skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to meet people like this because of attitudes like this. I have three designers on my team who are also world-class engineers, yet they often don't advertise themselves as such because they run into the "well if they do both they can't be good at either" attitude.

No-one bats an eye when an engineer also turns out to be a fantastic musician, or when an engineer drives great product decisions, yet somehow being able to code and understand design is an impossibility?

We're here to build great things - code and design are mutually-beneficial skills in your toolbox; your brain is not zero-sum.
Hmm. Selection bias perhaps? How many medical devices, nano materials, chemical sensors and life science, etc. startups applied to the last Y-Combinator cohort? The hundreds of hard science teams I see every year don't send you applications.
Getting 1 in 12 onto your mailing list isn't bad (of course, the cost is too high for those 12 clicks, but still). How is it targeted to followers? Do they put the tweet in front of people that would care about it?
Agreed, Facebook stopped being a 'startup' a while ago, but I was talking about their startup phase.
The most important/useful item on your list was #5.

Once you have a good Mentor, he or she can help you to avoid the other 4 problems in your list.

Find a Mentor who has a track record of success who can articulate how she achieved her success and learned from her failures. Buy that Mentor lunch every week or so, and get her thoughts on your pivots, the hours you're working, and your whole business model.

Informally commit to some goals in front of the Mentor and stick with them. If you get some other ideas like you want to pivot on your product, change your sales strategy, or dramatically alter your work schedule; try to satisfy your need to change by writing down the changes you're thinking about and then putting them aside to get back to the goals you set with your Mentor. At your next Mentor lunch, bring up the change ideas and get her feedback before deciding on your next short-term goals.

I'm not saying to let someone run your business or rule your life. All I'm suggesting is that you increase the speed that you're learning how to succeed by capitalizing on the successes and failure of someone else.

Like the saying goes, "A fool learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise man learns from the mistakes of others."
2012 Toyota Camry
Give a try to both and compare. Since you were resolute enough to make a switch out of performance concerns, you can as well switch again ;) Personally I never found Firefox to be performing bad enough to switch, even though Chrome could be better some time ago.
I suppose it's strange to say this on HN where the markup is, well, atrocious, but after using Markdown for ages in varieties of places, it's simply more pleasant to use for the "advanced" user who doesn't want to memorize hotkeys or highlight and press buttons to give their text some basic simple formatting.

It's a hit on reddit, GitHub and more for a good reason. They could have whitelisted things as well, but they chose not to.
One is referring to facebook page clicks. The other is talking about those who followed through to his site.
This would have been cleaner with Moonscript: https://github.com/leafo/moonscript
not sure about anyone else around here but this fella http://i.imgur.com/Q3d6N.png has popped up twice for me in the first 5 minutes of setting up.
No, it wasn't possible.
Is that what Blank is arguing though?

I remember listening to your office hours at TC Disrupt, when you were talking to the guy from Omniplaces. You said: "This is commercialized research? Ouch. It’s often a solution in search of a problem..." (Of course, that was part of a broader commentary about how the startup shouldn't be competing with Google in search, which I don't necessarily disagree with.)

