skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, but I worry about defensibility. What happens if VCs decide that they should be more transparent to avoid wasting time sifting through applicants? If they publish information on their own site, I'd think that as the primary source, people would use it instead of the proposed project.

However, it might be useful for there to be some sort of VC search engine. Where "investment strategy" would be one of the parameters.
The idea that it is smart to get out of jury duty has probably done more damage to our democracy than anything else. Abdicating the duty to sit on a jury means someone else will need to fill that role. When smart people apply those talents to get out of jury duty, leaving the job to someone who is "too stupid or indifferent", they produce the situation we have today of juries deciding based on emotional influences and fast-talking lawyers instead of judging the facts and the law.

Yes, it can be annoying and it probably impacts your work schedule. These are insignificant costs compared to safeguarding justice and being able to exercise the most political power available regular citizens.
That is well spotted, but at least reddit and loopt has not been very successful economically. I don't know what twitch sold for, but it seems to me that it would be an exception.

Airbnb is doing very well too, but it seems to be more a marketplace than social.
Computers saved me from having to go to college. Graduated high school at the right time in 1990, became a computer consultant at 17. Started my own consulting company at 20. Started a small ISP at 24. Sold it at 26. Started working for corporate America and have worked as a software engineer in finance for the past 18 years. I wouldn't change a thing about my career or my self-taught path.

It all worked out well which is good because my parents couldn't afford to send me to college. But they did have the foresight to save up and buy me a Commodore 64 in 1982.
It depends on the environment you're in. At my college everyone came here because of the prestige (and generous financial aid). At my high school people chose schools based largely on size, location, perceived fun, etc. if they couldn't get in to a top tier school. In my hometown people chose based on closeness to home, whether it was a party school or not, etc.
I do not know if this is about bubble. I think the cause for this is actually worse than a bubble - it is shift of consumer perception that everything on internet should be free. With exception of games - of course.

However, there is also an opportunity here: as bubble bursts (or deflates) all these money losing (and free) B2C solutions provided by large companies might become neglected to the level that people will be willing to pay a little - just to get something working.
Surely we have to blame the police a little. (Procedures I mean, not individuals.) I mean, it's true that every anonymous call is a potential life-and-death situation, but it's equally true that every call is a potential prank.

To put it in a fire department metaphor, if someone anonymously calls in a fire, naturally you send out the trucks. But you need to check for smoke before you turn the hose on, right?
This article finally convinced my wife to let me order in Sushi - she hates fish or anything like it. I've being trying to tell her she has fish trauma from having to eat nasty old white fish, but this article was convincing enough :)
I agree that people who run companies and thus are in the public eye are open to much more scrutiny but this is more a societal problem. Tim Cooks most public appearance is during a key note and has the staple dark shirt, dark pants and black shoes. Possibly great deal of thought went into this (How the outfit affects the viewers perception of the slides, detracts from products, etc. but it's still seen as a strong and staple look.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8819701
Be sure to read how it works: https://plus.google.com/+NiklasvonHertzen/posts/Qo6T85W8sFQ

Very smart and creative solution.
Pressed 1, 5, 6

Got 142

Interesting idea, but might need more work.
I would not take anything this individual says at face value. Swatting is certainly a topic that warrants discussion, but this individual is not. (I'm going to be banned for this post)
I would also assume that mail fraud is easier to investigate than telephone fraud.
The goal is definitely to monetize -- the point is that they don't need to rush to monetize, so they can focus on growth right now.

If Helpful charged $x/mo and competed with other support tools on features and pricing, it could grow into a decent business. If it's a totally free, community owned (meaning customers can get involved in product direction) competitor to those existing companies, it has a much easier path to being a market leader. Once a product like this has huge distribution, the options for monetizing are plenty. (Build a marketplace of add ons, charge for premium features, etc)
>Rather than allowing herself to be driven out of the field as many other women have been[real citation needed]
Again? You just posted this yesterday...
I'm guessing a lot of the accused do not test well in public speaking engagements - which is not an unreasonable outcome to expect. I can't even imagine how I'd react to finding myself the accused in a major court case.
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Just to add some context … this story is interesting in the context of the Ferguson, MO grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson.

Recall that Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an 18-year old black man, in August 2014. The circumstances of the shooting were controversial.

In that case, the prosecutor, Bob McCulloch was asked by activists to recuse himself from the case because of apparent biases in his personal history (his father was a St. Louis police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty).

