skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Initiating Self Destruct
I understand, I don't even like linking my pseudo-anonymous accounts across different sites. Eventually you'd give away enough information that you could be easily identified anyway.
I checked this at home - awesome, should be added to HN as a little widget with polls.
Do you ask for the same level of rigorousness when McDonalds release a new item on their menu? I'd hazard a guess that more people consume that new item than anyone will ever consume in Soylent.

Remember supersize me, that guy started having liver problems from eating McDonalds... Yet nothing changes and McDonalds keeps selling crap.

Food is a toy, and Soylent are very far down the scale of "bad food products I can buy"
The problem is he's wrong and has presented no compelling evidence at all.

The Guardian and every other major news outlet seemed to think his evidence was compelling.
Applying to YC actually forces you to think about the things that you need to do to make a project work.

If you keep at it eventually you become more capable, start to find traction on your own, and you find that you've gained most of the skills that you thought you needed something like YC to teach you.

I spent my 20's grasping for something that was just out of reach, and I'm better for it.
Now try latest PostgreSQL with latest PostGIS, especially when a new release is out, but the Windows binary is still missing. Building PostGIS for Windows is not for the faint of heart.
It appears also (as best as I can tell without being able to understand Icelandic) that there is a law on the books that makes it prosecutable to 'publicly ridicule an individual or group on the grounds of their "nationality, skin color, race, religion, or sexual orientation."'

I wonder how broadly that could be interpreted. The UK doesn't give me hope.
Well, ok. Sure if you are looking to get acqui-hired, you need people to be acquihired. That's a completely different situation from trying to convince investors though.
> Regarding the site with the turotial suite: I am not a big fan of harvesting community knowledge, input and ideas and then go commercial

The tutorials are offered for free, right?

And even if they make some money of some purchasable tutorials: they have to pay for hosting too.

> On a second note, how many will use a platform like fpc's, where an external entity has immediate access to your code, for serious projects ?

You mean their Haskell Center offering?

This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHSBwlm5C8U

I think it is awesome. It makes the simple stuff dead simple (get a decent IDE with one-click web-deploy integrated up and running in <5mins, with an example app); while the hard stuff is still as easy as it was before (you can deploy to your own hardware, using your own desktop text editor and local compilation).

You say "serious", that's a strechable concept. But if serious could mean: doing some green-field web app consulting gigs (which can make serious money); then i think it is already-ready for "serious".

Then considering they are such a young company -- I'm really interested where they will head for :)

I think Haskell Center will turn out to be a game changer, a next-gen development environment (that graciously degrades back into old-skool native code producing DIY deployed stuff).
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There are plenty... nano/pico/joe if you want to work in the terminal (though who is trying to woo newbies with terminal based text editors?), and gedit/kate/kwrite in the GUI department. The idea that Linux is somehow floundering because only Vi and Emacs exist and those are difficult is absurd.

Perhaps the real question is do we want to attract more newbies? Why do we want to attract newbies? If more non-technical users are the solution to our problems, then why is Android (with their legions of newbies) such an absolute shitfest compared to traditional Linux distros?
The items I have that barcodes I'm not worried about, it is the rats nest of cables that I have really no idea what type they are that I'd like to offload and make .50c just to get them out of my hair and not feel bad about throwing them away.
Just a rant about how the Bitcoin tip bot isn't very user friendly? Lucky there's more options like Coinbase's tipping system then!
Isn't LibreOffice in Fedoras' repository? It should be GUI-clickable to install it. (In Ubuntu, it is. I would be very surprised, if Fedora didn't have something similar.)
IMO, Wikipedia has more in common with Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the fictional book featured in the series of the same title, not the work of fiction in which it featured) than Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica.
Top Silk Road Drug Dealer Was Flipped By Feds
Apologies. I updated my post to reflect the correct time.
It seems like you'd want to see scientific evidence of the potential harm of Soylent in order to count a comment as a non-middlebrow dismissal. But it shouldn't be on the doubters to prove that this stuff is healthy - can you give us a non-middlebrow reason to support it, other than "well, there's no proof that it's harmful in our small self-selected self-administered non-blinded non-controlled study, so let's give it a shot and market this thing to the whole world as a healthy long-term replacement for traditional food."
But only if you're in the US right? I'm sick of eBay too, but they bought the "Australian" Gumtree trading site as well so there's really no alternatives.
Here is an argument for why the hated David Pogue writes about technology the way he does, and why it resonates: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/print/69418

