skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a back injury so tend to be a frequenter of massage providers. I've tried a bunch of massage services and providers and it's really hit or miss. But this seems way better than trying to book something directly with a masseuse/masseur which usually involves a lot of back and forth for scheduling, rates, clarification of service, etc. So I'm really glad that there is some disruption in this space to make this particular hassle easier. I also think that this model could possibly guarantee a better overall experience as there is someone on the other end that cares about converting you into a regular customer on their platform which may improve quality standards everywhere, and especially for the providers on the particular platform. In my experience, massage providers seldom care if you had a good experience and there is basically nothing you can do if you had a bad one. This is especially true if you go to get massage as a form of physical therapy rather than just someone giving you a relaxation rub.

I've actually used Pine a few times and I will say that the booking process is surprisingly simple via their app and website. Also, I've never been disappointed with the quality of the provider I got - seems like at the very least this startup has really good relationships with quality providers that they are able to bring onto the platform. Worth a try in my opinion.
Why not just use track the number of downloads or pull requests for this metric?
Any programmers that want to make a run for y-combinator this session?
I have an app idea that is a winner if done right. Everyone I've talked to has agreed it's something to pursue. I am a technical guy but an amateur programmer at best right now. Looking for an entrepreneur programmer that wants to make it big.

I've got flash animation mockups and just downloaded the android sdk. I'm trying to move quick and do this on my own but I need help.

Regards, flyingwik.
regarding the treatment of those who know enough to regulate wall street, see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Markopolos
The last Sunday delivery I had showed up on Tuesday. USPS is a joke.
the quality of the instructional materials, mastery, and level of difficulty yes.
It's pretty fun :-)

Also, if you're the real RWMJ, hello :-)

I work on introspecting virtual disks with QEMU/KVM (someday hoping to patch QEMU to support my research).

We've interacted a few times before.
well now you're assuming virtualization is the same as cloud, it is not, a cloud researcher should know what a "cloud" actually is instead of the marketing usage for it.
for one, redundancy is always implicit in any cloud solution.
Yep. UPS never even tries to actually deliver to me, they just sticker and go.

USPS on the other hand, delivers every time.
Very cool and well-written post.

I've created many similar programs to defeat captcha's. I would classify this as a medium severity bug, you would still need to brute force the passwords on a terribly slow and intermittent connection.
Man, and I have half of season four to finish... and it's not streaming free on Prime either.
How to Flash Official Firmware for Samsung Galaxy S4 by Odin
But it shows there is a real possibility for a laughed at invention to be great.
> I said nothing about dictionary attacks.

Indeed, and given that this particular exchange was talking about dictionary attacks, that is why I thought your comment was a non-sequitur. It didn't seem to follow naturally from the comments above, and seemed out of place, which is why I wondered if you really had intended to reply there.

> It's not a non-sequitur at all, the point was
> to offer another, alternative suggestion to how
> it might have happened.

That was being done in other comments elsewhere. Again, that's why I thought your comment seemed misplaced in this particular branch, albeit absolutely correct.

> And while I didn't downvote you, ...

I know that - you can't downvote a reply to one of your comments.

> ... if I'd seen a reply like this to someone
> else, I might very well have done so rather
> than bother to reply, seeing as you've quoted
> three paragraphs just to dismiss a valid
> suggestion because you for some reason don't
> think it fits in this location in the thread.

I didn't quote those comments to dismiss your contribution. Indeed, I said "... what you say is true ...". My quoting was to try to point out why I was wondering about the placement of your comment.

So to re-iterate, I didn't dismiss your comment, I just thought it would be better placed where others were already making the same or similar points. I'm sorry I didn't make myself clearer, and apologise.

Thank you for taking the time to explain.
No, I am not interested in joining your proprietary social network
It highlights the fact that some public representatives are really privately sponsored/employed (stock options in blind trust, revolving doors, flights and ).

Who do these representatives actually represent?
Homejoy asks if you like your cleaner after they're done, and if so, you are given the option to pick your cleaning based on that cleaner's availability. I often just straight up don't schedule cleanings - and I dislike Handybook for lacking this feature - when I can't get someone I know I trust to do a good job. This is important, because despite there being a "middleman" in this situation, I am not really happy with the vast majority of cleaners.

You can still build loyalty to both the middleman and the service provider at the same time this way for many services - I will stick with Homejoy because I like the ease of not dealing with cash/checks and phone scheduling.