But I think that's what he's talking about. Sun, Google, Cisco, Akamai, VMWare, and a variety of other technology companies came fairly directly out of commercialized university research in systems, databases, networking, virtualization. Are there YC companies that are commercialized university research? Such companies at the very least seem very different from companies like Airbnb which seem like they evolved from a consumer problem rather than innovative technology. What's more, it seems like basing investing decisions on current consumer behavior and problems seems much more sensible than doing so based on technology, which is what Blank seems to be arguing and what you seemed to be arguing at Disrupt.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/tc-disrupt-office-hours-wit...
I actually like having a temporary variable name in the block to help me follow things, but this will probably appeal to some people.
Wouldn't #1 be an argument for testing to pick the best color (or at least a big part of any decision) - it doesn't matter what the designer picks, it matters what people see!
I disagree - though I concede its a semantic argument (and I wasn't referring to its private sales - which is valid), but the $38 price was dictated by FB and propped up (artificially) by MS it was not market set. I think that's reinforced by the drop we've seen today when the underwriters aren't there to prop the price up.
A Ring of Fire: The 2012 Annular Eclipse
Not necessarily. I have seen people apply themselves well at school and also seen people half-assing through startups.
This really made me sad. I had no idea this guy had died. He inspired the author of 'Born To Run.' The book inspired me to start running several years ago and to consequently lose 50 lbs. and become who I am today.
RIP Caballo.
White House Cybersecurity Boss - Who Argued Against Overhyping Threats - Resigns
Why lock up the code from the spine tutorial in images?
Papers from the Distributed Systems group, University of Amsterdam
This site crashes Mac completely if you open it with Chrome
I don't know who else to ask to try this, but I've noticed that more and more people are reporting that when they visit my portfolio with Chrome (www.turshija.com) their computer crashes completely ...
I have the same problem with my MacBook Pro with newest stable Chrome, If I open the page, my screen freezes and sometimes I hear weird beeps (same as RAM failure), but that thing happens to almost all Macbooks and iMacs I've tried (to be precise exactly 2 macbooks and 1 iMac) ..
And recently more and more Windows and Ubuntu users started reporting the same problem, but most of them say that they can kill Chrome without reseting PC ...
I've reported this issue here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=121089
But they don't look so interested, even though I think this can be exploited badly, like making invisible iframe on some page or masking it with some url shorteners and make people click on it ...
The main problem is that sometimes after crash, my Chrome profile gets corrupted, so I have to reinstall it or delete some files to be able to access bookmarks or password storage ...
Can anyone else confirm this by visiting www.turshija.com with Chrome (be prepared for crash, so save all your work before visiting the link) ?
Audi eBike - bicycle that goes (80 km/hr) or (50 mph).
Here's why I created cull.io. An easy way to conduct your interview round 1
Lunchspire: made in 6hrs, but dead in 6 days
So I subscribed to this lunch on Lunchspire when it hit HN's frontpage last week. The site is down already!
What? This is completely wrong. The owners don't completely cash out at the IPO. I don't know exactly how much Zuck ended up selling at the IPO, but after some quick googling I found an article from a couple of weeks ago stating

Zuckerberg, who holds a total of 533.8 million shares, would sell 30.2 million shares in the IPO — garnering about $1.05 billion in cash at the high end of the proposed price range of $28- $35 for the sale of shares.

So in otherwords Zuckerberg is worth $1 billion in cash and has 534 million shares of FB. If FB goes to zero before he sells the rest of his stock on the market, his net worth drops by something like $19 billion.
Improved Search in Gmail
I remember emailing Mike more than 10 years ago (as an aspiring high school student) about getting an internship at Sequoia and getting a very thoughtful response from him. In hindsight, I'm surprised I even received a response.

I wish him and his family the best.
I can confirm this. When my co-founder and I told PG we were working on a mobile social network around movie trailers, he hated the idea, and told us we would have a hard time and that we should build more important technology.

We wouldn't have arrived where we are today without building what we built, so I hesitate to call it a mistake, but PG was right in the end :)
You can probably guess; Ubuntu. I wanted to check out Unity. I ended up going with Mont though. Windows 7 doesn't come bloated as far as I can tell, but I built the PC myself and installed an OEM version, so no third party bloat ware. I realize this is atypical.
Will this work with git repos on bitbucket? I use bitbucket because I can have unlimited private repos for free.
The short URL feature doesn't work. The short URL created is http://0bin.net/paste/undefined
I'm a last year medical student.

I don't think it's HIV. HIV is nowadays more of chronic "condition". Since the modern drugs were introduced quite "recently" we don't really have any hard facts on the impact on life expectancy but the prognosis is good.

When he says his quality of life is likely to decrease I think maybe neurodegenerative disease... Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's etc... This is pure speculation.

