skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was not familiar with the term "zero growth return" until I saw you use it here, and some Googling led me to this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Valuation-Measuring-Managing-Companies...

Just out of curiosity... would you think that the kind of material on valuations contained in this text (or similar ones) would be of value to startup founders, especially vis-a-vis negotiating with investors? Or is it all stuff that doesn't come into play until later, when you're dealing with private equity or trading on Wall Street exchanges?
Former Sen. Gordon Humphrey: Sweden should take Edward Snowden
This is all straw man PR at this point.

If companies were REALLY concerned with this, there would have been stories years before Snowden came forward with titles such as "Microsoft Demands US Government Allow More Transparency on Security Concerns with 'Potential' Constitutional Implications"

Instead the cat is out of the bag and now all of a sudden these companies want to talk about how the gag order is
something they all hate.

Better to ask forgiveness, I guess.
'Living la vita lolcat'

Haha
>The larger Chinese-made chargers generally don't have these issues (though a few apparently do).

Hardly a re-assurance now, is it?
I'd imagine people getting new phones is the common use case.
https://github.com/ddollar/foreman is what is used for the local testing, but also for the actual running of the app on the Cedar stack. One could use Foreman and Docker and AWS to make a pretty reasonable PaaS.

(I'm working on a S3 static-site-only version of Heroku so people don't have to serve static sites behind 3 layers of web servers.)
Btw, Blend is still in private beta but you can use the invite code: EARLYACCESS to sign up now.
Bid to Eat Lunch with Tim Draper
You should check out the software include in the XO tablet. I suspect it might suit your needs.
I seem to recall that not backing up anything is the default. Am I wrong?
Oh - he also wrote "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers".

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802716040/

It's interesting and easy to read. Recommended.

Looks like he's done a few similar books on historical topics. I'm off to spend some money!
>the size is the key determinant

With this things, I've put reliabillity and safety as key determinant.
Leave it to Beaver T-Shirt. You're 90s style is something no hipster can ever achieve through cultural osmosis. You are a snowflake.

Godspeed, Crystal Pepsi fan. May we all meet again in the glorious, clear syrup'ed Elysium of the afterlife.
That's really helpful, thanks :)
The most plausible explanation for this behavior, if the assertions are true, is that Google is acting in a way which serves its customers interests.

If you don't write checks to Google for a service, you are not among Google's customers.
No, thank you! We are really in the costumer search moment that pg writes in his last essay. We are about to start looking for costumers. Would you mind to give it a shot once we have launched?.
I think as soon as they bring out some software on the Neo model that would be ideal, I'll definitely get in touch with them. Excellent find!

As for TokenLock, I downloaded the free trial and during the setup process my laptop locked up for apparently no reason; I had to have my partner stop at she was doing and come and restart the computer for me. Clearly not an ideal situation.

It really was a case of;

Download and install application
Run through the setup process, which appeared to go flawlessly
Read's helpful message that laptop will be locked when iPhone goes out of range
…
Laptop locks up as I'm reading the message, whilst my iPhone has sat resolutely still about 5 inches from my laptop!

That is a terrible level of reliability for me I'm afraid :-)
I too found the replies to be somewhat dismissive. You would think this sort of report would be dealt with much more urgency or, in the very least, some concern.

It's an important problem, and the feeling I get from that thread is that they are more concerned where the bug should be filled. I appreciate organization as much as anyone, but the proper response should be frantic running around and hair pulling.
I'm spoiled using IPython on Linux. Even the latest PS IDE on Windows 2012 is a infant compared to the CLI tools on a Unixy OS.
I don't think these kinds of startups would work with Tim for the money. They'd work with Tim because he'd turbocharge their growth. Tim is a better partner than the vast majority (maybe all) of the other VCs chasing these fast growing startups. Tim can offer money and massive exposure. Other VCs offer just money. Take your pick.
I've been in panic mode trying to figure out why our applications have gone down. At least now I know why.
Show HN - Tired of spending 15 minutes setting up a quick meeting online?
Android most popular, iOS most profitable, Windows Phone most “next”
Cygwin is strapped on the back of Windows or something. It doesn't try to fit in or play along (which is fine, it's a portability layer).

For tools, the stuff from the GnuWin project fits into a cmd shell better than Cygwin (in my experience anyway):

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
How do you know they document accurately this time? 'Obviously' as compared to what? Except if you have internal access to their source code and be able to verify against the documentation.

I am always happy to give honest mistakes a chance, but not to a company who ignored customers complaints for years, sold inaccurate tools for big bucks, and tried to obfuscating documentation to hide the change of algorithm in request routing at dyno level. Sorry, I just find these acts are bordering evil, and my money will go to other businesses. If you are not so sure what I am talking, read the following link and see how Heroku's CTO and COO responded to complaints.

http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-money-trees-rap-genius-respo...
If your name servers are *.worldnic.com it appears you are affected.

