skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a problem with hardline Conservatives who see Snowden as a out-and-out traitor, don't see a major problem with a heavily police-friendly state, and are generally looking for any means to bash the President for not being "tough enough" with "the bad guys".

This can be a good way of saying what lot of people need and want to hear without giving the poo-flinging trolls a clear target for their displeasure.
Ahh, I see.

I'm curious if they're using any learning algorithms here, where the computer 'learns' how to re-touch the photos. Or if its a more simple list of rules, i.e make these colors darker / brighter.
Surely you have to ask yourself, if your proposed solution is energy intensive desalination, perhaps the problem actually is using too much water?
So you are arguing java and activeX are better than web apps? Because that is the comparison you are responding too.

The 1/100 of a penny worth of electricity that analytic scripts cost you a year is worse than the security nightmare of java applets and activeX? Come on.
GSAP – High-performance HTML5 animation library
Yes, I think (automatic) car makers will have to be extremely careful. If we have dramatic accidents to soon, it may be hard to sway the public opinion with statistics (as is the current case with nuclear power).
There appears to be a five year periodicity to the lifting of the drought, I wonder if that will happen in 2015, I assume that is because of a reoccurring El Nino? If not, can someone enlighten me :)
> It takes the best of C++, Java and Python … and then it really tightens everything up.

"in 2004" belongs in that statement.
They're trying to be kind to the people they just refused, I'm not sure why that's pretentious. If you applied, presumably you wanted to get in and reminding them that it's not necessarily them or their company which is wrong is a kind thing to do.
It's the worst web platform except for all other platforms.
One positive data point here. We got invited for an interview [1]!

It's at least the 4th time I've applied, 2nd time with this company, and the 1st time I've been invited for an interview.

Good luck to everyone, and as I always tell myself: YC is not the goal, making something people want is not the goal, making something good that people want is the goal.

[1]: https://www.openlistings.co/
>>> Not in my city.

Wait, in your city cars don't have license plates? Which city is that?
Space is the new Wild West
Only slightly less euphemistic than flying's CFIT - Controlled Flight Into Terrain. AKA "whoops, the ground".
> I'm curious to hear how much you see as "too much money" to keep
> your team from getting out of the rack/stack/burn/test/QA/QC/deploy.

Early on the "too much money" would have been maybe a 20 percent premium. But now that we have scaled up and have all the teams in place, "too much money" is probably even a 1 percent premium. In other words, if we moved to a commercial solution now it would be because we actually SAVE money over using our own pods. That shouldn't be impossible - a commercial operation could make their profit margin out of a variety of savings, like maybe their drives fail less often than ours do because they do better vibration dampening. Or since this is "end-to-end cost of ownership" if the commercial system could save half of our electricity bill by being lower power then they can keep 100 percent of that.

We have a simple spreadsheet that calculates the cost of space rental for datacenter cabinets, the electricity pods use, the networking they use, the cost of all the switches, etc. It isn't overwhelmingly complex or anything. It includes the cost of salaries of datacenter techs with a formula that says stuff like "for every 400 pods we hire one more datacenter tech", stuff like that.
Hopefully if we went to a commercial built storage system we could increase the ratio like only hire one more datacenter tech every 800 pods. The storage vendor could pocket the salary of that employee we did not hire.

Or heck, maybe a large vendor can get a better price on hard drives than we get. We buy retail.

> reaching VMI (maybe you are already there?) procurement levels?

I'm not completely sure I understand the question, but here is one answer: in a modern web and email and connected world with tons of competition, I'm not sure there are any economies of scale past the first 10 computers you build. Places will laser cut and fold sheet metal in units of "1" for extremely reasonable prices, it's AMAZING what the small manufacturers can do for you nowadays.
That's right. But it's more difficult to exploit, because you have to smash the caller's return address, not your own, and then wait for the caller to return. Anyways, my point is merely that if you wanted to design an ISA that maximizes exploitability of buffer overflows, you'd be hard pressed to do better than x86.
I also felt insecure being a black male in tech. A lot of it came from when I would go to tech events or hackathons in NYC and I would be the only black male at most of them and at others there would only be one other black guy. Also for jobs I felt I had to take w.e. salary I was offered . Mainly because I felt I was even lucky to be black and have a tech job. Then one day I realized that fear was in my head . I was never once denied a job and if anything a lot of businesses want to be more diversed and they just don't find a lot of good black candidates in Tech and I could use that to my advantage. I also find a lot of techies listen to hip hop as well and that helped us connect. What also helped me get over it was that no one cared I was black.In all my years at being active in the community no one has ever mentioned it even when I felt it was the elephant in the room. I think in tech more people are open to the idea that it's not the color of your skin or your sex ... They judge you off how smart you are and what you are bringing to the table
"A bit" ... ><

Seriously, who is this guy?
You could always scrounge up a copy of IE5 for Mac ;)
So last time I used this was back in August 2013.

