skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could someone explain the privacy implications of mapping Wifi networks to GPS co-ordinates. Is it an opt-out thing?
As long as interest rates are above 0% QE pumps money into the system. If you bought a 10% yield 10-year bond last year and that yield went to 0% it means you can sell that bond today for the same price you'd get in maturity. So that's a pretty good deal. The government or the central bankers are basically giving free money to bond holders on the assumption they will go use that money to stimulate the real economy. I think the last few years prove that it works to some degree but definitely a lot of that money gets stuck in various places, e.g. the banks.

During QE the central bank can also acquire other assets that are riskier than bonds and take risk off other people's balance sheet, again hoping that money will be used to stimulate the real economy.

At 0% it pretty much stops working. Up to 0% some bond holders are still holding on because they are betting on that being the better investment. The other problem is how do you exit QE. We're going to find out how that works over the next few years...
Equally authoritative? I had no idea WHATWG was drafting specifications, let alone considered authoritative.
"Sure all things being equal."

Yes, but not only then. There are some things worth sacrificing to that end. Clarity shouldn't be one of them.

"When you go to a teacher to be instructed, its counter-productive to be thin-skinned."

And when you serve as a teacher, it is counter-productive to not make reasonable accommodation for whatever skin your student has.

I don't think we're saying anything new anymore.
I've thankfully never seen a Windows Server with Flash, Reader, iTunes or VirtualBox installed, sounds like a security nightmare waiting to happen regardless updates.

I also see lots of insecure and outdated applications running on Linux servers, especially Wordpress, Drupal, myphpadmin, cPanel etc. Heartbleed and Shellshock themselves are still not patched in a good percentage of servers.
Are you really that proud of the status quo? lets see, we'll take a bunch of bank acounts, pay zero interest, and only let rich people & corporations borrow without abandon to finance their acquisition (er, corner) the market in all real-assets? Sounds like a great plan if your biz modle if f(n)% of asset inflation.
We cannot even reliably forecast the weather one week in the future, and you are advocating climate engineering on a global scale? Forgive me for being skeptical. I'm not aware of any so-called geo-engineering effort that has been successful other than those whose aim was strictly to undo whatever it is we did to fuck things up in the first place.

There is no fourth option. It's simply delusional.
It's deprecated in Windows Server 2012:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831568.aspx

I believe it was removed with 2012 R2.
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Wow nice insight, I am going to try a protype, where a deaf look at the person on the retina or glass, he can see what he is talking...that's beautiful and amazing. Yes I love transcense , if they can do good and i believe a retina display is must for deaf and dump, suddenly imagine their world coming alive , where they can experience sound , on retina or glass, it's beautiful real work.

Keep it up guys at transcense
Email is for people who don't like reliable communication.

Too many blackholes for your message to fall into. Too many spammers, I block 90% of around 100,000 messages a day. Too many servers use unreliable blacklists. No notification anything has gone wrong.
Best selling car in the US is, and has been for years, the Ford F-150.
Your insights make me feel that a deflationary economy might be better

It's a superficially attractive option because who doesn't like stuff getting cheaper? but before long that turns into wage cuts or layoffs because there's less and less money to pay people with.

If you've gotten a house and you're happy where you are you won't have to worry about not being able to afford it in the future.

Sure - deflation is great if you already have all the fixed assets you want and are not dependent on cash flow. If you don't, it's just as bad as runaway inflation. If you have debt, it's a lot worse.
Absolutely, and you've got to remember that the gatekeepers use heuristics meant to target the greatest chance at being the rightest, not ensuring that they don't miss a few obvious ones. Such it is with YC - their heuristics are designed to ensure that they catch the potential unicorns (among other things) and aren't concerned with missing a few that would seem obvious in retrospect.

And btw they seem to do well - all the "misses" are middling wins - for example Buffer (a poster boy for a YC miss) is an amazing company, but it's not a miss YC will ever rue. The misses for YC should actually validate so many founders - if you're looking to be a Buffer (which, if you want to live a good life, you should consider) you should bear in mind that I think even looking back on Buffer, YC would take them knowing about them what they know, but they wouldn't change their criteria for accepting founders to make sure they don't miss Buffer and they shouldn't. There are lots of great businesses and even big-win startups that YC isn't set up to catch, and that could be you.
WebOS and Jolla had/have a ton of closed source components(pretty much the whole GUI) but run on top of Linux so there's a loophole somehere.
A lush is someone who overindulges in alcohol enthusiastically, but doesn't rise to the level of being an alcoholic. It is commonly used to tease someone about their drinking without calling them a drunk.
Yes, wanting some other language in the browser is a very common wish on hacker news. It's just completely and utterly impractical in real life.

