skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me start with some disclosure: We funded a company to do exactly this. I won’t mention them here as a courtesy to you, but know that I will have some bias as I go through this.

When I advise startups about landing pages, I usually refer to some teachings from Call to Action.

http://www.amazon.com/Call-Action-Formulas-Improve-Results/d...

The examples in the book are fairly outdated, but the lessons are sound. The one I’ll talk about here has to do with the questions visitors need to have answered before they’ll proceed to clicking a call to action.

- What is it?
- Is this right for me?
- Is it legit?
- What’s the catch? / How much does it cost?
- Who else is using this?
- Can I get help?

Different users have different configurations of those questions they need to have answered before they move forward down your conversion funnel. Great landing pages answer all of them efficiently.

You’re missing a number of answers to those questions on your site. Some can be found on your FAQ, but I think you need to front load more of them. The number one problem for me and the reason why I’ll use our portfolio startup’s site over yours is that this doesn’t look professional. When it comes to legal issues / fines, trusting you to get the job done and keeping me from getting into more trouble is what I need to feel to hand over my problem to you.

Part of it is the design and that’s easily fixed with a nicer template at the least. Evidence of how many tickets you’ve successfully fought or won, or information that just fighting a ticket is worth doing because the courts don’t want to dedicate resources to fighting a parking ticket would be helpful.

This FAQ question, however, made me cringe:
http://www.tickettitan.com/faq/#law

There’s marketing speak mixed in with some defensiveness and some confusing reference to what feels like a conflict of interest. Thinking through it, I don’t think there is a conflict of interest, but the way you worded it makes me feel like there is. If it were me, I’d just remove the question. If you’re the only firm that gets the ticket info, then I’d remove from the interface what looks like an assignment of a firm to a ticket. It just raises questions that are distracting.

This service should be an abstraction. Give us the ticket, we’ll take care of it. X % gets removed. If not, we pay the ticket automatically for you. Either way, this is how you stop worrying about this piece of paper.

A lot of potential here, though. The name is great. It’s memorable. Build a brand that it deserves. Start with copy and then move to the design.

Good luck and thanks for sharing!
SSDs are still faster for non-cached reads, which are significant, since most people don't have as much RAM as they have of permanent storage.

By the way, what you're proposing in terms of software has been available for a long time; multiple distros (including Ubuntu) can/could be booted completely to RAM, using tmpfs as the filesystem. For example:

At the boot prompt, type "knoppix toram". Knoppix will load the contents of the CD into ram and run from there. After boot up, the CD can be removed and the cd drive will be available for other uses. Because this will take up a lot of ram, it is recommended for those with at least 1 GB of ram.

It's definitively faster, I just don't have the necessary RAM to fit all my system in there.
that's just crazy. totally wild. well done solving all those challenges! great storytelling in your blog too.
And what if I'm gluten free? They need to make GMO Heroin gluten free!
From someone who mostly deals with embedded systems, I like that. All of the modern system languages essentially rely on having a virtual memory model and force you to use GC. Both these prerequisites essentially rule out something like Go for a microcontroller (it can work, just not be useful beyond a novelty).

There are a few things I'd personally want to see, like lambdas and nested functions, some more intelligent error handling, fixed point math, etc. But its a good step forward.
Poppy seeds are held behind the customer-service counter at some grocery stores [1]. They don't make you hand over your drivers license though.

[1] http://www.radioiowa.com/2008/01/10/store-puts-poppy-seeds-b...
Or it detected your bum leaving its seat.
> From what I've read, it sounds like he was in it for the love of film.

Ayup, he's a big photography/movie buff.

> He is directly responsible for revolutionizing the film and TV industries. That's a pretty good ROI if you ask me.

It's not clear he did revolutionize the industry. Digital was obvious to everyone. The question wasn't whether it was going to happen, it was when it was going to happen.

By doing it when RED did, they had a LOT of problems that the companies doing it now don't. They were developing sensors in VLSI technologies that really weren't up to the task. They had gigantic cables leading to a refrigerator cabinet of disk drives because storage technology wasn't up to the task (small disks, slow transfer rates, no SSD's). They were continuously swapping batteries because battery and power management technology wasn't up to the task.

All of these things improved simply with time. VLSI nodes changed to 12" wafers. Disks got way bigger and then switched to SSD's as well as developed faster versions of SATA. Lithium batteries came online and lots of power management technologies improved.

I remember talking to the folks at RED at one of the NAB shows. I had a very nice technical conversation with the engineers as everybody else was drooling over the booth bunnies (some inconsequential Hollywood actresses). My first question was simply: "Every engineering student has effectively been required to purchase a personal computer since about 1995. Why aren't film majors required to outright purchase one of these cameras are part of their tuition?"

