skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another solid YC investment at work.

I actually think this is an interesting example of YC's investments, but not for the reason you seem to suggest.

YC's public persona is all about "hyper-growth" and building "very large" companies[1]. But if you go through the list of companies it has funded, a good number would have a very difficult time making a prima facie case that they fit the profile of a business that can achieve significant growth and scale. Dating Ring is the perfect example of that.

There are numerous challenges associated with breaking into the online dating space generally. First, the costs of customer acquisition are typically quite high because there's so much competition. That makes it very difficult for new services to gain traction without significant investment in advertising. Second, there's an additional level of churn built in to this market because when a dating service works, it loses customers. That produces a constant need for investment in the aforementioned user acquisition which is so costly.

More specifically, Dating Ring seems to be positioned in no man's land (no pun intended). It can't compete with the quantity and immediate gratification of online services that cost nothing or roughly the same, and it can't compete with the quality and exclusivity of matchmaking services which generally have costs signaling much higher value.

If the OP's comment is true, Dating Ring would ironically appear to be offering the worst of both worlds by trying to package users from the former as part of a service masquerading as the latter. Even with adjustments to its model, the odds that this company ever achieves "hyper-growth" or becomes a very large business are next to nil.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYhVcO4WgI
The flu vaccine is a bit of guesswork since, as I understand it, they have to pick a strain or family of the virus to vaccinate against, based on which they think is likely to be popular that season. They can be wrong.
See reply here for why healthy people should still get a flu shot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8456067
YouTube seems to be defaulting to HTML5 (WebM) video for Firefox Nightly and Aurora browsers, even though I have the Flash plugin installed and enabled.
Current Flu shots have few side effects, and decent protection. I believe there is a chance of mild flu-like symptoms, a chance of ache near the injection site for a day or two.

The CDC has changed stances to recommend everyone (over 6 months) get a flu shot every season.

The CDC has a good rundown:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/flushot.htm
Actually the Effective Go page needs to get updated. They also comment next to c <- 1 that value does not matter where the use of a struct{} channel would be more idiomatic.

But still the Go mantra is valid, the means (channels) provided by the language allow for sharing by communicating and IT IS actually considered idiomatic where appropriate.
Also your points about exceptions and generics are non-valid or at least very specific cases. I am working on backend stuff (mostly command-line tools) and i never felt any "lack" of them.
I doubt it. The node ecosystem is second to none.
> Like my girlfriend.

If you regularly make out with said girlfriend, I'd be fairly confident that either of you would have a difficult time making the other ill.
Meadow appears to be yet another middleman service. If you take a look at the website, they are looking for "partners" who will do all of the actual work of holding and delivering the goods.
what is wrong with starting a nonprofit to do this? nonprofits can pay prevailing salaries for engineers and so on. No need for stock options and other trappings.
s/hacking/licking/g

would be my pick
Thanks. This looks like a great set of links.
What scares me the most is the mortality rate. The numbers right now put it at 50%.

Catch Ebola.
Flip a coin and guess heads or tails.
If you guess incorrectly, you die.

It will be interesting to see this number once it (inevitably) spreads to "developed" nations with much higher standards of health care.
Yes, of course. Don't you remember the massive controversy surrounding the Wikileaks video titled "Collateral Murder" that was released back in 2010?
I share these worries.

In addition, consider some of the potential social effects of flu season. You're on a crowded international flight and a handful of people are clearly ill. What are the odds someone on that plane freaks out about Ebola?
Because they have to allow it for iOS, otherwise iOS becomes "the platform without Spotify". Imagine if iOS wouldn't allow a native Facebook app - what would happen then?

With OSX it's a little different, as there are alternative channels for installing Spotify, which prevents OSX from becoming "a platform without Spotify", and also allows Apple to ignore them entirely, and push their own product in the store.
For every company that successfully uses gray and black hat techniques to spur growth there are literally hundreds that don't achieve the desired result.

