skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That post is well-met, but it doesn't really dive deep enough into why talking to investors is good.

Additionally, it's essentially saying to look into their portfolio to make connections, don't talk about your own company, and return the call to be "polite".

First, any VC's portfolio is going to be other startups; any strategic partnerships with other startups inevitably devolve into "mutual referral" territory, which is next to useless. It also forces you to stick your neck out for a company that may not exist in a few years (this goes for us, as well as them).

Second, it's impossible not to talk about your company when it's the sole reason the associate cold called you in the first place. How do you block and bridge that?

Third, not returning a cold call/email doesn't make you impolite.
Lesula: A New Species of Monkey Found in Congo.
It's assumptions like these that drive the need for rigorous nutritional science initiatives.
MIT Develops a Way to Magnetically Separate Oil From Water
IExpander - an expansion device for your iPhone 4 & 4S
Don't know how they are running it, but both are technically feasible. the pragmatic thing to do would be to have either central log server or a proxy that accesses the logs of all servers
The instructional-dialog animation is disorienting.
I'm apprehensive to the idea of a cached version of X for Y based on the hash value (could be secure but assuming eventual collisions in SHA-256 it wouldn't be hard to setup a poisoned copy of a library that would live on for a long time).

An alternative use of this would be to validate the script that is being downloaded from the remote source. If you're delegating to Google or any other CDN for a javascript library you really expect it to be the one you requested. Assuming you're not pointing at the HEAD/latest version versus a specific (which would already be pretty amateur for a real site) then you expect it to always be exactly the same (ex: jquery-1.8.1.min.js should always be the same file ... if a bug is fixed it's a new version). It'd be a security improvement to have a way to have the browser verify that.

<script src="https://some-cdn.example.com/some-library-1.2.3.js hash="[secure hash of contents]">

If the downloaded file's hash does not match the expected one then the browser would flag a security warning or simply not load the file.
Not to bring up the idiotic semicolon debate again: but if you write your JavaScript without semicolons, you're forcing everyone else that wants to use your library to conform to your style guide's rule if they want their code to work:

https://gist.github.com/2399955

The build process will concatenate those two files and your semicolonless JS will cause a bug in my script. That's not being pragmatic, that's just being a jerk to the consumers of your library. I shouldn't have to add unnecessary safeguards to my code because you want to abuse an error-correction feature of the language to avoid typing semicolons. You want to type fewer semicolons, so you force everyone else to add more.

/rant
I don't see how they're clearly not aligned. As far as I can tell, you got confused because you saw a direct link that was not well labeled and didn't notice the "news" in the URL. Do you have any reason to believe that the average person who goes looking for the information you describe will find and attempt to use this site?
There are a lot of shitty survey-type studies, but there is some good mechanistic research you can turn up just by searching the specific chemical names on Pubmed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed)
Apple says iPhone 5 is the thinnest smartphone in the world, turns out it isn’t
I mention it simply because the world still holds surprises for me - a new species of insect, there must be millions. But mammals?

It's still an impressive planet
The case of the mysterious explosion in space
I disagree -- I think that NFC just adds another step that makes the technology less approachable and doesn't provide a big benefit.

The problem solved here is that I don't need to carry a half dozen cards or slips of paper to do stuff. In my wallet right now I have a BJ's Card, two supermarket cards, CVS card, a Hilton Honors card, a Westin card, library card, health insurance ID card, dental ID card and a couple of other store cards. If I don't carry the cards, I need to giv my phone number to a clerk to look up my account, which is a pain.

So I'm carrying around all of these cards. Passbook gets rid of all of them -- that's compelling.

