skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some critical feedback -- I have a baby coming in March and I collect data and do analytics professionally, so I should be your target market.

In your video, I didn't see one concrete thing I get from collecting the data. The most depressing thing about committing to collecting data is finding out you can't make meaning from it. There are tons of reasons why that can be, but you didn't put my mind at ease. Collecting data is too much work to do with no assurance of payoff.

In addition, I have experienced Kickstarters that are over a year late (others have been on time). If I'm trying to track a newborn, I'm not gambling on a Kickstarter. It's fine for a trinket, not a time sensitive thing.

I really hope you find your success recipe, but these two problems are deadly to me.
The Archive Team only backs things up when there is a risk of them being gone.

They cannot do it any other way - the Internet Archive does not have infinite resources to host things, and they need to prioritize. 120TB is not an easy thing to host.
I love Startup School! I have watched so many, like literally more than 100s of founders and CEOs give talks and lectures, because I work and went to Draper University, but the content from Startup School is just incredible! I love what YC did!

Lots of on point lesson to learn
Lots of tips&tricks if that is what everyone else wants to call it!
Just awesome overall for me as I'm doing my 4th startup, I still learned new things and gained wisdom!
You don't need Flashblock to do that. Firefox itself allows you to set plugins to "click to play".
This is amazing! 6 years this was like a dream never coming true or happening, I'd say :/! Amazing!
A lot of people work on their products at the same time that they are contracting/consulting on the side, so I feel running multiple businesses is actually pretty common.

It's totally ok to tackle multiple projects at a time, though, and sometimes, like in the case of freelancing, its also a good strategy in order to avoid any outside investment.

The trick is to find the right product, which which develpment work, that's always in demand, and thus a pretty safe bet, and then your own idea, which you're kind of trying to prove at the beginning.
Cool updates!
is it bad that I still try my best to avoid emacs ? One of my professors loved it, and it just ruined my ideal text editing environment.
Oh I love this Thanks! Gotta try some of them out!
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Beginner pointers on SAT solvers?
go cry about women somewhere else
>Set up HTTPS on every site you run.

Why? I don't trust it for security-critical data, and I don't need it for unsecure data. The only time I ever see it being remotely useful is if I were to set up an ecommerce site, at which point you basically only need HTTPS to fend off insignificant adversaries doing payment data sniffing and for CYA. For anything else, the benefits most certainly do not outweigh the pain in the ass described in the OP.

Also, if someone manages to "hijack your site... in a widespread fashion", it probably means they've rooted your server, at which point HTTPS does nothing useful anyway, because the attacker has your privkey.
Ah this is an awesome fix! Haha thanks!
Probably, but Sublime Text runs on Windows anyway.
An alternative method which doesn't involve running untrusted code:

1.Open System Preferences > Spotlight

2. Uncheck Spotlight suggestions, Bing web searches and any other options you're not interested in
Yes, Twitter is putting tweets in your timeline from people you don't follow
"Take your ball and go home" isn't always stupid. Perhaps more stupid is to entrust a random website to store all of your pictures indefinitely, especially when that website has no clear revenue model. Don't put yourself in a situation where data will be lost by someone taking his ball back.

We very well could be having the same situation in a few years when Twitter is in the process of turning off the servers.

If you want to keep your data, make backups. Don't trust cloud providers to be there. If you're the Internet Archive, make backups/dumps/archives before people start turning the servers off.
Colin: I'm sorry we didn't deliver what you needed.

YC's goal in selecting Startup School participants is to get a mix of deeply technical people and popularizers. The combination of those two skill sets makes a great startup.

When I saw you at Startup School I was like, "Hey, it's cperciva! Maybe he'll find a co-founder who can sell and together they can make Tarsnap take over the backup business!" That would be a good thing for the universe.

Tarsnap is a great example of a better technology that should be backing up most of the world's data. It would, if you teamed up with the right popularizer to get the word out and close deals. It hurts me to see Tarsnap backing up only a tiny fraction of the world's data, while companies with great salespeople back up most of it badly.

Still, I think we delivered for some people who were inspired to bring their better technology out into the wide world.

Also: I hear you about power outlets. My current MBP runs Emacs for 8 hours so I've lost touch with that need, but I'll bring extension cords and power strips to future events.
I think there's a difference between charging 30-40% APR (double what a crappy bank charges for a credit card, approx) and charging 4000% APR like Wonga.

Also note we're talking about different but related businesses - ludicrously overcharging for payday loans is one thing, ludicrously overcharging for hire-purchase is another. The second is less risky, assuming people don't trash their own furniture/possessions.

Finally, no, I am not certain an ethical payday loans business can exist, but I am certain an ethical loans business can exist. It's all a matter of gradually finding a limit, where people stop ranting about how unethical it is.

