skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the scientists randomly assigned half of the volunteers to walk for 90 minutes through a leafy, quiet, parklike portion of the Stanford campus or next to a loud, hectic, multi-lane highway in Palo Alto.

So waking through a particularly beautiful part of Stanford campus leads to better mental health than waking along a noisy highway. No shit.
How to Make Free DVD Copy with DVDFab
Hey, that works! Tho not too many OS/X multi-user systems, makes installing software via wget | sh more exciting.
Trust, above all else – Founders to leave shit alone and not micromanage employees
I'm starting to think that consciousness emerges out of a neural net that has the appropriate training tests, scoring functions and has the right sensors to take in feedback.

For an easy example look at human babies - they're not conscious (maybe self-aware is a better word?), but we can see this development happen over time. Maybe sleeping has some role in recalculating the weights for the neural net? Eventually something like a feeling of self emerges as the evolved mechanism for working with social feedback. Maybe this is the general way intelligence works.

It does seem to make sense when looking at how it develops in animals.
Airbnb Screwed Over the Only Investor Who Believed in Them Back in 2008
The actual development is a minor part of a product's success. A good consulting firm has the experience to craft your idea into a product that highlights its most compelling features and minimize its usage friction. A experienced firm can also reduce time to market by eliminating features that are not necessary or finding alternative ways to develop them.
Linux 2.1.21
GTalkSMS is far better; it lets you set this up with a trusted XMPP service and has far more functionality. It also is free (no in-app purchase bait-and-switch nonsense):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode...

Edit: It also looks like the account that posted this has done nothing on HN but post links for his company.
Well, luckily for humanity this is exactly what I've been coding full time since December of 2014, dedicating my life to. I have been designing it for many years.

My vision is complete and planned, all the way until The World Brain! See: https://sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html

The first layer, MORPHiS, is a global secure encrypted distributed datastore that deprecates bittorrent, email and the web so far and is slated for release at the end of this Month!

See http://reddit.com/r/morphis for details.

Sorry for reddit; it is because I keep getting shadow banned here for being pro Snowden, Etc. Do not worry, MORPHiS is designed to deprecate hacker news! Anyways, the website is morph.is but doesn't launch until the 31st of this month. Read the only article in the /r/morphs subreddit for lots of details on MORPHiS!

Peace all!
> "I don't know that location, can you give me directions"

On the other hand, sometimes I've been pleasantly surprised at how knowledgeable some cabbies are. I've gotten in a cab at LGA, told them my home address in Brooklyn, and they went there with no directions. I never tip less than 20%, but this efficiency earns a much larger than usual tip.
This is a great time to shop on jet.com. They are absorbing all of the costs!! If you really want to buy something cheaply you should do it now, before it goes under.

This is a great example of trying to get too big too fast without even testing the business model.
Ask HN: How does DMail change the text of an email?
Dmail launched today and seems intriguing. Using the Chrome extension, you can send emails that can later be "deleted" without the recipient needing special downloads to read. I've seen similar products before, but those rely on turning text into images.

Per the founder, on Product Hunt: "In all seriousness, we do not use images, only text. I can't give away exactly how we do it, but I will say we use a series of authentications and encryption, and that neither Dmail nor Gmail ever gets a full copy of the content of the email. Don't you love riddles?"

So how does it work?
The deck has available online for a few years now. You can find it with a quick Google search.
I have had a case of an Uber driver not really wanting to drive me to Marina del Ray from downtown LA. He gave me a low review (this was back when there was the bug that let you see your rating).

The biggest problem I have with Uber is that some of the drivers are so pleasant and professional that I hate not being able to give them an extra tip. Maybe I should figure out how to do that.
Awesome pattern matching. Although, it seems like not all functions are intuitively reversible like the vector example given here.

