skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read my response where i said "like you later said" then went on to list another life threatening issue with opioids, as well as your statement that it's a pretty safe drug is actually very wrong when you compare its side effect and safety profile to the vast majority of drugs on the market?
I really like the magnification effect. One of the things I don't like about these weighted graphs is that mousing to tiny targets can be a huge PITA. The magnification rectifies this.
I don't understand why you're automatically implying that I haven't; I have.
It also helps to be your own customer (or in that demographic). I'd suggest that you should have some kind of validation metric for knowing when to continue with the project as well, otherwise a project can drag on for much longer than it should.
It is actually theft to take a laptop in a brown paper bag in the middle of the street unless there is an indiction the owner intended to abandon it. Finders are supposed to make efforts to locate the owner or otherwise turn in what was found.
The Black Arts of SaaS Pricing‏
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." -- Howard H. Aiken

I think it's a legitimate worry, but a small one. Novice entrepreneurs overvalue ideas. The majority of startups make major changes along the way. E.g., PayPal was, what, Levchin and Thiel's fifth product?

And the real magic to PayPal wasn't money transfer; it was the loss prevention that kept the business viable. The thing that distinguishes successful entrepreneurs isn't that they all had one good idea 5 years ago. It's that they kept having new ideas, and had the drive to push their ideas out into the world so that they could learn enough to spark the new ideas.

Practically, there may be a very small number of people who a) are smart and experienced enough to appreciate your idea, b) have more resources to execute, and c) aren't busy doing something they like better. Try not to let those people understand the secret sauce. But those people are hopefully not your customers, who are the main ones you should be validating your idea with.
You can do a cheap prototype, mockup or wireframe.

If you can code, just code something simple you can test with minimal features.

Most failed sites and apps have way too many features that no one except technical founders and their 37 friends want.
Nope, you're not alone. Though this looks cool, it reminds me of the evilness in C macros.
Yes, there is a difference. And Weev could have downloaded one e-mail address just to prove his point.
The one pathological case of kinda-slow Go compilation I have involves embedding a very big binary blob (FPGA firmware for a controller chip driving a Texas Instruments DMD array) as a const array of bytes that I can just dump down the usb connection when cold booting the device. I don't fault Go for this as I'm really abusing the language to simplify my single-file deployment without having to do too much work for the simple deploy.

If I wanted to spend the time I could do something like append the blob to the end of the program executable instead of just clumsily jamming it into DATA, but this all exists in a library that doesn't need to change often so the fact that it takes ~10-15 seconds to compile is not a problem in practice.
I'm considering this myself. Did you find you needed prior experience before partaking?
To expand: most of the startups that exit like this don't usually have the alternative of continuing to exist and make money indefinitely. Either they _are_ failing as a business (in which case, the amount of support that they are going to give their users is going to fall to zero anyhow) or their investors _did_ expect a big return in a few years.

I also can't help but wonder whether the somewhat frenzied tone of this profanity-laced rant is remotely appropriate for the CEO of a company with investors of its own. If someone makes a good offer for Bugherd that doesn't guarantee its continued existence in its current form, are the investors meant to look to this as Downie's Official Position Statement on the matter?
Intervention in Chile was wrong,
but it can also be used by neocons

Why neocons specifically?
> I rebuilt a 15kloc microcontroller emulator I wrote (as my intro- to- Go project) just now, after blitzing my pkg/ directory, and it took about a second.

that sounds pretty interesting, is there a GitHub page I can look at ? thanks !
Apple sucks at social media, in the age of social media.
A pacifist would agree with you. In one of the founding documents of modern pacifism, the likes of which inspired Gandhi[1], Leo Tolstoy wrote

CATECHISM OF NON-RESISTANCE.
..
Q. Can a Christian give a vote at elections, or take part
in government or law business?
A. No; participation in election, government, or law
business is participation in government by force.

From The Kingdom of God Is Within You: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4602/pg4602.html

While it can be easy to point the finger at figures high up in government, any participation in that system is, as Tolstoy says, conducted "by force," and all participants share the blame to some extent. The argument follows that the only way to truly banish such abusive systems is to retract all endorsement and participation.

[1] Tolstoy's relationship with Mohandas Gandhi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_Is_Within_Yo...
Does Go have a roadmap of development work for future releases? One thing that I've been very curious about is if the Go devs will be able to resist the tendency of every other language (save perhaps Lua) to linearly increase in complexity over time.
I'll answer this as if it wasn't a rhetorical question:

Because U.S. society values the concept of freedom.
>'Why does the U.S. gov't ignore it's constitution?'

Well for some prerogatives, freedom is less important and some people decidedly make decisions that violate the law and freedoms of a people.

> 'takes away freedom from its citizens'

See above

>'takes away freedom from...'