NFC is another layer of geekery that's cool, but I'm not going to use it, just like how I never use my RFID credit card. Why? Wireless point of sale readers cost a fortune, and they aren't available at 95% of retail outlets, and when they are, they only work for credit cards. (Honestly, in my area, I only see them at drug stores and Exxon/Mobil stations)
http://xkcd.com/125/ (Marketing Interview)
Not really a myth. David shared how the company started as comparison shopping engine and later bought the Answers.com site. He also talked about their attempts to buy About.com over the last few months.
Who assures you that this JavaScript OS is safe from litigation?
How to use ActiveSupport::Deprecation in your gem
<shameless-plug>
I've prepared something similar and posted it to HN some time ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488787

Feel free to cross-pollinate!
</shameless-plug>
In the interview, I cited Gabe and Valve's success in Russia by realizing "piracy was a service problem."

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114391-Valves-Gabe...

That's probably where that language originated, but I agree that as more data comes out, we'll see piracy as less and less of a problem. The more innovators showing how to embrace change (and win!), the better. That's a big part of why I invested in startups like VHX.tv -- so I can have more examples showing why we don't need laws, esp bad ones.
Notes from the Outside In: Kent Beck on Naming
Enabled billing, now is the time to compress static files, and do some optimization.
Introducing BotQueue.com - Open Source Distributed Manufacturing
Flattery will get you everywhere! I draw logos, too. And slightly self-loathing marketing guy ;)

http://www.hyperink.com/Make-Something-People-Love-Lessons-F...
[Show HN] D.onationWare.com: Easiest Way to Cover Software Development Cost
Build this in two days using SlimFramework+RedbeanORM, need suggestion :)
Great idea! Could the browser include the libraries and authenticate them in some way?
The GPL "free" refers to the freedom of end users, not developers.
I can add whatever SHA I want to the tag though. This means I can tell if you've viewed specific images or other resources on 3rd party domains that wouldn't otherwise by in my browser history.

Unless the original content source has opted into this kind of behaviour this seems like a privacy leak to me.
>Would you take a pill wich makes you a prodigy but shortens your expected lifetime with 5 year?

Absolutely. Perhaps it's the naivety of youth speaking, but I'd gladly trade 5 of the worst years of my life to improve the rest of them.

> What would you think about the same decision if the former prodigy level becomes the new average in your field because of the widespread use?

I'd argue the world would be a much better place if this was the case. The real question you might want to ask is what if these drugs become expensive and only the upper class can afford them. It might lead to a sort of catch 22 by which no one was interested in hiring less intelligent or less capable people who couldn't afford such drugs.
Very nice! Slick UI

Is that an official Facebook Like button? I have never before been prompted to "confirm" a like. weird
It can't still be illegal here in the United States if it wasn't overlooked; ask the average person if non-psychoactive marijuana was used to make cars at one point and most will look at you with confusion, if they even answer.

The history and incredible, incredible use of hemp is extremely overlooked in general. Good luck finding it mentioned more than in passing in a high school text book, or finding a politician aware of the fact that it's almost incomprehensibly better for paper, clothing, and could create - oh my god - so many jobs, the thing a lot of politicians seem to be talking about and promising; but directly preventing (this is both parties, by the way).
How to develop Mobile applications with HTML5 and JavaScript templates
The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
That's kind of the idea. The hash would be there so the browser could verify it is what is expected. Assuming the source page is delivered via HTTPS (w/ compression disabled :D) then the client could verify the hash against what it received to confirm it's valid.
But you will also be lied to and not know what you are really working on. So there's that!

