skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The events in Boston are tragic, but this stoking of mass hysteria around them is not that great either. I find it hard to believe that someone like John McCain, who had no problem with dropping bombs from his plane onto Vietnamese civilians [1], is so terrified by three civilian deaths at the hands of low-tech [2], deluded criminals. The big question, of course - possibly bigger than the terrorist act itself - is who benefits from this absurd inflation of the threat's magnitude.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder#Concl...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(projectile)#History
Well, it means the spam gets left online, which is why they're spooging all over everyone's comment systems in the first place.
Crowd’s Video Evidence From Boston Bombing Deputizes Nation
I think that Tim Cook's response is more akin to "respect the complexity of what we're doing here". And could further be taken to speak to the complexity of what any tech company is doing. It's probably hard enough for someone in Tim Cook's position to know the consequences of bumps in the supply chain, let alone some random commenter on HN...
Beautiful APIs: Integrate Stripe & Keen IO in 60 seconds
As another person far, far outside the valley these kinds of stories annoy me too. But, they make it up the list because they get voted up. So we're on a valley centric site, so it's the price we pay.
So.. it's 1999 again?
I have both a Google Now widget AND Google Now launcher. The big blue "Google" button in your drawer?
If there is a worse thing than a blog with no comments, it's a blog with only spam comments.

They're the cobwebs of the internet.
Offer HN: Anyone want fastga.me?
I was going to develop an app with this name, insert excuse, you know the rest.

Free for whoever wants it with a name-cheap account, first come first serve in the comments.

*please don't ask for it to squat or resell it
> they're stuck with new, bad habits to unlearn.

I think the point of this is not to optimize for the sake of optimization but to solve a problem. People have problems and they look for solutions. They try anything that can help once all else fails.
Why 2013 Is An Awesome Year To Start Up
Do it with the Nexus 10 panel! 2560×1600!
AT&T's "You Will" Prophetic Ad from 1993
That sports hack day looks cool, ping me on twitter when you have the next one scheduled!
Costco is probably getting a cut (hence the higher fee), but I'd love to hear some concrete info from Apoorva (the founder), who already commented in this discussion.
Minimalism is Honesty
Green Space Means More for Satisfaction Than a Neighborhood's Average Income
If that is the legal definition of WMD then in this case the law is an ass. When was this legal definition created? Pre or post 9/11? I'm betting post. Do please correct me if I'm wrong. If I am though how come nobody at the time of the Iraq invasion^H liberation sought to point this out? I missed that memo.

And so further down the Orwellian tunnel of language distortion we go: if we (the good guys of course) do it then it's collateral damage and enhanced interrogation; if they (those evil scum) do it then it's weapons of mass destruction.

I think when people hear WMD they take it to mean nuclear chemical and biological weapons capable of killing thousands in an instant or very short space of time. There is no way anyone seriously considers an IED of any crappy variety to be a WMD no matter how it is deployed or what the intent behind the murders is.

But yeah, let's keep on barreling down that road, let's see where it'll take us.

EDIT: as anigbrowl points out the answer is pre: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5591399
Also interestingly mass in this sense means indiscriminate as opposed to targeted. I don't know is it just me or were others under the impression that mass meant on a massive scale. It certainly seems to have been used in that sense in the run-up to Iraq 2003 at which time it entered the public lexicon. And as I say I don't remember any legal-heads piping up to correct the misconception.
In your case, I would try content marketing. Create a blog with short, but smart analysis made using your app.

Kissmetrics' blog style: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/

Two or three posts a week, several tweets a day always re-announcing all your posts; posts not dated, looking like a library of expert essays; post with lists and "definitive guides".

I am studying to become a growth hacker, if you want to talk, contact me.
How Did the World's Rich Get That Way? Luck
Since this is about startups, where there is usually a sizeable chunk of equity to go with the salary, it would be useful to get that figure as well.
Allen Iverson, NBA icon, struggles with life after basketball
Rereading my comment, I was going to add an edit about examples. PG's two Lisp books have non-trivial examples, among them PROLOG in Lisp and an inference engine. Seibel's Practical Common Lisp also contains reasonable examples - though not as full blown as PG's.

