skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sure a lot has changed since 2014 when I last raised in Austin but in my experience it is possible to raise money for consumer businesses in Austin. Before we pivoted to Cratejoy we had raised a significant seed round from almost entirely Austin investors. It’s also possible to get west coast (and really all over the world) investors to invest in you and stay in Austin. We’ve raised $11M, about 80% of it from non-Austin investors.

For me the secret for raising successfully in Austin was getting individuals on board — high net worth individual investors that I established a personal rapport with. With the exception of the Capital Factory all of the angel funds (for me) were operating off of FOMO and social pressure more than fundamentals. The VC scene does contain some bad actors, and I probably wouldn’t spend a lot of time looking for institutional money in Austin. I would get my growth funding west or east coast.

Having raised millions in both SF and in Austin I can say that it is definitely easier in SF. However, the cost of living is so much lower (and I would say quality of life is so much higher) in Austin that I’m glad we’re based here. It’s also relatively easy to recruit from all over the world to Austin, everyone has seen the continuous stream of articles rating Austin as one of the best places in the US to live.

There’s also another great side-effect of being Austin which I didn’t notice until we were already scaling very quickly. There’s a smaller number of startups in Austin that are producing millions in revenue very quickly (as compared to SF) but the enthusiast and talent pool is very large. When we started to hit scale we had way more advocates than we ever expected. Austin wants home-town winners and it throws its weight behind the ones that look promising, but you have to have something to show.

My cofounder and I consider having Cratejoy based in Austin a competitive advantage.
In fact, if this is replicated by independent engineers and they just published the actual method required.. it seems that Rossi will have lost claim to any money he could have made by actually making these devices or patenting them. I guess that nobody will need him, nor will they need to pay him any money to use the idea.
On the standardization of fundamental bit manipulation utilities
Haskell is not trivial, but it's not unfair like Dark Souls either
We don't consider handing a letter to the USPS "giving over the information to a third party," so we have an example to apply to other supposedly third-party information that is really first-party information temporarily handled by, but not intended for, a third party.
Yup, grandparent's post would be a pretty great submission to PCJ. Terms like "bottom-halfers" are just too good.
My spouse has an antique Nokia almost-brick running Opera and can use Wikipedia. It's wonderful. He doesn't have any of the distractions of Facebook, but he can check the difference between naltrexone and naloxone or brush up on Dvorak's family history whenever those come up in an argument!
I recognize the similarity between phone calls and Tor; however, I too think there is a difference in the expectation of privacy.

I like your analogy with aerial surveillance, but partially because I think you are wrong. It is my understanding that aerial views available to the public, such as those available to a commercial helicopter, do not require a warrant. However, if the police go beyond public capabilities with high zoom cameras it may require a warrant. Similarly, if the state goes beyond the capabilities of the public in obtaining my IP address, they should require a warrant. The question then becomes, "Does the CMU project constitute knowledge generally available to the public?" I would argue the negative, but I could see it answered either way.
Systemd vs. Docker
What makes me most happy here is that they are releasing what they claim is a rather complete "recipe"; this should hopefully lead to independent replication, hopefully by sceptics and hopefully many more replications.
>Helium Airships

Sure. Great idea. Make a vehicle dependent on a rare non-renewable resource.
Size of market is a chicken and egg problem, if they were cheaper, the market could grow, and get more cheaper. Also FDA would only regulate for medical use, it could be sold for educational use to remove the regulations.
Compose Enterprise is here
Introducing the Google Design Newsletter
My testimony to New York City Council on why open source is good for government
To be clear that's because the FB binary is baked into the firmware. Buy a better Android phone that doesn't stuff your default install with nonsense.
It worries me more that Microsoft has a track record of abandoning developer tools for the next shiny thing.
And yet when I login into Gmail, I see several ads on top of my inbox that are styled exactly like mails, except they have a teeny-tiny yellow "Ad" sign next to them. I'd rather have huge ads than deceptive ads that pretend to be content.
And you call that a smart error
What Nyquist didn't say, and what to do about it [pdf]
Leave a Drupal project idle and unmaintained for a year, and a new, non-backwards-compatible Druoal version has been released and you'll need to rewrite everything.

https://www.drupal.org/node/2613652
For anyone who isn’t a doctor / biologist: “Mechanical hemolysis” means the needle is bursting red blood cells, leaking their cytoplasm into the blood plasma.
i guess no one here saw Swordfish...
Off-topic but related:

Lately I've been following the newest installment of the Steorn saga, and this E-Cat technology popped up in my travels. Some background: this company Steorn has been claiming to have made over-unity/free energy/whatever devices for some years now, but for some reason they never actually deliver. Well, this time, they took a bunch of pre-orders for, basically, a cell phone charger with unlimited life, and they even sent a few out.

