skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just (try to) follow one now - Talking Machines. They have great content on ML, esp contemporary work. Each episode leads to enough followup on the material that I don't have much time to follow another podcast :)
I tend to agree with you. Of course I started using the internet in the late 80s. At that time, the absolute best things on the internet were Usenet FAQs. These days it is really hard to find things of that quality because you are overrun with people trying to make a buck.

I think a good example is recipes. At one point, I instructed google to ignore food.com, about.com, food-network.com and a few more. But now there are hundreds (perhaps thousands) of sites that are simply indiscriminate collectors of (mostly) crap recipes. If I search for a recipe for ramen, I'm looking for the obsessed guy who eats ramen 3 meals a day, tweaks everything until it is just perfect, and knows all the differences between ramen in every area, and knows how to make his own noodles, etc, etc. I'm not looking for, "Buy some instant noodles and use canned consume instead of the crap soup in the package" (Review: "5 stars!!! My husband and I make this all the time." The rest of the page is full of ads.)

And these days you get kind of "boutique" websites where someone has decided to have a go and make it their livelihood. And as much as some of these are really good, the vast majority are just writing 2000 words of how they went to Japan and tried ramen and how they couldn't get a hotel room in Kyoto because it was golden week and they didn't know that it got so busy... followed by, "Recipe: Buy some instant noodles and use canned consume instead of the crap soup in the package" (Comments: "5 stars!!! My wife and I make this all the time." The right 30% of the page is filled with ads).

The thing is that in order to be really amazingly informed about something, you really need to obsess about it. So the really amazing websites seem to be run by people who are thinking "I need some place to put down my ideas", not "What can I write that will make me money". Sometimes the former also manage to make money on their writing, but by and large I think the best sites are the ones that are not motivated by profit.

I have thought for a long time that we need a different kind of search engine (which I will tentatively call "Otaku"). Instead of of ranking pages based on popularity, they would be ranked on how nerdy they were. I'd love to get my old internet back ;-)
Men are victims of domestic violence in roughly equal numbers to women, according to national health surveys in the US and UK.

(Sidenote: Crime data tells a different story, because men report less often and because official policy in many places is to always charge the man with assault even if he reports being assaulted.)
I'd be interested to hear the benefits over the successful Kickstarter[1] LazerBlade[2], which looks much simpler but is less than half the price at retail.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537608281/lazerblade-t...

[2] https://darklylabs.com/emblaser-overview/
Luckily, he knew to use natural leather. Synthetic "leather" is known to produce extremely poisonous cholrine gasses when being cut...
> also they can't be used for C code at all. Only type-safe code with stack maps can run on the goroutine stacks, because the precise garbage collector has to scan the stack and has to understand where on the stack there are pointers and where there aren't. C code breaks this requirement.

Is this still true of C code that doesn't call back into Go code, like libc itself? The Go garbage collector will never get triggered, and any Go code should treat anything below %esp after the call completes as uninitialized data.

(Also, on Windows, don't actual system calls reuse the same stack, too?)

It seems like if you wanted to design Go for dynamically linking to libc instead of making raw system calls, it wouldn't be difficult.
Looks like Purify (the previous number two blocker) picked a pretty good time to announce it was having a sale [1], and also say they'll never do this [2].

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/purify-blocker-best-simplest...
[2]: https://twitter.com/purify_app/status/647188444720951296
On iPhone, this is what "reading list" is for.
Ifdex: a tool for code archeologists
Well, I'm just one person, but: I pay for my email on Fastmail, I buy all the games (largely indie) I play through HumbleBundles or Steam, I donate to streamers on Twitch, I buy print copies & merch direct from comic artists I found online, and I buy music from bandcamp. I'm planning on supporting a number of artists on Patreon as well. I go meet those creators at cons and form a personal connection. Those are the content creators I want to keep alive.

I run an adblocker and I do put my money where my mouth is.

If there was any news or essay site that put out consistently high-quality content, I'd pay for that too. But as it is I'm happy for mass media and sites with vacuous pseudo-intellectual articles like Quartz, Medium and Nautilus to die out.
>It would eliminate customers' reservations in cases like this

No it wouldn't. I still don't want to depend on a remote service to use an alliance this expensive. Internet connections can be unreliable.
How did you come up with a $1MM valuation? Do you have users? If so, how many? What is your path to profitability? That's a 5% stake which might be ok. It really depends on a number of factors. My guess is that in the iOS app market for a chat app in 2015. I think that might be high. But you might also surprise me.
I'm surprised that name made it through App Review. No issues?
The Myth of “In-Memory”
We are in that age.
We want WeRead to be the TED for reading. We want to be known as the single destination for high quality articles. Our goal is to maintain the same high standards as Hacker News, just more friendly to non-techies.