First mention on Twitter was an hour ago https://twitter.com/thefrost/status/357483942082920449
Or you are subsidizing the new yacht of Wallmart's CEO.
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Why wouldn't you? Your skills fit the technology stack of many web-centric companies out there.

If it's your age you are concerned about: Being far away from Silicon Valley myself I can't tell you if age is that important there. Given that there seems to be a shortage of skilled hackers I doubt it. Besides: I read somewhere that the average age of YC founders is around 28.

Regarding work from remote: I don't know if it has to be a startup, but if not you might also consider applying at Mozilla or Canonical, both of which offer a range of remote work opportunities for tech people.
It's because he can't add much value to enterprise software companies. He has broad reach to consumers, not businesses.
This is an excellent idea and something I'm going to implement immediately! It will certainly give me a level of security whilst I look at some hardware solutions, thanks :-)
I believe cyanogenmod has backup turned off. But I had used previous (earlier version) of Android and it was turned on.
The fundamental problem with attempting to transparently support querystrings on the client-side -- touched on a bit in this article, but not explained completely, is this:

Querystrings are a server-side convention for URLs containing parameters -- the browser doesn't traditionally parse them. If you ask for document.location.search, you'll get back an opaque string containing the query part that you'll have to parse yourself.

The point of Backbone's router is to be able to transparently support both pushState-based routing, with real URLs, as well as onhashchange-based routing, for older browsers that can't do real URLs via JavaScript. So, if you add querystring generation and parsing support to Backbone's router (as some plugins do), and use pushState, everything starts off looking peachy. But as soon as you run into an older browser, and try to fall back to the hash-based URL equivalent, you run into trouble:

/app?query=string#home?query=other

... now you have the possibility to have to merge two different sources of query string, and still keep transparent redirects working back and forth between the two schemes.

I'd be more than happy to merge an implementation that supports them -- but that implementation needs to solve this particular problem, and have a relatively bulletproof way of supporting the querystring logic parsed out of real URLs and transferred to the fragment, and vice-versa ... and also has to have a strategy for dealing with URLs of the above breed. The devil, as always, is in the details.
Is it just me or is the concept of QR codes fundamentally flawed and ripe for abuse? Basically any QR code that exists can be overwritten by a simple sticker of another QR code. How do you prevent this?
"Drowning in litigation" is in fact a very common term for what happens when a government agency tries to pass regulations contrary to the interests of politically-savvy industries.
Ditto. I just spent an hour hacking at my firewall rules before I tried the obvious thing: going to the server's IP.

It doesn't matter how long I do this... DNS problems always get me.
Hard to short a guy with a massive following. He can sell pretty much anything to his loyal fans. And there are a lot of them. You'd be better off shorting Tesla and Elon musk. Take away all their government subsidies and all you're left with is hype.
I am thinking about starting a start up. No funding or anything. Its in the initial phase. If I had the funding you would be the kind of guy that I would want to hire. Its not age, but the skills that you have that is important. However, your location can also factor into you being hired. We should talk?
The first few very, very early prototypes were built because I, then my girlfriend, then some of my closest friends were in the situation where they needed something like this - so I'm quite passionate about making it work :)

That's an amazing idea — we hadn't thought that far ahead yet in terms of NLP stuff, but we can definitely do some amalgamation of Twitter and, say, GitHub data to help you know who to target :)
What he should do now is get strong guarantees that this won't happen again, no matter what (maybe with a new EU resolution/law) - and then go and retrieve Snowden.

What are the EU countries going to do? Humiliate themselves twice? At least then we'll know just how much of a vassal relationship they have with US.
I think a lot more people run Linux as a guest than the other way around.
Thank you, I am not coding the home page and made the text edit on the file. It takes some time to know how it looks well as I'm not a programer myself and the guy uploading this is not of the team. I hope to nail it this afternoon!
By the way would you mind If I ask you for a short test once we launch?
Why Behavior Change Apps Don’t Work
Another centralized service, sadly. I've decided that whenever possible, I will seek out decentralized solutions instead.

Looking for a decentralized, peer-to-peer file sharing and synchronization solution? I've been using BitTorrent Sync as a replacement for Dropbox, and so far I've been very pleased with it. Unlimited storage, no 3rd-party servers involved, and less CPU usage and UI lag than Dropbox. Did I mention that it's free? Check it out: http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
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I would love to be able to do these sorts of things, but anything that involves hardware would mean I would have to contract in a pair of hands.

And hands are not always a readily available resource, the people attached to them have like lives and other stuff to do; it's terribly inconvenient! :-)

I'm going to look into it though, thanks for the idea!
And you'll note the link to John White is broken too. It should be this: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=63290138&authType=NA...

