skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite the Reddit-esque linkbait title, I could understand the sentiment about someone being worried about doing a ShowHN themselves.

However, my problem with the video is that it didn't really add anything to the non-audio version of the same video currently on the homepage. It mentions the exporting, but doesn't show it. It speaks to responsive, but doesn't show it. I'm not sure if these features aren't baked in yet, but I didn't get anything out of the audio version that I didn't get from the non-audio one coupled with the features page. In fact, the voiceover distracted me from what was actually going on with the demo (particularly looking at the weird stuff going on at the bottom) because it wasn't talking about what was going on as it was happening nor the extensibility of the features being shown, but rather just spoke to the product as a whole from someone that seemingly doesn't know what the scope/final product will be.

Since she's non-technical, it probably would have sold viewers a lot more if she'd been using your tool to create her own page to show just what a breeze it actually is to use.

In the same vein, I think your website could really use some work; the video of the product should go at the top, not the weird <video> of the skewed color-picker (that doesn't need to be there at all, really). Your features should also be on the homepage.

Also, considering the current crop of alternatives in this realm and the more advanced options those have (http://webflow.com/ in particular), I think it would benefit you to show your pipeline and what people can expect down the road.
Kickstarter: World of Classcraft
George W. Bush is Smart
Hmmm, so they outbid Showtime for the rights, which cost them $3M per episode. This implies that this was a $3M vig on top of which Netflix then had to lay out production costs. So the costs per epi would be pretty high.

But...back in 2006 there was no Netflix to bid against Showtime. I've never been able to discover what Showtime was offering other than that Hurwitz seemed a bit insulted by the offer ("half the money for twice the work" is the quote that stands out in my mind, but I can't find a citation). If there'd been other competition for the show from a Kickstarterish platform perhaps the Showtime offer would have been more reasonable. Maybe. Who the hell knows. :)
Of course not, but most consumers rely on default home router NAT configurations to at least protect them from drive by attacks on insecure devices. That's not an option in a mobile context, so I was curious at what level VZW expected their customers to be protected.
The bill isn't internet specific; it applies to any kind of sale into a state the seller has no local nexus in. That would apply to mail or phone orders as well.
> but its a personal vanity project no one is demanding.

I'm not sure about that. It seems about 10,000 people are demanding it, as of noon Pacific time.

> Kickstarter being used by well funded celebrities who just want to minimize their risk to zero seems wrong to me. It should be for startups and good ideas that can't get funding elsewhere.

Ah, but these are not exclusive! Celebrities bringing their mass appeal to make more people aware of Kickstarter is exactly what will make it so that smaller players have a higher future chance of being funded through the platform.
Assuming your premise, I would proffer some version of 4), although not necessarily done by the U.S.

The U.S. and its currency are toast -- in a decline, if not crash.

Those who are relatively apolitical (not overly vested in any particular political system) with U.S.-based assets are going to want them denominated in some "neutral" form of tender.
Thank you, your reply did help. So I guess you've started as a consultant and then moved into creating your own products?
Chattanooga, TN. Its said elsewhere below, but you can make excellent money with a minimal cost of living and excellent quality of life.

Granted, you're not in SoMa or Manhattan, but in those cases you're $120k = ~$45k... so why not make well over $45k, say in the $60-$100k range based on skill/ experience/ demands, and actually "feel" like you're making every cent of it.
Is this a product of Cuil's infamous Twiceler bot?
I bet you could set up a mechanical turk job to summarise news for a lot less than 60 people @ $50k a year and get similar results.
Once again, huh ?

I call that raising one's potential in my comment, and that's not playing: in your own words, that's mastering new skills and trying new techniques.

Besides the minor disagreement on which are the right terms to use, I agree with your conclusion : the article is poorly written, and fails to address the core issue about technical debt.

It does not propose any simple solution, and can be summed up as "do some hacking, play and your technical debt with magically resolve itself" - to which I don't agree.

(The analogy I made with "real life debt" was to insist on the reasons why an undirected approach to technical debt was not the best idea)
BotQueue v0.3 - Now with Webcams, Pausing, and More
Getting an airshot is harder at professional levels because by then they have an extremely good grasp of how to airstrafe - without that they'd be lit up instantly. It's actually easier to hit someone midair in general due to easily predicted trajectories; an easy trick to kill newbie scouts is to wait until they've burned jumps then take them out on the downward arc.

