skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure. Maybe tickets live only on your phone and are non-transferable?
There's this one article, it might not meet all your criteria though. [1]

[1] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/12/10/the-other-side-of-the-d...
Ask HN: How do you connect with VC when you know nobody?
I understand the best way to connect with VC is via introduction by someone who knows the VC.

But what if you are totally from different industry, you have no connection (or 1st degree of friends who can make the introduction to VC)?

What can you do to get the attention of the VC?

I heard using angel.co is one way to do it.

I am interested to hear some people opinion about it.

Thanks.
AFAIK you can establish an LLC on H1B, but you cannot be employed by it, unless your H1B is sponsored by that LLC...
I don't know. Could it be that rich angels are already investing small amounts of money into crazy tech startups ,but nobody hears about that ?
Thanks for the wisdom. I appreciate it.
Show HN: Falling Stars creates Spotify playlist made of one-hit wonders
Devil's advocate: A secondary market for patents incentivizes investors to fund innovation, in the hopes of re-selling when/if the IP becomes valuable.

That's the story, anyway. In the real world, I think patents are vastly net-negative towards genuine innovation, and in most cases, morally repugnant besides.
Yeah, targeting the cross-section would be ideal. I will try Los Angeles and surrounding subreddits as well (the event is in Burbank).

Organic search has made up about 50% of our sales, direct and social 40%, with Facebook ads making up the remaining 10% and all of our paid conversions.

Most of our campaigns have been short and cheap ($10), check out some screens in one of my other replies.
These problems are similar to the normalization problems that occur when designing a database.

If you have tables such as Orders, OrderItems, and Items, you need to account for the attributes of Items changing over time and how that will affect past Orders. The problems are potentially bigger in REST, but they're not necessarily new problems.

The Cost of Goods Sold problem, in particular, has already been solved in a couple of different ways by the accounting profession. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_goods_sold#Identificati... for some details.
outlook.com?

Also, note that Google/Apple can be quite gnarly about frameworks and brands, right? How's that Wave thing going? Groups? Reader?
Note that Washington, DC seems to have received 17 military cargo planes despite not having an airport (also shows up on nytimes.com piece). Is it possible that this is a mistake?
Facebook has been moving towards making the same experience on all platforms. From the images provided I'm not sure how well it would translate to mobile.

Looks really good.
distribution in source code as well as compiled form. distribution of software _built from_.

Or you're saying it could be considered an open source license if it allowed people to distribute, but not run, executable binaries? Yeah, I don't think most people would consider that open source.
Everybody is welcome to reinterpret my comment as a summary then.
> Honestly, ...

I see what you did there!
I live in Walla Walla and I don't see our MRAP in the NYT spreadsheet, but here's the article: http://union-bulletin.com/news/2014/apr/16/walla-walla-swat-.... Absolute madness.
Probably not t-shirts at Gators games.
> One of the lessons of my career so far is never underestimate the ability of people to assume that problems are primarily technical in nature when actually the real problem is something else.

Amen. When I'm feeling trollish around my tech friends, I'll insist that mobile, not fiber, is the future of the internet, or that mailing DVDs is better than streaming. The former because the OTA market allows new entrants, easier competition. The latter because licensing costs are a red queen problem, and make building a full catalog impossible.

Those are mostly argument starters, but really each just based on getting people to admit one idea: technology isn't the final arbiter of efficiency/inefficiency. Legal and economic considerations are sometimes the trump suit.
It could return a 200 response with the actual value and the value id in an additional header. Not as elegant as 302 but more practical (from the efficiency point of view).
Awesome. I love seeing companies go after real industries, with real pain.

Pretty clear that Ravti fits that mold/mould.
All of his examples should be solved at the domain level. They just don't have anything to do with REST architecture.

