skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet you casually quantify talent as being about making a fun game. There are so many flaws in this line of thinking.

At the top is the idea that if you make a game fun enough it will take off like Minecraft, but virality is not simply a product of fun, there are so many intangibles that go into blockbuster successes, and the people who get really good at wrangling those elements and distilling out a formula are not renowned for their talent (eg. Hollywood blockbusters).

But unpacking further, talent is something that needs to be developed. Natural talent is nothing without practice upon practice. Talent in some area requires years of practice that laymen will never really understand or appreciate. We can all talk casually about various kinds of talent, in programming, in art, in game design, in music, etc, but any kind of serious discussion needs to touch on the nuances of the specific work they are doing. Claiming Nickelback is more talented than Arcade Fire because they've sold more albums is a sure way to kill a conversation about music.
We are paying very decent. I would say 50% more than what you would typically get. Benefits, vacation, hardware etc...
So the models in volt basically let you read and assign attributes with an _ We could use the model[:key] instead, but the nice thing with using _ is that you can then define your own getters and setters easily in the model class. The _ is sort of a quick prototyping tool, allowing you to start using attributes without defining them in the model. We're going to add it where you can say something like:

model_attr :field_name, String

then do:

model.field_name = 'something'

(without the _)

The _ keeps people from calling a method that isn't defined, since ._something will return nil if its not defined yet. But if you called .something, it will still raise an exception.

Does all of that make since?
You're defending abstract concepts, but I'm not talking about that at all.

The problem is about losing yourself to a video game for months on end, even having it take over the other parts of your life when you're not playing it.

Sure you can understand how different these things are? The first one is perfectly fine, the second one is really unhealthy.
It's probably worth it.
Go to meetup.com - Type in the name of your city and search for groups involved in "programming". I live in a technology backwater, and I'm attending two tech events this week.
Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal. The book is based on a class about startups he taught at Stanford.
Wait. Who are you? I'd love to see you notes on this stuff from the 70s and 80s.
I agree, but the hardware manufacturers have a very strong incentive to get you to buy new hardware. As long as the device makers have any hand in releasing software updates for their devices, software updates will be a problem....
I wonder if the PepsiCo Healthy Living program directed people to consume fewer PepsiCo products. It seems awkward for them to either address or ignore.
I will try harder next time.
Supposedly posted to /r/darknetmarkets. I haven't seen any links to actual posts yet. I did do a quick search of the sub for comcast, and found nothing. I don't see why the darknetmarkets mods would delete it, and the only other explanation is that it's entirely made up.
As far as I know, Ed is now/still the CIO at DataFoundry. I'm in contact with Brett H. on FB and we're laughing about this. Mikedoug moved on a few years ago but I'm not sure what he's doing now. Mark is a barista somewhere in Texas, according to FB.

I've lost touch with pretty much everyone else...
I'll just leave this here:

http://youtu.be/fGOrm9rzm7A
I haven't gone through this yet, but I have a liberal arts degree and did a year of law school before dropping out to work on the internet. I'm competent in HTML/CSS, basically competent with Rails (have built very rudimentary web apps), but working full time in online marketing.

If this is actually an intro to coding for lawyers, it's an intro to programming for those with no technical background whatsoever. Which is really cool (not that those don't exist, but specifically designing this for a career path full of liberal arts types, not just for those with no experience, is interesting). I like that they start with regex and HTML/markdown, since, while they are not what anyone would call software development, they are a simple, quickly useful example of the basic concept of coding - expressing human instructions in a language designed to be understood by a machine. They also are some of the more quickly usable "coding" concepts, HTML & Markdown in the obvious cases, but regex familiarity makes Google Analytics much more powerful.

