skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rock! I've been hoping for something like this for some time. Bought it instantly.

One thing I have not yet figured out how to do is find issues that have no milestone set. Is that possible?
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Snakes here: mamba, taipan, rattlesnake and viper so far.

At work we use British fighter jets. Unfortunately, unlike the US, the British have pretty lame fighter jet names ('puffin', for example).

Just pick something with a lot of cool sounding names - makes announcing server changes way more badass.
The "Dropbox Alternative" marketing line seems to really be what's confusing people... this is not Dropbox.

You have to have a source always online, there's no third party service sitting in the cloud syncing all of your computers, it passes that responsibilty onto the user. That said, I'm surprised they aren't trying to "consumerize" this into a hardware product.

Space Monkey has seen a ton of success recently and are well beyond their funding goal on Kickstarter(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clintgc/space-monkey-tak...). The thing that immediately came to mind for me is that this is really a job for Bittorrent.

A NAS device makes complete sense and if they could build a better experience around that, similar to what Space Monkey is doing, seems like a huge opportunity.
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Perhaps that actually may be where BT's headed to once they decide to take this out of alpha. Paid storage service for BT Sync that augments sync service.

I particularly like BT Sync that it doesn't require "account" to use.
We got a winner. The previous place I've been was like estimate estimate, guess what, they never ship anything compared to a startup that does no estimates.
There is RLDRAM, but I've heard that it's expensive.
The Weight of Impostor Syndrome
This is in the books. It's tricky to do it on the cluster and has perf implications, but it is doable and we have a design for that.
Entropy law linked to intelligence
Not "massive". The empty stage is very light, so a little propellant goes a long way. It's less than 10% of the fuel for the entire descent phase (and the optimal upper stage length goes up to compensate somewhat).
I think it's the generic formula of "a great developer has these traits: <list of all traits self has>".

I know I fall into the trap, too.

I love projects, but I hate working on them thinking they could get me my next job. Sometimes I just want to take a private protocol apart and see how it ticks.
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I would like to extend my personal appreciate to the developer for not using the word "beautiful" anywhere in the product copy. Thank you.
>YC itself takes just a few percent of the company

Typically around 6% at that stage.
In a situation like this the picture is the seller.

From the screenshot it looks like the UI is very nice, but the picture isn't big enough for me to take it all in and reinforce what my gut is leaning toward.

For me, I just want to see bigger pictures of the actual interface and that would be enough to pick a direction.
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...middlebrow... characteristic signature of uncharitability... crosses over into mistakenness.

This is honestly why I sometimes have a hard time taking YC seriously... your essays are really informative and insightful, and YC does and sponsors some really cool things, but the inability to either neutrally run a web forum or stay hands-off instead of jumping in with borderline flames when HN or YC engenders any kind of negative feedback puts a dent in that good impression.
I'm aware of that, but this kind of provision (chargebacks cancel access to service) have been around for quite some time. I think I'd have heard about it if they'd been challenged successfully.
Go language PATENTS file
Activision U.K. PR executive pleads guilty to embezzling Call of Duty money
Images that are 2048x2048 and below don't consume space on Google drive.
ssh myid@myhomecomputer.net -D 8080

tsocks will cover any apps that can't use proxies
I'd be curious where you find these customers that don't care when something gets done. I have yet to find them.
Agreed, we need to get advertising booked months in advance, we need to source materials 16 weeks in advance, book production two months, etc. If you aren't dealing in serious marketing and tangible products then you can release whenever you like!
Thank you for the feedback! I'm aware of the private org repo issue, and I'm looking into it. Hope you're enjoying it so far!
Of the supported languages, I only know PHP so I can't comment on the others. (and I don't really care what name/logo it uses) It looks like pretty clean work. However, this task has never really been a problem for me in PHP so I'm not likely to use it. But kudos to the author for trying to help out fellow programmers. And good luck.
Well launching rockets is nothing I know anything about. My post is dealing with teams shipping software products
What does it even mean to add $6.1 bn of value? It's not as if the alternative was to put $6.1 bn in a heap and burn it. They've included staff - would they all have been unemployed otherwise? There's lots of data but no meaning here. What, in this case, is "economic value"?
Can't hear anyone else over the sound of the Ruby people...
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This way lets you do it for files hosted somewhere you don't have control of.
Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'll make sure I add a "No Milestone" filter in the next update.
You mean UI not UX, the difference will be crucially important to you.

When inviting informed review of an app, it's useful to outline the design brief.

Given the number and nature of the UI issues reported by other HNers, you might be interested in making use of the resources offered by http://www.usability.gov.

