skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree with NicoJuicy, but in the absence of detailed information it is fair to say that the expectation when starting out is even with repeat entrepreneurs almost always too optimistic. Reality kicks in and costs suddenly are higher, payments further delayed, prices set not right, etc, etc. Startup nation has a great article to avoid some of the pitfalls of not thinking about consistent profitability correctly http://www.startupnation.com/business-articles/1262/1/profit...
Good luck!
Wow. This is incredibly judgmental. You're assuming that everyone else functions and succeeds in the same way you do. If I knew that someone I was going to work with even half-seriously judged people on the status of their sink -- I'm not sure I would want to work with them anymore.
Well, at least one person said it! ;)

I signed up for a free trial of bigcommerce to compare it to another e-commerce platform. I signed up and just never got around to using it. And then bigcommerce sent me a customer service email titled "Need some inspiration?" with examples of how other companies are using the service, three days later "Hear from other successful online merchants" with case studies of successful bigcommerce entrepreneurs.

Finally I received "Your trial is almost over — give me a call to keep your store" from their customer service rep, I'm sure this too was automated but I did end up on a telephone call with their regional sales rep and I'm now a paying user.

So it absolutely does work and you can provide value to trial users if you schedule your emails and the content of your emails correctly.
I'll settle for an 'ignore medium.com' button.
Apple Doesn’t Need “Something New”
Much before I knew him from his FOSS work, I used to follow his column on a computer magazine called Computers@Home. Sad to learn he is no more.
I get maybe 1 baby picture pr 50-100 message and even less cat memes. Don't think I've seen a single complicated breakup.
For anyone wondering why you cannot tile a sphere with hexes: this is a matter of Euler characteristic.

Suppose that there is a tiling of sphere with N hexes. Each hex has 6 edges, but every edge is shared by two hexes, so there are 6N/2 = 3N edges. Similarly, there are 6N/3 = 2N vertices.Thus, the Euler characteristic would be 2N - 3N + N = 0. Now, the sphere has Euler characteristic 2, so we get a contradiction.

Incidentally, a torus has Euler characteristic 0, and indeed it turns out that you can tile torus with hexes.
I think it's really hard to make a realistic scenario given the shock any person would go through if something like that would happen. It could well be that the revived person goes crazy or dies again of heart attack. But suppose I could choose anyone, increase the time span a little more(let's say 50 years) so that they'd have enough time to adapt, make sure that they don't go crazy or die of heart attack, I would choose someone with a combination immense intellectual power and ability to make things happen like Isaac Newton. Also I would choose someone like him because of the potential unpredictability(exponential effects) of what he would be capable of. Though it's still unclear what would actually happen if someone would indeed be revived. :)
By the way, why does Rust need a C compiler anyway?

I admit I am ignorant here because I never cared. I know that many academic/niche programming languages bundle MinGW/depend on a MinGW or even Cygwin installation.. I always assumed that was to cut some corners. I mean, I have used multiple programming languages on Windows which compile to native code and have no dependency on a C compiler.
RubyGem: Mousetrap-rails v0.0.10 | Use keyboard in your Rails 4 apps
You can jump to a particular line by typing :123
Can You Still Become a Quant in Your Thirties?
Surely conversions are more important than impressions ?

Especially for companies which are recruiting every month, there's much more value in getting to a wider audience than getting repeated exposure to the same audience.
Well, Medicare is underfunded to the tune of $38T. If all of Google and Apple was liquified at current market cap and put towards funding that liability, it would be underfunded by at little more than $37T. Retroactively cancelling the Iraq and Afghanistan wars would give you cash to knock the number down to $36T.

Of course people benefiting from Medicare benefits from Medicare, but "championing" Medicare benefits only politicians, because they know better than anyone else that it's going to go away, soon, but they'll happily lie about it in order to get reelected while they wait for it to happen.
The Prophet Mohamed. Considering the recent global conversation about religion, science and the future of humanity it would be interesting to see what the Prophet would have to say about Islam and how it has evolved over the past 1450 years and more importantly whether or not he approves of the direction it has been moving towards.
Cryptgasm.com: Exposed Webcam Viewer Removal
Uh, I am moving there at the end of the summer. That is pretty much last thing I want to see at the moment.
I am hoping they manage to finish this thing before.

