skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My co-founder and I, have been spending 4/5 days a week on our startup, and 1(-2 days max) a week on paid-for programming work.

It is really hard to find that sort of part-time paying work, especially on a long term retainer. (If anyone thinks it is easy to find such - please share!)

We've done it this way, because this allows us to self-fund, and carry on much longer with our idea which we always new is one that would take a longer time than most other startups to gain a breakthrough.

We are building stuff that would allow non-technical business users to draw their own systems into existance without programming.

This is a hard problem, not something to attack with the typical MVP mindset, at least not at the outset.

We also want the maximum time to pivot to different ways of marketing it, and applying it in different ways to try to get it to a solid financial outcome.

Being pressured to make money of a startup can with some technologies, lead you to make short term smart decisions that are limiting you in the longer term.

For those interested in what we are building:

https://taskputty.com

For now, we just have a CRM product, but you can alter any aspect of the system by changing process diagrams and using drag and drop editors.
Oh god, reminds me of the Wall-E hover chairs used by the humans who have basically ceased moving...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wall-e+hover+chairs&tbm=is...
Depends what I'm doing. For editing it's usually just fine. Color and fx work require higher bandwidth. For example, at 2k a single frame is 12 MBytes (times 24 or 25 per second, depending on the project). And we are at the dawn of an era where we are talking about 4k dci or QHD mastering for all. That wpuld be 48 MBytes per frame. So,we're looking at 300 and 1200 MBytes per second for a single workstation. Gigabit is not up to it.
Backblaze launches B2 object storage service at ¼ of the cost of Amazon S3
From the guidelines:

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

I'll quote three cherrypicked paragraph of the article:

> Spent $6,302 USD in total for content production and distribution which is all part of our pre-launch guerilla marketing plan

[...]

> OK, so let’s get to it. Here are the 4 simple steps that made up this guerilla marketing campaign. We used Slideshare, promoted tweets and Mailchimp, spent $350 and did it over a 6 week period.

[...]

> On Twitter, your Slideshare will appear inline as part of the tweet automatically, which counts as a view on Slideshare — even without anyone interacting with it (clicking, expanding, etc, which is counted as an engagement on Twitter, which you pay for)
Airbnb could disrupt the broker business model
On the contrary, that should be expected.

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

...now, we should figure out why the older stuff lasts longer. But it's inevitable that the older stuff is more durable. If it weren't, it wouldn't exist.
The movie seems to target disabled people, not fat/unhealthy people.
Electric wheelchair...
Yawn
interesting,i thought it was British (but English is my second language)
Patrol SDK
Ask HN: Did you ever come across NSFW images on LinkedIn?
Hi, did you ever come across NSFW stuff on LinkedIn b4? First time for me today :)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRrQR56UwAAgWd8.png:large

I thought skin detection image processing was common place among the big web apps.
Introducing Bootstrap Studio - A powerful web design tool
New Standards Could Make Government Sites Less Worthless
Is it possible to access the data of how the 302 cells are connected somewhere? Would be awesome to emulate in software.
At least for disabled people this is way more useful than a bicycle. The video seems convincing to me.
I thought this but the article title is "Ogo, a new take on personal transportation". I think I'm fine, unless the article title is wrong... It's been known to happen :-)
A bicycle wouldn't be particularly useful for the people in that video.
That is probably to make clear that this is not a Wall-E device or a bicycle replacement. Even with that clear language, multiple people here did not get that.
Spiral of silence
Brit here: I thought it was Australian.
Elite attackers can compromise almost any target, but even they won't bother finding one-off vulnerabilities when the goal is botnet host acquisition. For that only widely deployed vulnerabilities are worth exploiting.

In practice that means you can get away with something as crazy as opening up a password-free root shell on some random high port, but you can't get away with weak SSH logins or unpatched Wordpress sites.
No means no ?
Jacqueline Reses, Chief Development Officer at Yahoo, Joining Square
There's a blog post discussing the paper available at http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/10/15/ironfleet-proving-practic...
Right, and did you know that most climatologists are overwhelmingly climate-change believers?! That's just so unfair. Where are all the climate-change-denier climatologists, creationist biologists and libertarian sociologists, I wonder?
That will ensure that, say, 1e20 + 1 + 1 + ... + 1 (with 1e20 ones) is correctly computed as 2e20 (edit: this isn't actually true: it just gets a bit closer to 2e20, something like 1e20+1e16), but it can still result in catastrophic cancellation, e.g. [1, 1e20, -1e20] should sum to 1, but will give 0, despite already being sorted.

Something like the msum of [1] is needed to get a (provably[2]) exact summation.