Lastly, I'm a little surprised that your prior user tests didn't give you any hint of the degree of failure, you might want to take a closer look at your user testing process.
Perhaps the best thing about this is that you released a "good enough" (not PERFECT) first product.

Too many people don't try because they don't have the resources to make their apps as awesome as they want it to be right out of the gate.

Just get it out there. If people find it useful it'll gain traction and you'll get the resources you need to make it awesome.
This was the best answer so far.
Guardian and Colossus
I agree, make the logo, um, I mean screenshot bigger!
Since this is a small library the name should be descriptive. Unicorn and all the other animal names are fun, but should probably be reserved for large projects that aren't small building blocks.

Reading through the site I'm reminded of 5th Element's 'multipass'. You get a common REST syntax to transfer data across several languages. Playing off that could be fun; Multirest, Multiquest, etc.

Also, something with the Babel fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) could work; Babelrest, Babelquest...
There's no useful feedback.

"I don't like it" or "I think it's pretentious" is a useless post.
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Agreed.

And for the record, my Github repository is the antithesis of "prolific," and I generally have more cash in my pocket than I do SO reputation. :)

Luckily I am busy enough that I don't have time for any side projects for the next few weeks, but perhaps soon I will be able to toss up some Arduino or C# code.
To save everyone some copy/pasting, they've all been redeemed :)
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You are selfish
I personally see YC's equity stake as a "fee" companies with young or un-networked founders will pay to gain law/financial/sales-lead networks to leverage.

In a vacuum, the trade works best for young founding teams and the value decreases as the team gets older (age typically does correlate with your leveragable network size).
It is? https://twitter.com/dshaw/status/326795177584914432
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I solve this by quoting a price between $xx and $xx, taking 50% of the smaller amount and then if the job takes longer than I estimated I have some room to charge more at the end.
Got your point, but web app is a different story. I want to simply put the paid app on the app store.

The thing is, it is not only for the submission, but one needs to have, for instance, address, bank account... So you would have to ask your friend quite often, which is not comfortable and scalable.

EDIT:
@ambiate - Sorry, didn't get your question, could you please clarify.
I imagine if you were to test that then the PDF rendering would actually be significantly faster than HTML, since OS X's rendering is all PostScript under the covers.
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No it won't, the market is too large. This is not a option opportunity after all.

Someone(s), made a LOT of money today. More than you or I will ever make in a lifetime.
That was the promise of aerospike engines, but they have their own problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospike_engine
Apple's own tutorials and videos are quite good. They are available once you become a paid ADC member.

Hillegass's book is what most people use, but it's slightly dated at the moment. I actually prefer Ray Wenderlich's material these days. Once you get advanced, Mike Ash's Friday Q&A is a great resource.

Video wise, the Stanford iOS course on iTunes U is great, but I'm not sure how up to date it is.
The README says encoded data can be written directly to an XML attribute or text-value with no escaping, but I think that's wrong based on the encoding table in base91x.cpp . It looks like encoded output can contain & and ' , both of which are problematic when written to XML without escaping.
Unlike previous versions, OpenCL 2.0 been shown to only be about 30%[1] slower than CUDA and can approach comparable performance given enough optimisation.

Since I am working on code generation of Kernels to perform dynamic tasks, I can't afford to write at the lowest level available. (I'm accelerating Python/Ruby routines though so OpenCL gives a significant bonus without much pain at all.)

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2066955 (Sorry about the paywall, I access through University VPN)
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Honestly, I really don't think BTSync should be compared to dropbox, it sends the wrong message. When people say 'dropbox alternative' people immediately think "Oh cool, so it can do everything dropbox can do?" Which we all know isn't the case here.

The best thing about BTSync is it's basically zero configuration. I have it running on 10 of my boxes so far, and it's working amazingly. Far better than dropbox -- however, I only need it to sync files between hardware, not for anything else, like photo sharing, or advanced configuration based sharing. I just want file A, to be on all configured servers.

TL;DR: Don't compare BTSync to Dropbox, it's not a dropbox alternative. It's something completely different, entirely.
Paul, MuadDib and Usul?
Ask HN: DNS service with an api
What's a good DNS hosting solution that has a good, straightforward api. (I find route53 to be an api headache)
I'm 28 and it guessed 29. My girlfriend is 21 and got 31, looks like the approximations all feel like they're very close to 30.
…or not deploying when it should.
I agree it's hard to do really detailed research similar to, say, the Google Keyword Tool. It's mostly a gut check. "Does this have a lot of competition? Does this keyword appear to get a lot of searches?"

What's your app name?
Congrats, folks!
If you don't mind me asking, what's your job and where do you live?
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It's dropbox but without all the features that creep the fuck out of me and that I need to carefully disable or block.

