skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In MY opinion--mine only, can't speak for anyone else--i think "other" is fine if you don't want to include a big list of stuff. "Other" and "transgender" is probably also fine, but i would have been pretty comfortable with just "other" myself.
I've set up authpf for a couple of clients that want remote access to internal systems without exposing those systems to the outside.

So, in that particular example, ssh port forwarding by default is not desired behavior, because the user isn't granted a full shell for authpf. However, they're considered "trusted" users, so it's not a security problem from a practical standpoint.

However, if I were running a similar service, but more broadly, for "untrusted" users ... then it would be a problem.

While someone might argue then that as a sysadmin I should examine the default settings and modify them according to the needs at hand -- and I would agree -- I could also argue the reverse: that argument is equally valid for disabling ssh port forwarding by default.

In the end, as with most defaults for security-sensitive systems, it should come down to expected behavior. That is, someone who needs ssh port forwarding will know they need it, and can go looking for that particular knob to turn. However, someone who _doesn't_ know about ssh port forwarding should not be expected to go looking for it and disable it in order to not get caught by surprise later on.

It should be disabled by default.
The current HN title "Why I quit eating non-vegetarian food, and why you should too." does not match the gist of the article. I'd even say it's misleading.
Do you have the stats for YC-funded companies? It'd be a nice leading indicator and if it means that more people pick up the languages/frameworks they use, that's a win/win for everyone.
Yes, i did indeed register for this poll. I've been lurking here for a while, just never found a thread/poll i really wanted to participate in. Since i'm a bit of a minority i felt that i should represent myself :)

(I don't know about over-representing females, though. It's hard to say without asking a bunch...)
I have a close friend who has brutal hangovers when he drinks, and he claims (and I've seen this in practice) that since he started taking Vitamin D supplements his hangovers are much reduced in severity - sometimes to the point of being nonexistent. I'm not sure if its placebo or something else that hasn't been taken into account. But if was interesting to notice.

Vitamin D is one of the supplements I take - not as a hangover cure, but because I don't get enough sun.
PHP (cleverly hidden within the CodeIgniter framework).

EDIT: Doh! It's too late at night, and I didn't catch what you meant in the title. My startup is bootstrapped, not YC-funded.
Nope. As I've mentioned previously, PHP is a templating engine gone berserk. The language it's written in is C.
It costs time to come up with a project, for training, a coach, etc. In general, internships are a good idea (they give both sides a trial run), but some companies may not want to spend the resources on them.
GWT!
Awwe, a "wtf" option would ruin the whole thing :P

(Smooth, by the way ^_^)
Thanks for the link. I just conceptualized the idea an hour ago so I do share your concern for the users. I just remembered that launchly.com was a pretty close match. The concept is actually very useful, but its clear launchly has just launched and the userbase is not very big. Also the pricing seems outrageous. But its a better implementation in that the sites have to already exist. This answers your question somewhat because you can offer users who provide feedback an upgrade to whatever the site it is they are reviewing. For example free access for a year or whatever. Thanks for the reply.
I don't see this working out very well, unfortunately.

For one thing, although users can express needs and desires in very vague terms, they can't usually be specific enough to actually help someone that's trying to implement an idea.

I _think_ it was Guy Kawasaki that described this in "Rules for Revolutionaries", but it might've been Gladwell in "Blink" -- I don't remember now.

Anyway, you're usually better off making observations about behavior and then attempting to solve the problems that you see there. In this case, you could frequent web designer forums and the like, as well as the forums for competing software, and see what the most common complaints and requests are.
What if my soul was androgynous from the start, and it's my body/"gender" that i'm bringing into line with my soul rather than the other way around?

I mean, that's the other option, isn't it?
The difference is in a matter of degree. I agree that denormalisation can be beneficial - even necessary - in certain scenarios, particularly when other design optimisations are exhausted. But that's a far cry from "the normal forms you learned about in school are an utter waste of time that will throw your database performance in the gutter."
Would it be OK to sit there forever reading a book after buying a single cup of coffee? I would say it depends.

In this case they don't charge for the WiFi, it just comes with your coffee.

My reasoning is that most laptop users will use WiFi, and if they want to use it, they at least have to ask for a new card every couple hours, which involves either buying something or overtly seeming like a leech.
#4 seems like a zealous overgeneralisation. JOINs get a lot of crap.

Yes, it's no secret that large joins on huge amounts of data can often be very intensive. From that does not follow, however, the exhortation to simply avoid them categorically. That's a little too much blanket statement for me.

