skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bakthat 0.5.0 Released With OpenStack Swift Support and BakManager Integration
Ask HN: critique my failed news site pitch
The campaign ended last week only raising $980 in total. http://jkl.io/ is the early prototype, the pitch on Indiegogo is under the 'about' link. Basically I want to head in the direction of a largely image free and largely static served site on high level policy and politics. The low cost overhead of those factors is therefore supposed to free it of advertisers and make it possible to pursue as a donation driven site (with me working on it part-time).

So my question is, is the model wrong and if so is there a better model to pursue this kind of site? Was the pitch off and besides obvious things for the second run, like making a video, what can be improved? I also suspect the prototype, as it doesn't have comments and full story ranking etc, undermined the pitch in that people thought they were funding just that rather than the more comprehensive site I want to build.
IFLS delivery is unique for this content.
Lean != landing page
I agree. Though the questions will remain as how it will end and when it will end.
10% is customary here in the UK, but then we do have minimum wage; AFAIK tips are tips.

When I was last in NYC the minimum was 12.5%, and that wasn't all that long ago - I was impressed that the bill included tip calculations, but what really annoyed me was the "would you like the change" thing.
Best DVD iPad Mini/Mini 2 Ripper – Convert Rip DVD to iPad Mini 2 Video
This iPad Mini 2 tutorial will guide you to rip/convert DVD to iPad Mini 2 and play DVD video on iPad Mini 2 HD display (rumored to have 2048x1536p resolution) in portable way.
This has been imagined before, but with dire consequences...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qabOjyTNg6s
That's true, but it's not as significant a difference as interpretative art. The original still dominates.

Good point, though. Delivery of embedded content is often ignored.
The NET translation (bible.org) is widely used in free Bible apps, so while it is not public domain, it seems to be free. It's a nice translation, and also has lots of notes (if the app provides them).

The ESV translation has a free app, too, although that might not help someone trying to add it in their Bible app.
Sad news for those who happened to benefit from this company. I guess is not just gonna sleep, but it will shut down. So sad to know about this.
Mini MicroSD Reader for Android Smartphones & Tablets
I just tried XVim for the first time because of this post. This unbelievably well integrated into XCode, and the source code is very clean, especially for obj-c.
Agree with the point on prototype. A video would have been a better choice overall.
This is the biggest strawman argument I've ever encountered on HN.

Since when was 'lean startup' equated with putting up a landing page and not even telling anyone about it?
Ask HN: Best remote jobs for a rusty hacker?
I'm short on money and looking for some remote jobs I can do while I'm polishing my coding skills. I'm not looking for something fancy but something that can get me going quickly without a hiring process of months.
The only positions I've that companies are willing to allow remote work is tech support. Although it's like going back 13 years in my career I would consider it with no other option available.
Any other ideas?
Looking at this, it looks like a 1-stop sharing solution. Im assuming that when a user shares files from this device, the connection is routed from Transporter's servers to the users device, allowing the downloader to directly copy the users file.

I wonder how replication between 2 devices would work...
Interactive Path Finding Visualization
Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 12.10
Can anyone break down the security for me? Are they using PGP? How does the shared secret thing work?
Ask HN: What is C++ for you?
Hello guys

I will soon give a talk about C++ and C++11 particularly, and I would like to focus on what most people/geeks/developers think of C++11, whatever it is true or not. I am not looking for long arguments about proving who has the truth. I want you personal feeling about C++. Dont mix up your though too much to look trustworthy, just tell it as it is, if you would be so kind. If you dont know enough about C++ to have an opinion, just state it (that is valuable for me).

What the word "C++" brings into you mind ?
Do you think it is hard to learn ?
Do you think it is good for avanced users and too hard for others ?
Do you think it is too low level and should be avoided in a modern code base ?
Do you think it is a choice language for modern software ?
Do you think it have nothing to do with the internet world and is or will be overwhelmed by "web" languages ?
Do you think it is a crippled C extension ?
Do you think it is old and should only be used for its initial purposes ?
Do you think it is boring to be a C++ developer ?
Do you think it is inelegant compared to "beautiful" and strongly expressive languages ?
Do you think learning C++ is valuable for a software developer ?
Do you think it has a poor community ?