YC companies that think they're being clever and are more likely to employ these techniques successfully "Because AirBnB" shouldn't be disappointed when they fail.
"Cost billions" would have be correct. Their value is "priceless" as the are clearly very valuable but determining that value is impossible. What is a ride on a time machine worth?

My cynical anti-govt title: "Priceless climate data that cost taxpayers billions found unopened at government climate center" Ha!
Additionally, some people like myself don't really mind spending a couple minutes to answer questions, however I don't feel that any of the polls that I've received are actually legitimate.

Most seem to be political ads in disguise, where the questions are very leading, to the point of being comical. "Do you support Barack Obama's view's to immigration, which may allow potentially dangerous illegal aliens to stay indefinitely in America, and TAKE YOUR JOB!?"

I live in a pretty conservative area, and it seems like these polls are just trying to make sure all the old people get riled up to go vote.
Perfect!
Now I have the information of how do a llvm backend for the TR3200 cpu.
"high framework churn" - an excellent description of the relentless API changes in Apple land, if I may say so. It is comforting to be able to run ancient applications on Windows compared to the inability to run apps built for Leopard on Mavericks (or even Snow Leopard), let alone anything from the Rosetta days (Homeworld 2 is now a useless game to me on Mac OSX).
Or I could just avoid touching people if I have the sniffles? And just follow standard recommended practices for limiting the spread of colds (wash hands before/after touching face, only sneeze/cough into your elbow, avoid sick people etc.)

Does that not suffice? Can I still transfer the flu even if the virus isn't affecting me in even the slightest possible way?
Ask HN: Programmer career problems
Just thought I might get some good advice here. I'm a little troubled about my current career path. I have always known I wanted to run my own business (tech) so I jumped into programming figuring I would learn the ins and outs. Fast forward 10 years, I've been in a role of lead developer with experience managing teams of ~5 and I understand product pretty well. However, I feel like I am not that much closer to my original goal. What is it that I'm missing and would help?

I know a lot of people will kill to be able to do what I do, but I am seriously troubled. Any advice is appreciated.
Might as well start worrying about an airborne mutation of HIV while we're at it. Wouldn't start heading for the bunker just yet.
How'd you derive that formula?
I too occasionally use MFC but my word do I hate it.
And it's ported using Emscripten, which was also developed by Mozilla.
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Transfer Students Are Smarter Than the Average Student
ollysb didn't say that anyone got the flu from a flu shot.
Ever tried Lazarus and Free Pascal? That might be a cheaper route for your Delphi/Windows paradise, no?
There's nothing wrong about starting nonprofits. However, from what I read on the website, this appears to be a for-profit company.
I'm talking about a recruiter approaching an employer. Sometimes they will e-mail with a specific candidate, sometimes they won't. In either case, they won't show you until you agree to pay them.
The injected flu shot has completely inactivated (colloquially, dead) virus and cannot cause flu like symptoms. Recent formulation removed the egg allergy restrictions as well. There's effectively no reason for anyone to avoid being vaccinated.
Wabi Sabi
That's true, I am great at setting things up... but Go+GDB was zero set up. `go build` then `gdb ${executable_file}`, and nothing else. I suspect that it's Windows being in the mix that gave you trouble?
You responded to a well argued post about how Apple could moderately tweak the market to make things better for all sides of the market and your response was "blame the market" and "change your business model" which is what people are doing by leaving the store.

I suspect the down votes were because you added little to the discussion, educated no one (with that particular post) and people thought it deserved to be pushed down the page.
Hi, I'm Hua, one of the founders of Meadow.

We're building the tools for dispensaries to better manage their business and a platform that makes it easy for patients to order their medicine.

We only work with top-tier dispensaries that can deliver quality medicine and friendly service.

If you are a California medical cannabis patient, we would love to hear your feedback if you try out the service.