My gut tells me that the Cpp book market is mature. Clojure is a language where one could combine the literary tradition of Lisp with the sobriety of the Java shop.
Slideshows = Future of Internet Communication
Why teenagers really do need an extra hour in bed
Spectral Challenge: A Crowdfunded Prize By Public Laboratory
Being Famous May Shorten Your Life
I'm not. It takes a long time to make it through a Costco, and the higher cost may simply be passing on the extra labor cost to customers. Also I think the distance to travel would be longer on average than, for example, Safeway.
How Much Food Does $5 Buy Around The World
Former Costco employee here - nope. A lot of the point of the store is reselling large items to small companies. Not many families need gallon jugs of butter or 100lbs bags of rice, but tons of restaurants do.

That being said, the reselling is normally for people who do something with it (ie cook the food, print with the ink, etc), not turn around and sell the exact same product.
Wonder if anyone has tried finding out where his room was and removing layers to reveal his painting?
Because the comment, when approved, can affect their website negatively.

If you are the trusted authority/advisor (for a mother/client/etc) then you should let them know.
Google Now may actually be the iGoogle replacement you’ve been waiting for
Only if you let them see your traffic. What's the problem with going SSL-only? Are there really firewalls/gateways that don't let HTTPS traffic through?
As somebody who's built analytics around a few massive-scale consumer goods companies, let me tell you: If you think you understand a company's supply chain as an outsider, you don't know the first thing about supply chains.
When I lived in the Mission the guys who ran the bodega across the street bought half the stuff they sold from the SOMA Costco.
> Stand-ups are great but they have some major flaws: they're synchronous, everyone needs to be in the room (or on the phone), and often after the meeting much of the content is lost

That pretty much nails it. I'll admit though I hate standups. Any value it has as a concept is completely lost in its practice.
While the resources on my site for the specific topic of meteor aren't too extensive, here are a few more:

http://pineapple.io/resources?utf8=%E2%9C%93&e=meteor
That's a bad argument against an API, spammy apps are going to spam no matter what.

A Google Now API would be awesome.
"Reselling against their membership agreement"?! Uh, not likely - I think half of the corner stores, and most of the low-end restaurants and delis, around here buy at least some of their inventory from Costco.

I'm guessing Costco's business is at least somewhat dependent on having successful resellers buy from Costco!
We believe slideshows are the future of Internet communication. They force the author to be brief and they are highly engaging, which we believe is a winning formula for most content online. What do you guys think?
Yoda teaches APIs
Let's Fix David Henneberry's Boat
The Btfrs and Reiser4 filesystems also support transparent compression and might currently be a better alternative to increase Postgresql query speed.
Btfrs supports gzip, LZO, LZ4 and Snappy and is in the mainline linux kernel, Reiser4 is still maintained and available as a patch on Linux 3.8.5 (latest is 3.8.8) and supports LZO and gzip (alternatively there are also the embedded NAND flash medium compatible filesystems F2FS and UBIFS which both improve on the JFFS2 filesystem and it's transparent compression).
For I/O bound queries SSD drives (in your preferred raid configuration) also will speed up the system. Btfrs has built-in support for TRIM SSD already, Reiser4 TRIM/SSD support is being discussed among the remaining developers.
I tested that, too. But I always ended up wasting too much time. I have a base salary of n. If their initial estimate is under that, then I move on. I only talk to those who can at least pay n. Otherwise, its a waste of time. I adopted this system after I wasted a couple of days interviewing with a technical advisor (this title is now a red flag for me).
Costco executive membership offers 2% rebate on everything you buy - this is probably a non-trivial source of revenue for Instacart.
Reddit Apologizes For Leading Boston Bomber 'Witch Hunt'
Hacking Sublime Text 2 for faster Rails project navigation
Looks like a powerful tool. I can't wait to get home and try it.

Side notes:

Activation page has a typo. If you din't receive the activation email, please use the form below to resend the email. Missing a 'd' on "didn't".

