skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other news, rejected YC applicant[1] calls out PG asking to be a "mole" company[2] which could ruin YC's credibility in the long term with investors and doesn't even make sense - for a startup the OP admits they have been told no one wants and then goes onto try and call out Google Ventures because, YouTube launched a version of it[3] - a completely different version which is better executed as highlighted by the fact that it doesn't require any form of plugin etc (this may come across as harsh but, it's useful feedback - you have added user friction and you should remove as much of it as possible)

If you want to launch a product and succeed, YC doesn't guarantee you success nor does being rejected mean that you are a failure. YC have invested in numerous startups which have failed as well has having some great successes (Heroku, Dropbox, AirBnB, Stripe, OMGPop etc) but they've also missed out on some startups too:

- SendGrid - http://www.sendgrid.com/ (went through TechStars and have raised a series B)

- CouchOne - http://www.couchbase.com/

- AfterTheDeadline - Acquired By Automattic

- Light Sail Energy - http://www.lightsailenergy.com/ - Raised money from Khosla Ventures

- SignPost - https://www.signpost.com/ - Raised $1M off Google Ventures

- MyFit - http://www.myfit.com/ - Raised $1M

- Storenvy - http://www.storenvy.com - although they were kicked out of YC[4] but have recently raised $5M[5]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5420541

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671751

[3] http://www.youtube.com/trendsmap

[4] http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out...

[5] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/12/storenvy-goes-from-getting-...
Can you get Subsonic in somehow for the music streaming? Subsonic is fantastic.
I can't find any documentation and haven't tested it yet but here's a class for a 'tinker' command in the Illuminate (Laravel) sources: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/master/src/Illumin...

'php artisan tinker' on the command line should bring it up.
Spencer is my hero, really.

I'm learning how to program, and I am doing so, so as to get into the business of starting a startup, and he started a startup, and coded to fit into it. Amazed.

Well, Spencer, if you ever get to read this, please answer a few questions for me:

When did you begin writing programs/web design? Like, when did you get from 0 to where you are now, programmably?

What did you use to learn? What documentation/videos/resources?

Where now? Now that you've designed this, do you feel a sense of accomplishment? Do you feel you have SO MUCH MORE to learn or did it fit the purpose you needed it for?

Thanks, congratulations, and good luck!@#
Here's a link to the guide that Ontario doctors use to figure out how much to charge for health care provided to the uninsured (i.e. non-Canadians): http://oscarresourceplone.oscartools.org/OntarioBilling/omat.... It's not a price list, but it gives you a breakdown and shows you what the variables are that are taken into account. This is provided by the Ontario Medical Association.
Another approach is to have compile time checking of overflow or bounded numbers. There's been discussion about the utility of this on the Rust list recently and I wrote up some of my experience with languages that let you do checking: http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/05/07/ranged-integer-types-and...
I think "the reason thing" changing pictures all the time is an inconvenient/annoying distraction. Cool effect but it doesn't help to explain your service at all (neither sells it). Besides I don't need a zillion random reasons, I need ONE good reason to use the product. To find this one good reason, you need to put a lot of effort thinking and iterating, maybe with the aid of A/B Test. But I like the concept and the product, congrats for your launch.
As far as I'm aware most colonists at the time didn't participate, but the complacency is always desired by people in power.

And a lot of slaves and native americans sided with the Royalists and decent portion gained freedom after the war in GB (though many were returned to their masters after the fact), so I think whose side one would take is more complicated than being mere anti-authoritarians.

This crashcourse video points out some of these things: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EiSymRrKI4]

Despite it all, I would say that an oppressive government could use "medical condition" to confiscate weapons, but whether the populous is armed or not has little to do with the oppressive nature upon the governed in any country.
demon (or God) made sport of me with that poem. I take comfort my enemies can be made sport of.

God says...

came to Jerusalem.

23:3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the
house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall
reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.

23:4 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering
on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of
the doors; 23:5 And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a
third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be
in the courts of the house of the LORD.

23:6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests,
and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are
holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

23:7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man
with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the
house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he
cometh in, and when he goeth out.
Fair point. You think hovering over them blocks you from seeing what's there? We also wanted to make them wiggle slightly when you first load the page so you know that there's a hover on rollover.
I guess they just have enormous expenses — tons of people on the payroll, nice offices, etc. — and don't pull in enough advertising revenue to break even.