He's a consulting research guy for the same people that benefit from HFCS. He has a bunch of propaganda about HFCS, so he is seriously bending the conclusions as much as possible in favor of it.

Here's the part where the article actually agrees that sugar is bad for you:

> Even if Lustig is wrong to call fructose poisonous and saddle it with all the blame for obesity and diabetes, his most fundamental directive is sound: eat less sugar.

WTF? It spent the whole article trying to show that sugar is ok, and then it concludes that?
Show HN: PGannotations.js
Don't hate on other people, because you didn't have had the success you wanted/expected from working with VAs. Maybe your approach was wrong? Also: automating redundant tasks doesn't necessarily mean using VAs!
an act which can be in no way cast as user convenience.

It's very convenient to me. I have both an Android phone and tablet. I've also switched Android phones multiple times- it's been quite gratifying to return to a city I visited three years ago and have it automatically connect to the WiFi hotspots I used back then.
Let the user create a private/public key on the device and allow them to store the file somewhere safe with only the public key remaining on the device. It can then easily do the backup (and even store the public key on Google’s servers, if required) whenever required, and if the user gets a new phone, he’ll be prompted to feed his private key into it again to decrypt the backup. This can be done over the network, from an SD card/usb key or maybe even with a QR code.
First of all, this is awesome!
Secondly, what do you use to collect all this data?
My googlefu may be rusty but it seems it is either not released yet or bundled only with the tablet.
I'm getting rank sick of the growing number of websites killing the functionality of the back button. That, combined with Chromes senseless refusal to implement opening clicked urls that are on another domain in a new tab, means I'm often forced to click-and-hold the back button to get somewhere. Incredibly annoying.
This[0] FB post is the best I can come up with as an explanation.

> Yesterday, some Network Solutions customer sites were compromised.

The funny thing is, they have a link in their post going back to their site, which of course doesn't work.

[0]: https://www.facebook.com/networksolutions/posts/101514668014...
it's pretty simple: quit educating the females.

Think I'm joking? There are studies proving an inverse correlation between education and number of progeny.
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And to think you paid extra for this service.
It's chemically inert, but has a very fine porous structure (thus 'activated'), so it works as a mechanical filter that adsorbs anything large enough, like bacteria and even very large molecules.
I just opened my User/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 2/Packages folder and deleted it... It hasn't re-installed for me.
When was the last time you reviewed the Linux kernel code looking for possible backdoors, found none and compiled your own kernel? Btw, when was the last time you reviewed the GCC code looking for possible backdoors, found none and built it from scratch? Btw, when was the last time...

Most companies and users get their pre-compiled distros and never bother because it's an impossible task so I don't see how open source is any better in this regard.
Ask HN: Do YC startups hire people from abroad?
I see it quite frequently on HN that YC startups are looking for employees, mostly in the tech area. I am curious whether those startups hire people from abroad who will move then to the US to start working? Do visa issues and work permits cause too much trouble, so only US citizens are considered being employed?
Deis will be released soon. It's an open-source PaaS based on Docker & Chef, with a user experience modeled after Heroku. You create a "formation" which contains a configurable number of backends and Nginx proxies. After you git push your app to the formation, you can scale web=N worker=N just like Heroku. Deis will automatically balance Docker containers across the backends, reconfigure routing, etc.. all using Chef. The goal is to provide a Heroku-like platform where you control everything: Chef Server, PaaS controllers, hosting providers, routing layer, etc..
Europe Wants More Concessions From Google
Ah ok then I misunderstood.
PyPI Notifier: Watches your requirements.txt files
or a factory reset.
EU to abandon net neutrality on Internet speed
Looking to move into a position as a Python developer, with a mix of front and backend work.
I find it really sad when people REFUSE to believe this guy, but he said himself people would not believe him anyway :(

Here in Brazil, this plan was also implemented, part of it for example was the creation of our no-fault divorce laws with help of TV Soap Operas.

Later, the author of the soap opera that pushed for no-fault divorce (and indeed, it worked, no-fault divorce was made law in the same year as his soap opera) made even a book writing on how he is a communist and how he uses TV to manipulate society toward communist objectives, and even if you point Yuri interview and this guy book, people refuse to believe it, they think that society changed because it was 100% their choice and that the changes were 100% good and whoever say the opposite is crazy.
That's not the first service of such kind: see http://natribu.org/en/ (lacks an API however :-)
We're slowly coming back online, there are reports of a (D)DOS attack against them but I can't find a source.
Not really. He explains what he means in the article.

> - US-based companies, or companies willing to create US-based investable entities (which is easy). Shopify started in Canada, for instance.

