skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my someday projects to create a generic self tracking app that presents a dashboard for quick entry tracking and visualization and syncs with a website. It will also export to a spreadsheet. It will also allow you to visualize data with graphs and so on. There will be a bunch of presets for various special types of graphs, like with blood pressure and so on. You could also specify zones for numbers so you can show 'red' for a danger zone glucose level for example.

Managing spreadsheets on a smartphone is very kludgey.
No, parents who want their kids to remain unvaccinated should do so. California should not enable anti-science stupidity; not with my tax dollars, at least.
Indeed, without Google and Sillicon Valley's contributions to job growth, we would live in a nightmare world where unemployment has soared past 8 percent.
FitWeird
A small change with a big impact on our conversion rate
DNS?

Edit : actually cloudflare hides a lot of stuff now, but when it doesn't you can see Heroku and probably others:

http://www.dnswatch.info/dns/dnslookup?la=en&host=api.pl...
Yes. A million times, yes. While the lock stuff took a while and was rather involved, it was simple. This... not so much.
Apple v. Samsung: Verdit Reached
Before people stopped vaccinating their children, there were like 0 cases of measles in the US. One dose was adequate.
Exactly! This article just belittles the work of startups and is demeaning to all the work that founders are putting in. Groupon didn’t think that selling 2-for-1 pizza coupons were beneath them - that’s how they started out. And that’s how a lot of companies got to where they are now - through a series of incremental and attainable steps, often riddled with failures and in industries they are no longer in now. But each lesson helps them gain traction and find product/market fit along the way. It's not that 140 characters is of less value than a spaceship. The important thing is to start, not lose hope, and keep on trucking. Or we wouldn't have any of the conglomerates we have today.
If you're referring to their domains, GoDaddy's pricing is competitive with the industry.

More than pricing, I thought using GoDaddy was frowned upon after the whole SOPA fiasco. I'm surprised so many have decided to use them.
Or "How to shoot yourself in the foot"
kickstarter project page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/544670315/balance-of-the...
Not quite. A wave going left forward in time is equivalent to a wave 'going right' but backwards in time. Since it is further right in the past than now, it is actually going left.

There's a lot of similar effects in Physics, especially with time and/or antimatter.
I'm not. My personal experiences with Rackspace (servers and hosting) have been pretty terrible. When things are working, it's OK, nothing monumental. But when something goes wrong you get poor communications, excuses, and low priority.
If anyone out there is interested on working on beatlab with me, send me a note. jon@beatlab.com.

Currently, beatlab.com is just me, but it is an incredibly fun project to work on. I'm based out of San Francisco.

Of course, It's fun to get to do projects with people like Paul Oakenfold. But it's also incredibly rewarding to interact with young kids on the site that have no preconceived notions of how music should be created, and to watch them progress on beatlab.
“Don’t Start A Company Before You’re 25″
A friend of mine was just as bad of a game addict when it drove him to drop out of graduate school and become a deadbeat. He's now a successful game designer at Blizzard.
Personally, I'm willing to lose monotonicity. I mean, it's only Twitter. If I don't see every single message because I didn't scroll back far enough, I don't really care.
What does this data tell us? (honest question).

Just based on random observations over the years, it seems that a lot of YC startups don't really worry about the server infrastructure until they've scaled quite a bit.

Is this is a list of what is most likely the cheapest options? The options with the fastest setup? Lowest commitment?

It seems like a lot of data, but very little information.
Ok, so, this doesn't mean I can have a light bulb that makes the room dark?
Scare tactics. Vaccinations are nearly 100% effective.
I see that you had your share of issues with Gitlab. I agree that it will need a lot of work before being as fully featured as Github or BitBucket. But I believe it can grow quickly because of the community around it, there is an obvious need for an open source solution. And I hope I can pleasantly surprise the 350+ people that signed up for the beta program in the last 5 hours.
Apple Samsung Verdict
Sadly no. Luckily I have the trademark on the name TextPics so I have these apps using my name removed every now and then, however the process is very slow and manual thanks purely to Apples horrid process. With a clone on android google took care of it promptly and placed the word TextPics in a database of trademarks to avoid future violations.