I hope no one is offended by this post. It's pure speculation based on the wording of the letter and Mr. Mortiz has of course every right to privacy.

Sorry about spelling/grammar. Non native speaker.
Lisbon JS Early Bird Imminent
I'd love to integrate it with my KType application ( http://ktype.net ) or build a new software that converts hand gestures / ASL to speech. I think it's totally doable and would be a lot of fun technically too. What do you think?
https://github.com/OscarGodson/EpicEditor
I am interested in knowing how you integrated chromium in your .net app??? Could you share that info or blog about it?
Yes I agree that Opera has had lots of great ideas, many which have later been introduced into the 'mainstream' browsers and yet they (Opera) fail to generate any marketshare.

Perhaps it is because it's closed sourced, I don't know.

Personally I went with Firefox rather than Opera back in the day mainly due to Firefox extensions (nowadays Opera supports extensions aswell) and have stuck with it since I know it so well and it works fine.
It's designed to look like Metro, the style Microsoft is adopting for Windows 8. Zune was an early iteration of Metro.
After reading the article, Discovered that instead of

["1","2","3"].map{|s| s.to_i}
=> [1, 2, 3]

we can also do

["1","2","3"].map(&:to_i)
=> [1, 2, 3]

This worked for me on Ruby 1.9 out of the box. And I think its an useful shortcut especially when its part of core ruby language & works WITHOUT using any external gems.
Why you should drop out of college: Peter Theil's thoughts
Thank you for persisting! I hope others don't have the same awkward experience and give up.
This doesn't appear to be Twitter's ad product. It's someone (@NeowinFeed) posting an ad on their Twitter stream for pay, so no targeting - all @NeowinFeed's followers see it.
Two attempts, two crashes. Still a little rough.
I like. Even made it to the pre-ordering page but seeing as how they're not using a 3rd party pay option (google checkout, paypal etc.) I realized I was about to give my CC info to an unknown business with a release date 6+ months out... So, on second thought, I'll wait.
Most likely because a lot of startups don't know how to use it.

But don't worry. Im working on that.
Leins against real property, wage garnishments, etc.
It's not completely wrong. I never said the owners cash out entirely. But in terms of the company raising money, the IPO is pretty much it.

Perhaps I was a little too loose with my terminology though, to the point of being confusing. Instead of "owner" I should have said "company" in that paragraph.
Yes, it works with any local git repository. I have a git repo linked to bitbucket and I could use this tool to open it and work on it.
How much should one new user cost?

(As an anecdotal sidenote: my work's firewall blocked the bsa.ly domain on the basis of "adware".)
Ummm... No, no thanks. We're not all UI designers. We just hired a UX guys because I, as a systems engineer, am more valuable creating hardware interfaces than user interfaces. You still need guys like me making things work behind the scenes and that's where my time is best spent.
by default nodetime reports back to nodetime.com to display the results. But that's just the default. It can be set to report to any server and/or the console.
It's a pretty good watch. It also profiles several of the kids who dropped out of college to take $100,000 from Theil to create their own companies.
"the big bet is that some of those users. . . will some day pay a lot of money to Facebook. For what?"

Surprised to see zero mention of "credits" in the article.

Credits was $557-million in 2011 and expected to grow 4x this year.

That alone isn't going to justify the valuation, but still odd to leave out of the discussion.

ref - http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/22/40-billion-facebook-credits...
JugglerShu/XVim: Modal editing for Xcode 4
How is the state stored for "natural style" functions? Is this continuation style something that Lua supports natively?
This petition is being put together specifically in response to a meeting of Open Access advocates with Obama's Science Advisor. This administration understands the issue and wants to gauge the degree of public interest. In short: while skepticism about petitions in general is warranted, this is one that can make a real difference.
Consider you have two of these things close together:

[10, 11, 12].map{|x| x.to_s(16)}
[:baz, :bam, :bar].map{|x| x.to_s(16)}

At least for me, I tie the 'x's together in my head; so I have to concentrate to realise that there are two different 'x's.