The information doesn't need to be sent over the wire. There are many ways to solve it, but at the end of the day all that needs to be sent over the wire is the product and the time of purchase. Everything else can be deduced on the backend, and how hard that is to do will depend on how well you've modeled the concepts your interested in.
Didn't Gibbon say that the standard of living in 1st century AD wasn't re-attained until the 19th century?
This is pretty wrong. The view you describe arises from the complete renewal in the history of the Middle Ages that occurred from the 1950s onwards, and which established that the commonly called "Dark Ages" weren't so dark after all.

But that's not to say that there wasn't a precipitous drop in life quality after the end of the Roman Empire. Recent archeological finds have improved our understanding of the details of Roman daily life way beyond what we used to know even thirty years ago.

For a good and accessible overview of the latest finds in Roman archeology, I'd recommend "The Fall of the Roman Empire and the End of Civilization" by archeologist and historian Bryan Ward Perkins.

He highlights how much the Roman world had in common with our own period, most notably in terms of mass production of standardized goods (e.g. pottery), integration and specialization of local economies in a globalized market throughout the Empire.

The breakdown of this Empire-wide integration led to a dramatic decline in standards of living. To take just two examples extracted from the book:

- pottery finds in Britain reveal that before the Roman conquest, the vessels commonly used were all locally produced and of average quality. The integration in the Empire brought the mass-produced, standardized, high quality Roman pottery into the British economy, so much so that all levels of society had access to it (as illustrated by the archeological finds). This competition drove the British pottery industry out of the market, to the extent that by the time the Romans had to abandon Britain, there was no significant pottery production on the British isles anymore. The outcome is that the potteries found in the tombs of the first Anglo-Saxon kings are of a much poorer quality than those of the British peasants five centuries earlier - to say nothing of the Roman-made pottery a hundred years before.

- In the Roman Empire, thanks to mass production of roof tiles, almost every house had roofs made of clay tiles. This provides a host of benefits, notably in terms of durability and improved health thanks to increased insulation from humidity. With the collapse of the Roman Empire, European housebuilding went back to starch roofs - which in addition to be a poor way to protect yourself from rain or humidity can be a breeding ground for diseases and pests. It wasn't until the late 15th century that the prevalence of tiled roofs reached an extent comparable to that of the Roman world more than a millennia earlier.

I really recommend this book, it shows how the past 15 years of archeological finds have illuminated how close the Roman society was to a sort of proto-consumer society; and how much was lost when it disappeared.
I can only imagine this is an error, but apparently Brevard County, FL has received at least 61 helicopters... 8 of them worth $18m a piece.

Someone tell me this is misreported? There is no way a county of ~500k people could need 61 helicopters, rght?
By the medieval period, vastly different. There are stories about when the nobles of the first Crusade visited Constantinople they were thinking how much different the Emperors of the East were compared to what they knew of the old Roman Empire. As mentioned before the East was always different from the Western empire, but they really drifted apart in the 400's.
Can't agree with this enough: however impossible you think being social is, it all starts with being able to do small things. You have a million opportunities a day to do _something_ that will begin the tiny and endless work of getting comfortable and feeling like every interaction with another human won't make or break you.

So yeah, say something to the cashier. Ask the barista if they changed the chairs. Ask the guy who takes your parking ticket if he knows a good restaurant. You have to make a beginning, trite as it sounds, and no beginning is too small to help.
That didn't happen with Python 3. It's here, it works, the important libraries work. Sure, some projects are held back by their dependencies, some people have curmudgeonly objections, and quite a few people just lean on half-remembered objections from something they heard or read a couple of years ago. It's time to update the advice, stop prolonging the debate, and just tell people to use the current version of Python.
How is Ticketmaster Evil in the first place ? Do they pocket a lot of commission ?
Apache is probably okay for data, but I would recommend Open Data Commons or Creative Commons licenses.

