skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few thoughts:

* Your minimum TTL is 60 seconds, but you only learn this by trying to set it to something lower

* I actually like Hurricate Electric's interface better: there is much less clicking to do. Their updates are also instant.

* You lack IPv6 support (both AAAA record types and, from what I can tell, IPv6 connectivity). This is really important and would be a blocking issue for me.

* The REST API is something HE doesn't seem to have so good job there.

* You don't have HTTPS available, yet you have a authentication and management system. This is broken and would be another blocking issue for using your service. <rant>Browsers should display a big fat warning next to each <input type="password" /> field that is not served over HTTPS. In 2011, not having HTTPS set up should be a #1 bug.</rant>

Otherwise, looks pretty cool. If HE ever changes their services, stops being awesome, I will keep you guys in mind.
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Why not equating him to these ? In my opinion, Assange is well worthy of a peace Nobel prize. He after all contributed a lot to the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq [1] and for the beginning of the Tunisian uprising [2]. Such a prize would also be very useful in that the money attached would greatly help fuel his efforts.

[1] http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/1023/Iraq-s-...

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/02/wikileaks-exclus...
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-18/opinion/tunisia.wikileaks...
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Conversely, I've decided that automobile drivers just don't belong on the roads. It truly is worse for everyone involved--health of the driver, safety of everyone around them, health of the community, etc. The economic growth issues are also murky.
Don't forget the headphones. As a very safety-conscius cyclist, I cringe at other cyclists who wear headphones or anything that artificially reduces hearing.
My mentioning they were young/lacked experience was just a way to say they didn't have prior success in the startup world, which would be a major plus. I probably should have phrased it differently.

My bigger concern is the founding team is 3 non-technical people. In my experience and talking with others this is not ideal for a web startup.
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People like this who know a lot of folks and who get along and are likeable can be a huge asset. You may not want them selling for you, but you certainly want them to mingle, talk to potential clients and take them to dinner, etc.

They aren't idiots, they are very valuable employees when used appropriately. He would make an excellent client relations manager.
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Be extremely suspicions of advice that takes the form, "If you want to achieve the position that I have, don't behave like me".
#12 hands down. Simple and clean is the new in. The rest are way too loud or busy.
You can do that with any display. They are called privacy filters, you just stick them in front of the display and work exactly as you say.
It is not clear to what degree the researchers "compromised" the tor network. To make matters worse the news story seems to have some translation issues. I am not arma or nickm but from a quick reading it does not seem like a real threat.

"But there are also hidden nodes, the Tor Bridges, which
are provided by the system that in some cases. Researchers
have developed a script that, once again, to identify
them. They found 181. "We now have a complete picture of
the topography of Tor," said Eric Filiol."

The researchers found 181 of over one thousand bridges[1]? That hardly seems like a complete topography of the network. In order to get bridges all you need to do is submit a https request to https://bridges.torproject.org or send an email to bridges@torproject.org from a gmail address. So they scripted https gets and SMTP? The bridge distribution system is designed in such a way that an attacker can not easily flood the system with requests and learn all of the bridge addresses. I imagine this is why they only learned 1/5th of the bridges.

The majority of the research seems to indicate that if an attacker can control 1/3 of the relays in the tor network he can influence its operation and decrypt/associate/identify traffic streams. The tor threat model has always stated that an attacker with control over a significant
number of nodes could successfully compromise the security goals of the network. Furthermore the attack depends on users not utilizing trusted entry nodes. I do not think the attack would have any effect on a user who used a trusted entry node that the attacker did not control.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/strategies-getting-more-bri...
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This. Unfortunately, right now lots of people need bone marrow donations to fight off various types of cancers. My mother couldn't get one, for example, and that was because people simply wouldn't donate. I apparently wasn't an option and her brother and sister passed away.

Hopefully this raises awareness enough that more people become aware of what this is all about and we can save more lives.

Cancer sucks.
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We've done the same. And now we regret it. Our pension funds and investments have tanked in the various downturns. Well, I guess we can handle that.

Our friends bought million-dollar homes they can't afford and now Obama wants the banks to renegotiate and write their loans down. And those who invested conservatively, like myself, get to bail out the banks and, along with them, my profligate friends.

IOW you and I are the suckers in this game. We can be smug about our "wise" choices, but the way this game is playing out, anyone who tried to be fiscally conservative is a loser, and the winners are the spendthrifts.

