skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you succeed, it means you've done the critical things right. If you're failing, it means that you didn't do something right. Or several somethings.

I disagree. The only practical difference could be that you got unlucky. People seem to forget that taking risks actually means things can fail, even if you do nothing wrong. That's what a risk means.

If you say a failure means you did something wrong, then you have an acceptable risk of zero. This means you can do very few things. Every time you get into your car, you are taking a calculated risk of severe injury or death. And that happens to many people who never do anyhing wrong.
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> If, after reading this, anyone is still nodding their head and entertaining the idea that their internet company is in the same league as Blackwater

Blackwater as a company (their employees' actions aside) isn't so different from an ATT or TWC. They seek convenient profits and have questionable ethics. Add to that wars on drugs and terrorism, along with unlimited ability to fund politicians. Certainly Blackwater is in a different league than ATT, but the leagues' owners are the same people.
Can't measure up to Exist [1]!

[1] https://exist.io/
This is an example of how the signal/noise ratio on HN can be improved by the Principle of Charity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity.

blhack's comment was ambiguous. Under some interpretations it is ridiculous, but under others it is sensible. By interpreting charitably, we can avoid a fair bit of two of the worst things on HN: abrasiveness and nitpicking.

(Edit: and protracted disputes. So, three of the worst things on HN.)
Game of Thrones isn't actually made of dollar bills, it's ultimately made of labour. And a basic income would make that labour available without requiring that the project cover living costs. Which means most of the cost would just disappear.

How do connections relate to paid content? Do they somehow come at a massive cost?

I did point out that I might be constructing a strawman, but seeing as you have yet to propose any alternative and copyright is in fact the status quo, it seemed like a reasonable assumption. Perhaps I should have added a question mark for emphasis, but feel free to clarify your position at any time.
How to Make Unbreakable Passwords in Your Head Using Mental Cryptography
4Chan as a BBS [Telnet bbs.carteryagemann.com 23]
Interesting read. What he did was immoral, but I think everyone can agree he is brilliant.
Perhaps being "kind" was the motivation. Maybe it was business oriented though. They are in the business of getting all the choice investment opportunities coming to them. So, it's in their interest to have people not discouraged from reapplying, or to have them bad talking YC because they "Couldn't understand my awesome idea".
The url is http://ddg.gg. As for the goodies page, it's undergoing work right now. See https://duck.co/blog/goodies-page-replacement
How I pick conference talks to attend, more or less
> Please keep in mind that people with color vision deficiency are as capable of living a happy and productive life as those with normal color vision. There are only a few professions not suitable for them.

Kind of odd that our happiness and productivity are determined by our potential jobs.
But in this case, as well as several others (like surgery, for example), that's not at all true. We make jokes about how nearly nothing is "rocket science" or "brain surgery" for a reason: those are fields in which mistakes are not acceptable and the cost of producing as well as the cost of insuring are incredible. There is really nothing comparable between a code jockey who weaves js frameworks and SaaS services together to build apps and the engineers who wrote the assembly 30, 40, 50 years ago to power and control our space craft... or the ones who do the same thing now using more modern hardware & tools at companies like Orbital Sciences or SpaceX.
The network is freely available. You could email sama with an honest question as a startup founder and you'll probably get a reply. He genuinely loves helping people.

I don't know what "Your network is your net worth" means, but it sounds like a worldview in which the people you know matter more than what you can do. That's sometimes true, but none of the major startups started off by networking. It didn't matter who the Google founders knew. It didn't matter who Zuck knew. What mattered was what they were doing.

The only reason investors might be interested in you is if you're starting the next Google or Facebook, because their entire business model depends on it. But there's an optimistic way to phrase that: If you're starting the next Google or Facebook, then who you know doesn't really matter.
heydenberk explained it well, but just to add some clarity on why you'd want to use prototype.apply for array as an argument -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2856059/passing-an-array-...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1316371/converting-a-java...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I'm still learning more about JS and so I'm no expert, but it seems to be similar in concept to use the ... in other languages. I think Groovy has something similar and Java has the varargs. They have obvious differences, but conceptually I think of it as passing in a variable number of args.
I certainly don't have western tunnel vision. One of my favourite Android apps is this:
http://textit.in/
(Note where it's made).

The genius is you use it to provide services to people that only have SMS, and this is why the "smartphones will change everything" noise is misplaced, as the reality is north americans never lived in a context with a functioning SMS ecosystem thanks to having such inept telecoms regulators, so they just don't know what the rest of the world is like.
What if one of the hundred million suffering slightly, missing school work, or work assignments because of bandwidth theft, and loses grade or job and consequently, a chance at productive life?

