skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a challenge on synthesis and perhaps design problems. I suggest you to not do anything drastic but use a pair of fresh eyes on your project. Manage to pair with someone and observe what this new guy finds challenging. You have to be open to refactorings or code style improvements. Also the guys must have to be good otherwise it could misguide you. What about using 3 instead of one? if they don't know each other you know the biases are under some control. After getting that quality feedback, you can ask yourself those questions again. You'll know better
Further evidence that Ad blockers are essential for the security of your system.
Apple's New Twitter Account
I think your point is exactly what the article is trying to convey. Start by building a great product, not with a target exit dollar figure.
Understanding How Dilution Affects You at a Startup (2011)
I believe it's trying to point out the currently flawed mindset of the valley. The same mindset that would fail to build any of the businesses that you listed above ;)
Since you mention it...

I recently lost 11 points in the span of a few minutes (while writing a comment), apparently because someone went and downvoted all my recent comments.

I've seen other suspicious behavior for months, but it's more anecdotal, so I won't go into it here.

tl;dr I am probably getting vote brigaded.

edit: And now I am "submitting too fast" and can't continue the conversations I am in (though I can still make edits). I don't know how the algorithm for that works, but I suspect (from experience) it's partially based partially on how many downvotes you're getting, because I often hit this without submitting quickly or all that much. Also from experience, it takes a really long time before you can start submitting again. So I'm effectively silenced (until next time...).

edit2: "If you talk about downvotes, chances are you'll get downvoted" (below---I'm still "rate" limited). Well, someone else raised the issue of culture on HN (not me), and I'm providing data. This is constructive, as opposed to simply bitching about getting downvotes, which I am being accused of. That is wrong and I never do that, as my comment history will prove. This accusation is conflating two entirely different things and is really unjust and unhelpful. Again, having someone systematically downvote your comment history is not the same as complaining about people downvoting a particular comment because they don't like it. Calling me a "bore" because I am reporting abusive behavior is beyond the pale.
nvlc - a ncurses vlc videolan media player built into vlc.

nvlc is just a script supplied with vlc:
#! /bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/vlc -I "ncurses" "$@"
Topmodel: Standard evaluations for binary classifiers
It's a good post for HN. But does it fit ShowHN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> A Show HN needn't be complicated or look slick. HN users are comfortable with work that's at an early stage.

> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't put "Show HN" in the title. Once it's ready, come back and share it then.

> For example, blog posts, email signups, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs.
I believe it is smaller and cheaper, not necessarily better.
No.

Great innovators are shooting for something they're pretty sure they can get to. They know what it takes, and know their market. It's by limiting your scope and achieving quality innovation that you get black swans.

The success will typically be a surprise, not a plan.
What’s in my Chrome extensions bar • Anselm’s Blog
Yes, that's the story that people like Evgeny Freidman paint, when they started seeing their rent-seeking investment - buying medallions and charging drivers hundreds of dollars to rent them so that they could work - begin to drop.

This story shows the situation for taxi drivers, way before Uber: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-di...

Some quotes:

The average rate a cabbie paid to take a taxi out for a 12-hour shift climbed 11 percent, to about $85, between 1990 and 1993 (...) In 1993, 32 to 45 percent of the income of a fleet or lease manager was profit, or $16,000 to $21,300 per car, up from $5,500 to $9,800 in 1986, according to the taxi commission.

Lease drivers rent the medallions, and usually the taxis, for a day or a week from their owners or a middleman. Depending on the owner and the night of the week, a lease driver pays $72 to $100 to take a car out for a 12-hour shift, or about $450 to $650 for a weekly lease. The driver must also pay for gas, at $15 to $20 a night. Drivers keep whatever fares and tips they collect, but they often start a day's work $100 or more behind.
This section explores man's tenuous relationship with the DOM
Why are refugees drowning
A tiny Go server to play any NES game using your mobile as the joypad
"It amazes me that people still play and love Monkey Island."

