skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore, I've found that networking is a very long game. If you go in thinking "what can I get out of this today?" you are only seeing a small part of the benefit. My biggest financial success came from a person I met 7 years before we ever worked together. We only loosely kept in touch over the years, but when the right opportunity came along for both of us we were glad to have met all those years before.

I have dozens of people like that in my orbit. Smart, ambitious, connected etc. We just haven't found the right opportunity yet.
Not yet, but I think I probably will be in 3'ish months (because of startup's needs). Why do you ask?
Very slick! Unfortunately, one of my submissions was an outlier which got 10x as many points as anything else I've ever submitted. So I have one circle at the top of the screen and everything else is bunched up at the bottom. So two suggestions:

1. Add an option to eliminate the N top scores, or

2. Make the Y axis a log scale
Marc Andreessen on big data, Bitcoin and upending the world of finance
I think I can address your point, as I organize a similar event with similar goals and a similar audience.

It's obvious that in an audience of 1000+, there are differing people at different stages of their startup.

Some people need to hear the motivational speeches to dare take their first step toward starting their startup.

Other people are further along and really are just looking for very practical or tactical advice that would solve their current issue (it could be related to growth, finding customers, dealing with press, dealing with co-founder fights, the list is long).

And other people are looking to network, find their co-founder or that business person who'll help them close their first sale, or get an intro to a famous VC.

When you put an event together, you try to address all those differing needs into one coherent package. Therefore, any geek can figure out that some content will not be directly applicable to why they attended. But overall, if the organizers do a good job, the event will turn out to be valuable.

The last important factor is that a significant part of the audience doesn't know what they really should know, so they sometimes attend for one reason, but are enlightened by something completely different.
This is non technical point but english is broken on other level. As Finnish person I find it ridiculous when people have long discussions about how to pronounce something. Shouldn't it be immediately clear for everyone how something is written or pronounced. Those thing should be 100% directly exchangeable. If I just make up a word and say it Finnish people can write or read the word without any problems. Also all kind of exceptions to generic simple rules should be dropped, just to simplify grammar.
Yep, I read Reddit. But not all the time, so when others x-post from Reddit or other popular aggregators, and I have only time to check HN, I'm grateful to see such submissions even if I'm not aware what led to it. And conversely, if I find something really interesting on Reddit, I think that maybe it'll be interesting to HN readers, and people can upvote or ignore as they pleas.e I'm aware that some power users may use third-party clients or have written their own custom feeds that draw from HN and Reddit at the same time, but I'm suspecting that's a minority of users.

I don't think I need to explain that just because information is available means that it is automatically consumed...sometimes things are posted onto HN from years past (I even saw something from 1892 relating to Ada Lovelace on the front page this week) that are new to me.
Unicode support in Scheme implementations
Fantasy Tennis – Just like other fantasy sports but for tennis
I was hanging around s company when I was ten, and this stuck with me for twenty-something years: One of the employees insisted he needed more money because his new car had larger payments. The partner just said "So I should be glad then that you didn't buy a Ferrari?"

I don't see how employee's "needs" are at all relevant to what you should be paying them. In my experience, when a small company tries to do this kind of thing, people may play along to not look bad, but no one actually likes it. (Well, maybe the person that's getting a raise because they spent more.)
Ah this is pretty cool! I have used few other ones, they don't have a simple Documentation as this! Thanks.
The trade project
Sure they would. It's not like YC puts on startup school every week.
It might make you feel better to split the octave into two parts and eliminate the interval in the middle, i.e.
Do-re-mi-fa, pause, So-la-ti-do.
Each of those four note sections has the same intervals.
So arguably it's closer to being a "pi vs. 2pi" problem. (I am not really serious)
Awesome! It might be useful for you. Send me a note if you have any questions.
Music "theory" as we find in books today contains none of the properties of a modern theory that we find satisfying ... We are sometimes told for example that the Major Scale comes from the Ancient Greeks. We are sometimes told it is arbitrary and it only sounds good because we have heard it since childhood.

There are some very interesting portions of that paper, but I really wish the author would focus on the science and omit the jabs at what he considers "music theory".

He's correct that music education doesn't typically start with Pythagoras, but should it? It would be almost impossible from this paper to aurally appreciate his points about intervals, tonal variety and intonation schemes without having a fairly broad knowledge of harmony already.

It's certainly interesting, but it does not provide a framework that can reliably reproduce the characteristics of music he describes, which is the bulk of theory and harmonic analysis.

