skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the [Lean Startup] theory to be sound it must
> have predictive value

When did the Lean Startup method become the Guaranteed Startup Success method? My understanding is that Lean methods encourage startups to build short feedback loops to the things they're trying to accomplish: Capturing market, building the product, etc. The short feedback loops let the company know quickly whether their efforts are showing signs of success, and whether they should keep at it, or change their strategy. This is one of the points that Andressen is critical of, as well: Know when you're attacking a difficult problem and you won't get quick feedback.
> I guess you'd fill the capsule with 'locally sourced' air

There is no air on the moon, so this doesn't seem likely.
What good would that do? The scammer would just "return" a broken phone, or a piece of roof tile, claim that was what they received, and the victim has now paid for shipping twice.
I used to have a Meccano set from the early 70s, it was fantastic. I always thought it was a shame it never got as much attention.
Life: Quitting Google in 2007 after only 7 months of employment to do my first startup. I was 24 years old, I had spent almost one full year applying to Google and while I didn't have my dream job, I was certainly at my dream company. I was approached by a previous colleague to do a startup in the Philippines and I spent a couple weeks thinking about it before deciding that I was going to leave Google and do a startup. I was 24, if I failed at the startup, I could always try to go back.

7 years later, leaving Google was the best choice I've ever made.
Thanks.

Clicked Live Chat - Chat Now --> was presented with web form, filled form, pressed send.

Live Chat is not a Live Chat :-)

Will measure response time for my e-mail.
I love the responsive website.
The other huge thing to note here is how few current users are jailbroken. The current jailbreak is a version behind the current OS, so the number of people running it is waaaay lower than it could be. If this was posted while a jailbreak was easily available for the current os, then I could totally believe that the number of pirated copies was an actual issue (as its happened in the past.) but right now? I highly doubt it, especially since those who pirate apps are a smaller subsection of jailbreakers, and with fewer jailbreakers it's just too unlikely.
a great bit of UX detail worth noting is that it prepends '▶' to the page title when audio is playing, so you can see which browser tab sound is coming from - something all multimedia pages should adopt!

totally agree. and, in general, love little details like this. it’s probably something that the vast majority of users wouldn’t notice (or really care about, if they did), and it certainly isn’t a make-or-break feature/differentiator for them, but it shows they know their product and are focused on improving it, rather than adding features or integrating with other shit just for the sake of doing so. nice work
I see some code in the 1st artist bio: http://i.imgur.com/1DtB5.png

Otherwise, very neat site. I don't think there can be too many music exploration sites.
Thank you to whomever did this. I'm always annoyed by any form that wants my zip and city and state. Why? Once you have the zip, then you have the city and state.
thank you, I appreciate, hope that wise people will see through the bush...
It looks like a space elevator to me.
Speaking out against government malware
Clojure in a Bank: The Sixty-Million-Dollar Mistake
IT Security firm with data center and patents on Indiegogo
Inspiration for a project on Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1079536332/iguaneye-fres...
This is a yc site. I understand your position but if a consumer is having problems contacting a yc company why shouldn't they post here?
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Show HN: Small command-line tool to locally render Readme files like GitHub
I think that a useful skill for anyone is to be able to listen to someone's opinion on something and gain information or knowledge from it, without agreeing with what the person is saying or even taking a position on it at all.

This skill that surprisingly many people lack in any capacity.
Lack of low level floor lighting which turns automatically when you walk on the floor at night. That would be awesome.
Isn't this how big projects usually function? There is no ideal software and if you have to ship, you have to ship even if you have to write horrible workarounds that do the job.

Flash and Flex just fell out of fashion. Everyone moves to now fashionable HTML5. Including myself. It is just painful to see how all the same wheels get reinvented again but now for a more inferior language on a platform that is less compatible between different browsers.
I don't think there is a way to get any details at all about a specific purchase on the app store except when using in app purchases.

