skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A civilised response it to have a state owned media who if they forget who their masters are you can have a quiet word with.

Then you arrest any citisen journalist who happens to photograph demonstrators viscously hitting their heads against police batons and threaten then with 15years in prison for wiretapping or for taking images useful to terrorists.
I want to know about this insurance - that's exactly what I need. I am not one to needlessly run to the hospital - in fact I avoid it as much as I can - but I would like insurance in case I have a bad accident and need surgery etc.

The only plans I found were "free pills, and 10k max coverage" or something ridiculous like that. I need the opposite.
"Social Security taxes are paid into the Social Security Trust Fund maintained by the U.S. Treasury. Current year expenses are paid from current Social Security tax revenues. When revenues exceed expenditures, as they have in most years, the excess is invested in special series, non-marketable U.S. Government bonds, thus the Social Security Trust Fund indirectly finances the federal government's general purpose deficit spending."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States)...
First of all: it's probably not a good idea to be dispensing (or receiving) medical advice on HN.

That being said-- Vitamin D is fat soluble, and too much vitamin D is definitely harmful. Take a look here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D

Vitamin C, on the other hand, is water soluble, and much harder to overdose on.
Its exactly like ... investing in a bunch of promising, vetted business plans with motivated founders!
Both are very important.

From an industry point of view its always the DB size that matters. When MS bought Giant it was due their DB size, it was huge and useless e.g there were installers that generated random guid for active x controls, registering those guids as a signature was pointless but they still went with it, when it was time to sell the MS guys fell for it. I worked for a company that was sold eventually and it was the same story when the founders decided that its time to sell it was all about the number of signatures.

Kasperskey are known to have a brilliant engine, this leak is a huge blow for them

On a different note: I wonder how this happened in the first place, the security companies that I worked for were pretty strict on code access, I couldn't checkout any code I wish, only a few people could pull the entire code repository.
Not a stupid question. Most people COBRA. COBRA is expensive but, like a group plan, automatically accepts you. Since the overwhelming vast majority of indie startups fail, COBRA usually lasts long enough to bridge you to your next job.

After about a year or so, if you're not certain you're going to end up with a full-time job, you need to look for real insurance. COBRA will last for almost another year, but when it ends it ends, and god help you if you're hit by a car or diagnosed with something nasty towards the end of your COBRA coverage (nobody will insure you).

Coverage from the majors costs roughly $400/mo. It gets much cheaper if you choose a high-deductable plan (you should), in which case you pay for all your health care out of pocket. A family of four can expect to pay over $10k/yr for low-deductable insurance, which is what virtually all companies offer.

Now, choose your own adventure:

Are you ~22 years old, male, with no dependents, with no long-term health issues and no prior history of hospitalization for illness? You can easily buy high-deductable insurance on the open market. There are several websites that will sell it to you.

Otherwise: you may be screwed. If you don't qualify for a group plan of some sort (which is how most Americans obtain health coverage), you may find that you are uninsurable. For instance, in the first year of Matasano, we tried to get private insurance and found that both my daughter and my wife were uninsurable. My daughter had been hospitalized for a freak seizure when she was 4. Erin has a functioning female reproductive system. NO COVERAGE. Not, "we won't cover the things we don't like". No, NO COVERAGE. Every insurer. The list of conditions with "deny coverage" attached to them, which most insurers publish, includes a wide variety of conditions experienced by tens of millions of people.

Good luck!
I tend to be a paranoia cynic (after all, paranoia is a baseless suspicion of others' motives) but our own politicians are up to unsavory shenanigans of their own in this space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_kill_switch
I agree. A simple solution in the meantime maybe to allow users to revoke certain access levels to specific services in an admin panel.
It means your plan IS to give some of your company away for money. Instead of holding 100%, getting ramen-profitable, working your butt off to make it.
I will.. thank you for your interest!
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Fundraising is famously a huge hit to productivity. This should make YC founders an order of magnitude MORE productive.
Wow. Ok, you'll need to 'grow up' in a hurry then, I'd hate to be in your shoes. Typically by the time you get to this state you've been through the grinder often enough to have a useful repertoire of armor and arms to deal with a situation like this.

Play it careful!
And that's why this move is a smart one : Yuri has effectively outsourced all the valuation work for the investments onto really smart people that he doesn't have to pay anything for.

While that doesn't seem particularly fair to the rest of the VC community, it's exactly analogous to investing in an S&P ETF (which just invests in a whole bunch of stocks at the current market prices).
How are the ps3 utils copyrighted? Isn't that all reverse engineered work?
Would the party who "serve" the download be considered a distributor for legal purposes?
Vitamin D can be over-dosed. One side effect is over calcification (kidney stones, etc) because D is involved in that process.
We had cobra through my wife's former job. As others have noted, you can get cobra even if quit on your own.

