skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caveat Lectar: I'm full time at Dev Bootcamp.

Like the other commenter, I completely disagree. The reason these programs work is because they are in person with heavy accountability structures, rapid sharing of knowledge, and an amazing community building.

I honestly can't see any of these working nearly as well as the in person programs. You have to be involved, invested 9, 10, 11 hours a day. Your fellow students will pull you up if they see you slacking or not working hard enough. They'll help you when you're down.
Startup idea: short, paid email
That's a lot of work!

I had issues with Snow Leopard where it wouldn't actually go to sleep. The screen shut down, but the power led stayed on, and it would drain the battery as if in use. This could be something similar.
There are no modules in JavaScript as well. At least not in ES5.
Regarding folding bikes, even the smaller ones are still somewhat of a pain to take on the train. But a really tiny one like the "CarryMe" from Pacific Cycles might fit the bill if your "last mile" commute is in the city.
> Every year, around 100K people die in accidents, of which 40K were car accidents.

I don't know about overall accidents, and I don't have numbers memorized, but I know that vehicle accident deaths have dropped pretty significantly over the last couple of decades. Trends are relevant, too.
The Internet is making us stupid
Posting this because Tourettes is fascinating, and seeing the coping strategies that people use is interesting.

As always, this link is UK only. Maybe it'll be shown on BBC America. And there are methods to get this content if you're not in the UK or have missed the time limit for iPlayer.
I had a pretty long debate with myself about that before posting. What I concluded was that I probably should use the [1] as I wanted to say something else afterwards and it is nicer not to have to extract the URL from a block of text (I personally believe). Had I only wanted to note that it was a repost I would have just put the URL in.
Got a link on that?
Is that your ROT cipher?
I actually thought it to be a good write up. When yeoman was first announced, I was "meh" about it. Now that I've read the article, I actually want to kick the tires on yeoman.
This is not uncommon. Though this is a great time to mention that YC sends pretty good rejection letters (we see these every batch, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180243):

We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html

We're trying to get better at this, but the hard limit on the number of interviews means it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

Y Combinator Team
Intermediate JS devs need online resources too. Imo, an in-depth explanation of inheritance and the module pattern would be the best possible resources for people at that level of the learning curve. In other words, just read Doug Crockford.
Actually you can register and use it right now through the API! Since the best way to use Less Neglect is by integrating through the API, we opted to launch using that method.
Maybe the following title would attract more people willing to invest: Electric longboard: 12 lbs, 6 mi range, $1,099
If you don't find a job, you don't pay. And you pay in installments over 6 months (ie, 2% of your annual salary per month). This does not seem crazy. At all.
Show HN: The code free way to use Stripe
I really want to participate in one of these programs (App Academy, Hungry Academy, Hacker School, etc.) but location is a deal-breaker. Does anyone know of similar events in the Portland, OR area?
I've shipped very little JS code, so take this with a grain of salt. However I have had to ship JS code, and since I'd heard horror stories, I tried to find some solid resources to make sure I wasn't shipping garbage. I found these really helpful:

Eloquent JavaScript, a freely available book with an in-browser REPL and a lot of fun exercises

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

Douglas Crockford's JS master class, which covers a lot of the same material as his "JavaScript: the Good Parts" but in video format, and I think in a much more digestible way. The Good Parts book is very, very dense and probably best used as a reference. (why he thought starting with a formal definition of the langauge's grammar was a good idea completely escapes me)

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596809614.do

I don't actually know if these are really up-to-date, and all the cool kids are using CoffeeScript anyway, so anyone with more experience please correct me if these aren't any good. They definitely point out how to avoid the most painful quirks of the language, and how to leverage the core that is actually decent.
Boosted Boards are wicked fun to ride - awesome team, too.
Thanks for the great information, appreciate it.
I'm amazed at how many seemingly non technical people are cheering this guy on, or least seem to think it's "cool" what he's doing.
Module pattern. It is easily one of Javascripts greatest strengths.
This is real talk. Its high time we started seing articles with titles like ''Coders Learn how to Business'' ''Coders like how to Market''. The tech community needs to get out of this ''Coding is everything'' bubble. Coders can be hired but Enterprenuers cant.
The reality is this information is easily accessible on LinkedIn. Even if someone hides their current place of employment, LinkedIn's recruiting tools actually let recruiters see that information (one of the reasons we receive so much recruiter spam).

