skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The swipe gestures are not standard across all apps (they didn't seem to work in GMail, for example), and when they did I had to hit the left edge of the screen. I do not have monsterhands that can securely grip the phone, reach all the way across, and do that edge swipe. (I can hold securely the Z3c and hit almost any point on the screen with my thumb.) I also don't really like gestures--other than Swype keyboards--when using a phone one-handed, which doesn't help either.

That wasn't the main reason I took it back, though if they had an iPhone 5-sized upgraded iPhone 6 I'd probably have kept it longer. (I probably wouldn't have kept it, there were enough other frustrations that not paying $900 for a phone and being able to get a better phone for my use case for $375 was appealing, but it might have lasted longer than a snowy weekend.)
My favorite way of looking at it is via the advice given here[1]: you need to be outstanding in at least one of the following: the idea, team, or traction. As a solo founder with no traction, it is therefore reasonable to conclude that you would have to have a remarkable idea.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/20/how-to-write-a-winning-y-c...
> Even alcohol was much more widely consumed during the Middle Ages, as it was safer to drink than water.

Apparently this is a common view, but not one settled as correct:

http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-wate...
And eat their own shit, but hey, whatever floats your boat man...
Speaking for myself.

1. yes
2. yes
3. yes

Now, while I am forced to use Visual Studio as a build system and for it's integrated debugger. I too, generally use other tools for actual development. And I'd love if I didn't have to use VS for it's debugger either.
If the most tech centered place in the world all use iphones

It's a status signaller. It's like the Macbook Pro. From your reasoning, OSX must be the best OS out there given its popularity in SV, yet the grunt work for the vast majority of SV companies is done by linux - the stuff on the servers, making their money. Horses for courses, there is no One True OS.

It's also a massive overgeneralisation to say that the population of SV are essentially experts in phone design and UX. And if you think that the SV engineer is immune to fashion trends by dint of 'being professional', you'd be wrong. Witness the current fad of flat design, for example.

Then there's people like me, who see the 'better experience' as including things outside the phone. Supporting Apple supports their business model which suffocates open source and prevents tinkering. That's a worse experience for me.
The Nazis invested in the bomb too, through alternate means.
How disappointing that GoDaddy chose to shut the PaaS offering down, just to have these folks dedicated to working on a website builder for the lowest end sites on the web. Seems like a waste.
You should read more: what we read in 2014 (and plan to read in 2015)
This sounds bizarre. Spark is the replacement for MapReduce, with Map and Reduce being just 2 of its 15 (?) primitives. Who needs another MapReduce engine?

The bit about "We'll get around to Hive and Pig eventually" is also odd, as they're approaching legacy status too. (Albeit not there yet; please recall that I'm somewhat of an Impala skeptic, and of course there's the Tez booster to Hive.)

Also bizarre are some of the history claims in the article, e.g. that YARN is part of more or less original Hadoop.
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Honestly? Every app I use on Android is really nice and polished. Chrome, GMail, Maps, Twitter, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Hangouts, 1Password, Pocket Casts, Poweramp, and Pandora are all completely satisfying. The worst app I have is OpenMBTA...which fails to get my jimmies rustled because it's a dropdown list and a map overlay.

There are lots of shovelware applications on Android (lots on iOS too, though), but I don't really live on my phone so I think it's just much less of a thing for me.
This is huge. My parents (ages >60) bought galaxies. They pay $9 per phone and a >$200 deductible if it breaks. The insurance is through a 3rd party. That is insane.

if it breaks 12 months in, you put in $108 then $200 for the deductible. Those are conservative estimates because I can't find the pricing right now but I now it is more.

My iphone apple care was $100. If it breaks that is $79. I can break it 3 times over the course of 24 months and it is cheaper than breaking the galaxy once at 12 months. Applecare is a steal.
And also fewer partners reviewing applications. He was turned down for a previous batch because he applied with a bad idea (SAT test prep), not because he was a single founder. If we would now pass on DropBox, something has gone very wrong. I can't believe I have to argue this point...
I don't think that's true. I think in most western countries the kind of people who end up taking meth are already people who have a drug problem, making the makeup of meth users be generally people with serious issues.

New Zealand has been particularly good at prohibiting the import of drugs like MDMA and Cocaine, which has made them prohibitively expensive. As a result, if you're a drug user you either smoke cannabis, take pills which are generally a mix of mephedrone and meth or just straight up take meth. There's no middle ground.

As a result the kinds of people who would normally take MDMA on a night out in London would take Meth on a night out in Auckland. I know a good number of young professionals who take it from time to time without it being a big part of their lives. Strangely the meth snorters stigmatise meth smokers in the same way a normal person would stigmatise a meth user.
last price per share paid (by an investor) times number of shares outstanding?