Please download the app, post some articles, leave some comments, up-vote content you like, and give us your feedback. We want to welcome you on becoming an active member of the WeRead community! :)
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This is breathtaking!
why not? is a tethered experience that requires a $1k+ desktop the right product?
Mine is 35 seconds fast! iPhone 6 on verizon
Well we have been unofficially launched for two months and just passed 1,000 MAU'S. We have a couple of high profile users (NBA ALL STAR) and we are going to launched again on Product Hunt next week by a well known influencer . . . . The market is growing and we are solving a problem that many others have abandoned. It's just about growing this thing. We need 50k for the next year to focus on growth and increasing the valuation.
iPhone 6S Teardown
You wont be able to read it without using a magnifying glass or maybe even hold it up with your hands because of its weight if its a big heavy book.
http://kindle-demographics.blogspot.sg/
I honestly expected the battery to be bigger. What are the other components, and how can we minimize/obviate those so batteries can use more space?
Taking more than one ineffective predictor doesn't magically make them better.

The article states there is no demonstrated link. That doesn't mean that it's not strong enough to detect on it's own, that means there is no link demonstrated.

Adding up a bunch of nothing doesn't make something. It just makes it easier to hand wave away the fact it doesn't actually mean anything.
Air assist is a classic thing on many decent laser cutters, especially for the reasons mentioned. On our lasersaur for example, a builtin air nozzle blow compressed air at the place where the laser beam hits the material being cut...
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The question was about walking in the street and a comparison of danger (and I think "seriously hurt" is a good metric for danger).

It is entirely true. Only if you combine spousal abuse statistics, which are circumstances with different causes and different solutions, can you manufacture some useless but close to 50/50 statistic. It is a useless statistic because it serves only as a manufactured factoid for some stupid internet gender related argument. It can't serve as part of a basis of facts for anyone looking to reduce the levels of violence for anyone. It can't serve as information when trying to judge personal risk.

I know you acknowledged this point by putting "win" in quotes, I'm just distancing myself from that entire attitude.
Where are you living to be able to live off of that with a team for a year?
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The Ashish Walia Show . . . . Great podcast for people interested in building startups!
China nears a billion mobile web users
Google needs to release a content blocker for Apple Music's ads once it launches on Android.
Giant Bombcast and Giant Beastcast

8-4 Play

Retronauts

Back in my Play

Pop Culture Happy Hour

I have many others, but these are the ones I look forward to week after week.

I listen to podcasts to take a break and relax, so I typically don't listen to tech related or focused podcasts.
Thanks HN: Glowforge will open-source its firmware
Monitor Your Passenger Apps with Union Station
Perhaps, but weaponized lasers are an affordable deterrent to just that. The navy was the first to field them. They were worried that Iran would simply swarm their big battleships in a carrier strike group with dozens upon dozens of small speedboats + suicide bombers, or remotely piloted. Some lasers that are taught to focus on burning out the engine make short work of that.

Things like this are what I'm referring to:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/boeing-drone-laser-we...

The anti-small swarm lasers are already in active duty on a few newer Naval warships. In the 10 years time you mention for a possible ww3, not only will airborne lasers be viable, they'll be commonplace. So again, no I don't think that's really going to be a big issue.

Also, if your idea did happen, it would be awful hard to defend a floating UAV 3d printing factory in the ocean. The US is slowly losing air superiority over the rest of the world, but there isn't a navy that would come close to even matching the might of the blue water US navy in 10 years, not by a long shot. Even China struggles with that.
>Websites also can't spam you with push notifications the way installed apps can, so I strongly prefer them as a user. But I suspect this is one reason companies like apps

poorly maintained or non-efficient backend that didn't take note of whether the user receive a push or not leads to this problem. It's not the app problem itself totall
IRL
Very true. The key word is "compelling". Once you try a few VR devices, even low end ones like a decent phone and a Google cardboard, you can definitely sense the possible seed of something game changing here. Maybe VR will work out, maybe it won't - but that alone I think makes it worth exploring.
This age won't come anytime soon in a world where hundreds of billions $ of capital are thrown into social-media-mobile-app economy.
Seems bizarre to me that MOOCs wouldn't be varying questions for each instance.
So in a followup, Glowforge offered to release the firmware of this 3d printer as GPL. That is a ballsy and incredibly great move. It also helps negate the issues of their cloud service going away, I have an expensive paperweight issue.

See: http://glowforge.com/gpl-licensed-open-source-firmware-for-g...
Yes please, specially for those with so few light squares remaining :(
Who's really in charge? A graphic novel about the Fed and Interest Rates
I can imagine. I think you can do both by focusing on one for awhile and then moving back to the other role. In the short term it is a set back but long term you can develop both skills. Meanwhile you can share management responsibilities with others and find out who makes the team gel the most and who are the great coders. Eventually if you can retain all this trained talent I believe you'll have a really strong team. Of course this happens naturally as people are promoted and moved around but I think if we could admit to ourselves that a manager once does not need to be a manager always, we'd all be so much better off.
Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
I still disagree that Google won't water it down, or raise the price of Contributor. But I'm obviously talking my own book and they theirs, so YMMV.
We use JIRA at work, and there are good and bad aspects.

