skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this article very useful for evaluating startup ideas, the author lays out a 12 question strategy. http://www.businessinsider.com/essential-startup-questions-2...

His key point is identifying potential customers and a way to attract them to your product. If you can't identify those 2 things from the start your idea/invention may not be worth pursuing further.
Mars may get hit by a comet in 2014 (Bad Astronomer)
From the linked article in the OP:

"An official at the Health Ministry's statistics bureau said Friday's survey does not change Japan's status as a fast-aging nation because life expectancy calculations are not based on family registration records."

Move on, nothing to see here.

20/~100 of the verified oldest people were japanese according to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_peo...

That's a handsome statistic right there.
Ask HN: How do you handle copyediting?
I'm somewhat interested in getting into the copyediting space, relying on the tenet that coworkers who generally do proofreading and copyediting (besides, of course, in-house editors) are wasting time that could be better spent elsewhere.

I recognize that my experience (mainly marketing firms and Big Tech) is tiny and anecdotal. How do you handle this kind of stuff?
Investing in the mental health of your team
Am I the only one that bought it for Solar 2? Completely awesome game - fantastic for when you only have a few minutes. You start as an asteroid cruising the galaxy, smash into more asteroids and you grow into a planet, star, black hole. Along the way you have life spawning on your planet(s) fighting off other life forms, completing challenging and sometimes bizarre side quests. Death is no biggie, and its all about exploration. I love it.
You might want to consider not to murder someone.
Full article (it's 2 pages and the pagination isn't the most obvious): http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/05/bay-lights-project-turns-s...
I was going to build a Pay What You Want platform but decided not to.
5 Tips To Remember When Integrating eSignatures
It's absolutely not true that the only reason to run a service like this is to tie usage to specific users. And you don't even need to assume that this is altruistic. Here are some concrete benefits to Google.

First of all, encrypted traffic allows circumventing content mangling middleboxes at operators. Sometimes those middleboxes are merely annoying (say Byte Mobile), sometimes outright evil (ad insertion / replacement).

Second, a faster web experience will mean more web usage in general, and that'll translate to more ad revenue for Google.

Third, faster (or cheaper) web usage is a competitive advantage. On one hand it makes Android more competitive against iOS and WP8 (and the bit players as well). On the other hand it makes Google Android more compelling than other Android versions. Not a big deal with Amazon's fork. Potentially huge if e.g. Samsung were considering a full fork.

That's a few off the top of my head. If you try, I'm sure you too can come up with more plausible explanations than "you're the product".
On the other hand, if you can use .NET, F# is a more practical language to learn. The F# standard libraries and .NET libraries and IDE are miles ahead of anything OCaml has, which in practice far outweighs anything else. If you're picking a language to learn new language concepts, I'd definitely pick OCaml over F# for its modules alone.
Show HN: boilerplate authentication code for node.js
The metric which would be a tad closer to ideal would be some average of u/t where u := the number of users who upvoted a given comment, t := total number of users who saw that comment. Where "saw" can mean either "the comment was already there when the user loaded the comments page", or, if you want to get fancy, "the comment was within the browser's viewport long enough to be read" (which some clever JavaScript can tell you.)
Dita Von Teese Flaunts Fibonacci-Inspired, 3-D Printed Gown
someone that would share an email with 85 other people

then

it turns out that one of the people who received the forwarded email thought it was spam and clicked the unsubscribe link

It may be ugly, but the system works :)
> The safest code has to be open source.

This is a commonly held belief that is not true. I've been doing open source development quite a bit over the last several years and have seen plenty of insecure open source projects that were even less secure than I would see in the private repository of every place I worked. Here's why:

* Open source code gets more eyes on it, when it is well-used. But there are loads and loads of projects that are hardly looked at, and they have a greater chance to be used before they are thoroughly vetted.

* Those projects were most likely thrown up there by a developer like me who just hacked something up quickly to solve a problem. Once done with the problem, the code stays up there and I just let it atrophy. That consists of 95% of my projects, at least.
You completely missed the point. The point is that it could be evidence used against him when falsely accused of murder.
fugitive split diff shows you what lines you've changed. stop using both.
Chris Anderson talking about Drones and Makers
Cyber Deterrence against China? The only route left is an Open Source Approach
What terrorists understand (but we don't) is that nobody will ever successfully hijack a plane again.

The 9/11 attacks worked because historically, a hijacked plane would invariably be diverted to some far-flung airstrip and become a hostage situation. Anyone in such a situation understood that their risk of being killed was very low, so long as they complied with the hostage-takers. It took less than a day for passengers to realise that the risks of action and inaction had inverted, as we saw in the case of flight United 93.

The hijacking MO used on 9/11 was a one-time deal. Passengers now understand that rather than being safe so long as they comply with hijackers, they are doomed unless they fight back. As such, a knife on a plane is no more dangerous than a knife on a bus or a train - the attacker might injure or kill a handful of people, but they'll quickly be overwhelmed by sheer force of numbers.