If you enjoy abusive cheating, lying, manipulating, and morally corrupt relationships; then that is the place for you.
It's amazing how consistently disparaging professional old school educators are in their daily blog attacks on on line classes. Nearly every article proclaims Khan Academy, Udacity, Coursera, etc "failures", in direct contradiction to obvious facts that vastly more people are successfully mastering the material in these classes than are doing so in person at the schools of the detractors.
Oops, yes of course, now I feel stupid for asking. Thanks.
The power of feedback
They are getting all of the profit share (and actually increasing market share slightly). In the long term, if you take all the profits, others can't compete unless they do so asymmetrically (make profit some other way). No one has shown that they are doing this yet -- Google and Amazon have plays, but I don't see how Samsung can do this -- they need to make profit from the phone, and they don't make enough to compete long-term.
Jack Dorsey: I hacked an email server to get my first job
I've tried it a few times and it's really great, I could code in a focussed way like never before. Too bad it's a drug and hard to get.
Academics is about the advancement of science. Getting into a prestigious school is only half about academics. The other half - as HN commentors are so often happy to point out - is about signalling.
WHOLE grains still aren't good for you. It's like the new soft drinks proudly advertising "Now with REAL Cane Sugar!" -- it's still horrible for you.
The article is really interesting, but I can't help but be suspicious of the data (opinion) contained within.

The expert used in the article is John Holcomb, who owns a supplement e-commerce site. I can't find anything on his site that talks about his qualifications or any hard facts to back up most of this.

I'm really interested in nootropics and increasing mental efficacy - but there is no shortage of snake-oil vendors out there, some of whom are undoubtedly taking advantage of the boom in interest for these drugs. This makes me very leery about accepting this information.

Particularly the section on Racetams and how there are so many of them that can be tried safely in combination or by themselves.

With this awesome line:

"The one caveat with racetams: from a wealth of anecdotes about a third of the population is non-responsive or only mildly responsive to one or more types, and about a third are high responders that can experience spectacular results. "

Which sounds awesome to me, if I make money by selling these supplements. Basically - you may not experience any effects until you hit the right combination so keep buying them and trying them until you do and eventually you too could be a genius. Is it like some sort of intelligence enhancing slot machine?

I wish I could believe this stuff was effective. Someone please tell me I'm crazy and that he's right and for $20/bottle I can be slightly less dumb?
Life is a competition. May the best man win. Remember Darwin? The strongest will survive. I'm not going to proactively try and injure someone else or hold someone else back, but you can bet i'll do whatever I possibly can get get the leg up. It's a dog eat dog world.

High school prepares you for college, and college ultimately, cough somewhat sarcastic, prepares you for the real world.

People are too concerned with playing by the rules in those environments. While we do have rules (read: laws and codes) in the real world, there are also 'no rules'
The really scary bit is that most people still support the police, and will probably continue to do so no matter what the police do.
I am hoping some of our features (specifically flow control, scheduled push notifications, and offline data collection) will win over some of the competitors in this space. https://www.getformly.com/features/online_form_builder
Both, I imagine.

Though Stripe isn't yet a viable competitor for lots of businesses, because they haven't sorted out the international thing at all yet, but they're working on that (as PayPal well knows).
The Cult of Disappearing Design
Calling him a zealot just for using the GPL seems a bit unnecessary to me, but whatever. It does not matter what his reasons are for it, he is allowing people to use the code he wrote under a certain set of conditions, which some people have not been honouring. I don't believe there is anything wrong with him calling them on that; why should he just sit there quietly while other people violate his license and profit off his work?
It's certainly not perfect, but I came up with it under pressure in less than 90 seconds without checking online for the modulo return values, so I'm rather proud of it.

<?php

$x = 1;

while($x <= 100)
{

if((($x % 5) == 0) && (($x % 3) != 0)){ print("Buzz");
}else{
if(($x % 3) == 0){
if(($x % 5) == 0)
{
print("FizzBuzz");
}
else
{
print("Fizz");
}
}else{
print($x);
}}
++$x;
}

?>
Fifty Important Lessons New York City Taught Me
No need to get fancy, really

Several linux devs I know just Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or something else), screen, and there you have it.

mplayer for music, end of story
Interestingly enough, they either fixed page-up/page-down or it was tied to a specific browser build . . .
>>Would you take a pill wich makes you a prodigy but shortens your expected lifetime with 5 year?

>Absolutely. Perhaps it's the naivety of youth speaking, but I'd gladly trade 5 of the worst years of my life to improve the rest of them.

