skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, but how much of that is actually [clear understanding of idea + execution of idea] versus [marketing].

I'd say that probably at least partially depends on the group of people you know. The last set of people that I would think would be representative of a random distribution worthy of being a statistical sample is my set of friends, because not only is my idea biased, but I have also selected all of my friends with bias as well.

My general rule of thumb is 'bad ideas come out of nowhere' and 'good ideas are things that require effort'. If you are just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks, probably not the best way to go about doing things.

Other than that, I think the idea is hardly representative of the product. I would guess that there is probably no reliable correlation between the evaluation of the idea, and the evaluation of the execution. The examples people mention are cherry picked examples. You can hardly evaluate your own potential based on comparing that to a few select examples that have been selected specifically to demonstrate a rhetorical opinion.
Finally, so many companies do customer support via Twitter and ask folks to DM them the details and you're limited to describing what help you need in 140-characters.
This:

"Stop waiting weeks for Apple to review your app.
Just add our iOS framework and start pushing updates."

says otherwise.
Chinese city of Tianjin reported an explosion at
the dock at the Tianjin Binhai New Development
Zone around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday local time.

Man, what the hell was on that boat? Seems like maybe it a B.L.E.V.E. (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion).
Let's say photos and links were separate attachments. That way you could say just as much without having to compensate for the URL, even if it was condensed.
The pressure on the skull also causes headaches in a lot of people, which is why most of the people in my office don't use them, even though the company pays for them.
Wow. Don't trust proprietary BIOS. Use libreboot.
Yes - I recall reading it at a friend's house in the late 90ies, talking about open source software. I expected a bit more negative reaction from a business-oriented publication, but they had most of their facts right and seemed to have a pretty good take on things. I subscribed afterwards myself.

I also love the fact that they got into a legal tussle with Berlusconi after having called him not fit to lead Italy - and won!
WPF is part of .Net.
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Italian --> English: forte --> loud.
French --> English: forte --> strength.

In French, forte is pronounced "fort"
In Italian, forte is pronounced "fortay"

In English, the pronunciation of forte depends on which language you borrowed it from. It inherits its proper pronunciation from the source language.

BTW, English --> Italian: strength --> forza.
Definitely not. I'm getting at the issue of employees versus founders. I'm responding to the commenters less than the OP. A lot of people are implying that the 72k would be spent on wages. If that was the expectation, then that's part of the failure.

I have friends who've launched XBLA games on much, much less working full time out of a basement. During development, they could barely pay rent. Afterwards, they buy new houses.

I feel like people don't take real risks any more, and seem to misunderstand what actual ownership of the outcome looks like.

Sign of the times?

And the issue of AAA ... well... Get a simple game or playable demo going and build off of that rather than shooting for the stars. Or did we lose site of what an MVP is, too? Sounds like the OP did.
WPF is a .NET GUI framework. WinForms is too, but it's a simple wrapper for the Win32 API, so it performs much better.
This. Raises $610,000 Seed Round
"The Economist Group is owned by the Cadbury, Rothschild, Schroder, Agnelli and other family interests as well as a number of staff and former staff shareholders. "

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_Group
I think he is alluding to the fact that a separation or divorce is most likely what prompted all this and perhaps his wife was a driving factor in their mutual accumulation of material things back then.
Then why would any subculture have a distinctive style of dress?
This is what I'd love to do one day. Have enough money so I can just build interesting things all the time.
What's hard about it? Assuming the average here on HN is making $150k USD at a cushy programming job, let's say 100k after taxes. You're telling me you can't live off $4100~ a month? I live off $2500 a month easily (1500 rent, 500 food, 500 fun, debt free - no car - no other expenses) and the rest goes in the bank.
When Google came about I don't recall anyone thinking that it (indexing the web, page rank, etc) was a bad idea. Everyone knew search was horrible at the time and many established players were simply directories with thin search layers. Yes, there were established competitors, but none of them were really strong aside from a tiny minority (altavista for example).

I don't recall anyone considering Facebook a bad idea either, just that it was "yet another social media" site. Facebook mostly lucked out because of MySpace's user exodus.
The problem with option 2 is that it doesn't take into account risk. You need a much higher and more secure place for a return to alleviate risk. Similar to what others said most people are taking out loans for things that they don't have the cash for. They aren't taking out the loan at a low interest rate so they can invest their cash somewhere else. But they are told, take the cheap money and invest elsewhere. They just forget to do that last part.
Yes, but if AppHub didn't build this, someone else would. Just because something isn't the "safest" idea doesn't mean we shouldn't stop experimenting.