Thankfully, the old job was in Maryland, where state law requires insurance companies to offer a continuation policy after cobra expires. It continues as long as you want it and make your payments, and they have offer you a similar policy in the state you move to if you leave Maryland.

We pay almost $1000/month for my wife and the kids to be covered. I have no health insurance at all. Because the policy is in my wife's name, it doesn't qualify as a sole proprietor business expense. (If it were in my name, it would count as a business expense as of 2010, even though it's not bought through the business.)

Because of preexisting conditions, we can only get private insurance that excludes most of the things likely to go wrong with my wife and kids. We're now in Florida where the state offers an HMO for children in low income families, but you can buy into it at full price if you don't qualify income-wise. Since the pricing is per-child not per-family, and our fourth is due in June, and we don't qualify for the discounts, the HMO isn't a useful option for us right now. (The 'and children' part of our current insurance is a comparatively small expense.)
Startup Quote: Jason Calacanis, founder, Mahalo
Because what he's buying (for $0) is the selection and mentoring skills of YC, and the valuation skills of the Series A investors.
No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

- Jason Calacanis (@Jason)

http://startupquote.com/post/2994498443
Ask HN: Buzzword Bingo Card Creator?
I was responding to Patrick (HN: patio11) in another HN thread and I had
an idea. I've read his blog and many of his insightful posts to HN over
the years, so I know about his startup, www.bingocardcreator.com.

The idea I had was, "HN Buzzword Bingo" --an online game based on
reading HN articles. You get a online bingo card with tech buzzwords,
and as you read HN articles and find the terms, you get to cross them
off your card, possibly by giving the URL where the term was found, and
then checking to make sure it's part of an HN article.

I'm not sure the idea is even feasible, but worse, I almost never play
games (once every few years), so I'm really the wrong person to even
have such an idea. Most games are structured to entertainingly consume
time, but reading tech and startup news is useful (to some degree). A HN
Buzzword Bingo game would (potentially) be "useful entertainment" so I'm
not sure if people would find it fun?

Would you consider if fun?

I'm curious if any of you have ideas on how something like this could be
built?

frames? tabs? mobile? frontend? backend?

Thoughts?
In social network terms Robert plays the combined roles of the connector and maven. In his connector aspect he is a liaison that connects different groups together. From Tipping Point connectors "link us up with the world ... people with a special gift for bringing the world together, they are a handful of people with a truly extraordinary knack for making friends and acquaintances". In his maven aspect Robert, as he lives and tries to solve problems in his own life, is continually testing out different products and has a considerable expertise in those areas. It's not his role to be a deep technical expert, that's an in-group function. Without people like Robert there would be much less radiation of information between the startup and thought leader groups and the broader user community. That's a rare and valuable service, one Robert peruses with a passion.
What do you mean by 'postmodern'? Is this a real criticism of what they are saying?
Consider a hospital plan.
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Hm. There are folks still using the 'old-fashioned' model of fundraising manually, building a team, honing a product and going to market.

YC may be the best deal for a crew of wet-behind-the-ears startup virgins, I'll grant that.
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Your honor! I object! Sure, I used the man's credit card without asking him! But he didn't literally catch fire! Damages? Why, he looks fine to me!
A thread for "HN Buzzword Bingo"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2155626
Great. Hopefully this will force the US to stop meddling with other countries and return to its founding principles.

That would end the war on terror, on drugs, save the US economy and make them super popular around the world again.
John Paulson is really interesting in that he really played the entire credit cycle. He shorted it and then turned long at the right time and has been profiting from the recovery.

Most of the other guys who shorted the bubble got the part after wrong. They expected these doomsday/cataclysmic scenarios which never arrived.

I think the underlying lesson is that as an investor, when you are thinking of big picture themes, you really have to keep an open mind and have a willingness to change positions. Soros demonstrated that with his career.

There are tons of one hit wonders in the investment world because they let their egos get the better of them.
DST is a money laundering operation. Yuri Milner is a criminal.

I can't believe Paul Graham deals with these guys. He should understand that Russia is outside of his circle of competence. His smarts are not enough to make the judgement.

Russia gets roughly $90B annually for oil and gas. Most of the money gets stolen one way or the other and ends up in the funds like DST.

Dealing
Fluff piece based on anecdotal evidence and confirmation bias.
Oh, and last time I heard something about Microsoft that mattered? Well, how about Windows Phone 7? Kinect? Office 365? Windows Live Essentials 2011?
Am I an idiot for not have a clue what this actually does after both watching the video and reading the FAQ?

As far as I can tell it's hyper-local news app tailored to specific protests. People send them messages and they send updates out? Which I guess is useful?
Ask HN: Best Embeddable Feedback Collection Web App?
What services are you all using to collect feedback in your apps?