My biggest peeve is that management always want to configure it to do time-tracking. This makes engineers hate the tool and lie to it, making it useless for bug tracking.
CBS News Covers Climate Engineering
Though NeoKylin is not a free OS, I guess Dell may get paid for preinstalling NeoKylin from China Standard Software. According to this source (in Chinese) [1], China Standard Software got 0.5 billions RMB funding ($800M) from the gov. The gov measures its performance by some methods including the shipping number of NeoKylin. It's natural for Dell and China Standard Software to have such a contract. One preinstalls NeoKylin for money. The other has the number to get funding from the gov. Though nobody uses it, two companies get money.

[1] http://baike.baidu.com/view/4920982.htm
> As the authenticator would essentially need to maintain a list of verified providers, you would have to do a lot of work to figure out which providers are legit and which are fraudulent.

If payment is proportional to usage, then a linkbait/clickbait scheme won't work. The point is to reward genuine repeat visits to a site you like.

If the profit is too low, fraudsters simply go elsewhere.
"People" are right, if you're talking about angel investors who are professional and subscribe to, say, Valley-or-equivalent norms.

Why?

1) Your investors will model $50k as being gone in an eyeblink. In the Valley, that's ~3 engineer-months. Angels will want your round to last about 12~18 months.

2) All entrepreneurs raising their first round are inexperienced in some way, but for better or worse, the combination of not knowing angel investors want rounds to be bigger and not knowing $50k will be gone in an eyeblink shouts Particularly Inexperienced Entrepreneur Here, which counsels against angels believing that your company will be the one out of 10 which > 10Xes their money. Angels absolutely, positively must invest in that company, and it's hard, so they reserve all their shots for companies they think might be that one.

3) You're horrifically mispricing your company relative to market conditions right now [+], which you would think would suggest a savvy investor would think "Hmm deal of the century", but which actually mostly signals "Stay way the heck away" because of the power law of startup returns ("If you make a practice out of getting great deals on good startups, you will lose money; you need to make get good deals on great startups.")

There are more fish in the sea that investors, by the way. If you really and truly need only $50k to make this business a success, one might suggest friends-and-family and/or bootstrapping and/or -- and one hesitates to suggest this but one may have used it before -- credit cards.

[+] If your company is investable, it is worth > $2 million right now. I'm taking the liberty of assuming you aren't valuing the company at that because no one does a round for < 5%.

Your company may or may not actually be investable. If you're curious, you can read on Venture Hacks. Fair warning: what the Valley institutionally considers as investable is, if one takes it as a judgement of one's worth, pretty brutal for most people building tech companies. (It's not -- I've had basically no investable company in my career until maybe the current one -- but many people wrap their self-worth up in what investors would say about their businesses for some reason or another.)
Why Is the F-35 Like an Albanian Mushroom?
People don't quite get it until they've tried it. The most surprising thing is the way that the 3D stereoscopy of the environment combined with the head tracking in VR conveys scale. The movie theater actually looks AS BIG AS A MOVIE THEATER SCREEN. It's not "strap this thing on your face and get kind of an illusion of a 3D movie floating in front of you", it's "Strap this thing on your face and see a massive screen in front of you that couldn't physically fit in the room you're currently sitting in". Not to mention that you'll ideally get virtual theater surround through headphones that is fixed in space, such that turning your head keeps the sounds coming from their respective speaker positions relative to your head rather than staying the same.

As for 3D stereoscopy in movies; that's an inherently limited format (it's limited because of the fixed viewer viewpoint and the edges of the screen). 3D stereo and VR are not comparable by any means. About the only thing that they have in common is that you use two eyes to view them. Here though, the VR cinema adds an advantage - 3D stereoscopic content can be shown perfectly without any cross-talk between images, which helps with the integrity of the effect. Note effect. IMHO 3D on a fixed movie screen is strictly a special effect. When used in such a way, it's great. When overused or used improperly, it sucks.

TL;DR: '3D movies' and VR shouldn't be uttered in the same sentence.
So I've seen danshapiro reply to a lot of comments here, but not a single one asking about whether the cloud access is necessary for this to operate. Does anyone know the answer?
AddThis+for+Chrome+Installed
That's mighty nice of you!
Honest question: is it really that difficult to make your site not broken by ad blockers?

