skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just got my first newsletter. Looking good for an initial release. Some feedback:

Would love to get an index of headlines on top of the email with anchors to actual stories below.

Would love to see shorter summaries and maybe some of the top comments for each story (summarized, if possible).
It's not just startups and small businesses. The JOBS act covers companies with annual income up to $1 billion.

The crowd funding stuff in the bill is great, but it's like a few drops of honey on top of a turd.
Have a new startup or a project? Let's validate (PaloAlto)
One man's hell is another man's heaven.

I'm looking to help validate your startup idea by closely going through the customer development cycle with you. You don't have to pay me, I just want to help out in this process.

Your startup will have an employee to help out at least 20 hours/week. You should be in the Palo Alto or MV area and be able to meetup regularly.

Jonrchamberlin@gmail.com
You know what would be REALLY innovative, if instead on judging the department based on the number of PHDs, they would instead look at the accomplishments of the graduates at 5, 10, 20 and 30 year marks.

There is a community college in Gainesville called Santa Fe (it's now considered a "college" I guess) but their graphic design program had something like a 95 percent job placement IN THAT FIELD.
That Mac should have a black and white screen. Anybody cares to come up with plausible reason how come in photos looks to be color?
LinkedIn: You Are Fired.
Reason #2 is that if necessary, a DuckDuckGoogle can be created in an afternoon's worth of effort in Mountain View.

I can't tell how serious you are with that statement.
Thanks for sharing this, I'm curious to see how well it works out over time. It'd be nice to be able to choose the compression level.

Quality feels at least as good as an open source summarizer I played around with a while back; good work!
Oh, interesting. According to http://www.digibarn.com/collections/weirdstuff/mac-case-sign... the panel shown on Wikipedia matches a very early one. Maybe the other one is later.

Edit: Here's the story from Andy Hertzfeld, one of the signers, explaining why they might have changed over time: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
If it breaks websites that your users require to work, like their bank, of course you can and must go back, security issues be damned.

Google postponed BEAST mitigation several times because of this issue. I'm asking if they're reigning back on that or only on false start.
Etsy Narrows the Gender Gap with a Coding Scholarship for Women
Investing is simply choosing who you want to get to use your money to try to grow.

If you're focussed on returns, unless you have significant control over the companies you invest in, investing anything but a low-overhead tracker of a well-known index is not investing but just plain betting.

If you're not just focused on returns though, you should invest 'on principal' in what you believe in.

I always believed that small companies would in general do/be better, therefore I would've invested in small-caps. Some people want to fund a more eco-friendly world and invest in CleanTech funds. Now if you believe want a world with more startups, you can invest in that.

But yes, having a managed 401k is giving your money to a bunch of dispassionate bureaucrats which in general is not that smart of move.

[EDIT: I didn't know that 401k has tax benefits which might offset the overhead of the bureaucrats.]
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add the list of headlines and I'm thinking about the summaries of the comments... it gets harder to understand them because they can be very context specific.

I'll take a crack and maybe add it as an option.
I ran into this the other day when I was attempting to right-click & "open as new tab" and got so confused.
The Big Break - Accidents are random
Google also has a funny way of counting "shares": if I have 1 million people in my circles and tell them to check a story, 1 million shares just happened ("A million items were shared"). Technically they may be right but it's not how I see it, a million shares would be when a million people share it, not merely get something pushed in their pages.

To answer some comments, I think they are plenty of ways Google can share meaningful, easy to understand stats about G+, if they wanted to.
There Are Now 200,000 People In Everyme (YC S11) Circles
Thanks Mark for the comments and feedback! I appreciate it.
I only take off my watch when I shower. I even go swimming with my watch. Something like this is really slick, but I have trouble as it is remembering to charge my phone...
Show HN: Distinct Color Palette generator using Red-Yellow-Blue colorspace
I'm a developer at Votizen.

Just our voter history (whether a voter actually voted in a particular election) is, on average, 10 rows per voter record. 200 million voter records * 10 history records per voter = ~2 billion rows.
Atmos2: Like Meteor, but works with your old REST API
I only take off my watch when I shower. I even go swimming with my watch. Something like this is really slick, but I have trouble as it is remembering to charge my phone...

I still want one though.
Obviously importance is often not evident immediately after publication. However, I'd be interested in reading a paper published five years ago if people decided just last week that it's awesome.
No , they don't. Facebook is pretty serious about that:

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Monthly Active Users (MAUs). We define a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or took an action to share content or activity with his or her Facebook friends or connections via a third-party website that is integrated with Facebook, in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement. MAUs are a measure of the size of our global active user community, which has grown substantially in the past several years.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001193125120...
Because by contrast, that will be free?
Gamepad.js - a JS library enable using gamepads and joysticks in the browser.
Startups are More Like “Hunger Games” than “The Twilight Saga” – ROBGO.ORG
How Companies (and Startups) Can Get More Twitter Followers
My nose says fake. An extremely rare (but otherwise well documented) item offered for an online-only auction with absolutely no history of the item provided? No auction house would touch this.

