skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not both? Make a custom domain for the book, then treat your own site as if you were guest-blogging on it to pump link juice to the custom domain.

That way, your venture ends up with the combined page-rank of your personal brand and the exact-domain bonus. (Whereas if you just redirect from one to the other, you lose one or the other.)
That's definitely progress. But what I really want is an ability to upgrade. I buy the Kindle version, and if it is awesome, they let me buy the print version for the difference (possibly plus a nominal amount like $0.99). Then I can defer the physical-or-virtual question until later.
I'm from India, it points me to official Google Chrome page as the first link. Definitely its location specific as he said.
Cross-language support in such frameworks takes a lot of effort. Whenever you add a new language you really hit the classic 80-20 problem.

We have support for a few more languages that we are using internally but after having a hard look at the implementations we decided that they weren't up to par for the open source release yet. I hope that we will release more soon. And needless to say, we are open to contributions from the community.
I have a great idea for a game. Go to the linked page[1], and find as many facebook/twitter/whatever links as possible.

I mean holy shit, you even get popups when you select text.

Hint: Some of the goodness only shows up if the window is large enough. Responsive facebooking FTW!

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/porn-companies-are-going-af...
If you don't have random screening, then people who would pass the other screenings won't have to deal with an element of uncertainty to their plans. This is enough to deter some attacks. People like McVeigh, who would get past behavioral or intelligence-based screenings, would not want to plan an attack that relied on not being selected for a random screening, even if it's a small chance.
Dana White had stem cell therapy for his Meniere's. It costs something like $7000 for a treatment and wouldn't be covered by insurance. Also no guarantee that Dana White's issue is exactly the same as other Meniere's sufferers, he was a boxer and that probably affected his condition.

If you have the money to spare there doesn't seem to be much downside to the treatment but a big, expensive risk for most people.
I tried it ~2 weeks ago and was unable to figure out how to get it to synchronize across multiple computers as promised (could have been operator error or documentation lack). I also had a few times where I dismounted the virtual file system (or maybe not) and ended up with a repository that was in a broken state with an error message that said fixing it was not implemented yet.

I've also played with SparkleShare, which has been working well in my very limited testing. The downside is that it is written in .net which has a large footprint (pre-paid if you are in the Microsoft world). With SparkleShare, I'm using my own git repositories (gitolite) which works well but requires some hand editing of the configuration file to make it work.
Doing zero violence insures this. I think what he means by violence is violating company policy. If you violate it a bit by say working on your side project during work hours then you can not ensure that you won't have problems later.
> Getting into YC is not an achievement. Even if you get in, you're not special. You still have to bust your ass like everyone else trying to build a company. Not getting into YC isn't a big deal either, because you're still not special.

Unfortunately, the marketing of YC (and many other accelerators) disagrees with this, with emphasis that joining a startup accelerator validates you and makes you part of the elite and gives you the authority to make a I'm-a-thought-leader Medium blog post. (Case in point, the "A YC alumni’s tactic to hack some early investors interest through a prolific Angel" incident: https://www.dropbox.com/s/go9lfnxwt9fnax2/My%20Investment%20...)

The disconnect between <X>-group-likes-my-startup and the reality of operating the startup is one of the reasons why there is a rise in stupid startups which eventually crash and burn. (This is also one of the reasons I hate sites like Product Hunt)
> Someone with money gets to consume more than someone without. This isn't odd.

Yes, but taxes and regulations are meant to exert a control how much more you can consume as a rich person.

Now, taxes are fine in many cases, but not always. For example, you probably wouldn't want to live in a country where you can pay for a (taxed) killing service. Hopefully, we agree that this would be "odd".

The problem here is precisely to decide whether it is odd or not to let people emit as much as CO2 as they want (provided that they pay for the tax). Or if we should put a hard limit on it (i.e. a regulation).

I personally think it is indeed a bit odd.
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Can you send a link to that adaptor? Also, did you have to fiddle with the BIOS PCI settings as mentioned in the article? Any idea how this works on Linux?
Good catch. Leon indeed currently models the `Int` type as mathematical (unbounded) integers. There is a project in the works to correct this semantic difference with Scala, and have `Int` be signed 32-bit bitvectors and `BigInt` be the mathematical integers. At that stage, Leon will also be able to generate the kind of bound checks you were expecting.

For the types of problems we had been looking at, the current state is arguably not a major issue (if you are really building a list of 2^31 elements, you're probably facing other problems), but for the sake of being formal, the semantic mismatch must be addressed.
The First Things I Do on a New Mac
Remembering Aaron Swartz: Watch New, Unreleased Footage from Internet's Own Boy
> The health concerns of radiation exposure of backscatter X-ray have never been properly characterized at all.

