skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still remember finding a frickin' blaster in a chest in some demon-infested hive-like structure in M&M7. I didn't have much use for it at this point in game, but I was really surprised and thought it was very interesting twist in the plot... Which actually existed in 7 (not so much in 6 I'm told) too! Good times.
CoinSafe Launches Bitcoin ATM App and Announces Seed Funding
The author assumes there is a paragraph before that sentence that describes his snobbish behavior.
Pixel-Drifter
A handful of recent surveys indicate that even VCs aren't very good mentors. Would you disagree?

Speaking for myself, I've found that most people are willing to offer their advice for free, whether or not I am in their incubator or portfolio.

Not disagreeing here, just curious about your outlook and experiences.
what a great way of finding other people's email addresses :)
I wrestle with having an increasingly narrow view of the extent to which people exercise free will, and having an increasingly cynical view of the social structures we have in place to help the poor. I agree with 'bane: the marshmallow impulse control experiment says a lot. So what gets to me is the sanctimony. If I were born as one of those kids who couldn't resist the marshmallow for 10 seconds: 1) how much if my outcome is the result of my own choices? 2) how is spending more money on education going to help?
And as the NSA revelations have revealed, there's nothing damning in metadata...

I don't mean to be trite, but I'm not giving any auth information to a Show HN any more than I would some random guy on the street.

Don't get me wrong, I'm addicted to inbox zero as much as the next guy/gal, but I achieve inbox zero every day. Never mind the fact that I accomplish this by marking email I deem as irrelevant by the subject line as 'read' without ever reading it.

I'm sure I've inappropriately marked email from people I care about as 'read' without reading it, but I do get a disproportionate volume of email from robots (that belong to me, my company and others), so I view it as acceptable collateral damage.

Show me the source and maybe I'll share my auth tokens.
Zynga cuts 2014 forecast, delays various gaming titles
hey fiatjaf. Actually, Google is already using WebRTC on Hangouts: http://www.webrtcworld.com/topics/webrtc-world/articles/3584...
Modern Shadowrun is starting to blend and merge them. (The next property in the series, Equinox, goes much further.)
Wow, I don't usually have a problem with the New Yorker, but this is a really patronising and naive profile. He drinks too much Diet Coke? Well, Bill Gates and Karl Lagerfeld also drink too much Diet Coke.

Worse than that, apparently he's not expected or, really, allowed, to apply basic logic and arithmetic in his research without being subject to ridicule: "It was a typical Coster-Mullen moment: he treats the world’s most destructive invention as an ordinary clocklike mechanism, made of simple parts that must fit together according to readily discernible laws."

Seriously, if there's one thing you can say about the Manhattan project, it is that it was an entirely positivistic, scientific activity. The lack of moral or ethical qualms that might be lamented in retrospect doesn't change the nature of the weapon. The mechanical aspects of the bomb are just that, mechanical.

Kenneth Goldsmith would probably excuse the style of this article as twee, but it feels worse than that. It is corrosively anti-geek.
Very cool idea for the fashion bloggers.
You might even sell this CMS (per client basis) or if you gather a team of web developers - become an agency working with fashion bloggers.

There is some potentially good money in this.
I happened to have a can of soft drink in my had so I punched the UPC in and it was not found (unsurprisingly, it's a small northern soft drink company in the UK) so I hit Add Product and then it asked for a signup.

I think you'd get better buy in if you could add the product first then sign-up or not have to signup at all but put those entries into some kind of moderation system.
Sure, I agree with both 1) and 2) -- I just don't see how "being scared of a shell" is a valid point. If the kid is given the thing and told to go wild, I doubt most kids would be "scared". Adults, maybe. But not kids.