I'd like to say more, but I've got to go to the hardware store and buy a pitchfork and some torches while I can still afford them.
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My brother had a bone marrow/stem cell transplant a couple of years ago and I was a matching sibling able to donate. Yes, it's unfortunate that there are so many of us who don't understand how risk free this procedure is to a donor. There are a couple of problems that contribute to this in my opinion.

First, the name of the procedure itself is misleading. It's called a "Bone Marrow Transplant". A lot of times however, there is not even bone marrow taken directly from a donor. I was not even poked in the bone at all. In my case, I was hooked up to an apheresis machine for a few hours, and it basically pumped blood out of one arm, and then pumped back the blood minus stem cells into the other arm. A bag of stem cells is then intravenously given to the patient which then makes its way to the bone cavities and starts growing new bone marrow. The donor goes back home on the same day and hangs out like its any other day.

Second, there are some blood disorders for which they require bone marrow from the donor. Now, again, this is not scary as it sounds. They extracted bone marrow a few times from my brother for tests. There is no "drilling" involved. Yes, its a bigger needle, that they insert into your hip bone after administering local anesthetic. I don't know first hand how much it hurts, but they don't even admit you in the hospital for a day. And for the next couple of days, you are a bit sore from it. My brother has average pain tolerance and I didn't see him writhe in pain at all at any time once the procedure was done (happened in less than 10 minutes). I suspect that a torn ACL, a broken ankle or arm which many people on this list would have experienced are far far much worse.

Third, unlike other types of donations involved in transplant like a kidney or liver, this process doesn't take anything from the donor that is not completely replaceable. If you donate stem cells, they will replenish in your body automatically, and the same with bone marrow. Really, there is no easier way where it costs you almost nothing but average pain and minor discomfort for a few days at the most.

I spent over three months in the hospital with my brother in India when he had the transplant. Fortunately, I was a matching sibling so we didn't have to look in any registry. But I spent my days and evenings with countless families who had a loved one undergoing chemo, while just waiting hopelessly to see if they could find a matching donor in a registry. Few things are as heartbreaking to see as families just not being able to do anything and watch someone in their family just hinge on hope from a database. The least we can do is increase their chances for hope with a cheek swab.
I'm impressed by the amount of comments here that point out some (perceived) hypocrisy in the actions of Wikileaks or Assange. This isn't the point.

I myself don't really know what to think of Wikileaks. I, however, do know that major banks and financial institutions find it perfectly okay for you to send money to all kinds of horrible organisations (say, the Ku Klux Klan, clubs that campaign for underage sex, Westboro Baptist Church, whatever you can come up with, and they probably have a bank account), but not to Wikileaks.

I can't imagine how Wikileaks can be considered a so much more evil organisation than Stormfront (http://www.stormfront.org/forum/announcement.php?a=63, all cards accepted) that the first needs to be blocked and the latter does not.

It can only be that at least this part of what Wikileaks is saying is true: Major banks and businesses, a scarily small number of organisations that control a large part of the world's financial transactions, want to control to who you give your money. This means that they want to control who gets money and what they do with it. This shit is NONE of their business, and the fact that they can do this without serious legal issues scares the shit out of me.

I like to believe that western governments are out to serve their citizens and protect their freedoms, but I cannot explain how that fits with what these banks are doing and how the governments just let it happen. This has absolutely nothing to do with the nature of Wikileaks as an organisation.

Really, this fact alone makes me want to send money in an envelope to Wikileaks, despite how ridiculous I thought Cablegate was.

Edit: If Wikileaks were a terrorist organisation (blowing up buildings and people and whatnot), I'd understand governments to force a ban. Not banks banning them on their own initiatives, but governments forcing it. If you genuinely feel that Wikileaks is as bad as Al Qaeda and Hamas and the alikes, then I'll understand if you disagree with me, although even then I hope you agree that it should've been a government decree, and not banks solo-piloting their sense of morality. In all other cases, really, I can't wrap my mind around it.
cut-and-paste != copy-and-paste.
"Right now, Silicon Valley is the mecca for traditional tech startup folks. That is gradually (this is key - NOT overnight) changing though."

Actually, no.

You don't find Muslims making a journey to Detroit to worship Mohammed do you?

That's because Silicon Valley is actually a place not a concept. That being said there are other areas where other economic drivers are being augmented by technology drivers, NYC comes to mind.

However if you look at places that tried to "be" Silicon Valley (Rte 128 in Boston comes to mind) there are lots of failures scattered around.

Part of it is social, part of it is political, part of it is economics.

If you want to foster innovation remove barriers to innovation, outlaw non-competes, create a durable right for workers to keep what they make on their own time with their own gear.