I'm still playing Monkey Island 20 years after the first time I discovered it on the Amiga.
Building a Redis clone in Haskell
Please don't take this as me defending Uber, I agree with your general sentiment, but your salient argument against them is a bit misleading. Almost all taxi companies in major cities in the U.S. use a similar "employment" model for the drivers. Honestly, the only major differences between Uber and the old school firms is technology, customer support, and ubiquity. Uber is no more abussive really to drivers and is also just as corrupt (maybe in slightly different ways, but still the same level).
I've wrote a little console script that played a cash register sound after a google analytics conversion. We only had a few sales a day though.
Humans have been adapting to nature and vice versa for all of history. Those things I mentioned are not enough to stangle the economy.

I mean, if you are going to impoverish people, what's the point? Isn't preventing global warming supposed to be for the sake of helping people?

Again, people don't understand how essential cheap energy is.
I suppose they have a way to cheaply mass-produce lidar scanners. Not an expert on the topic, but what are the main advantages compared to cheaper Kinect style sensors? I suppose they are much more accurate, but would a difference in the order of mm matter for self-driving cars?
Razer Diamondback – Return of the Legend
Top Ten Web Design Tools and Generators for Free (Part 2) • Anselm’s Blog
But then it lists the VC who don't think so...
Puzzled
Good advice & I'd like to, my challenge is I work freelance/direct and don't have other programmers around to ask.

I think paying for code reviews and some mentoring is the only way I can get this feedback.
Very nice. I was thinking about writing something like that, but you did in what seems like a much more complete and useful way.

Do you plan a Chrome extension or something like that, for people without smartphones, like me?
The other link does not work here, but this one does: http://www.gethooksapp.com/
Generally I agree, but when it comes to VC this isn't so true.

VC's looking for billion dollar exits are less patient which often times can prevent middle outcomes. Good businesses swing for the fences and end up outright failing instead of taking it a bit slower and really nailing their product/market.
Good read :)
Thats not how business work.

You don't build a business by setting out to be Facebook. You build a business by setting out to create thefacebook for universities.

Whether that will end up with a billion dollar company is a matter of way to many factors.

Edit: I can see you edited your post a little. My response here is to what you wrote originally.
Azure doesnt load for me
Ask HN: Live TV streaming provider
Is there any cloud service that offers live TV streaming? I'm trying to find a provider that would enable me to receive many TV channels simultaneously and analyze their content in my code. I'm especially interested in TV channels from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

So far I've found many free online TV streamings. Most of them are probably illegal and I'm afraid that they may disappear at any moment. Another drawback is that they are in various formats and protocols. I'm looking for a robust solution that would deliver all channels in a unified way.
The spread of this opinion has an upstart attitude to it. There might be a profit to be made in raising donations, or otherwise awareness, for the cause.
Lets solve that problem when we get to it :)
> I would blame it on people choosing to have children they can't necessarily support.

It's not like that they perceive to have a choice: If one lives from day to day (or here harvest to harvest) and has never heard of pensions nor any chance to ever receive one, children are the only security one has for old age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAFZcYlO5S0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukBMY4apvI (javascript module workflow that helped me (frontend dev) to transition to modules)

help?
Do you plan to add custom HTML scraping changes? Or incoming webhooks?
This is 2015. Noone goes and say they gonna sell dog food to every person on the planet? Obvious.
Same here. Also my old blog posts.

My weirdest one was when I was searching for an answer to a progamming question and ended up finding (and then contacting) my "long lost" cousin (the name was fairly unusual).

Turns out he became a programmer too.
Study finds high school should start at 10 to 11
Baremetrics list of open / transparent startups
Obviously the other main culprit (for putting carbon into the air) is China, and it's not worth it for the US to try to exercise power over them.

As to the list of stuff you're complaining about, you can only blame Australia (i.e., your fellow citizens and your politicians). Australia absolutely could just not do that stuff. The US is not going to invade Australia.

