skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airbnb provides a lot of help for people without a lot of money. I would've been in a bad position if not for Airbnb.

Dropbox has made my life a lot less stressful.

HN gives us all so many opportunities. For example, the monthly "who is hiring?" threads. If anyone is suddenly stricken with a run of bad luck, then they can make a post about it and the community will come together to at least offer them work. People here like talent, and can find ways to use it. Most other places aren't like that. And imagine a world with only Reddit.

Also, imagine a world with no HN and no Reddit.

YC has made seed funding more accessible, and given founders more power. The VC's had the upper hand before YC. Now the VCs seem to be closer to servants than masters. If I decide to do a startup, that will impact me.

Probably some other things I haven't thought of off hand.
see http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-decei... (courtesy ovis below)
Nothing in the terms or rules state the app must be closed source. Additionally, competitors retain all rights to their application. The only thing Coinbase gets is media exposure.
If they're narcissists, then yes, because a narcissist is perfect, and each of his traits is a gift to humanity

Yes, but some trolling is a genuine gift to humanity. I've seen (and executed) some truly celestial-- even operatic-- trolls.

By the way, I can't stand online bullies. Those assholes ruined trolling IMO. Trolling was awesome when what happened online, stayed online and no one ever tried to fuck with another's "IRL" existence. The problem is that, while the skilled trolls tended to stay white/gray hat-- shit, some have said that I'm an extremely-white-hat troll-- the unskilled trolls had nothing other than evil to distinguish themselves. Eventually it became repulsive.
Searchable encrypted records seems like a contradiction. Normally I'd expect that the fields you can search on are not encrypted (at least not in the search index), and given the obvious conscientiousness of TrueVault I'd expect to see that mentioned in the docs if it were so, but I don't.

Can someone from TV elucidate how that works?
Why are there so many of the same kinds of apps if ideas are easy? I think "idea harvesting" is definitely something to be concerned about.
> Angular's value proposition for the dev is that if you take time to learn its unusual idioms and opinions, it will pay off.

Which is funny because it started out as a way for web desginers (not developers) to learn how to write apps.
Originally it was "dark triad". It refers to 3 seemingly genetic personality traits (narcissism, psychopathy, and machiavellianism) that, although extremely undesirable, are in our genome because they provided a reproductive advantage, especially in men.
i've created the group solofounder@googlegroups.com
to make it easy.. I will add "soneca" to the group, since we got his email.. and could you please join in? i think maybe more even people will be in the same boat :)
I'm wondering how they determine good traffic or malicious traffic.
Oil paints and solvents can be pretty toxic! So it can be dangerous if the working conditions are bad.
Sorry to say this but it sounds like you're not a right fit for startups. Startups aren't for everyone. If you want to be a founder it is absolutely a gut wrenching challenge. You have to put yourself out there and then be torn apart a million different ways. You have to adapt and change, listen to others. Be relentless. Work is a grind, you don't get to work on what's fun. You have to work on what's right. And if you can't get a very deep sense of fulfillment with all that sacrifice, it doesn't mean you're a bad person. It just means you should get a normal job, or be employee 100 at a company, just don't be a founder.
prosperity-destroying energy policies

Ever notice how climate change skeptics implicitly claim perfect economic foresight? They may not buy that the Earth is warming or what the cause is, but they're absolutely certain that trying to weatherproof our civilization is going to result in collective bankruptcy. Oh yes.
Rakuten to Acquire Viber Internet Messaging App for $900 Million
D3.js with LiveScript
reddit is leaking again
it is time to consider naming your babies with names that are extremely unlikely to be common

Apart from being overly paranoid, this is not really workable at a demographic level. Far easier, demographically, to just change your name in the rare event where this happens.
Here are the two paragraphs in question:

"And if humans are the cause of only, say, 50% of the warming (e.g. our published paper), then there is even less reason to force expensive and prosperity-destroying energy policies down our throats.

I am growing weary of the variety of emotional, misleading, and policy-useless statements like “most warming since the 1950s is human caused” or '97% of climate scientists agree humans are contributing to warming', neither of which leads to the conclusion we need to substantially increase energy prices and freeze and starve more poor people to death for the greater good."
Termite robots build structures with amazingly simple rules
Trolling, like hacking, has hat colors.

I started out as a gray hat troll and became more white-hat over time. We have nothing in common with the black hat trolls and the bullies. Online bullies are (like all bullies) horrible people, but trolling is a different thing entirely. It can be done in a way that doesn't hurt people. The first rule of a decent troll: don't fuck with peoples' IRL.
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Can't find plugin on package index. https://sublime.wbond.net/search/sublimall

Is anything wrong with it right now?
This is the most reasonable thing anyone has ever said about Silicon Valley.
The bizarre, lucrative world of 'unboxing' videos
Exactly. There are two major questions: either the models are right or they are wrong, and either we successfully curb emissions on a very large scale (action) or we do not (inaction). This gives us four outcomes:

1. Models are Right + Action = huge spending on energy but we save the planet

2. Models are wrong + Action = huge spending on energy that otherwise would be spent on defense, etc. but we are left with a renewable energy infrastructure.