But then there is the non-illegal clones that stole my content, design, icon, etc. Now they call themselves things like Text Pictures. Is this not wrong? Funny part is its maybe 90% Chinese. I think there may have been a few Russian ones.
There was a person I knew in college who ardently believed in a lot of popular pseudo-science myths, like the ones about vaccination, and that global warming isn't real, that it's just a conspiracy of climate scientists.

In about a year, that person will be awarded a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. The cognitive dissonance is astonishing to me.
Code rant: REST
I don't disagree, but it's worth noting that if a business comes along and creates 20,000 jobs by putting (say) 100,000 people out of work, that's going to have a negative effect on the economy. Many of those newly unemployed people are going to be using your service to find out how to get their unemployment check.

That said, government protection of buggy whip makers doesn't work. Look at the ridiculous legally mandated benefits for railroad engineers.

I think there's reason to be concerned about how non-information folks are going to be making money in the next fifty years. After all, how much of the economy can be producing hamburgers, entertainment and technology?
Pull request merging so far have all been done by one Peter Welsch (https://github.com/welschp). Seems like this is happening. Perhaps these are white house specific alts, but still pretty public.
Looks pretty good overall, but there are a few little oddities.

Not to turn this into a design review, but using EQ to test for 0 seems like it's asking for trouble, and it looks like that * has only one argument.
They're a tech company trying to sell you a notebook with stickers for $30 in an age where paper offers no advantage and, quite frankly, unacceptable due to the environmental ramifications.

Their products aren't overly complicated; they're utterly senseless.
"In my case, I had a working game that was only halfway finished, so everybody saw a zillion flaws. There's an interesting question there: Is it better to show a half complete thing to give people an idea of what it is, or do you keep it all hidden until it's ready?"

I suspect that was the primary cause here, far more than any other factor. Kickstarter is for selling a vision, and a half-reality is the worst version of a vision.
How exactly would light at "negative green" frequency be perceived by an eye/camera, when mixed with an equal amount of regular green? Would it cancel out, would the negative light have no effect, or would the powers add constructively?
Thanks for the suggestion. I agree that it's part of paleo culture to be careful with intolerances, so I would want to support that if I could figure out how.
Here is a link to the American Journal of Public Health article underlying the Ars Technica article kindly submitted here.

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2012.3...

Alison Buttenheim, Malia Jones, and Yelena Baras. Exposure of California Kindergartners to Students With Personal Belief Exemptions From Mandated School Entry Vaccinations. American Journal of Public Health: August 2012, Vol. 102, No. 8, pp. e59-e67.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300821

The website Science-Based Medicine has especially good reporting and commentary on vaccine policy issues,

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/category/vacci...

with two recent stories of note:

"Holding the Polio Vaccine Hostage,"

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/holding-the-po...

describing what's holding back efforts to eliminate polio in the same way that smallpox was eliminated by mass vaccination,

and

"Steve Novella vs. Julian Whitaker on vaccines at FreedomFest,"

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/battling-antiv...

describing a debate between an opponent of vaccination and a knowledgeable doctor.
I have to admit I cringed at some of the examples provided, as well as the associated causal evidence.

1. Eating Fruit for Breakfast => Reduced Sleep Quality [in fact, "...I figured out that any breakfast, if eaten early, disturbed my sleep".

2. Removal of Mercury Fillings => Improved Brain Function. The evidence was surprisingly lacking :

"The evidence for causality — removal of mercury amalgam fillings improved my arithmetic score — rests on three things: 1. Four other explanations made incorrect predictions. 2. The improvement, which lasted months, started within a few days of the removal. Long-term improvements (not due to practice) are rare — this is the only one I’ve noticed. 3. Mercury is known to harm neural function (“mad as a hatter”). As far as I’m concerned, that’s plenty."

