skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That doesn't seem very practical to me.

Ethereum has the highest uptime of any computing platform ever developed. It's probably something like 99.99999% uptime (assuming a 0.00001% yearly chance that the earth is destroyed in a given year from a giant asteroid impact)

What would be a "practical" way of getting the same results with your node server?
Why not start with affiliate links to Amazon? It's minimal effort on your part, and you can see what your users are interesting in purchasing.

Even when you eventually have your own inventory, it's worth throwing in affiliate links in case you discover that people watching your beauty content actually buy something else more often than your own products.
Searches and news are web applications. Not to mention Hacker News.
For what it's worth, I don't think it's just you.

Innovation is a diffuse thing, though, and I often find that when I perceive innovation as stalled, the truth is that innovation is simply happening in places I don't care about.

A few weeks back, a Youtube video [1] was shared here that asked if computers are still getting faster. The video argues that they are. I don't dispute that. However, I think it's widely acknowledged that the pace of real-world performance increases—especially in CPUs—has been slow of late. The largest performance boon in the past 5 years has been the widespread use of SSDs as main storage.

I just built a powerhouse workstation for my office that replaced a 2008-era first-generation i7. While this new workstation has gobs of cores, each individual core is only modestly faster than the individual cores from 2008. To me, computing speed is one of my paramount technology desires. The ideal is for all of my computing interactions to occur in 0 milliseconds. I want all my computing devices, and especially my workstation—the device I spend 8 hours at each day—to provide the pinnacle of performance. So it is acutely disappointing to me that the computing horsepower I have available to me is broadening but not becoming faster. Innovation is happening in the low-power space, not the workstation space. Obviously, there are incremental advances, and service to enthusiasts, but I think any honest observer would realize that the market is smaller so the drive to invest R&D in high-power processor performance is diminished.

I feel the same way concerning the enormous amount of R&D investment going into centralized cloud platforms versus decentralized private/federated networks. I contend that had private networks seen as much raw brainpower invested in the past 10 years, managing a secure private network would have been made easier for laypeople, and ultimately we would have retained greater privacy and self-ownership of data. I also feel that computing devices working together over a secure private network in a peer-to-peer model would be vastly preferable to using a vendor-provided centralized cloud to provide device interop. I would prefer my phone and workstation work together directly, on the same private network, rather than using a cloud server as an intermediary.

But as I said at the beginning, it's a matter of opinion and perspective. Broadly speaking—across the whole universe of technology—innovation is happening. But often I find it's happening in areas of little appeal to me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuLxX07isNg
Kelsey Hightower has some really great walkthroughs. I was just browsing his github to find a specific link for you, and the closest I found was this:

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/coreos-kubernetes-talk

That might not be the right repo, though. Somewhere he has complete walkthroughs, including command by command, but I'm not sure if that's the right one.
With a Zero with an on board power supply, Wifi, and Bluetooth the possibilities are endless.
> On one end of the spectrum you have tools like Notepad, where the only easter egg is that pressing F5 inserts the current time.

I wonder how many people reading this just opened Notepad to try this.
Anyone got a copy of the files? The FCC has pulled them down!
If you're growing 25% / month, you're not doing too badly.

How well are online ads and referral working? How does the referral program work?

It sounds like there are a bunch of channels you haven't tried yet. Here are a few ideas.

Standard channels:
1) Sales. Yes, you call up the all the salons and ask them if they need Growthzilla. This is still the way most things are sold to local businesses like salons. You can try email, phone, even in person.

2) Content marketing. My guess is that there are a lot of salons, and not a whole lot people writing about how to run them. Maybe you can become the go-to place not just for software, but for the knowledge salon owners need to run their business well.

3) Improve your website. It looks like there's no way to just try the software, and there isn't much info about it on the site. Having something other than "request demo" may improve conversions.

Wackier ideas:
1) There are lots of software options for salons that do something similar. It's not clear from your site what makes you unique. What is it? If there's nothing truly special, maybe you need to change the product.

2) Channel partnerships. Who are the big companies selling products to hair salons? Could you get them to resell Growthzilla and split the revenue?

3) Affiliate sales. Are there affiliate sales people who sell other products to salons (scissors, hair product, etc)? If so, can you have them sell Growthzilla too?

4) Organize free conferences / meetups for salon owners to learn about how they can tech-enable their business.
NPM is a wonderful thing. Sure it has some perf. issues, but JS is growing faster than ever because of it.

And RN is awesome as well. RN for front-end devs is kinda what Bootstrap is for back-end devs (or any dev that doesn't like to touch HTML/CSS). Let's just be happy that we are making progress as a community and be a bit more open-minded.
I don't know. A robot might put together a 500-page pitch book, because the robot doesn't understand the concept of "boredom".
I took a MOOC offered by one of the elite schools that was based on their intro CS programming class. Although I'm not a programming professional, I've done a fair bit and have at least a degree of familiarity with the language the course used--as well as some basic concepts like sort algorithms, etc.

