skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In future perhaps you can put two or three random words together to generate the username.

For this account, you can ask email pg@ycombinator.com to change the username to woollymammoth (available)
There are a motif reasons for the better taste. Often organic produce doesn't get shipped as far, which means growers can pick varieties bread for something other than shelf-life and durability.

Also, organic farmers manage the soil differently. Intensive industrial farming depletes soils and relies on extensive use of refined fertilizers to make up forthe deficit. The soil at organic farms is often richer and plants can pick up more minerals, which can have a real impact on flavor.
and I wonder if that is a (mostly) false assumption?
hi pclark,
thanks for review. i created logo in hurry and i really want to change it.
for getting job i need to promote this site.
my unique selling points:
1) unlike other sites user dont need to fill lots of text boxes to created resume.the concept of this site is simple search job and directly apply for that.
2)its free to post jobs and apply for them while other charges money for it.
i welcome any suggestion from others :)
Why was it miserable?

and, why do you think that as an entrepreneur you won't still be building businesses well into your 50s 60s and 70s with teams of ambitious and motivated people?
Flagged. Here's why:

Firstly, this website is nothing more than a vanilla implementation of the open source job board framework jobberBase (http://www.jobberbase.com/).

Also, the submission title is an abuse of the word "review," which generally implies around here that the submitter is looking for feedback on an app they developed.
1.) I entered the developers and startup world late. It's only been about a year since I've discovered PG and only a few since I took up programming as more than just the occasional scripter.

2.) The market for web applications feels saturated, what happens when it collapses?

3.) As a single father I'm even more worried about being able to provide for my family. Not to mention the amount of chores around the house, and general repairs and preventative maintenance.

4.) I know ideas are supposed to be a natural progressive thing, but as someone else said, when you see your own flaws in every idea, or you have an idea that seems like such a niche market it would be hard to gain any share, it's discouraging.

As a counter point to all of these, my nature and spirit is in being an entrepreneur, my grandfather bootstrapped a food service company in the 50s that we sold in 2000, I convinced my parents to let me start an internet cafe/print shop when I was 17, which would have done well if I had more insight at the time, it still lasted over 5 years before I took a job for general IT support (which led me into programming, the missing 'creative' void I had been looking for).

If I was 21 instead of 27, and wasn't in the situation I was in, I'd be living at home working on starting my own business...I long everyday to work from home and be able to take a few months off every year to travel with the kids the way I never got to when I was younger (we were extremely tied down to the food service business).

There are a lot of variables to consider though, skillset being very important as well. I work the extra 4-6 hours a nigh already doing freelance web design/development, if I could find a good idea, I would put 100% towards it.

Too many paragraphs for a simple question? Sorry!
Verizon to launch App Store
"Make the very best products. Business will follow."

Every startup should focus on that motto.
Agreed. I bought a bundle of organic cilantro a little while back and it was stinking up the place (in a good way) that normal cilantro simply doesn't. Much or the organic stuff just tastes better.

This goes doubly for eggs - organic & free-range eggs are just a world apart from regular farm eggs.
It's in the Search division.
It generates data. Which was supposed to be able to help search, but they never actually did the research.
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This is interesting research, but it's poorly described and honestly I doubt the NYT reporter even really understands it. A few errors also, for example:

"the active ingredient in psilocybin"

Should be the active ingredient in psilocybes (i.e. psilocybe mushrooms). Psilocybin is a chemical itself, so it doesn't even make sense to describe it as having active ingredients. (It gets broken down into psilocin by the body, which is what actually causes the effect.)

If you want to see something on this that is actually kind of interesting, check out these YouTube videos that were made to promote The Spirit Molecule, a documentary about DMT:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+spirit+molec...
If you see him blink and react, then he only has 50 ms to react to your attack, which you just stated is not enough time.
I think the interesting thing is that even if your niche looks saturated, but you're solving a pain point that other people aren't there's a possibility of (atleast) being ramen profitable.

It is not a zero-sum game, you're essentially growing the market by providing a feature or value that other products don't.
I'm not trying to be the dumbass comment but this better make its way to a celebrity phone somewhere. SOMETHING of real value has to come of this... obviously, other than a more secure SMS infrastructure.
I'm a long-time climber from Pittsburgh. I've spent too many weekends to count at the NRG.
99% percent of the article was not about Milken, and yet he grabbed the headline. Is his name still that relevant today? Or even more so due to the current economic situation hearkening back to the late 80s?
I don't use Yahoo search, but my start-page is MyYahoo, and has been for eons. Because of this, a fair bit of the news I read is via Yahoo's aggregators.
Voice expresses more emotion, but it will never be able to match text in raw consumption speed.