Looking forward to working through it and seeing what it's like. I sent it on to a few law school friends who had been somewhat interested in tech skills too.
I've read before that many YC companies were rejected multiple times before being accepted on their 3rd, 4th, 5th tries. Dropbox is one of those.
That would be fantastic. and I would love to chat. Also our space in SP is fairly large and we are looking to give/ mentor early stage companies. No equity or anything just to do our part and catalyze the scene bit by bit.
That's an organization or club, not a company.
Among other things, the lead investor character on HBO's Silicon Valley is said to be based on Peter Thiel.
I've been working on similar stuff here: http://joshondesign.com/2014/08/22/typopl
Did they apply with the same idea/product? Or was it Dropbox each time?
Good point - as I said, I am not a scientist, so that's what I wanted to know and your answer helps me understand.

In my mind, it seems like declaring that a plant is growing gold, without testing the ground (or doing a lab test), and later finding out that its roots are picking up the gold from a seam near the surface.
The first thing that popped in to my mind when I read the post title was a paper airplane.
"Our contrarian question—What important truth do very few people agree with you on?—is difficult to answer directly."

Didn't this question originate from Peter himself? I recall he claimed so in an interview from Pando but I can't find the link.
Looks like a great improvement over a simpler scaling solution, Netflix's EVCache:
https://github.com/Netflix/EVCache/wiki
I keep a small 4 inch notebook for this reason. I like to think I'm promoting my imagination by writing the ideas down. I also have issues picking one and sticking with it...
What's the difference between this and something like Instapaper or the iReader plugin ([1])?

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ireader/ppelffpjgk...
I surprised how much this pissed people off. It wasn't downloaded to your device unless you had turned automatic downloads on - it was just added to your iCloud. So free music not taking up any of your space. And if you did turn on auto-download just fucking delete it. Swipe left: delete. It's not difficult.
that's cool, thanks :) in case you think that disqualifies me, i didn't major. i am a college dropout (mechanical engineering), but i code since i was 13.

my python skills are strong, but my django skills are somewhat rusty. i can learn it pretty fast thought.

just mail me at hi@alan.buzz
Computer Networks – The Heralds of Resource Sharing, Arpanet (1972)
Cross-posted from http://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/2ghj8d/comput...
Personal statement by notch - http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/
Private link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
Why would a road keep a copy of cars that traverse it? The 'requests' aren't addressed to Comcast, they are addressed to... well, news.ycombinator.com for example.
Ask HN: Rectification of an image by using texture projection
a lot--i updated the post to reflect this.
More technical links for those interested:

https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/cyphertite

https://github.com/conformal/cyphertite
Mom and pop shops are a huge source of job creation everywhere, and there is nothing wrong with opening up a bakery or a gadget shop. I'm always impressed by the number of nail salons and 'padarias' opening up. Brazil has a lot of entrepreneurs. The franchise market grows at double digits.

We you (and Rudi) are talking about is, specifically, tech companies. There you have a point.. college graduates are not familiar with the VC world and few talk about starting their own software company.

Taking risk in the US is different than in Brazil. The US has the LLC and bankruptcy laws, which shields the founders if it goes under. Brazil makes the people responsible for every financial commitment, and the bankruptcy laws are impossible to understand. If your company tanks, you personally go under too.

Disclosure: I'm also Brazilian and currently a co-founder at a São Paulo-based tech startup.
funny -- about a year ago i was unemployed and trying to find python/django/twisted/tornado work -- the only one i found was offering me about ~3000 brl/month (no equity. which is quite insulting for someone that has worked with python for the past 7y) so i 100% gave up on trying to find work here in são paulo that paid reasonably well or even with some equity.

for me, it's preferable to work as a contactor to an american startup than work for a brazilian startup -- at least the american one knows how much i'm worth and will pay accordingly.
Here's the dilemma. How do employers control medical expenses? And then as an employee, why don't i get incentives for having healthy blood pressure levels, perfect cholesterol levels, a normal BMI? Our society is increasing becoming obese and our health care spending is spiring out of control. Something has to give. We have a really weird system where employers pay for our healthcare which is why see these wellness programs which people deem creepy.
Hey drop me a pm.
DipJar Raises Funding for a Tip Jar Where You Pay with Plastic, Not Spare Change
This story reminded me of this:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/80885/new-p2p-service-uses-gmail...

