skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the disconnect is simply not visible to you. You say that these individuals jump at the thought of "ideas" because they're simply linked to certain technological solutions/implementations. Yet, completely disregard the possibility that they may have other motives/reasons behind their beliefs, that you may not be privy to or simply deny as relevant.

*Edit, more comments below.

And, judging from the overall theme in the comment you're responding to. One of Libertarianism, I'll add: We don't all have the solutions, or all the perfect answers for a wonderful life and organization of the world. But these ideas are not "idiotic" anymore than what we have now, of which we all complain about incessantly. You'll often find that a lot of Libertarians/Anarcho-Capitalist have their beliefs not because of practicality, or technology, but because they believe in the ethical and moral principles that form part of those ideologies.
I don't believe his identity is public but unless Atko has been spinning an elaborate lie, plenty is known about him and Voat. He's a Swedish student who went to college in Switzerland and this was a side project that blew up on him, not unlike how Facebook started. He just graduated from college, went on vacation with his family and is now headed back to Switzerland to run this like a real company.

I agree that the best case scenario for Voat is to inevitably do exactly what reddit is doing now, whether he realizes it or not. That's how it works. Right now Voat is amazing. I'm enjoying it while it lasts.
Joe, this is Derek, the author of the piece linked above. I think you make a good point. When I first heard Will explain "earning to give," a part of me considered it off-putting and radical, but I've come to see it as an expansive view of doing good, because I think there are a lot of people who (a) wouldn't be good at charitable work or (b) would be good at charitable work but are better at - and enjoy! - other work. For these people, it's inspiring to think they can make a huge difference, too.

There is always the question: What happens if you discourage too many wonderful, smart people from working at charities? And here, Will's answer would be, I think, that if that starts happening, then we should reevaluate the advice. But for now, I think, the earning to give philosophy carries tremendous upside for getting more people to think of themselves as essential contributors to charitable causes, no matter where they work.
Don't forget that the ball can come very fast and the keeper will need a split second to adjust. In other cases, the kicker can be masked by another player preventing the keeper to see the ball until very late.
> There's got to be a psychological term for this.

Belief.
If the hairdressers in the target market tend to have cash flow problems, it wouldn't be too surprising for them to not have bank accounts / be unaccustomed to handling checks. Even in America.
Is organic growth a good way to validate an idea?
I've been working on Actuame.com for the last 4 months, and without any kind of promotion, and just by sending out.. 25 e-mails tops I have recieved a really good feedback and as of right now, there's 1011 users registered.

My question is, is this good enough to use as an idea validation reference? If not, what would be a good alternative.

I'm still learning a lot about startups

Thanks a lot!
I'm pretty sure you could do that with nix and skip the docker part
The key point being, the telco regulation structure was at one time vitally necessary. The taxi regulations were, and are, not. They're just so much nanny-statist nest feathering, local government at its worst. They are a perfect example of something the free market could handle just fine on its own.

Of course we've definitely crossed over into matters of opinion now.
If there is more than one STL, here is one who claims to be him

https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Stephan-T-Lavav...

http://nuwen.net/stl.html
So they do think they're smart enough to not need it. And of course someone who "accepts the risk" assumes they're smart enough to not get caught up in it. Otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Immediate backup

(I hope I'm not alone in saying this...)
sincerity > swagger #truth
The accuracy is calculated compared to other readers, so if you all clicked on the wrong corner you can still be better than 80% of them!

I mostly did it this way because there's no hard number that makes sense here - we don't know ft/metres, and pixels aren't a unit everyone is used to thinking about.
What does that have to do with the word weekend? My question was about "That's partly why they are called weekends after all."
Agreeing there is a grey area isn't the same as accepting any absurdity as reasonable. This was as dumb as any trademark claim I've ever heard.

Oh. Maybe apart from this: http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/10/logo-fight-remax-vs-reha...
Nintendo generally picks a framerate and sticks to it. The N64 zelda games were actually locked at 20hz.

(It is possible to do 60hz on the N64, but it's really hard)
This looks very interesting and I'm considering using it for one of my projects.

I wanted to do a SSO with Github, but your permissions require access to my private repos. I won't give 3rd party apps access to private repos. Can you adjust the permissions for Github SSO?
Well yeah, but that's not what it said. I've had the occasional complete whiteboard disaster (not really my thing) that ended up with offers, including pools where people did bang-up whiteboard work.

There's a lot more at play in any reasonable place than whiteboard performance.
And is DRM really part of the perfect business model?
V3Solar's Solar Cells Generate 20x Electricity Than Flat Photovoltaics
I'm trying to come from the perspective of someone who values data over no data. But you're right, I can't just shed my privileged perspective.

