skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I started with git, I really enjoyed the PeepCode Git Internals book: https://peepcode.com/products/git-internals-pdf

It's $12 (or $9 according to the preview) and the first thing it tells you to do is forget everything you know about source control. If you know SVN and want to use that knowledge to learn Git, I don't think you'd like this book. If you think knowing the underlying data model will help you be more effective with git, this book is for you.

The book has lots of diagrams and I thought it was pretty well written (and not too slow).

I use git for personal projects (not production code). Unlike many who think git is a hostile hateful thing, I think git has a brilliant command-line user interface. I don't know if this book made me that way, but I also use Vim so that might explain it (again, I disagree with the prevailing opinion of hostile hateful thing).
I do love your app. Haven't used it in a month or so, but the one thing that bothered me was how I could click on a message that contained a link, and easily view the link, but I couldn't click on the topic to do the same thing.

Mostly curious if anyone has ever mentioned that to you before.
Awesome write-up. Really love the technical depth in this post. Slurp looks great too, gonna play around with it.
We'd love to hear what you think stinks about our UI/UX. Reply here or ping us at feedback@getprismatic.com
Updating documentation to be consistent with the rest of our add-on docs in Dev Center is a requirement for being displayed on the main page. We're still working with a few providers to bring them in line.
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Great talk from LS conference. Thanks for sharing.
Once users realized that the owner of the idea was the one assigning points, they may just offer up feedback that panders to the owner in order to receive rewards.
Well, so, I'm an empiricist on this. Absolutely one can point to companies like Tesla (or defense contractors in an earlier time) which received a ton of government money and by any objective measure did push technology forward.

But one can also point to companies like Google which received only $25M in venture funding and certainly went on to create ridiculous amounts of wealth by any measure. And I believe this is the ecosystem argument you're getting at, if I'm not mistaken?

So now it becomes a quantitative question. Economics is notoriously resistant to controlled experiments, but I think that in the main the experience of the 20th century has showed us that you want to have most wealth allocated by the market. If you look at all Eastern Bloc nations, the Soviet Union, North Korea, pre-Deng China, pre-reform Vietnam, and so on down the list...and then compare them to West Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, you've got a pretty good case for less government intervention in the market.

The few countries that do government/tech investments reasonably well are pretty small countries like Singapore run by technically savvy guys, and there too the government is keenly aware of the fact that it needs to treat companies well or they will leave.

So, for what it's worth, regarding this point:

the tax revenues from the increased capital in the market
(directly from Tesla itself but also all the things it
influences)

Basically if the idea is that government involvement can create a favorable ecosystem, I think that an even more favorable ecosystem is one where the government just hangs back and lets the market punch it out ("laissez-nous faire"). Some companies will die and won't get bailouts. Some companies will look like they're on the ropes and then make an incredible comeback. But no company will be able to call in the government, the guy with the gun. Then it's not a fair fight anymore, and (extending the analogy) you scramble to get out of the ring/country because you can't win.

Put it this way: when the ref has bet $500M on your competitor, there is no point in playing.
Actually, Alexia approached us months ago and had been converted into a believer! It's a pretty common story for us. People are grumpy about news apps because they've been frustrated in the past, then their friends share a bunch of interesting stuff from prismatic, then they give us a chance.
I would disagree about needing incentives/rewards to get people voting. You are the counterargument to your own comment. You just commented on this idea here on HN, for free, with no incentive and no reward. People like us often love to see new ideas, and comment on them and join in a discussion with the founders. "This is great", "I don't think this will work", "this would be better if...", "what are you planning to do about..."

LaunchSky is "Hacker News for Ideas Not News"

I've dreamed of having something like this before, and I would love to see LaunchSky do it. I think I would go there often enough to see other people's ideas and provide my own.

I think this is best aimed at the same people that like Hacker News, NOT the general Facebook population.
I don't remember seeing a rounded button until the 2000's I think.
I appreciate his "conflict & cooperation" approach to the their tiff, but the truth is the conflict is more interesting and prevalent than the cooperation here. Especially with Apple's reaction, openly going after the Kindle and Maps could be a huge money pit for them.
Since you are using a separate ZNC instance for each user, what are prospects of allowing users to install (or choose from a pre-selected list of) third-party ZNC extensions? In my case, I wrote a service-agnostic push notification module for ZNC [1] that I think would be a decent additional feature for you to compete with services like IRCCloud or TapChat.

1: https://github.com/jreese/znc-push
Thanks. Most media sites have Open Graph tags - I wonder why Twitter didn't just reuse those. I understand they're from a competitor but they are somewhat standard. All these proprietary tags add unnecessary overhead to developers and bloat to pages. Sigh!
I hate that you have to sign up before browsing the site. I'd be much more interested in signing up if I can browse with free will.