Although, I would prefer Turkey to be peaceful, I do understand and agree with these protest.

If there happens the worst case scenario and real revolution, does anyone have info, how safe it is after that usually?
I'd like to see a "PubMed" of case studies and findings like that.

X-posted on FS: http://firespotting.com/item?id=1144
True, although we did manage it in the UK. Hard to see how that casts any light on the (apparent) contradiction.
> you are naive, and uninformed. worse than that, you depress earnings for an entire industry of people because you are willing to work for shit money.

Just remember how the fallout from the last bubble (which included inflated salaries) affected real industries with hard working real people having real families that did not have anything to do with the ridiculous entitlement and greediness of the entrepreneurial culture. They are the ones that ultimately pay for folks like you. If you are not creating sustainable revenue with your line of work but rely on bean counter tricks you are dead weight in terms of economic value, regardless of your nominal salary.
Oh good god.

/r/politics is invading HN, I see.
D3 gallery: Data visualization tools.
Never had the habit in the first place.
Finally, something on HN that I actually understand.
I get what the writer is saying but have a few reservations:

- sometimes it's easier to wash things after you've left them to soak overnight or for a few hours

- it doesn't make sense to do the washing up for one teaspoon, it's better to wait until it all accumulates and then do it all in one go (that's my excuse, anyway)

- I highly doubt that doing other people's washing up will make them do their washing up
It wasn't that rigid. The dishes dichotomy is likely some indication of a person's conscientiousness and most the observations are merely an extension of that. Also, it was all prefaced with this: "Please note, I’m being a little silly here. Don’t take me too seriously. I do believe doing the dishes is beneficial, but I got a little carried away in how I explained things. Please forgive the slightly humor that attempted poorly to employ."
Yes, and no.

I keep them in Things (a GTD-style app for iOS and OS X) in the category 'Someday'. This way I can jot them down even if I get an idea while riding the subway.

I should share them since I seldom 'Get Things Done' anyway (at least, the things categorized as 'Someday')...
How very convenient. Hand-wave it away: Maybe the police did it.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Ask HN: is Client Side Encryption for payments secure?
Stripe and BrainTree both provide Client Side Encryption.

However, after reading the Matasano article http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography I'm concerned about how secure client side encryption would be.

Any thoughts?
Holy shit why has everyone on this website become such a dick?

Almost every article is instantly bombarded with "holy crap this is terrible" style comments.

The article is based on his observation that people who do the dishes being happier/more organised/more productive people. Anecdotally, I've also noticed this.

You don't have to listen to his advice but you also don't have to insult people who are giving advice based on their life.
Please do share them on FS :)
What happens when you enter your credit card number online?
The story of the fastest enlightenment in Zen has to do with washing:

A monk came to Joshu, asking, "Master, I just entered the monastery:
may I have my first lesson?"
Joshu asked, "Have you eaten your rice?"
He replied, "Yes, I've eaten."
"Then you had better wash your bowl."
In that moment the monk was enlightened.

To also address the point of the blog, the basic reason to let dishes pile up is to increase efficiency in their washing: but it also increases the cost of doing the dishes. Right when the dirt is still liquid is the easiest time to wash that dirt off; you often do not need soap unless there was something unusually sticky (tomato sauce, turmeric, butter) involved in the food. Leave it for several days and then you must soak it and then scrub each dried-leek bit off of the plate.