U.S. gov't really doesn't have any obligation to citizens of another country unless explicitly stated. I of course, understand the general premise that the United States stay largely out of other nations affairs is well intentioned, however the previous two times that happened (beginning of WWI and WWII) did not go well. So while meddling U.S. foreign policy is far from perfect, it seems as there has yet been a WWIII to be better than the other alternative, and I'd say the track record is such that more freedoms have been guaranteed to more people via the U.S. than otherwise. I've got no data to back that up though.
Being careless with other peoples' things is not generally a crime. It might be the basis for a civil suit, but it's not generally criminal.

Criminal law is all about intent. There are four kinds of intent (under the Model Penal Code): Purpose, Knowledge, Recklessness, Negligence. Mere negligence is rarely the basis for criminal liability (it is, however, the basis for tort law). Criminal liability starts at recklessness. Weev is punished and AT&T is not because Weev intended to improperly access data he was not supposed to access, while AT&T was merely negligent in allowing him to do so.

We treat the stupid better than the malicious, and I personally think that's a good thing.
it's hiking, not lsd :)
Please say more about the new problem you're solving. I think lots of people would like to help if they understood how they could make a useful contribution. An article explaining the root of the problem (which is more complicated than "there isn't enough water") would be well received here.
Go is awesome! The best feature of 1.1 is very large heaps on Linux x64. I was bumping into the limits before but the 1.1 rc has been rock solid so far.
You know, this service is in the online dating space.
I’ve joined Heroku
$100 here as well.
Also makes it a hell of a lot harder to scale horizontally. With an app layer you can just horizontally scale your app server stack and put a load balancer in front of it and you're done.
Do you meet good people on Omegle?
A counter-example: r/DepthHub is a meta sub which is both civilized and edifying.
Awesome to see "The Monk and the Riddle" referenced, it should be required reading for startup people.
I think most would agree that this version is cleaner and smoother.. You know what they say about beauty..
It's not malware - it's nothing ware. It does nothing at all except use memory. If there were no memory issue then it really wouldn't do anything.

Like this machine: http://mentalfloss.com/article/24670/machine-turns-itself
A simple and powerful REST API framework for Go 1.1
French officials are also pushing to ensure that French cultural products, and notably the audiovisual sector, remain exempt from free trade rules during talks on a planned trade agreement between the European Union and the United States.

I.e., tax American/Foreign products only. I.e. a tariff. I.e. illegal under the WTO.
The laws are definitely more strict. Every purchase requires a permit. If you sell a gun to an individual, you are required to keep record for 10 years.

Nevermind that Americans have no sense of civic duty.
I understand why you left, but what do your cofounders, investors and team members think about your sudden departure?
Thanks for that. I've been looking for a counter-example to the rule of "meta subs are crap" for a while.
'Doing work for money, especially when you have passions and interests in something bigger, is the most soul-sucking and demoralizing thing you can do.'

You have lived a very sheltered life.
Have you personnally studied the code of this research project?
You needn't have said "aside from Google": it seems that Google doesn't use Go for the search engine.
Very little of this is actually true, at least with regards to what the U.S. does internally. As flawed as the U.S. government is, it's still better than almost any government outside Western Europe, and is in some ways better than governments in Western Europe (e.g. with regard to free speech), though worse in others.

The U.S. government very rarely ignores the Constitution, although many things it does are greeted with cries of ignoring the Constitution. It goes to great lengths to lawyer it's way around the Constitution, no doubt, but most countries don't even bother.

As for externally--the Constitution puts almost no limits on the American government's ability to intervene in foreign affairs, and most Americans would agree that the U.S. has zero obligation to do anything internationally other than what advances its own interests. No other country in the world would do any differently if they were in the U.S.'s position. Remember, as far as global hegemons go, the U.S. is the most benevolent such entity in the history of the world.
This is not the US. This is the DOJ, which is not the same thing.

This is only going to make the hole deeper for Obama with the Benghazi and IRS scandals already aboil.
Its worth considering the source of the emotion here. Everyone sees an exit differently, whether it is your customer, your co-founder, your peers, or even your mother-in-law.

Customers can fall in love with a product, evangelize it, and use it, and then have it vanish in an 'exit.' That certainly feels like betrayal. Not surprisingly when someone you care about dies you can find yourself mad at them for dying. But if you don't know the circumstances you cannot judge accurately.

One of the saddest things I see are companies that create a wonderful service but it costs $10/user on a month to month basis to run and their service is either free or much much less than that per user subscription. You can go to your users and say "Uh, we actually need much more money from you to keep going." But that too leaves them feeling betrayed or 'bait and switched.'

