skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Are older RFSs dated or still relevant?
Which (if any) of the older YC RFSs do you still feel is relevant today?

["Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund", July 2008](https://web.archive.org/web/20140625020958/http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html)

["The Request for Startups", 16 August 2009 ](http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html)

["RFS 2: New Paths Through Product Space"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131027020234/http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html)

["RFS 3: Things Built on Twitter"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131210035909/http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html)

["RFS 4: New Ways to Use Live Video"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130524042619/http://ycombinator.com/rfs4.html)

["RFS 5: Development on Handhelds"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140428231118/http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html)

[RFS 6: iPad Applications](https://web.archive.org/web/20130926122922/http://ycombinator.com/rfs6.html)

["RFS 7: Applications of Facebook Instant Personalization"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130928021512/http://ycombinator.com/rfs7.html)

["RFS 8: Ephemeralization Apps"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130910041719/http://ycombinator.com/rfs8.html)

["RFS 9: Kill Hollywood"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140606041708/http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html)
Why We Killed One of Our Biggest Features to Grow Our Business
World War Zero: How Hackers Fight to Steal Your Secrets
Facebook Graph API v1.0 will be deprecated on April 30, 2015 [FAQ]
If it comes from thin air, it's a tax on currency denominated assets. Typically a regressive tax - those with more wealth are more able to structure their holdings more carefully, so lose a smaller portion of the value.
Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory
Sure! I've got 11,481 bookmarks, nearly all (except those tagged "personal_net") with descriptive notes. It's a wonderful service.

And yes, I'm a paying customer. Not so much because I need the full-text search, but because I want the site to be profitable. (https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/)
3 Hacks To Get Your First Paying Customer
I stopped my RTW trip to create a tool to amplify people's voice
I spent 3k to create opinionslice.com after talking with people complaining about the fact that the world care about them just during election time. I am waiting forward from hearing your feedback on how I can make it better.
Yes, they do make it easier in a lot of cases.

For example, in the `head []` case, ghc has an option to locate the exact source of the error:

-xc

(Only available when the program is compiled for profiling.) When an exception is raised in the program, this option causes a stack trace to be dumped to stderr.

This can be particularly useful for debugging: if your program is complaining about a head [] error and you haven't got a clue which bit of code is causing it, compiling with -prof -fprof-auto and running with +RTS -xc -RTS will tell you exactly the call stack at the point the error was raised.

The output contains one report for each exception raised in the program (the program might raise and catch several exceptions during its execution), where each report looks something like this:

*** Exception raised (reporting due to +RTS -xc), stack
trace:
GHC.List.CAF
--> evaluated by: Main.polynomial.table_search,
called from Main.polynomial.theta_index,
called from Main.polynomial,
called from Main.zonal_pressure,
called from Main.make_pressure.p,
called from Main.make_pressure,
called from Main.compute_initial_state.p,
called from Main.compute_initial_state,
called from Main.CAF
...
Microsoft CEO readies big shakeup, drops devices and services focus
Ask HN: Admitted to Nuclear Fusion program. Need to raise 4000 EUR
Dear HN,

Longtime reader, but first post.

I am looking for help and also ideas on how I can raise this amount. Simple fact is I cannot pursue this program since I am 4000 EUR short (Annual Tuition fees) and I do not have resources to tap into. Please read on:

I am a 22-year old girl from India. I got admission into Erasmus Mundus European masters programme "EM Fusion" with partial funding.

An international research center called ITER is being set up in France and India is a partner in this effort. The EM Fusion course is to train scientist- engineers for this advanced research facility.

A part of this programme I have to study one year at University of Lorraine, France and the second year depending upon specialization at Madrid, Sttugart or Gent.

The European consortium is offering a partial support of 650 EUR monthly for living expenses. One may need additional funds for this, say about 150 EUR, which I can afford.

However one needs to pay 4000 EUR per year, towards the tuition fees. If I raise the amount to get in, then I can somehow figure out Year 2.

