skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday I read a Reddit post about a guy being depressed because he started a new project each month for the past 9 or so months and none of them became business. He gave each one a month before declaring it a failure.

This provides two great reminders:

1) Even really smart and accomplished folks can't always predict what's going to be successful. But they got something delivered, gave it a good effort, and then decided to move on.

2) Declaring failure after a day or a month is far too short sighted. Breeze launched in January. So about 6 months of lots of data and customers (or lack of) to make decisions like this with.

"Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that’s in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute"

-Louis C.K.
It's so parallel that I don't even see how it relates to the question in question.

I see killing yourself being a crime is because society sees you as its slave over whom it can command; slave is worth some money, so why let that money go waste!?
I imagined Breeze as something like a really fancy version of MajorDomo or mailman, and maybe some people would want that for nostalgia. I always thought that web forums and Google Groups took over for that particular niche, so in that regard, 37signals had a tough hill to climb to make Breeze relevant.
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That's a shame! This was one of the things I saw when it launched and thought 'why didn't I think of that?'
Agreed. We're looking to change that. Hope you can try our kits and let us know how to improve.
I'm doing it because you were doing it. You've also removed some of your Extremist Muslim supporting statements. Don't want the FBI seeing that kind of stuff. It'll put you on the "no fly" list.
Yes...certainly the commoditization of IT equipment and its use in nearly every job function will lead to decreased dependance on IT departments (?).

I've been more or less involved in medium-sized IT shops my whole carrer, and while it's true that some roles have been removed, many persist (and new ones just keep coming).

Processes management and security never die, nor should they. Groups of people above a certain size need someone who is designated to make sure they work efficiently and effectively with technology. Someone has to know that app is out there before you can use it, and somebody needs to know how it works, what the terms are, and how to back it up before you put all of your confidential company data on it.

Hardware and configuration management will probably die with the PC (I hope), but I think that may be more than 5 years out for most businesses.

Trainings work. Even glossy, easy-to-use software can benefit if someone knows the use case and shares the possibilities with the users (surprisingly, not everyone knows they can share a link to a dropbox file).

Managing services is a lot more than just managing servers. Outsourcing stuff (gmail, salesforce, whatever) or running it yourself (exchange) have both made the lives of sysadmins a lot easier recently, but the config and integration work just keeps growing. It makes sense because the more options exist, the more work there is.

Not to mention that while we can do so much more with all of these new toys than we could 5 years ago, your average user is still spending about the same amount of time searching for it, signing up, getting it, learning it, and googling when he can't figure out why it's not doing the thing it needs to do.
Here is the original announcement post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4997634

And just as everyone mentioned, it is hard to charge money for something like this these days and get traction.
Thanks for pointing this out. It was supposed to be 1,000,000. We have fixed it now.
This is just a Slowly Changing Dimension[1] of Type 4 (using a historical table in addition to a working table).

I personally like Type 2 (having everything in the working table with an attribute to mark the current and all previous versions) because of its simplicity to implement and maintain. Type 3 (having a column per version and attribute you want to store) always looked ugly to me, but it has its uses.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension
I believe the number of customers necessary for reaching "critical mass" is different for Google than for 37signals than for a new SaaS company that just started out.

Also Breeze had customers (that paid for it) while Google Reader had users that got it for free.
Who pays for the lawyer/solicitor in the UK? Do I have to, even though I'm innocent?
Well if you consider the design paradigm and the monetary chain it makes more sense.

The player population is broken up in the same way casino visitors are, with the whales providing the most income.

Everyone else though is content.

It's not unbearably bad for everyone, they just accept that they can have less fun. Since their target market is casuals, most people don't know there is an alternative.

Further since this model is more profitable, the casuals likely will never know there an option.
Depending of the definition of the "leg" this robot has actually 4*6=24 legs.
Damage?

Often, (not at all a majority,) the child feels anything but damaged. In fact, they feel like the centre of the universe. Only afterwards, once the councillors, etc have gotten to them, do they understand that they are supposed to feel damaged. The damage and hurt they end up dealing with for decades is what happens when the state rushes in and destroys a relationship they themselves had little problem with, and they see their "partner" humiliated and hauled across the coals, while some nasty adult coaches them in to being a victim.

Oddly, in that sort of scenario, the parents can be the ones who have most to deal with. Guilt, failure, etc. Then blame the child for it, because the child doesn't seem damaged.

My only point here, is that society has us believe that these relationships are default abusive, nasty, even violent and coercive. There is a spectrum, from my example above to the traditional view.