When using in app purchases you will get a receipt from apple that is signed with their certificate that you can process and send to your own servers to limit pirates from accessing the servers.
I was thinking the other way around - that they might be perfectly encouraging of selling such a device, just that using 'Steam' (their TM) in the name or advertising without permission might get you in trouble.

I think it's a great idea!
Confessions of a The Daily subscriber
Without making any arguments about this particular person's due diligence, I think it's clear that over the last couple of years, "raise a ruckus online" has become a reasonable tactic when dealing with companies that have poor customer support systems.

I'd prefer not to see this kind of thing on HN too. On the other hand, customer support does seem to be disappearing as a trend. I'm not sure what other recourse a customer has in cases like that.

(We once battled with Sage technical "support" on behalf of a client; we spent two days navigating various support channels, including paid support, before finally giving up and writing a post to our website, and then forwarding a link to that post to Sage's PR department. The very next morning we got a call from a technical specialist who was suddenly very eager to resolve our problem. Folks, this is not how you take care of your customers!)
And I thought construx were neat, that is one awesome construction set.
We've just started using South on Heroku, and one thing I've been confused by is that I have to deploy the code to the live server in order to be able to run the migration commands, thus causing the site to run on the new code that depends on the post-migration database structure for a short time.

Does anyone know an easy way to run the migration on a Heroku Postgres database without pushing the code to a live server?
20 Years of SMS: Great Technologies Transcend the Times
Researchers have identified the moment in history when genes enabled us to think
"Origin of intelligence and mental illness linked to ancient genetic accident. This point 500 million years ago provided our ability to learn complex skills, analyze situations and have flexibility in the way in which we think."
Look, I get it, it's funny, but please stop throwing conspiratory shit around. The most likely explanation, by far, is that the photo is real and the EXIF tags are real. If the photo is not real, why care about the tags? You weren't there. And if the photo was real, but the tags are fake, why tell the police so?

But if the photo is real, and the EXIF tags are real, then, and only then, it makes sense to claim you modified them to throw the cops around. Well, it makes sense only if you're delusional, naive or extremely desperate. Any of which could be applied to McAfee. Dude's psycho. Remember that story he posted about how he stood six hours in his porch at night while he was stalked by "cops hiding in bushes", waking up covered in puke and babbling? He's completely lost it. Those jerkass Vice guys should've just got him to a Guatemalan psychiatrist, instead of making "ironic" bitch jokes and laughing at a mentally disturbed person. Fucking hipsters make me sick.

And yeah, the photo is real. Sure, the head is blurred, it looks fake. Just cover it with something and look at the body. Tada, it's real. The head distortion is just those fat fingers on cam sticking grease over the lens.
Finding sysadmins that don't suck, by testing for it
TIL that the Polish post office offers services that the US Postal Service does not. I wish the USPS had the "Recipient opens" option.
China's a totalitarian government that's fraying at the edges with major scandals, with enormous multi-billion dollar thefts by its ruling elite. That's a little different than Elon Musk. Not all organizations and people are created equally.
via Functionn - Open Source Resources For Web Developers & Designers: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/10/sheetseejs-javascript-...

P.S. Functionn contains a whole lot more of awesome resources like Sheetsee.js. There only a fraction of them I can post here at a time. Take a look if you're interested, and subscribe:

http://functionn.blogspot.com
tl;dr is useful when a piece of long and bloviating, or when the piece is outright wrong and can be refuted by re-stating the thoughts of the author in fewer works.

It's also useful to other users when someone is using it to summarize a scientific or niche post which other uses might not understand, putting the story into layman's terms.
I don't think you need to learn Haskell to understand the benefits of immutability. Debugging the java code of someone who wrote big classes with lots of functions changing members of the class did the trick for me.

On the other hand, kudos for going through the hardship of learning Haskell, I will try it at some point.
Stella Artois delivers personalized holiday greetings via Facebook
Yeah, I can relate as well. Spending countless, restless hours building small lego-cities. I have no doubt in my mind that that's what got me into an engineering-career. Except now I'm spending countless hours designing complex, high availablity, high scalability, backend systems..
Sean Rooney, I (Kimberly Crawley) and Mike Kaulbach are partners in this new business venture.

