skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a biohazard. It's a chemical hazard.

A biohazard is when you spill untreated sewage into the Gowanus Canal during heavy storms because you have a combined sewage system, and it's full of freakish bacteria.

I assume when you said "biohazard" you thought "hazardous to biological things". That's really covered with just the "hazard" part though. :b
A browser is hard. Firefox is easy.

I don't think your reasoning holds. That's why we have abstractions, to make hard things easy.
yeah, it's not even about build order, but improving the kunfu :)
Who hates a video game company more than a credit agency, or the cable company that packet shapes and MITMs your Internet connection? Just don't play the game, and you never have to think about them. You can't say that about Equifax.
simons I am genuinely interested what HN community opinion is about accusations like that. You don't like it, don't read it and ignore the submition; don't create a problem when there is none.
This is the way that github recommends (https://help.github.com/articles/creating-project-pages-manu...).

A separate folder for the gh-pages branch makes sense because this branch has nothing in common with any of the other branches. It doesn't share any code or commits with your master branch.

The repository actually has two base commits and it's like two repositories contained in one. Thus needing two separate folders.
It's just a launcher (which is just an app that handles a specific intent that fires when you press the Home button). "Incredibly invasive" is hyperbole. All it will take to turn a "Facebook phone" into an "Android phone" is to install a more stock-like launcher.

The great thing about Android is that there isn't a whole lot of tight coupling between components, which is what makes Facebook Home possible in the first place. An iOS-based Facebook phone, on the other hand, would have to be tightly coupled by design, and wouldn't let users opt out of those features. Compare, for example, the Twitter integration on iOS with the generic share intent handling on Android; Android lets you install intent handlers to handle the "share" intent - Twitter, Dropbox, Pocket, whatever you want, while iOS gives you Twitter and you're going to have that and only that whether you like it or not.
I think having to know any keyboard shortcuts to do basic operations is a huge lose for an entertainment computer.
There is probably an interesting distinction to be made between the type of randomness that comes from a deck draw versus the type that comes from a loot table... but I don't know it. It feels different, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is.
I think digital-to-physical manufacturing is so much bigger than 3D printing. http://fabsie.com/blog/3d-printing-vs-3d-cutting/ and that CNC routing (3D cutting) is likely to find killer apps far faster than 3D printing is capable.
I am writing this so people in situation like me will feel better.

People didn't know what day it will run out, so we can assume than number of applications on 5th probably wasn't higher than on previous 4 days. We don't know on what time on day on 5th day it ran out. What's more majority of applications were made on 1st day (a lot of companies were expecting this situation, one which is getting me h1b included). I'd say expected probability of not getting a VISA is below 10% .

To counter the fact that USA government does "weekly" accounting of number of applications (that 65k-th application was made earlier this week, but only today government realized this) is this document from 2008 - www.uscis.gov/files/pressrelease/H1BFY08Cap040307.pdf , where USCIS released document the next day after cap was reached, the next day after they started accepting applications.
It's entirely Joi Ito's fault. -_-
I really, really want to be able to lose some history sometimes. Like if someone checks in sensitive user data by accident. Rolling it back is insufficient, I want that expunged. Maybe git doesn't do it perfectly, but it has reason to do it.
How in any way does this represent part of the HN/YC culture? He got rejected the first time, didn't he?

As a coder, I always encourage non-technical people I meet to learn how to code, so I don't find the idea of a non-technical person trying to learn to code at all a negative aspect of the tech scene.
KVUE news a local station is saying they have enough sources to confirm it.

http://www.kvue.com/news/Google-Fiber-coming-to-Austin-20169...
Need custom CSS or at least logo linked to one's main site, need contribs, and need posting API. Thrilled with migration and performance so far. Hope you can get branding available before that countdown clock zeros!
>Can the government stop me from buying something with USD? Not a chance.

