skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have any source to this claim?

Paypal, for one, makes no attempt to hide this: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-My-Account/using-p...

While Paypal will accept it if you provide a Visa-verified billing address, not all will, and that would defeat the point of anonymity anyway.

Visa and AmEx also forbid international payments on prepaid cards, and most merchants nowadays require a verified billing address. (This wasn't the case as recently as 2009).

Remember that a prepaid card is not a credit card - there's no risk of you not paying, because they [Visa] already have your money and yet merchants refuse to take it. It's completely ridiculous.
Agreed, and not saying that at all, but to me thats the biggest tip off that its a bad fit. If they're secretive with salary, or try to hard sell me on the position, or they're unwilling to make a decision and be confident in it without many many meetings then those same things are likely to be reflected in day to day situations after coming onboard.

Interviewing should give you a fairly clear picture of how functional or disfuntional an organization is. You just have to be sure that its a function/disfunction mix that you can thrive in.
Modern medicine: Lab-grown genitals, spray-on skin
Introducing a new YouTube app for your iPhone and iPod touch
Just backed the project. Good luck Boosted!
If the Segway was about a thousand bucks, way smaller, and more thrilling to ride... well, I'd buy it.
If they don't do it, I'm sure someone will hack multiple batteries together and post a how to.
Introducing Smushkid – optimize images to speed up your website.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamometer
For point #2, http://startuply.com is a site that caters only to startups. The monthly Hacker News "Who's Hiring" thread is another place to start (ex: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463689).

Networking is always the best, but it is good to look at the whole field.
Are you looking for a moped maybe?
Mark Zuckerberg Live at TC Disrupt
I would like to hear from somebody living in a country that already has this kind of system in place. How does it work in practice? Do they catch every torrent you download for instance?
Sudden deceleration (or acceleration) is probably the last thing you want if the remote disconnects. I'd guess some audible alarm letting you know the remote is no longer functioning + disconnecting the drive system (motors and brakes) so it functions as a regular skateboard would be the safest way to handle that issue.
What are some of the others? The last time I looked, MonetDB and LucidDB seemed to be the most popular column-store open source projects, but they seem to have been mostly subsumed by proprietary products.
As a long-time MTG player, this is TOTALLY WILD. I love it.
"could have easily saved me a few hundred hours. Still, $65/mo seems a bit much"

I'm curious about the scenarios in which saving a few hundred hours is not worth $65/month.
The industry should use words like "brilliant" instead of "magical" to emphasize the skill and dedication required to create amazing products, instead of tacitly implying that they are outputs of inscrutable black-box processes. Kids who ride this skateboard realize that someday, they could engineer something even better than it.
How big is a Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte, or a Yottabyte?
Netmera - a cloud backend alternative for Parse
It's not even just that it looks like longboard, it is an actual longboard that's been modified. It's a Loaded Vanguard from what I can tell which is a really nice board. The existing electric boards tend to be made specifically for the electric board and the result is a not very good skateboard/longboard.

Also, the difference in weight is huge. 40 lbs is something that I need two hands to pick up and is a pain to carry. Bringing the weight down to just +4 lbs over the original longboard means this is something I can actually carry under my arm.
I thought about creating something like this a few months ago, but I thought that Stripe would almost certainly create something like this themselves in the near future.

Either way, this looks good, and I'll keep it in mind for future projects.
That might be less than ideal if you were going downhill. Or if you had accelerated to maximum speed, were heading toward an intersection, and planned to hit the brakes before you got there.
I'd be interested in seeing population statistics for this particular social hierarchy, especially employment and income trends over the last 60-70 years.
the Freebord was also a Stanford engineering project which went to production

http://freebord.com/
Perhaps you're asking the wrong question. It often should be "How do I get ___ to be interested in reporting on me?" rather than "How do I get on?"

Think of it as a value equation: you want the reporters to help you get press and make people think you have something cool on hand; they want something cool to share with their readers.

So, one way to do it is - as most of the comments have suggested - use guerrilla tactics to get to the journalists/writers/topics that are often covered.

But, what if you created or generated something that is really unique and content-worthy? We did this recently with my product, and ended up with an unsolicited TC piece.

How'd it work? We showed-off the types of awesome things our product could do, and it caught the writer's interest.

So, I'd say find a way to show-off why what you're doing deserves coverage, and then take some steps to help get that in front of people (that's where Twitter, HN, etc. comes into play).

Also, quick note, but the traffic you probably expect from TC coverage may not be accurate.
Right on target!
You should check these guys out: you can apply with no idea AND no team, then find both after joining. (Ignore their corporate-looking website, they're very switched on). http://entrepreneurfirst.org.uk
Seeking CTO at Seed Funded Social Media - PHP/jQuery/ Developer
Seed-funded lifestyle/ travel startup is searching for a talented web developer with PHP, MongoDB, Javascript and CSS skills.

