skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bad "x for y" because I've never heard of classpass and I don't know what a hair blowout is. The "hair blowout" part might be commonly known among investors, and definitely among the target market, but I don't think classpass is a household name. ("blowout" would be bad; "hair blowout" is probably ok.)

It's not necessarily a bad startup (from a few minutes googling, it's probably a good market, and a solid team; haven't looked at the product).
Ya. That's never going to happen.
100% agreed. This and dishes are two things that would leave so much time in my life for things I would rather be doing. Like building a sandwich machine haha
Pretty sure blow drying hair has very low variable costs. Electricity to run a hair dryer.

Everything else is to some extent fixed (including operator). What it doesn't have is SaaS style scalability (1000 users costing the same as 1), and it's not like a yoga class where you can probably do 30 in the same space as 15, but the variable costs are just the electricity.
I meant, cited in the article I posted.
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If you are truly disruptive, it is in your best interest as a startup to not appear as such.
From a marketing perspective, sure, but are showers a major portion of the water used in California? Spend that $400 xeriscaping.
Ask HN: Good license for public academic notes?
I'm a physics graduate student at a large US university somewhere. I'm planning to post on the web publicly a number of examples and walk-throughs of textbooks (like working out equations in between the steps) just for my sake and for anyone's sake. What would be a good license for something like this?

I essentially want it to be open source-ish, in that anyone can copy, redistribute, modify, adapt, etc, it, but all I want is that they grant others the same rights and that I get attribution, in some form, as well as anyone who makes changes. What would be the best license for something that is in between creative and technical like this?
Those are his terms of service and by responding to his web browser's request, web servers are implicitly agreeing to it.
> CEF keeps much more up to date on the Chromium versions; not sure about CefSharp.

CefSharp is itself a wrapper (for .Net) around CEF I believe. Currently on Chromium 41.
> Pictures don't hurt anyone (except sometimes in the libel/slander sense).

The hell they don't. Talk to someone who was not only abused, but knows that there are unwilling photos of their abuse circulating online for sadists to jerk off over. Psychological trauma is a real thing.
Yeah if they have mostly venture debt it's probably not secured by collateral.
The large unregulated financial market has plenty of patience for R&D by Amazon, Google, Facebook, Uber, etc. They just don't have patience for R&D by Danaher.

Assuming you were investing, would you personally be more likely to park your money in Danaher or Uber?
Harlan Ellison ofter wrote short stories in a storefront using ideas tossed out by on-lookers. I'd love to see the programming equivalent, particular in the game space. It'd go a long way towards settling the art versus science debate--and I doubt there are but a handful (including Notch) who could perform the kind of improv that someone like Ellison did in his medium.
> The elevation of monogamy and closed relationships as the God-given natural status of a couple is the source of too many problems.

Don't pretend that monogamy is purely socially constructed. There is absolutely nothing wrong with consensual open relationships, and we'd all be better off if the taboo against them went away, but there is definitely something wrong with making a promise to someone you love about something that matters to them and then breaking it behind their back.
There's a long history of big things starting as small things. http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html
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Vivify: A ColorScheme Editor for Vim
Hmm. One that prefers to not have to hold up a specific minority flag :)

Think for a second: why does it matter what specific minority I am? Am I black? A woman? A black woman? Or one of those that doesn't get anywhere close to the media attention these do?

Doesn't matter. Hire me for how I do the job. That's how prejudices are broken. Not by re-affirming prejudices by giving me handicap points.
Curious about Gigster. They say they aren't a marketplace, but if they only have vetted devs and PMs how do they plan to scale up?
looks very cool - a few things.

It could be improved if there was a way to include a delay for when it starts rendering.
Why are you so certain?
I'm downvoting you because it's ridiculous to say that monogamy is purely a social construct. It genuinely matters to some people, even if they're okay with polygamy as a general concept. There is nothing wrong with consensual open relationships, and we'd all be better off if the social stigma around them went away, but consensual is the key word. It's not okay to promise someone monogamy and then break your word behind their back.

Do not assume that the way you feel about something is the one true correct way and anyone who disagrees has been brainwashed by The Man.
The story behind Curiosity's self-portraits on Mars
I would hope that 1.5 to 2.0 would have some semantic changes to the language as opposed to just implementation tooling.

