skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDL has a thriving technical community and getting bigger every day, the founder of the startup for which i work for has an special interest on making Guadalajara Mexico's technological hub and wants to create success stories to bring more inversion and companies to the city.

I think a big advantage of Guadalajara over Mexico City is that it's a big enough city without the downsides of a huge metropolis, and is very affordable for engineers to live on pretty good areas, i bike about 10 minutes to work every day and love it.
As expected. Single non-coding founder.
Why do i bother? For a few weeks after the rejection I find myself very highly motivated.
The writer seems to have a real agenda.

No mention that the key to effective Vitamin C absorption is to combine it with Zinc...was this taken into consideration in the 'tests' he refers to.
As with nearly all of our problems, California's water shortage is really an energy shortage. If we had cheap, abundant energy, desalinization isn't expensive anymore.

Figure out fusion and our water problems are solved.

Of course, in the meantime you think we'd at least consider pricing water as a resource and let supply and demand control the price. Instead, we implement this ludicrous system of encouraging neighbors to tattle on each other.
Technology gets cheaper and easier to use - a consistent story over time. Interestin stats.
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Content Marketing: Writing consistent content and sharing it.

Yet another PDF containing free information. Here, try this instead: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Content_marketing
Rejected.

Now my startup is gonna succeed...just a little more slowly.
There wouldn't have been much point in a self destruct. The rocket launched, then it looked like there was an explosion in or near the boosters (which apparently caused a loss of thrust), then it fell back onto the pad and exploded. Blowing it up at a higher altitude just would have spread the debris a little farther.
Is this actually true? My perception is that the smartphone bubble is bursting. Yes, there are lots more people to come online, but all they're going to do is use WhatsApp and Facebook.

The big disappointment of mobile is that all this stuff doesn't seem to result in enabling people to do their jobs better or more easily. Web apps really exploded with things like Basecamp, but the most mobile has brought along for that seems to be mobile email. (Edit to add, the only exceptions I can think of to this are actually the SMS apps deployed in the places pegged to explode in smartphone usage).

Having lots of people mindlessly addicted to notifications is not really that interesting.
That 1/50 failure rate is debatable, and depends on your definition.

For example, Soviet/Russian manned flight, "Soyuz", had 131 flights (123 Soyuz + 2 Voskhod + 6 Vostok) [1][2] and 2 accidents, resulted in death of 4 astronauts (1 + 3).[3]

However, both of these accidents occurred before 1972, and both were highly experimental flights. Komarov's was the VERY FIRST flight of Soyuz, and before Soyuz 11 accident, they were descending without space suits, as the space inside the cabin was so tiny.

So you can also say that there were 2 accidents in the first 10 Soyuz flights - they were still finalizing the technology - and no accidents in the remaining 113.

In addition, both of these accidents occurred during the landing, so there was NO accidents during manned-space take-off in Russian/Soviet flights.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_manned_space_mi...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_manned_space_mis...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_acc...
PPC only leaves the return address in a register for leaf functions. Otherwise, it's saved to the stack and exploitable just like any other architecture.
I totally don't buy the recommendation.

If you're going to do something new, you better stop worrying about backward compatibility. ssh and tmux won't work? big effin deal. Those projects would need to grow up in order to keep up with the times. You can't be conservative like that if the goal is to right the wrongs and learn from past mistakes. The road is going to be bumpy but the light at the tunnel would be worth the travel.

I say if the limited scancode thing is in the keyboard hardware then we need to fix the hardware itself as well. New keyboard standard that sends Ctrl/Shift/Alt as separate scancodes. Hell a completely programmable keyboard firmware sounds even better. Throw in some n-key rollover and now we're talking!

I would like to see some convergence of terminal and windowing-system happening. I initially dreamt of a graphical terminal but then I thought why not go one step further and make it the main interface (so something in the middle of a graphical terminal and a tiling window manager). However I still need to carve out the details.
I wonder if the criticism that the Flux team at Facebook has directed at two-way data binding is also applicable to Meteor. Jing Chen is her intro of Flux (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkdrAPrdcw&list=PLb0IAmt7-G...) says that two-way data binding creates a major challenge for scaling applications because views can trigger changes in data, and data changes can trigger cascading changes in views, which makes it very difficult to predict the behavior of the app as a whole. Wouldn't Meteor face the same challenges?

In other words, if you believe that the Flux design pattern (which involves a central dispatcher as the only entity capable of updating the data) is sound, shouldn't you stay away from Meteor's model when building large applications? Or am I missing something?
Mid 8 figure revenues? Like, $50,000,000/yr? If you're still growing, it sounds like YC missed out.
You can cryptographically verify any biometric passport (all Visa Waiver Program countries have them) and most European ID cards with any NFC-capable Android smartphone. They include the holder's name and picture and are signed by the government-controlled CA for that country's identity documents.
Considering you got 8 views on your video, and they went far enough with your demo to make an account, I would say you were probably high on their list.