This is the chance to be the lead, manage other developers, and have a lot of input into how the site grows.

You must live in the Bay Area, have legal US work status, and be able to work at least twice a week with our team in Berkeley.

We can pay a highly competitive salary, equity or a combo of both. The ability to self-motivate, work independently without much supervision, and reach our late-beta/ future goals on time is crucial.

Giving us links to work you have independently done is truly important.

Here is BYC's early-stage beta launched website: http://bravoyourcity.com. Contact is misoon [at] bravoyourcity.com

Thanks,
MiSoon
founder | chief editor
To me, the obvious follow-up would be social anxiety because it is intrinsically hard to talk to other people about, yet discussing it with a computer doesn't pose any difficulty. (I'm currently reading a 'use CBT to cure social anxiety' book which has been rather eye-opening.)

Regardless, I like the site, though it sometimes gets a bit choppy on my old macbook pro. I think £50 might be a bit steep as an up-front cost - it almost put me off.

Also, have you considered doing an iphone app for the diary? I use some supposedly motion sensing app to wake me up with music. It doesn't work very well, but for your purposes I could easily see just thumping the phone when I notice I'm awake instead of having to look at a clock and remember a time.
Hybrid Windows/Ubuntu VM Rails development environment
I want to learn enough to be able to create what I want to create. So if I have an idea for a speaker for Mac-devices, then I want to be able to do it or have the knowledge, so I know what I need to learn to do it.

Starting doing back-end development can be a bit of a challenge. How much of a challenge do you think it is to start with Hardware, compared to that?
If the company is successful to the point that this law starts being enforced, they can get a well-connected investor who can help lobby to get the law changed.
Cool, when can I get one equipped with smartwheels?
Looks cool. I'll take a look at it :-).
Which could have been said in jest, to be fair.
Despite the sound of it, YC is harder to get into than Harvard. This is both statistically true based on acceptance and based on quality of applicant.
"In collaboration with Internet Explorer"

Doesn't even have a good fail back on IE 8 which still has a good percentage of the market.
Maybe not, but they don't need to. A few Google searches should give a candidate some idea what to expect based on their experience. Also, Google and FB both have well known perks.

Google/FB/Other Big tech names are a lot different than some secretive private company that wants to interview for days on end and then offer half market value.
Is it node.js?
Having worked in an art museum for a while, I gained an appreciation for artwork I never really knew I had.

One area I really liked was using newer technology in unexpected ways -- not just using Photoshop to make a cool image. A good example, and not totally unrelated to this piece, would be the Something Awful GIF exhibit:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=348...

I love seeing people take something that exists now and molding it. Art has always been about this in some form, but now, with the digital age, manipulating the visual (and auditory) senses has become easier.

One thing that really has come from this age is the imperfections in the digital medium: glitches. We now have the Glitch genre of music and art as well.

http://www.evanmeaney.com/glitches.html

All of the way art has evolved, and in such a short period, really catches my fancy for some reason or another. I'd love to go to a museum full of just thing kind of stuff.
Checking the type of a variable in Javascript
>perhaps using a monolithic engine like Unity makes building such a game more difficult because the engine itself will be inherently opinionated.

KSP is actually a good example of this as well. They've had to make a few design decisions because of engine limitations. But it's also let them get a game that's quite good that's developed a dedicated following fairly quickly.

Wasteland 2 would also be a project to watch. They're one of the highest profile projects to go with the engine.
Video: Two Human-Powered Helicopter Teams Fly in One Week
What happens when Apple goes subscription for music
What is unethical about this exactly? You don't own that account; blizzard does.
I think they ignored the metro guidelines. Thank fuck.
Microsoft patent shows Holodeck-style, full-room “immersive display”
I've tended to find the $300+ price tags on Loaded boards to be a bit high, but they are head and shoulders much better than anything you can find for $100. This is really exciting to see a motorized version of an actual good longboard.
for what my word is worth, please let me put in a vote for LiFe - i know they're not as energy dense but you may not need as much armoring on the pack. you can say its good for 2ce as many charges and uses a safer battery - which can increase perceived value.

let the ultra-modders swap in LiCo's on their own - they'll do it anyways.

there's a techcrunch-story-future that i'd really like to see you avoid! :(
This is not true, the riots in Peru were over giving mining rights to foreign interests: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13913776.

