skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a taste thing. I found going from the batteries-included Python to the very limited strict C89 ansi-pedantic-standard rather annoying, but at the same time I got a lot of pleasure building a game from scratch in SDL instead of using a full-fledged engine that would have replaced a lot of my code with one-liners or even automagically managed bits in the background. I think a more overkill approach is better economically than being conservative, and in Lisp especially including a ton of common macros like 'or out of the box saves every other programmer from writing their own. I could go the rest of my life without seeing yet another custom <insert data structure here> in C or C++ which has a good implementation natively in almost every other language. I wish JavaScript had more builtin as I'm often in the position that things I take for granted as being there in Python, Java, or Clojure require me to roll my own in JS and that can easily take hundreds of lines of my own code or dependencies depending on what it is. (e.g. anything involving large integers.) I'm greatly thankful for regex support in my daily languages. I remember in a high school programming contest, one guy didn't know Java had regexes (or even what regexes were) while I knew them from using them in PHP to validate form inputs... Needless to say, he never got a fully working parser in the time he had for the problem.

You may find https://github.com/jonase/kibit helpful for some things. Otherwise I'd recommend just dedicating time to exploring the builtins so that you can resist the urge to wander while you should be programming -- there was a very interesting series a few years back some blogger made that covered all of Python's builtin modules, doing it yourself (or maybe there's one now for Clojure) is worthwhile. I also like to visit things like http://www.clojure-toolbox.com/ from time to time to see if there's anything new and exciting in areas of my interest.
That may be. But when he invokes the 99% he has veered into incomprehensibility. His anecdote has literally nothing to do with the daily issues faced by 99% of startups, and more to the point, seems oblivious to the fact that nearly all of them will fail and return no money or equity sale to anyone, hater-fucking notwithstanding.

I sort of understand the general message of self-confidence, but calling it the 99% renders it highly confusing.
(My deleted comment said, "We're talking about a rhetorical point about dilution, you know." For those wondering.)

I don't think that any reasonable person would take the claim that this was the best way literally. Also, nobody has any obligation to couch their comments to fit your lowest-common-denominator agenda. This is a discussion forum, not a place for slinging propaganda.
> I do think most people place a higher value on photos they took themselves - that much is obvious.

That's true, but it seems absurd to me to place a higher value on a photo than the experience itself.
This was published in the November 2015 issue, only the photograph is from 2006.

http://granta.com/issues/granta-133-done/
the ddos was achieved by altering the contents of one of the script on a large chinese site (was it baidu? google it). Once every user on that site loaded the tampered script, it made sure to send many requests to github.
Google App Engine. This is what App Engine does.
Aside from the real and perceived safety issues of nuclear propulsion, there is also the issue of operational availability. US submarines and aircraft carriers spend a lot of their careers unavailable due to planned maintenance. I wonder how much of that is due to the power plant? New naval reactors are designed to last from 1/2 to the entire life of the ship without refueling. And at the end of that life, the entire reactor compartments are cut out, defueled, and stored in open-air trenches at the Hanford Reservation.[1] Regardless of whether fission reactors are fueled with HEU, LEU, or Thorium, they leave a lot of long-term things that we been as-yet unable to muster the full technological and political means to deal with.

For the merchant ship application, it seems a reach to believe that the benefits of greenhouse gas reduction can be most efficiently achieved by replacing diesel engines with nuclear reactors.

[1]http://www.oregon.gov/energy/nucsaf/docs/naval_nuclear_react...
>The notion that if you do your best, you will succeed, is dangerous to naive entrepreneurs.

This isn't what he said in the article though. It's more about knowing your audience and the VCs in this case not knowing.
always love a good reference to Argo.
I think the parallel stuff is in 9.6, not 9.5. http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2015/11/parallel-sequential-scan-i...
If a job candidate told me their previous team had a closed-culture and was unappreciative of their talents I would think it was the candidate who was difficult and thought too highly of himself.

I would simply stick the lines of "The work they had me doing wasn't where my strengths really were. I think there was some miscommunication during the hiring process as to what the job really entailed". All of which is true in OP's case - it wasn't communicated to him how incompatible he would be with his team and he's not going to perform his best work there. This method doesn't place blame on anyone (important) and doesn't make you sound difficult or overly particular.
wow, layout looks like a total rip off of Product Hunt
I created the above image. Just to give you an idea of how important it is to make sure that the message is easy to absorb, a few years ago this made it into the WCIT leaks:

http://files.wcitleaks.org/public/WCIT12%20-%20ITRs%20and%20...

Check out the fifth to last page, which is basically identical to what I created, if presented a bit worse. Did anyone give a shit? Nope.

