skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would reach out to them, though only to get their contact info. Anything that may be personally identifiable would be great. I'd also record the conversation. Then I'd take it all to the FBI. I'd also send it into Yelp, they'll probably remove the offending posts if you've gotten all that.

Extortion is just as illegal on Yelp as anywhere else.

Of course as many mentioned here, don't pay. They'll just do it to you again if you do.
I find that I sometimes choose the start-up (pure or within a larger corp.) because it is fundamentally more interesting to make something new or innovative than to do work that would be financially more certain.

It is not that the financial reward for a big hit wouldn't be exciting, but it certainly isn't the only reason I tend to gravitate toward start-ups or start-up like situations.
thanks for the feedback, nkurz. it's true, i do tend to make posts responding to people who take the time to comment and bring up interesting points. it sounds like that's frowned on here.

in terms of capitalization, it's pretty astonishing to me that people on a site with HN's stated values would downvote a post based on something so superficial. what about paul's point about "breaking the rules, just not the ones that matter"?
"Step 2: Find a Developer"

That's where this went from interesting to nil. I was expecting at least something like "develop it in an emulator without buying a device". The cost of outsourcing development of mobile apps isn't necessarily chump change.
Haven't ticketing systems and bug trackers been around for a long, long, long time?
The compiled binary result of an ANIC program can not run on Windows natively. Thus where on other systems my dependency list is simply the native binary, on Windows, Cygwin either needs to be packaged with the release or installed manually by the user.

It's a blurry question regarding where you say a VM/Compatibility shim means that you no longer running the application natively. The same can be asked of Java, Flash, and a lot of interrupted/bytecode languages. The distinction to me in this case is that the code is meant to be compiled to native code (which it isn't in this case), and Cygwin is not a common platform available on a Windows system.

[Edit:] The asker of parent question should not be down voted, it is a reasonable question, and as I've stated it's open to interruption.
I wrote the post and I did look into the Instapaper digest. The main drawback for me was it costs money to send it. It is not much now $0.15 cents per delivery but it might rise and if so, I won't remember to stop it!
Exactly right.

100g (or about 400 calories) should be the upper limit of your carbohydrate consumption. Your body will run fine on it.
Supercomputers 'will fit in a sugar cube', IBM says
The Unhappiest Man in Hollywood
Chicken Scheme:

csc app.scm
./app

Not really a problem with interpreted languages, it's just that it may not be as common in some worlds.
AFAIK, this thing doesn't work any more than it did a year ago...
Why it's better to be hardworking than smart
Then you have only proven that not eating results in feeling better than eating exactly what you used to, keeping everything else the same, not that not eating is better than eating independently of what you eat.
I linked to http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/global-kindle-3g-web... in the post which outlines exact support for 3G in EU. There are 61 countries where 3G is supported currently.
It looks tantalizing, and I love shell scripts, and I've spent countless hours wishing for pipes in my programming language.

But: when it says, "ANI is designed to abstract away from the idea of an "algorithm" altogether," I go, "quackery."
I've always wondered if reviews are negatively skewed. Sadly, there's much more incentive for me to go on Yelp and write about how awful my meal was than about it being decent.
I'm stuck in this loop. At work all I can think about is getting home and having fun or doing "real" work.

Not all areas are flooded with good jobs, and mine isn't one of them. I've interviewed with a few companies that didn't hire me, and the process of interviewing takes such a toll - mostly emotionally, but also several hour+ long phone calls, and a whole day off to interview, a few nights spent on code samples... I'm reluctant to do it again. Especially when my job is "not that bad" and it's hard to get a clear signal on just how great any other potential job might be.

Also, pursuing my side projects is something I want to continue.
I'm questioning the existence of the law not the judgment of the taxi drivers. I'm also questioning why hackers would report people under this law in the transportation industry when an analogous law in their own industry would be rebelled against and circumvented almost immediately.
Then why didn't you answer according to what you think you would actually do? The idea of the test was to gain insight into your personality with regard to risk and reward. If you can't honestly see yourself accepting a (.4 * $1000) loss over a $50 loss, then you answered incorrectly according to what the question was actually asking.

