skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll check your entries to make sure that we've mapped everything correctly (zip code, vehicles, etc.). If there are any date-related fields (like speeding tickets) or discounts, we'll check those to make sure we've correctly applied each carrier's rules. We do this all anonymously, of course.

The only thing we need to do this is just to have the e-mail address that you used on leaky.com and we'll do the rest. So _please_ email us at sayhi at leaky dot com so that we can correct your results.
What IE8 window chrome?
Are you working on a way to develop and delpoy apps on your platform without shipping the entire source code to the app to the browser? I'm guessing there are a lot of people who don't mind their source code being sent to each user, but I think there are many of us who would love to use your platform that would prefer not to do that.

Congrats on the funding!
It is only fair to note that Motorola added ActiveSync (Exchange integration) to their Android builds long before Google added it.
That is not the room I am talking about.
Why are email scams written in broken English? [Quora]
Absolutely.

At Game Closure, one of the foremost features of our SDK is our cross platform (all Android devices as well as iOS) engine.
My attitude toward automated teaching is the same as my attitude toward automated cars: you won't beat the best humans (in the near future), but you'll probably rival or beat the average humans (mediocre training, tired, grumpy, etc.)

I had enough teachers who were barely able to grasp the material themselves, vindictive, or emotionally unfulfilled in their personal lives, that I'd rather have learned from a book, computer, and videos. But hey, maybe dealing with crazy or incompetent educators is an important socialization step for young people...
That's a whole lot of startups..
When you say "the most recent batch was not only the largest ever, but also the best", I have to ask that the "best" is based on what metrics?
On average, in aggregate, everyone, the problem they're solving, age, education, experience, willingness to put in effort, IQ, etc.
When the market arranges itself to pay servers 10-15% less than what the prevailing rate would be without tipping, the market is saying that servers are entitled to tips just for doing their job.

It is indeed true that servers expect a 15% tip simply in exchange for competently performing their job. So do their employers, and so do the majority of restaurant patrons.

I'm very unlikely to ever end up eating in a restaurant with you. I mostly do not care whether you tip or not. But the parallels between this thread and threads about software pricing are spooky: it's as if the part of the brain that enables most people to understand pointers-to-pointers and function pointers somehow cancels out some of the part of the brain that enables people to intuit how markets work.

Suffice it to say I am geeking out over this issue, not moralizing about it. Although: there's a moral component, and as a message board nerd, I'll pitch a little fit if we pretend that there isn't one. :)
Does anyone know what this puts their valuation at?
Nice! Looks a lot better than what VIA is doing. At least the CPU is reasonably powerful.
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Ho Hum.

What we need to do is sample return from the moon's north pole and see if there really is a glacier there!
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Yes, we do that :)
Curating something like that long-term would be a lot of work, lots of additional information you could insert, I'd look at sites that track YC startups for inspiration. (maybe not limit to Israel as Israeli startups probably prefer to be seen as part of a global picture rather than an exhibit for Israel, which to me is a tired and worn out angle: perhaps a Euro focus with a strong Israeli contingent)

add: if you really want to live on the edge, do something about startups with Jewish founders, again with a strong Israeli component. Clarifying, you got a troll comment on the Business Insider article:

"I am sure there is some article out there about "15 of Silicon Valley's hottest startups in 2012" (or would you then also comment on how many of them are run by Jews?). "

Well, why not just do that ?!?
http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4efe7824eab8ea3e7900001e

Ask Zuck, Levchin, Musk and Brin for sponsorship.
D*ng, LiquidSummer. I've been using this service for almost a year with no problem, and you broke it. :)

It appears that, because it recursively calls it, the call eventually times out. (Google App Engine has this time limit of 10~30 seconds.) I'm not sure if I'll have a solution for this, but I can at least catch the exception. I'll need to look into it further.