The only confirmed delivered unit has been to the owner of an E-Cat news blog. It has been extremely amusing to watch the owner of the blog and the readers come up with justifications for why their unit doesn't work.

Funny stuff, if you think free energy idiocy is as funny as I do.

http://www.e-catworld.com/2016/02/24/ecw-ocube-testing-week-...
Michigan Says Its Potholes Make It the Best Place to Test Driverless Cars
JS apps being faster to develop than C# ? Maybe prototype, but .NET/C# are superior dev platforms in every way.
All things have cycles.
While you could argue Wix, Weekly and Squarespace are taking market share - there has always been that low end. Anyone remember Geocities?

Envato is also taking a certain market though they are often the tire kickers who think they can do it themselves. You see a few of those who get so far but can't finish it. The instant their content doesn't match the length of the default content it starts to look bad or the template displays 4 key services, they have 5. What I find infuriating is the freelancers (or displaced marketing people) who just sell templates and even their own site is just an off-the-shelf template. The SEO space is similarly flooded with marketing people who can run SEMRush to get a report and spam your client base daily with long tail keyword suggestions they could get them ranking number one for.

There is a new type of customer who want something custom and vehemently don't what a template as well.

The big thing is mobile compatibility is still hard and hosting/security is hard. New browsers break stuff and many corporate clients still need it to look passable on XP. Customer Service is key and building a loyal customer base who you look after, will weather you through any slight change in the market.
They are beating Google at their own game. I wouldn't be surprised if Google announced a real desktop OS, since they basically pulled the plug on Chrome OS and Android isn't even fit for Tablet.

Microsoft is basically trying to outgoogle Google, and they are trying to do that at the OS level, not at the browser level. From a purely strategic standpoint this is brillant. From a user stand point it's obnoxious of course, because good luck blocking ads if Microsoft decides Windows won't allow you to. Clearly web advertising is drying up, so Native ads,i.e. at the OS level is where the growth is.

EDIT: correction
It definitely feels like they're moving towards a UI refresh just based on some of the tweaks they've rolled out lately. Besides, they're due for an overhaul.
Have you seen any of the work on OCaml multicore? KC's blog posts talk about it e.g. http://kcsrk.info/ocaml/multicore/2015/05/20/effects-multico...
> I don't know if those are all in the same category. For example the Army cancelled Future Combat System because it didn't work. Would the project have been considered a "success" if they had put it into production instead?

If it didn't work? Hopefully not.

But military stuff is a bit different. Military systems tend to try to push the state of the art as far as possible, for as much edge in combat as possible. That makes for much higher chances of failure.
For anyone that tries this route, following random tutorials on VGA PCI Passthrough is a route to sure frustration and time wasting (I tried it ~2 or 3 years ago, whenever I built my previous PC). You have to make sure your video card, motherboard chipset, audio, and anything else you want to pass through are all supported. It's much simpler if you can just follow a list that says "this combination of hardware + software works perfectly."
Roger is a real smart guy. I know because I went to summer camp with him years ago.
I don't disagree about the ubiquity of DFP, AdSense and GA. But unpacking that a bit further...DFP gives way richer data than can be had with AdSense or GA if a publisher is running non-Google ads on their site. So Google has limited visibility into anyone not using DFP. I don't have market data on the adoption of DFP, so while I think it is a safe bet it is the major player still, I'm not sure what % of sites do NOT use it.

And for anything not run through DFP and not on Google inventory, this would now give them visibility into those ads, potentially bid data from the headers, potentially audience data for anything passed in plaintext (surprisingly common), etc. Or am I missing something in terms of the data they would see?
What's the threshold where a device could be said to have good battery life? The article talked about devices with 29 and 38 days of standby time. If I turn off data and don't touch my phone, maybe I'll get three days. That's great battery life for a smartphone, but on the low end in the context of all cell phones.
Xamarin is a C# shop, mono as a platform for F# is independent of this, and if I'm not mistaken the F# compiler is open source[0] under the Apache 2.0 License. There are a few shops who have praised F# for it's multicore capabilities[1], but again I am not a full expert so it may require independent research. MonoDevelop supports F# as well. There are Linux build instructions in the GitHub repository.

[0]: https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp
[1]: http://fsharp.org/testimonials/#grange-insurance-1
To answer the question, it is because OP (Graham) hasn't created a startup to solve this problem.

When my wife was pregnant we went to a lot of ultrasounds, and I observed those big Phillips machines very closely, they definitely have room to improve on multiple dimensions.
Nonsense. The last 5 years shows that Microsoft isn't quite sure about it yet. Better? Yes. A "whole new Microsoft"? No.
> The Greek debacle, which was probably the biggest failure of the EU since its creation, was created by the EU's banking and finance industries.