It seems like the point being indirectly communicated (somewhat by you, but also by other posters on this page), is that the concepts of "Aborigines Native American" and "Scientist" are incompatible. Like, it's a role that exists in our society, but not in theirs. Or something like that, their culture doesn't value that kind of information. I don't wish to offend out of my own ignorance of others' cultures.
nope - monopoly by design
A future or promise is not a replacement for locks and mutexes. They are intended to abstract async operations for lazy evaluation and intend to fix the problem of "callback hell" that occurs when chaining async operations and response handlers.

Futures and promises make more sense in functional languages because they don't have a shared memory model, which avoids having to share resources between parallel tasks using locks. Google dataflow programming for more insight into how lazy evaluation and referential transparency parallelize work when there's no mutable state.
...sort of?

That's kind of the genius of puzzles like these (we can't take credit for inventing it - Spot the Ball has existed for a long time in the analog world) is that it's a mix of skill and luck, so you can fool yourself into thinking you're amazing at it, when in reality the next photo might trip you up completely.
Maybe the first version of emscripten?
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/474956

Found it on Alon blog (http://mozakai.blogspot.fr/2010/07/experiments-with-static-j...). A big and humble journey.
What were the (broken) rules on transportation-related apps??

Best of luck not dropping the ball this time!
A pre-9/11 ticket.
Do you know if these kinds of interactive content perform better (ie clicks/shares/views) vs other forms, ie longform or just plain data visualization pieces? I personally enjoyed it a lot.
Walking Avenida Corrientes is fascinating and beautiful, it's all just books, pizza and theatre. And all three are amazing.
Yes, templates are expensive at compile time (memory and time both). folly/futures only depends on a few pieces of folly/, you may find that you can use the futures headers just fine. If building libfolly is the showstopper, you might be able to comment out all the non-dependent files.
Nope. "Quite honestly, we were wrong." http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/08/keurig-ceo-blames-coffee-po...
Here - I created an SRT Closed Caption file for you:

http://keepsubs.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwat...
Yes, Notch made something significant (Minecraft) and as far as I can tell is very far from a jerk.
Harvard Gets Its Geek On: An Interview on the $400M Paulsen Donation
This line of thinking does not only apply to a Libertarian form of government (or lack thereof). Influential and wealthy individuals control power, and I think it's incredibly naive to think that Democracy or any other form of government out there is completely immune to that.

Note how I don't single-out wealthy individuals. Our society is run by influential people, the kind that can sway opinion through oration and manipulation. They will simply convince more people to use their single, noble vote on what they want.
I remember seeing something similar to this not so long ago here on HN - especially regarding the crosswalk buttons.

>More than 2,500 of the 3,250 walk buttons that still exist function essentially as mechanical placebos, city figures show. Any benefit from them is only imagined.

This is justification that you should keep pressing the button. Even if only 750~ of them actually function, that's more than 0 from not pressing the button.
A month ago, a friend who'd worked as a doctor in South Africa for decades was interning with me to learn about the procedures in our German ER. I remember the first time a patient with a heart attack came in while she was there, and the speed of the proceedings just blew. her. mind.

What happens, if things go well, is this:

The EMTs transmit a picture of the electrocardiogram to us[1]. We confirm that it's a STEMI (the kind of heart attack where speed matters the most, as opposed to an NSTEMI, which isn't quite as urgent), and alert the catheter lab and the attending cardiologist. Half the ER personnel drops everything else to prepare for the patient's arrival.

The patient arrives. We transfer them to our gurney. One nurse gets the patient's clothes off (with scissors if necessary) while another nurse attaches electrocardiogram electrodes and a third shaves the puncture site for the catheter.

The ER physician puts in an iv line and draws blood while informing the patient of the treatment plan. The cardiologist takes a very quick history of the patient and confirms the STEMI with the second electrocardiogramm. We wheel the patient up to the catheter lab and get started.

Altogether, if everything goes well, it's something like five to twelve minutes from the moment the patient comes through our doors to the moment we've got the patient on the operating table.

[1]By taking a picture of it on their phone and transmitting it via Whatsapp, which is just about the ugliest, hackiest and probably borderline-legal way of transmitting patient data imaginable, but it gets the job done.
Fleshing out the psychological argument regarding curved space that the author discusses, is Heelan's "Space Perception and the Philosophy of Science" (1988).
Can someone comment on what you gain by choosing Clifford Algebras over Exterior Algebras?
Chump change in today's market.
I'd suggest changing the orange colour. Not because I care in the slightest about the YC trademark, but it's still nice to get a positive indication of which site I'm looking at.

For example, most of the Yotsuba archivers seem to follow this convention.
It's always #2, but just because a feature has been approved for master, doesn't mean all the features approved for master are stable together.

A feature might be stable as a standalone, but in virtually every software suite, features interact with each other. That is what develop is for. It's where all the feature branches meet and where any instability created by everything coming together is resolved.