In my last apartment, this was very clear. I was generally the only person who washed dishes, so I always ended up washing a sink-full of my housemates' dishes when I did my own. It was a good lesson in patience, since it is easy to claim unfairness in such a situation: but the real core of the matter is that you want a clean kitchen and it's not going to happen unless you clean it, no matter who is "to blame." (In this sense I learned that blame is not very practical and will probably need to be replaced in my life with something better.) The whole house was like that, caked with years of grime built up. Slowly but surely, one room at a time, it could all be cleaned. The stove was the worst. "I thought our stove was yellow?" said my roommate. "Was yellow, past tense," I said -- there was a beautiful white stove underneath yearning to be set free.

The blog post comments that it's a problem with appreciating honest toil, when you let the dishes pile up rather than just doing them. This might be true. It might also be a problem with deferring gratification, as I noticed that the dishes were neglected for the sake of watching television or YouTube. It might also be that they simply treat these things as an abstraction layer; like someone who does not sharpen their chef's knife, it implements the interface `knife.cut(x)` in some functionally pure and undecaying sense; the idea of `sharpen(knife)` is too real-world and stateful.
Yeah, the difference is that this one spawns a prebuilt clang-complete [1] (a more lightweight program) instead of clang. Still, nowhere as good as using a prebuilt ycm_core.so directly. Thanks for the pointer nevertheless.

[1]: https://github.com/Golevka/emacs-clang-complete-async/blob/m...
Open Rights Group ORGCon meeting this weekend in London
Amazon seeks to automate access control
I'll make a mental note that this might work for certain apps provided clear opt-out is given and the email frequency is reasonable.
So it (Firefox with Servo) would work on Windows as close to native as possible? It would be funny to start Firefox and have a console windows poping in/out of existence or some other visual quirk.
Incredible. I owe several degu which are very similar to praire dogs (both rodents, both are highly social, both live in prairies etc). They produce a large number of sounds, and I always thought that their sounds are just are a bunch of noise. Now, I understand, after heard prairie dog's sound that it's not so simple.
As an experienced procrastinator I can tell you that doing the dishes is an excellent way to procrastinate. Yes, my kitchen looks great, but I'm just trashing (e.g. not executing, after the dishes are done I will clean up some more, then get a cup of tea and pet my cat). So that's another data to consider...
He chaired the committee that ran and organized foss.in - (un)arguably India's greatest open source event.

Held every December, it attracted thousands of students and working professionals from across the country. It helped set the image of Linux and the wider OSS community fairly high in the country.

I remember going to my first foss.in in 2008. It was brilliant and I felt exhilarated that I could meet with people like minded as myself - who had all come to know about OSS via other efforts. It was India's first gathering of like minded "hackers"[1].

I've met some really great people through foss.in - they've all inspired me with their work on Mozilla, PHP, KDE, etc.. I think pre-GSOC, foss.in was the most significant if not the only torch-bearer of open source in India.

I was very upset when they shut it down after 10+ years in 2011 - the team had apparently felt that their job of infusing Linux in the student population was sort of accomplished.

He was a pretty great guy!

[1]"hackers": the way ESR would call 'em if he could. Selfless, extremely smart, lets-get-things-done people, with tens of contributions to the open source world.
What's with all the honorary doctorates from Peru?
As a former newspaper person, I'm inclined to say "But oh, knowing current events is our civic duty"...and it is....but consuming journalism isn't the same as consuming news, and reading a lengthy in depth story about an event that happened last month or last year or even the last decade is likely more helpful than staying abreast of the 24 hour news cycle.

This has been said before, but I'd also argue that the constant news cycle is just harmful, period. The most recent manifestation of this for me was the Boston Bombings...it was a terrible event, but not being in Boston, there was literally no benefit I could gain from listening to the minute by minute coverage. But I did it anyway, even checking it late in the night and early in the morning. When that situation was resolved...all those accumulated hours of listening didn't mean a thing. News shouldn't be consumed like a TV series, in which the point is the journey, rather than the conclusion.

I think it's better to think of the breaking news phenomenon in psychological terms, rather than content. It's not that you're necessarily obsessed with shootings, bombings, and celeb drug rehab, but that the constant stream of dilemma and reward (when a new turn unfolds) must have a similar effect to other endorphin-releasing habits.