For me, the course wasn't exactly hard but it certainly wasn't trivial and, had I never written a program (or touched a command line), I'm sure I would have been completely and utterly lost. Sign up for any MOOC in this vein and there are obviously lots of people for whom it's a totally bewildering experience.

By comparison, when I took my first computer class in college, it was a truly introductory FORTRAN course that really didn't assume any prior knowledge. I did have a little BASIC in high school but that wasn't very common at the time.
I will definitely follow up with you- thank you for the ideas. I think in an effort to show how different we are from other screenshot and screencast tools we may have gotten too technical in our wording- but we definitely don't want to scare people off! Thanks again!
Do you have an e-mail address that I could contact you at?
First, you present this statement as though all the other conversations on HN about Harvey Mudd have come to the same conclusion. This is demonstrably not true.

Second, I'd like to encourage you to not describe recruiting and admitting women as "lossening admission rates". That's the kind underhanded, unconscious sexism that we're trying to avoid here. Even if I accept as true that a higher percentage of men are qualified to be admitted to HMC's CS program (which I don't, but for the sake of argument...) the absolute number of people -- men, women, and otherwise -- who qualify is so much larger than what HMC can support that it could admit a class of 0 men and not have to worry about "lowering its standards".

It sounds like you've lost sight of the forest for the trees. Sure, a larger school might be able to have a larger impact. Sure, maybe Mudd isn't doing as much as it could, or is spending more money than it should. But it is still doing something demonstrably effective, which is more than most places can say.
Given that CloudFlare coughs up multiple CAPTCHAs, it actually makes it seem like their software is broken. When I get more than one, I have no idea if I mistyped or not, if CloudFlare's stuck in a loop, or if this is expected behavior.

Anything more than one (maybe two) CAPTCHAs seems punitive, and not technically-driven. What if CloudFlare next decides to interfere with the web experience of people using VPNs? Or ad blockers?
That's really only an issue on a long cross-country roadtrip.

Most normal trips will end at either your house or your place of work. Presumably both those places will eventually have charging stations.
American colleges with their Academic and Football ranking
Who said anything about demanding syntactically correct code on a whiteboard? Certainly not me.
I've been using old smartphones for a while now and even phones that were released in 2014 are dirt cheap since for me, there is no discernible differences between models.

Can I:

1 - Take a picture and post it somewhere

2 - Surf the internet and use apps for consuming content

3 - Take some video and upload it to youtube

4 - use it to text message friends and family

5 - make and receive phone calls

These 5 basic functions are available on EVERY smartphone manufactured today. The differences? Minute. My LG G2 vs. the LG G3? The LG G3 has a Mildly better screen, 1 more GB of RAM and few other minor improvements.

You're absolutely correct progress is slowing down in tech. The biggest move forwards I thought was when Microsoft completely redesigned the interface of their Windows phones. It was totally original and I thought much better than how Android copied Apple's design.

Other than that? Not sure there have really been HUGE tech advancements in the smartphone arena. Same goes for PC's and Cars. Unless you're a HUGE hardware guy, I don't see big improvements or revolutions in these areas of tech.
Basically what nommm-nommm said. We have craploads of work to do, but what limits our bandwidth is what our customers will actually pay us to do. We do bespoke work on contracts, so if we don't have the contracts we can't do the work or hire the people, no matter how badly we might have to.
Bishares is a blockchain that can do as many and more transaction as Visa. Their does not seem to be a fundamental problem as long as you accept that Worker(miners) are fast servers with good networks.
> The measure probably passed in order to discourage porn from being shot there.

That's a reasonable guess, but once you look at the pattern in Michael Weinstein's behavior, it's clear what his real motives are.

Weinstein is the president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which championed the initiative.
The AHF has done good things in the past, but as of 2016, it's doing far more harm than good.

Weinstein has a really puritanical view towards sex, and has a history of actively opposing harm-reduction approaches to HIV treatment and prevention. Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence in favor of pre-exposure prophylaxis in preventing HIV transmission, he has actively campaigned against it, intentionally spreading inordinate amounts of misinformation to discourage its use.

