skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - A reentry breakup recorder

Right, there was to be a video recording of the Cygnus spacecraft as it reentered and broke up (it's designed to disintegrate). Kind of ironic now.
CRM for customers, searchable communications (text, google apps) and social media for biz contacts. Formal tracking is time consuming when I can just search for the person and review what we've talked about. I keep hashtagged notes all over the place (in emails, Slack, Trello) that I can search if I need to, but I rarely do. Being scientific about tracking interactions seems less important to me than being able to read the social queues I'm getting that day.
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Oh interesting. I didn't know it was still moving along. It had a lot of momentum a few years back, but hasn't been making nearly as much noise since. Not sure if the founder's suicide actually correlated with the dropoff in media attention.
If you want it to change, develop something to change it.

I'm not aware of a single technology with a goal to fundamentally upset any of the things you listed.

Personally, I'm satisfied with javascript development. Is it perfect? No. Are there lots of things that could be done better? Absolutely.

But it frustrates me how many people complain about how much it sucks when there are no projects (with any support) attempting to really change things. If my opinion of javascript is wrong and it really is that bad - I'd think there would be more of a movement to move away from it.
Even with no Metro version of Firefox, the desktop version could be better. Touch scrolling in IE for desktop feels like it does on a smartphone. Firefox is jerkier and doesn't get momentum quite right.
> And the "anisotropic instruction encoding" makes so much sense that ARM adopted it (in a much simplified fashion) with Thumb-2.

And then abandoned it in their 64-bit architecture in favor of the old uniform 32-bit, FWIW.
Here's his statement on twitter from today: "Sorry to hear about the @OrbitalSciences launch. Hope they recover soon"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/527247155954610176

Was he speaking facts? Because if they were using rockets made in the 60s - he's not really badmouthing them as much as he is making public facts.
A single particle can take infinite number of positions.
You might want to reconsider your current idea though - Have you looked into google Inbox? They are coming out with a lot of email improving functionality.

I got my invite for Google Inbox today, and it's pretty to look at, but not something I'll use long term. In the end any pretty interface you put on email will suffer from the same flaw - it's built on a protocol that is just blobs of text. Inbox does make it easier to visualize what's in my inbox right now but the search is still just a plain text search.

I'm getting a head start on Christmas shopping, so I have a lot of orders being shipped to me. Can I search for all packages that are currently "in transit"? No. Can I search for every Techcrunch article I've sent to my cofounder that mentions YC? No. The reason I can't do these searches in email is because the messages are just blobs of text, when they should be JSON. That's the problem we're trying to solve with MorphMail.
This is actually an anti-pattern that we're explicitly trying to get rid of. The fewer components you have, the fewer optimization hooks you have. This also have subtle changes in semantics, and disables local optimizations in the consuming files.

The idea of a lightweight declaration of a component (e.g. a just function) is definitely still on the table and might be resurrected in a different form.

https://github.com/reactjs/react-future/blob/master/01%20-%2...
A stack that grows upwards means that you exploit the return address of called functions instead of your current function.

void dangerous() {
char buf[10];
gets(buf); // the return in gets could be redirected
}
> why so many people use them?

So they can blog about the 1k they walked on facebook.
First rejection but I have a smile in my face. I did it, I had the courage to apply. So... yeah I'm happy.
Yup, that's one way to make money.

But as in

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.html...

on average the VC returns to the limited partners
have not been very good.
That strikes me as a lousy comparison. I could easily see a notebook with a detachable touchscreen and the proper OS (OSes?) being a useful machine (easier to see since a reasonably selling device actually exists).

What if an iPad Air could simple attach to a MB Air chassis and only serve as the display when attached?
People take exponentially more photos and videos now that they have smartphones. That's the definition of "enable people to do something they can't otherwise do."
Well, if you can take 80% as a success rate at a quarter the cost per launch due to re-using old parts, and build that into your business model somehow (insurance, assurance, whatever and however it might be done), then maybe it can be viable as opposed to using new materials and expensive innovation to get a more reliable result at a higher cost.

I'm not arguing for that business strategy; I think it would not be successful. I also don't think that re-using old rocket parts actually reduces cost to orbit significantly (I haven't looked at the numbers). I also don't think that what I think matters a whole lot.