I'm assuming you can only vote if you sign up? If so, the target sign up market for LaunchSky are devs/entrepreneurs/etc which are usually not the target market of the apps that are using the service.
Love seeing this. Is there a bigger Erlang community now in DC? I went to a meetup in 2011 and it was like 4 people.
“Make sure decisions are fact-based, not faith based.” - Steve Blank

If you're trying to get a lot of user opinions in the US from normal people who buy stuff, that phrase at the top of the site is not going to go over so well if its also displayed on the public comment page.
the TLDR is worthy of a self-facepalm..

>> I guess, under 10,000 hours of testing

I would of thought that the regression of Microsoft is inferior to the diversity of people using Linux daily. Another benefit to a rolling release cycle I suppose
Ideal combination for Java guys
There are always #those# people surely.
In the very limited areas where there is currently Supercharger coverage. Also, 30 minutes for a charge isn't exactly fast.
"especially when the cost of build/deploy <= cost of comprehensive research"

you REALLY think so? I agree with your first few points, but I disagree on that last (quoted) bit entirely.

Building/deploying something of real quality (and potential viability) can be very costly.

The point of the app is to make that "cost of comprehensive research" negligible in comparison to what it is today. Either you pay a ton to do it right or train yourself forever on how to do it cheap (which is a cost of time). We want to lessen that burden exponentially.
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HN won't let me respond to your other comment because it is too deep or something? Anyways, my response:

I'm very open to it, if it can be done in a safe way. One way to do this may be to just curate a set of ZNC modules (since there aren't tons) that are approved to be installed, such as your znc-push module. It looks like that sort of thing would provide a lot of value.
The idea that they could charge for a service that reflects your personal log data in a compelling way isn't what's far off base here. It's that the entirety of what they're offering is just reformatted data (a few charts) and the ability to download it to a spreadsheet (after you uploaded it to them). And in order to continue to see that same data, you'd have to continue paying a monthly fee.

A small one-time cost to access such features makes sense. That's nothing more than an in-app purchase. It's the subscription model and high value they've placed on it that seems grossly inappropriate, especially considering that the bulk of what they're offering is just your own data shown back to you.

Nike+, another model that essentially just shows you your own data, sells the product that does the tracking up front. It doesn't sell you your own generated data later. And then they add value to that data by interpreting it in different ways, enabling insight, offering unique interactions with other members, etc. The subscription model misrepresents your uploaded user data as Untappd-generated content.
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This one is even cooler, to me, since the ship flies around a lot more http://www.heise.de/video/artikel/Asteroids-Vladimir-Bleifus...
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The email may not be encrypted, but as long as the data transfer was made under a secure protocol, there's not much of a difference. Only difference is that Google themselves can view your email in plaintext. But in terms of a man in the middle attack, I'm failing to see the difference.
I wish the Community edition would support the Python plugin. Currently, if you want to develop in Python, you can't use the Community edition. :(
I have been running debian as my desktop OS for the last decade. What do you think I am missing out on?
Many people run Linux on the desktop these days. And commonly cited numbers like 1% are way off (too low).

On the contrary to how you described it - when people grow out of Mac OSX and Windows, they start using Linux on the desktop.
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Or maybe apple.com, worst case you get some self promotion.
Just thought I would comment here because I can't on your blog. The link to follow on hacker news just brings you back to the blog post.
Great response Vlad. If someone is going to bet "everything they have" against you succeeding, take it.
My first thought is that companies would not want to forward data to a company that enables a current customer to possibly leave for better rates.
For those that like this kinda of application, you might also like Zite (I use both and am not affiliated with either): http://www.zite.com/
We're working on it. Hopefully we start to get some pieces out early next year!
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Trademarks are primarily to protect consumers, not companies. As long as you are referring to Geico, and not trying to name some other company "Geico", you cannot fall afoul of their trademark. The trademark is to make sure that you are referring to the right company, and that's all.
Where does it say that the NSA has open access to Google's data? It says that the NSA most likely collaborated with Google as part of an investigation of the hacking of their Chinese servers.

The burden of proof being so low here on HN on matters like this is alarming.
We are not solving the signal from noise problem. We think that's not the right way to frame modern relevance.
We sure do! You can file bug reports and pull requests on http://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js
Not being in the US I'm not going to try it, but does this not work like the UK ones, where that's a real actual price and you click straight through to buying with the company at that quote?

