skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that surprised me about becoming an investor is how morally active the investor community is. Before I knew anything about investors, I assumed they were just making ROI calculations.

I don't just mean that they like to invest in upstanding people who treat their employees fairly, because that's also justified economically. I mean that most investors don't invest in things they don't want to be part of, even when they think they'd make money.

For example, most investors won't invest in gambling, penny auctions or payday lending, since those things generally take advantage of unsophisticated consumers and seem like they're net-bad for the world.

On the other hand, it's easier to convince investors to invest in green energy, STEM education, and developer tools because they want more of that to exist and want to be part of it.

Investors cover the spectrum from very conservative to very liberal or libertarian. But whatever an investor's personal beliefs are, they are a significant factor in what they'll fund.
In the session, where it belongs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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If you store LN in a thermos with a cap that seals the thermos, you've made a time bomb, and thermos shrapnel does not improve the flavor of cocktails.
I have been approximately you a couple times. If it were me in your shoes again, I would leverage the huge amount of knowledge/skills I've acquired and jump into a new opportunity. There are basically 3 directions: 1) start your own company that you will build yourself, 2) find another startup in a similar spot to where you were 2 years ago, or 3) join a big company. I will say a likely outcome of joining a big company is you will be expected to focus, having relatively shallow but deep expertise (i.e. specialization of labor).
A friend of mine (and physics PhD) created this:

http://psigasm.net/

Which seems in a similar vein. An open-source dildo complete with pressure and blood flow sensors. Although the Psigasm is theoretically focused on human sexuality research rather than recreational uses.
If all you want is altered states of mind we have drugs for that :)

When asked why Zen Mind Beginner's Mind didn't include much on Satori, Shunryu Suzuki admitted he'd never reached it[0]. He never broke through, he just sat on his cushion every day and when he did he was just sitting on a cushion. No fireworks, nothing special. At the same time he's also one of the most respected and widely read Buddhist teachers the West has even known.

And, sadly this part is noteworthy, he's one of the few teachers in America who never had any major scandals.

[0] - http://www.cuke.com/bibliography/ZMBM/preface.html
Perhaps the role of a public broadcaster makes things different. My understanding was that the CBC's decision not to run cartoons of the prophet Mohammad was based on their institutional duty to be inclusive to all Canadians. Ultimately they deemed they can sufficiently report this news without publishing material that will be offensive to a large portion of Canadians on religious grounds.
Note that we're talking about fuzzy image-matching hashs that attempt to match an image to its source even after it was cropped at the edges, maybe got a new watermark somewhere and was recompressed with JPEG a few times. I don't know the false positive rate of these algorithms but I imagine they're much bigger than that of a cryptographic hash function (that's what analogies like yours usually refer to).
It says the data sources are from the FEC, SSA, and wikipedia.
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PHK's argument is that the IETF is only "blessing" SPDY (plus a bit) as HTTP 2.0 so that they continue to remain relevant. The reality is that SPDY could succeed without the IETF being involved at all which would simply underscore the fact that the IETF is irrelevant.
Thanks! They are indeed pricey -- it's tough reading things like this (http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297) talking about chips that are 40 times as fast, have 2 thousand times more memory and cost half as much as our Atmegas. :/

But I think you're definitely right -- things are moving towards BLE in general, and having fewer wires and ports is for sure a plus for something like a sex toy.
Novel. I like it.

Has me thinking about a 'slow' messaging app: basically email but in daily digest format. E-mail, but with the latency of physical mail. You may reply at your convenience. Your message will be received at the time of the recipient's choosing, along with the rest of the day's correspondence. Optionally including weekly days off.

Probably not great for business. Between friends it might encourage more long-format replies which might be more enjoyable; an alternative to short, frequent messages.
One way to address this is to have an explicit commitment as an organization that managers at all levels will regularly explain to their teams the context in which their piece of the organization is operating, and a process to make that happen.

[This is a concept I first heard about in Elliot Jaques' thinking around what he calls Requisite Organizations... I don't agree with all of his thinking, but this context-setting piece has always seemed crucial to high-performing larger organizations]

This has two big benefits: first, it should make it easier to assimilate higher-level managers' decisions and understand the motivations behind them and second, it puts everyone in a position to make better-informed decisions on their own.

As a simplistic (and not particularly realistic) example, if I am a dev manager trying to decide whether to devote time to new feature development or a refactoring effort, making the 'right' decision is dependent on knowing whether we have things in place to put a marketing push behind new features and generate new sales, whether we are at risk of losing existing customers due to latency issues that the refactoring would resolve, etc.

If the right context-communication process is in place, I know that answer and can easily both make my decision and communicate to the team why it is the 'right' one.
Leonard actually addresses that in a few a places, though I don't have a link handy right now. The short version is they're creating a game that's almost entirely defined by procedural content.

