skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, congratulations on making it this far, it sounds like you have done a lot of research and have a good idea.

For the investor portion, I am not an investor so I can't say exactly what they are looking for in your category. From a personal perspective though I would greatly narrow down the pitch. In stead of focusing on the exact question asked by your competitors and you, I would focus more on how your questions are more focused and more informative to the student. You don't need to include the specific questions in the pitch. Show them in the demo, but don't go over them specifically in the pitch.

Moving on the roadmap section, I would eliminate paying students to write reviews. While this works great initially and will get some base data for you, it absolutely does not scale well. If I were an investor this would be a potential flag to me. In addition, if I am paid to do a survey I tend to immediately have a favorable bias towards the results of that survey. An alternative may be to work with potential advertisers within the communities of each school. Say for example get a pizza shop to advertise 10% on the site if the student fills out the survey. You could probably also get the pizza shop to pay for advertising thus generating a source of revenue.

Although this angle is a little harder, try working with alumni associations of various schools. Many of them have mailers and such and advertising to alumni could be a great way to get data.

This brings up another point. I did not read all the questions on your survey so I could be off a little here. But in skimming the pitch and questions to me it came across as a rating system for which school has the better social life. While potentially great for prospective students, I don't think parents, or the schools for that matter, want students choosing them based entirely on social life outside of class. In particular I noticed questions regarding the physical aspects of male/female students. I would tend to stay away from them in the pitch. Not saying you have to remove them from the application, just don't highlight them when pitching or selling the app.

Hope that helps and good luck.
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Would that necessarily be a bad thing?
The Kolmogorov complexity is almost identical to the entropy (Kolmogorov complexity is applied to a given string, entropy applies to the thing producing it). The entropy estimates in the comic, if you prefer to think of it this way, assume a "wordlist attack" (they actually assume the most efficient attack possible, though in this case I guess you could say that's a "wordlist attack"). It's also assumed that the words are chosen randomly (from the comic: "four random common words"), not "off the top of my head," so no, human fallibility is not an issue with the scheme itself, so much as the way many people interpret the word "random," when in respect to entropy, it has a very specific meaning. It's therefore an undeniable fact that attacking those passwords would require trying an average of half the possible combinations, or 2^(entropy-1). These passwords are just as strong as fully random character strings, so long as you ascribe the correct entropy values.

If it helps, don't think of the words as words, but instead as random numbers. It just so happens that these random numbers are presented in a form that's easier to remember. And 4 random numbers between 0 and 2048 cannot be easily guessed.
As someone who owns both of his PragProg books, the second edition is also a big improvement over the first. If you ever tried learning Erlang, and didn't stick with it, but still want to learn it, I highly recommend the second edition.
Yes, use libvirt-lxc and setup a uid-mapping.
Outernet – a company looking to provide free universal wifi from outer space
Would love to hear people's thoughts on feasibility
I wonder how discouraging people from air travel influences cancer rates...
Ask HN: Who is Co-Founding? (February 2014)
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Most soldiers after returning home find themselves in an awkward spot, killing is the only thing they do right, and having a PTSD doesn't help to pick other skills, so their only pahts are:

1) They become hitman, even if its socially unacceptable

2) They become mercenaries even if it is for enemies of USA

3) They commit suicide

So what's the solution? If people is unwilling to let them kill everyone in sight how does a soldier profit from their work?

This is a honest question, I generally hate mass shooting and soldier suicides.

/s
Specifically the Mac folks -the Apple ][ folks valued openness.
Oh, yes absolutely, text of crucial, active contract — a clear case that needs an NDA. That's what I meant by “anything not fully developed”: details of active operations commonly need those.

