skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting this information. We just applied this week and it would have been useful to know all this stuff.

My experience:
The application process was very painful due to bugs in the application. After spending hours filling out the application and getting our video recorded correctly, there was a PHP error on the last page of the application, which effectively deleted all of our application answers. I hit the back button, and poof, all fields empty. I should have known that there was a reason for the message on the previous pages that said something to the effect of "If you get errors, email info@angelpad.org". So we emailed AngelPad.

A few days later, we still hadn't received a response. Luckily, we had most of our answers in text files and chat logs, so we didn't have to completely rewrite everything, but it was nevertheless very frustrating. Again, the application failed on the last page, with some PHP crap printed at the top.

A couple days later, I saw a tweet from AngelPad, reminding people to apply, so I responded immediately and asked if the errors had been fixed, mentioning that I also emailed. No response. Nothing.

So yeah, a day or two later, I re-pasted all our answers into the form and it worked. Finally.

I realize that AngelPad is probably receiving a ton of emails and tweets directed at them, and they obviously cannot respond to everyone. However, it's really discouraging as a pre-launch, unfunded startup to have such a bad experience after spending a day of your time answering questions, knowing that there's already only a tiny chance that you'll ever even hear back. Honestly, my co-founder and I actually had a long discussion about submitting this application – we actually kind of fought about whether we should be spending our time doing such a thing, rather than working on our product. When I eventually convinced him that we should apply, everything went wrong.

Sorry for the rant, I just had to get that off my chest. If you're applying, save your answers frequently.
Been having a lot of success with Massive myself. How's using PetaPoco? Any frustrating gotchas?
Kids today. People over 45 invented the Internet.
Unbreakable? Bah, torture would work, and that's much faster than cracking a password.
Haha... that's a dealbreaker right? Give me free shipping and I'll buy it before you can say 'semiconductor'! :P

EDIT:
Review of the microsemiconductor:
"Sure, the price looks okay for a microsemiconductor. However, for only 6.3 million dollars more, I was able to purchase a macro whole conductor, Sir Simon Rattle of the Berlin Philharmonic."
ROFL
McDonald's reacts on the cyborg attack
What OS, window manager, term and theme are you using?
Looks really nice and very close to what I would want.
The Black Blood of the Earth
DNSSEC could allow this to work, if the connection between the client and a DNSSEC-enabled recursive resolver were secure. But if you're on the LAN of the client (for example, a wireless network) you can spoof every DNS response and the client is boned.
Why doesn't he just create another account with a pseudonym ?
I think this system is designed more for something like authenticating people for entry into a secure area, rather than for logging in to a computer. If it is more difficult to obtain access to the password storage than to your user's mind, then this is a useful system.
Isn't that far worse for innovation? In this case we would have the original iPhone shipping in 2012 instead of 2007.
Some clarification/speculation: This is a method of authentication, not encryption. The trained sequence is not used to unlock/decrypt your data. In the multi-factor authentication scheme, this is probably best thought of as "something you are", and might be used along with something you have (RSA token, physical key, RFID badge) and something you know (encryption password, secret handshake). The threat model in the paper talks about protecting physical access and ensuring the person is watched by a guard.

"Threat model. The proposed system is designed to be used as a local password mechanism requiring physical presence. That is, we consider authentication at the entrance to a secure location where a guard can ensure that a real person is taking the test without the aid of any electronics"

Many of the comments I see here tend to assume that this is directly applicable to protecting a remote system such as logging in to a website. Perhaps with adaption this could be a useful technique for authenticating into a website, but as far as I know no authentication scheme can protect against an intruder with a gun to your head forcing you to log in. Instead, the use case here is to prevent someone who has stolen your ID badge and forced you to give up your PIN from being able to get access to the top-secret bunker.
Sorry, I asked and the team isn't interested in having this story out there under their name right now. If they choose to reveal themselves in the future, that's their call.
It's a hell of a lot bigger than that when you include vendors...
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Yikes. I'd be fuming mad if my hosting company did that, even if it was just a landing page. One reason among many to keep your DNS and your hosting company separate.
An experienced mobile developer working as an employee at a dev shop in the US should be able to make that kind of hourly wage. Considering the fully loaded cost of employing someone is between 150% to 200% of the salary (equipment, office, infrastructure, training, benefits, etc.), you're effectively working for as little as $30/hour.
Remember that debt is an analogy, what we're really talking about is bad code we have chosen to live with.

More startups fail from not enough money coming in than from having tech fail. Many mid-life startups fail because their technical debt causes them to be unable to quickly grow and respond to changing conditions.

