skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who visited Wolfschanze Hitler's secret hideout in Poland, (where assasination attempt take place), I can assure you, you don't need to hide a compound under ground, it can be perfectly concealed on the ground in forest, if you really want it to stay invisible.
There's also:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipdb
We may not be able to predict future developments in musical composition, but we can predict that song writers will probably not convert the entire mass of the solar system into musical instruments over a two week period.

The same cannot be said of self-improving AIs. Kurzweil's Singularity is not about the difficulty of long term predictions, it is that the progress function may become so steep that even short term predictions become impossible.
An important caveat to the "load scripts at the end of the document technique": The visual elements of a page will render before the functional components (i.e., JavaScript) are available.

Imagine a site the sets a custom `submit` handler for a `<form>` tag, possibly for client-side form validation, an AJAX file uploader, date selection, etc. A user submits the form before JavaScript has loaded completely and doesn't get the benefit of the JavaScript-enhanced experience. In local development or on a high-speed connection this will probably never happen. But a user accessing the site with their phone over the slow U.S. cell data network has a much higher chance of hitting upon this undesired behavior.
He's not withholding identity indefinably, just filtering for privacy sake.

That's reasonable to me. Anybody could out him once they connect, if he was a shady character the ruse wouldn't last long.
We've been building businesses in our society for years and years, how could 'startups' be considered an immature industry?
> polysemous

I did not know this word. Thank you.
They sold the phone, and so they controlled the browser installed on the phone. HTTPS is only secure if you can trust both ends: the receiving end and your browser. In this case, the browser was unreliable.
i realize it wasn't their intention, but that's because it is business jargon.
I don't see the risk. Other than that for me $5K is not nearly enough to cover for two months of my time the deal is actually quite good (I value that 50% at exactly nothing as you can see).

If the OP is worth his salt in the marketing game is the big variable, he believes he is good enough to warrant a $8K outlay, more than half of which goes to his co-founder to cover their time.

I've seen people study chess book moves for half a lifetime and still not be able to play a half decent game of chess. All I have to do to throw them off is play (1) b2-b4 -

50% of an MVP + cash to cover for your time + a co-founder to boot + $3K in marketing budget for your MVP is not a bad deal by many standards, and if you end up not liking the deal you can take your toys and go home and the OP is the loser.

He's betting that it works, not betting that he can screw you over.
Right. So your updated advice is that you must cover your costs since it's fundamental; a given. But wait... nobody cares about costs, so skip that fundamental given thing, pick some arbitrary number, and build your business around said arbitrary number.

Had your blog post been "How we arrived at Breeze's price", I would have nothing to say as you would be describing your rationale for arbitrarily drawing a number out of a hat and charging that. However, your blog post is titled "How to price something" and from that viewpoint the advice is lacking.
Ummm.... no.

Prenatal care has a minimal impact on premature births.
I hated f.lux on my old MacBook with a TN panel, however on my retina MacBook with an IPS panel it's unnoticeable except when I look at another screen.

My neighbour has a MacBook Air with a TN panel, and when I put my computer next to his with f.lux on, his screen looks like a gradient from purple to green with yellow in the middle, while mine has a uniform warm feeling (not yellow at all).
What if they are not sensitive. Maybe just a waste processing facility or something.
Yeah but doing this without:

A NDA, a No-Compete Clause in a contract, and even nothing written down and signed and witnessed by a notary public just rings alarm bells in my head.

What stops him from taking your MVP project and doing it with someone else? What stops him from telling others about your project so they can copy it or do it better?
Good points, you're absolutely right.
Why go to the work of breaking into Facebook or Gmail when you an just exploit this proxy and get Facebook accounts and Gmail accounts and bank web sites and a million other sensitive things too?
Why don’t people ask questions?
> Why does this make C easier?

Inlining some assembly where you need it - interacting with C variables, etc. - is definitely the most convenient thing.

