skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key challenge to this method is one of your caveats. The challenge for a new investor isn't picking which of the best of the best you think would be good investments. It is making a return by picking from the second, third or fourth tier deals you can get into with no track record. There's a reason the angels we know if today were the guys we saw at every event for years building up that deal flow.
I run a one man start-up. It's hard but rewarding. You want to hire at some point, find people who are better than you ideally.
Not only did most people miss that she was a woman, you missed (or didn't point out) that she was black (or what counts for black in politics today).
I disagree, it might be faster on the short run but not on the long run. small swift mvc is better than standing on the giant shoulder of the other guy.

Seriously backbone is not hard to learn, fucking easy to extend, specially removing the rendering boilerplates, thats like 30 seconds of extending the view system.

You also do not address the main point, most examples are plain backbone, why is that? probably because handling your own "marionnette" is easy.
Ask HN: websites that accept Bitcoins?
Please post here the most interesting websites that accept Bitcoin as payment model
This is already happening. Litecoin is now trading at about $4 per LTC. It is slightly different in that average block generation occurs every 2.5 minutes instead of 10 and the limit is 84M coins, but otherwise it's basically the same idea as Bitcoin.

There are numerous others -- TRC, PPC, NMC, DVC, etc -- that all are slightly different from bitcoin and are actively trading, although their exchange rates are much lower and extremely volatile. Namecoin is actually pretty interesting (embedding a domain service in the protocol), but the others are mostly copycats.

http://dustcoin.com/mining has the most extensive list I know.
Well he missed the main point:

Posgresql is free software.

And therefore for example no company can force you into their lock in for their profit and your loss.
Check out the "mining factor" metric: http://www.bitcoinx.com/charts/ Mining is as profitable today as it was back in July 2011.
Do you have any details about the google fiber router and bridge mode? I've been trying to find any details that walk through the router's configuration UI without much luck. Looks like it always NATs connections and the best you can do is port-forward.
How moral is it to not earn a living wage, but expect others to supply it anyway?
A quick plug for my open-source alternative front end for SSRS - CrissCross

https://github.com/codeulike/crisscross

It uses the standard report viewer but aims to handle multi-pick parameters and reports with lots of optional parameters more intelligently.
Disappointing, though, that the CNN writer didn't manage to suss out the project's apt namesake.
Awesome.. Now if only contributors helped with adding documentation to some of my classes..
Point taken, but we're still arguing apples and oranges. Savings accounts historically maybe earned a percent or two above inflation. There's very little incentive to just let money sit in a savings account at those rates. Even extremely low risk investments are better.
Right. Most people in the west don't know about The Emergency [1] following the fraud that got her elected. Then her political and social interference with the Sikh community (part of the most vocal opposition to the Emergency [2]), which lead to Operation Bluestar [3] and subsequently her assassination [4].

These events form the worst part of Indian politics since independence. Her rise to power was not due to her personality or skill. She was simply the daughter of Nehru, the first prime minister of India and a close aide of MK Gandhi.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)#Sikh_oppo...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Indira_Gandhi
Nhibernate. No issues.

To be honest we're shifting to java. Our license fees are well into 7 figures for MS stuff for no gain. This is the first step. Some subsystems are moving from asp.net web forms+mvc to spring, tomcat, hibernate, postgres. Cost savings are huge, staff available are orders of magnitude better and reliability is higher as to be honest, windows has been a piece of shit to manage over the last 10 years.

Fortunately we've got a pretty well designed system so we can move it over piecemeal as and when we update major subsystem features.
Build Your First Meteor App And Discover Your Inner Artist
PyData Silicon Valley 2013 videos
Bootstrap button builder
Many times that I knew some sort of stuff like this happened, it was because one specific worker, KNEW that he was doing wrong, but did it wrong anyway to take the credit, and hope his bosses would not find out.

This also apply when the "worker" is a boss, but working for a client, he do it in a lazy manner hoping his client won't notice...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbaland_plagiarism_controvers...
Feynman's lectures on physics. The stuff that skips most of the QED

http://io9.com/watch-a-series-of-seven-brilliant-lectures-by...
A standard Japanese or European subcompact does 50 MPG easily, no need to do diesel.
Agreed. The good news is that there are a few things you can do to make yourself more appealing relative to other investors. This is all based upon my experience on the other side of the table fundraising: decide quickly and decisively, be quick with your comms, and be nice.

I think the handshake deal protocol will help those who want to be bold and act fast. Like I mentioned, these decisions were based on watching the pitches on stage, not even the follow up meetings. http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html
I am disappointed by this article coming from ARS, a site I have huge respect for. The article ignores parts of conversation and chooses the ones which suits its narrative. Developers were concerned about leaving unmaintained code left in the tree, which was previously only used by chrome. If you follow the thread devs were more than happy to keep it as long as someone maintained it. And finally that's what happened. Either way discussions like these are common in Open source project , any project as a matter of fact, but to spin it like this is simply manufacturing a story for page views.
Million dollar art
"A Universe from Nothing" lecture by Lawrence Krauss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjaGktVQdNg
Ok, hadn't thought of that, but see your point.

