skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has this method been tested on DNA of living people with existing recordings, to assess whether it's actually an accurate way of predicting voices?

EDIT: It's fake: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18315

>I have no idea whether anything in the Wikipedia article about Imp Kerr is true, but it's clear from internal evidence that the alleged Investigative Genetics article is a piece of performance art. The author is unable to restrain a certain telltale playfulness, e.g. here:

>>Nietzsche’s vocalization exemplifies a flat, smooth, typical mild sounding voice: hued pitch, honeyed tone, low versatility in timbre, silvery hyponasal flow, disembodied texture with a touch of steel in vowels, and low head-nasal resonance (lower than expected in regards of Nietzsche’s robust mandibles).
Just in case you're using XSL still, you could use <xsl:key/> to let you quickly do subtotals by summing the node set of items that match whatever grouping level you're on when you emit the last item in the group.

<xsl:key name="items-by-order" match="item" use="../@orderid"/>

...snip...

<!-- Union current item node with last item node of the order - if it's the same, the count will be one -->
<xsl:if test="count(. | key('items-by-order', ../@orderid)[last()]) = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="sum(key('items-by-order', ../@orderid))"/>
</xsl:if>

Running totals would be similar, except that your apply-templates for the item group would include a select that restricts the available nodes to the key() function's result, and you would sum current node with preceding nodes.
That was my inference from the headline, as well. Unless the context has already been established, my mind doesn't equate music with the term "artist."
I don't know why most don't.

Ours sound silly. The IRR is way over 100%, but on a relatively small amount of capital.
> I'm glad for what he's done, but every day he's out there yelling and screaming and generally causing shit for no reason he's damaging the open-source movement.

Well, since he overtly views the Open Source movement as harmful to the Free Software movement (which has fundamentally different goals, even if the kind of software licensing each supports overlaps considerably), that's not exactly accidental.
> He told Childs via translator that not only was it was his first time writing Native Client code but it was his first time dealing with a kernel exploit.

To me this just confirms that no matter what the proponents say, Google native client is just another form of active x, just with a Google badge this time.

Letting a website run native code on your machine is a terrible decision, and completely disrespectful to your users.

Needles to say, I'm not going to switch to chrome anytime soon.
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I think those definitions are over-thought-out. There's little fundamentally different among those first five. To me, if you depend on someone else (have to work, or get assistance) to live the way you want to live, you're in one class, and if you don't, you're in the other one. Everyone in those first five groups are N paychecks away from $0, the only difference is what that number N is.
I have read Godel-Escher-Bach, and that's how I discovered Bach's music. A few years later, I came across BBC's Discovering Music series, and one presenter gave a very good talk on the Goldberg Variations. He had a player with him to play whatever sections the presenter asked for.

When I looked for it now, they seem to have something entirely different in its place [1]. Incidentally, they also have a talk on Bach's Preludes and Fugues [2]. I don't know if these are as good as the one I heard years ago. I'll find out tonight.

I have read a very little bit from music theory textbooks. I don't play an instrument, so the books quickly became tedious for me.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vshvp

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zy0lk
Yes, but those ALL work by observing the driver's driving, so that won't work.
Walter Sobchak: Am I wrong?

The Dude: No you're not wrong.

Walter Sobchak: Am I wrong?

The Dude: You're not wrong Walter. You're just an asshole.

Walter Sobchak: Okay then.
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So if I'm reading this right, you could spend months developing an exploit, and then not even get to use it if another contestant, randomly chosen to go before you, exploits the browser first?
How much weightage does hackernews involvement add to the application (PG used to say he had some weightage)?
Most have no revenue, or very little. Most companies we fund have some sort of prototype, but some of the best ones don't.
Bolt habitat to asteroid heatsink, profit.
What's amazing to me is that both Doom and the first web server were created on NeXT workstations. It's also interesting to see that while everyone a few years ago was rushing to learn Objective-C that Carmack was coding with it in 1992. Looking back on it maybe Steve Job's "lost years" were in fact his most productive (especially given that Pixar made Toy Story during this era).
What would make you fund unproven founders with an early stage product?
Most replies here don't address the core question. The one that does suggests that password managers are second-best, not best practice.

I'll accept these downvotes as a badge of honor!

Do password managers have a history of being cracked (via keylogger if nothing else)? Of course this used to happen to browsers (which didn't used to even have a "master password").

I've personally fallen victim to malware that would automatically extract your password from the "remember password" feature of AOL Instant Messenger. Now, I never use that feature in any application. (I also never deliberately run malware anymore, except in a clean-install.)
> I'm grateful every day that he's out there ...

I completely agree. Thank you RMS!