It's for this reason that all subsequent terrorist plots against aviation have been bombs, with the intention of taking down the plane in flight.

Schneier has repeatedly pointed out this systematic failure in security thinking - responding to the last threat, rather than the next.
I'm in Venezuela if anyone has any questions. I'm gonna be up for a while as you can imagine...
The only funny part was the Randell Munroe cameo.
Not for everyone, but this is what I often program to http://www.di.fm/play/goapsy

Found in this reddit thread
http://www.reddit.com/comments/6l9t9/best_background_music_f...
Or you can use Lisp S-expressions, which are much more elegant and powerful.
No. If you eat people that are different, then other groups of people might want to eat you because you are different, so an environment where eating any people is ok creates an environment where you might be eaten yourself.

The argument maratd gives thus is a justification for eating animals that are not smart enough to to look at our behaviour and decide whether or not we're fair based on whether or not we also eat animals.

But it explicitly rules out cannibalism (or eating intelligent aliens).
I would love something like this for TextMate 2.
Without testing, I'm not sure, but I think Mini Kites is actually likely to be a flagged name. The last vestiges of the "real names" policy are really just to keep businesses from getting Google+ profiles (Google wants businesses to keep Google+ pages instead). So there's an ML algorithm that determines how name-y or business-y a given name is, and flags names that it thinks belong to companies rather than people. I suspect Mini Kites (and almost certainly MiniKites or Mini-Kites) would trigger the review process.
To be fair, I do not know of him either.
But I like my email client (say gmail), I don't want to use someone else's half-baked solution. And especially the highly engaged users would have to copy-and-paste the 85 email addresses they forward to.
I like it as a concept, but I was hoping for some kind of ratcheting mechanism ... a little pin in a zig-zag groove so that the eighth time you stand up it releases and the legs fall off.
Your second sentence is a bit strange in my experience, unless you're referring to yourself now living in the US. I have never seen a white egg in a UK supermarket, stall market or cornershop. They are always brown/pink.
This is awesome....I would love to see 'contractor gigs' and other, highly curated, freelance gigs posted here. The good kind, not the crappy Craigslist variety.
Some interesting music/audio for coding:
1. ambient sounds of star trek lcars (http://www.lcarscom.net/) and the repetitive beeping noise.
2. classic video game music on NES, like Super Mario Bros., Zelda
3. ASMR (search youtube) works wonder for those are affected by it. It puts the listener into a super-relaxed state, which can only be described as tingling or extreme pleasure for the brain.
4. Office Sound Effects (http://www.amazon.com/Offices-Sound-Effects/dp/B008HKONNA)
Are you sure that the connector for the PCI-e slot is going to be populated on the non-LTE model? Is there enough space for an SSD there?
LDD - Love Driven Development sounds awesome
If I find a homeless person in an alleyway, ask him about his friends and family, and he tells me that no one knows or cares that he's alive, it's ok to eat him, as long as I don't tell anyone about it?
My blog
Try a personal blog over cloundfoundry
Hexels: grid-based art program
Download Brackets Sprint 21: new JavaScript code hinting
I haven't seen that before. Thanks, it brought a smile to my face. I made this a few years ago: https://github.com/axw/pushy

Pushy is Python-based, not PERL-based, but otherwise it's similar what you/Matt describe. It never really made much ground, though I recently became aware that Ceph is using it in their ceph-deploy deployment program.
Stakeholder value vs shareholder value
> The Litmus team discovered these silent unsubscribers when they noticed a long-time fan removed himself from the Litmus newsletter after sharing an email with 85 of his coworkers.

What an idiot.

People here seem to think unsubs might be malicious; they don't seem to think that people getting email don't want it and just click any unsub link they see. Don't forget that the vast majority of people are hopeless with computers.

Anyone sending email to me along with 85 other people, especially if it's something like the Litmus product, is going to annoy the fuck out of me.
Ugh, someone submitted the original Sublime version to hackers news 2 months go http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027308 and it got no love.

It just makes sense that someone would port it and become the #1 story.
This may not help very much, but at least for Quora, I think your approach was wrong -- the Quora community is pretty shy about answers which don't include a full-text answer, or that appear to be obvious attempts to promote a company.

That doesn't mean you can't do it. Here are my suggestions to get more attention for answers on Quora:

Include a complete personal anecdote, if it's someone else's anecdote, quote them and specify this clearly, you won't be dinged for that. The video won't help much, but good images will, used conservatively.

