skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always going to be slow code. That's a fact of life. That's also part of the "not really good at anything" point I made about general purpose computing. You complain about waiting seconds or minutes like it's outrageous. Instead sit back and think about what that computer is actually doing. I do, and I marvel that it only takes seconds or minutes.
Technically, it is - however, I already acknowledged that I can see why this would be easier to collaborate.
I really like it, I wish I saw more apps done the "nerd" way... would be really nice to have an email client, calendar, and even a social network the "hacker" way...

I wonder though why so much effort is made on TODO apps, it seems to me that no one seems to have found the right formula, but still it seems that there is an unanswered need
Dailybreak CEO on Driving Users to Action
Hm. What did they do with the dirt, eat it? The idea they somehow consumed all the dirt in the game is questionable.
A victory for free speech
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For those involved in the lawsuits against Christopher "Negligence" Mallick of Oxymoron Entertainment. News on the Missing Epassporte Wallet funds.
I encountered this very issue a few years ago, basically your queue picking up jobs before the database commits. I solved this by actually queuing up my jobs to a thread-local queue and then firing the whole spool at the end of the request (in an around_filter, so you fire the spool after the yield to the action). This means that you actually fire your jobs after the request has done its whole database commit. This can all be done without having to leak abstractions and make the model layer know about the presence or lack of the fake queue.

Let me know if anyone is interested and I can share some code.
This is click bait. Expect to see a similar post with a different selection of startups on GigaOM, VentureBeat, TNW, Mashable, Pandodaily and every other such site.

You also have to wonder about how they select these startups (other than at random)? It's comparing apples to oranges and doesn't even seem to have a consistent metric (expected roi, innovativeness of idea, best pitch, etc).

Why is instacart not on there?
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Don't forget that this is a legal (albeit questionable) syntax that will be broken by your script:

{:foo => 'bar', 2 => 'two'}
? Businesses are expected to fail after a certain amount of time?
Perhaps the gimmick is not intended for you. It's for people who always buy as cheaply as possible.
That would be Duplicati -- my favorite backup utility.
There are a few random others. Apples should be infinite, since they come from trees. Other plant-ish things as well, like melon or pumpkin, provided you have any in the first place.
Thanks partner - hats off to you for jumping in the deep end.
As Charlie Stross noted very aptly:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/cutting-...
Ultralights, not UAVs. The picture of the downed ultralight clearly has a pilot seat and instrumentation.

The only place UAV is mentioned in the article is an editorial addition to a quote from the sensor vendor "[unmanned aerial vehicles]". If you follow the link to the vendor site, you will find the vendor advertises their sensor as an adjunct to "unmanned aerial systems", i.e. the boarder patrol's UAVs, not the smuggler's UAVs.

[edit] My bad, the vendor does say it's system can track bad guy's UASes, although I still object to the sensationalizing of the HN headline vs. the Wired article that talks almost exclusively about ultralights.
Yes, Racket is probably one of the best languages out there. And the documentation for the core language and standard library is excellent (Racket guide and Racket reference). But I think the author is talking about the PlanetT.
PG also stresses the importance of creating a new technology in his definition of startup.

A startup is a 'Useful infrastructure' previously and wholly 'nonexistent' that 'fills a need' for a population and thus earns revenue. I'm sure I've left something out but this definition helps me sort between startup ideas and content ideas in my head.
Wouldn't it be like making a pledge to a local public broadcaster? You get gifts for those, but they are still tax deductible.
This article crashes safari on my ipad2 - three times in a row now...

Anyone else care to test it?
I have been reading the comments, and I must say, what a bunch of whimps who don't understand what the service is for. Man up and try reading the documentation.

Glacier is for long term logging of important data that you may or may not need to recover but should be safe if you ever need it. If you need to log events daily and occasionally recover data for a few days, then Glacier is for you.

Not your use case? Then look elsewhere.

Amazon priced Glacier for a certain type of archival storage and base the fees on what it costs them to provide the service, plus a little profit.
Imagine our elected representatives trying to come up with laws, regulations, tax policies, public health issues (think big tabacco), arrests (there are currently many more alcohol related arrests than drug related arrests).

Not saying that this isn't something that shouldn't be considered, just pointing out that it isn't without cost.
I think the biggest flaw is that the help system is not a tile on the main screen.