Companies that want to build great teams need to start thinking more offensively than defensively. If you have a great culture and solving interesting problems, recruiters wont pose a threat.
Wouldn't that 12.5% be a business expense deductible against the gross income anyway? Ask a tax expert, but these costs are "business expenses" and should be deductible.
In my 146 updates the first third is younger than 1 month, and about 4 in the 146 I have already found by ususal ways of following the literature. But the list contains a higher 'concentration' of interesting sources, than any issue of my favorite journals. That's good support for any researcher.
Co-founder here. Feel free to ask questions!
Yeah, as I started, ideas kept coming and the test kept expanding. It was a cool exercise though. I feel like doing this kind of thing, while a waste of time, is good practice. It's helpful to go through the motions of detailed testing and reporting on simple little tasks like this, because those skills translate directly to more complex tasks.
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I really shouldn't have said "UNIX way". It really is more a "LISP way" I guess. LISP predates UNIX. My point was just that it's an "interface" that's more in line with how computers actually work.
FTA: Google Play is sponsoring free wifi. iOS users don't have access to Google Play.
A Kickstarter book project deemed an illegal fundraiser in Finland
I'm definitely going to check this out... It's such a pain to start developing an Android app from scratch, especially if you aren't familiar with mobile development.
Hi guys! This a WIP, and we'd like to ask for your help to get this guide more complete! It's a live document.

Please, feel free to fork the project and send a pull request, we really want to make this guide a reference for JavaScript developers.
The Anatomy Of A CEO
Wow, I was just wishing I had something like this the other day. I like the API-style, "pay with a link" type form. Stripe really should have something like this built in to their API.
This is awesome. So easy that I'm going to implement it in all my future projects.
Something like this? https://shortmail.com/
99.999% uptime == 0.001% downtime
0.001% is a factor of 0.00001, not 0.001. Remember, % means 1/100th.
It's been in the news several times before, many of them via ArsTechnica as well.
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Edit: If I may expand on the point above. Which may seem cryptic.

Complex systems are interisting in that they can be both predictable (in theory) and not predictable (in practice). What's more is that they can be mischaracterized by analyzing the data. Ie, this data is a mess, it must me unpredictable. There are a whole class of deterministic processes which generate these types of results. Whereas a normal, linear process can be infered from medium/high resolution data, even with higher-resolution data we can't infer the underlying logic of the complex system. We may, as a result, either oversimplify the model or proclaim the data to not support any deterministic process at all. The classic example is the class of processes that exhibit sensitive dependance upon initial conditions. ie, variations on the notion of deterministic Chaos. Their sesitivity is such that the resolution of the dataset required to deduce or infer the origination function would never be feasible if it was anything other than complete. Whereas, with deterministic processes that are more traditionally tractable, you can make progress in your knowledge with data-sets of increasing resolution. ie, you can run a regression to infer y=mx+b or a monte-carlo to fit a gaussian curve or what not. But you cannot "brute" force a fit to a choatic process from a montecarlo, becaue you will never have enough resolution nor enough precision in your data set to infer an origination function. [1]

The summary thought is tha sometimes gaps in data can be bridged with higher-level logic or heristic, but this is not always possible (either in theory or practice). Yet, we should not infer a problem is unsolvable or untractable just because of this. =D

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory#Sensitivity_to_ini...
crazy that Stripe didn't already have this. So easy it ought to be illegal!
The other thing to consider is how the causes of death interact, and who it is that's contributing to mortality/survival rates. For example, perhaps people in France have higher cancer mortality rates because they are not dying from heart disease at a younger age. Perhaps the US has better survival rates for cancer because the incidence rates are higher among lower age groups, and people's general health is better at those ages, and so on.
If you live in a decided state ( http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ ), vote third party. Most states are decided.
Notes on the acquisition process
As somebody who uses Safari, the fact that it doesn't "activate" Flash until you focus the tab is one of its best features.
So many non-technical people have asked me how to switch from Paypal to Stripe. This is the perfect solution, I've been waiting for a service like this. Nice work.
Yep. Security through obscurity is no security at all.
I wonder if applying this technology to something like this: http://www.diytrade.com/china/pd/2572648/Kick_Scooter.html would lower the perceived learning curve and greatly expand their potential market?
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Are they street-legal in Cambridge?
Absolutely agree. If you continue to read down in the thread, I apologized for addressing it at all.

Regarding your purchase, based on my records, your cards were shipped on Nov 22, 2011.
I find the matter of fact tone of your comment interesting. From what are you basing "they're getting super selective about who they let in the program". Our interview structure and selection criteria has remained the same for a long time, only just now is that changing and by no means is it becoming more selective.

We also don't discriminate based on location, gender, etc.
As I scrolled up to kickstart it myself, I saw the price. Thanks but I can walk.
>Are you suggesting that, because it takes skill to operate, it's a bad idea?

Jeeze, I guess I did, I must be getting old. It is a cool idea.

>But, a rollerblade version? Can you explain...