What? Of course they can. They can get a warrant and bust into your house and put you in jail if they have basis to believe you have bought something they think you shouldn't have (drugs, child porn, slaves, and tons of other things).
I really like this post. It had a ring of truth, admission of failure and its associated feelings, with a positive narrative arc.

It doesn't seem surprising that someone with an entrepreneurial drive but only an embrionic vision would want to join the cool kids club. I mean, you gotta do something with your life even if you don't have a grand vision.
I imagine the most common reason is to be able to work on your project full time.
The "apply in April and spend six months in limbo" structure of the H-1B program seems like it would heavily favor multinational companies that can hire someone for a position abroad, and relocate them to the US if their visa comes through. I wonder if that's why Infosys et al account for such a large portion of the H-1B pool.

Can anyone more familiar with the situation comment on whether this is how the process actually works? Do people who would be Infosys employees in the US continue to work for Infosys in India if their visa application gets rejected?
Murthy folks have explained this in better manner:
http://www.murthy.com/2013/01/14/moving-from-cap-exempt-to-c...

Seems like there are many like me..!
Google Fiber Coming To Austin Confirmed By Local News
Why Purdue should remove 'This is Engineering' viral video
Worked perfectly for us for thousands of posts with all kinds of media. Meanwhile, Posterous itself is still stuck on half the Backups of our blogs.
Genuine question, what happens then? And would the IRS necessarily see these regular deposits as inherently dirty, or merely unknown? If I were to make structured payments over a long period of time, low enough that they were unnoticed each time, how much pleading of ignorance would it take before the IRS decided that the person really did not intend for that to happen?

And could not someone disposit dirty money into their own account and plead the same? Even if you have to forfiet the money (if you haven't already accidentally spent it...) simply holding on to money temporarily can be avantageous.
This is an interesting essay on the politics of education. Wherein the filtering mechanism drives, in a somewhat murky way, "real-world" behaviour. That being said, the quote you can never step in the same river twice comes to mind, and its interesting to see the experience from another perspective.
I am a current student at Purdue, and here is the video that the commentary is about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFbWXuR_2Ow
I wouldn't have cared about Origin if it wasn't for a few provisions in their licensing agreement that made me very nervous. In particular the bits about letting them scan your whole hard drive (Steam's only lets them scan the folders it writes to) and the provision they added about "You can't sue us, but we can sue you." While other services have the latter one, having it in conjunction with the former really gave me a huge big brother vibe. I wouldn't have used it with the first one anyway as that's intrusive enough, but the second just made it worse.

Source:

For the claim about Origin's license letting it scan your whole hard drive: http://www.nerdbuster.com/2011/09/eas-origin-wants-to-scan-y...
http://www.gamespot.com/news/ea-origin-eula-sparks-privacy-c...

For the second claim about the one way copyright lawsuit provision:
Chapter 17, section A can be found here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...

In it, they specifically say that the exemptions from this non-lawsuit clause are related to copyright (big claims) and small claims court. Since most users aren't likely to own copyright or patents, I call that stacking the deck of available actions.
When people wait X years for a game they really want to play and they find it has all of these problem then they will feel let down. Especially when they have competitors who are known for giving much better service.

If you have a shitty ISP who MITMs your connections then either you have the choice of moving elsewhere or if you can't it's because all their competitors are just as shitty.

You can't just go and get Sim City 4 from another company.
I read your post and it reminds me of how I was at the age of 18 when I started my first business. At 18 I had grossed over $100k on eBay within a single year but at the time they were hypersensitive to any wrong doings and I ended up getting kicked off the site for a few months. I wanted to handcuff myself to their front entrance door until they reinstated my account. hahaha! Ahhh wreckless passion...the good ol days! :)
And yet, if it was some poor black kid caught on the wrong side of the tracks, the government/justice system could happily put his ass in jail despite them not being able to prove anything or him being innocent. As has happened time and again...
The cables definitely look like training wheels. Even a very slight bit of tension could assist with balance. Of course that assumes the robot has some sort of kinesthetic sense.
You sound surprised. But why?

