skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pg posted, I think on Reddit, about his new project Startup News. It had the same feel that Reddit had recently lost and great comments. I've been mostly lurking ever since.
Cool, so it's alright for me to air your dirtiest of laundry? I'll remember that.
Can my company join, aiming to finish our flagship product?

My company released lots of products, all of them had critical acclaim and high user reviews, but we ran out of money before releasing our main product, and we never had marketing money, so our sales are nowhere interesting.

I am wondering if you consider this early enough or not. (we had no investment beside from extra money from the original founders).
Do you foresee this being available at other times in the year, like the YC program itself? A winter fellowship would be ideal for me.
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> A best practices text, or a guide for how to avoid the most obvious usability mishaps?

https://www.goodui.org
I don't know how the world is better off without Gaddafi.
Flow is not available on windows, typescript is available on all major OSes.
From my point of view this is very much aimed at the just graduated crowd. These are young people thattypically just graduated in May, maybe took the summer off or had a summer internship and are debating what to do next. 12k to them is more than plenty for living with Mom and Dad for a few more months or going on an 8 week adventure to SF.

Of course this will be a great opportunity for someone debating quitting a job or something, but it seems the most available people will be those just out of college.

To that end it will be interesting to actually see what types of people that this program works for and are accepted.
> I think of that every time I see an article, here on HN, and the comments by people trying to blame the cops for everything as if they're against us.

You are aware this is an article where the cops fired someone specifically because he said cops were at fault in numerous incidents?

This is basically a case of the police firing the auditor who found their mistakes because "he found too many".
I'd be really interested in articles after 2008. About 2005-2007 is when the internet poker boom was on its height. I'd say in that area there must have been a lot of progress, because there was a lot of money in it, a lot more than now or 1999.
Incorrect. The founder of ISIS / Daesh was a former Baathist general under Sadaam in Iraq. He saw the conflict in Syria as a way to gain leverage, but it most definitely did not bring it to us. He was already planning to build ISIS, and just simply leaped at the opportunity when the Syrian civil war began.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-file...

Edit:

Another great article on this:

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401655832/secret-papers-reveal...
Can we spin this to discuss what influence it would have on Cuba's IT growth?
Now that there is an embassy there U.S tech companies might be more inclined to invest there.
You realize that you are advocating for single-point-of-failure, right? That if I learn anything at all about you, that I should be free to share it with whomever I like in any way I want, and for any reason?

Do you honestly believe that you are so good at guarding information that you have nothing to fear from it's free propagation? And that this is not only true for you, but for everyone?
I know the knee-jerk reaction is to assume foul play, but I knew him a little bit and he was as healthy as an ox. Or at least he was several months ago the last time I saw him.

I don't know, but it would shock me to the bone if someone could truly get angry enough at a man like him, to try and hurt him. He knew like we all knew, Grooveshark was never going to last, but it reinforced the point that Napster proved and I think that was always one of the major goals of the project.

That being said, I wish all the best to the Grooveshark family. It's never easy to lose someone like that, it always is hard.
API that it allows to pay in slots machines
Y Combinator Launches a $12,000 Equity Free Grant Program to Increase Deal Flow
I'm in the midst of the exercise "post one picture to Facebook every day for a year". Surprising how many people respond to nearly every post, expressing their appreciation/joy in the series, and how it gathers my thoughts & experiences into an otherwise-soon-forgotten collection. At end of year I'll format it into a one-off book, and have a good summary of 2015.

Next such goal is blogging a daily $1/plate recipe page. Getting that started takes more concerted effort (having started the blog but not at that posting rate). The results may suck, but at least it will focus the mind on something worthwhile, and - as the OP notes - others may find it more interesting than I expect.

If nothing else, "blog little things" makes it manageable to normalize & improve one's writing skills and focus on what matters.
YC's first batch, the Summer Founders Program, was just 6k per founder for 5-7% equity -- teams were expected to make that last for three months (as opposed to YCF's two), and were required to pick up and move on top of that. That funding was enough for Reddit to get started, and we think there will be other great founders who will be able to start good companies with this amount too.
Funny that you and this thread exist, because I literally just put up my 11th version of my site and the first post is about this exact subject.
Police serve the community, not the other way around. No one would ever say "if you want your street sweepers to stop running people over then you need to make sure you respect their pride," because street sweepers, unlike cops, aren't recognized as having the option of refusing to reform.