Thanks for finding this bug!
What a computer can't teach you
What many critics don't really understand about Coda is that it's not necessarily trying to compete with the Textmates, Sublime Texts or Vims out there. As I've used it for years, I believe this tool is built with front-end developers in mind who primarily work with HTML and CSS amongst others.

Rather, I'd make the argument that Coda is the replacement for Dreamweaver. They have similar feature sets but Coda is less clunky than Dreamweaver has traditionally been.

Coda could become an amazing development tool if they allowed something like Sublime Text's Package Control and extensibility of the plugins from that type of architecture. When I go to other editors like Sublime Text, sometimes I sorely miss a Coda's code hinting, default file browser and GUI FTP client.
Try not tipping and returning regularly to the same restaurant. Do you get a better outcome? If you’re a waiter, try negotiating a higher salary with your employer in exchange for telling diners that they need not tip. How does your salary negotiation work out?

You could try opening a restaurant, paying higher wages, and telling patrons they needn’t tip. It might work out for you. What I personally think will happen is that someone will notice that you charge approximately 15% more than your competition to cover your higher labour costs. In effect you’ll be just like those places that impose a mandatory “service charge” on meals.

So someone will figure it out and write a blog post saying how much they hate mandatory service charges and you should let them decide whether to pay less than 15% if the service is terrible. And we’d be back to square one.
Oklahoma State Wants To Patent A Steak
Data.gov Celebrates Third Anniversary - semanticweb.com
Two different issues got mixed together here, and I wasn't good at distinguishing them in my comments.

It should take five minutes for them to learn the basics of public key crypto so that their eyes don't glaze over when you say "public key", "private key", "fingerprint", or "RSA". I consider this basic knowledge absolutely essential for anyone using these concepts, even indirectly. Without it, you're dangerous.

Once those concepts are in place, it shouldn't even take five minutes for them to understand what SSH is doing, because SSH is a very simple and obvious application of the concepts. It should be self-evident from the brief discussions in github's instructions what is going on.

And once you've taken the five minutes to understand the concepts, not being dangerous is likewise simple and obvious:

* Put a good passphrase on your key.

* Don't share your key with others.

* Don't type in the passphrase for your key on any computer you don't trust at least as much as your own.

Notice how these aren't fundamentally different from protecting a password.

We are talking about inherently intelligent people with a good capacity for learning. It is mind-boggling to me that anyone would argue that these people should not have to spend five minutes to understand at even the most basic, limited level, how critical tools they want to use work.
Oh, I'm sure this will run lynx with no problem at all! ;) It appears to me, though, nowadays most people prefer nice graphic interfaces, free-style layouts, visual and audio effects.

The whole multimedia thing, you know.

Also, this Android box costs and weighs a fraction of that wonderful machine you used to serve 1000 of users.

So I'd still call it a progress worth 25 years of technology evolution.
Because having both a DVI and a HDMI port is redundant. HDMI is backwards compatible with DVI so you can convert DVI <-> HDMI easily, but not VGA which is analog.
Avengers GUI Design
Someone should explain to this guy the concept of bootstrapping.

Saying that a man should be allowed to dream big and NASA are the ones who we should be laughing at considering they currently cant even send a man 100 miles into space.

Hopefully Elon and the new generation of space entrepreneurs will remedy this over time.
The Oatmeal Responds to Forbes Regarding Tesla
Mageia 2 released
The only problem is when you design a similar minimalistic theme, everybody will say you're copying Svbtle.
Good. Looking at the utter shit they feed children in the UK under the guise of school dinners, it's nice to see someone documenting it. I send my children in with a proper packed lunch and their friends take the piss out of them because it's NOT processed shit.

I don't get humans sometimes.
I added a Getting Started [1] page to the GitHub wiki and I included a very simple example adventure [2].

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[1]: https://github.com/shawndumas/adventure.lua/wiki/Getting-Sta...

