skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking, exactly, about the "other reasons", of which their shading recruiting practices are only one aspect. Just off the top of my head comes to mind that Uber was caught calling Lyft cars and then ditching or cancelling them or something like that. Another aspect is how they are manipulating the public to fight their self-interested battles with government for private-profit.

Like I said, I have nothing against competition, which is really one of the concerns people should have, because Uber knows that they are currently in a land-grab type of scenario to corner the market, especially right before autonomous vehicles come on line. Due to the nature efficiency characteristics of the future transpiration system and gargantuan barriers to entry, Uber is attempting to shut out the competition in order to put a stranglehold on transpiration. They'd eventually get broken up, but in the mean time, they can execute regulatory capture, corrupt our government in the good ol' fashioned way through lobbyists, and make billions if not trillions in the mean time.

Sure, the taxi system is corrupt down to the bone in many, if not all cities. But what Uber is doing, is riding proclaiming they are the handsome night in shining armor on a brilliantly white horse, when in fact, under the shiny armor is a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing.
Finding bugs is easy, exploiting them is a magnitude harder. This competition is about exploitation.
Solo founder, rebel, lots of startup ideas, 0 startups (a "tutoring business"), flailing in corporate America, effortlessly producing psuedo brilliance...is YC4me? Can I apply on a really nice concept? Or a set of concepts? Like Elon's 3...ya kno?
I'm using RethinkDB for a new project I've been working on for the past few months, but I'm curious, why would you move existing infrastructure to RethinkDB? Is there a feature of RethinkDB that's good enough to motivate you to go through that process?
That was true under the Windows 8 logo requirements too, if by "mobile" they mean "ARM" / "Windows RT".

Honestly I'm only very slightly unhappy about that. Unlike with the IBM-compatible PC, a historically open platform, this isn't closing off a historically open platforms. The other entries in the space, like Apple's iPad, are historically very closed. And the Windows platform doesn't have anywhere near the dominance in ARM that it does on x86.
Reddit is the meta-web. It is probably also flexible enough to be the backbone (aka platform) of other businesses in the future.
im posting this comment for my friend :

It's funny how high the inverse correlation is with CEO pay and start-up success. I think Shumpeterian forces may invert in the near future and leave these examples like Oracle/Larry Ellison relatively dated.

When automation dominates economic growth, you'll be in this situation where basic income is the only way most people can get by - how to facilitate that? 90% taxes on high capital gains incomes like in the mid-20th century? That's more of the communism angle, where fixed property becomes de-facto state owned. Pikkety doesn't get it, there was a good interview with Andreesen to that effect.

What about stuff like bitcoin and decentralized apps that are open source, thus not protected by rent-levy's in IP law, yet gain huge economic power directly through usage? Could basic income be tied into that? Perhaps indeed it could, a more decentralized alternative to the commie scenario (which probably isn't politically feasible in the US anyway, hopefully...)

- Patrick Dugan
@patrick_dugan
Sure, but the Merlin 1D is still on the very low end of the spectrum for total thrust, which you seem to ignore.

You'll note I only focused on Isp for engines with similar or better thrust than the 1D. And you can't just blindly ignore this. The lower the Isp of the engine the more fuel you need and the worse the thrust-to-weight of the vehicle total ends up being.

Having a very light but very low Isp engine will not get you off the ground efficiently. And if your claim to fame is being cost-effective, efficiency is kinda important.

Or put another way, the RS-25 at 7,480lb each represents a tiny, tiny fraction of the shuttle's total launch weight of 4,400,000 lbs. Using a 5,000lb engine instead would change nothing. Similarly your claim they only ran at lift off to verify they'd start is wrong. The RS-25 represented 30% of the launch thrust.

Even on the fairly light and small Falcon 9, the total vehicle weight is 1,115,200 lbs. The engine weight here is important but far, far from being the single most important attribute. And with a higher Isp engine with enough thrust you could then carry less fuel. Pretty sure you could spend 10,000 lbs on the engines to save 240,000 lbs of fuel (Falcon 9 has ~822,000 lbs of propellant, the RS-25's Isp is +30% the 1D at sea level)
Whatever algorithm was used to decide what point to link the tooltip to on the top scatter plot is mildly infuriating. It's impossible to get the tooltip to highlight the pink dots at the low end of the scale. I can't mouse over them, my mouse is forced to jump around it.