The case is probably authentic (the differing signatures pointed out below by joezydeco are good evidence, as is the difficulty of faking 30-year-old, authentic-looking injection molded plastic), and maybe the logic board. The drive could be anything: my memory is that the twiggy thing was just using off the shelf DSDD full height disk hardware (i.e. an IBM PC/XT drive) with a custom controller.
Authenticity is Experience – GenuineVC
Evaluating a 1981 temperature projection
Daniel M. Lewin - co-founder of Akamai and first victim of 9/11 attacks
Show HN: 90 hour project to learn Rails: Roomiies - 'OKCupid for Roommates'
Back To The Future with Datomic
Easy to block a single account. Very time consuming to continually block the same person over and over and over again - especially on a large and very active forum where the admins don't read every post on every thread.
PHP: Innocent Villagefolk or a Pillagin’ Pirate?
Aren't those clauses in there to cover transferring files to CDNs or backup services?

I'd interpret the "Basically" section as a display of their intent, since the full terms require a lot of legalese to protect 500px.

As NyxWulf and other commentators said, the "Basically" sections would probably play a role in a law suit anyway, so they couldn't hide contradicting terms in the left section.
"two months ago" is your own straw man. You made that up.

I'd written the code the day before, and it was failing a pre-commit unit test. As I posted elsewhere, this kind of "forgot the second =" error can compile without warning, esp. within a complex evaluation. The process was running fine, as it caught the existence of the logic error early. That it took hours to find was a matter of tracing symptoms back to cause in an embedded system not easily debugged when running.

One could make a valid argument that this is a problem of language syntax, as everyone has been bit by the = vs == difference. As such, and in line with this thread OP, you'd think a new popular language would learn from that mistake and would not throw === into the mix as a solution to an even more obscure problem (casting a string to a float? really?).
Bomb Threats As a Denial-of-Service Attack
We don't need you to, but ultimately if we want to change this political system, meaning replace the fundraise from large donors > buy television / direct mail > blast you with TV/robocall with something more democratic, you're going to need to be a bit more vocal about what you want from your elected officials, and prove somewhere that you're a voter and you matter.

Our long term vision is to build online electorates, where you come together with people that share your values, and attract candidates to a large voting pool. In a system like that, candidates even with little to no money, can win based on how well they can convince you / match with your values.

Happy to go into further detail!
Not quite.

When people say things like "the engines of the economy, small businesses and startups", they are referring to job growth and innovation. Large businesses have most of the revenue, but small, new businesses are where tomorrow's champions come from:

Each wave of firm startups creates a substantial number of jobs. In the first years following entry, many startups fail [...] but the surviving young businesses grow very fast. In this respect, the startups are a critical component of the experimentation process that contributes to restructuring and growth in the U.S. on an ongoing basis. -- http://www.nber.org/papers/w16300.pdf
Correction: if ( (x = y) && p ) return -1; to avoid -Wall warnings.
Phosphors and white point fashions being what they were, the original Macintoshes had bluish screens. The camera appears to have gone with that and compounded it with some poor decisions about scene lighting.
We can scan your social networks for registered voters you know. Once you know who they are, you can affect their vote by asking them to turn out for who you want. I think the discovery piece is very interesting, even if you're not ready to ask anyone to help you elect a candidate yet. We'll be building more uses in the future.
"At least Blekko was trying to create a better algorithm."

Why the past-tense? Blekko is still alive and kicking. (And I hope they find success, because they're doing amazing technical work. From a purely technical perspective, they deserve ten times the press that DDG is getting.)
Taibbi focused on the aspect of the JOBS act because the angle you propose is already legal and the advertised angle (kickstarter for IPOs) is (as far as he and others are concerned) just a veneer used to sell it to the rubes.
I know that's the standard, but it doesn't appear to work on this one (Studio XPS 16).
Thanks! We are hiring! https://github.com/votizen/careers
This looks less like evidence that the Viking robots found life than evidence that somebody figured out how to get their research topic in the news.

Using techniques this many steps removed from the raw data are irrelevant no matter how clever they are, because there's just too many things that can go wrong with no way to validate what the problem is, without going back and collecting more data. We're not going to come to a consensus about something as big as life on Mars on a result this meta.
At one of Zuck's recent press calls, he said that they had taken a conscious decision to dial down on user numbers and instead talk about the amount of content that people were sharing.
How is this going to work for the vast non-sexy majority of research?
I'm not sure that you know what that saying means.
Reddit users could be held accountable for suicide... say what?
Well it's a good list, I guess it would be most useful to student looking for a career in front-end, you got the next couple of years of skill required right there.