Those questions are oriented and I do not expect anybody to answer each of them. I just wrote them down to help you figure out your opinion.

Thank you very much for any feedback.
Actually I never make a good estimation, so i just multiple 3 now. I also believed in hack/ship cycle, but after several rounds i found the product became unmaintainable and it's harder and harder to add new feature. Does this mean I need to improve my coding skill to make this cycle works ?
That's OK, he has lawdingo. :-)
How To Prepare A Capitalization Table For Your Startup
I will run you through the process that I went through to figure out the cap table for Interesante.com –– hopefully this will serve you as a template to follow or at least a base to start.
I was looking for this comment, I'm expected to sign up for something I don't even know I don't need!

I can hazard a guess that EveryMe (beyond being Yet Another Social Network) is that it wasn't communicated properly, I'll back that up by:

"Our Twitter searches were full of users that didn't get it."

I've noticed this trend in recent startups, where for some funny reason, you tell the consumer nothing about the product but expect them to pay a time and information investment. My email address isn't something I just give out to no-mark sites.

As one such consumer, you're battling with not only The Big Guys, but that other startup that has an introduction stating their mission. You've got 10 seconds to convince me I need you, or I'm out of your website.
Crowd funding in Russia
I think asteroid impacts only start to be statistically significant over timespans of millions of years. Humanity only lived a few 100k years.

Do you think we have millions of years to go?

Also, if we would indeed remain millions of years, and assuming continuous progress, I don't think an asteroid impact is a threat to that advanced human society, it's a simple matter or deflecting it/mining it until it's empty.

And in fact, forget about the deflecting and mining, that is maybe relevant in 10000 years. But in millions years, if we make it that long, I think human society will exist out of parts of civilization, technology, machine and mind floating around everywhere in the galaxy, spreading out at some rate. What does a single asteroid in some solar system even matter to that at all??
I'm getting 'curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 's3.amazonaws.com''
The time window from today until we can handle any asteroid threat is most likely small, given no other civilization ending catastrophy takes place. I would be very surprised if we can't redirect incoming asteroids in 500 years.
The web doesn't need DRM any more than broadcast TV needed the broadcast flag. Content producers said that the broadcast flag was necessary, and that without it they wouldn't allow their content to be broadcast.

In that case, there was a bunch of push-back against the broadcast flag, the proposal died, and now all kinds of stuff gets broadcast in the clear. When push came to shove, the content producers didn't actually need the broadcast flag, and their business models still work without it just as well as they did before.

The same needs to happen with the EME proposal; people who care about this kind of thing need to push back and kill it just like with the broadcast flag.
A DRM API in HTML5 harms users by legitimizing and enabling restrictive technology under the banner of the free and open web, with all the practical harm (lack of control, reduced bargaining power, security issues) that loss of freedom entails.

If the framework is no different from existing frameworks, why do we need it?
> You cant be sued for accidental false light, you have to purposely cast a false light on facts with malicious intent.

It's more accurate to say that the plaintiff has to substantiate malicious intent in court. Whether there is actual malice is more a matter of philosophy than law. Since the standard in civil court is preponderance, making that showing isn't as difficult as it might be in a criminal court.

Then there's the issue of whether the plaintiff is, or can be portrayed as, a public figure -- that changes everything.
No human is looking inside. Files are simply security scanned and assigned a probability of breaking the TOS.
OP seems to equate Lean Startup with "build a landing page then see what happens". This is more about "wishing and hoping" method than lean.

Lean advocates to design experiments to maximize learning from your target market and the problem you're aiming to solve. So, validating the problem, your solution, and talking to customers are definitely part of this process.