To amplify: The former head of homeland security profited handsomely from their approval. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...

I wouldn't want to be in his shoes if there is ever a larger-than-average number of cancers in the TSA agents. Even if it is merely statistical fluctuation, his conflict-of-interest may come back to haunt him in ways he has not anticipated.
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When it comes to putting bugs in software, I am prejudiced against the human race. :-)

Folks saying "don't write your own crypto" are really talking about production systems that will serve customers, employees, governments, etc. Crypto is not going to be a market differentiator; it just needs to work. So why not stand on the shoulders of many others and use a library that is already well tested and patched up?

But in terms of spending your own time to learn, I doubt many folks would say don't do that. Matasano even provides a bunch of freely available materials to do just that.
If you can give up NFS and only use Samba for mounting your storage, this sounds like the use-case for DFS Replication.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj127250.aspx
Yeah, I'm most confident about the exercise connection. Seemingly without fail, when I slack off from my 3 workouts a week, my symptoms return about two weeks in. And then when I start exercising consistently again, they subside a week or two later.
Nice code book but you can just as well print it yourself :D
I'd like to be the third person to recommend it to you. My second favourite book of 2014 :) Do it!

Oh and hey good luck with your writing :)
Hehe, I also don't understand why people always talk about summer and winter like it is a universal thing. Heck, there isn't such thing as summer or winter in some countries!
I don't get it, I have been working with web development for the past 10 years, I never had problems finding a job but I wouldn't know how to do remote consulting while I travel around the work to "take a break", nevertheless the tone set from OP is confusing you don't know if he is humble, spoiled or bragging. It's all mixed up, and like other people noted pivoting is not changing your idea completely, this is starting over.
I have a lot of trouble getting behind a men's rights movement that feels like an extremely bitter backlash. People claiming association with it have been behind some extremely frightening threats and intimidation towards women who dare to discuss bias and misogynistic online cultures. And it feels even more reactionary when no legitimate discussion can be had about the struggles women face without an attempted derail into "but men have problems too!"
> Instead of reporting the total body accumulated dose, they report the dose a single scanning beam sweep induces over a small area.

A major problem radiation dosimetry has is definitions are easily confused. The NRC's dose limits for individual members of the public [0] dictate a total effective dose equivalent of 1 mSv a year. The confusing part is keeping all the numbers straight if it is an effective dose, effective dose equivalent, or a dose equivalent. I'll get back to why I bring this up in a second.

I do want to say that I don't see the reference you are getting the 0.1 μSv per 1x1 (cm square?) area from the article (just mentions a per-sweep radiation measurement but doesn't report what kind of dose that is). However, from your sources it actually doesn't surprise me they are reporting the radiation dosage that way, if they are reporting it as an equivalent dose.

An equivalent dose normalizes for radiation type. A gamma or X-ray is weighted much less than alphas (typically 1 vs 20 weighing factors, depending on what standard you follow). But the equivalent dose does NOT take into account what part of a human's body you are irradiating. If I had to choose between a pinky finger and my thyroid, you can probably imagine which one I would pick to be subject to irradiation. Instead, the effective dose accounts for the different parts of the body (and effective dose equivalent for both). This is why I suspect the manufacturer preferred the equivalent dose as opposed to the effective dose - they are normalizing for the type of radiation but not the part of the body they hit. There is the ICRP's notion of an "ideal adult" but each person's natural variation of geometry (height, girth, etc) would skew the manufacturer's number in some way. Of course effective dose is still imperfect as it contains a general biological potency assumption but it would mean a lot more to the public than a count of gamma rays and their energies.

> What is the full body accumulated figure? I'm going to guess as much as .30 μSv per scan.

That would depend on the van's speed, its beam patterns (spatially and temporally), the position of the person, etc. Honestly I can't tell if that is reasonable or not, but (returning to the NRC limits for the general public) keep in mind that the van would have to drive by you 1,000 times in a year to reach .3 mSv of your 1 mSv regulated limit with your guess. Of course, there are people out there that put lead-foil hats on and distrust the regulatory limit.

[0]http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/pa...
Neuromyths and the disconnect between science and the public
When I read about FanHero on techcrunch, I thought it was a good idea despite the article's tone.

Mainly because I watch a lot of alternative content and listen to podcasts, and I want a way to support what I like. It wasn't an original idea but with awesome execution I think it could had worked.
They're obsessed with cartoons, not actual robotics.
This post really misunderstands what both success and failure are.