After they both broke up in laughter, they explained to me that the yield on the sensors was so bad that it completely gated their ability to ship cameras. They were estimating that it was going to take 2 more VLSI process nodes to clear the backlog of orders. It looks like they were about right.
The good thing about how things are structured in Go is that you can read your types from left to right, while in C, you need to use a more intricate way of reading types... http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
That's an interesting thought. My initial reaction is that people wouldn't use that until this was more established, which leads to sort of a catch-22 situation, but I like the idea. Another consideration with the hashtag is that there's a lot of content that already exists, too, instead of being original content (e.g. a news story compared with a Twitter/Instagram post), so relying too heavily on a hashtag approach could exclude that content.
hey if you got 4mins mind giving me feedback on my project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062700
His large book of essays, collected as United States, is an easy-to-read summary of his thinking. It is delightful. He ran with a very influential crowd, he is highly original, well-read, and independent, and he made every effort to put himself in the middle of events.
Yes. In fact so far that's the biggest group of paying customers...
When Microsoft went public, Bill Gates owned 80% of the stock. His wealth, compared to other tech company founders, is essentially all the product of not getting diluted.
People on wages near or just above minimum wage don’t make anywhere near $100,000 a year. There is a reason that manufacturing jobs are coming back from China.
A lot of people are super productive with Go, despite all the detractors criticizing the (supposed) lack of people's favourite language features. That's reason enough to have a closer look. Conceptual purity doesn't buy you anything in the real world.
Yes, that is true, sorry about talking stupid.
#[inline] is all about cross-crate work; inside a crate, items not marked #[inline] may still be inlined by the optimiser, but it doesn’t do cross-crate inlining without #[inline] or LTO.
Any news on long-term health risks from chemical exposure/half-lives/concentrations/wind direction etc? Last I heard the wind was blowing sea-wards after the blast, but there are a lot of people in Tianjin (and Beijing?) that could be effected if chemical contaminants stick around...
Or, yields have dropped in the drought so farmers are forced to increase acreage? Probably that?
Thank you. Very interesting!
He died from a massive drug overdose right?
> Not being pedantic. I realize English isn't everyone's first language. And then there's auto-completion on devices like iPad's that can result in embarrassing errors.

Embarrassing errors like using "'s" to form a plural, instead of the correct "s"?
Have you tried generic modafinil from India?
Interesting. I like the idea, but isn't this pretty similar to "bre.ad"? -- as far as I know, they weren't able to turn it into a viable business and the Yahoo! acquisition was an acquihire.
Once I had some strong personal issues and spent a full 6-7 days without getting any sleep. At that point I was convinced that my neighbors (Pakistani) were from IS, I even started an investigation (using some tactics you can guess) in order to find evidence and was already seeking political asylum in the US. Now I think about it and it's even funny, but hell.
> The advantage of California agriculture is that you can grow crops outside year round.

It's a little more complicated than that. When it comes to produce, I think you are right being able to grow year round is a huge advantage. But, many of the nuts and stone fruit grown in California would actually do better if were cooler (better fruit set, fewer pests). What is very compelling about California agriculture is the dry, low humidity summers that prevent crop damage and at least in the central valley, quite possibly the best agricultural soil on the planet. Of course the federal and state water projects also help a lot by increasing access to water and historically have been a huge indirect government subsidy to CA agriculture.

> If you're growing inside, then you might as well grow where the water/people are.

California has a population approaching 40 million.
I had heard that alcoholics who drink coffee have a markedly decreased chance of developing cirrhosis, something like a 60% reduction. But only for regular caffeinated coffee- not tea, not decaf coffee. Do you have any insight into why or is this not true?
I got the new Sculpt, also pretty nice! :)
This and the convolutional neural net class were offered at Stanford both physically and online. Is anyone aware of anything similar being offered this fall quarter?
makes sense. well ill keep playing with it, hopefully with more people to learn more about it.

if you have 6mins sometime let me know what you think about my project :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062700
Nah. I think that for many programs the GNU extensions to C provide a better tradeoff in terms of expressiveness vs. added complexity than the truckload of arbitrary features that is C++.
$12 / year for a static page

$39 / year for a simple "cms" (others call it a simple edit form)

$11 / year for form handling

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$62 / year, good luck! Include the simple cms would be a great benefit.

Sure WordPress is overbloatet, but WordPress has zillions of Designs.
While I have largely moved away from Backbone, what makes Backbone really great, still, is its adaptability. While I wouldn't endeavor to write a brand new application with it so much anymore, it's extremely hackable and especially great for abstracting away ugly legacy web service APIs. It's definitely saved my sanity on that front on more than one occasion.
I wonder what easier ways to exfiltrate data do you see?

An air-gapped computer is likely devoid of any special radio-frequency hardware (no wi-fi or BT). Acoustic signals (via speaker or mechanical moving parts) and visible light signals (via the screen or various LEDs) are easy to notice.