The main concerns we had was scalability and reliability.

How does 1.0 address the previous concerns that was enough to abandon meteor.js altogether?
Why are you making assumptions about the education level of Uber drivers? 15% of cab drivers in the US hold a bachelor's degree [1] and I'm sure that number will keep rising.

I've heard complaints about how increased competition with other drivers and slashing fares are causing driver's salary to dramatically decrease lately. I can't comment on the "average" driver salary however, it is a job that comes with some serious caveats, which is the territory of being an independent contractor - so because of that real salary is significantly lower than that of employees making the equivalent.

this may be of interest

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/some...

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-06-25/why-are-so-...
The debris field would have been over the Atlantic, had the rocket made it that far. However it failed while it was still over the launchpad, fell out of the sky, and exploded when it fell onto the launchpad.
I think 40% is atypically high. However, people have been wondering what the saturation point might be (with no sign of slowing down) for years ;)
Thanks - I stand corrected, I didn't know about that accident.

Still, it wouldn't be a "failure" under GP's original definition: "failure" as in "it explodes and everybody dies" :)
Damn, I was thinking about trying for a "late" application, but apply.ycombinator.com seems to be down.

Does anyone know if they still allow this, in principle? Or are batches now so saturated (with good ideas) that they dropped the option?
TLDR: if you run out of RAM you're permitted to allocate, things that need a RAM allocation may malfunction. Ok then.
See this post for a description of our terminology:

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2014/10/14/introducing-...

If I write

var C = React.createClass(...);

var e = <C />;
var c = React.render(e, document.body);

then C is a class, e is an element (previously "descriptor"), and c is the actual mounted component. Components are generally accessible only through "this", refs, and the return value of React.render.
A relevant question I asked PG a year ago:
[Do you review rejected YC apps to find startups who then made it big?] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7122774
http://www.orbital.com/LaunchSystems/Publications/Antares_Us... has a glossary item for "Automatic Destruct System".
The 68k address/data register split is ugly, and the double-indirect addressing modes probably cause more difficulties for a fast implementation than any x86 quirk (though this can be cured with R&D money).
We do still allow late apps. We're working on the problem and hope to have it back up soon. Sorry guys!
No problem, thanks for the quick response!
We made these changes to try to make React better for everyone, but if you would like to continue using React 0.11, please do.
Agreed.

* JSX more tightly coupled,

* less straightforward JSX->JS mapping - I used to be so excited to tell people how JSX simply maps to function calls in JS... well, now it generates boilerplate instead.

* worse non-JSX syntax

I don't buy the ES6/CS/TS argument - wrapping classes with createFactory before exporting seems fine to me, and I use typescript. Also, from what I can see the object literal syntax is always worse.

So its basically all about Jest. The only reason I see is that a mocking tool can't handle factories. Makes me a bit sad. Seems like a good example of "test induced design damage" to me. How about adding plugins to that mocking tool instead?
It's ironic that people who call Torvalds as being black-and-white only see him as black-and-white-themselves. That page is a long page full of back-and-forth over different aspects of architectures, well-written, and he has issues against all of them (hardly black-and-white)

If you search for 'stupid', there's only one place where it's directed at people rather than technical issues, and then it's about a 'stupid question' rather than a stupid person. And then he goes on to describe why he thinks it's stupid - because the question implies no-one had tried before, when there had actually been a lot of effort for no gain.

TLDR: You're using Torvalds as a punching bag. Which is ironic, given that you're pinging him for using others as a punching bag.
Nitrous.IO Adds Meteor 1.0 Box Template
> "Challenger and Columbia were both spectacular failures, and both were the result of dysfunctional corporate culture at NASA."

Feynman's Appendix F should be required reading for every sort of engineer: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...

It's a little bit long, and gets a bit technical at some points, but everyone should read it anyway.
>>> A limit is the number you are "expected" to get from a function (or algebraic expression) when it takes in a certain input. By "expected" it is referring to the expectation of the output when x "approaches" a certain value.

>>> Limit can be viewed as either the biggest or smallest impossible number for a function to output, when you put in numbers that are slightly smaller or bigger than what x is approaching.

I realize this is intended to be an elementary discussion of calculus, but both of these definitions made me cringe. The second seems closer to the formal definition that I remember learning. And the formal definitions might not be necessary for making practical use of calculus. But I would call them explanations or analogies rather than definitions.

I taught college freshman math for one semester. The idea that the right answer is the right answer because it's what the teacher "expected" is a strong misconception that my students somehow formed while in high school
It's similar to a bonus for making the correct prediction. Obviously one would need independent validation that the scientist's prediction was correct.