3. Models are wrong + inaction = little money spent on new power sources, left with fossil fuel-based infrastructure. When fossil fuels run out in 100-200 years, have to build renewable infrastructure to replace it.

4. Models are right + inaction = little money spent on new power sources, left with fossil fuel-based infrastructure. When fossil fuels run out in 100-200 years, have to build renewable infrastructure to replace it. Also, dramatic weather changes, widespread famine, etc.

Does inaction make sense even if the models are wrong?
Cheesecake Factory – Cheesecake – Cake
I'm not sure this says why you dropped out. Is your primary reason because it wasn't 'fun'? I'm not sure startups are supposed to be 'fun'. They are incredibly hard ventures to solve problems where others have failed.
Man, reading little-endian binary formats makes my head hurt. I get why it's done that way, but what a nightmare for comprehending what you're reading.
I'd never heard of this site before today. This looks cool and like something I would actually want to use, and I think you've got a very promising way to demo your product while doing content marketing.

That said, I had absolutely no idea how to make it work. I clicked around, and recognized the effects of some of the things I was doing, but it didn't really make sense to me and I'm still confused. If you're trying to acquire users from this kind of page, I'd recommend having a giant call to action somewhere at the top of the page with a link to some introductory explainer material.
I remember being a fresh TA and doing my first roll-check in a class. There was a strange name I didn't recognise on the list: CQUELINE. After struggling to pronounce the name (some kind of french-influenced african??), it turned out that the admin temp preparing the list had accidentally chopped off the first two letters.

Somewhat embarrassing, because I knew of Jacquie previously, though I'd never seen her name written.
YouTube Adds Free Top Track and Album Streams To Google Search
Scarce resources aren't the cause of starving babies
Tomato Mozzarella Appetizer – Tips to Make it
The problem with this article is how the author frames the entire debate around this one measure of climate change, as though this is the only possible observation of climate change.

The issue of human contribution to climate change is much more complicated than that. This is an interesting contribution to the discussion, but it shouldn't be the only piece of information we go from.
Some citizens, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll call the cops." Now they have many problems.
It wasn't clear to me what the 'I prefer vim' option in the signup form is for. Does it control a setting or is it just a survey?
I go one step further and sync the entire Sublime Text 3 user directory on OS X.

mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3 /path/to/cloud

ln -s /path/to/cloud/Sublime\ Text\ 3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3
If the postal carrier holds the parcel for any reason, that can backfire, as they usually need ID for a pickup. A not insurmountable problem, but annoying. I once shipped a parcel to a forum acquiantaince under his handle, and he had a mild problem proving to the post office that he was the guy at that address.
Blockout.io – Tumblr-based message encryption
We have a Bitcoin ATM in the office, which requires the license.
9/11 was an attack mostly fueled by Saudi Arabians pissed off by US involvement in the Middle East in general and in Saudi Arabia in particular.

Blaming it on Islam is missing the point.
I know it's failed everywhere else in the world, but maybe internet censorship will save me!
Was there supposed to be a link there?
WBond search engine is just not very good.

https://sublime.wbond.net/search/sublimall%20socketubs
Ask HN: Session token stealing
I noticed in one of the discussions on hacking Github, people were saying that the real token or session id must not be revealed to the user-agent.

How does this work because wouldn't a common value have to be known between the browser/server?
Some (very small) snippets: http://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs.html#section-1
Rust seems like it has by far the most to teach you coming from a dynamic, interpreted background.
Thanks a ton for the feedback... that's super helpful. We'll make some tweaks to this page now.
If we can only affect it half as much as we thought we could, would we still spend the same amount?

Maybe you'd have to spend twice as much to have the desired effect.
I'm still confused what happened: did you have a cofounder dispute? Aaron is probably the most chill partner at YC, so you got good advice I'm sure.
Extending that investigation, This Google Plus profile shares the same name and similar face. https://plus.google.com/108991124177710449415/about
YC wasn't such a huge deal in '08 though, were they?
...the possibility of "infinite" cost events.

Never having taken place, thinking about such events would seem to challenge to both frequentist and Bayesian schools of thought.
Ask HN: What is the most important single thing you'd tell a new entrepreneur?
Anything...advice?
Was that a commercial for moleskin?
What's the advantage of this over a dotfiles Git repo?
Yes, thanks. Still in the edit window.
If anything, atheism has stronger correlation with wars and violence than religion has (after controlling for the age of civilization).

Consider WW2: it was not backed up by religion. USSR was an atheist state and Germany was only mildly religious.

