skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, right now I'm still doing my undergrad and they (SpaceX) only take US citizens or permanent residents for internships and COOP terms (I assume because of the legal complications given the nature of their work).

But I know your company does take interns and you guys are at a 5 mins walk from my campus. So on a short term side, I'm focused on building my skill set for an internship in your shop! (Sorry for the cheap plug!)
This is coming from someone who has never used Pintrest before, but how does it make money?
LOL, did you find a rock hammer stuffed inside?
That is doctoring on the symptom, not the cause.
Go outside. You do not only need Vitamin D, you also need fresh air, green and exercise. You can not get this with pills.
In the long run you save time, because of longer life (and hacking) and reduced illness (better hacking).
Hey Google ... Are you for serious now?
R.I.P. Ping (September 2010-September 2012)
While there is plenty of anti-American sentiment in the Middle East, and it relates to protests, I'm not sure that has so much to do with the destruction of the embassy and the murder of the Libyans and Americans there.

I don't think that the President being seen to support deliberate antagonism of deep religious prejudices (by parties interested in more and worse war) will help.

You don't see the President publicly supporting strident anti-semitism or holocaust denialism or racism or eugenics, either - though those are taboos for western society more than for predominantly Muslim societies; consider how much Ahmedinejad's casual holocaust denial has done to maintain anger about Iran in the West.
Moderate Islam has been compatible with science (well scientism) in the past but you can't reason from the specific to the general. A fundamentalist/hyper-dogmatic flavor of any belief system is by it's nature an intolerant breeding ground for ignorance and xenophobia.

"something is wrong"

This is where people tend to, wrongly, paint with the biggest brushes.
Apparently they cost $199, and are only available in a few states right now. Not all of the USA.

With all health care free of charge in Canada, I think it will be a while yet before they cross the border unfortunately.

I have been for many physicals but have never had my blood checked for levels of anything really.
OP: consider re-writing to have less of a "this is why my startup is awesome and well-connected" and more of a "this is what Angel-list is actually going to be important".

Here's a hint: it's about data.

(Also, your landing page made me want really sad. Confidence is great, but being a douche is, well, being a douche)

I realize this was a negative post and HN is too full of those these days, but this was needed
This is another anecdote point: my mom is a nutritional biochemist who has done research on vitamins for much of her life. She always tells me to take Vitamin D and that nearly everyone is deficient because we don't go outside enough (and live in high latitudes).

Not science, but the author is on to something, I think. If you doubt it, get your blood tested and see what your doctor says. If you don't want to get tested, take a conservative supplement.
> ... but his argument misses ...

Shikha Dalmia. She.
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The takeaway message is nothing of that sort. Let's not find dictatorships behind every bush. Google decided not to do what Obama requested, and nobody is getting concrete shoes over it. Obama is certainly not picking on you individually.
I don't believe they're making money as of yet. But they drive a lot of traffic to eCommerce sites and they can find a way to monetize by promoting products. Just like Twitter/FB are doing sponsored posts, they can do something similar.
What about blatantly inflammatory homophobia and holocaust denial? Those are also blatantly inflammatory speech covered by freedom of speech, but it doesn't mean they have to be socially acceptable.
Lots of mattresses are rated +4.5 with 550 reviews but when you go read the reviews, there's a ton of 1/5 reviews saying "the memory foam lost its memory after a couple of months."

For example: http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Comfort-Dreams-Select-A...

Something really shady is going on with their rating averaging.
Maybe you shouldn't encroach upon their trademarks. The notification tells him clearly that he can resubmit his Chrome extensions by removing the trademark-infringing logos/icons.
Second hint: 500 is using Angellist not to make things easier for startups to apply to theirs and other incubators, but to use the most accurate data available to quickly eliminate 95% of startups from consideration. They're not worried about losing a few in the process, they're concerned about efficiency and missing things hidden in plain site. You can quote me on that.

Extrapolate from there.
I started looking at jobs two weeks ago after Neil Armstrong died out of curiosity. I have a job at a place I love doing astrophysics, and I can't complain much about that, but I need to update my resume anyway.
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Soft Power at it's best. Indians excel at inventing weapons of least destruction by packaging them into a harmless psychedelic wrapper of nonsense and escapism. Say what you may, but Indian Cinema's song and dance routines are a balm for a billion souls.

Song, Love,Dance & Beautiful fields. You can't make this shit up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o060YhF4rHs
I am really curious about the technical reasons how this might have happened.
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة وخيتافي
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة وخيتافي

مباراة برشلونة وخيتافى بث مباشر

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برشلونة وخيتافي اون لاين اليوم 15/9/2012
What you may not have considered is that it is more important that Obama be seen to do something about the offensive videos, than actually to achieve anything by it.