Personally I had the same dilemma, but I found it revelatory to really look inside myself and see if I could do what expected utilities would dictate. It was especially difficult on the loss questions, as I have very little capital to my name.
I agree completely. I think this also applies to networking. There are a lot of people that can give valuable feedback to my startup. These people are super busy. But, because I'm seeking out so many people, rejection by a few isn't such a big deal.

You ultimately need to be looking at your conversion rate. If I ask 10 people to meet, how many will follow through? Then, you try to improve it. When you think of the process that way, it doesn't seem like rejection anymore, but rather a necessary part of finding the right people.
Only my first post, but the "Great talk by angel invest and entrypreneur Travis Kalanick" came from a nick of the website too. Nice SEO attempt ;)
And that's why I tip really good when I need to cab it back to Staten Island - I understand that they won't make any money on the return trip and that it is out of their way.
More to the point, Berkshire Hathaway itself had only 19 employees as of the 2006 letter.
I would necessarily say that hotels crappier as they age, but the service from hotels is elastic.

The same hotel visited 2 different times could prove very different. The same book purchased twice, on the other hand, will read the same.
It's the assignment part; it says where the result should go. In this case, back to the "COBOL" variable. But, it's optional if you're assigning back to the source: ADD 1 TO COBOL means the same thing as ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL. But, you can also do ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING FOOBAR to assign it somewhere else.

(Yes, I just spent the last 10 minutes reading the COBOL pages on Wikipedia and Wikibooks.)
People using them with their autistic or otherwise-disabled kids seem to think the iPad is as close to magical as you're likely to find in the real world.
Support contracts?
Objective C, Cocoa, And Iphone Programming Books For Beginners
I'm a 30-somthing urban professional and almost no one I know still uses MSN or AIM. Tons of people use gchat and gmail, including people who used facebook first. Looking at my adium contacts right now, there are more people signed into gchat than facebook chat, only one signed into MSN and AIM.

My wife's friends are the same way. Sure, lots of them have facebook accounts, but all of her friends and business contacts, new and old, email and gchat regularly. She doesn't even have a facebook account yet and has no intention of ever setting one up.

In fact, I feel less pressure to use facebook these days than I did a year or two ago. I don't even go on it anymore other than when I'm working on apps that use the graph api. My wall is filled with stuff I don't care about and if I want to contact someone I email, chat or text them.
LOL... well, good to know the competition isn't too fierce at any rate.
"YC now has a second partner who’s pretty famous and respected in the tech world."

Er, 3 + 1 == 2? Or maybe they mean "web startup world"?
It's a COBOL joke. (And a bad one at that)

ADD 1 TO X GIVING Y is COBOL's way of saying y=x+1
ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL is COBOL=COBOL+1. Or COBOL++ :)
Freelance opportunities at Ars Technica
So you're saying that anyone outside US knows about this Cricket thing.
I just tried it an it worked fine for me in Chrome (OS X). I had changed my Yahoo settings to Yahoo Asia a while back so I could enable POP, and when I created the new email address it defaulted to Yahoo Asia.

Not sure if this played a part but I now have all my friend's email addresses in a CSV file on my local HD...
I believe the effectiveness of Facebook advertising in general depends totally on what you're trying to sell. We tried it briefly for about a three-month stint and didn't get a single conversion.

We targeted engaged women in the 20-30 age bracket within this region for wedding photography. It ran about $250/mo but didn't net one single inquiry whereas our Google ads account for about 40% of all inquiries for our services at half the price.
The problem is that doctor, dietitian, or nutritionist don't even agree with each other.

Also, have you actually checked what the FDA nutritional recommendations are? They are really terrible advice that goes against actual science.
Worked for me in Opera.
If there's not enough glycogen in the liver and/or muscles and you are not getting any sugar from food, the body starts degrading your bodies' protein to convert glucogenic aminoacids to glucose

But if you have dietary glucogenic aminoacids, they will be converted to glucose and not your body protein.