It wouldn't be sufficient for scientists to make predictions based on the work of others since the tools and so forth available to the candidate would not necessarily be widely accessible. However, once a scientist has 1) made a prediction, 2) demonstrated that their prediction holds out, and 3) that it is independently verified, then they should get rewarded at a rate above that of their peers who make predictions that don't hold out.

Edit: "prediction" in the above is easily replaced by "hypothesis".
It's amusing to me to watch the WHATWG people complain about the W3C having the temerity to put out revisions to their own specification, and then complaining about how the W3C is copying their work. Would they rather W3C put out an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT HTML specification from theirs? Would that be better for anyone at all?
A classic, Forget Shorter Showers: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801...
US Rocket explodes seconds after lift off
Sometimes I wonder how much better off we'd be with something exactly like x86, but with a stack that grows upwards.
Just to note -- Nautilus is also a print publication! I have their substantial (nearly 200 pages), beautiful (simple and effective layout, thick glossy pages), and fascinating Fall 2014 issue on the table in front of me. I've made a conscious effort to read more physical books lately, because tablets and even Kindle holds too many temptations for my distractable self. When I'm not quite in a book mood, it turns out that a high-quality periodical like Nautilus is still very wonderful, even in our webby world.
Nobody is saying they should. The data is yours, and if you don't get any value from giving access to it, then don't.

My question was: Assuming you get something in return (better health, or longer life, for example), what are the factors you are weighing against it?

Note in particular that I'm not saying there aren't any. I'm just challenging the knee-jerk statement of "my body's bio-chemical data is super private and sensitive so nothing in the world can be worth giving access to it", without any actual argument for it.
California produced about 2 billion pounds of beef last year. That comes out to 8% of the US market for beef, the vast majority of which comes from the US.

The numbers I found said that each pound of beef requires anywhere between 1000 and 5000 gallons of water. (I suspect the high end is probably too high, so let's go with the low end.) That gives us 2 trillion gallons of water used in California each year for beef production.

Back of the napkin: If 10% of people who get their beef from California replace it chicken (which uses about a half the water per pound, both are about 1,000 calories per pound), the state would save 100 billion gallons of water per year. That's about 3 days worth of water for the whole state.

(Apologies for lack of sources, I didn't realize this would turn into a research piece, so I didn't save them, but they seemed reputable.)
I'm not sure I really understand what this is about. What exactly does DuckDuckGo want me to hack? Are people writing plugins to improve the search results of a for-profit company's proprietary search engine?
the performance and memory bottleneck in the web is not, as it is commonly believed, javascript, or html.

It's the increasingly complicated DOM, and CSS3 layout model.

Web Apps go slow, and this gets blamed on javascript because that's the language you happen to be writing in. (or wronging in). But the slowness you get usually comes from the constant triggering and retriggering of giant byzantine relayout and compositing algorithms from what you might think is reasonably written code.

it's THAT problem that facebook's react library is aimed at... fixing? no, reducing. Write reasonable JS, and let the library optimise DOM interactions.

Every new feature of HTML5 and CSS adds some weight to those enormous piles of sand the browser has to shift around.

Binary formats would not fix that. Bytecodes wouldn't fix that. Different languages wouldn't fix that. Javascript is fine. it's the DOM and CSS that need to be fixed.
Open-Source Clojure Library for Geospatial Information
Where is the abrasiveness in this article?
As I commented there: http://garrett.damore.org/2014/09/modernizing-less.html
what's worse is that BSS and data pages are faulted in, so just to startup the OS has to page in multiple times, just to read/write those globals that people love so much... It would be much much better to make no use whatsoever of globals (i.e. put everything on the stack in main() )...
Cuando la seguridad se convierte en una ventaja estratégica para el negocio
I really dont like google or they "dont be evil" lies.
I believe they are the one of the most dangerous organization.. Call me skeptic or negative, I hope people would use they head and tey to avoid googles services..
guys are all the results out?!
> * You're product has realtime/ collaborative elements that are a SELLING feature [not just for your personal enjoyment].

What opportunities exist in the enterprise market that specifically benefits from this feature?
Meteor is already easy to setup, but for those of you on Windows or who want a clean sandbox to develop meteor apps, we launched a custom Meteor template on Nitrous today. We also increased the free resources:

http://blog.nitrous.io/2014/10/28/meteor-template-on-nitrous...
"Don’t let funding take your eye off the goal: making something people want. Everything else, including going through Y Combinator, is there to support that goal but is not the goal itself." Exactly...
Kim Kardashian Loves Her Blackberry Talk at Recode
Even in the computer field, picking up a 30-year-old unmaintained project is very hard, original designers gone, everything around it retired, use case changed and maybe some tricks may never be known.

As for these engines, they're currently retrofitted with new kind of fuel, new electronics and some modifications, after 30 years, by a totally different team.

