skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polymer IS a backport of a new web standard, which lets you use it with current browsers.
Important Attributes of Content Marketing
once i worked on a startup for 9 months.
paid with marlboro.
rest: similar story.
end: i took my code an left.

lesson learnt: don't work with/for azzholes - end of thought.
Highest highs, lowest lows...
Best day, worst day.
Failing start up or giant corporation...

Try to find some balance, dude. Go running or do some yoga or try to eat better.
Venture debt
I did say "sandboxed", did I not? Just have your VM refuse to download anything before you click somewhere, and let it compute the relevant URL so it can show it to you the way Firefox does. If this is too harsh, then relax the restriction to only download to, say, the domain name of the current main URL. If this is still too harsh, then have a NoScript like button to relax restrictions manually, on a case by case basis.

It would disable any form of cross scripting by default, which in my opinion is a better state of affairs than HTML alone is right now (now, you can embed an external image in a web page, and bam, Facebook knows what you read).
"seven minutes of steady discomfort"
- http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-mi...
What if I permit a site to autocomplete my email, address etc. but not my credit-card. Then, after the permission is given the form is changed to ask for a credit-card.

I'm sure this is all thought trough but I'll wait for a bit before using this.
They were heavily pushing the social streaming aspect, and admitted to as much. Letting other people know who you are listening to is a longstanding tradition, and worth good money to Spotify (who never raked it in to begin with).
Ask HN: Why can't I get started?
I have these great ideas. I see something on Hacker News like the 7 minute workout, and I think "I should do an app for that, with little diagrams and a timer", and then I do nothing. I just can't get in front of a computer in the evening and code any more. Then I see that someone else did it already, and I get all knotted up inside. That could have been me, had I actually done something.

But even when I know I want to, I can't do it. The knot inside me inarticulately roars at me, and I walk away. I do something else instead. Something which doesn't create anything. I consume. I read. I play games. I read Hacker News on my iPad. I watch TV.

If by some good fortune I manage to sit at the computer, I find that I have achieved nothing. I'll have thought "I'll store the data in a database", and then tried to download and install mysql or mongodb, or postgresql, which I don't really know how to use, and I think "I'll write it in python", or "I'll write it in Cocoa for iOS" which again, I don't really know how to use.

I need to learn some of these things, but all I want is to get something finished, these things hold me up on things that I know should be almost trivially easy. I've been a Windows programmer for nearly 20 years, but I desperately want to be good on the Mac.

I know that if I just sit down for a few hours a day, these things will melt away as I work on them, but I just can't get started.

But I can't start. I wish I could. I organise days when I know I'll have no distractions, and then I squander them on worthless nothings.

Why can't I start? Any ideas? I have none.
Introducing Portable Native Client (PNaCl)
I'm in the process of producing a breakdown video that will give some insight into the process. The software used for line drawing and rendering was Houdini by Side Effects Software.
Is Google turning Gmail into an App platform?
Can you recover touchscreen pattern passwords from smudges?
I've been a zsh user for a long time and I have to say that fish is great! Its super fast and starts almost instantaneously. On zsh, I would always use fasd[0] to help jump directories, but on fish I dont feel the need. The auto-completion is just fantastic. If I were you, I'd give it a try just for the awesome tab completions.
For the 'oh-my-zsh' lovers out there, there's 'oh-my-fish' as well - https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish

[0] - https://github.com/clvv/fasd
It's all static, no compression (just one large xfs file tree), it costs a few hundred euros per month. At the time the server (20T) was quite expensive, one of these days it will have to be re-done and fortunately storage costs have come down quite a bit so the per-month write off on the server will be (a lot) lower.
Brain stimulation promises 'long-lasting' maths boost
Uh yes I guess. With a debit card (we just call them bank cards) you withdraw money from the bank account, but from what I've heard a credit card doesn't work entirely the same.
Ah. Maybe it was because IE sucked for a long time, compared to Firefox?
This sounds like me most of the time...

I think half the battle is just forcing yourself into getting things done. Usually once you're into a task it's harder to stop than it was to initially get started.
Cryptography in .NET : Random Numbers and Hashes
replace evil by - "closed walled", "money minded", "not caring for users", "bully".
Google Redesigns Google+ & introduces 42 new features
My name on the internet comes from my time playing Quake 3. It is my real name, at least as far as I'm concerned.
Using Big Data at Stanford Medicine
Depends on your target audience imo. For a consumer facing product, If a considerable size of your traffic is coming from facebook, it sure makes sense to have that option.
If they acquire the company, they'll need to monetize it which is a significant visible change. Tumblr's core demographic is notorious for responding to advertising very poorly, and the founder is clearly disinterested and clueless when it comes to monetization.
Or it should come with a free three-month personal course
A Journey Through the CPU Pipeline
is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career.