The funniest case I had was a company that had scraped the (public) web, asked me to do some statistical studies on the table, and had me sign an NDA saying that I should not reveal to third parties what they had told me, i.e. nothing but the database of public information, and completely transparent mandate (a shoe company wanted to understand what people said about shoes on-line — except it wasn't shoes). What I was supposed to send them (original results) was also covered by the NDA (the agreement was written as to cover both parties either way), preventing them from forwarding my report to anyone; they worked for a third party, not mentioned on that contract. They de facto signed themselves into a huge legal risk if I were feeling cheeky. Even funnier thing: I was one of several possible contractors, but the contact covered “all communications” in “any way”, meaning that even if I wasn't selected, I could send them the report anyway, and they would then possibly not be allowed to send any elements that I had included in my report, even if the other contractor had found that insight too. The guys were paranoid, so the penalties were huge.
Great news. Glad to see my donation being put to good use. I last installed this back when it first got some traction but interface wise there was almost nothing there. Even still it was showing good promise with what it could do.

Seeing it now it's evident that a lot of work has been going on. Kudos to the team, their dedication really shows.
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Qasar's story is amazing and inspirational. Was he able to convey his story in his application to YC and is that the reason you selected him in? Or did someone at YC already know him to be able to truly appreciate his achievement?

I have always found the YC application strange in that sense. So much emphasis is given to the question of the "most impressive achievement", but in order to convey any achievement with context, one needs to be quite verbose with their replies. Given that an application only has few seconds to impress, conveying anything is a challenge. Has YC given much thought to an essay type application?

I am proud of where I am today. I grew up in Mumbai, India (not quite a village). We weren't rich. I still have scars on my right foot from an abscess caused from a piece of glass that had pierced my foot while playing soccer bare feet on concrete. We couldn't afford shoes. Luckily my father's business started picking up around the time I entered engineering school. The plan was for me to graduate with a bachelor's in structural engineering and then we could work together to grow the business further. At 20, I earned my bachelor's in structural engineering. Unfortunately my father had died in an accident at work when I was in my penultimate year of engineering. I managed to get enough resources together to be able to attend grad school in the US. I met my wife there. BTW, she has an amazing story too. We now have a startup (https://magtag.me) that received angel investment recently. We feel like outsiders in the tech scene but our spirits are high and when we look back at our lives we feel nothing but pride.

My life is an ongoing achievement. Would you have time to hear me out?
As are the (non-Bootstrap) element classes, names and IDs in the code...
I don't like the NIH syndrome, but I like using what's probably the most popular distro and especially the software variety in the community PPAs.

So what's the best way to get a more vanilla Linux desktop experience without losing the convenience of the Ubuntu PPA ecosystem? Use a Ubuntu remix? Can you use PPAs with Debian? Or do you not even need them with the cutting-edge Debian variant (whatever it's called again)?

edit: NIH, not NIMBY, thanks kudu for the correction.
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>Except for USA which actively provokes wars

In part, perhaps, to avoid accusations that we've forgotten how to fight.
For back pain? More than half of the people at some point in life develop some for back pain. It's scary so if you can afford a scan you get it. Of course there's nothing wrong and the pain goes away by itself in following months, usually after switching chair in which you spend most of your waking hours.
They had already ruined it in XP. ;)

The start menu from Windows 98, when they introduced the ability to move and reorder items by drag and drop, is great – assuming you do a bit of manual reorganization of the mess of a structure that application installers create by default. The one-dimensional layout is easier to scan (visually) and easier to aim at with the mouse (since you only have to aim carefully in one dimension), I find, than the two-dimensional designs in XP, Vista and 7.

Windows 7 removed the option for the "classic start menu", so the need for these third-party replacements is nothing new for those of us who preferred it.
With a TOPAZ reactor you can get 15 watts per kilogram.
Smart Businesses are Using Google+ to Attract Clients
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Linux is a usability nightmare the second you get out of the fake easy-to-use illusion layer they added with the new GUIs. Unless you’re a coder, don’t even think about it.

Do you think he really believes this? Maybe I'm too far in a bubble or something, but that sounds completely dishonest.
Why don't you tell the New Yorker staff they're not writing English, and see how far you get?
Fortunately, your nightmare world would helpfully self-select those of us who share your horror for you to unite with, because presumably everyone who actually thought this was a good idea would be too busy only meeting people like themselves and consolidating their groupthink.