Master, on the other hand, is the product of that successful resolution after all the bug fixes.
The sky is the limit implementation-wise. Put yourself in their shoes, as an engineer/problem-solver, and see if you can figure it out in a decent manner.

Personally, I'm partial to this concept being a good solution to the problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispute_resolution_organizatio...
Findbugs is the main one. If you had support for that, I'd get my 120+ dev team moved over tomorrow :)
What's wrong with "Unpack and interleave high-order quadwords from xmm1 and xmm2/m128 into xmm1." and "Multiply packed single-precision floating-point val-ues from ymm1 and ymm2/mem, negate the multi-plication result and add to ymm0 and put result in ymm0."?

It's simple, right?

(This is sarcasm, by the way.)

Although I will point out that C has its esoterics also.
I found this was easier to answer with a bulleted comparison. The main thing is Fax Robot is free for anyone who wants to run it on their own network.

Phaxio:
- Just an API
- More features than Fax Robot API
- More expensive
- Closed source

Fax Robot:
- An API and a web app
- Less API features than Phaxio (send only)
- Less expensive
- Open source (GPL)
You know that's never going to happen. However, the parts necessary for C++ are implemented.

To quote the article, this is what is missing: "Our C99 Standard Library implementation is complete, except for tgmath.h (which is irrelevant in C++) and the CX_LIMITED_RANGE/FP_CONTRACT pragma macros."

That, and some preprocessor incompatibilities.
I don't see how you can say that at all. One of the goals of making complex shit is to make it harder for people to tell what's going on. While there wouldn't be the incentive to hide from regulators, there absolutely still would be the incentive to hide from customers.
> When I bought my first house, using money earned from co-founding a software company, I couldn’t believe that such abstract work could be exchanged for something so big and tangible, hewn from forests and rocks by people sweating in the sun.

I've been writing software for years, and it still feels like magic. People work 3x as hard as me and I make 3x as much as them. Many make real, physical things; i just type away on a keyboard. With the right incantations, you can build something that's worth millions. Just you, in your free time, creating something that can be used by the entire world.

Always reminds me of this louie CK interview on conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E
"There is a fair chance that people would be less inclined to create the interdependencies if there were no regulation."

I don't buy that for a second.
"Considered Harmful" is a cliche but not really harmful, unless you're the author and want to be viewed as hip/cutting-edge/cool.

I'd say that driving "Considered Harmful" out of the conversation should be considered harmful. The "considered harmful" titles are great because they provide a very concise encapsulation of the contents of the essay. When I see "X considered harmful" I immediately know that the work will be arguing against X. I've read a number of these because I want to see what there is to be said against things that I often take for granted, e.g. the utility of Angular or whatever.
That must be whats happening. The package, in these cases, always arrives the next day (third day).
And they may have. Today's bubble prices don't mean they didn't.
Borges may have been a conservative, but it never shows in his writing.
I would not call him right-wing at all, but conservative. He was a man of the early-mid-20th century. Who knows if his views today would be the same. Society in general is more progressive now than during his lifetime.
A reason not to call Borges right-wing is his strong opposition to the Mussolini-admirer colonel who was one of the prominent members of the coup of '43, later president, and later a guest of Franco. For being against this fascist, Borges was fired from his position as director of the National Library, and relegated to being an inspector of fowl and cage animals in municipal markets.
At the risk of being dense, are you sure you're not talking about debit cards? I've never seen interchange fees lower than about 1% for credit cards. In what I read from the Durbin Amendment, I've only found the specific numbers you mentioned in reference to debit cards.

If I'm wrong, I want the name of your merchant processor!
What, no mention of Nespresso (invented in '76) ? Is it just because the american startup audience is more familiar with Keurig?

I do like his core point that the Keurig (/Nespresso) business model is psychologically different from razor+blades. I understand 3D printer manufacturers have also been trying to apply it, to limited success: the primary audience of hackers and tinkerers are by nature adverse to embracing such a business model.
I still like them better than the "X is dead" followed by "long live X" that was a fad for a while.

I vote we focus on eliminating the most annoying of all title formats, the "gate" suffix.
systems ;)

it is an overly hostile comment imho, but i can sympathize.
Maybe, maybe not. There are other ways to support sites and site monetization is complicated. If you value what they do and you use the site, you should find some means to support it, if possible. But it isn't all on your shoulders either.

You should strive to support the things you benefit from and not just be a leech. But it also isn't an offense that merits committing hara kiri either.

I say this as someone who runs a number of sites that don't really make money. I do have a notice that says "Thank you for white listing," but the general lack of financial success of my work is far more complicated than "You evil ad block users killed my monetization!"