How about Cambodian Civil War: what was Pol Pot's religion?
So, in general, the failure of a specific prediction from x theory does not in general invalidate the theory, in this case because all of the failed models depend on other assumptions than anthropogenic global warming. This is not because of any limitation of AGW but because climate forecasting is hard and any attempt to predict the goddamn future is going to require a lot of assumptions about a lot of things that can't be predicted (chaps theory). That's okay, because AGW is not based on climate models in the first place, but on a first-principles understanding of radiative forcing and a very well-established "fossil record" of old temperatures. Repeat after me: AGW is not a climate model.

Simply put, there is no precedent in the entire history of the planet Earth for overall heating as pronounced and rapid as the past 100 years of AGW. There are really only two possibilities: either humans are responsible for basically all of the heating, or there is a giant demon who is trying to stir-fry the human race.

So if you think that the recent warming is not anthropogenic... find Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis, fast.
40% of FedEx and UPS revenue comes from these accessorial charges.

Fuel Surcharge
Address Correction Surcharge
Delivery Area Surcharge
Biz vs Residential Surcharge
Customs

etc, etc, etc.
Did you leave the startup that got into YC or did the whole start up(your cofounder(s)) also leave YC? Your writing hints at the former in which case it sounds like you left a start up that got into YC, not as much YC.
I agree, there are some great highs, the lows really suck. In the end you have to enjoy doing really hard things and things you don't enjoy or this place won't be right for you.
Can you please link to the indictment you saw (which the grand jury also saw and true billed)? I couldn't find it with a quick glance at the Comal County Court at Law Portal (I only found a Register of Actions).
PG never replies to these, why not just say "Ask HN" instead of link-baiting, since that's the real audience?
The thing about YC, is that it is the 'Steve Jobs way', the way of brilliant showmanship. But also the way of blatant lies and distortions fields. It is not the 'Wozniak Way'.

(I'm also a YC dropout.)
I actually never thought of it that way. You could be right to some extent in that he is indeed a good "moral deflector", but the main point I was trying to make still stands, in that one bag of chips is not something that will significantly change your chances for cancer or whatever other disease could be associated with eating a lot of the stuff.

Same with cigarettes. Indeed they have been undoubtedly linked to cancer, but still, if I smoke only one it really won't make a difference. Same with spam, one email every few months, as has been my experience with gmail for the past several years for example, really does not annoy me more than a mosquito could. There's a difference between working on a bad product such as, let's say hand grenades or other stuff actually made to harm, and working on a product that is definitely bad but only if you actually let it be, i.e. abuse it.

My point is that the blame is not on who makes the product, as the product maker does not make said product with the intention to harm, even if they do know that if you cross a line it will be harmful. The blame is on the person that lets this product ruin its life. Just like any drug. If I hit a joint right now, I guarantee that it won't harm me. But if I let it run my life and I stop working because I want to smoke weed, then the blame's on me, not on whoever grows the weed or even the one who sells it to me. Precisely the reason as to why we usually put age restrictions on certain things, as we deem children to be not capable of drawing this line between use and abuse of things that could end up being very harmful. However as we grow up we believe that we are then capable of taking responsibility for your life choices. Including giving yourself cancer or diabetes by only drinking cola and eating chips.
I read it twice, but I still didn't catch a motive beyond "it wasn't fun." I'm thinking he couldn't stomach the process of building a company: the day in, day out of keeping a fledgling venture alive.

On the bright side, he may have saved his former company's life by parting ways with it when he did. Early stage ventures past the incubator/accelerator stage don't seem to weather cofounder disputes without taking significant damage.
If one of those scripts forgets to kill a process's children (because the process itself was supposed to handle that), and a server ends up with a bazillion orphaned processes, then it could well become your problem!

This happened to me once. Never again, damn it.
Most people, once they've established a position, become incredibly "biased" in their views. Skeptical Science, which I mention because it is referenced some dozen times in here, is the sort of site that proselytizes to the converted. It has driven a stake in the ground demarcating its position, and everything has to be relative to that stake.
Let me get this right: you're saying that human emissions of CO2 need to be reduced in order to mitigate climate change regardless of whether CO2 emissions cause any warming?

If humans caused 100% of the change then we can stop causing it.
If humans caused 0% of the change then we can't stop causing it and must adapt to it.
If humans caused 50% of the change, then we can stop some of it but will have to adapt to the rest.

Obviously the premise has a huge bearing on the action we can and should take.
If I have learned one thing from reading HN here it is:

If you want ownership (and by that I mean an equal say), you want to do a lifestyle business, not a startup. Once you start accepting other people's money, you get trapped into their expectations of an exit strategy.

That exit strategy ends in one of three ways:

1. Your startup is sold and either you have a regular job or you no longer have any say. Either way you hopefully have some money.