To even attempt such a thing requires a lot of good tools because they not only need those tools to build procedural content for the game but for their userbase to be able to as well.

He seems well aware of the trap here and is trying his best to avoid it.
A theme-park chain where children pretend to be adults
Location: Anywhere, World. (My personal location is and will remain Bucharest Romania).

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Scala, Go, Haskell, Linux, Spring, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka (also contributed to Apache Kafka). Distributed systems. I can accept Java or Javascript as a second language. My primary experience is Java but I had the functional programming hobby for 3 years now and really want to switch now.

Résumé/CV: https://ro.linkedin.com/pub/dumitru-nicolae-marasoiu/4/2ab/a...

Email: It is in my profile https://ro.linkedin.com/pub/dumitru-nicolae-marasoiu/4/2ab/a...
This is by design. The aim for HTTP/2 was always a new messaging scheme for HTTP/1.1 semantics. Basically, any HTTP/1.1 message can be converted to an HTTP/2 message (and this can be done by intermediaries); the only headers not expected to be supported in HTTP/2 are those that fall into the category of connection control (e.g., Connection).

From the charter:

> It is expected that HTTP/2.0 will:

> * Retain the semantics of HTTP/1.1, leveraging existing documentation (see
above), including (but not limited to) HTTP methods, status codes, URIs, and
where appropriate, header fields.

> * Clearly define how HTTP/2.0 interacts with HTTP/1.x, especially in
intermediaries (both 2->1 and 1->2).

Quite probably a more radical, new version of HTTP, that drops message compatibility would be a good idea — but that's a lot harder to design and harder to deploy. As the old adage goes, "we believe in rough consensus and running code" — we have running code for a new message serialisation, and rough consensus for it. We should accept just that as done.
Are you a lawyer? Their terms of service[0] and privacy policy[1] appear to give them pretty broad leeway:

"When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones."

I could easily argue that spying on your email in order to gain advantages in acquisitions or hiring could be justified for "improving [their] Services" or "to develop new ones".

[0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...
Samsung galaxy s6 focuses on advanced customization options
Those "Implementors" are the ones who will benefit from HTTP 2. Namely, I think Google could probably provide patches to nginx, apache, webkit, and firefox without even feeling it. Doing so would put MS on the hook to update IIS and IE. That's 90% of the Internet.
I don't have much to add here except that Braid and The Swapper are both excellent, excellent games.

They don't overstay their welcome and both have very refined game mechanics while also telling an interesting story.
A hash collision is not proof of anything. You just look at the picture if the hash matches. It is not illegal to own an image that hashes to the same thing as an illegal image would.
As an early backer of the project and fan of paniq's, I'm happy to let he and his wife go off on tangents like this, because I know whatever they build is going to be awesome. Of course, most backers are probably not as pumped about text editing environments and game dev tooling as I am :P
So if HTTP 2.0 is a superset of HTTP 1.1 then why the hell can't they just leave it as SPDY?

Which goes back to PHK's argument about the IETF getting caught with their pants down.
I don't think so, I see it on both my work and home computers, both of which are running OS X. Also to clarify I'm talking about the CrunchBase widget on this TechCrunch article, not the entry on the actual Crunchbase website.
Callr will call you 30 seconds before your event starts
Turn an Old Android Phone into a Networked Security Camera
You missed the part where reading the article would help inform you of the long storied tradition in France of this kind of purposefully highly offensive, highly satirical speech. It's like a French version of "truth to power". Their intent is offense, because no one should be immune to feeling offended, the powerful, hateful, etc. most of all.

Scott Long says, "There’s a perfectly good reason not to republish the cartoons that has nothing to do with cowardice or caution. I refuse to post them because I think they’re racist and offensive." I hear a loud whooshing sound as I read that. He completely misses both the tradition and purpose with which the cartoons were published, as well as the entire point of republishing them after the fact.
However temporary it might be, it would still be long enough to have an appreciably adverse impact on us.
A Conversation with the Michigan Militia
Google Domains includes phone support.
Well... for (just about) any product that is already being marketed there is potential for a DIY market along side it. I don't see any particular reason why this can't be one of those products. Aren't we in some sort of "maker age" right now?
Not that it matters to the bank robbery, but: he is not quite an ex-MIT professor. (http://act.mit.edu/people/lecturers/joe-gibbons/)
Yikes!

But at least, as you mention, you can be sure it was clean. There's no knowing what nasties a used dewar might have been contaminated with (heavy metals, scary organics, etc).
I don't see your point. In every case where you depend on filenames to identify blobs of data, case-sensitivity (actually byte-sensitivity) is the only behaviour that a filesystem can reliably implement. Once you allow cases where two different byte sequences must be considered equal depending on configuration, your filesystem can no longer work reliably.