After the grand jury declined to indict Wilson, activists claimed that this probably happened because McCulloch convinced the grand jury not to indict.

This story is interesting because it provides evidence that in the "normal" course of operations of a grand jury, grand juries nearly always indict as long as there is something which looks like plausible evidence. So when the person in this story says "We had, as ever, no choice. We voted to indict" — that is interesting to compare against the Ferguson grand jury's decision not to indict, a very, very rare occurrence which should raise questions about how it happened.

Wikipedia glosses this as "Legal analysts raised concerns over McCulloch's unorthodox approach, asserting that this process could have influenced the grand jury to decide not to indict,[63][79] and highlighted significant differences between a typical grand jury proceeding in Missouri and Wilson's case.[33]".
What kind of tools are used to build those dashboards and data streaming systems? Anything you'd want to use for regular system monitoring? Looks like part of it might be Gnuplot?

It reminds me a bit of the factories or refineries that have elaborate control flow systems. In software, Netflix's Hystrix dashboards are a fun inspiration for example: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/12/hystrix-dashboard-and-tu...

I've always wanted to build a visualization like that for the systems I work on :-)
Yes and nobody has noticed it. I read the rules, if the story hasn't got much attention it can be re-posted. I'm very sorry if I miss-interpreted the rules and in that case the mods can delete the story, but I'm not sure that I did.
The "nicer" sushi places I've been to in Japan (I.e sushi chef behind a desk giving you piece by piece) have been "eating with your hands is suggested, you have to specifically ask for chopsticks".

But the common more affordable places like revolving sushi or where it's part of a larger set meal, everyone just uses chopsticks.
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I think the year-off strategy is a good one. Too many people go back to grad school almost just for a re-do. 18 is too young to pick a career - I switched majors twice in the first two years.

I want to formulate a better set of options and incentives for my kids. To start, I could chip in for some tuition if they take a year off, or just minimally support them for that year as long as they leave home. The pull of peers (let's go to college together even though we'll drift apart after!) is strong, though.

gp may be on to something about detox. I'll have to allow them experiences growing up (provided they don't get taken by CPS).
Speaking as a twenty year old who didn't go to school and doesn't have a degree would you hire me - or at least consider me for an interview - based off my github here (https://github.com/philangist?tab=repositories). I am actually gainfully employed right now at a job I like a lot, but I sometimes worry that I might be pigeonholing myself due to my lack of a formal degree.
If you like Tampopo I recommend everything else by Jūzō Itami. Especially "Minbo no onna", a comedy about the Yakuza (Japanese mafia), one of the most brilliant comedies I know.
Why procedures and not individuals? Procedures don't emerge out of the ether, they are written, reviewed, approved, and implemented by individuals. If individuals aren't responsible, there is no accountability.
Because with low quality fish there isn't much taste there to begin with.
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I'm glad it was reposted. It seems quite interesting, for the coding challenge, the legal issues, and so on

link to yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9321810 (and 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079694)
1. We don't know if the universe follows any rules precisely. We can never know because the only way to know that a rule is being followed unconditionally would be to exhaustively verify every event in the universe to see if it follows that rule, which is impossible.

2. There's not just one mental process. There are an infinite number (most likely) of mental processes. But even though we're not both part of the same mental process, we're both part of the same causal process. The reason we perceive ourselves as discrete entities is: 1. mental processes (thoughts) can be both true and false, 2. true thoughts are more rare than false thoughts, 3. false thoughts are still capable of doing work, and therefore, our survival has relied on the false thought that each of us is a separate individual, even though the truth is that we're causally dependent on one another, our environment, etc.
Computers are the only reason I have a job right now, despite being in a country with subsidized (effectively free) tertiary education.

Turns out basically nothing I did in university was remotely applicable to my current actual job. Though I suspect it's more a comment on my country's industrial priorities than anything else, but it does make me incredibly sad for US students.
OT - SEO/Google-juice:

Glyphish domain must get some serious value out of being linked from cern.ch pages regardless of the fact CERN about to be linked from many of the social media sites. Wonder how much revenue that simple connection will earn.

Interestingly it seems the link was only required because CERN didn't want to pay the $99 license?
Grand Jury service is usually one day a week for a few months. In my case, it was 8 weeks, and we were frequently dismissed before the end of the day.

If your employer doesn't suck and pays you your normal salary, it's not a significant hardship. I've found my jury service in all instances a fascinating and educational experience the was worthwhile in the end.
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Those are the things that administrators care about. Can't bring in more money if you don't have good-looking brochures. Like a lot that administrators do (including replicate themselves), it's considered a marketing expense. Because building reputation takes too much time.
This has been tried by a lot of people earlier, and it was _always_ invariably shut down.