I haven't read much from him since I was a kid, when I had a copy of Macworld Mac & Power Mac Secrets and was stuffing the book's 3.25" floppies into my Powermac 6100 to use ResEdit, but I especially remember the prose being engaging even apart from the interesting tricks and hacks the book covered. In his book computers lived in a world with people, rather than in a universe unto themselves, so I learned a little extra.

Scanning through a few columns again, the writing is no less clear, and even though I generally care about how something works rather than how well, no less correct. And on areas where I have no insider experience or information, like cell phone billing practices, the writing was suprisingly helpful and entertaining: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/t-mobile-hands-con...

This is a serious move from Yahoo. Given the sort of demographic that reads the New York Times and buys tech books, Yahoo must have paid Pogue a lot to have him switch from New York Times columnist David Pogue to Yahoo! columnist David Pogue. I wonder who will be next.
I'm glad this is an important question but I always struggle with it.

1. I'm doing my startup for too many reasons to list.

2. Having multidisciplinary domain expertise doesn't allow for a concise answer.

3. At least the last part is easier since people that I've only met once keep checking in to ask when we'll launch.
My point still applies :) Could you imagine PR companies warring to get their 'native content' into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the book featured in the series)? Now that would have been prescient.
I suppose it depends on your perspective. One could just as easily say that the free market won despite the activity of government.
Yahoo pays software engineer more than Google
The Duke Power decision was unconstitutional, and it involved total racial segregation and galling defiance of the courts. It has very little applicability to highly-educated employees, if for no other reason than there are virtually no Africans capable of doing the jobs.
Google Maps Engine Pro
Now we're getting into semantics, but the point is, it says "including", and you can't "include" Finland and Iceland into Scandinavia. That would be like saying "North America (including Brazil and Chile)".

You could, however, say, Scandinavia PLUS Finland and Iceland - but that's not what OP wrote.
Northern part of South America = Central America
If you haven't seen it, a link I think worthy of a listen, George Carlin Talks About "Stuff":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
I've built a basic poker tracker with AngularJS/FileReader API called PokerStoker.com. Was just about expecting to see the same! :-) At the moment its sitting on HD waiting for me to polish it off. If theres any casual poker players out there that are looking for a simple tracker, msg me. I'll send you the beta link.
Loads of articles are flagged as advertisements, questionable notability, conflicts of interest etc and all that happens is the page sits there with the notice for years and nobody cares.

I think they should team up with Google and Apple and really hurt companies that shill, spam and link farm - app and search rankings. Then they should put a price on their heads.
Feuer told me that Zuck gave him some memorable advice on building out a strong team. The two golden rules? Only hire people you’d spend time with socially, and make sure you’d feel comfortable reporting to the person if roles were reversed.

I'm not a big fan of the "culture fit" filter, but the second one is great advice. Peter Drucker said[1] something similar: “Picking a leader: would I want my son or daughter to work under that person?”

1: http://robertamter.blogspot.com/2008/07/peter-druckers-tenet...
For the same reason they don't count the cost of refrigeration of soylent
No one talks about it because the cost is negligible. Running a 1.5kW stovetop full blast for an hour costs 19 cents at the average electricity price in the US.
I wouldn't call NT security model hands down superior to any other general purpose mainstream OS at the time. Much more complex and fine-grained, yes. However, it is the same complexity that is killing it. Nobody has the time to learn it properly and secure the system appropriately.

