skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just asked my office mate who's been using VIM on ubuntu for probably 10 years (vim, maybe not ubuntu) now about this. He literally edits and builds code all day every day for 8+ hours. His environment is pretty simple, not many plugins, a solarized them and that's about it. He mostly develops in css, html, javascript, lots of python, and c++. Never had a segfault. This matches my experience as well.

As others have said, how in the world are you having these kinds of issues?
How is the startup game not stacked towards the wealthy already?
Last company I worked at, we were doing planning for 2 years and have yet to ship a product. There is something to be said for GSD, but only for startups in teams of under 10. Why? - because shipping a product gives you something to look forward to, live product is something you can brag about show and change the world with. It is better to ship than not to ship. If you can't do it in 2 months - cut features out, etc etc.

If you have razor sharp focus and most people are apt in their roles and know what to do without looking up to a central person - thats called teamwork. However when you get to point when you start getting less focused and start looking for a new target, things got to get reorganized, thats when GSD is useless. When realigning troops you got to give some wiggle room instead of blindingly forging ahead, maybe off the cliff. When you hire more people - grow beyond original team - GSD can be a bit hard to deal with and frankly destructive on the whole to the growth of a company.

It is never easy.

my 2c.
I'm surprised that some upstart search engine hasn't made a selling point that they ignore robots.txt and claim they search the pages google doesn't or something.
What is keeping this service from getting shut down as well?
IMO - Abstraction is almost a prerequisite for creating anything interesting or innovative.

Meaning: my best ideas always come from playing in non-traditional representational systems within a certain medium. Particularly drawing. I find sketching/scribbling/drawing things generates ideas that I could not have thought of by just writing/brainstorming. You may even be able to apply it to the example of how software development models have jumped paradigms into mainstream business management (eg, agile teams). Bret's onto something here.
I guess we can get market data on the value of a YC dinner...
What Snapchat has is millions of users who have formed the habit of opening the app every day and using it to communicate, sending 350 million* snaps a day. You can go ahead and make clones of Snapchat (or Facebook or Twitter), but building a clone does not guarantee that you will get the number users that Snapchat (or Facebook or Twitter) have. The investors are betting that the folks at Snapchat will experiment to find ways to extract money from some small subset of Snapchat's users (e.g. let's say Snapchat has 350 million users and they find a way to extract $10 a year from 1% of their users, then that's $35 million a year). This is the bet that the investors of Snapchat are making. It's a risky bet, but they're OK with that. They're used to making risky bets. Most of their bets don't pan out, but the ones that do...well, you're smart, you get the picture.

* This number was taken from the article.

[Edited to fix typos.]
My father is in the hospital about to have a quadruple bypass. He has been a vegan for 15 years and is on his 2nd heart attack. The "animal fats cause heart disease" stuff has brainwashed him into thinking that his carb rich vegan diet is good for him. It's not (which isn't to say that if he did a GOOD vegan diet he wouldn't be much healthier).

I think this article is very insightful. One very good indicator (although not as good as the details the author got tested) is a person's HDL to triglyceride ratio. High levels of HDL are good, and low triglycerides are good, since its currently thought that higher triglyceride levels are linked to the small, dense LDL particles that work their way into artery walls.
According to the link below it is up to 540 million active users, so it sounds like it is doing OK.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/google-540m-monthly...
As if a Bay Area kid whose parent has a couple extra grand to bid on such dinners is going to be short on advantages in startuplandia. How about a chance for disadvantaged kids to attend a YC dinner?
Was thinking the same. Also

>The advice to "eat well and exercise" didn't seem particularly insightful

...but it actually makes a world of a difference. I think this is the most important advice and people tend to discard it as generic and useless - the truth is that it's very hard. Being active isn't a big deal, but for a week? For a full month? Full year? Full decade? Being consistent in eating well and exercising is challenging.

The doctor won't set goals for yourself, but if need a number, give yourself one and try improving on it constantly. There are tons of tools, apps, websites to help you. I've always been very active since I was a kid and still am now (~500 minutes of sports/week) and I can already see a big difference with my friends who aren't. And I'm not old at all.

If you decide to start exercising cause you have symptoms, it's probably too late.
Just another reason not to run your development environment on the bleeding edge
can someone suggest me a good tutorial for Valgrind? Thank you
> I've been wondering though why didn't I have this level of discussion with my doctor?

1. For starters doctors are good but not super people. The amount of time you can allocate yourself can mean you win via quantity over quality.

2. Tragedy of the commons. Tests that might help you don't necessarily help society. Tying up a machine that helps people with cancer hurts society but might have a benefit to yourself. What you want is different to what your doctor wants.

