skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nope. Kennel owners who have concerns about the activity of some of their dogs could find this a very useful tool.

I actually happen to have a candidate. An older Deerhound with a nervous disposition (odd for deerhounds) and some weight problems, maybe she's inactive? If we could monitor here base line activity level, then see what happens if we put her on diet food. That could be useful information. We need a diet food that doesn't malnourished her.

It's not being inattentive when you have 6 dogs and a life and you're not the sole source of activity for your dogs.
'A' for Array
Yes, GCC is most likely the single largest of all GNU tools (~6 million SLOC).
So, as a long time developer, what's your thought on WebGL ?
So who's working on the animated gif icon set?
I know I've refused to use random tools customers have pulled out of the air before. There are definitely quality control issues at times
can you please make this open source?
I think another critical factor is, if you don't sell off, will Google ultimately supplant your relevance and kill your market in the long run. If so, it might be better to benefit from their investment than just be another forgotten casualty. How original is your idea? How easy is it to replicate? How common sense is your business model and if novel enough, is it protected and do you have the legal resources to defend it?
Poll: how much would you pay to get issues resolved on GitHub?
I think there should be a better way to promote and support open source software development, but I'm making the assumption that people are willing to pay to get issues done, what do you think about it?
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The only owners who would say no are the ones who started a company because it was the only way to make their product come to life. They treat the product and the company that forms around it like their baby.

Most owners are entrepreneurs or businessmen or visionaries who are in it because they enjoy(ed) the process and would gladly start over with a new project with a huge slush fund to fall back on or escape the stress and responsibility of the start-up world all together.
I certainly would consider it.
Now that's cool!
Closest thing I've ever seen to fulfill the "instagram for video" prophecy
Doesn't matter what the financial situation is. Are they acquiring you because your product stinks but you and your team is awesome? Then what are they paying money for? Why would anyone pay 5x to shut it down?
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Also note that "node-based" does not refer to node.js as per the FAQ: https://github.com/brianchirls/Seriously.js/wiki/Frequently-...
I don't get it. Anyone whose created sites with only JQuery and felt that pain has moved to frameworks like angular/ember/knockout/etc. Those frameworks help decouple the html from your js. This seems exactly opposite.

It like developing with JQuery where you had something like:

$('.whatever').append('<div>Hello ' + this.props.name + '</div>');

and now with JSX you can do (minus the React structure around it):

<div>{'Hello ' + this.props.name}</div>

So... looks a bit nicer... less quotes...? But so what. I don't want to tightly couple my presentation to my logic.
You just did it again!

spoiledtechie opinted out that a Stripe employee wished you well, while you only promoted your own brand, and your response was to prattle on about how qualified the founders are and basically list your resumes. Oh, and your lawyer codes too! What fun!
If I'm reading the post correctly, the HN title is inaccurate. The in-progress STM was already written in C. It was the garbage collector that was written in RPython, and that has been rewritten in C as part of a combined STM/GC library.

edit: fixed now.
> In which bit of math do people actually instantiate an inverse?

In symbolic computations with very structured matrices, one sometimes constructs explicit inverses. This is an extreme corner case, and never really comes up except in some very simple physical models (in my experience).
Finally a demo that doesn't make me think "Wow, the web has really caught up to the 1995 desktop!"

Maybe if you're already an after-effects wiz this doesn't seem as magical, but it certainly felt like magic to me.
What are some examples of party rounds?
Show HN:Create PDF document from images in browser in pure javascript
I see that as something that could happen in the future, when I get enough revenue to run yoleoreader.com. That's my primary concern.
This depends. Am I profitable (by this I mean able to take money out after reinvesting in the company), pay my bills, live a moderately nice lifestyle, and have the company continue growing without Google? Then maybe not. If I am not profitable? In my current financial situation, yes. In a situation where I already have a decent amount of money, maybe not.
How to Find the Right Designer
Seriously did nothing for me.

Uncaught Not a valid HTML element: EMBED (must be img, video or canvas)
I'm going to be deploying this very soon.
"Mail order catalogs never offered the opportunity to transcend the experience at a store."

Mail-order catalogs historically played a very important part in the life of rural Americans. You could even buy a house via mail order.

Even when it became possible to travel to a store easily, mail order catalogs still offered one thing that stores didn't: time.

You could spend hours, even days poring over your catalog, analyzing and obsessing. Every kid assembled his Christmas wish list from the Sears Christmas catalog, even urban kids.
> To achieve the no extra code part, is the SDK using swizzling‎?