[2]: https://github.com/shawndumas/adventure.lua/blob/master/xamp...
Yeah, I wouldn't bet money on it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened, either.
Whatshouldwecallme for hackers
Your reply just reiterates my point because you're doing the same thing the post author does. In between the talk of version control, his post is laced with allusions that people working with technologies he doesn't (PHP & mySQL in this case) are a bunch of dumb baddies.

Why would someone possibly care enough to go out of there way to write a blog post condemning them. I just don't get it. This seems like a popular tactic in the Ruby and Python communities although it's toned down enough over the last few years that I thought this movement was about over. This post just helped remind me it isn't.
I wish. The story with me was that I had already quit to go to another startup. I knew there was a rumor about a secret room so I decided to go look for it. I found it and it was pretty awesome. Maybe 10 Aeron chairs around a glass and metal table with 3-4 50" LED-TVs on the wall. Wish I had taken a picture but I was already pretty nervous I was somewhere I wasn't supposed to be.
If we are going to build a ship from fiction, we probably should start with the Discovery One from 2001.
And the injustice is in the system itself. An employer that decides to pay 10-15% less because that's how the market has arranged it to be is bullshit.

I'm not saying I don't understand how the market works, I just like to call bullshit when I see it. The market shouldn't be structured in the way that employers can excuse themselves for paying a less than a competitive wage, just because it's an accepted system.

In contrary to my opinions on "expecting/feeling entitled to a tip", I always pay 20%, just because I feel like it.

And I definitely agree, there's a large moral component to it.
Interesting conversation. The answer is actually much simpler. "Never work for a salary that you can't live on." which is to say that if you are an employee of a startup you should first make sure that you can live day to day on your compensation before you talk about equity. Remember that compensation consists of salary, benefits, and vacation time. They all contribute.

Once you have that out of the way, you can think about 'extra'.

Getting the 'extra' as equity has the highest potential return and the lowest probable return. Which is to say that if the startup has an exit that involves the common stock you could potentially get millions of dollars. However startups are startups because they are as yet unproven businesses. Their chance of failure is high early on and it goes down in proportion to revenue.

What that means is that when a startup is later stage, has a product and some revenue, its less likely to fail than when it first starts and before it has a product or revenue.

So generally you can split startups into fairly large risk baskets.

Basket 1: pre-product / post-product

Startups that are pre-product are the highest risk, and the getting 'extra' as equity here is something of a sucker's bet. The company has yet to prove they can even build what it is they want to build, much less sell it or get users.

Basket 2 (post-product): pre-revenue / post-revenue

Startups that have a product can be spit into those that have convinced a customer to pay them money for their product and those that haven't. The sad truth is that some products cannot be sold profitably or at all. So the next big 'milestone' is that there is revenue coming in from customers who are using/buying the product. Pre-revenue is higher risk, post revenue lower risk.

Basket 3 (post-product, post-revenue): Traction / No Traction

The third split is the traction/no-traction split. If a startup has customers and revenue, they have crossed the 'big' hurdles, but to grow they need more customers. That is where traction comes into play. Is the startup getting new customers? What is it costing to get them? Do those costs outweigh the revenue they generate?

If your startup is post-product, post-revenue, and has traction always take equity. It is going to pay back better than salary.
I quite like it. I'll get to porting it to Ruby.
Linked Open Data Principles Applied To Code Of Federal Regulations
Lift weights. (Worked for my ex.)

Take gelatin supplements daily. (I did this for two years and basically stopped being a cripple.)

Best of luck.
Was this using GOAL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
The Enterprise runs on Westinghouse nuclear reactors burning enriched U-235 (93%+). Also, the quoted price tag here seems steep when you could, quite literally, build the USS Enterprise 52 years ago for $451.3 million USD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)

:P
Think the general rule is maximize salary always. Next ask yourself if you'll be in a decision making role. If you aren't then skip the equity. If you are, then use this as leverage for more equity.
No worries, we'll just reverse the phase polarity.
There's a lot of negativity around this idea, and mostly for good reason. But if you peel away the "let's build the Enterprise!" specifics and think about the core of the proposal, I believe it is sound.