Really? We're now calling degraded bandwidth or service outages excuses for an unproductive life? What about the missed appointment because of a traffic jam? Are we making that the city planners' fault because they didn't build enough road capacity? Are we blaming the automakers because the jam was caused by a broken-down car?

What about the millions of hours of productive time that are wasted on social media? What about the student who fails a class because he wasted time on Facebook instead of studying? Or the employee who gets fired because he didn't complete a work assignment because Google Docs was down, and lost a chance at a produtive life. Are all online service providers now responsible for their users' life outcomes?
Sailthru doesn't operate on Mesos. While it does utilize it, it is in a very specific part of the company.
If you're feeding beef irrigated feed, that's crazy.

But normally beef are fed crops that are highly drought resistant, like grass, alfalfa and barley.

Human crops like wheat, rice and corn require a lot more water than feed crops.

So if your rainfall levels are less than what is required by human food crops, you have several options:

- irrigate
- grow cattle feed without irrigation
- idle the land

The 3rd option may be the most environmentally friendly, but it doesn't feed anybody.

Beef may require more water per calorie than other foods, but it may still be more efficient. It doesn't really matter how much water is required -- it matters how much irrigation is required. And for beef, that number can be "0" in areas where nothing else is.
Hey pajop, mine is @henreman. Followed you :)

What project you guys working on? For me, I will still continue with the project but without financial backing it will just be slower.
You can pretty much late apply all the way until the next batch starts. There's not really a formal process with late applications, though. We do read through them all eventually and we'll respond to all of you. Right now, the rough deadline for us is by the end of the year.
Did they actually change the terms?
Did you get accepted? I liked your product concept and am working on something similar.

I'd like to see you succeed, one way or another.
This seems nasty, I don't use OSX but does this mean they are all vulnerable?
Am I missing something, or is the sample image for normal color vision totally different than the rest of them (as in, a cropped screenshot where the others are a bunch of pencils)?

Anyway, I'm deuteranomalous, but once I uploaded a different image, the "normal color vision" looks totally unlike the "green-weak/deuteranomaly" version. I guess the version(s) they're showcasing is just particularly strong?
I don't understand this sentiment that always pops up on posts about new Google services. Google allows you to download your data and take it with you, so if Google abandons the service, you can go elsewhere pretty easily. This is not the case with a bunch of other services I use, yet I never see such posts about them.

The data mining criticisms hold a lot more weight but only in cases where they collect more data than is necessary to run the service. That's why paying for Fastmail doesn't make any sense. You're still trusting somebody else with your unencrypted email data. In this case though, I don't see the value-add that Google provides in having unencrypted access to the fitness data. It looks like a fairly dumb data store, in which case most of the data can be encrypted with a user password before being sent to Google.
Tried to login with Twitter and got an error.

Error: Failed to find request token in session
Probably taxes. There are non-trivial tax credits for R&D spending. My guess is they shoehorned as much of their costs into R&D as they could. You can see they got 1.2 million in R&D credits in 2013 in the referenced document.
> That said, there might be a convergence where mobile devices learn to run desktop software, and can be docked to a mouse/keyboard/monitor.

I never understand this prediction. That's a bit like saying I don't need a car because I could just dock my bicycle into some sort of enclosure with four wheels. Tablets, smartphones, and laptops/desktops were all built for different purposes and cannot be full replacements for each other, just like a bicycle can't fully replace a car without some serious sacrifices.
Branson: Learn by doing and falling over
Right. It's SOP for tech companies to list basically all of engineering as R&D for tax purposes.
We didn't get an invite.
The point of basic income isn't to cover everything one could want out of life. It's to cover basic living expenses. Basic housing, basic food, a basic life. If basic income existed, then people would want more. That's not a strike against basic income, but just the opposite: it's a reason why basic income is more likely to work than, say, socialism. People who want more out of life can have it, whereas people who are satisfied with little can have little. The cost of specialized labor will never disappear.

I'd rather not subject my personal belief system to public analysis, because the average public opinion on beliefs is an average belief system, and the average belief system in any era has almost always been crazy.
Reminds me to Netflix chaos monkey [1].

They shut down servers and components of the system to make sure they are resilent to failures.

> The Simian Army is a suite of tools for keeping your cloud operating in top form. Chaos Monkey, the first member, is a resiliency tool that helps ensure that your applications can tolerate random instance failures

More interestingly is that it is opensource. [2]

[1] http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...

[2] https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
not much, wouldn't matter.

what you REALLY should wonder is, something like x86, but with code pointers stored in a separate address space.
Symfony is awesome but I feel they try to stuff too much into the default framework configuration. I don't want all those silly annotations, for example.
Computer science on the field is ugly.