I remember joker.org as the last attempt. Why would this last any longer?
I would like to hear more discussion on this subject, since there seems to be a confusion in the community regarding MVC (myself included.) see also author's previous article http://blog.metaobject.com/2015/04/model-widget-controller-m...

I'm a React developer, have little experience with native development myself. With that in mind, here is a small implementation of how I would envision how developing a native app with React's always rendering in mind: https://github.com/ustun/mvc-vs-react/blob/master/singleview...

Notice every UI action results in a call to a model method, immediately follows by render. The whole model-view syncronization is centralized in a render method, so it is not allowed to modify view manually in UIAction methods, you just set model methods and then render.

What React does is to make this seamless, that is you call setState which in turn triggers render automatically. This way, the data flows from your model to your view.

Of course this doesn't take into account how this flow goes when child views are involved, normally you would want to call render in each childview as well, and that's where virtual DOM comes into play with React.
Looks really nice. Curious about the license terms and the change from MIT to "Easier licensing terms"[0] ... What does the change mean in practice and why was it changed from MIT?

[0]https://github.com/cachethq/Cachet/commit/5043a86b80080e92ae...
You mention in that article that $29 is too high. But would you really need a status page for a service unless it was generating enough revenue to justify $29? A status page seems like a "oh now I have a critical mass of customers and need a way of sharing uptime" vs being something you need pre revenue or early revenue.
I'm not sure. If I can finance the servers with ad money, I can continue to move servers, open new accounts, etc... Currently it's on DO but when I get enough money I will switch to a Russian off-shore host where nobody will bother the website. I'm open to legal advice.
It is fun to see how the calculator is off when you scale the page in your browser (ctrl+scroll). 5*5=24!
> try fairly hard

Talk about being interested in learning about "jury nullification" or mention those words at all.

If that doesn't work, a casually-dropped slur or two directed at the defendant's race/nationality/etc. is sure to seal the deal.
> free social websites

Online advertisements generate less and less money (CPC and CPM earnings) for websites.

There is a need for advertisement-networks that offer less intrusive ads so that not half of the visitors use an ad-blocker. (Ads that follow me around and show me products I just bought on Amazon isn't very helpful and often just creepy.) Idea: What about ads that are related to the page/article-content? The ads network would have to crawl the page after the first visit of a user and analyze & categorize it. For the second visitor it can already show an ad that is related to the content.
I find Semantic UI to be very very interesting, but I have yet to figure out how to integrate it in my projects. I don't know if it's just me but it feels like they are forcing you to write your own styling in a separate repo, then generate the CSS and use it on your project, which to me, makes no sense.

I probably missed something.
The problem is that employers are incredibly insistent on a college degree (sometimes ANY college degree) as certification of basic cluefulness.

We sometimes have applications to our entry-level software developer jobs from people with two-year software development diplomas from community colleges. My manager won't even look at them. He absolutely insists on a true college degree.
This reminds me of a funny Asimov's story that describes you perfectly!
http://www.asimovreviews.net/Stories/Story309.html
The OP seems to move around a lot. You'd think having a Comcast alternative would be on the must-have list for a new home by now. I guess he is moving into 20+ mile radii with no ISP other than Comcast?
This demo appears to date from 2012:
https://plus.google.com/+NiklasvonHertzen/posts/Qo6T85W8sFQ
Your assertion is a big leap.

Does justice require a maximum penalty for every offense? Is it immoral somehow to plea down a first time DWI to DWAI and spare the taxpayer the cost of a trial, police overtime, etc? Does getting a life sentence vs. 30 years justify the cost, risk and trauma to the victims of a 1st degree murder trial?
Had a similar idea this morning, when I realized that I've likely been wasting my time on trying to pitch YC and a few other investors on a non-B2B app. Looking at their portfolios now, that's clearly not where their interests lie. See also my recent HN post.
The way you describe it though, it sounds pretty... disgusting... that grand juries nearly always indict. This would indicate that there is nearly no point in holding a trial if the norm is to always convict.
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Took me a minute to remember this is a religious holiday, and that this is a joke based on it.
Looks very good. Seems like it doesnt support IE8. Any fix for this?
It's interesting, but Capital One recently changed their requirements for the software developer role from:

B.S. required required

to

High School Diploma, GDE, or Military service required[1]

While I worked there, they decided to make the change because, "software development can be learned anywhere." It's interesting to see the change in corporations and makes me feel they are really trying to make a change.

