skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it may have been a good thing for Google's tech to go to Yahoo and drive up some competition, but avoid Google becoming so enormous. Eventually Yahoo would have messed it up, so it would not be the threat it is today. OTOH, Google's still going full speed, and competition seems ... underwhelming. So Y! buying it could just mean we'd have search engine technology set back years.

OTOH Facebook being so dominant has no positive effects that I'm aware of. Hurting Facebook creates a win for everyone across the board. As upsetting as it is, they really do seem to be passed the size where they can quickly fall apart (like MySpace).

On a slightly related note, I'm also bewildered how MS could have considered dozens of billions for Yahoo, but let Sun get bought by Oracle for so little.
Right arrow key. For those without arrow keys, I have no idea. I assume swipe left.
Put this way, the solution now seems obvious: all these police problems that are happening in poor, black areas can be solved just by distributing more guns in inner cities!
transmute is marked as unsafe, so it can only be used in unsafe blocks or functions.
It's interesting that the article ends with buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. We definitely need new ways of transmitting value, and I wonder if these advertising models will lead to exactly the desired result. Algorithms are becoming more accurate at modeling the value of things, and by understanding user preferences, we can understand what has value to a user and allocate micro payments appropriately. Stellar-style peer-to-peer credit systems are exactly what we need to pay for this value. If we could calculate what is giving us value, how much to pay for it, and do so without significant transaction fees, we would have the result of multiple business models reaching a common conclusion.
Android marketshare now at 85% (worldwide)
There are some designs for decentralization of the DNS. The decentralized nature of e-mail on the higher level still is valuable.

> the advantage that email has isn't that its addressing system is uncentralized: it's that its addressing system is more libre than proprietary systems.

I think that the biggest advantages of e-mail are its decentralization + federation based on open protocols. These make e-mail extremely useful despite all of its shortcomings. Consider for example IM services. They multiply like mushrooms these days, yet most of them completely lack federation and therefore are crippled if you look at them globally. You can't communicate with users of other services at all (unless you register there as well which defeats the purpose of decentralization). XMPP attempted to solve it, but unlike e-mail most participants on the IM scene were too selfish to fix the situation, including Google who deserted.

> How is this different from email? Most people don't have email addresses at a domain assigned to their normal computer; the vast majority of email is accessed over some internet protocol from a remote server, whether its IMAP, POP3, or HTTP. I've never used Diaspora, so maybe I just don't understand what functionality its missing.

I think his main point is, that in e-mail you can have real push mechanisms in theory. I.e. you send a message and the other participant receives it through the e-mail service. In social networks (even decentralized ones), the delivery of such notifications is delegated to... e-mail. Which shows their intrinsic deficiency. They aren't implementing the full scope of the communication process. I.e. if you envision a better social network, it should be decentralized but also take care of the delivery of the interactions in one coherent experience in order not to rely on other external tools for that.

E-mail isn't fully decentralized most of the time, but it still can be (you can run your own e-mail server). You can run your own Diaspora pod the same way, but like above, it would still delegate notifications to another service.
I wasn't able to find the source code for some of IntelliJ's dynamic language support, like Python and Ruby. If it is indeed open source, I would love to check it out.

IntelliJ is awesome. We're just trying to make something that isn't coupled to a specific editor and is super non-monolithic. Our goal is for you to be able to run a single command ("src") in a directory, or have your editor plugin (or other kind of tool) invoke something like "src api describe --file FILE --start-byte N", to tap into a fully analyzed database of the source code in a package.
I'm not so sure I completely agree with #9. The service itself is quite solid, and I do enjoy that part of it. However...

My reader was totally unreliable, taking many swipes to read a card, and then up and died on me. Never dropped it, never got it wet, nothing. All it took to kill it was letting it sit in its box on my for a couple months.
Doesn't the facility to redirect email from certain addresses straight to a spam box or to higher priority accounts make regular email filters more-or-less functionally equivalent?

I don't think I give my business card out to enough spammers for the need to manually opt-in everyone that wants to email me to be a less laborious task than blocking/ignoring the occasional promotional mailing.
If you want better range and are willing to pay a bit more, check out somthing like http://www.merlin-systems.com/falconry/receivers.html

They also offer a variety of transmitters of different sizes and types, some of which are pretty small for small birds- in case you have a small dog or cat and want a smaller transmitter.
Fair reasons :) I'm tied up for the next couple weeks, but I'll keep that in mind for September!
Virtualsity: Inventing the instruments of the future
The case against pay for performance
I think OP was referring to a recent demo that uses only video. No special equipment required.
Scroll down, and see if you can find these buttons:
http://i.imgur.com/7k0u2FH.png
It sound pretty Utopian to me. The problem with giving full control of the means needed for your own existence to some external entity (even a "Benevolent Tyrant"), is that when that entity begins making unreasonable demands you will be compelled to say "yes" under duress.
: doesn't work because that's for type ascription (i.e. specifying what the type of something is).