I've not done any formal research into this, it would be interesting to see whether there's actually a perceivable difference between the two styles.
Finally! I've spent many hours scratching my head trying to get connected to github through windows. I'm pleased to see this tool out.
What's the difference to a user since (afaik), the desktop is the only app shown when it's being worked with?
Thanks for sharing the stats on your end. Advertising as a whole is a test and check game. You test different placements, find what works, and continue on that path. We have many advertisers very happy with their sponsored tweets through BSA.

If you're interested we could help make recommendations of accounts that may have a more relevant audience. Let me know if there is anything else we can help with. Send us an email at support@buysellads.com if you'd like to discuss further.
Apple set some standards with the iPhone, but Android brought smartphones to the masses. I would go as far as evolutionary for the iPhone, but it was still a niche product. Some of the cars that existed before Ford were pretty slick, but few people owned one.

Credit for revolutionizing a market should go to whatever brings it to that market in large enough numbers to matter. This is why we usually credit Ford for revolutionizing transportation, even though many interesting automobiles preceded his.

It's hard to see from the SV bubble, but most people were introduced to smartphones with Blackberry and Android. It wasn't long ago that the iPhone was seen as an interesting toy used by celebrities and a few friends by people outside of tech circles.
Yes... which is exactly what the author said. Now try using a method that takes a parameter or chained method calls.
Good on Github for not closing it off.
Errbit: Instant-Setup, Open Error-catching for your apps on Cloudfuji
That would be fascinating to know, even though it probably wouldn't change anything.
Exactly! The real issue here is opportunity cost. Yes, we could have a much cheaper academic publishing system if we did it without the paywalls and the profiteering corporations. But that savings are as nothing compared with all the new application avenues that will open up when research is freely available.
I think we've accidentally conflated two things here.

Graduate school is certainly a good selector for invention: PhD school is all about research, and therefore invention, by definition. These folks in academia and in certain companies did found the hacker culture.

However, that hacker culture has now become strongly dissociated from Silicon Valley "hacker culture", which has by now become more about "innovation" and entrepreneurship than about actually building new, awesome stuff.

EDIT: It appears we're violently agreeing.
http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/
I really like Git Extensions.

http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/
Don't know if it's mature enough but have you looked at NSync (https://github.com/xpaulbettsx/NSync)?

Considering that Paul has been working on it and yet choose to go with ClickOnce, I am guessing it's not ready for prime time but it might be worth looking into anyway.
Take a look at https://github.com/zacharyvoase/dotfiles/blob/master/zshrc
The Oatmeal's Response to Forbes
He chose not to disclose it for a reason, I'd respect his rights to privacy.

If he wished to, Mr. Moritz could bring considerable attention and resources to the issue. Perhaps he is waiting for the right moments to do so.

HIV/AIDS is unlikely for a couple of reasons. First, it isn't exactly rare. Second, quality of life can be maintained for quite a while with modern treatments.
I use TortoiseGit (and was a long time user of TortoiseSVN before that), but I find it to be a poor substitute for the command line. I feel like they tried to make the names of git commands more user friendly, but having already grown accustomed to misnomers like "git checkout" it often takes me a little while to find the right action in TortoiseGit.
Also, there's some application for lambdas, here:

ruby-1.9.3-p0 :001 > double = -> x { x * 2 }
=> #<Proc:0x000001009236e0@(irb):1 (lambda)>
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :002 > double[2]
=> 4
ruby-1.9.3-p0 :003 > [1].map(&double)
=> [2]
As cool as this looks - and don't get me wrong, it looks like great fun - what happens when the iPhone 5 is too big to fit in the guitar dock?
A lot of people assume that making all research that included federal grant money free to the public would be unilaterally good. I like the idea in general because I actually like to read scientific papers sometimes, but my primary interest is to maximize the amount of research that happens. Or more precisely to maximize the speed at which we acquire knowledge/technology.

