skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I didn't realise they had tiered pricing, I thought it was just $2500 across the board. I guess I must read the articles a bit more closely. I can't imagine that this will go well for the .sucks registrar in court - looks like plain extortion to me, although IANAL of course ;)
I'm going to continue operating under the assumption that Author intended his advice to apply to traditional hackathons, since that's the language he used.

> I think he means take some short cuts if time is short to show your business logic.

Even if that is the case, covering up the fact that you took a shortcut is still cheating. It's fine if, during your demo, you say something like "this is a mockup modeling the backend, we plan to implement xyz functionality using abc stack". At a hackathon, people get that, and if you show good effort and use of time otherwise you're not going to be dinged on that alone. But faking it to look as if you did more work than you actually did isn't right, and isn't fair to the other hackers.
I had the impression that you chose a standard you care about and it is going to send exactly one email. With confirmation, that would become two.
That site was not convincing. Why do in 8+ lines what I can do in 1 with jQuery?

Especially when the 8-line version might need testing in every possible browser out there for quirks and bugs. jQuery's already done the legwork there

Edit:

youmightnotnotneedjquery.com linked in a sibling of this comment explains it better in this googledoc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LPaPA30bLUB_publLIMF0Rlh...
Well, there are already libraries which abstracts the ZeroMQ layer with Request/Response interfaces.

A few months ago I hacked a bit with a Zend Framework 1 application and Mongrel2 and it worked well, although zf1 is not the best example given the fact that it was designed to work in a classic mod_php environment where the PHP process doesn't keep its state between requests.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8541494
Flagging works for stories that are completely unsuitable for HN, but not product announcements that are somewhat relevant but not popular enough to reach the front page on their own.
>When used, it degrades to water and salt as the oxygen pops off to oxidize impurities.

Are you saying that the chlorine in drinking water turns to salt through oxidization? How is the Na added, specifically? I'm asking because when I moved to NYC from Denmark, I initially had a hard time even eating salad at restaurants because I could taste the chlorine from the tap water it was rinsed in. Is it just because there will always be pure chlorine remnants in the water?

I'm genuinely curious.
Context: Rocket Internet is the name of the German company operated by the Samwer brothers, who have a reputation of cloning silicon valley's latest and greatest ideas for the German\EU market. Not technically doing anything illegal but certainly not held in the highest regard.
They said on Github that they are keeping it for a while, so that users still can receive encrypted SMS from users that haven't updated yet.
A better Internet of Things through open source culture
> This is academic/engineering/mathematics stuff. For equations, matrices, and such. You don't build accounting systems with these things. (Of course someone must have already done it!)

As an engineer, I have to say I don't like what is going on here, what's the point in tossing academics, mathematicians and engineers aside? Many software fields, such as artificial intelligence or machine learning, benefit from the use of Matlab or R language. And of course, these are for Math stuff - I usually come to HN to read less obvious things.

Using R to build an accounting system wouldn't be that silly if there are heavy statistics to tackle. You can do mixed Java/R, R can be used in its domain. And BTW, it'd be much simpler to use Java for an accounting system than using Scala.
Vivendi in Talks to Buy 80% Stake in Dailymotion
To quickly check multiple sites:

openssl s_client -connect <host>:<port> < /dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -text -in /dev/stdin | grep "Signature Algorithm"

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26473076/how-do-i-check-i...
Okay, cool. Sounds like they're doing the right thing.
Some states have laws against anything at all obscuring a license plate, even dealer or vanity frames.
The next step is submit HN to HN.
It just does SMS.
Who doesn't know about three.js?

A relevant xkcd about your reaction:

https://xkcd.com/1053/
I should say that it makes quite a few languages easier to learn: the Romance languages and even the Germanic languages.
If I was cryogenically frozen for 5 years, I hope I'd wake up and just get used to living for a while. Once I'm ready to get back into the game (assuming I don't choose another career altogether), I think it would be important to read up on general trends first - Perhaps technology trends from Wired and Business Insider?
Well yes, but is it self-signed (or otherwise "invalid" cert) because the user was MITM or because that's what the server handed over? The former really does deserved a BIG RED SCARY ALERT, the later not so much. But distinguishing those two reliably is not feasible, so browsers fail-safe into assuming it's a potential MITM.
MacWire 1.0: Light-Weight and Non-Instrusive Scala Dependency Injection
I used aui for my recent arch install, and it's helpful for things you might forget (like installing wpa_supplicant, wouldn't have bought an ethernet cable for my very first install...).