EDIT: Finally got the pink dots on the left to highlight, but after much maneuvering. This is a minor bug but you might want to fix it so people don't get frustrated and leave.
With very lower rewards, the exploit that nettet $110k would probably be getting less than $50k
a version of pypy that handles enough introspection for logging to work, not e.g. dynamically modifying locals. it's not done because i have more important things to do in my free time essentially. as i said, if i can justify a week of paid time to do that, i would make logging fast.
We lock look & feel of the document as we act as a third party in the process. The design is consistent and responsive to the browser screen.
True and they will ship cars around their lots for you. That said, you pay for it if you don't end up purchasing the car but I think it opens up a lot of inventory to sift through.
lofty thoughts but really impractical. Look, gov'ts will always need to be part of the conversation.
My company started running hardware hackathons this year to connect with our community, etc., and we are doing 10 events in total across the US. After our first event we realized that conditioning hackers/makers/learners to build stuff that is "commercially worthy" or "prize worthy" takes away from what we set on doing: create a fun and safe place to learn, explore, to push the envelope, to create for the sake of creation. I totally agree with you that we should all take a step back from all the commercial/ego/noise culture and connect as teachers, learners and a community first. We noticed that the more we emphasize the real culture of our events, the better the connection, the magic and creation. Plus the real cool kids don't have to act cool...they just are. Long term, you can't fake authenticity.
"As former NSA Director Michael Hayden recently put it, "[L]et me be really clear. NSA doesn't just listen to bad people. NSA listens to interesting people. People who are communicating information."

Isn't this the correct approach? In a perfect world the NSA would only need to "listen" to criminals outside the US, but the world isn't perfect and adversaries don't play by the rules.

Shouldn't this be a triumph of technology that can tell the difference between Johnny-High-Schooler researching the middle east, and a radicalized potential terrorist?
Think Millennials Prefer the City? Think Again
Introducing Aquabob! Imagine: a dome that collects condensation (think morning dew). It waters your greenhouse, and leaves you with plenty to water down for those midnight cocktails
Breaking down r in r  g
> anything else

i know i'm late to the party, but it just seems like place like HN, with a group of people who so vociferously speak in favor of online privacy and person data ownership, would have no methods of completely removing one's identity/posts to the site. could you please address what appears to be a discrepancy between HN's policy and the audience?
With the rising sea levels (due to global warming), wouldn't now be the best time to figure out how to pipe that desalinated water all over the continents?
People already eat bugs in other countries where bugs are hardly disgusting compared to their usual food. Convincing Americans to eat bug food might be harder, but Americans only make up of 5% of the earth's population. I've consumed roasted tarantulas in asian countries and they taste quite good, so I can see that insect consumption in those countries will be quite a bit easier.
If he's a good interviewee, did summer internships, and got decent grades, he should be able to land something in that range. There's some competition, but for the reasons I stated ($100K goes a long way almost everywhere except SF, due to the very high cost of living), SF companies covet recent CS grads who work very hard and don't have many expenses (kids, car, house, etc.). It would probably be great experience and exposure for him though, and worth it while he's young.
Very very few people run Linux a desktop(unfortunately).

The Chrome and Firefox bugs are probably exploitable on Linux too.
Ask HN: Who is Ellen Pao and why is she even in the news?
While I really have no opinion on the case and take her word on her claims. What I don't understand is why the story of Ellen Pao is newsworthy? Many people face such hardship everyday, some far worse. While I am sure a small number of those issues go to the courtroom almost none of them gain any media attention.

I am aware that she is the interim ceo of reddit.
I'd be more concerned with whether YC would invest in a company whose growth had flatlined: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html, with that said if you're making that much revenue I think there's likely other good options for you. Best of luck!
No two are the same, but generally a good sign is if they have outlier behavior in their past. For example, if you won a gold medal in the Olympics, there's a good chance that you would at least get an interview -- the level of determination and persistence required to accomplish something like that would definitely be helpful in founding a startup. (that said, I don't know that we've ever actually funded an Olympian) A more common example would be creating a popular open source project (e.g. the creator of Sails.js is in the current batch).
Which matters a lot if you only have one or two shots.
On the other hand, the argument can be made that if we all rely on the supercomputers in our pockets to give us the historical facts we never bothered to memorize, then all the critical thinking in the world might not save us from being doomed to repeat the history we never bothered to learn.

-- Me

(I take this stance because just the other day I watched an old Simpsons episode where Martin was made fun of by the substitute teacher for "bothering" to learn the historical significance of the Monroe Doctrine, and I was ashamed that any teacher, fictional or not, would behave in such a way)

Say all you want about the overuse of memorization in public education: I bet those 8th graders that could pass this test without looking half the answers up on Wikipedia had a more well-rounded education than most of us today.

And the attitude that, "Well why bother to learn history when I have wikipedia?" is the same attitude that causes people to become totally useless when their computer goes down and is no longer telling them what to do. I've had cashiers that literally could not make change when they didn't have a computer in front of them to do the subtraction.
Silicon Valley Is the World's Innovation Capital Because of a Technicality
Hey Mat. We met a few months ago (through Weave). I thought you seemed like a decent guy. IIRC, the main problem I saw was that you seemed strongly committed to an idea that I didn't find very interesting. I meant to follow up with you, but more promising leads took priority and I never found the time. Just FYI.