Like the author, I was baffled when I wanted to shut the thing down. I found the thing that shows all the applications on the system, and noticed one of them was a help application. The help application was able to tell me how to shut down. I never would have found it without that help, as it would never even occur to me to look in the settings.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that the new interface is actually good. Regardless, it is sufficiently different from what people are familiar with that people are going to have trouble figuring out things and need help--even basic things like shutting down the computer. Finding help needs to be trivial and obvious.
I think posting this on YC's Demo Day is unfortunate timing. I'm pretty sure this won't be noticed by anyone at YC.
That's a 1Gbps connection. Try sustaining 1Gpbs and see if you don't start getting nastygrams.

There is a huge difference between a residential connection with a peak speed of X and an X speed connection.
Simon Prebble's narration of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is fantastic.
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The economies of scale are crazy as well.

the US government spends $100 million on sensors yet the catels stand to make (if you can believe the figures) "$16 million wholesale" for one shipment of cocaine via this method.

The drug cartels stand to make more selling drugs than the US government spent trying to stop them in merely 7 trips with an ultralight
I use Wiser Home Control to take care of those annoying left-the-AC-on cases, works on my iPhone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHsjTdTPVnU
I've known the Simple folk for a long time. The complexity and inherent safety designed into their product makes every other bank look like a joke. They still have to rely on banking partners to store the money, but they've gone to great pains to make sure that things work in a consistent and fail-safe way, if not with 100% availability during their beta. The other thing to note is that, although it's perceived as a bank, it isn't one; it's a front-end. They realized that everything a bank is defined by when you remove the vault comes down to customer interaction. I'm willing to accept when things break (especially during a beta) in exchange for some making some headway in my banking experience. Without avoiding the pun: it's a very simple proposition.
Hell you don't even need an angle, every few years you'll see the same angle come back around.

Look at imgur, which is really a better version of the original photobucket, tinypic, whatever came before that.

I have no doubt we'll see instagram #2 in a couple of years.
If I export something and send it to you, then you have one and I have one. If we share it, then we both have the same one.
Yes sure, Alexis is a nice and helpful guy.
Yup! Don't write code if you haven't read that book.
Front-end guy here, curious about CDN access on mobile - is it faster to serve one CSS and one JS minified file through a private CDN (like CloudFront), or use something like CDNJS to make concurrent CDN calls with many smaller files spread across a connection?
Metasploit on iOS
> Nectarines

Cook them! Throw them in a pot with some brown sugar and spices. Or throw it in a crockpot/baking dish with {1/2 c. butter, 3/4 c. flour, 3/4 c. (brown) sugar} sprinkled on top, bake, and shazzam! Cobbler!
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My feelings exactly! I now do virtually all my development in Linux (or ssh'ed into a Linux box from my MacBook Air). I hate what OS X has become. The only thing I now find superior about OS X to Linux is that it runs Logic Pro 9 (which I can't do without); yay for vendor lock-in!
Yes, I was really curious about their metrics for ranking the startups.

As you correctly pointed out - why is instacart missing while 9gag is present? I can name so many much better alternatives to 9gag: instacart, KIPPT, Everyday.me etc.
Really? That's fantastic. I have that audiobook and intended to listen to it in the coming weeks. But somehow I'd missed the narrator's name!

Thanks a lot. Now I can hardly wait for the book :)
The last time I checked, if you receive something for your donation, you have to subtract the value of whatever you received from your total donation amount. You can then claim that difference as a deduction on your taxes.

Example: Donate $100 to PBS and receive a $10 CD. Subtract the value of the CD from the donation: $90. You can claim a deduction of $90 on your taxes.

But in the case of a corporation, treating the whole thing as a marketing expense is probably easier and would yield the same result.

[I'm not a lawyer or tax accountant or any other kind of authority on taxes. Check with the IRS or competent council before filing your taxes!]
Arrays in Postgres
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they are both right. i've been using myfitnesspal for quite some time now, and remember reading that it was indeed a very small team (of just 2). now time has passed and they have obviously expanded. but they were extremely successful even at the beginning. i can't find the link right now but i'm certain that if you check out their blog, near the beginning, you will find something that resembles the 2man team story.
The lede paragraph says, "The United States has reached a historic tipping point -- with Latino, Asian, mixed race and African American births constituting a majority of births for the first time, theU.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday."

But in the everyday sense of "white," most Latino people are "white," because the definition of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity used by the federal government

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf

"Definition of Hispanic or Latino Origin Used in the 2010 Census

"'Hispanic or Latino' refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."

makes clear that a great variety of people of varying ancestry or "heritage" or "country of birth" can categorize themselves as Hispanic. Someone self-designating has the choice to indicate Hispanic ethnicity, by that definition, and to indicate white "race" after indicating Hispanic ethnicity.

