skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He invented a real (specific) product with prototypes and everything, licensed that product to a real manufacturer who then made it, gained lots of money, and then stiffed him on the payment they promised.

Trolls would have produced no toy at all, for anyone, kept the whole process a secret, and then sued every child who ever flung water at another at a birthday party.

"Its the difference between using a feather and using a chicken." You know it when you see it.

Edit: Just for clarity, its the direction the arrow points. Lonnie Johnson created a product and then went out and sought a company to start producing it. Trolls do it backwards, they go out and find companies that are already producing it and then threaten them with forcing them to stop.
My 130-day current streak: https://github.com/thekarangoel/
uninformed speculation: this is the hope of the author of this post. and intention behind this post.

But too hard to say if this is realistic, without nothing about the product or founders.
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My qualm with MSG doesn't involve its health effects, but the fact that MSG makes telling the difference between good food and crap far more difficult.

If you'd like to see a demonstration of what I mean, boil a pound of dried beans, and add some MSG. I find you'll eat the otherwise unflavored, bland beans with the same mechanical compulsion as a bag of potato chips. In that way MSG spoils the sport of preparing delicious food.

That should also raise the issue of portion control and satiety in your mind. If you're reading this, I assume you're more concerned with maintaining a steady weight than tricking your body into desiring greater quantities of food. MSG'll thwart you there, and unfortunately it's usually used on foods that are already pure starch and fat rather than nutritious fare.
I don't really understand the point you're trying to make.

Firstly, you're posting a Harvard FAS resolution, but Harvard isn't even mentioned in the NYT article. I don't know why you bring it up.

Secondly, I think it should be pretty obvious that there's a difference between being able to say what you want as a faculty member or enrolled student and being able to say what you want as an applicant.

There are lots of good arguments as to why college admissions officers shouldn't be using social media to weigh up an application, but I'm not sure the argument you're making is one of them.
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Is the LD50 relevant in food except for stuff that is actually likely to kill people? The dangers aren't that anybody is going to have so much salt (or msg) in their body that it kills them like that.
How does the US govt. deploy force against decentralized crypto? It can go after the exchanges and clamp down on bank-to-Bitcoin services but it can do nothing against the network itself. Should the USG clamp down on Bitcoin too hard, Bitcoin will thrive in those places that are harder for the regulatory agencies to reach.

ATM, 1 bitcoin is worth ~350 times more than one Federal Reserve Note, making Bitcoin the most valuable currency in the world. I expect demand for Bitcoin will only rise elsewhere in the world even if the USG tries to make it difficult for its own citizens to use.
AFAIU it doesn't go up, per se. Because our planet is not a perfect sphere, but rather one that is squeezed on the Poles, its actually the planet distance itself longer while rotating..
"Where in Japan were you living?"

I was bounced around a bit, but most of my time was spent in Tokyo, Sapporo and in Hachinohe.
The link between sodium and high blood pressure is not conclusive: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/02/why-does-sal...
It would be good if Nintendo worked with him/them to release this on their own site. It would be some good publicity for them.
You neglected to mention the very next line after the one you quote:

>> Therefore, the intake of MSG as a food additive and the natural level of glutamic acid in foods do not represent a toxicological concern in humans.
That's a useful comparison, thanks. While we were certainly inspired by Pythonic syntax, we have ended up somewhere slightly different.

The note about local variables is particularly important; we actively don't want Python's model of variables and scope.
Wow, people are shit bags.

> You offended my delicate sensibilities, now you shall burn!
That's because they stopped teaching CS, it's not that they replaced Scheme with Python in CS courses. How can you possible teach metacircular interpreters, constraint propagation languages, ambiguous computation and similar constructs using Python when you need to be able to easily define a completely different language semantics using language at hand? In that sense, Pyret will allow them to teach a bit more CS than possible using ordinary Python but still is in no way fit for something on the level of SICP.
Ask HN: What are good CS journals that publish source code with papers?
What are some good computer science research journals that actually publish source code with their papers? I would like to causally read research papers (most likely involving image processing, video encoders etc) and follow along in the source code to better understand how to implement DSP algorithms etc. Any ideas? I may get into major journals through my school (just need help narrowing down which ones publish source code) and i am willing to purchase a subscription to good ones.
haha. i wish he would! if i got into YC, i would definitely not care about the large player as much and play hardball with them instead of the other way around : (
A little skeptical of this, as others are. How was this tested? Just because it seems to "work" with responsiveness and items on the screen does not mean the info is correct.