Once you have a lot of practice, it's amazing what you can do in TF2 - e.g. chaining 3 rocket jumps then taking out a sniper while still midair.

Better yet, a lot of mechanics like pyro reflect get much more interesting when you're facing other skilled opponents because of how much prediction is involved in the timing.
I addressed the different questions issue with "answer(s)". But I guess I need to spell it out for you.

The whole purpose of the quiz is to slow down how quickly the tickets sell, thus giving "real developers" a pool reserved for them based on them having knowledge the average person does not have.

This reservation method would be circumvented in a matter of minutes by people collecting all the correct answers on social media.

Additionally it's pretty reasonable that anyone who wants to come who doesn't themselves know Objective-C probably has a friend who can answer the questions for them in their contacts.

This is an obvious idea which would not work enough better than the current free for all to be worth the effort. That was my point with my one line response, and I thought it was pretty clear originally.

The original commenter addressed your concern about intended audience by saying there would be different tiers of tickets available. But again, this is moot because the whole idea is too flawed to be worthwhile.
This doesn't say much about what they've actually done so far. They say it's "currently in production", but don't specify what that means. Have they interviewed anyone? Who? Who's agreed to be interviewed? It's going to be a very different documentary if they interview Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman and Carmen Ortiz.
Very much, no. I would never pay $15k so talk to anyone.

Having people you look up to is something. This would be senseless idolatry.
Changing denominators has an effect on the liquidity of small transactions, but it's not going to change inflation.

What inflation does in an economic sense is much bigger - it changes who has relatively more or less wealth or debt over time. If you take out a loan for $10,000 and inflation makes both your prices and wages go up 2x, then you now have half as much debt.

Deflation does the opposite and makes debt more and more expensive. This is why most economists are against it - debts that grow more expensive will trap people. Historically, debts were forgiven by decree (a jubilee) because the system kept breaking.
Perhaps you have not delved enough in Apple Kremlinology.
too busy making money off steam.
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Gnome 3 bug
Do you have Gnome 3 ?
Open a terminal and type: (Do it only if you really want to)
1) su - //enter pass//
2) gedit
Now hit the "supper" button, or move the pointer on the top left corner "Activities"

Did it crashed?
NOTE: This crash takes place not only with gedit but also with nautilus etc.
Whatever your religion, I think you could recognize that even the best CEOs should not be discussed in the same words and tone as Jesus Christ. This inhibits discussion by distracting and making opinions into holy doctrines when they should be discussed substantively as opinions. We are not absorbing holy teachings of gods here, we are discussing opinions of men which should be evaluated critically.
NASA launches three smartphones into orbit
This is a perfect example of building a technology, not a product. This is Optimizely without the amazing user interface that allows marketers to do this work.
A collection of articles by Eric Ries on building a Lean Startups
$23k right now
Stepanov: Efficient Programming with Components
S.E.C. Is Asked to Make Companies Disclose Donations
People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?
Yes, it's a lighter (very minimalist) version of lisp, as opposed to common lisp. Scheme seemed like more of a fun academic exercise. If I wanted to actually do more complex work I'd probably look to common lisp instead of Scheme.
Increasingly, even silence is no protection.
You're still assuming that the extreme, one-sided positions they present in propaganda, whether in press releases or making a case in court, have anything to do with how they make decisions internally. Assuming that what their marketers say and what their managers actually believe are anything like the same thing seems... unsound.

You're also stating repeatedly that it's a fact that DRM doesn't work but without any sort of evidence or argument to support that position. I'd love to see your hard evidence, because I've been following the industry for years and have yet to see much conclusive proof of anything. The people who have serious empirical data typically keep their cards very close to their chest.
I don't usually complain about typography or design, but this site is an exception to that rule.

It's incredibly unreadable :)

The content looks good, though, but I have to admit I didn't make it through the whole thing.
Both "Common Lisp" and various (!) Schemes are dialects of lisp.

As for why CL is preferred - it's probably about the ecosystem, tools and libraries. No Scheme and very few languages can compete with CL in this matter. However there is Rachet, a Scheme that has a chance to approach CL in the next decade (only my opinion).
> we have decided in the spirit of open access to release the film digitally through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

I do not believe that Aaron would have agreed with the use of this non-freeculture license.
Please Clang developers, we need OpenMP in Clang so bad!
I'd love to hear the story behind getting the data to the Internet Archive, from Cuil. 310TB is a massive amount of data, and was even more massive in 2007. The biggest hard drive you could buy were only 500-750GB. If they were SAS drives they were probably only 300GB at the biggest. Did they just throw 6-8 racks worth of a SAN onto a truck and ship it over? What did they (Archive.org) do with it once they got it?
Ask HN: Does a startup has to fail to get HNers feedback?
Dear HNers,

I have noticed many times how valuable HN comments can be. So many skilled people are contributing and provide top level advices.