I think the content is really good, so title changed -- don't think the author will mind (he had two alternate titles for the original post).
I was wondering why no one ever buys or sells houses. But your post makes it perfectly clear: Since no more land is created, real estate is deflationary, so obviously no one would ever sell a house.

</sarcasm>

Also, I'm happy you're patting yourself on the back for all your training and experience. But you still need to make a compelling argument instead of just saying "Things are just so."
1.9 / 2 years
The cosmetics bag looks like a straightforward copyright violation.

The second example, where no artwork was copied but there may have been some influence, is more complicated. How do you prove the inspiration came from the "stolen" art, and not Disney's own film or the original story?

http://www.cornel1801.com/disney/Alice-Wonderland-Painting-R...
For each given stop light, speed limit, and vehicle configuration, there is a rubicon that is crossed where it is impossible to stop before entering the intersection. Set up your camera and creep the yellow light time down past this limit and profits just start rolling in.
Not gonna plug your lib? :)
Considering my connections I think I still have to rely on my looks. :-D
Why isn't this the top comment?
I've been experimenting with adding Github search links for methods and properties too - so you can get context on their uses ( this has them when you mouse over further down the page: http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/AFIncrementalStore/0.4.0/Classe... )
Is there? How to enable it? The farthest down I can go with stock IE is IE7 (which arguably isn't really much better than IE6, but still)
Is this script available? Thanks
In a lease you don't own the car until it's fully paid, there is no buyback at all.
> This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers.

Hours of work? I think if you combine all of the work put into getting sites to work on IE6, it'll be measured in decades, if not centuries.
They also missed ERIPP, which does something similar.
This is all old news though, these things are constantly mentioned in other security reports. Even the government knows these things exist, which means that CNN is not scouping anyone :)
Well with Elon's personality type you know nothing would go out like this without his knowledge. But we don't have to guess - he was in the video personally announcing the $500 lease plan.
Thankfully, IE7 is already more dead than IE6: http://theie7countdown.com/

Now we just need to wait for IE8's disappearance (http://theie8countdown.com/). And then IE9's (http://theie9countdown.com/), because it doesn't support text-shadow, transitions, filters, the File API, FormData, gradients, columns, classList, flex-box or WebGL...
I'm saying that "for the user" is a distinction not necessary for a tool designed for the type of people who actually know how software works. For the user, Git does the same thing that it does for the programmers who wrote Git. There's only one side of it. It's not two-faced like most software. The only possible explanation is to explain how Git works.
This talk defines who I am.
I can imagine some form of a computerized sign up is needed for other MVPs

Believe it or not, services businesses did actually exist before CRM software and online signup forms. The SF Bay Area does not have a uniquely high density of companies. You can totally do spiritually-similar things to this.

A spiritually similar example: Appointment Reminder didn't actually exist in summer 2010, but I had a two-page demo of it set up. I got $400 out of an ATM when I went home to Chicago to visit, and just wandered around the Gold Coast/Magnificent Mile region of the city looking for every hair salon and massage therapy practice I could find. I asked them all if I they took walk-ins and, if so, could I have 30 minutes of the owner's time for whatever the rate was ($30 or so). In lieu of the shoulder massage/etc, I said "I'm interested in the massage therapy industry. Would you mind if we just chatted for half an hour about it?" And I asked about how they handled scheduling, appointments, no-shows, etc etc. I also did a demo of my two-page AR mini-app on the iPad and asked if they would be interested in buying it when it was ready.

I think only one person actually accepted my money for the interviews. I got five-ish "Please tell me when that is ready" out of a dozen or so conversations. No Bay Area or signup form required. (I put their emails in a paper notebook. And lost it prior to launch. Whoopsie.)

This was mostly successful for me: it confirmed that there was a market willing to pay for AR without me needing to actually build it to demonstrate that. (My sampling technique, which found only massage therapists/hair salons, did sort of lead me off the rails as to who I'd eventually end up targeting for most of the business. D'oh.)
I was under the impression that this would be covered under copyright and not a particular licence. As soon as the artwork was created by the artist it belongs to the artist, they don't even need to put a copyright symbol next to it. My advice would be get in touch with Disney, it seems the artist has support on tumblr already. I suspect a public spectacle of Disney's mistake (assuming it was a mistake) is probably the artist's best bet. DKNY were caught up in something similar and ended up paying and apologising for their mistake [1].

[1]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732388430457832...