Also the landing page's password box shows plain text.
Rooted in doesn't mean intrinsically limited to. Apple and Google are also rooted in the Valley in the sense that their original users were here. But anything sufficiently good becomes ubiquitous.

And incidentally, Instacart may well be such a thing. The effect it's had on my life is almost entirely a function of having small children rather than being part of the startup world.
For me, the point of a standup meeting is to spark conversations; the status information everyone reports is really secondary and a convenient excuse to get everyone face-to-face and talking. And this type of interaction happens much more easily when everyone is in the same location at the same time.
Many enterprise proxies provide certificates for the clients machines so they can process HTTPS as well.
> but that everyone knows everyone else heard it.

How about simply having a company policy that everyone should MVCC their decisions based on received email "transactions"? I.e., if someone sends out an email, then everyone else MUST (in the RFC sense of MUST) read it and digest it before making any new decisions. It still operates asynchronously--you can finish whatever you were head-down working on before checking your email--but you have to check it before you move on to whatever comes after that.

Or, in more cynical terms: fire everyone who ignores these emails until the problem corrects itself.
How to Interpret Apple's Revenue on Tuesday
I find it hilarious. Apparently I'm supposed to go home from work at 11am!

Timezones Google.
It was created in 1994, as anigbrowl mentions in another comment, also going into detail on why the categorical definition makes sense.
AngularJS Fundamentals in 60-ish Minutes
I've heard this comment from a number of people, thanks for posting. I agree, an aggregate of bloggers/writer alongside player tweets would be a nice added value, thinkin' on it.
The canonical way to benefit positively from unanticipated random events is to buy volatility. There are many ways to do this - long delta hedged put/call options, long straddles/strangles, long butterflies etc. But perhaps the easiest way is to buy VIX futures.

Unfortunately, if you had a passive long investment in VIX futures since March 2004 (the earliest you could trade them) you would steadily have lost money - despite huge gains in the latter half of 2008 (and to a lesser extent in other periods).

The market is well aware that insurance-like products are useful, and so they are priced accordingly. Buying volatility is expensive.

The short vol "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller strategy" comes with the risk that you could be completely wiped out in a crisis. This happened to a lot of desks and funds practicing vol arb in 2008. But the flip side is that if you want to buy vol, you need to be able to absorb the punishing losses that can persist for years before you get to the big wins.
I never would have guessed this was a problem for some people, it has not gotten my wrong yet.
There is hope for WebDAV SEARCH, the semantic idempotent alternative to POSTing complex queries which don't fit into GET query params.
Startup Reviews April 2013
Why is that Clojure is consistently slower in the Alioth Benchmarks game [1], but Compojure is consistently faster the Play-scala?

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
Hey thanks man! ESPN has a handful of open apis that I'm using, mainly the atheltes and teams resources. Check out the full list at http://developer.espn.com/docs
Until you have 20-30 joins for a single query, and it takes forever to return simple results against what should be a really simple query/search.
I like VSRE for composition as well as response efficiency.

Many email guides recommend short emails. But it can take more time to craft a pithy missive than a longer explanatory FYI note with a question at the end that needs responding to.

I'm not suggesting that we don't take care in writing emails, but no one wants to spend all day editing emails to some arbitrary standard of brevity anymore than they do answering them.

VSRE. Brilliant convention.
I had four or five examples ready to go, but I didn't say them because I know people working on each of them :)

