skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given you're ruling out ultimatums or walking, I would suggest the following:

1) Work on the business a little bit every day. Every day is important, because it builds momentum, keeps you focused on it and keeps you making progress. The progress is important because it demonstrates that you're serious and not a flake.

2) Once you've made a bit of progress (say a few months), see what she needs from you in order to be supportive and see if you can work out a solution. For example, if you're the sole breadwinner and she's worried about surviving, work out how much money you need to survive for a year or so and work out (with her) how you can achieve that. If she's not willing to discuss it or compromise, emphasize to her how important this is to you.[1] Involve her in coming up with solutions so she'll feel she owns them.

3) When you've got agreement, undersell on the expectations. If you tell her it's all going to go brilliantly from day one she's going to be annoyed when it doesn't. If you tell her it's going to be a long, hard struggle then she'll be more accommodating.

4) Keep her in the loop, so she can see stuff is actually happening, and celebrate what small successes you have.

5) When you get in fights and the business is brought up, don't respond. Don't get into an argument over it as that will just cause more resentment later.

[1] If you've been working on it for an hour or two a day for three months this will be demonstrably true.
I totally understand and appreciate your concerns and I hope to re-assure you that your authentication details are being stored encrypted as per industry standards.

User privacy and security is of utmost importance to us, without trust we're dead in the water. Where there are options to use OAuth we only use OAuth, and for each API we aim to use the strongest possible storage solution.

We don't allow you to change connection details for an account meaning that if someone gained access to your dashboard they would not be able to see your connection details.

We can certainly change the input box to a password type to reduce the risk from over-lookers. We'll put it in the next drop.

Please let me know if you would like to discuss any of this in more detail.
That is a bit Kafkaesque.

Everyone has the right to know why their right is being denied or what they are being charged with. If it was a privet firm then fine, but the government can't just go around closing websites without saying if not in detail then in general what the charges are. How, if the website owner is wronged, is he able to challenge the decision if he does not even know what the allegations are against him.
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As others have said, this is a little flawed. The invention of a pain gun is really disturbing no matter what way you look at it.

However, I loved the quote at the end:
"Technology bestows rights in a way which is true and real far beyond the law. The law can be changed, but you cannot undiscover AES. The law gives you rights as a fiction, but technology gives you rights as a fact."
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Server!=high performance, a server can be any device that's mostly on and connected to the network. None of the services you mention are "high performance", except perhaps the firewall if you have a lot of traffic and a lot of rules. Also, don't host your own e-mail. Your server will go down, and you will lose mail, and it will be embarrassing.
That's 2nd vote for Clicky.

Yes, Jason from Buffalo designed it (I've credited him elsewhere in this thread). He totally got it and did an amazing job IMO.
BTW, in case you missed it, this message is from 1990.

As of 2006 the 300 million digit mark has been reached.
When you working in the clocks, you should also make it possible to add a caption to each one.
Thanks. We're working on fleshing out a pricing model but it won't be implemented until the product has matured a little and we've added a few more APIs. Nothing is cast in stone but I like the idea of a freemium model which included a couple of levels of paid accounts in addition to the basic free model.

I'd love to get the thoughts of people who would pay for it to hear what they need before I set out exactly how it would work so I will be consulting in the coming few weeks.
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Well, maybe politicians should not do naughty things. If they are using gmail for lawbreaking then I am in favour of google outing them.
create a demo site. personally i wouldn't start entering passwords before having seen a demo and being convinced that it'll be useful.

also a votebox (as in dropbox.com/votebox/) to suggest widgets would be nice.
Vote me down by all means, but at least tell me why.
63% of teachers believe in intelligent design OR creationism? wtf, people!?
Some weird behavior when I open a new browser and try to go to <my_account_name>.geckoboard.com. It would be nice if that went to a login page and then took me to my account.
Looks like they're still some time away from having a working prototype though.
I do not think the younger members of society do not care about privacy. I think an 18 year old knows full well what he would like to keep private, such as a nude picture of himself, and what to make public, such as a face picture of himself.

They just are not scared of the internet that's all and do not consider fantastic possibilities, but probabilities.