However, it's worth a discussion beyond simply rejecting the model at face value.
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Ask HN: How to save the planet
Good day; people of the web.
I cannot write code; I cannot impress you with my insight in this field.
However, I respect yours.
I knew I was going to be a scientist at the age of 8.Now when I have spent time in the science community I have seen gigantic issues.
Easily solved, but by tradition: left alone.
Unproductively of it leads to lot of cases of young people dropping science by simple exhaustion on the earliest of stages of education.
Or worse; concentrating on the paperwork
However; science is simple. Science is practical.There are structures and principles.There are rules of nature.Everyone can do it.
Those are the things from the top of my head that truly are in need of hacking:
Chemical Safety Risk App.
Used daily. We are talking about information from shops selling chem. Volume is around 2 a4 pages of text on reactants and products.
Information is hard to find on the web with its filters;existing systems simply lack the products.
This is a big time thief.
3D-game with bio-lego from atoms.
Biochemistry, genetic and biology are really in need of such a tool.
How to save the planet: Presentation webpage.
Let me explain.
Do you know of the lets say; ten newest realistic methods in need of funds to cure cancer?
No.Well, you are not alone.
It takes around 10 years until existing research; is heard,if it ever is.
Problems of our planet need to be presented well.
Solutions need to be presented well.
Open discussion needs to exist.
Why this problem is not solved has no answer.
Thank you for your time.
Any thoughts?
Your focus on jobs and notifications is a little frustrating as there's a lot more to life than working. For example, I just traveled to the USA for the first time.

How do I get somewhere? Google maps will tell me the route, another app is telling me when the bus next comes.

Where should I eat in this brand new city? Yelp will find me somewhere good.

Coffee (I'm not a fan of American style drip coffee)? Yelp again.

What should I check out today? Originally fully researched before leaving the apartment/hotel, now I go to breakfast and look around, if it rains halfway through the day I can come up with a new plan that involves being inside.

Getting my boarding pass? No longer do I need to print anything, just show them my screen and they can scan the barcode off that.

Want to call home? No need for an expensive phone card, I can just use whatsapp or viber to chat to my parents.

Get in a cab and don't want to be ripped off because of accent? Maps again ("please take the FDR, the traffic there isn't too bad").

For work: My contract is currently approaching it's end, I managed to set up two interviews in my home from another country while on the go, never having to stop and pull out my laptop

I would say that without my smartphone I would have had to spend a lot of time asking locals, researching on a computer ahead of time, and generally looking like a tourist with a massive tourist map (a good way to get pick pocketed). As a result I was able to do most of my research on the move and really streamline my holiday to something where I didn't need to sit down for a couple hours each night to work out what to do tomorrow.
Comparing their rockets to "the punchline of a joke" is definitely bad mouthing, just factual badmouthing.

Despite that, I don't blame him. Being factual is what's important.
Unofficial Oyster API
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotchgard

This product was not made by amateurs and was on the market for about 30 years. Its key component was perfluorooctanesulfonamide, a precursor to perfluorooctane sulfonate, which lingers in the human body for five and a half years and can cause developmental delays, cancer, immune disorders, and all kinds of other things.

Amateurs can exercise due diligence and professionals can miss things.
Got rejected. No big deal. Will continue as planned. Good luck to everyone who got selected and double of that to fellow rejectees.

Launched a medical tourism startup-- prepre-alpha. Just nothing to show on url really (OTOH I also wonder if radical honesty would be the path to take?)

If huge or uncertain costs, or the fear & uncertainty of fighting your insurance/Dr/hospital over surprise billings post-hospitalisation is holding you back from any, and I mean ANY, elective treatments - let's talk.

In most cases, for a fraction of cost of copay+deductibles, apples-to-apples less than 10% what it would cost you in USA, you can get yourself treated & pampered at top-class facilities in India. Including return airfares. We have docs/hospitals/nurses with solid repute.

Here to help you navigate and arrive at right choices.

Happy to answer any queries or concerns that a potential patient has. My email is in my profile. Can chat/Skype/Hangout whatever. No time-limit, no-obligation, no fake-guilt selling. Will keep answering queries as much as I can. At the end of it if you decide against it that's perfectly ok.

So yeah, email me?
Two way data-bindings are not a Core feature and they are implemented in packages. My favorite one is this: http://viewmodel.meteor.com/
>1) The ISPs are willing to interconnect, they just aren't willing to interconnect in an unbalanced fashion without being compensated.

Keep in mind the ISPs provide highly asymmetrical connections to their customers, prohibit those customers from running servers, then cry foul over an imbalance.

Their consumer networks are designed to be imbalanced; there is not even a chance of them being balanced.

> ...but you can't force them to maintain speed on specific interconnects. If Cogent has a shitty network that isn't on Verizon.

No one is proposing holding Verizon accountable for Cogent's performance across Cogent nodes. It is possible to mandate packet delay / rejection limits specifically at the interconnect.
It's popular in emerging markets. Maybe it won't be worthless in 10 years. I still don't get the price. WhatsApp doesn't have the market cornered. There are 2-3 competitors and most locals I've met use all of them.
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My friend has an open source project that did this. Let me know if you want to get in touch with him about it.

https://github.com/udj
While Meteor does do a lot for you out of the box, it doesn't really prevent you from seeing what's going on. There are some good resources for seeing what Meteor is doing behind the scenes (meteorhacks.com and eventedmind.com) if one does want to dig in.
> most of whom are in countries viewed as almost worthless by advertisers

Facebook is presumably making the bet that eventually those countries will no longer be deemed worthless by advertisers.
Isn't that easily solved with logins?
I've read somewhere that a use-case of Meteor is to let you write your server-side logic in javascript, and then run the server-side logic on the client. Wouldn't that be clearly insecure, to trust the client with running server logic?