EDIT: I don't think it needs to be portrayed as competing with existing theory -- it's something that has been extensively studied and dovetails well with the history of scales and harmony.
I speak Russian and Spanish, and was about to write the same thing. Russian is indeed not strictly phonetic, thought it has a phonemic orthography to a degree. Aside from 'v'/'g' sound, there are bigger problems with vowels reduction when non-stressed 'o' most of the time sounds as 'a', omitting 'ё' and so on. After struggling with English and Russian, Spanish is indeed a delight to read/write. Though obligatory accents make writing a bit cumbersome.
> No. I interpreted the original assertion and subsequent discussion to be about the effect of prison on crime against the general public.

Even putting aside the implied exclusion of prisoners as members of the general public, it doesn't actually work that way. Prison inmates can cause physical or psychological damage to other inmates who are about to be released, increasing the subsequent drain they put on public resources and their likelihood of re-offending. Inmates can be threatened with violence if they don't convince their families or associates to commit crimes on the outside. Crime bosses can smuggle in cellphones and bribe prison guards to carry on running their organizations. "What happens in prison stays in prison" is the opposite of what happens in prison.

> My guess is that the crime rate against the general public as a function of prison time curve [1] is not monotonic. I expect that there is at least one local minimum before the absolute minimum reached at life imprisonment.

I agree that it probably isn't monotonic, but it seems like asking the wrong question. If a specific type of punishment causes harm to the convict and causing harm to the convict increases the probability of recidivism then every ounce of that punishment you mete out is counterbalancing itself. Increasing the deterrent also increases the damage. Sure, the two curves may not be perfectly symmetrical and therefore allow you to find a local minimum. But that's like trying to optimize the amount of poison to put in your food as a preservative. Is it not better to just use a non-poisonous preservative?
New Scrabble Dictionary Disrepects the Game
You don't even necessarily need to kill the animal to consume its blood - http://www.thomsonsafaris.com/blog/traditional-maasai-diet-b... . Yum.
QuickTime player to share your iOS Device Screen
This may not be new for many iOS developers who tried Yosemite beta but new for a new Yosemite user.

I was using Reflector all the time to share my iOS device screen with my MacBook for demos. With OS X Yosemite, QuickTime has a fantastic feature to record from iOS device connected to your mac (over lighting cable).

- Connect your iPhone/iPad runs iOS 8.
- Fire up QuickTime player and new movie recording
- Choose iOS device from the drop down menu next to record button.
- Even the microphone and camera can be used.

Looks like this is more of a developer feature to prepare app preview videos for AppStore.
"The virus and the wasp have the same evolutionary interests; turning a ladybug into a bodyguard produces more wasps, and more wasps beget more viruses. And so their genes work together to make the ladybug their puppet. The D. coccinellae wasp may not be the puppet master it once seemed. Instead it hides another puppet master within."
Great now I just can't sleep! Haha great read.
I don't even care, personally, what their motivation is. I care that they didn't ask before jamming it in there. I trusted Apple to not do invasive things as opt-in, I don't now.
Moronga is a common enough dish in mexican cuisine (and a few other countries). It's a sausage made with pig's blood.
> A program that runs on your computer has access to all your files anyway.

This is also a security problem. If I have the means to run a program (downloaded from the internet; don't fully trust) in a sandbox that restricts its filesystem access, it'd be nice to also not allow it to control my whole GUI session.
Traditional Maasai Food: Blood and Milk
How is that a jump? The contents and behavior of everything else are the same thing. We just think our minds are special because we have no external reference frame. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the most likely explanation by far is that our minds are vastly complex chemical reactions, computers with some of our outputs connected back to our inputs giving us the illusion of dualistic self awareness.

With as many neurons and synapses as we have, there is more than enough complexity to expect the mind to be purely physical. I don't see why that bothers so many people; I think it's incredibly awesome.
IL2CPP seeks to provide similar functionality as AOT platforms supported by mono today (e.g. iOS). If something works on iOS, it has a very good chance of running on an IL2CPP supported platform.
The same can be said for legendary cards, too: I don't have any of the great legendaries like Cairne or Sylvanas or Ragnaros, so we could argue that I shouldn't be matched against those people—but, when I do go up against those cards, I find that I have about the same win rate as against any other deck. Probably slightly lower, but not enough for me to really notice.

Some of the Naxx cards are definitely cool, but, like all the other cool cards, none of them make or break the game. Sure, Sludge Belcher is the best taunter in the game right now, but it's only slightly better than the Sen'jin Shieldmasta, which is still a fantastic card and is still absolutely free.

Access to good cards is helpful, but nowhere near as important as strategy and experience. Heck, go watch some of those free-to-play folks who start fresh accounts, never pay money, and still rank waaay up. If you refuse to concede when things look bad, you might be surprised by how well you do.