I am all for self-observation, but I can't help but think that some of the causal links the OP has established may not be particularly well founded.
Is leaving them completely alone for ten hours a day, five days a week really that much better? Especially with dementia, where they could wander off with no one even attempting to stop them.
Live Samsung vs Apple verdict
Oh no, there are pirated versions in the US and everywhere else but my stats speak for themselves as far as I'm concerned. And then how does one explain the fact that the clone apps are almost exclusively made by Chinese?

I don't know what else to say. It's a cultural thing. I know this from data and I know this from more personal experience with Chinese people both in and out of China than a lot of people in my situation.

This isn't China bashing, it's just the facts.
Italy France and Spain don't vaccinate against it widely. Most of the few current cases came in via adults from Western Europe and are spread in part by the lack of vaccination of US adults. The western europe situation, and low rates of adult immunization have been issues for decades.

How to solve the problem? Mandate adult vaccinations? Require immunization certificates for everyone entering the country? These are much larger factors than a few childhood immunization exemptions and a rational approach would thus focus on them first.
I sold the url, but I own the software. I have the app and have been considering having it hosted on a site of similar interest.
Could be sour grapes. How does this guy know why he wasn't funded? He blames the community. Surely his environmental, educational game is not at fault. I don't know, but I know he must naturally be quite un-objective.
Finding forks on github
His solution isn't as secure as CSRF protection, but it would cover the basic case easily. All you have to do is pretend logging out isn't idempotent.
I think that's the biggest problem with data these days. Data is easy. There is tons of it, it's cheap. Analyzing, understanding and conveying that information is very hard though.
I have found StumbleUpon to be by far the best way of generating traffic. It won't work for everyone. Don't bother using it for B2B stuff. But if you create quirky fun content aimed at consumers, it can bring a lot of eyeballs to your site. And you don't even have to pay for ads. Bulk-standard link submissions can work very well.

I have a blog that I have not updated for more than a year that still pulls in 100,000+ unique visitors a month via StumbleUpon.

One of the tricks is that once you have a viral article on StumbleUpon, you can use that article to promote other articles, in the hope that they too will be voted up and become viral in turn.
Not to hijack this thread - but does anyone know of an Amazon-like 'cloud' provider that's located in Canada? AFAIK, none of the providers listed here have the option to store data in Canada.

Basically, I want to use S3 and EC2 for most things we do - but we sell to MASH in Canada and they'll run for the hills if we're storing stuff in the US (Patriot Act, etc).

(If anyone from Amazon is reading this - open a data center in Canada already! :)
Great work, Evernote! That's pretty darn cool :-)
Congratulations on being up to date on MMR, unlike 65% of other adult americans.

Here are the CDC's vaccine recommendations for you.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/downloads/adult/adult-...
What Henry Ford says about bootstrapping
Ask HN: Is Heroku dead meat? Will Beanstalk rule PaaS?
Save me the trouble an learn some basic physics.
Read Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics, Chapter 7.
If it's too complicated for you, read about waves. See how they propagate in time and space, and pay special attention to what happens to the equation when you change the sign of t. If it's too difficult to imagine, try plotting using a program.
And anti-matter is not matter travelling backwards in time. See my post below.
But you can't publish the app in the store, so few people can use it. Closed ecosystem :(
There is a clear difference, though. Heroin and other addicting drugs create a physical addiction. If you are addicted to heroin, nicotine, caffeine, etc., your body really does need the drug to function normally, and you will go through physical withdrawal if you can't get the drug.

Activities that people get addicted to (like gambling or videogames) are only psychologically addicting. Yes, of course psychological addiction does have physical effects (dopamine levels in your brain, for instance), but we can still clearly differentiate addictive drugs from addictive activities.
I bought an original Thinkpad X1 at the start of the year and after using it since then I have to say the biggest problem it has is the battery. It's more like a large capacitor than a battery, something to keep itself powered while your run between power outlets. It is actually quite disappointing when the sole reason you buy an ultra-thin "ultraboook" is for mobility and portability, but you have to stay tethered to a power outlet.