For instance, joins are often used in situations where there is a numeric type column that refers to a very small table of enumerated values that have a textual or other translation, and there is a need to produce the latter in a single query. There's nothing wrong with that join from a performance standpoint, even for very large values of n.
Just now, ["search engine do you choose in the blind test"] does show this HN item, about place 16, as of "5 hours ago". So maybe you just missed out because it made its first visit before your comment.
Hi there. I'm TV's thunk. To stay healthy and happy, just follow these simple rules:

1) To prevent cancer, go have some fun in the sun.

2) But to prevent skin cancer, stay out of the sun.

3) Avoid carbs and meat and regular produce.

4) And don't waste money on that organic stuff -- it's no better than normal!

5) You may want to stop wearing shoes, since they can mess up your feet.

6) Avoid alcohol, except for a couple heart-healthy drinks a day.

7) And most of all, don't stress out over this stuff too much -- it can cause heart disease.

The more you know. [star, rainbow]
name three things that have risen in popularity or frequency in the past thirty years:

a low fat diet, sunscreen advocacy, and autism rates.

pregnant women need vitamin d awareness more than any other population segment.

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health/autism/vit-D-explains-...
Yeah I could see the actual user feedback being nowhere near what the intended feedback would be.

Great idea about frequenting your competitors forums! I actually religiously do this, and it is indeed extremely helpful. The only problem I have with this is I have no real idea if their target market is/should be my target market and of course, is the market lucrative? In other words, I might be optimizing a product that kicks ass relative to users of forum x, but are users of forum x even the ones really dishing out the money? Guess no matter what solution, you won't know until you just test the damned thing yourself.
Thanks for the comment!
Although, certain online learning resources inspire confidence -> e.g. Django book, Thinking in Java, O'Reilly Safari etc.

The nice thing with an online version is that you can e.g. scale up the text size to an ultra-readable format, jump quicker between footnotes/ citations, retrieve the TOC, look up words in the index quicker, leave feedback (Django Book) on each paragraph. It really depends on the design quality of the online resource... hypertext craftsmanship.

And look at all the info mangling possibilities in Freebase/ Freebase Parallax (navigating between related sets of information) -> http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ or even Wolfram Alpha.

Books can't do this. They are linear.
It's the name of his column: http://www.techcrunch.com/author/paul/
"NSFW" is the name of his column: http://www.techcrunch.com/author/paul/

Apparently it's supposed to be edgy or something.
I think you'd be better off building a test version of your idea and then iterating from there.

You don't want to fall into the trap of talking about a thing and never actually doing it. :-)
HyperPhysics is an example of the direction I think we need to be going in (although it doesn't have the type of license I'd prefer). It allows you to get info on almost every basic physics topic with nice examples.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/HFrame.html

Definitely a candidate to replace a textbook (minus problem sets).
Not among people who are old enough to drink it isn't. Any adults on Bebo are likely to shortly be on the receiving end of a visit from the Paedofinder General.
You're so witty!
How does any of this bantering disporve my statement that the United States is doing the overwhelming majority of the medical research in the world?

The United States is responsible for 4x as much medical research as the United Kingdom is. How can you in any way misunderstand this to mean something other than "The United States does more Research than anybody else. This is common knowledge".

Are you illiterate?
Ultimately what we did with the Arduino itself wasn't that interesting (read sensor, adjust heater, trigger some lights) but if you'd like to read our report send me an email and I will forward it to you.
Why the hell would somebody vote me down for an observation maybe saving other people from possibly several thousand dollars damage to their computing equipment???
Can I give a suggestion? Get off the Internet.

I don't mean that in a bad way. I just mean that the type of person who, when they have a problem, thinks: "You know, I bet there is some social networking service out there where I can post about this problem in a real pretty AJAX-y looking form and then Twitter about it to my friends" already has plenty of people solving their problems.

(They also make terrible customers, because one of their problems is that people keep asking them to pay for things, despite those things not being iPods.)

Instead of using the Web 2.0 darling, get out there and talk to Real People who have Real Problems. They work too hard. They don't see their kids enough. They don't make enough money. They are very willing to pay for solutions to any of the above three, but they might not even realize that solutions are possible! (99.9% of people who purchase my software never knew there was software available to do what it does until they got to my site, if you read their search queries.)