To trust a bank with your money, under certain conditions, I understand.

But who in his right mind trusts a bank as a "moral entity"?
Banks/bankers are the scum of the earth. To quote Brecht:

"What's breaking into a bank compared to founding one?"
Does Peter Moore still have his GTA4 and Halo 3 tattoos?
Indeed. "git branch" is a lot like "mkdir". If you accidentally make a branch, deleting it with "git branch -d my-branch" is about as easy as typing "rmdir my-dir".
> Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period.

And you lost me. Zero credibility.
I post corrected!

Still, relating this to storytelling, I continue to believe that the single most terrifying moment in a video game, to this day, occurs in _Rescue at Fractalus_. Everyone I know has literally fallen backwards in their chair at that moment.

But since all the people I allude to are now old fogies, it would be interesting to see the reaction of someone a lot younger who went into the game unaware and played up to that point, a point integral to the gameplay, and to see if they instinctively do the right thing to address it.

Good times, good times...
You're confusing "gamers" with "people who voted for the poll". Only a small minority of the former are part of the latter group.
HN will send more traffic than your mentions in magazines.
Why doesn't "mkdir" cd you into the new subdir unless you type "mkdir --no-cd my-dir"?
No Android, no sale.
In my opinion, Tumblr has far more endurance than Posterous ever did. Tumblr is a social hegemon and is making money, neither of which could be accomplished to any meaningful extent by Posterous.

Even if it was acquired, it's far too valuable of a property to simply be shut down.
They didn't get 500MM from the USG, did they?
I know nothing at all about them. What made them terribly run? Thanks!
Sure people had houses before mortgages. They had sucky self-built houses on land they didn't own but rented, and nobody had any incentive to sell land, especially not to small time buyers. The UK still has the remains of that system, though there it's watered down enormously.

Do you agree that bitcoin massively disincentivizes spending anything but tiny amounts of currency ? Or at least, that it would have that effect if it was the only currency.
You can't think of any age group who doesn't have to think about Equifax but happens to be large buyers of EA products?
I have always been a bit confused by this also. I think I am most likely missing something here, but I've thought about this a lot and can't figure it out. Overall, I think YC and friends provide a net gain to society, encouraging entrepreneurial ideals and bringing a few really great ideas to fruition. But for the rest... I don't know.

This is certainly not universal, but it seems like a bunch of YC funded startups exist solely to attempt being acquired. I understand that 'exiting' is a marker of some form of success, but doesn't this notion sort of contradict some of the hacker mentality and startup culture that created it in the first place? I mean, you just poured your heart and soul into a company for the past several months, if not years, and you're just going to let some mega corporation purchase it and grow even larger? And yet the vast majority of these companies just sit there and eat through their funding... what's the point?

It really feels like the web bubble all over again, but like I said, maybe I'm just missing something.
We often deploy promo sites to handle TV traffic.

For top cable shows (top 5 in weekly cable ratings), a rule of thumb we've found works for planning is 100 thousand uniques per second of time the domain or URL is shown or spoken, during and following the ad. If the brand is the domain, that counts too.

So 15 seconds of clear call to action exposure can drive 1.5 million uniques. Numbers are lower without a call to action.
Maybe I'm naive, but I dislike EA more than Equifax, and I have actually had Equifax stick nonsense on my report before. I believe Equifax are actually trying to do a good job in general — their mistakes are not the sort where I feel like somebody actively considered me and said, "Eh, screw him" — whereas I don't believe that about EA. Similarly, I don't think Ticketmaster is all that bad these days. My dealings with Ticketmaster have been more pleasant than my dealings with EA.
Most of the comments have (thus far) had quite a snotty attitude regarding the OP's very directed attempt to try and get into YC. I have a different opinion.