Even if you found some way to get some other language into the browser without translating to javascript; (and this has been done before. remember vbscript?)...
the new guest language has to co-exist with any javascript that might also run on the page, share the same memory, share the same dom objects, share the same GC, and avoid all the multiple potential nasty browser crashing bugs that could result from trying to do that. And you have to ship the runtime for that language along with the browser, or as sigh another plugin. And guess what, no backwards compatibility.

Given that, you then have to cope with the fact that javascript's GC might not totally make sense for your language, and do all the workarounds that requires.

Compiling to ASM.js gets around this by essentially giving you a low level VM whose bytecode just happens to look like javascript, and whose behavior when interpreted as javascript happens to be correct. When run in firefox, the code is short circuited and ahead-of-time compiled. It doesn't have to deal with the javascript GC since it allocates a heap for the guest program ahead of time as well.

This is really cool if you think about it. You get javascript's more or less secure sandboxing, you get access to all the apis, you can interact just fine with existing javascript libraries, with about the lowest amount of overhead you can get just short of the NaCl approach (which is basically just a revisit of activeX)

The only downside to all this:

it's not the web.

This is not web. It runs in a web browser, but it's downloading a blob up front, ahead of time compiling, and playing a raw executable inside a browser host.

There's considerable advantages to zero-install programs and games. But you know, exchanging one kind of opaque inaccessible blob in a webpage for a different kind that just happens to not need plugins is not that great.

Accessibility is a good thing, and we shouldn't be too eager to throw it away for the shiny.
Were you planning on bringing anything of substance to this discussion?
This would be an interesting addition. I realized that Google is showing off Ingress as a game, but most technical users know it's about data-mining for maps and other location based products. Mozilla is openly showing this off as something that is about gathering data.
Why would a sharp, unexpected deflation cause people to stop buying durable goods?

Concretely: One day, the price of everything has dropped 10%. After that day, things return to normal. Why would I not buy a new laptop? I'd feel bad if I bought one before the drop, but that's a different matter.

This is also quite unrelated to the article which discusses consistent and expected low deflation rates.

Many workers are quite willing to pay cuts in hard times, but get fired anyway because there is a glut of inventory and lack of buyers, so they are not worth employing at any price.

This is clearly not true. During the entire recession, I was happy to pay people $5.15 or even $7.25/hour to clean my house. Yet maids cost far more than that.

In any case, your claim that workers are fired because they have nothing to produce is the ZMP (Zero Marginal Productivity) theory. This falls into PSST/Austrian/Structuralist theories and is quite outside the purview of monetary economics. If a worker has zero real productivity, they will be unemployed regardless of monetary conditions.
QE pumps money into the system, but in exchange removes something that's very nearly money. I honestly have no clue as to the overall size of the effect - really big X times a really small y could wind up just about anywhere.
Congratulations; I hope this gives us a safe, effective, open location service.

The privacy policy[1] could be clarified for less technical readers, and even for others. I infer that collected data is anonymous because you write,

1) We receive publicly observable data about WiFi access points and cell towers around you, your estimated latitude and longitude, and the date -- Not associated with anything else, that may be anonymous data -- though you could guess my home network or home location by the most common/strongest wifi signals. If you track data by submitter, you also would have a good idea of their travels.

2) we may receive certain temporary data such as your IP address. This data is deleted after being used as follows ... -- You seem to be implying that you do receive non-anonymous data, and delete it after innocuous uses.

3) You can send us data anonymously or under a nickname -- Which implies anonymity is possible.

If what I infer is correct, why not restate it directly and unequivocally with something like the following:

Unless you choose otherwise, the data you send will be anonymous and not associated with you in any way. We will not record who you are or what phone sent the data. We do receive some non-anonymous data, but we delete it within X hours/days after using it as follows ...

And add more detail after that.

[1] https://location.services.mozilla.com/privacy

EDIT: Clarify a bit, and a correction to #1
> " traditional input devices (keyboards) are increasingly compatible with mobile hardware"

For some people, it's not the input that matters, or the computing power, but the output. Big, high-res displays are still in demand. I'm not sure wearable displays will ever replace them -- even if Glass gets to be much higher than its current 640x320 resolution, it's a lot more difficult to shift your focus from one part of the "screen" to another if it's being projected directly into your eye.
My guess would be - don't ask but do. Asking for permission probably makes it already a "no".
Fantastic. It'd be great if it would integrate with the Store. I'm guessing that even if it supports dependency resolution, most packages will just be monolithic blobs like currently. That does have its advantages, so it'll be interesting to see if people switch to specifying dependencies instead of bundling them.
http://v001.sportsup.club/