His logic is basically, "we need to encourage condom use, and we should indoctrinate people into using condoms by ensuring that the porn they watch uses condoms". There are a lot of things wrong with this logic, not the least of which is that it's had no effect on the number of condoms used in porn shoots, as everyone now just shoots in Las Vegas or other nearby cities instead.
I don't get how its illegal -- I don't see any EULA I have to agree to when I load a web page.
Me. By the way, it's 2:57 PM 2/26/2016.
This is on the top of HN because people, like me, are interested in it. You say learn to do it the "right way", by that logic we should have stuck to making desktop only apps instead of browser based web apps. I'm not saying this is better or worse. But I certainly think it's an approach worth considering.
One step closer to accessibility for that don't have all sorts of usb dongles laying around.
HN gives makes me feel like I'm on a JS subreddit sometimes..
You are describing state of the art, not addressing the speed of progres.
The lack of a EULA does not mean you can do whatever you want. The DMCA still applies.

Also, many sites have a tos that governs what you can and cannot do. Regardless, its not illegal for you the user, but for ABP the company. They are profiting from circumventing software.
https://fccid.io/2ABCB-RPI32
The whole point about focus and discipline is that you shouldn't need someone to track you and "make" you do positive things towards your goal. It should come naturally.

Plus, apps like these can end up being counter-productive if they force us to make some kind of token contribution (just to meet our "quota") but which may actually move the project forward (and by jiggling context, may actually move it backward).
>> After all, it's not your property you're staying in.

Actually, it is your land. You have a property right. It isn't eternal or unlimited, but while you are renting the location it is in fact "yours". Landlords are not allowed to run around on rental properties like they own them. They don't. Their rights are curtailed for the duration of the lease. This big deal when landlords start performing "random inspections" for things like grow ops.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100008723963904436875045775674...
He said it was "patently absurd" to pretend that they haven't "captured" any data until someone searches for it.

Fishing trawlers don't capture everything they catch: Most of it gets thrown back. This is all semantics, but without more context for the word "capture" (like, why it wouldn't be legal to capture data you'll never look at), I don't think it's patently absurd to read the term in a way that makes reasonable intelligence work possible.

What if they only buffered the data for a few seconds while picking out the "good stuff"? A few hours? Where is the line?

I have no reason to think that they wouldn't keep all of it, forever, period. Or at least retain a long enough window to render this statement pointless.

If you think the NSA has no effective oversight and is lying to the FISA court or the President about what it does and doesn't do, you have bigger problems.

Old fashioned police work? Only gather data with a warrant?

The NSA isn't a domestic law enforcement agency. You're thinking of the FBI.
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboo...
Also, good on the Pi Foundation for keeping this listing in the open rather than requesting 6 month confidentiality for the pictures/test report (which almost all companies do).
> sounds awesome!

As someone living in Britain. Nope, not awesome. I can't remember the last time I saw sun. It's just cloud and cold wind. It feels nigh-constant (year-round) :/
Yet, oddly enough, it does not prohibit government contractors, or recipients of tax breaks/subsidies from lobbying...
If I'm remembering correctly, this lawsuit references an older samsung phone that implemented slide to unlock in a slightly more apple-y way.
> Presumably having broken the terms of the agreement, you'd be able to sue them for any damages.

The "loophole" is there is no way to sue when the host is illegally subletting his apartment at first place. And a good bunch of Airbnb rentals are straight up illegal. Airbnb is a legal nightmare both for guests and hosts. Most of the time everything goes fine. But when things go wrong Airbnb is effectively of little help. That's the sharing economy, the risk is passed down to the user of these services, just like Uber, Kickstarter and co.
Ah yes, a counting filter. [0] How do you plan on tackling rare overflow?

Have you looked at Cuckoo Filter [1]? Same abilities as a counting bloom filter, but has some advantages like reducing false positives while using even less memory and requiring less processing.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Extensions_and_ap...
[1]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf
Yep, and Mudd actually does this as well. The example that comes to mind is that a bunch of students work with local FIRST Robotics and LEGO Robotics teams, including teams consisting entirely of women or of minorities.
I disagree. you could be buying a SaaS for it's technology which could alone be worth a lot of development hours and tested code is very valuable imo vs. rolling out your own.

This of course won't apply to 99% of SaaS which seem to be just CRUD apps wrapped around bootstrap themes with the vanilla $19/month with a free plan.

The more technically complex a SaaS means the problem it's solving is more complex. Lack of sales could mean a business or marketing issue.

I wouldn't mind paying $100,000 for a complete SaaS if the product worked as advertised and the minimum time and development resources needed to replicate it was very high.
If I may add - do yourself the pleasure, and use a standard usb Xbox 360 controller, otherwise you are in for a world of pain. I've tried a NES30 controller over bluetooth and after a week of trying different configurations nearly chucked the whole thing in a bin. Also some of the emulators are too slow to be usable, even on the Rpi 2, NES and SNES work absolutely fine, but MAME, N64 and Dreamcast are more like curiosities, very few games run at anything even close to full speed on them.
To be fair, that's more or less what an impression is.

