skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could say the same about D2's economy - it became about MFing (magic finding) for loot that you could trade in for the equivalent market value in item currencies: Stone of Jordan rings, or later, charms and points on a 3rd party forum (forgot the name). Then, you could buy the specific piece of shiny loot that you want for your character's build.

That, or you farm and hope that the piece of loot that you want serendipitously drops.
Subsidiary point in the post, but I strongly disagree with OP that YC has been diluting it's brand / average quality of companies by accepting more companies. Having seen the vast majority of YC companies, it's obvious that the average quality of companies in YC has only risen over the years. More companies are being accepted because more good companies are applying, not because YC has relaxed its standards. If anything, it's probably harder to get into YC now than it was before.
OpenID, or none, would be great.
A dedicated account is the only option for me - I refuse to use apps or websites that require me to authenticate through a 3rd party.
Agreed, nutritional "science" and conventional wisdom has become a joke.
There is an already existing program that allows you to do pretty much the same thing, I have had it forever.

The app is called Tasker (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....) works like a charm and can be programmed right on the phone.
Wow! Thank you, MicroSoft Israel!

I can't wait to see the Stuxnet/Flame/Duqu plug-in that ties into this incredibly useful app!
I had fun debating the cigarette thing with my doctor.
I'm not too opposed to standardized tests, but I completely agree that they don't teach. That's what the rest of school is for. Saying "tests don't teach" is almost a tautology.

(Okay, when there is a reading comprehension section you will often learn something. That's just a bonus, though.)
Once SPDYv3 is enabled in a release channel the Chrome installations which only support an outdated SPDY version will rise suddenly if the current update trend is not reversed in a future version.
I always knew salt and vinegar chips were good for me!
Facebook hires noted iOS jailbreaker Chpwn
I'm going through your tutorial at the moment and I think it's excellent. Now I'm considering buying the updated screencast. One question though. Is there any possibility for kindle friendly e-book?
For those of us who have already gone through the first edition of his tutorials, would anyone have any books they would add that are essential for learning Rails in depth?
:-)

It's true I have been tweeting my blog posts and posting them on facebook, as well as replying to comments about my posts on Hacker News. I feel that this falls within the guidelines I set for myself- which was to stop collecting information and produce value in my life. I don't read my Twitter or Facebook stream, and use it solely as tool for (seldomly) publishing my things I've created.

You'll notice I have only tweeted about 6 times over the past 20 days, when I was tweeting well over 50+ times a day previously.
The earnest plan to have a settlement on Mars by 2023
What Books (CS & Math) Should Everyone Read?
You don't have to go into about:config to disable it all you have to do is click the little 9 boxes in the upper right of the newtab page.
Pretty recently, I think. Just following in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook, I suppose, using fancy technology to produce a slower, more annoying user experience.
Co-working is for real, not going away soon.
Does anyone know when the version of screencast on Safari Books will be updated to 2nd edition?

UPDATE: sorry I just saw it. It's called "Ruby on Rails LiveLessons (Sneak Peek Video Training), Second Edition". Hopefully they'll update to the final version soon.
Great, I posted it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10903458/how-to-scale-php...
I agree with everything you are preaching about critical thinking. Personally, I don’t think this particular type of question is good at testing critical thinking, and worse I think that the incentives in the school system are all about gaming the test rather than teaching critical thinking.

My feeling looking at this is that if I wanted kids to get the highest possible score, I’d teach them how to take tests rather than buy them a bunch of tools and have them figure out how to use the tools from the instruction manuals (reading, critical thinking, problem solving). Whereas if I wanted them to learn critical thinking, we’d be solving problems with tools.

But I accept that this is a very large topic, it’s not like this is a one-question test, and students are exposed to a variety of stimuli. Also, there is always the democracy argument: This might be the worst test ever devised, except for all of the others we’ve tried. Perhaps this is the “least worst” way to test and teach given other factors in play.
Fair point. And I'm going to try the same thing on my 30th Birthday in 6 days. And I may run naked.
Thanks. We are familiar with it.
FB was chosen for the beta, we use it on both the device and the website.