I'd recommend figuring out the steps in the FIFO section yourself, as it is largely dependent on how you partition your system, and one would benefit from learning about things like mkinitcpio.
Somebody with more funds and connections could ship your idea before you rendering yours obsolete. In the case of a hardware based startup they could even patent the idea first.
Uber rivals say bill to cap surge pricing is too conservative
The guys at substance.io have a fantastic editor in a similar vein, but they have been slow on opening it up, due to which it's probably seen a lot less traction than it should.

Here's a random example of what their reader can do:
http://lens.elifesciences.org/06351/

The cool thing is they've written a wysiwyg whose data format is json (across browsers).
What's so significant about welding something above you? (Unless I'm misunderstanding 'overhead welding'?)
Show HN: Jsonpad, store JSON data and access it via a REST API
> Yes, I did. I also looked for bitbucket, gitlab, Google Code, etc. and found nothing.

No worries then.

I checked out their website - I can't see any links to source code. So in my opinion it's just yet another closed source pretending to be secure messaging service then...
loumf, davismwfl: Thank you for your thoughts. We will try to follow a strategy along the guidelines that you have suggested. As you have said, we are initially going to target companies where we have an existing network, and take it on from there.
Honest question: Have you ever eaten Asian Carp? It might be worthy of "the table" but as an occasional recreational fisherman, it's known simply as an invasive species and only for eating by the poorest among society. The joke is to put forward a really intricate recipe where a fillet of carp is put on a plank of wood, seasoned, cooked, and then after a bit of time, throw away the fish and eat the plank.

I mean, if you really enjoy eating carp, great, but around here, they are simply pests. Rough fish. Trash fish. Basically the perfect target for bowfishing...just sayin'
Ditto. Every time I end up at a networking event, someone without fail always ends up pitching that they have either Facebook for X or Groupon for Y.

No matter how you approach it, feigning interest, dismissing them, or talking about your reserverations, they never seem to get it.
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Would have thought Java would be placed higher on compensation, especially given prevalence in finance sector. Maybe quants don't have time for Stack Overflow?
Love the testimonial section. Hilarious!
The first would still require a large number of people to update their browser in a short period.

Seems they are pulling data from caniuse.com which uses StatCounter Global. StatCounter updates their data 4 times a day and doesn't seem to have changed recently. http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology.
2.5 Years Later Verizon Finally Lets People Opt Out of Its Stealth Zombie Cookie
I don't think Crohn's fits your pattern here. My expertise/bias is that I've had it for about 35 years.

The topic here is controlling body systems based on the chemistry of what's being consumed.

A Crohn's diet has two important factors, which don't really look at the chemicals introduced into the body very much at all. Most important is a purely mechanical component: because scar tissue and adhesions can cause strictures, areas of limited diameter and stretch in the intestines, it's necessary to avoid stuff that might get stuck, like popcorn and other seeds. A second issue, possibly more important but only very poorly understood, is the environment presented to intestinal flora. There's chemistry to that (like carb mix) but, not with respect to the parent organism.
A few years ago, I used Diigo [1], it's an extension that let you share a website and comment on it, anywhere. It's been a long time since I used it, I don't really if it's still active.

[1]: https://www.diigo.com/
It technically already is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7018988
Seems as though this is something to appease the content providers, and not something they are going to actively pursue enforcing.
Could you at least keep "Arduino" in the title?
Great piece of advice.

> 5. The people who are really getting somewhere aren't the people who are always out for drinks

I would add that networking is ok (specially with your customers). But being always networking with the entrepreneurs in your area won't drive you anywhere near success.

Someone once told me this advice that I try to remember myself every once and then:

"Less networking and more working"

Also, although the list of advices nails it at mirroring my own experience, I know that I would not follow most of them. For an unexperienced entrepreneur it's difficult to discern good from bad advice.
I'm with you on the nationwide aspect- the apparent consistency of the pattern suggests something non-malicious to me. Coordinating a multi-state election fraud would be very hard and disastrous if found out. My SWAG at what might be happening- large precincts end up having long lines, dissuading marginal voters. As a result, dedicated voters, which according to my politics courses tend older and Republican, are disproportionately represented in the final tally.
The spec suggests that it would more be to avoid selecting things that are not part of the text flow of the document, which would be a usability win. i.e. captions that are in the middle of the flow, etc.

But you're right to point out it could be used by the unscrupulous sort of people who also like to disable right click, and that would indeed by highly annoying.
A Comprehensive Guide to Moving from SQL to RethinkDB
I REALLY wanted to like Manjaro, but it was too buggy. When it was running, it was a smoother, more functional GUI than my barebones Openbox window-manager, which was great.

But... During the past 5+ years, I rarely ever had a problem with Arch Linux that is not 100% my fault. Manjaro... it had some problem every few days; updates DB would become corrupt, random freezes, login GUI would stop functioning...