Lean startup is no miracle way of guaranteed success, but it would be nice to see more constructed criticism of lean startup than linkbait articles that in the end don't contradict lean spirit at all.
It's more that your colleague's mother was very lucky rather, than those mentioned by the GP were very unlucky.
Well, space colonization does open up the possibility for surviving maybe a few billion years. Maybe we can even reverse entropy and survive indefinately (que the Isaac Asimov novell).
I see lean differently from most people.
For me, lean means keeping a low operations cost and nothing but that.

It's not HOW you do it, wether you build an alpha or just a landing page but just: KEEP A LOW OPERATIONS COST.
That's it.

Probably different from what most people consider to be lean, but that is all lean means to me.
You are right, we can do better. Expect a change of the public shares pages soon!
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters crashing the markets
Yeah but the real problem, the ones users are trying to solve is the limits on having to move everything into one sync folder. Transparent symlinks are the cheap fix for them so that they can keep their files where they want and still have them sync. The better solution would be to just allow any folder(s) to be synced but none of the major cloud sync providers seem to want to enable that.
As we well know from web history, the standards aren't mandatory - if a part of the W3C standard is broken by design, then the next step is to lobby the major browser makers to ensure that in practice the implemented de-facto standard does not include these DRM terms.
Basically, this is saying that if your MVP is floundering, it's not Viable enough, and it continues to provide good advice for how to extend the Viability of that MVP. Its a good reminder that complexity complicates our field at a double-exponential rate that continually increases, and thus the complexity of our deliverables must increase at a similar rate.

Lean is still lean -- if your 3-man startup can do these things effectively from a $1000/mo apartment and are OK with ramen and occcasional McD, you can still do amazing things with less than $50,000/yr.
War of attrition in a quagmire. So far C++ wins.
That's because the image viewer itself is optimized for mobile-first (touch gestures) but we see the problem and will see what we can do. Any suggestions would be helpful!
This issue was caused around 3 months ago and you are completely accurate about how Amazon deals with such events.

Basically, if I didn't have an Alert set up I would have been completely liable for the costs and that is the point that I am trying to put across.
:-/ We would love to hear your complaints so we can learn from our users and work out the issues.
Does it also work for the Data URI Scheme, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme#HTML

Example: <img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUA
AAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO
9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" alt="Red dot" />
Hang on, that sounds like a "See, there is no problem"

They only fixed it because he pulled teeth, tapped friends on staff at google and generally had to scream and shout.

In no way was the trek he had to go through to fix an automation problem a good example of "Don't worry about it"

Plus the fact that if it happens to you and you don't have the inside contacts you have no guarantee of getting it fixed.
> rsync/duplicity/unison: needs extra logic for detecting file changes

Is it so difficult to add a one line configuration item to your inotify cron daemon (incrond) ?

/home/my/directory IN_CLOSE_WRITE,IN_CREATE,IN_DELETE /my/unison/sync/script.sh

It works.
The AI Systems of "Left 4 Dead" [pdf]
I guess it'll work just fine for some people. My cousin doesn't browse on her phone but only uses whatsapp and sometimes texts. The front-qwerty takes lots of space, but it doesn't matter if you don't need a lot of screen for webpages and such.

I think the blue version will also look much better than the banana, ehm, yellow phone. A nephew had a yellow Nokia Lumia, everyone's first reaction was really "nice banana" :P
One man lives to reach the end.
One man lives to experience the change.

Everyone is so concerned with survival and living in bubble, but yet accepting seasons, sun rising and leaves falling.
Yet they fail to realize that the biggest fear for them is change, nothing else.

I must fight something I do not accept and I am fine with something i am familiar with.

Not too sure if this thinking will change soon.
Or changing this thinking would mean end to humanity.
My take: Humanity will survive for a good long time, but it turns out that the laws of physics means there's no practical way to leave our solar system. We die out once the Sun extinguishes.