http://opendefinition.org/licenses/
On counter though, like in a game of Civilization, a population prospers technologically when more basic needs are satisfied. It's thanks to the stability the Romans enjoyed that they were able to elevate it's society culturally and technologically.
Well, this is so nice - instead of asking you to fix the building or demolish it on your own the city will bulldoze it for you and hire the lawyers in case you have some objections that need to be handled.
But what's exactly that law - what's an 'improperly' used house? Can they demolish it if your heating isn't working? Leaking roof? Broken window?
Rejection Therapy [1][2] is a fun and interesting way to overcome phobias and anxiety. Since the game is framed around "seeking rejection", it feels OK to approach someone and start a conversation and get rejected because the metric is "did I fail to start a conversation" rather than "was I able to sustain a conversation". If you fail, you win. And when you inevitably don't get rejected and are able to sustain a conversation, you realize that this also is a win. Try it out and report back!

[1] - http://rejectiontherapy.com/
[2] - http://www.fearbuster.com/100-days-of-rejection-therapy/
The AHAMAY outboard motor is worth the scroll.
Breaking the law seems very much the modus operandi of Silicon Valley startups these days. Just look at AirBnb, Uber, Lyft, Aereo, 23andMe et al.
Disorganized pseudo-infantry (i.e. pissed off individuals with guns) will always be inferior to organized paramilitary forces with armor.
YC Demo Day Session 3
The problem is with taking Instacart's $3.99 delivery fee at face value. Last I checked (which was a year ago - they've probably lowered this) on top of that they charge 10-20% markup on each item, and they also pocket any savings from coupons / sales / bulk / rewards card discounts, which I imagine can run another 10%. It's in this situation where Instacart can plausibly meet your quoted $20 figure.
Imagine, or hope?
Connections to funding and talents. It's not easy to find a group of tens of thousand engineers, and which has very high opinion of YC.
This Oxford professor [Nick Bostrom] thinks AI will destroy us all
The left most lane (excluding HOV lanes) is for /passing/. Unless you are passing you should NOT be in this lane. Remaining in this lane, even doing the speed limit, while someone is behind you clearly wanting to go faster (that's their problem, not your's) is failure to yield.
Just because a slow-moving driver isn't legally at fault doesn't mean their behavior isn't dangerous.
Machine vision has numerous applications, better surveillance being only one of them. Mainly self driving cars, and significantly better AI for robotics and some other automated systems.

The organizations you mention are just places that invest in or do a lot of research in AI.
Arguably, the nascent country's experience with shay's Rebellion under the Articles of Confederation provided momentum for the establishment of a strong federal government; while Thomas Jefferson was sanguine about the rebellion, responding with his famous quote about the Tree of Liberty, George Washington (who was in the more difficult position of actually having to govern) was rather less enthusiastic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays'_Rebellion#Impact_on_Cons...
> The bill says that police CAN use this mandatory kill switch, but must comply with Public Utility Code Section 7908 in doing so.

The actual wording is this: "Any request by a government agency to interrupt communications service utilizing a technological solution required by this section is subject to Section 7908 of the Public Utilities Code".

This looks more like an IF than a CAN to me. It's saying that they cannot evade the requirements of 7908 by using the kill switch instead of some other mechanism that is covered by 7908 to interrupt communication. It's preempting a potential argument that using the kill switch would not count under 7908, and so the police could use the kill switch with less restriction and oversight than 7908 requires. This seems a more natural reading to me than your reading of it...although I haven't looked at prior drafts or the legislative history to see if there is something that indicates your reading is what is intended.
What is the tag? Just a barcode?
According to the Mail, wi-fi (in schools, no less. Just think of the poor tumorous children) causes cancer - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-456534/The-classroom... - so I would take their advice on danger with a pinch of salt, although according to the Mail, that will also give you cancer, so be careful.
I did the entire article. I realize that he wrote sentences that contradict with "Do what I say because I have a gun", but they seemed tangential, almost as if edited in later. So no, despite your interpretation, which I agree with (not going to win the physical confrontation), I think his basic viewpoint is very un-American, and demands a subservience that would only rest well on a subject, but not a citizen.