Instead, I'll bet that voice transcription picks up. People who prefer text will be able to get it from a voice transcription.
"VoloMedia, which used be called Podbridge, filed for this particular patent in November 2003 — a time, Navar said, before it was obvious that people would download episodic content such as podcasts."

Ok, now 2003 still a little late to the game as far as I'm concerned, but 5.5 years to award a patent? Whether or not patents are a good thing, the patent office and the tech industry cannot work together with such long lead times.
I disliked the logo and the main reason for that is because it is passing an idea that the users don't want to work, just want a job. To informal for a job site.

Well another point to mention is, how will you differentiate from the competition. In the job offers? If don't, would be interesting you find one differentiation.

A positive point is that the design is pretty cool! (except the logo)
at some point search was going to become a two-horse race, and its clear that yahoo was looking to get out of the massive capital expenditures and headcount behind the search engine and search advertising system (panama).

once you decide to exit, you're no longer investing. the longer you avoid investing, the less value the bargain holds. bartz got a better deal now than she would be able to get in 2012.

the whole "innovation" thing is a canard...the risks in making serious changes in search far outweigh the rewards...marketshare gains are going to happen now with deals like this, not better algorithms

my next bet is apple replaces google with bing in iphone apps etc as the google/apple thing heats up

microsoft could be a big beneficiary of people looking to avoid the google borg
It seems risky even if an attacker only had access to the final password hash, and not to the hash for every intermediate substring. In this ca the hacker could dictionary attack the hash while bypassing server side limits on failed password attempts.
The very first thing I thought of when this deal was announced was how similar it felt to how Google first got traction by lending their technology to a Yahoo "front-end." This feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water all over again.

I don't normally agree with Calacanis (although it's hard to argue with his success) but he's dead on about this I'm afraid.
But has there been any evidence ever that the pesticides used on foods are harmful? Or is it all just fear?
Generally the most industrialized countries with the most modernized agriculture have people living the longest lives with least morbidity, so we have to wonder about the effect sizes of some of the issues we are worrying about here. As I mentioned in another post in this thread, plants "naturally" have toxins to prevent their being eaten, and human beings have had to develop cooking and selective breeding over time (and some agricultural practices that reduce production of those phytotoxins) to increase the safety of what they eat.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/wrangham/wrangham_index.html
you could search for "ritual lamentation" on yahoo search...that would be some kind of self-referrential tribute
This sounds like it would be easily fixed using a this-page-only salt for your hashing function. I.e., when someone else visits the login page, they get a different salt and thus can't use that attack. This could be done on the server (if you use a dynamically generated page) or on the client (with some javascript).
lazy red-state trailing-edge forty-something users will use the search box placed in front of them
I've often struggled with these notions, as they are brought up in the media in cycles. Our normal faculties are faulty and tenuous, so I don't see why other, less-used faculties should be discounted because they seem faulty or tenuous. Seems like an unfair double standard.

One can suppose that there /must/ be an evolutionary advantage to have developed such senses, but maybe they are a by product of some other feature of the brain. I mean, early humans didn't need iPhones to figure out how to trap a boar, but it turns out that we use the same set of faculties to build both the trap and the iPhone.
Now I am gonna Olly and it's gonna stick. You could've been "Adam", in quotes, but you blew your one chance.

:-)

Take care man.
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According to the abstact of the study, which the BBC do not link, http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2009.28041v1
the objective was "We sought to quantitatively assess the differences in reported nutrient content between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs." and it was "restricted to the most commonly reported nutrients". The word 'nutrient' according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient does not cover pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, growth hormones and all the other medicines and chemicals excluded by organic farmers.

The study, according to the link above, did not conclude that 'Organic has no health benefits'.
An additional step is to have no OS on your rewritable media; run off a custom LiveCD with whatever you need on it. Pair that with TOR or a VPN home and you're doing pretty well; even if someone completely pwns your box, all you have to do is reboot.
Seems like a reasonable guess, but I still don't see where the widespread capability for hijacking the phone would come from. For that there would seem to be a requirement to launch and concurrently run an application permanently...and, unless I'm missing something, such an approach is inherently quite difficult and (intentionally) limited on the current iPhone OS.
I don't understand your point. What are the supposed benefits of GMO grops that makes it easier for me to eat organic? Are you talking about global food supply? If so, there are many other issues we can bring up, one being that most food grown in the US goes either to animal feed or to plants that make HFCS and a slew of other things that don't really count as "food" to me.
Who hates you
Interesting JSONP memory leak
My favorite is Alt-F4 to close Eclipse, and then Enter to spawn an IDE that isn't terrible.
I've always wanted an office in some beautiful, hilly area, like western Virginia. It would mimic a barn, sit on top of a hill, and have huge doors which would stay open facing the beautiful landscape.