Peru's water problems are real, and not easily summed up i the term "privitization:" http://www.economist.com/node/5526571
Sure, but it's interesting that Facebook will do this to someone at the behest of a 'friend'. It makes me what their limits are. Believing this conspiracy theory is crazy, but so is believing in an invisible sky-daddy who tortured his son to forgive you for your sins.
Whisper (backend for graphite), cube, ganglia... possibly more. I used to build things directly on top of rrdtool, but the schema definition can be a pain when you've got a lot of dynamic data.
Why wouldn't they be? They already know the range they are going to offer. Why are you so open to them hiding important details that would immediately remove them from contention? Are you that happy to have them at the end of the process stating "Oh by the way we want you to move to Japan." Thanks guys, with that little bit of information we could have prevented this whole song and dance.

On top of that, just because Google or Facebook might not, doesn't mean it's the right way or that I have to put up with that.

If they won't say up front, I don't care about anything else they have to say.
As other's have mentioned I'd suggest that you start with an Arduino. It simplifies a lot of the complexities of embedded development while still been surprisingly powerful. You'll want to start by learning the basics: How to control the general purpose IO (GPIO) pins, basic serial communication, analog to digital converters (ADC), digital to analog converters (DAC), etc.

The Arduino is a nice platform for beginners because it provides a nice set of libraries that abstract away a lot of the complexities of developing embedded systems. If you're just interested in building hardware for a hobby the Arduino may satisfy all your needs. But, if you're interested in actually developing products to sell I'd recommend that you quickly move from the Arduino to some more serious hardware. This isn't to say you can't make real products with an Arduino; I know there are projects like the Makerbot that use it to great success. But I think by just using an Arduino you run the risk of learning a framework rather than having a comprehensive understanding of the interaction between the software and hardware.

After Arduino I'd recommend getting a development board such as: http://www.actel.com/products/hardware/devkits_boards/smartf.... One of the classes I took in college used these boards and they're pretty awesome. They have an ARM microcontroller and FPGA on a single chip. If you're not familiar with FPGAs check out the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array. Basically they enable you to implement digital logic through software using a Hardware Descriptor Language (HDL). Usually the manufacturer will also provide you with premade IP cores you can drop in. These are things like ADC converters, controllers for SPI or I2C, etc. You can also get crazy though and design custom chips even a complete general purpose processor and test it out on the FPGA.

Hopefully this helps. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them.
Thank you for the information. But it seems it is aimed at UK graduates only. I am based in the US and am no longer in school.
How federal surveillance has changed since 9/11
Does the suit ever give you some technical task to do to test your execution or some other criteria (what if he actually wanted to see some code you've written)? What if the suit has some preferences on the technical side, sort of like how you have preferences on the "businessey" side of things? (e.g. C corporations and provisional patent applications)
payola 2.0 is your pitch? Uh... don't quit your day job...
Scroll down on the landing page to see some examples. Or here https://nickw.easybill.co/Donate-to-my-Worthy-Cause
Markit looks at free web-based one-stop shop
I wish them luck securing that. Even app engine had security trouble at first :)
I feel like this article about how the Law views information and how Tech views it is germane.

I think it is one of the best descriptions of this split, and what problems we'll have to overcome.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php
That's not what a double negative is: neither of those words are negatives. Pejorative, maybe, but it's not as though they cancel each other out like "not not" does.
ColorGuide: making-of
People are following the money - it's VERY hard to find backing for a 'change the world in 20 years' kind of company, but relatively easy to find it for a 'make $40m in 5 years' type of company.
Show HN: Terrarium.js programming game - Sharpen your javascript skills
Laminar Research, Creators of X-Plane, Are Being Sued for Patent Infringement
Presentations in terminal
Killing the Copper and Income Inequality
It's pretty great. There are 4 assist settings from barely helping (1), up to make you feel like superman (4).

On the 3rd-4th setting hills are a breeze, on the 2nd setting you still work a bit, and on the 1st setting it really just makes up for it's weight imo (motor + battery = heavy).

You can also go into resistance / negative settings (-1 to -4) is you're a masochist (or in amazing shape).
Taken together, insofar as they are markers of and contributors to phenomena including a shift from employment to entrepreneurship, and the positive face of the shift away from lifetime employment and more towards individual control of one's own relationship with the market, startups of all kinds are changing the world in a big way.
Web Intents Integration Appears in Chrome
SRS was the missing piece for me when I tried setting up SPF the last time. I'll talk to my ISP about this.
I developed this last week, it is a port from the .NET old Terrarium game that Microsoft used to run.

Note: the blue ball will randomly teleport critters to other terrariums.

Try at least to beat the default carnivor!
Another day, another Anonymous lie? Was GoDaddy really hacked?
"if the next phone I get in a few years comes with the ability to dock my phone to use a full desktop, is that going to count as tethering?"

unless something changes, i have no doubt it will. i have an atrix phone on at&t, it has a 'lapdock' which turns the phone into a netbook. this lapdock is nothing more than an hdmi screen, battery, and usb mouse/keyboard - yet, at&t requires tethering to use mobile data with it...

thankfully, this can be got around by installing a custom rom that doesnt include the lapdock software (which is horribly cumbersome anyway), but it sets a rather disturbing precedent.
Try playing with a 2-year-old girl sometime. If you build her a tower made out of blocks, is she going to patiently nurture and protect it like a good mother-figure, or hit it to watch the blocks go flying? Little girls love destruction every bit as much as little boys.