The reason Australia goes along with it is because it wants to.

And it wants to because it's a whole lot like the US. All the former British colonies have a lot in common.

We probably should have all just stayed in one big empire. After all, the US Founders bungled up our system permanently by claiming that rights come from God, which is only a way to supposedly invalidate rights.
I hope you noticed your quote specifically says correlated.

Also, you're presenting an argument that has actually been looked at for decades in the literature, which would be evident from a leisurely google scholar search of terms such as: climate change, CO2, respiration, net ecosystem production, terrestrial vegetation, food supply, etc.

I've attempted to grab some links to papers that seem to be publicly available. [5] is a review from the Royal Society, and [3] is straight out of Science if you care about credentials.

2001. [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001....

1994. [2] http://ecoethics.net/cyprus-institute.us/PDF/Rosensweig-Food...

2006. [3] http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/26790/PDF

2004. [4] http://www.preventionweb.net/files/1090_foodproduction.pdf

2005. [5] http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/360/14...
I remember running 10.1 and 10.2 on the 466 Mhz/320 MB RAM clamshell. Not very fast, but enough for ScummVM.

I didn't know that OSX does not run on the original iBook.
Convenience Factory Methods for Collections
Maybe you can't just decide to make a billion dollar business, but certain choices may decide whether that's what you're trying to do. The main thing is VC funding and hiring. If you are in a situation where you could get a big cash injection from a VC, at the cost of a reduction of control, you are considering whether to buy rocket fuel - if you do, you either hit the moon or explode while trying. And even before such a situation, the metrics that you choose to focus on will also reflect which strategy you are employing, e.g. are you focusing on total number of active users (think Twitter), or number of paying users (think Slack). Are you thinking growth, monetization or both? Are you spending money on advertising or do you wait to let word of mouth spread your product at whatever pace it can? And if you do spend money on advertising, do you pay more or less for acquiring a new user than that user's LTV is likely to be (hint: if you pay more, you're running a "get big fast" business).
Capturing Wildcards (Java generics article)
I have two trite one-liners about perl(5) in comparison and to other languages these days.

1. Python helps you think more like the computer does. Perl helps the computer think more like you.

2. Modern Perl is C# for hippies.
Look at Louisiana for example of harm.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/losing-ground-sout...

> In just 80 years, some 2,000 square miles of its coastal landscape have turned to open water, wiping places off maps, bringing the Gulf of Mexico to the back door of New Orleans and posing a lethal threat to an energy and shipping corridor vital to the nation’s economy.

A football field size area of land is lost every hour. That's going to have massive economic and cultural impact on the rest of the US.
Spending the summer at a startup
My god that video is over pretentious. It was so painful to watch it made me want to switch to a dumbphone.
SEO Practices That No Longer Work
A friend of mine set up IFTTT so his phone would play a "ka-tching" sound every time someone paid for a premium account for his startup. The novelty never seemed to wear off.
This is a deeply insightful post on the Dollar-Auction-style tournament nature of the startup ecosystem, with interesting parallels to Sudhir Venkatesh’s research on why drug dealers are willing to work for less than minimum wage.
I'm simply speaking from experience.
Rust will improve, of course, but as far as I'm concerned, it's not there yet (type system seems unfinished, lifetime management introduces some really crufty syntax, etc.).

More importantly, its "advanced" nature automatically relegates it to the same land as Haskell, Ocaml or even Lisp, where it's harder to hire.

Elixir/Erlang scales better, but it's a language where you will struggle the moment you need a bit of single-core performance — which you sometimes do, even in a nicely distributed app.
Drought, excess heat, loss of irrigation from snowpacks and glaciers, and topsoil loss from drought combined with occasional torrential rainfalls have the opposite effect on plant growth.