Dropbox for privacy minded people if you will.
Developers should be able to write well to communicate how products work to others.
Is there anyone interested in cloud sync for its own sake? In other words, if the entire thing works seamlessly and identically in-house, and assuming a disciplined backup strategy, is there anybody going "But if it were in someone else's data center, that'd be so much better!"

BT sync sounds like a complete replacement for dropbox for people with the skills and willingness to set it up.
You don't need to make "retirement levels of money" on one trade, because if you're caught, you'll be paying it all back and spend your retirement in jail.

In fact, isn't it fairly safe to assume that the SEC will spend a good deal of resources looking into any unusual trading patterns around this dip?
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Google activists try to sabotage Google Glass auction
Oh, it's "unlimited storage" because it's remotely accessing your computer, so your computer is the storage. An interesting workaround.
Cool. I'll reach out to him on twitter. Looks like he's quite popular. Thanks very much for the tip!
>they solve a problem it doesn't have by design.

This is where you're incorrect. Not having to accelerate the empty first stage to orbital speed (and back!) is a huge fuel savings.
Apple reports $9.5 billion second quarter profit
So called "two-factor" authentication on the internet pretty much means entering two different passwords. I've never seen anyone attempt anything more complicated than making people remember what ultimately amounts to yet another password. Certainly not on a free website.

But even financial websites pretty much provide a dumb questionnaire list with challenges like "what was your first dog's favorite color?" to which you can choose any kind of text string as a response ("bark" for example).

Does anyone honestly believe that these things provide additional security? It's like the TSA frisky-crotch-grope of authentication.
Happy to pay $5 for such a needed product. Thanks.
I assume you work in tech? I've encountered many "maladjusted" people in tech--I don't think a disproportionate share of them were asian. The only "maladjustment" I have encountered disproportionately among asians, awkwardness with women, has more to do with conservative cultural attitudes about sex and dating than anything to do with parents spending too much time at work or not giving them enough attention.

Besides that, the other stuff is racism or at least ethnocentrism. Contemporary American culture places a weird value on being "well rounded" that is alien both to asian culture and to American culture of years past. That's where a lot of the pressure on parents to invest time comes from--gotta take little Timmy to soccer practice and school plays so he'll be "well rounded." Gotta invest the time to help him cultivate a wide range of interests and hobbies, get involved in the community, etc. It's an upper-class pretension that harkens back to the days when having a variety of hobbies and interests was the mark of the elite who didn't have to work for a living.
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Also IcoMoon for generating icon fonts: http://icomoon.io
Note that the amount raised is typically meant for a small team of people to work on things for a few months.

Most YC companies go on to raise several hundred thousand dollars from angel investors and VC's at the end of the three months -- some raise millions. The $15K-$20K (plus $80K YC VC program) is enough money to get to market and prove people want it. It's also enough money to change your idea and try something else if your initial tries do not work.
CUDA code is GPU only, OpenCL can run on both CPU and GPU. There are limits so it isn't all win, but it means you don't have to implement twice.
Likewise. Machine names are there to make your life easier. Cute names aren't fun when you have more than a couple. When your brain's as small as mine, you have to minimize your lookups.
The number of deaths by cigarettes, cars, fatty food, etc. etc. already far outnumbers the deaths by guns.

Are you suggesting we should ban those too?
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I blogged about this in some detail this morning.

http://www.dbms2.com/2013/04/23/memsql-scales-out/
Amazon woos Indian developers
Dropbox is the only cloud sync client that I've found so far that has decent support for hosting TrueCrypt containers. It's unfortunate that my particular use case is so narrow because I can't really consider something to be a dropbox replacement unless it:

1) has a fully supported client on Windows, OS X and Linux

2) has that capability to sync with mobile devices

3) uses the native file system apis available on each platform to avoid doing scans on large numbers of files looking for changes by the last modified timestamp (so I don't have to disable the TrueCrypt feature that avoids updating the timestamp on containers)

4) transmits only the changed content of the file instead of the entire file (so I don't have to transmit the entire TrueCrypt container when only some blocks in the container have been modified)

Has anyone ran across a service that would allow me to utilize TrueCrypt volumes as easily as DropBox does across the major desktop operating systems?
I do to, and all 5 of them make more money as part of the regular operation of the markets than they would as part of some Jerry Bruckheimer movie plot.
This is indeed a great technology. The "push" analog to the original BitTorrent's "pull". But there's also potential for abuse (or greater freedom depending on how you look at it!). Say I create a sync folder containing a bunch of popular films and then widely distribute the read-only key. Thousands subscribe. Now I have access to what amounts to a botnet that will widely distribute whatever content I see fit to deposit, more or less untraceably because the P2P network is so huge, and I or my co-conspirators can insert or retrieve content from any part of it.
>once it's cleared out most of the Earth's gravitational pull

There's about 90% as much gravity at the altitude of the ISS.