Losing money isn't hard.
A bit off topic, but I hope this isn't true: Additionally, there won’t be any new colors years from now. The color spectrum of the future will be exactly the same as it is today. It’s neat to think we already have access to the color palettes of the year 3000. The usual sRGB colorspace used by most of the web is a small fraction of visible colors. Don't get me wrong, it covers most use cases just fine, but it would be nice to fill out the rest sometime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB (The colored blobby area represents all the shades the human eye can see, and the little triangle represents the colors in sRGB.) Oh and more contrast would be great too!
The actual money fields are probably small compared to the infrastructure used to track them. It's not going to double the amount of memory usage. I'd be surprised if memory use, network traffic and database I/O went up by more than a percent or two.
I don't think my girlfriend would be very happy if I started asking random strangers out on dates. ;-)
Most psychiatric diagnoses will not prevent you from buying a gun. You have to either make an insanity plea (that is actually accepted by a court) or be involuntarily committed for the restriction to kick in, at least as I understand things.

Of course, the gun control crowd would probably want any psychiatric disorder to be grounds for preventing someone from buying a gun, if only as a way to ban large numbers of people from firearm ownership.
Totally agree with Alex. This is something that I (and most other SaaS owners I know) look at regularly. And it's not always easy.
More numbers == harder to read. The point is not to give an accurate picture (as someone else pointed out, they certainly have more detailed internal metrics). The point is to make potential customers feel that their apps are fast and responsive. Hard numbers make that sound plausible. More detailed numbers would make the point diffuse and confusing.
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Thank you. Why we chose to rotate reasons was to project the fact that Uncover can be used for many different things and that you can customize it for your company. You can't really get that across to the user by just displaying one example. That's just our thinking anyway.
How do you optimize your system if you don't understand the queries that the ORM generates?
I think the difference is that this completely broke the economy, while the exploit in EVE was much more fixable. All they had to do in EVE was take away some people's loot and they were good.
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So in a species that depends on pack/tribe behavior for survival, how is an inability to follow authority not a mental illness?
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Whenever I see one of these questionable science articles jump to the front page of HN, I want to remind people that thoughtful, well-informed criticisms of said article often take a few days to appear (sometimes less, sometimes much more). By which point the original article has fallen off the front page and everyone's moved on to the next thing.

I guess my point is: don't forget that HN is just as bad (if not worse) as any other forum for promoting bad science journalism.
Congrats! Downloading.

This is indeed beautiful. But the positioning is wrong. Nobody who uses Stripe is like: "I wish this was more beautiful". The correct position is something like: "Manage your Stripe account on the go".
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Bitcoin has also suffered from an overflow bug, requiring a fork to fix it: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...
Addition information about Ripple:

https://ripple.com/wiki/Main_Page
A simple way to make this a bit harder:

stty -echo; echo `read | sha1sum` LittleBitOfSalt | sha1sum | cut -c 1-40 | pbcopy; stty echo

Then paste whatever ends up in the clipboard as your password.

pbcopy is MacOS X specific I think, but IIRC there was similar way to shove stuff into clipboard on linux. Else you end up with (1) password on the screen (2) immense pain typing 40 senseless hex chars :-)

Both Intel's contest and the test at http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.htm... mentioned elsewhere in this thread seem to be relatively happy with the result..

The fully random passwords with the password manager are probably better though...
Meteor uses Fibers. And you can do any of the async stuff in Meteor, like you would in Node.js with async.js, with the exception that you will most likely use Futures, and the code style will look synchronous (not the lengthy callback chains we are used to in Node.js). For more on Async execution in Meteor.js, see this link:
https://gist.github.com/possibilities/3443021
#2 is solved by HSAs. HSA purchases are tax-free.
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This will greatly improve the appeal of Massive Open Online Courses for people like me who would rather read than listen to a lecture. I can read faster than almost anyone can talk. And a well selected set of readings by several authors provides more perspective on a subject than a lecture series by one lecturer. I really like the effort that Coursera, Udacity, edX, etc. are making to offer free online courses on college-level subjects. I will be better able to time-shift my studying and learn more faster if the courses include readings as well as video lectures. Three cheers for Coursera doing this.
Well now let's experiment:

Prior permission is required before hyperlinks are directed from any website to this site:

http://pmindia.nic.in/hyperlink.php
Long overdue.

Cisco is in trouble for a lot of reasons, but this might be the straw that breaks the backplane. Routers and switches make the world go 'round on Tasman Drive...