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In order to avoid buildup, it really does take a minimalist outlook, only purchasing things that you truly need, and constantly getting rid of things that are not useful anymore.
Yes Ebola can be transmitted that way, but it is an unlikely route. The way Ebola is constructed it is very unlikely to become airborne [1], but it could increase in natural reproductive efficiency (R0). We really have no idea of the R0 for Ebola right now as we don’t have the people on the ground recording what is happening in the community.

Ebola does not have to become airborne for it to be a problem. Polio is not airborne and it has a very high R0 (5 − 7). The difference is polio is adapted for human-to-human transmission while Ebola is very unlikely to be. I don’t want to find out how well adapted Ebola can become.

[1] Something that I have noticed about the discussion here is many people are unclear about what it mean for a virus to be “airborne” (this is not surprising since most people are not virologists). What airborne mean is that the virus is adapted to spreading via small mucosal droplets. The classic virus for this is rhinovirus (the most common cold virus). Rhinovirus infects the mucosal cells of the upper respiratory tract, it causes you to produce lots of mucus, it makes you sneeze a lot releasing this mucus in small droplets into the air, the virus is hardy enough to survive in the small mucosal droplets, and it doesn’t make you that ill so you still go to work where you can spread it around your co-workers. Doing all the things required the evolution of many interlocking adaptations in the Rhinovirus genome.

Ebola's infection mechanism is nothing like Rhinovirus. While in theory it is possible that Ebola could acquire all the adaptions required to be spread efficiently by small mucosal droplets, it is really unlikely as there are so many changes required. This is why most experts think it is unlikely that Ebola will become “airborne”.
Wowsers, what app is that?
So why on earth can't we find the Tomb of Alexander The Great yet?

We have gone to the moon. And we have lost a totally popular monument... This just proves how fucked up the Middle East really is...
We never even considered writing it in Java. We wanted something with the performance characteristics of C, which is what we would have used had we not had Golang.
Can someone explain how they were able to take and send such high quality digital pictures back then?

This is amazing!
The about:config prefs for "browser.newtabpage.rows" and "browser.newtabpage.columns" seem to work in Firefox 32, but not 33. I don't know if this is a bug or a design change.

UPDATE: This is Firefox bug 1005596. The prefs only work when you zoom out.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1005596
“We don’t care really how long it takes”
I'd agree with millstone Every few years MS pushes a new UI framework (MFC, WTL, WinForms,WPF, WinRT, SilverLight) and abandons it after a few years. Other than Win32 which is not easy to use there really is no obvious choice which framework to use.

If I had to start a new desktop app for Windows I would probably go with Qt. I would not trust MS.
There is talk of defining a stable ABI within platforms [1]. I'm not particularly fond of the current proposal, but there seems to be interest. We'll have to see how it plays out.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n402...
The Landscape of Manufacturing Options
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I'm in Tulsa, Ok.
The article made a very important point:

Modern bank customers ... want their banking
history, in escrow, stored by a third party
where it acts as inarguable proof.

Without paper statements, if you close a bank account for whatever reason, then you lose access to your banking history for that entire time. Poof, gone. How long will a bank continue to allow you to log into their system once you are no longer a customer?
Jimmy Johns is a franchise operation with tens of thousands of employees. Their retail workers do not have access to meaningful "operational secrets". It wouldn't matter if they did, either: trade secrets can be protected directly without noncompetes.
Don't use AdBlock, use the HOSTS file: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Looks like a pretty accurate paraphrase, except that you left out the "well meaning advice" for people very unlike the GP to take risks the GP never would so that the system can right itself. That's a real gem of anti-empathy right there.
Sorry, I wasn't meaning to attack you - I was more piggybacking on your comment. Sorry I came across that way!
Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely pay the site a visit!
If Ebola does become able to spread in western countries (right now it can’t), then unless you are one of the first few hundred to get it then there will be little difference between the first world and third world since all our hospitals would soon collapse.
And you can't flag it or comment on it.
I'm in Tulsa, Ok. :)
I guess on the bright side there, to my knowledge Z & Y are not commonly used keys for PC games, and never as a primary key (like WASD).