I suppose my main complaint was that Manjaro could be great it it simply eased the installation and setup of Arch Linux. I do not understand why they use a completely separate repository. Hopefully they continue to improve!
There was an Indiegogo campaign for a license plate frame which would flash a bright light if it detected a camera to blind it.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/23/nophoto_l...
Team ElDorito dissected Halo Online and wants in-app sales out
I am using newrelic, its great.

update : Screenshot showing the exact feature.. you can adjust the time range .
http://i.imgur.com/bWjBDYF.png
(slightly off-topic)

I believe that part of the problem is that links do not work so well for that initial intent; and that is (IMHO) because of the coarse granularity of that that can be linked; while theoretically you can link to anything with a URI, effectively they usually just point to documents and anchors of some of their parts. And that capability must be provided by the author, so, as the problems with the semantic web, most of the authors do not have incentives. So you are precluded from slicing and dicing content from others and, as Ted Nelson wanted, transcluding that part of another person's train of thought into your own document.

So we repurposed the "link" tool to just navigation.

Perhaps if we could add linkable annotations on pages of other people then we could play easier with other people's ideas...
A real-time tool for a real-time problem – Telecom fraud and Lambda Architecture
There's already namecoin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
In order for the so called engineer , to assume the responsibilities of a well trained , competent welder the engineer would have to have excellent hand eye coordination , and excellent kinesthetic awareness in the weld zone, this trait is what should persuade a candidate further , its what separates the top from the rest , and even a person of lower intelligence should discover if they have this trait. Having spent 1500 hrs in welding school you could tell the few who were gifted kinesthetically , and its just easier for them, they are welding in the zone or zen, its god gifted but still requires practice.
Is this doing anything that a private citizen couldn't do (taking pictures on public property and storing it in a computer)? Conversely, what would happen if someone took pictures of cars going in / out of NSA/CIA/FBI facilities on a regular basis and posted them online?
Fair enough, I'm surely being overly sensitive here. It's just that, here in Sweden at least, being 'lactose intolerant' suggests there is something wrong with you, when the truth in fact is just that your lactase persistence[1] is more akin to that of the rest of the world.

It carries connotations here. I'd say it does in the US as well, given the jokes about it I've seen on shows like the Big Bang Theory.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
These groups being essentially the military and the alphabet soup agencies.
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Also, considering that Martin Odersky who designed the Scala language is an academic who teaches at EPFL, I even feel ashamed about how this article approaches "academic stuff".
Networking in the cloud is changing
This is, or would be, if the data were made available, good news. Either the machines always tallied within epsilon percent of what is on the audit tapes, or they made significant errors either way, and we should know about it.
That being said, it sounds like she should have gotten a review of the rolls when she asked after the election.
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Thanks. It's interesting that both you and the other respondent to my question are game developers. It makes sense that that line of work entails large data sets, etc.
"NASA is exploring a related possibility: moving the co-pilot out of the cockpit on commercial flights, and instead using a single remote operator to serve as co-pilot for multiple aircraft.

"In this scenario, a ground controller might operate as a dispatcher managing a dozen or more flights simultaneously. It would be possible for the ground controller to 'beam' into individual planes when needed and to land a plane remotely in the event that the pilot became incapacitated — or worse."

As I currently understand the procedures, the pilot and co-pilot of commercial aircraft alternate responsibility for the aircraft during their work-day. For example, if the pilot takes off on one flight, the co-pilot will perform the take-off on the next.

Removing the co-pilot from that alternation would significantly increase the workload of the pilot.
Read my analogy again (despite it's flaws). It isn't mainline kernel development has been breached. It is more like *Ubuntu accidentally set `APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";` and then thousands of users upgraded from a tainted mirror[1]. Regardless of how you lay blame, Canonical would have a responsibility to undo that action.

[1] I don't use Ubuntu so maybe it doesn't fully apply here. On Arch using pacman, the list of mirrors/caches is mostly commented out so that people can choose their own. They are "trustworthy" essentially until they're not, but we have signature checking to fall back on. In the physical world we don't have this, thus the setup of my (again, flawed) analogy.

Any more involved than that and it's missing the spirit of what I was trying to say, but I admit that the disassembler response made me chuckle.
I believe the source of the confusion is the difference between your secret sauce and your elevator pitch. They're talking about the elevator pitch. If "everyone" doesn't already know your elevator pitch, or at least doesn't hear it soon, you've probably failed. They're not talking about your secret sauce like, I donno, your AWS login credentials or a really interesting development roadmap or your financial or marketing strategy or something like that. If you can't separate your secret sauce and your elevator pitch that's also a serious problem.

