skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm the person responsible for/guilty of this. Thanks for the comments, everyone. My sympathies for the BSOD.

Please keep the bug reports and questions coming. I'll try to fix/answer what I can.
Thank you!

The ballistic parachute is one of the 2 optional add-ons for our plane - the other being a Mode S Transponder for flight into Class B and C airspace. The ballistic parachute comes with a choice however, since getting one means you won't be able to have an aft baggage compartment. If you get the parachute though, there will be space underneath the seat for a small amount of baggage.

Thanks for the heads up on the slow site, I'll take care of that
wow, seriously that's too cool! thanks for the recommendation!
Though I appreciate the logic of having a single or small group of 'good investors', this only applies if one is able to attract said 'good investors'. If one is unable to attract the attention of 'good investors' (assume the start-up has a good idea - being unable to attract 'good investors' is a separate problem), and only 'bad investors' are available it would be logical to try to get a lot of 'bad investors' so that they would not be able to individually influence the company. Thus party rounds make sense in that case don't they?
Like forgingahead said - Ignore it. It may sound cliche but don't follow trends, follow real data.
When you use words like "bi-polar and depression" it gives the sense that this is a medical disease. And while speaking strictly, it is indeed a medical disease -- I want people to see the raw human factor in this.

Depression, for example, in my experience, and from what I've seen -- often has a cause; a rational, explainable cause (that the sufferer often isn't aware of). When you treat someone's depression as a "medical disease" like the cold or the flu, you are completely ignoring the human factor.

Many cases of depression can actually be solved without drugs -- by addressing the problem at the root of it. "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns, goes into this. (http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-New-Mood-Therapy/dp/03808...)

I don't know why people ignore the real human factor when it comes to depression. Instead they resort to a bunch of drugs that do not address the root (psychological) cause of the depression, but rather just give some temporary fleeting relief.
Awesome answer thanks! Do you think EEG can ever replace a keyboard and mouse?
Generally, you can't plan to be Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, etc. Those are the guys who got it right the first time, but there are other models.

Elon Musk is a prominent example of how this alternative pattern works. He founded Zip2 (relatively unknown), then PayPal, then Tesla, and most recently SpaceX.

Evan Williams follows the same pattern. First PyraLabs (again, relatively unknown), then Blogger, then Twitter, now Medium.

In each case like the aforementioned two, you see a relatively small acquisition, followed by an explosion of ability and ambition.

This is the entire foundation of the "PayPal Mafia" - serial entrepreneurs who start out small (or relatively so) and then start serially disrupting greater markets.
I'll check it out, thanks much!
Balanced Payments Node.js Client
And here is how to make one yourself: http://www.instructables.com/id/Brain-Controlled-RC-Helicopt...
> People can have very good reasons to want to die.

You seem to have missed context here. The context being him talking about his depression. He's not talking about suicide in general, he's talking about suicide of the clinically depressed.
Pardon me, but is blocking people on HN a big issue?
Have explored several models for paying for this project, and settled in the end (so far) on treating it like a product, even if it's Open Source. Would be interested in feedback from HN SaaS gurus on the marketing website and generally the presentation of the software.
I'm a freelancer, and currently I'm using the free Time Tracker.app (https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20310/time-tracker). Yup, this looks clean and simple. i wished there's a free trial somewhere (although not sure if it does the same thing). Mind giving a video of the app flow if you don't have any more promo codes? :)
Seems great for the larger group and I'm expecting one table to have about 10 people so this is good. Thanks so much!
10 Rules for Painless Software Localization
At first, I read "Stephen Fry reveals he will attempt suicide in [year]". My mind racing as to "why, why would he ever want to do that?".

After having understood the actual title, I'm now unsure which of the two is more confusing or unsettling. I suppose equally so. This world would miss an incredible human being.

There was a deeply insightful interview with him where he spoke about self pity and how destructive it is[0]. I hope to some day meet him and thank him for that. As I would love to just thank him for openly being himself, in public.

I admire his ability to explain a concept that is dear to him. He will lay the scene in your head by touching of various points (which is exquisitely exploited in his host capacity on QI) and then, with sudden, stern force drill the most amazing and brutal observation into your skull that makes a lightbulb explode right above your head.

He will start speaking and briefly mention what he is talking about. Then he will turn all chitty-chattery as you are accustomed to, cause it's Stephen. And then he just ravages you with this piece of gold and while you're still recovering from the blow to your brain, he will return to Stephen mode, picking up the pieces, holding your hand, asking whether you're OK and making everything good again.