Exactly. Greece was merely the scapegoat for the bailout of the massively over-leveraged banks that bet against their sovereigns when they saw the Euro would equalize risk.

For a much better explanation of how the EU got into this mess, see the this[1] talk by Mark Blyth (Econ prof at Brown).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vV8_uQmxs#t=777
In the post there is a link to a paper where someone used a 40x40 array for 3d ultrasound imaging and there is a 64x array at 35MHz used for high resolution imaging of things like eyes. That is pretty low resolution for such interesting applications. Imagine the applications for a high resolution 3D ultrasound scanner combined with a high-resolution camera.
Santigold's Can't Get Enough of Myself (Interactive) Video
Why is this so difficult? Isolate the machine in a box where the only connection to the outside world is two wires. Draw power from those wires until you've pulled more energy than any known storage system could possibly provide. Boom, done.

Of course, my question is rhetorical. The answer is obvious: it doesn't work. If it worked, it would be easy to demonstrate.
I don't have any data to back this up but it really feels more and more like the fabled "Year of Linux" to me. Microsoft last it's way when Gates left and hardware manufacturers are starting to get on board.
Relevant http://www.estaun.net/blog/some-thoughts-after-almost-a-year...
> You decide what your "natural" rights are. If the government can't find some way to slot them into its existing laws, then you will eventually have a problem with each other.

Going back to the declaration of independence, the US had no more right to be independent than the Confederate States did. "After the Americans declared their independence, they had to win it by force." Similarly, the Confederate States had to do the same.

I think most of us have a strangely complacent thought process when it comes to individual rights. We think that rights are eternal and they will just exist forever. However, it seems that if we don't defend the rights they will morph or even go away if they are inconvenient to someone in power.
A Samba mount.
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not only is there fear, a lot of these IoT are just plain gimmicks that adds nothing to people's daily lives
Thanks for the tip. I mentioned OVH to my boss and he checked it out, and liked what they offer well enough to try it. We're going to be migrating in the next couple weeks. The fact that they have a datacenter in Canada and none in the states really helped.

Did you get any information about what the deal is with Dreamhost? I want to give them the benefit of doubt because they have been great for a couple years - their live chat is especially useful for me, and their backend is easy to work with. But this move to Portland that they have going on seems to be an absolute shitshow, and I wish we could get a proper explanation for what is going on over there.
I don't bring this up to defend it, but it was pretty clear that Africans weren't actually considered people at the time. You can't use modern value judgements unless you want a dissonant argument.
There is no such thing as "entropy draining".

If it's higher-performance than other UUID generators, fine, that's a win. But it's not doing anything useful for the system as a whole by sparing the "entropy pool".
You are describing the worst summer in Austin. Last summer was much cooler.
Well, this is exactly what I would expect if I left any "Give me something random, I don't want to think too much" option activated. These are the first things I disable on any OS.

With that said, I recently switched my home PC to Linux. It was not due to the privacy issues, rather buggy experience (probably due to older hardware). Overall happy, although the UX in KDE 4 and Gnome 3.1x is still lagging behind Windows/OS X noticeably IMHO.
He has a (US) patent already.

https://www.google.com/patents/US9115913
You would also need approval in the EU and in other countries around the world. There are many standards that medical devices must meet. It takes a pretty good sized company to do all things that must be done in order to actually design, manufacture, ship, surveil, maintain and end-of-life a medical device of any complexity.
What I mean is, how do you keep it from catching up with you a week later?
I don't think the work is drying up, but shifting to a higher level. The common problems are solved. Ten years ago we didn't use frameworks and development was slower and took more time. Frameworks represent the repetitive parts of development that are common to many applications. I am sure database technology was a similar shift before that. The same people building the parts that frameworks do are now building on top of the frameworks and building more functionality for less effort.
While I agree that there are many confusing jurisdictional pitfalls in incorporation and banking, this isn't one of them. SVB in particular has customers all over the nation and it is ludicrous to suggest that a state's tax authorities would go after customers of banks based in their state as if they had jurisdiction over those customers' business conducted outside the state.

Law is a messy business, but they have literally taken the most typical arrangement for startups in US accelerator programs as the first template for Stripe Atlas. I can't imagine a safer set of choices.
> I wouldn't be surprised if Google announced a real desktop OS

It has taken MS almost all it has to get Windows to the point where it currently is, while the best thing Google can claim is to have made a browser using someone else's engine, while skipping 90% of the features that other browsers have. This works for the web, but on the OS front they cannot compete.
Sometimes it's not as easy as just quitting facebook. This argument comes up a lot, but it's a solution that works entirely on a case-by-case basis.