What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a "deep" 31-stage pipeline?

Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside.

As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don’t know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it?
It feels like this throws a wrench in my understanding of loss leader strategies if your position is assumed....
> I use vim because it gets the job done.

And because it's available everywhere I guess. Without such wide availability (that's what "hype" probably refers to), I don't think it would have been so popular.
For the curious, 'smørrebrød' is a Danish kind of deli offering consisting of rye bread with different kinds of toppings. (Bohr of course referring to the Danish physicist Niels Bohr)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B8rrebr%C3%B8d

It's very tasty.
To expand. I wouldn't pay even 10 euro for an editor that does not support VIM.
Gmail sucks too now (to give an example) but it's much harder to provide a viable alternative if you're an open source project or a startup. There will never be a Firefox of web mail, much less a Firefox of search engines.
that is a naive world view. Google has never viewed its product with such simplicity. THey are created and destroyed by a vision (sometimes bad vision, most time good vision) (sometimes in good competitive spirit, sometimes in the view of stifling competition).
Great.. here I am all ready to try switching to zsh and now here's a new fish..

Which to go for..?
Call for donations - PyPy to support Python3! [1]
Let's just move on, please.

[1] http://pypy.org/py3donate.html
Agreed. I've been using fish now as my default shell, it took a bit of time to get used to but it's definitely been worth the time porting my zsh functions/aliases over to fish and adding inline documentation.

Very cool.
Nice work. Please consider to code-signing the package so that it works nicely with Mountain Lion gatekeeper.
> I drown my sorrows into a mug of beer every friday.

I don't think once a week makes him an alcholic.
I also use vim because it gets the job done, but I completely agree with parent: Vims present day success is due in part to it having a massive culture of advocacy. It's hard to attract new users without hype.
Because not white enough.
an eye for an eye doesnt make the world better my friend. Android wars are making users pay more and this youtube war is also making users suffer.
The Magic Of Google’s APIs and Algorithms, The Bread And Butter Of The Googl
If you're just jumping off bash and don't have a long .zshrc with aliases (which might make the migration a bit painful), then without a doubt try fish!
UK LulzSec hackers jailed for their attacks on Sony and Bethesda among others
The only bad technology chices I met, were the politics/business-based ones.

"We use Java, because we're Oracle partners!"

"We use PHP, because there are many developers who programm in it!"

"We use SAP, because all the other big company using it, so it can't be bad!"

etc.
What is the best app while traveling, and why?
Bell Labs was one of the country's greatest resources and the model of what a corporate research facility should be. It was a decidedly domestic phenomenon, and also could work on sensitive topics freely. Its now being foreign has everything to do with it, which is why they had to spin off a small segment to continue with government contracts.
Exactly. That's something you didn't mention in your story, and it is a crucial thing to do if you really believe that the product solves real problems. Don't let the unavoidable obstacles destroy your relationships. All of you are still learning (the brick&mortar business experience isn't that easy to transfer to tech startup) and that requires mistakes and dead-ends. You can treat your adventures so far as a lessons in Lean Startup fashion and check together if there's anything you all can improve.
Fred Wilson has a fantastic post on the funding story behind Geocities (wow, that guy's been around for a long time)

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/04/geocities.html
Can anyone tell me if fishshell 2.0 works with RVM and Virtualenvwrapper?
S4 Running Stock Android
I can't remember where I read it, but I like the quote: family goal is not creating good children, but good parents.
you mean to say that demanding "kill the app immediately" is a nice, goody boy demand from google?
Using Creative Technology to Build Huge Open Landscapes
Real life doesn't always work out like Enders Game.
Dont feel sorry for him, he has a brain , did not use it that much.He could have been anything he wanted , he seems handsome and smart , yet he chosed to kill for nothing. He is responsible for his own mistakes and should pay the price. Violence is never a solution. He hates what USA is doing abroad ? then what he did wont change anything , it will just bring more hatred toward the muslim community in US. The right way to do things is to get political , in a non violent fashion , freedom of speech is here for a reason, Killing is not freedom of speech.
My situation exactly oneandoneis2! I've used Bash for 12 years, tried zsh for the last few months and not really noticed the difference tbh. Will see if fish gives me an 'aha' moment
No, I put in it all in to pets.com and beenz unfourunately. :(
I used to use fish for a long time... eventually I switched back to zsh because of too many incompatibilities with running shell scripts.
Y Combinator Adds Four Part-Time Partners, Including Groupon’s Andrew Mason
On a slight tangent.