Any leads is appreciated. My email ID is PuneKale at google’s email service.

Thanks
Google launches $100m startup fund in London
The Boring Trait Google Looks For in Its Leaders
Germany Asks Top U.S. Spy to Leave the Country
> So the biggest risk in a project like this remains burnout.

Actually, my biggest concern is a continuity plan. What happens to Pinboard (and my data) if Maciej gets "hit by a bus"?
Ask HN: Is embedded systems a high growth market for future jobs in technology?
With the increase of intelligence built into audio, video, monitoring, wearable and other mobile devices, is embedded systems a high growth market for future jobs in technology?

Do you notice such a trend?

If so, which companies do you see leading this pack with the best embedded systems engineers on their teams?
AWS Mobile Services
Simplify Email: Low cost IMAP email filter and organizer
Yeah, exception resolution is pretty weird in Haskell due to laziness. In some sense, you end up thinking of exceptions as being buried in values in the language instead of exposed by computation—this is your null-value landmine problem exactly

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

This is also why the Control.Exception module exposes `evaluate`, which embeds a value in an IO computation and thus resolves this problem... If you remember to use it.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.0/docs/Control...

Fortunately, in idiomatic Haskell exceptions are considered to be an expert feature (basically I see them in concurrent IO or resource management code only) and partial functions—usually introduced by incomplete pattern matching like `None.get` does—are veboten.

It's not perfect, but -Wall will help with that.
Here is a quick review of some salient features of WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 and some initial bugs. http://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-4-0-beta-1-review/
I have a daily cronned download of all my Pinboard data as an XML export. It's trivial - just curl or wget https://username:password@api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all. Done.

The data ends up in my regular backup, so I have historical data and can examine deltas if I wish.
I agree. Inflation is a form of taxation and is an immoral thing as well.
"The list of someone's friends who don't use your app is no longer available in v2.0"

A step in the right direction in terms of user privacy, but sounds like something that will affect a lot of products.
ISIS Now Has 88 Pounds of Uranium
> - Elixir compiles directly to Erlang byte code

No, it compiles to Erlang. Which is then compiled by the Erlang compiler.
Are you sure? I've seen waivers and "individual consent" forms that can supposedly release your health records.
Can OpenCL benefit web server?
Thinking of implement an web framework with opencl
You are correct. Think of iBeacons as kinda of like GPS. They feed you data, not the other way around. You can certainly have more advanced capabilities w/ BLE -- similar to what you suggested -- but you'd have the single master problem.

To comment on your understanding:
The app doesn't need them hardcoded, it can query a server and say: here are the beacons I see, where am I?

Alternatively you can include location information in the data broadcast by the beacon. So one of them can say I'm at the end of isle 1, the other says I'm at the start of isle 1, and yet another says I'm at the end of isle 2. You can figure out your approximate position by their relative signal strengths. They can even have broadcast the exact GPS coordinates of where they are located (hardcoded in them of course) which if I recall correctly Apple can use to update their location service to give you very accurate positioning.

Bear in mind though that beacon data, unless encrypted, is public but even if encrypted it can be duplicated so someone can mess with you by creating a duplicate tag and placing it nearby.
Red Hat will replace Yum with DNF in newest Fedora builds
World Cup celebration mapped by Spotify data
Thanks for asking this...I was wondering the same thing. not everything is that old (the Oculus Rift story with 4 upvotes in the last hour is near the top), but HN overall seems very stale, as if I was reading the /best list, except with many non-best things included.

The /new list seems unusually inactive..even at 4AM, even links less than 15 minutes old can accrue a few upvotes. I just checked the /new list and nothing has more than the initial upvote (except for the Source Sans link, which I just upvoted to test)...

http://imgur.com/w4PamQC
Crowdfunded space probe rescue fails
That's not a solution. That's still you wanting someone else to pay for what you consider to be a good idea. Make your own money and then give it to people for free, if you wish. But you have no moral right whatsoever to take money from other people yourself or through government.
The military has a history of using video games as training tools for soldiers. Modded SNES units were used for rifle training and various other games have been used for tactics.