Not saying healthcare.gov is any better, but there is just no mention of the information given and/or calculations done being correct.
Wow ... HN is too cynical some days.
If you do the math, 2000 mg of MSG would give you the same amount of sodium as (2/169.11 * 58.44) 690 mg of table salt.

In other words, the sodium intake from eating MSG is about 1/3 that of table salt on a per weight basis.
Oh Nintendo. You used to be so fun and innovative.

But now, it seems you can't make anything newsworthy anymore.
(Or when you end up in the news, it's because of some silly takedown like this one.)
> I've heard that the sickness associated with MSG is more likely due to ingesting old rice.

Yes, I remember there being a British, I think, study in 2011 or 2012 that bought samples of cooked rice from various oriental food sellers and found that some were contaminated (moist warm food left out for hours); the reasoning is that when people report sickness or allergy to the MSG that oriental food in the West is notoriously prepared with, they're actually having issues with the rice.
I'm guessing being a Good Christian is required too.
"did you work in a traditional Japanese bigco?"

Yes & no, I actually worked for several companies as a consultant. Only one of them I would consider "traditional" but I didn't spend much time interacting with them. I was more of a go-between.
did you even read the original post? we talk about a question on a whiteboard, and then move to solving it on a computer. i mentioned several times that we try to get to real running code.
Lots of people dont have unlimited MMS

and anyway none of what you said addresses the above reasons for wanting an internet based messaging system
Exactly correct. The further your friends are from you the more you want to interact with them in some way. If everyone you know is at school who needs FB. I keep in touch with friends from two generations many of whom are spread all over the world and even those locally I don't see often enough.

However I wish FB would be replaced by something simpler that was just for keeping in touch with friends and little else. But since everyone is on FB it's hard to change until everyone has (1) a better choice (2) a reason to leave.
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When the site loads, I see an entire grey page with a red arrow button at the bottom. Clicking on it takes me to screenshot and user guide. I believe this is a waste of screen space. You may want to show the screenshot and user guide immediately on load.
It probably makes more sense to compare it to the broader M2 and M3 money supply.
The intrinsic value of USD is the fact the the government demands them from the populace and is the only source of them.
Sweet, what's a good test drone to use this with?
Its a real pity, but consider it to your advantage that this occurred, because it means that all your hard work can be pushed further into newer territory. While you would have been limited by how far you can promote a Super Mario clone, now the engine can be re-purposed to something else instead - something creative, perhaps? (It wasn't something I would have considered to be terribly creative, btw: the correct word to use is derivative..)

So, if you take the perspective that Nintendo are doing you a favour by pushing your next phase of development away from derivation and instead into creation, and if you do indeed re-factor the codebase to do something else, then you will have experienced a positive effect from this experience. If all you do is take it down and not think about the next generation of product that you can base on your proven, demonstrated working technology, then I think you will have kind of missed an opportunity. Of course, easier for some random stranger on the internet to say this: but if you roll your own content on top of this layer, then you'll have really made something ..
Good idea. I'll add support for still images.
In your hypothetic world, would I be able to pay taxes in BTC?
Yes, small bite-sized goals is so important for keeping going in long-term discouraging projects - as let's face it, programming can be infuriating and tedious! lukeprog calls the focus on small bite-sized goal "success spirals" http://lesswrong.com/lw/58m/build_small_skills_in_the_right_... and I think it's definitely important.
1. Why are you still mourning YC'14?
2. Why are you asking for uninformed advice on a public forum?

In situations like these, I like the Mathew Looks rule.

Mathew was a USCF expert on my high school chess team, trying to teach me to be a better player. He set up a chess position with chances for both sides, and asked which side I liked better. "I have no idea," I replied. "That's why you lose. It doesn't matter whether you're right or wrong. It matters that you have an opinion."

Form your own opinion about this situation. Like it. Feel confident about it. Then follow through, as well you can.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think.
In fairness, the writing implement definition was around for a few thousand years before the invention of record players. Try 'vinyl stylus' - you're not restricted to single words.
I think that people that turn up to the party not giving 2 shits about the time have a much better party
With Moore's Law receding, design is how we decide
Yes, I read it. The point about whiteboard coding is generic, and not relating specifically to the article.
While in some sense I agree with you, stuff like code bubbles is just a incremental step from folding. If you want better interfaces for your coding, you write bidirectional transformations between your representation and the text; the point being that the underlying representation does not particularly matter. Having underlying text, however, means you have a good fallback in case your tools do fail.