3. Doctors are not specialists. I read a quote(Unknown how truth) doctors only have 24 hours of dietary training and should not be giving out dietary advice. But given they often see people incapable of helping themselves or going to a specialist they give out advice anyway.
it varies, but usually works best with music I'm already familiar with

today is was
1) the Fretless (irish classical hybrid)
2) Foo Fighters
3) Eve 6

sometimes I'll stream wmbr (wmbr.org). They have a variety of music thats usually good. They archive the shows to for later listen if you don't like whats on now.
Why didn't this cause an infinite loop?
Please show me the spec. Or even a high level discussion of the protocol.
Sure. I am not denying that. It is just inefficient. Let us do some math. I try to hit 150 gms of protein per day while also staying within my calorie limit. I can do that right now while staying under a 1800 calorie limit.

From Google, 1 ounce of Chia seeds is 4.7 gms of protein, 138 calories. I would have to eat 31 ounces of Chia seeds to get 150 gms of protein. That is 4030 calories per day. Guess what happens then? I gain weight.
> Generic advice to eat well and exercise is not as effective as having a specific number you're trying to improve on e.g. lowering your ApoB count.

I'm not so sure this is a wise approach.

I won't say that numbers aren't important, but it's worth noting that in many cases, doctors still don't know what particular measurements actually mean in practical terms because cause versus correlation is so hard to figure out in complex systems like the human body.

As an example: the general consensus has been that "good" cholesterol (HDL) has a protective effect and that those with lower HDL levels are at risk. You can have an LDL of under 150, low triglycerides and your cholesterol ratios can be stellar, but if your absolute HDL number is low, there's a good chance your doctor will talk to you and, at a minimum, recommend ways that you might be able to bring your HDL level up.

One common approach of doing this has been to use niacin, yet a 2011 clinical trial involving the use of niacin in an attempt to increase HDL levels in a high-risk population failed to produce the hoped-for risk reduction despite the fact that the niacin did increase HDL levels[1]. A larger, more recent study had a very similar outcome[2].

One logical possibility is that the HDL level reflects some other underlying factor which controls for risk and doesn't itself have the ability to influence risk. If this is the case, a higher HDL number may confer little to no protection unless it is the product of some other natural process.

[1] http://www.nih.gov/news/health/may2011/nhlbi-26.htm

[2] http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/03/0...
I would love to see such a CMS open-sourced, I'm sure there are a lot of people who would like such a thing
I've read the paper. The title is alarmist. "selfish" mining seems to work, pools should implement it as fast as possible. When a majority of them do, the problem cancels out. The given solution suggest propagating all chains and choosing a random one to mine on. Their proposed solution is immediately exploitable, as a "selfish pool" could disseminate as many competing forks as possible to dilute the processing power of the "honest" system then collaborate on a single chain.
> If you believe such courts aren't biased

I don't recall arguing that such courts aren't biased. All courts are biased, because all courts are made up of people, and all people are biased.

That being said, more Serbs being indicted and convicted by the ICTY doesn't mean the court is biased. It could be a result of more Serbian war crimes.
This is a great way of putting a UI on top of JSON! I created http://jsonblob.com/ to accomplish the same thing, but a spreadsheet is much more familiar than a JSON editor.
Yes, I plead guilty to tweaking the title a little for marketing purposes. I'm sorry if that got some people overexcited.

RinohType should eventually be able to replace LaTeX though, so it is not that far-fetched either. Also, the first paragraph of the article should help temper that excitement.
Since the money's going to scholarships, the situation actually is something like that, except the latter parents get something better.
The first thing that came to mind: Minecraft.
To be fair, you did state that people on the receiving end of no-knock raids are either universally bad and have it coming, or clerical errors are to be blamed. I was merely responding to that particular dichotomy.

Also, even when shooting a dog is justified from a tactical perspective during the course of a raid, it becomes an unnecessary tragedy when the decision to use that level of force (i.e. the no-knock raid) turns out to be bogus in the first place. It is certainly relevant to the topic at hand.
Not that I would want to do this, but (just so I can judge the scope of what you're saying), if someone were to start a kickstarter to rewrite it, would $100,000 be enough?
Perhaps there should be a timeframe clarification, "few successful entrepreneurs blogged while doing their venture that made them successful." I'd say for many of the successful entrepreneurs, it was only after they were "successful" that the opportunity to productively blog was opened up.
Not much of an anime nerd,but I love Miyazaki's work, so yeah, that makes sense now that you say it
Hence the get a second opinion.

You can get enough protein for weight training on a vegetarian diet btw.
Given two displays with identical dimensions, where one has twice the DPI of the other, then a square specified to be "width: 400px" should be physically half the size on the higher-DPI screen.