Upvoting GoogleID.
Anyone know if there is an "upgrade discount" for folks who purchased the 1st edition (physical book and screencasts) about a year ago?
It's blog smack. These blogs produce so much spammy content they have to vary it up with "witty" banter.

That might be a comment on the type of people who read and subscribe to techcrunch now.
Well Loren Cordain, godfather of "paleo", remains convinced that salt is bad. He claims the chloride does some bad stuff (I forget) and also the sodium screws up potassium and magnesium levels somehow.
Sort of an aside here, but salt and MSG should be used to increase the tastiness of otherwise bland foods, like asparagus, so that what you eat is more in line with what your body needs, rather than what is the most tasty in our post-industrial world. That is how I use salt: reduce starches and refined grains, and increase vegetables, lentils, and the like. Sure I still have some bread and a normal amount of meat (at least by Canadian standards), but I prefer to make healthy foods delicious.
I guess you haven't seen the Old Spice commercial [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE ].
not accurate at all.
Yes, there is. Check your email for the discount code. If you can't find it, please email me directly (http://railstutorial.org/contact).
He's just described native apps, but called them 'web'. The argument is semantic at this point.
Obvious Goes Beyond Meat
Growth Capitol?
Have started a B2B Search Engine by bootstrapped. Where and how do we find a support Group or network to Pitch for Growth Capital?
I think the security thing is BS. It's the ability to run arbitrary background services on Android versus strictly limited background tasks on other platforms that matters here.
So very, very true. It's too easy to get caught up thinking of new ideas rather than focussing-on/re-thinking one idea.
That's good to know! I know the nature of Diablo3 is somewhat mindless, but I want to have to pay attention every now and then.
Everything in moderation. Extreme moderation.
Ah, never mind, Michael just sent out an email to purchasers of the 1st edition. Thanks Michael!
I hope that this will mean an upcoming version of android will have an office document viewer activity that all apps can include in their layouts.
Many Kindles can read PDFs, and the Rails Tutorial book is designed to look good on those. Eventually I may release a mobi format as well, but it's a pain to make, and I find that both mobi and ePub are rotten formats for technical books.
Umm, I can't speak for Google, because I work for Mozilla. I can't speak for Mozilla's networking team either, since I'm a UI developer on the mobile team. But I feel safe saying that Mozilla is (a) committed to the standards process and (b) wants whatever final result is best for our users.

If you have questions about Mozilla's SPDY and HTTP plans, or if you want to suggest areas of work (or even contribute yourself!), you should attend the networking team meetings [1], join #networking on irc.mozilla.org, or ask on mozilla.dev.tech.network.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Networking
This fetishism with scaling... to me it's just procrastination. It feels like work because you're doing something technical but, in the end, you're adding very little to your product.

Yesterday I had a meeting with a potential customer and I hated it. I hate to try to explain my SaaS software to non-technical people who treat me like some 17-year-old webmaster. I'd much rather be refactoring Clojure code. But I got out of my comfort zone and this client will probably add hundreds of thousands to my bottom line. And I'm glad I was at that meeting while my competitors were fetishizing about non-existent scaling issues.

It's 2012 for god's sake, you can rent a 32GB server for less than $100.
Wood That Reaches New Heights
Our environment is self-managed and flexible, so I should be able to throw something together to run this.

If I get it to work, I'll pass along whatever info I learn in the process.
http://jackpotbuddy.com
I had the same issue, I realise I had flash-block enabled. Fixed.
The Tesla Gun
Hrm, I got 'enable the camera to continue ---> ' and a blank area where the arrow was pointing.
Yes, despite the purported technical rigor of this community there are an awful lot of comments here of the form, "Facebook is doomed, I stopped using it."