Pretty sure the administration knows they cannot kill the video. Explaining this to people we have to deal with diplomatically is another issue.
How much does it cost to "produce" an /8? Nothing. In the "magical" world of the internet, you don't even need to build a network to use the addresses on. Nor do you need to prove that you actually have any sort of "rights" (as the legal kind) over the addresses. Because there is no one who can grant you such rights. Hate to spoil the magick trick, but no one owns the internet. The whole scheme works on cooperation of network admins and acquiescence of everyone else.

And the top post claims it would be worth $1BB. Keep dreaming.

The truth is that the value is not in addresses, the value is in the network, and those who own the infrastructure, but of course there is no single infrastructure for the internet because it's a network of networks, owned by various parties.

The telephone company can charge you for a telephone number. It owns the network that you're going to use it on. If it didn't own the network, you would not pay for the number. You are paying to use the network. The number is just a formality.

This same is not true for the internet and IP numbers. The RIR's don't own any networks. There isn't even a clear line to the source of their authority to "allocate" address space. Does the US Government own the internet? Good luck with that argument. RIR's charge fees to "allocate" addresses, an administrative job, but we have no idea how the fees are spent. Maybe to pay the CEO's generous salary? How much work is it to keep track of some numbers? Maybe we should ask IANA. The whole scheme works based on cooperation and acquiescence.

No organisation ever paid $1BB for an /8. They got theirs for "free" (inconsequential maintenance fees notwithstanding).
Very interesting service. Solves a real problem for me, our slides always look average. We were considering getting a designer on board and the slides would be a significant part of what they do.

That said, this might be suitable for a standard presentation, but for a full investor pitch I'm not sure if I'd use it.
WellnessFx is a very neat idea. I wish they would allow you to get your own blood work and type in the results yourself and only charge for the analysis. Personalized medical advice would not be possible for plans like this - can't really trust the data, but at least you get some automated advice from the system, and your market could be the entire world not just three states.
Interesting, I would actually say that all of society, almost on every country in the world, is governed by violence. Why dont people break the law? Because there are consequences to doing it, and if you don't voluntarily accept the consequences, then you'll be violently forced to take them. All of society actually ultimatly depends on violence as the mode of enforcing order.
Every HA deployment I've done, the HA manager inevitably had issues to begin with. It takes time, patience, and a few late nights.
http://Clarity.fm ...might fill a void as well
[5] forms (vitamers) of vitamin D exist (see table). The two major forms are vitamin D2 or ergocalciferol, and vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol, vitamin D without a subscript refers to either D2 or D3 or both. These are known collectively as calciferol....Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) is produced by ultraviolet irradiation (UV) of its precursor 7-dehydrocholesterol. This molecule occurs naturally in the skin of animals and in milk. Vitamin D3 can be made by exposure of the skin to UV, or by exposing milk directly to UV (one commercial method).

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Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) is produced industrially by exposing 7-dehydrocholesterol to UVB light, followed by purification.[143] The 7-dehydrocholesterol is a natural substance in wool grease (lanolin) from sheep or other woolly animals. Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) is produced in a similar way using ergosterol from yeast or mushrooms as a starting material.[143]

Tl;dr of 5 types & only D2 and D3 are commercial avail

--Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D
Got me worried for a sec, but I eat a lot of tuna/sardine sandwiches and salads :)
It's possible that evangelicism is growing even if religiosity on the whole is declining. It's very hard to tell from these sorts of surveys, because what constitutes being religious is extremely difficult to define. Subtle differences in phrasing lead to enormous differences in outcome, e.g. 'are you a Christian' vs 'do you go to church at least once a week' could literally have a 50 point spread in the US. (And god forbid you test if people can recite the ten commandments from memory before counting them as Christian.)

And it gets even more difficult than this because most religions don't look or feel anything like Christianity, but because that's the most common religion in the US most surveys are biased in favor of religions that look like Christianity.

So you have issues like, is the Church of Subgenius a religion? Is science a religion? Is gnosticism the same as Gnosticism? etc.

There are entire college classes you can take on the history of the methodology of the study of religion, that focus on these questions like how do you know if something is a religion and how do you determine if someone is religious or not.

edit: A fun quote I snagged from Overdosed America suggesting that the excessive belief in western medicine may in fact have some commonalities with religion:

"Could it be that, although we define our era by the tremendous scientific and technological progress that is being made (particularly in medicine), our desire to believe in this narrative of biomedical progress predisposes us to uncritical belief in its real merits? In other words, might the shared belief in the potential of medical science be, in large part, our cultural mythology?