So in the end, worse is better, because it is usable in practice by people with deadlines.

Similarly, in the Linux world, SELinux provides much better security. But then again, very few people know how it works and how to configure it, so even when it is enabled, it relies on policies supplied by OS vendor.
I like this alternative to titling.

The original headline is preserved, and clarified by the editorial clarification in square brackets. It would be great for HN to adopt this as a solution to the modified headline problem, with the provisio that editorial comment must only be used for the purposes of clarification.
Yes, following on to 001sky, for-profit American universities do exist -- they're things like University of Phoenix or DeVry. All of the traditional residential big-name universities that you're probably thinking of, however, are not-for-profits.
If McDonald actually advocated the diet the Supersize Me guy had, then I suspect far more people would be concerned. I don't think the food substance is what has people concerned here; rather the hype and claims surrounding it are concerning.

On the other hand... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Head
Another delivery:

"everyone admires a person who became a billionaire in a depression more than a good-times billionaire"

There is a strong scenario of making a fortune out of depression: that is, vulturing and monetizing decay.

A factory struggles? Buy it out for nothing, lay out everybody, scrap equipment for metals!
People can't make ends meet? Micro-lend them at 200% interest!
Local police grinds to a halt due to lack of funds? Murder @ Steal, you'll legalize your capitals later!
Use chaos and pain to forcibly take every low hanging fruit, and there would be totalitarian dictators and serial murderers less hated than you.

This all actually happened in ex-USSR in the 90-s.
Amazon S3: Simple Stuff Storage
> all Microsoft needs to do is release specs and then setup a certifying service for OEMs

So this exists. It's called the Windows Logo Program for Hardware. The reason we are reading this article is that it failed to do the job.

What you seem not to be understanding is that in order to "match Apple hardware in battery life" one also has to "match Apple hardware" in the small number of distinct hardware configurations sold per year.

Taking that hardware configuration and calling it "a standard" doesn't actually do anything. If your standard is broad enough to support 100 hardware configurations, battery life will be poor. If your standard is narrow enough to only support 2 hardware configurations, OEMs will not build it, because Dell has no way to differentiate itself from Toshiba.

To match Apple, Microsoft needs to cut back to maybe 3 models of Windows tablets per year. You can make that into a standard if you like, but no OEM will ever adopt it. They will all (correctly) point out that such a standard is designed for Microsoft's hardware team to implement and to hell with all the third parties.
ZeroVM is LXC but with NaCl.
Only if Time, Gas, and Electricity are free.
Van Lindberg here from Rackspace. If you have any questions, I am around to answer.
I wonder if RainMeter can host PowerShell.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/5808445
I don't think the machine were free. You could either rent it for cheap, or buy it. There was a few revision of the hard too, but most people had a semi-old revision like v2 or v3 (don't remember exactly). Maybe in the 2000 the old Minitels were given to those who rented it previously, that way the government (well, the now public telecom company France Telecom) did not have to recycle them all...

The only free service was the Yellow and White pages IIRC. And only for 3 minutes. Well, you could always disconnect when approaching the 3 minutes limit, then reconnect. Nobody spends whole days on the Yellow and White Pages anyway :)
Shipping fat binaries with different versions for every different Atom/Core/Xeon/FX/Phenom/Opteron Intel/AMD/Nvidia + chipset glue combination would be quite a feat.

This could go well beyond what compiling every package for your specific machine can do.
Oh the server is down: http://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=ls&chs=62x300&chd=t:70...
Show HN: Unirest
No one sells Big Macs as the only meal you'll ever need though, or even claim it's good for your health.

The idea is sound, even though it's nothing new, and I make use of something similar (Ensure) daily. The critics of Soylent mainly criticize the outrageous claims made based on an inconclusive experiment of N=1, which is an amateur way of proposing solutions to health related issues to being with.

