skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My patch...

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just drop that into your F12 tools' watch window and we can share configs/patches
It's not even that - frightening though that is.

Consider what universal adoption of autonomous cars would suggest about the role of the individual versus the collective - what the sociological implications are to that degree of control being imposed on the way people physically move, and the way they make decisions about where they go. The whole premise that people can't be trusted to manage their own autonomy beyond walking distance without being mollycoddled by an AI (and by extension, inevitably, the state) is just creepy.

And i'm saying this as a vile statist pig. It's a little much.
I'd especially love that for eCommerce systems as well. They require a bit more of a commitment than a CMS (at least that is the usual case).

Right now, the only mature ones I know of are all PHP based :/.. I hope that's just me missing something though.
That is (unfortunately) not entirely true. If they have reason to suspect there is an immediate risk of injury or death, they can locate the phone (assuming it's on) with a high degree of accuracy (at the very least, cell tower triangulation, if not GPS activation).

We had a situation a few years ago where a couple kids had skipped school and gone joyriding in a quarry. Their parents contacted the police, who contacted the cell phone company, and the cell company gave them a reasonably accurate fix (I assume this was voluntary on the part of the phone company, given how quickly it happened).
http://bax.comlab.uni-rostock.de/~bj/software/eagleplayer/im...

http://www.splitbar.se/sites/default/files/field/image/amiga...

Plugins? Check. Highly configurable? Check. Showing and hiding the playlist in a movable window at the click of a button? Plenty of visualization and information windows, all open at the same time if you want? Check. Early 90s? Check! :) Though I won't claim Eagleplayer and Delitracker invented that stuff, they were just the first audio players I used a lot.

It's really a pity Deliplayer for Windows isn't developed anymore... it could have gone places I'm sure.
Just assume that everyone 'from the audience' who participates in any kind of magic is a shill. No matter if it is on TV, at a party, in a restaurant, or in the street.
I worked with a guy a few years back that's done a few seasons with the Australian Antarctic Division. From everything I've heard it's an incredible experience.

For those who can work in Australia you can set up notifications for new positions (comms techs, electrical engineers etc) here: http://www.antarctica.gov.au/jobs/jobs-in-antarctica.
But doesn't any service that you authenticate against assume the channel is secure? Presumably this would use SSL.

I do agree about the single point of attack though. Perhaps you could do an asynchronous substring check locally when the CPU is idle.
They're planning to use AtScript to transpile to ES6 and Dart by extending the ES6 transpiler called Traceur (source: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/11YUzC-1d0V1...). The basic issue for Angular is they'd like to support users of ES5, ES6, and Dart with the same code base. That's currently a bit hard to do with a Dart code base (although a lot of us want to see that get better!)

disclaimer: I've worked on the Dart team and on the Traceur compiler in the past too. So I'm definitely not unbiased on these topics :)
I had a job in university that involved picking up 20-foot-long sections of freshly sawn lumber (some of which weighed well over a hundred pounds) off of a moving set of chains and placing them in bins. That's it, for a 10 hour shift.

VBA sucks, but come on, there are worse jobs out there.
How about all those bizarre or misapplied laws you could be violating if just someone knew you had done it. With pervasive monitoring, the uncommon-but-horrifying could become more commonplace:
http://kottke.org/13/06/you-commit-three-felonies-a-day

What you do can be construed as criminal if the prosecutor is interested enough.
AFAIK we don't even have good voice synthesizers. We're way back on this stuff.
Ah. I understand what you guys are doing now. This is an interesting and challenging concept to execute. I wish you guys success!

My only question remaining is how you guys handle shareholder liability since there's no corporate veil for partnerships. Is there some sort of general liability policy requirements, or is that kind of up to the people running the partnership?
Virtualization, databases, caching, ... Everything you'd use a big machine for, only turned up to 11.

If you talk to the right people, peakhosting.com will rent you a machine that can have up to 6TB RAM.
But are they doing it to make more money? Or because they believe in the legislation?
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This is something that http://reddit.com/r/documentaries would like :)
It would seem that our standard model of physics is wrong. Only about half the stars attached to the galaxies and not all of them.

The space between galaxies is not dark matter and dark energy webs but rogue stars that didn't attach to galaxies.

Of course if you design some way to get from one galaxy to another, you could plot hyperspace or jumpspace jumps to these rogue stars along the way, find a gas giant to skim hydrogen from it for fuel, and then jump to the next rogue star to refill again. That is if hyperspace or jumpsace drives can be invented and run on hydrogen for fuel. I doubt we can go faster than the speed of light, but if we discover how to get into a higher dimension to fold space to make the distance to get there shorter, it might be the only way to do it.
Makes a lot of sense. YC is evolving into what I'd call, for lack of a pithier phrase, a company-development firm. It's no longer just about kickstarting your company; it's about ensuring your company's ongoing success.