There's no good reason that reform should be restricted by the need to avoid making cops feel indignant. In exchange for cops obeying the law, we offer nothing whatsoever, including respect for their pride. It's not a negotiation.
That doesn't make it not true.
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Wow, did this post ever land at an opportune time for me. I just started writing a 'first' blog post about my Hugo static site generator setup and stopped half way through with the thought, "why would anyone care about this, it's trivial and almost condescending to tell people how to set up Hugo".

Perhaps I'll go finish that post now.
Thanks for making yourself available, Matt. Sounds like an incredible opportunity.

What kind of progress do you expect founders to make by the end of the Fellowship? Put another way, if the goal of participation in Y Combinator is for companies to build enough traction to become top-tier candidates for an institutional fundraise, what is the outcome that participants in the Fellowship should hope to achieve?
Medium ditches passwords for single-use email links
I find sometimes that people around me think I'm strange or crazy for getting excitable or long-winded while explaining or going through a story I've recently read that gave me some insight into something new and cool, to me.

I'm just realizing now that it's possible that those people don't have that same inner spark that I have. That same passion and drive to learn and understand. I really still feel like a kid in so many ways in life but even when I feel that twinge of embarrassment for geeking out on a topic too hard I will now and forever feel content in the fact that I'm always trying to teach that inner kid in me.
We're going to see how this initial experiment goes before we make any decisions.
> Preemptive multitasking is strictly better in almost all cases than cooperative multitasking, when you have more processes

Sorry I didn't make myself clear. Quasar most certainly employs preemptive multitasking, just not time-slice- (or reduction-) based.

> Kernel scheduling is radically worse than user-space scheduling

Except when descheduling on time-slices. Remember two facts: 1/ your hardware can only support very few threads that require time-slice preemption so those task-switching costs are negligible, and 2/ no other thread is dependent on low-latency access to data produced a thread that is descheduled on a time-slice, so the latency doesn't matter much either.

None of that is my intuition. I've been profiling and measuring this stuff for a few years now, and I'm a huge proponent of userspace scheduling. Adding time-slice preemption didn't make things any worse -- it just didn't make them any better either, so we took it out, and we tell users to use kernel scheduling for those threads. If the user makes a mistake, we recognize it at runtime and tell her that kernel scheduling might be better for that thread.
Hey Kat, is it possible to apply for the fellowship & still be eligible to apply for the W16 class when the application opens up?
I wondered if there was any cool 50 year old tech collecting dust there. But apparently the place wasn't abandoned: "the reopening of the embassy on the Malecón waterfront in Havana, previously used as an interests section, a limited diplomatic outpost, ". So this is quite boring.
Yeah, releasing all the data paints with pretty broad strokes, and has more implications than just outing cheaters to their partners.

1. It releases the data to everyone, not just to a cheater's partner. I'll buy that a cheater deserves to be outed to their partner, but to their boss? Their psycho ex? And that's not even thinking of the person who was cheated on: do you really think you would want everyone to know that your spouse was cheating on you?

2. Not all the users of the site are cheaters. Some are just role playing, some were just curious, some were probably trying to catch their partners cheating. Ashley Madison's database doesn't make any of these distinctions: everyone gets the scarlet letter.
Odd, if I type the title into google groups search it returns no results (as you stated), but in regular google search the google groups post is the first result.
21 states! Since Lawrence v. Texas though, there is some doubt that a conviction for adultery would withstand a constitutional challenge.
If they are a space faring civilization, they need long distance communication. No the possibilities aren't endless, there's a lot of physics that we know that strongly constrains the search space. AFAIC, I think compression is the big issue, we should be looking for forward error correcting codes in the data.
Very sad. My heartfelt condolences go out to the family.
Hopefully bring down the price of internet in the country. From what I have heard from activists on the ground it can often be hundreds of dollars a month. Plus significant restrictions on access etc. There was quite a good Guardian article about it.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/cuba-offline-in...
Evernote Taps Former Google Glass Executive Chris O’Neill as New CEO
Josh was an incredible man. He was an inspiration, and everybody that knew him admired him. Always friendly and helpful to everyone. He supported me professionally both while I was at Grooveshark and after I left, and I owe so much to him. This is very sad to hear.
To say that Josh had a positive effect on those around him is a severe understatement. I only conversed with him a few times over the last two years, but am left with a heavy heart this morning after seeing the pain of the Gainesville community.

My heart goes out to his girlfriend and all of those with tears running down their cheeks since last night. Rest in peace, and thanks for all you have done.
> Chinese similarly lacks a 'to be' copula

What? No it doesn't. 是 is the Chinese copula.