I checked out Get Satisfaction, but it seems like overkill to start with. Wondering if there is something a bit more minimalist.

Thanks in advance, ladies and gents.
Hulu lost me when they began actively blocking Hulu.com from anything that isn't a desktop/laptop. My Android device has flash, but they disable their site if you aren't on hardware that has their blessing. I'd still see all the ads, so why make your customer's life more difficult?
Show HN: Cue Me - Simple e-mail reminders
For a number of couples I know, one is self-employed or in a small business, while the other works for an organization that provides group insurance. Whether Big Co., the school system, some other aspect of government. Often, the principal reason for the spouse's employment is the health care benefit. (For example, being a teacher's aid pays fairly little, but you get relatively quite good health care coverage.)

EDIT: s/principle/principal/ #morning fog
The night before last night, I couldn't sleep so I decided to take Amazon's new SES service for a spin and this is what I came up with.

Let me know what you think!
The clever thing about this is that Yuri doesn't have any of the due-diligence costs of Ron Conway : He's outsourced it all.

OTOH, maybe/probably Ron Conway actually enjoys the thrill of the hunt for new exciting stuff, so he doesn't consider it a particular cost.

Right now, according to the article, YC (pg) is happy about the situation : it improves their brand, helps entrepreneurs, etc. But I'm sure that they'll realize that Yuri just got in at a better valuation (on average) than they did, but they're doing all the work. Of course, they probably already have realized this, but they don't have many other options now - other than inserting 'poison pill' anti-freeloader terms into their deals...
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Check out plans with hospital/catastrophe cover. Blue Cross, Aetna, etc. have such plans. Also check out http://www.healthcare.gov/index.html
World Cup schedule 2011.....Prepare for the blast
My reaction to that photo is that he is a down-to-earth guy who wears his passion on his sleeve.
>Then again, maybe your research would wind up being worse because a suit feels so conformist. Who knows? But it would be a worthwhile experiment.

Or maybe it wouldn't matter because you're just you with different textiles covering (or not) your naked body.
I read it as 'downloading without consent', 'distributing without consent' or 'using it without consent'.
And it looks like this one has not landed in O'Reilly's Safari (not yet, at least).
>Would you consider if fun?

Not particularly my kind of thing. I imagine some here might find it fun to hack together a script to read the articles and mark the card for them ...
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It's actually easy to tour North Korea as an American, and many tour companies offer travel packages for it: http://wikitravel.org/en/North_Korea#Get_in.

> In January 2010, North Korea lifted the restrictions on American citizens who are now free to visit at anytime of the year.
My bad: I thought COBRA was dependent on eligibility for the whole unemployment process.
That embedded video is the most delightful thing I've seen linked to from HN for months. I can see new robosports coming out of this. It has a lot of visual appeal, more so than Battlebots, which sometimes looked clumsy and sometimes would sometimes turn out to be endless trading of ineffectual bumps and taps.

By scaling down to tri and quad-rotors, one simultaneously gets the excitement of flight (and crashes) with the potential for more visually interesting weaponry.
All the amount placed into Muni Funds and ETFs is investing on other people's judgement : It's MASSIVE.
Briefly, this is a map overlay which pools reports on police activity surrounding demonstrations, designed to counter the "kettling" confinement tactics used by the London police in recent student protests. Best link for those who want to see how it works: their tutorial at http://sukey.org/tutorial

Some of the press coverage, like the Economist piece here, is also oddly more informative than the web site itself:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/01/demonstration...

Unfortunately, their attitude towards security, at least as expressed in the FAQ, seems slightly worrisome. For groups without funding or world-class expertise "we'll release the code when we think it's OK" is a slower, less sure path to trustworthiness than "here it is now; please tell us what's wrong with it." But they claim to have (unnamed) experts on the project; I guess we'll see how soon they do a source release, and what shows up when they do...
Huh? Maybe I just need some more coffee, but I'm failing to parse whatever it is he's trying to say.
This looks interesting but I am not sure about the use of additional attributes. Will AngularJS produce well-formed markup? Can't help to notice that the example code on the front page uses tables for layout purposes...

I just love the formidable "comeback" that JavaScript has made. It has gone from being hated and patronized to become an incredibly flexible and completely invaluable tool in every web develper's toolkit. With all these frameworks and libraries - jQuery, YUI, node.js - JavaScript is becoming even more powerful and actually fun to code it.
Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k
Yes it is! It is illegal in the Netherlands to download pirated software! It's only for music & movies where this doesn't count! See e.g.
http://www.iusmentis.com/maatschappij/juridisch/magdatopinte... , whose author is to put it mildly not known for being pro strong IE laws.
I loved those Dickens stories too! Children working in factories! Fishermen dying for lack of a doctor! Ha Ha!
Is this guy fucking serious?

