skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No we don't. Most of this is already reported, if you want to look for it. If you're worried that citizens of your country aren't interested in those stories, you should get out and make more people aware.
Ask HN: How can I sell a service to your startup?
I'd like to provide a fairly simple service for your startup's office environment. It involves providing a nice yet simple perk to your employees, but not something a founder would want to spend much time worrying about. Nothing fancy, nor expensive, but something almost any employee would like to have around.

My question: what's the best way to approach founders/office managers to provide this service? I'm in NYC but basically have no network here.

How do you like to be approached about these things? Assume that once you actually hear about the service, you wouldn't find it annoying or useless.

a) Cold call/email

b) I introduce myself at a meetup and within a few minutes mention my offering

c) Showing up to your office to drop-off a free sample and some information

d) None - I only deal with people I know well

e) Other

I'm not really a sales guy. But I am genuine and don't give a shyster/hustler vibe at all. Curious about which approach to take.
"It is likely that your Go code will run noticeably faster when built with Go 1.1" I have been extremely impressed with Go's performance and now it is even faster! :-)
Uh. A lot of Kickstarter projects are for things that are intangible. Like software.
> Why does it feel so worthless if I'm not able to share it with someone I love?

Oh man, the answer to that is mysterious and beautiful.

Let's separate two things: romance and love. We think we want romance but we really want love.

We think we need another person to love, but the truth is, Love Is. It's present wherever you are, whatever moment. It's just, we usually have our heads stuck up our asses and so we don't feel it. Then we wander blindly around the world looking for our lost love. Which then gets distorted by notions of romance.

Or put it in another way

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.
-- Rumi
It's quite a large topic, but the different steps could be :

1. formulate the problem of what you're aiming to solve, and the customer segments who you think have this problem (lean canvas / business model canvas can help you there)

2. ask questions to people part of your chosen customer segments and verify they have the problem

3. create a solution (MVP) to solve this problem

4. demo it to them and verify it solves the problem in a way that makes them pay :-)

Ash Maurya goes into a lot of details about this process in "Running Lean" (highly recommended).

The general idea is to test assumptions to convert them from hypotheses to facts, using a loop of build->measure->learn.
Words don't have to mean the same as their etymology though. This one has clearly moved away from that.
I have the same problem to some extent. I'm developing a web site that shows the connections between topics, and is intended to help structure such courses, but finding where to start, and where to go, and what's connected, is difficult.

It comes down to what you want to end up with. If you know that, and can prevent yourself from getting discouraged, draw a DAG of the topics you think you need. For example, do you want to understand why primes of the form 4k+1 are always the sum of two squares (which I call "Green Primes")? Here's a net of interconnected ideas:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/images/PatternsFailProofsPreva...

These are things you need to understand to get to that proof.

Then pick another. Maybe we can help each other. Are you interested in just getting to USA High School graduate math? Or do you want to understand proofs?

Consider emailing me. My response time is slow, but I will answer.
Including moderation.
Want to make an impact? We're taking on the Telecom giants
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SendHub has over 100k customers across the US in business, politics, faith groups, sports, education and many more; making hundreds of thousands of calls and sending millions of texts each month.

The Role:
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Benefits:
Health, dental, meals and we don’t track vacation days.

We're based in downtown Menlo Park, CA (very close to the caltrain station). If you're interested, please drop us a line: jobs [at] sendhub [dot] com.
The guy who wrote this article is absolutely clueless. Does he really think you can understand the fundamentals of computer science by taking a few courses or reading a few book? This is absolute nonsense!

It takes years of hard work and studying just to understand the fundamentals of computer science, and then lots of experience to become a competent software engineer.

The main reason there is so much terrible software is because there are too many incompetent software developers that don't know the first thing about crafting well designed software.
Are there currently any VOIP+Tor type technologies that could reasonably replace existing telephone services and prevent this sort of thing in the future?
Exactly!

Generally speaking, the vast majority of people are actually insane. We're just insane in socially-acceptable, normalized ways.

Looking into yourself is hard. It is the hardest thing you will ever do.
Stream Daft Punk's Random Access Memories on iTunes
We need more comments like this :-)
In any other context we'd be calling this "victim blaming."

You might. 'In any other context' we would do no such thing. And I am quite happy to hold both parties to account for negligence and no small degree of (in AT&T's case institutional) malice.

Being careless with other people and their things is a crime. It's just a matter of managing the prosecution.
Go is awesome!
That's a solution for an individual person, not the problem as a whole. I don't do it, but you need to convince millions of people that staying up late is a actually problem, and isn't worth doing to impress people.