I'd like to be proven wrong.
While I agree that OP should contact an accountant, I completely disagree that Bitcoin is a huge grey area when it comes to income vs capital gains.

Bitcoins that are paid to you are regular income. Period. There is absolutely no uncertainty as to whether it is income. Anytime you are straight up given something as payment, that's income. If your employer gives you stock (not stock options), it's income. If someone gave you a car as payment for a job, the value of that car is income.

Now, if the value of your bitcoins go up or down after receiving them, then that is a capital gain (or capital loss).

The uncertainty lies in how you would price Bitcoin at the time of it being granted to you. What I would advise is collecting (and keeping) documentation (a printout) that shows the market price on MtGox for BTC on the day you receive them. This is in case you ever get audited.

There is no need to involve a lawyer - only a (tech-savvy, I hope) accountant is needed.

Ultimately, I have no idea why you would prefer BTC to dollars, since it not only exposes you to (a slight) security risk, but it also introduces market volatility where the value of your BTC can swing 50% in a single week. BTC has most certainly not been stable at $120. But that's your choice.

I also have no idea why you would bother offering a discount for payment in BTC.
* http://www.diydrones.com/
I hear it's hard to learn but very powerful when mastered. It looks like its used extensively in embedded systems and high performance computing domains such as in the financial markets. I would learn it but it seems like java is the more marketable standard language.
If the bank's so smart at investing, why did they give the money to someone who was going to lose it all on the stockmarket? :)
Backbone that can run on both the Client and the Server
So, I have been working on an implementation of Backbone that would work irrespective of whether you use it on Node or through a regular browser. What I have hacked together so far is similar in theory to Rendr by the AirBnB people. There are a few changes in the philosophy though. I want to be able to use the Model event bindings if possible on the client; it doesn't make too much sense using those server-side. Ideally, whatever I render through the server should contain no Javascript whatsoever; The same Backbone app should be runnable client-side too. Also, I will want to handle events on the client only, which won't be a part of the server implementation.
Another concept I want to explore is API calls. On the server, I can simply connect to the database and fetch stuff; On the client, I will have to make an XHR call. Currently, I am thinking of using some conditional code mixed in to the custom Backbone objects. Would you have any good ideas for achieving this?
Making of Europe unlocked by DNA
GPUs had been used for some kind of fuzzy string matching [1] and worked well thanks to their huge memory bandwidth.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorith...
Our Mission is a World of Frictionless Data
Reminds of HTC Cha Cha, with the Facebook button. That never went anywhere either.
Then consumers should revolt, because all this really does is limit on how many devices they can play the content on. And I think everyone hates that.
Not to mention the dross is gumming up the tubes!

Having said that, this is more a question of content delivery than the actual content.
JS Promise + CSS Transitions to make a tree particle animation
City creations are ordered all the time and they do not forcibly fail. Many new world (ie. US, Australia, NZ) cities weren't organically grown. And so were a lot of cities built during Antiquity that are still there in Europe. Greeks and Carthaginians (themselves Phenician colonials) founded colonies ex nihilo that are still thriving today. And so did the Romans, though they often built on top or besides existing urban centers (my own city was founded in -133 on a new spot, but was a few kilometers away from a Gaulish oppidum of which the population was subdued). Most of the cities inside what used to be the Empire have been rebuilt from the ground or created by Rome at some point.
It's just a matter of good engineering.
I think this is a bit different though. It's aimed at a very low end of the market, people who are cost conscious tie up nicely with WhatsApp demographic from what I've seen.

It also isn't just about that button, its a minor iterative design on an existing phone which by all accounts sold well, though judging by Nokia's last quarter, it probably has little gross margin.

The thing I find interesting is that in the UK the 'media' doesn't talk about WhatsApp, they fawn over twitter endlessly, facebook and iWhatever too. But I've never seen anything on the BBC news about it, despite the fact most people I know now use it more than SMS/Email.