Google has become too big and even powerful, so it is only right that every step, even contemplation of taking a step, is scrutinised closely. That so is being done tells you that many, if not the majority, do understand the importance of privacy.
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The general public cares too little and the geeks care too much.
one place to look is github ~ http://github.com/search?type=Repositories&language=java... and here's one to start with ~ http://github.com/neerajdotname/node-chat-in-steps
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Didn't you mean to link to this article:
http://www.slate.com/id/2258112/entry/2260782/
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Hi kgroll. Yes I used matlab to process the raw GPS data (lat and long). It'd be really helpful if you could try and replicate this test with a Hero. Do you mind emailing me please? Email: me [at] davidlokshin [dot] com?
Eucalyptus tries to match Amazon's APIs, and (from hearsay) it doesn't scale well.

Openstack doesn't match Amazon's APIs. Nova (compute) is used by NASA and will be used by Rackspace Cloud Servers. Swift (storage) is currently used by Rackspace Cloud Files. Swift (my area of expertise) is production-ready code that is scalable to massive levels (think 100-petabyte clusters and 100000 requests per second).
Here's a little Node.js/CoffeeScript application I worked on for a contest at a conference:

Site: http://apiplayground.org

Source: http://github.com/jashkenas/api-playground/blob/master/src/a...

The source is interesting because it demonstrates something that you can't do easily with a regular Rails/Django app: nonblocking asynchronous calls to remote APIs, with synchronous responses to the ajax request.
No, I am not affiliated with miio. I saw the article in 'The Next Web' and just reposted here to pulse reactions, since there is a lot of chatter lately about a facebook alternative.

Why the hate now?
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Indeed. But, alas, Erdős only wanted to win the bet, not run a scientific experiment.

By the way, I remember that Erdős reported that he felt better after a month off drugs. It was just that mathematics suffered.
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Have you tried doing some exercise? I heard that it may also have positive effects on mood. Any experience?
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The "CPU juice" required of a server, per page sent, is fairly low compared to the "juice" a client uses to run the browser that page is rendered in. Run munin, awstats, and top to get a feel for your server load: you should get a sense of how much it takes to manage one user, and how many simultaneous users you have, etc. For development, assuming you have another machine for your GUI, a 400 MHz Apple G3 B&W with 256 MB RAM will run Debian Lenny with Apache and PHP just fine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3_%28Blue_%26_...), so I would think any of the plugs would be fine. If you are deploying a service and marketing it to millions, you're going to need a bit more than a plug :-)
You think their writing is so much superior to say the guardian, or seeing as you might have conservative leanings, the telegraph?
I think you misunderstand. When I see, in a function like yours

void function(int const * const value)

it worries me because it shows me that the writer doesn't know the meaning of const. There is no added value of this declaration over

void function(int const *value)

or the more commonly seen

void function(const int *value)

The only thing that has changed in your code is that the implementor of the function can't modify his own private copy of the pointer.
In fact, what would be a use case of Node.js?

I know it is a rather interesting tech but other than that what do you/would you use Node.js for?
Awesome stuff.

Anyway you can add Salesforce into this? My team would LOVE you for it. :)
I doubt if they had ever convince you whatever they did
Spot on. We want you to be able to log in from here as you expected. This functionality is included in the current sprint.
that is pretty common, for example Intel's (Marvell's now IIRC) PXA (i.e. Xscale) is not exactly SoC but still includes NOR flash die in same package.
I think we need to see data. Those seem to be merely opinions.

I think so too is a bit early to tell. Give it a year. The Times is either sinking or swimming.

I can see this working. For example they could publish some very exclusive stories, engage in some PR and then people would subscribe. They could increase their level of journalism above all other newspapers, be truly independent and then people might see value and subscribe.

If however they continue as they have been, meh, they just another copycat, reproducing the same news as all other newspapers, hence it is a no brainer that no one would pay for it.
From my reading of the wikipedia articles about those cases, there has been no definitive decision on these-- just some refusal to vacate a stay, and then congress revised the law to have some congressional review.

Perhaps someone else can point me to something more definitive describing how the gag orders were ruled unconstitutional?
It might be a good idea to let users know where the service is available?

(I entered a UK number complete with country code and the site claimed to have sent me a verification text, but nothing has shown up after five minutes)
Pricing is still to be finalised. It will come from a conversation with our users. I want it to be reasonable and affordable.
Demo site is a good idea - thanks!

We have a feature request forum where users can vote on ideas submitted by other users. http://geckoboard.zendesk.com/forums/176685-feature-requests
Isn't the big issue that none of the browsers ever implemented logout of any kind, and just expected you to close your browser?
You need to go a bit deeper on Google Analytics. I can't get trendlines, just numbers, and no ability to see goals. (This probably goes for a lot of analytics packages, but we're using GA.)