It's like saying "I've got an easy solution to HIV. Just have all the HIV+ people stop having sex or sharing needles and it'll be gone in a generation." It might be true, but you can't just wish it into happening.
They told me if I voted for McCain that we'd end up living in a police state after 8 years...and they were right!

Credit to Instapundit if you care to see more from the most transparent administration ever http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/?s=%22They+told+me+if+I+voted...
You probably want to be talking to me... I run http://www.lfgss.com and am building community software to run cycling forums.

Email in my profile... that is, if you think we're your market.
There are some resources listed here, most of them should be free on the web:

http://www.kidslikemine.com/2013/05/03/math-resources/

(That's my site, if it matters, and aimed more at kids, though math resources go as high as calculus.)

I used to be a math geek, though not nearly on Colin's level. I don't necessarily agree that you need a course. Different strokes for different folks. That's not a math thing. That's a human diversity thing. Only you can determine whether a course or self study (or some other option) will work best for you.
Congratulations to everyone involved for their work.
I don't think there's really much of a question of the basic facts, unless you think the AP has forged the letter from the Justice Department that was received Friday?
Any plans to add templates/a form of generic programming? Does the community care about that? How have people been working around that?

And congrats!

EDIT: Yes I know what the faq says [1]. I was wondering if someone working on that can shed light on how the development of a satisfactory proposal has been going. Also, what's exactly wrong with template instantion like in C++ from the perspective of Go devs?

[1] http://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
Ironically, that story reads like yet another NYTimes "well informed insider" report:

U.S. officials, who were briefed on the operation, insisted on anonymity to discuss the case, which the U.S. has never officially acknowledged.
> Opiates do not stop your heart. The notion that every single usage of opium or heroin is like a game of russian roulette, that might stop your heart, is fantasy. Opiates are actually quite safe, as drugs go.

They, in large doses, stop your breathing which is close enough and will kill you (like you later said), unlike, say a benzodiazepine which you can take to your hearts content and will just knock you out senseless without killing you (unless you add alcohol or another GABA receptor drug).

They also can send you into a hypotensive crisis if you're hypovolemic, which also will kill you. So I would really be hesistant to call them "quite safe, as drugs go" because they are definitely on the dangerous spectrum. We could list a ton of drugs I'd rank higher on the safety spectrum than opioids in terms of both short and long-term effects, with opioids only "redeeming" quality being their instant reverse agent (naloxone) or partial reverse agents (pentazocine or buprenorphine).
I agree, but an application is not all content, it's also a machine, and the interface needs to be intuitive to use and separate it self from the content.

If depth, texture and so on can be used to convey functionality, but isn't in the name of fashion, then it's form over function IMO.
Just click "View in iTunes" button.
Since when was it OK to even subpoena reporters?
Next Adventure -
And thank you so much! As of lately, Go is the leading source of my happiness in my dev life.
OP, if you can address this, I'll probably buy.

How are tax rates configured? I didn't see anything about it in the admin demo.
I just bought a copy, looked really good from the demo. I'm going to install it and share my experiences with you guys.
"So, I decided to implement a simple version of Clojure that compiles to Javascript and can be run on top of nodejs."

Did you know that Clojurescript can run on node.js?
https://github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/node-clojurescript

Cool project though!
This is about agenda setting. Media coverage determines what gets covered and what not.

Scandals like these make government's ongoing privacy intrusion a real, tangible issue. If I go around spreading the gospel, I am just an internet tinfoil head. If it is the headline on a national newspaper, it is a real issue that needs discussion.
They actually all are primarily mediated through one pathway in your brain (ventral tegmental area having dopaminergic projections to the nucleus accumbens), so do, at their most basic level, work rather identically.
Author here,

I just put up a Detailed Guide:

https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy#detailed-guide

That goes into more detail of how macros are written, and walks you through writing a simple but useful macro (the quicklambda macro). This should greatly help anyone who wants to try his hand at some metaprogramming =)
Namecheap does NOT need to be waiting for even a single confirmation to accept deposits. The kinds of services that they offer are all easily reversible within the kinds of timescales where double spend attacks are feasible (domain registrations take days to clear), so they are certainly not in the class of merchants that could practically be defrauded. The only businesses that actually need to wait for transactions are SatoshiDice, exchanges and consumable digital goods sellers (eg. game codes).