I don't see why valuation isn't just as good at market cap, if a bit less liquid. same idea.
I admin the cluster, so you're gonna need to try again.
So they want to ship a compiler if they can't even build their distribution with it? Seriously?

Had to check the date, we are not yet in April.
What if the products are 'average' rather than 'terrible'? It's not like there's a binary value for quality.
Peter Thiel's plan to pay college students to drop out is showing mixed results
I haven't read the book, but I did read the EFF's brief (https://www.eff.org/document/eff-amicus-brief-ibm-ats-claim) which seems to rely a lot on the alleged Nazi connections. Based upon what I have read so far, there is no "smoking gun" that indicates IBM did anything to knowingly aid the Holocaust or Apartheid.

In the case of South Africa, it seems IBM aided in the creation of South Africa's national ID system. What I can't tell from the evidence presented is if this aid was illegal or unethical at the time it took place. As a reminder, the United States didn't officially outlaw segregation until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I really haven't made up my mind one way or another about this, but I do think people have a tendency to interpret historical events using the knowledge and ideology of the present day.
Really? I mean really? Of course it changes the value of the article- articles written by unreliable sources are less valuable than those written by reliable ones. Or does it not matter as long as you like the message? If the CIA/NSA comes out and says "Oh it's ok y'all should totally get stoned" does that mean you trust them all of a sudden?

It's no wonder every decent novel about a dystopean society has some type or psychoactive available-everybody trusts their dealer I guess.
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Yeah I don't blame any network equipment for apartheid. Rather, I'm thinking of MITM equipment like Iran used to leverage their DigiNotar attack. I'm not aware of particular people that were taken into custody as a result, but it seems likely that those people exist.
Until I figure out my nvidia drivers for my laptop, Ubuntu 14.04 on a VPS.
Why not just agree to the coin closest to the top-left corner?
Yeah, the times I've tried to use CentOS or Fedora have always been full of "apt-get" in my bash history. :(
> If you're not sufficiently committed to be willing to move somewhere else for 3-4 months,

... Then you might be older than 30. I don't blame YC at all; I'd do it the same way. However, lots of the industry's demands for evidence of passion/interest/excitement are things only applicable to young people.
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It was last year, to be honest I'm not too sure of his setup. All I know is he set up the exhaust to heat his house
Apple Pay and JetBlue strike first airline deal
The jailer chooses which is the "magic" square.
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Hi, JD @ Pachyderm here.

Our feeling isn't that Java is bad it's that it shouldn't be the only option for big data processing. There are a lot of people that want to do this type of computing and a lot of them hate Java. We want to build a solution that can serve them better and Docker is actually an incredibly high leverage way to do it.

I feel like I don't fully understand your criticism of choosing Docker as platform.

> cluster jobs are going to be random linux binaries that could do any combination of system calls

Could you give an example of what could go wrong here? Docker prevents you from talking to the outside world so you can't call out to an outside service in the middle of a job or anything like that.

> Worst of all, rather than defining common shared services for e.g. job scheduling

In Pachyderm job scheduling happens outside the user submitted containers. The job scheduler is what actually spins up the containers and pushes data through them. I'm afraid I don't understand what it would even mean for one of those containers to then do job scheduling itself.

Hope this clears up our thoughts on this a bit.
While having a co-founder might indicate you have trouble convincing people of things, or that you have no desire to do so, it's also the case that having a co-founder is no indication at all that you do have the ability to persuade.

I'd be willing to bet more co-founders than not are the people who happened to be close by and were the path of least resistance for each of them to move forward. Entirely possible there was no convincing, leadership, nor charisma involved.
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Kudos, this is exactly the kind of response I love to see.
You are right, I was thinking of miTLS.
Are you the same with other forms of leisure and entertainment? Never walk through the same park twice, never see the same band twice, never order the same dish at the same restaurant twice?
Indeed. Tons of kids' shows have adult-themed subtext sprinkled in. Kids wont catch it but it makes the shows more bearable for parents.

Spongebob has some good ones.
Certainly my impression of everything that pg has said is that solo founders have the odds stacked heavily against them when it comes to YC acceptance. I'm surprised that you're surprised that's what we all believe.
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When I was in school the professor said something about interest rates and opportunity costs that was more algebraic than arithmetic; but I guess that is all academic.
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It absolutely makes sense. All corporations have a market cap because they have shares outstanding and there is a price per share. We can disagree as to whether the share price is what it should be given the lack of trading liquidity, lack of transparency in their books, etc. Nevertheless, there is certainly a share price and a number of outstanding shares.

We can all argue whether Airbnb is worth $2B or $6B and Uber $40+ Billion, but these valuations aren't made up. They follow accounting rules.