The timer is running on Chambers' resignation. I don't think he'll be fired -- he's too established and congenial -- but I also don't think he wants to run a company 1/3rd of Cisco's size
Perhaps this is a stupid question, but your password checker claims "vertex112" would take 3 months to crack, but "vertex1123" only 3 days to crack. Why would adding an additional, non-repeating number make it easier to crack?
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All I can think of is: http://www.ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com/

(No, that's not a phishing page)
Thank you, muster!

Happy to answer your questions.

1. I've dabbled in web design for a longtime, although I did not design Uncover's marketing site. jakeprzespo.com did that. I did work with my partner Mike to design the internal pages of the site.

2. I started learning to program in February, 2012 and have gotten progressively better since then. I launched the original version of Uncover completely on my own at the end of last year.

3. I wrote a blog post on what I used to learn to program: http://spencerfry.com/programming-resources

4. Definitely feel a sense of accomplishment. I couldn't have done it without the other two folks I've been working on Uncover with: Mike and Jason. We've all worked very well together and done awesome work to get Uncover out in such a short period of time. None of us believe in waiting for that "perfect moment".
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The OP probably referred to the site presenting the app, rather than the app itself.
> 'This' doesn't exist yet, so nobody can handle it for you today. It's not yet a law, and even if it were to become one, it will be months before any state meets the requirements to begin collecting taxes. Until that happens, the tax codes, databases and software they have to make available don't exist. Once they do exist, yes there will be a business opportunity here, written right into the bill in the form of Certified Software Providers.

That's the obvious answer, but its misleading. Its true that it will be at least 90 days (and maybe as much 180) before any states start collecting taxes. States that are members of the existing "Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement" meets the basic requirements from day one, but no state can begin collecting taxes until the first calendar quarter beginning 90 days after the enactment of the Act.

But there are already several (including Intuit) Certified Software Providers for the states that are members of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, so anyone seeing this as a "business opportunity" is going to be jumping into a field where there are already big players.
I once interviewed a guy with a Masters in computing (of some sort, I forget) who didn't know SQL. He'd been developing for years, but lived entirely in .NET land and just used ORMs.

Absolutely crazy.
The site appears to be down now, so...

http://pastie.org/private/xedrpvi9lbcfwnz7wvb1a
> Sure, sure. But would be ever prescribe prescription
> drugs for this?

If there was a drug shown to improve self-esteem in children, it would likely become one of the most profitable drugs of all time.

> Everything you're describing is characterized as a
> personality trait, whereas the OP (who I hardly fully
> agree with) is claiming that anti-authoritarian
> sentiments are labeled a disease.

ADHD and ODD aren't diseases, they are disorders. When it comes to psychology/psychiatry, "disorder" is basically a word that means "personality trait that negatively interferes with everyday life".
When the authorities' agents look like this, you better hope the people who question authority are armed:

http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/swat-team-10a.jpg

http://inmenlo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/SWAT-team-comp...
>Banned all forms of animal protein, including chicken litter, in cow feed in 2001.

Saw a Dirty Jobs segment some time ago in which a Nevada pig farmer picks up all the waste from several casinos' buffets, hauls it out to his farm, hand-picks the plastic and other inedible crud out of it, liquefies it, steams it to kill off some of the bacteria, then feeds it to his hogs.

My first thought was that it was pretty clever of him to find a near-zero-cost source of food for his pigs. Then I thought a while longer and realized that those buffets serve a whole lot of pork. Some of which goes uneaten and into the trash... he's turning his pigs into cannibals! And then slaughtering them and selling the meat to the buffets. "Better eat that bacon, boy; three generations of pigs gave their lives for it!"
If I can't buy it via Amazon, I probably won't buy it. I trust the reviews, and I trust them to play fair if they've sent the wrong thing, to such a degree that any other avenue feels like a big waste of my time.
Given the title of this HN post, you should really be linking to your blog post, not the product itself. I clicked around your site a bit searching for your "learning to code" story to no avail.
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> you would only answer calls that rang 5 times

How would the person at house 6 ever get a call if house 5 always picked up the phone before it had a chance to ring 6 times? :)

The actual way this worked was the ringing cadence was different for each subscriber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)
What's behind the company name is the idea of uncovering your company/employees potential. We are working toward helping you do just that, but you have to start somewhere and we have a lot still to learn.

I love your idea of creating an API to integrate into their existing systems.
I don't understand how it is possible to develop anything database-related without knowing SQL. Are these people not querying the database directly to figure out what it contains (during development, debugging, testing etc etc)?
New RESTful middleware connects databases to web and mobile apps
SlashDB is a new kind of middleware, which connects databases to web and mobile applications.

http://www.slashdb.com

Internet companies use it instantly APIfy websites built on traditional LAMP stack. Mobile enterprise application leverage its RESTful facade to create engaging business applications, which require data from legacy systems.