Anyway, the kid doesn't have to know that the shell isn't prerequisite to play games -- until they figure it out on their own. My point was more that children are adept at overcoming obstacles that stand in the way of play.
OP wasn't saying it in passing, they were summarizing the findings of the study.
Nope; gccgo is a separate project. Its good code generation is totally cool for particular purposes, but the Go project has its own priorities that they're going to implement in their own toolchain.
Too many of you trying to see it. My requests are timing out every single time :(
It's more than a disassembler. Disassemblers are easy to write. Stateful transformation is much harder.
I was about to say the exact same thing. A lot of rules of writing happen to be current trends in literature, not actual hard and fast rules.

Adverbs are a useful language construct; if you teach people not to use them, they'll end up with a stilted grasp of writing rather than a balanced one.

For example, from the article:

> In our next class, I pointed out that using an adverb as a means of revealing a character's thoughts or actions was almost always a tip-off that the writer is telling instead of showing. For example, if I write:

> Nancy yelled angrily whenever someone questioned her.

>...I'm getting my point across by telling the reader how the character reacts. Sure, this might be just fine at times, but it's often better to write something like this:

> Nancy's boss approached holding the report she'd turned in the day before. She felt her heart start to race – what was the problem now? She'd met her deadline. The clients would be happy.

> "Hey, Nancy," Jim said. "I just wanted to ask you if you're sure this is ready to go out with the courier. Did you double-check it? Triple-check it?

> Nancy felt her face heat up, and the words were spilling out before she could stop herself. "What do you think, Jim?" she said, as she took a step towards him. "Did I remember the most basic component of submitting a report? Did I?"

But this is completely ignoring the negative effect: You've replaced one line with a dozen or more. You don't necessarily need this, some things in your story can be glossed over. If you don't want your book's word count to spiral out of control, maybe you need to cut some of this wasted text that's better represented by a simple adverb....
As someone that has just been diagnosed with stage iv colon cancer, I'm a bit dismayed that a blood test done after the diagnosis (via colonoscopy and ct scan) shows an abnormal result - but that simple blood test was never performed before. If it correlates with the cancer, why isn't it done as a matter of course during routine health checkups? If there a dozen such tests for a dozen different cancers, I'm willing to give a liter of blood per year for testing.

The test in question is CEA, carcinoembryonic antigen, where a standard range is 0.0 to 2.5ng/mL and mine is 8.0. What if I had had this test a year ago?
I don't think that's true in and of itself. The election cycles have been 4 years since the founding of the country, but this level of short-term thinking has, I think, gotten worse over time.

Personally, I think it has to do with how quickly information can be transmitted nowadays, coupled with less trust in government than there was a generation or two ago. But maybe I'm wrong and someone with a firmer grasp of history can correct me by showing that this has always been a problem.
Why? Any writing cycle consumes it.

And trust me, the Downloads folder in RAM is one of the best thing you can do to reduce the bloating of files in a system: you learn to copy away the things you really need, and leave the others there; at the next reboot they'll be vanished.
> I think you neglect to consider that not all people are success-minded

Or rather, they have a different interpretation of "success".
The problem I have with "show don't tell" is that sometimes you have a somewhat irrelevant fact, which is not important to the whole story or character development, but you need to state it to explain why the character took some course of action in a particular situation. If you decide to "show" instead of "tell", you would waste your readers time to "show" something not very relevant, which could be simply "told" and you could get on with the story.
>'There's definitely some kind of genetic factor at play, and some kind of environmental factor.'

Absolutely.

>'The real question is, can you take somebody who could objectively be described as a failure at life and train them/educate them/psychotherapy them into changing their decision tree to seek success instead of immediate gratification?'

My armchair theory on this says yes.

Yes, as much as you can train/educate/psych the underlying problems which lead to the broken decisions.

I think we can consider broken decision making process for life choices as a single symptom manifesting from mental processes that are 'out of spec' which may or may not be recognized as specific illnesses.

I tend to think of most everything mental as a continuum. A million analog variables with all sorts of dependencies and feedback loops producing the color of a person and we're holding up a handful of Pantone swatches trying to figure out which matches to determine what they 'have'.