It isn't permitted in a lot of contexts where it would be used in English, but it's still the copula. Here are the examples of copula use that wikipedia gives which require 是 in Chinese:

Mary and John are my friends.
The Morning Star is the Evening Star.
She was a nurse.
Dogs are carnivorous mammals.
I am your boss.

I'd be very surprised to see a Chinese person come out with 水好 for "water is good".
I see no problem with having a police union who considers it their job to aggressively advocate for their membership. That's what unions are for, and frankly most types of workers would be better off with an organization on their side who would advocate tirelessly for them.

I also think accused criminals should have an organization that advocates for them. We can call them public defenders. And so on.

The problem isn't that there is a police union, or even that it's an effective or powerful one, it's that the union should not be in the business of overseeing misconduct investigations, except in a clearly understood adversarial role as an advocate for the accused.

You can throw out insults to liberals and insert your preconceived bias against public sector unions all you want if it serves your political agenda, but at the end of the day nobody rational is arguing in favor of this system, liberals especially so.
I'm on mobile, so I can't send you a screenshot, but it should be un the list where you add tags, skip the inbox and so on, acter creating à filtre.
"toxicology results would be done in two or three months"

This seems like a long time, is it normal?
Thanks. The last question is: does YC have restrictions about the types of companies that can apply?

Our company makes open source sex toys, and we've got an ever-growing list of places that just won't work with businesses related to adult products (stripe, square, mailchimp, kickstarter, ...). Fingers crossed that YC doesn't care.
To cheat, to break your word given to a life partner, is not just distasteful. It is wrong. It makes the world a darker place, and not only to you and your partner (and that is what wrong means)

I know this kind of statement is viewed with distrust. And I see why this is so. But I think some moral discussion might be good (rather than just the bland 'lets not judge')

First, I am not saying that I think all marriages need to be monogamical or 'till death'. Both ideas are probably bad on average (i.e.: make the world a darker place as well, cause needless suffering). I, for one, think that promissing monogamy is a bad idea.

But to break the promice of monogamy is, indeed, bad. First, it is inherently unfair: One partner (Pa) might be resisting temptations, to the benefit of the other (Pb). Pb gets benefits from increased marriage security, increase sexual availability from Pa, increased emotional availability... But does not offer the same.

I mean, it would be clear that withdrawing all the money from a joint savings account is bad, right? That is the same thing... One side is doing a lot of effort to keep a mutual benefit working...

To cheat is a form of exploitation.
In my experience (happy customer for 3+ years) their support is absolutely exceptional. Some people value things like that over penny pinching on business critical infrastructure.
Ah, that's a good point. I suppose the limited vocabulary swells the number of compounds, making for more opportunities for confusion in parsing them.

Thanks!
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When is it supposed to be getting released?
You are being generous. Too generous. These are very, very high-spin bullet points and contrary analysis is easy. Let's try a few examples!

(Disclaimer. These opinions are for sample use and being contrarian only. Seriously advancing these opinions is a legitimate thing, but the purpose of this post is not to advance them. They will not be defended if you reply.)

Reduce dependence on foreign oil and gas? He's been against all sorts of oil projects and fracking from the moment he took office (although if you want to be pedantic Keystone is technically foreign oil). The mess around Gaddafi and Syria, and the troop withdrawals in Iraq, helped gave rise to ISIS/ISIL to begin with, and they're far from contained yet. NATO vs Russia has looked less like "shoring up" NATO and slowly weakening Putin than just letting Putin having his way with Ukraine (or "the Ukraine", if you're Putin). "Re-balance relation with Israel" could equally be construed as propping up Hamas and giving his blessing for Iran to build nuclear weapons. Re-establishing relations with Cuba is re-establishing relations with a totalitarian state and a bad idea! The environment deal will accomplish nothing in the end.

(end sample opinions)

I think there's a few too many caveats here, and that at best a few decades out we'll be looking at the Obama foreign-policy record as decidedly mixed.
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A fair amount of work has already been done with algorithmic communication systems, as its a small step from a mathematical language to a general purpose programming language. Paul Fitzpatrick, then with the MIT AI lab, developed the most complete framework around the idea, CosmicOS.
Try this: https://github.com/qrtz/fuzzySearch
Someone signed up for an account and mistakenly used my first initial + last name @ gmail address. Support refused to purge my address from their system unless I paid them, something I refused to do.

I guess one of my email addresses is in this dump.
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The CEO of Evernote is stepping down because he wasn't 'passionate about it'
x2 on the intellisense.

When I moved my team's JS code to typescript, I found myself way way faster with the improved intellisense.

