skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll put this stuff online and put more descriptive text. Thanks for the feedback. Conversions are really good, btw, so something's working.

Regarding your specific questions:

1) "Is it online only?" You can currently edit offline and when you go back online it'll sync your changes. Don't close your browser window, though, cause it'll lose the changes. That'll be fixed soon thanks to html 5 caching.

2 & 3) "Is it free?" & "Forever?" It's going to be like Dropbox, freemium with a quota. In other words, free forever up to a certain number of lists allowed. We'll grandfather in early users.
Did their 23-year old mechanical scanner just scan the photo faster than any scanner I have ever used? I think it did.

We have come so far.

(Yes, I know, I know. It's just funny)
Woah. I get a very 37signals-esque feel from this. You know, the feeling when you've found something really awesome that could really help out your daily organization? I used to use backpack from 37signals, but ended up favoring my Moleskine.

I signed-up for WorkFlowy and created 5 lists and I think I could use this on a daily basis. Simple and to the point. Help me remember the random things that go through my head while keeping me on track to get things done.

That being said, there are a few things I'd love to see:

(a) Search
(b) Linking between items. I keep daily lists that may have sub-tasks of items that are in a larger project list. I'd like to be able to link the things in my daily list back to the project. Even if this is a full URL, I just don't want to be clicking around to find it.
(c) Mobile/iPad support (haven't tested to see if this already works or not)

Great job guys.
It's advertised as a 24-hour line.
Exactly the same story here. Our primary product is stuck on Kohana 2.3.4 because of the lack of care that the Kohana team put into backwards compatibility. I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to essentially rewrite things again in the future either. If I could go back in time, I'd pick something else.
Apple introduces MIDI to iOS 4.2, iPads the world o'er get ready to rave
You DO realise that people can look at your previous comments and see what startup you work at/for? No such thing as secrets on the interwebs :)
Couldn't you have emailed it to yourself or copied it to a USB drive when you originally wrote it?
Think outside the box: invest $5K in 7 startups. How you pick the 7 is of course the tricky part, but much less work than actually being the one coding, designing and selling stuff.
Github has always been a great place to find engineers to work for your project. I'm not sure about finding co-founders.

One of the benefits of meeting co-founders in the community/startup events/etc is that they are already putting themselves out there as entrepreneurial and co-founder material. They've already jumped through many hoops in their mind and (hopefully) have their domestic and personal situation suited to it.

I would hate to have this happen: I discover an amazing developer who is working on an open source project in my problem space, but has a full time job. I convince him to work on the startup with me and he quits his job. It later turns out he's not really cut out for startup life and he hadn't really considered it before until I tempted him with an offer. He went blindly into it and now it's all f'd up.

Now we have to part ways and his old job has already replaced him so he's screwed.
Thanks, thats really useful feedback. Nice to know the main thing that persuaded you. I wonder if we could capture that in images/text somehow too, for the people who keep saying they don't want to watch a video.
My father was a high-functioning alcoholic when I was growing up. I didn't even find out about it until I was 20 or so. He just used booze, like you do, to take the edge off after a stressful day at work. He wasn't loud or belligerent or even noticeably drunk or anything like that.

Nonetheless, it had an impact on him, and his family and relationships, and it impacted me in ways that still have consequences to this day. He has difficulty forming relationships, and he has difficulties communicating even in the relationships that he has. He is not in touch with his feelings, which sounds like hippy-dippy bullshit, but it's a serious problem because those emotions are still there, unaddressed, and they affected his emotional health and his ability to be happy. And, as a result of growing up in a household that doesn't communicate well, and having a male role model who buries his emtions, I have difficulties communicating and forming relationships, and I tend not to deal with my emotions in a healthy manner. I've participated in recovery groups for adult children of alcoholics, and this is apparently what that program is designed to deal with, because that's what we all have--issues with personal communication, buried emotions.

My father lost his marriage, and I had a depressive breakdown in college. We also don't talk more than once every few months. He's dealt with his alcoholism by now, and he's sober and in recovery programs, and he's making progress in all those habits and patterns that normal healthy people have that he didn't. But that doesn't bring his marriage back, and that doesn't bring his relationship with his son (me) back.

So, my point is, just because you don't hurt people or say stupid shit and light your pants on fire when you're drunk, don't think that there aren't consequences. The stereotype of the drunk husband/father is the one who comes home and shoutsat /beats his wife and/or kids. However, you can be the polar opposite of that, and still have your relationship destroyed by your alcoholism. When you deal with your stress with beer, instead of using the support of your loving family, you're making emotional isolation a part of your family life. You're mentally checking-out (that's the point, right?), during the part of the day when you're supposed to be together, developing & strengthening your relationships. Don't think you can compensate for this by being overly affectionate. It doesn't work like that. Love isn't about displays. It's about personal interactions, living together and helping each other.

