skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a comment on the Kickstarter page, it looks like someone was trolling by donating almost enough at the last second:

My wife continued watching, as I went off to bed, and I heard a loud gasp... (her hands were up on her face as I walked back in). The final bump that put it up to $49972 appeared to come from one backer's pledge raise in the final seconds, when nobody could do anything at all (like single digits of seconds). That person raised by over $800 at once, but chose (WHY?!) not to go in another $28. My perspective is that it was on purpose, they did not have the funds available, and they wanted to make a point. Otherwise that pledge (and a corresponding comment!) could have come with a minute to go, and a chance for me (or others watching) to kick in the final dollars.
Have you used Carsabi or Truecar?
I must not be understanding this correctly. The script is triggered when the user attempts to search for text on the page. When would a user search for their pw's?
They wouldn't have known about the $28 until after the event finished - the last hour of these things is usually a flurry.
If that's the case, this scenario is a win for the people who pledged money.
My feeling is that more than anything, better artwork would have helped here. I just personally don't like looking at those screenshots with the bright colours and drab hex-grid landscape, never mind what the gameplay is about.

Maybe it would help if Kickstarter had a kind of pledge that said, "Only if this project would not otherwise be funded."
Aside from the already asked question of why didn't they pony up the $28, the second thought that hits me is perhaps Kickstarter should have a margin where they will allow the project to continue at the digression of the project management? I.e. if you're within 1% of your stated goal ($500 in this case) you can choose to continue.

I could see projects that perhaps really had loftier goals and set a low number to try to encourage people to commit bow out it they were within the 1% threshold. Meanwhile being less than a tenth of a percent from your goal and not making it really sucks and likely isn't beneficial for anyone involved.

edit: Another thought: If KS still wants a hard cutoff, give the project another 6 hours or something to make that 1%.
This might be why it is so depressing when someone with deep domain knowledge and insights in a product area (say, hardware, or security, or something else like that) decides based on a perception of the funding market to do something else entirely, like another local/social/mobile photo sharing site for cats.

I know of at least one awesome company with great engineering founders who were for some reason working on a consumer application for a while, before pivoting back to a harder engineering problem. They've been quite successful so far at the latter, which sort of justifies how sad I felt when they were doing the other thing.
The bare minimum. If there was a lot of interest, it would have been easily covered.
There has been rather a lot of press along those lines, certainly. A substantial fraction of the "parameter space" for supersymmetry does seem to have been ruled out. But for better or worse, SUSY has a very large potential parameter space, so the theory as a whole is nowhere near being disproven. I don't have the impression that many actual particle physicists have changed their minds yet.

To some degree, how one views the current data depends on one's expectations going in. For the Higgs search, the LHC (and other experiments) had already ruled out the vast majority of the possible masses for the particle, long before it was discovered. But we didn't take that as evidence against its existence; instead, we expected that those results were "boxing in" the true value (as indeed they were).

So someone who considers the theoretical argument for supersymmetry to be very strong could interpret the current data in a similar way: the LHC is homing in on its actual form by ruling out alternative possibilities. On the other hand, someone who considers the theoretical argument unconvincing could legitimately see the current data as strong evidence against supersymmetry (at least at the weak scale).

For what it's worth, I recall seeing some predictions in 2008 by Abraham Seiden for the dates when the LHC would have enough data to see various potential new physics.[1] (This was before the disaster when they first switched it on, so all of his dates are at least a couple of years early in practice.) He said that some versions of supersymmetry might be seen as early as 2009: those are (I think) the same versions that we're seeing data against these days. But he lists a date of 2017 for a "higher energy form of supersymmetry". So even before the data began to come in, everyone knew it would be quite a while before anything definitive could be said on the subject.

[1] There's an error for the original site, but here's a Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1iyysX3...
I see, so you think if you just try to be as boring as possible, then you have nothing to fear from surveillance? Good luck with that.

What if the world changes, and yesterday's orthodoxy is tomorrow's heresy? This used to happen in the old Soviet Union, all the time.

What if, unknown to you, you are friends with a guy who the government doesn't like? This very thing happened to Maher Arar - actually it was two hops away, his friend's brother signed his lease, and that's all that was needed for the US government to whisk him from JFK airport to be tortured in a Syrian dungeon. Maher Arar is a guy just like you and me - he works in wireless tech, and crossed from Canada to America all the time. See http://maherarar.net/ .

Why do I have to explain this to someone whose nick is georgeorwell?
Or they were really trying to make a point and/or help a cause they knew, by then, that was failing. In which case it seems to have worked. I think this wouldn't be as newsworthy had it fallen short by a thousand dollars. And the publicity the project owner will be getting could still be channelled into a happy ending.
Your OS/browser already identifies itself, so they know which look to fake.