The author's description of his reactions suggests that the Oculus Rift could potentially be utilized to train soldiers for stressful situations.
He even has health insurance!
Soon hard drives will be thousand times faster
Correct. Celery's implementation dequeues but doesn't acknowledge the task, holding it until the timer is reached.
AWS CloudWatch adds Log collection/analyzing
Show HN: QCast, shared party playlists for Chromecast
I forgot to say that Needle it's a mobile app, so it's complicated to use hyperlinks and other things.

I don't think is complex, I think is very usefull. A trigger to an object I want to share.

Think of Instagram, in a comment of an another user you want to show a pic you made of the same subject: Hey @user check my ~objectID looks similar

When the user start ~ Instagram will return the thumbnail of my pics, I can choose the one I want and bam I've created a direct link to one of my pics. Same goes for Twitter and other apps.

Sure there's other things to think about how it could work in Instagram but it could be an idea.
QCast brings shared party playlists to your Chromecast. When you host a party, everyone can add songs to the shared queue, and downvote those they don't like - if a majority is reached, the song is automatically skipped. The host maintains the option to swipe songs away to remove them, skip to the next track, and control volume.

QCast works on all Android devices 4.0.3 and later along with a Chromecast. The host needs a Google Play Music All Access subscription. Would love to hear what you think. Next time you have people over, give it a try!
Bold Ambition and Our Core [Microsoft CEO address to employees]
The ZeroMQ position on why brokers like this may not be a good idea: http://zeromq.org/whitepapers:brokerless
> The problem with HIPAA is that it's supposed to look after my interests as a patient, but if I feel that it isn't, there's no way for me to opt out of it.

To the extent that the first part is true [1], the second part is not true in any substantive way -- the privacy protections restrict what can be disclosed without your consent. So, yes, you can effectively "opt out" of any of the restrictions by consenting to disclosures.

[1] HIPAA -- the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -- exists, in terms of direct goals, mainly to look after your interests as a potential purchaser of health insurance, the as-a-patient privacy protections are secondary to that, and were put in place in HIPAA, and subsequent revisions, to mitigate political opposition to the incentives for automation and related standardization of electronic transactions provisions designed to make the health insurance system -- both in terms of enrollment and claims processing -- more efficient.
We have a fibre connection on our farm. It is happening with certain providers.
Rather than ~, you should use some other symbol which is more common on social networking platforms like ^. Just a suggestion though :)
Emergency phone and Internet data laws to be passed
I understand the situation.

The sentence offered was exactly 6 months. So it was quite as low as 6 months. It was 6 months.

Suicide is not an understandable outcome. It was rash, irrational and abnormal. There is nothing more to discuss. You are simply wrong. the best part is, you know it as well. We both know you know it.

You showed me two cases where it happened. I can show you over 100,000 cases this year where it didn't happen. I can show you millions of cases where it didn't happen. I can show you 10's of millions of cases where it didn't happen. Literally, every single prisoner in prison didn't kill themselves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2...
> stopping a doctor from prescribing a risky drug to a terminally ill patient who will die without it anyway is counterproductive.

