skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a big problem for Google because they are mostly focused on a tightly controlled server environment where they control everything and created most of the software themselves.

For general purpose use, this is a huge deficiency in Go.
The problem isn't running out of disk space, the problem is that when my computer is not running, it's going to miss some RSS entries.
> she wrote me a check for that amount. When I cashed it a week later, she got very upset with me, because she forgot about it and already slated the money for something else

You bastard! She forgot and you cashed it anyway! haha.
There may be an upgrade fee associated with new versions. I haven't decided yet. Even if there is, it won't be the full cost of the license.

I won't ever charge an annual license fee is because the long term business model of HashiCorp is _not_ licenses. This is just a way to keep going and have folks support Vagrant.

Email includes a 48 hour response time.

Contact me at mitchell@hashicorp.com and I'd love to talk to you about this in more detail.
YC Alum GetGoing Launches “Pick Two, Get One” Flight Platform
Do you have anything working to show so far? What would this do that other RSS services don't do? Why should we risk backing this instead of using another existing service?
Integrated Network Poller for Go Scheduler
Just for the record, The Old Reader is listed as free, but according to their blog they plan to go freemium eventually.
The idea here is good, but the execution leaves far too much room for the startup founder or the investor to get screwed. In contract law any ambiguities are judged against the person that wrote the contract. Since the startup founder wrote "This is to confirm you're in for $100k at a $5 million cap." This is the contract that they have offered. Why bother making things so formal and binding when everyone knows that things still need to be dotted and signed.

My main concern is that this is forcing contracts onto normal negotiation. Maybe if the wording was changed to "strongly interested in" so that you can still publicly shame repeat offenders, without having the contract being formed when there are still other things to consider.
Are you saying that Google should help police user behavior for app developers? That sounds contrary to the "open" argument.
Based on my experience yes.

I work in enterprise projects done in multi-site context context, usually with teams that encompass more than 30 developers with multiple levels of experience.

Depending on the customer, sometimes it is very hard to force developers to write unit tests. If the customer does not care about them, the product manager will not enforce them.

Additionally given the lack of experiences of the junior developers, always chosen because they are cheaper to the customer, unit tests tend to be badly written.

So with static typing one has at least a guarantee that the product compiles and might eventually even run.

With dynamic typing and lack of tests, you can spend days getting the product back into a runnable state.
This seems very inefficient for the startup. They have people willing to offer more money for less shares, so why not go down the list until they have enough money? Or are there second-order effects I am not seeing here.
The inevitable showdown: Twitter vs Twitter apps (2009)
I have no doubt as to the power of Lisp, I've seen the end results with my own eyes. Haven't tried reading it on Emacs yet, but I guess it couldn't hurt to try again. It's just extremely difficult to turn off my semicolon thought process and turn on parentheses.
Where's the spec?
Yes, I don't adhere to SemVer. I am sorry. If it helps, you can think of it as SemVer if you make the SECOND number the major version (according to semver terminology, it is the X, in X.Y.Z).

I always say this warning to disclaim myself from future backwards incompatibilities, but if I follow 1.x like 0.x at all, then they'll be minimal.

Vagrant 2.0, of course, will introduce long term stability, like Vagrant 1.0. But that is far off. :)
Sounds like you had a great experience.

Thank you for sharing your story.

You mentioned you declined 3 of the 6 offers but did you end up accepting one?
> I have several friends that picked it up on launch day and a few of them haven't even tried to play it yet

Why not? They won't play the game they already bought because they heard some bad things about it?
Clickable links for above poll, because I'm lazy and so are you.