One primary example is mark to market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-to-market_accounting
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This:

> In 1997, Los Angeles signed an agreement with the basin to clean up the air pollution—a move that opened up a dispute about the degree to which the lake bed was responsible for the dust.

Seems to just dangle at the end of the article. Seems very out of place, especially since the resolution of the conflict happened after the 2013 election. Why are they bringing up 1997 and then ending the article?
Lots of books I want to reread but hard to justify when I already have more books on my "to-read" list than I can read in a lifetime. I do, however, try and re-read Dune once a year.

Off-topic but since I've got books on the brain: I recently started reading the Foundation and am kicking myself for not reading it sooner.
With all due respect, the reason you might have to argue the point is probably because even back in 2007 the application page said:

The people in your group are what matter most to us. [...] Your idea is important too, but mainly as evidence that you can have good ideas

And Drew was passed up because his idea was bad (not given a "we like you more than your idea" option). It seems like a skating to where the puck is and not where it's going kind of thing.

YC probably won't miss out on a DropBox that looks like a DropBox, but you might miss out on a Drew Houston that eventually creates a DropBox.
This is already reality for decent sized ag setups - measuring things like soil moisture, pH levels etc and reporting back.
According to google, tea has 3mg/fl oz, while soda has 2mg/fl oz of caffeine.

Also, the people that I know who drink tea, tend to drink it by the pot, whereas most coffee drinkers I know tend to drink by the cup.
Those would be chemical weapons. Those can't be used, because they are inhumane.
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And when he has to care he has enough clout that yelling about it online get it fixed asap. As was seen when he ranted about his daughter needing the root password to change wifi settings.
They link to their jenkins with the little "build passing" badge near the bottom:

https://github.com/docker/docker#contributing-to-docker

https://jenkins.dockerproject.com/job/Docker%20Master/

They used to use drone.io, but they recently removed it:

https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/10519

I like the creative branch naming.. "jfrazelle:burn-in-a-fire-drone" :)
You know, this same guy wrote before about a framework making a radical BC-breaking change: http://thefsb.tumblr.com/post/44942894313/zurb-foundation-4-...

Seems like he just enjoys getting mad at people about their decisions. There's reasons for this decision, and as a PHP developer, I see why tearing out mcrypt could be problematic. Pretty lame that he's shitting all over these guys because they did their job and made a judgement call.
I thought that one of the requirements for addiction was that you were willing to let the rest of your life go up in flames to get your next "fix." People definitely bandy about the word "addiction" for things that are somewhat less than that. E.g. not many people withdraw from those around them to get their next caffeine fix.

(It's worth noting that this doesn't necessarily apply to just drugs. WoW-addiction falls into this definition too.)
The JVM is the best VM out there, it has been developped for a long time by very smart people, I don't see how docker is better in that case.
I would think that it depends on how structured your code needs to be. For example, I'm working on a soon-to-be open source project which makes heavy use of prototypical inheritance, so I use it a lot. That being said, for one-off projects that do not require a lot of extensibility, you might not use it at all.
It's a way to reduce a large number of bits to a single bit. Each region defined on the board comes to represent one bit of the answer, and that bit is determined by the "direct sum" (or exclusive-or) of all of the coin positions in the region. A direct sum is basically addition with no carry, and in this case it's done base two (so 1+1 = 0, 0+1 = 1, 0+0=0). You can also think of it as an even/odd relation: if the number of 1's is even, the result is zero. If it's odd, the result is one. If you change any single bit, you flip the result.

Once you can do that, all you need is to be able to cleverly define your regions so that you can find a single square that overlaps with any given subset of them. Flipping the coin in that square would then change the direct sum for each of the overlapping regions, and you have your answer. You first read off the bits as they lay on the board you're given, then you figure out which bits you need to flip to turn that into the pattern you want, then you find the square that overlaps with all of those bits and flip that coin.

The way the regions are laid out in this case makes it possible to do just that - you can find a square that will overlap with any combination of the regions from none of them to all of them.
Heck, just look up how combines travel from south to north during harvest. Farmers are connected and talkative.
Wow, just, wow. She's completely correct to call you a douchebag. How anyone could read what you've just written and not come to that conclusion?

She's basically an investor in your startup at this point with the "endowment". Also, she has a PhD. Also, she's your girlfriend. Show a little respect. Douchebag.