Fortunately, most Bitcoin vendors actually do accept transactions without waiting, and I've only heard of SatoshiDice successfully being defrauded (they've since added various defense mechanisms against unconfirmed transaction double-spending).
[EDIT] on second thought, probably not a great idea to go into details about how I looked him but, but it wasn't terribly difficult.
Ill-gotten gains: how many museums have stolen objects in their collections?
MixPanel's Split Test calculator supports multiple groups, but doesn't have anything visual:

https://mixpanel.com/labs/split-test-calculator

They use two-proportion z-test.
http://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
>>Any plans to add templates/a form of generic programming?

The Go team is open to generics as soon as there is a proposal they feel fits right without performance penalties.
Read: http://golang.org/doc/faq#generics

>>Does the community care about that?

Yes, but most people in the Go community are OK waiting for the "right" solution.

>>How have people been working around that?

Generics are nice and convenient, but you can write anything/everything without generics. Just look at everything written in C. And C doesn't have interfaces like Go.
Let's not forget the IRS having authority to pull all electronic communications from an entity without any kind of oversight at all (because they are a "special" agency) and now word that some of the documents they've been pulling, perhaps against policy, were leaked to the press.

I tried to post an analysis of why the IRS story was important to hackers everywhere earlier. It was killed. Beats me why. Some wag said it was just more political bullshit.

I quite understand people who want to hear exclusively about Erlang innards and point out there are plenty of other places for articles that involve any politics at all. But this is the world we live in, and the technologies we are developing are being used for this stuff.

One day some guy writes code to exploit MITM attacks for web devices, and one day very soon afterwards some despotic government uses it to target and kill people. You can't continue to hide your head in the sand and pretend that somehow some really cool tech will come along and save the day, so back to the Apple and SV gossip tripe. That's simply not realistic. We don't write pure technology. We create powerful tools that impact the lives of people everywhere. It is not rational to pretend that impact does not exist. I guarantee you that some hacker in the audience probably played a role in the software used for the AP intercept.

ADD: And the joke I've been thinking about all day which must come out: they don't make a Hallmark card for this.
They are all concerning the same action regarding the Ottawa Museum of Civilization. I wasn't sure about the claim that they sold out "public museums", when the vast majority of Canadian museums are not at the federal level, and have zero accountability of concern about the federal government.
Such a thing would be very difficult to maintain given that linux refuses to provide a stable API.
No, the application comes first, the theory follows.

I don't know that Maxwell would have been anywhere near that discovery if it hadn't been for Faraday's work first.

Go take a look at first year engineering PhD students, and see how they flail around looking for a "hypothesis".

They have no idea what to look for because their work isn't grounded in anything.

In the end they often end up bodging together two or three previous research papers and going with that rather than solving a real problem. Because who cares about applications, right?

The PhD students' work usually ends up gathering dust on some shelf while the next breakthrough is usually made by three drop-outs with a year's supply of ramen in a trailer in Palo Alto.
Maybe Alberto Gonzalez never bothered to send the letter. The scary thing is, how would we ever know that the government is respecting the security of our privacy, if they have to power to ignore it?
VOIP is just as easily snooped as regular lines. It's not as easy, but you can do it with the right tools.
How would that be different from the demo?
I am not railing against diversity in the market. I like diversity and I am glad they released Google Drive. My response was to the parent questioning slightly more expensive alternatives, not to the piece of news itself.

As to your reply, as I was already mentioning, Google Storage itself was cheaper prior to Drive and I was using it for Picasa. I'm still on the old plan, paying a yearly $20 for 80 GB of storage (because I may use it for Docs and because I was too lazy to pull some photos out of Picasa).

You can always come up with a rationale like the Maps API and App Engine not being "consumer products", however Google is the only company I have a relationship with that increases prices instead of decreasing them and that takes away freebies. Amazon's AWS services are also not consumer products and they get cheaper over time. Amazon's freebies have a clear expiration date (like the 1-year free tier, which you know lasts for only 1 year, because it's in the freaking title).

Speaking of App Engine, they not only changed their prices, they changed their pricing scheme, breaking the original promise of the service. I could rail endlessly about how App Engine sucks, but that's for another discussion.

Speaking of Google Apps - you view it as a special offer. I view it as a broken promise, because they never mentioned that they are going to pull this option after releasing it.

First of all, I ended up saying to several small business owners "create an account on Google Apps, it's both free and awesome". Now their stuff is tied to Google Apps. For now their accounts are free, but you never know. They are also subject to Google's TOS, so they could get locked out of their accounts by a script that calculated a probability for TOS violations. I'm also bothered by the lock-in Google does with their @gmail.com email addresses they require for Google Accounts. Google Apps was a way out, even for normal users. Not anymore.
It gets brought up continually on the mailing list.