A detailed FAQ on how United States designations of "race" and "ethnicity" interact with college and university admission policies in the United States

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/13664...

goes into much more detail on that controversial issue.
Ask HN: Javascript try/catch, where should I be using it?
What are some good examples of where to use try/catches in javascript?
Similar to PageRank.
Really, so much revenue from 100K uniques and 1.5M page views a month? I wonder if that's typical or just some kind of Crranky's blog speciality?
If you use CRYPT_BLOWFISH (bcrypt) it's fine.
You really want to waste time of your life into reporting this? Click delete/spam and move on. You are not alone and there are far bigger issues that you should focus your energy on.
You could boil these observations down to "it's different," but that doesn't mean you're not also allowed to come to the conclusion that "it's awful" (or on the flip-side that "it's great"). Nobody would deny that the Windows 8/"Metro" UI and UX is different. Every window system is different, some more than others, and each has it's own pros and cons. Some people might like the Finder in Mac OSX, and some might hate it. It doesn't matter whether the hate is legitimate or defensible or not, what matters is whether your UI/UX and overall OS is compelling enough to convince users that it's worth switching from what they know, or simply worth putting up with in the bigger picture. I would also argue that it doesn't matter whether a user unfair-ably hates it after barely/ignorantly using it, or comes to the conclusion that they hate it after using it thoroughly for 8 months. First impressions are so important - not many people have the time or interest to really dig into a new UI/UX paradigm to find out what's it all about and whether it can improve their workflow. If you fail the first impression by not driving your users in the right direction or giving them some sense of excitement, most times you don't get another chance.

I think where Windows 8 fails is that it doesn't provide me with any compelling reasons why I would want to upgrade from Windows 7, or migrate from Mac OSX or Linux. It doesn't give me any sense of excitement - the paradigm shift from Windows 7 to 8 is not at all like the experience of shifting from something like a Blackberry to an iPhone. I agree with the author - I don't like the Metro start menu, I prefer the old start menu. Maybe that's just me clinging to an old beat-in paradigm, but I don't really see any benefits in the new paradigm. I don't like the full-screen metro apps with limited window management capability and hidden OS "chrome" (clock). I don't like having to use touch-like gestures or memorize new keyboard shortcuts for using all the wonky new features in the OS that don't seem to provide me with any real compelling value. The Windows 8 "optimists" that try to defend the OS by listing out keyboard shortcuts or alternate ways to navigate to different areas, or ways to "hide" Metro UX are kind of missing the point. Most people that provide a laundry list of what they hate are not looking for suggestions or tutorials - the OS has already failed to direct them, and they've simply come to the conclusion that they don't like it.
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Ask HN: If making money was not a factor, what startup would you work on?
I'm currently thinking about startup ideas but they have to involve making money (as I still need to pay the bills).

However, I keep thinking of ideas that are not really financially viable for me (like alternative energy transport, advanced robots etc).

So my question is, if you had Elon Musk type money, what would you work on?
Hudson's Bay Company is 342 years old and running.
Technically, it'd be $20k/year over 4 years, discounted at some reasonable rate, say...crap. So, $80k.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214273 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425586
Like jamesmcn says, you have to deduct the fair value of the gifts from your donation. Usually the gift receipt says the amount.
It works on mine.
Those arguments are typically made from the wrong perspective. It's just so common that if you don't do it, your product will be perceived as insecure. And as long as actual security is not horrible, the perception of security is what drives sales, not the actual security.
What big social ideas are left?
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Don’t call it a comeback, RSS has been here for years
Isn't Egypt another contender for the oldest country?
The (non-free) Mac desktop program OmniOutliner (http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnioutliner/) also handles outlines like this. I use it for taking notes on a lot of things. It has its flaws, but it’s decently powerful – I use the custom text styles a lot for marking up code and file paths in my text.
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Ask HN:  What are some $1B+ markets ripe for non-profits?
I am very interested in what HN thinks some $1B+ markets ripe for non-profits are? Primarily, I am wondering about software / web related ideas.

I work at a SaaS startup right now and have been feeling very philanthropic lately. Instead of 'volunteering' or donating, I am like the idea of building (or helping someone build) something scaleable and sustainable to help others.

Please HN, don't lecture. I understand:
- times are hard, and so are getting donations,
- nonprofit's are setup for tax reasons,
- there are other ways to give back,
- the charity system has contrastants,
- investors, well, don't invest in NGO's, and
- etc. / and more.
this one is good because, unlike the oatmeal, it is a down-to-earth telling of the story of electricity, and is not obsessed with trying to establish people as heroes or villains.

Too often we I think we become obsessed with trying to establish credit for a particular idea or accomplishment when the truth, especially when it comes to technical innovation, is usually far more complicated. I was going to say that the best we can do is to try and identify inflection points, but really, the best we can do is recognize that nearly everyone stands on the shoulders of giants.

