skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pricing hasn't been solidified yet. We're competitive...

I believe I have your email address. I'll keep you posted.
The best way to deal with getting fired
Heh — yeah, I meant, start work by noon, but I will admit I'm a stickler for 8+ hours of sleep at all times. I'm a complete zombie when I get less, and my productivity nosedives.

I'm lucky my significant other, @shazow, is doing the same no-job-working-on-projects thing as me, and with him being a developer and me as a designer, we can work well together to launch projects. It's also a great motivator when you have someone to bug you to work whenever they see you on reddit.com. :P
Born and raised, but currently not living in Barcelona; I moved to California for Graduate studies.

As you probably should know by now it's a really beautiful city. And probably the city with more entrepreneurs on the country, which unfortunately doesn't say much (given the country that we are talking about).
Right now the only categories where they give you your percentage and paint your genome accordingly are European, Asian, and African.

The cool thing about 23andme though is that they're always rolling out new stuff. There is a separate, more detailed ancestry break-down in their "labs" (a part of the website for experimental stuff) but it's not very good. Part of the problem is that there isn't enough research pinning down large swaths of the genome to more specific areas. So what 23andme does is use user reported data- which is problematic due to globalization and limited by people's knowledge.

The only other things that are good and can really pin down geography are your mitochondrial DNA, like I mentioned, and the Y chromosome.
I apologize for being slightly off-topic. I think an open-source PDF -> HTML 5 renderer would be extremely useful and potentially disruptive. I suspect it would produce lots of experimentation into the right way to read, annotate, and manage documents.

This wheel has been reinvented now at a few different companies. Is anyone aware of any projects actively building an open source canvas renderer?

While it would be great if crocodoc open-sourced their renderer, I'm sure their business model rests (partially) on the difficulty for others to enter this space.
That sounds cool. Would be nice if you guys did a write up about everything you are doing and why. :-)
I'm not following your reasoning...

I understand that you need a big button for designers to click ("Get Listed") but for the front and center form, if it's going to be there, it makes more sense for the button to Search, since that's what you're doing, instead of a very generic "Submit".
Thanks for the feedback.

That's what I am thinking...at first I saw that the need was there to just go back to the basics. But they have done this wonderfully.

That's kinda one of the reasons I have posted this, because given that HN is my target audience - I want to know what is missing, what are you guys looking for that you aren't getting anywhere else.
Nice timer. I managed to hover around .25 by staring at the background color rather than the button itself. Unsettling to notice the time gap between my brain perceiving the color change and moving the finger/clicking.
Better than paper: Electronic puzzle books point to the future
'Kill Switch' Internet bill alarms privacy experts
I think their business model is to be a trusted source of information. My problems with Google and Bing are that for some topics the top results are mostly spam. I get eHow sites or other spam sites. What I want are trusted sources of information. Their business model is vertical search.
Needs to become an item inside Minecraft.
Perfect. Are you guys YC funded, or just bootstrapping? Also, props, your landing page is amazing!
A better "problem" to solve is how to notify the author of the article?
Sorry but I already do this using Google Priority,Tags(TODO, TO READ) and Filters. works great !
But cheers for the effort of doing something more integrated and better looking, keep it going :D

Hum... installed but it doesn't work, did all things and still nothing.
My background is varied. I love startups, and understand the space in-depth. I am bootstrapping my own startup at the moment.

Those are good questions, and that's why I have this post on HN. To find out what the readers are interested in seeing.

What unmet need is there?

That's what I am trying to figure out.
I haven't seen the video yet but I think the facts will show that the game is reasonably fair, given the different species participating.

Whether or not there is an advantage for Watson is, I suppose, rather the point of the exercise ;-)
Learning curves for some common text editors
The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle
I wouldn't mind helping a little -- I could cover Israeli startups. Or, why not try and find a few people to attack each article differently? Have someone do the technical side, another do the marketing and combine into the one article? A multi-user, multi-author blog, I think that'd be fun. Also, try and do follow up articles on any one startup as linked at bottom. Just have a pool of authors ready and they can help when they feel like it. Leverage the idea of "guest author."

Try and create a matrix that each startup can fill out -- and make that searchable -- a checklist that changes over time.
That's pretty impressive! However, I normally browse with "Allow web-pages to choose their own fonts" disabled (since 99% of websites have terrible font choices), and in this situation a lot of the text (most of page 37, or the block on the right-hand-side of page 2) is rendered as gibberish; it looks like it's using code-points from the Unicode private-use area. I guess that's probably what the original PDF source document was doing, but it misses the point of rendering things into HTML - even with font-changing enabled, I bet copy/paste doesn't work too well.