The angle brackets were chosen because they match the way nearly all C-family languages except D notate generics: C++, Java, C#, Swift, Dart, TypeScript, ActionScript, …

The underscore improves readability here, IMO. We use underscores where they improve readability, similarly to PEP 8.
If you're interested in writing games in Javascript, you might like to take a look at PlayCanvas [playcanvas.com] which has Unity/UE4-like tools for building WebGL/Javascript games.
Not without associated constants, which Rust does not yet support (and likely will not until after 1.0).
Not only that, but HN parses the full link incorrectly (the last } isn't included in the link) such that the only way for the link to have worked is to use some indirection.

Like you know, a url shortener.
You could, in theory. Most video streams often have an I-frame every few seconds which is perfect for ffwd and rwd.
Colorado has a diversifying economy that was driven in the '90s by tech/telecommunications and today by the energy boom. It also has a lot of federal jobs. The cost of living isn't great compared to its neighbors, but the outdoors lifestyle is certainly a draw too. (Source: My family was among the 1 million people who moved to Colorado in the 1990s)
don't forget how easy it is to launder money through internet advertising.
Planetary? Try Intrasolar. Don't forget the goal of diversifying the human race beyond Earth. Fission power is currently infeasible due to the shielding problem.
No, I would not say his political views shine through his books. But he is pretty vocal about them in his Russian-language blog: http://dr-piliulkin.livejournal.com/

I cannot really figure out what would be the name of the book you mentioned, in Russian or English, but most likely no - I have not read it.
I would also add that YC investment boosts nuclear stuff as a legitimate thing. Could lead to copycat investment (which we dearly need in the nuclear field).
A computer simulation could have demonstrated the effectiveness of the underlying algorithm just as well.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
> Users will pay for services that they love. Reddit, the lively recommendation and discussion community, sells Reddit Gold subscriptions that give users special privileges and the ability to turn off ads.

Users do pay for those services, but not very much and not very often. There are simply too many obstacles in the way, both technological and psychological. To make it practical will require both social change and a much easier way to make small transactions. Not because it's difficult in any absolute sense, but because even the slightest practical barrier is enough to make people reconsider.

The most successful payment models now seem to be app stores and in-app purchases, which are certainly marked by convenience. You just give your credit card details once and then you can buy things with no hassle. A model like this for web content is the minimum for moving off of advertising!

More generally, though, this change is not something we can achieve unilaterally. We'd have to convince everyone else to go along with it, to choose paid services over free. Not an easy proposition at the best of times and, given the nature of the internet, not something we can force. (Fundamentally, this is actually a good thing because it means the internet can't easily be controlled, which is also why the emergence of gigantic, largely self-contained web properties like Facebook is decidedly troubling.)
I've designed an API for this and started working on it since I got a Yubikey Neo in the past few weeks, if you or anyone is interested. I'm focusing on UX specifically.

My design has a REST endpoint that runs locally, and a JS client/SDK then connects to it on a known endpoint. My "MVP" version is to have the user running an interface with the request queue in a separate tab, and the server always at a fixed localhost:port endpoint. The client page would then issue a REST request that hangs until the user responds to the request in the separate tab.

This would conceivably work as a browser plugin as well since I'm planning to write it in JS for Node--basically the server logic would instead live in the plugin and the SDK would check for presence of the plugin before making a REST call. IMO the advantage of making it a REST endpoint though, is protecting private keys from whatever else might be going on in the browser process(es)--based on my own worst-case on assumptions, unsure if it's actually an issue with the plugin architectures.