2. Your startup goes public, makes you very wealthy, and now you are beholden to the SEC, tax lawyers, accounting lawyers, etc.

3. Your startup fails and ends.

That's it. You may have a great idea, with scalable revenue, etc. But if you want control you have to fund it yourself. That's one reason why I doubt Efficito will ever take investment money (my co-founder and I are on the same page there) from outside parties.

Where startups are better is where you want help to achieve greater rewards and don't mind being beholden to investors. That's the decision that has to be made before even looking at incubators.
Imagine what it'll be when 100 - 1000 megabit connections are also the new normal. Is it possible that DDoS attacks will end up unstoppable?
Comic Chat. Microsoft Research. January 1996.
you might like opa; at the very least it's worth a look. it bills itself as a "framework for javascript" but it's actually a language that lets you write frontend and back end code that mixes seamlessly

http://opalang.org
Wow, an article on religious violence goes over religious violence. Who would have guessed?

7% of all wars in history have been religiously motivated (note, that is not by body count: if we went that way the atheistic russian and
Chinese civil wars plus nationalist world wars would make them a round-off error.)

Do some religious people commit violence? Yep. So do some environmentalists. Is the problem environmentalism? So do socialists. Is the problem socialism?

I get it: HackerNews commenters generally don't like religion, mainly on first-principle and emotional grounds. But there is no reason, logically, to exaggerate the dangers of religion, nor to deny the observable benefits.
Everyday trolling comes in the format of intelligent people using said intelligence to justify their positions, even if their position is weak or wrong.

It's the result of being too mentally lazy to take the time to see another sides point of view but smart enough to justify their point in a way that's hard to argue against.

It's a very republican mindset.
IMO, bitcoind is a terrible idea. The huge deal-breaking problem with bitcoind is that it provides no way to query for transactions associated with a specific address unless you import that address into the client and give it the private key. This severely restricts your freedom to do your own wallet management, and compromuses security if you want to have many Bitcoin nodes on many semi-secure servers for redundancy.

I personally recommend either SX (see http://github.com/vbuterin/node-sx for an HTTP pass through server, and I have one running at http://multisig.info:3001) or if you are okay with centralization then plain old blockchain.info.
I clicked the comments just to see this. Thank you :). I had a sneaky suspicion something was up when it was just some casual mention of data and not really providing sources or demonstrating a thorough understanding of the data.

"If the deep ocean ends up averaging 4.1 deg. C, rather than 4.0 deg. C, it won’t really matter." He must be blissfully unaware of how badly the oceans are being affected right now by our impact.
The problem is that the same things which are thought to cause global warming also cause significant pollution, the harm of which is not in question. Most people do not question whether smog and mercury in the air are problems, and the sourcing and processing of fossil fuels creates significant harmful pollution, too.
Whether humans are the cause of 100% of the observed warming or not, the conclusion is that global warming isn’t as bad as was predicted. That should have major policy implications…assuming policy is still informed by facts more than emotions and political aspirations.

Because there's been such a powerful political reaction in favour of all the scientists talking about warming? To the casual observer, it really looks more like Business As Usual.
prediction: 5 min later, announces that Bitcore has a security exploit. All coins stolen from all projects that uses it.
I just symlink to a dropbox folder (or whatever your preference of service)

Save's the hassle of adding/pulling
Nice read. When I read the title, I definitely didn't expect his reason to be that everything is easier in Wordpress. The part with the Javascript code snippet had me laughing, too.

Ironically, he sounds to me like he'd make a good programmer, because he took the time to learn his chosen tech in detail.
Does this mean "scientist" Rhawn Joseph will drop his frivolous petition demanding NASA to investigate this as a biological organism [1,2]?

[1] http://www.universetoday.com/108733/some-ideas-on-where-the-...

[2] http://www.ibtimes.com/alien-life-lawsuit-rhawn-joseph-claim...
OP here, and I think I agree with what you've written. Lecturing and textbooks are both means of conveying information. Students can seek out information on their own time, but the act of teaching is helping someone else construct an understanding. That's the key thing software can't do.
Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor
No love for Ernie Hudson?
I am curious as to not only how did he find out the attackers identity but also got on the phone with his dad. I mean, this is straight out of detective novels.
that makes sense, but the way it's presented looks more like someone just doesn't know how to take a picture. Including full shots of each and calling the closeups out as detail views would help a lot.
> Feynman caliber instructor

Feynman was brilliant, and I have a set of both his lectures for freshman and the ones he did on gravitation. But he was not a gifted teacher. He was a gifted learner. Those of us who can follow him can see an amazing mind at work. But gifted teachers will look into students minds and help them build new understandings.
Why do you jump to the assumption that they're malicious then?

Put a few more branding elements into your page design, so that visitors to their site will understand that they're redirecting your data. Then take advantage of the extra publicity that they're giving you.