Is it possible to ensure all text uses its original code-points, even at the expense of exact reproduction, or is this just a fundamental problem with the technology?
Steve Jobs May Have "Just Six Weeks to Live"
Of course it's not fair. The question is whether Watson's advantages are offset by its disadvantages.
I think Watson would kick Clippy's *ss.
A lot of this advantage is from correctly hitting the buzzer in time. When my college roommate was on the show, he said very often the trick was not buzzing in early and getting locked out. It was apparent that most contestants knew the correct answer for most questions. I imagine Watson would not have buzzer jitters.
Good, if this becomes profitable it's a good assurance that it will be maintained, which is very important for me at least.
I agree, this is quite worrying, and I'm not aware of "data licensing" for services like Facebook.

From the FAQ:

--Greplin updates your data approximately every 20 minutes, however, in high-load situations, updates can take up to a day.

So it definitely seems like all your data ends up in a giant DB somewhere. Unless they've worked out amazing data licensing contracts with Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter, I'd be very surprised if this was legal.

EDIT: Facebook appears to have changed their data retention policies from what they were. The 24-hour caching restriction seems to have been removed:
http://developers.facebook.com/policy/#policies
It uses WebKit rebuilt with 8-bit png image assets, combined with the PixelMix font[1] and what appears to be a custom library called 'Pixelifier'[2]. Very clever.

[1] http://www.dafont.com/pixelmix.font
[2] (Examined package contents and found 'PixelifierDynamic.dylib')
Tracking the Middle East's Hashtag Uprisings
Oh, duh. It's late here in Rome, I thought you meant the top right button. Great point, thank you!
> If your work is worth 500K – generating more than that for someone else – and you're paid 150K, you're being cheated. You have the right to be angry, complain, point out the discrepancy to others, and vigorously pursue competitive alternatives.

I was with you up until this point. You and the person paying you both agreed to the compensation you get. If you don't like it then you have no right to "be angry".

You can however try to renegotiate your compensation.
Steve Jobs receiving Cancer Treatment in Hospital
How did I know...

I really fell in love with the cleanliness and simplicity of Lua for a bit there. Used it to prototype stuff that I'm not rewriting in C++ with great pain. I sure would benefit from having a good debugger though.
Heh, I tried, too. Managed to snag gum.io though.
Many of these devices were invented by doctors and implemented by programmers. The doctors, in many of these cases, were the ones who created most of the value.

When the idea behind a device is more like, "Here's how we're going to use magnets to align the polarization of water molecules in the body, measure those changes, and map those back to construct an accurate image of the inside of someone's body. Now program it for me.", the original inventor creates a whole lot more value than someone who says, "It's like Facebook for dogs. That uses PHP, right? Now program it for me."
We do when there are this many people on the planet :(
Just don't use Moniker in this case as their dates mismatch and can cause trouble: http://peterc.org/blog/2010/345-moniker-deactivation.html
If it's a large tcl "app", then quite often that's the first mistake. I've seen large Tcl systems which work pretty well. A combination of different applications, cron jobs, scripts etc., with some C/C++ libraries for integration and performance-critical things. With the added benefit of having a pretty decent graphical toolkit on top. Won't be the winner of a GUI beauty pageant, but it works.

And most of those systems were pretty old, so it's not like you had a lot of better options back in the days. Tcl was pretty awesome in the mid-90s.

Most Java programs that replaced those enterprise tcl systems were a lot worse than their predecessors.

For a new project? Maybe, maybe not.
So if my services securing your leaky billion-dollar Java app are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars (versus the money you'd lose in case of a breach), that must mean that if I create FizzBuzz and secure it, it should be worth a billion dollars to people. Is that the math you're using? Because it sounds like it, and it doesn't work. You might not be able to create wealth in a vacuum, but that doesn't mean the wealth you create in the right context isn't real.
I read the Big Short. Awesome book. Michael Lewis is a great author.
Apple's 30% vig is bad for innovation
Don't read too much into the word choice. If it helps make the essential point clearer:

s/paid 150K/offered 150K/
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Am I the only person to notice the parallels between GPL and government ? BSD-style licenses can be compared to anarchism. Everyone can do what he wants. I haven't heard about anarchism producing nice societies except on small scale.*

However, a lot of people don't think a community without rules is a healthy or safe one. Freedom of one person ends where freedom of another person starts. So we sacrifice some freedom by agreeing to comply with the law. Law limits people, sure, but few argue it shouldn't exist. Only parts of it are debated (the implementation).