[Edit: Incidentally, don't ask Real People what they want. Ask them what their problems are. A lot of my customers see their problem as "I like playing bingo but it takes several hours to make cards by hand." You know what the preferred solution was for years? "I should spent a lot of money laminating the cards that I made by hand, so that I can use them again next year." It never occurred to most of them to ask for something that would make bingo cards in a few minutes for less than the price of laminating a set.]
Sorry guys, don't get excited yet. Bad, misleading headline.

What?

"Subjects were randomly assigned to take daily dosages of 1,400-1,500 mg supplemental calcium, 1,400-1,500 mg supplemental calcium plus 1,100 IU of vitamin D3, or placebos."

It's not vitamin D. It may be vitamin D or it may be vitamin D + calcium. Why didn't they have a group that was supplementing only vitamin D and not calcium? I don't know, but since they didn't test that, there's no way to know that it is just vitamin D.

Who?

"The four-year, randomized study followed 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women from rural eastern Nebraska."

Given the age, male-female ratio on HN, it's not clear that vitamin D supplementation would be beneficial to the average HN reader. Also, all the women were 55 and older.

Besides that, as the article mentions, skin color and other genetic heritage also matters. If you are a woman and Caucasian, this study is more likely to apply to you; if you aren't, who knows?

In case someone considers going out and supplementing with both calcium and vitamin D on account of this study, I want to point out that unnecessary calcium supplementation can be detrimental, and it can contribute to things like stress, poor sleep, and prostate cancer (if you have one).
Thanks, Patrick, I needed that.

Just read this post as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750375

Just to be clear, the concept outlined is not the concept I am pursuing, its http://plusjade.com . I just get distracted/discouraged now and then because "I am creating a website engine that makes websites". Who the hell needs that, how is it different from the other 2000 engines out there, and who is paying money for them? Of course I'm not dumb enough to NOT think about these things, its just...

yeah, I should talk to real people. Get it done.

Thanks!
Pylons has served us pretty well in so far as it seems a more modular approach vs. django. Pylons encourages you to tweak the framework itself as you see fit. In our case, we incorporate a bunch of custom framework code. I'm sure you could do this with django, but it just feels better with a minimal, modular framework vs. something that is on the monolithic side of things.
This is one hacker's way of decision making (as an example choosing a final employee from interviews):

1.0 Start with the first interview

2.0 If short-list keep CV on your desk

3.0 Second interview, if better than previous swap with first one. First one gets regret letter.

4.0 Next interview repeat steps 2 to 3.

Essentially you reduce the number of choices at any time to two. You can do the same for almost any problem where you are faced with more than two choices and at the same time you are disciplining your self to make quick decisions.

If you need to make decisions as a group you can still follow the same procedure as above, perhaps with each one giving a small talk as to why he is making a choice and then vote. Think you are determining MAX from a list! YOU are the software!
I would recommend having at look at their site(/s) and having a look at their todo lists and bug tracking systems to see where you can help out and just try to write a patch for it in their preferred method and see what happens.

For Example: for Mediawiki you could look at their bugzilla and find the open bugs with the "easy" keyword (http://bit.ly/3SbYJG) and try to write patches.

And also you can help out on their Chatrooms/IRC Channels, Message Boards, Mailing Lists ect
I agree with you.

One, your are right, Jobs and Apple as a whole inherently understand how to make technology human and accessible to the average person. This is clear from their history of products and product marketing.

Two, surely the dominant Windows platform created opportunities for many software developers. One could develop and launch for Windows and have access to hundreds of millions of potential customers. Didn't a de facto standard platform allow people to think more about applications and what computers could be used for instead of particulars of the operating system? That said, Windows dominance surely held back operating system technology, but standardization had some value, right?
> Apple is now the anti-competitive monster that Jobs rallied us against in the infamous 1984 commercial. Steve Jobs is the oppressive man on the jumbotron and the Olympian carrying the hammer is the open-source movement

The OS X kernel (Darwin) is open source as are 200+ other apps that ship with OS X: http://www.apple.com/opensource/
It seems strange to me that in a recession, companies would want less interns (unpaid or paid), not more.

Yes, using interns effectively - especially in a large organisation - requires considerable management resources. As well, their limited tenure (a summer, say) gives them very limited value as a useful, specialised IT employee's ramp-up period to break even can be longer than that.

Still, there are lots of smaller companies that use interns to build entire products over summers; I think the one that's most well-known here is probably Joel Spolsky's Fog Creek Software. And I've run into several web-oriented companies that do the same here in Atlanta.

I would think they'd be foaming at the mouth for a chance to get unpaid, or very low-paid slave labour with a rather high skills to cost ratio.