> he wouldn't have that credibility if he compromised and made his position more palatable.

To an extent I agree, but you can stick to your positions without snide remarks ("Swindle") or needlessly provoking on issues unrelated to your mission (9/11 truther material).

Drop those things, and you can have your positions and increase credibility. They hurt the mission, as the article's author says, for no benefit.
What an absurd thing to consider. There is no possibility of building a computer the size of the universe. This website is full of crazy people talking about crazy things!
Enterprise software you say? interesting...
The sky is cold, the Earth is warm, and the Sun is hot. If you have heat you want to get rid of (and in a spacecraft you usually do, since vacuum is a great insulator), you put it into a panel with good heat radiation characteristics and point it at the sky, and arrange shades so it can't see the Earth and (especially) the Sun.

The panel then being hotter than the sky, it sheds heat off into the universe, cooling itself, and the spacecraft.

This is why you will usually see solar panels and radiator panels perpendicular to each other. The solar panels want to see the sun, the radiators don't.
The Case for Free-Range Parenting
And can you please tell us what you're hoping to discover about a founder with that question :)

Side question, mostly just for fun, have people's answers to that question ever been blatantly illegal?
Excited for this! We've been hoping to switch at least part of our infrastructure to Rethink, but were waiting for 2.0.

Are real benchmarks on the way with this release also? That's one critical thing we've been waiting to see. We want to see how it compares in common load scenarios to Mongo, Postgres, etc
Kickpay (YC W15) Is a Marketplace for Invoices That Helps SMEs Get Paid Quickly
My point is largely that I don't think you learn much until you actually go ahead and twist the knife yourself (or not!).

Short of that, it's just a mind puzzle, "how does what I think my beliefs are match up with what I think my beliefs are" or so.
The regrettable truth is that this pushes us all toward a more centralized web, as it's much less likely that google.com or facebook.com is going to pwn your browser.

The real nightmare scenario is when developer machines get hacked and attackers get access to source, but also to build servers where they can inject binaries into the web deployment stream, which themselves exploit end-user browsers. This is, I think, a very good reason to not give devs any access to build/CI servers. (Ironically, actual endpoint servers are slightly less critical to secure from devs.)
Yes, of course.

The obscure point I was making was, why should I care, particularly in light of OP's provocative question, "Should we group together and boycot The Verge or remain who we are and sit idly by?"

I guess not many other people care, since as of this writing, 9 hours after the OP's post, I still appear to be the only one to have upvoted his post. Unless there were lots of single skirmishes of up and downvotes, but that seems unlikely.
Hey everyone, Stefano here, one of the co-founders of Kickpay. Let us know if you have any questions we can answer!
I try to listen to all of his talks on the web and I don't think that I have ever heard him say that, but I might have missed it.

BTW, those four images are inflamatory. I can't find them on the fsf.org web site. If the author placed those there, and they have nothing to do with the FSF or Stallman, then this article should be hell banned, if that is possible. If Those four inflamatory images are from FSF or Stallman's web properties then I would like to see evidence (URLs please). Shame, shame, shame on the author if he just placed those images to be provacative.
But that would use up material, all of which has to be trucked up to orbit at great expense.
Patriotism isn't a word really, it's a neologism invented in the 18th century, probably attached to by the founders because the British hated the term. And while Patriotism's historical (and more ethical) definition might have been to defend the principles of one's country and the constitution given to the people, the modern definition is waaaaay different. At this point we should bring back the word Loyalist for the people who use Patriot to mean someone who blindly follows their government.
True it is a scary web but how many of those exploits have relied on default settings and Javascript to run?

You are many times safer on the web if you have the discipline to use noscript properly.
Not sure if we will have benchmarks available at launch, but they should follow soon after.
https://stallman.org/stopping-terrorists.html

In a footnote at the bottom here, he says he believes (believed?) Cheney played a role.
Why do so many startups seem to do more than one accelerator - such as 500 and YC - when they end up "Demo-ing" to essentially the same exact people?

Should people who have done 1, or 2, or 3 other programs still apply?
Could you comment on why start ups with remote teams anecdotally do poorly but many open source projects with very remote teams succeed? Do you see any tools on the horizon to help people coordinate remotely at a new level?
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A LOT of pushback? That link in another comment is the only pushback I've ever seen, and I use Alien Blue (having purchased it). I haven't even noticed sponsored posts on the mobile version (I have on the desktop site though), and they hardly bother me. I've never seen anyone else seriously complain about them either. Sam, if you're passing along GolfyMcG's feedback, please pass along mine as well.