Also, how would this make it easier to steal user information or share your stash of dick pics? Sounds like a lot of FUD to me.
NuGet 2 code base moves to GitHub
What's wrong with email?
The shockwave took about seven seconds to arrive, so they were about 1.5 miles away from the blast. It's not intuitive that the explosion can harm you at a distance like that -- as evidenced in more than one amateur video that came out of Iraq of EOD work.
Its a little out of your price range, but these are really nice: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S29022488/
> Al cookware has questionable safety.

Aluminum yes, but hard anodized is alumina which is a different compound, also called ruby and emerald. It's very very hard (as you can tell since it makes gemstones) and completely inert to cooking materials.

Confusing aluminum and hard anodized is like confusing chlorine and table salt.
YouTube video: https://youtu.be/zEberOX33_Y
Svn blame would have done the same... Where's the git-specific use?
Current official cause is an explosives shipment: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1849118/blast...
I've been meaning to learn some assembly for a while, but never quite knew where to start. Then I found this handy guide to writing "Hello, World" in assembly on Linux. Just install nasm and follow the instructions here and you're good to go.
I completely agree: it's awful to do even simple things in a shell script. A shell should just be used as a shell: an interface for a human to the system in a terminal.
The syntax for if-else, switch, loops, conditions is insane. I will never remember how to write a condition expression: just a missing space can break everything.

I quit using bash for scripting a few months ago. Now I use haskell with shell-conduit: http://chrisdone.com/posts/shell-conduit and bash only for very very simple things where haskell would be just overkill.
A photo of an apartment close to the explosion:

https://twitter.com/thelastnext/status/631514796450430976
I haven't made it this far yet apparently. Good to know what to expect.
>> As a star’s gravitational well will likely be the
deepest in the system, it is also energetically efficient to launch material on a stellar­ intercept
trajectory.

Quite the opposite, that's one of the most delta-v expensive trajectories to embark upon. In fact from earth it's about twice as expensive as leaving the solar system.
You will be subsidizing a few rich industrialist families instead, among them the Rothschilds, who increased their stake from 21% to 26%.

Thought you might want want to know :-)
Ya, CLI is great but for people like me who mix both ( like using gitg for committing ), GUIs could be handy. There are lot of Java (or Android) developers who don't want to switch to Linux precisely for this reason.
>I'm convinced that much of the allure of the economist comes from that it is frank contrarian news source.

Contrarian to what? It follows the Washington Consensus pretty much religiously.

It also came out in favor of George Bush and the Iraq war in the beginning (when everybody else was) and against them after (when everybody else was also).
Ask HN: What's your SXSW interactive talk? Plug it here
Thought this would a fun place for those of us submitting ideas for SXSW Interactive 2016 to get feedback and shameless canvas the HN community for support. Voting continues from now until September.

What's your idea? Here's mine:

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/49770
The "long-term" averages you often see quoted are dangerous to go by.

1. They usually cover about 100 years. If you're starting out your career you've probably got about 40-50 years of saving followed by say 20 years of retirement, i.e. your training data is not much more than the period you're trying to predict.

2. That history is primarily over the period of world history that can be summed up as "cheap oil". Personally I wouldn't use it to predict any other time period.

3. If you look at the returns over time, they're pretty much generational. Some generations get fantastic returns from the stock market, while others at best are keeping up with inflation. If you started investing in say 2000 you probably know which category you're in.
Sorry, there's just no way I'm going to link this account to my real-world identity. I speak far too freely with this handle.
> My best guess is that the optimal current block size is somewhat larger than 1 MB.

The optimal current block size is without a doubt smaller than 1MB.

The two most important metrics for block size limit are node count and miner validation.

Node count has been continually dropping for years despite heroic efforts to improve performance in bitcoin core.

Miners have been found to be blindly mining blocks in an attempt to reduce their orphan rates.
How does that help with time? Nearly everyone reading it is most certainly capable of reading far, far faster than listening, no? I suppose if you have an unfortunate, long commute, it might work, but otherwise?
Is Microsoft Virtual Academy worth the time? Every time I've tried to watch a video it's been 99% fluff. The video you linked to doesn't even open Powershell until 18 minutes in.
A Second Look at APNIC and IPv4 Address Exhaustion
a chinese news says it was a gas station...
You would have to heat it pretty hot for that! Like almost glowing.

I've put a blowtorch to teflon when sweating copper and very little happened to it.

> which could be toxic when breathed

At equal temperatures oil is more toxic than teflon.
I agree, which is why it's especially necessary advice. Your gut instinct upon seeing that blindingly bright flash should be to duck and cover, whether you're outdoors or indoors.

I wish this didn't have to be so important, since it feels like a Cold War relic, but that's just how things seem to be these days.
From reading the reviews of the game on Steam, the main complaints are that it's buggy (especially with regards to enemy AI), and it's incredibly short (not even 2 hours' worth of content.)

There are a lot of $10 games that will entertain for 4-5 or more hours (even excluding the outliers like Terraria). I'm surprised that the developer was surprised at the perceived value of their product.