OTOH a GSM frequency signal is not readily visible and also does not look like coming from a computer unless you look pretty hard; a signal at this frequency can be coming from a mobile device of a passer-by across the street.
To be honest, it doesn't seem to have to do with political party affiliation.

President Obama's administration has been arguably more hawkish against national security disclosures (when they don't benefit the administration) than Bush's was[1], and his administration has set up quite a few cases that involved tapping the communications of journalists.

I liked Candidate Obama quite a bit and am fairly disappointed in President Obama's policies. " The Obama administration, which promised during its transition to power that it would enhance “whistle-blower laws to protect federal workers,” has been more prone than any administration in history in trying to silence and prosecute federal workers."[2]

[1] http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/business/media/white-house...
Security firm Kaspersky faked malware to harm rivals according to former workers
Only a bit related: does anyone know a) why it is standard in scientific papers to be written in 2-col layout and b) how to convert said 2-col layout to a READABLE 1-col layout?!

Man, this is driving me nuts on desktop and mobile.
There's not a lot of black hat activity, but there's plenty of good- to neutral-natured messing about. The "Wall of Sheep" is a great example; if you send something that looks like a username/password on the public wifi, someone will put it up on a big display (though they'll obscure some of the password field) along with the other 'sheep'. Not "black hat" but definitely not the kind of thing you want on a real account.

As for burner clothes, the only thing I've ever heard is to not wear company-branded clothes - wearing an obvious Google t-shirt is a great way to attract attention you may not want.
Hey everyone, Johnny from Blockstrap here. I tweet from @johnnynomics.

This course was presented as a free series of workshops we did around Europe this summer - you can read more about it here - http://blockstrap.com/en/blog/onboarding-europe/.

These slides make a lot more sense when we talk you through them - we're currently editing the video and will be sharing it on Blockstrap when finished. There's only so much structured learning we could fit in a day, so we thought this presentation was a good starting point for those new to Bitcoin and the underlying tech.

If you're interested in building blockchain applications come check out our stack at http://blockstrap.com. We have an API, framework, and several open source starting points. We welcome contributions from the community and we're very open to alternatives to SlideShare.
Show HN: Announce New Features to Your Users (with Pirates and Astronauts)
oh yeah I definitely see what you mean. Well ill keep playing around the app and maybe something will come to me :)
I think that is an error in the content, it says hit the triple line button in the upper right. Well one half of that is wrong, so if the + button did allow you to add a weight, then it meant to say plus instead of triple line.
New hypothesis: The reason the U.S. leans conservative relative to other countries is lack of sleep.
> If you're growing inside, then you might as well grow where the water/people are.

Well, no, you want to, ideally, grow where the water is but the people aren't. Because otherwise agricultural use and human use are competing for space in the same high-demand areas, and driving the prices up for each other. It may be even be worth moving some water to where the people aren't to support growing to permit this, given the normal tendency for people to also be where the water is.
The arrogance of unacknowledgd playstyles
A few people have been using it in the bay area, mainly in Oakland and Barkeley and a few in SF. Note that in other locations you can still use it, but there isn't much content to see!
Reposting today to ensure I don't miss out on Kevin's offer to review some of the Show HN posts. Thanks in advance (if you get to mine)!
There's a nice gif on Wikipedia showing something like fluid flow in question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrospinal_fluid#Circulatio...
Feynman would never have the popularity today that had then. Roguishness would've tanked him.

We're living in a time now when scientists are made to cry for wearing a shirt with drawings of women.
It would be nice to have something to Atom. Like http://nuclide.io/ with built-in building pipeline, syntax highlighting, smart code completion, and error checking and some basic support for refactoring.

I would prefer that over plugin to Eclipse or Intellij IDEA.
@crazypro - The question to ask for me was - "what is the most important phrase and what does it mean?" In the example, "happy hour" and "mission" are the two things I need. Using some sort of knowledge base is hard because I can't predict every query the user may throw at me, and there will always be issues with disambiguation. For locations, I could have a gazetteer which would make life easier.

What I meant was that existing libs, in my limited experience, can't do entity recognition (even those that use classifier based chunkers) unless you've got a good dataset of similar conversations. Which I don't yet. So my option was to build something that would take an arbitrary sentence and do so while only having limited training. Does that make sense?

I'm utilizing word/phrase vectors - haven't moved to sentence vectors yet. And they are in the same space. I'm not entirely sure what compositional embedding entails, so presumably I'm not doing that. I would however love to chat offline and get more insight from you on it.
Thank you for your thoughts, they are helping.

You are right again, it's a self fulfilling prophecy - the more you dwell on it, the more pointless the whole thing becomes.
But as sebkomianos said, it's like a vicious circle: In order to engage and find meaning I need to find meaning so I get inspired to engage.