http://www.newsblur.com

http://www.frontpageapp.com

http://intigi.com

http://rssminer.net/demo

http://www.feedafever.com

http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email

http://www.protopage.com

http://netnewswireapp.com

http://bazqux.com

http://memamsa.com/start/gr

http://theoldreader.com

http://selfoss.aditu.de

http://rssowl.org

https://github.com/Fogbeam/Neddick

http://beta.newsmaven.co

http://feedly.com

https://ifttt.com

http://tt-rss.org

http://bookmarkchamp.com

http://1kpl.us

http://blogrollapp.com

http://getprismatic.com

http://lzone.de/liferea

http://www.newsbeuter.org/

http://goodnoows.com

http://rsslounge.aditu.de

http://yarssr.sourceforge.net

http://feedspot.com

http://www.bloglovin.com

http://www.netvibes.com

http://feeds.qsensei.com/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gregarius

Firefox

Chrome

Opera

http://www.skimr.co

http://www.bloglines.com

http://reederapp.com
Money changes hands every time people marry.
If this was such a huge problem, the content creators could certainly use an alternative method of displaying ads within their app.
That's one of the reasons why I've stopped development on this: nowadays the only way to get a critical mass of users on a site like this seems to be by being annoying or shady, doing things such as scraping data to build up profiles, spamming friends, etc.
I have been considering though opening up the whole project on github to serve as an example and see perhaps what others can make of it.
Describing an almost complete inability to play the game as "Internet outrage" seems rather glib.
Apparently, a similar crowd-sourced spreadsheet was also gaining popularity on Twitter: http://t.co/omAAsMYhkB
CalDAV is the spring cleaning killing that I'm most surprised about. It should have been obvious to everybody that reader was on track to be killed, but I would have thought that google would be eager to support any product that involves you telling them what your schedule is, whether that's through their calendar app or any other calendaring app you've got connected to their backend.
It’s sad to see google killing one of the most useful service. Though, there’s a petition going on to keep the Google Reader running https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-r... and more than 40k+ people have signed it.

If Google still decides to kill the service, I am going to use Feedly ;).
Some background on what makes a contract from Nolo (http://www.nolo.com/dictionary/contract-term.html):

"A legally binding agreement involving two or more people or businesses (called parties) that sets forth what the parties will or will not do. Most contracts that can be carried out within one year can be either oral or written. Major exceptions include contracts involving the ownership of real estate and commercial contracts for goods worth $500 or more, which must be in writing to be enforceable. (See: statute of frauds) A contract is formed when competent parties -- usually adults of sound mind or business entities -- mutually agree to provide each other some benefit (called consideration), such as a promise to pay money in exchange for a promise to deliver specified goods or services or the actual delivery of those goods and services. A contract normally requires one party to make a reasonably detailed offer to do something -- including, typically, the price, time for performance, and other essential terms and conditions -- and the other to accept without significant change. For example, if I offer to sell you ten roses for $10 to be delivered next Thursday and you say "It's a deal," we've made a valid contract. On the other hand, if one party fails to offer something of benefit to the other, there is no contract. For example, if Maria promises to fix Josh's car, there is no contract unless Josh promises something in return for Maria's services."
That's true of any piece of software you add.
This temptation of government to limit the number of X (be it food trucks or cabs) is one of those things I wish would get addressed. It seems more and more we need a small addition to the US Constitution dealing with economic freedom.

[edit for autocorrect of addition to edition]
I recommend Adblock Edge which is available for Firefox mobile.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

"Adblock Edge is a fork of the Adblock Plus version 2.1.2 extension for blocking advertisements on the web. This fork will provide the same features as Adblock Plus 2.X and higher but without "acceptable ads" feature."
Considering they had a design business before they started selling online tools, I'd say not as high as you think.

In fact I'd make a guess that most of the 'beta testers'/first users of Basecamp were probably former clients that had projects to manage.

Rails developers probably helped with the explosive growth of the products, but not as much with the initial investments. Keep in mind the entire idea of Basecamp was that it was to be an internal tool.
Did anyone try to use Pulse (https://www.pulse.me/) as an RSS reader? it's not strictly one, but it might work, I'm thinking about switching to it.
165th Roundtable Recap: March 14 – Spotlight On ProductNation, India
Since I'm one of those "weekend hackers who likes to use PHP like a newb"......