Case sensitivity may bother users sometimes, but the filesystem is not the right place to solve that problem.
I agree with you AlyssaRowan. I also moved some domains away from NameCheap/eNom when they didn't provide DNSSEC support.

I did move a couple of domains to Google Domains. While they do not provide DNSSEC in their DNS hosting, they do support DNSSEC records (DS) if you host your domains somewhere else that supports DNSSEC signing.
You can't even take a nap in some places like on a couch in a mall; maybe polices change but I saw a mall guard waking up some tired soul.
I don't know if anyone with any knowledge would argue that. Minecraft Alpha was decidedly dull. I think, more than anything else, the public development cycle was a huge part of Minecraft's success.

I also wonder how much piracy contributed. I know I pirated the game before I bought it.
That's if they can cheat RMS anyway - I'm not sure they can but if you do have data on that I'd be interested to see it.

RMS is a measure of power, not of perception. You don't have to defeat RMS to defeat perceived loudness.

But, you're right that a playback device could take measures to defeat the perceived loudness baked in (though they'd get quite complex, as the tools for baking it in are extremely complex these days, and I don't actually understand half of them, despite having studied audio in college and worked in the industry). I don't know if it would actually improve listener experience to do so, though. Ending the "Oh shit that's loud!" and "Why is this song so quiet?" problem would be positive for listeners, of course. But, at what cost?

"Analog radio would still be mastered stupidly loud. I would assume final stage compression in radio broadcast is keyed on peak not RMS level, again please correct me if I'm wrong. But it's a dying medium anyway."

Analog radio (and digital broadcast radio, as they still compress, despite some of the technical reasons for doing so being gone, inertia is strong in broadcast; I have noticed that Pandora and Spotify do not do any sort of compression, however, which is nice...but also annoying when the playlist has new and old music as the difference can be massive and unnerving) was among the earliest adopters of various technology to make music perceptively louder. Aural Exciters (a very early salvo in the loudness war) were available in a broadcast targeted version from very early on, etc.

I haven't been in the broadcast industry in a long time, and I worked in television rather than radio (though the station I worked for shared a tower with several radio stations and another TV station), but I'm reasonably confident radio stations in major markets still tend to have the most modern "make it loud!" devices available. Loudness=listeners in radio. That's why the loudness wars are happening.
With all the crap in the app store, if someone wants to base a game on Escher prints, that's a big improvement. I'll take it.
Weren't the blackberry keyboards also designed for use with thumbs? That's how I always typed with mine.
Response to Marc Andreessen on Secular Stagnation
I found it insulting, frankly. Its as though the author is suggesting some sort of connection between the events and their business decision, or that the business decision is some sort of substantive attempt to fight injustice.

On the upside, at least syncthing is now free from the heavy-handed overzealous marketing these guys seem to love so much.
> Why does this have to be solved at the legislative level?

One of the main reason people have to work so many hours is the government diverts much productivity to waste. The best example is health care spending. Americans blow 25% of GDP on it. For all this spending Americans achieve a life expectancy of 78. Mexicans achieve 76 with a far lower GDP per capita of about $13,000 and spend something like 8% of GDP on health care. From this I conclude American health care spending is essentially a wasteful racket. It's not a stretch to say Americans spend one full day a week working to pay for doctors and medicines that don't really work.

Pile on other rackets such as massive overspending on defense, over-budgeted police and fire fighting forces, over-budgeted primary and secondary education, and you easily get another day or two. Americans in productive industries are spending probably near half their work week producing to pay for government connected parasitical industries.

Legislating less work time is not the primary problem. The first thing to do is address the question of Why are we as a society blowing so much money and effort on worthless crap? Cut back on the massive levels of waste and there will be more wealth with which people can choose how to spend their time, working or not.
> There are no "minimum production values" if your game is good enough.

Which is just a tautology.

Hotline Miami - 2 core devs + 2 others;
Risk of Rain - 2 core devs + others;
Gunpoint - 1 dev (Tom Francis FTW, yay!)
Valdis Story - Dunno, but website says "we" and mentions a few different people in blogs;
Terraria - 2 core devs + others;
Vlambeer - 2 core devs + others.

It is very difficult, almost impossible for a single developer to make a competitive game now. Not actually impossible, but the dev needs to be almost preternaturally productive. It is much more common to find programmer + artist + others teams, as it became after the transition to 16-bit. Very common to have programmer + artist for pre-alpha prototyping, contracting additional programmers + additional artists + sound guys (as for several of the games you cite) + platform conversion teams + music, etc.