A more hands-on, operational focus helps YC's portfolio companies. It also protects YC's investments when they reach their adolescent stages, where a lot of startups can ordinarily run into trouble.
Hi, just FYI the AVX instructions are on Intel CPUs. They're the latest incarnation of SSE basically, and are for scientific, multimedia, and other other FP heavy SIMD amenable problems. I didn't diverge into GPU territory since the question was about 128-bit CPUs.

GPUs are a different avenue to exploit massive FP power, if your problem is sufficiently parallel.
Bresenham's Algorithm
Don't use PGP if in a life or death situation. Once someone steals the key you're going to be really screwed because all the emails you thought were so private are suddenly not private at all.
I guess if you are a software developer, you can make a blog about hard issues that you want to remember.

I am not sure if this will cause problems with NDAs though.
Well, there's "shim"....
This reminded me of another missing person posted here. Does anyone know what happened to Luke Arduini? I have no connection, but for some reason this stuck with me.

Here's some background:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7048249

http://blog.izs.me/post/72990767417/a-member-of-our-communit...
at first I thought, cool, but then realized that I'd miss google docs too much if I went back to Office. Aside from Excel which I don't use (prefer Pandas), I'd miss the collaborative document sharing and interoperability between laptop (Mac) and desktop (Linux.) Maybe Office does the document sharing/collaborative editing thing now. It's been a long time since I've used a MSFT product. although I will buy the Band, that looks awesome and the price point makes it irresistible to early adopters.
The article didn't mention it, but could something like this be an alternative explanation to the hypothesized "dark matter"?

Maybe we have simply underestimated the amount of "normal" matter in and around a galaxy? No need for inventing dark matter after all?
Generations X,Y,Z and the Others
Are these lectures actually any good? I really don't want to watch them if they aren't any good.

Are there lessons to be learned?

[link]https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hacker-News/1558365107716690
There are definitely ways to test display performance, such as the common PSA (public service ad) test to determine view-through contribution.

That said, I'd be careful painting all agencies under the same brush. There are plenty of CPA/performance-based agencies out there now, plenty that are flat fee-based, and every shade of gray inbetween.

Ultimately, ad agencies are incentivized to retain their clients, and if they have performance-based clients, just spending their money with nothing to show will not keep them in business very long. Likewise, people assume most brand advertisers at big companies are stupid. First off, you can't be a "big brand advertiser" without a "big brand" which means "a ton of cash." This also means they have fairly savvy and advanced statistical methodologies and research groups in place to help measure overall lift. Marketing mix modeling (MMM) is their lifeblood. Sure some of them have idiots working there, but at a certain point you have to look at the data at a higher level because you simply can't track everything you do in an accurate manner. Doesn't mean there isn't a way to observe lift and attribute it.
Smart Medieval Bookmarks
I honestly believe that much of the depression we see in tech is caused by unrealistic expectations of success, mostly due to the breathless survivor-biased media cacophony of all these rags-to-riches, out-of-nowhere, dropped-out-of-college success stories.

Therefore, although I don't want to dance on anyone's grave, I think it's important to recognize and mourn catastrophic failures like Aereo and understand that, no, success is not as easy to come by as they'd like us to believe. If it were, you'd see repeat entrepreneurs (not named Jobs or Musk, I guess) doing it flawlessly over and over.

To that end, here is Aereo's fundraising history, to the tune of $100M.

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/aereo

It's interesting. I'm actually not sure there is a lesson to be learned here. Aereo innovated against legal boundaries, not really technological ones, and the gavel falling on the wrong side was always a distinct possibility. Should they have not tested that boundary?
+1 Track complementary KPIs, so as you go up on one, you don't go down too far on the other

+1 Grade/compensate based on ratio of output divided by resources, so that managers don't have incentive to create empires.

+1 Calendar audit vs stated priorities

+1 Company must have one voice and a simple message
Double-bass metal

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Google Search Case Sensitivity
1) alan kay site:medium.com

2) alan kay sitE:medium.com

Each one gives different results when using google.com
Screencast of Joyent SmartDataCenter Install
A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names
Thx! I clarified that flickr changes the filename [0], which is different than changing the binary data, but for me a non-starter when looking at places to backup photos. ymmv.