Are there any existing examples of places where this has been put into practice that we can compare to see which state of affairs is better? I'm unsure it would be beneficial because most of the public wouldn't read/understand the actual journal articles anyway, and I expect most of the scientists who do work in the field already have subscriptions. I'm worried there might be harm because government mandates of all kinds very often have negative unintended consequences and I'm curious what those might be for this area.
You're right. I just tried it (not with the leap hardware) - the inability to "lift up" off the paper without leaving the sensor zone is weird. No haptic feedback when you're on the "paper" and not.
"I invest time and money into writing a book that incorporates research, I'd want a return on that investment."

If you're an academic, you won't get it. The way academic publishing works is that you do the research, write it up, prepare the illustrations, then sign over copyright of the whole lot to a publisher such as Elsevier. They will then publish the book, make a tidy profit, and pay you: nothing. Nothing at all.
I only found out that feature by accident, I agree that its a great way to ensure the code you're talking about is immutable in a pull request.
"Scary crypto stuff"? So you don't understand how PKI works and you're trying to use distributed source control? (I say this not to be a jerk, but because there aren't exactly a wealth of good alternatives given it is a distributed source control mechanism. PKI comes with the territory and an SSH key generation is part of that)

GitHub doesn't take any more setup than a standard Git setup takes (well, outside of signing up, a very short process anyhow). Install the Git client via the Windows installer, (point and click, a minute, tops). Generate an SSH key. Upload the id_rsa.pub. Done. I mean, it would be one thing if they left users in the dark about this, but I'm fairly sure that the "Thanks for signing up page" links directly to the OS-specific meticulous step-by-step instructions of generating the key.

I'm not sure you understand what it means to be flamed. Every one of the comments is specific about your misconceptions and why signing up for a GitHub account is as trivially easy as signing up for a Twitter account. (Using GitHub as an oAuth account does not require actually uploading a public key)
I also have this problem. I let it commit and push the commit just to see what would happen and the commit seems to have deleted and then re-added my files. Even after cloning a repository it wants me to make a commit like this. Afterwards it seems to work as expected though.
An Experiment in Homelessness
looks like a slightly modified version of the steeef theme from ohmyzsh

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/themes
I feel like this could be a great thing but the way it's presented doesn't convince me that it is. Is the gtar an instrument for making music or is it something to help you learn to play a real guitar. If it's the latter then how does it compare with other learning methods, what are the advantages etc. If it's the former then it would be nice to hear how it sounds and what it can do. Other than the last few seconds of the video I have no idea about what the thing sounds like.
Nano nod for lab-on-a-chip
Where would you go instead?
Not to nitpick, but there is a stereo aspect to it. The IR projector is offset laterally from the IR camera, and this is critical to evaluating the depth, because the disparity of the IR dots is more extreme the greater the distance between the emitter and the camera.
Show HN: Social Baseball Management Game
I've been working on a Social Baseball Management Game for a little bit, and the basics are working. Want to see what people think. I am pretty new to coding so I have been teaching myself as I go. Thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
My favourite: http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/

One single powerful window instead of explorer right-click menus, feels more productive for me. Great support for PuTTY (needs some tricks with KiTTY) but also works with openssh.
This seems like an interesting concept and the LEDs should make it easier to see which strings need to be played. I'm curious how it compares to the Rocksmith video game which is played with a real guitar (which I haven't tried).

There is considerably more risk with this project than many other Kickstarter projects as the lowest tier is $350 -- if the project fails and the GTar is never made that's quite a bit more money to lose than a ~$20 video game.
Now we just need GitHub for Linux.
Though Linux might not like it.
I'm 50% excited by the idea of an assistive guitar.
And I'm 50% excited by having LEDs all over my guitar neck.
Yes and it's actually really easy to do, it's built right into Visual Studio. The downsides are that you can't really do anything with it after you've set them (like at application runtime), the associations don't always work for some reason, and if the associations get changed by other applications you can't reset them unless the user re-runs the installer.