They must be, which is a serious reliability/stability/correctness issue in its own right.
I saw the documentary a couple of years ago. Well worth a watch. (The Carrie Fisher interview ties in with all of the, "That's no snow! Carrie Fisher was snorting cocaine on the Hoth set!" articles that float around)
5x valuation? Whose valuation? Obviously it is not 5x the valuation from Google who is going to kill it?

Assuming 5x valuation is 5x what I think it is worth: of course I would sell (I like to think of myself as rational).
Is that OK GO?
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

http://www.internic.net/

And the site you're on right now ;)
if google is interested then someone else is likely to be and may not kill it, too.
Awesome. How many pre-orders do you have?
I've heard a different take on this from an entrepreneur who raised several time in the past. His strategy was to raise small amounts for 20-30 angels investors at the seed round with the assumption that when he needed more money it would be easier to ask from someone who already invested 25k to double down on the investment than from someone who invested 100k (which is probably high for the average Angel).
How Twitter Could Have Avoided This Week’s Outage
I was actually at this podcast recording (its great by the way, check it out). It was the most human discussion I've heard for a long time. It really struck home that people assume so much of someone because they are on TV. He is a great guy with many problems, a great ambassador for taking the stigma out of mental illness.
The short answer is yes. But, its possible I'd not be interested in selling if growth was fast enough that in 1-2 years the company would be worth 10x what it is worth at the time of the offer. So, is 1-2 years of my time worth that? It depends on how enjoyable the work is.
This particular disclosure is new, but he's been open about being bi-polar for a while, and IIRC about at least one past suicide attempt (see the documentary mentioned elsewhere).
I actually think your argument works against you:

* If you are attentive and interested in your pet this device tells you nothing new.

Attentive and interested does not equate to "has a spreadsheet tracking their pet's activity". This device, just like Fitbit, is a personal (extra-personal, in this case) data collector. To say that tells you "nothing new" applies just as well to Fitbit.

* Fitbit works because you can correlate the data to your personal well being. Unless this device magically discerns the dog's well being I don't see how it provides any actionable statistics.

I'm not really sure what it means to correlate Fitbit to your "personal well being". I'm assuming you mean things like weight, resting heart rate, etc. Anyone who has spent much time with dog owners can tell you that managing your pet's weight can be as much trouble as managing your own.

I don't use Fitbit, but I track fitness data in other ways using some ad hoc tools. There are differing perspectives on the benefits of personal data logging, but one of the more common is that it increases visibility in to your real patterns as opposed to your perceived patterns. In other words, the data doesn't lie. The data becomes a source of accountability, and even motivation. It's really hard not to look at the data and thing about obtaining a "high score".

Pets are reliant on humans for their fitness needs. In the wild, a dog gets all the fitness it needs, because it has to chase down every meal. This puts the responsibility of wellness on the human, and these data collection tools provide the same benefits as they do for humans.
That's how I interpreted the question (which basically makes it a no-brainer).
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Mental Health services have always been underfunded in England.

Waiting lists[1] for some forms of talking therapy (for people in secondary care, with severe and enduring MH problems) can be very long. In Gloucestershire there's[2] a max 6 week wait for assessment and then 18 week wait for treatment to start. This is for people being treated in the community, as an alternative to hospitalisation. And Glos is pretty good at this. Some places there's waits of over a year.

Luckily there's something called "IAPT" (Improved Access to Psychological Therapies) which is ring-fenced[3] funding to provide evidence based (usually cognitive behavioural therapy) in short courses (12 weeks) to people coming from primary care, but not in secondary care. Usually you can self refer for assessment. You might need to ask your GPs surgery for "IAPT" or "PCAT" (primary care and assessment team), because some of them don't appear to know it exists.

[1] be careful with terminology here. I'm using it wrong. Waiting list is a defined term with a specific meaning. If you're asking a local health board about the length of time people have before they start treatment you want to avoid use of the words "waiting list".

[2] These times were accurate last time I asked, about 2 years ago. These times are significantly better than they were 5 years ago, and the local trust is still working to reduce those maximum times.

[3] Maybe I'm wrong about the ring-fencing of the funding?
OK, great, so I didn't completely lose my mind.

Good luck with your experiment, I wish you well.
Because I could always just pull a Tan ;) and do the same thing again, in CA.
I guess this answered to the wrong comment. The comment that zende wanted to answer to was this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5827717
In a heartbeat - and then I'd go and build something even cooler with the money.
Relax, the game industry isn’t dying, it’s just changing
Paul Graham has a great article on this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/jmc.ps (I noted Preview.app was having transient issues loading this specific postscript file, so I converted it to pdf -- http://behemoth.strlen.net/~alex/jmc.pdf )

Most important, here's the code a Lisp interpreter in Lisp:

http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/jmc.lisp

I think that's the root of what made Lisp different: building a bootstrap implementation in another language was not difficult(1), so implement more complex language features in Lisp itself was possible.