Big problem is, I think there's a fairly limited window on these things an incomplete understanding of what all the various dials do (nurture) and even less about how they interrelate (nature).

Ideally, you're trained and educated within your childhood bubble by your parents, siblings, relatives or some other 'safe' person. Then, suddenly the instinct and extended social contract of 'help kids, don't hurt them' falls away completely and any sort of training becomes far harder as this person is suddenly fair game to be exploited or discarded.

That's not exactly how I wanted any of that to come out, but I didn't want to leave genuine discussion hanging.
There used to be a quite persistent website hosted from a C64 running Contiki. The pages were probably cached in RAM, but I still like to imagine that a beige 1541 disk drive spun up every time someone made a request.
Related recent discussion about an in-progress implementation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8137521
Resurrecting an Apple Messages chat with custom software
The missing options greatly lessen the validity of the poll, as you implicitly assume down-voting has its place.

H) Never.

I) Never; flag as inappropriate with a reason (sexism, rascism, spam - the list should be limited and must not include references to the intelligence of the poster or the post).

I'm with Voltaire.
I don't understand how the states are losing on those deals.

As designed, private investors — not the taxpayers — would take the hit if people smoked less and the tobacco money fell short.

Then why are the states supposedly settled with the debt resulting from the forecasts being too optimistic? Was the 500 million dollars worth of financial engineering botched so badly that it failed to achieve its primary goal?

Also,

Under the deals, the debts must be repaid with settlement money and not tax dollars.

which to me means that the states at worst lose this unusual source of revenue from the settlement. A source that is drying up faster than predicted. This should not lead a state into bankruptcy or defaulting on other obligations.

It seems that Cordray was right

“Five years from now, 10 years from now, smoking bans are kicking in, taxes may change, maybe court decisions. If the tobacco companies are not profitable, Ohio would be out its money. But if we cash in now, we will have our money and we will shed the risk,” Cordray was quoted saying in a July 2007 report by The Associated Press.

and he thinks he was right

Cordray told ProPublica the state made the right decision. The decline in tobacco payments means they were riskier than believed, he said, and CABs helped the state maximize its proceeds. If payments decline further, he said, investors should pay the price, not Ohio.

“Obviously, they are always going to want to come back, cup in hand, saying to the state, ‘Put some money in it,’” Cordray said. “But it’s not necessary; it’s not legally required and in fact was the whole purpose of this deal.”

Private investors are taking the hit, selling the debt at pennies on the dollar to hedge funds, while states get to keep the money they made by selling those capital appreciation bonds in the first place. Whether it was wise to turn nice steady revenue flow into a one time payment is another question but, as sbmassey notes, you can't really expect democratic politicians not to.
There's a confounding factor in there, though: The balance between "cheap goods" versus "cheap services" differs by country.

Per year, how much do you spend on digital devices compared to, say, child-care? (If your spouse stays home, factor in the opportunity cost.)
Out of curiousity - why YC?

My general understanding in health startup world ("real" health startup - not just a new mobile app that measures vitals) is that if you have a truly compelling product that is clinically proven (sounds like this is?) then the venture/acquisition/funding landscape is pretty straight forward and has high returns - something that doesn't generally characterize the path of the AirBnB's, Heroku's, Homejoy's, etc. of the world.
The in vivo pathologies and applications we are targeting initially are primarily nearer to the surface (i.e metastatic node detection, skin pathologies) or procedures where surgeons can use NIR fluorescence imaging systems that simultaneously display color video and NIR images have been developed for real-time surgical applications. Though this wasn't a focus in today's article, along with in vivo applications, we are working on a number of applications for microscopy and ex vivo diagnostics.
wow, thanks a lot for your thorough advice :)
tbh I really hate putting road blocks in front of people who would like to contribute to the database, however we were the victim of a huge spam attack with completely random ip rotations.
I will eventually remove the mandatory sign up once we have a strong moderation system in place, this shouldn't be too far from now.
Thanks again, I really appreciate your comment :)
I'm always struck by how none of these services ever integrate with classic old QuickBooks. Since that's the dominant accounting system for the same target market this is serving, does anyone know why that integration isn't more ubiquitous?