Nonetheless, It seems to me this occurs even more after a startup failed. I noticed (completely unscientific approach here) posts or questions about failure get many times more feedback/comments than the one about asking idea at subjectively the same quality content.

To be honest, I failed many time to get some feedback about my new startup. I tried to post at different time, with various subject without success. Last post I submitted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5601127) got a single extra point and 2 comments. I'd definitely appreciate to be helped to discover my obvious mistakes before that would be too late.

Do I really have to fail first to get your valuable advices/feedback?
I guess the analogy you chose makes it sound like a bad idea, but I'd use a different one. If you have a 300 year old house with rotting boards and a foundation that is cracked, would you replace individual boards or tear down the whole thing and start anew?
Seems a shame that they're using the traditional auction format, meaning only the very rich will have this opportunity.

Would have been much better if they'd offered the lottery ticket style of prizeo.com, would have bought a few tickets with the off-chance of winning then.
Reproduction without sex, a liberating future
I very much wish I would've had the chance to be more involved with and affected by Aaron and his life. As the events have unfolded, I've felt like a bystander in a kingdom who lost a prince I never knew. I didn't know Aaron personally, only being connected by occasionally reading his blog posts and using software he affected.

The Kickstarter video for this campaign has given me a depth of knowledge, understanding, and connection when it comes to Aaron and his affect on the world and technology. I haven't come across a source, yet, that was able to illustrate his importance, humanity, and influence. Unfortunately, I don't see an external source for the video.

I would invite anyone wishing to know a bit more about Aaron, and the whole debacle, to watch the video.
Right, came here to say the exact same thing. My eyes aren't the best. First thing I did was to open chrome dev tools and fiddle in 'p { color: black }' to make it readable at all for me..
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The typical WiFi network is NAT'd with a default no-forward policy (or even more locked down), so even an insecure device is vulnerable only to other devices on the same network. That's much smaller than the universe of folks running portscans against globally routable addresses.

Presumably VZW's IPv6 configuration is similar, though I'd be interested to hear exactly what connections are allowed between devices at different locations within their own network. Wouldn't be surprised if they're completely forbidden.

Of course the network should not be trusted to protect you. But in the real world, everyday consumers are connecting insecure devices, and I'm curious how VZW is going about saving them from themselves.
The trailer that they have there seems to show that they've interviewed quite a few people. But yes, they did not mention who they will interview as a result of the funding and what the funding will allow them to do. They should definitely touch on that.

It would be good if they can get both sides and views in the same documentary.
LISP (or Lisp) is a family of languages, not a single language. There are two main categories of Lisp dialects, the Lisp-1s and the Lisp-2s. Scheme is a Lisp-1.

Scheme is itself not a single language; it's a subcategory of Lisps. The main Scheme standard these days is R6RS (http://www.r6rs.org/), but different implementations may or may not comply with R6RS (Racket does not, for example, even though it was formerly known as PLT Scheme).

Common Lisp is the most well-known Lisp-2, and is what's generally implied when people say 'Lisp', even though that's technically a sloppy use of terminology.

Clojure is another dialect, but people generally specify Clojure and Scheme by name when referring to them. There is no logic behind these nuances of the terminology and their inconsistent usage; it's just what's evolved over the last 50+ years.

So, to answer your question, there's no reason why one should learn Scheme over Common Lisp (or vice versa), if all you're looking to do is learn the concepts.

There are differences between the different dialects (and their many implementations), but if you're looking to expand your knowledge and not necessarily write production code, pick Scheme (using Guile) and Common Lisp (using Clisp or SBCL) and you're good to go.
A lot of people don't seem to realize that it's also prohibited by the Visa and Mastercard TOS. You can't bill people's credit cards for a product that doesn't exist yet.
Alfred 2 Workflows for Developers
I got the scholarship in 2007 and 2008, it was a great experience. In 2007 they had a deal with a nearby hotel, maybe Pickwick? I don't think they did in 2008. I'd try to beg, borrow, and steal to get there if I were you for the experience.
This guide is nice as it provides a short introduction into Angular's features.