For plants that aren't protected in greenhouses, increased CO2 can make them more vulnerable to insects. This is true of soybeans, for example: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080324173612.ht...
Top Ten Web Design Tools and Generators for Free (Part 1) • Anselm’s Blog
Plenty of economists have compared the economic impact of taking action now vs. dealing with the damage later. Action now is much, much cheaper.
It is almost the perfect example of the "Danger Zone" in http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-di...
Until very recently I lived in Bodrum, Turkey. One of the things it's famous for is the castle in its bay. "Castle" in Turkish is "Kale" (pronounced as cah-lay, close to rhyming with "valley"), so I used to joke that I worked in "Silicon Kale".
> If you sell 80 percent of your shares before an exit, your company needs to be worth 500 percent more for you and your employees to make the same amount.

It needs to be worth 400% more for a same founder/employee value share.
AMA: Authors of “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science”
Actually, they have children to support themselves.

Without mechanization, it becomes increasingly harder to support yourself without relatives to take care of you after you retire.
Tiny VPS Hosting
i3: hell to the yeah.
Anyone remember Torin's Passage?
5 Tools to Grow Your Business in 2015
Watching Simon Brown now & will look at his book too, thanks.

To take the current project, I have a CMS, Salesforce and ExactTarget. I'm writing the glue to automate taking new content from the CMS, finding SF users with the right permissions to see it, and emailing it to them via ExactTarget.

All good & working until... do I model it as 3 objects? Which object is responsible for creating the DataTable at ExactTarget (populated with SF data)? How is data going to be passed around cleanly between my representations of all 3 services? Or should I represent the system more abstractly as EmailToSend, EmailContent and use all three services within these classes?
How Does BB-8 from Star Wars Work?[video]
Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python.... https://github.com/nicolargo/glances
Agreed on all points. C# does indeed look like it hits the sweet spot, at least in terms of feature set, but I wish it were wholly independent of .NET. Also, certain ugly Windowsisms have snuck into the language, such as CapitalizedMethodNames (but snakeCaseVariableNames, for some reason).

A whittled-down, cleaned up Scala without the JVM might also have hit that sweet spot.

I'm hoping Swift will be a contender once it's open-sourced and becomes multiplatform.
Superb Customer Support In My Experience- felt obliged to let everyone know.
this works impressively well
>Thus, in rough numbers, the chance that a funded company goes on to become a billion-dollar business is 0.005 percent to 0.016 percent. Rounding to any significant digits, that’s basically zero.

I'm really getting tired of these calculations of "the chance" of a startup doing X. You are not a lottery ticket. It's not random. The 20 year-old version of Mark Zuckerberg beats the 20 year-old version of me every time. Business isn't exactly chess, but it's a lot closer to hold'em than it is to a lottery.
One that would really help with DDoS attacks is if they didn't do everything on github.com. Layer 3 DDoS mitigation will always be cheaper and more effective than Layer 7. If it's not obvious what I mean, here's an example:

Current:
http://github.com/jsjohnst/project

One (of many) better approaches: http://jsjohnst.github.com/project
"Under a killing moon" is the name of another Tex Murphy game.
IMO, not with anything approaching the install base/jobs/tooling/etc. of C#, and you get the ability to practically use F# when appropriate.

Also, how many big "enterprise" shops are doing interop between a C-Style language and an ML-style language? Probably not many, and almost certainly more are doing it with C#/F# than anything else.
We could also do with more liberated freqencies so we don't have to do everything in the same damn range! I believe that most commercial space should be opened up, you could still have licensed ones, but open to anyone who gets a $50 license or similar instead of the stupid system that exists now.

Sorry about the mini-rant, i just get so angry every time i see a big range assigned to some company X or Y just because they can spend millions on dinning the people that makes the choices.
Oh, sorry for that mistake.
We will take care of it for the next submissions.
But the app behind the blogpost is already available in the app store. :)
Rounding error? I thought he was already polling within a single digit of Clinton, and his rallies draw the biggest crowds of any candidate. I think his chances are better than those of the vast majority of Republican candidates.
This is the same company who came to the conclusion it was cheaper to send people to costco to buy hard drives and manually remove them from enclosures than just negotiate with a vendor[1].