The startup fad that caught me was a phone app that helps you meet strangers near you. I thought I was being unique and clever, but then a hundred other startups came out in the space and failed spectacularly. The only one that survived was grindr.
Ubuntu 13.04 Review: Boring. And that's a great thing.
Ugh I can't even look at the Instacart page without having to sign in. I don't even live in the valley, I just wanted to check out their page.
A Simple Weather App for Data Nerds
Go ahead chat up that attractive person - Carol Syndrome
Add a Leap Motion device to the mix...
Cheers man - from a fellow Canadian.
Yes, and those are exactly the rambling 30 minute standups everyone hates.
Hurry up and come to Seattle!
Let Tesla Try Selling Its Own Cars
Tracing With Your Smartphone
Jacob Holdt Photos of New York City 1965-1995
A Cancer Genomics Arms Race Is Underway
It is a good thing I don't eat money!! There are plenty of fat programmers out there that program just as well as the skinny ones.
Do You Have A Big Data Problem?
I guess this could be done with http://roll20.net/ but I haven't actually tried playing cards with that software.
No, no, and no. A 15-minute standing meeting is much more efficient. Mandating daily email check-ins means developer time would be wasted writing these emails, and everyone's time is then wasted reading these emails and then participating in the ensuing off-topic discussion threads spawned from each email.

A scrum-master's job is remove impediments, and thereby allowing developers to concentrate on development. Mandating that developers generate and then participate in a lot of email noise is counterproductive.
Oh my god. If this includes berry ice cream delivery I will be a happy man.
Thanks for that. You are right, of course.
Couldn't that apply in many criminal cases? If we didn't have to read a drug dealer his rights, and could use torture we might be able to get actionable intelligence on their cartel, or a child molestors network, etc...
Free Statistical Consulting at Stanford
I always wish HTTP Accept was widely used to present alternate formats and presented to users in a nicer way. It basically solves all this kerfuffle, it seems oft forgotten outside of XML/JSON/HTML in api's though sadly.
"Turbo shots" or "red eyes" in your coffee are a placebo btw. Espresso has a lower concentration of caffeine than standard drip. So by putting a "turbo shot" in your cup, you're actually lowering the caffeine concentration.

Wants to be hyper-rational and metric-aware about his sleep but didn't know anything about caffeine?

Okay.
Another 10 direct emails alonng with cross-posts and threaded conversations is exactly what I don't need to get out of a stand-up.
I couldn't agree more. This has worked wonders for a lot of people I know. I'm going to update the post so that it mentions this. Thanks! :)
مشاهدة مباراة ريال مدريد وبوروسيا دورتموند
Bluecoat is an example of a very common transparent proxy that handles SSL traffic.
James Altucher Lists All The Cringeworthy Mistakes He's Made
Here here. I also can't wait until more developers realize what a terrible UX fixed position UI pieces that follow you as you scroll are for mobile. They reduce viewing area and resize with pinch-zoom to take up even more space. JIRA and the tweet idea site posted yesterday are two examples that immediately come to mind.

Folks: if you want to have fixed UI elements, that's cool, but then please provide a mobile site version without them.
Thanks. Will look into that next week
What does the 2nd amendment have to do with anything?
Weekly Digest 10 - The most interesting links from .NET community
Yes, this. Many small businesses and restaurants use and resell products from Costco.
Twisted Python: The engine of your Internet
Another issue is that ZFS is extremely aggressive with caching data in ram (L1ARC). That can eat up memory you'd rather give to the database heap and also tends to skew benchmarks.
More information and a less fluffy title would have been welcome. I'm just as interested in impressive photos of volcanic activity when it doesn't pretend to have something to do with Tolkien's (admittedly very good) books.
All eyes on Oculus Rift, the VR headset with a 20:20 vision of gaming's future
Is it possible? Yes. Is it easy? No. How do you do it? If I had a magic formula for that, I'd be rich. But...

There is a large body of work "out there" on competitive strategy, differentiation, positioning, market segmentation, etc. I hate to say "go off and read this list of 15 books" but I don't think I can do justice to this topic in a HN comment. So, I will, indeed, just give you a list of books to consider.

Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore

The Four Steps To The Epiphany - Steve Blank

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind - Al Ries, Jack Trout and Philip Kotler

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - Al Ries, Jack Trout

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding - Al Ries, Laura Ries

REPOSITIONING: Marketing in an Era of Competition, Change and Crisis - Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin

Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition - Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant - W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne

Understanding Michael Porter - Joan Magretta

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Richard Rumelt

Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile: Use the 36 Ancient Chinese Strategies to Seize the Competitive Edge - Kaihan Krippendorf

Outthink the Competition - Kaihan Krippendorf

Competitive Strategy - Michael Porter

Competitive Advantage - Michael Porter

On Competition - Michael Porter

Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value With Customers - C. K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy

Yeah, it's a lot of stuff. I won't say you need to read all of that, but everyone of those books is something that's influenced my thinking, and that I've learned a lot from. If I had to pick one to start with, I'd say the Steve Blank book - The Four Steps to the Epiphany. He does a pretty good job of giving an overview of market segmentation strategies, which you'll probably want to pursue if you're entering a crowded market.

After reading Blank, I'd go for Crossing the Chasm next, then the whole series by Trout, Ries and Rivskin, etc. The Michael Porter stuff is good, but somewhat dry and academic. The Understanding Michael Porter book is a good introduction to his stuff that is a little easier to digest.

Also note a subtle, but important point... there are two different kinds of "positioning* you'll hear people talk about in these kinds of discussions. On the one hand, you have "marketing positioning" as described in the books by Ries, Trout, et al. This is more about the message you send to the market about your firm and your offerings. Then you have Michael Porter "structural positioning" stuff that relates to how your firm "fits" in with your competitors vis-a-vis the "five forces" and the rest of Porterian strategic analysis. One will influence the other, but they are really two different things. Note that anytime somebody starts telling you anything about your "positioning".

And then you have what Bob Parsons (of GoDaddy fame) said "Don't be afraid to enter a crowded market, just be better than everybody else".
when the daily, morning status meeting started being referred toas 'the stand-up', concepts got blurred.

a meeting is held as a stand-up in order to encourage brevity.

so the poster is looking for alternatives to morning status meetings, not stand-up meetings.

stand-up meetings are just fine. thankyouverymuch
Having typed my previous comment on my phone, I think I'd like to expand on what I was feeling:

When I read HN, I think of it as a place for news that appeals to the mind of a "hacker". That's the "box" that it inhabits in my mind.

When I see posts like this one though, I'm reminded that there's a very large bias towards things going on in a relatively small area or set of areas (SF, NYC, Boston, Austin, maybe Seattle). I think my feelings on seeing this post are just facing the reality of these natural biases.

Also, I'd like to say that these biases aren't a bad thing. It's natural when lots of people with the same interests live in just a few places. But it does exist, and it gives me a bit of a mental jolt when I run across them.

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Also, I agree with the sentiment that "anything sufficiently good will become ubiquitous." I've live(d) in the Seattle area all my life, and services like Amazon Fresh are wonderful for more than just people living the startup lifestyle.
I don't think that's true.
A 16 oz Starbucks coffee has 330mg, while a 2oz Starbucks espresso has 150mg. So the espresso has 4x as much caffeine per ounce.

(http://www.cspinet.org/new/cafchart.htm)
Placing limits on ARC (25% for me currently) limits that effect.
JS Objects: Inherited a Mess
How do you figure the last version I used was 2.3? The Sensation I currently own has 4.0.

And, I actually really liked the Nexus and the G1. I hate my ICS-equipped current Android phone. The older versions of Android were great; it's the newer version that has disappointed me.
I spent years as an executive compensation consultant both creating and analyzing salary surveys for the world's largest companies.

What it teaches you is that:
1. Never use averages, always use medians
2. Sample sizes are critical, and anything below 5 samples you just can't trust (ideally 30, as the Central Limit Theorem suggests)
3. Garbage in, garbage out: if you don't know the population of the sample, then you can't trust the output (i.e., how many employees, what's the revenue run rate, what's the user growth look like, what's the valuation and how many funding rounds, etc).

I love the spirit of this data, but based on the core principles outlined above, you can't hang your hat on this data.

In software engineering land, not knowing these three principles is like not knowing the principles of MVC.
I'm guessing there is no agreement with Costco since there was no response from "apoorvamehta" who has answered questions in this thread.
Does anyone know if there is some company I could send off a schematic of the adapter he uses and have one sent to me? (This would be UK, but I have no idea what term I'm searching for to get a single circuit board made)