What happens is people quit their jobs to build a competitor than can do it better/cheaper than where they worked. It weeds out non-innovators. It also frees up folks to quit and still work on stuff they know, they start creating networks that span companies and pretty soon lots of people know lots of people and creating a company gets easier, then all these companies being created and grown will help the intial capital suppliers do well, and their success will attract other sources of capital.

Strangely enough, if you could step out of the world trademarks treaty, and said "If you work in this zone you cannot be sued for software patent infringement nor may you file them." You might create a mini-boomlet right there :-)
One argument is that governments, including, specifically, and particularly the US Federal Government, claim "state secrets" with little or no justification.

More tellingly, the US Supreme Court case that is the basis of the State Secrets Doctrine, United States v. Reynolds (1952), was based on deceptive and false claims on the part of the US. In that case, the government argued that it could not be compelled to introduce evidence into the court, or even disclose it in chambers to the justices of the United States Supreme Court, because it would irreparably disclose vital state secrets.

The crash documents were declassified in 2000 (and are available online). In Herring v. United States it was argued (unsuccessfully) that the documents in fact contained no such secrets. In district court an on appeals to the 3rd Circuit, "there was no fraud because the documents, read in their historical context, could have revealed secret information about the equipment being tested on the plane".

Not all are convinced of this. Nor that the case is sufficient justification for the doctrine of state secrets which has resulted from it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/books/02liptak.html?scp=2&...
http://www.barry-siegel.com/ClaimOfPrivilege.html
True. Totally agreed. We are aware of the mentioned issues and will be solving this in the near future.

Thanks for the feedback tho!
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I am pretty tired of this meme (incidentally, often misattributed to Gandhi, but appears to actually come from some guy called Nicholas Klein: * First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.*" [1])

Anyway, the classic duelling-quotes response:

"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan

[1] I find it amusing that not only did Mr Klein never did get the monument he wanted, he is now remembered purely for a comment he made which has been popularly reattributed to someone more famous.
Good idea. I did one of these a while back. https://github.com/theunraveler/SequoiaApp
This is not the place for anecdotal arguments, they aren't productive. Anyone can cite stories of bad behavior on all sides: sidewalk cycling, oblivious jaywalking, and aggressive driving. It's what every cycling article on Gothamist, Streetsblog, and the NY Post stirs up, and I could write out the comments myself and be pretty close to accurate. Nobody wins, and everyone leaves feeling angry - not useful.

The article here is refuting a heavily biased New Yorker piece article by specifically refuting assertions based on fallacious assumptions.

We are where we are - everyone is behaving badly, and all sides are so deeply entrenched in their beliefs the arguments just cause people to dig in further and the ad homs and strawmen appear. HN is better than this.

The situation obviously can't continue, but it's time for a rational discussion of what's most effective, in terms of cost, and transportation efficiency, and safety for the largest number of people.

I'm prepared to have this discussion, and while I'll admit bias in a certain direction on this issue I'm open-minded enough to hear all sides. I'd like others to do the same, and we can all get onto having a fruitful and interesting discussion around solutions.

Some suggestions for potential discussion topics:

- Education/awareness

- Infrastructure costs and benefits (street parking, bike lanes, bus lanes, raised crosswalks, etc)

- Discussion of network effects

- Legislation to punish offenders (relative to cost/potential danger of the offense?)

- Maximum efficiency of moving the largest number of people (measure in average trip time)

- Externalities (pollution, business impact, etc)

- Psychology + behavior understanding and modification
3% for sole technical person at 1/2 market is^H^H seems way too low.
> be exposed to the sun: only reliable way to generate vitamin D in your body (helps bone mineralization)

I think sunlight exposure may be important for a healthy mental state as well. A few years ago I adopted a schedule of sleeping around 10AM and waking up around 6PM. I maintained a reasonable level of sun exposure in the morning, but I would usually wake up shortly after sunset leaving me without sun for the first half of my day. I found that after a few days of this I would wake up every day disappointed that I'd woken up in darkness again. Around this same time period I had no problems waking up at 3PM every day, even though I didn't always go outside while it was still light.
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And yet they require transcripts (or did a few years ago).

Maybe they've learned from past mistakes? Or their model can't handle NA values on some features?
I'm not a parent and don't ever plan to be (not all plans go that way, so my feelings might change on the matter) but I dont really get the whole parenting/having kids thing. I really have no affection for children at all, I dont find babies cute, i dont think kids are darling and i honestly think i'd make an absolutely terrible father because i just dont think im wired that way.