Designers who want to render at a particular size (e.g. for buttons that a user will push) should specify sizes in physical dimensions, such as inches or cm.
Sure, I understand no one has the answers yet. The good thing about being able to understand some stats is that I can read these medical papers that doctors also read. It just surprised me to hear this coming from this specific doctor who is well respected sports doctor who also works with the Giants.
Love and Venom, short doc about an Ohio apitherapist
As accurate as it may be, it's terrible from a PR standpoint. The grandmother next door will be less likely to adopt its use if she associates it with darkness/nefariousness. You may be OK with it and understand its true meaning, but this isn't about just you.
True. My thoughts too which is why I got into doing this about 6 months ago but since I've only had limited success I've had a few doubts recently.

I wish I could find a really good online marketing guide. One aimed at developers would be perfect. It seems there is no shortage of "learn programming" resources out there but marketing courses always seem so scammy.
The official Quick Start Guide [0] is decent I think. Do you need something specific?

[0] - http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/QuickStart.html
Changes to the Tent Roadmap
I don't think you should be auctioning this for money. I think you should have some sort of way for kids in that age range to submit a video to you, like a 30 second video someone on YCombinator could watch, and to see their potential. Some rich kid that might think he's got what it takes will ask his rich daddy to pay for it.
Weird, using latest Chrome as well, w/ Mavericks.
No apps running except for this one tab.
You seem to have missed this news (which this story is a follow-up to):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...
Good post. The only quibble I could have is that almost everyone understands what "Quality" is yet it requires education and experience to understand "Scope". Maybe that's a conversation/education you have with prospective clients though.
I see one character that will be hugely successful now that it's standardized: 1f595
Good work dude!
Show HN: we made a gem for abbreviated heroku CLI commands
My first exposure to Boyd and the OODA loop was about 2 years ago when I first read Steve Blank's The Four Steps To The Epiphany, and now I'm hooked. I can't wait to dig into some of the books and other resources this thread has brought to light.

It's also very interesting that OODA is a fractal strategy. You have OODA loops inside of OODA loops. You can have a yearly OODA loop (project) with monthly OODA loops inside of it (sprints), and daily OODA loops inside of that (stand-ups and day-to-day operations).

That's an excellent point and an interesting way of looking at it.

I wonder if many (most?) businesses could benefit from making the OODA loop more explicit in their operations and challenge people to think "What part of the loop am I operating in right now?" when they make decisions or take actions. Encoding the Boyd Loop right into business processes at the BPM level could be an interesting experiment...
The spam right now is out of control, but it might die off in a few days. You should consider using http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/XKCD-SIGNAL mode for your chat.
Didn't know about this. Blew me away. The editor looks really awesome. What is the software called?

I am somewhat intrigued by the idea to represent arbitrary systems. I wonder where you might hit a wall within the editor, and how you can extend the editor to be able to visualize what might be possible to vizualize now. Like Emacs paired with these capabilities?
They are creating a new protocol to be adopted and marketed by other email providers (including Lavabit).

Those companies can take care of Grandma.
Note that this is a WIP version; you should not judge RinohType on the basis of the example documents for now. I hope you'll understand that at this point I'm focusing on functionality, not on style.

The table rendering got messed up when I rewrote the line spacing code. Fixing the table rendering would just require an adjustment of the table style definition.
In silicon valley merits play a huge part, but just like any other places, people are the build blocks of social interaction. Your connections and people you know and any other form of resources (rich parents, friend of VCs, etc) would fundamentally play a huge role in your success.

I still think Silicon Valley is meritocracy since it's actually very difficult to succeed without any kind of value/merit, but meritocracy does not imply it's always going to be a fair playground for everyone.
Unless they're using some kind of new technology to detect water it seems like the sensor needs to be where the unwanted water will be. And that's on the floor.
Slow-jamming your pitch
Google in charge of having good designers : check.
Why am I not surprised ?
This New Yorker cartoon shows in humor the limits of attempting to optimize your health.

http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Thought-balloon-above-man-...

Of course it's important care about your health and do what you can, but given the large error bars on our knowledge and the randomness of life in general, I think that it's worth thinking about how much time and effort should be spent on it. There is a correct amount of effort, I'm just not sure that monitoring these additional numbers is worth it; it may be adding more noise than signal to the problem of living a fulfilled, healthy, and happy life.
Perfect decorators with Draper
Draper gives you a great way to decorate your ActiveRecord objects. But what is even better is that it allows you to do that transparently.
..FWIW, for those of you who haven't been enlightened with the power that Google Apps Script[1] offers yet, be sure to check it out: http://script.google.com. Layered on top of Spreadsheets, this pair takes prototyping to a whole new level.