How to get the speed of development with short-term thinking but avoid long-term pain?

* Keep it contained. The big-picture diagram should be pretty good, but the details of implementation can be shitty as long as the same interface would accomodate the better version. This sets you up for success later when you need to replace the bad implementation with a better one.

* keep your core clean. The more features and other code paths rely on a chunk of code, the more 'core' it is. "Core" code should be kept clean because of the risk that bad core code poses to the business.

* comment your regrets and thoughts about how you'd fix it in the code so when you burn out and some new hacker is trying to fix your crap they will at least be able to have an idea of what you were intending to do.
Can we assume it's a Chicago startup?
Google Cache mirror if anyone needs it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
I have been following this on and off. Is there anywhere where it's been mentioned what the underlying network will look like? Is it actually a Twitter-like social site?
Letter to Steven Aldrich of Outright, re: GoDaddy Acquisition
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It has been proven that prostate cancer screening does not improve final outcome.
Hey Girls, Need Work?
Over the years, MLB has been exempted from antitrust enforcement.

The government does nothing to enforce monopolies in the sports world (remember the XFL? It failed because not enough people watched. Also, there are pro/semipro baseball teams not affiliated with MLB. A somewhat local to me example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traverse_City_Beach_Bums).
Test Firefox OS on a desktop computer with new B2G nightly builds
The other element you're missing is that medical services aren't transacted at a single standard price list for all patients. Instead, a huge range of pricing systems are used depending on the context. Some are mandated by government regulation (Medicare reimbursement rates), many are governed by negotiations between providers (hospitals, HMOs, doctors' groups, pharmaceutical providers, medical device/service providers), and an insurer, payment provider, or other group.

Guess who gets the short end of the stick in those negotiations? It's the individual health care care consumer. Who has no bargaining leverage and is often incurring services at a time when there's no other option (accident, injury, illness).
I agree, but I think that makes it worse.

You shouldn’t have to get permission to take someone’s work and improve it, certainly not based on how good they think you are.

Thanks for the source. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in context :).
I can only speak from personal, anecdotal experience. The cost of a small group insurance plan (which I believe requires at least 3 people) with pretty decent coverage actually wasn't that expensive. (I mean, the whole system is way too expensive, but AFAIK it isn't much more per-person than it costs for a company 20x the size.)

Agree that it's really important, though. Not offering any sort of medical coverage is going to make recruitment very challenging.
Wow. That was an amazing post.

However, to be fair to the board-game-maker, it appears that, as of just this week, she is producing something:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1820893788/katalyka/post...
It removes all the fine features from the funnel, most of the color and contrast information, and shrinks the resolution. It made this photo worse in every way.
Pioneers Festival plans "Clash of the Founders" - USA vs Europe
Yes, Anonymous Pro is the one and only for me. Beautiful at all sizes and especially small points.
And use HTTPS Finder to default to connecting via HTTPS before HTTP, then add a rule automatically to HTTPS Everywhere. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-finder/
Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund
We are posting API docs to github later today, tmrw am at the latest. I'm too busy trying to wrap that up to keep engaging in hn threads, so if I don't reply to other questions thats why :)
Missed that somehow. Thanks.
I agree with you, I think engineers should also take care of the trash, watch out for the car park and the accounting, check the budget, talk to customers and handle paper work for taxes.
Actually this option exists in practice, not just in theory. See http://www.tarsnap.com/ for details.

The author of that code is the FreeBSD security officer. He is also the author of my favorite comeback ever on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

(Or navigate up to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35068 and get some context. cperciva really is impressive.)
I like the self-ironic touch of the idea. If they manage to execute it without taking it too serious it could be a really nice event-add-on ;)
The ability to replace the desktop environment without basically building a new OS from scratch, for one.
I'm pretty sure I've worked at this company. Haha
Microsoft completes aquisition of Yammer
How long will they keep on a Java stack before converting over to Dot Net?
What's a good way to utilize the two disks for your datastore? Run mongodb for example one disk and backup to the other? Run one sharded instance on one disk and another sharded instance on the other disk?
I've heard it's $40k to submit a patch. I've also heard you get your first patch free.

There's more info in the following thread on neogaf. (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=483071)
If the definition is that specific, then the solution is simple; just don't sell them as "full PCs".
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Ok, but I just have one three-part question...
> First, how can they revoke a license for Windows on Bootcamp? If I purchase a retail Windows license, I can install it on any PC.