(to clarify - I am not actually a populist ethicist, I was merely speaking in practical terms.)
> Your ability to return a value/retry a call from a given stack frame is just a bunch of default restarts of your CL implementation.

Almost. Restarts and value/retry on a stack frame are mostly unrelated - Restarts are only the UI for implementation specific features. Common Lisp provides no feature to retry an arbitrary stack frame. This is all implementation specific functionality provided by SOME implementations.
No. I said that they are never okay and no joke, which people disagree with (including you, just now, you argue that they are ignorable). Don't rephrase or interpret.

Yes, Obama gets 30 per day. What a sad world we live in, in which people are okay with that. Also, Obama can pay for bodyguards.

The goal of a death threat is not necessarily the killing, but insecurity and psychological effect.
We also voted against an extra week of vacation here in Switzerland. And we decided to forbid the construction of minarets, a sad low-point in the history of our democracy. But you know what? It keeps everyone involved and engaged in political matters. Because in principle anyone can make a proposal, collect enough signatures, and there will be a binding vote. The mentality is "we control the government". Of course, there is still the manipulation of the masses, politicians prefer to re-interpret what we voted about (they aren't allowed, but often there is some gray area and they can delay things), and sometimes a majority decision seems to be a very bad emotional one. But in contrary to Germany, people here feel more in control over the government, rather than being helpless observers. If you don't like something, stop complaining and start collecting signatures. I'm usually not very patriotic, but if you want to take my direct vote away, you can pry it out of my dead hands.
The Internet Archive should archive stuff before a company enters financial hardship and can longer afford the outgoing bandwidth costs to have their entire dataset replicated online. It makes sense to block those attempts.

It strikes me that a similar fate would most likely have occurred if Everett was hit by a bus and his bank accounts eventually ran dry.

We should identify historically significant single points-of-failure and make archives before the failures occur, insofar as is possible.
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The UI critique to me was crazy. They were interviewing a B2B company which wasn't using their website as a lead generator. Plus, given the space, the website wasn't really all that bad compared to anyone else. If they had been critiquing a B2C company, I would have agreed more, but really I thought the most insightful feedback was to make the API documentation more prominent.
It seems a jump to say the contents of mind and the awareness of mind are the same thing.
Sure, but it's important to note that I'm not talking about blocking the scrapers. I'm talking about "we're willing to pay for an S3 export, Amazon will mail out a bunch of hard drives." Everett has steadfastly avoided contacting Archive Team or anyone else who wants to do this and I can't think of an ethically not-icky reason for that.
I've been buying a lot of the GL-iNet routers with either 8 or 16M flash; they run OpenWRT out of the box. Awesome little systems.

http://www.gl-inet.com/w/?lang=en
How to clone this html and css pagelayout,property,Etc
Help me please. Many thanks my friend! :)

This, tumblr blog:

http://arcadia-unity.tumblr.com/post/100257212548/arcadia-0-1a-launched
Guy? From the name (Kelly) I'll wager this was written by a gal.
Kelly Taylor is a male.
I've daisy-chained plenty of power bars. Occasionally fuses trip, but they don't cause fires.
Yeah, its awesome. I got my whole team on it
Can anybody comment what's special about ThoughtWorks besides that one of its founders had published some popular books? Isn't it just yet another CRUD app dev shop?
Just a note - if this use case is important, I've observed that Julia will often properly inline numerical integrals - even some fairly tricky ones. But you do generally have to make sure your loops are striding the quadrature in the memory correct order - Julia doesn't seem to reorder them.

I wonder whether Hope devs intend to add the Cython functionality of selectively removing dynamic nature of specific functions via annotations.

You should definitely look at Julia.
Quite. NEVER take career advice from a VC, he will gladly sacrifice your health, relationships, long term career prospects and anything else he can get his hands on, for his own interests. Which sounds harsh but it is how it is.
Yes, some people can rent a truck (also, I don't think it's $20 in real life; probably $50 minimum, my real guess would be more like $70-$100 when all is said and done). You need any or all of a valid in-state driver's license, your own insurance, a good idea that it'll only take you an hour to find a good couch so that your money isn't wasted on a truck rental and/or a hope that the garage sale that has a good, affordable couch will be willing to hold it until you get back with a truck, and, perhaps most significant, is that you need people to help you load and unload it. (Yes, yes, I know that in many parts of the country you can hire the Mexicans loitering in front of Home Depot for $5/head/hour, but that adds more expense and is possibly much riskier, since you're letting those people know where you live, know that you live alone or at least don't have sufficient help to move your own couch in, and know what kind of stuff is in your dwelling space. The furniture store delivery guy learns all of this too, but he's much better documented and therefore probably easier to track down if things go wrong.) You'd also have to hope that the couch remains in good condition for a reasonable length of time, whereas most RTO places will have some kind of recourse if you get a lemon.