Then I agree with you, web publishing did not change that much, 3 years ago it was a bunch of js plugins together + nice html templates and well, it is still that currently. And I know loads of front-end that only know basic js with a svn client and get by.

Then you got js web apps. There you got a world of difference. It is limitless and evolving like crazy
I know a lot of business/programmer types, and most of them remind me of Architects (not the IT or App ones, but the ones that makes buildings). They (b/p types) also tend to take a kind of "Master Builder" road, kind of "creative but profesional", with the potential too look beyond the product up to society itself, even to the point of considering philosophical and economical trends to 'get' how it 'all fits together'(the kind of humanistic contextualization that Architects do).

More often than not, at least in my experience, they also tend to learn design. Maybie not to the specialist level, but to be able to talk to them, coordinate with them, and to get the 'feel' and articulate the vision of a system.
Yes, and that is because "(x == y) && p" should be written as"x == y && p" according to gcc. If you add the brackets gcc takes that as a sign that you really wanted to do an assignment.
Yes, definitely. One of the really interesting things happening in the startup space right now is substantially increased transparency for advisors and investors. E.g.: https://www.leanlaunchlab.com/

On the other hand, there's a problem with publishing too much information: competitors. If for a modest investment I could buy access to the details of our compeitors' QuickBooks accounts and product plans, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Still, I agree with your basic point; publishing information is so much cheaper and easier than in the past that we can shift radically in the direction of increased transparency without imposing significantly greater costs on businesses. If that increases the pool of capital available for innovation, society will be net better off.
"have you ever known anyone around you starving to death?"

No, I do not know anyone immediately around me starving to death. However, that is partly because my friends, family, community, and I will spend our resources preventing that. I do hope that we come together as a community and do what we can so that people can earn resources more effectively, even if what they're doing is not what is traditionally defined as "work".

I do worry that it is in the interests of certain members of our society that poverty should exist as a moral incentive to others.
$1M/28 hours = $850k/day

$1b/2 years = $1.4m/day

Still less than Instagram.
Amazon releases its private-sale website: MYHABIT
"But the irony is that real bubbles sneak on you. Hardly anyone sees them coming. So keep screaming bubble, it makes me feel safe."

I think there is a bubble and I can accept the rest of your viewpoint, but this part is not true. Most people who have a well developed understanding of an industry and basic financial sense easily recognize bubbles and have always done so in the past. The people who it sneaks up on are those who listen to the media and listen to their friends who listen to the media. Bubbles typically start out of real economic growth. The problem is that they outgrow market indicators when you get too many lemmings playing the telephone game and ignoring fundamentals. From what I see around the bay area there seem to be a lot of indicators of this social dynamic playing out. There is lots of money chasing other money to nowhere but Ill agree its not as bad as it was in 2000.
2012 Founders' Letter (re Effective Stock Split)
The repercussions for misusing this data are pretty severe. This isn't a slap on the wrist, and we take securing that data seriously.
I installed Octave on my windows machine last year in order to participate in Stanford's Open Classroom Machine Learning course and was surprised to find all of the gnu-tools installed (MinGW) and that they worked seamlessly in the Cmd console or in Powershell.

As much as I love Linux and find that I learn much more about C and computers in general by using Linux, it isn't as difficult to go back and forth as you say.
That's awesome, they should definitely have a link to this page on their pop-up :)
Sure.

Mostly extensibility. I know BBEdit has made some strides here but there's no community behind it. I'm basically stuck with whatever Bare Bones ships in the current version. TextMate and Sublime on the other hand have a giant buffet of functionality provided by users. Want code completion for Go or CoffeeScript? Done. Want to add plugins to handle Git from the editor? Done.

That's not to say BBEdit is bad, just that I never use it for writing text. I used to use it quite a bit when the editor of choice was TextMate simply because the find and replace was so slow and horrible, but now that I've switched to Sublime, it's not even on my dock.

There's something about it though.. I'd like to use it more as I find the aesthetics clean and appealing. There's something about loading up a new app and having a CVS menu (and yeah, I know you can disable it with one click) show up by default that makes it feel a little old. Until it gets more extensions and a command line tool from the editor, I dunno. It's probably staying in the closet.
Sorry dude, your home-brew encryption scheme (not AES) is trivially breakable.

All messages with the same key are XORed with the same stream of data, given more than one message encrypted with the same key that is trivially reversible - see any cryptography text book for details. Your "seed" doesn't help because you include it in the message...
> the author of the original post Kelly Faircloth is a woman too. that also deflates the notion that the headline, picture, and phrasing in the text was sexist.