Edit: Sorry, silly formatting
Good luck! And, if I may... how do you get those sleek social buttons?
Assuming they didn't, you know, disconnect you while you were doing it. There are actual people up there; presumably they have manual overrides.
Ok I'll try to be more specific. How much slower is it than SQL Server for a web app that does a 70%-30% split between reading and writing. 10,000 users a day each spending about an hour on it. I've no idea how to measure query output, will have to look that up. Maybe this is more of a Stack Exchange question.
Browser Mode goes down to IE7, but Document Mode goes down to IE5.
I doubt it entirely. WebKit has been around since 2001, and given Apple is the creator and primary users, it will stick around.
No. Yellow tells you to go faster.
That depends on how you've laid out your data in Redis.
This is a great product.

First there was the native client era on desktops that involved twiddling around with swt, gtk, qt and windows programming.

Then came the advent of webapps with more uniform abstractions of client side js frameworks and css3 and dozens of toolkits and decorators around these.

Then came the mobile era with a new breed of native v/s web applications. Nowadays, the general opinion I hear is that no one really likes webapps on mobiles. But we as a community actively are trying to port over the abstractions of css/js frameworks to native mobile so that developers can continue being comfortable while programming devices that function at the whim of Apple and Google.

I wish there were a timeline of sorts of all the paradigm shifts that programming user experiences has undergone over the last decade.
> I’m so mad because I have no chance at getting Disney to do anything about it.

For such a straightforward violation, I don't see why there's any call for pessimism. Send them an invoice for a worldwide license, follow it up with a lawyer letter (find someone willing to do no-win-no-fee if you want) once the invoice is overdue.
[Stripped-Down Non-Free Version of] Bootsrap for Native iOS Apps.
Very well put. I think past experiences are definitely reason to be cautious, but too often it seems that analysis neglects to even consider the fact that there is no direct equivalent to Bitcoin.

It remains to be seen if Bitcoin is 'worth' its current valuation, but I think it's obvious that it has and will continue to have uses in the future.
> "How do you prove the inspiration came from the "stolen" art, and not Disney's own film or the original story?"

And even if you did prove it, is it illegal, and should it be illegal?

All art is a derivation of something that came before it. Can someone reasonably claim ownership to "girl painting roses with paint brush as viewed from behind"?
How to share your data effectively
Everything I know about sarcasm, I learned from Abed from Community
Leave the laptop, smartphone and tablet in the other room when you go to bed. Upon waking create a different habit to adopt. Make coffee, brush your teeth, take a shower. Anything that stops you from checking email.
Definitely one of the more humorous talks I've seen, in person or online.
That's interesting. I learned hg first and moved to git after being frustrated with hg's limitations. Yeah, git could use an overhaul on some of it's command line interfaces (using the index on different git commands: --cached, --stage, --index), but it's so much better overall that those things become minor quibbles.
I updated the HN title as well. thx
Why the Most Successful Leaders Are Givers
If I have ten $1 bills and they are each worth $10 of previous spending power, I would ABSOLUTELY feel richer.
At this point blocking the browser from your website with an explanation would probably do more good than harm.
The purpose of the post was to re-define existing terminologies. I've researched into Elm, and I like that they called these "behaviors" signals instead. And instead of FRP (which honestly sounds like a fart if you pronounce it), I wanted to coin SOP and compare it to OOP, in that it could be a term used as a foundation for a new way of programming.

I wanted to compare signals to that of event emitters, and show how they're each like a single event. This will hopefully help to make others familiar with the applications of signals.

I think FRP, or SOP, is brilliant and should be implemented in JavaScript. There isn't any non-benefits to having signals in a language, especially one that's so heavily dependent on events and functions like JS.
Russia called, they said no.
http://theie10countdown.com/

"Hopefully there will be no Internet Explorer 10…"

http://www.ie10countdown.com/

"We won't need a countdown to extinction of IE10 if you don't use the piece of shit to begin with."
I don't think anyone is going to call him a good person, but perhaps an effective leader. Pol Pot was easily just as evil even if he was responsible for fewer deaths, but Pol Pot left nothing so useful as the German autobahns.

On that scale Thatcher is far from evil. Her economic reforms where necessary even if they left many worse off.
I've had great success with honest personal emails to every new customer. It helps build trust, which, at least in my case, has been extremely valuable.
Thanks for all the comments so far. It's true, this project is not currently under active development. I would love to put more work into this project to make it into something that serves an unmet need out there. What's missing from the frameworks that currently exist?
Or that enough services, project and uses have sprung up to keep Bitcoin valuable enough to remain somewhat mainstream and not fade away.
I've used Domo for mobile stuff, and it's worked very well. I've been very impressed with it, and it makes a great impression. I've really only used it for quick demos and minor things--not for a full project, sadly. So, I can't give you a full on review of it. Sorry!
Less money in denomination, but the total purchasing power isn't less.
Playing infinite chess: an interview with Joel David Hamkins
I don't think it's an accurate assessment of one's ability to be successful as an angel investor based on which ycombinator startups they would choose to hypothtically fund. Ycombinator startups already go through a thorough vetting process by some of the most experienced investors out there just to enter the class. I don't think a ycombinator class would be accurately representative of the type of deal-flow a typical rookie angel would encounter.
I am from time to time involved in the development of the CakePHP framework, at least often enough to have strong opinions on specific weak parts of the framework. I think your project might have potential, but the lack of tests and composer support is a serious flaw.