It seems like perhaps a more pragmatic example of this syntax is the "with" syntax in python, which provides the same benefit with more flexibility.
Clever (YC S12) is hiring a product analytics manager/data scientist
Yes I know what pools are. I was referring to the cutting prices in half to drive out competitors.
Definitely. Unfortunately each language/IDE takes a pretty long time to support. I'm fairly sure we can (theoretically) grow to support most popular languages outside of C/C++.

We take suggestions at: http://github.com/CodeConnect/AliveFeedback
> you would have seen many other players enter the market already by now.

Would we?

https://www.lyft.com/

http://www.sidecarsf.com/about

http://www.taxiapp.co.uk/

https://haxi.me/

http://www.summon.com/
I would compare this less to with, and more to Lisp setf, or possibly a lens. Basically, the idea that when you're writing the function, you also write the dual of the function, so that meta-functions (like with) can automatically map the function to its dual (like mapping a getter to the equivalent setter, etc.)
So is this real in any physical sense or purely a consequence of set theory?
Some of them have 2 drivers. They have to split the money.
And granted, this was one of the longer trips. The trip to Germany would be shorter so more doable for one person.

But yeah corruption is probably the biggest problem those countries face. It is entrenched top to bottom -- lowest traffic cop to highest government offices. And notice, how it is not that the driver necessarily has to be unsafe or break the rules, once the cop expects to be paid, he will go out of his way to make their lives extra miserable to teach them a lesson.
> "Just go to Gigster’s site, instant message with a sales engineer, tell them what you want built, and in 10 minutes you get a guaranteed quote "

My BS detector is off the charts. This has clearly worked well for lot of startups that went bust because the sales sold something that didn't exist and couldn't be delivered. First you are talking with the wrong person if they are not intimately involved with your vision. They will gladly sell you the moon and earth if it means a commission check.

I build MVPs but it takes a good week or two just to wrap head around their vision and develop a plan to turn it into reality. 10 minutes isn't enough time and guaranteeing the cost means cutting corners, A LOT of them. You can't do this in 10 minutes if you are looking for quality. In fact I'd argue that without taking the time to chat and do some careful mine sweeping to look for potential pitfalls or scope creeps, you are most likely talking to a snake oils salesman, and this excerpt from that article shows this.

If they did poach the top talent in SV, why in the hell are these people working for a fixed cost? Guaranteed quote means guaranteed overtime, there's no way someone talented would put up with unpaid overtime, or is there a major "disruption" going on here.
I remember choosing between Xia and Ext2 when I first installed Linux. Both had just came out that year if memory serves. Friend tried to push me to use Xia, but I went the other way. Had more headaches initially, but time shows which one won out in the end.
Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. Hackathon Hackers AMA (responses)
Yup. The iTunes ecosystem is a nightmare. The app is incredibly slow, crashes, and refuses to do basic things like find a file constantly. I have to copy files from NAS locally to transfer them to an iPod yet I can play them directly off the NAS. iTunes is such garbage, why do people expect any better from Apple Music?
+1 (tho i was never an undergrad, or a math major)
people should ignore tptacek as he regularly shills for government corruption and power.
Reading the comments, I'm guessing I was the only fan of SGI who saw supercomputers used XFS (or variants), figured it would handle my lowly workloads, put it on my machines, worked around its few weaknesses, and just never thought of filesystem choice again aside from boot partition.

Still my favorite filesystem for what was my favorite supercomputing & NUMA company.
Your comment was enough to cause me to Google it. I'm glad I did (that isn't to say happy about the circumstance), this kind of drama doesn't come around these parts often...

The first line of his Wikipedia entry is a tell-all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
Momentum and brand, and a band of loyal enthusiasts to carry the flag through the dark years.

There was also an insistence on quality for a long time, and to be something else other than a business computer.

It's really a miracle they survived. It was very close. I can remember a time when we would laugh at people for persisting with an Apple. In those days there was hardly any software available, and career-wise, it looked like the deadest of dead ends.