Avoid writing the same answer multiple times, this will not help you get your answer seen on Quora. Try to tailor the answer to the question asked and try to write the answer in a way that will compel people to follow the link at the bottom.
How long does it hang? I assume permanently? On mine the caps lock key light doesn't respond to press/unpress (my standard test of system liveness), and then it comes back to life about 5-10 seconds later.
A few counterpoints in favor of F#:

- Even if your project doesn't need .NET integration, it's nice to have all of the .NET libraries (built-in or otherwise) at your disposal. OCaml also has some nice libraries, but nowhere near what .NET (or Java, for Scala) has -- so it's likely you'll have to implement your own library for some task if it's outside of the mainstream.

- F# has also gained some interesting features since it's branched away from OCaml -- computation expressions (syntactic sugar for monads) and type providers (automatically-generated, strongly-typed interfaces to databases, JSON APIs, etc.), for example.

- .NET has a mature and very fast garbage collector tuned for real world usage (e.g., people running C#/ASP.NET on large webservers). This hugely benefits F#'s performance.

- You can use Visual Studio or MonoDevelop to write and debug F# apps, which makes it much nicer to use in practice. (Oh, and you can get Visual Studio Express for Web if you want to use VS and F# for free.)

I don't have anything against OCaml, I just wanted to point out that F# certainly deserves consideration if you want to learn a new language (i.e., it's not a knock-off version of OCaml).
I think it's the same thing Opera Mobile has been doing for a long time now ...
The first thing i did when i opened your link knowing it was a parody was to check how many responses to the article there were. And there were too many. Way too many.

Comments on Hacker News more often than not go into the meta almost immediately, and constantly, so there's usually one comment with well over half of the op's responses nested under it. I use a userscript for HN for this exact reason.

It's upsetting, to be honest.
This blast from the past made me poke around some old code. My first shareware app was called TAPES I wrote in high-school. It was a UCSD P-System (Pascal) app that printed J-Cards for cassette tapes (the cards that list what songs are on the tapes; you insert them into the cassette case...for you little kids who never used cassettes). Given how few people on CompuServe had access to UCSD P-System, I don't think I sold very many copies :-)

I eventually released TAPES using Turbo Pascal for the PC as well.[1]

Printing has always been my thing. Another app I built, that was freeware, was called Spit. Spit printed your source code with headers/footers...originally WinPrint was called WinSpit... I'm super embarrassed by my rebellion against K&R the source demonstrates [2].

[1] https://github.com/tig/Tigger/blob/master/College/MY_PAS/TAP...
[2] https://github.com/tig/Tigger/blob/master/College/C_SRC/SPIT...
>Meanwhile, Americans are terrifyingly ignorant of basic facts about the world around them and their own lives.

That's a demand problem, not a supply problem; in the GP you wrote: "There is a frightening dearth of well-produced content from a variety of perspectives that seeks to measurably increase understanding as opposed to hit a word limit and generate pageviews." But there isn't "a frightening dearth of well-produced content." You can argue that too few people want to read it, but you can't legitimately argue that it doesn't exist.
This is just the default "dynamic views" theme for Blogger. And it's also unusable on my (android) phone. Bizarre that Google hasn't fixed any of the glaring issues.
What part of Venezuela are you in? What's the general feeling where you are at? Any unrest? Unrelated: are you an Amigos Invisibles fan?
Pre-Code Prototyping
They're an amazing group. Krautrock is a great genre and those albums are among the best. I love Kraftwerk as well.
Couldn't resist. Happy 500. :-)
You colour scheme is probably overriding it. You might want to edit your colour scheme's script and add it there.
Not sure I understand that logic.

If you are selling to a niche, then by definition your competition is also. If you mean a narrower niche than you and your competition already share, then it's very unlikely that they also don't know about it or won't soon regardless of you talking about it.

The only way this statement seems true is for a very loose definition of "competition." But I would love to be shown I'm wrong.
Linux Torvalds likes Google Pixel Chromebook
So... it's like a Freebase clone?
Or more likely, all farmers increased the size of the cages or connected them with the outside so they can now class them as free range, even though the conditions have not improved that much?
Hey, nice to see another Dane on HN. Care to meet up for a beer sometime?

I'm based in Malmo. The scene here isn't as big as in the Valley, but I look at that as an advantage, because it's easier to get traction locally and then expand.
There is still no good way to create a multi leg travel. That's the problem I would personally tackle, as I face it every time I am planning a travel.
A couple of questions if you don't mind

1. Private security firms are apparently taking over huge swathes of the not-actually-being-shot-at roles. Are those "soldiers" required to do the same policy busy work?

2. US Armed forces (incl reserve) is nearly 3m. Is that simply too big?

3. I thought the patten quote earlier solved this one - no policy or training DVD tells you what to do, it's telling you how.
They have some great stations.

I would recommend http://www.zenradio.fm too. It features a mix of light instrumentals and ambient music.