The situation for Uber is that Uber's business model has nothing to offer to people that want to schedule a specific driver, rather than a convenient pickup at a good price.
You are definitely right about the different types of students. It isn't a black and white problem. It also feels to me like the problem is that they are obviously interested in making money. I think they believe that in order to make money you have to offer grades and certifications. In order to do that you have to control the experience. I hope they find ways to make money outside of this paradigm. Our businesses also need to adjust their ideas of what qualifies potential employees. It would be nice if you were qualified based on what you have done or built or figured out rather than on what you have been scored on. That is largely how it is in my field, software development. I am much more inclined to pay for an all-in-one lecture series than a scheduled and scored curriculum. Thats just me and I know I'm not representative of everyone.
Yes for sure, I am not trying to pick on public schools, its just that VAST majority of schools are not top level, and there are thousands of bad computer science classes being taught.
Why does this matter to the NSA? They're not a for-profit company and their needs are surely different to for-profit companies so why would they optimize anything on sales?
Seems like it would be moderately easy to take off a nice chunk by first rolling out Amazon Direct Delivery (or whatever) to large buildings in urban areas. You can probably fill a truck between a couple condo and office towers.
At least many of the things you find on OpenBSD really are much smaller and simpler than commonly used alternatives in the Linux land. Order-of-magnitude differences are common, but even 20k lines vs 60k lines means a lot if you're actually going to dive into the code.

So when I poke around under /usr/src, I find some utility or daemon or whatever else I haven't looked into before. And I think, oh, that's only a couple k lines of code? I wonder how it works... It just invites me to read.

I get the exact opposite reaction when faced with some system that's 200k lines of code. That looks important, maybe I should audit it.. nah, I don't have the time now. Maybe I'll start tomorrow. Tomorrow comes. Maybe I'll start in the weekend. Weekend comes. Maybe I'll start in two weeks because now I'm busy and next week I'm busy too. Two weeks later, chances are I don't even remember. If I do, I might end up promising myself to take a look at it around next Christmas...

Another thing is that OpenBSD moves slower, and instead of constantly adopting another cool new thing as the new replacement for the old thing that kinda worked but nobody wanted to improve, they seem to put more effort into extending and polishing the old thing that has served well. So there's less code churn, i.e. less new code with new bugs.
Updates to Y Combinator Diversity Stats?
A Kapor Center for Social Justice post from about a year ago stated that Y Combinator has had no Black female founder alumni (neither did Techstars, an org with a founder whom I greatly admire). I'm wondering if this has changed? I saw this really insightful article by Sam, but I didn't come across any diversity stats elsewhere - and none on ethnic diversity.

http://tech.co/y-combinator-sam-altman-sexism-2014-07

I also saw this somewhat scathing critique citing the same challenge:
http://valleywag.gawker.com/everything-thats-wrong-with-y-combinators-sexism-in-tec-1610990450

I must admit, I think the emphasis on "Tech Founders" and "Technical Co-Founders" in the age of massive offshoring, outsourcing, and open source technology is part of the pipeline problem. I'm a woman of African descent who started coding in college but found it was a slow and tedious option compared to other solutions for building out business solutions on the web.

While I still dabble when necessary and have successfully built out my own products, I find it exclusive in terms of network and cultural associations (especially when funders proclaim to want cozy relationships between founders) to place the "coder-builder" burden on competent entrepreneurs who should be resourceful enough to work around limits to their own technical skill sets (even techies - generalists and specialists alike have them) - especially with funding and the ability to hire / offshore a team. So long as IP and rights are address from the start, why further limit innovation?

I appreciate any answers regarding ethnic diversity in YC and thoughts on the diversity in tech topic. Ethnic studies was one of my minors at Cal and I think one of the biggest problems is a lack of solution-oriented dialogue. I found it so encouraging and refreshing during TechCrunch to see moderators willing to be uncomfortable and discuss it. Although they skirted around the topic a bit, I saw it as a sign of progress.
How does that analogy make any sense?

An uniformed post with several questionable arguments is totally fine to judge someone's understanding of a language.

And if it's the "last chapter" of his posts (that is, something he wrote after several previous posts exploring the language), it's even better to see if his opinions are "worth reading". In the sense that a first post with his initial impressions of the language would be more excusable not to be that good.

Plus, reading the "last chapters of books to see if they're worth reading" sounds a perfectly OK way to judge something like a technical book. If the last chapters are crap why would the previous be any better?