That said, he's right that the market for indie games is ridiculously saturated right now.
If you're getting sick each year (or a long-term illness) and it's costing you your $15k/yr savings, I think many people would be screwed when it comes to covering the costs.

Kids are a choice - but even with kids one can still live frugally or prepared. For example, choosing to not have a child until you've accumulated enough savings to cover all of the extra surprise costs that can occur that most people don't plan for when having a child.

My father worked two jobs to barely make ends meet for 8 years because his financial planning revolved around a family plan that he didn't actually plan for. My family plans are actually planned and revolve around my financial plans. One problem I see people make is that their financial plans revolve around their family plans (or lack thereof).

No surprise child at 18 years of age. No poorly-planned "I think I'm ready but I'm not actually ready" child at 21-23 either. I've seen very, very, very few parents under the age of 25 that a) planned for their child and more importantly b) properly planned for their child.

Lack of planning - or having a poorly crafted plan is what is "risky" or "doesn't scale".
> books or resources on developing determination?

Compared to the ancients-- we live comparatively soft lives today. I was reminded of this line by Mark Divine "hard work built character then as it does now, while a soft life weakens it. Comfort imprisons us in a low-grade fear of suffering".

Can you challenge yourself to find your 20X factor?

This book will give you several ideas > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465530-the-way-of-seal?...
PHP won.
A whole lot of them. Since inception the median 20 year annualized return is 11.92%. Back out 2% inflation (on average) and you'll see the median 20 year annualized return is 10%.
Author here. We first crawl some pages and then used sentimental analysis like process to analyze these pages. Instead of sentiment dictionary, we built our own Branding dictionary. The result (radar chart and the bar chart) is based on the text used in the site. Thank you for the interest.
CureMD+Launches+Physician+Training+Program+to+Counter+ICD-10
Massive explosion in Tianjin
The unhealthy obsession with tree questions
[citation needed]

I guess one could say they deliberately resemble Oracle in that both DBs roughly implement the SQL standard, but this is by no means a clone, nor was it a smooth transition.
> Teflon has been known to be toxic for years.

No it hasn't.

Teflon is not toxic at all.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt as assume you are just confusing it with precursors to teflon instead of teflon itself.
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Teflon is an insulator compare to iron. Thermal conductivity W/(m K) Teflon 0.25, Iron 80[1]. So Teflon coating reduces cooking, heating efficiency.
[1]engineeringtoolbox.com
We don't even need more "cinematic platformers"on steam.
Threaded FFI has been on that list for a long, long time as well.
This comparison is silly and unfair. It is tantamount to use anti-aircraft guns to fight mosquitoes then conclude that heavy weapons are too slow for anti-mosquitoes.

In these experiments, p is quite small(About 1K). So the sizeof the weight vector (or weight gradient vector) is only about 4K (for float) or 8K (for double). It should take less than 0.1 second to transfer these vectors. So there are no need to use tree allreduce or bittorrent to transfer them. These big inventions from VW and Spark become useless and burdensome. And also, in such scene, Spark's accumlator has no advantage than the tranditional map-reduce.

Another point is: Though correctness is more important than performance, it's very difficult to get a correct implementation even for the most basic problems. e.g. Most implementations of OWLQN(which is for L1 regularized convex problems) are wrong. More serious, sometimes the system you relied on is problematic or unstable by design. e.g. This Spark issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5490 may never be fixed.

I would also recommand google's sensei(https://github.com/google/sensei) as an alternative to be evaluated. I recommand it just because it comes from google. But it's not well-known yet.
Another important point: running untrusted code in Linux containers is not considered safe in all configurations, but it is safe in some configurations. So if you know what you're doing, you can already configure Docker to run untrusted payloads. That is what platforms like Heroku, Dotcloud, Google App Engine have been doing for years. The most important aspect of such a configuration is: don't allow running it as root (you can specify uid/gid privilege drop from Docker's CLI, management API and in the image format).
A dream is a goal without a deadline.
Ask HN: Paypal down?
Getting this after login:

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Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@paypal.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

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I have no information beyond what's in the links here, and general safety-consciousness. From the cctv-america.com link:

> People standing outside of their buildings. Some have reported chemical gas leaks.

To anyone who lives in the area, I would suggest putting as many miles between yourself and the site of the explosion as you can, and also trying to stay upwind. Breathe through a particulate filter if you have one, and until there's more information, assume that any unidentified chemical smell is very bad for you. If you aren't actively moving and aren't an emergency responder, you definitely shouldn't be standing outside; stay indoors with windows shut, preferably in an upper floor. If you can, avoid the local tap water for a few days.
Some context (say, for example, a brief description of Arc) might be helpful.
Heat it with oil and it will kill the canary at a lower temperature than teflon.

Ergo oil is toxic.