The first time I remember this changing was circa 2003 when a friend confided he'd bought an Apple and was attempting to re-learn how to use it. It sounded odd at the time (he previously had been a linux installer) and I distinctly remember it because it was the earliest indicator of a change in the wind.
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I'm not sure if he's paid, if his interests align (he's in the security contracting circle), or if he's genuinely naive in his cheerleading.

I think most of the stuff he has to say is legitimate. It's just he very often is fallacious and uncharitable as well - and that's when you hope others can see through the BS.

Luckily HN is a pretty smart crowd.
David Sacks (Yammer) Stewart Butterfield (Slack): Unicorns or Bust
Depending on countries driving above a certain number of passengers means you have to have a special license. That is why he is probably carrying only so many people. If he could get by he would probably stuff some people in the trunk too.

I saw this in another one of those countries, basically after the public transportation collapsed, individual drivers would use vans and basically suppliment existing routes. Before regulations those could be very unsafe, and superoptimized for maximum number of people (very few chairs -- more standing room, chairs squeezed togethers, and so on).
Is there an advantage of using fallocate over say, dd to pipe random or zeroes to a file?
You're absolutely right. We'll get around to it soon. :)

(As a rationale for why we haven't done it yet, about 95% of our visitors are on desktop. But we definitely need a good mobile version for the marketing side of the site.)
RocksDB has been ported to Windows
You should visit Africa and see humans living in villages in the "most natural, basic state" and I seriously doubt anyone would want to live like that. Doubly so for women, for of course it doesn't come with choice of partner (rape is "default", in the sense of not choosing who you have sex with, violence is not usually involved), nor does it come with hygene supplies. It also comes with violence, in fact, if you're male, you're either going to die from some (easily curable) disease or violently (usually both: you're going to die from disease, specifically gangreen, after a superficial bit of violence. Like a rat bite during a hunt, or simply by getting a cut from a tree). If you're female, you're going to die giving birth to your 7th kid. I think I'd actually prefer the latter. Of your life, you'll spend a third of it with food poisoning (usually due to the water, not so much the food).

As for the loving, it's mostly the physical kind of loving (on the plus side: the women -and men- are physically a lot more attractive than the average westerner, and obviously nobody except one village leader and his "wife" are fat, usually not even them). There is no love in parent-child relations. They're very, very different : kids aren't brought up by their parents, rather they're brought up by their seniors. The 12 year olds take care of the 8 year olds, the 8 year olds of the 6 year olds, and so on. On the plus side: this works pretty well. On the downside: your sleeping accomodations are likely to suck badly until you're at least 8 years old and capable of building a hut.

Somehow this form of living, which is the only true "most natural, basic state" of the human species. Judging from talking to a few of these people, it seems to me it's a total lack of mental state and thought that leads to this form of living.
This is not the creation of a Twitter fraternity. It's a frat-themed party. It's about beer pong and drinking games with cards, not exclusionary gender politics. The only people complaining about this are the professionally outraged classes of the twitterati.
Pitch decks have a pretty short life time, after 3-4 years of active business development, they don't have that much relevance, and after 7 years they are historical curios more than anything else. And, as others have noted, this particular pitch deck is in the public view already.
To someone from another planet it might - our sleep cycle has somewhat evolved around a day/night cycle, and animals hibernate based on changes in weather.
Sounds like snake-oil.

Note this quote from Cory Doctorow:

"For DRM to work, you have to send a scrambled message (say, a movie) to your customer, then give your customer a program to unscramble it. Anyone who wants to can become your customer simply by downloading your player or buying your device – "anyone" in this case includes the most skilled technical people in the world. From there, your adversary's job is to figure out where in the player you've hidden the key that is used to unscramble the message (the movie, the ebook, song, etc). Once she does that, she can make her own player that unscrambles your files." http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/feb/05/digit...
They tout that their developers actually work for these companies on the side, which for me is (yet another) huge red flag for the whole thing in that if you're already making Google-money (which, even in SV, is "more than enough" if you're a talented developer) the $10,000-per-project side gigs you're working on are really easy to drop if even a bit of boredom creeps in, which it will since these are bound to be relatively cookie-cutter apps at those prices.