For me, my video was viewed two times, and my protoype was only viewed once, no other action was taken on it. This probably means you got higher than average interaction by them.

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.
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This is such a good idea. Thanks for the write-up / sharing.
Most people accepted into YC end up with nowhere near $10M. Not even $1M.
any login attempts are met with an error message.
I think it's reasonable to assume that Antares can command itself to destruct given that other rockets have that ability, and have so destructed.

Ariane 5 (the infamous flight 501) self-destructed.

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/Ariane5accidentreport.html

"The launcher started to disintegrate at about H0 + 39 seconds because of high aerodynamic loads due to an angle of attack of more than 20 degrees that led to separation of the boosters from the main stage, in turn triggering the self-destruct system of the launcher"

A SpaceX rocket self-destructed:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188593-spacex-rocket-self...

"In a statement, SpaceX says the rocket detected an anomaly and automatically initiated its self-destruct sequence."

The Titan IVA-20 explosion was also due to a self-destruct, and not the range officer:

http://fas.org/spp/military/program/launch/titan_iv-20_sum.h...

"At this point, the northern-most Solid Rocket Motor (SRM #1) separated from the core booster, initiating the Inadvertent Separation Destruct System. At 45.529 seconds, approximately 3 seconds after the automatic destruct sequence, Mission Flight Control Officers sent command destruct signals to the vehicle."
> "there was NO accidents during manned-space take-off in Russian/Soviet flights."

Soyuz T-10-1 burned on the launch pad, although the launch escape system saved the lives of the cosmonauts on board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7K-ST_No._16L
Our team got rejected.

http://doshh.com

We were creating a mobile payment system to be used in Myanmar.
The word "failure" is used to mean two distinct things: 1) bad outcome, 2) made the wrong choices given the available information at the time.

They are not the same. Furthermore if you have no bad outcomes, you may be taking a suboptimal amount of risk, which would then be a failure in the second sense of the term.
And you can get hit by a bus too - adding 20 years to lifespan is in terms of the aggregate not the individual.
Or different in the other way - where had they launched with the boat there and it still had exploded. Then ORB/NASA would have to deal with a lot more than simply economic consequences.
Pmg Donahoe says systems don't store address info long term (>30 days) and are not linked nationwide

They ask us how to monitize last mile or get new revenue. I suggested giving patrons data on what pieces went through sorters. Have a table view where you see letters processed that day. You could know what will be in your mailbox. You could see history of when stuff gets mailed to you. So many possibilities.

USPS really has no profit thinking mindset whatsoever. Coming from telecom it's polar opposite.

If bed bath & beyond mails a $5 coupon, ad space on the patrons table view could be sold to linens n things or Wally (like my online bank transactions). This is just the beginning

We know (without any help from electrons) who gets arrested, where they work, car they drive, marital status, divorced or about to be, kids, age, political involvement, Prime customer, when they are home and when they are not, animal lover, catalogue orderer/receiver, has parents at home, previous city, tax bill, Cable/telco/direct tv, lawn service/snow removal, ultra rich and ultra poor. We see changes first too, often before they even tell other family members.

Imagine a good analyst having at it with just the to/from addresses / names.

The USPS has no clue, not even a crumb of a clue, how valuable letters, flats and parcels are to a company who wants to acquire new customers.

Ahh.. oh well..

By the way, the USPS takes no taxpayer money...
YouTube (plus Netflix / Hulu) has replaced TV for me as well. I just don't think the average user sees it in the same category as Netflix. I have tons of subscriptions too, but I would much rather, as someone else here mentioned, pay a subscription fee to individual artists rather than YouTube as a whole.
YC will miss out on allot of companies. It not humanly possible for them to be that good.

I rather have a business that has that type of growth than get into YC.
nothing to prove. I've totalled 1680 raw.
"If you're failing, you're doing something right."

I didn't think people said this and meant it. 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.

Yeah, you can learn from it and do better, and that's great - but that doesn't mean it's a success. It's a failure and - in some cases - a chance to do better the next time.

Trying to portray it as a good thing because your goal was a hard one only lessens the value you can receive from it.
agree 100%. Getting into YC is a bad bar for success.
Hey do you want to collab? I pitched an idea to streamline the purchase of life annuities.
This is pretty much a high art theft.

Sure, people taking advantage of openness of displays of high art aren't cool, as perhaps some sort of oceans eleven, steal from a rich person who keeps it locked up kinda Hollywood way.

But the only way to save species now, is stopping more habitat destruction.