Is that a genuine logo of the fucking ITU, the international body probably most obliged to prevent this kind of shit globally, and was this put together by a "senior staff member of the ITU" rather than /u/quink on reddit? Yup.

Did anything of that presentation make it to the media or public discussion? Nope. Meanwhile, my PNG has been posted here on HN 6 years after I first created it.

Let me know if you need my help, but I'm not at all sure how to best broadcast that message. Keeping away the MITM (who is here employed by an "elected" government with executive powers and "judicial oversight" acting "in the interest of public security" rather than a bogeyman or a corporation) is harder than protecting the ability to consume. Maybe the answer lies in making people afraid for their money.

Anyone with access to the private key for the certificate, which includes anyone with access to the multitude of servers that relay traffic for the entire country, could technically drain everyone's bank accounts and give away your shares at their discretion, if you've ever used online banking or trading in Kazakhstan. A single bad memory or whatever bug in some software somewhere and the number that's the private key is in the open.

In all honesty, make investors and bankers afraid and any government will shut up. As for ordinary lives of people, PRISM has shown us that they don't really care about this security stuff.
Are these your keys? https://github.com/mashlol/notify/blob/master/node/notify.js
Mr. persij, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Instead of helping the whale, she morbidly observed his slow death and wrote the essay with numerous inaccuracies about strandings and stranded whales. The whale should have been saved, the data showed that a humpback could last at least 3 days fully stranded and do not incur irreversible damage.

Instead of doing pointless thigs like whispering to the whale, they should have poured water on him to help with overheating and design the rescue plan.

Absolutely horrid essay.

Links: EH humpback story with data on internal organs state after 3 days on the beach (http://strandednomore.org/eh-humpback-whale/)

Cases where people actually helped whales instead of morbidly gawking at their demise (http://strandednomore.org/8-documented-cases-of-stranded-wha...)
I am pretty sure the comment you are replying to addressed all of that.

"... I have access to much greater technology ..."
Wuh? Why not just ask the user to insert the cert?
Non-Profit to Hold Drone-Tracking System Competition
Now it's 17,000 people you have to try and get your anti-cellphone device back from. Given that they have some sort of proximity sensor and powered lock, they can't afford to lose hundreds/thousands a night to people who forget to turn them in.
I'll have to give honeysql another look. Superficially it looked like Korma, which turned me off for the exact reason mentioned in yesql's "rationale" section, so I didn't investigate honeysql any further.
Compared to three years ago, there are fewer game Kickstarters that offer physical rewards, and that's a good thing.

A lot of early campaigns wound up with a bunch of orders for physical goods (deluxe editions, t-shirts, figurines) that have a high marginal cost. Later (smarter) campaigns are offering digital art books and soundtracks instead, which have almost no marginal cost.

In short, don't get into the T-shirt / CD business TOO, in addition to your main product, if you can avoid it.
Very smart inquiry...I had been somewhat of skeptic initially that the potential danger to privacy outweighed the value of making the data as transparent as possible, but that's just a guess out of my preconceived notions of taxi use, which were already inadequate as it still blows my mind how many taxi trips there are on an average day.

I think an argument can still be made that even if the OP is right about the quantity that can be uniquely identified -- keeping the coordinate data still outweighs the real-life privacy risk, that is, the small number of people who want to hire a private investigator/specialist to analyze this data to catch a specific person would find it much faster to track the person the way that PI's normally do so. But the rebuttal can't simply be, "uniquely identifiable trips are probably so rare as to be inconsequential"
Lisp has been around a while, Java has been around a while. Clojure is the perfect combination and I predict it will be around a while.
This conversation has given me lots to think about and I was ready to let it trail off. But wanted to answer you just out of respect.

My mistake was thinking that he was proposing something about the nature of physical reality. Ie. that physical reality was literally a network of interconnected nodes at its fundamental level. Something along the lines of macroscopic -> atomic -> sub atomic -> wolfram-nodal. A la, string theory, et. al.

From the replies here, I gather this has nothing to do with physical reality.. he's not describing how this nodal network might be implemented in reality... just that it must be, because the predictions come out correctly.
Sure, but it's just a few seconds to preserve the memory of precisely where you were and what you saw. There's really no substitute for that and the cost to the experience is minimal.
Why Silicon Valley Will Never Guarantee Success
Hurricanes are when you want your system stowed.

The power available from wind goes up as the cube of the windspeed.

So you go from generating lots of power and 'doing ok' to catastrophic failure and 'bits and pieces' over one doubling. An 8 MW output turbine that suddenly has to deal with 100 MW had better be shut-down and furled well before that moment arrives. Otherwise you can bring your vacuum cleaner and a mop.

There is at this moment no blade material strong enough to deal with hurricane level winds while operating at rated speed.