Of course, if you don't want that, you can just put the assembly code in a separate function, also very easy to do with C.
Awesome, thanks! I think it will be a huge improvement for price sensitive folks (and people like me who are just cheap!)
It's interesting to compare that graph with the delayed graph at the CDC:

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#OISmap

In particular, limit the Past Years on the Google graph to 2009-10 (pandemic year) or 2007-2008 (moderately severe season). It correlates pretty well. Using the axis on the CDC graph and guesstimating based on relative size of peak vs those previous years, it looks like we're approaching about 12% of visits for influenza-like illness. Hopefully we peak in the next few weeks.

I'd also be curious how well this season's vaccine targeted the current mix of viruses.
OH THANK GOD it looks like document.elementFromPoint finally works.

For that matter it looks like clientX and clientY are no longer completely broken if the user, you know, scrolls the page at all.

I love Chrome to death but this has been an issue since at least March in Chrome Mobile.

It's still broken in Chrome Mobile plain, which hasn't been updated since November, but at least its fixed in this Beta.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117754

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=141840
We lay our project's stories into sprints using Trello. Previously, we had used physical cards. However, while all of our developers are located out of one office, we have stakeholders beyond the US that never felt fully-involved with physical cards. Trello enhances their feeling of control and visibility into the project. And, for those times where somebody works from home, the impact is zero.

We also track story progress (analysis, development, testing, business approval, etc.) on a second board. Previously, we had used a spreadsheet. Trello's support for quickly copying/moving cards and notifying board members of changes are powerful.

For our stories, each card description is structured as "[story number] [story points] [story summary]". Would it be nice if Trello "natively" supported these attributes? Sure, but it doesn't hinder our use.

In my mind, a great sign of Trello's awesomeness is that our use of it has grown organically. While waiting for others in the company to take Rally/Mingle/etc. through the discussion, evaluation, install, etc. process, I just started a board on Trello one day and watched it work for us. :)
Indeed, this article's quality is nowhere near e.g. what Joel Spolsky wrote on that topic:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
This particular gentleman also has a few good presentations on Metasploit I saw at Defcon/Bsides:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-JaHWaLmgc&hd=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2M3SpOzeJY&hd=1
How to do Pricing: Camels and Rubber Duckies (2004)
Second this; in all my years (granted, not a lot, but enough), this is the first time I've heard anyone claim that C has a virtual machine. You can hem and haw and stretch the definition all you want, but when it compiles to assembler, I think that most reasonable people would no longer claim that's a "virtual" machine.

Edit: if you want to argue that C enforces a certain view of programming, a "paradigm" if you will (snark), then say that. Don't say "virtual machine", where most people will go "what? when did C start running on JVM/.NET/etc?".
Many of the things we call startups are even today referred to by folks we call business people as "not businesses." Instagram for example: was a startup, arguably not much of a business, and doesn't seem to have much of an analogue in history.
Hire me: Python 3 Porting
Erm, wow. I didn't even know about IPython extensions. Or %ed for that matter. Great tips, thanks!

EDIT: You seriously just changed my life with %autoreload
How I Built a 7 Figure SEO Agency in One Year
There's some interesting stuff near there. Close to the airport there's some sort of campus with what looks like test tracks:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.548+N,+75.996+E

The tracks look designed for either testing cars or teaching advanced driving to police. There are T shaped concrete pads that are stained like people have done millions of three point turns on them or something. The whole complex is a bit odd.
There is, as always, a relevant xkcd [1]

[1] http://www.xkcd.com/1138/
This is a pretty cool idea. I'd be interested in discussing putting this into a system which allows the good ideas to rise to the top for a scholarship like this.
That is a good idea for a MVP right there. A HM matchmaking service. Using accounts at HN it matches MVPs with investors/cofounders.
Read a few chapters online. Great stuff.
Serve Your Music Collection Using HTML5, Backbone, and Flask
So you've alienated all your early adopter customers by saying you have a product but you don't have anything.
Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive?
I've had a similar experience. Most of remote my work has been between 4-10 hours drive away (I'm in the UK, so thats pretty far) and anyone within an hour wants me to commute.

