skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The full list is here: http://blog.ycombinator.com/last-day-to-apply-for-startup-sc...

Speakers:

Ron Conway
Founder and Special Advisor, SV Angel

Jim Goetz
Partner, Sequoia Capital

Reid Hoffman
Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn

Jan Koum
Founder and CEO, WhatsApp

Andrew Mason
Founder, Detour and Groupon

Eric Migicovsky
Founder and CEO, Pebble

Hosain Rahman
Founder and CEO, Jawbone

Danae Ringelmann
Founder and Chief Development Officer, Indiegogo

Emmett Shear
Founder and CEO, Twitch

Michelle Zatlyn
Founder, CloudFlare
It is certainly not 50%, each stock will have an implied volatility that will statistically determine the likelihood of a move.
They said the same thing about the iPhone 5 (http://www.cultofmac.com/248603/iphone-5ses-are-bending-in-p... Xperia Z1 (http://www.phonearena.com/news/Xperia-Z1-frame-bending-for-n... Nexus 5 (http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-5/387390-nexus...), and I'm sure many others.
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I'm not worried. 14 day return policy + AppleCare = no risk that that I'm stuck with a bad/dead device.

If this turns out to be a major problem that doesn't happen to me initially, I'll return the phone. If it's not that widespread but I'm among the unlucky ones who ends up with a bent phone over the next 2 years, Apple will replace it for free (or worst case charge me $79 if they think it's my fault).
I am helping a customer integrate Watson into their system so I am very happy to see the news about BlueMix (https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/) that apparently will allow me to keep experimenting with Watson after my consulting engagement is complete.

If you read the documentation, you will see that preparing training data and questions is fairly straightforward.
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The fee seems a bit egregious, even for commercial banking. My bank never charged me for a checking account, and even reimburses ATM fees.
In the UK "checking accounts" (called Current Accounts) are free. With so called "Basic Current Accounts" (accounts with no overdraft/borrowing facility) being available even to people with horrible/no credit at all.

The way UK banks make money on current accounts is via interest (the difference between the Bank of England rate and their rate, the spread). They can also charge non-basic current account customers for things like unagreed overdrafts and so on.

I don't really understand why current accounts in the US cost $12-8/month. It isn't like "checking accounts" in the US have much better interest rates. So they're likely double-dipping (getting $ off of the spread AND fees).

Plus a lot of US banks require you to have a savings account with $x in it on top of your "checking account" just to waive the fee. Which means they're still double dipping there too, the spread on both the savings in the savings account (their "savings" accounts have horrible interest rates) and any money in the "checking account."

This is also making it easy for fraudsters to move money. Since there are no "basic bank accounts" for the poor, throw-away/burner debit cards have become common which fraudsters can move stolen money onto and then spend it freely (as those cards have no ID check, etc).

Don't even get me started on how big of a scam the throw-away/burner debit cards are. Before you get someone one you should check out the fine print in terms of fees that mysteriously eat up any remaining balance. Aside from the risk of bankrupsy and loss of interest, normal gift cards are less of a scam.
Which just goes to show, different people (ab)use their devices differently.
I strongly feel the linked profile should be the unified process for interview, it helps many people to expedite the process and avoid such mentioned mistakes.
It's generally a bit taboo to directly address dominance in social interactions, but you were manipulated into doing and then handing over work for nothing in return.

You were successfully made to believe you would be the bad guy for walking away when nothing could have been farther from the truth.

You worked, for nothing, on a project which belonged wholly to someone else, and they didn't even bother to turn up for project meetings.

There's often a big disconnect between people's superficial behaviour and their genuine intent, and you have to learn to read the signals which tell you the difference.

This episode might have been unpleasant but could be a cheap lesson if you learn the right things from it.
>How about content producer insanity and entitlement?

They created it and they own it. They have the right to issue insane terms for its consumption and they are, by definition, entitled.

And you are entitled to choose not to consume it. Now, perhaps if enough people made that choice then "producer insanity" would come to an end. But, until then...
I love Apple (I've got an iPhone 5, an iPad 3, a Macbook and an iMac) but it always dismays me how Apple fans often respond to any issue with an Apple product with "it's your fault".

A guy on MacRumors posted up about his experience with a bent phone and received some supportive comments, but also gems like, "It's aluminum, it's a noticeably longer device and as such it is likely to be bent more easily than previous iPhones. You should expect that it would be easier to bend and act accordingly."

How is this reasonable? We should know better than to put the phone in our pockets?