Also, Flowtown and Wufoo would be nice - I believe they both have Webhooks, so it shouldn't be that difficult to add.

That said, this is exactly something I've wanted for quite a while; congrats!
There is also a list called "request for startups", which is located at http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html. It's slightly newer.
The child in me wants to drop everything he is doing; a new job, and apartment rent in 2 continents, and just go volunteer for this.
"Now we use the relationship with them to fuel our own competitive streak and to enhance team cohesion."

It's human to feel threatened, to take offence, to mistrust, and misjudge. Even people who try to be noble tend to do it, however there seem to be great benefits for people (like yourselves) who can put themselves in a position to learn from their competition. Thanks for sharing.
For #7, I'm pretty sure there would be a way if it was a national security concern.
The reason why I was surprised is because Iran is vilified often in the news, so I thought the people of Iran were repressed, living in a sort of dictatorial regime, where information is heavily censored, a bit like a slightly more lenient North Korea.

But if these people have access to the entire internet, then I am slightly confused.
...and that someone is Anthony Ward

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/789...
well, they want to deploy Pg/Nagios on the Space Station, pity Nagios's support for anything other than MySQL is poor to non-existent.
Why keep it a secret if it's just kiddie porn?
I have to actually play with the phone to get a clear understanding of how it works, but now it seems difficult to tell buttons from regular text
It can run in full screen live updating on displays for example.
Any reason why I can't sign up with my real name (which contains non-ascii characters)?

Come on! It's XXI century.
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I'd like to see GitHub integration.
The accounting profession has created a term for entities that are almost solvent, and can almost pay off their debts. The term is "insolvent."

It's dangerous to have entities for which the clock is running out. What we should aim for is the opposite: a social security system that's gradually accumulating assets, and can eventually use that to offload its risks (by, for example, paying a life insurance company to assume some of its obligations).

That way, 1) we know how much things cost, and 2) our problems are gradually getting solved. Now, we have the opposite situation.
Interior design has even taken up this torch!

"Every decision an interior designer makes in one way or another affects the health, safety and welfare of the public. Those decisions include specifying furniture, fabrics and carpeting that comply with fire codes and space planning that provides proper means of egress. Additionally, interior designers deal with accessibility issues, ergonomics, lighting, acoustics and design solutions for those with special needs."

His prognosis for the general situation doesn't look good: "My colleagues tell me that it would just seem silly to make a fuss over this; it is just not a serious topic. Yes we can't take seriously the idea of legally requiring a college degree to suggest where pillows go, but we also can't take seriously an economist who would focus on such a trivial and obvious point. [...] But if we cannot actually apply that knowledge effectively to obvious cases, what is the point exactly?"

http://robinhanson.typepad.com/overcomingbias/2009/04/silly-...
That only applies if this was done by the military though.
Great work!

I would probably start using when Aweber, ActiveCollab, Feedburner and HyperTracker are supported.
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Ask HN: I'm talking to a potential investor tomorrow.  What should I ask?
One of my users of FolderBoy is an angel investor (http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2009/february.htm). He likes my product (obviously, he’s a user), and he wants to see if there’s a good investor-hacker fit.

What are some questions I should ask? And what are some points that I should nail? Considering he already sees the merits of FB, I was thinking:

* The direction I want to take FolderBoy in the next 6 months, year, two years, five etc.

* Finance and business advice requirements in the next 6 months etc.

* His interest in the personal-organization space

What else?

Also, one catch: he’s in the US, and I’m in Australia. If things go well, I will need to meet him at some stage, how would I broach the subject of travelling over to the states? E.g., tickets cost ~AUS$1,800.
I would assume that most HN users would know how to hide their identity if strong anonymity is needed. I'd never trust a 'post anonymously' button from my logged-in account.
Where is the benefit for the voter? As you say, an interesting top 1000 list has already been produced. That was the reason to vote, to see what would come out on top. We know now, so why keep voting? There needs to be some personal and/or social benefit to voting.

Ideas:

1. Suggest movies from your "haven't seen it" picks that you might like based on your votes. You actually have a big advantage over Netflix and Amazon here because you have users telling you what they haven't seen. All the big companies know is whether the user has or hasn't bought or rented the movie.

2. Make themed subsets to vote on. Do a great 80s movie experiment. Or a great sci-fi movie experiment. Put up a new themed set each month or quarter. At least there will be something new on a regular basis then.

3. Let users see a personal top 10/100/1000 list based on their own votes. Of course, they will need to vote a LOT for this to make sense, but that's kind of what you want, isn't it? Maybe give them a percent of votes needed to get good results, like, "You need to vote about x times to get good results. You're at 35%, keep voting!"