If you take this further, it's quite a powerful concept: since even fairly primitive language features are implemented in a high-level and you can manipulate the AST much like you can manipulate any other data structure, you can change the language in non-trivial ways to suit your problem.

Chapters 4 and 5 of SICP demonstrate this in detail and introduce metalinguistic abstraction not only as a powerful technique in it of itself, but as a technique for teaching students about many other aspects of computer science (introducing a register-based virtual machine, compilation, and garbage collection -- all without leaving a higher-level language):

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#...

(1) Shameless plug: here's my own implementation in OCaml based in part on jmc.lisp by pg and on a C implementation by another HNer -- https://github.com/afeinberg/ocaml-tinylisp
I checked and the strip communication is done ajax style through https. I don't see a problem.
How Twitter Could Have Avoided This Week's Outage (and others)
I'll post this here, since his site would not let anonymous posting go forward (might be a discuss issue).

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Ouch, this is a really sad comment on Harvard these days; I'd be ashamed if a 14 year old made this qualitative vrs quantitative category mistake. (Which you since fixed, but please - it should never have been written).

Try looking into GOOGs shipping network, and compare it against AMZNs. Since we have long term data on AMZNs model (including $775 mil on a robot production facility):

1) Is GOOG outsourcing or doing this internally?

1a) If not, who are they using?

1b) If they are, where is the spend in their yearly budget reports? (Not seeing it)

2) Can they match the coverage that AMZN has?

3) Can they match the volume that AMZN has?

4) Can they hope to catch up before AMZN makes the robot jump it's planning?

And so on.

You're almost an adult - try to analyze the world a little closer, you're allegedly the elite of America.

Is HN really this naive? This is terrible, if this was from an Oxford or Cambridge student - well, sorry, I'd hope they couldn't produce this level of immature nonsense.

And yes, I suspect you'll "down vote" - but sometimes a short sharp slap should be required.

Oh, and the heavy use of trackers is both intrusive and unnecessary for a private site. You're not providing any service, barring selling yourself, which should again make you pause at the "whys" of using the trackers you are.
At least you have to be a hacker to boost a car these days. I remember when I was a kid my parents' car keys would open every Ford or Chevy on the block. I had a lot of fun running around the parking lot at my brother's soccer games.
It's hard to say, but I think a year is an optimistic guess, and closer to two years more realistic. That's really not that long in terms of browser years though, and you can start building stuff on it today if you want to build a product for the future.
The ArchWiki actually has a very subtle use of the <blink> tag on its "Color Bash Prompt" page[1]. While it could easily be done with CSS3, I quite like its use there.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt#A_wel...
I think maybe each bug could have a pot where people could put an amount, and if a developer fixed that bug and enough people agreed he would get that pot.

That way developers could pick the bugs where people are willing to put their money where their mouth is.
I'm really sad I lost my first webpage, which I created in ~4th grade on Geocities (or was it AngelFire?)
I don't think this is done via bluetooth - I believe the remote/app unlocking is all done via cellular.
Ask HN: Where to Find Strength Training Exercise Libraries for use in Web App?
I'm building a web app to record users' strength training progress and I need to build an exercise database. Writing and using a scraper for this purpose would be highly illegal (right?), so I wanted to ask if anyone has specific recommendations on where to purchase workout/exercise libraries.

Ideally, they would be in an easily parsable format like CSV and have images to illustrate each exercise.
The mandatory bathing suit thing in the US for girls under a certain age (lets say 5) is quite funny from a European viewpoint. It's not like you can tell which gender the kid is anyway (unless intentional).

It's very normal here to dress your kid of either gender in just the pants or nothing at all (when they're very small) - no problem.
:::Takes week off to spin up an Instavideo demo:::
> The actor and comedian attempted suicide after walking out of the West End play Cell Mates in 1995 - an event he recounted in a documentary for BBC Two called The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.

He also attempted suicide as a teenager (I think 16/17 but don't quite recall), although in his (first) autobiography he describes it as a childish rebellion to upset his parents. Therefore I wonder if it's happened 3 times or potentially many more.

Incidentally, both his autobiographies are well worth reading. As are his novels.
If the use of ECB is appropriate (which it may well be for this application) then the fact that is was used is not an indication of "brain dead" decision making. I would be much more worried if they made the system unnecessarily complicated (and thus more vulnerable) just because they thought the presence of ECB would be bad for marketing.
This is a great untapped market, people go crazy for pets and spend a hell of a lot of money on them.