I went in university to learn physics, so I have my geometry and numerical analysis basic understanding.

I honestly thinks people who learnt it has a cursus for graduating did not care, and that they actually don't understand their difficulties even though they learnt about it. They don't see it is a float.

One of the other misconception I have to fight with is what is time.

CS engineer believe in a perfect synchronized time and timestamp that are monotonicly growing the same everywhere with a 10-9 precision and rely on that for distributed systems. My guts (and general relativity too I guess) are telling me they are wrong.

But since I am stuck reimplementing a bubble sort for phone numbers I don't quite have the time to work on it. I have to live with my tingling intuitions telling me I am either an overpessimistic ass being a pain for my colleague that is becoming obsolete by lack of studying, or the whole industry seems getting more magic oriented than science oriented.

Anyway, like a lot of people I am getting inadapted out there.

At least, I have spare time to work on game of life and complex systems... sometimes, and I have a lovely caring wife, so I am happy either way :)
Why we retired the feedly URL shortener
Copyright certainly does encourage content production. There are definitely people who create for the monetary reward, which decreases dramatically without copyright protection.

Copyright also has effects that discourage certain types of creation, but that doesn't erase the encouragement it provides as well.
Still not bluffing, because they are only speculating on the self-contained scenario, not bringing in fake details.
Looks like it is http://touchofmodern.com.

Coverage: http://pando.com/2014/06/19/touch-of-modern-raises-14m-to-pr...
Cool! is this similar to resin.io we saw just days ago?
Quite the opposite. Those who can choose anything choose Meteor.
I don't think you stand much chance as a solo founder either. It's very rare.
Was there any conclusion what the problem was in that incident?
I think the Whatsapp price was a huge blunder by Zuck. Whatsapp has lots of users - most of whom are in countries viewed as almost worthless by advertisers. Their US footprint is insignificant, and shows no signs of growing here or in many other valuable countries. Their current revenue - $10.2M/year with 400M users - shows their users' propensity to pay.

Even if you valued Whatsapp by Facebook's P/E ratio of 87.74, it would have to make ~$215M/year in net profit to justify the (original) $19 billion price tag. That's around $0.50/user/year in net profits. I just don't see it ever happening.
How are stacks part of the problem? Given tail-call optimization stacks shouldn't grow unbounded, right?
Makes me think of the Michael Jordan quote:

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
neat idea. did you consider applying to PnP bitcoin accelerator? http://plugandplayaccelerator.com/programs/Bitcoin
Mobile is not the future. We're in that future right now, and it's largely stabilized. I fully believe VR is the future. Anyone who's tried the Oculus and who has even an ounce of entrepreneurial imagination would agree. Just like when the iPhone came out in '07, the right convergence of technology has made it possible for truly convincing VR to make it into the mainstream. It will revolutionize gaming, commerce, socialization, productivity, and more. Those who understand this are already skating towards that puck. Everyone else is fighting over the few remaining scraps that the mobile table has to offer.
Folks are going to have to suck it up and accept the fact that the human experience is always changing. Cursive writing and the Dewey Decimal system were once important, and we may be getting to the point now where rote memorization is universally a waste of time.
Looks like one of the engines blew up as they went to full throttle. Since this was the first XL launch, I wonder if they are trying to push the AJ-26's too hard with the increased payload.
Well said by many above. Would phrase some thoughts as follows:

1. Developer Experience (DX)
- How quickly can a developer get up and running trying the API (ideally immediately).
- Client code generation.
- How understandable is the API? Does it use common vocabulary or terms you have to think about what they mean?

2. Accuracy of documentation
- API and docs in sync.
- Ease of locating items in the documentation.

3. Debugabbility
- How easy is it to figure out why requests fail.
- How easy is it to test edge cases for success/failure and experiment.

4. Consumer participation in design/prototyping design tools
- Mocking functionality.
- Collaboration in design that is immediately possible to test.
- Making it easy to get feedback on different design options.

In the end of the day, good design makes for a good API. And, being able to involve a variety of stakeholders in the design process in a human-friendly way is really important to achieve that goal.

As a contributor to ApiBlueprint [1], we have been working to develop a suite of tools to help all this. I include a link to a sample api blueprint [2] and to the public documentation/DX portal you get if you import it and render documentation for it in apiary.io [3].