If it bothers you enough to ask, consider coming up with some thoughtful personal policy that makes you more comfortable than what you are doing currently.
C isn't considered a scripting language. bash is. "some hideous bash and C scripts" should be: "some hideous bash scripts and C code".
This article is quite interesting, certainly projects a different view of Bohmian theory than typically presented. At one point Hiley invokes the idea of "information" intrinsic to understanding quantum transformations, so it seems not coincidental that just a couple of days ago an article about Christopher Fuchs thoughts was an HN topic.

In that article Fuchs spoke about his view of the subjective components of quantum measurement and the informational nature of quantum phenomena. So it's no surprise that Fuchs critique of Bohm was mentioned by Hiley, though in the context of their disagreements. However I have a hunch Hiley's idea of "process" is not so remote from Fuchs' notions of subjectivity and what that means for quantum theory.

I'm sure genuinely knowledgeable people will have a far more refined exposition of these ideas than I could ever have, nonetheless these articles are engaging, enlightening and give much to ponder.
> TICK stack: for building applications around time series data

> [...]

> The name TICK is a reference to what people in finance refer to as a single point in a time series. We’ll be announcing more on the TICK stack soon.

I'm intrigued; I've been algotrading on the side and use InfluxDB, so any additions helping on this area is really welcome, like *MAs and related functions.
Think about it from a different perspective. You are validating your business, not idea. What leap of faith assumptions have you made that you need to validate to determine if you have a viable business?

For most startups these days, and what I can tell from yours, the hardest part is customer acquisition. So, validate things around acquiring customers. E.g. how much does it cost to acquire a single customer, can you demonstrate that you can repeat that process (even at the small scale).

It's hard to summarize these points in a couple paragraphs, I'd suggest reading Eric Ries, and Steve Blank to get an understanding of the principles.
>within minutes

That doesn't sound commercially viable at all.
We do need a good way to inspect the JavaScript heap when it contains data structures from non-JavaScript languages. However, I'm not convinced this should be represented as data. It seems better to represent it as a reflection API that's implemented as a JavaScript library provided by the compiler. The debugger can load the javascript file into the web page when needed, and it can use whatever data format it likes.

Chrome is working on a way to this [1]. However, it's not done yet, and it needs to be be turned into a real standard. It's also not likely to work well for asm/wasm as-is.

New standards are important but we also need to properly implement the standards we already have. Sourcemaps have been around for years but they're not fully implemented by most browsers that claim to support it. (Firefox sourcemaps didn't work well when I tried it in January, though some bugs have been fixed since then.) I think someone needs to write something like the Acid tests [2] for browser debuggers.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FTascZXT9cxfetuPRT2eXPQK...

[2] http://www.acidtests.org/
It is done.

Lets try to enjoy some hacking free chat, instead of ruining it. You can fill you spare time by implementing new features and sending me pull requests :)
the points is referring to why gmail is free.

I considering switching back anyway. Fastmail search is just awful.
> So only people with meaningful things to say or build should get noticed and hired?

...based on writing essays.

There are other ways to get noticed and hired. And, writing essays that reveal that you have nothing meaningful to say probably isn't a valuable use of time to get noticed and hired (if you are trying to get noticed and hired for a tech job, taking the same time to increase your portfolio of open source contributions you can point to is probably more valuable.)
How the Government Stifled Reason's Free Speech
Using lasers to trigger a mouse's happy memory gives it the will to struggle on
One is screen scraping, one is attempting to find out how a product actually works. Neither goal has a monetary incentive so it is likely that people have got there before me.
It would be interesting to see your breakdown. I figure your purchase closing costs to have been around $2k. Your agents selling commission around $3.5k. Then you must have had condo association fee of some kind. Property tax as well. You might have fixed up something or other to sell?

No doubt you can make money on property though, plenty of shows about flipping houses are popular. I was just curious about your math.

I bought a condo in an area that has exploded with gentrification but still after we sell in s couple of months were not expecting a huge profit. We're going to rent and let somebody else deal with all the hassles for a while.
I've found that that generally leads to problems, so I prefer to have the feature that is going to be merged last be responsible for fitting in with the rest. That way, as described earlier, I don't have to wait for features that can't be merged now to merge the ones that can.
For the curious, differences between {N}STEMI http://imgur.com/HbREzfo
So this means you could potentially simplifiy your monitoring infrastructure down to:

Telegraf => InfluxDB => Grafana

If I'm reading this correctly, the above will be awesome instead of:

A whole bunch of shit => StatsD => InfluxDB => Grafana
Gonk FirefoxOS linux kernel is based on Android (https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G#linux).
And a large number of now rich people in other countries looking for assets outside of their home country's control - which in SF is just the same as it is in London
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"I think that even AGW proponents know the science is not on their side-"

Of the scientists who discovered the AGW problem, a substantial portion was made up of right wingers:

John Tyndall: British Tory.
Svante Arrhenius: Swedish aristocrat and pro-marketeer.
Charles Keeling: staunch Republican.

Those are the big names.