Sportsup - A platform to build sports career and organise sports event. Its like a LinkedIn for athletes, clubs and teams but much more detail of sport, stats and events. API to connect with Wearables and Health Kit. Helps players to discover new teams, matches and clubs.
Premium users gets - detailed player statistics, deep search, finding sponsors. Sponsors can use this platform to evaluate a team, player or club.
Why? What's the point? NT isn't bad at all, it's just different from POSIX (hell, I can't believe the irony of this statement, but I'm glad that Microsoft is still around to resist the POSIX monoculture). Neither Microsoft nor the Free Software™ world would gain much from killing the NT kernel, but the latter camp would gain so much more from learning the lessons that made Windows so successful 20 goddamned years after the fact. It's so sad hearing Linus passionately say "you do not break binary compatibility in the kernel" then watching people on the outside flagrantly disregard this concept time and time again.
> it seems that you need to know someone

Assuming this is true, this must be one of the easiest things in the world to hack. I would be very worried about any aspiring tech entrepreneur who couldn't manage to connect with a group of people who are as open and as generous with their time as many of the YC alums are.

> tendency to fund those who need it the least

First, I wonder if this is really true. It may look that way, but I imagine that many of the companies are in the product/market fit stage. Some may find themselves actually in the problem/solution fit stage. I imagine few are in the straight-up scaling stage.

Second, from YC's perspective, I think that they should definitely have some companies in each class for which they will simply act as a multiplier -- that is, get the company to where it is going, just faster and (maybe) better.

Lastly, if traction and/or revenue really are the key to acceptance, aspiring YC companies could simply use this as a parameter to consider when developing their company. IMHO, this is a case of the tail wagging the dog, but it's something to consider.
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>And smartphones don't override culture.

What does override culture?

Talking to the people around you? Newspapers? Books? Telephones? Peoples options? News?

Culture: the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

If you don't think that an instantaneous audio/graphical communications device cannot be used as a means to effect culture you are highly confused about what culture is.
See my post below for some answers; I was writing as you posted yours ...
I might state it differently: set yourself up for iteration. Sounds a little like the "Lean" tenets.
And on that note, the more places mobile puts it's fingers, ultimately, the more places that someone needs to make sure the finger points to the right thing. Every google maps, yelp review, craigslist post, etc., needs someone ultimately to vet it's place in reality before said reality can be made useless by it. I think we're on the cusp of mobile overload, where we're going to see more and more specialized mobile services made useless because we simply don't have the manpower to wire them up well without taking that manpower from something else.

So, while we may not be peaked in terms of what could be done, we're nearing the point where what WILL be done is starting to look more and more focused on the things that grab quick money.

Oddly, I think the next big revolution will be the generation that's tired of being chained to their devices and subscriptions and services, and starts to devolve back to actual interpersonal relationships. I'm seeing it every day with those of us who grew up without it, had it, and realized that it's not quite the silver bullet for living it marketed itself as.

Siri still sucks, Google maps still gets you lost, and visual studio still blows on a touchscreen laptop.
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We are looking to bring on one developer to our team that has experience in the previous areas and is willing to commit some time into further development of the tool. It is critical that the developer be a self-motivate individual as we are open to remote work and oversight will be limited. Our team is fast paced and is looking for someone that can derive a conceptual understanding of the development need, devise a plan to execute it, then systematically work through the implementation and testing.

The compensation for this position is in the form of equity in addition to a monthly salary.

An ideal candidate would...
-have strong knowledge and proven track record in the previous mentioned technical areas
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This edges into politics, which means some people are pretty much incapable of believing it: If they believed it, they'd have to revise their political views, and that would lead to a lot of other changes in their lives.

To be specific, if the race isn't always to the swift, and if the best person can lose due to situations out of their control, maybe it isn't immoral to rely on a social support system for a while, which implies that perhaps we should fund such things.

And saying that is political suicide in some circles.
Rejection email from Y Combinator
Hi Friends,

I've just received rejection email from Ycombinator... :( Though I realize, how competitive it gets to get in, its not the start one expect for their product or idea...

I would appreciate if fellow community members can help point out ares of improvement in my product or idea,

http://joday.com

Thanks for your time! I really appreciate it!

Nish
Founder, Joday.com
We haven't received any response yet...
Anybody else NOT received a response ?
>Are current permaculture techniques a viable method for replacing industrial agriculture?

Note that industrial agriculture isn't a viable replacement for itself (that's what being unsustainable means). So if you're expecting any drop-in replacement for industrial agriculture to be sustainable, you'll be disappointed.