[1] http://apiblueprint.org/
[2] https://gist.github.com/fosrias/6377469bf0e1d2fd10c7
[3] http://docs.sampleapi42.apiary.io/
The lead author (Andreas Bogk) presented an earlier version of this work at the Chaos Communication Camp in 2011 ("Certified Programming With Dependent Types").

http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/Fahrplan/events/4426.en.html

I went to that talk, and found it to be probably the most advanced and difficult math lecture I'd ever attended! (I was very grateful to see such mathematical sophistication brought to bear to protect PDF users, which is almost all of us.)
Did a double take at the "Glass is eating the world" slide before finally realizing they were talking about LCDs and not Google's failed wearable.
I am red-green colorblind and I found that none of the settings matched my perception, i.e. the modified images all looked strikingly different to me. None of the tools that I've found online modify the image in a way that it looks unchanged to me.

I have found specific examples of images that look the same to me (and that look very different to non-colorblind people), for example these images: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/color-blindness-sim...

Since images like those probably came from one of the tools I tested, I'm guessing that there are certain failure cases that I only notice when I experiment with the tool directly.
I think your overreaction of being denied reflects precisely why you were denied.
This Is Where Geniuses Live
@addyosmani [1] is a Chrome DevTools engineer who often talks about new features. That's probably about the easiest way to find nightly updates without following a mailing list.

1. https://twitter.com/addyosmani
congrats guys :) Very excited to be a part of the community.
Actually, we are eating the world.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population%20of%20the%2...
correction, an advantage that existing companies actively try to prevent new competitors from having
I dunno, perhaps if the W3C and WHATWG produced radically different specifications, one of them would be explicitly rejected by everyone and thus die a clean death. That might be better than having two very similar, equally authoritative, but subtly different specifications, one of which is sort of but not quite a snapshot of the other.
This article creates a fictitious binary world and then makes arguments within its nonsense universe. Take this quote: "Investors appear unfazed by the willingness of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to make huge bets on money-losing companies, instead trusting Silicon Valley logic over conventional measures of corporate worth." David Gelles also says that facebook values "users before profits." He's trying to create a binary world where silicon valley does one thing and the rest of the world does the "conventional" thing with the implication that silicon valley is stupid. While we know there may be a tradeoff between the users and profits they are definitely not mutually exclusive. There is no "conventional" logic versus some special "silicon valley logic" there is only "logic" and smart decisions, the foundation of all good business. Users today drive profits tomorrow.

Another thought: by the time some logic has become conventional and commonplace is it not outdated? Recognizing unique opportunities that no one else sees seems to be the basis for all successful companies in and outside of silicon valley.
Your space is in international humanitarian aid. Politics drives what can and can't happen much more than any technological barriers. They might have thought that though your objectives are worthy, the solution is not to be found in software.
NoSQL just “huge text file and grep”
One of my favorite patterns in React is using functions to wrap a React component.

It goes something like this:

App.Button = React.createClass({
render: function(){
var className = 'btn '+this.props.className
<a href className={className}>{this.props.children}</a>
}
});

App.BigButton = function(props){
props = props || {};
props.className = 'btn-large '+props.className
return App.Button.apply(null, arguments)
};

How would you do something like this?
Elon Musk's Praise for Manufacturing
Is there a say to search DuckDuckGo for things that DuckDuckGo supports?

I'd like a way to specify a language, sdk and an identifier and get a function/class/other reference. Is that something DDG does? It it something it could or should?

My ideal magic app would do this automatically on a keypress in an IDE and put the result on my tablet.
Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
blocked :(
This video contains content from BBC Worldwide, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.
Then doesn't that mean that we should try to change how they are behaving? They are abusing public infrastructure and their psuedomonopoly status to get those short term profits.
I guess I should have been more explicit that I was talking about the language itself (without the unsafe keyword). Not libraries written in other languages, not compilers. It's the job of theorem provers and whatnot to make those safe.

In other words I'm talking about code the programmer makes themselves.

>Its easy to say, 'well, thats a bug in the library, not a problem with rust', but thats the same as with C++ isnt it?

In C++ nothing prevents the lines I write from having memory errors. It's not the same at all.

>If you can assert any code is 100% bug free then why do we care about the nice safety features in rust?

Oh well you shouldn't do that, but you also don't have to use unsafe code willy-nilly. In C++ everything you touch is unsafe unless proven otherwise.

>What are going to do? Vet every line of every part of every dependency in the code you use?

For unsafe blocks? Sure, that's easy.
Samaritans Radar will flag potentially worrying tweets
I tried, and I only use it for 1 specific group conversation, but it's a group with about 40 people in it and only a small minority were willing to switch [to Telegram], due to their own network effects. :(
4th one for me. Thanks for the words of encouragement!
Or they could just buy it from another country, like thousands of basic food items we don't grow enough of, starting with rice and bananas.
Given that it's unlikely users will jump ship if they are happy with it over $1/year and the fact that they have 400 million users I think there's a pretty good chance that revenue number will come up.