Overall neat concept, but I really hate the idea of paying them 3% of my entire revenue just for sending invoices. I suppose that's about what credit cards charge, but if the customer pays check/cash, I hate to throw my 3% just toward sending an invoice.
Apps made by Apple
Still, there are ways to describe the act, like "... said with his quivering nostrils held high in the air, and a sneering look of derision" or whatever.

About attitude being internal or external; the narrator may have the point of view of being able to "see" the internal attitude; I was more thinking of that, than the external signs of attitude. There is a problem with adverbs which confuse the two: the author intends the adverb to describe the internal state, yet that is not clear from the adverb itself. "said snobbishly": are we to imagine that as having been externally visible, or does it mean that his choice of words was guided by an inner sense of social superiority, but actually delivered dead pan.
Let's kickstart it! We can feed the team with potato salad.
How we allow anyone to make and publish changes to our site
The finger-pointing at BGP is red herring: the problem is that the stratum protocol has zero authentication. If you can intercept those streams, you can trivially ask anyone to start mining for you instead. This could also have been done using DNS poisoning, ISP-side intercepts, or anything else in the standard bag of tricks.
http://blog.kevmod.com/category/bitcoin/
BGP Hijacking for Cryptocurrency Profit
Slightly off-topic but something with my Iceweasel/FF install (v31) borks the layout of the blog completely -- content is shifted far to the right of the viewport for some reason. Looked fine on another computer, so not sure what's up. Also works fine in chromium. FYI.
My thoughts exactly. Also, depending on the location, there are typically a large amount of public funds earmarked as grants for commercialization in this field. It's not the typical tech-company fundraising situation either. The marketing needs are also vastly different from the companies you mentioned.
The false positive paradox is often used when answering the question, "why not test everyone for everything?"

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

(I get the statistics, but personally I would still happily sign up to be tested for everything possible.)
Asperger's?
Perhaps it is more apt to imagine yourself as a semi-autonomous band of pirates, rather than as an authoritarian individual.

Their design challenges were both to hide loot from outsiders and to make it difficult for any smaller group of band members to return to the scene without alerting most of the others. This elaborate arrangement could have been designed to buy time for the rest of the group to hear about excavations and return to claim their share.

From having only read the article, my theory is that the band had discovered a naturally occurring shaft part-filled with sea water. They somehow blocked the base of the shaft then drained it with lowered buckets. It is feasible that their skin-divers were able to work from air pockets in the cavern below. Also, that the divers may have discovered a swimable route to open water.

With an empty shaft, they now needed to shore up and back-fill several times to make looting from below difficult and dangerous. They'd have been concerned about one of their number draining all the back-fill and treasure into the cavern using gunpowder. Hence they built many layers, each of which would have been very risky to tunnel into, even for someone who knew the design. The depth of the earth layers, partial air gap and strength of shoring materials might have been calculated to be particularly unstable, when not supported from below.

Since the treasure was be recovered from the top, it is most likely that the pit had worked exactly as intended. The treasure was already long gone before anyone else noticed the pit. Its trappings were left in place and made generations of greedy people the poorer. The message stone, if it existed, was a wind-up. Its spirit suggests it was done at the time of recovery. Pleased as they were to find everything as they'd left it. This had cost almost no effort for a lasting glow of satisfaction.

The pit itself had not been tremendously difficult to make either. So there is no reason to believe it had ever hidden more than just ordinary wealth.