Note, it's from 2005, blast from the past.
Tramadol, like several other opioid drugs, e.g., hydrocodone and oxycodone, has been increasingly associated with dependence in recent years, so have been rescheduled to a more highly controlled classification by the DEA/FDA.

This is not a new phenomenon. Many opioids, including heroin, when introduced where thought to be "less addicting" than older opium-derived drugs. Of course, this turned out to be mistaken and now it's being played out with several "less addictive" opioids in common use.

I certainly wouldn't regard tramadol as innocuous, besides abuse and dependence, it can also have serious interactions with other medications, particularly serotonin overload which can be deadly.
Sounds like a whole lot more bellyaching. Why so serious? Dial down your zeal friend.

BitTorrent is extensible: I see you agree with that premise since you listed UDP sockets, formalized by BEP-0029. The objections you level against WebRTC DataChannels make it sound like the particular transports you mention are somehow blessed, that it's not and won't ever be bittorrent unless it's TCP or UDP (and even if it was a hard/fast requirement, one could still benefit from WebTorrent via Firefox extensions and Chrome apps).

Who cares if you're using mmap, epoll, or inotify? Are you intimate with the performance limitations of IndexedDB in all browsers? How versed are you on the performance hit taken by File API? When do these limits become problems? Why would a browser need to keep open a filehandle for every "every" in the first place? That's certainly not at all how https://github.com/js-platform/filer works, on either it's IndexedDB or it's WebSQL backend.

As for your networking dilemmas, I recommend you check out: The network discovery api (which can enumerate UPnP and DNS-SD), WebRTC's TURN/Stun for correctly choosing from available addresses, and a whole bunch of other web stuff that you obviously don't know anything about but think is explicitly the domain of Real Serious Programming With Real Applications.

Not everyone needs to be operating at the fantastical extremes you are concocting, not all use cases are gigantic seedboxes on fat pipes. It's ok to deliver capabilities that someone else might already have, and maybe not even have some quirks or possible points of poor comparison.

You're throwing a whole bunch of technical minutia at the problem you want to have. You're picking a false fight (and one that the web has plenty of good repostes you didn't know/omitted to retort with). The web might not be the best choice for using a gigabit ethernet connection (or maybe it actually does it fine in some conditions!): the act of finding these particular points to dive deep deep into as an excuse to ignore, shun, and spit upon the expansion of human technical capabilities is a close-minded injustice. It's bigotry, simpleminded technical bigotry showing off your inability to open your mind to possibilities, unwilling to open your arms to new improved things becoming available to people who want them and will benefit from their use, it's your own intransigence in the face of the ongoing adaption and mutation going on in the world. You're in for a bumpy ride if you are going to cling so tightly to your notion of what things are for and how they ought be.
Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041)
I've finally given up on opting out, or perhaps I should frame it as finally declaring a partial victory and moving on. I still think the scanners are a huge waste of money and time, but they've gotten better.

The x-ray versions are gone (and with them any small chance of dangerous radiation exposure). And I'm told that they no longer show your naked body to agents, but rather a generic outline that labels potential objects of concern. So the things about them that I've felt had the potential for a direct negative impact on me personally are mostly in the past.

Because of that, the last time I flew, it struck me that opting out was purely a political protest, and that the only effect it was likely to have was to make things flow a little bit less smoothly for all the other poor folks standing in the long line behind me. I just didn't see the payoff anymore. So for the first time, I went through the blasted machine. They did a quick patdown anyway, but I guess that's par for the course.

I wish I knew a way to take an effective stand against this system. But I've ceased to believe that opting out is it.
This project directly uses the Readability api.