Regarding the Houdini software used to make this, the Apprentice licenses ( http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=... ) give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Free to use with option lower resolution output plus a $99 / year "Starving Artist" (good name) option for higher output resolutions suitable for portfolios is a great great way to foster a community and make it easy to get into.
Interesting hack to create html templates in javascript
If it did the same as GMail does and GMail didn't exist, I would. It's just so convenient.
Once you have submitted the words they become part of the thread and not purely your own. However it might be good to allow them to be anonymised later.
OOI Integrated Observatory Network Architecture Specification
Thanks. Came here to say this. For a consumer web service, the outcome may or may not be totally different.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Such combination is an interesting one. However the critical thing (besides design) is how are you going to attract the required mass of users to keep it vivid. So far there's little incentive to put my content there, and without content there's no incentive to visit the site. The loop is closed. Maybe you could consider an easy way for users to automatically put their content from other places, via RSS for example? That way you could focus on the discovery not content creation.
Depressed engineer looking for advice
A weather API to monitor precipitations at a given location
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I found this plugin for HN today, it's probably been posted before but I imagine that given the recent spur of titles being changed (in my opinion, in many cases to titles that make it less clear) it may be of use to you!

Edit: I tried to use https://www.hnsearch.com/, to check when/if this was last posted but am hitting a SSL protocol error
Is it really "good practice"? It seems like cargo-cult security to me. Usernames are usually public anyway; refusing to reveal the existence of a user name as part of the login process but revealing it elsewhere in your application is pointless.
Google Continues To Experiment & Expand Authorship
Astronomy is a hard science and it has the same issue. You can't randomly select celestial bodies and experiment on them. However, we seem to have made huge strides in our understanding of the cosmos.
Guys, this is politics, plain and simple, which is probably best left to other sites.
I have both RVM and Venvwrapper setup in zsh. After installing fish everything worked right out of the box - without making any changes to the config files.
Friends are great for high-fives, but useless when it comes to constructive feedback. Your best bet is to attend maker/hacker/startup events and tell people about your project. If they seem interested, go into detail about your plan: why you started it, what problem you're trying to solve, and how you're going to solve it. Be open to new ideas. (Sometimes you discover that your 'goal' isn't really your goal, but a shadow of your 'true' goal.) Adjust your plan accordingly.

I'm only a few years older than you and on a similar path, so you can start with me if you like. (Also: put your contact details in your HN profile so people can reach you!)
Yahoo.com is the 4th most visited web page in the world just behind Google, Facebook and YouTube.
Sod the legals, walk away, write it up to experience, re-tailor your CV and suck up a "proper" job (try looking for smaller companies through friends) for a year.

Talk to the people you meet and a new startup will come your way before that year's out.
As far as I'm aware most of these devices need rooting/jailbreaking to be able to develop on them yourself. However the process isn't that difficult, and in some cases you can get full copies of android running on the device.
Ask HN: Which E-Ink device to use for a project?
Hi all,

I have a project I want to muck about with at home and I was wondering what would be the best device to use.

Rough requirements:
* E-Ink display
* 6" or larger
* WiFi
* Touch

I was thinking about using the Nook Touch but I'd have to muck about with rooting it, etc. I was wondering if there's any device out there that's not going to require rooting?

The application I'm creating will need to communicate with the outside world (hence WiFi), manipulate the display and receive either button or touch input.

Suggestions?
One of these days YC will launch their late stage fund financed through one or two successful exits and IPO's. That will re-define the VC market as much as YC has changed the world for start-ups and seed capital.

Harj leaving is at least as important as the five new entrants, I'm very curious what he's going to do next. Andrew Mason is a pretty brave pick given the amount of backlash that could create, ethical choices aside he's a smart fellow, there are probably far more people in the start-up scene that would be happy to work with him than there are that would rather stay clear. His farewell note was a class act and sketched the man in a different light for me, but still does not detract from fundamental issues in the groupon model.

YC is making bigger and bigger strides, wished I had a better crystal ball :)
Fair enough, I somehow completely missed the significance of iPhone in the sentence and took it as smartphones in general (of which all the cheap ones are either Android or not-quite-as-smart-phones running something older).

But the cheap Firefox OS device to cheap Android device is still a valid comparison that I for one would be interested to see played out.
Perhaps a less cynical explanation would be that no one died, but were rather wounded. (As far as I can gather, no one died; seeing as the offenders are charged with '20 counts of attempted murder'.)

It's hard to get worked up about a situation where people didn't die. I know that sounds heartless, but it's unfortunately true.

Speaking as a European, it does give me a feeling of 'happens all the time in America'. Because if this should be a 'national tragedy', then surely the USA would have tonnes of national tragedies. And isn't that the biggest tragedy?
VIM clearly is the most hyped editor nowadays by the hardcore tech circle and imo that plays a big role in its popularity. It has a few runner ups like emacs and Sublime etc, and before it textmate was the tool to use. Of course VIM has been popular for a long time, but only in recent years i see all these high quality resources to learning VIM cropping up and its alot more visible than it was a few years ago.
Everyone here can only judge your situation through your description of the situation and all the bias that comes from it.