And while I'm just throwing pop psychology out there...it is indisputable that the news covers the novel and unlikely, that's why it is "news". Consuming too much of it will distort your reality and perception of what's "normal". After doing cops reporting, I couldn't help but feel extra paranoid when walking certain streets when off the job..."This is where people get shot" is an entirely irrational way to judge a neighborhood, but it won't seem irrational if that's your primary or first acquaintance with the area.
I've been doing this for a long while. I don't see any value in the typical "daily news". Instead I read books, or articles from a selection of sites. And of course HN. Daily news is a waste of time.
The classic example of the ideomotor effect is the ouija board in which you spell out words letter by letter by "resting" your hand on a wooden planchette and easily believe that it is not you moving it. Holding someone's hand who you desperately want to communicate is only going to make that mental trap stronger.
A combination of Superman, He-Man and Spiderman. The one, that screws the world; real badly.
Tell HN: Moz (SEOMoz) Security Issue this morning
I received this in my inbox this morning. It's unfortunate as they just barely rebranded from SEOMoz to Moz.

On Friday, May 31st, we discovered that an encrypted portion of some of our member passwords may have been made public for a brief period of time. Within minutes we were able to remove the potential vulnerability. Fortunately, Moz uses a two-part hashing scheme for our passwords, so there is little risk of an account being compromised.

As a precautionary measure, we are implementing a password reset. Please log in to your account at https://moz.com/login where you will be prompted to start the password reset process.

Further details:

No plain text passwords were exposed or stored in our system, and in our investigation we have found no evidence of any unauthorized access to user accounts or credit card information (we never display credit card numbers).

We were not hacked and our systems were not compromised. This is a precautionary measure to ensure your account integrity.

Like many companies, we use a two-part process for password encryption. This makes it significantly harder for security breaches to occur when this type of vulnerability is exposed.

At Moz, the security of your data and account information is a mission critical priority for us. We apologize for the inconvenience of changing your password, but we want to take every precaution to ensure your data is safe!

Accessing your account at https://moz.com/login will prompt you to change your password. If you have difficulty changing your password, or any questions or concerns, please be sure to contact us right away.

Thank you for your patience!

The Moz Team
The ideal facebook for me would let me explicitly set a threshold before things become visible.

So.. I would create 3 groups. Family, Friends, Acquaintances.

Family + Friends status's would always appear. Acquaintances status updates would require 5 likes by other people before they appeared in my stream.

All likes from Acquaintances and Friends would be hidden.

All app invites from Acquaintances would be hidden.

As for companies I like / follow. Individual controls for each would be great.

I hardly use Facebook because of the noise. I only have < 60 friends on Facebook and < 10 likes. I can't imagine what it gets like with hundreds of friends. My idea probably wouldn't scale. Would be neat though. Would actually get me using Facebook.
On top of that, malloc (and friends) don't make any useful worst-case runtime guarantees either.
I wanted to be more creative, John Cleese gave me some advice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rtmxJrKwc). Basically I sit in a café for an hour everyday (on my lunchbreak) with 0 distractions (no phone, laptop etc), and I get bored on purpose. Nice thing about getting bored is, your brain starts to think of things to prevent the bordem. You start to think of ideas, and you start to write those down. By the end of the hour you may have between 6 - 12 new ideas depending on what your train of thought was during the hour. When before I had no idea what kind of personal projects I could work on in my spare time, now I have too many, I don't have time them! Eventually they'll all go on my personal website once I get it up and running.
Agreed. This is similar to the generalist sysadmin that can step into a startup to handle all aspects of test/dev/production infrastructure. They don't need to know everything, but they know enough about how it works and can figure out what else you need.
This quote really grated on me: "At my company we managed to have 100 percent retention until the very end. I was extremely proud of that and of my staff for pushing forward in a world of uncertainty".