I sincerely hope Apple does the right thing here and takes responsibility if in fact this turns out to be a legitimate and widespread problem.
Some may not realize this, but YC startup Loopt is a big part of this. After being acquired by Green Dot they built the GoBank product, which is what Walmart will really be offering here.
The first sentence:

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::it will be available to everyone and will be released in the next year::
I played with the 6+ for the first time last night, and it surprises me people even sit down with it. It seems like like it would be immediately awkward from its size.
It's not really plastic vs. metal, it's plastic vs. aluminum. Steel would be a much better choice for strength, it's just heavy.
OP says a german guy named Hans gets answer all the time. So has nothing to do with age.
High demand, low supply. A landlord in Munich can ask - more or less - whatever he wants and still find people who are desperate to get a flat. Any flat. For any price.
I have always put phones in my front pockets - not so much my back, unless I'm going for a walk - but it's never been an issue since the first phone I ever had. It's completely ridiculous not to put it in a pocket of some sort.

My iPhone 6 is due to be delivered on the 7th Oct, so I'm hoping it's just a faulty batch.
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ditto. Always been free for me. I didn't know that wasn't the norm.
Successful Mars orbit for 0.42% of the price Facebook paid for Whatsapp.

Awesome job and glad ISRO doesn't seem to suffer from the same bad luck the Russians do when it comes to Mars!
Well, then it's high time those folks learn git, isn't it? The basics aren't that difficult.

Or, if not git, then some other version control system. In the 21st century, a VCS really isn't optional.
If it's any consolation, the odds that your "co-creator", if the business practices she has displayed thus far are any indication, makes something noteworthy or profitable out of your project, seem very low.
This: " trying to do the right thing and build the right, smart product". That means quick, flashy and cheap. Building an ambitious MMO is not those things.

I wish somebody was still building games that weren't necessarily 'smart', but were instead 'fun' or 'fascinating' or anything that means something to the player.
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I lived in a 16 m² studio for several years.

I basically used it only for sleeping and being at the computer.

I was both working full-time and pursuing a degree (at least 4 hours of classes + 2-3 hs of study time), so I didn't have much in the way of free time to consider it claustrophobic :)
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I've assumed that my experience is accurate and that it is more common in rural areas (where ad-hoc/informal barter systems still prevail) and poor areas that see significant numbers of (relatively) richer visitors (i.e. tourists).

In the latter case the price starts high (to catch the people who will just pay anyway) then the price goes down, or there is a bait & switch (the bargain item advertised in the window is sold out, could we interest you in this instead?), or both. Perhaps the poster above is conflating "loud, brash, confident tourists bargaining" with "American tourists" - a pair of populations that certainly do intersect though not as much as commonly held stereotypes would suggest.
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Fullscreening applications in xmonad behaves exactly as you described.
People who keep making the (nonsense) point of space vs. better roads keep harping on how the money will be better spent on infrastructure.

I looked up the Indian planning commission's budget for 2013-14 road development. Planning Commission provided an annual outlay of Rs.37,300.00 Crore for 2013-2014 for development in road sector[1]. That is more than 6 billion USD - just for improving roads, for a year.

The budget of the Mars Orbiter mission was around 75 million USD[2] i.e. less than 1.5% of [1].

[1]: http://www.performance.gov.in/sites/default/files/department...

[2]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2013/11/07/how-indias...
God this is frustrating to read. Basically you chose to make yourself a slave to this woman for NO reason.
We do have many actual projects with several healthcare providers. We have functioning systems (see one here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGJ0h_jAp8) and we are starting to deploy them. But the deployments are made very cautiously and in stages (and not yet broad enough for full study) because that's the nature of healthcare.
The iPhone 6+ is thinner and longer than the iPhone 5, so it makes a lot of sense it would be more prone to bending due to physics.
A few ideas about this problem:

1. Consumer behavior factors

- Get a case. These devices will break if dropped, and when you are carrying it in your hand many times a day, it is highly likely to be dropped. It's a matter of "when", not "if".

- Don't carry the device in pants pockets. Carry it in a shirt pocket, or in a bag or satchel or hang it on your belt. Solved.

2. Manufacturing and marketing factors

- Distribute 5,000 beta devices and really field test them. Manufacturers, especially Apple, hate to do this because it reveals the secret design in advance of the dramatic release event. But field testing the devices makes more sense given their complexity and unknown uses and conditions to which they will be subjected.

- Make the devices thicker and sturdier. Many of us would not complain about an extra millimeter or two of thickness, especially if it means a bigger battery and some nice-to-haves such as a memory card slot. Thinness is costly, too. Make it an indestructible brick, charge less, and millions will continue to buy the devices.

- An alternative view: yield to bendiness! Make the displays bendy, make the cases flexible, and accept that customers want to abuse their phones by sitting on them in tight jeans.
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How many high-selling phones do you see that have the thickness of an iPhone 4? The trend is towards thinner and lighter. Maybe the phone manufacturers are wrong, but in general we expect our technology to get thinner and lighter.