[1]: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/393090-binary-floating-p...
[2]: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/quake/public/papers/r...
The struggles of publishing a JavaScript library
NASA's Scott Kelly breaks US record for most days in space
This looks like a huge improvement over a wheelchair (have you ever tried the joystick control on an electric wheelchair?). Way better mobility.

And it looks cool. Completely the opposite feeling of watching someone on a Segway, which could make even the coolest person look like a mall cop.
There's something sad about that so many cases of technological innovation in physical space seem to remind people of Wall-E.
Mopeds have some advantages over bicycles, as do motor scooters. Both were created after bicycles, and are considered personal transport. And plenty of people want personal transport who are unable to ride a bike.
I think the idea is that you can have problems with walking that could be fixed by walking (I am currently in a situation like that after a knee surgery). I cases like that, this would not be a (objectively) helpful device.

But I do not consider myself qualified on this topic, as I have no idea how far the obesity problem has gone in the US.
Scores you some point of self-esteem, if you're the kind of a person who bases their worth on comparing themselves with "those others".
this looks like a continuation of the work cappuccino was/is doing.

sometimes you just want an app to look decent by default not unique.
Always have an exit
Also, I think becoming that obese should be treated exactly the same as any other medical condition that needs a wheelchair?

Obviously having underlying psychological problems that need treating if you get yourself into that severe obesity, something that can be fixed completely if given the right treatment.
Sorry you are 100% correct. My defense it was late at night :(
If you have problems with X that could be easily solved by Y, you don't buy device Z instead that makes problem X worse. People aren't that dumb. If they buy Z, they have some other reasons.

EDIT nevermind, I'm being stupid here. Too much coffee probably. Commenters below are right.
Availability cascade
Automated Waste Collection, Smart Bins, Thought-Out Homes (Photos)
So much content. Yeah, I've read a bit about the idea that good leadership inherently being owed obedience in the form of evolved social contracts (Pinker's books and "Sex At Dawn", can't remember the author's name..).

but fucking lol:

> This makes it a scaling problem and HN loves scaling problems.

Yep.
What it's like to cruise hands-free in Tesla's Model S with Autopilot
Unfortunately code will always have bugs, especially when you are adding or changing it. However the numbers speak for themselves, LibreSSL has been removing large amounts of code http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00004.html and has so far had fewer CVEs http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00005.html.
How can you say they copied this from Gothamist, especially considering Gothamist hardly ever creates their own content? Business Insider summarized the exact same video Gothamist did in your link, but they added more pictures, relevant quotes and helpful diagrams. Gothamist barely did any work on this article, they just posted a quick summary of the video. Oh, but they added this insightful gem: "This shit is OLD, like grizzled dude who won't stop stabbing at the back of your plane seat because he can't figure out the TV touchscreen old." Oh and if you want information, you can click on one of the equally vague gothamist links.

It's like, people complain about how shitty reporting is these days, but when a publication puts some time and effort into its stories, people complain about how they ripped off a rag that covered the story earlier even though they did a shitty job at it.
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As far as http+integrity goes: Integrity checks are also based on a shared secret, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authenticat.... So for http+integrity, without the secrecy aspect of TLS, ie the hmac key being public, it would be trivial to generate your own valid integrity hash.
Show HN: Slack/Twitter-Like URL Previews. Golang
Interview with CTO of Buffer, Sunil Sadasivan
C lacks exception handling. goto is used to implement it.

Every conditional is a goto (jump) at the machine level.
if you watch the video it seems so.

I'm also thinking the general public wouldn't be interested in something that makes them look disabled.

this is pretty awesome for someone who is disabled/old/obese and the idea that you use the core muscles would be great for obese users who can't walk or ride a bike.
Software engineers often have a need to have their package work on multiple distributions - or even OSes, which they may know little about. They maintain the program, and try really hard not to care what it runs on. They need the SSL bug fixed on both redhat, debian and mac os X. Hence the "static linking" solutions where all the packages are controlled from the program, like virtualenv/pip.

System engineers are charged with keeping various programs running on (usually) a fixed distribution/OS. They need to have a way to update SSL when there is a security issue, for all applications. They need to be able to update various libraries and have programs transparently use new or otherwise fixed versions of libraries. They also very much need the ability to uninstall packages.

OS level packages are a solution written to serve the need of sysadmins. But software engineers don't care, because maintaining the correct package list and versions for 4-5 distributions is horrible. So they don't.