Speaking for myself, I've made progress in conquering my baggage because I have a wonderful supportive girlfriend who makes me be communicative and emotive. So, my advice which I'm pulling out of my ass as a random dude on the internet: take away the need to drink, and simultaneously work on rolling back the problems it may have caused, by talking to your wife about when you're stressed about work/life/etc instead of opening up a beer. It will take a long time and a lot of work on your part to make it work. Stay with it.
I'd pay off the mortgage, take a short holiday somewhere nice then consult a wealth advisor to help with creating a more diverse investment portfolio.
MySQL Classic Edition is a non-GPL binary licensed only for use as an embedded database in other software. It is not the MySQL powering websites around the world, and not the one you get off your Linux distribution's package manager.

See discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1868106
Am I just stupid, or am I not the only one who finds graphs like the first one useless and impossible to read?
At least he gets to exercise carrying this box around.
I think he means sucrose (table sugar), not starch (glucose) or lactose. Sucrose, more specifically fructose (half of sucrose), has been targeted as the bad guy. See Robert Lustig's talk, among others. Obviously cutting out ALL sugars would be a bad call.
How good is Sprint 4G in NYC?
Yes. That is basically the case.
We had embeddable media implemented but took it out because the UI wasn't right yet. We need to figure that out, but I think it is definitely important enough to work on.
Agreed about overcomplicating it. I'd rather link to the media elsewhere to keep my information less cluttered and not worry about the formatting.
Our solution is to change the text involved to say "Purchase" instead of merely "save" or "update". Thoughts?
Thinking about switching from Verizon MiFi to Sprint to get some of that Wimax speed. But is it as good as advertised? The Sprint website isn't of much help. Is anyone actually using it? How fast is it? Reliable?
You aren't alone.
Good one. It's definitely less work, but you also have less say in the possible success rate, right?
The other tricky part is that any startup with more than a few brain cells won't take investment from someone who isn't an accredited investor. If the original poster isn't a millionaire (outside of real estate), then it becomes pretty awkward to invest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor
Red wine is definitely the way to go, especially if you can find a brew-your-own wine shop (very common in Ontario) that makes a type you like. The reason you should do the brew your own route is that you don't add in any preservatives that many of the main wine manufacturing companies do and it is also about 1/3 to 1/4 the price.

As for drinking too much, sure man I drink more than one serving about 3-4 times a week, some weeks it is 0 some weeks it is 7, especially when I'm in a town where I have lots of old friends or family. It does take effort to make sure to do so responsibly and to take breaks. For example, I do 40 days once a year with absolutely 0 intake, even down to ordering a nonalcoholic becks at a after work meeting. I go up to the bartender and tell him discretely that when I order a becks to make sure it is in a glass, but to simply give me a non-alcoholic one. I've never been to a bar that didn't have some, so it must be pretty common. The reason I take a long break is to stop the slow evolution from 4 days a week to 4.2 to 4.4, etc. The reason that I'm careful is that my genius grandparent (8 languages, 4 engineering degrees + a masters, 3rd most powerful position in a medium world power, 10 instruments, etc) had to totally quit after he developed a problem and...

I like drinking, so I'm willing to be responsible about it and make sure to try to do red wine as often as possible and appropriate. I think that there are a lot of people like the OP reading this that are in the exact same position. They drink slightly more than what has been blessed as kosher by society and are afraid to come out and admit it because they don't want to be lumped in with actual holy-fuck-I-have-a-problem drunks. I don't get drunk when I drink 2 or 3 glasses of wine, I drink responsibly, and I don't do any drugs what-so-ever. Adulthood is good.

Oh and one last thing. Going to a bar with the workmates for the big game? Tell the bar tender this: "Every time I order a beer bring me a glass of water too, if you do this the whole night I'll tip you 20%." That trick will save your ass from doing anything embarrassing.
I am with you, though mine is from 9AM-12:30PM. Once I come back from lunch, all bets are off. That is the time people start coming in with tickets, etc.
That sounds... messy.
hehe - just "a bit annoyed" but wasting hard drive space with this long and slightly insulting rant!? you either have lots of time on your hands or are really flustered. I agree, the discussion has lost all meaning at this point. going back to my startup now :)
I figured this out eventually. However, when I first switched to git (and before I had tools to show my branch in my prompt), I managed more than once to make 3-4 commits on a detached head, and finding out how to fix that between the documentation and/or Google was essentially impossible. Once I simply gave up and re-did the work. The other time I figured out how to fix it, at the cost of about 3 hours of research and (eventually) questions on the IRC channel.