That said, it has reached the point where I'd be ok to have slightly more weight and thickness for sturdiness and battery life. I just think thin and light are things people want.
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Actually, if I could bend it around in play, like gumby, that would be quite fun. Might lose a couple days' productivity though...
The aluminum phone yields, undergoing plastic deformation, while the plastic phone deforms elastically.
I have one of the slimmest android devices huawei p6 (6.2 mm vs 7.1 mm for iphone 6 plus) for a year and a half and im not having any issues with it bending or giving the feeling that its fragile.

http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_ascend_p6-5467.php
They mean back pockets, which while still ridiculous, is much more understandable than just saying pockets. If your phone is bending in your front pockets then there is a much more serious problem.
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Socialising success. "I'll take some of that, thanks." I've been meaning to give it some proper thought for ages. People celebrating when a sports team wins, as if their own accomplishment. That aside, congrats to ISRO, great stuff.
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Product managers and designers have to make the correct trade offs among the many things that people value.

The question here is if Apple got the trade-offs wrong, and made the phone too thin at the expense of something that people might care about more--putting it in a front pocket, like you can do with numerous other phones with large screens. Or are these failures simply bizarre edge cases of which we are aware because any "news" about Apple is linkbait.
It is the norm, unless you're poor...

It would be interesting as a study to go through and calculate how much more a poor person pays per year for the same level of service just because they're poor (e.g. higher car payments, no 0% APR offers, account fees, etc).
That's why many of us dumped banks for credit unions. Most credit unions offer free checking accounts and much better interest rates and customer service. The major banks were rocked by the 2007 meltdown and are still trying to recover.
Seems like a case would only help if it was made of metal.
Absolutely right. I guess it's more like this:

- Stylish
- Durable
- Lightweight

Pick two.
Link to the actual story rather than the reddit discussion:

http://imgur.com/a/Sqdeh#0
It's Simple, it works, well done. I'd like to see how this evolves over time, maybe you can keep track of that and publish some nice graphs.

On a sidenote, i am amazed how well Hetzner is doing. They always had a good reputation back in the days, but i feel they are missing out on a lot of business. They really lack the features and comfort of, for example, DigitalOcean or Linode.
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> Who asked for a thinner, lighter phone?

I've never seen "thinner" nor "lighter". I have seen people asking for better battery life and that would mean fatter phones.
This is my blog post. Good to see it here!
1. Right now data comes from our customers (not shared) or public sources (shared). Watson does not decide on its own what is shared or not.

2. Watson can learn from feedback (i.e., a user grading the quality of an answer).
perfect opportunity for Apple to introduce iPants.

Joke aside, this is something that Apple needs to quickly address without putting customers at fault. You cannot just tell the customers not to put their phones in their pocket.
Is this really an achievement when someone else could do it in 1965? Is it an achievement when other countries can land rovers on mars? India should be a leader, not follow others' footsteps.

EDIT: 1971, not 1965
The phones have been bending while in peoples front pockets. Imagine the posture you have while driving a car and the phone in your pocket.

Now, I can't recall the last time I drove with any phone in my pocket (that is what the cup holder is for - phones) so I'm not too worried about it, but it's still interesting.

Has there been any news about the Samsung Note 1/2/3 bending?!
Odd, I downloaded and used all the 1 arc second data back in 2007. How is this new? They originally released two products, the 1" and 3" data.

The original 1" data IS 30m lateral resolution
(12,742,000m * pi)/(360 deg * 3600 arcsec/deg) = 30.88m

Odd that they're now naming releases after meters and not the previous arc seconds.
I wonder how much such jeans with Apple logo would cost.. :)
>>Get a case.
If getting case is a Must, why even worry about slim and beautiful devices? So much for good Industrial Design.
So at least for me, if I can't stick a phone in my pocket it is useless. If I can't carry my phone with me everywhere, I might as well not have it. I can understand not sitting on it, but not putting it in my front pocket seems incredibly limiting, because that is pretty much the only place I would have to put it when out and about.

I expect most people will have a case for the phone. I personally have a 5 right now and have it in a BookBook wallet/case, which is not really very rigid. I'll want something similar when it comes time to upgrade to a 6, but if I can't actually stick it in my pocket I'll need to find an alternative. Or maybe pay for a battery replacement on the 5.
iPants!
I've published a series of short stories through Amazon and I find their service to be very good. Quite straight forward to set up and get started. Smashwords[0] are also supposed to be quite good. They have similar terms to Amazon and will spread your book to other sites such as Apple, Kobobo[1] and a few others.