I would totally work in your office!
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Good Luck!
That's a good point, in a choice between eating nonorganic fresh vegetables and an "organic" TV dinner it's likely the veggies come out on top.
I thought that one could use this info to design a better anchor. Couldn't you just recreate the same effect sans sharp edges?
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What is JDK 7? Yet another marketing buzzword?
Would it happen to run on emerged ARM-based platforms? Netbooks? iPhone? Android? Symbian? Whatever?
This isn't even true. Apple does tons of market research and Steve Jobs even quotes it at his keynotes when he's releasing new products. (Remember what he said when he released garage band, and the reasons he gave for switching to Intel...) This whole article is just a PR piece designed to make them look cool and trip up their competitors who are dumb enough to believe it.
Yes. In light of your last sentence, the attitude of the article is what most developers are fighting. We are not slaves to be calculated into a cost efficiency equation.
What is a Software Appliance?
New Facebook App Advertising Guidelines
Yeah. It does have a nice About Us page which states, helpfully, "It is really versy simple".
dupe. Original here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729553
Facebook wants to get on a pedestal and talk about "Good Ads Make for a Good Ecosystem" while showing some of the worst bottom-feeding scam garbage they can find.

Facebook: "Do as we say, not as we do."
Really good questions.

1. Grad school was miserable because of time-fragmentation. Four simultaneous projects (classes) => couldn't focus on any of them.

2. I think that by nature, I am not really an entrepreneur. I'm a curious person, a tinkerer, someone who mostly enjoys coming up with a really good theory to explain some facts and open up new lines of thought and research.

I've met people with a genuinely entrepreneurial mentality: they can't help but see how to negotiate a better deal, broker solutions to practical problems, pounce on opportunities before the crowd values them correctly, surprise their competitors with something unexpected. I admire those qualities, but that sort of thing wears me out fast. Theorizing and seeding other people with cool ideas, though—I never tire of those.
The biggest gap in front is left by stopping altogether. This is also the safest posture a driver can take but it accomplishes nothing.

Yes, leave room in front but also have some consideration for the person behind you. If I can't (or am not willing to) pass, I try to leave as much room behind me while staying a safe distance from the vehicle in front of me as possible.
"Given the lower efficiency of organic farming, how much more land do we need to convert to farmland?"

Maybe a better question is why have we let so much farmland get repurposed for other, arguably trivial uses? I remember a time when large parts of Los Angeles were fruit trees, and are now strip malls and parking lots.
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Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, said in an interview that Ms. Bartz had driven a hard bargain. “Look,” he said, "she got 88 percent of the revenue and none of the cost.”

I can't help but read this like Ballmer's trying not to bust out laughing while he's saying it. Is it possible to say something like this at all sincerely?
I was simply oblivious to the idea that I could start a startup. My university focused on getting their students primed and ready to work at Big Widget Corporation and talk about startups was usually limited to references to Apple or Microsoft in their heyday in the 80s.

When I finally did hear about Y-Combinator all this other amazing stuff, the steady income from Big Widget Corporation still kept me from really going ahead with a startup. Why walk off the beaten path?

But after 2 years in the corporate world, I'll be starting my startup soon. What finally convinced me to go ahead? After witnessing the bureaucracy, red tape and inefficiency of large corporations, I decided that I was too young for this crap.

I'm edging towards 23-years old with no mortgages or debt/loans to pay and plenty of money in bank. Guess now wouldn't be such a bad time...
My wife and I like to take walks and when we lived in Oslo Norway we would always see other people out walking around. But when we moved back to the states it seems like walking is only reserved for those who need to exercise. Walking around in suburbia I can often see house after house that has one room with the "TV glow" in a window. There is some truth to every cultural assumption. No matter how bad TV is, it does have entertaining properties.

""I don't watch tv, exercise every day, get 8 hours sleep,.." check, check and check. Is this so unusual?"

If you ask someone a question that has a negative social aspect they are very likely to push their answer in the direction they think is socially better. While there will be some truth, the answer is probably more like:

I watch 0-3 hours a night of TV (mostly depending if netflix movie arrived that day or what tivo recorded), I exercise two (more likely), maybe three times a week, and get 6-7 hours of sleep a night.

So to answer the question, doing everything I listed is unusual, much more likely there is some truth mixed in. While I don't take tons of photos of my cat, I do have some photos of her going nuts trying to get to the squirrel on the other side of the porch window (who couldn't care less that she was there).
"If no one hates you, you’re not doing a good enough job of being remarkable."
Quick version: Monsanto is one of the companies creating GMO products and there methods are highly questionable to me.