What I don't get is why docker isn't the ideal solution for both groups. Assuming, of course, sysadmins have both ability and the inclination to insist on the sources.
A cover letter guide for startup jobs
While there are no first-class reader macros in Clojure, reader literals cover many common use cases. For the small set of use cases where you REALLY need reader macros, it's possible to hack them into the language. One such implementation: https://github.com/klutometis/reader-macros

As far as interactive debugging - that's also something I missed from CL, but is relatively easy to hack into the language. A combination of REPL support for the standard JVM debugger (https://github.com/ohpauleez/cdt), with a nice expression-based REPL debugger (https://github.com/ohpauleez/cdt/blob/master/src/cdt/debug_r...) gets you pretty far. You can even trigger this environment on any exception using the built-in JVM support (https://gist.github.com/ohpauleez/4ca0b646b89512f38ea2#file-...)

To see how far you can take reader literals, hack a look at my talk from last year's Conj, "Unlocking Data-driven Systems" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkYYYyfF48
"Second, there is a potentially perverse incentive in how Syndicates are currently structured with deal-by-deal carry (versus the pooled risk in a fund) that could lead to more syndicates being formed because there’s no natural governor to modulate it."

Can someone explain this?
There is nothing hard about this. You either have a "problem" that can take advantage of multiple cores or sequential reading from memory or you don't. The only way to avoid this is to change the "problem"
Yes, that's a New Zealand accent.
Do you mean the WARN act? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
Spirometer Market worth 858.6M USD by 2020
Comparing a web service written in Python and Go [pdf]
Little marketing point: Shouldn't he put the subscription box on the main page instead of redirecting to another page?

Excellent speech, excellent copy, short presentation. Is it legal not to write one's address and privacy policy?

On the other hand, being European, I... applause him for not displaying the (mandatory) cookie header.
Stanford Researchers Treat Autism with Google Glass
I'd be interested in seeing a better comparison - it seems odd to compare a metro commuter rail vs. one stop through one of the most congested, densely populated infrastructures in the world. Presumably there are economies of scale at building a long metro commuter train that extends aboveground outside of the city.

It's hard to compare construction and maintenance costs between two different cities where one has 30% more track and 10x the square mileage AND is 24hours in operation.
I myself just avoided walking for a few months, and I've seen quite a few people use aids that they should not use out of laziness. So I disagree with your statement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_English_Bible

It is based on the ASV but is being translated to avoid copyright.
In the meantime, China FTW.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#Future_expans...
Table of FPT races: the best known FPT algorithms
As other people here pointed out / got confused by, the lack of textual information is probably a bigger issue.
>> "JS is an ugly language"

What I meant:

> "JS is an ugly language, with way too many pitfalls."

IMHO it's ugly from 'within', just look at the JS truth table [1] and video I linked with the quote [2]. I just feel that I have no control of what I am doing with JS.

<rant>

It's quite a paradox, that new people to programming, can get start quick with JS, though are not repelled how easily you can shoot yourself in the foot with it. But maybe they just do not catch the errors..

</rant>

[1] https://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BySC_6HyY
Online Sports Betting in the US
Law of Jante
A machine that folds your laundry is finally here
New Zealander here, its Australian.
How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?
It has come to this that able bodied men and women need a automated wheelchair to roam around! Wow. That shitty future that movies has shown is really here!
> Segway, which could make even the coolest person look like a mall cop.

That's an curious association - I assume this is because only mall cops (and tourists) tend to use it nowadays? :).
Stages of competence: 2 ways of learning
Simple proof that GUID is not unique
Australian here, suspect he's spent significant time in both countries because the way he says 'this' is not how an Australian accent sounds, but other parts of his speech sound very Australian.
Judging by all the comments here from people who evidently didn't watch the video, they could really use a bit more explanatory text on the home page.
Care to share? Or have you already shared with the keepassX developers?
When “everything is awesome at the company right now” – it really isn’t
10 Great Tools to Measure Blog Traffic
Australian here. Sounded like a Kiwi to me.
I have studied 2 years of Greek and Hebrew and some Aramaic. The more I learned of these languages the more I realized how good our own translations are. All the modern translations are good but I do have two recommendations.

New Living Translation is the best reading bible. It just is well written in sentence structure and word choices.

New Revised Standard is the best "study" translation. To me it has the best "word for word" though I must say my old Hebrew teacher HATES this version's Old Testament version's word choices. (For example NIV translate the Greek word SOMA (flesh) sinful nature, I have an issue with that. In the Old Testament there are similar things that are merely differences in opinion)

As a Linux and Open Source (Free Software) person I hate these copyrights so there are a few open license projects that I haven' dug into yet.
I worry that there might be difficulties leaning over and picking things up without the chair moving.