I've learned not to even ask about type improvements. :(
There is a significant difference between being the first hop after the firewall, and the firewall actual.
So is a hot dog cart. Hot dog carts attached to bicycles have existed forever. Job on wheels, maybe even better than driving for Uber. I guess.
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While this is a great service...how is it making money? And could I make money by live casting my coding?
"after having gotten burned (in Haskell) by the "more purity or strictness (in the conventional, not evaluation, sense) is always better" argument ... I'm waiting to be convinced that having a more picky compiler actually helps rather than getting in the way"

@seertaak, can you quickly explain how the strictness became a problem?
Anecdotally, judging from my friends in both categories, it's easier to get hired and promoted (implicit disclaimer: in the US tech scene) as a competent white man than as an equally-competent woman or racial/ethnic minority, if you are job-hunting.

One of the side effects of entrenched racism and sexism is that competent women and minorities tend to be underemployed more than competent white men, and so as the biases are being broken down, you'll see way more women and minorities (compared to the ratios in the general population) being hired or promoted to the right place compared to white men. Out of people who are competent to be senior developers, way more white men than women or minorities already have a good job fit, and in turn, way fewer of them are on the job market or easily poachable.

So the market, as a whole, can be biased in favor of hiring and promoting women and minorities without it being any easier for the individual developer who happens to be a woman or minority.
Wow. What a mess. I feel bad for the founder, even though she handled the situation badly.
"I don't see these products as all that compelling. They all seem kind of gimmicky to me."

Came to a similar conclusion in the past but looking through the current batch I was impressed with the sheer number of projects and their applications. Makes software only companies look somewhat lame. Remember a lot of these hardware startups start off looking "toy-like" at the start, and will evolve.

Particularly interested in the sandwich robot. Lots of problems to solve there involving supply and safe storage of edible materials.
Merkel's War on Germany's Press and Parliament
Pretty wild - it would be nice if MS would put a little effort into their cash cows now and then so people wouldn't have to resort to such things though.
this is brilliant. are you interested in doing the exact same thing for food in a refrigerator? I believe the market is larger and the potential impact is greater. Just to make it clear:

ingredients:recipes::legos:designs

it would be silly to track things inside a refrigerator, but we could track purchases on receipts, and then calculate the amount over time using some smart-decay-rate. Cant assume it's gonna be easy to be able to live query the contents of someone fridge in real time - but can do estimations. Then people could add their recipes to a central server, and well, you've pretty much coded everything after that if I get your gist.

email me: jay@pitel.co
Tencent invests $50M in Kik at a $1B valuation
This is pretty much it. Our universities are generally fairly first-rate on a world scale, but we don't have the same information economy that other nations have. You see it often in our medical research where we punch far above our weight. It's good that IBM is exploring the comptuer science and maths side of this.
Base16: a color scheme and a template
As of earlier in the year, over 80% of Package Control users were on ST3. ST2 usage seems to be waning pretty significantly. It will be nice once package developers can use all of the goodies in Python 3 and not worry about the ancient Python 2.6.
Counterpoint: the stack you choose initially will often follow you for years because switching costs are rising with every line of code and every developer on the payroll.

Personally I often go for a less familiar but more appropriate stack.
RNB, a Vim colorscheme template
Not even measures, I'm just wanting to be able to create tables, define relations, etc, with the accompanying sql or m script. I'm hopeful they'll let us do that some day, but I still don't quite believe they've changed their stripes entirely.
I'm totally excited about heroic labs. Is there any other company providing this service (that isn't part of a closed eco system that is)?

AppCanary sounds great. I've been working on a tiny prototype that makes use of a dockerfile to check on software that should be updated and sends a mail/SMS when an update is needed. Connects to various RSS feeds and vulnerability DBs to figure out when to notify the user. I guess AppCanary can be a drop in replacement for that.

On a separate note, and I hope I'm not putting negative fuel here, would anyone be interested in a quick and dirty website to place bets on whether a company will grow or fail and maybe how long it will take to go big/fail? Point here isn't to hate on any company. It would just be an experiment that would yield some interesting results in a couple of years as to how good our individual abilities are in predicting success/failure.
Let's say you want to study long term impacts of taking Viagra which is clearly going to take some time. Sure, you could look at old data, but that always has issues. So, you get funding, start some research, and want to publish something when your done.

Option A: Pick just one thing to look at say cardiovascular health.

Option B: Collect a lot of data, and then look for trends.

Option B has much stronger risks of false positives simply because your looking at more factors, but those false positives seem much more interesting which helps you get published. Worse you can't use any of that data for verification, so you now need to run another 10 year study. Upside, you got published, downside, your results are almost meaningless. Bigger upside, you then get to publish again in 10 years.