The business can be founded anywhere as long as it has a US based entity.
Not unlike being a Roman citizen, perhaps? We have rights, but why don't you go and crucify some rabble rousers, Mr. public official?
At least Console2 isn't a pipe but instead polls the screen buffer of the invisible console window of the guest application. But could be that things have changed by now.
Dare HN: Another Hat Puzzle
One more article that talks about obesity without naming the hunger problem: absolutely useless!
What non-obese people, and among them many doctors as well, have a hard time to understand, is that eating too much is (usually) just the direct consequence of being too hungry.
Hunger is not only the reason why obese people eat too much, it's also the reason why a diet is the most useless advise you can give to an obese. No diet will cure his hunger, and as such he will just suffer from a different reason: instead of feeling his body exploding, he will always feel an unnatural hunger that will suck the joy of living out of him.
Don't talk of calories to an obese: he couldn't care less! Teach him how to get rid of his hunger without eating too much, and you will mark a point.
Where are you from in Poland? I have been there 2 weeks in June (paddling down the Vistula from Krakow to Gdansk). Very interesting country, I really liked Krakow(I live in Munich).

On which projects are you working on? I am coding a group purchasing/ecommerce platform in flask, foodtypically, the site will be up soon (hopefully).
Make Internet Explorer 6-9 render several CSS3 features
While I don't shop at Walmart (I feel that Costco treats their people far better), I do have to admit that having access to Walmarts supply chain could be a net positive for OLPC.

General order of business for Walmart is to demand ever lower prices of their suppliers. Since OLPC doesn't actually make the devices themselves (I think a Chinese ODM does it), and the volume is low, OLPC doesn't have the ability to apply much pressure to the suppliers. However, distribution via Walmart could get the volume up to where they're now buying components in the "500k-1m" column, with significant cost savings. And the OLPC people could get a Walmart junior VP on the phone and he'd apply some pressure to the suppliers.

So far as subsidizing a new yacht -- sure, Walmart is going to take a cut. But I expect it's a pretty small one, as they get a lot of positive publicity for supporting the OLPC project. So for them, much of the carrying cost of this device is a marketing/publicity expense, not like they were selling a refrigerator or something.
I've just ordered a USB version because Dragon requires really clear quality sound, and just plugging a 3.5 mm jack into the Line In port is and going to work because Dragon will only recognise USB devices.

But fingers crossed this one will work!
> Google has harvested the location, name and signal strength of many millions of wireless networks across the world

Don't forget that that dataset of wireless locations is updated continuously through crowdsourcing.
> S3 static-site-only version of Heroku

You mean...a CDN?
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It's really sad to see the HN community hate on Tim Ferriss so much. Yeah, he's a controversial person, and he's totally aware of that (even using it to his advantages).

But after you inserted your 4 Hour joke here, think about what you have done, that created value in this world?

Tim wrote three NYT Bestsellers and at least two (if not three depending on how you'll measure this) have touched and changed so many lives in a positive way. What have you done?
Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: Many YC companies hire foreign employees. This does cause a LOT of visa headaches for them, so much so that YC has held events for people to swap stories and strategies for getting visa issues resolved. (YC companies additionally frequently have founders coming from abroad, which is a headache which is, if possible, more complicated than hiring an employee from abroad.)

Anecdotally, most (?) YC companies seem to prefer their employees to be located close to them, but that preference is not universal.
Does...it really matter?
Quora Hackathon prizes seem... a little lacking
I understand it's not about the prizes but I mean, come on. A Quora t-shirt, a Quora book, or a meeting with the Quora founder?

On the other hand, I think Hackaton prizes kind of tend to defeat the community building experience.

I'm going to ask HN: what do you think about this? Is it a thinly veiled attempt by Quora to get people to come up with ML algorithms for them, or is it a way to make the experience about community rather than the prizes?

Or you know, any other thoughts.
DNS for our domains seems to be back up now, for now at least.

In case anyone is interested, looking at our google analytics it appears this started sometime around 6AM MST, and got 'fixed' around 8:45AM MST. Of course it's impossible to say exactly when, because of DNS TTL & caching.
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> Google's scheme allows them to harvest the passwords to a vast number of wireless networks.

I wasn't too worried until I read this from you.
To try and nip this particular thread in the bud -- I think that forks in general, and Lodash in particular, are great. As CoffeeScript has Coco, Redux, Kaffeine, and LiveScript; as Backbone has Spine; Underscore has Lodash. They're fertile ground for exploring different approaches.

My problem isn't with the Lodash project, just with the unfortunate fact that the maintainer has had some incredibly toxic behavior with respect to cooperating around open-source. Without getting into details, as soon as he's ready to collaborate in a pleasant and productive fashion, he's welcome to have his commit access back to Underscore, and merge in whatever he likes.
The Windows console isn't a terminal emulator, though, and never tried to be (ansi.sys notwithstanding, as that was a DOS remnant). I guess what most people actually want isn't a terminal emulator (which is kinda useless with the Windows Console API anyway) but just the nicenesses of a resizable console they have come to expect on Linux.
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