skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a sad, self defeatist attitude. You just knocked yourself down before anyone else did. It seems you're afraid of trying because you're afraid of failure.

You're the type of person that probably won't get accepted. Because if this is your attitude now, who knows what your mood's going to be like when your startup goes through turbulence.

You're searching for a reason not to apply. To keep failure at bay. To keep pain from the ego.
The Great Divide: Reflections on the Public/Private PaaS Market in 2014
> But what I got instead was an ML with some low-level extensions; it felt like an enormous bait-and-switch, as nobody is interested in yet-another-functional-language.

Rust is not functional. It may draw heavy inspiration from statically typed FP, and closures, ADTs, pattern matching, and and expression-heavy programming style might give that impression, but it is at its heart a procedural systems language. As stated in the blog post, most of Rust's core features map directly to underlying machine instructions, and there is always the opportunity to cede control from the type system if you absolutely have to. Indeed, core library types like `Box<T>` and `Vec<T>` are at their fundamentally built on `unsafe` code.
We had already backported a whole bunch of of stuff to 2.3 so hopefully the 3->3.2 transition won't be so terrible.
You make a good point, though you present it in an awkward manner. Android has everything to do with Linux in its usage of the Linux kernel, but its userspace offers none of the actual advantages of using a Unix-like kernel.

The GNU/Linux terminology is actually quite relevant here, seeing as Android is Linux, but not GNU/Linux. Hell, Android's libc comes from OpenBSD, so...
First coding language to learn?
I hear Ruby Rails is a good place to start. Any thoughts and/or guidance is appreciated. :)
The Marshmallow Test for Grownups
This may also be a tribute to the sensitivity of modern chemistry's tests.
Apple Pay, Where the Money Is? Breaking Down Payments Value Chain
Very interesting! Just wondering, does GitHub actually have so few dependencies as described?
http://brackets.io/?lang=en
So give him a VM or image the machine. You have an ability that parents who aren't tech savvy don't.
So the algorithm has imagination. heh.
Related - How Karaoke Conquered The World

http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/17/karaoke-music-memoir-opinio...
Don't worry, you can ignore them.
We moved to Ruby 1.9+ quite a while ago with our patched-up Rails 2.3.
It seems to me that Oleg's cofounders were involved in pushing him out, in which case the founders certainly could have had control (among themselves).
The only thing is that the 4M and 5M probably use a large amount of power compared to their modern counterparts - anyone got any measurements?

You should be able to throw most dialects of PCL and PostScript at those printers and they'll work fine, so this fits the GP's requirements (not having 500mb of software)

Anyone know how to make Windows speak PostScript?
I didn't know they had an API. Would it be easy to create a bookmarklet that used it? I don't like their extension, it feels too heavy. I want something that doesn't run until I invoke it.
Multiple forms of Julia integration in https://cloud.sagemath.com is very high on my list. We already have syntax highlighting for editing julia files, and Julia is installed and usable from the command line. What's missing is support for both IJulia (Ipython notebook julia) and a Julia mode for Sage worksheets.
If YC partner selection is anything like YC founder selection the data says YC is for white and asian men who went to Stanford or Harvard, with few exceptions. YC partners, being only human, will tend to be biased in favor of people who are like them.

http://www.ycombinator.com/partners/

I'm pretty sure YC has not published any background diversity numbers. It would be good for the world if you did but I doubt you would find it flattering. I think this issue is just an understandable blind spot for you.
This is definitely a goal for the future. Eventually we'd like to support everything that MathJax does (and maybe more!) Equation numbering involves more work than some of the other features (we've managed to get away with never calculating widths of elemnts, but we'd have to do that to get horizontal alignment working, we think), so we're pushing it back for now.
They are selling Hadoop (based on Java) via HdInsight. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/hdin...
Social Media in Lesotho – Lesotho Connect
Did anyone get this to work?

I tried with Safari on OS X Mavericks and it just sits there. I can't get time to advance when I hit the "play" button; nothing happens when I click at various points in the map.
our mandatory legal research class covered wildcard searches and "w/" x number of words/characters
This is not a "civic tech" fund. This is a fund for companies that are looking for profit from government contracts.

Civic tech encourages citizen engagement. This does nothing of that nature.

This is just a fund for companies and investors looking to make a profit off of our tax dollars. The article leaves a foul taste in my mouth. These people are no more pro-citizen than Northrop and Boeing.
Why, bad blood?
It's not an either-or proposition here. I was learning to program games and software when I was 10 years old, while participating in sports and doing public speaking competitions. Kids can do more than one thing.