It's also about balancing incentives. If there were no such regulations whatsoever, you'd find yourself in a situation, where a patient with a mild cancer and a broken arm is potentially "terminally ill" and needs the New Risky Drug. It could degenerate to regular, systematic experimentation on humans in the guise of "doing everything we can".
Ok, but how is that different than a link? Are you saying that inserting a tilda will tell the mobile app to link to something? Sorry, I don't see this solving any problem. I see it just adding another layer of complication to a system.
Yeah something definitely feels off. The only 'recent' item on the frontpage is an internal HN job posting which works outside of the upvote/downvote algorithm. My guess is that a cron job that updates/counts the up/down votes and refreshes the homepage hasn't run in 10 hours. Just a guess :)
Effective Unit Testing
Yeah, and you can feel isolated even with close friends and family.
How this startup solved proper Java character encoding
‘A Threat to Internet Freedom’ NYT Op Ed on Net Neutrality
Kind of silly. RaspberryPi doesn't compete with anybody. They're like a charity, with the goal of doing the most good.
Search-based software engineering
The article is a good read, but I think the video of this piece is worth its weight in gold. Very succinct, and has a great analogy with the toaster for people who might not be more familiar with what is going on.
Shameless plug: my pinboard iOS app Pinswift is on sale today for a dollar (down from 5) to celebrate Pinboard's birthday. If you are a Pinboard fan, or are just getting started, please consider trying out the app.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinswift-fast-powerful-pinbo...
Amazon Zocalo, secure storage and sharing service
It’s time to revive .beats, the Swatch Internet Time
Automatic Soccer Highlights Compilations With Python
I wonder if you could post on your "about" page more about yourself (or detail it here). In particular what your expertise is and how much experience you have in what you are writing and doing screencasts about.
Windows 7 support ending in January 2015
Reminds me of http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174
Quick Tip – Pretty printing JSON in Vim
99 Days of Freedom
If you want the really good stuff try Vietnamese cinnamon (also known as Saigon). It has the highest essential oil content and is very aromatic.
Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/927/
He will probably appreciate it either way. But the point is well taken.
thanks for the suggestion! =)
Keep.com, releasing the image processing bottleneck
Just a side note, as someone that works at home a lot, physically by myself. Others can treat you with suspicion.

A few neighbours have colluded and perceive me to be a monster. I am male, and my partner (female) travels to work. I think they just don't get self-employment / working from home, and what looks like a role reversal.

I'm quite a friendly guy but their hostility (they have been quite mean) is starting to make me feel isolated and quite unwelcome in my own house and garden. When I'm actually quite happy to be on my own (providing I have enough external stimulous).
Show HN: They Came For Me – fake random browsing to prevent profiling
Even when you pick a naming scheme, it'll eventually cause grief if you get big enough.

Name your machines XXYYN[N] where XX is the building name, YY is the rack name and NN is the position in the rack? You'll eventually have more than 676 buildings, 676 racks, or 99 machines in a rack. Multiple people will have written regexes to split that into building, rack, position and they will break when you grow one of the fields.
Amazon Zocalo – Document Storage and Sharing for the Enterprise
I initially read the title as 'Sysadmin Cats'... which could be funny if it got the Oatmeal treatment. That said, I'm interested in watching some screencasts when I get a chance. It looks like you already have a decent and growing library. Nice work!
Awesome-devenv – a list of curated tools for a better dev env
Ask HN: Happy in the Hacker News Filter Bubble?
I get that there is a need to moderate what gets posted on this website, especially things that aren't relevant to this community. But aren't moral questions about the impacts of Silicon Valleys business models on the local community as well as global society just as important if not more so than "Alcatel-Lucent sets record of 10 Gbps over traditional copper telephone lines" and "Show HN: Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts"?

If so, then why does legitimate discussion of the New Yorker's "The Tech Industry vs. San Francisco"[1] get shut down? Will this post itself get killed?

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair. I've been repeating this quote a lot lately, but only because it is spot on.

-

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8013773
> Plants create compounds to battle pests

You mean like Foxglove, Poison Ivy, and Rhubarb leaves, all of which are harmful to humans?
it is different than a link in the same way that @ will link to a user. The ~ will trigger the list of my object to share. You know when in Instagram you start typing @ it return the list of user you want to mention? Same goes with the ~ but it return the list of the object I've posted
haha, that's a great one, and totally true. "Normal" time won't dissapear, so this is just adding another timezone so to speak. However, I'm actually liking the idea of reviving .beats
I guess I'm misinformed on this. The output of compiling Elixir files are .beam files, not .erl files. Maybe the Elixir compiler compiles to Erlang along the way?
How long should we cling to a word's original meaning?
Diya Aur Baati Hum | BigTvForum
Apple Deals Samsung Another Blow As It Gets Its First Batch Of Chips From TSMC
Yeah, good point, I don't know why you got downvoted -- at one point, that was consensus science -- and there was all sorts of scientific research, the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence, that people believed demonstrated it.