Sean Rooney has over 25 years of experience as an IT security scientist who has contributed to the curriculum for the CISSP and the CompTIA Security . He ran a successful IT security firm (Coldstream Associates) for nearly 15 years, with clients such as Alcatel, Sears Canada, and the Canadian government. He also owns three patents for firewalls.

I am an experienced web developer, tech support agent and SEO/marketing guru.

Mike Kaulbach has years of experience running data centres and working as a sysadmin.

We already have a server room on Bay Street in downtown Toronto.

Mike already has companies who are interested in using data centre/cloud services.
Sean has business contacts who are interested in IT security auditing, penetration testing and digital forensics services.

We have a few Linux based servers connected to a high bandwidth and heavily secured network.

We're combining our talents and business contacts for our start-up, Cyberia Technical Security Workshoppe.

Feel free to research Sean and Mike's work history and credentials.

With enough funding, we can buy new equipment (rackmount servers, networking infrastructure, thousands of terabytes of disk, etc.) and spend money on promoting our business to attract new clientele.

We'll be offering a combination of IT security services (pen testing, security auditing, data recovery, network hardening and digital forensics) and data centre services (web hosting and remote databases).

We can also use funds to market Sean's firewall patents to tech firms such as Cisco, Alcatel, and MTS Allstream.

If you can't help us financially (even with $10), please help us out with two minutes of your time by promoting us on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.

Our Indiegogo page: http://www.indiegogo.com/CyberiaLabs
Official website: http://cyberialabs.coldstream.ca
Our Google+ page: http://plus.google.com/102363012294872996502
Show HN: Employify.me - We eliminate CVs, cover letters and lenghty applications
I find this very interesting, just being now into internationalizing a site of my own which requires specially this. One question for UK residents: is lack of "out codes" a problem?

Also, to the author(s) of zippopotam.us, if they're reading:
- How can we trust you're not going away any time soon? I don't see any pricing, so I assume this is all free?
- Related to the first point, I assume you don't want to be used by any high traffic site, since you probably don't have a lot of server power behind this. What's the plan?
The keyword is 'once you get ahold of them'.
When you as a child stand on Lego you learn that you should tidy things away when done, when as an adult you stand on it you learn that you need to have a talk with the kid about tidying things away. Or to tidy it away after you've built another spaceship.
If anyone is interested in developing a similar service, then you can use the (free) zip code information provided by the US Census Bureau:

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/zip1999.html

However, please note that some information may be outdated. The US Postal Service now maintains the zip code data sources, but I'm not sure if you must pay for it.
MySQL + HandlerSocket = NoSQL
best name ever :)
"The book is about how software companies do such a terrible job of hiring developers."

Some editorial thoughts for which my only qualifications are a keyboard and WiFi connection:

This sounds more argumentative than investigatory, and it puts you at odds with those you wish to interview. Absent relevant metrics and data what qualifies your expertise as comparable to that of leading interviewers or specialized HR consultants?

While it may be possible to interview the leaders, it will be unlikely if they work for large corporations due to those corporations' press policies. A thesis hostile to those corporations' hiring practices makes access more unlikely.

That said, write the book anyway. Or put it down and write a different related book. Or write an unrelated one. Or start blogging and perhaps later publish a collection of blog posts as a book.

Or do all of them. Or a memoir.

Writer's write. A trashcan full of wadded sheets torn from the typewriter is what the process produces. Books are a side effect.

Good luck.
Not everywhere has postal codes, please do not require them.

Love,

People-in-Ireland-tired-of-typing-fake-postal-codes
Could you explain a bit more on the limitations of the search functionality and how you got around it? Would likely be very useful.
A wind-powered, bamboo minesweeper (+ GPS to mark safe paths)
Message sent, will measure response time KPI.
I really like Redmine. It's got source integration, a wiki, a task manager, multi-project support, can email notifications, has different user levels and great permission configuration, and also provides time-tracking out of the box.