How would you use it?
Learn caching, dammit
Nice, Icenium looks like a good option
Kind of amazing that they don't do automatic events on the phone. It seems like an obvious natural thing to group together photos that share a common location and time.
I saw that episode but never thought about that part. Waiter! I'll have the eggplant tartine today.
I think "recurring revenue" is a bit misleading in the title, the author seems to be talking about passive income. Income that keeps rolling in even when you cut back the hours you put into it. Once you've written a book or a piece of software and put it for sale, you can start working on your next product which hopefully opens up another stream of income. You don't need to sell $650/day of one product. You can also sell $65/day of 10 products each.
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I always find that starting with a selection of color can really jumpstart a design. It'd be really cool if this could also pull from other sources. If I could specify "1970s america" and get color pallets from photos or scanned design works, it would be truly awesome.
> but what is the law for?

Ensure a given standard of quality in a consumer product.

> The anti-British sentiment in this thread is astounding

Britain has in the past been perceived as a nation first bullying its way into the EU and then hindering any further integration. That such sentiments crop up in a thread on EU regulation (a pet peeve of Britons, apparently) is not surprising.

> (I use metric by the way).

Yay you! And really, I was just looking for something that could be considered wrong with that sentence you found so amusing.

> The sausage name is shared across regions due to a historical legacy, people who have traditionally enjoyed it should not have language and culture taken from them for the purposes of profits. See my post above on the feta rule being historical and linguistic vandalism.

Firstly, let us clarify that the sausage case has been resolved, with Slovenia having their (Slovenian) word protected, and the German analogue accepted for the sausages in Austria, cf. [0].

Secondly, I agree that feta is somewhat of a edge case, were I would prefer to see the recipe rather than the place of origin protected, as the latter is not immediately obvious from ‘feta’ (contrary to Champagne, for example). However, even then does the idea of ‘regional trademark’ make some sense to me – but, as I said, this is an edge case and doesn’t really have to do anything with the thickness of bananas or the hygiene requirements of chicken.

[0] http://diepresse.com/home/wirtschaft/economist/766208/
GPSs measure altitude too. Do you have any idea how a GPS works?
I used to have that problem too. I forced myself to go on the street to start talking to potential customers. Many days I just wandered from gas station to gas station talking to people while they pumped their gas. It's just a mental hurdle. You can totally do it!

Here's my experience: http://blog.leanstartupcircle.com/want-to-do-customer-discov...
Thank you very much for the feedback. Cheers
1993 vs 2013
There'd be a serious back-out penalty. You'd either have to buy the options back at a fair price, and you'd lose access to the site if you were acting in bad faith.

Yes, people would have the right to refuse work, but if they abused it, they'd lose access to that market. As with any other contract, people who backed out would face penalties as agreed-upon (at the very minimum, repayment of what they earned in the original sale).
"Many people want to keep firearms to keep the power of the government in check,"

Really?

Are you sure its not just a case of guns being ingrained in American culture and make the owners feel all macho and strong, and that any old excuse is good enough to argue that they should be allowed to keep huge pointless arsenals of weaponry?

I mean, from what I can tell, such people are generally on the right of politics, and at the same time they argue that they need guns to protect against a threat from within, they believe Obama is a non American, communist, Muslim. Well, er, wouldn't that be a great threat from with in to the US? Where were these citizen protectors of American freedom when Obama the commie Muslim took office? Shouldn't they have been using their arsenals to protect America? Or do such people actually know they are taking nonsense?

On top of that, when in the last, say, 100 years has the US government posed a threat to American citizens, such that they citizens needed to break out the weapon to protect them selves?

Frankly I think its more to do with male machismo, culture and being stuck in the 17th century. They have always had guns, and what ever logic you argue with, they simply don't want to change. If you managed to convince then that the government isn't out to get them, they'd just find another excuse.

It reminds me of fox hunting in the UK, or bull fighting in Spain. All these things defy reason, logic and decency, but we all want to hang on to them, simply because they have always been there. Heh, its kinda like saying you can have music any more.

I'm sorry, people may claim they want guns for the reason you cite, but I honestly don't believe them at all.
Yeah, this is a great way to keep customers locked in. And I like it since it actually promotes honesty in marketing, to an extent.
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