When I had a smart phone, the methods of communicating with me were email, work email, work IM, facebook, skype, hangouts, phone, and text. Because of work, it wasn't possible to do airplane mode and it wasn't possible to do a sleep-mode bypass for specific phone numbers because of the oncall situations.

The only way I could find to manage notifications properly was to essentially create a black list for my contacts and blacklist all apps. It worked up until somebody on the black list needs to reach me, so they get added to the white list to avoid the issue. Oh, shit, they're texting me while I'm trying to work - back to the whitelist!

It eventually just becomes an incredibly tedious task to manage your notifications properly - which in itself is a dang distraction.

Agreed on leaving phones elsewhere - just as long as you live in a decent area. Some of the most awkward times I've had recently are while hanging out with others where everyone is on their phones and I can really only just twiddle my thumb. Bringing the subject only results in "hipster" comments, rather than an actual discussion.
This is not clear. Multicore and distributed computing are unrelated at best.
To make it clearer, can you explain what you are doing in erlang that you couldn't do in ocaml?
Used ultrasounds can be had for good prices: https://www.dotmed.com/equipment/2/4/all/
With respect, I think you're speculating here.

For example, the FDA and other agencies are concerned with the effects of transmitting energy into the human body. Medical devices like ultrasound systems are not toys.

I don't mean to be harsh at all, but with respect, I question your assertions here.
The process of forming of the union was complex, and there was a negotiation to bring all parties together. History played out the way you wanted, slavery was abolished after a bloody civil war.

Damn whoever put this simplistic "the framers were slavers so the lessons they taught can be ignored" notion in your head. Individual freedom is not an outdated concept!

You and others here just add ignorant poison to a good debate.
I almost included another line that Austin is probably more affordable than SF, NYC and Boston but I guess I would point out that Boston is likely more affordable than London.
> NUID needs to be very fast to generate and be truly unique, all while being entropy pool friendly. NUID uses 12 bytes of crypto generated data (entropy draining), and 10 bytes of pseudo-random sequential data that increments with a pseudo-random increment.

> Total length of a NUID string is 22 bytes of base 36 ascii text, so 36^22 or 17324272922341479351919144385642496 possibilities.

Isn't 22 bytes = 176 bits?

UUID = 128 bit

Storage performance is more than per-ns on a CPU core, imo.
> Christian athiest

This is the dumbest thing that I have read today.
> Can you provide an example why I couldn't move if the government was "targeting" me?

Among the "demented" things that government might do that might offend your sense of rights and make you want to leave is detaining you based on based either on evidence seized (e.g., by covert surveillance) in a way you view as offensive to your rights or for violation of a newly-adopted emergency law you feel violates your rights.

By the time you become aware of the "demented" action that motivates you to leave, you may no longer be free to do so, as a direct consequence of that action.
Hate is retarded. Reason is golden.

I was critcizing the hatred. The object of the hate is unimportant. Drop the emotion and share the logic. The OP's entire rant was an unfounded strawman attack on religion.
I agree with your points and made similar ones on a thread yesterday. A counterargument is that the best version of a device is whichever one you tend to have with you when you need it.

The phone's a subpar camera, but it's a better camera than what I used to habitually carry around with me (i.e. nothing). It's like a Swiss army knife: it's got "meh" versions of a lot of tools, but the benefits are versatility and convenience.
Strength Begins with Mercy
Traditionally web developer is a more broad term that covers front and back end work.

I agree that there is nothing wrong with evolving the term "front end developer" into "UI/UX engineer". My problem is that the OP is talking about replacing "web developer" with "UI/UX" engineer. Web developer traditionaly includes backend engineers who aren't only working on UI.
Yeah, definitely not the same thing. Just thought I would post it.

I much prefer Hangouts over Skype though, plus it performs very well on Ubuntu, unlike Skype.
Is there any kind of timeline for when multicore is actually going to be implemented though? Last thing I saw was some posts from last year saying something about "if everything goes well, it will be in 4.03". As of now, I haven't been able to find anything about it being in 4.03, or anything else about the timeline to implementation. It would be great if it were coming soon, but I'm pretty sure there have been rumblings about it for years now, with nothing more solid than "Coming Soon(tm)".
"can't" is only relative to your level of determination. Deleting Facebook and other bundled apps was my original reason to root my first phone.
...a Christian athiest [sic].

I have not seen this phrase before. Do you mean that you are culturally Christian, but don't believe in a higher power?
:sigh:
That's why I made sure to include that there are people in the bottom half of that pyramid who I think will get to the top half, because eventually I believe they'll move either to the top half of the pyramid, or outside of the pyramid altogether.

But I stand firm in my belief that a lot of the people who are firmly planted there have poor skills or they're delivering far less value than what could be gotten through, say, Squarespace.