Also, this was accomplished years ago with Google Web Toolkit, which lets you write both the server & client in Java, and compiles the client-side java to very efficient, optimized javascript. That has the added advantage of letting you use a sane, strongly typed language, with all the productivity tools available for Java, and none of the quirks of javascript. http://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html
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And it should be pretty easy to get rid of the cables (Airplay + Bluetooth).
Years ago, I used to attend tech conferences (Microsoft, San Francisco, etc) and also was a presenter (SAP, Oracle, Las Vegas, etc). With that said, I believe attending a conference in person is not as necessary these days because many of them will have recorded videos.

One can watch recorded videos at 2x or even 3x accelerated speed. One can also fast-forward past the slow typing, the slow talkers etc.

If one wants to go because of in-person networking opportunities, or physically touch some new gadgets (e.g. Microsoft Surface table, etc) that's understandable. However, if one's primary takeaway from conferences is quantity & density of tech information, the conference videos are much more effective for that. For example, O'Reilly sells video packages for something like $499 which is much less than the cost of the registration fee + travel expenses. Microsoft makes their conference videos free on channel9. It's more information for less money; a win-win.
Are the bang commands the kind of thing you are looking for?

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
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Not the same thing.

In 5 or 10 years dockable tablets are going to be every-goddamn-where, especially in business. It just makes sense, and is too all around practical. And for most computer uses, even "intensive" ones, it's perfect. You get portability plus productivity in the docked configuration plus huge economic benefits. Tablets are mostly just screens, batteries, and a handful of chips, all of which are super amenable to economies of scale in manufacture. Tablets are going to be cheaper than dirt eventually, and because a tablet can be a self-contained computer it'll tend to be the default computing choice. The biggest thing missing today is primarily good software.
ugh, I like the concept, but I hate those tablet things at Chili's. Completely useless, tried to order desert using it, and it said we couldn't cause the waiter had closed the table or something already. Waiter took about 10~15 minutes to even stop by the table again. End result: We picked up desert on the way home and left a lousy tip. I can see it for McDonalds, as they are fast food, but if you are a sit-down restaurant and don't have enough employees to actually serve your customers, dinky android tablets are not the answer.
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> In principle, your terminal could also turn Ctrl-Shift-I into some special escape sequence which an application could parse. Such a sequence just doesn't exist in the terminal protocol you are using, that is all.

A specification that allows all key combinations to be recognized by terminal applications does indeed exist: http://www.leonerd.org.uk/hacks/fixterms/

Sadly, very few apps use it. Vim for example doesn't, but maybe there is hope that NeoVim will: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/176
It's myopic to think that anything/everything they do is advertiser driven. If you think of Facebook's goal as to "connect the world," and with such a large user base on WhatsApp, you can imagine that all WA needed to do was add a profile feature, and BAM - legitimate Facebook contender.

It's why I think FB is nervous now that Twitter's profiles look a tad like FB timelines...the boundary is now a bit blurred.
We only started doing this about 3 years ago after I heard John Allspaw speak at Velocity. It has cut down dramatically the "Oh, that system that we thought was redundant was only redundant in the sense of an appendix, not in the sense of kidneys..." It was initially a hard sell to my ops team to implement it. (I promised them air cover for any losses we incurred as a result of game-day testing, of course.)

I agree with you that it should be common, but I'd suspect an honest survey of the field would show that it's far from standard practice. I'd guess fewer than 25% of companies do this in any meaningful way.
It's still on TPB.

People ask why I don't use Youtube. This is a big contributing factor.

Just torrent it and send a polite email to the BBC asking them to make it available in your area, or watch it on BBC iPlayer if it's available to you.
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Capitalism isn't the be all and end all of an open society. The fact that it's socially acceptable that an executive at a company like Blackwater can be compared to any other businessman is a problem. (In the specific case of Blackwater, they are well known enough to perhaps be an exception.)

Being a war profiteer, leader of old-style trust that exploits its customers or a peddler of political corruption isn't rationality -- it's an anti-pattern of capitalism.
They said they were averaging 3 applications a minute on the last day, so that's around ~4300 applications right there.
Working on an IDaaS platform partly based on this open source work:

https://github.com/christiansmith/anvil-connect

Anyone interested in trying this out or collaborating, please get in touch using the email in my profile!
If the buffer is on the stack and being overflowed by the function that declared it, not some callee.
Using 50 year old Russian engines was a risky move on Orbital's part, but in fairness the NK-33's are a pretty amazing piece of technology. The US has still yet to build anything matching its performance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK-33

297 seconds of Isp is huge. The Saturn V's F1 engine only had 263 seconds. And the closest we've come since to that level of performance in a Lox/RP-1 engine is the Merlin 1D which will have 282.