(Your response worries me in that it is an exceptionally convenient argument for sloppy developers not to fix their sites)
Problem is it has been reported as a bug before but was dismissed as a feature.
oh, I didn't know the 28s had more than 4 registers; that's nice. I have no idea why they didn't do this in the 35s.
And what's the disposition of SocialText? A key detail the author of this story would be wise to include.
Building a Hacker News Client with Facebook's Relay
The word I want to use to describe a developer that sells their program, and then does something like this to their customers.. yeah I'm not going to allow myself to use that word here.
Do you know why you want to apply to YC, because they're successful. You know why they're successful, because they pick "People" not what you look like, how old you are or where you come from. They pick you because you're a leader, talented, innovative, scrappy and passionate. So don't let your age hinder you from your dreams.

"If you're scared, go to church" - Ice Cube
I think the sad thing is I never even knew Quirky existed. I'm not hard core into the invention/maker scene but I've been on this site for almost 6 years as a participant and never heard of it. I think the article raised some excellent points though. I think that the ideas that stuck should have been spun off as their own company to iterate and improve things.
Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes
With just 7 rules you must be letting some ads through that are blocked by AdBlock?
Just don't look at Yahoo sites then. :)
It'd be interesting to know if the author is a John Fahey fan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transfiguration_of_Blind_J...
Late May is the beginning of intern/coop season and Groovy and Maven are popular technologies used by software engineering interns.

Could explain some of the spike.
My air assist is small enough that I could see a similar machine engineered to fit into the bottom part of this product. As for exhaust, you can get surprisingly good air flow with certain low CFM setups - my local makerspace uses a computer fan that does something with pressure that I don't understand. I don't think the goal of the exhaust is to quell a fire but to move smoke away from the beam and outside.
How Graphics Worked on the Commodore 64 and Nintendo Entertainment System
Also free and fast with a scrutinizable list of rules is AdMop - http://admop.iphonso.com - the developer talks about it here: https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3ljsx9/admop_free_vs_oth...
I think the problem here is that capitalism when played out in a longer term, trends towards crony capitalism, fascism, plutocracy, and/or nepotism.
DBIx::Class is amazing. I wouldn't think I'd work with a SQL db without it.
I'm not sure why you believe that. There's an incredible amount of work that remains and innovation happens over decades. There's certainly a lot of room for improvement.
Sergey and Larry had 30 BILLION dollars in stock on the day of IPO. Google made a lot of multi-millionaires, but the wild discrepancy between founder and non-founder equity was present there as well.
Same situation here. Quirky is "right up my alley" and somehow I never heard of it until it was shutting down.

Don't know if this is a regional issue (I'm in San Diego) or what.
30 charts and maps that explain China today
I've been experimenting with python scripts in my build process to create structs of static strings for Apple APIs that require strings (ex: Storyboard filenames/identifiers, Core Data entity/properties, Image filenames) for compile time safety.

I haven't done selectors yet partially because I use relatively few of them and partially because parsing code is slightly harder than file system walks and xml parsing.
Not defend something needlessly cloud based, but this:

>but I think the main pro is (like a Tesla) the machine's performance and usability can be improved without you installing any new software.

is likely referring to them updating their cloud infrastructure, not the machine. By centralizing the processing and whatever else, they can ignore some local machine updating.

Its not worth the massive drawbacks, but its likely the truth wrapped in that marketing speak.
Toyota seem to be moving to higher efficiency versions of the four stroke cycle, which haven't previously been popular in petrol engines due to a lack of low-RPM torque, and covering this with the electric element.
I'm in Houston so we are different regions. Sounds like it may have been a SV thing.
I'll try to tread on this gently. The theme of my comment is "I don't invest in hopes and dreams, I invest to make money."

I know you are saying you are working to solve a problem that no one is looking at but when you say "chat" and "ios" I can only think of saturated markets. You have all sorts of chat solutions for all sorts of needs. What makes you different? What will get you millions of users? Saying you have influencers and NBA Stars brings to mind, well, twitter. And honestly that doesn't help. You have an up Hill battle to convince me as an investor. If you can, I'll invest.

Second, your valuation is way off. Within the last 18 months we have a really successful sale of a venture backed chat application, whatsapp. They got $42.20 per user valuation. That would place you at a $42,200 total valuation. Of course, that's just a fake valuation, you aren't there. The only reason whatsapp got that much was because of the volume of non-US users they had. You have no volume. You are trying to sell me that you are work $1,000 per user. That's an up Hill battle as well. Unless you have a massive market differentiator, it's a tough sell.

I'm not saying it will be impossible. But you need to show me how I am going to turn my $50,000 into a lot more. If you can pay me back within a year, I'll take $75,000 total. If you need it for 10 years, I better see a 1000% return. Remember, many other people have startups which will give me that type of return. You have to show me why you're better than them.
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They were one of the big NYC startups so I heard about them pretty frequently in the community here. Their product distribution was fairly widespread, you would see their products in big box stores like Bed Bath & Beyond, but not sure if it would stick out if you didn't already know them.