The trick is to convince someone to try finding something sensitive on the page. This might be done by showing a long list of 'leaked' passwords or social-security-numbers.

Even without explicit prompting, some people might Ctrl-F search for their own, with a false confidence that a local search isn't shared with the page.
Games are such a waste of capital & neurons.

Make something that actually helps humanity not just lines your pockets, and wastes other humans neuron potential.
Microsoft lacks communication; Is it Surface Pro? or Surface with Windows 8 Pro?
The thing is, that's all you can ask for or you look like a scam artist or an idiot because you're over-asking. People, for better or worse, take into account how much you're asking for relative to what you promise, and fund or don't fund based on that.

The unfortunate thing about game development Kickstarters is that the worst thing that can happen is that you make exactly your goal.
as taytus said, that's what they asked for. If they needed more, they should have asked for more.

But you can't ask for $50k, then get frustrated that's almost how much you get? You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.
Don't know what Apple is doing, but it is common for firms to manufacture goods overseas, then put a small finishing touch in the US to get a Made/Assembled in USA label for PR or tax purposes.
I was a freshman at NYU in 2004 when Facebook launched there. I really miss Facebook in those days. It was so minimalistic but that was part of its charm. If Facebook looked and acted like it did today in the early days there is NO way it would have caught on. In fact, I may be in the minority, but I barely use Facebook at all these days.

One of the core ideas that I think really made it great was there were only two privacy options (if I remember correctly). Make your profile visible to just your friends, or just people in your network (nyu.edu email in my case). You could see pictures and names of other people, and you could see a limited profile if they sent YOU a friend request, but that was it.

Another thing is it was really easy to find people with common interests. For example if you listed a certain movie or book you liked, you could click on it in your profile and it would show you everyone else who also liked it (ordered by your friends first, then people in your network ordered by friends in common, then locked profiles of people outside your network).

It's a shame that they have gotten so far away from what they once stood for.
DailyCrunch (http://dailycrunch.mobi) - a "Flipboard for the Kindle".

Building it "to scratch my own itch" of having something to read on the subway and getting rid of the "infinite streams of news" devices such as the iPad suck you into.

Still pretty alpha, but everyone's welcome and feedback is appreciated :-)
C++ abstractions aren't about making things simpler or about hiding complexity from the programmer. They're about reducing duplication and allowing solutions to be expressed in the domain of the problem. C++11 intentionally made things more complicated to add more ways to do that.
That strategy is doomed politically. Sound political strategy is a mix of rhetoric, pr, and institutional advocacy. The last would be especially true in something like this.

Even if "corruption" were the whole story here -- and it is not -- it would be beyond simplistic to imagine it could be met by cash payments to the proper pockets. This board routinely laughs at idiot corporations attacking technology problems with mass expenditure. Well, this is a similar sort of problem.

There is no "land grab" here. This is not a technology problem.

There will some day be network dispatched cabs. For Uber the question is will they survive to be part of that architecture, or will it be built up around their mistakes.
This is one reason why I bought the 15" MBP instead of the Retina. I fully expect this to be the last user-upgradable Mac, they seem to be moving everything towards an iPhone-like closed system.
I don't disagree, but courts are much more likely to enforce laws that are written down and (implicitly) agreed to by US agencies.
Oh I agree. In vino veritas. But 'permanently high' is different: it isn't really a high at all.
While I enjoyed all the sparks. I really just want to know who the hell keeps 244 9v batteries at home. In the video he said he did not buy them just for these experiments... so why does he have so many then?
1/12 scale Transform Robot (video)
I think the guy himself was not too eager to continue the project. Looking at his statement, he seems a little too willing to give up. Perhaps he thought the response was too lukewarm to continue. Most likely he needs much more than $50 000 to make this worth-while and the kick starter campaign made him feel like he would not get many future sales.
This is probably more prevalent at mega-corps than startups - and those mega-corps are hiring more programmers than startups, adding skew.

Breaking down the "high demand" technologies by investments (Round A, Round B...) would likely bear different results.
Ask HN: Need a policy on log retention. Suggestions?
I realize that you're really just a troll and that I shouldn't give you the satisfaction, but I am just compelled to play word substitution with what you've said:

Painting is such a waste of capital & neurons.

Sculpture is such a waste of capital & neurons.

Fiction is such a waste of capital & neurons.

Music is such a waste of capital & neurons.