I would kindly recommend you to read the Conceptual Overview section of the AngularJS Developer Guide (http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/concepts). This covers the heart of the framework and also parts of its philosophy. If you want to understand WHY AngularJS works the way it does not only WHAT it does then this page will really help you. You will also understand why this is a masterpiece of engineering.
care to explain/give further context? Even looking at that whole reddit thread I don't understand.
Awesome stuff, thanks. Your second point could explain some of the mysterious non-updates that I've seen from time-to-time when using faye with long-polling behind nginx.
Not all algorithms map well to MapReduce, which is the authors' main point. They explain one such example in the paper (section 3).
Nosniff header support coming to Chrome and Firefox
Can you be more precise about the difference between a program written in the functional style, and one which is written using functional programming?
they seesaw for far longer than is reasonable.
It's about the charity donation. That you get coffee with Tim Cook is just bait.

I've been at charity auctions where people bid rediculous sums for rediculous items. It wasn't about getting the item, it was an excuse for giving money.
I whole heartedly agree - htaccess and virtual host rules were such a pain in Apache, I've really come to appreciate how easy it was to get nginx setup in comparison.
Exitround: marketplace for founders to discreetly try to get acquired
honestly, after watching the demonstration video, there is nothing in the video that i haven't seen in numerous hollywood films or games before. am i missing something? would someone care to explain what i should be looking for?
i was thinking the same thing ..
>Buying bitcoins with Paypal is a very common request, which most sellers won't do because Paypal makes it very easy to rip off the seller.

Where are you observing that it's a common request? Could it be a common request because it's easy to rip off the seller, in the same way that assistance transferring a dead relative's funds out of Nigeria is a common request?
usually the water fills up the bottom part of the U until it reaches the width of the pipe, the only one side fills up (the supply side). So if I fill up the left side of the U pipe, the water forms an L shape. On some simulations, the other side rises, but doesn't really even out.
The Mathematica system makes some beautiful, informative graphs, and presumably users can make those graphs with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's technically very nice.

Yet, in the entire blog post, is there one insight that wasn't a priori obvious? Maybe the bits about migration.

I don't see the "art and science" in this analysis, I see "stamp collecting" (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford)
From http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_spdy_module.html :

"This module is not built by default, it should be enabled with the --with-http_spdy_module configuration parameter."

So unless you go with an unofficial binary, you'll have to compile it in yourself.
Awesome way of rephrasing time management. Every time I recommend meditation I get the same answer, that it is a waste of time but if we talk in terms of mind management this would be an investment to the mind.
I handle a lot of salary stuff for big tech startups and have literally never seen or heard of this happening beyond this story. But yeah, it is pretty alarming...
Why is it a shame?

I don't mean to sound snarky, but the point is to raise money for charity, so the goal is going to be to get as much money as possible. I'm not familiar with Prizeo, but I'm willing to bet it'd be tough to raise $50k+ on a lottery basis.
Smarter than most? Maybe. That's not saying much. The president needed to understand fractional banking, highly-complex social-economic models, world politics and most of all he needed to know the people he was dealing with. He didn't understand these things. His presidency is littered with all the evidence. I could give you a list of the screw ups but we all know them. The question is did he understand the economic collapse as it was happening, no, he didn't. It took economists a few months to understand.
Okay, your accountant example has made it clear that there is really no obvious way of finding business problems by just merely looking from the outside.

I don't think that was the takeaway I was going for. An accountant, told "Tell me where the money goes in a taco truck", would be able to do do a napkin sketch of that in under a minute. "Describe at least one business problem amenable to a software solution that a taco truck has" does not strike me as being terribly difficult. (Actually selling it to them in a scalable fashion? Much more difficult, but that's largely because they're a taco truck.)

What is your opinion on the effectiveness of speaking to people and asking them directly about their problems?

I find that listen to people is often an effective strategy for learning from them. I feel I have to add the disclaimer "That is my sincere attempt to answer that question" to that sentence. Often, not-software-people do not have a great handle on what software could actually do for them, so asking them "What software do you wish existed?" doesn't work all that well, but asking them for top-of-mind business problems is not that difficult.

Or am I better off reading industry magazines/blogs/forums and kind of examining them in their natural habitat?

These two activities don't compete with each other. Either or both are more effective than neither. Don't do neither. If you're currently doing neither, start doing either or both.
That one sentence sums up about a decade of professional contention. And I mean specifically relating to IBM software and hardware.

I should have left that job sooner.