Permaculture is a process for designing systems. You can use it to design food systems, financial systems, energy systems, etc. And like most processes, you can fuck it up and do a bad job. :)

>Can they produce enough calories per acre to feed the projected world population on the projected amount of arable land?

An underlying assumption here is that food has to be produced on "arable" (read: cleared) land. This is tremendously inefficient, since most sunlight strikes bare soil and therefore isn't photosynthesized.

Forests yield an order of magnitude more biomass per hectare without any human inputs, so it's definitely possible. The trick is to design the forest so it yields useful outputs while minimizing inputs.[1]

This is all pretty abstract, so here's a simple example. Human labor is an input, and one technique to minimize it is zone analysis[2]. During zone analysis you minimize labor and energy by consciously placing the most frequently visited elements closest, followed by the next, and so on. This sounds obvious, but it avoids many common mistakes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixx1c3RSw_8#t=28m25s

[2] http://deepgreenpermaculture.com/permaculture/permaculture-d...
Thanks. As a follow-up, there are existing services that already have this database. So why build another one? Is it because the existing ones aren't open source?
Assuming an absence of capital letters, the very hardest part has to be in ignoring personal bias enough that one can objectively determine which side is more hysterical.

On any of the hot button issues the proponents and opponents both view themselves as perfectly logical, and their opposites as being hysterical, with very, very few people in the middle who may have an opinion, but are legitimately able to see both sides of things.
I'm Australian and thought it was in fairly common usage.
Hi Friends,

I've just received rejection email from Ycombinator... :( Though I realize, how competitive it gets to get in, its not the start one expect for their product or idea...

while, I am working on to make my product, I would appreciate if fellow community members can help point out ares of improvement in my product,

http://joday.com

Thanks for your time! I really appreciate it!

Nish
Founder, Joday.com
It's not that dirty, but you do have to design for those concerns.

Acid rain can be buffered by adding seashells (lime) in the tank.

You can easily tip off the first N gallons of dirty rain (pollution, roof washing, etc) with a dead-end pipe with a dribble tube.
do you think is something what people really want ?
If you want to get into YC, it's quite simple.

You have to optimize for what they want and considering how transparent the application process is, it's actually quite easy. PG's essays are step-by-step guides on how to "tick" all the right boxes. They even give you the list of ideas they wish to fund. How nice of them... No wonder YC has announced that quality of applications is increasing. It's not increasing because startups are getting better. It's increasing because more startups are optimizing.

Remember Nikki Durkin from 99dresses? She didn't just apply. She spent huge amount of time researching partners, their history, what they liked, what they wanted to hear... and she has delivered just that like a rockstar. How many promising founders are rejected because they just didn't bother to optimize like Durkin?

To me, if you get rejected, it just means you didn't put enough time into the application. If your goal is to get into YC, then keep trying, you will figure it out.

But in the end, if you are real entrepreneur, figure out what you are doing with your business. Don't optimize for YC, just do what you've got to do and if YC wants to join you for a ride, then fine. If not, too bad for them.
More like

C: \> instpkg32.exe /DefaultSettings:ALL_DEFAULTS
C: \>

Cryptically named command with verbose arguments, that then goes on to fire a GUI window that requires manual intervention: that's the Microsoft way.
Google X reveals nano pill to seek out cancerous cells
This is very true, but the fact is that I'm not interested in solving the problem. I'm satisfied with contributing less to it. The sacrifice asked of me is too much, and it seems most people think so. Would we rather have catastrophic climate change in the future if it permits our current standards of living? I think I speak for almost everyone when I answer in the affirmative.

Sure, I bike, I recycle, and I take public transit instead of driving. But I know that this doesn't change the world. It just reduces my contribution to the problem, and that is sufficient for me.
> I mean, didn't we stop believing in a benevolent God at some point ?

Who is we? The majority of the world believes in a "Supreme Being". In the US, about 75% believe in God, and in the EU 51% believe in God.
HTML5 finalized, finally
That's fairly condescending.

Seeing projects like this only affirm what I've generally felt about Google. They don't build stuff to sell ads. They sell ads to do cool stuff like this.
Seems like a great idea, hate wasting time on finding the appropriate person for a task on elance/odesk/fiverr.
We have leaderboards showing the top stumblers overall and for the last seven days. We have lots of gamification ideas inspired by Ingress or the Nintendo DS game "Treasure World", but nothing in the works yet.

https://location.services.mozilla.com/leaders

https://location.services.mozilla.com/leaders/weekly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_World
Thanks YC