[0] http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/12423/does-flickr-r...
> Regarding the first sentence, it's possible that the optimal firm count in some communities and especially sparsely populated areas is one (i.e. an actual natural monopoly), but in most communities I would expect it top be at least two or three, since broadband can be delivered through phone lines and cable television lines (which most communities are wired for). There are obviously other feasible media, like power lines and wireless.

You literally described what we already have today. We already know how that turns out, too: horribly.

> Could you explain why you believe that last-mile infrastructure is inevitably a monopoly?

Could you explain why you think we don't already have one? DSL lost against DOCSIS.

If you want last-mile internet of a decent speed, your choice almost everywhere is cable, period.
in that instance it was likely that the parents were the rightful owner of that information because the account was in their name so therefore there was no need to involve a judge
Unless you expect random or targeted surveillance, if it generally listened and sent packets all the time back to Apple, even if you didn't tell it to, that someone would have discovered this by now.
Ooo a MAX midi out plug-in that could fire off notes in a drum rack
If you were 8 and needed a shirt you got it from someone who outgrew it. People shared items quite a bit.

The poorer you were the worse your clothing, i.e. handed down more times. If nothing else you could piece together rags.
I thought it was an interesting article. Bu then, I didn't realize it's in a legal journal...

I only think that the author has much more faith in the Free Market than it's warranted. We are exactly now talking about a cartel.

Anyway, the government could be leaner.
You can? Cool, that fixes everything. But still, I feel like its pretty annoying that they made it the default, simply because it will be annoying for so many people.
I don't know the financials of Chattanooga's system, but if they're losing money (when you don't count tax revenue) the price comparison isn't very useful from an economic standpoint, at least without introducing another argument like that wealthier people ought to subsidize Internet access for poorer people.

> This is exactly what economic theory predicts will happen in the absence of competition.

Well, I would expect competition to emerge in the absence of competition, if the existing firm is charging so much that competition can be profitable (and if competition isn't prohibited by force). It's true that in an actual natural monopoly (which, remember, I think is rare for Internet access) the monopoly firm has notable market power (the ability to set prices higher than marginal cost). But that market power is not unlimited, and the government solution to a natural monopoly requires the government to be both able and willing to produce at a favorable marginal cost and set prices accordingly.

> What's often ignored is the efficacy of the government getting stuff done is largely dependent on the competency of the officials. But if you have good officials, the government solution to the high speed problem is a fantastic one.

Certainly true. That would be one of the "inputs" I mentioned in my previous comment. Of course, "good officials" probably doesn't mean much more than "true Scotsman."
The device is definitely not constantly listening and uploading to the cloud (or at least they certainly do not intend it to). This keyword recognition thing everyone is doing is to make interaction more intentional, reduce misrecognition, bandwidth consumption, and processing costs.

Keyword recognition is done locally on the device at minimal processing cost. Compared to actually recognizing your speech, it's trivial to determine whether or not something you said is a given keyword. It's rather like biometric confirmation vs. identification, where confirming whether a given fingerprint is that of a given individual can be done quickly and with a certain probability distribution but determining which of millions of fingerprints corresponds to the one provided is incredibly difficult/unreliable.

The more difficult task of recognizing what you say after the keyword is done in the cloud, but only once you've said the keyword. It would incur considerable cost for you and them to constantly record and upload all audio, especially with their parametric microphone array for sound localization/isolation.

The real concern should be the device's own security, because hacking the device and enabling constant recording would be very harmful.
No, what leads you to Iran is the stance "if it's legal then it's OK". There are a lot of things that are legal but not OK, and when pointed to something that is not OK arguing "but it is legal!" is exactly the confusion in which you implicate me. My argument is exactly that - that what the Feds are doing is immoral and makes no sense. "But separation of powers!" is an Iran-like answer to this, if you like such comparisons - it's just saying "who cares about moral if we have the laws that we ourselves crafted that allow us to do what we want".
I do miss imvu_website_push
I don't always follow what is going on with YC that closely, what are some other ways that he has been pushing the envelope?
I was referring to the Oracle servers for large in-memory databases.

They may have new models out, or I wasn't aware of the highest end model...the current high-end model will address 32 terabytes of RAM:

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sp...
I think the dynamics you touched upon are specific to coderwall, their revenue model, their leadership, and their choice of stack(not that any of it is bad, it has just created the situation you described), and you can't judge every startup/product/team on assembly through the same lens. Only a few of the products on assembly are profitable at this time, the majority of things are in idea stage, and I think those projects are the ones where one can get the most value for their work. Of course there is the risk that the product is never completed or turns a profit, but that's all startups.