Personally, I concluded that the claimed functionality such as you described must have been added for comic effect, particularly the line in the next paragraph about how someone's facial recognition technology could help me to know whether someone who is presumably right in front of me at the time is attractive or not...
What about MRIs? Don't they offer the same benefits of CT scans but without all the radiation?
Perhaps this fashion trend will resurface:

http://news.discovery.com/history/art-history/venice-masks-1...

In the 17th century, Brown said noblemen, patrician women, and other wealthy individuals began to wear masks and cloaks throughout the city. "This custom reached its apogee in the 18th century, as you can see in paintings by Pietro Longhi," Brown told Discovery News. She explained, "Masks and cloaks allowed one to move about the city anonymously, and thus offered considerable protection, as with the chador in the Islamic world. They also allowed women to frequent dubious places of recreation, such as gambling casinos, without compromising their respectability." She added, "It seems as if the upper class all wandered around in public space incognito in that period (the 18th century)."
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I will pay $1,000 to the person who finds me a better job
I'm not sure I grasp the connection.
No and it's a damn shame. I would have liked to be able to update the version of memtest that was bundled into the BIOS for my previous motherboard.
You're thinking of Mint.
I probably can't really use because I'm not in the US, but thank you so much for that. Now, to be completely happy, I just need to choose what torture instrument I'll use on whomever wrote Apple's EULAs, and I'll be a happy man.
Yes. See my earlier comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7083763
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY

I don't understand how it applies in this context?
Ask HN: Download or streaming videos, which cost more Data plan?
Hi guys, i will like to know which consume more internet dataplan between downloading videos and streaming videos online.
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No, that's not better than Orgmode.
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This can be fixed with better content discovery tools. There's currently no decent way to discover, if a game will be any fun for me.
If you like a DE use the remix they are pretty vanilla (ubuntu gnome, lubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu) you can make them more vanilla if you forgo installing a desktop cd and just install the DE without the *-desktop package from a minimal or alternative cd install.

Otherwise give up on ppas (they may or may not work on debian) and look at maybe open build service or something.

Mint i think is compatabile with ppas but mint is very not vanilla
In theory: No, but it might make sense to make the difference between Ubuntu and all other Linux distributions clear. Maybe Ubuntu should not be called "Linux" anymore, just like android which also uses the kernel but has it's own userland.

In practice: Yes, Cannonicals questionable open source policy could throw free software desktops a few years back. Just look at Mir for an example. EDIT: or hdevalences comment below!
There's no such thing as "pirating". "Pirating" is just a buzz word that some use as a ignorant epithet and others hold as a badge of honor.

The question is, "Am I breaking copyright law by downloading this software?"

Here's a flow chart so you can check for yourself:

Did you purchase said software?
a) Yes
-> Then you are not breaking copyright law.

b) No
-> Then you are breaking copyright law.

Distributing the copyrighted material, as many torrent clients do for you automatically, is another matter altogether.
> didn't start out that way

Yes it did. Campaign finance was pretty much a free-for-all until the 20th century, and even then could barely be called regulated until FECA in 1971.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_reform_in_the_...
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Why are you alarmed? How significant is a 5x greater risk of meningioma?
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Thanks for the feedback, I'm product manager for appear.in. We'll note down microphone level indicator and consider it for our road map.

As for the background image issue, can you e-mail us at feedback@appear.in for follow up?
I know several people that died of cancer, and as far as I know none of them had a CT scan before it. In contrast, the one who was often scanned during his illness, lived almost 10 years with cancer.

The article just says CT scan has higher radiation but other than that no hard facts are presented. Looks like the NYT is writing research articles now...
I have no idea how easy this would be, I imagine rock hard, but couldn't they do a responsive interface, like Canonical is trying to do with Ubuntu?

Apps come packaged with both a mobile and desktop UI, and depending on which input devices are available it shows the relevant one. For example, a Surface by itself would show the metro UI, but connect a type cover or a keyboard and mouse and it'd flip to the desktop interface. Same apps, same data.

Obviously it would take a lot of work to ensure consistency and maintain spacial awareness between modes, but they do still employ some bright people, right?
now we see your next assumption is that investment into R&D happens without incentives. It doesn't.