I run Ad Block, but reddit ads are the least of my worries. Maybe I just don't use reddit as seriously as some other people do.
Sure. When I was running my startup, we got catastrophic news that the first big customer in the space (Boost Mobile) was signing a deal with a competitor instead of with us. This would have killed us.

The competitor was a much larger and better funded company that had been around for years. I was a 20 year old CEO. Most big companies do not like to make risky decisions, so this was not entirely surprising.

We got this news at about 11 pm. The next morning at 6 am, I was on a flight to Orange County. I sat in the lobby until the guy responsible for the deal on their side walked in. He was polite but said the decision was made.

I convince him to look at our demo (in the past few days, we'd done some research to figure out exactly what features he really cared about). As soon as he saw it I knew we had a chance.

Ended up hanging around for about two weeks. Eventually, the other company overplayed their hand and we got the deal, and then the deals with every other major US telecom company.
Honestly, I think the old list is still pretty accurate. If anything we might have just additions to that list - in 2-3 years I'm confident wearable will be big, and I think BLE devices have become more popular in the HW Startup space too.
The tools were developed in ObjC, but the game engine itself was coded in C.
You could also, in theory, use the non-fuel part of the rocket stage that brought you up for building material. Some people have actually proposed using empty fuel tanks for living space but this would be better.
- "Can I Wear Shorts Today?"

- "Maybe."

Gee, thanks.
It is like root on UNIX, if the root account had been configured to disable interactive login and to allow sudo only.

Which is what Ubuntu actually does :)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
> Well is that not the point of nicotine gum and patches?

Methadone really isn't analogous to the patch, though. It really is, at its core, replacing a socially unacceptable drug (heroin) for a socially acceptable variant (methadone).

The patch is used to help taper off the craving for nicotine by administering the same drug, but in a regulated dose which gradually decreases, and using time-release (skin absorption is much slower)[0]. Methadone doesn't use this model.

Interestingly, when heroin is administered in the same controlled setting that methadone is, it has better success rates and less recidivism than methadone does. These are known as "diacetylmorphine maintenance" programs.

[0] In other words, think of the patch or gum as "extended release" versions of cigarettes.
Salt is the fourth line. It comes after the examples you asked for. Are you screwing with me?

SilasX listed that they have a monopoly on SilasX's labor. That's a pretty sensible monopoly.

They also listed "Creator's monopoly on patterns that only exist because that creator found them" as something they are okay with.
We really prefer at least two founders, but it's not a deal-breaker. We funded Drew Houston of Dropbox as a solo founder, but he got a cofounder before the batch started.

A bad cofounder is far, far worse than no cofounder.

I'd spend maybe 20% of your time looking for a cofounder, and the rest on your business. But don't force a cofounder if you don't have a good, organic option.

The more progress you make on the business, the easier it will be to get a great cofounder.
In all I think society is better off with zealots like Bill gates and a Stallman sitting at opposite ends of the table fighting it out tooth and nail.
I wrote that Mapbox post, and helped with some of the processing that happens to get this data on AWS. Yep, you get multispectral resolution of 30 m, and with pansharpening (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansharpened_image, etc.) you can get visually acceptable quality at 15 m in RGB.

Landsat is basically intended for science about seasonal/annual/decade-scale changes in Earth’s land surface. When you see an estimate of how a city’s built-up area has grown since 1980, or how the Everglades are changing, it probably has Landsat as one source. This explains a lot of design decisions that might seem weird to a layperson who wants to use it for everyday RGB imagery. Most use of Landsat imagery is basically off-label. It’s just very good data in terms of accuracy, precision, and general ease of use. And if I say so myself, it looks real pretty: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/landsat-live-live/
Oh, absolutely!
While it has many features, it severely lacks on the "custom-column-sharding" + "range-sharding" compared to mongodb.

Since rethink-guys are always in these threads:

What is your opinion on implementing compression/tokumx ?

What about custom-column-sharding, range-sharding, regex-sharding (redislabs has done this)?
I still want to fund a lot of AI companies.
Undergrad.

Its a great school for ECE, but I'm not convinced anymore that its as good for CS. We have a lot of very smart people but..I don't see a lot of innovation coming from here. This might be the case at most CS schools in general, but its disheartening when I read about the opportunities and developments at MIT/Stanford/CMU on a daily basis.
1) How common are applications from companies that have bootstrapped to a certain size in a non-US market where local knowledge helps (showing some early traction but could still grow in that market) and want to expand to the US? What are you mostly looking for in these companies, do you see them "diluting their markets" as a potential red flag (assuming the idea is transferable culturally etc.)?