That's like saying because you don't drink soda/use tampons/own a gun that Coca-Cola/Tampax/Remington are doomed companies.
The only argument which makes sense at the light of what I said is number 4.
Samba 4.0 beta1 released
Haha! Highlights one of the great things about social software, the opportunity to interact (to whatever extent) with people that we otherwise wouldn't.
Most likely The Paleo Solution. That's the one that turned my diet around.
"all venture capital is private equity"

http://www.privco.com/knowledge-bank/private-equity-and-vent...
Zuckerberg needs a haircut.
Exactly my point. I think what they are doing is great and there is a lot to learn from it. However, they have very talented developers whose job is to build tools for other developers. Scratching your own itch is much more likely to benefit the organization at GH than it is at, say, a corporate IT department or any other company whose customers aren't developers.

A big part of what makes their culture possible is the product they are building and the customer that they are building it for. Change those things, and unfortunately, you are very likely to have to change the culture a bit.
The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez
I still can't believe Linus doesn't use Arch, or LFS or some sort of custom setup. The great thing about Linux is that you don't have to put up with the crap some distro gives you. Just remove Gnome and try something else.
Haha, that's so awesome! Did you guys actually talk or text chat (I'm not familiar with how Airtime works)?
Debunking the Mozart Myth
Steve Jobs on the File System
The problem with trying to index the entire web (why Facebook may fail))
You'll have to say more if you want to try to merge horizons.
A great read - http://www.jamiestubblefield.com/2012/06/code-academy-week-8...
When did he grow a mustache? http://goo.gl/VGrR3

Update: The post itself was almost as engaging as my mustache addition. Sorry for deterring the conversation.
Screw execution. All you need is Sean & Shawn to pimp it...
Thanks! That's useful.
Gmail security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks
I realize I'm being pedantic here, but you always need to qualify statements like, "what would you think if someone showed in shorts and a shirt to an interview" with "outside of the bay area."

Shorts, T-Shirt, and flip-flops are fine attire for a technical interview at most places you would want to work here. Might not be as acceptable at HP, IBM, or Oracle (or those sorts of places) - but any <500 employee company looking for a technical employee, particularly a Pre-IPO startup, are interested in your ability to deliver, and shorts are completely acceptable [1].

This has relevance to your meta-point though, which is, "know your field's audience, and realize what values they'll judge you on, and take care and attention to deliver on those values - it will demonstrate you have both awareness and the ability to focus on details important in that field."

[1] The [un]fortunate flip side of this lack-of-attention to what you are wearing, is that it comes with an overwhelming focus on what-you-know and what-you-can-do. You can't hide behind a suit and a congenial manner.
FYI: there's an "edit" link for recently-posted comments.
That's what they said about Color.
It should be noted that the author of the linked article is Gary Taubes, who is best known for Good Calories, Bad Calories, a book that seeks to turn the conventional wisdom of nutrition on its head.
That's where I think most people are wrong about inferno though. That difficulty rewards proper communication and group play. Sure, soloing everything requires a crap-ton of godly loot, but damage and defenses can be compensated by a proper synergy of group skills. Lack armor and resists? that Barb shout may just solve it. Your tank getting face-melted a lot? You could have a monk stack a 50% damage reduction debuff on the enemy. Your glass cannon wizard getting chased down? Have a witch doctor load up on CC skills. What I'm seeing everybody try to do is to gear up and go berserker on the enemy and it just doesn't work.
Part of it is certainly the novelty factor. You can only be "paired" with exactly 1 other person.

Part of it (for me), is that communications with my wife are via a separate stack, separate notifications that are easier to manage, and the ability to share more than you can in MMS (a silly sketch, or a map location).

Pair cuts out all the "noise" of other systems and gives you something that makes you feel like communications with that one other person are something more unique and "out of band" than all your other notification streams.

Personally, I haven't figured out if Pair is a product or a feature, but that doesn't really matter to me right now.
FWIW, I also went through the first edition, and now I'm working through the 2nd edition... I'm really impressed with how much stuff has been added and updated. Really good stuff here.
Performance isn't a problem until it is, and then when it is a problem, it's bigger than any other problem in the world because you have nothing to sell if it does not operate.