I would walk right up to him, wherever I can get a hold of him, tell him how much I admire him and weep in public, right then and there, without hesitation. Then I will tell him that I haven't done anything close to that in years. I should really find out whether he will be close to where I live anytime soon.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_2kelqYz_o
I have personally not heard of point 2 happening. If it does though, that would be a real shame
Yes, because otherwise they would create their own version of it, backed by more/better engineers, more resources, and more visibility, which would slowly crush your own product.

Sure it's heartbreaking to see your labor of love dismantled before your eyes, but with your new bankroll you can now support your family, attempt another startup with your own resources, or live the life of a playboy multimillionaire ;)
Co-founder of Shyp here.

Absolutely! However USPS only does pickups from 10-2 M-S. You need to be there or leave the package outside.

We will be soon adding support for UPS, Fedex, Ontrac and a bunch of other regional shipping company. Ship through Shyp and we handle everything.
True, there are loads of libraries to support XMPP on various platforms though.
Give me a device that can tell when my dog is about to try to go to the bathroom in the house and corrects that behavior automatically with a dog whistle and you have yourself a winning product.

On top of that, just add features that trains the dog for you. Like automatic "heel" commands or making sure the dog doesn't crawl onto the couch and leave dog hair all over it while you are out of the house.

Use geofencing to make sure the dog can't wonder past a certain distance from the house without hearing a dog whistle. It would be like a reprogrammable electric fence without all the cost of burying wires in the yard and worrying about the wire getting cut by accident and the dog running away. Add geolocation so I can have a "Where is my dog?" feature, just like I can already find my iPhone.
When I "come out" to people I get this reaction a lot - people are genuinely surprised that a happy person can be depressed.
This seems like a good option as it's just cards and we have some already. LOL on the rule part, it does sometimes get too confusing. Thanks a lot for the recommendation we are going to try it tonight with our own team.
That is largely because a.) cash-outs of early startups are often not all that significant and b.) you don't here about those cash-outs.

Microsoft was Bill Gates's second startup with Paul Allen (the first was Traf-O-Data), plus they'd done several consulting projects as teenagers. Apple was the second startup for Steve & Steve; the first was selling blue boxes, and it made enough to finance the Apple I. Facebook was Mark Zuckerburg's third; his second was the Synapse Media Player, which reportedly got a $2M buyout offer from Microsoft.
Just as with a credit card API, you would integrate the ability to purchase & print postage within another application.

I work on an internal company application and it would be great if people could purchase & print postage from within the application.
It's difficult to scale an RSS reader as you could quickly start having to crawl orders of magnitude number of feeds more than you are now as you get more users, if power users like your thing. I know because I worked at Bloglines. You're either going to need money or you will shut it down eventually.
Business Grads to Wall Street: Drop Dead
There won't be a similar "crash" because there's no "race to the bottom" in prices. There could be a shakeout where there are a lot of low-quality games that fail and take their companies down with them, but that shouldn't affect the existing games that are already making money.

Also, if you think these games are all that's available, you're missing out. There are plenty of great games for free and purchase. Some of my personal favorites: Fieldrunners 1 & 2, the Angry Birds games, 10000000, Doom, Wolf3D, the Doom and Wolf3D RPG games, and my personal favorites, I Dig It and I Dig It: Expeditions.
Imagine this scenario:

I've developed my app. Designer gets hired later and spits out a cool new layout and design... No feature changes at all.

similarly...

Then next year, management decides we need to give the app a "fresh new look" for v2.

[If I'm using React or JQuery-only] From what I can tell, this will cause me to have to dive through a whole bunch of JS code where I'm sifting through business logic and imperative code to find JSX/html sprinkled throughout and make the necessary changes. Also, since I'm changing actual code the chances of introducing new bugs in this process is high.

[If I'm using Angular] Go through html. Change html and css. Leave code and business logic alone.

This is not an entirely contrived situation (at least not for me). As I'm working towards a releasable product, one of the areas that go through the most change and flux is the design and layout.
Pills are easy... Aside from a 30 minute visit to the doc.

Addressing the root cause typically requires working with others over a period of time... and that work is oftentimes what people with depression want to avoid.
> It seems that this might encourage developers to leave bugs outstanding or introduce new ones as a way to generate revenue though

Emphasizing this. This is why the police sometimes oppose safe streets and raised speed limits: it decreases their revenue from speeding tickets. It's a fairly well-known problem, though I've never heard of a fix.
I'm still waiting on my invite. I saw some ads on FB advertising it and decided to try, but have been waiting since. I hate the Post Office and would love to this us.
That quote expresses Tolstoy's frustration not about the size of his novels but about the importance people attached to them. In his old age Tolstoy wanted people to focus on moral concerns, not artistic ones. For old Tolstoy, War and Peace was empty of significance, but certainly not because it was too long—that would be the last thing he cared about by 1908!