Now, of course, I have little reference frame for the usefulness of interns outside of the IT profession. But, surely there has to be a correlate to this opportunity in other directions of commercial endeavour as well?
3) Avoid carbs and meat and regular produce.

Meat is very low in carbs. In fact, meat (red and white) is high in protein, essential amino acids, zinc, vitamin B12, selenium, phosphorus, niacin, vitamin B6, iron and riboflavin. (Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat#Nutritional_benefits_and_c...)
Or you could just pull your SIM card out of your iPhone and stick it in an Android phone.
> Any input on the concept?

For a first foray into business, I'd recommend against building something that requires network effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

For every Facebook or Yelp, there's hundreds of network-effects-based sites that never gain any steam, and they don't see anything from it. Also, what you're talking about is notoriously hard to get money out of.

For a first business, sell something to people. Take Hacker News' own Patrick McKenzie* (patio11) - he sells Bingo Card Creating Software. His blog is here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/

He sells things to people. If he tries something, he knows right away if it's working - he gets bingo card sales. If no one bought his bingo cards, he would know it's not working and he'd have closed his site. You learn a lot about business by selling things to people, and it's got the most clear and insightful feedback.
"The ignorance at the WSJ is hilarious. Who is keeping them in business?"

Rupert Murdoch.
I'm afraid most brainfuck implementations don't have non-blockind IO; therefore, you can't.
Otherwise it would be very fun.
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Hahaha! Nice.
Alright, I'm calling this out: I want to know the reason for the down-vote. STEP UP!

If it's some technical reason that I've ignored, good for you. If it's passive aggressive behavior then not so good.
Yes i agree, thats why when we were choosing our framework we ended up deciding between cherrypy and pylons ... i think turbogears changed from cherrypy to pylons as its core web framework module.

I think if needed you could change the framework code with django also but it just seems very large where as pylons or cherrypy is very minimilistic.
Yep, I get that at position #11. It's strange because my test string is still nowhere in sight. Multiple indexes, I guess.

ED: 4:36 nothing; going to bed
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It could also be said that a Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of cancer.
I'll take a guess and say in their head first dive into the world of ultra cheap PCs they found no there there. The margin on those things are so small, one phone call can turn that money loser into a real money loser. It was one thing when bloggers and geeks were buying them. They figured it was a cheap toy you could do serious work on. But then they went mainstream and people only saw the price and not the shortcomings. Somebody gets the bright idea to blow away their partition table. Calls tech support to figure out how to restore their data, profit loss. Hardware failure, profit loss.
Does it have Adblock and Greasemonkey? If it does, I'll switch right on over to it. Until then, I'll just wish it luck.
Instead of making something people want, make something that you want first. Solve your own problem. 6B people in the world, I am sure someone will have the exact same problem as yours.

If your product could not get mass usage, at least, you will always be the user of your own product.
Loving Chrome, and anxiously awaiting for when I can boot it.
Only ask that the venue have simple directions for the country bumpkins like myself
I wonder if his supplements also contain B vitamins. It's been known for a long time that certain B vitamins will ameliorate hangovers. My understanding is that alcoholic drink makers have been trying for years to supplement their product with B vitamins but have been blocked by the FDA or the FTC, apparently because they think getting rid of hangovers will make people drink more. This info came from Pearson and Shaw's Life Extension book years ago. The best link I could find is this:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4886290_prevent-hangover-vitamin-b-c...
DRDOS was also light years ahead of MSDOS. GEM was also far more advanced than Windows. The list goes on forever.
When I see an ad for superrockstarninja coders I can't rid myself of the image that they want to pay salary in ThinkGeek trinkets instead of dollars.

The people whose technical abilities I admire the most uniformly are or would be appalled by such pandering. They [do, would] want to be paid fairly, listened to when they offer advice or make a judgement call about something they've been asked to do, and left to their own lives when not working.

This correlates poorly with the typical corporate arrangement wherein people are hired as cheaply as possible, for a role as an unquestioning code grinder (we've already got the ideas here, thankyouverymuch), and they try to make up for it with beads and baubles.

I'd love to hear how these ads work for companies, though.
Chill out, they're just comments. It's not high score.
I'm starting to fool around a bit with Erlang for a side project... other than that, exclusively Rails at this point. I am not a 'YC Startup' though.
He's trying to justify the crunchpad. Sadly he fails. Users certainly do not want bigger netbooks. The whole point of a netbook is that it's portable, can fit in your bag etc