Setup aside, going fast on roller blades is much more controlled than on a skateboard. You can't bail, sure, but you also won't get the death wobbles.

At speed, you can inline your feet (one foot in front of the other) and put 80% of your weight on your back foot, since the only instability is front to back. This guards you against pebbles, cracks, and what not. You have the same side to side stability as a someone riding a bike.

Skateboards at speed have instability front to back (obviously your weight is back to guard against pebbles, etc..) but also side to side. Keeping the death wobbles away takes a lot of practice.

Behind the Blazer I got up to 45Mph on my blades, but not even close to that on a skate board (with tight trucks and soft wheels). At the time I considered myself to be about equal in terms of skill with both.

(edit for line break)
We're still researching all the legal issues that vary from state to state. So far, we've never heard of a ticket being issued, and all the cops who have seen it think it's a fantastic idea. I think the biggest factor will be how responsible our new users are.
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Is there data to back up your argument? What you're saying seems to amount to this:

If you're wealthy, the US health care system is so good that not only does it outdo Europe's system at handling heart disease and cancer, but it does so much better than Europe's that the effect is evident from mortality statistics even though 75MM people in the US make less than $22,000/yr. At the same time, you're saying that regardless of the fact that US hospitals are required by law to treat indigent patients regardless of cost, enough people receive so little care that they bias the mortality statistics.

This seems like an extraordinary claim.

I am not an apologist for the US health care system, as a cursory look at HNSearch will show you. But I don't think the problem is that people don't get care in the US; it is, as policy wonks will tell you, better (from a health care perspective) to be homeless in 2012 than it was to be President in 1955. The problem is that the US health care system routinely bankrupts patients.
Nice demo, the product looks very interesting.

I'm, however, a bit surprised that you used real user data in the demo. I don't know exactly how FolioHD works, and I don't know if the data we see in the demo are already public, but it kind of made me tick.
I predict a huge increase in uptake on VPN services and other privacy providers.

I am seriously thinking of going full encryption for absolutely all my internet and email use. Getting so tired of "Big Brother" and his idiotic "Big Business" sidekick.
Glad to see you've apologised. I respect that. (Not often I see people do that, rather than burying themselves deeper.)

And as the 4 emails and one tweet I have sent you over the years, I never received them.
I'd be happy to refund your purchase if you'd like to email me directly.
Part of our tech is very efficient, compact, and (relatively) cheap brushless motor controllers. It's not easy.
On the Paradox Consistency vs. Pivot
I'm like donretag in the sense that I also seek to minimize my online profile as much as possible; thus, I don't use LinkedIn.

So no, the reality is not that it's easily accessible -- unless you're already making it so on sites that are liberal with sharing your info like LinkedIn.
Where I live, there are many urban areas but also many hills / roads with long inclines. Longboarding isn't that popular here because:

1) You can't longboard up a hill, or even much of an incline.
2) More importantly, when you go _down_ a hill, it's pretty difficult to stop quickly (this is why I personally stopped longboarding)

This device would help with both problems!
Hey Gailees, I am the creator of Easy Bill. Can you give me some idea of what kind of projects you'd use this for?
Any plans to open similar schools in other major metro areas like Los Angeles/Orange County, Las Vegas, Atlanta, etc.? I'm assuming the biggest obstacle is finding qualified instructors.
This fell through the cracks. It's our fault: it's our responsibility to keep track of applications.

If you're willing to give us a second chance, I'd be happy to port over your friend's application. You can reach me at kush@appacademy.io.
Thanks a lot. It is my very first website. But I'll def keep that in mind. Thanks
Glad you think so :)
I went saw the descriptions the pictures and it looks awesome until I saw the price, I'm not saying it's not worth it: I have no idea how much they have invested in R&D/prototyping etc.. but it's too much for me $1000 for an electric board :/ too bad.
Interesting that YC companies are now raising money with Kickstarter instead of VC... great if you can get it.
OTOH, those "critical" automated emails turn out to not really be that critical most of the time.
It's not so much the brakes being stable, it's the operator's body with its c.g. 1m above the board. A maximum deceleration for tires on a good road is generally 0.6-0.8G. So in order to avoid being (literally) thrown off the board the rider needs to be leaning backwards by 30-40 degrees before applying the brakes.

There's no equivalent to this behavior in any other vehicle. In a car you just hit the pedal, on a bike you just squeeze the handles and hold on, on a seque (the closest equivalent I can think of) you must lean back to actuate the stopping.

On a long board at 20mph if you "hit the brakes" you crash, period. That just doesn't sound equivalently safe to me.
This happened to me with my older MacBook Pro. On that model, the magnet next to the latch would loosen, causing the laptop to power up in my bag on the train or bus. I wouldn't notice this until I picked up the bag and noticed that it was very hot.
> Based on this, I will boldly make the following prediction: in 10 years' time, the most popular languages will still be some variant of Java and C#.