Also, please don't use inflammatory language on HN. "Calls me a liar" is about the most inflammatory way you could put that. My comment was hardly about you, and "lie" implies something evil, which is way over the top. I'm merely saying that one of your points was mistaken.

Is there a word for the opposite of inflammatory language? That's what we're trying to do on HN, even at the cost—this took me years to figure out—of being a little more boring.
That's because one is a service, and one is an open operating system. If a service doesn't support a protocol, you can't use that protocol with it, so there is demand that the service support the open protocols that most clients have implemented. If an open OS doesn't have built-in support for a protocol, you can choose to add it. It's apples and oranges. It's like saying your laptop doesn't support a particular printer because you have to install a driver to print.

For an OS, it makes more sense to err on the side of supporting fewer protocols by default and allowing users to clients to add the ones they need than bloating it up with all possible protocols you ever might want to connect to on any server, anywhere.
Isn't the algorithm just, filter out the greenscreen, for each remaining pixel draw it to the buffer, draw the buffer to the screen?

That doesn't seem more complicated than the examples they showed.
They raised $6 million already.
I read that AMA last night.

While I kinda broadly disapprove of it (it seems almost certain that it violated the terms of whatever severance package they had), it hardly trashed Zynga... if anything, it made them look like a better than average (in terms of employee-care) modern tech company from the inside.

The problem with unlimited vacations.. nothing new, not unique to Zynga (the same issue has been discussed to death here on HN).

The fact that Zynga copies other people's games, uh, yeah, no shit they do... they've always been shameless and obvious about this...

The insiders selling stock early, again nothing new or nothing we all didn't know a long time ago since that's all public data.

Where was the "trashing"?
inb4 pets.com
What about a bidding based system for specific work effort for each ticket? EDIT: Github could also perhaps promote the ability of the community to give a project maintainer money and then the maintainer could distribute it to people who provide accepted PRs based on some kind of formula or as they see fit and just keep it for themselves. While we are at it it would be really great to see a system to manage contributor license agreement as well as providing a standard set of OSS friendly agreements.
I wouldn't say it's a big issue, per se. Rather, I'm tired of seeing comments denigrating other comments. If you don't like what people have to say, better to ignore them silently than respond antagonistically.
Balanced is now being heavily discussed. Mission accomplished I suppose.
Static Javascript Patterns
I'd like an extension like this.

It'd be amazing if it had a time limit. "Block Bob for 2 hours" or 2 days. That would give me time to calm down and respond to Bob in a sensible way, or to ignore Bob. Other people have discipline.
Stripe is also starting to grow internationally which is one reason why I'd choose stripe.
No it doesn't. It's just that people in the film industry (or specifically, actors) are famous an so their suicides a) get more attention and b) seem more surprising, because successful film actors are stereotypically glamorous, wealthy, gregarious and so on. I've worked in film for about a decade and don't feel the rate of mental illness there is statistically so different from other industries. As someone with ADD who is also subject to depression I've taken some time to think about this. The stereotype may arise from the fact that the film industry is more tolerant of personal idiosyncrasies and eccentricity than other fields of employment.
Steady small but spaced updates is just about worst case for battery if you're on 3G. You want relatively large batch sizes so the system can turn the radios off and keep them off. Obviously doesn't matter if the main app is using the radios...
Something similar to that is possible for video. For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGMqXBvYxog

I'm working on porting this over to Seriously.js so it should run in the GPU, hopefully pretty fast. The first crack at it was not so good, and now I'm experimenting with some new features that are only in Chrome nightly builds at the moment (and buggy at that). So look for this in the next 3-6 months.
It's not anthropomorphizing to realize that mammals have a lot of physiology in common. If a dog scientist tells me that sleeping patterns are completely irrelevant for dogs because of some peculiar evolutionary adaptation, I'll believe it. But failing that, a decent null hypothesis is that it's probably pretty similar to humans (notice that my post started with "I'd imagine", not "It is a fact").

Also, just because X might be optimal for a pet doesn't mean that you have to do it. There's always something more you can do for your pet, but perfection is never possible.

And also, your incredible examples of confounding variables are not insurmountable, since sleeping patterns are successfully measured in humans even in suboptimal scenarios. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good!
OK Go has cornered the market on "cool web tech" demo music videos.