Yes, it's true that it's probably possible to get a couch without going through a RTO contract if you have the money to make RTO payments. That doesn't mean it's reasonable, plausible, or even just worth all the extra effort. If you need a couch now and can pay it off a few payments down the road, it's not so bad to be willing to pay a substantial expense for that convenience. As long as the consumer is informed, there's no reason this voluntary trade of security/convenience for money shouldn't be allowed or performed.

Of course it'd be cheaper if the consumer had access to cheaper credit, but they don't, so these places have sprung up to help/serve those people. Again, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with that. It's just expensive (for both parties).
Thanks.

I found the PDF using Google: https://www.google.com/#q=Ravenspiral+Guide+to+Music+Theory+... (Scripd.com is annoying, like a PDF download scam)
same. seems to work only in safari and chrome.
It's basically the same strategy rperl uses, compiling a restricted and typed subset of perl5 to C++11 on the fly, via Inline::CPP http://rperl.org

I wouldn't call that JIT, because the term JIT is normally used for direct compilation to machine code, and all those other compile-to-c|c++-on-the-fly languages don't call it JIT neither.
Looks quite ambitious. (And cool)

The numerical python ecosystem is definitely improving, but it's getting pretty complicated, particularly when heterogeneous architectures factor into your work flow.
One of the advices I've heard at the 'Istanbul Startup 2014' event was the following:

*Design of the app comes first! (don’t lose too much time on engineering on early stage).*

Some people took the advice to the extreme[1].

On the bright side though, the Winner of the Challenge was a startup called 'Connected2Me' (IM mobile app) which was run by 2 guys: A Python developer (seemed to be the hardcore kind) and a DevOps guy who recently jumped up probably to handle the load and sys-admin. The startup had more than 2M users in Turkey alone. They both seemed (dress, talk, etc.) more like pure geeks more than business people.

[1] About a month ago I've seen a bio-informatics startup on HN (can't recall if it was about fighting a disease e.g. HIV or about genetic modification). The team was made by 7 members, 6 business oriented people (CEO, CTO, this and that manager) and ONE biologist with IT background. Seemed extremely ridiculous!
Facebook is actively trawling the dark web for stolen passwords
If you are taking incriminating photos, you are doing something wrong.
VMware Is Building a Dream Team of Engineers to Knock Out Cisco
No, the NSA just helps target drone strikes and such....

Everyone counts or no one does.
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I am not him, but on one older Mac, I am running Snow Leopard because it's the last OS X I can run on a 32bit computer.

And yes, I know, it has all the terrible ShellShock bugs and other stuff that will never be fixed, but I just need to run some OS X software time from time and I won't buy a new Mac because of that.

And when I tried to install Linux on that, Wi-fi didn't work properly, and there were some other issues I had with I think rebooting and maybe some other hardware stuff (I know, it sounds like a cliche, but it's true)
Either the wires can handle the load or they can't. "Daisy chaining" is forbidden primarily because people are ignorant and the NFPA and OSHA are very conservative.

Even the $4 things I picked up out of a Fry's bin one day are 14AWG -- in other words, 10a@120v for 75+ feet, even through aluminium(!) wire, is still under 5% voltage drop.

I've bought nothing but the highest-end model of Apple laptop for years. I've never measured more than about 100 watts even under load with charging, the power adapters aren't even rated for more than about 1.5 amps on the input side. You're not going to have 10 people in a row gaming on 15" MBPs at one of these events.

The best reason not to do it has nothing to do with safety. It's that if there's an inspection and/or anyone reports it, you risk an abrupt drop in your bank balance.

(Also, I just tried, I can't even make a charged late 2013 MBP with a bunch of crap plugged in go over ~0.7amps off a 122v supply, the CPU actually throttled below rated speed to prevent it!)
But for the case of deploying Java applications, it seems particularly redundant. The JVM already has a very extensive security manager framework, and since it's Java it's already write once run everywhere. You can even easily bundle your entire project into a single executable .jar for deployment.

As a Java developer, I can't fathom why someone would want to add a redundant layer of cruft on top of their project. Docker may be the latest trendy thing, but it seems like many of its users aren't entirely sure why they need it.

Edit: I should clarify that I have nothing against hypervisors or other virtualization and sandboxing schemes. However, a lot of people seem to be running Docker, under an outside hypervisor, in order to run their also virtualized language runtime. That strikes me as a bit pointless.
> technical talks from people who have built cool things would be very interesting

Yes, that's the idea. À la Startup School but with a technical focus.
It would be better if you felt compelled to explain how they are overestimates.
Trevor: Thank you for replying. I hope you (and Jessica, and everybody else involved with Startup School) don't take what I've written personally -- I nearly didn't post it for exactly that reason, but decided in the end that you're all grown-ups who won't be offended by honest criticism. ;-)

And thank you for your comments when we met -- talking to you was the highlight of the weekend for me (I didn't mention it in the blog post simply because I don't like "outing" people, in case they didn't want their presence at an event to be widely known), both because "Hey, it's tlb!" and because of the confidence you showed in Tarsnap's potential. Thirty seconds of talking to you was more inspiring than the rest of the weekend.