Well what about option C use approach B but publish sooner. Now your not only risking false positives, but also extrapolating from more limited data.

Hmm, guess what say nutritionists are going to pick... "Chocolate good/bad for you!"
It was posted on a customer facing website...
No, ST2 does not use whatever happens to be in the path on OS X. It uses version 2.6 from the system Python.framework.
Work Hard, Live Well
Recently I attended a gathering where about ten people tossed out ideas for an interactive fiction game as it was being live-coded in Inform 7. It was surprisingly fun (and if we had a better grasp of the language it would have been even more).
Itunes match vs. amazon music vs. Google music vs. spotify vs. deezer
Since iTunes Match doesn't allow for mass downloads anymore (can't back up my library) I decider to check what was out there. And I found many offers that look more attractive, so I wanted to compare them on a spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ptV0sWO2tBT4c3G8aiB0WgQ7asZFK2WBoIlg8OcBKg8/edit?usp=sharing

If you want to contribute
I added a comment on this page that Package Control patches the select issue on ST2 for Windows (and explains it a little), plus includes shims for _ssl on Linux with details about how it works.
The part that really hurt my non-american sensibilities is when the letter points out a cost of 12cts/kWh.

I wish my electricity was that cheap.

As for the main point itself, I can imagine the intent was to make sure supercharger station are actually available for someone on a long distance trip, but it is quite poorly worded.
German Treason Investigation Reveals Anxiety at the Top
"... if they execute well."
I’m not sure how the gravitaional guys are doing it, but we launched a related company a few months ago. We basically leverage the portability of Docker containers so that SaaS vendors (like NPM, Code Climate, Travis CI) can use the same product in the cloud that they use to ship on-prem. You can see a quick demo on our website: www.replicated.com
Hey Brad, sorry Awesomium didn't meet your needs and that you eventually found something that worked. PollAnywhere looks pretty awesome now, grats!

Sad to see you felt I had zero empathy to your plight, a full refund was approved just weeks after your license purchase.
Some samples in English translation:

http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_...
Because I live in the real world and not in fantasy land.
Hush now. Criticism isn't hate. Disappointment isn't hate either. Being a back-patting "good-job" for everything forum seems like the ultimate sad ending to HN. Maybe you like to live in the lala land of yes men, and cronyism sponsored happy endings so even mild internet posts cut? :(

Anyway, this is the internet: people will have a problem with anything you do so don't take it personally.
Creative commons BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Yes, that's what I also got from it. But still, does ST do that?
The middle one ("applying different compressions to the same video and comparing the results").

I write streaming video servers. An aspect of the job is continuously optimizing parameters and codecs to satisfy PSNR and perceptual video quality test cases across a large library of test files. It's not a fun aspect of the job.
It's been a while since I followed this. I see over 100 Reed-Solomon erasure-coding projects on GitHub. Which would you recommend?
(For people following this thread, the above response isn't from the person I originally replied to.)

You "earn a living" producing content. So you say "because other
people want to see my content, I have a right to my lifestyle (of
getting paid.)"

Except I don't. I don't feel entitled to get paid in some arbitrary way that's convenient for me. I'm happy that I can produce software and content and be paid for it - but I don't feel that I have a right to that by virtue of being born. It just so happens that the IP laws in my country of residence allow me to do so.

Which perhaps is why I'm a bit puzzled as to why people would feel entitled to what I - and others - produce and make available under certain terms that they might not be happy with, simply because they were born and want the content. I just don't get the sense of entitlement.

But I acknowledge that this isn't something we're going to resolve in the HN comments section.

EDIT: Followup questions:

It seems like preventing someone from accessing something that they have a right to is immoral.

Consider that I have a website with content that I've created. If I work to hide that content from visitors who have an ad-blocker enabled, am I behaving in an immoral way?

If that site had its content behind a paywall and I actively disable accounts when I detect that they're being shared, am I behaving in an immoral way?

If the site has its content behind a paywall and I actively serve DMCA requests when I find that content published elsewhere without my consent, am I behaving in an immoral way?

If people are entitled to "culture", as you state, if the content from that site were instead a physical book, and I owned a book store that sold copies of the book, and I called the police when people were shoplifting the book, would I be behaving in an immoral way?

What if that was the only book that I carried at the store and I locked the door to the store at night. Is that immoral?