They did it by using an oxygen-rich, fully staged combustion cycle. Which means that most of the fluid flowing around the engine and through the turbines of the pumps is super hot pure oxygen at 2000 psi. That's crazy. The US has brought over NK-33's and taken them apart and we still don't quite know how the Russians got it to work.

Of course, performance is only one consideration. All the other things you'd expect like integration costs, reliability of your suppliers, etc. made the Antares a pretty risky bet. But given Orbital's choices of developing their own engine from scratch, buying a hyper-expensive engine from Rocketdyne, or buying a wonder of engineering for cheap from the Russians, buying a bunch of surplus NK-33's wasn't totally crazy.
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Well, I guess you've completely missed that it's not about improving work, it's about improving non-work such as entertainment, leisure and healthcare.

Work computers have remained relatively static by comparison in capabilities, numbers, usage and usage type.
Last I applied as a single founder I got an interview. Now I have a cofounder and made significant progress but our application didn't earn us an interview (the second time applying with this idea.) Perhaps I took something for granted when i applied this time so the app turned out weaker or disappointing but I realize how lucky I was to get feedback last time as opposed to none at all now.
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Why do you think opening other offices is likely in the works? This is a genuine question. Sorry if it's obvious (I don't follow YC too closely), but what would you think has changed since their choice to stop doing YC batches in Cambridge? Just the sheer growth in size?
Yes, it's not very nice to collude. On the other hand, were programmers get very good salaries. To some, maybe even Sergey, it might not seem like an urjent and critical moral issue,in the way that saving lives is.
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I got rejected. The site is a music training site utilizing the WebMidi Api for midi input. http://musicians-u.com

Also launched an indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/musicians-u--2/x/8990541
7 times is a lot. Has it always been with the same product, or different ideas?
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Hi Kamikazi, what project you guys working on? For me, I will still continue with the project but without financial backing it will just be slower.
Oops. I haven't worked with ARM in a while, wasn't aware of that. I knew it was simplified a bit (like no more funky barrel-shifter stuff), but I'm kinda surprised they went back to a fixed-length encoding scheme when they're already taking much greater complexity hits with the high performance OoO implementations.
Why not do the 1871 startup incubator in Chicago?
If you read the docs you will see it's not implemented in an insecure way. The core meteor devs are pretty brilliant people, creator of etherpad, svn core contributer, early asana employee, these people aren't dummies they wouldn't do something that silly. Such a dumb thing would have been called out way before 1.0 wouldn't you think? Maybe give it a moment of thought before you comment.
PG said ours was too obviously a good idea and our customers would build it themselves. They didn't. We didn't get invited this time either.
> If you've been rejected 7 times, please stop expending your time and emotional energy on YC.

I'm not OP but your comment makes it sound like he or she is spending significant time on applications and neglecting business. Granted the application isn't a really quick thing to fill out but it's also not something that takes so long that it can impact your business negatively.
The whole process makes seems to make some people feel like it's asking someone out or trying out for a play (i.e. the video interview, etc) so I can see why people can take it so harshly.

Your application/video/product could be flawless and literally solve world hunger but the process isn't objective as all that. In the end they just pick a handful of people out of all the applications that they want to invest in.

I'm sure that most applications there was no reason at all that they chose not to accept them. They just didn't.
You should submit that to HN. Very interesting article.
Jetfit does that, and breaks down the workout into exercises.

I would use that but they don't integrate with Witherings scale.
GCHQ views data with no warrant, government admits
And going the other direction, euphemistically-wise, the U.S. military's official designation for things* that fall off aircraft is TFOA: Things Falling Off Aircraft.

*Anything from loose nuts or fasteners up to improperly-attached fuel tanks or bombs.
I don't recall YC asking for race or gender on the application, so I doubt that's possible unless self-reported.
At Nexmo we've been powering similar solutions for a lot of apps through our SMS API. However, we've just released a higher-level API that leverages our SMS / Voice APIs to make this kind of number verification easy to implement. Ours includes multiple deliveries and channels (falls back to a voice call if needed). We're looking for early adopters, would love to have you take a look: https://docs.nexmo.com/index.php/verify
It seemed like from the press conference that Orbital will be footing most of the bill. The best Frank from OS could say was that "some of the rocket" was insured. Someone below cited $110 million minimum insurance, but that's not even close to the number OS gave out in the conference at $200m for just the rocket (which I think included neither the manifest nor the damage to the pad/environment and any necessary repair/cleanup)