I do like high art, it does look pretty and while it's not commercially available the conservatory does hold a unique exhibit which makes life interesting.

But don't confuse it with saving the world.
It reminds me of some years ago when the last major drought hit Australia [1]. We had dams down to ridiculously low capacities (about 15% total supply for certain urban areas, with individual dams getting to single digits if I recall correctly) at times. An entire generation got used to fast showers as the government actually circulated little 4 minute egg-timers to encourage everyone to take no more than that in having a shower.

I think many of the laws enacted then around use of water (e.g.: for car washes, lawns, etc.) are still tighter than they were prior to the drought, but everyone's sort of used to being more water wise now so it doesn't really bother us.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_Australian_drought
Robots on a roll in Australia
Orbital Sciences' unmanned rocket explodes on lift-off in Virginia
Rejected!
Insurance != free. Nor is paying a claim.
Time change in software is done wrong
This tech-scene cliché annoys me to no end. Challenger and Columbia were both spectacular failures, and both were the result of dysfunctional corporate culture at NASA. Asiana 214, the MV Sewol, and the Costa Concordia can all be chalked up basically to incompetence. If you are failing you are doing something wrong, that is the definition of failure.

There are place and time for failure. Failure on a launch operation isn't one of them.
Appreciate the feedback, Colin -- will share it with their team.
There is no point in drawing a distinction between the future of technology and the future of mobile.

I find Evans' analysis of mobile a bit hyperbolic. Yes the growth of mobile is explosive and, in some cases, it's displacing older technology. But for a lot of use cases small touch screen devices are simply inadequate. It's probably true that a lot of people that used to use desktop or laptop computers just to check email and Facebook have shifted that activity to their phones and tablets. But its equally true that these devices are still really only good for quick, informal communication and browsing. Despite the best efforts of Apple and Samsung to persuade us otherwise, tablets are lousy for getting real work done.

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. My take on this is that the market for richer desktop/laptop software isn't going anywhere soon. People that need to edit complex spreadsheets, compose scores for films, analyze genomes, and render 3d effects need real computers. As a developer this kind of customer is in many ways a better customer to serve than a teen snapping selfies on a phone.
We got the rejection letter, but our strong side is solve problems, well we now know another way how to not to do a lightbulb.
http://thinkpacifica.com

Pacifica is made up of quick, engaging exercises designed to reduce anxiety over time.
It seems absurd that they actually think that by essentially prohibiting trade that they're going to make these plants more abundant.
I think the issue isn't only the lack of rain, it's the immense use of water. I read at some point recently farmers have moved to crops such as pistachio nuts which have high margins, but take something like 1 gallon of water per nut.

And water usage in rich areas actually increased year-over-year, which is infuriating. We had rain throughout the winter, and even a couple of summer showers recently which is rare, and if you look at Crystal Springs reservoir, the water levels don't look as bad as some of the pictures you see on the news.

So I think this is more a case of demand vs supply. What hasn't increased however, is our water rates. Places in Hillsborough, a rich area of SV, use in excess of 300 gallons per day to water their lawns, vs other areas. I personally have stopped watering my lawn down to zero, and my property is a big patch of dirt now. I think there should be a tax on people who want to water their lawn during these times, because it's so unimportant. For a household of 2 adults and 2 kids, we use less than 85 gallons per day, and my water bill is $15/month.
It's not the South Bay until you are at least in Santa Clara county.
If the insurance company is doing its job right, this was priced into its rates.
Interesting that you mentioned a trend towards decentralization and peer trust. Does it share some ideas with the now historical paper "Building Trust in Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Electronic Communities" [1] ?

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.11.6...
Wasn't there a time when actual, serious apps were written using XULRunner ? This is not that different of a suggestion.
Thanks for the feedback! I definitely agree. I've added support for the symbols you suggested (and a couple more, like & for passing inout arguments).

How I implemented this was writing YAML files that get compiled. Each entry has a name, an array of strings for tags, and the code sample itself. When you type a query, it shows prefix tag matches first, followed by non-prefix tag matches. So now when you type '?', you should see optionals, ternary, nil coalescing, etc.. but when you type '??', you're left with only nil coalescing.
Yes, the federal government.
They aren't adequate for Game of Thrones because the pilot episode alone cost between $5M and $10M, with the entire first season costing $60M. Crowdfunding does a lot of neat things, but it doesn't generate sixty million dollars. And even if it did, you wouldn't have the proper connections to do very much with that money except squander it. A lot of things had to come together to make Game of Thrones a reality, and money is just one part.