We tend to look upon myths with romantic condescension as the stories of primitive societies that provide shared meaning and hope and ease the prospect of suffering and death -- stories that are made of 'facts' that we (scientifically sophisticated as we are) know are not really true. Our belief that we are too scientifically grounded to succumb to such nonrational beliefs may, in fact, be our myth. How else can we explain the widespread agreement that statins or the new antidepressants or the COX-2 inhibitors are genuine breakthroughs that will preserve and restore our health in ways never before possible? These are our myths, merging science and hope into our shared belief."
The most embarrassing part of this story is that Ric Richardson, the Australian founder of Uniloc, is portrayed in the media in Australia as an entrepreneurial hero.

He had his own 'Australian Story' feature:

http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/thebigdeal/default.ht...

And has been profiled numerous times as brilliant genius entrepreneur in the newspapers:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-beautif...

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/04/19/1240079538770.html

As far as I am concerned this type of coverage is a complete embarrassment for the Australian tech scene and honest entrepreneurs from this country. Not once in any of this coverage of Uniloc is the issue raised of small companies being sued and threatened.

If you follow me on Twitter you would have seen that I have been tracking his media coverage for years now and getting in touch with journalists in order to get the other side of this patent trolling out and known to the public. It was all to no effect.

This guy didn't invent anything, he is simply taking advantage of an antiquated patent system to profit from the work of others. It is funny how in none of these stories is it mentioned that what he does only works in the USA.

If you are from Australia help us out the next time you see a story or feature on Ric and paste in a comment about how he is helping destroy small software startups.
While this is true, the threshold to jailbreaking has been kept quite low by the iPhone Dev Team (and youtube), and well-organized sites like AppTrackr can get users into the habit of stealing rather than buying.

There's an interesting subtext here about demographics:

As mentioned above, it would seem that games are more vulnerable to piracy due to the broad audience (lowest common denominator) and lack of "necessity" (games may appear trivial and thus not worth paying for to some). Productivity-linked apps such as Instapaper, Omnifocus, and Day One seem to grab paying users with less difficulty.

Additionally, there's been some commentary around Android vs. iOS users being willing to pay for apps. The argument is that Apple was rather successful in targeting an audience who tend to be more willing to pay for applications. As a contrast, it's argued that Android users tend to prefer free software.
> If free citizens of free countries can't live in freedom because of fear of terrorists, the terrorists have already won.

Seriously? People living in fear of terrorists is actually a feat mostly of US politicians, inciting it and using it to manipulate the masses.

If people were rational, and weren't purposely deceived by people on TV, they would be more scared of driving than terrorists, since more people die in car accidents every year, than all people ever killed in terrorist attacks.
You can't blame them, that's in general a healthier attitude than obsessing over chemistry and stuffing yourself with pills. Same as full-body CT scans.
Indeed, but in civilized societies, socially unacceptable speech is countered either by ignoring it, or by more speech. Not by rioting and killing people.
At the time it was really frustrating to hear people say "64 bits is just twice as big as it is now, that will never last" and I would say emphatically "No, that is FOUR BILLION times bigger!" and get hit with "Well what if every light switch in the world had its own IP address huh? huh?" and I would say "Yup, if that happened we MIGHT use up may 10 or 16 BILLIONTHS of the address space just for lights, the equivalent impact of dedicating a class B in the current address space to lights, which nobody would really think twice about."

Alas, such discussions were not compelling.
You're totally right. Our skirt was too high, our top was too low, and we wore waaay too much eyeshadow. We were totally asking for it.
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That does not mean you get the money. Nobody is going to pay out 1.5B to any investor.
I have used both the Sennheiser PXC450 which are active noise cancelling headphones and the Shure SE 215 which are in-earphones. The Shure by far is the one that I have used most for coding/running. It does take some getting used to and earwax is a problem (You need to clean it every month or so). However, the sound quality is incredibly excellent and it shuts down external noise in a way that active noise cancelling headphones don't. Also, I believe you can find deals online for a price less than what you quoted.
Wait, isn't outside cultural influences what provoked Islam into radicalizing?
Because he's an angle investor and quite successful at that.
Probably could figure that out, yeah. But we didn't want to take any chances given how important it was to get our live blog situation under control.

[edit]

Which is to say, we wanted a rock solid network and to essentially be a drop in a bucket of traffic, even at the insane burst that The Verge live blog gets.
That was interesting. In a post that took less than 5 minutes to read I learned the author has undergraduateresearch experience, was admitted to an MD/PhD programme and is an inveterate namedropper. There was alsp something about some startup he's involved in, how tons of people wanted in and he (and possibly existent but never mentioned cofounders) have only hired engineers. That's at least three overt uses of social proof; too overt, like an MBA who does not inderstand that his attitude will cause many, many nerds to think he's probably not bearable company.

There was also something about some incubator's application process in there somewhere.
Listen, I'm an atheist; more to the point, I am an anti-theist. I think there is a lot wrong with religion in general, and a hell of a lot with this one in particular.