I always thought I was being wise by not doing any premature optimization, but after a few lessons learned the hard way I certainly factor in performance to the design of software before I build now.

Scalability is not a "feature" tacked on at the end development.
Where the Jobs Are: ZocDoc NYC Tech Standout
No, Zuckerberg is the guy on the right.
I use Google GSON on Android. Also a great library for serializing and deserializing JSON. I did not yet try the streaming api.
Anodizing Aluminum (or the secret of Apple's durable products)
Software Demos Done Right
A Catedral Metálica de Preston Scott Cohen
List of Resources for Learning Ruby
An earlier hn post about learning Ruby (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4068633) got me thinking and since I haven't seen a good list of Ruby learning resources all together in one place in a while I put together a few of what I think are some of the better resources, in no particular order - most are just ruby, a few are for Rails. I'm sure I've missed a few good ones so let me know what those are.

(1) tryruby.org

(2) The Bastard's Book of Ruby http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/

(3) Pragmatic Studio Ruby Course - http://pragmaticstudio.com/ruby

(4) Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen

(5) http://www.rubymonk.com/

(6) http://www.rubykoans.com/

(7) Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta

(8) codeschool.com

(9) Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial- http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

(10) The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez

(11) http://www.railscasts.com
Sure, sponsored by Nike, but the reward cycle happens with every blue/yellow drop. You sell it for gold and eventually go to the AH to get your fix.

this changes at the inferno level though, because here the rate of gold gathered vs needed to upgrade jumps significantly. You begin to grub at every blue, yellow drop for the upgrade that gives you a little bit more survivability.

I think they the system more of a grubbing for small coins all around the map to buy crack from the AH.

They reduced the frustration loop by removing the "oh this wasn't the rare I wanted" and change it to "I can sell everything for gold, I just need a little bit more". Since you can see continuous progression you don't feel frustrated (as much). I would think this is analogues to being told why a que is taking so long instead of waiting blindly in a que.
I have always wondered why so many facets of "institutional health" are promoted as the status quo even with much contradictory evidence or lack of "common sense".

A couple of things that come to mind:
salt
saturated fats
sugars

I know many instances of this problem have to do with monetary interests. But salt? Who gains from low salt intake? Reputation? Or is it something else.
Look at Dota 2. It's going to blow Starcraft 2 our of the water with regards to eSports, probably everywhere but Korea.
just FYI, in the pre-industrial world of my home town you can still go picking up wild asparagus[1] which are _far_ from bland, I have no idea if those exist in any form where you live but I strongly advice you to try them out if you can.

[1] stuff like this http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__88ZCQ5jRIs/Sju4DrHvsZI/AAAAAAAAg1...
That's a rare bug. Not a single reply to that thread. 99.999% of the time, buyouts are instant.
If he still plays diablo 2, he's used to games being obscenely cheap per hour of play. As is, 1000 hours for 50 dollars.

Also, he said exactly how much he thinks his $60 is worth in very specific terms: all the Indian food he can buy for $40 and Torchlight 2.
Just a bit of free advice on Freelancer (or any other market place with lots of participants).