The elevator pitch for facebook is we're gonna get prime demographic young people to look at advertisements on our social website.

The secret sauce in the roll out was to try aspirational marketing where only ivy students can join and diffuse out thru cool/rich. The medium term secret sauce was something like the pages don't look as foul and obnoxious as myspace pages by dramatically limiting them and the real name policies. The longer term secret sauce is the content they view is sneakily going to be provided by the viewers for free via social networking effects luring them on.
Economists like to portrait their ideologies to be similar to laws of physics or in your case biology. The truth is they don't even come remotely close to an accurate model of reality nor is anything they study inevitable, but purely a product of social conventions. That they come up with various a priori reasons why things have to be this way (right to private property etc.) is not the same as discovering the natural order of things, as is done in the natural sciences. As someone with a natural science background I find it fairly offensive to compare that culture of intellectual dishonesty and boastfulness to some of the greatest intellectual achievements in natural science.
We have built an app for this purpose called Shortr. It' still in beta(only android) and not really ready. Here's the website: http://getshortrapp.com. If you like the idea, then please join our beta.
Partially unrelated to both meanings of "deep link" the author identifies, the term is very much used today in the world of affilliate marketing.

If you have a blog and want to send your reader directly to a specific product on a ecommerce store, you create a "deeplink". A link, directly to a product page, containing your affiliate id and all the stuff that the Affiliate Network tracks.
Pre-ordered! Just getting into Python now, should be an awesome help!
Such an awesome idea - I love tons of indie bands that deserve to survive and carry on making music.
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What Information Do We Know About The E-mail Sender And The Recipient?
To be fair, if I was considering doing any kind of 3D work in JavaScript my first reaction would be to Google "3D JavaScript library".

It's a little unlikely that I'd see it posted here and say "wow, I just realised I need to do some 3D work".
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It would be difficult. Even CV Dazzle only works against a single popular algorithm that's stripped-down for speed. Human faces vary a lot; license plates, not so much. A license-plate reader would be more robust and harder to consistently fool.
Yes, but the perceived Signal to Noise ratio for HN is dependent upon a consensus view.

If we start sharing and upvoting articles about "The Information Super-Highway," and "Programmable Computers," then the vast majority of us will think it's useless noise.
A bit uneven as a post. Some really, really great advice, some more questionable I find.

>The logo doesn't matter at the start, find a simple text based logo you can re-use for different projects

Not convinced. Your logo will follow you around for a long time, regardless of what you tell yourself. People will see it and associate you and your startup with it. Doing a large rebrand is difficult, costly and time-consuming.
The narrative in this post doesn't jive with my experience. Deep links on the web have been deep links on the web for a long time, nobody ever forgot about them. "Mobile deep linking" is the phrase that belongs in quotation marks, as it is a new and confusing appropriation of the phrase "deep link" to extend beyond the web into native (non-web) mobile apps. To anyone paying attention to trends in the web and in non-web apps, the conclusion that "mobile deep links" (perhaps "app links" is more descriptive, but it seems to have been taken by a specific implementation [0]) will never deliver on the promise of the web is obvious.

[0] http://applinks.org/
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I'm glad you made this distinction. With enough time, yeah, sure, we can be "good" at any of them, but I've seen companies bring people on without a developed skill set in a particular technology only to find out the ramp-up time to be as efficient as someone familiar with it to be much longer than they bargained for.
All the competing Unix forks? The infighting in the Unix world and the blatant attempts to break compatibility with each other pretty much killed Unix, about the only thing keeping it limping along any more is all the effort that's been put into OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and the commercial backing for Solaris.

Edit: Just realized you said non-hostile. Yeah, not so much, prior to GitHub most forks that weren't to try to take ownership were either experimental in nature, to continue development on an abandoned project, or in order to develop some features that the original authors disagreed with (semi-hostile). I'm not sure you can classify picking up a dead project as a hostile action, but it isn't exactly benign either. As for experimental branches those were usually non-hostile, but at the same time if they bore fruit they would typically get merged back into the upstream so not really a fork in the truest sense of the word, but more like a really long running branch.
The water supply around here uses sodium hypochlorite, not pure chlorine gas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hypochlorite#Water_treat...
Brilliant post. Most of these points hit home for me. One of the things I've been honing in on recently - which you do as well - is effectiveness. Brilliant developers who don't ship aren't effective. People who don't distill a product down to just what's necessary aren't effective. You hit on this concept - and many others - in a number of spots. Thanks for sharing.
On Linux, there is a false positive that occurs (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=437733).

Debian has a fix in experimental. However the bug is seeing no action. Please Debian push this update out:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774195

Ubuntu fixed this in Feb 2015:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss/+bug/1423031/c...