In fact, I think that's why I ended up being a software engineer, and why I love what I do; it may have been something that I loved and enjoyed as a kid, but I did stacks of other activities too so I made an informed choice when I was older. It also helped developed crucial social skills by doing other social activities, and has really helped my career in doing so.
not the exact same mistake, as you can install chrome...and now those can at least be disabled. Un-installable system apps...another place where the microsoft and apple default is a mistake.
There's a lot of choices. We support a smaller subset of browsers and outputs (only IE8+, only HTML+CSS, no SVG), so we gain some speed there. We also try to push as much of the calculation into CSS as possible, so that the native browser does as much work as possible, instead of the javascript. MathJax does a lot more manual positioning.
Someone might want to message the mods of whatever subreddit he was banned from. I don't know enough about the situation to feel justified in doing so. But I checked /r/spam, and found this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/spam/comments/2g5k5k/overview_for_db...

Couple of very high karma users who sound like domain experts vouched for him.

That said, it doesn't look like he was shadowbanned sitewide. Most likely an automoderator action. I can still click on his user profile.

Edit: unrelated, but how do you generate a submission history for a user? I'm a mod of a smaller sub, that looks like a useful tool.
> I'm hoping to finish the RFC once all these features land and I can actually hack a prototype, instead of scribbling on paper.

This would be amazing. One of the big issues blocking HKTs has been that though many folks want it there hasn't really been anyone willing to champion it yet. No pressure though - it is a tough problem.
> Disappointing to see yet another language-specific package management system (Cargo), though.

No, I don't want my language to be bound to someone else's package manager at all.
If we were looking for a really striking level of abstraction, we could say surveillance is probably as old as prostitution.

But you will agree Snowden did a lot to help general population understand where we are today. Definitely not Kansas, and no other New Deal in sight.
The cache doesn't seem relevant but I could test that. Presently my breakdown is 189MB+21MB , App+data, and 13MB Cache.

Uninstalled.

Reinstalled. (play store reports 30MB download)

Before opening the app 65MB+4KB, 0MB cache

First launch (no sync sign-in) 65MB + 10MB, 60KB cache

Browsed Noisy SSL page (google plus feed): 65MB + 14MB, 13MB cache

Signed into sync: no change ( 10min later, no change)

Browsed image heavy site (imgur): 65MB + 14MB, 25MB cache

Does chrome store the old versions on upgrade? That would perfectly explain why my fresh install is 64MB, and my older isntall was 3x that size.
I wouldn't say 'incapable' because you can use an OBD device (less than $20 like http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001LHVOVK/ ) to access that information. It's pretty much plug and play for those who care about that kind of thing.

The average consumer can just take it to a tire shop and let them figure out which tire has an issue.
Tramadol is a low-grade narcotic, not an AG drug. Unless I'm missing something.
> Unit testing ... are only available at the higher price levels.

Actually, this is now available for everyone, something I advocated for. VerificationTest and TestReport are the key functions there.

Good implicit suggestion about QuickCheck.

We've supported unit testing in our Eclipse plugin for years, and with V10 brought the MUnit package into the System context with a redesign of the essential functions.
I agree that it's a very difficult problem. I think that it's a major missing piece for online math learning right now (actually interacting with math symbols in a non ASCII/textbox way). Thanks for all of the hard work you guys do!
What do you mean by 'low-level extensions'? There's nothing in the language proper that can't run on bare metal, how much lower can you get?

If anything, it's the functional parts that feel bolted on: closures are crippled (though getting better soonish), the types that get spit out of iterator chains are hideous, no currying, no HKTs, functional data structures are much harder to write w/o a gc, etc.
There may or may not be a new revisionism, but the idea has been around a while. I first remember coming across this idea in Timeline by Michael Crichton:

http://www.amazon.com/Timeline-Michael-Crichton/dp/034541762...

And I doubt he came up with the idea. I also think I heard that this debate has been going on in medieval scholarship for a while.

That said, the debate is unlikely to be a strawman that glosses over the very real collapse in certain types of knowledge. I doubt the scholarly debate explains whatever is currently happening on the popular level.
He claimed to know things about the economy and raised $8 billion to capitalize on his ideas. Turns out he was full of shit. He had no idea what he was doing and lost huge amounts of money over years. He wasn't just bad he was arrogantly clueless.

Now he's claiming to know things about the economy again.
In context, Jobs was clearly using this definition of study:

Study: 1. the devotion of time and attention to acquiring knowledge on an academic subject, esp. by means of books

You're willfully ignoring that. You're making a point that would be valid if Jobs had said something dumber. That's called a strawman argument.
Net Neutrality: The Story Not Being Told
Lack of confidence would certainly make someone stick out like a sore thumb =)
A friend of mine recently published a related article:

Scientific Geniuses and Their Jesuit Collaborators

http://www.strangenotions.com/scientific-geniuses-and-their-...
PayPal goes after Apple pay in a full page NYT ad about iCloud hack
Hi there, I'm on the team responsible for the public APIs -- and we'd absolutely love to hear more :)

Some people love the single sign on (our developer registration is tied to the normal NYTimes.com registration) and some people hate it -- but we're always listening for direct feedback about what's wrong with the process.
If you're looking for an appropriate timeframe, you have to put his whole career in games in context. The first game he's credited for is Wurm Online, which he worked on between 2003 and 2007. He was also employed by King at least through 2009, when he started on Minecraft.