Things you may not have thought about:

1. Get a good quality cover image, pay for one if you have to,

2. Write an interesting and compelling blurb,

3. Have other people read your work before you publish, if you can afford to hire an editor.

1 and 2 are the first introduction to your book so need to catch the eye of the potential reader. 3 is vital, especially in longer works, as you will miss things.

What's the book about?

Oh and good luck!

[0]: http://www.smashwords.com/

[1]: http://store.kobobooks.com/
So... will there be a new merged Merck/Sigma catalog?
Best would be to ask the questions on the forum: https://developer.ibm.com//answers/?community=watson&cmp=usb...
Yeah that quote ("Just casually sticking a £700 smartphone in your pocket is an increasingly reckless thing to do.") and its blame-shifting to the user is really ridiculous. What the fuck are you supposed to do with it, keep it in a safe at home?

Analyst bias aside, I've seen many, many similar posts on the Internet on this issue from many users using similar logic. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on mindless fanboyism but their most ardent fans do tend to (pun intended) bend into more ridiculous positions than most while defending bad design decisions or quality assurance lapses made by the company.
I have Modulus Node hosting. Deploying is as simple as running "modulus deploy" in the terminal, no git knowledge required :)
I think collectively people are used to the idea that back pocket storage of your phone is unsafe and you're going to crush it and damage it.

Front pocket seems to be the expected place to keep one.
"could be a cheap lesson"

Not to mention the fact they wrote it up and it is now popular on HN means that other people might learn from this and avoid getting into the same mess.

[I once did a pile of work on a proposal for a large project for a customer who turned out to be using it as part of his MBA... I probably would have noticed something was funny but he was introduced to us by Sun!]
Less complexity.
The point is that these articles come out every time there is a new thin phone, but then you never hear about it again because it doesn't happen to any substantial portion of buyers.
It's been available via FTP for at least 7 years. Perhaps they are now releasing some version that's higher resolution than the prior 1", 65GB tile dump.

The date in the data version history is "02/14/05" for this release.
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Apple's revolutionary curved display.

- Automatically adjusts to the user's pocket for improved comfort.

- Memory Aluminium holds for as long as you need.

- User adjustable by manual force.
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iirc, aluminum is actually stronger than steel if you calculate it per-unit-weight. So alternately they could've made it a bit thicker. Obviously, I'm a software guy and not a materials engineer.
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You mean that you didn't read it, then.
I hope they're smart enough to ignore retweets...
Profited from her MBA education?

Worked Smart, Not Hard?
After searching for the official specification (a term used formally in the license), the only thing I could find is the web page for the documentation that is called the official shen standard doc, http://www.shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/shendoc.htm, so I suppose the official specification is the content of this page. As I don't have the book of Shen I can't tell if there is further documentation about the "specification of the language".

The author in the license page claims that he is not going to make a fork illegal by changing the standard in such a way as to make the fork retrospectively illegal.

There was one author who made a close source port of Shen in java but then there were big problems. Perhaps he could give a lot of information of what kind of problems are you to encounter when you try to develop a close source product using Shen. The last think I can remember was that he bought the book of Shen for her 16 years old daughter and he was emotionally very interested in Shen but then all went down. [By the way, I apologize for not putting the 's i the third person )). in my other posts.
Famously, from the definition of "drool-proof" (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/drool-proof-paper.html): "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or flame."

The closest actual source I can find quickly is this printout from the LaserWriter II manual, which states (more reasonably) "Don't use devices that produce open flames, such as Bunsen burners or welding torches, near the LaserWriter II." (https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/sly/Laserwriter/0303215L...)

[updated with more precise references]
My question wasn't browbeating. And I certainly didn't believe it would change anyone's mind.

Anyway, another question for you: why don't you pirate?
Actually, a functioning bendable phone sounds like a good thing to me. Less likely to break if dropped.
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"You're product/service seems expensive."

"As compared to what?"

Sales 101.
With exception of the Iraq War and Universal Healthcare websites, pretty much everything was an accident.

Sending an orbiter to Mars is advancing science and knowledge. Aside from the fact that this was an unmanned mission, ambitious projects mostly have an extra element of risk by definition. Inactivity due to that would be stopping advancement.

Besides, India spent USD 75 million on it. It's GDP is 1.877 trillion USD approx. Its peanuts[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8361505
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Well, at least that's one marketing battle I've already won.

I don't read ground mail anymore.
Maybe a bit of both is the answer. Just watch lectures and read and nothing gets done. Rush ahead and do stuff without studying and you risk dumb errors that you could have avoided.
Please convey my salute to her! She made me a proud Indian today.
Well - Titanium. But then we get into issues with mass availability.
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