I would say the more potent point is that it should not matter at all if the tests are in the function or in a different directory: the IDE should be able to fold them in either way, and in some sense, IDEs already do have partial support for this.
Thanks for the link. Cloning appears to currently not be a problem.. Of course, for true fans just wanting a copy, hosting the cloned repo as a static site in Apache or IIS is super easy and a fully playable setup can be accomplished in just a few minutes...
Could use another few iterations of the interface (I don't like the way the lists vanish right after they appear), but the concept and execution are first rate. I will be making regular use of this. Most semantic-web-like thing I've seen so far this year.
Seriously, have we already completely forgotten the neon-colored wonder of Myspace?
As a 28-year old single male, browsing Facebook and seeing pictures of dating and married couples makes me feel like shit. It's ironic, because a tool that's supposed to keep people connected amplifies my feelings of loneliness. So I find myself checking it less and less often.
Nintendo is known to be protective of their largest franchises. If you look at your average ROM site, there are only a few games they try hard to prevent downloads of - Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong.

How about picking a less well known, but just as entertaining platform game? Many for the Sega Master System are either abandonware or close enough.
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I don't think they're dumb. The stock market is perhaps the most analyzed and quantified human endeavor in history, and at the intersection of science and business I don't see any reason why the explanation isn't likely to be exactly this simple.

Besides, it's not leaving money "on the table," it's handing it to non-company insiders, for the benefit of those who sold into the doubling.
Most Uninsured Americans Ignoring Health Exchange Sites
Three in 10 are familiar with the exchanges

November 8, 2013

Eighteen percent of uninsured Americans have attempted to visit a healthcare exchange website. The percentage is slightly higher, 22%, among uninsured Americans who plan to get insurance through the exchanges.

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== Working like a charm.
C'mon man, if there is one innovative video games company it's Nintendo. At least in that scale.

I agree with @kamjam that it would have been great if Ninty put it on their site but I didn't have the expectation from them to let anyone use their whole game.
In simpler terms, it's the price of admission.
A friend of mine recently also open-sourced his Python library: https://github.com/Viq111/ARDroneLib
What do you want out of this?

Unless you can answer this question, any advice is essentially pointless. In my experience, you can imagine up all the scenarios in the world (I know I have many times), but reality depends on so many factors outside your control that things are likely to go in a direction you do not expect anyway.

Regardless of whether you want be acquired or not, you should take that meeting. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain: Even if nothing comes of it, it will be an opportunity to gather valuable information, create useful connections that could be useful later on, or lead to other business opportunities that aren't even on your radar right now.

Most importantly, you need to look at this and every other meeting you take as the beginning of a negotiation—even if you never discuss an actual business opportunity. And the trick with being a good negotiator is not necessarily to win, because nobody wins all the time. Instead, the trick is to stay in control of the process. Talk to these folks, and see what they want. A company that is serious about acquiring you will want to get to know you first, understand your strengths and weaknesses, and so on. Your job is to steer the discussion in a direction that's worthwhile to you and never, ever, ever, ever (ever!) let it take more of your time than it deserves.

So many of the other folks who have commented seem to worry about this being a waste of time, or the other company attempting to steal your ideas and businesses through the due diligence process. But how else are you ever going to get a deal done if you don't interact? In my experience, due diligence is the last step of an M&A exercise: after the parties have agreed on all the terms, its role is to simply make sure that neither party is trying to pull one over the other. And it's an expensive process, so no-one really wants to do it until they're sure they want to go ahead with the deal.

So, nobody is going to start a serious negotiation by asking to look at your financials or read through your source code (and, if they do, you should probably walk away) until they are willing to put a commitment of their own on the table. In the meantime, just let the discussion take its course and push back, firmly but politely, every time you feel that the process asks more of your involvement than you feel is warranted at that particular time. Again, any serious businessperson won't mind—heck, they may even try to measure up your worth by seeing how far you're willing to be pushed before you start pushing back.

Oh, and you should run—_run_—and find a good advisor. This is the kind of discussion you want to sound off with someone who can help you examine your specific situation… which is hard to do in a public forum like HN :-)
I find that HN has a slightly different version of worship. Posts by some folks such as PG get auto-voted to the top, but at the same time quite often the replies to the post are far different than on other sites. To use PG as an example I've often found that replies to his posts that make it to the top are well thought out disagreements/counterpoints which instigates further discussion. On the other hand, disagreeing with an AMA response on reddit gets you downvoted into oblivion unless the reddit hive mind already hates the AMAer.
But you can make this an extension and people can just play off their browser. They can't go after everyone downloading the source code and they are not in a position to stop people from playing off their browser.
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This is for the Parrot AR Drone: http://ardrone2.parrot.com/
The USG could easily make transfer of USD into Bitcoin impossible, so can EU for EUR.