Back to the book recommendations, I've read 3 of Jonnes' books and they're all pretty good, though the best was "Conquering Gotham" about Penn station and its tunnels.
Pretty sure most of their metrics boil down to previously generating pageviews on HN, with extra points for the SEO bonus when those pageviews were on TC.
> the choice to then arrange the periodic table by other attributes is a human one

No it's not. The arrangement is determined by the structure of the atom - specifically the electron orbital. I'm assuming you didn't know this? It's not arbitrary at all, elements in the same column are very similar chemically, and can take each others place in many chemical reactions.

> Ah, the meat of the problem. You're prejudiced against disciplines outside of physics.

Prejudiced? Really? If you are going to practice science you have to do it properly, physics does, so do many other disciplines. Some don't. It's not because they are evil - they have no other choice, they do as good a job as possible with the limitations they have. I don't hold it against them, but at the same time they don't have the same status as those that do, the results from those disciplines can never be considered definitive. And for many of them, it's not science, it's history.

And you appear not to even know any physics, and so you think everything is like what you know, and have no idea how it can be when done properly. It's a form of the Dunning–Kruger effect - you don't even realize what you don't know, so you think everyone doesn't know.
If it was simply just a question, I would have imagined that a more natural phrasing would be: "Did he manage to get any advertisers?" And if you wanted to make it really clear (although not necessary at all), I imagine you could say something like: "Just curious, did he manage to get any advertisers?" The words that you did use dripped with condescension, no?
Your criticism reveals an unsound technical background..."By wearing that scantily clad outfit she was just asking for it (rape)."
Recovering seemingly lost commits is really important skill to have when working with git. However, it is infinitely easier with the git reflog command.
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Yeah, I got a nice visit from campus security.
But what if there is a way to rank these startups? Similar to how there are algorithms to pick startup winners: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428427/an-algorithm-to-... and software to pick Blockbuster hits: PDF: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/1329.pdf and of course, my very own academic research in this arena: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29634915106/what-i-l...

What if the only criteria required by this article was to list startups that sold something (rather than be a platform or <insert disruptive buzzword here> that doesn't currently monetize. E.g. Makr.io, ReelSurfer). So that would boil it down to: Double, Coco Controller and a handful others.

As investor Kevin O'Leary would say: Follow the money.
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The lunches I used to get were usually worth more than $12 (though the company paid quite a bit more than that). But there's more to it than money. There's not having to decide, which is something you can't buy as an individual. There are other cultural benefits, which I'd argue both the company and individual benefit from.
In one word, classical.

In two words, classical instrumental.

In more violin, cello, piano, orchestra, and voice
not in English, e.g., usually Italian.

Examples:

Rachmaninoff
Rapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Van Cliburn
Eugene Ormandy
Philadelphia Orchestra

Antonin Dvorak,
Second Movement,
Adagio, ma non troppo,
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra,
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Herbert von Karajan
Berliner Philharmoniker

Beethoven
Piano Concerto 5
Van Cliburn
Fritz Reiner
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Adagio un poco mosso

Rondo Allegro

Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy
Andante Sostenuto
Jascha Heifetz
Malcolm Sargent
New Symphony Orchestra of London

Peter Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rocco Theme for Cello
and Orchestra
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
Herbert von Karajan
Berliner Philharmoniker

Chopin
Etude in E
Van Cliburn

Puccini
Gianni Schicchi
O mio bambino caro
Kiri Te Kanawa

Beethoven
Violin Romance Number 2
David Oistrakh
Eugene Goossens
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Chopin
Fantaisie-Impromptu
in C Sharp Minor
Van Cliburn

Brahms
Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor
Andante
Heifetz
Piatagorsky
Alfred Wallenstein
NBC Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven
Violin Sonata Number 9
"Kreutzer"
Variation II, Andante
Jascha Heifetz
Brooks Smith

Beethoven
Violin Sonata Number 5
"Spring"
Scherzo, Allegro molto
Jascha Heifetz
Emanual Bay

Beethoven
Violin Sonata Number 5
"Spring"
Trio
Jascha Heifetz
Emanual Bay

Bach
Cello Suite 1 in G major
Prelude
Rostropovich

Delibes
Coppelia
Richard Bonynge
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Act 1
Prelude et mazurka
Good post, even though had a bad experience.

I think whether site or startup, it is just a (hopefully informed) crapshoot. In the end, the goals are to be happy, make money, and make a difference. Whether you do that via startup, or other means, doesn't matter. And, if you fail, you (hopefully) learn and can do better next time.