Beyond that, it's telling that you set up a strawman belief system and then bashed it without asking whether I actually hold those beliefs.
lets developers build smarter apps and manufacturers focus on creating amazing devices

They don't seem to have mentioned "and lets us sell all the data to the highest bidder"
actually the correct technical term to use here would be CATO - Catastrophe At Take Off
That is nowhere near the South Bay though.
Suspicious Activity Detected on White House Computer Network
http://hubify.com

Hubify let's you create and manage safe community commerce hubs and list anything for sale, for rent, for hire, and post part-time jobs.

Solo-founder with a pre-launch project that was not invited to interview. Not surprised, but I don't regret applying. 200 days to progress and make a much better case for the next batch.

#rejected #craigslistkiller
Sure thing, but how do you track them digitally?
Pope reminds Catholics: evolution, Big Bang are true
EDIT: I'm misread your post because I'm tired, but I'll leave this explanation of -fomit-frame-pointer up anyway.

With most architecture+compiler combinations, a register is dedicated to holding the frame pointer, a pointer to a fixed position in the stack frame of a function containing the return address to the caller. For x86, ebp (rbp in 64 bit mode) is used for this purpose, and a stack frame looks something like this:

var_2 at [ebp-8] <-- top of stack, lowest address (yes this is counter-intuitive)
var_1 at [ebp-4]
return_address [ebp] <-- ebp points here
arg_1 at [ebp+4]
arg_2 at [ebp+8]

No matter how much data you push onto the stack in local variables (even variable length structures eg with alloca or variable length arrays in C), the parameters are always accessible at positive offsets from ebp while the (fixed-size) local variables are at negative offsets.

Without a frame pointer, parameters must be accessed relative to the stack pointer instead. Disadvantages of this include:

Both parameters and local variables are at positive offsets in comparison to esp, so it's harder to tell the two apart.

The offsets can change throughout the function as variables are pushed and sometimes popped from the stack, making analysis even more difficult.

You can't allocate variable width structures on the stack because then the compiler would not know at what offsets the parameters/variables would lie.

And it's not even necessarily a performance win either, because x86 uses longer instruction encodings for sp-relative addressing vs. bp-relative addressing.

x86_64 and most RISC architectures don't have this problem, there are enough spare registers that the negatives of -fomit-frame-pointer outweigh the positives.
Oh boo-hoo. If your dainty technical discussion cannot withstand the cold, hard fact that 99% of the time this particular technology is used to steal movies and TV shows, then I'd say that merits some discussion. Interesting btw that it's verboten for me to pass any sort of moral judgement in this thread, whereas you have license to label my opinion worthless. Hypocrite.
Publicly? Rarely. (Here's an example, though, from 2010: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-det...)

Internally? Absolutely, for, at minimum, every user-visible outage.
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We offer military-grade 256 bit encryption with a private key option that keeps your key off our servers and ensures that only you can access your data.
The idea is data is unlimited, but only the first N Gb are at 4G speeds.
Suspicious cyber activity at White House detected, addressed
Completely agree with this. We've reached the same point we did with laptops a few years ago where making hardware more powerful doesn't improve the user experience much. Phones from different manufacturers are more or less interchangeable and there's not much incentive for an owner of last year's model to upgrade to this year's model. Both of the leading app stores are full of gimmicky junk and the leaderboards are increasingly stagnant. The prospect for indie mobile developers with new ideas is grim in 2014. Users are settling into patterns with a handful of established apps and it turns out there's just not that much you can do as a developer with nothing more than a 5" touch screen.

So I'm a contrarian even though I've been building mobile apps for the last four years. The desktop seems like both a vastly more interesting but likely also more lucrative place to be for a developer.
"In this cycle we saw a +40% increase in the number of companies applying over the Summer 2014 batch."

Yikes! That's a major increase in applications. Has that number always grown that fast?

I wonder what the saturation point will be...
http://cubic.fm connects different music sources in a single player and helps users build a globally accessible online music library. Launched the public beta a week ago.

we want users to be able to

-Create an online music library, independent of the source providing the content.
-Build it further by collecting any track discovered anywhere on the web.
-Access and interact with other users' libraries, no matter which service they use or subscribe to.
Oh. The search suggestions I get come from my DuckDuckGo Plus extension (installed it a long time ago). But my point stands with other browsers: Opera, Safari, and IE all have the unified bar, and I was referring to those browsers in my comment (specifically Safari).
Why not FoundationDB?
You most probably meant inside Orbital Sciences Corporation. Antares is just the rocket.
"We Make Mistakes" is such a pretentious title because you think people hold ycombinator in such high esteem that you need to say that
https://bluemesh.com/

Platform to map and visualize your software architecture, and see relevant data about your applications in real time in the map. Works well for individuals, but really intended to help teams collaborate.

Early beta version, so please let us know what you think. There's a feedback button in the app at the top right.
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The same point as all Google products, which is to mine your data.

They get more accurate data if you aren't allowed to input it.
Argh, I do that every time. Quite right.