--EDIT-- no I see that it does not work like this, now that I've read more about it, it predicts rates. Here's hoping they can actually integrate with insurers in future because the services like that here in the UK are pretty useful.
If you're spending a lot of money on a MVP, and you're devastated when it fails, maybe you aren't cut out for this line of work. There needs to be a happy medium between devoting your life to a product nobody wants and throwing a million ideas at the wall. There's a minimum commitment level somewhere above "Just ask people", that's where you create a reasonable functional prototype and start soliciting feedback.
Fail as in, "I've pivoted in every way possible and im losing money all over"?
Well congrats, I'm glad to hear it. My co-founder uses your app every day and loves it.

My beef is that it seems TC always ties news to funding cycles, which IMO puts the focus on the wrong thing.
I have used linux as my desktop for the last 7 years. Started around 13 or 14 and went from there. Luckily when I played loads of games the ones I liked ran on linux as they were both java based. That is basically the only thing that might have held me back.

My brother, who I don't consider a tech person, switched over to linux after seeing me run it for years and needing a faster OS for an old laptop. He now uses it even on his newer machines. Along with my brother I have had a few other family members ask about maybe switching their computers to linux.

With more devices based on linux such as ultrabooks (chrome os) it looks like more companies will be writing drivers for linux; one of the larger issues with linux. With Valve moving to linux we have seen huge improvements in graphics card drivers which is awesome, and hopefully more game companies will start working on linux ports.

The big question though, is whether or not linux moving to consumer type interfaces is a good thing. See gnome 3, unity, etc. making things easier to use on the surface, but at the same time removing lots of the configurability and power that many linux users enjoy.
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Not sure why you were downvoted. IRCCloud is a great service (though they've been experience trouble recently with a lot of disconnection issues randomly)
I don't agree, there are important things that you can't do in a browser: editing content.

Sorry, I don't understand this at all. Web apps have for a long time been able to edit everything from formatted text, via spreadsheets and similar "structured" data, to mid-range graphics. There are several well-known web-based "office" suites, and while they can't compete seriously with desktop native apps, for mobile devices that are touchscreen based, I don't see what you think is missing or significantly inferior to what you can do with a native mobile app.
Strange, this is almost like what I thought pvsh should be (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4867883) -- you're connecting people who want things with people who are making them. Except instead of letting people generate ideas for entrepreneurs to jump on, you're asking entrepreneurs to lift their skirt before they're ready for the dance. Also, you don't have the monetization I'd expect (or at least you're not talking about it yet).

Edit: I just realized that "If you sign up now, you’ll get to submit your first idea free" implies you're monetizing the entrepreneurs who use the site -- so all content is paid content.
Oops...LOL ... I got too excited!
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Yep, they're definitely hot cars: http://jalopnik.com/5956179/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-h...

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This seems like a great idea, but I am absolutely not going to give credit card info at the beginning of a trial. Shame, I would have liked to try it out.
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I'm guessing it's mainly developers who don't want to/can't afford to use Macs.

I know that at the low end it's sometimes installed on computers which are given to very tech unsavvy people who don't need anything outside of a browser and can't seem to touch a Windows PC without acquiring 300 viruses.
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Rather than saying what is descriptively and historically accurate, I believe Thiel and Kasparov are merely issuing a challenge, if stated in a somewhat hyperbolic way, to today's innovators/entrepreneurs. If read in this light, they are cheerleaders not historians.
Is there a site to browse? It looks like it's just a demo to me ("We’ll be launching LaunchSky early 2013").

(Did not try signing up because I totally agree with you.)
Great! I love the service, I miss only an app for my Android tablet. Keep up the good work.
Very true. One way around that is to put more than one word on your flashcard; a phrase of five-ish words enough to study in that way, but long enough to show some grammar and context ("the elephant has a long trunk").
Forge ahead. I myself was a practicing attorney who left my job to pursue a start-up of my own. Days ago I learned about YC and HN, and as soon as I learned about YC, I found myself filling out a YCW2013 late application. I know as a non-technical, single founder, that applied late I am at a disadvantage.

Just last night I scrolled the HN jobs page and found one YC alumni who posted a non-technical job, I immediately emailed them my back story: attorney quit job to pursue start-up but I also explained that if I failed to get into YCW2013 that I have familiarized myself with their start-up/product and think I would be a great addition to their start-up team. What is important, especially with start-ups is that you are open, honest and sincere with your commitment to the position and start-up, for example the start-up I contacted would require me to relocate from Miami to Chicago.

Hopefully your start-up succeeds and you do not need it but my advice boils down to being genuine and going after what you want, in my case that is working for a cool start-up tackling an interesting problem. Never give up on your vision, best regards.
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I don't really think you can evaluate government loans the same way you would as a private investor. The federal government has defacto senior equity in every company that is incorporated and/or operates in the US. As a private investor the only upside you get from a loan is the interest. It's not even entirely fair to use a VC type model here as the government will also reap rewards from companies that indirectly benefit from these investments.