I wrote most of the code originally and understood it well, but even for an experienced developer, solid intellisense saves you from having to look up so many things.
Thanks for making the case for the opposition :)
Comparing Google's Eddystone Beacon to Apple iBeacon
No, there's not a connection. Just two, separate, tragic deaths.

And currently, what is in the Sun article is all we know.
San Francisco's gritty Tenderloin pushes back against tech-led gentrification
The more I hear about the corporate politics at Reddit, the more I realize it's an impossible ship to steer. I don't think Ellen Pao realized the level of communication and transparency that online communities like Reddit demand (or that anyone with "power" over such communities will have complete transparency forced upon them); but at the same time I don't think she was the driving force behind many of the changes carried out under her watch. She just wasn't there long enough. But the job is kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. It's impossible to satisfy the users screaming "free speech at all costs!" when the board is demanding you get rid of the trolls whose main reason for trolling is usually some variation of "because we have free speech".

And she didn't leave to pursue other interests; she was forced out for reasons not made public. She certainly was unpopular on Reddit, though it's hard to know how much of the Reddit zeitgeist/groupthink/circlejerk is manufactured by small groups of influential users. I think the board decided she had to go simply because they didn't want their user base leaving en masse, and getting rid of Ellen was the only thing that would satisfy the user base (or at least the "power user" base). From what I've read, the board is anxious to monetize the platform in some way, and it's hard to monetize a platform where trolling and harassment are as commonplace as they are on Reddit.

And to some extent, I'd say that Reddit itself actively resists commercialization. One of the greatest benefits of Reddit as a user is that the algorithm is relatively simple to understand: users upvote and downvote, and while it's easy to see how to game that system, it also allows for the possibility that content will rise to the surface organically (even if a lot of the content is manufactured and upvoted via click farms). You don't get that if you're restricting the content, and I think trying to commercialize it would destroy the feeling of chaos that makes it so successful.
well, depends. 2 months ago, the pages wouldn’t have loaded, the videos (if you download them through a third-party tool) would have.

Now, the videos wouldn’t load either.
A far easier way to destroy your opponents in online poker is collusion, and it's happening all day, every day.
Style of marriage, religion, drugs and cheating all do affect other people's life, even harm, to varying degrees and definitions. There is no freedom that doesn't affect anyone else's life.
How important is it for this Fellowship to have a flushed out Business Model?
Last time I tried flow (maybe 6 months ago?), it didn't work very well for me. I can't remember the details unfortunately.

Typescript covers pretty much all the ES6 features that I use while flow is still missing let/const apparently. I only miss async/await and that should be in TS 1.6 so it's not a big deal for me and I believe you should be able to do a TS -> Babel -> ES5 workflow if you wanted by having ES6 as target for TS.
For JSX, I prefer using React.DOM anyway but support will be in 1.6 and is already in master.

TS main selling point is DefinitelyTyped which means typing for pretty much all the third party code and the fact that it's been out for a couple of years now.
A tool to convert .d.ts to flow definition has been on flow short-term todo list since november and without it, flow is not viable for me.

TS definitely shines when starting new projects though, it can be a bit annoying on a legacy codebase.

(I use Pycharm, not VS and it integrates well in it, minus lagging a bit behind versions)
It is my understanding too, and in my opinion a very important fact (if it is correct), that the cause of the accident had been known to the engineers who had to subtly and perhaps surreptitiously make it known to whoever had a political influence as well as understanding of the matter (Feynman in this case).
Couldn't the embassy provide a large public WiFi hotspot to the nearby Cuban residents?
Well, the only content I can buy on Amazon, iTunes or the Play Store is dubbed and in 720p quality.

That’s shit.

If I want to get 1080p quality, undubbed, I have to either pirate, or order a DVD from Amazon.co.uk, which leads to obscene delivery costs. (Amazon.com doesn’t even deliver overseas).
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It isn't really a small flaw when your article about mobile faux pas doesn't work on mobile for many.

It's just people making a comment about that fact and other people agreeing or responding with an opinion. That discussion isn't stopping anyone from discussing anything else.
The article pretty much rules this out, no idea where you got the foul play angle from:

> "Lori Greenberg, his mother, said Monday he had no health problems and she was told by police who investigated Sunday night that there was no evidence of foul play, injuries or drugs."
Up Goer Five: https://xkcd.com/1133/
Yes. I had a relative die of morphine OD (needles! were still there next to him). It took months for confirmation from the medical examiner.
I used to feel safe with types as well, until I realized every bug found in production did pass the type checker and the full test suite.

To me, explicitly managing state and keeping parts of the system decoupled and simple to understand is now what I require in order to sleep peacefully at night.

A type system can help with this, but not that much.