skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just another reason not to run your development environment on a Mac
Disregarding whatever the rules are about this in the TOS, is there a good way to download/scrape your old archived website?
Now I'm really interested in the correlation between video hits and interview invites.
Found the updated link to the UK Statistics:

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99...

Crime statistics are on p. 14.
Just call it SafeMail. Keeping it safe from prying eyes. It sounds both positive, and implies why you would want privacy.
What that doesn't mention is how much better the game looked when you ran it on something like a 3dfx Voodoo card. I remember when I upgraded from an S3 card to a Voodoo 3, the game suddenly had things like windshield glare and partially transparent water, and much higher texture resolutions.
Those are good thought experiments that really bring clarity to the issues.
Thanks for taking the time to lay it out.

Is it naive of me to say that you should weigh in both the outcomes and the intentions to determine the degree of punishment?

So in the first case, the guy who actually hit his target gets a more severe punishment than the other two.

In the second case, the guy who demonstrated clear malicious intent deserves a more severe punishment than the other two.
As much as I like lua, it doesn't really meet the challenge I set forth. For one, you forgot to define "clean".

For another, if you put lua in the browser instead of javascript, how long do you think it will be before lua starts growing horrible warts as well?
That is the official bug report location.
Rejected from YC? Maybe this free stuff will ease the pain
Rejected from YC? Yeah, it can sting a bit.

Luckily, there's a trend here on HN where companies will offer free stuff or discounts to rejected YC applicants.

We'd like to start this off by giving anyone rejected from YC this round $20.00 of free wine courtesy of http:/www.UndergroundCellar.com !

Just forward your rejection letter to ycw14@undergroundcellar.com and you'll get a gift card emailed to you.

* Wine must be delivered to US recipient age 21+.
$ curl -sI http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/default.htm | grep Last-Modified
Last-Modified: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:19:11 GMT
Clicking "how does it work" and scrolling down has a link to a paper published in ubicomp 2010 detailing the CMOS chip and modulation. They seem pretty open about the technology to me.
is this a simplified way of sending a voice not through sms?
I think that would be fantastic, if you could figure out how to make it work. Sovereignty is a thorny issue. It could possibly happen for a cooperating collection of nations, though determining amounts would be messy.
Yes - to be precise approximately 1/(2^32*difficulty) chance any one hash is a block solution.
> (genetic,
Oh sure. I can't control genetics but I can definitely try to work hard to control what is within my hands. E.g. I am of Indian cultural heritage. Both my parents are first generation and the cuisine is incredibly high fat, high carb and low protein. This simply sets the stage for obesity very easily (yes, ironical in a country of crippling poverty and starvation). That coupled with sedentary lifestyles has shown (at least in studies) that Indian Americans are [1] more prone to heart diseases than other sectors. This means unlearning the habits of an entire childhood and learning how to eat more carefully. It is not easy and it is definitely not simply a matter of "eating more healthy" and "exercising more".

Also, thanks!

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870340930...

(I have read the base scientific article but can't find the link right now.)
Dude in article pic looks like he's an expert on mushrooms
5 views from the embeddable YT player for us.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree with your point. In the current health landscape, there's a void of apps that allow you to track your meals quickly. TwoGrand fills that void.
> Why would it be true?

It is funny that you are asking why would [1] == [1] possibly considered to be true.

Let's see in a language with a sane and consistent typing system like Python:

In [1]: [1]==[1]
Out[1]: True

Ok, let's do a crazy language from Sweden also with dynamic types but which are sane and consistent, like Erlang:

1> [1] == [1].
true

Surely it will be broken in Ruby:

irb(main):001:0> [1] == [1]
=> true

Nah clearly it should be false, these crazy languages just haven't heard about objects and identities and such.
This is really nice. But really, this can also be done with 4 lines of SVG. Maybe that is a better tool for assets like these?
Here was my "valuation model" when they raised at 800M:
5 Years From When they raised :
100M Users X $4 worth of advertising per user X 50% margin = $200M Cash Flow X 20 Times earnings = $4BN - solving for a 50% IRR over 5 years gives you $800M

