skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We may not be able to understand the ten-lane superhighway, but we can certainly distinguish it from natural phenonemon.

Radio SETI is the most popular, but searches have been done in a wide variety of ways. For instance, A search for a complete Dyson swarm can be done by looking for "stars" which only emit radiation in the far infrared. Partial Dyson swarms can be detected by comparing the mag of a star at two different wavelengths. Megastructures are potentially detectable via the tranit method. And searches have been done to look for signs of galactic engineering.

I'm still willing to entertain the idea that Kaku is correct, but it mostly just seems like wishful thinking to me.

The evidence thus far suggests that even if life is everywhere in the universe, technological life may not be.
> what does TS still bring to the table for people who aren't using Visual Studio?what does TS still bring to the table for people who aren't using Visual Studio?

It doesn't require Visual Studio. Most major IDEs and some text editors have support either from Microsoft or the developers of the IDE/editor[1].

Also, strict typing (which I consider a huge plus for any long term large project to help make it sane).

I think it matters (though maybe not for everyone) that Anders Hejlsberg (of Delphi and C# creation fame) is behind the architecture of the language.

> no real JS API

Not sure what you mean by that, please clarify. JS notation works fine in it (since typescript is just a super set of JS and typing is optional). If you want to add types to a JS library, you just build an interface for it. Lots of examples of how to do that out there[2].

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Edit...

[2] https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
Ask HN: Startup Practices
Dear Hacker News,
I’ve been working on a startup for the past several months and I find myself asking the same question over and over again:

"What types of procedures do successful startups use to ensure that they produce a quality product."

I realize the question is broad. To clarify what I mean, the following questions are a start to what I am looking for:

1.What steps/procedures does your startup take before implementing the code to add new functionality. 2.Is there a set of standardized practices that startups can suggest for people looking to improve their design architecture? How does this work flow normally happen? 3.Is there a technique for testing software pre-production that companies have found successful?

I hope that this question is not too broad— I realize each company has its own unique solution, but I am hoping that there are some entrepreneurs who could provide me with some ideas for how I can begin to answer these questions. If anyone knows of resources that would be helpful those would be much appreciated.

And a big thank you to anyone who spent time answering the question!

— Vizo
>I've earned it mainly from salaried employment and personal investments

If investment income is a relevant part of your income stream, then congratulations - you are among the wealthiest and most financially literate of all americans.

You are now someone who speaks from a position of wealth because of this.

>opportunity costs you've described apply equally well to someone who came from wealth

Oh really?

Because when youre poor and your parents live in a one bedroom apartment and cant afford food for an extra person, maybe youve even been sending them money because they have problems keeping up with their bills and being able to eat everyday.

Thats the same as a stanford grad, whose parents live nearby in a 4 bedroom plus house, can easily afford to send their children money when they need it, let alone allowing them to move back home with free room and board at any time.

If you honestly dont see a difference, from the perspective of starting a business, between these two people, then we have nothing further to discuss.

> or that only people from wealth can start a business.

I have yet to see the article or a single commenter make this claim.
You can definitely apply while still having your job, but you must be willing to work on it full-time for at least the duration of the Fellowship program. We hope you'll commit to it longer than that too -- if your startup is promising, you'll be working on it for many years to come.
Don't underestimate that 12k + YC network and help. Most unicorns that came from the YC program started with 20k not long ago.
Too much money can kill a small and inexperienced team, be lean, scrappy and bootstrap to prove then raise to grow.
The choice of language name is peculiar, since "CFML" has referenced the ColdFusion Markup Language since 1995? (looking at git log for this project, I see first commit in Nov 2014)
This post gets it right on all counts.

The "fallback option" is the real killer. It's hard for some people to imagine, but there are people out in the world without any family to rely on, or in some cases, any family at all - and not everyone has friends they can rely on, either. This affects not just business creation, but things like schooling (the need to support yourself with no free place to live is more stressful and difficult than it may seem.)

Until one hasn't had it, one may not realize what an absolutely incredible advantage it is.
This is fairly aligned with what I described before, making tiny bets or investments across large number of individuals or startups.

Having said that $12,000 is too small of a figure to make a realistic impact. Rather it would be better to focus on boostrapping and making that amount every month, and continually reinvest in your business.
Are company cofounders required/suggested to have technical background or are industry professionals (non-technical) welcomed as well?
For most of them, you just have to google the article's title and click the link from there.
Inherently harmful to whom?

PS Those ads are awful.
"The biggest problem with OpenBSD has been lack of support for hardware and virtualization, though a lot of the reason for this has been the OpenBSD team's own hostility towards virtualization. I get their reasoning (virtualization is a security issue), but the economic consequences have been devastating to their user base."

