases where a drawing I want to edit is only available as PDF. There are various ways to convert between the formats (e.g. inkscape) but so far I haven't found one that always works.
I know. My point was that that regulation protected us in absence of having a kill switch on phones.
> Unfortunately, Mailbox FAQ question 'Does Mailbox store my emails on its servers?' => 'Yes, but...' is a deal-breaker for me (sadly).

As it is for me. When I think about the sheer quantity of services that I subscribe to that could be hijacked via a password reset email that falls into the wrong hands, I shudder at the thought of having copies of my mail stored somewhere else.

Hell, every few weeks I consider hosting my own email instead of relying on Gmail. Not that I believe I could do a better job security-wise, but the idea of minimizing the number of 3rd parties that have access to what amounts to my entire digital life (and the ability to destroy it at will) is very appealing.
It is sad to see groups of people who strongly support the Bill of Rights fall for menial tricks for the purpose of splitting them in to marketable groups of voters/donors.

All individual rights can be rationalized away in an unlimited number of scenarios, emergency and otherwise. Anyone who believes in those rights absolutely should logically appear insane at least sometimes.
I don't think it is easy, but I do thank that they have very nearly solved that difficult problem.
Sigh I saw this over a year ago and still no release???
Are there past, current, or future projects for launching networks w/in low earth orbit? I think it'd be effective to create an LEO, raspberry pi network for instances such as these.
Remember when Libya turned off phones and the internet to stop unrest? People thought it was ridiculous and would never happen here. We're on that trajectory.
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The website is completely non-responsive. The first time it gave me what looked like a .NET error, but after that it won't even respond.
But wait. If the article is correct and the city's population dropped by half, I would expect there to be hundreds if not thousands of legitimately vacated and abandoned properties. Why would the city go after a slumlord's properties instead, even if he is an absentee landlord known for ill-maintained rental houses?

(And it also seems that a city which has dropped so significantly in population would be a poor location for a true slumlord to prey, since I would expect it to be a buyer's market.)

I am not sure it's as open-and-shut as you portray it.
Honest question: Is $120k really that big of a risk when you're already giving away money for free to non-profits?
There's no existing American right to instant mass communications. And its arguable that we should be wary of this - it can cause riots, flash mobs and result in violence. This is the nature of human beings, and we should consider it carefully when expanding human rights.
The winner got 6.7% in top-5 classification error. 2013 was 11%, 2012 was 15%. This may be better than exponential, since there is an upper limit of 0% error, and every additional percentage point is harder than the last.

Exponential improvement in this area, and it's a pretty significant field that will affect everyone. The results will likely help improve neural networks in other areas as well, as NNs are extremely general purpose.

Here is an example from a system from 2012 in the same competition to give an example of what this is: http://mappingignorance.org/fx/media/2013/04/Deep-learning-5... A bunch of images were scraped from Flickr and then given a single label by a human. The computer gets 5 guesses to guess what label the human used. As you can see, even when the computer fails, it's guesses are usually semantically very good. This specific system got an error rate of 17%.

You can explore the images of ImageNet here: http://image-net.org/explore.

Here are some image recognition systems online you can play with:

* Toronto Deep Learning Demo: http://deeplearning.cs.toronto.edu/
* clarifai: http://www.clarifai.com/
* AlchemyVision: http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemyvision/

Note these aren't related to the winner of this competition and probably are no where near as good. Just examples of this kind of system you can play with.
The other side of the interview process: talk for junior developers
I have not looked in over a year, but the Steam licenses used to be very careful about avoiding the word, "buy", altogether and instead used the word, "rent".
Doesn't the kill switch permanently disable the phone?

Edit - Nope. I just reread the bill. Sorry for any misinformation:

"prevent reactivation of the smartphone on a wireless network except by an authorized user"
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It's a practice, but as an English speaker I have the privilege of making my own corpus up as I go along. When I say I find I prefer 'most wicked' to 'wickedest', I'm expressing the subjective opinion that I think I would fall in the 22 part of that corpus, not the 20 - if anything I wrote about relative wickedness were to make it into the COCA corpus that number would go up to 23.