It works like this:

Wind is moving air and moving air has mass. So if you move that mass twice as fast the energy that it contains is e=mv^2 the square of the energy that it contained before impacting on the blades.

But it is also more air, twice as much air will pass through the rotor blades in the same amount of time, so you get to double again. Hence the factor of 8.

Most windmills will shut down well before they reach the danger point, they simply furl their blades to ride out the storm. They will track the wind even in this state because if the wind would hit the rotor at an angle that could start up the rotor again and then all hell will break loose because the brake will not be able to withstand the rotor once it reaches a certain speed, it will simply burn up and from there to the bits and pieces stage it is less than a few minutes.

There are some youtube movies about wind turbines that fail to switch to safe mode before a storm hits, not pretty.
That’s exactly the sort of use case we are focussing on and building our automated typesetting service for.¹ You’ll probably also benefit from file inclusions so that you can keep a library of text snippets, with variables, keeping them versioned separately, and which you can then re-use and assemble to form a new, slightly different manual, with the variables automatically populated at typesetting time.

Could you be more specific on the problem you’re facing with placing images? Is it that there are like hundreds of them, for which you would want to have created the references (and ![Caption](syntax)) automatically, because typing out the file paths manually is too tedious? That is doable, although it would be more of a drag-and-drop feature to be implemented by a dedicated Markdown editor, or an ST plugin.

Or would you like to have more fine-grained control over floats, sizing and placement of the images relative to their place in the text narrative? For which a WYSIWYG interface is indeed more well suited, re: many document author’s gripe with TeX’s figure placement.

¹ http://textus.io/
It's not a new point, it was the first thing I said. Beyond the basics (correctness, accuracy, ease-of-use) what people want in a resume is a fad. What people like in music is just as much a fad.

You can't read a person's mind, but you can change it. That's what your resume is for. You don't have to read any minds, you have to get others to read yours.

>It seems like you want companies to appreciate you only if they hire someone in HR who also appreciates your style of writing resumes.

If a company hires HR people who think "simple and professional" is not good enough for a resume, then they almost certainly won't appreciate me. Simple and professional is what I'm offering. I'm not going to jump through flaming hoops and read resume acceptance statistics to get noticed. I'm going to solve actual problems.
But they aren't a lottery. Startups (and business in general) is about unfair advantages - knowing information that other people don't, and acting on that knowledge.

As a founder, your job is to find your unfair advantage and execute on it. Startups that successfully find a valuable secret and exploit it become worth billions. Startups that have no such advantage usually die.

I thought the article was getting at this, but it seems like a lot of the folks here missed it. Twitch succeeded because, as justin.tv, they were in a position to notice rising demand for gaming livestreams. And then when they did, they executed against it very effectively - look at Emmett's user interview lecture for how they systematically gathered feedback from prospective users to convert them to current users. [1]

That's what Justin's talking about when he says "Trust your metrics and your growth." They had an information advantage over VCs - there was very good reason for believing VCs were ignorant there, because in this case, they were.

[1] https://clip.mn/video/yt-qAws7eXItMk
country wide, this is a loud call for a cloud, distributed proxy provider with a better track record than the telco, to offer tor-like tunnels to at least exit the MITM zone.
Allegro: multi-platform free mobile game library
I don't agree with all the comments here.
A sovereign state decided to ensure all outgoing traffic is protected by a secure signature that is not possessed by foreign intelligence agencies or hackers (well, that's the idea).

It is a very cheap and effective way to achieve this.

Spying on the population is not prevented by GeoTrust and Cie's loosy certificates, a lot of literature and real life examples already show that. This is a tragedy of the commons, until everybody has access to REAL security, then no country has interest in having foreign powers spying them while not even being to do what everybody else does.

In France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Australia, etc, all of your data is already analyzed and deciphered, they freaking work together to make it less obvious than Kazakhstan. Don't make any mistake and don't call for overthrowing the regime there, it makes no sense.

From a citizen PoV, they became almost as watched over as we are for WWW traffic, but their lives are still not as much tracked as ours since they do not have the means of our agencies. They are still better off than us.
Lisp has been around a while. Java has been around a while. Clojure is the perfect combination and I predict it will be around a while. It's exhilarating to program in Clojure. That's the only word I can find to describe what I feel to program in that language.
In summary:

1) Kickstarter is debt financed by consumers directly (B2C) motivated by early access to product.

2) Factory financing is debt financed by production motivated by early fulfillment.

3) Purchase order financing is debt financed by consumers indirectly through retailers (typically) (B2B2C) motivated by early access to consumers.