I generally don't take them up on the offer as driving for 2 hours (and much longer on bad traffic days) on a regular basis feels like a waste of time when I don't need to do it.

It's funny because I'd much rather work for the companies in drivable distances if given the straight choice. I love to be able to get on site for meetings of if I need something physical done with hardware but alas its not to be. :)
The index for Wayback is a massive sorted text file (called a CDX) containing a line for each URL and timestamp. For very large installations this index is sharded across multiple servers and queried in parallel. The lookups are done using plain old binary search.

http://archive.org/web/researcher/cdx_file_format.php

Each CDX record maps a URL-timestamp pair to a byte offset into an ARC or WARC file. These are essentially just gzipped HTTP responses concatenated together:

http://archive.org/web/researcher/ArcFileFormat.php
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000236.sht...

The document is retrieved, uncompressed, URLs are rewritten, the navigation banner javascript injected and the result is sent to the client.

The code is here: https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback
Amazon has no such policy.

I know this because we considered doing it at reddit (changing or adding our affiliate link to all Amazon links).

We weren't sure how the community would react, so we we opted not to do it.
Wouldn't it be funny if a MVP uses one of those freelance sites and spends the $5000 on a team in India to finish the project in two months and then has the $3000 to promote it? Subcontracting can be fun you know.
This has been brought up before -- but for different reasons. The newly renamed "Reglue" project, that installs Linux on computers for needy kids in Texas, brought this up a long time ago. That the acronym/name of the program you can use to paint on your new computer is also somewhat offensive is just unfortunate. At any rate, the program itself is useful and I've supported the project in the past financially.

http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2011/05/your-vote-counts.html
Yes. If you read the terms of service for the Opera Mini browser, they disclose that HTTPS sessions are not end-to-end.
And here is the article referenced in the OP : http://slate.me/VaV0lS
Continuity of consciousness is a fascinating problem to contemplate.

To Be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc

See also the Grandfather's Axe paradox, aka Ship of Theseus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

A longer piece, Mechanisms of Mind Transfer:
http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/extraordinary_future/Ph...
Was a buyer at a large supermarket for a little over a year; we were normally pushing for 30-40% margins on most food items. On the hyper-perishable stuff, normally higher. It did really vary vendor to vendor though.
PG Makes It Rain
As it turns out my wife is quite a good cook (no she doesn't pay me to say that :-) I somehow managed to make one of the best purchases in my life when I bought her a Kitchenaid 4.5qt mixer for her Birthday back in the early 80's. At the time these mixers were actually made by Hobart which makes professional mixers for bakeries, and god help them they just could not make an inferior mixer if their life depended on it. Then in the early 2000's Kitchenaid switched vendors for their 'entry level' mixers and the quality suffered greatly. The priceonomics guys could show you this by pricing out Hobart Kitchenaids vs non-Hobart Kitchenaids on ebay. The good news is, you can get a 20 year old Hobart Kitchenaid mixer and restore it to 'as new' condition, parts are readily available and they are pretty easy to work on.
I think the point he was making is moreso that these rails-centric sites are going to get nailed &, as a result, one should be more wary during the next few weeks using this sort of installation method for stuff.

O should be generally quite wary of it in the first place given the ease one could swap out a single file & wreck havoc.
Totally agree. Learning object oriented frameworks gives me a headache. I learned C back in 1991 for first-year CS classes. Consider all the software built in C: Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, etc. It's the dominant infrastructure of the web.

What language will be used to build the first human-level AI? I think it will probably be C, and less than 1 million lines of code.
Facebook and Gmail don't handle your connection to your bank.