You will get what you pay for.
Show HN: Week-end project, visualizing a full day in the London transport system
I've put together a list of some of the better learning resources all in one place if anyone's interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4070379
Atom Split Into Two And Then Put Back Together Using Quantum Mechanics
Good point. agreed:)
I accidentally deleted my post, but what I was trying to say previously (in which the parent replied to), was that higher difficulties require thinking, like dodging an Arcane sentry, or moving away from molten/plague pools. Adding to that, I play a monk in Inferno, and I adopted a "guardian" role during group play: dashing and knocking back enemies attacking our glass cannons, healing our tank, breaking CC using serenity (when fighting "Frozen" bosses) and maintaining damage reduction debuffs and buffs, all while making sure that my spirit levels get replenished (or else I'm useless). There's a whole lot more into the game than just gearing up and bashing skulls.
Ok, you can't put a bunch of graphs on something and call it a scientific explanation, While the reasoning is decent, there is no data backing up any of these assertions, it hardly seems "scientific" in nature.
The author, I think, takes a pretty big leap in concluding that the test is being used as a teaching tool, rather than a testing tool. Stating that the students are now stuck learning about microscopes through the test, rather than actually using microscopes seems like quite a stretch to me. Of course kids still use microscopes in school and do lots of hands-on learning. Both types of learning are essential and both are practiced. Does our education system focus too much on testing and not enough on hands-on learning? Maybe, but I think that still varies a lot from school to school, so it's hard and perhaps a bit unfair to make overall assumptions.

However, it does illustrate how the test is a poor evaluation of reading comprehension.

The problem I see is that it's not necessarily a reading comprehension question. It's a question about microscopes. If you don't happen to know anything about microscopes, then the answer is clearly there in the text and, at that point, it's about reading comprehension, but if you do, reading the text is completely unnecessary. So then it remains a question about general knowledge of microscopes, not reading comprehension.

Here's another example... My husband got into IT when he was young and never finished his degree. He's now decided that he wants to go back to school for a related, but different-enough field that he needs that piece of paper and additional training. Because it's been over 20yrs since he's been in school, and he's never attended school in the US, at the age of 40, he found himself taking the ACT a couple of weeks ago.

The "reading comprehension" portion of the test was full of paragraphs about various topics that anyone with an average amount of general knowledge would know and so, being pressed for time, he simply didn't read half the material. He got a perfect score on this section of the test.

That clearly demonstrates a level of intelligence on a variety of topics, and probably indicates some good deductive reasoning as well, but it doesn't show how well his reading comprehension is at all.

Now, he's 40, not 12, but the ACT doesn't look that much different than any other standardized test and it is (along with the SAT) a sort of be all and end all of evaluating a high school student's academic performance.
Hitting the sweet spot as an entrepreneur
This may deserve a down vote because it is not valuable content, but in 21 minutes this has 32 votes. Can someone please chime in a tell me why they feel this deserves the front page of HN?
Wow..just read your post. A couple questions...

How many people are in the company?
Usually being the owner and founder you get more money. How do you avoid "The boss takes all the money" comment. Not saying you are, but I think this comes up even if your making only a little more then everyone else.
What happens when a developer asks for more money then your willing to give?
Security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks
This guy should take an intro level improv comedy class. If BFM's quote was that inspiring to him, he's got a lot of learning yet to do.

As a comedian and an entrepreneur, I can say there are many overlaps between the two, and the willingness to take bold steps is just one of them. Another is to trust your team members. Another is to build on others' ideas, not tear them down. And many more.
Looks more like PR trick than anything else.
Show HN: Our new job hunting app, Huntsy, just passed 10k users
What will_lam said. I constantly download data dumps in case the website completely goes down and all of my data is private.
The open source community works well despite, and thanks to, no money being involved (at least explicitly). The motivation obviously exists without money, and the results are better because of that.

So, there is no problem to solve, just potential to poison one of the biggest qualities.

The only argument which makes sense at the light of this, is number 4, and that is an interesting problem. Distribution of wealth.
Real-time sticky notes app created with Django, Node.js, Socket.io and Redis.
The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson is also great and changed my life. Reading 'Good Calories Bad Calories' now from Gary Taubes (the author of the op) and it is awesome too.
All right! Next up: MSG.

Even those of my friends who know that the health concerns are bogus have a weird paranoia of MSG. I think it's a general suspicion of any chemical which makes food taste better (which somehow doesn't apply to salt and sugar).
Well, that makes me sad. I've had one interaction with the AH, and it was that one. It was after I'd had my account hacked (which we can talk about some other time...) and I needed to regear my character. Still no chest piece :(
You could use it for cryptography or cryptanalysis, for example.