skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the concept of Permacoin (https://www.cs.umd.edu/~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf). Maybe they should give it a thought? The idea is to create a financial incentive to store chunks of a huge dataset by using proof-of-retrievability algorithms to mine a cryptocurrency.
Hey Dhruv! The cool thing is if you expose some triggers and actions via an app, your users can decide how to hook it into other apps (like Salesforce, etc.)

Perhaps things like:

- Trigger when a message is opened

- Trigger when a message is sent

- Trigger when a new contact is added (if you have lists)

etc. Happy to answer any questions, you can also shoot me an email. https://zapier.com/developer
While that might be true (at least per capita, I can't find any recent sources for the murder rate in Mexico City), Mexico does hold the distinction of having 10 of the top 20 cities in terms of murders per capital (US has 4), as well as
an overall murder rate of 21.5/100,000 people vs the United States with 4.7, and almost twice as many in absolute numbers, despite a much lower population.

That said, Mexico is a beautiful and vibrant country that I have pretty strong personal ties to, and I'm not a huge fan of scaremongering either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
Shall we play a game?....
This incredibly futuristic plane could be the future of airliners
There's nothing wrong with the developed world providing a service to the developing world. It's a symbiotic relationship, as both are better off from the arrangement. Mining farms in the developed world giving Somalians in the developing world a secure currency that can't be expropriated, and lets them receive international remittance at a fraction of the fees they paid before, is a good thing.

With respect to fairness, what's important is the characteristics of the framework within which the resource is used, that enable rent-seeking. With Bitcoin, each individual is their own bank. They control their own private key, meaning access to money is not intermediated by rent-seeking third parties with their lock-ins and closed networks.

Mining is ultra-competitive, because there are no barriers to market entry to the open mining network, ensuring transaction fees are driven down to the maximum extent possible. The algorithmic money supply ensures that no powerful organization and its host of satellite institutions can inflate the currency on a perpetual basis, to slowly the tax the people over generations.

Any way you look at it, Bitcoin is a force for distributing power and control, by eliminating the roles of rent-seekers.
> Broadcast.com, AOL, Netscape, etc. Today its, Uber, Twitter, Facebook

Even mentioning his company in the same breath as Uber, Twitter and Facebook shows how out of touch he is IMO. Broadcast.com was hardly a business! Those companies have BILLIONS of dollars of real revenue.
Were you the host or the client in this download?
I think even people who avoid others for superficial reasons realize that's what they're doing. I.e. They know deep down that the other person is not necessarily bad, but just don't want to engage them. Naturally, they won't openly state whatever the superficial reasons for avoidance are, thus may hide under more acceptable ones like perceived bad character.

However, in a context like an accelerator interview where you're being assessed for potential success (financially, at team and company building), I think it's safe to say superficial reasons are more likely to be ignored.

Plus, many who've been exposed to bad characters before tend to remember the difference and how unlike their covers many books can be.
I too ask myself this sometimes.

Here's my shot at answers:

- he can't fix the entire world by himself, there are a lot of things you can do to make a difference;

- edw519 would probably point out that he's not making the thing he makes by the power of his own hands, he leverages the global economy to achieve his goals; if you do anything that's even remotely useful, you're helping him and everyone else;

- somebody needs to buy those Teslas ;).

(not that they sound very convincing, I'm not sure if I ever believe them myself)
Well, you have the right to exercise those options and then they become stock and you have a stake in the company. The nice part of it being an option is it grants you the right to invest in the company at a static price if you choose. And you choose to do this when the company is doing very well.
So the argument here is that the SEC should lessen investment restrictions so that VC's can pawn off their junk stock to the unsuspecting John Q. Public as soon as they see (and hopefully for them right before) the bubble pops?
Online Crafts Marketplace Etsy Files for IPO
My thought is that if you have the money to spend on multiple drinks, then you should be able to spend at least one drink's cost on Uber, Lyft, etc.
91-Year-Old Is Living Her Dream as a Tech Designer at Silicon Valley Firm
> Here we are celebrating the artifacts of a perverted imperial force that is responsible for countless crime against humanity.

I'm celebrating the fact that the United States sank her.
This is the advice I've received from 4 different CPAs. Maybe I've found 4 consistently bad CPAs...

Agree on the FICA.

For market value wages, I consult websites that report average salaries like glassdoor, again a recommendation from those CPAs.
My own two cents: it's a very unfortunate blog post.

1) As mentioned few times here, "cultural variations" can not be handled as such, unless you have a special training on this -which I don't read so -.

2) It's totally a back pusher on applicants, if someone says "I see through you, and tell if you're evil", I say, "no thanks, have a nice day with your corporate culture". Indeed, I'm not considering to apply YC with this attitude. (Therefore, I'm not good, possibly caught by JL-radar)

3) Regarding 2, I think YC became too picky, so they're starting to sound these -nonsense- ideas to cutoff pouring applications.

I miss PG's guidance.
> These "be afraid of the outside world" articles are getting less and less subtle.

Afraid of the outside world? Ahem, how many journalists have disappeared in USA in the last years? And by any chance, was any of them hanged disemboweled on a bridge, or beheaded on a street?

There's a huge difference in crime between Mexico and USA, with the former having many arguably failed states; therefore disappearances have a very different context and characterization.
It seems that chrome doesn't work at all for me? Any ideas? Everything else seems to be working fine...but not chrome.

The application just doesn't seem to register (the icon remains that of the last app recognized). No amount of focusing Ghostnote, then Chrome, then Ghostnote, changing tabs, or restarting Chrome seem to do any good either.
It might have improved your ability, but for the vast majority of the people I've met, it certainly hasn't, and for some it even helps them perpetuate their misinformed beliefs.
ALL CAPS AS a SERVICE
As a crazy street biker and very opinionated person, this just makes me say "ICK."

It reminds me of one of those swiss army knives with the 16mb USB stick built in. Seems cool at the time until you realize something that should last a decade or more is now irrevocably tied to something that's going to be obsolete next year.

Plus the market for $1,200+ commuter bikes simply cannot be that large.

They should have just made nice-looking attachments and left it at that.
I think it's a good thing for the internet industry to see people publicly step back instead of pretending to be "killing it" constantly with no human cost. And I hope the stepping back is good for Mr. Howie, he deserves it.
"... to communicate better and get things done quicker" could literally mean "we provide 5 Hour Energy and megaphones for the office". Tell the visitor what you do, more specifically (not too much detail - just enough so that people have some idea).

I think your website looks nice, though. Whatever you do, resist the urge to redesign it (regardless of feedback herein). Do focus on getting your first customers through guerrilla means, and refine your website slowly over time.

Final, bike-shedding note: Get rid of the animation delay in your scroll-the-user-down navigation.
PARCC, Common Core, and the heightened focus on (even more) standardized tests is an unmitigated educational disaster. My children have been wasting their time taking practice tests instead of actually learning. The school has to jump through the distict's hoops. The district has to jump through the state's hoops. Kids don't actually get educated because everyone's afraid of failing the tests so they're overpreparing. My kids are only learning how to game the system and take tests and not actually learning information analysis and synthesis.
Market leaders don't have as much incentive to adopt Bitcoin, but competitors do

Look at Amazon and Overstock. Amazon doesn't need to implement Bitcoin to be successful, but Overstock was able gain some market share by accepting it
Take an upvote for explaining what I have suspected from observations of myself, friends and family for a few decades. I do not have the ability/skills/education to iterate my suspicions quite so succinctly but I do recognize my weaknesses and know if I consciously mitigate the triggers I can prevail over certain impulses and self-destructive behaviors...which is a far cry from what the author wrote about, but still a correlate, IMO.
You are making a logical fallacy of sorts. He wasn't destined for this role, he just happened, by skill and luck, to make it out of the 7 Billion people who didn't. If he was alone he wouldn't succeed.
IBM acquires AlchemyAPI to fatten Watson portfolio
Isn't that just called "journaling", as opposed to "immutable"?
> Whenever I hear about stuff like this, I wonder: Is there anything the failure modes of the human brain allow us to deduce about the software architecture?

Like a fault attack to reveal the inners of human. Brilliant :)

And I want to say yes! I've read about it somewhere: a region of the brain was damaged on some persons, and they would function normally most of the time, except they couldn't understand metaphors. I can't remember where I read this though...
Go and the Modern Enterprise
Regera – Koenigsegg
Crowdsourced Robot Servants
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DHH on Rails as an API Server in Rails 5
"In the tech bubble it was Broadcast.com, AOL, Netscape, etc. Today its, Uber, Twitter, Facebook, etc."

Did he just compare himself to Uber and Facebook? Wow...
You're actually grossly overestimating the electricity for most of the US. Raspberry Pi and similar run for <$10/year
I get the feeling that this "Google is doing X only because of ad revenue" meme is starting to get into Illuminati territory. I find it as believable as that thing a group of anti-vaxxers told me yesterday, that 'Bill Gates is really trying to depopulate the world using vaccines to sterilize people', as evidenced by 10 second quote from his 2010 TED talk, taken out of context.
> It doesn't seem like the number of people who say "I still don't get it" ever goes down.

Which is great, that means new people are getting into it every month. Newbies disappearing isn't a sign of success, it's a sign of stagnation.
I'm in precisely the same boat; I knew the face, not the name, and friends were quoted in the article. I'm really saddened by the loss. He was far too young, and clearly on top of his game. It's a shocking reminder of our own mortality.
...dude. No, you don't have to be a drunk going 100mph before you kill someone with your car. That you "don't drink very much" doesn't mean that your "car is incredibly safe and will almost certainly never kill anyone."

Your car is an extremely heavy, extremely fast machine that will crush anyone unlucky enough to be in its path. That includes not only incompetent/incapacitated/elderly drivers, but also dumb accidents and unaware pedestrians. You will easily kill a child who tries to play in her suburban street even if you go 10mph -- not because you're a drunk, but because American structural design forces everyone to drive two-ton bullets to go anywhere, which inevitably results in lethal wrecks. Compare Denmark's road fatality rate of 3.0 per 100,000 inhabitants versus the US ratio of 11.6 per 100,000. [1]

The question is not whether you enjoy driving. The question is why cars are entitled to the vast majority of public space -- not only for parking (often for free or nominal fees), but also for individual transportation that endangers the lives of pedestrians and cyclists. Please take a look at this illustration to get an idea of how much land your car takes from everyone else. [2]

Do you really think a kid trying to bike to school should have to risk his life every day... because you feel entitled to barrel through his home town?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

[2] http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/18/7236471/cars-pedestrian...
If you use ssh for your deployments, look up "ssh agent forwarding". It allows you to temporarily use credentials from your own local machine to perform remote operations.
>I can't imagine a "severe alcoholic" running out of alcohol in the blood stream overnight.

Well, it's the reason for delirium tremens. Alcohol doesn't have to be zero to cause morning withdrawal - just less than whatever your body is accustomed to.

As far as amount metabolized per hour, I believe that increases with habituation and tolerance.

Myself, I was hardly an alcoholic - just hanging out with one, and he'd entice me to a bar each and every night for 2-7 beers. Waking up as described was my experience.
Can SpaceX, at least from a technology and legal standpoint, launch a manned flight without NASA involvement? If so, is it that it just makes no commercial sense? Or is the idea that the flight is far more likely to succeed with NASA's expertise?
One of the problems we have in the tech world is that there is a lot of respect for the analytical "left brain" skills (which is great), but a great deal of doubt and skepticism directed towards the more subjective "right brain" skills. I think this is why the "neckbeard" crowd has often dismissed Apple's success as being the product of slick marketing. My opinion is that their success has a lot to do with Job's ability to combine both analytical prowess and creative genius. People who try to be entirely analytical about everything are rarely good founders.
Hey Soperj!

Ali here, one of the co-founders at Vanhawks! Thanks for commenting! The reason we used flat handle bar is because we aimed our bikes at commuters! Flat handle bars are really ergonomic. In relation to also our frame design, they go perfectly with our aesthetics :). Hope that answers your question!
There's already a backup of the Internet Archive, in Alexandria, Egypt.[1] It hasn't been updated since 2007, though. The Archive originally wanted to have duplicates in several locations, but Egypt was the only one that came online. Here's YCombinator's original web site from 2005, from the
copy of the Internet Archive at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.[2]

A system, OpenArchive, was set up to replicate the Archive, but nobody else signed up.

[1] http://www.bibalex.org/internetarchive/ia_en.aspx
[2] http://web.archive.bibalex.org/web/20050401073947/http://yco...
Micromanage, and your team will never grow beyond you
shows what can be done with some imagination and outside the circle thinking.
My.cnf tuning – Avoid this common pitfall
It would cost about US$2.5 million/year to back it up using Amazon Glacier.
I'd never heard of Broadcast.com before this post. Checking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com, I see that "In April 1999, Yahoo! acquired the company for $5.7 billion (or over $10,000 per user) in stock and renamed it Yahoo! Broadcast Solutions. The company had 570,000 users. "

I"m comfortable calling that a Bubble.
I think you are mixing MDMA and LSD here.
Comparative advantage. Even if he is strictly better than you at everything you do, there is only one of him, and he can only do one thing at a time.
"My job relies on me trying to establish the character of people in a quite limited time as well"

@Sekasi, in your opinion, what would be required to test and establish a persons character?
Pretty sure they were called "Angels" back then too
This is why most angels have to be accredited investors, meaning that they need to have $1MM in assets. Millionaires investing in new ideas aren't exactly naive widows and orphans (though they could be). With public stocks there is indeed high liquidity, but there was also strikingly high volatility during the tech bubble. It's good to be able to sell your shares, but less so if the price can drop 80% in a day. That's when the common person gets hurt and the effects of a bubble are felt by the general public.

Accreditation rules can seem unfair, but this scenario is exactly what they're designed to prevent. Crowdfunding is a whole different issue. Most crowdfunding campaigns trade products for money, not equity for money. Kickstarter campaigns tend to go bust frequently, but people don't invest their life savings in a crowdfunded project hoping to strike it rich. People with disposable income investing hundreds or thousand of dollars in an idea isn't a sign of a bubble. It might turn out to have deleterious long term effects, but, we'll see.

Maybe I'm not understanding what Cuban is saying here, but it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
When you are thinking, you know that voice is you. Even when you 'hear' your mom telling you to clean your room, you know it's inside your head.

When you have schizophrenia, the voices sound like they are outside your head. Like you are hearing someone standing behind you.
That's like saying families is an obsolete concept and anyone should be able to come into your family and get all the benefits and rights and privileges as your born children get (including all the love and attention you give them, the twice a year dentist visit, breakfast, etc).

Also rights aren't fundamental in nature, they only exist because groups of people come together, produce/work, and that work provides the benefits you call "rights".

Others just consume those rights.

And given that resources are limited, and that highly advanced societies require highly advanced skills, there is no "logic" in flooding countries with seekers of benefits who are mostly not going to add any value to that society for 3 generations while costing the resources of 10. They will simply consume.
> Not all of Dr Sobel’s observations make immediate sense. If the purpose of sniffing is to learn something about the person with whom you have just shaken hands then it would be expected that the hand sniffed was the one which did the shaking. That, though, was true only when the shakee was of the same sex as the shaker. Those who shook hands with someone of the opposite sex more often smelled the hand that had not done the shaking.

I think I have a hypothesis which fits that observation: when we shake hands with someone of the same sex, we want to evaluate that person, and so sniff his scent; when we shake hands with someone of the opposite sex, we are concerned that we're giving the best impression, and thus sniff her scent. We're subconsciously neurotic.

Alternatively, we're not attuned to the pheromones of a member of the same sex, so have to sniff our shaken hand to detect them; meanwhile, we can easily smell those of a member of the opposite sex in the air, and sniff our own scent in order to compare compatibility.

Other theories?
>Look at all the maneuvers SpaceX had to do to prove they were capable of docking with the ISS.

They haven't even proven that yet. This version of Dragon can't dock - they just get within arm's reach (heh) of the station so they can be dragged in.
So get your Rust buddies together and fix it or rewrite it in the new apparently totally different Rust that has come out since October.

Apparently this will require more than half an hour of one person's time.

Or maybe it will take a week? Until then we only have this one representation for this case study, and it is a 100% valid representation of the reality of Rust development and Rust code. The fact that you tried and failed to update it is further demonstration of that.

But you know, deep down, its still going to be relatively slow and massively verbose.
I noticed the boardcast plug but they did well at their IPO

"It was 9 years ago we went public with what was then the biggest first day jump in stock price in IPO history"

Relatively speaking for though AOL and Netscape at the time where not a bad analogy
Silicon Valley and the End of Architecture
At least the NBA and NFL write out RSS feeds of games as they're playing with the scores and plays as they occur, to varying degrees of specificity.

They're kind of a bear to parse, but it's definitely doable without scraping, in some cases.
> If you organize your business as an S-corporation, you can classify some of your income as salary and some as a distribution. You'll still be liable for self-employment taxes on the salary portion of your income, but you'll just pay ordinary income tax on the distribution portion.

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Small-Busines...
To ask why the Zetas are violent is to miss the point of the Zetas.

The main mission of the Zetas is not "supplying medicines". The main mission of the Zetas is to monetize violence. Drug regulations as currently structured accounts for about half their revenue; if they were legalized, that percentage would go down, as likely would their overall revenue, but they'd still be running protection rackets, human trafficking rings, and any other scheme they can devise to reliably earn a return on their investment in a gigantic paramiltary pyramid scheme.

The Zetas are not an overly-zealous pro-drug advocacy/action group. In fact, that's a deeply weird thing to think about them.

Also, I don't know who you hang around with, but I don't know a lot of people who idolize the Chicago Outfit.
Then you could think you're dreaming, or that you're being shown a fake mirror, or that you are in the matrix, or... When your brain is trying to make you believe something, then you will see every prooves and ignore the rest. Some sort of extreme bias confirmation.
Rockets have the structural integrity of a pop can.
Cool, kinda. A variant is more generally useful. To call a template function who's return type depends on the LHS, return an intermediate object instance that encapsulates the fn arguments, and has a template conversion overload that makes the real underlying call, and dynamic_cast<>s the return type to the conversion type as its value.
The kind of dissociation you may experience driving a car (being on auto-pilot) is definitely not as extreme as DID, but they share the same foundation. This is our current understanding of how it works. If you don't believe me you'll have to take it up with the professionals in the field.

Comparing zoning out with DID is like comparing a hill to a mountain. However, I understand where you're coming from. I don't know how to explain it briefly. The mind works in parallel, way more than we think. So it can focus on two things at once, but "you" may not be part of both at all times. You'd have to let go of the idea that "you" (the person that typed that message) control or are even aware of everything that goes on in your mind. You're just an inhabitant (part) of your mind, and you don't control your mind. (This probably doesn't make much sense; sorry.)