This theory is not flawless. Nevertheless, I believe it makes sense to consider design parameters around building an untrusted network.
Ask HN: How do you balance being a dual-income household with a baby?
For background, my spouse and I both work. We never considered one of us being a stay-at-home parent since we both need the feeling of accomplishment that comes with working and put a lot into building our careers. And thankfully, our jobs are understanding when we have to leave early or stay home because our young daughter is sick, daycare is closed unexpectedly, etc. However, we always end up feeling guilty about it and worry their patience will wear thin soon. Additionally, it seems like we only have enough time to barely keep our heads above water at home, never mind be able to enjoy the few hours a day we get with our daughter. (We haven't cleaned our house or mowed our lawn in over a month, and only read to her 2 or 3 times a week.) Life feels like one long, never ending to-do list where we can never perform well in any area of our life (work, being parents, home, etc), and we're both exhausted.

So my question is: those of you with children whose spouses also work, how do you handle it? Or are you barely treading water too? Or, does one of you work from home/work part-time/etc? Interested to hear all arrangements.
The great thing about this is it that it puts a floor on the bounty on all network bugs. Since we know that lots of national security folks are regularly exploiting various bugs for their own purposes, this means that the internet will be significantly improved. I see it as a bonus.
It's not even the user experience I'm talking about. It's just that his design has an unspoken quality to it. Look at the way he presents the "making of" article. Everything just looks so right.
Honestly the bot detection stuff in production today isn't the most awesome version of that feature possible, and improving it (especially to work with tor and vpns) is a priority, but not the highest. Cloudflare is paying for me to be at DefCon right now to launch an open source firewall / evasion tool (plug able transports to the next level) in 2 days, with the grugq, so it isn't like we are opposed to tor or anything.
What's the fluorescence emission mechanism, defect sites in the crystal lattice? What's the QY? What's the absorption spectrum look like, especially in the NIR range? If we were exciting these particles at 785nm, what would the emission spectrum look like (peak and FWHM)? Is the YC startup focused on the nanocrystals themselves, or on imaging agents including a targeting ligand?

Sorry for the basic questions, I no longer have journal access :( and this sounds neat :)

P.S., oh, and do they blink?
60fps won't matter one bit if it's 120fps for one second followed by 0fps for another second.

That's why people are asking for pauseless.
Wow. Not sure why they don't name-and-shame the ISP, but that's really ridiculous.
if people are rotating IPs to dodge your blockers, maybe you could shadow-ban them instead? that way they don't know that the IP is bad.
Hey Bob,

Read the post. Thanks for sharing! Just a few quick thoughts / feedback:

1. I really appreciated that you define your terms. I think it’s very important to know and set that baseline for your reader.

2. I also like that you provide a lot of outbound links. Others may not like this but I always find it helpful.

Here's Some critiques…
3. Not sure you answered the question in your title: “How much will it cost build my startup MVP?” By the title I was looking for a breakdown by product type / business model. Assuming your giving feedback on building a software based product you can eliminate hardware plays, etc. But there’s a big MVP buildout cost difference from a photo sharing service, to a SaaS business, to a mobile messaging app. If you answer this in your second post, awesome! The only suggestion I would provide would be to put a good teaser at the end of this first post for the “stay tuned” and provide a little content hook for the reader.

4. To some extent, feel like you copied and pasted too much from the sources you referenced. Based on your impressive bio I would be stoked to hear about your experiences (the struggles, the triumphs). That’s what would really draw me in. I’ve read all those books and it’s always a good refresher for sure, but your own anecdotes and info would be gold to me! Show your personality and flair.

5. The structure of the post was hard to read. I would focus on a hierarchy of the content (lists are always great!). A few thoughts: inset quotes, pics, graphs, tables, indent the bolded sections).

All around, thanks for posting and look forward to following your story. Cheers!
More specifically it's also a spiking neural network. You could probably program it to efficiently run very similar algorithms to human neurons.
The song I've been listening to lately has strangely appropriate lyrics, in a literal way:

Your love is

like radiant diamonds

bursting inside us...