The $4/user comes from here:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/30/facebooks-revenue-per-user-...
Qubits and pieces: in pursuit of quantum computing
Definitely the right way to view it.
Electronic devices allowed during take off & landing
I think the marketing is creative and well done. Although why would you sell those Alden longwings? Those are awesome shoes! :)
So they were acquihired?
We're going to send out invitations to YC interviews close to midnight
The person in charge of sending out the invitations to interviews is in a different time zone, so we're going to be sending out invitations close to midnight Pacific time. So please don't worry if nothing seems to be happening.

The good news is, we got so many good applications that we decided to add another day of interviews, so we'll be inviting 20% more groups than we planned to.

(No, that doesn't decrease the probability that a group we interview will get funded. We don't and in fact couldn't aim to fund a target number of startups.)
Hahah me too!!
Everybody who writes JS should use something like jslint or jshint. JS has ugly parts, but most can be avoided easily.
The law does weigh both.
I just wished there was a solution to this that made everyone happy. The mere idea of bestowing knowledge to someone who has a resource advantage creates discomfort.

I know the amount of places is limited, but would it be possible for the next time to offer a differential attendance?
For example, donators get front-seats and the non-resourceful can participate farther-back or standing up, a la kickstarter.
>Don't get too comfortable with that little startup! It could disappear tomorrow...

But that is true of all services. This is why savvy businesses try to stick with services that have competition; that way they have somewhere to go if their provider of choice goes under for whatever reason.
I don't really think there is much to look into, and if there was a relationship it is probably spurious. You don't know the reasons why they are looking at any particular video, nor do you know if they are using auto-play (which might not show on stats).

Possibly you can see whether you make it past the alumni filter (http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Do-all-YC-partners-read-ea...), but beyond that I am not sure.
http://www.microsoft.com/games/empires/features.htm

Age of empires
Also unfamiliar with it till now, just watched the video and wow... it looked like an awesome service. I wouldn't have been able to use it, as I'm in Ireland, but if selling was that simple it could really disrupt the likes of Craigslist.

I guess as its an acquihire maybe the vision couldn't become a reality though :(
Offer: $20 Free Wine

From: http://www.UndergroundCellar.com

Redeem: Forward reject letter to ycw14@undergroundcellar.com
I doubt it's public domain, but I doubt Microsoft would go after you, too.
Yeah, one of the firsts PC games I ever played.
SFO is an airport; I thought you were going to a bar in the airport!
> I'm not sure if this was the intention of your comment

Definitely not my intention, although I did not specify. An expectation of anything over a 40 hr/wk average is completely unreasonable IMHO. I only meant to say that some people happily choose to work over that average for periods of time.
Same, nearly jumped out of my seat. That's some effective salesmanship!
Just look at some of this: http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/internet.htm

Bob Dole Will Protect the Constitutional Liberty of Internet Users
Bob Dole is concerned about children accessing unsuitable material when using the Internet. But strict censorship of the Internet is not the answer. Bob Dole believes that parents should take responsibility for the material that their children view, and he wants to encourage technology which allows those decisions to be made within each home.

Throughout his Senate career, Bob Dole has fought to protect the Constitutional liberty of Americans:
Bob Dole is a supporter of the Pro-CODE bill that limits the federal government's control of encryption and user keys. It permits the export of software that includes encryption if the software is easily available in this country.
Bob Dole strongly supports the observations made in the recent National Research Council report that widespread use of encryption to promote information security outweighs the difficulties encrypted communications place on law enforcement. Economic espionage from foreign countries and companies is a serious threat, and Bob Dole believes Americans should have the right to guard themselves using encryption.
Bob Dole supported the Senate hearings on Internet copyright laws. The hearings provided suggestions from information creators, Internet and on-line service providers, librarians and Internet users on developing compromises that balance the rights and needs of all participants.
Bob Dole fought for provisions in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that encourage parents to take responsibility for the Internet material which their children view.
Bob Dole helped pass the Bayh-Dole act of 1980 which helped create the biotechnology industry by allowing inventions from federal research dollars to be commercially developed.

