skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting how everyone is falling for this logical fallacy of a question.

There are 2 modes in which Google buys a company.

1. For the product. This is the case that might entail 5x valuation and in this mode the intent is never to "kill" it. That would be stupid.

Obviously, it doesn't always work out and the product might end up dead but it's never the intent of neither party at the time of acquisition.

2. For the people i.e. acu-hire. In that case the startup is effectively dead anyway and the founders and investors know it. Google won't pay 5x in that case, both parties know that the product will be shut down (but it would be anyway at some point) and the team simply gets a lucrative (?) job offer.

There is never a case where Google pays 5x for a product they intend to immediately "kill".
And in these cases the situation can be exasperated by well meaning friends, relatives and practitioners searching for a root cause that, if addressed, will make it all go away.
awesome , my standard of thinking about web has really changed!
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I wonder what this implies for crowdfunding?
It's a good way to say, "Hey, not only did I develop this cool thing, I designed this cool thing."

Also, sometimes design is a focal point. All things being equal, I will choose the prettier option. I might even be persuaded to pay money for a prettier option if it functions just as well as the ugly open source option.
Same here. Could it be because I am running Linux?
I am one of the lead Drupal developers and I do offer a service to get your Drupal.SE questions answered. So few people actually come to me with it. I am still answering questions for free. I do not see a problem there, really. But I guess because it's not officially supported.
Vagrant is a very useful tool.
Similar to my comment above: it'd be great to understand what sort of price point works for people like you. Feel free to send us an email at team@heapanalytics.com.
Ha, it's a fair point, but the failure of pets.com had little to do with the fact that it was a site selling pet-related goods and more to do with poor investment choices, bad management, and unsustainable pricing.
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Have you tested the map? The colours made me think you supported most of Africa but none of North America, which is silly.
A great classic: Scotland Yard

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/438/scotland-yard

A more recent board game, also based in London but much earlier : London 1888
Beautiful board. Rules are relatively complex if I recall correctly.

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/19991/london-1888
Like my sibling post says, my valuation by definition includes the present value of the expected future growth and revenues, in which case you obviously take the 5x offer.
BTW, feedbin.me DOES work on mobile. The layout adjusts and shows just the list or just the article view, instead of both at the same time.
It's sad what Google has become and that we have to ask this question. Sure other companies in history have done the same to squeeze out their competitors but Google takes it to a whole new level because of their massive bankroll and cozy relationship with the current administration. Why innovate when you can just crush your competitor?
what is ignored (thanks to psychiatry being left wing, and trying to mitigate the downside rather than build on the upside) is that bipolar brings a lot of BENEFITS. when bipolar people are very hyper, they can achieve great things.

thats the reason why people with bipolar usually don't want to be medicated - the highs bring genius.. the problem are the lows which follow it.

average people don't make the big breakthroughs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_bipolar_dis...
Do you guys know of this service http://www.qamine.com/ ?
A similar issue comes up in other domains too. For example, St John Ambulance Australia provides first aid for public events. Most of the duties are covered by volunteer first aiders. However if they cannot meet demand (which is often the case with mid-week events where volunteers are otherwise engaged with their jobs) then there is a commercial arm which steps in to cover the event.

The problem is when you have commercial and volunteers together at the same event, and some volunteers may think:

"Hey, screw this, why am I volunteering my time, when the guy next to me is getting paid a decent hourly wage to do exactly the same thing?"
Are anti-depressants over prescribed? Sure. Are there cases where the root cause of depression is biochemical? Yes.

I've been on meds for bipolar for five years, and I see a therapist every week. The meds get me stable - like healing a broken broken leg - and the therapy is my personal trainer building me up to run the marathon. Neither would be as effective without the other, but in my case, if I could only have one, it'd be the meds.
Glad to hear! Right now we're slowly taking on beta users, but we'll be ramping up significantly over the next while. Looking forward to having you on board and getting your feedback!
There are cases of depression, so called endogenous depression, which can't be cured in any other way than with medication.
My objection was to the one sided nature of the content vs having something a little more balanced. Individuals and powerful organizations are both prone to that. It was coming from a default assumption that the State was right.
Dry eye was the cause of the worst pain in my life. The air in my hotel was extremely arid, and my eyelid stuck to my eye while I was asleep. When I awoke, I rubbed my eyes and tore my cornea.

At first, it felt like I had sleep in my eyes and only needed drops. About an hour later my eyes would not start watering, and the pain became unbearable and nearly caused me to pass out. It lasted for about 2 hours.

Interestingly, the pain subsided extremely quickly as the eye healed. I wore a contact bandage for a few days, and the eye healed without further incidence. But am now always worried about a recurrence of this.
The subset is not particularly small in America.