And all this because of an arbitrary age of consent, which changes from country to country, culture to culture.
In that case, I apologize - I possibly misread "do agree" as "disagree" the first time, based on which I had a mental image of what the post said, and on a second, more careful reading it seemed changed.
It's not about critical mass, it's about profitability, for both companies.
I want freedompop to succeed, but I have trouble seeing their vision in a world without lightsquared. A lot of us in the Telecom industry had high hopes for low-orbit satellite but it wasn't meant to be.

Even though Freedompop has had to go to market without the crazy low lightsquared pricing, they found an ally in Clearwire who has nothing but excess capacity. Ergo, freedompop gets a data rate they can resell at high margin.

I want them to win but VoIP over 3G is hard. Very curious about what infrastructure they're using to do the VoIP calls and whether there's going to be a proper switch in the core.
Google's internal developers operate in a vastly different world from the one most of us are used to, always building from the head of a single, massive Perforce repository.

When your world enforces the assumption that the latest version of a dependency is stable and compatible, 'go get' is a perfectly reasonable solution.
Sorry for bringing Hitler card so early on the table, but there were quite a few people in SS/CheKa who you would consider "good".

People doing X and being good do not count toward X not being bad.
Really? I love the design. What don't you like about it?
Which is why they are refunding money, which negates the "just pay once" aspect.
"Instantly" was true when Lion launched. It's been ages now. And the new design clearly is not "focus on features", but UX. Regarding patches, their have been patches for the scrollbar since day one. It's just Mozilla bureaucracy that makes it impossible to land.
Maybe people in the northern hemisphere associate going north with going uphill because the climatic changes are similar. For instance you can find plant ecologies at 3,000 feet of elevation in West Virginia that are very similar to what you would find at sea level in eastern Canada.
One of their replacement service suggestions is https://fiesta.cc. It looks nice but it's totally free -- I get nervous when there is not a clear business model. (It was almost shut down a year ago according to their blog: http://blog.fiesta.cc.)

Another suggestion is http://www.mail-list.com. They charge around $1/user/year, which seems pretty reasonable to me (one reason I didn't sign up for Breeze is that $25 seemed like a lot for a lot of use cases, like a list for a season-long sports team). But in the fine print, it says the minimum is a $99 purchase per organization per year.

Their final suggestion is http://www.emaildodo.com. Call me a snob, but the late 90s design scared me off.

So none of these seem like great options -- I'd rather use http://librelist.com, which is run as a free for-the-good-of-the-internet service from what I can tell.

Assuming Google and Yahoo Groups are too heavy-handed for a simple mailing list, what do you use? Any experience with these?
How is this a quadruped and not a wheeled robot with just a funny tire design?
I'm not sure how such a feature would work or how useful it would be, for that matter. Maybe the TrueCrypt binary would attempt to decrypt the first X bytes of the partition under the "coercion" password and then check if it matches some known signature. If so, flip a bit in each encrypted block to scramble it.

Problem: forensics people can use a write-blocking adapter on the original disk and simply make copies to try out the decryption. So, the feature sounds both irritating to implement and (worse) perhaps give a false sense of security to a novice.
Indeed.

Reminded of a fact that the most likely person to abuse or even murder my children is........ me.
It was my understanding from the article that they actually built the pond over which the bridge was built. Would this still be considered a waterway in your understanding?

Not to seem like I am defending this terrible act. Digging a pond in an old redwood grove seems like it would cause quite a bit of damage.
Of course, still I think the common meaning of "forever" is closer to "until 37signals doesn't exist any more" than "until 37signals decides they don't like it any more".

In any case I think we can agree that "forever" is longer than January to August.
If a guy building a submarine in his garage is HN worthy then so is this in my book :-)
I would advocate making what the repair technicians did a criminal offense. They should be obligated to treat the contents of the drives as confidential unless they are clearly evidence of a crime. And it is quite suspicious that they were examining images at all.
Ok DD-WRT folks, get to it :-) More seriously though, this is a pretty cool thing, using your motion which is blocking wireless signals to detect motion. In hindsight its kind of obvious since people are 'giant waterbags of attenuation' as my RF buddy calls them. This also means you can probably add something of a burglar alarm/motion sensor system to these things, and if you were careful you might be able to see the movement of people inside a house by looking at the WiFi signal leaving the house. Certainly if you're carrying around and active phone/tablet that would be trivial to do from outside (and by trivial I mean you would have lots of signal to work with and the math would be straight-forward, not that it would be simple)
Or if you're Ingvar Kamprad from Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd.
Bullshit.