Your priorities should be tests, and documentation, before anything else.

I think that your efforts might be better spent on improving CakePHP; the developers have no particular concern for backwards compatibility in the upcoming major version (3.0). I would be interested to discuss all of your ideas related to this, please contact me at tenebrousedge @ gmail
The Networker's Dilemma
Git is predicated on the notion that it's actually quite simple and elegant how Git works, and programmers are clever enough to understand how their software works, so not much porcelain is necessary. There's a refreshing honesty to that.
https://github.com/fuel/core
Haha, great story, thanks for sharing the walk-in appointment idea. Sorry about your notebook though. This does change how I used to think about validating ideas. Email signups and fancy landing pages can be replaced by personally going over, handing out business cards, and pitching your ideas whenever you get a chance like it says in the original post.
Pass the pipe, yo! Who would want to live on Mars? Why not build a colony in the middle of a desert with no one but moneyed acquaintances and imported indentured slaves?

Oh wait, we already did over in Dubai! Bwahaha

Mars colonization is just a novelty to obscure reality and distract people from the bankruptcy of the debt-asset based financial-political system. Aka asset-based lending

The Tesla financing gimmick is nothing more than a retail level tax credit securitization scheme of the TIF pedigree that municipalities use.
> The only problem with the American constitution is that the federal government isn't very good at following it

In other words, the Constitution has failed at its fundamental purpose - controlling the federal government. Not that there are any political remedies - this would just spread the cancer faster. Pride blinds. The more we insist our well-built ship cannot possibly be sinking, the less inclined we are to look for the lifeboats.
Very interesting that r66t.com doesn't appear in the 2 most popular adblock+ block lists!
Nomad PHP: The PHP User Group for those that don't have one nearby
Hm. You're right. Next time I'll read a bit further in the man page.
And if the delay costs human lives? perhaps lots of them?

You make it sound like there is no consequence of the delay except time. Alas, time is among the most precious things each of us has, and I personally don't have another 50 to spare.
True! An excellent example of my point :D
I've just realized that you meant the fact that multiline pastes are often immediately executed, right?

I've tried various ways of input to my console (MINGW/WinXP) for multiline pastes, and the results are as follows:
1. Right-click multiline paste: unsafe (executes immediately)
2. Windows paste (alt-space, e, p): unsafe (executes immediately)
3. Insert or Shift-Insert: safe (pastes only the first line)
It's free and open, and will work with our free engine. In its current beta form, we wanted our commercial customers to have a crack at it first.
Out of curiosity, but is there a design-reason why the controller names are tied (by naming convention) to HTTP convention?

i.e.

public static function show_GET($params=null) {
self::render('show',array("layout" => "default"));
}

public static function index_POST($params=null) {
self::redirect('/auction/show');
}

As opposed to how Rails does it (controllers are defined in their own file and associated with a HTTP protocol in a routing file):
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html

in routes file:

get 'photos/show'

in controller: photos_controller.rb

class PhotosController < ApplicationController
def show
# render stuff
end
end

Seems like it's an unnecessary coupling (also, I think in Rails, you don't have to define protocol unless you feel it's explicitly needed), but my main nitpick was seeing a naming convention that featured the kind of letter-case-changing that has made PHP a difficult language to enjoy
Good points Ivan. This is actually a really good exercise.

Two considerations one can't take into account with virtual investing are:

(1) Would the company be willing to take money from you? (They may already have raised, may not be willing to take the amount you are offering, may prefer to go with other investors)

(2) What are the terms? Would they work for you?
Hadn't seen those. Not funny :(
Why couldn't a rookie just go to demo day? Why does the method matter if the result is profit?

Also, I didn't mention it here, but I'd be interested in tracking other accelerator demo days too. It would be fun to see the differences.

Overall, the use of demo day is a convenience because this is just a hobby before I dive in.
Copyright is the law from which licenses get their power. It's because the author has the exclusive rights granted by copyright protection that they can dictate the terms under which others may use their work (that is, offer licenses). When no license is offered, the author retains exclusive rights. The parent comment was implying that the author may have offered some kind of license (for example, by uploading his artwork to Flickr and ticking off one of the Creative Commons boxes in the license selection).
When you had him book orders for your friends, did you see it as a business opportunity, or just a problem that needed solving?