According to the latest Gallup poll, 46% of Americans are sufficiently fundamentalist (christian or otherwise) that they believe that "God created humans in present form".

32% think that "Humans evolved, with God guiding", which is still a lot of the religious in America, but far fewer than many seem to expect. Fewer than those who reject evolution completely.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intel...
If you know something about the industry, could you recommend some good alternatives?
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At Socialtext, we're working on https://npmjs.org/package/plv8x that installs npm packages into Pg, and maps Node methods directly into Pg functions.

This provides a safe and modular alternative to PL/PgSQL and PL/Perl, and lets us re-use client side models & validators in the database.

https://npmjs.org/package/pgrest builds on this work and offers a subset of MongoLab REST API for an existing Pg database, with the eventual aim of serving JSON APIs directly from the database, cutting out the middleware altogether.

We're also looking at adding Firebase-like ACLs into the mix.

Currently there's just the NPM doc'n and a bilingual presentation at https://speakerdeck.com/audreyt/pgrest-node-dot-js-in-the-da... —— documentation will appear on http://pgre.st/ as soon as the API solidifies.
I fear now we'll be having a lot more inflammatory, useless, space-filling remarks like "I can't see what he just said I have him on ignore".

My philosophy is to simply ignore trolls without any extension (since fortunately there aren't many on this site, it's not hard), so I'm not really sure if this extension is so necessary.
No one said it would be MORE complicated than the examples.

"Would also be interesting" and "fun to compare" give no implication of relative difficulty. I would like to see the algorithm though so please post the code if you get it working in JS! That would be awesome!
Recent rental car in Italy - get the keys, head to parking lot, and search out car based on license plate on keys. Writing is dodgy, could mistake an 8 for a 9. Find car, electronic control unlocks it, yet key will not start car.

Head back to desk, slam keys down (person behind desk had previously shown a serious attitude to renters), get startled look and say "car doesn't work". After a bit of shock due to slammed keys and firm voice person says "colleague should be there" (he wasn't), pointed out "nope", responded with "oh, in 5 minutes".

Wander back out to car, electronic lock locks/unlocks care, but still doesn't start. "Colleague" shows up. Points out diff between 8 and 9. I mention "uh, car unlocked". He shrugged. Turns out the car was in a completely different/not visible (for the company) part of the parking lot. Both electronic locks and key worked in that vehicle.

Having an electronic system for duplicate cars (1 off in license plates) seems like a bad idea.
Fry has Bipolar Disorder, diagnosed in England.

This is a very different illness to depression. And depression has different forms.

Yes, talking therapies are powerful. But you seem to be making the mistake that a talking therapy isn't affecting brain chemistry, or that drugs are inherently bad.

Comments like yours are very frustrating. Do you talk about people ignoring the real human factor when we put a broken bone in a cast?
We're already friends. Hi Randall!
Turkey PM: Social Media Is “Worst Menace To Society”, 25 Twitter Users Arrested
No. That's a lie. I'm bipolar and have spells of depression that feel like doom. I've been dealing with it as long as I can remember. It can get really bad. Working out helps (if I have the strength to move), medication helps, but nothing and I mean NOTHING can make it go away until it has run its course.
When it comes to RSS reading, its all in the UI: how it is setup and how well one adjust to such an interface. As far as I am concerned, I cropped-up my own [1] and I am happy with the solution so far.

[1] http://web-wanderings.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-no-coding-requi...
Zynga's "Walking Dead" Must Train Their Replacements or Lose Severance
This is a terrible way to get fired.
How to determine if a number is divisible by 7
I just bought this app, and pretty much immediately gave it a five star written review on the app store. I have been desperately searching for a tool that allow me to be able to quickly switch between projects, record irregular intervals of work for a given project, and export that info as some sort of document (CSV preferred). This app meets that need with a great UX, and without all the unnecessary fluff of expense tracking/project management that others seem throw in.
Thanks for the input, solid points. Will rethink design. Good idea on email. Yes building interest is the name of the game. Considering blogging, SEO, SEM for long term organic growth but I like the Adwords idea for short term.
Sometimes the protest comes near you. Tourists have been kettled in Montreal just walking out of a restaurant or in a park, held for hours without charges laid. It happened quite often last spring.

Also: you're rather quick to judge the parents, yet say nothing about the police that presumably fired at the child. Nice victim blaming.
That's interesting. What kind of CPU?
assuming the car remote is using some kind of asymmetric encrytion algo, doesn't this simply mean either
A) somebody leaked the private key from the manu?
B) encryption was done with lower enough bits so that it is brute-force breakable

They could have just asked any CS prof or student for the possiblities...
In my initial post I mentioned:
planning & research, wireframing, interface design & user experience. More information can be found on my website.