They could do it the same way Apple prevents you from installing OS X on commodity hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSx86#Legal_issues_and_Apple_ob...
Deep pockets, and web sites with millions of visitors.
Not the reviews I've read. In fact, they say just the opposite.
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Think this is a side-effect of EDNS0 being blocked, or UDP packets on port 53 bigger than 512 bytes being blocked?
How long before Yammer moves off of Java and on to DotNet?
Still down. Google doesn't have a cache either. While you're getting your site fixed, can you paste the post into a pastebin or something? This is one I really want to read!
- The PDF takes forever to render in Adobe PDF Reader 9.

- The Content-Type of the SVG is text/plain so Firefox doesn't render it.

- The JPG has a Content-Disposition of "attachment" so Firefox forces me to download it locally.

Not a pleasant experience.
I don't have any proof to provide (and if I did, it would all be anecdotal) but I've heard rumours that Microsoft are planning on breathing life into codeplex and have an exciting/significant set of changes in the pipeline (which should improve on some of the things that make using DVCS painful).

Considering Team Foundation Service, project Kudu/Git deploy on Azure etc. it makes sense to think that Microsoft are making a play to seriously take on GitHub and Atlassian, so that they're the one provider that owns an entire software ecosystem, end to end.

Either way, I don't think that the EF team would have had a choice on where to host it...
Try convincing someone to build out basic utilities without giving them one. I like to be able to flush my toilet, personally.
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Damn. I was hoping this would be a Postgres client, not a bundled server. pgAdmin works, but it's a pain. Sequel Pro is orders of magnitude better.
Lots of talk about spending $100 on a dream; but the median (and mode) investment on kickstarter is between $10 and $25.

Strangely, there are over half as many investors between $25 and $50, which means they account for more of the invested dollars.

Again, there are over half as many investors between $50 and $100 as 25-50.

Which means, the whales are where the money is at.
Try the sister project http://inductionapp.com/
Anyone else constantly amused by "Agent Smith" and his TSAgov twitter stream? http://www.twitter.com/TSAgov
Breaking down app.js file - nodejs, express, mongoose
Yup, Management IS of utmost importance to a working company. What most managers, companies and universities don't get though is that management isn't really about controlling and reviewing work, but about enabling people and giving them a vision. That's only possible in an atmosphere of humility, gratitude and a total refusal to play the blame game though. It's where companies don't get "managers" from Ivy League but give responsibilities to the best natural leaders and coaches from the team, so they've got their full respect. It's rare to get to this state, but if you've got a company that really gets "management", try to stay. You don't have to work at Trademob (shameless self-plug), there are a lot of meritoctratic startups like this out there - but this spirit usually fades with size. I'm still trying to understand why...
All in all, look at these signs:
- Bosses have no different equipment or attitude than you do
- Your Interview is done by the most senior personnel available and not some clueless HR guy
- People don't take themselves too serious but their competitors should ;-)
- high freedom, high responsibility atmosphere
- You get responsibility for outcomes, not for implementation details.

As for me, I'm still trying to find out how to be a better team leader every day - I'll tell you how when I find out ;-)
The response is 345 bytes and we used the OS DNS library to send the request, so I'm not sure whether EDNS0 would have been set.
I've been using the a Windows 7 phone and Skydrive is part of the deal. I haven't uploaded a lot of photos, but to find out they're going through my stuff makes me feel pretty uneasy.

Glad I'm going back to my Android based phone this weekend.
Hipmob: talking to your Android users has never been faster.
Wow, how have I never heard of this? Awesome, thanks!
NEWS FLASH: Being bitter, apathetic and contrarian does not make you sound smart. This is undeniably an awesome idea. Stop searching for flaws and help.
So all the clever people have concluded that this system is useless, because you can pull a gun on someone and force them to play the game. Not to mention: it's not even that much entropy! So let's all just forget about it move on with our lives, right?

No. Of course not. What this system provides is a unique -extra- method of authentication. I really doubt this is meant for putting this on your laptop in place of a password scheme. But you might use something like it as part of multi-factor authentication, e.g. into a secure facility. Remember all those movies where somebody's eyeballs are removed/replaced/copied in order to fool a retina scanner? I can't comment on how plausible that is, but I can certainly tell that if it were this system, they could not have broken it, period. I think that's pretty useful don't you?
The Lemur was multi-touch in 2004 or 2005, IIRC.
PetaPoco has been excellent so far. I really like being able to easily switch between dynamic and strongly typed results. If you're not doing "Select * on <table>" the dynamic result is pretty necessary.