Apart from that, we already know the Chinese have hacked GMail accounts on several occasions, so Google is already a definite target and the Incidents that have been reported may be just the tip of the iceberg so far as we know.

We also know that there have been cases of corporate and government espionage in the recent past. This is happening, right now, and we may never know how extensive it is. It's entirely possible that Nokia could become a target of either technical or even employee infiltration. If so, covert access to a service like this would be a fantastic coup, especially since Nokia phones are still popular in many parts of the world with unscrupulous and technicaly sophisticated governments.
> What stops him from taking your MVP project and doing it with someone else?

Nothing whatsoever. But then again, since we're talking about ideas that would be on the shelf anyway not a whole lot would be lost.

And the OP would be outed and burned beyond recovery. Anybody stupid enough to risk that on a forum as widely recognized as this one would be seriously out of their mind.

> What stops him from telling others about your project so they can copy it or do it better?

Again, absolutely nothing. What stops YC from doing something like that when you apply to YC?

This all boils down to basic trust, and at some point in the business game you're going to have to extend yourself far enough that you can get burned a little if you want to up your game.

This guy is extending himself far enough that he'll get burned a lot if he abuses the trust he's getting here. That alone should count as some insurance.

Imagine how many upvotes a post along the lines of "That hmexx dude is XXX YYY in real life and screwed me over" will get. Probably even more than "That hmexx dude is XXX YYY in real life, we did this thing and have just picked up follow on investment".
As would I. The benefit of having a physical copy of a book is tangible (pardon the pun). I can't lend ebooks to friends, but I can physical copies.
> Forcing them to work with other programmers at the very beginning destroys confidence and makes them hate the work.

In a Free Software project, nobody forces you to cooperate with anyone. If you want, you can just release your program (or patch) and ignore all feedback. However, often enough you'll receive some very valuable feedback.

Also, you'll receive different kind of feedback depending on whether you start your own Free Software project, or contribute to an existing one. So I suggest to do both.
RIM was offering US $10,000 for any app that generated $1000 in sales. Still might be available leading up to their relaunch.
Red Herring awards (scam) started major campaign today soliciting startups
Warning: Red Herring awards (total scam) are trolling SF/Valley startups to submit to their bogus awards. I know of at least 4 top startups who got the pitch today. (see this thread for context http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4538950 )

The only way to stop these guys is for no one to submit for their pay-for-play BS awards.
What are you disagreeing with? It sounds like you're demonstrating the point: You find it distasteful to be told a bunch of stuff that was already true.
FCC to add more 5GHZ bandwidth for unlicensed wireless use
It's a random clip. That's all pg does in his spare time.
Why is programming fun? (Brooks)
You are welcome. I paid 99 cents for the alphabet app and left a review for you on the app store.

My wife is half-Thai and I know a lot of Thai people who want to learn English. You might want to consider an ESL aspect of your app for adults who speak a foreign language.

I think this proves that I know what I am talking about in this thread. My plan I wrote for your app is very similar to what you are doing, and you didn't tell me what it was.

Yes at some point you have to hire other people or take on investors and cofounders to help out. Make sure you research them thoroughly before you sign any contract with them. Don't take just anyone, there are a lot of scam artists out there that prey on startups like sharks.
Samsung: How the Korean firm got to be the biggest tech company in the world
Given the proliferation of Android and the iPhone, you probably wouldn't have anyways.
How do you know if something I am going to say is going to improve someones life or harm someone?
It sounds a lot like Big Two-Hearted River.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage#First-mov...
Asynchronous CORS uploads to S3 and GCS using .NET
What in the world is the 'startup industry'? I thought you could start a business in any industry at any point.
Wikileaks and the media could be considered extension of the battlefield
Interesting that the American Enterprise Institute (a conservative think tank) is the one coming out with criticism of high textbook prices. Aren't they supposed to be "pro business"? Shouldn't they be cheering how much profit the textbook industry is able to squeeze out of consumers?
Let go of JavaScript.
If you are using macros in C++, you are doing it wrong. They are a relic of a bygone age.
Self-aware music might do that-- and beyond the musical singularity, a concept like "self-aware music" has to be treated as plausible.