I do not code. If coding is needed I outsource it to individuals who I've worked with and trust. I oversee the whole process because its important that my designs are coded how I vision them.
OP here. I paid the $4.99 quite early on, when I was still at the "joy" stage and before I realized the full extent of manipulation going. But I don't regret it: CoC is a good game, and I enjoyed playing it earlier on. I've now just reached the stage where it's pretty much impossible to keep playing without paying.

And for what it's worth, I paid for Master of Orion back in the day when it was still shiny and new, and was quite happy to fork out $15 for the full version of Minecraft, the most "joyful" game I've seen in a long time.
people would block without having a really good reason..

an example, i would block you just because you're using "per se" :)
Intel announced a year or so ago they could JIT compile javascript and run it on their GPU. Maybe that's why?! If so, welcome to the bold new age of GPGPU and AMD's HSA... :)
It failed here, but without an error message. I can only see the first frame.
Maybe it exposes a Wi-Fi access point and sees which MAC addresses connect?
Did you know your library name is an adjective?
Fucking hell. This is exceptionally disturbing.

This sort of service needs to be legally regulated now. The app devs must be required to warn in large block letters that evryhting you do in the app, even while offline, is streamed to some random company. You can argue all you want that "everyone's doing it", but it doesn't make this any less unacceptable and going against basic expectations of privacy.
The Zynga model of game design, which most of us are familiar with. The model where players are just being steered towards in-app-purchases, rather than towards interesting or challenging game play.
>I also notice that academics often have a hard time getting funding for things that might have unpopular results.

While this may be true, it does not mean that we cannot try to look for what research we do have available says. Often times we can find research on related questions which may inform our opinion, and we may find papers in which a researcher in the field compiled the results of many studies to attempt to address more directly the question we are trying to ask.

I have yet to find a single question where I could not find scientific papers which shed light on the answer. Furthermore, in absence of evidence to the contrary, I believe that humans are fundamentally rational, and that being sexually abused as a child will not have significant negative effects outside of the cultural influence.
The intersection of people interests and what places provide is an unsolved problem. The profile that says I am into X, Y, and Z and an app that can say what at place A or B is relevant is hard to come by. At least for me, it all involves direct searches.
This is awesome! I can't wait to see the mashups that spring forth from this (and hopefully make one or two myself). There will definitely be something really creative soon. Thanks for doing so much legwork on this.
In bipolar disorder, depressive episodes are much more common than manic episodes. They get high , but they suffer much more than they gain from their illness and AFAIK, bipolar depression is much worse than usual unipolar depression and much much worse than depression caused by life events.
The rather (in)famous academic source for some of this is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rind_et_al._controversy

A later paper that provides a list of statistical complaints against Rind et al., finds some of them plausible, but replicates the main findings of Rind et al. is

http://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/rbt_replica/frame.htm
I haven't owned a desktop in about 8 years, so I can't recommend a specific machine. But I can definitely say that you should consider some machines that don't have linux pre-installed.

That said, you do want to order a machine, or parts, that play nice with linux.
I was at your stage not too long ago, and trust me, you simply haven't played long enough. Come back and revisit this when you're at Town Hall 8+ and building anything of interest requires 2M+ gold or elixir.
Seriously? It's an adverb.
Bipolar disorder cannot be solved with therapy. Additionally, clinical depression is different from situational depression. Yes, you are right, that many people would benefit from therapy in addition to drugs, but bipolar disorder, especially, is not a disease that responds to it. It is a chemical/biological disorder and needs to be treated as such.
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I got it working in Linux on Firefox. Chrome didn't work, though.
It's funny, I just set up a mailing list this weekend. Being a customer of 37signals' other products, the first thing I thought of was Basecamp Breeze. So, I went to their site to check it out.

Their site had a "Why use Breeze" page. I looked at the page, and it compared itself (and introduced me) to competitors. The only thing Breeze itself said was better about Breeze compared to Google Groups was that it was easy to set up. So I went with Google Groups and spent an extra 10 minutes configuring it to save $25.