I'm an aspiring interaction/UX designer so that is the aspect I am focusing on, and my motivation is that I am personally starting to use GPG with a Yubikey + offline master. So yea, collaborators hit me up, especially if you're in SF.
With respect to numbers, the pricing matrix Amazon mentions with their new CC processing system objectively beats Square's fees, which makes this statement in particular very odd.

http://localregister.amazon.com/?ld=van_localregister
An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012)
It isn't that creative, but live poker can be played without moving your hands. I know a gentleman who plays every day without working fingers (although I've never bothered to ask why).
If Square has to publish a blog post to clarify what they do/who their customers are, it means their marketing needs to step up its game.
I've just thought of a crazy idea: what if there was a subscription service, like Netflix for websites, where you'd pay a fixed monthly amount and get unlimited access to premium websites / webapps, with guaranteed privacy and no advertising? The said service would then pay royalties to the participating websites, depending on the usage.
Has WebGL solved the local storage limitation yet? I've been waiting for a few years for that. There's still no way to "install" a game into a browser, as far as I know, and redownloading 1GB+ of assets every time the game loads isn't an option.
Quanta magazine (which I had not previously heard of) did fairly good profiles on each of the winners, which include both biographical and mathematical aspects (to the extent possible for an intellectual but non-specialist audience). Here's the one for Mirzakhani: http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-...

Was on the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8172574
I find this funny because in "As Good as It Gets", Jack Nicholson is barred from a restaurant due to not having a jacket.

Here is part of the scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFGb_l04Dso
I think there's a biological sense in which it's reasonable to call it a "reproductive failure", but that sense does not contain any normative content and is inapplicable in a policy context so I don't think it makes sense here.
History of Black and Unarmed: Men Without Weapons Killed by Law Enforcement
Interesting idea.

Micropayments have been a perennial failure, but I wonder if anyone would actually use this?

I might if your "Netflix for web sites" was full of really high quality content that wasn't reachable elsewhere, but I'm not sure if I'm representative.
Haven't used the tools much, but I'm subscribed, and simply in awe of Unreal's internal UI system (used for the Tools), and hope EPIC release it in some more independent form.
The problem with this, for me, lies in the assumption that if you put enough guns on the streets, they will primarily be used to defend against tyranny.

There are already places where the police are massively outgunned - I would assume this to be the case in any large American city. I don't believe the assumption that the police will respond to the threat of violent resistance with dutiful respect and civility is correct enough - rather, more confrontations which presuppose violence will escalate to greater violence.

But it is certainly the case that you can't scale morality in line with tactical force. More guns in people's hands also means more guns in the hands of criminals, and gangs, more domestic shootings, more kids being shot, accidental shootings, etc.
Why would you choose to develop for a game in JavaScript anyway? The language devs use for Unity tends to be C#. The design of the language fits the framework much more. I've been using C# with Unity and using JavaScript on webpages for years and JavaScript has always been much more cumbersome and error-prone to write nontrivial logic in. So many errors all the time that would've been found at compile-time in C#. Maybe Unity's JS is different; I haven't used it.
I'm not a PR person, but if you're going to do a "Top 10 Myths Dispelled" list, here's a recommendation:

These lists follow a standard format. You list the myth, and you list the counter-claim.

But why make the most prominent things on your page a bunch of untrue, negative things about your company?

Some people avoid this by not even listing the myth directly. For instance, for #1, they might just title it, "Square is NOT more expensive."

But if you do list the myth directly, I would put it in body type, but then make the counter-claim big and bold.
I don't think that entrenched interests are not the problem here. I think it's that a small private team can always out flank a standards committee. This difference is amplified when it's not clear exactly what needs to be built and a lot of iterative design is needed.
Cleaning staff are also hired via contractors.

Are cafeteria staff hired directly?
You can't :)

The people who might be able to and the people who would want to do so are mutually exclusive groups.
I've bought reddit gold several times and it was incredibly easy. What specific obstacles are you talking about?
XMPP is one of those things that billions of people use without knowing it. Facebook Chat and GChat for a long time (and maybe still now) were actually just branded XMPP solutions - Facebook (annoyingly) shut off federation, keeping in the spirit of their walled garden approach, but GChat still interoperates with other XMPP servers if I'm not mistaken.

Edit: GTalk shut off federation for XMPP extensions like multi-user chat and Jingle (Voice-Over-IP).

As for IRC - yes it has been largely eclipsed by proprietary solutions. I chalk this up to the lack of a compelling, truly simple web front-end for it. For instance, Slack seems to imitate a lot of the feature of IRC - it would be easy enough for it to just be IRC underneath, and maybe it is. But as far as I know nobody ever wrote a true web client for IRC that was compelling enough for the mainstream.
There's always Greyhound. I honestly don't mean that facetiously. If air is too expensive and driving is too expensive, there are always buses-- though I doubt they'd be cheaper for a a family of 4 than driving,
No worries - looks really cool nevertheless. Looking forward to see how it progresses.
Plaxo?
Become the Marketing Lead for Heyzap (YC W09)
The article seems to mix up sensory deprivation with isolation.