The whole thing really doesn't make a lot of sense and is the first "YC" company that made me question if YC is maybe scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point in terms of what to fund.
The concept of transactions, whether it be database transactions or software transactional memory, are kind of like this. At some point if something goes wrong you need to know how to un-do all of what you've done-so-far.
Completely agree with you that SELinux is a better general solution, applies to a broader community of software, and that users, and certainly sysadmins, should take the time to understand how it works, generate policies for the software they use, and take advantages of the security that it provides.
Stock images: I wondered how this was working for people. You're the first to bring it up, but I didn't feel super comfortable with them either. Thanks for mentioning it. They were a shot in the dark, but I'll work on replacements now.

Damascus: I think that your assumption about this is largely fair. There has been a plague of bad mass-produced damascus knives, or damascus-printed knives, available everywhere recently. This is unfortunate because there are still many extremely high performing knives utilizing damascus steel.

Damascus and suminagashi are techniques built on antiquated necessity but remain as a way for makers to flex their skill. It is extremely labor intensive and requires a significant skill set. My interest in the damascus of Shigehiro knives is the beautiful pattern that is specific to Ikeda-san. It shows incredible skill and through aesthetic can heighten the users interaction with the knife. I assure you that despite many damascus knives putting form and price over function, they will never be in my shop.

Table: Thanks! You're saying they're good as is, right?

Bevels: Great point. I haven't yet listed any single-bevels so it hadn't crossed my mind. They will primarily be categorically separate, but would a line inclusion on the tables suffice?

Guarantee: You're right. I wasn't explicit here, partially to clip abuse. I realize that it might seem slightly self-protective, but I do want to instill confidence that I do guarantee full satisfaction from what we offer. I'm concerned about being too explicit because I don't want to offer a time cutoff nor can I say that if you decide you don't quite like a knife in five years that I'm liable for it. There are many potential scenarios, in most of which I'd pay the shipping, but how many do I list? If you've got suggestions for what would make you feel more comfortable, I'd love to hear them.

Single-bevels: They totally will. Both sides are important

Board: thanks! I'll add that now.

Petty: I'm not sure what you mean by this?

Thanks!
Snapchat's Competitive Advantage
I'm disappointed in YC for funding this; I think it's destructive to the hacker economy/ecosystem. Excerpting a comment from a thread last year re: Marc Andressen's complaints about startup burn rates that applies:

---------

I find it very hard not to get angry at these posts...

...One of the biggest problems facing my company right now is dealing with all of the venture-funded idiots coming after my customers, market and employees without so much as a hint of a viable business model. They outspend us on marketing 1000-to-1 and they offer to serve our clients essentially for free, apparently just to be able to win a logo for the "traction" slide in their deck in the hope that they will have enough proof points to get them their next hit of venture money.

I know that nearly all of them are going to vaporize eventually, but in the meantime they completely poison the well for all of us who are trying to do what Andressen, Wilson and the rest pretend they want startups to be doing - creating sustainable businesses in sustainable markets.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8369734
> Maybe I should figure out how to do that.

Why wouldn't cash work?
Winning all the legal battles might not be their best case. They are getting good at fighting legal battles, and a permanent state of lawfare might be to their advantage (because they are better at fighting it than competitors).
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Oh, for sure! That kind of display is wildly effective but unfortunately misleading. Part of the problem is that a great knife will cut a carrot, a garbage knife will cut a carrot, a house key will cut a carrot. Displaying their abilities isn't easily captured in media. I'll work on it.
How Apple Influenced The Labels To Shut Down My Music Streaming Startup
Video Player Controls Now in HTML5
I thought the light was tied to the meter in order to prevent stuff like that?
This headline "Telemetry Data on All Satellites Orbiting Earth" is a little misleading -- they are orbital elements. I looked for actual metric of satellites that is remotely obtained (thus, "telemetry") like voltage, etc.
Yeah. The hours. It's life-absorbing.