If you weren't talking about technical books, then the analogy doesn't applu. Tech posts are not some linear narrative like a book, where you don't read the last chapters because you'll might get some spoiler. In fact it's common to skip the first introductory chapters in tech books, since they are mostly intended for beginners.
This narrative serves as direct refutation to the argument that our ever-expanding technology is making us exponentially increasingly disconnected and isolated. Leave it to Ingress to bring about random meet-ups, bringing together women with canes and religious men with yarmulkes, encouraging clothing-wearers to engage with nudists, and pre-teen craigslist entrepreneurs with failed slackrope walkers.

Is it a game I would want to engage in? Not really. I criticize several people I know that became addicted to the Kardashian app… Create a fake persona, and "do stuff" to gain popularity and virtual-Twitter followers? If you could only see how far my eyes roll back in my head, as I describe this. On the contrary, while capturing portals may not be how I want to spend my early morning hours (most notable because I prefer to sleep between 12 am and 4 am to get to the gym around 530-6 am), at least there is evidence that Ingress is connecting people in the flesh, around real, tangible, visible objects and locations. At least in its virtual combat, the terrain is real. Rather than an escape from reality to a contrived, imaginary realm, Ingress facilitates a renewed connection amongst its players, most notably between people that might not otherwise have been connected.
Contemporary understanding is that outside of special cases, ethics is dictated by the market. If Goldman's clients have a problem with with bankers having personal stakes, they'll not use Goldman's services. Its not like they don't know. Its very common for investment professionals to get in on the deals they work on.

In any case, regulators are entrusted with making sure people follow the law, not some ethical code that differs from person to person.
Anatomy of a Non-Denial Denial
Khan has said that he wants to explore more specific, advanced topics at some point. I think they realized their opportunity to stay relevant (and well funded) is to first focus on K-12.
Yes I agree, there are great classes all over the place, and there might be some gems where you least expect it, but for the most part the quality of the classes are going to go down as you go to worse and worse schools.
For someone who has spent a lot of time in Excel hacking things together this looks very useful.
This looks great - actually it could be exactly what we need to manage our overbearing CRM spreadsheet. Looking forward to that account invite - would start using it today!
I joined Netflix way back when, before they had anything decent to stream online. I also have an Amazon Prime membership, HBO Go, as well as a Hulu+ subscription. Of the four services, Netflix held the most promise and is the one that underdelivered the most. I love that they don't bother you with commercials. I love that their service is actually fast and available. Their app on Roku is faster than Hulu's and always seems to select better video quality if bandwidth is constrained. However, I end up almost always reaching for Hulu. Netflix just stopped expanding, and in some cases started losing content.

On the plus side, they have entertaining shows such as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. However, I think at this point Hulu and to an extent Amazon has them beat in terms of new content from traditional sources. I will continue paying my $9/month, for now. However, I do hope they improve enough to justify spending money on them.
Of course, but I think there's a large percentage (minimum double digits, I'd guess probably at least in the 20's or 30's though) that were just like me and it wouldn't have made a bit of difference if they did their degree in a box, on the internet, or on a campus.

At the time I didn't even know that was something your were supposed to do unless you were in a frat or a business major. To me college was a place to go and take classes and get your degree and that was pretty much it or at least that was what I was lead to believe was the only important part.
If we're being pedantic, Vim isn't installed everywhere either. Vi is, of course, but if you're evangelizing the benefits of the posix shell over vim-specific plugins I can only assume you didn't mean to :%s/vim/vi/ before hitting reply ;-).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

I have had this described to me by people who lived through it. They were relocated to the countryside as slave labor, as described in the wikipedia page. It was a bad time.

"The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural
Revolution, was a social-political movement that took place in the People's
Republic of China from 1966 until 1976. ... The movement paralyzed China politically and significantly affected the country economically and socially.

...

Millions of people were persecuted in the violent factional struggles that
ensued across the country, and suffered a wide range of abuses including
public humiliation, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, sustained harassment, and
seizure of property. A large segment of the population was forcibly displaced,
most notably the transfer of urban youth to rural regions during the Down to
the Countryside Movement. Historical relics and artifacts were destroyed.
Cultural and religious sites were ransacked."
First of all, what an awesome comment. Thanks so much for all this insight Nathan.

Out of your 420,000 or so visitors over the last year, how many converted into your email list?