[1] http://jobs.capitalone.com/virginia/software-engineering/job...
A little while ago I would've agreed heartily with Peter. Now, as a "born" software engineer with a decent portfolio (now age 21) recently frustratated by a fruitless job search, turned down again and again (I believe rightfully so) because the competition all had college degrees, I beg to differ.

A good college degree (especially in STEM fields) provide the basic foundation upon which to innovate. Our industries have gone so deep, and we are standing on such giant shoulders, that anyone who is going to take it further must first absorb the century or so of knowledge created so far on the subject. Even in Computer Science, the next innovation is not yet another WhatsApp, it's more along the lines of Counsyl (a dna-sequencing app), where a person without the knowledge-foundation equivalent of a degree simply would never get started with the idea of making such software, leave alone actually building it.

And I say that as a self-taught software engineer. Yes I can probably build the next Snapchat on my own. But even then I recognize the huge gaps in my knowledge due to being self taught, especially low-level stuff like kernels, bits and bytes, and fundemental details of cryptography and security. Not to say anything about the "unknown unknowns" which I certainly have because I never followed a structured path on the subject.

And that's why I'm returning to get a degree now, after spending years in industry and freelancing.
I wonder if this could be fixed with better projectile design. A lot of modern tanks have smoothbore barrels because they use rounds with sabots; once the sabot comes apart the actual projectile is self stabilizing.

I guess the other obvious flaw is that getting a coil gun to produce usable velocity takes a hell of a lot of power.
You can get perfectly serviceable sushi for $10, even in Tokyo, at a neighborhood joint for lunch. This is not that kind of establishment. Similarly, one can easily pay $1, $10, or $50 for a hamburger, here or in your town. COGS is not the primary driver of the price difference.
Is it just me or is the large Hadron collider really scary in how it can start a black hole chain reaction?
I really enjoy playing Alto's adventure. It's very relaxing to have headphones on during a rain storm, the sound is excellent! I think they have tweaked the mechanics a bit since launch as well. It's seems more fluid and you spend less time in very dark (more challenging) levels at night.
I think it simply boils down to labour cost plus cost for the more expensive seafood:

* Sushi chefs need to be highly trained to make good Sushi, ~5 years. => Can't just pay them the basic 800 yen/hour, it's rather going to start at ~3000 yen.

* You need a few helping hands besides the chef. Fish, egg and even the rice is relatively labour intensive. Remember, it's not just plain rice, it's rice cooked with traditional methods to exactly the right point, mixed with vinaigre with an assistant venting by hand to give it a drier surface.

* Good Sushi needs to be prepared right before consumption, so the Sushi chef will spend at least a few minutes for each portion.

Adding all this up propably comes out at around 5-10 bucks labour cost for a decent portion of Sushi. Add to this the fish, the rent and some markup and you're at your $25. Nothing remarkable really, it's the same for most other high quality foods in large cities.
It's very expensive, not open source and you can't self-host.
This is nice and all, but Thiel does the exact same thing with his fellowships: winnows a crowded field and bestows highly-visible laurels on a few already-talented selectees.

After reading this article, I'm still not sure what his alternative plan is.

> Don’t outsource your future to a big institution. You need to figure it out for yourself.

Great advice for a 17 year old.
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Then why don't you go learn those things? Set yourself up with a project where you'll need to learn them and go get it done. If that's not how you've learned everything you know to-date, then do whatever it was you did to learn those things with these new things.

College is only structured learning. If you can build that structure yourself, you're only missing a piece of paper.
It really depends on the state and county. In Worcester County in Massachusetts, they said it would be three months for typically five days a week. (My understanding is that the term of service is standard across the state but the number of days a week is a function of the typical case load in the specific county so the more urban counties require more days than the more rural ones.) I know someone who was on a grand jury in a New Hampshire county and it was (I believe) for a shorter period and only one day per week. The degree of inconvenience obviously also depends on your job. For example, if you normally travel a lot, it's going to be tougher.
The cost of decent sushi is:

- The owner going to the market every morning to select what he thinks are the best fish and then haggle for them
- Bringing it back, holding it until a customer orders without letting it spoil
- When ready, preparing it extremely quickly so that it doesn't lose its flavor at room temperature and so that nobody gets sick
- The apprenticeship of the owner's employees (or his past apprenticeship if you'd rather)