I use a self hosted and rather hacked up rnews install: http://rnews.sourceforge.net/

It uses magpierss to grab feeds: http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/

I also make heavy use of yahoo pipes to munge together a few rss feeds and do other regex'y type things to a feeds: http://pipes.yahoo.com (pls yahoo, never kill pipes!)

The reason I like rnews is the boxed layout (where each feed is seperated), rather than every other rss reader which jams everything into a single feed. With the boxed way I have the feeds I read daily up top and then progressively have boxes for sites which I only skim headlines for every week down lower.

I have a side question which I've been meaning to float on HN for some time: is there anything cool I could do with the fact that my self hosted rss aggregator receives roughly 2,000 hits a day from search bots? I mean I get scraped constantly all day, from ALL engines.
Alternative to Google Shopping API
Thank you. I should make it clear that I'm still on OK terms with those people. It wasn't so much a direct "you're stupid" or else I wouldn't speak to them again, but more of a "that's just stupid that you can't get it". Which I guess is a long about way of saying almost the same thing, but I think they held back.

I can try to do something with it again if I have time, but I feel it's going to be a long and laborious process before I start to get comfortable. I used to unconsciously put semicolons ;)
Yup maybe I buried the lede a bit. I put that detail in the last sentence.

I ended up accepting an offer that I think is a better culture fit than my old position and a significant raise.
If it was not clear enough, "fancy stuff" and "not making a big difference" refers to Seide et al 2011 mentioned in the same paragraph. Table 2 is particularly revealing to this regard.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1531...

As I said I can only speak with more or less certainty regarding ASR. I am fairly sure that the success in ASR (with Google and MS embracing DNNs for ASR) contribute significantly to the mainstream impact of deep learning.
This article looks fairly accurate (for what I understand of the SF market) Things are a fair bit cheaper/easier in Portland. I do actually own a food truck in Portland (as well as a software company).

We made a profit on about three different days last year. The other 300 were not profitable :( It would have helped a lot if we had family members working for chips and hugs; paying staff is a huge cost particularly if you want quality gourmet-style food and hard-working employees (we have mostly 5-star yelp reviews)

Before our pod landlord decided to shut down abruptly, combined with our chef/my girlfriend getting diagnosed with brain tumors, it was costing about $3k/month (net loss) however that's the awful wet northwest winters driving people away from outdoor pods. Once the warmer weather starts back up again and we find a new pod, we should be in the black, but the business model I'm working on involves a lot of carts with a central kitchen, in clusters in a few cities. If anyone wants to chat about investing, let me know :)

We got started for about $20k total including the 'truck' which is actually a trailer that is stationary.

obligatory link, http://theheartcart.com
Upgraded Heroku Plugin to view Postgres statistics for your app
As a Brit, I'm confused.
> The angry mob on reddit fueled by RPS and other places hungry for pageviews

This seems to imply that Rock Paper Shotgun is printing sensationalized fluff. I don't think that's a fair characterization at all. As gaming news sites go, I'd say Rock Paper Shotgun is generally pretty thoughtful and reasonable, and thus it's built up a lot of credibility with a lot of people. Is it really being "hungry for pageviews" to report that important statements made about a game's underlying technology are patently false? Because to me that just sounds like good journalism — the kind that the gaming industry could use more of.
Checkbox attributes would be nice for building a comparison chart. Important attributes (to me):

* tracks read/unread status at individual item level

* keyboard-driven navigation (sadly, as far as I can tell, only Google really gets it here)

* unlimited or large limit on items per feed (some only allow 10 articles, which makes it impossible to read hacker news, for example)

* standalone accounts (google or facebook login not required)
SpiffyGif
Nice! Great to see the Go team aggressively going after performance.
Startup related?