4) Venture debt is debt financed by investors motivated by continued confidence in company.
This is computer science 201. You enumerate all possible Turing Machines (possible because they are countably infinite), then diagonalize their execution. For any execution state that any Turing Machine reaches in any finite period of time, this simulation will also reach it in a finite period of time. A very large "amount" of time, sure, but "time" in a Turing Machine is an abstraction anyhow.

Also in Computer Science 201, you should encounter the Church-Turing thesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
Ah, but you're only focusing on one part of the value proposition for Dave.

Even if video leaks, he's at least ensured he has a 100% engaged audience not chatting or checking Instagram or commenting on HN or whatever.
I'm just happy there weren't any jokes about it being a Kiwi dating site.
Indeed! I've got a blog post on deck that likens it to a fish in water; we all use it so thoroughly nowadays we don't even notice it because an unstructured programming language is almost inconceivable to us.
This gives an interesting glimpse into the prognostication abilities of supposedly brilliant VC's. It also shows the the near-impossibility of cashing in private company shares, at least through VC's. In addition to this story, the Sony hack revealed that Evan Spiegel of Snapchat wanted to cash in about $40 million worth of shares just after he spurned Facebook's $3 billion offer. He was also roundly rejected. Had someone bought those shares, they would have been worth around $200 million today.

So anyone thinking that they're going to get much liquidity as a private company founder should think again. If the Snapchat and Twitch guys were rejected, the odds are not good that you will be the exception.
> Twitch succeeded because, as justin.tv, they were in a position to notice rising demand for gaming livestreams.

So, for an alternative view:

This is not an unfair advantage at all. I was in exactly the same position. We however thought that having game sessions streamed was terribly boring (none of the people in our office were gamers), and so, instead of catering to this niche (which I'm sure hit us well before it hit justin.tv simply because we started much earlier) we threw the gamers out and concentrated on the people.

They found another home and Justin absolutely ran with it, he recognized the opportunity that we squandered and I'm very happy that he made it.

There is absolutely nothing unfair about any of this.

And VCs were already funding fantasy sports, casual gaming and other game related activities, they just never made the link with screencasts that Justin did.

But long before then they already won the lottery in the sense that they got more money to work with than anybody in the space up to that point. The biggest deal in that space up to then was probably spotlife, a Logitech / Philips collaboration around the theme of live video, they picked up $30M.
XANDEM: Monitor an Entire House Without Cameras
https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs373/sp2009/lectures/lect...
Something very similar is already available and it's called ABC Notation: http://abcnotation.com/. There are tons of contributors for this. People have wrote about half million tunes in ABC. I would suggest OP creates cross-compiler from ABC to Alda. Or may be make Alda backward compatible with ABC. Or may be just contribute to ABC :).
got a repo i can contribute to?
> am I the only one surprised

Why not ask your favorite search engine? Definitely faster than creating a HN account ;)

First Google search result:
http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21253585...
> 1) Make mass surveillance impossible.

That's an extremely noble goal, and it seems you've made great progress towards it, but..

Will the US government really just let you do it? Have they not interfered yet? It seems highly unlikely that they wouldn't somehow neutralize the threat your work represents, so I'm just.. cautiously optimistic instead of really excited.
> since you are handing your data to a third party, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy

I disagree with that argument. Just because I place information with a third party doesn't mean I shouldn't have an expectation of privacy. People used to have a level of discretion and "minding ones' own business".
CodeInsight
Just pass a DVD with white noise when you meet in person. That should keep you in one time pads as long as you want to communicate with someone. All you need is XOR and a bookmark. Of course you need to meet once, if that's not feasible you're going to get more technical.
This article, and it seems the whole blog, is an amazing resource for anyone considering a hardware startup. Very clear and very helpful.

The funny thing is that kickstarter's official policy is that they are not a pre-sale platform. But if they were serious about this, they wouldn't let campaigns offer the product being developed as a "reward" in exchange for money. It's like amazon saying that they aren't a book seller, but they will give you a $30 book as a "reward" for donating $30.

I'm not sure if I fully understand the title of this post, though. The author points out that Kickstarter funds are to be used only for production related costs and therefore should be considered debt (they must be repaid, unlike equity). But, in reality I don't think that there are any legal or even ethical stipulations placed on money raised from Kickstarter. The money is being donated, and unlike business debt can be used in whatever manner without having to be repaid. Wasting Kickstarter money may or may not affect someone's reputation for awhile, but it doesn't show up on a credit score.

For this reason, it's always seemed to me that crowdfunding is the best way to raise money for anything. If you can do a crowdfunding campaign, do it. Most certainly for hardware. Then get a line of credit if you can, and raise money from VCs as a last resort [1].

[1] Other than Bolt of course, because their blog is so awesome that I'm thinking about pitching them right now.