Getting into YC or raising money isn't success. And trying an idea out for a few months before giving up on it isn't failure.

Building a success startup takes a long long time. Years. Lots of years. Maybe the idea is bad, but giving up on it after a couple of months really proves nothing. All it has proven is that the founders are the type of people that are readily willing to bail out at any moment, and that is a quality that doesn't lead to startup success. The "nightmare" described in this post is a joke compared to the depths some highly successful startups have gone through. Techcrunch wrote a bad story about me? Really? Try having to decide whether to lay off people to make payroll or having spent years on an idea only to still be not sure if it is working on not.
Why the Affero GPL?
Ad 1): if you don't know at compile time what kind of objects you will deserialize, you need to do more than generate the serialization code; you also need to generate the class. So, basically, you need the entire schema compiler. I still don't see why separating those two generation steps is a gain.

Ad 2): does this mean that one can also do efficient schema migration at deserialization time (rename fields, add fields with default values), or that one can deserialize to something else than the class that got generated when the schema was compiled?
With Namecoin anyone can design new naming protocols based on consensus. That's not possible with ICANN's DNS (the Internet is centralized in this regard - nobody can change the semantics of ".com"). New naming protocols are a huge deal => for searching & finding any information, for Identification, and more. Namecoin did not get it right, and PoW style blockchains are too complicated. But potentially one gets things like single-sign on, integrated micropayments, and things which are hard to imagine (smart contracts, etc.).
I can accept this rationale for investing in teams over ideas, but when did "pivoting" go from meaning "a modest change in direction" (e.g. switching the target market for your SASS product from consumers to enterprise, or making what was initially a secondary feature a primary one) to "start over from scratch with an entirely unrelated idea"? Seems like another term is needed--"flailing" perhaps?
Then you have a website[1] to look at and a book[2] to read.

[1] : http://platohistory.org/
[2] : http://friendlyorangeglow.com/
Keep your eyes open, ears at attention and talk to all different kinds of people.

If you really pay attention, something will stick out at you.

You'll likely have many ideas. Research them all, come up with some kind of a plan for each. Sit on them for a while...one of them will jump out at you.
I had similar questions based on this: "In college I had started an ed-tech company, ClassOwl, that raised nearly a million in seed funding. My two cofounders and I attended StartX, an incubator affiliated with Stanford, but ultimately decided to finish our degrees instead of pursuing the startup dream."

Am I understanding that right? Twice in two years this guy took other people's money for something and then quit?

I know we are in another bubble, but this really worries me. What, as an industry, are we doing if recent graduates see their basket of choices as "a) go to grad school, b) work at a big tech company, or c) attend a prestigious startup accelerator"?

On the one hand, I love entrepreneurs, and think that anybody who feels the calling should be supported in doing it. But on the other, I really feel like it is a calling, like being an artist or a religious missionary. People who are the kind of people who will be happy taking one of life's default choices should probably just go do that. If people are becoming entrepreneurs because they see it as another convenient, high-status, high-reward option, then I think we're doing something pretty wrong.

And kudos to Charlie Guo for being honest like this. It's sure not easy, but it's very valuable to the rest of us.
A least in the YC model, that seems to be a common definition of "pivoting". A bunch of their companies end up pursuing products bearing very little resemblance to the idea they were accepted on. If anything they seem to view being too attached to your idea as the bigger negative.
You also need to check with a lawyer to see if you will run into legal problems with your day job and to check what IP implications there are.
That's not the problem; their are ways to use this that don't violate the constitution. The problem is refusal to release information on what safety standards, if any, they are following.

Customs uses these at the border, but they make people get out of their cars. There are reports of NYPD ordering people to drive through these scanners.

Maybe this is safe, maybe it's not, but I don't trust a city police department to determine that.
I previously worked on Thirft and have overseen the development of Bond with Adam as the lead developer.

Your characterization of Thrift is accurate and Bond actually has some of the same architectural roots as Thrift. Those features of Thrift were ones that I wanted to preserve in Bond. But we also wanted to expand that plugability to allow for even more flexibility than the core Thrift architecture would allow for -- for example, the ability to support Avro-like "untagged" protocols within the same framework. I believe that the core innovation is in how that gets implemented. Also, we believe that performance is a feature -- our testing has shown that Bond noticeably outperforms Thrift and Protocol Buffers in most cases.

There is no conspiracy or intent to "ignore languages" -- we will release additional languages as they are ready and as we can support them as first-class citizens. We also welcome community involvement.
We should ban Vertu phones. And people with more money than brains.
In OS X 10.9, but apparently fixed in Yosemite? Just going off the final comments in the thread.
I haven't seen too much profit yet, but http://www.linkwallet.ca pulls in a little bit.
Similar to the chronological Hacker News alternate site: http://hckrnews.com/
That ruins it for me.
> So, what are the YC people investing in? Two guys who seem pretty smart?