Acqui-hire exits are rarely "big" exits for anyone. They are face saving exits. And everyone involved puts on a happy face not to make the customers feel bad in a sort of 'so long sucka!' kind of way but in order to maintain the fiction for polite conversation. These folks feel bad about it too but it is even more awkward when they are looking sad when the 'press' is all happy times.

Perhaps a more honest approach might be to upload what assets you have to 'github' and say "hey this costs $X to run and we can't afford it." or "This is a great idea that about 382 people really like and over a million have looked at and never logged in again." But sometimes even the wee bit of IP that is left over in the source repositories might be sold to a patent troll or something to cover some of the investor's losses.

Feeling sad, betrayed, and angry are all honest emotions to have around the shutdown of a product you care about. The founders might have those same thoughts in spite of what the press release says.
>>>The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

News organizations that have consistently rolled over and let the government have its way with secret this and secret that -- and they're shocked! shocked! that they are subjected to secret ops too? Wake the eff up, special snowflakes.
Well, for all those people who thought they had access to this information on-tap. Clearly that is not the case.
We are most certainly concerned with language complexity. We will only add features that mesh well with the Go we know and love, not just for the sake of utility (every feature is at least useful).
It's actually pretty well done, I used to use it til I moved to ownCloud. Interestingly it's more stable than the official client on my Mac, on Ubuntu 12.04
Is it XEP-0295 compliant?

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0295.html
Is the permitting based on the "shall issue" principle? I.e. do the authorities determine if the applicant is not a banned individual and then automatically issue the permit? Or does the applicant have to jump through hoops?
You're right that I mischaracterized the legal status of the issue - though I think saying that this 'might be' the basis for a civil suit is seriously understating things, given the degree of incompetence demonstrated by AT&T in securing private information.

It's also possible that AT&T violated data privacy laws in certain jurisdictions, which might or might not be a criminal matter.

I'm not particularly interested in defending Weev, though I have to say that prosecuting someone for accessing data you published on the Internet with no access control does not a good reputation make.
Hm, it seems DDG uses Perl actually[1].

[1]http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216392-a...
I never said there is a conspiracy...

It is only the observable behaviour, it is that the people in power do have ties in the corporation, what they do, naturally go in the direction of self-preservation, not fairness or justice.

For all the people in power in the US, when a situation is bad for them (for example the risk of the USD becoming valueless, or of a country stopping to do business with their companies), why they would refrain themselves from using that power to their interests?

Specially in a individualistic society...

What bothers me is why people lie to themselves, and lie to others about it?

Why the US sent a aircraft carrier here in 1964 to defend "freedom" and instead helped dictators?

Why when Brazil announced it found massive amounts of oil on its coast, US announced the reactivation of the Fourth Fleet and sent ships here while claiming it was to fight drug smugglers? (that by the way, were sent back that time when Brazil invited Russia to do "exercises" here, and the Russian ships did came, probably for their own selfish reasons too)

EDIT: Lincoln Gordon (US Ambassador) before brazillian 1964 coup: "covert support for pro-democracy street rallies…and encouragement [of] democratic and anti-communist sentiment in Congress, armed forces, friendly labor and student groups, church, and business"

CIA message to Washington recently declassified message after the coup: "The change in government will create a greatly improved climate for foreign investments."

Now tell me the coup was about freedom and not corporate interests.
Minecraft isn't "plenty of kids." Minecraft is millions of kids, all playing the same game. Sales are over 26 million on all platforms, 10 million on PC. If 30 percent of PC sales are played by kids, which I think is low, that's 3 million. Plus a lot of kids are playing pirated copies or on other platforms.

WoW was popular with kids, but there were never 3 million children playing it. The majority of WoW and EverQuest players have been adults. MMOs, even kids MMOs, are unmodifiable theme parks which don't hold a child's attention for very long. Free Realms, the MMO made by Sony Online Entertainment targeted at kids, had to run TV ads to remind them to play[1]. Meanwhile Mojang has spent zero dollars marketing Minecraft (if you don't count Minecon expenses). Viral spread among children has helped make it the seventh highest selling PC game of all time[2].

MMOs have numerous specialized blogs covering them; the popular MMOs have dozens of blogs devoted specifically to each title. Minecraft has almost no blogs covering it because blogging is an activity done by adults.

In contrast, searching YouTube for "minecraft" currently yields "about 70,200,000 results." Instead of reading, most children would rather watch a video and quite a few have mastered making and uploading their own. One top YouTuber specializing in Minecraft makes enough to earn a living off it (he's young and single), and he's still gaining subscribers[3].

Minecraft is different. There's never been a game like it.