I think sacrificing some software rights GPL-style is good in the long term ! "I want to have the code for myself" vs "Everyone should have the code". GPL is just the more altruistic license. Not all restrictions are pointless just like we probably all agree law is beneficial for society at large. We should spend more time thinking what are the results of GPL restrictions, not automatically wave it away "it's a restriction, therefore it's wrong".

* I would really like to know some examples of successful anarchistic communities. The bigger, the better. You can make anything work on small scale.
For long time I've been arguing that code / functionality should come before visual design.

Never found anyone to agree with me.
Outrage? Hyperbole much? It's an article humourously linking the mechanical control of Apple to Asimov's three laws of robotics.

This is the first time I've seen something written in the passive voice being referred to as 'outrage'.
Sorry, I registered it. Once the process is finished it will join my nerd-flock and redirect to my professional site unless I decide to make something for it. :)
Analysis of the Android and iOS markets
Laser-Propelled Rockets As a Safer, Cheaper, and More Efficient Way to Space
Aaaah, not very useful for me then. I live in Europe and doubt that I have any Asian or African ancestry. Maybe some Middle-Eastern or Sephardic Jew but I guess that falls in the same race as Europeans so they won't be able to tell me. $260 was going to be a big investment for me, I will wait until they can tell the difference between early Europe's ethnic groups: Celts, Germanic tribes, Iberians, Basques, "Roman", etc... They need to study people living in Europe in kind of isolated communities, remote mountains or whatever, then they will be able to tell the difference.
And people wonder why I hate the walled approach Apple takes.

The article makes another great point about people not being able to leave iOS devices for a competitor because all their music, movies, apps, etc are in Apple's DRM format and won't transfer to other devices.

Apple deserves to have control over their own platform, but this is getting a little crazy. The extra fee wouldn't be so bad if developers could increase fees through apps to offset it, but Apple is forcing them into a horrible position. They can't say the reason for higher prices is Apple charging them. They have to eat that cost for the customer and aren't even allowed to post links to their site in the app anymore.
Says the National Enquirer, says The Next Web.
What you could have is an investor response section beneath each article.. now that would be interesting.
The 'mixed results' you mention is no different from any other web platform on the planet.
I now registered pie.io instead. I hope I didn't waste another 70€ on domain squatting...

Here is my idea: simple polls for Twitter. There is twtpoll, but it is not actually very good in my opinion.

The pie will hopefully remind people of pie charts... Also, it allows for the tag line "polls easy as pie".

What do you think?

Would welcome feedback, also perhaps suggestions for better names (it is difficult for non-native speakers).
I'm a developer at Forbes and have been tinkering with a JS bookmarklet that does much of the same. Great minds think alike I guess!

At one point there was a company called Goosegrade that had a service along these lines. Not sure what happened to it.
Ah, OK. Given the negative connotation (at least for its more common usage) I was wondering if there was some Ken Jennings backlash out there that I'd missed.
How Do We Know Next Year Apple Won’t Be Taking 50%?
Source of the 'six weeks' estimate:

'The National Enquirer, who broke the news today, talked to critical-care physician Dr. Samuel Jacobson, who said, “Judging from the photos, he is close to terminal. I would say he has six weeks.”'
I like it. The image makes you look like friendly guy, and isotope is hotness. That is all.
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Ideally you will be local to the Bethlehem PA area, but this is not a deal
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CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions
Question: How do I enable this for a Google Apps account where I am an admin?
Collaborative rap lyric writing, one line at a time.
Seems you just hadn't found the right people yet :)
Poorly.

But to make this post more than just noise, much of the Google culture for a long time revolved around personal relationships and being in peoples cubes to get their attention. Not something you could do from home anyway. The Anybot experiment would have been interesting to see.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Social Ad Servicing
There are several people working on Ad Serving. I am interested in getting some input about the best model for Ad Service. Which is the most effective Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or some other model?
Please note more words don't ad validity to an argument. Violation of due process is simple to show. There is no warning or process for trial or appeal. The trial is secret and there is as of yer no appeal. This is a simple end run around the court system.

If they're secret, how is it that I can see customs-related asset forfeiture cases on the court calendar, and that they're open to the public?

Here's the annual report/audit for last year on the US treasury asset forfeiture account (where all the money ends up when there's money involved): http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/terrorist-illicit-fi...

And here's an easily readable article on the legal concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction The customs service has had powers like this since 1799.

edit: I forgot to mention that of course the website owners who were affected can sue the government individually or via a class action. I'd be very surprised if they didn't; I'm sure there are attorneys who specialize in such things busy typing articles about it right now, in case any of the persons affected are wondering who would be able to advise them on the subject.
Yet another miraculous tool to help you organise your cluttered inbox.