MP3 : http://flux1.zenradio.fr:8800

OGG: http://flux2.zenradio.fr:8000
When Clients Don't Pay
A verbal promise isn't always enough. Getting paid in the big bad world of consulting is often more art than science.
Join the Coalition for Reform of Money Transfer Law to repeal the California MTA
In sports, there's an advantage to being just that little bit better than everyone else: it's the difference between winning or losing.

For musicians, because the fixed costs of recording an album or planning a concert are so high, paying a little bit more for e.g. a pianist that's a tiny bit better is not a big deal.

For quality journalism, absolute performance matters less than performing above a (very high) treshold. It's not like you can distinguish "superb" from "peerless" journalism anyway.

Likewise, once you switch to digital, fixed costs melt away and so writing fees and salaries become a more salient expense.

One way in which journalism is like music and sports is that stardom matters. You'll still find writers and columnists that earn obscene amounts of money for a single piece of content, because who they are matters as much as what they write. I doubt Roger Ebert has been much affected by the media industry's downturn.
Yes, the plugin runs the diff command when a document is saved/loaded. See the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326654
DJ Shadow, Blockhead, Bonobo
Assurances of accuracy?
Well we generally share susceptance to the same diseases and parasites as humans, so it's a bad idea to be eating them.

However, prepared correctly with enough heat, possibly also frozen beforehand (that's what works on pork), I hear humans can actually be quite tasty.

It's seen as a bit of a social faux pas in our society though, so you might want to find a different society first if you'd like to enjoy tasty humans.
Well, eggs are easily produced everywhere. Shipping it across the world seams hardly cost-efficient and wouldn't do much for better and fresher eggs (especially considering the cost of air-shipping versus sea-shipping).
Ha ha! Thanks! I have exactly 500 now. Maybe I should change my handle to icandownvote.

Edit: Maybe it takes more than 500, or some time. I don't have down arrows yet.
Right, but helium doesn't just magically "go up". It provides lift in proportion to the difference in density between the gas in the balloon and the surrounding atmosphere.

As the atmosphere thins, the amount of lift capable of generated by a helium balloon decreases to the point where, at the altitude you've mentioned, it could lift a total of about 0.8kg (according to GP's calculations). The point being that you wouldn't be able to have much of a payload lifted to those heights.
Is Google allowed to disclose the number of FISA requests it gets? I was under the impression NSLs were being used much less since the PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act (2005) weakened them, and were largely replaced by obtaining secret warrants from the FISA court.

FISA is scarier. Under that law, secret surveillance can begin before a warrant is issued, warrants are issued by judges who keep no records of their opinions made in complete secret, and the surveillance can continue even during a challenge over and appeals of that warrant. When the EFF made a FOIA request for information about the FISA court, it got an ominous response: a letter saying there were documents they'd never see, zero court records, and a completely redacted version of an investigation into FISA's constitutionality. By completely redacted, I mean they returned pages where every word on every line was blanked.

The only difference is that a FISA warrant has to be connected to a foreign person or body in some way. That can be as little as "we think by wiretapping this American, we'll learn something about this organization in another country". For those not living in the US, it means Google/Facebook/Microsoft/etc. can be compelled to surveil your communication through their service secretly without an NSL.
I've played around with roy. Good to see it getting some press!

More on topic, what about Contract DD as an alternative to Test DD and Type DD? e.g. https://github.com/disnet/contracts.coffee
Funny thing, your reviews also go up when you raise the price. I have 2 theories to explain this:
- People who pay for something are more likely to research it before, and thus will only get the product if they think it fits their needs. On the other hand, if the app is free and it doesn't do what you thought it did, you might give it a bad review.
- People who pay for things tell themselves that they're buying more quality, and so they truly see things differently.
A great way to get webhooks to the client is through some sort of real-time push service. Either homegrown or something like Pusher. You'd have to listen at a webhook endpoint then re-create the event in Pusher, but the client would be simple. Pusher might even support creating the event directly from a webhook, I can't recall.

If you don't want to maintain the webhook listener, create a script on webscript.io to listen and create the Pusher event.
I would love to hear more about this!
The Atlantic is owned by David Bradley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_G._Bradley), and it isn't a particularly large corporation. It can't have that many employees, given that only 400,000 people subscribe to the magazine.
I'll admit I've clicked the unsubscribe link in a bid to stop the original sender from getting emails that they subsequently forwarded to me. Worked like a charm and prevented them from getting upset when their upset would have caused trouble.
EmacsConf in London on March 30
I don't really understand what you mean. People submit vim-related content, which then gets upvoted and brought to everyone's attention on Hacker News.

It might just be that it actually reflects people's interests.
Given how established vim and emacs are, I have to say I'm not surprised, they remain extremely versatile and complete developing environments to this day.
I tend to think that better discussion in a forum like this comes about with less back and forth. That's not to say that alternating comments on opposite sides of a viewpoint can't be enlightening, but I think it's stronger if those viewpoints come from multiple people on both sides.