Pushing forward...further into the abyss, further into a negatively-sloped opportunity cost curve, further into a start-up that'll scar their CVs and render future employment more difficult? You may call that loyalty, but I call it irrationality unless their equity compensation was adjusted for the risk you imposed on them. These people weren't "your" staff; they were employees tied to your company only by a contractual obligation. You didn't own them. They weren't your property. And despite your ego and delusions of grandeur, you weren't doing them favors by continuing their employment. Their tenure shouldn't be celebrated, it should be emphasized as a cautionary tale.
> It sounds like ~ pointers are basically like unique_ptr in C++11 or scoped_ptr at Google

I am not mega familiar with all of the details of {unique,scoped}_ptr, but my current understanding of ~ is this: basically, the compiler inserts a malloc before and a free after something declared with ~ goes into and out of scope, and it's the only pointer allowed to that memory.
and this is how you build the perfect bubble around you.

ignore the news is the new oh we don't own a tv. or oh i don't listen to "popular" music.
Weren't we talking about people who have the option of protecting themselves from the spray paint and choose not to?
Resize a CentOS Virtual Machine Image
> By the way, why does Rust need a C compiler anyway?

I'm not 100% sure, but I do know that zero.rs requires 'the following libc functions: malloc, free, abort, memcpy, and memcmp'. So I'd imagine it's that.
SEEKING WORK - Austin or Remote

Linux sysadmin, with experience in high performance computing (HPC) and batch administration

Every hour you spend doing monotonous and repetitive tasks is one that could be spent doing something else. If a computer can do it, why not automate it? If there's people involved, let's get it down to the bare minimum.

Recent things I've done:

* Optimized application to reduce task turnaround time by 40%

* Matched specialized application to better hardware to reduce completion time by over 30%

* Streamlined a process from 1 month of effort, to 2 weeks, to 1 day

* Enabled user self-service configuration of tool that previously required support requests

I primarily write Perl and Ruby [on Rails], though if you have particular requirements I'm flexible. I fully understand the desire to have a minimum set of languages in your environment.

Just to be up front, this is a nights & weekends thing for me for the time being.
I closed down http://wonderthemes.com last year. It was a failed WordPress theme marketplace with a focus on higher-rates for designers/developers.

You can read about the project in an interview I did here:

http://wpcandy.com/presents/the-story-of-wonderthemes-starti...

I've been taking offers since the site was closed down. Nothing has been serious. A lot want me to partner with them and re-boot the site, but I'm not interested in that. A few are affiliate marketeers that want to split revenue etc... I'd rather just pass on the project to someone else now.

I guess what you'd be buying would be the brand, the domain name and all of the design assets. There is no real 'tech' to sell because the system was a one-off bootstapped bespoke build that would need a major re-factor but all the source code is there sitting on the server for anyone to acquire.
Good stuff. By the way, what is the source for the "popularity" figure? How often is it updated?
I built an app specifically to make this easier: http://www.yourpane.com/

You click the bookmarklet, pick friends and it sends the current page.
I want to know too. That's how Weird Al got his start. there happens to be an unrelated famous accordion player also named Yankovic. People should choose their last names more carefully. :-)
yes. What Amazon needs is more automation....

Kind of like how they automate the policing of their seller marketplace. As a someone selling legitimate products, I got flagged, banned, and my money locked for 90 days.

When I asked them to tell me why they banned me, I got an automated response.

I feel sorry for the employees of Amazon.
State of the art Mobile Marketplace App launches
The free-rider benefit
I think it is the quantity of the people, not the quality.
Emacs, is obsolete but not for the reasons described in the article. I think the main problem is lack of smart IDE support. We can't easily define a language, a parser for it, reference resolve rules, analyze code, navigate reference, provide completion, etc. These features, not editors with a good text manipulation facilities get you the largest performance gain today.

Take a look where sublime, or IntelliJ is heading to. IntelliJ, for example, has a toolkit for quickly defining support for languages: https://github.com/JetBrains/Grammar-Kit
Unload them on FS then :)