As President, Bob Dole will:
Promote policies that ensure that the United States remains the world leader in technological innovation.
Reject heavy-handed big-government regulations of cyberspace.
Promote policies that preserve and advance the openness and decentralization of computer-based communications.
Preserve and protect American citizens' right to privacy and the need for secure communications.
I was wearing headphones (just finished listening to a song) and the "Yeehaw!" made me jump out of my seat.
Python, Ruby, Dart just to name a few from the top of my head.

EDIT: removed Java, Rust and Go
Most programmers prefer code to be more readable for computers than for humans.

They do? How can I stop them all?
Amazon to hire 13,500 in India and build massive campus
Currently there's more of an advantage to not working then there would be under BI. There is currently less of an advantage to working a little, because we cut off benefits.
What about rejection emails? Same time?
tweeted from pg, We'll send out invitations to YC interviews close to midnight Pacific, so please don't worry if you hear nothing before then.
"a struggle between the bourgeoisie of the north and the landowners of the south."

Your only talking about the South. I was talking about both sides. The quote had both in it too.
I'm not sure why, but the '.htm' extension always felt dirty to me. Still does.
Invention VS Innovation
I think they jump on anything to do with boxes /s
PG just tweeted midnight PST. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/397537535452131329 this is already agony, we're 21hrs ahead of PST here in NZ so technically I've been waiting 2 days now since the 4th was yesterday!
Fighting patent trolls and corruption with the Magnificent Seven business-model
Rescale attends large oil and gas conference
Why not submit a unique link, the clicks on which you could track?
Most languages call those situations by the name "runtime error", that is, when it is even possible that they happen at runtime.

Now, I understand that javascript runs in a completely different kind of environment, and it does have the liberty of making things differently, up to a certain point. But making '' == 0 true may be a bit too far.. And making [1] == 1 true is clearly too far.
How about Space Jam?

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
Yes, all the emails go out at about the same time.
The opening line follows the boilerplate trend of acquisition posts. Being acqui-hired is not something that you should be celebrating with your users... PERIOD. (On a side note, I'm genuinely happy for you all. Getting paid isn't a negative. It's a huge opportunity, but don't patronise your users).

"Yey us. :D We're super excited to announce we got acquired. High-five... too slow... Now go f* yourselves."

It's incredibly condescending to assume that any of your users share your happiness and are apart of this experience...

"We’re really excited..."

You use "we" so many times as if your users are apart of your acqui-hire, yet only mention "you" (your users who made this possible) in the closing statement.

Be honest and graceful, but asking your users for a high five on the way out isn't the way to do it.

PS. I hate posting negative comments. I'm a Brit, and like to be polite all the time....

EDIT: Call me out on this if you think I'm wrong. Other people who have read it think I'm just reading into it way too much. I tend to agree that I'm particular, and it could easily be chalked down to me being overly zealous to criticize another successful acqui-hire. :)
This is a dangerous rule; if you put this rule in the hands of a programmer who is not used to Javascript and doesn't really understand the type system, you can just as easily run into problems.

This is because you require the programmer to always understand the output (and defaults) of every call made. Sometimes it's undefined. Sometimes it's null. Sometimes it's empty string. This takes experience.

Example, the default for getAttribute is null, but an undefined property is undefined:

document.body.getAttribute("test"); // null
document.body.test; // undefined

Except if it's a special property, then getAttribute might still be null, but the property empty string:

var input = document.createElement("input");
input.getAttribute("value"); // null
input.value; // ""

Remember, "" !== null and null !== undefined.
Right, so a CSS pixel is equal to the reference pixel in size.
does anyone get questions from YC during the time?
It's actually on my to-do list, tweetmap.co , it just got pushed to the back burner for the moment due to school.
Pebble Hosting Livestream & AMA on Wednesday
5 QUICK AND SIMPLE LIFE HACKS !
http://www.oldversion.com/windows/directx-5-2
Reddit’s Politics Section Decides Mother Jones Isn't All "Bad Journalism"
Subaquatic Ceramic Technician
Again that's so vague as to be meaningless--you have to order them somehow and I don't think having a page that lists them in chronological order makes it a blog. At the very least most blogs show the full content of multiple posts on the same page, or have links to previous and next posts.