I don't buy the "do whatever your passion is" bullshit. I just don't. I think that people that win are people that WANT to win. Of course, some times you see some guy who's passion was building boats all his life (or something) and he happens to get on CNN and get some major coverage and his business booms (when he's like 60); my argument is that those are largely exceptions.

If you want to win, you need to focus on winning (like the OP is/was doing). Winning in the start-up world is largely contingent on two things: VC and media coverage. YC can bring both home. I see absolutely nothing wrong with OP's attempt to enhance his application (heck even "leveraging" a woman co-founder is fair game).

Here's a (somewhat poor) analogy: I have a large number of friends that go to law schools (or have already graduated). In many cases, the most ambitious ones will not even consider a sub-T14 school. If they don't get into a top law school, what's the point of paying for a degree and practicing law at some sub-par firm?

Of course, the romantics in us don't really appreciate this cold-hearted realism (if you really really like law, you can succeed! see Erin Brokovich!) But real life doesn't work like that. YC is, in many ways, prime real-estate for new start-ups. I see no reason why you WOULDN'T cater your application and idea to trying to get in. Heck, that's exactly what people to do when trying to get Fullbright scholarships, Ivy league acceptances, etc.
I have tried getting used to Unity, but I just can't.

It all comes down to the fact that the Unity launcher is forcibly placed on the right hand side and I always accidentally click on it when trying to click somewhere in the region. No other OS I use forces such a thing, which is why I will never get used to it.

I tried changing my mouse sensitivity to compensate for the bar, but it makes everything else harder. There used to be a hack that would let you move the bar to the bottom of the screen, but it has not worked in the 12.x versions.

I use KDE these days. The worse thing they force their users to look at is the Cashew, which can be made transparent by installing a third party widget.
Instead of trying to sell yourself in the orange room, build something and make them come to you.
Set the rules of the game.
You can do that.
You can never have even heard of Equifax and something they screw up can keep you from getting a mortgage, or get your rental car reservation cancelled at 11:00PM right as your plane lands.
I doubt most of the voters in that poll were under 17. But maybe.
Also on a serious note: I'm not sure this post is going to help you get in. You might be thinking so but I might say that it could set you back a bit. PG can't deposit your passion in the bank. He's out to find great scalable ideas that can be turned into profitable businesses being run by efficient and smart people.

YC is not some kind of beauty pageant and it's not a make or break situation for your business. Posting up the rejection letter in your office? Don't be obsessed with Ycom. If you make it, that's great, you can get a lot of good resources and you've essentially got the seal of approval from angel investors. If Not? No big deal! Build the product, bring it to market, get active users and make sure that it's a profitable business that can stay profitable even at a scaling point. If you do this much, you'll get good attention and will find yourself raising seed money.
Anyone who has ever jumped out of the room because of a windshield attack in "Rescue on Fractalus" understands... Manipulate the psyche, not the eyes. (Bonus - at the time LucasArts also manipulated the eyes with their 8-bit fractal landscapes et al. But that was a BONUS.)
> App should just save automatically.

Oh god please no. Apps that save automatically are the worst idea ever. I want to be able to make exploratory modifications, and then commit to disk AT A TIME OF MY CHOOSING. The computer doesn't know what I'm thinking, and it can't tell the difference between "messing around" content vs "serious" content.

I can see it now: I hit undo a bunch of times to get back to a previous state, copy some content that I wanted to bring back, then redo a bunch of times to get back, except I fatfinger it and hit paste by mistake. Now my whole redo path is gone, and I can't even reload to the state I was at before hitting undo thanks to the braindead program that "helpfully" saved my document behind my back.

Or even worse: I make some exploratory changes, then decide after changing a LOT of things that it won't work. The app crashes/the computer dies, whatever. I reopen the app and it's saved all the changes I don't want anymore. Maybe if I'm lucky it would have saved an undo path (unlikely), but even then, how far do I have to undo to get back to the sane state I was in?