Your conclusion may very well come to pass. This reminds me of another article, Beating the Averages, in which pg writes: "And so the median language, meaning whatever language the median programmer uses, moves as slow as an iceberg."

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Yeah, PayPal has had a lot of issues in the past with freezing accounts and lots of money along with it. They actually did that to my account a few years ago. I had $20,000 locked up. Part of my inspiration for EasyBill.. no doubt.
I bought a Palm Pre2 last year on ebay and had to go into an AT&T store to activate it. The person helping me had a little trouble activating it, so he called AT&T support and got help so quickly without being asked stupid questions, I've been using his technique ever since.

Whenever I call tech support of a company that has physical locations, I always start with:

"Hello, my name is Kevin, I'm an associate with [company] at the [store] location. I'm trying to help a customer with [my problem] issue..."

And very quickly I'm having a conversation with someone who knows their stuff and doesn't insult my intelligence.
Why You Should Quit Your Job to Be a Founder
"Last mile" is a transportation (and telecommunications) term that doesn't mean a literal mile. It's the last leg of your trip. Solutions to the last mile problem will revolutionize transportation, though this probably isn't that solution. I'd bet on bike sharing systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile_(transportation)
Ugly PHP code examples
What do you do when you're trying to explain a technical issue that can't be explained in 500 chars or requires code snippets? Maybe move to a different medium? A different email address?

A codepaste might work for snippets as long as it's not sensitive. You still might need a way to explain how to reproduce a problem.

Maybe these are all just add-ons for such a service.
If you use JavaScript on the client side, you do it to drive the user interface which consists solely of DOM element objects. So why not make those DOM elements object oriented instead: https://github.com/hafriedlander/jquery.entwine
I am not sure to put yet another middleman between me and customer's credit cards.

Stripe's 'Capture the Flag' stuff kinda makes me feel they are serious about security. I am getting the same level of comfort with easybill.
Makes a ton of sense for a company like this that will likely be able to self-fund after a few hundred pre-orders.
There's a slick demo of this running at:

http://ec2-67-202-26-167.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Yes, I wonder why it hasn't taken off. Perhaps lack of word of mouth, or the fact that it's lacking the "paid" component.

I would feel bad about telling people to email me at shortmail.com, but a VC who receives tons of unsolicited pitches wouldn't. Some would love charging a fee to get pitched over email. If it takes 30 seconds and they pay you 20 bucks, why not.
Linkedin has sort of tried this w/ premium accounts. 3 InMails for $20/mo. Not sure if premium accounts are really driving their revenue as much as recruiter solutions.
Ex-GoDaddy employee here
Kevin Rose says key for startups is to 'edit your team'
And when they respond back, "That depends on experience. Why don't you tell us what you're expecting so we're not wasting each others' time."?
How many Ah is the battery? It seems extremely small for the quoted 6 mile (@ 20mph?) range.
Because of SPAM, phishing, and malicious emails.
What Killed The Linux Desktop: An Outsider's Perspective
The Air has a fan that is hidden in the hinge, and it is unobstructed even when the lid is closed. So this is probably not the case.
I would ordinarily agree but not in this case. You actually can register and use the service immediately with some simple "curl-ing" in the terminal. Which I found to be a brilliant initial user experience.
Thank you, I appreciate it, I have passed this message on.
or its the consultants and management grads who LOVE to be CEO of something! :-)
Oh, you want all the noreply@ receipts to just bounce and disappear?

No thanks.

Maybe the other way, though. Paying as the sender for longer messages. But I don't understand what advantage this would possibly have over the free email services.
Why do developers love to use tiny fonts, even though people are known to flee at the sight of them?
>" Consider that among the top causes of death in the US are "accidents" (predominantly motor vehicles)"

If I have a higher-than-average chance of dying in an automobile accident in a specific country, that's good information to have. In fact, I want to know all the particularly common ways I could die somewhere, be it via car or mortar attack. I think that's a great way to compare countries and life expectancy. Maybe I miss your point?
I'm all in favour of simplicity, but this page is a bit too sparse. Among other things, it would be nice to know if this is free or has an additional charge on top of Stripe's fees...
Aren't there a lot of states where back seat passengers don't have to wear seat belts, and people can ride in the back of pick-ups etc.

Obviously road and car quality are up for debate, but once you spend some time driving around Europe in European cars, you'll see what I mean.
Coderwall never exposes personal contact information of anyone on the team, so the exposure is no greater then having a GitHub profile...probably even less.