A big cause of waning public enthusiasm in space is, I believe, that it all still looks like the 60s. The ships look the same, the suits look the same, the propulsion technologies look the same, and what's worse... we can't even DO the cool stuff we could do in 69!

If you had asked someone in 69 what spaceflight would look like in 2012, they would probably have visions of Moon bases, space stations with gravity wheels, and routine manned trips to Mars.

But we have none of those things. Instead, we have a recently-retired space truck, a space station that looks like a larger version of Skylab, and all of this stuck in low Earth orbit.

How. Incredibly. Disappointing.

I want to get excited about space again. I really, really do. The recent gains made by private companies (with Scaled Composites in '04 and SpaceX today) have helped a lot. But we shouldn't shy away from bigger ideas.

I know it sounds silly to people in the space business, but the public could really use some futuristic looking space ships and more exciting missions to get excited again.

In the end, I believe that private industry will make this happen once space tourism becomes more affordable (simply because the different companies will have to start competing on something other than "look, we're in space!").

Bigger, cooler looking space ships that are built in orbit and make regular trips to and from Mars would be REALLY exciting. It doesn't have to look like the Enterprise. What about a small Klingon Bird of Prey or even a UFO-style flying saucer?

So, no, we don't need to build the Enterprise, but we DO need to take this as a marketing lesson about why the public seems to yawn when they hear anything about space and Nasa these days.
Very impressive. At Zapier we're building an internal tool very similar to this (and in Python to boot). Maybe we should hook up?
Lua Missions: Learn Lua by fixing failing unit tests
A social game based on Game of Thrones
It's not even suggested. The guidelines are explicit that the original title should be edited or replaced to bring it into line with our community standards.

Headlines may be professionally written, but they are written with incentives which don't favor HN readers. Most of the time, I'd prefer to hear why the submitter thinks I should read something rather than why the author does.
Heres where this article misses:

You don't HAVE to edit directly on the server with Coda, but it is an OPTION. You can just as easily work locally/commit and then sync with the dev server.

Also, not everyone works on projects hosted on a vps. ftp/sftp is very much still relevant in the real world.

Diet Coda is not meant to be a replacement for your macbook, that is why it is 10 bucks. Also recreating a virtual local file system with git inside an ios app is probably not worth the effort. I for one welcome the "quick hack" nature of the app. Its not meant to be an ide replacement.

"Much as I love Panic, I’ve never used Coda" then why are you writing a critique on software you have never used?
Google China Doodle: HTML5 Moog's Synthesizer
mquander's response took the words out of my mouth. Video games, or anything else mentioned as an alternative to video games in this article, are things you do after you take care of the other necessities of life.

It was clear from the article that spawned this discussion that he was employed and simply took some time off like I did to play D3.
> Huh? Drivers are gatekeepers that let people onto the bus and validate that the people that enter the bus have tickets.

There are many cities where you can enter through any of the bus' doors.
Switching away from Google Tasks
Undestanding/Forging Web Next Generation Infrastructure
Hi all,
starting this thread to help out understanding the new hybrid web/mobile infrastructure, let's call it Web NG.

Here's my understanding but please criticize elaborating valid alternatives where you disagree.

SERVER SIDE:

Back end exposes RESTful services secured by OAuth authentication.

Server can adopt any language (polyglot), possibly reside in the cloud.
It will possibly use multiple SQL/NOSql datastores (right tool for the job).
(IaaS and BaaS will play a relevant role here).

In this scenario (auto)scalability and efficiency are more and more desirable as in the cloud hardware and bandwith is paid "as you go".

CLIENT SIDE:

The client will be multiplatform: the best candidate seems to be Html5. Do you agree? Will still native be a must for certain complex applications?
(By the way, will Apple, after killing Flash in favour of Html5, kill Html5 to preserve their native ecosystem?)