Your points regarding state-owned companies is more a case against equity investment and a defense of the loan model. The US government isn't going to go to extreme measures to recoup a billion dollars and because it doesn't have any additional equity there's no other real incentive to prop up the companies that it has loaned money to. The free market is an extremely powerful system that is capable of remarkable things but it's not perfect and there are problems that the free market won't address on it's own (climate change being a poster boy example).
> The big question though, is whether or not linux moving to consumer type interfaces is a good thing. See gnome 3, unity, etc. making things easier to use on the surface, but at the same time removing lots of the configurability and power that many linux users enjoy.

Here is a good review of shifts in ideas behind various Linux DEs:

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/experimentation-vs.-tr...

I agree with the author that KDE made the wisest choice not to narrow options and to embrace various form factors with different design approaches (instead of lumping it all together into one mobile style UI).
Instagram is totally about the filters! It's not like there aren't a million alternatives, so what made instagram a success? That it took dull photos and made them what is widely considered, interesting.
The monetization isn't finalized yet -- we're getting feedback now (mostly with this post).

Our hunch is to charge a minimal amount for each idea submission; something significantly less than the money/time/effort for a splash page / domain / launchrock / ads. The early adopters would never pay; we instead need to figure out a clear way to incentivize them to come to each idea, the dashboard of ideas in general, and back again.
this is frustrating, I just want to poke around and browser the site to see what is what. This seems to be quite difficult to accomplish.
Ok, suppose you have entrepreneurs that are ready to use launchsky, they've created a bunch of projects to evaluate. What about end-users ? I don't really care what other entrepreneurs think about the idea, I do want to get in touch with potential users !
There's no way this is accurate for all locations. Some algorithms for insurance calculations are proprietary trade secrets and only the general information about them is filed with the states (not true for all states, but for many it is).

In other words, just going from the State filings is not going to take into account a lot of details that insurance companies are using to calculate your premium.
In 2011, we had more than 100 people attend the first edition of the ErlangDC conference.

Since then, we've seen an uptick on the attendance of the monthly meetups which we've been having more regularly: http://www.meetup.com/erlang/. We've been getting between 12 to 20 people attend the meetups.

We are hosting one next week actually in which Jordan Wilberding will be talking about Credit Card processing for mobile apps.

The main goal of the conference is to improve the DC Erlang community. All the money that's left over is used to support the DC meetup group.
Ford never said this, and it isn't true anyway. At least in cities, the public didn't want horses, they wanted better cars and more financing options.

In New York City alone, hundreds of horses died in the street every day, and the owners simply unhitched their carriages and left, resulting in streets clogged with horse corpses. Horses generated over a hundred tons of manure daily, which, combined with the dead horses, was a sanitation nightmare that led to typhoid, cholera, and dysentery.

I hear this misattributed quote so often on Hacker News that it makes my head spin. :-)
There's no site to browse.

It's a demo / launch page. Sorry for the confusion, but I guess that means it's a decent launch page?
He's already been investigated (or prosecuted, I forget) for expensing personal stuff at the fund. But really, it would be easy to consider it an investment, or buy the asset personally and then invest it personally. Whether or not a small asset like that is his personally or the fund's doesn't affect his decision making.
I really should take it for a spin again and find if I find it as intolerable as I did then, as an exercise in keeping flexible.

I'm not usually inflexible, I'm happy flipping back and forth between very different development environments usually. As we've seen there are people who feel just the opposite as me in the thread too, no doubt it is partially down to how one builds mental models and how well they fit the abstractions chosen in both IDE's for various concepts.
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I'm surprised Amazon allow IRC on EC2. A sizeable number of VPS providers prohibit IRC usage; it makes them dDoS magnets and just isn't worth the hassle
There is no web site. It's just a mockup of a website.
A million times this. Your screenshot doesn't show it, but Eclipse's error pane shows all errors and warnings from all source files in the project. This is very useful and not possible in IDEA or NetBeans. So it's easier to overlook errors and I never have the same feeling of knowing about things that need attention in my projects.
If you want to extract more data from your site to Google Analytics I recommend GAS (Google Analytics on Steroids).

https://github.com/CardinalPath/gas

It adds these events and even more to your site.

(I'm the main developer by the way.)
>not even a little bit.

Well, a little bit. The NSA is the largest employer of Mathematicians in the world, and excluding Universities, they own that title by a very large margin.

What are all of those elite nerds researching? Cryptography.