- Smart Passive Income: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/

- This Week in Startups: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/

- Startups for the Rest of Us: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

Non-startup related:

- Slash Filmcast: http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/

- 8-4 Play: http://8-4.jp/blog/?lang=en

- Giant Bombcast: http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/

- Weekend Confirmed: http://www.shacknews.com/tag/weekend-confirmed

- Idle Thumbs: http://www.idlethumbs.net/shows

Dead Podcasts, but timeless:

- Retronauts: http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3156908

- Active Time Babble: http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3176689

- A Life Well Wasted: http://alifewellwasted.com/podcast/

I like startups, movies, and video games. If you couldn't tell.

Ninja Edit: Formatting.
inDinero Product Intern
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We're looking for an intern who is interested in getting experience in the startup industry as a technical/product assistant. In tandem with our cofounders and engineers, you will do daily QA; look into the worst air brake bugs; talk to customers to gather product feedback; weite bug reports onto pivotal tracker; announce and teach new product features to the team.

Requirements: full-time (40 hours/week) availability and willing to work wonky hours (including Sunday evenings if necessary!) to communicate with our remote engineering team; math, science, or other technical degree; strong communication and teaching skills; experience with Photoshop and Fireworks; a fun attitude and quirky personality.

If this sounds like a good match, let's get started

Send Ali a quick email at jobs@indinero.com with a subject line called "THU2INPDHNSF [YOUR-CITY-NAME-HERE]". Email should contain:

1) What did you study in college? What do you hope to get out of an internship with inDinero?

2) What is the highest level of math you've taken? Do you participate in any online communities?

3) your resume, pasted into the email.

CHAT SOON!
Beware of the bias
As the others have replied, prize winnings, team salary (teams generate money from sponsorship deals and selling merch). Also TLO (like many pro's) streams his SC2 sessions via twitch.tv and generates ad revenue.
I think they redesigned the game to be a bit easier.

I've played the previous sim city games, but I never really liked them. Looking at the videos of the new one, it seems like they made it a bit more accessible, such as not requiring players to build power lines or water pipes. It's more of a game that I would play casually for half an hour here and there and still find it fun.
> Does it just take some serious perseverance? Or am I just Lisp-dumb?

I've had the same difficulty with Lisp, but I can read Forth and Postscript (another postfix language) easily. I am really not sure what that says about how brains get wired other than I encountered both postfix languages early in my career.
Has anyone made a Chrome extension with working desktop notifications? I've tried https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-alert/lemgijji... and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/feed-notifier/njjn... , neither seem to work at all.
The common ones are providing it cheaper than they can find elsewhere, at a convenient time and/or place, and at a convenient quantity. There are also guarantees, support offerings, etc.
I haven't had a chance to dig into FoundationDB, but your approach sounds very interesting. I 100% agree, that the filesystem is not without its flaws for building a production system. What's interesting to me is once someone has the database hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Include whatever features you really want the winner to have, because I'm sure these guys are gonna start scrambling to compete and fill out their checkboxes real quick. :)
Uber driver charged with raping woman in D.C.
That's a fair point, but it's a different point than the one btilly is making. (I'm not trying to be rude, I just think btilly's theory is interesting enough to merit some defense.)

Consider the formal grammar that might be used to implement a programming language. When we use the word 'grammar' here, it's obvious that Lisp has less of it than, say, Python. It's roughly equivalent to saying that Lisp has less syntax. So, his argument is independent of any VSO/SVO distinction.

Ben is arguing that Python's additional syntax, by formalizing common structures, allows us to (in some sense) externalize the inherent complexity of a problem (i.e. out of our brain). The downside is that it introduces some rigidity into the language. Lisp makes a different tradeoff: we are forced to handle all of the complexity ourselves, but in return the language is flexible enough that we can build exactly the right abstractions for our problem. There's a kind of conservation law.
Don't miss what Google uses:

http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2011/10/take-bite-out-of-b...

http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2011/11/rpf-googles-record...

http://code.google.com/p/bite-project/
We're Building A Reader
So, for instance, I could develop an Edda client using C++11 and OpenGL for OSX?
In what way isn't strictly one? After spending quite a lot of time looking for nice RSS readers for the iPad I opted for Pulse and never looked back. Apart from anything else it seemed one of the few that (at the time) didn't rely on a Google Reader account.
Not having money is fine, thinking you have money when you don't will kill you.