When Jeff talks about the 51% to the 49%, my personal opinion is why even bother devoting 18+ years of effort for a measly 2% payoff? Because, if it WAS worth it, wouldnt it be more than 2%?

I know this is perhaps a controversial opinion but please keep in mind I dont advocate my own views for anyone else. I have friends who i wholeheartedly believe weren't complete until they had kids, they're great parents and its what makes them whole and i think thats brilliant. But kids are like bungee jumping or religion, great for other people, but certainly not for me.
From what I understood from the other comments (site is not working), everything is custom made, unique and handled by one single person, that explains the price, and honestly, it seems okay.

If you outsource to China, you take all those Pros away and the product will turn into another toy factory.
Hope this is as awesome as the last one, Zach! Thanks for putting these on.
> wages only start coming into consideration when the difference is larger

I would think that wage differences would be most important when wages are small. The difference between $5/hr and $6/hr is a lot more important than the difference between $50/hr and $51/hr.

> It is a mistake to assume that there is always a God-given market price that is the "right" price for goods to have. . . . In the case of the minimum wage, society says that labour should have at least a certain price, because that is the morally right thing . . .

I'm not sure what you're trying to say in your last paragraph. There is no such thing as a "morally right" wage. Wages are just prices set by the market unless they are interfered with.

For example, unless you're being paid a government-mandated minimum wage, your wage is set by a mutual agreement between you and your employer. At the time of the agreement, you thought the proposed wage was the best of your options and so did your employer. Had your employer offered you less, then presumably you would have had a better option and would have chosen a different employer. Had you demanded more, presumably your employer would have had a better option and would have chosen a different employee. This is a market wage.

The market, all the people together each choosing as they see best among their various options, this is what generally determines all prices including wages. The market is efficient because each actor chooses what is best for them given the choices of the other actors. Whenever the market is intervened with by government-imposed price controls, like minimum wage, the result is inefficiency (waste): the market acts differently than it would if each actor were free to choose.
We have not decided on this one, but the service will definitely have this feature.
Again, I disagree. I hope recruiters do try to recruit our people. Life is short and where you work is a choice.

And, a startup is more than a job, it's a lifestyle.
Sweden only let one of its smaller banks go bankrupt, in the early 90s, and has never done any QE.
I think 3% is a better employee allocation than many people on HN probably think it is. But:

He's not just first employee; he's the sole technical team member. He doesn't say what he was making prior to the offer, but it may have been less than 1/2 of market rate.

If they're in the valley, 80k is also way below the market for anyone who could execute as sole tech person in a viable startup.

... on the other hand, it depends on the product, too. If the company is building something that a RentACoder could execute, then sole tech person or not, he's replaceable and in a poor position to bargain.
Maybe you are a better founder than employee, and everything worked out for the best for both sides, so the transcript policy is optimal.
> O(L/M) times as many trips

Sorry, I'm really confused. Is this supposed to be "O(M/L)"?

The note about clumped records is valid. That is often the case. Without knowing more about their workload, it's difficult to say whether they have that behavior, but it's quite likely.

As for the fastest DBs, they use column order for a number of reasons. The big thing is that their access patterns are rarely random. They're optimized for scanning on keys. DBs like Fastbit can be extremely fast for whole-table scans. They aren't so fast if you need to find a specific entry. For maximum speed there, you need a dedicated index, and then it doesn't really matter whether the data is stored row-major or column-major.
I implemented a site that had this requirement. Much like the suggestions already here, we found that PayPal was the easiest route.

We used a standard Merchant account (Authorize.Net if I recall) to handle incoming money. For the outgoing money, we had a script that we ran monthly that would calculate the amount due to each member. We then sent that money to each user's paypal account (we required a paypal address upon signup.)

I, too, wish there was a better solution, but I am not immediately aware of one.

I was going to recommend talking to Sahil Lavingia [http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sahillavingia] (Gumroad, etc.) as Gumroad does payouts to users based on the items they sale. If I recall correctly, their incoming payment system uses Stripe. It appears that Gumroad also uses Paypal for paying users, though speaking to Sahil may still give you some additional insight.

Best of luck, I hope this info helps.
Okay, so there's this problem with there not being enough work that people enjoy doing. I don't see why stuff like Etsy is going to be a solution to that. I don't want 99.9% of the stuff I've seen on Etsy. Most of it is crap. I don't think most people will be able to consistently make things that other people want. This does not seem like a solution either.
No worries. That's why I was asking. :-)
I am thinking more of a "turning it into reality" type of concept. Learning kids that they can turn an idea into something (tangible?) might be a valuable lesson.