I think the defining feature of a blog that's absent from Graham's essays is that blog posts can be intentionally insubstantial, sometimes containing nothing more than a link, possibly with comments. The least substantial essay Paul Graham has written is probably the one where he clarifies that he's not a racist just because he thinks having a thick accent makes it hard to be a CEO. I don't think he would consider posting intentionally insubstantial content to his list of essays.
You didn't mention your location, but I'm going to guess "U.S.".

Find a few consulting gigs - then worry about dealing with the drama. Here's what I would do:
First, for the consulting gigs:
1) post that you're available for a for weeks on facebook
2) email a few connectors & founders in the startup community that you're available for short gigs
3) email marketing agencies in your city the same thing

Try to buy yourself 1 months worth of paid gig time - then use that time to look for positions. Don't jump into a new job simply bc you need one.
I'm OK with auctions, price-based-rationing of scarce goods, and your analysis of the net good this will do.

But, you might also consider an occasional raffle'd spot, or a spot otherwise drawn from an eligibility pool with a lower economic barrier-to-entry.

You might raise as much or more, and it would be easier to mix in things like donated-tickets or third-party-sponsored-tickets.

And, the pool of losing-entries would itself be valuable, as a community with expressed interest in YC. Perhaps the drawing-winner(s) and some volunteer YCers could throw a followup separate, larger-audience event for them: passing on the good wisdom and fortune, in the YC style.
Oh man, I don't have a CD-ROM drive. Guess I can't play :(
Why Are So Many Social Media Managers Dipshits?
'Grand social experiment' of the Internet [1988]
I honestly have no idea what's so confusing. I've been working with javascript for over a decade and have NONE of this memorized, and I never look it up or check it in the repl. It's simply not an issue if you're using jshint and unit testing your code.

If you come from a static language background and you keep expecting a type-checker will save you from doing silly things like adding arrays to strings, you're always going to hate Javascript. It's a dynamically typed language, and so you have to learn the quality-control tools and practices for dynamically typed languages.
Do you think in the article that the men in the target agency were just being nice? If that were the case then the fake male profile the security company created would have received as much help, job offers, and other attention as the female, but clearly that was not the case.

Women, especially attractive women, can easily distinguish genuine niceness and this get-in-your-pants niceness, and while they will take advantage of it all (it would be foolish and stupid not to), they will not sleep with such people.
Vectors have to be rasterized at some point, which requires detailed knowledge of device pixels.

Furthermore, some graphics are always going to be bitmaps, such as photos. Tasks like "center this image square, but don't make it blurry" requires pixel-perfect positioning.
Apple to Open Another U.S. Factory: Sapphire Plant in Mesa, Arizona
It probably got flagged. I flagged it, for instance. It's an embarrassment.
Doesn't it open up some new automated translation opportunities? Even just by making them easier, if not actually making them possible for the first time.
Might have been copied to a different server and someone forgot to copy the metadata too.
I met with this message as well.
IE9 navigator.geolocation memory leak fixed
Picking up devs.
That's an unsettled question - a political one, in many ways. We certainly have some interest in deterring criminal acts, as Rayiner explains.

Also, intent and thought are not the exact same thing in legal terms. For example, I have certainly daydreamed about robbing a bank - not because I want to take anyone else's money particularly, but because it's amusing to imagine what sort of clever tricks you might employ to pull it off. I'm sure you've noticed there's a whole genre of movies and crime novels about likable criminals pulling off an elaborate heist, doesn't mean the film production people or the audience that enjoys the films actually want to take up a life of crime.