I would adjust your comment above: "and you are not getting any sugar or glucogenic aminoacids from food"
Yelp is an integral part of the problem here. They way they are set up they'll likely sell you their 'service' of ordering the reviews in a way that suits you better - for a fee.

The best thing all businesses can do is to break off contact with yelp entirely and let them slide into insignificance. Paying them only prolongs the agony and that's where it will end if you go through yelp.
Ask HN: Is there, or could there be, a Y Combinator for art?
In a thread about a "fiction factory", kenjackson asked "Is this the Y-Combinator of books?" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1898585)

That particular instance doesn't seem to be, but it made me wonder if there could be a Y-Combinator for art (be it literature, painting, music, etc.) or if such a thing already exists.

Thoughts?
> they have to jump through numerous hoops

In clisp and sbcl (I do not have a lot of experience with other implementations), the "make this an executable binary" command is a one-liner, so the hoops are at least comparable to other languages.

It occurs to me that every language that has a binary deploy has extra hoops, depending upon what you want. For example, you have to make sure that you use the right flags on gcc to debug your code with debugging symbols (not the default) or use "tail call optimization". No, actually it is worse: serious C projects have large, ugly Makefiles with optimization parameters, dependent library libs specified, dependent library include paths, etc etc. It is so ugly that several systems have been written for the singular purpose of creating a Makefile just so that your little Gtk App can compile. And C is a language people consider to be a real language that compiles stuff. :)

The hoops are not limited to languages with a REPL.
Well as soon as they shrink the current ones to a cube, someone will come up with the idea of strapping a thousand of them together on a network. And the cycle continues.
Whilst the notion of "computers talking to each other without human intervention" sounds like a utopian ideal, I think his method is a recipe for disaster.

The domain of possible consequences of changing protocols and semantics on the fly is hugely complex. What about testing? Are we advocating that we change live systems without tests?

The author writes:
"Level 3 introduces discoverability, providing a way of making a protocol more self-documenting."

I reply:
The same way good design separates presentation, logic and data, it follows that good protocols separate data from documentation.
Yes, but the GP was commenting that they'd never code in that, given the "ugliness". I'd love to reply to both posts as a set, but alas, it doesn't offer that.
Of course they can make rules, but the rules they did make have simultaneously driven up cab fare and made the jobs much worse for the drivers/operators.

What I am saying is that these rules are not well thought out rules.
And just so everyone knows what I mean by this, 50k is the opportunity cost of the other job that's being forfeited. This means that the "thrill" of working in a startup must be worth at least 50k.
I don't know if it is true that that is what REST advocates are trying to accomplish. If you want to remove the human than SOAP and WSDL have gone a long way towards that goal. I always viewed REST as the opposite of that, make things simple so the developer is able to easily manipulate the data as he sees fit.
I think that giving word-of-mouth recommendations is just another form of "repeat business". You, personally, are leading to another sale.
Replying to my own comment, but Chris Eppstein has put up a gist of some differences, both syntactical and semantic, between SCSS and LessCSS. They are very, very similar to each other now, as I thought.

https://gist.github.com/674726
All the ones that I've seen (minecraft, dwarf fortress, little big planet) are 100% mechanical, so I guess all you need is the ability to move things around, plus some kind of basic physics, so that moving things around can have knock-on effects. Most of the DF ones are fluidic computers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer) and the rest are mostly falling blocks style. Quite Pratchett-esque.

I think Second Life is cheating though, because you can attach scripting code to objects.
I think that it would be a great time to start encouraging current patients to leave reviews online. I know there are some startups that automate this kind of thing. It's a good thing to do anyway, and it especially makes sense in this situation.
This seems like a dangerous precedent to set.