The fully loaded market rate for "two guys who seem pretty smart" in Silicon Valley is somewhere between $200,000 to $300,000 per year -- at regular day jobs. Even boring regular employers invest a ton of money in people just based on an interview.

Remember this, when thinking about all of the investors who are always demanding tons of up-front proof and traction from founders. Regular day jobs generally require you to do nothing up front, except showing up to an interview. Firing within the first year is relatively rare. In many ways, regular day job employers are a lot less risk averse than investors!
Hacker News Daily contributes a lot for my information diet. Unless I have some free time (like now..), I only read HN from there.

Before I was reading HN from a great site (http://hckrnews.com/), but Hacker News Daily is more "information diet" oriented.
You can look at this the other way as well. The scanning beam only causes a low exposure at a point because it is scanning very quickly. The peak radiation is quite high. We know the dangers of cumulative dose because that is most useful in the case of low level exposure over a long time. Could it be possible that the risks are different for brief intense exposure?
This would actually be very useful for my Google and LastPass password. I have everything else in my LastPass manager, but it is always trying to get into my google account from different places is difficult, so I have a rememberable password for both.

This would let me keep a much more secure password for both.
Unless there's some kind of actual contract (leave before X years and you have to return Y% of the funding), I don't think that should be very surprising. People start on something (even a funded something) and then change to other things all the time, if their interests change or another opportunity arises.

For example, a portion of the people who win $30k/year National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships take a year or two of the funding, and then decide a PhD isn't for them. Some of those people, after taking $30k or $60k in PhD fellowship funding, leave grad school to start a company instead. I don't think it should be that surprising that people might go the other direction as well, taking $30k in Y Combinator funding, trying a startup for a bit, and then deciding to leave the startup and go to grad school instead.
Normally I use the term "leap" for the latter.

You're completely correct that the original meaning of the term was specific. Eric Ries originally wrote, "I want to introduce the concept of the pivot, the idea that successful startups change directions but stay grounded in what they've learned. They keep one foot in the past and place one foot in a new possible future. Over time, this pivoting may lead them far afield from their original vision, but if you look carefully, you'll be able to detect common threads that link each iteration. By contrast, many unsuccessful startups simply jump outright from one vision to something completely different. These jumps are extremely risky, because they don't leverage the validated learning about customers that came before." [1]

Sadly, the term is getting killed by Semantic Diffusion [2]. Precisely because people want to dignify their flailing with a fancy-sounding word.

[1] http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/06/pivot-dont-jump...

[2] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiffusion.html
How might it compare to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upland_rice ?
"Imagine a world where prosecutors could not enter your house"

I think I like this world.

It's not the presumption of innocence that's the problem, it's being forced to be a witness against yourself.
It's not about monetizing this. But people who know about this, don't they think it could really help lots of people ? and if so aren't they, especially in the fields of psychology, motivated by such things ? Because popularizing this might be the most valuable thing they could do in their professional lives.
Whoops! I obviously didn't look around enough. What a coincidence though.
I also have Meniere's disease.

About a year ago I found this study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16885753

The study (while incredibly small and perhaps statistically insignificant) suggests that drinking excess water may alter the production of vasopressin, essentially downregulating the body's retention of water.

I have tried to follow the recommendation (essentially drinking 100oz of extra water a day) and can anecdotally say that it seems to reduce my symptoms and is more effective in doing so than low salt diets, diuretics, and caffeine reduction. Plus it's more or less free.

I'm not optimistic on getting my hearing back though, at least in the near term. Best of luck.
How many couples did it create ?
That "Graphics Amplifier" is a pretty cool idea, I've been looking for something like this. But it uses an proprietary connector which means it can only be used with an Alienware laptop :(
Developing an idea that you feel comfortable genuinely committing yourself to is hard.

Usually it takes six months from coming up with an idea to researching it and getting to the point where I believe in it.

Most of the time, you start with only a vague notion and have to further develop that into something concrete.

No wonder that it didn't turn out well for them doing it under pressure in just a few days time.
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What was your first favorite book of 2014?
Twenty Fourteen: The Year I Became a Maker
The basic story is that the drillers were unlucky. They happened to have a fault that was "ready to go" right beneath their fracking operation.
If it works well, is it ethical for a teacher to let you do it as an exercise (simplest example: some of those doing the exercise may be in a relationship with someone not in the class)?
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