It's the atmosphere (and associated gravity drag), not the 1/r^2 scaling, that does it.
The risks of everything except cars and guns are opt-in, and cars are heavily regulated.
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This is really great. I like how on Linux, you can have it run from either a web interface or a (quite simple) .json config file.
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Still no excuse.

I've educated multiple vendors on the subject. E.g., see the last point on http://www.strategicmessaging.com/marketing-communications-t... :)
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Pizza Hutt used to do something similar with school programs back in the South East US. Kids that participated in a reading program got a free personal pizza. I forget all of the details since i was in 2nd or 3rd grade at the time, but along with bringing more people in for the free part, it also got a lot of people in just because they were supporting a program like that.
A lot of people know the cost of everything and the value of nothing...
Why companies are still deploying iOS apps first
RhodeCode started as a Mercurial tool but it now also support Git.

http://pythonhosted.org/RhodeCode/usage/git_support.html
Unicorn (the http library) will change its name
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DIY Lytro / refocusable image
Yes, if we note that there are core niches where nobody will replace kdb+ any time soon.
Having been an alum before, I feel confident in saying, as hooande mentions in another thread, that the program itself is unlike getting invested in by any other investor. If you get funded by other angels or VC's, you have little real relationship built beyond that of you with the partner or angel.

On the other hand, at YC, when we needed help with our Series A, we got to talk to James Lindenbaum of Heroku, who taught us the ins-and-outs. When we needed to launch, we could talk to Alexis Ohanian who created Reddit (and interviewed us) and knows a thing or two about launching consumer sites. YC batchmates help each other and pay it forward when we become alums.

Few people do it these days for the money itself. One trend we see of late is companies who have already raised seed rounds, often from already prominent angel investors, opt to go through YC because it's a multiplier on their ability to execute -- they're more motivated, they focus more on the right things, have access to a hugely powerful network of alums, make deep lasting connections with batchmates, and then get a multiplier on their valuation at Demo Day.

I don't see age as the determining factor. Even for people who already have networks (I was an early engineer at Palantir, Stanford grad) it was useful to greatly increase the number of smart people I knew and trusted. (See Metcalfe's law.)
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>Those people are overpaying for the service, and that makes them more money than opening up HBO Go would.

You and HBO are assuming that the number of people who would join HBO Go without a cable subscription isn't going to be greater than the number of people who would drop cable to just get HBO Go. It's just a guess.
IBM solar collector magnifies sun by 2,000x, costs 3x less than similar systems
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224 photos?

I need a solution for on the order of 40,000... for which Flickr is perfect, since there is no storage limit, just a very small flat fee.
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For anything serious I'd go with a numbering scheme, see [1] for examples and ideas. If it has to be names, the elements of the periodic system seem to be somewhat popular, see [2] for more lists.

Apart from that:
I named my second computer[3] after a character from a book I was reading at the time. I didn't yet know it was the villain when I chose the name, so the name was not what I intended it to be. I stuck with the convention anyway.

It's always from a book I am currently reading or I have read recently and most of the time I choose the villains.
Because virtual machines need names as well and I create them faster than I can read books I allowed characters from movies for anything virtual.

The nice thing about it is that it connects the machines to a period of my life (when I was reading a certain book or seeing a movie for the first time).

[1] http://serverfault.com/questions/17274/
[2] http://namingschemes.com/
[3] My first computer was a C64 and had no name, other than C64:-)
Here at Chess.com we name them after Chess grandmasters (go figure). Capablanca, Glek, Krush, and so on.
Ask HN: Connecting places. Connecting people. Connecting things.
Telecommunications has been evolving from connecting physical places through fixed line telephones, connecting people through the mobile phone and now the new frontier: connecting things. What cool things are happening in the device to device communication space?
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Yeah, it's from Battle for Wesnoth (www.wesnoth.org), all of their core artwork is GPL2 licensed. If I remember right, there is some talk in their forums encouraging other open source games to use their artwork. If you are interested you ought to look around their community for the right person to ask permission.

EDIT: Found a related forum discussion: http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=34892&...
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How is investing in stocks not a glorified form of gambling?

When you buy a stock, and it goes down in price a few months later, the experts tell you to buy more of it as it goes down, because it'll probably go up in the future.

When you gamble $5 on a blackjack hand, Martingale experts will tell you to gamble $10 on the next hand, and then $20 on the next hand again if you lose the $10 hand.

Both are gambling.
They found aliens so there's no need for SETI any longer. Oh, crap, I let the cat out of the bag.