It makes me wonder if this programmer was strategic, ie, he could have brought a very specific / useful skill set to Facebook -- or if he knew a lot about key Google developments.
This worked for me on GNUlinux/Firefox 3.6

103 contacts imported.

I decided I wanted a backup, just in case <insert_screweduser_scenario_here_>
is Autism a disorder? (I suspect it's autist in me asking)
"Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising."

-- Cyril Connolly
1 - Develop a custom firmware for Playstation 3.
2 - Create a native and fully fuctional distro for Playstation 3.
3 - Achieve 1 and 2 and send a certified post mail to Sony with you happy face on it.
4 - Try to return to the Open source community as much goods as it has given to you.
The OP described perks that were illiquid, of low value, and generally non-transferrable in nature. I think that is what we're talking about.
Yes, this is the thing that probably most annoys people coming from languages like C about Lisp. Producing a standalone executable is non-obvious, and different from implementation to implementation. Commercial implementations make this simple, but generally, folks learning the language aren't using commercial implementations. It's funny though when you realize that it's not any harder than Java or a scripting language.
Yeah, PG, give everyone with over 100 comments free startup funds!
Google throws the kitchen sink at Oracle in Android Java suit
Pro tip: Get by the registration / paywall by searching for the article's headline on Google.
hippies in golden gate park already sell something similar to this.
You know you can just open the link in incognito mode right?
The only problem is my doctor wants me to take X drug. My dietitian has type 2 diabetes yet still pushes to eat a grain filled breakfast and my nutritionist wants me to go on a cleansing diet of nothing but vegetables and fruits.
The end of the (startup) world as we know it
Study reveals the subtle dynamics underpinning how cats drink (w/ Video)
Not at all.

That Asian students work harder is a fact born out by hard data.

But, replace "Asian" with "black", and "harder" with "much less hard" in the above sentence, and people would be lining up to state in a variety of ways that any study making such an assertion is inherently flawed, as no measurable differences in achievement amongst races or cultures has been, or can be, objectively measured, since no such difference exists, period.

Just an interesting observation.
Good point. I'm not sure how many do, but it does happen. I'd love to see data regarding this (e.g. how widespread is it?).

Most doctors are essentially statisticians doing something like this:

1) Formulate a list of patient symptoms, ensuring credibility (e.g. are you lying/hiding/unaware-of something?).

2) Match those up with whatever diagnosis is statistically most likely.

3) Take "medicine X" and see what happens.

4) Cured? If not, go to step 2, repeat.

Step 2 can be subjective, especially if there are several likely causes. This can lead to different doctors giving different diagnosis. The more times a doctor has seen the same problem, the more likely he/she will be correct the first time. Specialists come in handy here, gathering lots of experience regarding only specific conditions.

For rare diseases, hard to diagnose, or those which aren't fully understood, repeating steps #2 - #4 is going to be more likely. This is where you'll find the greatest differences of "opinion".

Step #1 can be repeated too if conditions change, of course.

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Regarding dietitians/nutritionists, I'm not sure how they work. I'd imagine most of their disagreements come from studies contradicting one another. Results of studies can be questioned as well.

There is some overlap with the statistical nature of doctors, though. Pinpointing food allergies/intolerances requires eliminating foods, one-at-a-time, from your diet and seeing what happens. I'm sure there are blood tests which can be done too.

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In general though, it's not wise to discredit professionals just because they may disagree on certain things in their field. Unless the field is fully understood (I'm not aware of one which is!), you'll see that.

Perhaps I should rephrase my advice:

What's the best advice to take? That from "multiple" doctors, dietitians, or nutritionists. Not some yahoos on the internet.

A second or third opinion reduces the likelihood of errors, while limiting received advice only from those educated and qualified to give it.
See also http://quandyfactory.com/blog/65/designing_a_restful_web_app... .
If you like his writing, see also "Three Worlds Collide":

http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1895071

I'm pretty sure there was another one as well, but with the endless repetition of stories like this I can't be bothered to search any more.