(Also, the Naxx single-player content is excellent. Even if you choose not the use the rewards, Naxx itself might still be worth the price.)
Just to clarify: Andreessen is not recommending you "hold" Bitcoins (which would be crazy).
I actually wrote a complaint to the Startup School contract after a being disappointed by the event in NYC last year...

The event was ok... but really lacked anything you couldn't find elsewhere. I was particularly annoyed that they didn't even try to sort the companies or founders or attendees into discussion groups, make connections, or even foster conversation after the event. In fact, it was almost like they were working against that, by whisking away all of the speakers and interviewers imediatly following the event and during the one intermission....

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[1] My complaint letter:

Hi Kathrina,

I really enjoyed ~87.3% of startup school,
but wanted to pass along a few thoughts on how future events could be better.

1) Introduce the interviewer - not just the interviewee.
I had no idea who Aaron Harris was until 2/3'ds of the way through the interview.

2) Don't choose startups at random.
Everyone had to apply to be at Startup School - you should use those applications to chose which startups get to present at office hours.

2A) Don't chose 3 startups at the same level of growth.
I run a b2b saas startup in its early growth stage.
the three startups chosen for office hours we're all in the early development stage.

2B) Don't choose 3 b2c startups.
I'm sure I wasn't the only enterprise b2b company in the audience.

Office hours was the section that fell flat with me.
None of the companies interviewed we're in my companies stage of development (all earlier),
and none we're business to business.

Furthermore;

3) I guess its OK to leave the attendees to fend for themselves...
but it could work a lot better if you used the intermission to have groups cycle through quick talks with the speakers, or with YC partners. That would also add more value to attending the conference.

3A) The speakers should be more public during the break, and during the social following the event.

I'm Looking forward to future startup schools, and I hope this advice is helpful!

All the Best,
Jason
What evidence exists that there is more to the mind than "just" physics (which is already pretty cool)?
Ha, I'm English and I've been living in Italy for two years (so my Italian is still not exactly incredible) and I'm starting to find the same! I wonder if this happens because the two languages can be very similar at times and at other times very different. Would things be a lot different if I were learning, for example, Japanese I wonder?
Same here. I tried it multiple times too. I also want Siri to answer the question "What stars can I see tonight?"
If you ran the install with --devel you should get 24.4-rc1
For some reason I couldn't leave feedback on the Kickstarter page so I will leave it here:

1- Get a nicer landing page, use https://www.strikingly.com/ Or http://www.weebly.com/

2- It's good to talk about more specifics, because when you over-generalize your product, specially something related to health, it will sound sketchy!

3- Give an example, to at least get initial interest of those people who have that specific eye-sight issue can resolve it.
Although they dont do this if you play unranked matchmaking the makeup of your deck is used in finding you a good match.
I agree, and that stigma is part of what creates poverty traps. However, it's still an option, and still something the article should consider before painting these ripoff artists as the "only option."
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Virtual Currencies: Emerging Regulatory and Consumer Protection Challenges [pdf]
Hi. Can someone with downvoting privileges apply the appropriate moderation to the above comment? "This" is the best example of a useless comment, and is nothing more than another version of "AOL!" From the jargon file [1]

And then downvote this reply as well? I got karma to burn. Thanks in advance.

1. http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/A/AOL-.html
I don't, and I found this interesting.
In the context of some other language being the origin of computing, and since the OP mentions Russian as fairly easy to work with... What if this had been Russian everywhere instead of English? If all of the terminology, POSIX, C and other language keywords had all been Russian, with the rest of the world (including English speakers) instead learning Russian as lingua franca? (Yes, deviating substantially from history for this) Would the outcome be roughly the same? Would it avoid those pitfalls of Japanese? Would it be mildly more / less convenient?
Isn't fa a half step down from being exactly between do and do'?

As far as the fencepost error, it helps to remember that musical intervals are multiplicative, rather than additive. An octave above do is f_Hz(do) • 2. Half an octave (fa#) would be f•sqrt(2). Generalized to a twelve tone scale, each half step is f_0•2^(1/12), dividing the octave into twelve equal multiplicative intervals.
Incidentally, I ran the numbers on League of Legends a while back, and it was pretty close to the numbers in this article as well. I wonder if that's the magic number for these "not pay-to-win wink wink" type games.