As for finding a co-founder... you're not the first person to say that, but after 8 years of writing code I really don't think I could bring in a co-founder at this point.
The not-icky reason is that he doesn't want to. He's not under any obligation to do it. Maybe we'd like it if he did this, but I don't think it's fair to assume bad or even just "ethically icky" motives.

If all of twitpic's data is exported or copied elsewhere, he can no longer effectively profit off of it. We don't know that his intention is to just nuke the data and be done, he may be trying to salvage what he can monetarily (and the "we're getting acquired, just kidding" thing is probably good evidence that something like this is going on behind the scenes). I don't think there's anything wrong with this either. It's his service, and if his motive was profit, it makes perfect sense to shop the data around instead of just accepting a total loss. There's no reason twitpic should have to be run for altruistic purposes.

Maybe dcurtis et al would have better luck getting a response if instead of saying "We'll cover the bandwidth costs", they said "We'll buy the data from you at a price commensurate with the years of effort and upkeep you've invested into an apparently massively important historical archive". I don't think it's fair to pretend like Noah Everett is obligated to sell his archive for the cost of bandwidth.

In any case, at this point he's made it clear that he wants to wash his hands of the project in one way or another. It's his personal project and he is and should be free to do that. This is the worst possible time to try to do a bulk archive.

I understand that we can't see into the future and can't always predict when something like this is going to go down, but I'd think we can probably improve our heuristics so that something as seemingly significant as twitpic can't just vanish into the ether next time.
I'm very curious how do you measure size of web or email systems. Email system is fully distributed as well as web is, not all of the web is publicly accessible and most of email surely is private. Because it's fully distributed system, it's really hard to come up with any numbers which aren't completely random estimates. Of course systems like gmail give you a great starting point, if you have full access to their statistics. But gmail is only a very small tip of the iceberg. I'm running my own personal server, and it seems that I handle about 3000 emails / month. None of it is spam.
The BSD beard is an entirely different type of beard to the hipster beard.
That and the incredible role of sound in the UI, so annoying for today's standards. It seems they were communicating to the users of consoles and arcade machines.

Maybe both techniques were inevitable at that stage of the general public training to technology. Both were abandoned a few years later when Windows 95 and then the web made the PC really mainstream. Their language was totally different and we all got used to it quickly.
>cut down to 100 developers and gaining a technical focus... mind you, maybe that just means I want "hacker school" more than "startup school"

I think you're absolutely right about you wanting a "hacker" school. I'm involved in a startup from the business, marketing, and front-end side and while I have a very deep and sincere respect for the time and mastery it takes to become a great engineer/developer, in my opinion there is much more to building a great product/company/startup (whichever word you prefer) than amazing tech.

pmarca expressed it well in a talk to Stanford's MBA class in that he thinks the post-dot-com pendulum swung too far to the side of purely technical founders. He believes that when engineers and technical founders realize their efforts can be greatly complimented by inspired and business driven leaders, we will see the greatest innovations. I strongly agree with that sentiment.
What you say about research being partially corrupted by agendas is generally true and applies to pretty much every area of science to varying degrees.

The claim that second language acquisition is defined solely by this is, however completely false. It is a large and well-researched academic discipline and there exists plenty of research regarding negative effects. Here is a pretty decent summary, with a very compact abstract:

Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent

http://www.yumingschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Bilin...

> The present paper summarizes research showing that bilingualism affects linguistic and cognitive performance across the
lifespan. The effect on linguistic performance is generally seen as a deficit in which bilingual children control a smaller
vocabulary than their monolingual peers and bilingual adults perform more poorly on rapid lexical retrieval tasks. The effect
on cognitive performance is to enhance executive functioning and to protect against the decline of executive control in aging.
These effects interact to produce a complex pattern regarding the effect of bilingualism on memory performance. Memory
tasks based primarily on verbal recall are performed more poorly by bilinguals but memory tasks based primarily on
executive control are performed better by bilinguals. Speculations regarding the mechanism responsible for these effects are described.
And you need something like wayland or mir to have such permission systems work. X11 is from a different age like bash ;)
I've tried that, and it does not really work. Turns out I'm just as averse to paperwork in English as I am in French.

It can also have a significant downside: I've tried maintaining a todo list in a language that I'm not very good at, only to realise that looking up highly specific vocabulary was such a chore that after a while, I'd unconsciously skip writing some entries that looked too complicated to translate.

Have a go, it might work out better for you, but this particular experiment was a failure as far as I'm concerned.
More visually pleasant email data here:
http://www.voogla.com
Finally, a informational discussion on HN..