If you want "unique visits," you can look for unique visitors or unique impressions or just uniques, depending on what company you are working for.

(And if you are doing TV, you can get an estimate of how many people saw it on DVR in the next three days)
Ethereum has been out for 7 months already and so far there have been no useful or popular dapps. This would mean that for most applications trustlessness is not very useful. And for those apps where it would be generally useful, such as exchanges, betting. etc, the expensive nature of gas would mean that operating on Ethereum would be cost prohibitive and they would lose to their centralized competitors. And how is Ethereum is more secure than a properly setup VPS?
GM is the world's second largest auto manufacturer. They employ hundreds of thousands of people, and have factories on every continent except Antarctica.

I could easily believe that GM has access to economies of scale that Tesla can only dream about.
On a more technical note - I'm exploring React Native (having significant experience shipping native iOS Apps) and while on the face of it React Native looks amazing, as I go deeper into building something production quality, I've hit roadblocks with doing simple (natively) things like scrolling a scroll view to focus on a text field that's partially visible and changing the offsets of a scroll view to prevent the keyboard from masking the focused text field in a way that doesn't appear glitchy.

Did you encounter any such problems?
It's arguably a poor, baity article, but please don't rant like this on HN. It lowers the quality of the discussion and usually sets off a degrading spiral (as below).
Why I hate to distrust Edward Snowden
Charting the Historical Popularity of First Names
Not even sure where to start on this comment, but I'll try:

> In a startup, the whole endeavor rides on secrets. ... In a large company, execution dominates.

Have you ever worked for a startup? Most likely at least 10 other companies have had the same idea. And 100 people outside those companies. Your ability to (out) execute is all that matters -- regardless of the size company. See also: talk is cheap. And yes, there are trade secrets that can be hugely important, but these are handled by NDAs and other Confidential Information agreements, not non-competes. If those are stolen, you sue under those agreements, not your non-compete.

> If that person went to work for another marketing analytics company, I wouldn't be too happy, because to some extent, our specific mix of APIs to integrate with and what we got from them is proprietary. ... If an engineer I'd worked with and developed that knowledge with went to somebody trying to solve the same problem as me, I'd be kind of pissed.

Then you should give them a reason (ideally, several) to stay. Your employment agreement trades some form of compensation -- typically cash and equity -- for their output. You're getting value, they're getting value. If you don't treat them properly, you don't deserve to keep them, regardless if you "wouldn't be too happy" about it.
Turnarounds are especially tough when you are in a business where people are your best asset. You can't just make changes, because you have rot in the system. Doubly worse when you are a micro-manager, rather than a charismatic leader. IMO, Yahoo needed more than a strategist.

Even the good Yahoo products, like Finance, as ridiculously bloated and buggy.
As the other poster mentioned, they've typically been $35. The barrier of entry for IoT is still pretty low though, you can get an ESP8266 for ~$2/ea. That'll handle wifi and can also be your application processor. For another ~$2-3 you could add on a BLE module too.
can you elaborate more? show a driver in code? what do you mean by it exactly.

I was not happy with Mandrill's decision but can't complain since it was free. I'm moving to amazon email services.

I think case in point, free is not forever in SaaS business.
It sounds like you have engaged users who are giving you useful feedback.

I like the idea of a gallery - that will help you grow as people show off their work. You don't necessarily need live replays to do it - you could start with static and add those later.

One thing to think about is how you can make it grow more. Your users won't generally bring you growth ideas, but it's important to always be thinking about how to get more users.
I recommend you stop commenting on software whose functionality you have never experienced and are judging based on your interpretation of second-hand descriptions.
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, "If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then."

It doesn't seem like this is really ready for prime-time seeing as how I'm unable to use the app.
When ever I bring that up I always get a "institutional sexism" based response, which seems bogus to me. We're it's like modern men are paying for past ills by being discriminated against. Where did the meritocracy go?
This is partially incorrect. The objective is not only to isolate the device from external radiation but to avoid internal RF reflections within the chamber. That's why the geometry of the wedges, which are covered in a RF-absorbent material. A Faraday cage wouldn't help with this.
If the big issue is querying the data, consider redshift (expensive) or a self-hosted column-store database. Data will need to be loaded in a batch for this. Column stores will reduce iops through compression, and selective data loading, and because they don't have persistent indexes.

To save IOPS on the early part of the process, consider using fast encryption (lz4 or snappy) to compress the records before writing to the file system. This might cut your IOPS in half.
> In other words, I think it's OK to throw out a lot of the baby with the bathwater as long as you're left with mostly baby.

Quite true, and basically what companies like Google do.

The issue comes in that we have been inundated for years with people bitching about "talent shortages"; i.e., there ain't enough baby left over.
Expand on this - you've got a great blog article right there.