(I gather Germany is mostly QWERTZ)
That's evasive. We have good reason to discount the idea that Jimmy Johns is seriously motivated by concerns about competing with sandwich chains started by their employees, and among them is the fact that they don't satisfy the requirements for enforcing those noncompetes, which their numerous attorneys have doubtlessly told them.
Anecdote: two people close to me have undergone cholecystectomy, and both developed IBS-D shortly following the operation; cholestyramine (essentially a powdered resin that absorbs bile in the the GI tract) proved to be a safe treatment.

It seems that removing the gallbladder didn't make things worse on the whole - the symptoms of biliary obstruction were far worse than diarrhea or the daily requirement to consume orange-flavored plastic dust - but it did reveal an underlying excess of bile production that would irritate whatever it could downstream. I would be interested to know what caused that in the first place, and if it could be treated non-surgically.
"Suddenly Babylon had arrived on my desktop"

Haha such a genius thing to say.

I think most OS vendors are moving to this "app store" model as they see how they can easily distribute software and also railroad users and developers (for good or for bad). I'm not sure it's great (race to the bottom pricing + quality; see the Android Market for an example), but from a consumer perspective it is convenient.
What are some topics you'd like to read about? Always looking for blog post inspiration!
Router that anonymises Internet activity raises $300,000 on Kickstarter
Bcksp.es archives what you erase
SSLv3 Vulnerability
This may surprise you, but there are people who speak more than one language in the world, and the keyboards on their PCs are set up for only one of them.
Do you have any resources to discover some of the events that you are referring to? I'm currently in Houston (albeit a bit south) and would love to find out more.
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I don't eat breakfast because I do intermittent fasting. The reasoning is simple: (a) once I eat I get hungry, and the 6 small meals method just doens't work for me. I would eat breakfast at 8 and be hungry again by 10. (b) I drink a lot of coffee, if I dont eat the coffee supresses my appetite. I'm simply not hungry in the morning. (c) COmpressing my calories into a smaller window keeps me sated and makes them more fulfilling as I can eat bigger meals. Its good for the soul, if you will.
Apparently they haven't designed it from scratch: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2j8kyo/tor_route...
I surmise that I just have a good immune system (I'm not sure if it's "unusually" good). I don't go around asking all my friends and colleagues if they've gotten a flu shot, but I don't think they do?

edit: Jeez, downvotes? Did I say something wrong? I'm not trying to troll, just answering the question.
What If We Redid the 2000 .Com Monopoly Edition for Today's Web?
Zuckerberg, Wife Donate $25M to CDC for Ebola
This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback
I wonder if they use IMAP's EXAMINE or SELECT commands when iterating through folders. The former is read-only, although the end user has no control or guarantee that this is how they'll go through folders.
Ways men in tech are unintentionally sexist
Playback at 1.5x or 2x makes an even bigger difference for audio books. A 20 hour audio book suddenly becomes "just" 10 hours, yet it is still understandable.
Hey Everyone,

I'm Hua, one of the founders of Meadow.

If you happen to use our service, we would appreciate your feedback. We want to build a product that you love.

Feel free to reach out anytime at hua at getmeadow dot com.

Thank you :)
There may be no app store vetting but is their developer fascism? (No offence meant). I only ask because I have seen the decline (in my opinion) of the desktop from GNOME2 to GNOME3 as they bin the traditional and usable desktop paradigm in favour of writing a WM for my mum to use, where desktop interaction is designed around "joy" and making window management "fun and refreshing" instead of flexible. Anything outside of this paradigm and simplification appears to be vehemently rejected (perhaps the CADT development model?), so isn't it just the same?

(Of course, I may be subject to downvotes for this, but it is just an observation and not meant as a "flame"; from a developer perspective, aren't we just subject to the same bunch of rules but from different overlords?)