The Go authors have repeatedly stated that they will not be implementing generics.

They don't seem to miss them, I don't miss them, and indeed most people who write much Go don't seem to miss them. The people who continually whine about generics seem to be the type who say, "Oh boy, I'd sure LOVE to write a bunch of kickass code in Go, but I just couldn't do ANYTHING without generics! Why don't you put them in, then I'll try the tutorial"

It's not something we feel the need to work around, we just sit down and write concise programs that do the job, in fewer lines than C++.

Edit: as others have mentioned, it seems the authors would be willing to put them in if they find a way to do it without crapping up the language. If they do, I'll try writing Go code with generics, but they have a bad taste for me after dealing with code containing GenericType.cpp, GenericType.hpp, AbstractType.cpp, AbstractType.hpp, AbstractGenericType.cpp, and AbstractGenericType.hpp all in one place.
It has always been OK to subpoena reporters. Reporters enjoy no special protections in federal law.
I forgot, Google+ is killing it and Google always has top notch UI. Actually, G+ is having issues because they are ordering comments to sort out the junk and losing chronology because single threads are horrible.

I don't know much about Branch and I haven't seen it used on any major sites. Seems the threaded providers are doing quite well and leading the pack. Nobody complains that Disqus has threads and I see all sorts of ignorant wack jobs successfully using threads in the corners of the Internet.

So yeah, maybe Google and Branch are wrong. Not much of a stretch.

Sorry if t threatens your startup but best to know you're wrong early.
Awesome. Shoot me an email if you run into any trouble and I'll be glad to help you out.
No generics. Less speed than C. Lame.
Pretty much both sides of the spectrum look pretty grim.

I used to be a hard-ass liberal, but now I've changed my outlook, matured a bit, and become a libertarian.

Their philosophy makes the most sense, but no one seems to listen.
Which is the "+Tor" part, which both encrypts the data and obscures the sending and receiving parties.
In the current iteration, I'd say this isn't a usable UI. As a first time visitor, I'd have no idea what I'm supposed to do or what anything on the page means. The form field is somewhat of a mess because of the placeholders and you need to change the ..: Search :.. button. Make it a prominent and obvious call to action button. Also, make sure the form field itself is responsive like the rest of the page so it doesn't get cut off when I resize the browser.

I have no idea what any of the things below the form field are so I can't comment on that.

As for positives... I like the ASCII picture of Isaac Newton in the source.

This needs a lot of work, but everything starts somewhere.
I am currently also selling my product (newsletter mailer) via codecanyon. My main concern leaving codecanyon is how to drive potential customers to my site. As you already said there is a huge support effort on codecanyon, due to "inexperienced" customers.
Facebook or Instagram could PAY for getting a license better than GPLv3.

That something is GPL does not mean that could not be also licenced as proprietary for those that pay if they don't want the limitations of GPL.
What are some good blogs to contact for a feature-based press release?
We are doing a press release around some new features. They are awesome and everything but I don't think they are worth my time trying to get picked up by big tech blogs. Our company was in Techcrunch once. Since we provide SaaS to small businesses, do you think it's better to reach out to bloggers in our industry to get picked up?
> The Go authors have repeatedly stated that they will not be implementing generics.

That's not true. We just don't have a way of doing them that works well in the language. http://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
This website now reflects it too: http://isgo1point1outyet.com/

(For those that don't know, this website was created for a talk about Go given by Andrew Gerrand. Code: https://github.com/nf/go11 , slides: http://talks.godoc.org/github.com/nf/go11/talk.slide#17)
Sometimes, with Omegle and clones, you get a good, intimate, one to one connection with a basically-anonymous complete stranger. And it's great, a real mood lifter.

It just doesn't happen at all often. Perhaps there's a way to adjust that kind of site design to make them more successful at that kind of connection?
"Seeing like a state" by James Scott

"Riches for the poor: The Clemente Course in Humanities" by Earl Shorris
AppScale 1.7.0 Released (Open Source Google App Engine)
Wow! Besides the new level of audacity, whatever happened to "Never picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel" ?
I believe that the person doing the stealing needs to be held responsible. I also think that the entity holding the data needs to be held responsible for a lack of security. If your kid is kidnapped from a daycare because they didnt lock doors or have any security measures they can be held accountable for that as well as the kidnapper.
Seriously, congratulations to the Go team.

And for those who missed my attempt at humor: http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
MongoDB with EBS RAID discontinued in August 2013
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