They reckoned they bought 5.5 petabytes of data at retail prices. I've always taken what they say with a grain of salt.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
Like I said, there are false positives, but when I hear "quantum mechanics" in a non quantum mechanical context, I remove the safety from my gun...
But you can fall into the same trap trying to build a 50 mln business? This is merely a difference between going on a natural growth vs speeding up with investor money, it's irrelevant to the company size unless you're tiny?

The article doesn't hint how to decide when not to fuse capital in, other than discriminating by the projected growth.
Isn't it exactly the opposite? The smaller the area, the less photons land on it in the given time, so the sensors with the bigger pixels can capture more light, and the less nm features measure the more of noise and less of signal.

That's why if you want good pictures in low light you need a camera with as big sensor as you can get.

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/5496399487/canon-multi-purp...

"At the core of the ME20F-SH is a 2.26 megapixel CMOS sensor, originally announced in 2013, which has pixels measuring 19μm - 5.5X larger than what's found on high-end DSLRs. This allows for 1080/60p/30p/24p (and PAL equivalent) video capture in light levels as low as 0.0005 lux at a maximum gain setting of 75 Db, which is equivalent to over ISO 4,000,000."

Note: the pixel is larger and therefore the sensor more sensitive. Canon made the full frame sensor with only 2 megapixels and obtained the higher sensitivity.

Comparing with the cameras in phones, the area of the whole sensor in iPhone 6 is 50 times smaller than the area of the full frame sensor.
Sony owns image sensors atm. They are probably 3-4 years ahead of the competition. They already have consumer 960fs pocket camera out in the market - http://www.sony.net/Products/di/en-us/products/f5kd/
Relax. Anyone who writes software will code themselves into a mess sometimes. Learn to love refactoring.
And what happens if somewhere down below the temperature suddenly rises and all those plastic beacons with some soldered electronics inside simply melt or break?
How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours
but, the 3 comma club...
That decimal literals represent binary floating point numbers is defined by the language, not the hardware.

I consider it a basic point of language design literacy that exact decimal literals without some other indicators should not represent an inexact type that isn't designed to represent decimal data.

Infuriatingly, very few languages get that right. But perl 6 isn't unique in doing so; Scheme had been doing it right for decades.
Like many other people, I have wasted a lot of time trying to reimplement models in the literature. Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it fails, but the time it takes is always significant.

I'm thinking of 3 examples off the top of my head...

1. An ODE model with ~10 equations. No code. I reimplemented it and exactly reproduced the plots from the paper. I assume this would be good for ReScience. I'll try to clean it up and submit it this weekend.

2. Another ODE model with ~10 equations. No code. I reimplemented it as best I could, but it doesn't quite reproduce the figures in the paper. Typo in my code? Typo in the paper? No way to know. Is there any place for something like that?

3. A stochastic model with ~4 equations. No code. I reimplemented it as best I could, but because it's stochastic, it's hard to say if it's exactly what the authors originally made. Now here's the interesting part... if I run the model 10 times, naturally I get 10 different outputs. Maybe 1 or 2 will be nice and pretty like the plots in the paper. The other ones look kind of shitty. Is that evidence that the authors ran their model a bunch of times and picked only the nicest looking results for the paper? Or is it evidence that my implementation isn't quite right? I don't know. Is there anything I can do with that code?
You are taking it out of context, this was during the global hard drive crisis.

It was cheaper because costco didn't adjust their prices to account for the crisis.
Wow, is the snarkiness really necessary? At least by proposing a possible solution here, we increase the chances that a bona fide geologist will come by and tell us why it wouldn't work.
The underlying message here is that you may be overlooking a very good lifestyle business opportunity (which is totally under your control) while looking at a startup framework that is at best casual and at worst not depending on you at all.
The doors need to open like THIS