He married her at six and had sex with (raped?) her at nine.
These are information from "respected" sources and are known by anyone with a bit of knowledge about islam.

https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%AD_%D9%...
It's used for boys much more commonly in the southeast.
I know Intel has a bunch of software written at the Haifa location, and that they take interns.

That being said, I don't know if they take high school graduates or just university students, or if they're currently hiring. However, it's a place you could look.
> What I don't understand is how they get people to keep playing once they realize they don't need skill to win, but rather a valid credit card number.

It's all about how it's presented. Gems aren't presented as win buttons but rather as boosts to a particular aspect. When you add boosts together you're basically buying things outright but there's no button for "$65 max level barracks" (haven't played, won't be). This is important because it's more like "I have all these pieces except..." and you have this resource you started with and have received more of via normal gameplay that happens to solve the problem. I'm sure the amounts start low and slowly increase.

As for the hollow/bored, it's a competitive multiplayer game. Being the biggest dog in the neighborhood is always fun and once that's over it becomes you against the guy in the next neighborhood over who's also spending so it becomes not about spending money to win but rather spending money to compete.

This is a classic pay to win set of mechanics. It works when your audience either doesn't know how things work like the author or doesn't care (enthusiasts of the korean mmos that pioneered the model). I got pay2win burned–enjoyed the game, didn't recognize pay2win, basically did the same analysis as the article author, was sad–when companies in the US were initially exploring the space. I now check how the company is making money off the game before playing any F2P and convert microtransactions to dollars as part of the spending process.
It's got python in it, nice.
For 32signals, critical mass is above several thousands of users. For Google, critical mass is above a hundred million users.
You should be able to query for just the data with the JS API. Not everybody wants to use an overlay. Maybe I want to show it inside a box in my layout. Or maybe provide different preset templates for displaying the data.
Hmmm that would make an interesting poll here on HN.

Pretty sure there are a lot of atheists / agnostics here.

And I do think organized religions do more harm than good, although there are several societal roles that they fulfill.
Agilebit's Knox (https://agilebits.com/knox) - I found this the most straightforward way for my workflow.
One unstated, but probably critically important, point in the article is the teams' work ethic. There was a thread on HN and I believe it was one of the YC partners or founders saying that these guys barely slept. They really demanded a lot out of themselves and were all accountable. To go from concept to a large round of funding in such short time probably speaks more to their relentless work ethic than anything. And it probably wasn't just hard work, but also working smart. Hope I can one day be on a team like that.

I'll also add that I absolutely love the product, it has so much potential for future applications. And the market for it is essentially everyone IMO.
Assuming you don't have it protected, you need to be more cautious than that, as the file system is not simply a long stream of bytes.
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As a former WoW player -- I remember the "thrill" I would get anytime an achievement alert would pop up; those silly little accomplishments became rather addictivie
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But the thing is, this is no worse than how "events" in other areas are handled. I don't trust reports of nuclear accidents any less than I trust reports of refinery or offshore oil-well or chemical plant or ... accidents.
http://www.feedsapi.org + http://feedly.com is my first choice, followed by http://www.feedsapi.org + snackr , feedsapi turns shortened rss into full text rss feeds, which makes the user experience with any other rss reader much more better. I also use FeedsAPI rss to email feature on the go.
Sure, there are some things that obviously have value... the oft-cited example being "a cure for cancer". And maybe some people just have a well developed intuition for what will or won't be in demand.

And, of course, the old saw about "If Henry Ford had asked his customers what they want, they'd have said 'a faster horse'" has some merit to it. There's a place for being a visionary, and if you're really building something visionary, sometimes you have to build it first and then show it to people for them to "get" it.

That said, I argue that for most entrepreneurs, you're not Steve Jobs or Henry Ford (or whoever), you don't have any special intuition about what will or won't be in demand, and market validation is a useful tool in the incipient stages of your project.

Also, the point of making attempts to validate a market isn't just about determining "does anybody want this"? It's about determining if enough people want it, if they will pay enough to make it profitable, factoring in the overhead of selling to them, and ascertaining how to best market and sell to that market.
Seems to me folks should be happy with a refund. If it was a one product company, you'd get nothing when they close up shop.
No, I have not. That is completely false.

I think I made one edit to correct a typo. You removed the first line of your original posting that indicated that you thought that the protests were anti-secular and you added content that "addressed" one of my points to a post that originally only made reference to Norway.