But that would be true even if I were in the minority. The corpus is just going to reflect usage, and my usage is as valid as any other, so... while it provides some sort of peer validation, it doesn't answer the question of whether one form or another is 'more correct', only whether one is 'more common'. Or commoner, maybe. No, I'm going to stick with more common.
You can't possibly believe those are reasonable points.
All of the lectures are there, you just need to join the course to see them.
This sounds a lot like a pro athlete that realizes its time to really retire and stop chasing his dreams from 10 years ago when he was able to play a really high level.
I'll second that, Mr. Brownworth's podcast is excellent, highly recommended.
Since the main problem seems to be oxidation, I'm surprised nobody recommends putting them in a sealed cabinet and flushing with compressed nitrogen. Seems easy and cheap.
There are so many decisions to make, and they depend upon knowing where you're going. The 'soundness' of the system is a cool property, but it doesn't help make your code nimbler unless the right flexibility is in place. What other purpose is there to architecture?
Thanks for the thread. I figured mapping continuous input to discrete levels was more difficult than I was making it seem (especially with the fragmented way the web presents these devices).
Ok - and how will you stop the universe from eventually dying, and carrying your ageless body away with it?
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Plouffe ran an exceptional 'outsider' campaign, where a lot of the party apparatchiks were already pledged to Clinton, and the Obama campaign built their own outside infrastructure to compete.

Lobbying is about 'insiders'. You can nudge them with popular pressure, of course, but it's not like an election where the party insider only has 1 vote they completely control at the end of the day.
The obvious error in the first example is that they are sending credit card numbers over http, rather than using https.
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I don't think I understand what you're proposing.

Before, I thought "handset exchange" would be something where you bring in an old phone to get credit towards buying a new one. Like trading in a car. And like trading in a car, they'll want to make sure the old phone is actually worth something before they buy it from you.

Now... you're proposing a warranty exchange? Surely they check to make sure the device is actually eligible for the warranty (i.e. that you bought it, and within a certain timeframe) before they accept it?

Or is it something else entirely?

The fact that it would be worth the value of the parts is a good one, but not related to the question of whether Airplane Mode makes for a loophole.
Many airports only do spot checks on bags and they're specifically looking for their own citizens smuggling locally-expensive luxuries in by the suitcase.

This will be a short-lived company because if you have a significant volume of stuff you don't declare you will either be taxed on the spot or arrested. If you have a discrete amount of stuff then you'd need eg, 5 or 6 people to fulfill an order for 10 iphones, and if 1 of them eats a $1000 customs bill the entire order approaches worthless.
> with a world focused on security and import taxes, how does this work out?

Pretty much like Airbnb -- do it till someone notices and hope that you're big enough by then to fight back.
The Ballmer impersonator free runner a few years back at the company meeting was good.
Life insurance does nothing to protect us against injury or death, health insurance does. Look how much we spend on health insurance.
I'm listening to an audiobook of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, so this'll be a great companion.
Because it's a very easy way to find local players who have passed by the router in the past 12 hours, and automatically exchange friend codes.
There's a standard for scoring, but not keeping score. There's no standardized notation for recording a game of tennis.
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If you like, think of this as first turning a number into the unique monic polynomial with negated prime roots whose value at 0 is that number, then taking the derivative of that polynomial at 0.

...Not that there's any particular reason you should like this.
There was a similar project a couple of years ago, where someone got iOS apps running on a BlackBerry Playbook: http://crackberry.com/developer-gets-ios-apps-running-blackb...

At the time, I said that RIMM/BlackBerry should do whatever they could to acquire this technology, enhance it, and bundle it with BB10. Combined with BB10's already-demonstrated capability to run Android apps, it could have meant "the best of all possible worlds" for BB owners...the ability to run apps from the two most popular competing platforms, on a platform that's much more secure and higher-performing.
Here's a VC post about forward-looking companies, note that these are usually large and deep pocketed enough to invest in internal development. Less well-off companies sometimes resort to hiring new people.

http://www.tomtunguz.com/continuing-education-picasso/
No problem. It wouldn't be fun if it were easy!
Bill and Steve were together on the board for a long time, but I think the pair is the exception rather than the norm.
Oh! I could apply this to my own novel by prepending or appending a map charting my characters' travels to each chapter.