When they get a little bit older we start seeing different behavior. Little girls play with dolls because we buy them dolls. Little girls wear dresses because we buy them dresses. Little girls start emulating princesses because all the little-girl movies we let them watch have princesses as role models. Fart jokes will still be hilarious for a while, but eventually that becomes "gross boy stuff". Yes, there is evidence that male and female minds work differently, but we certainly do our best to force them to develop along different paths!

Physics and math are tools for understanding and manipulating the universe around us. If you want to get young students interested in math and physics, don't try to get them to understand a deep proof about why 1+1=2. Fire some balls at each other and then get them to calculate momentum transfer. It's in human nature to enjoy seeing stuff like that happen, and understanding it so we can control how that stuff happens in new and entertaining ways is a phenomenal motivator.

Painting a physics text-book pink isn't going to work any better on girls than painting it blue would on boys. Girls like more of the same stuff that boys do than we usually think. It's human nature to like those things. The problem is that some of the lessons girls are taught about what it is to be female contradict their human nature. Painting the book pink is an attempt to appeal to girls via the faulty lessons they've learned. Instead of doing that, we need to help them unlearn those faulty lessons and appeal to their human nature. e.g. Little girls should like explosions too.
Yeah, happens to me occasionally when I'm shuffling around gadgets with a mid-2011 15" MBP. It's rather annoying when it happens, but it still beats having clips that often snap off on the pre-magnetic laptops. If only I could solve the other problems with my laptop... such as when I put it to sleep, the fans spin up for about 60 seconds before it actually goes to sleep, and since upgrading to 10.8, my battery life is around 3hrs and it's very flaky on certain WiFi connections. I do get the impression Apple's software quality in particular is going down :(
JavaScript 'this' Keyword: What is this?
"with many unwilling to trade the devil they know for the devil they don't"

This is a big reason for me - I will only work in jobs where Im working for someone or with someone (whos already with the employer) that I already have a previous relationship with. (This would obviously change if I found myself on street.) The problem is that Ive found that it is extremely rare to find an employer that isn't a schyster ready to milk you, "the resource", for all your worth while paying as little as they can (which these days is admittedly pretty high). In fact in tech this is the normal "good business" practice behind the curtain - get as much as you can out of your employees for as little as you can. And its an extremely small minded perspective that usually over the long term leads to high turnover and horrifying codebases and half assed products that impact the bottom line.

If you find a pretty good employer that your happy with it will cause you to pause when the next opportunity comes along because you might be expected to work 50% more time on CRUD stuff for that extra 20% raise. Its usually somewhat hard to tell from the exterior what your really stepping into.
"Life expectancy is not entirely medical"

If by not entirely medical you mean overwhelmingly not medical, then yes. Of the 30 years that life expectancy increased in the 20th century, 25 of those years were do to non-medical factors according to the CDC.

Furthermore, if you actually look at the top 'medical' causes of death, they can overwhelmingly be prevented by non-medical means. To quote from Overdose In America, "Simply eating fish once a week reduces the risk of stroke by 22 percent. Controlling high blood pressure reduces the risk of stroke by 35 to 45 percent. And even moderate exercise for less than two hours a week reduces the risk of stroke in an elderly population by about 60 percent."

Furthermore, just 1.2% of Americans meet all 7 cardiovascular health metrics from 2005 to 2010, compared to 2% from 1988 to 1994. These metrics are not smoking, being physically active, having blood pressure under control, maintaining healthy blood glucose levels, maintaining healthy blood cholesterol levels, mainting a healthy body weight, and following a healthy and balanced diet.
Lots of people under NDA can be pretty stupid when it comes to leaking information. I'm sure it will help blizzard catch a number of NDA breakers still.
The link states that at some point within the last year, 9 million children had their eating patterns disrupted. Could you point me to where it talks about year long or even long term periods of hunger?
New touchscreen allows physical buttons to appear and disappear on command
Are there any security features (such as cryptographic authentication linking a remote control and a board) to prevent people from using stolen Boosted Boards?
When human lives or expensive equipment are at stake then it makes sense to be software conservative by your definition.
But for these kinds of requirements Java is way to lenient.
Big Business is rather influenced by Big Brother in this case. In much of the US the telecommunications industry receives heavy funding from local and state governments to build out their networks. There might be much more competition (or not, who knows!) if it wasn't for the regulations, subsidies, and municipal monopolies that are granted.

I'm not saying it would be better, but the telecommunications market isn't even close to a free market.