It's a powerful tool, and the docs are fine if you are an expert who already knows what you're looking for. I'll submit that it can be incredibly hard for a noob to learn to use correctly.
What does having some sort of puzzle actually do for Reddit? I get that its supposed to help filter out people who may not be that interesting in the job, but the questions they asked seemed more like trivia than anything else.
You're most likely right and it's a useless question. I was struggling with that question today though, that's why I posted it here, the HN community often does come up with good answers to useless questions.

Edit: saw you added some advice to your original comment. Actually good advice :)
Yea so that option is out.
I understand this is HN and all, but has anyone even bothered to take a peak at the EXTRAORDINARY content that was behind the spike?

In a nutshell, it is a transcript of a British parliamentary session in which the speaker claims a shadowy yet totally legitimate organization--"Foundation X"--is willing to donate billions to the British government no strings attached. It is extremely engrossing.
The claims are not just on the sequences, but can be on uses of the sequences, combinations, whatever. This is why genes are be patented in some cases up to 25+ times. Each patent owner claimed something unique that passed the USPTO's tests for patentability.
Does anyone have any real life examples of what this could be used for? I get what it does, just not quite sure where it fits in.

For example, do I push data into S4, does S4 poll for data.
Is this like a distributed task system, where I distribute my tasks evenly across multiple servers seamlessly?
> You can't send a DMCA takedown notice anonymously

Depends on your definition of "anonymous"; I don't imagine most potential recipients would require you to get the form notarized when you sign it (especially if they accept notices by email).

Sure it's be hugely illegal, but /b/ seems to have people who don't particularly care about that...
There aren't many documented cases like you describe.
It's a pleasure to have the opportunity to provide feedback.

Smashing Magazine covers a wide range of topics without necessarily going into depth in any one of them. I'm sure this is a function of wanting to drive traffic from reddit and the like. Understanding and learning takes time which isn't the kind of thing that leads to quick upvotes on the big social media sites. I'm not saying this is right or wrong, merely that this leads to a certain type of article.

Nobody learns to be a rock star developer by merely cutting and pasting code that comes up in a Google search. They work at it through experience, good books, and working with smart people. Design is the same - you can do the equivalent of cutting and pasting some rules, but to become a good designer there's a learning process.

I suggest having content such as a series of articles on one particular aspect of design, leading the reader from fundamentals to more advanced concepts. These articles are unlikely to be quick hits on the social networks, but they create more long-term value that keeps people coming back.

That aside, I think it would benefit Smashing Magazine's brand enormously if you resisted the temptation to run the "N beautiful pictures of Y" articles. No doubt they're quick hits for social media, but they come at the price of diluting the value of Smashing Magazine.
I was half joking in the first place, but I wouldn't put it past them to try to spoof them anyway.
Get more of the right kinds of sleep by monitoring yourself.

A $1 way is the Sleep Cycle app for the iPhone: http://lifehacker.com/5441045/sleep-cycle-analyzes-your-slee...

The best way IMHO is the Zeo: http://myzeo.com

The Zeo can save you time everyday and help you wake up feeling better. Disclosure: I went to school with some of the founders.
> people start screaming for someone in the government
> to DO SOMETHING!!1,

This may have been the case with 9/11, but I didn't see anyone screaming at governments to 'DO SOMETHING!!11' the last couple of times that things happened (underpants bomber, shoe bomber, liquid explosives conspiracy, etc). If anything politicians and officials have been proactive (in the sense of being reactive before their bosses -- the general public -- hound them to be reactive).
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$80,000 a Month in App Sales by Outsourcing Everything
This is effectively solved by the new Facebook groups.
Does your version have "full" fault tolerance or only the "partial" fault tolerance noted on the s4 site.
Yes, and there's a difference between dying and causing yourself to feel shitty for a few days :-P
Google's bottleneck is the internet
It's still at the research stage. It won't be production-ready for a while.
> But generally we all ought to be copying stuff pretty freely.

Which we can't do under the current laws, regardless of whether we ignore people who don't understand those laws. What's the best way to get the laws fixed?
most people also connect the concept of 'saving up' with 'vacation' or 'travel'.
This only works if there's an existing style rule to override. The parent post is talking about overriding styles added inline to elements by JS libraries.

An inline style will always override a rule in a stylesheet… unless the rule uses !important.
Targeting designers? Forget 1024 x 768 & IE
Trivia or not, they're reducing the number of applications they have to wade through. Sifting through half-ass interested resumes is a huge drain on HR--anything that increases the overall quality of a candidate pool is a win.
SF has almost 10x as many opportunities as LA (source: careers.stackvoverflow.com).