It's great to see that they have addressed this issue in the X1 Carbon. Engadget suggests a 3:30 battery life for the original X1 which seems about right, so I trust their measured battery life of 5:07 to be pretty close. I presume real world usage will be even better than the extra 1:07 from the original X1, as moving to the matte screen should mean a lower display brightness, since you're not fighting the reflectiveness of the corning gorilla glass.

The second biggest issue I have had is one of quality. My first X1 was RMA'd for faulty mouse buttons and wireless antenna right after I opened the box, and the second one I received reported incorrect battery capacity, had dead pixels centre screen and some other hardware faults which escape me. Thankfully I was able to salvage a completely working X1 out of the two (original and replacement), returning to Lenovo a very broken, but brand new Thinkpad.

Despite the carbon fixing my number one issue of battery life, I'm still not sure if I would upgrade to it, given then chance. I originally bought this Thinkpad X1 because it was supposed to be a Thinkpad, something that was nearly bulletproof and would withstand the abuse of travel and the outdoors. Lenovo has lost my trust in Thinkpads for now, but hopefully this X1 Carbon is better than the original.
AND my customers that aren't stealing it would down vote it for the annoying inconvenience of having to log in for little to no value :/ The app store is a rough place.
Less than 3 days to go threw all those questions. These guys must be geniuses!
I agree. I've been very impressed with the gambles and payoffs YC has made.
Have you read the blog post? If so what don't you agree with?
Is Venture Capital Broken?
I think it's a little disingenuous to expect less of someone for using a different editor. Good catch on the multiple dispatch though.
Facebook is a blow to society.
Isn't this the site that stole all of their content from an existing competitor (HighDeas), slapped more advertising on it, then did SEO?

Lame as fuck.
I think the points made are good.

Modern efficiencies have eliminated a lot of jobs. Fact. No point in arguing about whether it's good or bad. It just is.
So don't waste time trying to defend Apple or Google. They are just successful in their time. Good for them.

Consider though, that many of us who are fortunate enough to be working in the information tech / startup area, are focusing most of our efforts of creating products consumers don't even know they want or need yet, but we hope they find super cool. Hopefully the product gives us enough users to figure out how to make money off ads or something. Cool, fine.

I have to agree that it's a shame that there isn't more momentum behind figuring out how to solve problems that people already have. Figuring out problems that would benefit the vast majority of people who don't work in information technology, who just so happen to be finding it harder to find good jobs because of information technology.
I'd live there without ANY internet if I had to - http://imgur.com/a/blPyd
You mean it's going to have a positive effect on the economy?

You no longer have 100,000 people digging and refilling proverbial holes, so they're now free to contribute in other ways.

Of course that's going to cause some short term friction, but a refusal to see past that friction would still have >90% of us working a family farm for a living.
I think there is an underlying assumption when VCs "invest in nothing" - the founder knows how to make a startup succeed, the actual product notwithstanding. The biggest risk in startups today is not the product, but the founders ability to succeed. The idea doesn't matter, the execution doesn't matter, the connections don't matter, even the near-term profits don't matter. What matters is if you can get a million people to use the product regularly. Risk(Founders who have done that once and have no product now) < Risk(First-time founders with a product).

This brings me to the biggest problem with startups that nobody seems to address and in fact, every successful/smart/talented/skilled person contributes towards it - every single startup is reinventing the wheel and that is inefficient. Step back and think about any given startup. They have to do all of the following: Setup accounting/legal/corporation, manage employees/payroll/benefits, perform data analysis/SEO/marketing, excel at PR/word-of-mouth, engage with users, encourage developers, design their brand, manage infrastructure (even AWS/Heroku accounts need pampering), source funding, present at tradeshows/industry-conferences, and tons of other boring things that you will see mentioned in expensive 20 page e-books and "X things you should do" lists. The worst part is that they have to this on top of making their product work in every environment: multiple browsers, mobile devices, app stores, online/offline modes, hi-res/lo-res graphics, hi/lo bandwidth, multiple languages/regions, and do all of that 24/7.