Now if I start making all the preparations to commit a robbery - enlisting co-conspirators, or acquiring weapons, or suborning employees of the bank, etc. I've obviously gone quite a way past simple daydreaming. Such acts are demonstrative of my intention. Picture yourself sitting in a car outside a bank, with a bag on your lap that contains a gun, a ransom note, and a mask. You'd obviously be in a very different frame of mind from someone who was simply musing on the general possibility of robbing a bank, and a prosecutor would certainly be justified in asking a jury to take that into account if you were on trial for attempt or conspiracy.
Sorry, I meant in the city. The bar is on Geary and Leavenworth.
Valgrind is a truly awesome product. It has saved me countless hours tracking down weird memory corruption errors.
you're close, but you're not quiet there.

Programmers want code to be readable to an IDE.

IDE's can parse, interpret, precompile, and suggest.

Languages that are very wishy washy and dynamic like javascript are absolute hell for an IDE.
Really? I was always taught that search engines only do "get" requests, and anything that modifies data is in a "post" request. Are there really that many broken web sites out there, that hasn't already fallen victim to crawlers that ignore robots.txt?
What harm does it do if only rich kids get to go to a YC dinner?

A place for some more deserving poor kid would be nice.
Blockbusters triumph for Internet-era business
I prefer rigour for my own sanity rather than the computer's sake. In scala if I make a typo somewhere I get a compiler error that tells me the relevant line. In javascript I get "undefined has no property 'blah'", on a completely different line, at runtime.
Now compare this with modern mobile devices which run slowly and can do a fraction of what PCs were able to do 15 years ago having 10x lower clock rates.
"Simply put, these are the best web styles I've seen on a PC!"
-- anyfoo
The issue is that you're an individual, whereas the "standard of care" that your doctor is duty-bound to provide is based on population studies. Your doctor may be able to adapt this care to your specific case if you have obvious specific secondary conditions.

Ideally, your doctor would be able to tailor your care to your genetics, your lifestyle as well as to your medical history. That is the goal of "personalized medicine". This will likely become more and more common-place over the next decade or two, in particular with respect to the genetic aspect. But for now it remains too expensive and uncertain to be rolled-out by HMOs and national healthcare systems. So you end up with "generic" advice, which is in fact in most cases the best they can do.
True of anything. It's just as correct to say, "don't ever fall in love; your lover will either leave you or die, and you'll just be sad then". While true, it's missing the point: the years of joy that can be had before someone dies (or gets acquired, or canceled).

Hate to be all philosophical, but everything is temporary. Even the Universe itself.
And yet... http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/taxcuts.htm
Most of those amount to "be lucky", which isn't very helpful advice.
Perhaps the winner will be a sullen, rebellious child of overbearing rich parents... who rather than showing up that night decides to crash daddy's car.
thanks! I've just noticed Google trends in the past to not rollout software to say a nexus 4 the same time as the nexus tablet. full rollouts on all devices would be ideal, but I guess that is asking for alot.
correct. is this something you're interested in?
midtown madness is where its at
http://www.microsoft.com/games/monster/audio/boogievan.wav
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are all modifiable.
Reminds me of my favourite Javascript trivia question:
What two values for a & b meet the following?

> a === b

true

> Number(a) === a

true

> Number(b) === b

true

> a + b === a

true

> (1 / a) === (1 / b)

false
The Three Reasons Twitter Didn’t Sell To Facebook
Wait, am I reading this right?

[1] == [1] is false, but [1] == 1 and 1 == [1]?

[0] == [0] is false, but [0] == '0' and '0' == [0]?

[] == [] is false but [] == 0 and 0 == []?

NaN === NaN is false?

[0] + [0] = '00', but [0] * [0] = 0?

Who designed this crazy language? It seems to take every quirk of every other language and combine them in the weirdest way possible.

[] == [] is false, so it must be comparing pointers, right? Common gotcha of Java, etc.

...Wait, NaN === NaN is false.