Women can be sexist against women. In fact, any member of a group may hold prejudices against that same group, even without realizing it or believing that they are engaging in that kind of behavior or attitude, so the gender of the article's author isn't really relevant as to whether or not this piece is sexist in this instance.
Most wristwatches don't run apps and interface with your smartphone.
New Macbook Pro
Surprised I haven't seen this here. Apple quietly released the new MBP in the last couple of days. http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/
So jQuery's has gotten better and YUI's has gotten worse?

I just know that when I did try it (2009) I felt the same as I do today.
Google Plans To Split Shares 2-for-1
Now isn’t that swell. Enable people with an extreme financial incentive to spin the truth, or outright lie about the numbers, a 5-year get-out-of-jail cover

Removing independent accounting requirements isn't the same thing as making fraud legal.
OpenPhoto for iPhone
Section 201 of HR 3606 says

> Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission shall revise subsection (d)(1) of section 230.144A of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations, to provide that securities sold under such revised exemption may be offered to persons other than qualified institutional buyers, including by means of general solicitation or general advertising...

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr3606/text

They no longer have to limit their pre-prospectus info to qualified investors - it is now wide open to advertising to everyone. And instead of only selling to qualified investors, they now can sell to anyone that the seller reasonably believe is a qualified institutional buyer. I can imagine the conversations now: "I can only sell to qualified investors wink, so since you want to buy it, I believe that you are a qualified investor!"
I was very impressed with Meteor, but it is very new and isn't really bringing anything of substance to the table yet. Everything (other than client-side database interaction, which I am confused about who would want), that they spotlighted can be duplicated easily with backbone, node, and socket.io...right now. Moreover, backbone, in particular, is clearly a tool, like a screwdriver, that does a few things well and gets out of your way, whereas Meteor, like rails used to be, is more like an electronic lockpick...awesome magic for the limited scope of applicability, but not currently useful for most of the things you want to do in real life.
As a gadget freak and a hacker, I love this product. But I wonder how many people use a watch these days. Of course this is no ordinary watch, but when you have a supercomputer (in the shape of a phone) in your pocket, is it really needed? I suppose it's great for sports, but I'm not sure whether it has mass market potential (selling ~10K in a few hours is amazing, but isn't mass market yet). I'm actually on the fence with this one...

In general I think that watches will make a comeback only if they become the phone. Maybe Pebble will be well positioned to do that in the future (remember iPod -> iPhone?).

BTW It's nice to see a hardware company coming out of YC. Also nice to know that Eric is from Vancouver. Good luck Pebble! I'll buy one as soon as I stop being a starving bootstrapper.
Heroku / Asset Pipeline FAQ
It is weird that the prototype has the "February 10, 1982" engraved in the mold just like the image on DigiBarn and Folklore. However perhaps the engraver was following the image so correctly that they copied that as well. On the OTHER hand, that date engraving looks almost too detailed to be real.

The molder and engraver did and still do exist. Funny thing, they're not too far from where I'm typing this now. Small world.
These social conditioning arguments are always non-sequiters. At some point you have to ask yourself, what conditions society? Something has to create the condition where people begin to notice that engineering and tech is kind of a male thing and, say, nursing, is kind of a female thing on average. Something must have created that original pattern for people to notice it. It doesn't just come out of the ether. Once the pattern exists, it's probably reinforced, but you can't tell me that with all the effort that goes into getting girls into STEM, the tide wouldn't have been turned by now had the phenomenon been based purely on nurture. Plus, you see this pattern all over the world. And it's always evident that there's bias in this argument because nobody gets upset when somebody points out that most elementary school teachers are women. And that leads me to think that there's a lot of people (of the female variety) who deep down believe that what men do is superior to what women do. And that's sad, because it's entirely untrue.
It's not like they built new DCs, networks, and fleet management tools for EC2 hosts. It's all running in the same computing environment.
Does it really? Does everyone that sees a Like button actually understand what it does? I suspect not, and that a bunch of people click it just because they like the site and thing it looks fun to press. The same logic would say that anyone who hits a +1 button next to a search result is a Google+ user, which is equally silly.

I agree that numbers would be good here: how many Likes (or +1's) are hit by users without other recent activity?
I personally don't want algorithmically summarized content, I want manually summarized content by knowledgeable HN users. It's half the reason I click into the comments 99% of the time before clicking into the linked article. I want interesting insight along with a good summary of what the main points were being communicated. There's just no way automatically generated summaries can compete with that.
$(".site-logo").on("contextmenu",function(){
return $.facebox({div:"#logo-popup"},"logo-popup clearfix"),!1})

TIL about ContextMenu[1] and Facebox[2] in Jquery

[1] http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/jqueryContextMenu
[2] http://defunkt.io/facebox/