[1] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/
So in your view a free market has perfect actors with perfect information and none of them think "climate change" is a hoax?

This is not reality my misrepresentation of your view was better than this one. :(
Roaming city would actually work in real life
Creating an Auto-Growing Text Input
If bigotry is the standard in the society you're in, so that refusing to do business with bigots means not doing business at all, your best bet is to move to another society, because you and others like you who are not bigots are obviously hopelessly outnumbered. Are you saying that was the case in the US in the 1950's and 1960's when the civil rights movement was at its height? If so, how did the movement get so much popular support?

It seems to me that the actual facts, when the civil rights movement was at its height, were that there was a minority that wanted bigotry to be the standard, and a majority who did not. In my hypothetical world, that majority would have used its market power to make the bigots unable to do business; the only role the government would have had to play would have been to make sure the bigots could not use government power to prop up their businesses.

How would such a hypothetical world be better than the one we have? Need you ask? All the effort we spend today on diversity training, enforcing EEO laws, etc., etc., would be spent on productive effort instead.
Have you thought about building an API to let websites use it with their own content ? Also, a search engine would be pretty cool ;) Instead of clicking on an item in circle #1 and then sub-section in circle #2, user could type his own keyword in circle #1 and add his own sub-section in circle #2. Obviously you can already do this on Google using + and all the others signs, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people do not know how to use it.
We started from "War crimes are an add insult to injury course of action. They are a way for victors to humiliate the vanquished." Your counterargument was ICTY. I claim that it's a disputable argument.

And that moreover, it's U.S. that's effectively victorious and untouchable since very long ago.
NPM has been down today
Bitcoin Reaches $2.7 Billion Market Cap
Are you self-employed, or do you work for someone else?

If you work for someone else, as almost all people do, you have made the decision that the time you spend at work is less valuable than your paycheck.
The parent post mentioned "moral", I was just making the point not to take online infographics too seriously - there are inaccuracies in both directions.
> Quinoa is 14% complete protein, and chia is almost 17%

Quinoa provides 3.8 grams of protein per 100kcal of energy [1]. Boneless skinless chicken breast provides 18.8 grams of protein per 100kcal of energy [2].

A weightlifter who wished to consume 100 grams of protein per day would have to eat 2632 kcal of quinoa, vs. 532 kcal of chicken breast.

[1] http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6383

[2] http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/1018
It doesn't apply to the amount of gm stock an individual investor might hold, but it does apply to the amount of gm stock the government holds. Putting 26% of the company on the market would qualify as a spike in supply, and would distort the price.
The Importance of Disconnecting from the Internet
Meta aspects? Ha.

No, being the grammar police is frowned upon.
How about a chance for disadvantaged kids to attend a YC dinner?

The Poors are dangerous.
A New Tent Server
Twitter Increases Valuation To $17 Billion
Haha you caught me. Had to poke a little fun at Snapchat after a long day of writing about such a simple little service :)

Snapchat is firmly entrenched in its spot due to its first-to-move position (see Facebook's failed "Poke" project) but the point is that if it tries to change the service in an annoying manner then there is nothing to stop people from moving to an identical (or better) service that does not annoy them.
Imagine a beach. People come to the beach, play, build sand castles they later destroy. It's one beach on a long stretch of coastline. But this particular beach is incredibly popular, where lots of young people go to hang out with each other.

How much would you pay to own that beach? How would you justify that investment -- would you plan to charge an admission fee? Would you wrap the beach in ads and sponsors? Would you charge to build sandcastles? Would you sell concessions?

I think it's helpful to think of SnapChat and many other businesses with this metaphor.
One thing I have recently become aware of, after my doctor ordered a test, is checking for mutations in the MTHFR gene. It's an enzyme which deals with how we process folate into its active form and is important in many pathways

Supposedly the C677T mutation increases your risk for heart disease. There is also another one, A1298C that is very common but no consensus on how it may effect health. I also matters whether you you have one or two copies of the mutations.

Some recommend supplementing with methylated B vitamins to offset the any negative health effects, but I'm still soaking this in and am not sure what the consensus is it yet.
Number one leading cause of death: Heart Disease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate

What's scary is that we really don't know much about it. I heard Randell Schwartz (of Perl fame) talk about how the modern carb diet is killing people. He lost 60 pounds by monitoring his carb intake.

https://plus.google.com/+RandalLSchwartz/posts/9fYhGYfLNY3
But why create the friction in the first place? News are mostly about soundbites, do you think that if grandma hears on the news that a defendant is part of the 'dark mail' initiative that she will be sympathetic towards him?