Imagine dropping something and instinctively leaning over to catch / retrieve it.
From zero to staging and back
Sage Solitaire Poker – next big thing after 2048 game
It's up to the seller. If they insist on a signature then the delivery won't happen without one. But that doesn't happen much in my (nice, suburban, US) neighborhood. I guess package theft is rare enough that the extra cost of requiring a signature outweighs the extra risk of not.
Do you mean the movie as in Wall-E? Because those were just lazy, fat and unhealthy people. They walk at the end of the movie.
This is probably a good place to point out that GHB is not, in fact, completely safe. It can easily kill you when combined with other depressants, particularly alcohol. It's also physically addictive, and the associated withdrawal can be fatal. It's also been used as a 'date rape' drug due to the fact that relatively small doses can cause a 'coma'.

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ghb/ghb_health.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid#Adve...
The Q&A video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThwLzeEpP5I shows a switch which disables side-to-side movement (and a joystick which can be used to turn when lean-to-turn is disabled).
A decade and a half with open source
OP Here:

I have studied 2 years of Greek and Hebrew and some Aramaic. The more I learned of these languages the more I realized how good our own translations are. All the modern translations are good but I do have two recommendations.
New Living Translation is the best reading bible. It just is well written in sentence structure and word choices.
New Revised Standard is the best "study" translation. To me it has the best "word for word" though I must say my old Hebrew teacher HATES this version's Old Testament version's word choices. (For example NIV translate the Greek word SOMA (flesh) sinful nature, I have an issue with that. In the Old Testament there are similar things that are merely differences in opinion)
As a Linux and Open Source (Free Software) person I hate these copyrights so there are a few open license projects that I haven' dug into yet.
Would be interesting to also look at Mangos, a Go reimplementation of the nanomsg protocol.

https://github.com/gdamore/mangos
If Y is a strenuous activity (walking when very overweight), if the problems caused by X (obesity) are mostly long-term, and if Z is a device that offers immediate relief for X's short-term problems, then yes people very often buy Z.

People choose immediate gratification over long-term solutions all the time.
The inventor designed it for his paraplegic friend. It's clearly shown in the video from the beginning. The entire thrust of the video is about the item empowering disabled people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgat4a1TrEM
Agencia Marketing online Barcelona
I live in Netherland, but I'm surprised how often I'm contacted by UK recruiters for Dutch jobs. Apparently they've been expanding their market. I don't have any terrible experiences with them as far as I recall, but I never remember their names and haven't gotten any jobs through them.

I have had some pretty awful experiences with Dutch recruiters, but also some pretty good ones.

I'm having very mixed feelings about the recruiter that got me my current gig: on the one hand, she was way too pushy and I'm pretty sure she lied to me, and their rate is higher than what the client allows (they're got some cumbersome way to work around that), but on the other hand, what I get is significantly higher than what I got the previous time I worked for the same client (though one of the best and most professional recruiters I've met), so she pushed them even harder than she pushed me, and that's paying off for me too. And it is a really nice gig. The one getting screwed here is not me, and the client is a major bank, so I'm not feeling terribly sorry for them (though I do wonder if I should inform them of the recruiter's overly high rate; is that honest or vindictive?).

Still, it'd be nice if we could do without them. Shouldn't the internet help us cut out all those middlemen?
3-Phased Information Processing: The IT Meta-Skill
Public hmac key is same as posting hash of iso next to the ISO on ftp severs without gpg signature of the hash. No protection at all.
Good example: End of the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
How the for Dummies series satisfies our endless curiousity
>You can spend countless hours making improvements but without a user base, you have no idea if they are needed or wanted.

This is on the right track and I would say that the improvements, iterations and additons to the product should be focused towards the revenue generating users.

It can be difficult to identify this segment, but it is worth the time to do so. Every user will have suggestions for improvement but if the person never intends to pay for the product or only requires the free features then you are wasting your time improving the product for them. This doesn't mean you should ignore the non-paying users, rather you should listen primarily to their suggestions for what the product requires for them to be a paying customer. If you find that a large number of non-paying users would convert to paid if you had X feature; determine the cost and potential revenue of adding the feature.
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Do you have some data to back up those assertions?
I remember once thinking as a pretty young kid that the statistics for making it in sports vs how many kids would surely be trying didn't add up to something favorable. I reasoned then that it would make more sense to go for something else.
The Fats You Don’t Need to Fear, and the Carbs That You Do
Cmd+C on the whole page in general would be nice, yes. Unless something is selected I guess.
I heard that Parallels got a head start by, ahem, inheriting a substantial amount of code from VMware. It's something I read online a while ago but haven't been able to google any confirmation to.

Anybody know anything they're willing to share publicly?
How a small change can affect user engagement