They sold their own competitors to me.
as someone in the space i can assure you they aren't taking the appropriate measures. best practices are known, but aren't being shared publicly b/c the info is an aspect of competitive business intelligence.
I have faith people are going to pay if they use it and like it.
Building a Bicycle Barometer
Add sex to the list - HPV is sexually transmitted and is thought to cause a scary percentage of certain cancers.
Ask HN: Are startups too safe?
Is joining a startup risky? I would say no.

http://www.quora.com/Engineering-in-Silicon-Valley/As-an-employee-of-a-early-stage-software-startup-what-are-the-disadvantages-if-the-startup-fails-after-1-2-years

Conversely, is joining a startup financially rewarding? Probably not.

http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-startup-could-make-me-a-millionaire-in-four-years-if-I-got-hired-as-an-employee-today

So are startups too safe now?
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That's an AWESOME idea, actually!
Not any startup. Only those who qualify for the stict conditions for the loan. Like Tesla did.
It would be good to know which of these readers has a sustainable business model. For example, Feedly is free. After Google Reader, I'm not sure I can trust that.
This interesting set of maps is an example of how presentation can triumph over content. The pretty maps total to not a huge amount of information on dialect differences in the United States, a topic that has been posted about here on HN before, but their sheer prettiness prompted me to share the link to my Facebook wall, whereupon Facebook showed me on my home page that five of my other friends have already shared the same link. It's often easier for pretty pictures to go viral than more informative paragraphs of text.

The underlying survey that gathered the data

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/

is, I think, something we have also discussed before here on HN. The link from the survey home page that is supposed to lead to the faculty webpage of the principal investigator appears to be a dead link. He is now at a new university,

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dtal/staff/bv230/

still working on linguistics research.
I read a recent 2600 article that said it's fairly easy to procure (from overseas) a jammer to prevent the lock signal from reaching the car. It would not open the doors but instead stop them from locking so the would-be thief would later manually open the unlocked doors.
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There is a distinction between integrated and non-integrated payments. If you are offering it off the record, you are doing contract work at a rate you like.

If you provide payments integrated, typically the financial incentives become market dictated, and once money is involved the intrinsic rewards become greatly decreased.
Already on front page with canonical URL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5828348
Superfish? I'm not even using superfish. Intercom is so users can contact me and pusher is so I can push you new entries without requiring a reload.
Don't Talk to Police (video, 2008)
Maybe they're so l33t they've wrapped around, and thats why they're using tables...
You can try out the analysis part with some sample (web-only) data at: https://heapanalytics.com/dashboard/demo

We let you define events after-the-fact based on the gesture type and the corresponding target variable. Once that event is defined, you can include it in funnels, view it in user-specific activity streams, slice n' dice it, etc.
Thanks for the response. OK, I buy the security issue. My Javascript skills - once pretty good - are bit rusty so Ill have to brush up on it. But I do have an ides for a project and will download postgres later today.
Oh, that is implied that once you start an import, you can move away.
Full interview will appear here in a few days - http://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast...
In addition to JavaScript, the plv8 module also supports CoffeeScript and LiveScript ( http://livescript.net/ ) procedures, with "CREATE EXTENSION plcoffee" and "CREATE EXTENSION plls" respectively.
This doesn't sound like you're talking from personal experience.

Saying that the highs bring genius is a gross simplification.

Yes, manic episodes can provide productivity boosts and huge amounts of energy but it doesn't have to go much further before it becomes impossible to complete a thought let alone a sentence, where you cannot sit still, where your judgement is severely impaired or you're suffering psychoses.

None of these symptoms (and there are many more) are particularly conducive to productive work, let alone breakthroughs.
Yes, good point. December seems to be the worst month for developer activity...
Time for firefox and chrome plugins that show the dollar value on a specific issue right on github, or whatever sites you support. Make it so I can add 10 dollars to an issue I care about, and add a "Sort by money" thing.
This is true. Also, you should be redirected to https when you go to /account if things are working how they're intended. I don't run the full thing through SSL quite yet, because I pull in content from lots of different sources (images, for example), and that would cause SSL warnings.

I have something in mind for this, but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. Full SSL is coming.
I need an RSS reader that works and syncs across my Linux laptop, Windows 8 desktop, Android phone and Windows XP work computer (and I can't install any software on the work computer).
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I roughly agree with your sentiment, but your last sentence is IMO a bit too rough with the "resort to a bunch of drugs" part.

Any psychiatrist worth his salt, will primarly prescribe drugs as a means to help people cope, while working on the actual underlying causes. Indeed, in many cases, using drugs in the treatment may be the only option to make the patient's day-to-day life bearable. Drugs may also be essential for allowing the treatment team to examine, possibly very problematic, underlying issues.

Also, a SSRI, for instance, can of course not "treat" someone of a clinical depression; you will virtually always need professional cause-oriented therapy to get better. Most patients know this, or will realize it as they experience how their meds work.

Finally, there are some mental disorders, and many individual cases, that require constant medication, despite of the quality of the other treatment given. For example, full-fleged bi-polar disorder, where a manic or a depressive episode may have very severe consequences.
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