The solution is, I guess, to pretend for a while and just do something and then it will start making sense again.
I'm doing that, trying to produce sparks to ignite the fire, I'm almost there....
And this is why you need to make sure that you can live without a paycheck for 6 months to a year. Everybody needs F.U. money.

You never know when you will be shepherded into a room and asked for your badge. It can happen to anyone, and it can happen out of the blue for no apparent reason! In a case such as this when you happen to have a bad manager, or an ethically challenged company, you must always have contingency plans to handle this situation.

America's workplaces would be much different if everyone could weather a layoff without financial difficulties.
Awesome, thanks for taking a look and sharing feedback!
Call off the bee-pocalypse
Yes, if you start charging for the 'common', then you can avoid the tragedy of the common. They would first have to outlaw pumping your own water in order to start charging market price for it.
I think with C# the addition is mostly or always promoted to an int. So the following gives an error.

byte foo = 4;
byte boo = 86;
byte arglebargle = foo + boo; // cast monkey! cast!

I remember old assembly language guys annoyed at the types of math available with high level languages. I think they were a bit crusty but still they had a point about inability to manage precision without big hammers.

At least the C# way forces you to think about whether you're loosing precision. But I dislike having to add casts. I use casts a lot, but I distrust the because they hide errors. I find myself really wanting safe operators and unsafe ones. Safe as in, overflow results in a hard fault that I can catch. Unsafe means overflow is silent.
For Android users, I've been using Libra for several years now and enjoy that I can customize the moving average.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/libra-weight-manager/net.cachapa...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.cachapa.li...
What a wonderful sentence. You can keep concocting winding philosophical sentences like that to defend the dignity of chickens, and the rest of us will keep trying feed people.
No mention of aquaponics?

I'm growing food in the backyard with it and it is awesome.

It uses much less water and is much less of a hassle. Better yields too.
I never said or meant that Upstart wasn't younger than those alternatives. What I disagree with was the idea that there was much apathy and then a sudden crisis when systemd appeared. The development and adoption of Upstart and OpenRC (even if the latter isn't an init daemon, it's still an alternative to the init system) by some of the biggest distros contradicts that claim.
Use the email address. Send me a link to verify to connect the two.
Here's Why There's No Such Thing as Free Public Education Anymore
Not all about. It gives an inline hint to LLVM, making it inlined more eagerly (even within a single crate) than the default.
As user said 650REDHAIR said

>Instead, a new venture that we’ve been working on as a side project has recently gained traction. Given the potential of the opportunity, it makes far more sense for us to shift our limited resources away from Harborly to focus on this new project.

What does this even mean? And if it's gaining so much traction why didn't you mention the name or link something about the project.

Seems to me they are running from it. I remember seeing this a few months back and didn't know why it wasn't talked about anywhere bitcoin related. They never really marketed themselves; fair is fair though the product looked pretty beautiful. We call this a ditch...
Obviously any such list will be colored by the ethical system of the author.

Many people see zero harm in slaughtering animals for food. A large fraction of those also see a net positive in causing pain to those animals if it reduces costs.

Some libertarians would see little to no harm done by those marketing harmful products, and instead ascribe the moral weight of the harm to the consumers.

I'd be interested in seeing any empirical data on the weapons research angle. My understanding is that wars have been approximately equally deadly to the participants for much of recorded history. With the exception of weapons that are a risk for near-extinction level events, my intuition is that opposing sides in a war kill each other, regardless of how they are armed.
We actually had this very course recorded in both London and Amsterdam. We'll be sharing the videos on http://blockstrap.com when we've finished editing.
There are way too many websites, who still do this. Some brand names you'd never expected in the list http://plaintextoffenders.com/
"Setup a domain & billing"

"Set up" not "Setup". Just one of my pet peeves. Had to say it.
That could well have happened, but that's not my point. I was critiquing a certain mechanism, which claimed that an increase to input costs could, in itself, cause in increase in supply.
yes we use the interstitial experience like bre.ad however if im not mistaken this was used from mainly for publishers like say Techcrunch sharing their own content?

We are trying to incentivize sharing other peoples content as it pertains to your niche.

example:
Hillary clinton (user) -> shares news article from Politico about her policies -> before getting to article you see a donation page.

(would look like this http://lnkplg.co/RGPp)
> As a hardware guy who has never touched rust, and I know nobody will agree with me: the solution is to not have type inference.

How is that a solution to OP's problem?
Have you ever heard of Clever Hans?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

Worth a read. Doesn't mean to say animals can't be intelligent, and in fact it shows they can be, but in unexpected ways.

(tl;dr - horse that people thought could count but was actually looking for its handler to smile when it hit the right number)
That was the reaction of many people in the room too; he came across as not only smart and well-considered, but also deeply technical.
Van Eck, of course, but still.