I mention this only to emphasise that I have no natural inclination to defend Islam. I just really don't see it being the root cause in this situation.

It seems to me that the religion is more a product of an unhealthy culture. It is no coincidence that the wants, desires, and prejudices of gods so often resemble that of their followers. This religion did not appear out of thin air, it was borne of the culture it resembles. It is when you see the religion spreading other contexts (primarily location or time) that you see it become "moderate". People ignore the parts they don't like.

The religion isn't causing this. At best, I'll concede that it is acting as a conduit to siphon an obsolete and brutal culture from the past into the present. I do maintain that it is culture that is wrong here, regardless of where it comes from or how it got here.
I'm all about candid feedback. So it's well taken and much appreciated. We were playing around with different wording and we were afraid if it was too duchy for average consumer or not.
Conventional wisdom holds that communism collapsed
because America forced the Soviet Union into an
economically ruinous arms race. But the truth is that
the West won the Cold War less because it pointed
nuclear missiles at the Soviet people—and more because
it won their hearts and minds.

This article is just making up facts. Falling oil prices had more to do with the fall of the USSR than probably any other factor.
FYI, selekt.com is going to a parked domain page for Domains Made Easy. The logo in the top left of the page goes to "blog." so I stripped that prefix off to check out the main page, and was very surprised.
The liquidity and value of an asset are orthogonal questions. Not that Pinterest stock is even necessarily illiquid (I have no idea).
Thanks, it's been in the works for a while but it's a fun side thing.
I agree...but the end result is the same that other incubators will follow the same process and at the end it's all good.
As someone who had started out as a self-taught programmer and only after a couple of years went back to school to get a degree, I can confirm that. I think the only thing from your list that I had been familiar with from my self-studies was the Big O notation and some algorithms and data structures. I first went back to get the degree mostly for the piece of paper with better job security and salary prospects in mind, but I actually enjoyed hearing about most of these things. I would add two things to your list which were great fun: automata/languages (I had known how to use regular expressions before, but I had no idea where they came from and how they fit a bigger picture) and heuristic algorithms (like simulated annealing and what not).

In all honesty, I can't say I know for a fact that knowing these things made me a better developer. It's hard to quantify. In your day-to-day life you don't generally use such knowledge. It's entirely possible that it didn't make any difference to my actual work. I certainly did use it during job interviews and lunch-time conversations with my coworkers.
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They closed a round at a $1.5B valuation. What are you trying to say?
Choosing market segments on customer profitability
Nano sims are also thinner.

Source: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/09/12/dont-plan-on-cutting...

But it looks like you can hack it: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/09/14/convert-micro-sim-ip...
How do you explain socio-economic standing causing systemic misogyny without invoking culture?
I thought the evidence for the benefits of taking vitamin tablets (for anyone not deficient) was non-existent.
I'm also under the belief that diet modification works much better than vitamin tablets For deficiencies.
This confuses and disgusts me. It also makes me wish I hadn't made the parent comment just so this casual antisemitism didn't have a parent comment to latch onto.
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This is, as near as I can tell, a marketing campaign unique to graphic design. In other professions, spec work isn't just accepted; it's close to the norm. For instance, a good lawyer might sit down with you for over an hour to consult about your situation long before he ever starts billing for his time. A full proposal usually takes me a couple days full time, and we're billable wall-to-wall. And so on.

The campaign against spec work began as a reaction to a genuinely abusive practice: companies would hold "design contests" and solicit whole campaigns from multiple firms, then cherry-pick their favorite ideas from all of them while only paying one firm. But it's evolved to a mythology about all spec work, and that mythology mostly covers up the real issue: the Internet has made "good-enough" design cheap for the majority of companies, including the majority of 8-9 figure revenue tech companies. PepsiCo will still pay you $100k for an important campaign, but most of the design business isn't PepsiCo.

99designs has issues (the biggest isn't quality, it's plagiarism), but there's nothing unethical about its structure, and anyone who suggests that the people who helped build it should be ostracized are saying much more about themselves and their own fears than they are about anyone else.
The biggest gripe I have with single-letter variable names is that they invariably require mental translation to their full names before anyone can understand how they're being used. Even for those who wrote the code in question.
I appreciate this sentiment, but it makes me think of "The queen is dead. Long live the queen."

"Visionaries" and "cool people" are in many ways good and bad, flawed and gifted, like you and me. It does not serve any good purpose to hold either Jobs or Elon up to the spotlight as if they are any sort of savior.

If anything good comes in the next 10-20 years, it will be because of not only Elon, but people like the rest of us that choose to do something, not wait on others to do something great for us. That said, there is nothing wrong (to say the least) with someone who can drum up the troops.