We should meet again sometime. Send me an email?
> But cars aren’t going away anytime soon, certainly not in the suburbs or in cities like Los Angeles, and we can’t just wish away lots in which to park them.

When we have self-driving cars, nearby parking lots won't be as much a necessity since the car can drop you off at the door, then drive itself to a parking space much further away (or to another customer, in the case that it's a self-driving taxi).
> building a little HTTP server

opam install cohttp

> command-line tool

opam install cmdliner

> Go has a great batteries-included standard library.

OCaml doesn't, but there are good stdlib replacements, and its package manager is really nice.
The emerging importance of real-time IT metrics
I wonder if there are strategic reasons behind this - do the US and European countries fear a growing China and India and feel the need to compete, for example? Are there military or economic incentives to having a large population today as there used to be a millennium ago? I'm probably going to go with no, but who knows?
Lobsters, shrimps or mussles are actually delicious, and are thus expensive. Insects or dog/cat meat on the other aren't, as otherwise they would have been adopted into worldwide diet long time ago. So today they still remain a cheap source of food in some third world countries.
I'd also add to this that you should be getting a decent base salary at a company at this phase and you should try and live below your means, both so you can save and have a cushion allowing you to work full time without outside funding and so that when you do the burn rate on that cushion is smaller.
Currently insurance is on the driver, because accidents are their fault. In a self driving car, accidents are the manufacturers fault, so they should have the burden of insurance.

With a self driving car, you're really just a passenger, so you shouldn't need your own insurance to ride in one.
That this captures a little spoken about history of the Internet is my main reason for appreciating the article.
Inside Apple's Top Secret Health and Fitness Lab for Apple Watch Development
This was the follow-up piece to that "California will have no water in a year" post.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0320-drought-e...
There are some dangerous thoughts in this thread, for example: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2...

"These javascript frameworks are all trying to do this, but none of them do it easily and they’re always being redesigned."

Things are being redesigned because there are flaws and limitations. Making something, and stamping it as "HTML6" doesn't automatically make it perfect. It would simply hinder the development further.
Since the original topic is the global fresh water crisis, wouldn't the increased per capita resource consumption from greater standards of living offset any gains in population growth slowing?
Show HN: Areocase – Completely Wireless Earbuds and Case
Wow, I really wish I had read something like this when I attempted to write a program to use USB weighing scales in Linux.[0]

I learned things like needing to detach the kernel driver the hard way. And because I didn't know anything about USB (and still don't), I was stumbling my way through libusb. There I still missing features that I need to revisit once I learn how to use USB properly.

[0] https://github.com/erjiang/usbscale
Stallman gave talks to the CS crowd (and also general enthusiasts) in my country, and was well received. He is moderately well-known in Latin America.
Generalizing from a single case can be tricky. I read this somewhere:
"I had a friend growing up whose mom is white and dad is black. Apparently when he was little, he asked his mother why white people had vaginas."
We get that all browsers were pwned, but what OS where they running? For example, we can see on that post that there were three bugs in Firefox but we don`t know in what system those bugs would allow escalation of privileges and arbitrary code execution. Or is there a bug allowing arbitrary code execution in Windows, Linux, *BSD, Macs at the same time?!
My only concern here is that anyone would be surprised that a thought process of "I want to make money -> Let's do whatever is popular" doesn't result in success or production of lasting value.

(A) Everybody and their mothers will think the same thing and

(B) that equation doesn't have any value production in it, and

(C) what happens when the fad dies?

It is a wholly selfish act, and I think it's worth the harshness. Not every mistake is redeemed by a sob story. Some are just not worth making in the first place. (Especially when they are very old and common mistakes.)
Full disclosure, I left in 2014. I watched the healthcare.gov debacle from inside the fence. I was told "no" on a daily basis because I had the audacity to hope and dream. I really do wish the absolute best for this pioneer. I hope I'm completely wrong and people LISTEN to his advisement.
In case we apply to YC and don't get in, the best option is to work on the startup anyway. Would you recommend bootstrapping until we get in? Or a specific group of less prestigious accelerators? Do you consider other accelerators in general a "break pedal" because they give wrong advice? Or because there's less equity to supply a potential exit in the future?
>> I think one of the keys to "controlling" population growth is to bring people out of poverty.

That implies that poor people have a higher reproductive rate - which I believe is true. A shortcut is to offer birth control to poor people. Many of them don't actually want a bunch of kids, but when you're poor there's not much to do and sex is free.

I agree it'd be nice to bring people out of poverty, but shouldn't we stop creating more people in poverty too? Prevention is cheaper than a cure.
I bet they've got their finger right on a set of great solutions: (1) more money for the UN, (2) more sovereign power handed over to the UN, (3) more money from the UN to fund more studies on why more money should be given to the UN, (4) more posh conferences for UN and UN-related bigshots in exotic locales, (5) annihilate Israel, (6) new Nobel prizes to be handed out to UN-grant-funded researchers promoting increased funding of the UN at UN-sponsored conferences...
Let's separate get-rich-quick from the actual process of making affiliate campaigns, testing and scaling them.