Now I am editing this just to add that I see you are editing other comments as well, not just to correct typos but significantly altering their content. It seems cheap and petty.
Which is part of the reason they are closing the service, they can't provide the service they promised to provide.
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We have plans to open up the API more and provide callbacks to handle these requirements
> This story has nothing to do with any religion whatsoever, messianic or not, yet your first instinct is to go on about Islam

A few sentences out of many is not "going on about Islam." Why is mentioning Islam offensive?
That captures the entire spirit of the language.
> it says in fact that they "won't integrate". It seems to me that the burden of proof is on you with all these generalities

Look no further than the recent events in Stockholm. This guy might be a bit extreme, but he does have a point.
Huh? Hearst Castle was built 96 years ago and is over 2 hours from Big Sur...
That's if you double all of the dimensions. This is talking about doubling just one of the dimensions.

Quoting:

" ... doubling the length of any of the sides doubles
the volume. This also means that the determinant is
linear (in each column)."

Then if you double each of three sides then you've increased the volume by a factor of 2x2x2 = 2^3 = 8.
An MMORPG where everyone is playing a bard?
Being technically correct - the best kind of correct - pedophilia itself is just a paraphilia and doesn't cause any damage, child molestation (or behaviors that cause it) does.
Though I'm not sure what's the incidence rate, so the point may be moot.
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I am referring to common people, you know, the old lady that barge in a store shouting that the long haired cashier will go to hell?
The copying phase is indeed common in nations that are developing their economies. The U.S. is just eager for China to get past it and start developing and protecting their own innovations. That will be better for everyone.
To call it "dated" would be kind.
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That hit way too close to home!
You have to, unless you want to use the duty solicitor who's a free resource. The duty solicitor should be perfectly fine for most situations unless you really actually are guilty, or you think you've been stitched up, to use TV crime drama parlance.
> How disappointing to see anti-Islam polemic as the top comment.

How disappointing to see unsubstantiated claims. What is the part that is an anti-Islam polemic?
It's not really about "forgetting". In many cases, a simple desktop app won't cut it.

Unless it also has a mobile app that syncs what I've read with the desktop app, it's sub-par to Google Reader for me personally. This is actually the most important of any feature for me.

I need to be able to go back and forth between desktop, laptop, and phone and never lose my place. I travel, co-work periodically, and like to read my feeds over lunch on most days.
An interesting book that jives with this is Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. One of the interesting things the author finds about the nouveau rich is that they are typically more dismissive of the poor and less charitable than the "old money." Probably in large part because they think "I made it because of my own merits - if you don't have the things I have, it's because you are lazy or incompetent."

As for trashing a redwood forest, not sure what makes that seem OK. :)
This is a good overview of the paper http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/10/4/046003/article which talks about building a thought control interface to the AR Parrot drone.
For what it's worth, PyPy had a multimethod implementation that it used to power some of the more polymorphic builtin functions in Python. They recently started killing them off as too difficult to reason about and maintain.
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What I find interesting is how quickly they made the decision. It was launched less than 4 months ago.

It looked like a good service, I heard good reviews, and while I'm not against the "shut things down that don't get traction" idea, 4 months seems quite tight for something that was at least making some money. A lot of the most successful products take much longer to find their feet (although I appreciate this was just a side line and not the next Skype or Facebook).
is this something I can trust?
Iowa City to ban red-light cameras, drones, and license plate readers too
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Source? Academic sources only please.
Ask HN: What is your favourite podcast at the moment?
I subscribe to Radiolab and the Nerdist. Looking for some recommendations.

What do you listen to?
Well, yes, it's obviously a semantic argument. I'm arguing about what "treason" means.
I flew down to Istanbul this weekend to support my friends. Joined in the protests on the front lines - have some photos up: http://travel.ninjito.com/dump/2013-06-01-Istanbul-Protests/...
Unfortunately, I feel like this list is so long it ends up being useless.

You did miss FeedWrangler too. I guess it wasn't out at the time of the other thread.
Not to mention the fact that the power grid would fry under such variable power supply conditions.
It's worth while taking the time to look up what rights you have under arrest etc: http://www.yourrights.org.uk/
This strongly reminds me of A Deepness in the Sky, albeit the implementation is different and the resolution is probably nowhere near the fictional stuff.
Bad week for me - a coffee recommendation - Lucid on Lex around 38th street. Small but good coffee.
At least now you know why you didn't think of it!
And instead, they said "it's cool - just make us one of those fancy app things and we'll call it even." [1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/sean-parker-was-fined-25-mill...
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There are several societal roles hard drugs fulfill, still they are illegal.

Even though ahrd drugs aren't going to sue you, lynch you or pass its own laws against you. Religions do that all the time.