IIRC, it also has a forum and other features that we never used.
I didn't mean for that part to be taken in that tone. It's very easy to get ahold of them. They have always answered my emails very quickly. Lots of options available here: https://www.airbnb.com/contact - Everything from live chat to phone.
Christmas tree and mold spore counts
With regards to your other arguments: I'm talking about Digital Publishing (Magazines, Newspapers, eBooks, on tablets, see http://www.adobe.com/nl/solutions/digital-publishing.html ). Dreamweaver, Muse, etc play almost no role in that field because Adobe/InDesign are tied-to-the-hip with Postscript. Quark on the other hand is not and is free to utilize HTML.
>> I don't know, paying 30% to apple for a better payment gateway seems just excessive to me.

From a purely economical perspective, this is a very good point....
$20 Cardboard Bicycle Could 'Change The World,' Inventor Says
If I had to restart my API over again I would make it self-documentable.

Browsing to /dogs with an Accept: text/html would include a description about that end-point with the possibly accepted parameters, and links to related resources.

If authenticated it would also include the content of that actual route and maybe even a small JavaScript request builder.
I can totally understand. Growing vegetables on earth just doesn't generate big enough GDP for the 8%-a-year-every-year target.
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There are a lot of videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceAtNASA
I thought the same. I need to get out more.
I don't want to sign up to find out if I want to sign up.

You have to tell me why, then what and then I will look at the how.
In theory, with an api like this you could easily figure that out and then customize the fields as needed.
Absolutely. The Lego Mindstorms set I got for Christmas one time pretty much guaranteed I would become a programmer. On another note, it always saddens me when I hear of kids who don't have Lego. Just like how kids get milk at school, they should also get little boxes of lego too :-)
OK, I was still focussing on the Martian case. I wonder if that actually makes a base on Mars an easier proposition.
Nice to see that the Rubymotion community seems to be growing so well!
Really? There's also zoos and a camping set, a few pet-oriented set, a farm, and a horse truck thing.

It's the best in-road they've made into "Legos for Girls" ever. I can finally buy my nieces sets that they're interested in.
Isn't there even CO2 on moon?
I am actively building 'TeamStinct.com' to solve team communication, and especially as a replacement for email.

http://teamstinct.com/

I would be happy if anybody is interested in helping with the project?
What Hell Hath Disney-LucasFilm Wrought? Star Wars Meets Extreme Home Makeover
This is really exciting, glad to see this is getting a lot of support. Can't wait to see some of the great presentations after the event!
Wisdom from Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal) on focus
Lot of things described here, circular references, conflicts amongst the team, trouble with simple data import. These things are a result of the coupling of models to migrations. The method of models describing and generating the migration which generates the db is troublesome.
A counterexample is if you build a huge non-inverted pyramid and then put an extra brick in the middle on the bottom. It wouldn't balance but you could easily imagine putting many tons of weight on that single brick sticking out on the bottom like this, thus technically causing the lowest level to mechanically fail. This is pedantic, but I think you asked for it:)
Passing -F to less causes it to automatically quit if the file can be displayed on one screen.
TC died when AOL bought it (AOL kills all things it touches) and the @Arrington left.
There is reason for their seemingly high prices it is because of how accurately the bricks are built. They are meant to be a precise size to something like 0.002 mm and you can see it is a quality product compared to Mega Blocks which just feels cheap.

I'd say a normal set goes for about $0.10 a piece, prices will go up if they require a license (Star Wars) or have lots of special abnormal pieces.

Minifigs cost a lot more to make, they are also collectable themselves. I have collected sets since I was three years old and I have only recently discovered how valuable and collectable just the minifigs are to some people.
What way are they handling fraud?
Heh, lovely story, but isn't this type of post what Reddit is for?