Good for you! Thanks for the luck.
I think the issue here is that the article is talking about two things: a common resource management idiom, and the cool fact that `under(f, g) = f^1 * g * f` implements it.

`with` implements this idiom just fine, too, but `under` is a more general solution that can solve even more problems, if you're willing to be a bit more careful about `f` and `g`.

In the Read/Open case, for example, it looks like Read must return both the read result and the file handle, and Open^-1 must take the read result as input and forward it back out as output. Feasible, but unintuitive for the implementers.

If we were actually implementing this resource management idiom, I'm not sure we would use `under`, even though we could. If we want to write `f`, `f^-1`, and `g` with the more natural `with` semantics, it's clearer to define our own metafunction from scratch: `with(f, g)(x) = (g(f_result), f^-1(f_result)) where f_result = f(x)`.

edit: The follow-up post actually touches on how Read/Open really isn't a great example of `under`. Interesting. http://prog21.dadgum.com/122.html
> It is rare to see, of not impossible, a real monopoly in a free market.

Most long running monopolies in free(-ish) markets seem to be related to owning (the right kind of) land.
isnt the link about Hacking Team using a UEFI exploit, an argument FOR having an opensource boot system that can be fixed/patched by the community.
I mean Intel is one of the biggest contributors to Linux - it cannot be blind to adopting an opensource alternative to insecure BIOS.
Looks about right to me. And in Ruby, the same general pattern is implemented with blocks:

File.open("foo.txt", 'w') {|f| f.write("bar")}
Both riders and drivers can use multiple apps without too much hassle.
They don't cut prices. Since there are 2 or 3 parties they split the fare. Huge liquidity advantage.
> Somebody hasn't read Mythical Man-Month.

Or managed a software development project of any significance.
I subscribed to this from the early days, but in the end I cancelled my account. I just didn't get enough value out of it to justify paying a monthly fee. But I probably didn't truly understand what this service is for. Can you please explain it to me ELI5?
There are already these kind of switches - for example the Chromebook's Coreboot flashing procedure details [1] how to set the jumpers to enable coreboot flashing

[1] http://www.coreboot.org/Chromebooks#Firmware_Chips
@jarcane Well said! +1

I'm surprised that I too have been using a santoku as a daily driver. They're great when they're done well.
If you have something now and you want to immediately get rid of it, the best place to go is somewhere like ZDI. Eventually you'll make contacts with legitimate companies though. I've met contacts through conferences or people I know. Most people I know, wont buy from just anyone - since its risky for them also.

Source: I did this for many years. Works out to be an awesome bonus on your current day job!
> Unfortunately, this world cannot have win-wins, [...]

Why not?
It's based on Pentium 4 core which was extremely overclock-able, plus it's a single core, which makes it easier to get to that stable enough for a screenshot state.
these are the only two I could find :

https://github.com/bibanon/Coreboot-ThinkPads/wiki/ThinkPad-...
http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x201

alternatively, do post in /r/thinkpad
(2012)

Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3422654

Don't forget to read the followup:
http://prog21.dadgum.com/122.html

(and yet, people are still misunderstanding it.)
Couldn't that be easily circumvented by making the actual app a glorified browser that always stays the same?
There is an established canonical version today because Uthman set about the task of destroying all texts except the one he preferred. It's obvious why Muslims would wish a standardized text, but from a secular perspective, this was no miracle, but a tragic loss of historical sources and artifacts.
It's very interesting hearing a story from the VC's side. One always reads about the trials and tribulations of startups trying to raise capital, but I've never considered that there might be similar issues and competition on the investors' side.
Its straight up illegal.

What OP doesn't mention is that there are legitimate brokers. You dont have to use those shitty hackerone services.