If you watch the the ruBSD 2013 interview video with Theo de Raadt[1] at the 6:36, he states that they should take a shot at dealing with modern x86 VMs. That gives me quite a bit of hope along with the work on vmware related drivers in each release.

I use VMware at work, seems to do ok.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS8ljif9b8
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A very interesting proposition! I am thrilled to see this kind of model come to life.

> Selected teams are strongly encouraged to move to the Bay Area for the program, but it’s not required.

I wish it wasn't so strongly encouraged. To move anywhere on a whim for 8 weeks is crazy to me, especially since the processes and tools for remote work are so readily available. It's becoming increasingly important to know and understand how to work with team members and stake holders all over the globe, so why not encourage that mindset from the very beginning?
Can you be more specific? Is there some other mechanism you would prefer?
Vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution
How do you feel about teams pursuing a very long-term plan?
hmm, I doubt it applies to Windows Forms and WPF... but I could be wrong
> JS API

I mean a JS interface to the transpiler. At the time there was only the CLI, nothing that worked on strings or streams within node code.

> IDE support ... strict typing ...

Ditto for flow, though.
I think corporate drug research is a flawed development model. It have varying amounts of immoral, amoral and antimoral. To have a _monopoly_ on life saving cures doesn't make sense. Esp how we have seen drug patents wielded against countries with no ability to pay otherwise, for markets that were and will not ever be available to those pharmaceuticals.

Drug research should be publicly funded and the results given away to all. Not just because it the right thing to do, but because it is the most efficient.
Only $65 per hour?
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Came here to say this. One of the reasons I chose Vultr over DO and Linode is the flexibility, and the price is competitive with DO.

Though, I understand why someone who already has a Linode investment would want to do this instead of changing providers, kudos to the author for sharing!
This is my question as well.

However, I read an answer by one of the YC staff and they told the commenter that a current college student could apply, as long as they were willing to take the semester off. So it sounds like they are serious about the full time work requirement.
It's a VPS. You don't have access to grub in any form.
pretty cool idea - reminds me of the 'emergency contact list' 3x5 notecard my mom kept by the phone for us kids or the sitter.
On an article about saving precious clicks and time due to poor UX/UI choices, no less. Oh sweet irony.
Jeez we've lost a lot of good people in the past couple years.
Peer review: not as old as you might think
So close to graduation, I wouldn't throw away your degree for 12k. Degree may come in handy if you ever want a day job...
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Some scientists have similarly been warning against blindly revealing our existence.
If our history is anything to go by, meeting another civilisation would be very dangerous.
It sounds like you have "new hotness" syndrome. Port your PHP/Perl/Bash scripts to Python. Fabric is fantastic for system admin scripts. Use Ansible if you need something more heavy weight.

Go is a great language, but shines most for writing network services, not sys admin scripts.
oh man, this makes me so happy. Two projects I really really enjoy are finally coming together without any hacks. I knew it could only be a matter of time - and I had it working with a little React.jsx(`<component />`) hack, but still, having the TS team implement it natively just makes it feel right. thanks to everyone involved! ... Can't wait till webstorm will fully support this with component property intellisense and everything. woot!
This is not a factual statement. It's your opinion. It isn't up to you to decide this for other people.
> We encourage you to come to Mountain View if you can make it, but remote interviews over video chat will be okay too ...

For remote teams with viable ideas that YC is interested in funding, how remote can such teams be? Can teams apply from outside the US; from Europe, Asia or Africa?
> Reading about the internal administrative process in large municipal governments is like learning about business in an alien culture.

Vogons?
'tele' is Greek (telos is 'extremity' roughly, from which the adverbial sense "far off" for 'tele-').

Television is of mixed etymology.
That's a lot of condescending language and he's basically trying to make the point that he doesn't care about banner fraud because most of the cost is shouldered by people who produce content and not the companies who are paying for advertising.
Yes, there are certainly good cops. Is anyone disputing that? The guy who was fired seem like he was one of them.

However, there are also problems with the ways in which cops are help responsible for their actions. This allows the bad and not-so-good cops to keep being cops.

The article is pointing out a problem with how this accountability is implemented in Chicago.

So what is your point exactly?
Multi-core pf landed in freebsd 10. There are further enhancements in the pipe, like a better hashing algorithm, planned for 11
I think I speak for all Chicagoans when I say "what were you expecting?" This is in a state where of our last seven governors, FOUR ended up in prison. That's a whopping 57%. There's a joke that our politicians have an "orange parachute" when they leave their jobs.

When you add in all the other police issues over the years, you end up with not a single Chicagoan surprised at this outcome. The state and the city are corrupt beyond belief.