Is it not immoral for me to publish it in book form to begin with? If you're entitled to culture, shouldn't culture-creators make the culture available in the easiest form for you to get at it? Making the culture available as a physical object - with all that entails - probably isn't the easiest way for you to get access to it.
I really hate the "I did it so others can to" arguments. Some people are capable of that... the point is that there are is another entire class of people who are almost capable. Besides, the case today is usually that you take on that 40k in debt and then can't find a job. Good luck even supporting yourself at your minimum wage job, much less paying any loans off.
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Yes, Sublime Text embeds Python. The Python interpreter is initialized by the Sublime Text binary.

The issues that Floobits ran into were some of the edge-cases related to distributing a compiled version of Python to various operating systems. I wrote a top-level comment on this page about how Package Control patches these issues.
How Facebook Made Me an Atheist
"Everything you can do with a frown, you can do with a smile."

I think you can give a positive spin to your site. That is people can say why they think a certain product will succeed (break market & competitors analysis/overview, team strength, product strength, etc....). They can also state what problems they may face etc.. And please delete and do not allow negative comments that add nothing to the feedback.

Cheers,
Congrats on the release! Looks good!
Uber Missed Criminal Records of Drivers, Prosecutors Assert
One of the major advantages of pair programming that I don't hear mentioned much is that you get to learn how others solve programming problems.

I've never learned so much about programming as my first year on a pair programming team. I taught those guys a few of my special tricks too.
A YC-backed startup is trying to “solve” Wall Street's millennial problem
I don't really understand why ticket sales haven't long since switched to an airline model: sell the first tickets (relatively) cheap, then ramp up prices as the venue fills up.
Might the HR chief still be in trouble for knowing something illegal/fraudulent was going on and not reporting/stopping it? At least ethically that's a grey area, and legally I'd guess it was not smart to allegedly document that she knew it with an FB post.
The Books That Taught American Women to Camp in the Early 20th Century
https://xkcd.com/378/
Google’s In-House Programming Language Now Runs on Phones
Yes...my point was that even if they execute well, there's still a ton that can torpedo their success. They're going to need to execute phenomenally and get a ton more cooperation from the small businesses than we've ever found them willing to give.
Why don't you try out Meteor? I found it really easy to work with. You could probably go through the whole book tutorial (discovermeteor.com) in 20 hours. If you don't end up using it on production; it might help you with faster prototyping.
What trouble are you running into with APN? I just went through that exercise with a cordova app a few weeks ago, and might be able to help if you need it. My email is in my profile.
Thanks for the links! Both really interesting projects. I think I'll try dpxdt out first.
Paying independent contractors: How Hubstaff saves $32,400 with a simple system
Edit - In case anyone wonders what the deleted comment was about, it was a reference to https://unity3d.com/services/multiplayer (Unity's multiplayer infrastructure offering).

Well, Unity and the like will probably keep building their services into their own frameworks while Heroic Labs might just survive the onslaught by being the one group that has an open API for anyone to integrate into. This could theoretically allow for more creative game development (especially in turn based games) where you might use a full blow Unity engine game for desktop/web and maybe a component attached to mobile (a side companion that gives strategy advice etc.) that would just be a native app instead of a game.

They'll probably need to hustle on getting past just simple turn based games if they want to compete though. It looks like Unity's offering is aimed at delivering on real time multiplayer as well.

We live in interesting times.
> The root cause of the things you love about HN is that people are honest.

I've been here a while and that's never made HN great. HN is supposed a welcoming place for smart folks with an interest in the small intersection between tech and business.

It's always felt like an implicit rule, but it's pretty simple: don't be a dick, and don't discourage people from exploring ideas they think are interesting. What positive outcome could that possibly have?
On a site like that, I don't think I'd ever want to allow comments :D . Thanks for the feedback

Edit - After reading this I just realised it could be taken as loaded with snark. Really did not want it to come across as that. Just to clarify my statement, a website which allows for people to comment on the highly polarizing issue that is "what value, if any, does this new Silicon Valley funded startup X bring to the table?" would probably be filled up with thoughtless/cruel comments right at the start. I'd never be able to control that on my own, so would just never build a site like that that allows for comments.

Again, sorry if my initial statement came off as snarky.
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Yeah, it's been really amazing to watch. Plus you can really see how passionate he is about it, which is also a wonderful thing.
Cloud66 was hacked in May 2013[1][2] and shortly afterwards, they scrubbed all references to the attack from their site. Pathetic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669315

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685406
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