Why isn't all of the repeatable stuff outsourced in bulk, while still enabling the founders to develop the product and own equity? If you work for Google, you don't have to worry about any of this and just hack away on your code and let someone else market it and manage payroll. But you're trading away your high-equity/high-risk for a fixed salary/bonus. Why isn't there a median between coding at Google with no equity/risk and do-everything in your startup? Being an early hire at a startup doesn't cut it because it's high-risk/low-equity. Imagine if you could join YC and all you have to worry about is making a good product and someone else manages everything, while you still get to collect X% of your product sales. And if you feel YC isn't doing a good enough job, you can easily switch to XYZ and after a brief catch-up, they can take over everything. Certainly this happens already during acquisitions or switching vendors.

Why can't there be a one-stop-shop-startup-vendor who handles everything about running a startup? And why can't there be more of them so they can all compete for the best founders/products? I know I've simplified a lot of complex issues here but I think big ideas start with solving difficult problems. And running a startup isn't easy. Running 800 is near impossible. But it could happen.

Off-topic but related: I kept trying to clean my LCD thinking there were small spots on it. Turns out it is the site's background.
The new Microsoft logo looks like a few other logos...
I agree. Just had a server image completely disappear with Rackspace. see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419387. I'm using a mix of providers: Rackspace, Linode, AWS and a few smaller ones like rimuhosting, webfaction etc. So far Linode is by far the best option I've used. Perhaps not as flexible and feature-rich as AWS, but Linode is easy to use, reliable and really great support when you need it.
Apple - Samsung patent trial final verdict to be announced now
Who inherits your iTunes Library?
You keep talking about "commercial speech" being different from "non-commercial speech", as if that explains your claim that "If you aren't happy with my book, I will refund." (claim A) is a safe thing to say, but "I'm serious about refunding anyone who ends up not being able to raise their client rates." (claim B) isn't.

But both claim A and claim B look like commercial speech to me!

Both are promises to provide refunds under certain specified conditions. One, claim A, offers refunds under the broad and hard to dis-prove condition of "aren't happy with the book", while claim B offers refunds under a somewhat narrower and slightly easier to verify condition of "not able to raise rates". How is claim B more dangerous than claim A?

And comparing commercial speech vs. the contents of a book is irrelevant, since neither claim A nor claim B is contained within a book.
The only collisions I care about in my implementation are asteroid/ship and bullet/asteroid, and they're easier to express directly. The OP's version appears to have many more types of collisions, which makes multiple dispatch a more obvious choice.
Obsession can seem like discipline.

I've long suspected they're the same thing - or, at least, on a spectrum together. I know that I just don't "feel right" if I work less than I want to, or if I skip out on a workout session I had planned on. And I know that with myself and other people I train jiu-jitsu with, we will train with injuries that rationally we know we should not. When we talk about it amongst ourselves, we say things like "I just can't sit on the couch doing nothing." I suspect this "discipline" to get back to training is similar to obsession and compulsion.
at 17 min or so is the swiss army kitchen utensel. I dont watch very many of these types of talks, but really like this one. thanks for mentioning it.

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-outside-th...
>> The 19th-century kitchen was built around a live fireplace, but then we rapidly benefited from electricity, water, and gas stoves. Then the past fifty years brought no major technological changes.

Ever heard of microwave ovens? Automatic dishwashers? Pretty significant kitchen innovations in the last 50 years.
For example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/opinion/for-the-herds-sake...

http://danamccaffery.com/openletter.html
Don't ever swerve around a parked car's open door.

If there's parked cars, merge into the lane well ahead of them and stay out of the zone doors could open into.
What league are you in? I hope GM!