2) I get the feeling there is some mild prejudice against academia in the startup community. What is the general reaction if a founder comes from academia ("dropping out to persue the startup")?
Tone wise it seems like there's a "why did you waste your time in academia and not build stuff" kind of attitude. Strikes me as strange because on an abstract level good academics do very "startupy" things (form hypothesis, test, act on results) except slower/more deliberate.
I wanted to punch my screen while reading this. Every anecdote, including the airport blurbs, screamed "stay away from this crew".

No, most businesses/investors looking for a return cannot wait forever. So you have 2 options: a) find the few who will or b) figure out an interim step that has value and can show results in a shorter time frame.
Yes, I agree, I would take the risk, but those are two entirely different things. It's not the same argument framed in a different way at all.

In Yudkowsky's argument, it's the option between one person _absolutely guaranteed_ to have 50 years of torture, vs 3^^^3 people _absolutely guaranteed_ to be dust-moted. I think the guarantee changes things significantly.
Thanks for the link. I know a few people who think that Cheney knew 9/11 was going to happen. Personally I doubt it.
Thanks for this explanation! :)
What do you and the rest of YC think of dynamic equity splits? They're described in Slicing the Pie: http://www.slicingpie.com/

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-12-18/grunt-funds-...
Extracting Competitive Intelligence from Twitter Data
The apparent cause is running out of money, but the real cause is failing to build something users love. It is usually apparent in the first 6 months, but not always.

Another big cause is cofounder tension.
Don't speak ill of people with <font> or <center> infatuation as HN is built on these tags. At the time of writing this comment, there's around 300 <font> tags on the page and over 100 <center> ones

So, basically watch what you say buddy :)
This article was extremely depressing. Not for the author, but that sadly, this is the state of business done on the Internet. Never does anyone receive any tangible, lasting value. All of it relying on deceptive or coercive tactics, or rigging an otherwise legitimate system for individual gain. All of the tremendous effort that goes into attracting as many people as possible, in the hopes that a small subset of them are gullible enough to convert. "Communities" who don't exist to provide resources and support, but to share tales of their victories and conquests. All this done so they can collect their next commission check and blow it all on vodka and wild nights in Vegas. All of it done so they can move on to devising a new scheme to extract money from the next batch of suckers.
Are the recordings in the public domain? Your website says "Some rights reserved" Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

Shouldn't it say CC0 per the Kickstarter which says "We are creating a new digital score and studio recording of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1), and we're placing them in the public domain for everyone to download, own, share, and use, without any limitations."
There is a page on Stallman's own website which contradict this:

"I don't believe that the US government directly planned or instigated [the attacks of September 11]. But in a larger sense it laid the foundation for them, through two decades of support for armed religious fanatics in Pakistan and Afghanistan, up to and including the Taliban."

No, I don't think stallman is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. When people quote Stallman they tend to be vague, and the quote in the article simply said:

"even if you believe that the government had nothing to do with the attacks of September 2001,"

What is lacking is context. It may be simply a comment regarding the US Foreign policy. After all, the reason Al-Qaeda had power in the first place can be directed linked to weapons and money which the US gave to Al-Qaeda in order to have a proxy war with the Soviet.
what must one do to acquire one of those cool Y combinator sweatshirts I see floating around San Francisco? store.ycombinator.com in the works? :)
Hey Sam,

Re solo founders. Would you consider a team with one founder and 1-2 "employees"?

The reason I ask this is because my partners and I have more of a mentor-tutee relationship and although we all share perks and they get equity (considerably less than my share, but still sizeable), they see themselves more as learning than being at the same level as myself in terms of responsibility.
I'm still working on building a prototype so I can earn a cofounder and future employees. I'd say I'm 2-3 months off from having the MVP done. Should I apply to YC?
Great essay on Kubuntu, Tslolkovsky! It is an impressive overview of your accomplishments, in context, and that's perfect. I've personally tried a few distros of Linux, originally developed by Linus Torvalds. My personal favorite is the one I use the most. Standard Ubuntu just does it for me. KDE is ok but Gentoo is just too lo-fi for me - I'm not interested in a product that is like living in a halfway house instead of a real house with a roof & doors & a working bathroom, if you get the point I'm trying to make here. I am aware that there are people out there who cannot lose their massive social anxiety problems & try to work on their computers. Red Hat Linux is apparently the one that's most like Windows & I've heard good reviews of it.
My social enterprise is a combination of a Foundation and a Company. Why? To make the social ideologies independent from shareholder pressure AND to make sure we can commercialise effectively towards a sustainable business model. I don't want to be an NGO reliant on donations! Should I apply to YC as the foundation or the company? My social ideology is to extract the value of data without compromising identity privacy. Innit is a system that allows users to own and trade in their own data (particularly health and financial data)