> pixel art using GameMaker, for example.

Pixel art can have high production values. Pixel art was still the main requirement for 16-bit games, well after the demise of the bedroom coder.

If you think that, say, Risk of Rain doesn't have many person years of production input, you're deluding yourself. Try making something equivalent yourself this year.
OK, I missed that, but still, that suggests two US links (not that I can see the actual data, it just links to the homepage), and ... Wikipedia? What does that mean in terms of a data set?
This warning is spot on.

"Since it's odorless and colorless, you probably wouldn't even notice." — I remember being surprised reading a haz-card for liquid nitrogen that said you could suffer serious brain damage from lack of oxygen before noticing anything odd. Humans feel we're suffocating when there's too much CO₂, not when there's too little oxygen.
From what? It automatically sets itself as default?
This is cool, but I kind of see the use case a little different. I'd like to be able to receive a message like this on my phone once a day, just as a notification, at a time of my choosing. It would still be a random anonymous message, but it would be interesting because everyday I would receive some random/hilarious crap from someone elsewhere in the world.
Yeah, Google Domains runs your domain on Google Cloud DNS. My DNS servers are ns-cloud{1..4}.googledomains.com.
Build pattern recognition.

Map your self and items, memory test your script as you try to place things, find your settings and preferences for variables important.

I find if you make a point of what you do, your organization to find a system can teach you things about your memory.
I see a number of posts saying that you're probably not experienced or qualified enough to hold these other positions. However, I don't think the VP of Eng, Dev Mgr, or OPS Mgr could do what you do...essentially help start and build a company from day one.

Those skills you've developed don't have much value at your current company any longer. They are most likely keeping you around for historical value and once the systems you built get replaced its over pretty quick. Take those skills elsewhere and brand yourself as someone who takes a company from 2 to n employees.

Not everyone has your skill set so learn how to market them. I'm on my second company where I was an early hire. I learned that you're way more valuable in the beginning then you are at the end. Eventually I got pushed out by management types because I held on to the notion that I helped build this company and deserved something for it. Don't wait too long to realize it.
Or, what's needed is for us as a society to decide we have some other fundamental goal than "productivity".
Point taken! But we're also not starting from scratch here. We've been doing prototypes for the past year along with continuous software development and refinement, and project documentation and workshops and conferences and ...

We're at the point where we believe we have a design that can be manufactured and work well, that we can make enough off of it to fund future products, and that $50k will fund an initial order run of those products.

You're definitely right that $50k doesn't cover our costs given what we've put in to it already (including labor), but the goal is to run a profitable business once we've gotten our initial kickstart, if you will.

And of course, there is also a publicity aspect to it too. Campaigns that wildly outperform their initial goals (fingers crossed) look a lot better than those that barely make it or don't at all.
The site could use a UX check itself. :) Using Chrome on Windows:

http://imgur.com/EK3Mu3s

http://imgur.com/SbUmSzh

Also, what would be really handy is the ability to download the result not as a document, but rather to integrate it with existing issue tracking software such as JIRA. I'm sure that's on your V2 plans with some monthly recurring plan.
Google stopped doing currency conversions
I like your idea very much. There's just something about artificial constraints that I find appealing.

Do let us know if you ever decide to build it, I'll be first in line to try it out!
As I recall it was written in CROSS (http://pdp10.nocrew.org/its/its.os.org/ai/info/cross.doc)
Does it have a real keyboard?
It was one of my most used features... RIP old friend...
I can teach you accomplish the same thing: just get a white sheet of paper, cut it to the size of the iPhone 6, then write on it "reception booster pro," and finally glue it to your iPhone 6. You now have a reception booster that works through, what I like to call, "passive closeness" (*trademark pending).

In our independent lab tests we found that this improved our signal from entropy to Entropy Plus™ (patent pending), which we found could sometimes improve signal anywhere from 0-100%.

Early reports indicate inconclusive results with some claiming it boosts signal, while others claiming it degrades it, but all I know is that now you owe me $60-70.

PS - I take no responsibility if you glue a piece of paper to your iPhone 6, you're just an idiot.
They can, but in my experience, they don't. I'm not sure if it's the silicon sleeve around it, or what, but I've dropped mine a number of times and it's been fine.
Something about Google feels more trustworthy to me than all the other registrars, so that's new.
All those "analysts" and "journalists" who think one metric is everything. What Crumb said yesterday:

"You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations."
He wasn't violent so I don't think he'd need to be locked up in a psych ward, just maybe required to see a psychologist a few times a week.
Thanks! I knew there was a word for it but it was totally not coming to mind.
David Cameron looks to enforce a blanket ban on encryption in 2016
Should probably be tagged with VIDEO in the title