Despite the cost to the tax payer, I'd love to see this guy sue the crap out of everyone involved. Of course, that's a risky move because you know, something could happen to him.
It's important to us that the team itself can build the product it's trying to create. When you try to hire contractors to build out an idea, it's expensive, slows down iteration speed, and it's really hard to judge the quality of their work if you're non-technical too. If your team is entirely non-technical, try to make a good case for why that won't be a problem, and what you're doing to close that skill gap.
He deserves another Nobel prize from you Europeans.
Nice choice! I opted not to get the M6 because I wanted something closer to ~3400lbs, which is about what the 911 GTS is, but you can't go wrong with a twin-turbo V8!

Though now that I'm in the middle (well, almost done with the first version) of building https://recent.io/ it means more screen time and less driving...
asp.net 5 beta 5: https://github.com/aspnet/Home/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta5
Maybe Sean Parker wasn't wrong to be paranoid. /tinfoil hat
So it brings nothing that babel+flow doesn't do already? The only advantage I seem to find is being backed by MS and blessed by Angular (i.e. Google). Sorry if I sound dismissive. I'm just trying to figure out why so many seem to find TS exciting outside the MS sphere.
and cuba is a gold mine?
"Speed" could be seen in terms of perceived time for distance covered. No reason with a robot-uploaded consciousness that you couldn't slow its perception of time such that travel between the stars becomes something comprehensible by a human-like mind. A bit like video game time acceleration, but real.

That doesn't address what happens to the visitees, but if that kind of slow-scale exploration becomes the default, then any civilizations on a similar level to the robot explorers would have technology and societal structures in place to support meaningful contact of that nature.
Yes absolutely. Teams from anywhere in the world are welcome to apply. We just ask that you have a strong internet connection that allows for clear, reliable video chats.
> EDIT: As I pointed out, right away, the first two commenters entirely missed my point.

Could you clarify what that point is exactly? As written, you seem to be saying that identifying bad actors from good actors is extremely difficult due to other factors. I agree with that if that is the point you are making.

I think there is something else here too, though?
Oh, sure. These are not problems unique to html5test.com. Pretty much anything that claims to boil down the quality of a browser or rendering engine to a single number will suffer from problems #1 and #2. As for #3 and #4, writing a test not susceptible to gaming is _hard_, and bugs happen.

It's just that people like to forget all this and treat the numbers they get as revelation from on high. Sort of cargo-cult quality measurement.
Extra credit for that.
3 Reasons Why MSPs Should Target Healthcare in 2016
Any examples on how to do this? I haven't seen many good examples of arguments that don't just swept under the rug.
Typescript definitely helped on all the projects I've used it.

The main con is that sometimes things are not very clear and you might end up spending time on something that typescript can't handle (eg a function that can return several types of objects, I had to put the return type of the function to any to have it compiled).

The pros:

- being able to refactor stuff easily with the compiler telling you

- catch typos easily (I remember watching Dan Abramov video at react europe and some of the errors he showed would be a compilation error in TS)

- if you maintain all your classes/object definitions in one file (except maybe stuff like state of a React component which doesn't need to be shared), you have all your types at one place and anyone can come in and have a clear view of the project: I had someone come help me on a previous project and it took him basically no time to get a grip on the project structure/models

- DefinitelyTyped so you can also type your calls to third party libraries and what they return

Make sure to only use ES6 imports (no internal modules) and it's pretty close to babel but with types.
The main problem we have in the search for extraterrestrial life is that we really do not know much about life. We know a reasonable amount about Earth life, but that's about it. I have read only portions of Rare Earth for my research and plan to return to read it through. But some of the arguments made seemed to rest on a lot of supposition. I'm not convinced they're wrong exactly.

I think there may be many "Great Filters" to explain the Fermi paradox, and the rise of metazoans may be one of those filters. But I'm not necessarily convinced that complex life requires, for instance, a large moon to stablize the tilt of the planet. Evolution seems a little more robust to me.

I do not know if they mention this in the book or not, but I am afraid that the transition to land may be infrequent (many worlds may not even have land above sea level). Even if dolphins or whales were as intelligent as people want to believe, they are unlikely to ever develop space travel or even radio communication.

I'm equally on the fence about the mediocrity principle. Maybe complex life takes a long, long time and Earth somehow got lucky. We are already freaks because we orbit a G-type star. Most stars are M-type (red dwarfs). They are very long lived and have plenty of time for life to form and evolve on planets around them. Put another way, maybe somehow we are just "first".
can you expand?
Didn't find it either. JavaScript is not Java...

edit: Well it seems that this is a browser issue. In chrome I find ColdFusion, in Firefox it's Java instead.
Damn. It really sucks when a death gets clouded with confusion. Such a weird combination of emotion.
The Ashley Madison hack is a huge deal
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terrible tragedy.. hopefully it wasn't suicide, grooveshark was a great product
Anyone has Dart vs TS comparison ?
I'm heavy Dart user - interested hearing someone having experience in both.
Those are huge assumptions IMO. Maybe they don't feel the need or comprehend the concept of communicating over long distances. Maybe they discovered a different force we don't know of. Just because radio waves worked for us, it doesn't mean every advanced civilization will makes use of them. The possibilities are so vast and endless.
On Amazon at least they sell it under Baby Sleep Soothers and Sound Therapy Products.
One subtly awesome thing here is that with ryujit being a part of 4.6 then you can do simd in .net without any hacky pre requisites and workarounds.