EDIT: Ah, I forgot that I had commented on it to cross-reference - here it is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1895097
I think the problem is that risk always has to be calculated against reward, and in this test, it was always reward-against-reward or risk-against-risk.

For example, let's take one of the loss scenarios and pretend that it's some wacky hosting cost.

* $50 guaranteed loss - paying $50 for 100GB of bandwidth

* 0.04% of chance of $1,000 loss - paying $2.50 for 100GB of bandwidth, but an extra $997.50 for unlimited bandwidth if you go over 100GB.

If I don't expect to do much traffic, I'll take the 4% chance; I project I might do 20GB of traffic during the term of the contract, so I will save 20x as much money. My product has a 4% chance of going viral. If I lose the contract lottery, it's because I've won the product lottery, and that 4% means I've got a rapidly-growing product that is going to make me a lot of money. The risk of that extra $1000 is well worth knowing that I'm not going to have to move my product between hosting providers when the blogosphere in in a mad frenzy about my internet tortilla delivery service.

That's completely different than a scenario wherein the hosting provider says "This is a variable contract; you owe us $2.50 for 50 GB of bandwidth, but each month we pick one of our 25 customers and they pay $1,000." There's no way in hell I'd sign on for that. There is no indicator of success correlated to the risk there.

Without context, I'm not sure that these questions are all that useful. You point this out yourself - the risk questions will be interpreted variably depending on the individual's resources and perspective. I can absorb a $50 loss trivially, so if the reward is equivalent, I'll choose that.
"I'd personally rank it up with Asimov or Heinlein at their best."

There's also a healthy dose of Pratchett, acknowledging the fundamental silliness of magic.
The array model fits the relational model way, way better than the object oriented model (no "o/r impedance mismatch"). I think most domains fit just as well (if not better) with arrays.

And specifically, the APL/K/J focus on data makes it a better foundation for optimization, parallelization and reasoning about program behaviour.
I've revised the home page with "Why use Kroud". I think a personal touch to a home page really helps, and I've been advised a lot in the past to do this more often with my products. So I've kept my face, but asked a very valid question. Why use Kroud!?
Because it's a kleptoaucracy - the bad guys won there a long time ago, the fix is in everywhere, the police are thieves, the judges are bigger thieves and it goes all the up and all the way down and everything is a scam.

Running a capitalistic civilization is actually a high moral calling, something that seems to be almost forgotten today.
HTTP Response Splitting: A Common, But Frequently Unknown, Security Issue
The crazy things that IE8 did to render web pages...
The only problem is my doctor wants me to take X drug.

Try getting a second opinion from 1 or 2 other, unrelated doctors. Do they come to the same conclusion or not? Doctors aren't always 100% correct the first time (see my longish-response to another comment in this root thread).

My dietitian has type 2 diabetes yet still pushes to eat a grain filled breakfast and my nutritionist wants me to go on a cleansing diet of nothing but vegetables and fruits.

Lack of communication between the two? I'd get them in the same room together and watch them debate. Also this is another area where a second or third opinion would be good to have.
Betfair actually provide an API, so that you could easily write a bot for it:

http://bdp.betfair.com/index.php?option=com_content&task...

They provide the API for the following: ‘Exchange Baccarat’, ‘Exchange Blackjack’ ‘Exchange Hilo’ and ‘Exchange Poker’. From reading the site, 'Exchange' seems to mean the games are 25% faster than standard.

Haven't developed anything using their API, but it looks interesting. Also the polar opposite approach of PokerStars and FullTilt.
Looks German.

Buch = 'bookh', similar to 'ach' or 'Bach'. Some Germans will pronounce this closer to 'boosh'

Heit = 'height', as in 'Gesundheit'
No Political Efficiency since 1913
A simple solution is to append a request for feedback on Yelp / Yahoo to the bottom of all receipts or invoices:

Our goal at [Name of Medical Office] is to provide you with the best care possible. If you liked your experience today, please let us know by leaving a review on our Yelp [url] or Yahoo [url] review pages.