Considering how they raised their money now, I won't touch it even if they get an FDA seal of approval.
Ah! My first submission was for w09, I thought that I re-submitted my apps for each of the next cycles, making this my 10th. I'm at 6? Will update the title.

Should have made it: "From someone who has been applying for 5 years"

I've had a mix of of mcu/mikeurbanski accounts online for years, when I finally decided to pick one I settled on mikeurbanski. A rename would be useful, but the two accounts have diverged in the past year.
That's an interesting question that I hadn't really thought about before. Aside from just being generally curious about the exact weather conditions, here are some things that I use it for:

1. I live in a small apartment, so during the humid summers in New England with computer equipment running, it stays consistently hot. The A/C is running more often than not. In those cases, it's nice to get a quick gauge of the temperature/humidity. For example, it might guide me in whether I want to have a cigar in the evening.

2. I find it useful to ascribe a quantitative value to weather like temperature, since it gives me an idea of what I need to wear if I'm going to be outside for any length of time. e.g., low 50s I can get by comfortably at an idle position with shorts, shoes and a sweatshirt, but low 40s requires pants to stay comfortable. It can be difficult to tell that by just stepping outside for a few seconds...

Sorry about the long-winded response, but your question was curiously provocative!
Dunbar's number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number).

The average person can only maintain 150 relationships; how is popular culture (which is composed of thousands or even millions of people) closer to nature than isolationism?
> Also, with the military might of modern 1st world countries, I don't really believe that it matters if you have to cross an ocean first if you are going to literally storm the Bastille; and with the internet age, the distance doesn't really matter for a figurative storm, either.

A history lesson - storming the bastille [1] is not done by a military, but by pitchfork wielding mobs. Yes, it's going to be tougher to "throw out the bums" if they happen to be a distant country with modern armaments.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille
This is total applications submitted (scaled to fit the graph).
Go watch Office Space.
Rails Rumble: Let The Judging Commence
People are concerned about the hype? Not the product?

So does it concern you that in McDonalds ads there are always attractive slim people, when in fact at most stores you see average looking obese people?

Are we arguing truth in advertising? Or Danger in food products?
You had me there for about 1.5 seconds. I've seen too many real graphs that look like that.
The Guardian and every other major news outlet seemed to think his evidence was worth publishing. This is the same media circus we decry for unfounded false controversies and double-dealing, such as over the recent US government shutdown.

Not sure what makes you think that journalists are a legitimate authority to make appeals to.
And this is why progress in medicine is so absolutely glacial and expensive. When it costs $4 billion dollars on average to get a new drug past the FDA, is it any wonder why they cost so much?
The Pro is just another PC. I'd like to see the ARM-based Surface running Linux.
Just don't spend it, that's the key. ;)

A simple solution: auto-transfer the 'extra income' every month to a low-interest checking/savings account. Once a year, transfer some amount from low-interest savings into an index fund.
You make them sound like a forest fire.
That's a fair point, but Android is open source (and indeed was heavily marketed on that basis). They don't get to use any mechanism they like to make the situation comparable to their closed competitors. Their situation is also not comparable to iOS, WP, etc, because of their position of market dominance, just the same as the situation with Windows and Mac OS back in the day.
Interesting - does the Node version work if packaged for the browser i.e. by Browserify? Of course, there would be caveats, but it would seem like that would be very much in the spirit of this unified API.
GitHub is a false profit. Almost every excellent programmer I know has almost nothing in their public GitHub. I've been doing this for a great many years however going off my GitHub I'm barely a programmer if that's the metric you're tracking.
Ask HN: Are there any YC Alum who can give me feedback on my application?
Hi, myself and I am sure many others would be very grateful if any YC alum could spare some time to give some feedback about our YC apps.