That is 6 years. Minecraft has been around for 5 years. If we take the premise that Notch comes up with really good ideas once every 6 years he works on games, he'll hit this timeframe next year.

Alternately, the clock might only start from the moment he stopped personally working on Minecraft, which was in November 2011. In that case we will have to wait another 3 years for him to collect ideas.
Being based in France could a plus for some. I had a friend whose website was getting shut down by GoDaddy with each DMCA report without bothering to contact him or validating the claim, so, he moved to Gandi and he's been super happy. I do have pretty active accounts with both Gandi and GoDaddy and have to admit that GoDaddy is better - it lets you organize domains in folders, has the ability to do mass operations based on folder structure, allows you to create and assign WHOIS profiles easily. The big issue is that they don't have an API and are not planning to have open anytime soon. I really miss GoDaddy having tags in addition to folders, and the API, of course, but nobody can beat their pricing (when you have the Discount Domain Club). In addition, if you have a lot of domains, they assign you an Account Executive, who can do a lot of things for you for free.
It varies by API, and is specified when you register for keys.
Same situation here. I could put up with outdated Android version, gradually deteriorating performance, and bloating of apps leading to very little free space, but it's very disappointing to find out that even to remain secure, we're expected to shell out at every stage of Google's 12-month release cycle...
It's not as addictive as other opiates. It is physically addictive though, yes.

Opiate withdrawals don't kill you, although you'll want to die; Tramadol has a weird secondary set of effects that act like an SSRI/anti-depressant, so you get both the opiate withdrawal symptoms as well as SSRI discontinuation syndrome symptoms which is a very unpleasant combination.

It's a decent painkiller, but like any opiate based pain medication has potential for abuse.
IFTTT did just that, and more, to create a number of the triggers in the NYTimes channel (all powered by our public APIs)

https://ifttt.com/nytimes
What about VMware Fusion? Is it pretty much the equivalent of Parallels?
What's to say this isn't the MVP?

Anyway, you don't want to be iterating on this stuff too much once it's rolled out - it tends to make the art team unhappy. They'd far rather work without the tools constantly changing underneath them.
To be honest I found the way nodes were restricted in the UI an odd choice, coming from both how Photoshop and Illustrator handle node editing. The game's goal appears to be a friendly way of teaching such concepts yet it limits the user's interaction/experimentation with them.

Being able to manipulate the control points after adding them, at least in angle and creating cusp points would make understanding them easier I feel. At least some initial interactive demo node for the user to play around with.
Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic Abuse Victims
Memjet[1] would claim to be that company, but they seem to be taking an awfully long time to fulfill their promise of taking over the printing world.

[1] http://www.memjet.com/
You are not our product (Apple)
How Vihag and Nikunj Bootstrapped GAMEDU to 1 MM+ Mobile Game Downloads
Facebook Turned Off Entire Data Center to Test Resiliency
Can rust be used to power http endpoints like a REST API? Or is it more designed to be system type daemon stuff? I guess I don't fully understand the marketing of it, however I haven't ever written anything in C or C++ either.
I'm disappointed. I was expecting to see a video of MIT students chasing after a robot that escaped from the lab.
AT&T’s fascinating third-way proposal on net neutrality
Last successful outcome of such a relationship between governmental needs and technology was Silicon Valley and before that DARPA leading to the internet and CERN leading to HTML.

I believe the government should be as small as possible but disagree that this as bad as some of the other commenters seem to think.
I'll reiterate something YC partners have said. If you're working on a startup, even if you don't apply, completing the application is a great way to clarify your idea and focus on what's important moving forward.

If you don't have much to show yet, don't sweat it. Just get started, and work on your ideas with whatever time you can afford. Some applicants will have accomplished more, but some may have started with huge disadvantages and overcame far more adversity to achieve a much less impressive track record. Regardless of not being the type that seemingly has an advantage, if you're going to build a successful startup, then go build it.

I just returned from meeting with the CEO of the only YC company based in my state. He's an awesome guy, and I'm very grateful he took the time to meet with me and offer his advice. Throughout the meeting, it seemed like he had the impression that I had no idea how much work I had ahead of me and how hard it actually is to get into YC. Being underestimated like that is so thrilling; I love it! It means he'll be that much more impressed when I accomplish what I plan to do whether I get into YC or not.
Thanks for the comments everyone, hopefully I can answer some of the questions about what TODO is about and where it's headed, don't miss jamesgpearce's comments too.