There's a huge systematic bias in favor of law enforcement in the US justice system. I can't count on suing later and getting any relief. Therefore, I believe it's dangerous to me to have most or all law enforcement holding a viewpoint like this.
I imagine giving patents from your portfolio to patent trolling companies (Lodsys), who then sue your client's (Apple) partners, doesn't help.
Good question, unclear answer.

IV is not a typical patent troll, so the standard patent troll argument is hard to apply. They do not file large numbers of small lawsuits, but rather a small number of very large lawsuits (e.g. against the Intel/Ford/AIG types). They generally do loser pays, and a few other things that make them hard to bucket as a normal patent troll.

IV spends a large amount of money (billions [1]) on purchasing patents. One might reasonably expect that to encourage innovation. As I understand it, most of those patents are not software patents, though (again I am not 100% sure) a large fraction of their lawsuits are based on software patents [citation needed]. One might reasonable expect that to discourage innovation.

An interesting anecdote:
Nest bought IV licenses to defend itself from Honeywell [2]. I would argue that Nest is a relatively decent innovation, so in this (very specific) case, one could argue that IV encouraged innovation.

As I said, hard to balance.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/us-microsoft-apple...
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/nest-buys-protection-licens...
There is plenty of technology risk and market risk in hard-tech companies. A business with R&D cycles, long lead times, and heavy capex requirements is going to face a substantial amount of both types of risk.
>If a self-driving car causes a crash, who's responsible? The owner or the manufacturer?

My two cents: if the car has the capacity for manual override, the owner (negligence) otherwise the manufacturer.

>do the cars respond to a police officer trying to pull them over?

Legally, humans are supposed to, so why would it be different for self-driving cars (which can at least be programmed to give control over to a third party when requested?)
As a European which don't follow the subject of US police, my TV habits are not crime dramas, I just have to ask:

WTF are police going to do with grenade launchers?! (Do they have 155 mm artillery too? :-) )

Are those for tear gas? I just don't believe even US gangs are doing Taliban style insurrections or Intifadas?

(Being Swedish with our really open borders for refugees from the Middle East, I should just wait a few years and find out why police need heavy weaponry? :-) :-( )

Edit: Other commenters seem to say (a) These really aren't needed by police, (b) there are lots of surplus weapons from Iraq/Afghanistan. Why aren't those extra weapons just sold/donated to countries which need them? Like most neighbors of Russia, they ought to be starting with big defense investments right now (except for the complete crazies, see Swedish politicians.)
This sounds like one of those situations where everything is telling you to bail but you don't want to miss out.

How many hours have you spent thinking about this contract?
This is a great idea. I wish that it was free, but I don't have FU money to fund my own version, so I can't complain too loudly. Hopefully if they become successful or fold they make their basic data public and in the former charge for analysis or similar.

This along with a few other projects (unified math language; vertical robotic greenhouses; acquoponics; lightscribe DVD player laser on a 3D printer graphene... ) are really worth investing money in long-term. Wish the government still did blue-sky research. sigh
7908(3)(C) incorporates s.7907 by reference.

(C) "Interrupt communications service" does not include any interruption of service pursuant to an order to cut, reroute, or divert service to a telephone line or wireless device used or available for use for communication by a person or persons in a hostage or barricade situation pursuant to Section 7907. However,
"interruption of communications service" includes any interruption of service resulting from an order pursuant to Section 7907 that affects service to wireless devices other than any wireless device used by, or available for use by, the person or persons involved in a hostage or barricade situation.
Why does HTTP specify such odd stuff like "never expires" being 1 year in the future, and "should not" send higher values. What does that tell a program to do? Cause instead of defining some sort of sensical behaviour ("send a thousand years as never"), you've got this odd scenario where never might be a year. Or maybe you send 2 years, and clients act improperly.