I'm all in on assembly, my current startups on there are:
http://assembly.com/startl
http://assembly.com/bootswap
http://assembly.com/chatbotify-me
http://assembly.com/authorsimple
http://assembly.com/brytn

products I did not start but am active on:
http://assembly.com/cliq
http://assembly.com/dawn
http://assembly.com/okvaper

Startup ideas laying around I plan to put up there once I've got the ball rolling on my current ones: http://transtartup.blogspot.com

Assembly will prove valuable if people create value for the ideas put there on the risk that it will pay off, and the smaller the team when the dev gets in, the bigger of an impact and stake they can have/be rewarded.
I enjoyed it. It's basically about how to be a good manager.
quizotic summarized some good points. A good tldr.
This echoes a lot of the sentiment that I had when I moved, and frankly I regret it. I can't obviously know that all of our variables are the same, but for me, I lost the ability to work in a place that had a friendly work environment, with nearly full control over how and what I worked on, the ability to publish, AND work on a full stack, in exchange for a doubled paycheck and losing all of the above, this was simply not worth it and I spend most days here counting down until I've "paid my dues" and can go back into an area I feel more passionate about without burning any bridges.
Is there a similar trend in other incubators of adjusting to help ensure long(er)-term success of companies or is YC really the first to do this?
Good points.

One other pitfall I see is that initially, you want to market the idea to some targeted audience. That audience may or may not be HN. I don't believe a true product-market fit will be evident simply by 'validating' an idea on HN/PH. A true product-market fit should only be evident when directly targeting the audience the app was designed for. And the only two experts in those domains will be yourself and the customer.
If only CPA were that simple.

Case in point...

- You work with 3 CPA networks

- Each has their own tracking tag that their terms require payment be based off of

- A conversion comes in and each network registered an impression (or heck, even a click) before the visitor in question signed up.

Who gets the credit?

Well, if you don't have an agreement that states billing is done off of numbers from YOUR ad server, where you can dedupe and set an attribution model that makes sense for your particular business, the answer is that all of them will.

So you are paying 3x when realistically odds are that not all of them should get full credit. Hell, that doesn't even factor in other channels like organic, social, etc. that all likely played a role as well.
I don't think google news even has any ads so Google theoretically isn't even making any money off of it.
Zeus: una amenaza latente
Something is very wrong with how web developers think about threat models if they're so incredibly willing to load completely arbitrary code into their customer's applications from a source that isn't even remotely party to the vendor/customer relationship.
* teaching a Stanford class / MOOC on startups

* taking more "hard science" companies in YC (fusion, biotech, etc)

* taking later stage companies (Quora, others?)

* getting aggressive about scaling YC #s

I'm sure I'm missing some as well
Shift work prematurely ages the brain
The perverse part is that people who are supposed to protect the rights of the Alaskans are instead actively working to deny them those rights, while hiding behind the flimsy excuse of "separation of state". It's definitely not what the founders envisioned - the "commerce clause" - the reason-to-go for every federal power expansion now - was meant to prevent trade bareers between states, not to allow the Feds to suppress state decisions under the guise of "oh, it might influence the price of marijuana in other states, so it's commerce, so we can do whatever we want". Calling this "precisely what the founders envisioned" is just laughable.
Why Larry Ellison Needs to Have the World's Greatest Competitive Team
IBM DB2. Bloated, clunky admin interface, outdated feature set, buggy JDBC drivers, no drivers available for many languages, unhelpful error messages. Would kill to have PostgreSQL at work instead.
If it isn't reliable, there's plenty of competition.

I've been renting dirt-cheap VPSs recently and had zero problems with them.
Looks like FBI had a good time checking out a Tesla purchased with drug Bitcoin
I agree with you about the NSA-related claims dominating the discussion too much, but your tone isn't nice. May I suggest that a better way of mitigating the dominance of the NSA-related discussion would be by making some top-level posts about other interesting aspects of the product?
Verbatim? I just tried two off the top of my head. "Hey Siri, how do you spell cantaloupe?" and "Hey Siri, how tall is mount everest?" The replies were "The answer is cantaloupe" with an on-screen definition and "I've found an article on Wikipedia about that. Shall I read it?" In neither case were the answers succinct and on point as in the Echo ad.

Of course, that assume it will actually work as advertise. Also, unless I'm mistaken, "Hey Siri" requires your phone be plugged in. My phone is never plugged in unless I'm turning in for the night. I realize Echo has to be plugged in as well, but that is it's natural state, having my iPhone plugged in is not.
Some interesting outliers in there, for example Google's CFO, Patrick Pichette, at $650,000 in 2012

[1]http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-2012-I-200-12121-384409/chief-fi...