Save means "I'm sure this is what I want. Persist these changes".
I don't know anything about gaming. But I assume that means it has a great GPU as well as a solid CPU... in which case this might be a good option for those of us doing scientific computing.
DEA Accused Of Leaking Misleading Info
Show HN: Techcrunch data 2005-2012
It's certainly not retribution, I posted that story and I think it's interesting - and then it turned into a TC story!

Refer.ly recently pivoted - in fact every stat about our business is on the front page of our site. We aren't raising Series A, we have ~18 months of runway left at our current burn.
I'd assume it's probably easier to iterate and test without worrying if your ridiculously expensive robot is going to fall on it's face. Even something small like friction with the clothes or binding of cloth in a servo/joint could cause it to fall, I suppose.

I'm sure they wanted their proof of concept out just to be the first robot with clothes, but just didn't want to risk damage.
Your dealings with the company that coerced every concert venue in your major metro area to accept contracts that prevented them from booking concerts through anybody but Ticketmaster so that they could continue to collect nonsensical exorbitant handling fees were better than your dealings with EA, because you didn't like one of EA's games?
Why VCs Love The Bitcoin Market
It will change the way you think about the world
Wow, this is the most uninformed post I have ever read on HN.
1. Government investments in alternative energy have been extraordinarily successful:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10165
To quote:
"the report examines 17 R&D programs in energy efficiency and 22 programs in fossil energy funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). These programs yielded economic returns of an estimated $40 billion from an investment of $13 billion."

B. The Department of Energy's loan program has been an overwhelming success; failure rates have been lower than expected.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/21/1038907/-Solyndra-a...

C. Electric cars have an overall lower carbon footprint than gasoline vehicles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicle#Air_po...

And, you are missing the whole point. As the grid becomes completely generated by renewable, then the carbon footprint of electric vehicles will be drastically reduced.
Between this and their Big Dog project hurling concrete blocks around, I feel mildly worried...

http://hackaday.com/2013/03/29/bigdog-throwing-cinder-blocks...
The developer is considered to be a senior and I'm paying a little over $20 per hour.

Heh.
Multiplatform C++ on the Web with Emscripten (GDC presentation)
Yes. But it hasn't somehow on Mac, because I have been reading it's already there on Windows(never tried myself though).
I'm a designer who knows how to code (or more accurately: a coder who knows how to design).

When I am mocking and laying things out, it's much faster to use Photoshop because it's easier to just drag objects around instead of tweaking CSS properties (at this point I'm mostly just dragging around and resizing vectors/shapes/photos/text to get them in the right size/position).

After I'm pretty satisfied with the layout I will go into vim or Sublime Text and start hammering out the actual design in CSS. I find tweaking CSS properties and refreshing my browser to be at least as productive as editing layer styles in Photoshop (if not more productive). Features of CSS like gradients, borders, opacity, shadows, etc. actually make it a very reasonable environment for quickly iterating on designs (especially when paired with SASS/Compass or LESS). Plus it saves you a step (it's gonna need to be coded sometime anyway...). YMMV
If we're debating what the 'taker' should do, then the moral issue applies.

But if we're debating if the 'taker' should be punished (as in the original post), then the legal question applies. It may be wrong to abuse the opportunity, depending on the circumstances, but it would be far more wrong to put the person in jail for doing something the vendor implicitly seemed to allow.
Like a business
Pinterest itself is built on Django as well.
Whatever you pay your taxes in will be used to finance a war.
He is using a hack to store the GitHub pages.
That this is even possible is due to the awesomeness of git.
Since it is a hack, you have to be careful what you're doing.
He should have done all the gh-pages stuff in a separate clone. The GitHub instructions where he pasted the branch creation commands from also tells you to do just that.
Keep the pages branch in a clone of the repo inside the repo, just in a folder called 'docs'. You'll never have to mess with these branches, as you can generate docs, commit and push from a Makefile.
And this is why reading only 2/3 of an article and assuming the conclusion is generally a bad idea :)