And BTW, I was a happy Linux app developer until last week when I retired my crusty old VM, and have been using Linux since RedHat Apollo, so it's not a whimsical motion. I love Linux for my servers, just not desktop anymore.
why is USA still allowing people from those countries fly in? the body temperature measure at airport is 99% useless.

When will Duncun's family pay back all those medical expenses here since he lied to the airport before he boarded? Not to mention he put other innocent people in ciritical danger at Dallas.
“How Google Works – Slide by Eric Schmidt
Google Online Security Blog: This POODLE Bites: Exploiting the SSL 3.0 Fallback
According to Wikipedia they used a movable mirror that reflected the light to 12 photo diodes for different wave lengths and then they just scanned the environment from left to right (or maybe the other way round) with five vertical lines of 512 pixels per second. The 300° panoramas are made out of 9150 (vertical) lines.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_program#Camera.2FImaging...
> What scares me the most is the mortality rate. The numbers right now put it at 50%.

Unfortunately, it's actually worse than that.

The initial predictions about this outbreak were a 50% mortality rate, later estimations put the rate at closer to 70%. To continue your metaphor; You flip two coins and try to guess heads or tails. If you're wrong on either coin, you die.

[1] - http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/10/ebola-outbreak-...
What is a feminist company?

Given that 'feminist' and 'feminism' are used by many people to mean many different things, it would be nice to specify what being a feminist company means.

Is it just a company run by people who self-identify as feminists, maybe one that only hires other people who self-identify as feminists? If so, how do you enforce this? Or is the company's feminism defined by specific policies that are based in a specific meaning of 'feminism', and if so, what are they?
Hackers target Dropbox, claim 7M passwords
CDC should be able to re-allocate budget on a short notice - I am sure there are contingency plans for it. On CDC website they list priorities - Food Safety, Healthcare-associated, Infections, HIV in the U.S.,Motor Vehicle Injuries, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Teen Pregnancy, Tobacco. I am sure they can cut 1% from these programs - none of them is any kind of emergency.

If there was a risk of Ebola reaching African proportion in US, I am sure there are emergency funds to bolster up CDC. But currently there is no such risk and realistically there is no good way to spend significant amount of money in US on Ebola.
I, personally, am not keen on trying to live in places where I am pointedly made to feel unwelcome.
Push for a Firefox port of HTTPSwitchboard.
You still can't edit JS like you can in chrome devtools. This is such a boon and a basic thing, really, that I can't switch until they add it. Aside from that, yeah, FF is getting pretty good.
Well, define "suffice." The methods you list are certainly good things to do, but you you really think that would make it impossible (or even very unlikely) for you to infect someone else? When you sneeze into your elbow, no droplets at all escape into the air? Do you always wash your hands after sneezing or touching your face before touching any other surface? I seriously doubt it.

Meanwhile, what are the risks of getting a flu shot? Effectively zero.

Just get it, please.
I thought the same thing - until I read this:
"It works by catching conversations from the voices of different individuals and assigning them a color bubble so the deaf person knows who said what. It works with a distributed microphone system on all the devices using the app so that it can distinguish each person from another."

That's pretty damn amazing IMHO.
"And Weidmann was, of course, executed for his crimes. His execution was widely covered, and even Franz Kafka was dispatched by Paris-Soir to cover the anticipated event."

Err, what? Kafka died in 1924, 15 years before Weidmann's execution. He also never worked for Paris-Soir or any other newspaper.
I get the opposite feeling. I would rather download a DMG and run the app instead of using the App Store, typically because I ran Windows for years and using an app store to install software feels alien. It feels like some part of the control of the system has been taken away from me.

Entirely psychological I know.
If it uses WebKit, it's not Firefox. Plain and simple.
Yeah, the formal term for it is "Push Polling". [1]

The most famous example is probably from George W. Bush's primary campaign against John McCain (who had previously adopted a Bengali girl). I'll quote from Wikipedia:

> Voters in South Carolina reportedly were asked "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?"

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll