skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't buy from Dell. Buy it from the Microsoft Store: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Dell-XPS...

Benefits of MS Store:

1) It's signature edition PC which means it's a pure copy of Windows 8.1. No trialware, no bloat, or any other crap. Even if you end up dual-booting into Ubuntu or Elementary OS, it's nice to have a clean copy of Windows.

2) You can take it into a local Microsoft Store if you have any issues, no need to deal with Dell's often horrid phone support.

3) You can buy Microsoft Complete Care for $130 which includes 3 years accidental warranty. If you break it, they replace it in the store with a brand new model instantly. I've seen them often simply replace it with an "equivalent or better" machine if the item is no longer available as well.
A 1/30th scale model would still be over 30 feet tall. (The real tower is nearly 1000 feet/300 meters tall.) Are you sure you don't mean, say, 1/300th scale?
I might be missing something here because nobody else brought it up: Is this not just a necessary move to salvage investments in Lyft? Assuming Uber won already, Lyft investors need to keep it dangerous enough to force a buy out or write it off completely. Keep Lyft alive until Uber is forced to buy it pre/post IPO? At some point the Lyft competition is going to cost Uber more than the price of just buying them out. Please note that I am not a biz guy so if I am wrong I would be very happy for an explanation on how/why.
"Most 'professionals' quickly reach the point where money is really more about status than anything else."

This sounds like something a young person would say. It's certainly not what most successful "professionals" would say. Most professionals feel like they're on a work treadmill same as everyone else, except they're doing it to support a more expensive house, more expensive cars, more expensive clothes, more expensive food, more expensive education for their kids, more expensive frills than people who make less money.

The consumer society we live in encourages/creates spending patterns that almost unavoidably rise right along with our salaries. These patterns of high spending then feel like they're "necessary" and they raise the bar for what feels like a safe retirement nest egg. It is possible to avoid this consumer-society treadmill, but it's not easy -- it requires swimming against the stream -- and a relatively small percentage of people do it. Avoiding it is basically what the Mr. Money Mustache website (referred to in other posts in this thread) is about, and it's interesting to note that the people who seem to gravitate to that plan often retire with a fraction of what "professionals" would consider a safe retirement nest egg.
Delays alone do affect the ordering perceived by receivers at different locations.
I grew up with Sutro Tower as part of the SF skyline so I don't really hate it. As the title states, I don't appreciate it as much as the rest of SF's landmarks because it's so different from everything else such as Coit Tower, the Transamerica pyramid, or even the Golden Gate Bridge. It looks ugly compared to modern structures like the new bay bridge. Compared to the rest of SF's landmarks, Sutro Tower doesn't seem to fit in.
Thanks. Did OpenBSD get the funding they sought for LibreSSL? How mature is it at this point? I see it's included (?) with OpenBSD, which is a good sign.
I've heard it referred to as the box that the Transamerica Pyramid came in (both were built at around the same time).
Given that we know OpenSSL is a Wand of +3 Foot Shooting[1], seeing what kind of modifier you can roll doesn't seem so terrible. :)

[1] I rolled my own CA bundle this week, turns out I need to include 4 1024-bit certs because the endpoints I hit are chaining to them for legacy clients, and OpenSSL didn't understand to stop when it got to a cert it knew until 1.0.2 which was released in January. Given what happened the last time I upgraded OpenSSL versions, I'm not inclined to upgrade right away. Seriously, the week after we upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1, heartbleed came out; serves us right for wanting to support TLS 1.1 and 1.2 and PFS.
Android 5.1 OTA update for Nexus 5 rooted devices and keep user data (no wipe)
I'm really for your loss Matt. As someone in remission (from a punier kind of cancer) myself, I'm thankful for people like you, looking for a cure. Thanks for your reply. My heart goes out to you and your family.
Oh please, the intro to "Blurred Lines" went way, way beyond simply referencing "Got to Give it Up." I would have been disappointed if the ruling HADN'T gone the way it did.

Sam Smith was enough of a gentleman to admit his mistake and come to friendly financial terms with Tom Petty. It's too bad Alan Thicke couldn't do the same...he deserves the ruling.
re: Elasticsearch

Rethink's 'ungroup' method lets you chain multiple reductions, which is incredibly powerful for building aggregation queries. Elasticsearch doesn't have that capability, and hence its aggregation capabilities are severely limited.

For example, with Rethink, it's very easy to compute a metric from metrics computed in a previous reduction. You can't do that with Elasticsearch, since its dsl allows metrics to only be computed from fields in the raw document, but not from other aggregation metrics.
I think this industry is going to end up exactly like the airline industry. IE: no margins to speak of really.

I just can't see how one company can ever have a long term competitive advantage. I think any current perceived advantage is down to the amount of VC cash flowing in and also how abysmal the old school taxi competition is.
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Im glad investors are backing Lyft even if today its the underdog compared to Uber.
Its no secret that Uber's practices provoke disgust or discomfort, and that many would wish Lyft to do better just because at least in appearences they havent been behaving as douchey as Uber.

But I'm happy because no matter how you appreciate Uber as a company in spite of their practices, there should be no monopolies, and competition is often the most healthy result to great results to consumers and to CREATE VALUE.

I hope that ALL YC companies remember that the final destination to a profit driven economy is creating value to people. A large number of companies have made their cake and made their founders and investors very rich: stop looking at the bottom line and focus on creating value. Not things you can charge and make money of. Value.
Equity for seed funded companies
I am negotiating equity at a seed funded startup in NY (raised a large seed round of 3 million) for a lead engineering type role. They have a cto, 2 full time remote engineers, and about 5-10 contract engineers. What is an appropriate range of equity assuming I am taking a lesser salary (~120K)
Employees, too.
Agreed, `new` and `this` are pretty much useless boilerplate noise. Gimme a closure and watch me wipe out a quarter of the text in your source and never even have to think about using a`bind`.
As a native Chinese speaker, this comes so natural.

pork = pig + meat

So the year of 2015 is the year of ram/sheep/goat, in Chinese they literally means

Ram = male ∪ caprinae

sheep = wool ∪ caprinae

goat = mountain ∪ caprinae

basically, word composition is pretty common in analytic language like Chinese, but kinda new idea in fusional languages like English.
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I wouldn't compare cabs to airlines. 10% price difference between one airline to the other can be 100 to 200 dollars in a single buy , where in cabs it could be spread out in an entire year.

I agree that airline competition has been so price focused that value to consumer has been eroded, but cabs are fundamentally a simple, less pricey , decision.

I hope they become commodities regulated for safe driving and rather modern cars (no older than x years). The rest really IS icing on the cake.
"San Francisco is an assisted living community for the young." -- Startup L. Jackson

https://twitter.com/StartupLJackson/status/40813723253330329...
The first author of that paper did an AMA on reddit.com/r/science that you may find interesting as an update on where things stand: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2tykiu/
great articel, the point you made are apt.
Most GitHub repositories are not open source
I'm a little worried. More Lyft drivers on the road might mean it's harder for me, a simple pizza delivery man, to deliver value across the city of Chicago. At the same time, I welcome Lyft to challenge Uber's dominant position - and hope they can gain market share while maintaining a stronger moral stance than the incumbent.
> The "demand" (number of disputes) increases with the number of interactions, which is roughly the square of the number of people (each pair is another potential dispute).

It wouldn't actually be a square of the population. There's a fairly low number of interactions a single person can have in a day. Plus most disputes that I can have with a person I don't know are criminal instead of civil.
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Absolutely. My preference for new modules is to use both newless and "this"-less Javascript. Newless via the technique outlined in this post (or encapsulated in a module: https://github.com/Mr0grog/newless), and this-less via the module pattern (see link in post).

This is the pattern followed by D3. It's easy to follow internally, gives you true private data and methods, and (IMHO) is a nicer interface for API consumers -- no `new`, `delete`, or `bind`'s necessary.
With ES6 classes everywhere soon , I doubt you'll see less "new". On the contrary, you'll see more java-ish code and less Doug Crockford like code. By the way, he aint in TC39 anymore. So expect even more java-ish features in ES.
some of your statements seem contradictory. I'm in the bay area - I'll offer my perspective.

- all the drivers have both apps running and have no loyalty

Lyft offers a very strong driver incentive, and that has kept me off of the uber platform since I moved to oakland (and drive in SF) in december.

- drivers prefer uber customers, however

In San Diego (a different market) I really hated the uber customers and preferred the college demo. In SF, I never liked the uber customers, either, and I really liked the lyft demo, so I dropped uber.

- drivers don't like lyft's demo of college kids and local rides, it earns them no money

I think that's a south bay thing. One afternoon after a meeting in Palo Alto, I attempted to escape back to the city and wound up getting vortexed into Stanford, so I just got out of there.

- lyft drivers think uber is evil, uber drivers thinks lyft drivers are hippies
- all the international travelers coming into silicon valley have uber and used to uber service

Shrug

- uber dispatches to lyft dispatches are a 5 to 1 ratio

This is a function not only of demand but also supply. In particular, in San Diego, I found that the dispatches were in a 2:1 ratio, BUT if I favored lyft rides over uber rides by strategically turning the app off, I was making significantly more per week, because lyft's "loyalty program" is strong.

- uber, whether intentionally or not, actually has viable career plan. an uber black driver i rode with on the lyft service explained how after selling his real estate company and investing in three lincoln escalades was able to make his money back on one of the cars after 7 months.

Well if this guy had some initial capital beforehand a 'real estate company' this doesn't mean much. It might be more difficult to bootstrap this from scratch, which is what you are suggesting when you say 'viable career plan'. This is also contradicted by your projection of automated cars.

By contrast, during my down time from lyft, I'm running a nonprofit research organization and also coding a backend for a startup.

- all the drivers concur uber is pretty evil, don't like the 1099 relationship, hate how uber corporate doesn't support the drivers over customers or incidents, yet sadly resign and accept the situation. it's oddly depressing talking to a uber driver.

Lyft has this 1099 relationship too, and it makes it for very tough running sometimes. But you just have to roll with the punches and keep hustling.
Golang stupid shift
"all the drivers have both apps running"

"lyft drivers think uber is evil, uber drivers thinks lyft drivers are hippies"

??
Someone got owned:

var minhighscore = STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!;
var hsl = {
"scores":
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
"99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999",
"60000",
"60000"
],
"names": [false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false],
"times": [1426140797, 1426140808, 1426140809, 1426140810, 1426140811, 1426140812, 1426140813, 1426140814, 1426140817, 1426140817, 1426140744, 1426140770, 1426140788]
};

I looked through the code, and it looks like there is ZERO back-end validation for this request:

jQuery.ajax({
url: "submiths.php",
data: {
highscore: '99999999999999',
highscorename: 'someone',
hsl: 'foo',
stime: 'bar'
},
success: function(data) {
jQuery("#answerkey").html(data);
}
});
Yes, absolutely. In fact, this post is really just providing a trick for not having to always write `new`. Using closures for object construction is the real 'new-less' JavaScript. As a nice parallel, the trick explained in the post lets you construct objects using `new` without typing it, whereas object factories that use closures allow you to use `new` without requiring it.
The industry is big enough for multiple players.
Chrysippus' Puzzle About Identity (2003) [pdf]
At least all the source code is open to read even if it's not open source licenced.
Yup that was me.
Network theory sheds new light on origins of consciousness
You need to show that they were also good lawyers!
Same. The way I describe the difference is that I started using ride sharing services to avoid taxis. Then all the taxi drivers started driving uberx so I switched to Lyft. It's as much about the experience as it is the convenience.
> And generally all Lyft drivers I've met have been happy Uber driver converts. I totally buy the Southwest Airlines angle they are trying to achieve.

I've noticed this too - the Lyft driver's are happier on average. And when you do get a rude Lyft driver, chances are they are driving for Uber too. At least this has been my experience.
Why use more than you need

Need for what? Just bare metabolism/survival? Or a flourishing life, where you're healthy and fully engaged in your work, pastimes and friends, never giving a moment's notice to things that would be terrible if you didn't live in an amazing, technologically advanced society with abundant energy?

Things like:

- healthy fruits and vegetables in the winter

- visiting your family thousands of miles away over the holidays

- having clean water, free of naturally occurring bugs such as giardia, cholera, etc.

- hospitals with ICUs, surgery rooms, sterilized surgical instruments

- computers and the Internet

- having a car big enough to pick up your friends so that you can all go on a hike in a park with tall trees

- living in a big city so that you can live near work, great food and culture - all those buildings and subways took a vast amount of energy to build, and require a vast amount to keep running

- being wealthy enough so that you can pursue an education and career instead of having to work on a farm (or in whatever line of work your parents happened to be in)

- having a clean set of clothes every day (if you go back far enough in the energy-impoverished past, most people did not shower every day, and many only had one set of clothes that they had to wear and patch until they fell apart!)

--

How many BTUs does it take to do a heart transplant? Think about the energy used by all of the equipment inside the hospital needed for the operation, the energy used to maintain the climate within the building, the energy that the doctors and nurses and administrators use to power their homes and lives, the energy it takes to make the tools that the surgeons use, the energy behind everything the patient takes in during recovery etc. It's a vast amount of energy!

Life is motion, and it takes energy to move. Using the past two centuries of progress as a guide, there is no limit to how much life can get better if we use more energy on all of those things that make life possible and worth living. (Many of these uses haven't been invented yet!)
Lyft, with a valuation of around 5% that of Uber, is clearly losing this battle. However, its mere existence is causing something that is rarely seen: the transfer of billions of dollars out of the bank accounts of absurdly wealthy investors, almost directly into the hands of people at the lower end of the economy. After all, the vast majority of this money is going into incentivizing drivers to sign up/stay, and subsidizing rides.

As long as this battle goes on and investors are willing to fund it, I'll be a fan of both companies. Sadly, it won't last forever.
> we've had a terrific new GC

I assume you're referring to G1. AFAIK the first paper on G1 was published in 2004 when they already had working code — in the past couple of years it has merely stopped crashing on a regular basis. I remember times during JDK 8 development when they would fix one or two crashing bugs every week. In addition it has a 200ms stop-the-world pause that you can't get around (you can try to lower it but not into the 10ms area).

> and the most powerful profiler I've ever seen

jfr has been in JRockit for a long time. It took them four years to port it to Oracle JDK. I doubt it will ever be part of OpenJDK and assume you'll always need an Oracle Java support license if you want to run it in production. I dare you to get a quote for an Oracle Java support license.
Lack of speed can be a safety feature. As a pizza delivery man operating in the city of Chicago, I've seen all too many young hotshots come in the business, and leave with moving violations.
tl dr?
I was waiting how long it would take until someone made a witty NSA comment.
It's unfortunately an all too common story. I was part of a small, young team that coalesced around an ambitious project. After being leveraged for a few large initiatives we were split up to "spread the culture", after a year plus of nonstop power struggles I put in my resignation.
It might be, but then it's a commodity! I think the valuation of Uber and Lyft is based very much on a winner takes all model.
You can already get a wide range of Chinese clones of proprietary Apple adapters for under $3:

http://m.ebay.com/itm/131250380700

http://m.ebay.com/itm/111573913018

Some are actually better than Apple, the braided lightning cables are a lot harder to break. You can even get them with LEDs if that's you thing.

In my experience they work just as well, but quality can sometimes really vary. I hope this leads to cheap clones from reputable manufacturers who have high quality standards.
There are some people who call it the Space Claw: https://www.flickr.com/people/spaceclaw
S/PDIF [1] has supported optical interconnects for a long time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=S/PDIF
Another person suggested, http://stamplay.com/
I would be happy if someone could turns this excellent, but very long, blog post into a pretty PDF. It's a very good overview. Especially the section titled "Know what this is" is.
This quiet public Fintech company is valued 2x more than Lending Club
I actually found one from memory and verified it on netflix:

X-Files Season 05 Episode 11 - Kill Switch (14:20) (when the laser blows up the shipping container)

I'm pretty sure they also used it in "The Phantom (1996 film)" when a rocket launcher blows up a building.
> I totally buy the Southwest Airlines angle they are trying to achieve.

I wouldn't compare any service I actually like to Southwest Airlines. Southwest seems to be one of the least appealing airlines in terms of comfort and quality.
I feel like being bullied for having to learn Javascript to do web programming. I wish there was a push towards supporting arbitrary languages for doing web development.
think of the poor poor companies!
It does not matter for the purposes of this project. You could go even further back and look at how the browser renders the location bar, how the OS starts the browser, how the machine boots the OS.... None of those matter, even if they are interesting in their own right.
We arrived at the approach for Notable Labs based on the needs of patients, unfortunately through personal experience. We are not trying to replicate the traditional target, in vitro screening, in vivo studies, and then clinical trials that academics and pharma are pursing.

We started with the basis that all brain cancer patients receive a standard of care that will do little to extend their lives. Only about 10% enroll in clinical trials in the US, which only test one drug at a time. Most of the clinical trials are performed on patients who have a regrowth of their tumor, which has little chance of responding to treatment.

309 Currently Open Trials for Glioblastoma, but only 75 for newly diagnosed patients.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=glioblastoma&rec...

With 90% of the patients not enrolled in a clinical trial we wanted to design a commercial solution that could help patients today rather then relying on the standard of care.

We have collaborations with academic labs that are studying the heterogeniety of neurospheres cultured from multiple sites from the same patient's tumor. Ideally to get a more representative sample you would be able to obtain multiple samples from the same patient and derive a separate culture from each one.

We will not be seeking FDA approval for our service as it is not a drug or diagnostic for a disease. The pathway for us is as a CLIA certified service similar to other personalized genomics companies in cancer like Foundation Medicine.
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How does that affect your delivery business? Do you think more people take Lyft to get a pizza instead of waiting for delivery?
Under the hood SSHpass is just an expect-like wrapper for ssh. The entire login is still dependent on a non-protocol bit of text parsing.
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Seems like an honest mistake in using this theme, though taking an image from bootcamp is a little weird, probably just forgot but it should never have been in there even in a mockup.

The theme authors themeum should be ashamed of themselves though, and it looks like their theme has been swiftly deleted as it is now 404.

http://www.themeum.com/

Looks like they just shamelessly rip off people's copyright work to put into their themes, first image from one of their premium themes came up on tineye as all rights reserved:

http://demo.themeum.com/#organic_life

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36161769@N05/5896987315
Chrome's the most popular desktop browser [1], and Chrome for Android is the most popular mobile browser [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

[2] http://caniuse.com/#search=shadow%20dom

It passed IE for desktop in mid-2012, and iOS Safari for mobile in late 2012 or early 2013.

I agree with your general point since the all Webcomponents-supporting browsers are barely a majority. But the web looks very different from it did even a couple months ago.