Which I think is the point.
At last, an update from Chrome 18 for mobile... but no word on HTML5 features that the desktop version has like Web Audio API and WebGL. Looks like they're still not supported here.
Nokia just killed their brand.

And they can't even blame Android/Apple for it.

Too bad for microsoft, they bet their mobile house more or less on Nokia and vice versa.

Trust is a fragile thing.
Fair enough. For what it's worth, that Octane benchmark went from 1217 to 1678 on my Nexus 4. (38% improvement, measured using a median of 3 runs for each browser version)
Paywall. But ironically, if you search via Google you can read the article.
The point of this move is to get more people to care about CloudPlayer and Amazon MP3 purchases in general. They've just exploded the number of people who have used the service by a huge margin. Once more people are familiar with the system it will probably drive increasing adoption.

There are little downsides to CloudPlayer. You buy music, Amazon keeps track of it, you can listen to it or re-download it in DRM-free MP3 form whenever you want. Can't really see much wrong with that.
Maybe they believe that there is a higher long-term profit in having well-educated workers.
There's no way I would've made it through the whole video if it wasn't for the promise of PG making it rain. OP did deliver.
What kind of a masochist are you, sir?
In the UK one of the reasons that digital copies don't come with books is that if they did that it would mean that it's now VAT chargeable. Books normally don't have VAT but digital goods do.
Google Maps is just free public satellite imagery. You can barely make out people (interestingly enough, I just realized most people are filtered out of the images). The CIA's had birds for years that are good enough to read license plates on moving cars. I'm sure that, if anything interesting is in that desert, they knew what it was before it was even built.
Makes sense. I appreciate the feedback.
Potentially yes, but not likely in my opinion (and in the opinion of people I talk with) and the fact is that most do it, usually they do it when they actually start building it, but we all know that many even big companies, sell first, develop later. Those who develop first and hope they'll find a market, sometimes just end up with a great piece of code with no way to make money out of it.
Anyone from zurb reading, please put a direct link to your home page. There is no link to your home page in your blog. First time readers need to know what you do without a hassle. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4146888
I'm sure they would point to the market-distorting high availability of (government-backed) loans as a factor in inflated book prices (and tuition, etc.). And to some degree, they'd be correct.
Jimmy Iovine on subscription music services, how tech guys are "utilities"
How Technology is Like Bug Sex
Are you maybe hitting a cached page on production that can get handled without rails being involved?
True, some other things have a greater impact on premature births than prenatal care, and the US system is shitty at those things as well.

I picked access to prenatal care because it's one of the easiest ones to improve, it has a positive impact on a variety of metrics, and it should be desirable in itself to anyone who isn't a sociopath.
thats super cool.
Maybe that might be so, but I still had Nokia until 2 weeks ago and still won't have either Android or iPhone. Thing is basically until now I have only used Nokia phones and that might be somewhat understandable when I say I'm Finnish.. Anyway security should never be exchanged for speed.
Metafilter does it. But my love is for reddit.
Just Who Do The Data Paranoiacs Think We Are?
Kevin O'Leary says pioneers get slaughtered and settlers get rich. First to move well on a proven idea - and keep moving on it - may have the advantage. First to act? Not so much.
30 people per day are killed with guns in the US. Some of those people are kids. Probably less than 20 kids per day, you're right.

I do not hold a child's life higher than an adult's. I realize that's a weird thing to lots of people. Maybe that's weird to you?

Anyway, I do agree that a single actor causing all that harm is a different thing, yes. We should fix that. I just hate that we ignore ongoing disasters because it doesn't make a good news story.

EDIT: I didn't downvote Matt and don't think people should. Don't downvote things you disagree with. His is a valid response and this is a place for discussion (right)?