It seems that whoever wrote this spec wasn't writing much software, and didn't intent others to write software from the spec.
http://teawithstrangers.com might be relevant ;)
Tomb Raider, Vita's no-show and the mystery of 10m PS4 sales
Couple of random observations after looking at the data:

1) Looks like a contest where the winners are folks who are able to pull the biggest political strings in DC. It has nothing to do with forces needing anything. This was a free-for-all giveaway. It's all political.

2) In defense of DoD, once you build this crap, it's gotta go somewhere. Maybe some of these MRAPs could only be used for local parades. Local PDs do not need this junk, but the rest of the country doesn't need it either. Better dumping it on Deputy Joe than letting it rot. As long as Joe doesn't start getting delusions of terrorism.

3) A lot of the local rural counties where I live got M16s. I guess that seems useful. The M16 is a fine rifle, and if you could get every one of your cops a proven rifle it sure beats trying to get the poor local governments to pay for them. The cities are a different story: much better connected and with more resources (and ambition?) to screw as much out of the system as possible. The nearest city to me is getting all kinds of idiotic stuff. Do we really need 20 $4k night vision sniper scopes? Perhaps if the city were attacked by protesting vampires such a purchase would be useful. But I guess guys gotta play with their toys.

The distribution alone is not worth ranting about. The problem is what happens once all this junk is distributed. If you own a bear gun, you have a tendency to go out into the woods hunting bears. You also see evidence of bears where others do not. That's the real problem.
ahmadss, your reply to this is dead.

Mods, why was the comment about rejection therapy killed? It's a very popular and highly relevant game. And the poster has 1000+ karma; they don't seem like a spammer.

I couldn't see anything objectionable about the comment.
Housing codes determine what is acceptably "habitable" and what is not. The laws are also more strict when the residence is a rental property, as American society would like to discourage absentee or delinquent land-lords and help protect tenants from bad situations where your land-lord is supposed to be maintaining a property but instead tells you to "go live with a relative" when the heat is out.
Are Salary Caps for Professional Athletes Fair?
Over 1500 years later? Come on. If you want size, and the 19th century, how about this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/The_Briti...
You don't think they 'actually spend $20k on a hammer, $30k on a toilet seat, do you'[1]? If this is not an error, I think we just found the best justification I've seen for making all budgets/purchases etc. in government publicly available via API, as this and the ones below are amazing finds.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/quotes?item=qt1534129
Normally, this is done only in really extreme cases in the U.S. Part of the point of the article is that one city experimented with doing this much more aggressively than is the norm. "Takings" law is generally very conservative. In other words, the government can take your property, or a portion of it, for very compelling reasons. This usually happens in cases where, for example, a new highway is going through and they need to consolidate land to put the highway on. It is usually a very, very conservative process that errs as much as possible on the side of the homeowner. The article is about an anomalous situation where a city decided "hell, we have so many vacancies and so much blight, let's pursue takings much more aggressively" and, well, all hell is apparently breaking loose.

Because, yeah, most folks react to that in much the same way you are reacting: What the bloody hell???!!! in essence.
How would the police know whose phones to do this to? The kill switch is on a phone by phone basis.
Detour is hiring iOS and full-stack engineers
Random side question, in case anyone here knows:

Since when has "lead data scientist" at Google been a real (or maybe just important?) thing? I certainly did not interact with any in my time on Maps, but that was before the date mentioned on his cv.
Yep - an Android app is in the works (probably 3-4 months out). We're happy to ship to England.
I surmise that the reason that a viable alternative hasn't arisen is that the technology hasn't sufficiently developed.

And I don't think it's reasonable to expect that the "justice" system of the hegemonic, dominator-culture world power is going to reign in its armed enforcers.
My $20/delivery estimate was for UPS levels of marketshare but translated to 1-hour cycle times. I wouldn't be surprised if Instacart's logistics costs were more than double this amount.
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