For that matter, how is it you're supporting her? Sounds like she is supporting you.
Can anyone point to refs that explain Boston Dynamics' approach to robot control and coordination? Seems to be a completely different method than something like Asimov. Any insight appreciated.
Seems there is a bug on profile's github link.
Apple is investing $850M to build a giant solar farm for new headquarters
I sincerely hope that this post is an awful joke, because the way in which you're talking about your girlfriend is appalling. If this isn't a troll, then it sounds to me like your girlfriend agreed to be a part of your project because she loves you, not because she has some burning desire to [do whatever your startup does]. If that's the case, then no management technique is going to inspire her - she's doing it for you, not for the startup.
This is so upsetting. After Colbert ended, I told myself hey, at least there's always Jon Stewart. But now he's quitting too? How are they ever going to find a suitable replacement?
I hear variations on these stories at least half a dozen times a week at my alcoholism support groups.
Still no GCC5 in Gentoo [0], but I imagine they will have it soon after its final release.

[0] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-devel/gcc
Doesn't this only work if the app is already installed? Because if the App Store is opened instead then the link data is lost AFAIK
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Excuse my ignorance here, but why would someone sell back and forth to themselves?
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Yeah, don't really want to play the nazi card, here, but I can't help to remember "Arbeit macht frei" when I hear that "Spain, good boy!, good boy!, keep on starving and some wonderful will happen, tomorrow, or maybe in forty years, trust us..."

Nobody thinks here that we are "recovering well". This is not only about the rate of unemployed, you need also to think about the quality of the new jobs.

An then you need to think also about different types of new poors. About 4 millions of spaniards could not afford an accurate household heating in 2012. ACA estimates that beetween 2400 and 9600 people have died prematurely in Spain each year those last years because, after the banks shamelessly steal all his life savings, they can't pay for home heating. More people that the victims of car accidents. Don't worry, Angela, just old useless people.

http://unaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/estudio-de-pobrez...
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It seems pretty close to working. One of the few (or only) issues remaining is this one: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/10184

Basically, docker had to add device support, which it now has, but fuse is explicitly forbidden in libcontainer (https://github.com/docker/libcontainer/blob/164cd807a16e63ed...)

A patch to libcontainer or possibly Docker itself should resolve this (volunteers always welcome!)
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games, filesharing, access to streaming devices, cameras, ... VPNs for home users is far from solved (many routers support VPNs, but are not always that easy to set up, don't always work easily in both directions, ... Hamachi comes close when it works properly, but is also missing a few bits) This project might not be the best base (at last Mac support and some UI bits would be helpful), but that doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

And even for more technical users, it would be nice to have something for a quick connection that is real quick to set up.
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Errr.... No. It "makes sense" for people with no common sense or basic knowledge about computers, electronics and digital data transmitting; it has nothing to do with being an audiophile or not.
And since all this it was stated in the article too, I would appreciate if they would stop directly misusing it in the title...
> private companies are not traded publicly on a market.

Incorrect. They aren't traded on an exchange, but they are certainly traded in a market. A market is any situation where people buy and sell to one another. Venture capitalists certainly buy shares in private companies. Similarly, a private car dealership, private family restaurant, etc can (and often are) sold from the original owner to a new owner. Thus, a market exists.

I think the term you are looking for is exchange. The distinction between a market and an exchange is an exchange creates more explicit rules on trading in order to make the goods traded commoditized.

For example, instead of buying corn at my farmers market where the differences in corn might matter for both price and quality (local, organic, some farmer just happens to grow more delicious corn), when you buy agricultural commodities from Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), each contract is equivalent. X many bushes of corn at Y price. By making rules on quality and standardizing the goods/contracts/etc, an exchange helps to bring about price discovery and ensure the goods are priced correctly.

But it isn't inherent that exchanges cause the true price to be found or that OTC[0] markets are inferior or less accurate. It depends on numerous factors for whether a share price is being valued correctly.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_(finance)
You seem to be insinuating that Linux on a laptop is as good as Linux on a server, but there is no way you actually believe that.

Apple makes the only usable laptop OS these days (now that Windows 7 gave way to iOWondows)
WTF are you on about, you abrasive sperglord. The questions were honest. I assure you, it's a nightmare on windows and in some other advertised configurations. Spend all of ten minutes looking at the mailing list and see and endless procession of people asking why basic scenarios don't seem to work and don't provide explanation of why they aren't working. Also, I dare you to spend 20 minutes looking at the code behind DAGMan and claim it's "solid".
The process of applying is valuable in and of itself. It will force you to clearly communicate your idea and what potential it truly has. You'll likely refine your idea alone through the application process. Don't plan for the downside, rather, "act as if" and churn out the best possible application.
> imagine a world where all your rivals in business are dosed up on your nootropics. You're now in the position of having to consume mind altering pharmaceuticals in order to retain your job, with some completely uncertain future cost to your health.

scary.
Here's a fun comparison. That's within spitting distance of the GDP (PPP) of all of South Korea around the year 2000.