I created this as a more simple interface than Readability offers, primarily for my own personal use as a bookmarklet.
Have you upgraded to the newest version of google spreadsheets? We were having some performance issues that sound just like what you're experiencing and as soon as we made the switch, our sheets were super fast.
That's an extremely optimistic view of how easy it is to ditch laws.
The github.com/conformal account shows a lot of Bitcoin projects, I wonder why they don't accept Bitcoin.
This seems really cool, but I'm not sure I would ever go above ~50 feet in altitude with it. It's a little scary that a leg cramp could cause me to plummet hundreds of feet to my death.
I have Google Music All Access and I've never experienced Google plopping songs/albums in my library that I didn't explicitly request.

How is this happening to you?
That's just the alt text.
12 Reasons to Love Your Progesterone
> Comcast did not respond to our inquiries but has mentioned a 180 day retention policy for IP-addresses in BitTorrent-related court documents.

That sounds like they keep the DHCP logs for that long, i.e. which subscriber's router was assigned a particular IP address at a particular time. That's a far cry from logging actual traffic.
MIT Is Hosting a Breast Pump Hackathon
Islamic Birthday Wishes – Happy Birthday Wishes
Facebook made him really rich http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/20/technology/facebook-peter-th...
CDN $16.99 Kindle Edition. Note that there are free Kindle readers for pretty much all platforms, even the in browser Web one if you don't have anything else. Also... should appear shortly in public/university libraries.
it seems like everyone is either already working for multinational companies or working as contractors for better pay.

btw, i know a couple of guys that are interested in rails work here in SP if you need some help. you can contact me at fernando.takai at gmail.
Slack / HipChat.
I run Windows 8 under Parallels 8, and run Visual Studio + the Windows Phone 8 Emulator, and it runs fine on a MacBook Pro Retina 15. Visual Studio scales fine on the Macbook's screen, I haven't had any problems there at all.

It can be a little laggy if you have a lot of other things open on the Mac side, like Chrome.
scaling? databases?

this is serving up some static content, and a string lookup in a hash table.

a single cheap vps with 768mb of ram should be able to handle thousands of requests/second without issue.

(50 chars email average + 2 * 4 byte pointers) * 10M entries => 512mb ram

(and with some noddy splitting by email domain you could probably quarter that)
It's voluntary in that the ISP is not forced into using it. They just force you to use it.
FoundationDB SQL Layer
Adopting the channels system is interesting. Are there any other languages that have a scheduled release pattern like this?
I wonder how much of the human side of this process could be automated. Would be cool to see something like this where it automatically sends message to potential sellers, etc -- and you're only notified when there's actually a possible purchase to be made.
Yeah, and the way these things are diagnosed is telling. (Basically, similar symptoms will tend to be classified as "borderline" or "schizophrenic" depending on the individual's demographics.)
I turned on the 'purchased in iCloud' content to my library, found the tracks, and clicked the 'download from cloud' button that shows up next to them.

My first reaction to all this was "Cool, I'll give it a try". I found it in the iTunes store and it said 'Purchased' and... I couldn't download it. I waited 2 days before trying again to figure out how to do it.

Very odd.
Yet Another Reason Containers Don't Contain: Kernel Keyrings
On my machine at least, the KaTeX demo is considerably faster.

This is very useful for big math threads like often on terrytao.wordpress.com, which can take up to a minute to render in my browser. On mobile it's even worse.
> The key to all these changes has been a focus on the core concepts of ownership and borrowing. Initially, we introduced ownership as a means of transferring data safely and efficiently between tasks, but over time we have realized that the same mechanism allows us to move all sorts of things out of the language and into libraries. The resulting design is not only simpler to learn, but it is also much “closer to the metal” than we ever thought possible before. All Rust language constructs have a very direct mapping to machine operations, and Rust has no required runtime or external dependencies.

Almost sounds like they borrowed this thinking from Exokernel design... I think Rust is shaping up to be a very exciting language.
The History of Cognitive Overload
Did you completely miss the hundreds of nude celebrity photos taken from the cloud two weeks ago?
I'm not aware of any, but if there are, I'd like to talk to them about their experiences doing so. :)
Interview with Sacha Grief
Been using this for years - very useful and nice to see it being maintained again.
Try the Amazon audio book for ~$18?
Is it just me or is 5k minified an immense amount of JS for a menu.