I do see where there could be some ways to improve querying the database where you're doing a lot of joins or returning data that is not limited to the table design at all.
Well, it can be true at the beginning of the process, but only if your team has everyone within a given set of levels. But I don't think that's normal.

This year's review process was the worst I've seen, though, and really showed that only manager feedback is considered, at least in my area.
This is complete rubbish. Backbone doesn't care about the DOM, it works nicely with jQuery, but it helps you to remove app logical state from the DOM. A view can bind to as many models as it needs, it simply has a connivence helper for a single model called "model".
if the use case is a separate domain for serving static files, that's probably hosted on a different server/IP address anyways, right?

Not necessarily. People used to have different domains for images/css/js because browsers used to not want to download more than 2 things at the same time from the same domain name. (Back when the web was young and ugly, and bandwidth was scarce, this made sense). By having multiple domains (e.g. a.static.example.com, b.static.example.com etc.) on the same IP addres/server, you could trick browsers into downloading more in parallel and make your site seem faster. You didn't need multiple IPs for that.

Now-a-days browsers have upped their limit from 2 to something like 8 → 16 or so, so it's less of a problem.
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I was misinformed, apparently. Thanks for clearing that up.
All your Flickr photos in Dropbox, with style
Making already pent-up wanna-be jihadis angry and look foolish is like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Work begins on an LLVM backend for emscripten
I was expecting some sort of social study that shows perception of success can help achieve actual success, which is against traditional wisdom.

Instead, I get a bunch of cliché advise "proved" by some bullshit evidence.

If there is one thing this article proves, it's that over-promise then under-deliver will make your reader/customer mad.
You must not have much experience being around teenage boys. An improved test for pancreatic cancer is not something normally coming forth from that demographic.
Steve Jobs originally conceived of the interface of the iPhone as a device that used the clickwheel from the iPod. And Steve Jobs did not come up with the clickwheel, when the iPod was conceived.

One of Steve's biggest mistakes at Apple was probably that he had a really bad habit of taking credit for other people's ideas and subsuming all promotional achievements under the aegis of "Apple" - which inevitably pointed to Steve Jobs.

At the latest All Things D, Cook emphasized how Steve's great feat was to change his mind at any time - which implies that he didn't always come up with the solutions or, dare I say, the ideas. You could argue that he was great at making decisions and keeping focus, but I think there is still at lot of talent and vision to go around at Apple.
Well there's the male birth control method that is discussed on here occasionally. Apparently big Pharma does not want to pursue it because it's a one-off solution

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3773227
Fish has claimed 40,000 in the past. Part of this I suspect is developer time and expensises simply for the cirtifiication not MS fees. For a small company with limited number of employees you cant deligate the certification tasks and result in a delay in developling a new game as people are diverted for the certification process. It is an unfortunate situation but part of the cost and hassle is to punish unfinished games. It hasn't stopped the big game companies from constant day one patches.
I actually could not find exactly what I wanted years ago so I created some time clock software for a company where I worked in some of my spare time. They became the first 'customer', but I allowed them to use it at no charge.

I got one paying customer for it a while later so I decided to go ahead and make it more asthetically pleasing. That is the reason I decided to focus on this instead. I am working on numerous projects, but this is the only one that I actually have some people using so I thought I would put more effort into it and wanted some feedback.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqZ65pUQxyQ

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I actually could not find exactly what I wanted years ago so I created some time clock software for a company where I worked in some of my spare time. They became the first 'customer', but I allowed them to use it at no charge.

I got one paying customer for it a while later so I decided to go ahead and make it more asthetically pleasing. That is the reason I decided to focus on this instead. I am working on numerous projects, but this is the only one that I actually have some people using so I thought I would put more effort into it and wanted some feedback.

Plus, maybe I can do something in regards to time clock software that is unique and different.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.blake.ht...

Interesting read about a great invention wasted.
Apple Yanks Privacy App From The App Store
I don't know how I would feel if I pitched my side project to someone and they then went and cold called 40 companies discussing the project without my knowledge. This time it worked out great, but what if one of those larger companies had decided to run with it? I realise that it's good to share your ideas, but I would at least like to have had an input. Thoughts?
minimax - the art of minimizing your maximal possible loss.

also, insurance companies pay less for the same services that you would pay for at the same place of care because they bulk-negotiate with providers.
Sounds like you want my "You do have pancreatic cancer" program, which is 100% accurate.
I worked for a startup that was like this but with a grand total of five employees. It did not sit well with me.
You can if you want to. =)