The ugliest part is that you know, not very deep down, that it's a dickish, indefensible statement, and that's why you made a sock-puppet account to make a shitty comment that implicitly devalues all art. It might be nonsensical and vile, but hey--you can feel good about yourself.

Go to hell.
I'm confused as well, but the only time I can imagine doing that is when there's a big leak of passwords (like LinkedIn a while back) and I want to check if my password is among those leaked.
If I'm anywhere close to $50,000 from a kickstarter campaign, I'm busting my ass to make sure I hit the goal. There shouldn't be an excuse for this. It's unacceptable.
I don't, but unless you fill them full of whitespace and nothing else, they won't match.
The government doesn't have a "mantra" of "we will protect you". It has an obligation to actually protect its citizens, and, in America, does a pretty good job of it.

The notion that reliance on the government for protection is a brainwashed delusion is one of those conversational signifiers that convince normal people that all this encryption stuff has nothing to do with them.
Why would you want to "save face" if not for profit?
> "Uber would also do well to understand the unstated agendas, legimate and otherwise, and strategize for meeting those."

My two cents: one of the big disadvantages Uber has is a lack of experience in the space at a senior level. This is not to say that Travis Kalanick and his fellow co-founders aren't smart guys, but they were not running taxi companies before they started Uber.

If Uber are not careful they will find themselves having some serious competition from companies like Hailo, which was founded by taxi drivers, and is thus in a considerably better place to understand the environment in which taxis operate (this is already the case in London, where Hailo massively outnumbers Uber in terms of popularity). Uber has software and start-up smarts, but Hailo is in a far better position to understand what drivers want.

For example, both Hailo and Uber are trying desperately to get a foothold in New York for taxi hailing, but the former's approach is considerably more nuanced (Uber trying a "let's go for broke" scheme that hasn't exactly worked out the way they planned, and Hailo taking a much more driver centric approach and holding off a launch until they know they can get full support).
You also get relative too though.

If you ask for $5000. Chances are you're going to get closer to that, than $50,000. If you ask for $500,000. Chances are you're going to get higher than the $5,000.

Plenty of people have gone for the big dollars.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternit... Granted it's Obsidian, but people still blew it out the water.
seriously. id call up a friend or family member to donate $28 and then just pay them back later or something.
My company has built a social networking app that is growing very, very quickly. We have a LOT of data. We're trying to figure out what makes sense to keep - 30 days? 90 days? This is a mostly-anonymous social network so the idea of anonymity is important. Would less than 30 days be OK? Is there a legal guideline here? (i can't find one) In the absence of legal framework, what are best practices?

I say idea of anonymity because we don't prevent you from using personally identifiable information - but you're free to make up a username (or change it later) and the app doesn't show your exact location, IP address, guid, etc.
It sounds like you should set your sights lower. You don't seem to have an aversion to trying or thinking. I'd hope the explanation for your failures is that you didn't acquire the prerequisites and are continually trying to fake or skip them. But that's unlikely. So, discover what you are capable of. There's no shame in trying and being average, instead of not trying and being below average.
Most kickstarters are someone's small art project or something, though. The only ones "we" really care about are the big ones like Pebble. (I've also funded small art projects of my friends, but I wouldn't expect the greater community to really care about them.)
How to make a $5 animated demo video for your startup:
I like this one better: Git is Wesley Snipes, Mercurial is Denzel Washington: http://www.ericsink.com/entries/hg_denzel.html
This is also the second time they've tried to do this[1]- their first goal was, shall we say, ambitious.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1547218311/alpha-colony-...
He was hoping for a lot more. The previous attempt, he made over $100k, but had a $500k goal. He expected a lot more than $50k this time, not to miss the goal.

He really has been working on this game forever, and will probably make another go at it eventually.

He's a friend of mine, though I haven't spoken with him since yesterday before the KickStarter ended. If only he'd called, I would have put in the money myself, but I am led to believe that it wasn't that close until the last seconds. Asking a friend to put in $28 is easy; $828 is a bit more of a stretch.
I thought I'd share some hopeful words from the author in a Facebook followup to the article. My wife's a composer and has worked with several members of her (incredible) family.
"I didn't get to go into much detail in 800 words, but I agree it's more complicated than that. I don't think my kids all enjoyed practicing, but they have come back many times to say how much it changed their lives, including the three who did not go on to become musicians.
The youngest was my Suzuki failure... I felt guilty that I didn't have as much patience to work with her as I'd had with her sisters. She restarted lessons several times and limped along in classical studies for years, progressing, but not nearly at the rate as her sisters.
Then at age 15 she suddenly blossomed as a guitarist/singer-sonwriter and playwright, spending hours every day immersed in practice, and progressing quickly. It was as though all of those painful hours spent on violin and viola were coming to fruition in a way none of us, including her, had anticipated."
(In response to Edit) You are correct.