It's amazing to me that even after having a company utterly destroyed by broken promises from handshake deals that I still trust them, but I do EVERY SINGLE TIME! I'm going to use this protocol for the next few and see how it works out.
But the alternatives aren't Vagrant + Fusion versus VMWare on Windows. The alternatives are Vagrant + VirtualBox versus Vagrant + VirtualBox, which is zero cost.
Google Fiber—Risk, Uncertainty, and Animal Spirits in Kansas City
Sometimes the only way to prove a solution won't work is to create it and find out. Even then, you don't know that it won't work for someone else in the future.

Do your market research but disruptive innovation isn't something which can be formulated. Else we'd be much better at it by now.
You'll get an .epub when the final book is out.
I think this is actually a decent idea worth testing. Not as the typical startup but more as a one customer at a time but big customers sustainable business.

The warehouse situation seems like it needs solving. I don't quite get why someone that buys 5k of wine wouldn't pay for a good warehouse.
High tech new age warehousing for wine seems to be the in.

With some big customer that loves wine you'd basically switch to building and running his warehouse and then see how you can scale that to warehouses that store wine for multiple people.

Premium wine is pretty much comparable to art imo. Show effect and "because I can" are big drivers for buying. If you successfully run the warehouse for one rich guy you can leverage that as marketing.

Either way: Very fascinating article. Thanks for posting it.
I like how that blogs links are the same colors has static text.
same to me!
The name remains awful, but they seem committed to stick with it. For better or worse.
Love y'alls program.

Three questions: 1) Do the gender messages of women pioneers like Sheryl & Marissa resonate with black entrepreneurs or does the message feel "hollow"?

2) Are there any mainstream outlets that you think do a fairly good job of covering success (or struggles) of BFFs?

3) Who is your dream mentor?
Spam has always been from big companies. Check your spam folder a lot will take you to AT&T, Amazon, best buy, eBay and so on.
If you're using indentation anyway, why not allow indentation to IMPLY parenthesis.

so that say:

foo 1 2 3
bar 1 2
if (eq qux 3)
fizzbuzz 7

is translated by the parser to:

(foo 1 2 3)
(bar 1 2)
(if (eq qux 3)
(fizzbuzz 7))
It's spelled "Lua", not "LUA". It's not an acronym.
Google only supports open standards when it is convenient for them to do so. Now its no longer convenient for them to support CalDav out goes the open standard.

I'm sure IMAP support in Gmail will be next on the chopping block.
Digital Comic Publisher Quits, Customers Lose All Their "Purchased" Titles
This is awesome, it is a very good alternative to other sites like ajaxload.info

I would like to see more options like a loading bar instead of just the spinning circle.
Bonobos - Adventures in Offline User Experience
This sounds very simiar to the medieval merchant law: a non-state-affiliated system of lightweight customs for helping people trust each other in business transactions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_mercatoria
Adding to the top comment providing the other three so HN people don't need to give this site more views:

3) E-mail is still a growing business communication tool. 4) E-mail for task management can work. 5) You can power up your e-mail with multiple app combos.

A bunch of crap, don't bother going.
I'm sure this will be massively popular, but the cynic in me can't help but think this is a great way for a company to do very cheap R&D.

It's similar to their algorithm contest - where they basically had a fixed potential investment but reaped rewards thousands of times greater than what they could have afforded by tapping into people willing to work for free as a hobby.

On one hand I think it's a great idea, but on the other I'm concerned about how this can be exploited; industries built on passions tend to massively undervalue employees. See: Aviation, Sports, Publishing.
The food in the article and your food seem quite involved and niche (Thai, vegan, Nordic). Does a cart like Potato Champion do better because the food is easier to produce and everybody likes French fries?