4. This is vague and useless because I don't know enough about Facebook to know what would work, but make something that users can share via Facebook. Think how online quizzes get more traffic by giving badges that users can post on their wall.
Configuration files need to be static key value or a relational algebra - you cannot have mutations and branches based on logic within a configuration or else you introduce issues you wouldn't want to even dream of.
I've created a very similar social bookmarking webapp. You just enter a URL, and my webapp auto-tags it, indexes it for search, and shares it with all of your followers.

Check it out here:
http://imi-imi.appspot.com/
HotSpot uses very different method for interfacing with native code, thus this problem is partially mitigated. However only small part of heap is directly referenced by stack/registers so you can get away with simpler conservative implementation. Many Smalltalk and CL implementations scan stack and registers conservatively (for example SBCL and ST/X).
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Any chance for adding own data through REST api?

I'd be nice to see output of my custom monitoring daemon sent as JSON to your service and displayed in the Dashboard.
Hah I love that this became a thread about Tims. We're such hosers.
> Are there other examples of Windows Phone 7 being designed for expert/informed users?

To use Windows Mobile, you had to deal with ActiveSync. To use ActiveSync, you have to be fairly tolerant and technically proficient. For example, when upgrading the OS, you have the responsibility(1) of manually backing up all your contacts, data, apps.

Contrast this with iTunes (yes, iTunes isn't elegant) - when iOS 4 came out - it downloaded it and asked if you wanted to upgrade your phone and did so without losing settings, data, apps. Now, Android supposedly can do OTA updates. The point here is if WinMo7 requires ActiveSync - it is severely behind the times.

I'm hoping WinMo7 won't require a user to use ActiveSync and it is all stored securely in the Windows Live cloud. I usually used lots of colorful adjectives when dealing with ActiveSync. I had a boss who was convinced to get a WinMo device by a co-worker; she lasted only about a month (ActiveSync).

(1) http://www.htc.com/www/supportdownload.aspx?p_id=59&cat=...
When I submitted the TC link, neither was on the front-page.
Maybe it's just me but I think this is incredibly stupid - He's abstracting the issue that Unix isn't distributed into a single application. It's like putting $5000 rims and mufflers on a $100 van.
This does not work when you can have threads executing arbitrary native code, that can do some non-GC related work for essentially unbounded time, which is certainly case with .NET. In JVM any native code tends to be prepared to cope with this somehow, but .NET is explicitly designed to be able to seamlessly interoperate with random COM and legacy native libraries, so you cannot guarantee that such native code will get back to GC safe point in any bounded amount of time.

Edit: you can do stop-the-world GC at any point of program whan you scan stack conservatively, GC-safe points are only needed for precise scanning of stack and registers, so this is problem only when you want to be fully precise. Fully precise GC is certainly better when it is possible, but conservative scan works mostly well enough.
Ask HN: exercise at desk
I used to work form home, and exercise quite a bit. Now I have an on location job, so getting up in the middle of the day and exercising is out of the question. How does everyone here exercise at their desk?
Along with every other scripting language. Not news until someone has working apps running on most phones. Until then it's a toy. ASE isn't even available in the market yet. How is distribution going to work for that? I don't think .apks support dependencies, so at this point you'll practically have to ship your own version of the runtime with the app.
First of all, congrats! Let me turn around your question ... Ask yourself these questions first: "Do I need the money at this stage?", "Which are the non-monetary benefits the angel provides?" & "How will this benefit my existing customers?". Good luck!
Well done on launching! find the bootstrap/outsource combo very interesting - surely this is somewhat of a oxymoron What's your background if you don't mind me asking?
Thanks for the feedback. We're purposefully shying away from trend lines and analysis at the moment and only showing high level summary information that's useful for right now. We don't want you to have to interpret, just to see what a current snapshot of your business is.

I liken it to the dashboard of your car; if you have access to your key numbers you can see any problems straight away:

going over the speed limit?
oil pressure too low?
how many miles have I done this trip?
are my servers up?
do I have a ton of outstanding support requests?
have visitors to my site this week jumped suddenly?

I'm all for analysis and agree it's an essential function of almost any business but there are lots of products that can help you with that (see http://metricly.com for an excellent example), but that's not what Geckoboard is for.
What languages/frameworks/tools did you use to develop swift and other openstack technologies?
Also are there benchmarks that compares swift to other cloud computing systems out there?
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