Here's a quick POC with most (if not all) of the same functionality.
http://jsfiddle.net/vysrtjh6/1/

JS Minifies to 276 bytes.

Am I missing something here?
What about "online history" indicates that they only mean HTTP? Online encompasses a lot more than the World Wide Web.
Automating the Web like this is pretty awesome. This is going to be something we see more and more of from here on out.
- didn't get in first time (check, different company though).
- weren't sure if good fit for b2b/ saas company (wrong).
- questioned how much value YC could provide us (many times more than expected).

for us going through YC, working with the partners, and joining the YC network were the best things we could have possibly done.

Thinking back to life pre-YC (Dec-13) to now the rate of change (progress/ growth/ knowledge) is unreal.
You forgot about the almost dozen people that use the Windows Phone platform that they'll port Minecraft for and support.
I've added bookmarklets for both, and you can Clean (which sorts out multi-page articles, sidebars etc.) then Squirt to speed-read the resulting article. They really do go hand-in-hand.
It'd be wonderful if they kept the ability to define that a certain destructor does zero memory.

Sometimes, you need that.
Do intelligent civilizations inevitably destroy themselves?
You're talking about a "3x" tactic, while the article (and your comment's parent) are talking about the "hidden city" technique.
The first line says "these allegations are 100% false" though
Hi, I'm the author of the original LOL, love your Haskell implementation... looking forward to the next parts!
Yes - totally agree!
Zhuangzi had something to say about this:

“'What do you mean,' pursued the earl, 'by the Heavenly, and by the Human?' Ruo replied, 'Oxen and horses have four feet - that is what I call their Heavenly (constitution). When horses' heads are haltered, and the noses of oxen are pierced, that is what I call (the doing of) Man. Hence it is said, "Do not by the Human (doing) extinguish the Heavenly (constitution); do not for your (Human) purpose extinguish the appointment (of Heaven); do not bury your (proper) fame in (such) a pursuit of it; carefully guard (the Way) and do not lose it: this is what I call reverting to your True (Nature)."'”

— Zhuangzi, chapter 17 (“The Floods of Autumn”)

http://ctext.org/zhuangzi/floods-of-autumn#n42150
Artificial Spleen Removes Ebola, HIV Viruses and Toxins from Blood Using Magnets
Tim Cook says Apple could have made a bigger iPhone 'years ago'
Is there any solid proof that all of the links you shared were actually done by the employee who contacted Cryptome? It seems the pastebin could have been done by anyone, I don't see anything linking these accounts to the individual cited in the Cryptome page.

Edit: Not saying that the Cryptome article is/isn't real, I'm just curious if there's proof of past bad mouthing and mental instability
Alas, another thread on Lem and again no-one mentions the one text of his most pertinent to HN: Golem XIV. Think transhuman intelligence, think quantum computing, think singularity, and imagine Lem thought about this stuff in the _seventies_ and published in 1981.
See http://www.bohemiandrive.com/excritement/1/ for a short review and summary; the e-book is available on Amazon.
We don't use features like this at Khan Academy. However, most of the time the problems with MathJax were with the inital problem load, not with changing expressions later. It might be interesting to support something like that eventually! Let me know how it works for you.
sama, I'm curious about how it works when YC invests in a company with "millions of dollars raised"; do you still take 7% and if so how do you avoid the appearance of a down round?
I second the advice to just buy a simple business laser printer. I too have had it with inkjets and the refill scam, but a typical laser cartridge is good for thousands of pages. Although I have a technician's nostalgia for dot matrix printers, I can't think of any valid reason to run one for normal home printing needs.
No, stick around. It might help if you wrote slightly longer comments and better explained your perspective, but looking at your comment history, you appear to be an asset to the community (genuine, no sarcasm). It's good on both sides to see truly different perspectives and be reminded that some of the things we take for granted are not universally held.