I think the pitch should be "turn your terrier into a tamagotchi"
Being able to see a website the same way it was supposed to be 20 years ago is one of the best browser feature imho !
David Friedberg - Why Leading A Company Is Like Playing Poker
'Temporal cloaking' could bring more secure optical communications
Researchers have demonstrated a method for "temporal cloaking" of optical communications, representing a potential tool to thwart would-be eavesdroppers and improve security for telecommunications.
the credit card information is transmitted to stripe over SSL. It looks fine.
It's the raw video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12zJw9varYE. The real film clip features a really neat Windows 98-like green screen effect.
open random car doors

You've been at this "random car" thing over the whole thread.

But there no indication that these thieves can steal random cars in the sense of any car they choose. Thieves have stolen particular cars and the cops might not know the connecting thread but there's no situation where the thieves passed a "show us a random car and we'll use our device to steal it" challenge and that would be the kind of hard evidence you'd need for a "these guys can steel any car" rhetoric.
i've struggled with bipolar for years. it's not easy. after my startup was sold in an asset purchase and i was left with nothing but the credit card debt i'd accumuluated thinking i was going to make it big, i crashed hard. i got all tangled up in a huge web of internal metaphors and was in and out of mental hospitals - 3 stints in two months. i'm getting better now, and it's good to have people like stephen fry trying to destigmatize the illness.
It ran for only 4 months. I had at the time considered suggesting it to my workplace as they are constantly 5-6 years behind in IT and don't really have the staffing to provide extra IT services anyways.

Now I'm glad I didn't recommend it, though I wish the circumstances had been different.
TypeError: video is null @ http://seriouslyjs.org/js/script.js:226

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Yes, for several reasons. I'll assume this is my first startup, and I started out at the bottum rung in the tech world, with no prior connections.

1. Most startups (by an incredible supermajority) fail. An acquisition can save you from that, especially if you're one of those startups that generates no revenue but is extremely popular.

2. Not only do most fail, they don't generally fail spectacularly. They die, slowly and steadily, in a death march that saps the founders of their confidence and has been documented several times to lead to severe depression[1].

3. I need to pay the bills. I want to be financially independent and capable of supporting the family and lifestyle I'd like currently and down the line.

4. If I want to be a visionary who changes the world and Disrupts The Man, I'll take Elon Musk's advice[2] and cash out this smaller company so I can go on to do bigger and better things. I'll be more equipped with personal assets, better connections and superior coding skills and business savvy the next time around from the get go. This way, I can tackle a bigger market.

5. With all the foregoing in mind, when I go for the big market with a second or third startup, I may have the fuck you money to resist acquisitions and see my dream through to completion.

Here's a story: Elon Musk spent $100 million of his personal fortune making sure SpaceX didn't die. He didn't have that money because SpaceX is his first venture. Nor was Tesla, nor even PayPal. Elon Musk's first project, Zip2, was acquired in 1999 for $300 million[3]. No one remembers it, but it was Elon Musk's first baby. He made himself financially independent and sold his first idea, then went on to do bigger and better things that would change the world without an acquisition.

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/jody-sherman-ecomom-2013-4

[2]: http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/15/elon-musk-disrupt/

[3]: http://news.cnet.com/Compaq-buys-Zip2/2100-1023_3-221675.htm...

I answered your question seriously, although the phrasing of the question seems like a snarky, implicit criticism of Google and the way it handles acquisitions.
Keeping network alive like this is not cool - the radio will drain the battery. It would be much better to not only allow a configuration for how often the sync happens, but also allow the app to manually trigger sync, normally at the same time as other network activity is going on so that no extra power is spent bringing the radio up and down.
I completely missed that. Thank you!
I did sell it for the "mental freedom" that comes with it. There is more that you can do in your next venture.
You don't have to live in a place like that for it to happen to you.

This is happened to me in the nice parts of town that are close to public transit. They smash a few windows run across the street and jump on the train. . .
> The adult runs off. I then walk up to the child and punch them in the face - do you think "well that punch doesn't matter"?

You're muddling the context of "doesn't matter". In your hypothetical, the rapist would be prosecuted for rape and you would be prosecuted for assault. So yes, it matters in that it should not be ignored. In mine, I am saying it is inconsequential to the morality of the situation whether the child feels harmed or not. A prosecutor may still charge the abuser with additional counts for physical abuse if warranted.

> t it would be irrelevant to analyse the exact act and try to define exactly how bad it is. But that doesn't mean there still is a scale

This is my point. Trying to define a moral scale of abuse based on the response of the abused -- consent, nonconsent, etc. -- is not more than an irrelevant intellectual exercise.