Myself I just wish WhatsApp had a decent desktop component.
What to Look for when Following Designers on Social Media
> call 999

>push the cardiac victim hard and fast in the centre of his or her chest

>do it to the beat of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees

>if you have been trained in CPR then you can do mouth-to-mouth as well
Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots
You could argue that this is exactly what you're doing when you buy a house. You're more or less borrowing money to invest it in real estate. I think the problem is borrowing money for risky purposes (which btw seems to be the scenario for about 50% of gangster related movies)
I think that your original suggestion - use memcpy is a better solution then volatile.

It looks like the following code would work:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

void f(volatile uint32_t *x, volatile uint16_t *y) {
*x = 5;
printf("%d\n", *y);
}

int main() {
volatile uint32_t x = 10;
f(&x, (volatile uint16_t*)&x);
}

And the compiler is guarantied () to issue store op on x = 5 and consecutively load op on y, but the code is looking pretty ugly.

() assuming no alignment problems
Mailbox iOS app is a security fail
Mailbox iOS app is not even using file protection API that iOS SDK provides by default.
Stop technical debt from crushing coders
It's very hard to kill every single human with an asteroid. It should be a really huge, planet-busting asteroid. A planetoid, really.

Those are rare. And even if you have 1000 humans surviving, it didn't happen.

What helps humans over dinosaurs: humans can live in extreme conditions (dinosaurs are very picky), and humans can conserve food outside of their bodies and live on it for a long time.

Humans are small and adaptable, dinosaurs are large and very fragile, as all big animals are.
It is not delayed, you get real time crawling and data hence we had to use Pubnub.

Monthly costs vary really, its normally upwards of $600.
I'm sure it will. Given the price point it's obviously not aimed at the early adopters but still looks terrible imo.
Terrible. This article by section:

1. Strawman defining the Learn Startup approach as creating a landing page and hoping for signups

2. Dismissal of strawman

3. Advocation for building a beta product and getting feedback AKA one of the fundamental concepts of the actual lean startup methodology

4. Lengthy plug for author's Yammer tool
My thoughts while reading the post exactly. Read Reece's Lean Startup, and he gives specific examples on how to cheaply test the waters. Reducing all that to a landing page harvesting emails is completely the opposite of what Lean Startup proposes.

Lean Startup is about measuring everything, and only doing what takes your idea forward. Anything else is wastage. If you need to measure potential uptake in a target market that won't find your landing page, then creating a landing page is wasting your time.
> No human is looking inside

Where's the relevance? I asked why is Google, the entity, looking inside of private files?

> a probability of breaking the TOS

And my question was, if the files are private, why should their content be against the TOS?

Also, locking somebody out of their account because of a probability generated by a script, without manual confirmation by a human?

OMG. Some people can lose their jobs or money because of such flukes.
Somebody already posted this link, but didn't actually expand or summarise it, so here goes:

Radiolab did a podcast a few months ago[1] which looked at a John Hopkins survey of doctors that has been going on for decades now. 90% of all doctors surveyed said they would not want to be given CPR as a life saving intervention.

In TV and film, CPR is shown as being highly effective - well over 50%. But in reality, CPR can have a survival rate as low as 2%. The best survival rate I could find was 30%, which is where CPR is given immediately by a trained first aider. And that's the survival rate - the majority of people who survive CPR are unable to live normal lives, and may require medical care for life.

And that is not to say that people don't make complete recoveries and live long lives after CPR - it's just that the odds are overwhelmingly against them. It's telling that doctors would prefer not to receive CPR.

[1]: http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/jan/15/bitt...
That's a parochical view, valid only in the context of the classificatory scheme to which you allude and which we find useful in certain respects at present. To use Nassim Taleb's metaphor, humans have turned out to be evolutionary black swans.
I have never used their cloud infrastructure but what you are saying sounds promising.

I was lucky that I had set up an alert otherwise I would have not recovered the costs.