That is the main way to dispose of the car. If the public wants to also make an "offer" they can. But the model is similar to Lending Tree where the dealers bid for your business.

I think that the business-model has to have high conversion for the consumer and dealer.

Dealers are frustrated by "tire-kickers." Lots of wasted money following up on email. We hope to take this up another notch by having a bona-fide consumer walking in with an offer in hand.

I agree the competition can become very stiff in this space.

We're looking to bring in personal data (financial) from Neustar to qualify the seller along with carfax data to verify the quality of the car prior to the bid.

I see having to have some sort of dispute resolution or mitigate that risk like eBay Autos does. Like Gazelle does I believe they have right to modify the trade-in price upon inspecting the gadget.
Maybe they were $1000 short and tried frantically in the last hour to call in all the favors they could, but came up short.
Not working for me whatsoever. Never enables my webcam.

Chrome 23.0.1271.95(Windows 7 Service Pack 1)
Take it easy there tiger...you got a typo in your query:

https://www.google.com/search?q=5kmvp

Either way...point is moot. Competition is always healthy....plus I like your designs. :)
Right. The point of a Constitution or whatever is to have some kind of law to follow. You don't need to worship it, it's just your axioms of government. That's your "rational way" of specifying priority #1.
Do any major browsers have a setting to disable overriding default keyboard shortcuts? It's one of those anti-features like popup windows or page transitions or custom scroll bar colors that nobody would miss if it was never invented.

There is a special place in hell for people who override PgUp/PgDown or the arrow keys in their webpages.
Thank you for post, I think you are incredibly brave to disclose such information with your name behind it. I'm always paranoid of a similar thing happening to me. What do you think could have prevented this from happening?
You forget 4) duty. that is probably the single biggest one -- sometimes components have a lower tariff rate than assembled final goods, and sometimes it makes sense to import low-value products and do a magic high-value "assembly" step in the country or compact (EU, NAFTA) of sale, if taxes are lower than duty, or if you can make the "assembly" step involve "purchasing and installing software or a license", and thus an expense, but not a tariff-subject item.

The ultimate examples being "pressing boxed software". Assemble the box, manuals, etc. in a certain country, add the value during that step in the form of components, with the license not being dutiable, but a boxed software item imported would be.

Regulatory arbitrage at its finest. This is pretty much why Apple makes some iPads in Brazil now.
The people behind it were pushing for investments at the last minute. Timing was bad -- there are tons of messages from people after the fact who said, "Sorry, if I'd only known in time!" -- and they did make up an $800 short-fall in the last seconds before it ended.

It's pretty harsh to judge a team you've never met by one external symptom that actually has nothing to do with their ability to create the product.

Disclaimer: I know the guys behind the project.
Even if someone considers this a 'better' UI than iOS or Android (I personally don't), there's no point in switching because as soon as you do, that $200+ you've spent over the last 4 years on apps is gone forever and you'll only get less quality software as their replacement (if they exist). Apple and Android don't just shoot for a 'sexy' look, they create thousands of docs and demos from their SDK for the developers who then create hundreds of thousands of tutorials to help other developers learn quicker. They then spend millions of dollars and millions of hours creating the next big thing. The successes of iOS and Android are not awarded to a design firm, they are given to us.. the developer ecosystem and for that reason, this will never be a real alternative... at least not for a long time.
Federal laws that prevent discrimination as an employer don't apply to investors.
I don't think the principles are common knowledge. Of course they matter.
For those interested, here are the first three hours of the "Prelude of the Chambered" stream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhN35bGvM8c&t=10m05s&...
The article states that "screwdriver" or other non-transformative assembly of foreign components does not qualify. There must be a substantive transformation of the parts to qualify as "assembly"
He did say they were all used, but still, that has to be a decent chunk of change.
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I didn't downvote you, but "meaning is use" - and there is an established, context-specific social practice around the phrase "full stack developer" independent of how it makes you feel. In the relevant context, the word "stack" doesn't refer to the call stack.

If you want to go off on a cranky tangent every time the phrase is used, you have the right do that, but things go more smoothly when you apply some charity in interpretation and take things the way you know they are meant.
From the stats Kickstarter have released previously, situations like this (in which a project just barely doesn't reach its target) seem extremely rare. Kickstarter works because the model is simple: a hard deadline, a hard target, and go. It sucks that they were so close, but I don't think it would be in Kickstarter's interests to tweak the system to assist almost-made-it edge cases like this.