[1] http://gamegenus.blogspot.com/2009/09/john-smedley-on-free-r...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_games
[3] http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/sethbling
Um, I'm not saying Drive offers everything Dropbox does, but on the subject of APIs this:

https://developers.google.com/drive/

seems pretty reasonable.
If some people don't get into flamewars over a language, it's because no one's using it. :)
> Why the US citizens and government propaganda insists that US is about freedom

I didn't have this impression at all but then again I might spend too much time on http://www.reddit.com/r/libertarian.
Which is kind of what weev did by reporting it.
Nonsense. No project, open or closed, needs a non-contributing pain in the ass, injecting his (and it is always his) nonsense into every single discussion, forcing every conversation back onto whatever topic they felt they lost the last time, regardless of existing consensus, regardless of the lack of new information, and regardless of who is actually doing the work.

Also, I'd like to meet people that don't resort to emotional blackmail in order to try and force nerds to provide them free goods or services.

And I'd also like a pony.
No, the ARM architecture is only supported on Linux right now (although unofficially it's mostly working on some other platforms too).

I remember reading that Go was ported to darwin/arm, but it can never be supported since there is no way to legally run their test suite for it.
I think the hacker ethic alive and well, and living outside the startup scene/Hacker News.
Perhaps it rhymes with another company if you take off the first couple of letters.

(Please forgive me if you knew that and you were just being humorous. In that case, consider me thoroughly whooshed!)
France is weird. Much of the world embraced French culture, then added local flavor and developed all kinds of great stuff. Now it's time for France to do the same. When France cooperates a little, awesome fun and exciting things come from it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_fifth_element
That totally depends on your market. I understand that many programmers are uncomfortable with selling stuff that doesn't exist yet, because to them it feels fraudulent. But there are a lot of ways you can get around that feeling and leave customers feeling happy.

A good example is Kickstarter. People sell imaginary products on there all the time. And this has gone on in the software business for a long time. Microsoft, for example, got their start selling a product that didn't exist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#1972.E2.80.9383:_Foun...

I think that approach was a little dubious (although it's hard to argue with the results), but I'm perfectly happy with Kickstarter. For me, the difference is that with Kickstarter they're being honest.

There are also things you can do that are in between. For example, the landing page that talks about a "coming soon" product is fine by me. As is a guerrilla user test where you have people look at several things, some of which are products that don't exist yet. Or getting your clients to sign a letter saying, "If you build X, we will pay you Y for it."

And honestly, people do order things on talk alone. A lot of enterprise software starts out that way. It seems crazy from a programmer perspective, but if you're running a business you frequently make small bets on new suppliers to see whether they can deliver. And sometimes large bets if they have something you really want.
The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco He founded limos.com
They do use it on some parts of the system. But its not a pure Go implementation like Nuuton. (:
I think a flat magnification would solve this. (eg real magnifying glass). The "curvy" magnification is simply annoying.
I've been reading this thread trying to find a reason to switch to Go. Then I read this comment and it brought back some very good memories (TP was my first language after command-line BASIC on the Apple IIe and TRS-80). Sigh. Looks like I have a new weekend project!
Why doesn't the site let me zoom (iPad Mini)?

Good read though, even if I had to strain my old eyes.
The intelligent investor by Benjamin Graham. Read it.
This post and (more predominantly) some of the comments seem to be swaying dangerously close to breaking the guidelines of the site...

Instead of arguing politics (ie the moral argument) it would be more interesting to discuss the reasoning behind the wire taps or the implications of such a wire tap.
I sincerely hope it's a parody, because it would be terribly sad if it were meant to be serious.
So now all the photos on google plus, Picassa are brought into accounts, that will eat up the bunch of space.
"Damn the torpedos and downvotes, I'm gonna make this joke work!"

You, sir, are a risk taker. Kudos.
I asked this exact question once when bradfitz was giving a talk about Go at AirBnB. The answer was that the team is led by minimalists who are interested in keeping it lean and avoiding bloat and especially in avoiding it becoming C++. In fact, you can see his answer about Go 2.0 roadmap plans (where the answer is basically "too soon to think about that yet") followed by my question (at 54:50) of this talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

I guess the question then is "do you trust those guys?" So far the answer seems to be yes.
> I feel I'm trapped now by my past and I'm really out of options to socialize on any meaningful level.

What's stopping you from socializing?
Tell HN: Bots are Constantly trying to hack your Wordpress Sites
I installed the Better Wordpress Security plugin on all 4 of my wordpress powered sites because I was worried about hackers.

If anyone tries to login as the admin 3 times and fails they are IP banned permanently and I get an email of the IP address that tried it.

Within 2 days I started getting 2-4 emails a week per site and today I found this:

http://minus.com/lijJOdsVe8UD9

That's 149 IPs banned in a 24 hour period. My main blog got hit apparently by a cluster of hacker bots. If you run wordpress sites immediately install a login limiter or all-in-one security plugin like Better Wordpress Security:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/

You'll be amazed to see how many bots are trying to get into your cp.