If you havent mastered the skill in organising your life so your inbox doesnt take over your life, no tool is going to make that any better for you.

Its a delusion.
The source is the National Enquirer? Flagged.
Are Businesses Refusing to Hire the Unemployed?
lets NOT vote this one up guys or @joshbert can you please change the title on here?

We changed our title given the quality of the source claiming 6 weeks. [This is Zee from The Next Web btw]
Building An Autosuggest Textbox Using YUI
We know he has cancer, and we know he is taking a medical leave of absence. How is it news that he is receiving cancer treatment?
"Judging from the photos, he is close to terminal. I would say he has six weeks."

How on earth can you deduce that from looking at some photos?
From personal experience (My Dad died from pancreatic cancer), if the cancer has re-appeared, Steve's odd's are not good at all. Beating it once is never a guarantee that it's completely gone, and beating it a second time is relatively unheard for cancer of the pancreas.

Of course, this sort of speculation has no place in the news, especially basing it on a diagnosis through pictures. The doctor who is quoted should be ashamed of himself, no reputable doctor should engage in gossip.
agree with you 100% (this is Zee from TNW btw)
Second post will be a line ending in "orange", and he'll be forced to close the site.
No, it wouldn't.

At the highest levels of play, all players know most answers, and are prepared to ring in as soon as the capability to ring in is given to them. In other words, at this level of play, all humans are racing for the buzzer. The fact that Watson may know the answer before the contestants are allowed to ring in is not an actual advantage for Watson.

(The mechanical button-pushing device is.)
Precisely. Netflix doesn't get a free pass.
It's just confirmation. The judgement from the (uninvolved) doctor that Jobs looks like he may have six weeks to live -- that's ominous. And probably not true, given that this guy's judging by someone's appearance in a photo.
It may be worthwhile to compare the success of ping in increasing sales to the success of Genius in increasing sales.

I don't have bulk data on this at all, but I can say that personally, I've bought songs and apps that I've seen recommended to me on their respective Genius lists, but I've never bought a song that a friend has recommended.

Is the genius algorithm more meaningful for sales than social connections? In my experience, yes, algorithm beats friends.
I wonder if the hospital is charging his doctors 30% of their fee in order to allow the doctors to treat him in their hospital.
Yes, I agree with you that the Spanish housing bubble was (and still is) insane. I don't have current numbers, but in this website you can check the number of houses started in Spain and compare them with other countries: http://www.casastristes.org/files/viviendaNuevaEuropa/vivien... (link in spanish, but numbers are universal). Since 1999 building more houses than France and Italy together; while in other countries there is a lot of investment in technology, in Spain they invest on houses.

I was not talking about myself. I worked in Barcelona for a while and moved to the US on 2009. Usually engineers don't have a 8-6 working schedule; in the company where I worked it was more normal a 8AM-9PM. 1h for lunch. And during deadlines it was "normal" to stay until 1-2AM. And back at 8, of course. All that for 15K. Sounds great, doesn't it? I left the job after 6 months because I considered that it was not a "good deal". It is true that I could be close to 30K in 1-2 years but...

I can't talk for all american engineers, but people that I know are close to the 100-120K without working 50+ hours. The difference on holidays is one of the biggest differences, that's true. And social benefits. As for your last comment, foreign engineers should definitely consider that!! Spain universities are pretty good (our engineering undergrads were 5 years until the current Bologna system) and engineering programs are considered really tough.
I don't know about VCs in North Carolina, but in Silicon Valley numbers 2 and 6 are false. VCs here aren't looking for experienced managers; they're looking for Larry & Sergey. And number 6 is subsumed by number 1. They're hoping the company will do so well that they don't need any specific exit strategy.
Everyone involved with that tasteless speculation should be ashamed of themselves.
Does that mean you have to give up your liver if Steve requires it?
They didn't even need to be a shareholder.

Shareholders with voting shares have the right to attend shareholders meetings and vote in the board of directors. In such large corporations, shareholders usually appoint a proxyholder who attends the meeting and votes on the shareholder's behalf.

My understanding was that Nokia Plan B was basically soliciting such proxies by asking shareholders to give their votes to them for the purpose of replacing the board.

Corporate law usually doesn't require a proxyholder to be a shareholder, so they actually didn't even need such a (weak) claim to authority.

As a side note, soliciting proxies usually requires following proper corporate law procedure by sending prescribed materials. Nokia Plan B just had a website, which was an early indication this was a fake.