(Even more incidentally, I am pretty sure you can get to WoW's end-game within a couple of years of playing, so $150–$300 seems like a reasonable estimate of that game's TCO.)
Have you tested all the templates against services, like https://litmus.com, in terms of rendering across different mail clients? Also, great work!
Errata Security: FBI's crypto doublethink
My attempt at reliable storage of large secrets: http://rmmh.github.io/abbrase/

An example 60-bit secret: rolmangrionepolemp (mnemonic: "role man grinding one political employment"). A bit of a mouthful, but memorizable.
Did you release your code that does that?
In Argentina we call it "morcilla" ( http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morcilla -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage ). We usually eat it in every "asado" (barbeque)
FWIW, Russian kids are probably familiar with blood products. We have a treat called hematogen bar for people with anemia. It's made out of cow's blood and quite tasty, so non-anemic kids eat it anyways.
I've noticed that intervals whose beat frequency is a subharmonic of one of the notes in the interval, or a subharmonic of a small integer multiple of one of the notes, are particularly consonant. Is there any discussion of beat frequencies in that paper?
"Scala, good parts" - is classic mentioning in that pdf. I couldnt agree more on that. As a startup, we had burnt ours several times with the mix of people who had "scala-eye" and dont.
Combining OLAP without OLTP (large aggregate queries + lots of real time updates) is the holy grail that Cassandra, for example, has addressed rather nicely.

Compressed bitmap indexes are awesome. Like most indexes, the updating random rows problem is best addressed using a log structured merge tree and amortizing your index updates. Just have an in-memory buffer of recently updated rows.

If you are doing mostly sums & counts type work and can deal with some level of inaccuracy, you can consider HyperLogLog...
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Functional TDD: A Clash of Cultures (2012)
Ahem... so my SO had a below the knee amputation a couple years ago. And the reality is that most insurance plans will NOT pay for an electrically powered leg of any sort. We fought hard this year to get her one with a "full motion" mechanical ankle. My point is that the technology is great, but if only the builders can afford it...

One other issue with these, as you can imagine, is battery life. We talked about paying out of pocket for the upgrade, but were told that the best batteries only last about 4 hours. You think your battery going dead and leaving you unable to make a phone call is bad?
Not in the middle of a rant, or while you are professing your love for someone. In neutral discourse, sure that's expected.

You can even not speak the same language, humans can understand each other by other means like body language and cultural cues. It's not something you can replicate in a machine unless you really understand how it works. Unless you are saying that human behaviour is completely understood...
Dowd, he said, wanted to join IronNet, and the deal was devised as a way to keep Dowd's technological expertise at least partly within the U.S. government, rather than losing him permanently to the private sector.

xkcd, as so often happens in these circumstances, has already illustrated this problem rather well. http://xkcd.com/898/
That's a good point. At least they have less bugs than Siri.
Black pudding is pretty common in the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding

It's also delicious.
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Our environment is very diverse and non-discriminatory (though there can always be improvements of course). Several people in our fairly small company are openly gay. It's not exactly your usual work environment! People who aren't naturally open about such things probably wouldn't be hired and wouldn't want to work there anyway. And no, the "discrimination" in this case would not have anything to do with their "secret", it would have to do with their general attitude and culture fit.
Loved the history. Don't imagine that traders will ever stop trying to get an advantage. I find it fascinating that even the postmaster thought an informational edge was unfair. Important to remember that those with a speed edge, even today, end up quickly converging the markets, and eliminating their own opportunity away.

Also there is a clear distinction between a speed edge and outright illegal acts. Cutting telegraph wires reminds me of modern day equivalents... ie. Enron calling generation plant operators to shut down.
I'm not saying fa is half way, I'm saying you can take the scale in two sections which are just transposed versions of the same intervals. This is not helpful, but it is true.

Pretty sure you can't get out of the fact that do appears twice by invoking multiplicative rather than additive logic:
two octaves played together contains 3 dos, 3 octaves contains 4, etc.
Same goes for Swedish kids. AFAIK blodpudding (~black pudding) is still served in many school kitchens.
8 bits is too much for what was used historically. Morse code had 1-5 "bits" (effectively having the compression built-in). Baudot code was 5 bits, invented by a French engineer in France in 1870, inspired by other non-English-speaking Europeans.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code
And blodpudding (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blodpudding) is still common in Sweden.
It strike me that this tools works (or is perhaps designed to be?) a proof-of-concept for how things are done by those Agencies that keep showing up in the news.

They will simply have (by hook-or-crook) several of the root cert private keys for the already-installed roots. There's a few dozen of them and any one will do. Just fry-up forged MITM certificates as needed. I doubt the target would even notice the tiny delay during handshake.

As you say, no one checks fingerprints. I think fingerprints would only help if you had visited the site before without a MITM, and your SSL layer flagged changes under ALL circumstances, remembering the fried-up MITM cert will look 100% legit.

I wonder if there is a privacy-protecting way to share certs/ids to detect these changes? (or is there one already?)