You are using bad logic and bad science.
People are going to find a way to do/make drugs. If it is not reddit it will be somewhere else. I think the 'drugs are bad' is a ploy to get an american company out of Russia
Quality and accountability is what happens when we pay.

We've traded quality and accountability for "free" garbage floating in a sea of ads.

The NYTimes is still too dependent on advertising. That they consider "native advertising" acceptable shows compromised journalistic principles.

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."
– Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team, founder of Cloudera

We call ourselves hackers and innovators. Yet instead of pouring our energies into figuring alternative business models and micropayment solutions, we spend our energies on more ways to capture users in viral schemes and then collect their data for sale to advertisers.

As I wrote the other day: Where are our backbones to stand up against selling out the internet so that we can get rich quick?

Because that is what the advertising business model is: a get rich quick scheme. Undercut the straight up competitors that charge for their product by fooling consumers into thinking you're offering what the other guy is offering, but for free. Come on, who could turn down that?

The saddest thing about Hacker News is that we all get behind radical things like FOSS (Bill Gates called it un-American) and Snowden, and fight SOPA and NSA violations of privacy, but because too many of our salaries depend on advertising revenue, our cognitive dissonance blinders go up lightning fast.
Avista Utilities, here in Washington state, is offering community solar in a nice, self-contained package. You lease a panel in their solar farm, they install and maintain it, and you get a credit on your electric bill for whatever it generates. At the end of the lease you will presumably have a positive ROI from it though that of course depends on actual power generated. It seems like a really nice way to "go solar" that's accessible to anyone with the cash to buy the lease. http://www.avistautilities.com/services/Pages/communitysolar...
Good point about the dividends. Do your numbers take inflation into account?

Edit: looks like without inflation, if this calculator is to be believed:

http://dqydj.net/sp-500-return-calculator/

The annualized return for the past 15 years with both dividends and inflation is under 2%.

I know that I'm cherry-picking by using a 15 year period. That was my entire point: that you can cherry-pick to find almost any rate of return.

However, that particular period is still pretty relevant. If your plan is to spend 10% of your savings per year, then a 15-year period of zero (or just small) returns will wipe you out. Even if it bounces back afterwards, you're still screwed.
I just moved to a mountain ridge in central Puerto Rico from Austin, TX. I've been astonished that I can easily see the Milky Way. I look forward to tonight!
Ahh, I see.

I don't think we were disagreeing; I was just pointing out that data centers scale very well for what data centers were built for. It's not that surprising that we are outgrowing them.
> Teflon is inert as far as we know

And we know quite far. It's pretty easy to tell from the molecular structure.

> it's well-known to release toxic gases when overheated, which is an easy mistake to make in kitchens.

So does oil. And oil does it at a lower temperature than teflon, which makes teflon safer. Or are you planning on banning oil in kitchens?
Isn't NativeBoost what's currently blocking the migration to Spur?
High security and low subversion systems aren't allowed to have complex crap like Linux in TCB. They also prefer to offload RNG and crypto onto dedicated hardware. Example would be NSA's Type 1 certified products and my own gear from past.

Mere requirement of knowing every execution and failure state in TCB eliminates Linux + /dev/urandom instantly. Some FSM's + some analog circuits can be verified by eye, hand, and formal verification if desired.
I've lived in the US my whole life, and I've never heard anyone pronounce it "fort" in this context.
If it's that doable why are there no funds that guarantee 8% every year? I would even buy a fund that gives me "only" 5% guaranteed. They can keep the other 5%.
Keep in mind the game was delivered, and is available for purchase on Steam.
Five or six years ago, I was surprised (and a little annoyed) when someone asked me to shoot him a DM because he never checks his email. So I guess this will make conversation via DM more productive? Or will DMs just become the new email, in terms of the same cognitive burden?
Thanks for the context.

I suppose that $20 for a PDF could be good business. I'm not convinced it's necessarily good business. It depends on the goal. If the business is shipping PDF's then it's obviously good. On the other hand, I suspect the minimum cost of fundraising is non-linear: that raising $10,000 requires more than 1.0% of the effort required to raise $1,000,000. But even if it's easier to raise $20.00 500 times than $10,000 all at once, if $10,000 ain't enough it ain't enough.
The key verbiage is "release" vs "updates."

You still have to go through the initial App Store Release process initially. After that, using this framework you can push updates directly, rather than waiting the requisite 5 business days[1]. As an app developer, being able to push updates (read: bug fixes) immediately is a blessing--we live and die by our reviews, and a bad update can cause an avalanche of negative reviews. Waiting 5 days[2] for a fix to go live can seem like an eternity.

1. It was 5 business days when I was an IOS Developer in 2012.

2. For all updates it was 5 business days. There were rumors that if you had a evangelist at Apple you were on real good terms with, they could fast track the update for you, if it was a rare occurrence.