At the moment, consensus science is that there isn't even such a valid object of inquiry as 'race', so you can't even make claims about it. (Although this is changing in interesting ways too, post-genomics)
Cool, I wonder if I can try it on OpenSuSE (although I'm pretty well married to KDE).

Who knew that an article on Parkinson's would lead to learning about another window manager!
Show HN: Keep, an app that helps you love how you spend every dollar
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback!

You are actually right about the swipe thing, and someone posted the exact same comment in his review on the appstore. So this kind of validates that I did something wrong there.

On the first part of your comment: I'm not sure I understand, but essentially when you tap a number it turns green, and then you just tap +,- or * to do an operation.
So do blades have internal speakers?

apt-get install beep

then play some marco polo
A Way of Life
IBM Bets $3B That the Silicon Microchip Is Becoming Obsolete
I always imagined it would be like playing a submarine simulator - you rely mostly on your instruments, the locations of your enemies and their capabilities are largely educated guesswork, and you spend most of your time waiting to see if an action you took an hour ago had any sort of impact.
you start by saying you get the need to moderate and then ask why something gets moderated :) sorry, couldn't resist
London based startup hacks Google Glass to be controlled with the brain
In this case:

* observation is simpler (are you in AA? are you still drinking?)

* so measurement is simpler (how much blortzroot do you add to your lotion to clear up that rash? can you show your rash is 65% better than last week?)

* AA attempts to provide a permanent solution, not a remedy for symptoms, so it's more clear when AA fails.

* Also the things homeopathy "cures" tend to be in a completely different class and severity than chronic substance abuse
Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat join Google in support of Kubernetes Docker management
Marketing Plan
Hey Guys,

I'm working on a new B2C marketing and wondering if someone can recommend on some great tools/templates to approach and build this plan.

Much appreciated!

Arik
Nginx 1.7.3 Released
10 things I've learned about working with rails
Ask HN: SAML security leaky referer
I'm debugging a SAML implementation (say https://samltest.com...) and noticed that even though the site is HTTPS, I have Chrome extensions that are calling home to their respective sites (say https://ext.com) with the SAML request from samltest.com showing in the referer like so /idp/SSO.saml2?SAMLRequest=lVJbT8Iw.... HTTP/1.1

SAMLRequest can be decoded, so thinking that ext.com can see and decode that saml request to samltest.com, is that a security problem?
Are electronic employees soon to take over?
Isn't developing for consoles also fairly expensive due to various licensing fees?

I guess nowadays releasing physical game media is no longer a requirement, which also makes releasing updates easier.
I'll counter with the fact that I think consistent, accurate, and up-to-date "basic usage" information is still really hard to come by for a linux newbie. The thousands of guides, HOWTOs, forums, mailing lists, etc just means that in addition to trying to learn the system, they also have to learn how to separate the wheat from the chaff, information-wise.

I've known plenty of people who are very good programmers or Windows admin-types who would make very good linux sysadmins, but for the huge hurdle of not learning linux, but learning how to learn linux.

That's not to discount your suggestion around expert tips/war stories/etc., though.
Germany Asks Top U.S. Spy to Leave Amid Flap
You don't have to come up with a business model for your site at all, it's your baby, but a click-to-donate button wouldn't hurt :-)
Author Edward Abbey ("The Monkeywrenh Gang", "The Brave Cowboy") also worked in the NPS fire lookout towers.
My Stolen MacBook just showed up in Vietnam. Am I screwed?
Elixir's compiler emits Erlang forms, and then relies on OTP's Erlang's compiler. It is not a direct process.