Actually there have been some other very nice ones recently:

http://donottouch.org/

http://lights.elliegoulding.com/
More power to ya! I hope to see the network of these types of blogs continue to grow.
Good point. I wish the "application-specific" passwords could be tied to a particular service. (I think they just act as a global password.) But I should switch my caldav config over to one anyway.
You'd be amazed at how much can be delivered by bike. Go to Brazil and you'll see tons of things being delivered by bike in cities, things like 5-gallon water bottles, Propane tanks, supermarket shopping, etc.
The many many people in our lives suffering from a chemical/medical issue can not solve their problems with therapy alone. Depression is multi-factored and definitely partly chemical - maybe for some it's solved by spending more time in the sun but for many of our friends it is a serious clinical issue not to be mistaken as having a purely talk-it-out solution. Stephen is an excellent example here: he has the sheer intellect and forwardness of self-examination to know it can't be beat without looking at all factors and wouldn't presume to say that it's solved with drugs, or therapy, alone.
And similarly, I'd pay good money to have certain StackOverflow questions answered. But if these things seem like a no-brainer, there's a good reason why they're not available. (Third-parties have stepped in, but they're not officially supported.) Introducing money into the ecosystem can spoil people's motivation to do anything for free.

This was one of the lessons from Google Answers, an early version of Stack, Quora, etc, which paid people.

There's a good basis in psychology for this. If you look at studies about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, you find payments (and external rewards generally) can be counter-productive and make people less motivated than if they're doing the same task for free.
We do not believe that this 1986 approach, or a reasonable suspicion requirement in any other form, would improve current policy,”

Well, yeah... the State would clearly prefer a "1984 approach".

We have always been at war with Oceania...
fork disagrees.
I'm interested in getting notified when new screencasts are available. Where can I add my email address?
He clearly intended to answer this guy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5827717
So why not offer a free service that doesn't support attachments and offer attachment support as a paid upgrade?
Not since the words of Commissioner Pravin Lal has someone from the U.N. conveyed the importance of digital freedom so well.

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
I'd say you're on the right track. I wouldn't mind seeing some screencast of the following:

- How to setup automated deployment for rails apps, scala play apps, node.js apps and so forth.

- How to use Vagrant to simulate an app that uses riak clusters.
Picture? It's a video.
Okay, I could add a form, or would a RSS feed be better? Maybe I'll add both, and see what the turn out is. Thanks for the suggestion!
Exactly -- the underlying APIs are painful to integrate, just like with Stripe.

Drop me a line at j at easypost dot com and I'd love to see how we can help
mental illness is an illness where something has gone wrong with the body in the same way that cancer is an illness where something has gone wrong with the body. Stigmatizing it in any way is not useful. Telling people to "just be happy!" isn't useful.
Elon Musk is a good counterexample, yeah. That reminds me of one other ex-PayPal person: Russell Simmons founded Yelp after PayPal (though he wasn't a PayPal founder, just an early employee).

I mostly think of the PayPal Mafia as subsequently investors rather than founders, though. Spot-checking another 10 or so of the PayPal alumni, most seem to have gone the angel/VC route post-PayPal, rather than starting new businesses themselves.
MYO is one of those products that, if executed right, can be the harbinger of a new age of computing. Neuro is still at least a few years away, voice is dorky, vision is flaky.

Now if only they had come up with a cooler name than MYO!
13 fonts to make a programmer smile
Why does everything have to be described as "beautiful"? Yes, it looks nice. It's not fucking Beethoven, it's a website that appears to do a damn fine job of managing RSS feeds. Yet every damn day we see another HN front-page article about such-and-such a "beautiful" web-app.

Edit: also, in this instance, a good chunk of the beautiful design seems to have been lifted from Google's style, from the icon style to the way they put a little red bar next to the current selection
The police are concerned. Random self-proclaimed experts on HN say it's no big deal.

But how about Honda -- do you have a remote door unlock exploit that can do what is being discussed on just Honda vehicles?
Cool, I've jotted those down. I'm just loving Vagrant right now! Thanks for the feedback!
What is there on the analysis part?

Restoring user behavior from touch events is a bit like restoring a steak from ground beef. Do you guys offer any help with that? Something to string individual events into a path?
Temporary relief may be what is needed under many circumstances. I'm personally quite clear on the roots of my depression, but that doesn't make it easier to cope with. For some people it's a mystery or problem that once solved, ceases to be debilitating. For others it's an endocrine problem, best treated with drugs. For yet others, it is best treated with cognitive exercise. Each case is different and dismissing a whole class of clinical strategies is no better than treating those strategies as a panacea.
We'd definitely appreciate more data points on pricing - care to send us an email at team@heapanalytics.com, and we can discuss more there? It'd be great to understand what sort of price point works for people like you.
> Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, etc. Those are the guys who got it right the first time

See the sister comment for history on that. They are not known for their first startup