I would think that lack of thorough testing before releasing is a good start, in addition to cooking some of the test results to see what was desired and ignore what was detrimental to the test subjects.

Isn't it currently illegal in the US to label a food as containing GMO's? Some of the same politicians that were instrumental in getting HMOs introduced into food markets (and the aforementioned ban on wording) were previous or became employees of Monsanto. Not the most disinterested of parties...

Then there is the speculative links to species decline. Gene-modded soy is grown with the intention of being dowsed in pesticides, which are having negative impacts on surrounding plant and animal cultures.

Fields in South America are now allegedly only capable of producing GMO corn, as cross pollination occurs, more bizarre plant reproduction ensues, until the line dies relatively prematurely (as it is designed to do) so that more seed _must_ be bought from Monsanto.

And then there are the legal issues of Monsanto suing any farmer who complains that their fields have become contaminated for using Monsanto seed without paying for it.

All I have read and heard so far is despicable behaviour on Monsanto's part, so I distrust their products, since I can not trust the corporation.
"Bing, bang, bung". Said in a sad, whimsical voice as one shakes one's head and turns away.
Firefox add-on that helps to search with more precision and less clicks.
If you don't want to deal with the horrible color scheme, subscribe to his mailing list. It's all the same content.
I'm an SF climber. Mainly haunt Planet Granite in the presidio. Also do w/e's in Bishop and Yosemite.
Roughly a year ago, over a period of a few months, I had a serious of "spiritual experiences" that utterly, utterly changed my life.

Only one problem: I don't believe in the supernatural, so the "I found God" explanation obviously doesn't cut it for me. That left me with a deep need to learn what the hell happened in my brain.

It appears that we have only recently begun to consider such questions as topics of legitimate scientific inquiry. The field still seems to attract whack job "scientists" who think people's brains can be connected by quantum entanglement (see part 4 of the article). There is a long way to go before I can have my answers. That's ok, I can wait :-)
Win, place or show?
I think he's incredibly wrong, and I'm surprised by it because he founded Weblogs, Inc. and should know better.

Yahoo is now a media creation and curation company. Yahoo Sports is number one, Yahoo News is top five (HHS Secretary Sebelius had an exclusive op-ed in YN yesterday), OMG is killing TMZ and others, and so on and so forth. Yahoo's strategy of original content and great curation is all about stickiness. Let's be clear - Yahoo will still sell the very best ads for themselves, and Microsoft gets that sales expertise as well. No one on the face of this earth sells premium online ad space better than Yahoo.

Yahoo has clearly decided that they won't play in search any more, and that's a rational decision - they only played in search for a small period of their history. They were powered by Inktomi before Google, and now will be by Bing for the next ten years, and presumably something other than Bing after that.
Marketing isn't a list; it's an approach
I find assertions like this pure hype, and unbecoming of a scientist.

It also belies a cock-sure arrogance that asserts that we already enough enough about how the brain works to accurately model even a very small portion of it.

So, now I will go on record, not being a scientist: In 10 years we will understand the brain to be vastly more complex than we ever imagined, because after attempting to model it, we uncovered a whole lot of stuff that we didn't know about.

And that is also why projects like Makram's are worthwhile.
Honest question: why do you find it demoralizing?
Because to LA residents, milk and apples come from the store, not from cows and trees. I jest... partly.
Never too early to do a good impression.
Spinvox hopes for new funding deal
That's how I read it, and am a little concerned as I can't patch my phone.
Are You Building IT “Partnerships” or “Vendorships”?
Good thing they don't matter - this one doesn't seem to be working. :/
How about not freezing the vast majority of packages at all?

A huge amount of their effort is spent doing pointless crap like freezing versions of 10,000 end-user software packages, and backporting updates with the features stripped out.

It's totally reasonable to freeze versions of the kernel, glibc, xorg, dbus, etc. every 18 months or so. It makes some sense to regularly freeze heavily-interdependent meta-packages like Gnome or KDE, since their release model matches up. It's ridiculously stupid to freeze Firefox that way.
Modern consoles have HDMI out; many modern monitors have HDMI in. Of course you're on your own for audio.
This guy's "startup" is making more money than yours...
I'm a little skeptical about this one. For one, when doing corporate strategy and deciding what to build, you need to understand the dynamics and deficiencies in the marketplace. So at some level, someone within the organization had to evaluate using either primary (focus groups, surveys) or secondary (already published studies and facts) research to see if the idea or product was viable. Now I'm guessing that secondary research might be more the norm at Apple because primary research might give people that are in the potential target market an idea of what new products are in the pipeline. Apple wouldn't want to give hints at what it's doing by performing primary research.

I'm not staying they have to do tons, they need to have some understanding of who they're going after.