Yes. I agree. (I'm 42 - does that make a difference?)

Maybe I'd have to think about it if the deal was genius level prodigy but with severe life-long pain. (Either mental anguish, or physical severe arthritis or whatever.) (I'm reminded of Aronofsky's PI.)
It isn't much of a stretch to say that police in the US are an extension of the military, the branch that is dispatched to control its own population.
> I'd gladly trade 5 of the worst years of my life to improve the rest of them.

There's no guarantee you're trading the 5 worst years of your life; it's far more likely that you'll also trade some perfectly good ones for bad ones.

And as far as the naivety of youth is concerned; the simple answer is yes. The complex one is that you'll end up understanding the trade-offs you made in a way that you couldn't now and that the decision on whether it was right or not well be just as moot as it is hard to make.
Are we going to be able to load Fx OS onto our own SGS2s when it's released?
You did accomplished the first point, which I agree with. Here's the link to the TED talk for those interested: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/zimchallenge.html
So how come e.g. www.circuitlab.com which is a simulator written in pure JS is two orders of magnitude slower on Chrome or Firefox than native *SPICE implementations in C? It is actually even much slower than the already pretty slow Falstad's Java applet.
That will be nice, but it's still not a sufficient trade-off for duration in your day, unless your time spent in the autonomous car counts as part of your work day. I liked the idea of taking the train into the city instead of driving to my current job, partially because I had this fantasy about how I would be able to use my time on the train productively, as opposed to just driving.

But, the thing is, the train trip into the city is 1 hour, and the drive is 30 minutes. And the train schedule is dictated by people who work 8 hours in the office; taking an off-schedule train is a much worse proposition. So even though I gain the time on the train (which is probably not as valuable as I think it is) I still lose out on the rest of my life for having 1 hour less per day to spend completely electively.

So, yeah, I'd like it if my car drove me into work so I was free to do other things. But I would still value a 30 minute autonomous drive much more highly than a 1 hour autonomous drive.
Will Go be the new go-to programming language?
Actually the article states that Microsoft is requiring the Metro-style user interface on their new server OS.
Employees that enjoy their job are more productive.
It is a good idea but I'll stick with using join.me (or skype, vnc, or teamviewer) so the candidate can have their own development environment.

Writing code in this doesn't really give you anything beyond watching how long it takes them to type something, which isn't a good indicator of anything (perhaps they have the phone up to their ear instead of a headset and it is hard to type). Also, since there is no way to test your code you may as well do the same thing in a skype chat window.
Should be used for static assets over HTTPS. Where the main page could specify the sha for the various resources and avoid bothering with encryption and letting http proxies cache them.
Sales Proposal Rule: Validate Price Objections
FWIW, I agree with masklinn that it's a little weird not to mention WebOS in the article. In particular when you wrote "In short, Firefox OS is about taking the technologies behind the Web, like JavaScript, and using them to produce an entire mobile operating system. Just let that sink in for a moment — it's a mobile OS powered by JavaScript!" I let that sink in back in 2009 when they announced WebOS. I was pretty excited about it. The way it crashed and burned from internal wrangling, delays, buggy releases and odd marketing was really sad. This is like you're showing up a year after the Hindenburg crashed and saying "Just let this sink in -- we've invented a rigid lighter-than-air flying machine!" That's not where we are in the conversation.