In case of Html5: will the app make use of a JS MVC framework (AngularJS, Backbone, Ember etc.) plus JQuery mobile? Valid alternatives?

Will still CORS be a problem? How to effectively circumvent the cross domain requests problem?

In case of a native solution: will the app use a multiplatform framework such as PhoneGap or Titanium? How far can a multiplatform framwork support a really complex front end application?

In both cases, the app at startup, and when needed, will synchronize data from server to a LOCAL Datastore (html5 embedded db?) and viceversa.

When required by user interaction, the app will enqueue asynchronous REST requests: each of them will be served as soon as possible (aka as soon as network is available). The app will provide effective feedback when the request will not be served "real time" and push proper notifications as soon as the request has been succesfully/unsuccesfully served.

What do you think about it? Please elaborate!

Let's understand the Web NG
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As a non-founder you don't get the 'oh shit, pay day, um, have I got the money' or the 'right, I've promised X, Y to A and B yesterday. Damn'. Or the 101 other little things and worries and anxieties you experience.

I'm not saying it especially takes a lot more skill but the level of stress and responsibility of the first non-founder is considerably less than the founders and always will be.

So there's that.

You also shouldn't expect more pay than a big company, a startup can be a lot more fulfilling and that's what you go there for.

You seem to know that from your first sentence but have put some strange mental barriers around taking the plunge. It's like the difference between doing extreme sports or going golfing. Both are past-times, just very different experiences that elicit different desires in different people.

EDIT: No idea at all why this was d/ved, if you don't want other people's experiences on HN... d/v away
Startup Advice: Best of the Worst
There's nothing stopping Honda from diversifying, too...
KDE announces the Make Play Live Partner Network
> Who cares?

It's not correct.
Sharing Rich Content From Your Android Apps, to Google+ and Beyond
WOW.

I read the whole thing, but I was unable to visualize the vulnerability after about the second paragraph describing it.

Maybe it's more mundane than I picture in my head, but I would love to look over someone's shoulder as they went through that process.
I'd rather spend the money replacing our fragile and short lived meat sacks first. Building massive space ships to sling us across the universe is a problem which only exists when we have meat sacks.

Voyager 1 and 2 have done well with ancient technology and no meat sacks.
This part bothers me:

git log --pretty="format:%H$t%aN$t%s$t%G?" "${chkafter:-HEAD}" --first-parent \ | grep -v "${t}G$"

What of the case where some smartass decides to

$ git commit -am 'Yet another foo G'

So long as it doesn't have a bad signature, it will give an empty string, right? So how do I know where the G came from?
> as simple as a web browser says more about the inefficiencies inherent in current operating systems and programming methods than they do about the hardware.

No. This is simply not true, at least at the extreme you are suggesting.

What I have open on my quad-core 8GB RAM desktop right now:
two Eclipse sessions; One emacs server, with about 20 client windows; Firefox, with 30+ tabs; 20 or so console sessions; five PDFs of documentation; an IRC client; an image viewer and a Jabber client. All of this is spread over two big monitors, with antialiased fonts, fast scrolling, lots of undo history and all sorts of good things.

The truth is that expectations have changed. Say all you want about having 1000 users on a single core, but users today are getting a much richer environment, and capabilities that we only could have dreamed of twenty years ago. This isn't waste or inefficiency, it's using what we have.

Web browsers are also far from simple. High resolution graphics, interactive sites, multiple format support, dynamic content loading, antialiased fonts and all these other things do add up. Compare that to what a user was doing on a tiny slice of a machine 20 years ago. I'd call it progress.
Because people are still getting "a new phone," not a new phone that happens to be last year's model.
Congratulations on copy and pasting from tptacek's link.
> A big cause of waning public enthusiasm in space is, I believe, that it all still looks like the 60s

So the solution is to build a ship based on a design from 1965?