Which is where i saw it on Friday, and 'shockingly' is the source (well, originally youtube).

On the topic; it is surely obvious to anyone in marketing/PR these days that doing something like this is almost always going to be a profitable move. The guy provided the story, even if they had to do something like this 10 times for it to 'go viral' it would be one hell of a lot of promotion for the money. It's not going to harm the recipient's Lego buying habits either.
China has been doing great lately, but this sounds like a case of Icarus to me.
How two Binghamton University students "hacked" the Dropbox Space Race
Yeah it was in the late 90s I believe that they were almost going bankrupt. Part of it too was the number of special pieces they would use for only one set. I have the Lego Book and it's a great read, goes into a lot more detail than that Wikipedia page.
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I think the thing most likely to give America a swift kick in the back of their pants about their space program is hearing that China is going to do it first.

There's a whole lot to be skeptical about here, but even rumors can kick off a space race.
Sure

Live Chat is not Live Chat [see above], it is a web form sending e-mail.

Phone experience described in my post above.

E-mail - sent.
That's why you should go to startup weekends :) Just start up or shut up, as they say. (Do they say that? If not, they should :))
Foreplay.vim by tpope for Clojure
Elicoptere cu teleghidare
Elicoptere cu teleghidare pentru modelisti si copii de toate varstele. Elicoptere teleghidate de interior sau exterior cu motor electric sau termic. Elicopterele cu telecomanda sunt aparate zburatoare telecomandate si doar cunoscatorii pot face diferenta intre jucarii si elicopterele RC profesionale.
Can someone posts some pictures showing how the ghosting interferes with regular applications (Safari, iTunes, XCode etc)? Maybe it is something one can live with, especially considering how primitive the existing displays are compared to the retina display.
They've always been absurdly expensive. Maybe you didn't notice it in the US before since the dollar was so strong, but over here in Europe it's always been pricey stuff.
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"Legos for Girls" isn't a road that should even be on their map. Legos for Kids is their destination.

If your nieces weren't interested in the sets Lego should have focused on better sets that were still gender-neutral. That doesn't exclude zoos, camping, or pet orientation.

What it does exclude is antics like cancelling my friend's "tomboy"ish daughter's subscription to Lego magazine and sending her Lego For Girls Magazine instead, to her great upset.

Toy gendering is stupid and inane. Lego should have nothing to do with it.
> Know when you're attacking a
difficult problem and you won't get
quick feedback.

Good TL;DR .
Good point buddy. Thanks! I'll start thinking of a more descriptive way to present it :)
Like an 80-hour workweek?

People need relaxation.
These Meccano constructors are similar to what we had in post-soviet Russia, although I've never heard that name. Then about the end of 90-s LEGO gained popularity, and indeed, 'soviet constructor', as we called these sets, stopped being sold.

I always wondered whether they were really suitable for smaller kids, considering smaller parts et al.

This is what our constructors looked like:

* Constructor parts: http://blogarchive.ru/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/konstruktor...

* Photos of the manual: http://vasi.net/community/kartinki/2009/08/25/sovetskijj_kon...
It could be worse.

I used to work at a hospital with an automatic elliptical revolving door (I assume it was designed that way so you could push a gurney through it). On the one hand: automatic revolving door, shiny! On the other hand: they had to post a sign telling people how to walk through it.
I don't think we'll have an agreement so I'll stop there :)

Every time I see something like SomeClass.new(val).some_method it makes me cringe. For me it's as if you would refactor Math.sqrt(2) to SquareRoot.new(2).value in case you want to change the implementation in the future.
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The most promising project for games is Cocos2D Javascript bindings: same source code runs on HTML5/mobile/desktop taking advantage of native GPU accelerations. Cocos2D is the most popular 2D engine for iOS and was ported to other platforms as well.

Just take a look at it:

- HTML5 Demo: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/t/js-tests/

- Docs: https://github.com/zynga/jsbindings#readme