No longer will we hear stories like we heard from Airbnb’s founders of surviving off of cereal or "ramen."

That bums me out, because struggle and sacrifice makes for great stories.

I'm sorry that you're bummed out at less human suffering. These are people with friends and families and hopes and dreams and feelings, and you're treating them like characters in a movie. These are people working their asses off to make the world a little bit better and hopefully make money doing it. Mr. Consumer here is upset that their lives are a little better? And his only reason is that the stories he hears aren't as nice? This is disgusting. Fuck you, get some perspective.
I'm sort of partial to Fogbeam Labs. http://www.fogbeam.com

But I'm just a little bit biased...
Sure, (nearly?) all games can be cheated, but that's really not the point of most people playing them. In this case, the point is reading articles, so a cheat of browser automation (certainly doable) would defeat the purpose. Also, if the bingo card used images to display the terms, you'd need to implement OCR to automate it. Not impossible, but seemingly not likely.
This is what's happening right now, more and more big seed round.
‘Angry Turds’ Is Like ‘Angry Birds’ Except With, Yes, Turds
I'm surprised that the nemo plus iurus principle doesn't make downloading illegal as well.
Article fails to mention that the U.S. is actively considering internet "kill-switch" authority.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029282-281.html
The Fix is Off
I can't imagine GitHub or BitBucket would keep such a repository, once they knew it was there.
This is not 'pirated software', it's leaked source code. That makes distribution copyright infringement and downloading in good faith legal.

If the source code is distributed then the user would have to download it in order to be able to see the copyright statement. In this case the title of the software will probably be reason enough to make it hard for you to argue that but technically you could claim you thought this was a source distribution and only after you downloaded it you found out that it was copyrighted and not meant for release.

If you keep the source code after downloading and finding out that it was copyrighted and not meant for release the situation becomes gray, after all nobody actually knows you've still got a copy, it might be that you deleted it upon finding out that it was copyrighted stuff. It will be pretty hard to prove that you still have a copy if you yourself do not make it available and if you defend yourself by saying you acted in good faith and destroyed your copy immediately after download and inspection. The act of downloading is not what matters here, what matters is what you do after downloading. I am not aware of any Dutch citizen that has been charged with downloading leaked source code, let alone a conviction. Source code has been leaked before and typically if there are steps taken it is against distributors, never against those that downloaded.

Downloading binaries is a different story, there you are clearly in violation.

If it wouldn't be like that how would you ever verify that it is legal for you to download any software at all (for instance an open source distro), after all typically you are not shown the license agreement prior to download but upon installation (or, in many cases after that).
Great post, but I feel the need to point out that two weeks of vacation is not that much of a perk and is actually quite low.
The tutorial ( http://sukey.org/tutorial ) does a better job of explaining things.

It's a tool to aggregate location/safety statuses submitted by many people in the same protest.

I'm interested in how the site verifies reports. The purpose of this app is very similar to Ushahidi, which has some basic vetting tools for editors/organizers.

In the tutorial, it just says something like "sukey will check your report and broadcast it" -- how will this look if thousands of people submit reports at once?
Perhaps if you just focused on the counting instead of all the other stuff you're doing...?
But then you have to define good and evil. I personally think there is good and evil in all things. And having no job and no job prospects because the economy sucks for some reason or other is a pretty negative thing in its own right.

So, I say again, what really are you asking here? (Serious question, not trying to jerk you around. Given the lack of other replies, I suspect no one else really understands what you want either.)

Peace.
For non-US readers (like myself), COBRA is probably a reference to Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Omnibus_Budget_Rec...).

This seems to be a law that (among other things) gives employees a right to keep health insurance coverage after leaving employment.
I fear what a 21st Century response might entail.
I'm completely with you, and it could be a great way to get the public interested in (i.e. funding) technology. It reminds me of when auto racing actually led to improvements for street cars. I mean kids already love various robotic cartoons - who wouldn't love the same as a real-life game. Attendance could be a little dangerous though...

Let's hope UPenn's QuadRotor Lab is in the running.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM
I believe [Yi][] developers had a good understanding of Emacs.

[Yi]: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi
Then no one should think it's such a "secret stash", should they? I think using this term is what confused people.
* You should definitely label these input fields.

* Why do I have to type in this example by myself? Link it
>Sure, (nearly?) all games can be cheated, but that's really not the point of most people playing them.

I wasn't considering it as cheating just that I'd expect, even with the addition of the OCR requirement that such a challenge would meet more interest. In fact I thought that a competition to create said bot and then a challenge to produce a winner, the bots could then be dissected by the community as learning experience. See that sounds fun to me ...