Until we are in the matrix you need the physical world. And there governments are dominant.
Probably one of the crisis countries: Portugal, Greece, etc... Local salaries and prices are especially low, so if you have an external source of income you should be at least upper middle class while living by some of the most gorgeous beaches in the world.
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> How does over-aggressive family planning lead to massive overpopulation?

Sorry, I forgot to say how. The over-aggressive family planning measures (including forced sterilization in a handful of cases) during the Emergency in India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#India) led to Government family planning measures being widely distrusted in rural areas for the next few decades. This, combined with improved healthcare and low infant mortality, has led to roaring population growth.

> Double eh?? Because India is a collection of distinct and heterogeneous states, unlike the homogeneous US, it suddenly becomes like the EU?

Yes. India is much more like the EU than the US. This may put it into perspective, considering that a large number of HN readers come from the US/EU. It is an analogy, nothing more.

> But people don't emigrate because they're feeling sad or happy, but because they feel they may have better career prospects.

False dichotomy. People emigrate to improve happiness and quality of life. These are frequently related to better career prospects. India has pretty decent career prospects for software developers too. I would say just improved career prospects are not the whole reason for brain drain.

> True, but pray how did you come to the conclusion that this was what caused people to emigrate?

Personal experience (I am Indian, and have lived in several places in India and the US and am in a decent position to comment upon the quality of life), and the experiences of ~50-60 people I know fairly well who are in a similar situation.

> Fact is talented people emigrated from India because they found better value for their skills in the US. That's pretty simple.

This is true, but I think does not explain why, for example, there is not widespread immigration from, say, Canada to the US. I would say that people in Canada have a decent enough Government, and a lifestyle that is just comfortable enough to make moving to a new country not worth the pain. Of course, I could be totally mistaken about this, but it is just a view that you are free to disagree with.

> But if you're going to link Indian emigration to every ill that plagues India, from its political system to its "overpopulation" (which btw many others call a "demographic dividend") and "regionalism" (which others call "federalism"), then you'd better have some evidence or sources.

Perhaps as an émigré, I might be overzealous in ascribing all emigration to the ills that plague India. But calling overpopulation and regionalism something else does not exactly solve the problems arising from them. As for sources, I see you are a journalist for Forbes India and are probably able to access them much better than I can (although I am kinda surprised you did not seem to know about the stringent family planning measures during the Emergency, or maybe you just wanted me to elaborate).
Makes me sick :(
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So since the source code is written from scratch and the only thing copied were art assets and level design. And since there is a level editor available. They would be able to release it again without prebuilt levels with different art.

It's already not derivative other than cosmetically, I can understand trying to find silver lining but the whole DMCA thing is a ridiculous grey fluster cuck.
very true. i wish i could reveal a lot more. at least my product and what i'm going for and have the yc community tell me their honest opinion.

founders on the other hand - from the tech end nothing extraordinary but solid. on the business end, pretty top-notch caliber (i.e. 99 percentile in their respective fields).
I'm curious about your experience developing MMOs. Would you mind emailing me[at]lukewal[dot]sh? I am a student right now and interested in hearing from someone who knows the full landscape.
Note: this wasn't a criticism of your language: I rather prefer lua's way of doing numbers, co-routines, and even scoping to some degree. I was more criticizing your comparison.

The language itself looks pretty slick, and I am a sucker for gradual/optional typing. Do the type annotations result in performance/compiler optimization, as in Julia?
A zeroed blockchain that wipes current accumulated bitcoins is something that the latecomers to the party could desire the moment the currency becomes mainstream.
The founder effect gives two possible answers:

1. The gene or gene suite originated with one of the founders. Novel mutation or assemblage of uncommon preexisting mutations.

2. The proposed smart gene is not adaptive. Being smart is cool, but only one facet of fitness. The smart gene would then be weeded out of the larger population through selection pressure, but survive in the smaller population through the founder effect.
Acquisition talks are usually a huge distraction. They will likely drag you out and hurt the moral of the team to get a sweetheart deal if they really are that interested.
First computer I ever wrote a program for...
The internet archive still has it.
Teenagers as a group are not trendsetters for other age groups, for example when did you ever see a Justin Bieber hairdo on anyone over the age of 17?

They are time rich and money poor, a situation that reverses as you get older. They live geographically close to most of their friends. This is mostly not true for adults, who tend to be time poor, wealthier than teenagers, and geographically separated from their friends. Because of this, looking to teenagers to understand what most people want from their social media does not seem like a particularly good idea to me.
Far from perfect, okay. Blatant misuse of funds, not okay.