I really don't think this kind of thing would work.
This is the exact case of a crowded doorway [1] we discussed almost two years ago on HN: Higher the number of applications implies higher the perceivable quality of YC applications. Implies higher the probability of riskier bets to fall through.

What's potentially dangerous about this situation is that quite a few glossy low-risk companies will outdo the more riskier ones - even though YC staff is one of the best in the world and thoroughly equipped to do what it does - and thus lowering the chances of fishing real gems off the coast.

I do not have the numbers, but how have the batches of later years done as compared to the early ones which had Dropbox, Airbnb in them?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5648760
If you're being contacted by an anonymous person you have no idea who they are in the first place. Since you don't know an anonymous person's identity, how are you supposed to fetch and validate their public key?
> But for a lot of use cases small touch screen devices are simply inadequate.

The number of use cases is less important.

What are the most common use cases?

You're conflating people that use computers as part of their job incidentally, with people that use a computer because their job inherently necessitates one. Refer to this article about the most common occupations in the US: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-10-m...

Managing emails, customer relationship software, and checking websites are often the extent of how a person uses a computer at their job.

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> So we find ourselves in the ironic situation of a domain that is experiencing almost unprecedented growth but in which almost nobody is making money except Facebook and the vendors of what are essentially gimmicky slot machine games.

Business facing software never gets mainstream news whether it's mobile or not. It just so happens that most new and popular consumer focused technology is mobile / web.

Making news =/= making money.

Microsoft, Oracle, etc. make gobs of money selling to business and enterprise customers. You never hear about it because it's uninteresting.

In the same vein, you don' hear about business software that runs on mobile. "Make my business software work on mobile" is a booming category of work in software development.

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> People that need to edit complex spreadsheets, compose scores for films, analyze genomes, and render 3d effects need real computers.

In the cases you suggested you propose that it's different. However, they might need the physical interface of a real computer, or the technical power of a real computer, but they don't really need a "real computer"

- traditional input devices (keyboards) are increasingly compatible with mobile hardware

- tablets and cell phones are only getting MORE powerful, not less

--

It's really just a matter of time before the line between mobile and desktop disappears.

Part of what's keeping it there is simply the fact that desktop class hardware from the last 2004 is still good enough to do what most people need to do in 2014
Evidence please - surely you have something better than a 7 year old talk about a proposal and a conspiracy-mongering chemtrails website. I looked at the Documents section there and it's a joke - one white paper from 1966, one guy's investigation of his single diseased rhododendron plant, one unpassed bill introduced by Dennis Kucinich and written by a couple of UFO researchers, and a slide deck on possible geoengineering methods.

http://contrailscience.com/kucinich-chemtrails-and-hr-2977/

Sorry, this is kooksville. A reasonable argument would start with a review of meteorological classification and then assert novel observations before introducing theories about possible causes. Instead we have some guy who drones into his camcorder about how sheeple can't remember what real clouds look like.
I assume the vehicle telemetry downlink and the comm link to the ISS are encrypted to avoid interference.
The learning happens on the level of seeing what would a human retoucher does by using the data we gathered from the editor: https://www.polarr.co/editor
Yep. just compile it to javascript/asm.js and you get basically native speed, same security sandbox as javascript, and all the same problems with the web; the vast majority of which have absolutely nothing to do with javascript.
I would appear that the current subsidies are leading to an actual shortage of water.
However you want to justify ADBlock to yourself...
Checked them out, they seem super useful. Thanks for the tip.
>How's that offline web apps thing going?

it was going just fine until apple disabled it in iOS7

but despite that setback, google continues to bank its entire business on offline web apps.
Well, that's why I said that in the long term this might be solved. There is nothing as good right now, but in principle it could exist.

Secondly, I doubt that a process manager with support for cgroups would need to run on microcontrollers. At least up to this point, I have not seen many microcontrollers running Linux containers.

Lastly, a hybrid solution could be good: process manager identifies what processes to kill and in what order, oomkiller does the killing.
Orbital's statement regarding ORB-3 launch mishap
There was another unsuccessful launch, when second stage rocket hasn't properly separated from the third. Everyone survived, but they have experienced pretty high acceleration and landed just 21 minutes after the launch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7K-T_No.39
85 Gallons per day - Interestingly. In Australia [In my particular urban region] - that same usage would cost AUD$38 per month (Roughly $3.90 per 1000L)
7th rejection, doesn't even phase me anymore. :P

For those with less experience, the disappointment will pass. Take a day if you need to reflect on what you're doing, why you're doing it and how you could do it better.

Rejection is fuel for the fire, use it to burn brighter going forward.

Next time, be so good they can't ignore you, simple as that.
Which means no standard at all.

I'm grateful to W3C for continuing their standardization work.
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This has nothing to do with the current event, right? Linking to it is pure sensationalism.