The rest of the article is really exciting, and I really hope you can launch and get some traction. I agree that Mozilla is important in this space for exactly the same reasons Firefox was important when it launched. I just think it would be kind to tip your hat to WebOS along the way.
You're ignoring the fact that porn is actually having a negative effect on society. I'll not dismiss the potential for good, but it's actually quite damaging to young men right now.
That is valid only if those substances are equally helpful for exams (and their preparation) and actual research. Otherwise, the wrong people may get into great schools and graduate programs. Of course the problem of selection criteria being different from the actual work also exists without smart drugs. However, reading some articles about Provigil, I can't help but feel that the uber-disciplined and concentrated individual would have a disproportionate advantage in studying/exams, compared to the enhancement of them doing original work.
Because communication and planning also have value, even according to you, as long as they aren't 'imposed'. But what is really being imposed here? Simply the timing, the regularity of the events. Just like eating or paying the rent.
Creating A Pattern Library With Evernote And Fireworks
iControlPad 2 - The open source controller
The term "native-like" means "with a responsive interface" these days.
> What would you think about the same decision if the former prodigy level becomes the new average in your field because of the widespread use?

The new average is computer programmers who are all extremely awesome? Sign me up! I'd probably get more than five years of additional free time from such a situation, so it would be well worth the tradeoff.

People seem too focused on relative advantage, when it's not usually important. There are a few areas where increasing everybody's ability equally will change little, but most fields would benefit immensely from raising everyone.
"it's a mobile OS powered by JavaScript!"

fail. I hope you can code in something else than javascript. We have to DEAL with Javascript on the browser because browser vendors haven't bothered supporting other more superior languages, wouldn't it be nice to have type="text/python", type="text/ruby" as options, have threads, native datatypes, real OO, logical variable scoping, better numeric precision and all the things that javascript was not meant for?

I hope more big time CEOs come out and say that not everything is meant to be written with HTML5. It's like we're raising a generation of moronic programmers with all this HTML5 hype.
Thanks! I'll keep on keeping on.
Again spare me, someone has just 'discovered' grains are bad for you? What will they 'discover' next in the laboratory of nutrition? I'll take traditional ayurvedic knowledge over this 'rigorous nutritional science initiative' chaired by the four hour body guru.

And i would rather eat a tablespoon of raw cane sugar than a tablespoon of bleached white sugar or laboratory grade high fructose corn syrup anyday. (we replaced white sugar with raw cane sugar in our house in spite of scientifically minded opinions that "it's till sugar")

In my worldview we were not dumped blindly into this world to use our senses and scientific knowledge to discover a better world. There is much traditional knowledge that is not discovered, but rather given to us that i am happy to follow instead of trying to discover the next best thing to hack my body.

I am not trying to be close minded, but I am doubting the efficacy of starting from scratch.
The valuation still doesn't match reality. People seem to forget competition exists and Facebook seems to think they can keep trying to control things, and that people will want to be on their platform long-term. In reality even for businesses the chances of people seeing your content isn't very high - of course one model being that Facebook wants you to pay to increase that exposure. It's just not the best possible structure for businesses, or consumers. Sure, it might be good enough for now, and all that exists in a good enough form for people to use - however I imagine better systems will evolve, and Facebook won't be able to buy them for $1 billion (or ~$300 million + stock, whatever it was).
Well, let us know what you find, then -- what rates, ease of setup, currencies supported, etc..

Regardless, I'm not sure why you'd say now is the time to bail, as opposed to any other time -- now that they're finally trying to fix some of the problems (effectively or not TBD, of course).
Yes, yes they do. After you get to deduct your 401(k) contributions, your FSA, your mortgage interest, get deductions for having kids, you don't pay nearly 20-30% of your gross salary in taxes. It's probably closer to 10% when you're at the 100K level, which means you're only nibbling off $3-4,000 of that difference. That leaves about $25K difference per year, or $2K/mo. That's certainly noticeable.
I don't know about you, but I'm sure as hell competing for that grant money.
The pedant in me notices that line 9 of the code snippet in the readme breaks the style guidelines by including a space between the ) and { of an anonymous function.
Ye its the official facebook like "iframe" code
A Social Media Experiment: Is Twitter an Adequate and Accurate Source of News?
Add some color to Visual Studio 2012
No the "strongest" don't necessarily survive. Evolution is only about individual survival insofar is a longer lifespan may result in more reproduction. The best adapted species in an particular environmental niche will outlast competitors.