Also, when you launch a product to your email list, what sort of conversion rate (subscribers to sales) do you get?
Is there a video somewhere of someone using this? I'd love to see this in action, without having to install it myself and read a bunch of docs to see what it's good at.
Perhaps this is a cloudlet then? Cloud computing is not merely VMs on demand. An essential nature of cloud is multiple distributed machines with the ability to transfer applications (or VMs) between machines for various reasons including load balancing, fault tolerance, and high availability. Furthermore, the application user is abstracted from which physical machine the application is running on. In your case, you have a single machine which you are likely addressing directly. This is not cloud computing.

Perhaps you mean "cloud storage", where your personal devices are able to store and retrieve things "in the cloud". The equivalent of a local FTP server (or NAS) does not a cloud make.

I appreciated the writeup nonetheless.
Show HN: Simple bulk emailer with Google Spreadsheet
Thanks for feedback! I'm more concerned about employee collaboration (office365 vs google apps vs ???) and hardware (mac vs pc vs chromebook vs ???) at this juncture.
Here are some recommendations:

* "Küchenradio" one of the oldest German podcasts. The authors visit and interview people or interesting places, or just talk, mainly around Berlin. The podcast is uncut even in interview situatons. (http://www.kuechenstud.io/kuechenradio/)

* Basically all podcasts from Metaebene. Especially "Freakshow" (the team talks about technology and apple etc.), "CRE2 (very long (2-3h) interviews about technology, culture and society), and "Fokus Europa" (about Europe). The Author Tim Pritlove is probably Germany's most famous podcaster. (http://metaebene.me/podcasts/)

* "Sanft und Sorgfältig". The weekly radio show of comedian Jan Böhmermann and musician Olli Schulz, talking about the week and various other subjects. (http://www.radioeins.de/archiv/podcast/zwei_alte_hasen.html)

* "Das ARD Radiofeature". In depth documentation for public radio stations about various topics. Well produced. (http://www.ard.de/home/radio/das_ARD_radiofeature/272100/ind...)
Jesus christ there are lot of 0 day old accounts commenting in here. Please go "disrupt" reddit or some other site.
> he said it is an important signal to find what people value enough to spend their money on.

No, he didn't, he said:

> is an important signal as to where they should spend their research time

anyone who has looked at basic research knows that immediate commercialization potential is a horrible guide for where to spend time.

As a quick example, would you pay for someone to research the immune systems of sharks and camels? No technology transfer office can sell a description of how the immune systems work. It seems ridiculous. But after years were spent researching these topics, describing them in detail in the publicly available literature, companies have taken features of these systems and built products based on them.

The goal of government-funded research is not to run a business, directing research into immediate commercialization, it is to do basic science that would not be funded by companies because it does not appear prima facie to have commercial application.
Should I be able to access the templates after I auth or do I need an invite?
How to fix iOS 8's worst headache
I think I win? https://ssl-tools.net/mailservers/grepular.com
Whats up with the 3 AM part? Is ingress so addictive that you keep playing till 3 AM ?
This is the absolute best for structured data... been a beta user and hooked on the mobile app now. It's basically replaced evernote for me.
I wonder if they have a MVP for testing out yet, or if its a collection of emails to register the level of interest before the pilot is built?
Sounds like Airtable would be pretty ideal for that. You can import that CRM spreadsheet to get started! You can actually start today, just click the "Get it started" button here: https://airtable.com/invite/a3sz9t7b
FoundationDB Table Groups pre-join tables
This looks fantastic! I was drooling during the demo video - you've improved on so many things from the standard spreadsheet at once.

If I could make a request for the API: it's almost impossible to get a simple JSON serialization of a table in Google Spreadsheets. There are so many times where I just want to make a really simple MVP with a backend data source, but don't want a full-fledged Firebase database. If I could just stick my data in an Airtable sheet and point my Javascript to load it and create the page dynamically, that would be ideal.
How does this compares to products like Bento (RIP) and Filemaker?
Batch auctions already exist already and still have HFT algo trading.

Further, this paper also assumes a very particular assumption, that there is 1 and only 1 exchange. Even if we wanted that in 1 legal venue (history says we don't) we can't enforce it globally. So venue arbitrage will still happen and therefore there is still a speed advantage.

Finally, this paper glosses over with 1 phrase "it may be necessary to ration one side of the
market to enable market clearing" the whole crux of the problem. How do you remediate ties in price that can't be fully filled? IE, what is the matching algorithm? If it is still FIFO, then you still have a race.