(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/04/07/the-jit-fi...)
Hey I think people were just too happy to get rid of bush ok!
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Agreed. Though I'm tempted to say that this problem isn't getting worse and that our awareness is only becoming more acute, the existence of digital information increases the potential for abuses of power. (No specific cases come to mind at the moment, but I'd wager that it happens more than occasionally.)

So what can we do about it? Record the police.

EDIT: Typo..
Very cool. So dropping subject pronouns ("pro-drop") is formally acceptable?
US should hang Edward Snowden, says former spy panel senator
Just awful. My condolences to his family and friends. Josh accomplished more in 28 years than most do in a lifetime, yet he had so much of his life left to live. Life is precious, and we can't waste a second of it.
The one thing I don't like (i.e. inconsistent with the UIs of most OSes) is that if the user drags something to a valid target, and then before the mouse is released, drags it off that valid target to an invalid target, and then releases the mouse at that point, the valid target is triggered. What should happen is that the entire drag-and-drop operation should be cancelled, as if the user dragged straight to the invalid target and released.
How to build a monopoly in a hyper competitive marketplace
The vocabulary is still being finalized. Hopefully soon I can release something.
A nickel mine actually: http://www.mining.com/over-240-mining-and-energy-projects-wa...

It's been great for Canadian mining companies.
My step-sister dated Josh for a while when I was growing up.

My few memories of him consist mostly of Josh explaining technology to me at the dinner table in slow, careful words so that a middle school kid could understand. I remember him laughing with me about the crazy/terrible things I had done to overclock my Android Dev Phone 1 at a time when no one else I knew thought that was interesting. I remember feeling really cool when he hooked me up with free Grooveshark premium to be nice.

It's strange. I haven't seen or heard from him in nearly a decade. He stopped dating my step-sister years ago. He likely wouldn't have remembered my name if you asked him.

Still, I feel like a friend is gone.
He's implying the music industry killed him
I'd like to try flow but it isn't available yet on windows [1] so it's not even an option for me (I'm on windows and I like to keep my things multi-platform friendly if possible). At the moment I'm using babel in Atom and typescript in VisualStudio.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/6
Interestingly if you search for a term the information view is changed but not the time bar. Then if you click on another language it will show the wrong one. It seems that the view just jumps relative to the last selected mark on the bar.
A Tableflip Guide: Transitioning from Tester to Developer
Plugins, plugins, plugins – or how KDE Frameworks learned to Wayland
Yes, and yes.

America is that polarized, and when people with more nuanced views speak up, they tend to get shouted down immediately by the "side" that sees some aspect of "the other side"'s views in the nuance, drowning them out in the noise.

Want to make a nuanced point in a discussion about gun control? You're probably from Kenya, too. Want to make a subtle distinction in a debate about investment banks, or energy policy? You must hate poor people, or the planet, or...

Net, we (or at least I) tend not to get involved in political discussions, as I'm almost invariably going to have to spend more time arguing about how I'm not actually a filthy lib'ral or whatever, than about the point I'd wanted to make in the first place, so fuck it. You guys have fun shouting yourselves hoarse and slapping yourselves on the back for how hateful you can be towards random strangers on the internet.
Totally I agree.

You can learn about coding on your own time anytime you want, at any age, on your own and with the help of free online courses, meetup's or paid courses etc.

Learning about M&A, building your professional network in investment banking, the financial markets is not so much accessible. Nothing against his enthusiasm/passion, I don't think OP was very wise to quit his job.
If I hear that word "scrappy" one more time, I won't have any veins left in my neck to pop.
I'd still encourage you to apply -- there's nothing to lose, and definitely no penalty for applying again later if not accepted. Dropbox, Instacart, and Zenefits were all accepted as solo founders -- you can talk about your plans to bring one of them on soon.
Maybe It's Time for Customer Driven Development
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I suspect that I would experience the same, if I could stop. I've tried at least a half dozen times in the last few years, but the withdrawal symptoms (headache and intense nausea) never seem to go away, even after several weeks without it. Unfortunately, I can't risk the decreased productivity longer than that.
http://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#commitment
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Source now available for GDB/LLDB debug engine
announcement blog post: http://todogroup.org/blog/open-code-of-conduct/
Why aren't there a lot of old programmers at software companies?