Suppose you are stuck on a deserted island with no human contact, like Robinson Crusoe.

Surely, you're not going to get hallucinations?

You're not in a box or dark prison cell; you have day and night, the beach, woods, animals. Survival activities to keep you busy, like making shelter and gathering food.

Maybe the sensory deprivation causes the brain slide into another kind of consciousness which is not exactly sleep and not exactly wakefulness. The hallucinations are perhaps related to the mechanism which produces dreams, and not evidence that you're going bonkers.
wow, almost like Cable but for websites.

its been proposed many a time, the problem being that everyone wants it to be their payment scheme and every site wants more than users are willing to pay.
I would guess either personal interest or PR, rather than a solid return calculation. YC doesn't want to be seen as the "web startup incubator", even if that's where they can best maximize ROI. And besides PR, the principals likely don't want to be that, either, but have loftier goals. Which is perfectly fine; maximizing investor returns is rarely a good way to do anything important or interesting.
As someone who tried to develop a Unity game on a big team, it was hell. The collaboration is horrible, there are conflicts all the time for no reason. Simply getting the source, running the game and updating would produce conflicts. We also had to buy the cache licenses to make it somewhat workable.

But the worst was the support. It was worthless. Anytime we would open a ticket, they would simply google and return us links to forum threads that didn't address our issue. When we asked about missing important features or bug fixes, they told us to buy something on the asset store.
What is clearly true is a more restricted version - no gene will be selected for if it causes zero reproduction (of any sort) across all carriers. But that's also basically irrelevant to the discussion.
>> Umm, people choosing not to have children (or as many

>> children) is not a "reproductive failure", it's a choice.

> Biologically, it's still reproductive failure.

Only in a narrow biological sense. But remember that reproduction is not about individuals, it's about genes. If someone has ideas instead of children, he still propagates his genes.

> From an evolutionary standpoint, choosing not to have children is exactly the same as choosing to press a gun to your head and pulling the trigger.

False, if you are a member of a genetically related group and you contribute something other than sperm to the process. If this were not so, everyone past prime reproductive years, everyone not actively engaged in direct biological reproductive activity, would be useless and might as well die. This is clearly not the case.

Imagine that you are a teacher or a scientist. Do I really have to explain this?
That was called Plaxo.
The UK driving test is much more stringent than the NY state test (I can't comment on other states - I believe each state defines their own driving test).

The NY test - 10 minutes in the car. I drove around the block; parallel parked, 3 point turn and back to the start. Done.

UK test - an hour in the car; had to drive in urban, country and highway settings (a dual carriageway, not a motorway - learners are not allowed to drive on motorways in the UK); parallel park and answer a lot of questions while doing so.

That's not to discount the fact that the UK has a lot of bad drivers - but the NY test was simply a joke.
Show HN: Market Share Visualizer (AngularJS + D3)
Ebay in talks to take Bitcoins at payments unit : WSJ
Discover Flask, Part 2 – Creating a login page – Real Python
Any reticence to mention it is likely due to the fact that djb is a bit of a polarizing personality.
While the link focuses on Ruby, I think there's a more general reason (which also explains why more languages don't support a lisp-like macro): cooperative development.

When you're writing code in a vacuum, you can fill it with all the metaprogramming you want. You probably have some preferred style, and your metaprogramming will reflect that. In something like lisp, this gets taken to the extreme -- code can look very different from what traditional lisp looks like when there are macros involved.

While this is great for developing solo, or with a small group, it becomes too much to handle as more people onboard. Every new contributor needs to learn your particular style, and how your macros work, and then how to apply them effectively. Its much easier when new functionality and expressiveness is added through a common format (like adding a new method).

As a lisp fan, those methods feel clumsy to me. But if you want to do something that's so big you need more contributors, it's worth the tradeoff.
You could always package the game as a node-webkit app.
>Most blue collar labor is fungible - meaning that just about any person who is not incapacitated can do it.

I think you underestimate the skill and training required for many blue-collar professions.

I probably have apprentice-level skills as a plumber, an electrician and as a mechanic. I know enough to say with some authority that it would take years for me to get to journeyman level. I don't think the average person could be a really good programmer, and I don't think the average person could be a really good master mechanic, either.
Guess that explains this:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/499448951372660736

I had office hours today with a co in the current YC batch whose (genuine) TAM is so big I worry investors won't be able to parse it.
> And that is why I get so worried that the draft HTTP/2 editors so steadfastly refuses to do so.

Can you elaborate on what you mean here, for those of us in the dark?