Here's some stats (top-level, very approximate) from my own experience:

* Number of campaigns created & stage 1 testing: 500+
* % to stage 2: ~25%
* % from stage 1 to 2: 20%
* % from stage 2 to "success": ~50%

In the end, I'd say that roughly 5% of my affiliate campaigns were successful. Success is defined as eventually returning the test budget * 4.

The key was that if I got a campaign to stage 2 I had a very high likelihood of profit. Literally 50% of the stage 2 campaigns became successes (most stage 2's broke even close to it).

Of those successful campaigns, only 10% of them generated 90% of my profits on average. The end result is that ~1% of all the campaigns I made made 90% of the profits, which is quite accurate.

Over the span of 7 years of being a full-time affiliate (excluding the part-time years) 12 campaigns were the main money drivers.
Do you emulate the petrichor smell, and if so, how? THX!
You talked about the "two founders." How do you think is the best way to present an idea to someone else for her to help?

Many people reject the powerpoint. I decided to make a landing page. If anyone is interested I send a greater amount of information in a PDF, while working on a prototype.

Do you have a better suggestion than this?

tks
Sam: Would you consider funding an aerospace startup?

Avionics is one area that could do with some "disruption" - especially on the lower end of the market.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
I got a $300 late fee for a $286 ticket that was never sent to me
This is exactly what's wrong with our judicial system. I have no hope of not paying this aggressive arbitrary fine or eventually men with guns will show up at my house to take it from me.

My crime? I didn't slam on my brakes during rush hour for a pedestrian waiting to cross a busy street.
Taleb has said before (it could have been in 'Black Swan') that focusing just on the successful massively distorts the reality of the curve. So much so that it would be more important to study as many of the failures than and all but ignore the successes.
If our weather is getting more unpredictable due to climate change why don't we get better at capturing the heavy rain we experience in some parts of the world and allowing it to sink in to the ground rather than running off into rivers.

Particularly thinking of some of the flooding in UK and Europe over the last decade.

If the ice caps melt due to rising temperature surely this means more water in the atmosphere and more rain in some places?
Not to forget, the Unabomber's Manifesto (published way after 1938).
And how many people know of Native Client, let alone about chrome://flags? Not to mention that advice won't work then not using a persistent Chrome profile. And Google removed "--disable-plugins" so it is not even possible to automate disabling these plugins short of recompiling Chromium.
I live in Florid; we have a large desal plant here as part of our water supply. It took years to get it working well, along with a few lawsuits; they're not easy, or cheap, but well worth it.

http://www.tampabaywater.org/tampa-bay-seawater-desalination...
I don't know how much of the process of raising and making flower from insects is proprietary, but some kind of open source knowledge base might provide appeal for people to refine production and innovate on consumption.
Multi-process and automatic child-process debugging for Python with Wing IDE Pro 5.1
You can also convert soy into 'meatballs' as well. It hasn't caught on widely either. Taste is the deciding factor.
Oyster are expensive because rarity. They used to be food for poor people.

http://www.missfoodwise.com/2013/03/beef-stout-and-oyster-pi...
No pics of the product, not even a prototype?

EDIT : nevermind, just noticed this "Currently we are accepting pre-signups based on the demand we decide if we will go further and bring this product to life."
I was wondering if YC would consider working with a startup that is essentially owned by a medical school as opposed to the founders.

Scenario: I will be attending medical school next fall (this is after three years industry programming). One of the surgeons I plan to work with during med school has a for-profit medical technology project still at the seed stage. He is currently seeking venture capital investors.
reddit has the potential to unlock a lot of value if niche subreddits can achieve critical mass. There are quite a few subreddits that could support highly targeted and valuable advertising. Comment and voting quality also appears to improve dramatically with scale; compare the quality of comments on default subs to niche subs. If niche subs can get that dramatic improvement in quality, reddit would also be able to attract much better demographics for commercial purposes
Maybe you're right. I really don't think I have the skills pull off something like that.
Thanks for the tip, It happened when I tried it on Windows, I think it was the babelify compilation. It should be fixed by now
> To finish it off Google’s Project Zero, as it usually does when Chrome is hacked at the event, paid Lee an extra $10,000.

So they don't actually intend to hire this guy?!
Just curious, do you consider Latin America western?
Anyone working at a startup should be maxing out their retirement plan contributions: $18,000 for a 401k, $5,500 for an IRA.

They are a hedge against startup failure.
I was following the vote. A few said they didn't have time to read it, didn't know what the bill ramifactions were, but I agree, we have to get our act together. :)