Do a 40-mile search on careers.stackoverflow.com for SF and then LA. You'll see that SF has 84 jobs, LA has 9 jobs, and San Diego has 1. That gives you a rough idea of the job market.

I work at a startup in LA, and I enjoy the nightlife. But career-wise, SF area is probably much better; I plan to eventually move on to there.
Not only trivia, but indeterminable trivia. An olympic-sized swimming pool has no maximum depth and therefore no maximum weight if filled with gold. I'd bet they're accepting /apply/* (type anything in and you get a log in screen with "really, it was that easy? only one way to find out")
She should find a lawyer, if it appeared in the print magazine, you're looking at $30,000 times the number of copies of the magazine.
International Open Data Hackathon
I guess it depends how you define 'full' fault tolerance. In the case of a machine failure it would lose a couple of seconds worth of transactions. In a data-processing scenario thats not an issue - just re-run the data that hasn't been processed yet. In an exchange the recovery delay is a bit more painful and there is always the potential to permanently lose transactions. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way around that - we must have consistency and performance so machine failure is always going to cause some interruption to availability
I don't mean to be cynical but honestly to me this space is an analog to self-help books. Todo/notes/productivity apps probably can hook people for a few weeks but beyond that I imagine most people won't put forth the effort to keep up with it.
"We" already have. More than 10 years ago.
Let's do something a little more fun that NoMethodError
Soon you'll be able to get the same battery life drops just by having JavaScript turned on, as more advertisers move to HTML5.
Reminds me of how old cell phones used to look like.
Now if only we could apply moore's law to quantum mechanics, eventually it'll reach the size of a normal wristwatch!
That's what I use it for. It's frustrating that there's no way to turn off / set a boundary for the cascading in CSS.
Your mom kickes ass - if it wasn't for people like her, I would have spent my youth studying Das Kapital.

I can't even imagine what she went through.
Appears to be arranged from http://www.shorpy.com/search/node/aviation+color where, it seems, all the photos from leonardo.it have been posted individually. The original site has historical information on the subjects and locations.
Yep: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1864932
Never heard of anyone using this content type. It's typically the application name with XML as a modifier, "application/xhtml+xml" or "application/atom+xml". "text/xml" is the generic catch-all but is not valid for feeds.
I've been spending too much time on HN and not enough on RSS. Which captures the most interesting high-leve tech stuff, but doesn't keep my in all the loops I want to be in, and I have Google Reader fatigue, so I think I'll give this a serious look.
By your logic, I should also avoid drinking water, as it's possible to die from water intoxication.
As someone who controls the resources for a non-profit I'm often finding ways to stretch money. As such I'd offer this advice...

1. College contests are a gold mine. Rather than pay a designer $1,000 to design your app post up flyers in the design department of your local college and offer a $300 prize for the best design. It's a great way to save money and you can often tap into $5,000 worth of talent from the students.

2. Don't use sites like scriptlance unless you're prepared to spec the project out very specifically. NEVER, EVER use them to do something you can't do yourself. In my experience sites for cheap labor will blow up in your face about 90% of the time so buyer beware (and if you do happen to find a quality person keep in contact with them outside the site)

3. Advertising really doesn't work that well when you're trying to get off the ground. There's just too much out there at this point. It's better to spend your time and effort contacting influential people. In my experience most people won't pay attention to advertising unless they've at least heard the name of the product through other means.

4. I can't say enough good things about Amazon's Web Services. If you have a lot of money there might be better options but for someone starting out with very little EC2 and S3 are great.

As for the programming itself the only advice I can offer is to do as much as you can by yourself. $3,000 a month really isn't all that much in the long term so time is the only resource you have in abundance. Most apps are relatively simple programming tasks that only get complicated when they have to scale. So even with rudimentary skills you should be able to do 80% of the work yourself.

Don't assume you have the skills now but the few hundred you spend on javascript and usability books could save you thousands if you put the effort into it.
Link to original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJj9y4t9UnU&feature=relat...
They say 'minimum depth' and not maximum, and there are rules for a swimming pool to be considered "Olimpic Size". See the wikipedia entry for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool
It says "of minimum depth."
$80k a month in ad revenue by making the following apps for $2k a pop on Elance?

Record Video for Free
911 Police Radio Free!
Battery Box 3-in-1
Find Sex Offenders Free!
Dash of Color FREE
MovieFX for Free
Convert Units for Free
FilterFX HDR Fisheye in 1
Fisheye for Free
FilterFX for Free
Flash for Free
HDR for Free
Convert Units Free HD

I know people are saying the gold rush is over, but that is ridiculous.