My email is ofer@berkeley.edu if anyone has some time to spare. Thank you very much!
If you were really paranoid, you wouldn't post on the Internet where your data traces could be analyzed.
This is exactly why most malware out there targets iOS, and why so many botnets are comprised of iOS divides. Right?
Not entirely related, but do you think your assessment of a particular application (team, idea or any other component therein) is influenced at all by the quality of applications that precede and succeed it, especially considering the sheer volume and the rate at which you go through the apps?
Will Businesses Embrace Windows 8.1 and Surface 2?
Your App is Cheaper than a Cup of Coffee?
This was meant as a comment to vetinari.
Huge congrats to the LiteStack team. I was in their TechStars class and those guys are super smart.
been to ODU :) but I live in Seattle now
On the software side, how are you managing to sort through the sheer number of applicants?
Are teenagers really careless about online privacy?
Makes me proud to be French.

Xavier Niel is launching a tuition-free developer school:

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/03/26/rumor-confirmed-xavie...

The FT also recently had lunch with him:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/22167134-b24a-11e2-8540-00144feabd...
My bet: backwards compatibility. Better power management requires changes in behaviour of the OS and it is very hard to change behaviour without breaking things.

Suppose the USB sleep state handling code is suboptimal. Is that because programmers paid less attention to power usage a decade ago, or because some devices implement a power state incorrectly? If the latter, which devices? If Microsoft isn't 100% sure they know of all devices for which it is needed, they may choose to leave the less efficient code in place regardless of whether a deficient device is plugged in.

An example might be a pet peeve I have with Windows: its tendency to 'discover new hardware' when one plugs a bog standard mouse or keyboard into a USB port for the umpteenth time. That in itself is baffling, but it can take Windows half a minute or so to figure out that it has a driver for the device and start it. I do not have the faintest idea what it does in that time, but it must be unavoidable within the constraints microsoft sets itself, since it hasn't been fixed in a decade or so (but it has been improved quite a bit) and I bet it must have itched quite a few engineers.

Whatever the cause, plugging in a USB mouse must use way more power on Windiws than on a Mac.
I know you're in the UK, but I use http://www.futureadvisor.com here in the US. I make monthly deposits, they rebalance according to investment research.
You can already buy Reddit gold with bitcoin
How is this being updated? The data is encoded in the url, so the link url must be changing periodically. Doesn't this mean 'nthnclrk' is doing the charting?
3 steps to 1 penny facebook clicks
> Do you ask for the same level of rigorousness when McDonalds release a new item on their menu?

No, because I've already dismissed McDonald's menu as not having any relevance to anything I care about.

EDIT: OTOH, were people promoting McDonald's new menu items as the solution to real problems (both personal and global), I'd react with the same kind of skepticism as I do to Soylent's claims.
I used to manage a storgae, actually two. They were all
huge rip offs. I only met a handful of people who used them
correctly; move in and move out within a month. 99.9% of
people move their crap(sorry, but unless it silver, or gold
bullion) in and leave it their forever. The owners know this and exploit the psychological phenomenon. Plus, they
actually love late fees. There was a difference between
what men and women horder. If you are close to homeless,
and still have a car a small storage unit does made sense
though. Get the smallest unit available--closet size--and
use it to store clothes and food, and personal effects.
Make sure to keep your automobile--preferably a inconspicuous van--like a VW newer bus, or anything that
dosen't stand out as looking like you sleep in it. One
very ingenious young an converted a small moving truck into
an apartment. He parked in the commercial areas and lived
that way for years. He never told anyone though. People
can be really petty--and beyond mean. God bless anyone
who is contemplating using a Storage Facility.
> * I get by because everybody thinks I am smart but I feel like an impostor*

That's a real thing. Almost all of the wildly talented people in my life feel Impostor Syndrome[0] at some level. Three Panel Soul even did a spot-on comic about it [1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

[1] http://threepanelsoul.com/2013/10/14/on-impostor-syndrome/

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I normally have dot and cross as free functions.
| Aren't you just being lazy? :)

I can't tell if this is a functional programming joke or not...