One of the first principles when forming the group was that we wanted to collaborate with, and learn from, each other before developing prescriptive guidelines. The ten member companies that launched with TODO are just a fraction of companies that have open source programs; there are companies in wide ranging industries like finance, automotive, and retail that have already expressed interest in participating too. So instead of launching today with our version of the answers, we wanted to invite dialogue and particiaption.

Many of the participating and interested companies have already written extensive documentation and internal tools to solve some of the unique challenges of their open source programs. We want to take that experience, find the common patterns, and open it up to the broader community.

We believe that the best practices, tooling, and development principles that will come from the group will improve the overall quality of the projects; that these projects can be adopted by other companies with certain expectations.

If these are the same problems you face in your company's open source program, we'd love to hear from you and have you participate because you can help define the problems we tackle.
I would add that watching someone who has mastered Mathematica use it is truly an awe inspiring moment.

A coworker is a former Wolfram employee who can explore data analysis in minutes in what it would take me hours/days to do in python.
That seems sensible, but in my experience with RC planes, flying low can actually make avoiding crashes very difficult.
I've used Joker since 1999 and have had nothing but excellent experiences.

They don't spam me, their DNS service is rock-solid, and their website (while a bit lacking in the graphical design department) is fast, clean, and ad-free. I also get clear, to-the-point reminders when a domain is up for renewal.

I have dozens (not hundreds or thousands) of domains registered, but I would recommend them without hesitation to anyone looking for developer-friendly registration and hosted DNS.
Fair enough. I knew it was wrong when I said it but I said it anyway!
The 5 Jobs of a Founder
I run eyemap.io and in our early stage testing (about 30 people played with it so far), yes, generally that's the case, though pictures draw peoples' attentions more. Especially if they're of faces.
Google User Experience Research Studies
your lack of humour is unfortunate.
I have some Kool-Aid for sale, do you want to buy it too?
The Roman empire was a disaster for most people. It ran on slave labor and high taxes. The early middle ages was a period where organizations scaled back to what was feasible without mass slavery. This involved a lot less literate types in urban centers. So to a modern urbanite it looks like things got worse after the empire, what with the decline of literacy and nice buildings. In reality, health and welfare improved.
You aren't thinking uncreatively enough. There will be Minecraft 2, Minecraft 3, Minecraft: Reach, Minecraft MMO, Minecraft Web Series, Minecraft: The Movie, ad nauseam...
Can you say what is the problem here? What is a string_view?
Startup Wars: UC Santa Barbara Beats Wharton and Harvard
Here's the problematic script:

Little Johnny finds a server that is selling diamond tools for $100 a pop. He says something about how he doesn't know hoe to buy things online, and a nice server admin walks him through "borrowing" his parents credit card and making the purchase. His parents get the bill, hit the ceiling, google "Minecraft", get a number for Mojang, call up, and start screaming at people to refund the money.

It happens. Having a decentralized server system with unregulated "in app purchases" and a very young fan base in a recipe for bad publicity, angry parents, upset kids, and bad vibes all the way around.
I recently made this little tool for writing latex macros:
http://kasperpeulen.github.io/PressAndHold/
It works the same as the OSX press and hold accent picker. I have also a unicode version which I think is much more appealing for young mathematicians:
http://kasperpeulen.github.io/PressAndHold/Unicode/

All MIT licensed if you are interested in using it.
I added some comments about the impetus for launching TODO, and why we approached it by not being prescriptive out of the gate. The list of possible projects is long, and our first order of business is prioritizing them.

We'll be contacting the interested companies (over 200 now) about an in-person workshop and the other discussion platforms we're using.
Or, y'know, any kind of API, instead of people overwriting mojang's code.
In general, there aren't any differences. We're looking for people who can create something that people will want. For hardware companies, that will likely require some hardware skills, so show us that you have what it takes to ship whatever it is that you are building. You should also have a good understanding of how much capital will be required to ship your v1, as that will often be an issue if you're actually manufacturing something.
Tramadol seems to be relatively cheap to produce, and has all sorts of uses beyond just pain medication.
Don't worry Oleg. Jobs got ousted from Apple at one point too...
The Galaxy Nexus was released only 3 years ago. Since when was that beyond the expected lifespan of a flagship product from one of the world's largest tech companies?

Don't think I've ever owned anything with such a serious planned obscolence issue. Windows supports its OS releases for 12 years (and doesn't lock you in, so you can usually follow official upgrade procedure anyway). And anything "dumber" than a smartphone doesn't really open itself up to these gaping security flaws, so still operates fine after many years.