From what I read, the rejection of a single VC meeting seems to have put you down. This is normal. Meeting 10-20 VCs before getting an investment is not unusual.

People here have nothing to loose so just take your time before shutting everything down.
Are there still compatibility issues with using fish 2.0 as your default shell? The Arch Wiki [0] advises against it because it's non bash compliant.

I'm going to give it a go regardless but wanted to know if there were pitfalls and what people have done to alleviate them.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fish#Troubleshooting
"Of course, that was back in 1999 when irrational enthusiasm enveloped the tech industry during the dawn of the internet commerce."

....ha. I'd call the enthusiasm "enveloping" some startups these days to be pretty irrational.
I DNRTA, but I was listening to the radio and the lyrics sung were sung to the contrary but I wasn't sure which one I agree with: "By a lady in black / And I held my tongue / As she told me 'Son, / Fear is the heart of love'".

Not sure what to make of the number 72 being featured in the new Star Trek film though since I only read the plot on Wikipedia.
The usual difference between that and a sandwich is that it is open. While rugbrød (note: rye bread is not exactly the same as rugbrød, which you can only truly obtain in Denmark and Northern Germany.) is the most common, I have seen »smørrebrød« with white bread.
Ironically I believe Mr Fish is an Apple employee.
Because not instrumented by the US Government to rally more people to support their causes ?
Why Was Hacker 'Weev' Put in Solitary Confinement?
Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I get a "page not found (yet)" (when I attempt to get to my old site) which suggests that you're still in the process of restoring pages. Is this still the case? Or do I assume that my data is long gone at this point.

Edit: Even if my data is gone, I really appreciate what you've done; and I'm sure others do too. Wish Yahoo had shuttered it more gracefully.
"I've been a Windows programmer for nearly 20 years, but I desperately want to be good on the Mac"
This may be one of reasons. For many people the critical thing about self-motivation is getting some kind of gratification quickly. That's why many big projects are constantly started but never finished. It's their size (and thus delay of gratification) that is discouraging. If I was you I'd start something what will bring you the gratification in a shortest time. Start with technology and problem you know. Get the results asap. Then add a little feature that will require a bit of learning. Just a bit so you'll be still seeing the results quickly. Than make another step and gradually increment the difficulty. You'll both learn and get something done. Also, some usual tips about productivity/time-management (like Pomodoro technique) might be helpful - they're often based on slicing this big-discouraging project into small bits where you get the results quickly.
You can do this with cryptographic hash functions. Here's how:

1. Write whatever "meta" comment you want to attach to your post and add some random characters at the end.

2. Calculate the MD5 or SHA-1 hash of that comment + random characters [1] and add it to the text of your post.

3. Save the comment + random characters to a text file somewhere for future use.

Should questions arise as to whether or not you were, e.g., being sarcastic you will be able to prove your intent by presenting the original comment and letting everyone verify its hash valve. As a downside you would also have to add random hashes to every non-sarcastic post of yours to prevent sarcastic posts from being quickly detected by the presence of hash values. However, if you do so consistently and post a lot I'd wager that people would soon stop noticing them.

This may or may not be an overkill for signalling sarcasm but I have seen a few users here on HN with MD5 (or was it SHA-1?) sums in their "about" fields. I can only assume those contain their real identity should they want to prove it.

[1] You can use, e.g., http://www.md5.cz/ for convenience.

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Its Very Nice shell & better than bash...
Firefox OS devs offered free phones by Mozilla
Is it really that revolutionary? Component-driven declarative web frameworks have been around for years (Dojo and Extjs did it way back in 2007). Perhaps the syntax of polymer is nicer, but is it really nicer than something like ember?

Not that i disagree that components are the way forward. It's why i switched to extjs in 2008. Encapsulation into components is the only way to build large scale user interfaces without programming yourself into a corner.
The Facebook afterlife, Part 3
Bye bye blackboard ... Famous writings preserved.
How are you going to make people pay for the clouds? Is this government-sponsored? Otherwise it sounds really cool, I've seen such climate improvement projects before, but I thought they require a huge scale (entire or several countries), can a single company really make a significant impact?
I am really sorry, unfortunately it is pretty safe to assume the data is long gone unless one of the other preservation efforts snagged it.

I have very long list of wanted sites but only a handful of those were recovered in the last year (mostly from local caches on old pc's).

I don't think the archive will every be completed.
Facebook Home Is Losing Steam In The Charts…Fast
there is no "rush to market" on this - she just built a project for her own interest and shared it! Constructive criticism is good - but if you dont like it - dont use it ;)
Ixonos Oyj : HTML5 apps as drivers for Design Ecosystems